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Enviro activists deliver divestment report Twitter account creates controversy Sarah Manhardt News Staff

Third-year Student Government Undergraduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees Brendan Leonard (right) and first-year Johnny Guy (center) present a divestment report at Edward H. Levi Hall to Dean-on-Call Jim Wessel on behalf of President Robert Zimmer, who was unavailable on Thursday.

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Sarah Manhardt News Staff Chanting “divest, divest, put fossil fuels to rest” and “we are unstoppable, another world is possible,” students in Stop Funding Climate Change (SFCC) marched to President Robert Zimmer’s office yesterday to deliver its Fossil Fuel Divestment Report.

At a rally beforehand attended

by approximately 30 students, SFCC released the 58-page report, detailing its case for divestment of the University’s endowment stock in fossil fuel companies.

At a Leadership Conversation event in October, Chief Investment Officer Mark Schmid estimated that the University has three to four percent of its investment portfolio in natural resource companies, specifically those involving coal or other non-

renewable energy sources.

In its report, SFCC urges the University to divest from the top 200 fossil fuel companies, which are ranked based on a function of their coal, oil, and natural gas reserves.

Students congregated in Reynolds Club’s South Lounge at 4 p.m. to read the reports and listen to short speeches, then gathered signs and marched to Zimmer’s office in Levi Hall.

Deans-on-Call Robin Graham and Dan Steinhelper met the group and escorted them to Zimmer’s office, where Dean-on-Call Jim Wessel accepted the report and promised to place it on Zimmer’s desk. Zimmer was not present to accept the report.

The rally follows an SG referendum that took place last spring in which 2,183 students—70 percent of those voting—supDIVEST continued on page 2

A Twitter account has raised eyebrows among University administrators and Student Government (SG).

University administrators feel that the “UChicago Hook Ups” Twitter account (@UChiHookUps) may have violated Twitter’s policy regarding the use of trademarks, and SG Class of 2017 Representative Saachi Gupta received a student complaint about the account potentially violating the privacy of students.

“UChicago Hook Ups” posts photos of students engaged in public displays of affection. Established in April 2013, the account has 31 tweets and 171 followers, as of Thursday night.

According to University spokesperson Jeremy Manier, a University official contacted Twitter to request the removal of the University’s name and logo from the account.

Twitter’s trademarks policy states that “using a company or business name, logo, or other trademark-protected materials in a manner that may mislead or confuse others with regard to its brand

or business affiliation may be considered a trademark policy violation.” In response, Twitter may remove an account if it deems that the account is clearly misleading. If not, the account holder has “an opportunity to clear up any potential confusion,” according to Twitter’s official policy.

Gupta raised the issue of the account at SG’s Assembly meeting on February 13 after a first-year female student contacted her. The student recognized fellow students in the photos and was concerned about the account violating their privacy.

“It was something I had first seen when I was Googling UChicago when I first got into the school,” Gupta said. “At that point, I thought it was kind of weird, but I didn’t think much about it. It did not cross my mind until this friend brought it up to my attention again.”

According to Manier, it is not uncommon for the University to contact social media sites about the University’s right to its name, logos, and trademarks.

“The University has contacted Facebook, Twitter, HOOKUPS continued on page 2

Jamaican restaurant Harlem mosque leader talks Malcolm X legacy to open on 53rd St. Isaac Stein News Staff

Carissa Eclarin Maroon Contributor Jerk chicken is coming to Harper Court.

Ja’ Grill, an authentic Jamaican sit-down restaurant based in Chicago’s Lincoln Park, is opening its second location in Hyde Park’s Harper Court later this year.

Owner Tony Coates’s vision for opening Ja’ Grill in Hyde Park includes “us bringing authentic cuisine right in the neighborhood.”

Coates was sought out by the University in its efforts to develop the Harper Court complex. He said the Hyde Park version of his restaurant will closely re-

semble his original Lincoln Park location.

“We’re going [to] have the same menu and new additions of different food.

Our chef is very talented.

It’s pretty much the same thing. We’ll play reggae music and have authentic cuisine,” he said.

Ja’ Grill is expected to open in Hyde Park in late spring or early summer.

Coates hopes for broad neighborhood appeal for his restaurant, describing his vision as “hopefully a lot of happy patrons and a warm welcome from all of the people who live in Hyde Park—whether they live in Hyde Park or [are] students from the University.”

Imam Talib ‘Abdur-Rashid, leader of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood (MIB), spoke about race relations among Muslims in the United States in a lecture entitled “Malcolm X: Reclaiming his Legacy” in Kent Hall Wednesday night.

The lecture was hosted by the University’s Muslim Students Association (MSA). According to Vice President and third-year Aseal Tineh, ‘Abdur-Rashid was chosen to speak to open discussion on a controversial figure and because February 21 marked the 49th anniversary of Malcolm X’s death in 1965.

‘Abdur-Rashid opened with a video clip of a recent controversy in which a Queens teacher instructed her fourth-grade students not to present on Malcolm

Imam Talib Abdur-Rashid, leader of the Mosque of Islamic Brotherhood in Harlem, New York, spoke on the legacy of Malcolm X this Wednesday.

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X for a project on a black leader of their choice.

“There is a tendency in this country to hold Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on a pedestal when talking about black history and about the civil rights movement.

But this point of view doesn’t

give attention to [Malcolm X], the giant at the other end of the fork,” ‘Abdur-Rashid said.

