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SOURCE OF CAMPUS THREAT MUST DISCLOSE CHARGE TO SCHOOLS

Non-Tenure Track Faculty Vote to Unionize

BY LORENTZ HANSEN DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

BY OLIVIA ROSENZWEIG NEWS STAFF

This Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox ruled that the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) student who allegedly threatened to shoot several people at the University of Chicago in November must report his charge to any school to which he applies, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

Last month, Cox ordered Jabari Dean’s release into his mother’s custody, but has since added this requirement to the terms of his release. The magistrate judge’s office declined to comment further to THE MAROON due to the ongoing nature of the case, and the status of his enrollment at UIC is unclear. His charge carries a maximum prison sentence of five years.

According to a formal criminal complaint by FBI Special Agent Sean Burke, on November 29, 2015 the FBI received a call to its public access hotline that reported a threat posted on a website in response to a video clip the previous day. The comment consisted of a threat to kill 16 white males on the University of Chicago quad at 10 a.m. on November 30. The caller took a screenshot of the posted comment and sent it to the FBI. Burke was unable to find the original comment on the website but was able to use the screenshot to trace the comment to Jabari Dean, who lives in the Chicagoland area. Burke and other FBI agents then visited Dean’s residence. Dean admitted to posting the threatening comment and said he had taken it down shortly afterward.

It was later reported that Dean had posted his threatening comment under a clip from the movie Panther on the website WorldStarHipHop. The threat was revealed to be a reaction to the killing of Laquan McDonald, 17, who was shot 16 times by a Chicago police officer in October 2014.

Dean, 21, was arrested on November 30 and charged with transmitting in interstate commerce a threat to injure the person of another.

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A still from a recently released video shows Philip Coleman, (A.B. ’96) being removed from his cell by Chicago police officer. Coleman died hours later.

Video Shows University Alum Tazed, Dragged before Death in Custody

BY PETE GRIEVE NEWS STAFF

The city of Chicago released surveillance footage on December 7 of Chicago Police Department (CPD) employees striking a black University of Chicago graduate with a Taser and dragging him down the hallway of a Far South Side police station in 2012. Philip Coleman (A.B. ’96) died hours later from an allergic reaction to a sedative drug. The Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA), which investigates cases involving the use of force by police in Chicago, has since reopened its investigation of the incident.

The release of the video adds to controversies involving the use of force surrounding the embattled CPD. In the wake of the delayed release of dashcam footage showing an officer shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times, the CPD and City Hall were already facing frequent protests, calls for Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s resignation, and a federal civil rights investigation.

Coleman was arrested on December 12, 2012 after attacking his 69-year-old mother in her home. After being beaten by her son, Lena Coleman called his seemingly erratic behavior a mental breakdown and said she did not want to press charges.

After allegedly spitting blood at an officer and a supervisor, Coleman was brought to a Far

In mid-December, UChicago became the first university in the Chicago area to establish union representation for some non-tenure track faculty members, ending a months-long effort by Faculty Forward Chicago and continuing a push for faculty unionization that has spread nation-wide. On December 9, a group of 118 non-tenure track faculty members voted 9622 in favor of forming a bargaining unit comprised of 169 members, represented by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 73. One week later, the University’s Harper-Schmidt Fellows voted in favor of forming a separate bargaining unit, also represented by SEIU Local 73.

Thirty-four Harper-Schmidt Fellows teach and assist in teaching core courses in the Humanities. According to the website for the Fellows, Harper-Schmidt Fellows are appointed as Collegiate Assistant Professors for four-year postdoctoral teaching fellowships,

South Side police station, where a CPD officer’s alleged excessive use of force against him was captured on a video released by the city last month.

The three-minute surveillance video shows five officers and a supervisor entering Coleman’s cell on the day after his arrest.

After several seconds of talking to Coleman, who is sitting on his cell bed, several officers are seen physically subduing him. An officer then shoots Coleman several times with a Taser, and another officer drags him, handcuffed and motionless, out of his cell and through the hallway of the police

BY MARTA BAKULA station lockup.

NEWS EDITOR According to CPD statements, the officer shot 38-year-old ColeThe University of Chicago Medman with a Taser when he “be- ical Center (UCMC) announced on came combative” toward the six December 17 that it will bring a CPD officers in the cell as they Level I adult trauma center to its were attempting to transport him Hyde Park campus. The new plan from the 5th District police sta- replaces the joint proposal between tion lockup to court. the UCMC and Sinai Health SysLater that day, Coleman was tem to bring Level I adult trauma shot with a Taser again at Rose- care to Holy Cross Hospital, anland Community Hospital, when nounced in September. he became physically aggressive University officials concluded toward the hospital staff, police that they would like to integrate say. the new Level I adult trauma cenHours after being sedated ter with the existing Level I pediatwith an antipsychotic drug at ric trauma program and burn and Roseland, Coleman was pro- complex wound center in order to nounced dead. The autopsy de- “[provide] an integrated approach clared Coleman’s cause of death to serving the acute care needs of to be a reaction to the medication patients and the community at one but also found that Coleman had site,” according to a press release more than 50 bruises and abra- from UChicago Medicine.

“At the end of the day, we realContinued on Page 3

during which time they are expected to teach two courses for each of the three quarters in the academic year. For the 2016-17 school year, the annual salary for Harper-Schmidt Fellows is listed as $66,000.

Both the Fellows and the nontenure track faculty members were part of the bargaining unit originally proposed by the campus organizing committee for Faculty Forward Chicago. Negotiations between the University and SEIU Local 73 in early November resulted in a significantly smaller bargaining unit and excluded the Harper-Schmidt Fellows. The Fellows then filed a separate petition for union election on November 17.

The Fellows and the larger group of non-tenure track faculty members each won their union election and will be represented

by SEIU Local 73 as separate bargaining units. They will conduct separate negotiations with the University in the coming months.

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UCMC TO BRING ADULT TRAUMA CENTER TO HYDE PARK CAMPUS

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ized that integrating all of these services on one site, on our campus, made the most sense for South Side patients,” Sharon O’Keefe, president of the UCMC, said in a statement.

In September, UChicago Medicine and Sinai Health System announced plans to add a trauma center to the South Side at Holy Cross Hospital, located on West 68th Street and South California Avenue in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood. While these plans have now been abandoned, Sinai Health Systems expressed their continued support of a South Side trauma center.

“From the very beginning, what has mattered most is making sure that patients have access to the highest level of trauma care where the needs are great,” Karen Teitelbaum, president and CEO of Sinai Continued on Page 2

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OBAMA FOUNDATION MOVES INTO HARPER COURT

BY BEN ANDREW NEWS STAFF

The Obama Foundation announced in November that it plans to move into a new office in Hyde Park this winter. The original announcement said that the office would be open in January. The office is not yet open, and when contacted this week, a Foundation representative said it would be open later this winter.

The new office will be located in Harper Court, a University of Chicago-owned development on 53rd Street. The Foundation previously occupied an office in the Loop.

According to a press release from the Obama Foundation, the move will be completed in two phases. During the first phase, staff will move into space on the second floor of Harper Court. During the second phase, which will occur later in 2016, the foundation will open a multipurpose space on the ground floor of the building.

The Obama Foundation also announced the hiring of its first vice president for Community Relations, Michael Strautmanis. At the new Hyde Park office, one of Strautmanis’ duties will be to oversee engagement with the South Side.

According to a written statement from the Foundation, “Strautmanis, a native of Chicago, will be tasked with developing and leading the execution of outreach efforts and civic engagement relating to the work of The Foundation.”

The Obama Foundation’s current primary focus, as stated on its website, is the design and construction of the Obama Presidential Center, which will be located either in Jackson Park or Washington Park and could open as soon as 2020. The University of Chicago is partnering with the Obama Foundation on this larger project.

Seven Firms to Compete for Obama Library Design

BY LAILA ABDELMONEM NEWS STAFF

Seven competitors will submit proposals to build the new Obama Presidential Center “in the first quarter of 2016,” according to an official statement issued by The Barack Obama Foundation on December 21.

