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Occupy claims a victory as Rice talks elsewhere Scores of protesters cheer and jeer, despite Rice and Paulson’s absence

Students deliver a prepared statement to the Occupy Chicago General Assembly, which gathered Monday evening outside the International House.

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More than 100 student and community protesters poured onto the sidewalk outside International House last night to “unwelcome� a talk by former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and former Secretary

of State Condoleezza Rice, undeterred by the fact that the talk had been postponed indefinitely.

The University announced this yesterday morning and said it was due to “an unforeseen scheduling conflict� with Rice, who had notified the University on Sunday, according to University spokesper-

Harper Court project may lose $1.25 million to tax ordinance Celia Bever News Contributor Developers of the Harper Court retail center met with the Hyde Park 53rd Street Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Advisory Council to address fears about the project’s financing in the face of recent tax reforms, as well as to assuage community members’ concerns about the development’s community impact.

David Cocagne, president and CEO of Vermilion Development, and Christopher Dillion, the company’s managing director, reported that the project’s financing is secure, though they admitted that the budget surpluses they expected initially now seem unlikely. “The original projections were overly optimistic,� Cocange said.

The project was expected to have a $20,000 annual surplus. However, with the 2009 passage of Cook County’s 10/25 Ordinance, tax rates on the commercial property have dropped, which may cost the project

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Students and administrators have begun to evaluate the changes made to the University’s sexual assault policy a year and a half after the U of C student body passed a referendum calling for change.

The referendum, which passed with an overwhelming 78 percent of the votes cast when it appeared on the spring 2010 Student Government election ballot, centered on three basic revisions to the sexual assault policy: making witness testimony by the accused equally accessible to both sides, the implementation of sensitivity training for the faculty committee, and the centralization of the sexual assault disciplinary process through the establishment of a standing committee.

Fourth-year and Undergraduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees Nakul Singh and fourth-year Working Group on Sexual Assault Policy (WGSAP) activist Michelle Boyd met with Vice President of Student Life Kim GoffCrews and Assistant Vice President of Student Life Eleanor Daugherty on October 27 to discuss the changes made since the referendum was passed.

Boyd felt that the meeting served as a way to ensure that the concerns brought forth by the students—especially those

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Early admission applications continue to soar Sam Levine News Editor

$1.25 million in TIF financing.

The ordinance may hit the surplus for upcoming years as well, though possible solutions include seeking private sector funding, pursuing development elsewhere in the 53rd Street TIF district, and extending the time frame for the district’s TIF debt from 24 years to 36 years.

Still, Beth McGuire, the city’s project manager, insisted the project will still have sufficient money for completion, citing the banks’ confidence in the endeavor. “Nobody would be approving this if there wasn’t enough money to pay for it,� she said.

The project has already secured funding for its first phase, which includes retail, parking space, and an office tower which the University has already leased.

Students and community members aired their concerns as well.

First-year and Southside Solidarity Network (SSN) member Sofia Flores objected to a Hyatt Hotel

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son Jeremy Manier.

The protests were part of Occupy Hyde Park, a local iteration of the Occupy Chicago movement organized by students in UChicago Occupy, a group on campus recently denied RSO status. “Tonight, the 99% stood up and said that this was wrong, that

we would not be silenced, that we would come here and disrupt [Rice’s] speech. And what happened? She ran like a coward! And today, the 99% are victorious,�

Occupy Chicago secretary Ryan Metz said.

Organizers emphasized that the purpose of the protest was not to drive away the speakers but rather to engage them in discussion.

First-year Colette Robicheaux maintained that the protesters were not objecting to Rice and Paulson’s right to speak, but rather to the presence of two high-profile figures who have “no shortage of outlets.� “Our feeling is that these are people who have had a microphone in their hand for the past decade, and this is a chance for us to tell them how we feel. They write books. If they want to be on TV, they are on TV. If they want articles to be published, articles are published. When we want to make our voices heard, we get taken to jail en masse,� Robicheaux said.

Reactions to the event’s postponement were varied. Metz hailed the delay in a speech, calling Rice a “war criminal� and both Paulson and Rice as “the enemy,� even as others defended the right of the invited speakers to free expression.

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The College received 8,698 early action applications this fall, a 25-percent increase from last year.

This is the third consecutive year that the number of non-binding applications has risen. Early action applications have more than doubled since James Nondorf became Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid in 2009: Just 3,777 students applied early action in fall 2008, the same year that the University switched to the Common App. “This is a fresh indication of the passion that students around the world have for the distinctive academic culture at UChicago,� Nondorf said in a statement yesterday.

This year’s jump comes as the total number of applicants to the College continues to surge, pushing the admissions rate lower.

University spokesperson Jeremy Manier credited the influx of applications to prospective student visits, a wider range of study abroad opportunities, and bolstered financial aid. Financial aid grew by 15 percent this year as tuition

hikes brought the cost of a U of C education to $55,416.

The Admissions Office has also expanded its presence online with a Tumblr account it created this summer, online web-casts for prospective students’ questions, and a “viewbook� app for smartphones that offers users a visual tour of campus life. “One of the things admissions does very well is that they’re in tune to how peowwple talk about the University,� Manier said.

Last year, 31.9 percent of 21,774 total

applicants sent in their applications early.

An all-time low of 15.8 percent of all applicants were admitted.

Manier declined to speculate on whether he thought the number of total applicants would increase this year, though he said that the recent figures reflect a growing trend that more students are selecting the U of C as their first choice.

Harvard and Princeton reinstated their early action policies this fall, but Manier does not believe this move will affect College admissions.

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Local retailer: Harper Court construction is hurting business TIF continued from front

Dave Cocagne, president and CEO of Vermilion Development Inc., presents updates on the HC project to the 53rd Street TIF Council.

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that will be built there. SSN objects to TIF funding being used to support a project that works with the Hyatt, which SNN claims mistreats its employees.

“We want to make sure the workers have rights,” Flores said.

Kiley Russel, owner of Big Girl Cosmetics on South Harper Avenue off 53rd Street, claimed that construction workers are hurting business by taking up parking spaces in the area.

“We’re being crushed,” she said.

Construction on Harper Court began in August and will conclude by summer 2013.

Grappling with school reform, panel digs for answers Jennifer Standish News Contributor Theory met practice at the U of C last night when a panel discussed inequalities in public education at 5710 South Woodlawn Avenue.

The panel, which was composed of Roberto Gonzalez, an assistant professor at the University’s School of Social Service Administration, Philip Jackson, the executive director of the Black Star Project, Nancy Hanks, the principal of the Chicago Public Schools’ Melody School, and Jaques Hamilton, an education activist.

Panelists attempted to find

solutions to educational problems from their various perspectives, tackling topics such as global competitiveness, the role of teachers, and community involvement in education. The panel also focused on explaining the causes of the education crisis, which panelists blamed on lack of community effort, educators’ misdiagnosing the problems faced by minority students, and what Jackson called the “political, corporate” approach to the education system.

Although Hanks expressed worry that education would become “a trendy topic we just talk about,” fourth-year Cassandra Mendoza left the panel asking

how she could translate what was discussed in the panel into action.

“The audience is aware of these issues already,” Mendoza said.

“What do we do now ?”

While the panelists never found a conclusive answer to that question, Gonzalez offered one solution: “Get kids ready for college.”

The discussion, entitled “Education in Crisis: Why Are Public Schools Failing Our Youth?” was hosted by Minority in Public Policies, Organization of Black Students, Organization of Latin American Students, Teach for America, University of Chicago Coalition, and OMSA.

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Community service RSOs see promise in new adviser Sydney Combs News Contributor The University of Chicago Service Center (UCSC), filling a position it conceived of last spring, has appointed a new administrator to expand its involvement further in service-oriented RSOs and the communities where they work.

Crystal Pernell, formerly marketing and communications manager at the Hyde Park Art Center, became the UCSC’s first Community Service Adviser October 19. She is responsible for assisting RSOs in composing bylaws, collaborating on projects with the University and the civic community, and navigating the University’s funding allocation process.

Pernell’s appointment comes months after the UCSC selected its newest director, Amy Chan, with expectations that she improve the collaboration among service RSOs. “With Crystal’s arrival, I have been able to focus my time and attention on overseeing the implementation of ongoing programs and exploring new initiatives for the Center,” Chan said in an e-mail.

The new position will enable Chan to focus on larger-picture objectives, since service RSOs traditionally have reported

directly to the UCSC’s director.

“It’s a lot of work and it’s hard to give the RSOs the one-on-one attention that they need to feel supported by the director, because the director is doing a lot of other things,” Pernell said.

Pernell intends to facilitate communication between student groups through networking sessions and a symposium at the end of the year.

Pernell said she is focusing her attention on long-term event planning, but also trying to get a handle on the workings of the University and the different RSOs. Next quarter she will take over the Days of Service and Group Service Referral programs.

