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First-years tie record for College Council bids Student start-up an

insectivore’s delight

Sam Levine Associate News Editor Twenty first-years will vie to represent their class and fill the four open seats in next week’s College Council (CC) election, tying the record size of last fall’s candidate pool.

Over the past three years, first-year interest in Student Government (SG) has climbed: Fifteen candidates ran in 2008, 19 in 2009, and 20 in 2010. The growing interest in SG comes as the executive slate has made efforts to reach out to students, and it could potentially transform one of the most visible student groups on campus.

SG President and fourthyear Youssef Kalad said that he is committed to finding SG continued on page 4

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First-years Raymond Dong (left) and Howard Chiang create a chalk design for Raymond’s Student Government election campaign on the Main Quadrangles Wednesday evening.

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Former Obama aide returns to UCMC Matthew Schaefer News Contributor More than two years after leaving Hyde Park for the marbled halls of Washington, D.C., a former administrator at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) has returned to advise a president of a different sort.

Susan Sher, formerly the UCMC’s vice president for legal and government affairs, was appointed August 1 as Senior Adviser to President Robert Zimmer and as the hospital’s Executive Vice President for Corporate Strategy

and Public Affairs.

Sher left her position at the UCMC in January 2009 to serve as Associate Counsel to President Obama. A few months later, First Lady Michelle Obama appointed Sher as her Chief of Staff. A close friend of the Obamas, Sher provided legal advice to the First Lady and worked on health care policy issues for the President.

“I stayed two years, which was an understanding we had—that I would come back after two years,” Sher said. “I came back to my home, my husband, my life.

It was never intended to be longer than that.”

Sher first met the First Lady when the two worked together at the UCMC, where Obama administrated in different positions. When Sher stepped down in November of last year, Obama called her a “dear friend.”

“I have been grateful every day for her leadership and wise counsel in Washington,” Obama said in a November 16 press release.

In the same release, President Obama also lauded Sher’s work on health care reform.

“Susan has brought tremendous skill and dedication to the First Lady’s office, as well as my Administration’s outreach to the

Osaka prof traces Japan-China rift Stephanie Xiao News Contributor A meaningful accord between China and Japan will require both countries to put aside their economic ambitions and confront the age-old tensions between them, Osaka University Professor Emeritus Nobukuni Koyasu said at a lecture at Swift Hall on Tuesday.

“Japan—and China, too—has simply strengthened economic relations while pretending to ignore these fundamental problems,” Koyasu said in the talk. “A real settlement between Japan and China must be an agreement that decides how to build peace in the future of Asia while also reflecting on our historical knowledge of the past.”

As this year’s speaker for the annual Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture Series in

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Japanese Studies, Koyasu delivered a nearly two-hour presentation on the history of intellectualism in Japan, focusing on how the perception of China has affected the development of Japanese nationalism, as well as on the impact of Chinese-Japanese relations on the future of East Asia.

Early interactions between the two countries continue to shape the characters of the nations today, he explained. “[The] Japanese at the dawn of the modern period were given a static, despotic view of Imperial China from quite early on,” he said, while “Japan’s pursuit of war in China awakened a nationalist consciousness in China on a broad scale and produced an anti-Japanese subjectivity called the Chinese nation.”

According to Koyasu, the label “East Asia” JAPAN continued on page 3

Jewish community and our efforts to pass health care reform, and I thank her for her service,” he said.

From 1993 to 1997, Sher served as the Corporation Counsel for the City of Chicago, the city’s top lawyer. During this time, she was responsible for representing the Mayor and the city’s various departments, boards, and commissions in all legal matters.

Sher said that she considered other opportunities after leaving the White House, but she was drawn back to Chicago.

“I felt like I was coming home,” Sher said.

Ever since the advent of Facebook, investors have been looking to college students for the next big startup. And with the coming of Entom Foods, a company that seeks to make insects a more sustainable alternative to meat, the University’s own Mark Zuckerburg moment may have arrived.

Having occupied the pages of The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and, most recently, The Huffington Post , the founders of Entom Foods are no strangers to the limelight. However, their product, the common insect, however, remains rooted in its humble beginnings; grasshoppers, water bugs, and baby bees have yet to seduce the U.S. consumer, despite the growing social acceptance of entomophag y—insect consumption—in Europe and Asia.

“The crux of what we’re trying to do is to reform the insect, so that it doesn’t have all the really stigmatized elements: the exoskeleton, the eyes, the wings, the shells,” said second-year Mathew Krisiloff, founder of Entom Foods. “That’s really the source of Western trepidation towards insects.”

The breadth of Entom Foods’s media exposure reflects the gravity of its un-

derlying business platform: Population expansion and depleting resources mean that by 2050 the demand for meat will have doubled, creating the very real possibility of a global food crisis, according to the January 27, 2008 New York Times article, “Rethinking the Meat-Guzzler.”

Spurred on by the U of C’s Chicago Careers In (CCI) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition last fall quarter, Krisiloff accredits his eureka moment to his Contemporary Global Issues class.

“It was so striking realizing for the first time that one of those calamitous issues is going to take place in my lifetime,” he said. “So I went with the idea and it all blew up from there.”

Entom Foods, which includes second-years Tommy Wu, Ben Yu, and Irvin Ho, and third-year Chelsey Rice-Davis, went on to win the CCI contest in April and was awarded $10,000 in prize money, in addition to $600 from the Uncommon Fund. Part of the funds went towards Krisiloff ’s research this past summer at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, widely considered the epicenter for entomophag y.

“Really I was working directly with the agricultural production of the insects.

I was working with raising them on side stream diets, BUGS continued on page 3

Jamba comes to Ratner; Chipotle in talks Harunobu Coryne Associate News Editor Several fast food outlets will set up shop on campus in the coming months, dishing out ramen, yogurt, and 900-calorie chocolate shakes to students weary of Bart Mart cereal bars.

This November, smoothie titan Jamba Juice will join popular frozen yogurt chain Red Mango and Hyde Park fusion restaurant Noodles, Etc. as the latest newcomer to the dining system. According to Director of OpFOOD continued on page 3

Students line up to order lunch at the newly opened Noodles, Etc. outlet at Hutchinson Commons earlier this week.

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Rice-Davis: Taste isn’t the problem in the U.S.— it’s the social stigma

Members of Entom Foods. From left to right: Chelsey Rice-Davis, Matthew Krisiloff, Irvin Ho, Ben Yu, and Tommy Wu. JAMIE MANLEY | THE CHICAGO MAROON BUGS continued from front

which maximizes the growth efficiency of the insects,” Krisiloff said. “It’s why we’re interested in working with insects in the first place. They are extremely

nutritious, for one, and they’re also extremely environmentally friendly and extremely economically friendly.”

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has re-

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cently begun promoting edible insects and categorizes 1,700 species of them.

In Denmark, insect-based food products are available in select supermarkets, and there is even an insect breeders’ union. The EU commission offered a $4.3 million prize to support insect farming this summer.

Even with the attention Krisiloff ’s team has gotten, psychological barriers still turn off the average U.S. consumer to Entom’s bugs. The teammates argue that even without any pricey flavorings or cooking methods that might undercut cost-efficiency, insects have flavor properties familiar to the existing western diet.