The MIB is a predominantly black Sunni Muslim organization based in New York City’s Harlem. It is the present-day continuation of Muslim Mosque,

Inc., a religious organization founded by Malcolm X in 1964.

‘Abdur-Rashid also suggested that the connection between the black struggle and Islam is downplayed in the American educational system.

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Weekly Crime Report

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Report delivery follows SG referendum last spring DIVEST continued from front

ported University divestment of fossil fuels.

Following the referendum results, Zimmer requested a more concrete argument in favor of fossil fuel divestment at an SG cabinet meeting in May 2013. In response to the request, SFCC, an offshoot of UChicago Climate Action Network (UCAN), began working on the report last summer.

Third-year and Undergraduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees Brendan Leonard notified Zimmer of the upcoming petition delivery at a SG Cabinet meeting last week. SFCC was a factor in Leonard’s decision to run for his SG position. “I ran last year because I think the last liaison was being ineffective with our campaign, and I think my role is to mediate what SFCC’s concerns are and requests for dialogue are,� he said.

The Fossil Fuel Divestment Report presents scientific, moral, institutional, and financial arguments

for divestment. It also argues that the U.S. has a responsibility to lead the world in mitigating climate change and possibilities for reinvestment. Ten students wrote and edited the report, and environmental studies professor Phillip Drake gave feedback on a portion of it.

The group originally planned to release the report during the fall, but was delayed due to UCAN’s focus on fracking that quarter, according to secondyear Jonny Behrens, the co-director of UCAN. “The beginning of last quarter was a lot of fracking and building up the group at the beginning of the year. We don’t really want to push it. We want it to be really in-depth, so we just made a decision as it was at the beginning of the year, [that] it could be stronger,� he said.

UCAN has never produced a report of this kind before, according to first-year UCAN officer Johnny Guy.

Here are a few of this week’s incidents:

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“When teaching slavery, schools tend to gloss over certain facts‌in the 1850s, there existed a community of escaped slaves that lived in the Great Dismal Swamp, in North Carolina. One of their leaders, whom the whites were most afraid of, was nicknamed ‘General Usman.’ Usman! That’s a Muslim name! Here at the U of C, in your history classes, do they ever teach points like this? No? Yeah, I didn’t think so,â€? he said.

In a response to a question posed by MSA President Zahed Haseeb on whether a rift exists between immigrant American Muslims and established American Muslim communities, ‘AbdurRashid argued that division exists among American Muslims on several fronts. “The Muslim community in America is in denial concerning issues of race, class, and ethnicity. Arab and Desi [South Asian] Muslims simply don’t interact with black and Latino Muslims‌. Nobody

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wants to call anybody out. And that’s a problem,� ‘Abdur-Rashid said. ‘Abdur-Rashid, who works part-time for the New York Police Department, cited the aftermath of a case in which a black Muslim teenager was gunned down by police as evidence of ethnic divisions among American Muslims. He said that white, black, Christian, and Muslim community members rallied in support of the victim, but “not one Arab or Desi showed up.�

Some members of the MSA, such as Haseeb and Tineh, saw some validity in ‘Abdur-Rashid’s assessment of intra-Muslim relations in the United States. “As [‘Abdur-Rashid] was speaking, I thought of my own volunteer work, both inside and outside the University, and in the organizations that I am a part of, black members are almost nonexistent. It’s certainly a problem, although I think the trend is that it is getting better,� Tineh said.

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‘Abdur-Rashid stresses lack of intra-Muslim relations MALCOLM continued from front

 February 19, 1321 East 56th Street (Parking Lot), 3:50 p.m.—A victim reported that she was slapped in the face during the course of an argument regarding parking in an off-campus, private lot. This is now a CPD case.

 February 25, 1115 East 58th Street (Walker Hall), 4:20 p.m.—A male subject continues to harass a victim with numerous, unwanted contacts after receiving legal notice to cease and desist.  February 25, 5700 South Maryland Avenue (CCD), 10:55 a.m.—A staff member kicked a cart being pushed by a second staff member, causing abdominal injury to the second staff member.

Source: UCPD Incident Reports

Students raise concerns about privacy violations HOOKUPS continued from front

Google, and other social media networks about instances of unauthorized use of the University’s marks, with success in some cases,� he said in an e-mail.

According to second-year College Council Chair Mike Viola, SG has previously dealt with concerns about social media accounts.

Last year, a student expressed reservations about “Politically Incorrect UChicago Confessions,� a Facebook account that posts anonymous statements that offended many members of the University community. The

page now exists as “Politically Incorrect Maroon Confessions.� “The ultimate result was the removal of ‘UChicago’ from the name of the page and the removal of the phoenix seal, though I do not know how aggressively the University had to pursue this result,� Viola said in an e-mail.

