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Obama aide chosen as new VP for Civic Engagement Madalyn Frigo News Staff

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Law School upgrades to Law and Economics 2.0 Amy Myers Senior Editor A new initiative bridging three divisions of the University promises to pour millions of dollars into exporting Chicago-school law and economics into legal systems around the world.

The new initiative, dubbed Law and Economics 2.0, launched in Oc-

tober from a partnership between the University of Chicago Law School, the Booth School of Business, and the Department of Economics. The new Institute for Law and Economics is the initiative’s centerpiece.

Central to the program are efforts to spread the gospel of law and economics around the world through the new Globalizing Law and Economics Initiative (GLEI), according

to the Institute’s inaugural director, Omri Ben-Shahar.

“One of the main things we want to accomplish is to help bring Chicago-style law and economics to legal communities that have not yet benefited from it,” Ben-Shahar said.

Through the GLEI, the Institute will attempt to apply law and economics to international issues like LAW continued on page 2

The University has selected an aide to President Barack Obama and former legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as one of its highest liaisons to the communities of the South Side.

A selection committee of students and staff appointed Derek Douglas, currently special assistant to President Obama for urban affairs, as the University’s next Vice President for Civic Engagement. He will take office in January 2012.

Douglas will be responsible for strengthening the University’s relationship with its surrounding communities, particularly Hyde Park and Woodlawn, and for overseeing its development projects in the area.

Upon taking office, Douglas will continue a few of the projects that were already in progress under his predecessor, Ann Marie Lipinski, such as the revitalization of retail development on East 53rd Street.

“I’m excited to join the team, to learn more about the various initiatives, and more importantly, to find ways to improve [them],” Douglas said, citing the University’s recent involvement in the redevelopment of an affordable housing complex in Woodlawn as an example

Derek Douglas will join the University in January as VP for Civic Engagement.

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of how he hopes to improve the quality of life of nearby residents.

“What’s happening in Grove Parc and Woodlawn are two examples of how the University can partner with the local community.”

Douglas also praised the University-partnered development of the Harper Court shopping center on East 53rd Street and South Harper Avenue, a complex of fast food restaurants and stores slated for a 2013 completion, as the kind of retail revitalization needed in the area.

“One of the key strategies is to bring more opportunity, leveraging existing resources, to bring in DOUGLAS continued on page 3

SG launches Committees website Community remembers Morgan Buerkett Kirsten Gindler News Contributor Student Government (SG) launched a new Web site to promote its Student Life Committees earlier this month as part of its ongoing effort to strengthen its online presence and make itself more accessible to students outside of its immediate circle.

SG created the site in order to streamline its communications with the University community, according to Vice President for Administration Forrest Scofield. SG also hopes that the new site will expose a more diverse cross-section of students to SG’s decision-making committees, which range in function from executing disciplinary action to coordinating the senior class gift. “A really important part of being in college is being involved with the University administration as a whole,” Scofield, a second-year, said.

The site organizes the committees into 10 broad categories and lists general information such as each commit-

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tee’s purpose, the best way to contact the committees, and how students can apply to them. All students, undergraduate and graduate, can browse the site and log in with their CNetID. Students can apply for committees themselves by filling out their contact information and answering questions about their involvement in campus groups. They can also list their reasons for wanting to join a particular committee.

Lastly, students can suggest their friends for a committee by writing about how they would be an asset to it. “The great thing about it is that not only will you be able to apply for a committee, but you’ll also be able to nominate a friend for a specific committee,” SG President Youssef Kalad said in the site’s launch video on YouTube.

The launch is not the first time this year that SG has taken steps to revamp its presence online. Late in September, Scofield announced that an overhaul of SG’s main website was in progress, while a redesign for the SG Marketplace is set to debut in the coming weeks.

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Elizabeth Davenport, dean of Rockefeller Chapel, speaks at a memorial service for Morgan Buerkett and her family.

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Crystal Tsoi Associate News Editor Morgan Buerkett, a rising secondyear who died in a plane crash over the summer, was remembered by hundreds of family and friends in a somber ceremony held in the Ratner Athletics Center last night.

Buerkett was traveling with parents Jon and Dana and two family dogs to Florida for a training camp when the private plane crashed shortly after takeoff. No one on board survived the crash.

Throughout the ceremony, Buerkett’s volleyball teammates, close friends, and Delta Gamma (DG) so-

rority sisters recalled special memories they had shared with Buerkett.

Volleyball Coach Vanessa Walby said that Buerkett’s ambitious and hard-working personality made her stand out during recruitment season.

“She was the type who wanted to be successful at everything that she did,” Walby said.

Second-year Katie Huntington, Buerkett’s roommate and volleyball teammate, recalled one of her first memories with Buerkett during volleyball practice. When Huntington was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to complete exercises, Buerkett reassured her that even if she passed out in the middle of the sprint, Buerkett would drag her across the finish line so that Huntington could say she had finished.

“Morgan became so much more than just a roommate,” Huntington said.

Buerkett had a strong presence in DG, where she met fourth-year Sarah BUERKETT continued on page 3

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HUMANITIES DAY Ethics On Saturday, the Division of the Humanities hosted its 33rd Humanities Day, an annual series of talks and tours showcasing the work of University professors. Shadi Bartsch, the Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor of Classics, presented the keynote address, titled “The Wisdom of Fools: Christianity and the Break in the Classical Tradition.” Find coverage of selected talks below, with expanded coverage online at chicagomaroon.com.

Odyssey offers humanities education for all Anastasia Golovashkina News Contributor Humanities and Philosophy Professor Bart Schultz helped lead a discussion about the Odyssey Project, an Illinois Humanities Council initiative within the University’s Civic Knowledge Project.

The presentation, “Ethics, Poverty, and the Humanities,” was co-led by Odyssey Project Director Amy Thomas Elder and Coordinator Erika Dudley. The organization currently runs several locations throughout Illinois, including two in Chicago and one in Champaign.

The Odyssey Project is a free, eight-month program that provides adults living in poverty with a “college-level introduction to the humanities through textbased seminars led by professors at top-tier universities,” according to the Odyssey Project Web site. The seminars are similar to the College’s Humanities core courses.

Elder and Dudley explained that one of the major roadblocks to running a program like the Odyssey Project is the unregulated state of for-profit trade schools and colleges.

One of the program’s three graduates to speak at the presentation said that the interior design college she attended had left her without credentials and a $40,000 debt that she still struggles to pay off. However, the student said that the Odyssey Program had helped her.

“The teachers and professors were very supportive,” she said.

“It was the best thing that could have happened to me.”

Towards the end of the presentation, an audience member asked Elder if the Odyssey Project had a mission statement. Before Elder could reach for a pamphlet about the Odyssey Project, a former student answered the question.

“It taught me that there are other people who think the same things as me, and that being poor is not my fault.”

Words of wisdom Professor Shadi Bartsch delivers the keynote presentation at the 33rd annual Humanities Day Saturday at Mandel Hall.

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Fuhgeddaboudit: Middle-class New Yorkers try to shed their accents Marina Fang News Contributor In a lecture titled “Oy ♥ Noo Yawk (But Maybe Not Da Tawk a’ Da Town)!” Linguistics Professor Michael Silverstein tackled the distinctive New York accent and its socioeconomic and cultural ramifications.

Comparing and contrasting two New York Times articles on the subject, Silverstein also examined the research of various linguistic theorists. “[The accent] is characterized by its lack of noticeable ‘r’ pronunciation,” he said. Linguists use words such as “guard,” “car,” “beer,” and “beard” to test the rindex of speakers. New Yorkers with a strong accent generally have an r-index of zero, he said.

