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On Wednesday morning, a packed Mandel Hall awaited the announcement of “a significant and wide-ranging initiative to confront the new era of global conflicts.” Shortly after taking the stage, President Robert Zimmer told the crowd that the University had received a $100 million gift to establish The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolu-

Maggie Loughran News Editor Bernie Sanders (A.B. ‘64), Democratic candidate for President and independent senator from Vermont, returned to his alma mater on

Monday to address a crowd of over 1,800 at Rockefeller Chapel.

He deviated from his usual campaign stump speech to deliver a message to UChicago students, many of whom had skipped class on the first

day of the quarter to see him: “I think about the many, many hours that I spent in the basement of Harper Library, reading everything except the books I was supposed to read for class the next day. Don’t BERNIE continued on page 4

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New Pearson Institute to study global conflict Tamar Honig Associate News Editor

Last Monday, Bernie Sanders delivered a speech in Rockefeller Chapel to an audience of over 1,800 people.

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tion of Global Conflicts and The Pearson Global Forum, both part of the Harris School of Public Policy.

Brothers Thomas and Timothy Pearson—the former is chairman and the latter president and CEO of The Pearson Family Foundation—made the donation, equal to the second-largest gift in the University’s history. It is eclipsed only by David Booth’s $300 million gift in 2008.

The brothers explored various

options before settling on the University of Chicago for their donation. “We looked at, all due respect, 10 to 12 universities,” Thomas said.

Zimmer’s reply, “You made the right decision,” was met with an enthusiastic round of applause.

The new institute will have three primary focuses: researching violent conflicts, engaging the international policy and academic communities on conflictCONFLICT continued on page 4

Trauma center coming to the South Side Sarah Manhardt Deputy Editor-In-Chief The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) and Sinai Health System announced a joint partnership to establish a level 1 adult trauma center

on the South Side Thursday night. The project comes after years of increasing activism by community members and students.

The multi-million-dollar project will renovate and expand the emergency center at Holy Cross Hospital,

located at West 68th Street and South California Avenue, into a Level I adult trauma center, according to an e-mail sent to faculty, staff, and students in the Biological Sciences Division and University of ChiTRAUMA continued on page 2

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cago Medicine. UCMC will help pay for the the facility improvements, expected to cost $40 million, and provide specialists in general trauma; urologists; and neurological, orthopaedic, and plastic surgeons, among other subspecialties. Holy Cross will also provide trauma care specialists, including emergency department physicians, anesthesiologists, and nursing staff, as well as trauma care support specialists.

Both organizations have significant experience in trauma care, as the UCMC operates the Comer children’s trauma center in Hyde Park and Sinai Health Systems operates the trauma center at Mount Sinai Hospital on the West Side.

UCMC also announced it will build a new adult emergency department on South Cottage Grove Avenue, connected to the Center for Care and Discovery, a new UCMC hospital that was opened in 2013, via underground tunnel. This emergency department will cost approximately $35 million to build.

“We believe that the successful implementation of this plan will extend the ability of UChicago Medicine to serve the

South Side communities while at the same time improving access to patients seeking care for complex medical conditions on our Hyde Park campus,” the e-mail read.

The Trauma Center Coalition, an organization of seven community and national groups that has advocated for a South Side trauma center since 2010, expressed both pride and disappointment with the announcement in a statement posted online.

“The Trauma Center at Holy Cross is a victory for the South Side and it’s happening because of young black people and allies.” The statement continues, “The decision to not place the trauma center on campus says to the immediate surrounding neighborhoods that we are not welcomed.”

The TCC also stated its disappointment that UCMC will likely withdraw its proposal to raise the age limit of treatment at Comer Children’s Hospital from 15 to 17, as the Chicago Tribune reported. The TCC will hold a press conference at 1 p.m. Friday at East 58th Street and South Maryland Avenue.

UCMC plans to file a Certificate of Need (CON) application with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review

Board by the end of 2015 and anticipates that the approval process and construction of the trauma center will take at least two years.

The South Side has not had an adult trauma care center since the Michael Reese Hospital closed in 1991. Holy Cross will

become the fifth adult trauma center in the city, along with Northwestern Memorial Hospital on the Near North Side, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center on the North Side, Stroger Hospital on the West Side and Mount Sinai on the West Side.

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New application platform to target University introduces pilot low-income students Saturday dinner program Katherine Vega Senior News Reporter The University will be among the first to adopt a new college application system, “Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success,” an alternative to the Common App and Universal App. James Nondorf, dean of college admissions and financial aid, will serve as the president of the board for the organization launching the new platform.

Designed by The Coalition for Access, Affordability, and Success, the platform will be free to use in order to allow more low-income students the opportunity to apply to top private schools and large research institutions. Students are still subject to application fees if they do not qualify for waivers based on financial need.

“Some of our most important goals are to reduce the stress of applying to college and to make that process more accessible for students from diverse backgrounds,” Nondorf said in a statement to The Maroon.

The Coalition application will launch for some of the 83

public and private institutions around the U.S. that have signed up during the 2016–2017 application cycle, according to a September 28 press release from the Coalition. Some schools will start using it at that time, while other institutions have not announced when they will begin accepting these applications.

Nondorf noted that he is “excited and proud” that the University is a part of that coalition.

Public institutions in the program must have need-based aid and affordable tuition; private institutions must meet the full demonstrated financial need of all domestic students. All schools that accept the new application will need to have graduation rates of at least 70 percent.

The new system will allow students to start their college application process earlier with a number of tools in place to help high school freshmen, sophomores, and juniors map out their admission and financial aid process.

“The online tools—which will include a digital portfolio, a collaboration platform, and an application portal—seek to reshape the process of applying

to college as the culmination of students’ development over the course of their high school careers, reducing the unfamiliarity of the application and leveling the playing field for all students,” according to the press release.

The Coalition hopes that the new platform will encourage students, especially from disadvantaged backgrounds, to take a more active role earlier on in the application process.

Nondorf noted that the adoption of the new application is an extension of recent initiatives to enhance college access and affordability for students of diverse backgrounds. The No Barriers initiative, which launched for the Class of 2019, and UPromise are other recently created or expanded programs aimed at increasing socioeconomic diversity and helping lower- and middle-income students.

“It’s about making sure that we’re finding talented students wherever they may come from, and that we’re contributing to a society that appreciates what higher education can do to transform young people’s lives,” Nondorf said.

Wendy Lee Senior News Reporter This fall, the University is offering a pilot program to provide free dinners on Saturday nights. The Saturday Night Social Club will occur three times during the quarter and accommodate a maximum of 200 people by reservation only, according to the University’s dining page.

The Social Club is designed to provide some kind of free meal on Saturdays when the dining halls are closed. Each evening will offer “familystyle dinners” at two separate times: one at 7 p.m. and one at 9 p.m. The dinner is only free for those currently on a meal plan, while students without a meal plan will be charged $10.

Every dinner will take place in the Sinaiko Club Room, a lounge in Burton-Judson.

Until this year, the University did not offer an option for free Saturday night dining, instead suggesting students use Maroon Dollars to purchase dinner on-campus.

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includes 100 Maroon Dollars per quarter, the Phoenix Meal Plan includes 150 Maroon Dollars per quarter, and the Apartment Meal Plan includes 200 Maroon Dollars per quarter.

The pilot program comes after a year of increased advocacy for free dining on Saturday nights. Not all students, however, are certain this is the right way to approach the problem. According to Jessica Law, a member of the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance (SDA), the new program has its limitations.

“They are only providing dinner on three Saturday evenings, and each dinner is limited to 100 people on a first-come, first-served basis without any priority given to low-income and/or firstgeneration students who may not be able to afford dinner otherwise,” Law wrote in an e-mail to the SDA. “This is clearly not enough, and we will definitely need to continue to fight for better accommodations and options for students.”

Law says that the SDA will continue to communicate with University administration and the Inter-House Council to discuss the inadequate program. “The University [needs] to sufficiently address the issues that low-income and/or first-generation students face on campus.”

In response, dining officials state that the program was created with the intentions of gauging interest and addressing student needs. “[The Social Club] is a pilot that UChicago Dining has developed based on feedback from the Dining Advisory Board, student interest surveys, and direct feedback from students and staff,” a dining official wrote in an e-mail. “We welcome the feedback about the pilot that we’ve already received and look forward to working with students on new ways to best serve our campus community.”

The first Saturday Night Club dinner will take place on Saturday, October 17th at 7 p.m. in the Sinaiko Club Room.

OMSA and LGBTQ Say hello to Handshake, the new Career Connection office join to form Center for Identity+Inclusion Adam Thorp Associate News Editor

Cairo Lewis News Staff The University of Chicago formally launched its new Center for Identity and Inclusion (CII) on Thursday, October 1 at 5710 S. Woodlawn Avenue. The center, formerly known simply as 5710 S. Woodlawn, will become the space for Student Support Services, a new program that seeks to build a supportive community for low-income, first generation, and/ or undocumented students on campus. The center will also continue to encompass the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) and the Office of LGBTQ Student Life.

According to Emy Cardoza, the Assistant Director of OMSA, members of CII and the University’s Administration had discussed the name change over the course of last year. They hope to emphasize cultural diversity at the University and the range of programs that exist at the newly-named center.

Karlene Burrell-McRae, the Director of OMSA and Associate Dean of Students in the University, said at the event: “[I am] really excited about the name change. It reminds people that we are multicultural and that an intersectionality exists at the

University.”

Some students believe that the name change represents the University’s mission to foster diversity and open mindedness. According to Madeline Klinger, a fourthyear student active in OMSA, “The name itself is a constant reminder of the type of space we want to cultivate—not just a center, but an entire community that actively includes different identities.”

Klinger also acknowledges a possible difficulty that the name change presents. “The only problem I can think of with the new name is that people who don't advocate for inclusion or who disparage the increasing trend of naming identities because it inconveniences them will now actively avoid the Center for Identity and Inclusion, and, to be honest, those are the people these offices really need to engage,” she added.

