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Ginsberg offers alternative, critical perspective on Roe Marina Fang News Editor Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg recounted her work on women’s rights cases that led up to the decision in Roe v. Wade at an event analyzing the events of the 40 years since the case at the Law School on Saturday. Despite her continual support for a woman’s right to choose, Ginsburg expressed misgivings regarding the Court’s monumental 1973 ruling.

Interviewed by Law School Professor Geoffrey Stone— who clerked for Justice William Brennan from 1972–1973, Ginsburg recalled that before Roe, there were few options for a woman with an unwanted pregnancy.

“For most young women, the option was to marry the guy,” she said.

With a 7–2 majority, the Court ruled every abortion ban across

the country unconstitutional in Roe v. Wade. Ginsburg said that she would have supported a more incremental approach had she been on the Court then, noting that previous women’s rights cases were decided on a more narrow reading of the Constitution.

Many of these she argued before the Court, as the first director and chief litigator of the Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

“I wanted them to buy my argument, but not so soon, not the second time up at bat,” she said, referring to the argument she made in Frontiero v. Richardson (1973), the second case she argued before the Court regarding the extension of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment to include women.

She said that many states had already adopted positions in which they recognized exceptions for abortion in cases of rape, incest, ROE continued on page 3

During a conversation with Law Professor Geoffrey Stone at the Law School on Saturday, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed her disagreement with the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision 40 years ago.

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TEDx takes it down a notch UCPD lights the way home Sindhu Gnanasambandan News Staff Eleven speakers chosen

by UChicago students came together to share stories and ideas related to the chosen theme, “Theory in Action,” at the third annual TEDxUChicago conference on Saturday.

TEDxUChicago, the independent iteration of the nonprofit TED (Technology, Education, and Design), tries to promote “ideas worth spreading” in brief speaker presentations on

a local scale. UChicago’s version, with speakers as diverse as human rights activists and psychology professors, also featured a student selected from a pool of 40 applicants: this year, first-year Robert Lipman, who created an underground restaurant known as The Hearth.

The conference was completely student-coordinated, with a group of nine executive board members, all new this year, and 38 other volunteers.

The new board members were only one of many changes that

took place, several of which were due to reduced funding. The conference was smaller, with 10 speakers instead of the usual 15.

The $50 VIP tickets, which had included lunch with speakers, entrance to a party, and a gift bag, were converted into an option of paying $10 beyond the regular price for preferred seating. They also cut the post-conference cocktail party.

“We cut the cocktails for a couple reasons. I thought it didn’t really add anything.

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Rachel Landes Maroon Contributor Editor’s Note: Douglas Everson, Jr. is a Maroon staffer.

A new app protects both students and their smartphones from the dangers of walking home alone at night.

Pathlight, released earlier this quarter, lets students activate their phones so that UCPD can keep track of their location as they walk, find their phone if it is stolen, and answer distress calls placed directly through the app.

Students can download

the app from the App Store for iPhones or from Google Play for Android devices.

Once authenticated, students set their destination and estimated travel time anytime they feel unsafe walking around campus. The UCPD monitors students’ progress PATH continued on page 3

Class of ’17 yield above 50 percent Joy Crane Senior News Staff Fifty-five percent of students accepted to the class of 2017 have decided to attend, marking the highest yield rate in the history of the College. This is a nine– percentage point increase from

last year’s 46 percent yield.

At 1,479 students, the incoming first-year class exceeded the College’s target class size for the second year in a row. However, it is lower than the class of 2016’s class size of 1,527. Despite the demolition of Pierce Tower at the end of

the school year, the class is not expected to merit special housing accommodations.

The yield rate of students from the city of Chicago jumped to 63 percent this year from around 46 percent in 2012. According to News Director Jeremy Manier, YIELD continued on page 3

Losier to file UCPD complaint Madhu Srikantha News Editor

Top of the List The victorious BROSTOMP FM team, comprising students from Pierce Tower, Broadview Hall, Stony Island, and Maclean Hall, as well as Flint House (from Max Palevsky Residential Commons) and Midway House (from New Graduate Residence Hall) pose after Scav results were released yesterday. See the MAROON’s Scav photo essay on pages 6-7.

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History department Ph.D. student Toussaint Losier, who was charged with three counts of resisting arrest during the January 27 protest at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) that were later dropped, revealed discrepancies

between his arrest report and new video evidence of his arrest during an open meeting with the Ad Hoc Committee on Dissent and Protest yesterday. While the report claims that he refused to leave the hospital’s Center for Care and Discovery (CCD) and instigated further protest, the video shows that he was walking off the property when police officers

pushed him back to the hospital.

Losier intends to file a complaint with the UCPD’s Independent Review Committee based on this new evidence, which was distributed to the Maroon and other media outlets that attended the meeting yesterday.

According to University of Chicago Police Department AD HOC continued on page 2

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New video evidence indicates that Losier attempted to leave hospital grounds before arrest

Law professor and chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Dissent and Protest, David Strauss, left, and fellow committtee member and physics professor, Emil Martinec, listen to student concerns over the development of University protest policies in an open discussion on Monday night in Swift Hall.

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(UCPD) Officer Victor Vazquez’s narrative in the report, he heard Losier say to the crowd, “We’re not leaving until the dean comes.” Vazquez approached Losier and warned that he would be arrested if he did not leave the property. When he refused, saying, “I’m not going anywhere until I speak with a dean,” Vasquez told

Losier that he was under arrest and “attempted to place him in custody.”

UCPD Officer Michael Snowden corroborated Vazquez’s story, writing, “Officers approached [Losier] and gave verbal commands for the offender to leave, at which point he refused.”

The video shows Losier in the moments before his arrest, which was

previously unseen in the videos that circulated around Facebook and YouTube shortly after the protest. Losier slowly walks away from the site of the protest.

As he heads toward the intersection of South Maryland Avenue and East 58th Street away from the lobby of the CCD, Vazquez pulls him back toward the lobby.

Losier faces the officer, who pushes him back toward the lobby. Losier’s hands are up by his head during the exchange as he mouths something to the officer.

This discrepancy was illuminated in light of the broader discussion during the meeting about UCPD practices, among other campus-related protest issues.

Although the committee is made of six professors across the divisions, only two of them, Law School professor David Strauss, who serves as committee chair, and physics professor Emil Martinec, attended the event.

Strauss explained that the committee’s role is to present recommendations for new policy on dissent and protest at the University in a broad sense, not to make policy decisions regarding UCPD. That, he said, is up to the discretion of the provost.

He highlighted two broad areas of focus the committee aims to address in its ultimate report to the provost: how, where,

and when dissent and protest can be done on a campus and the relationship between the University and the community with regard to demonstrations. According to Strauss, UCPD Chief Marlon Lynch told the faculty committee that UCPD has revised its officer training program to emphasize crowd control procedures in response to the incidents.

After Strauss and Martinec’s introduction, the conversation veered sharply toward issues surrounding the January 27 and February 23 trauma center protest incidents, including violence by UCPD officers, unethical surveillance of protesters by UCPD, and the dean-on-call process.

Second-year Ava Benezra expressed her concerns that the conversation was too focused on dealing with what actions should be taken specifically to these incidents, as opposed to the UCPD policies as a whole during the protests.

“We’ve missed a much broader conversation about what policies the UCPD has that led to the creation of this incident,” she said. “And in part that’s because it’s impossible to have a conversation about the policies of the UCPD, mostly because its policies aren’t public.”

CORRECTIONS

» The May 10 article “Speaker Warns Against Affirmative Action Ban” omitted some organizers of the event. It was also organized by the ACLUofC and Multiracial Student Affinity Group. » The May 10 article “With New Album, Deerhunter Bucks Trend” misstated the album that the track “Nothing Ever Happened” was on. The track was on the album Microcastle.

