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IME inaugurates first undergraduate class Marta Bakula News Staff The University’s Institute for Molecular Engineering (IME) debuted its first undergraduate molecular engineering course for the new minor this quarter.

The first and only undergraduate course offered this fall is Introduction to Emerging Technologies (MENG 20000), taught by the Institute’s director, Matthew Tirrell. Throughout the course, students will examine five

Kenwood Academy career coach Lindsey Hunter speaks at a news conference announcing the new financial aid initiatives. The initatives will replace student loans with grants, beginning with next year’s Class of 2019.

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University launches no-loan initiative Sarah Manhardt News Editor The University announced sweeping changes to its financial aid policy Wednesday, most notably through a new initiative called “No Barriers.” The revisions include eliminating loans, waiving the application fee, and providing additional funding and support for low- and middle-income students.

“No Barriers” will benefit all

students applying to the College, and additional initiatives will expand the Odyssey Scholars program. Most of the new initiatives expand the existing UChicago Promise program to the general population. The new programs will take effect beginning with the class of 2019, and were announced at a press conference Wednesday. Current students of the University will not be eligible for any of the new programs. The University

estimates that the new programs will include more than half of incoming first years, according to Campus and Student Life News Officer Mary Abowd.

“With UChicago ‘No Barriers’ and our other commitments, we are ensuring that people from all backgrounds and all incomes can afford to attend the University, and that they can thrive and succeed in whatever path they choose,” University President Robert J. Zimmer said

at the conference.

“No Barriers” guarantees no loans in need-based financial aid packages for undergraduates and no application fees for students in the College applying for financial aid. It also replaces the CSS/Financial Aid profile, a form required by most colleges when applying for financial aid, in addition to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), with a simpler form, LOANS continued on page 3

distinct emerging technologies, including stem cells in regenerative medicine and quantum computing, for two weeks each. Prerequisites for the course include completion of the College’s general education requirements in mathematics and the biological or physical sciences.

There has been a large student interest in MENG 20000—administrators said that more than a dozen people were on the waitlist as of Wednesday.

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Historian officially a MacArthur “Genius” Victoria Rael News Staff UChicago professor Tara Zahra received one of 21 prestigious 2014 MacArthur Fellowships for her academic work on Central and Eastern European history last month. Zahra studies the development of nationalism and family structure in 20thcentury Europe, integrating both social and historical contexts into her detailed

analyses.

The fellowship comes from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, one of the largest private organizations in the U.S., and is an unrestricted grant of $625,000 paid out over five years. It is intended to allow talented and dedicated individuals to pursue their ideas more freely and easily.

“The award was a total GRANT continued on page 3

Clear skies for stargazers: Ryerson gets new dome

University to end partnership with Confucius Institute

Alec Goodwin Associate News Editor

Christine Schmidt News Editor

An observatory once used by the late Carl Sagan is again fully operational.

The Observatory on the roof of Ryerson Hall has been plagued by its dysfunctional seventy-year-old dome, which fell into disrepair over time, but its recent renovation has students and faculty once again stargazing with ease.

The dome allows the observatory’s telescope to function properly, but large amounts of rust made the Observatory almost completely unusable by 2012. The Ryerson Astronomical Society (RAS), a RSO dedicated to astronomy that operates out of Ryerson and has existed since the 1950s, worked with the University to replace

the dome.

According to University spokesperson Steve Koppes, the new dome was constructed by Ash Manufacturing Inc. from June 30 to July 3, at a cost of $21,900, which was paid for out of University funds rather than through RSO funding.

The dome was built around 1937, although the exact completion date is unknown. Since that time, neither the dome nor the telescope had been rebuilt or replaced.

“The previous dome could not open. It was trapping a historic telescope inside; the [RAS] could not use it. Even when it opened all-right, it was difficult to use—requiring manually rotating the dome,” Assistant Astronomy and Astrophysics professor OBSERVE continued on page 3

The University announced last week it will end its partnership with the controversial Confucius Institute, a Chinese government–affiliated organization that provides Chinese language training, cultural education, and funding but has also been accused of stifling academic freedom.

This decision comes in light of comments made by Xu Lin, the chief executive of the Confucius Institute Headquarters and director-general of Hanban, the Chinese governmental organization that facilitates the institutes, to the publication Jiefang Daily in regards to the University of Chicago. The University cited the article in a statement released Thursday in which

it called Xu’s comments “incompatible with a continued equal partnership.”

The University had been in negotiations for several months with the Confucius Institute over renewing its contract after its first five-year term on campus when Xu’s comments were published. In the article, Xu discussed her reaction to a petition signed by 108 University faculty members asking the University to end its relationship with the Confucius Institute. In response to the petition, Xu wrote a letter to the University’s dean and called the University’s representative in Beijing. She told them that “If your University decides not to renew the contract, I will not object.” Her attitude worried the University authorities, and they quickly responded that they still planned to renew the

contract.

However, after seeing the article, the University reconsidered. The article paints Xu as a tough negotiator, and uses her reaction to the University petition as an example of Xu getting what she wanted through this tough negotiating style, something that irked University officials. Some have speculated that the decision not to renew the contract was due to more than just Xu’s comments, but a University official said that the article had a real effect on the University’s decision.

The decision to cease negotiations was ultimately made by University leadership in consultation with faculty, according to a University spokesperson.

According to the petition calling for the removal of the Confucius CONFUCIUS continued on page 3

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NEWS IN BRIEF

New program simplifies financial aid application, removes application fee

Office of Sustainability announces return of Recycles

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Recycles is rolling back on campus.

After announcing the cancellation of the program in late June, Director of the Office of Sustainability Mike Stopka announced on Wednesday that the fiveyear-old bike-sharing program will actually continue throughout this academic year.

At the time of the cancellation, Office of Sustainability Intern Alfredo Izguerra cited technological difficulties with the program’s organization software and the expansion of Chicago’s public bike sharing program, Divvy. Izguerra said that the University would likely partner with Divvy to subsidize memberships for University students, faculty, and staff in order to soften the loss of Recycles.

Recycles is scheduled to continue for the upcoming fall, spring, and summer quarters. It has a fleet of 35 bikes available at five different locations on campus, and has approximately 4,000 registered members.

“The Office of Sustainability is working to offer our community a long-term option for bike sharing, including additional bike sharing stations near campus.

In the meantime, Recycles will be offered as before,” Stopka wrote in an e-mail sent out to Recycles members.

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Library system launches new catalog and printing system The University library system switched up its catalog and printing services, toning up its offerings for the new academic year.

The new catalog, which went live August 20, displays the availability of a book or other library item on the same page as its call number, whereas Lens did not, according to E-Learning Librarian Julie Piacentin.

“With the new catalog, the status of the item is right on the search results page. With Lens, you had to click through—for an undergraduate working on a tight deadline, time matters, and the new catalog is more efficient,” Piacentine said. Lens, the library’s previous online catalog, had been in existence since at least 2011, according to Piacentine.

The contracting service that manages printing, a service concentrated in the library system, has also recently changed hands.

On August 11, the University hired Proven Business Systems, an Illinoisbased printing company, to manage University-wide printing services. Proven replaced Canon USA as the University’s contracted printing service, according to Rachel Rosenberg, director of library communications.

Rosenberg also said that students will not face an increase in printing prices for 2014–2015. However, money can now only be added to a UCID online.

—Isaac Stein

and will establish free workshops across the country about applying to selective colleges and applying for financial aid for students and families.

The Odyssey Scholars program was established in 2007 to reduce student loans for low- and middle-income College students and will expand under the new initiatives. Most notably, it will now guarantee paid internships or research opportunities for the summer after first year, and it will eliminate work-study for students during the academic year. Changes also include financial support for study abroad and new programming for first-year orientation, as well as leadership and networking.

Many of the changes are modeled

after the program UChicago Promise, which was launched in 2012. Aimed at students applying from the city of Chicago, the program eliminated loans in financial aid packages, waived the application fee, established an Admissions Academy for high school counselors to prepare students for the college application process, and added supporting roles within the University to help counsel UChicago Promise students.

