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Students “walk back” for UCAN fossil-fuel divestment march Tamar Honig News Staff

Students march backwards toward Levi Hall during the “Walk Back” for Fossil Fuel Divestment last Friday. The march was organized by the UChicago Climate Action Network (UCAN).

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With negotiations stalled, nurses’ strike looms Isaac Stein Senior News Writer On Friday, nurses employed by the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) and affiliated with National Nurses United (NNU), a national nurses’ union, announced their intention to hold a one-day strike on April 30.

The strike, which would affect almost all UCMC nursing staff, comes in the aftermath of the nurses’ vote to authorize a strike

in late January. At stake are current and proposed staffing regulations at the UCMC, such as nurse rotation and the elimination of charge nurses, that union representatives characterize as unsafe and indicative of the hospital’s intention to erode the union’s influence in the workplace.

The strike would be the culmination of six months of failed negotiations between the two parties to reach a new agreement after the nurses’ previous

contract expired last October. While negotiations between the UCMC and NNU are scheduled to resume on Thursday, neither side has given any indication that it will make any key concessions on these points in order to break the impasse.

According to Jan Rodolfo, the Midwest director of NNU, one sticking point has been the UCMC’s proposal to increase the frequency of nurse rotation, UCMC continued on page 2

Chronic illness has taken the back seat in trauma center debate Brandon Lee News Staff The debate over whether the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) should open an adult Level I trauma center (T1) has divided campus and the Hyde Park community.

Community and student group demands have been framed in opposition to the administration. Few know the history of UCMC’s decision to close its adult trauma center. Many believe the UCMC has forgone a moral obligation to open a trauma

center. However, some respond that the UCMC lacks the funds to support such an endeavor and that it already provides a substantial amount of care to underinsured South Side residents. *The Chicago Maroon* asked Jim Woodruff, associate dean of students at the Pritzker School of Medicine, about the most pressing South Side health concerns. Woodruff is also a UCMC general-medicine physician and has practiced at the community health clinic branch in Englewood.

Woodruff highlighted

that trauma poses a significant burden. “As a primarycare doctor, I am confronted with patients who have been victims of trauma and are often disabled because of their encounters,” Woodruff said.

However, trauma may not be the biggest killer hospitals like the UCMC manage, despite overwhelming press coverage. “In terms of the actual numbers of people affected by these issues, the burden of chronic medical disease far outweighs violent trauma here on the South Side of Chicago,” Woodruff TRAUMA continued on page 2

Last Friday, approximately 100 students participated in a “Walk Back” for fossil-fuel divestment organized by the UChicago Climate Action Network (UCAN). The animated crowd donned business attire as they marched facing backward from the Booth School to Levi Hall to protest the administration’s decisions regarding the UCAN divestment campaign. A sunbathed quad packed with hundreds of other students looked on as participants chanted and displayed banners promoting divestment.

Second-year Johnny Guy, the divestment campaign coordinator, recounted the campaign’s

history. Last year, after delivering a 59-page report about fossil-fuel divestment, UCAN met with Secretary of the University Darren Reisberg and other administrators to discuss the issue.

“Reisberg committed in writing via e-mail to securing us a meeting with at least one member of the Board [of Trustees], a promise that he later [retracted] this year, citing it as an inappropriate form of engagement,” Guy said.

Participants in the march walked backward to demonstrate their view that the administration has reneged on its commitment to UCAN. However, the administration did offer a UCAN member a spot at a student group dinner with a trustee. UCAN was dis-

satisfied with this proposal and has thus far declined.

“This type of engagement is egregiously insufficient for any type of meaningful dialogue… and falls far short of the level of engagement committed to by Reisberg,” Guy said.

A statement by University spokesperson Jeremy Manier cited the Kalven Report of 1967, which addresses the idea that a university must remain independent from political pressures.

“Preserving the freedom of individual scholars to argue for or against any issue of social or political controversy require ‘a heavy presumption against’ collective political action by the University itself,” Manier said. “As the report states, ‘The UCAN continued on page 3

Nine houses to be “retired” after opening of Campus North Natalie Friedberg & Anne Nazzaro News Editor & Associate Editor

Five residence halls—Blackstone, Breckinridge, Broadview, Maclean, and New Grad—will close after the 2015–2016 school year. The houses of these dorms will be moved into the new Campus North Residence Hall.

This news follows the earlier announcement that after the 2015–2016 school year, New Grad will become the new Harris School of Public Policy building and be renamed the Keller Center.

The University’s provided FAQ states that the dorm closures are part of an overall plan for “strengthening the Resident Master model and housing more College students closer to campus.”

According to an e-mail from Dean of the College John Boyer and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Karen Warren Coleman, the nine houses currently in those halls—Blackstone, Breckinridge, Henderson, Maclean, Midway, Palmer, Talbot, Tufts, and Wick—will have their names retired. Eight new houses will be created in Campus North, and students in each afHOUSES continued on page 2

NEWS IN BRIEF Three people wounded in shooting on East 54th Street and South Ellis Avenue Three people were shot and wounded one block from the University campus at approximately 12:30 a.m. on Monday. The shooting occurred at the 5400 block of South Ellis Avenue and the gunman is still at large.

The three victims were seated in a parked silver Ford when the gunman fired shots. At least 16 shots were fired, and a University of Chicago shuttle was taped off for police investigation.

The victims subsequently fled to an on-campus park-

ing garage at East 55th Street and South Ellis Avenue. The University issued a security alert at 2:16 a.m., two hours after the incident.

Gunshots were heard across student housing, including in the Maclean and Max Palevsky dormitories.

None of the victims are affiliated with the University.

A 22-year-old woman was wounded in the chest and abdomen. She is being treated at Stroger Hospital, and is in critical condition. One of the men is 24 years old and

was shot in the chin, chest, and left leg. He is also in critical condition at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

The other victim is a 35-year-old man who received a gunshot wound to his leg and has stabilized. He is being treated at Stroger Hospital.

According to DNAinfo, police believe that the two men are affiliated gang members.

The UCPD declined to comment.

—Shelby Lohr

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | April 21, 2015

Two students awarded peace grants to improve communities in Africa and Asia Lorentz Hansen News Staff This March, two University of Chicago students were each awarded a $10,000 grant from Davis Projects for Peace to carry out projects aimed at achieving Davis’s mission of “finding solutions for resolving conflict and maintaining peace.” Sujata Singh, a firstyear master’s student at the Harris School focusing on women and poverty studies, will travel to Alad, Nepal. She will work with the Computer Association of Nepal to install 10 computers in Alad’s Shree Bhairab Secondary School and train the school’s teachers and students in their use. Alex Ding, a first-year in the College, will travel to Pelel Kindessa, Senegal, where she will work with Pelel’s local leadership to construct a public garden and improve latrines.

Chicago Maroon (CM): What inspired you to create this proposal?

