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Faculty calls for divestment from fossil fuels Ben Andrew Maroon Contributor An online letter urging the University to divest from fossil fuels has accumulated 192 signatures from faculty members since it began circulating last May. According to fourth-year

Divvy installed eight new stations around Hyde Park in the spring, offering discounts to University students who purchase annual bike memberships.

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Divvy data: Hyde Park users stay in neighborhood when biking Sonia Schlesinger News Staff Last May, Divvy, Chicago’s bike sharing service, launched a major city-wide expansion that included the addition of eight new stations in Hyde Park. Data from the first two quarters of 2015 indicate heavy use of the service within Hyde Park.

Students comprise a significant portion of the Hyde Park population, but

the average and median age of Hyde Park Divvy members in the first two quarters of 2015 was 37. About half of the members were male, and half were female.

While the average Hyde Park riders are older than students, they traveled most frequently to and from stations nearest to campus.

Out of 9,554 total rides beginning in Hyde Park in the first half of the year, Ellis Avenue was the most common point of origin. A

quarter of Hyde Park trips begin at one of the four stations on Ellis and nearly half of these trips began at the 58th and Ellis stop directly across the entrance to the main quad.

Riders also departed frequently from the 57th and University station, which is near common destinations for students on the northern end of campus, and from 55th and Woodlawn, a popular area for off-campus

On Friday evening, students and community members gathered at the Black Cinema House for a screening and panel discussion of the documentary James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket. The event was in honor of Baldwin’s 90th birthday.

Initially released in 1989 and recently digitally restored, the film is about Baldwin, an author and activist famous for his writing on race in America in novels and essay collections such as Go Tell It on the Mountain, Notes of a Native Son, and

The Fire Next Time. The film chronicles Baldwin’s childhood in Harlem, his time as an expat in France, Turkey, and Switzerland, and his complex relationship with civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. The screening was collaboratively organized by Oracle, a free theater company in Chicago, South Side Projections, a nonprofit organization that offers film screenings accompanied by discussions throughout the South Side, and UChicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC).

Though the documentary

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faculty, reads: “We believe that profiting from these industries conflicts with the paramount social value of avoiding significant and permanent degradation of our planet that, if left unchecked, will adversely affect all of us, personally and as an instituDIVEST continued on page4

University deems part-time student status unnecessary Will Cabaniss Maroon Contributor Dean of Students Jay Ellison announced via email in late September that the College would no longer sustain part-time student status.

In the email, Ellison wrote that one of the reasons the administration eliminated part-time student status was

to ensure that College students graduate on time.

“We want to make certain that students can come, study, progress, and graduate, in a timely manner,” he said.

Ellison also said that financial concerns were a factor in the University’s decision.

“We have amazing resources, in housing, class-

rooms, teaching staff, and the financial support we can provide. But it is not unlimited. As the College grows we want to be able to provide the same options and opportunities for all students,” he wrote.

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Uncommon Interview: Fountain Walker, new UCPD Chief of Police Olivia Rosenzweig Maroon Contributor

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University panel celebrates author James Baldwin’s 90th birthday Peyton Alie Maroon Contributor

Sam Zacher, co-coordinator of University Climate Action Network’s (UCAN) faculty letter campaign, half of these signatures have come in the past two months.

The “Faculty Open Letter to the Board of Trustees,” which was co-written

by UCAN and University

pieces archived both film clips of Baldwin and interviews with his brother, his partner, and other writers, its core is a compilation of interviews with Baldwin himself, which illuminate his views on his own experiences, as well as American society.

When an interviewer asks Baldwin about the difficulties of starting his writing career “black, impoverished, and homosexual,” he responds laughing: “Oh no, I thought I hit the jackpot—it was so outrageous, you could not go any further.

So you had to find a way to use it.”

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On August 17, Fountain L. Walker was named the new University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) Chief of Police, taking over after the resignation of Marlon Lynch.

The Maroon sat down to talk with Walker about his history with the UCPD and his plans for the department going forward.

Chicago Maroon: How long have you been with the UCPD? What did you do before you came to the University of Chicago?

Fountain L. Walker: “As of August 2 this year I have been with the [UCPD] for five years. I came here as a captain to work on a community policing profile for the department and had the opportunity to work within a couple of different areas along the way. Prior to coming here, I was in

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Fountain L. Walker was named the new chief of the University of Chicago Police Department in August.

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North Carolina, in a small college, Davidson College, [with] 1,800 students, maybe 350 faculty and staff…I was there for seven years as their Chief of Police and

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I had the opportunity to work with students a lot…

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Doctors find potential new approach UCSC panel addresses mental for early detection of blood cancer health and social justice in Chicago Cairo Lewis Staff Writer On Monday, November 2, 2015, a team led by UChicago scientists published research on a method to detect earlier stages of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a group of blood cancers characterized by low red blood cell counts.

The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

About 13,000 patients are diagnosed with MDS each year in the U.S. Early diagnosis is critical for therapeutic intervention because a proportion of patients with MDS develop acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a blood cancer characterized by the abnormal accumulation of white blood cells in the bone marrow, interfering with normal blood cell production.

University of Chicago professors Amittha Wickrema, Michelle LeBeau, Andrew Artz and John Anastasi worked with researchers from several other universities, including Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and the University of Oxford, to develop their new approach.

Wickrema is also the director of the clinical cell therapy laboratory at the University of Chicago Medicine. He focuses

his research efforts in studying normal blood cell development and diseases associated with blood cells such as MDS. “Typically when people think of cancer, they think of having too many cells that grow uncontrollably. Part of having MDS means that you are anemic: that instead of growing too many cells, you’re actually not growing enough, leading to bone marrow failure,” Wickrema said.

The scientists’ new method involves detecting subtle abnormalities in blood cell structures before they develop into the syndromes themselves.

Typical diagnoses of MDS are made by performing oftenpainful bone marrow sampling at more advanced stages of the disease. With the new discovery, however, it is possible that scientists no longer need to wait on the disease to progress and can potentially use a blood sample to identify patients who are genetically predisposed to it through gene mutations.

“Most anemic patients feel lethargic and have a shortness of breath, and that’s when they come in to see a doctor. The severity of the disease depends on the type of mutation/abnormality that exists, and before, we were not able to correlate the mutated genes with the abnormal red blood cells. We can

now correlate the abnormalities seen in early red blood cells with mutations in a gene called DOCK4,” Wickrema said.

Dedicator of cytokinesis 4, or DOCK4, is an activator of small G proteins, which can control how cells divide, reorganize their cytoskeleton, and move. Previous work in the field first identified DOCK4 as a gene disrupted in bone cancer models in mice.

Doctors also think that in addition to low blood cell counts and malfunctioned genes, certain inherited genetic conditions, exposure to certain chemicals and heavy metals, and effects from previous cancer treatments with chemotherapy or radiation are what MDS may also develop from. MDS patients are currently treated with medication, chemotherapy and stem cell transplants.

Wickrema and his team hope to further their research and to eventually compare current treatments with newer ones once they are developed and clinically tested.

“This is just the beginning.

Now that we know the molecular pathway, we can develop our findings for more robust tests that can accurately diagnose patients,” Wickrema said.

Uncommon Interview: Patric McCoy, founder of Diasporal Rhythms Anoushka Chowdhary Maroon Contributor UChicago alumnus PatrickMcCoy, A.B. ’69, has collected contemporary African American art for the past 41 years. He has opened up his Hyde Park home for students to explore the 1,400 pieces of art on display. The Maroon sat down with Mr. McCoy to discuss his philosophy on art and his work with the non-profit Diasporal Rhythms.

Chicago Maroon: How did you start collecting art and what is the inspiration behind the collection?

Patric McCoy: I have always lived in an environment with art... My home always included paintings and photographs and hand-made furniture, and my mother made clothes... In my fourth year at UChicago, my roommate, who was an art major, came back from one of his classes with a lithograph that he had done in his class... And I bought it, in 1968. That was the very first piece. So the collection started at the University of Chicago. And I have been actually acquiring art ever since.

CM: What made you decide to allow UChicago students to come into your home to view your art?

PM: I make the offer avail-

Alex Ward Maroon Contributor Last Friday, the University of Chicago Community Service Center (UCSC) held a public panel about mental health in Chicago at the Center for Identity and Inclusion. The panel, “Examining the Intersection of Mental Health and Social Justice,” featured several local experts who discussed mental health in Chicago, particularly pertaining to the thousands of Chicagoans annually left to suffer from mental illness without the support of the government or their friends and relatives.

The panel opened with a personal anecdote from a current UChicago student about her experiences with mental illness.

The moderators then introduced Mark Ishaug, a UChicago alumnus who spoke about his work as CEO of Thresholds. Thresholds is an organization intended to provide housing, medical care, and employment assistance to mentally ill Chicagoans. Ishaug connected his current work with Thresholds to his time as an activist in the HIV/AIDS movement, especially through the stigma associated with mental health conditions. Thresholds, his current initiative, is more focused on making sure those suffering from mental illness have the resources and stability they need to live comfortably.

Miriam Ament, founder and CEO of No Shame On U, which works to combat

able to all schools, and being an alumnus of UChicago I have been a little bit miffed that I have been doing this for 15 years and the University of Chicago has been one of the slowest in responding and that’s my alma mater.

CM: It’s surprising that the University of Chicago hasn’t been more forthcoming in its interest, especially because your home is so physically close to us.

PM: In 1964, I was a first-year student. The University of Chicago has basically been called to question for not interacting with the surrounding neighborhood.

It has been only now in the last 10 years that it has actually turned around...

CM: You are the co-founder of the non-profit Diasporal Rhythms. Can you tell me a bit

about it?

PM: It’s an organization that was formed to promote art collecting. I talked about these myths and about what makes an art collector. So, we are saying we are going to redefine the term “art collector” and get people engaged in collecting art of whatever the community they are in. We are starting in the African American community, but really, it is for anyone interested in art. We are not saying you have to collect what we like. You just have to collect. Break down these barriers and get in there and do that.

Editor’s note: A longer transcript of the interview with Mr. McCoy can be found on The Maroon’s website.

aimed at increasing youth participation in civil life. Camarillo went on to describe how her school had deliberately prevented mentally ill students from enrolling due to the associated expenses. “We had a very small, almost nonexistent population of those with mental illnesses at the school because they were not wanted,” she said.

After some discussion between the participants, UCSC Student Civic Engagement Coordinator Christopher Huff opened the panel to questions.

