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R ockefeller remembers MLK

IOP panel debates gun control William Wilcox Senior News Staff

At the MLK commemoration celebration last night, featured guests Professor Charles Payne and Judy Richardson discuss Richardson’s work on the documentary Eyes on the Prize, her experiences during the civil rights movement, and her work chronicling it. FRANK YAN | THE CHICAGO MAROON

Madhu Srikantha News Editor UChicago hosted its annual Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration celebration at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel yesterday evening. Judy

Richardson, the film producer well-known for her work on the PBS series Eyes on the Prize, a 14-hour-long documentary on the civil rights movement, was this year’s featured guest. Charles Payne, Frank P. Hixon Distinguished Service

Professor at the School of Social Service Administration and author of several histories on the civil rights movement, engaged Richardson in a conversation about her involvement with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating

Uncommon Interview: Tom Brokaw Noah Weiland & William Wilcox Senior News Staff Tom Brokaw was the only network anchor in Berlin when the Berlin Wall fell. He did the first American one-on-one interview with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and current Russian President Vladimir Putin. He moderated a presidential debate during President Obama’s first election. His book The Greatest Generation was a New York Times bestseller. And as host of NBC Nightly News for 22 years, Brokaw became known as one of the most revered anchors in television history. After moderating a UChicago Institute of Politics panel on gun control Tuesday night at the Logan Center, Brokaw sat down with The Maroon to discuss

firearms legislation, his love of history, and how he maintains his iconic baritone voice. To see the complete interview, go to chicagomaroon.com. Chicago Maroon: Is it important, or even possible, to reconcile the gun debate going on in metropolitan areas with the one going on nationally in the wake of the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut? Tom Brokaw: It’s a cultural issue, and we tried to get at that some tonight. The problem with the debate is that it’s so polarized between big city liberals and Western, rural conservatives. I really think that we have to deal with this in a holistic way: It’s about the fabric of our lives, about whether we want to be a civil society and have sensible regulations and try to get

Committee (SNCC), one of the only youth-led civil rights organizations during the civil rights movement. Richardson said that while she was at Swarthmore College, she and her seven black MLK continued on page 3

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Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw moderated a panel discussion on the current debate over firearm regulation at the Logan Center on Tuesday. The panelists included Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, former Republican Congressman Steve Latourette, Director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab Jens Ludwig, and Chicago Tribune columnist Steve Chapman. Because the timing of the panel coincided with the announcement of President Obama’s gun control plan, Brokaw checked his cell phone in order to discover the gun control policies as they were released. After he retrieved the information, he then led the panelists in a discussion of the measures. Emanuel predicted that the political energy for firearms regulation reforms generated by the Newtown shooting could not be relied on for legislative success. In response to Latourette’s concerns that Congress would

overregulate in the wake of the tragedy, Emanuel said, “I am not worried that the United States Congress is going to do too much. The real worry is that we’re going to lose this moment.” Ludwig pointed out that national regulation is important in this issue because of the porous nature of state borders that make state level regulations ineffective. He also disputed beliefs that violence in the United States is caused by violent video games and movies, citing studies that indicate that gun crimes decrease immediately following the release of violent video games. According to Ludwig, the reason for America’s high homicide rate compared to other nations is that guns are more deadly than knives, a weapon used more often by citizens of countries with stricter gun restrictions. “The United States is not an unusually violent country,” Ludwig said. “[It is] just the homicide rate that make us look very different and almost all of the GUNS continued on page 3

Harper Theater Opens

the two groups to find some kind of common ground somewhere. CM: Do you think that the current political climate will generate substantive firearms legislation? TB: What’s important is that this not have a half-life of six months. It ought to become part of the woofing call of our political dialogue. By that I don’t mean we stand on opposite ends of the room just shouting at each other, but let’s try to find some things that work. Part of what we have to do is make it unacceptable for these kinds of events to happen. I’m not sure what motivated these men at Aurora and at Sandy Hook, but my worry is that some of it is nobody paying attention to them, and they just BROKAW continued on page 2

Harper Theater, located on the corner of 53rd Street and Harper Avenue, is celebrating its highly anticipated grand opening today. SYDNEY COMBS | THE CHICAGO MAROON

Raghav Verma Senior News Staff The century-old Harper Movie Theater is set to reopen today after licensing setbacks and a decade of development. The building, located at

East 53rd Street and South Harper Avenue, was purchased by the University in 2002 after the first theater to make its home at the location in 1915 closed under the management of the Meridian Entertainment Group, which purchased

the building in 1999. In 2011, University officials signed an agreement with ADF Capital, the owner of the New 400 Theaters in Rogers Park, to redevelop and operate Harper Theater. HARPER continued on page 3

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Brokaw: As a news consumer you have to work harder

Israeli Consul General talks war, peace Celia Bever News Editor & Amos Gewirtz News Contributor

Israeli General Consul Roey Gilad shares a laugh with first-year Cristina Schaver after a talk on the state of Middle Eastern politics at International House on Wednesday. PETER TANG | CHICAGO MAROON

all hell will break loose for the Middle East.” Iran wasn’t the only worry on his mind, though. ISRAEL continued on page 3

Students push for climate-concious divestment

Mara McCollom News Contributor The University of Chicago Office of Alumni Relations and Development is in the final stages of rolling out a new, more comprehensive alumni directory that Alumni Career Services administrators say will make finding alums in specific career fields easier for students. Alumni now have to opt out of the program instead of electing to opt in, as before, which according to Senior Associate Director of Career and Affinity Programs Annie White will make the program more inclusive and informative. In the old alumni database, the Alumni Careers Network, alums could choose to participate in the program and set up a profile with their contact informa-

tion and career path. But many alumni did not create profiles, and many of those that did updated it infrequently, so their profiles incorrectly reflected their job status and location. White believes that requiring alumni to opt out of the program will significantly increase the number and diversity of alumni in the database. “One of the struggles we had with the old directory was that you could type in marketing and San Francisco, and you might get one person, but we know that we have more people in marketing in the San Francisco area,” White said. “We wanted to make it much more inclusive because a lot of people had forgotten.” The new directory solves the problem of out-of-date profiles by allowing alums

to include links to their LinkedIn profiles, Twitter accounts, and blogs on their page, which will ensure that students and alumni can access the most recent information. “We know that people don’t usually come back to their alma mater to update their alumni profiles, but they do go to LinkedIn. So as a student graduates and becomes an alum and moves on in their career, they are more likely to use that,” White said. After a year in development, the new alumni directory opened to the alumni community a few weeks ago for them to log in, update their profiles, and adjust any communication or privacy settings. Following this adjustment period, students will receive instructions on how to access the directory.

CORRECTIONS Due to an editing error, the January 15 article “Mandel Makeover Maintains Historical Design” misstated the number of seats in Mandel Hall. There are 878 seats. The January 15 article “On weekend trip East, misfiring Maroons fall to Rochester, Emory” misquoted third-year forward Charlie Hughes. He stated “We’ve got a couple days off to get our legs back,” rather than “We’ve got a couple games off to get our legs back.”

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Weekly Crime Report By Marina Fang

This is a series the Maroon publishes summarizing instances of campus crime. Each week details a few notable crimes, in addition to keeping a running count from September 24. The focus is on crimes within the UCPD patrol area, which runs from East 37th to 65th Streets and South Cottage Grove to Lake Shore Drive. Here are this week’s notables:

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» January 10, Ida Noyes Hall, 7:35 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.—An unknown person took an iPhone and credit cards from an unattended handbag. » January 11, East 53rd Street between Blackstone and Harper Avenues, 7 p.m.— UCPD officers arrested three males who had taken merchandise from a retail establishment and fled. The crime was a Chicago Police Department (CPD) case.

Type of Crime

Simple assault

Theft

Trespass to property

Arrest

Traffic Violation

» January 12, Ratner Athletics Center— 0 Between 10:30 a.m. and 12:05 p.m., an unknown person removed a com47th bination lock from locker and took clothing and a wallet. The property was later found and returned to the owner. 51st

» January 11–14, 5747 South Ellis Avenue (Jones Lab)—Between 5 p.m. on January 11 and 8:50 a.m. on January 14, an unknown person forced entry into Room 214 and took a backpack and two laptop computers. Source: UCPD Incident Reports

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in its current petition, is to convince the University to “immediately freeze any new investments in fossil fuel companies, and to divest within five years from direct ownership and from

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lege, is the UChicago branch of a national effort with upwards of 200 campuses asking their schools to divest from fossil fuel companies. The goal of the UChicago campaign, as explained

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Students kicked off a campaign to decrease the University’s carbon footprint on Thursday, recruiting new members to join a

national effort to convince universities to divest from fossil fuel companies. The newly initiated “Stop Funding Climate Change” campaign, which is composed of fewer than 10 students from the Col-

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holds up over time. And if you’re proactive, you can be the best-informed citizen in the history of mankind, not even with just television, but now with the small screen as well. CM: Is it the responsibility of television journalists to meet a certain kind of public need? TB: The responsibility of TV journalists is to cover the news. There’s no civic responsibility, and it’s very uneven. Fox feels it’s fulfilling a civic responsibility, but so does Rachel Maddow. You’ve got two ends of the spectrum going on there, and that’s the way it ought to be. CM: Time to give us the secret: How do you keep that voice going for so many years? TB: [Laughs] I was born with it, and it’s just always been there. I’ve always been a Chatty Cathy. From my earliest memories on, my friends and parents all said the same thing : I was fearless about talking and using my voice. Television news was built for me. I always liked writing and was reasonably good at it, but I was born for this medium.

