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SG Passes Resolution Demanding

UCMC Takes

Action Toward AEPi

Steps Toward Trauma Center

BY SONIA SCHLESINGER SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

Student Government (SG) passed a resolution Monday endorsing demands for University action in response to the Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) e-mails leaked last week. The Multicultural Greek Council held an event of its own on Thursday addressing the emails and recent calls to ban Greek life from campus.

At Monday’s Assembly Meet-

ing, Student Government passed a student resolution authored by members of the Muslim Students Association (MSA), Organization of Black Students (OBS), and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) in response to the e-mails.

The resolution states that while the office of Campus and Student Life (CSL) condemned Islamophobic, racist, and sexist language in the e-mails, it did not specifically address attacks against Palestinian-American students. It goes Continued on page 3

BY KATIE AKIN NEWS STAFF

versity is doing to prevent sexual assault. In these turbulent times, the University’s silence and inaction speaks volumes. They are not compliant with federal law and furthermore, there is no system of accountability, much less transparency,” second-year Julie Xu, a member of PSA who spoke at the protest, said.

According to University spokesperson Jeremy Manier, the University immediately began an investigation into the allegations against Lieb after receiving reports of his misconduct during an off-campus retreat in November.

Following the investigation, University Title IX Coordinator Sarah Wake concluded in January that Lieb had violated the University’s Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, and Sexual Misconduct in January. Lieb, who took a leave of absence at the onset of the investigation, resigned on January 21, before the disciplinary process was completed.

After the students spoke, Meg Dowd and Simone Brandford-Altsher, second-years and co-leaders of PSA along with fourth-year Olivia Ortiz, delivered the list of demands to Isaacs’s office, but were not able to speak to him personally. Protesters then dispersed, chanting “We’ll be back” and leaving their signs outside of Levi.

According to the PSA, the Uni-

The University of Chicago Med ica l Center ( UC MC ) is planning to submit a Certificate of Need (CON) within the next few days to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board to increase the number of licensed beds and expand the emergency department in its faci l ity according to a recent press release.

These developments are crucial steps toward the UCMC’s goal of opening a Level I adult trauma center.

“In an effort to expand access, UChicago Medicine is now proposing a bold plan to invest in facilities and programs that will deepen and broaden their commitment to the community and expand their ability to prov ide the highest quality health care to the South Side of Chicago,” according to a UCMC press release.

Currently, the UCMC is a certified Level I trauma center for pediatric emergencies, but is not equipped to deal with adult trauma. To be classified as a Level I adult trauma center, the UCMC must have general surgeons on duty at all times and specialists on call, as well as programs to help rehabilitate and educate patients and community members about health.

If the CON is approved, the UCMC will be able to expand its emergency room facilities and add more patient beds to the hospital. It will then have to get plans approved by the I llinois Department of P ublic Health and the Chicago T rau ma Net work t o beg i n work on a full adult trauma cent er. E R s ca n dea l w ith medical problems like heart attacks or strokes, but trauma centers a re needed to deal with serious injuries caused

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Students march with the Phoenix Survivors Alliance on Thursday to present a list of demands to Provost Eric D. Isaacs.

Demands Presented at Scalia Began Career in Federal Judiciary as Law School Professor Survivors Alliance March

BY PEYTON ALIE

BY TAMAR HONIG ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed away this weekend, spent five years as a professor at the University of Chicago Law School before beginning his work at the commanding heights of the federal judiciary.

When Scalia, an inf luential conservative voice on the Supreme Court, joined the faculty in 1977, the Law School

had a reputation as a center of conservative legal thought. The law school was prominent in the law-and-economics movement, and the political science department had roots in the “Straussian” methodology of careful reading of original texts, a tradition that influenced Scalia’s jurisprudence.

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Nicky’s Chinese Food Fails Health Inspection

BY EMILY KRAMER NEWS STAFF

Nicky’s Chinese Food, a Hyde Park Chinese restaurant, failed a food inspection on February 4 due to rodent droppings and improper temperatures in the restaurant.

Since opening in 2012, the restaurant, has failed four food inspections and received five passes contingent upon certain changes.

Reasons behind previous inspection failures included poor employee hygiene practices, rodent infestations,

and unsanitary equipment, utensils, and working conditions.

The public report on the February 4 inspection documents over 30 mouse droppings, as well as improperly stored food.

Despite the failed inspections and poor reviews on Yelp, third-year Nicholas Coyle enjoys eating Nicky’s Chinese food.

“I’ve ordered from Nicky’s consistently for the last year,” Coyle said.

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On Thursday afternoon, approximately 35 students marched from Booth Quad to Levi Hall to deliver Provost Eric D. Isaacs a list of demands by the Phoenix Survivors Alliance (PSA), and to request a meeting between PSA and Isaacs. According to PSA organizers, Isaacs has denied previous requests to meet with them.

PSA is an RSO that provides information, advocacy, and support to sexual assault survivors at UChicago.

Protesters chanted slogans such as “U of C is out of line/Take a look at Title IX” and “Rape culture is contagious/Come on, admin, be courageous,” and held signs which read “Silence is violence” and “Less theory, more action.”

Outside Levi, student speakers from PSA spoke in favor of PSA’s demands and outlined ways they claim the University fails to comply with Title IX. Speakers referenced Jason Lieb, a former professor in the Department of Human Genetics who was hired despite previous allegations of sexual misconduct and who recently resigned after violating the University’s Policy on Harassment, Discrimination, and Sexual Misconduct.

“Recent events on campus have called into question what the Uni-

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The women’s basketball team lost in overtime to Carnehie Mellon Friday, only to defeat Case Western on Sunday.

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Evaluating Course Evaluations

BY VISHAL TALASANI DATA ANALYSIS

Three thousand nine hundred and twelve years. That’s how much time UChicago students have spent on classwork since Autumn 2006.

At the end of every quarter, UChicago gives each student the option to fill out a course evaluation. THE M AROON searched through every single evaluation since Autumn 2006 in order to compile some statistics on classes at the University.

In order for a class to be considered, it had to have a minimum of 40 students enrolled beginning in autumn 2006, with an average enrollment of at least five students per class. For comparison, the average class at UChicago has 20.07 students and takes 6 hours, 52 minutes, and 30 seconds of work per week.

Figure 1 shows which classes take the most hours per week. Third quarter South Asian Civ in India takes the spot as the most time intensive class on campus. At 121 students enrolled over five classes, it’s also not an incredibly small class. It was surprising it won, though, as neither of the first two quarters made the list. It’s also important to note that South Asian Civ in India is a class taken by students who are studying abroad, so students’ schedules are different than if they were on campus.

Honors Analysis also makes a strong showing, with both first and second quarter Honors Analysis making it into the top four most time intensive classes.

Computer science, chemistry, and social sciences take up most of the remaining spots.

Computer science has four spots in the top 15, chemistry has two, and social sciences has four. Chem 101 and Sosc 190 are the

only 100-level courses on the list. Chem 101 in particular is actually required for many students in the College and is one of the most time intensive classes.

The Sosc classes on this list appear to primarily be Civ classes. Civilisation Européenne comes on the list twice, making one of the toughest sequences in the whole college. It’s again important to note that these classes are taken by students who are studying abroad in France.

Econ only has one class in the top 15, Computational Methods in Economics. It’s also not incredibly popular, with only 55 students enrolled since autumn 2006. We also see one physics class make into this list, the third quarter of Experimental Physics, a sequence infamous for weeding out physics majors.

Before we get looking at the classes, let’s take a minute to marvel at the scale of these numbers. Since 2006, there are specific UChicago classes that have taken decades from their students. The top four most time intensive classes at the University, since autumn 2006, have collectively taken more time than the entire University has been around. We spend a lot of time doing homework.

There have been 1525 classes total at the University that meet the minimum size requirements above. So the classes in Figure 2 represent roughly the top 1 percent most time intensive classes.

There are a lot of required classes in the top 15, which is to be expected. Hum Writing Seminars easily clinches the top spot with just over 64 years taken. The way course evaluations are structured, Hum Writing Seminars captures the time required for every Hum class, which every student at the College has to take. However, Human

Being and Citizen manages to come in 14th by itself, sucking 24.56 years of time from students.

After Hum, there are a lot of Sosc classes on this list. This is completely to be expected, as there are fewer Sosc classes to sign up for, and each student is required to take three quarters of Sosc. Self is on here for all three quarters, meaning the whole Self sequence has taken over 106 years of time since Autumn 2006.

Stat 234 also comes in ninth. Stat 234 is an advanced introductory statistics class.