Silverstein said that “r-less New Yorké” is found mostly at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder, contributing

to a more stratified population.

Middle-class New Yorkers have often tried to rid themselves of the accent, overemphasizing the “r”s in words and seeking speech therapy, according to Silverstein. Those New Yorkers, he said, often find that in order to ascend the Manhattan social ladder, speaking “normalized” English becomes an advantage.

However, it alienates them from friends and relatives who still retain the accent.

Silverstein said that the tension created by the accent has persisted, pointing out similarities between a 1984 and a 2010 New York Times article discussing New Yorkers’ attitudes toward their accent woes.

For the 2010 article, he conducted a statistical analysis of its online comments. He discovered common themes among the comments, including a “global versus local dichotomy” and a “pro– New York City, anti-homogenization

point of view.”

Many comments expressed dismay at the gradual loss of the accent resulting from cultural normalization. “People see the accent as an emblem of local urban identity. It gives them a sense of place,” Silverstein said.

Silverstein, a Brooklyn native, grew up in a time when New Yorkers were instructed to shed their accent. Thus, he said, other people often find his accent difficult to place. “[It’s a] dialect-less voice from nowhere,” he said.

The New York accent is fading, Silverstein said, because it has moved to boroughs outside of Manhattan. He said that over the past few decades, the accent has shifted toward Brooklyn, the Bronx, and even Long Island.

Perhaps, Silverstein said, when asked about their city’s eclectic accent, New Yorkers will only say “Fuhgeddaboudit!”

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climate change in regions—like China, India, and Latin America— where the discipline is largely unformed, he said.

“The Law School has always been an empire of law and economics,” Ben-Shahar said. “We want to take this strength and bring it to new heights.”

The initiative also will provide professional legal training for students, establish a joint J.D.-Ph.D program in economics and law, and coordinate research between the Booth School, the Department of Economics, and the Law School.

Each summer, Chinese legal scholars, judges, and lawyers will be invited to campus to study Chicago-style economics and law, Ben-Shahar said.

The Law School has pledged $1 million each year to the initiative, which is also funded by private donors.

Ben-Shahar added that alumni from the Law School, where the field of law and economics has been gestating for years now, were pleased with the new initiative.

“It was, interestingly, a very happy response from alumni of the Law School. In the years since they graduated, they have come to really appreciate more the interdisciplinary field of law and economics,” BenShahar said.

The Institute will not offer a new degree program or program of study at the University, BenShahar said, but is an “administration organization” meant to coordinate research efforts in the field between U of C institutions.

The Institute is also in talks to host a conference where international legal scholars can debate the harmonization of commercial legal systems in Europe.

The Law School announced that 34 professors will join the faculty of the Institute as part of the Law and Economics 2.0 program, and a series of workshops will be offered for students.

One such workshop, on “judicial behavior,” will focus on the way judges reach their decisions on the bench, offering students academic materials and accounts from legal scholars over the course of the year.

Ben-Shahar was the founding director of the Law, Economics, and Technology program at the University of Michigan Law School and has taught at the Law School here since 2008.

From stage to screen: Cinematic interpretations of Hamlet Anastasia Golovashkina News Contributor English and Comparative Literature Professor David Bevington discussed the variety of film interpretations of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

His presentation, “Murder Most Foul: Hamlet in Recent Film Productions” examined different film interpretations of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Each interpretation, Bevington said, was distinct in its own way.

“There’s a great variety and colorfulness about these films,” Bevington said.

“They’re quite wonderful.”

Bevington examined several adaptations, ranging from a 1920s silent movie starring Asta Nielson to Michael Almeyereda’s 2000 film starring Ethan Hawke as a modern day Hamlet striving to avenge his father’s murder in New York City.

Each rendition has its own set of quirks, strengths, and weaknesses, Bevington said.

Richard Burton’s 1964 production of Hamlet, for example, enjoyed outstanding success on Broadway. However, when director Bill Colleran transferred

the stage production to a theatrical release, the filming was “so terrible,” Bevington said, that “[Colleran] demanded that all copies be destroyed.”

Bevington contrasted this with Almeyerada’s modern version of the film, which he said was unsuccessful at the box office but cleverly used modern mediums to express Shakespeare.

Interpretations of Hamlet have also received reputations for their lengths, Bevington said. He noted that the BBC’s 1980 Hamlet, Prince of Denmark was remembered mostly for its threeand-a-half hour length, while Kenneth

Branagh’s 1996 version of the play—the first unabridged version on film—was over four hours long.

The Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the University’s English and Comparative Literature Departments, Bevington also serves as the chair of Undergraduate Theater and Performance Studies and has taught at the U of C for over 40 years. He recently updated his 29volume edition of the complete works of Shakespeare, and published the book Murder Most Foul: Hamlet through the Ages, A History of Hamlet.

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Celia Bever News Contributor Professor Larry Norman, who oversaw the development of several large-scale arts initiatives in his first three-year term as Deputy Provost of the Arts, was reappointed to that position earlier this month.

As Deputy Provost for the Arts, Norman is responsible for overseeing and coordinating between different branches of the arts program, including the University of Chicago Presents performance series, the Smart Museum, and the on-campus Court Theater.

During his first term as deputy provost, Norman supervised the development of the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts, and the establishment of the Richard and Mary L. Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

“I think this is a very important time for moving the arts forward,” Norman said. “I’m very fortunate to work with such dedicated leaders of the arts centers.”

Norman said that he will focus on continuing the projects that he began during his first term, including the Arts and Public Life Initiative, an effort to engage with the city’s arts community. The Initiative’s flagship project, the Washington Park Arts Incubator, will hold performances, exhibitions, workshops and other arts events for residents of the South Side in its two-story building at 301 East Garfield Boulevard.

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Professor Larry Norman was reappointed earlier this month to a second term as Deputy Provost of the Arts.

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also oversee next spring’s opening of the Logan Center, a large complex currently under construction south of the Midway at 60th Street and Ingleside Avenue that will house various arts programs and clubs on campus.

Executive director of the Logan Center Bill Michel lauded Norman’s ability to look beyond arts faculty for programming.

“Larry has and continues to provide collaborative leadership,” Michel said.

University Provost Thomas Rosenbaum, who announced Norman’s re-appointment, said that Norman had expanded the role of the arts both on and off campus.

“Larry has been an incredibly effective advocate for the arts on campus and for creating connections to the wider arts community,” Rosen-

baum wrote in an email.

Also a professor of Romance Languages and Literature, Theater and Performance Studies, and the College, Norman will continue teaching in addition to his role as deputy provost.

“Teaching is very important to me,” Norman said. “I’m first and foremost a scholar.”

Norman recently published The Shock of the Ancient: Literature and History in Early Modern France and will be teaching at the University’s Center in Paris for three weeks this January. Prior to his tenure as deputy provost, Norman served as the associate dean of humanities.

“I sometimes jokingly refer to myself as a polygamist,” Norman said, referencing his dual roles as deputy provost and a professor. “I love both parts of the job.”

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revitalization to communities in need,” he said, reflecting on what he has learned from his years in the White House’s Office of Urban Affairs, which President Obama created to coordinate all federally funded urban programs.

Douglas has held his cur-

rent position at the White House since February 2009.

Before that, he was the founding director of the Economic Mobility Program at the Center for American Progress and assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, litigating cases related to education and affirmative

action.

Douglas received his B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from Yale University. His wife is a native Chicagoan.

Lipinski left the University last June to direct the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.

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Herlihy. Herlihy was Buerkett’s “big sister”—an upperclassman entrusted to welcome a new member to the sorority.