TED UChicago 2013 x

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You can talk to speakers during the breaks—they are walking around so you can chat them up. There is no reason for us to spend Student Government money to buy alcohol for people,” said third-year Spencer Watts, the logistics head of the conference.

Accompanying these changes was a drop in attendance, with around 150 people attending this year compared to 500 from last year and 900 the year before.

First-year Monica Lanning, a volunteer at the event this year, said that she and another volunteer thought that the reason for the decrease in attendees could have been bad timing, with the annual Scav Hunt being held during the same weekend.

Third-year and curator of the event Emily Bao said that financial issues forced the board to make cuts. While none of

the speakers are paid for their speeches, the organization covers their travel accommodations and the event’s catering, A.V. equipment costs, the Mandel Hall rental, the programs, and various marketing efforts.

According to the organization’s funding request forms from the Student Government Finance Committee(SGFC), the organization had accrued a debt of $11,520 over the past two years the conference had been run. In the first year, the organization ran a deficit of about $500 due to unexpected miscellaneous costs. The second year, the organization lost significant money when tickets they sold through uBazaar weren’t paid for. Further, the organization significantly overestimated VIP ticket revenue—selling only onefifth to a quarter of the expected tickets—and thus budgeted for much more money than was

Jo Tyler Jo Tyler believes in a right way to tell stories.

A Penn State professor, former student of applied storytelling at Columbia, consultant, and mosaic artist, Tyler spoke about the nature of storytelling to the TEDxUChicago audience.

According to Tyler, stories are not meant to be used as tools and ideally are told with honest intentions by people who have authentic relationships with the story themselves.

She began by explaining the difference between a lion in a zoo and a lion in the wild as a metaphor for the story. For Tyler, stories, like lions, are alive and should not be caged if they are expected to maintain

their beauty and power.

Describing the caged lion she saw at a zoo, Tyler lamented, “That lion did not roar; that lion did not lift his head; that lion did not even swish his tail. I knew intellectually that the lion was beautiful but I couldn’t really see his beauty.” This, according to Tyler, is what happens when you try to “capture” a story and use it as a tool.

Her theory of storytelling places agency within the story itself, not just with the storyteller.

“The stories are alive whether or not we tell them.

The stories enter into a kind of energetic negotiation with us about whether and how they are told,” she said.

received.

The funding request forms stated that “our organization is currently in debt because of the financial actions of the previous two years’ boards.”

Considering the debt from the previous years, the team decided to focus on only spending within its means this year. It cut its proposed spending from $45,553 in 2012 to $34,820 this year. Most of the funding for the event came from the University through the SGFC and the Dean’s Fund, but private sponsors contributed as well.

Bao said the organization was successful in its attempts to come in under budget.

“Our goal was to not make a deficit. We definitely at least broke even. We did well this year,” Bao said.

-—Additional reporting by Ankit Jain

Eli Finkel, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, gives a TEDxUChicago talk at Mandel Hall on Saturday about how to save a marriage in 21 minutes.

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Sue Khim Taking a leave of absence from her undergraduate education in mathematics at the University of Chicago, Sue Khim (X, ’09) has become the CEO of Brilliant, a talentfinding Web site for students with an affinity for science, technology, engineering, and medicine around the world, and Alltuition, a nonprofit that helps families prepare college financial aid forms.

In her TEDxUChicago talk, Khim argued that, just as athletes are scouted, recruited, and trained to be stars, so must intellectuals. To illustrate this, she compared the GDP per capita between Jamaica and Singapore.

At one point, both had a GDP per capita between

$4,000 and $5,000, she explained. But while Singapore has invested in education, Jamaica has failed to do so.

Consequently, according to Khim, Singapore’s GDP per capita is currently just a little under 10 times as large as Jamaica’s. Khim warned that Americans may be falling behind, citing that only two cents out of every $100 spent on U.S. education goes to programs for the gifted.

“Countries that focus on developing their people are much more prosperous….

Human innovation has come a long way…. What does it take to find and nurture the mind today that will cure Alzheimer’s tomorrow? Where are they?

And who are they?” she asked.

Robert Lipman First-year Robert Lipman, founder and chef of the underground restaurant The Hearth, was the featured student speaker at TEDxUChicago on Saturday. In his speech, Lipman discussed the role of food in relationships and shared some culinary memories from his year at UChicago.

Lipman began with an anecdote about almost getting banned from the Regenstein Library. In order to serve a Hearth dinner in a Reg study room, Lipman snuck food, utensils, and even a refrigerator in to pull off the clandestine dinner.

“I impersonated a delivery man and walked through the front door with a refrigerator, and they didn’t question it,”

Lipman recounted.

However, when a librarian saw pictures of the event on Facebook later, she called Lipman in for a trial of sorts and punished him by requiring him to inform students of the importance of not eating in the library.

Lipman attested that he was willing to risk upsetting the Reg librarians and spend 17 hours preparing food because he wants to fill the void of family dinners, which he feels are missing from the college experience of microwave popcorn and ramen.

He said he created The Hearth because he considers eating to be not just a culinary experience, but also a social one.

“The goal, as far-fetched as it sounds, is to recreate a family at the table,” he said.

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App a “mobile blue light,� says Everson with live tracking, and the app alerts dispatchers if students do not meet their arrival time, start walking in the wrong direction, or attain an abnormally high travel speed, as well as other indicators of suspicious activity.

To minimize accidental

calls, a five-minute warning alerts users before the timer goes off, allowing the student to extend the time if needed.

SG Vice President of Administration Douglas Everson called the app a “mobile blue light.� He said the Pathlight app is neither part of a specific initiative to

increase security on campus nor the result of increased crime rates. “UCPD is always looking for new ways of increasing security,� he said. “They approached the company [who created the app].�

The UCPD was unavailable for comment.

Ginsburg says Roe mobilized pro-life activists ROE continued from front

and health of the woman and were on the verge of passing laws allowing the procedure. “Some things would have happened in the interim, at the state legislatures. There were a range of positions at the time of Roe‌. It was fluid,â€? she said. “The Court had given the opponent a target to aim at relentlessly‌. It seemed to stop the momentum, which was on the side of change.â€?

Ginsburg posited that the Court’s wide-ranging ruling on Roe added ammunition to the pro-life movement, although the decision was not controversial at the time. “What a great organizing tool it is: You have a name, a symbol—Roe v. Wade. You could aim at [the fact] that this decision was made not in the ordinary democratic process,� she said She also criticized the final

version of the majority opinion for focusing on the doctor’s right to perform abortions, not the woman’s right to receive one. “It’s about the doctor’s freedom to practice his profession as he thinks best,� she said. “If you read the Roe opinion, you will never see the woman standing alone. It’s always the woman in consultation with her physician.� —Additional reporting Rebecca Guterman

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Spring Project Fair

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Recipients of funding from this year's Uncommon Fund will be on hand to talk about their projects and how they received funding. Members of the Uncommon Fund board will also be on hand to describe the funding process for those interested in applying next year.

Incoming class could be College’s most diverse YIELD continued from front

the surge is likely related to the new UChicago Promise program, which launched in this fall and replaces loans with grants for local students.

The class of 2017 also includes an uptick in the number of students admitted who are black and Latino from last year’s

19.98 percent. While the specific breakdown of numbers will not be available until October, the incoming class is slated to be the most diverse yet, considering that 42 percent of last year’s matriculating class was composed of minority students.

The rate at which the yield increased for the University

outpaced many peer institutions.

Harvard and Princeton had one-point and two-point gains in yield rates, respectively.

However, UChicago’s overall yield rate still substantially lags behind these institutions, with Harvard yielding 82 percent, Princeton at 68.7, UPenn at 64.3, and Brown at 60.

