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After vote, new SG position takes shape Community and Government Liaison to engage Hyde Park

By Asher Klein News Editor Students will have one of their own representing them to community leaders after last week’s vote on a referendum to institute a Community and Government Liaison.

Seventy-two percent of the 2,350 students who voted in the Student Government (SG) election were in favor of creating the liaison position. The liaison will communicate with city alderpeople/aldermen, state representatives, community members, and the University’s Office of Civic Engagement.

“The Community and Government Liaison will be involved in community issues that affect students, facilitate communication between the Civic Engagement office and students, and form productive relationships with local government leaders,” said first-year College Council representative Frank Alarcon, the position’s architect, in an e-mail.

The new liaison will report to SG and sit on SG’s cabinet along with the executive slate, Graduate and College Council chairs, and the liaisons to the Board of Trustees.

Alarcon described the new role as “a reactive position that will respond to community issues as they arise,” as opposed to a proactive one that would propose changes. Alarcon, the incumbent

liaison to the Board of Trustees, has described the position in a similar way.

The community liason’s interactions with the administration are intended to replicate the liason to Board of Trustees’ as well. Where the liaisons to the Board of Trustees work closely with the President’s Office and the University Secretary, “the Community and Government Liaison will work closely with the University’s Civic Engagement office to offer student feedback in regards to Civic Engagement projects,” Alarcon said. “The Civic Engagement staff will also advise the Community and Government Liaison.” It will also help RSOs coordinate work with organizations in the wider community, he said.

Although SG has yet to strictly define the position’s role, one of the liaison’s main objectives will be to improve communication between local government officials and the student body.

“SG presently has very little rapport with alderman and state legislators. The Community and Government Liaison will work to open the lines of communication between students and government leaders. The Community and Government Liaison will invite aldermen and state legislators to campus for student forums so politicians are aware of student senti-

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irst-year Nicholas Cassleman was among those who attended GenderFuck, Queers and Associates' annual drag ball. The event was held Saturday night in the third floor theater in Ida Noyes Hall.

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NIH director talks science research, without the boring bits

By Crystal Tsoi News Staff Dr. Francis Collins has been known to make science “sexy” as a guest on The Colbert Report, where he twice tried to make science simple, engaging, and fun.

Co llin s, th e d ir ecto r o f th e National Institute of Health (NIH), focused on unconventional

approaches to science this Saturday at Northwestern University. The talk, sponsored by the University of Chicago in collaboration with No r t h w e s t e r n U n i v e r s i t y a n d University of Illinois, Chicago, covered the progress made in the sciences in the last couple of years, as well as Collins’ aspirations for increasing innovation.

“The Chicago area received in

this past year slightly over $1 billion of funding from the N I H,” Collins said. “I want to keep that relationship up and move science forward in a way that wasn’t even thought possible a few years ago.”

Collins outlined fi ve key goals for the N I H he anticipates will invigorate the research community: Achieving a more compre-

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STUDENT LIFE

HYDE PARK

Students petition U of C for support on immigration reform

Giordano's declared upper crust of Hyde Park pizzerias

From left, third-year Ashley Lane, second-year Jonathan Rodrigues, and firstyear Richard Pichardo, of the UChicago Coalition for Immigration Reform.

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By Ella Christoph News Editor University of Chicago Coalition for Immigration Reform (UCCIR) is meeting with administrators and circulating a petition among students

in a push to gain University support for its cause.

UCCIR advocates that undocumented students who attend high school in the United States be made eligible to receive need-blind aid from the University of Chicago. The

group is meeting with Associate Dean Michael Jones Wednesday to discuss how to make its plans feasible, and hopes to meet with Dean John Boyer in the coming weeks to present its petition.

The petition lists two demands: that the University offer two merit-based scholarships to undocumented students, and that the University publicly support, through lobbying with other universities and writing a letter to Congress, a process by which undocumented students who attended U.S. high schools can become legal citizens.

“The University can’t solve immigration, but it has a lot of clout, politically and as an institution of higher learning,” said second-year Jonathan Rodrigues, a member of UCCIR and Maroon staffer.

Currently, the University includes undocumented students —who are ineligible for federal financial aid—in the need-aware pool of international students. According to UCCIR, few undocumented students have the

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By Leland Bybee News Contributor What’s tastier than a competition answering the age -old question of whose pizza reigns supreme?

Ask RSO Global Brigades, which hosted the first annual “Hyde Park Pizza Event” Saturday at the McCormick Tribune lounge.

Th e e v e n t p i t t e d f i v e l o c a l Hyde Park pizzerias—Chollie’s, Eduardo’s, Giordano’s, Domino’s, and Leona’s–against each other to see which one makes the best pizza. More than 175 participants sampled the various slices, and voted Giordano’s the best.

“The pizza contest was a large fund-raising event for all of Global Brigades,” said second-year Andrea Wan, treasurer and member of the Executive Board for Global Brigades in an e-mail. “Not only did it provide food for hungry students on a Saturday night, it was a truly unique event bring-

ing together our Hyde Park community with the students at the University of Chicago.”

While the diversity of pizzas earned participants’ appre ciation, Wan said the money Global Brigades raised for impoverished countries was its biggest accomplishment. “Our goal for the contest was mainly as a fundraiser, with all the profits going directly to Honduran and Panamanian communities,” Wan said. One-thousand, three hundred dollars was raised through the event.

The big turnout is a good sign that the pizza competition will stick around for future years. “For our first year running the event, I would say it was a great turnout and people seemed positive,” Wan said. “We do plan on holding this event next year and turning this potentially into an annual event.”

The money will help to provide medical supplies to needy

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HYDE PARK

Proceeds from pizza event go to Hyde Parkers honor Preckwinkle, decry property tax increases at Ward meeting plumbing and entrepreneurs in Some Preckwinkle supporters are enthusiastic property assessments. Concerned about property Panama and Honduras

By Ellen Dunn News Contributor In one of Fourth Ward Alderman Toni Preckwinkle’s likely last Ward meetings, grateful Hyde Park residents nevertheless appealed significant property tax increases Saturday at the Monumental Baptist Church on East 39th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue.

