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Phi Delta Theta Charter Suspended

BY KATHERINE VEGA SENIOR REPORTER

Officials from the Phi Delta Theta International Fraternity have announced the suspension of the Illinois Beta Chapter on the UChicago campus. In a January 25 letter to fraternity alumni obtained by THE M AROON, Michael Wahba, director of chapter services, announced that the chapter would undergo “recolonization,” or a ground-up restructuring involving the hand-selection of new brothers

upon the graduation of all current brothers.

The decision to end operations at UChicago’s Phi Delta Theta was a result of “risk management policy violations,” according to the letter. The letter did not disclose which policies the chapter broke. The risk management resource posted on Phi Delta Theta national’s website outlines policies related to personal property, contracts, abusive behavior, alcohol and drugs, hazing, and high-risk

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“His past conduct [suggested] a systematic unwillingness to regard sexual violence seriously.

Graduate employees, like everyone on this campus, deserve the right to a workplace and university free of harassment, discrimination, and all forms of violence.”

This is not the first time Lieb has been accused of sexual harassment. From 2002 to 2013, Lieb taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was the director of the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, where he was promoted several times and was paid $172,000 as a distinguished professor of biology the year he left full-time employment. While Lieb was at UNC, a complaint was filed against him for unwanted contact.

In December 2013, Lieb joined Princeton University faculty as a professor of molecular biology and as the director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics.

He resigned on July 1, 2014, only seven months after he was first recruited. Yoav Gilad, a molecular biologist on the University of Chicago committee that unanimously voted to hire Lieb, told The New York Times that Princeton told the committee there had been no sexual harassment investigations into Lieb’s conduct while he was at Princeton.

In the recently signed 2015 Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the University and the City of Chicago, the University reiterated its promise from the 2011 MOU to spend $2.5 million and partner with the City and Metra to improve the Metra platform at 59th Street and reopen the 60th Street station. The 2015 MOU explains that the required public funding still has not been secured.

“Since the 2011 MOU was signed, the University has had a number of positive discussions with Metra about the stations at 59th and 60th Streets. While action from Metra is pending state funding, the University’s commitment to this project has not changed, and we look forward to continuing discussions with Metra,” Director of Communications for Civic Engagement Calmetta Coleman said.

The Metra Electric line was originally built by the Illinois Central (IC) Railroad. In 1987, the IC sold its electrified suburban line and the two branches to Metra for $28 million. The IC line used to stop at 60th Street, but the station there is currently abandoned.

To improve public transportation on the South Side, 13 community organizations and activist groups signed a letter recently published in the Hyde Park Herald and the CHICAGO M AROON to advocate for CTA to run the current Metra Electric line. “ The Metra Electric…is a hugely underutilized asset. If it runs like CTA lines, with trains every 10 or 15 minutes, full Ventra integration, and a transfer discount, the Metra Electric could unlock the enormous development potential of the South Side and south suburbs,” the letter said.

Organizations that signed the letter believe that the location of the Metra Electric line is a huge

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Dr. Jason Lieb, a professor in the Department of Human Genetics, resigned due to allegations of sexual misconduct.

Campus Reacts to Leak of Professor Resigns After Racist, Islamophobic AEPi E-Mails Sexual Misconduct Allegation

BY SARAH MANHARDT DEPUTY EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The campus community reacted Thursday to a BuzzFeed News article comprising leaked e-mails from the Chicago chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) fraternity. The emails contained racist, Islamophobic, and misogynistic content that mocked student groups and an individual student. A former brother leaked the e-mails, which were sent to AEPi’s listhost between 2011 and 2015.

Many of the e-mails released contained anti-Islamic statements and racist language. Con-

tent in the e-mails mocked Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, used racial epithets for blacks and Muslims, joked about Palestine, and made degrading comments about women.

Third-year Ala Tineh, vice president of the Muslim Students Association (MSA), which was attacked in the e-mails, said she would like an apology from AEPi. “I think our [Muslim] community members deserve an apology, as well as students of color, specifically African-American students, and half of the campus who are women, so that’s the least they can do,” she said.

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Provost Talks Lagging Faculty Diversity, More Representative Core

BY PETE GRIEVE NE W S STAFF

The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) hosted an event with Provost Eric Isaacs on Tuesday called “Navigating the Academy for Students of Color: Student Experiences inside the Classroom.” The provost said the University has made progress to diversify its student body, but

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has struggled to create a more diverse faculty.

Isaacs said that the University has struggled to increase faculty diversity due to comparatively infrequent turnover and a high demand for minority faculty members at peer institutions.

“Retention of faculty in general is like an everyday struggle, and in particular faculty of color.

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BY WENDY LEE SENIOR REPORTER

Jason Lieb, a professor in the Department of Human Genetics, resigned a little over two weeks ago following allegations that he violated the University’s sexual misconduct policies during a retreat organized by the molecular biosciences division.

According to a University investigation letter obtained by The New York Times, he engaged in sexual activity with a student who was unable to consent because she was under the influence of alcohol.

Lieb went on a leave of absence after the University began an investigation last November. He formally resigned on January 21.

In an official statement, the University said that “sexual harassment and sexual misconduct are forms of sex discrimination that violate the standards of our community and will not be tolerated by the University of Chicago.”

The University also stated that it is in the process of providing increased training on “related issues” to faculty members, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff members.

The Graduate Students Union (GSU) has since condemned the University for hiring Professor Lieb in the first place.

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Chase Bank on 55th Robbed Second Time in Three Weeks

BY SONIA SCHLESINGER SENIOR REPORTER

The Chase Bank at East 53rd Street’s Kimbark Plaza was robbed on Tuesday for the second time in less than a month. A different person is suspected for each robbery.

During Tuesday’s robbery, a six-foot-tall man entered the bank about 20 minutes before its 6 p.m. closing time and demanded money from the teller. He presented a note implying that he had a weapon, though he did not display one. He then ran out of the building with the money the teller gave him.

The incident was captured on the bank’s surveillance camera.

Less than three weeks prior, the same

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bank was robbed at 5:50 p.m. by a 5-foot-10 male. This man also implied a weapon and ran from the bank with the money just before it closed for the day. In both cases, the amount of money taken was not made public.

The FBI has stated that the two robberies do not appear to be related, according to DNAInfo. “We have not connected him to any other bank robberies at this time,” FBI spokesman Garrett Croon said of the more recent suspect.

The FBI will offer a reward to anyone for tips that lead to the arrest of the suspects.

Employees at the 53rd Street Chase Bank declined to comment.

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Activists Push for CTA-Like Frequency on Metra Line

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A Metra train arrives at the 59th Street Station, a block north of the 60th Street station the University of Chicago has committed to spend $2.5 million reopening.

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other CTA lines…. It could also be integrated with Pace and CTA routes to make a more robust system further south,” Shira Orlowek, operations manager of Midwest High Speed Rail Association, said.

The goal of the proposal is identical to the campaign for the CTA Gray Line, a plan to transform an existing Metra branch into a new CTA line. “I first got involved with trying to enhance the service on the Metra Electric in 2008...The idea of running the Metra Electric lines like a CTA line has been around for a long time,” Linda Thisted, spokesperson of Coalition for Equitable Community Development, said.

The CTA is working to extend Red Line service from 95th Street to 130th Street.

“We’re continuing to develop the project’s draft Environmental Impact Statement, a required part of receiving federal approval and funding for a major transit project. We anticipate that, subject to FTA [Federal Transit Administration] approval, the draft EIS [Environmental Impact Statement]

would be published this year and we’ll hold public hearings on the project,” Tammy Chase, director of communications and media relations at the CTA, said.

After public meetings in 2014, the CTA has narrowed down to two possible routes for the expansion, both of which require the CTA to build new tracks. “Since we have not yet selected a final design for the project, we don’t know how long it would take to construct the extension,” Chase said.

The CTA did not directly respond to advocates for extension of CTA service to the Metra Electric line. “We’re working on extending the Red Line to 130th Street and improving bus service on the South Side. That is all we’re focused on,” Chase said.

There are doubts about the feasibility of extending the Red Line. “The CTA has been planning on extending the Red Line for over 20 years. It will cost [over $1 billion] and so far no money has been committed to making this happen,” Thisted said.

Anthony Downer, one of the founders of the Leaders of Color Program, speaks to first-year Mary Blair.

BY ALEXANDRA BLANKENHORN NEWS STAFF

Leaders of Color (LOC), a student run initiative at the Institute of Politics (IOP), is celebrating its one year anniversary this month.

LOC was founded by Jamie Sanchez (class of 2015), Nina Katemauswa (class of 2016), and Anthony Downer (class of 2017) and works to increase the presence of students of color in leadership positions around campus, particularly at the IOP. “In October of 2014, I sat down with two upperclassmen friends and we talked about our frustrations with IOP and how it didn’t seem inclusive of students of color. We put our minds together to come up with a solution, and what we came up with was Leaders of Color,” Downer said Downer noted that he was very involved at the IOP, but when he went to events there he was one of the few non-white students there, and students of color in the leadership positions were scarce across the university.

To address those issues, LOC offers a 10 week program in professional training in the winter quarter to approximately 30 first and second-year students of color in the college.

This training includes resume writing, interview and networking practice. Then in the spring the same group is put through a mentorship program and exposed to professional leaders of color.