Huff, the event’s organizer, said that he was very pleased with the evening’s turnout, and elaborated on what he wanted to accomplish with the event.

“When we looked at the issues going on with mental health in the city of Chicago, we thought it was a really good opportunity for us to have that discussion… to one, educate students on the mental health challenges facing the city of Chicago, but second, provide ways that they can actually get involved in helping address the issue,” Huff said.

Huff acknowledged that at present, there were no student organizations working to address the issue, but said that he hoped the panel might serve as an inspiration. “There’s not an organization [at the University of Chicago] right now that I know of focused specifically on mental health issues facing the city of Chicago, but I do think there is certainly the capacity for it to be created.”

Stevanovich Institute announces courses for winter and spring Isaac Troncoso Maroon Contributor

Patric McCoy stands with some of the African art on display in his Hyde Park home.

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negative perceptions of people with mental illness, then told her own story of dealing with depression and the associated stigma she faced. Ament told the audience that over one in four Americans deal with mental illness every year, yet many never receive assistance due to fear of judgment.

Tom Dart, current IOP Fellow, Cook County Sheriff, and head of the nation’s largest mental health facility, the Cook County Jail, highlighted the massive overcrowding of mentally ill inmates forced into the criminal justice system by inadequate federal and state funding for treatment programs. He acknowledged that, although progress is being made, bias against those people with mental illness is still very much an issue. “This [stigma] is very, very pervasive in all parts of the criminal justice system,” Dart said.

Social worker Alexa James then discussed her role as head of the Chicago branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, an organization that advocates for mental health reform, raises awareness, and runs phone and text help lines.

James emphasized that recovery from severe mental health crises requires shelter, stability, and support from friends and family, which all too many people are lacking.

Nicholas Senn High School student Giselle Camarillo talked about her work with the Mikva challenge, a program

The Stevanovich Institute for the Formation of Knowledge, opened earlier this year, will begin offering its first courses in early 2016.

The Institute’s goal is to study how individuals accumulate, standardize, and transfer knowledge, and how new disciplines emerge from old ones. The Institute plans to study the development of knowledge from antiquity to the present day by uniting academics from all fields.

One of the Institute’s more specific focuses will be studying how knowledge is transformed over time, from informal traditions to increasingly uniform practices.

“You might think about the development of Hippocratic medicine: in the early period, fifth century B.C.E. Greece, a few people who practiced medicine had similar doctrines, similar attitudes, and made common observations.

You might say that what they were doing was transforming what were non-systematic

folk ideas about healing and disease into a much more systematic form,” said Professor Robert J. Richards, a member of the Institute’s executive committee.

The Institute’s first new course will consist of four to six case studies spread across two quarters, covering topics that will change annually.

These will be “team-taught” by at least two professors from different departments.

The first quarter will discuss claims about scientific knowledge, the epistemology of democracy, and the concept of progress. The second will focus on the foundations of psychology in Linguistics and Biology, the origins of the social construction of knowledge, and the politics of philosophical knowledge, according to Professor Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, the Institute’s faculty director.

The Institute views the method of analyzing many narrower case studies as vital in accomplishing its ambitious goals. “I think you approach this enormous topic not by trying to do the whole

of knowledge. You approach test cases that bring you to thinking about knowledge more globally, but cause you to start in specific instances.

It might be the relationship between eastern medicine in the fifth century B.C.E., and western medicine in the fifth century B.C.E. By over time developing courses like this, as one stands back, you’ll see larger patterns such that we can make statements about the nature of knowledge at its core,” Richards said.

In many ways, the Institute represents not only the core values of UChicago’s main ethos, but also those of the liberal arts as a whole.

“We wanted to provide a strong defense to the current challenge to the liberal arts.

The liberal arts are the context in which one is taught sensitivity to historical and social context, to the shifting relations between ideology and practice, elite thought and popular culture; and as such they are supremely important to an understanding of our individual and social place in the world,” Bartsch said.

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Gordon Parks Arts Hall opens at Lab School with new art exhibits Peyton Alie Maroon Contributor Students at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools have new opportunities to learn about the arts at the Gordon Parks Arts Hall, which opened this fall on East 58th Street and South Kimbark Avenue.

Last year, the George Lucas Family Foundation pledged $25 million to the Laboratory Schools to finance the creation of the Arts Hall. The grant was the culmination of the Lab+ Campaign, which raised more than double its original $40 million goal in support of the Laboratory Schools.

A three-story, 86,000 square foot building, the Arts Hall provides new performance halls, studios, and rehearsal spaces for student artists, allowing the Laboratory Schools to offer wider opportunities in art education.

George Lucas, creator of the Star

Wars and Indiana Jones franchises and president of the George Lucas Family Foundation, and Mellody Hobson, president of Chicago-based investment firm Ariel Investments and Lucas’ wife, requested that the building be named in honor of Gordon Parks, the first black staff writer and photographer for Life magazine. Parks is known for his photography of the Civil Rights Movement and daily life under racial segregation.

To commemorate the opening of the Arts Hall, Hobson and Lucas organized a panel of artists, including director Francis Ford Coppola, artist Theaster Gates, artist Jeff Koons, singer Janelle Monáe, and actor Samuel L. Jackson, on October 2. The panelists discussed the obstacles they overcame in their careers and the ability of art to promote understanding and inclusion.

The next day, the celebration continued with an open house featur-

ing representatives from the Gordon Parks Arts Foundation and members of Parks’ family. At the open house, Laboratory Schools director Robin Appleby praised Parks’ dedication to overcoming obstacles and commitment to social justice and encouraged students to draw inspiration from him.

The Laboratory Schools have also planned curricula related to Parks’ work. Faculty members read Parks’ memoir, A Hungry Heart, over the summer. Lower school students are sketching Life magazine cover images inspired by Parks’s photography, while middle school students are designing political posters and high school students are creating mixed-media art projects about race in America.

Students also visited an exhibition of Parks’ work at the Arts Hall.

Head of 100,000 Strong, Mandarin language initiative, visits University Alex Ward Maroon Contributor Earlier this month, Carola McGiffert, the head of the 100,000 Strong Foundation, visited the University of Chicago as part of a trip to the city to promote the initiative’s work among local businesses and educators. 100,000 Strong is a United States government-backed organization working to increase numbers of American students learning Mandarin in U.S. high schools and universities and studying abroad in China.

During her visit to the University, McGiffert met with members of the Foundation’s Student Ambassadors program.

Ambassadors are chosen to share their experiences studying in China and learning the language with others in order to further promote the program. While the organization was originally founded with the goal of achieving 100,000 students studying abroad in China, McGiffert announced the completion of that goal in 2014.

According to McGiffert, “The 100,000 Strong Foundation mission is to ensure that our next generation of lead-

ers has the language skills and cultural understanding to effectively manage the U.S.–China relationship, the most consequential relationship in the world.”

The organization promotes the study of Mandarin among American students and provides opportunities for studying abroad. Additionally, 100,000 Strong works to build connections between the U.S. government and business interests and their counterparts in China.

A significant part of 100,000 Strong’s work is accomplished through its Student Ambassador program, made up mostly of college undergraduates who complete various projects aimed at increasing interest and awareness among their peers and community. “It is these sorts of creative efforts that are instrumental in building a national grassroots movement to encourage more students to deepen their understanding of China,” McGiffert wrote in an email.

100,000 Strong also oversees an Environmental Action Fund, which unites Chinese and American students to work on solutions to the global sustainability problems faced by the world’s two largest producers of carbon dioxide emissions.

The Foundation’s most recent program, the One Million Strong Initiative, is intended to bring the number of American youth learning Mandarin from 200,000 to One million within the next five years. The program will develop new teaching curricula and double the number of Mandarin teachers in the U.S. by working with schools and government organizations across the country.

“The goal of One Million Strong—to see one million young Americans on the K-12 level studying Mandarin by 2020—is ambitious but achievable,” explained McGiffert, who believes that it is nonetheless critically important.

In terms of the 100,000 Strong Foundation’s plans for the future, McGiffert said that the organization will continue to promote personal connections between China and the U.S. “The 100,000 Strong Foundation is committed to reaching students at all academic levels, from all economic and ethnic backgrounds and from every region of the United States.”

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UChicago scientists utilizing electric currents to relay sensations of touch Lucas Cusimano Maroon Contributor University of Chicago scientists have begun using electrical signals to relay the fine sensations of touch, according to a recently released study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The study examined monkeys’ sensitivities to electrical impulses sent directly to the brain, meant to simulate actual tactile nerve signals.

A number of parameters of the electrical signals varied, such as frequency and duration. The monkeys were tested to determine their ability to recognize and distinguish between the varying signals.

Doctors Sungshin Kim, Thierri Callier, and Sliman Bensmaia, members of the University’s Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, and Dr. Gregg A. Tabot on the Committee of Computational Neuroscience authored the paper.

Bensmaia, an associate professor at the University of Chicago, contributed to the study. His area of expertise is the sensation of touch, and his research has major implications for rehabilitating patients with paralysis and beyond.

Bensmaia has decades of experience in this field, and sees his research helping patients with paralysis. “The idea was for the rehabilitation of tetraplegic patients… To equip them with robotic arms so that they would be able to control the movements of these arms so that they could interact with objects,” Bensmaia said.

Existing neural-robotic technology does not provide tactile information to the user. The major implication of this study is that it demonstrates the possibility to receive this information from electrical impulses. Bensmaia said, “The visual system is good at telling you where objects are, but it is not very good at telling you how to interact with objects.”

That is where the tactile response comes in: it helps the brain to determine how it can control limbs to best manipulate objects in the world.

In designing the study, investigators first examined the absolute

threshold at which monkeys could begin to detect electrical signals for each of the parameters. For example, researchers determined there was little ability in monkeys to feel the signal at a pulse width above 400 microseconds. The second experiment in this study was to determine the monkeys’ difference threshold within each parameter. For instance, the monkeys were tested to see if they could distinguish between a signal frequency of 500 hertz and 1000 hertz.

Dr. Bensmaia found the accuracy and predictability of the results surprising, “Not only do you create sensations, but you create systematic ones. You turn this knob, and you create a systematic change…. That’s pretty awesome…. Throughout, you find these functions that are really beautifully smooth. You change all these parameters and it does these very predictable and smooth things.”

The ordered nature of the electrical signal perception means algorithms can be more easily created to recognize patterns in the brain, and thus promote the development of such technologies.

