093011 Chicago Maroon

FRIDAY • SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Chicago Maroon appears today, in its 119th year in print, different from last quarter. The writing still delivers the same campus news in the same detailed prose. We still appear in four sections, with features and news blurbs accompanied by vivid photographs. And our 11x17 broadsheet is still the same size, printed every Tuesday and Friday. Some names have moved on while new ones take bylines, but that’s natural for a student newspaper.

What has changed, as returning students are quick to note, is the Maroon’s design. The logo, which has seen many variations in the past, is a tribute to how it appeared during the 1910s: bold, clean, and classic. The layout follows this guide, taking on a more traditional and uniform structure. The section formerly known as as “Voices” will now take the name of what it carries – Arts. Our website has also been upgraded and modified to reflect some of the changes made in print. We hope you’ll enjoy the features that it allows us to implement, like video, online polls, and a unified blog section.

We look forward to the 20112012 academic year and all the excitement the University has to offer. As always, we’ll be the student publication to turn to for the latest in campus and local news. Any comments, criticism, and contributions are welcome and we hope to grow with your suggestions in mind.

“For the good of the University and its students,” —The Editors

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Med Center gets $45 million donation U of C pledges $1.7 bil to create Bucksbaum Institute

University signs agreement with city to spend $1.7 billion over the next five years, with focus on local jobs

Amy Myers Senior Editor

Carolyn Bucksbaum of the Bucksbaum Family Foundation is giving $42 million to the University of Chicago to create the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence.

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Sam Levine Associate News Editor The Matthew and Carolyn Bucksbaum Family Foundation will donate $42 million to the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) to create the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence, the foundation announced last Thursday.

The Bucksbaum Institute will work to improve doctor-patient communication by providing support and training for doctors from the beginning of medical school through their clinical work.

“This generous gift offers the opportunity to bring a new level of rigor to the study of the doctor-patient relationship and clinical judgment,” University President Robert Zimmer said in a September 22 press release.

“The Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence provides an important complement to the biological research and clinical strengths of this institution.”

The institute will provide participants with junior faculty and more experienced practicing clinicians as mentors, and offer electives on the doctor-patient relationship to students outside

the program, The New York Times reported on September 22.

The Bucksbaum Institute’s strong emphasis on a doctor’s bedside manner is novel in medical education. Dean of Medical Education Holly Humphrey told the New York Times that, seeing as approximately one in three Pritzker School of Medicine graduates goes on to work at an academic medical center, innovations from the Bucksbaum Institute will permeate medical care across the country.

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Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel announced at the end of August an agreement between the city and the University to speed existing development in Hyde Park and fund new projects.

The Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), which Emanuel called an “historic agreement,” focuses on local job creation and economic development on the south side.

New features outlined in the agreement include re-opening the Metra stop at East 60th Street, expanding the UCPD patrol areas on the south side, and the creation of a university position tasked with job creation.

In a press release, University President Robert Zimmer said the MOU “helps ensure that our investments and the city’s investments work together to help create a vibrant south side community.”

Many of the projects outlined in the MOU are pre-existing university initatives, like the Harper Court development, the new UCMC hospital pavilion, and the promotion of minority and women-owned businesses on campus.

The multi-year plan stemmed from informal talks between the mayor and university leaders

throughout the city. The U of C is the first major institution to announce such an agreement.

Though one major goal of the plan is increasing efficiency between the city and the university, all government processes will continue to be followed in the development plan.

Four aldermen in the area, Leslie Hairston, Will Burns, Willie Cochran and Pat Dowell, also shaped the MOU, alongside university officials and representatives from the mayor’s office.

The emphasis on job creation, university spokesperson Steve Kloehn said, was added at the urging of these local leaders.

Kloehn said that university students are already involved in the development projects confirmed by the MOU. Mark Hopwood, a philosophy graduate student and former leader of the Southside Solidarity Network (SSN), cautioned that money has already poured into the area without major results.

For example, he pointed to the “Model Cities” program in the 1960’s as a failed attempt at revitalizing Woodlawn.

“I think that what we need to learn from this is that unless local people have a real say in and real oversight over the way that money gets spent, this kind of thing will happen time and time again,” he wrote in an e-mail.

In the plan, the city commits MOU continued on page 6

Record yield rate leaves Controversy left behind undergrads in grad housing in housekeeping move Harunobu Coryne Associate News Editor This summer, administrators leapt into an eleventhhour expansion of undergraduate housing after it became apparent that the existing facilities could not accommodate the large incoming first-year class.

An entire floor of the New Graduate Residence Hall (NGRH), normally reserved for graduate students, was coopted for undergraduate use as the new Midway House when Director of University Housing Katie CallowWright, joined by other high-ranking administrators like Dean of Students Kim

Goff-Crews and Dean of the College Susan Art, realized in early July that the class of 2015 simply would not fit into last year’s residential housing system.

“The incoming class was not happening in the same way we expected,” CallowWright said, calling that moment of realization “the melt.”

“We were housing students who we didn’t expect to have,” she said. “At the time, [the NGRH] had capacity... to make up pretty much what we needed.”

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Rebecca Guterman Senior News Staff Administrators and unions reached an agreement this summer on the consolidation of housekeeping staff and buildings engineers into the Facilities Services department, concluding a protracted, and often fiery, series of negotiations that saw faculty, students, and workers erupt into open protest on more than one occasion.

The University moved approximately 70 people from its payroll to Facilities Services, a division which subcontracts out to custodial vendor ABM Industries Incorporated. Among the many changes were slight wage cuts and workweek extensions, adjustments to collective bargaining agreements, and the offering of severance packages to all employees who were either contracted out to ABM or chose to leave the University altogether.

“At the end, the administration realized we were right to say they could do something to help these people keep their jobs,” third-year Lizbeth Córdova said, herself a member of two activist groups that opposed the move. “[The workers] are still unionized, which is a big success on our part,” she said.

At South Campus Residence Hall, for example, eight of the original HOUSEKEEPERS continued on page 4

The University pledges $2.5 million to improve the 59th Street Metra and reopen the 60th Street station.

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Change I don’t believe in Feelings of disappointment in College arise from false expectations about personal development

By Peter Ianakiev Viewpoints Editor

Now that I’m finally a fourth-year, I’m afraid that I’ve taken to ponderously reflecting on my time at the U of C. For this one column, I hope you will pardon this impulse and allow me to talk about an emotion that underlies so much of college: Disappointment.

Certainly I hope that most of the people reading this have yet to become disillusioned with college and their education, but I am willing to bet that the feeling of disappointment will, sooner or later, rear its ugly head and cause everyone to ask him or herself uncomfortable questions about whether or not the U of C is what they hoped it would be. Perhaps many people

will say that it absolutely is, and that will be the end of that; but for those who will stop, think, and ashamedly admit that, no, it’s not quite what they hoped for, my best guess is that it has to do with a basic inability to feel oneself changing. Of course, this cannot describe everyone’s college experience, and it’s not meant to; there are millions of feasible reasons for why someone can be disappointed with college, but I think the one I’m about to describe is both common and important enough to merit discussion.

Speaking from personal experience, my hopes pre-college were that it would be a time of dramatic change for me. I imagined that after four years, I would just be significantly more intelligent, wiser, hell, even funnier.

Somehow, I imagined that college would be this radical restructuring of my personality, that it would allow me to flourish into a deeper, better person. I imagined that big changes, radical epiphanies, and self-discovery would characterize my college experience; instead, I mostly got large books and problem sets. Of course, if you know all along that that is what you’ll get, it’s not a problem at all. It is only a problem because of how colleges

are marketed to all of us; higher education is supposed to be this tremendous, life-changing four-year experience that makes a full-fledged adult out of you, at least according to all the college tours I went on in my junior and senior years of high school. Of course, as a senior I bought into all of it, and so I was in for a rude awakening when I finally realized that college simply was not going to be as advertised.

My classes have always been and continue to be interesting and rewarding, but that, unfortunately, is a far cry from what I was told they were going to be. When you’ve been told that you will radically change and that your classes will be these amazing Socratic experiences that destroy your worldview and re-make it into something more fundamentally sound and rigorous, interesting and rewarding just aren’t going to cut it.

I think the cure for the feeling of disappointment is to accept that change in ordinary life is not glamorous, spontaneous, or epic. It’s slow and gradual; it builds up over time. Epiphanies and revelations rarely succeed in actually changing us in the longterm; going to college and expecting to be

magically transformed into a mature adult is, unfortunately, a recipe for disappointment. And because meaningful change and maturation are slow processes, one almost never feels oneself changing, never realizes that he or she is actually very different now than two years before. It takes a fair amount of perspective and self-consciousness to realize precisely how one has changed throughout college.

A lot of these thoughts were inspired by a close friend of mine who remarked to me recently that one of the biggest changes that he had undergone in college was that he began to floss. Of course he was kidding, but there was an ounce of truth in the joke, because we have all been ingrained with the idea that college is a time for experimentation and trying new things—things slightly more exciting than flossing. For what it’s worth though, he actually has changed quite a bit; most of my friends from freshman year have changed a lot as well.

For what it’s worth, I think I have too.

Peter Ianakiev is a fourth-year in the College majoring in math.

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those who try to instigate it.

A former president of AEPi at the U of C wrote online that, in light of these events, he is embarrassed to call himself a graduate of the college.

This is ridiculous. I in no way underestimate the sensitivity of this issue. However, it is quite clear that Mearsheimer seeks to participate in intelligent debate over controversial topics. The US-Israel lobby, the relationship between Jewish identity and the Holocaust, Palestinian statehood—none of these issues are black and white. In fact the demarcation between fact and emotion is impossibly difficult to identify.