More importantly, it’s required for the Econ major, which is undoubtedly where most of its hours come from. It’s also one of the more difficult classes Econ majors have to take, as it’s substantially different from the rest of the major. I suspect Econometrics A makes this list for pretty much the same reason.

Finally, all four quarters of the core Econ sequence show up on this list. The sequence has collectively taken just over 135 years of time. About one-fourth of people who have declared a major are Econ majors, which explains this number. What’s more interesting is the attrition that the Econ sequence faces. There were 3,743 students enrolled in Econ 200, 3,168 in Econ 201, 2,867 in Econ 202, and 2,521 in Econ 203. This means that roughly 70 percent of people who take Econ 200 will end up finishing the Econ sequence.

In order for a department to count in these rankings, a department needs to have at least 1,000 non-unique students enrolled since autumn 2006. This means that if I signed up for two French classes, I would count as two different students.

Figure 3 shows the 15 departments in the College with the most reported average hours/week, and Figure 4 shows the 15 departments in the College with the lowest re-

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ported average hours/week.

Figure 5 shows the 15 departments in the College with the highest average rating, and Figure 6 shows the 15 departments in the College with the lowest average rating.

There are several interesting things to recognize, but we’ll just point out a few.

First, language classes at the University are highly rated, with six of the top 15 rated departments being language departments. No quantitative departments are in the top 15 highest rated departments though. However, math has the 14th highest rated 100-level classes, and Econ has the 11th highest rated 100-level classes. The rest of the field is dominated by humanities classes.

Physics is rated very low overall. This is part of a larger trend, namely that there are many more quantitative departments that are rated lowly.

A few words on methodology. The course evaluations are completely voluntary, so there’s a significant amount of response bias built into the evaluations. However, we found that 48.51 percent of evaluations are filled out, so the opinions reflect at least roughly half of the campus’s opinion. Evaluations are also skewed towards students perceptions at the end of the quarter, so if a class becomes much harder towards the final, then students might rank it as more difficult. Regarding how the data was collected, we used a Python script to search all of the course evaluations. However, we didn’t want to overload UChicago’s servers, so we put a fairly long delay time in between requests to the server, and we waited until after add/drop to run the script. If anyone else is interested in running analysis on the data, shoot me an email and I’ll send it to you; there’s no reason we need to put unnecessary strain on UChicago’s servers.

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University Receives $469 Million in Sponsored Research Funding

BY JAEHOON AHN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The University of Chicago received $469 million in sponsored research funding in 2015, marking a slight increase from $451 million in 2014, according to a summary released by the University News Office.

University researchers and faculty members put together funding proposals for their research projects, which the University then submits to various funding organizations. Decisions are made by a peer review system wherein experts in the field judge the viability and impact of the proposed research.

According to the annual report released by the University Research Administration, an office that provides suppor t for resea rch fund ing and compliance, a total of 2,393 research proposals were submitted in 2015 from all over the university, amounting to $1,765 million in proposed research funding. 2,250 of the proposals were accepted, with $469 million in total awards given.

T he biolog ical sciences div ision received more than half of the total funding, pulling in $293 million. The physical sciences division ranked second, receiving $60 million, followed by the social sciences division which received $17 million. The School of Social

Service Administration ranked fourth with $7 million awarded, and the Divinity School fifth with $5 million.

The federal government provided 70 percent of the total research funding, amounting to $329 million. The National Institute of Health (NIH) was the largest federal sponsor, providing $233 million. The National Science Foundation came in a distant second with $54 million.

One of the NIH award recipients was A ndrezej Joachimiak, a senior fellow at the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology and Computation Institute. He received $6.2 million on research that aims to develop more advanced methods for determining protein structures.

The other 30 percent of research funds came from private foundations and corporations. While most research in the biological and physical sciences divisions were federally funded, many notable social sciences research projects were supported by private foundations.

James Heckman, a professor of economics, received $2.1 million from the Pritzker Family Foundation for research on early childhood development. The research aims to find the most influential intervention program to maximize human potential in the first five years of life.

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versity is in violation of Title IX by failing to offer comprehensive education regarding the prevention of sexual assault, revealing names and information about survivors of sexual assault, neglecting to offer adequate training about mandatory reporting responsibilities, and violating the Clery Act, which legally obligates colleges to report crimes on campus, by not sending security alerts regarding sexual assault on campus.

The PSA also says that Belinda Cortez Vazquez’s appointment as both student Title IX coordinator and associate dean of students for student affairs is a conflict of interest and violates a Title IX mandate saying that the Title IX coordinator’s role in that capacity must be their primary position.

PSA’s demands include requiring Title IX training for all University faculty, hiring more non-student staff members for the offices of Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention and Student Emergency Response Systems, and allocating additional funds to those offices.

They also demand that the University hire more staff to work alongside Title IX coordinator, release a transparent budget of funds allocated to sexual assault programming, create a committee to allow student input on hiring decisions, and provide a timeline for new hirings.

In a statement, Manier disputed several of the PSA’s allegations of Title IX noncompliance.

“As University policy states, ‘Mediation will not be used to resolve complaints of alleged sexual assault, which require more formal investigation.’ Staff members and others who respond to cases of sexual assault work diligently to maintain the confidentiality of those who have come forward to report instances of sexual assault. The University also routinely issues security alerts regarding crimes that occur on campus and related properties, which represent continuing threats to the campus community. Alerts may not be sent if there are factors that reduce the level of threat to the community, such as the apprehension of an alleged perpetrator,” Manier wrote.

He also said that the University is currently implementing additional training related to sexual assault prevention.

“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 provides confidential counseling services and other support for members of our community who experience sexual misconduct. As part of its commitment to prevent sexual misconduct, the University is already in the process of providing increased training on related issues,” Manier said.

In an e-mail sent to students, faculty, and staff on Monday, Isaacs announced several changes to the University’s policies and programs regarding sexual misconduct.

Isaacs mentioned several changes the University has already put into place, including offering new preventative training for graduate students, redesigning the training required for first-year students during Orientation Week, creating umatter.uchicago. edu to provide a space for University policies and resources related to sexual assault, and improving education regarding confidentiality, consent, and reporting obligations.

The University is also planning to increase training through mandatory sexual misconduct awareness and prevention training for all University students, faculty, and staff beginning in July and additional training for faculty and administrators involved with addressing sexual misconduct complaints. The University will also reallocate resources to quicken investigations and to release annual statistics regarding sexual misconduct.

In a public response to Isaacs’ email, the PSA praised the changes but stood by their demands, including more support for Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention and Student Emergency Response Services, as well as a meeting with Isaacs.

“We are very excited to see the University making these changes. However, we cannot ignore that there are many changes yet to be made,” PSA wrote in the statement.

The federal government granted most of University of Chicago’s peer institutions the bulk of their funding.

It sponsored approximately 81 percent of research at Stanford, amounting to $988 million during 2015-2016. 82.5

percent of Princeton’s research funding came from federal agencies, amounting to $242 million in 2014. The NIH and National Science Foundations were the largest federal sponsors at both institutions.

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on to list incidences of racism and attacks against SJP members on campus since 2010, including a racist Halloween costume in 2014 and vandalism of SJP posters. Forty-two student organizations endorsed the resolution.

The resolution demands that the University suspend its relationship with AEPi, which would entail discontinuing any funding of the fraternity and prohibiting its use of campus spaces until the members of AEPi formally apologize to the Muslim Students Association and African-American and Palestinian students. It also demands yearly sensitivity training on diversity and sexual assault for members of Greek life.

“I think the fact that it passed as a resolution in Student Government indicates that they are a representative body for students here, so it really means a lot,” thirdyear Stephanie Greene, President of OBS, said.

In a statement sent to THE MAROON, the members of SG’s Executive Committee explained that “it is our stance that the University has a responsibility to clarify its relationship to its Greek life organizations… and to establish and enforce guidelines that will hold groups accountable for the racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic actions exhibited by its members.”

Authors of the resolution met with the administration Wednesday, and will continue to meet with Vice President for Campus Life Karen Warren Coleman, according to second-year Sara Zubi, a member of SJP and co-author of the resolution. The administration “conceded that it is probably time to consider investing in defining the relationship between the University and Greeks, especially since Greek life involvement is increasing on campus,” according to Zubi.

Warren Coleman and Dean of Students Michele Rasmussen released a statement to THE MAROON after the meeting apologizing for their initial exclusion of Palestinian students in the criticism of the AEPi e-mails.

“We strongly believe that we all must continue to work together on ensuring our campus community is welcome to everyone,”

the statement said. “CSL staff remains committed to meeting with individual students and groups about issues of concern and constructive ways to move forward.”

