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Law prof. on“State of the Supreme Court” Jennifer Standish News Editor Law Professor Geoffrey Stone gave the annual “State of the Supreme Court” talk presented by the College’s chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Stuart Hall yesterday. Stone began by discussing the last term’s most important decisions, including what he considers the only substantial one—the Court’s affirmation of the Affordable Care Act. In terms of legal precedent, he said, the importance of this case was Chief Justice John Roberts’s deciding vote based on Congress’s power to tax in-

stead of the Commerce Clause, which the Obama administration evoked to defend the act. Another decision Stone discussed was Hosanna–Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which ruled that federal discrimination laws do not apply to religious organizations’ and parochial schools’ selection of religious leaders, including teachers. Stone explained that the Court’s decision was based on what it considers to be the large ministerial reach of teachers. According to Stone, the current term “has the potential to be a much COURT continued on page 3

The University remembers Alexandra Frizzell Family and friends attend the memorial service of fourth-year Alexandra Frizzell at Rockefeller Chapel on Monday night. FRANK YAN | THE CHICAGO MAROON

This week, UChicago gets sexy

NEWS IN BRIEF Bart Mart to get IHOP?

Student presenters Erika Rist and Maria Fereira open Sex Week with a discussion about gender norms and their implications last night in Harper. TIFFANY TAN | THE CHICAGO MAROON

Ankit Jain Associate News Editor From its humble beginning as a Facebook post on the University of Chicago Class of 2015 wall comes the first annual Sex Week at UChicago. It was third-year Angela Wang’s zealous response to one student’s inquiry as to why UChicago did not host anything like Yale’s Sex Week that vitalized the commencement of what has finally, nearly a year later, come to fruition. Within three days, Wang began recruiting a team. Though the team, led by Wang and third-year Stephanie Grach, began planning for the event over summer break, the team kicked into high gear during fall

quarter of this year. The seven-day program features 40 events on a wide range of sexrelated issues. Second-year and team member Annie Wu said the team planned Sex Week’s scope to include theoretical components, as opposed to only being grounded in logistics. For example, Thursday’s “(A)sexy Symposium!” will feature a panel discussion on asexuality. “We’re trying to examine sex not just from the basic physiological standpoint and how to have better sex, but also trying to bring in people who are not just concerned with the practicalities,” she said. Although Sex Week is officially run by Vita Excolatur, an RSO that

produces a quarterly adult-content magazine, the team acts as a separate entity. Team-members are associated with a variety of organizations across campus, spanning from Risk Awareness Consensual Kink (RACK), to the Dean’s Men, to Le Vorris & Vox Circus. Multiple RSOs have partnered together for Sex Week events, which Wu attributes to how wellconnected the team members are. “People who join Sex Week are usually the head of an RSO of some sort, and they ask people within the RSO, ‘Would you be willing to do an event for Sex Week?’ And many of them are interested,” she said. Adult-film director Axel Braun, SEX WEEK continued on page 3

IHOP, Sonic, and Steak ’n Shake are the vendors currently being considered for Bart Mart’s expansion next academic year, according to the February 5 Inter-House Council (IHC) meeting minutes. This is an attempt to incorporate non-Aramark brands into the dining options. Inter-House Council is asking for student input on which of the three options they prefer and what other products or vendors they would like to see in Bart Mart. Students can also give input on whether the necessary renovations should be made at the beginning or end of the quarter, as Bart Mart will have to be closed temporarily for the renovations sometime next year. The exact timeline will be determined once UChicago Dining selects and signs a contract with the brand, which may take up to six months. The chosen vendor would then open in Bart Mart no sooner than next winter quarter. Also under consideration is the future location of Fourth Meal following the demolition of Pierce. It will either be moved to Cathey or Bartlett Dining Commons, though Cathey is currently the preferred option. —Jennifer Standish

MAB cancels winter show The Major Activities Board (MAB) has decided not to hold their annual winter quarter comedy show this year. The decision was prompted by a decrease in MAB’s budget and the desire to preserve resources for Summer Breeze, according to fourth-year and MAB chairperson Lyndsey McKenna. Calling Summer Breeze MAB’s “flagship” event, McKenna said the board members voted unanimously to cut the

winter quarter show after deciding that dividing their resources between two events would divert too much of their funds from Summer Breeze and limit their choice of acts for the comedy show. “Our goal is putting on the highestcaliber events that we can,” McKenna said. “It didn’t seem to make sense to have a comedian who…doesn’t necessarily appeal to students, who isn’t a well-known figure.” Last year’s winter show, featuring comedian-musician Reggie Watts, cost $20,000, and only 400 out of a possible 1,000 tickets were purchased. Student Government (SG) allocated MAB approximately $185,000 for this academic year, a nearly $15,000 decrease from their 2011–2012 budget. Last year’s Summer Breeze, the most expensive in MAB’s history, cost over $180,000, about $45,000 of which was recovered in revenue, McKenna said. This year’s fall show, which featured the band Sleigh Bells, cost $40,000 after accounting for revenue from the show, she said. MAB receives funding through the Programming Coordinating Council (PCC), an SG funding body that divides money from the Student Life Fee between MAB, Doc Films, University Theater (UT), the Council on University Programming (COUP), Fire Escape Films, and WHPK. Doc’s budget was increased by over $50,000 this year after they requested funding for a new projector. UT, which was allocated just under $9,000 more than they received last year, was the only other group in the PCC to receive a funding increase. Even with the cut, MAB was still awarded the largest amount of money. COUP, the group that received the second-largest amount from the PCC, was allocated approximately $125,000 this year. MAB continued on page 3

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Stone: the current term could be “a much bigger deal”

New stops possible after bus revamp Ankit Jain Associate News Editor The University is exploring its options for replacing the 170s CTA buses for next school year after the current partnership between UChicago and the CTA ends in August. The most likely replacement will be a private company with the same routes as the current 170, 171, and 172 buses. According to University spokesperson Jeremy Manier, discussions with the CTA are ongoing, though no decisions have been made. “[The CTA] has been raising the price of the service on the University in the past couple of years, and it’s gotten to a point where it’s just not feasible to contract with them anymore,” second-year and SG Vice Presi-