For Bensmaia, the short-term goal is to give robotic rehabilitation to persons with paralysis. As he said, “The first order goal is to rehabilitate these patient populations… Any type of restoration [of sensation or mobility] would be a major step forward [for tetraplegics].”

The long-term goal is the ability to control robots and computers with one’s mind.

Looking to the future, Bensmaia said, “If you’re able to communicate directly with the brain, then maybe [brains could] directly interface with machines. I think that’s the longer term thing.”

Work begins on largest telescope to date in Chilean desert Annie Guo Maroon Contributor Construction on the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) in Chile’s Atacama Desert began last Wednesday after site preparation started in 2012. The GMT, a coalition project led by institutions including UChicago, Harvard, and the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute, will be the largest telescope to date.

The University of Chicago, one of the project’s 11 international partners, has been involved in the project since its conception in 2010. As such, the University is responsible for helping set research priorities and planning the telescope’s progress. It also has a seat on the GMT Organization’s governing board. Once finished,

UChicago will own five percent of the giant telescope. UChicago’s stake in the project will allow it to be on the forefront of innovative research into the nature of the universe, dark energy, and dark matter. The GMT Organization and its partners have committed more than $500 billion to the construction of the telescope.

The telescope is situated in the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, one of the highest and driest places on earth, giving it optimal viewing conditions for more than 300 nights a year. Once completed in 2021, use of the telescope is expected to commence in 2025. The telescope, with highresolution imagery 10 times more refined than that of the Hubble Telescope, will provide more information on the planets orbiting

distant stars. Astronomers hope to be able to tell how massive those planets are and what they are made of, which will provide insight as they continue to hunt for other life in space.

Made up of a larger and a smaller component, both consisting of seven circular mirrors, the telescope sits within an open box-like structure. The larger mirrors will catch light from the outer edges of the universe, which will first be reflected to the secondary, smaller set, and then to imaging cameras to be processed.

The Giant Magellan Telescope will be located at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

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The average age of Hyde Park Divvy users is 37 DIVVY continued from front

housing. About 45 percent of trips originating in Hyde Park left from the Ellis, University, or Woodlawn stops while about a third of trips within Hyde Park ended at stops on those three streets.

Users departing from stops further from campus on the far east and west sides of Hyde Park were much more likely to leave the neighborhood. Only 35 percent of riders departing from Hyde Park’s westernmost stop at 51st and Cottage Grove stayed within the neighborhood. Nearly as many Cottage Grove riders traveled south of Hyde Park. The Cottage Grove stop is the least used in Hyde Park; just 2 percent of rides start there and 1 per-

cent of rides end there.

Most riders starting from the eastern edge of Hyde Park, at the South Shore Drive and 55th Street station, traveled north to the Loop or to neighborhoods between Hyde Park and the Loop. Only 21 percent of these rides remained in the neighborhood.

Riders who did not depart from stops on the neighborhood’s outermost streets tended not to leave the neighborhood. More than half of rides starting on each street between Cottage Grove and South Shore Dr. ended in Hyde Park, and 70 percent of the total number of users starting rides Hyde Park did not leave the neighborhood. Users travel within the neighborhood more frequently than they

Cottage Grove (2%)

Woodlawn (9.8%)

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Ellis (24.1%)

Streets running through campus

BY STREET OF ORIGIN

Cottage (1.08%)

Ellis (24%)

University (12%)

do to surrounding neighborhoods or downtown.

For those who did leave the neighborhood, the most common destination was the Loop (9.6 percent).

However, less than 1 percent of Hyde Park riders traveled north of the loop.

Only about 5 percent of riders traveled to neighborhoods immediately west, south, or north, and were twice as likely to travel to Washington Park or Woodlawn (immediately west and south) as they were to Kenwood (immediately north).

University (15.7%)

Woodlawn (11.4%) Blackstone (7.6%) Blackstone (4.5%) Harper (6.9%)

Harper (4.8%) Lake Park (25.2%)

Lake Park (14.9%) Metra Stations

Cornell (9.4%)

South Shore (13.4%)

Cornell (5.02%)

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UCAN faculty letter has accumulated 192 signatures since it began circulating last May DIVEST continued from front

tion.”

The letter references the Kalven Report, a 1967 University document that prohibits the University from taking a stance on political or social issues unless “paramount social values” are being violated, or unless the very mission of the university is being threatened. The petition’s letter argues that the University’s continued investment in the fossil fuel industry violates paramount social values, and that climate change is a threat to the mission of the University.

The Kalven Report was also the subject of controversy in 2006 when students pressured the University to divest from companies complicit in the Darfur genocide. The University argued that divestment from Darfur would be contrary to the Kalven report.

“The question of whether the University of Chicago should divest from companies that do business with the government of Sudan became the subject of intense and ongoing discus-

sion among our students, faculty, administration and trustees as well as with community leaders. The outcome of these active deliberations reflected a lack of consensus on the effectiveness of divestment and other economic boycotts,” said Julie A. Peterson, former vice president of communications for the University, in a 2008 statement regarding the Darfur decision.

The petition that is currently being circulated does not stipulate that it is the faculty’s role to make decisions.

“We don’t want faculty to express their opinion because we think the faculty have the expertise to make financial decisions. That is the board's job. But, we want to show that the faculty are in this because the faculty are a substantial part of what the University is and represents,” Zacher said.

The faculty letter was mentioned in a recent letter to The Maroon by M. Todd Henderson, a professor at the Law School.

Henderson wrote, “There is no evidence to demon-

strate it [divestment] will do anything to help the climate, and it will ultimately cost the University hundreds of millions of dollars.”

When asked about this letter, Zacher said “there have been studies about investment funds that do not contain fossil fuel investments that have outperformed those that do.”

He added, “Divestment will have some effect. During Apartheid, it did have a stigmatizing effect.”

Henderson also wrote: “[Students for a Just and Sustainable Future] and others might argue that their campaign is about raising public awareness of the problem of carbon emissions and fossil fuels. If this is their goal, there are far better ways to proceed: for instance, getting universities to use energy more efficiently, to source their energy from more renewable sources, or to change students’ energy usage.”

UCAN eventually plans to deliver this letter to the Board of Trustees, though a timeline has not been set.

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In a 1968 appearance on The Dick Cavett Show, Baldwin discusses the role of institutional racism in America.

“I don’t know if the real estate lobby has anything against black people, but I know that the real estate lobby is keeping me in the ghetto. I don’t know if the board of education hates black people, but I know the textbooks they give my children to read and the schools that we have to go to,” he says.

“This is the evidence. And you want me to make an act of faith… on some idealism which you assure me exists in America which I have never seen?”

Following the screening, panelists Karen Thorsen, the director of the documentary, E. Patrick Johnson, the Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at North-

western University, and moderator Devin Mays, an MFA student at UChicago, reflected on the documentary and answered audience questions.

Thorsen began the discussion by detailing the process of making the documentary.

Initially, she worked closely with Baldwin to plan the film, which was originally centered around his process of writing a book about his memory of the Civil Rights Movement. However, Baldwin died before the documentary was completed, and Thorsen restructured it to instead serve as an overview of his life and career, adding scenes of author Maya Angelou reading excerpts of Baldwin’s work out loud and combing through archival footage.

“We realized that he could tell his own story,” she said.

In response to a question

by Mays, Thorsen and John-

son also addressed Baldwin’s complicated relationship with Christianity and its influence on his work. Baldwin’s stepfather was a preacher, and Baldwin himself began to preach at fourteen years old. He moved away from the church at seventeen and never returned, but continued to use Biblical language and imagery in his writing. “[Baldwin] had to speak truth to power, but that was always grounded in faith,” Johnson said. “He critiqued religion, but relied on it at the same time. It was part of his strategy for freedom.”

The panelists also spoke about the resonance of Baldwin’s work today.

“It was eerie thinking about Black Lives Matter, what’s happening in Paris, the Syrian refugees,” Johnson said. “We need his words now more than ever.”

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three classes at a time. In addition, fourth-year students will be allowed to petition to take fewer than three classes in their final quarter of study. During this academic year only, exceptions will be made for students who had planned on taking fewer than three classes for more than one quarter.

While unlikely to affect a large number of undergraduates, the decision is

an example of what Ellison noted as the changing behavior and makeup of the College.

“The College is a much different place, with a much different population of students than it had when part-time was a regular part of the student experience,” said Ellison, a former Harvard administrator in his second year working at the College. “Students often worked in town and com-

muted to campus during the olden days.”

At times throughout

dominated by non-degree students. In the autumn of 1950, for example, full-time

“We want to make certain that students can come, study, progress, and graduate, in a timely manner” the 20th century, according to records found in the University Library’s Special Collections Research Center, the College was

residential students occupied only 520 of the College’s 1395 seats.

Ellison also argued that, as a top-tier institution,

support for part-time status was no longer necessary.

“Progress towards the degree is important, and always has been,” Ellison said. “And as a top-tier college with some of the best students, part-time study no longer was needed or appropriate.”

Similar policies are in place at UChicago’s peer institutions, such as Yale, Stanford, and Ellison’s former institution, Harvard.

The number of degreeseeking part-time students in the College has already fallen slightly, possibly as a result of the new rules. As of the fourth week of Fall Quarter, according to a recent student census provided by the University Registrar, only 48 degree-seeking students in the College are enrolled part-time, down from 86 at the same time in 2014 and the lowest since Fall 2009.

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“I want us to be truly one community, it’s not just this isolated department that’s off to the side” UCPD continued from front

partnerships.”

CM: How is being Chief of Police at UChicago different than being Chief of Police at Davidson College?

FLK: “Student relationships are different. Where at Davidson I would be asked to be in West Side Story as Officer Krupke, here we haven’t really bridged that gap yet of conversation and communication between students…What I would like to see here, that’s a little different than I experienced at Davidson, is the opportunity to have that conversation about different things and what we can do, working together, to make some difference on and off campus.”

CM: What are your dayto-day responsibilities as Chief of Police?

FLK: “It could be anything from managing a situation, communicating with the administration about different events that are occurring within our area or outside of it. It could be planning for special events; we have quite a few dignitaries who come to campus.

It could be me presenting to the laboratory school fifth and sixth graders on community safety; I still participate with some of the direct learning. Last night I at-

tended the vice president’s event for diversity and inclusion and talked to that group about some things we would like to do or see happen moving forward.