“The adviser will be the person thinking ahead for opportunities and planning larger, collaborative programs between them,” Pernell said.

Students from service RSOs say they already have noticed Pernell’s influence.

“She knows the community, is helpful, approachable, and knows a lot, especially considering she’s new,” third-year and Southside Solidarity Network member Olivia Woollam said, explaining that the new position has made it easier to secure support from the UCSC. “[Before,] they had so many other things going on. It was difficult to get a reply in a timely manner,” she said.

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Policy makers weigh in on sensitivity training acknowledges that it is a pressing issue that needs to be addressed.

“It’s great that they are identifying things that they are struggling with and want to know more about,” Ursula Wagner (SSA ’10) said, noting that those involved with WGSAP are willing to work with the administration and peer institutions such as Northwestern University in directing them to resources like Brett Sokolow, a consultant for sexual assault policy who can help advise the University.

The second focus of the referendum, sensitivity training for faculty committee, has been implemented and is being overseen by Associate Dean of

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who were involved with WGSAP and have since graduated—were addressed by the administration.

“Some of the writing in the actual [revised] policy was a bit ambiguous,” she said.

One of WGSAP’s main concerns involved equal access to testimony by both the accused and the accuser.

Due to vagueness over what constitutes a student’s private record, the statement of the accused can be held from the accuser under the Federal Educational Record Protection Act (FERPA).

The administration has yet to reconcile these ambiguities in the current sexual assault policy but

Students in the University for Student Affairs Belinda Vasquez to ensure consistency in the disciplinary process.

Although the third major concern, centralization of the sexual assault disciplinary policy, has yet to come to full fruition due to opposition “by many deans and higher level academics,” Boyd is optimistic.

The administration’s receptiveness toward the referendum, and the ongoing efforts to figure out the laden ambiguity in FERPA stands in stark contrast to the attitude in early years, Boyd said, where the rhetoric was more antagonistic.

“I think it’s a success story,” Boyd said.

Protesters skeptical of “scheduling conflict” ment. The Chicago SunTimes blogged Monday evening that Rice had double-booked the talk with a fundraising event with Representative Aaron Schock (R-IL).

On Sunday afternoon, Goff-Crews sent a joint email with Provost Thomas Rosenbaum with the subject header “Freedom of Expression,” reminding students to “protect a speaker’s right to be heard.”

Goff-Crews said Monday that the e-mail was not sent

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Some Occupy Hyde Park protesters questioned whether the University postponed the talk after discovering plans for the demonstration.

“I believe the unforeseen scheduling conflict was that there was going to be a protest,” fourth-year Brita Hofwolt said.

Both Vice President for Campus Life Kim GoffCrews and Manier said that the protest did not influence the event’s postpone-

specifically in connection to the talk, but that the University knew about and had prepared for the demonstrations.

During the protest, students read a statement that said the event’s postponement showed that Paulson and Rice could not handle free inquiry.

According to organizer and Core lecturer Toby Chow, another protest will occur when the Rice and Paulson event does take place.

Latina women speak out on murder, misogyny Tiantian Zhang News Contributor Sporting her national colors of red and white, Bolivian activist Julieta Paredes lamented the steady decline of women’s social and political status in post-colonial Latin America before dozens of audience members at the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) last week.

Paredes’s talk on Thursday evening, titled “From Ancestral Redness to Sumaq Qamaña,” kicked off the two-day Symposium on Women’s Rights in Latin America, which delved into issues affecting indigenous cultures, “femicide,” and the narcotics trade.

“Before colonization, women had their own land and were allowed to participate in politics and the military. After colonization, the situation of indigenous women has been regressing,” said Paredes, the founder of the Bolivian anarchist-feminist collective Mujeres Creando. “The colonial invasion recycled patriarchies and strengthened colonial relations between men at the expense of women.”

A panel discussion on Friday focused heavily on femicide laws in Latin American countries, which offer specific protections against hate crimes directed toward women. Rosa-Linda Fregoso, a professor and former chair of Latin American and Latino studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, took

Indigenous Bolivian feminist lesbian activist Julieta Paredes performing her multi-media, hi-tech/lo-tech, “From Ancestral Redness to Sumaq Qamaña (Living Well)” at 5710 South Woodlawn on Thursday.

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exception with the social and economic costs of the laws and argued that corruption in legal systems through Latin America make them ineffectual.

“It is understandable for the demand for greater punitive measures, but the focus should be less on incarceration and more on public funding on prevention and educational programs targeting offenders,” Fregoso said. “It costs much more to incarcerate an individual than to

educate him.”

Fregoso’s panel, titled “NeoLiberal Law and the Whereabouts of the Subject of Rights,” was one of three on Friday that drew academics from around the country and Latin America.

The symposium was part of the 2011–2012 Mellon Sawyer Faculty Seminar, International Women’s Human Rights: Paradigms, sponsored by the University’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

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Editorial & Op-Ed NOVEMBER 15, 2011

An open investment Administration should organize an open forum to discuss the future of socially responsible investment The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 ADAM JANOFSKY Editor-in-Chief CAMILLE VAN HORNE Managing 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 REBECCA GUTERMAN Assoc. News Editor

Last week President Robert Zimmer and Chief Investment Officer Mark Schmid met with two students to discuss possible alternatives for the creation of a Socially Responsible Investment Committee (SRIC), which students have been pushing strongly for the past year. Although this may have been the most efficient way to hammer out the basics of a negotiation, it is an issue that involves the entire University community, and the community should have a role in its future. As we wrote in Friday’s editorial, an overwhelming majority of student voters supported the creation of a SRIC last spring, and the logical next step is to host an open discussion that involves both students and administrators. Before any alternatives are seriously considered, it’s vital that students have a say in what they voted for.

Tomorrow, President Zimmer

will be meeting with students in his quarterly open forum. These discussions, which seek to give undergraduates an opportunity to ask Zimmer about University issues, historically attract an abysmally low turnout. However, close to 40 students attended last spring’s open forum and grilled Zimmer on the University’s stance toward socially responsible investing. The fact that students filled a coffee and donut study break to get Zimmer to address this particular concern suggests that that there should be an open talk among Zimmer, University investment administrators, faculty, and any interested students that focuses solely on the future of a SRIC. As the Maroon reported in its coverage of last spring’s open forum, “Both Zimmer and [Kimberly] Goff-Crews reassured students that dialogue regarding socially responsible invest-

ments would continue next year.”

Although Zimmer and Schmid’s meeting with two student representatives counts as dialogue, such an important topic deserves more open discourse.

Our university prides itself as an environment that fosters freedom of expression and effective discussion. If an overwhelming majority of student voters have called for the creation of a SRIC, it’s irresponsible for the administration to say the plan is simply unfeasible and ask for alternatives without hosting an open discussion with the student body. Last week, SG hosted an open forum for another issue that has caused a similar amount of dialogue over the past several years: the lack of a trauma center at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The turnout was substantial, and the discussion was productive. As an issue that all stu-

dents have a vested interest in, it’s sensible that the same type of open dialogue should be set up regarding the creation of a SRIC. It’s nice that Zimmer and fellow administrators have not yet shot down the prospect of a SRIC. But no solution can claim to be legitimate if it was conceived as a compromise between the administration and a small number of SRIC leaders: Proposals should be rooted in discussions with the hundreds of students who provided the grassroots support for the idea in the first place. Regardless of the final agreement, the means are as important as the ends.

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

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People over Paulson Student voices shouldn’t be drowned out in the name of private and institutional interests Christopher Ivan Viewpoints Contributor

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Yesterday morning, following a letter by Provost Thomas Rosenbaum and Vice President for Campus Life and Dean of Students Kim Goff-Crews late Sunday night calling for “protecting a speaker’s right to be heard, just as we have a responsibility to challenge their ideas with honesty, vigor, and respect,” the University indefinitely postponed the Paulson-Rice talk set for yesterday evening. The postponement is officially due to “scheduling conflicts” that ostensibly surfaced on the very day of the

engagement. However, it is more likely that both the postponement and the Provost’s letter are responses to rumors that some University of Chicago students were planning a brief protest inside the auditorium. These rumors are accurate.

Our intention was to read a brief and truthful counter-introduction of the speakers at the beginning of the talk, and then leave the auditorium, without any intention of interfering with the rest of their wellfinanced speaking engagement.

One would think that the unilateral creation of a Henry Paulson— purchased Henry Paulson Institute, affixed with the University’s distin-

guished name, should be an issue for general discussion and consideration within the university community. Instead, all 15,000 students were denied their right to join the discussion—to agree with or condemn the wholesale appropriation of a University-legitimated (but hardly legitimate) altar to the 1%.