“The winter quarter includes a lot of career advancement oriented projects, such as resume and application writing. During the spring quarter we do a lot of site visits, and bring speakers in to talk to the cohort, and

introduce them to leaders of color out in the real world. Spring quarter is also when the mentorship program kicks in,” fourth-year and mentor Justin Narges said.

According to Downer and Narges, the IOP and University have supported LOC by providing guest speakers and University faculty and staff to provide mentorship to younger students on a variety of subjects, such as community leadership, University navigation, and RSO participation.

“A large part of why I joined was because I felt I could benefit from it on a white campus. I think as students of color we are in a position where we need to put our best foot forward at all opportunities,” first-year Mary Blair said.

In addition, LOC is working to build a community for students of color on campus to utilize as both a networking resource and safe space for discussions on race. As part of this, LOC works with multiple multicultural student groups across campus, including the Organization of Black Students, the African and Caribbean Student Association, the Organization of Latin American Students, and Pan Asia “Our goal at the end of the day is to become the biggest network of students of color at the University. What that means is partnering a lot with student groups bringing them all together,” Downer said.

LOC is part of the IOP’s Student Civic Engagement Program, which assists students in projects in a wide range of community efforts; including BallotReady, Chicago Bound, Chicago Peace Corps, Maroon Veterans Alliance, New Americans UChicago, TechTeam, TurboVote, and Women in Public Service.

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Microsoft Partners with University Program for South Side Nonprofits

BY EMILY KRAMER NEWS STAFF

Microsoft Corporation will provide technical help to South-Side non-profits in a recently announced partnership with the University of Chicago’s Community Programs Accelerator. The accelerator, which offers a variety of resources to nonprofit organizations that work towards improving neighborhoods on the Mid-South Side, has also chosen six new South Side nonprofit organizations to join its program this year.

The partnership between the Community Programs Accelerator and Microsoft will seek to promote technological education, entrepreneurship, and economic development in local communities. This new alliance will provide software and equipment to these six organizations in addition to literacy training open to all nonprofits.

“Based on other collaborations with Microsoft, the Office of Civic Engagement saw an opportunity to connect the Community Programs Accelerator’s capacity building efforts to technology resources in ways that could directly benefit community organizations in areas where they are looking for support,” Shaz Rasul, director of community programs in the Office of Civic Engagement, said.

According to a UChicago News article, President Robert J. Zimmer said that the Community Programs Accelerator plays an integral role in the University’s efforts to confront the societal challenges facing the world around us through its strengths in research and education. “This new alliance with Microsoft supplements our work as an anchor institution to build, sustain and enhance the capacity of South Side nonprofits, and it will help extend their impact in surrounding neighborhoods and across the city,” he said.

In an interview for UChicago News, Margo Day, vice president of U.S. education at Microsoft, said that the company is also enthusiastic about the partnership. They be-

lieve that the digital alliance will be able to make technology more accessible to both the local and academic community.

One of the six organizations selected, ETA Creative Arts Foundation, will receive comprehensive support as a core program.

This organization provides artistic training as well as performance opportunities at the ETA Gallery Theatre primarily to African Americans. According to Rasul, this foundation was selected due to its longstanding presence in the South Side and its leadership vision for the future.

ETA Creative Arts Foundation will join three existing core programs, which the Accelerator selects based on potential community impact. The others are Coderspace, The Dovetail Project, and Polished Pebbles.

The additional five programs selected for 2016 will receive project-based support at the associate level. Some of the organizations chosen include Blue Gargoyle, Prosperity House and Project Syncere.

Since its launch in May 2014, the accelerator has provided assistance to more than 150 nonprofit organizations in Chicago.

UChicago students have provided over 3,500 hours of assistance to accelerator organizations.

The selected programs offer unique services to their respective neighborhoods, but all ultimately have a beneficial social impact on the neighborhoods of the Mid-South Side. The accelerator seeks to assist in the development and strengthening of these community-based organizations while fostering connections between the selected programs.

“Ultimately, organizations that are succeeding in reaching their goals in an effective manner will have a positive impact on the quality of life on the mid-South Side—across all the areas that accelerator organizations are working, including arts, education, [and] technology,” Rasul said.

The University committed to maintain the Community Program Accelerator as one part of an agreement it signed with the City of Chicago in December.

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events.

“While this represents an unfortunate result for the short term, this decision also represents a commitment to the preservation of a long term future for Phi Delta Theta at the University of Chicago,” the letter continued.

“The General Council, which is the fraternity’s governing board, carefully considered all options before voting to suspend the charter last month. The decision was then communicated to the chapter by myself and local volunteers,” Wahba wrote. The letter sent to alumni cited a “decision by the University and members’ actions” as reasons for the re-colonization. In an email to THE MAROON, Director of Public Affairs Marielle Sainvilus confirmed that the University was aware of the closing, but did not provide further details. According to the letter, the

re-colonized chapter will still be called the Illinois Beta chapter. “Bond numbers,” or numbers given to each initiate in the chapter, will pick up from where they left off once the chapter re-colonizes. Wahba stated that the exact timeline for the process is still unclear, but the first step is for all brothers of the current generation to graduate from the University. Until then, the chapter will be dormant and recruit no new pledges. “Recolonizing a chapter is an effort put forth by the international fraternity and alumni to rebuild the chapter through an organized process that includes the recruitment of a group of young men and implementation of best practices and operations that are congruent with the values and policies of Phi Delta Theta,” Wahba wrote in his email.

Mihir Dubey, President of the Illinois Beta chapter at UChicago, declined to comment.

Illegal Immigration Novelist at the IOP

BY GABE BENNET-BRANDT MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Conveying a deeply political message, bestselling author Lawrence Hill’s most recent novel, The Illegal, speaks to the plight of refugees and oppressed peoples around the world. The Illegal recounts the fictional story of Keita, a marathon runner forced to flee his native country and go into hiding as an undocumented refugee. On Wednesday afternoon, the Institute of Politics (IOP) hosted Hill in collaboration with the Center for Identity and Inclusion.

Sitting across from fellow author and creative writing department member Rachel DeWoskin, Hill discussed his writing process and why fiction is his preferred genre. “I feel that by inventing things, by twisting the truth, you can get closer to the heart and the soul of a good story,” he said.

Known for his attention to depth and detail, Hill commented on the importance of writing fictional but believable characters. “I couldn’t possibly get into the level of microdetail that elevates a character and hopefully makes him or her pop off the page because I have to be faithful to what really happens,” Hill told DeWoskin on the limitations of nonfiction. DeWoskin noted Hill’s devotion to his characters, especially to what she called “the most profound part of reading [and] the most profound part of writing: getting to inhabit

fully and privately the life of another human being.”

Hill went on to describe his background and how it played into his work as an author.

Hill’s mother, a white civil rights activist, was a particular source of inspiration. “She came from a very Republican, extremely conservative, religious family which was scandalized when she married an African American,” Hill said, emphasizing the unconventionality of his upbringing.

Race played a major role in Hill’s self-image and writing. “I wasn’t finding a black community, so I just had to kind of reach out for it and grab it. I just devoured hundreds of books in my later teenage years and that became a way of finding myself,” Hill said.

As the conversation came to a close, DeWoskin opened the floor for questions from the audience. In the question-and-answer session, Hill broached the global refugee crisis, which he previously named “the world’s greatest humanitarian catastrophe since the Holocaust.” He described his devotion to research and specificity when approaching the experience of displaced peoples and also explained his decision to set The Illegal in imaginary countries. “I didn’t want to feel that I had to reflect the geopolitical reality…. I wanted to create a world that seemed right for me as a dystopia.” Citing Harry Potter and The Little Prince among other works, Hill argued, “some of our most powerful fiction is fiction that’s in places that are made up.”

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Third-year Stephanie Greene, the president of the Organization of Black Students, said the University should use the e-mails to address systemic racism on campus.

“I think it would be really important for the University to say, ‘There’s something going on at our University that we need to change,’ so if that means we are starting to diversify the Core so kids are seeing more ideas of what racism and institutional racism are part of their academic experience here, that would be great,” she said.

In an e-mail to students, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Karen Warren Coleman and Dean of Students in the University Michele Rasmussen called the language “disrespectful and harmful” and urged students to participate in survey forums for the upcoming campus climate survey focused on diversity, inclusion, and the climate for underrepresented and marginalized groups.

“The attitudes and views [the emails] express are unacceptable, violate the University’s core values, and conflict with our strong commitment to ensuring that people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives can thrive on our campus,” the e-mail read.

AEPi released an apology on Facebook, stating that it will implement four steps in response to the incident. The steps include amending its charter to create a zero-tolerance policy for hate speech and mandate mandatory sensitivity training for pledges, ensuring the Code of Conduct is explained to all potential rushes before they can receive a bid, and having “ongoing open forums” with the campus community to improve the fraternity and Greek life as a whole.

AEPi president third-year Joshua Benadiva said the amendments should address the climate that allowed hate

speech in AEPi, which he acknowledged has been an issue he has tried to address at the fraternity.

“That’s the idea behind these amendments, people were saying ‘Hey that’s messed up’ but other people were saying ‘Free speech’ and there’s no place for hate speech, we don’t have to abide by free speech in the context of things that are that hurtful,” he said.