I think we should commend anyone who seeks to push the boundaries and uncover the difficult truths, particularly when the questions are so messy. I am not saying I agree with Mearsheimer’s opinions on these issues: I don’t even know all of them. But I don’t care. For probably the first time since coming to this University, the words “academic freedom” mean more to me than justifying questionable investment practices. Atzmon may very well be an anti-Semite, but John Mearsheimer is not.

Colin Bradley is a second-year in the College majoring in Law, Letters and Society.

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it, as a “new transit system.” Greater safety, in the form of more and better bike lanes, along with the reduced financial costs for occasional riders that the bike-share system will provide, should, hopefully, expand the role twowheeled transit plays in Chicagoland. The benefits, from safer streets to cleaner air and less traffic, are goods everyone can appreciate.

We, as city residents, and the University, which counts so many cyclists among its community members, need to push for continuing improvements to the streetscape both here in Hyde Park and across the city. Major arteries

in our neighborhood, such as 55th Street and Cottage Grove, are wide enough to accommodate protected lanes and should have them installed. Such efforts, duplicated across the city, could help put Chicago on the cutting edge of intelligent, environmentally-friendly urban policy and development in the United States. I’m still wobbly on my wheels, but it’s encouraging to see that “The City that Works” may be on its way to becoming “The City that Rides.”

David Kaner is a second-year in the College majoring in Law, Letters and Society.

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Goodman paints a vivid portrait of Rothko and son, artist and apprentice, though this dynamic is, thankfully, turned on its head before the end of the play. As Ken matures, so does Andrews’ acting style, and the conceptual nature of the play is brought to the fore.

The stage is a New York loft, fully transformed into Rothko’s studio. The play absorbs and accurately reflects Rothko’s paintings; the world of the stage is also fully inside this world, and isn’t formalist or stiff. Todd Rosenthal’s

RED Goodman Theatre Through October 30

(left to right) Rothko (Edward Gero) and his assistant (Patrick Andrews) chaotically prime a canvas.

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Jordan Larson Arts Editor Red, easily the most talked-about play of the fall, and possibly of this theater season, is wildly successful only in spite of itself. Made up of conversations between two characters who never leave their one room, Red is larger than the sum of its parts. A portrait of Mark Rothko

in his later years, the play is notable for taking on the world of painting; Red is a work of art ruminating on another work of art, while also ruminating on itself.

But despite its complexity, Goodman Theatre’s production resists pretension, delivering a nicely balanced take on generational and creative struggles.

The curtain opens onto Rothko’s New York City studio, the only room

in which we see our characters. Rothko (Edward Gero) is hard at work when Ken (Patrick Andrews), an especially juvenile young painter, walks in, bringing with him theatrical tension. Rothko is hard at work on his series of murals for the Four Seasons restaurant, and Ken becomes his eager assistant for over two years. The characters are a perfect embodiment of the classic relationship between father

stage design, while original and engaging on its own, also highlights Red’s conceptual aims. Though the play includes a deep character study, the play’s setting, late 1950s New York, is, in some ways, a much larger character than either Rothko or his assistant. Rothko’s relationship with his artistic climate is mirrored in the actor’s relationship with the audience and the diegetic lighting provided

by Rothko’s studio spotlights cooperates with the inclusion of the audience as one wall of the studio. Since Rothko’s works-in-progress are supposed to hang on the fourth wall of the stage, the actors are allowed to gaze into the audience under the guise of artistic pondering. At several points throughout the play, the

spotlights are trained on Rothko, creating multiple silhouettes and suggesting his multifaceted nature and his tremendous influence on his surroundings.

The play effectively represents Rothko’s painting by mirroring the concepts of his art; like abstract expressionism, Red is largely about movement and perception, despite the fact that the entire play takes place in a single, static setting. The immobility and security of the studio allow the paintings and their painters’ outbursts to have a greater effect; the drama lies in the colors and the shouts.

Predictably, the relationship between the two becomes more intense, representing both the individual struggle an artist must go through to create himself and the passage from one generation of artists to the next. The early parallels also become messier as Ken’s past is revealed, and he eventually emerges from his mousy demeanor to triumph over Rothko and his overbearing opinions.

However, the play isn’t about triumph but process. Just as Rothko’s vitality lies in the progression of his paintings, not in their completed state, Red must exist as a continuing ring of motion.

Like the swaths of red in Rothko’s paintings, the painters’ outbursts and breakdowns are what give the play life.

Though the play ends with Rothko forcing Ken to leave the studio, because his life is “out there,” all of life is also inside the few minutes and words of this play.

Space travel is possible with Van Kerckhoven’s art You can walk through Van Kerckhoven’s mind, but don’t touch Morgan McCarty Arts Staff As the leaves begin to change and the planets continue on their paths, so enters a new exhibition at the Renaissance Society. This fall, the Society puts on a generous and intriguing show of Belgian artist Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven, In a Saturnian World.

In the exhibit, Van Kerckhoven, with the help of curator Hamza Walker, brings different bodies of work together in a flowing conversation. In a Saturnian World provides a space in which the works orbit around each other to find a new sphere of influence, a result of Van Kerckhoven’s never having had to choose between writing and making art. The show is a major conglomeration of drawings, videos, a couple of interactive computer animations, paintings, and mixed media works. It marks the first time Van Kerckhoven has shown such a mixing and matching of works. There is, literally, a little bit of everything for everyone.

Immediately noticeable is a disrupted space nestled between the white walls and skylights of the Renaissance Society’s lofted haven.

Within the space stand constructed walls halved by color blocking, the dividing line broken by hanging pictures. There are video screens displaying the animated versions of Van Kerckhoven’s paintings, drawings, and collages hidden on the backsides of gallery walls. Turn a corner and

find a new set or piece of work waiting for you, and then wander back to discover a new perspective on a set of pieces you thought you had already worked out. All the while, an eerie, two-toned guitar melody echoes around the gallery space from some unknown corner.

IN A SATURNIAN WORLD The Renaissance Society Through December 18

It’s a meticulously set-up and constructed show that immediately presents itself as unconventional through its layout and design. Furthermore, the highly graphic way in which the pieces hang on the walls reflects the manner in which Van Kerckhoven works. Each of the walls (filled with more than one work of art) is conceived as a composition in its own right. Originally trained as a graphic artist at the Royal Academy of Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, Van Kerckhoven is the product of a community of artists, scientists, linguists, and musicians, and her work certainly reflects it. Quotes come from all corners of the mass-media saturated world—books, notes that she’s taken over the years and stored for artistic use, and images from Soviet softporn magazines.

Images of Saturn, repeated throughout the exhibit, are repre-

sentative of Van Kerckhoven’s recent observation of the image’s proliferation in mass media. For Van Kerckhoven, Saturn is seen as representing the nature of the anamorphic, relating to benevolent spirits and the working-through of a transgression of the erotic. Each of these elements is present in the exhibition in various collages, montages, drawings, paintings and graphic prints.

Looking at a piece of her work can feel like jumping off a diving board into a pool filled with water from both the conscious and unconscious parts of Van Kerckhoven’s mind. The mass media images of women and building interiors are laid against text reflecting the kinetic and transformative power of language. The relationship between image and text, whether stagnant or moving, becomes a conversation and comment on sociocultural notions while also addressing forms of transgression and transformation.

Van Kerckhoven is creating artwork that produces an effect on the viewer, hopefully in a psychological manner, but quite possibly also in a sexual, emotional, sociological, or political manner. In a Saturnian World is a frantic exploration of the limits of Van Kerckhoven’s work, purposefully repetitive and overwhelming. Because the inspiration and the very material with which she works is rooted in society’s everchanging realm, there is no limit. It just keeps going, existing in a plastic,

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subliminally charged universe, parallel to our own dynamic society and never resolving itself.

In a Saturnian World is a multilevel exhibit that operates in a mosaic-like manner, in that each piece determines and represents the whole, while the whole determines and represents each piece. The exhibit is visually balanced yet unexpected, mystic yet realistic, a constantly circulating beast that continuously and productively questions itself.

Want to really get inside Van Kerckhoven’s head? You can do so by operating “Pluriform I and II” on the user-friendly interface featured on the Renaissance Society’s website.

A projector in the gallery space will stream the adventure of whoever is scrolling through the virtual version of Van Kerckhoven’s self-described “mind-map.” If no one is perusing, the application is programmed to wander through its various realms, waiting and thinking.

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Clybourne Park examines a house divided Ben Sigrist Arts Staff Somewhere between 61st and 63rd Street there is an invisible line. Although many treat it like an electric fence, most U of C students have crossed it painlessly. But even if some of us make a point to never venture near it, we all know it is there. Is it primarily a socioeconomic barrier, a racial barrier, or a juvenile fear?

Whatever we call it, it is not unique to Hyde Park. Our city, famous for its urban planning, is also famous for its pantheon of divided neighborhoods that can each be “historic”, “desirable”, or “troubled” depenading on who you talk to. Each of these loaded adjectives is eventually applied to the fictional Chicago neighborhood in Steppenwolf ’s Clybourne Park, a recent Pulitzer Prize winner written

by Bruce Norris and now directed by Amy Morton. Clybourne Park covers a 50-year span of ups and downs, both personal and societal, all stuffed into a single house.

The play’s big issue at its 1959 outset is the entry of a black family into the all-white town of Clybourne. Russ ( John Judd) and Bev (Kirsten Fitzgerald) are looking to get rid of their house, the site of their son Kenneth’s unspeakable, but well-known death, in a hurry.