Preckwinkle, currently Fourth Ward alderman, is running as the Democratic nominee for President of Cook County Board. Many attendees of Saturday’s meeting wore Preckwinkle campaign buttons and questions for other speakers were interjected with messages of support for Preckwinkle.

about her campaign for President of Cook County Board but are still sad to see her leave. “Cook County’s gain is [the Fourth Ward’s] loss,” said Will Burns, the 26th District’s representative to the Illinois General Assembly. Preckwinkle recommended Burns to the position and, by virtue of her say, he will likely be her successor.

Terry Totten, a resident who frequents the monthly meetings, said Burns seemed to have “the pulse of what we need in this ward,” though it was the first time he had heard Burns speak.

In addition to discussing the future of the Fourth Ward without Preckwinkle, commissioner from the Cook County Board of Review Larry Rogers Jr., spoke about the appeals process for

tax increases of as much as 50 percent over last year, homeowners learned how to appeal the reevaluations. “I never knew about all this tax stuff,” a woman said to Preckwinkle as she filled out appeal paperwork.

Although State Senator Kwame Raoul brought up Illinois’ $13 billion deficit during the meeting, many Fourth Ward residents were skeptical of the state’s financial hardship. “I don’t believe that the government is that short on funds,” attendee Jeffrey Booker said after community members and politicians referenced a recent report on aldermen’s inappropriate use of expense funds.

The Fourth Ward covers most of Kenwood and Oakland, and the northern part of Hyde Park.

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Students attending the event were happy they could help out a good cause and fill their stomachs as well. “I am really happy I came. The pizza is good and I think that Global Brigades is doing a really good thing,” first-year Evan Weiss said.

Community and Government Liaison will tackle transportation and retail in Hyde Park LIAISON continued from front page ment,” Alarcon said.

Fourth-year Chris Williams, SG vice president for Student Affairs, said this communication would be a responsibility left up to the liaison personally, as SG did not survey local politicians to see if they would engage with the liaison prior to its inception.

Among other issues, the liaison will work on two perennial concerns of student and community members: transportation and retail. The University is a major developer in Hyde Park, and its plans are often decried by community groups. When the University planned to replace the abandoned Doctors Hospital on Stony Island Avenue with a hotel in 2008, residents of the precinct voted it dry—meaning no alcohol may be sold there—

until 2012, effectively ending plans for a hotel.

The University recently announced it would become a Lab Schools building.

The hotel controversy flamed off campus, but few students were interested. “Maybe if there was an official student role, such as the liaison, students could have been more involved, even if we couldn’t have changed anything,” Williams said.

Transportation issues have also plagued student-community relationships. Bus stops became a point of contention—convenient for students, they took up parking spaces that neighborhood residents wanted available.

Two years ago, Fifth Ward Alderperson Leslie Hairston attempted to have the Chicago Transit Authority remove the #171 stop on East 57th Street and South

University Avenue in order to open up space for four parking spots. One month of protests and negotiations later, Hairston announced she had changed her mind, and the bus stop stayed.

Williams said that incident was instructive.

“With more communication with her office, she would have understood [the stance of the University community] better,” he said.

After the incident, communication did improve, Williams said. “We met with Hairston and we started meeting with the Office of Civic Engagement and we established a better relationship there,” he said.

“But I think it was really Frank [Alarcon] and some of the first-year reps who realized there could be the need for an official position and official role.”

Alarcon proposed the referendum to SG in March, where it passed with a 15–6 vote. The incumbent slate hopes to appoint an interim liaison—undergraduates or graduate students are eligible—before allowing candidates onto a ballot in the Spring, when it will go before the entire student body, third-year and incumbent SG President Greg Nance said.

“Someone with work or volunteer experience on the South Side of Chicago would be great for the position,” Alarcon said.

But much of the what the liaison will do in office will depend in large part on the first liaison himself. “The position is a little bit unformed. It’s the first year so the person who takes up the position will have a large responsibility in forming it,” Williams said.

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Collaboration led to "promising" treatments for rare disease, NIH director says COLLINS continued from front page hensive, fundamental knowledge of biology; translating novel scientific theories to practical treatments; putting science to work for the benefit of health care; promoting global health research; and invigorating and empowering the biomedical research community.

A former director of the Human Genome Project, Collins hopes to invest in “wacky ideas” or nonconventional theories that normally would be overlooked, he said. He believes that by taking risks, innovation can turn into very promising results in the near future.

He also emphasized scientists working together as one of the most efficient ways to do research and discover treatments.

Collins is doing research into finding treatment for Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome. Individuals affected by the disease undergo symptoms of aging during childhood and most succumb to cardiovascular complications before their 13th birthday. Because the disease is so rare, not much is known about it, Collins said.

Progeria is known to occur in one in every four million births, and its rarity, along with the absence of genetic tracing of the disease, have made it particularly difficult to find a treatment.

But through collaborative work and accessibility to tools and prior research, scientists have made progress in developing a treatment for the disease. By working together, scientists are able to save money and time in helping individuals afflicted with diseases that would otherwise have no hope for any type of cure or treatment, Collins said.

According to him, 28 patients are going through clinical trials for treatment for prog-

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eria, and the results so far seem promising.

Because of successes such as these, Collins advocated for more investment in scientific research, and greater accessibility for farfl ung researchers. Collins wants to “make sure that we have training programs that reach out to diverse groups and innovative individuals [that] make biological research more appealing to disadvantaged groups and reach out to kids,” he said.

Members of the audience said they were concerned that the environment of the scientific research community was discouraging people from scientific research. “I’m just thrilled to be reminded about why I’m so excited about what we all have the potential to do,” a Northwestern graduate student said. “What concerns me and is upsetting is that many of my peers don’t feel the same way.”

Collins, however, said he was optimistic.