While he discussed the contents of the email, he denied that the “3rd Floor Constitution,” which included degrading comments about women, was written by fraternity members or ever posted in the fraternity. He acknowledged that the document was forwarded over the listhost.

AEPi spokesperson Jonathan Pierce said the international organization is supporting the Chicago chapter.

“We’re going to support them in that effort, make sure we’re providing them with programs to teach tolerance, we’re working right now with a couple organizations on that and we’ll be bringing that into the Chicago chapter.”

This e-mail release was the most recent in a string of racial bias incidents on campus. In 2015 several students’ Halloween costumes set off a chain of events which included a petition with over 2,500 signatures calling on the University to address the campus climate on racial issues, which resulted in the promise for a campus climate survey to address racial issues to be administered this spring. In spring 2012 two fraternities faced bias claims, and in spring 2013 a Facebook page entitled “Politically Incorrect Maroon Confessions” launched, featuring discriminatory content.

Fourth-year Salman Islam, the president of MSA, said that for him the e-mails localized a national conversation.

“Especially with the national elections that are going on you hear about a lot of hate being thrown around, you never realize think it’s in your own community.”

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Curriculum Changes, Including the Addition of a Ra- University Mourns John Fennessy, Groundbreaking Radiologist cial Studies Class in the Core, May Be In the Works Continued from front

… It’s hard because we have top faculty members and there’s Harvard, there’s Yale, there’s Princeton,” he said.

The demand for minority faculty members at other institutions makes every case of retaining a diverse faculty member an uphill battle for the University, he said.

“I will say, we are treading water. I’ll be honest, the only place where we have actually grown dramatically in faculty of color, it turns out, is in biological sciences.

We’ve had some amazing recruiting, amazing retention in the biological sciences. Pretty much everywhere else we’ve stayed flat, so we are treading water,” he said.

The provost emphasized the University’s growing “pipeline” programs, or channels that bring minority and low-income students to the University. He cited the success of the financial aid initiative No Barriers, the University’s partnership with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), and Summer Bridge for CPS, a collegiate preparatory program run by the Office of Civic Engagement for Chicago Public School students.

“Look at our undergraduate class right now. It’s as diverse as it has ever been. We are above 20 percent in underrepresented minority students, and so we’ve grown dramatically,” he said.

The provost said that the growing population of minority students combined with a stagnant minority faculty population has made some faculty members feel overburdened by the task of supporting minority students.

“The faculty say that they feel burdened sometimes because a lot of our students of color will go to them as mentors, and they’re feeling that they’re in some ways overburdened. So when I talk to the deans, from our point of view, the key is actually to think about how to increase the diversity of the faculty. Certainly, we are doing it on the undergraduate side, but I would argue that we are not doing a good enough job yet to bring the faculty up to higher numbers,” he said.

Students also raised concerns that the Sosc and Civ curriculums ignore non-European cultures. The provost turned to Associate Provost and Chief of Staff Matthew Christian in the audience, who said that the University is considering adding a new core class on racial studies and is reexamining existing core classes like Readings in World Literature.

“It’s an active topic and I think we are going to see some changes in the next year,” Christian said.

The University will launch its second campus climate survey in the spring, focusing on race and diversity, which will help the University understand how to move forward on matters of diversity, Isaacs said.

“That should help us address some of these issues, but we are very much interested in that public image which is ‘We are the University of Chicago, we are freedom of expression, but we are also welcoming to scholarship and new ideas and diversity.’ …

I think the climate survey will help us with some of the questions about classrooms and about what is really going on throughout the

University, and that may help

BY OLIVIA ROSENZWEIG us address some of these issues,” NEWS STAFF Isaacs said.

Isaacs defended the UniversiJohn James Fennessy, M.B., ty’s free speech policy in response B.Ch., former chair of the Unito student concerns that it allows versity of Chicago department of abusive language. The provost radiology and professor emeritus, and President Zimmer appointed passed away on January 3 at the the Committee on Freedom of Ex- age of 82. A leader in the field of pression to draft a statement on chest radiology, Fennessy was the University’s commitment to known for his expertise in radiofree speech in July 2014. logic examinations of the chest and “Our values are not about abu- abdomen and for his skill in intersive language. That’s not our val- preting X-rays. ues. Freedom of expression and He passed away in RML Sperespect are mutually beneficial. cialty Hospital in Hinsdale from You can have freedom of expres- complications due to a cardiac sursion and also be a respectful per- gery he had in November 2015. son. That’s the intent of the UniHe created the innovative versity of Chicago,” he said. “bronchial brush” which allowed A student shared an experi- radiologists to obtain better tissue ence of what she referred to as samples from difficult to reach “verbal violence” from tenured places in the chest. His techfaculty after she brought up nique, which was widely used in questions of race in politics in the United States and abroad, was her graduate classes. In response, published in a paper in 1966, and the provost encouraged students expanded on an earlier Japanese to report their experiences to the technique.

Dean of Students.

Steven Montner, associate pro“Part of being on this campus fessor of radiology at UChicago, is that you have the right to have who trained under Fennessy, deyour opinion and your own ideas, scribes him as having been brilbut you have to back them up liant and patient. with a good argument, which is “As with many students before, something really important. And he guided me into radiology, but if it has gone over the line, then it was due less to the science and I would only say that you have more because of him,” Montner said to say something to the Dean of in a eulogy at Fennessy’s funeral.

Students,” Isaacs said.

Fennessy was looked up to The provost told another stu- by students and colleagues alike, dent that these reports of racial winning the McClintock Award prejudice to the Dean of Students for Outstanding Teaching in 1968. are taken seriously.

He was also voted favorite faculty “I can’t promise you every- member by graduating medical thing will work perfectly, but we students almost 30 times between are doing the best we can to take 1967 and 2001. these things very seriously,” he “Even when he was chairman said. for many years he would happily spend many hours with students and residents reviewing cases and teaching them about chest radiology,” Doctor Heber MacMahon, professor of radiology at the University In an email addressed to BSD said. “He was also very interested graduate students, Dr. Victoria in guiding them in their careers.”

Prince, dean of graduate affairs, His daughter, Dierdre Fennessy, said she hoped students would be open about the incident while respecting the privacy of those who were directly affected by the events.

“We hope to reinforce the message that sexual harassment and sexual misconduct are forms of sex discrimination that violate the standards of our community, and

BY HILLEL STEINMETZ often the law, and will not be tolerMAROON CONTRIBUTOR ated by the University of Chicago,” Prince wrote.

Last Tuesday, Student GovPeggy Mason, professor in the ernment released a survey to neurobiology department, said gather data on students’ academic that Lieb’s swift departure is in- experiences in their quarterly dicative of the University’s hard- newsletter. The survey was creened stance against sexual assault. ated by the Committee on Aca“I think it’s very noteworthy demics in the College (CAC) with that Sarah Wake was hired. When the purpose of using the collected the Provost and the President data to inform future Student hired her...they knew they were Government projects. getting somebody who was going According to Vo Yoon, the to effect change. She is a very ef- chair of the committee, the survey fective person, [and] I think the tries to verify whether the univerAdministration has spoken with sity has delivered on its promises their actions by hiring her. She to provide students with greater has already demonstrated in this academic support. The data the particular case that she will be an survey compiles might be used to effective advocate for the safety of convey overall student sentiment students in this academic institu- about academics to the admintion today,” Mason said. istration and bolster efforts for

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A graduate student who worked with Lieb, who spoke on the condition of anonymity in the interest of her career prospects, said she was shocked and horrified by the events that have come to light.

“In retrospect, it is clear that [Lieb] had a problem with drinking…. He was an engaged and exciting scientist who fostered an incredible laboratory full of people doing amazing work, I never felt personally threatened or uncomfortable while we were talking science [though] his behavior bordered on inappropriate at times— usually after drinking—but those red flags are easy to pinpoint in hindsight.”

Almost immediately after his departure from Princeton, Lieb was hired by the University of Chicago in July 2014 following the resignation of two prominent faculty members in the University’s biological sciences department (BSD). Before joining the Department of Human Genetics, faculty members in the molecular biology department at the University received emails from an anonymous address stating that Lieb had faced allegations of sexual mis-

conduct at Princeton University and UNC. Last November, Sarah Wake, assistant provost and Title IX coordinator for the University, received a student complaint stating that Lieb inappropriately touched and pressured people to drink at an off-campus retreat held at the Eagle Ridge Inn in Galena, IL. Wake recommended Lieb’s termination to Kenneth Polonsky, dean of the Division of Biological Sciences and of the Pritzker School of Medicine, after receiving these complaints, citing the “broad, negative impact the conduct has had on the educational and work environment of students, faculty, and staff.”

In January, Wake concluded that Lieb’s conduct violated the University’s Policy on Harassment, Discrimination and Sexual Misconduct. The University has previously been criticized for its handling of sexual assaults on campus. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched a campus-wide investigation into the University’s potential breach of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education programs or activities.

recalled his impeccable sense of style and keen interest in all subjects. “He is a Renaissance man in every sense, a true raconteur and an authority on seemingly every arcane subject under the sun,” she said in an e-mail.

His son, Niall Fennessy, described him as a profound reader, with a fierce love of Ireland.

John Fennessy was born in Clonmel, Ireland, where he graduated medical school at the Glenstal Abbey School and University College, Dublin in 1958.