The Barack Obama Foundation has chosen the seven architectural firms to each submit a Request for Proposal (RFP) to design the new Obama Presidential

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On November 29, 2015, the city of Chicago announced that beginning in the spring, there would be an expansion of police body cameras into six police districts, including the district that includes most of Hyde Park.

“Increasing public safety, improving transparency, and building trust in our police department are three key priorities, and the expansion of the body camera program is a significant step forward for each,” Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in the announcement.

A pilot program began last January in which the Chicago Police Department (CPD) tested 30 cameras in the Shakespeare District on the North Side. This year, the program will spread to six more police districts: the West Side’s Austin and Ogden districts and the South Side’s Deering, Gresham, South Chicago, and

firm, John Ronan Architects.

One of the New York based firms, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, designed the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.

Its other notable works include the Folk Art Museum in New York and the Asia Society Hong Kong Center in Hong Kong.

John Ronan Architects, the only Chicago-based firm on the list, has contributed to the infrastructure of Chicago with buildings such as the Poetry Foundation Headquarters and the Akiba-

Schechter Jewish Day School.

Of the European competitors, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop is the most internationally acclaimed. Founder Renzo Piano won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the most prestigious architectural award, in 1998 for a lifetime of achievement in the art of architecture. Some of his accomplishments include The Shard in London, Kensai International Airport in Osaka, and the New York Times building in New York City.

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Left: Poetry Center, Chicago. John Ronan Architects. Right: National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington D.C..

Adjaye Associates.

University Defends against Denial of Service Attack on Virtual Private Network

BY MAGGIE LOUGHRAN NEWS EDITOR

An unknown group or individual attacked a service that provides secure access to resources on the University’s network for off-campus users on Wednesday evening.

The attack affected the University’s Virtual Private Network (VPN) service, cVPN. cVPN allows authorized users to remotely

USE OF CPD BODY CAMERA EXPANDS TO HYDE PARK

BY EMILY FEIGENBAUM

Center. Each RFP will be composed of “defined, visual responses” from the architects selected. The Barack Obama Foundation expects the library to be completed by 2020 or 2021, on a site in either Washington or Jackson Park.

The complete list includes four New York-based firms, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, SHoP Architects, Snøhetta, and Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects; two European architecture firms, Adjaye Associates and the Renzo Piano Building Workshop; and one Chicago-based

access the University’s Internet network, which includes licensed Library e-resources and certain restricted administrative systems. For a period of about 24 hours, some users experienced slow performance or were unable to connect to the Internet on their first login attempt.

University IT Services issued an update midday on Thursday announcing a denial-of-service attack, “where an outside en-

tity causes the system to be unavailable or have reduced capacity, (directing a high amount of traffic to the site, thus causing other users to not be able to sign in, [for example]),” according to Marielle Sainvilus, director of public affairs.

This is the fi rst time cVPN has been the target of a denial-of-service attack. Sainvilus did not comment on the origin of the attack, but said that “IT

services has the proper security measures in place and is effectively managing network-based threats to their systems.”

By 6 p.m. on Thursday, cVPN returned to near-normal operation and IT Services labeled the issue “resolved” on its website.

Engineers will continue to monitor the VPN in case the attack occurs again.

Adult Trauma Center Will Not Go to Holy Cross

Wentworth districts. Most of Hyde Continued from front Park is in the Wentworth district.

A recent CPD internal review Health System, said in a statement. found that 80 percent of dashcams “Ultimately, we are gratified that do not properly record audio and trauma care will be restored in an 12 percent lacked proper video ca- area of Chicago that is in urgent need of these services.” pabilities.

As part of the new proposal, According to the CPD, there have been positive results of in- UChicago Medicine will add a new creased body camera use. “In ad- and expanded emergency room dition to protecting police officers closer to the Center for Care and and citizens, cameras have been Discovery and increase the number shown to reduce citizen com- of inpatient beds. The additional plaints against police and are beds will be used for specialty care, great tools for evidence gathering including cancer, trauma, and and training,” CPD Superinten- emergency services.

UChicago Medicine will file a dent Garry McCarthy said in the Certificate of Need application with November statement.

The expansion of the program the Illinois Health and Services was announced shortly after the Review Board in order to expand release of a video showing the its emergency department. It must shooting of Laquan McDonald by receive approval from the Illinois a CPD officer. The police vehicle Department of Public Health and cameras, also known as dash- Chicago Trauma Network in order Activists from the Trauma cams, captured a CPD officer shooting the 17-year-old 16 times Center Coalition (TCC) have urged the University to bring a Level I but failed to record audio. trauma center to the South Side

since 2010, following the death of Damian Turner, an 18-year-old community activist and founder of Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY). Turner was shot three blocks away from the UCMC and died en route to the closest trauma center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Streeterville.

Several members of the TCC said the initial proposal would leave many South Side residents underserved. The coalition claimed that the trauma center at Holy Cross Hospital would be over five miles away from some areas of the South Side with higher rates of gun violence, including South Shore, Kenwood, and East Woodlawn.

The TCC expressed satisfaction at the announcement because the UCMC campus is significantly closer to these neighborhoods.

“We applaud the University of Chicago for taking responsibility as a member of the broader South Side community. A Level 1 Adult

Trauma Center at the University of Chicago will provide the best possible outcome for addressing the current lack of South Side trauma care. It also signals a significant shift in the University’s approach to responding to the needs of its predominantly Black South Side neighbors,” the TCC said in a statement released December 17.

The TCC statement added that it will not stop advocating throughout the process of adding the trauma center. “We will continue to call on President Robert Zimmer and Dean Kenneth Polonsky to implement and operate this proposed trauma center with transparency and accountability to the surrounding community. We plan to stay resolute in our demands until we can see that this proposed trauma center will operate in a long-term, sustainable capacity. “ UChicago Medicine said that it will release a detailed timeline for the project soon.

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Vita Ex Libris: When and Where We Study

BY ALBERT KUO DATA ANLYSIS

The University of Chicago Library keeps track of the number of students and faculty in their buildings over the course of the day. The graphs to the right show the population of Crerar and Regenstein Libraries for each day of the week. The numbers are averages for the 20142015 school year.

First Win in Chicago Area for Unionization Campaign Continued from front which lasted from November 20 to December 8, the National Labor Relations Board counted the ballots at their regional office in Chicago. Out of the 169 members of the bargaining unit, the vote was 96-22 in favor of union representation by SEIU Local 73. After the NLRB announced the results, a group from the unit held a rally at Classics Quad.

Jason Grunebaum, senior lecturer in Hindi and member of the union organizing committee on campus, spoke at the rally, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.

“I hope that this is gonna be an inspiration for contingent faculty all around the country. And…if it can happen at the home of Milton Friedman, I think it can happen anywhere,” Grunebaum said.

After the election results were announced, Provost Eric D. Isaacs sent an e-mail to all University faculty. “I greatly value the contributions of every member of our community to our shared mission of intellectual engagement, teaching, and research, and I thank you for your dedication to our students and to the University of Chicago community,” he wrote.

The vote to unionize was pushed by Faculty Forward, a

project of SEIU that supports unionization efforts for non-tenure track faculty at colleges and universities. SEIU developed Faculty Forward in 2015 after the success of its Adjunct Action campaign in Boston and Washington, D.C. Over the past two to three years, faculty members at Tufts, American University, Georgetown, and the George Washington University have voted to unionize, with the support of Adjunct Action.

The University of Chicago is the first Chicago-area university where non-tenure track faculty have successfully unionized. Approximately one year ago, representatives from Faculty Forward’s Chicago branch began communicating with faculty members who had expressed interest in unionizing, according to several members of the campus organizing committee. Those faculty members began speaking with others on campus to gauge the interest in unionizing non-tenure track faculty members.

Interested faculty members formed an organizing committee on campus, through which they have organized rallies, arranged demonstrations, and worked in recent months with Faculty Forward Chicago and SEIU to lead the unionization movement on campus.