While their black housekeeper Francine (Karen Aldrige) fusses over the packing under Bev’s watchful eye, there are simultaneous visits from the preacher Jim (Brendan Marshall Rashide) and neurotic home-owner’s-association-type Karl (Cliff Chamberlain). The former offers unwanted spiritual guidance to a troubled Russ and the latter comes to pester about the “color” of the home’s new owners. Between these two intrusions, Russ faces more than enough prying to make his emotional journey from affable and stubborn to wrathful and unpredictable.

John Judd does admirable work in this role

that is less about its angry explosions and more about the slow accretion of old suffering and the agonizing reopening of psychic wounds.

Fast-forward 50 years and, via the magic of recasting, we have a new set of characters dealing with the same house and largely the same issues. Disturbingly enough, the frenzied fears of racist Karl have come to pass.

In the intervening years Clybourne Park has become a predominantly black community, and apparently acquired that kind of unsavory reputation that is usually not rooted in specific experience, but rather floats around in some collective unconscious.

CLYBOURNE PARK Steppenwolf Theatre Through November 6

While Steppenwolf ’s designers have been known to produce astounding set changes mid-scene (like a disappearing house in a set designed by Lisa D’Armour and Todd Rosenthal’s kaleidoscopic walls in A Parallelogram) the shift to the second act’s set is no less precise or enchanting for occurring behind the veil of intermission. The house now bears some marks of the neighborhood’s nasty reputation: Graffiti on dilapidated walls, a dead backyard tree, and other pronounced signs of slow decline. But the set, another one of Rosenthal’s, also suggests the possibility of renewal in the bits of construction equipment laying about, just waiting to go to work on peeling facades and doorless entryways. The new owners and expecting parents Steve (Cliff Chamberlain reprising, in a way, his other character’s monumental lack of tact) and Lindsey (Stephanie Childers, who also plays Karl’s deaf wife) are attracted by a perceived

(front to back) Francine (Karen Aldridge), Karl (Cliff Chamberlain) and Betsy (Stephanie Childers) are at the heart of the drama in Clybourne Park, written by Bruce Norris and directed by ensemble member Amy Morton.

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turnaround in Clybourne, a change that might be championed as urban renewal or maybe denigrated as gentrification.

It’s tempting to contrast the classically 50s compulsion to discretion and propriety in act one with act two’s more open expression. As it quickly becomes clear, such a distinction is modern myth, one that Norris explodes with grim glee. Steve and Lindsey are holding a homeowners’ meeting to discuss planned renovations with Kevin ( James Vincent

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Meredith, who also plays Francine’s husband Albert) and Lena (the marvelously magnetic Karen Aldrige), whose aunt bought the property from Russ and Bev. The deferential tones and polite overtures do not take long to devolve into calamitous misunderstandings and a tortuous but hilarious scene where a few characters swap their most offensive jokes. Although Norris’ humor breaks up the unfolding drama, it is a credit to his writing that the comedy never lightens the tension, turning the screw tighter and tighter on a scene that’s already fit to burst with discomfort.

Race returns as a big problem and it turns out that fifty years have done very little for everyone’s ability to talk about it. In a sorely lopsided exchange from act one, Jim and Karl virtually interrogate Francine about her way of life to highlight the impossibility of interracial coexistence in Clybourne. In act two, the black voices are able to speak more freely, which does seem like progress, but the discussion provokes conflicts as vicious and upsetting as in 1959.

So where does that leave us? Is the thoroughly modern individual still constrained by fundamental inequalities and the oppressive atmosphere of political correctness, doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past? Probably, but it gets so much worse than that. Norris could have let his script ride this sobering continuity between past and present but he takes a daring leap off that path at the last second. In the center of his cyclic tragedy lies an unexplainable sorrow, something that cannot be apprehended even though it seems to (and literally sometimes does) sit in the middle of the room. This impenetrable sadness hints at not only a lack of progress, but also at an inevitable loss accumulating with each step forward and every word spoken. As time moves on, what gets left behind might be more disturbing than what stays the same.

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Friday | September 30 Restore your faith in people and in the cinema this Friday night at Doc’s screening of Manhattan, the first in a retrospective series honoring director Woody Allen. There will be romance, a city that exists perennially in black and white and, of course, Diane Keaton. (Max Palevsky Cinema (1212 East 59th Street, 7 p.m., 9 p.m., 11 p.m., $5)

Saturday | October 1 The Backyard Film & Music Festival is being held at the Wicker Park Art Center this year, but just three years ago the event was still taking place in an actual backyard and the films were projected onto a bed sheet. That’s one way you know it’s actually good. Need another? Sixteen films in four hours during the day and a concert-turnedafter-party at Viaduct Theatre at night. (2215 West North Avenue, 2–6 p.m., $10–20)

Sunday | October 2 Celebrate (and consume) all things apple at the Long Grove Apple Festival. There you can enjoy the bounty of fall in the form of apple cider donuts, apple pie, apple martinis, and more.

(Lake-Cook Road, Long Grove, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., $2)

Monday | October 3 Former Supreme Court justice and U of C alum (make that undergraduate English major) John Paul Stevens is speaking at the International

House. You’ve read his legal opinions (maybe): now witness him express his more personal opinions on five Supreme Court justices—the very same ones, in fact, that are featured in his book Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir. (1414 East 59th Street, 6–7 p.m., free)

Tuesday | October 4 Stop by the newly rebuilt Poetry Foundation for bilingual readings by American poets Li-Young Lee and Maurice Kilwien Guevara and Zhou Zan and Xi Chuan, two of China’s most prestigious poets. (61 West Superior Street, 7 p.m., free) The invasion begins today as Humans vs.

Zombies kicks off its week-long mission in the interest of public safety and fun. (All day, $2–5)

Wednesday | October 5 Professor Tim Harrison (Department of Near and Middle East Civilizations, University of Toronto) sheds light on one of history’s many “Dark Ages” in his discussion of excavations at Tell Tayinat, Turkey. (Oriental Institute, 1155 East 58th Street, 7 p.m., free)

Thursday | October 6 The Naked and Famous, an indie band from New Zealand famous for its 2010 single “Young Blood,” is performing at Metro. However, you will have to go to the concert to discover how literally they take their claim of nudity. (3730 North Clark Street, 8 p.m., $18)

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School Case Western Carnegie Chicago Washington (Mo.)

Rank 1 2 3 4 5

Athlete Erik Olson Rob Kalkstein Dan Burkett Vincent Cortina Adam Banks

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Athlete Patricks Blanks Jake Nardone Manny Sicre Francis Adarkwa Chris Castelluccio

Rank 1 2 3 4 5

Athlete Dee Brizzolara Easton Knott Bryan Metlesitz Sean Lapcevic Alexander Lum

Win % .667 .500 8 4

Record 2–1 (0–0) 2–2 (0–0) 2–2 (0–0) 2–2 (0–0)

Maroons keep momentum heading into UAA play

Passing Yard Leaders School Case CMU WashU UC WashU

Total Yards 491 434 417 413 300

Rushing Yard Leaders School CMU CMU Case UC WashU

Total Yards 387 317 226 264 210

Receiving Yard Leaders School UC WashU Case Case CMU

Total Yards 315 244 212 114 106

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Win % .889 .778 .750 .750 .750 .562 .562 .500

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School Emory Washington (Mo.) Case Western New York Rochester Carnegie Mellon Chicago Brandeis

Record 8–0–1 (0–0) 9–1–0 (0–0) 6–1–2 (0–0) 7–2–0 (0–0) 5–2–0 (0–0) 6–3–0 (0–0) 5–3–0 (0–0) 4–5–0 (0–0)

Win % .994 .900 .778 .778 .714 .667 .625 .444

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School Washington (Mo.) Emory Chicago Case Western New York Rochester Carnegie Mellon Brandeis

Conference 14–0 (0–0) 17–1 (0–0) 16–1 (0–0) 11–4 (0–0) 12–6 (0–0) 12–6 (0–0) 10–6 (0–0) 7–7 (0–0)

Last Week 1.000 .944 .941 .773 .667 .667 .625 .500

Fourth-year midfielder Alan Pikna chases a loose ball against North Park. Pikna has scored three goals this year.

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Men’s Soccer Vicente Fernandez Senior Sports Writer It has been nearly a month since the men’s soccer team (5–1–2) has lost a match. It has also been nearly a month since the men’s soccer team played its first game.

Since losing their season opener to Dominican, the Maroons have not looked back.

They had been almost perfect, heading into Tuesday night’s game against North Park with a 5–0–2 record since their first loss.

The Vikings had gained a little more notoriety for their efforts, being ranked eighth in the country heading into the match.

So for the Maroons, Tuesday was a test.

It was a game that would challenge their growth against one of the nation’s best teams, and it was an opportunity to make a statement on a national level and to prove that their early season success was here to stay.

Most importantly, though, Tuesday night was the Maroon’s last obstacle in keeping their momentum and seven-game unbeaten streak alive before hitting UAA play.

Tuesday’s result was a 1–1 tie, but even without adding to the win’s column, all of the above goals were met.

“North Park was ranked highly in the region and in the nation, so a tie was a decent result for us,” fourth-year midfielder and defender Rashad Masri said. “We felt like we played well enough to win the game against the best team we’ve played so far.”

From the kick off North Park was out to back its reputation, scoring in just under the seventh minute of play. The goal came from a shot by fourth-year Kris Grahn on an assist from second-year Robin Hals. The ball was buried in the left side of the net.

It did not take long for Chicago to respond with an equalizer. In the game’s twenty-eighth minute, North Park was given a yellow card and the chips were laid out for fourth-year Stanton Coville.

Coville delivered as he has done so many times over his career, beaming the direct kick into the top right corner of the goal.

The kick tied up the game, where it stayed for the remainder of the match despite double over time.