As of Thursday night, the University name and seal remain on the Twitter account. The owner of “UChicago Hook Ups� did not respond to requests for an interview. —Additional reporting by Alice Xiao

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Defining transparency Administration’s efforts toward openness fall short The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 REBECCA GUTERMAN Editor-in-Chief SAM LEVINE Editor-in-Chief EMILY WANG Managing Editor AJAY BATRA Senior Editor DANIEL LEWIS Senior Editor MATTHEW SCHAEFER Senior Editor EMMA THURBER STONE Senior Editor THOMAS CHOI News Editor MARINA FANG News Editor HARINI JAGANATHAN News Editor ELEANOR HYUN Viewpoints Editor LIAM LEDDY Viewpoints Editor KRISTIN LIN Viewpoints Editor EMMA BRODER Arts Editor ALICE BUCKNELL Arts Editor WILL DART Arts Editor LAUREN GURLEY Arts Editor DANIEL RIVERA Arts Editor SARAH LANGS Sports Editor SONIA DHAWAN Head Designer NICHOLAS ROUSE Head Designer KEVIN WANG Online Editor MARA MCCOLLOM Social Media Editor ALAN HASSLER Head Copy Editor SHERRY HE Head Copy Editor KATARINAMENTZELOPOULOSHeadCopyEditor BEN ZIGTERMAN Head Copy Editor SYDNEY COMBS Photo Editor JULIA REINITZ Photo Editor PETER TANG Photo Editor FRANK YAN Photo Editor

On Thursday, the student group Stop Funding Climate Change (SFCC) released a report designed to support SFCC’s call for the administration to shift its investment strategies away from fossil fuels. After 70 percent of students supported last spring’s referendum in favor of that goal, President Robert Zimmer asked for more concrete evidence before the administration considered changing its investment patterns. Now that evidence has been brought to light, what happens next, and will the student body hear about it? There have been many calls for heightened transparency in administrative decisions about student life, but given the administration’s recent track record, it is necessary to clarify what true transparency is. While implementation varies with each issue, transparency ultimately comes down to the administration making a broad effort to solicit input prior to a decision, and explaining after the decision how that input contributed and whether it was followed or not.

The administration’s current demonstrated mode of transparency involves soliciting input from a limited number of students in the midst of

decision-making, but this method does not reach an audience broad enough early enough in the process.

When the administration wanted to convert part of the Hallowed Grounds café into RSO advising space, it convened a student committee over the summer to discuss how the changes would look only after it had already decided to move forward with construction. Had they solicited input from the wider student body—even if just through a survey, e-mail, or really any means— prior to that committee, they would have been at least partially aware of the opposition that eventually led to a petition signed by over 1,000 students. Student input could have come at a more productive point in the process, allowing administrators to look for alternatives earlier without wasted effort.

While we have already commented on the Hallowed Grounds changes, unsatisfactory transparency has persisted, as was the case in the Summer Links revamp. According to a Summer Links alum, program coordinators had little opportunity to participate in the process that led to the changes, and

involved students had little idea of the Review Committee’s plans until after decisions were made. Administrators also offered to meet with individual students who were upset by the changes, but only after they had been made, rather than when students could have given constructive criticism. In both of these cases administrators could have consulted more students earlier in the process of decision making that had a clear effect on student programs.

It is understandable that not all student reactions can be predicted and not all decisions in progress can be disclosed. The second part of transparency, then, comes after decisions have been made. Administrators must explain their actions specifically in light of voiced student concerns. When Assistant Vice President for Student Life Elly Daugherty (A.B. ’97) attempted to clarify the decisions surrounding Summer Links in a letter to the editor, she missed the mark. Transparency does not mean a generalized explanation of why change is good, but, for instance, a letter that explains the thought process of the Summer Links Review Committee

and why it included the members it did or did not. The letter—or any other method of broad communication—also could have been a perfect opportunity to address specific concerns about why the program moved in the direction it did. Students may not have agreed with that reasoning, but the debate could have shifted from a focus on administrative opacity to the more meaningful topic of the compatibility of social justice and for-profit initiatives.

Transparency—an honest effort to seek out opposing perspectives and explain the rationale when those perspectives are not directly represented in the final outcome—contributes to a better campus atmosphere for everyone. Students feel empowered, rather than feeling like pawns of the institution and in turn, administrators do not need to feel antagonized by students. While students and administrators will inevitably disagree, such an atmosphere is truly conducive to significant progress.

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Land-locked and sea-lost Turning to what’s important to us when the elements leave us nothing else

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Fast and Loose Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon.... What do you see?—Posted like silent sentinels all around the town, stand thousands upon thousands of mortal men fixed in ocean reveries. Some leaning against the spiles; some seated upon the pier-heads; some looking over the bulwarks of ships from China; some high aloft in the rigging, as if striving to get a still better seaward peep. But these are all landsmen; of week days pent up in lath and plaster—tied to counters, nailed to benches, clinched to desks. How then is this? Are the green fields gone? What do they here?

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One of my favorite things about Moby-Dick (M-D) is that it contains the phrase “seaward peep.”

Just once. And none of the other 10 uses of “peep” in the novel tops that one. “[T]he spring verdure peeping forth even beneath February’s snow” comes close, and not just because it’s seasonal—though we’re equally unlikely to see that happen by the end of today, at any rate.

The green’s gone for now and there’s never been a sea. And I think, for the first time, I feel well and truly landlocked (to use a word that appears, surprisingly, just once in all of M-D, with a hyphen in the middle of it). That’s the best way I can describe the particular shade of interiority that this year’s hall-offame winter has taught me. I’m not an island: I don’t feel lonely (don’t worry, Mom), I don’t feel isolated,

and I certainly don’t feel any tropical vibes. No—I’m loosely engulfed in barren, disconnected expanse.

My ebbs and flows are carefully circumscribed by the functional impossibility of escape, of recourse, to any place that can be called outdoors.

I’m not even an outdoorsy guy— why, in these very pages I’ve previously likened myself to Squidward, and I stand by that (albeit with some grating, tedious reservations).