[It could also be] talking to community groups outside the university about some of their concerns and how we would like to work together talking to aldermen about restorative justice opportunities and community education, what options do we have and when in fact is the UCPD in a situation where they need to address a certain situation, what options do we have to suggest for young people. There’s a plethora of things that come up throughout a day. I can honestly say there’s not really a plan.”

CM: Do you interact with the Chicago Police Department (CPD) at all?

FLK: “Absolutely, we copolice, meaning we are the primary responding entity within our campus area and secondary to supporting the Chicago Police Department in our extended control area, but we work with them in tandem daily.”

CM: What long-term goals are you looking to achieve in this new position?

FLK: “What I want to see is partnership where we

are focusing on an opportunity and working with the student body and faculty and staff to make it happen. One of the things that I would like to see within the next two years is some joint program where the police department and students primarily are working on a program that provides some sort of diversion for the young people that we have to deal with who, unfortunately, have committed some sort of crime; what options do they have, besides the juvenile detention center, what options do they have educationally, what things can we do to bolster and strengthen them as individuals and then push them out so they can be just as successful as our students here…I want to see things where you and I could be walking down the street and you know who I am and you call me by name, it’s not this individual that’s dressed up in polyester that you look at as this intimidating individual. I want us to be truly one community, it’s not just this isolated department that’s off to the side, we are a true resource and you see us as that. So if there is an issue, if there is a concern, it doesn’t even matter if it is not something to do with law enforcement,

we are still people we can approach and talk about it.

I want to see that meshing of the community.”

CM: And do you feel like in the past, coming in, it wasn’t as meshed as you would like to see?

FLK: “So what I think I saw in the past was a police department that was going through a transition, because in regards to the police department and its responsibilities, we were going through a process of becoming a nationally accredited entity…So there were definitely going to have to be some things we had to address along the way, but in addressing them, we have become, I believe, very professional, very well respected, and very impactful department…Now I want us to focus on that community piece…Dealing with youth, there are so many variables involved because there are so many opportunities for officers to touch and I want those touches to have meaning, I want it to have longlasting effect, even if it’s five minutes.”

CM: What exactly is the UCPD’s role both within the campus community and the South Side community? What are some of the challenges unique to the UCPD?

FLK: “As far as our purpose, I think it’s to be a partner. I think it’s to look again for those opportunities we have for restorative justice, for community ails…Law enforcement is pretty easy, it’s black-andwhite, but the educational opportunities that we have each and every day, to me it’s enumerable…The help we need in the community in that regard is engaging with the officers…When it’s the opportunity [for a police officer] to just say “hi,” simple things like that make a huge difference.”

CM: There have been complaints against the UCPD in the past for racial profiling. How have these complaints been addressed, and how do you plan to respond to this issue going forward?

FLK: “Over time, and especially during our accreditation process, we’ve developed a training regimen that has to do with by-space policing and making sure each and every officer understands the different components of what it means to racially profile, and not to do that. And also with the police and procedures there are certain things we need to address and require of the officers to engage with an indi-

vidual who can conceivably say ‘I feel as if I was racially profiled.’ There is a lot of information that we put on the web now that has to do with the number of stops that we make, how we stop people, why we stop people.

The majority of the time, it is actually a situation where we receive a call. There’s very few times where an officer just initiates on their own… So really being apparent and open about what that means and also telling people that on our web page you can actually file a complaint. But, if you don’t file a complaint, we don’t know about it. So that’s something that I found over time, we’ll have folks sharing information with other people, and I don’t know if they feel like they couldn’t come to the police department or actually file the report, but by not doing it, we don’t know that something’s broken. And so once you do it, then we can actually address it. So we have the processes and we have the people in place, and we also have oversight from the independent review committee to review what we actually see as the outcome for whatever that situation is.”

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What we’re thankful for

A short, incomplete list of things to appreciate this Thanksgiving.

As winter closes in on us, perhaps the only comfort we have is the equally swift approach of Thanksgiving.

Whether you’re planning your friendsgiving, headed home to see family, or eating an entire rotisserie chicken by yourself in your apartment, here are some things that we can all be grateful for:

The hotcakes at Fabiana’s: Both the baked goods and the workers there.

Bubble soccer: Can I borrow one of those? I’m cold and want to achieve my childhood dream of living in an inverted snowglobe.

The South Side Pie Challenge: Served with competition more fierce and delicious than a lecture hall full of first-year premeds.

College rankings: 1151st in the Economist! Share that on Facebook.

Professors who cancelled class this Wednesday: And professors who cancelled class Tuesday! #bless #praise

A new study on religion: Apparently a religious upbringing makes people less altruistic—Happy holidays!

The return of the Bartlett Waffle Machine: The Maroon’s November nomination for the Staff Recognition Award Program.

Dead birds: Whether that’s the turkey you’ll be eating or the ones that fly straight into the the shiny new glass facade of Eckhardt

Tickets for MAB’s Fall Show: Sold online for the first time! Which... didn’t really matter since no one was in line?

The new Marketplace site: Now it’s easier to buy five-year-old rice cookers.

The William H. Ray Elementary

School playground: Providing a pure source of joy for students during their morning walks to campus.

Student protesters at Yale and Mizzou: Bravely bringing to light issues of race on college campuses.

The final Breckinridge Haunted House: Hello from the other siiiiiide.

Dean Boyer’s new book: covering 125 years of the university, in the making for 20 of those years. And you thought your B.A. was hard.

The end of the University’s contract with Aramark: Death to

oversteamed broccoli!

New green space in front of the BSLC: Annnnd it’s covered in snow.

The new adult level 1 trauma center: Sincerely, thank you.

My off-campus apartment: At a significantly lower risk of being sold or demolished than most dorm buildings.

Everyone and everything we forgot: We’re sorry. Happy Thanksgiving.

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A police force to be reckoned with With no more student-appointed representatives on the Independent Review Committee, UCPD answers only to the administration—not the people it polices.

Since its inception in the 1960s, the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD), one of the largest private police forces in the world, has gradually expanded its patrol zone to include a total of five neighborhoods in Chicago’s mid-South Side. Within its jurisdiction live over 65,000 residents, most of whom have no affiliation with the University. Although the CPD is chiefly responsible for investigating crimes in the area surrounding and including the University, UCPD officers have the power to detain, arrest, and use force, an authority that has gone largely unchallenged—until recently.

The Campaign for Equitable Policing (CEP) was formed in 2013 after a number of community members across the South Side began sharing stories of routine harassment and intimidation. In particular, a number of young black students at high schools

in Kenwood and Woodlawn reported being stopped-and-frisked, told to stay away from campus, and even arbitrarily detained for “suspicious activity.” UCPD officers are able to get away with this aggressive style of policing often without any disciplinary recourse, since Illinois law does not require private police forces, including the UCPD, to disclose information about their practices.

In the spring of 2015, CEP was able to force the University to begin releasing limited incident report data for the UCPD. CEP played a crucial role in drafting campus police reform legislation that passed the Illinois House unanimously before stalling in the Senate. The University has since notably altered its style of policing, and traffic stop data suggests that the UCPD has moved away from intimidation tactics. Despite these changes, the UCPD still isn’t subject to the

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Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), making it impossible for the University to be held fully accountable for its policing practices.

Although the UCPD has a track record of obscuring data and shirking transparency, the University has traditionally provided some semblance of oversight power to students and community members. The Independent Review Committee (IRC), the body responsible for reviewing complaints filed against the UCPD, is the sole community-based check on the UCPD’s seemingly limitless authority (beyond that, it reports to the board of trustees of the University). Historically, the University has offered the student body some voice in the process of determining the membership of the IRC. Three seats out of 11 have typically been reserved for students who are appointed by our democratically elected Student Government. The rest of the committee is comprised of two staff members, three faculty members, and three community members, all historically

chosen by the Provost’s office.

In a dramatic power grab, the Provost’s office recently revoked the student body’s ability to directly nominate students to serve on the IRC. Effective this quarter, every member of the IRC will be appointed by the Provost’s office without any input from the student body. This effectively means that the Provost, an administrator accountable only to the 55 trustees of an elite private institution, has the power to make unilateral decisions about the composition of the IRC. That one person with no vested ties to the South Side other than a monetary interest in the University has the sole regulatory power over a police force with public power is ludicrous. Coupled with the fact that the IRC doesn’t actually have the authority to do anything beyond issuing recommendations, it is clear that there is nothing “independent” about the IRC—the power to discipline UCPD officers lies solely in the hands of administrators.

Unfortunately, the University of

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Chicago’s antagonistic attitude toward the community around it is nothing new. Ever since the Great Migration shifted the demographics of the mid-South Side from an affluent white area to one of the largest population centers of African-Americans in the country, the University has been diametrically opposed to the perceived threat of Black Chicago.

Although the institution has more recently put up a front of progressivism, touting Hyde Park’s economic vibrancy and racial diversity—a valid yet somewhat misleading claim—it is important to consider how it came to be that way. In the middle of the 20th century, the University, through its urban development arm, the Southeast Chicago Commission, advanced policies of urban renewal and adopted aggressive broken-windows policing. The result was the demolition of low-income housing and the displacement of thousands of poor African-Americans with the support of much of the South Side’s intelFORCE continued on page 7

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The shortfalls of the common cure Student Counseling Services ought to offer more treatment recommendations to students, including non-traditional options.

As a University of Chicago student, I, like many other students here, am often stressed and anxious about work. But because I also suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), everyday social interactions could be frightening and anxietyprovoking experiences for me. I grew up as a witness to and victim of chronic domestic violence, and the result was that my severe symptoms seriously inhibited my ability to live a normal life.

I tried counseling, but it was expensive and didn’t seem to provide the immediate and permanent relief I needed. However, I recently came across a treatment called Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), and decided to try it.

EMDR was significantly cheaper than other methods of treatment (it cost only $30 with my University Student Health Insurance Plan) and faster (involving only three 50-minute sessions). The

treatment was also unbelievably effective, helping me to resolve the symptoms of 19 years of trauma that would have taken perhaps a lifetime to treat with more traditional methods of therapy.

For those unfamiliar with EMDR, it’s an eight-phase psychotherapy treatment radically different from counseling or medication. Patients focus on a triggering memory that is at the center of their PTSD symptoms while simultaneously focusing on another stimulus, such as a pulsing light. This is repeated several times, with each individual treatment lasting 15-30 seconds. In each successive phase, the patient is asked to focus on a memory related to the triggering memory that was brought up by the initial treatment. This process is continued until the patient is desensitized, or no longer feels triggered by the original memory. Historically, twenty positive controlled outcome studies have been done

on EMDR, and millions of people have been cured of PTSD through the procedure.