In addition to the name change, the first floor of CII was newly renovated. At the launch event, University students, faculty, and staff were able to tour the renovated space and meet the center’s team. The first floor was surrounded with tables and flowers, and catering company Biagio catered the event with appetizers and desserts.

A band was stationed behind the information desk.

Starting this academic year, Chicago Career Connection— previously University of Chicago students’ premier connection to off-campus professional opportunities—has been replaced

by Handshake, a smaller startup that Career Services hopes will be able to adapt its offerings to University’s unique set of programs. The new system went live for students this August.

“We just felt that it was the technology that was holding us back. There were great opportunities—it was never the opportunities. It was the way the students sought the opportunities, applied for them and searched for them,” said Meredith Daw, executive director of Career Advancement.

This year, the Office of Student Employment will be folded into the Office of Career Services, and on-campus employment and work study will also be accessed through Handshake.

Some of Handshake’s features promise to improve student navigation of the range of opportunities offered through Career Advancement. According to Daw, students will be able to better track submitted applications and employers that pique their interest. An algorithm will track student activity on the system and curate a set of other activities they might be interested in.

Students sometimes reported that the old system was “cumbersome to use” according to Daw. One common complaint was the requirement that students memorize a complicated system of job IDs in order to search the

system; under Handshake, this will no longer be the case.

Handshake is also built to be accessed on Smartphones and tablets, so that students can make appointments with career advisers or navigate career fairs from the palm of their hands.

Daw especially emphasized the ability of Handshake to accommodate University of Chicago career programs—its treks, externships and largest-in-thenation internship programs— that are not offered, at least at the same scale, at most other colleges and universities.

“Symplicity wasn’t designed to support those types of programs because they weren’t standard, cut-and-canned career programs for undergraduate students,” said Daw. “And because they were such a large vendor they weren’t able to provide the customization that we thought we needed.”

Chicago Career Connection was the on-campus brand for Symplicity, a platform developed through the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a non-profit representing career services professionals at colleges and universities and interested employers. Symplicity remains the market leader in providing career services software to colleges and universities.

“I think there are a lot of really great things about Symplicity.

From an employer perspective, they’re really used to using the system—it's really easy for them to do all the schools that they’re recruiting at through one platform,” said Daw. But employers seem to be following the University over from Symplicity. A larger class of employers signed up for fall recruit-

ing this year than ever before, according to Daw. Daw gave credit for the successful reception to employer satisfaction with the new system and other prominent schools that have already moved over to the new system. (Yale and Princeton also announced that they were adopting the new system this school year).

Some parts of students’ new Handshake profiles will be autopopulated, but information and documents submitted to Chicago Career Connection will have to be reentered into the new system. mic year, Chicago Career Connection—previously University of Chicago students’ premier connection to off-campus professional opportunities—has been replaced by Handshake, a smaller startup that Career Services hopes will be able to adapt its offerings to University’s unique set of programs. The new system went live for students this August.

“We just felt that it was the technology that was holding us back. There were great opportunities—it was never the opportunities. It was the way the students sought the opportunities, applied for them and searched for them,” said Meredith Daw, head of Career Advancement.

This year, the Office of Student Employment will be folded into the Office of Career services, and on-campus employment and work study will also be accessed through Handshake.

Some of Handshake’s features promise to improve student navigation of the range of opportunities offered through Career Advancement. According to Daw, students will be able to better track submitted applications

and employers that pique their interest. An algorithm will track student activity on the system and curate a set of other activities they might be interested in.

Students sometimes reported that the old system was “cumbersome to use” according to Daw. One common complaint was the requirement that students memorize a complicated system of job IDs in order to search the system; under Handshake, this will no longer be the case.

Handshake is also built to be accessed on Smartphones and tablets, so that students can make appointments with career advisers or navigate career fairs from the palm of their hands.

Daw especially emphasized the ability of Handshake to accommodate University of Chicago career programs—its treks, externships and largest-in-thenation internship programs— that are not offered, at least at the same scale, at most other colleges and universities.

“Symplicity wasn’t designed to support those types of programs because they weren’t standard, cut-and-canned career programs for undergraduate students,” said Daw. “And because they were such a large vendor they weren’t able to provide the customization that we thought we needed.”

Chicago Career Connection was the on-campus brand for Symplicity, a platform developed through the National Association of Colleges and Employers, a non-profit representing career services professionals at colleges and universities and interested employers. Symplicity remains the market leader in providing career services software to colleges and universities.

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Democratic presidential candidate and UChicago alum held a rally at Rockefeller Chapel BERNIE continued from front

take that as advice—that’s not what I’m suggesting. Do better in school than I did.”

Bernie has emerged from this summer, the so-called “Summer of Sanders,” as a serious, anti-establishment threat to Hillary Clinton.

Nationally and in key earlyvoting states like Iowa and New Hampshire, he has managed to close a once-gaping hole in the polls by energizing a base of young voters.

“We need your help,” Sanders told the crowd. “We need the idealism, the energy, and the intelligence of millions of young people to join us in the fight to make America the kind of country we know it must become.”

“I learned here about democratic socialism,” Sanders said of UChicago, where he was a member of the Young People’s Socialist League and the Congress on Racial Equality. Sanders, per Institute of Politics Director David Axelrod’s introduction, led the first civil rights sit-in in the history of the University to protest the racial segregation of student housing.

Coming to a private institution from a poor family, Sanders said he struggled to adapt to what he felt was an environment of privilege.

This conflict inspired his passion for wealth equality and human rights. “What I learned then, what I believe today—and it is the kernel

of my political views—is that change never takes place from the top down. It always takes place from the bottom on up.

It takes place when people, by the millions, sometimes over decades and sometimes over centuries, determine that the status quo—the world that they see in front of them—is not the world that should be.”

Sanders discussed the economy, pay equity, women’s rights, family and medical leave, criminal justice reform, youth unemployment, voter turnout, and climate change.

He spoke extensively about campaign finance, one of his signature issues. “If any of you are interested in government, and interested in running for office—I don’t care what your

SG member resigns Isaac Stein Senior News Reporter Alvina “Nina” Katemauswa, Student Government (SG)’s Community and Government Liaison, submitted a resignation letter to members of SG on September 13. In the letter, Katemauswa said that she will work in Africa during the upcoming year, which precludes her from participating in SG. “As some of you know, I have spent the past summer in East Africa, working for a Rwandan NGO through the joint IOP-Metcalf program. Some time into my former internship, I was approached with an offer to remain in Africa and continue doing direct-service educational and developmental work,” Katemauswa wrote.

The Community and Government Liaison “represents the student body to members of the community, and works to get students more involved in Hyde Park, Woodlawn, and the South Side in general,” according to SG’s website. In the letter, Katemauswa wrote

that “the same reasons that led me to aspire for this role five months ago have now led me to believe that the place where I can truly make the most difference right now is not in Chicago, but here, in my continent, at my home.”

In response, Student Government posted an online application for the vacant position; the deadline is September 23, which coincides with the application deadlines for SG Cabinet positions. Though SG removed Katemauswa’s name and photo from its website, it has not yet publicly acknowledged her resignation. Tyler Kissinger, SG President, said since the online form was posted, at least three students have expressed interest.

He stated that according to SG Bylaws, the new Community and Government Liaison will be determined by a vote of the Assembly, which includes the College Council and the Graduate Council. Members of the Executive Committee, such as Kissinger, will not participate in the vote, which is likely to oc-

cur on the week of October 11.

In the closing section of her resignation letter, Katemauswa endorsed Anthony Downer as a candidate for her former position. In the last SG election, Downer campaigned alongside Katemauswa in an unsuccessful bid for the position of Undergraduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees. Downer said that he spoke with Katemauswa earlier this week, but has not yet decided on whether he will run for the position.

Kissinger declined to make a public endorsement, but said that he supports candidates with an interest in public health on the South Side of Chicago, particularly given the University’s recently-announced plan to co-sponsor the construction of an Level I adult Trauma Center at Holy Cross Hospital, in Marquette Park.

“I think that [the plan to build a Trauma Center in Marquette Park] was an enormous step forward, and I am interested to see what engagement comes from this decision,” Kissinger said.

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greater emphasis on the study of global conflict.

“We are four percent of the world’s people in this country,” Haass said. “The rest of the world will matter fundamentally in your life…You’re going to be in a position to make some changes in the world and I believe that Americans need to be prepared for that, they need to be tooled up for that. With very few exceptions America’s universities aren’t doing that. And that needs to change.”

Daniel Diermeier, dean of the Harris School of Public Policy and another speaker at the event, highlighted this urgency as well.

“For too long conventional methods have been applied to unconventional problems with little impact,” he said. “We must move beyond the old ways of thinking to confront the new challenges of global conflicts.”

but overall Sanders was received warmly.

Gabi Lastres, a fourthyear majoring in French and minoring in Human Rights, thinks that Clinton is the more practical choice for the nomination but likes Bernie’s ideas. “I think he’s more willing to confront a lot of the stuff that maybe won’t get brought up in the general election.”

Matthew Foldi, secondyear in the College and president of College Republicans, agrees with the Senator on little but respects his belief that “Israel has the right to exist in peace and security.”

“He mentioned his support of Israel in front of what could have potentially been a

very hostile audience, and I appreciated that he’s not willing to change his message no matter whom he’s speaking to,” Foldi said.

One attendee “feeling the Bern” was Eric Holmberg. “I think he’s the only one with a clear, progressive vision for America,” said Holmberg, a Class of 2018 Student Government representative who has been organizing for Sanders since arriving back on campus. “I really appreciate that he says one president can’t be the solution, that’s not the be-all-end-all; it’s got to be the people’s movement and a mass political revolution. And that’s what I’m interested in helping to build.”

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Pearson brothers donate $100 million reduction, and educating the next generation of scholars and practitioners in this field through new courses and programs.