But I still hate that any excursion these days, even a brief one, inevitably causes me, “like an ignorant pilgrim crossing the snowy Alps,” to slowly double over, no matter how many layers protect me. The need to hide my face and eyes from breathable air, to stuff my chin into my chest (or, let’s face it, into more of my chins), to hide among myself every time I go outside—I can’t abide this wilting imprisonment, this selfconsumption, for much longer.

Spring can’t come fast enough for a restless landsman like me. Without any sea to lust after, I stay clinched to desks—often in the bookstacks, on the third floor, facing east, with PS2384 and its call number fellows behind my left shoulder and safely within reach. “Landsman” is used 18 times in M-D if you count plurals; “clinch” a half-dozen if you count past tense. As for “sea,” an impressive 149 uses—and that’s as a word, not as a prefix or a syllable or anything else that would do it

injustice.

I’m not doing all this counting by hand. My Norton Critical Edition of M-D is showing plenty of signs of my, shall we say, affection by now—dog-eared pages, unintelligible marginalia, stickiness inexplicable in non-revisionist hindsight. Until recently it had napkins from two separate Southwest flights marking its pages. As the physical embodiment of the greatest piece of art I’ve ever committed myself to, I’ll always treasure it. But lately, now that I’m reading it in its entirety for the third time, I find that I get a lot of joy out of working with an online version of the text—a leviathanic 1.4-megabyte HTML file that is powerless to halt my efforts to dominate it through a series of increasingly sophisticated Ctrl+F commands. In the immediate absence of a sea to set off my reveries, or of any plant life for that matter, I suppose I’ve found a way to surf the most vastly oceanic, yet coherent, body that I can find.

Call me Kelly Slater. Melville prefaces M-D with a section of “Extracts”—a collection of “random allusions” to whales, from a variety of texts, that presents what amounts to a sinusoidal history of humans’ interwoven tendencies to both fear and glorify the monumental in different moments. They’re compiled by a “mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub”—that is, by a librarian’s lowly second-order underling. I like to imagine that my textual exploits are done in this tradition, though I’d like to think I’m more burrower than MOBY continued on page 4

Know your place Identity of students is predicated on privilege Zelda Mayer Viewpoints Staff I love Wicker Park. I love the high-end thrift stores and the hot chocolate bars, the threestory Walgreens with a fat-free yogurt bar (and, no joke, a concierge stand). I love the hipsters with their septum piercings, the trendy vegan yuppies, and the tourists whose profile pictures all feature the same edg y mural. It’s a truly beautiful place.

But Wicker Park is beautiful at a huge cost: It’s a symbol of gentrification in Chicago. A Google search reveals dozens of magazine articles, blog posts, and academic papers on the neighborhood’s transformation from a low-income, predominantly Hispanic immigrant community to the urban developer’s wet dream that it is today.

In theory, the story of Wicker Park’s development is everything that I am against. Structural inequalities and institutional racism have resulted in entire groups of people being pushed out of their homes as property values increase beyond their budget and developers care more about beautiful buildings than the people in them.

A few weeks ago, I was talking to an urban developer, and I asked him the very loaded quesPLACE continued on page 4

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“I’m not sure I can really claim to be a resident of the city” PLACE continued from page 3 tion of his stance on gentrification. He told me that groups of people are always moving and places always changing. People, he said, will always get angry about these changes, but a group can never completely claim a place.

It’s true that Wicker Park was originally settled by Europeans before it became a neighborhood of Mexican and Puerto Rican immigrants. But its newer transformation isn’t entirely coincidental, and I didn’t really buy the urban developer’s justification. However, it did bring up the question: Who has legitimate claims to a place?

While Chicago is a fundamental part of my life and experiences, as a student I am only a transient resident. As such, I’m not sure I can really claim to be a resident of the city. When we , as students, leave campus—oftentimes only once or twice during the weekend in order to seek food or entertainment—we enter territory that we don’t really know or truly belong to the way we do at the CShop. Even though we are students in Hyde Park, we act like tourists in the rest of the city, often relying on Google Maps to guide us to each entertainment source.

But when we view ourselves as merely UChicago students instead of residents of the South Side of Chicago, we create an insular “us vs. them” mentality; we separate ourselves from those who live a few blocks north or south of us, and we have no reason to engage with “real” Chicagoans, or their problems.

Since we are only here for four years, it’s pretty realistic to overlook the consequences and implications of actions—whether they are our own, or the city’s.

This ability to remain mobile makes us similar to the hipsters who now live in Wicker Park—we are both able to construct our identities separately from other social, economic, or geographic factors, unlike many “real” Chicago residents. Hipsterdom is an identity predicated on privilege, a culture established through the ability to live where you want and only engage with equally cool people. Similarly, because I will most likely be in Chicago for only four years, there’s no need for me to put down roots or engage with anyone besides the people in my immediate University community. It’s easy to never leave Hyde Park except to go to the South Loop via the weekend Roosevelt shuttle.

And, like that of a hipster, my experience is enabled through my privileged position.

When it comes down to it, these nicely constructed and partitioned identities are problematic because not everyone is able to choose with whom they interact; nor can everyone afford the vinyl records and real estate that signal coolness, or just leave after four years. True, not every transient student is economically privileged.