“I think this is a unique time for biomedical research to go forward in very exciting ways. Deaths from heart disease have fallen by 60 percent in the last 30 years. You can track the results of NIH research as the main reason that has been possible over that timetable. And the cost of that in terms of what every American has paid for that research has come out to $3.70 per American per year. One latte would do it. Not a bad deal,” he said.

Collins said the NIH’s crucial role in supporting scientific research is evident. “If you ask, are we supporting great science,” he said, “you need only to look at the Nobel Laureates from last fall and notice how five out of six of them were in fact NIH grantees, and over the last many years, we have supported 131 people who have gone on to win Nobel Prizes.”

means to attend the U of C without financial aid. Undocumented students, they also argue, come from a unique background different than that of international students, and should be considered independently.

The coalition, headed by Rodrigues, thirdyears Ashley Lane and Cindy Agustin, and first-year Richard Pichardo, has earned the support of a number of campus RSOs, including Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Atzlan (MEChA), the Chicago Justice Initative, and Amnesty International.

Lane said that while the group doesn’t know the citizenship status of its members or other students at the University, an administrator told her there is at least one student currently attending the University who is undocumented. Lane also said she knew of one undocumented student who graduated from the College and currently works in a junkyard because he can’t get a job that requires a Social Security number.

The organization, which is currently in the process of recruiting members and hopes to include other RSOs in its coalition soon, has about 275 people in its Facebook group, and about 25 people attended its first meeting.

“It’s a unification of campus for a cause,” Pichardo said.

The petition argues that immigration reform and the support of undocumented students is beneficial to the University community as a whole.

“At the University of Chicago, we deserve to be challenged by the brightest of our peers, while undocumented students deserve the opportunity to define themselves by their accomplishments, not their status, ” the petition reads.

The coalition grew out of Chicago Students for Immigration Reform (CSIR), an RSO whose members went to Washington over spring break to march at a protest demanding immigration reform. The coalition hopes to expand the base of campus activists by reaching out to other

RSOs for support.

When asked about the new immigration law in Arizona, the toughest on record in the United States, the members looked on the bright side.

“The bill of Arizona is going to excite the base even more,” Lane said. “It’s not about immigration any more, its about civil rights.”

Other goals of UCCIR’s include advocating for the documentation of undocumented high school students and comprehensive immigration reform in Congress. The group does not officially support the DREAM Act, which has been a rallying point for immigration reform activists at other schools. According to Lane, a clause in the DREAM Act that requires verification of the citizenship of undocumented students’ family members could break up families.

Presidents at other universities have publicly supported DREAM Act, including at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford, according to an April 1 article in the Harvard Crimson.

“What influenced my decision was a meeting I had with students whose lives were so deeply affected by their inability to be full citizens and participants in American society,” Harvard president Drew G. Faust told the Crimson.

But UCCIR believes it will be more difficult to sway the U of C administration than others.

“We’re not expecting it to be as easy as it was for the Harvard kids whose President already had pro-immigration reform leanings that were fairly public before the statement,” Lane said.

This is due in part to the Kalven Report, Lane said, which encourages political neutrality within the administration. “Making a statement is something that they are reluctant to do, because of the Kalven Report,” she said.

Lane said the group hopes to use public support from peer institutions and a show of popular support within the University to convince the administration to work with other universities to lobby for immigration reform. “This isn’t a partisan issue,” she said.

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The Richman Award is a University-wide award, which recognizes a staff member who has demonstrated exceptional respect, responsiveness, communication, and time investment in the University student community. It was created in recognition of the tireless service to students provided by Marlene Richman in her roles as Resident Master of Burton-Judson Courts and as a CAPS counselor for 36 years. The Richman Award winner is commemorated on a plaque in the Reynolds Club.

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Moving forward In the wake of Referendum 1, the University must act to strengthen the sexual assault policy After the student body overwhelmingly rejected the current sexual assault policy in last week’s referendum, the onus is now on the University’s administration to offer, as expeditiously as possible, a set of changes that are both acceptable to the campus community and workable for the staff and faculty.

Though the referendum asked only whether students disapprove of assigning the power to adjudicate incidents to the accused’s academic division, the Working Group on the Sexual Assault Policy (WGSAP) has raised a number of other concerns with the current policy, and the Maroon hopes administrators take this opportunity to rethink the existing sexual assault procedures in full.

The centerpiece of WGSAP’s proposed changes is a centralized process for adjudicating sexual assault reports.

At present, incidents are considered

by Area Disciplinary Committees, which are comprised of faculty from the accused’s academic division and at most two students. The lone advantage

of using Area Disciplinary Committees seems to be that faculty members from the accused’s division are best suited to make the process a learning experience for the accused. But that rationale assumes a connection between the accused and his or her faculty that frequently doesn’t exist, and if nothing more, it creates an impression that the proceedings favor the accused.

Centralizing the disciplinary process reduces the risk of biases, whether real or perceived, but it doesn’t go far enough. In addition to forming a central disciplinary committee, as WGSAP has suggested, the Maroon believes administrators should grant the accused and the complainant the right to object, within reason, to the composition of the committee, and to ask that committee members recuse themselves from the proceedings. Faculty-student interactions that lead to conflicts of interest can arise in a number of contexts, not only within the student’s academic division.

And given the size of the University community, there is no need for the

membership of the panel to make the complainant or the accused uncomfortable, or otherwise compromise the process.

Redesigning the disciplinary committees is one part of overhauling the sexual assault policy, but more should be done.

Those charged with reevaluating the University’s current policy will doubtless consider procedures in place at peer institutions, which can provide instructive examples of how our policy might better address the needs of all complainants. At the University of Virginia, for instance, complainants who choose not to pursue full disciplinary proceedings can still request a face-to-face meeting with the accused. The meetings are overseen by trained personnel, and though they don’t result in a verdict, they are useful for some victims.

Virginia is joined by Princeton, Wash U, and a number of other schools in offering anonymous reporting systems for sexual assaults. The reports are not grounds for arrests, but they provide crucial information for police and adminis-

trators working to reduce threats to the community. The ongoing debate over our University’s sexual assault policy demonstrates the problems with tailoring any one procedure to fit all incidents; adding options like anonymous reporting and non-adjudicatory meetings would help ensure that all victims get the kind of support they need.