“We’ve tried insects not just with cheese flavoring or Mexican spice—common things that people put on insects now—and they still have a good and pleasant taste,” said Chelsey Rice-Da-

vis, one of the founding members of Entom Foods. “The taste isn’t really the problem; it’s really just the social stigma, what people assume it will taste like and the whole idea of eating an insect.”

Since returning to school, the members of Entom haven’t slowed down. This year they are focusing on producing a singular food product, such as ice cream or a nutrition bar. The group intends to showcase some of these treats at an insect buffet on campus this year.

Krisiloff acknowledged that the balancing act between being a full-time student and supporting a rising business could be difficult. Asked about the “Mark Zuckerberg option” of dropping out of college to pursue the business plan, Krisiloff said he was open-minded.

“It’s a conversation I’ve had with my parents,” he said. “We’re going to play it by ear.”

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was born out of a movement by Japan to shift the perceived center of Asian culture and geography from China to Japan.

Despite the deep rifts between Japan and China, Koyasu proposed his own strategy for settling the ancient dispute and creating unity in Asia.

“The ‘Pan-Asianism’ that I speak of is a true solidarity that becomes visible through Japan and China together conducting a self-reform.

I think we can say that a meaningful relationship between Japan and China can be found in this form of solidarity,” Koyasu said.

The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) sponsored the lecture, entitled “Japanese Intellectuals and China.” The annual series is named in honor of U of C Professor Emeritus Tetsuo Najita and his contributions to the History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations departments.

Chipotle in negotiations with Aramark for firstever campus location FOOD continued from front

erations and Communication for Housing and Dining Services Richard Mason, a deal is also in play to make the U of C home to the first-ever on-campus branch of the burrito bar Chipotle.

“One of our many goals is to increase the diversity of food options on campus,” Mason said. The University approached Jamba Juice after evaluating student feedback that pushed for a smoothie bar in Ratner Athletic Center, where the branch will be located. Aramark, the University’s main food service provider, negotiated the contract with the company.

Talks between Chipotle and Aramark have been ongoing, although a preliminary timetable has yet to be established, Mason said. Unlike Red Mango, which will have a self-service outpost in the Biological Sciences Learning Center, the Chipotle branch would require a full, Chipotletrained staff of Aramark employees. In addition, special cooking equipment such as range hoods could not be accommodated by most campus buildings.

Compared to national chains Chipotle and Jamba Juice, locally owned Noodles, Etc. caused less fanfare when it opened in Hutchinson Commons at the beginning of the school year. Still, the expansion of Thai-born Pattie Kidwell’s popular 57th Street restaurant makes good on the University’s recent promise to have women- and minority-owned businesses account for at least 25 percent of dining purchases.

Students have reacted enthusiastically to the new additions.

First-year Rachel Starks, who was surprised that Jamba Juice operated outside of California, was glad to hear that her smoothie cravings would soon be satisfied: “I’m very excited to be able to have my Berry Fulfilling Smoothie.”

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The Cummings Life Science Center shut down its research center late in the summer due to a scientist’s skin infection.

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Cecile Murray News Contributor Staff at the Cummings Life Science Center temporarily had to shut down their research late this summer after one scientist contracted a skin infection from a bacterium under study in the same lab.

The researcher, identified only as a female scientist working in the lab, was admitted to the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) August 27 and was diagnosed with a Bacillus cereus infection.

Research at the lab was suspended between August 27 and September 19 while the lab was decontaminated, and some bacterial strains were moved to the Howard T. Ricketts lab at the Argonne National Laboratory as a precautionary measure. The University also notified relevant health agencies of the incident, including the Chicago Department of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

University officials said that because B. cereus is not contagious or transmittable through the air or through human-to-human contact, the campus and surrounding community were not at risk.

Because a B. cereus infection requires direct

skin contact, University officials believe that an open wound on the infected researcher must have come in contact with B. cereus bacteria that had been spilled in the area where she worked.

The Cummings building is a biosafety level-two facility on the lower end of the fourlevel spectrum. But the B. cereus strain was actually under study at level-three biosafety procedures. At level-three, researchers manipulating bacterial cultures must work in a specially ventilated cabinet, wear two layers of gloves—discarding the outer pair after leaving the cabinet—and disinfect all surfaces after the samples are put back into storage.

Research at the building has since resumed, and the scientist has made a full recovery, according to documents provided by UCMC spokesperson Lorna Wong.

The incident occurred two years after another researcher, molecular genetics professor Michael Cassadaban, died after being infected with a weakened strain of Yersinia pestis, a bacterium that causes a strain of plague.

In the documents provided by Wong, a spokesperson pointed out differences between the two incidents, but said researchers in the laboratory were retrained in safety procedures before research resumed.

Sinaiko, revered Core prof, dies at 82 Eliana Polimeni News Contributor Herman Sinaiko (A.B. ’47, Ph.D. ’61), a 55-year Humanities professor in the College, whose time at the University spanned the majority of his life, passed away Sunday in Hyde Park from lung cancer. He was 82.

Sinaiko was known for his presence in the Core curriculum, where he focused on engaging students with various types of texts. An advocate for the improvement of mental health care and residential facilities for students, he was also a passionate supporter of student involvement in the arts, helping to establish the student-run University Theater Committee.

“Herman Sinaiko will rank as one of the greatest teachers in the history of the College,” Dean of the College John Boyer said. “Herman’s love of the College and our students was legendary.”

Sinaiko’s dedication to the liberal arts education led him to develop the University of

Chicago Great Books Institute, an endeavor to improve community college education and give minority and first-generation students resources and materials used in the Core.

“The Common Core is at the heart of this institution…A Core course is not just an introduction to a body of material, but rather learning the best way to look at literature,” he said, in an interview for the University of Chicago Chronicle published on May 26, 1994.

A recipient of multiple teaching awards, including the Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Undergraduate Teaching in 1963, the Amoco Award in 1994 and the Norman Maclean Faculty Award in 2003, courses Sinaiko taught in the past include “Greek Thought and Literature” and “Human Being and Citizen.” He was slated to teach “The Organization of Knowledge” this Spring as part of the Big Problems program.

Sinaiko also served as Dean of Students from 1982 to 1986, and, during his tenure, was actively involved in student life.

a way for as many people to participate as possible, whether or not they end up holding an elected position, adding that he was particularly interested in reaching out to more “non-SG type” students.

“We want to make sure that everyone who is passionate can get plugged in,” Kalad said.

Each candidate collected 50 verifiable signatures from other first-year students before being placed on the official ballot.

After the signatures were verified, candidates put down a $25 deposit, binding them to SG election rules. Candidates were given a printing budget and can only spend $25 of their own money on campaign materials.

In such a crowded field, candidates are relying on social media, chalk illustrations on the quad, and posters to promote their campaign. To elevate name recognition, candidates Ilknur Aliyev and Nadia Alhadi both posted videos of themselves dancing around campus in the “Class of 2015” Facebook group. Kayla Reinherz, another candidate, posted a picture to the group of herself standing in front of a blackboard of math problems with the caption “Vote Kayla: She Can Handle Hard Things.”

Some candidates have formed temporary alliances, hoping that they might reach more students by campaigning—if not necessarily winning—in groups.

