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University’s new “Promise” to eliminate loans, add resources for local students Rebecca Gutterman News Editor

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer announce plans to financially assist students from the City of Chicago with no-loan financial aid packages.

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The University and Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an umbrella program yesterday that will group together financial, academic, and application resources for potential applicants to the U of C and similar institutions under one name: UChicago Promise.

Part of the program will replace loans with grants for all admitted students from Chicago, ensuring that Second City natives will graduate from the University debt-free.

The program answers a call from the Mayor to local universities to make themselves more accessible to Chicago students, according to University spokesperson Steve Kloehn.

The impetus for the launch of UChicago Promise also came from a study by the University’s

own Consortium on Chicago School Research which found that only 28 percent of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) students who are qualified to attend a selective college enrolled in one.

UChicago Promise also includes an automatic waiver of the U of C’s $75 application fee for local students, a new Admissions Academy to help with the college application process, and a set of Jeff Metcalf internships that will recruit students from the College to work on the Promise programs.

The Promise will also bring preexisting scholarships for Chicago students, the Neighborhood Schools Program, the Collegiate Scholars Program, and similar opportunities already scattered throughout the U of C infrastructure under a new Web site that will make opportunities the University PROMISE continued on page 2

Trial may lower birth control costs Uncommon: Arley D. Cathey Emma Dries News Contributor The University of Chicago Medical Center is currently one of 16 sites participating in a clinical trial, run by nonprofit pharmaceutical company Medicines 360, being conducted to put another IUD on the market.

IUDs, or intrauterine devices, are small, plastic, t-shaped devices that are inserted into the uterus to prevent pregnancy. According to a study published in May by the New England Journal of Medicine, IUDs can be up to 20 times more effective in preventing pregnancy than oral contraceptives, such as the pill. Addi-

tionally, unlike the pill, which must be taken each day, IUDs once inserted can last from five to 12 years, according to Planned Parenthood.

That effectiveness and convenience comes with a more expensive price tag. One of the two IUDs currently available in the United States, Mirena, a hormonal IUD, costs $843.60 without insurance, according to the Mirena website. “[Mirena is] incredibly expensive, even for people with insurance, which makes it very cost-prohibitive for a very ideal segment of IUD users— young women,” said Stephanie Mistretta, senior clinical researcher in the Department of OB-GYN at the University of

Chicago hospital. The trial was conducted on women ages 1635, the target consumers.

Medicines 360, a San Fransisco-based company, is looking to change that by creating an IUD that, except for the type of plastic and inserter, is functionally identical to Mirena, only without the cost barrier. “They have developed essentially the same thing and believe they’re going to be able to market it for less than a quarter of the cost,” Mistretta said.

So far, the U of C branch of the study has enrolled approximately 30 women for the six-year trial. Although many participants are associated IUD continued on page 2

Journalist steps back in time Anastasia Kaiser News Contributor Paul Salopek, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and National Geographic fellow, spoke about his upcoming trek across the world at a lecture at International House last night.

Salopek plans to shadow the first human who migrated out of Africa some 50,000 years ago in a seven-year adventure that will begin in the Horn of Africa and conclude in South

America. As he retraces the journeys of our ancestors, he plans to capture stories other journalists have missed in a pioneering form of journalism he calls “slow journalism.” In addition to uncovering the effects of climate change, poverty, and armed conflict, Salopek plans to explore the enduring strength and resilience of our ancestors.

Salopek’s conception of slow journalism was born out of his frustration with conven-

tional forms of foreign reporting. He explained that foreign news correspondents are often parachuted into conflict zones and have little time to appreciate the nuances of local culture and history, whereas others become too invested in the story of its people. As a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and National Geographic, Salopek says that he has experienced both of these extremes and his journey on foot across 39 countries EDEN continued on page 2

Arley D. Cathey, Jr.’s (Ph. B. ’50) $17-million donation to the University last year attached his family’s name to a house in South Campus, the dorm’s dining hall, and the new Arley D. Cathey Learning Center in Harper Memorial Library and Stuart Hall.

The Maroon sat down with Cathey during a visit to campus this weekend to discuss starting college at 16, his return to campus, and his bowtie collection. To read the complete interview, including Cathey’s experience living with a future Playboy executive, go to www. chicagomaroon.com.

Chicago Maroon (CM): You came to the College when you were 16. Can you tell me a little bit about that and why you chose to start here so young?

Arley Cathey (AC): Well, my mother and father had a friend whose daughter was going to school at Northwestern. Their son was younger, and he hadn’t finished high school, and Northwestern wouldn’t accept him...

But [then-president Robert Maynard] Hutchins was down here [to Cathey’s hometown of El Dorado, AR], and he was taking people before they graduated from high school...[Cathey’s parents’ friend] wanted [their son] to go with someone, so one Sunday afternoon they brought

Arley D. Cathey Jr., an alumnus who donated 17 million dollars to the university last year, sits down with the Maroon for an Uncommon Interview.

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their son over to my mother and father’s home with applications to the University of Chicago. I hadn’t even thought about it, because I had not graduated from high school. It was a surprise that they wanted me to go and skip

my senior year of high school.

That sounded real good to me (laughs), because I didn’t really like the local high school. I really thought that it would be wonderful to get away from that. So CATHEY continued on page 2

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Ed. Secretary Arne Duncan: Achievement gap is “morally unacceptable” Hamid Bendaas News Contributor The day after Obama returned to Chicago to cast his ballot, U.S. Secretary of Education and Hyde Park native Arne Duncan came back to speak with students about their role in the future of education in America last Friday evening in the Quadrangle Club.

Duncan spoke before an audience comprised of students in UChicago Careers in Education Professions (UCIEP), the Neighborhood Schools Program, and the Institute of Politics.

Calling the current state of edu-

cation “morally unacceptable and economically unsustainable,” Duncan noted that more than one million students drop out of high school every year in the United States.

“We are so far from mission accomplished,” he said.

Duncan first witnessed the dismal state of education while still in grade school. Although he attended the Lab Schools, his mother ran a children’s center in Kenwood. Through the center, he befriended many students from the neighborhood public schools, some of which saw the majority of students drop out.

The differences he saw in opportunity and expectation for his Lab School classmates versus his Kenwood friends has stuck with him. “I worry about kids and entire communities stuck in perpetual poverty,” he said. “Here we go from world class to third world and that gap is what is unacceptable to me.”

His “Race to the Top” initiative aims to close that gap. Major tenets of the program include implementing national “Common Core” subject standards, promoting the use of students’ standardized test scores to evaluate teachers, and supporting an increase in

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we came to Chicago.

CM: Since you’ve been back, what have your interactions with students been like? You’re kind of a celebrity around campus.

AC: You know, I finally found that out. They put a picture in a magazine.

I don’t think people recognize me, but they recognize my bowties.

CM: Tell me a little bit about the bowties and how you started wearing them.

AC: I have a lot of bowties. I probably have 50. I had a hard time finding bowties. One day I got a brochure, I don’t know how it happened, maybe I saw an advertisement or I wrote in for it, and I got a brochure back from a fella named Hinkley. And he was the owner of the Bow Tie Club. He sends you a fold-out

color brochure and all different pictures of bowties. So I just started buying bowties. And I have about 50, and I try to wear a different one every day.

ily name on it. What does it mean to you to have these buildings named in honor of your father, Arley D. Cathey, Sr.?

CM: Wow. How long have you been wearing them?

AC: My father graduated from medical school in 1912, the same year that the library was founded.

Harper Library. I think that’s interesting. He never dreamed that he would have his name—our names are similar, but I’ll say his name— in Harper Library. He’d been to Harper. My mother and father would come up from time to time and walk around the campus, but he never dreamed that his name would be, nor did I, in anything like that.

I guess I’ve just been fortunate. You know the harder I work, the luckier I become. You know that old saying. And I was able to accumulate enough to give to the University.

AC: I just started noticing that people that I knew, that I really sort of admired, wore bowties. Winston Churchill wore a bowtie. Franklin Roosevelt wore a bowtie. Harry Truman wore a bowtie.

And a doctor in El Dorado that I know... wore a bowtie. My uncle wore a bowtie. And all of these people, either ones that I knew well or ones that I knew by viewing from afar, I saw, were wearing bowties. So I just decided that’s what I wanted to do. It made a statement, sort of, so to speak.

CM: This weekend, I saw you pause and take a picture of the sign in the Cathey Learning Center with your fam-

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800 600 400 200 0 cipal investigator at the U of C site. “[The new IUD] may still not be right for everyone, but those choices should be made on good information.

No method is one-size-fits-all but we do want to cut through non sciencebased information,” she said.

IUDs provide no protection against sexually transmitted infections or diseases. One of the requirements of the clinical trial is that every participant has been in a mutually monogamous relationship for at least six months because, Mistretta said, they ask that participants use no other forms of birth control in the duration of the trial, including condoms.