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even need to pull the trigger,” he said. “It’s enough that they’ll conduct a nuclear experiment somewhere in the desert to make sure that

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He also expressed pronounced concern over a nuclear-armed Iran. “If Iran becomes a nuclear superpower, they will not

want to get some kind of crazy attention. I don’t know how many…saw this wonderful documentary last year about bullying in schools; it was going on off the radar. Not enough people were stepping up and saying , ‘That’s a bully. We’ve got to stand up for that young person.’ So this obviously disturbed young man in Newtown—[and] same thing with the guy in Aurora, Colorado— they’re out there kind of banging off the walls. People are seeing that, but people are kind of powerless to do anything about it. We have to have a better alert system. CM: Do you think that television news is currently meeting the public’s need to stay informed? TB: Here’s what I think, and this surprises a lot of people: You can no longer just be a couch potato. When I was little, you could just tune in to Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley. Now you’ve got the screen crowded with all these images. There are more pixels than I can count. As a news consumer, you have to work harder about what’s reliable, what’s credible, and what

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Israeli Consul General Roey Gilad has held positions in Kenya, Jordan, and the United Kingdom. But for the past six months, Gilad has been serving as consul general to the Midwest, providing him the opportunity to reach out to communities he described as “friendlier.” “Our arguments are better accepted [in the U.S.].... We are sharing more or less the same language,” he said in an interview with the Maroon. In that regard, Gilad spoke openly about the current state of Israel’s national security, disputes with the Palestinian people, and Israeli-American relations in a talk at International House on Wednesday.

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Crime lab advice in pres. proposals Marina Fang News Editor President Obama signed an executive order authorizing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to research gun violence for the first time in 17 years on Wednesday, echoing recommendations raised by the University of Chicago Crime Lab. The Crime Lab, which researches crime and violence both in Chicago and nationally, sent a letter last Thursday to Vice President Joe Biden and his “gun violence commission,” formed in the wake of the Newtown shooting, calling for the President to dramatically increase support for gun policy research. Crime Lab co-director Professor Harold Pollack said he believes the letter may have influenced the executive order. “I believe they took our letter into account, although they certainly heard complementary messages from many other sources about these long-standing issues in gun policy. Many issues raised in our letter were specifically noted in the President’s materials,” he said. The executive order will have important ramifications in gun policy, ac-

cording to Professor Jens Ludwig, co-director of the Crime Lab and one of the letter’s authors. Without extensive research, he said, policymakers cannot develop pragmatic solutions to gun violence. “Effective policy is difficult to formulate if we don’t fully understand the nature of the underlying problem— such as how exactly guns make their way from legal licensed firearm dealers to criminals through the underground gun market— and if we cannot evaluate new gun policy innovations,” he said. Obama conveyed similar sentiments in his remarks. “We don’t benefit from ignorance. We don’t benefit from not knowing the science of this epidemic of violence,” he said in his announcement. In recent years, Congress has placed legal and financial constraints on gun policy research, actions spearheaded by the gun rights lobby. According to a 2011 New York Times article, Congress effectively eliminated funding for gun research at the CDC in 1996, bowing to pressure from gun rights groups like the National Rifle Association (NRA). Congress cut $2.6 million

from the CDC budget, which is the exact amount the agency spent on gun research in the previous year, and declared that “none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun control.” In 2011, these restrictions were also placed on the National Institute of Health. Consequently, these agencies “have been pretty effectively discouraged from supporting research on gun violence,” Ludwig said. Another executive order announced on Wednesday addressed an additional concern raised by the Crime Lab’s letter: the current limitations of gun data collection. The letter recommended expanding the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS), which tracks the sale and distribution of guns that are ultimately used in murders. The executive order called on Congress to budget $20 million to implement the NVDRS in all 50 states. Currently, only 18 states employ the NVDR system, according to the Lab’s letter. According to Ludwig, the lack of data has severely compromised attempts to CRIME continued on page 4

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Gilad said that although he considers it “problematic,” he supports a two-state solution to the problem with Palestine, arguing that a one-state solution “might risk the Jewish majority.” “All the citizens of Israel and all the Jewish people all over the world would like to see one state which is a Jewish state,” he said. According to Gilad, Hamas is “unwilling but able” to reach a peace agree-

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classmates went to Cambridge, Maryland, each weekend because of its thriving civil rights scene. It was on one of these trips that she went to Washington, D.C., where she visited SNCC’s national office and began her involvement with the organization. “The idea was if you do nothing, nothing happens,” she said. The conversation between Payne and Richardson then veered toward her work in historicizing the movement with Eyes on the Prize. As education director of the project, Richardson said that prior to filming, she spent over six

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difference between the United States and the United Kingdom is driven by gun homicides.” The debate also touched on the urban versus rural demographic issues at play in the debate on firearms ownership and regulation. According to Chapman, rural people tend to be of the self-policing ethos, and are also more likely to own guns for non-violent purposes, including hunting and target practice. “Outside of the big cities there is a sense among people that the people in the big cities really do not understand why rural people are attached to their guns,” Chapman said. “They don’t see them as this demonic force that a lot of urban politicians do.”

After a decade of vacancy, theater returns to Hyde Park HARPER continued from front

Although the original opening date was set for mid-December, a business licensing snag required that the theater postpone its launch date until after the holiday season. Before issuing a business license, the city’s Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection requires a 60day waiting period to allow registered voters within 200 feet of the proposed busi-

ness the opportunity to object. Tony Fox, president of ADF Capital, said earlier this week, “I suppose it got resolved because nobody complained. As soon as we cleared that, we passed all our inspections, and we’re opening a couple days later.” The theater plans to show a mix of independent and mainstream new-release films. Its opening lineup

includes Les Misérables, Silver Linings Playbook, Zero Dark Thirty, and Lincoln. In the future, Fox emphasized that community input will help determine what films the theater will feature. Patrons can make recommendations on the theater’s Facebook page or directly to staff, in-person or over the phone. Fox made it clear that their offerings will not overlap with those screened

ment with Israel, while the Palestinian Authority is “willing but unable.” “Although I am not sure, many people in Israel now think that it will be easier to make someone willing who is unwilling than to make someone able who is unable.” Israeli public opinion is generally favorable toward the United States, Gilad said, and does not change according to the political party of the president. And

though he called President Obama “a great friend of Israel,” he indicated that a state visit would be appreciated. “I do hope he will visit Israel in the coming four years, something that wasn’t done in the last four years,” he said in the interview. “So you have your headline: Israeli consul general to the Midwest is calling President Obama, ‘Come and visit Israel.’”

Richardson: You mean it wasn’t only Dr. King?

Panelists discuss urban-rural divide on gun regulation

From right: Moderator Tom Brokaw, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, retired Rep. Steve Latourette (R-Ohio), columnist Steve Chapman, and Professor Jens Ludwig discuss American gun policy at an IOP–sponsored panel on Tuesday. JULIA REINITZ | THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

by Doc Films. “We’re not going to be showing anything they’re going to be showing.” The Chicago-based Metropolis Coffee Company will operate the theater’s in-house cafe and will serve products from local businesses Medici Bakery and Brown Sugar Bakery. Tickets are $8 for adults, $7 for students, and $6 for seniors, children, and matinee screenings.

months researching how the movement was galvanized in the South, particularly in Montgomery, Alabama, the place of Rosa Parks’s famous protest. Richardson’s research led her to call Jo Ann Robinson, the co-chair of the Women’s Political Council, an organization that began advocating for racial equality in the 1950s, years before Martin Luther King Jr. took the lead. “You mean it wasn’t only Dr. King?” Richardson remembered thinking. She realized that there were similar local movements across the country that had not yet been storied, and she considered

it important that she include their narratives in the film. Richardson then discussed her later work to bring publicity to those in the civil rights movement who were not well known through her 2011 book Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. The book tells the stories of 52 ordinary women involved with the SNCC. The common thread between them, according to Richardson, was courage — something that she believed defined the movement. “All of these were regular people. They were not exceptional in the least.”

Twenty-two bid for Jackson’s empty seat Hamid Bendaas News Contributor Twenty-two candidates have announced their intentions to run in the upcoming special election to fill former Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr.’s vacancy. Jackson represented Illinois’s Second Congressional District—which includes East Hyde Park, much of the South Side, and the southern suburbs—for 17 years before his resignation in November. According to Steve Edwards, Deputy Director of Programming for the Institute of Politics, the Democratic primary, which will pit 17 of the current candidates against each other, will be the race to watch. “Most of the action in this race will be focused on the Democratic Party,” Edwards said, noting that the South Side has been a stronghold for Democrats for decades. The Democratic primary will be held on February 26, and Edwards suspects the race will come down to four key candidates: Robin Kelly, Toi Hutchinson, Anthony Beale, and Debbie Halvorson. Though some candidates

have connections and history in Hyde Park, this former “heart of the district” does not seem like it will impact the election. “Hyde Park’s influence in the Second Congressional District has been waning over time as district boundaries have changed,” Edwards said. Edwards noted the importance of the south suburbs region. “The geographics are changing ; it’s more rural. It’s also encompassing greater parts of Will County, one of the fastest growing counties in the nation.” As a result, issues affecting the far South Side and the south suburbs are likely to take precedence. Ninth Ward Alderman Beale, whose ward lies in the far South Side neighborhood Roseland, noted Hyde Park projects as important parts of his vision for the district. “Promontory Point is something the community has been talking about for years. I’m going to complete Promontory Point,” Beale said, referring to a 12-year controversy over the construction of a storm-protection barrier that has yet to be resolved. POLITICS continued on page 4

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Booth panel closes divides Lauren Gurley News Contributor A recent paper by Roger Gordon and Gordon Dahl, two economists at the University of California, San Diego, and based on survey results from the Booth School of Business’s Economic Experts Panel, suggests that there is a significant consensus on many policy issues among members of the field. Part of Booth’s Initiative on Global Markets (IGM), the Economic Experts Panel is a group of the nation’s leading economists from seven universities’ prestigious economics departments, chosen for their public policy expertise and geographic and political diversity, according to the IGM Web site. A weekly survey is administered to the panel in which the economists have the option to agree, disagree, or declare uncertainty about each issue in the survey, and must rank how confident they are in their response on a scale from one to 10. The overall results show that economists generally agree on a great number

of issues. In 32 out of the 80 surveys, the economists were unanimous in their responses. Topics with a great deal of research behind them were the least controversial among economists, while larger disagreements emerged when there was a shortage of economic literature on a given topic. Moreover, the results showed that where economists received their doctorate and where they are currently employed do not seem to correlate with their economic views. But findings did show that respondents who received degrees from the University of Chicago were far more certain in their answers than those from other institutions. The UChicago economics program, collectively known as the Chicago School of Economics, is often referred to as part of the “freshwater school of economics” for its more right-leaning stances on economic policies, as opposed to the left-leaning “saltwater” schools such as MIT and Harvard. The panel, which is directed by Booth professors Anil Kashyap and Brian Barry, has been running since September 2011.