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Safety in knowledge UCPD’s planned launch of a safety app is undermined by University’s selective security alert policy The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 REBECCA GUTERMAN Editor-in-Chief SAM LEVINE Editor-in-Chief EMILY WANG Managing Editor DOUGLAS EVERSON, JR Senior Editor JAMIE MANLEY Senior Editor MATTHEW SCHAEFER Senior Editor CELIA BEVER News Editor MARINA FANG News Editor MADHU SRIKANTHA News Editor JENNIFER STANDISH News Editor AJAY BATRA Viewpoints Editor EMMA THURBER STONE Viewpoints Editor EMMA BRODER Arts Editor ALICE BUCKNELL Arts Editor DANIEL RIVERA Arts Editor VICENTE FERNANDEZ Sports Editor SARAH LANGS Sports Editor JAKE WALERIUS Sports Editor HYEONG-SUN CHO Head Designer SONIA DHAWAN Head Designer KEVIN WANG Online Editor ALICE BLACKWOOD Head Copy Editor ALAN HASSLER Head Copy Editor

Student Government (SG) recently announced that it is working with the UCPD to launch a smartphone app aimed at increasing the UCPD’s ability to monitor student safety in its patrol area. The app, called Pathlight, will offer students an easy-to-use way to increase their own safety. However, its success rests on whether students are informed enough to use it well.

The University’s selective policy on reporting crimes through campus-wide security alerts undermines not only the app, but also the broader goal of risk awareness among students and, in turn, the level of security on campus.

Pathlight is developed by The CBORD Group, the same firm that maintains our campus’s ID-based building security system. According to SG, it “allow[s] students to opt into GPS tracking services for their phones.” If a student is walking across campus alone at night, all she needs to

do is launch the app, enter a destination, indicate how long the walk will take, and press “Follow Me Now” to initiate tracking. The UCPD would then be able to remotely track the student’s presence and progress until the walk is over, enabling something that resembles patrol car Umbrella Coverage, but is less resource-intensive for the UCPD. In addition to the tracking itself, Pathlight allows users to silently alert police dispatchers if they need emergency help. In this way, Pathlight functions almost as a portable blue light.

The app is a step forward for campus security. However, it is not without some drawbacks. For one, it is only available to those who have smartphones. Also, it is only likely to be used by those who feel as though they need it—that is, those whose knowledge of area crime leads them to feel unsafe on our campus. The University currently

does not issue University-wide security alerts for all violent crimes that occur in the vicinity of student activity. For instance, a recent homicide of unknown motive that occurred at 52nd Street and Harper Avenue was not reported in an alert merely because the victim was not University affiliated.

Such rationale is puzzling: The presence of a murderer in the area increases the threat of violence to every resident of Hyde Park, regardless of whether they are University affiliated. In light of this policy, the fact is that, unless a student is regularly checking the UCPD’s Daily Incident Reports, she is constantly making personal safety decisions that are based on only a partial picture of how and where crime occurs in her own neighborhood.

Setting aside the University’s reasons for the policy, it should absolutely be revised so that it mandates the issuance of security alerts to all students for all

violent crimes that occur within Hyde Park and northern Woodlawn and for all muggings that occur within at least two blocks of the main quads.

The UCPD’s planned adoption of Pathlight is a laudable development in improving campus security resources. However, it is unfortunate that its positive influence will be curtailed by the University’s reluctance to be as transparent and informative as it ought to be with notifying students about crime. It wouldn’t take much additional effort to ensure that students are appropriately informed about the incidence of crime in the neighborhood they call home. And if the University intends Pathlight to be a success, it would do well not to shirk this small responsibility.

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By Tyler Lutz Viewpoints Columnist A prospie recently tossed me that ever-familiar query into the foundation of my being as a UChicago student: Why UChicago?

I was tired at the time, and my mind was on other things; I admit that I completely fumbled my answer. So, dear prospie, in case you happen to be reading this, allow me a moment to set the record straight: Most of what I told you was, at best, icing on the cake. Yes, Hyde Park and the larger city offer rich and often provocative cultural backdrops; yes, the academics here are demanding beyond compare and prepare you for just about any conceivable life path; and yes, you’ll find a remarkably diverse range of sports, clubs, events, lectures, and volunteer opportunities waiting

for you whenever you finish studying.

But no, unless you’re one of those admissions office gnomes who will happily spew such facts on autorepeat, none of this justifies picking UChicago over its similarly illustrious peers. You choose UChicago because of its foundational dedication to free, creative, and rigorous inquiry. I did, at least, and I couldn’t be more pleased with my choice.

As much as I regret having actually given the stale Wonder Bread answer to the prospie, I’m not sure I could have lived with the alternative, either.

Any prospie worthy of acceptance here would have surely pressed the matter further: So what exactly is this “unfettered inquiry” everyone talks about? And to this question, ladies and germs, I humbly concede that I have no real answer.

I might be able to tell you what it isn’t; for one, we’re certainly not a bunch of headstrong skeptics. The dictum “challenge everything, accept nothing” is a death sentence to real inquiry—eventually, we have to posit axioms or make simplifying assumptions to get anywhere interesting. On the

other hand, “free inquiry” definitely does not imply uncritical internalization of anything that could conceivably pass for knowledge; we still question our sources of information.

But this gets us no closer to a definite grasp of our deeply venerated “free inquiry.” Speaking from just above the balcony on the western wall of the Harper Reading Room, Francis Bacon exhorts, “Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted…but to weigh and consider.” I’m completely at a loss to tell you whether this weighing and considering lies somewhere between skepticism and uncritical acceptance; and if it does, I know not where, nor whether it engages an entirely different faculty altogether.

Perhaps I’m just not a member of the charmed circle of intellectuals for whom “free inquiry” is a patently unproblematic concept. If so, it doesn’t seem like I’m the only one around here that isn’t. The idea of respecting unfettered inquiry forms the kernel of many university policies—toward investment, for example—while powerfully inflecting our reaction to certain politically incorrect Facebook posts. Much

debate on these policies reduces to a tension between different conceptions of what a climate of genuinely free inquiry looks like in practice.

Basing University policy on a concept that is either outright empty or (let’s be optimistic) subject to wildly differing interpretations strikes me as irresponsible. Until we arrive, as a community, at a clear understanding of both “free inquiry” and its limits, the phrase does not belong in official policy verbiage.

Had the prospie been particularly persistent in her demands, I would have glibly responded that the very nature of our inquiry here is itself a topic of inquiry. It’s the sort of vexingly nonsensical answer I would have really appreciated as a prospie. But it doesn’t make any substantive headway on resolving the spate of issues that have and will continue to bother us until we can find a way to affirm our devotion to creative, rigorous inquiry by placing it on more solid ground.

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

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By Eleanor Hyun Viewpoints Columnist After the Boston bombing, a collective cry of grief for victims and their families arose from the American people. Beneath this, though, was a quieter cry for those

more subtly affected by the bombing : members of racial minorities who would have to face inevitably heightened racism and profiling.

A day after the bombing, David Sirota published “Let’s Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber is a White American” on Salon, a progressive news site. An opinion piece by Zaheer Ali entitled “Please Don’t Be Muslim” was published in theGrio, a news site targeted toward African-American readers.

Aspects of the Boston bombing investigation seemed to reveal that

these fears were founded. Salah Barhoum, a Moroccan-American teenager who attended the Marathon, was horrified when he saw his picture, along with another dark-skinned man, on the front page of the New York Post, identifying him as a suspect. The apartment of a man from Saudi Arabia, who was injured in the blast, was searched. CNN identified a suspect in a video to be a “darkskinned male.”

We know now that all these suspicions proved to be false: The bombers are definitively Cauca-

sian.

We have repeatedly seen racial profiling come up short. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that isolating criminals on the basis of race alone “means you’re going to be wrong most of the time. Because that’s not the way the world works.” Columnist Juliette Kayyem’s statement in The Boston Globe that “until definitive information emerges, it’s pointless to speculate on who did or didn’t do this” seems obvious.

Why, then, was the initial reaction PROFILING continued on page 5

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Tools of engagement Student Government should take advantage of the opportunity to sustain the political engagement that spiked during elections

By Anastasia Golovashkina Viewpoints Columnist In addition to our student body’s fondness for fun-killing, we are notorious for being apolitical or, more accurately, politically apathetic.