Geoffrey Stone, the Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School, discusses major cases from the last Supreme Court session, and what’s on the docket for the upcoming year. JULIA REINITZ | THE CHICAGO MAROON COURT continued from front

bigger deal.” He believes three upcoming cases, regarding voting practices, affirmative action, and same-sex marriage may be particularly consequential. The Court’s plan to revisit the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which established federal oversight of voting practices in states which historically disenfranchised voters on racial grounds, will determine whether the act is obsolete or still necessary. Stone believes differing interpretations of the Equal Protection Clause will play a significant role in the affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas and a case involving gay marriage. Stone sat down with the Maroon after the event to talk about predicting the Court’s decisions, his opinion on recent rulings, and the Court’s responsibility to guide lawmakers. Chicago Maroon: How often do you think the ruling of these cases can be predicted? Geoffrey Stone: The kind of cases we’re talking about here, they’re generally pretty highly ideological cases where the justices have very different approaches to the interpretation of [the] Constitution. If you know what kind of approaches they are, you can reasonably predict...how they will approach the question. Say, on the same sex marriage issue, the reason I was able to say—whether rightly or not—that we know where eight of the justices are likely to come out, is basically because, given everything else they’ve written or said in their opinions, the Justices like Scalia, Roberts, Thomas, and Alito are going to see the claim of gays as a class that is entitled to special scrutiny and the Equal Protection Clause as unpersuasive. CM: Were there any cases last term when you strongly disagreed with the ruling? GS: No. Some were decided on narrow grounds, so they could have done it more boldly, in my view. I guess the one I disagree with—not

strongly, but I disagree with—was the [Hosanna] case, the religious exemption case, where I think they went too far in granting the exemption relative to people who are religious officials rather than just employees or teachers. But it’s reasonable, and the liberal justices all agreed with the conservative justices. CM: How do you think the Equal Protection Clause should be interpreted: in terms of protecting specifically African-Americans or all races? GS: I think affirmative action programs are constitutional, for two reasons. I think it’s correct to say the primary purpose of the Equal Protection Clause is to protect groups that have been historically oppressed. You can’t ignore laws that discriminate [against] whites because any law that takes race into account has the effect of reinforcing racial thinking.... I think that at its core, the clause is about protecting discrete minorities. The second reason that I think affirmative action is permissible is that the state interest in doing it is sufficiently great to justify allowing it, where the group that’s being benefited are those that have traditionally been discriminated against. CM: From the cases you talked about, it seems that it is very common for a court to avoid making controversial decisions. How common is this phenomenon? GS: They can do it if they want to by just either evading the issue, or either finding a narrow way to avoid the question, or do it very incrementally.... The problem with that approach is that you’re not making any law. There’s only one Supreme Court and there’s 50 state legislatures and they need guidance so they know whether what they’re doing is going to be permissible or not.... A part of the genuine responsibility of judges is to use your authority in a way that is effective, so people know what their rights are and what they can and can’t do.

Director of over 400 adult films to speak at Sex Week SEX WEEK continued from front

who has directed over 400 adult films, is arguably the biggest star who has signed on to participate. Wang said she reached out to Braun through direct messages on YouTube and Facebook inquiring about the cost of film rights to his movie Star Wars XXX. Braun replied right away, not only giving a price but also offering to speak at Sex Week. “I got pretty lucky with that one,” Wang said. Wu said she hopes the program leaves students with a more holistic understanding of sex.

“The goal is to have people realize the importance of communicating about sex and making sex into a more deliberate thing. People understand that it’s an integral part of their lives but I don’t think a lot of people take the time to or they don’t have the tools to examine it,” she said. Sex Week began yesterday and will run through Sunday night. The events include today’s “Great Oral Sex” panel hosted by Tea Time and Sex Chats, and “I HEART ART DAY” featuring a giant Twister board and a warning not to bring dates, which will take place Sunday evening.

dent for Student Affairs Yusef al-Jarani said. The CTA raised the University’s required subsidy by 30 percent this past year—a price the University agreed to meet, according to Bridget Malone, communications manager for the Department of Safety and Security. Malone added that the University might expand the routes next year. “The University is exploring the idea of creating additional stops at locations that did not exist when the routes were originally designed,” she said. The new system will go into place in August to allow for a trial run before students return to campus in September, first-year College Council representative and Transportation Student Advisory Board member Holly Rapp said.

Booth alum donates $5 million Sindhu Gnanasambandan News Contributor A $5 million donation to the University of Chicago Booth School of Business by John Edwardson (M.B.A. ’72) will aid in the development of the new Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), Booth officials announced in late January. The Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), instituted 10 months ago, was created as a resource for Booth affiliates to start businesses or find jobs within the social sector, which subsumes both non-governmental and non-profit sectors. Citing a “dearth of good, systematic data and rigorous research attention” in the social sector, the SEI website says the Institute will also aid in data collection and research projects. Natika Nautiyal, co-founder of the Booth Social Impact Club, is optimistic about the Institute’s potential to connect interested students to alumni working in the social sector. “We do have a good network of alumni in the social impact space; however the connection with those alumni is not as strong as in other industries. As a professional from the social sector, I hope that SEI will help us leverage these connections,” she said. Prior to the creation of SEI, resources and opportunities for those interested in the social sector were primarily found through student groups, career services, related classes, and various faculty research projects, according to SEI director Christina Hachikian.

“There were things happening but there was no home. What SEI really does is create a home in which there can be collaboration between those opportunities,” Hachikian said. Marianne Bertrand, SEI faculty co-director and economics professor at Booth, also noted the need for a hub. “The interest of students in the social sector has always been there. Interest of the faculty in the social sector has always been there. SEI helps us formalize those interests and creates crucial form for all those interest to converge,” she said. Central to SEI’s mission is to increase the efficiency of organizations within the social sector. “I firmly believe, having worked in this sector, that there are business solutions to social problems and SEI, through this grant, will be able to approach some of these solutions by applying the Booth and University of Chicago’s thinking, principles, and theories,” Nautuyal said. Edwardson’s donation is considered a “leadership gift,” according to Hachikian. This type of endowment establishes or enhances a new institution, the development of which is overseen by the donors. Edwardson is a retired chairman and chief executive at technology vendor CDW and now serves as the chairman of the Council on Chicago Booth and a member of the University’s Board of Trustees. The annual Social New Venture Challenge will be renamed the John Edwardson ’72 Social New Venture Challenge in his honor.

NEWS IN BRIEF MAB continued from front

McKenna expressed hope that MAB’s budget constraints would be alleviated in the future. “It’s not our intention to ever have to cut the winter show again,” she said. This year’s Summer Breeze will be held on May 18. The acts will be announced shortly before tickets go on sale in May, McKenna said. —Celia Bever

Law School receives $10 million Law School lecturer Dr. Richard Sandor and his wife, Ellen Sandor, are the primary donors behind a $10 million gift to the Law School’s Institute of Law and Economics announced Thursday. The Institute will be renamed the Coase-Sandor Institute of Law and Economics in honor of the Sandors’ mentor, Nobel Laureate Ronald Coase. The Institute, founded in 2011, will continue to promote scholarship merging law and economics. This integrated approach was pioneered by Coase, the Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Economics at the Law School. As the former vice president and chief economist at the Chicago Board of Trade in the 1970s, Mr. Sandor is known as the “father of financial futures” after developing the idea of the first interest-rate futures contract. He is currently working to create markets for carbon trading. —Joy Crane