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pursue substantial research in gun violence around the country and at the Crime Lab. The Lab hopes to conduct a wide-ranging study of the underground gun market in urban areas, but existing legislation limits access to relevant data. “One of the key ways that social

scientists try to understand how things work is to make comparisons across places and over time in terms of how social conditions vary...in the local policy or enforcement environment. That’s obviously difficult to do if we can’t assemble any crime [or] gun data from anywhere,” he said.

Alderman Beale in support of South Side adult trauma care center POLITICS continued from page 3

The lack of adult trauma care since the University of Chicago Medical Center’s 1988 decision to close its center is also something Beale aims to revisit. “The South Side and the south suburban areas need another trauma center,” he said. “I’d like to work with our hospitals to see what the best approach is in making that happen.” For his campaign, Beale hopes to combine the base he has built in his own ward and the immediately surrounding wards with his

connections in the south suburbs. The changing demographics, wide-open field, and the stain of Jackson’s resignation create unique opportunities in this election for other candidates as well, including Marcus Lewis, an independent candidate from the south suburb area. Lewis, who surprised many last November by garnering 40,006 votes (13.5 percent) as an independent running against Jackson, has accused Jackson of caring more about his campaign success than his constituents. He has sim-

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any commingled funds that include fossil fuel public equities and corporate bonds.” Due to issues of transparency, the campaign is uncertain as to exactly in which fossil fuel companies the University invests, besides Exxon Mobil and Arch Coal, Inc. According to campaign director and second-year Brendan Leonard, “This is why we want to talk to the University: because they have to be transparent with us.” The campaign delivered a letter to President Zimmer’s office during reading period of last quarter asking the University to

divest. Although Zimmer did not respond to this action, the campaign hopes to escalate its campaign with “banner drops, rallies, [and] pressure-oriented activities addressed to the administration” according to campaign member and fourth-year Sage Gerson. Environmental studies lecturer Ray Lodato is the first of what the campaign hopes will be many faculty to support the campaign. According to Leonard, he was one of the first to sign the petition last quarter and allowed Gerson to announce the kick-off meeting to Lodato’s Environmental Law class on Tuesday.

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ilar criticisms for his Democratic competitors. “They’re running because they want the job, for the prestige. I’m running because I want to help somebody,” he said. In an unusual moment for Chicago politics, independents like Lewis and lesser-known Democrats like Joyce Washington, who Edwards believes “shouldn’t be overlooked,” will perhaps be able to make some real noise in this election, he said. “It’s rare in the Chicago area to see an open seat that’s truly open.”

In regards to the Kalven Report, a document published in 1967 by a faculty committee stating that the University must remain politically neutral, the campaign is confident that the issue at stake transcends the University’s policy of political neutrality. “We’ve seen them deploy the Kalven Report very selectively,” said campaign member and second-year Paul Kim. “We think that if the University decides [the campaign] is a pressing issue, the Kalven Report will be less of an issue. We also think this is an issue of direct concern to the University.”

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Campus dialogue fundamentals Low-key nature of Campus Dialogue Fund’s launch shouldn’t set a precedent for its future activities 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 JAMIE MANLEY Senior Editor CELIA BEVER News Editor MARINA FANG News Editor MADHU SRIKANTHA News Editor JENNIFER STANDISH News Editor AJAY BATRA Viewpoints Editor DAVID KANER 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 ALICE BLACKWOOD Head Copy Editor JEN XIA Head Copy Editor BEN ZIGTERMAN Head Copy Editor SYDNEY COMBS Photo Editor TIFFANY TAN Photo Editor JOY CRANE Assoc. News Editor ANKIT JAIN Assoc. News Editor STEPHANIE XIAO Assoc. News Editor EMMA THURBER STONE Assoc. Viewpoints Editor

Almost three years ago, in February 2010, a fourth-year African-American student named Mauriece Dawson was arrested in the A-level of the Regenstein Library. The charges against him were criminal trespass and resisting arrest. Witnesses, however, described a very different incident: one wherein Dawson, while loud, had done nothing to warrant a UCPD officer asking for ID, putting him in a chokehold, and escorting him out of the building and into custody. The outrage over the event was swift and strong, with an immediate activist response. Out of such efforts has come the Campus Dialogue Fund (CDF). This initiative aims to address years of complaints about racial profiling and tension at UChicago by annually setting aside $15,000 for visiting speakers to discuss issues of race, civil rights, and social justice. Unfortunately, the Campus Dialogue Fund, though still in its very early stages, has suffered from a disappointing lack of publicity that should be corrected as soon as possible. Dawson’s arrest incited a campus-

wide response of unusually large magnitude. A forum after the event, which included UCPD Chief Marlon Lynch, was attended by more than 200 people. Many explicitly voiced their displeasure with UCPD tactics, including former Director of the University Community Service Center Wallace Goode. The blatant and vehement consensus against the status quo, in short, worked. An ad hoc committee was promptly formed to investigate the issue, co-chaired by graduate student Toussaint Losier and current V.P. for Campus Life Karen Warren Coleman. Even more notably, an eight-member Independent Review Committee (IRC)—composed of neutral administrators, students, and community members—released a 17-page report that harshly criticized UCPD internal policy, Library policy, and the Dean-onCall program. Since these initial responses, however, the buzz has faded. There are no more forums, no more independent committees. There is only the CDF, which has the potential to widen the appeal of a broad range of issues usually confined to niche student activism and open

them up for discussion among the larger community. The need for such discussion, and student support for it, is simple: The issue of racial profiling and discrimination on campus has not yet been resolved. In a September 27, 2010 Maroon article, Craig Futterman, chairman of the IRC and professor in the Law School, even noted that when asked if UCPD has ever stopped them and asked for ID, white students “almost uniformly said no” while the majority of African-American students said “yes, and many times.... It’s just a fact.” This is not to suggest that the UCPD is inherently discriminatory, or that it erred in all the above cases; it is merely to illustrate the presence of a still ongoing problem, and the need to make that problem known. Applications to be on the CDF Committee were due on November 16 of last year. This deadline was barely publicized; though calls for applications were sent out to some relevant listhosts, the announcement of the CDF itself, and its intentions, was virtually unseen. Such meager publicity should not be repeated when it comes to the

actual speaker events tentatively planned for the coming quarters. It’s vital that dialogue on race and civil rights, which consumed campus three years ago, regains its original support in the community. The committee, which just had its first meeting this quarter, should make publicity one of its foremost priorities when organizing its events so that its efforts to spur productive and informative discourse are not wasted. There is solace to be found in the mere existence of the Campus Dialogue Fund, as it represents a unique and direct product of student initiatives. Precedent, however, is not as comforting. Such issues tend to boil over, fading with time and the turnover of students. While it understandably must rely on niche and past student support to gain traction, the CDF must strive to more broadly emphasize the relevance of its events—and the larger social justice issues they highlight—in order to fulfill its intended goals.

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By Eleanor Hyun Viewpoints Columnist This column is Part II of a two-part series about the experience of East Asian students at UChicago. Part I was published on January 15. It can be found at www.chicagomaroon.com. The alienation of international East Asian students from the domestic student population may seem to be the result of inevitable issues that arise for foreigners in a new country. The problem, however, becomes much more subtle and

complex when the place of domestic East Asian students is considered. Before I continue, I’d like to clarify that I am reporting a portion of the issues a specific, but significant, subset of the East Asian student body faces. Interpretations of racial identity, and the weight ascribed to those interpretations, vary hugely from person to person. I have met Asian students who do not share the anxieties I describe here, but I have also met many who do. When I sat down at a table of Chinese international students, I should have felt hampered by language and cultural barriers. I am, after all, a Korean domestic student. Instead, though, that moment was the first time I felt truly comfortable at UChicago. Some East Asian international students also men-

tioned that they find it easier to talk to domestic Asian students than their Caucasian peers.

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Some international students felt that domestic Asian students are more understanding of them than other domestic students.

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Research has shown that we are attracted to those that look more like us, and this undoubtedly plays a role in domestic and international Asian relations. This alone, though, does not fully explain the bonds connecting

the Asian community. As I interviewed these students, I found that I sympathized with them more than I could have anticipated, and realized that there was a deeper emotional connection that ran through this community. Some international students felt that domestic Asian students are more understanding of them than other domestic students. Intuitively, that makes sense; many of us are first- or second-generation children who have inherited stories of our parents’ struggle to adjust to life in the U.S. These stories range from eating lunch in the bathroom because no one would sit with them in the cafeteria to being discriminated against as a Chinese worker in California. We ourselves have our IDENTITY continued on page 6

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By Raghav Rao Viewpoints Columnist By the time this article finds its way into your hands Lance Armstrong’s confession to Oprah will have been aired and analyzed by all major news channels. The AP re-

ported that he’s already apologized to the staff of his Livestrong Foundation. News of the confession has been brewing for the past week, and I can’t help but feel that the Armstrong-Oprah publicity teams are hard at work trying to spin this in a manner that bolsters their respective images. In recent times Oprah has been relegated to the periphery of the news. She’s certainly using this opportunity to reclaim some of the spotlight. Armstrong’s P.R. people are very happy to let her do just that.