In fact, many UChicago students depend on loans and scholarships to pay for their education. But this does not lessen the potential UChicago students have for isolation from the rest of Chicago or the privilege that comes with the school’s resources and name. It is a privilege to be able to construct identity in that way. In my mind, gentrification is an issue of mobility and agency: The residents who got pushed out of Wicker Park because of increased property prices didn’t have a choice. The privilege of choice in identity construction, which includes where someone lives, is unfortunately just that—a privilege that isn’t yet universal.

I know this kind of privilege talk can seem a little soap box-y; I’m not here

Imploding healthily and humbly

to make anyone feel guilty (and guilt doesn’t lessen the marginalization of others). No hipster goes into a neighborhood as an intentional gentrifier. They want to live near cool art galleries and vegan burritos. And many students coming to Chicago aren’t aware of its incredibly racially charged history and don’t realize how significant it is to be a student at this great research university in the middle of the South Side.

This question of place and who “deserves” it matters. It matters that we think critically of ourselves as students, and perhaps expand our identities to include Chicagoan— maybe talk to a few people whose lives don’t revolve around the quad. It isn’t enough to just acknowledge privilege and its consequences. Because we are given the choice over our identities, it is our responsibility to expand them.

While I honestly do not (and probably never will) have the answer to gentrification, I do believe that we have a role to play in ensuring that these beautiful places don’t come at a huge cost to others.

Zelda Mayer is a secondyear in the College majoring in public policy.

MOBY continued from page 3 devil. People tell me I’m a real grub-worm on Friday nights.

Though my life as a Playskool scholar is made far easier than the life of the SubSub by things like Ctrl+F, Lens search, JSTOR, and (mostly just) Wikipedia, I guess I just mean that I see myself as motivated in a similar way to him. I think we— by whom I mean me and this imaginary intern—aspire to the same goal of populating the uniquely spatial trappings of our purpose-driven lives with pieces, with “extracts,” of the luminous. We do so to obtain light or warmth or both—whatever the particular absences we feel require in a given instant. And I think that that aim is both healthy and, in every sense, hum-

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For one week only, Gray Center presents University’s #PAST dent narratives that recreate and repopulate the institutional legacy of the University. In handling material from 1893 and 2013, #FOLLOWUS hopes to open up space to populate the field with multiple perspectives. But the project is not just about retelling personal and institutional history, Schilt said in conversation earlier this week.

#FOLLOWUS Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry Through March 7

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Alice Bucknell Arts Editor The three years I’ve spent at the University of Chicago have produced an incredible series of structural changes: constructions and deconstructions that have radicalized and assumed the forefront of University life and memory. In 2012, the Logan Center reshuffled the structure of the arts on campus by fusing the theater and visual art departments into a singular space. Before that, space oddity struck the library as Mansueto pulled students out from corners of the stacks and into the light.

Last summer, Pierce Residence Hall— the golden tower of the ’60s, complete with “riot-proof ” amenities—was de-

molished to make space for a future Studio Gang commission that, even in its conceptual stages, somehow makes South Campus (built in 2009) feel obsolete and far away.

So much of the University as we know it is literally, physically, built on the present: The relatively short duration of time we spend here as students—more of a layover than a residency—is no doubt a contributor. All of these spatial and social changes push the history that’s older than the time we spend here increasingly further away from us. That’s where #FOLLOWUS comes in—as a multimedia, multidimensional installation produced by Kristen Schilt, an assistant professor in the sociology

department whose research deals with sexuality and gender, and Chase Joynt, a Toronto-based transgender artist, in collaboration with five undergraduate students who expressed an interest in continuing the project as an extension from the autumn quarter course cotaught by Schilt and Joynt. Installed in the Gray Center Lab for just one week, beginning February 28, #FOLLOWUS is a collaborative artistic effort to reclaim the lesser-known or hidden past of UChicago—to pull it up to the surface through a shared system of storytelling.

As the final product of a two-quarter archival dig through documented history of the school, the group exhibit found its origins within 10 indepen-

The project is also dedicated to highlighting the moments of radical activism punctuating the University’s history, especially during the ’70s and ’80s—such as the ‘Nancy Reagan Smoke a Dope on the Quad Day’ in the late ’80s. By presenting a precedent of a type of history not typically associated with University culture today, #FOLLOWUS hopes to produce a heightened awareness of these issues in the future. By unpacking and presenting these documented efforts of University culture to probe, resist, and challenge normative social constructs and patterns of behavior, the exhibition aims to produce a sense of pride for the past and an eagerness toward future activism.

Schilt expressed her own surprise and excitement over the radical feminism embedded in the University’s history. Revealed by the group’s research was an active and apparent presence of feminism and efforts towards sexual equality in the late ’60s, taken up by both students and faculty.

As undergraduates who live out just

four years in this space—and for the majority of us who move off-campus by our third year, much of the social scene wraps around apartment life and culture rather than space within the Quads. And with all the recent changes taken up by the University, our study patterns and hangout spots are not the only subjects of redistribution—memory dilates and recedes, coaxing a kind of soft ambivalence toward the past: blurred and peeling at the edges like a photograph.

So when vintage photos appear of mid-century school dances and college girls rollerblading to class arm-inarm, our reaction is typically closer to a distant, perhaps mistakenly nostalgic type of amusement rather than a sense of real understanding of a situation within this timeline. But with this upturn of highly politicized and once obscured histories of the University— movements and activities sometimes daring, sometimes humorous, and never more relevant than they are today—#FOLLOWUS aims to enliven the past and our sensitivity toward it.