Although he began interning in Dublin as well, he soon moved to the United States to complete his training at Mercy Hospital in Chicago in 1959. In 1960, he made his way to the University of Chicago, where he worked for the next 45 years. He became a full professor in 1974.

He taught his children Irish history from an early age and had a large collection of historical artifacts from Ireland’s struggle for independence.

“It had not been his intention to remain here, but his love for the university was such that he became a Hyde Parker through and through,” Niall Fennessy said in an e-mail.

“We will miss him, but we are bringing him back there [to Ireland], where his memory can walk along the shore at low tide, hunt in the exposed reefs for shellfish, and walk through the Nire to the broad shouldered Mahon Falls overlooking the wet soft land that suffered the ancient Viking raids,” he said.

The family plans to inter him at St Mary’s Church, Dungarvan, County Waterford on March 30, 2016, amidst family and friends.

“The church sits atop the town with a view of both the mountains and sea. Built in the 1820s, St. Mary’s is one of the many places he took us as children to appreciate history,” Niall Fennessy said. “He would have found it an absolutely appropriate place of rest.”

SG Launches Survey of College Academics change.

The survey asks respondents to comment on their experiences with the core curriculum, academic advising, and accessibility to course materials such as textbooks. Additionally, it asked respondents whether they consider themselves to be first-generation or low-income students. The survey also asks respondents whether they have knowledge of the various free academics resources offered to students such as core tutors or the Academic Skills Assessment Program (ASAP).

Yoon hopes that the data might also be used to analyze whether students from less privileged backgrounds are aware of these resources and how often they might make use of them.

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Author Decries “Blood Oil” at I-House

BY BEN ANDREW NEWS STAFF

Leif Wenar, the chair of philosophy and law at King’s College London, spoke at International House (I-House) on Wednesday about his recently published book Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules That Run the World.

“We send our money to violent and oppressive men overseas every time we buy something made with oil or transported with oil. If we did not do this, there would be no ISIS, there would be no Assad dropping barrel bombs on his peo-

ple, there would be no Syrian refugee crisis,” Wenar said.

To solve these problems, Wenar went on to say, the United States, and eventually the world, must stop buying natural resources from governments who do not give their people control of how the country’s resources are managed.

Wenar specifically cited Saudi Arabia and Russia as oil-producing states that the United States should stop patronizing.

According to Wenar, this means citizens must be able to learn how natural resources are managed in the first place, and

feel comfortable discussing and protesting this management. It also means that if a majority of citizens are opposed to these policies, they should be changed by the government in a reasonable amount of time.

Wenar was optimistic about the possibility of this change, comparing his proposal to boycott certain oil suppliers with the fight to ban blood diamonds. “We have overcome this rule of ‘might makes right’ before. America led the worldwide ban on blood diamonds, and we could expand that ban to blood oil,” he said.

Wenar pointed the audience to his website, clean-trade.org, to learn more about his proposals.

Wenar is a graduate of Stanford University, although he noted in his talk that he was also accepted into the University of Chicago. He has been associated with many notable philosopher including Karl Popper, Robert Nozick, and Michael Sandel.

The talk was sponsored by the Global Voices lecture series, the Social Enterprise Initiative at the Booth School of Business, the Gate, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.

Adrian Frink

Leif Wenar, the author of Blood Oil

Calendar for the Week of 2/6/2015–2/12/2015 Saturday, February 6 How Can We Get Women to the Polls?

1–3 p.m. in the Community Room at Treasure Island, 1526 East 55th Street Hyde Park’s Older Women’s League (OWL) is concerned about the alienation of female voters from the political process. OWL, which advocates for elderly women, finds the prospect of disengaged women of all ages potentially—in their words—disastrous. A panel at this meeting will consider the problem.

Summer Anti-Violence Action in Hyde Park 1–3 p.m. at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 5480 South Kenwood Avenue Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK), an organization committed to combating violent crime in minority communities, and Kenwood Residents for a Safer Chicago are holding their first organizational meeting. Founder of MASK Tamar Manasseh will speak about her achievements and the group’s plans for the coming summer.

Monday, February 8 South Parks Visioning Workshop 5–7 p.m. at the Washington Park Refectory, 5531 South Russell Drive The Chicago Park District and Heritage Landscapes, an organization that partners with clients

to develop landscapes, is holding a public workshop to discuss plans for the future of Jackson and Washington Park as the prospect of the Obama Library approaches.

pain. At this event he will present his understanding of this complicated emotion.

son was the Distinguished Visiting Writer at Northwestern University.

of Chicago for years. This march across campus to Levi Hall is meant to drive home the Alliance’s concern about Title IX training for University faculty and demand a meeting with Provost Eric Isaacs.

Tanisha C. Ford on Dressing City of Thorns for the Revolution 12 p.m. at the IOP. Register online. 6 p.m. at the Seminary Co-Op Ben Rawlence will give a lecture on Tanisha C. Ford will give a lecTuesday, February 9 his book City of Thorns: Nine Lives ture based on her book, Liberated Friday, February 12 (College Senator Amy Klobuchar at the in the World’s Largest Refugee Threads: Black Women, Style, and Break Day) Camp. The book follows the stories the Global Politics of Soul. The IOP 12:15 p.m. at the Institute of Politics. of residents the refugee camp of book examines how black women RegFest RSVP online.

Dadaab in northern Kenya and il- across the nation have incorpo- 12–5 p.m. in Room 122A, RegenSenator Amy Klobuchar, a Demo- luminates the wider global conflict rated the aesthetics of the “soul stein Library. Register for tours crat from Minnesota will visit the that has caused the refugee crisis. style” movement into their activ- online.

IOP to discuss her book, *The Senism. Ford is an assistant professor Held on College Break Day, Regator Next Door*. Klobuchar will be Phoenix Survivors Alliance of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Fest is a study break that offers interviewed by Law School profes- Campus Climate Forum studies at University of Massachu- activities such as underground sor Geoffrey Stone, who helped edit 7:30–8:30 p.m. at a location TBD setts Amherst. A reception will fol- tours of Mansueto Library and Valentine’s Day card/craft-making. her book and taught her when she The message of this forum—in re- low the lecture.

The event will mix games, snacks, studied at the Law School. action to recent events and the results of last year’s campus climate Lincoln as a Realist and a Rev- and informational sessions and all attendees will be put in the draw2016 Kent Lecture survey—is that the University of olutionist 7 p.m. in Mandel Hall Chicago campus is in a “state of 5:30 p.m. at the Neubauer Colle- ing for unique Library gift bags.

For this year’s Kent Lecture the emergency” around issue of sexual gium, 5701 South Woodlawn AveTeach-in on Racism and ActivOrganization of Black Students violence. At this forum, hosted by nue. Register online. will host director Ryan Coogler. the Phoenix Survivors Alliance, Abraham Lincoln is sometimes ism Coogler, who directed the critical- attendees will discuss what is to portrayed as a cautious moderate 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Saieh Hall. Regly-acclaimed film *Fruitvale Sta- be done. on the question of emancipation— ister online. tion* and the blockbuster Rocky willing, in his words, to save the Recent events have brought the sequel *Creed*, will talk about the Thursday, February 11 union without freeing any slaves. issue of the University’s racial importance of minority representaIn this Neubauer Collegium Di- climate—one of the main topics tion in film. rector’s lecture, historian David of this forum—into sharp focus.

Reading by Ed Roberson 6 p.m. at the Logan Center for the Bromwich will consider how revolu- The event will discuss racism on Wednesday, February 10 tionary Lincoln was in light of his campus, the role of the University Arts, Terrace Seminar Room Ed Robertson, recipient of the 2015 changing approach to the question of Chicago on the South Side, and Lou Agosta on Empathy Ron Offen Poetry Prize, will read of slavery. the broader world of activism.

6 p.m. at the Sem Co-op selections from his ten books of poLou Agosta, a professor and psy- etry. Robertson has also received Phoenix Survivors Alliance Event write-ups by Pete Grieve, Anchotherapist, has written several the Poetry Society of America’s March nie Nazarro, Eileen Li, and Adam books on empathy, including *A Ru- Shelley Memorial Award, the Lila 4 p.m. on the Booth Quad Thorp mor of Empathy* and *Empathy in Wallace Writers’ Award and more The Phoenix Survivors Alliance the Context of Philosophy*. If noth- for his achievement in poetry. Be- has advocated around issues of ing else, presumably, he feels your fore his recent retirement, Robert- sexual violence at the University

U of C Faculty Member Publishes Book about Documentary Comics

BY RENA SLAVIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Zoe Kaiser

Disaster Drawn, by Hilary Chute

Hillary Chute, an associate professor in the University’s Department of English Language and Literature, recently published her book Disaster Drawn, which highlights the role of documentary comics in narrating tragic, wartime events.

Disaster Dawn was motivated

by Chute’s interest in the role of cartoons in wartime reporting.

“The book is about what it means to make an image by hand that bears witness to world historical conflict: specifically, war,” she said.

Chute has extensive experience in the field of documentary comics.

In 2010, she published Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Con-

temporary Comics, a book about the “atomic bomb manga,” and Sacco’s work depicts scenes from Palestine. work of female cartoonists.

Her new book explores the work All three convey the chaos of the of earlier artists Jacques Callot and aftermath of war.

