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Multi-billion dollar Diverse TEDx lineup exhorts over 800 boost to Red Line attendees to “make no little plans” Felicia Woron Maroon Contributor Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) recently announced plans to begin renovations of the Red and Purple Lines in 2017. The CTA hopes to begin an extension of the Red Line further south after these renovations are completed. The agency plans to replace parts of tracks on the Red and Purple Lines as well as build at least five miles of new track as an extension of the Red Line. The Red Line currently runs from 95th Street to the Uptown neighborhood, remaining parallel for much of its length to the Purple Line, which runs from the Loop to Wilmette, a suburb north of Evanston. In a $1.7 billion project, what CTA President Forrest Claypool described in a CTA
press release as “outdated infrastructure” will be replaced with “modern, efficient rail.” Most Red and Purple Line tracks are nearly 100 years old, and a significant amount of time and money is currently spent on repairs, hindering service greatly, according to the press release. These tracks will be replaced and five stations originally built between 1908 and 1923—Wilson, Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn, and Bryn Mawr—will be completely rebuilt, with new elevators to improve accessibility. According to the press release, in a spot north of the Belmont station in the Lakeview neighborhood where the Red, Purple, and Brown Lines all intersect, delays of up to three minutes often occur because trains on the Red and Purple Lines must wait for Brown Line trains to cross.
The Promontory, a combination restaurant, bar, and live music venue, is expected to open at 1539 East 53rd Street, at the intersection with South Lake Park Avenue, in the coming months. The Promontory is part of the Harper Court developments undertaken by the University of Chicago to bring retailers to Hyde Park. Promontory co-owner Bruce Finkelman did not disclose an exact opening date, but said that the restaurant would “open in the early summer.” Finkelman, who owns the the Empty Bottle, a bar located in the Ukrainian Village neighborhood, partnered with the owner of Longman & Eagle, a restaurant in Logan Square, to develop the Promontory. Longman & Eagle serves American cuisine; Fin-
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New Promontory restaurant to expand Hyde Park nightlife selection Isaac Stein Associate News Editor
Ryan Holiday, bestselling author and director of marketing at American Apparel, discusses the practical lessons provided by Stoic optimism during the TEDxUChicago event at Mandel Hall on Saturday.
kelman said the Promontory’s menu will draw from what is currently offered there. Finkelman characterized the concept of the Promontory as, in part, a response to Hyde Park’s relative lack of nightlife. “When people look at Chicago, people look at Chicago, meaning the Loop. Hyde Park was never really thought of as a destination for arts and entertainment,” Finkelman said. He suggested that the Promontory, along with other ongoing developments around 53rd Street, will make Hyde Park more lively. “It’s not that the Promontory by itself will change [Hyde Park’s entertainment scene]...you need a host of different components to build a new level of activity. The Harper Court development along with the incoming Whole Foods are a start,” Finkelman said.
The fourth annual TEDxUChicago conference was held on Saturday, April 19, drawing more than 800 people to Mandel Hall. The conference was centered on the theme “Make No Little Plans,” inspired by the famous words of Daniel Burnham, the chief architect of the 1893 World’s Fair. The student-run event brought in 11 speakers,
including former UFC middleweight champion Rich Franklin, Microsoft General Manager Khadija Mustafa, and 2012 Obama campaign National Field Director Jeremy Bird. This year’s event saw a significant increase in attendance. Last year, only an estimated 150 individuals attended the conference. This was due in part to a decreased advertising budget because of debt the organization had accrued from previous years.
In “How To Be a Loser,” mixed martial artist Rich Franklin talked about the importance of learning to deal with a loss. “There’s a potential loser in each and every one of you,” said Franklin. Franklin drew from several of his fights to discuss the discipline that losing enforces. “The fight that I [talk] about the most is one in which I made a losing effort,” said Franklin. “Losing is inevitable; make sure you have the tools in your tool-
box to deal with it.” As a former high school math teacher with a master’s degree in education from the University of Cincinnati, Franklin did not plan on a career as a fighter, even though he dreamed about it as a kid. “I tried my first fight my senior year in college as a dare from my friends, and when I found that it could turn into a full-time career, I was willing to pursue my dream,” he said. TEDx continued on page 2
IME gets new nanofabrication facility Meyer Horne Maroon Contributor A $15 million donation from the Pritzker Foundation to the University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) will fund a new Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility, to be built inside the upcoming William Eckhardt Research Center. According to a University press release, the 12,000-squarefoot facility “will support work on new applications in computing, health care, communications, smart materials, and more.” The Pritzker facility is designed to supplement the nanoscale research infrastructure of the Argonne National Laboratory, and will have a focus on quantum engineering and na-
noscale manipulation and molecular design in particular. The site of the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility, the William Eckhardt Research Center, will open in September 2015. The Facility will open several months later after being outfitted with nanofabrication equipment. The Eckhardt Research Center will also contain other facilities for the IME, offices and laboratories for the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics. A major motive in building the Nanofabrication Facility was to create a space for a large “clean room” space on campus. A clean room acts as a physical room in which to contain
airborne particles and contaminants. The existence of a clean room of this particular size will promote collaboration because of its unique size. The hope is that the clean room will act as a meeting space for roundtable discussions about innovation in and around Chicago. The Eckhardt Center was designed with a facility incorporating a clean room in mind. “The building was specially engineered to account for the particular needs of a large clean room. The creation of the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility will fulfill the vision for a multidisciplinary, state-of-the-art facility,” the press release said. IME Director Matthew Tirrell said the facility will also allow for collaboration with
industry. “The nanofabrication facility will generate partnerships with the microelectronics industry, with the medical device industry, and other types of industries making sensors and actuators,” he said in an e-mail. IME professor David Awschalom said that the Pritzker facility will encourage collaboration between the Chicago Innovation Exchange, industry groups, and the IME. “It is often the case that startup companies develop new concepts and fabricate prototypes through collaborative research projects with students and faculty,” he said in an e-mail. “The Innovation Exchange will serve as means to efficiently interface between the campus and corporate worlds.”