It’s a trait I’d see resurface frequently while leading our campus’s Students for Obama team last fall.

It didn’t take long—or much—to realize that the vast majority of our students were far too politically skeptical to volunteer their time to a presidential campaign in any meaningful or consistent manner. Even the most committed of student volunteers would come and go (and flake) largely as they pleased.

It was therefore incredibly refreshing to finally see our student body get so engaged in the politics of this year’s Student Government (SG) elections.

It wasn’t that this year’s turnout was remarkably high; at 2,305, undergraduate turnout was actually

slightly lower than last year’s 2,317.

Far more compelling was the margin of victory. In 2011, LIVEChicago beat the runner-up slate by 291 votes, and last year, Connect slate won by 549 votes—more than 291 to be sure, but far less than Impact’s landslide 839-vote triumph.

The reason for this, I think, was that something far more important was at play in this year’s election: real issues. From droppings-ridden dining halls to abysmal health services to possible divestments, administrative transparency, disability inaccessibility, “Politically Incorrect Maroon Confessions,” and scores of other concerns, we were finally—finally—engaging in a dialogue about what mattered to us and what we wanted in and from our representatives.

Online engagement signifies this momentum most remarkably.

One could even argue that it was this form of engagement with key issues that helped seal Impact’s landslide victory.

Some, such as Maroon contributor Tori Borengasser, have criticized social media forums like “UChicago: Where Good Food Comes to Die” and “Student Health Horror Stories” for inspiring what

they see as student idleness on campus issues. Such critics understand social media as a voice detached from action. However, it’s these same social networks that provided a crucial platform for thousands of students to coordinate and articulate a cohesive, collective response when SG voting opened.

It was online engagement that allowed the Election and Rules Committee (E&R) controversy, for example, to become such a focal point of the SG race. Had we continued to not care about student politics, we would have seen the disqualification of one candidate and the penalization of another as the status quo— as simply more evidence of the inherent corruption of our (and Illinois’s) politics. But we didn’t. This year, we cared; we refused to accept a do-nothing default and, in a rare moment of political mindfulness, we demanded more.

But we can’t forget that issues do not end with a new slate of leaders; the ballot is only the beginning. For proof, one need not look further than Barack Obama’s presidency circa 2009. It is therefore crucial that we keep this engagement—this momentum—going strong.

For their part, our new (and re-

Marketplace value On a campus with a bustling and impersonal feel, UChi Marketplace promises memorable meetings and sweet deals Caitlin Grey Viewpoints Contributor “See you at Cobb at 1:15. I have brown hair. I will be wearing a green jacket. My phone number is….”

What would normally read as a very impersonal last message on an online dating Web site before an initial meet-up has become a recurring line in my UChicago email’s sent folder. A weekly (or, if I am lucky, daily) endeavor, this is an example of the last e-mail sent before an exchange orchestrated

by UChi Marketplace.

Who will it be that I meet in front of Cobb at 1:15 p.m.? My old copy of Flight of the Conchords season one without dust jacket for $6 will find its new home today. Will it go with a mysterious Pritzker student in a lab coat, venturing onto the quad? Perhaps a timid and eager first-year, ahead of her time?

It’s always a surprise and a mystery who ends up with your $20 pair of twice-worn moccasins outside of the Reg between 11:20 a.m. and 11:25 a.m.. All you know is their CNet ID—maybe that is all you will ever know. Or maybe the swift and awkward transaction will be the birth of a beautiful friendship.

I always find it strange that we all live very similar lives yet often never talk to each other. We all know where the plugs are in the student cafés, we all flood the quad at 1:20 p.m., and sometimes we experience the silence of its grassy greens at 1:34 p.m.. Almost all of us have had the cottage cheese at the dining halls and almost all of us live in this 10-by10-block radius of neo-Gothic buildings in the middle of the South Side. Sure, we are different people with different values, and we will probably never know the names of more than 400 or 500 people at this school at a time. But our life experiences, however diverse, become eerily similar during these few years, all circulating around the same patterns of traffic. Places and forums for intersection with someone completely random and unknown are few and far between.

Such is the beauty of Marketplace: It

unites us, strips us of our differences. Apple or PC, econ or sociology—Marketplace brings us all together in the basic proletarian need for a $4 pair of salad tongs. Marketplace grabs the hands of those moving into their first apartment and helps pull them up into the ranks of adulthood, equipping them with a “leather couch with a few rips” and, of course, a “lightly used end table.” By using Marketplace, we bypass the expensive and confusing trip to Ikea in Bolingbrook.

By using Marketplace, we avoid spending a cool $200 at the Seminary Co-Op, preferring instead a $3 copy of Plato’s Republic that’s helpfully highlighted for us already.

By using Marketplace, we subvert!

Not only does Marketplace espouse the revolutionary ideals preached by the 3 R’s— reduce, reuse, recycle—but it also builds community in the least expected places.

Marketplace is not for the frivolous; there is no commodity fetishism here. It actively resists that which is bourgeois with its $10 microwaves and free sofas left in mid-June; it proffers only the utilitarian needs we all require within our simple collegiate existence. Labor that was once alienating and estranged becomes a bridge between two individuals with CNet IDs—a reprieve from the constant eye contact avoidance and iPhone distraction that is the modern age.

I could name countless Marketplace memories to date. I still smile at the girl that bought my $11 copy of the Freaks and Geeks box set in April—and she smiles back!

We shared a nice three-minute conversation about the beauty of the series. Every month or so, I clear out my contacts list in my phone—which I found for free on Marketplace. And as I delete “speakers girl” and “bike dude”, I fondly remember the four minutes we spent together outside Harper, swapping bills for commodities, subverting the system, and spurring the revolution. Viva la Marketplace!

Caitlin Grey is a third-year in the College majoring in comparative human development.

turning) SG representatives need to make sure that the concerns heard during elections continue to resonate. They should be addressed, certainly, but we must also know that they are being addressed. And if, for whatever reason, they are not able to be addressed, SG must tell us why honestly and in an accessible and timely manner.

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But we can’t forget that issues do not end with a new slate of leaders; the ballot is only the beginning.

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That’s the thing about transparency—maybe the only thing that all of this year’s slate candidate platforms had in common: It doesn’t just mean giving constituents access to information. It’s not enough to be an open book if no one knows where the library is, or to host an “open forum” about which few are informed and to which fewer are invited. Being transparent about one’s operations requires publishing relevant information in places where as

many concerned parties as possible will be able to find it.

For example, SG meetings take place on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in Stuart 104, and are open to all students. But how many students actually know this? It’s not enough for SG to run a Google calendar with this information if no one knows it exists, or to publish it on its Web site if no one knows to look at the site’s afterthought of a right sidebar.

All signs point to social media being a central way for students to show that they care. SG should increase its social media presence, using it not only to gather students’ input and address their concerns, but also to post information about its open meetings, forums, and events.

But beyond a greater SG presence on social media, the onus falls on us, as students, to respond to any increases in the accessibility of information. It’s exciting to see us get so excited about politics. Let’s not let that engagement die, and let’s start holding our representatives accountable for making the most of it.

Anastasia Golovashkina is a second-year in the College majoring in economics.

Our gut views others as guilty until proven innocent PROFILING continued from page 4 to the Boston bombing so transparently motivated by race?

In the same article, Kayyem wrote that “the thirst for a quick and easy explanation leads everyone astray.” In our daily lives, “gut instinct” provides the quickest and easiest answers that we have, and sometimes they’re surprisingly accurate.