The reality of the birth of the institute is a simple financial transaction between Hank and our administration—you give us money and access to your bevy of international politico-business elites, we give you the University of Chicago on your letterhead and a plump five-year fellowship at the Harris School of

Public Policy, right alongside Richard M. Daley (another champion of private interests).

By cancelling this event, the responsible officials have only shown that they are committed to granting our highly prestigious and limited fora to those with clout, to politicians playing academicians seeking uncontroversial platforms, without having to be confronted with the realities of what they have done and stand for. This does not amount to, in Rosenbaum’s words, allowing “inquiry to proceed untrammeled in the service of scholarship.” From the perspective of PROTEST continued on page 6

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Putting the “host” in hostile Paulson and Rice protesters violated fundamental standards of hospitality and free discourse Eric Wessan Viewpoints Contributor

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What is American hospitality? Throughout the ages there have been various ideals concerning hospitality, and it seems very strange to me that there is not a consistent idea of what hospitality means in America. Whether you consider chivalry in the Middle Ages, laws concerning treatment of strangers in ancient Rome and Greece, or even the incredibly welcoming laws among Bedouins in the deserts of the Middle East that still persist today, there is a basic conception of hospitality that a culture embraces. Even within America, people comment on how nice people in the Midwest are, or romanticize good old-fashioned Southern hospitality. But it seems as if, in its current iteration, 21stcentury American hospitality needs a severe reboot.

This summer I was traveling

around Israel in a group, and we stayed in a Bedouin tent. There, with the help of a translator, a Bedouin explained to us his concept of hospitality. He explained that in his culture any person, known or stranger, enemy or friend, was welcome at a Bedouin family’s tent for three days. During that time there could be no fighting and no questions. The guest should be served food and tea (which was delicious) and not much else. This sort of welcome with open arms fosters a great sense of community.

Contrast this with the recent trouble that former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson had in inviting his good friend, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, to visit him at the University of Chicago. Henry Paulson currently heads the independent Paulson Institute, located at the University of Chicago, and Condoleezza Rice is coming out with a new book, No Higher Honor:

A Memoir of My Years in Washington. Neither of these former Secretaries is currently involved with their former departments in anything more than an ancillary sense, but in the past they worked together under former President George W. Bush.

To some, it seems that working under former President Bush is a complete condemnation of character. Following in the wake of the Occupy protests, a group formed on Facebook named “Unwelcoming Hank and Condi—Occupy Hyde Park”. This group was formed with the explicit purpose of making guests to this university feel unwelcome. The detailed description on the group page claims (correctly) that Paulson and Rice worked both in the private and public sectors, for both large companies and our large government.

Members of the group found all of this to be so offensive that their commenters ranged from asking

for help in “A PUBLIC TRIAL AGAINST HANK PAULSON” to a request for students to call the University of Chicago’s offices and ask “why they are hosting terrorists.” While everyone should respect free speech, and everyone has a First Amendment—guaranteed right to share their opinions, there is a difference between sharing an opinion and being rude. As hosts, we should respect our guests, and, if we disagree with them, attempt to peaceably address that disagreement. The whole event was going to be a question-and-answer session—where better to ask polite but pointed questions on controversial policies?

Unfortunately, that would have been far too civil, and would not have allowed people to feel as free as they can possibly be in expressing themselves. Some even went so far as to request that people try to sneak in, with posters and noiseHOSTS continued on page 6

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The trouble with inequality The real problem of economic disparity is the ungrateful, narrow-minded attitude of the wealthy

By Ajay Ravichandran Viewpoints Columnist Over the past several months, economic inequality has become a major topic of public discussion, as the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators rally on behalf of the “99%” and President Obama prepares to campaign on a debtreduction plan that emphasizes higher taxes on the wealthy. In a society where more than 80 percent of income gains over the past three decades have gone to the richest one percent of earners, inequality is clearly something worth worrying about. However, those who have been most active in calling attention to the problem have not thought clearly enough about just what is wrong with gross disparities of income and wealth, and this failure has prevented them from appreciating just how hard these problems are to solve.

Intuitively, it seems clear to us that extreme inequality is bad in some way, but those who try to discover the basis of this intuition will encounter serious difficulties. The most obvious one is the reasonable thought that the only basis for finding any phenomenon morally problematic is the fact that someone is harmed by it; this cannot be a reason for objecting to a large income gap, since one person can be much wealthier than another even if the second person is in no way badly off. We might try to work around this problem by positing that the

U of C failed in its duty as host to academic speakers HOSTS continued from page 5 makers, in order to interrupt the speeches that would have been made by what they refer to so vulgarly as “a wall street parasite and war profiteer come together.” This would be a definite infringement of free speech, as the people who were coming for the express purpose of speaking (and whom a majority of students would be seeking to listen to) would be drowned out by a minority. This is outrageous. When group members were asked how they felt about this stifled discourse and sharing of opinions, the response was immediate and visceral. Within one hour of the post going up on the group, five people on eight posts commented as to why the stifling of Secretaries Rice and Paulson’s speech was a good thing. Reasons were given ranging from violent oppression and anecdotes of murder (in an abstract sense) to a denial that free speech exists in the first place, arguing that Rice, specifically, had lost her right to free speech.

The University has stated that Condoleezza Rice’s speech has been postponed due to a scheduling conflict, and I hope this is the case. For whatever reason, the University of Chicago has proven to be a bad host, and certain students have succeeded in their stated mission of being unwelcoming.

Through new media, through embracing ideas that run contrary to the spirit of hard work and enterprise that make America such a great country and through ignoring the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, we have together failed as hosts.

Eric Wessan is a second-year in the College majoring in political science.

government needs revenue that can only come from the wealthy, or that inequality concentrates purchasing power in a small segment of society and thereby destabilizes the economy.

Both of these claims might be true, but if we rely on either as our sole reason for objecting to inequality, we are committing ourselves to the intuitively implausible view that if economists somehow found a way to solve either problem that did not require reducing income disparities, inequality would cease to be a problem.

However, we can deal with these flaws by adopting a different view which identifies at least one real problem with inequality: the way in which wealthy members of a highly unequal society fail to respect their fellow citizens. To see why, note first that in a market economy, large income disparities usually emerge when people with productive talents use their bargaining power to demand very high salaries.

If asked what justifies this use of their skills, the only reply they can give is that those skills were acquired through voluntary hard work and can therefore be exercised in whatever way they choose. However, this claim is clearly false. While the process of developing a talent involves some voluntary effort, that effort will only be effective in the presence of certain social institutions, including the families and schools that provide necessary instruction and encouragement and the societal store of accumulated expertise that anyone trying to cultivate a talent must rely on.

Therefore, when the talented make the benefits that society derives from their productive activity conditional on their receipt of extremely high incomes, they are showing profound disrespect for other citizens. They are responding with indifference to the benefits that important social institutions have obtained for them and are using resources to which society as a

whole has some legitimate claim as if those resources belonged to them alone. Furthermore, if highly productive people come to fully internalize this view of their abilities, many of them will likely come to see ordinary people who lack their skills as failures who could have become wealthy but chose not to. Widespread adoption of this attitude will likely undermine the equality of social status and mutual respect among economic classes, which foreign observers since Tocqueville have seen as uniquely valuable features of American life.

Having developed at least a partial account of what makes extreme inequality worth opposing, we can also see why the protesters and politicians now agitating against it have failed to grasp the difficulties of resolving the problem.

If large income disparities are objectionable in large part because they damage the relationship between the wealthy and their fellow citizens, then they cannot be addressed by increasing the amount that rich Americans pay in taxes and expanding social programs (the main approaches favored by the Occupy movement and the Democratic Party) alone. Indeed, if the attitude that gives rise to the inequality is not dealt with, higher tax rates would likely be met with tax evasion and reduced economic growth. Instead, what is needed is a concerted societal effort that goes beyond public policy, in which we as citizens work together to change the social ethos which leads the wealthy (and all those who aspire to be wealthy) to assume that their use of their talents need not be constrained by obligations to society. People who favor the use of state power to redistribute income are often criticized for their radicalism, but the truth is that they may not be radical enough.

Ajay Ravichandran is a fourth-year in the College majoring in philosophy.

Paulson Institute unethical and worth protesting PROTEST continued from page 5 the administration, postponing the talks makes perfect sense—heavily dependent on private endowment, the absolute last thing they want is negative publicity influencing the image of the U of C as a great place to sink private largesse.

In engaging in direct protest, I fully anticipated being accused of wasting my time on a meaningless and misdirected gesture. Nothing could be further from the truth. Henry Paulson is the epitome of everything #Occupy and the 99% are fighting: Goldman-Sachs CEO turned Secretary of Treasury under Bush; secret architect of the evisceration of the Glass-Steagall Act and the Net Capital Rule; lobotomizer of the SEC and deliberate enabler of high-risk speculation using the savings of regular citizens; acknowledged force behind the Troubled Asset Relief Program (read: “bank bailout”); launderer of $700 billion into the too-big-to-fail banks that he helped create, then encouraging these same banks to borrow 3 trillion taxpayer dollars at virtually zero percent interest, and then lend back to the Fed at interest for massive profiteering off the average citizen (yet again).