However, my discovery of EMDR and my consequent relief from PTSD symptoms that I experienced, was more a product of luck than anything else.

Although the EMDR-certified therapist whom I worked with said that she has had a higher than 80 percent success rate with University of Chicago students, Student Counseling Services (SCS) had never mentioned EMDR as a treatment option for me. Out of the multiple therapists I saw for walk-in sessions, the staff members on call, and the psychiatrist who diagnosed me with PTSD and depression, all at SCS—no one suggested EMDR. The center only suggested “psychotherapy”—which to the layperson only signals traditional counseling— for treatment.

SCS referred me to seven psychologists, and I just happened

to set up a first time appointment with one of the only two EMDRcertified therapists in Hyde Park.

I found out about EMDR during our first session. SCS did not even distinguish her from the six others as able to provide a different kind of clinical service, so I did not realize the benefits I would receive when I initially chose to work with her.

Even if Student Counseling Services cannot directly provide EMDR therapy, it can at least more actively inform students of all their specific treatment options so that they can make the best decision regarding their health—especially when a particular therapy has a high success rate. The center can also incorporate emerging or different forms of therapy, such as integrative medicine, rather than continuing to recommend the same limited set of customary practices.

I shudder when I imagine my healing journey without EMDR.

I have transformed—now I am relaxed; the reoccurring flashbacks of violence and instability are gone; without mental blockages, I finally have full access to my cognitive abilities in the present. It is as if someone pressed a fast–forward button in my healing process. It would’ve been nightmarish to continue going through hours of talking through distressing memories on a couch, taking antidepressants and dealing with side effects like nausea and drowsiness. Yet every student I’ve encountered who has struggled with trauma went down that long and dreary road. I can only hope that SCS makes more people aware of another more effective, less draining alternative to traditional talk therapy and drugs.

forcing people to stay in Iraq and Syria will likely propagate terrorism further. ISIS wants the world to reject Muslims, to force the hand of innocent people trapped in this so-called caliphate with no way out. Families with no other means to survive will have no choice but to turn to ISIS. This is what happens when a family’s opportunity to flee from an oppressive and savage regime is taken away, when they are told that they don’t have the right to refuge in the United States, the supposed leader of the free world.

As H.R. 4038 moves to the Senate, take a moment and give thanks that you live in the US, where you aren’t living in constant fear of having your family torn apart by war. Everyone

should have the right to live free of terror, and your voice is vital to further this cause. Now that this bill has passed the House, it is up to Illinois’ Senators Kirk and Durbin to do the right thing and vote against this bill, and any subsequent efforts to limit refugee resettlement. The United States of America will and must continue to be a beacon of hope as we work to build a more peaceful world free of violent extremism. Welcoming refugees with open arms is the first step.

Jane Jun is a third-year in the College majoring in economics.

Locked doors, closed minds Turning away Syrian and Iraqi refugees propagates terrorism instead of curbing it.

This week, as we prepare for a holiday about giving thanks and as we travel to spend time with our family and friends, let’s think about those who cannot go home—the estimated nine million refugees who have been forced to leave Syria and Iraq.

These individuals are victims of a growing conflict that has turned their home into a war zone.

But some would have us believe that instead of doing the humanitarian thing, instead of helping those who need our assistance most, we should keep Syrians and Iraqis out of the United States.

Last week, Governor Bruce Rauner said that “the state of Illinois will temporarily suspend accepting new Syrian refugees and consider all of our legal options

pending a full review of our country’s acceptance and security processes by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.” Not only do governors have no right to turn away refugees, this statement is also exceedingly misleading.

Our screening policies for refugees are already far stricter than Europe’s, and the policy changes that are being proposed on Capitol Hill (namely in the form of H.R. 4038) will simply make the process even more difficult for the victims of the tragedies unfolding in the Middle East.

And while I am not an expert on the Middle East or foreign policy, I am an American and a descendant of political refugees.

Many members of my mother’s family fled Haiti in the 1960s

in order to escape Duvalier’s dictatorial regime. I often wonder what would have happened if my family hadn’t been able to escape to the US. Would I be alive? What about my aunt and cousins? As I watch the growing tide of anti-refugee sentiment in America, my heart breaks. I have been proud to call this country my home; I have been proud of its ideals of freedom and liberty and justice. But now, to watch the US turn its back on those most in need, it seems like our nation is losing its way.

Rejecting refugees won’t stop terrorism. It’s extremely unlikely that terrorists would undertake thetwo to three year resettlement process over simpler ways of entering the country. In fact,

Gabrielle Wimer is a fourthyear in the College majoring in History, Philosophy, and Social Science of Medicine.

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ligentsia—of both races. The often repeated quote, “black and white, standing shoulder to shoulder against the poor,” describes Hyde Park’s complex history quite well.

The UCPD is the modern manifestation of the University’s classist agenda. Comparing Hyde Park to surrounding community areas, it is evident that racial difference is not the only dissimilarity present; a marked class gap is perhaps the most salient distinction between Hyde Park and other South Side neighborhoods. Our community area has a median household income on par with the city of Chicago at large, whereas nearly half of Washington Park residents live in poverty. The rapid development of 53rd Street and the construction of upscale condominiums and businesses in Hyde Park in the coming years will likely exacerbate this economic segregation. The establishment of a Presidential Library on the South Side will undoubtedly have a similar effect as tourism to the region surges.

The fact that Hyde Park has one of

lowest crime rates on the South Side allows for the University to spearhead what increasingly appears to be a second wave of urban renewal—a yuppification of Hyde Park, per se. As opposed to forcibly kicking poor people out, the University is now attempting to bring rich people in.

The sense of safety that a private police force provides to the middle and upper classes is instrumental to this effort. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with Hyde Park’s low crime rate—certainly, low crime is ideal—operating an unaccountable police force is ethically questionable.

In resorting to such tactics, the University disavows its responsibility to the community that it supposedly anchors. Instead of focusing on economic development that benefits all South Siders, the University appears increasingly set on perpetuating urban renewal.

During fifth week, CEP organized a Week of Action, culminating in a demand that Provost Isaacs strengthen the oversight of the UCPD. The following Monday, Provost Isaacs

met with the Assembly of Student Government and faced scrutiny for undermining SG’s longstanding authority to nominate students to the IRC. In response to a question from a student regarding CEP’s request for a meeting, Isaacs outright refused to commit to having a meeting with the Campaign. Given his position as the overseer of what is effectively a public police force, his failure to engage with students and community members is cause for alarm. Continuing to ignore student and community demands for substantive representation on the IRC

is egregious, especially at a time when conversations about equitable policing are at the forefront of national politics. The Provost’s refusal to hold the UCPD accountable to students and community members has massive implications not just for racial justice, but also for the economic landscape of the Hyde Park–Kenwood neighborhood. Community development should be a democratic endeavor, one that takes into account the multifaceted history of the neighborhood and prioritizes the needs of residents over the motives of the University. A

fundamentally non-transparent IRC not only allows for racial profiling, but also more strikingly, completely cuts students and community members out of the process of shaping the future of the mid-South Side by allowing the capital of one institution to dictate policy on behalf of tens of thousands of people.

Cosmo Albrecht is a second-year in the College majoring in public policy.

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Cloud Nothings fill largely empty MAB show with punk rock energy Andrew McVea Arts Editor I feel that I should start off this review by giving a big shout-out to MAB for diversifying their lineup for this year’s fall show. Instead of an EDM artist opening for a rapper like the previous two fall concerts and last Summer Breeze, MAB brought electronic/R&B artist How to Dress Well (HTDW) to open for punk rock band Cloud Nothings. It was almost the antithesis of the normal MAB lineup and a welcome stylistic departure that hopefully sets a precedent for the representation of more genres at future MAB events.

Unfortunately, MAB’s efforts to diversify the lineup did not increase the amount of interest in the show. While attendance was certainly impacted by the poor weather that evening, I’ve seen bigger crowds for bands at Bar Night. This pitiful turnout sends the wrong message–that MAB should stick with its formula, even if it means scraping the bottom of the barrel to get good acts (I’m looking at you, Pusha T). That said, the acts were somewhat from out of left field.

After the opening DJ, HTDW took the stage, dressed in classic indie fashion, with skinny jeans and a white t-shirt on top. HTDW is the stage name of Chicagoan Tom Krell, who was joined onstage only by his drummer and two mics. His soft voice glided over dreamy synths, reminding me of some of James Blake’s better recordings.

The set was surprisingly intimate: the small crowd clustered close to the stage, and Krell engaged well

with the audience. At one point, he even had an impromptu Q&A session with the crowd—surprisingly, no one asked him how to dress well.

However, stuck between punk rockers and a DJ, HTDW felt a bit out of place. The crowd was already hyped from opening act Boi Jeanius, and instead of keeping the energy going, HTDW was a much slower act. Try as he might, HTDW never got the crowd’s undivided attention, and certain spots that could have been concert highlights— such as one part when he left his mic setup to finish a song acapella at the front of the stage—were largely drowned out by the slightly-inebriated audience. As fun as they were, HTDW never really hit their stride until the last song, “Words I Don’t Remember,” a song whose beat was just heavy enough to get people dancing again.

Next onstage was the headliner, Cloud Nothings. Unlike HTDW, Cloud Nothings sprinted through their set, wasting no time on crowd banter. I can’t really comment on the quality of Cloud Nothings musically—only one or two of their songs really jumped out at me as particularly memorable—but what I will say, though, is that they succeeded in creating a charged atmosphere. As they started their first song, the center of the crowd immediately descended into a giant mosh pit that lasted nearly the entire evening.

The concert from this point on was a blur of killer basslines, driving guitars, and flailing bodies struggling to stay upright.

Like HTDW, Cloud Nothings’ final song was a high point of their set. A mix of a couple of their songs, it seemed to go on forever in the best kind

of way, with initial guitar riffs bleeding into a slower bridge. This was overtaken by an explosive drum solo, which kept the energy high until the end of the concert.

While the attendees seemed to have a rocking time, leaving Mandel sore but satisfied, the concert ended up being a rather niche affair. The crowd was overwhelmingly white and male. While MAB has included many females acts in the past—last year’s winter comedy show featured Sasheer Za-

mata and Summer Breeze’s headliner was Azealia Banks—the last woman to appear onstage at the fall show was the leader singer of Sleigh Bells in 2012. Hopefully as MAB diversifies musically, they will diversify demographically too.