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In order to remedy this, a bypass will be built, allowing the Brown Line to cross over the Red and Purple Lines. According to an article in Chicagoist, the CTA will have to buy 16 buildings between Belmont Avenue and Addison Street in order for this bypass
to be built, which is included in the $1.7 billion cost of the first phase of the project. The second phase is a $2.3 billion endeavor in which the Red Line will be extended from 95th Street through the Roseland community south to 130th Street, a low-income area that largely depends on
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Jeremy Bird, who is currently a partner at 270 Strategies, a consulting firm that specializes in grassroots organizing, spoke about the current lack of voter participation in America and the dangers it presents. “Our democracy is at serious risk,� said Bird, in reference to the fact that 126 million eligible voters didn’t participate in the 2012 election. “If you care about economic inequality in this country, if you care about everybody’s voices being heard, if you want our politics and the things that affect you to matter... this should trouble you greatly.� “An oligarchy is what we’re on our way to if this continues,� Bird said. Third-year Lauren Riensche was selected as the un-
dergraduate student speaker. In her talk, “Dinner Reservations for 9 Billion,� she explained how genetically modified organisms were one step in the puzzle to solve the challenges that face modern agriculture. Riensche is the sixth generation to work on her family’s farm, Blue Diamond Farming Company, in Jesup, IA. Ever since she came to Chicago, she said, she found that many people lack substantial knowledge about agricultural issues. She drew on her background as a farmer in her defense of the use of genetically modified organisms. “I want you to trust a farmer,� Riensche said during her talk. “Because I have to eat this food, my family has to eat this food, my best friends have to eat this food, and I don’t want
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An honest direction for 53rd Street University needs to better communicate their vision of redeveloped 53rd street to affected businesses As the Maroon reported last week, the University’s continuing development of Harper Court is a continued point of contention for local business owners and their allies. More specifically, different local businesses surrounding Harper Court have seen varying treatments from Commercial Real Estate Operations (CREO), the arm of the University which oversees real estate transactions and development. Some, such as What the Traveler Saw and Kilwins, have been given financial assistance or help relocating, while others, such as Sahan Motherland and Spa, have seen significantly less preferential treatment. For better or worse, the University plays an in-
tegral role in the shaping of 53rd Street’s commercial landscape, and thus their actions demand some sort of explanation—for the sake of the businesses previously affected, ones that may be affected moving forward, and everyone invested in the future complexion of 53rd Street. The University’s development of 53rd Street is and has been a welcome move for many students and community members. But the University has been opaque about why it supports certain businesses and lets others flounder. As a private entity, the University of Chicago has the legal right to keep its reasoning and financial details confidential. But if it has an over-
arching vision in its reshaping of 53rd Street to which existing small businesses can contribute, CREO would do well to elucidate the finer points of their goals, and how small businesses can play a role. One possible way to do this is to model a means of communication after initiatives in which the University already engages. The University has already demonstrated an interest in supporting local businesses via the recent launch of UChicago Local, an initiative focusing on providing local business owners with increased access to training and networking resources. In addition, since 2009 the University Office of Business
Diversity has hosted annual Professional Services Symposiums, where University senior leaders meet with invited firms and present “what their [the University’s] specific needs are now, and what they may be looking to in the future.” This gives participating companies the chance to rework their objectives and present them to the University in a way that is informed by the school’s vision. We encourage the University to initiate a similar conversation with all of the local businesses affected by current developments on 53rd Street. The issue at hand is not if the University’s vision is inherently good or bad for the community,
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ent commandments on acting, celebrating, remembering, cooking ; different recitations, different rituals across the various descriptions of the holiday. Deuteronomy 16 tells the Hebrew to “roast” the Passover sacrifice, specifically the mode of cooking that G-d prohibited in Exodus. There is no mention of the Jews having to rush out of Eg ypt sans time for their bread to rise during Exodus, while there is in Deuteronomy. I was shocked to hear my yarmulke-wearing professor explain that the Passover sacrifice and accompanying rituals were probably written for later generations and this ritual probably did not take place in Eg ypt at all.