This is the man that our university is willing to immortalize. On hearing that last bit, a friend asked me, “Really? Tell me, where is the Noam Chomsky Institute? The Hannah Arendt Center?” These seem to me the kinds of people we should be immortalizing here, those who have earned their academic enshrinement by articulating and examining precisely these kinds of hypocrisy and discursive domination. Their claim to fame is far worthier, though naturally their ability to endow is much less.

For his institute, Paulson plans to secure “private funding” after the first out-ofpocket year (his pockets are $700 million deep). Ostensibly, it will serve to foster green energy research, with FermiLab play-

ing some as of yet unspecified role. The “private funding” is almost guaranteed to take the form of dollars flowing through some of the contacts he made (as CEO of Goldman) in the political and business establishment during his more than 70 trips to China. Obviously, I am not against green energy, any more than I am against vital research being performed by our U of C scientists at FermiLab, especially with all that slashing of the federal budget (ironically being justified by the very financial collapse Paulson precipitated, giving him a convenient vacuum to fill). What I am against is all this being bought, paid, and signed for without any public discussion, and without it being clear who will benefit from this arrangement—beyond Paulson, foreign business, and to a lesser extent the University.

To call attention to the obvious contradiction in claiming to be an institution that values above all freedom of discussion and disputation, yet one that happily auctions off otherwise highly competitive positions through closed fora, I and the brave group that I was to be a part of—willing to risk reprimand, arrest, and, worst of all, estrangement from our treasured peers—chose to speak up for the silenced. We chose to take back our university, however briefly, however limited or unsympathetic the audience.

View our proposed actions in light of their symbolic intent, and they may represent to you the necessity of directly confronting the agents of systemic manipulation and global domination masquerading as voices of reason and fairness. The Paulsons and Rices of the world have no difficulty airing their views, or making choices that impact the globe in direct opposition to the vox populi. It’s time for our voices to be heard over theirs.

Christopher Ivan is a graduate student in the MAPSS program.

Letter: Dershowitz misinterprets endorsement The most recent edition of the Maroon printed an article by prominent Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, who offered scathing criticisms of Professor John Mearsheimer’s endorsement of Gilad Atzmon’s most recent book. In an effort to clarify Professor Mearsheimer’s position, it is important to state the endorsement in its entirety.

“Gilad Atzmon has written a fascinating and provocative book on Jewish identity in the modern world. He shows how assimilation and liberalism are making it increasingly difficult for Jews in the Diaspora to maintain a powerful sense of their ‘Jewishness.’ Panicked Jewish leaders, he argues, have turned to Zionism (blind loyalty to Israel) and scaremongering (the threat of another Holocaust) to keep the tribe united and distinct from the surrounding goyim. As Atzmon’s own case demonstrates, this strateg y is not working and is causing many Jews great anguish. The Wandering Who? should be widely read by Jews and non-Jews alike.”

At once, it becomes evident that Dershowitz neglects the academic focus of the endorsement. While cherry-picking several phases from the statement gives Professor Dershowitz a captivating piece of rhetoric, it has unfairly projected Mearsheimer’s view on several key ideas in the book as an endorsement of every idea in the book.

Even though Professor Dershowitz’s provides little context for the quotes from The Wandering Who? in his article, it is true that the book contains controversial statements. I know with certainty, however, that students at the University of Chicago are perfectly capable of reading a controversial book while maintaining an informed, academic perspective.

More interesting, however, is the fact that Dershowitz’s article fits perfectly in his greater narrative of preventing any criticisms of Israeli policies. The New York Sun published an article on March 24, 2006, in which Dershowitz declared that a substantial part of The Israel Lobby, a joint collaboration between Mearsheimer and Harvard Professor Stephen Walt, was lifted from neo-Nazi websites. According to a Harvard Crimson article from the same year, Dershowitz has also labeled both Mearsheimer and Walt as “liars” and “bigots.” Both of these incidents occurred long before the recent endorsement. Dershowitz urges his academic peers to shun Mearsheimer for “giving aid and comfort to anti-Semitism.” While Professor Dershowitz may see no problem in throwing around these terms to prevent intellectual conversation, most academics luckily disagree.

Michael Daus Class of 2013

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Don’t worry, it’s only the end of the world Philip Ehrenberg Arts Staff Lars von Trier is hardly one to shy away from spectacle. Take his recent film Antichrist (2009), an erotic and gory spectacle that received not a few claims of blatant misogyny, or the press conference at Cannes earlier this year when von Trier declared his sympathy for the Nazis, much to the chagrin of a humiliated Kirsten Dunst at this side.

So it’s no surprise that spectacle is at the forefront of his latest film, Melancholia. Interested in the way depression affects people in particular situations, von Trier decides to hurl a whole planet

Donna Guo Arts Contributor

MELANCHOLIA

Lars von Trier Landmark Century Cinema

(named, of course, Melancholia) at the Earth and see how two sisters decide to handle the crisis.

The resulting film is mystifying and oftentimes heavy-handed, leaving viewers trying to riddle out the significance of various shots and scenes. The main problem is that it’s impossible to tell if the film’s impenetrability is because it deserves a very deep, critical look, or because it’s unnecessarily obtuse. However, despite all of this confusion, as well as some elements of von Trier’s misanthropy seeping through, there is something absolutely stunning and beautiful about the movie that demands more attention.

Justine (Kirsten Dunst) shocks us like an electric eel; little does she know she won’t be here tomorrow.

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The film opens with a montage of slowed, dreamlike sequences, mostly involving one of the sisters, Justine (played by Kirsten Dunst with extraordinary subtlety), or nature gone haywire—think birds falling from the sky or lightning bursting from fingertips. They are captivating yet somewhat pointless, an apparent flexing of von Trier’s creative muscle that doesn’t have much bearing on the rest of the film. He definitively shows

us Earth’s fate in the first five minutes and gets this montage out of his system so both he and the audience can then focus on the sisters.

The film is split into two very distinct parts, the first taking place on Justine’s wedding night, held at the ornate, castle-like home of her sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg ) and brother-inlaw John (Kiefer Sutherland). It quickly becomes clear that there is

more wrong here than just typical wedding troubles—the parents of the bride battle in a toast (tossing in some dialogue about the pointlessness of marriage for good measure), but Justine’s response is one of apathy; she languishes in a bath looking solemn when she should be cutting the cake.

The focus is definitely on Justine’s depression, but it’s hard to make sense of. It’s tempting to MELANCHOLIA continued on page 9

Hayes’ unassuming art fights for every message voice of her work, the casual museum-goer needs to put in considerably more effort than what is requested of, say, a Rothko painting or a Brancusi sculpture. Hayes uses constructed and complex environments to successfully

FOCUS: SHARON HAYES Art Institute Through March 11

A scene from “In the Near Future” displays a powerful, yet simple, slogan.

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Alice Bucknell Arts Contributor Two tinted glass doors bearing the artist’s name lead into a dark, expansive room whose sterile white walls are noticeably bare. Huddled in the center of the room, occupying hardly a third of its capacity, is a conglom-

The little Encyclopedia Show that could

eration of thin wooden boards, each just five or six feet high. From the circular construction leaks a haunting melody: Several different voices can be heard, all playing simultaneously; the cacophony both startles me and draws me closer. Confused, I double-check my location on the museum map. This is supposed to be an exhibition about

protest. Where are the bright colors, the bold slogans, the loud cries for justice?

Though it may seem counterintuitive, Sharon Hayes’s minimalist approach to examining the art of resistance is highly effective. The razzledazzle of defiance is not lacking, but simply hidden. To fully access the

stow away her artwork from the rest of the world, whether in the form of wooden walls or a string of sporadically placed human-size projectors, requiring the viewer to navigate through these physical blockades to unveil the genius of her creation. Once you’ve made it through the labyrinth, her insightful and dynamic presentation unravels itself at your feet.

Hayes’s exhibit at the Art Institute is composed of three pieces that track her development: “In the Near Future” (2004-2009), “Parole” (2009), and “An Ear to the Sounds of Our History” (2011). Each piece comes with its own take on protest, as well as its own code of impenetrability.

I circled the wooden blockade until HAYES continued on page 8

“From henceforth, we will refer to railroads as Mass Transit for Common Criminals and Livestock,” declared The Encyclopedia Show’s “fact-checker” at its most recent performance. An eclectic mix of the funny and the serious, the silly and the profound, The Encyclopedia Show escapes categorization. Instead, the show might best be described as a bizarre amalgam of a comedy skit, academic lecture, musical, poetry slam, and play.