Second-year Samantha Karas, who is not enrolled in the clinical trial, bought the Mirena IUD for $150 in January from Planned Parenthood,

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with the University, they have also recruited via ads on the CTA and thus have a very diverse group of women, Mistretta said.

“For the most part people have been very excited to enroll, especially given long-term stabilization of this method,” Mistretta said. “You don’t have to go get refills, you don’t have to show up to a pharmacy....all of the costs are covered by the trial.

Nothing is ever billed to insurance so it is a nice way to get some additional free health care.”

One U of C student, however, opted to back out after hearing about the side effects.

“It just seemed like I was making a very big decision in a very small amount of time without really any thought to long-term consequences. Everyone agreed that it was convenient and that it was nice not to have to worry about taking the pill every day, but a lot of people said they were having weird health problems,” she said.

With any type of birth control— hormonal or not—side effects are to be expected. But according to Mistretta, the differences between the hormone profiles of the IUD and an oral contraceptive cause different side effects. The IUD may induce breast swelling or tenderness, mood-swings, or an increase or decrease in acne.

Melissa Gilliam, M.D., professor of OB-GYN, and section chief of Family Planning at the University of Chicago Hospital, is the trial’s prin-

charter schools. It has drawn the ire of teachers’ unions, among others.

Duncan also briefly noted the Obama administration’s work in sending billions in grant dollars to low-performing schools, increasing funding for federal grants like the Pell Grant, and investing in early childhood education, which he called “the best investment we could make.”

Most of the talk, however, was spent looking toward the future. “If we’re serious about closing the achievement gaps, we’ve got to close the opportunity gaps,” Duncan said. “We just need a lot more talent at every level” he said,

stressing the need for “more people from schools like the University of Chicago rolling up their sleeves and making an impact.”

In response to a question from Eric Reyes, a third-year in UCIEP, on how to avoid cynicism and disillusionment when it feels like “the world is against you,” Duncan credited students like the ones he befriended from his mother’s children’s center, or those he mentored upon returning to Chicago in his young adulthood. He said the resiliencye of students who stay determined when the odds are stacked against them keeps him inspired.

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provides easier for students to discover.

The University’s current Odyssey Scholarship program replaces federal loans with grants for families with annual incomes less than $75,000, while UChicago Promise does not have an income ceiling for its no-loan policy.

Meanwhile, Harvard University, Princeton University, and the Claremont Colleges are among a handful of colleges that have eliminated loans for all students.

The UChicago Promise financial benefits will take effect for those applying this year, and will not be available to help those who have existing loans or who have already matriculated.

This means that the 50 or so current first-years from Chicago do not benefit from the program, according to a University press release. More than a third of them are receiving full-tuition scholarships through the Chicago Police and Fire Scholarship offered by the University to the children of City police officers and firefighters.

Emanuel was joined at the press conference by University President Robert Zimmer, Archdiocese of Chicago Jo Marie Yonkis, VP of Civic Engagement Derek Douglas, U of C Admissions Senior Assistant Director for Chicago Veronica Hauad, and first-years Chloe Glispie and Cynthia Avila.

Hauad said in an interview that the Admissions Academy will consist of

workshops on essay writing, financial aid forms, and other application instructions, and it is the main part of UChicago Promise not specific to U of C. “[The sessions] fit for what we’re evaluating and how we’re looking at applications, but it’s, ‘well, if you’re applying to any of the other great schools out there, I’ve worked at them, I have friends at them, I know that we all do it the same way,’” Hauad said.

Hauad also said that the admissions office has experience with this type of programming. For two days of the CPS teachers’ strike this fall, the Admissions Office held workshops similar to those that will be offered by the Academy.

Glispie, a Chicago native who worked with Hauad through last year’s application process, said at the press conference that Hauad’s support encouraged her to apply to the U of C and could do the same for others.

“Now students won’t have to doubt.

Now students will have the odds in their favor,” she said.

As part of his announcement speech, Mayor Emanuel said he strongly supports the University’s initiative.

“If a child and a parent get to the first yard line, the University [now] has its door open, not shut, to making this possible,” he said.

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CORRECTIONS Due to an editing error, the October 26 article “University to investigate series of break-ins” did not acknowledge the current presence of UCPD increased patrol and also misstated the date of the 4 a.m. break-in.

Medicine 360 Trial Version which provides birth control at a discounted price.

“When you’re a college student, that’s a pretty significant chunk of money,” she said. “But then that pays for itself in like a year and three months. If you’re going to have it for four years, it’s really cost-effective.”

If successful, the Medicines 360 clinical trial will provide another inexpensive way for all women to utilize IUDs. Karas’s enthusiastic endorsement of the IUD represents a shift in the national attitude towards that particular form of birth control, especially in younger women.

“I would say most of our participants in this trial are age 26 and under,” Mistretta said. “So it’s definitely more in the social consciousness of younger women.”

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will allow him to avoid both biases.

For Salopek, the physical act of walking across the world also adds a unique element to his reporting. “I love storytelling and I love walking. Some of the best stories that I’ve accomplished in my career overseas have involved intense physicality. They have involved muscular reporting.”

Salopek’s own career began on foot, when his motorcycle broke down in New Mexico, leading him to start writing for a local newspaper in order to earn enough money for repairs. He has since won two Pulitzer Prizes for his coverage of Africa and the Human Genome Diversity Project.

Salopek will employ a wide array of technological devices in order to catalog his travels. Every 100 miles of his trip, Salopek will pause to capture photographs, video, and the ambient sounds of the landscape around him.

National Geographic offered to send a team to accompany Salopek on the journey, but he opted to do this alone, claiming that solitary travels produce the highest quality storytelling.

Former Chicago Tribune publisher and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jack Fuller moderated the discussion. The event was co-sponsored by UChicago Careers in Journalism, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the Center for International Studies, and the Program for the Global Environment.

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Making the grade UChicago Careers in Education Professions should integrate successful elements of current programs

The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 JORDAN LARSON Editor-in-Chief SHARAN SHETTY Editor-in-Chief COLIN BRADLEY Managing Editor HARUNOBU CORYNE Senior Editor DOUGLAS EVERSON, JR Senior Editor SAM LEVINE Senior Editor CELIA BEVER News Editor REBECCA GUTERMAN News Editor LINDA QIU News Editor AJAY BATRA Viewpoints Editor DAVID KANER Viewpoints Editor EMILY WANG Viewpoints Editor EMMA BRODER Arts Editor HANNAH GOLD Arts Editor DANIEL RIVERA Arts Editor DANIEL LEWIS Sports Editor VICENTE FERNANDEZ Sports Editor MATTHEW SCHAEFER Sports Editor SONIA DHAWAN Head Designer BELLA WU Head Designer KEVIN WANG Online Editor

Yesterday the University, in conjunction with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, announced UChicago Promise, an umbrella program that will serve to make the U of C more financially and academically accessible to local schools. This comes a few weeks after Career Advancement announced the creation of a new program that will aid students interested in pursuing careers in education. The program, dubbed UChicago Careers in Education Professions (UCIEP), is the eighth addition to the UChicago Careers In (UCI) initiative, and one that will undoubtedly come as welcome news to the large portion of the student body that expresses interest in such jobs. Though the creation of the program warrants kudos in and of itself, UCIEP seems to have a few structural kinks, and there are a few extant resources it should capitalize on to ensure its utility to undergraduates.

Much of UChicago Promise

consists of offering financial grants and other monetary aid, but a more relevant facet will provide a set of Metcalf internships for those who want to work with Chicago schools.

This aspect of the program could be integrated with UCIEP to ensure that students truly interested in K–12 instruction and research can have pre-allocated summer Metcalf opportunities to supplement their school year opportunities.

UCIEP has also acknowledged that they will use the myriad resources of the Urban Education Institute (UEI) in helping students. This is a commendable idea, and specific attention should be paid to the Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP), a two-year graduate program under UEI that has introduced a new, wildly successful model to educating and preparing students for urban environments and teaching.

Ninety-six percent of UTEP grads are still teaching in Chicago schools or other urban districts after five years;

this is in comparison to a 50 percent national average retention rate for urban public school teachers. Borrowing from this model, which discusses teaching at the most theoretical levels—including a “soul strand” that uses media like memoir and film to cultivate teacher identity and inform students of educational equity and class culture—could help compel even more students to the program and inspire those already in it to innovate both in the classroom and in education research.

Attracting these additional students, however, is only worthwhile if the program admits them. The UCIEP program is currently capped at about 70 students who have to apply and be accepted. It seems premature to institute an application system for such a new program, especially since the majority of UCI programs are open to all, as long as members attend a certain number of events, sessions, or career adviser meetings through the year. It would be wise to open UCIEP to the entire

student body, and, if demand ends up overwhelming resources, then implementing a cap and application process.