The institute will use datadriven analysis to study conflict and refugee problems. It will also convene policymakers, professors, students, and researchers annually at The Pearson Global Forum.

“The study of global conflicts is a field ripe for groundbreaking research approaches, and The Pearson Institute will seek to inform more effective policy solutions for resolving violent conflicts to make a lasting impact around the world,” said Zimmer.

The Maroon sat down before the event with Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the distinguished speakers of the morning. He discussed the need for American universities to place

views are… I want you to be able to run for office without begging millionaires for campaign contributions. That is why I strongly agree with public funding of elections.”

Pressed to fly back to D.C., Sanders only had time after his 45-minute speech to answer a few of the 30-plus students who lined up to ask him questions. During the Q&A he touched on personally influential literature, Israel-Palestine relations, disability programs, and the Koch brothers’ work for criminal justice reform. He also addressed the challenge implementing his liberal agenda will pose in such a divided Congress.

Student reactions ranged,

After the event, Diermeier spoke with The Maroon and elaborated on the aptness of the Pearsons’ selection.

“As we have thought about the institute and how it was designed, it’s a perfect fit for what the University of Chicago is all about—the commitment to rigorous inquiry, but with a focus on having an impact, as well.”

For the Pearson brothers, the drive to work towards a more peaceful global society is deeply rooted. Timothy Pearson recalled one summer from his childhood during which a message arrived at the Pearson home bearing the words “The Klan is watching.”

The brothers later discovered that their father spent that summer in the Deep South registering black voters and participating in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.

Sonia Schlesinger News Staff The University of Chicago will host the first ever Hyde Park Hunt from October 5–10, allowing first-year students to familiarize themselves with local businesses by solving a series of clues related to stores, restaurants, and other establishments in Hyde Park.

The competition takes place starting October 5, with final judging on the 10th from 4:30–5:30 p.m. at the Chicago Innovation Exchange on 53rd Street. Afterwards, participants can take advantage of discounts at local restaurants as part of 53rd Street’s Second Saturday Dine Around event.

Second-year Gregory Sun developed the idea for the Hyde Park Hunt. He explains, “I got a lot of information

about how to navigate the campus and downtown during O-Week last year…but I found that I still didn’t know how to get around Hyde Park, which is a shame, so I wanted to give people this opportunity to discover the neighborhood.”

The Hunt will be run through an app that Sun developed with the help of friends outside the University.

The app provides participants with clues for items that can be found at certain businesses in Hyde Park and then prompts them to either take a creative picture or answer a trivia question about the clue’s location.

Students form teams within their houses, which Sun hopes will encourage interaction between house members.

Sun collaborated with Amy Williams, the marketing communications manager for

commercial real estate operations at the University. Williams works with many Hyde Park businesses, mainly on 53rd Street. Businesses have contributed prizes in the form of gift certificates for all participants, and the first place team will win a prize basket. “A lot of the businesses are really excited because they love any opportunity to…reach out to the students,” Williams said.

Sun and Williams have been careful to keep the Hunt separate from the University’s better-known scavenger hunt, Scav, which takes place at the end of the school year. “We’ve tried to make it clear that they have nothing to do with each other,” Williams explained.

“It’s a different animal, really just intended to be a fun thing for the students to get to know the neighborhood.”

New Year, Neu(bauer) Projects Cairo Lewis News Staff On July 1, 2015, the University of Chicago’s Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society welcomed eight new faculty research projects into its growing portfolio. The projects span everything from climate change, environmental and evolutionary biology, and Assyrian economics, to German idealism, natural history, and American democracy.

The Neubauer Collegium, which was established in 2012, accepts annual project proposals from University faculty. These projects are collaborative efforts to answer research questions that pertain to the humanities and social sciences.

The projects that were recently launched are Climate Change: Disciplinary Challenges to the Humanities and the Social Sciences; Deep History; Economic Analysis of Ancient Trade: The Case of the Old Assyrian Merchants of the 19th Century BCE; Historical Semantics and Legal Interpretation; The Ideal-

ism Project: Self-Determining Form and the Autonomy of the Humanities; Open Fields: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Very Idea of a Natural History; the Problem of the Democratic State in U.S. History; and Transmission of Magical Knowledge in Antiquity: The Papyrus Magical Handbook.

The Collegium currently relies on the Global Visiting Fellows Program for further research. This program has so far welcomed 12 visitors from China, Denmark, Norway, France, Germany, England, Scotland, Syria, Switzerland, and Spain.

This fall quarter, nine global fellows from the initiative will lead presentations and discussions at the new Neubauer building at 5701 South Woodlawn.

“The program has proven critical for advancing the research of our faculty, resulting in new and unexpected collaborations between our visitors and UChicago faculty and students,” News Officer for Arts and Humanities Susie Allen said.

She also added that Joe and Jeanette Neubauer’s gift of $26.5

million to the Collegium in support of the initiatives funds the new projects. In addition to this major project, the Collegium has funded 42 faculty research initiatives, which include 29 active projects. “[W]e are very fortunate that the University has an institution like Neubauer to whom we could apply for funding,” said Robert Pippin, the professor who is working on the Idealism Project.

All of these projects will allow professors and students to work and build ideas together.

According to Allen, “Collaboration is a value we live every day: In addition to funding projects, we work closely with researchers to develop strategies for their longer term projects, meaning we enter into a collaborative partnership with project leaders to envision the life of a project including but not confined to our own direct support for it.

We also collaborate closely with other campus partners to create a lively comprehensive ecosystem for innovative research at the University and beyond.”

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Setting the table University’s young Saturday dining program has time to grow This quarter, UChicago Dining will be serving dinner on three Saturday nights under a program called the “Saturday Night Social Club.” Each of these Saturdays will serve a maximum of 200 students by reservations made on a firstcome, first-served basis. Over the past few years, student groups such as the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance (SDA) have pointed out the burden that paying out-ofpocket for Saturday night dinners can place on some students. Last year, three Student Government members distributed a survey conducted about Saturday night dining in which 70 percent of more than 340 respondents said that the cost of Saturday night dining was or sometimes was a major concern for them. Dining’s new Social Club program is a heartening indication that the University is listening to students and willing to consider their proposals.

The program could stand to be built out to specifically support students from low-income backgrounds. Currently, the program does not offer any kind of priority

to the students that stand to benefit the most from the effectively free Saturday dinners. The University could easily adjust the program by asking students to self-report if they are a low-income student or why they want to attend the Saturday Night Social Club, and giving priority in registration to those students. Providing the students the option to report or not report their own socioeconomic background is worth the risk that students could possibly misrepresent their background.

Kinks in the program, however, are understandable considering that the Saturday Night Social Club program is only a pilot. The University should take this pilot as an opportunity to gauge interest in expanding Saturday night dining options through on-campus dining. Depending on student response, we encourage the University to either expand the program with a focus on low-income students or explore other options to aid those students in paying for Saturday night dinners, such as allocating those students more

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Bernie Sanders and progressive anti-intellectualism There’s a reason we take Sosc classes Nicholas Saffran Maroon Contributor As readers of Richard Hofstadter’s 1964 classic Anti-Intellectualism in American Life know, American democracy, or even democracy in general, is likely to have a large dose of antipathy toward head-in-the-clouds “eggheads.” Usually, we expect this tendency to find itself at home on the political right, whose

followers generally place faith in long-established institutions and rely on prejudices, whether well- or ill-established. Although this has been truer of continental conservatism than American, we here in America can still understand what John Stuart Mill was getting at when he called the English conservatives the “stupid party.”

But even if less discussed, it is equally apparent that the left, and

especially its most radical sects, has its own form of anti-intellectualism. This is why few of us were taken aback when Senator Bernie Sanders (A.B. ’64) began his address to throngs of cheering students by boasting that he was not a very good student while here at the University, that he read very few of the books he was actually assigned, and that he did most of his learning outside of the classroom. George W. Bush—or any

other conservative politician— would have been roundly mocked by those in elite circles for such boasting about a rejection of the importance of education. But the students here saw in Sanders a form of anti-intellectualism that they considered more respectable, one that ironically flourishes especially at the University. This left-wing anti-intellectualism (for lack of a better term) is partially born of the belief that careful

study of the Western tradition is stultifying because the Western tradition is too patriarchal, too oppressive and too, well, traditional. But even absent these critiques—which formed the basis of the movements to gut core curricula in America—radical politicians have often thought study of the wisdom of the past worthless because it is not progressive. As Marx once declared, “PhilosoPOLITICS continued on page 6

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Between David Axelrod’s playful banter about Bernie Sanders’s alumni status and questions regarding his favorite books, it is clear that the University of Chicago family is proud that Senator Sanders was educated in Hyde Park. And for no small reason: He is a beacon in the progressive movement as well as a leader in the fight to bend this country’s moral arc further in the direction of social justice. But while his speech was an inarguably passionate and authentic take on vital issues facing our country, it ultimately lacked any concrete suggestions on how to make actual change in our government.

Senator Sanders offered his typical stump speech, though slightly altered to focus on our priorities as University of Chicago students. He

began by emphasizing the progressive victories of the past century and highlighting the fact that many of those victories were unimaginable at the time he graduated from the College in 1964. He spoke about the election of a black president, marriage equality, and huge strides made in the fight for women’s rights, among others. As you’d expect, he spent the latter half of the speech discussing the areas in which the United States still needs to make progress, particularly regarding money in politics. At one point, he described the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision as “totally corrupting” to the American political system, and he looks forward to the day the case is overturned.

As liberals, and as members of UChicago Students for Hillary, we agree wholeheartedly with the majority of the sentiment behind Senator Sanders’s speech. Equal pay for women, healthcare for all, a strong

social safety net, a more equal distribution of wealth, and a fairer criminal justice system are foundational principles of the modern American left, supported almost universally by all Democratic candidates. After all, despite the mudslinging of the primary season, regardless of who the nominee is, we are all committed as liberals to furthering the progressive agenda. We all have the responsibility to support whomever is elected as our torchbearer for 2016.