The goal was Coville’s fourth of the season and the 24th of his career, moving him

into third place among Chicago’s all-time scoring leaders.

Yet, Masri believes the result was possible because of the team effort.

“Our midfielders and forwards did a very good job passing the ball well and countering them with a lot of speed,” he said.

This upfront play coupled with eight saves by first-year goalkeeper Elek Lane provided what the Maroons needed to hold off North Park.

The Maroon’s next match is even bigger than their last. Chicago opens up its conference schedule on Saturday, Oct. 1, at Stagg Field against Emory (4–4). That game will begin their chase for a UAA title and continue their journey for a spot in the national rankings and the playoffs.

“The team is happy to be off to a good start with a 5–1–2 record, but we also know that with our UAA schedule beginning, our games become increasingly more difficult and meaningful,” third-year midfielder Garrett Laird said. “Our game against Emory on Saturday is a great chance to avenge a loss from last season and start off conference play with a win against a perennially strong opponent.”

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Following tough loss, Chicago attempts to rebound Football Daniel Lewis Senior Sports Writer Following a crushing 42-point defeat by 15th-ranked Wabash, the Maroons will head out on the road to take on unranked Ohio Wesleyan this weekend. Chicago is 2–2 after the loss and desperately needs victories if they want to make the playoffs this season.

However, although the Maroons are down, they believe they have the talent and the drive to regroup and fix the mental mistakes that plagued them against Wabash.

“Each and every player needs to execute their individual job. We do not need to be superman. As long as we do what we are asked, our talent will do the rest,” said second-year running back Ian Gaines.

“This week brings a challenge, but we are all confident in our ability to improve significantly,” said third-year defensive lineman Nick Ross, who leads the defense in sacks.

For Chicago, the difference between a

win and a loss might depend on whether or not the team is able to focus on the play at hand and leave bad plays behind them.

“We need to execute better than we did last week. We blew a lot of assignments on both sides of the ball and that can’t happen this week,” said leading receiver and thirdyear Dee Brizzolara, who scored the team’s lone touchdown on Saturday.

“Mentally, we need to play an A game,” said head coach Dick Maloney. “We just need to focus on one play at a time and avoid getting caught up in too much emotion after a big play. We need to stop that roller-coaster.”

At 1–3, Ohio Wesleyan is not an especially daunting opponent, as the Battling Bishops have been outscored by 43 points over their first four games this season. Still, the Maroons will have to improve in all areas in order to notch their third victory of the season.

“We are going to need all components of our team functioning well to win the game this week,” said fourth-year Matt Sargent, who had a sack on Saturday to tie for the team lead. “We need to reduce turnovers on

offense and scores against us on special teams.

The defense needs to come out firing on all cylinders or we could face an early deficit.”

The Maroons realize that their playoff hopes rely on winning the rest of their games this season. They currently sit a half game back of Carnegie Mellon in the conference standings, but because they don’t have an automatic playoff bid, there is no guarantee that they will make the playoffs, even if they do run the table.

“We feel like this game and the rest of the season are all must win games,” said secondyear quarterback Vincent Cortina. “I think if every player goes out there this week and does their job, we will come together and put forth a winning effort.”

“The playoffs are the furthest thing from my mind right now,” said Coach Maloney.

“We can only focus on one game at a time.

It’s their homecoming and they’re celebrating a new stadium so they’re going to be ready to play. We need to make sure we come prepared too.”

Chicago will take on Ohio Wesleyan in Delaware, Ohio this Saturday at 1 p.m.

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Athlete-exclusive travel grants could alleviate fund-raising burden ABROAD continued from back

above the stereotypical, and this should hold for all students, regardless of whether or not they participate in a sport. Athletes are students just like any other, and, as such, should be allowed the same opportunities.

The dilemma lies in the enormous commitment that is required of those who participate in sports. A male basketball player can’t study abroad in the winter because otherwise he misses an entire season. Men’s and women’s soccer compete not only in the fall, but in the spring as well. Runners who compete in both cross country and track and field are in season year round. Even in the offseason, athletes seldom take too long of a break. No athlete takes his or her sports commitment lightly.

So when are these student-athletes—and notice that student comes first –supposed to get their invaluable study abroad experience?

A good answer, although understandably not an ideal one, lies in athletic trips abroad. Since 1997, 18 teams have traveled to countries around the world, going to places as exotic as Costa Rica and as far away as Japan and Australia. Several teams have gone to Europe, and the women’s soccer team in particular has been to Italy four times now, the first time being in 1999 and the latest trip being just this past summer. Even club teams are getting into the mix— the rowing team just got

back Monday from a trip to Paris.

These trips don’t replace study abroad, and never could. Study abroad trips allow students to immerse themselves completely in a culture for two to three months, while athletic trips abroad last a little longer than a week. They’re not the best substitute, but we’re lucky that the university provides athletes an avenue to go abroad without missing any training.

Chicago is unique in its commitment to sending teams abroad, and is one of the best universities in the country at doing so. An NCAA restriction only allows the athletic department to fund travel every three years, and our soccer teams have been traveling every four—it’s hard to make the case that our teams aren’t traveling enough, and that’s certainly not what I’m trying to say here. If there’s one aspect of our athletic trips abroad program that could be improved, it’s the funding.

To pay for their recent trip to Italy, each member of the women’s soccer team had to pay $500 out of pocket. In addition to that, each player had to sell ten raffle tickets at $100 each, the prize of the raffle being a chance at a $3,000 dollar pot. That amounts to $1,500 for each athlete. Additionally, each girl had to work a certain number of hours during last year at various sporting events. That is a lot of time and money for athletes to spend for a trip that non-student athletes get to enjoy

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“We need solid defense, which we have had recently, aggressive offense, consistent serve [returns], and aggressive serving,” Belak said about the recipe for success. “We have great momentum going into the tournament and I believe this team is capable of greatness.”

The Maroons will face steep competition come Saturday morning when they face the UAA defending champion Emory team that is on a

16-game win streak and has been laying waste to opponents across the country for the past month.

Chicago will encounter similarly strong teams in conference rivals Case Western and Rochester.

Walby admits, “Our conference is getting more and more competitive and we should have our hands full with every single match.” But if Chicago is able to triumph in these midseason tests, they will be favorites for the UAA championship, and then how sweet will be the barrens of winter.

for comparatively less. By comparison, it costs students only $4,000 additional dollars to spend a full quarter abroad with the Civ program.

The athletic department already funds a large portion of the trips abroad, and according to athletic director Tom Weingartner, roughly three quarters of the women’s soccer trip was paid for from the athletics department, in large part through the Edith Ballwebber Fund, an endowed account specifically made to fund women’s athletic programs abroad. Complete funding, according to Weingartner, is withheld on purpose: “It’s important that they’re invested, they take ownership of [the trip abroad], and work towards it,” he said.

For the most part, I agree with this sentiment.

I don’t think the trip should be entirely funded by the athletic department, but at the same time, I don’t think our athletes should be required to foot a $1,500 bill for a nine day trip to Italy when other students are paying $4,000 for a much more expansive experience. There’s no easy solution, but I think a reasonable one would be to allow student-athletes to apply for grants similar to FLAG grants, available exclusively to athletes, which would help pay for their trips abroad. The money could be provided through alumni donations (for the most part, athletes sell their raffle tickets to alumni anyways, so this could simplify

the process), or could be taken out of funds used for other study abroad programs. Applying for a grant would still give the athletes ownership over the program, as they’ll have to work through a rigorous application process, while still allowing them to pay for their trip. Applying for a grant, even one requiring a lot of work, takes much less time than working countless hours at track meets and asking alumni to buy raffle tickets.

By all indications, the trips seem to be worth it. “It took four or five days into our preseason Italy trip [to bond] to the same point it took us a month to get to last year,” said second-year Claire Mackevicius. Head women’s soccer coach Amy Reifert also attested to the importance of the trip for her team.

“The whole reason to go abroad is for a shared experience and for the team bonding that you get from traveling in a foreign country. There’s nothing you can do here to replicate sharing everyone jumping into bluest water you’ve ever seen in Capri.” The bonding experience seems to help— the last three seasons Chicago has gone abroad have been successful ones.

Studying abroad at Chicago is easier than at almost any other university, and all students, athletes or not, should get the opportunity to get that experience without sacrificing their full commitment to the extracurricular activities they love.

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championship season of last year.

“We have a lot to live up to because we are last year’s UAA champs, and the [Maroons] have never won back to back years,” fourth-year defender Maggie Tobin said. “We would love to make history and seal our spot in the [NCAA D-III national] tournament.”

The Maroons hope this match leads to a

great start in the conference season.

“We have an extremely young team this year, but everyone has stepped up to the plate and filled big shoes,” Tobin said.

“We are going to focus on ourselves in the conference, and as long as our team plays passionately and smartly, we can beat any team out there.”

The Maroons play this Saturday at Stagg field at 1:30 p.m.

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—Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon, after hearing that the Tampa Bay Rays had beaten the New York Yankees, edging Boston for the AL wildcard by a single game. Boston held a 8.5 game lead earlier this month.

South Siders win fifth straight entering conference play Volleyball Charles Fang Senior Sports Writer In the twilight of summer days and the looming darkness of fall, there still resides a smoldering supernova in the northern hemisphere. That star is the volleyball squad, which continued its torrid pace in defeating WisconsinLutheran on Wednesday.

The 16th-ranked Chicago side (16–1) cruised to a fifth straight win with the tantalizing straight-set victory, 25–19, 25–22, 25–22, over a middling Wisconsin Lutheran (9–9) team. In the course of collecting their 16th win, the Maroons also stopped Lutheran’s sixgame win streak, a stretch that demonstrated the deceptive quality of the visitors.