Though applications help guarantee the sincerity and purpose of those in the program, UCIEP’s purpose should not only be to cultivate the ideas and energy of those already committed to education professions, but also to inform students of the rewards such careers offer. Given the current public discourse lamenting the future of education in America, UCIEP and UChicago Promise together have the potential to help change the landscape of education in Chicago, at the very least. UCIEP’s current model, capped at 70 students, can’t possibly provide for increasing student demand, and it doesn’t adequately reach out to students whose career plans are currently less oriented toward the classroom.

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Candidates’ debate lies can be positive if you examine the truths they reveal

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Did you catch the presidential debate last night? Don’t worry, there wasn’t one—but no matter.

Possible star appearances of binder loads of bayonet-wielding Big Birds aside, the debates have become so predictable that we can effectively skip them altogether and move on to the debriefing. Here’s a thoroughly typical post-game report—what you would have been reading right now had there actually been a debate last night: “In case you’d forgotten that the divide between the two presidential contenders has been steadily narrowing over the last few weeks, last night’s debate, the fourth and final of this election season, would have served as

a very visual reminder. Short of literally stepping on each other’s feet and lobbing sucker punches at each other—which they were clearly doing rhetorically—the candidates indulged in as about as much shameless interrupting, finger pointing, and stage aggression as decorum would allow. But it seems the closer they get to being in each other’s faces, the further they get from the truth: Independent fact checkers have cited both parties for substantial misrepresentation of the facts.”

OK, so the campaigning has gotten more truculent as election day approaches—no surprise there. But what are we to make of the incessant lies? We could be lame, throw up our hands in despair, and lament the deplorable state of American politics. Or we could take the lies for what they’re worth: uniquely insightful windows into the personalities, abilities, and goals of the candidates.

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The reason for this goes back to the Commission on Presidential Debates and its confusing quarter-century history of bipartisan candidate salesmanship. As Board of Directors member Newton Minow explained in his interview with Steve Edwards at the Institute of Politics’ first presidential debate screening in Logan, the 1976, 1980, and 1984 presidential debates were run by the League of Women Voters, an organization whose name no longer fits its focus on voter registration and debate management. In 1987, the organization’s 14 trustees voted unanimously to abandon its role in the presidential debates, largely in protest of what it saw as the two major parties’ attempts to dictate the debates in their entirety.

Shortly thereafter, an agreement between the two parties led to the establishment of Minow’s Commission, which has been running the debates ever since.

Though the Commission claims to be “nonpartisan,” perhaps a better word is “bipartisan,” as it has historically been co-chaired by one Democrat and one Republican, at least one of whom has also served as a DNC or RNC chairman. In 2000, the ComFACTS continued on page 4

By Anastasia Golovashkina Viewpoints Columnist Last Monday was the third and final debate of this presidential race—the source of Barack Obama’s now-notorious “horses and bayonets” comment, not to mention the final presidential debate of his political career.

Just as was the case with the previous debates (not to mention all 31 debates of this election cycle), the candidates spent at least as much time disputing the veracity of basic facts as they did debating policies. The public has consistently responded to the debates by blowing non-issues out of proportion, yielding scenarios that snowball nonsense, sensationalism, and confusion, and worse, reduce complex socio-economic issues to memes.

To put it bluntly, we once again learned nothing.

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Looking for stage directions In Building Stories, Chris Ware issues warnings about fear, insecurity of early adulthood

By Emma Thurber Stone Viewpoints Columnist The page begins with a single idea: I just want to fall asleep and never wake up again. Out of it flow other thoughts, expressed in wordpicture sequences that sprawl across the page. I don’t want to find out what happens leads to My parents will age and die, My body will deteriorate, My friends will disappear. The author of these thoughts curls in her bed in a small panel off to the left, hands snarled in her hair. Above her, Isn’t there anyone who will be able to tolerate sprouts a red arrow that loops around to my disgusting, bloated body?

This woman is the unnamed protagonist of Chris Ware’s Building Stories, reviewed in the October 19 issue of the Maroon. I first discovered Ware through his work featured in the Best American Comics series and was the first person to haul his newest home from 57th Street Books on the day it

came out. Ware’s pleasant melancholy has always appealed to me, and Building Stories got me right away with a heroine whose concerns were uncomfortably similar to mine: She was creative but timid; insecure about her appearance but lonely. Most strikingly, when depicted later in her middle age, she remained haunted by the period of her life in which she was both the most self-satisfied and the loneliest: the years between childhood and parenthood.

This stage has caused me great worry as I perch on the edge of it. It is a stage that seems to be increasingly lambasted in popular culture—the archetypal college graduate living in his or her parents’ basement, trying to extend childhood far beyond its limits.

Shows such as HBO’s Girls portray the early twenties as a farcical mess instead of a grand emergence into the adult world. Indeed, part of the message seems to be that the adult world is never emerged into grandly, if emerged into at all.

The other part of the message seems to be that this time, more awkward than adolescence and more irretrievable than childhood, is pivotal in both senses of the word. It is pivotal in the simple sense that it is important, WARE continued on page 5

Debate performances are often judged solely on confidence FACTS continued from page 3 mission even introduced a rule requiring third-party candidates to have the support of at least 15 percent of voters (as projected by the average of five separate major national polls), thereby excluding every “notable” third party in recent history.

Moreover, although the Commission’s stated aim is “to ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners,” and its ongoing goal is “educating voters,” it really seems to be anything but.

Time and time again, debunked claims find their way into the candidates’ arguments—not just contentious claims, but flat-out lies. For instance, outside of the debates (and, I suppose, candidate interviews and ads), most experts agree that it’s impossible to cut everyone’s taxes by 20 percent and simultaneously cut the deficit. The same goes for Paul Ryan’s favorite allegation that the President funneled $716 billion out of Medicare or Romney’s Obama-doubled-thedeficit claim. (It’s actually gone down by $200 billion, or from 10.1 percent of economic output in 2009 to just 7 percent in 2012.)

Though the methodology by which these statistics were compiled is agreed upon by almost all experts in their respective fields, the debates heave the responsibility of identifying and addressing one another’s falsehoods to the candidates themselves, thereby pitting one biased man’s word against another’s. Can we realistically expect there to be any discussion with true educational value in such a context?

after these so-called “educational” debates played to audiences of 67 million, so many voters remain undecided.

There are many ways that the Commission can modify presidential debates so that they aim toward what should be the greater goal of educating the population. In particular, it can invite third-party candidates instead of arresting them. Even if they don’t win, third-party candidates can help audiences begin to understand that there are three-dimensional perspectives to seemingly two-sided problems. For predominantly red or blue states, voting for a third party can also help push forward policies that would have otherwise been overlooked—for instance, Libertarian proposals like marijuana legalization, or Green Party ideas like the abolition of the Electoral College.

The Commission can also opt to allow live fact-checking by the moderator, the IBM super-computer (and Jeopardy! champion) Watson, or better yet, both at the same time.

Fact checking can prove even more valuable, as it will force candidates to tell the truth, and will actually fulfill the debates’ stated purpose of “educating” the public.

Until then, of course, it’s up to audiences to make their own calls on fact and fiction, and between honesty and over-confidence. But, with 40 percent of Medicare recipients reporting that they have never used a government social program, I’m just not sure that this is a sustainable approach.

Meanwhile, audiences have responded by inflating non-issues to melodramatic extremes—a fine reaction by itself, but not when coupled with comprehensive public misunderstanding of the underlying issues.

For instance, despite the high-intensity public outrage that followed Romney’s proposition to completely cut PBS funding, 73 percent of us still don’t know that money for PBS and NPR makes up less than 1 percent of government spending. Unbelievably, as much as 7 percent of this mistaken majority believes that public broadcasting makes up more than half of the federal budget.

In other words, Mitt Romney’s threat to defund Big Bird should have been much more than a meme: It should have represented the candidate’s gross misunderstanding of budgetary issues.

Perhaps most importantly, we’ve come to judge the presidential debates—and as a direct result, the competing candidates—on the basis of confidence. In spite of Romney’s bounty of nonsensical and misleading statements in the first presidential debate, it was widely agreed on both sides that the Republican presidential candidate won the debate. In other words, our debates have turned into battles of candidates trying to out-confidence each other. It’s not about a meaningful discussion (or even comparison) of competing policies that helps the public determine which policy plan it feels is best for the country, but about which candidate is more convinced that he already has all the answers.

It’s no wonder that an entire week

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During campaigns and debates, “lies communicate ways of looking at reality” LIES continued from page 3 approach is far from foolproof: Politicians change with time, as do the circumstances of their leadership. Romney’s performance as governor of an overwhelmingly blue state and as a businessman provide only slight indications of his potential performance as leader of a nation that is neither a business nor by any means predominantly blue. Worse still, unless you’re a total politics wonk, it’s unlikely that you even know a lot about a given politician’s past in the first place—and you can bet that what you do manage to glean about it after the fact will be subject to a liberal amount of spin.