The sharks have been circling for a while now. Many of these sharks have a right to a good-sized bite. Some journalists took a lot of flak for going after Lance in the days where he was the media’s darling. London’s The Sunday Times has launched legal proceedings against Armstrong. His legal team previously took them to court for libel, and now they want to get even. Associates like Floyd Landis—a former teammate—who blew the whistle on Lance years ago only to be accused of lying, must be licking

their chops. Cycling fans, though I imagine they’re rather jaded by now, have the right to be upset. They’ve been cheated out of the enjoyment of their sport. Non-dopers on the cycling tour are perhaps the most justified in their anger. But why is there so much anger from the general public caught up in this media whirlwind? Piers Morgan’s tweet on the subject, which received over a thousand retweets, read “BREAKING: @ lancearmstrong finally admits to LANCE continued on page 6

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American expatriotism An experience with a new culture can force you to reexamine your relationship with your own By Noelle Turtur Viewpoints Columnist These days, it’s not cool to be a proud American. As the world’s only superpower, with a government which believes it is its duty to involve itself all over the world, we’re considered bullies. And fat, yet somehow with bad taste in food. In all honesty, earlier this year, I probably would’ve agreed with all of these things. There are many aspects of “America” that I’d prefer to distance myself from—wars declared in the name of democracy and world peace, international intimidation, Twinkies, Hummers, Walmart, etc. Six months ago, I was more likely to identify myself as an “Italian American,” who cooks pasta far more often than hamburgers. My idea of Americans focused not on our commonalities, but on our differences. However, in the last year my life has changed dramatically. In late August, I arrived in Bologna, Italy. Five months later, I live in an apartment with an Italian (Valeria) and a Hungarian (Orsi: pronounced Or-shee). I’m a student at the University of Bologna. I have friends who are Italian, Hungarian, Greek, French, Belgian, and a host of other nationalities.

Here in Italy, it’s impossible to hide my origins. Often, I even introduce myself, Noelle, Piacere (shake hands)—sono americana. It’s only a matter of time until it becomes obvious. When I first arrived, everyone could tell just by the way I dressed, in jeans and a T-shirt. My first evening in my new apartment, Valeria and I went out to see some live music. I put on a clean shirt with my jeans and converse. She gave me a look, and the next thing I knew I was putting on a skirt instead. Throughout the weeks, I realized the number of tendencies and habits that make me “American”—the quirks that compose American culture. Belting out “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey with great pride (Valeria walked in, laughed, and said, “All Americans love that song.”), always preferring the informal to the formal, and becoming terribly uncomfortable when strangers invaded my precious “personal bubble.” For the first time in my life, I saw all of the little things that made me an “American” without any special prefix or specification. Orsi and I went for a walk one day and found ourselves discussing this very topic. Each of us had arrived seeing ourselves as “globally minded,” “international” people. But now, both of us

clutch to our respective cultures with intense pride. Perhaps that’s because, at times, we can feel them slipping away. Recently, I flew home to the States to spend Christmas with my family. I found myself speaking in two languages, unable to stop my mouth from starting in Italian, knowing full well that everyone understood English much better. On my first day home, I got dressed, went downstairs and realized that an outfit I’d usually wear to go to class would be considered fancy here. Or, maybe it is because my being an American sometimes subjects me to criticism. Almost everyone I’ve met while abroad has been incredibly kind, but occasionally someone decides to unload all of their complaints about the U.S. onto me. I’ve heard critiques of American politics and foreign policy, American agriculture, and, of course, American food. I bravely defended barbecue for all of us. Or perhaps I clutch my American identity so tightly now because, for once, being “American” is not something that I share with everyone around me, but is the very thing that makes me unique—the thing that makes people say “wow” when they meet me and secretly won-

der why in God’s name I decided to leave. The fact that I am an American makes my roommates request brownies, pancakes, and other typically American dishes. In the States, meanwhile, I get requests for pasta and biscotti. When I met Orsi, she asked me what I liked about America. The first thing that struck me was the oddity of the question. The second was my lack of an answer. After thirty seconds of thinking, however, there were countless responses floating in my head. So, it’s taken me five months (with another five to go) of living outside America to understand what it means to be an American. I went abroad thinking I’d experience another culture, but now I feel as though I’m just discovering my own. Even though it may not be “cool”—even though I still may not approve of needless wars, Twinkies, and Hummers, and even though I’d eat pasta over a hamburger every day of the week—I still love my country very much. I guess that brings me to the last American stereotype: According to my friend Matteo, Americans are all very proud to be American. Noelle Turtur is a third-year in the College majoring in History.

Bridging divides between students of different backgrounds starts with acceptance on all sides IDENTITY continued from page 5 own stories of discrimination and social oppression, having grown up in a country with a European ideal of beauty and set of values, where kids on the playground chased after us yelling, “Where are your eyes?” and music teachers asked us if our parents “forced us to practice.” Often, these incidents do not stand out as formative moments in our memory as much as they weave a subtle and insidious narrative of otherness and shame tied to our ethnicity—an effect rarely talked about or even acknowledged, especially outside of the Asian community. All of the students I interviewed said that, besides some isolated incidents, they did not feel wholly discriminated against at the University of Chicago. Past racism, though, continues to haunt us by shaping the way we see ourselves, and how we think others perceive us. One international Korean student said, “I’m always on the border: Am I really being

discriminated against or is it all in my head?” Many East Asian students see their ethnicity as a social disadvantage, and this perception is enough to make them act shyer than they normally would. We also, though, wish to be proud of who we are and where we come from. These two forces shape a unique Asian psyche: We are, and want to be, Asian, but we don’t want to appear too Asian. Many domestic Asian students I interviewed became defensive when I asked what percentage of their friends were Asian. Some defended what they felt was too high of a percentage; others, one that they felt was too low. I myself remember being proud of my mix of Caucasian and Asian friends in high school, thinking that I had achieved some sort of “good percentage” of Asian-ness. I now realize that this “good percentage” was probably just the socially acceptable one, moderate enough to appease both my Caucasian and Asian peers.

East Asian students find some comfort and freedom from these social anxieties in the sizable Asian minority at University of Chicago, where our race is at least a much smaller issue. For many, this is a welcome change from our pasts. One student said, “I’m more proud [at UChicago]; I’d proudly exclaim, ‘Oh, I’m Chinese!’” When I pressed him to tell me what he was proud of, he was silent for a while, and then amended, “It’s not so much being super proud of it, it’s more like I’m not as ashamed of it as I used to be.” Before break, I attended an Asian(-American) InterVarsity meeting. I am not an international student; I come from Illinois. I experience no language barrier, and very little to no cultural barrier. Still, as the room burst into song and a girl put her arm around me, I felt a sense of relief and comfort so strong that I almost felt like crying. I felt, for the first time, immediately and easily accepted. Here I was, attending their penultimate meeting of

the quarter, intruding on their already established social structure, and yet I was unquestionably one of them. Ultimately what brings, and holds, UChicago’s Asian community together is an automatic acceptance of each other, which is closely tied to the acknowledgement and understanding of a complicated Asian identity. There is something to be learned from this. Progress towards a more unified campus is very possible, but must come from both sides. Although members of the East Asian community must branch out from their comfort zones, this will only happen when they feel confident that domestic students will accept and welcome their diversity of experience instead of misinterpreting their shyness. We must strive to replace judgment with unconditional understanding. Eleanor Hyun is a first-year in the College majoring in English.

Cycling scandal a product of publicity machine as well as personal failings LANCE continued from page 5 the world: ‘I’m a cheat.’ #LiveWrong @ Oprah”. Clearly people care and are upset. The Livestrong Foundation that Armstrong started to provide support for people affected by cancer is being turned into a symbol of Armstrong’s hypocrisy. This is despite the fact that Armstrong really is a cancer survivor. People are unsettled by the idea that a known liar and cheat is the figurehead of a charitable foundation. It’s true that Lance’s ill-gotten cycling fame fueled the foundation’s success. Since its inception, Livestrong has raised over $470 million. That money has helped people regardless of questions surrounding Lance’s personal integrity. Cyclist Lance cannot be separated from activist Lance since the personas have a symbiotic relationship. Lance was a hero not because he survived cancer—he was a hero because he survived it and won the Tour de France seven times! I think this is why Lance is on the receiving end of so much vitriol. He allowed his “winner” cycling persona to merge with his cancer-survivor persona. All of a sudden he was everywhere. The corporations moved in and intensified his ubiquity by making him the poster boy of their brands. Nike, Oakley, and The Discovery Channel put Lance Armstrong onto the television screens of millions

of people who aren’t fans of cycling. It isn’t that Armstrong cheated and lied within his sport that has people angry. It’s that he cheated and lied his way to what everyone wants: superstardom. Tiger Woods allowed himself to become more than a golfer. Woods’s TV persona did not just say that he was a good golfer. It also said that he was a human being worth emulating. That’s why he had to apologize publicly for being adulterous even though that should’ve been a private matter. Lance Armstrong’s fall from grace will be worse than Tiger’s. Tiger’s “good guy” persona failed him, but his sporting achievements remained undisputed. Lance, meanwhile, has lost not only his sporting credentials but in turn the aura that gave larger meaning to his cancer survivor persona. By taking his fame beyond the world of cycling Lance opened himself up to criticism from the rest of the world. He suffered from the hubris that is affecting all domains of today’s stardom. However, in the case of star athletes this form of hubris seems inevitable. The sponsors own their images and thrust them into selling products. Since they are now marketing tools in addition to being sports stars they are in the public domain and have to be ready for

criticism. And, frankly, Lance never did himself any favors with his tendency to blow his own trumpet. Lance Armstrong cycled away from the rest of the professional circuit and got a little too close to the sun, and the fallout will, like Armstrong himself, transcend the cycling world. The publicity machine that allowed him to become a larger-than-life figure, that allowed him to raise all that money, is now prepared to leave him in tears on Oprah’s couch. Yet, if half a billion dollars in support of cancer patients is not enough to redeem

someone, then what is? Indeed, it is unfair to Lance to use the word “redeem,” as it wrongly implies that I equate riding a bicycle very fast with the help of performance enhancing drugs to raising money in support of cancer patients. Regardless of what the press tells us over the next couple of days, while #lancearmstrong will stop trending on Twitter soon enough, the good his foundation has done will never be undone. Raghav Rao is a fourth-year in the College majoring in English.

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Trivial Pursuits JANUARY 18, 2013

With Amour, Haneke has his finger on a riveting pulse

Daniel Rivera Arts Editor There’s a piano teacher and Isabelle Huppert, an attempted home invasion and a man named Georges—yet somehow if you didn’t know this was a Michael Haneke film, you wouldn’t be alone. In Amour, the famed Austrian director forgoes violence for bodily trauma of a different kind, inflicted by time and time alone.