In addition, the University awards several different full-tuition, merit-based scholarships like the Chicago Public Schools Scholarship, the Chicago Police and Fire Scholarship, and individual scholarships to students from specific high schools. The University also hosts a College Bridge Program, Collegiate

Scholars Program, and Upward Bound readiness program.

The total cost of the program will not be known until the full makeup of the Class of 2019 is determined, according to Abowd. In March, the University announced it will spend $112 million on undergraduate financial aid for the 2014–15 school year. In an article published in The New York Times, Dean of the College John W. Boyer said a goal of the $4.5 billion fundraising campaign is to raise $150–$200 million for financial aid.

According to the website College Data, the sticker price of attendance at the University is $64,258 for the 2014–2015 school year. This includes $48,253 in tuition and fees, $14,205

for room and board, and $1,800 for books and supplies.

At the press conference, Boyer commented on the history of diversity in the University and discussed being a first-generation college student himself.

“This is a place that’s always valued success on its own, not based on who your father or your mother is, or what side of town you were born on, and the new program we’re announcing today, No Barriers, is in some ways bringing to fulfillment these traditions and older patterns of policy of the University,” he said.

Read an investigation of the University’s financial aid office in next Tuesday’s Maroon.

Historian hopes to use grant money to share her work with broader audience GRANT continued from front

shock,” Zahra said. “You can’t apply for it, and I still don’t know who nominated me, so it’s a mystery—a nice mystery.”

Zahra’s recent work focuses on children and family structure in 20th-century Europe. Her first book, Kidnapped Souls: National Indifference and the Battle for Children in the Bohemian Lands, 1900–1948 (2008), examined how Czech and German nationalists used children as a focus of their ideology. Her second book, The Lost Children: Reconstructing Europe’s Families after World War II (2011), examined how the reconstruction of post–World War II Europe meant rebuilding families and finding homes for lost children.

Zahra hopes the award will allow her to collaborate more with schol-

ars from other universities and to write for a broader audience outside of academia.

“I’m hoping the fellowship will enable me to be even more ambitious and creative in terms of how I think about that research,” she said.

Zahra anticipates the ability to give back to the community in some way, explaining that she cares about feminist issues, as well as issues related to migrants’ rights, and how the history of migration connects to contemporary migration politics.

“It’s going to take me some time to figure out how to use the money most effectively,” said Zahra.

Zahra’s current work focuses on a new book on emigration from East-Central Europe to the U.S. and Western Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries. She has been particularly interested to discover

UChicago history professor Tara Zahra was one of 21 MacArthur Fellowship recipients for 2014.

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that many emigrants from Nazi Germany and communist countries came to teach at the University of Chicago.

“It’s been really exciting to con-

nect my academic research to sort of the local history of Chicago and the institution that I’m teaching in and the community I live and work in,” she said.

Faulty dome had rendered observatory Decision not to renew contract comes inoperable before repairs after comments by Hanban director OBSERVE continued from front

Daniel Fabrycky wrote in an email.

RAS head dome engineer and thirdyear Tahoe Schrader explained the importance of the dome to the function of the Observatory.

“The way telescopes work is that they are housed in a dome to protect it from the weather and from extraneous light sources. A small hatch in the dome should be able to open and close so the telescope can look out of it. The entire dome then needs to be able to move 360 degrees latitude so you can see the entire horizon,” he wrote in an e-mail.

The new dome has a motor that can move the dome automatically instead of manually. In addition, the door for the telescope is “easy to open,” according to Fabrycky, utilizing a garage

door–like system.

The telescope itself, which was installed soon after the original dome was built, was not replaced in the recent construction.

“It is an old observational telescope that only has real use these days by hobbyists, rather than for science,” Schrader wrote.

The telescope was used by the famous astronomer Carl Sagan during his time at the University in the 1950s.

Sagan recorded many observations during his use of the telescope. These, along with many other observations made during the telescope’s tenure, are kept in archives by the RAS. Students can access the now fully functioning observatory during public Wednesday night viewings or by becoming members of the RAS.

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Institute, the Institute is subject to Chinese law, and therefore the University’s academic program is under constraints from the Chinese government. In addition, Hanban has the authority to decide which specific instructors will teach the classes funded by the Institute. The petition claimed that “Hanban teachers are trained to ignore or divert questions on issues that are politically taboo in China, or indeed criminalized, such as the status of Taiwan, Tiananmen, the prodemocracy movement, etc.”

In June, the governing board of the Confucius Institute issued an official recommendation to the provost of the University to renew the contract with the Institute. It had been expected that the University would follow the

recommendation.

Hua Chunying, a spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, attempted to downplay the controversy during a press conference on Monday.

“Based on my knowledge, all Confucius Institutes are voluntarily applied by U.S. universities, and established with formal agreement between Confucius Institutes Headquarters and the universities after friendly negotiation,” Hua said. “Confucius Institutes provide support like teachers and textbooks with the voluntary application by universities, never impose, and it is not possible to threaten the universities’ academic freedom and reputation.”

This article was originally published online on September 30.

New IME classes include Molecularly Engineered Materials and Material Systems, among others IME continued from front

“Right from the beginning, we wanted to make molecular engineering course offerings and assumed that students were interested,” said Tirrell. “However, given the five faculty members we had at the time of development, a minor was about all we could offer.”

The number of faculty has grown to eight professors and one assis-

tant professor, and will grow to 12 professors by the beginning of the 2015–2016 academic year. Courses will be added as the Institute prepares to offer undergraduates a molecular engineering major, to be proposed at a future date.

All undergraduates are eligible to take classes within the molecular engineering department. Students interested in pursuing a minor in the field

must first complete all general education requirements and then complete MENG 20000 with a quality grade of B or higher before they are able to apply for the minor. The minor will be awarded after the completion of five courses, two of which must be MENG 20000 and an undergraduate research course (MENG 29700).

Future courses that will be offered during this academic year include

Molecularly Engineered Materials and Material Systems, the Mathematical Foundation of Molecular Engineering, and Introduction to the Design Process, among others.

“We are really going to be experimenting on how to teach these courses best,” said Sharon Feng, executive director of the IME. “We are breaking new ground with the molecular engineering courses, so we are look-

ing for a lot of student feedback [so] we can continue to improve.”

The Institute of Molecular Engineering is currently housed in two buildings on campus: the Searle Chemistry Building and the George Herbert Jones Laboratory Building.

After the completion of the William Eckhart Research Center in September 2015, the Institute will be permanently moved to the new Center.

VIEWPOINTS

Editorial & Op-Ed OCTOBER 3, 2014

Present and visible University needs to establish trust between its students and administrators in charge of sexual assault cases Two weeks ago, The Hyde Park List—which accuses six students of sexual violence—was posted on Tumblr and distributed on flyers across campus. Since then, the list has garnered both national attention and on-campus notoriety.

While the University has recently taken positive steps in updating its sexual assault policies, both The Hyde Park List and the march in solidarity with survivors held last Wednesday speak to a remaining lack of trust in the University to responsibly manage cases of sexual assault. In an e-mail sent out on

September 26, the administration responded to The Hyde Park List and precipitating events by pointing students to resources and policy changes that have occurred in the past year. But the University needs to do more than just reiterate its commitment to taking sexual assault seriously, and in addition needs to take steps to rebuild the broken trust between administration and students.

The aforementioned e-mail introduced the new associate dean of students in the university for disciplinary affairs Jeremy Inabi-

net. Under the new Universitywide disciplinary system, Inabinet will generally be the first person to whom students will bring forth allegations of sexual misconduct.

According to Dean of the Students in the University Michele Rasmussen in an e-mail to The Maroon, Inabinet has “helped colleges and universities write policies and procedures, trained hearing boards and investigators to effectively manage incidents of gender bias, and conducted Title IX investigations.” However, students will need more than this

to feel reassured that they can go to the University with their complaints. As he assumes his duties, Inabinet needs to be visible on campus and present in discussions of sexual assault and harassment.

He should speak on his previous experiences in these kinds of cases to demonstrate that he is a resource students can feel comfortable going to.

Rasmussen’s e-mail, which also outlines the resources available to students who have been victims of sexual assault, is useful but is not enough to fully address the con-

cerns and frustrations vocalized by sexual assault survivors and which surround The Hyde Park List. These kinds of statements sound like administrative speak to many students and don’t inspire confidence in the administration on the part of students. Though trust can only be gained gradually, that confidence is something the University needs to actively and urgently try to earn.

academics. The study of China should extend beyond a focus on its corrupt government or political system to its people and culture, which encompass well over 3,000 years of history.