This response follows the Panhellenic Council’s decision to suspend AEPi from its annual Greek Week this year. Additionally, a letter published by the Leaders of Color Initiative earlier this week called for the University to hire a more diverse faculty and to expand the Core Curriculum in light of the e-mail release.

The Multicultural Greek Council, which includes Latino, African-American, and Asian interest fraternities and sororities, held its own event on Thursday night in response to the e-mails and to calls to ban all Greek Life on campus.

This event featured speakers from Multicultural Greek Organizations on campus, a DePaul graduate representing Delta Sigma Theta, and Loann J. Honesty King, a long-time Chicago historian and member of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. Delta Sigma Theta and Alpha Kappa Alpha are both African-American interest sororities.

Panelists explained that Multicultural Greek Organizations (MGOs) were founded in response to the exclusivity of other Greek organizations. Some of the panelists argued that this history shows that Greek life can illustrate progress as well as racism and exclusion.

“I do not believe that sororities and fraternities are an incubator for racist or sexist activities,” King said. “This is a society problem, and this comes out [in Greek life] because fraternities and sororities…provide an atmosphere…where people can share what they’re thinking without exposure.”

Third-year Anthony Jackson, president of Alpha Phi Alpha, an African-American interest fraternity at UChicago, added, “when I see calls on social media to ban all fraternities on claims that all Greek organizations promote a certain lifestyle, it is just untrue.”

Greene, who co-authored the SG resolution, agreed. “While MGOs…fall under the overall Greek guidelines, these AEPi problems aren’t problems of MGOs,” she said.

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Michael Hayes Hired as New Assistant Vice President for Student Life

BY OLIVIA ROSENZWEIG NEWS STAFF

On February 15, Michael Hayes became the new assistant vice president (AVP) for Student Life at the Center for Student Life (CSL), a position that had been open for more than a year.

Michele Rasmussen, dean of students at the University, said in an official statement, “[The] AVP for Student Life serves a critical senior leadership role in Campus and Student Life. As AVP, Mike’s portfolio [will include] the Center for Leadership and Involvement, the Office of International Affairs and the University Community Service Center.”

The role was last held by Elly Daughtry who left the University in 2014. According to Rasmussen, the position was not immediately filled because she and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Karen Warren Coleman wanted to evaluate how the AVP position would look going forward.

The hiring of Hayes is just one of the changes made to the CSL recently. These changes include the hiring of Karlene Burrell-McRae as director of the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs and associate dean of students in the University, and David Clark as AVP for the Campus Life leadership team, as well as the launch of the Center for Identity and Inclusion in 2015.

According to Rasmussen, Hayes was hired in part for his reputation while working at Washington University in St. Louis.

“During his time at Washington University in St. Louis, he demonstrated a deep commitment to students and we knew that he would be someone who would want to spend a lot of time with students at UChicago, getting to know their issues and concerns as they navigate the University,” Rasmussen said.

Hayes was an executive director for campus life at Wash U since 2009. There, he worked with Wash U’s leadership initiative and undergraduate student government. His

department also helped advise student organizations, including all the multicultural and LGBTQA groups.

Leslie Heusted is the director of the Danforth University Center and Event Management at Wash U, and worked closely with Hayes during his time there. “[He brought] a cohesive approach to student group advising through…establishing relationships and being able to be consistent with policy enforcement, and also being supportive and an advocate for the student groups.”

Jordan Finkelstein, student body president at Wash U, also worked with Hayes.

With Hayes’s support, Finkelstein and the rest of student government created a bystander-intervention training program to help curb sexual assault and relationship violence. The project took off in December, and it already has a lot of student participation. “We wouldn’t have been able to do it with such scale without Mike’s support,” Finkelstein said.

Finkelstein reiterated Hayes’s positive influence on campus. “[Hayes] is very student focused. He’s always available to students and he offers good input. [He is] focused on creating the best student experience possible.”

“I think that [Hayes’s] presence will be missed for a long time. He impacted this community in a way that is really impossible to measure,” Heusted said. “I think his ability to bring people together and his ability to help people understand the possibilities is a wonderful trait that [the University of Chicago] is lucky to have.”

Before working at Wash U, Hayes served in leadership roles in student life at the University of Maryland and Cornell University.

Hayes told THE M AROON that he is enthusiastic about his new role. “I’m excited to come to UChicago and eager to get to know the students who are such an important part of this great community of scholars,” he said.

Human Rights Sequence Will Be Added to Civ Core

BY HILLEL STEINMETZ MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The College will offer a new Core civilization studies sequence focused on human rights next fall quarter. The creation of the sequence was spearheaded by Mark Bradley, a professor of history and the faculty director at the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights (PFCHR), and was approved by the administration last fall.

Any student in the College may enroll in the two-quarter sequence, which is expected to have two sections of 19 students each.

The first quarter of the sequence will cover broad conceptual problems in human rights including universality and human dignity. The second quarter will use the broader themes studied in the first quarter to examine specific topics such as indigenous rights.

As in other Core courses, students will be expected to read primary texts in philosophy and literature, but will also critically examine films and paintings. Some major figures that could be studied in the courses include Hannah Arendt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Thomas Aquinas.

According to Susan Gzesh, executive director of the PFCHR, the move was spurred by the introduction of the Gender and Sexuality in World Civilizations sequence in the fall of 2014.

Gzesh said that the study of human rights will aid the Center’s aim of incorporat-

ing the study of human rights into a liberal arts education. “If one of our overall goals is making sure that human rights is now seen as a respectable and established theme of a general liberal arts education, getting a human rights option into the Core further institutionalizes that goal—that human rights is an appropriate and important topic for global citizens to be studying,” Gzesh said.

Gzesh also said that the PFCHR is working on redesigning the University’s human rights minor in order to accommodate students who are pursuing a minor and wish to enroll in the civilization sequence.

Adam Etinson, a visiting assistant professor in philosophy and lecturer in human rights, hopes that studying human rights might force students to “expand [their] moral horizons.”

“I think it’s very probable that you’ll see some sensitization amongst students to the core values that get written into human rights like tolerance, inclusiveness, and respect,” Etinson said.

The PFCHR was founded as the Human Rights Program in 1997 as an interdisciplinary center for the study of human rights at the University. The program was renamed after a donation from Richard Pozen (A.B. ’69) and his wife Ann Pozen. It promotes the study of human rights through a liberal arts– oriented curriculum, support for research, and funding for human rights internships for students.

Axelrod Authors “Obama Theory of Trump”

BY ISAAC TRONCOSO NEWS STAFF

On January 25, David Axelrod, director of the Institute of Politics, published an article in The New York Times entitled: “The Obama Theory of Trump.”

In his piece, he asserts that even in elections dominated by the candidates’ personalities, the most influential politician is not on the ballot. Instead, it’s the president vacating office, because the electorate tends to gravitate toward the political party opposite to his.

Axelrod cites the two notable examples of a youthful, spirited John F. Kennedy replacing Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Jimmy Carter, who ran on a platform of moral integrity, replacing Gerald Ford, previously vice president to Richard Nixon.

Axelrod writes that the American public gets to know even the subtler personality traits of a president over his time in office, and, with every cycle, it attempts to correct what it perceives to be his shortcomings.

“There always has been a pendular nature to our politics, especially when you are talking about the presidency. The American people live with that incumbent and all his idiosyncrasies for four or eight years, and it is a natural impulse to try and correct for what they feel the incumbent lacks,” Axelrod said.

Josh Parks, the first-year representative of the College Republicans, emphasized that this election has been defined by perhaps what is the most glaring difference between President Obama and candidate Donald Trump—Trump’s abrupt, provocative de-

meanor.

“The role of experience in the current election is clearly of little importance. This goes not only for Trump and the Republicans, but equally for Bernie, Hillary, and the Democrats. The country wants a problem solver— someone who they believe can clean up the mess in Washington and get the country back on its rightful course,” he said.

Third-year Henry Bensinger, president of the University of Chicago Democrats, agreed that the role of etiquette in today’s politics has been diminished, and spoke about how this could be due in part to the way we conduct our elections.

“I can sit next to the College Republicans here and have a nice friendly chat, but out there in D.C. or in the state capitols, they don’t get stuff done because they’re too busy yelling at each other. I think that in the way primaries are set up, in a lot of ways they reward extremism. In the Republican field, where you have so many candidates, Trump stands out. He might only be getting 20–30 percent, but that could put him in first or second place,” Bensinger said.

“Now some, and particularly active Republicans, have come to see deliberation as weakness. They are weary of nuance and complexity, which they feel are excuses for inaction.