UCSC discusses Jan. 27 protest The University Community Service Center (UCSC) and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) hosted student-led discussion groups in response to the January 27 protests on Saturday. A crowd of roughly 40 people, composed of mostly University students and a smattering of community members, were split into small groups for discussions on issues including race, trauma care, and disparities in health care. According to Omari Moore, one of the eight discussion leaders from UCSC, the turnout was significantly lower than anticipated. While the event was organized by UCSC director Amy Chan and the Civic Reflection Fellowship program, the idea originated from within the University administration. Moore emphasized that the focus was placed on student attendance and engagement, although he believed that goal did not necessarily best serve the purpose of the event and that it ought to have included people involved in the protests. The community members who were present were specifically invited to participate. According to Moore, no members of the community organizations involved in the trauma center protests, Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY) or South Siders Together Organizing for Power (STOP), were invited. —Madhu Srikantha

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Editorial & Op-Ed FEBRUARY 12, 2013

“Won’t you be mine? Oh...that’s cool.” A short, not-so-sweet list of things for single students to do on Valentine’s Day 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

It’s almost Valentine’s Day. You go to UChicago. Chances are you might be single for this very special holiday—but that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the fun. We’ve come up with some activities for you to enjoy while the couples continue to delude themselves: 1. Go to your professor or T.A.’s office hours and pretend that you’re on a date.

JAMIE MANLEY Senior Editor CELIA BEVER News Editor MARINA FANG News Editor

2. Check out the new Akira on 53rd. It’s just as lonely and empty as you are.

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

3. Set up an elaborate, romantic, candlelit dinner for two and eat it yourself, alternating place settings and one-upping yourself with tasteful, flirtatious compliments. 4. Purchase a Snuggie. Wearing one is a perfectly serviceable substitute for being hugged.

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

5. Go to the B-level of the Reg, move a couple of bookshelves real close to one another, and stand in the midst of their papery embrace. It’s almost the same if you close your eyes.

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 ALICE BUCKNELL Assoc. Arts Editor SARAH LANGS Assoc. Sports Editor JAKE WALERIUS Assoc. Sports Editor JULIA REINITZ Assoc. Photo Editor FRANK YAN Assoc. Photo Editor TYRONALD JORDAN Business Manager TAMER BARSBAY Undergraduate Business Executive QUERIDA Y. QIU External Director of Marketing IVY ZHANG Internal Director of Marketing VINCENT MCGILL Delivery Coordinator HYEONG-SUN CHO Designer

6. Sign up for a psych study where they put you in an MRI. It’s almost like lying in bed with someone’s arms wrapped around you—if that someone beeps frequently and is made of several

thousand pounds of steel.

you. Please, don’t go to Botany Pond.

him your Wilson.

7. The palmier cookies sold by Bonjour Bakery and by the nuns by the Hyde Park Produce registers are heartshaped. Think of that as you break them in half to enjoy the sound of splintering pastry.

12. Wake up at 2 p.m., remain in bed with a jar of Nutella and Netflix, and stay up as late as you want because Friday is the much better COLLEGE BREAK DAY, YOU GUYS!

20. Hand out Valentines in the Harper reading room after midnight. Sure, you could use a pick-me-up, but so could someone else.

8. Watch When Harry Met Sally. The movie’s main characters meet as fellow newly-graduated Maroons, making descriptions of this 1989 classic the only place you can find “University of Chicago,” “romantic,” and “comedy” in the same sentence. 9. Enjoy some alone time. Rinse and repeat. 10. Consider celebrating other things that happened on February 14. Arizona was admitted to the Union! The League of Women Voters was founded here in Chicago! Demand that CVS and Walgreens carry cards marking these equally-deserving occurrences. 11. Rumor has it that if you kiss someone on the bridge over Botany Pond, you will be wedded in holy matrimony. A less-known rumor is that if you go to Botany Pond, alone, on the evening of Valentine’s Day, you will probably catch pneumonia. No lover will be waiting for

13. Write an op-ed submission for Viewpoints. Please. 14. Just in case this isn’t a one-time thing, practice saying, “Table for one, please,” in the mirror. 15. Harper Theater just opened. Go there, watch a movie, and count the couples in the theater so you know exactly how many people are painfully aware that you have no one. 16. Fold this copy of the Maroon into a fun hat! 17. Blare your most embarrassing guilty-pleasure music and have a solo dance party in your bedroom. Bonus points if you don’t end up in tears this time. 18. Eat your problems at Harold’s. We hear they’ll throw in a free plastic bag if you start crying mid-order. 19. Find a lonely ball at Ratner. Make

21. Do your homework passionately on top of a sturdy table. 22. Buy yourself and a friend a box of chocolates and go to town on it. Once the chocolate’s gone, you guys will still have each other. To go to town on. 23. Go to Kimbark Liquors: We know a guy named Jack Daniels who won’t tell you you’re too controlling. 24. While you’re at Kimbark, get one of those plastic-wrapped, single-serve glasses of wine, since you don’t have anyone to share with. Actually, now that we think of it, get an entire bottle…since you don’t have anyone to share with. 25. Have a potluck dinner at home with single friends. 26. You don’t actually want children. You want a kitten.

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Recognizing unfamiliar faces

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Grappling with personal weirdness reminds us that there really is no such thing as normal

The Boy Scouts of America risks being on wrong side of history by making discrimination an option

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By David Kaner Viewpoints Columnist Do I know you? Maybe. I’m not sure. Please don’t take it personally. You see, I am terrible with names and faces, abysmal even. Unless you are quite distinctive-looking, or we run into each other with some frequency, I might have a hard time picking you out of a crowd. Or a police lineup, for that matter. And even if I remember seeing you before, the odds are decent I don’t know what to call you. Do I address you in small talk only as “you,” or pointedly avoid addressing you directly at all? Either way, it’s a dead giveaway that I am frantically, desperately trying to recall your name every time we meet. How bad am I at this? Pretty bad. I have unblinkingly breezed past people whom I have had long conversations with, sat next to in class, or traveled with for extensive periods of time, only to be deeply embarrassed later on when told what I had done. I have failed to memorize the names of coworkers and peers days—even months—past the time in which asking them for a reminder would be socially acceptable. On one

or two occasions, I’ve had to doublecheck the name at the top of a syllabus before walking into office hours. Yes, O-Week was sort of stressful. I had too much pride to make flashcards of the people in my house but believe me: The thought crossed my mind. My recognition low point may have come during spring quarter of my first year, when I walked into the house lounge on a Saturday evening to find a friend of mine hanging out with an unfamiliar-looking woman. I waved hello, then stuck out my hand and introduced myself. Dead silence and a pair of “Are you serious?” faces followed. It took two or three of the longer seconds I’ve ever lived before the realization crested over me in a wave of horror. I did know her. In, uh, the biblical sense. We had met at a party several weeks earlier. Like I said: pretty bad. I apologized profusely and earnestly, and turned a bright scarlet for good measure. To my eternal disbelief, she accepted my apology. Sometimes you are fortunate, and people are understanding in even your worst moments. But the prospect that I may come across as cold, antisocial, or indifferent on account of a neurological quirk beyond my control occasionally worries me. There are times when I wish I had something to pin it on, some way to explain myself. But I don’t. I’ve had head MRIs once or twice for research FACES continued on page 5