Sujata Singh (SS): I’m from Nepal so I wanted to do something back home in my country. My dad is originally from [Alad], so he went back home and a few years ago he went to the school and talked to the principal who told him how they wanted computers for their students. They have solar panels already, so when I heard about the Davis grants…it was just like, they have this need and I have this opportunity. So I just wanted to follow this project.

Alex Ding (AD): After high school I did this program called Global Citizen Year. They basi-

cally take high school grads to developing countries, and place them with homestay families…. Towards the end of the year when I got a better hold of the language I started talking with the local women’s groups about the lack of gardens, all the reasons these gardens don’t exist, and the lack of security when it comes to health. There’s sickness coming from a lack of nutrientrich food there so I used personal funds to get started…but there’s only so much you can do with the lack of capital.

CM: What goal do you hope to achieve with this project?

SS: In the cities in Nepal, technology is widespread but not in villages, so the goal of my project is to bring the technology to these villagers, but most importantly to give them skills—typing and working different programs and stuff like that. I’m going to try to install Internet, but there are a lot of things I don’t know yet that might not make that possible. But at least for now my goal is to focus on those tangible skills because I know I can accomplish them and that they can have a long-term impact.

AD: With the garden completed and the water sanitation and latrine improvements built, I hope that those will not only give the community members of Pelel greater health, but also through that I hope that this can be a means through which they gain a greater sense of control over their lives and really see themselves as agents of change in their own communities.

CM: Davis Projects for Peace aims to support projects that will build peace. How will your project work to build and sustain peace?

SS: I see peace as this need for development. Sustainable and long-lasting peace can only come when there’s development and growth in the villages as well as the cities, especially in villages like Alad where there’s no Internet and it’s so disconnected. I feel that because there was that growth missing from the village, this project will kind of encourage the students that they’re not forgotten and they’re still a part of this world, and hopefully they can be encouraged to give back to their society.

AD: This is something I struggled with when I was thinking through my proposal…. I wanted to tailor this project to best represent what the Davis Project represents, because a lot of the projects focus on traditional ways we understand peace. But I ended up thinking about this idea of community building. I thought about this political rally that happened in my village, and one of the presidents of the women’s groups was saying how, “In Pelel we really don’t have anything. Our men are jobless, the children are sick, but that’s just the life we’re living.”

When I think about what I want this project to do, I want this to be a means by which the community members can sort of make this change in their lives. This is their project for them to see it happen and understand that they can control their lives.

Violence remains prominent threat to South Side youth TRAUMA continued from front

said.

Chronic issues such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, and their consequences, including congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and end-stage renal disease requiring dialysis, were several diseases that Woodruff believes do not garner enough attention. “[These diseases] are associated with levels of disability and other measures of health that in many of the neighborhoods in the South Side compare to third-world nations, yet these are issues that are not talked about as frequently as they should be in the press,” Woodruff said.

Abdullah Pratt, now a fourthyear Pritzker student and President of Medical Students for Health Equity (M-SHE), spent his childhood in the Woodlawn area. He is no stranger to the burden of violence, having witnessed the death of his brother on the South Side.

“If you were to brand the South Side of Chicago, it would be ‘gun violence and crime,’” Pratt said. He believes that the UCMC should open an adult T1, as the main hospitals that have perfected trauma treatment are within the county system.

Yet, he corroborated DR. Woodruff ’s assessment and stated that chronic care is still the surpassing medical priority. Because many of Chicago’s lower-income residents

live on the South Side, conditions such as diabetes, asthma, and heart attacks are, to Pratt, of paramount medical importance. “I think the average person would say trauma because of the news,” Pratt said. “The dialysis center looks like a waiting line for free food in a depression.

But, you don’t see ‘55-year-old man died from complications of kidney disease’ on the news”.

Shiro Wachira, an organizer for Students for Health Equity (SHE) and a third-year in the College, contended that chronic care concerns should not overshadow youth health emergencies. She stated that violence in the South Side is particularly concentrated within younger demographics. “[Gun violence] is the number one cause of death, according to the Illinois Department of Public Health, for people aged 18–24 on the South Side,” Wachira said.

However, she emphasized that this data isn’t the only justification for building a trauma center. “We try not to have a data-driven campaign, because I feel like that reinforces an ideology that we don’t believe in,” Wachira said. “That you can justify life by numbers… you can’t justify the value of a trauma center by looking at a balance sheet.” The availability of a trauma center is a way, she believes, that the UCMC can address South Side youth mortality.

Veronica Morris-Moore, a youth organizer for Fearless Leading by the Youth, was raised on the South Side and has witnessed the burden of poverty, drugs, and gang violence. She said that violence provides a source of income and an avenue for fulfilling the most basic needs to many black youth. “We don’t make that choice to grow up poor, to grow up around guns and drugs. And we don’t have a whole lot of ability to change the circumstances,” she said. “If I take my little brother, for example, it was the way he put food in his mouth when my mom couldn’t. It was the way he put shoes on his feet.”

She emphasized that violent trauma’s disproportionate effect on black youth deserves recognition.

“It needs to be seen as a health epidemic in relation to young black people,” Moore said. “Those of us who come from these neighborhoods need to be taken into account…even more so over these numbers.”

She later continued, “It’s not the fact that [violence] is killing off hundreds of people. It’s the people that it’s killing off, and that’s why it’s not important [to UCMC],” Moore said. “Are our lives not worth saving?”

An upcoming edition of The Chicago Maroon will address proposed solutions to the South Side trauma desert.

Nurses to hold one-day strike on April 30 UCMC continued from front

which is a current staffing practice of calling day-shift workers to work nights, or vice versa. She said that NNU seeks to eliminate rotation in any new contract with the UCMC, in order to promote nurse and patient safety.

“Rotating shifts is still an issue.

Nurses cannot be at their sharpest if they are working multiple shifts on end. In fact, one of my co-workers, who is a member of the bargaining team [the nine nurses who also made the strike announcement] was rotated.

When she drove home, she was so tired that she fell asleep, crashed her car, and then fell asleep again after the accident. At work, this translates into a patient safety issue.” Rodolfo said.

She added that NNU is bargaining to establish nurse-to-patient ratios, which did not exist in the previous contract, as well as to guarantee that NNU-affiliated charge nurses will remain on staff.

Charge nurses are responsible for making recommendations to UCMC management as to how many nurses ought to be on staff at a given time, based on patient needs.

“The UCMC is proposing to hire non-union administrators to take on the role that charge nurses perform. This would put staffing decisions in the hands of someone who is more directly responsible to the budget as opposed to patient needs, and who could be fired, without recourse via a union, if they were to speak up [about needing more staff ],” Rodolfo said.

The UCMC stands firmly behind its proposals and staffing practices. In an e-mailed statement, University spokesperson Ashley Heher said that the primary issues in the negotiations are the nurses’ demands for increased pay and the hospital’s opinion that nurse-to-patient ratios would decrease the quality of patient care.

“The key issue is NNU’s demand for more money. The average UCMC nurse receives more than $100,000 a year in wages alone. UCMC nurses earn more than virtually all of their peers at other Chicago-area hospitals….

