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Three South Side groups bid for Obama library Ankit Jain News Editor Three different groups on the South Side—the University of Chicago, the neighborhood of Bronzeville, and the Lakeside development—are finalizing submissions for the Obama Presidential Library as the deadline for the first stage in the bidding process approaches. The University has decided to submit several sites as options,

with the possibility that the library and museum could be located in different areas.

The Barack Obama Foundation, a non-profit established in January for the sole purpose of developing the Obama Presidential Library, will make the final decision on the library’s location.

The Foundation has created a two-step process to decide where to place the library. On March 20 it reLIBRARY continued on page 2

Same church, new religion

Confucius Institute board defends on-campus $9.8 million tennis facility to benefit presence The former home of the UChicago Theological Seminary will now foster a new age of economic research.

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youth, community, and University Zachary Themer Sports Staff Last Wednesday, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago’s XS Tennis club unveiled plans for a new $9.8-million tennis facility to be constructed in nearby Washington

Park.

In what is sure to be a forehand winner for the city, XS Tennis, and the area’s various children and families, the 112,000-square-foot facility will house eight indoor and 19 outdoor tennis courts. University of Chicago tennis teams will also call

this new facility home.

Chicago’s XS Tennis was founded in 2008 and since then has transformed the viability of tennis in the city as it serves over 2,000 Chicago students from 10 different schools across the area.

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Raymond Fang News Staff The Governing Board of the Confucius Institute (CI) at the University of Chicago has issued an official recommendation to the University Provost to renew the University’s five-year contract with the CI. The recommenda-

tion comes after two Faculty Council meetings in which the nature of the recommendation regarding the CI’s presence on campus was discussed.

The recommendation is a response to a recent petition signed by 108 faculty members asking for the termination of the CI continued on page 2

Summertime is no vacation for the UCPD Alec Goodwin News Staff For most students the summer is a reprieve from classes, but for the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD), it’s business as usual.

The summer represents the most violent season of the year in Chicago, according to Gloria Graham, assistant chief of police for the UCPD. Though the number of students enrolled in the University decreases during the summer, per the Registrar’s quarterly statistical reports, a large number of students remain in Hyde Park, especially graduate and non-degree students.

“A significant number of our students, especially those in graduate programs, are here all year round so they’re not really taking breaks like a traditional student,” Graham said.

“A significant number of our undergraduate students live in the community even during the summer months and do internships, work in the Chicago area, and those sorts of things.

So there’s still a pretty heavy population of students who are here.” She

also said that July has the most criminal activity of the year in Hyde Park.

During the summer, the UCPD also continues to monitor the University of Chicago Medical Center, which has a consistent population throughout the year, according to Graham. The University also hosts around 46 conferences over the summer with about 2,500 attendees, some of which are students, Summer Conference Manager Ashley Clement said.

Despite changes in the demographics of the University during the summer, the UCPD’s overall strategies do not dramatically change.

“We continually adjust our strategies and deployment based on historical crime analysis and real-time incident data,” said Graham. She added that the UCPD’s strategies often change on the fly year-round, utilizing data from crime mapping.

The UCPD does adjust some of its strategies due to specific summer trends such as increased pedestrian traffic.

“We put officers out on bicycles and deploy our T3s [three-wheeled, stand-up electric vehicles similar to

Segways] a lot more heavily, especially up on the 53rd Street corridor, also on the Woodlawn and Ellis corridors,” Graham said. “We’re pretty much driven by historical crime patterns and also by what’s occurring with our populations.”

Though crime increases in Hyde Park during the summer, theft notably drops.

“In a couple of our more public spaces on campus we see a lot of property crime—theft of unattended property and things. That goes down [during the summer] because obviously the students aren’t there so those areas aren’t densely populated,” Graham said. However, property crimes such as burglaries historically rise in Hyde Park during the summer months, usually due to residents leaving doors and windows open, according to Graham.

Graham also said that crime increases near the lakefront during the summer. Over Memorial Day weekend, the UCPD broke up a large bonfire of high school students at Promontory Point. Two men were shot during that weekend in areas near the lakefront as well.

“During the colder months, it’s typically very desolate. However, during the warmer months, [criminal] activity increases,” Graham said.

“Activity certainly picks up at the beach, the lakefront, and the point, obviously because it’s more heavily populated during those times,” she added.

According to Graham, the UCPD

works in tandem with the Chicago Police Department to develop strategies that account for this influx of people during the warmer weather, especially during holidays.

“The summer is not a slow time for us,” Graham said.

Despite the lack of undergraduates on campus during summer quarter, the UCPD continues business as usual.

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University will submit a “menu” of locations for the library and museum LIBRARY continued from front

leased a Request for Qualifications (RFQ), in which it asked interested groups to submit documents detailing descriptions of sites, proof of community engagement, community impact, and site accessibility, among other features. Completed RFQs are due by June 16. The Foundation will then choose finalists whom they will ask for Requests for Proposals (RFP), to be completed by the end of September.

University bid The University will submit a “menu” of options on the mid– South Side in its RFQ, according to several University officials. “We’ve been looking widely at a range of sites that could be potential. We’re not interested in focusing on one site or recommending one site,” Julie Peterson, vice president for communications, said.

Carol Newsome, a member of the Community Advisory Board that was established to help the University with community engagement on the library, described the mid– South Side as roughly stretching from East 35th Street in the north to East 67th Street in the south and the Dan Ryan Expressway in the west to Lake Michigan in the east.

University officials have said the library will not be on campus.

Susan Sher, senior adviser to President Zimmer and the leader of the University’s bid for the library, said the University is looking at sites within a couple of miles of campus.

“We’ve kind of done a few-mile radius around the University of Chicago, but that makes it sound a lot more precise than it really is. So, you know, we’re not advocating for a site in Hyde Park,” Sher said. “I think the same probably is true for Kenwood, because frankly I’m not aware of any place in Kenwood that is big enough.”

Sher and Newsome declined to comment on specific locations the

University was considering, but Leonard McGee, president of the Gap Community Organization in Bronzeville, said that he had been told by a University official during a meeting that the University had decided on three locations for its bid. “They have a site that’s at 55th and King Drive, a site that’s near the Museum [of Science and Industry]...then they have another site that’s near the [South Shore] cultural center,” he said. “When I personally spoke to someone from the University they said they wouldn’t be changing their sites and those are their three sites.”

Newsome said that the University may advocate for the museum portion of the library to be separated from the archives. “There’s something to be said to having the two on the same site. You would be in effect creating a campus, and that would have more impact on the area overall, but it would also require more land or more area,” she said.

The University envisions the archives and the museum as separate buildings even if they are at the same location. If the two are put in separate locations they would still be relatively close to each other, according to Newsome.

Sher said the University is clear about its wish to avoid forcing anyone to move. “There are a lot of areas with a fair amount of vacant land, so we’re more focusing on those than on areas where you’d have to displace people,” Sher said.

Sher and Newsome have both been meeting with dozens of organizations interested in learning more about the University’s bids, almost all of whom have been enthusiastic, they both said. “We have met with, I would say well over 60 groups,” Sher said. “I haven’t done a scientific study, but…I haven’t been in a situation where I’ve had anyone say, ‘Not in my backyard’ or, ‘It’s a bad idea.’”

McGee, however, criticized the University for not sharing enough about its proposal. “The University of Chicago came looking for a letter of support. They won’t tell you what’s in their plans but they want the letter of support. That’s like saying, ‘Why don’t you just sign the check, and we’ll fill out the amount later and let you know,’” he said.

Newsome said she understood some of those concerns but that the University can’t satisfy everyone.

“I think what you’ll find is most people want to have it in their area somewhere, and so you get all kinds of responses or suggestions for possible locations. And I think in some instances that might be precipitated by the fact that they don’t have maybe a real accurate perception of how much space a presidential library takes,” she said.

Lakeside development The University is not the only group on the South Side interested in the presidential library. McCaffery Interests’ Chicago Lakeside development property, located around eight miles south of the University, will be submitting an RFQ independently, but they still hope to work with the University.

Ed Woodbury, president of McCaffery Interests, said that University officials have visited the Lakeside site several times. “We have had conversations, we’ve had President Zimmer down there, and we’ve had community engagement staff down there,” he said. “The conversations are more in-depth than just touring around the site. We’ve done a fair amount of engagement with the University.”

Woodbury declined to state whether the University had decided to put Lakeside within its list of sites, but said that he hoped that it would. “I think the interesting thing is that the conversations in the newspapers we’ve read have talked about the idea of multiple

sites, and I think Lakeside could fit into one of those multiples,” he said.

Regardless, McCaffery Interests is proceeding with its own RFQ, which Woodbury said is already well underway.

Bronzeville Bronzeville is home to two separate visions for a presidential library. Both advocate for the old Michael Reese Hospital site at 2929 South Ellis Avenue as an ideal location for the library. The University is not considering that site in its bid for the library, Newsome said.

The Black Metropolis National Heritage Area Commission (BMNHAC), a Bronzeville group that is seeking to get the neighborhood designated as a National Heritage Area, is submitting a full RFQ with the Michael Reese site as its proposed location. Paula Robinson, the president of BMNHAC, said the site is best equipped to handle the expected 800,000 visitors a year, a number proposed by a University study.