“Morgan was the best little [sister] I could ask for,” Herlihy said. She recounted a time that the pair had jokingly signed up for an account on the online dating service eHarmony after seeing an advertisement for it.

Buerkett joked that she was going to wait for an e-mail from her “Prince Charming,” whom

she would meet on the site.

Second-year Kelsey Peterson, Buerkett’s friend on the soccer team, affectionately called Buerkett “the soccer groupie” and said Buerkett “never took anything too seriously.” When Peterson and Buerkett filled out an apartment application Buerkett wrote that her relationship to her future roommates was simply “besties.”

Buerkett’s wisdom was remembered by her sister Ashley

Buerkett, who at 5’6’’ would call her younger sister her “big sister” not because of the obvious physical height difference but because she “looked up to her a lot.”

At the end of the year, when Morgan was asked by Walby whether she felt that she had made the right decision in choosing the University, Buerkett replied, “I love it. I can’t believe it took me so long to make my decision. I cannot imagine myself anywhere else.”

CORRECTIONS » The October 21 article “Free Newspaper Program Awaits Funding” misstated the results of an SG survey. Respondents were willing to raise the student life fee by $5. » The October 14 article “First-Floor Reg Changes Replace A-Level” misrepresented Jim Vaughan. He did not say the new space better accomodates library policies. The A-Level will also be used for the Regenstein bookstacks reorganization project, not for the storage of books being transferred to Mansueto Library.

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Shuttle shakeup Changes to transportation policy should reflect student input and demand 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 HARUNOBU CORYNE News Editor SAM LEVINE News Editor PETER IANAKIEV Viewpoints Editor SHARAN SHETTY Viewpoints Editor JORDAN LARSON Arts Editor HANNAH GOLD 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 JAMIE MANLEY Photo Editor

Recent reports indicate that the South Loop shuttle service is in danger of being discontinued due to low student use. Although the service is quite useful—providing all of us who go downtown on the weekends a free form of transit—the shuttle inexplicably receives zero advertising from the University. Simply doing a better job marketing the South Loop shuttle would ensure that more people use it.

However, it is possible that changing the way the service currently runs would better suit student need. Currently, the shuttle runs once an hour and takes students to the Red, Green, and Orange Line stop at Roosevelt and State in the South Loop. Perhaps a route that runs more frequently and takes students from campus to the Garfield Red Line stop and back would be a good idea since, especially late at night, it could keep students from waiting 40 minutes for a #55 bus. Or, the Office of Transportation

could decide that the shuttle should simply take students to the heart of downtown, as opposed to its current stop in the South Loop. Either way, the University shouldn’t abandon the laudable goal of facilitating travel outside of Hyde Park.

Although the problem facing the South Loop shuttle is obviously the most pressing, there are also some basic issues with transportation within Hyde Park. Anecdotal evidence suggests that shuttle lateness is a chronic issue with certain routes, not to mention the unreliable SafeRide waittime estimates. It goes without saying that the success of the shuttle system relies on promptness, and if a route is consistently running five minutes late, it ruins transferring from one route to another. Not only does this discourage people from riding the shuttles, but it incentivizes calling SafeRide and delays that service.

Then there are other issues, such as

the lack of transportation options on weekends. The #171 and #172 busses only stop once every 30 minutes and are the safest and easiest ways for students living outside University housing to get to campus before 6 p.m. Consequently, Transportation should at least consider starting weekend shuttle routes earlier in order to make getting to campus during the weekend easier; of course, we realize that this would cost money, and might not pass a strict cost/benefit test, but it is at the very least an idea that merits discussion.

As far as shuttle lateness and similar issues go, one of the ideas floating around Student Government (SG) recently would go a long way toward addressing such problems. SG has talked about the creation of a website that students can use to evaluate various University-provided services, much like what currently exists for classes.

Transportation is a perfect example

of a University service that practically demands student input and criticism, and so a website where students list their grievances, or simply commend the Office of Transportation on a job well done, would help identify which areas need improvement.

None of this is to say that the University and SG have done a poor job when it comes to addressing student concerns about transportation. Whether it’s the very existence of the South Loop shuttle service or the monitors showing shuttle locations in several campus buildings, it’s clear that both Administration and SG are interested in thinking of new solutions to existing transportation problems. Let’s hope that this drive continues.

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Where the Fund goes to die The Uncommon Fund board shouldn’t ignore quirky, off-kilter projects when allocating money

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The idea behind the Uncommon Fund—to encourage the creation and funding of student projects that follow the uncommon tradition—is so wonderful that it almost defies criticism.

Consequently, one could be forgiven for thinking that it’s good news when the scope and potential of something so eminently likable are expanded.

In case my flagrant use of the conditional tense in that last sentence didn’t make it clear, my opinion is in fact quite different. The Maroon article

reporting that recent contributions to the Uncommon Fund brought its total for this year to a record $75,000 was, at first glance, the greatest kind of news. In times like these—times of austerity and budget shortfalls for institutions at all levels and in all sectors of society—seeing the devotion of $35,000 to such a unique cause is all too rare and oh-so-refreshing.

Looking beyond the numbers, however, reveals a minefield of implications that are somewhat alarming.

SG Vice President for Administration Forrest Scofield was quoted in the article reporting on the Fund’s expansion (published in the October 18, 2011 issue) as saying that he “[doesn’t] think [the funds] should be allocated on a whim to things that just sound sort of quirky,” adding that now “really is the time to reflect and determine where we can put [money] where it will have the highest impact.”

There seems to be a fairly clear implication that, under this newest re-imagining

of the Uncommon Fund’s goals, quirkiness and potential impact are not anticipated to go hand-in-hand.

To be fair, there is some truth in this assessment. It would be silly to deny that some of the decisions to allocate last year’s Uncommon Fund money were likely based on the projects’ quirky natures and potential to simply brighten campus life, as opposed to their capacity to achieve anything far-reaching. I haven’t spoken to those in charge of, for instance, IM Quidditch, Finals Week Puppies and Kittens, or the Gigantic Water Balloon Fight, but I’m sure even they catch my drift. Others meanwhile—such as Sustainable Water, Entom Foods’ Insect Tasting Buffet, and the Daily Sophist—may be grounded in uncommon ideals, but were likely ultimately chosen on the strength of the impact potential they possessed. What I take issue with, however, is the implication in Scofield’s statement that a permanent shift toward the purely pragmatic will occur as a result of the Uncommon

Fund’s windfall. All of the above grantwinning ideas demonstrate that, under the current rubric, there is a wide range of balances to be found. It would be unfortunate if the struggle to find such a balance was de-incentivized.

Therein lies the real cost of changing the mission of the Uncommon Fund in the manner implied by Scofield’s statements. One of the unique challenges of attending the U of C is learning to reconcile the uncommon values and spirit of the place with reality. Indeed, this reconciliation is certain to be imperfect and appear incongruous at times, but that is precisely what makes the effort and enthusiasm behind it so inspirational and its results so peculiarly pleasing. There is perhaps nothing more emblematic of these qualities than the integration at work in ideas worthy of an Uncommon Fund grant.

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By Jane Huang Viewpoints Columnist What do you have to do to get that coveted I-banking job, medical school acceptance letter, or [fill in appropriate post-college plan]? Here’s what I learned from conversations with my classmates last year: Bulgebracket firms only want people with

a 3.9 GPA. Or was the cutoff 3.5?

You should take easy classes to boost your GPA, since that’s all recruiters care about. You should take challenging classes to impress the recruiters because they’ll be looking closely at your transcript. You shouldn’t take classes pass/fail, because that makes it look like you were coasting. You should take classes pass/fail if you don’t think you’ll get an A because recruiters won’t look at your transcript anyway.