Although NNU was satisfied with UCMC’s staffing commitments under its last contract, NNU has made proposals from its national agenda that call for fixed, inflexible nurse-to-patient ratios,” she said.

She added that the UCMC is an extremely safe working environment under current procedures.

“UCMC’s approach to staffing has contributed to its nationally recognized safety and quality track record. UCMC is one of fewer than 250 U.S. hospitals to be recognized with the prestigious Leapfrog Group’s highest grade for hospital safety all six times the independent group has released these ratings,” she said.

With their negotiating positions entrenched, both the UCMC and the NNU have prepared for a strike. In a Friday email to the University community, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs Kenneth Polonsky said that the UCMC has hired 1500 temporary nurses to work during the strike, and that the temporary nurses are contracted for five days, because the hospital could not hire them for one day only. He added that the UCMC will act if the strike becomes disruptive.

“We could not count on recruiting enough trained professionals to come to Chicago on short notice to work for only one day...we will intervene [in the strike] if we see disruptive behavior that jeopardizes patient access, safety, or privacy,” Polonsky said.

Rodolfo said that while she thinks that the University could have hired the temporary nurses for one day only, she does not anticipate a violent clash between striking nurses and police.

“The [UCMC] could have hired nurses for one day, but they wanted to maximize the financial impact on the NNU nurses by making them envision five days of lost pay.... I anticipate that the hospital will bar the doors to the hospital so that [NNU] nurses cannot enter, but it will not be a confrontation per se. We’re here to send a message that NNU nurses are ready to negotiate, and we will strike if we have to,” she said.

Five residential halls to be shut down after 2015–2016 school year HOUSES continued from front

fected house will have the opportunity to move as a community into the new residence hall.

As for how the nine affected houses will be converted into eight, University spokesperson Jeremy Manier said, “There is precedent for merging house communities. The process in this case is still under development.”

For Hadiya Hewitt, a first-year from Wick House in Broadview, the announcement was like a “slap in the face,” especially because the house will be losing its name.

Hewitt also fears that the move will be detrimental to Wick’s house culture.

“A lot of elements of our house culture… [are] predicated on the fact that we’re so far from campus,” she said. “That’s just the biggest fear I have, that the house culture that the people in this house

have worked really hard to create and cultivate and protect—it’s going to die.”

Students have already created a Facebook group and listhost in order to coordinate protests against the closures and name changes. Wick House, for example, may see if they can put up money to save their name.

Manier stated that the University is still committed to building community. “That’s one reason why we incorporated a long lead time for this transition, so students can begin making plans for the fall of 2016, including moving as communities to new houses if they choose,” he said.

College Housing leaders have met with Blackstone, Breckinridge, and Maclean already to answer questions about the move, and will continue to meet with the other affected dorms through April 26.

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Influential Chinese librarian New institute explores what knowledge is passes away at 105 Adam Thorp News Staff

Wendy Lee News Staff On Thursday, April 9, one of America’s most influential Chinese librarians passed away at the age of 105. Professor emeritus Tsuen-hsuin “T.H.” Tsien, a pioneer in his field, risked his life during World War II to secretly ship 30,000 rare Chinese volumes to the U.S. Library of Congress for safekeeping, days before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Beyond saving some of China’s most ancient and valuable articles, Tsien also wrote publications that revolutionized the fields of Chinese bibliography, paleography, and science and technology.

Tsien was born on December 1, 1909 in Taizhou, China, during the reign of Puyi, the last emperor of the Imperial Dynasty. After studying history and library science at Jinling University and working extensively at National Jiaotong University and the National Library of Beiping, he came to the University of Chicago as an exchange scholar. While at the University, Tsien earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in library science and later went on to curate the East Asian Library from 1949 to 1978. During his tenure in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, he trained more than 30 graduate students, many of whom went on to head East Asian libraries all around the country. He also helped build the University’s East Asian Collection into one of the most comprehensive and distinctive of its kind in

North America. Even after retiring in 1978, Tsien continued to remain active as a centenarian scholar, stating in a 2010 interview with Tableau magazine that he continued to keep in touch with his former students through correspondence, conversation, and dinners.

Tsien led a distinguished career during his lifetime, publishing 10 books, 17 monographs, and more than 150 articles in English and Chinese. Edward Shaughnessy is a professor in Early Chinese Studies who worked closely with Tsien. In the preface that he wrote for Tsien’s book Collected Writings on Chinese Culture, he said, “Professor Tsien was...a daily presence at the library, the contents of which he knew like the back of his hand.” Tsien’s Written on Bamboo and Silk and Paper and Printing are now regarded as classics of Sinological scholarship.

His volume Paper and Printing was written as the fifth volume of Joseph Needham’s monumental Science and Civilisation in China, which was later included as one of the Modern Library Board’s 100 best nonfiction books of the 20th century.

Ten members of his family in three generations have studied and worked at the University. He is survived by his daughters Gloria and Mary and his nephew Xiaowen Qian, an assistant to the curator for the Regenstein Library’s East Asian Collection. In 2009, the T.H. Tsien Research Fund for Chinese Studies was created in his name to support faculty research.

A new institute at the University of Chicago will explore the broad question of knowledge: how it emerges and changes, and how disciplines are codified and intersect. The establishment of the new Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Human Knowledge (SIFK) was announced earlier this month. People involved with the foundation of the Institute contend that the Institute will, through its exploration of different academic disciplines, nurture a relatively young discipline of its own.

“One of the most surprising features of SIFK is that its field of study is still nascent. While other individuals and groups exist that ask the same questions, the study of the formation of knowledge has yet to be formally institutionalized with this breadth of inquiry anywhere but at the University of Chicago,” Shadi Bartsch, the inaugural faculty director of the Institute, wrote in an e-mail to The Maroon.

The Institute plans to conduct conferences and graduate and undergraduate courses, to distribute grants, and to publish a biannual journal (The Journal of the History of Knowledge). The academic work of the Institute will begin next year with the introduction of a seminar for graduate students.

According to Bartsch, the Institute is the result of almost a decade of thinking and planning. University Trustee Steve Stevanovich (A.B. ’85, M.B.A. ’90) donated $10 million toward the foundation of the Institute.

Stevanovich previously lent his name to the Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics at the University.

Each quarter of the two-quarterlong seminar will be broken into a weeklong introduction and three modules, focusing on a specific aspect of the Institute’s broader concern. The modules will be taught by a different group of professors from separate fields. For example, Rob Richards, the Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, and John Goldsmith, professor

of linguistics, are proposing a module about the birth of the mind sciences in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Richards is part of a small group of faculty planning for the Institute’s first year, and a member of its executive committee.

“I think [the seminar] will give graduate students who are very often immersed in the details of whatever discipline they’re pursuing a chance to step back and consider questions about the formation of the very discipline they happen to be engaged in: How does [the discipline] come about? What are the implications?” Richards said.

Richards compared the new Institute to other academic innovations that emerged from the University of Chicago, including the discipline of sociology and early work in the field of psychology and the philosophy of science. “Chicago has been innovative in higher education for its whole existence, and I think this is just another one of those experimental procedures.