“HERESY! HERESY!” was my instinctual reaction. But the account of Passover in Leviticus begins with a list of festivals, among which the Sabbath is incongruously mentioned—it does not belong under the aforementioned category. Why the inconsistency? According to my professor, Shabbat was a particularly important ritual for the Hebrews of a certain period and so they probably inserted it in this passage. But conscious of these and other problems, the midrash (stories supplied by the Jewish sages) and biblical interpreters worked to resolve them within the traditional framework of unified BIBLE continued on page 4
but that, as of now, it is unstated. The University’s dealings with each business are unique, but generally outlining the types of businesses and business models the school is interested in supporting, by means financial and otherwise, would not only be a fairer course of action, but also beneficial for all involved. It would give community members and students a clearer image of what the University’s vision for 53rd Street is, and local owners a better idea of how to work within this vision, should they choose to do so.
Incongruencies passed over Reconciling faith with academic examination
Eliora Katz
Katzenjammer There are many beliefs once cherished in childhood to which we bid farewell as we store away our unfledged optimism and move into maturity: the tooth fairy, Santa Claus, Prince Charming, cooties. But there is a strange sort of belief which I, a selfidentified rationalist, held dear well into my adulthood, only substantially coming face to face with it here at the University of Chicago. This is the belief that
G-d dictated the Bible to Moses, and the Bible is thus an authentic history, not myth or legend. This may sound unremarkable to other University students, but for me it is difficult to articulate without sounding like a heretic to the Orthodox angel nestled on my right shoulder. Since birth, I have been inculcated with the notion that G-d spoke to Moses, who then wrote the five books of the Torah, and his disciple Joshua wrote
the few bits after his death. This wasn’t a question; I basically took it as fact. Upon arriving here at an American secular college with a tiny Orthodox community, I first suffered from Jewish withdrawal; I’ve been auditing classes at the Divinity school to fill the void. Last week, in one of these courses, we read the various biblical accounts of Passover in Exodus 12, Leviticus 23, Deuteronomy 16, and the Books of Chronicles 2 as a nod to the approaching holiday. I have parsed these passages countless times before, but only this time were my eyes opened to countless inconsistences and incongruities. There are differ-
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Art appreciation need not be based in raw emotion
Jenny Lee
Road to Joy As can be expected from somebody who goes to a school with the catchphrase “Life of the Mind,” I try really damn hard to be an intellectual. I do my readings, I write thoughtful papers, I listen to classical music, and I take my Omega-3 pills. Sometimes I even have dreams about the content of my political science classes. They range from vivid (Japanese people crying to me because they don’t have lots of weapons of mass destruction) to extremely vivid (Professor Mearsheimer repeatedly yelling at me about how much faster the U.S. got to Khuzestan than the USSR). Other times I’ll call my parents to debate with them something I recently learned (I still can’t speak up in discussion sections, though). But, for some unknown reason, one specific pillar of intellect has never been erected for me: art appreciation.
I should clarify: when I say “art,” I mean visual art. I mean paintings of landscapes, and portraits, sculptures, pottery, whatever. I mean Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus,” every single Degas painting of a dancer, and the tortured works of van Gogh. This kind of art is considered breathtaking—an unreal physical representation of the genius and talent that, somehow, was contained in a single human. Its depiction and color and undertones are heartbreakingly moving—it simultaneously makes the soul ache and sing. I know all of this, but only because I know it’s what I’m supposed to know. I don’t actually feel any of that. I’ve been to countless museums, seen countless works of art, and spent countless hours trying so, so damn hard to get it. I am ashamed to admit that I have stood before “The Starry Night” and felt nothing. I am more
ashamed to admit that I have stood before “Ugolino and His Sons,” and, despite understanding the meaning of the sculpture, felt no panging of the heart, no singing of the soul. It seems, then, that I have equated appreciation with being moved. Given a Hemingway passage, I will assume the fetal position and rock back and forth at the beauty of his simplicity. All Salinger short stories leave me feeling heavy and empty. Even the Harry Potter books have me marveling at their creativity. Any Debussy song will make me cry; “La Plus Que Lente” will rip me apart. T. S. Eliot makes me collapse, watching dance builds me back up. More movies than I can count have left me with a fuller heart. Unless I feel as though I have taken something away from a work of art, I don’t believe that I truly understand or appreciate it. I have made myself believe that there is a specific standard that I must reach in order to be an artappreciating intellectual. Because the most I’ve ever felt for visual art has been a simple note on its impressiveness, because I have never cried while ART continued on page 4
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“Perhaps the relationship between historicity and truth is more complicated than I can now fathom� BIBLE continued from page 3 Mosaic authorship. So I turned to Rashi, a traditional Rabbinic commentator to see how he solved the conundrum. “Why does the Sabbath appear here amidst the festivals?� he asks. “To teach that whoever desecrates festivals is considered as if he desecrated Sabbath, and whoever fulfills the festivals is considered as if he has fulfilled the Sabbath, [and his reward is as great].� A few months ago this would have been satisfying, yet now this homiletic anecdote—among many others—barely moves me. I once would go through the Bible searching for conundrums, also believing that these inconsistencies were purposefully inserted by the
author for moral or instructional value; but what if history proves otherwise? Sitting in Plein Air CafÊ, a Jewish friend who teaches Hebrew school told me that he treats the Bible just like any other ancient book; but I can’t. Isn’t it holy? I’ve grown up kissing it each time I open a page, making sure nothing rested on top of it, never sitting on a table upon which it rests, always making sure I was on my best behavior before the ancient Hebrew book, as if it were a majestic person with eyes and ears—G-d’s emissary on earth. But if it’s just like any other ancient Semitic book, not distilled by G-d but written by humans, how is it any different than the Epic of Gilgamesh? How can it be holy?