AMOUR Michael Haneke Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema

Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) and Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) are in their eighties. They have breakfast together every morning, they sleep in the same bed, they volley compliments at one another with flattered scoffs, and sometimes they even go on dates. In fact, they’re on one when Amour begins. Anne’s a retired piano teacher, and one of her former students is in town for a show. This is the only moment Haneke’s screenplay allows us out of the couple’s airy Parisian flat. Returning home from their concert, Georges and Anne notice the chipped varnish and damaged plate that signifies someone tried to pick the lock on their front door. Where Funny Games, another Haneke film, used a home invasion as a meditation on violence and the viewer, here, a picked lock serves only to elevate the tension. But the door couldn’t be opened, and the robbers couldn’t get in. This is in an insular world, after all. Neither Anne nor Georges will be able to get out. Over breakfast one morning, Anne goes still

Georges (Jean-Louis Trintignant) holds the face of his love Anne (Emmanuelle Riva) as she briefly loses consciousness. COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

and unresponsive. Georges, alarmed, yells for her attention, wets a rag and puts it on her head, to no avail. Riva’s eyes are chillingly flat. Georges shuffles away, leaving the tap streaming, to put on pants and call for help. Suddenly the faucet stops. The camera follows him to the kitchen, where Anne scolds

Georges—what was he doing, leaving the sink on? We find out later that Anne had a stroke. When we next see her, she’s paralyzed on her right side but still spirited, willing to ride out the future so long as Georges makes her a promise: no more hospitals. Maybe it’s love, maybe it’s futility, but he agrees. An-

other stroke, but Georges refuses to renege despite his daughter Eva’s (Huppert) protestations. This is Amour: a graveyard love, a quiet apartment. I’ve always favored the Oscar nomination system over that of the Golden Globes—to me, splitting AMOUR continued on page 8

What is a magazine for? Three grad students get to The Point John Gamino Arts Contributor

The Point stares into the blank expanse of its uncertain but promising future. COURTESY OF THE POINT

The founding story of The Point could easily be romanticized. It began with the conversations of three graduate students in the Committee on Social Thought over drinks in The Pub, and the decision to start a literary magazine. The result was a modest $3,000 Uncommon Fund grant, The Point, and a first issue featuring submissions from Slavoj Žižek and Mark Lilla. Four years and six issues later, the editors—Jon Baskin, Jonny Thakkar, and Etay Zwick—have kept The Point going strong. But they’ve also reached a crossroads, and the decisions they face are very real. “We really are at a critical juncture,” says Thakkar, who is currently finishing up his dissertation. And while Baskin and Zwick entered the graduate program two years after Thakkar, their reflections upon the future of The Point carry no less of a sense of urgency. The next year or two, they expect, will be a crucial stage in determining the magazine’s direction. The Point has been self-sufficient since the initial grant, but it still can’t afford to pay its contributors. It still doesn’t have an official business end, and it still doesn’t have its own space. When a copy of The Point gets sent to a subscriber’s home in California or a bookshop in London, it still comes out of Baskin’s apartment. “We do the work,” Thakkar says. “We’re [the ones] stuffing the envelopes.” The three have found it difficult to make plans for The Point with their own plans still up in the air. For now, they only know that they would like to continue with the magazine, and hopefully expand. “If we could have an ideal future for the magazine it would be to open an office in Wicker Park,” Baskin explains. As he puts it, “The number one reason we started this magazine was to have our articles read.” Readers will make their own decisions, of course, but the writing in The Point demands attention. It is pertinent, considered, and insightful, with

few exceptions. The arguments offer challenges, without cloaking themselves in challenging prose. Insights are garnered from and used to inform our ordinary experiences without falling into popularization. From pickup artists to boredom, the magazine is united by its constant obsession with the question of how we should live. It is this question that enables The Point to stake its claim. A bookmark I found hidden in an old copy of the fourth issue referred to the magazine as a “journal of ideas,” and there are plenty of those. Yet there are far fewer that retain a sense of why ideas are important, and why it’s important to examine them in a fresh, unadulterated light. The editors founded the magazine partly out of frustration with those already in print, but they do not aspire to be wholly unique. “What is conservatism for?” formed the topic for a series of articles in issue three; “What is the left for?” followed in issue five. These things matter, and they deserve our attention. One can only hope that they will be covered elsewhere. But that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be covered, and covered seriously. We do encounter pickup artists, and we most certainly get bored. Issue six, which launches this month, features a series on the question “What are animals for?” As a dialogue, it lacked some of the fire of earlier issues, and I wondered if the question might have been better posed. Still, the pieces themselves are lucid and probing. David Egan’s conclusion that “there were no slaughterhouses in Fairyland” comes suddenly and forcibly, insisting on a new conception of our relationship to animals informed by our childhood selves. Elsewhere in the issue, Emilie Shumway weaves scenes from her own story as a young, jobless college graduate—“for hours I alternated between eating cookies, sleeping, and watching The Tudors on my laptop,” she writes— with a compelling look at the disenchantment of the Millennial generation. If there is one flaw in the contents of The Point, POINT continued on page 8

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Whether you work downtown on Fridays or need to warm up after doing ten complete sun salutations at the Point and receiving a free long-sleeve T-shirt, you should participate in Winter Bike to Work Day. Take the new bike lane on Dearborn Street to the Daley Plaza for complementary fleece balaclavas, hot beverages courtesy of Caribou, and Eli’s cheesecake. Enter a raffle and you could win your very own case of Clif Bars, possibly the worst thing ever to be given away for free. 50 West Washington Street. 6:30–9 a.m., free. The opportunity to sleep over at Ryerson is within your grasp, but only if you can hack it. Join college-aged programmers from all over Illinois in the University of Chicago’s (un) Hackathon—a competition of libraries, servers, and software (but no web apps, please). Attendees vote for their top three favorite teams of four based on a five-minute presentation at the event’s culmination. The top team will win a Replicator 2 3D Printer from Makerbot, possibly the best thing ever to be given away for free; second and third place will earn themselves Inventables gift cards. Food and drink will be provided by IT Services to make sure you never crash. 1100 East 58th Street. Friday 5:30 p.m.–Saturday 8:30 p.m., free Saturday | January 19 Learn all about Giacomo Puccini, the late-19th Century operatic composer, most famously of La

bohème, Tosca, and Madame Butterfly, at Puccini e Lucca a Chicago: Symposium. Discussions of his work by bona fide opera scholars will be followed by a performance of selections from La bohème. The concurrent exhibit, which examines Puccini’s life-long connection to his Tuscan hometown of Lucca, opened on Tuesday and will run through February 16 at the Logan Center. 915 East 60th Street, Performance Hall 074. 2–5 p.m., free.

There will be no more late-night flamenco dancing, live jazz, and three-dollar sangria Wednesdays—at least as far as People Tapas Lounge is concerned. The Wicker Park Spanish hangout, beloved by hipsters with Foursquare accounts and a handful of regulars, celebrates its closing night with DJs and drink specials. Even if you’ve never been to the lounge during their seven years in business, it’s not quite too late to indulge in their bacon-wrapped dates and chorizo-doused mussels. 1560 North Milwaukee Avenue. 5 p.m.–2 a.m., average tapas $11. Monday | January 21 Don’t forget not to go to class today. Instead, you can actualize all of the dreams you once had for yourself, but gave up on due to scheduling issues. For example, you can watch the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy (plus The Hobbit, online) without leaving your bed, or do your laundry in your underwear. Conversely, you can spend part of the holiday at the Chicago

room with a blanket, trying to catch it. He misses, and misses again. A nurse comes to wash Anne, who at this point can only moan the word “Hurts.” Georges stares at Anne. We stare at Georges. We hear the drag of Georges’s stiff leg, Schubert’s keystrokes made haunting at the piano, and clinking in the kitchen when we know there shouldn’t be any. Haneke’s camera constantly peers through doorways, removed and unflinchingly voyeuristic. At one point Georges tells Eva, “Rien de tout cela ne mérite d’être montré.” Or, “None of this deserves to be shown.” And isn’t that just it? When the credits began rolling in silence, my theater, as it emptied out, took its cue. As did my friend and I as we made our way through the escalator labyrinth of the Landmark Century Cinema. Plan your viewing of Amour carefully—come curtains, you’ll find it has both muted and throttled you. When we finally did find our voices, my friend and I decided that, in spite of it all, the film isn’t bleak. For me, in reference to a Haneke work, that says something. Despite the heaviness of Amour, despite its insularity and inevitability, it truly is a love story. Perhaps it is even the love story.

...Into the Pub, to live more intentionally POINT continued from page 7 it may be in its regular “Letter to the Editor” feature (never a letter at all, but rather a collection of quotes on a common subject—this time on food). After six issues, I had grown tired of the reliance on certain authors; this was Nietzsche’s sixth appearance, Thoreau’s fourth. Yet the feature does not deserve to be scrapped completely, for it provides a delightful mélange of thoughts: Immediately after Plutarch wondering “in what state of mind or soul the first man…ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried, mouthed and lived,” we hear from James Joyce how “Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls.” It’s exactly the sort of stuff one might imagine coming out of the basement of Ida Noyes.

and attend a reenactment of King’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech at 3 p.m. Honestly, I don’t care what you do, but, please, be decent and don’t do it in the library. 1601 North Clark Street. 10 a.m.–3:30 p.m., free.