Against this backdrop, Trump offers the antithesis—the unencumbered, unapologetic Man of Action, who damns ‘political correctness’ and promises to tackle every problem through sheer moxie and will, to ‘make America great again,’” Axelrod said.

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college in the country up to the level of Chicago’s tuition. This benefit was significant for the Scalias, who had seven children at the time. The large and growing Scalia family lived in an old fraternity house three blocks from campus.

Scalia’s teaching repertoire at UChicago covered contracts, administrative law, constitutional law, and federal communications law, among other subjects.

In a biography by Bruce Allen Murphy, students remembered Scalia, famous as a Supreme Court Justice for his fervent and creatively written opinions, as an engaging teacher who used a mythical apple (linked, in Scalia style, to the Founding Fathers), and as the example in each of the hypothetical contracts in his Contracts class.

Scalia became the first faculty adviser to UChicago’s chapter of the Federalist Society, which, with his help and the help of fellow conservative jurist Robert Bork, evolved into one of the most influential legal organizations in the country. Founded in 1981 by conservative and libertarian law students at Yale, Harvard, UChicago, and Stanford, the Federalist Society now includes thousands of law students, practicing attorneys, and high-ranking public officials and judges.

Scalia left the Law School in 1983, when Ronald Reagan nominated him for a position on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. When Reagan nominated Scalia for a position on the Supreme Court, thenDean of the University of Chicago Law School Gerhard Casper spoke on his behalf. Speaking from his experience supervising Scalia during his time at the Law School, Casper noted during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing: “There are few jobs more challenging than the task of supervising the University of Chicago

Law School faculty.”

“I am well familiar with Judge Scalia’s academic work and reasonably familiar with his judicial work. Judge Scalia poses what I would call a tenacious intellect. He is intellectually refi ned and takes great pleasure in measuring a problem,” Casper told the Senate committee.

In 2012, Scalia returned to the Law School to deliver the Schwartz Lecture, an event held by a distinguished lawyer or teacher experienced in the academic field or practice of public service. During his lecture, titled “The Methodology of Originalism,” Scalia advocated for his view that the Constitution has a static meaning that remains unchanged from generation to generation, a key part of Scalia’s intellectual legacy.

Geoffrey Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at UChicago, reflected positively on Scalia’s visit, praising the Justice’s generosity with his time and energy. “He’s just been great,” Stone said at the time.

In the wake of Scalia’s death, several current and former faculty members of the Law School shared their thoughts on Scalia’s legacy. Stone published his remembrances in an article in The Daily Beast. Stone’s relationship with Scalia was sometimes rocky. After Stone published a blog post connecting an anti-abortion ruling to the Catholic majority on the Supreme Court, the deeply Catholic Scalia told his biographer he would not speak at the University as long as Stone was part of the faculty.

“Though we never much agreed on anything, I liked Nino greatly as a person and as a friend, and I deeply respected his intellect,” Stone wrote, using Scalia’s nickname. “I may not miss his votes as a justice, but I will miss him. He added sparkle to the court and to the lives of those who knew him.”

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University 14th in Charitable Donations

BY HANNAH HU NEWS STAFF

The University of Chicago raised $443.79 million through donations from alumni, parents, students and friends in 2015, making it the 14th largest fundraiser among higher education institutions.

These statistics come from the 2015 Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey the Council for Aid to Education (CAE) released on January 27. The CAE is a nonprofit organization that aims to help “educational institutions measure and improve learning outcomes for their students,” according to its mission statement.

Every year it publishes the VSE survey, the national database of charitable donations to higher education institutions.

The University of Chicago’s total donations increased to its current amount from $405.35 million last year. The University also jumped up three spots in the ranking of institutions that raised the most money from 17th in 2014 to 14th in 2015.

This significant increase in donations over the past year may reflect the success of the University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry and Impact, which aims to raise $4.5 billion total by 2019. The Campaign had already reached 60 percent of its target amount in October 2015, one year into the Campaign’s

public phase, when the University began to solicit donors.

In an effort to reach its goal, the University introduced the Maroon Loyalty Society in 2015, which recognizes those who have donated for at least three years consecutively with benefits such as invitations to exclusive events. Additionally, in April, the University’s first giving day, 24 Hour Impact, raised $1.4 million. The next 24 Hour Impact is scheduled for February 24-25, 2016.

Furthermore, the University received donations from 41 percent of College alumni this past year, which is among the highest undergraduate alumni donating rates in the country.

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“[Nicky’s is] the only place in Hyde Park where I can get good ‘bad’ Chinese food.”

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food. It’s also one of the only Chinese take-out places open until midnight.” He particularly enjoys Nicky’s sesame chicken.

James Lasker, a graduate student in the department of astronomy and astrophysics,

visited the restaurant a little over a year ago.

Unlike Coyle, he had a negative experience.

“The restaurant was a fairly pleasant eating environment. It was somewhat quiet and decently lit due to the large windows. However, it wasn’t exactly clean. The table was

dirty and the bathroom was very cluttered with cleaning equipment...” Lasker said.

On his visit to Nicky’s, Lasker ordered pork lo mein and dumplings. “I’ve had good greasy Chinese food, but this was not it,” he said. Lasker has not been back since.

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by blunt or puncture forces, such as injuries from automobile accidents or gunshot wound.

According to a February 8 press release from the UCMC, the number of beds available to patients in the South Side of Chicago has decreased by 54 percent in the last 40 years. The UCMC currently has a 90 percent occupancy rate, and it is often required to turn away patients due to high demand. Each year, the UCMC admits over 25,0 0 0 patients and prov ides emergency services to another 78,000.

In 2014, after two proposals to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board, the UCMC relocated 154 others from an older facility to the Center for Care and Discovery, and added an additional 43 beds to the facility.

The UCMC began work on its plan to expand the ER and become a certified trauma center in December of 2014, when it submitted a CON application to the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board, but decided to withdraw it until it gathered more precise information by conducting “a thorough study of services, capacity, and community need related to present and future clinical capacity,” according to a UCMC press release from last January.

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VIEWPOINTS Run the World Beyoncé’s Performance at the Super Bowl Shows That the Black Panthers’ Ideology is Still Relevant Today

Brooke White

Mischief Manager With the release of a new music video, “Formation” and her controversial Super Bowl performance, Beyoncé has been making headlines, in particular for both the music video and her performance’s relevance to the Black Lives Matter movement. She has been both praised as radical and decried as reckless.

During her Super Bowl half-time performance, the black leather costumes of Beyoncé’s dancers featured black berets, classically associated with the Black Panther Party. The choreography included the iconic “Black Power” fist and an “X” configuration, which some sources have identified as an homage to Malcolm X. While this imagery is all positive in its association with both the Black Lives Matter and the civil rights movement, and while Beyoncé’s video celebrates blackness and black female success, her performance could have a more cautionary subtext.

Beyoncé is bringing these symbols back because we need them; we still need Black

Power and civil rights activists because perhaps we haven’t made nearly as much progress as we are content to think. Yes, Beyoncé’s work was a tribute to various Black Power and Civil Rights movement figures but only because we need to be reminded of their legacies so that we can continue to carry on their work.

Flash back nearly 50 years ago to 1966 when the Black Panthers wrote their TenPoint Program that became essential to the party’s platform: the program contained demands almost identical to those of today’s Black Lives Matter movement. The Panthers’ first point called for “the power to determine the destiny of our black and oppressed communities,” while their seventh demanded an “immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people, other people of color, all oppressed people inside the United States.”

So why, in 2016, did Beyoncé sink a cop car, dress up as a Panther, and craft her performance as a response to police brutality?

Because, 50 years later, the same problems still exist.

On July 1, 2015, The Guardian reported that 547 people were killed at the hands of U.S. law enforcement between January 1 and July 1: nearly 50 percent were white and 28.3 percent were black. However, of the 155 black people killed during this sixmonth span, 31.6 percent were not carrying a weapon; that’s nearly 50 black people murdered without the threat of a gun, knife, etc.

Of the 268 white people killed, roughly 17 percent of them (44 people) weren’t carrying a weapon. The takeaway? More black people without weapons died than white people without weapons, even though more white people were murdered in total.

Sunday’s Super Bowl attracted 111.9 million viewers, which is nearly 38 percent of the American population. With over a third of America watching the much-anticipated performance, Beyoncé knew her Panther reference would not go unnoticed. You can agree with the Panthers or not, but her tactic is encouraging conversation and unavoidable awareness of a black American fight.

Brooke White is a second-year in the College majoring in political science

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swered with total assurance: “a piano-playing ice-skating ballerina princess.”