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and already it has seen some of our campus’s biggest advances on this issue: Students have called for a strengthening of the disciplinary policy, and, perhaps more importantly, WGSAP and its allies have focused our attention on the problem. With the topic on the minds of people across campus, this is an ideal time for administrators to take concrete action on the sexual assault policy. There are only three days left in April, and not one should be wasted in tackling this issue.

predecessor—whose declared agenda of spreading democratic values was widely seen as “adventurist” and foolhardy—the United States runs the risk of overcompensating. Without necessarily embracing the blunders of the Bush Doctrine, we on the Left should not blush away from the advice of neoconservative analyst William Kristol: “American power should be used not just in the defense of American interests, but for the promotion of American principles.”

The corollary is that the promotion of American principles—that is, a very modest program of liberal democracy, human rights, and social equality—will sometimes be inimical to our “national interest.” In purely realist terms, the U.S. has much to gain by the deal negotiated

over the summer that enabled the U.S. to gain access to several Colombian military bases; it will assist in the war against Colombia’s leftist insurgency and help contain Venezuela. But at what cost? Colombia is among the worst human rights violators in the Western hemisphere, where union leaders and journalists are murdered by right-wing paramilitaries at an alarming rate. The U.S. should have made its enormous military commitment contingent upon steps to curb these groups.

The same logic should be applied to other American allies as well. As Iran’s nuclear program progresses, one could argue that the U.S. should avoid breaking ranks with Israel

immigration reform, along with health care and the wars. The issue never died, certainly not for the millions of Latino voters who comprise the fastest growing demographic in the U.S., and whose support is necessary for any candidate who wants to be elected president.

Candidate Obama knew this very well, and he was one of the most gener-

ous candidates on immigration policy during the debates. Boldly promising to have immigration reform done in his first year in office, he actively sought the support of immigrant and Latino organizations. The Latino vote was clearly on board with Obama’s message of hope and change and had strong faith in him as a candidate. But all was not

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Liberals should embrace a foreign policy that actively intervenes in defense of human rights

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Earlier this month, Hu Jia, 36, was denied release from his dark corner of the Chinese prison system. A renowned pro-democracy activist, winner of the 2008 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, and a prisoner of conscience, Hu was denied medical parole to seek life-saving treatment for a potentially cancerous mass that doctors found in his liver. Some days later in Cairo, dozens of protesters flocked to the streets demanding an end to a 29 year-old law that enables the government to detain anyone indefinitely and without trial. At around the same time, the Iranian government banned the Bahar newspaper

for the crime of questioning the results of the presidential elections in June and criticizing the theocratic form of government. And on April 26, Sudanese election officials stopped entering data into a secure computer system, making their already-dubious presidential election even more susceptible to fraud.

I couldn’t possibly give an exhaustive list of the human rights issues bubbling to the surface almost every day. For all the talk about “the end of history,” the victory of the neoliberal consensus, and the globalization of democracy, it is clear that repression remains a worldwide problem. In many regions of the world, human rights violations are on the rise.

As the Obama administration seeks to separate itself from the policies of its

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The power of protest Mass protests have forced Obama administration to address immigrants’ rights issues

By Jonathan Rodrigues Viewpoints Contributor This Week host Jake Tapper perfectly encapsulated the media’s incompetence when he expressed his surprise at immigration reform being next on Washington’s agenda: “We thought it was dead.” The absurdity there is astounding. It has been less than two

years since Obama’s election, which he won thanks to overwhelming Latino support in several important swing states like Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, and Florida. The Latino vote was so important in the last election that Republicans even had a debate moderated by Univision! In the primary debates—and up until the economic collapse—the main issue was

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Media coverage of immigrants’ rights movement nearly nonexistent IMMIGRATION continued from page 5 well in America; the economic collapse changed the course of history, and once again deferred the fight for immigration reform.

2009 was a year of patience for Latinos, but unfortunately it was also a year of gross injustice.

To their surprise, the President who had boldly promised them reform in his first year not only broke that promise, but also oversaw a rise in deportations from the last year of Bush’s second term. In 2009 there were close to 400,000 deportations. Four hundred thousand families separated. Hardworking—and yes, tax-paying—pursuers of the American Dream were punished in terrorizing raids on workplaces while their employers were either not punished at all or received penalties tantamount to slaps on the wrist.

The final straw was the way Obama addressed the issue in his State of the Union speech. He said that we should fix our immigration system to “secure our borders, enforce our laws,” and make sure that everyone who “plays by the rules” can help make our nation stronger. If those sound like the exact same Republican talking points we have heard in the last 10 years, it’s because they are.

It was at this point that immigrant rights groups across the nation started to organize. It took them less than two months to organize a huge march and rally in the National Mall that brought over 250,000 people from all across the country. It was the largest gathering of protesters during the Obama Administration and yet it received little to no media coverage. It seemed that slightly over 200 mostly old, white tea partiers were more important than over 250,000 Latinos, Koreans, Filipinos, Chinese, Polish, Albanians, and Palestinians—and these are only the ethnicities I could identify through flags or banners!

March 21 will live on in history as a significant

date that the media completely ignored; there’s probably going to be a footnote on it in your child’s history book—the one that won’t contain Cesar Chavez or Thomas Jefferson. That night, when the march was over, I rushed to the nearest computer to see what the media had said about this historic protest. What I found was simply surreal. It was so surreal I doubted my own experiences. What had I done? What had I seen? Were there actually 250,000 people taking up most of the National Mall, protesting against a broken system? Ultimately, it was not my memory that was playing with me—it was the media’s utter disregard for the immigrant rights movement. I checked multiple Web sites and found not one picture or headline. You could only read a short, three-paragraph story on the protest citing merely that “thousands” had came to D.C. that day. The newspapers the next day, even in D.C., were nothing short of depressing.

But rest assured, our voices were heard that day.