The campaign is the best way to get to know a candidate in real time, and a politician’s lies are the closest you’re going to get to seeing how he performs in the highstakes environment of political office. You see, there’s nothing dangerous about making speeches, shaking hands, or organizing fundraising drives. But being in office is all about taking risks—there are always trade-offs, opportunity costs, and dissatisfied constituents. The trick is to know how to balance them. Whether or not a politician is adept at making these risky decisions is something that we can best learn from his lies.

In case your scruples are kicking in, let’s

clear one more thing up: The lies aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. Lies work. If this weren’t the case they wouldn’t have become such an enduring feature of the American political scene. Part of what it means to be a good politician is to be good at winning elections—and that means being a good liar.

Call me a pessimist, but it’s hard to see how a candidate can compete with inveterate liars without upgrading his own arsenal.

But I’d argue that’s OK. Whether true or false, lies communicate ways of looking at reality. For example, Mitt Romney’s statement that the number of ships in our navy is lower now than at any other point since 1917 was a lie. But regardless of whether you were aware of this, the lie succeeds in evoking traditional images of warfare and distracting from the soft-power approach to peace (Romney might call it the “apology strategy”) that Obama seems to favor. In getting us to quibble over a number of boats in the water, Romney slips in what seems to be his worldview—that the number and size of the tangible exponents of our military prowess matter in the first place. Romney’s gamble was that the residue of this worldview would stick longer than the knowledge that the statement itself was indeed a lie.

I’ll even take this line of argument a step further: It’s not hard to imagine situations

in which being a good liar might even be a desirable trait in a leader. Although there’s little to be optimistic about in the economy today, I think most of us would be quite pleased with a politician who could manage to restore confidence in the economy, even if by untruthful means. Militarily, our ability to bluff current opponents and potential opponents regularly saves us countless millions in military expenditures.

So if we’re stuck with dishonest politicians anyway, why not make the most of their lies? We should start by thinking about how much of a risk they’re taking by lying : What is the lie supposed to do and what margins of error are the politician assuming? For whom are the lies intended?

Are they supposed to convince the undecided, or further motivate the candidate’s loyal base? What does the lie thus say about the candidate’s feelings toward the audience?

Does the candidate make any new lies or does he draw on the same old lies that resurface every election? If the lie turns sour— as they occasionally do—how does he deal with it? Even after being debunked by factcheckers, will he imperviously continue telling the lie?

If all you’re getting out of the political lie is “this candidate is a bad person,” you’re missing out on the rich trove of informa-

tion—of truth—contained in the lie.

Tyler Lutz is a fourth-year in the College majoring in physics and English.

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Don’t let pessimism paralyze you in a crucial period of life WARE continued from page 4 but it is also pivotal in the literal sense, as a hinge around which everything else must move. Ware’s heroine orbits around this time; in some ways she appears to have never left it. The reason for this became clear to me as I progressed through the stories: It was a time rife with opportunities to make choices, and she lived it paralyzed by fear. It was the time when her insecurities cost her the most.

I met Ware this past spring at the Logan Center’s incredible Comics: Philosophy and Practice event. Thoroughly intimidated by the prospect of approaching a crowd of titanic artists with no artwork of my own and nothing remotely clever to say, I shuffled over to where people were laughing and shaking hands and blandly presented a sheet of paper to be signed in turn by three of my personal heroes: Lynda Barry, Ware, and Art Spiegelman.

By the time I got to Ware I had already offered the page to Barry, who had drawn a monkey’s face circled with an arrow. “It means ‘don’t forget to monkey around,’” she told me. Ware followed suit and doodled what appeared to be a similar picture but turned out to be quite different. The face, for one, was human, and instead of beaming at me like Barry’s monkey it wrinkled its brow sorrowfully. Most tellingly, an arrow began over the forehead but then partway through seemed to lose its energ y and flopped miserably to the bottom of the page.

Unlike Barry, Ware didn’t give me a moral for his drawing. Perhaps it was a warning that dissatisfaction is bound to catch up with me. But to think so pessimistically would be to forget that Ware’s creative universe is populated by good, if self-deprecating, people. More likely it was advance forgiveness for the ways in which I am bound to fail; for bumbling through the world as I am about to bumble; a sign that now is a crucial time for forgiveness, for warding off the paralysis of doubt. Now is, after all, the time when we have the most to lose.

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Logan’s a cabaret, old chum, come see the artists play Sarah Tarabey Arts Contributor Dim light on maple floors, a grand piano hidden against the glimmering backdrop of the Chicago skyline, and instruments strumming for sound checks all produced a much-needed warmth on the first truly chilly October night of the year. I had just arrived, with several minutes to spare, on the ninth floor of the Logan Arts Center for its biweekly Cabaret Series.

Its coordinator, fourth-year Veasna Has, told me that, as there were only five acts—all of them musical or literary that night—slated to perform in the second show of the year, the lineup was a little sparser than normal.

The rest of the audience began filing in, and I took my seat. In this very intimate setting, I quickly encountered the sheer breadth of artistic talent that the U of C has to offer.

The four musical performances of the night represented a range of styles and genres; each exhibited a well-honed craft, skilled interpretation, and a strong connection with the audience.

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Singer Bri Holland, a fourth-year music major, was a tough act to follow. Not only did she demonstrate a vast vocal range, but she has the talent to know how to use it. Elements of pop and jazz to folk and blues blended rather seamlessly in her covers of “Dance So Good” by Wakey!Wakey! and “Other Side of the World” by KT

Tunstall. Yet it was in her two original songs—“Gold” and “Weightless”— that her insightful poeticism, as inviting as it is imaginative, was revealed.

“It’s a mad moment when you don’t feel a thing,” Holland sang in “Gold,” which explores how jarring heartbreak shatters dreams of the future. The listener eagerly follows her stream-ofconsciousness lyrics, wondering where she will end up, anticipating more of Holland’s powerful voice.

Arguably the most unique act of the night was that of third-year graduate student Joshua Solomon with his Japanese shamisen. “It’s like what geishas play, but with a longer neck,” he said, explaining his instrument to me before the show. His was a tribute of sorts to the music of Obon, a Japanese summer festival that honors familial ancestors. Solomon only played through the first verse of each selected work, which typically runs several hours, but this was enough to hint at his deep understanding of his subject matter. His execution was masterful—he hit each intricate succession of notes distinctly, in a manner both rapid and impassioned.

Especially memorable was his foray into a style of Japanese musical improvisation: The music’s degeneration from clear to crazed pulsated throughout the audience before screeching to a halt.

The Everly Brothers, a cover band comprised of second-years Marisa Mayer and Dagny Dukach, excelled in putting its own spin on classic songs. In Mayer and Dukach’s first three covers, they sang of loneliness and giving up on life with a nostalgic sweetness that lent the performance an air of romance. Their voices complemented each other’s well— Dukach’s was deep and soothing; CABARET continued on page 7

Top: East Asian Studies PhD candidate Joshua Solomon plays the shamisen, a Japanese string instrument, at the Logan Center Cabaret Series on Friday night.

Bottom: Fourth-year Brianne Holland sings and plays guitar in Logan’s 9th floor Performance Penthouse.

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Mischief Night pours some sugar and PBR on HPAC Alice Bucknell Associate Arts Editor

Sarah Beth Woods performing “Pour Your Sugar on Me,” in which audience members were encouraged to douse her body in doughnuts, whipped cream, cinnamon rolls, frosting, and blood-red paint.

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What do a fully functional pool table constructed from a mattress and tube socks, psychoanalytic cocktails, and a ritualistic shaving of chest hair have in common? Art cred, apparently, as the Hyde Park Art Center proved on Saturday night with its annual installment of Mischief Night, an all-day event honoring the uncanny and bizarre in contemporary art.

From 1 until 10 p.m., HPAC opened its doors to the public for a free showcase of live music, workshops, art exhibitions, and performance pieces that filled the entirety of the building. Familyfriendly until sundown, daytime events included mask making and a quirky monster mash-up wall mural that allowed participants to tear off previously drawn body parts and illustrate new ones in their place. Pour Your Sugar on Me, featuring artist Sarah Beth Woods, was far and away the most popular performance piece of the day. The artist acted as a canvas for donuts, whipped cream, and other sweets, which visitors to

the museum took great delight smearing, squeezing, and sticking onto her body. Several kids were spotted licking clean their sticky fingers following the halfhour free-for-all; others cried out in confusion over all the “wasted” treats. Getting one’s sugar fix was hardly an elusive task, however, as bowls full of candy for the taking were stationed almost ubiquitously throughout the building.

As the sun went down, freaks and frights emerged (or stumbled, as the case may be) out from the shadows to engage in some twisted artistic delights. At the heart of Mischief Night was ARTBAR, a cash bar that featured an array of devilish drinks and craft brews, spurring on the tricks and treats of artist and spectator alike.