The Warriors from the north came into the match with the explicit strategy of employing finesse shots to combat the overpowering skill and depth of the Maroons.

“They were certainly a tough team to play,” fourth-year Colleen Belak said.

“Not necessarily because they were an extremely strong team, but because of the often sloppy swings they sent over the net.”

“It was a hard team to play against because they sent balls over the net we weren’t expecting—mis-hits to corners or into the middle of the court,” thirdyear Katie Trela explained. “Those shots are hard to read because not even the hitter knows what’s going to come off

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win on our home court,” second-year Nikki DelZenero said. This is also the Maroons fifth straight win at home and the team has been a staunch 22–4 at Ratner Athletic Center since the 2008 season.

“The game against WisconsinLutheran was a great win to get going into conference play,” Belak said.

The Maroons are optimistic for the UAA round-robin in St. Louis this weekend, and Wednesday’s win was definitely a confidence-booster. During the trip Chicago will face strong teams from fourth-ranked Emory, Case Western, and Rochester.

Traveling abroad can be a wonderful experience, and luckily, more and more Chicago students are being given the chance to see firsthand what it is like to live in another country. The opportunities are plentiful—between FLAG grants, Civ programs, and a bevy of Chicago-affiliated institutions and programs across the world, there are many ways for students to take advantage of study abroad opportunities. However, there is one very distinct group of students that is continually unable to enjoy the study abroad experience to its fullest capacity: Varsity athletes.

Associating “disadvantaged” with “varsity athlete” might seem a bit oxymoronic. The stereotype is of the pampered athlete, who is allowed to breeze through classes, getting preferential treatment by professors and fellow students. Chicago, however, prides itself on being an “uncommon” institution

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ABROAD continued on page 15

Isis Smalls (#12) goes for a kill against Wisconsin-Lutheran on Wednesday. Chicago won 3–0.

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her hand in those cases.”

“Our blockers stayed disciplined and set up a strong block, which forced Wisconsin-Lutheran to resort to tipping and using other shots,” second-year Morgan Clark said. “Our net presence forced them to alter their plan of attack, which ultimately put us in control of the match and allowed us to play our style of game.”

Because of the Warriors’ unusual tactics, the Maroons’ strong play at the net ironically resulted in diminished numbers defensively for the Chicago side, with the team achieving only one block compared to Wisconsin’s nine and a half. The record on defensive digs was

more favorable to the Chicago narrative, with the Maroons superior, 26–19.

On the offensive side, Clark led with seven kills as Chicago nearly doubled Wisconsin’s total, 42–22. Four other Maroons collected four kills each, including fourth-year Isis Smalls, who hit an emphatic winner in the decisive third set to put the game out of reach.

“We have been trying to focus on terminating the ball more in practice,” head coach Vanessa Walby said. “Our team had a lot of opportunities last night to see the open spots on the floor and make good shot selections for kills.” “[We] felt pretty good about that game, and it was great to get another

Maroons’ final preparation for UAA opener ends in loss Women’s Soccer Alexander Sotiropoulos Associate Sports Editor In what was a game of ups and downs, the former prevailed as the 20th ranked Chicago (5–3–0) fell to third-ranked Wheaton

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College (9–0–0) 2–1 in Tuesday’s match up at home. The Maroons look to regain composure in their UAA opener against Emory this Saturday.

Going into the match against Wheaton, the South Siders were looking forward to play a top D-III caliber team.

Second-year defender Katie Dana dribbles up the pitch Tuesday against Wheaton. The Thunder are ranked third in the country.

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“I was excited because it’s always fun for me to play what people consider to be the best teams,” first-year foward Sara Kwan said. “I knew that our team is as good as any other team whenever we play well, and I was focused on just playing my best and putting in my best effort.”

In the first half, the Maroons efforts on the defensive end were put to the test. Wheaton out-shot the South Siders 7–4.

But Chicago capitalized on their few opportunities on the offensive side.

With just under 34 minutes played in the half, a throw-in by second-year Beatrice Hobson landed on the feet of Kwan. Kwan outran her defender and surged in to the top corner of Wheaton’s box, about 10 yards away from the goal.

Kwan crossed the ball perfectly to second-year forward Kat Konstantinoff, who punched the ball in for the only score of the half.

With the halftime score being 1–0, the Maroons were primed to upset one of the best teams in the country.

“I was pretty confident that we were going to hold our lead because we were playing well, but I knew that if we lost focus that we could potentially lose the game,” Kwan said.

The second half did not start off on the right foot for Chicago.

Only five minutes in, Wheaton’s Jamie Orewiler scored an unassisted goal inside of the box.

Ten minutes later, with just under 30 minutes remaining in the match, Wheaton’s Annie Hamilton shot a ball off the post and past the arms of the Maroons fourth-year goalkeeper Emma Gormley.

The shot proved to be the game winner.

Kwan believes that her prediction about focus before halftime determined the course of the second half.

“Throughout the second half, we were playing well, but I feel like we lost some of the intensity that we had in the first half,” she said. “I think that we lost some focus throughout some of the game, and I feel like that is the reason we gave up two goals.”

For Saturday’s UAA opener against Emory, the Maroons plan to play the same way they did the entire first half against Wheaton.

“On Saturday, we plan to play the same way we are playing but with greater intensity and more focus,” Kwan said.

Fourth-ranked Emory boasts an undefeated 6–0–1 record, with only one goal allowed in seven games.

Yet, both teams have a lot on the line. Emory hopes to remain undefeated, and the Maroons want to defend their UAA W. SOCCER continued on page 15

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | September 30, 2011

Burgers, peanuts inaugurate Harper Court Noah Weiland News Staff Burger-lovers: go north no longer. Five Guys Burgers and Fries, the latest newcomer to Harper Court, opened a new location at the retail hub on East 53rd Street and Harper Avenue earlier this month.

The greasy spoon franchise, which has ballooned to over 750 outlets in 25 years, is known for its towering, double-pattied burgers that can be ordered in over 250,000 equally messy ways—and served up with a damp sack of hand-cut fries or a scoop of unshelled peanuts.

Students have been raving about the new fare, which offers a reprieve from the gauntlet of Thai food restaurants on nearby 55th Street and the local glut of Subway sandwich shops, but many students are even happier about the location. “Last year, I would drive up to Lincoln Park with friends to the Five Guys there, so having one within walkable distance makes it so much easier to get good food,� fourth-year Belfor Arichavala said. (The walking might have a few added benefits—a typical Five Guys cheeseburger weighs in at 840 calories.)

“It could definitely become a hangout kind of place.�

The Five Guys branch is the first in a series of retail outlets proposed by the University to commercialize new buildings in the Harper Court complex. A hotel, movie theater, gym, and 24-hour diner are also scheduled to open in the same area. “We decided to bring Five Guys to Hyde Park as our inaugural tenant due to their sound business plan and devoted nationwide following,� James Hennessy, the University’s director of commercial real estate, said.

Hennessy said that the 53rd Street commercial corridor is important because of its potential to “improve the quality of life for the South Side of Chicago.� Hennessy added that the University’s mission is to return the area to its days as “a major retail thoroughfare in Hyde Park.�

Fourth-year Carissa Aranda said she believes that Five Guys’ success will help beef up Harper Court and attract new restaurants. “Hyde Park is thirsting for dining options, and once other places see the success here, they’ll want to come,� she said. “You used to have to go downtown or to the North Side to get something good to eat, but now we can stay

Kitchen staff at the recently-opened burger restaurant Five Guys prepared dinner for customers Thursday evening.

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right in the neighborhood.� “We have received several comments from students and area residents stating that they are pleased with the restaurant, its staff, and its hours,� Hennessy said. “The overall reaction from the community has been extremely

positive.�

Vegetarians cowed by the prospect of a new meat mecca in Hyde Park are free to venture inside, provided they are content with doublefisting grilled cheese sandwiches and cups of roasted legumes.

Fourth Suspect Convicted in ’07 Cisse Murder Giovanni Wrobel Senior News Staff Demetrius Warren, 21, the fourth of five suspects involved in the 2007 murder of graduate student Amadou Cisse, was convicted of armed robbery and aggravated discharge of a firearm. Sentencing is pending until October 4th, but State Attorney Mark Shlifka expects that Warren’s attorney will seek a continuance to delay the decision.

Warren could receive up to 80 years in prison for shooting Cisse in the chest four years ago. Benjamin Williams, who was also convicted in the Cisse murder, has already been sentenced to 41 years in prison—35 years for the murder and an additional six years for armed robbery charges.

Last November, Jamal Bracey received a thirty-five–year sentence after pleading guilty to his role in the murder. Another defendant, Eric Walker, the driver of the vehicle used in the crime spree, agreed to testify against Warren in exchange for 20 years in prison. The fifth and final suspect involved in the murder has not been to trial, and Shilfka said he believes the person was merely a passenger and unaware of the crimes the other four were committing.

Cisse was a 29-year-old graduate chemistry student from Senegal. He died from a gun shot wound to the chest in November of 2007, near the corner of East 61st street and South Ellis Avenue. He had already defended his dissertation and was less than a month away from receiving his Ph.D. Cisse was awarded the degree posthumously, and since the year of his murder, violent crime in the Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Woodlawn neighborhoods has decreased dramatically.

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University mourns death of two Mandeep Bedi, 23

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Jonathan Lai News Editor & Sam Levine Associate News Editor

Friends and family of the late Mandeep Bedi created a graffiti wall filled with messages and artwork in his honor at a memorial event on Sep 1.