We’ll admit it: We are fired up by Senator Sanders’s strong conviction.

But we remain wary of his plans to achieve these goals in the face of such strong opposition in Congress. During the Q&A following his speech, Sanders was asked how he plans to get his policy proposals turned into law considering that many of those proposals already bear explicit guarantees by congressional Republicans not to pass. He responded by reiterSANDERS continued on page 6

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“...liberal education teaches us how to think rather than what to think.”

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phers have only interpreted the world…the point is to change it.”

Although Sanders’s comments may have been in jest, they did reflect this sentiment exactly: What he could have learned in his assigned reading could have helped him interpret the world, but his real goal was to change it.

Hofstadter believes that an intellectual is not simply more intelligent than others, but that he is essentially unique in disposition; an intellectual is “sensitive to nuances and sees things in degrees.” Even the most committed Sanders disciples would have to exhaust a near-infinite list of adjectives to describe the frenetic Vermont socialist before they arrived at “nuanced.” In his speech he indicted the American political and economic systems on the broadest and most bombastic charges—“oligarchy,” “totally corrupt”—and encouraged students not to get “sucked into [a] worldview” that believes detailed debates and analyses of costs (“Should we decrease education by two percent or increase it by one percent?”) are necessary for good policy. Instead he suggested that if we simply merely “stand together,” trade- offs and hard realities simply vanish. He

is, in the truest sense of the word, a demagogue.

This is not to suggest that if Sanders had spent a few more nights in the Reg, he would have different policy positions. But there is more than a kernel of truth in the oft-repeated claim that liberal education teaches us how to think rather than what to think. If, for example, Sanders’s had spent a bit more time with Friedrich Hayek, he may still support a nationally mandated $15 minimum wage, but he would likely feel the need to explain why his proposal would not result in the kinds of unintended consequences which centralized planning of complex economic systems often does, and why his proposal wouldn’t lead to job cuts and faster automation, ultimately hurting those he wishes to help. Or if Sanders had spent a bit more time with Adam Smith, he might still oppose free trade, but he might feel compelled to explain why such a policy would not hurt most Americans—especially those in low-skill service jobs who would receive no benefit from a manufacturing resurgence—by raising the prices of consumer goods. In short, Sanders would feel the need to explain his positions with reference to

more than heartfelt exhortations––“This is not justice!”

“That is not a family value!”— about what he believes to be right and wrong. This is a vice in which Sanders—even more than other politicians, a class admittedly not known for their nuance—is especially likely to indulge.

My contention, contra Marx and Senator Sanders, is that the world is not a simple place, that to change the world we first need to understand the world, and that even now, in 2015, we should be dubious of the claims of politicians who promise fundamental change simply by fiat and charisma. Of course politics is a moral endeavor and we can never separate our morals from our politics.

But politics also requires that we understand that the world is a complex place where things that appear bad can actually be good at the core, and where our efforts to do good often fail and indeed wreak more havoc.

Support whomever you’d like for president. But also do your Sosc reading.

Nicholas Saffran is a fourth-year in the College majoring in political science.

“The reality is that both houses of Congress are currently held by Republicans, and it is neither feasible nor realistic to expect a presidency devoid of compromise.”

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ating the need for a political revolution and a complete transformation of the political system, and referred vaguely to “an offer they can’t refuse.”

However, the reality is that both houses of Congress are currently held by Republicans, and it is neither feasible nor realistic to expect a presidency devoid of compromise.

A more moderate candidate like Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, would understand that political revolutions come in the form of small legislative victories that are achieved through thoughtful deliberation, negotiation, and compromise with the other side.

Sanders offered plenty of populist rhetoric, and if his goal was to fire up a crowd of idealist undergrads, he succeeded. However, if his aim was to persuade a group of critically thinking intellectuals that he has the chops to pass progressive legislation in a city mired in gridlock, he left much to be desired. Although Sanders has pushed important policy to the forefront of many political conversations, we encourage the student body to look at his candidacy objec-

tively, and critically evaluate his policies and plans for implementing his agenda, rather than just celebrating his intellectual roots. Sanders’s charisma and ability to rally supporters are impressive qualities and, when paired with his progressive agenda, make him a compelling candidate.

“If [Sanders’] goal was to fire up a crowd of idealist undergrads, he succeeded.”

Yet he’s missing the final piece in this puzzle. Real progress in the lives of Americans requires real legislative action in Washington—an ability to get things done—and Senator Sanders just doesn’t get that.

Jamie Ehrlich is a second-year in the College majoring in political science.

Forrest Sill is a second-year in the College majoring in computer science.

Editor’s Note: Forrest Sill is Multimedia Editor for The Maroon.

Summer livin’ How to make the best of monotony and enjoy the life you have

Cortney McInerney

No pun intended The familiar anxiety creeps over my arms in angry goose bumps as the rusted cars of the freight train amble slowly into view. I know—or I hope, at least—that this time will be like every other time: The freight will crawl away, my car will cross the tracks, and I’ll reach the station just as my Metra ride pulls in, three blessed minutes late.

I always board at the same time; same car, too. The same people are always there, talking about the same things: How was your weekend? Did you bring your cat to the vet? Tell your wife

“...it feels like I’m standing between mirrors, watching copies of myself roll groggily out of bed at 7:10 a.m. into infinity.”

I said hello. Don’t even get me started on my boss.

I sit. I watch. I wonder what it is about the routine that soothes me, despite the fact that the routine itself is something I’m quickly coming to despise.

It’s all very quaint, almost comically so. I live in the suburbs and work in the city. Commute?

Metra. Work? Cubicle. Lunch?

12. After work? The g ym, then spending time with friends for an hour or two, then bed.

Rinse, wash, repeat. And on and on and on.

It’s been a month and a half, but at times it feels like I’m standing between mirrors, watching copies of myself roll groggily out of bed at 7:10 a.m. into infinity.

I’m making money writing vacation content, selling homes I’ve never been to and places I’ll never visit with fluffy adjectives and pretty pictures. Right by the beach! Plush king beds! Luxurious whirlpool tubs!

I’d call it a nightmare, but it’s more like a deep restlessness. You know you’re supposed to be doing something else, something besides staring at the ceiling with a buzzing brain and heavy limbs— you just can’t.

Bustling, busy, sidestepping city buildings, dodging cars and Greenpeace initiatives because I’m three minutes late like my train. It’s early enough in my life that I’m not too worried I’ll be doing this forever, but then again, I have trouble taking risks. I can see myself ambling slowly along this current like that outdated freight train, too weak to resist the momentum of familiarity.

And this is becoming familiar.

This is becoming comfortably mind-numbing ; the weekends are starting to taste like confetti because thank God it’s Friday—and I mean it more now than I ever did before.

It’s not as tragic as I’m making it out to be, of course, but it’s been so long since I’ve written something not dripping in sticky persuasion and false cheer

that I really can’t help myself.

I’m tempted to write about some corporate zombie who stares out at the world with glassy eyes, existing suspended between paychecks but, again, that’s not exactly right. There are days where the sun seems brighter or the sky bluer and I can’t help but smile at the glittering skyscrapers around me. Days when I write and think this is great, I never knew this, never would’ve known this. Days where I remember it’s just a few months. It’s not a big deal. I’m making good money and I’m proud of my work.

Then there are days where constructing a positive narrative feels practically impossible. Where I sit on the five o’clock train and wonder why it’s all so petty, why the tantalizing lives I read about are so many leagues beyond what I’m living right now, what the people around me are living.

Meaningless conversation, shallow personalities, work and home and kids and pets.

Cyclical summer living, but living nonetheless.

Summers used to taste like chlorine, sweat, and candy. Now it’s city smog. Now there’s this feeling like floating, but not like it used to be, on crystal-clear waters.

It’s an uncertain kind of feeling, like I’ve been caught and I have nothing to do but to hang here and wonder how I even got here in the first place. Solid ground beneath my feet doesn’t come again until September, and then I’ll finally be moving again, starting new classes, forgetting all this sprawl in my head. I don’t need and don’t want these extra minutes on the train or at my desk be-

cause they’re filled with thoughts about how it is, how it used to be, how I’d imagined it—and about how all three have spectacularly failed to match up.

I thought I’d write a book someday. Or live somewhere sunny. Or have my own garden, even though I’ve never grown so much as a weed. And someday is getting closer, but I’m having trouble seeing the connection between right now and right there. I used to be so sure, used to say these things with absolute certainty. Now I say them out loud and they taste desperate because I want them so, so much, and everything I’ve ever wanted has always ended up being nothing like I thought.

In fact, the best things in my life now are the surprises, the people and places and experiences I never imagined I’d fall in love with but did. Being sure about something isn’t everything. The surprises make me smile. They make me laugh. They make me want to stop thinking about the future because, hey, the present is kind of great when you’re around. Let’s just stay here for a little while longer. Just a moment more.

Then sometimes it’s on the train, on my way to my cubicle, that the murkiness of the future doesn’t seem like such a bad thing.

That this second is just as precious as all the thousands coming after it—more precious even, since it’s the only one I’ll ever truly, fully be able to experience.

The freight makes good on its promise this time around and I miss my train, but the sun is out and it’s Friday and my boss didn’t seem to care that I’d be an hour

late when I called. The grass is soft beneath my back, the pastel sky is dotted here and there with fluffy clouds and gentle breezes, and I feel like I’m in a Studio Ghibli movie—Kiki’s Delivery Service, maybe. A story about a witch leaving home to make a life for herself in a seaside town and,

“this second is just as precious as all the thousands coming after it—more precious even, since it’s the only one I’ll ever truly, fully be able to experience. wow, talk about nostalgia. I’m half expecting her to fly out from behind one of those cookie-cutter clouds and wave at me.

But that’s crazy. And I’m not quite there yet (g ive it another two months).