Inherent to this type of ideological gesture is the building of solidarity between past lives of the University and its present: “I’m only possible from what came before me,” Schilt said regarding her reaction to the findings.

Perhaps new forms of self-knowledge and directionality can also be produced by an exhibition of the past. #FOLLOWUS is part of a larger collaborative project between Schilt and Joynt dedicated to exploring public narratives of identity construction funded through the Mellon Fellowship for Arts Practice & Scholarship.

Ancient Chinese secrets: Smart’s latest makes western debut Lauren Gurley Arts Editor For over 700 years, Chinese opera troupes have been performing the same tale of forbidden love. The Story of the Western Wing begins with a young scholar and the beautiful daughter of a prominent minister who fall in love in a Buddhist monastery. In a fit of passion, they consummate their love out of wedlock, and shortly thereafter are violently separated by their families. Depicted in a number of artifacts on display at the Smart Museum’s latest exhibition Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture, The Western Wing is just one example of the way that opera in Ming- and Qing-dynasty China was a progressive force that broke down social barriers both in content and in the way that it infiltrated every level of society, from rural villages to royal courts.

The exhibition, the first of its kind in the West, is a dazzling feat of curation. The range of colors and attention to detail throughout the works in the gallery are especially noteworthy. Featuring over 80 objects painted, carved, woven, or printed with images of scenes from Chinese operas—including pottery, woodblock prints, costumes, silk tapestries, instruments, rhinoceros horn cups, and playing cards—the

exhibit is part of a five-month-long University-sponsored festival, which includes over forty events related to Chinese culture, history, and art.

Walking through the gallery, it is not immediately obvious that the subject matter at hand is opera. In fact, only two of the pieces—both videos—feature actual opera. As the exhibition explains, all Chinese theater from the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) dynasties was opera, as all plays were sung.

What is prominent throughout the collection of pieces, arranged somewhat chronologically, is the theme of theatricality and artifice.

Characters are depicted with exaggerated expressions in highly idealized fictional settings, even on stages with spectators. Aside from a few of the costumes, each of the pieces features a character or narrates a scene from a traditional Chinese opera, in a sense making art out of theatre.

One particularly handsome handscroll shows a female actress from the Peking opera dressed as Buddha.

Unlike the contemporaneous European theater, actresses were common in China, often playing the roles of male characters.

Curated by Judith Zeitlin, professor of East Asian languages and civilization and TAPS at the University, and Yuhang Li, assistant professor of art history at the University of

Wisconsin–Madison, the exhibition was inspired by the large collection of Chinese opera artifacts held by the anthropology department of the Field Museum. The objects were brought to the U.S. by German sinologist and anthropologist Berthold Laufer in the early 1900s. The curators scavenged around the country, building a diverse collection of

PERFORMING IMAGES: OPERA IN CHINESE VISUAL CULTURE Smart Museum of Art Through June 15

objects that would demonstrate the central role that opera played in all aspects of traditional Chinese social and ritual life. Aside from objects owned by the Field Museum, the show features a number of pieces on loan from museums around the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Boston Fine Arts Museum.

The majority of the operas are romances, both comedic and tragic, with storylines and characters that would have been recognizable to everyone, from medieval serfs to princes, because of standardized forms and motifs. The universality of the opera in Chinese society becomes clear throughout the exhibi-

This image from ca. 1745–95 is a detail of “Marvelous Tunes for Festivals: The Second of Four Crab Generals” taken from the album Mask Designs for Court Opera Characters. I have a crab on my face.

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tion in the myriad purposes of the illustrated objects, ranging from commercial to ritualistic to purely aesthetic. There was not a sector of society that did not consider these performances integral to its daily life. Although much of the imagery and motifs will be esoteric to those

unfamiliar with the Chinese culture of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the exhibition is a sight to behold, and the curators are undoubtedly successful in demonstrating the depth and breadth with which opera and the theater permeated traditional Chinese society.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | February 28, 2014

Chicago hopes Regular-season slate to end at home vs. No. 5 Wash U to take top spot at tourney Women’s Basketball Adam Freymiller Sports Staff

Women’s Tennis David Gao Sports Staff Two years ago, the No. 1–seeded Maroons finished fifth at the ITA Nationals. Last year, they finished third. And for the first time in several years, the Maroons enter this year’s tournament as the second seed.

This weekend, the Maroons travel to Greencastle, Indiana, home of the DePauw Tigers, who will be the first matchup in a three-day, three-match tournament.

“This is the second-most prestigious tournament of the year behind the NCAA Championships.

This is a huge one to win,” head coach Jay Tee said.

Eight teams, picked based on preseason standings, conference regulations, and geographic location, are seeded and matched against each other by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association, a collegiate sports governing body separate from the NCAA. Seeded behind the Johns Hopkins Bluejays, the No. 2–seeded Maroons will face the hosts first.

“As far as rivals go, I think DePauw would be the school most of the team would agree on. They’re historically very good, and we see them four to five times a year. We lost to them 4–5 two years ago and beat them 5–4 last year. They’re incredibly wellcoached, and they compete very hard. Every time we get together it’s a great match,” Tee said. “As for Hopkins, we have our hands full with DePauw.”

Though the Tigers are seeded No. 7 in the upcoming tournament, they are ranked nationally as the No. 13 team. All eight teams participating in the tournament are ranked back-to-back, with the No. 7–ranked Bluejays leading the pack, one rank ahead of the No. 8–ranked Maroons. The eighth seed in the tournament is No.14 UC Santa Cruz.