BMNHAC focuses on the Obama library as the capstone of a larger National Heritage Area that celebrates the area’s historic African American roots. Leonard McGee’s Gap Community Organization is advocating for the Michael Reese site as the best location in and of itself for the library. They are submitting a“vision” rather than a bid, answering only parts of the RFQ. “We’re not trying to highlight Bronzeville, we’re trying to highlight the presidential library campus,” McGee said. “It provides another tooth on the skyline of Chicago so when people fly into Chicago they see, ‘That’s where I’m going to visit.’”

—Additional reporting by Felicia Woron

On 58th Street, new economics center launches Ananya Pillutla Maroon Contributor A new center for interdisciplinary research, the Center for the Economics of Human Development (CEHD), launched last Friday.

The center, located at 5740 and 5759 South Woodlawn Avenue, will be home to research that identifies sources of social disadvantages and promotes equal opportunities, according to Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor of Economics James Heckman, the director of the center and a Nobel Laureate.

The center will bring together research from various areas of the University under the physical and intellectual umbrella of the CEHD. Initiatives from the Becker Friedman Institute, Harris School, and the Department of Economics’ Economics Research Center will be moved into the CEHD. At the opening ceremony, Provost Eric D. Isaacs emphasized the new methods and areas of research to be conducted at the Institute.

“Some of the things that this center will be doing is developing tools for us to understand society; understand it in new and powerful ways,” he said.

“The Center for the Economics of Human Development will push cognitive ambition in an entirely new direction.”

Heckman’s remarks echoed the cross-disciplinary approach of the center. He mentioned influences on his vision of the CEHD from people like Gary Becker of the Becker Friedman Institute and John Dewey of the University of Chicago Laboratory School, citing their emphasis on research on early childhood education.

Heckman went on to say that the new center will “build on the University of Chicago traditions” by bringing together different research areas of the University.

Governing Board’s recommendation to renew CI comes after the release of a faculty report CI continued from front

University’s ties to the CI. The petitioners claim that Hanban, the Chinese governmental organization that oversees the CIs at various universities and schools worldwide, screens the teachers it chooses to send to universities for links to dissident groups and controversial religious organizations.

Though the University can reject

NEWS IN BRIEF Two new study abroad programs announced: Hong Kong, Morocco Hong Kong and Rabat, Morocco will play host to two new study abroad programs, according to an e-mail sent to the College by Associate Dean of Students in the College Lewis Fortner.

The Middle Eastern civilizations study abroad program in Morocco is scheduled for Winter 2015, and the Colonizations program in Hong

the recommended professors, the faculty members’ petition asserted that this power has not been exercised.

The Governing Board, which is composed of various University officials and Chinese government representatives, made its decision with help from a report on the CI produced by three of the University’s China specialists: anthro-

Kong will take place the following quarter. Both programs fulfill the Civ Core requirement.

The new program in Morocco will replace the former Middle Eastern civilizations program in Cairo, Egypt in light of ongoing violence in the city. In addition to the three-course Middle Eastern civilizations sequence, Moroccan Arabic and two levels of standard Arabic will be offered to students while they are in Morocco. Currently, there are a limited number of spaces still available to students who have not committed to other civilizations study

pology professor Judith Farquhar, history professor Ken Pomeranz, and East Asian languages and civilizations professor Judith Zeitlin.

The University has yet to make an official decision on whether or not to renew the contract with the Confucius Institute—though Divinity School professor Bruce Lincoln, a major proponent of the petition, said that the normal

abroad programs, and it will include living arrangements.

The College’s spring-quarter colonizations program in Hong Kong meets the general education requirement in civilization studies. In addition to this course, students will also take a Mandarin Chinese language course.

—Cairo Lewis

Northwestern, UIC, UChicago to share biomedical facilities In response to decreasing federal research funding, the

course of action is for the provost to accept the recommendation.

“I understand that officially, the University decision is that no decision has been made,” Lincoln said. “What has happened is that the Governing Board of the Confucius Institute at the University of Chicago—our branch of the CI—has made a recommendation to the provost. The nature of that

University of Chicago has entered a core research facilities partnership with Northwestern University and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The agreement, which allows researchers from each of the three universities to share research equipment, builds on a 2006 research partnership between the three universities known as the Chicago Biomedical Consortium.

Donald H. Levy, vice president for research and for national laboratories at UChicago, explained that the University’s reason for entering the agreement was to increase research efficiency,

recommendation was discussed at the last meeting of Council. The provost, of course, can do with that recommendation whatever he wants, but the normal course of events would be that he accepts it.”

There are more than 90 CIs across the world, with more than 70 located at campuses in the United States.

especially in the face of decreasing public research funding.

“You’d always like to be more efficient, you’d always like to make more use of your money, and as you get squeezed by having less money, of course you’re going to work a little bit harder at it,” he said.

Levy also stated the agreement will increase the use of various expensive research instruments, which could improve the quality of research by preventing recourse to cheaper alternatives.

“Having an instrument that is used 24 hours a day rather

than 24 hours a month, that’s obviously a good thing. Trying to force researchers to do things in a certain way because it’s a cheaper way is, on the whole, not a good thing,” he said.

As a University press release described the partnership, “There is no extra fee now to use each other’s fancy instruments.”

The exchange has already begun with several collaborative experiments, including a UChicago biochemist who used a facility at Northwestern to study new cancer therapies.

—Raymond Fang

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Editorial & Op-Ed JUNE 3, 2014

In case you missed it The MAROON reflects on some of the notable news stories of the past year Another year has come and gone, and with it many trials and tribulations, discourses and dialogues, evolutions and expansions. Oh, and some news—that happened, too. In case you missed any of it, here’s a quick recap of the year’s headlines, with a few overlooked stories.

1. Fourth Meal returned to South Campus because of low attendance at Bartlett during winter quarter. In other news, classes will also be moved to South Campus because of low attendance during winter quarter.

2. Plein Air Café opened. Now you don’t have to go to the North Side to drink iced tea out of a mason jar.

3. Student Government got a new website, a vast improvement over the old one, the navigation of which could only be managed after passing CS 152.

4. Freenters got hacked and the per-page cost of making copies at libraries went up. Students have reportedly resorted to turning in papers carved onto clay tablets.

5. You lost your toe to frostbite,

but at least you didn’t miss a day of Sosc.

6. Edwardo’s and Ribs N Bibs closed, but that’s OK, because new, locally owned restaurants like Chipotle and Starbucks have sprung up to replace them.

7. Chicago Bound continued for a second year, giving many first-years the power to arbitrarily use the word gentrification in way more conversations than necessary.

8. UChicago joins Universal Application. Now your roommate

next year could be from Uranus.

9. “University of Illinois, are y’all ready for this?!?!?!?!?!?”

10. The acceptance rate is down even though the application rate decreased. Fewer people like us and we like fewer people.

11. Plot twist: We still don’t have a Level I trauma center.

12. The University sold Harper Court less than a year after purchasing it just because the Lagrangian said it maximized utility.

13. Does anyone actually get books from Mansueto?

14. Ode to Pierce. Your hard outer shell removed, your halls laid bare, your walls were ripped clean, and your soul was unwillingly shared. Your faulty plumbing reproved, because for it we have no trust, your seals were for all to see, until they turned to dust.

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A four year struggle Sexual assault survivor relays four years of dealing with her assault and the aftermath Olivia Ortiz Maroon Contributor All throughout high school, the University of Chicago was my firstchoice college. I dreamed of attending the institution so famed for its quirky culture and prized academics.

I dreamed of being free to explore the city, new thoughts, and my identity. Imagine my delight when I was admitted! I was going to attend the University of Chicago with multiple academic scholarships under my belt and I was just waiting to get out of my hometown and the mundane life that went with it. I was on the path to achieving my lifelong dream of becoming an academic powerhouse, showing the world that an underrepresented minority woman like myself could actually “do it.”

This dream and all those ideations of freedom that came with it fell to a violent, crashing fall in June 2012.

It was then that I reported several sexual assaults at the hands of my exboyfriend to the school administration. After an “informal mediation” arbitrated by the dean of students in the College, my rapist promptly left to graduate. I was then left to deal with my emotions regarding, as the dean so eloquently put it, this “dispute between students.” To deal with this turmoil, the dean had me see the resident trauma expert at Student Counseling Services. This “expert” ended up telling me that “You should probably expect something when you sleep in a bed with a guy.”

After a long summer, the school year began again, and I was fac-

ing new challenges. Going to class became harder and harder. I could barely finish my assignments. My extracurricular participation grew nonexistent. I was slowly morphing into an unrecognizable creature, rife with sadness, disgust, and caging emptiness.

In the fall of 2012, I saw on a bulletin board that the Maroon was conducting an investigative series regarding sexual assault. This was my chance, I thought hopefully to myself, to be free from this paradoxically painful yet numb emptiness.

The articles came out later that fall, but I still did not feel what I so desperately hoped to feel. This emptiness, so to speak, was compounded by an approach from the dean herself, who e-mailed me that her “recollection of our conversation was

quite different.”