The second-floor landing served as the hub for Dissolution Communion –or – I Drink, Therefore I am, a one-night-only interactive art exhibit that featured a round of probing psychoanalysis from the bartenders in exchange for a cocktail to match your current state of mind. Directly beneath that, I was doling out some downHPAC continued on page 7

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Cloud Atlas charts new territory with expansive film adaptation Angela Qian Arts Staff Cloud Atlas begins with a hodgepodge of images that is nothing short of visual apotheosis. They each serve as a window into one of the six stories that compose the movie’s whole: a man with a bowl of teeth on a Polynesian island; a brooding young man escaping from a hotel window; a woman grimly driving down a freeway; the huge, comical, bespectacled eyes of an elderly man peering over his typewriter; a room of steel and chrome imprisoning an almost inhuman-looking woman; a man with guttural speech and matted hair among the tangled scenery of an island forest. From the outset, it is clear that

the movie is going to be a stunner—as it should be, considering its $102 million budget. Less clear, however, is where on earth all these stories are going.

This proves to be a difficult question to answer; the movie is based on the eponymous novel written by David Mitchell, which has a scope so vast and a premise so ambitious that fitting all of it in under a three-hour run time seemed like a near impossible feat. Yet directors Tom Tykwer and Wachowski siblings (of Matrix fame) rose to the challenge admirably, working with a rich ensemble of actors to flesh out six stories’ worth of characters. As a result, each character is sharp, compelling, and fully realized, regardless of how little screen

time he or she receives.

Halle Berry, Jim Sturgess, Ben Whishaw, Tom Hanks, Bae Doona, and Jim Broadbent each take turns narrating the movie: Jim Sturgess as Adam Ewing, a lawyer from the imperialist era traveling from the Polynesian Islands, Ben Whishaw as young, brooding musical prodigy Robert Frobisher, Halle Berry as the dedicated journalist Luisa Rey, Jim Broadbent as the debt-ridden, smalltime book editor Timothy Cavendish, Bae Doona as a manufactured human being named Sonmi-451 who has attained thoughts of her own, and Tom Hanks as Zachry, a Valleysman living in a post-apocalyptic future.

The main actors also each play several roles. For ex-

ample, Halle Berry is in five of the six stories with major roles in at least two, and— with impressive cosmetic changes—Sturgess doubles as a Korean commander and Sonmi-451’s love interest.

It is a testament to each of their performances and to the efforts of the directors and designers that I didn’t realize any of the characters were being played by the same actors.

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Despite the sharp acting and gorgeous cinematography, Cloud Atlas fails as an adaptation of a novel. With contrived romances and

subplots not in the book as well as characters and major developmental arcs left out of the movie, readers of the novel hoping for a faithful adaptation will be disappointed. The movie ending noticeably differs from how Mitchell ended the book and seemed to rather miss the point, instead copping out with an “all’s well that ends well.”

On the other hand, the links between each story are much more explicit for the movie-going audience: The matching birthmarks that each main character has are emphasized, and the movie shows how one story flows into another; for example, The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish is found as an ages-old movie by Sonmi-451. The film version

of Cloud Atlas played the sentimental romantic angle much more than the novel did, but it still has all the elements of adventure, mystery, and thriller that would make the film appealing to just about anyone.

Ultimately, Cloud Atlas makes a heroic effort to encompass the huge scope of Mitchell’s over 500-page novel, but it knows its own limits and doesn’t try to fit what can only be expressed through the pages of a novel on a movie screen.

The movie can stand on its own. Regardless of how it matched up to the book, the subtly more optimistic film adaptation expertly crafted each individual plot line and is moving in its own right; therefore, it is worthy of admiration.

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Students read and sing out loud at Logan’s cabaret Mischief Night gets artists tasted, wasted, and painted CABARET continued from page 6 Mayer’s lighter and melodic.

But it was not until they performed their last piece, “All I Have to Do Is Dream,” that their full emotional range shone through. Their voices carried the melancholic ballad softly, nonetheless passionately, to a lulling finish.

The last singer of the night was second-year Danielle Taiwo. Having only recently picked up the piano, her performance was nevertheless beautiful; her lyrics were witty, catchy, and effortless.

Taiwo’s self-professed “experimental” style is a lot like that of Amy Winehouse (one of whose songs she covered) and Regina Spektor. Her two original songs, both about experiences she had on campus, were soulful and poignant, and several times the audience found itself nodding along to the honesty of her lyrics. Between fast bursts of energetic, pop lyrics and a slow, elegant chorus, her execution of “Conversation” was subtly expressive. And in

“Unmemorable,” one certainly can’t forget the lyrics “Just so you know / I’m unmemorable” and “I won’t put on a show.” Because she does, and her development as an artist will be interesting to watch.

Although few in number, the night’s literary acts were memorable for their attention to various aspects of childhood. Third-year Michael Reinhard read his short story “Miss Pumpkin USA.” This whimsical, imaginative narrative revolves around a beautiful sonogram of a baby-to-be named Daisy. Convinced of her inevitable destiny to be a star, her father enters her fetal photograph into a pageant for all to behold. Full of references to the quirks and ironies of life, the story is reminiscent of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s 2001 film Amélie in its whimsical humor and sweet retelling of childhood stories. Its foundation upon the power of a father’s love and its interspersed sparks of metaphoric wisdom—

“Every flower worth its petals has been plummed,” writes Reinhard—are where it verily shines.

An unexpected slam poetry delivery by second-year host Shaan Heng-Devan of his original poem “To Write Love on Her Arms” was chillingly good. Heng-Devan was inspired by the organization of the same name, which gives those dealing with depression and addiction an outlet to voice their struggles. Heng-Devan’s interpretation was furious and impassioned, urging the young not to “treat [their] wrists like [he does his] notebook.” He invited them to trade in their bandages for art, leaving a startling impression upon an audience only a few feet away.

The Logan Center Cabaret Series offers a venue for artists of all disciplines and persuasions to perform. Be sure to mark your calendars—if this quarter’s two upcoming shows are anything like this one was, believe me, you’ll want to be there.

HPAC continued from page 6 time with the souls of Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, and a few other 20th century art all-stars in Conversations with Dead Artists. From the personal to the political, the undead spilled the beans in some up close and personal conversations via Ouija board.

Various frights took place throughout the night within the lobby adjacent to me. Chest Strip(e), lasting from 6 to 6:30 p.m., featured artist (presumably very hairy) Mario Castillo as he invited onlookers to come forth with a razor and take turns shaving off pieces of his chest hair (one strip per person, please). After a half-hour break to regain some sense of composure, Mischief Night roared back with what was perhaps the most anticipated event of the evening : Richard Rioux July 4, 1926 – July 11, 1995. Despite the formality of the title and the self-proclaimed “ritualistic” flair

of the performance piece, artist Mikey Rioux was anything but tame. And after 15 shots of vodka in under half an hour, could you really expect anything else?

Rioux took a shot every two minutes from 7 to 7:30 p.m. while dancing blindfolded on a wet portrait of his grandfather Richard.

A blindfolded orchestra improvised music that was timed to echo the drinker’s (and by extension, the artist’s – or was it the other way around?) drinking.

The Art of Drinking Alone (+ Karaoke) is the Highest Form of Art, featuring mullet-sporting, sunglass-wearing, neon-colored track suit star Alex Rauch, was more or less what its title suggests. For five hours straight, the artist guzzled down no less than 100 cans of PBR, singing karaoke whose influences (The AllAmerican Rejects, Fall Out Boy, etc.) made the middle schooler in me squirm with a mixture of bemusement

and discomfited confusion, overcome with the uncanny notion that I had somehow been transported back to a sixth grade dance in some school gym. The awkward and cramped dark room, complete with flashing disco ball wall light and the lingering scent of body odor, definitely added to that aura.

Toward the end of the night, some 60 beers deep, the artist stumbled, fell, might have fallen asleep, became markedly tonedeaf, and yet belted out the lyrics to “Swing, Swing” with a screeching that was almost profound, and definitely applause-worthy.

Lasting until Mischief Night’s formal end, with only a few breaks to search for unopened cans of beer and to stumble back and forth to and from the bathroom, Rauch relentlessly probed the societal expectations of when and where such vocal catharsis might be permitted.

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Chicago’s vegan scene, from omegacado to umeboshi small $4.00 / large $7.00

Lily Gordon Arts Staff We’ve all heard the hubbub over Chicagostyle hot dogs, deep-dish pizza, and Italian beef sandwiches. But to those of us who prefer food sans animal products, Chicago may at first appear to be lacking. However, I have discovered that Chicago boasts some outstanding vegan chefs. Here is a sampling of the most memorable vegan dishes the city has to offer.

Bonne Sante Health Foods’ Omegacado Shake 1512 East 53rd Street, Hyde Park small $5.29 / large $7.49 Cleverly named for its high content of good (monounsaturated) fatty acids, the Omegacado is my favorite vegan shake around. Blended avocado, almond milk, agave, cinnamon, and cayenne make this a creamy, sweet, vitamin-rich shake with a kick. Drink for its fiber, potassium, vitamins, antioxidants, and protein. Try adding a scoop of Green Vibrance powder for extra protein and probiotics (75 cents extra)—the guys at the juice bar are always willing to customize!