Curated and hosted by performance artists Robbie Q. Telfer and Shanny Jean Maney, The Encyclopedia Show employs the talents of artists and experts from a wide variety of fields in order to create a “verbal encyclopedia entry” on a random topic chosen each month. Themes of past performances have ranged from bears to hockey to the periodic table of the elements. When asked by Time Out Chicago what inspired him and co-host Shanny Jean Maney to create The Encyclopedia Show, host Robbie Q. Telfer explained, “We saw a hole in the Chicago poetry scene that Slam couldn’t fill.” The hosts describe their mission as an attempt “to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent loving kindness,” and “to chafe against logic and proof, find meaning in obfuscation, and wrest truth from fact once and for all.” Founded in December 2008, The Encyclopedia Show has given performances in Chicago, Vancouver, Austin, Oklahoma City, and Providence. In 2009, the show won the Orgie Theatre Award for Best Curator/Creation.

This month’s topic was the railroad. Like each performance of The Encyclopedia Show, last Wednesday’s performance was a mash-up of presentations, interviews, and exhibitions by artists and experts from various disciplines. Acts ranged from a poetry reading by Abigail Vic to a panel discussion of railroad experts to a ghost-story telling by Evan Chung. Unfortunately, the assorted mix of acts gave the show an unpleasantly chaotic feel at the beginning, as hosts Shanny Jean Maney and Robbie Q. Telfer segued rather awkwardly from an uninspiring “hoedown” opening musical act to the introduction of their topic: “The Railroad.” However, as the show gained momentum, the chaos settled into a delightfully absurd and entertaining performance.

Outlandishly silly acts juxtaposed with more serious, heartfelt pieces kept audience members engaged and on their toes. Many moments in the show had the audience in convulsions of laughter; not even the most somber of audience members could keep a straight face during the interview with The-Little-EngineWho-Could and his homeless hobo lover. Throughout the performance, ENCYCLOPEDIA continued on page 9

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Though hard to pin down, protest packs a punch HAYES continued from page 7 I found an entrance near the back. A single black block—presumably a chair of some sort—was surrounded on all sides by a sea of speakers, which, upon their stands, appeared almost human-like.

Taking a seat, the sound of four distinct videos enveloped me, voices overlapping and struggling to be heard. All four television screens mounted on the wall displayed clips of the same woman in two distinct locations: at home, impassively watching her kettle heat up and emit a highpitched screech, and on various streets filled with protesters, her microphone pushed to their faces as she intensely gazes at them.

Whatever her location, the protagonist of these video clips, which are collectively titled “Parole” (2009), is something of a blank slate: She speaks not a single word, serving instead as a figure upon which innumerable protesters (Hayes herself appears in a couple of clips, and many more of her speeches are given by standins) project their outcries. The overall dissonance of the installation—numerous voices crying out in protest, bright colors flashing on monitor screens, and a crowd of human-shaped speakers surrounding the viewer—simulates the environment of a street protest.

A narrow corridor, separating the room containing “Parole” from that housing Hayes’s older installation, “In the Near Future,” contains her newest work: “An Ear to the Sounds of Our History.” Drawing on her collection of spoken-word vinyl records, Hayes selected records featuring speeches by renowned public figures whose voices changed history—John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Eleanor Roosevelt, among others—and assembled them in a way that she claims to read as “sentences.”

Assembled with a retrospective mindfulness, “An Ear to the Sounds of Our History” attempts to reveal which voices have emerged at the forefront of American history’s social activism and which have faded with time.

“In the Near Future,” the earliest work in this exhibition (2005–9), has a similar feel to it as “Parole,” threats of claustrophobia aside. Rather than huddling into a small portion of the room, this installation makes use of its entire area.

Thirteen projectors placed on stands, measuring about six feet tall to imitate human presence, are placed sporadically throughout the room, clustering slightly at its center. The images displayed on the four walls feature Hayes in a variety of locations—New York, Warsaw, Brussels, and Paris, to name a few—holding posters laden with slogans drawn from earlier protests in history. In one shot, Hayes stands in Central Park wielding a sign bearing the phrase “Who Approved the War in Vietnam?” taken from the anti-Vietnam war protests. In another photo taken in Paris she bears the sign “Rien ne Sera Comme Avant” (“Nothing Will be as Before”) from the 1968 Paris protests.

The incessant clicking of the projectors as each switched slides at odd intervals created a low hum, reminiscent of the murmur of a crowd. The images themselves, bright, bold, and rapidly changing, assisted in producing the lively and dynamic feel of a street protest.

The effect of Hayes’s exhibit is something similar to reaching the center of a maze: Gaining entrance into the constructed world of her art is a challenge, and consequently the reward of understanding is made all the more enjoyable.

Somewhere between crawling amongst the speakers in “Parole” to find a space to sit down and navigating around the projectors in “In the Near Future,” the physical act of movement gave way to a realization of her true message: Despite the time period, location, or goal of the protest, all acts of public protest reconcile the realms of politics, art, history, and human emotion. And to successfully find the way out of any maze, you need a great deal of retrospection, a feature that Hayes’s exhibit provides generously. Serving as an elegant and thoughtful contemplation of the underlying social, political, and artistic values of public protest, past and present, Sharon Hayes’s exhibition is not one to be missed.

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Don’t lose yourself in your quest for success

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by Jessen O’Brien

As application season and seasonal sales approach, it’s time to start looking out for interview outfits. But what do you look for, and how do you retain your own style while remaining professional? It’s a difficult but achievable balance, and here are a few tips to help you find it.

First of all, it’s better to err on the conservative side. Yes, once you land that internship or job, you might be able to throw a blazer over an old dress and call it a day, but no matter where you’re applying, you’ll want to stick to something a bit more formal. You want them to remember you and not your clothing, so keep it simple.

This is not to say that you should forego your sense of style, or that the best choice is necessarily a black suit with a white buttondown and an updo. It’s important that you’re comfortable in what you’re wearing and that it still reflects your personality. For most interviews, you can nix the suit, and invest in separates instead. You can mix and

match, so you’ll get much more wear out of them, and they’re much less expensive than a suit. Most importantly, however, few women wear tops and bottoms that are the same size. It’s better to get separate pieces that fit you well than to buy a pair that doesn’t quite work.

If you’re starting from scratch, I recommend looking for a black blazer and skirt (just above knee length). You’ll get the most wear out of them, and you don’t have to worry about matching as you do with navy pieces. High-waisted skirts lend a little trendiness to the standard business pencil skirt. Depending on what you’re interviewing for, you can pair this with a tailored button-down or a blouse. You don’t want anything too loud or too busy—stripes are fine, but plaid might be a bit much. Your shoes should also be conservative—a low heel (two inches at most), and nothing too shiny. No chipped polish, please, and keep your nails unvarnished or in neutral nail

tones like beige, pink, or red.

Having said that, you want your outfit to retain some semblance of individuality. If you do a black suit and simple button-down, make it your own with a long necklace or a thin, patterned belt. As a rule, it’s good to wear one or two statement pieces. They shouldn’t be too overpowering—you don’t want a big scarf or lime green heels—but something that displays who you are without taking too much attention away from your face.

You want to look kempt and be comfortable. If you always wear your hair down, wear it down. If you simply can’t feel at home in a skirt, wear pants. If you can’t walk in heels, don’t wear them. Never let your clothing distract from you. If you feel out of place in what you’re wearing, you’re bound to fidget. Ultimately, it’s better to stray a little from what’s expected than make yourself nervous trying to conform completely to a certain idea.

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Graham Cracker grows up with director Mendoza James DelVesco Arts Contributor As I was leaving, my roommate asked, “Did you end up asking a girl?” “No.” “Why not?” “I just don’t have that much faith. I don’t think anyone should have to sit through this.” I could not have been more wrong.

When I arrived at the theater, the director, J. Antonio (Tony) Mendoza, informed me that due to an unforeseen problem the house would be opening late.

And the venue is actually in a residential complex, in the space of what used to be Wally’s Lounge, a local bar. The walls have since been repainted black, and it has become a very nice, intimate space that is very appropriate for the play.

Right before the play began Tony walked up front and said, “This play has been 11 years in the making. That’s a lot of time alone in my room.” Which is not quite true. Graham Cracker in fact originated as a one-act 11 years ago, written when Tony was in college, and it has been shown in a few iterations in the subsequent years.

The play derives its name from Mexican slang for a Hispanic person who acts white. They’re a graham cracker, much like the protagonist of the play, “mi hijo,” whose name is obfuscated, much like Uma Thurman’s character in Kill Bill. Graham Cracker walks us through the life of “mi hijo”

growing up in a white Chicago suburb, with frequent flashbacks to his parents’ lives when they were his age.