What I really learned was that I probably shouldn’t be taking career advice from fellow underclassmen. Any time the subject of conversation turned to their career daydreaming, it seemed that I needed to hold up a Wikipediastyle “[citation needed]” sign. The stu-

dents’ sources of information varied widely. Some of them perused what I am sure were totally reliable online forums. Others merely recounted what their friends told them. Half of what I heard from my classmates contradicted the other half of what I heard, and there was no guarantee that either half was right.

In the Broadway musical Avenue Q, the Bad Idea Bears are harmless-looking teddy bears that occasionally pop up and give the lead characters some rather bad advice. When it comes to career advice, your peers are probably Bad Idea Bears.

You might have some friends who can speak knowledgeably about careers, but trying to distinguish them from the ones who don’t know much will end up being mostly guesswork unless you also hap-

pened to be knowledgeable about the subject. And if you were, you wouldn’t be the one getting career advice.

Unfortunately, it can be hard to find a good alternative to getting career advice from Internet forums or random 19year-olds. We can set up informational interviews, but the fruitfulness of doing so hinges on whether we’re knowledgeable enough in the first place to ask the right questions. We do have Career Services, which can provide advice to those who seek it out. However, it’s important to note that students are the ones who set up the appointments. Because of this, CAPS’s sample of the interests and knowledge that undergraduates have about career planning is heavily skewed toward the most motivated and orgaJOB continued on page 6

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Professionalization of Fund indicative of University-wide trends FUND continued from page 4 increased financing from the College are pushing the Uncommon Fund’s decision makers away from small and unusual pet projects and toward big ticket initiatives with a long-term focus.” It seems, in this case, that an influx of applications and higher stakes are pushing the College away from its core values.

Sound familiar? Taking the Uncommon out of the Uncommon Fund would simply represent a microcosm of the greater changes that the College has faced and is still facing. And allowing the Uncommon Fund, a beacon of our uniqueness, to fall by the wayside would leave us on the wrong side of the Rubicon.

When asked about the growth of the Fund by the Maroon, SG President Youssef Kalad said the following, which bears repeating: “The increased size of the fund is absolutely indicative of an amazing shift in student interests and a welcome increase in student activity. We have students who love to learn and who crave intellectual growth, but who are also restless when the ideas they cultivate in the classroom fail to translate into action.” Spot on. I fear, however, that if the Uncommon Board goes ahead with its changes in response to new funding, it will simply serve to eliminate students’ restlessness, rather than let them find a way to do so without compromising.

The loss of this opportunity would far outweigh any positives gleaned from Uncommon Fund grants in the future.

If the College is looking to invest in slickly-run student businesses, maybe it should start an investment fund for just that. But it should never take the “Un” out of the Uncommon Fund.

Ajay Batra is a first-year in the College.

Early job planning would help students transition to post-college life JOB continued from page 4 nized students. I’ve heard complaints that the offerings at CAPS are too tilted toward econ majors, but that shouldn’t be surprising because our school has a lot of econ majors who are very eager to land finance internships and jobs.

Thus, the services CAPS provides are useful, but students already have to have taken a few steps before they can take advantage of them. For instance, if one would like to find out about journalism opportunities, he or she can sign up for the Chicago Careers in Journalism listhost. But how might someone get to the stage in which he or she knows what listhost to sign up for? One could subscribe to all of them if he or she likes, but the predictable result would be information overload. Simply put, what CAPS does is provide students with a lot of information without a way of filtering or making sense of it.

Consequently, the University should require students to meet with a career adviser every year that they are in college. This would help students sift through the contradictory advice they are so often presented with. Furthermore, undergraduates don’t always know when they should start developing post-college plans. Even those who know what career they want to pursue can benefit from meeting with an adviser in order to clear up misconceptions about the path to getting their highly sought-after position.

Some might argue that mandatory career advising would detract from the academic focus of this school, but I contend that a lack of career advising is even more detrimental to the academic experience. Early planning to integrate professional and academic goals can reduce the likelihood that a student, hopelessly caught up in the job search frenzy, will wind up neglecting schoolwork senior year because she doesn’t see the connection between what she’s doing now and what she wants to do in the future. I’m a firm believer in developing the life of the mind at college, but there’s life after college too.

Jane Huang is a second-year in the College.

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The Black Angels go to rock ‘n’ roll heaven Colin Bradley Maroon Staff They say Jim Morrison is dead.

They say rock ‘n’ roll has died, burnt out, been replaced by skinny jeans, affected eccentricities, and “this Amazonian wind instrument you’ve probably never heard of.” It exists now merely to provide an airy soundtrack to Where the Wild Things Are, and to make stickers you can put on your Macbook.

But Dead Meadow and the Black Angels have a scene. And as Dead Meadow bassist Steve Kille said, “with the scene, everything blossoms.”

THE BLACK ANGELS Metro October 20

The scene Kille is talking about is the burgeoning, self-described “Native American drone ‘n’ roll” —better known as psych rock.

But this is no Flower Power psychedelia; this is the half-remembered, half-invented steamy side of things.

Joining forces with Spindrift, Dead Meadow and the Black Angels are bringing their ghoulish gospel to the road this year hop-

ing to build on what Kille calls a “grassroots movement in music.”

The stage backdrop at the Metro displayed a warped video of the moon landing that slowly morphed into a face, which then faded into an ironic waving of the Lone Star flag (the Black Angels hail from Austin, Texas), and finally revealed a dream-world version of what was happening on stage (like what Frodo sees when he dons the ring of power). While these images revolved, and Alex Maas’ vocals echoed off every spike-bracelet and pierced lip in the audience, wailing “Fire for the hills, pick up your feet and let’s go,” I witnessed the seed taking root in Chicago.

The Angels could not have chosen a more perfect venue to embrace their message. Metro’s décor brings to mind a half-planned collaboration between Tim Curry and Timothy Leary. Neo-classical moldings and columns threaten dereliction; psychedelic lights and images portend a valediction to your typical state of mind.

Spindrift kicked off the set with all five members sporting studded cowboy hats, and the music followed suit. They sound like what you might expect to hear if you dropped acid at the Joshua Tree but accidentally wandered onto the filming of the final showdown scene of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. Ass-kicking rockabilly

The Black Angels spin a fiery blend of psychedelic, rustic, and mind-bending rock.

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guitar hooks punctuated long stretches of drifting, ethereal counter-melodies. But as much as I love that movie, the thing about the last scene is that it goes on… and on…and on.

Enter Dead Meadow to save the day. Formed in the suburbs of D.C. in 1998, DM has been at the forefront of this scene since its infancy. As they took the

stage, every member of the threeperson band looked like that guy from your high school who didn’t really seem to want to graduate.

Corduroy and flannel galore. But what they may have lacked in flair, they made up for with plenty of psychedelia.

Dead Meadow was a little slow to start. Vocalist and guitarist Jason Smith’s rainbow collection of

Telecasters did most of the singing (if Kille’s bass let it get a word in). But they have no bread and butter without the jam. Featuring songs almost all over five minutes in length, it was during the last few minutes of every song, when they let go of “music making” and just start playing, that they truly impressed.

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Art Institute revisits O’Sullivan’s old frontiers

Timothy O’Sullivan’s “Cottonwood Lake, Wasatch,” ca. 1867-1869.

COURTESY OF THE NELSON GALLERY

Michaela Cross Arts Contributor To encounter the Art Institute’s Timothy H. O’Sullivan exhibit is to rethink what photography is, and, simultaneously, to remember what it once was. O’Sullivan’s sepia world, as seen through his lens, is an alien landscape where photography has none of the stilted style and self-conscious artistry it has today.