When’s the last time I just laid down in the grass like this? The last time I had nowhere to be and nothing to do but enjoy the sun and the sky, the last time I could just disappear into a moment and live there for a while? I can’t remember, but it’s happening right now and I can’t stop smiling.

Such a simple thing, but such a lovely thing nonetheless.

Yes it’s been cyclical, this summer living ; a thousand times yes it has. But it’s living and I’m alive and I’m falling in love with another surprise—so really, how can I help but be glad?

Cortney McInerney is a secondyear in the College majoring in English.

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Plugged in and zoned out When your eyes are glued to your phone, you miss what’s right in front of you

Brooke White On the fifth floor of the MoMA in New York City, it’s nearly impossible to get a good look at Van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” without squeezing through the crowd of tourists. People won’t stand any closer than five feet away, not because there’s any barrier preventing them, but because they don’t want

“Instead of using their phones to engage more with the art they’ve paid to see, they’re focused on their own social relevance. ” to get the backs of their heads in anyone else’s picture. They just want their blurry Snapchat, their filtered Instagram picture, their “I’ve seen something famous” Facebook post. Yes, the majority of these people know who painted this: They’ve seen reprints on posters, on T-shirts, and postcards.

But do they know why it’s important? Or what it means? Instead of using their phones to engage more with the art they’ve paid to see, they’re focused on their own social relevance.

There is a reason why we are glued to our phones as we waddle

in bathroom lines. Why we sneak a peek at our notifications when our dates run to the bathroom (where they will probably check theirs, too). Why we believe we unite to overcome technology’s suffocation by stacking our cell phones in the middle of the table at a dinner party.

We believe we love technology because it connects us to the world, but this connection has become an excuse for dependency.

Cell phones have become a social crutch. But the paradox of the 21st century is that this pressure to remain relevant often creates such strong disconnect among those with whom we try to reconnect.

Without WiFi and Internet access, we feel like we’re missing out on our friends’ lives. The anxiety of being without a WiFi password is universally understood: That’s why Chicago launched free WiFi at five public beaches, and Barcelona’s airport-to-city buses advertise “free WiFi on board” next to their ticket prices. But when we start timing our Instagram posts so they’ll get the most likes, our lives begin to become a popularity contest.

Facebook has become a time capsule for posting and preserving special moments in a public sphere:

We share prom pictures and celebrate anniversaries, but we also dedicate paragraph-long posts to relatives who have recently passed away. But underlying each of our posts is a desire to remain relevant, and our shared memories are manipulated: They’re marketed for an audience and advertised to gain likes. To make our own memories relevant on these media platforms, we sacrifice sincerity (how we truly felt about that day, that person, that event) for popularity (how we want others to feel about us).

Just as it’s impossible to take quality lecture notes when we’re simultaneously scrolling through our Facebook feed, it’s impossible to fully appreciate an experience when it’s lived through a screen.

At musical festivals, concertgoers post videos of the most popular songs to their Snapchat stories.

I’ll always be able to re-listen to Alex Turner asking me “Do I Wanna Know ?” but I won’t get to

re-experience sitting on top of my best friend’s shoulders and singing the song at the top of my lungs.

“Why am I taking these videos? Is it for me? Or is it for my Snapchat friends[?]”

The only problem is that I didn’t experience this concert the way I should have: I was too concerned with an in-focus picture and great sound quality so I could record it on Snapchat. And after leaving Lollapalooza feeling like I’d missed something, I asked myself why I post. Why am I taking these videos? Is it for me? Or is it for my Snapchat friends, 75 percent of whom are people I’ve lost touch with and haven’t “connected” with in years?

When our concern with staying relevant starts coercing us into living life half behind a screen and half in the moment we’re desperate to share, we need to ask what the purpose of each post is. At the beach, if your first thought is to Instagram the sunset and not to let the water hit your toes, ask yourself if it’s more important to experience the beauty in front of you or the gratification from reassured relevancy. Deactivating our Facebooks and deleting our Instagrams isn’t a solution, considering they’re two main mediums for modern communication. But if we can’t go to an art exhibit without Instagramming it, and if we can’t fly to another country without checking in on Facebook, maybe it’s time to take a step back and determine if online relevancy corrupts physical reality.

Brooke White is a second-year in the College.

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MJ Chen and Hannah Edgar Associate Arts Editors In recognition of the institutions’ shared 125th anniversary, the University of Chicago and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) sponsored a public discussion between CSO Zell Music Director Riccardo Muti and program note annotator Philip Huscher on September 21. The talk, which took place at the Logan Center, was preceded by opening remarks from University President Robert J. Zimmer, who offered an overview of past exchanges between the University and CSO and a preview of joint projects to come.

Symphony patrons who know Muti only by his intense podium presence are often disarmed by his ebullient humor and wit, which were on full display during last Monday’s talk. The maestro charmed attendees with lively anecdotes, impressions of theatrical conductors, and his assessment of “italianità,” or overblown Italian caricatures, in opera.

But underneath the maestro’s quips, a deep thread of seriousness permeated the evening. Muti expressed concern regarding the direction of classical music, as well as profound gratitude towards scholars whose work has informed modern performance practice. He specifically acknowledged renowned mu-

sicologist and retired University professor Philip Gossett, who spearheaded the critical editions of Verdi and Rossini’s entire operatic oeuvre, and who was in attendance.

Before the talk, Muti generously sat down with the Maroon for an exclusive interview in the green room of the Logan Center, during which he spoke at length about what the CSO’s 125th season says about the orchestra, music’s role in society, and the changing face of classical music.

HE: In regards to programming this upcoming season, you’ve selected works of which the CSO either gave the world premiere or American premiere during its 125 year-long history. What went into planning this season?

RM: Well, I have wonderful collaborators. One is here, in fact: Philip Huscher, who is having the conversation with me. When we started thinking about the celebration of the 125th anniversary, we thought that the best thing was to go back for one season and to celebrate the orchestra. So this is not something that has to do with a conservative attitude. I think it was better in our mind to give the public an idea of the history of the orchestra. In fact, how many people know today that some works of Prokofiev or Bartók had their world premiere by the Chicago Symphony

Orchestra? That says to the world that this orchestra was very open to the contemporary music of that time.

For example, there’s the story of Alfredo Casella, whose Third Symphony had its premiere here. At the end of the ’30s, he met Frederick Stock, the second conductor of the Chicago Symphony, in Venezia [Venice]. And this is interesting, that at that time, without email—without iPod, iPhone, iThink, iDunno—there was a tight liaison between the two continents. It says very much about the cooperation of musicians in the two different parts of the Atlantic—things that today, even with all the possibilities of communication, seem to have become more complicated. It’s not that it has become more complicated, it’s that culture is going generally in directions that are not so brilliant.

In one word, the culture is going down—not the people of culture, but the interest in culture from the governments around the world.

MC: You say that interest in culture is going down, and you said in a previous interview that our future is culture. With these two things in mind, what do you imagine the culture of the future looking like?

RM: I think that the mixture of different cultures— the Asian world, the South American world, et cetera— MUTI continued on page 10

For the ninth year in a row, University of Chicago students and the greater South Side community had the opportunity to hear incredible local artists at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival last weekend. Attracting huge crowds at venues throughout Hyde Park, this two-day festival featured nearly 40 artists spanning a wide variety of jazz genres including American jazz standards, Latin American jazz, and debuts of new compositions.

What was most exciting about this year’s festival was the number of performers from the Chicago area.

Unlike many well-known festivals—like the Newport Jazz Festival—the Hyde Park Jazz Fest focuses less on attracting “name-brand” artists and focuses more on lesser-known, but equally masterful artists raised and trained in Chicago, some even from Hyde Park itself.

One standout Chicago native was pianist Alexis Lombré, who performed with her quintet at the Hyde Park Union Church on Saturday afternoon. Lombré, who started her freshman year this fall at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theater, and Dance, performed with musicians much older than herself.

However, she not only held her own with her more experienced counterparts, but also played with a poise and confidence that hailed clear

respect from her bandmates.

As a bandleader, Lombré was gracious, taking solos only as long as those of her colleagues. Especially notable was trumpet player Justin Copeland who, of all the band members, used the most diverse array of techniques and ideas while improvising. He altered metrical feel, quoted some well-known jazz standards, and fully explored the trumpet’s immense range—his ability to consistently hit notes in the altissimo register was particularly impressive.

While the band seemed to struggle a bit with the booming acoustics of the church, the communication between band members was excellent. During “Cherokee,” a lightning-fast tune

by Ray Noble, the band did not let the tempo slip once. After a rocky start, they regained their footing and remained fully together throughout the duration of the tune.

As a finale, the quintet played the quintessential jazz classic “Maiden Voyage” by jazz legend Herbie Hancock, in an arrangement

by Lombré that was entirely modern. She revamped all of the chords, and only at the very end, after a lengthy solo section, did she reveal the familiar Hancock melody. The arrangement was an original twist on a guaranteed crowd-pleaser, and the perfect way to end the concert.

Lombré was not the only

musician experimenting with new ideas at this year’s festival.

Later that evening, worldrenowned jazz violinist Regina Carter challenged a nearly full Rockefeller Chapel to rethink the way we view the violin. For those used to hearing the violin in a classical context, Carter’s bending of notes initially seemed jarring. However, she soon convinced the audience that the violin need not be confined to orchestral playing.

Carter, who performed with well-known jazz pianist Xavier Davis, played with a sensitivity, vulnerability, and honesty that was very well-received. Audience members clapped in the middle of her solos out of sheer joy. Her level of comfort on stage was evident; she played mostly with her eyes closed and swayed peacefully with the music, always smiling. Both she and Davis seemed so at ease on stage that it was as though the audience was witnessing a private jam session.

This excitement and love for jazz was palpable up until the very end of the festival. The final performance of the weekend was by jazz legend and Hyde Park resident Willie Pickens, who has played with Max Roach and other jazz heavyweights.

His Sunday evening performance embodied all that the Hyde Park Jazz Festival stands for: great music and a love for Hyde Park and its residents.