Before and after the election, members of Faculty Forward and members of the organizing committee at the University noted the significance of a win at the University of Chicago, due to its prominence.

Following the election, Professor Dmitry Kondrashov, a senior lecturer in the Biological Sciences Division who is a member of the bargaining unit, shared his view on the significance of the election results for the national adjunct unionization movement. “Our success shows other contingent faculty members that it is possible to organize and make your voice heard. The most positive part of the experience for me has been getting to know colleagues across campus and recognizing that we have common concerns and shared goals. I hope that faculty at other schools also form collegial bonds and become stronger as a result,” Kondrashov said in an e-mail.

Since the election, faculty at Loyola University Chicago have filed a petition to unionize, with the help of Faculty Forward Chicago and SEIU Local 73. Adjunct and part-time faculty at Brandeis University voted to unionize on December 18, also with the help of Faculty Forward and SEIU. Nontenure track faculty members at

Duke University and tenured and non-tenure track faculty at both the University of Minnesota and the University of Washington have also been pushing for union representation, with the help of SEIU. According to the National Education Association, once a bargaining unit elects to join a union, members of the bargaining unit fill out bargaining surveys to indicate the conditions of their contract that they would like to negotiate. After the bargaining surveys are collected, the bargaining unit votes on the agenda that will be presented in negotiations. Members of the unit will also elect a bargaining committee, which represents all members of the bargaining unit in negotiations with the University.

The composition of a given bargaining committee is outlined in the union’s constitution and bylaws, and it varies from case to case.

For example, the contract negotiated between American University and SEIU Local 500 allows for the union to designate workplace leaders with whom American University can communicate regarding issues, as well as a joint committee comprised of management and union representatives to make recommendations on issues pertaining to the union.

During collective bargaining, university representatives and the bargaining committee negotiate proposals for either a new contract or changes to their existing contracts. Members of the bargaining unit will subsequently vote to accept or reject the tentative agreement that the two parties reach. Once a proposal is ratified, it becomes a legally binding contract between the university and the members of the bargaining unit. The parties are required by the National Labor Relations Act to confer in “good faith” regarding any proposal, but no party is required to make concessions to the other, and they are not required to reach an agreement, according to NLRB’s website.

According to Grunebaum, the bargaining unit for non-tenure track faculty members has not yet chosen its bargaining committee, but has had an initial meeting to discuss both the potential bargaining committee and the bargaining agenda. “We hope to have a bargaining committee that is as representative of as many parts of the university as possible,” he said in an e-mail.

As of Thursday night, SEIU and the University had not yet set a date for negotiations.

“Something is wrong here: either the actions of the officers who dragged Mr. Coleman, or the policies of the department.”

Continued from front sions on his body, indicating severe trauma.

U.S. District Justice Matthew F. Kennelly, who is presiding over the civil rights lawsuit brought forth by the Coleman family, ruled that Keith Kirkland, the civilian detention aide who was captured by surveillance cameras dragging Coleman down the hallway, violated Coleman’s civil rights by using excessive force. Kennelly also ruled that Sergeant Walker, the detention aide’s supervisor, also violated Coleman’s civil rights by failing to prevent the maltreatment.

“Kirkland chose to use brute force when it was no longer nec-

essary,” Justice Kennelly said in the December 14 ruling. “Sergeant Walker conceded during his deposition that the officers could have stood Mr. Coleman up and told him to walk... It is undisputed that Sergeant Walker could have ordered Kirkland not to drag, or to stop dragging, Mr. Coleman and that he chose not to do so.”

A jury will determine the monetary damages the two men will owe Coleman’s estate, Kennelly said in the ruling.

IPRA initially closed its investigation of the incident, absolving the involved officers of guilt in 2014.

On December 6, one day prior

to the release of the video, Mayor Emanuel announced the resignation of former IPRA head Scot Ando amid heavy criticism of the agency for its closure of the Coleman case and its handling of the investigation of the November 7, 2014 killing of Laquan McDonald.

Emanuel appointed Sharon Fairley, a former federal prosecutor, as IPRA’s acting chief administrator. Under new leadership, IPRA immediately reopened its investigation of the CPD’s use of force against Philip Coleman.

Shannon Breymaier, a City Hall spokeswoman, said in a statement that Emanuel “eagerly” awaits the results of the IPRA’s investigation.

The release of the surveillance video from the police station was accompanied with a statement from Emanuel condemning CPD’s treatment of Coleman while in custody and IPRA’s initial absolvent of the officers.

“I do not see how the manner in which Mr. Coleman was physically treated could possibly be acceptable,” Emanuel said in the statement. “While the medical examiner ruled that Mr. Coleman died accidentally as a result of treatment he received in the hospital, it does not excuse the way he was treated when he was in custody. Something is wrong here: either the actions of the of-

ficers who dragged Mr. Coleman, or the policies of the department.

I have not received a sufficient answer on either from IPRA’s former leadership, and as a result I do not consider this case to be closed or the investigation into what happened that night to be over.”

Coleman’s father, Percy Coleman, told reporters in 2012 that his son did not have a history of criminal behavior.

“My son … [has] never been in trouble. He’s a grad of the University of Chicago. They won’t be able to run him out that he’s a drug dealer, this and that.”

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Decreasing the Distance CPD brutality hits close to home In late November, a dashc a m v ide o wa s r ele a s e d showing the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald over a year ago. On December 7, su r vei l la nce footage from 2012 was released showing Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers striking Philip Coleman (A .B. ’ 9 6), who would die hours later in police custody.

On December 26, 19 -yearold Quintonio LeGrier was shot dead by the police as they responded to a 911 call.

His neighbor Bettie Jones, a mother of five, was accidentally killed in the shooting.

T hese deaths have prompted increasing scrutiny of the CPD, both from the public and the federal government, and a serious reexamination of the department’s policies and manage-

ment. As the city of Chicago struggles with tough questions about policing and protecting the lives of its residents, we may ask what our role is in these discussions as students at the University of Chicago.

Ensconced at the University it can be all too easy to distance ourselves from these tragedies. Too often we think that there are people that are affected by these issues, and that there are people at the University of Chicago.

However, this perception is false. The issues of policing affect members of our community as well. Coleman, who walked across the same quadrangle we do daily, is a single example of this.

For those of us who have been fortunate enough to not directly feel the effects of po-

lice brutality, we must understand that there is little that separates us from these victims except for luck and privilege. McDonald was younger than most students on this campus. LeGrier was a college student staying with his father for the holidays. Jones was a bystander uninvolved in the incident which brought the police to her apartment building.

For many students, their time at the University is a short chapter of their lives, and the city of Chicago is not a permanent home. Understandably, many of us are not residents of this city and not all of us will take overtly activist roles in this discussion. However, this issue is too big to ignore. Regardless of the strength of your identification with this city, people

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education we receive in our lecture halls and classrooms.

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Nightmare on My Home Street Being home over break shows us where we came from and how far we have yet to go

BY SOPHIA CHEN PHILOSOPHIA

On the last Friday before winter break, campus was eerily silent yet heavy with anticipation. Whether we were getting on a shuttle headed to the airport or still in a Reg cubicle typing out

that last paper due at 11:59 p.m., our minds were on the smells, tastes, and feelings of home. We’d be there soon.

When I stepped through the doorway back into the house I grew up in—the living room where I built my first papier-mâché diorama for science

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class, the kitchen where 10-yearold me burned a cake following a self-created recipe that called for gummy bears—a transformation occurred. I was no longer a college student struggling on the cusp of adulthood. All the layers of development that I thought I had achieved melted away so easily into the bratty kid that was apparently still dormant inside of me.

No matter how much I manage to delude myself into believing that I’ve matured as a

person, I know that I still have a long, long way to go whenever observing my behavior at home.

I’ve noticed that even though it feels easy for me to be patient with a friend or to help them out, I’m markedly less considerate to my parents when I’m with them.

In fact, my home-self is probably a much truer indication of who I am inside than the self displayed in front of my friends.