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Sam Levine Associate News Editor Mandeep Bedi (A.B. ’10), who wrote his senior honors thesis on American graffiti and taught Chicago high school students about the politics of soccer and contemporary freedom of speech, died from his injuries last month just days after being struck by a car. He was 23.

Bedi, who graduated with a degree in anthropology, worked in the IT Services and Solution Center, where he was known for always offering a warm cup of coffee to new customers. For those who knew him in May house in Max Palevsky, he was known to be unrelenting in his loyalty for the English soccer team Arsenal.

But on August 19, Bedi and his wife Elizabeth, a fourth-year in the college, were driving down East Garfield Boulevard in Washington Park when an altercation broke out with another driver. Bedi and his wife were struck by the other vehicle and taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital, the Chicago SunTimes reported. Elizabeth was treated for minor injuries, and Bedi died six days later.

The incident is currently being investigated as a homicide by the Chicago

Police Department.

Students were notified of Bedi’s death in a college-wide e-mail from Dean of Students Susan Art on August 30.

“He will be sorely missed,” Art wrote in the e-mail.

On September 1, friends and family joined Elizabeth to remember her husband’s life. A temporary graffiti wall was erected on Bartlett Quad, where participants drew symbols in remembrance of Bedi’s love for the art form. The wall was then put on display and surrounded by photos of the Bedis in Rockefeller Chapel, where some of Bedi’s favorite artists blasted from his iPod. Elizabeth delivered a eulogy for her husband, sharing her first memories of him.

“The night of Mandeep’s final South Asian Student Association dance show, I leaned over to my roommate and said, ‘I’m going to marry that man,’” she said.

“Since we met, our life has been a fairy tale.”

Matthias Dean-Carpentier (S.B.’10), who was the best man at Bedi’s wedding, told the audience that Bedi could talk his way out of any situation, including an incident when someone reported Mandeep walking around in his trademark black puffy coat in 80 degree

weather.

“Mandeep had a way with words. He never said anything simply, but by the end of it you had his thesis and more points of evidence than you’d need,” Dean-Carpenter said.

Professor John Kelly, one of Bedi’s most influential professors, was unable to attend the ceremony, but submitted a statement praising Bedi’s intellectual curiosity.

“Mandeep reveled in thinking along with other students rather than trying to distinguish himself from everyone else. He had the kind of intelligence that was there to help others,” Kelly said in a statement that was read by Russell Tuttle, Director of the Anthropology Department.

After the memorial service, Elizabeth Bedi led participants, all dressed in bright colors that denote mourning in Bedi’s Sikh tradition, on a walk to Promotory Point. During the memorial service, Elizabeth Bedi remembered the happiness that seemed to radiate from her husband.

“He never stopped dancing, ever,” Elizabeth said in her eulogy. “Even now I know he’s dancing.”

—Additional reporting by Christina Pillsbury

Described by friends as loyal, caring, and outgoing, rising second-year Morgan Buerkett died July 24 when her family’s single-engine plane crashed shortly after taking off from Rantoul Airport near Champaign, IL. Morgan was in the Piper with her father Jon, 56, mother Dana, 47, and two family dogs when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff. According to Rantoul Police Chief Paul Farber, the police received a phone call around 9:21 from someone driving by the scene.

Police and firefighters arrived on the scene about a quarter mile from Rantoul Airport to find the plane in an open field, with downed power lines surrounding it.

Two federal agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board, are currently investigating the crash.

RantoulAirportmanagerBillClayton confirmed that Jon Buerkett kept his plane there and that the flight had been scheduled properly. Preliminary reports suggested that inclement weather may have played a factor in the accident.

Buerkett, a member of the varsity volleyball team, was also in the Delta Gamma (DG) sorority and in Woodward House her first year.

According to Dean of Students Susan Art, Buerkett had not yet settled on a major and had been focused on working on her Core classes.

Fourth-year and fellow DG sister Sarah Herlihy said Buerkett had been considering several different majors, including Comparative Human Development, Sociology, and Gender Studies.

The family was headed to Florida for a training camp, Art said, and would have been returning shortly thereafter for volleyball practice, wwhich started before the beginning of the school year.

Art, who sent out an e-mail notifying the campus of Buerkett’s death, had met Buerkett once before.

“We had a very interesting conversation. I can see why she made so many friends here and why her loss is so hard for our whole community,” Art said.

“19-year-olds are just so full of promise, and that’s the thing that’s so heartbreaking about this—Morgan’s promise

won’t come to full fruition.”

Herlihy first met Buerkett during O-Week, but grew close with her when she became her “big sister”—an upper classman entrusted to welcome a new member to DG. The two grew close over dinners at the Medici and regularly attending one another’s athletic events. As their friendship grew, Herlihy noticed a natural maturity in Buerkett, and found it hard to believe that she was only a first-year.

“I would go to Morgan for advice,” Herlihy said. “ She had a perspective truly beyond her years. She was her own person,” she added.

Herlihy also said that Buerkett was known for her sense of humor and would do anything to make her friends laugh. It was this sense of humor that led Buerkett to wear a pink onesie out one night to a fraternity party.

“Morgan had an infectious smile,” Herlihy said. “She was the glue in a lot of relationships.”

Herhily added that one of Buerkett’s best qualities was that she didn’t worry about what other people thought of her.

“She wasn’t afraid to go for it.”

Herlihy said. “If it didn’t work out, it didn’t work out. She wasn’t afraid to be ridiculous.”

A memorial service is being planned for Monday, October 24 at 8 p.m at an as-yet-unannounced location. The date will mark the three-month anniversary of the Buerketts’ deaths, and planning for the memorial is being arranged by Dean of Rockefeller Chapel Elizabeth Davenport.

I-House pilot program becomes Phoenix House placed the University among the most applied-to (and rejected-from) colleges in America. Applications for the class of 2015 numbered at 21,669—a 12 percent hike from the previous year—and the acceptance rate has been steadily dropping for years now, down to 15.8 percent for the class of 2015 from 34.9 for the class of 2011.

To manage matriculation, colleges routinely accept more students than they expect will attend.

Nonetheless, administrators in the Office of Undergraduate Housing (OUH) were caught off guard by the sheer number of students who took the University up on its offer.

“As you may know, the college has been a very popular place,” CallowWright said, maintaining that the Office of Admissions had no inten-

tion of boosting the class’s size.

“That’s a good problem to have.”

The need for more housing arose even as the University decided to expand upon last year’s pilot program in International House, usually available only for transfer students, where upperclass students were given the opportunity to live in a dorm that was similar to the typical campus experience, but without RAs or house lounges. The OUH decided to turn that experiment into the fully-fledged Phoenix House this year, which houses roughly 70 students, of whom fewer than half are now transfer students.

Currently, the undergraduate housing system is virtually packed to capacity. Still, Callow-Wright, who has been I-House’s interim director since October 2010, deemed the sudden but necessary move into the

NGRH to be an anomaly. While the pilot program that spawned Phoenix House was a success, she said that there are no plans to repeat the process elsewhere.

“Is [Phoenix House] the only model? No,” she said. “We don’t expect the incoming class [of 2016] to be as big as the last one.”

She also denied that any new residence halls or dorms are planned for construction in the near future.

Midway House, formerly known as the first floor of NGRH, can house 125 students and comes with all the perks and amenities of a facility designed for graduate students—including paid parking, an exercise room, and a media room.

Like all other undergraduate houses, it participated fully in Orientation festivities and has its own RAs, RHs, and, presumably, o-mances.

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be Pritzker School of Medicine Professor Mark Siegler, who also serves as the director for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.

The Bucksbaums’ donation—one of the largest in UCMC history—came after the couple was able to experience Siegler’s warm bedside manner firsthand.

When Matthew Bucksbaum needed exploratory surgery to determine if he had lung cancer, Siegler, his general physician, showed up in the operating room, even though he was not required to do so.

When doctors found that Bucksbaum didn’t have cancer, Siegler led the operating room in a round of applause and rushed out to tell Carolyn Bucksbaum the good news.

“In Dr. Siegler, I have had a doctor who is interested in my husband and me as persons, not just diseases—although we’ve confronted him with a few of them,” Carolyn Bucksbaum said in the press release. “We decided to support a program that would, over time, teach many physicians the best ways to communicate and export those role-model doctors to other medical schools and communities,

where they could carry on the process of superb patient care.”

Recent research shows that Americans struggle to communicate effectively with their doctors. A 2001 survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a private health care reform foundation, found that one in five American adults have trouble communicating with their doctors.

Kenneth Polonsky, Dean of the Biological Sciences Division and the Pritzker School of Medicine, praised the Bucksbaums for pinpointing a unique problem in medicine.

“They are giving us the resources to concentrate on training physicians who not only possess extraordinary technical knowledge, but can work effectively with patients to reach the best clinical decisions,” Polonsky said in the release.

Siegler said that the relationship between patient and doctor should be one based on confidence, patience, and trust. In an interview with the New York Times, Siegler spoke about the importance of showing compassion toward patients.

“To care for a patient, you have to care about a patient,” Siegler said.

Some pay cuts offset by increased hours HOUSEKEEPERS continued from front Ongoing construction at Harper Quad has caused closures of pedestrian footpaths to the front entrances of Stuart and Haskell Halls.

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Linda Qiu Senior News Staff & Ankit Jain News Contributor Originally intended to be complete before O-Week began, the summer renovation project to make the street in Harper Quadrangle more pedestrian-friendly has been delayed to its current anticipated completion date of October 4.

The project, which includes adding more trees and plants, landscaping, new benches, and limestone pavers, was delayed when a nearly 100-year-old utility tunnel collapsed.

“It had to be rebuilt,” Assistant Vice President for Capital Project Delivery Boyd Black said.