The aptly named Confucius Institute highlights the fact that the University currently offers zero classes on Chinese or Far East philosophy.

The values derived from this set of beliefs influence the behavior, preferences, and lives of more than half the world’s population, yet the University has never had any courses on Confucianism, Daoism, or other East Asian philosophies in my three years here as an undergrad. The loss of the Confucius Institute is a loss of discussion and interest in aspects of Chinese history that do not focus on its current political struggles. Understandably, many faculty and students—myself included—object wholly to China’s spree of corruption, censorship, and human rights abuses, and it is their right to protest against influences they believe affect the University negatively. But to comprehend and tackle these issues productively, a consistent understanding of the values that drive the Chinese system and Chinese people needs to be prioritized. The shutting down of the University of Chicago’s CI only serves to limit the number of opportunities for current students who wish to focus in those areas of Chinese study—pushing them further into the academic

groupthink of Western-centric notions of philosophy.

The rejection of CIs around the United States underlies the larger relationship between the U.S. and China. While other nations around the world are opening up more CIs, especially in the Middle East and Africa, American institutions are campaigning to shut them down. There seems to be no attempt to change the aspects that many object to, only a push to shutter the Institutes—no back-and-forth between Hanban and universities about changing the structure of the relationship or reforming the hiring practices so many professors find intolerable. This lack of compromise will only widen the gap of understanding between East and West. Future scholars and leaders will be unable to comprehend the attitudes and decisions made by their Chinese counterparts—in part because of the heavy focus on education regarding the politics and aspirations of the Chinese government rather than on greater cultural understanding between American and Chinese people. The University’s decision to terminate its agreement with the Confucius Institute only serves to exacerbate this disparity.

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Maroon Scare Termination of the Confucius Institute is a step back for all Lear Jiang Maroon Contributor Last week the University announced its suspension of negotiations with the Confucius Institute (CI) and its parent Hanban—essentially ending the potential for another five-year collaboration with the Chinese government–backed nonprofit institution. The statement released by the University of Chicago cited the incompatibility of “a continued equal partnership” between the University and the CI. This was due in part because of comments made by Xu Lin, the CI’s chief executive, in which she potentially intimidated the University into anxiously agreeing to continue its partnership with the CI before formal agreements were made.

Coupled with the pressure from an April petition signed by more than 100 professors calling for the end of

the CI, the University believed it was all too much to sustain the tepid negotiations.

The April petition seems to be the real reason for the cutting of ties. The professors stated that a termination of the relationship would be “consistent with the intellectual principles and values of the university.” They believed that the University lacked enough control in the hiring and training process of teachers and cited instances at other universities where Confucius Institutes tried to steer academic discussion away from sensitive issues like Taiwan, the Chinese democracy movement, Tiananmen Square, and Falun Gong.

However, the closure of the University of Chicago’s Confucius Institute, and what it reflects about similar closures nationwide, showcases a rather narrow mindset among some academics when it comes to Chinese

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scholarship and its effects on U.S.– China relations.

What the professors who signed the petition seem to have missed is that none of the instances cited have ever occurred at the University of Chicago. Moreover, in the petition they acknowledge that the University unquestionably “reserves the right to refuse teachers proposed by Hanban”—the University is, and has always been, the final arbiter of who is allowed to teach here. For the professors, the fact that this right of refusal has never been exercised when it comes to Confucius Institute instructors implies that the University is complicit in the political goals and censorship of the Chinese government, rather than the fact that there may have simply been nothing objectionable about the instructors. Furthermore, Hanban does not set the curricula for these instructors, most if not all of whom teach Chinese language courses. The instructors set their curricula themselves, which is the same level of autonomy granted to other University of Chicago faculty.

It seems that many believe if Chinese scholars do not focus on the corruption and malaise of the Communist Party, then there must be some level of negative influence and silencing from above. This ignores the fact that there are many other aspects of Chinese history and culture that interest

Lear Jiang is a fourth-year in the College majoring in political science and economics.

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Alexander Dunlap Maroon Contributor What does The Hyde Park List— the now-closed Tumblr blog containing names of allegedly sexually violent individuals at the University of Chicago—have to do with the free and rigorous exchange of ideas?

Everything, according to a statement released on Monday by Campus and Student Life administrators Karen Warren Coleman and Michele Rasmussen. Explaining why the University took action against the List and similar posted flyers,

Coleman and Rasmussen wrote, “We are concerned because the flyers and websites undermine—rather than advance—the free and rigorous exchange of ideas, which is a principle that lies at the core of who we are as an institution.” They also decried the lists as “inciting and defamatory” and counter to values necessitated by the University’s commitment to “open discourse.”

I will be as quick as anyone to defend the importance of free and open discourse. Recent events at the University of Illinois remind us that academic freedom represents a set of

responsibilities and privileges that we must take neither lightly nor for granted. We are fortunate to live in a country and study within a university where, in general, we are free to engage in rigorous debate on any subject without fear of official reprisal.

These admittedly laudable values, however, should absolutely not occupy the forefront of a discussion about a response to sexual assault.

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Five for the freshmen Some help navigating the minutia of being new at the University of Chicago

Liam Leddy

Sprezzatura So O-Week is behind us, for better or for worse, and we’ve all had to confront the harsh (or maybe exciting!) reality of going to class (well, y’all did, I don’t until Monday in France). This’ll be pretty easy for most of us, as we’ve been through the collective letdown (or maybe uplifting!) of taking off our party hats and putting on our carrel desks before, but for a lot of us it won’t. There were some things that always confused me my first year, and while most of the incoming first-years are probably smarter, more capable, and better looking than I was (or am), maybe they’ll get tripped up too. So, in hopes

of helping those new on campus (transfers, too!), let me just break down the things I found tough about first-year and offer my unqualified advice.

Some people are going to treat you like a lesser being simply because you’re a first-year. Fuck those people.

You’re gonna get a lot of “Oh, that’s so cute” and “You’ll understand when you’re older” attitudes from some upperclassmen, as well as a lot of people telling you that you only think certain things because you’re a firstyear. Go ahead and ignore that tone. You’re here for a

reason. You’ll definitely undergo a lot of growth in your first year (and subsequent ones), but people shouldn’t treat you like an idiot just because you may not have yet.

Don’t let it bother you if they do. That said, don’t be dick about it. Know that the people ahead of you have been here longer, and understand that they may know the minutia of some things a little bit better.

That door between Wieboldt and Harper opens into Wieboldt.

So a lot of you first-years will probably spend a fair amount of time on the first floor of Harper, as it usually houses a lot of Hum classes.

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Hack to basics UEA attack is disappointingly typical Will Dart Maroon Arts Editor The hack is back, and with a vengeance.

After a relatively innocuous display of force against users of the free printing service Freenters last November, the entity calling itself the UChicago Electronic Army has finally debuted its sophomoric sophomore effort, this time against the supposed creators of the infamous Hyde Park List. As reported by Jezebel (apparently UChicago’s eminent summer quarter campus news source), the UEA commandeered MODA’s website to disseminate the message, rendered in so much tired Reddit-speak, that the List makers needed to fuck off.

Predictably, the UEA condemned “feminists, SJWs, Tumblrfags, privelage (sic) checkers, humanities majors, and everyone else who faps to the word ‘triggered,’” and went on to threaten the entire Class of 2018 (men included?) with rape if they did not fall in line with its nebulous demands. That last sentiment alone would’ve been more than enough to qualify this latest outing as an “epic troll,” an act to which any group that calls itself “The UChicago Electronic Army” must always aspire. But it went further: The organization also posted the personal information and picture of a campus sexual assault activist, apparently under the assumption that said activist was involved with the List.

Hacking, as I understand it, is a feat that requires a not inconsiderable degree of mental dexterity. The guilty member(s) of UAE are also, apparently, students at the

University of Chicago. That anyone with the above qualifications would also be capable of writing the kind of over-thetop, outdated misogynistic dribble contained in the UAE’s message, in full seriousness and without any trace of jest or irony, should be surprising. But it isn’t. In fact, on the web today, this kind of rhetoric, and these kinds of attacks, are still incredibly and depressingly normal.