This odd regression into immaturity when returning home seems to be a phenomenon por-

trayed everywhere from novels to movies. In the show Master of None, the main character Dev repeatedly refuses to help his father set up a tablet computer even though it would take only a minute, just because he is eager to spend time with his friends.

As I watched that episode, I could feel a guilty pit forming in my stomach. Why is it so easy for us to be one way in public but another way to the people who love us the most?

Maybe it has to do with just HOME Continued on Page 5

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“Going home is a reminder of how much more I need to mature as a person” HOME Continued from Page 4 that—the fact that, for many of us, the love of our parents is as close to unconditional love as is humanly possible. At least for me, I know that even though I can disappoint my mom or make her angry, I can never make her stop loving me. I don’t have to earn something that I already have so securely, making it easy to take our relationship for granted. On the other hand, with friends, no matter how close they seem, I still feel as though I need to constantly prove myself in order to maintain their affection. I know that there is a certain limit to the terrible things I can commit before they peace out.

That’s why going home is a reminder of how much more I need to mature as a person. Outside this private sphere of family, our kindness towards others is frequently less genuine and more from ulterior motives to benefit ourselves. Even treating an enemy well often comes from the desire to reconcile a relationship. These are all necessary components of life, but this environment might cloud our assessment of who we really are. Home lessens such incentives due to the love that we have as a birthright.

There are definitely harmless perks to not having to put up a front while at home for break,

like getting to walk around all day with bedhead or being able to do embarrassing exercise videos without locking all our doors. But if not our outer beauty, maybe our parents deserve our best foot forward when it comes to inner beauty, like helping around the house more or just having open conversations with them. Especially when they seem to pull out all the stops for our homecoming, from cooking our favorite meals to doing all the dirty laundry we collected during finals week.

For me, I’ve realized that I need to be more considerate at home in order to truly grow—not just seeming to do so on the surface. I want to become a person whose actions are less dependent on how something benefits me. Meanwhile, I can only feel gratitude toward my parents for accepting me despite all of my immaturity, which shows that deep down, I’m still just a kid— their kid with bedhead.

Sophia Chen is a second-year in the College double-majoring in economics and English.

Letter: South Side Community Calls for More Efficient Metra System The Metra Electric, which serves Chicago’s South Side and South Suburban communities, is a hugely underutilized asset. If operated like CTA lines—with trains every 10 or 15 minutes, full Ventra integration, and transfer discounts— the Metra Electric could unlock the enormous development potential of the South Side and South Suburbs.

Built as a transit line much like the CTA, the Metra Electric differs from Metra’s other commuter lines. With its electrified tracks and complete separation from the freight network, the Metra Electric is well-suited to serve many more residents.

The Metra Electric serves many key destinations on the South Side, such as the University of Chicago, the Pullman district, Chicago State University, the Museum of Science and Industry, Governor’s State University, McCormick Place, the South Shore Cultural Center, and the proposed Lakeside Development. The communities surrounding its stations are densely populated and walkable, ideal areas for rapid transit development.

However, the Metra Electric is hampered by a fare structure more appropriate for suburban lines as well as a lack of sched-

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Live from Mandel Hall, 33 Years Later

BY DONALD C. DOWLING, JR. UC AB ’82

A recently-released recording of a longago Mandel Hall concert conjures up an obscure bit of UChicago cultural history– the University’s small but vital role supporting one of the great rock bands during its twilight years. The story is worth remembering if only because, as the new CD demonstrates, the music the group played on campus was really good.

During the late ’60s/early ’70s apex of classic rock, the greatest American rock band was a band called The Band. Maybe it still is: Bob Dylan’s latest Bootleg Series album package calls The Band “the greatest rock band North America ever produced.” Even in that heyday of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix, The Band was huge. Not only did they play Woodstock, but Woodstock’s promoters paid homage to The Band by naming the epochal event after their hometown (the musicians lived around Woodstock, NY while the 1969 concert happened 70 miles north, near Bethel).

This was the backup band with which Dylan went electric, getting booed around the world on their seminal 1966 tour immortalized in D.A. Pennebaker’s Don’t Look Back. Afterward, in Woodstock, The Band and Dylan recorded the legendary Basement Tapes, spawning the genre now called “Americana” or “roots rock.” When

The Band finally got around to releasing their own albums they made the cover of Time—back when that still meant something. In wan efforts to emulate the Band’s sound, Eric Clapton broke up his ‘60s power-rock group Cream, the Grateful Dead abandoned acid rock and the Beatles worked up a Band song. The Band were so respected that when Saturday Night Live booked them as a musical guest, Lorne Michaels let them play four songs.

The splashy farewell But by 1976 The Band had disbanded.

With record sales faltering, their guitar player/songwriter Robbie Robertson decided to go out with a bang. He hired Martin Scorsese to film their farewell concert on Thanksgiving at Winterland in San Francisco. Scorsese’s The Last Waltz remains the greatest-ever “rockumentary,” teeming with top-tier stars like Clapton, Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Young, and Joni Mitchell to Chicago blues legend Muddy Waters, all reveling in their last chance to play with such a great group.

Later The Band got inducted, first round, into the Rock Hall of Fame. Today their portrait hangs as the only decor in David Chang’s trendy Manhattan restaurant Momofoku–Chang says The Band inspires his staff.

After that high-profi le farewell show, Robertson cashed his songwriter-royalty checks and tabulated box office grosses with his buddy Scorsese (the two actually

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A promotional poster for the MAB concert run in the Friday, October 28, 1983 issue of the Maroon.

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Bob Dylan alongside The Band during a 1974 Chicago performance. From left to right: Rick Danko (bass), Robbie Robertson (guitar), Bob Dylan (guitar), Levon Helm (drums).

lived together). But that left the other four guys in The Band fending for themselves, journeymen whose only marketable skill was their world-class musicianship.

The modest comeback All this is standard-issue rock history.

What is less known is that, a few years after The Band broke up, the University of Chicago played a central role in a 1980s reboot of the group, now documented on a CD recorded at Mandel Hall called And Then There Were Four (All-Access Records, 2015).

As soon as the four Band survivors could get away with it, they tiptoed back on the road. They debuted their reunion in Japan, playing to the eager fan base polite enough not to ask awkward questions about following up a farewell spectacle as lofty as The Last Waltz with…more concerts. Slipping back stateside, they put on a spirited show that fi lled up Chicago’s Auditorium Theater. Two nights later— Sunday, November 6, 1983—The Band played the lively MAB concert at Mandel Hall included on the new album.

The Doc screening and the Ida show To understand how The Band reunion tour ended up in Reynolds Club, we need to back up a few years. In the late ‘70s/ early 80’s era after disco and before hiphop, cool college students listened to punk and new wave. WHPK kept the Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello, and the Talking Heads in heavy rotation. MAB somehow managed to book both the Ramones and U2 playing I-House. And the climax of every Chicago frat party back then came when someone blasted the B-52s “Rock Lobster.” (It was wild to dance to… or maybe you just had to be there.)

By that point The Band was an extinct dinosaur. Yet then as now, UChicago harbored plenty of musical paleontologists. Covert Band fans lurked all over the quads; that became clear one night in 1979 when we all showed up at Mandel Hall for a special Doc Films screening of Scorsese’s The Last Waltz. That night, the biggest concert venue on campus actually filled up for a movie.

Over the last four decades I’ve watched The Last Waltz in theaters a couple of dozen of times, in several states and on two continents. But I never saw so exuberant and boisterous a Last Waltz screening as that night in Mandel Hall. When the Muddy Waters scene came on, all the stomping and pounding made me ponder the architectural integrity of Mandel’s balcony.

That Last Waltz screening was a prelude for UChicago’s next big Band event.

On March 4, 1983–remember, this is still before The Band’s Japan reunion–MAB put on the intimate concert of a lifetime, an unforgettable duo acoustic concert at Ida Noyes by two of The Band’s singers, Levon Helm and Rick Danko. (Both are now dead.) The show was so transcendent that after it ended no one would leave. We stomped and screamed but refused to go.