And you thought the students here were ambitious.

There are many ways to mark the end of childhood, whether that’s finally turning 18 or realizing bittersweetly that this year is the 10th anniversary of High School Musical. Besides surreptitiously humming “We’re All in This Together” instead of belting it everywhere as we once did, maybe one of the most apparent and also saddest signs that we’ve grown up is realizing that we no longer believe that fantastical careers like rock star, princess, or secret agent are possible for us.

It seems as though being an academic in the humanities also falls into this category of impracticality.

Because most of its fields have already been carved out by its power players, the remaining debates are so nuanced that they often feel pointless and pretentious. I recently read Rani Neutill’s Salon article “Sixteen years in academia made me an a-hole” which details her decision to quit academia in order to become a waitress. She was tired of the pretentiousness within her field: “I would grit my teeth at academic parties, listening to conversations where it was impossible for a person to talk about anything other than Hegel or T.S. Eliot. All I wanted to talk about was ‘The Good Wife’…No one seemed impressed. No one there seemed impressed by anything other than themselves.”

Neutill makes an appealing argument by saying, “waitressing had taught me more about the world

than academia ever had.” Rather than the uselessness of discussing things written by dead white men, we want to believe in the value of the “real world.” Maybe that’s why Hegel is seen as a more obnoxious party topic than business or science even though the people who bring them up have similarly huge egos— we’ve internalized the notion that small victories in the humanities aren’t real accomplishments.

Maybe I’m preaching to the choir at this school—since such a high percentage of undergrads here go on to grad school—but humanities academia is essential. It allows the rest of us to work in everyday, practical jobs (and enjoy “The Good Wife”) with the knowledge that we have people who tirelessly analyze, preserve, and further an important part of culture. If all our academics were to leave their professions for more “sensible” jobs like Neutill did, the world would lose a lot of the knowledge that has been accumulated over the years and possibly miss out on future discoveries.

Just like the Greek goddess Hestia who gave up her spot as one of the influential Twelve Olympians in order to keep peace and to tend to the hearth, we similarly need people here on earth to maintain the hearth of the humanities, to make sure that each small progress is noted.

Sure, some academics may be pretentious and hard to talk to, but that might just come from the very real fear that people view them as irrelevant, even though they’ve worked their entire lives to get this far. There’s a sort of bravery in

choosing to be on the margins of a society obsessed with apps and applicability. I know this because I’ve realized that I’m not brave enough to choose such a path. Somewhere over the years, along with letting go of wanting to be a piano-playing ice-skating ballerina princess, I also gave up hope of becoming an English professor.

No matter how much I loved English and wanted to contribute to the field, I realized as I got older that I simply didn’t have the courage to do so. I wanted job security and to live in the real world, where I would be recognized for my work and be able to see tangible, practical results in whatever I did in the future. I was scared of being drowned out by a sea of voices all discussing “nothing.”

But I know now that it’s not nothing—whatever I do in the future is in part made possible because I trust that there are people out there safeguarding the literature I cherish.

So I guess what I’m saying is, even if the rest of us “sensible” people can turn our noses up at those pursuing “pointless” careers, we still need rock stars to hold concerts that make us happy, princesses to stimulate the British economy, and academics locked in ivory towers to keep reading Hegel when no one else wants to. Their bravery might be imperfect—possibly accompanied by arrogance—but it’s still enough courage to tend a fire that people might forget helps to keep them warm, unless it disappeared.

Sophia Chen is a second-year in the College majoring in economics and political science.

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Photographer Wil Sands Shoots Ukraine’s Frozen War in Mother Russia

BY HENRY BACHA MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

In early 2014, thousands of protesters converged on Kiev, the capital of Ukraine. They demanded the removal of President Victor Yanukovych and the cessation of his policies that sought to strengthen the former Soviet satellite’s ties to Russia. Although there existed widespread popular support for Ukrainian economic liberalization through agreements made between Ukraine and the European Union, Yanukovych’s presidency was a stark reminder of the Soviet occupation and Ukraine’s inescapable economic reliance on its Russian neighbor.

Documentary photographer Wil Sands, co-founder of the Barcelona-based Fractures Photo Collective, was in Ukraine as the protests— known as the Euromaidan— reached their chaotic, violent climax in central Kiev, during which a pro-Russian countermovement transformed eastern Ukraine into the site of a separatist insurgency. Speaking in the International House Assem-

bly Hall on February 10 in wing nationalists chopping advance of the opening of his firewood with anti-fascist exhibit, Waiting for Mother punks in Independence Russia – In Two Acts, Sands Square.

A lt hough s ome of stressed the intricacies of the Ukrainian conflicts— Sands’ photographs of the nuance that he feels is ne- Kiev demonstrations were glected by a media eager stunningly visceral—like to resurrect the Cold War a picture of an older man lighting a Molotov cocktail narrative.

Beginning his presen- to throw at state police, in tation with sweeping photo- front of a wall of flames— graphs of the huge crowds in his most evocative portraits Kiev’s Independence Square, were those taken in warSands described the ideal- torn eastern Ukraine. Coal ism and fervor with which miners in Donetsk loading Ukrainians flocked toward the bodies of three of their the center of the revolution. coworkers into a truck after According to Sands, the In- a mining accident; displaced dependence Square protest- elderly women picking up ers saw themselves as the their weekly rations at a revolutionary successors of gaily decorated circus tent; the Orange Revolution pro- a World War II veteran testers of 2004, who demon- dressed in his Red Army strated against governmen- uniform adorned with war tal corruption and electoral medals at a pro-Russian fraud. Sands also discussed rally—these are the scenes the unlikely confederation that made eastern Ukraine of right-wing Ukrainian “the most visually stimulatnationalists, trade union- ing place” that Sands has ists, pensioners, and disil- photographed.

To demonstrate the lusioned youths that formed the core of the Euromaidan brutality of the situation in the East, Sands showed movement.

“I couldn’t help but think a photograph of the body of of the historic Paris Com- a slain fighter in Mariupol, mune,” Sands said as he describing how passersby described watching right- lifted the sheet covering him

Wil Sands

Last Wednesday, Chicago-born photographer Wil Sands previewed his newest exhibit, Waiting for Mother Russia—In Two Acts, at International House.

in order to spit in his face. cably linked to the political resolve this. In terms of my To acknowledge the Rus- and ethnic intricacies that own personal perspective… sian separatists claim that continue to shape conflict. in order to reach a lasting the Ukrainian government Nonetheless, Sands re- peace, Ukraine is going to was planning a genocide of mained politically neutral, have to give up something.”

Just what that someethnic Russians in the East, portraying both those reSands presented a picture jecting Russian interference thing may be, however, reof two pro-Ukrainian fas- in Ukrainian affairs and mains to be seen as fighting cists, their faces shrouded ethnic Russians in eastern continues in Donetsk and as in darkness, giving an im- Ukraine who legitimately the fate of Ukraine, forever in Russia’s shadow, remains promptu Nazi salute to his fear for their safety. camera.

“It’s an incredibly compli- unclear.

Waiting for Mother Though he tried not to cated war, and I think that overshadow his human sub- it’s going to go on for much Russia – In Two Acts will jects with eastern Ukraine’s longer,” Sands concluded. be on display at the ART complicated geopolitics, “There is no simplistic, sort WORKS Studio at 625 Sands acknowledged that of reductionist analysis… North Kingsbury Street his collection was inextri- that is going to be able to through March 26.

Rozhdestvensky Shines in Last-Minute CSO Shuffle

BY HANNAH EDGAR ARTS EDITOR

Last Tuesday, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) unexpectedly announced that music director Riccardo Muti had suffered a “minor accident” after the CSO’s recent Asia tour, necessitating hip surgery and withdrawal from two weeks’ worth of concerts. The unfortunate news means that Chicagoans will have to wait until April to see Muti in action, provided his recovery goes smoothly.

As far as last Friday’s concert is concerned, however, the maestro’s absence offered one hell of a silver lining:

84-year-old Russian conduc- couldn’t kill. The program tor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, notes mention the composwho led an all-Shostakovich er’s obsessive reworking of his early opus: beginning program earlier this month.

Rozhdestvensky’s last- as an 1893 piece for unacminute substitution resulted companied men’s chorus, it in only one program tweak: evolved through versions for the replacement of György men’s chorus and strings Ligeti’s ghostly Ramifications and mixed chorus. Its final with a lesser-known Sibelius iteration, from 1911, stands chestnut, Rakastava. The as a completely instrumenswap retained the program’s tal work for string orchestra string-orchestra emphasis, and limited percussion.