Contrary to where this piece seems to be going, I won’t be ripping off the shackles of religion and gorging myself on bacon sandwiches this Passover. Because the historicity of the Bible is irrelevant to the moral and practical import it bears for me. What is history, after all—an assortment of real occasions or of subjective memories? In historical truth, is what happened differentiable from, or really more valuable than, what we believe happened? The Bible is not just another Semitic book. Not only the accounts of divine experiences, but also the unique conscious changes made by various authors to ancient tales have made it both distinct and sacred. At UChicago I’m surrounded by
some of the sharpest minds in the world, a culture where the sky’s the limit. We soak up information and can comprehend anything if we put our minds to it. Accustomed to this way of thinking, religion is the one field in which comprehension stops, where perhaps the relationship between historicity and truth is more complicated than I can now fathom. How can I ever comprehend G-d, who enigmatically notes in Exodus 3:14, “I am what I am�? I must bow humbly to the unknown greater than myself.
Eliora Katz is a first-year in the College.
“It does not make me any less intellectual to not have been moved by ‘The Starry Night’� ART continued from page 3 looking at a painting, I have let myself believe that understanding art is a crumbling pillar that will never be restored in my Pantheon of UChicago Intellect—and that, because of this, I will never really be a part of the Life of the Mind. This kind of mindset has convinced me that if I can’t feel the things for art that others can, I must be less thoughtful and intelligent. If I can’t appreciate art the way that everyone else seems to, I must be missing something. But perhaps this is not the case. I’ve come to the conclusion that it is OK to not be reduced to tears at every portrait of a sad man, just as it is okay to not be enthralled by every lecture of every class. It does not make me any less intellectual to not have been moved by “The Starry Night�; in fact, the idea that such a subjective measure is the basis for appreciation seems to be contrary to
intellect. It is unreasonable to establish that one appreciates art only if she is made to cry or scream or laugh, as it is unreasonable to assume that one really understood a thinker’s argument only if she was pushed to an extreme emotion by the words. Perhaps what should really constitute “appreciation� is simply just appreciation—a note of how much work a choreographer, painter, musician, or director put into the artwork, how nice it is to look at, how funny or sad it could be. Perhaps the mere agreement that something is, indeed, impressive is enough. Perhaps I can embody the Life of the Mind without having to be inspired by everything I see. It’s reassuring that, actually, I don’t have to try so damn hard to be an intellectual. Jenny Lee is a second-year in the College majoring in political science.