It may not work out so well. Who knows. We hope it will,” Richards said.

Almost 100 students march to support UCAN’s campaign UCAN continued from front

university is the home and sponsor of critics; it is not itself the critic.’”

Once the crowd reached its destination in front of the administrative offices in Levi Hall, marchers gathered to hear UCAN leaders explain the ensuing steps. Participants were encouraged to continue chanting as UCAN representatives Kristin Lin, Kenzo Esquivel, Sam Zacher, and Guy entered the building to discuss the situation.

Their intention was to present

Reisberg with a letter expressing disappointment with the administration and demanding a reaffirmation of its commitment to set up a meeting between members of the divestment campaign and the Board of Trustees.

However, Reisberg was not in his office at the time of the march. Instead, the four UCAN members spoke with oncall administrators for approximately 15 minutes about the protest and their expectations moving forward.

“The administration has contacted

us per the protest to schedule a meeting about Mr. Reisberg’s commitment,” Guy said. “Hopefully this discussion will prove fruitful and result in a meeting with one or more trustees as was originally promised.”

In his statement, Manier reaffirmed the University’s commitment to sound investing in diligently researched entities.

Editors’ note: Kristin Lin is editorin-chief of Grey City, The Maroon’s quarterly magazine.

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Saturday night hunger A lack of Saturday night dining options on campus cannot be fixed by simply telling students to use Maroon Dollars Preethi Raju Maroon Contributor Hungry? Let’s be honest—we’re college students. The answer is definitely yes. We have the appetite, but whether or not we have the food to match is another question altogether.

Recently, I collaborated with Ala Tineh, Class of 2017 college council representative, and Aseal Tineh, Class of 2016 vice president for student affairs, to create a survey asking for student feedback concerning the University’s policy of closing the dining hall on Saturday nights. Although the survey was minimally marketed, it managed to break 100 responses in a day, and it currently stands at more than 340 responses. The majority of the participants were those who are affected most by the dining halls’ closure: firstyears and people on the Unlimited Meal Plan.

More than half the respondents believed that closing the dining hall on Saturday nights is a serious concern, mainly due to the personal cost involved—a majority of students spend $11 to $15 on each Saturday night dinner. Distance, weather, and travel (including lack of convenient transportation options, as well as an inability to devote time to travel due to work or study) are additional worries that closely follow cost.

When I brought up these issues with University of Chicago Dining officials, they pointed to Maroon Dollars as the immediate solution. “First-years, for example, have $100 per quarter,” one official told me when I met with UChicago Dining. “If you

split the quarter into 10 weeks (excluding finals), then you see that theoretically you could spend $10 per Saturday night per meal at one of the campus shops.” There is logic to this statement. More than 70 percent of survey responders did say that they wished they had more information about how and where Maroon Dollars could be spent on campus during Saturday nights. So is using Maroon Dollars the magic cure?

Let’s look at what options students have to use their Maroon Dollars on Saturday nights. Maroon Market, Midway Market, and Tiffin Café (in I-House) are all open on Saturday nights, where items such as pizza, sandwiches, and snack foods can be purchased.

Café Logan is open until 8 p.m., Hutch Commons is open until 7 p.m., and C-Shop is open until 11 p.m. While these present several options to students, whether or not one would be able to purchase a nutritious, filling meal from these places is still questionable. You can get a small, arguably insufficient Subway sandwich with one fruit (if you’re feeling healthy), but you’ll probably end up with chips, soda, and pizza instead, which are more appetizing than the limited sandwich options and are offered in larger quantities. That is, of course, if you choose to eat at all.

Another problem with Maroon Dollars is that a large majority of students prefer not to spend Maroon Dollars on Saturday nights, since they save them for snacks, coffee, and other incidental food purchases. By the time students are halfway through the quarter, they’ve probably drilled a sizable

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hole into their Maroon Dollar allowance.

As a result, students are spending $100 to $150 per quarter on dining out, on top of our high tuition and living fees. After all, UChicago ranked as the fourthmost expensive college in the U.S. at $62,000. And when you consider that a little less than half of students receive financial aid…

I don’t need to be an economics major to know that is a lot of money—part of which should be used to provide quality dining options, including Saturday night dining. It’s not any wonder that many students are frustrated that Saturday night dining is not provided.

As a result, an overwhelming number of students want the University to provide free dining options on Saturdays (either through opening dining halls, adding meal exchanges, or increasing Maroon Dollars), or at least provide cheaper and better meals. Some students support a solution that involves providing a website or an app that informs students about free or cheap food events or opportunities. In fact, we do have one, but it is unclear how many students know about it. Others want free transportation options to Chicago neighborhoods to get out of the Hyde Park bubble and explore our community. Dining Services suggested sacrificing one Fourth Meal and substituting it with a Saturday night meal. This way, the total number of meals per week would stay the same, but instead of having a Fourth Meal on Thursday and two meals on Saturday, students would have three meals on each of those days. Dining attempted to implement this idea in the past, but it was apparently unpopular since students found it inconvenient to give up a Fourth Meal.

All of these potential solutions are valid and, rest assured, they will all be explored through conversations with Financial Aid and Dining officials by Student Government officials, including myself, as well as Aseal and Ala Tineh, who plan to expand our research to what other schools are doing and what solutions we can adopt. In the meantime, check out the Saturday night locations where you can spend Maroon Dollars or use a meal exchange. Find ways to budget, either by checking out free food events that are usually announced on Facebook, keeping your eyes and ears open for House events, cooking for yourself, or splitting meals with friends. The RSO Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance also has a great guide to budgeting in Hyde Park.

What meal plan are you on?

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Do you feel that closing the dining hall on Saturday nights is a major concern?

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Where do you usually eat on Saturday nights?

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How much do you spend per meal on Saturday night, in dollars?

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Is cost a significant issue for you?

Happy eating!

Preethi Raju is a first-year in the College majoring in economics and biology.

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ARTS

What is art?

APRIL 21, 2015

Eclectic show celebrates wide diversity of African, Caribbean cultures Grace Hauck Associate Arts Editor The African and Caribbean Students Association (ACSA) took International House by storm this past Saturday evening with its annual spring show, this year entitled Diaspora. The event, celebrating the club’s 10-year anniversary, featured slapstick comedy, dance routines, two fashion segments, vocal and instrumental musical performances, and meditative monologues spoken in various African dialects. The excited crowds flowed upstairs, downstairs, inside, outside, into the seats, and, by the end of the night, onto the stage itself. According to some audience members, the show was not only ACSA’s best performance all year, but also the best of all cultural association shows yet.

Aphrican Ape, a Nigerian comedian based in Miami and Diaspora’s emcee for the night, carried the event, lending buoyancy to tense moments and maintaining crowd engagement for a long three hours. Throughout the night, Aphrican Ape enlightened the audience—a diverse mix of ages, heritages, and affiliations—on pressing and

nuanced social issues like the struggles of Facebook dating, the futile methods of avoiding household chores, and the difference between Nigerian and American girls…when it comes to splitting the tab. He later fell to his knees onstage while mocking a telephone call to his religious Nigerian mother, crying, “Amen, hallelujah, amen!” He continued to repeat these crowd-inciting exclamations until his imaginary mother conferred her stubborn satisfaction.