Through light and shadow, through the sharp faces of mountains and boulders and the wispy ghosts of moving clouds, O’Sullivan conveys a picture of Europe that is on its toes, teetering, and contemplating its final imperialistic attempt: the

conquering of the American West.

O’Sullivan, as the United States government’s official survey photographer, was commissioned for the King Survey in the late 1860s. However, despite the beauty of his photographs, the expedition responsible for capturing the immensity of the West was originally undertaken for the sake of science; O’Sullivan was in the company of botanists and geographers, not artists.

But these photographs—of rocks, lakes, sudden canyons and struggling pines, of shadowed faces and unshadowed machinery—cannot be neatly placed into historical or purely artistic categories. They represent the point at which the search

for truth unites utility and beauty, and one becomes entirely too taken in by this world to question what exactly it is.

Startlingly nonhuman, the images in this dimly lit exhibit act as tiny windows onto a world whose scope is somehow captured without modern day equipment and without color film. I say nonhuman because these landscapes are pointedly lacking human presence, and if humanity is present at all it is merely to emphasize the immense scale of a landmark. And yet the profiles that do make an appearance in the exhibit are even less human than the rock faces. Unsmiling countenances stare ahead or are blurred to the point of distortion due to motion or shadow, much like the clouds that rove overheard, or the water that plummets from the mountaintops.

Human forms seem to intrude on these images, providing stark contrast to the seemingly untouched nature that surrounds them. However, noticeably lacking from the photographs are the many faces of the Native Americans who lived in these supposedly virgin landscapes. To look through these images is to see a purely Victorian mindset, one that is in awe of the immense majesty of the West, yet sees in its barrenness a grand opportunity to exploit.

As one moves through the exhibit one glimpses many rocks and boulders, each entirely absorbing and unique. The shapes that emerge from these raw landscapes appear shockingly sharp to the point of being architectural, but are actually the exact opposite. One would think being confined to a single color would be limiting, but these photographs are limitless—they seem to push back their very frames, giving the viewer over to their all-encompassing ex-

panse.

The characters we encounter are rocks, valleys, lakes and cliffs; through sand, ice and snow, through field and forest, we see one of the most compelling faces of America. The characters have names like “Devil’s Slide,” “Witch’s Peak,” and “Yampah Cañon”—each one striking and real. They are captured with the eye of a historian, one that is straightforward and honest, with angles that are meant to capture reality rather than perspective. The artistry comes from the land itself and the imperfections of the medium through which it is captured, which lends to the images a mixture of the eerily real and the magical. A mountain range begins with basic geometry and ends in the tiny nuances of feathers and leaves; a towering, black-andwhite cliff stands in stark contrast to the ill-defined smear of clouds behind it.

TIMOTHY H. O’SULLIVAN Art Institute Through January 15

The last photographs in the exhibit display the beginnings of towns, mines, and machines—a hint of things to come. He captures the stoic faces of Native American Indians living on a reservation in one photo, and the expressionless stares of miners in another. These images immortalize a world that, upon being documented, quickly disappeared. That world exists now solely in the Timothy H. O’Sullivan exhibit, and what a strange old world it is.

THE CHICAGO MAROON | ARTS | October 25, 2011

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Theophilus London dresses for success

The clothes don’t make Theophilus London, but they sure help.

COURTESY OF JONATHAN MANNION

Alexandra Mclnnis Arts Contributor As it stands now, the music industry is so saturated with different artists that it’s borderline impossible for a single band or musician to stand out from the crowd. Theophilus London, however, is doing quite a good job of making an impression. Since the release of his debut full-length album Timez Are Weird These Days this past summer, the Brooklynbased rapper’s fame has sky-rocketed. For an artist who has yet to achieve mainstream fame with an American audience, his accomplishments are astonishing. This is not entirely surprising since Theophilus London defies the contemporary stereotypes of rap music.

His musical influences are eclectic, with everything from funk to pop to classic rock woven into his rap melodies. He has a unique fashion sense wherein he fuses street-style with hipster cool. It doesn’t hurt that he’s quite a looker as well— London appears in GQ this month and will appear in Vogue in November.

THEOPHILUS LONDON Metro October 22

London opened for the Friendly Fires at the Metro on October 22, where the final element of his success came to the fore: his naturally

commanding stage presence. London has the ability to channel an incredible amount of energy into his music while maintaining his effortless cool. His tall, lean frame adds a certain fluidity to his movements, and he maneuvers himself onstage with dancer-like ease. He mixes quirky elements into his performance, such as using the mic to hit what can only be described as an electronic wind chime, and he keeps up the energy by surprising the crowd with sudden transitions from a casual shuffle to a full-out dance move. And the crowd loves every minute of it. A man in the audience turns to me and says, “This guy’s gonna be a household name before you know it.”

The Maroon was fortunate enough to catch up with London backstage after the set. While discussing Cannes, fashion, and The Police, it became apparent that he really is as cool as he sounds.

Chicago Maroon: A lot of the songs on your Timez Are Weird These Days album sound distinctly different from each other. “Last Name London” seems like a classic rap song, whereas songs like “All Around the World” have indie pop elements. What are the common threads that hold the whole album together?

Theophilus London: Yeah, in a way I wanted to make a traditional pop record, something that sounds big, something that can be played

in arenas. Mostly I wanted to make a record about fantasy and modern love from my point of view. But I like to throw a new approach to each song and make every song different.

cool. I don’t gotta worry about rap beefs, I don’t gotta worry about too much shit but pleasing my fans and bettering myself. But I don’t know what to think of it. I think it’s just a write-up.

CM: What’s the songwriting process like for you?

TL: I sit it down with the producer, thinking about our favorite songs, coming up with great melodies, coming up with awesome ways to talk about what love is like in 2011, modern love, all the trials and tribulations, all the connections we have with each other.

CM: Your performance at the Cannes Film Festival this summer was really well-received. Are you trying to reach out to more of an international audience?

TL: France is my biggest market in the world. South Africa, Germany…yeah, I’m actually bigger overseas than here but now I’m going to focus on America and get it poppin’.

CM: Where do you get your inspiration? I had “I Stand Alone” playing the other day and my mother said it reminded her of The Police. Do you get any inspiration from them?

TL: Yeah, definitely. That song is actually a tribute to The Police.

Most of my inspiration comes from references, like colors, shapes, flags, patriotism, women…

CM: Do you have a favorite song on the album?

TL: I do, actually. “Love is Real.”

CM: A lot of music reviewers have said you’re a fresh take on rap.

What do you think distinguishes you from other contemporary rap musicians?

TL: I mean, it’s cool. Yeah, it’s

CM: You’ve also gotten a lot of praise for your fashion sense, most notably by the New York Times Magazine. Obviously for a musician image is hugely important.

How do you think your personal style relates to your music?

TL: I think it’s a big part because my favorite artists are all stylish, like Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Michael Jackson. You just thought you wanted to be those guys. I think with artists these days, you need to have a lot more to be invested in than just a song.

They want to invest in your life, they want to invest in your career, they want to invest in your image, they want to invest in you as a man, love you, think everything you do is perfect. Your favorite artists shouldn’t dress dirty.

Face off with The Elephant Man Sarah Miller Arts Contributor First produced on Broadway in 1979, The Elephant Man, set in Victorian England, is based on the life of Joseph Merrick, a man whose grotesque deformities became an object of fascination and disgust among all social classes. Unbeknownst to himself and his contemporaries, Merrick suffered from a severe genetic disorder. The premise of the play is Merrick’s claim that his condition came about after a circus elephant trampled his mother while she was pregnant with him.