Located here in Hyde Park by Harper Court, Bonne Sante Health Foods boasts a wellstocked juice bar, as well as pre-made vegan soups, sandwiches, and salads.

Mana Food Bar’s Pickled 1742 West Division Street, Wicker Park

Always innovative and crunchy, the seasonal homemade pickles at Mana Food Bar are essential to the vegan diner. Okra, kimchi, daikon, shallots, and asparagus are just some of the pickled vegetables I’ve tried at Mana. Chef Jill Barron prepares new seasonal batches as needed—usually once a week.

“I also pickle fruits. My favorite is the pickled rhubarb we serve in the spring. Be aware: The last of the pickled plums will be going in the next two weeks, and then I’ll replace them with pickled turnips!” said Barron.

Eating pickled vegetables boosts the body’s alkalinity, and also nourishes the digestive and immune systems by providing friendly bacteria—and they’re delicious!

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Meat lovers and vegans alike order this favorite of The Chicago Diner. Indulge yourself and binge on the hearty Special Recipe “Wingz.” Made of seitan—a common, highprotein meat substitute derived from wheat gluten—the crispy but chewy wingz are seasoned, batter-fried, sliced, and coated with The Chicago Diner’s rich and tangy barbecue sauce. (You can also opt for buffalo-style, but trust me—go for the barbecue!)

“The wingz are prepared by hand using our

house recipe for seitan, so it is not all processed like your typical meat substitute from the grocery store—meaning that our seitan will have more nutrition and less or no chemicals,” said Del Nakamura, director of sales and marketing at The Chicago Diner.

The Chicago Diner aims to “pleasantly surprise the more meat-and-potatoes kind of crowd with food that really comforts—and involves no slaughter, cages, or antibiotics,” Nakamura added.

Mirai Sushi’s Plum Paste with Mint Leaf Roll 2020 West Division Street, Wicker Park $5.00 You don’t need to go to a vegan restaurant to eat vegan; try the Plum Paste with Mint Leaf Roll—“umeshiso maki” in Japanese—at Mirai

Sushi in Wicker Park. The roll is filled with Japanese umeboshi plum paste (made from salty, sour Japanese pickled plums, traditionally served with rice) and shiso leaf (a minty leaf also referred to as Japanese basil, ooba, or beefsteak leaf ). Vegans, experiment with this roll and venture beyond cucumber and avocado (non-vegans, skip the California roll).

According to Eden Organic Foods, a company that sells a brand of umeboshi plums at Whole Foods, umeboshi is an alkalizer, digestive aid, and appetite stimulant.

For pescatarians, the salty roll is an excellent palate cleanser between bites of hamachi and maguro, and shiso leaf is an excellent accent to any roll with its fresh, tangy flavor. Other vegan options on the menu at Mirai include a kaiware (daikon radish sprout) roll and a shiitake mushroom roll, plus Mirai’s miso soup is killer.

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At CSO, riveting performance of obscure Beethoven symphony John Lisovsky Arts Staff The rarity of live performances of Beethoven’s Missa solemnis is explained in part by the work’s extraordinary demands on orchestra, soloists, and especially chorus, to say nothing of the interpretive demands placed on the conductor. Riccardo Muti himself, Music Director at the CSO, hasn’t yet taken on the work, saying, “Not yet. But before I die!” But Bernard Haitink, a former principal conductor for the Symphony who declined the offer of the position of music director, citing his age—then well into his seventies, now 83—conducted with a deep awareness of the architecture of the piece and an equally impressive attention to detail that avoided some of the pomposity into which other veteran conductors, attempting to give the piece its due weight, unwittingly fall. The work is divided into five basic sections — Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei and although the transitions from one to the next could perhaps be smoother (a complaint to be taken up with Beethoven), Haitink’s astoundingly clear conception of the work’s ethos, pacing, and form made the performance riveting from beginning to end. I have no memory of a superior live performance by the CSO. Beethoven (1770-1827) wrote the piece between 1819 and 1823, and felt that it was his greatest accomplishment, a statement of some gravity, given that he was working concurrently on the more-famous ninth symphony (completed the following year), and his last three piano sonatas. Beethovens so-called middle (or heroic) period (c. 1800-c. 1815) discards the quaint, courtly models inherited from the later eighteenth century with such works as the Eroica Symphony (1805), twice as long as the symphonic norm and featuring a groundbreaking funeral march in the second movement, the thunderous Fifth Symphony (1808), and the expansive Emperor Concerto (1811). In the third period from 1816 to his death, during which time his deafness became total, his music became more concentrated, abstract, harmonically radical, and interested in counterpoint, especially through the influence of Handel, whom Beethoven greatly admired.

The soloists were all satisfactory, but the soprano, Erin Wall, was a revelation: Her voice had ample power and unusual flexibility that easily met the substantial demands Beethoven’s work presents. Anthony Dean Griffey, the tenor, was perhaps not as suited to the work as the soprano, but his rapport with Haitink was exemplary. A particular highlight was the violin solo during the Benedictus, played by concertmaster Robert Chen. The introduction of an extended instrumental solo into a choral work has precedent for Beethoven only in the Choral Fantasy (1808), which features a solo piano part. The chorus, under the direction of Duaine Wolfe, displayed no weakness of any kind.

There appears to have been some confusion about attire among the performers: The men in the orchestra, conductor, and bass-baritone were in white tie; the male chorus and tenor were in black tie. However, the bass-baritone’s white waistcoat was a jarring three inches longer than his tailcoat—a sartorial gaffe that, since its unfortunate appearance during President George W. Bush’s May 2007 whitetie appearance with Elizabeth II at the White House has apparently (alas) proliferated.

The performance’s single highpoint, if one is to be chosen, was the sight of the serene maestro, after the piece had ended, arms still upheld, attached to the silence in the wake of the great spiritual work, not moving as a few excitable audience members interrupted his silence with premature applause. The uncertain clapping died down almost immediately; the conductor relaxed after a moment to indicate the “official” end of the performance, and enjoyed his multiple ovations as applause broke out thereafter. One hopes this piece, with the right conductors, will appear more regularly in the concert repertoire.

Bernard Haitink cunducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s first performance of the trying, but transcendental Missa solemnis.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | October 30, 2012

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A homecoming of sorts—adjusting to life in the press box

By Vicente Fernandez Sports Editor I’ve suited up for 77 football games over the last eight years. I’ve played cornerback and safety. I’ve been a captain and I’ve ridden the bench. I’ve made tackles, I’ve recovered fumbles, I’ve intercepted passes, I’ve held clipboards, and I’ve won championships. The number of football games on which I’ve commentated, however, is zero—until Saturday’s game, which was my first game in the press box, and my eighth game off the playing field.

For those who don’t know, I was a cornerback for the Maroons during my first two years at the University of Chicago, and I loved every snap. I was one of “those guys”, one of the ones who says, “I’m playing out my four years no matter what.”

Then Sportsmanias.com happened.

SportsManias is a website I co-founded, and last summer was absolutely brutal when it came to balancing a growing startup and maintaining a formidable football offseason. To be perfectly honest, though, I didn’t want to give up the game. It wasn’t until three days before camp started that I gave coach Maloney that call—the one that started, “I’m really sorry, coach.”

It may have been the tougher call to make, but it was definitely the right one.

SportsManias is on the right track now.

After being given the time and diligence it deserves, we’re looking for investors, UMVs are climbing, and content is perfecting. The hours of “leisure” I devote to the company during the school week, hours previously spent at practice and at film and in the weight room, are also time well spent. It’s strange how your dreams change as you grow older, but they do; and

SportsManias is now my dream.

Still, how couldn’t I miss the sport I’d loved for all of these years? Football has meant everything to me; it’s been the rock that kept me in orbit. It’s taught me many lessons, even that the toughest decision is probably the one worth making. I couldn’t stay away from it for very long.

When I got back to school, Stagg Field haunted me. I didn’t know whether to run up to coach Maloney’s office and start ranting about how I was making my comeback in the spring, when all of the dust had settled and SportsManias was cruising and not launching, or whether to avoid game days and hide out at the Reg. Ultimately, the best route was one I was skeptical about at first, only because I was scared it would hurt too much— commentating Maroon football for Maroon TV, a station I helped co-found last spring.

I played for the Maroons, though. So the thought of sitting in a box and talking about my former teammates as they were on the field without me made me wince.

But it was the tougher decision to make, which meant it was probably the right one.

Plus, I missed the game, in any capacity.

My dad broadcasted sports during my childhood, and ever since I was a kid, I’d wanted to be some sort of sports media guru. Sure, SportsManias allows me to stay around football, but being at home on my computer while I could still be out there playing doesn’t quite fill the performance void—the nerves, the pressure, the thrill, the success on game day. I figured color commentating, even on my former team, might work for me.

Saturday started unorganized and hectic, just like any other game day I’d ever been a part of. I woke up at 9 a.m., before my football-player roommate. I woke him up too. I hadn’t done nearly enough homework for the broadcast at 1 p.m., but we go to the University of Chicago; we know how to cram.