The South Side community gathers to enjoy a weekend of jazz performances.

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“The next time you go to a concert and see a conductor who moves more than is necessary... you have to boo” MUTI continued from page 9

these together will create a much more interesting cultural world, and the communication between people will be much tighter. Before, culture was sometimes an element of division. Now, the new world is based on the integration of different cultures, from which can come a new culture that can become more like brothers.

I have direct experience with this, because every year [with the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra] I do a concert that’s called “Concert for Friendship.” And we go to different places—we have been in Sarajevo, in Beirut, in Moscow, in New York after the towers [fell]—and ask musicians of the troubled place to join with our musicians and to play together. This has been very positive. Instead of having these bad feelings that old people still have, the younger musicians become friends—they love each other, sing together, play together. So in the name of the music and with the help of the music, they are able to look to the future and not look to the past all the time. This only music could do.

HE: I was at an open rehearsal of yours with the Civic

University of Chicago students Hannah Edgar (left) and MJ Chen (center) speak with Muti about the future of classical music.

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Orchestra, and you surprised me by saying that the world is losing its artistic values. How can we regain those artistic values, if our generation is losing them?

RM: First off, the basic element is education—if you teach kids how to move in the world of sounds, to interest them in the world of a symphony. It should be done in such a way that it becomes a pleasure and a discovery, not a punishment. Then, when they become adults, they will feel that they need this spiritual bread. But if you leave them in complete ignorance, you cannot expect that at the age of 20, 25, they will go into a concert hall to hear the [B minor Mass] of Bach or the Missa solemnis of Beethoven. It will be like being in an unknown world.

There is another thing : In the last [several] years, we have become a visual society. So instead of listening to the music, we want to see conductors exercising on the podium, pianists that communicate with God while playing, violinists that try to impress the public with sexy attitudes…All this didn’t exist 30 years ago, 40 years ago. Today, with television and other things, people are interested in what they see. Nobody speaks about the spiritual integrity of these [artists]; what they are conveying to the public.

So something dramatic is happening. And instead of helping the public to become more concentrated on the substance of what art is, we are following them—giving them candies instead of vitamins. The next time you go to a concert and see a conductor who moves more than is necessary, and opens his mouth like a shark, you have to boo.

MC: I’ve been waiting to do that! North American audiences always give standing ovations, no matter what.

RM: Yes. If the concert ends loud, you can be sure of its success. Because the public, when it is not educated, reacts to the physical impact of the sound.

So we please them, and we are ruining the quality of the audience. But this attitude that we still have of musicians in tails—dressed like penguins—and all this ceremony that has been going on for more than one century… This is something that is not helping the music to become [universal]. I want to see the moment in the future—I hope before I disappear from this planet—when [orchestras] do what I’m doing already in rehearsals, which is speaking to both the musicians and the public. That way, the public becomes an essential part of the process.

We have to change the world. Not “we”—you! You are young, after all.

Riccardo Muti meets with professor emeritus Philip Gossett backstage at the Logan Arts Center.

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The University of Chicago and the CSO continue their joint celebrations with the following events: •

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Chamber performances by CSO musicians at Burke Elementary in Washington Park (November 16 at 4 p.m.) and at the Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn (date TBD) All-day “marathon” performances of Bach’s Brandenburg Concerti by Civic Orchestra of Chicago musicians in venues throughout the South Side (December 3 at various times) The premiere of an original composition by Assistant Professor of Music Anthony Cheung, given by Civic Orchestra musicians during the University Ceremony of the 525th Convocation (December 11 at 2 p.m.)

Further details will be posted on 125.uchicago.edu.

Lyric's Figaro marries misguided direction with poor taste MJ Chen Associate Arts Editor “This is not a stylized production.” So claims director Barbara Gaines in the program notes of her gaudy, tasteless excuse for Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, which opened Lyric Opera of Chicago’s 61st season this past Saturday. Thank God the music’s good.

Based on the Beaumarchais play of the same name, Mozart’s Figaro is a comic opera in four acts. Figaro, a valet, plans to marry the maid Susanna. But his master, Count Almaviva—who is chronically unfaithful to his wife, the Countess—has more carnal designs for the bride. A chaotic farce ensues, packed with wit and profound humanity.

Figaro was the first opera I ever saw, a ’95 Met broadcast on YouTube. I fell in love with the music through my 10cent speakers: Nothing else I had heard sounded so natural yet so sublime. Though it’s tempting to dismiss the opera’s plot and words as banal, Figaro’s true magic happens when performer and director successfully unify music and text. Consider the Act I trio “Cosa sento!,” in which the philandering Count and his go-fer find a pageboy hidden under Susanna’s petticoat.

Despite the absurdity of the scene, the pageboy’s arias offer poignant moments of introspection and vulnerability.

In scenes like this, Mozart confronts us with a spectacle of humanity through words and music, which speak to us in synergistic unity. Figaro’s most powerful moment arrives at the Act IV finale, where the Count asks his wife to forgive his infidelity.

The line is powerfully simple, arching submissively upwards. Its emotional content builds on and contrasts the chaos that saturates the rest of the opera: A single word, “Perdono,” offers peace and reconciliation.

Director Gaines agrees that Figaro is “a feast of joy, love, harmony, and grace.” If such a feast took place last Saturday, it was lost under the affectation and irrelevance presented onstage. I witnessed librettist Lorenzo da Ponte’s text desecrated as projected surtitles mistranslated the libretto for cheap laughs.

All wit and nuance was lost: What Mozart composed as an ironic catfight between Susanna and Marcellina in Act I (“Via resti servita”) devolved to a trite exchange of “Bimbo!” and “Bitch!” More significantly, the Countess’s soul-searching “Dove sono” shriveled to a handful of plat-

itudes: “I must be strong./ I’ll show him that love conquers all./ Someday he’ll come back to me.” To reduce the text to its barest meaning insults both the work and patronizes the audience. Are we so incapable of critical engagement that Mozart needs be fed to us like infant formula?

Not that the onstage juvenilia helped what little integrity the production had.

God forbid the work speak for itself: It needs gratuitous slapstick lest nobody knows it’s funny! God forbid Figaro stay still! How can anyone get that it’s dramatic unless we overact everything?

I’m sorry—“this is not a stylized production”? Gaines is the biggest liar since Pinkerton in Madame Butterfly.

Forget that the set looks like the biggest ramp at an indoor skate park dressed with junk from Pier 1 Imports. Forget that Susanna looks like Smurfette playing the prostitute from Les Misérables. Forget that Basilio is, inexplicably, gayer than West Hollywood and resembles an extra from SNL’s The Californians. Forget these and 10 other equally heinous directorial decisions and of course “this is not a stylized production”!

Artless, witless, and soulless as the production was,

its music provided the eve- nesse. Mezzo-soprano Rachel Riccardo Muti of the Chining’s single success. Lyric’s Frenkel delivered a stellar cago Symphony Orchestra Figaro was mostly well-cast: performance as the pageboy last Monday. “Instead of Soprano Christiane Karg de- Cherubino, pairing a spar- helping the public to belivered a spunky, perky Susan- kling upper register with keen come more concentrated on understanding. the substance of what art is,” na, floating her silvery upper narrative register easily above rowdy During “Voi che sapete” she he worries, “we are ruining ensembles. Her second-act made clever use of a pillow to the quality of the audience.” aria, “Venite, inginocchiat- conceal an implied erection: Last Saturday, Lyric Opera evi,” flaunted attractive phras- doubly clever because a) ev- opened its season with a Fiing and a delicate vocal tone. ery teenage boy has done that garo absent of cultural stewAdam Plachetka delivered as before, and b) it’s an esoteric ardship. Under the guise of Figaro but did not impress, pun on the gender ambiguity freshness and accessibility it degrades both Mozart and frequently swapping his of trouser roles.

While preparing this re- the public. Pity, because the booming, handsome baritone for a barky talk-shout that did view, I thought back to our music is quite good. little to endear his interpreta- conversation with Maestro tion.

Amanda Majeski played a rather forgettable Countess Almaviva. Her voice seemed more comfortable in the middle and lower registers, demonstrating audible difficulty when her role demanded the high notes typical for lyric sopranos. At one point during the trio “Susanna, or via sortite,” her sound disappeared completely. Though Majeski recovered for a creamier “Dove sono,” I took issue with her phrasing—she seemed to run out of air by the end of each line—and less-than-clear Italian.

Luca Pisaroni made a dashing Count, armed with a suave, powerful bass-baritone: His only aria “Hai gia Christiane Karg (Susanna) and Adam Plachetka (Figaro) vinta la causa” thrilled with get a bit too silly in director Barbara Gaines' production. bombast and dramatic fi- COURTESY OF TODD ROSENBERG

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Historic win over Centre brings Chicago to 3–0 Football Emmet Rosenbaum

Sports Staff The Maroons have preserved their Monsters of the Midway moniker by mashing their way to a 3–0 start. After narrowly edging out Case Western at home and squeaking by a week later at Millsaps, the team returned to the South Side with an upset over No. 20 Centre.

Three successful games into the season, it is easy to forget that the Maroons almost started the season in a hole, finding themselves down by 14 points in the fourth quarter of their season opener against Case. The Maroon offense then kicked it into high gear. Back to back 68-yard drives resulted in a pair of touchdown passes from third-year quarterback Burke Moser, evening up the game at 24–24. Case answered back on the next drive, as third-year receiver Bryan Erb stormed across the field en route to a 70yard touchdown. But the Spartans failed to execute the extra point, opening the door for a Chicago victory.

The Maroons capitalized, with Moser throwing his fourth touchdown pass of the day, on a dart to thirdyear receiver Syd Reynolds.

Fourth-year Karol Kurzydlowski converted on the extra point opportunity to secure a victory for the squad as the defense managed to shut Case down for a final score of 31–30.