Though most attendees cracked up unabashedly—some solely in response to the audience’s reaction rather than to the emcee himself—other attendees found the humor alienating. In response to Aphrican Ape’s jokes about “your African parents,” a somewhat unamused second-year later remarked to me, “Well, I don’t have African parents.” However, this concern seems a bit unwarranted, for though the jokes themselves were specifically targeted, the punch lines applied universally to family dynamics everywhere.

The first half of the night’s program showcased student performers, monologues on the roles of dance and food, and the first of the two fashion

segments—an array of beautifully patterned, more traditional clothing items from Maryam Garba, Kwabena Klassics, and Kayra Imports. The Essence Dance Team, visiting from the University of Illinois, also graced the stage before the audience gorged on the intermission smorgasbord of jerk chicken, oxtail, cabbage, and curry goat.

Chase Woods, a second-year in the College, led off the second half with a segment of spoken-word poetry. He very quickly delved into the difficult historical reality of diaspora, rhythmically expounding on slavery and modern racism to a snaps-filled room. Cameron “Noir” Okeke, a fourth-year in the College, followed Woods’ segment with his hip-hop dance routine entitled “Warrior.” Noir’s combination of music genres and utilization of imaginary props, including items like a computer keyboard and a gun, gave his impressive and entertaining dance a much more serious tone. According to the printed event guide, Noir drew inspiration for this piece from “a story comparing the child soldiers of Uganda to the teenage gang members of South Chicago.”

The show closed with a final mono-

Ifficial Reggae Movement brings down the house at Diaspora.

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logue on fashion, followed by a catwalk exhibiting modern clothing. The outfits, all designed for women, ranged from business proper to everyday chic. Although these pieces were significantly more contemporary than those of the first fashion segment, they retained similar patterns and colors. Taken together, these two segments artfully demonstrated ACSA’s predominant in-

tention in naming its anniversary event Diaspora: to celebrate cultural history while looking to the future and to the continued act of diaspora. As the Ifficial Reggae Movement band took over the reigns, audience members slowly shook their way to the front stage and clapped, shimmied, and sang the show to a close.

ACSA plans to host more events this spring. Stay tuned.

Caps off to B.A. workshops

Horowitz's harrowing historical whodunit hits home

Shoshanna Coalson Arts Contributor

Grace Hauck Associate Arts Editor

It is likely that while wandering around the University in the first few weeks of the spring quarter, you will see signs plastering the performance spaces with advertisements for New Work Week. Once a year, UChicago’s Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) puts on a two-week-long festival called New Work Week; the first week provides TAPS majors and minors a space to showcase their Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theses, and the second week gives the general UChicago body a space to showcase their New Work.

“Usually, it’s just UT [University Theater] regulars that attend these, but also sometimes friends of the writers or directors,” said a TAPS major and actor in the New Work Week shows. “I wish it could become a regular thing because, while I love UT people, it would be great to meet non–UT people…and make art and theater with them.”

This seems to be a widely shared opinion. Natalie Wagner, a secondyear in the College and regular New Work Week attendant, stresses that since New Work Week is so eclectic in nature, the content that is put on would be interesting and pertinent to a large number of UChicago students.

The content available at New Work Week comes in diverse formats, lengths, and cast sizes. For example, on Sunday fourth-year Alexandra Levitas’s B.A., On Being a Polish Jew—An Experiment in Theatrical Museology, was a presentation on Polish-Jewish life in the format of a museum. Her show was interactive; characters stood around the audience in a circle while audience members prompted the characters with questions about their experience with Polish Jews. Shows range from

One Direction fan-fiction pieces to staged readings to dance pieces.

It is easy to wonder, then, since a large component of New Work Week is that it’s so experimental, where the most helpful audience feedback would come from. “It’s definitely useful to have the feedback from other theater people who can give you more technical changes to make, but it’s also really helpful to get feedback from people who are outside the theater world, who can tell you objectively what to fix,” said Eloise Hyman, a second-year in the College and a regular New Work Week actor.

However, since the works are also not completely finished, it is also easy to wonder if those without a theater and performance studies background would be able to fully appreciate the shows, since they are more experimental. According to Levitas, everyone knows what they’re getting into when they buy a ticket. “I think it’s pretty clear…that this is new work. I’ve never heard people complain. In fact, I think it’s a good way to make people interested in theater that wouldn’t normally be.”

New Work Week has a tendency to pull in people that normally would not be interested in theater: actors, writers, and directors alike.

New Work Week acts as a creative outlet for those who would not normally have the opportunity. “A lot of the people putting forth non–B.A. work are not Theater and Performance Studies students, and it’s just because we are passionate students who love to create something new….

And it’s just putting that creativity and that passion to use,” Hyman said.

“We want to do things that aren’t just our academic work.”

The second half of New Work Week starts Thursday, April 23 and runs until April 25.

In 1507, under the reign of King Henry VII, the body of a murdered infant was found floating down the Thames River. At the same time, the king’s chief ministers imprisoned an innocent merchant in the Tower of London while an unassuming local townswoman lied under oath. Someone owed the king £500, but who? And for what? Half a millennium later, a curious historian discovered a tattered and rat-eaten scroll within a scroll in the depths of the Westminster Abbey archives, resurfacing an age-old mystery.

At Sunday’s lecture, “A Murder in Tudor England: A Warning for the 21st Century,” UChicago alum and Royal Historical Society Fellow Mark Horowitz (Ph.D. ’08) turned his academic research into an interactive sleuthing game not unlike Guess Who, entertaining, seducing, testing, and befuddling the audience along the way.

As the attendees—a crowd of alumni interspersed with a few brave students—nibbled on their bangers and mash, biscuits, and tea, Horowitz brought his participants up to speed on the history of England’s Wars of the Roses. A summary: After more than 20 years of fighting between the houses of Lancaster and York, Henry VII took control of England and founded a new dynasty aimed toward stability, security, and solvency. To accomplish this objective, the new sovereign introduced a system of bonds—written contracts that citizens used to swear allegiance to the king. If broken, these bonds would cost the citizen a hefty monetary sum, yet, regardless of the risk, citizens of all classes possessed these bonds.

Thomas Sunnyff, a haberdasher (merchant who sold small sewing articles) in Ludgate, England, was a well-to-do possessor of one of these bonds. When Horowitz discovered a document titled “The Complaint

of Thomas Sunnyff Against Camby” in Westminster Abbey, he read about Sunnyff ’s life and struggles. He learned that Sunnyff had a wife, Agnes, and several children. The family hosted a young woman, Alice Damston, who worked for them. All was well until two of King Henry’s chief ministers, Sir Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley, began to harass Sunnyff and Agnes, claiming that, according to the testimony of Damston, Agnes had murdered the child found in the river, with Sunnyff as an accomplice.