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Mountain Goats put on bleating good show at Old Town Harrison Smith Maroon Contributor I admit that a few nights ago, after walking barefoot into my kitchen in the dark and planting my heel on what turned out to be a mouse—killed, instantly—I felt like a character in a John Darnielle song. I’m embarrassed to say I’ve had that same feeling driving through the far western portion of my home state, past a few of the places Darnielle references on his best album, All Hail West Texas. Going north from Jeff Davis County, you cross the mountains at Wild Rose Pass, where there are no roses. You descend to Toyahvale, where there is nothing but a post office and a spring-fed pool. Further north, in Pecos, there is not much to see, but driving alone past creosote and cacti, it’s easy to join Darnielle in wishing that “the West Texas highway was a Möbius strip.” Darnielle is the front man for rock band The Mountain Goats and was in town last Saturday and Sunday for solo shows at the Old Town School of Folk Music, in Lincoln Square. The Mountain Goats itself is, largely, a solo show. Since Darnielle started recording under the band’s name in the early ’90s, it’s written over 500 songs. Most of these—almost all of the songs released before 2002’s Tallahassee, the band’s first major-label album—feature Darnielle alone, accompanied only by his acoustic guitar and the fuzz of the Panasonic boom box he recorded into. Darnielle, now 47 and a father, still has a fine voice: soft in the upper register, occasionally sharpening to a high, nasal snarl. His songs are almost exclusively stories, and most of them are tragic. Strangely, few are really depress-
ing. The opening song of All Hail West Texas chronicles two high school boys whose death metal band “never settled on a name,” and never got a chance to—on account of the band, one boy is sent to a school for troubled youth (or something like that). He and his friend develop “a plan to get even,” and the song ends with a refrain of “Hail Satan!” The album’s next track tells the story of William Stanaforth Donahue, a star high school running back who averages “eight-and-a-third yards per carry” until he blows out his knee, falls in with the wrong crowd, and does “federal time” for selling acid to an undercover cop. They’re two of The Mountain Goats’s most exuberant, danceable songs, but they’re still not the sort of thing you’d play at a party. Most of The Mountain Goats’s songs are like this: good headphone music, or good as a soundtrack to a long drive. I didn’t get into the band until I was going through a bad time a couple of years back, and I imagine this is true of a lot of people. It’s easy to listen to its songs—the second half of All Hail, say, which features tracks about breaking and wanting and waiting and yearning—and feel that they were written for you, and only you. The specifics of the songs’ geography certainly help. A friend of mine, from Tampa, prefers Tallahassee; another, from Long Island, likes “Going to Port Washington,” one of at least 45 “Going to…” songs that Darnielle’s written. There is no “Going to Chicago,” though, and I suppose that this far into the band’s career there doesn’t need to be. Onstage at the Old Town School, Darnielle could choose between, as he said, “funny and kind of sweet, or desperate and kind of languid,” cutting loose
the Sketch Arts, Briefly. 48 Hour Film Festival This past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 12 teams of UChicago students had a better answer to “what are you doing this weekend?” than “homework.” They decided instead to stay up all night writing, shooting, and editing a short film as part of Fire Escape Films’ quarterly 48 Hour Film Festival. For the love of cinema, these students sacrificed sleep, study, and sanity (not to mention the first nice weekend of spring) to craft films using the intriguing names thought up by WHPK, Off-Off Campus, Major Activities Board, COUP, and FOTA including “Capitalist Daughter Works the Late Shift,” “Everybody’s Stalking,” “I’ll See You At Sunset, Calhoun,” and “Shady Sadie,” among other puzzling and giggle-inducing monikers. The fruits of their labors will be screened this Tuesday, April 22 at 9:30 p.m. in the Max Palevsky Cinema on the first floor of Ida Noyes Hall. Judges representing WHPK, Off-Off Campus, and Doc Films will make up the judges panel along with Hyde Park visual artist Zachary J. Williams. Viewers can also pick up
a free copy of the documentary Scavengers, capturing the 2007 UChicago Scav Hunt, by past student and Fire Escape member Dave Franklin (A.B. ’08). (Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street, Tuesday, April 22. 9:30 p.m. Free)
The Chicago Palestine Film Festival The Gene Siskel Film Center in downtown Chicago boasted more than European auteurs and professors in turtlenecks this weekend as it greeted the 13th annual Chicago Palestine Film Festival. The festival is just one of the center’s many, notably including the European Union Film Festival, Black Harvest Film Festival, and Festival of Films from Iran. This past Saturday night the fest kicked off with a screening of the feature film Omar, which critic Andrew O’Hehir called “a tender love story, a haunting tragedy, and an expertly crafted thriller,” with a Skype Q&A session with director Hany Abu-Assad after the screening. Omar received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Language Film this past year. On Sunday Amina Waheed, a Chicago native, director,
The Mountain Goats from left to right: Jon Wurster, John Darnielle, and Peter Hughes. COURTESY OF THE MOUNTAIN GOATS
from geography altogether. Most of the songs he played on Saturday night were deep cuts, demos and B sides, and unreleased tracks like “Bride,” inspired by The Bride of Frankenstein, or “Thank You Mario but our Princess Is in Another Castle,” which straddles those funnysweet and desperate-languid categories. As with almost every other The Mountain Goats concert, he ended his set with “No Children,” the centerpiece track in Tallahassee. The song may be the centerpiece track of the band itself. Like all great The Mountain Goats songs, it’s sad as hell yet still demands a foot tap, if not full-on dancing. A couple, we learn, is falling far out of love. “I hope I lie,” Darnielle belts.
“And tell everyone you were a good wife.” The crowd sings with him, and Darnielle steps away from the microphone to let it take over. About half of the crowd is happily coupled. At least three-fourth knows all the words, and everyone knows the refrain: “And I hope you die./ I hope we both die.” These are death metal words, but Darnielle is strumming and singing, not shredding and screaming. It’s an exuberant moment, more powerful in the Old Town auditorium than on the record itself, and singing along I’m quietly glad that I don’t feel like a character in the song. It may be only a matter of time before that changes, but these things happen, and there’s a song for that.