The South Siders followed the opening weekend nail-biter with another tight game against Millsaps out of Mississippi. Af-

ter a 13-hour bus ride, it was Chicago who jumped ahead in the first half, staking out a 17–0 lead mid way through the second quarter. The teams then exchanged blows, heading into the half with the Maroons still leading by the score of 24–14. Millsaps made a push in the second half, coming within a touchdown of the lead, but couldn’t conquer the Chicago offense, which added another touchdown to nail down a 31–27 day.

Moser continued to produce, throwing for a career high 348 yards and three touchdowns. “Quite honestly we are just playing with a lot of confidence,” the third-year play-caller said. “Coming off of a strong season last year, we knew we still had a lot to prove, especially since we changed conferences this year. The offense is clicking, the defense is playing hard, we just feel pretty confident about our team as a whole.”

The team headed into its game last weekend brimming with confidence, but it faced a tall order in taking on the No. 20 ranked Centre. The Colonels, prior to running into the Maroons, boasted a 14-game-long regular season winning streak. Chicago knocked the conference powerhouse on its heels early, however, turning a fourth down deep in Colonels’ territory into a touchdown pass from Moser to fourth-year Cole Thoms. One possession later, the quarterback delivered again, connecting with Reynolds for a 23yard pass that wound up in

the end zone.

Centre came out with a touchdown to start the second, making the score 14–7. The home team was not deterred, as Moser delivered again with a 35yard touchdown strike to fourth-year Nathan Massey. Centre scored a field goal with 90 seconds left, looking to go into the half with a score of 21–10.

Heading into the half, momentum was in limbo.

However, second-year running back Chandler Carroll had other ideas. He stormed down the field for a 48-yard gain, setting up a Moser-to-Thoms connection that secured the team a 28–10 lead with mere seconds left in the half.

Moser had a monster first half on his way to what would be a 212-yard day. However, when asked about the success that he and the rest of the offensive group experienced, the third-year thrower was quick to shift the responsibility of the success to his teammates. “So far I’ve just been getting the ball to the playmakers we have on offense. There are five or six guys that can make plays on every down and as long as I can get it in their hands, we are golden.”

However, when Chicago came out for the second half, the game quickly became second-year Chandler Carroll’s. Though Centre scored on its kickoff return, the running back scored from 39 yards out on the Maroon’s initial drive of the half. A couple minutes later, he rushed for 33 more yards into the red zone with a subse-

Second-year Chandler Carroll breaks loose for a long run COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

quent 5-yard dash into the end zone. Then, toward the end of the third quarter, Carroll smashed his way through the Colonels defensive line, galloping down the field to score a 72-yard touchdown. That gave him three touchdowns on the day, giving Chicago a 49–16 advantage.

Carroll finished with 311 rushing yards, a new school record, as the Maroons won by a final of 49– 30. Bruce Montella had set the old record of 305 yards in 1985. “That kid brings

it every day,” said Moser. “I just think there were a few more holes for him on Saturday. Any given Saturday he can set a record, he’s just one of those special players.”

The Maroons have started 3–0 for the third consecutive year, giving them sole possession of first place in the SAA conference. As they prepare for their next match at Birmingham next Saturday, Moser said that their confidence will continue to lead them toward success. “We never are

overconfident and cocky, but there is definitely a swagger on game days that helps us play together and win.”

Birmingham will prove another tough match up, however, as it is 3–1 to start the season.

The Maroons are scheduled to play at Birmingham, AL at 1 p.m. on Saturday, October 3. The squad will look to improve on their record there and then continue their march to what could potentially be an undefeated season.

Conference play looms for 7–2–1 Maroons Men’s Soccer Britta Nordstrom

Associate Sports Editor While most UChicago students were in the middle of summer internships and vacations, the Maroons were ready to finish what is typically a gruelling pre-season and start their first game as September 1 rolled around.

And the Maroons were ready indeed, as evidenced by the fact that they rattled off a 5–0 start, earning wins against Dominican (1–0), Olivet (2–1), Rose-Hulman (1–0), North Park (3–1), and St. Olaf (2–1).

When asked about their favorite game of that fivegame winning streak, both second-year Hill Bonin and fourth-year Jorge Bilbao responded with their comeback against North Park.

“We let one goal in and then turned around and crushed them,” Hill said.

“For about 30 minutes, we saw exactly what we can do to a team when we are firing on all cylinders.”

Echoing his teammates’ sentiments, Bilbao said, “The comeback really showed us what we can do when we play our game and leave everything on the field.” Another great win for the Maroons was their double-overtime victory against St. Olaf.

Unfortunately, the streak didn’t last forever, as the Maroons eventually fell to No. 6 Loras 4–0.

Bilbao said, “We lost that game, but it helped us in a lot of ways. We were humbled by it and we were able to figure out some aspects

on our game that needed more work.”

The Maroons certainly used the loss as fuel, because they rattled off two more wins against Benedictine (2–1) and North Central (2–1), before eventually falling in a close match with Wheaton (1–0). The only goal of the game came in the final two minutes.

The squad’s last game featured a matchup against Carthage, which ended in a tie at one goal apiece, even after two overtimes. Bilbao said, “We’re at a point in the season where we need to focus more on our ability to grind out tough results instead of our actual soccer.”

While a tie certainly isn’t optimal, Chicago has shown that they are able to grind out long games; double

overtimes can go as long as 110 minutes and the squad has shown they are up to the challenge twice this year.

Chicago’s upcoming game against Emory this Saturday is the first of conference play, and the Eagles lead the series 19–7–2. Last year, however, the Maroons ousted No. 6 Emory in Atlanta, so the Eagles will almost assuredly come into the game with revenge on their minds.

But the team and Bilbao have something else in mind.

“I can’t wait to start off this conference season with a win and find the momentum we were able to find last year,” he said. “It’s awesome to be part of something like that and I have no doubt that we can do it again this year.”

On the team’s approach to the conference play, Bonin

said, “We are channelling all of our energy into only the next game. We have the mentality that every game is a difficult one but, if we maximize our efforts mentally and physically, it’s also an opportunity to work towards our ultimate goal of the season.”

The Maroons are also excited to be returning home; they have played two difficult road games and face a stretch of four away games after they play Emory, so playing at home will bring a breath of fresh air.

“We are always excited to play at home,” said Bonin, “the team does feed off of our home supporters so we plan on using that to our advantage.”

Although the squad is very young and the start of

conference play is just another part of the season, for the four fourth-years it is their last chance to take on teams that they have been playing every year for the last four years. “The feeling of starting my last conference season is bittersweet,” Bilbao said. “I’m glad I have this group of guys by my side to try to go all the way.”

The game will be played on Saturday, October 3, at 1:30 p.m. at Stagg Field.

While the Maroons beat Emory in Atlanta last year, the Eagles have bested Chicago at home the past two meetings, so both squads will have vengeance on their minds. It will surely be an amazing battle, and any individual in Hyde Park not at this game will be missing out.

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Kurtenbach blazes the trails as Maroons begin season Volleyball David Kerr Sports Staff As students return to campus and the University of Chicago begins a new school year, the Maroons look to take their 12–4 record into UAA conference play that begins this weekend. The Maroons begin play this Saturday in New York City with matches against conference rivals NYU and Rochester.

But, while school is just starting for most students, the Maroons have been excelling on the volleyball court since early September. The Maroons started the season off with a sizzling start winning their first eight matches, including first place finishes at the Gargoyle Classic and the Jim Memorial Classic.

One of the wins included a bea tdown of the defending national champion, Hope College. It marked the first win over Hope College in Chicago’s history. Firstyear Brooke Watson was especially encouraged by the win. “It was so awesome to beat Hope College, especially since they were ranked third. We played re-

ally well and held our own against them throughout all five sets.”

Third-year Mary Claire Tuohy felt that even though it was a momentous win, on the court it was business as usual. “For such a big match and a tremendous uproar, the win seemed to come almost naturally.

The match wasn’t stressful or forced and going in we knew we had nothing to lose.”

After being handed their first loss of the season against Illinois Wesleyan, the Maroons bounced back to win the Carthage Classic in Kenosha, WI, with one of the wins coming against No. 5 UW Stevens-Point.

The strong start for the Maroons has the team very optimistic about its chances for the rest of the season and an eventual playoff push. Second-year Taylor David is optimistic, noting, “We are working well as a team and we have extremely high hopes for the postseason. We are about to start conference play and are super excited about that. We have been experiencing a lot of pressure being in the fantastic

position we are in but we are continuing to work on developing our offense and remaining very dynamic in the front row.”

But before the Maroons can make a postseason push they have to get through conference play in the UAA. Watson notes that the Maroons’ strong start and recent success will coax the best effort out of every team they face. “We got second place at UAAs last year so we will have a target on our backs this season. We’ve had a strong schedule so far which has helped us prepare for our upcoming conference matches. Every conference game is important and will be competitive and we’ll have to play really hard and execute well if we want to have a successful weekend.”

The first UAA opponent the Maroons have to face are the Yellow Jackets of Rochester, who come into the match with a 10–7 record and a 2–3 record in their last five matches. The Yellow Jackets have nine starters returning from last year’s squad that finished sixth in the UAA. The Yellow Jackets should provide

Third-year Erin Risk readies to serve against Millikin University.

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a formidable challenge to the Maroons to open up conference play in the UAA. After facing Rochester, the Maroons will be taking on the Violets of New York University. The Violets come in to the match on a two-game winning streak and an overall record of

9–7. NYU is a team loaded with youth due to only having one fourth-year and one third-year on the team.

Look for the Maroons’ experience to prevail in the match to overpower the Violets.

The direction of the Maroons seems to only be trending upward and

should bode well for conference play and a deep postseason run. While they may be out of town this weekend in New York, their departure will only be brief and they will be back on the enriched Maroon soil of Hyde Park in short time.

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Men’s, Women’s cross country hits the ground running in fall season Cross-Country Max Hawkins Sports Staff With impressive starts to the season, the No. 11 Chicago women’s and men’s cross country teams have not lost a step coming off a strong 2014 season. Last year, the women finished second at the UAA championship and 12th at nationals in Mason, OH. The men finished third at the UAA championship with now fourth-year Michael Frasco qualifying for nationals and finishing 61st.