It’s not yet clear how Cloud Nothings and HTDW will fit into the history of MAB shows, but we can only hope it’s an experiment that foreshadows a new wave of MAB lineups—not just a blip on the radar in a sea of rap and EDM.

Cloud Nothings headline MAB's fall show on a snowy Saturday evening.

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PanAsian comedy features alumna If it ain't Baroque, don't fix it Austin Lai Arts Contributor "Any Netflix and Chill? Youtube and Hang?

Like, if it’s finals week, maybe just Vine and a Fingerbang?”

In the midst of Econ majors and anxious premed students, you wouldn’t think that comedy would be prevalent at a place where “fun comes to die.” But last Wednesday night, the first-ever female Asian American stand-up comedy group, Disoriented Comedy, had the audience in FXK Theater roaring with laughter.

PanAsia, the RSO dedicated to promoting panAsian and Asian-Pacific Islander culture, invited the group, featuring Ceda Xiong, an alumna of the College (A.B.’05), as well as Jenny Yang, whose videos have been featured on Buzzfeed. Disoriented Comedy, which started in the summer of 2012, addresses diverse topics such as race, sexuality, and gender through comedy.

To kick off the evening, third-year Albert Nam, a member of Off-Off Campus, performed a comedy routine about his East Asian family—specifically the beliefs of his mother and father.

“My mom swears by red ginseng; it’ll cure cancer and make you really hot. The only television shows that she watches are these Asian health shows that will tell you that this will cure cancer and that this will also cure cancer. And so there are just so many things that cure cancer that we don’t know about because we don’t watch these shows but my mom does.”

Next was stand-up from Prateek Srivastava, a member of the stand-up comedy group Simmer

Brown, based in downtown Chicago. He gave a brief rundown of his Indian parents and life.

“My name is Prateek Srivastava, a very traditional Indian name, given to me by my Indian parents… Nick and Sheila. What the fuck happened there? I did a show recently where the host mispronounced my name; the struggle is real. I spent 20 minutes training the host how to say my name and then finally, the host says: ‘ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Petit Sriracha!”

Xiong took the mic after Srivastava. She addressed gentrification in Wicker Park and, upon asking about life at the university, ultimately concluded that “there is no sex at U of C! So things have not changed!” She shared stories of her postgraduate life living in Chicago and LA and was always prepared to make fun of her Chinese heritage and the stereotypes that accompany it. “I got so offended when people would ask me where I was from that I forgot that I was born in China,” she quipped.

Last up was Yang, who talked about body image and her life as a “political Asian” at Swarthmore College, her alma mater. She brought up topics such as Tinder and asserted that, too often, “We [Asians] have opinions but we don’t say anything.”

In the Q&A after the show, Yang talked about her ambitions and why she left her political career for comedy: “I got the fuck out—I thought life was too short and people said I was funny. I tried it and thought ‘this shit is scary as fuck,’ which means I’ll grow. And then I did it.”

In a world where Asian comedians are underrepresented, Disoriented Comedy is paving the way for more people of color to pursue comedy.

CORRECTIONS The article published on November 16 about the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra mistakenly referred to the orchestra as the "Israeli Philharmonic."

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Michael Stubna Arts Contributor For Friday night’s concert, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) pulled off a fantastic program of Baroque and Classical music. I arrived at Symphony Center full of anticipation: skilled soloists, interpretations respectful of stylistic conventions of the composer’s time, and a dynamic, well-balanced sound have defined my previous experiences with the CSO. Friday’s program of time-honored masterworks by Mozart, Telemann, Tartini, and Bach under Pinchas Zukerman was, for the most part, no exception.

Mozart’s well-known overture to The Magic Flute, first on the program, immediately showcased the stylistic capability, balance, and coordination of the orchestra. The string and woodwind sections showed superb articulation, and the brass section delivered a distinctly Classical, rounded forte sound.

Particularly well-executed was the transition from the iconic opening chords to the fast section containing the theme. To me, these chords are rather like those at the beginning of the Largo in Dvorak’s New World Symphony: they signal that something special is about to happen, and the rest of the rendition was special indeed. Some say this piece is overplayed but this rendition served as a reminder of why it is so often performed.

Exchanging his baton for a viola, Zukerman led Telemann’s four-movement Viola Concerto in G major in a way that can only be described as quintessentially Baroque. By design, the accompaniment is a smaller group of strings and continuo, creating an intimate setting. While such settings can sometimes lead to imbalances between the string parts, Zukerman’s accompaniment was a cohesive, sensitive force. It was also satisfying to hear that, in keeping with the Baroque style, the orchestra performed with an even, metronomic tempo and within a varied but narrower dynamic range.

An impromptu but informative story-time with Zukerman followed to allow the concertmaster a minute to replace a broken string before the next piece: Giuseppe Tartini’s Pastorale, orchestrated

by Ottorino Respighi. In particular, the audience

learned about the nontraditional tuning and fingering required for the Tartini—the soloist must tune his bottom two strings up one semitone to allow for easier execution of chords in the key of A. The Tartini was a light, spirited piece sounding rather like Vivaldi. Zukerman, however, gave unequal treatment to certain passages in the thirdmovement Largo, obscuring his interpretive intent. As a whole, though, the solo part was played dulcetly and served as a reminder that expressive, emotive playing can occur within the strict structure of Baroque music.

Next came a rendition of J. S. Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, played by Zukerman and CSO associate concertmaster Stephanie Jeong.

The first movement is exciting precisely because of its insistent quality, the two violins trading identical fragments of the theme like a well-planned game of catch. The Largo as played by the CSO struck me as much too fast, too legato in the accompaniment, and disproportionately loud in the bass section; preserving articulation in the accompaniment and not rushing this movement is essential for the expression of its lyrical and moving nature. The final movement, however, was played in perfect Baroque style with superb coordination between the two soloists.

Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 proved an exciting finale, skillfully embodying the mood and style of Mozart’s later works. The work was composed in a few short weeks during the summer of 1788 along with Symphonies No. 40 and 41. I have heard recordings of this symphony that rush the first movement’s beautiful opening chords, recordings with little to no vibrato in the upper strings, and other faults that can take away from the complexity and beauty of the work. It is no surprise, though, that the CSO under Zukerman’s baton again showed mastery of the Classical style. Nothing was missing from this memorable rendition.

In recent years, the CSO has programmed plenty of Romantic-era music—lots of Mahler, lots of Tchaikovsky, lots of Rachmaninov. While those composers’ masterworks deserve to be performed, it is gratifying to be reminded of the genius of earlier composers.

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Photos taken by MFA student Vidura Jang Bahadur on the wall of his Logan studio.

Original correspondance from the Renaissance Society, on show in Midway Studios.

Negative Scanner performs in Midway Studios to promote Let Us Celebrate While Youth Lingers and Ideas Flow, Archives 1915-2015, on view until December 20.

Inside view of MFA studios on the second floor of Logan.

John Lydon and Public Image Ltd are still What the World Needs Now...

Miriam Benjamin Associate Arts Editor I walked up to the Concord Music Hall to see Public Image Ltd, and I was struck by how geriatric the crowd was. I mean, I knew it was gonna be a lot of old dude punks, but it was surprising to see that so many of them were still willing to rage.

I was only there because I wanted to see John Lydon in action. Public Image Ltd (PiL) is Lydon’s band and has been since the Sex Pistols imploded in 1978 (in the Sex Pistols he was lead singer Johnny Rotten). I like PiL casually, probably less than I should. I was there because of Lydon’s reputation as a live performer, a reputation he staked out for himself during his tenure in the Sex Pistols.

I’m not sure what I was expecting—after all, at 59, Lydon’s pretty old. He’s had his famously disgusting teeth redone. At the gig, he wore bright turquoise reading glasses, which he needed because he had all his lyrics in a big binder on a music stand. He had some kind of a cold, so he kept plugging one nostril and shooting snot out of the other one. Occasionally the snot landed inside the

onstage garbage can, but most of the time it decorated the floor. In the middle of the show, he sniffed some nasal spray, muttering something about how it was from Walgreens.

I was boggled. Like, this is Johnny Rotten.

“There ain’t no future in England’s dreaming,” “I am an Antichrist”—he authored all that call-to-arms, incendiary punk shit, and here I was listening to him politely discourse on Walgreens nasal spray.

Lydon’s schnoz aside, PiL just put out their tenth album (What the World Needs Now…).

They’re a mature band for mature people. I shouldn’t have come expecting punk antics, but I inadvertently witnessed a few: a woman started screaming “Johnnyyyy!” at Lydon, who stopped shuffling his lyric sheets and straightened up. His beady eyes widened and lasered in on an audience member to my left. “Shaaat aahp,” he drawled, “That’s soooo fucking off-putting.” The voice subsided. Although Lydon grinned and grumbled “Oh, carry on,” I heard no more highpitched “Johnnys” for the rest of the night.

Too bad: a little more hostility could’ve gone a long way towards livening things up.

PiL proved that even the most off-the-wall, meticulously textured genius gets a little ho-hum if you do it for long enough; they played for an hour and 20 minutes before the encore, and only about 15 minutes of it was exciting. Lydon’s a powerful and distinctive vocalist, obviously—PiL wouldn’t still be around today without his atonal caterwaul. But although his voice is immediately gripping, it wears quickly. I was done when Lydon started furiously wiggling his jowls to produce a more intense vibrato.

The most egregious bore of all was “Religion,” from PiL’s first album, Public Image.

On the record, “Religion I” is a snappy denouncement of hypocrisy in the church; live, it transformed into a ten-minute improv fest, featuring an electric stand-up bass and a guitar being played with a hand-held fan, primary color lights and all.

Then there was the obligatory new album stuff. Unfortunately for PiL, only two of those songs deserved a live outing. “Double Trouble” has a tongue-in-cheek, benignly aggressive spoken word introduction (“What, you fuckin’ nagging again?”) and “Shoom” featured the rousing cry, “what the

world needs now is another FUCK OFF!” The others—“Bettie Page,” “Know Now,” and “Corporate”—were merely repetitions of better PiL songs, and they droned on endlessly.

Yet it always astounds me how much I’m capable of forgiving after a lights-out encore. PiL finished with “Public Image” and “Rise.” “Public Image” is a howling, accusatory number that, thematically, fit in with the songs from the rest of the set. But some combination of a lot of practice on Lydon’s part (incredibly, it’s been a set list staple since it was written 37 years ago) and increased audience participation made “Public Image” more powerful than any of the songs that came before.