Studies seem to support this claim. Cheryl McCormick at Brock University exposed people to pictures of white Caucasian males’ faces long enough for the images to be seen, but not long enough for them to be consciously processed. She found that the subjects could accurately pick which men were more aggressive than others. Psychologist Jeffrey Valla carried out a study at Cornell in which he showed close-cropped, cleanshaven, expressionless pictures of Caucasian men in their 20s to participants and asked them to pick out the criminals. He found that people could do this with above-average accuracy. Similar studies, which instead asked subjects to identify gay males and females from a group of pictures, add an interesting piece of information as well: Subjects were able to identify gays and lesbians from gut instinct with accuracy ranging from 60 to 70 percent, but the more they thought about their answers, the further their accuracy dropped.

We operate on this kind of internal logic every day. Not only are we able to detect potential aggressors in a group of people, but we also remember their faces more clearly than those of their peers. Our gut’s main prerogative is to protect us, and so it operates on a “guilty until proven innocent” model.

We rely on it because we consider inaccurate negative judgments about people to be a minor enough price to pay for our own safety.

Our personal internal logic and that of law enforcement clashed in Michael Touhey, a former U.S. Airways ticket agent. On September 11, 2001, he checked in the two men who would cause the destruction of the World Trade Center.

In an interview on CNN, Touhey remembers that, upon seeing those two men, he thought, “Geez, if this doesn’t look like two

Arab terrorists, I’ve never seen two Arab terrorists.” It was a feeling he couldn’t place, and he remembers immediately feeling guilty having it. He feels guilty now, though, because he did not stop those men before they boarded their plane. Before 9/11, doing so was unthinkable. After 9/11, he believes that he would have done it.

Perhaps his story reflects the change in our collective attitude toward profiling as a result of 9/11. After a tragedy, we as a nation seem to revert to our internal logic of “better safe than sorry.” We begin to throw individual rights out the window in favor of safety. We seek to protect ourselves—but at what cost?

A 2006 online survey of college students found that 25 to 35 percent approved of the use of racial profiling to prevent crime and terrorism. And maybe that’s because it intuitively fits within our own internal scheme of quick, easy, and sometimes dirty judgments. In a country that seeks not only safety but also freedom and justice, the costs of racial profiling are simply too great. We cannot abide by it.

Eleanor Hyun is a first-year in the College majoring in English.

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By Griffin Dennis, Julia Reinitz, Sydney Combs, and Jamie Manley Last week, 13 teams competed in the wacky and wonderful tradition that is the UChicago Scavenger Hunt. Scav Hunt 2013 (or 2014, as the Scav Judges jokingly called it) was full of excitement, creativity, and surprises. Here we celebrate this year’s Scav Hunt, which included bicycle microwaves, giant organs, aquagraphics, sexy Simone de Beauvoir costumes, and everything in between.

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At Goodman, Vera Stark confronts race, Hollywood

Tamberla Perry and Kara Zediker are actresses playing actresses on the set of the moviein-a-play The Belle of New Orleans. This narrative disruption comes in the second act of Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage’s new work, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.

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Lauren Gurley Associate Arts Editor In 1939, Hattie McDaniel became the first black actress to win an Academy Award for her supporting role as Mammy, a maid to the Southern Belle Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind. Since then, four more black women have won Oscars for Best Supporting Actress.

Halle Berry is the sole Black actress to have won for Best Leading Actress. This unfortunate reality reflects the fact that major roles for black actresses are a scarcity, and of those that do exist, most are for supporting roles. In fact, the earliest roles for black women in Hollywood were as slaves, maids, and help.

In her latest play, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (playing at the Goodman

Theatre), Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage charts the struggle of black actresses in the 20th century through her fictional character, Vera Stark. The play, which takes place in Hollywood in three different eras—1933, 1973, and 2003—follows Vera, a beautiful, aspiring actress who fails to “make it” in competition with her white counterparts, and ultimately

dies in poverty and obscurity.

The first part of the play is both humorous and heartbreaking. In 1930s Hollywood, Vera Stark (Tamberla Perry) is the maid to Gloria Mitchell (Kara Zediker), a young white Hollywood starlet. The duo expertly depicts the disparity in the experience of white and black actresses in Hollywood.

While Mitchell easily gets leading roles and becomes the “darling” of many Hollywood directors, Stark struggles to land the few roles that exist for black women. Nottage takes an ironic tone, as she comments on the fact that the few roles for black actors often perpetuate the stereotypes that hurt them. For Stark, most of the available roles are as the maid or slave of a white woman. Ultimately, the best that black actors could do was infuse life and vitality into their roles, as Stark does in her role as a nursemaid alongside Mitchell in the film The Belle of New Orleans.

The second act of the play, which alternates between a TV interview in the 1970s with Stark and a modern day conversation on Stark’s biography, is less successful. It ends in a shouting match between two passionate Stark experts, black lesbian performance poet Afua Assata Ejobo (Amelia Workman) and black “media and gender studies” professor Carmen Levy-Green (TaRon Patton), and leaves the audience feeling awkward and excluded. Perhaps what

can be taken away from the ending performances is how complex the struggle for black actresses continues to be today.

In a conversation with the Maroon, Perry, a Chicago native, who has held leading roles at Steppenwolf, Northlight, and Congo Square theaters, opened up about her experience playing Vera Stark. “Being black in the 1930s,” Perry said, “Vera’s options were very limited. But I really tried to breathe life into this role.”

BY THE WAY, MEET VERA STARK Goodman Theatre Runs through June 2

Perry explained that she shared a lot of Vera Stark’s experience. “Vera has to battle the same things as I do today. As African-American women, there are very few leading roles for us. We have to hustle and grind to be in this business.

The struggle continues,” Perry said.

Rather than assuring the audience that the experience of the black actresses has improved since 1930, Meet Vera Stark reminds the audience of how present disparities between white and black actresses are today.

But, the very fact this play is showing at one of Chicago’s premier theaters seems to suggest that things are getting better for black actresses.

Luhrmann’s Gatsby looks so cool, but nobody’s loving it Angela Qian Arts Staff & Kimberly Han Maroon Contributor Combine a Las Vegas carnival of flashy flamingo feathers, an eclectic music festival mashing together hip-hop and jazz trumpets, and Disneyland’s fireworks, and what do you get? Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s iconic American novel. The new film doesn’t skimp on a single sumptuous detail in building up Gatsby’s flashy, dangerous world, but all the vivid special effects can’t make up for the messiness and lack of believability of this adaptation.

The movie is, disappointingly, an extravaganza that submerges and dilutes a narrative that would have been beautiful had it been left to speak for itself.

THE GREAT GATSBY Baz Luhrmann AMC River East

The plot is familiar to most people who took an English class in high school: Nick Carraway meets Jay Gatsby, an enigmatic millionaire in love with a married woman, Daisy Buchanan. Here, Nick’s instability, which is hinted at in the novel, is extrapolated to the point where Nick is an alcoholic re-

covering in a sanatorium—that is, Luhrmann interprets Nick’s creation of the novel in a way unseen in the actual literature. The retrospective narrative of Nick is analogous to Lurhmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001), in which the protagonist tells the film’s story as he’s writing it on his typewriter. Luhrmann seems to have a penchant for this narrative technique, but the retrospection was an unnecessarily dominant and distracting part of the film. There were simply too many scenes of Nick out of the central plotline.

Tobey Maguire does not present himself well as Nick. He is bland, naïve, and wide-eyed, and every word he speaks is too nice for him to fit in with the rest of the catty Long Island crew. His demeanor and voice do not fit with Nick’s cynical tone in the novel—the entire thing is made even worse because so much of the movie is voiced over with narration from the novel, which is a pretty big cop out.

Lurhmann seems to have made an effort to use exact quotes from the book, which, when adapted to crunch a dense plot into a two-hour movie, make for a storyline that skips rapidly and incoherently forward. Furthermore, Elizabeth Debicki (Jordan Baker) and Maguire have nonexistent chemistry on screen—Jordan functions as a somewhat useless plot device, and her relationship with Nick is entirely nonexistent.

Nick (Tobey Maguire) and Jordan (Elizabeth Debicki) have a nice, friendly, chemistry-less dance at Gatsby’s party.

