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Trauma center campaigners barred from praying in hospital Sarah Manhardt Deputy News Editor

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A weekly prayer circle associated with the Trauma Center Coalition (TCC) at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) has recently been barred from meeting in the UCMC. The prayer circle is a part of TCC’s faith-based wing, which formed within the last year and recruits churches to the campaign.

The prayer circle prays for the establishment of a Level I trauma center at the UCMC on Fridays at 5 p.m. in the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM) lobby. The group has met since January, according to

third-year Students for Health Equity (SHE) member Azeem Ahmad.

“There’s a few members of our group who come from a strong faith background, and they really started this out as a way to personally express their prayerful wishes. It wasn’t political at the outset at all,” he said.

Lorna Wong, executive director of strategic communications for UCMC, said she was unaware the group met and called the prayers a form of protest.

“No one knew of this group’s claim about these protests allegedly occurring for the last four months,” she wrote in an e-mail.

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Post-outcry, UCSC Signers of faculty petition raise concerns advisory board named on Confucius Institute, faculty freedoms Marta Bakula News Staff

Raymond Fang News Staff A recent petition signed by 108 faculty members asking for the termination of the University’s ties to the Confucius Institute [CI] at the University of Chicago reflects a broader frustration by signers of the petition with the growing administrative reach and changed goals of the University.

The CI is a Chinese government– affiliated organization that provides Chinese language and culture educa-

tion and funds related research. The petitioners’ main issue with the CI is that it gives an outside organization too much agency in academic matters.

The petitioners claim that Hanban, the Chinese governmental organization that oversees the Confucius Institutes in various universities and schools world-wide, screens the teachers it chooses to send to universities for links to dissent groups and controversial religious organizations.

Though the University can reject the recommended professors, the petition

stated that this power had not been exercised.

Confucius Institutes have presented freedom of speech issues for faculty at other universities. Hanban dismissed a teacher working at McMaster University in Canada after it was discovered that she followed Falun Gong, a moral and meditative practice that is illegal in China. When the case was brought to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, McMaster University had to defend a decision that was not CI continued on page 2

Last Wednesday, the University Community Service Center (UCSC) announced a new 15-member advisory board to advise the UCSC on effectively carrying out its mission to provide students with service opportunities throughout the city of Chicago.

The board was created after controversy over changes to the UCSC’s mission.

The board includes four undergraduate students, three graduate

students, two alumni, two faculty members, two campus colleagues representing other University offices, and two leaders of community organizations, known as community partners.

“Board members will serve as UCSC ambassadors, promote and support events and activities, and work with staff on how to make the greatest impact on our campus and the broader Chicago community,” UCSC Director Amy Chan said in a statement.

The development of an advisory UCSC continued on page 2

Al Gore talks climate change, the role of money in politics at the IOP Christine Schmidt Associate News Editor Former U.S. Vice President, 2000 presidential candidate, and environmental activist Al Gore spoke on topics ranging from Common Sense to Citizens United on Monday evening at a talk sponsored by the Institute of Politics (IOP) and hosted by the Chicago Theological Seminary.

The event took place in the Seminary chapel. The LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) gold-certified environmentally friendly building was a fitting location for Gore’s message calling for citizens to join the fight against the money tainting politics and the fight against climate change. The

event started with a speech by Gore and ended with a Q&A session led

by IOP Executive Director David Axelrod (A.B. ’76), who read from preselected questions posed by people on Twitter.

With the stained glass of the chapel windows in view, at times Gore’s voice took on the tone of a preacher, warning against the perils of global warming, but more so about the consequences that may come if nothing is done to prevent it.

“If…you were somehow magically able to consult with 10,000 leading heart specialists in the world and 9,999 of them said, ‘Oh my god, you’ve got to take this medicine, change your diet, get some exercise, and make these other changes,’ but

out of the 10,000 of them you found one that said, ‘Well I don’t know yet, the jury’s still out—what would you do?” Gore asked. “That is what some people are doing on climate now.”

He pointed to recent events in the weather as evidence for these findings, including Hurricane Sandy that hit the East Coast in 2012.