Personally, I disagree with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto—featuring the CSO’s with the program notes’ asown superb Stephen Wil- sertion that Rakastava’s liamson—as the sole outlier. “true brilliance” blossomed Rakastava makes up once Sibelius abandoned vofor its occasional clunkiness cal writing—and with it, the with sparse, simple emotive- source texts from the Finnness. Perhaps that’s why it ish Kanteletar—in favor of was the darling Sibelius just strings. Luckily, the CSO and

Todd Rosenberg

CSO Principal Clarinetist Stephen Williamson comes to the fore with Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, led by substitute conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky (in back).

Rozhdestvensky succeeded in making an otherwise unremarkable piece compelling.

In spite of its small ensemble size (or perhaps because of it) the orchestra produced a sound of extraordinary depth and acuity.

Next up was Williamson’s solo spotlight in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. His interpretation showcased the warmth of tone so recognizable in his orchestral solos.

While not necessarily breaking any interpretive ground, Williamson impressed with his vivacity and well-grafted cohesion with the ensemble.

“Perseverance” is another adjective that comes to mind.

During the third movement, escaping air whistled audibly from Williamson’s clarinet, an issue that clearly vexed him. He fidgeted with a misbehaving valve at every opportunity; unfortunately, opportunities are too few and far between in the inexorably flowing Rondo for the soloist to so much as change out a reed or swab the instrument.

To his credit, Williamson finished strong: it was an altogether delightful offering from a musician who never fails to delight.

In its first-ever CSO performance, Arvo Pärt’s Orient & Occident brought the pro-

gram back into string orchestra territory. True to its title, Orient & Occident brilliantly layers languid, harmonic-minor modalities that recall the Middle East over a bedrock of Western harmony.

Contrary to recent CSO premieres I’ve heard, the ensemble sounded assured and nuanced in its interpretation of Pärt’s ethereal 2000 piece.

During Friday’s performance, Orient & Occident’s enigmatic ending of a unison A, sustained by all of the strings, which never cadenced to D, was satisfyingly hair-raising.

Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings was a concluding feast for the ears, richly played by the 40-piece orchestra. There were moments where one wished for a mellower, more flexible interpretation in the outer movements, but the inner movements presented Tchaikovsky at his lissome, lyric best.

Though the CSO traversed a wide-ranging program Friday night, one observation was reaffirmed with each and every piece on the program: the CSO could not have arranged a better substitute than Rozhdestvensky. Eschewing a podium and, now and again, his obligation to actually beat time,

the legendary conductor is nothing short of idiosyncratic. He wields an almost comically long, 20-plus-inch baton, and apparently isn’t one to take any time between movements. I was amused by his tendency to whip to the next page of the score and coolly lift his arms, ready for the downbeat, leaving the orchestra scrambling to catch up.

But it’s precisely these idiosyncrasies that made for a truly remarkable evening.

Rozhdestvensky was the goto interpreter and dedicatee of works by Soviet composers like Shostakovich, Schnittke, and Prokofiev, and his expertise showed. He savored both detail and structure in equal measure; so palpable was the rapport he had with the CSO that one wouldn’t have guessed he’d been asked to substitute last-minute.

Most importantly, by occasionally lowering his baton altogether, Rozhdestvensky appeared to be challenging the orchestra throughout to not only play more sensitively, but also to listen more sensitively. It certainly paid off in this chamber-heavy program: the results were nothing short of marvelous, even by the CSO’s standards.

Silver lining, indeed.

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Poetry Foundation Opens Doors Downtown and Beyond

BY MAY HUANG

zine into its present form. “[Lilly] really wanted ARTS STAFF the magazine to use the “The Open Door will money to keep poetry in be the policy of this mag- our culture because poetry azine—may the great poet has fallen out of favor as a we are looking for never mainstream art form,� said find it shut, or half-shut, Elizabeth Burke-Dain, the against his ample genius!� Poetry Foundation’s MarSo begins the Harriet Mon- keting and Media Director.

Today, the Poetry Founroe quotation printed onto the wall that one sees upon dation aims to create “a walking into the Poetry more vigorous presence of poetry in our culture�

Foundation.

First published in 1912, through workshops, events, Poetry Magazine is one of and extensive resources the most prominent poetry on its website. Google monthlies in the literary searches of poems and poworld. From 1941 to 2003, ets are quick to direct readthe Modern Poetry Associ- ers to www.poetryfoundaation produced the maga- tion.org—after all, the site zine, struggling from time includes an archive of over to time to keep the founda- 13,000 poems, discussion guides, podcasts, and more. tion financially afloat.

However, not everyone But when the philanthropist Ruth Lilly donated who uses the site knows more than $100 million to that the Foundation itself the magazine in 2003, the is located in Chicago, in a Poetry Foundation replaced beautifully designed glass the Modern Poetry Associ- building on 61 West Supeation, shaping the maga- rior Street.

There is a sense of alongside two of their stu- “Wednesday Poemtime� sesmodernity about the place dents. It also hosts Forms sions it hosts to introduces that unites the traditional and Features, a series of children to poetry in an inand progressive. The room free creative workshops teractive way. is filled to the ceiling with which focuses on different The Foundation is also poetry books while Apple elements of poetry. The part of an initiative dicomputers line the long most recent workshop dis- rected towards high school desk on the first floor. The cussed similes: a group of students called “Poetry exhibition currently on 15 people sat around a ta- Out Loud,� which draws display, Volatile!: A Poetry ble to analyze how different over 365,000 students per and Scent Exhibition, in- poems incorporate similes, year. The competition culvites visitors to smell cer- ultimately incorporating minates in Washington tain scents before or after them into their own poems. D.C., where one student reading poems to see how On a more performative from each state recites their understanding is col- level, the Foundation col- verse over a two-day peored by sensory experience. laborates with entities like riod to compete in national A s Bu rke -Da i n ex- the Steppenwolf Theatre championships. plains, the Foundation Company and the Prison Unsurprisingly, as edthus creates programs and Neighborhood Arts ucational institutions in which “appeal to both Project to bring poems to the same city, the Poetry readers and non-readers of the stage through theater Foundation and the Unipoetry,� allowing visitors and dance. versity of Chicago are also to “experience poetry in a At the same time, the frequent collaborators. As[way] they hadn’t expected.� Fou ndation ma kes it- sociate Professor of English T h e F o u n d a t i o n ’s self accessible to young Srikanth Reddy has spomonthly Open Door Read- audiences that may not ken at the Bagley Wright ings, appropriately named formally study poetry. A Lecture Series on Poetry after Monroe’s words, fea- whole section of the Foun- and will be one of the facture readings by two Chi- dation’s fi rst-floor shelves ulty members leading the cago-based graduate writ- features children’s poetry Foundation’s Summer Poing program instructors to be read aloud during its etry Teachers Institute this

year. Additionally, on April 19, Hanna Holborn Gray Disting uished Ser v ice Professor Rosanna Warren and her student Tim DeMay will share their work at the Open Door Reading.

The Foundation has even collaborated with the University for its next exhibition, Bernadette Meyer’s Memory.

Wa l k i n g i nt o T he Poetry Foundation and seeing the books lined on its shelves, I was immediately reminded of all the books that there are to read in the world, and all that I have yet to open.

The Poetry Foundation encourages us to read, but to also smell, perform, and write. One can take comfort in knowing that it is less than an hour away from campus, ready to invite people of all ages and disciplines into the world of poetry with an open door.

Opera’s Morbid Valentine: Puccini and Poulenc

BY MJ CHEN ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

Relatives double over at the bedside of a dead man. They look inconsolable —trembling hands, wan faces, low moans.

They mourn.

Hands wrestle drawers, tear envelopes. Faces peer into corners, squint at loose paper. Where, where is it? The will! The will!

Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi is a masterpiece of black comedy. Fast-paced and deeply ironic, the oneact opera packs a twisted world of music and text into only 50 minutes. Pity that the latest production at Chicago Opera Theater (COT)—which ran on February 6 and 14—chose slapstick over nuance.

So this Buoso Donati fellow is very rich and very dead. His family finds his will unfavorable to their purposes: in particular, handsome Rinuccio (Christopher Tiesi) cannot marry poor Lauretta (Emily Birsan) without an inheritance. The Donatis call on her wily dad, Gianni Schicchi (Michael Chioldi), to mitigate the will‌but may get more than they bargained for.