By Luke Brinker Viewpoints Columnist The Boy Scouts of America placed themselves firmly outside the 21st century last summer, when the national organization voted to uphold its ban on openly gay members. Late last month, the leadership indicated that it was open to changing the policy. Last week brought the news that the organization would punt on any changes at least until May. Come this spring, it looks like the Boy Scouts may well permit local scouting organizations to decide for themselves whether to allow gay Scouts and Scoutmasters. In other words, the Scouts’ longstanding gay ban will lapse, but local chapters may continue excluding gay members. Supporters of such a piecemeal solution rationalize it on the grounds that forced acceptance of gay members would generate a backlash among many conservative, church-sponsored units. Better to allow those groups to evolve over time than to impose change from above. The notion that forced change is so-

cially destabilizing has deep philosophical roots. The 19th-century liberal theorist Thomas Hill Green anchored his skepticism of top-down change in his belief in the importance of civil society. Green argued that we shouldn’t see the world as composed solely of individuals and states. Instead, the most immediate social phenomenon we should focus on is civil society—the set of cooperative, voluntary relationships that allow individuals to situate themselves within a broader polity. It is through civil society that people accept and enact big social changes. Change, then, is an organic process, best secured when participants in civil society reach a non-coerced consensus that rights and protections ought to be extended to once-excluded groups. Green’s conception of proper change is not without its merits. Robust popular support undoubtedly makes social change much more sustainable. But should a liberal society be in the business of withholding protections from the minority until the majority has decided such protections are permissible? Arguments like Green’s fail to answer for the fact that the most vulnerable members of minority groups often reside in areas where the majority is downright hostile to their concerns. With the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision having just passed, we’ve SCOUTS continued on page 5

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The edge of one bell curve is Freedom to choose does not extend to the unfair treatment of others at the center of another SCOUTS continued from page 4 issues like gay marriage should be decided at the about the negative reaction to a blanket policy FACES continued from page 4 studies, but so far this University’s fine medical professionals have found no tumor pressing down on a critical cortex in my brain. When a friend jokingly sent me a 60 Minutes segment on “face blindness”—a real medical condition, which may affect over two percent of the population to some degree—I was generally able to pass the facial recognition tests shown on screen with ease. Pathological sufferers of prosopagnosia, as it is properly called, failed miserably. Of course, I wouldn’t ever wish to have an actual, diagnosable neurological disorder just so I could give some justification for behavior that might otherwise come off as rude or weird. I don’t want to go through life making excuses for myself; I don’t believe most of us do. In fact, when I think of people I know with challenges far greater than an occasional inability to recall that kid from Sosc class, I am always struck by how unwilling they are to use those additional obstacles as a crutch. And a funny thing has happened. As I pass through college, and this trait that can make me seem off at times actually seems like more of a liability—as the working world looms and “who you know” becomes more important—I am nonetheless starting to be bothered by it a little less. One thing that becomes increasingly apparent in early adulthood is what a strange, patchwork thing our idea of “normal” is. Sexuality and electromagnetism are not the only things that exist along spectrums; almost everything else does too. Even if we sit perfectly in the middle of one bell curve, odds are there are many others in which we fall far to one side—and we are joined on those margins by millions of other weirdoes. Some of the people reading this column are, no doubt, walking around campus forgetting names and faces as easily as I do. So why get worked up about it? Easier said than done. I did say I was only a little less bothered these days. I can’t always manage to shake a guiding idea of what is “normal,” or stop feeling bad when I fall short of it. And there are, I admit, other people and things I have a hard time not seeing as strange myself. If the recognition that “normal” is not as clear-cut as we once thought is one realization that often comes as we mature, the fact that there are not always neat and easy solutions is another. The best I can do is try: try, maybe, to work harder at pinning down names and faces. But also to keep in mind how people are more accepting than I expect them to be, more willing to look past seeming flaws, and, if they are good friends, to whisper half-forgotten names in my ear at parties with little more than a knowing smirk. They remind me that all of us have the capacity to understand each other, and ourselves, as something more than a collection of points on spectrums, defined by their varying distances from some imagined median of smart or attractive, friendly or funny. Perhaps this is what we should try a little harder to see when we look at people—even if we can’t recall who they are. It may well be a type of recognition worth working on.

heard renewed debate about whether abortion rights would have been better secured via popular consensus, rather than judicial edict. But had women’s reproductive freedom remained a matter for states to decide, it’s certain that women in Massachusetts would have a very different level of autonomy than women in Mississippi. As it stands, nearly nine in 10 U.S. counties lack access to abortion clinics. One shudders at the thought of how much more difficult it would be to obtain reproductive health care had the abortion issue remained a matter for the states. Just as a state-by-state approach to abortion rights would have jeopardized the health and freedom of millions of American women, a unitby-unit solution to the Scouts’ gay membership policy would disadvantage countless gay adolescents and Scoutmasters. Those who believe that

state level claim that gays living in anti-gay states can simply vote with their feet by moving elsewhere. Affluent professionals can flee the conservative confines of Kansas for the more convivial climate of Connecticut, for instance. But many gays lack the resources to simply pack up and leave—not least the millions of gay adolescents who live in parts of the country where LGBT rights have yet to be fully embraced. For these children, preteens, and teens, setting out for more friendly territory isn’t a viable option. To them, the Boy Scouts’ proposed compromise amounts to nothing more than a dismissive “Tough luck.” Because the Supreme Court upheld the Scouts’ gay ban in 2000 on free speech grounds, Congress and the states can’t mandate that the Scouts accept gay members. The onus is on the organization’s national leadership. The leadership’s fears

David Kaner is a third-year in the College majoring in Law, Letters, and Society.

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change may seem reasonable at first glance. After all, conservative churches sponsor many of the nation’s scouting units. In a nation ever conscious of infringements on religious liberty, forcing such organizations to contradict religious dogma makes many of us uncomfortable. But in the 1960s, no small number of local governments, businesses, and, yes, churches were equally sincere in their conviction that forced racial integration was wrong. Several decades from now, the Scouts’ ban on gay members will seem just as unthinkable as segregation. The question is whether the organization’s leadership will take its place in history as a reluctant and late force for progress, or as a cast of morally bankrupt characters.

Luke Brinker is a graduate student in the MAPSS program.