Currently, documentary comFrancisco Goya, who worked in the early 17th, late 18th, and early ics are far from a mainstream re19th centuries, respectively. Chute porting medium, a phenomenon described her motivation for reach- which Chute attributes to the pubing so far back for source material: lic’s false belief in the objectivity “[Another] thing I wanted to do…is of photographs and subjectivity of to provide a longer genealogy than drawings. She cautions against aspeople might normally expect from suming that photographs are absolutely objective, and encourages a book about comics.”

Disaster Dawn also deals with embracing drawing as an equally more contemporary cartoonists viable means of communicating a such as Art Spiegelman, Keiji situation. “[A drawing] might be Nakazawa, and Joe Sacco. Spiegel- giving you a different kind of inman’s Maus tells the story of his formation...but it could be just as family’s survival of a Nazi concen- accurate,” she said.

According to Chute, one feature tration camp. Nakazawa, a Hiroshima survivor, is known for his that makes comics special is their

ability to manipulate perspective.

She explained that a cartoon of an event could be drawn from virtually any point of view—that of the witnesses or a bird’s eye view, for instance.

Chute believes that modern technology (i.e., mass media, social media, and Internet publications) is helping to bring the documentary comic genre into mainstream news culture. She mentioned that modern documentary cartoonists are presenting their work on interactive virtual platforms, as well as on digital publications that cater to comics. “With the kind of distribution and dissemination that online platforms can offer for consumers, it’s becoming more and more of a movement,” Chute said.

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Cost-Benefit Analysis Based on This Year’s Events, It Seems That Fraternities Have Been Greater Liabilities Than Assets to the University Community At Large Inflammatory AEPi e-mails leaked to BuzzFeed this week added fuel to the long-running debate at this school between protecting free speech and fostering a safe space for students. While the University cannot, and should not, limit students’ First Amendment rights, it can control environments that encourage hateful rhetoric and predatory behavior.

The fact that AEPi is a Jewish fraternity does not give its brothers, who may consider themselves a minority on this campus, license to speak or act in racist and sexist

ways. Moreover, it is shocking that the brothers of any fraternity at our school, which promotes the rigorous exchange of intellectual ideas and challenging of preconceived notions, would collectively tolerate the kind of discourse evidenced by AEPi’s e-mails.

In addition, it is almost inconceivable that any individual would allow such incriminating sentiments to be recorded in a medium as permanent and easily retrievable as e-mail. If there’s anything our generation has learned, it’s that we need to watch what we share

online. Would these e-mail chains even exist if the authors did not feel that their offensive ideas were safe within their fraternity?

This begs the question: to what extent is this incident a result of individual students’ actions, rather than a result of fraternities as an institution enabling their members to act in a way that would never be acceptable in any other environment? Though there may be no definitive answer, it is hard to deny that fraternities have been the locus of campus controversy over the past year. An alleged sexual

assault at a fraternity house was reported to the UCPD in June, and another alleged sexual assault took place at Delta Upsilon (DU) in October. Recently, Phi Delta Theta’s national governing board voted to suspend its UChicago chapter after “risk management policy violations.”

Greek letters create an aegis under which young men can too easily hide from the consequences of their actions. The bonds of brotherhood may be strong and the networking opportunities may be great, but at what cost? Based

on this year’s events, it seems that fraternities have been greater liabilities than assets to the UChicago community at large.

Now is the time for the University to consider if the continued existence of fraternities on campus is worth the potential costs to generations of students to come.

Sarah Manhardt recused herself from the writing of this editorial.

—ThE MAROON Editorial Board

Under the Microscope The University Displayed a Lack of Concern for Students’ Well-Being with Lieb’s Hiring On January 21, molecular biologist Jason Lieb resigned after a University investigation concluded he had violated the University’s sexual misconduct policy. Lieb had been on a leave of absence since the investigation opened in November, after a complaint was filed with the University’s Title IX coordinator that Lieb inappropriately touched and pressured people to drink at an off-campus retreat held at the Eagle Ridge Inn in Galena, IL. While we are glad the University’s Title IX coordinator handled the case effectively and recommended Lieb’s firing, the *Maroon* Editorial Board is dismayed

by the University’s displayed lack of concern for students’ well-being in hiring Lieb, and its handling of the subsequent investigation.

We are alarmed by Lieb’s hiring in light of the inconclusive sexual harassment complaint fi led against him before he was hired.

Lieb taught at UNC-Chapel Hill from 2002 to 2013, and resigned following a complaint about unwanted physical contact. During his interview process, Lieb told the University that he had engaged in an affair with a grad student in his lab at UNC-Chapel Hill. The University was aware of the complaint and investigated; as a precaution, they had Lieb un-

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dergo training before starting his job. Although this shows that the University tried to take some precautions when hiring Lieb, these actions were not enough. Instead, the fact that Lieb’s behavior was concerning enough to require job training alarms us, and seems to indicate that the University was aware of the danger he posed to graduate students.

The University’s public response surrounding Lieb’s resignation is also disconcerting.

Sexual misconduct, especially towards women, is a significant problem in the academic scientific community. In hiring Lieb, the University propagated this

serious ongoing issue, and the Editorial Board expects nothing less than a full apology from the University for this incident. However, no such statement has been made, even after a *New York Times* investigation. Furthermore, while the University is not required to report the incident under the Clery Act because the incident did not occur on campus, it occurred on a University-sanctioned retreat and should be acknowledged by the University in official reports of counts of sexual assault on campus.

We are concerned that the University prioritized the reputation of the institution and its

research over misgivings about Lieb. Female graduate students face many challenges in their professions, ranging from the huge amount of power professors hold over their grad students and the system of challenges women face in climbing the ranks of STEM fields in academia. We need to be able to trust our administrators to do better, and we implore them to reevaluate these priorities at once. The pursuit of rigorous inquiry should never be an excuse for enabling the mistreatment of women.

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Liberty, Fraternity, Inequality The University’s Attempt to Distance Itself from On-Campus Greek Life is Thinly Veiled Cowardice A Buzzfeed article revealing a number of racist emails from the campus fraternity Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) sent the UChicago community into a frenzy on Wednesday, February 3. These emails, which range in time from as far back as 2011 to as soon as the spring quarter of 2015, show AEPi brothers calling Muslim students on campus “terrorists,” parodying offensive black stereotypes, and seeing “nothing wrong with using [the N-word].”

Reactions on campus seemed unanimous: students were shocked and disgusted at this type of behavior, and under-

standably so. AEPi’s actions are revolting, racist, and intolerable.

It’s not even worth the time delving into why this is abhorrent. It’s obvious from reading the emails.

But, what is worth talking about is what to do from here.

Within the Buzzfeed article itself, Dean of Students Michelle Rasmussen is quoted saying, “The language used in these private emails is offensive, and it is not consistent with the University’s values or our strong commitment to ensuring that people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives can thrive on our campus.”

By alienating the fraternities from the University’s so-called “values,” Rasmussen is avoiding any responsibility for this event.

She admits that AEPi’s actions are offensive, but claims they have nothing to do with the University itself or what it stands for.

In fact, the very next sentence of the article cements the supposed separation of fraternity life from the administration: “Fraternities and sororities are not recognized student organizations at the University of Chicago.”

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The University’s Response to AEPi’s Emails Fails to Address the Problem Continued from Page 6 Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) of the University—that doesn’t mean they are completely independent from University control. Fraternities and sororities alike have Blueprint accounts, which are website platforms for, reportedly, RSOs only. This implies that they receive funding from Student Government to create and upkeep their account. Additionally, they can use university spaces for events and meetings. Clearly, fraternities aren’t as autonomous as the University would like us to believe. The administration does have some control over fraternities, yet is purposefully avoiding taking action, hiding behind the lie that Greek organizations are completely independent of this campus.

An additionally troubling aspect of Rasmussen’s statement is her usage of the word “offensive.” The word echoes the statement made in the University’s often praised “Statement of Freedom of Expression.” A number of media outlets have previously lauded the University for taking such a purportedly progressive stance on free speech and have encouraged other universities to adopt the same policy. The oft quoted passage seems especially eerie in light of recent events: “…it is not the proper role of the University to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive.”

Is this what freedom of speech looks

like? Being able to make unabashedly racist remarks with zero accountability?

And because Rasmussen specifically delineated these emails as “offensive” speech and not hate speech, does this mean that no action will be taken by the University since—technically—AEPi is compliant with the University’s free speech policy?

The University simply cannot continue to avoid taking any action against fraternities. Distancing itself from Greek life is the wrong approach. Clearly, fraternities cannot handle any degree of autonomy, given what we’ve seen from AEPi and, last quarter, from Delta Upsilon (DU).

Instead, the University needs to take complete responsibility. If it were to treat Greek life, like, say the housing system, and force each frat house to undergo additional education about cultural sensitivity and sexual assault, then maybe this type of behavior could be prevented. Until then, most fraternities on this campus will remain a toxic environment for everyone who is not what a fraternity brother is expected to be.

By creating a false “us-them” dichotomy between the administration and Greek life, the University is not ensuring that “people with diverse backgrounds and perspectives can thrive on our campus.” In fact, it’s doing the exact opposite.

Sarah Zimmerman is a third-year majoring in English. She is a Viewpoints Editor.