I’m not a libretto purist. By all means, translate away—a Mozart or Donizetti or LehĂĄr can be just as fun and smart in English. But Schicchi loses a lot in translation, especially as Puccinian comedy relies so heavily on the text. Punchy wordplay (“vecchio / Fucecchioâ€?) so natural to Italian becomes

labored at best (“oldest ment belongs to Lauretta: / Fucecchio�). Question- Her aria, “O mio babbino able decisions are made caro� (“Oh my beloved to better suit the mean- father�), breaks the chaos ings to an audience: the for a moment of sincere choice to translate “da beauty. This was Emily morto son rinato� (“I have Birsan’s moment. Her returned from the dead�) silky soprano delivered as “I feel like a different innocence through deft man� swaps menace for phrasing and dynamic mockery, which in context control.

I don’t agree with.

--More forgivable but Poulenc’s La voix hustill baffl ing was produc- maine is poignant where tion designer Andreas Mi- Schicchi is cynical. A onetisek’s use of video projec- act drama with one singer, tion. The backdrop looked Voix at COT showcased the like the ’60s as a Windows formidable voice and char95 screensaver—tie-dyed acter abilities of soprano and distastefully neon; its Patricia Racette. animation synced neither A woman, Elle, speaks with music nor with plot. with her ex-lover over the My theory? The wallpaper phone. She is cool, frivkilled old Buoso. olous‌at first. As their Michael Chioldi played conversation continues we the titular F lorentine hear her growing vulnertrickster with robustness ability—is the phone cord and magnetism. His am- between them a noose or a ple baritone added bite to lifeline?

Schicchi’s wry sarcasm, As Elle, Racette nareasily projecting over a rates half the story. She sometimes unruly orches- questions and confesses tra. I found his slapstick through voice and body delivery at times exagger- language. Her soprano is ated but generally enter- remarkable for its spectaining throughout the trum of expressive color. performance.

Racette understands that R i nuc c io wa s h o t . desperation and volume Christopher Tiesi’s boyish don’t have to be the same: good looks lent his char- her trembling pianissimo acter visual realism, for carries as much weight as sure. Yet his tenor lacked her full-force belt.

There’s also a sensiheft, pairing an attractive middle register with a top tivity to Racette’s interthat dispersed like soap pretation that extends bubbles. The orchestra to the words themselves. was partly at fault—over- Trying to get through to zealous brasses drowned her ex, Elle repeats cerout Rinuccio’s showpiece tain phrases: “tu es gentilâ€? “Firenze è come un albero (“you are kindâ€?); “tout est fioritoâ€? (“Florence is like a ma fauteâ€? (“all my faultâ€?); “je t’aimeâ€? (“I love youâ€?). flowering treeâ€?).

The opera’s pivotal mo- Racette worked subtle al-

chemy in the meaning of what she sings. She combines explicit cues—text, voice, body language — with implicit characterization. What Elle hears is unknown to us. Her responses give context while preserving ambiguity: it is Racette’s indirect reacting

that lends so much power to her performance.

The orchestra in Voix is active, not atmospheric: it underlines Elle’s psychological state from calm to pique to panic. Conductor Ari Pelto led the Chicago Sinfonietta in an intelligent and balanced

reading of the score that complemented Racette’s instrument.

COT stakes its mission in realizing “new and rarely performed works.�

Its February double bill made a persuasive case for 20th-century works outside the grand opera repertory.

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Team Places Second, Earns Four Weight Class Victories at Championships

Pair of Gold Medals at Midwest Invitational Send No. 8 Squads Into UAAs Confident

WRESTLING

SWIM & DIVE

BY DAVID KERR SPORTS STAFF

Chicago capped off a very competitive weekend at the UAA championship meet with a strong second-place finish after a close final match with NYU. Four Chicago wrestlers earned UAA championships individually on Saturday: second-year Devan Richter (125 lb.), first-year Mason Williams (141 lb.), second-year Nick Ferraro (165 lb.), and fourth-year Ryan Walsh (197 lb.) all fi nished fi rst in their respective weight classes. As a team, the Maroons fi nished the dual meet portion of their schedule with a 5–10 record and a 1–1 record in the UAA. The UAA championship meet opened up with Case Western dropping its fi rst match against the top-seeded NYU 36–12.

The Maroons were next up as they took on Case in the second match of the day. The squad came out strong as it took the first four matches against Case with Richter, fi rst-year Louis DeMarco, and Williams all winning their respective matches. Despite third-year Justin Klein dropping his match 17–0 at 157 pounds, the Maroons were able to resume their streak, winning their next four matches. The Maroons would conclude their match over Case with a 36–11 win and the chance to compete against NYU for the UAA championship.

The South Siders went into the match looking to dethrone the Violets as NYU came into the day as the four-time defending UAA champions. The matches between the two teams were hard fought as each team was battling for every inch to

claim a UAA championship for its squad.

Both teams traded off pins to start off the match as Richter pinned third-year Wayne Yuan of NYU but third-year Nathan Pike of NYU pinned DeMarco. With the score knotted at 6–6, Williams provided a huge spark as he came from behind to win his match 4–3 with a takedown with 12 seconds left. The matches would go back and forth as the Maroons went into the 197- and 285-pound matches down 19–13.

Walsh won decisively 4–3 at 197 pounds to cut NYU’s lead down but first-year Santino Pelusi of NYU clinched a NYU victory by defeating fi rst-year Patrick Mulkerin 5–2.

While the Maroons suffered a tough defeat to the Violets, there were many positive takeaways from the meet for the South Siders. Walsh came away with his first individual crown after he had many key wins for the Maroons in the both of the meets this weekend.

“I am happy with my performance, winning the individual crown and extending our chances of defeating NYU to the final match. Even though we did not pull out the team title, I could not be more proud of how our team wrestled,” Walsh said.

The Maroons will look to continue their success at the NCAA Midwest Regional at Wabash on February 27. They will face a slew of teams that they have already competed against this season, including Wheaton, Elmhurst, North Central, Trine, and Wabash. The wrestlers will look to repeat or best their past performances.

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Third-year Paul Papoutsis competes against Wheaton in a match earlier this season.

BY HELEN PETERSEN SPORTS EDITOR

According to the College Swimming Coaches Association of America, both the men’s and women’s squads are a part of the elite; both teams are currently ranked No. 8 in the nation, meaning their talent and hard work can compete with the best of the best on a national level. Both teams advanced their status as top contenders this weekend by taking the gold at their very own Midwest Invitational.

This placing exceeded previous performances at the meet, as last year the women earned second while the men placed third.

The Midwest Invitational brought top competition to the South Side, with Wash U, UW–Milwaukee, Olivet, and Case Western all making the trip to compete. Wash U stands at No. 9 for both the men’s and women’s squads, while the Case Western men are No. 20 and their women No. 21. Topping off the field of tough competition, DI UW–Milwaukee had previously edged the Maroon men and women in a headto-head meet earlier this season.

This daunting lineup mattered little come time to compete. The Maroon women earned 503 points, taking their revenge against UW–Milwaukee who came in second with 418 points. The men’s side defeated conference rival Wash U, which ended with 474 points, in a dominant fashion with 538 points.

On the women’s side, young blood led the Maroons, while veterans provided added depth. First-year Christina Cheng placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke while fourth-year Jen Law came f lying in right behind her for second place. Second-year Florina Yang also earned first in the 100-yard butterf ly, with first-year Daria Wick coming in .43 seconds after her to grab second. Fourth-year Ciara Hu took first in the 400-yard individual medley with a time of 4:41.32. First-year Hannah Eastman, second-year Emma Madden, and third-years Alison Wall and Megan Wall all earned second in

their respective events to provide a well-balanced scoring performance.

“I think that this past weekend was more than just a win,” Law said. “Having our Midwest meet before UAAs this year was so good because it really got us excited for our upcoming conference meet this week. There were some amazing swims at Midwest and the team atmosphere on the pool deck was unlike anything we’ve seen so far this season. The excitement is tangible and I believe our team is more than ready to get up and race at Rochester.”

A mong the men, four f irst-place finishes were earned on the day. The Maroons took the top three places in the 100-yard breaststroke, with second-year Alex Lin finishing in 59.05 for the win and third-year Rolland Lee coming in at 59.08 to grab silver.

Fourth-year James Taylor and firstyear Keenan Novis took first in the 200-yard breaststroke and 400-yard individual medley, respectively, while the 400-yard medley relay earned first as well. Four second-place f inishes went to the Maroons, and the squad walked away with a dominant win.

With UA A Championships starting on Wednesday of this week, these victories come at a crucial time for the South Siders. Chicago is hoping this win will provide momentum heading into the conference meet. “ We’ve been working harder than ever this season and the performances at the Midwest Invite just go to affirm that. We had some fantastic swims this weekend, which only gives us more confidence going into UA As. Team morale has never been higher and we’re ready to dominate in Rochester this weekend,” Madden said.