THE ELEPHANT MAN Saint Sebastian Players Through November 13

For most of his life, Merrick, called John in the play, was a ward of the state. He was abandoned at an early age after his mother died and was forced to live in a workhouse throughout his teenage years. Act One of the play begins with Merrick (Simina Contras) as a young adult on display in London under the watch of his manager Ross ( Jake Penzell). A prominent physician and lecturer from the London Hospital, Dr. Frederick Treves (Doug Werder), stumbles upon the spectacle. After paying to view Merrick, he decides to take Merrick back to the hospital for further study.

Treves studies Merrick further and then subsequently gives a lec-

ture on his deformities to an intrigued audience. Merrick does not stay under Treves’ care and instead leaves with Ross for Brussels after they are chased out of London.

Ross ultimately abandons Merrick and sends him back to London, where Treves admits him to the London Hospital. However, he encounters difficulty in finding a consistent caretaker for Merrick; he asks the resilient nurse Miss Sandwich (Rita Crowley) to help him with Merrick, only for her to gag and refuse the position upon seeing him.

The English people, both fascinated and repulsed by Merrick, generously raise funds to allow him a lifetime stay at the London hospital. Bishop Walsham ( Jim Masini) also visits Merrick and decides to invest in his religious education.

With the goal of making Merrick as normal as possible, Treves sets guidelines and even hires actress Ms. Kendal ( Julie Johnson) to help with the socialization process.

She and Merrick bond over their mutual love of Romeo and Juliet.

Act One ends with a tender scene in which they shake hands, the first time Merrick has ever shaken hands with a woman.

Act Two begins with Merrick as the center of attention amongst the rich and famous. Ironically, as he begins to rise within the social circle, his health begins to deteriorate.

The relationship between Merrick and Ms. Kendal further develops, and Ms. Kendal even allows him to see her naked, before Treves walks in and sends her away.

Merrick’s moral and mental faculties are still intact, and he decides

Rita Crowley (left) as Miss Sandwich, Douglas Werder as Frederick Treves, and Simina Contras as John Merrick (foreground) are examined with a morally ambiguous lens in The Elephant Man. COURTESY OF JOHN OSTER

to spend his remaining time building a model of St. Philip’s Church, which stands outside of his window. He and Treves sharply disagree about faith, and Treves soon realizes he has been harsh by sending Ms. Kendal away.

The parallel structure of the play makes the focus equally shared between Merrick and Treves. In Act One, Merrick is on display for his physical deformities. In Act Two, Treves has a nightmare that Merrick is giving a lecture on his normality, ambition, and rigidity, claiming his principles have allowed him to treat others cruelly “for their own good.”

The play ends with an exasperated Treves asking Bishop Walsham for help coping with Merrick’s impending demise. Claiming Merrick’s faith is only yet another way for him to appear normal, he realizes his efforts to assist Merrick are futile because he will die soon.

Merrick finally finishes his model and lays down to sleep, ultimately being suffocated by his swollen, massive head.

Those familiar with David Lynch’s movie adaptation of The Elephant Man would be surprised and delighted to see the notable differences found within the play itself. The most notable charac-

teristic of Merrick was the lack of prosthetic make-up used to denote his inhuman appearance. Contras gave an excellent interpretation of Merrick, skillfully manipulating her face and contorting her body to give the appearance of physical defect. Furthermore, the character of Frederick Treves in the play appears to be much more morally ambiguous than Lynch’s benevolent doctor.

Through an unconventional and complex retelling of The Elephant Man, The Saint Sebastian Players explore the meaning of humanity in both its hideous and beautiful forms.

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Like the Velvet Underground, The Black Angels resurrect rock and rancor ANGELS continued from page 7 They were also quite impressive when their road-companion furry muppet monster took the stage to shake a leg for a few minutes. Seriously. Resembling the love child of Ludo (from Jim Henson’s Labyrinth) and Alf, this somewhat gimmicky dancer reinvigorated a slipping crowd as it grooved out to one of DM’s longer medleys.

And then a blood-curdling scream tore through the gut of every man, woman, and child in the room (though I don’t think there were any children). We looked around. Did that come from inside me?

Was it behind me? Beneath me? Over there? Over here?

It was Alex Maas channeling his best “Live in Detroit” Jim Morrison. The Black Angels had risen. Before the wah-wah on the second chord had faded, it became crystal clear that The Black Angels were the true torchbearers of this movement.

Former tenants of a haunted house outside Austin (memorialized in their hit “Haunting at 1300 McKinley”) and founders of the annual Austin Psych Fest (it’s like SXSW but better), these guys are the real thing. A phrase thrown around that night: “So fucking cool.”

Covering the psychedelic spectrum from the darker, bass-heavy songs off their debut album Passover to the more pop-in-

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spired danceable hits from their latest effort, Phosphene Dream, The Black Angels showed true versatility marked by consistent quality.

Perhaps more sensational was the overall effect produced by the combination of their extraordinarily body-filling sound with the best damned light show this side of the Mississippi. The visceral imagery playing behind them was periodically punctuated by a pulse of blinding white light, often coinciding with a deep “Phoo!” from Maas. Somewhat paradoxically, the visual of the performance was so powerful that it managed to permeate closed eyelids. You heard the music with your sternum. You felt the sights with your whole face. It’s tempting to say the entire performance was other-worldly, but this would be misleading, for its true merit lay in how carnal and earthly it felt.

It’s said that the Velvet Underground (from whose track “Black Angel Death Song” the Black Angels get their name) only sold a few thousand records during their career, but everyone who bought one started a band. The Black Angels honor that legacy by continuing to inspire side projects, developing the grassroots movement Kille so hopes for, and that music today so badly needs.

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Conference roster solidified heading into UAA meet

Kurfist has second game-winner of the season

Cross Country

SOCCER continued from back the 53rd minute off an assist from fourthyear midfielder Alan Pikna. Kurfist took the pass from Pikna and shook Mikesell on his way to the score. “Everyone on the field and on the bench helped earn the win, I just happened to score on a great pass from Alan Pikna,�

Kurfist said.

Pikna’s assist adds to his tally of scoring a point in three of the last four games, and Kurfirst’s goal was his second game-winner of the year.

Behind Masri, the Chicago defense limited Whitewater to two shots on goal and first-year goalkeeper Elek Lane only had to

Matthew Schaefer Sports Staff The stakes were high at Friday’s North Central Cardinal Open in Naperville, Illinois, even though the top nine men’s runners and the top six women’s runners remained at home: The top finisher for the men’s team, and the third and fourth finishers for the women’s team, would make the roster for the conference meet.

The Maroon men finished second behind Wheaton, and the women finished first following a 1–2 finish by Julia Sizek and Elise Wummer, in a field that featured only seven teams on the men’s side and four on the women’s.

Second-year Samuel Butler finished seventh with a time of 15:21, and was the top finisher for the men’s team.

He finished ahead of second-year Griffin Brunk by four seconds and fourth-year Robert Cooper by seven seconds.