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Coping With Sexual Violence Through Art

BY EMMA PRESTON MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Harper Room 140 has exactly 92 seats, stacked in rows and curved around the back of the room. During the day, light pours through windows behind them, but on the evening of January 26, the curtains were closed. The illuminated screen opposite the seats glowed even more strongly in the absence of afternoon light.

When I walked in, the seats were decently full. The room swelled with conversation as attendees served themselves the complimentary pizza and popcorn. After a few minutes, a member of the campus RSO Amnesty International stood up at the front of the room, quieted the chatter, and offered a brief introduction for their club-sponsored event. Thus began the scheduled screening of The Hunting Ground, a documentary about sexual assault on college campuses in the U.S. The documentary opens with a series of relatable narratives: the college admissions process. One by one, young men and women face the camera to remember their admission to college as a moment of euphoria, recounting their journeys to

campus, their move-in days, and the instant friendships they formed along the way.

It’s all very uplifting and nostalgic. Then, one of the students finally cuts to the chase, accompanied by dramatic music: she and another friend were both sexually assaulted “before classes had even started.”

From there, the documentary becomes both disturbing and heart-wrenching as director Kirby Dick chronicles the experiences students have with sexual assaults—and identifies the measures that universities take to cover them up. In response to such administrative tactics, two female survivors take to the road, creating a network of young survivors across the country.

It quickly becomes clear to them that hushed-up cases of sexual assault are endemic to universities. The message of the film is clear: sexual assault is a scarring, traumatic experience, and university actions (read: inactions) make the aftermath even more destructive.

In order for The Hunting Ground to fulfill its intent as a “call to action,” it needs to be memorable, and it is.

The juxtaposition of student narrative and animated facts creates a meaningful

contrast between abstract numbers and very real experiences. In a scene following a survivor interview, university logos are displayed in quick sequence on the screen, representing the colleges under Federal Investigation for violating Title IX rules for handling cases of sexual assault. The University of Chicago’s phoenixed seal flashes right in the middle.

Following the film and subsequent discussion, many viewers packed up to head home, but I, along with a few others, headed straight across the hall. Here, we addressed the significance of our time under the phoenix seal through a Clothesline Project T-shirt painting session.

The Clothesline Project by its own description is “a student-run and survivordriven initiative that amplifies the voices of survivors of sexual violence through art installations.” These installations consist of painted T-shirts and written stories.

Maybe you saw them last spring, hauntingly hanging in Hutchinson Courtyard?

Through the Clothesline Project, survivors can paint one of these T-shirts to reflect on or write about their assault.

Undergrad Olivia Ortiz,

member of the Clothesline Project and co-founder of Phoenix Survivor Alliance, emphasized that participants can use the Clothesline Project as a medium to communicate their experiences.

“Options for expression are important for survivors because our trauma revolves around having no option.

The difficulty sometimes lies in confronting the trauma in the creation of the work, which can be really scary,” Ortiz said.

After getting the rundown, I headed to the back of the room to the piles of neatly organized T-shirts and paints to make my selections. Sitting down in front of a blank canvas is always difficult, and this was no exception. Just as was cautioned, I found it hard to decide what to include when depicting my assault; considering different artistic possibilities just made me remember certain moments all too well.

Slowly, however, as other students and I worked at these newspaper-covered tables, our own stories began to develop on the T-shirts.

Some students chose to write particular phrases, while others focused on images.

It was a heavy night, but a meaningful one. I wit-

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Last Tuesday was the first T-shirt-making session for this year’s Clothesline Project, set to debut in the spring.

nessed two creations identical in subject, yet opposite in methodology; while The Hunting Ground projects the ideas and stories of others through film, the Clothesline Project allowed participants to project and process their own experiences through art. As Olivia puts it, “I think both passivity and activity are important in recovering from sexual violence. You get to be validated by other stories when experiencing someone else’s creation and take charge of your own story when you create something.”

After watching The Hunting Ground, I was grateful for the opportunity to find my own empowerment through the Clothesline Project. Over the course of the evening, my shirt became encoded with small moments—different objects, scenes, and phrases from my experience were woven together in one colorful blur.

Though an onlooker may not be able to make sense of the finished product, the process gave me more clarity than I’ve had in a long time.

This Year’s Restaurant Weak

BY NABILA LOTAYEF MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

It was pretty hard not to get excited about Restaurant Week: what part of snagging a threecourse meal at one of Chicago’s top restaurants for as little as $22 isn’t awesome? With over 300 restaurants participating, you have options galore when it comes to cuisine a nd lo ca le — even the pickiest of eaters can fi nd something to their liking.

However, the fact that you have such a wide array of choices can make Restau-

rant Week extremely overwhelming. To help you narrow down your choices, here are some lessons I learned this year: Not All Deals Are Created Equal Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of steals out there. But the fact of the matter is that there are quite a few restaurants that aren’t really offering a deal at all. One of my stops this Restaurant Week was Tanta, a Peruvian restaurant in the loop. The set menu was $44 for three courses— three very small

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The West Loop’s Tete offered Longanisa sausage served with fried garlic rice.

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Tete specializes in charcuterie and chose to offer ornate steak dishes this Restaurant Week.

portions with no particularly unique ingredients or flavors. Comparing that to the á la carte menu, it was easy to see I was better off ordering a couple of dishes from the regular menu and saving myself a lot of disappointment (and $10).

Tired of Waiting Around It was extremely obvious that the restaurants were overwhelmed—from the cooks to the servers to the bartenders—and it wasn’t just on the weekends either. Typically, popular restaurants are unsurprisingly the most

stressed during Restaurant Week, so make sure you are hitting up more than “that great steak place on Michigan” that everyone and their mothers are trying to eat at. At STK in River North, my party ended up waiting 20 minutes for a table on a Wednesday night, even with a reservation. The curiously understaffed restaurant was full to the brim. The food was delicious, but we easily waited 40 minutes between courses, and it was unreasonably difficult to get the attention of our server.

Get Weird Don’t let unconventional menus and weird ingredients dissuade you.

At Nia Mediterranean Tapas, you got eight courses served family-style for $33 a person. I went with a party of six, and despite having a whole range of dietary restrictions and tastes, we were able to agree on courses to share pretty quickly. At Tete, a West Loop joint specializing in charcuterie, I was never entirely sure what I was eating, but it was pretty damn delicious. For example, one member in our party ordered “burnt

bread tagliatelle,” which turned out to made out of bread that was freshly baked, then toasted, then ground back down into a fine flour, and then finally turned into pasta. There’s nothing wrong with a little oddity here and there, and your taste buds will most likely thank you for it.

So what part of snagging a three-course meal at one of Chicago’s top restaurants for as little as $22 isn’t awesome? The wait, the letdown, and, oh yeah, if it’s not $22—but if you persevere, you just might strike gold.

Nabila Lotayef | The Chicago Maroon

Restaurant Week reviewer Nabila Lotayef dines at Tete with three friends.

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Migrating Through 40 Years of the MoCP

BY GRACE HAUCK ARTS EDITOR

I t ’s i c o n i c : t h a t dust-weathered face gazing just out of frame. Florence Owens Thompson grips her cheek nervously as her children huddle close. You’ve seen it on posters, in movies—in every American history textbook ever printed.

Today, Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother (1936) has become a gargantuan symbol of the Great Depression.

But, in real life, it’s just an unassuming page-sized print lost in a sea of mattes.

Last week, the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) opened its newest exhibit MoCP at 40.

The exhibit, which will remain on display until April, commemorates the museum’s 40th birthday with an overflowing selection of 155 of the MoCP’s 14,000 works.

Photographs by Ansel Adams and Alfred Stieglitz sit alongside those of younger, lesser-known photographers like Michal Rovner and Shizuka Yokomizo. The onlooker begins his or her journey with an enlarged print of the display case containing the first photo-

Zoe Kaiser | The Chicago Maroon

Visitors peruse the main floor of the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s latest exhibition, MoCP at 40, which debuted on January 25 and will run through April 10.

graph ever produced and concludes with a triptych of silver dye bleach prints. In this way, MoCP at 40 narrates the museum’s own history, the evolution of contemporary photography, and the variations within this movement.

Despite its prime location on South Michigan Avenue, the MoCP isn’t easy to find. Harbored deep within the inner ground-floor lobby

of Columbia College, the exhibition space is surprisingly small and segmented, yet the curators take advantage of every inch of wall space. The back wall of the main gallery stands up to 12 prints tall with a wingspan of nine shots—a ceaseless treadmill for the extraocular muscles. Perusing the hall, you’ll spot a famous image every few steps, scattered among

unfamiliar and intriguing compositions.

Controversial American photographer Sally Mann— best known for Candy Cigarette (1989), which features in the main gallery—also possesses her own section of wall space in a side gallery, complete with a glass display of newspaper clippings and reviews. Mann’s body of work centers on her children, capturing their oscil-

lating angelic and primal impulses in stark blackand-white. German photographer Barbara Probst shows on the wall opposite Mann. In her project Exposures, Probst presents six aesthetically diverse photos of the same New York City block, all captured at the same precise moment.

Tips of lenses and tripods are barely visible in each frame, tempting the viewer

to piece together the initial layout of Probst’s stage.