“The waters over which [Sandy] passed were nine degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal. That’s where the energy came from,” he said. “The single most criticized passage in [An Inconvenient Truth] was an animation about how the World Trade Center memorial site would be invaded by ocean water….But it happened with Sandy, ahead of GORE continued on page 2

Former Vice President, 2000 presidential candidate, and environmental activist Al Gore speaks about the dangers of political inaction in the face of climate change at the Seminary chapel on Monday.

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Gore: “When the future is at risk to the extent we are Faculty agency, University goals shift over the years a lot of things right, but their sity’s larger goals and visions, CI continued from front now placing it, our politics must come to the rescue” GORE continued from front

schedule.”

Though the main focus of his talk was climate change, Gore highlighted the political climate as a roadblock to confronting change in the environmental climate. He criticized the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court—“with whose decisions I don’t always agree,” he noted—as an “obscene” transgression against the United States’s democracy.

Gore said that money in politics can prevent ordinary people from impacting democracy as the founding fathers intended. “If Thomas Paine walked out his front door in Philadelphia today and went down to the nearest TV station…and said ‘I’ve got this 90-minute video called Common Sense, it’s going to change history, when

do I go on the air?’ [he would be told] ‘You don’t go on the air,’” Gore said to laughter from the audience. “You get very wealthy people who can pay the gatekeepers – who can pay the rent to get access to the public discourse.”

Though he listed statistics about the drastic ways in which climate change is already affecting life on Earth, Gore maintained optimism.

“I don’t want to sound cynical—I’m not cynical, I’m hopeful, I think we have an opportunity to change this,” he said. “When the future is at risk to the extent we are now placing it, our politics must come to the rescue, must empower us to make intelligent, forceful decisions to protect the public interest, and we’re not doing it. I don’t want to talk to you…I want to recruit you. I want to ask you

to get involved.”

Gore pointed out several solutions on the local and national level, including steps the Environmental Protection Agency is taking in its coal policy and the decision

by Stanford University to divest from its investments in coal.

He encouraged young people in particular to get involved in the fight against climate change. “I hope that those experiencing [a renewed, more efficient Earth] will look back at us and ask, ‘How did you find the courage to make the changes that were necessary?’ Well, part of the answer will be young people who believe in the political system and were willing to do what’s necessary to make it work for the public interest….

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sense of the good leads them to pursue financial advantage, which can come into conflict with considerations of intellectual integrity,” Lincoln said.

“There is a managerial class in the administration who are willing to develop programs, centers, etc., that appeal to people outside the University who write big checks.”

Robert Topel, a Booth School professor who led a 2012 faculty committee that examined questions of faculty jurisdiction, disagreed with Lincoln’s view of faculty agency. He said the committee decided that the Faculty Council has legislative authority over degree programs, but that ultimate authority over the establishment of institutes and research centers lies with the President and the Board of Trustees.

“The question is whether the Senate or Council has legislative authority over something that a particular entity on campus, such as the Humanities Division or the Department of Far Eastern languages [sic], might do. That can come to the Council for a vote, but it need not come to the Council for a vote. It depends on whether the action of the Humanities Division implicates…the general interest of the University, and the persons who decide that are the President and the Trustees.”

University spokesperson Jeremy Manier added that faculty should be able to “decide on academic aspects of implementation of educational programs without the oversight of the faculty from outside their areas.”

Mel Rothenberg, a retired mathematics professor, emphasized the shift in the Univer-

and said that the establishment of the CI reflects this shift.

He said that during the Robert Hutchins Administration (1929—51) and shortly afterward, the University was “a little more sensitive about who it took money from,” pointing out that it rejected money from the Shah of Iran, who wanted to start an institute for Middle Eastern studies.

Rothenberg traced the growing emphasis on the University’s fundraising efforts back to the late ‘70s and early ‘80s. He attributed the shift to a need for funding from private sources due to a decrease in government funds under the Reagan Administration. “[The University administrators] were encouraged by politicians to go to private sources for donations, and to not look to the government….

If you’re raising money from large corporations, then when they look at the structure of your University, they’re very concerned about that, so you have to conform to their model of how to use the money, which you didn’t have to do before,” he said.