“One of the [tunnel] walls failed while we were doing construction around the area.”

Currently, the north side of Harper quad remains closed to pedestrian traffic, blocking the east entrance to Haskell and west entrance to Stuart. Construction occurs from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays, and may be extended to weekends as required. A temporary path, marked with directional signs, connects the Main Quad and Bond Chapel.

The project aims to make Harper Quad more bike- and pedestrian-friendly, as an extension of previous work on the main quadrangles area.

“When I came here three years ago [the main quad] was all asphalt. It had service vehicles and cars all over it. Now it’s a pedestrian area. We’ve pedestrianized the quad. [That] was phase one. What we’re doing to Harper Quad is essentially the same thing. This is phase two,” Black said.

Made of limestone pavers and pervious concrete, the new roadway will provide for better drainage in the winter and will reduce salt usage on the pavement. The existing sidewalks will be removed and replaced with grass.

The renovation project began June 14, and Harper Quad and entrances facing the quad were inaccessible throughout the summer.

Fencing blocking the south side of Harper Quad was moved Sept 16, leaving only the front blocked off in order to alleviate some frustration.

Despite the delays, Black said, he and the University are “happy with the way the project has gone.”

AP joins with NORC to make U of C research public William Wilcox News Staff

The Associated Press (AP) and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago announced late last month the formation of the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, a virtual center administered out of Chicago. The social research carried out by the Associated Press-NORC center will be circulated to the public through the AP. As a non-profit organization that conducts social research, NORC runs opinion surveys and other data-collection activities. By partnering with the AP, NORC findings will reach an expanded audience through the wide range of publications the AP is affiliated with.

“NORC does rigorous social science and its mission is to make sure that that social science serves the public good,” Vice President and Director of Communications for NORC Greg Lanier said. “So the better we can disseminate that information and make sure it gets into the hands of decision makers and the public, the better.”

Lanier said he also hopes to see the center interacting more closely with the wider social research community at the University in the future, considering that NORC is near campus and has already developed a close research relationship with many faculty members.

“I would foresee [NORC] reaching out to faculty members and researchers within the University of Chicago community and including them in future studies where it makes sense and where there’s an overlap in research agendas,” Lanier said.

The center recently published its first report, Civil Liberties and Security: 10 Years After 9/11, which focused on how American ideas of security and views on civil liberty have changed since 9/11. Among its findings, the report found that Americans have a lack of confidence in government and that those Americans who worry about terrorism have more support for security policies that are invasive toward civil liberties.

“I think it really served the public well in that it provided some insight into how that national event is still very much part of the public consciousness and how it’s affected us even a decade later,” Lanier said.

16 housekeepers chose either to retire with a severance package or to take other positions in Facilities, according to Mazurie Wright. Along with seven other housekeepers, Wright chose to remain at South Campus, taking pay cuts of two dollars per hour but working eight hours per week instead of seven.

Less than one quarter of the original housekeeping staff elected to take an “enhanced severance package” rather than stay with either the University or ABM, according to University spokesperson Steve Kloehn. Megan Burris, the University’s communications manager for finance and administration, said the severance package surpassed union contract requirements, since it was available to those who ordinarily would not have had enough seniority to qualify.

All building engineers, who are still represented by union branch Local 73, are back to working forty-hour weeks, reversing a previous move to cut their hours down to 35, which had been precipitated by past budgetary concerns. The engineers transferred to Facilities Services on July 1.

The housekeepers are no longer represented by Teamsters Local 743, but have switched to branch Local 1, Wright said.

Burris said that all of those who stayed with the University or ABM continue to receive the same or greater compensation, including benefits, as they did before the transition, though they do not necessarily receive the same or greater amount in pay alone. All of the housekeepers who applied for positions are currently working in the University or at ABM in another capacity, except one who is not eligible for work.

Kloehn said that the transition was not sparked

by particular concerns, budgetary or otherwise.

“The University as a whole is constantly examining and re-examining to make sure the core mission is met, which is its academics, teaching, research, and learning,” he said. “Part of that is providing services in the way that’s most efficient and professional.”

The University announced the change early last spring, prompting students, workers, and faculty to unite against the administration’s plans through a consortium of activist RSOs called the WorkerStudent Coalition. Concerned that outsourcing would entail wage cuts and difficulties in collective bargaining, critics of the plan argued that there was no guarantee ABM would deal fairly with the housekeeping staff, according to English graduate student Andrew Yale, who was involved through Graduate Students United.

“If it [were] simply a reshuffling, why not guarantee jobs, why threaten to not guarantee unions,” Yale said.

Wright still disagrees with the move, but was satisfied with the role that activism played in the negotiations, arguing that the vocal objections raised by students and faculty were what prompted ABM to include a clause that kept many housekeepers employed. In total, she said, ABM promised to hire 29 of the previously 56 housekeepers.

Student and faculty views also played a part in the administration’s decision, according to multiple parties involved. “In many cases, [students] know personally the people affected and…the sense of community in residential houses is always an important value,” Kloehn said.

As a housekeeper, Wright said that she feels the sense of community in the residence halls. “That’s one of the main reasons I wanted to stay,” she said.

“Because of the students.”

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Throughout the academic year, Chan will coordinate with the leaders of the 75 community service-oriented RSOs, helping link them with volunteer organizations throughout Chicago.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | September 30, 2011

Students join Chicagoans to protest against coal

Students from the University of Chicago Climate Action Network march against Chicago’s coal power plants.

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Joy Crane News Contributor Fifteen University of Chicago students joined over 200 community activists at Chicago’s third annual Roll Beyond Coal rally to demand an end to the pollution emitted from the city’s Fisk and Crawford power plants, as a part of the International Day of Climate Action.

Around 70 bicyclists made the rain-soaked, three-and-a-half-mile ride that started in Daley Plaza in downtown Chicago. The protesters rode through the communities of Chicago’s near southwest side and ended at Dvorak Park

in Pilsen, directly across from the Fisk generation plant.

“When we arrived at the park, the rain stopped and the sun came out,” fourth-year Caroline Wooten, founder of University of Chicago Climate Action Network (UCAN) and its former director, said. “It was like a sign from nature.”

The campaign to shut down the plants has seen a renewed wave of activity around the potential health threats posed to the communities of Pilsen and Little Village where they are located.

According to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, pollution from these two plants

is linked to over 40 deaths, 550 emergency room visits, and 2,800 asthma attacks annually.

The bikers were joined by over 200 additional community members who assembled to hear a host of speakers from the Chicago Clean Power Coalition, the event’s organizing body. Among the speakers was third-year Sandy Carter, executive director of UCAN. “When I came to Chicago two years ago I was shocked to learn that there are two of America’s oldest and dirtiest coal burning power plants located within city limits, one of which is right behind me. And I know numerous other students are shocked when they learn of this fact,” Carter said. “As students and as the next generation, we are uniquely situated, in that we’re going to be suffering the effects of fossil fuels more than anyone else.”

Allison Fisher, a representative of the Sierra Club, attributed the revived energ y behind the tenyear-long campaign to shut the coal plants to the role of student and campus activism. “This is a campaign that has a lot of different groups, but students like Sandy add a really unique face to this campaign. When it comes to truly understanding the long term effects, I feel students articulate it best. I heard that in her speech and I saw her hope.”

The keynote speaker was Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo. His speech was a

call to arms against Ted Cramer, the CEO of Edison International, the parent company of Midwest Corporation, which directly owns the two plants. “[Naidoo’s presence] was extremely significant. He could’ve been at any rally, but he was here in Chicago,” Carter said. “Chicago is very important because if Fisk and Crawford shut down, that will be a historical precedent: We’ll be the first American city to have shut down our coal plants through community activism. It would set a huge precedent to other cities around the world and around the nation.”

The march left Dvorak Park and journeyed through Pilsen while peacefully chanting in both Spanish and English. Pilsen is a minority-based community, with 87 percent of residents identifying as Hispanic. According to a 2004 study by the League of United Latin American Citizens, 7 out of every 10 Hispanics live in counties that violate air pollution standards.

Before ending the march, the demonstrators stopped across from the main entrance of the Fisk plant. After taking a moment of silence, the demonstrators laid flowers in respect of those who had lost their lives as a result of the plant’s toxic emissions.

Representatives from Fisk did not prevent the protest or attempt a counter-protest as had occurred in the past. GenCorp declined to comment for this article.

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to nearly 50 new construction projects in Hyde Park and the surrounding neighborhood and agrees to cooperate with the University’s $1.7 billion fiveyear development plan, already underway.

Kloehn said the MOU does not signal a change in direction for the University.

Instead, the agreement confirms a commitment to the south side.

“For students who believe strongly and deeply in the University’s obligation to engage the community, this is a nice underscoring in the university community, as well as the city, of these goals,” he said.

The MOU creates a new post in the University’s Office of Civic Engagement to act as liaison to the city, and a separate new post will focus on job creation in the local community, connecting area residents with job opportunities at the university. The university will also provide aldermen’s ward offices with computer equipment for job-seekers to search for and apply to open positions.

The mayor now hopes to use the MOU as a model for other institutions in the city, Kloehn said. “He recognizes [that] in tough economic times, the city’s major institutions, including universities, are the entities in the position to speed development and offer new economic opportunities.”

The agreement is effective immediately, with the projects to be completed in the next five years, according the document.

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U of C jumps to historical high in national rankings NATIONAL UNIVERSITY RANKINGS #1

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#10 Duke University Anastasia Golovashkina News Contributor The U of C placed fifth this year in the U.S. News & World Report’s college rankings—the highest position it has ever held—sharing the spot in a five-way tie with the University of Pennsylvania, California Institute of Technolog y, Massachusetts Institute of Technolog y, and Stanford University.