While it may seem a little odd at first having one actor portray two people, occasionally simultaneously, Alberto Mendoza and Angela Vela both do a superb job so that it always feels very natural, and I never felt removed from the scene during a switch or flashback. Tony Mendoza told me that, had the projector been working , it would have been much more clear, but I never had any trouble distinguishing when things were taking place.

GRAHAM CRACKER Broad Shoulders Productions Through November 19

“Mi hijo” has to confront bullies, but later has a much tougher fight with his parents.

“I was raised by three parents: Mom, Dad, and the TV. And the last is the only one that didn’t let me down,” he opines around the age of 12. His father calls him Graham Cracker, and his mother is usually absent because of her long work hours.

According to Tony Mendoza, “The script is 23 percent autobiographical. As I grew up and as the script evolved, our stories stopped mirroring each

Alberto Mendoza as the lead in Graham Cracker, a play about a Mexican-American man looking back on his childhood and parents’ perspectives.

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other.” The protagonist’s life is interestingly reminiscent of Tony’s in that regard since he is the third-generation male in his family to be abused by his father and marry his high school sweetheart, and while it appears he’s going to slip into the same pattern, he overcomes and becomes what his predecessors

Although derailed, Encyclopedia is never defeated ENCYCLOPEDIA continued from page 7 hosts exchanged frivolous, tongue-in-cheek remarks with the audience that created a mood of warmth and familiarity between the audience and the actors. It oftentimes felt as though I was engaging in jovial conversation with friends rather than watching performers on stage. I certainly felt the joys of the show’s professed community of “accidental knowledge and irreverent loving kindness” throughout the performance.

Nevertheless, at times, the cast seemed to go a little too far in their attempts to defy logic.

While most of the acts were witty and enter-

taining, some left audience members scratching their heads, unsure whether to laugh or to wince. Not quite funny, but too terribly absurd to be appreciated for artistry, a few acts felt like sitting through a friend’s embarrassingly bad karaoke performance: You don’t want to stay, but you can’t leave. But these bizarre acts were fortunately few and far between.

Though not perfect, The Encyclopedia Show ultimately makes for a quirky, humorous, and very entertaining performance. Not all the jokes quite landed, but this derailed yet determined comedy show always went full-speed ahead.

Von Trier draws us into his misanthropic world MELANCHOLIA continued from page 7 merely attribute it to the loss of her autonomy as a top-notch marketing copywriter now that she’s married, but that seems to be an oversimplification. Knowing what we know about Earth’s fate, others may want to say that Justine has some way of sensing a literal cataclysm is coming—von Trier certainly presents this as a viable option later on—but it all feels like a red herring.

In fact, it gets hard to know what is and isn’t a red herring in this movie, even once we’ve reached the end. There’s something about the wedding party that is divorced from the rest of the film; it seems at times like mere character development, but it plays out for so long that this reading seems unfair. However, the connections we may draw between it and the second part— which focuses on the other sister, Claire, and in which Melancholia is prominent in the sky—are never concrete enough to satisfy.

Seemingly important themes are repeated over and over again so many times that they lose force. Meanwhile, images that appear

more trivial linger and are referred to with enough subtlety that we’re left wondering just what the film is trying to say.

Despite an inclination to shrug off the movie as a hodgepodge of conflicts that never fully cohere, there is something keeping it from falling apart completely. It’s clear that von Trier doesn’t care about astrophysics and the likelihood of his scenario. We may not entirely understand the emotional worlds of the sisters he has conceived and their irrationality, but when is melancholy ever rational? Their descent into (or in some cases, ascent from) utter apathy comes across as compelling, although it’s impossible to say why, exactly.

The film isn’t poorly executed; it’s just executed in a way that many will find unappealing. We might be inclined to empathize with the characters, but von Trier would prefer us to laugh at them. Therein may lay the problem: Most of us would hate to learn Earth is on a collision course with a rogue planet, but to von Trier, that’s just what the human race needs.

wanted to be.

Graham Cracker is about finding the balance between your heritage and your contemporaries, and what that means for you as a person. And even though the play is partially based on the life of director Tony Mendoza, I never felt that he was asking for sympathy or preaching a certain

message, which is too often the case with autobiographical works.

Graham Cracker is a drama with just the right mix of humor and romantic comedy thrown in. The play is well worth the trip up north, and there’s plenty to do in the neighborhood after the show.

And be sure to take someone with you.

CROSSWORD Across 1 Colorado ski town 6 N.B.A. star Jason 10 Four-line rhyme scheme 14 “Invisible Cities” author Calvino 15 Hit the snooze button 17 Cutoffs material* 18 Argumentative 19 Finale 20 Edible sea snail* 21 Where Fido roams free 24 Suffix with percent or project 25 NYSE debut 26 Clerasil’s target 28 Baseball bat lumber 31 Indian jewelery staple* 35 Malia Obama’s sister 37 Issac’s elder son 38 Made on a griddle 40 Princess Odette’s nighttime form 41 Self challenging words 43 Tiffany & Co. tone 45 Chicago-Miami dir.

46 “Doctor Who” actress Peters 48 Formerly known as 49 Slasher film street 50 Drill master?

54 Flower also known as Bachelor’s Button* 59 Area code synonym abbr.

60 “Firefly”’s duration 61 Hillary Duff Disney Channel movie “____ Kelly” 63 Extra 64 “Rolling in the Deep” songstress 65 Hobby shop purchases 66 Nautical ropes 67 IMessages alternative Down 1 Helped out 2 Court reporter 3 Elec. company 4 New Haven college student 5 Good eat?

6 Part of a ruble 7 Actor-composer Novello 8 Where to get pastrami and rye 9 Enticed 10 The shortest distance between two poinrs 11 “Loser” musician 12 “Be ____”!

13 Tamarisk tree 16 Beams

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20 2001 David Auburn play about a UChicago professor 22 Arouse 23 Kwik-E-Mart operator 26 “____ to electron” 27 SAT operator 28 “Even ___ speak” 29 Type of Rug 30 Let loose 31 Danson and Turner 32 Spanish uses 33 Steakhouse request 34 Babylonian war god 36 It may be fixed or frozen 39 New Jersey dining staple 42 Like many a college student 44 Former Giants pitcher Robb 47 Double dot, linguistically 49 Suffix meaning “originating in” 50 French patron saint 51 Glossary’s neighbor 52 Wheat alternative 53 Crispy cookie brand

54 Wine portal 55 “This one goes out to the ___ love” 56 Take it easy 57 Anthem’s start 58 Modeled 61 Garfield or Heathcliff 62 Gator chaser

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In the empty lot on the corner of 87th and Burley there is a temporary velodrome, a track for bicycle racing. The velodrome is a part of a project called Chicago Velo Campus, which hopes to bring a state-of-the-art indoor velodrome to South Chicago and spark a large redevelopment project on the abandoned U.S. Steel land. The track has been hosting races since the summer and is open to visitors on weekends.

After taking a look at the velodrome, I headed north on Burley to 83rd Street.

Taking 83rd a block west I turned north on South Shore Drive, a beautiful wooded residential street with tree cover and a bike lane. I took South Shore to 79th where I took a right and then a left a block later onto Cheltenham Place.

Cheltenham winds north to Rainbow Beach Park. Rainbow Beach is one of the South Sideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most famous beaches with immaculate views of downtown. Rainbow Beach is also an important location for the Civil Rights movement in Chicago. The beach was segregated until 1961 when African-American activists staged â&#x20AC;&#x153;wade-insâ&#x20AC;? in protest, ultimately leading to the integration of the beach.

I took the trail along the water up to 75th Street where I headed a block west and continued north on South Shore Drive. At 71st Street, South Shore Drive disconnects and I picked up the beginning of the lakefront bike path.

I took the path along 71st until South Shore began again. At the corner of 71st and South Shore is the South Shore Cultural Center, a beautiful building and golf course, which hosted Barack and Michelle Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wedding. Once a private country club, it is now owned by the city of Chicago.

I headed back to the lakefront path and continued north to Promontory Point where I took the tunnel at 55th Street west and 55th back to campus.

I hope this route serves as a reminder that there is a whole chunk of Chicago waiting to be discovered south of Hyde Park and that it features some of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most scenic areas. And of course, there is no better way to see it than by bike.

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This week I chose to explore the neighborhoods and parks along the lakefront south of Hyde Park. These neighborhoods are rich in history and feature some of Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most beautiful parks and views. I took to the roads this past Saturday, an ideal day for biking: 50 degrees and sunny. My plan was to head to Jackson Park, straight south to South Chicago, and then circle east to the lakefront and follow the jagged roads back north along the lake.

From campus I headed east on 56th street until its end and took the bike path straight south. Passing under the 57th Street bridge, I entered Jackson Park and rode alongside the Museum of Science and Industry (MSI), a top Chicago attraction. The MSI is the last remaining building from the Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Columbian Exposition of 1893, also known as the Chicago Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fair. During the fair the MSI building was the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palace of Fine Arts.â&#x20AC;? It is the only structure that remains of nearly 200 buildings that comprised the â&#x20AC;&#x153;White City,â&#x20AC;? which occupied Jackson Park for the year-long exposition.