Remember “Tits or GTFO”? That old chestnut, coined on the chaotic /b/ section of the self-consciously cloistered Internet board 4Chan, is a bit played out at this point, but the sentiment holds. Enter the dreaded comments section of basically any article written by or about a woman (even in the most corollary degree), and you’ll see calls for nudity. If the words contained in that article are at all inflammatory, you’ll probably see calls for rape, too. Then there are the big events: the recent doxing and harassment of female gaming activists Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn, the mass disregard for female privacy that was The Fappening, the “nude countdown clock” that followed Emma Watson’s pro-feminist UN speech (if that last one ultimately turned out to be a hoax, the hype surrounding it was brutally real).

It’s both deeply sad and sobering to see that this trend has made its way to our own enlightened campus. The UEA is not alone, of course. UChicago Secrets, allegedly a fairly accurate barometer of popular campus sentiment, was a boiling pot of crouched misogyny and faux-righteous victim shaming in the wake of the List. Meanwhile, YikYak, a late arrival and currently in its in-

fancy at UChicago, still functions primarily as a safe space for fraternity members to call each other gay and debate the merits of first-year girls.

They’ve been known to joke around, too. “UChicago can’t really be where fun goes to die if we have this many cases of sexual assault,” said one recent Yak. At last check, it had about three votes of support.

Is this how we really feel?

Here a lazier commentator might quote Oscar Wilde, who, at some point, somewhere, might have said something like, “Give a man a mask, and he’ll show you his true face.” But that’s bullshit.

Masks—be they anonymous handles, balaclavas, or those annoying, plastic Guy Fawkes things—change us. They bring out the best in us, and the worst; see the Ring of Gyges, see the Milgram Experiments, see DC Comics. The “true” face, whatever that means, is the one we show in public.

The one that’s subject to public judgment and consequences.

That’s us, really, or as “us” as we’ll ever really be.

If the UChicago Electronic Army actually is an army—and not, as I suspect, two dudes who can read C++ and drink a solid amount of Mountain Dew Code Red—I have yet to see a convincing display of their power. The army I did see, last Wednesday, was 100 strong, marching in silence, lit candles in hand. My friends, many of them, or my classmates. Did the UEA mobilize them? Because that was convincing. That was powerful.

Will Dart is a third-year in the College majoring in English.

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bombing yet another country in the Middle East. As someone who has long been skeptical of the attitude of politicians with respect to facts, I am especially concerned with the recent political rhetoric concerning Daesh (aka IS/ISIL/ISIS).

Senator Lindsey Graham, who sits on the United States Committee on Armed Services, recently argued that Daesh must be dealt with “before we all get killed back here at home,” and President Obama claimed in his address to the nation that despite what it may choose to call itself, “ISIL is … not a state” because it is not internationally recognized and “has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way,” and is not “Islamic” because most of its victims are Muslim and “no religion condones the killing of innocents.” Certainly, Daesh is a horrible organization, but facts are facts, even if the politicians refuse to acknowledge them, so let’s set some things straight.

First, Daesh is a state. It’s not a rag-tag group of rebel fighters, it’s the most successful organization of militants

successfully captured and held land from militarily capable entities including the Kurds, the U.S.-trained Iraqi army, and the Iran-trained and supported Syrian army. Further, Daesh has actually built up its mini-state. It collects taxes, sells electricity, exports oil, and so forth. It’s a government funded by the people, not a terrorist organization funded by a third party.

Second, Daesh is certainly Islamic. While the president finds it convenient to say that Daesh is just interested in killing people—simplistically demonizing the enemy is always a valid strategy when convincing others to follow you into battle—that kind of blindness is what got us executing counter-productive counterterrorism operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in the first place.

Motives matter, and what matters to Daesh is establishing a long-term caliphate, a hardline Sunni Islamic state, a goal the group has held consistently for the past eight years. The liberal insistence to avoid painting Islam with a broad brush colored by the Muslims who make the

headlines is admirable, but Islam can be just as bloodthirsty as it can be peaceful. To label those who follow our preferred versions of Islam ‘Muslim’ and the rest ‘not Islamic’ ignores the basic truth that Daesh is first and foremost a religious entity, fueled by what they consider Islamic fervor and governed by Shariah law.

Third, Daesh isn’t much of a domestic threat—not really. While the politicians are fear mongering in an attempt to appeal to distressed, less-than-fully-educated voters who are terrified by the beheading videos, the actual experts have a more nuanced perspective. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey—the principal military adviser to the President—has stated that there is no sign that ISIL is engaged in “active plotting against the homeland.”

Daesh seizes and maintains territory because they want to build a state, not because they want to harm the U.S. As explained by the former deputy director of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, the entire playbook of al Qaeda and other terrorist groups is to be mobile and engage in guerrilla warfare, one that Daesh does not follow because of a fundamental DAESH continued on page 9

Even more advice DOOR continued from page 5 Warming lab. or maybe to just get back to South. The door between these two buildings is an asshole. It’s always tryna fuck with you and always looks like it should open one way and then opens the other. Just know, for once and for all, IT OPENS INTO WIEBOLDT. I think. Or does it open into Harper? Dammit, I can never remember. Just know that more than once you’re going to try to push it and it won’t open and you’ll abruptly come to an unplanned halt and look like something of a fool. Don’t worry, this happens to everybody. Whichever way you think this door opens, open it the other way.

You’re going to be told that it’s dangerous to wander out of Hyde Park and that Chicago is scaaaaaaary.

This isn’t entirely true.

Chicago is an amazing city, and should be explored (when it’s not snowing). I remember at the beginning of my first year that Chicago was made out to be more dangerous than I found it to be in my following two years. Unfortunately, this led (in part) to me not seeing very much of the city until my second year. Now, obviously people shouldn’t

just go blundering through the South Side or downtown without a clear idea of where they’re headed, how they’re getting there and what they’re doing, but don’t be afraid to see as much of Chicago as you can. Be smart and safe, but know that there’s a fascinating city rich with history all around you. Go find it. Oh, and don’t be afraid to take the Green Line. This was something I was told my first year, that the Red Line is safer than the Green Line, and it’s utter malarkey. One isn’t more dangerous than the other.

If you’re nice to the front desk people at your dorms, they will reciprocate it by doing something between adoring you and not entirely resenting you for existing.

And by “nice” I don’t mean you smile when you flash your ID, I mean you cater to these people’s desires like they’re the pope. My first year RA was a master of this.

He brought the Max East front desk lady like all kinds of cookies and cakes and delicious French-Kentucky fusion foods (shout-out to Dustin Shaw, stay cuddly, my man), and she loved him.

Like, he could’ve walked out with the ice machine or

rolled a keg right through the front door and she would’ve been totally fine with it.

Meanwhile, I was terrified of her and never said a word to her, and in return she hated me. So if you want the front desk people to like you, you’re gonna have to do the ground work.

Eventually you’ll find the bathroom that’s right for you.

All people prefer a different ambience when they’re doing their business, and it can take a while to find the right spot to take the kids to the pool. If you like granite, the second floor of Rosenwald is for you. If you prefer an interesting mix of sports team trash talk and poetry, Harper is your ideal locale.

If you like grout puns, you’ve gotta try Bartlett or the Reg. Obviously I’m speaking for my male counterparts here, as I’m not qualified to comment on the best bathrooms for women, but everybody please feel free to leave your favorites in the comments on the interweb version of this article. Or nasty remarks about my intelligence. Or both.

Liam Leddy is a thirdyear in the College majoring in economics.

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“Administrators...have been reluctant to address the issues raised in the protests themselves” VALUES continued from page 4 tential rapists among us, of the right of the accused to defend themselves against allegations, of the presumption of innocence until proven otherwise, of the potential for libel, of the University’s terrible track record in dealing with instances of sexual violence at an institutional level, of the many other considerations that weigh on whether a document like The Hyde Park List should be published. But it is abundantly clear that, while all of these issues impinge on academic freedom in some way or another, there is much more at stake in The Hyde Park List controversy than open academic discourse.