The political pressure of the March 21 rally, along with sustained events across the country since then, put immigration reform front and center, at least in Washington. And this is not all: More protests are being planned, including an upcoming rally in downtown Chicago on May 1. As far as the media is concerned, this is quite the sudden change, the resurrection of a long-dead debate.

In short, the immigrant rights movement learned important lessons from the health care debacle. It is important to note that it was because of the threat of a huge rally that Obama frantically invited immigrant rights leaders to meet with him in the White House a few weeks before the march. Obama did not want to be publicly embarrassed by a huge rally that strongly condemned him for inaction and for the escalation of deportations. The immigrant rights organizations demanded an outline of immigration reform by March 21, and they got it the

Friday before the march: the Graham-Schumer outline for immigration reform. Because of this, the actual rally was significantly less critical of Obama than it was poised to be.

The March 21st rally was the first part of what will certainly be a long tug-of-war to force Congress to make the right decisions about immigration reform. Washington listens to loud people. This is something that progressives who supported health care reform ignored, and tea partiers knew quite well. The question is: Who will be louder this time?

—Jonathan Rodrigues is a secondyear in the College majoring in Latin American Studies.

over its outrageous abuses in the West Bank.

But the cost of this policy will be continuing human misery, which in the occupied territories manifests itself in ways that are too well-known.

Egypt, a state notorious for its president’s sweeping, undemocratic powers, and Israel, are the two largest recipients of bilateral U.S. aid, so the argument that the U.S. has no leverage to compel these nations to reform is demonstrably false.

Of course, this also means confronting our adversaries for their human rights abuses, and not merely in spite of them. There is an unfortunate tendency among the “hard Left” to whitewash the crimes of countries perceived as “anti-American,” and to regard any American or international condemnation of these crimes as unacceptable foreign “meddling.” The stolen presidential elections in Iran provide an illustration of this phenomenon. Who could forget the images of the screaming crowds running away from police gunfire? The faceless basiji authorities hitting women on the street from their motorcycles? The canisters of tear gas? But instead of capitalizing on this historic outburst of popular will by condemning the brutality of the regime, the Obama administration largely sat on its hands under the advice that any external involvement would be used to persecute the protesters as “Western-backed saboteurs”—as if that didn’t happen anyway.

The argument that democracy and human rights cannot be supported from the outside is refuted by history. Needless to say, I don’t have Iraq in mind, where violent intervention resulted in a humanitarian catastrophe and where democracy-promotion was never the highest priority. Rather, I’m referring to U.S. support for reform in the Philippines during the 1980s, which decisively helped the people remove dictator Ferdinand Marcos—a template that should be applied to Iran. Of course, East Asia was a region of the world that had little experience with democracy, a place where some believed that “Western” forms of liberal government could never thrive. But those who consigned the fate of the Philippines to authoritarianism were ultimately wrong, and, in retrospect, foolish.

Without a doubt, the United States is no exemplar of human rights. And it may be beyond our capacity to influence human rights in large nations such as China or Russia. But what I am advocating is a shift in principles: that we not regress back to the game of 19th-century power politics, where states compete with one another for territory and resources with little regard to the political identity of other states. Freedom of expression, fair elections, and individual security are not just incidental “quirks” that countries can choose to follow or disregard in accordance with their own sovereignty. Their tactful promotion is the foundation of any morally conscionable foreign policy.

—Chase Mechanick is a second-year in the College majoring in Political Science.

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University Orchestra shows off its Lisztomania

Gogol Bordello thinks globally, rocks locally

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Soloist Alice Chen, a Ph.D. in Economics at the Booth School, performing Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 1 with the University Symphony Orchestra on Saturday night in Mandel Hall.

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By Rob Underwood Voices Checkin' It Twice As the Chicago weather struggles to maintain consistency, the University Symphony Orchestra provided an aural preview on Saturday night of the warm climate most people desperately want. The concert, entitled “Liszt Into Spring!,” was a compilation of pieces by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt.

The orchestra first played the two symphonic poems “Hamlet” and “Orpheus,” and closed the night with “Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2.”

They were accompanied by highly accomplished pianist Alice Chen for Lizst’s “Piano Concerto No. 1.”

Conductor Barbara Schubert explained before the concert that part of the motivation behind the organization and selection of the

pieces was to show that Liszt was an expert composer, as well as a piano virtuoso. Both his piano-playing and composing talents, she said, are emphasized in his longer pieces.

The night began with the two tone poems.

From the pieces’ titles, it’s quite obvious what inspired them, but the two treat their extramusical sources quite differently. “Hamlet” was first, and it was apparent (although the program pointed it out as well) that Liszt was exploring two highly distinct musical dispositions: one turbulent and frustrated, the other delicate and far calmer. It’s relatively easy to tell that the characters being alluded to are Hamlet and Ophelia, the vengeful prince and the tragically elegant noblewoman.

The orchestra’s performance highlighted the distinctness between the two parts of the tone poem. In fact, I felt that by observing

from my spot in the upper tier of Mandel Hall, I could almost visually determine which character was being expressed according to which section of the orchestra was playing.

“Ophelia” was almost strictly isolated to the flute and clarinet section, while “Hamlet’s” darker tones were fleshed out with the violins, cellos, and basses.

“Orpheus,” on the other hand, was much less dependent on a strict association between musical and character temperament. Instead, it gave a more fluid, impressionistic interpretation of the Orpheus legend. Beginning with the harps for which the mythological figure is famous, Orpheus’s role as a musician is examined by presenting several different musical themes that gradually transition into one another. The steadier pace and consistency

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THEATER

Off-Off turns on the wit for its 24th season

By Jessen O'Brien Voices Ba-dum-chh!

Two different emperors named Montezuma ruled the Aztecs, a people known for their human sacrifices and possible cannibalism. In a tongue-in-cheek response to such a brutal and horrific character, the 24th generation of Off-Off Campus, the U of C’s improv and sketch comedy group, has titled their spring revue Montezuma, Eat Your Heart Out. The choice is not surprising given Off-

MONTEZUMA, EAT YOUR HEART OUT Fridays at 9 p.m., through 8th week University Church

Off ’s unusual brand of humor. But why this title in particular? “Somebody thought [it] was funny,” said third-year Peter Damm, director of the current generation. Such is

Off-Off ’s irreverent philosophy. Off-Off performs at University Church on Friday nights every quarter along with a pre- and afterglow of bands, a cappella, and the performers-in-training. Each show is filled with new sketches, making every performance unique.