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For Riva’s shining performance, silence is Oscar gold AMOUR continued from page 7 Best Actress/Actor in Drama from Comedy or Musical, and the implication that they’re then mutually exclusive, seems like just another cash grab by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Yet, to rank Riva next to Oscar frontrunners like Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence also seems absurd. I mean no disrespect to the dual talents of Chastain or Lawrence, as both delivered stunning performances, but what Riva does in Amour transcends them: She is a destructive force, embodying every aspect of Anne and her physical dissolution to the point that, when I left the theater, I felt all of the weight that might come with the experience of parting with someone I’d known my whole life. Her transformation from the film’s start as a stately, regal beauty to the diapered, moaning shell of herself near its end is almost indigestible. Trintignant, to his credit, is resonant, but, in the presence of Riva, he mostly just reacts with the rest of us. Haneke’s film is meditative, wedding silence and visual stillness. For the duration, sound remains sparse and the noises we do hear are employed carefully. A pigeon flies inside the flat and Haneke holds the frame as Georges shuffles around the

History Museum, which is holding various events in the morning and afternoon in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and the inspiring work he did. Catch the Writers’ Theatre’s performance of The MLK Project: Fight for Civil Rights at noon,

However The Point chooses to situate itself going forward, the future will be bright as long as it retains its commitment to intellectual honesty. In a review in issue two on Granta, Baskin tellingly writes: “Surely in this difficult time we should support print publications like Granta, since there are fewer and fewer of them, and they are courageous and important enterprises. But we should also demand that they be courageous and important.” The Point is already a courageous publication. It has the potential to become an important one. The Point’s Issue 6 Launch Party. High Concept Laboratories, 1401 Wabansia Ave. Saturday, January 26th, 8p.m.–1a.m. Free, but magazine purchases and/or donations appreciated. Reservations must be sent by e-mail to thepointmagazine@gmail. com.

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In Reg, zine but not herd Alice Bucknell Associate Arts Editor At the intersection of the ultra-personal and the act of artistic creation is the zine—a new face of poetic storytelling that is fundamentally visual, and as much concerned with process as final product. Emerging first in the ’70s as an offshoot of the underground punk scene, zines’s popularity flared up again in the ’90s, mostly due to young feminist artists within the punk rock subculture. As the diversity of content within the exhibit suggests, zines come in a wide variety of appearances and genres: From the playful to the political, the fantastic to the everyday, there is no true topical parameter for these pocket-sized artworks. To enter the exhibit “My Life is an Open Book: DIY Autobiography,” you go through the first set of doors on the left en route to Mansueto. A set of glass tables reveals a brief historical context to the life of zines (including, bless the Special Collections Research Center, a centuries-old text that is apparently the prototype for modernday zines). Also featured inside the second case, and providing a nice contrast to this historically saturated relic, is a sort of meta-zine. “The Best Game Ever (because it’s about zines),” produced locally in 2012 by authors Billy the Bunny and AJ Hermz, is a multi-part text that presents itself as a stack of playing cards. In addition to the energetic roughness of its general aesthetic, the text is conceptually adventurous as well: It experiments with and puts pressure on the already-formed clichés of zines and zine-making, framing these tropes in the locus of a board game–like narrative. Phrases like “political rant” and “caught stealing copies” are paired with point values to indicate their relative value and desirability in the zine world. The busted copy thievery sets you back 100 points in this hypothetical game, while political rant clocks in at +5/-5 (“Worth -5 if more than 1 ‘political rant’ is used in the same zine.” Another card makes a reference to the internet subculture and counterculture’s ongoing joke of Nicolas Cage hate on a “top 5 totally worst things ever” list: Cage is number four, world hunger is three, and

second-place mass murder is only beat by your “poorly done collage” (-10 points)—yikes. It must be pretty awful. Above the encased zines sits a text panel that is immensely helpful in gauging what, exactly, counts as a zine. Among the characteristics that form the backbone of “zine theory”: The zine must be self-published, self-produced, and self-distributed. There is also a more ideological requirement, that the zine must be directed at an explicit audience (oneself is A-OK). Most importantly, the zine may not present itself as a piece of artwork. The need for zines to subvert any sort of capitalistic mode of production and distribution is fundamental to their concept. The wall opposite displays an assortment of zine cover pages pegged to a mounted frame made up of about a dozen horizontal wire strings. A panel to the left reveals the “best” designs and any coloring as typically reserved to the cover of the zine, due to the expense of color ink combined with the not-for-profit aspect of zines. The cover pages displayed indicate a desire and tendency to put pressure on traditional limitations of 2-D media: Many of the covers, rather than featuring original artwork by their authors, instead make use of found objects. Objects used include a composition notebook, an assemblage of three CTA passes, and, perhaps the most unique, “An Examination of American Cuisine” (Issue I, spring 2011) by Cassie Tompkins, is wrapped in a cover of a weighted deli package. If zine covers have one unifying factor, it is their disunity: From bursts of color to monochromatic, minimalist designs, from original illustrations to found material, used and reused, singular and combined—each story’s exterior hints at the diversity of the content within. The next two cases focus on the works and histories of two Chicago-based feminist zinesters: Marion Runk and Corinne Mucha. Runk’s feature appears first; the fantastical nature of her artwork, infused with dark comedy, is immediately apparent. Mucha’s work is similarly suggestive of magical realism, but is more direct and autobiographic in its emotional severity (though not without a ZINES continued on page 9

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Personal narratives are lent pictorial and written resources in intensely personal (hi)stories ZINES continued from page 8 good sense of humor). Mucha suggests that she is less interested in the confessional allowance of autobiographic texts and is more compelled by the ability to reclaim those personal (hi)stories through the process of writing them. As the exhibit nears its end, the focus expands back out to re-address the range of topics and concepts tackled by zines at large. The last couple of cases characterize zines as a constructed, sympathetic space for discussion of and experimentation with social and personal issues on both a micro and macro scale: body issues, gender identity, family ties, and censorship are presented, among other themes. The final case deconstructs the assumed temporality of zines as a singular, immediate, and self-contained narrative. Zine series undergo change as their authors change, which suggests that the autographics possess a certain livelihood and corporeality typically inaccessible to written works. The stories behave as symbolic extensions of their creators, and they are, in many senses, authors of their own histories, telling and living, all at once.

My Life is an Open Book pins a mix of autobiographical narratives to the walls of the Regenstein’s Special Collections Resource Center. | THE CHICAGO MAROON

ALICE BUCKNELL

HUNGER STRIKE

New kid on the block Iliya Gutin Senior Arts Staff

Three hundred fifteen feet. Fifty-nine seconds of walking. It’s all that separates Stephanie Izard’s new diner, Little Goat, from its big sister Girl & The Goat… aaalll the waaay across the street. Two hundred seventeen feet away, a mere 49 seconds, lies another upscale diner, Au Cheval…aaalll the waaay at the other end of the block. Even The Publican’s only a two-minute sprint from satiating your forcemeat fix. And then there’s little ol’ you, lost in a Bermuda Triangle of pork products and porker-producing dishes, indecision racking your gastro-mind. But fear not, intrepid diner. As counterintuitive as it may sound, sometimes you must let your heart, not your stomach, light your path to salivation.

LITTLE GOAT 809 West Randolph Street Average sammich: $12

It ain’t easy in this part of town. G&G, Au Cheval, and The Publican will tempt you with stylized, white-collar takes on the classic American repertoire. Resistance seems futile, yet can be worthwhile if you deviate slightly from this wellbeaten culinary path because Little Goat takes the road less traveled in producing fine fare for the common man. There are no “quotation marks” on the dishes in name or execution and no irony in its diner identity. There is only a loving, nonjudgmental embrace of American cuisine—white bread, waffles, and all. From the spinning sign outside to the spinning stools at the counter, everything about Little Goat proudly bleats retro chic. While the staff-tocustomer ratio might be higher than that of the Wayne Manor, the service is informed, attentive, and cozy. Sitting in a booth with your little white coffee cup, you half expect a daily newspaper to materialize in your hands. And it does! Well, not a newspaper, but a menu of comparable size and scope. It’s absurdly overwhelming—spread out over four tall pages, teeming with headings like “Cereal Killers,” “Sammiches,” “Burger Shoppe,”

and “Supper Club,” and more sidebars than a psychology textbook. Whereas a typical diner menu is full of throwaway items, it’s hard to blatantly disregard anything from Stephanie Izard’s playbook. But there is a silver lining, as it’s all the better reason to come back time and time again. As any good diner knows, breakfast should not be confined to a pre-noon prison. Some breakfast items border on Seussian levels of absurdity, like the Fat Elvis Waffles that literally come with an ice-cream scoop of peanut butter-butter; or the Breakfast Spaghetti N Clams, which is as whimsical as it is worrying. The Kimchee & Bacon & Eggs & Pancakes Asian Style Breakfast Tasty Thing maintains that same sense of fun, while advocating for the where-there’s-pork-there’skimchee philosophy that appears in many of dishes. Sometimes cakey, sometimes crunchy with the kimchee and bacon, it is the perfect crossbreed of pancake and omelet, an intentionally bastardized take on the classic Korean kimchijeon. The biggest success came in the form of a dish ascribing to another of the menu’s central tenets: sweetness as a harbinger of salt. While the Bull’sEye French Toast could have spent more quality time moisturizing in its milk and egg bath to avoid a dry interior, the toad-in-the-hole runny egg in the center more than compensated for this oversight. Further in keeping with Diner-ology 101, burgers marched reliably from the kitchen. Diners have their choice of beef, goat, turkey, or veggie, in one of six styles. Alas, I could not pass up on kimchee again, but I did not regret it for one second. The soft, squishy bun, the spicy-ish mayo, the firm snap of the bacon, and a beef burger that was juicy enough to overcome the handicap of its medium-done gray interior. Excessive? The fact that the whole thing was topped off with an egg probably answers that question. Yet somehow the burger was remarkably self-contained—a dense, little bomb with no single element disrupting my reckless enjoyment. If you measure a diner solely by the quality of its burger, then Little Goat is seriously giving Au Cheval a run for its money. Perhaps the biggest surprise of the meal was reserved for the least anticipated guest: the weary, jaded standby that is the club sandwich. What is usually a dumping ground for deli meats, plastic masquerading as cheese, and vegetables one step removed from a compost heap, Little Goat magically transforms through the power

of quality ingredients—though quantity ain’t exactly lacking either. This Fat Club stands tall, towering at like half a foot, proudly asserting its claim to the sandwich kingdom throne. Layer upon layer of roasted turkey, sweet tasso ham, bacon, house-made toast, avocado, mayo, veg… Simply put—the works. But where’s the goat? Although it pops up every now and then on the menu (Shrimp and Grumpy Goat Grits, Sloppy Goat), the only formulation that caught my attention was the Farmers Pie made with goat, and yet somehow they were out of it by late afternoon. Anyway, I firmly believe the animal is best honored as a stand-alone dish, and not as a quirky meat substitute, especially not on a burger. Remember, this is not the Girl & the Goat you are looking for. You still have to ahead across the

street, and probably, like, half a year of reservations into the future, if that’s the kind of adventure you are looking for. Little Goat is definitely exciting, but the thrills are noticeably cheaper. Perhaps it’s best reserved for diners who would rather eat crispy bacon than a crispy pig’s face, or keep it simple with a vanilla shake instead of pretending to like bleu cheese gelato. Little Goat doesn’t have the time, or need, to pretend. Nothing on this menu will “offend” or “scare” diners, unlike the hit-or-miss nature of G & G. Sure, the high points of a meal at the latter are miles above Little Goat, on par with any of Chicago’s other fine dining destinations. But let the grown-ups go and enjoy their kohlrabi and green beans. Sometimes you just want to be a kid again, eating breakfast for dinner, a stupid, syrupy, greasy grin on your face.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | January 18, 2013