This emptiness grew and grew in me because I knew something was not right in how my case had been handled. I decided to seek legal counsel, who then confirmed my worst fear: The University I so loved and so trusted had violated my rights as a student attending a federally funded institution. I then decided to make one of the most heartbreaking decisions of my life, only second to reporting my assailant to the University: I was going to file a Title IX complaint against my dream school, the University of Chicago.

I knew I had to do it because the school had gone against its very motto. How was my life to be enriched if the very knowledge of the policies were so carefully hidden from me?

Indeed, the process has been in-

credibly grueling but also incredibly validating. The simple act of the government deeming my case worthy of investigation, let alone the entire campus worthy of investigation, has been instrumental in me taking steps to fill that numb emptiness. But some administrators and colleagues have been much less than understanding. Many have attempted to excuse the dean’s illegal behavior as a “misunderstanding,” a gross understatement of her choices to inflict trauma on those in crisis in the interest of the University. Her actions have had a real effect on me.

Because of her choices, I have had to take leaves of absence and have been unable to complete any assignments on time. The trauma and pain she herself has caused me makes this 4TH-YR continued on page 5

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Petition supporters’ goals and tactics disingenuous, hinder dialogue

Anastasia Golovashkina

Not Impressed Two weeks ago, Institute of Politics (IOP) fellow and The Guardian US Senior Political Columnist Ana Marie Cox hosted It Gets Better Project founder Dan Savage as a guest at one of her seminars. The 40-or-so student-only seminar tackled a variety of challenging topics, including the ways in which language can evolve and how the reappropriation of words like the F- and T-slurs can be a form of empowerment. Savage and Cox began by using both slurs in full, though Cox later proceeded to use “the T-slur” following a student’s interjection.

Neither word was ever directed at a student or used with hurtful intentions. In the days that followed, three students (all of whom will, out of respect for their search engine– era privacy, remain unnamed) requested a formal apology from the

IOP. The IOP declined, prompting the students to start a petition “demanding” that the IOP “publicly apologize for failing to stop the use of the transphobic slur” and, vaguely, “denounce and prohibit the use of slurs” at all IOP events.

I am aware that, as a non-trans individual, I speak from a position of cisgender privilege. More than anything, I applaud students for speaking up for their principles. It is neither my place nor intention to dispute how Savage’s choice of language may have made some students feel, or to question the genuine hurt or distress they may have felt as a result of this experience. LGBTQ concerns—particularly those of trans individuals—remain heavily underrepresented at all levels of public discourse, and I applaud Queers United in Power (QUIP)

for taking a leading role in championing these issues on our campus. But the nature of QUIP does not make its members immune to all criticism, particularly as recent events have led me to question the honesty, intention, and value of several of its members’ claims and intentions. Taken together, they suggest a troubling lack of integrity about the campaign they have carried out.

For one, it is disingenuous for the petition’s authors to allege (in some, though not all, of their conflicting, seemingly ever-changing statements), that students had been repeatedly interrupted by Savage and Cox at the seminar, or not given ample opportunity to voice their concerns. In the few instances when Cox and Savage did interrupt students, they did so only to request permission to finish their sentences—only because they had been interrupted by the students first. Near the end of the seminar, Cox even made a point to ask the petition’s only author still in attenSAVAGE continued on page 4

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“If this is the sort of response speakers and attendees can expect...even allies will be reluctant to participate” SAVAGE continued from page 3 dance whether she felt like she had been heard. Her answer? “Yes.” It has been even more disingenuous for the students to repeatedly modify their petition’s pre-“update” language without notifying signatories, and to delete an astonishing number of their own and others’ public comments about the incident on social media. Having actually attended the seminar and observed countless inconsistencies between their descriptions and reality, I am taken aback by how many of my peers would sign such a strongly worded petition on the basis of incredibly minimal, misleading information. Even one of the petition’s own authors did not attend the seminar, opting to instead compile a litany of out-of-context quotes from Savage’s decade-old columns for a co-author to recite in their absence.

It’s true that Savage is a highly controversial figure among groups across all political spectrums. But the controversial aspects of Savage’s

work in no way negate the hope and positivity he has brought to LGBTQ youth worldwide through the It Gets Better Project, or invalidate his right to express his uncensored opinion. In hosting Savage, the IOP facilitated one of the few public, widely-attended conversations about trans rights that have ever happened on our campus. It was certainly the first such conversation I had ever heard about, let alone had the opportunity to take part in.

From that seminar alone, I learned a world of information about trans issues and concerns. Had Savage not spoken at our school, our community would have been exposed to one fewer LGBTQ viewpoint—one fewer opportunity to encourage dialogue and awareness about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and especially (highly under-discussed) trans rights.

But when inviting someone like Savage to speak on our campus, we cannot invite only a censored Savage, or a do-not-use-these-words Savage. Though we can and should

make suggestions and requests, it is ultimately Savage’s prerogative to decide what kind of language he will use. Even as the current version of the petition states, “No one ever claimed that Savage should have been ‘excluded,’” such claims carry little meaning—there is no way to exclude some of Savage’s language without completely excluding him.

I have never witnessed anywhere near this level of backlash about the IOP’s hosting of speakers like Rick Santorum, a former lawmaker who has actively used his power to disenfranchise and marginalize virtually all non-heterosexual, noncisgender, non-male, non-white individuals. It baffles me to think that a longtime LGBTQ activist’s use of certain language, almost exclusively in a historical context, is somehow worse than a powerful politician’s dedicated actions to suppress the entire LGBTQ community, and his advocacy of said actions at our university.

For all these reasons and many

more, I believe the approach these students are taking is unfortunate, questionable, and destructive. It is akin to transforming important, under-discussed topics into minefields—mines that even LGBTQ allies will, and already are beginning to, fear setting off too much to even broach the subjects. If this is the sort of response speakers and attendees can expect at any kind of event about LGBTQ issues on our campus, even allies will be reluctant to participate. Indeed, such reluctance is already setting in. In the aftermath of the seminar, I have heard many of my peers express concern about being branded transphobic, and thus avoid discussing trans issues altogether. I share these concerns, and realize that I open myself to a great deal of criticism by discussing such issues in this piece.

Productive dialogue will always be inherently messy and imperfect.

Particularly on issues where we’ve made far too little progress like trans rights, it is crucial to keep hav-

ing these conversations—to keep inviting dialogue and disagreement, in and in so doing, to promote progress and understanding.

The only understanding that censorship promotes is an understanding of topics to categorically avoid.

But censorship and ignorance are not the answer. Dialogue is.

(Full disclosure: I am a fellows ambassador for Ana Marie Cox. However, I speak exclusively as a student attendee of the seminar and not as a representative of the Institute of Politics. For information about the IOP’s official stance, please see their Statement on Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion.)

The facts of this piece have been read and verified by five student attendees of the seminar, including Yangyang Cheng, Zainab Imam, and Kevin Wei. Anastasia Golovashkina is a third-year in the College majoring in economics and public policy.

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“I have sacrificed my story to help bring to light decades of mistreatment.”

4TH-YR continued from page 3 situation far different from a “misunderstanding.”

Despite this pushback, I have received an incredible outpouring of support from current students and alumni and even from those with no affiliation to the University. This support makes this hellish task more bearable and serves as a reminder as to why it was deeply worth it.

Even with the overwhelmingly positive support from others, I still mourn those dreams of academic grandeur I once had. I always dream-

tedof doing something great in college, and, in a small way and with the help of countless others, I have. I have sacrificed my story to help bring to light decades of mistreatment of survivors at the hands of the University and to demand long-needed reform with pressure from powers even greater than the University.

Although I have given this intensely personal sacrifice to the institution, I will likely never receive the shining awards those who are involved in lots of student organizations or those who achieve excellent

grades do. I will not be graduating with my cohort, and I may never get to cross that vast stage to receive that certificate for all my hard work, something my assailant did with ease. I may never get the warm words of appreciation that the dean of students in the College received in honor of her several years of “service.” I may never receive the approval or thanks from the University I have given my life to. I may never fill that painful, ever-present emptiness.

Sometimes, though, when I’m walking around campus, the wind

blows onto my face and the sun shines upon my hair. I look up and marvel at the Neo-Gothic architecture with the innocence of the girl who originally matriculated here four years ago dreaming of academic greatness. It was architecture that was once so marvelous and enigmatic to me, reminding me of my enormous academic potential. This very architecture has grown familiar and warm, yet punctuated with painful memories.

In those moments, so fleeting and rare, I am more than a survivor of

sexual assault. I am more than someone who endures mental illness. I am more than an activist for sexual assault reform. I am more than a student who complained to the federal government about the University’s infamous and long-standing mishandlings. In those moments, I am everything that a young man, this institution, and so many others have tried to quell. I am human. I am home. I am free.

Olivia Ortiz is a fourth-year in the College.

Past, present, and future of UChicago athletics The opinions and concerns of UChicago athletes; a look at how the experience of being an athlete has improved

Liam Leddy

Sprezzatura It’s a typical day in Spanish 202.

We’ve spent the requisite five to 10 minutes going around the painfully dull Cobb classroom telling everyone what our plans are for the weekend, and the next five minutes relaying the “noticias” we all frantically looked up on our phones right before class. People have made jokes that would be remarkably dull in English but are for some reason quite funny in Spanish, and we’ve read some passage about Latin American instruments.