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What’s worse, Gatsby isn’t convincing, either; Leonardo DiCaprio pulls off a good performance as the intense and passionate lover, and his scenes with Daisy have the ring of sincerity—but otherwise, he lacks the charisma that Gatsby is supposed to have. DiCaprio’s “old sport” rings hollow; his speech sounds stilted. The time for DiCaprio’s Gatsby to charm the audience never comes. Nor does he seem to charm Nick. This guts the core of the plot.

On the other hand, Joel Edgerton is completely convincing as Tom Buchanan, the narrowminded, hypocritical, stuffy, and

rather amoral snob. The poor Wilsons, played by Isla Fisher and Jason Clarke, also make their characters seem genuine with their respective shrill showy melodrama and bleary-eyed desperation. And lastly, Carey Mulligan does a fantastic job acting as Daisy. She is every inch the oldmoney “nice girl” heiress; it’s easy to see how she captured Gatsby’s heart, as well as almost everyone else’s. Her performance is absolutely stunning to see.

It is laudable that the auteur maintains his distinctly stylish and flamboyant cinematography. But this time around the flamboyance was cloying; de-

spite the sparkles and colors, there were no “wow moments” that itched my jaw to drop.

Rather, the excess of dazzles and effects only made the movie a pretentious, amateur work.

Editing further exaggerates the flamboyant colors of the movie. Pacing is too quick in the first half—the movie becomes disconcerting and difficult to follow. One terse shot after another simply throws pieces of the story at the audience, instead of presenting a smooth, flowing tale. The highly anticipated soundtrack also subtracts from the film. It becomes a source of distraction; amazing off-screen,

on-screen it’s pure noise, and calls the audience away from essential dialogue and narrative.

The Great Gatsby captures much of what was important to the book, but ultimately, the film is overstated and disorganized mush gathered from A-list actors, musicians, and costume designers. The musicians created exciting and catchy tracks specifically for the movie; the costumes represented a fun, vivid, rebellious ’20s vibe. Yet the combined product of this and the hit-or-miss acting was nothing but a large-scale mess. In the end, Luhrmann’s Gatsby, though not unwatchable, is not as great as Fitzgerald’s.

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All that was: Salter novel tries to reflect a life of love John Gamino Arts Staff James Salter’s latest novel is a stor y about love, but it opens with war. Philip Bowman is aboard a navy ship in World War II, bound for Okinawa. He is the ship’s navigation officer, “and also, he had learned just two days earlier, lookout officer.” It is the first cause for the nagging uncertainty that will haunt Bowman all his life, and when he proceeds to bur y his head in the instruction manual, we are brought to a level of appreciative understanding.

We do not scoff at his instincts like his buddy Kimmel : “Jesus, we’re in the middle of enemy waters and you’re sitting there reading a manual? This is no time for that. You’re supposed to already know what to do.”

Bowman never quite fig ures out what to do, in love or war.

But he tries.

And as he tries, Salter gives us a wonderfully nuanced portrait of an attempted life of love. At times Bowman seems bare-bones sentimental, and before he has even had a dose of love, when “it had simply not happened,” he still sees it as “the thing that would complete his life.” By life’s end, Bowman is broken, but not broken all the way through. Not broken enough. “He believed in love— all his life he had—but now it was likely to be too late.”

It seems hardly an accident that Salter has written a novel that follows the course of one man’s life, to the bitter end. Salter himself is 87; he hasn’t pub-

lished a novel in 34 years, and it is tacitly understood that this will be his last. With All That Is, Salter has made it known that he has tried to move beyond his old reputation as a “writer’s writer,” a crafter of the perfect sentence that nobody reads.

His prose may be a little scruffier than it was in, say, A Sport and a Pastime, but this is still James Salter. It isn’t scruff y when compared with anyone else. This is still the man who called himself a “frotteur” in an inter view with the Paris Review in 1993, “someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.” Salter writes with stunning precision, but it is graceful, never overworked.

When soldiers die, they are “slaughtered in enemy fire as dense as bees, the horror of the beaches, swollen bodies lolling in the surf, the nation’s sons, some of them beautiful.”

But Salter’s words are harnessed to get at something real.

All That Is dips in and out of ordinary scenes, departing from the casual to suddenly probe.

Bowman is in London racing his greyhound, and he has just left a pub to get dinner with “some people on Dean Street” when one of them, an older woman with “a marvelous face like a prune” and a voice “that was a little hoarse” asks him suddenly: “What has your life been like?

What are the things that have mattered?”

Bowman hesitates, and even when he decides that what has mattered most are his experi-

ences in the navy during the war, he isn’t sure he’s told the “truth.” What bothers him is not that he may have given a misleading answer, but that he doesn’t know the truth himself.

He doesn’t know what’s mattered.

The war has mattered. It has imbued in him a sense of nobility, courage, and principle, whether Bowman is aware of it or not. And love should matter, too. Bowman flits from one romance to the next, but he takes each one seriously. They are not mere lustful fits of passion; he treats them as something more.

He lets himself get carried away by love, “the simplicity and justice of it,” even as he continuously fails. Love should matter more than anything , and yet Bowman never stops wrestling with what it means. How serious it is, and in what way, he never figures out. And this time, there’s no instruction manual.

Salter also told the Paris Review that he thinks the term “fiction” is “crude,” that the distinction between fiction and nonfiction is but an “arbitrary separation of things.” Fiction remains committed to truth.

One’s own story is inevitably a part of that. And out of all of Salter’s novels, All That Is seems the most autobiographical: Both Salter and Bowman fought in wars, both are literary men who move in literary circles, and both struggle with divorce. All That Is seems to be Salter’s attempt to find the things that have mattered in his own life, the things that are worthy of a novel—the things that are more than just

This swimmer’s freestyle is almost as gorgeous as James Salter’s little-read prose.

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lean, well-honed, remarkable words. Again, Salter: “I believe there’s a right way to live and to die.... I’m referring to the classical, to the ancient, the cultural

agreement that there are certain virtues and that these virtues are untarnishable.” If he hasn’t found them, it’s not for lack of trying.

Trouble finds The National stripped down and on repeat

Trouble Will Find Me, The National’s new album, will come out next Tuesday, May 21. See you there.

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Tori Borengasser Maroon Contributor The seemingly perpetually depressed The National will release its sixth studio album next Tuesday. Entitled Trouble Will Find Me, the album features artists such as St. Vincent, Sufjan Stevens, and Richard Reed Parr y

of Arcade Fire throughout its 13 tracks. While its material is typically pretty gloomy, this hasn’t stopped the band from gaining huge success. Its last release, High Violet, debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart in 2010 and earned the band numerous awards, as well as

spots at Lollapalooza and Coachella and the op portunity to cover songs for the HB O T V series Boardwalk Empire and Game of Thrones. If you were lucky enough to snag Lollapalooza tickets for this Aug ust, The National will also be at this year’s festival, and they’re not to be missed.

Overall, it’s pretty hard to top what High Violet did for the group in 2010, but Trouble Will Find Me solidifies The National’s place as a staple in the indie/postpunk genre today. Matt Berninger crafts lyrics that bring out the beauty and subtlety of sorrow. In one of the album’s most poignant tracks, “Don’t Swallow the Cap,” he laments, “I’m not alone / I’ll never be,” which turns the concept of loneliness on its head and explores the dread of feeling alone in a crowded room. The album is rife with similarly thoughtful, brilliant lyrics that will leave you pondering them for days.

Tracks like “ This Is the

Last Time” and “Fireproof ” are equally beautiful as they reminisce about glimmers of hope in failed relationships, and “Graceless” proves to be anything but gloomy— in fact, it’s a shining anthem. Additionally, “Pink Rabbits” recalls some of the abstract and sometimes strange lyrics from

the band’s early work in Boxer and Alligator.