Faith in crisis: A fan refuels his love for the team McGrath on NYU: They have a balanced team

By Alexander Sotiropoulos Senior Sports Staff There’s no question that I’m a UChicago men’s basketball junkie. In my two and a half years here, I’ve had the privilege of covering Chicago for the Maroon, of being the play-by-play broadcaster, and of public address announcing a game here and there. Even though we have not made the postseason in my time at UChicago, I have not missed a home game in two years. But despite the constant faith I have in the Maroons, something changed this past weekend. As is my routine every Friday before an away game, I went online hours before the 7 p.m. tip-off to make sure Rochester’s online stream worked. Then, the unthinkable happened. The Yellowjackets charged me eight dollars to watch the game. As any Chicago student would do, I furiously picked up my credit card and paid the eight dollars. All was well for a moment. I anxiously waited for the clock to strike 7 p.m., and when it finally did, I felt the rush and excitement. I was screaming at the referees through my computer screen, telepathically sending signals to Maroon players, and ultimately hoping for a way to pull off the upset. Unfortunately, Rochester had the best player I’ve ever seen in the DIII level, and he alone defeated the Maroons. Still, I believed in Chicago. I mean, one loss in the UAA against the fourth-ranked team in the country would not deter any chances of winning the conference. Sunday came. Due to a prior commitment, I could not check the score or watch the game until halftime. When I finally had access to my phone, I hurriedly checked the score, and once again, to my disappointment, Chicago was down 37–13. It was the lowest-scoring half the team has endured in my time here. And although I’ve had to deal with a lot of Chicago losses in the past, something made this one different to the point where I stopped watching the game minutes into the second half.

I thought to myself, “It’s over. Maybe next year,” and I walked into the dining hall with my head hanging down. It was one of the only times I had actually stopped believing in UChicago. Years ago, after the Cubs kept losing, I stopped watching. I didn’t want that to happen with the Maroons, but I really thought that was a possibility, and for 24 hours, that possibility was a reality. Mike McGrath, Chicago’s head coach, changed that. When I called him the day after the loss for my recap article, he energetically answered the phone, “Hey, Alex! What’s up?” In my socially monotonous voice, I carried on the interview with my typical questions about stats and individual performers. But I had one important question, “I don’t want to say this, but is the season over?” Emphatically, McGrath replied, “Oh no, no, no, Alex! Not even close!” McGrath talked about how much his players cared about the game and how disappointed they were to have such poor stats. It was then that I realized I was being selfish, and I regained my confidence in the team. Clearly, I care a lot about UChicago basketball, and in spite of the small hiccup last week, Maroon basketball is engrained into me. But it surprises me that there are some people that don’t even know we have a team, that don’t realize we probably have the nicest stadium in DIII, that we have such well-rounded athletes. Maroon players go under the radar, virtually unnoticed. Instead of students asking for their autographs, athletes are mocked. But tonight, the athletic department is offering one of the most exciting promotions I’ve heard of: Neon Night. There will be giveaways including neon hats, candy, and pizza. There will be dance competitions at both halftimes of the women’s and men’s games. And most importantly, there will be the thrill of listening to the deep, seductive voice of the public address announcer. I know that there will be a large crowd because of the free giveaways. But perhaps after going to the game, maybe students can realize why I care so much, and they too can care. Maybe for once we can all come together, not as University of Chicago students but as Maroons. Maybe we can cheer together as a Chicago family. So tonight, when I announce over the public address system before tip-off of both games, “Ladies and gentlemen, get loud because it’s game time,” maybe we can all cheer in unison and believe in our Maroons. I’ll see you there because I believe.

M. BBALL continued from back kind of stick with,” McGrath said. “We’ve just got to be ready to play our game and really focus on what we need to do.” When the Maroons’ shooting is not effective, they rely on second-chance opportunities. For those opportunities to even be possible, first-year forward Nate Brooks has crashed the boards. Brooks leads the team in offensive rebounds with 31 on the season. However, according to McGrath, Brooks is questionable for tonight’s game. He did not play the previous two games due to back problems. “He was really fighting through; he’s a tough kid and really working hard,” McGrath said. “We kind of decided that it made sense for him to kind of sit down a little bit and see what we could do with him.” Against NYU on Sunday, the Maroons face a similar task in comparison to Brandeis. “They have some balance; they have some very good players,” McGrath said. “They have a lot of different guys that could hurt you. For them, dealing with their offensive structure rather than individuals is kind of a bigger focus for us.”

NYU’s offensive structure has proven effective all season long as evidenced by their balanced scoring attack. Three players—Carl Yaffe, Devin Karch, and Kyle Stockmal—are all averaging double-digit scoring performances on the season. The Maroons will attempt to have a balanced scoring attack too, with several players bringing a great deal of energy and focus to the game. “[Third-year forward] Sam [Gage] and [fourth-year forward] Matt [MacKenzie] especially are kind of those focused, work-hard kind of guys,” McGrath said. “[Second-year guard] Alex [Pyper] and [second-year point guard] Royce [Muskeyvalley] are guys who really bring a lot of energy when they play, and I think our guys feed off of that in addition to the steadiness of Sam and Matt. Then, [third-year forward] Charlie [Hughes] is kind of a little bit of both.” Tip-off for tonight’s Neon Night game against Brandeis is scheduled for 8 p.m. at the Ratner Athletic Center. There will be giveaways including free candy and pizza, along with dance competitions. Sunday’s home game against NYU is scheduled for noon.

Triangular provides opportunity for improvement TRACK continued from back anyone else. Coach gives us the opportunity to get better every day at practice.” The Maroons recognize the importance of this meet as a true start to the regular season. But they also recognize that this meet is on the schedule to help the team improve for the conference and, possibly, national meets. “It’s the beginning of the season,” Jackson said. “This is a good starting point to see where we need to improve and fix our known errors. It will be challenging, but that’s the reason why I do track and field: to challenge myself, mentally and physi-

cally, and to exceed the expectations of others.” Jackson was another first-year standout from last week, placing third in the long jump (5.00m) and fourth in the 55-meter dash (7.80s). “We were a unit that got most of the job done,” Jackson said. “But I know that we can do so much better.” “You can’t appreciate the work you’ve done until you compete and get a result. Now that we’re more comfortable, we can start to pick it up,” Clark said. The Maroons plan to start picking it up this Saturday at 11 a.m. in Bloomington.

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11 MEN’S BASKETBALL

Fundamentals key to weekend slate for struggling Maroons

UAA Standings Rank 1

Women’s Basketball

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

School Rochester

Record 14–0 (3–0)

Win % 1.000

Brandeis NYU Washington (MO) Emory Case Western Chicago Carnegie

12–2 (3–0) 12–2 (2–1) 11–3 (1–2) 9–4 (1–2) 8–6 (1–2) 7–7 (1–2) 3–11 (0–3)

.857 .857 .786 .692 .571 .500 .214

Points Rank Player John DiBartolomeo 1 2 Jake Davis 3 Austin Fowler 4 Carl Yaffe 5 Chris Klimek

School Rochester Emory Case Western NYU Washington (MO)

Avg/G 24.1 18.7 16.9 16.4 16.3

Assists Rank Player John DiBartolomeo 1 2 Alan Aboona 3 Michael Florin Royce Muskeyvalley 4 4 Jordan Dean

School Rochester Washington (MO) Emory Chicago Case Western

Avg/G 5.9 5.5 5.3 4.1 4.1

Free Throw PCT Rank Player 1 McPherson Moore 2 Alan Aboona John DiBartolomeo 3 4 Nate Vernon 5 Jake Davis

School Emory Washington (MO) Rochester Rochester Emory

Pct .964 .921 .913 .912 .871

Rebounding Rank Player 1 Austin Fowler 2 Matt Palucki 3 Carl Yaffe 4 Jake Davis 5 Michael Friedberg

Second-year Ali Shaw dribbles past an opponent in a home game against the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point earlier this season. COURTESY OF HANS GLICK

Mary MacLeod Sports Contributor After a pair of conference losses last weekend on the road, the Maroons will take on two more conference rivals at home this weekend. Tonight, the Maroons (3–10, 0–3 UAA) will face Brandeis and on Saturday, they will go up against NYU. Tonight’s contest against Brandeis (7–7, 1–3 UAA), a team coming off a four-point loss to Case, will likely come down to fundamentals. “Our mindset is to approach the game one possession at a time,” second-year guard Ali Shaw said. “On offense and defense we have to value every possession. On Friday night we plan on attacking every possession with an increased level of focus and purpose. “We want to put two strong halves of basketball together, and I think this mindset

will help us do just that.” The Chicago squad hopes to build off its rebounding success against Emory in order to clinch its first conference victory of the season. “The key to beating [Brandeis] will be to focus on winning every possession, and in order to do this we need to play at our tempo and play as a cohesive unit,” Shaw said. “We need to remember the good things we were able to do against Emory and carry those over to Friday’s game. If we can do this for the full 40 minutes, it will be a great game.” Fundamentals and rebounding are also going to be important when the team faces NYU on Sunday. The Violets (8–6, 1–2 UAA) are coming off a seven-point victory over Carnegie Mellon. “We’re really looking to push the tempo and score in transition [against NYU], but

more than anything, I think the key to beating any team in the UAA is to make sure we play fundamentally sound basketball,” third-year guard Julie Muguira said. “I think we’re an athletic team and we’re getting better everyday, but at this point in the season we need to make a concerted effort to focus on our fundamentals. Little things like box outs and cutoff steps can make a big difference in close games.” The Maroons are confident that as they get further along in conference play, their experience will start to translate into wins. Their next test comes tonight at 6 p.m. at Ratner. “I think at the beginning of the season we were still trying to figure out who we are as a team, [and now] we have a much better idea of what we are good at,” Shaw said. “I think this level of recognition will help us in the rest of conference play.”