Somehow, in the midst of some typical Spanglish banter, UChicago athletics comes up in passing.

It’s only touched on briefly, but in that time somebody says, “Nobody cares about our sports teams.” The speaker chuckles out loud. As a varsity tennis player, I feel a small surge of anger and frustration. I look around the classroom, and I see across from me a men’s varsity soccer player and to my right a women’s track team member, and I wonder what their thoughts are.

But as I look around, I also notice something encouraging: No one else is laughing.

I’ve grappled with the tribulations of being a UChicago athlete before, with derision and division, once in this column and often with myself and my teammates. I’ve griped about lack of attendance at matches, lack of funding, lack of respect, and a general lacking. But it’s not something I’d ever talked about with athletes outside my

team before. What do other teams feel, I wondered? What are their experiences? What does the average UChicago athlete feel about being a UChicago athlete?

In talking to athletes from most of our teams, I found that my experience hasn’t been anomalous, that my frustration over how athletics are viewed is shared nigh ubiquitously, and my frustration over how they’re funded is shared slightly less so. I’ve heard stories of athletes feeling uncomfortable wearing team apparel to class for fear of being assumed stupid, feeling annoyed that they pay as much as they do and still have to pay for gear, and feeling frustrated that they don’t get great attendance at games and meets.

Division I athletes not only have their uniforms supplied to them, but also are usually given a fresh batch of practice clothes to keep every year, as well as free tutors, scholarships, and preferential treatment of many types. Regardless of whether or not it’s justified, this heaping of goodies on DI athletes creates a sort of expectation and desire for free swag among athletes.

That’s often viewed as part of the deal: Athletes devote a significant portion of their lives to working for and representing their university, and in exchange, they get free T-shirts, shoes, shorts, and sweats.

But that’s not really the case here at UChicago. Funding is more limited, and some players are frus-

trated by that. As fourth-year soccer player Sam Preston told me, “I feel it’s ridiculous for me to pay 55 grand a year and then pay for my own gear. We do get a discount of course, but at the same time it’s kind of a little bit obnoxious.”

But other athletes don’t see funding as an issue. As third-year swimmer Robby Kunkel said, “I chose a DIII school for the academics, and I wasn’t expecting to have a huge amount of funding. This is exactly what I was expecting and it’s everything I could have hoped for, too.

We have plenty of funding, we have this beautiful pool, I can’t complain about anything.” Part of this difference in opinion is generated by the reality that some sports have more recently seen tangible boosts in funding—we do have a relatively new and very nice swimming pool.

But a lot of this difference in opinion is just difference in opinion. On the one hand it is frustrating that we devote significant portions of our lives working hard for the University and are expected to represent them well wherever we go, yet we often receive little in return. But at the same time, I understand that we aren’t really owed anything, that the only reason we’re really playing these sports at all is because we love them, and that funding shouldn’t affect that.

I saw this mix in feelings across sports, with the majority of those I interviewed probably leaning slightly toward Kunkel’s point of view. The fact is that almost all athletes here are playing for the game itself, not for gear. But that doesn’t mean better gear and more funding wouldn’t be nice.

An issue I heard more prevalent-

ly, though, had to do with athletes’ interactions with students, not the athletic department. It seems that athletes often feel treated as lesser.

“If I’m interacting with a non-athlete who isn’t my friend and they find out that I’m an athlete, they tend to gain an air of superiority over me, they seem to want to just take over,” I heard from second-year sprinter and hurdler Ryan Manzuk.

“If we’re doing a group project, let’s say, they seem to want to just be like, ‘All right, I should probably just take over this, because, well, I’m working with an athlete.’ Being a science major, in labs I’m interacting with a lot of non-athletes, and if they find out I’m an athlete, that can tend to be a problem.”

Again, this sentiment isn’t ubiquitous, but it is fairly widespread.

A lot of athletes feel that when they walk into a classroom they’ll automatically be assumed to be less intelligent, less committed, or just generally less worthy. Indeed, some players go to lengths not to be recognized as athletes. As thirdyear women’s tennis captain Megan Tang told me, “I try not to wear tennis clothes to class because I just sense that when people see you wearing sports clothes, they kind of look down on you.”

It’s obviously frustrating to me that athletes feel they can’t take visible pride in what is for most of them a great passion. We ostensibly strive as a school to refrain from making anybody feel lesser simply because of their personal endeavors, but it seems that sometimes that intent falls short when it comes to athletes. And while perhaps simply blending in and not being recognized is not an

ideal solution, it’s one that’s not even available to some athletes. As fourth-year cross country and track captain Dan Povitsky pointed out, “It’s easy to recognize a football player, and it’s easy to recognize a basketball player, so if one of them behaves in a certain way, it’s easy for people to be like, ‘Oh, they’re behaving that way because they’re an athlete,’ whereas if I did [the same thing], it would be very hard for them to know I was an athlete.

I’m just a skinny guy who’s the normal stature of a normal student here.” I don’t think the majority of athletes feel viewed as less than exemplary to the point of hiding their passion, but it bothers me that any of them do. Maybe it’s just in our heads, but it’s more than frustrating to not be able to show pride for what you devote much of your life to.

But while concerns over funding and feeling treated as less intelligent are ones that I heard relatively intermittently, one that I heard throughout the athletic student body was that athletes just don’t feel that their time commitment and passion are understood, or taken for the serious commitment it really is. “The reason we do this isn’t necessarily for respect. This is DIII, we’re not getting paid for it, we’re dedicating 25–30 hours a week because we love the sport, not because we want glory and we want everyone to notice us,” said fourth-year track and cross country captain Michaela Whitelaw. “I think where it does annoy people is when other people don’t recognize that we even have athletics or that ATHLETIC CULTURE continued on page 23

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Keep walking Harassment at 55th and Ellis

Eleanor Hyun

Don’t Go Alone 55th and Ellis at ten on a Friday night. A large black man in a tan hoodie is walking toward my friend and me, muttering something under his breath. I assume he’s going to walk past us because I can’t hear what he’s saying, but later my friend tells me: “Ching-chong Chinatown-Cermak.”

He comes even with us and then stops, turns.

Says something.

I’ve been staring at the other side of the street, waiting for the walk sign to come on, narrowing my world down to that light. I think I heard what he said, though, and I glance at my friend in confusion. She’s staring at me, eyes wide, and I know I must’ve heard what I thought I did.

“You got a pussy down there?”

For some reason I still can’t believe it, and, as if for confirmation, I glance at the man standing beside us. He looks me in the eye and grabs his crotch.

“You got a hole down there? I got balls.”

In my heart, I am scared, but unbidden my lip curls and eyes narrow in incredulous disgust.

This whole exchange is both obscene and ridicu-

lous. This has nothing to do with me, and I want nothing to do with it.

The walk sign comes on.

“You guys got a cig?”

“No.” I stride into the street, out of this situation, digging my heels into the road.

“I’m going to follow you.”

I’ve always assumed that, with enough steely resolve, I could just walk out of something like this. I don’t talk on the phone or listen to music when going from one place to another, and I figured that if I committed none of these offenses then the world would likewise commit no serious offenses against me.

But the paradigm has suddenly shifted: This isn’t some incidental guy who happened to float into my proximity and who will just as easily float out. This is someone who consciously crossed the street to get to me and now will cross the same street again to threaten me. And my mind reels trying to assess the new situation: He says he’s going to follow me. What the fuck can I do about that? But what the fuck can he do?

We’re in the middle of East 55th Street, there

are a couple guys right at the bus stop behind us, and my friend and I make two against one.

He can’t do anything, right? But where do we go from here?

And even though I’ve had my eyes fixed on the opposite street corner throughout this whole encounter, only now does the blue-jacketed security guard materialize into my view.

Things fall into place. I pick up the pace.

“Can we stand here with you for a couple minutes?” I ask around a sigh of relief.

“Yeah, sure,” the security guard replies with a knowing smile.

This guy who’s drunk, high, whatever doesn’t quit. “Am I harassing them?” he asks mockingly.

“You have five seconds. Go,” the officer says.

And the guy takes two steps back, stoops down to pick a cigarette up from the street, puts it to his lips.

“I’ll walk you back,” the officer says, and we start walking along Ellis back to Max P. The other guy peels off. “How’s your night been?”

I’m sorry that I don’t remember the name of the nice officer. Shout out for listening to my nervous blathering with patience and kindness.

My friend sat in my dorm room for about an hour afterwards, too shaken to walk the final blocks back to BJ. She spent that hour dissecting what had just happened, recounting the words, actions that had been exchanged and analyzing

their details. She asked questions: Would the same thing have happened if we were male? If we were not Asian? If we were dressed differently? If she had reacted differently? To her, something so deeply affecting, so traumatic, must have been personal. But to me, it was the most impersonal thing in the world.

From start to finish, all I had done was stare and walk forward in an environment that had shifted around me. First it shifted so that, unfortunately, a man harassed me. And then it shifted again so that, fortunately, a security guard stood on the opposite corner. In many ways, I had nothing to do with either the initiation or outcome of this event. I just did what I could—kept walking.

Over brunch the morning after, my mom was telling my sister and me about a feature she had seen on TV about two parents who had been shot in their home. And as they tried to make sense of who the killer could have been—who had a motive, who was close enough to them to enter their home—it occurred to me that the killer really could have been just a random person.