“Most of the team did their

summer training, and came into our August preseason on campus in good fitness, so we were able to build on that the weeks before our first competition,” said fourth-year Henry Blood.

That training appeared to reveal itself as the men placed second in their first meet of the season on September fourth at St. Francis in Joliet, IL. Third-years Gareth Jones, Nick Nielsen, and Timofey Karginov all ran the 5K in under 16 minutes, with the team finishing in the top ten.

Frasco and second-year Pe-

ter Kreuch placed 12th and 15th respectively, while firstyears Ansel Richards and Jacob Gosselin finished 17th and 20th running 16:23 and 16:37, respectively.

The women swept the top spots, both finishing first and boasting five runners in the top six spots. Second-year Khia Kurtenbach won the race with a time of 18:41, while fourth-year Catherine Young finished third with a time of 18:52, second-year Kelsey Dunn finished fourth with a time of 18:53, fourthyear Brianna Hickey finished

fifth with a time of 18:59, and second-year Cassidy McPherson finished sixth with a time of 19:01.

In the second race of the season, both teams traveled to Warrenville, IL for the Wheaton Invite. The men’s team had another impressive result, posting 66 total points buoyed by strong individual performances. Jones and Frasco placed in the top 10 by virtue of running 25:58 and 26:15 respectively in the 8K, while Karginov placed 12th, Blood placed 18th, and Kreuch finished 22nd.

Unfortunately, their efforts were not enough as the team placed second behind No. 4 Wash U. Wash U finished with 25 points.

The women also finished second to No. 4 Wash U, finishing with 57 points to Wash U’s 46. Kurtenbach placed a second straight top five finish with a time of 22:26 in the 6K, while Hickey and Young again finished in the top 10, running 22:58 and 23:05 respectively. Third-year Madeleine Horvath and Dunn finished 13th and 21st overall, while second-year Claire

Costelloe and first-year Anastasia Bernat finished 23rd and 35th.

“Adjusting to school, and keeping up the quality of our workloads will be key to our continued success,” said Blood. Both teams look to continue their hot starts with the women led by Kurtenbach and the men led by Jones on Friday, October 7 in Bourbonnais, IL. Bourbonnais is the summer home of the local amateur football team, the Chicago Bears.

Chicago defeats Carthage as it regains footing Women’s Soccer Michael Cheiken Sports Staff The 3–5–0 Lady Reds of Carthage strolled onto the Maroons’ soccer pitch this windy, overcast Tuesday afternoon riding high on a two–game win streak.

They must have been eager to demonstrate that their recent form was a result of their great mettle, and not a combination of flukes and poor competition resulting in a good outcome.

They were unsuccessful.

The Maroons entered the game in 4–1–4–1 formation, and regardless of who was playing the lone striker, the Lady Reds had a devilish time trying to track and mark her. Second-year Mia Calamari started at the striker position. As she cut back toward the ball, her constant availability to the central midfielders opened up the field and jet–fuelled the offense. As the Carthage defenders collapsed

toward the point woman, the speedy Maroon wingers were able to make penetrating runs down the flanks.

The Maroons force-fed the ball through to Calamari at every opportunity.

In the sixth minute of play, she was able to turn the defender, and with acres of space in front of her, she needed naught but pick out one of the two penetrating runs. Calamari delivered a well-weighted throughball to sophomore Kelsey Moore. The lone Lady Red trailing the streaking midfielder made a last ditch effort at a clearance, but the ball deflected off Moore’s leg and over the outstretched arm of the Carthage keeper giving the Maroons a 1–0 lead.

The Maroons continued to dominate during the first half, controlling a large majority of the possession. However, in prolonged possession, the Maroons actually struggled to

produce chances. First-year Jenna McKinney showed a great ability to create during these spells, but otherwise the Maroon attack seemed fairly static.

The counter-attack is where the offense happened, and in the 34th minute, a poor Carthage turnover proved critical.

The Maroons were able to find the point, second-year Madori Spiker. Despite recovering from an ankle injury, she passed the defender and slipped a nice ball through to McKinney.

The goal-scorer Moore found herself wide open in front of net, and when McKinney delivered a pristine pass, Moore tallied her second of the day, tucking the ball past the keeper in a calm and composed finish.

Just four minutes later, the counter-attack proved productive again as a clearance from second-year Maroon defender Chelsea Johnson found Spiker’s

feet. Spiker was able to beat the last defender and one on one with the keeper she was able to find the back of the net. The Maroons hung on to the 3–0 lead for the remainder of the half.

However, the Maroons seemed too content coming out of the locker room, and the Lady Reds enjoyed a spell of possession. Fortunately, they were unable to capitalize, and when the Maroons regained their composure they reclaimed control of the game. The Maroons were able to tack on two more goals, one by fourth-year Naomi Pacalin, and another by second-year Hayley Thompson, before the game’s end at a 5–0 victory.

The victory marked the seventh straight home win for the Maroons.

On Saturday, the Maroons finally begin conference play with a home game against the 7–3–0 Emory squad.

Second-year Mia Calamari dukes out an opponent from earlier this season.

COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

Kurtenbach blazes the trails as Maroons begin season Tennis Katie Anderson Associate Sports Editor The men’s and women’s tennis squads have started their 2015–2016 campaign with an impressive string of top finishes in its first week of play.

At the Greater Cincinnati Collegiate Tennis Invitational in Mason, OH, the Chicago men kicked off its season against a field of Division I competition. The squad finished the weekend with a pair of singles titles. After solid first days, second-year David Liu and first-year Jonathan Li faced off against each other in the final match. Experience helped David Liu prevail over newcomer Li in three sets, 2–6, 6–2, 10–3.

Second-year Luke Tsai also picked up a win in the final match, making it look easy against his opponent from St. Francis of Pennsylvania.

Next, the Maroons headed to St. Louis to compete in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Central Region Championship.

On the first of four days of competition, the South Siders cruised to a 19–1 singles record. A highlight of the day was second-year Michael Selin’s win over the No. 6 seed from Wash U, an upset on his home court. Chicago also found success in doubles, going 8–2 on the day.

On day two, five Chicago players progressed to singles quarterfinals, going 12–4 overall. In doubles play, the Maroons went 6–2.

Glory came on day three with the Maroons winning the doubles title. At the No. 11 seeds, the second-year duo of Nicolas Chua and Liu defeated the No. 2 seeds from Kenyon in the semifinals. The pair then went on to overcome the No. 11 seeds from Case Western.

Their victory secured them a spot in the USTA/ITA National Small College Championships in October.

In singles play, three Chicago players advanced to the singles semifinals. Secondyear Nicolas Chua came out on top in the final, after defeating first-year teammate Max Liu. Commenting on how experience helped him in the match, Chua said, “I think knowing how to deal with

pressure situations and being in a lot of do or die scenarios in the past helped me a lot this weekend.”

Max Liu agreed with his older teammate, adding, “Playing college tennis requires a lot of discipline both mentally and physically and the ability to consistently play with the correct mind set as well as being able to adapt to changing conditions will be the key to moving forward.”

Chua is now gearing up to compete in the USTA/ITA Championships in October.

“There are lots of things that I would love to improve on, but really I want to get in the best physical shape possible before the tournament. This was a grueling weekend and being fresh for nationals will

be huge for me.”

Chua and Max Liu both reflect what has allowed the team to find so much success so early in the season.

“I think the main strength of our team is our depth,” Chua said. Every player can play in virtually any spot on the team, and even the players that won’t make the top six would be good enough to play top six at most other schools…I think we have a definite chance of being even stronger than last year.”

The women’s squad has also found success early, with strong performances at the three-day Bradley Invitational among six DI programs. In the final day of competition, first-year Rachel Kim faced off against second-year teammate Ari-

ana Iranpour. After Kim dominated the first set 6–0, experience came into play as Iranpour rallied to win the next two sets 6–2 and 10–4.

In doubles play, Kim paired with second-year Courtney Warren, thirdyear Tiffany Chen, and fourth-year Lucy Tang, and each pair won their respective consolation finals to wrap up a strong weekend.

The women will travel to Kalamazoo, MI for the ITA Central Region Championships this weekend. On the men’s side, individuals will compete in the upcoming USTA/ITA Championships in October, yet the next team competition is not until January when the Maroons will play versus Chicago State.

SPORTS

IN QUOTES “All I have to say about A-RODG is this: He’s a Baaaaaaadddddddddddddd Man!!!!!!!”

– Sportscaster Stephen A. Smith reacts to the recent performance of Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers

Football

Volleyball

Record: 3–0 Season highlight: Second-year Chandler Carroll ran for a school record 311 yards this past Saturday to help lead the Maroons past No. 20 Centre College.

Record: 12–4 Season highlight: Fourht-year Maren Loe secured the school record for kills as she recorded her 1,609 career kill earlier this season.

Men’s Soccer

Women’s Soccer

Record: 7–2–1 Season highlight: Rattled off five wins to begin their season, including a 2–1 double overtime victory over St. Olaf college.

Record: 7–3 Season highlight: Won their seventh-straight game in a row at home this past Tuesday with a complete dismantling of Carthage by a score of 5–0.

Men’s Cross Country

Women’s Cross Country

Record: 2nd in first two tournaments this season Season highlight: Third-year Gareth Jones was named UAA Athlete of the Week in the first week of September.

Record: 1st in their first tournament of season Season highlight: Second-year Khia Kurtenbach finished first at the season opening St. Francis Invite.

Men’s Tennis

Women’s Tennis

Record: N/A Season highlight: Second-year Nicolas Chua won the ITA Regional men’s tennis singles title for the second year in a row.

Record: N/A Season highlight: Second-year Ariana Iranpour won the singles title in the A Flight at the Bradley Invitational this past weekend.