While the density of artwork in these two galleries presents a wide and haphazard survey of contemporary art photography, the back left room provides a lesson in context. Forty years of exhibition publications, programs, and fliers line the walls. An exhibition card from a 1982 Andy Warhol show hides down low, tucked away a foot from the floor, while pamphlets from Robert Heinecken’s major retrospective and a Columbia College Faculty exhibition hang at eye level. More recent posters from collective show likes MoCP’s spring 2014 Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood and fall Phantoms in the Dirt don the edges of the room, demonstrating the maturation of posterage.

Though not every print was shot as a 4x5” negative on a Graflex camera in 1936, the works of MoCP at 40 —iconic and undiscovered alike—all represent a small, haunting moment in the history of contemporary photography.

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CSDS Valentine’s Day Dance Put some swing into your Valentine’s week!

The Chicago Swing Dance Society (CSDS) is hosting a Valentine’s Day dance the weekend before. If you’ve never swing-danced before, the CSDS has you covered: there’s a beginner swing lesson before the dance begins. Music will be provided by the Petra Van Nuis Quartet, and drinks and snacks will be served.

Februar y 6 , lesson at 7:30 p.m., dance from 8:30 –11 p.m., Ida Noyes Library Lounge. Admission is $5 for students (including non-UChicago students) and $8 for nonstudents.

CSO Student Night Students are invited to a special pre-concert reception before the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s performance of Shostakovich’s first & 15th symphonies.

The reception, located in Buntrock Hall, includes dinner, dessert, and a Q&A session with CSO musicians Alexander Hanna and Sylvia Kilcullen.

February 6, reception at 6:30 p.m., concert at 8 p.m., Orchestra Hall. Student tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the CSO Box Offi ce or at cso. org/ticketsandevents/student-tickets/.

Double Bill at Chicago Opera Theater Chicago Opera Theater presents two one-act operas: Poulenc’s gripping La Voix Humaine and P uccini’s raucous Gianni Schicchi. La Voix Humaine eavesdrops into the phone call between Elle (“she” in French) and her ex-lover—we see and hear only her side of the story. In Gianni Schicchi, the miserly Donati family recruits Gianni to change the terms of an unfavorable will. Guile, glee, and gold-digging—and all under an hour!

February 6, 7:30 p.m., Harris Theater. Student tickets are $15 and can be purchased at chicagooperatheater.org/box-office/. A second performance will be held on February 14, 3 p.m.

University Cha mber Orchestra University Chamber O r chestra presents a sneak peak of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida with orchestra and principal cast. The program also features Dvorák’s Czech Suite and the overture to Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.

February 6, 8 p.m. Logan Performance Hall.

Free and open to the public.

Wil Sands on Waiting for Mot her Ru s si a : Ukraine’s Frozen War This Wednesday, the day before his exhibition opening at the Art Works Project Studio, photographer Wil Sands, co-founder of Fractures Photo Collective, will host a lecture on his newest series Mother Russia—In Two Acts. The series explores the interactions between Ukrainians and Russian loyalists over the past few years to give voice to civilians often overlooked.

February 10, 6 –7:30 p.m., International House Assembly Hall. Free and open to the public.

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Night at the DuSable

DuSable also marks the beginning of a new partnership with UChicago: admission is now free to all UChicago students.

Refreshments will be provided.

The DuSable Museum will open up their archives exclusively for UChicago students next Thursday night. The event will feature lectures by members of the museum’s curatorial February 11, 6–9 p.m., team about the main ex- The DuSable Museum. Adhibition, titled The DuS- mission is free for students able Masterworks Col- with UCID. lection, as well as guided tours. Among the artists “ Elizabeth. Like the exhibited are Henry Os- Queen” at the Art Insawa Tanner, William A. stitute Harper, and A rchibald Motley, Jr. Night at the

T he A r t I n st it ut e presents a lecture on Andy Warhol’s fascination with actress Elizabeth Taylor by Neil Printz, editor of the artist’s catalogue raisonné. His talk starts with the iconic Liz #3 recently added to the Institute’s contemporary collection and explores Warhol’s radical reconsideration of portraiture.

February 11, 6–7 p.m., The Art Institute of Chicago. Free for UChicago students with Arts Pass.

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Maroons Head to Augustana Riding Momentum WRESTLING

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Coming off a series of notable performances at the Pete Willson Invitational, Chicago (3–8) faces two tough opponents this weekend, traveling to Augustana Friday and returning home Saturday to take on Wheaton.

This past weekend, the Maroons made a statement for their rising program, placing 11 out of 32 teams in the Pete Willson Invitational at Wheaton, which is a 10-place jump from last year’s finish (21) and their best placing in the biggest small college tournament in seven years.

The squad was led by second-year Devan Richter who came in second in the 125-pound weight class after defeating the No. 1 seed in the semifinals, but he ultimately succumbed to the No. 3 seed. His performance was able to garner him his second consecutive UAA Athlete of the Week award. The South Siders were also led by third-year Paul Papoutsis who placed eighth in the 174-pound class.

Coming into their meeting with Chicago, the Augustana Vikings (6–6) look

to reverse their mediocre performance last weekend, placing 19 at the Pete Willson Invitational. In their previous meet with the Maroons in 2015, the Vikings took an early 15–0 lead, but the South Siders came storming back, winning six of the last seven matches and snatching a 21–18 victory in a meet of two halves.

This Friday, Augustana will be led by fourth-year captain Jimmy Panozzo who received the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW) Wrestler of the Week award and currently stands with a team best 21–4 record.

Against Wheaton, the Maroon men seek revenge for the 30–13 loss handed to them in the 2014 season.

Hosts of the Pete Willson Invitational, the Thunders placed one spot ahead of the Maroons at No. 10. Fourthyear Michael Swider and third-years Jared Fekete and Stephen Aiello all placed within the top eight in their weight classes: 197-pound, 157-pound, and 174-pound, respectively.

Chicago will certainly have their hands full this weekend against a pair of talented opponents. However, after a strong weekend, they will be looking to ride their

momentum. Asked what the team would take from the invitational into this weekend, first-year Luke Lida responded, “Watching teammates such as Devan Richter pinning the No. 1 ranked 125-pound in the nation and Paul Papoutsis placing in a tough bracket definitely creates a good outlook for these coming meets. Even with a freshman-dominated lineup, I think we can perform well against these two tough competitors.�

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Chua, Iranpour Lead the South Siders Take on Cross Way for Top-Ranked Teams Town Opponent UIC TENNIS

BY ERIK WONG SPORTS STAFF

It is still very early in the highly vaunted Chicago squads’ season. However, the teams are not wasting anytime in battling it out with fellow nationally ranked opponents.

First, the men’s side will face No. 10-ranked Kenyon on Friday, followed by a matchup against No. 26 UW– Whitewater the next night.

After a blowout win against Augustana (IL) this past Sunday with a final score of 9–0, the men’s team looks to continue its outstanding start to the season at 3–0.

Kenyon will be its toughest match up thus far, providing the Maroons with a true test against a worthy opponent. Kenyon wiped the board in singles matches, winning all six matches, and came close to winning the three doubles matches as well. The No. 3 doubles team of fell 9–8 and 9–7 to Indiana Tech.

This was certainly a commanding win for Kenyon, but the team has yet to face competition anywhere close to the ranks of the Chicago powerhouse led by second-year

SWIM & DIVE

Nicolas Chua, second-year Luke Tsai, and UAA Athlete of the Week first-year Charles Pei. Pei, a rookie, stepped in for Chua at the No. 1 singles spot to take the win 6–1 and 7–6 against second-year Samuel Totten of Augustana.

Pei also contributed to a win alongside partner secondyear Peter Leung with a final score of 8–4 versus the No. 2 doubles team for Augustana, first-year Jack Morkin and first-year Carl Christensen.

For the women’s team, this was just the second match of the season, but they are confident that they have the ability to beat UW–Milwaukee in their upcoming matchup on Saturday. In the last match, No. 15 Chicago defeated Chicago State 5–2 led by second-year Ariana Iranpour and first-year Rachel Kim. Both had singles wins, as well as a combined effort to overcome Chicago State’s No. 1 doubles team of third-year Hanna Pangestu and fourth-year Marnie Perez-Ochoa.

Iranpour defeated second-year Lorea Gamboa in the No.1 singles match 6–1 and 6–2, and Kim overcame Pangestu 6–3 and 6–4.

Other notable performances included a win by first-year Kaela Bynoe and a powerful victory from fourth-year Stephanie Lee. With a win against South Dakota this past Sunday, the Panthers have gained some momentum going into the match against the Maroons.

Despite their competitor’s performance, second-year Courtney Warren believes that “the team dynamic is so fun, and I think that everyone is excited and well-prepared for match number two,” proving that this Chicago women’s team is ready for this intense matchup.

Chicago is not only practicing hard to make each and every team member a little better on the court, but they are also coming together as a family unit. A team that truly bonds on and off the court is often tough to beat because of the continued determination and heart of the players.

The women will play UW–Milwaukee at River Glen Elite at 12:30 p.m. this Saturday, and the men will host both Kenyon and UW– Whitewater at 6 p.m. on Friday and 7 p.m. on Saturday, respectively.

University of Chicago Athletics Department

Several male swimmers dive into the quenching waters of Myers-McLoraine Pool.