One candidate, Anisha Ganguly, said she was glad to see a large and diverse field of candidates and that it demonstrated an active student body.

“It shows that students want to get involved and represent their peers,” Ganguly said. “There are exciting candidates.

There are literally kids from all around the world. There’s definitely the challenge of campaigning in such a competitive field.”

Last year, three of the four first-year candidates who were elected to CC ran for higher positions in SG. Second-year Forrest Scofield, who ran an aggressive Facebook campaign last year, now serves in SG’s Executive Cabinet as the Vice President for Administration.

“When you run in the fall you get your own stage,” Scofield said.

Kalad said that he felt encouraged by the number of candidates, but he was careful not to place too much value on participation alone.

“The number [of candidates] doesn’t mean anything unless there are quality candidates, and I’m happy with the quality of the candidates,” Kalad said.

Members of the Class of 2015 can vote for their CC representatives at sg.uchicago. edu from 9 a.m. on Tuesday, October 11 until 5 p.m. on Thursday, October 13.

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You’re not on the list Removing non-SG members from College Council listhost undermines transparency efforts

The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 ADAM JANOFSKY Editor-in-Chief CAMILLE VAN HORNE Managing Editor JACK DIMASSIMO Senior Editor AMY MYERS Senior Editor JONATHAN LAI News Editor CHRISTINA PILLSBURY News Editor PETER IANAKIEV Viewpoints Editor SHARAN SHETTY Viewpoints Editor JORDAN LARSON Arts Editor MAHMOUD BAHRANI Sports Editor JESSICA SHEFT-ASON Sports Editor DOUGLAS EVERSON, JR Head Designer KEVIN WANG Web Editor ALICE BLACKWOOD Head Copy Editor GABE VALLEY Head Copy Editor LILY YE Head Copy Editor DARREN LEOW Photo Editor HARUNOBU CORYNE Assoc. News Editor SAM LEVINE Assoc. News Editor

Student Government’s (SG) College Council (CC) made an executive decision on Tuesday to disallow nonCC members from subscribing to its listhost. This move significantly undermines CC’s obligation to the student body. Not only does it run contrary to some of the fundamental ideals of the current SG Slate and SG as a whole; it also compromises the rights of undergraduate students regarding their administrative representation.

By removing student access to an important CC forum, SG compromises its principle of transparency, a cornerstone of the whole operation.

Article One, Section Five of the SG Constitution is an explicit affirmation of transparency, stating that “all meetings, impeachment trials, and other operations of the SG shall be open to [the student body].” Since the listhost acts as a candid record of the Council’s discussions, closing it off to nonCouncil subscribers denies them their

documented right to have access to the operations of SG. Although only a small minority of subscribers was comprised of non-Council members, and a significant portion of the discussion concerns mundane, procedural matters, all students should still have the ability to receive such information.

LIVEChicago, the current SG slate and executive branch of the Council, cited heightened transparency as part of itscampaign platform. Its election statement mentions creating “a direct line of communication for student ideas and concerns.” In addition to documenting minutes, the listhost acted as a forum for members to develop new ideas and comment on the management of the Council itself. What could be a more direct line of communication than an ongoing, up-to-date thread on Council efforts between its members and their constituents?

When questioned about the change, SG President Youssef Kalad said that

the reasoning behind the decision was that members had complained about non-members using the listhost to criticize Council ideas still in their early stages. He and other members wanted to make the listhost a place where they could “throw out crazy ideas...without fear of judgment and criticism.” College Council members should recognize that, as representatives of the undergraduate student body, part of their job involves receiving criticism on their ideas even if they aren’t fully developed.

Instead of taking offense to the opinions, they should use them to further refine their ideas.

The official SG listhost will begin carrying Council minutes and developments. This will not be a proper replacement for the CC listhost, but will instead restrict the free flow of information. Simply by virtue of it being an official, comprehensive listhost, any news sent through it will have been selectively chosen by its members. The old

listhost, on the other hand, presented a raw, unfiltered account of the Council’s actions. Only through this genuine medium could the student body properly monitor its representatives.

Although it was a quick executive decision, it has a broad and serious effect on the relationship between SG and the student body it represents. It even stands to divide the College Council itself. The motion was put to a vote only after its implementation, polarizing CC’s members and even causing one to threaten resignation. The SG Slate and CC need to realize that they are at fault in more ways than one. Any government that prides itself on transparency should take it far more seriously than Tuesday’s decision has demonstrated.

The Editorial Board consists of the Editor-in-Chief, Viewpoints Editors, and an additional Editorial Board member. Peter Ianakiev recused himself from the writing of this editorial.

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Pardon my French If studying abroad in France, make sure you know more than just “bonjour”

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I think part of me expected that I could make it four months here without saying anything but “bonjour” and “merci.”

Then I went to the grocery store.

I silently rehearsed my go-to lines as I unloaded my basket onto the conveyor belt with painstaking care, stalling.

“Bonjou,” I thought. Don’t say the r. You drop the r. And then you shut your mouth.

When she tells you how much you owe her and you don’t understand her because you

suck at numbers in French, you’ll hand her the fifty-euro note that’s loose in your left front pocket and you’ll keep your mouth shut. Then you’ll close with a “Merci” and you’ll get the hell out of there.

The cashier looked at me and smiled. “‘Bonjou,’” she said. “Bonjourrrr,” I replied, like a high-school pitcher readying a loogie. I had to will myself not to accidentally spit on her.

The situation did not improve.

I watched as my baguette scanned through, then my ham, then—oh, what? the cheese didn’t scan, she’s looking at me, am I going to have to say something, what oh no ok, phew, it scanned the second time, now I just have to get past the peas and then I can get out of here, I’m so close, just come on, now what, her eyes are looking at me and her lips are moving, is she saying something, she is, just say something so it will go away.

“Quoi?” I say.

She repeated herself. It sounded something like, “Tube dube a dube ill pazay?”

I had somehow managed to convince the cashier that I could understand French, despite my weak smile, hairballhack hello, and constant tremors. Maybe I still could.

I could feel my face reddening and my throat sticking. “…Quoi,” excreted my mouth in a garbled ooze.

She repeated herself in English. I still didn’t understand it.

I was in Pulp Fiction and the cashier was Samuel L. Jackson.

Say quoi again. I dare you… “…Quoi,” escaped my mouth in a whisper. I was alive.

She looked angry.

“You weigh them,” she barked, holding up the bag of peas.

“Oh!” I took the bag from her and jogged to the produce section at the speed you jog when someone holds the door open for you and you’re still fifteen feet away.

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Alex Aciman Viewpoints Contributor We are a tremendous institution, are we not? A rich body of learning, a pool of eager and worldly scholars. But we don’t exactly get the respect we deserve. There is in the very idea of the University of Chicago something that makes it different. By this I don’t uniquely mean special, because there are other prestigious universities that for some reason do not fall under the same category as ours. Is it our superior intellect—far beyond and unmatched? My vanity wishes to say yes, but logic and a touch of humility make me think otherwise. So it must be because it is so much colder here than anywhere else, right? But it’s cold in Madison, Wisconsin, where my brothers are at school, and the weather is hardly a thing to mention. It is most likely because we go to a school almost universally acknowledged as the most rigor-

ous, and we do so by our own choice. To many this choice seems illogical, and the difference between us and everyone else is therefore an unidentifiable something that brands us, for this reason, as not only weirdos, but weirdos par excellence. We say it ourselves: “At normal schools...but here...”.