Because sometimes things are just like that.

They happen.

Eleanor Hyun is a second-year in the College majoring in English.

Private interests, public powers UCPD actions toward trauma center protesters highlight the perils of the University’s private policing Emma LaBounty Maroon Contributor On May 19, seven protesters from the Trauma Center Coalition (TCC), including members of student organization Students for Health Equity (SHE) and Woodlawnbased organization Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY), attached themselves together, sat down, and disrupted construction at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) parking garage construction site. The protesters knew they were risking arrest in an act of civil disobedience.

Instead of being arrested, they were forcibly removed from the construction site and released. Some have said that the protestors should consider themselves lucky. These people fundamentally misunderstand a critical point: The UCPD, by not arresting the protestors, did not act benevolently for the seven protesters—who were prepared to bear the legal consequences, and had still decided to act—but rather acted in the narrow institutional interest of the University. What occurred that day speaks to the conflicts and perils that threaten to emerge when a University has a police force with private interests and public powers.

Let us be clear about what University administrators decided that day: By deciding to not arrest the seven protestors, University administrators decided to avoid headlines and news coverage about the University arresting members of its own community. They decided not to instigate legal proceedings that would formally prolong the conflict,

make demands upon their legal and public relations departments, and risk providing the protesters a continued public platform. Ultimately, they decided to minimize public scrutiny of their actions by forcibly removing the protestors rather than arresting them.

The bizarreness of this should strike us. A clean arrest would have involved carefully cutting apart the lockboxes that attached the protesters to one another and arresting them on site. A public police force with experience with civil disobedience, such as the Chicago Police Department (CPD), would have understood that the protesters’ arms were not just stuck in the PVC pipe, but fastened together within it. But instead of calling upon the CPD for assistance, the UCPD rashly used force to physically remove their human problem.

This removal process was not clean: It involved dragging individuals across construction site gravel and pulling apart people whose limbs were attached together. The normal outcome of such prolonged, intensive police engagement—an arrest—did not occur. Instead, the UCPD decided that it is a force that can walk in, drag you out across the gravel, and call it a day, shedding entirely the burdensome corpus of the legal process. In this way, the University completely eliminated the imperfect and punitive, but at least still extant, avenues of deliberation that the criminal legal system provides. And when police actions are not backed up by arrests, they do not have to be explained or examined in a court of law.

Beyond legal proceedings, there is another formal avenue that the seven protesters have open to them: the police complaint process. However, there are multiple clues that this process would not do the protesters justice. One fundamental aspect of the UCPD’s formal complaint process is that, unlike the CPD, it investigates complaints internally and comes to its own finding about a given complaint’s validity. Typically this process is undertaken by only one individual UCPD employee: Deputy Chief Kevin Booker. As a member of the Independent Review Committee (IRC), a body that reviews complaints against the UCPD, I have read and considered many investigative files compiled by Booker. These files are the sole evidence we rely on in our reviews. Booker was at the protest on May 19, in uniform, with a camcorder, filming. While the University would justify this as a neutral attempt to gather the most information possible in anticipation of possible complaints, it is difficult to imagine, in such a polarized situation, that a uniformed officer of the Department could act simply as an impartial investigator—the role Booker is supposed to play when investigating police complaints—rather than as, to some extent, a witness for the UCPD. Further, the fact that Assistant Chief of Police Gloria Graham was one of the officers who forcibly removed protesters makes this incident even harder to indict. Graham is the most powerful on-duty UCPD member, and the most powerful UCPD administrator aside from Chief of Police

Marlon Lynch; she is Booker’s superior. In this context, the real difficulties that Booker might face if he decided to sustain a complaint regarding this situation become obvious. I do not believe, in a case such as this, that investigative materials provided to the IRC would necessarily be sufficient—or, frankly, unbiased enough— for even it, an entity designed to protect the integrity of the complaint process, to fully address what happened.

This situation should trouble us. In a public police force, decisions are supposed to be made with a general regard for the public good. In its massive and well-funded private police force, the University has created a law enforcement agency whose decisions are made with regards to the wellbeing of the University, however this might be defined. This interest of the University sometimes intersects with the public good;

sometimes, it diverges. The various administrators who control the UCPD have a clear vested interest in the reputation of the University. The fact that stakeholders including the UCMC and Campus & Student Life administrators were involved in the decisions made on May 19 shows us that these decisions were made with regards to the broader private institutional interest of the University, rather than an appropriately narrow interest of public safety.

The primacy of this private interest affects how the UCPD is run on a day-today basis, as it racially profiles black and brown people to preserve the integrity of the Hyde Park bubble and as it refuses to release information that public police forces make available, such as policing policies and information about the racial composition of stops. It affects all those

who enter into its jurisdiction, which is policed by a force that is more transparent with and accountable to people in power at the University of Chicago than it is to the public that it is supposed to serve. The 65,000 people who live in the UCPD’s jurisdiction deserve policing of the same quality and integrity that public forces are required to provide. Students are organizing to change this through demanding more from the UCPD through the student organization Southside Solidarity Network’s Campaign for Equitable Policing. What is yet to be seen is if the UCPD will push itself outside of its narrow institutional interests to truly be transparent and accountable, and to truly serve the public interest.

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U Chicago 2014 Love, Mom, Dad and Lauren

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Dear Hallie: We are so proud of you and honor the person you are.

We marvel at all of your achievements and willingness to go out on a ledge for yourself and those you care for. May your next chapter continue your lifelong love of learning.

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You are our Pride and Joy! Words cannot describe what you mean to us and how happy and blessed we are to have you as our daughter!

We wish you the best of luck, success and happiness in everything and anything you do and always know that we are 100% behind you all the way and any way you go!!

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We wish you the best for everything life has to offer!

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The MAROON would like to congratulate its graduating seniors:

By 4th grade you were w on your way to greatness well

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We wish you well!

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A person who graduates from college, has to prepare for the challenges waiting in the new chapter of life. Learning every day is the key to success! Someone as special as you has the ability to create a beautiful world of tomorrow.

Congratulations Pranav Gandhi, Graduating Senior 2014, and to the great friends you made as you embark on this journey into the big world guided by the learning of 22 years! ‌‌Hugs, Mama and Papa!

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Summer in Chicago Five summer movie events that don't in- Five ways to spend your paycheck in one place volve superheroes or megaplexes Robert Sorrell Associate Arts Editor 1. CIFF International Screenings Program The Chicago International Film Festival (CIFF), in conjunction with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, presents its 12th annual free summer series, which will run on Wednesdays from June through September. Chosen from past festival favorites and award winners, this eclectic collection of films spans the globe from Germany to Argentina to Taiwan, as well as the emotional spectrum from Alejandro Agresti’s comedic Wind With the Gone (El Viento Se Llevo Lo Que) to heavier dramas, such as Henrik Genz’s Terribly Happy.

(Chicago Cultural Center, 78 East

Washington Street, every Wednesday from June 4–October 1 except September 17, 6:30 p.m., free) 2. Millennium Park Summer Film Series Finding the drama of the CIFF program too heavy for mid-June?

Leave behind the Cultural Center for the great outdoors and the CIFF International Screening Program’s unpretentious cousin in nearby Millennium Park. The series, co-curated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, presents crowd favorites like Ghostbusters, The Birdcage, and The Wizard of Oz (the original, duh) as well as one special showing, Wes Anderson’s Rushmore, which will be co-presented by Bike Chicago at Pritzker Pavilion. Grab a picnic blanket and cooler and lounge on the otherworldly, well-kept grass

sipping various summer potables.

Hell, you don’t even have to watch the movie to have a good time.

3. Life Itself Roger Ebert’s death last spring sent such a chill through the film community in Chicago that I found myself wondering if winter had decided to last until July. Over a year later, many Chicagoans, myself included, find it difficult to wrap our heads around international cinema without Roger Ebert. His salty, at times formulaic, reviews were at once irreverent and revelatory, the stodgy ponderings of a weird uncle shot through with the verve of a great art lover. Based on Ebert's memoir of the same title, this documentary from Hoop Dreams director Steve James explores the critic’s long and varied life with interviews MOVIES continued on page 20

Ellar Coltrane, star of Richard Linklater's sprawling coming-of-age epic, Boyhood. Where do the years go?

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Sammie Spector maroon Contributor 1. Architecture Boat Tour While its predominant demographic is tourists donning sunscreen and Nikons, this infamous tour is almost more gratifying for Chicago city-dwellers. It’s great for students who want a new perspective on appreciating the Windy City, and for those who haven’t spent much time outside of the Reg and need to get into the city over summer. It’s definitely pricey for something that is reminiscent of an educational experience, but more than worth the $40 plus tax. You don’t have to love architecture; just get into the spirit of curiosity and explore the city. Make sure you get on the top deck for the best views and most direct sunlight!

2. City Lights Tour If you’re hopping on the sightseeing tour bandwagon, or trolley, rather, the City Lights Tour is relatively cheap as downtown outings go. For $20, you’re taken on a whirlwind view of the city at night, alight. From Navy Pier to the Hancock Building, you can experience another, illuminated, view of the city.

Jump on it now, because this tour is only offered until September.