Until “Rise,” that is. “Rise” is the only gorgeous song PiL has—the gently-strummed major chords felt cathartic after what seemed like an eternity of bony basslines and nonstop hi-hat banging. Lyrically, “Rise” is everything Lydon had been trying to say in a single song : use your anger to make a difference in the world. But, he adds with a figurative wink, don’t take it from him—he’s just an old geezer who used to be in a punk band.

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Team defends home pool in dominating fashion at Phoenix Classic SWIMMING

Fourth-year Thomas Meeke competes at a meet earlier this season.

COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

Helen Petersen Sports Editor

For the past two years, the Phoenix Fall Classic has been a time for the Maroons to showcase the work and improvement the team has developed in the early autumn season, providing a glimpse of what one can expect come late winter when postseason competition is on the line.

Amid some of the best teams in the nation, this unveiling of talent takes place in the MyersMcLoraine Pool, a setting Chi-

cago is all too familiar with.

This year proved to be more of the same with both the men and women coming away with dominant first place finishes among a field of eight teams.

The women won with a score of 1124, while the men swam away with a score of 1168. The second-placed teams scored 632.5 and 423, respectively. This stands as the third consecutive year that the South Siders have taken home gold in both the women’s and men’s competitions in their home pool.

“Our team started off the sea-

son with some great dual meets (it was the best start we have had since I’ve been here), and I think we were really excited to see how fast we could go with a couple days of rest,” third-year Alison Wall said on the Maroon’s approach to this meet, and they certainly followed through.

Heading into this weekend, the Maroons have been led by breakout performances from rookies. Alexander Farrell, Michael Todd, Cecile Kurman-Browning, Naomy Grand’Pierre, David Farr, Hannah Eastman, Winston Wang,

Stephen Park, Darla Wick, Christina Cheng, and Anna Girlich were all first-years with first place finishes under their belts prior to the Phoenix Fall Classic.

This weekend, however, the upperclassmen found their stride, combining with the talented first-years to bring home 31 first-place finishes for the Maroon squad.

Over the three-day competition, fourth-year Thomas Meeke, a member of the 400yard freestyle National Championship team from last year,

brought home seven first-place finishes. Meeke also secured NCAA B-cuts in the 100-yard freestyle and 50-yard freestyle, as well as in a handful of relay events.

Even though Meeke had the most notable wins, first-year powerhouse Alexander Farrell was not to be forgotten. Farrell also earned B cuts in the 100-yard freestyle and 50-yard freestyle while joining Meeke in many of the qualifying relays.

Farrell earned five victories over the weekend. The weekend also saw broken school records: firstyear Michael Todd smashed the 1,000-yard freestyle and the 1,650-yard freestyle, while second-year Alex Lin bested the 200-yard backstroke.

First-year Keenan Novis spoke to the squad’s preparation when he said, “I would attribute the team’s success to all the hard training that we have put in throughout our 8 weeks. This includes two doubles practices per week.”

Wall had a bit of a different take, saying, “I think the thing that contributed the most to our success this weekend was the amount of support we had for each other.”

The women also had an outstanding match, registering eight individual wins in the pool and a victory in the 3m dive event by first-year Anna Girlich.

One area in particular that the women have shone in is the relays: they swam away with the

800-yard freestyle, the 200-yard medley, the 400-yard freestyle, the 200-yard freestyle, and the 400-yard medley. Stand-outs include third-year Maya Scheidl who contributed to four Maroon victories, Wall with her addition of five wins, and first-year Daria Wick, who chipped in another four.

Naturally, the squad is excited about the wins, but more importantly, 16 South Siders made NCAA B-cut times in 23 events, as well as five relay events. Ten women and the 800yard freestyle relay made the cut, while six men and four of their relay teams achieved times that qualified.

Both Wall and Novis mentioned the goals of the youngteam for the coming year, and they certainly look to be in the cards for the Maroons. “Moving ahead, our goals are to keep working hard and giving 100 percent at practice every day, so hopefully we can swim even faster at UAAs,” Wall said. Novis echoed her sentiments when he said, “our men’s team goal is to beat our second place finish from last year. We look forward to our coming months of training!”

Luckily for Novis, Chicago has a long time until their next meet: they will face Lewis/ Olivet Nazarene on January 9 at 1 p.m. The team will have a solid rest and hopefully a relaxing holiday break before they take to their home pool again.

Maroons cap off season with trip to nationals

Chicago off to best start since 2011

CROSS COUNTRY

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Michael Cheiken Sports Staff

This past Saturday the men’s and women’s cross country teams travelled to Winneconne, WI to participate in the NCAA Division III Championships. It is the second time that Chicago has sent representatives from both the men’s and the women’s squads to the final meet. The past five seasons have ushered the women to the postseason, but it was the men’s first NCAA Championship since 2013. The 2013 season was also the most successful for the Maroons; the women placed fourth and the men were 28th. Both squads looked to best these performances.

The women raced first, and turned in an admirable performance. First-year Khia Kurtenbach headlined the Maroons, placing 25th in the meet. Her time of 21:41.60 in the 6K earned her All-American honors. The Chicago field was then rounded out by fourth-year Brianna Hickey, second-year Claire Costelloe, second-year Kelsey Dunn, fourth-year Catherine Young, third-year Madeleine Horvath, and second-year Cas-

sidy McPherson respectively.

The women took home 18th place in a field of 32 teams.

While the Lake Breeze Golf Club provided the locale for Hickey and Young’s final collegiate race, it was also a proving ground for the Maroons who showed great signs of strength for the future. Three of the team’s top five finishers are only second-years.

As the Maroons ran, they were rallied on by their other teammates and fans who drove up to Wisconsin that morning.

The atmosphere was electric.

Not only were the Chicagoans there, but each of the 32 teams brought along their own venerable cheering squad, making for an absolutely blistering event.

The women relished the audience.

Horvath commented that it was “super nice of our teammates and fans to drive up and cheer us on,” especially since “it was cold as balls.”

Immediately after the conclusion of the women’s 6K, the men’s team stepped up to the starting line. Unfortunately, disaster struck early for the Maroons. As the pack of 278 runners approached the first turn of the race, one of the leading

runners fell. Fourth-year Michael Frasco was able to avoid the fallen runner, but the other South Siders were not as lucky.

The rest of the team got caught in the fray and tumbled to the floor. Pushed to the back of the pack, frazzled, and tired from the collision the Maroon team struggled to make up the necessary ground. Frasco placed well earning 78th with a time of 25:24.90, but the rest of the squad was not as lucky, falling behind in the pack. Disappointed, yet understanding, the Chicago men took 31st place in the field of 32 teams.

First-year runner Owen Melia echoed Minnie’s sentiments, after driving up the morning of the meet to watch his teammates race. “It was so great to see the teams race on the biggest stage this weekend. The energy from the field and the crowd was amazing.”

Much like any other sport, the experience gained from participating in a national championship is truly immeasurable. As such, having both the men and women reach nationals this year not only speaks to the quality of this year’s teams, but also provides hope for the years to come.

Michael Hinkley Sports Staff

The Maroons kept rolling over the weekend with back-toback home wins in the UChicago Classic tournament at the Ratner Center. Chicago dominated from start to finish in both contests, taking substantial leads into halftime and never giving them up. The Maroons improved to 3–0 for the season, their best start since 2011.

On Friday, the squad defeated the Milwaukee School of Engineering, dropping the Raiders to 0–1 for the year. The Maroons led by as many as 20 points in the fourth quarter, and eventually secured a 76–67 victory.

Continuing a season trend, underclassmen performed strongly for the Maroons on Friday. Second-year guard Elizabeth Nye racked up a team-leading 17 points, including a trio of three-point buckets. Additionally, first-year forward Olariche Obi was an impact player off the bench, recording 14 points and 15 rebounds to complete the double-double.

“It is a great feeling to contribute as a freshman,” Obi said. “I love my team and it is wonderful

to know that I can make a difference.”

Third-year Stephanie Anderson also scored a double-double on Friday, tallying 15 points and 11 rebounds in an impressive 34 minutes of court time. In addition, fourth-year Caitlin Moore managed to score 10 points of her own.

After a quick turnaround, Chicago took on UW–Stevens Point on Saturday. The Pointers, who managed to upset No. 5 Wash U on Friday, couldn’t handle the persistent defense of the Maroons. In the end, the South Siders cruised to a 63–40 win, dropping their opponents to a record of 2–1.

Offensively, Chicago was led

by Nye and third-year forward Britta Nordstrom, who accumulated 21 and 17 points, respectively. Obi was once again a factor off the bench, banking 10 points and shooting 4–5 from the free-throw line.

As a whole, the team was very efficient, posting a 51 percent field goal percentage for the afternoon. They hit five key threepoint jumpers, which swung the momentum in their favor.

Yet defense was the strongest phase for the Maroons on Saturday. The South Siders held their

opponents to 51–13 shots from the field, which translates to a rate of just 26%. The squad also swiped 10 steals from the Pointers and forced 22 turnovers.

This success was largely due to the pestering backcourt defense of guards Anderson, Nye, and second-year Madison Dunbar.

Reflecting on the pair of victories, Obi said, “It always feels great to win, and I think our pre-season preparation as well as the gains made in the last couple weeks had a lot to do with this weekend’s performance.”

The Maroons will look to keep their string of victories going on Tuesday when they face off against UT Dallas at home.

The Comets enter the contest with a similar undefeated record of 3–0. In order to keep their winning streak alive, the Maroons will need to continue playing stout defense against their opponents who have averaged 72 points per game to start the year.

Chicago will take on the Comets of UT Dallas on Tuesday, November 24 at 4 p.m. at the Gerald Ratner Athletics Center. This will be a historic occasion, as this is the first ever meeting between these two squads.

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SENIOR SPOTLIGHT

JASMINE MOBLEY

VOLLEYBALL: MOBLEY CONCLUDES STELLAR CAREER

Mobley spikes the ball in an upset victory over Hope during the 2015 season.

COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

Emmett Rosenbaum Sports Staff For the past four years, Jasmine Mobley has manned the left corner of the volleyball court next to the net. The fourth-year outside hitter has been a key cog of the Maroon

machine for her entire time in college, racking up the kills that placed her 9th in school history and earned her two All-UAA honorable mention accolades.