Cooper was disappointed by his performance, but optimistic about the team’s future. “I failed to run well when it mattered most, and now my cross country career is over,� Cooper said. “But ultimately this is a team sport and how the team does is the important thing. “I won’t be racing with our team anymore, but we have an outstanding team that is in a position to get to and do great things at the NCAA championship.�

Brunk had a similar reaction, and also reflected a team-first attitude. “I am disappointed that I will not be competing in the conference meet, but I am glad that someone ostensibly better than me is,� he said. “My loss is the team’s gain.�

On the girl’s side, the third- and fourthplace finishers for the Maroons were Elsbeth Grant in fifth place and Ali Klooster in seventh place. They become the ninth and tenth members on the conference roster. “I was happy with my performance and the performance of my teammates on Saturday,� Grant said. “I feel like our performances were a nice confidence boost, for the girls that ran, before the conference meet.�

Klooster was excited to make the roster, but looks forward to performing better next week. “I’d have liked to have turned out a faster finish at the Cardinal Open last Friday, so I really want to have a great UAA performance and help put my team in a position to qualify for Nationals,� she said. “Whenever our season ends, I want to be sure that I left everything on the course for these girls.�

In next week’s UAA Invitational, the men’s and women’s teams will compete against the likes of NYU, Wash U, and Emory at Montrose Harbor in Chicago. “Although the UAA meet isn’t one of our biggest in sheer field-size, it carries a lot of weight and prestige, and I am hoping that the additional external pressure will help my teammates and myself flip a switch,� Klooster said. “We need to throw ourselves into another level of competition.

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make one save in recording his fifth shutout of the season.

The victory over Whitewater puts Chicago over the .500 mark and ends a five-game losing streak in contests decided by a goal.

The Maroons finished non-conference play with a 7–2–2 mark.

Chicago will prepare for a return to UAA play on Friday as they play Case Western (12–3) at 3 p.m. on Stagg Field. The game is the first of three in a UAA home stand that will conclude the 2011 season. “We hope we can keep our momentum going into the doubwwle weekend with Case and Rochester, and try to change our luck within the conference,� Masri said.

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several aspects of the game since the early part of the season. The mental mistakes that once plagued the Maroons are now few and far between and the team has made significant strides on both sides of the ball. However, there is still work to be done going into conference play.

“We still have many improvements to make,” said Cortina. “We want to put together a complete game with no turnovers and no negative plays. In order to win UAAs, we are going to need to practice really well and push each other to get better.”

“I think our defense has improved the most throughout the season,” said Brizzolara. “But our offense still needs to find a rhythm and work to get better if we want to win the conference.”

On offense, the Maroons may try to expand and utilize more players, in order to have players with fresh legs available late in games and to avoid injuries to starters.

“We’ve been very fortunate to not be too banged up at this point in the season,” said head coach Dick Maloney.

The Maroons also hope to improve on consistency as they head into the most important stretch of their schedule.

“We’re always looking to work on consistency as a team,” said Maloney. “It’s our number one goal.”

There were not many mistakes at Homecoming, but if the Maroons can fine-tune their few remaining weaknesses, they will undoubtedly be a force to be reckoned with.

“For the past couple weeks and especially heading into UAAs, we’ve been working on our consistency on both sides of the ball,” said Carrier. “When we limit big plays and turnovers, we’re a real good team.”

Chicago will head back out on the road to Cleveland to face Case Western, owners of a 6–1 record and a five-game winning streak, for the first game of UAA play on Saturday at 12 p.m. (EST).

Chicago dominates Wheaton at early-season meet Swim and Dive Matthew Tyndale Sports Staff The end of October isn’t generally considered a time for the pool. With winter coming and the leaves falling, however, the Maroons took to the water over the weekend for their first competition of the year as both the men’s and women’s teams traveled to Wheaton to each net commanding victories.

“I was happy with their performances after only three weeks of training,” said Head Coach Jason Weber. “I view dual meets as training and competition opportunities with a focus on conference and NCAA Championships.”

The Maroons went beyond mere performance, with the men running away with the meet by more than doubling the score of the Thunder 166–82, and the women scoring an impressive 145–105 win. The men failed to drop a single race, winning every individual event and both relays, while the women nabbed victories in six out of nine events and both relays.

“I think both teams competed very well for this early in the season,” said fourth-year Tara Levens, who won the 100 free. “We performed much better this year against Wheaton than we did last year. The team looked much sharper, but we still have lots of room for improvement since it is so early in the year.”

The Maroons started their dominating

performance early with both 400 medley relay teams taking top place, and in the men’s race the Maroons’ A and B squads netted the top two spots. After setting the tempo, the Maroons refused to let up, continuing to overpower Wheaton in virtually every event.

“We were very impressed with the results of the meet. Our team won every single event and put up fast times,” said fourth-year Nick Santoro, who also won the 100 free. “We started the meet with strong performances and carried the momentum to the finish.”

Topping off the performance on the men’s side was first-year Andrew Angeles, who delivered a near-NCAA B-standard time in his first race of the season with his 2:06.95 win in the 200 breaststroke, defeating the next closest finisher by over ten seconds.

“Andrew swam an incredible 200 breaststroke,” said first-year Jennifer Hill, who also turned in a first place finish in the 50 free.

With this win behind them, the Maroons have high goals for the season.

“I think both teams are on track to do very well this year. For the women’s team, we’re always aiming to get closer to Emory—they are the national champions, so the closer we are to them the better,“ said Levens. “The men are looking strong as well, and should definitely be able to break into second at UAAs as well.”

The Maroons continue their early season this Saturday with a visit from IIT.

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third-year Caroline Brander, an emerging star who smashed 19 kills. Fourth-year Colleen Belak, second-year Morgan Clark, and Smalls also tallied double-digit kills in the carnage. On the defensive end, the Maroons had a field day with 17 block assists and 12.5 total team blocks.

“Friday’s matches felt pretty good,” said first-year Nikki DelZenero. “Plus, we played a more solid match against Wheaton this time around.”

“We were being aggressive and taking control of the game despite what the other team brought to the table,” Smalls said.

The front end of Saturday’s double-header continued the Maroons’ happy narrative as they smothered UW–Platteville in the straight-set win, 25–14, 26–24, 25–19. Third-year co-captain Samantha Brown collected 20 defensive digs to lead a solid defensive posture. Brander and Smalls

each tallied nine kills.

The stunner came later in the day as the Maroons faced off against their hosts, No. 19 Elmhurst, a team they had defeated in the first Elmhurst Invitational to start the season.

“The Platteville game was a good showing for us,” DelZenero said. “We were mentally focused and our physical play showed it.

[But] by the time we got to the Elmhurst game, I do not think we were prepared, mentally or physically.”

The Blue Jays sent a ripple through the volleyball universe with their take-no-prisoners mentality in this rematch. They captured the first set, suffered a small setback in the second, and closed out the last two for a convincing 25–19, 26–28, 25–21, 25–21 smiler.

“They wanted it, they did what they needed to do to take the win away from us, and they didn’t wait on us to get it together or

put the game in question,” Smalls said. “They came out consistently and made adjustments better than we did.”

The Maroons must now gear up for the UAA Championships two weekends from now, for which they will surely try to improve on their past performance. They realize that trials have come and gone, and that the moment of action is directly before them—the trajectory of the season has effervesced to the point of no return.

“What we learned this weekend is that bringing that consistent game is no longer optional,” Smalls said. “It’s a bare minimum requirement [now] that we are heading into the playoffs and teams are out for blood because they want to win just as badly as we do. No one is going to hand us the game anymore.”

The Maroons’ hope for continuity is poised at this moment as they head into the final leg of their season.

Second-year Katie Huntington slams the ball over the net during a home game against Wisconsin Lutheran.

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Maroons have Millikin feeling blue after four-goal blowout Women’s Soccer Sarah Langs Sports Contributer In a game that was both the team’s final non-conference matchup and last road trip of the season, the Chicago women’s soccer team (8–4–2) won 4-0 at Millikin University (7–6–1) on Saturday.

The Maroons scored only one goal in the first half. In the twenty-fifth minute, third-year midfielder Brigette Kragie netted her second goal of the year to give Chicago a 1–0 lead.