This focus on the importance of free inquiry in the face of larger concerns is part of a pattern in written communications by University administrators over the past several years.

Dean Elly Daugherty’s February 14 letter to The Maroon regarding the changes to Summer Links spent much time on the importance of dialogue in the controversy and little, if any, on the actual concerns set out in a petition delivered to the University. The University’s standard tagline for the RISE diversity initiative, created in response to an awful Facebook page whose harms were justified by but largely unrelated to freedom of speech, is that the program “represents our shared commitment to the values of respect and free expression as a University community.” During the heated controversies regarding trauma care on the South Side over the last few years, administrators have publicly wrung their hands over the role of protest in a free academic community but have been reluctant to address the issues raised in the protests themselves.

I reference these examples of the University’s tendency to invoke the value of academic freedom excessively not to discount the importance of this value, but rather to urge the University to articulate some more values. Academic free-

dom and excellence cannot be and most certainly are not the sole guides of the University as it navigates its many roles—as a temporary home for many of its undergraduates, as an employer of thousands of faculty and staff members, as a buyer and broker of huge amounts of real estate, as a major economic force in the city of Chicago, as a provider of medical care, as an investor in the stock market, as a judicial body in cases of misconduct within its community, and as a shaper of the lives of its students, who later go on to influence the world in myriad ways. Whether it likes it or not, our University’s impact extends far beyond the academic realm. Our leaders must not pretend that this impact can be ignored or reduced to considerations about the institution’s academic mission.

To our administrators: You run a huge and complex institution with potential and history of doing large amounts of both good and harm in a variety of arenas. It is your duty to defend our institution’s values of academic freedom, free expression, and open discourse. But it is also your duty to recognize that these values only go so far—that in many decisions the University must confront, there are far more relevant and important considerations at stake.

It’s time for the University of Chicago to broaden its rhetoric about what is valuable.

Community? Money? Justice? Prestige? Hard work? Safety? Excellence? Perhaps if we can genuinely articulate the values that guide our institution, we will be able to look at serious issues facing the University, such as the ones that gave rise to the Hyde Park List, with a greater degree of honesty and good faith. And we might find our university better positioned to be part of these issues’ solutions.

Put yourself there.

Alexander Dunlap is a fourth-year in the College majoring in mathematics.

Daesh’s threat to the US is low DAESH continued from page 6 difference in objectives, not tactics. If anything, convincing Daesh that its existence is threatened by the U.S.-led coalition will result in revenge-retaliation.

Fourth, it’s not our problem. The main valid concern about Daesh is that with each successive land grab it becomes more capable to potentially act against our interests, but the reality is that it has already seized all of the land it can realistically control in the long-term future. The civil war in Syria and the partisan Maliki government in Iraq created a unique opportunity, but the easy victories stop there. To the west of Daesh’s current holdings are Egypt and Syrian President Assad’s military strongholds, to the North is Turkey, to the East is Iran, and to the South is Saudi Arabia. According to a Department of Defense report, Daesh’s army remains relatively low-tech. They have very few tanks or armored vehicles, and effectively no artillery. Surrounded by countries with secure borders and betterequipped militaries, it is impossible for Daesh to expand further, and similarly difficult to destroy

them within their own territory because they are so mobile and easy to supply. Like Iran’s nuclear program, these militant extremists represent a threat that is easier to contain than to defeat.

I could write another thousand words about where we are and how we got here, but the historical punch line is that the U.S. has a mindbogglingly terrible track record of picking winners and losers in the Middle East. Daesh isn’t a threat, and given the geopolitical realities of the region it will never become one. Considering that fighting Daesh head on puts us on the same side as Assad and Iran, it’s better to let them fight it out. Sacrificing countless American dollars and lives to another multi-year campaign in the Middle East is an expensive price for giving politicians the appearance of faithfully responding to the irrational fears of the less-than-fully educated voter. Maybe with enough facts we’ll decide it’s too high a cost.

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

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Extinct Entities: Three Chicago locals revive art's dead spaces

Members of Extinct Entities performed at the Gray Center last October as part of their exhibition Unfurling.

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Sammie Spector Arts Staff Very few ever think about communities and exhibition spaces once those spaces are gone. Among those select few, backward-gazing art lovers are three Chicago locals—Anthony Stepter, Anthony Romero, and Erin Nixon—who meet regularly to discuss ephemerality, art spaces, and archives. And these are the main subjects and topics that prompted the founding of Extinct Entities (EE), and what it stands for.

While the specifics of their organi-

zation remain nebulous at times, Extinct Entities’ basic project attempts to reinvigorate extinct arts collectives, communities, and spaces. While not acting as archivists for the city, they are more like curators, utilizing new art to bring life and respect to bygone arts collectives, yet allowing this space for new growth as well.

Extinct Entities has worked all over Chicagoland, creating exhibition space, symposiums, and media surrounding what they do. Recently, they’ve won the Propeller Fund grant, an award that grants money to 15 organizations that promote creative vi-

tality in the Chicago art world. At the same time, they also gained funding from the School of the Art Institute in exchange for a symposium open to the public. With this money, they are reaching out to even more artists and exhibition spaces to spread their name, and the history of a past Chicago arts scene.

Last year, EE collaborated heavily with our very own UChicago Arts’ Gray Center, in which they were invited to participate with the organization Never The Same, which works to document Chicago’s prolific art history through all forms of media. This

particular fellowship, funded by the Gray Center, is headed by UChicago Professor Rebecca Zorach and local artist and activist Daniel Tucker.

Theo Shure is a fourth year undergraduate who works at the Gray Center. She described her place of work as a young, exciting lab that intersects art and inquiry. They focus on experimental approaches to the concept of art, utilizing scholarly research. Their main goal is to merge art and inquiry, defining both from opposite perspectives through works of art on exhibition. The space itself feels cutting-edge and collaborative.

One of their ongoing projects, titled An Unfurling, worked with Extinct Entities to produce a performance art night called “Five Explorations in Art, Activism, and Archiving,” paying homage to the Affro-Arts Theater. This theater, which saw both its heyday and decline in the late 1960s, was forced to close by the city. While performed in the Gray Center, the performance itself was entirely centered on this other, antiquated locale.

Never The Same was one of Gray Center's multiple fellowships run throughout last year, each one headed by a professor. In this particular exhibition, Professor Zorach searched to archive and document history of Chicago’s socially engaged arts scene.

Shure, after witnessing the collaboration firsthand, felt the harmony in their union. “They work with inquiry too. Which is great for UChicago, as we’re so research-heavy. It’s nice to see scholarship take the form of creative

output, which is why the Gray Center is here. It’s a great example of why research and art are very in sync.”

This is the type of collaboration perfect for the Gray Center, as both of these organizations, Never The Same and Extinct Entities have the same intent at heart. While Never the Same builds directly from their large archives, Extinct Entities searches to breathe new life into antiquated art venues by performing with these spaces in mind. This left a very memorable night for the Gray Center. “They had an amazing performance where they wanted artists to engage with this defunct space. It’s a nice, ancestral nod to the 60s. Rather than just talking about it, but respecting it and engaging with it, plus commissioning new work.”

Nonetheless, what all groups involved provide is a new conceptual way to view and remember art from the past, and think towards the future. “I think it’s interesting that [Extinct Entities] engages with this ephemeral past, rather than a passive research group,” said Shure. “You could call them researchers that are artists, or artists that research history.

It’s nice that it’s all inherently interesting to them, but then they find a way to engage with it, and find the best way to present history, especially art history, is to have artists engage and create with it.”

Extinct Entities promises much more to come. They now plan to produce two publications and are currently working with Links Hall on another local exhibition.

Without titular caped crusader, Fox's Gotham falls flat James Mackenzie Arts Editor The first thing that strikes you about Fox’s Gotham is the look. It opens with sweeping aerial shots of the titular city, a blend of New York and Chicago with a hint of a Depression-era aesthetic borrowed from Christopher Nolan’s recent films. We go down further, to a splendidly neon vision of Gotham’s Chinatown. One of the best things about the series’ art direction is the willingness to liberally color its environments, resisting the temptation to go full dark and grimy to match the subject matter.