Following the bike path as it curves east, one gets a great view of the building reflecting over the Columbia Basin. The pillars and dome are done in the French neo-classical style of architecture that was present in all the main exposition buildings of the fair.

I followed the trail across the Clarence Darrow Bridge, named after the famous Chicago lawyer best known for defending Leopold and Loeb and for his involvement in the Scopes trial. I then took a quick left over another bridge onto the Wooded Isle, a park also built during the Columbian Exposition that sits on an island in the middle of the east and west lagoons of Jackson Park. Riding along the forested trail, for a minute I forgot I was in a congested city.

The path circles the island but I took the bridge at the south end and followed the trail up to the three-way intersection between Hayes Drive and Richardson Drive. In the middle of the roundabout stands â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Statue of the Republic,â&#x20AC;? a 24foot-high woman, sculpted from gilded bronze. The noble figure is a replica, only a third of the size of the original statue

that stood in the middle of the White City of the Worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fair.

There is a bike path on the east side of Richards Drive that I took to the corner where Lake Shore Drive becomes Jeffery Boulevard. I crossed the street and headed south, taking the bike path on the east side of Jeffery. At 67th Street Jackson Park ends, and I continued south on Jeffery through the Jackson Park Highlands neighborhood, a predominantly African-American community.

Jeffery does not have a designated bike lane, but is a wide one-lane road that accommodates cyclists. Jeffery Boulevard is a main thoroughfare sprinkled with homes, apartments, churches, commercial shops, and schools. At 71st Street the road passes over railway tracks that run down the middle of the road. Though they have been converted to be part of Metra lines, these were originally tracks for trolley cars that could be taken up and down 71st Street.

I continued south to South Chicago Avenue where I took a left onto the angled road southeast. South Chicago Avenue is a busy two-way street but features a bike lane. I took the road to 91st Street where I turned left and headed three blocks east before turning north up Commercial Avenue. At this point I was in the heart of the neighborhood of South Chicago which, since the turn of the 20th century, has been a community of immigrants. In the early 1900s, it was home to many Polish, Croatian, and Irish immigrants coming to work in the nearby U.S. Steel Mills. Over time, the demographics of the community changed, and now it has a large Hispanic population. Getting hungry, I stopped off at a Mexican Supermarket, El Guero, on Commercial near the corner of 91st.

El Guero has a small taqueria inside, and serves an array of fast Mexican food. I elected to go with the steak torta, and it did not disappoint.

Refueled, I proceeded on Commercial north to 87th Street where I headed east to the corner of 87th and Burley Avenue. East of Burley between 79th and 92nd Streets sits around 700 acres of abandoned lakefront property. The site was once the home of the U.S. Steel South Works Steel Mill. It operated from 1882 before downsizing in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;70s and closing for good in 1992. At

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Welcome to Joe Bikes Chicago.

One of the best ways to get to know the city is by riding through it on two wheels. I hope you will try some of the routes I recommend, make deviations of your own, and take stops along the way to get to know the communities youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be traveling through. At the very least, I hope this column will serve as inspiration to get out of Hyde Park and explore Chicago by bike. It will be a fun year; I hope you enjoy the ride.

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from Cortina during the last drive of the half. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We simply made fewer big plays than the Bears did.â&#x20AC;?

Chicago came out of the break sluggish again, not scoring at all in the third quarter. Meanwhile, Wash U added two more touchdowns through the air to push their lead to 31â&#x20AC;&#x201C;13. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Much like the Carnegie Mellon game, we struggled in the third quarter and put ourselves in too big of a hole,â&#x20AC;? second-year tight end Tom Bemenderfer said.

The Maroons caught a glimpse of things to come when first-year quarterback Patrick Ryan found thirdyear receiver Dee Brizzolara for a 34yard score late in the fourth quarter, the first and only points they would score in the second half.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;The older guys out there were helping me out and keeping me calm out there,â&#x20AC;?

Ryan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The line was doing a great job of protecting me, which was a huge confidence booster, knowing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be able to make my throws without having guys in my face. Having such a great group of receivers really helps too. We know as long as we can get [Brizzolara] the ball, great things will happen.â&#x20AC;?

Brizzolaraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s touchdown gave him possession of Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modern-era record for career receiving yards, putting an exclamation point on a standout season for the third-year from Aurora, OH. But outside of Brizzolaraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s individual success, it has been a disappointing season for the Maroons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I felt like we were capable of beating every team on our schedule,

but we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play up to our potential,â&#x20AC;? Meckelberg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My hope is that we can use this loss as motivation for next year.â&#x20AC;?

Fourteen fourth-years will graduate after the season, including defensive standouts like linebacker Danny Polanezcky and lineman Matt Sargent. As for the offense, Chicago will maintain stability, keeping all three quarterbacks as well as key playmakers like Brizzolara and Ross-Nash. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My heart goes out to this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seniors,â&#x20AC;? Bemenderfer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But the way this season ended will serve as motivation for all of us returning next year.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need to work hard this offseason to get bigger, faster, and stronger,â&#x20AC;? Meckelberg said.

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Isaac Dalke, were named to the AllRegion team after the race, a distinction given to the top 35 finishers.

Dalke was 28th. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Billy ran outstanding. That was the second highest finish ever by an individual from Chicago in the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regional meet, only behind Tom Haxton who was sixth in the country that year,â&#x20AC;? Hall said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was extremely focused on the race and I believe even surprised himself a little.â&#x20AC;?

Three Chicago womenâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Rachel Ohman (8th), Michaela Whitelaw (26th), and Kayla McDonald (34th)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;were also named to the AllRegion team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All I knew and all that my coach told me was this was the last opportunity I had this season to take a chance and do something that I have never done before,â&#x20AC;? McDonald said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I put aside my fears and that day

the only thing I was thinking about was my teammates and how much we all wanted to make it to Nationals. I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what fed my drive to race hard that day.â&#x20AC;?

As the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s season ends, the track season begins to come into focus. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we will look back on this performance with regret. It is a tough way to end a promising season,â&#x20AC;? Schlick said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All we can do now is get ready to have a great track season.â&#x20AC;?

But for the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team, as well as for Whitmore, the National Championship on November 19 lies ahead. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an exciting time to be a Maroon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nationals is pretty spectacular, and the culture of the meet is truly a unique experience,â&#x20AC;? Khan said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year, there are no expectations. We have been the underdogs all season and it is pretty fun to work your way up.â&#x20AC;?

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The Stagg Championship Trophy will be awarded to the winner of the inaugural Big Ten championship game, which will take place on Saturday, December 3. The championship game is played between the winner of the Leaders division (comprised of Wisconsin, Ohio State, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana, and Penn State) and the Legends divi-

sion (Minnesota, Michigan, Northwestern, Iowa, Michigan State, and Nebraska). The game was introduced as a result of the University of Nebraska joining the conference in 2010, creating the current 12-team conference. Previously, the team with the best conference record was named conference champion.

Stagg passed away in 1965 at the age of 102.

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of their rivals, second-ranked Wash U. The Bears had defeated the Maroons twice before this season and were one of the top seeds in the tournament. From the start, the Maroons were well aware of the hazards in their section of the bracket and that they would have to play Wash U as early as the second round.

Wash U made several early incisions in each game and then brought to bear the full decisive quality of their side on the Maroons, winning 25â&#x20AC;&#x201C;17, 25â&#x20AC;&#x201C;22, 25â&#x20AC;&#x201C;16. Clark and fourth-year Isis Smalls had their hands full with six kills apiece, but were unable to stem the blitz of the Bears. Thirdyear Sam Brown bravely offered 19 defensive digs while Belak provided a comprehensive effort with five kills and 13 digs. The telling score, however, was the Maroonsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hitting percentage of .085 compared to the Bearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; .330. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We knew that Wash U was going to be tough, especially on their home court. I think the hard part of this match was that we started every game with a fiveor six-point deficit. Against a team like Wash U, it is hard to dig yourself out of a hole. By the time we did it was just a tad too late.

I will not fault the effort of our girls though. They played hard and did an excellent job of shaking off each play and starting out fresh,â&#x20AC;? said Walby. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wash U match was different from the past two times we had

played them this season, but not exactly in a good way. We were up and down, winning some fantastic rallies and then letting them have two or three easy points. We competed, but it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t good enough.

Every single one of us needed to be at the top of our game, and we did not play our best as a team. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extremely disappointing ; I know we could have done better,â&#x20AC;? said DelZenero. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard for me as a member of the team [and] I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine exactly how our seniors must be feeling. They were the class that established the program as a winning one, and I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t played college ball without them,â&#x20AC;? said secondyear Katie Trela.