Sunnyff was taken to the Tower of London, where he recorded his grievances. Even after Damston confessed that her claim was false and Agnes was acquitted, Empson and Dudley continued to hold Sunnyff captive, demanding that he pay £500 for bail (for reference, at the time it took a farmer an entire year to earn £1). Eventually, a perplexed and frustrated Sunnyff went along with what he was told, paid bail, TUDOR continued on page 6

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and returned home.

His discovery of this bewildering document launched Horowitz on a long campaign of research into the key figures in Sunnyff ’s story—a campaign that lasted 30 years. In reviewing Dudley’s official record book, Horowitz noticed that Dudley had recorded a £500 bond default payment for the “murther of child.” In an upper corner of the page, Henry VII had scribbled his initials, condoning the transfer of payment.

However, Horowitz could not yet link this payment to Sunnyff.

Horowitz reviewed other documents belonging and pertaining to Dudley. Over time, he noticed a curious trend. On different documents—even those written around the same time—Dudley signed his name differently. Horowitz projected an image on the screen for all of his audience to see, revealing that, on the very same page, Dudley signed his name as both “Edmonde Dudley” and “Edmdo Dudley.” Horowitz noted that another minister by the name of Grove, who frequently popped up at the frays of Sunnyff ’s story, was recorded in varying documents by two names: Grove and Greene. As Horowitz explained to his audience, people writing during this time often changed spellings. They inserted the letter “e” and replaced certain letters

with others that shared a similar shape in script. In other words, there was no standardization in spelling, complicating Horowitz’s research.

After fleshing out the Sunnyff of “The Complaint of Thomas Sunnyff Against Camby,” naturally, the next figure Horowitz had to identify was Camby. As it turns out, John Camby worked under Dudley (in effect as his henchman), assisting with matters pertaining to bonds. After years of tracking, Horowitz unearthed even more information about this suspect character. A man by the name of Canby owned a brothel near the Thames. In fact, Sunnyff housed one of Canby’s prostitutes.

Damston was this very prostitute. Horowitz theorizes that she worked for Camby until she became pregnant and was, so to speak, out of commission, departing to live with a kind Christian couple and their family: the Sunnyffs. A possible explanation is that Camby, upon hearing of a child dead in the river, assumed it was Damston’s and blackmailed her into testifying against her hosts so that Dudley and Empson could leech £500 out of a wealthy merchant and give it to the king.

“The Petition of Edmond Dudley,” written the year Dudley and Empson were both executed for corruption, confirms this theory. In this petition,

Dudley itemized each and every person he wronged in charging bonds. Horowitz encouraged the audience to read Dudley’s 76th entry aloud and in unison.

It cites an innocent haberdasher from Ludgate charged £500—a man by the name Simmes. This bizarre and unfamiliar name would prove challenging to reconcile if one did not remember this fact: in written script, “u” with was frequently exchanged with “i,” “n” with “m,” and “f ” with “s.” Go ahead, make the conversion.

This practice of randomly incarcerating and unjustly charging wealthy citizens in order to secure bond payment for the king was frighteningly common in Tudor England.

The innocents submitted and paid while the judges watched.

Just as common as this practice, moreover, was the equally repulsive custom of dumping unwanted, murdered infants into the Thames.

Horowitz ended his complicated (and admittedly gimmicky) presentation with an ominous side-by-side comparison of 1500 and 2015, paralleling the implications of Henry VII’s 1495 incarceration laws with modern counterparts like the Patriot Act, “sneak and peak” searches, and the omniscient eyes of Google and the NSA. In essence, history repeats itself and the wheel keeps turning.

Horowitz pushed further,

Mark Horowitz (Ph.D. '08) enthralled his audience with a melodramatic murder mystery.

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saying sarcastically: “Some might argue that much like the Wars of the Roses, 9/11 was such an awakening in America of national threats to our wellbeing, but assaults on the laws and rights of people, as it began in early Tudor England, could never happen in America… right?”

So who murdered the child?

Did Sunnyff actually enact the

deed? Was Sunnyff the true father? Did Camby himself kill the infant? Was there an unknown party? Though many audience members, who had earlier recorded their guesses on the back of their chart-filled pamphlets, succeeded in rooting out the murderer, the answer will not be revealed here.

But was the murder even the real case here?

Needless to say, the lecture left attendees with a departing thought—that, in the end of this very peculiar tale, the murderer did not turn out to be the true villain.

This event was co-sponsored by the Alumni Club of Chicago and the International House Global Voices Program. Check out their webpages for upcoming events.

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SENIOR SPOTLIGHT

SARA KWAN

SOCCER: KWAN’S LEGACY SURPASSES THE RECORD BOOKS Katie Anderson Associate Sports Editor Fourth-year Sara Kwan, affectionately called “Skwan” by her teammates, has been a leader on and off the turf during her time as a Chicago student-athlete.

During her four years, Kwan compiled numerous accolades to become one of the most accomplished soccer players in University of Chicago history. In the record books, she ranks eighth in goals with 24, second in assists with 28, and fifth in points with 76.

First-year Whitley Cargile speaks highly of her captaain, saying, “Sara Kwan has always been a role model for the younger girls on the team. Her guidance and leadership on and off the field is invaluable. One day, I hope to have her knowledge of and ability to play the game.”

However, behind every successful college athlete is a lot of hard work and a love for the game. The Irvine,

CA native found her passion for soccer at an early age.

“I started playing soccer at three years old,” she said. “My parents put me in community soccer mostly to keep me fit and active. I turned out to be pretty decent at it and was scouted to play on one of the local club teams in Irvine. I played on the same club team from age 10 until I graduated high school.”

Kwan quickly set her sights on continuing her athletic career at the collegiate level.

“I decided [during my second year] that I wanted to play collegiate soccer because I could not imagine my life without it. But I always knew that academics came first. UChicago seemed to have the perfect balance of academics and athletics.”

Having chosen Chicago for its academic prestige, Kwan certainly took full advantage of her time in the classroom and within the Hyde Park community. She made UAA All-Academic

team for three consecutive seasons, and was named to the Scholar All-America team by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America in her final season.

As a biology major, Kwan holds two jobs on campus, one working in a lab studying pharmacogenetics and the other in the hospital researching health-care disparities. She is also involved in a Christian club called Christians on Campus.

After graduation, Kwan plans on attending a twoyear Bible school in California, and then enrolling in graduate school.

As her time on the South Side comes to a close, Kwan looks back on her years in maroon and white. Surprisingly, her best memory is the double-overtime loss this season in the Sweet 16 to Illinois Wesleyan that brought her career to an abrupt end.

“We were losing 2–0 at halftime and with 15 minutes into the second half we had tied it up. I am just so proud of my team because

we kept on fighting until the very last minute. The heart that my team played with and the support from all of those on the bench and the sidelines was unreal. While I still know that we were robbed of making the Final Four, I still feel so lucky to have been a part of this team and this program.”