After three years I’ve realized that we aren’t weirdos by some virtue of our organisms, but because of our intellectuality. It is, unfortunately, one defined by shame.

We have seminar classes, which are supposed to be thriving havens of discussion, but by the end of the quarter only a few ‘that kids’ are left superciliously battling the professors. Some of us feel intimidated and do not speak even if we are—simply by being students here—equally matched with those louder students. We have coffee shops, but we feel as though bringing up anything more serious than how skinny our jeans are and how

Grounds doesn’t have that vegan couscous anymore would be some betrayal against the very casual, pseudo-intellectual atmosphere everybody has worked so hard to cultivate.

We go to parties, but all we do is try to pretend Core books were done for personal reading (“Oh man, I once read The Division of Labour in Society, and...), and mock in the most platitudinously ironic tone the lives of artists without ever actually mentioning their work.

We may have drinking buddies, but save a rare few here and there, we don’t have those pillars of intellectual discourse we looked forward to. And this is, of course, not because we don’t have it in us to have these conversations (we do), but because we are ashamed. Ashamed of feeling and sounding too pretentious, afraid of being wrong.

Part of what separates us from Harvard and Yale and all those sweet names is that stu-

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Common concerns Comparative analysis can help solve our local economic problems Liat Spiro Viewpoints Contributor I glanced at the procession of tents scrawled with messages decrying the struggles of the middle class, and I thought of home. Then I thought of my time studying abroad in China.

Educated and employed but unable to purchase housing, thousands of protesting Israeli youths expressed frustrations that would likely resonate with their peers in Beijing or Shanghai. A type of public land ownership that mixes red-tape bureaucracy, proindustrial park zoning, and corruption has slowed the construction of affordable housing in areas surrounding both Israeli and Chinese cities.

Meanwhile, Israeli medical students and young doctors decry the lack of public funding for healthcare, the desperate shortage of hospital beds and, concomitantly, the dwindling supply of doctors. In some respects, the state looms too large; in others, its role has become insufficient.

Israel was a socialist country that, like many around the world, embarked on a road to market liberalization in the late 1970s and is now confronting the ornery problem of income polarization.

This brings me to a largely unmet challenge in academia: It has become popular to investigate big problems where the causes and culprits are obviously mobile and clearly varied— and rightly so. Climate change, viral epidemics, controversies of migration and assimilation, and international terrorism surely deserve the attention they get.

But what about shared problems of political economy? The main question really is: What institutional arrangements should underpin widespread socioeconomic mobility and LABOR continued on page 6

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Lack of campus literary societies symbolizes muted intellectual discourse SHAME continued from page 5 dents there often have enough confidence and arrogance to do something public and declarative with their intellectuality. They have literary societies.

And where are ours? Am I to believe that the University of Chicago doesn’t have 20 or even 10 students with enough courage and brainpower to get together and actually discuss? Or are we too busy putting on little plays and

recitals that we don’t even tell our friends about outside of Facebook because they’ll mock us and probably won’t come? I’m certain that the students who once did consider forming an intellectual society of sorts were too afraid to suggest it to their peers, because god forbid we take what we do and love seriously.

I don’t mean we need to have the robes, the incantations, the centuries of racism and anti-Semitism, the

bizarre ceremonies that made George W. Bush touch himself in a room full of men. No, fraternities are already an option for those who wish to join. But something should be done. Just because we can’t for a moment let go of the idea that our undergraduate education is better than the Ivy League’s doesn’t mean we should abandon and repudiate the spirit of the practices that made them such venerated institutions.

Transnational perspectives help invigorate local economies LABOR continued from page 5 dignified creative labor? So far, no one nation has meaningfully solved this quandary. The United States punted on it and actively spread its semi-effective punting method to its allies in the wake of WWII. To sustain growth and prevent disasters, we pursued Keynesian policies and instituted national financial regulations and international systems (Bretton-Woods, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), hegemony, etc.). In the new consensus of behemoths and aggregation—mass production, mass consumption, mass unions, massive corporations—the older concerns about Free Labor were forgotten. If concentrated labor and capital could hammer out negotiations, if injections of public funds could stimulate the economy, if everyone could expect a middle-class lifestyle, who needed local institutions to encourage socioeconomic mobility, creative dignified labor for the majority, or entrepreneurship and small business? Why envision types of mechanization to offer workers new tools rather than degradation or replacement?

Lured by Ford’s sweet formulation—that paying workers who feared both physical exertion and mental activity a decent wage to do the narrowest of tasks would initiate a salutary consumption cycle—we punted by momentarily securing a nice lifestyle, rather than a skilled one.

This punting has ultimately endangered the middle and working classes in many places. This summer, we witnessed violent looting in the London suburbs. Feeling the first tremors of sustained economic polarization and well aware

of their potential consequences, Israel broke out in peaceful but enduring protests over the rising cost of living and the disproportionate influence wielded by the elite ‘tycoons.’ And now there’s Occupy Wall Street, spreading to cities across the U.S. This brings us to the deeper question: What institutions—public, civil society, and private—would encourage Free Labor for the twenty-first century?

For me, answering this question means investigating the Progressive Era fight for Free Labor that, not coincidentally, occurred within the context of the First Globalization. Although Fordism, in retrospect, may seem the unavoidable result of a race toward efficiency, labor politics proved quite contentious in late nineteenthand early twentieth-century America. In Europe, the dynamics of institutional change were likely even more complicated, with a variety of social compacts, from the old guild system to the new forms of municipal socialism and Mittelstand paternalism, iteratively re-negotiated on local, provincial, and national levels, with conservative leaders cultivating interesting coalitions to stem the tide of socialism.

Out of the tumultuous reformulations of economic community and dignified work, and with the institutional cross-pollination resulting from progressive reformers, local social welfare groups took shape. In public schooling, settlement houses, universities, and commercial clubs, a wide variety of interest groups advocated vocational education that would develop the individual’s head and hands through activities such as architectural and engineer-

I’ll make a declarative, intellectual statement right here: I want to discuss art, literature, philosophy, I want to know your ideas and pick your brain because you, whether or not I am humble enough to admit it, are just as intelligent and potent as I am.

Alex Aciman is a fourth-year in the College majoring in comparative literature.

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ing drafting and design. The administration of such skill-learning regimens varied widely by country, providing good terrain for comparative research in economic history, as well as potential sources of inspiration for today. Could computer programming today be analogous to what drafting was then? If so, what academic governing structures could ensure that students gain the skills to succeed in existing industries while still offering enough outlets for independent thought and creativity?

The establishment of simultaneously mental and manual education systems, dense networking between for-profit and non-profit organizations, and accessible research centers for projects no one individual enterprise could afford could spawn myriad applications of new technologies.

We see some of these processes in those current islands of hope: Silicon Valley and downtown Boston. Looking backward and outside our borders reveals other frameworks, perhaps more suitable to other regions of the U.S. These transnational, shared histories and the resulting family of variations offer a wonderful palette for comparative research in political economy that moves beyond mere factor endowments to include social institutions and practices—how people conceive of work and entrepreneurship and accomplish risky, financially burdensome, or technologically complicated tasks.