The real problem lay in the fact that my dad was flying into town. He’s the one who really got me into sports— football especially—and he was also the one who bought three tickets to watch his son play before the season, before he knew I wouldn’t be playing. Still, my dad

was flying up and he was arriving at my apartment at 10:30 a.m. The thing was, I had to help transport equipment for the broadcast at 10 a.m. So I took a bus over to “The Cage,” but by the time we had the cameras, standing outside of Logan, my dad was at my front door, standing outside of Kimbark Plaza. He called me.

“Hey, I’m outside.”

“Umm…Can you come pick me up?”

Typical. But my dad, being my dad, obviously knew me and all of my flaws, and graciously gave me, and the game day crew, a ride to Stagg, where we dropped them off. Following the short diversion, my dad and I headed back to the apartment to get ready for the game and to drop off his luggage.

What followed was routine; different, but the same as the 77 football games in the eight years before it. I suited up. But instead of sliding my arms through a pair of shoulder pads, I slid them through a sports coat. Instead of kneepads, khakis.

Instead of cleats, loafers. Instead of a maroon helmet, a maroon tie.

One thing I experienced on Saturday for the first time in a long time, however, was spending pre-game preparation with my dad. He fixed my tie and my sleeves, just like he used to tweak my jersey back when I played flag football.

Hurriedly, I printed out my Case Western notes and studied them the way I’d grown accustomed to studying the playbook pre-game. It was practically the same: What were the team’s tendencies?

Who were their top players? The only difference was hammering down name pronunciation.

So my dad and I drove and parked by the library, walking past the Homecoming festivities and along the track that surrounded the turf. We shuffled past the kickers, their tees, and the returners catching punts. I would still be in the locker room, I thought. We walked up the bleachers and were greeted by three sets of football parents, all with warm hugs and a “We’re proud of you.”

Pre-game in the press box made for a new locker room. One with more thinking and scrambling, and less hitting and backpedaling. With 45 minutes left before kickoff, my dad and I approached

the Homecoming tents for a pre-game meal, and as we ate, the defensive backs walked past—my position group on the team. Their entrance was announced over the loudspeaker and their jerseys fit them better than I remember mine fitting me. I watched them walk through the tunnel of halfway fans and onto the same track I’d walked 20 times before, Saturday being my 21st.

Getting anxious that they were out there and I wasn’t, I signaled to my dad that it was time to go. So we followed the DB’s lead, behind coach Moore and the firstyear corners. They were in warm-up lines by the time we crossed paths, and when we did, wide receiver Dee Brizzolara and linebacker Brian Duffy and cornerback Mychael Gilliam gave a wave as if I was invited to join, but I didn’t. With the wind in full force and my tie flapping over my shoulder, my dad and I waved back and kept walking, past the field and into the stands.

Now it was game time, except instead of middle linebacker Alex Dzierbicki giving me the calls, I stood next to play-by-play announcer and fellow Maroon TV cofounder, Alex Sotiropoulos. And then the kick.

The game started well for the Maroons, but didn’t finish in their favor. Special teams swung the score the Spartans’ way. Blocked punts, dropped kicks, and penalties were the moral of this story.

In the press box I ran through sentences and tackled points. I broke up strateg y and pursued clarity. My commentating wasn’t without its fumbles, but for my first game I was proud. My dad stood by my side in the press box the entire time, in the booth labeled “Maroon Coaches.”

No coordinators were present in the box, just my dad with his feedback and advice between drives and quarters.

After the game he told me, “You know what? It didn’t hurt as much as I thought it would, not seeing you on the field.”

“No, no it didn’t,” I said.

I plan on returning to football this spring and I plan on playing my senior year. But after Saturday I know there is life after football. It may not be on the playing field, but it’s not far off. It’s just up the bleachers and into the box.

Left: Eli Roth (right), a member of the Alper Resident Head family gets his face painted at the Homecoming Block Party on Saturday.

VARSHA SUNDAR | THE CHICAGO MAROON Bottom Left: Third-year Vicente Fernandez, formerly a cornerback for the Maroons, provides commentary on the Homecoming game for UCTV. JAMIE MANLEY | THE CHICAGO MAROON Bottom: Tufts House attempts to conquer the tug-o-war at the Homecoming Block Party on Saturday.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | October 30, 2012

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Take two: Maroons climb in standings with road victories over Case, Rochester Women’s Soccer Tatiana Fields Sports Contributor It’s full speed ahead for the Maroons after ending a highly successful weekend on the road. The South Siders (12– 5–0, 4–2–0) played two conference matches against Case and Rochester, and emerged victorious in both.

The Maroons took on Case (7–6–4, 1–4–1) at Case Field on Friday in a shutout that ended 6–0 in Chicago’s favor. Second-year forward Sara Kwan led the offense with two goals in the first 15 minutes, opening the door for Chicago to score four additional goals throughout the game.

“The pace was good,” head coach Amy Reifert said. “We were very systematic in creating chances that were easy to finish on, and also being efficient in terms of finishing the chances we got. We were dynamic in

the bottom third, which is an area we’ve been focusing on.”

Despite what the score may imply, it was not a blowout for Chicago. The South Siders and the Spartans each had eight shots on goal, but second-year goalkeeper Jacinda Reid kept the Maroons’ record clean with six saves.

Chicago then headed over to Rochester (3–12–1, 0–6–0) for the second game of the weekend on Sunday. The South Siders got off to a slow start, but came back to beat Rochester 2–1.

The Yellow Jackets took an early lead on a goal by sophomore Hayley Engel in the 14th minute. The goal served as a wake-up call for the South Siders, who rallied to score two goals in the first half.

“They came down and were very dangerous and scored a good goal,” Reifert said. “We thought enough already, and got our act together to score two goals. Going down and then immedi-

ately getting our act together to come back and tie it and then go ahead was a highlight for me today.”

Second-year forward Meghan Derken scored off of a rebound from fourth-year Brigette Kragie in the 17th minute to tie the game. Chicago took the lead with a goal from third-year Natalia Jovanovic in the 27th minute.

The second half of the game was tough on both sides as they roughed it outdoors in the rain. Both the Maroons and Yellow Jackets had chances to score and multiple shots on goal, but neither of the teams was able to seal the deal.

The Maroons must now turn their attention to their final conference game against top seed Wash U. “We’re going to focus playing at the level we played this weekend,” Reifert said. “We’re going to stay on top of it and keep working as hard as we can.”

Third-year Beatrice Hobson dribbles the ball down the field at a home game earlier this season.

COURTESY OF HANS GLICK

Whitmore, Siegmund earn all-UAA honors, Blood takes home Rookie of the Year Men’s XC Isaac Stern Sports Contributor The Maroons finished fourth at the UAA Championship this past weekend, behind rivals Wash U, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon.

The South Siders entered the 8k-race hoping to upset the national rankings, which had them tied for 22nd. With Wash U, NYU, and Carnegie Mellon all ranked higher than the Maroons, a conference championship would have sent a loud message to the national field. However, the squad was unable to make much of an impact, defeating only Rochester, who had been tied with Chicago in the national rankings.

“The UAA happens to be one of the premier cross-country conferences in Division III,” fourth-year Isaac Dalke said. “Six teams are ranked in the top 35, with some top-notch individual competitors toeing the line.”

Among those individuals were Kevin Sparks of Wash U and Dylan Karten of NYU, who finished first and second, respectively. Sparks’ time of 25:02.5 beat Karten by nearly 12 seconds.

Despite not having the success they wanted, the Maroons still had some impressive performances. Fourth-year AllAmerican Billy Whitmore led the way for the team, placing third with a time of 25:15.7. Fourth-years Gregor Siegmund and Isaac Dalke followed suit,

placing 14th and 17th, respectively.

First-year Henry Blood finished in 26th with a time of 25:57.5, giving him the fastest time among runners of his year. Blood was named Rookie of the Year for his performance, Whitmore and Siegmund garnering All-UAA accolades.

With the successes and shortcomings from the conference in the past, the squad now looks toward the future.

“We are definitely eyeing the regional race a few weeks down the road.”

Unfortunately, the Maroons are in an even tougher position for the regional meet. Last year, the squad finished in 10th place at the meet, five spots short of qualifying for the na-

tional meet. Traditionally, five teams qualify out of the Midwest region due to its heavy competition, so the Maroons need to improve on last year if they want to qualify.

“There are 11 teams in the region that are ranked in the top 35 nationally,” Dalke said. “We have a lot of talent, but we really need to coalesce and elevate as a team on that day if we want to make it to the national championships—the field is just too fast and too deep for anything less.”

Currently, the Maroons are ranked eighth in the region, better than last year, but not yet good enough for a spot in Terre Haute, IN where the National Championship will be held.