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UChicago student body catches on to viral romance Daniel Rivera Arts Editor A student’s first impression of the UChicago social scene often comes via prepackaged cheesy one-liners. You know what I’m talking about: T-shirted nonsense, often gross or entitled, about quad squirrels and our GPAs. But for many of us, time here has softened those preconceptions. There’s a flipside to the infamous academic demands—sex happens, and there’s an incredibly progressive dialogue surrounding it, too (see Sex Week). Similarly, we have speed dating, date auctions, undie runs, and date clubs. And, like everywhere else, there’s an Internet component to it all as well. This UChicago cyber date world has proliferated insanely over the past few months. A site called 2 Student Bodies promises quick and potentially anonymous hookups. If you’re interested but feel like savoring romantic possibility for a little longer, then there’s Love Professions UChicago, a Facebook page that allows for anonymous submissions of admiration. Perhaps the most notable of these Web sites include a Tumblr called Hyde Park Romances, which posts short stories both fictional and nonfictional about romantic incidents around campus, some contributed by readers, and the Facebook page UChicago Compliments. The latter has over a thousand “friends” and dozens of wall posts, to boot. Similarly, since its creation last October, Hyde Park Romances has put up over 500 posts (and boasts about

as many followers). I was able to sit down and talk with the minds behind these sites about love, V-Day, and the role moms play in both. My first question, of course, was about how it all started. For the blogger behind Hyde Park Romances, who wishes to be known only as the Editor, it started the way most things do: off-handedly, nestled amid the banter of friends. “I started it mainly for fun. My friends and I would often swap hookup stories, or even discuss random encounters on campus… and at one point, it was suggested that I start writing all this stuff down,” wrote the Editor in an email conversation with me. “Once I started, my imagination sort of took over.” And with it came the masses. Submissions from all sorts of campus-types flooded her inbox. “I especially love it when alums write in.” UChicago Compliments has a similar story. The page’s administrator, who we’ll call the Webmaster, told me in an interview that it started over last Thanksgiving break. “My friend who goes to Princeton, he introduced me to his new girlfriend. I was like, ‘How did you guys meet?’ He said what happened was that they had a similar site, Princeton Compliments, and this girl put a compliment on the site for him. You know, it was anonymous at first, and my friend was like, ‘Oh my God, I got a compliment.’ He was really excited, and then a couple days later she went up to him and said, ‘You know, the compliment was [from] me.’ Then, after that, they started dating. I thought, ‘That’s so funny.

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I’ll start that at UChicago.’” The Webmaster emphasized that Compliments, as you might imagine, is, above all else, about complimenting. “The site’s good at making people happier. People like reading other people’s compliments; they like receiving compliments,” he told me. “Whenever someone receives a compliment,

they say, ‘Oh my God, I needed it this week. I bombed a test; thank you, this made my week and my day.’ We get a lot of that.” It’s not always just students who are grateful. “I got [a ‘thank you’] from a mom once,” the Webmaster laughed. “A mom said, ‘Thank you for this site; it’s so great for the student body.’ I don’t why a mom

was on the site. I don’t know how she found out, but it was the greatest thing.” Perhaps it was the mother of the Editor, as she seems to be particularly Internet-savvy. “My mother actually follows [Hyde Park Romances] and she’s my moderator,” the Editor wrote to me. “‘Some of VIRAL continued on page 8

Love the way you buy: A street-smart guide to Hyde Park’s V-Day specials

57th Street Books Valentine-themed window display, all dressed up and no place to go. JAMIE MANLEY | THE CHICAGO MAROON

Emma Broder Arts Editor North of 53rd Street: Encore, the resale clothing store, will sell all pink and red items 50 percent off on Thursday. Pam Holmes, an employee at Drawers Intimate Toys, said, “We have special red outfits in. We consider these sets to be conservative—they’re for everybody. It’s something cute to put on for that day,

to have fun. It’s not the high-end stuff. We also have adult novelties, like board games.” Prices rarely top $60 at Drawers, which has been in Hyde Park for almost 25 years. 53rd Street: The new Harper Theater and the adjacent candy store Kilwins are almost aggressively using Valentine’s Day as a way of continuing to establish their presence in Hyde Park. At Harper Theater, you can buy candy, two medium drinks, a large

popcorn, two movie tickets to any movie, and one rose for $40. Next door, Jackie Jackson, an owner of Kilwins and an Oprah ambassador (if you meet her, ask to look at her pictures), says Kilwins will have chocolate-covered strawberries and gift baskets. For these and other goodies, Kilwins offers several coupons, including five dollars off anything over $30, and 10 percent off all goods until June 1 (these are available at Harper Theater or in-store). Kilwins will host “what you would call a viewing party” of Oprah’s Next Chapter on Saturday at 8 p.m.; the episode will feature Beyoncé’s first interview since her Super Bowl performance. Complimentary samples of hot chocolate and fudge will be available. Freehling Pot and Pan Co. has a window display with “a lot of red,” according to one employee, who also said the store will not offer discounts. At The Sit Down Café & Sushi Bar, specials will include “The Sweetheart” martini, a concoction of rum, lime juice, mango juice, pineapple juice, and a splash of grenadine. There will also be a chocolate cupcake with pink icing and a chocolate heart on top that a waitress there calls “really cute.” Moving west to the 53rd Street plaza, Hyde Park Produce’s Web site blares, “Happy Valentine’s Day!! We Have the Perfect Gift for Your Valentine...A Hyde Park Produce Gift Card!!” Consider too that Kimbark Beverage Shoppe’s customary weekly sale begins on Wednesday; certain red and white

wines will be sold at a discount. 55th Street: At Treasure Island, orchids and roses will be on sale. The Snail, The Fair Trader, and Cornell Florist are collaborating on a 55th Street Lovebirds Special: Bring a receipt from any of these three businesses to another on Valentine’s Day, and you’ll get 10 percent off your purchase. At Cornell Florist, prices will rise, since distributors know this is “a big flower week.” Parker’s, a natural dog and cat market, is celebrating non-human romance by holding a dog treat tasting from 4–7 p.m. on Thursday. A representative from The Honest Kitchen, a natural pet foods company, will be giving out heart-shaped chicken liver and peanut butter–flavored treats. All week, Parker’s will be giving out “locally-made doggie bakery treats that are Valentine’s Day themed.” Owners welcome. 57th Street: For window shoppers, 57th Street Books has a comprehensive display featuring cutout paper hearts, plus everything from a book about Byron’s love life to a kosher sex book. Though one employee was inspired to curate this mini love library, the bookstore will not actually have discounts this Thursday. The good old Medici Bakery will have heart-shaped custard-and-fruit tarts with hazelnut crust, cheesecake, and potentially other special baked goods, depending on what head baker Gracie Gamero has planned.

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Kindling an old flame can’t keep mbv hot or heavy Hannah Gold Arts Editor My Bloody Valentine released its third album, mbv, at a very good time of the season. With the exception of a few freak 60-degree days in February, it’s cold enough to want to stay inside sitting in a stew of angsty, atmospheric chords until the sun sets at five o’clock. We are also swiftly approaching that magical 14th, day of the month on which many fans of the band’s second album and cult classic, Loveless (1991), wonder why life can’t just be one long cab ride with Bill Murray through the streets of Tokyo with “Sometimes” on full blast in the background. Few will resolve this nagging problem, but many will find solace in music that is familiar and full of warm feelings.