All things considered, this is one of the best-looking shows on TV this year, maybe the best after HBO’s superbly directed True Detective. However, as seen in True Detective, you should never judge a book by its cover, and you should never judge a show by how pretty it is.

We get one more nice aerial shot following a teenage Catwoman entering the inauspiciously named “Crime Alley.” You probably know the story from here. Enter young Bruce Wayne with parents, followed by assail-

ant; parents shot; scream of despair. Every action, every line, every movement by the actors seems laborious and forced, perhaps in part because of the script which has been played out so many times before.

Gotham is a “fresh” take on the origin story of Batman, this time told through the perspective of the Gotham Police Department, specifically young Detective Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie). He’s out to find as many future Batman characters as can be fit into a pilot episode (at least nine, probably more), presumably to prepare for his future role as Commissioner of a city rife with super villains. But first he has to clean up the absurdly corrupt police department while dodging interference from his veteran partner Harvey Bullock (Donal Logue) and the show’s erratic scripts.

The warning bells start ringing when Gordon arrives at the scene of the Waynes’ murder. Gordon attempts to comfort young, traumatized Bruce Wayne with more stilted dialogue, ending with the old faithful, “There will be light.” He repeats this line, presumably for the benefit of

viewers who were not quite sure they had heard such a line uttered in a 2014 major drama.

Some of the writing can probably be classified as early jitters, since it becomes much more palatable as the show goes on. By the second episode, the real cringeinducing lines have been ironed out and at times the dialogue even rises to a fairly competent level. Some of the best scenes come around when Gordon and Bullock are allowed to banter with each other or with the criminals they deal with. In these scenes, Gotham shows real potential as a semi-lighthearted buddy cop show set against the dark mythos of Batman.

However, perhaps feeling the pressure of the capital D “Dark” subset of superhero films kicked off by the Nolan movies to which this show probably owes its existence, Gotham is determined to go in a direction that may ultimately undo it. Some actors expertly navigate the scripts’ problems and ultimately rise above them ( Jada Pinkett Smith appears as mobster Fish Mooney; her performance is a pleasant surprise).

Jim Gordon (Ben McKenzie) meets his future partner in crime fighting (David Mazouz).

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Others manage to tread water and maintain their dignity through the more suspect lines (McKenzie). But some cannot cope and their performances go the way of the perpetually doomed Wayne family (Erin Richards as Gor-

don’s girlfriend Barbara).

The best thing to say about the show is that it is trending up. The second episode, unburdened of the need to introduce the setting and characters, does a good job building suspense and main-

taining a clear line of action.

But we’re still talking about a show that is striving not to be good, but merely to be competent. Until the show settles into an identity that doesn’t hinder its cast, competence looks like the show’s ceiling.

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Don Giovanni: Mozart's old dog gets new tricks at Lyric MJ Chen Arts Staff With his new production of the classic Don Giovanni, director Robert Falls promises a “distinctive and unusual updating of Mozart… a highly theatricalized world that uses the 1920s as a point of reference.” Your critic attended opening night at the Lyric expecting opulence, excitement, romance—and found instead Falls’s shortsighted vision, pretty but pointless. Or maybe that was a metaphor for the Jazz Age? Don Giovanni is easily Mozart’s greatest opera, chock-full of incredible music and rich in drama. The story follows the misdemeanors of Don Giovanni (Mariusz Kwiecien), a playboy aristocrat who subscribes to a “love ‘em and leave ‘em” mentality. His chief weapon is trickery, by promising to marry his victim or disguising himself as her fiancé to have his way. Ultimately, the Don gets his comeuppance when his past comes back to haunt him.

Though diminished by a lackluster production, the brilliant cast did justice to Mozart’s remarkable music. Mariusz Kwiecien delivered a seductive, intensely unlikeable Don. His dark, menacing interpretation enhanced the character’s cruel streak, adding a nice bit of dimension to a role many singers coast through on good looks and vocal firepower. Kwiecien’s baritone was expressive and flexible, purring through his seduction duet “Là ci darem la mano” and blasting through the patter in his arioso “Finch’han del vino.” Especially violent and memorable was his performance immediately before the famous “statue scene”: Kwiecen’s raw, demented, animalistic Giovanni was thrilling and captivating to

watch.

Marina Rebeka plays Donna Anna, Giovanni’s first victim who loses both her chastity and her father to him. Her impressive high notes pierced through Mozart’s heavy orchestration at key moments, adding thrilling treble scenes to the first act finale. Particularly good was her vitriolic “Or sai chi l’onore”— Rebeka peppered luscious *legato* lines with popping coloratura, spitting fury and anger and all the right notes. Weaker was her placid “Non mi dir,” which didn’t quite communicate Anna’s injured nobility. This lack of vulnerability was perhaps due to her sharing little chemistry with an utterly forgettable Ottavio (Antonio Polli).

As Donna Elvira, Ana María Martínez is a past tryst back for revenge. And boy, was she furious! The venom in her rage aria “Ah, chi mi dice mai” gave your critic life eternal: delicious, growly low notes bolstered a jabbing upper register for spectacular, exaggerated theatrical effect. Most importantly, Martínez nailed her character’s ambivalence in the second act. She understood Elvira completely and delivered, exposing her as a reluctant avenger in the trio “Ah taci, ingiusto core”.

Her haunting showstopper “Mi tradì quell’alma ingrata” fell short of brilliance, however, but through no fault of the singer (it was an overzealous tempo on the part of the conductor). Martínez’s voice and characterization were flawless, projecting sincere tragedy.

Kyle Ketelsen delivered a loveable performance as Leporello, Don Giovanni’s mischievous valet.

In an unexpected twist, his comic patter aria “Madamina, il catalogo è questo” moved from mocking to sympathetic, with a cute hug for Elvira at the end. Ketelsen’s bois-

Pictured: soprano Ana María Martínez serving Depression-era Amelia Earhart realness. Not pictured: the 1920s.

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terous bass brought out the irony in the recitative, no problem: your critic was pleased with his solid grip of humor and timing, which gave some of the libretto’s mustier jokes much-needed freshness.

If the singers succeeded, however, it was in spite of Robert Falls’s distracted, incoherent production.

If Falls intended to use the “1920s as a point of reference” to modernize the opera’s theme of class struggle, why appropriate only the haziest, least recognizable elements of the Jazz Age? Moreover, to theatricalize a time and place with “an established aristocracy, peasantry, and middle class” is to keep the context of a traditional interpretation intact. Far more transformative would be a Don Gatsby (set in 1920s West Egg) or—even more daring—Frat Giovanni (exactly what it sounds like).

So much for the vision; on to its execution. Aside from a few key wardrobe pieces—chiefly the purple shearling coat on Kwiecen, and Martínez’s Amelia Earhart getup, complete with knee-high spats—the costumes were historically ambiguous, with the peasant garb reading more 1800s Italy than 1920s Spain (again, why bother?).

The sets, though grand and breathtakingly detailed, felt like a jumbled Viewmaster through the ages: a La bohème-style café, a Rococo garden, a New Age-y statue of the Virgin Mary. And can we talk about the groping? A little manhandling is fine, opera needs all the ticket sales it can get, but too much takes Mozart into soft-porn territory.

Don Grope-on-me, if you will.

Sir Andrew Davis was largely flawless in the pit as usual, directing the Lyric orchestra with finesse and

panache. However, in certain numbers your critic found his choice of tempi regrettable: taking Elvira’s aria “Mi tradì quell’alma ingrata” quickly diminished its tragedy to mere inconvenience. If that was unfortunate, then the famous “statue scene” was an absolute disaster.

Originally marked a slow adagio, Maestro Davis took it closer to allegro vivace—which is ironic given that the statue is dead and shouldn’t really sing at a quick and lively pace.

Whatever tension and drama concentrated up to that climactic scene evaporated instantly.

That is not to say that your critic loathed the show. How could he?

The Lyric delivered stellar singing, largely faultless orchestration, and breathtaking sets. To the contrary, he enjoyed it immensely for what it was—a solid, unorthodox Don Giovanni.

Fall Reading: The fleeting beauty of Yasunari Kawabata

Kawabata, one of Japan's great post-war authors, pictured in 1939.