NORTH SIDE WEEKLY ARTS, CULTURE & OVERPRICED BEER ਂ SINCE 2014 filmmaker, and associate producer of Al Jazeera America, took the screen with her short film Corner Stores documenting Abu Muhammad’s experience as a store owner in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. Waheed was present for Q&A after the film. Also screened this weekend were the short film Maqloubeh by Nicolas Damuni and the feature film Under the Same Sun by Sameh Zoabi. The fest was evidence of the film world’s increasing decentralization, with many of the greatest films of our generation produced in locales as diverse as Mexico, Latin America, Iran, and India. And with such great films becoming accessible at local venues such as The Siskel Center there’s little reason to miss them. The Chicago Palestine Film Festival runs through May 1. Catch Omar this Wednesday, April 23 and Corner Stores this Thursday, April 24. Other films are screening throughout the next two weeks. (Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street. Tickets $11, available at the Siskel box office and online at siskelfilmcenter.org. Doc Films Society is hosting a free screening at Omar, Friday May 16 at 4 p.m.) —Robert Sorrell
Tilda Swinton and elderberry ale in Lakeview East Rohan Sharma Maroon Contributor On Saturday I took my second trip to the Earth, Wind & Fire–inspired bougie wonderland. I spent the morning mentally preparing myself for dads in quarter-zip sweaters or the classic half-sleeve shirt and fleece vest combo, depending on how sensitive they are to a light breeze on a sunny Easter Eve and if they’re looking to step up their brunch game. However, I quickly learned that Lakeview East is probably too hip for the picturesque family brunch scene and is instead better equipped to please the ubiquitous 20-somethings who buy vinyl on Record Store Day to hang them up in their apartments instead of spinning them at 33-and-a-third. This past Saturday, I celebrated Easter Eve the traditional way: by catching the 11 a.m. showing at Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema of Only Lovers Left Alive. The film, directed by Jim Jarmusch, revolves around vampires who are effortlessly cool and have few real problems, save for the heavy existential burden of living for eternity and supporting their blood-drinking habit in humane ways—all while sporting the latest Ray-
Bans and indulging in some product placement for Apple. Prior to this the only experience I’d had with Jarmusch’s body of work was 2005’s romantic comedy-drama Broken Flowers, and 2003’s Coffee and Cigarettes, which is 95 minutes hazily held together by muddy beverages and smokes. Both films star Bill Murray, so I wasn’t sure what to expect beyond him. I ended up really enjoying the film, not only because it creates a universe in which Tilda Swinton is immortal, but also because it’s visually striking, and the pacing of the film is such that it floats along almost aimlessly, much like the lead characters in the movie itself, who spend a great deal of time lounging shirtless on a plush couch in their rug-covered Detroit townhouse or waxing philosophically on human history between sips of thick syrupy blood bought from the local hospital’s blood bank. There are cheesy bits that I could’ve done without (the main characters are named Adam and Eve), but overall both Swinton and Tom Hiddleston deliver solid performances, and the latter will probably inspire a small revival in heroin-chic. I should also mention that the structure that housed the
cinema was unlike any other I’ve seen. The architecture itself is odd, featuring a spiraling structure that can most closely be described as a mall nestled within a pyramid. The escalators only go up and feature exposed underbellies, which is unsettling. The mall proudly bills itself as “Chicago’s Most Unique Vertical Urban Specialty Centre”—what the hell does that even mean? Who’s running the horizontal shopping game in this town? The tenants of the mall include a Hertz and a Victoria’s Secret, which I think is a fantastic combination because if I’m cruising down Halsted in a rented drop top the only way I could imagine elevating the experience is with the word “Pink” scrawled across my butt. After descending the vertical shopping mecca, I walked down the street to Duke of Perth, a Scottish pub that claimed to have both the biggest wings and best burgers in the city, with the couple I was third wheeling. It probably takes a person with more confidence in their digestive tract than I to order the grilled haggis wings, so I settled for a burger off the “Chicago’s finest burgers!” portion of the menu. M. Hamilton—a man I NSW continued on page 6
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am not familiar with and have no reason to trust in his taste in burgers—endowed this lofty title upon the eatery. Having eaten the burger, I can say that one should not put too much faith in M. Hamilton’s palate. It was a good burger but definitely not the city’s finest, a title perhaps more appropriate for the nearby Kuma’s Corner, which was unfortunately closed this Sunday to celebrate the 4/20 holiday. Continuing the North Side conspiracy of charging too
much for drink, I ended my mid-afternoon meal with a pint of Ebulum Elderberry Black Ale, a beer that traces its roots to ninth century Welsh druids. It was pricey but there’s no way I can resist dropping eight greenbacks to get in on some ancient mystic druid drank. For all Maroon readers with sciatica: According to the label, the elderberry in this concoction could help alleviate your sobering spinal woes. If vertical shopping and an oddly wet burger is your idea
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In the Chatter’s Box with Sarah Langs Jake Romeo is a second-year from Lake Orion, MI on the track and football teams. We chatted with him to get some insider info on the life of a Maroon athlete.