MBV My Bloody Valentine Self-produced

The band has had its surefire, shoegazing formula down for decades now. Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher do guitar and vocals, Colm Ó Cíosóig is on drums, and Debbie Googe provides the signature bass. With

Loveless, they found a noise that was truly unique—an exquisite drone that could make ennui feel special. Something about “Sometimes” is significant, but its intensity is diffuse, unfocused, and free. Critics often refer to My Bloody Valentine’s music as “undulating ,” which doesn’t really tell us anything new about the nature of sound, but perhaps says something about the radical rawness of the band’s style and its perceived auditory enigma. However, since attainting its superstar status in the ’90s, not much had been heard of the alt rock group from Dublin until it announced the coming of a third album in 2007, which finally surfaced on its Web site on February 2 (like a riff from its beloved sophomore album, the site abruptly crashed). If Loveless was a cozy, musical relationship of 20-plus years, then mbv is the album equivalent of hooking up with an ex. It’s good; it goes through the movements. It’s a lot like the original, but at the same time doesn’t live up to it. As a fan of Loveless, I was thrilled that the first few songs sounded like a continuation of the band’s old work. However, as the tracks roll by, they get increasingly shallow until they sink easily into mediocrity. The first track on the album, “She Found Now,” has a soft, beachy, spacey appeal to MBV continued on page 8

As with My Bloody Valentine’s trademark obscured sound, you get out of this album art what you put in. COURTESY OF MY BLOODY VALENTINE

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My Bloody Valentine falters on final three tracks of new album MBV continued from page 7 it. Scrubbed clean of rhythm, the song relies upon steady bass and a honeyed hum that snakes in and out of the background. The lyrics themselves, as with basically all of My Bloody Valentine’s songs, are just out of reach. The track is followed by “Only Tomorrow,” which is definitely one of the better songs, possibly my favorite. The guitar as it slices quickly through the pummeling bass creates a robustness that crashes through until the end. The same goes for the next track, “Who Sees You,” which benefits from similar power plays. The last real high point on the album is the fifth track, “If I Am,” an idealistic, bubblegum haze of sweet aspirations and runny guitar riffs, reminiscent of Asobi Seksu or the Cocteau Twins. The next track, “New You,” is just as ambivalent and moody as the rest, but is upbeat enough to play in the background of a commercial for an energ y-efficient car or a designer line of granola bars. The last three songs on the album, “In Another Way,” “Nothing Is,” and “Wonder 2” are, unfortunately, absolute duds. “In Another Way” has all the cold, metallic synth of a Ladytron track, but none of the cheeky lyrics. “Nothing Is” and “Won-

der 2” don’t have any lyrics at all. Maybe I’m just a sucker for the band’s nondescript vocals, which have been so noticeably withheld here and replaced by additional layers of vibrating noise goo and radiator rattlings. The weird thing about My Bloody Valentine is that, with a few brilliant exceptions, its songs tend to feel mellow, even when they are technically loud and pulsating. It may therefore occur to the listener to play these songs softly. Certainly it’s good music to relax to, whether you’re trying to forget that it’s actually you who’s doing your homework or reenacting a symposium with friends. The problem is that, at a low volume, it becomes difficult to hear any of the lyrics (or the fragments of evocative words that are meant to hook you, depending on the track). I’d recommend really listening closely, at least to the first few tracks, to see what words can be pulled out of them, even if all you’re doing is taking an aural equivalent of the Rorschach test. It’s not a perfect method, of course. After playing “Only Tomorrow” at an eardrum-busting noise level, the only word I was able to make out was “heart,” and even this may have had more to do with the season than with the song.

“The Editor” and “the Webmaster” reveal V-Day plans VIRAL continued from page 6 the stories are really good,’ she’ll tell me on the phone, ‘and others are just okay. Try not to post the ones that are just okay.’ I don’t mind her comments. I could, however, do without her panicking when she thinks all of them are about me. They’re not.” But these stories are about someone, in the same way that there’s a face behind every anonymous compliment on the Webmaster’s page. Is this activity mirrored in the reallife campus dating scene? I pressed the Webmaster for his thoughts on the matter: “I think the main issue with [UChicago], and I think this might be true of all college campuses, I’m not sure, is that we have a really strong hookup scene, but I think the dating scene is pretty weak. I think it’s [the culture of ] our generation. People are very reluctant to ask the girl they like on a date. You think, ‘Well, I hope I’ll run into her at a frat party when we’re drunk and I’ll hook up with her.’ But you don’t think, ‘Well, I’ll go ask her to coffee.’” With Compliments, he hopes to rectify that mode of thinking. “I want the site to promote more traditional forms of dating. So you give a girl a compliment, and then you ask her to coffee, and I think it’s harder to do that. It takes a little more work, it’s a little scarier in a sense, but I think it’s better.” Yet the transition from anonymous complimenting to real-life dating isn’t an easy one. The con-

sensus amongst the Webmaster and his team seemed to be that while the site is a great first step, and “posting compliments takes some courage,” in the end there’s “no way you’d go up to the girl in your Gen Chem section and say the same thing you’re saying about her on Compliments.” There’s the desire to take the next step, but where’s the impetus? After all, everyone is in different situations, the Editor says. “There’s a lot of long-term relationships, not only between students here, but also a fair number of successful longdistance relationships too.” So what is there to do then? “Honestly, I’m a big fan of just going for it, putting yourself out there,” the Webmaster says. “The worse thing that can happen is a rejection, and that’s okay. If more people [made an effort], the campus would be a better place. People are way too reserved. The dating scene would be easier. One rejection isn’t the end of the world. My main advice: Just go for it.” After all, it worked at Princeton. And if you’ve not got your eye on any particular person, the Editor says, then “stop looking.” Hers is more of an Eat, Pray, Love approach: “Take all that effort and put it into making yourself the best possible version of you. Study hard. Actually do all your readings. Work out. Put some effort into how you look and feel…. Be open to new people and new experiences. Think long term

about how awesome and interesting you can make yourself, and about how much potential you have. Love yourself first. And then you’ll find someone quite by accident when you aren’t even expecting it.” And the Editor seems to be a woman of her word. When pressed for her own personal Valentine’s Day plans, she says, “I have a paper due that evening. So that’s my plan. Editing my paper… No. Writing my paper. I’m a ton of fun. Okay, seriously. The paper’s due at 6. I plan on spending some time with my friends after that, maybe grabbing a couple of drinks? No bad rom-coms, though. That’s too cheesy. And definitely no watching of Titanic.” As for the Webmaster and his team, say one finally owns up to having left that anonymous compliment—then what? “On campus, around here, a good dating spot? For coffee, I like Classics… Or Robust! It’s an interesting place. Get off campus. After coffee, go downtown. In terms of dinner, Cedar’s…also, the Sit Down.” However, in the end, he emphasized that “it doesn’t really matter.” The effort, he assured me, is more important. The Editor seemed to agree: “Really, you can’t go too wrong unless you suggest the Reg, bookstacks excluded, or Noodles, the fishbowl where your personal space is approximately the same as the space you’re allocated in economy class on any given airline.”