Taylor McDowell Arts Staff Yasunari Kawabata’s The Old Capital is a fragile novel. Its first few words recall the moments of brevity that exist between the

cold expanse of winter and the birth of a new spring. It might seem inopportune to recall a novel that praises spring so delicately, and celebrates summer’s jovial festivities with gentle zest in the inaugural week of

our autumn quarter. But, much to the appreciation of the Chicago student, the novel moves from a wet autumn into a cold, though beautiful, winter in its closing moments.

The Old Capital was one

of three novels cited by the Swedish Academy as demonstrating Kawabata’s “narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind.” Kawabata received the Nobel Prize in Literature from the Academy in 1968; he was the first Japanese individual to receive the award. To the bewilderment of the Japanese and the literary world, Kawabata’s body was found, three years later, in a gas-filled room in an apartment near his home in Kamakura.

Kawabata is often spoken of with reverence. There exists an understanding that in his works are preserved the sentiments of a great artist, and the technique of a writer who managed to write prose as though every word of it were a word of poetic composition.

The Old Capital is a later novel of Kawabata’s, but it exhibits characteristics familiar to his catalogue of works. It expresses impermanence, an intangible sense of loss, a concern for identity, and the acceptance of things merely

as they are. His work suggests that such acceptance is, if not comforting, then at least valuable in coping with loss. These themes drench thickly the pages of the work. The novel is through and through a momentary note hanging loosely in the air before evaporating.

The story opens with Chieko, the daughter of a wholesale dry goods shop owner in the Nakag yo Ward of Kyoto, and follows her as she explores the increasingly likely possibility that she was abandoned by her biological parents as an infant. This confusion of identity and the emptiness it suggests are tempered by a constant awareness of the seasons of Kyoto, and of the traditions that color the city as something special, though something fleeting.

The novel captures excellently the age preceding heavy urbanization and the modernizing effects those changes would bring to Kyoto. As the old capital of Japan, and as the center of art and cultural tradition for centuries, Kyoto’s

ephemerality is especially biting. The sense of loss, reflected in poignant attention paid to seasonal change, mirrors the sentiments of fleetingness felt for Kyoto. The reader watches as that old bastion of Japanese tradition begins to crack and crumble in the face of increased Western tourism, and the defacing changes that modern capitalism will eventually bring. The story of Chieko, whose aloneness and impending loss reflect those of an increasingly old-style city, finds itself enfolded quietly inside Kyoto’s, and indeed Japan’s own narrative of change.

The Old Capital was recently revised and republished by Shoemaker and Hoard Press. It stands as notable in the canon of a Japanese literary master, and it is one of the great works celebrating the dying days of one of the great cities of the world. The novel’s quiet pathos, poignant sensitivity, and simple prose mark it as timeless, and of particular relevance in our autumnal season.

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South Siders rock and roll at Augustana Cross Country Russell Mendelson Sports Staff Although most students are getting back into the quarterly groove, the men’s and women’s cross country teams are already a month into their respective seasons.

Each team has gotten settled rather quickly, with the women winning their third meet of the season last Friday at the Augustana Invitational in Rock Island, Ill. Meanwhile, the men replicated the women’s success and also took home the top prize at Augustana.

Third-year Brianna Hickey has been a major contributor to the women’s early success, as she has posted the team’s fastest times at most of this season’s meets.

“Since cross country is such a team-oriented sport, I feel I am equally motivated by the strong performances of my teammates, as they are motivated by mine,” Hickey said.

“It is nice to know that when you are trying your best, the people behind and in front of you are pulling their weight as well.”

When questioned if there were additional factors that contributed to her perfor-

mance last week, Hickey cited both her strategy and motivation to improve after the team finished fourth last week at Wheaton.

“I feel that I better executed my race strategy this past week than I have in weeks past, and that I was more engaged in the competition since I felt like the team had something to prove after dropping in the rankings,” noted Hickey.

Third-year Michael Frasco has been to the men’s team what Hickey has been to women’s through the early part of the season. Frasco was the first South Sider to place in each of the men’s three races, capped by a sixth-place finish at the most recent meet in Rock Island.

“Running is enjoyable partly because your performances accurately reflect the amount of effort you put into training,” Frasco said.

“As hardworking students... I think most of the cross country team appreciates the direct linear relationship between effort and results.”

Third-year Maya Lewinsohn made similar remarks regarding the impact proper training can have over

The men’s cross country team gathers for a break at the Elmshurst Invitational this year.

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the course of a season.

“Racing well in cross country usually depends on putting in the work over the summer to build your fitness, but also having the right mentality to push yourself in the race,” Lewinsohn said.

“On top of that, [head] coach

After so-so start, expectations rise as UAA play begins Men’s Soccer Bronagh Daly Sports Staff The Maroons started this season 3–0; and they will enter this weekend with a 6–4 record.

This record, however, does not dampen the team’s outlook on the upcoming season.

“Although we had a few results not go our way, preseason was a good experience for the team,” said first-year goalkeeper Hill Bonin.

“We dropped a few games that we shouldn’t have, which is always frustrating, but as a team, our chemistry, confidence, and determination has increased dramatically, and we are looking forward to proving that we can beat any team we play.”

Second-year midfielder Chris Mathis has a similar view concerning the squad’s preseason performance.

“While it’s true our record right now could be better, it is not an accurate judgment of this team’s ability to be successful,” Mathis said. “Each win gave us a look at what we are capable of, and each loss humbled us and showed us our weaknesses.”

Such weaknesses are one of the main aspects of the game the South Siders have been focusing on improving as they approach their first school-year match against Carnegie Mellon tomorrow. The team is focused on putting the necessary work and training in to achieve more positive results.

“My biggest strength is my athleticism and my communication on the field,” Bonin said. “I am a firm believer that a game can be won or lost in the gym and film room. Putting in the extra reps in fitness or practice and studying film has done wonders for me this season.”

This training was directly displayed in the

final match of preseason against Carthage.

In this match, Bonin’s performance was topnotch, marking a new career high at five saves.

Mathis also displayed his strengths in the game against Carthage, scoring the Maroons’ winning goal for a final score of 2–1.

“I told my mom I’d score for her birthday, so it felt pretty good,” Mathis said.

He also went on to speak of the strengths of his fellow teammates. “[Second-year defender] Christian Belanger had his first official start and instantly stood out as a solid left fullback,” Mathis said. “[First-year midfielder] Andre Abedian also reminded us with his goal that he can be a threat in the air.”

The team as a whole does not plan to simply rely on each member’s strengths, though, and intends to improve collectively as the regular season begins, preparing harder than ever for the match against Carnegie Mellon this weekend.

“We go into every match knowing that when we step on the field with every player locked in, we can beat anyone,” Bonin said.

“No matter who we play, we hold ourselves to a standard where everyone works and gives their all. If we play like we can, I know that we can beat Carnegie and any other team in our conference.”

Agreeing with Bonin, Mathis went further into specifics.

“As long as we stay connected in the midfield and in the back, we just need to focus on executing in the final third,” Mathis said. “So far, we’ve implemented a lot of fitness and technical work in preparation for [Carnegie].

All around, our coaches have relentlessly tested our speed and quality of play.”

The Maroons kick off against Carnegie Mellon at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Stagg Field.

[Chris] Hall’s three-phase training program prepares the women’s team to continually improve throughout the season.”

Besides the importance of physical conditioning, both teams can also agree that, although they have both come

surging out of the gates, there remains work to be done.

“The competition for the rest of this season is going to ramp up pretty significantly,” Hickey said. “I think it will be important to continue to lean on teammates for challenging races, but also for individu-

als to take some chances and trust their fitness in these upcoming meets.”

Keep an eye open for the men’s and women’s team at Kenosha, Wisconsin next Saturday as they compete in the Lucian Rosa Invitational at 10 a.m.

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Sunday, the Maroons played at Carthage and triumphed 1–0, gathering their fifth shutout of the season. First-year defender Kaitlin Price headed in a goal with the assist from fellow first-year forward Mia Calamari. It was Calamari’s sixth assist of the season—she currently has eight.

Chicago had a total of 12 shots on goal while Carthage had six. Reid made a number of saves in the first half, and in the second half fourthyear goalkeeper Mallory Morse made two more saves to preserve the shutout.