The ITA Nationals tournament as a whole provides a highely competitive opportunity for the team to grow.

“Indoors is great because it prepares us or the stress of UAAs and NCAAs, but in a more controlled setting. We only play three matches at a time, rather than six, and it’s at a place that’s close to Chicago that we’re very familiar with,” Tee said. “We know that a lot of teams here think we’re down this year, but this is a good chance to come out fighting and show them that Chicago isn’t going anywhere.”

The emphasis on the opportunity for learning certainly held true for the Maroons last year. Prior to the ITA Nationals last year, the Maroons were 2–2. After the ITAs, the Maroons went 7–1 in non-tournament matches and 7–2 in tournament matches.

“That tournament was the turning point of the season. Afterwards, the team began to believe that we belong on the national stage, and I saw our practices and mentalities change. We’re obviously going into the tournament with the mindset to win, but more importantly we want to learn more about ourselves and the team,” Tee said.

The match against the DePauw Tigers kicks off at 2:30 p.m.

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Chicago (15–9, 9–4 UAA) will square off against Wash U (22–2, 12–1) in the final game of the regular season. While the Maroons, who split this past weekend’s games with a loss to Carnegie Mellon (12–12, 3–10) and a victory over Case Western (9–15, 3–10), won’t be able to surpass Wash U for first place in UAA play even with a win, they will view this Saturday’s tilt as a chance to hang one on their traditional nemesis.

No. 5 Wash U has had an extremely impressive season. The Bears are currently on a fivegame winning streak and have won 17 of their past 18 games heading into Ratner. When both teams faced each other earlier this season in January, Washington sophomore Jordan Thompson dropped 27 points to lead her team to an 87–72 victory, while the Bears won the battle of the boards by securing 47 rebounds to Chicago’s 30. Several Chicago players believed that this last statistic played a decisive factor in

the outcome of that game and will be an X factor in Saturday’s result.

“There will definitely be a big focus on defense and rebounding,” said second-year guard Paige Womack.

Head coach Carissa Sain Knoche believes that a lot has changed for both teams since they played previously in January, and that Chicago’s maturity down the stretch will make the game even more competitive than their first encounter.

“I think both teams are very different than when we played the first time. We are in a better place mentally since the first time we’ve played them and I think that’s a huge step.

Our team has a lot to play for on Saturday and I think that makes a difference. From an X’s and O’s standpoint, I’m hoping we can be smarter handling their defensive pressure,” Sain Knoche said.

Fourth-year forward Maggie Ely shared much of her coach’s sentiment.

“The first time we played them, UAA play

was just beginning. I think our girls are much more comfortable and confident, and that shows on both ends of the floor,” Ely said.

While Chicago has only an outside chance of being selected for the postseason NCAA DIII tournament in March, the team has greatly progressed this season, and not only in relation to its 7–18 overall record from last season, but also in terms of how it has played top-ranked competition. Chicago began its season with a number of tests against top 25 teams. In many cases, such as the games against Carthage, UW–Whitewater, and Wheaton, the South Siders played tough but could not pull out the victory. But as the season continued, the team has found the verve to defeat Emory and NYU, ranked No. 19 and No. 21 respectively at the time, by decent margins. If Chicago can play with the assuredness and skill that it is capable of, it should be an extremely fascinating matchup.

The game tips off in Ratner at 2 p.m. on Saturday.

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Second-year Michael Frasco sprints in Henry Crown while competing in the Chicago Duals last year.

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The best of the Maroons boarded a flight for Logan Airport yesterday morning as they prepared to compete in the two-day UAA Conference Championships hosted

by Brandeis. The South Siders will try to improve upon last year’s indoor season, when the men took second and the women took third.

“I think at the beginning of the season, our number one goal is to come together as a team,” head coach Chris Hall said. “Right now, we have two pretty complete teams going into conference.”

Chicago is stacked entering the conference competition, especially on the women’s side. The women will bring 25 athletes to the conference meet, and the team currently holds 31 scoring positions across all events. Because of the vast amount of crossover, however, some athletes will not be able to run in every event in which they are in a scoring position.

“At the beginning of the season, I felt the women had an honest chance at competing for the conference,” Hall said. “Right now, they have a lot of scoring power.”

While all the events have not been finalized, look for some of the following women

to be key in the competition for a Chicago UAA title.

First-year Michelle Dobbs is the best 800-meter runner in the conference with her time of 2:14.27, but will have Wash U sophomore Emily Warner on her tail, who ranks second with 2:14.85. Second-year Brianna Hickey has the fastest mile in the UAA (5:01.38), but only by a bit more than the second-fastest time and will have to be at her best to guarantee victory. Chicago’s depth in the 400-meter will come in handy for the 4x4 relay, in which Chicago ranks best in the conference with its time of 3:56.55. Third-year Pam Yu will come off an injury to compete in the long and triple jumps where she ranks first in both events (5.56m and 10.67m, respectively).

Second-year Nkemdilim Nwaokolo also holds the top spot in two events (shot put, 12.38m, and weight throw, 15.06m).

The men, while not as stacked as the women, also have some top athletes to look out for. There are 15 male athletes slated in scoring position, with 23 traveling to Boston. Similarly, many athletes will not be able to compete in all of their top events.