With the state, with their heads and hands, and with each other.

PARIS continued from page 5 I placed the peas on the scale. The display read 0.152 kg.

I hurried back to the cash register, beaming. “Point quinze,” I proclaimed, as though awarding first prize at a purebred dog show.

She stared at me.

“You must weigh,” she said again.

“I...I weighed them,” I said meekly.

“Point quinze.”

She stared again. Did I mention that there was an enormous line waiting behind me this whole time?

I Usain BOLTED all the way back to the produce section, literally breaking a sweat. I was actually going to have to ask someone for help. Once I was close to the scale, I took a deep breath and steeled myself. I found the nearest friendly-looking person and said: “Pardon… Est-ce que vous pouvez m’aider un petit peu? J’ai aucune idée comment utiliser cette balance.”

Hey… I can speak French, after all! Can I compare this to those times when a person is in a life-threatening situation and finds within himself some great inner strength that allows him to surmount? Yeah, I didn’t think so. I was more like a twelve-year-old still sucking on a pacifier—the soft yellow rubber of American culture.

I got the sticker, apologized to the people in line behind me, handed the cashier my fifty-euro note, and picked up my change. I left the store, still blushing. I was no longer under the delusion that I could get away with “bonjour” and “merci.” I had been humbled, and it felt good.

Liat Spiro is a fourth-year in the College majoring in history.

Christ Stavitsky is a third-year in the College studying abroad in Paris.

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Smart showcases Soviet Union poster child Alice Bucknell & Thomas Mathew Arts Contributors The Smart Museum of Art’s exhibit Vision and Communism is many things —political, ideological, and structured— but restrained, it is not. Composed of posters, photographs, and rough sketches, the exhibit chronicles the work of Viktor Koretsky, a member of the mid-twentieth century Soviet Realist group. His work deviated immensely from conventional propaganda of his time by replacing more subdued, idealistic themes with bold, aggressive colors and violent scenes of resistance. Many of the nearly 90 pieces in the collection are stylized images of injustice, abuse, and rebellion, drawing upon theatrical and cinematographic elements as inspirations for his art.

VISION AND COMMUNISM Smart Museum of Art Through January 22

As a result, Koretsky’s artwork is vibrant and imposing. Dark-eyed and grimacing figures threaten to leap from their canvases, and somber, brooding music echoes throughout the gallery.

These images often tend towards dark, even abrasive, critiques of imperialism, militarism, and state violence. “AntiApartheid and Mass Murder are Synonymous Concepts” shows several soldiers with bloodstained hands laughing at a small, weeping child. In contrast to these critical posters, there is also more optimistic work in the exhibit that offers possibilities of resistance and alludes to a future free of tyranny. Koretsky’s heroes, who have noble and dignified features, are shown breaking free of chains and evading the menacing hands of pursuers.

When Koretsky moves away from specific historical events like South African apartheid or the American Civil

Viktor Koretsky’s “A Solid Peace for the World!” celebrates an international attempt to end war.

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Rights Movement, he explores an idealized internationalism. A stylistic shift occurs here, as he adopts cooler colors and calmer compositions. “A Solid Peace to the World!” features five hands clutching a bright blue flag, and each hand is colored differently to suggest different races. A hopeful streak emerges in Koretsky’s art when he uses small children to represent possibilities of rebirth and renewal. “The Fate of Peace is in the People’s Hands!” and “Peace to the World!” both incorporate images

of hands and small children of diverse races. These children, though portrayed in many different ways, all suggest an optimistic new order.

Decades before the term “multiculturalism” entered the popular discourse, Koretsky had already incorporated notions of cross-cultural cooperation into his art. Yet even in these works, Koretsky implies that a certain hierarchy should remain, with Communism as top dog, and that enemies of the Soviets oppose this harmonious vision of equality. In

other words, Koretsky’s work, unsurprisingly, retains an element of propaganda.

Many of the posters’ slogans utilize the same words and associations and make uncritical, somewhat naïve assumptions about Soviet-led progress. The viewer is then reminded that Koretsky, while demonstrating clear artistic talent, was influenced greatly by the politics of the Soviet Union.

Only a small slate identifying the title, dimensions, and medium hints at the motivation behind each piece.

This lack of information is designed to make the viewer feel something akin to “a non-believer entering a place of worship,” as explained by a gallery panel.

This limited use of context is meant to encourage personal, sincere reactions to the exhibit, and to reveal the message of Koretsky’s artwork without forcing the viewer into agreement. Vision and Communism is an enticing and illuminating exhibit that offers a dynamic presentation of world issues from a Communist perspective.

The scene changes, but The Beats stay the same

John Taflan (left) and Adam Poss perform in 16th Street Theater’s production of The Beats directed by Ann Filmer.

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Eric Shoemaker Arts Contributor A bomb sets off The Beats, 16th Street Theater’s latest production.

The actors first assail the audience with a barrage of words written by Gregory Corso, the first of the play’s

poets. “Bomb,” they say, “budger of history, breaker of time, O havoc antiphony, barracuda.” The staccato, experimental rhythm of the work is right on beat with Ginsberg, Kerouac, and their kin whose works are read later in the performance.

After the play, local poet Frank

Pete commented that, at first, it was hard not to hear the words as poetry, as something at once indirect and meaningful beyond the simple phrasing. But once you sat back, you “let the words wash over you,” and the poetry became something other than dialogue or choral odes, simply becoming the music of the moment. The Beats perfectly represents a lyrical work that does not remain sideways and layered, but becomes the words of the original poet, fused seamlessly into a type of production where it is not necessary to listen for the beauty of the language; you simply drown in it.

The Beats, written by Marilyn Campbell, is essentially a long poetry reading bedazzled with little chunks of dialogue between characters. Elements from Kerouac’s On The Road and Ginsberg’s “Howl,” among many other writings, make up the mythical plot of the show. The play follows the beat poets from adolescence to middle age. Campbell, the award-winning adapter of Crime and Punishment, said of the show that it was particularly “difficult to use only the poets’ words

to tell their stories” and not to embellish it with elements of her own imagination. Similarly, director Ann Filmer responded to an audience member’s question during post-show discussion by saying: “It’s really difficult [for an actor] to reproduce a poet’s style [when speaking their work].” This leads to a realized tension between poet and actor throughout the production.

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Though at times a bit heavy on content and light on discussion, the show comes off on the right foot and gives the audience the feeling of having crawled through late-night cafés.

John Taflan captured the poetic spirit of the generation particularly well with his impassioned recitations as Allen Ginsberg. He also played into an interesting aspect of 16th Street’s design for the show: the culture of the modern hipster. Director Ann Filmer

wanted to draw parallels between the Beats and the hipsters for the benefit of today’s audience, updating the production with fresh references. The remainder of the ensemble performed admirably. Some standouts included Carly Ciarrocchi’s impassioned reading of Diane di Prima’s “Rant” and Adam Poss’s engrossing embodiment of Jack Kerouac.