3. Broadway in Chicago They say go big or go home, and when it comes to Broadway, the weeks of work are worth a night at the theater.

This summer, Motown: The Musical will be showcased at the Oriental Theater as well as long awaited The Last Ship. The new The Last Ship, at the Bank Atlantic Center until mid-July, features an original score from Sting, inspired by his own childhood. Both are not to be missed. If your paycheck can’t quite

cover the night out, or neither musical interests you, save the money for next season: Disney’s Newsies, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, and Book of Mormon will be here for winter.

4. Chicago French Market If food is more worth your dime, try the Chicago French Market. It’s like a vacation for your inner gourmet, which of course, we all have. Offering selections from numerous vendors of all ethnicities and cooking styles, you can purchase pre-made meals to eat in the market, bring fresh ingredients home to cook, or get something to go. Beware: While each vendor is fairly inexpensive, at this market, gourmands may find they have big eyes and even bigger appetites, so those loaves of French bread and tiny wheels of brie may start adding up. This market is definitely worth a fun outing, even if it’s just to walk around in the artisanal atmosphere and grab dinner or lunch to go.

(131 North Clinton Street, open from 7 a.m.–7:30 p.m. on weekdays and 8:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. on Saturdays) 5. Taste of Chicago One of the most beloved festivals of the summer season, Taste of Chicago offers a sample of gourmet food, music stars, city history, and summer vibes.

While admission is free, food events are not always gratis, and you’ll need tickets to see artists featured in the music shell.

Artists this year include Janelle Monáe, Aloe Blacc, and AWOLNATION. There’ll also be pop-up restaurants, eateries that are open for only a day or two.

Other vendors have booths, and some five-day restaurants will be open for the duration of the festival.

(Grant Park and along Columbus Street, June 9-13)

Porkchop settles down on 53rd Street, disappoints It’s easy to look at Hyde Park’s restaurants and say the options are better today than they were a few years ago. And if you haven’t seen this work in progress with your own eyes, perhaps you’ve heard it loudly boasted about by the university’s administration.

The East 53rd Street redevelopment has taken the reinvention of the neighborhood food scene as one of its early successes.

Some of the evidence certainly validates the big talk.

Z&H’s late-night BYOB taco/burrito days are a godsend. A10, while expensive, has a fair-valued brunch. Native Foods has come in to

serve the vegans/vegetarians of academia. There are also Yusho, the upcoming Promontory, and a few other niche openings.

But with all its loud and well-publicized successes, the University has also gotten away with some disastrous duds. To borrow from Anton Ego, the food critic in the film Ratatouille, one need only take the first few bites of Porkchop’s fatefully bland macaroni to hit some “fresh, clear, well-seasoned perspective.” Maybe then you’ll regret choosing Harper Court's Porkchop over takeout at McDonald's.

Porkchop’s neighborhood

debut has been, to say the least, rocky. It might be unfair to judge a restaurant too harshly on its soft opening, but there is only so much that can be forgiven. On my first visit there, what I experienced was total chaos. Within the first 10 minutes of being inside the restaurant, I was told by three strangers to go someplace else. I wish I had listened. Receipt rolls were left unfurled along the floor, and I kicked some by accident as I tried to get to the bar. We waited 30 minutes for the only bartender to stop talking to a customer only to find out the restaurant had virtually FOOD continued on page 20

The subpar macaroni from Porkchop. Tasteful plating can't make up for bad taste.

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Arts Kids' Corner: Poetry from local students Selections courtesy of Southside Scribblers, a student RSO which leads art and writing programs at local schools.

“Baseball” So if I was a football I would wish I had never been made.

I am a baseball bat. My day is good and bad. It is good because I helped my team win the championship.

But it was bad because there were so many fast balls and it hurts.

“Why I like writing” I like writing because it is like talking but it is just me. Writing expresses yourself in a letter. Writing it is just you your paper and your pencil. You can tell someone a story that you like. Writing is like drawing but you describe what you are focusing on then draw it. Writing is like I am in my own world. I like writing because anything can happen when I am writing.

Jaylin, 4th grade, Bret Harte

David, 4th grade, Bret Harte

"Lloyd," Devin, St. Thomas the Apostle

“Vampire Queen!”

Vampire Queen got caught marrying a human being. She wasn’t supposed to marry human beings because she would die in the daytime if they went to the pool in the morning. So she is the dumbest vampire that ever lived because she doesn’t even know that she is allergic to the sun.

Tarielle, Murray Academy

“Elvis the dog,” Marie, St. Thomas the Apostle

Director Charles Newell transforms Court Theatre with M. Butterfly Taylor McDowell maroon Contributor It was dark in the belly of the theater. The air was thick, but it was comfortable: Not too warm and not too cool. It was dusk outside before the show began, and inside a kind of dusk had fallen among the velvet seats of the theater. The stage proper was emphasized by a single fluorescent bulb that hid the upstage but illuminated center downstage. The arrangement was sparse. There sat a lonesome jail cell bed and a ceramic sink whose piping led from the corner of the cell and trickled to a cement slab, a makeshift ceiling, a few feet off the playhouse’s actual ceiling. The setting was uptight and somehow inviting at the same time.

David Henry Hwang’s M. Butterfly, directed by Charles Newell at the Court Theatre, concerns a French diplomat, Rene Gallimard, played by Sean Fortunato, who falls in love with Song Liling, a Chinese opera singer, here Nathaniel Braga.

Liling (without spoiling too much) is spying for China’s communist government by way of the Frenchman’s intelligence. So it makes sense in this context when the show opens with Rene Gallimard pacing his jail cell and addressing an audience that, absent the context of the theater, would not exist. Immediately we are struck by the schism between the rambling, derang ed storytelling of an acutely alone and conflicted individual and the role

he serves as the mechanism for the play’s unfolding. It is this conflict that haunts the work and makes it as affecting as it is (for Gallimard) mentally fabricated. For it is through Gallimard’s present state, his memories, and his dreams that the story takes place, and it is between them that we move, always with Gallimard as our guide.

When Gallimard walks into the light, the extent of his delusional madness is not abundantly clear; the role is immediately casual, and comfortably played. He plays the role as though Gallimard is your good buddy, albeit one who’s too enthusiastic to relate at length the details of last night’s party, and the subsequent rendition reflects the man more than the reality, the product of a mind ceaselessly sifting the contents of certain memories and suddenly gifted with the audience of human company. Fortunato’s performance is consistent and solid from the first moments to the final curtain call, as it must be, because it is around him that the story and its other characters circulate.

If Fortunato’s is a character of solid reliability, then Mark Montgomery, who plays Marc, Gallimard’s childhood friend, is the burning presence that illuminates the production with his very appearance. Marc is a sort of malevolent conscience constantly driving Gallimard toward sex, exuberance, and masculinity. Marc comes blazing into the stage’s lighting to change the atmosphere of the

Sean Fortunato and Nathaniel Braga in the Court Theatre's production of M. Butterfly.

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whole place completely, often for no more than a two-minute scene.

A bit of brilliance that Montgomery displays, alongside his buoyancy and playful dominance of the stage, is his exemplary French accent that straddles masterfully the fine line between believability and satire. It’s quite a thing to hear his

mock French swaggering speech as he comes strolling casually or flying wildly onto center stage from out in left field somewhere in the back wings of the theater. He is a sort of wake-up complement to Gallimard’s often whining ruminations.

The two performances by these incredibly talented actors create a

magnetic chemistry that not only anchors the production, but who ultimately lifts Charles Newell’s sparse rendition out of dullness and into vibrant life.

M. Butterfly plays at Court Theatre through June 8th. Student tickets $15.

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Porkchop off to rocky start in Harper Court FOOD continued from page 18

nothing on tap.

When the food came, the disappointment grew. Pulled-pork sandwiches came out on soggy, flattened buns and with bland meat masked by sweet barbecue sauce. The mac and cheese would have been better described as Kraft’s with melted Cheese Whiz, and it certainly wasn’t worth the eight dollars my poor friend shelled out for it. But look who’s talking; my entrée fared only slightly better. The rib tips were passable, but with the small portions and high prices, Pork Chop just made me think wistfully of the now-defunct Ribs N Bibs.

My group left Porkchop that first time literally shaking with anger and shock. Could I even call it traumatizing? That night I woke up in a cold sweat. It was the knot of stress that had amassed between trying to flag down the waitress for the fifth time and accepting the fact that every fry on my plate was just as soggy and tasteless as the last.

Maybe we can dismiss the early flukes as just that, early flukes. But if the first-week meltdown wasn’t bad enough, Porkchop’s face-plant is magnified only by its seasoned experience.

Following the University’s desire to avoid unnecessary risk, Porkchop is the second location of an already-successful restaurant placed on the ever-popular and competitive Randolph Street. What’s more, the original location fills during peak hours with crowds enjoying the patio space and the better-than-decent whiskeys and beers. But if the drinks and patio are what drive Porkchop’s northern brand, then it will truly need to up its game at its Hyde Park spot. Currently, outdoor seating is found more comfortably at Native Foods next door, and the drinks are too expensive for a college audience to enjoy fully.

In the visits I have made to Porkchop since that first fateful evening, I will gladly admit that the quality has improved substantially.