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effects? JR: I mean, there are definitely a little bit different cultures, and even subcultures, within the teams. Actually, football’s a lot closer to the sprints group I belong to, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to the track team as a whole. But in general, it’s pretty similar, I would say. And there’s nothing that is a culture shock coming from football to track or vice versa. CM: What about your mental preparation? Obviously, it’s for a different sporting event altogether, but are there differences in the ways you approach the morning before game day compared with before a meet? JR: See, that’s where it’s very different. Football, it’s all about having the highest energy going into kickoff, whereas [for] track you have to really channel everything together to make sure that you’re focused but really relaxed too. You can’t run a race angry, but you can play a football game like that.
CM: Do you follow football professionally? JR: I do. CM: Which team? JR: Unfortunately, the Detroit Lions. CM: Do you have any personal NFL heroes, people you wanted to be like when you were growing up? Or role models? JR: So, I play defense now, but growing up I was primarily an offensive player and I always tried to model my game off of Reggie Bush. I just thought he was very electrifying in terms of the way he played. It’s funny now that he plays for the Lions, the team that I cheer for, [but] he doesn’t really do much. CM: And what about track, professionally? JR: Anyone who runs fast. I watch and do a lot of research on Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake. All the guys who are top in the world right now. Nothing I really take from them in terms of running style or pre-race preparation…but just trying to wrap my head around how they go so fast.
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Chicago Maroon: You’re a two-sport athlete here. When did you start playing each sport—track and football? Jake Romeo: I started playing organized football when I was in seventh grade, but I’d played backyard football long before that. And I actually started—well, I started track in seventh grade, and I quit after one day. And I ended up going back to it my junior year of high school. CM: Why’d you quit? JR: I remember thinking to myself after the first workout, and how my legs felt the next day, that no sane person could ever do this every day.
CM: When did you know that you’d be playing either sport in college? JR: Football was something that I kind of started going through the recruiting process for later on in my junior season. Track, on the other hand, I was so late in the game in terms of recruiting for that—and even just starting—that it wasn’t until after I graduated and I was already committed here to football that the track coach called me and asked if I wanted to do it. And I said I was already here, might as well. CM: Do you feel like being on the two teams, that maybe one affects how you approach the other, or vice versa? Do you see any sort of similarity or translating
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UAA Championship beckons for ranked South Siders Men’s Tennis Zachary Themer Maroon Contributor It has been one of the most successful seasons in recent memory for the Maroons, one that has included a victory over No. 18 Cal Lutheran, the emergence of first-year budding star Sven Kranz, a winning record of 9–8, and a national ranking of No. 17 at the regular season’s end. However, while each of these outstanding achievements could define a successful season in its own right, the South Siders are not complacent with their season, as they prepare to venture to this week’s UAA Championships in Altamonte Springs, FL and look to add a few more achievements to their already impressive season. The Maroons begin their conference tournament campaign this Thursday against Case Western (14–5). The Spartans, a familiar foe to Chicago, dispatched the South Siders earlier this season by way of a 7–2 outcome. While this history would cause concern for most teams, the Maroons remain unfazed by their recent defeat and look forward to this matchup with anticipa-
tion, excitement, and poise. “We learned a lot from our earlier match and are looking forward to playing them again at the UAA tournament. We look forward to applying the lessons learned from this season at the UAA Championships,” said third-year Deepak Sabada (No. 1 singles). As the fifth seed of eight teams, the road to the tournament championship does not get any easier for the Maroons if they are able to take care of business against the fourthseeded Spartans. Following a victory against Case, the Maroons would move on to the tournament semifinal for a likely matchup against No. 1 seed Wash U, who heads into the tournament ranked No. 2 nationally along with an impressive 16–2 record. Those Bears took down the Maroons this season by a score of 6–3. If Chicago also beats Wash U, it would advance to Saturday’s championship round and likely face second-seeded Emory (14–5) or alternatively third-seeded Carnegie (15–5). Chicago’s match against Wash U took place just over a week ago and is still fresh on the Maroons’ minds.
First-year Brian Sun prepares to return the ball during practice earlier this school year. COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS
“Hopefully, we can use [the Wash U match] as fuel for the UAA Championships next week in Florida and make some noise there,” said thirdyear Ankur Bhargava, who
played No. 3 doubles during the last two matches. He has also competed on multiple singles courts. With such a daunting task in front of them, the South
Siders must play their best tennis of the season if they hope to place well. This will require the efforts of seasoned veterans Sabada and fourth-year Krishna Ravella (No. 2 doubles) in
doubles, along with the talents of Kranz and fellow first-year Brian Sun (No. 3 singles). The UAA Championships kick off at 8 a.m. in Altamonte Springs on Thursday.