BY FRANCES MCDONALD SPORTS STAFF

The Maroons are traveling to University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to compete in a tough meet against DI teams. This will be the last competitive meet for the South Siders before conference and national competition.

In the DePauw trimeet, which took place two weeks ago, the dive team garnered two NBAA B-cut scores. Two three-meter dive wins were the weekend’s spotlight. Chicago is excited for this competitive weekend’s opportunities, which will influence the team’s post season preparation.

Currently, UIC diving

has had multiple divers from the men’s and women’s teams whose post-NCA A provisional scores have qualified them for the NCAA Zones. This meet is UIC’s last opportunity to qualify for the national championship.

Second-year Natalie DeMuro, who won the one-meter dive in the tri-meet that UChicago hosted the first weekend of this quarter, posted a NCA A provisional score and officially qualified for the NCAA Zones. DeMuro stated that this weekend is important for the rest of the season and holds a lot of opportunity. “ There will be some good competition at this meet, but we’re confident

in our preparation and know that we can hold our own. With two weeks until conference, this meet is our last opportunity to practice our dives in a competitive environment. Each of us has a couple of higher degree of difficulty dives that we’re hoping to make conference-ready. The invite this weekend will help us to see where we’re at with those dives and decide which ones to compete at UAAs and Zones.”

This high pressure weekend is UChicago divers’ last opportunity to qualify for NCAA competition and fi ne tune their dives for UAA championships.

The meet will be at UIC on Saturday.

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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Brandon McCarthy gives his critical opinion on marketing: “I bet Acura has sold exactly zero cars due to Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.”

Chicago Looks to Rebound From Losses in Rematch MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY EMMETT ROSENBAUM SPORTS STAFF

It’s déjà vu all over again for the Maroons.

After two agonizing losses at home last weekend against Emory and Rochester, the men’s basketball team now heads out on the road to play both teams again. Adding insult to injury, the team dropped in the national rankings from No. 11 to No. 21 in the past week.

The two defeats represented a major speed bump for a Maroon squad that had won 13 games in a row as of last Friday.

However, the squad isn’t letting themselves get thrown, and are instead looking to their rough 1–2 start to season as a source of inspiration.

“Sitting at 14 – 4, we haven’t faced much adver-

sity this year,” said fi rstyear guard Max Jacobs.

“However, we feel we’ve been put in a situation similar to our loss against Mount Union early on in the season. “ Following the loss to Mount Union, we responded with a 13-game winning streak. With an experienced group of upperclassmen and an efficient week of practice behind us, we feel we definitely have what it takes to string two games together this weekend and make a push for the UAA championship.”

As Jacobs notes, this weekend will be v ital to Chicago’s conference chances. Emory currently sits atop the standings while the Maroons are tied with Rochester for second.

Two wins this weekend could spring them back

into first, while another two losses would put the team in an extremely precarious position.

However, even with the stakes as high as they’ve been all season, the Maroons will have a little bit of extra motivation coming in the form of revenge.

“We all still have a bad taste in our mouths from dropping those last two games,” Jacobs remarked.

“There’s no better feeling than having the immediate ability to avenge those losses this weekend.”

H o we v e r, wh i l e a bl o o dt h i r s t y C h i c a g o squad might sound like an intimidating opponent, the team will win or lose based on their mental fortitude this weekend. Both losses were marked by poor starts and silly mistakes, things the Maroons will need to remedy if they

have any hope of defeating their two toughest conference opponents this time around.

Jacobs concurs, stating, “from a mental perspective, Coach McGrath has consistently reminded us all week in practice that we must remain ‘tuned in’ for all 40 minutes. In the Emory and Rochester games, we immediately dug ourselves into a hole by coming out flat. I think if we start each game with the same mentality that we have in the last 10 minutes, we are going to like the end results.”

The Maroons square off against Emory on Friday at 7 p.m. in Atlanta, and will then face Rochester on Sunday at 10 a.m. in New York.

University of Chicago Athletics Department

Third-year Tyler Howard plays imiposing defense in a game from earlier this season against NYU.

Squad Looks to Keep the Ball Rolling on the Road

Windy City Invitational Keeps Indoor Season Rolling

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

TRACK & FIELD

BY ALEC MILLER SPORTS STAFF

It might feel like Déjà Vu for the Chicago squad this weekend as they face off against the same two teams they played last weekend.

The Maroons will travel to Emory on Friday, and then to Rochester on Sunday for their games this weekend.

The team is riding high off of two home wins last week against these conference foes. The Maroons defeated Emory in a closely contested match 79–73 last Friday. Then they were able to recuperate and defeat Rochester 58–56 on Sunday. Rochester was ranked No. 7 and was tied for first place in the conference until they dropped both games this weekend. The win over Rochester marked the squad’s first win over a top 10 ranked opponent this season.

These two wins showed the South Siders’ resilience, despite that they have been very up and down in the month of January. After Sunday, the Maroons have ended the month on a threegame winning streak. They are certainly looking to carry this momentum into the last month of their 2015–

16 regular season schedule.

One reason for the Maroon’s recent success is thirdyear guard Stephanie Anderson. Anderson recorded 16 points and six rebounds in the victory against Emory and scored the go-ahead basket against Rochester. Anderson feels that the team is really finding their groove as they enter the last month of the season. “We are playing really well as a team lately.

Everyone is contributing.

There is incredible chemistry between all the players and the coaches,” she said.

The South Siders will need to keep rolling this weekend as they play against two teams seeking revenge, a sentiment that will be fresh because Chicago got the best of them just last week. It is always a challenge to defeat a team beaten only just recently by the same players, but the Maroons are not worried.

“I think they will be mad. I would be mad, but we’re ready for whatever they throw at us. When we’re at our best we can compete with anyone in the conference,” Anderson said.

Chicago, who is 12–8 this year, will need to be at their best because they face two teams with winning records

and one ranked-opponent.

Emory comes into the weekend with a record of 10–8, and Rochester has a 15–3 record.

In addition to their emotions, Emory and Rochester have something else on their side this weekend, which is the much vaunted home court advantage. Road travel is always tough on athletes but even more so for student athletes. Chicago has a record of 4–4 on the road this year, which, although not bad, does not bode well for a two-game stretch.

However, this year the Maroons’ home record is at a very impressive 8–2. They are hoping to be able to put together a home game performance on the road this weekend, and it has implications greater than just their record. Playing on the road is a challenge that the squad will need to overcome if they want to compete for the conference title this season.

The South Siders are eager to get back at it this weekend. Chicago tips off against Emory on Friday at 5 p.m. in Atlanta. Then they will travel to Rochester and start on Sunday at noon. After this weekend, Chicago will come home to play Carnegie.

BY MAX HAWKINS SPORTS STAFF

It was an up-and-down meet for the Chicago squads in Wisconsin this past weekend with the women’s side pulling off a stunning victory against the Warhawks, while the men were able to garner individual successes that didn’t quite add up to a team win.

Although the men’s team didn’t finish as well as they would have hoped at the UW–Whitewater Invitational, they turned in solid individual performances.

The men’s team finished ninth against a slew of tough competition, and even though they didn’t finish as high as they wanted, 12 of the Maroons finished in the top 10 in their individual events.

It is also worth noting that many of the South Siders were recovering from injuries, such as second-year Nathan Downey who recovered from his hamstring injury to place fifth in the 400-meter race with a time of 50.08.

Other Maroon races went well with third-year Timofey Karginov finishing first in the 5,000-meter, third-year Gareth Jones taking fifth in the 3,000-meter, and secondyear Patrick Lefevre racing

into fifth in the 60-meter hurdles.

The women, on the other hand, pulled an upset to defeat host UW–Whitewater and won the meet last weekend. Fourth-year Mikaela Hammel put it in perspective when she said, “The women quite literally shocked the nation by winning the meet by half a point.”

The women boasted five first-place finishes with first-year Emma Koether, Hammel, first-year Nicole VacaGuzman, and third-year Michelle Dobbs winning the 4x400-meter relay, Dobbs cruising to a win in the 800-meter, fourth-year Brianna Hickey snatching the one-mile, second-year Khia Kurtenbach leading the pace of the 5,000-meter, and firstyear Alexandra Thompson winning the high jump.

Though the approaching Windy City Invitational will not have the same level of competition as the Warhawk Invite, both teams view it as an important check point for later races in the season. “It’ll be nice to compete at Crown after back-to-back road trips.

We’re all hoping to continue getting higher, faster, and farther,” Downey said.

On the subject of future implications, Downey em-

phasized the necessity of this meet. “The competition will not be nearly as good as it was at the Warhawk meet, but it gives us an opportunity to fine tune some things and get ready for Chicagolands next weekend,” he said. “Chicagolands also have qualifying marks, so the meet this weekend will be a last chance for some members of our teams to hit those marks.”

Last year both the men’s and women’s teams won the Windy City Invite, so they are not only looking to continue their streak, but to also have a more successful future. “The future of UCTF is bright. Be on the lookout for some nation shocking in the coming weeks,” Downey said.

The women’s side also hopes to shock the nation and break records. “Currently we are ranked third nationally and are very close to breaking the school record for the third year in a row. Right now we’re behind two teams in our conference, and I can’t wait to race them in New York at the end of February,” Hammel said.

The Chicago teams will host the Windy City Invitational Saturday at 11:30 a.m. in Henry Crown Fieldhouse.