Having embodied all of the values of a Maroon student-athlete during her four years, Kwan leaves her peers with some final words of advice.

“Take advantage of what this school has to offer; there are so many opportunities. But don’t over-stretch yourself. This school puts a lot of stress on getting jobs and internships and being involved in as many clubs or associations [as] you can. It’s crucial to find the right balance so that you can give your best effort [to] the things you choose to be involved with.

Find the things that you care about the most and prioritize those.”

Fourth-year Sara Kwan dribbles a soccer ball down the field during a game against Augsburg last year.

COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

Bears prove victorious in offensive battles Baseball Bobby Butler & Michael Cheiken

Sports Staff The Maroons picked up a win sandwiched between two losses this weekend against Wash U. The Bears seemed to have an answer for every pitching strategy thrown at them as they put up 24 runs over the course of the two games. There were bright spots for Chicago, however. The squad pulled out a miraculous raging comeback in the second game of the three-game series.

On Saturday, the two teams split a doubleheader

held in St. Louis. In the first game, the score was knotted at 2–2 early. The South Siders jumped into the lead in the top of the first, tallying both runs on an error by the opposing third baseman attempting to field a knock by third-year Kevin Tully. Wash U tied it up in the bottom of the second on a walk followed by a sac fly off second-year pitcher Thomas Prescott.

The Maroons had a five-inning drought at the dish in the middle of the game, managing no more runs until the seventh. In the meantime, the Bears were able to force

Prescott from the game after 4 2/3 innings, hanging up eight more runs by the end of the sixth. Secondyear Ryan Krob mashed a three-run bomb in the seventh, but it turned out to be too little, too late, as his squad fell 106.

In the second game, the results were much better.

By the end of the fifth, though, the Maroons were staring down the barrel of another defeat, down 9–1.

They scored the next fifteen runs of the game over four innings, leaving the Bears flat on their backs.

Tully garnered five RBIs

during the late-game explosion, three of which came on a bases-clearing double in the seven-run ninth inning.

This scoring frenzy was highlighted by a three-run jack from first-year Michael Davis. The Maroons designated hitter said, “I was thinking low off speed, and got what looked like a low slider and just turned on it.”

Though four more runs were surrendered to Wash U in the bottom of the ninth, providing quite a scare, Chicago was able to close the game out with a 16–13 victory in an abso-

lute whirlwind of a game.

Robert Fuentes earned his first win on the mound of the season, though he only threw 2/3 of an inning.

Post-game an elated Davis noted, “It was a great team win; great to come back and beat that team.”

On Sunday, the two squads were transplanted to GCS Ballpark just outside of St. Louis for a drizzly Bears senior day game.

Luck was not on Maroon starter third-year pitcher Nick Watson’s side in the rubber match. He walked four in his four innings of work, giving up eight runs

and picking up the loss, though he surrendered no runs in the first two innings.

Center fielder and first-year Max Larsen injected some life into the visiting side’s lineup, lifting a two-run shot over the wall in the fifth. However, hopes of another comeback like the day before were dashed by Bears ace Scott Nelson, who went all 8 innings en route to the 13–3 victory.

On Tuesday, the Maroons will visit Elmhurst. The 10–20 Bluejays should be a very beatable team for the South Siders as they travel to the western suburbs.

Stagg Tennis Courts host senior day victory Women’s Tennis Max Hawkins Maroon Contributor The Maroons wrapped up their final match of the regular season Sunday in Wisconsin with a narrow 5–4 victory over No. 16 Gustavus Adolphus College. The win put a cap on a successful season for the 14–4 Maroons, who entered the day as the No. 13– ranked team in the nation.

The Gusties initially looked

to be in a strong position after taking the first two doubles matches by scores of 8–4 and 8–1. However, first-years Nicolas Chua and David Liu managed to score a victory in their contest, edging out a 9–8 tiebreaker victory.

However, the Maroons then dropped their initial two singles matches and things were looking grim for the team. With their backs against the wall, they were

able to rally behind strong performances from fourthyear Deepak Sabada, firstyear Peter Leung, first-year Luke Tsai, and Liu. Even more impressive, each of the victories came in straight sets. The win was a great way for Chicago to end the regular season.

“It felt really good,” said Liu, whose victory in the final match secured the win for the team. “It was an opponent

that we hadn’t beaten in a long time, so it was nice to get a win against them for our seniors.”

The win helps build off of the previous weekend where the Maroons took two out of three matches in St. Louis, all against ranked opponents, and with the regular season now in the rearview mirror, focus for the team now shifts toward the UAA tournament with momentum on its side.

A win against another ranked

opponent like Gustavus Adolphus will help prepare the team for the high-quality opponents that it will face in the postsea-son.

“It was good to get a 5–4 win under our belt so that we’ll be ready for the close matches in the UAA tournament coming up,” Liu said.

“Everyone is playing well and [is] healthy and excited for the opportunity to fight for our NCAA tournament spot.”

However, there is still room for improvement, as the teams Chicago will match up against from here on out will only get tougher.

“We will continue to work on doubles to get us where we want to be, but overall I think we’re in great shape for the tournament,” Liu said.

The UAA Championships are scheduled for April 24–27, and will take place in Altamon-te Springs, FL.

SPORTS

IN QUOTES “We’re the Dallas Cowboys, we have real ball.”

– Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo comments on the inflation of the Dallas Cowboys’ footballs

Conference looms for ever-improving Chicago Track and Field Andrew Beytagh Maroon Contributor The men’s and women’s track and field teams posted solid performances at the 2015 Don Church Twilight Meet at Wheaton College. With 122 points, the men placed third out of nine teams. The women, meanwhile, placed fourth out of eight teams with 85 points.

North Central College dominated the meet on the men’s side by racking up 246 points, while Illinois Wesleyan controlled the meet on the women’s side by posting 240.5 points.

Despite the high level of competition, the Maroons performed well. On the men’s side, third-year Jacob Romeo, who did not run during the indoor season, and second-year Temisan Osowa, who is recovering from a hamstring injury, grabbed first and second place respectively in the 100-meter.

The South Siders were aided by a tremendous performance from first-year Obi Wamuo, who won the 400-meter hurdles with a blistering time of 55.02 seconds.

With the time, Wamuo grabbed a freshman record. Following close behind Wamuo, third-year

Ryan Manzuk finished third in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 56.98 seconds. Wamuo is currently seeded third overall in the UAAs for the 400-meter hurdles behind two nationally competitive hurdlers. The men’s team also had two runner-up finishes from second-year Eyal Hanfling in the 3,000-meter with a time of 9:13.12 and fourth-year Chijioke Ikonte in the triple jump with a bound of 12.34m.

The women’s side also saw rock-solid performances.

Second-year Michelle Dobbs outpaced the entire field in the 800-meter in a dominating win with a time of 2:12.91. Dobbs came out on top by more than five seconds in her win. Thirdyear Brianna Hickey also raced well, winning the 1,500-meter with a time of 4:44.67.