The atmosphere of The Beats addresses both new and slightly less new tropes of modern poetics. If the audience remains after the performance to listen to local poets read their poetry, the effect is an awe-inspiring comparison between today’s rising stars and past revolutionaries. Ann Filmer’s choice to present readings of fresh poetry at the end of the production is inspired and gutsy, equal parts revealing about the quality of work done in preparation for the actors’ performances and surprising in that, although they didn’t quite match the fever pitch the local poets brought on with their own work, the actors successfully recreated an atmosphere of tension and spitfire realized during the Beat era.

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What’s in the name of a restaurant?

Sometimes a lot more than you’d expect. When you hear a name like Gilt Bar, you might expect a certain measure of urban chic and elegance that makes you feel trendy without being too self-conscious, and you would be right to think so. Located in the looming shadow of Merchandise Mart, Gilt Bar is a surprisingly large space. There is a lounge area as you enter and a grand bar to your right, followed by a dining area filled with tables and booths, culminating in an open kitchen at the far end of the restaurant. To say it’s dark would be an understatement. Dark is Kanye’s twisted fantasy, dark is the side of the moon full of cool guitar solos, dark is Batman…. Gilt Bar is a black hole faintly illuminated by candles and those disorienting, incandescent globe lights that seem to be all the rage in gastropubs and gastrobars. Otherwise, it’s a cool space that, according to its blog (ugh), boasts “handcrafted cocktails, farm-friendly cuisine, and a value-driven wine list.”

During my evening spent dining there, I couldn’t help but feel that Gilt Bar was a huge misnomer. Sure, the bar shone in all its splendid glory,

a kind of guiding beacon as you navigated your way to the bathroom, but there wasn’t much more to the place.

Gilt Bar is, at its unadulterated core, a high-end diner that just happens to be extremely well-stocked with booze.

Admittedly, I’m no expert on the subject, but judging by their extensive collection of scotch, whiskey, bourbon, gin, tequila, wine, and beer—not to mention after-dinner digestifs—it seemed that only an expert or a giant a-hole (probably a giant a-hole) could be disappointed by the selection.

Moving away from potables to eatables, we found a fairly “classic” selection of inoffensive dishes and ingredient combinations. First were the “toasts,” of which I sampled the sweet balsamic roasted garlic and olive oil, along with the bone marrow and onion jam varieties. Both were served with a well-charred loaf of that rustic white that lent itself perfectly to soaking up tastes because of its neutrality.

The whole cloves of garlic were soft and pleasantly mushy, while the bone marrow and onion jam appealed to the sweet-toothed, fatty glutton in all of us. My group also had the prosciutto and fig salad. Served alongside the toasts, it was nice to occasionally take a light breather of arugula while my body struggled to understand at what point in the meal I had left the

restaurant and begun receiving a bone marrow transplant at the hospital.

As for entrées, the pan-roasted salmon with melted tomatoes was nice and tasty in that hey-I-like-salmon-so-I-will-probably-like-this-dishand-guess-what-I-do kind of way.

The other entrée we shared were the pork meatballs, which were served in a tomato-based romesco sauce.

These were actually some of the better meatballs I’ve had: light on filler, springy, and moist. Something in the meatball, maybe the crust, provided a nice crunchy texture. For all I know it could have been pebbles, but it was a pleasant surprise.

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However, all that Gilt-ers is not gold. I understand that the chefs here never claimed to be innovative, but a self-proclaimed bar doesn’t have to limit itself, either. This was certainly true in the case of the side dishes we tried, the smashed red potatoes and caramelized brussels sprouts. The success of these vegetarian sides hinged on the addition of animal fat. In the case of the potatoes this was chicken

jus, and unfortunately all that I tasted was classic mashed potatoes. Good?

Sure. Special? No. Even the upscale-food-on-trainingwheels occasionally crashed. I speak of the truffle pasta, which was the only letdown of the night. Expecting a luxuriant shower of truffle to rain down upon my plate of pasta, I instead found melting shavings of Parmesan. The taste of the truffle and its appearance were practically microscopic, and all I got was the sensation of Paula Deen perched atop my shoulder, gently whispering, “Butter, y’all” in my ear.

Service was, all in all, pleasant, but the meal did feel a little rushed. If my party had not so ravenously torn into the dishes, I could have easily imagined them piling up on the table like some death-row foodie’s last meal.

Quick turnover seems to be on the restaurant’s agenda, and the fact that we weren’t ordering any drinks—which we were casually reminded to do so on three separate occasions—may have conflicted with their profit margins.

So when it finally came time for desserts, and we found ourselves split over the issue, the waiter decided to break the tie by delivering the check instead of the menu. Thanks ... I think?

The dessert menu was not very interesting. Brownies, carrot cake, ba-

nana split, berry trifle and—wait, it can’t be—diner-style pies. I knew it.

There was no hiding the truth. Gilt Bar’s veneer of glamor and glitz was cracking, giving way to the simple diner that longed to see the light of day.

The check, on the other hand, was a sight to behold. We had feasted like kings on what had become the New American culinary repertoire, all for around $25 per person. I did a double take and a double check. Nope, everything was in order.

It’s a useful name, lending some restaurant street cred in a city where Paul Kahan is the name that rolls off everyone’s tongue (Publican, avec, Blackbird, Big Star), and it’s a nice place when you need somewhere to go on a Saturday night that doesn’t involve molecular gastronomy. That’s not to say that Gilt Bar is off the beaten path; reservations are relatively hard to come by. But you can safely recommend it to anyone looking for a bite downtown that isn’t Chipotle or a 7–11; rest assured that they will enjoy the food and drinks, and that you will come across as a sophisticated urbanite with an insider’s knowledge of the Chicago food scene. Bargain prices, neo-“classic” dishes, and a rare quality that makes you want to be a regular— now that’s a blue-plate special worthy of any diner.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | October 7, 2011

10 FOOTBALL UAA Standings Rank 1 2 3 4

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Win % .750 .600 .600 .500

Record 3–1 (0–0) 3--2 (0–0) 3–2 (0–0) 2–3 (0–0)

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

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

Win % .900 .600 .550 .750 .722 .727 .600 .500

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

Record 11–1–0 8–1–2 6–3–0 8–0–2 6–3–1 8–3–0 6–4–0 5–6–0

Win % .917 .818 .667 .900 .650 .727 .600 .455

D-III students should try acting like D-I fans Flatland about making versity of Southern California or Ohio State University doesn’t mean we can’t have a tailgate or two. Taking a cue from state schools, sporting U of C clothing, hosting pre-games and after-parties, and learning school cheers are all ways that not only show good sportsmanship, but are also just downright fun.

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sidering we had already beaten them on two separate occasions earlier in the year. Fired up now? Good.

Lastly, we need to act like D-I fans even though we live in a D-III world. Just because football won’t be playing against the Uni-

Quarterback controversy still unsolved in the position.

“We may even play Patrick Ryan, a freshman, because we need to try to solidify that position as fast as we possibly can,” Mahoney said. “We need to find the right person. The problem that has plagued us offensively is a lack of consistency, and if you look at last week, the first three series, we had two interceptions and a fumble.

“And turnovers—six turnovers, 14 penalties. That’s not Chicago-like at all. Those are things we can’t do.”