At Elmhurst Invitational, energized Chicago squad looks for repeat and redemption Wrestling Sam Zacher Sports Staff Following a packed winter break and a 4–3 start to the season, the Maroons look to improve upon their record at the Elmhurst Invitational this Saturday. Last season, Chicago placed first out of 11 teams in the tournament, finishing just ahead of second-place and host Elmhurst College by a score of 129.5–116.5. However, the two teams met head-tohead earlier this season, and Elmhurst (8–1) emerged victorious by a score of 32–3. Third-year Sam Pennisi isn’t worried though, and reminds team followers of Chicago’s past successes at the Invitational. Pennisi qualified for Nationals last season and competed for the NCAA DIII Wrestling Championship.

“We’ve done pretty well the past few years at Elmhurst,” Pennisi said, “so we’re hoping to have a lot of guys winning matches.” Fourth-year Joeie Ruettiger has arguably been the lynchpin of the team this season, carrying the Maroons to victories against multiple opponents. Along with Pennisi and fourth-year Josh Hotta, Ruettiger wrestled at the Midlands Tournament on December 29 and “competed well,” according to head coach Leo Kocher. Second-year Mario Palmisano has also had success this season after receiving UAA Rookie of the Year honors last year. When asked about focuses for this Saturday, he emphasized individual preparation. “Getting ready for competition is a very personal thing that really depends on the individual. People have different ways of preparing themselves and getting their minds

right,” Palmisano said. “Once it comes to competition time, however, it is all about just letting your training take over and trusting that you have what it takes to win.” Pennisi says the Maroons know what to do to finish the season strong. “We’ve really been focusing on improving our technique,” he said. “The team’s gotten a lot better since the beginning of the season, but from here on out we’re trying to make adjustments to the things we already know how to do.” After rigorous team training, Pennisi is confident about the rest of the season. “We’ve been drilling hard,” he said, “and since we have a fairly regular schedule from here on out, we will have plenty of time to prepare for each match.” Chicago hits the mats at Elmhurst at 9 a.m. on Saturday.

Rank 1 2 3 4 4

School Case Western Washington (MO) NYU Emory Emory

Avg/G 8.8 8.3 7.8 6.8 6.8

Field Goal PCT Player School Devin Karch NYU Rob Reid Rochester Chris Klimek Washington (MO) Rob Mohen Carnegie Tyler Sankes Rochester

Pct .716 .676 .623 .609 .609

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UAA Standings Rank 1 1 3 3 3 3 7 8

School Emory

Record 12–2 (2–1)

Win % .857

Washington (MO) Carnegie Case Westerm Rochester NYU Brandeis Chicago

12–2 (2–1) 10–4 (2–1) 10–4 (2–1) 10–4(2–1) 8–6 (1–2) 7–7 (1–2) 3–10 (1–1)

.857 .714 .714 .714 .571 .500 .231

Points Rank 1 2 3 4 5

Player Evy Iacono Melissa Gilkey Emily Peel Hannah Lilly Megan Dawe

School Avg/G Case Western 19.5 Washington (MO) 16.4 Carnegie 15.5 Emory 14.3 NYU 14.0

Assists Rank Player 1 Savannah Morgan 1 3 4 4

Erica Iafelice Riley Wurtz Jordan Thompson Evy Iacono

School Emory Case Western NYU Washington (MO) Case Western

Avg/G 5.6 5.6 5.1 3.9 3.9

Rebounding Rank 1 1 3 4 5

Player Misha Jackson Riley Wurtz Emily Peel Melissa Gilkey Megan Dawe

Rank 1 2 3 4 5

Player Emily Peel Melissa Gilkey Amy Woods Brooke Orcutt Megan Dawe

Rank 1 2 3 4 5

Player Evy Iacano Emily Peel Ally Zywicki Maddy Scheppers Melissa Peng

School Avg/G Emory 9.6 NYU 9.6 Carnegie 9.1 Washington (MO) 8.4 NYU 7.9

Field Goal PCT School Carnegie Washington (MO) Rochester Case Western NYU

Pct .578 .546 .528 .518 .500

Free Throw PCT School Case Western Carnegie Rochester Washington (MO) NYU

Pct .825 .806 .789 .775 .773

SPORTS

IN QUOTES “These Te’o jokes are all very funny, but let’s all try and remember that a person who never existed is dead.” —Seth Meyers on Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o’s murky romantic history.

South Siders welcome Panthers for final home duals of season Swimming Tatiana Fields Sports Staff This weekend, the Maroons will face their toughest competitors of the year. Fresh off their first-place finish at the Chicago Invitational, the South Siders hope to challenge DI UW–Milwaukee after both the men’s and women’s sides lost to them last year. With just two dual meets left before UAAs in February, every chance to race is precious, and the Maroons plan on racing hard. “[This is] another opportunity to swim fast and compete,” head coach Jason Weber said. “Milwaukee will be our toughest dual meet competition of the year so it will be interesting to see how our athletes respond. [The team is focusing on] being sharper in racing and competing than we were last weekend.” Milwaukee presents stiff competition, with a 4–2 record in dual meets this season. While a victory is not expected for the Maroons, the South Siders hope to improve on last year’s final tallies and perfect their racing techniques before UAAs. “[UW–Milwaukee] will be the toughest opponent we have faced all year,” secondyear breaststroker Andrew Angeles said. “Going up against this DI team, we are focusing on having solid swims and doing our best. A high morale and team support are also crucial for the meet.” The Maroons have improved steadily throughout the season, posting impressive times at the recent Invitational. “We are continuing to work hard towards successful championship meets at conference and NCAA,” Angeles said. “We have already put in a lot of work into the season, but we still have a little time

First-year Andrew Homere prepares to push of the block before a race at the Phoenix Fall Classic earlier this season. JAMIE MANLEY | THE CHICAGO MAROON

before tapering. I think we have really come together as a team and this will help us come time to compete at the UAA Conference Championship.” With the season winding down, every chance to compete is taken seriously, and the Maroons have their eye on competitions down the line. The Milwaukee meet is one

of the last practice meets for the Maroons and is also particularly important for the graduating fourth-years. “[We want to] try to send the senior class off on a good note for their last home dual meet,” Weber said. “We will be honoring the senior class before the meet begins.” With 20 graduating fourth-years, the Mil-

Chicago seeks Neon Night victory at home Men’s Basketball Alexander Sotiropoulos Senior Sports Staff In preparation for Neon Night against Brandeis, the Maroons have been focusing largely on raising their shooting percentage. In Chicago’s loss to Rochester last Friday, they shot 30.8 percent from the field and 16.7 percent beyond the arc. Against Emory on Sunday, the Maroons shot 22.8 percent from the field and 21.4 percent from threepoint range. Head coach Mike McGrath brought players to the Ratner Athletic Center this week for individual workouts where shooting was key. “We talked a little bit about how to respond when we’re not shooting well and when things aren’t going well,” McGrath said. “Sometimes you have to toughen up. Sometimes confidence is just something that you have to fight through. Prepare yourself as best as possible, but once you’re there, you’ve just kind of got to gut it out.” McGrath noted that the raucous atmosphere of Neon Night could help the Maroons’ confidence. “I think positive energy translates into good things which translates into confidence,” he said. “I feel like if we can get good support [tonight] and a lot of people there cheering us on, the guys will love that, and I feel like that

waukee meet will have a bittersweet atmosphere. The Maroons plan on honoring the graduating class by giving Milwaukee a run for their money at the final home dual meet of the season. The Maroons will take on the Panthers at 1 p.m. tomorrow at the Myers-McLoraine Pool.

Bears, Titans form daunting field at Bloomington Track & Field Isaac Stern Sports Staff

Third-year Sam Gage keeps his eye on the basket in a home game against Southwestern University earlier this season. COURTESY OF HANS GLICK

has a positive impact.” Unlike Rochester, where the Maroons had to contain the Yellowjackets’ fast-paced offense, there is not one key to beating Brandeis.

“I think they’re a little bit like us that way in that there’s a lot of different ways they can come at you, and I think that whatever is going well, they M. BBALL continued on page 10

After an impressive display against third-ranked UW–Oshkosh last Saturday, the Maroons will be traveling to Bloomington, IL this weekend to compete in the Illinois Wesleyan Triangular. There, the South Siders will encounter their conference rival Wash U along with host, Illinois Wesleyan. The men, currently ranked 56th in the nation, will enter the meet as favorites. Wash U and Illinois Wesleyan rank 117th and 107th respectively. On the women’s side, Illinois Wesleyan is the team to beat. The Titans are ranked fifth in the nation, followed by Wash U at eighth and Chicago in 53rd. However, the national rankings place heavy weight on individual national competitors and not overall team performance, and thus are not always a strong indicator of the outcomes of meets. At the same meet last year, the Maroons placed a distant third behind the Bears and Titans. However, with some of the firstyears, such as Ben Clark and Ra-

chel Jackson, performing well last week against Oshkosh and some returns from injury, the Maroons could compete strongly this weekend. “We trust our coach and our program, and we push each other. As long as we’re healthy, we’ll be fine,” Clark said. Clark won the 200-meter dash last week with a time of 22.92s, beating fourth-year Dee Brizzolara by two-tenths of a second. However, Brizzolara had just returned from an injury two days before. “We’ve had Dee for two days,” Clark said. ”He’ll get me next time.” Last week, both the Bears and Titans competed in the Terre Haute Double Dual, hosted at the Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. Wash U finished second on both the men’s and women’s sides, while Illinois Wesleyan’s men came in third and their women won the meet. “The great thing about track is that we don’t worry about other teams,” Clark said. ”I couldn’t care less who Wash U has or Emory or TRACK continued on page 10