Fourth-year Dan Povitsky has the best time in the 5,000-meter (15:01.93). Also, second-year Michael Bennett

has the top spot in the pole vault with his height of 4.9m.

The women have the deepest team in years. They have an honest shot to claim their third conference title all-time and first since 2010. Their biggest competition will come from defending champion Emory and runner-up Wash U, both returning with strong squads.

Realistically, the men will have difficulty winning the conference, as they simply do not have the depth, and the rest of the conference has improved drastically from last year. A third- or fourth-place finish is more likely. Defending champion Carnegie Mellon and Wash U will likely duke it out for the championship.

“If the men have a great meet, there’s a solid chance they can do better [than second or third],” Hall said.

The qualifying heats will take place today. The top six to eight in each event will then move on to finals tomorrow, when gold medals will be earned and a champion will be crowned.

“Our season centers on the conference meet,” Hall explained. “Nationals is important, but it is only for a handful of qualifiers. The conference is the most important meet where we compete as a team.”

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Jenna Harris Maroon Contributor This weekend, Chicago will line up against Wash U for its last game of conference play. Though the Bears pose a huge challenge, this is the most fitting way for the Maroons to finish their season.

The Maroons’ (15–9, 8–5 UAA) most heated sports rivalry is against the Bears (22–2, 13–0).

Games and meets against the Bears routinely draw the largest crowds on campus as well as screams of “BEAT WASH U.” Chicago will turn to strategy against its heavyweight rival. The Maroons started off the UAA Conference Tournament in St. Louis. Though they suffered an 80–69 loss, the Maroons had a successful night from beyond the arc, hitting six of 12 from long distance and shooting 46.7 percent from the field overall. This nearly allowed them to come back from a huge deficit in the second half, something that the Maroons will keep in mind for the rematch. Chicago will also focus on staying out of foul trouble and taking care of the ball in the final minutes of the game.

Coming off two conference victories against Carnegie (11–13, 4–9) and Case (13–11, 5–8), the South Siders are entering this game with no shortage of confidence and energy.

Standouts from these two wins include fourthyear guards Derrick Davis and Wayne Simon, thirdyear guard Royce Muskeyvalley, and fourth-year forward Sam Gage—all of whom set season-bests

for scoring.

Simon broke the 20-point barrier twice with 20 and 24 points, and Muskeyvalley came away with his third game-winning jumper of the year and a season high of eight assists.

The Maroons will graduate four fourth-years after the season: Davis, Simon, Gage, and forward Charlie Hughes, who is ruled out with an injury.

But Hughes is not letting his injury keep him from staying completely invested in the team.

“This last game is not about contending for the NCAA tournament anymore,” he said. “It’s about pride.”

The team has learned a lot about itself through conference play this season and intends to bring it all to the table on Saturday. The players have learned to optimize defense, hone their intensity, and, in the words of Davis, “push the tempo throughout the entire game.”

Muskeyvalley says he is coming to the game with the same mindset as last week, to “simply come and play with energy.”

Wash U is currently the No. 1 team in the UAA, holding an undefeated conference record. But this only makes the possibility of an upset victory even more enticing for the already-eliminated Maroons.

The players expect the game to get both physical and heated at the Ratner Athletics Center and hope to finish their season strong.

Tip-off against Wash U is Saturday afternoon at 3 p.m.

Bronagh Daly Maroon Contributor After finishing second once again to NYU in the UAA Championships, the Maroons head to the NCAA Midwest Regional this Saturday in an attempt to delay the end of their season.

After an exciting 28–18 win over Case Western at UAAs, Chicago ended the competition with a 21–18 loss to NYU. Even though the loss may have been disheartening, the team still came home with several wins in both matches, including three UAA titles, which has kept the squad’s morale up throughout its preparation over the past few weeks.

“The team is definitely really excited for this weekend,” first-year Charlie Banaszak said. “We probably wrestled our best match in the UAA finals against NYU. We didn’t win, so I think that just made us more hungry for the win at regionals.”

With this in mind, Chicago has been preparing harder than ever for this Saturday’s competition.

“Our practices have also been really good ever since UAAs,” Banaszak said.

This weekend’s competition will be unique. Unlike most of the competitions leading up to Saturday’s match, regionals do not have a team-based mindset. As a result, the team has had to add an extra type of focus to its practices.

“We’ve all been working on the things specific to our styles since regionals is an individual tour-

nament,” Banaszak said. “So our individual performances are what counts.”

This has made the team’s preparation much more personalized in the past week leading up to Saturday’s events.

“Individuals competing in the Regionals have been given a large degree of freedom to work on individual technique,” Banaszak said.

Even those Maroons who are not participating directly have still been attending practice and helping teammates who intend to compete prepare in whatever ways they might need.

“Some guys are making weight. Some are taking it easy. Some are polishing off their moves,” fourthyear Jeff Tyburski said.

Teammates intend to continue to help with these tasks as much as they might be able to right up until Saturday morning.

While watching each member of the team prepare, one can see possible standouts who have become increasingly prominent in the past two weeks.

Tyburski believes that Banaszak will finish his strong season with a bang, performing well at regionals and continuing on to Nationals.

Banaszak himself believes another Maroon is ready to shine on Saturday.

“I think [first-year] Paul Papoutsis has really been on the upward trend, so I think he’s going to be one to watch at the UAAs,” Banaszak said.

The match will begin Saturday at 9 a.m. in Crawfordsville, Indiana.