Finally, some hapless MAB volunteer cajoled Danko and Helm back for an extra encore.

The reunion concert Which brings us to November 1983, when The Band’s reunion tour pulled into Reynolds Club. In the Loop the Friday before for their Auditorium Theater gig, the guys must have figured hey, what the hell let’s do a college show.

That Mandel Hall concert, though not as moving as the Ida Noyes Helm/Danko duet, was quite good. But don’t take my word for it. You can hear the show on the new And Then There Were Four album, a crisp recording from an FM broadcast.

The sound quality is so clear you can hear me (or some yahoo who sounds like me) yelling “wooo!”

The CD liner notes ignore the fact that The Band filled out their lineup that night with a bunch of sidemen called the Cate Brothers. The extra musicians thicken The Band’s sound even as they sound thinner without the inimitable Robbie Robertson on guitar. The CD showcases The Band’s greatest hits while offering twists, like a Garth Hudson accordion solo on “Long Black Veil.” I like the rarities—Richard Manuel singing a verse of “The Weight,” for example, and the cover of the blues standard “Milk Cow Boogie.” They even play the uptempo “Java Blues,” a Danko song that anticipated the Starbucks coffee boom still a decade or so away (“Down in Bolivia the people are insane/They want as much for java as they do for cocaine”).

The Band nerds appreciate the Mandel Hall recording because Manuel, one of the undisputed great rock vocalists, sings the first line of his signature song “I Shall Be Released” in his classic falsetto before giving up and reverting to his husky baritone.

The CD package includes a beautiful photo of Mandel’s interior, but oddly claims the concert happened on “2nd July 1983.” Maroon archives corroborate the actual November 6 date. (Who plays Mandel Hall in July?)

No matter. Most of us in the audience that night had read Herodotus, Thucydides, or Gibbon in the Core. As much as anyone, a UChicago crowd can appreciate that history is nuanced, ambiguous, and even, sometimes, a matter of opinion.

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Hateful Eight is Paradise City for fans of 70mm

BY CHARLES KHOSLA MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Sitting in the theater waiting for Quentin Tarantino’s latest film, The Hateful Eight, to start, I happened to see a short teaser for Guns N’ Roses’ upcoming reunion tour. After watching the clip, I came to the realization that Tarantino shares much in common with Guns frontman Axl Rose. Both enjoyed success early in their careers (Tarantino with Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, Rose with Appetite for Destruction), were met with widespread acclaim and fandom across the globe, and have personalities that earned them a streak of notoriety.

But Tarantino and Rose differ in how they handled their instant celebrity. While Rose alienated his bandmates and friends and turned Guns N’ Roses into a parody of itself, Tarantino bolstered himself with a series of original pictures that vary in genre and style. So even though The Hateful Eight on the surface may appear self-indulgent, with the extravagant promotion of its 70 mm projection, notorious production issues, and high-profile staff (which includes a score from legendary composer Ennio Morricone), Chinese Democracy it is not. In fact, The Hateful Eight is arguably the most exciting and rigorous movie Tarantino has done since his magnum opus Pulp Fiction.

As with Tarantino’s previous picture, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight is a western, though set in 1870s Wyoming instead of the pre-Civil War era south. Bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) just caught notorious murderer Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and is taking her to Red Rock to be hanged, accompanied by ex-slave-turned-major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) and incoming Red Rock sheriff

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John Ruth (Kurt Russell) and Major Warren (Samuel J. Jackson) share a tense moment in the snow.

and former Confederate Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins). After getting caught in a blizzard, the group arrives at a cabin known as Minnie’s Haberdashery and meets its gruff Mexican caretaker Bob (Demian Bichir), cunning hangman Oswaldo (Tim Roth), Southern General Smithers (Bruce Dern), and stern cowboy Joe Gage (Michael Madsen). After encountering all of these peculiar characters, John suspects that one of these men is in cahoots with Daisy and is determined to protect his bounty no matter the cost.

With its claustrophobic setting and eccentric ensemble, The Hateful Eight recalls the starkness of Tarantino’s raw debut Reservoir Dogs. However, The Hateful Eight doesn’t feel redundant and makes much use of its western scenery to expand upon Dogs’ setting. The snowy plains of Wyoming— actually shot in the Colorado Rockies—adds ex-

tra tension to the limited backdrop.

Like Django Unchained, racism is a central theme of The Hateful Eight. Its predecessor dealt with this by satirizing the Blaxploitation genre, rewriting history through its eponymous protagonist’s revenge against slave owners. In The Hateful Eight, Warren fills Django’s shoes but finds himself at odds with the white men surrounding him.

Whereas Django lived out his ultimate revenge fantasy, Warren tolerates oppression during the post-Civil War era, coping with systemic racism and N-bombs.

Jackson has rarely been in as fine form, imbuing Warren with both the spunk and bitterness of Pulp Fiction’s Jules.

The rest of the cast is similarly magnificent, in particular Walton Goggins. Goggins has long shined on TV in roles in Justified and The Shield and is in top-notch form as Mannix.

He portrays the boisterous and seemingly racist sheriff with nuance, revealing a different side of the character in the second half of the picture. Goggins’ interactions with Jackson make up many of The Hateful Eight’s best scenes.

However, the selling point of The Hateful Eight is undeniably its cinematography. Filmed in 65 mm film using the same lens that captured the mighty chariot sequence in Ben Hur, The Hateful Eight is a gorgeous theatrical experience. Robert Richardson’s photography beautifully captured Wyoming’s rugged landscape in a way digital cinematography can’t. Every detail from the snowflakes to Russell’s muttonchops is elegantly recorded. The crispness of the images made me feel as if I was watching a modern day Sergio Leone movie, further emphasized by longtime Leone collaborator Morricone’s gigantic, Stravinsky-esque score.

Tarantino’s decision to project The Hateful Eight in 70 mm may seem a haughty one, but it displays the picture magnificently.

With the screening’s overture and intermission accompanied by the magnificent array of colors 70 mm provides, I felt as if I was transported back fifty years, when massive epics like Lawrence of Arabia and Ben Hur were released across the U.S. in select theater roadshows. I cannot imagine digital projection doing The Hateful Eight justice.

One can only hope The Hateful Eight will encourage more directors to harness the power of film.

Tarantino has long proven himself to be a giant of modern cinema, and The Hateful Eight stands to be a monument to his legacy. Recently, Tarantino stated that he only wants to make two more pictures before he retires. Before that sad day befalls us, let us hope that those movies will be as good as this one.

Danger, Desperation and Desire: A Fresh Take on Macbeth

BY ALEXIA BACIGALUPI MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

It is a tragedy drenched in blood, polluted by the grime of the battlefield and the fi lth of a power-hungry soul riddled with guilt. Regicide and infanticide play out against the backdrop of the eerily desolate Scottish moors in Macbeth, one of Shakespeare’s shortest and most iconic plays. After premiering at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, director Justin Kurzel’s new take on “the Scottish play” hit select theaters this past December.

Lean and sparse, the film presents a primal and potent interpretation of Macbeth through an exaggeration of the naturalistic setting. Earth is represented by the moors, majestic in their barren windswept beauty yet pocked with mounds of corpses, as well as with the mud the soldiers streak their faces with

as they pray before battle. Fire gorges itself on the swaddled remains of Macbeth’s infant son. It envelops the screen in its scorching embrace as armies face off in a haze of fog and faith. Kurzel incorporates water, as dangerous as any blaze, as a gray mist that the craggy hills wear like capes of mourning. The night Macbeth’s soul begins to curdle, a torrential rainstorm ensues.

The movie orbits in a tight circle around Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard as the titular character and his wife. They imbue the roles of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth with nuance, raw charismatic power, and a cold severity to match the Scottish landscape.

In their (blood-soaked) hands, the Bard’s play transforms into a heady, electrically-charged dance laced with danger, desperation, and desire. All else is secondary to their pas de deux even as their deceitful relation-

ship implodes around them.