Ultimately, the team hopes to advance to 4–2 on the season, and 2—1 on the road.

“It’s not for the stats. It’s for the team,” Montefalco said. “At the end of the day, all I want is to get the win.”

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change is just, in practice, the tempo of how we’re going to do things.”

Montefalco, who led the Maroons with seven-and-a-half tackles and a sack against Ohio Wesleyan, discussed the defense’s strategy for Saturday’s game.

“Denison’s more of a traditional run team, and they’re also a faster-based offense, so we’re switching up how we’re doing our play call. [We’re] also practicing a lot more blitzes this week,” Montefalco said. “So we’re focusing more on the run game and just trying to prepare for that.”

One thing to look out for: There might be a change of quarterback, as a result of what Mahoney calls a “lack of consistency”

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sport,” Adams said.

In a sports world where it seems like everything has been done before and every ceiling has been capped, Adams pushes the limits.

“I could sit here and pick up the bike and look at it and think of 30 to 100 tricks right now, but thinking is a totally different thing than actually doing. The hard part is actually going out and learning those tricks,” Adams said.

For someone who lives to defeat the impossible, doing the unthinkable is a habit, one which started when Adams was 10 years old.

“I started riding because it looked impossible.

You know, as a kid seeing something on TV—if it’s something you really don’t understand and it looks crazy when you see it, it makes you want to go out there and do it. So I guess the fact that it looked like riders were floating or flying got me to fall in love with the sport,” Adams recalled.

Adams, now 28, has not changed much since his teenage days as a dreamer. Being sponsored

by Red Bull and still riding his bike in the most unconventional way imaginable, Adams has his own pair of wings and no ceiling to hold him down.

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Close win over Carthage boosts momentum for UAA play

First-year Sara Kwan dribbles through the Carthage defense. Kwan has two goals and four assists on the year.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER Noah Weiland Senior Sports Staff After losing to third-ranked Wheaton and battling fourth-ranked Emory to a double-overtime tie last week, the Chicago women’s soccer team beat Carthage 1–0 on Tuesday for its first win since September

22. In a first half dominated by Chicago, neither team was able to find the back of the net. The Maroons were able to get off 21 shots during the game, but weren’t able to finish one for over 80 minutes.

“Coming off the Emory game, that was a very high-energy, high-stakes game since it was our first UAA game,” fourth-year Liz O’Brien said. “Coming into a game like the one on Tuesday is always difficult when

UIC Invite offers look at D-I talent WOMEN’S TENNIS Alexander Sotiropoulos Associate Sports Editor

The women’s tennis team has been using the past few weeks as preparation for the 2012 season. On Friday and Saturday, October 7 and 8, the Maroons will travel to the UIC Invite to play a round-robin style tournament with UIC and UW-Milwaukee, where they look to make a strong showing.

Although the Maroons took fourth place for the past three years in the NCAA D-III National Tournament, the UIC Invite will give them a chance to face off against D-I squads.

“UIC is a round-robin event, meaning you can’t really lose in the tournament,” Head Coach Taka Bertrand said. “It’s just another opportunity this fall for our players to get match play.”

Fourth-years Kendra Higgins and Jennifer Kung, as the first doubles team for the Maroons, look to go undefeated on the weekend. Higgins won the singles title, and the two together won the doubles title in the ITA Small College Regional Championships in Kalamazoo this past weekend. Because of their titles, they will travel to Mobile, Alabama on Thursday, October13 to play in the national championships.

Given that Higgins and recent graduate Chrissy Hu won the D-III national tournament in doubles in 2009 and 2010, Kung has big shoes to fill. Yet she is looking forward to the experience of playing firstdoubles throughout the season.

“Kendra and I were able to play together for a few matches last year while Chrissy was injured, so we already had some experience playing with each other before regionals,” she said. “So far, things have been great, and we’ve been improving with every match that we’ve played together.”

Aside from the UIC Invite, the first-years have already gotten their first glimpse of collegiate-level tennis at the ITA Regional Championships. Kelsey McGillis led all of the newcomers on the team with

quarterfinal showings in singles and doubles with fourth-year Carmen VacaGuzman.

“Kelsey did fantastic at regionals, beating the No. 3 seed [in singles,]” VacaGuzman said. “[She], as well as the other [first-years], have been a great addition to our team. They are all committed and extremely enthused to be part of such a great established program.”

McGillis said she believes that the UIC Invite will be another chance to create a team atmosphere before heading into the 2012 season.

“I guess that this tournament, since we’re still a new team—we have mainly freshman and seniors— [will help us] work on team unity and chemistry this weekend, just so that in the off-season, we can focus a lot on maintaining our physical strength,” she said.

With five first-years on the team, five returning fourth-years, and two returning third-years, the Maroons boast one of the strongest lineups they have ever had in history.

However, not all of Chicago’s talent will be showcased on Friday and Saturday. Third-year Linden Li is studying abroad and third-year Shanelle Trail is recovering from ACL surgery.

Although the full lineup is yet unknown for Friday’s matches, doubles pairs are likely to include Higgins and Kung, fourth-year Tiffany Nguyen and first-year Megan Tang, and first-years Maggie Schumann and Anastasia Kaiser.

VacaGuzman will not be playing, so McGillis’s partner is to be determined.

The invite will also be another opportunity for Bertrand to learn the ropes. Bertrand is in her first season as a collegiate head coach, after former coach Marty Perry resigned to accept a head coaching position at Bridgewater College in Virginia. Bertrand was previously the assistant coach for both men’s and women’s tennis programs since February 2010. “[Bertrand] has always been very professional and dedicated to the tennis program at UChicago,” VacaGuzman said. “[She’s] tough, she’s definitely going to push us physically and mentally. I think we need that though; it’s time to change things up.”

you’re playing a team that is potentially weaker. That might have played a part in a lack of sharpness against Carthage, but our attitudes weren’t down.”

After the unproductive first half, Chicago head coach Amy Reifert used a visual aid to rev up her team. “Our coach was really effective in halftime,” O’Brien continued.

“She showed us a sketch diagram with what Carthage’s lineup looked like, and how we

needed to translate what we were already doing into goals. She does a good job of figuring out our weaknesses and what we should focus on in the second half of games.”

Just over 36 minutes into the second half, the Maroons were able to break the shutout.

First-year Ellie von Storch slipped a pass in the box to fourth-year Allison Hegel, who knocked the ball into the lower-right corner of the net for her sixth goal of the season.

“I play midfield, and my coach wanted me to move forward more than usual. I was making a forward run that I might not usually make, and someone put the ball through to me. I was in the box, and I had a shot on goal that wasn’t clear,” von Storch said. “Allison was in a good position, and I made a good pass that worked out. It wasn’t anything special, but it was a good fundamental play, and we just needed to get a goal.”

“There was a big contrast between our first-half and second-half play—we were sharper, and our focus was better,” secondyear Claire Mackevicius added. “We dominated the entire game, and so it felt weird afterwards with the 1 – 0 win since it felt like a more lopsided game. As the time starts to wane, there comes a point where you need to score and win. We capitalized on an opportunity, and the bottom line is that’s what you need to do.”

The team now moves to a four-game road stretch that includes games against Carnegie Mellon, Brandeis, NYU, and Millikin. The next home game is on October 28 against Case.