Unlike other theater organizations on campus, students who enter Off-Off must commit 15 hours a week to training for two quarters before they can perform.

“Monday might be scene work, Tuesday might be relationships, Wednesday might be object work, and Friday might be group work,” said third-year Ben Mizel, production manager. “We’re trying to cultivate a group mind so that everyone is on the same page. A huge part of improvising is listening and picking up on your partner’s hints and character.”

The classes are taught by former Off-Off members from the likes of the 23rd generation to the very first, formed in 1986 when

Bernie Sahlins, a UChicago alum and cofounder of Second City, returned to campus and started the group. Students who participate in Off-Off enter a company instead of a single performance. Consequently, they usually stay involved after their generation’s two seasons by joining the administrative ranks of teachers, directors, and production managers, performing in Off-Off ’s winter inter-generational revue, or by doing a mix of things.

All of Off-Off ’s sketches are student written. They often get passed around, critiqued, and revised until they lose individual ownership and become the property of the group.

“Someone might write a sketch, and it’s performed a year later at their very last show,” said first-year Evan Weiss, a member of the 24th generation. “At the same time someone might write a great sketch on Monday, and it’s performed on Friday; that’s not at all

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Accordions, violins, and Theremins are not instruments that are typically associated with punk music. But, as Gogol Bordello—the one-of-a-kind New York City band of “gypsy punks”—proved this past Friday at the Congress Theater, they can still rock hard in the right hands.

The group’s sound is at once instantly recognizable and difficult to sum up. Front man Eugene Hütz blends Romani sounds from his native Ukraine with a bombastic and unabashed mix of rock and dub, and their playful punk aesthetic is well summed up in their trademark slingshot logo hung behind the band during the show. Hütz literally hit the stage running as the set began, and his energy was relentless throughout. Rangy, mustachioed, and shirtless, he sang with the requisite snarl and gusto to sustain the driving force behind the upbeat first half of the show, his charming-scoundrel personality coming through in winks and grins on songs like “Wonderlust King.”

As Hütz swaggered to and fro across the stage, strumming his sticker-plastered guitar, his bandmates gamely kept pace, frequently coming forward to give the crowd a few highfives. The band never seemed to lose steam, charging into eight or nine-minute renditions of their songs, jumping and swinging all the while. Hütz, keeping up his stamina with swigs from a bottle of wine, was adept at leading the musicians at a tight pace without losing control or interest. “Start Wearing Purple,” one of the band’s signature songs, wound up gradually from an easygoing tempo to an all-out, noholds-barred frenzy.

The atmosphere was like a cross between a carnival and an especially raucous night out— the audience jumped, swilled beer, and threw the occasional punch in time with the incessant beat of the music, and more than a few crowd surfers tumbled to the sticky floor as their supporters rushed to the stage. But, in keeping with the jovial-yet-badass sounds of the band, the mood was far from hostile and there was a sense of genuine camaraderie, both onstage and between the audience members themselves.

The only ones not won over to the ambiance, it seemed, were the bouncers, who remained stoic as ever despite Hütz’s insistence that “these guys too—they’re going to start wearing purple soon.”

Openers DeVotchKa, though lacking the electrified punk edge of the headliners, were met with much enthusiasm from the crowd. With an equally unconventional combo of traditional rock elements and sousaphone, Theremin, and bouzouki, their slower and more introspective songs were an excellent warm-up for the main act. Lead singer Nick Urata was calm, soulful, and agreeable, even as he was upstaged by the band’s silent but most engaging member: an aerial dancer who twirled and spun on twin cascades of fabric as the musicians played.

Returning to the stage for an encore, Gogol Bordello gave themselves and the audience a quick breather with a low-key rendition of “Alcohol,” from their 2007 album Super Taranta!, followed by slightly newer songs. If the crowd seemed weary at this point, it was only from physical exhaustion: No one seemed to want to let the band leave the stage. By the show’s end, crowd and band alike were dazed but grinning, and it seemed that Hütz was spot-on in his prediction that “all your sanity and wits, they will all vanish—it’s just a matter of time.”

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Chen steals the spotlight with piano performance

Tradition and training behind Off-Off's improv

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throughout this piece made it my personal favorite of the night.

But Alice Chen’s performance was without a doubt the highlight of the evening, and was the one time when Ms. Schubert’s wish to de-emphasize Liszt’s extreme level of skill was temporarily set aside. Liszt’s piano concerto is extremely intense and swift, and can move in the space of seconds from rapid scale progressions to subdued chords and melodies. Chen, who is also a second-year Ph.D. student at the Booth School of Business, played beautifully throughout, and was able to make the piece flow continuously despite, the quick tone changes.

The final piece of the night was the second “Hungarian Rhapsody,” which is arguably Liszt’s most easily identifiable piece. Featured in everything from Looney Tunes cartoons to Marx Brothers movies, it was a pleasant realization to give a name to a piece I had heard so many times on television and in films. Because I had heard it before, it was less unpredictable than the other pieces, but it was still no less compelling to watch Ms. Schubert conduct the orchestra and successfully execute such an expansive and complex piece of music.

While there was certainly no lack of incredible skill at the piano in Chen’s performance, Schubert still achieved her objective for the night. The selected pieces were, on the whole, diverse, captivating, and presented what seemed to be a good overview of Liszt’s work.

unheard of….My generation will probably write about 200 sketches, all original.”

With the sketches they write, Off-Off isn’t just going for easy laughs.

“The goal isn’t necessarily to please the audience,” continued Weiss. “Instead, it focuses much more on being legitimate, doing good theater, being realistic. So cheap jokes and sitcom-y sorts of things are frowned upon. Beyond that, they’re more interested in scenes built on relationships as opposed to scenes just built on jokes or a single character being weird—the interaction between two people.”