The Maroons look to jump three spots at the regional meet by defeating UW–Platteville, UW–Stevens Point, and Augustana. This would put the South Siders in fifth place, right next to rival Wash U. “We are asking ourselves to rise to the level of competition,” Dalke said.

“As a team, we are committed to making it to the national meet, but we also realize what this is asking of ourselves individually and as a team.”

The regional meet takes place on November 10 at 11 a.m. in Oshkosh. The Maroons competed on the same grounds earlier this year during the UW–Oshkosh Invitational on October 13.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK The executive boards of the Women’s Athletic Association and the Order of the “C” have implemented a new program, “Athlete of the Week,” to highlight athletes making a big impact on the campus community—both on and off the field. We hope the MAROON’s new series on these ‘Uncommon’ athletes can start a conversation...and not just within the walls of Ratner.

COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ATHLETICS

BRIGETTE KRAGIE, WOMEN’S SOCCER Head Coach Amy Reifert: “Brigette has been a great role model, captain and teammate. On the field, she is always one of the hardest working and most talented players. She has scored seven goals this year, including the game winner on Saturday at Wisconsin-Oshkosh in our 1-0 victory. She is our captain and our heart and soul on the field. She leads with her voice, but most importantly with her work ethic, dedication and heart. No one wants to win more than Brigette and no one is more committed to doing everything she can to ensure that the women’s soccer team at the University of Chicago succeeds.”

MARTY DETMER, FOOTBALL Head Coach Dick Maloney: “Marty is a fourth-year defensive lineman who has seen limited action during his first 36 games on the Midway. This past Saturday, due to an early injury, Marty was asked for and responded with a tremendous effort and performance versus Hiram. Hiram finished the game with only 103 yards of offense (26 rushing and 77 passing ).

It takes a very special athlete to dedicate himself in and out of season for four years, let alone one that is doing it and not receiving much glory, cheers from the crowd, and limited playing time. Marty is always prepared to help the team in any way, as a spot player or special teamer for example. He is that unique individual who has committed himself to his teammates, his love of the game, and the UChicago football program. It was personally satisfying to see Marty’s dedication to the team be rewarded and see him play very well in UChicago’s 23-7 victory over Hiram.”

SPORTS

IN QUOTES

“Just herd NYC power went out?!?! Is that true.”

—US Olympic medalist Ryan Lochte on Hurricane Sandy.

For South Siders, turnovers prove costly in Homecoming drubbing Football Sam Zacher Sports Contributor It just wasn’t their day.

In front of a Homecoming crowd, the Maroons (4–4) struggled against Case Western (5–3), falling 28– 15 on Saturday.

Uncharacteristic and untimely mistakes cost the Maroons, and the visiting Spartans took advantage.

“Case executed better and played better than we did,” head coach Dick Maloney said. “A poor kicking game and offense put our defense in some holes.”

Chicago came out strong, capturing early momentum with third-year fullback Tom Brutofsky’s one-yard touchdown run eight-anda-half minutes into the first quarter. But after a blocked extra point attempt, the Maroons lost their handle on the game.

“The momentum shifted when we turned the ball over and had two punts blocked all within our own 30-yard line,” third-year quarterback Vincent Cortina said.

Special teams—usually one of the South Siders’ strengths—became their Achilles’ heel on Saturday, allowing two blocked punts and two blocked extra points. Poor kicking and untimely turnovers put the

Chicago defense in a tough position multiple times, too. By the end of the second quarter, Case had taken a 21–6 lead on three drives, each of which began in or near the Chicago red zone.

“They had a short field to work with and scored,” Cortina said. “We made mistakes and they really capitalized on them.”

In the second half, Case’s momentum slowed, but Chicago couldn’t muster a comeback. After a Jeff Sauer field goal, which cut Case’s lead to 21–9, the Spartans scored on a sixplay drive, effectively putting the 28–9 game out of reach.

Though the stats may not reflect it, Case played a better game. Even though Chicago converted on eight of 17 third downs compared to Case’s three of ten mark, the visiting Spartans had five red zone opportunities to the Maroons’ two. And although Chicago gained 301 total offensive yards to Case’s 249, the offense came at inopportune times.

“We played tough the whole game,” Maloney said, “but mistakes cost us against a very good Case football team.”

Chicago put up one last stand, scoring a touchdown with 54 seconds left in the

Running back Tom Brutofsky, a third-year, runs past a Case Western defender in Saturday's Homecoming game.

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game on Cortina’s 31-yard pass to fourth-year tight end Brandon Meckelberg.

Cortina finished the day 24 for 43 with 261 yards, with one touchdown and one interception. Meckelberg

caught seven passes for 141 yards and a touchdown.

“Their defense was centered around stopping [fourth-year receiver Dee Brizzolara],” Meckelberg said. “With most of their

coverages fixated on keeping him from making big plays, I was often open downfield.”

Against a strong Case defense, one player’s performance alone was not

enough to carry the Maroons.

Chicago continues UAA play and looks to pick up its first conference win at Carnegie Mellon next Saturday at 11 a.m.

Crossing that line: Maroons capture first UAA title since ’94

Chicago still finding its fight as conference tournament looms

Women’s XC

Volleyball

Lauren Gurley Sports Contributor For the first time since 1994, the women’s cross country squad took home the title at the UAA Championship in Rochester, New York. Four runners—fourth-year Julia Sizek, third-years Elise Wummer and Michaela Whitelaw, and first-year Brianna Hickey—placed in the top 10.

The Maroons won the meet by a landslide with a score of 37, followed by NYU (96), Carnegie Mellon (103), Wash U (105), Case Western (121), Rochester (122), Emory (127), and Brandeis (193).

Julia Sizek was runnerup in the race, finishing the 6k-course in 21:57.7.

“Out of the six teams, we felt we were the favorite,” head coach Chris Hall said.

“We had been a bit better

than everyone else in the meet.”

Chicago has had an excellent record thus far, and Hall believes this group of women may be the best of his coaching career at Chicago.

“The biggest thing for me is that our kids were completely committed to running together in the race,” Hall said. “All 10 of our runners were running together 100 meters in. And it [was] very much a complete team performance; it would be really hard to single out an individual or two. It was really a team effort.”

“I thought everybody did a really great job,” said Sizek, who has won three UAA Athlete of the Week awards so far this season.

“One of the best things was that we took control of the race [in] the first mile.

Ten of the top 20 girls were

ours, and that made it intimidating for the other teams.”

Hickey’s performance was yet another highlight.

Hickey was the top freshman in the race, coming in eighth (22:40.5). She was the first Maroon to win the Rookie of the Year award at the conference meet.

Up next are the Midwest Regionals on Saturday, November 10 in Oshkosh, which will determine whether Chicago will qualify for the NCAA DIII Championship on November 17.

“Things look pretty good for us,” Hall said. “We have a great shot at competing in national championships. The team right now is a deeper team than I’ve ever had the opportunity to coach at this University, and we have wriggle room if somebody doesn’t have the best day.”

Cristina Schaver Sports Contributor The Maroons competed in the Benedictine tournament in Lisle, IL this weekend, marking the end of the regular season and the beginning of a much more intense postseason.

“This is the fun time of the year,” head coach Vanessa Walby said. “This is when everything counts.”

The Maroons collected three wins and one loss over the weekend, bringing their overall season standing to 26–9.

They defeated North Central College, North Park University, and Concordia University Chicago with relative ease but fell against Benedictine on its home court.

Second-year libero Eirene Kim and third-year setter Nikki DelZenero were named to the All-Tournament Team.

“I think overall we played well, but at times we weren’t 100 percent focused,” first-year

setter Ragine Graves said. “The second day of play was much more efficient and successful.”

“It’s fun to play really, really hard even though we weren’t playing the greatest of teams,” third-year middle-blocker Maggie Vaughn said. “That sort of drive that you practice when you’re not playing that great of a team is what won us the match against Wash U.” The Maroons defeated North Central 3–1 on Friday before facing defeat from Benedictine 1–3. They then defeated both North Park and Concordia 3–0 on Saturday.

“Benedictine is not a better team, but recently we’ve been losing to teams who are not as skilled as us but have more of something that’s intangible, which is scrappiness and fight,” Vaughn said. “They keep everything in play and really attack us in places that we’re weak, like attacking the big girls on tips.

They just came at us and didn’t stop the whole time.”

Kim had an impressive showing over the weekend, registering 24 and 29 digs the first day of the tournament and 24 more the second day, plus eight assists.

“They’ve been doing this all season long. I’m specifically talking about Eirene Kim and Samantha Brown; they stay strong through every single game and it’s really amazing,” Vaughn said. “When we were falling against Benedictine they picked us up and made sure we didn’t get crushed.”

After one of their strongest seasons yet, it remains to be seen if the Maroons will be able to pull through in the postseason. In the end, it comes down to focus and execution, and this past weekend was a lesson— perhaps a hard lesson—on the challenges they’ll face. The UAA Championship kicks off on November 2.

“Your mindset needs to be tougher,” Walby said, “and expectations are higher.”