Fassbender’s steely blue eyes deftly capture the soul of a man who has killed in cold blood but mourns deeply. Bright and steady when he fights to protect King Duncan, they become fl at and glazed as he desperately tries to protect his throne from enemies, real and imagined. The man who carefully covered the eyes of his fallen son with stones is gone, replaced by a man who coolly orders the murder of his usurper’s wife and children.

Cotillard delivers a brittle Lady Macbeth who sets fi re to the latent ambition the witches spark in her husband. Yet as the throne becomes steeped in the blood of innocents, she snaps. Deviating from the text, the fi lm places the couple in the context of their dead infant son, humanizing a character famed for her icy heart and iron will.

The burning at the stake of Macduff’s family makes real the hor-

ror that has been unleashed in pursuit of the witches’ prophecy, and Lady Macbeth, clearly rattled, tries to wash the blood off the knife they used to kill King Duncan. Her suicide marks the death knell for Macbeth’s reign. Without her, he is lost and drained, even struggling to carry her limp body off the bed.

As the lead actors embed the limited dialogue with a host of fi nely tuned emotions, the cinematography presents a complementary picture to intensify their visceral effect. The bleak scenery is another character itself, one given corporal substance in the form of four (as opposed to the traditional three) witches—three grown women dressed in somber black, accompanied by a wordless little girl. They appear at the fringes of the battlefield like a twisted mirage, delivering the prophecy with granite stoicism before disappearing into the mist again.

The color palette of muted blues, grays, and greens is splashed against the bright crimson of the murdered king, and the sunset blaze of battle reinforces the dense melancholia that hangs over the events of the movie. In this earthy palette, the bright white fi nery of the couple’s coronation robes strikes an especially discordant note; Macbeth and his queen are liars and imposters in this great power struggle. And above it all floats the eerie and plaintive score: The thrumming of the war drums lurking ominously behind a keening bagpipe in a dreamy yet unsettling balance.

Blunt and hypnotic, Kurzel’s Macbeth delivers a one-two punch to the solar plexus. Both riveting and revolting, the fi lm grips until the very end when things (literally) go up in flames.

All hail Macbeth.

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PANGEA shifts tectonics at Subterranean

BY MIRIAM BENJAMIN ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

I arrived at together PANGEA’s show at Subterranean about 15 minutes before doors opened. There were three kids in line, so I joined them.

The boy in front of me looked about 14 or 15; his age was revealed by the thing on his upper lip that might someday grow into a mustache. He was wearing skinny jeans, a white T-shirt, a hoodie, and Vans.

He was obviously freezing—his hoodie completed the skater outfit vision board, but it was no match for winter in Chicago. He had his earbuds in.

About five minutes before the doors opened, a bouncer came out. “Is this the end of the line?” a kid who just arrived asked the bouncer, motioning to the front of the line.

“Yeah,” the bouncer replied sarcastically.

“Cool,” the boy replied, happily making his way to the front.

T he bouncer rolled his eyes. “Are you blind?!” he shouted. “ You have glasses!” He pointed to the throng of people that by now stretched past the Starbucks and was approaching the train station.

“Get to the end of the line!”

At this, Wispy Mustache Boy broke his silence.

“Haha, good one. Are you blind, haha,” he sniggered, a little too loudly. The

supporting the release of its 2015 EP The Phage. Together PANGEA is part of the same Burger Records SoCal punk scene that supports FIDLAR, Ty Segall, and Audacity. Much like FIDLAR, together PANGEA specializes in tales of debauchery that appear to stem from lived experiences. It’s easy to see the appeal for awkward teenagers like Wispy Mustache Boy: the speed and volume of together PA NGE A’s music in a live setting is consuming and leaves no room for any thoughts beyond staying upright. The lyrics are comforting, too: the embarrassing stuff together PANGEA sings about has only happened to Wispy Mustache Boy in his worst nightmares.

The most immediately striking thing about together PANGEA was how not striking three-quarters of them were. Although bassist Danny Bengston sported a bodacious showbiz mustache, guitarist Roland Cosio, drummer Erik Jimenez, and frontman William Keegan looked completely normal, even unassuming—Keegan especially.

I wouldn’t call it a lack of stage presence; he didn’t appear nervous, and it wasn’t entirely down to his boyish voice or T-shirt-jeans-andflannel outfit. Keegan just didn’t seem like he was performing: He didn’t go from a dude in a flannel to Deranged Punk God. Singing

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It was mindless fun, to be sure, but the show reminded me that there’s virtue in mindless fun.

bouncer stared him down, and Wispy Mustache Boy looked down at his Vans.

This is where together PANGEA came in, on tour

and playing guitar loudly on a raised floor would be a more accurate, if slightly wordier description of what Keegan did.

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together PANGEA’s William Keegan, Erik Jimenez, Danny Bengston, and Roland Casio (not pictured) pair inhibitionfreeing punk with an unassuming stage presence.

B ut h i s a nt i-r o c k- cloud of dust” sense. “Sick star image worked and Shit,” from their third alset the tone for together bum Badillac, has a long, PANGEA’s show. I didn’t comically overdone guicome away from the gig tar solo, played perpenwith any holy-shit-I-can’t- dicular to the ground for believe-that-happened sto- maximum effect. “Offer,” ries to regale my friends. I another highlight from came back having spent an Badillac, begins with just hour jumping up, forwards, vocals and guitar, and that backwards, and sideways was the fi rst time I clearly to songs that I really like. heard everyone singing It was mindless fun, to along—or not, as it were. be sure, but the show re- Keegan giggled when me minded me that there’s and a few others started virtue in mindless fun. in on the second line early.

The Phage songs like The best example I have is Wispy Mustache Boy, who “Looked In Too” heralded roughly the same amount smiled the entire time.

As mosh-happy as the of people f linging themcrowd got, it was clear selves off the stage (and that together PA NGEA onto my head), but “Sick are too musically sophis- Shit ” was an obv ious ticated to be punk rock in crowd favorite. How could the “three chords and a a song with the lyric “my

dick is soft” not be?

Toget her PA N GE A only let themselves descend into flat-out musical chaos for its closer, “River.”

Keegan strummed the opening chord for two bars, establishing a tempo close to the recorded version. At the beginning of the third bar, Jimenez came in like a bat out of hell, overriding Keegan’s more moderate pace in favor of pure, breakneck speed. Together they hurtled through the first verse and into the chorus, as if they were playing a punk rock game of chicken. Keegan lost— he abandoned play ing guitar completely—but by that point in the show the rhythmic free-for-all was of secondary consideration,

crowdsurfing being the fi rst point of concern.

After the show finished, I got on the Blue Line to go home. Wispy Mustache Boy was on my train; his hood was up and his earbuds were back in. He didn’t say anything to me, nor I to him. I got off at Jackson, and he stayed on the train.

But when I remember him, he’s not sitting hunched over on the train or failing to play it cool in front of the bouncer.

He’s onstage, grinning at the crowd and screaming lyrics. He points to a spot in the audience and then jumps, and our hands bear him up until he’s out of sight.

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Maroons Set to Begin Conference Play on an Eight-Game Winning Streak

University of Chicago Athletics Depaartment

Fourth-year Jordan Smith takes a baseline jumpshot against Kalamazoo earlier this season.

BY EMMETT ROSENBAUM SPORTS STAFF

While the Chicago weather seemingly fills one’s veins with ice, the Maroon men’s basketball team is on fire right now.

The team steamrolled through December, winning all four of their contests in the month.

Add in an 86 – 65 victory over Illinois Tech last Saturday and the team has currently won eight games in a row.

The Maroons kicked off the last month of 2015 with a decisive 77–52 win over Wheaton on December 2. T he squad was lead by third-year forward Waller Perez, who put up 20 points while shooting 80% from the field. Perez, who has averaged almost 12 points per game this season, attributed his scoring success to his attitude at the other end of the court.

“I think that I put a lot of emphasis [on defense], and

that actually gets me going offensively,” observed Perez, who has been contributing nearly five rebounds per game as well.

“I feel like my teammates need me to be aggressive and I cannot let them down.”