Upon first listen, the album has some lulls, but after a couple more times through, previously monotonous-sounding tracks come alive. This is probably a result of Trouble Will Find Me being significantly more stripped down than High Violet.

Gone are the trumpets and layered voices and guitars; in their place is a minimalism that better suits what the record tries to accomplish. Like a great book, Trouble Will Find Me is an album whose nuances can be understood and appreciated more with each additional listen.

Learn Web Programming at the U of C this Summer!

The Computer Science Department is offering a new version of CMSC 10200 in Summer 2013 featuring Ruby programming and Ruby on Rails, MWF June 24 to July 26 (five weeks).

CMSC 10200 has no prerequisites and satisfies the mathematical sciences requirement (course description at http://bit.ly/11joNDf).

Spaces are available! Register at summer.uchicago.edu.

Questions? Contact Adam Shaw at ams@cs.uchicago.edu.

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South Siders to face No.2 Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in NCAA quarterfinal TENNIS continued from back

when the top pair in the region lost five straight games after taking a 7–1 lead. Luckily, they were able to close out the 8–6 victory.

On Sunday, Tang and Sdvizkhov led 5–3 before the Warhawks captured three straight games. Chicago fought hard with some impressive groundstrokes from Sdvizkhov, but the Warhawks’ energy was too much for the Maroons in the end, as they edged Chicago 9–7.

“These last couple weeks, I think we’re thinking too much about the results rather than thinking about how to get the result, and that’s doing what we’ve always been doing,” Tee said. “That’s hitting the ball hard and aggressively.”

Even with the 2–1 lead favoring Chicago

heading into singles, Whitewater had the momentum.

“I know that a 3–0 win in doubles is huge for our momentum, and I could tell when Whitewater won their No. 1 doubles match, they were feeling good about themselves,” Tee said. “And they brought it into singles.”

Three Warhawks and three Maroons won first sets.

“I’m nervous; I’m thinking, ‘How are we going to get three wins here?’ because it wasn’t going to be easy,” Tee said. “We were missing; we were being timid.”

Sdvizkhov and first-year Stephanie Lee had no difficulties at Nos. 3 and 6, respectively.

Sdvizkhov cruised to a 6–1, 6–2 victory while Lee won 6–2, 6–2 to give the Maroons a 4–1 lead in the match.

With four singles matches left, the Maroons needed one more win.

It was fitting that the clinching victory came from Tang. On the season, the second-year holds a 19–2 record in the No. 1 spot and is ranked first in the Central Region.

Tang stormed to a 6–2 lead. Her opponent, Sydney Divelbiss, then took the first three games of the second set. “[Divelbiss] definitely started to come in more and play more aggressive and I started missing, because she didn’t have any pressure on her, so she started going for balls,” Tang said. “Then I kind of felt pressure to win after that, and then started missing.”

At that point, Tee gave Tang some very important advice.

“At 3–0, I walked over there and said,

‘Listen, all she’s doing is hitting to your backhand. If we can adjust that and hit down the middle and use your backhand down the line, and find forehands, you’re going to be all right,’” Tee said.

Tang won four straight games and broke Divelbiss at 5–4 to clinch the Regional title.

“It felt good because now we can go to Nationals,” Tang said. “It’s also sweet because nobody expected us to get past regionals this year.”

“No matter the lineup we’re playing or who we’re playing, we’re finding a way in the end, and we can’t be upset with that at all,” Tee said.

The Maroons travel to Kalamazoo, Michigan to face No. 2 Claremont-MuddScripps (30–0) in the national quarterfinal on Monday, May 20.

Sauer: “He’s a player’s coach in every sense of the term” MALONEY continued from back

the Year awards, eight All-Americans, six UAA Offensive Players of the Year, three UAA Defensive Players of the Year, and seven UAA Rookies of the Year.

In his first year, fourth-year receiver Dee Brizzolara was one of those UAA Rookies of the Year. “[Maloney’s] legacy here was that he was the football coach of the modern era for Chicago,” Brizzolara said. “He’s been a great coach and helpful resource for us football players off the gridiron.”

Since 1969, Maloney is the only Chicago coach to stay longer than seven years, and he made his mark over a whopping 19 years, sitting atop the leaderboard for winning percentage and number of victories over that period.

“He’s a player’s coach in every sense of the term in that he is always interested in what is going on in his players’ lives on and off the field,” Sauer said.

Brizzolara and Sauer aren’t exaggerating , either. Maloney really did affect his players’ lives in beneficial ways.

“I often met with him on a weekly basis,” Duffy said. “He even helped me find my job for the summer, connecting me with a network of alumni. He gave me incredible contacts and allowed me to meet people and figure out what I want to do. Those were awesome opportunities.”

Maloney touched the lives of many players, and according to the coach himself, they’re what make the job most rewarding.

“I’ll definitely miss the relationships,” Maloney said. “Those with players, coaches, [and] the administration. When you play or coach at the college level, you spend a lot of time together. We travel together, spend the night together, [and] eat together. We share joy and sadness together—it’s like being a family. That’s what I’m going to miss most.”

When asked about what comes next for Maloney, he hinted at coaching again someday. “[I’ll] take time to relax and see what’s out there, maybe coach, teach, be an administrator, or just play golf every day. I might even travel a little bit this summer,” he said. “Mostly, it will be time to relax and reflect.”

Maloney’s retirement will be effective beginning June 30, but the search for his replacement is set to commence in the coming weeks.

“I don’t know what his future plans are. I haven’t spoken with him yet,” Sauer said. “It’s hard to imagine him being done coaching , though. He has too much enthusiasm and too much passion for me to think he’s truly done.”

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Chicago’s season ends on sour note with losses to Wash U Baseball Russell Mendelson Maroon Contributor The Maroons had an unfortunate end to their season on Saturday as they lost both games of a doubleheader to Wash U. Chicago (24–14) suffered a crippling 13–2 defeat in its first game and was outslugged by the Bears (25–15) in the second game 10–7.

Wash U started its game one assault early with two runs in the first off of two RBI singles by first baseman Zack Kessinger.

The onslaught continued with the Bears scoring three more runs in each of the following two innings, compiling a total of eight unanswered runs.

The South Siders’ bats came alive in the fourth inning. Fourth-year Jack Cinoman walked to lead off the inning. Secondyear cleanup hitter Kyle Engel moved Cinoman into scoring position with a single. With two men on and no one out, fourth-year J.R . Lopez loaded the bases for third-year left fielder Brett Huff. Huff drove in Cinoman, but grounded into a 6-4-3 double play to add two outs to the frame along with the Maroons’ first run.

The Chicago threat was quelled when third-year Ricky Troncelliti struck out, swinging to end the top of the fourth.

Before the Maroons could add to their run total, however, the Bears would manage to add two more to theirs, making the score 10–1.

Chicago put one more run across in the top of the fifth. Third-year Dylan Massey led off the inning with a single through the right side. Massey would quickly score from first when fourth-year catcher

Tony Logli doubled, plating the Maroons’ final run for game one.

Wash U continued the previous inning’s pattern by answering with two more runs in the bottom half of the inning and scored its last run in the bottom of the eighth.

Although fourth-year Matt O’Connor struggled in game one to end the day with 12 runs (10 earned) on 11 hits with six walks and two strikeouts, third-year Alex Terry made a strong relief appearance, giving up only an unearned run on three hits in three and a third innings with three strikeouts and a walk.

Game two began with a more typical Chicago display, as the Maroons put up one run in the first. Fourth-year Ben Bullock led off with a single and scored with two outs when Engel reached first on an error by shortstop Andrew Goldstick.

Down 4–2 in the third, Lopez and Huff hit back-to-back singles with one out.

Troncelliti and Massey would then string together two more singles for two runs to tie the game at four.

However, this was as close as the Maroons could get to the Bears, since Wash U pulled ahead with a total of six runs in the fourth and fifth innings and never looked back.