Then on Tuesday, the team convincingly won 7–0 against North Central at home. Calamari assisted Price again, and twice this time, as Chicago took an early 2–0 lead. Later in the game, fourth-year midfielder Sara Kwan was able to make a seamless connection with fourth-year forward Meghan Derken, who utilized her speed to beat her defender and score in the 55th minute. In addition, third-year forwards Julia

Ozello and Mary Bittner recorded two goals apiece.

However, the Maroons now expect tougher competition. Saturday marks the start of conference games, which will include three teams ranked in the top 12 nationally.

“Conference games are the easiest games to get excited and focused for,” Reid said. “We are excited to begin with Carnegie Mellon and determined to beat them given their undefeated record and high national ranking [No. 4].”

Mullen agreed.

“I think the whole team is extremely excited to play Carnegie Mellon on Saturday. UAA games are always the best games of the season. Carnegie is a very good team, and it is definitely going to be a battle, but I think as a team we have a clear picture of what needs to be accomplished and are ready to play our game and take care of business.”

Chicago takes the field at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow to battle Carnegie Mellon.

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I think our team is as talented as ever. We don’t have any one star, but we have a lot of depth and experience amongst our skill units as well as our line.”

Another stark difference from last season has been special teams. The Maroons’ special teams struggled in tough games in the 2013 season. This year that has turned around as a result of a deeper focus on that aspect of the game. Fourth-year kicker Karol Kurzydlowski was recently named to the D3football.com team of the week and also named the University Athletic Association (UAA) Co-Special Teams Player of the Week.

This concentration on special teams will be imperative for the Maroons this weekend, as it was their Achilles heel in the Blues Bowl last year. Ryan briefly touched on the game plan for the upcoming game.

“The offense is going to try to piece together a similar performance to last year when we scored five touchdowns on Rhodes,” Ryan said. “As far as the defense, they are the best at what they do in the country, and they know if they can force turnovers we can win the game.”

The second annual “Blues Bowl” between the Chicago Maroons and the Rhodes Lynx will be held at 12 p.m. tomorrow at Stagg Field.

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Chicago hauls in the hardware from Indy Men’s Tennis Zachary Themer Associate Sports Editor Even though football, soccer, and volleyball typically reign supreme on the fields of Hyde Park during autumn, the men’s tennis team is emerging as a challenger to that throne.

While the Maroons compete during the spring in the UAA conference, the fall is often reserved for various preseason competitions to get a feel for incoming freshman and to get returning players back into the swing of competition.

This past weekend, the Maroons trekked to Indianapolis for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Central Region Championships. In a tournament that no South Sider has ever won before, there was an eagerness churning in the guts of the Maroons as they looked to rewrite the books and etch their names down as champions.

In total, the Maroons sent 10 singles players and five doubles pairs to Indianapolis. On the first day of competition, each athlete competed in two matches each and seven Maroons went undefeated, including second-year Sven Kranz, fourth-year Deepak Sabada, and first-year David Liu. Three doubles pairs won their matches on the day, including Sabada and Liu. Kranz was awarded UAA Athlete of the Week for the week of September 22.

Since the ITA Championships are four days long, the Maroons knew conditioning was going to be necessary.

“Preseason is more demanding physically due to the high amount of matches in a short amount of time, so fitness was an area we focused on, and I think it paid off,”

Sabada said.

For the pair of Sabada and Liu, in order to advance to the championship on Sunday, it was going to take a victory over UAA rival Wash U. While the Bears are regarded as one of the best DIII programs in the country, Sabada and Liu defeated their foes 8–4, 8–3 in order to advance to Sunday’s competition. Similarly, first-year Nicolas Chua was able to advance to Sunday in the singles bracket, while first-year Michael Selin was able to advance to Sunday via the consolation bracket on the basis of two hard-fought wins of his own against competitors from Wheaton and Elmhurst.

On Sunday, Sabada and Liu became the first Maroons to win the ITA Championships. After defeating No. 2 seed Kenyon in the semifinals, No. 4 seed Sabada and Liu headed into the championship against No. 3–seeded Case Western, whom Sabada and Liu defeated in a thrilling threeset match. Moreover, by winning the championship, Sabada and Liu automatically advanced to the USTA/ITA National Championships later this fall.

As for the singles players, Sunday offered mixed results, as Chua was able to advance to the finals on Monday via victories over two Wash U players, while Selin was knocked out in the semifinals after defeating Denison in the quarters, losing a hard-fought, threeset affair against Wash U. Chua capped the Maroons’ incredible weekend performance by winning the singles championship—as the No. 19 seed—over Wash U’s Tyler Kratky. For his success, Chua captured UAA Athlete of the Week honors and advances to the USTA/ITA National Championships alongside

Second-year Anthony Stead returns the ball in a match last spring.

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Sabada and Liu. “I think the thing that stood out to me outside of us winning both the singles and doubles tournaments was how well every single person did at the tourna-

ment,” Sabada said. “In past years, we have had a couple of people do well at the tournament while the rest of the team struggled.”

With the ITA Championships in hand, head coach Jay Tee will

spend the next few weeks getting Sabada, Liu, and Chua ready for the USTA/ITA National Championships before beginning practice and conditioning in anticipation of next spring’s season.

Top-ranked Maroon defense No. 12 squad prepared for to protect unbeaten record tougher competition Football Helen Petersen Sports Staff At this point last season, the University of Chicago football team was undefeated and prepared to visit Rhodes in what has been dubbed “The Blues Bowl.” The Maroons would go on to fall just short of a victory in Memphis, losing 41–34. Now, Chicago (3–0) is again undefeated and taking on the Lynx (4–0), this time on their home field.

Fourth-year quarterback Patrick Ryan claims the Maroons have learned from last season.

“This year is different because we are fully aware what can happen when an undefeated record rolls into the school year,” Ryan said. “Last year at this point things began to go downhill. This year we have really locked in and our focus and preparation is at an alltime high.”

The Maroons began their season with two blowout wins against Beloit and Concordia,

Women’s Soccer winning 28–6 and 38–0, respectively.

In their third game, the Maroons faced off against rival Elmhurst (1–2). Chicago boasts the top-ranked defense in the nation—allowing only 160 offensive yards per game—and this was never more evident than against the Blue Jays. The defense garnered three sacks and one interception in a hard-fought 29–17 victory.

So far this season, Ryan has been an anchor. In his first year as starting quarterback, he is averaging 133 yards per game and has not thrown an interception since the Maroons’ season opener. Ryan is also protected by a veteran offensive line that includes returning fourth-years Jake Winkel and Isaac Stern, as well as third-year Brock Appenzeller.

“My success as a quarterback is more of a reflection of our offense as a whole,” Ryan said. “I attribute it to our players’ trust in the offensive game plan week in and week out.

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Charlotte Franklin Sports Staff With one of the hottest starts in recent memory, the No. 12 Maroons currently boast a 9-1 record.

In clutch fashion, Chicago won in overtime over North Park (September 17) and in double overtime over Wisconsin–Oshkosh (September 6). The Maroons’ only loss came against Illinois Wesleyan, a close 1–0 game.

The team’s season began on a positive note: They won every preseason game and managed to keep the momentum going into the regular season.

“We went undefeated this preseason, and that mentality and expectation of not losing definitely carried over into the regular season,” third-year midfielder Nicole Mullen said. “Even when we went down in games, we never panicked because we know what we are capable of, and we managed to find a way to come back to not just tie games but to win them.”

Mullen said this has been the most productive preseason in her three years playing at Chicago.

Fourth-year goalkeeper Jacinda Reid also touted the team this season.

“This preseason we were fortunate enough to win a couple times in overtime. Pulling out close victories like that has helped establish our team culture and character, which are an important aspects for our team as we move into conference,” Reid said.

After the Illinois Wesleyan game, however, the Maroons had to adjust their mindset. This sole loss had its benefits, helping the team avoid overconfidence in future games.

“Going into the North Central and Carthage games, we had just come off of our first loss,” Mullen said. “We hate losing, and we went into North Central and Carthage with a mentality that we were not going to lose another game.”

This change in attitude allowed the team to channel its energy into the preparation required for the Carthage and North Central games. Last SOCCER continued on page 13