However, Perez also emphasized that he felt the need to improve his play in the games to come. “I still need to continue to play better and harder.

I can still do a lot more to help the team. So the sense of urgency of not letting my teammates down and energy I try to bring defensively has helped me early on this season.”

L at er i n the week , the Maroons used a strong start to fend off Kalamazoo by the score of 75 – 63 in front of a home crowd. The victory was in large part due to the double-double by fourth-year forward A lex Voss, who racked up 18 points to go along with 12 boards.

Following finals week, Chi- back at it last weekend with cago reeled off another pair of a game against the IL Instivictories, one against Illinois tute of Technology on January Wesleyan and the other against 2. Coming out of a two-week Albion. The team handled Wes- hiatus, the team had to comleyan fairly easily in their 74– bat their sluggishness and get 57 win, thanks in part to a hot back into the swing of things. night from Voss beyond the arc. “I think there was [some rust],” The fourth-year knocked down remarked Perez. “ We did a four threes on his way to an pretty good job of shaking it off 18-point night. “Three pointers although there were moments have definitely been a part of in the game where it was noticeable.” our success,” noted Perez.

However, even a rusty MaH o we v e r, t he M a r o o n s fou nd themselves faci ng a roon squad managed to handle challenge when they rolled Illinois Tech with ease, wininto Michigan later that week ning the game 85 – 65, propelto face the Britons. Albion put ling them into second in the up a tough fight, keeping the UA A with a record of 9 –2. The game close until the dying mo- team shot 50% from the field, ments. A tiebreaking three- and received strong perforpointer by fourth-year guard mances from Voss, Perez, and Jorda n Smith i n the f i na l second-year forward Colin Barminute helped the team secure thel. Their winning streak has a nail biter, 69 –65. also helped the team shoot up W hile the team managed the national rankings, as Chito enjoy a brief break during cago is now ranked 16th in the the holidays, they were right country.

Perez attributed the run of success to the way their group works together. “I think that our team has been this successful so far due to our chemistry.

We seem to trust one another on the court. Pressuring teams defensively and also rebounding have been a huge part to our success so far.”

However, t he M a r o on s ’ teamwork and ranking will be put to the test this weekend in their game against Wash U. The Bears are coming off a loss to Wittenberg last week, but they still boast an impressive 8 –3 record, and sit right behind Chicago in the conference standings. The game should serve as an important litmus test for the South Siders as they open conference play.

The Maroons will compete against conference rival Washington University in St. Louis on Saturday, January 9. Tip off is scheduled for 3 p.m.

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SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: Catt Young

Catt Young, fourth-year All-American cross country runner, has proven to dominate her collegiate career on and off the course.

BY KATIE ANDERSON ASSOCIATE SPORTS EDITOR

Catherine Young concluded her fi nal cross country season with her name cemented in the record books, having made a permanent mark on the program. In her fi nal season, she served as co-captain, earned UAA Athlete of the Week, and was named to the UA A All-Academic Team for the second consecutive year.

Growing up in Massapeque, New York, Young always thrived in athletics. She played three years of soccer, and three years of basketball in high school, and remarkably, only two years of track and field and one year of cross country in high school. “ I played basketball and soccer my whole life and didn’t start running competitively until the end of my junior year,” she said. “I only ran cross country one season before college during my senior year of high school. It was a really hard choice to quit basketball and join the track team instead, but after seeing how well I did after just one season and how much I truly loved to run, I decided to focus on running for the rest of high school and in college. I think what really pushed me to pursue running was the feel-

ing of pure accomplishment you get after each and every hard workout and race. It’s a feeling that really can’t be beat when you push your body to its ultimate limit. Honestly, I just love to run.”

Despite only one previous year of experience in cross country, Young’s passion for running immediately translated into success at the college level.

In her fi rst year, Young was an All-Region selection after placing 13th at the NCAA Midwest Regional. She also took an impressive 17th place at the UA A Championships in her rookie campaign.

Young continued to improve throughout her career, earning All-American status in her second and third years. In both of those s, she also placed second at the UAA Championships to earn First Team All-UAA. Additionally, she placed third and fi fth in the region, respectively, in her second and third years.

Yet Young’s most fond memories of running at Chicago are not of individual success, but of team success.

“My best memory of being an athlete at UChicago was during my second year cross country season. Both the men and women’s teams qualified for nationals that year and it was such

an amazing time to share that experience together. The women’s team fi nished fourth to get on the podium for the fi rst time in the team’s history. To see all of our hard work pay off, especially at a time where our full team was there, guys and girls, was unforgettable.”

Although Young still has her winter and spring seasons of track and field ahead of her, she is sad that her time on the cross country team has come to an end.

“What I love about UChicago athletics the most is the family that I found in the cross country teams. Our cheer before each and every meet is team on three, family on six. When I was just starting as a freshman, I admit I thought that was super corny.

After four years being on the team, I cannot say enough how right it is to call my teammates my family.”

If her dominance as an athlete is not impressive enough, Young, a Public Policy major, also serves as president of the Women’s Athletic Association and is a member of both Kappa Alpha Theta, and the Senior Class Gift Committee. Next year, she will work at Ernst and Young.

As she prepares for her final season track and field, and

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Young, the Women’s Athletic Association President, will leave women’s atheletics at the University better than how she found it.

looks forward to graduation, Young leaves some words of advice for the student athletes who she leaves behind.

“I have to echo my coach for the advice I would give to other athletes,” she said. “After we graduate, we won’t have the opportunity to be a member of a team like we do right now. We need to enjoy every single moment of our competition and our time as athletes here. Even if you are upset over a performance, allow yourself just a few minutes of disappointment and

then move on and enjoy the rest of the day with your teammates.

Use that poor performance to motivate you to be better and just cherish the competition and time with your teammates along the way.”

W hile she has been able to embrace the advice of only taking a few minutes to be disappointed after a poor performance, it will be difficult indeed for the athletic community to shake the sadness of losing such a great athlete and teammate in the form of Catt Young.

South Siders Head Into Weekend Prepared After a Grueling Winter Break

BY MICHAEL PERRY SPORTS STAFF

Like many of the other winter sports, Chicago is looking forward to a strong 2016 after a productive winter break. While most of the student body got the chance to return home and travel from Hyde Park during winter break, the squad instead spent their time practicing in anticipation of the second half of the season.

Second-year Cristen Bublitz praised the work the Maroons put in during break, “It was very productive. Coach Kocher has set up a very efficient system to get us ready for the rest of the season. Plus it was a great time to grow together not only as wrestlers, but as a team. Over break we had two practices a day, the morning practices were designed to be a lot faster paced while the afternoon practice was mostly technique.”

The wrestlers got closer as a team over break, as they spent more time than normal together.

Since the dorms were closed, the students who lived on campus stayed in the houses and apartments of their teammates who lived off campus.

“Staying here over the break for practices was not the most ideal break but everyone maintained positive and made the most out of it,” said fi rst-year

Tae Ahn. As the end of break neared, most students looked towards their classes while the wrestlers looked towards the Chicago Duels where the South Siders would post a 1–2 record, beating Harper College but falling to an undefeated Ohio Northern and the No.9-ranked team in the country, Wabash College.

After holding a 15–9 lead over Ohio Northern, the Maroons would eventually falter to lose 22–15. Second-year Devan Richter says the team is still positive despite the end result, citing how close the matches were, “Our team is still feeling pretty good after the Chicago duels despite going 1–2 overall.

We had some matches that were close in the two duels we lost that could have made the difference, especially against Ohio Northern.”

Before beating Harper by a score of 31–22, the Maroons first took on Wabash College Little Giants, losing 32–9. “Wabash is by far the best team we have faced this year,” added Richter.

“Wrestling against them is a true test to gauge how we are doing overall as a team. Things didn’t go quite the way we would have liked, but that just gives us motivation to keep getting better.”

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Second-year Nicholas DiNapoli was edged out of a victory at the most recent meet against North Central.

Richter had quite the day, with two pins against Wabash and Harper College, and he has won four of his last five matches.