Beyond the overarching aim, each generation has its own particular style. The 24th consists of six actors instead of the usual eight. Weiss figures that this number results in a more intimate, although perhaps less varied, cast. And, of course, each generation has a different sense of humor. According to Mizel, the 24th generation has “an appreciation for non sequiturs. I don’t think I’ve seen a lot of topical humor, although they’re capable of it. They might embrace darker humor than some other generations.”

“It’s really fun to see live comedy because there’s a whole component where the people on stage are really engaged with the audience and the audience with them,” said Damm. “So laughter is sort of a social thing.

When you’re laughing, there’s a great energy that comes from it which I think people really enjoy.”

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by Jessica Hester

ON THE PROWL FOR STYLISH STUDENTS

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pring is tricky. It's kind of like all of the seasons rolled into one. It might be chilly in the morning and sweltering in the afternoon, with freezing rain or snow flurries in the evening. The sandals and sundress you put on when you awake might leave you wet and shivering by the end of the day. Likewise, the bulky sweater that kept you warm during your morning coffee run might have you overheating by lunchtime. Though spring trends like prints, pastels, florals, and nautical themes usually involve flimsy fabric or short sleeves, these aren’t necessarily viable options when the forecast calls for a 15-degree range between morning and night. I asked some stylish students how they dress to impress with the season’s unpredictable weather in mind.

Ben Halbig, fourth-year in the College Clothes: Pants from Banana Republic, shirt from Goodwill, shoes from Austria, coat from Lands End. Spring Fashion Forecast: “Long shirts, short pants. I like the look of long-sleeved collared shirts and shorts.”

Halbig expertly mixes laid-back and preppy styles, here pairing structured pants with a loose-fitting, fisherman-style coat.

This utilitarian take on nautical style is well suited for spring’s weather. “Wear comfortable, sturdy clothes that you’re not afraid to get dirty or wet,” suggests Halbig. “It will come in handy when the temperature suddenly drops 40 degrees without warning.”

Heather Tatroff, M.B.A. student at the Booth School Clothes: Coat from Tommy Hilfiger, shoes from Burberry.

Spring Fashion Forecast: “Versatile pieces. I’ll be working in an office, so I’m looking for skirt suits that are classy, plain, and easy to match, like Michael Kors stuff.”

This Vancouver native is used to rainy days, so she always totes an umbrella in her bag. Her crisply tailored coat, which references spring nautical trends, keeps her looking stylish rain or shine.

James McKinney, third-year in the College

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Clothes: Bow tie from Ralph Lauren, shirt from Brooks Brothers.

Spring Fashion Forecast: “Bright colors.”

McKinney pairs spring-inspired, pastelcolored basics with heavier outer layers. His bow tie and shirt remind me of brightly colored Easter eggs, but his tweed jacket adds an edge to the look and also keeps him warm on cooler days. His look is fun, fresh, and functional.

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Spring Fashion Forecast: “Patterns.

These tights and sweater have sort of common patterns and a similar color palate, but the clash makes it interesting.”

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second place individual finishes by Offner in the 200-meter dash and Jackson in the triple jump, as well as by the 4x800 relay team, composed of third-years Harry Backlund and Andrew Wells- Qu and first-years Anthony Farias-Eisner and Chris Cheng.

“I didn’t have my best jump this weekend,” Jackson said. “It was still great to get out there and compete. Now I’m just look-

ing forward to Nationals and trying to get ready for that.”

The team has just three meets left before the national competition.

“Performing well in less-than-optimal weather can definitely set the tone for the rest of the season,” Solus said.

The Maroons will head to Benedictine this Friday to compete in the Twilight Invitational.

After loss to Brandeis, Maroons hopeful for individual NCAA bids M. TENNIS continued from back page play eventual runner-up Wash U in the semifinals, where a victory likely would have put Chicago in position for a bid to the NCAA tournament in May. A loss to the Bears would have kept those hopes alive, as Chicago could have earned a bid by defeating third-place finisher Carnegie on Sunday.

But with the Judges earning the upset, Chicago had to change its weekend plans.

“After that match, it was pretty rough,” Abrams said. “We expected to take on Wash U…and we were two points away from beating them last time, so we were hoping to get another shot at them.

“But we just decided to smoke NYU and the rest of the teams that lost in the fi rst round.”

Chicago sliced through eighth-seeded NYU 6–0 in the consolation semifinals, with none of the Violets’ doubles squads winning more than five games. In singles, the Maroons scored three straight-set victories, giving them a convincing win to move on to the fifth-place match.

Case, looking to avenge a 7–2 loss to Chicago earlier this season, took one doubles point from the South Siders, setting the tone for a close match.

“It was quite a surprise, actually, because the 7–2 win [on February 13] was actually more like a 9–0 win,” Brinker said. “Case got a lot better since the last time we played.”

Case led 3–2 at one point in the match, but Chicago was able to come back on the strength of a trio of three-set wins. Abrams and Garrett Brinker each earned their second singles victories of the tournament before Zhang, who had returned for Saturday’s matches, sealed the Maroons’ victory with a three-set win at first singles.

The fifth-place finish, Chicago’s worst since 2006, likely means the end of the Maroons’ season as a team, but the South Siders hope to send a contingent to the individual NCAA tournament. Zhang is in contention for a second-straight trip to Nationals, while the top doubles pair of Brinker and fellow fourthyear Steve Saltarelli are looking for their first tournament bid.

IN QUOTES “This is the Gay World Series, not the Bisexual World Series.”

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—A member of the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance, explaining why three bisexual men were barred from participating in the Gay World Series.

TRACK AND FIELD

Split seconds Women claim second in down-to-the-wire finish

By Dave Kates Sports Staff It all came down to the last event for women’s track and field at the UAA Championship last weekend in St. Louis. Battling both the weather and the fierce competition, Emory stole first place at the last second, finishing with just a two-point lead.