The 2012 report, released earlier this month, ranked Harvard and Princeton as the top research universities in the nation, followed by Yale and Columbia in third and fourth, respectively.

The U.S. News rankings considers factors like alumni giving, student retention rates, and the volume of applications: a number that skyrocketed at the U of C last year.

Current students said that the school was finally getting the national recognition that it deserved.

“I honestly think we’re the best school in the world, and we’re casting a wider net to a broader audience,” said fourth-year and SG President Youssef Kalad.

Second-year and Vice President for Administration Forrest Scofield said that when he graduated high school, many of his friends had never heard of the University of Chicago. As the University climbs higher in the U.S. News rankings, Scofield believes more and more people will hear about the U of C. “The University has been undervalued for a long time,” Scofield said.

In a panel discussion with returning students, Dean of the College John Boyer defended the University’s participation in the rankings, saying that alumni, prospective students, and faculty all paid attention to them as “a part of American culture.”

“It’s nice that we’re five, but we’re a very special kind of five,” Boyer said. “We deserved, in a way, to get five—we probably deserved to get higher, and we will.”

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Trauma drama Community activists led by the youth group Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY) rallied for the University’s Medical Center (UCMC) to add a trauma center.

The march on Wednesday afternoon took place on the birthday of FLY’s late founder, Damian Turner, who was shot near the UCMC but was sent to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

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Editorial & OP-ED SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Fair Necessities Take advantage of today’s RSO fair and get involved on campus The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 ADAM JANOFSKY Editor-in-Chief CAMILLE VAN HORNE Managing Editor AMY MYERS Senior Editor JACK DIMASSIMO Senior Editor JONATHAN LAI News Editor CHRISTINA PILLSBURY News Editor PETER IANAKIEV Viewpoints Editor SHARAN SHETTY Viewpoints Editor JORDAN LARSON Arts Editor MAHMOUD BAHRANI Sports Editor JESSICA SHEFT-ASON Sports Editor DOUGLAS EVERSON, JR Head Designer GABE VALLEY Head Copy Editor LILLY YE Head Copy Editor ALICE BLACKWOOD Head Copy Editor DARREN LEOW Assoc. Photo Editor TERENCE LEE Assoc. Photo Editor JAMIE MANLEY Photo Editor KEVIN WANG Web Editor

Today, from 3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Henry Crown Field House, will be the Student Activities and Resource Fair, an annual event held the Friday of first week.

Tables will line every curve and corner with colorful posters and signs in all directions.

Upperclassmen will pitch you their grassroots initiatives and community service projects, you will inevitably sign up for dozens of listhosts on a whim, and in all the hullaballoo you may very well forget why you’re at the fair in the first place.

But there’s more to today’s event than free food and a festive atmosphere, and there’s more to joining RSOs than resume-building and blowing off homework.

Forget the bullshit: This isn’t about supplementing the life of the mind or enriching your daily

routine. It’s about finding friends and carving out a place for yourself at the University. Keeping that in mind, here are a few simple facts that should inform your decision to participate in student groups on campus.

Firstly, each RSO attracts a certain kind of person. These are people you wouldn’t otherwise get to meet—not in your house, your dorm, or your classes. All of you choose to be there solely because you have a common interest. The friends you make in RSOs are often unique for this very reason.

You are with them not by chance, but for a shared and tangible project. They will, in all likelihood, become some of your closest friends in college.

Secondly, RSOs are crucial campus watchdogs and advocates. They are the most vis-

ible and expressive outlets of student opinion and resolve on campus and are therefore the most reliable tool in ensuring that the University lives up to our hopes. Your efforts in whatever RSOs you choose to participate in could make a lasting impact on yourself as well as others. RSOs are the major source of undergraduate activity and action at the University; if you want to encourage this campus energy, joining one is the best way of doing so.

Finally, think of the RSO fair as an exploratory process. Don’t be afraid to express interest in more than a few RSOs. This is a chance to see everything that’s out there.

But don’t just sign up for every RSO that has a funny name or free food. Ask questions. See what each RSO is about and what you could do to contribute to them. Watching

fifty e-mails pour into your inbox from every community service group on campus and having no desire to join any of them will help neither you nor the community.

This advice isn’t exclusively for first-years either. For those upperclassmen who unsuccessfully flirted with the karate club or Model UN, there is still time to start over. Sign up for some genuinely interesting and worthwhile listhosts, actually attend the meetings, and see if you fit in. If you don’t, there are hundreds more to choose from. And if you try them all and none are your cup of tea... well, the beauty of RSOs is that you can just create a new one.

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False accusations The recent controversy over John Mearsheimer’s alleged anti-Semitism is much ado about nothing

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Yesterday, a friend of mine was riding one of the notoriously slow elevators in Pick Hall and had ample opportunity to observe her quite distinguished fellow passenger as they descended toward the lobby. No, it wasn’t one of the proverbial Nobel Laureates that are a dime a dozen on our campus (and who, campus promotions would have you believe, spend most of their time riding elevators waiting to be recognized), but it was

the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and rampant anti-Semite John Mearsheimer.

At the very least, those are the two terms most often used to describe him. The former is objective fact. Were you to scan the headlines this past week, the latter would also sound justified.

I will be upfront. I have never met Mearsheimer, nor have I read any of his books or attended any of his classes.

However, I have closely followed the recent controversy arising from a positive blurb he wrote for Gilad Atzmon’s The Wandering Who? and I can confidently conclude that the accusations hurled at him are wholly unfounded.

The fact of the matter is simply that Mearsheimer chose to write a positive review for a book that puts forth highly contentious points, written by a man who has made a name for himself as a radical, and—appropriately

or not—as a Holocaust revisionist. It is not my intention here to vilify or praise Atzmon’s views. However, it is my intention to defend Mearsheimer’s decision to endorse his latest work.

The most recent accusations against Mearsheimer amount to nothing more than straw man arguments motivated by prejudice for a particular opinion. In a piece written by Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic, he claims that Mearsheimer’s decision to associate himself with a man who has in the past been the author of arguably anti-Semitic comments is sufficient evidence that Mearsheimer himself is an anti-Semite.

Goldberg makes no reference to the text of The Wandering Who? but instead points out several anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic comments Atzmon has made previously in his career. He then claims that Mearsheimer is a “corrosive critic of Jewry itself ” based on

his decision to recommend Atzmon’s latest book. While his heart may be in the right place, Goldberg puts forth an obviously flawed argument. There is no reason to condemn Mearsheimer based on Atzmon’s previous controversial comments. The only acceptable criticism would be if he could prove that The Wandering Who? is itself antiSemitic, and that Mearsheimer is guilty of praising those hateful elements.

Goldberg does no such thing.

It has become easier to kindle controversy out of any comments surrounding the Israel-Palestine debate than it is to light a flame in an electric fireplace.

Obviously there are serious historical, ethical, and religious considerations that must be taken into account. Yet these concerns, rather than shaping the environment for debate, are today used as grounds for dismissing and insulting DEBATE continued on page 10

Riding on empty Bicycling is the perfect mode of transportation for Hyde Park David Kaner Viewpoints Contributor

I have an embarrassing secret.

Since I’ve been forced to divulge it to so many friends over the past week, I am no longer ashamed to let you in on it: I can’t bike. Never learned. Two-wheeled transportation has never been a part of my life.

Growing up in New York City, this never felt like much of a problem. My entire life, it seemed, was a five-minute walk from the subway.

Besides, I love walking, and I was rarely in a hurry, so why bother?

Hyde Park is a bit of a different story. Getting from point to point is often a 15- or 20-minute walk, long enough to be too long when you’re late for class or need to grab some dinner. The buses help, but they’re

often indirect and, of course, you often wind up waiting too long for them. Biking, an on-demand and oh-so-quick option, and this neighborhood were made for each other.

We all know about the myriad other benefits of biking. It’s zerocarbon transportation and obviously creates no air pollution.

Therefore, more people biking will, in the aggregate, be good for the environment. Instead, all the energy comes from you burning calories, so it can also have a positive impact on your health. But what convinced me to try biking was my roommates ooh-ing and ah-ing over how, after they bought bikes, the quad was suddenly next door instead of threequarters of a mile away.

So during O-Week I trekked up to Pilsen with some friends to the incredible Working Bikes

Cooperative, Chicago’s only major used bike shop. The super friendly employees there were happy to give me some pointers and feed my newborn enthusiasm, but they tempered their words with caution. America’s third largest city, obviously, is not the safest place in the world to ride a bike. There are high-volume intersections, fast-moving vehicles, and lines of parked cars that could easily door you if you’re not careful.

The dozens of ghost bike memorials, painted white and chained permanently, that dot Chicago’s roadsides are stark reminders that cyclist deaths can and do occur.

It sounded like the perceived safety issues around bicycling were a barrier to more people doing it.

When I got home later that day, newly acquired bike in tow, I decided to read up on the state of biking

in Chicago. The situation, for the most part, is improving. Along with screaming, yelling, and cursing, our triathlete Mayor Rahm Emanuel counts cycling as one of his passions, and this is reflected in his administration’s policies. To encourage higher ridership, the city is trying to make cycling an easier, more attractive option for commuters.

Emanuel has pledged to open 100 miles of protected lanes during his first term; the first half-mile stretch, along Kinzie Street in River North, opened in July. In addition, under a plan announced last week, the city will launch a bike-sharing program that will aim to offer 5,000 bikes at 500 stations by 2014.

It’s encouraging to see public officials who want to see cycling, as the Chicago DOT commissioner put BIKES continued on page 10