The UA A is one of the toughest conferences in the country; both the men’s and women’s side boasting seven teams on the conference’s eight teams ranked in the top 25 in the nation. The meet begins on Wednesday in Rochester and will continue through Saturday.

Women’s Team Takes First out of 17 at Chicagolands TRACK & FIELD

BY MICHAEL CHEIKEN SPORTS STAFF

Continuing their quest to win the UAA Conference meet just two weekends from now, the Maroon track and field squads traveled to Naperville to compete in the Chicagoland Indoor Track & Field Championships. Because there were so many entrants in the meet, it was broken up into two days. The women were the fi rst to participate, competing on Friday, while the men raced the following day.

The women excelled during the meet, winning five races and capturing a slew of podium appearances. In addition, each of the victors fi nished in seasonal best times, denoting a steady progression and a well-timed coming of great form. Thirdyear Michelle Dobbs continued her dom-

inance in the 800-meter (2:14.10), winning the event for the second time this season in as many attempts. Fourth-year Brianna Hickey slimmed down her best mile time this year by a little over two seconds en route to a 5:02.48 victory.

Third-year Minnie Horvath took first in the 3k, setting a PR with a wonderful time of 10:16.66, and second-year Khia Kurtenbach posted the fourth best time in the nation in the 5k running a remarkable 17:20.86. The 4x400-meter relay team also took fi rst place, smoking the competition, while putting up the fi fth best time run so far by a Division III team.

Kurtenbach’s event was of particular note. “During the early part of the race, I tried to focus on running as relaxed as possible,” the second-year runner said.

She was unfazed by “two other runners [who] really took out…and was able to just run behind them early on.” However, once the lead runners had completed about 3km, the pace began to slow, and Kurtenbach “knew that [she] needed to take the lead and push the pace if we wanted to run under 17:30.” Eventually it was just Kurtenbach and North Central’s Megan Costanzo ahead of the rest of the pack. “The last lap was really a great race between myself and [Costanzo], and we pushed each other to have a great kick at the end of the race,” Kurtenbach said of the electric fi nish.

The men also had a great meet, though admittedly not as good as the women’s. Of the 21 teams in the meet, they finished sixth overall, while continuing to ramp into gear for the conference

meet just about two weeks from now.

Third-year Nick Nielsen took third place in the mile with a 4:21.24 and continued his cutting trend. For the second consecutive meet, the runner has sliced three or more seconds from his mile time.

The distance medley relay team also took third place in the meet. While the 4x400 team placed fourth, they are racing better at this time of year than they were last year, when they shocked the nation making it all the way to the Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships.

This coming weekend the University of Chicago hosts the Margaret Bradley Invitational, where both the men’s and women’s teams will be looking to further improve their times as the pursuit of the UAA Championship nears its end.

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Chicago Ends Weekend 1–1, Defeats Case Western WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BY MICHAEL HINKLEY SPORTS STAFF

After making some changes to the starting lineup after dropping games to both Emory and Rochester last weekend, the Maroons faced off against a duo of UAA opponents in Case Western and Carnegie Mellon over the weekend. On Friday, the squad lit up the scoreboard against Carnegie Mellon, but eventually fell in overtime by a score of 93–90. Two days later, Chicago returned to the court and bounced back against Case Western. Defense was key in this low-scoring affair. The Maroons held their opponents to 29 percent shooting en route to a 59–45 win.

Against the Tartans, the Chicago offense was efficient all night. The squad jumped out to an early lead thanks to a 25-point first quarter. However, Carnegie Mellon fought back, and then stayed on pace with the Maroons for the rest of the game. After a last-second Carnegie Mellon layup, regulation ended with the score tied at 79–79, and the game went into overtime.

Unfortunately for Chicago, at this point in the game the squad had already been

whistled for 26 fouls. This meant that Carnegie Mellon would remain in the bonus for the entirety of the extra period. Moreover, many players found themselves in foul trouble, and by the end of the contest four Maroons would reach the five-foul limit.

Despite this stark disadvantage, Chicago fought hard throughout overtime. The team got a couple of key defensive stops and managed to score 11 points in the five-minute period. But in the end, this effort wasn’t quite sufficient as the Tartans secured a three-point victory. That being said, the Maroons’ performance was nothing short of admirable. Second-year guard Elizabeth Nye scored a game-high 26 points before fouling out of the game. Third-year forward Britta Nordstrom came off the bench to add 18 points of her own. Finally, first-year forward Olariche Obi recorded a double-double with 10 points and 18 rebounds.

On Sunday, the Maroons returned to Ratner to face the Spartans of Case Western. Unlike the game on Friday, this matchup was a low-scoring, defensive affair. Chicago locked down its opponent for the entire game. This was especially true in the second quarter when the team held the Spartans

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to just five points. On the day, the Maroons forced 23 turnovers and allowed a total of just 45 points.

In just her second start of the season, first-year forward Rachel West led the team in both points (11) and rebounds (seven).

Nordstrom also made a big offensive impact with eight assists. On defense, no single player stood out as the Maroons worked as a team to shut down the Spartans. All in all, this was a quality victory for Chicago and helped the team snap a three-game losing streak.

“The Carnegie game felt like déjà vu,” Nye said. “But this time we bounced back

and played Case so much harder and beat them more handily. That’s a good team who beat NYU, so there’s no reason we can’t do the same if we work hard and give our best effort.”

Looking ahead to this weekend, the squad will be away for its final road trip of the season. The Maroons will be traveling to the New England area to take on both NYU and Brandeis. The Friday matchup with NYU is sure to be a hard-fought contest. The Violets are the No. 14 ranked team in the nation, and defeated Chicago 71–55 earlier this season. This game tips off at 5 p.m. on Friday in New York City.

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Third-year forward Stephanie Anderson rebounds against Emory earlier this season.

South Siders Back on Track With Two Wins MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY MICHAEL PERRY SPORTS STAFF

After struggling over the course of the last two weeks, the Maroons had a huge weekend, racking up two wins at home against UA A competition to break their four-game losing streak.

The Maroons’ offense was explosive, tallying 94 points against Carnegie Mellon (9 –13, 2–9 UA A) and 89 points against Case Western Reserve (10 –12, 3 –8 UA A).

T he Maroons improved to 16 – 6 overall with a 7– 4 conference record, putting them in fourth place in the UA A. After losing four straight UA A games, the team is fighting back in hopes of a potential NCA A tournament bid. “ It was an exciting weekend for the team. We shot the ball really well and we were able to get two wins and make up some ground in the UA A,” second-year guard Jake Fenlon said.

In the first game of the weekend, Chicago took down the Carnegie Mellon Tartans 94 – 59. With the scored tied at 27, third-year point guard Tyler Howard made two free throws to take the lead and spur an 11– 0 run to close out the first half. Howard finished the game with 20 points and seven assists.

The South Siders ended the game with a plus-20 rebound margin, led by second-year forward Collin Barthel, who grabbed 10 rebounds of his own.

The story of the day, however, was the Maroons tying the school record of 17 three-pointers in a single game.

Fenlon came off the bench to hit five behind the arc. Collectively, the squad

shot 51.5 percent from deep.

The offense stayed hot against Case Western, beating the Spartans 89 –72.

A fter jumping out to a quick 17– 8 lead, the Maroons went into halftime up 50 –36 and never looked back. This time, fourth-year guard Jordan Smith led the offense with 22 points and six rebounds.

Fenlon hit another five three-pointers against the Spartans, scoring 15 points for the second consecutive game.

“I’m glad I was able to shoot well, but it really just shows how much the offense is clicking— guys like Tyler and Jordan are finding ways for the team to score,” Fenlon said.

With such big leads, the squad was able to utilize more of its depth. Firstyear guard Noah Karras scored eight points coming off the bench Friday night against Carnegie Mellon.

“It shows how well the team is playing that we are getting more guys into games,” first-year forward Ryan Jacobsen said. “Noah had a big night and now Max [Jacobs] is pushing Tyler at point-guard.”

M a x Jacobs, a nother f i rst-yea r g uard, got increased play ing time behind Howard due to backup guard Scott Herlihy suffering a concussion on Friday. Jacobs saw his playing time increase from 10 minutes against Carnegie Mellon to 17 minutes against Case Western.

The Maroons’ next game is at NYU this Friday at 7 p.m. (8 p.m. EST) followed by their game against Brandeis on Sunday at 10 a.m. (11 a.m. EST)