Stacked conference sure to They have their number: No. 17 provide grueling tournament Titans sweep No. 21 Maroons Women’s Tennis Helen Petersen Maroon Contributor This weekend, the Maroons head to Florida in hopes of making a splash at arguably the most competitive conference championships in the country. The UAA has long been a dominant force in women’s tennis. This year is no exception. The UAA has six of its eight teams ranked in the top 25 nationally. Emory, Carnegie Mellon, and Wash U are all in the top 10, with No. 12 Chicago, No. 22 Brandeis, and No. 23 Case Western slightly behind them. “The UAA is a diverse conference because it encompasses schools from all over the country, and we don’t have the opportunity to play a lot of the teams before conference,” said third-year Kelsey McGillis (No. 3 singles). “This will be a competitive weekend, and no matter what ranking, every team will be ready to play and bring [its] best.” In preparation for conference, the Maroons have played a number of highly competitive ranked teams, competing against six of the top ten teams in the country, including No. 1 Williams. Out of the teams in the UAA, Chicago has faced Carnegie, Case, and Wash U this season but will start off UAAs with a new matchup. The Maroons begin the tournament against Brandeis (10–8). Brandeis will be a force to be reckoned with, as the Judges have won their last six games and are com-
Softball ing into UAAs on a hot streak. The Judges, much like the Maroons, had a very strong schedule this year. The South Siders have capitalized more, though, as Brandeis has been unable to gain any wins over a top 25–ranked team to date, while the Maroons have picked up four wins against ranked opponents. “Brandeis is a bit of an unknown for us, which is a good thing, I believe,” head coach Jay Tee said. “We don’t have any expectations of them except that we know they’re a very strong team. As always, our doubles will be key so that we can relax and play good singles.” The postseason is nothing new for the Maroons. Having placed in the top three at this tournament since 2007, Chicago has the personnel to do well again this year. Third-year Megan Tang (No. 1 singles) goes into the tournament ranked No. 1 in the Central Region in singles. Tang and her doubles partner first-year Tiffany Chen are also at the very top of the list for the doubles rankings. No. 2 Emory is the favorite going into the tournament. Last year the Eagles swept the UAA championship game 9–0 against Carnegie Mellon and went on to finish in the NCAA tournament. They have also earned four national championships since 2003. The Maroons hit the courts against Brandeis in Altamonte Springs, FL at 8 a.m. on Friday.
Jenna Harris Sports Staff Every good team goes through rough patches. Last Saturday, the No. 21 Maroons (19–5) competed on the diamond in Bloomington, IL against Illinois Wesleyan University in a doubleheader. The Titans took two games against Chicago, and No. 17 IWU (28–5) pushed its win streak to eight. “I think we are more than capable of beating IWU the next time we see them, which is likely to happen at some point in the postseason,” said second-year pitcher Jordan Poole. “As a team I think we did a good job putting pressure on them, and the scores don’t reflect the true feeling of the game.” In the first inning of game one, the South Siders started strong with a single and run (scored off an error) by second-year outfielder Devan Parkison. However, the bottom of the third saw the Titans counter with two home runs to bring the score to 3–1. In the fourth, Illinois Wesleyan loaded the bases and came away with five runs on a double, and two singles. A throwing error by the Maroons led to one more run in the sixth to finish the game with a 9–1 loss. Chicago had four hits and three errors. Poole pitched the first three innings before leaving the game in the fourth with seven hits, eight runs, two walks, and four strikeouts. Third-year pitcher Emily Ashbridge threw for the rest of the game with one hit, one run, and one walk. Everyone knows teams win and lose together. However, Poole still humbly took the blame.
“I take a lot of responsibility in terms of the first game—I threw poorly and got hit very hard. The team responded incredibly well, but it is hard to come back when the pitcher is being hit that hard,” Poole said. The team kept fighting, nonetheless, and went into the next game with fire. In the top of the first inning, the South Siders loaded all bases, but no runs came to score. The Titans came back with a home run in the bottom of the first and scored twice more in the second. No one was able to score after that, and the game finished with a 3–0 score. In game two, Chicago tallied seven hits and one error, a vast improvement from the earlier game. Third-year pitcher Tabbetha Bohac threw all six innings for the Maroons, totaling five hits, three runs, and one strikeout. “I think we need to continue to stay loose and play our softball,” Poole said. “We are having an incredible season, and I know everyone is looking forward to Lake Forest, rather than backward at IWU.” The Lake Forest College Foresters (19–5) were on a 13-game winning streak—until yesterday’s loss to Wheaton—and have consistently crushed their opponents with large deficits. One of their four losses, however, was to Hope College, a team the Maroons defeated last week in a doubleheader. Chicago is optimistic. “Lake Forest is playing really well,” Poole said. “We need to be less concerned with them and more concerned with staying within ourselves. We can beat any team as long as we play our game.” The Maroons will play their penultimate home doubleheader against Lake Forest at 3 and 5 p.m. today.