“We’ve been a little stagnant the last few games,” O’Brien said. “We started off the UAA league 1–1, so we’re still in the running for a league title, and we want an automatic bid in the NCAA Tournament. We’re excited to travel, and UAA games get us really excited since they mean so much. We have great energy going into them.”

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“You stepped on the Toes of The First Amendment Freedom of Speech, so therefore Me, My Song, and All My Rowdy Friends are OUT OF HERE.” —Country singer Hank Williams, reacting to ESPN’s descision to pull his theme song from Monday Night Football.

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X Games champion Terry Adams puts on a show

Professional BMX rider Terry Adams performs outside the Reg. Adams is on a 50-day tour of college campuses.

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BMX Vicente Fernandez Senior Sports Staff The quad is usually synonymous with learning, books, the life of the mind, and massive amounts of stress.

On Tuesday, however, Red Bull turned the quad into a little bit more than that. Red Bull-sponsored Terry Adams, a professional BMX flatland rider, X Games gold medal winner, and two-time recipient of BMX Magazine’s Number One Ride Award, transformed the quad into a play-

ground and a canvas.

From 10:30 to 11 a.m. on Tuesday, walkways, steps, and gothic architecture were all at Adams’s disposal as he reinvented what it means to bike across the quad.

Adams is on a 50-day tour to college campuses around the country in an effort to promote Red Bull.

“This is probably around day 50,” said Adams, who stands at five-feeteight-inches, weighs in at 148 pounds, rocks a Red Bull beanie, and sports a bike that can actually compete with Max Palevsky’s color scheme.

Red Bull has toured across the country, showcasing Adams’ skills at campuses like South Florida and Harvard. Performing on a college campus, though, isn’t quite the same as riding at the X Games.

“The college campus stuff is really just hanging out more than anything. Really it’s just finding some cool spots to ride, finding the flattest spots I can, and busting some moves,” Adams explained.

Reactions to Adams’s demonstration vary by campus and are based largely on the composition of the student body, according to Adams.

“If I’m at Harvard or something [like Chicago] no one cares because everyone is there to study. If it’s a party campus and I pick a spot where students are just kind of hanging out, they get pretty stoked and are taken aback. Sometimes I’ll get a ‘Get out of the way!’” Adams said.

Adams’s riding style matches his creative personality. So does his BMX arena.

Adams specializes in flatland, which is performed on smooth flat surfaces

without ramps, jumps, or rails. It is as much of an art form as it is a sport, and it resembles breakdancing on a bike more than actually pedaling down Ellis. Adams has twice been named the best flatland BMX-er in the world.

Despite his talent and success, Adams does not come across as one of the world’s top athletes at first glance.

“What’s cool about riding on college campuses is the students don’t really know I’m a pro athlete or that I ride for Red Bull. They kind of just think I’m a student. They just think I’m a kid on a bike that goes to school,” Adams said.

There are very few people in the world who can match Adams’s skills on a BMX bike, and encounters with zombies (not of the zombies vs. humans variety) and tightrope walkers are more likely than seeing bike riding quite like this on the quad anytime soon.

Seeing Adams ride in person is exhilarating. Your mind struggles to grasp what your eyes are seeing. The bike spins beneath Adams’s legs like a basketball, and the two-wheeler seemingly loses its front, back, side and bottom.

For the two-time NORA Cup winner, work is more art than sport. For Riding is about creating.

Though his athleticism is shared by few and far between, it his ability to create something beautiful that truly sets him apart.

“Flatland riding is an infinite style of BMX, and that’s what makes it stand out. There are people trying to coming up with tricks every day around the world. It’s a non-stop progression BMX continued on page 10

Maroons take on aggressive Denison squad FOOTBALL Matthew Schaefer Sports Contributer As the old saying goes, the only way to make diamonds is through pressure.

The Maroons will face plenty of it as they travel to Deeds Field-Piper Stadium in Granville, Ohio this Saturday to face the Denison Big Red (3–2).

Game time is set for noon.

Chicago (3–2) is ahead in the series history, 2–1, following a 36–7 defeat of the Big Red in 2010. The Maroons are coming off of a 21–10 victory over Ohio Wesleyan on October 1 and are striving for their first two-game win streak of the season.

Head coach Dick Mahoney assessed the Denison squad.

“Denison’s a good football team.

They have the same record we do.

We’re playing at their place, and home field advantage in football is a big deal, no question,” Mahoney said. “It is going to be a very good football game, I think, and we’re going to have to play very well to beat them.”

According to Schuyler Montefalco, a first-year linebacker from Indianapolis, IN, the atmosphere for an away game differs significantly from that of a home game.

“When we’re away, it’s a completely different schedule. It’s just getting off your routine, being in a new place, a

Reviving school spirit is vital for Homecoming

By Jessica Sheft-Ason Sports Editor

Oftentimes you’ll hear people reminisce about the glory days of sports at the U of C: We won the first Heisman trophy, went undefeated against Notre Dame, and packed the great Stagg Field full of fans. While our athletics program is no longer a D-I powerhouse, the sports teams have certainly grown since we left the Big Ten in 1946.

The best part of it all is that Maroon sports fans have taken note: Over the past four years that I’ve been here, attendance at games and overall excitement surrounding athletics have seen a huge increase.

Now we just need to make sure we can keep up the spirit.

First, fans need to attend the big home games. While it’s great to support your friend, housemate, etc. at the random home game here and there, it’s the large events that bring attention to school spirit and make more people want to be a part of it. Going to games like Homecoming for football or Beach Night for basketball not only shows teams support, but also works as a publicity push for sportsmanship. Keeping up fan attendance at these games is huge.

Another way for the Maroons to draw even more fans is to create a healthy rivalry, and I’ve already got one in mind: WashU. Yes, it would be nice to have a more local rivalry with the University of Illinois at Chicago or Northwestern, but we never see them in conference play and they compete in D-I. Instead, we need to increase the passion that our teams already have for the big game against WashU in order to make sure they beat them. Last year, WashU narrowly beat the women’s basketball team in the quarterfinals of the UAAs—an exceptionally devastating loss conSPIRIT continued on page 10

CA LEN DA R Friday

10/7

- Volleyball at Wheaton, 5 p.m.

- Women’s Tennis at UIC Invite, All day

Saturday Second-year Anthony Luvison in action against Concordia earlier this year. The Maroons lost 28–10.

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10/8

- Football at Denison, 12:00 p.m.

- Women’s Tennis at UIC Invite, All day

new bed, things like that. You just have to really focus,” Montefalco said. “It really doesn’t matter where we are. You just have to know there’s going to be a big crowd on their side, and you just have to go out and do your job.”

Ernest Moore, defensive backs coach, described the team’s preparation for the Big Red. “We’ve just sped up the tempo in practice, just making it more gamelike for the guys. Tempo is very key,

and preparing guys. Beyond that, everything else–the preparation is still the same,” Moore said. “There’s a high emphasis on film study and knowing your opponent. But the aesthetic FOOTBALL continued on page 10

Sunday

10/9

- Men’s Soccer at Carnegie Mellon 11:00 a.m.

- Women’s Soccer at Carnegie Mellon, 11:00 a.m.