The women’s team also saw strong performances from its 4x400-meter relay team, which placed third. With a clearing leap of 1.55m, first-year Ade Ayoola likewise placed third in the high jump.

Looking forward to the UAA Championships this weekend at Emory University in Atlanta, the Maroons hope to bring back

both championships. “Looking at the conference standings at the moment, it will certainly be a battle for the championship, but I am very excited to see how we can take the next step as a team and really perform at our best when it matters,” Romeo said.

A key cog for the South Siders, third-year sprinter Ben Clark is also coming off of a hamstring injury. Clark is looking to defend his indoor 200-meter championship this weekend with another blistering time.

Second-year thrower Andrew Maneval commented that he too is “very excited to compete in Atlanta and contribute to the team effort.”

“Everyone is excited to head down to ‘Hotlanta’ this weekend. The girls are going down to show why they are still the best in the UAAs, and the guys are going down to show the other teams who really should have won the indoor championships,” Wamuo said.

The 2015 UAA Outdoor Championships in Atlanta begin on April 25 and continue through April 26. The Maroons look to bring some hardware back to the South Side.

This Week in Sports…

CHICAGO SPECIAL

with Sarah Langs

CHICAGO CUBS: The Cubs called up 2013 first-round pick and possible organizational messiah Kris Bryant on Friday. OK, he might not be the one to break that old Billy Goat Curse—if you believe in that sort of thing—but expectations for him are certainly high.

After the third baseman hit nine home runs, the most of any player, in spring training, the Cubs elected to send him down to Triple-A Iowa to minimize his major league service time, a move that will give them an extra year of control over him. He went 0–4 with three strikeouts in his debut Friday at Wrigley, batting in the cleanup spot as the Cubs fell 5–4 to the Padres.

On Saturday, he got his first two major league hits and his first RBI in the Cubs’ 7–6 victory over San Diego. He drilled another hit on Sunday, raising his career total to three. He needs just 4,253 more to tie Pete Rose for the all-time record. This week, the Cubs will head out on the road, to play four games in Pittsburgh during the week followed by three in Cincinnati over the weekend.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX: The White Sox see your Kris Bryant, Cubbies, and raise you a Carlos Rodon. Three days after the North Siders called up one of the strongest members of their farm system, the South Siders followed suit. The Sox called up 2014 first-round pick pitcher Carlos Rodon on Monday to aid the team’s bullpen. And yes, this move was made with a similar service-time regulation in mind. In his first year with the organization in 2014 after being drafted in June, Rodon compiled a 2.96 ERA combined in Rookie League, High-A, and Triple-A. Though Rodon is a starter, Chicago initially plans to use him out of the bullpen as he gets his feet wet in the majors. The team used the same strategy with another former firstround pick, Chris Sale, in 2010 and 2011, which worked out pretty well. As for the games themselves, the Sox dropped a road series to the Tigers 2–1. The series started with a pitcher’s duel. Jeff Samardzija and David Price each went eight innings and allowed a single run, each on a solo home run. Zach Duke surrendered a run in the ninth, and the Sox dropped the series opener 2–1. On Saturday, Sale was backed by a three-run homer from Adam LaRoche and a grand slam from Jose Abreu as the Sox won 12–3. The rubber game got away from the Sox early, as starter Jose Quintana yielded nine earned runs in four innings en route to a 9–1 loss.

The White Sox return home this week to host Cleveland for three games and then Kansas City for four.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS: The Blackhawks’ goalie controversy this postseason continued over the weekend. After being pulled after a period in Game One but still receiving the nod for Game Two, Corey Crawford gave up six goals Friday against the Predators, including three in quick succession in the third period. The Hawks lost 6–2. With Scott Darling in net in Game Three on Sunday, Chicago won 4–2 to take a 2–1 series lead heading into Game Four tonight at the United Center. Coach Q announced on Monday that Darling will start again.

CHICAGO BULLS: The Bulls began their postseason run on Saturday with a 103–91 home victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. Jimmy Butler and Derrick Rose led the Bulls in points, with 25 and 23 respectively. The game marked Rose’s first postseason appearance since tearing his ACL in the team’s First-Round Game One against the Philadelphia 76ers in April 2012. Rose also recorded an impressive seven assists. The series will shift to Milwaukee for Games Three and Four on Thursday and Saturday of this week.

Third-year Yorkbell Jaramillo runs down the track at the Windy City Invite earlier this season.

COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

Maroons fall to No. 16 UW– Whitewater Softball Madison Hertzner Maroon Contributor After being knocked out of regionals by UW–Whitewater last year, Chicago came into the doubleheader on Saturday ready to play. However, this chip on its shoulder did not prove to be enough to overcome the No.16–ranked team in the nation. In the two hardfought games, the Maroons fell twice to UW–Whitewater with scores of 2–1 and 8–5.

The first game was lowscoring on both sides as UW– Whitewater went ahead 1–0 in the bottom of the first inning after scoring on a passed ball. The Maroons held the team at one until UW–Whitewater sent in another run with a leadoff home run in the bottom of the fourth inning.

Although the Maroons put three runners on base in the fifth inning, they could not get on the scoreboard until their next time up, during which third-year third baseman Kathleen Kohm led off with a double and was brought home on a double by first-year first baseman Alyssa Stolmack.

UW–Whitewater then held the South Siders for the rest

of the game to end up with the 2–1 win.

Third-year pitcher Jordan Poole tossed for six innings, allowing two runs on four hits with three walks and five strikeouts. As fourth-year shortstop Tabbetha Bohac summed up for the first game, “Jordan pitched really well… and we had a lot of runners get on base but we just couldn’t bring them home.”

Entering the second game, the Maroons were even more determined to get on top right away. Chicago did just that as it grabbed the eaarly lead when third–year outfielder Devan Parkison started the game with a double and was sent home on an RBI single from second-year outfielder Anna Woolery. The South Siders carried that momentum into the second inning and Bohac started the squad off with a solo home run—her fourth of the season.

Chicago kept the bats going and eventually was up 5–2 by the fourth inning, with an error bringing in one run in the third, Woolery knocking in another with a bases-loaded single, and Stolmack drawing a walk to force in another run.

The Warhawks battled back and scored all eight of their runs off of home runs. A tworun homer tied the game 2–2 in the second inning, and another brought UW–Whitewater one point away from the Maroons at 5–4 in the fifth.

UW–Whitewater then hit a walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the seventh to clinch the win.

First-year pitcher Molly Moran pitched for six innings, allowing four runs on five hits with two walks and three strikeouts, while Bohac absorbed the loss in the seventh inning with four runs, three hits, and one walk.

Looking forward to the rest of their season, second-year utility Maggie O’Hara said, “We’re focusing on trying to win out and end up with an over .500 record. We definitely have the ability and talent to do this as long as we stay focused.”

The South Siders will play 5–23 North Park, whom they beat in both games last year, away on Monday, April 20.

Chicago will then play 17–12 Wheaton, whom they beat in two close games last year, at home on Thursday, April 23.