“This weekend was really defined by the weather,” third-year Liz Lawton explained. “The humidity was astounding for the 10Ks, wind and rain started to creep in all Saturday until there was a tornado during [women’s] javelin and the whole meet was ushered to the basement of the field house.”

“Sunday, there was driving rain and gale force winds,” Lawton continued.

This didn’t stop the women from grabbing the gold in several events.

Fourth-year Claire Ray tossed aside all competitors in the shot put, discus, and hammer throw, while Lawton took first in the 10K with a time that provisionally qualifies her for Nationals.

All three Chicago relay teams earned All-UAA honors, including one in the final event, the 400-meter relay.

Other outstanding performances were put up by second-place finishers third-year Stephanie Omueti and firstyear Kayla McDonald in the 100- and 400-meter dashes, respectively, and third-year Ashley Eaves, who took second in the 400- and third in the 100meter hurdles.

“I PR-ed in both,” Eaves said, “but I really wanted to get first in the 400 [meter hurdles]. I’m still trying to go to Nationals.”

Third-year Lizzie Bright finished

third in the 5K, while jumpers third-year Dipti Karmarkar and second-year Paige Peltzer posted third-place finishes in the triple and high jump, respectively.

“I think everyone competed really hard,” Eaves continued.

Going into the last event of the meet, Chicago and Emory were neck and neck. The whole team gathered around the 300-meter mark of the track to clap and cheer on the quartet of fourth-year Emma Finestone, Omueti, Karmarkar, and Eaves.

“It was great,” Eaves explained. “It’s super encouraging when people are there at the end of the track.”

Their strong second-place finish was bittersweet, though. Losing the championship by two points was rough, Lawton explains. “We all worked so hard, but the points didn’t line up correctly. Some girls from other teams withdrew from races, and there were definite swings of one or two points here and there.”

She acknowledges, however, that the vicissitudes of championship play are just part of the sport. What really matters, she adds, is that “we gave it our all and we performed our best, with regard to the weather and situations we were placed in.”

“This is the final leg of this long season,” Lawton continued. “We have to make every moment of training count and stay as healthy as possible.

Hopefully we can end this season as the team we established ourselves to be at the indoor national championships.”

The Maroons continue their trek to Nationals this Friday at the Benedictine University Twilight Invitational in Lisle, IL.

Men beat out rival Emory for silver

First-year David Crosse, shown at Stagg Field, finished third in the high jump at UAAs this weekend. Both Chicago teams took second overall.

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By A. G. Goodman Sports Editor Men’s track and field battled it out for second place, behind the heavily-favored-to-win Wash U, at last weekend’s UAA Championships in St. Louis.

The host Bears led the com-

petition with 192 points over 21 events, while the Maroons held on to second place with 163, just edging out third-place Emory by four points. Chicago’s victory over the Eagles and their overall performance will provide them with plenty of confidence over the next few weeks as they look to close

out the outdoor season. “[Placing second] feels pretty good,” third-year Drew Jackson said. “It was a rough weekend with the weather, the cold, and rain. But the team came out and competed.”

The poor weather was a significant factor in the weekend’s meet, as the athletes were forced to struggle against heavy winds and rains. On Saturday, conditions deteriorated to such an extent that the competition was interrupted due to a tornado warning.

“I didn’t really know it was happening,” Jackson said. “I just heard the sirens and then they made everyone go and sit in the basement for about half an hour.”

Despite the interruption, the Maroons were still able to put in impressive performances, with a first-place individual finish on the track—third-year Felipe Fernandez del Castillo in the 5k—and three on the field —first-year Eric Villhauer in the javelin, and third-years John Sabacinski and Jacob Solus in the discus throw and triple jump, respectively.

Both the 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relays also took h o m e t h e g o l d . Fo u r t h - y e a r s Blake Obuchowski, Patrick Offner, and Bill Chang, along with firstyear Dee Brizzolara, ran away with first place in the 4x100-meter relay, while Offner, Brizzolara, S o l u s , a n d t h i r d - y e a r To b i a s Blattler composed the 4x400 winning team.

Other important results were

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MEN’S TENNIS

Maroons fall short at UAAs, finish fifth

By Jake Grubman MAROON Staff

Second-year Jan Stefanski went 2–1 in doubles this weekend at UAAs. CAMILLE VAN HORN/MAROON

With a national title berth potentially on the line this weekend at the UAA Championships, the men’s tennis team expected to seal its season’s fate on one of the last two days of the tournament.

Instead, a first-round loss to Brandeis Friday morning spoiled the Maroons’ weekend—and all but ended their NCAA hopes—as Chicago was forced to settle for fifth place in the conference tournament.

The Maroons began the tournament with strong doubles play, topping the Judges 2–1. From there, the Maroons struggled. Playing without third-year Will Zhang, who usually fills the first singles position, the Maroons fell behind early, losing the first set in four of six matches.

Brandeis captured straight-set wins at first and third singles, while a time violation cost the Maroons the fi fth singles match. First-year Harrison Abrams and fourth-year Garrett Brinker won fourth and sixth singles, meaning that the second singles match would decide who moved on.

“From my perspective, I was looking around and saw that we had lost the first sets in four of the singles matches, and obviously we’d be down five points,” secondyear Troy Brinker said. “I got killed in the first set and realized that I had to step it up.”

After playing to the third set, Brinker had two match points at 5–4 in the final set, but Brandeis’ Simon Miller came from behind to force a tiebreaker. With his 7–3 win in the bonus period, the Judges moved to the semifi nals, and the Maroons were sent to the consola-

tion bracket.

“We were pretty high in confi dence, but without Will Zhang it’s a different story,” Abrams said. “It was really close; a few things just didn’t go our way.”

Had Chicago won the match, they would have moved on to

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CA LEN DA R Tuesday

4/27

• Baseball vs. Elmhurst, 3 p.m.

• Softball @ Beloit, 4:20 p.m.

Wednesday

4/28

• Baseball vs. Wheaton (IL), 3:30 p.m.

Thursday

4/29

• Softball vs. North Central (DH), 3 p.m.