Their service is now running at full steam, the drinks are for the most part available, and even the portion size has increased a bit. Yet even with these improvements, Porkchop continues to struggle with making the food the centerpiece of its space. The hybrid burger, which promises an enticing mix of beef and pork in the patty, is simply an oversalted and overspiced behemoth of meat.

Or take the corn bread, one of their specialties, as another example. The yellow, spongy exterior cuts more like a cake and tastes like a Rice Krispy treat. Once again, Porkchop attempts to make up for the strange base of its dishes by covering with them with sauces. The cornbread’s honey butter almost makes up for the strange consistency, but they’ll need to be more generous if they’re going to deceive anyone. Or is it now wrong to be asking a restaurant to deceive me into thinking they’re better than that?

Rib N Bibs shared space on the same street as Porkchop for a little more than a month.

In that time, one restaurant went through a calamity of an opening and then pulled itself up into mediocrity, and the other mysteriously closed down. The University of Chicago invested in the Porkchop name for good reasons: a healthy reception of their food truck on Ellis and a proven business model to back it up. But if Porkchop’s reception has proven anything, it is the overly cautionary tale of how the University’s investments come at a significant and not always worthwhile cost to smaller restaurateurs. What would have happened if Ribs N Bibs had been given a facelift ? Or what could have happened if the higher-quality Brown Bag Lunch food truck had opened a barbecue restaurant in Hyde Park instead of in Irving Park? Who’s to say? For now, I’ll just have to settle for pressing my face against the glass of Ribs N Bibs' old windows, hoping for a miraculous return.

To do: watch Rushmore in Pritzker Pavilion MOVIES continued from page 18

and appearances from film greats, including directors Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Errol Morris, and Ramin Bahrani along with New York Times film critic A.O. Scott.

(Landmark Century Centre Cinema, 2828 North Clark Street, opening July 4) 4. Richard Linklater’s Boyhood When Linklater’s Before Midnight came out last summer, fans of the director were probably unsurprised to see another dialogue-heavy film unfolding over the span of 12 or so hours. Yet, with Boyhood, Linklater plows into new territory. The film was shot over the course of 12 years and chronicles the life of Mason (played

by Ellar Coltrane) from age five to 18. It may be a bit premature to call the work Linklater’s magnum opus, but with it clocking in at a whopping 165 minutes and receiving nearly unanimous praise from the world’s top critics and festivals, no other word quite seems to fit the bill.

(Opening July 11) 5. Jean-Luc Godard’s Goodbye to Language If updates from The New York Times and oth-

er cultural outlets have any credence, this year’s Cannes Film Festival was business as usual.

Which is to say, it was once again a huge drag.

The traditional paragon of style and exclusivity in the film world has stumbled many a time; now it is more overloaded than ever with gimmicks and big-budget flicks that are heavy on fluff and light on substance. The festival’s verbose pomposity and overly serious image don't help its acceptance among film cognoscenti.

The A.V. Club dismissed this year’s Palme D’Or winner Winter Sleep as “ass-numbing,” a phrase which could also be used to describe last year’s winner Blue is The Warmest Color, in terms of length if nothing else. Get yourself to Berlin, ja? Thankfully, Jean-Luc Godard gave critics a break from moaning with his experimental 3D feature Goodbye to Language, starring a rather mangy-looking mutt and promising a costume scene with Mary Shelley and Lord Byron. No official U.S. release date has been set, but keep your eyes peeled come midsummer. By then we’ll all need a break from superheroes, rom-coms, and eight-dollar popcorn.

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In the Chatter’s Box with Sarah Langs

Nicki Palermo is a second-year thrower on the track team from Los Gatos, CA. We chatted with her to get some insider info on the life of a Maroon athlete.

CM: Had you ever thrown a javelin before?

NP: No, I started winter quarter.

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Chicago Maroon: You used to be on the soccer team, but now you are on the track team. What inspired you to switch?

Nicki Palermo: I quit soccer after my full freshman year here, so I did the fall season and then the spring season of soccer. And I had come in injured, so trying to find how I fit into the program here while being injured and not being fully a part of the team was really difficult for me. The program ended up being a really bad fit for me and I was really unhappy, so I quit. Then fall quarter my sophomore year came around, and it was the first time I had never been on a team so I had no idea what to do with my time. During winter quarter, I decided that I wanted to do track. I hate running, I’m bad at jumping, and I’m too small to do the heavyweight throws, so that left javelin.

CM: How long did it take you to get a hang of that?

NP: I wouldn’t say that I fully have the hang of it yet. I did, however, master it enough for my first season of doing it, since it’s just a spring-quarter sport—I started training winter quarter, then I actually made it to conference and competed at outdoor conference for spring. But I still have a lot to learn.

CM: Do you think you’re going to stick with it for the next two years, then?

NP: Definitely. I might try to take on another event next year, too.

CM: What would you take on?

NP: I might try shot [put] or long jump.

CM: Did you ever do any track and field in high school, or was it all soccer?

NP: All soccer.

CM: So when did you start playing soccer?

NP: Really competitively? During eighth grade or freshman year

of high school.

CM: How do you translate all of the experience you’ve had preparing for soccer games to preparing for track events?

NP: I mean, they’re very different sports, and track is a much more individual sport than I had been accustomed to. And it’s a little less competitive with other people. It’s much more on yourself. If you screw up, you screw up; there’s no one else who can make a move that messes you up.

But overall, my love of competition and wanting to win [help me prepare].

CM: Do you like the individual or the team sport better?

NP: I’d say with track you get a little bit of both, because it is an individual sport, but I’m a member of the throwers team, so that’s kind of my team. And then bigger than that, it’s all of the women’s track team.

CM: What will be your sport two years down the road when you graduate?

NP: That’s an interesting question. I actually haven’t thought about that. I would probably continue to play soccer after college. I play IMs here, and I actually ski a lot, so that’s my other sport.

XS Tennis Founder Murray: “Athletics programs...were crucial to my development�

TENNIS continued from front

“XS Tennis has been a tremendous success,� Mayor Emanuel said in a press release. “It’s important that our kids have access to safe activities and strong role models, and this new facility will provide a world-class space for young people across Chicago to train, to dream, and to discover their full potential.�

Furthermore, XS Tennis looks beyond simply providing opportunities to play tennis in the area.

Through its Tennis XSpress program and a partnership with the University of Chicago, the company hopes to provide students in the area with free tutoring, homework assistance, and programs to instill values of teamwork, confidence, and camaraderie. “Our goal is to form respectful, well-rounded, and dedicated student-athletes who excel on and off the court and in and out of the classroom, from elementary and high school to college and beyond,� XS Tennis states on its website.

Advancing this point, XS Tennis founder Kamau Murray commented on the importance of youth sports. “As a graduate of the Chicago Public Schools, I know personally that the athletics programs I participated in were crucial to my development during a critical stage in my life,� Murray said.

As an example of XS Tennis

fulfilling these goals, one needs to look no further than this year’s French Open and at Taylor Townsend, an 18-year-old Chicago-area native and member of XS Tennis since its inception. She has trained under Murray for the past seven years. Just last week, Townsend used the skills she honed on the courts of the South Side to advance to the third round of one of the four majors in professional tennis.

Aside from Townsend, local families, and the anticipated 2,000 new students who will gain access to the XS Facilities, the new Washington Park construction project will also have an impact on the University of Chicago tennis team, as the Maroons’ men’s and women’s tennis teams currently practice at the XS Tennis facility at the LA Fitness on East 47th Street. With the addition of the new 22-acre facility, the UChicago tennis squads, and other students as well, will gain access to a new, state-of-the-art structure that will rival tennis centers around the country.

XS Tennis anticipates that it will begin construction on the $9.8 million facility in September of this year. It will be built on the former site of the Robert Taylor Homes, as a public housing project in the area from the 1960s until 2007. The anticipated completion date is spring 2015.

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“There is more to a person, more to a mind, and more to an education than intellect” ATHLETIC CULTURE continued from page 5

it’s something people dedicate their time to...I think the hardest part is when other people don’t recognize the amount of time and effort you put into your sport.” We do play these games only because we love them, but it is frustrating when people don’t understand just how important these games are to us. This is the concern I saw raised far more often than simple funding: that athletes don’t always feel that their passion is respected. The “We have a football team?” jokes are easy to make, but they directly disrespect the work and passion of an entire team, and are irksome to every other team on campus. “I get the whole, ‘Oh, we have a soccer team?’ or ‘We have a football team?’ all the time, and that kind of rubs me the wrong way,” said Preston. “I don’t make fun of your debate club or your RSO, everyone has different things. It took a lot of talent for us to get here, don’t put us down for that.”

Those are the gripes and the desires, at least the major ones. Some of us want more funding because we represent this school and feel we should be better compensated, some of us feel like people think we’re stupid just because we’re athletes, and almost all of us feel like our passion is regularly disrespected, not necessarily by the whole student body, but at least by portions of it. This is the part where I suppose I engage in some sort of grand call to action, imploring students across campus to rethink how they view athletes, to treat them as equals, and to recognize the commitment they give. And I suppose that’s something I’d like to do, and those are realities I’d like to see manifest. But I don’t necessarily think my saying that would change anything. Much of the student body probably already does those things, xand the haters are probably a select few that would be hard to persuade anyway.