Luckily, the squad was able to send the fourth-year and two other classmates off on

a good note as they defeated Wheaton on Senior Day. Another high point of this season for Mobley was almost certainly when Chicago took down No. 3 Hope and the hitter registered 21 kills, which was a season high. But simply focusing on this final

season wouldn’t do justice to the well-rounded fourthyear.

Since arriving at the school in 2012, Mobley’s time on the Ratner courts has been an integral part of her growth as a student as well as an athlete. “Volleyball has been a pivotal part of my experience as a UChicago student,” she observed. “Even greater than the success on the court have been the lessons learned and the relationships developed as a student athlete.”

As she gets set to depart from Chicago in the spring, she will leave behind a strong legacy with the volleyball team, and her presence at the top of the net will undoubtedly be missed by her teammates. She ranked second on the team in kills this year and was a key component for a team that reached the NCAA tournament.

However, Mobley’s success extends off the court as well. An economics major, she is involved in many different business extracurriculars around campus. “I am a member of UChicago Careers in Business,” Mobley noted. “UCIB has been an instrumental part of my time as a student here.” Her focus on business acumen extends

to other clubs including the UChicago Sports Business Team and Women in Business.

Mobley takes her time away from the court very seriously. “I think that we make time for things that are important to us,” states the hitter who averaged almost three kills-per-set this year.

“For me, the opportunity to go out on the court and represent the University and the Maroon volleyball program has always been incredibly important, as is the opportunity to take advantage of the incredible resources, professors, and fellow students that this amazing University has to offer.”

On top of her academic groups, Jasmine also gives back to the school and community. “I am involved as a mentor in the program to younger students, and also spend significant time volunteering for several charities that are very near and dear to my heart.” She is also involved in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, serving as the co-founder of the chapter on campus.

Being able to maintain this balance has been of the most important parts of Mobley’s time at Chicago. “For me, the

biggest thing has been making sure that I always found time for the things that are important to me,” she emphasized. “In doing that I’ve been incredibly happy and had an awesome time here.”

This is why Jasmine has worked to make the most of her time at the University and in the city. “I spend as much time as possible exploring the beautiful city of Chicago and all that it has to offer, as well as spending time with some of the amazing friends I’ve made during my time as a student here.”

Mobley will leave her volleyball career behind as she prepares to graduate from the University, but she already has her sights set on the future. “After graduation I am moving to New York and beginning a career in investment banking–leveraged finance. I couldn’t be happier.”

She leaves behind a team that never placed lower than fourth in the UAA, and has made the NCAA tournament every year that she has been on the squad. The fourth-year’s record stands at 102–48; Mobley brought a legacy of winning that will certainly be missed next year.

South Siders look ahead to Squad splits dual meet against Pacific Lutheran tournament Millikin & Concordia MEN’S BASKETBALL Alec Miller Sports Staff

This past weekend the UChicago men’s basketball team played on both ends of the spectrum. The team spilt the two games they played in the North Central Tournament. The South Siders suffered a loss to Mount Union (74–58), who is ranked seventh in DIII national rankings, this past Friday. On the other hand, they were victorious against North Central on Saturday (74–58). Chicago will look to follow up this win with a couple more this weekend. They will be playing a set of games in the Pacific Lutheran Thanksgiving Tournament.

In the loss to Mount Union, the Maroons played hard but couldn’t stop a very good Mount Union group.

Chicago was only able to shoot 30 percent from the field, while Mount Union shot 47 percent. This was apparent in the second half when Mount Union pulled away, outscoring the Maroons 47–32.

After this disappointing

loss, the Maroons were able to hop back on the horse thanks to great play out of their veteran players. Fourthyear forward Alex Voss scored 11 points and grabbed the seven boards in the win.

Voss was awarded the tournament MVP honors for his stellar play over the weekend.

In addition to Voss’s honors, fourth-year guard Jordan Smith was also named to the All-Tournament team.

Nothing says Thanksgiving more than college basketball. This Thanksgiving, the Maroons will head off to Seattle to play against Pacific Lutheran and Puget Sound.

Second-year forward Collin Barthel has made a good contribution for the Maroons so far this season, averaging seven points and five rebounds a game. He is ready for the chance to play in the tournament. “Team morale is pretty high and everyone is excited for the trip,” Barthel said.

Pacific Lutheran comes into the tournament with a record of 2–0. This will be a tough game for the Maroons, who are just 2-2 on the season. Pacific Lutheran is also hosting the tournament,

WRESTLING which could prove to be an advantage.

Pacific Lutheran gets to eat Thanksgiving dinner with their families, while the Maroons will be celebrating on the road. The team, however, is looking at the positives of trip rather then the negatives.

“It is hard to not go home to see our families, but we’ll still have a good holiday,” Barthel said. Barthel didn’t forget to mention his favorite thing to eat on Thanksgiving.

“Of course turkey with gravy is my favorite thing to eat,” Barthel added. “I hope they will be serving it in Seattle.”

Chicago’s other opponent this week, Puget Sound, comes into the tournament with a record of 2–1. Puget Sound is coming off a loss in their last game and is sure to be eager to get back to their winning ways against the Maroons.

The South Siders will tipoff 10 p.m. on Friday against Pacific Lutheran. Then on Saturday, the team will tipoff against Puget Sound at 4 p.m. After the set of weekend games, the team will play at Wheaton on Wednesday, December 2.

Michael Perry Sports Staff

This Saturday, the Maroons competed in two different events: the Concordia (WI) Open and the Millikin Duals. Both were tough matchups filled with strong competition for the South Siders, who were forced to split the team into two squads so they could compete at both meets simultaneously, When asked if he thought this weekend was a successful one for the wrestling Maroons, second-year Nick Ferraro responded, “I think so. We split our team in two so we didn’t have full strength presence at either event. But we had a couple strong appearances out of us and Paul Papoutsis took third in arguably one of the toughest tournaments of the year.”

Paul Papoutis, a third-year, competed in the 174-pound bracket at the Concordia Open, where he started the day 3–0 before losing in the semifinals.

He would ultimately claim third place via the consolation bracket. Chicago competes in the Open annually, and third is the highest a Maroon has ever placed, which bodes well for the

third-year who will look to compete at a national level.

The Millikin Duals were equally tough, as the South Siders fell to Millikin 41–4 and Truman State 42–7, before emerging victorious against Calumet of St. Joseph 33–18. The Maroons may have been caught off guard by Milikin: The Big Blue brought back their wrestling program this year for the first time since 2008.

Fourth-year Steven Franke won his match against Millikin in a 13–4 major decision, while first-year Mason Williams and second-year Nicholas DiNapoli both won their matches against Truman State. However, these were the only bright spots in the two matches for Chicago, as the South Siders lost the other 17 matches, four by forfeit.

Williams and Franke also won their matches against Calumet, accompanied by firstyears Louis DeMarco, Patrick Mulkerin, and Joseph Scheidt as well as second-year Kavan Mulloy. This match was also filled with forfeits; only four of the ten matches actually went to the mats, and one of those four ended in an injury default.

Despite the disappointing results the team is staying posi-

tive. “Both events turned out to be pretty tough,” DeMarco said.

“Everyone took some losses, but we saw improvement between each match.”

This Maroons’ wrestling team is a young one, with many members still getting acclimated to collegiate wrestling. The 29-man roster has only six fourth-years and four third-years.

“Having the freshmen helps with getting more…new styles of wrestling to practice against and really diversifies our team,” Ferraro said.

Despite the weekend, DeMarco said the team, especially the first-years, are learning and getting better, “A lot of us are still getting used to wrestling college matches and Coach [Leo] Kocher’s style. Everyone has a positive mindset and is moving in the right direction, though.”

This positive mindset is important, as the season is still young and there is a lot of wrestling left to do.

Chicago will have Thanksgiving break to recover and will return to action December 5 at the Milwaukee School of Engineering Invitational in Milwaukee, WI with the first match starting at 9 a.m.

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SPORTS

IN QUOTES “I feel like Terrell Owens. I’m near tears over Romo’s return ‘He’s my quarterback...’”

-@SkipBayless reacts to the return of Tony Romo as quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys

What are you thankful for?

With Thanksgiving just two days away, we asked UChicago student-athletes what they are thankful for this holiday season.

I am thankful for the whole athletic department, from facilities to the training room staff to administration, who make playing the sports we love possible.

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Jordan Poole (Softball ’16)

I’m thankful for all the friends I’ve made during my journey as a Maroon. Through all the peaks and valleys, my friends have always been there for me and have made my UChicago experience truly one of a kind. #RollRoons – Burke Moser (Football ’17) I am thankful for being an American and all of the freedoms that come with being an American, for having a military that so selflessly sacrifices themselves so that all Americans can enjoy their freedom, and for my family and my friends who I know always have my back.

I am thankful that I have clothes to wear, food to eat, the privilege of playing collegiate sports, the opportunity to earn an education, and family and friends to love unconditionally.

– Hill Bonin (Soccer ’18)

I am thankful for my crazy teammates and the support UChicago provides for its athletes.

– Rachel Kim (Tennis ’19)

– Robert Scherl (Baseball ’17)

I am thankful for my Maroon family. A tight circle that takes a special person to be apart of, but once you see the beauty in this spectacular community you really feel a sense of belonging. #RollRoons – Collin Barthel (Basketball ’18)

I am thankful for how lucky I have been. Being sorrounded by wonderful teammates at a supportive institution where I can challenge myself in however I choose is a phenomenal blessing.

– Michael Frasco (Cross Country ’19)

I am thankful for being on a team with people who are good people on and off the court. Also, I am thankful that everyone is goal-oriented and we can all work towards our goals together.

– Nick Chua (Tennis ’18)

I am thankful for my teammates because they are the quirkiest and most fun people around.

I am truly able to be myself around them and have so much fun while working hard every day to achieve our goals.

– Caitlin Moore (Basketball ’16)

I am thankful for Kathryn the trainer. Without her my bum hip would be even bummier. Thanks Kathryn! You rock!

10/10 would recommend.

– Ola Obi (Basketball ’19)

I am thankful for my family, friends, and not having to make weight right after Thanksgiving like I did in high school.

– Paul Papoutsis (Wrestling ’17) I am thankful for my health and the people in my life who are most important to me -- my friends and my family. They support me and love me in all of my weirdness. From my obtuse facial expressions to my extreme gullibility, they accept me and make me feel loved.

– Whitley Cargile (Soccer ’18)

I am thankful for Oscar and the crew because there is always fresh laundry after practice.

– Josh Parks (Baseball ’19)