The second-year wrestler cites his teammates and coaches for the hot streak, “first-year Louis DeMarco is an awesome wrestling partner for me. The two of us definitely help one another. On top of that, having two coaches that work primarily with the lighter weight wrestlers helps immensely. They take a large interest in you, and help you with technique that is specific to us smaller wrestlers.”

Ahn echoed the same sentiment, “I feel that we are working hard as a team and are pushing each other to make adjustments and improve every day.”

As the season in 2016 picks up, the Maroons will travel to the Lakeland Duels this weekend where they will face Lakeland College, Milwaukee School of Engineering, and St. John’s University. This presents a great opportunity for the team, as they swept the Lakeland Duels last year. The host school, however, participated in the Chicago Duals and recorded the same record as the Maroons, so Chicago can’t necessarily assume a win.

Team enthusiasm and morale is high for this weekend, though, as ref lected by firstyear Louis DeMarco. “I’d say the team’s feeling ready for this weekend. We had a great couple weeks of practice over break and

faced some tough competition last weekend. We’re a pretty young team but if everyone wrestles to their ability, we can beat most teams we face.”

The Maroons are ready to take on 2016 after a very difficult winter break with an overwhelmingly positive attitude, which is important in a sport as mentally and physically taxing as wrestling.

“We have eight more weeks remaining and everyone is motivated to make the best out of it.

Such attitude will pay off,” says Ahn. The Lakeland Duels begin at 12 on Saturday, January 9 as Chicago takes on Lakeland and will fi nish at 3 p.m. when the Maroons tackle St. John’s.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - JANUARY 8, 2016

SPORTS Maroons Gear up to Kick off UAA Play in St. Louis

Chicago Looks to Make a Splash in Its First Meet of Winter Quarter

BY RHEA BHOJWANI SPORTS STAFF

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Third-year Britta Nordstrom goes up for a layup against Carthage earlier this season. Nordstrom was named to the All-Tournament team at the Pacific Northwest Tournament over break.

BY MICHAEL HINKLEY SPORTS STAFF

While most students were away for winter break, the Maroons remained on the court, taking on a strong slate of opponents throughout December and early January. Overall, the Maroons found some success over the holidays, posting a record of 3–1 in four consecutive road games. With these results, the squad improved to 8–3 on the season.

First, the team traveled to the Seattle to compete in the Pacific Northwest Tournament at Pacific Lutheran University.

On December 18, the Maroons took on the Lutes and defeated the tournament hosts by a score of 74–57. The second quarter proved to be the difference in the contest as Chicago posted an impressive 22 points while holding their opponents to just eight in the period. First-year guard Katrina Williams exploded off the bench, scoring a team-high 14 points and draining four consecutive threepoint jumpers. Her companion, fi rst-year forward Olariche Obi, recorded a double-double with 13 points and ten rebounds.

The next day, the squad faced off against the Loggers from Puget Sound. The game was a shootout, and remained close throughout. In fact, there were a staggering 16 lead changes over the course of the contest as the teams traded scoring-runs. But in the end, the Maroons prevailed and defeated UPS by the slim margin of 88 –85. Second-year guard Elizabeth Nye scored a game-high 21 points, while

third-year forward Britta Nord- will pose a tall order for the 8–3 strom added 19 of her own to Maroons who come in ranked go along with eight rebounds. outside of the top 25.

“Our focus is really on ourNordstrom and Obi were subsequently named to the all- selves, collectively as a team,” tournament team for the PNW said fourth-year captain Caitcompetition. lin Moore of the task at hand.

After the New Year, Chicago “ We’ve had spurts of really returned to action against Lo- great defense and really great ras College on January 2. Al- offense at different moments though expectations were high, throughout the season thus far. the Duhawks spoiled the Ma- Now we are focusing on putting roons’ trip to Iowa. The game it together for a full forty minwas close early, but the Loras utes.” squad pulled away in the fourth Last year, the Maroons were quarter to secure a 79 –68 vic- on the losing end of both games tory. For Chicago, Nordstrom against Wash U. At home last posted 16 points and ten re- January, Chicago lost a marbounds while fourth-year guard gin of 65–52. The South Siders Caitlin Moore added ten points suffered a similar fate on the of her own. Yet, these individ- road at the end of the season. ual efforts were not enough to Yet, Chicago managed to earn overcome the balanced offen- a share of the UA A champisive attack of the Duhawks. onship (along with Wash U ) Finally, last Monday, the thanks to the Maroons’ stellar Maroons made the short trip play across the rest of their condowntown to face the Illinois ference schedule. As such, it is Institute of Technology. In safe to expect a fiercely competan impressive defensive show- itive matchup when these rivals ing, the Maroons dominated meet this coming weekend. the Scarlet Hawks by a tally Moore said, “ This game is of 69–28. Remarkably, this is always fun to play in because of the lowest point total allowed the rivalry.” She added, “There by a Chicago team since 1992. is always a lot of energy and it In total, the Maroons forced 31 is always the fi rst and last team turnovers including 17 steals, we play in conference, so everywhich marks a new season-high one is even more amped up.” for the squad.

Chicago is set to face Wash This rounded out the team’s U this Saturday, January 9 in non-conference schedule for the St. Louis. These teams have season. The Maroons will begin met 61 times in their history.

UA A play this Saturday when Wash U holds a commanding they travel to St. Louis to take lead in the lifetime series, but on Washington University in St. the confident Maroons are lookLouis. The Bears enter the con- ing to upset the perennial fatest with a record of 9 –2, and vorites. This game will set the are currently ranked No. 11 in tone for the rest of the South the USA Today poll. However, Siders’ season, and have huge the team recently fell out of UA A and NCA A tournament the top ten following a loss at implications.

Loras College. Still, the Bears

As winter quarter begins and the sports season is back in action, the men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams look to f inish thei r highly strenuous season like they started it as they reach the home stretch. The Maroons hope to leave their mark this Saturday against Lewis and Olivet Nazarene as they compete in their first meet since winter break ended.

The team, with the looming championship meets in sight, will look to their experienced and post-season veteran group of upperclassmen to carry them to a strong showing alongside their group of energetic and fresh first-years. On the men’s side, the Maroons will likely turn to co-captain and fourthyear Kent Bischoff. However, many other swimmers continue to exert their leadership skills in their collegiate careers this season.

Bischof f cla ims, “ Expectations going into the second half of our season include winning the first meet of our season this weekend and, in doing so, set a good precedent for our next five meets.” Winning this meet certainly seems attainable for the Maroons: both Lewis and Olivet Nazarene have posted fewer wins than Chicago, and while wins and losses isn’t the only factor in determining which team will come out on top, it is surely a good indication.

Bischoff explains that the team “Typically takes the dual meets at this time in the season as opportunities to work on our race strategies and concentrate on nailing down fundamentals”. While the team as a whole work towards perfection,

they collectively believe that individual success is equally as important as the team’s performance. The team also aims on “improving individual performances and qualifying as many of us as possible for NCA As are also key goals to improve our chances of placing higher in the top 10 teams in the nation.”

Overall, he claims “So far, the season has been successful with many great performances during the fall and we believe that we are on track to achieve our end of season goals.” While winter break posed a break in training for the team, they do not believe it will affect their i mmed iat e per forma nce i n any way. Bischoff says, “ We were away for a week during the winter break on our team training trip, where we were able to significantly increase our daily workload with two-aday workouts and a productive environment that allows us to concentrate on getting into peak form.”

On ly seven weeks away from the championship, it is crucial for the team to continue working hard. The women’s side of the squad will look to continue their hot streak: they enter into the tri-meet undefeated. One of these wins includes Wash U, which certainly bodes well for the UA A Championships to come. In terms of goals for the remainder of the season, Chicago will “come out the next five meets prepared for ou r con ference championship and break our recent streak of coming in runner-up to Emory with a win.”

The highly anticipated meet will begin at 1 p.m. on Saturday against Lewis and Olivet Nazarene at Gerald Ratner Athletics Center.

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A plethora of Chicago swimmers take the pool earlier this year.