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ter. The Yellowjackets outrebounded the home team 50â&#x20AC;&#x201C;39. Combined with Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poor offensive flow, this sealed the game for Rochester. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Against Rochester, we did a really good job of shutting down their post play. The guards did an awesome job of sinking in and doubling in on their big girls whenever the ball got in-

side,â&#x20AC;? second-year post Ellie Greiner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we definitely didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play our best on the offensive end of the court. We turned the ball over a lot and struggled to execute our plays.â&#x20AC;? On Sunday, the Maroons faced similar problems against Emory. They fell behind 13â&#x20AC;&#x201C;2 in the opening minutes of the game, which forced them to adjust their offensive strategy. Even though Chicago briefly turned things around and took a lead halfway through the first half, the Eagles could not be contained. Emory forced 21 turnovers and went on an 18â&#x20AC;&#x201C;0 run in the second half to put the game out of reach. The final score: Emory 80, Maroons 65. However, the South Siders shot significantly better against Emory than they had against Rochester. As a team, they shot 47 percent from the field, and were able to sink several threes at critical

moments. In addition, the Maroons regained their rebounding advantage, besting their competition 37â&#x20AC;&#x201C;26. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a pretty good rebounding effort and outrebounded Emory, which was one of the big things we talked about, but we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take care of the basketball as well as we would have liked,â&#x20AC;? first-year post Caitlin Moore said. Nevertheless, several Maroons enjoyed strong performances. Moore, secondyears Morgan Donovan and Ali Shaw, and first-year Paige Womack all scored in double figures in Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s game. On Friday, secondyear Claire Devaney recorded a double-double, scoring 14 points and snagging 11 rebounds. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Claire Devaney has been playing really well lately. She has come up with some huge rebounds over the past couple games, giving us extra possessions on

the offense end,â&#x20AC;? Moore said. Sundayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest also marked fourth-year guard Jenna Lillemoeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s final home game of her career with the Maroons. Lillemoe, the lone fourth-year on this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s squad, scored eight points, with two rebounds and two assists in 28 minutes. It may have been a losing effort, but the Maroons are going to need more performances like this one in order to defeat Brandeis and NYU next weekend. But Chicago seems confident that, with teamwork, it can win. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this weekend we learned a lot about the importance of playing as a team,â&#x20AC;? Greiner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we execute our team concepts on both ends of the court, we are a really tough group to play against. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have to play as a unit again this weekend in order to get two more wins.â&#x20AC;?

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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK COURTESY OF HANS GLICK

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The executive boards of the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Athletic Association and the Order of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Câ&#x20AC;? have implemented a program, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Athlete of the Week,â&#x20AC;? to highlight athletes making a big impact on the campus communityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;both on and off the field. We hope the MAROONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s series on these â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Uncommonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; athletes can start a conversation...and not just within the walls of Ratner.

JAMES LAYTON, WRESTLING Head Coach Leo Kocher: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Laytonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wins in the tournament included a fall over John Carroll Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Terner Gott, who is currently ranked No. 4 in his weight class in the NCAA Division III Coaches Poll. Jim has been one of the most talented guys on the wrestling squad since his freshman year. He has been in the top three on the team in number of wins every year he has been on the team. He not only delivers a lot of points for the team in competition, but he also takes time in practice to teach his teammates the finer points of how he uses leg riding to turn opponents onto their backâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a technique at which he excels. Jimâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s influence on the team is apparent, as a few have become pretty good leg riders as well.â&#x20AC;?

JENNA LILLEMOE, WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BASKETBALL Head Coach Carissa Sain Knoche: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jenna showed some tremendous leadership this weekend and truly stepped up her role by doing things that the box score just doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t show. She played tremendous help defense on Friday when she was not guarding the other teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best player. When she had stints guarding their best player, she did a great jobâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;improving on her efforts from a week ago. She was a rock on offense and helped our team battle into overtime on Friday night. On Sunday, it was no different. She had a great defensive game both on and off the ball and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s truly what helped us excel. Offensively, she was active against a very aggressive zone and showed she understood how to beat it, which gave our team confidence. Again, she was not our best statistical player, but she undoubtedly displayed her senior leadership on the floor in both games and we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have been competitive without it.â&#x20AC;?

SPORTS

IN QUOTES “If old cardinals pick the Pope it will never change. Let the people vote.” —Former MLB slugger Jose Canseco, on Twitter, in his #vaticanseco campaign following Pope Benedict XVI’s announcement that he will resign on February 28.

Nationally speaking: Men’s distance medley shines as Maroons snag third, fourth at Chicagolands Track & Field Isaac Stern Sports Staff In a display of regional power, the Maroons’ men and women placed fourth and third, respectively, in a field of 18 teams at the Chicagoland Championships this weekend. The meet included 18 teams from the Chicago area and from all three NCAA divisions. On the women’s side, 17thranked North Central took first with a score of 133.5. DII Lewis University came in a close second with 130 points. The Maroons followed in third with a point total of 55. Carthage (52.5) and DI Valparaiso (47.5) rounded out the top five. “The team did really well as a whole,” first-year Catherine Young said. “Every meet I feel like we keep getting better and better, and everyone is improving their times.” Young dominated the field in the 3000m run, winning with a time of 10:14.40, over four

seconds faster than her nearest competitor. “Every member of the team is really supportive of every other member,” Young said. “The support I feel from my teammates during races is what pushes me to run faster.” The men also put on a strong showing, losing only to thirdranked North Central (219.5), DI UIC (72), and 27th-ranked Carthage (67.5). The Maroons gathered 48 points, beating fifth-place Lewis by 12 points. “I think that we’re approaching a stage in our training cycle that will prepare us for some of the big meets near the end of the indoor season,” fourth-year Chris Cheng said. “It will be important for everyone to stay consistent with workouts and be careful not to get hurt from here on out.” Cheng competed in the distance medley relay for the South Siders on Saturday along with fourth-year Billy Whitmore, second-year Renat Zalov, and

first-year Ryan Manzuk. The Maroons finished with a time of 10:11.88, the best in the nation at the DIII level this year. The next fastest team, from Elizabethtown College, is just under two seconds slower than Chicago. “We really outperformed what we had expected to run,” Cheng said. “But we still have to take into consideration the next couple weeks, as other teams will also try to run some fast times.” Other top performances from both sides included third-place finishes by third-years Samuel Butler (5000m run, 15:17.75) and Sarah Peluse (3000m run, 10:22.95), fourth-year Isaac Dalke (3000m run, 8:39.97), and first-year Michael Bennett (pole vault, 4.31m). First-year Michael Darmiento impressed again, finishing second in the 60m hurdles with a time of 8.57 and fourth-year Julia Sizek continued posting national qualifying times in the mile with her first-place time of 5:02.21.