Nevertheless, the result of the tournament and the season was a torch to bear. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am very happy with our improvement in the tournament. I think that it is something that the seniors can feel good about ending on,â&#x20AC;? said Walby.

Indeed, the Maroons of 2011 have lit a flame that will be hard to extinguish in the coming generations of Chicago volleyball. With the win against UW-Whitewater in the first round of Nationals, this team has advanced the furthest of any Chicago side in postseason play. Their tournament birth marks the second consecutive year of NCAA play for the Maroons, and an historic achievement for volleyball in Walbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current tenure.

On a personal note, fourth-year Isis Smalls also ended her stint at

Chicago as the all-time leader in kills in school history, though she humbly defers the honor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have learned worlds about what it means to love and respect your teammates, what it means to lead people and to learn how to follow, and what it means to develop a good work ethic,â&#x20AC;? Smalls said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just about what you do on the court, but about the person that your sport can influence you to become for the better if you take advantage of the opportunity.â&#x20AC;?

Belak also had words of gratitude. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Let me say how proud I am of my team for everything we have accomplished this year. We had a great run this season, and though we ended on an unfortunate note, I am immensely grateful for every person who contributed to our success. From every single one of my teammates, to my coaches, to all the families who made it out to all the games, to the fans who supported us in home games and away: It was truly a group effort on all fronts,â&#x20AC;? Belak said.

While the fourth-year players on the team are proud of their achievement, the promising underclassmen are looking forward to carrying the torch. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This continued establishment of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winning is the only optionâ&#x20AC;? is a distinct step closer to making more history next year,â&#x20AC;? Trela said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m so proud of my team and honored to be a part of the historymaking season we experienced this year,â&#x20AC;? DelZenero affirmed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There will be more to come next season.â&#x20AC;?

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IN QUOTES “Yes, the trophy will now be named solely for Amos Alonzo Stagg, the legendary coach of Big Ten powerhouse UChicago, where there’s no sex at all.”

—Deadspin writer Jack Dickey, on the renaming of the Big Ten Championship trophy.

Women, Whitmore qualify for national meet

The women’s cross country team competes at the UAA Championships at Montrose Harbor.

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Cross Country Matthew Schaefer Sports Contributor When it’s the postseason, every race can be your last. For the men’s team, with the exception of third-year Bill Whitmore, Saturday’s Midwest Regional Championship at Saukie Golf Course in Rock Island, IL con-

Stagg-Paterno Trophy renamed in wake of Penn State scandal Mahmoud Bahrani Sports Editor Joe Paterno’s name will be removed from the Big Ten conference trophy as a result of Penn State’s child abuse scandal, the Big Ten announced yesterday. The trophy will be renamed the Stagg Championship Trophy, in honor of Amos Alonzo Stagg, who coached at the University of Chicago for 40 years, from 1892 to 1932.

“We believe that it would be inappropriate to keep Joe Paterno’s name on the trophy at this time,” Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said in a statement. “The trophy and its namesake are intended to be celebratory and aspirational, not controversial. We believe that it’s important to keep the focus on the players and the teams that will be competing in the inaugural championship game.”

Although it is no longer a member of the Big Ten, the University of Chicago was a founding member of the conference in 1896. While at Chicago, Stagg coached the team to a 242–112–27 record, and led the Maroons to the Big Ten championship in 1899, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1922, and 1924. One of the game’s early innovators, Stagg introduced many revolutionary concepts to the game, including the huddle and the forward pass. The D-III National Championship is named the Stagg Bowl in his honor.

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cludes what was a promising season.

For the women’s team, though, Saturday’s meet was the one they had been waiting for, and they came together at just the right time.

Going into the Championship, the Chicago men, ranked sixth in the field, needed at least a fifthplace finish to get an at-large bid and advance to the NCAA National Championship next weekend in

Oshkosh, WI. They finished ninth.

The women, the sixth-ranked team at Rock Island, needed at least a fourth-place finish. They did one better, finishing third.

The Maroon men needed a good finish, but they didn’t get it.

“I think we definitely did not perform to our capabilities on Saturday and would even go as far as saying it was our worst race of the season.

Most of our runners felt good at the beginning of the race, but fell back hard towards the end,” fourth-year Brian Schlick said. “It is tough to say why—perhaps our nerves got the best of us.”

“There simply was no room for error and we did not have our best day,” head coach Chris Hall said.

While the women’s team aimed for at least a fourth-place finish, they ended up edging out the North Central (Ill.) women by four points to finish in the top three.

“This past weekend was pretty awesome, and I think a lot of us are still on cloud nine,” fourth-year Sonia Khan said. “The race was pretty exciting because we were able to keep six runners in front of North Central’s four and five [runners], but I don’t think any of us thought we were actually beating them until after the race when Coach Hall told us we may have beat them.”

Third-year Kayla McDonald described the team’s determination and zeal in their performance at the meet, which was hosted by Augustana in Rock Island, IL. “At that point we weren’t running for ourselves but for each other, and that’s what meant the most,” McDonald said, “the fact that we all worked together for one common goal.”

Maroons ousted by Wash U in round of 32 Volleyball Charles Fang Senior Sports Staff The Maroons completed their most successful season in school history in the NCAA tournament this past weekend. 15thranked Chicago finished the season at 30–6, tying the school record for wins and matching last year’s total.

In the first round of the tournament, Chicago encountered 21st-ranked UW-Whitewater.

The Maroons were heavily favored against the Warhawks, who had won the WIAC championship earlier this month.

The Maroons seized the first game and had a lead deep in the second when the Warhawks surged to take the second set. However, the Maroons would have none of the towel-waving, and they brusquely shouldered past UW–Whitewater for a final score of 25–22, 23–25, 25–14, 25–16. Second-year Morgan Clark and fourth-year Colleen Belak led the offensive attack with 11 kills each, and the Maroons hit at a .258 clip.

“Whitewater was one of the best matches we’ve played this season.

We were all focused and executing, confident and excited,” secondyear Nikki DelZenero said “I think that we came out and played extremely well against UW–Whitewater. They are a seasoned and tough team, and we knew that we were going to have our hands full. Our team played a really balanced game. Our set-

For the men’s team, Saturday’s race was a frustrating end to an otherwise propitious season. Yet Hall recognized that the team faced a competitive field, and that they simply did not perform as well as they desired.

“It’s difficult to explain what happened on the men’s side. From all indications the team was very well prepared to race, but the Midwest region is extremely challenging. All the teams that finished in front of us were nationally ranked, as were a couple behind us,” Hall said. “The guys were extremely disappointed in the meet but clearly had a great overall season. We came a long way as a program but fell short of our final goal of getting into the NCAAs.” Schlick also acknowledged that the team, which has had many consistent performances throughout the season, failed to meet expectations.

“We were really disappointed after the race. We have performed so well all season,” Schlick said, “and really had yet to have an all-around poor performance up until this meet.”

But the men will still be represented at Nationals. Third-year Bill Whitmore finished fourth overall at the meet, and qualified as an individual for next weekend’s race.

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Brizzolara sets another record in loss to Bears Football Daniel Lewis Associate Sports Editor

out control we showed in the Whitewater game. We played steadily throughout most of the match, maintaining momentum and controlling the pace of the game. We hit a .258, which is probably one of our season’s higher marks,” said Belak.

Chicago then encountered one

The Maroons ended their season with a 38–20 loss at Wash U on Saturday, their 18th loss in the 25-year history of the annual Founder’s Cup game. The Maroons lost their final three games of the season and finished the year at 5–5 after a promising 5–2 start.

The Maroons started slow on offense, allowing Wash U to take the lead in the first quarter on a 20-yard strike from Bears quarterback Dan Burkett to wide receiver Easton Knott. Each of Chicago’s ensuing drives in the quarter resulted in a punt.

Chicago fell behind 10–0 in the second quarter on a field goal by Wash U’s Eric Chalifour, but then the Chicago offense picked up, with second-year quarterback Vincent Cortina connecting with third-year tight end Brandon Meckelberg for a 29-yard touchdown.

A missed two-point conversion left the score at 10–6.

Wash U struck back towards the end of the half on a second 20-yard touchdown pass from Burkett to Knott. The Maroons rallied to score in a last-minute drive at the end of the half. First-year running back Zak Ross-Nash’s two-yard touchdown run sent Chicago into halftime down by only four.

“I felt like we came into the game with the right attitude and intensity, but big plays were the difference,” said Meckelberg, who also caught a 36-yard pass

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Third year Caroline Brander spikes the ball during the NCAA regional match on Friday against UW-Whitewater.

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ter did a nice job of balancing out the offense, and it was difficult for UW-Whitewater to key up on [any] one individual,” said head coach Vanessa Walby.

“The Whitewater game displayed our true ability to control a match and execute every point to our greatest ability. I am proud of the effort, strength, and full-