Chicago scored three more runs in the game to finish with a 10–7 loss. In what proved to be a disappointing day overall, there were glimpses of excellence from what is quite a talented team.

Lopez went four for eight on the day with two doubles and Massey went four for seven with two RBIs. “J.R . [Lopez] had an awesome day at the plate,� third-year righthander

Second-year Kyle Engel waits for the pitch in a game against Dominican earlier this season.

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infield has been tremendous in making plays, definitely reinforcing the pitcher’s confidence.�

The Maroons put together a great season statistically from a hitting standpoint as they were fifth in DIII with a .348 batting average, eighth in slugging at .482, and 11th in scoring with 8.3 runs per game (all rankings are through May 5).

Fourth-years Cinoman and Steven Schwabe were named to the first AllUAA Baseball Team.

Bullock, Engel, and O’Connor were named to the second team as well.

Ray Kim said. “Although we didn’t end the season like we wanted to, we have definitely matured as a team.�

Kim came in to relieve in the second game, pitching two scoreless innings while only surrendering a walk and a hit. “Whether it is coming in and holding a lead or stopping/limiting the damage, it’s a great feeling when you are contributing in order to help your team win in one way or another,� Kim said regarding his role this season.

Kim also made sure to credit the defense and its positive effects on the Chicago pitchers. “The left side of our

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Maroons take fifth straight regional title After 19 years at the helm,

football coach set to retire

Women’s Tennis Alexander Sotiropoulos Senior Sports Staff The Maroons are heading to the national quarterfinals, again.

After shutting out Ohio Northern (27–5) 5–0 on Saturday, No. 8 Chicago (18–5) beat No. 26 UW– Whitewater (20–8) 5–1 on Sunday to claim the NCAA regional title for the fifth straight year.

“We’re lucky tennis isn’t a beauty contest because we wouldn’t be winning style points,” head coach Jay Tee said of Sunday’s win. “It wasn’t pretty at all times, but we found a way in the end, and that’s something we’ve done all year.”

After focusing on doubles in the past two weeks of practice, Tee said he was hoping the Maroons would head into singles with a 3–0 lead.

This was the case against Ohio Northern, but not UW– Whitewater. On Saturday, Chicago stormed No. 3 with an 8–1 win from second-year Maggie Schumann and first-year Sruthi Ramaswami. At No. 2, second-year Kelsey McGillis fought off early service trouble to win 8–3 with fourth-year Linden Li. Surprisingly, second-year Megan Tang and first-year Helen Sdvizkhov struggled at times in the No. 1 spot.

Their difficulties began on Saturday TENNIS continued on page 10

Sam Zacher Associate Sports Editor

First-year Helen Sdvizkhov prepares to return the ball in a game against Wheaton earlier this season.

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Yesterday afternoon, in the last few weeks of spring quarter, with summer fast approaching and the fall season still far from most students’ minds, Chicago football reached the end of an era. Head coach Dick Maloney announced his retirement after nearly 20 years in charge of the Maroons, effective June 30.

Not only is the University of Chicago losing its longtime football coach, it’s also losing a caring man and father figure.

“Coach Maloney is a terrific coach and an even better man,” fourth-year punter Jeff Sauer said. “He was a key factor in my decision to come play football at the University of Chicago.”

Maloney began his coaching career in 1974 as the defensive line coach at the University at Albany in New York. After coaching at several schools, Maloney moved on to the Canadian Football League, serving as the offensive line coach for the Ottawa Rough Riders from 1991–1993.

In 1994, Maloney made his way to the Windy City, beginning

his first and only head-coaching job at the University of Chicago.

With him, Maloney carried a mind for the game.

“With his experience, he brought a lot of knowledge,” third-year linebacker Brian Duffy said. “I can’t say there’s a situation on the field that he hasn’t seen. There wasn’t any situation he couldn’t handle.”

Sauer agrees.

“His knowledge of the game is second to none and the enthusiasm he brought to the team day in and day out has been vital to the team’s past success.

He is going to be extremely difficult to replace,” Sauer said.

Maloney concludes his 19year tenure at Chicago with a 94–82 record and .534 winning percentage, second all-time to Amos Alonzo Stagg , who coached at Chicago from 1892– 1932 during the Maroons’ days in the Big Ten Conference.

From 1997–2001, Maloney’s Maroons finished with a winning record each season, the only time that had happened since Stagg’s days (1911–1915).

Maloney’s résumé includes an impressive five UAA Coach of MALONEY continued on page 10

NCAA picture begins to take shape at Dr. Keeler Invitational Track & Field

Isaac Stern Sports Staff The light at the end of the tunnel is nearing for the Maroons. For some, however, it might be coming a bit too fast. With only one meet left before nationals, the South Siders are racing against the clock, literally and figuratively, to get their times down.

Last week, Chicago competed in the North Central Dr. Keeler Invitational. With UAAs completed, head coach Chris Hall has made competing optional, which has led to a decrease in the number of athletes who attend the meets.

The beginning of the individual’s season has begun. No team scores were kept at the invitational. While the Maroons will practice together and work together as one team, they are all working to qualify as individuals.

At the Invitational, the Maroons placed six athletes in the top five of their events. Fourth-year Dee Brizzolara took second and third in the 200-meter and 100-meter with times of 21.69 and 10.80, respectively.

“My races went OK, I guess, could’ve been better,” Brizzolara said.

Brizzolara’s fate remains difficult to predict. His time in the 200-meter from North Central ranks 17th in the country. Only 20 runners will qualify for the NCAA tournament.

In the 100-meter, things are even more precarious as he ranks 24th

in the nation with his time of 10.78 from the UAA Championship. In the next week, Brizzolara will have to cut three hundredths of a second off his 100-meter time in order to be in the mix for the NCAA Championship.

In addition, he has to protect his spot in the 200-meter by either speeding up or hoping no one else posts a faster time in the next week.

“My form for starts has been my worst attribute as a runner for some time now. I’d like to work on fixing that this week,” Brizzolara added.

Fourth-year distance runner Billy Whitmore took second in the 5,000-meter at the Invitational with a time of 14:30.53, the 15th-best time in the nation. Because only the top 20 qualify, Whitmore’s fate is not exactly sealed, but his time should stay within the top 20 over the course of the next week.

Third-year Sarah Peluse took fifth in the 10,000-meter run with her time of 37:00.96, which puts her at 34th in the nation. She would have to cut 40 seconds off her time to be in the talks for NCAAs. While not impossible, this is highly unlikely.

In the 5,000-meter run, the Maroons had a pair of top performances and personal bests. First-year Catherine Young surpassed expectations with her time of 16:57.37, topping fourthyear All-American Julia Sizek who raced a time of 17:00.19.

“I am extremely happy that all my hard work has paid off,” Young said.

“I am really proud of myself. The race was a huge accomplishment.”

Young currently holds the number eight ranking in the country while Sizek sits at 11th. It is safe to say that both will qualify to nationals, as the top 22 in almost all the women’s events qualify. “[Julia and I] both got personal bests and to finish and qualify with your teammate is so exciting. I can’t wait to run with her at Nationals,” Young added.

In addition to Sizek’s recent success in the 5,000-meter, she also will likely qualify in the 10,000-meter. Her time of 35:54.93 from the Chicagolands Championship at the beginning of the season currently stands at 10th in NCAA DIII. First-year Michael Bennett placed seventh last weekend with his height of 4.51m in the pole vault, but will likely qualify with his height of 4.81m from the UAA championship, which is currently the 14th highest in the country.

In addition, numerous other Maroons remain in striking distance of qualification, but they will have to make some serious improvements at the North Central Last Chance later this week.

“I’m just really hoping my fellow seniors get a shot in nationals. If all of us got in that would be fantastic,” Brizzolara said. “We’ve all put in a lot of work in our four years, and I’m hoping it ends on a high note for us.”

First-year Michael Bennett competes in the pole vault in an event during the indoor earlier season.

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