Second-year Renat Zalov competes in a meet against UW–Oshkosh at Henry Crown earlier this quarter. COURTESY OF HANS GLICK

“If we keep working together in workout groups and training, I think we have a great chance of winning the conference championship,” Young said. “I don’t think that we have

ever been this deep in terms of events before, so we should have a very good shot at taking home the championship,” Cheng added. The Maroons’ final tune-up

before the UAA championship, the Margaret Bradley Invitational, will take place this Saturday in Henry Crown. The meet is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m.

South Siders, facing Rochester and Emory, suffer another pair of conference losses Men’s Basketball Sam Zacher Sports Staff Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. The Maroons (10–12, 4–7 UAA) came close in both of their games this past weekend: close to beating fourth-ranked Rochester (20–2, 9–2) and close to finishing a comeback and taking the lead from Emory (15–6, 7–4), who eventually pulled far away from Chicago. On Friday, the Maroons played strong defense on Rochester’s star player John DiBartolomeo, but fell by a score of 68–57. Chicago held DiBartolomeo to 10 points—far below his 22.8 average—with its

aggressive pick-and-roll defense. The Maroons opened up an early 14–6 lead and kept up the strong play through the first half, led by third-year forward Charlie Hughes and second-year center Ian Joyce, who each scored seven points in the half to put Chicago in front 29–26. Second-year point guard Royce Muskeyvalley took up some of the offensive load in the second half, helping to secure a 42–36 Maroon lead with 13 minutes remaining. However, the nationally-ranked Yellowjackets took control by attacking the basket and getting to the free throw line. They sunk 20 of 26 foul shots in the second half and left with a 68–57 win.

Chicago was led by Muskeyvalley’s 18 points and Hughes’ 11 points and seven rebounds. The Maroons played tough against one of the best teams in the country but just couldn’t finish the game. “I think we showed that we can play with anyone when we are playing well,” said fourthyear forward Matt MacKenzie, who played 18 minutes in Friday’s contest. “The problem we have had this season is sustaining that level of play for all 40 minutes.” Against Emory, the Maroons showed spurts of greatness but didn’t compete as well as they did against Rochester. Emory came out on fire,

building a 30–9 lead while playing stifling defense on the Maroons’ guards. However, the Chicago point guards, Muskeyvalley and thirdyear Wayne Simon, sparked Chicago, leading the charge to cut the deficit to 10. They entered the half down 40–30. Unfortunately, their scoring came off one-on-one play. That didn’t help the offensive flow, which was nonexistent on Chicago’s side for most of the game. MacKenzie thinks the team’s chemistry could’ve been better. “We have to work on staying together when things don’t go our way,” he said. “It’s easy to play together and have fun when you’re playing well as a

team; it’s much harder to do so when you aren’t making shots or getting calls.” Chicago cut the lead to 42–37 early in the second, but Emory responded by channeling its early first-half play. The Eagles went on a 14–5 run and never looked back, sprinting to an 82–59 victory. “We’ve always had problems dealing with that Emory team,” head coach Mike McGrath said after the game. Chicago lost to Emory by a similar score of 79–48 in its first meeting this year on January 13. The Maroons were led by Hughes (11 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists) and third-year forward Sam Gage (10 points, 4

rebounds). Sunday’s game was lone fourth-year MacKenzie’s final time playing on his home court. The game didn’t feel much different, although he suspects it will in hindsight. “It certainly was a little odd telling myself that this was the last home game. However, it didn’t really feel much different from any other home game,” he said. “I’m sure looking back later it’ll be different, but we still have three games left to play, so I’m more focused on those and trying to finish the season off right.” The Maroons take on Brandeis next. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. this Friday in Boston.

Chicago endures lopsided but illuminating defeat to #2 Kenyon Men’s Tennis Jake Walerius Associate Sports Editor It was always going to be a big task for Chicago to come out on top against Kenyon, the secondranked team in the country. It should be no real surprise that the task was too big. The Maroons fell 9–0 to Kenyon on Sunday, picking up only one set in singles play, and losing all three doubles matches by at least four games. “Doubles did not go our way at all, but when you are playing a team that has the best doubles lineup in the country, it’s going to be tough,” first-year Gordon

Zhang said. “We did not execute in doubles and that shows in the scores we had.” In the #1 doubles spot, second-year Ankur Bhargava and third-year Neil Karandikar slumped to an 8–3 defeat. Firstyear Jake Crawford and secondyear Deepak Sabada lost 8–2 in the #2 spot, and third-years Alexander Golovin and Krishna Ravella fell 8–4 at #3. It was a disappointing performance for the South Siders, but perspective is necessary. This was only their second competition of the season and they were facing last year’s runner-up from the NCAA championship. It was

a resounding loss, but with the UAA championship still two months away, there will be plenty of time to recover. Not that this is any consolation to the Maroons involved in the defeat. “We were all pumped up to play Kenyon because we all knew that we had a good chance to beat them,” Zhang said. “Even though they are #2 in the country, our talent level is similar to theirs. Besides that, knowing that they were the #2 team in the country did not affect our performance. We treat every match the same. We had a good week of practice and unfortunately it was not able to translate

the same in our match.” Singles was a similarly onesided affair, although Bhargava and Crawford showed promise in their defeats at #2 and #3, respectively. Bhargava was beaten in two close sets, 7–6, 7–5, and Crawford forced a decider as he lost 4–6, 6–4, 6–4. In the #1 spot, Sabada lost 6–2, 6–2. Golovin dropped his match, 6–3, 6–4, and fourth-year Harrison Abrams fell 6–2, 6–3 at #6. Zhang at #5 shined briefly in the second set before losing 6–2, 7–5. Zhang blew two break points while leading 5–2 in the second.

“I thought singles went a lot better for us,” Zhang said. “We had chances at #2, #3, #4, and #5 singles, but again we did not execute on the big points. That is something our team has to work on: being able to close out big games and win points when it matters.” As the disappointment wears off, Chicago will have to turn its attention to North Central, the team it faces next Saturday. It will be an easier test for the Maroons, but it will also be a chance to show what they learned in their loss to Kenyon. It was a defeat, yes, and a lopsided defeat at that, but the op-

portunity to play a team of the Lords’ quality this early in the season, a chance to see the level the Maroons expect themselves to reach come UAA time, should not be sniffed at. “Going into our next meet, we have to play with more energy,” Zhang said. “I thought we were too relaxed, and they took it to us when we should have been taking it to them. That was the biggest thing today. Kenyon played with much more tempo and energy, which is something we will learn from them.” The Maroons are set to face North Central on Saturday at 3 p.m. in Burr Ridge, IL.