“It took us a little while to figure out how to best exploit their weaknesses, but once we did we really put them away,” fourth-year goalkeeper Emma Gormley said.

In the second half, the team’s offensive outburst, similar to the one last week against NYU, led to three additional goals.

First-year defender Ellie von Storch scored the first goal of her career in the first minute of the second half. The first-years were on display in the second half, with first-year forward Meghan Derken scoring a goal, her third of the year, in the 75th minute.

The youth movement finished it

off with another goal from von Storch, in the 86th minute.

“I think this weekend’s game against Millikin was another good confidence builder for us, especially offensively. Putting up back to back games with big scores helps us to feel like we’re on the right track going into our final three games,” Gormley said.

Gormley’s shutout was her sixth of the year.

Looking ahead to those last three games, the implications for the UAA crown and a bid to the NCAA tournament are on the players’ minds. That made it even more important that the team

handled Millikin on Saturday, setting the tone to treat every game as important, even the nonconference ones.

“We’ve taken to looking at every game we have left as a mustwin NCAA game,” Gormley said, affirming this mentality.

With the non-conference game now out of the way, the team can focus entirely on their three upcoming UAA opponents. If the implications themselves weren’t enough motivation, there is the added fact that the games will be taking place at home.

“Playing at home can only help us…No one likes to lose at home

and that will definitely be motivating us while we’re playing,” Gormley said.

As the regular season draws to a close, fourth-years are preparing to play some of their final games ever in a Maroons uniform.

“I know for me these last three games will be extra special because, as a senior, they might be my last ones ever on our home field,” Gormley said.

The Maroons begin their slate of three straight home games against UAA opponents to finish up the season this Friday against Case Western Reserve at 5:30 p.m.

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IN QUOTES “Stay classy, San Diego.”

—Jets Coach Rex Ryan, after New York defeated the San Diego Chargers this weekend.

Brizzolara sets two school records in Homecoming win

Fourth-year Francis Adarkwa scores a touchdown during Saturday’s Homecoming victory over Kenyon College at Stagg Field.

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Football Daniel Lewis Associate Sports Editor A strong rushing attack and trick plays headlined Chicago’s 41–17 vic-

tory over Kenyon at Homecoming. The win pushed Chicago’s winning streak to three as they head into Conference play.

Both teams had impressive showings in their respective rushing games, each racking up over 200 yards on the ground and averaging over four-and-a-

half yards per carry, but it was Chicago that was able to find the end zone early and often.

An unexpected double reverse yielded a 16-yard touchdown early in the first quarter for third-year wide receiver Dee Brizzolara to open the game for Chicago.

After Kenyon answered with a rushing score of its own, the Maroons reclaimed the lead with another trick play touchdown, as fourth-year running back Francis Adarkwa completed an eight-yard halfback pass to third-year quarterback Kevin Shelton. Adarkwa ran in another touchdown on the goal line near the end of the first quarter to increase Chicago’s lead to 11.

In the second quarter, the Maroons widened the gap when second-year quarterback Vincent Cortina completed a 7-yard pass to Brizzolara. Chicago went into halftime with a comfortable 27–10 lead and strong hopes of winning their third straight game.

“We started fast right out of the gate and scored very quickly,” said fourth-year cornerback Emmett Carrier. “When our offense gets going from the start, we’re very tough to beat.”

Chicago moved closer to victory when Carrier intercepted the first pass of the second half and returned it 34 yards for a score. This was Carrier’s third interception of the season, and the second time he has returned one for a touchdown.

In the fourth quarter, first-year running back Zak Ross-Nash scored from one yard out to pad the lead and the Maroons held on to hand Kenyon its 20th consecutive loss.

The Maroons excelled in many phases of the game on Saturday, but the running game was perhaps most impressive.

Ross-Nash and Adarkwa led the Maroons in rushing yards with 82 yards and

73 yards, respectively. Seven other Maroons combined for 59 yards, including 15 yards on a fake punt from third-year kicker Jeff Sauer mid-way through the third quarter.

“The offensive line did a great job this week,” said Cortina, who completed five passes for 64 yards and a touchdown.

“We were able to establish a run game early, which opened up the passing game nicely. We only had one rushing play that went for negative yards and, as a passer, I had plenty of time in the pocket to deliver the pass.”

Chicago’s defense also showed up, forcing three turnovers and not allowing a passing touchdown all day. In addition to Carrier’s pick six, second year linebacker Ian Lazarus had an interception and second-year cornerback Mychael Gilliam recovered a fumble.

Perhaps more importantly, though, the defense limited Kenyon to only 109 yards passing, a much lower figure than the 263 yards per game they had given up through the air in the games previous to Homecoming.

Meanwhile, Brizzolara’s pair of scores gave him sole possession of two more modern-era school records. He is now the all-time leader in both total touchdowns (37) and total points (224).

“We all were playing very loose,” said Brizzolara. “The Homecoming atmosphere helped us focus on football and made playing more fun.”

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Maroons win three of four at Elmhurst

Chicago whitewashes Warhawks

Volleyball

Vicente Fernandez Senior Sports Staff

Charles Fang Senior Sports Staff It seems that, for this team, what goes around comes around, as the 16th-ranked Chicago Maroons (27–4, 5–2 UAA) closed out the regular season in the same place they started—Elmhurst, IL—and in search of the same ideal: consistency. They won three of four matches at this second Elmhurst Invitational, opposite their sweep in the first one at the front end of the campaign.

On Friday, the Maroons ran rampant, scoring 25–19, 25–11,

26–24 with 24 block assists and 14 total team blocks on an undistinguished Simpson (12–17) team.

“Going into this weekend we had a team goal to win every game in three,” fourth-year Isis Smalls said. It was a marvelous start even if it would not prove itself true.

The team then turned to its pairing against Wheaton (16– 12), a rematch predicted by Chicago’s win earlier in the year.

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Say hello to the class of 2011 From left to right, Pat Barry; Eugene Ericksen; Robert Fisher, Ned Merriam’s son; Renee Keuner; Keith Parsons, a relative of Margaret Pizer; and Susan Eblen were inducted into the UChicago Athletics Hall of Fame last Friday.

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Men’s Soccer

The University of Chicago men’s soccer team (7–6–2) had a chip on its shoulder heading into Sunday’s game against UW– Whitewater (10–7).

They had lost five straight before their win against Concordia Chicago on Thursday, and that was after going unbeaten for seven games prior to their losing streak.

It was the fourth-years’ last chance at redemption against a Whitewater team they’d lost to in every one of their contests since 2006, and former All-American Pat Barry was acting as the Maroon captain one last time during the game’s coin toss, on the heels of becoming the first men’s soccer player to ever be inducted in the University’s Athletic Hall of Fame.

In short, Chicago had more than enough to play for, even without taking into consideration that it was their last non-conference game before hitting the home stretch of their season.

“It was a great win for the upperclassmen because we had never beaten them, and it was more personal in that sense,” said fourthyear defender, Rashad Masri.

Chicago won the defensive battle 1–0 and heads into UAA play riding a two-game winning streak.

“The win over Whitewater was great for the team in that we’re

First-year Elek Lane clears the ball from the goal during a home game against Whitewater.

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building a winning habit again and regaining confidence after a very slow start in conference,” added Masri.

Whitewater, ranked sixth in the NSCAA North Region, struggled to find a way past the stingy Chicago defense in the first half. Chicago also had troubles offensively, and between the two teams, only three shots were taken in the first forty-five minutes of play, none of

which were on goal.

It didn’t take long into the second half for the Maroons to put the pressure on Whitewater. They fired three shots in quick succession at Whitewater goalkeeper Matt Mikesell in the span of just five minutes.

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