But fortunately, I don’t really have to say anything, because I think this problem is slowly

solving itself. Because being a UChicago athlete obviously isn’t all bad, or none of us would do it.

There are positives, and plenty of them. The unbearable plight of the poor, underprivileged UChicago athlete is not without hope.

For one, for the athletes to whom I talked, interactions with teachers were almost always positive. It seems that, given enough notice and treated with enough kindness, most all teachers at UChicago are more than willing to accommodate athletes who have to miss classes or tests for meets or games. But the most overwhelming and most encouraging sentiment I heard from athletes, especially fourth-years, was that things have improved significantly as of late. Fourth-year men’s basketball player Charlie Hughes, for example, says, “The amount of support I’ve personally felt has grown every year.” Whitelaw: “Over my four years, the changes in facilities and clothing and promotional events have really increased.” Fourth-year men’s tennis captain Krishna Ravella: “It’s definitely gotten better in terms of being seen on an equal plane academically with non-athletes. I think it’s gotten a lot better in my time here.” And from fourth-year former football player and student-coach Ian Lazarus: “I think [it’s] getting better every year, I’ve definitely seen a transition since my first year, and things are progressing.”

Indeed, it’s obvious that funding for athletics has increased in recent years. The construction of Ratner is an obvious manifestation of that, but there are smaller ones. Just in this past month, the indoor track and courts in Henry Crown have been resurfaced and the Ratner pool has been closed for a facelift. There are even murmurs of resurfacing of the Stagg tennis courts. Athletes have seen improvement in gear supply, as well as expansions of preseason and travel rosters. There has also been

an increase in advertisement and publicity of athletics. Events like homecoming, Neon Night, and Sausagefest have increased both support and awareness. And there is the sentiment I heard from virtually every athlete to whom I spoke: We love new Athletic Director Erin McDermott. The changes she’s made in the past year are remarkably encouraging.

Many of the changes I just mentioned have occurred during her administration. That, combined with her simple increase in accessibility with her athletes—doing simple things like attending meets and games—makes me, and I’m pretty sure athletes all over campus, confident that the future of the UChicago athletic department is bright.

But what about athletes’ interaction with students? What about how they view us and we view them? What’s the future of that? It’s a slightly more complicated question, but hope still abounds.

I would be remiss to write an article about UChicago athletics and not mention Robert Hutchins’ disbanning of our football team in 1939. A man to whom the quote, “Football, fraternities, and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn’t be in the university,” is often attributed to, Hutchins had the original Stagg Field demolished, a stadium named after a man who was one of the godfathers of American football. Hutchins dismantled the original monsters of the midway, and in place of their home put the Reg. A grander symbolic gesture has scarcely ever been made, and a clearer message never sent: This is a place where studiousness and intellect are more important than anything else. And this premium on intellect at the expense of all else has persisted for decades and has been a central component of our campus culture and philosophy.

But that has begun to change. As McDermott told me, “What in the past had always

been talked about, or what was highlighted, was this was the intellectual destination, and that’s still messaged now, and that’s fine, it should be an intellectual destination, that’s something to be proud of...But from an undergraduate perspective, in what that education should look like, encouraging and giving an enriching environment that honors other parts of the person is really important, and I do think that’s been embraced.” This is a sentiment I’ve heard from not only our athletic director, but from athletes across sports, that our university is coming to value more than minds, but whole people. All these damn Common App kids who are corrupting our sanctuary of intellectual purity aren’t really doing anything of the sort. Rather, they’re cleansing waters that have long been contaminated with a far too narrow view of what’s important. Athletes and athletic faculty have probably seen it first, and that only makes sense. Those fully engaged in the life of the body would first notice a move away from pure emphasis on life of the mind. This is not to say that academic rigor should not be maintained, or that the philosophical or moral discussion we value so highly as a school should be abandoned. But rather that there is more to a person, more to a mind, and more to an education than intellect, and that wholeness of being is valued ever more highly here. Being well rounded is coming to be valued more than simply having a piercing intellect, whether that means being athletic, being a skilled musician, being an artist, or simply being funny and creative. That’s a change we should all embrace, and if that comes at the expense of the purity of the life of the mind, then so be it. Because there’s more to life than intellect.

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MAROON Awards 2013–2014

Female Athlete of the Year: Abby Erdmann, Swimming

Female Senior of the Year: Natalia Jovanovic, Soccer After four years on the women’s soccer team, forward Natalia Jovanovic leaves behind a legacy of accomplishments and leadership. As a starter and offensive powerhouse, Jovanovic had a consistent impact on game play, helping to propel the team to the Division III NCAA tournament twice in her athletic

While Athlete of the Year is not usually awarded to firstyears, standout Abby Erdmann has definitely earned the honor. To begin with her individual accolades, Erdmann was named All-UAA in five events and UAA champion in the 100-yard butterfly in February. Most notably, Erdmann won the national championship in the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:01.35, a personal record by more than 2.5 seconds. This feat is incredible by any standard, but it’s even

more remarkable given her first-year status. She is the first national champion from the swim team since 1989 and only one of 15 in Maroon history. With such an impressive beginning to her collegiate athletic career, one can be certain there is more to come from the young Maroon.

Second-year Bennett was dominant arguably the most m Chicago athlete individual C this year. As a pole vaulter, he indoor and outcompeted in in and took door competition competi indoor conference home the ind championship and national championship in March, and he proceeded to win second

Honorable Mentions: Sara Kwan, Soccer; Megan Tang, Tennis

career. This year, Jovanovicc m ranked second on her team in scoring with six goals andd ueight assists and has continually made a difference in closee ngames, scoring the game win– ner in overtime against UW– cOshkosh. She was named Secar ond Team All-UAA this year er and played in 71 games over her time as a Maroon, with 611 starts.

Male Senior of the Year: Dan Povitsky, Cross Country and Track & Field The men’s cross country team finished 28th nationally this past season, and Povitsky led the charge, placing higher than any other Maroon at the NCAAs (58th). He also took the top prize at the UAA

ki Honorable Mention: Nikki DelZenero, Volleyball

Female Rookie of the Year: Michelle Dobbs, Cross Country and Track & Field

prize in the outdoor pole vault championship in May. Incredibly, he didn’t finish anywhere below first place from the time the indoor season began until the outdoor conference meet on April 26.

This season, Bennett set and broke multiple school and personal records, including his final vault of 5.10m.

Honorable Mention: Vincent Beltrano, Footbal

Outdoor Championships in April in the 10,000-meter with a time of 32:07.94. The cross country and track teams will surely feel the loss once Povitsky graduates, but there’s also plenty of younger talent to pick up the slack.

Honorable Mention: Charlie Hughes, Basketball

Male R Rookie of the Year: Charlie Banaszak, Wrest Wrestling

First-year Dobbs burst onto the scene this year by snatching fourth place in the 800-meter at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March with a time of 2:13.28, in addition to finishing in fifth place at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in May with an improved time of 2:09.91. She also competed in cross country in the fall. Similar to Abby Erdmann, this young Maroon star will likely blossom even further and one day leave her name etched in Chicago’s record books.

Honorable Mention: Britta Nordstrom, Basketball

other top finishers at Nationals history. With only Whitelaw Team of the Year: Women’s Cross Country included fourth-year Michaela and fourth-year Elise Wummer Led by second-year Catt Young, the women’s cross country squad took fourth place at NCAAs in the fall. Young became an All-American with her ninth-place finish, and

Athlet of the Male Athlete Year: Micha Michael Bennett, Track & Fie Field

Whitelaw (43rd), secondyears Brianna Hickey (60th) and second-years Karin Gorski (104th), Maggie Cornelius (139th). The fourth-place finish proved to be the best team finish in Chicago sports

As one o of multiple first-year Maroo Banaszak immediMaroons, ately made m an impact on the wrestlin wrestling team’s performance this year. ye He was the only Maroo Maroon to compete at the nationa national championships and came aaway with fourth place, all while wh competing against many upperclassmen. Banaszak, who w finished the season with a 29–12 record, is the only firrst-year to place at Nationals since the early 1990s.

Accord According to head coach Leo Kocher Kocher, “Charlie took [Nationals tionals] very seriously and really took t advantage of it to raise hi his game. Next year, we’ll look forward to Charlie having company on the podium at the NCAAs.”

graduating from the team that went to Nationals, the prospect of next season is an exciting one for the Maroons.

Honorable Mentions: Sven Kranz, Tennis; Thomas Prescott, Baseball

Honorable Mention: Volleyball

Coach of the Year: Vanessa Walby, Volleyball Head coach Vanessa Walby’s influence helped volleyball stay strong during its best season ever. It was a banner year for volleyball, which won the UAA for the first time in the program’s history. It lost only one game to a conference opponent all season en route to the title. Conference domination meant a berth to the NCAA DIII Championships, where the Maroons

put on a strong showing. The players left it all on the court, but their success was in large part due to the stability and strength at the top that came from Walby. It was another great season among a string of them that have cropped up since Walby began coaching at Chicago, as the team has now made the playoffs in each of the past four seasons.

Walby accepted the head coach position at Wash U for next season and will be on the other side of the court during UAA matches next season.

Honorable Mention: Chris Hall, Men’s and Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field