Lincoln said that during the Hanna Gray Administration (1978–93), the faculty and administration had a more robust relationship, and that the erosion of faculty governance and increased focus on raising funds began in the ‘90s during the Hugo Sonnenschein Administration (1993–2000), and has continued to the present.

“In cases like the Confucius Institute, I worry about the University’s willingness to sell control over pieces of its academic operation to extra-academic forces in exchange for their financial support,” he said.

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in line with Canadian law, and thereafter did not renew its contract with the Confucius Institute.

Retired anthropology professor Marshall Sahlins, a main proponent of the Confucius Institute petition, said that in addition to the ethical concerns with the Confucius Institute, the petition is also a response to eroding faculty involvement in University decisions. The decision to establish the CI in 2009 was not brought before the Council of the University Senate. The Council is composed of 51 faculty members who serve three-year terms. “[Faculty] is being denied the rights given to it by the statutes of the University, and that means there is a progressive erosion of faculty governance and control of the education process…. With the Confucius Institute, I think there is going to be an erosion of the last power of the faculty, and nothing will be left of faculty governance.”

Sahlins said the creation and naming of the Becker Friedman Institute was another example of a situation in which the faculty was not consulted or engaged.

Divinity School professor Bruce Lincoln, another main proponent of the petition, said that the naming of the Becker Friedman Institute was a move to attract wealthy donors who “enjoyed the ideas of Milton Friedman.”

Lincoln said the naming of the Becker Friedman Institute was what made some faculty aware of the erosion of their power. He also expressed frustration with what he called the “growing corporatization of the University.”

“The administration does

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board was recommended by the Student Government (SG) assembly in light of opposition to the changes considered for the Summer Links program and the controversial staff overhaul in the fall.

“The UCSC has recently undergone many major organizational and managerial shifts that have caused concerns amongst students, faculty, alumni, and some community members,” said second-year Emma Almon, who was recently chosen as one of the four undergraduate affiliates of the board.

“Since a large portion of the SG is in some way connected to the UCSC, they really wanted to help enact a board that would serve as an intermediary for any new changes.”

However, on November 7, the same day that SG passed the resolution to recommend a UCSC advisory board,

Chan said she was planning to establish an advisory board in the spring, according to an e-mail sent to UCSC participants, alumni, and Community Service RSO (CSRSO) leaders. This advisory board was to be formed independently of the resolution passed by the SG. According to Almon, SG was also looking to resurrect the first UCSC Student Advisory Board after one was implemented by Michelle Obama in 1996, when she served as the UCSC Director. The 1996 Board faded out gradually over the years, until the new board’s recent implementation.

“This advisory board was very needed,” Dillan Siegler, director of Partnerships and Engagement at the Institute of Politics (IOP) and one of the campus colleague affiliates of the board, said. “It brings together a group of people with diverse perspectives and allows us to hold

meetings that will serve as a place for insight and suggestions into how we can all help serve the community and the people within it.”

Members of the board were selected through a nomination process, followed by a written application and an interview in the style of a focus group.

New members will be required to attend two board meetings per quarter in order to help advocate for the priorities of key constituencies of the UCSC. They will also provide feedback and evaluations for new programs, events, and services being offered.

“Part of the board’s goal is to help get word out about all of the initiatives the UCSC has to offer so that we can better bridge the gap between students willing to volunteer and the programs available to them,” said firstyear and undergraduate affiliate to the board Peggy Xu.

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Vic Mensa headlines Summer Breeze Harini Jaganathan News Editor Vic Mensa will replace Jeremih in this year’s Summer Breeze lineup.

According to a press release from the Major Activities Board (MAB), Jeremih will not be able to appear due to an unanticipated scheduling conflict.

Mensa is a 20-year-old rapper from the South Side of Chicago.

He released his first solo project, Straight Up, in 2010. Mensa is part of the SaveMoney collective, which is group of musicians including Chance the Rapper and several other Chicago artists. Mensa was

featured in Chance’s mixtape Acid Rap. “Despite the unfortunate circumstance of having Jeremih no longer able to perform at Summer Breeze, we are excited to welcome Vic Mensa to Hutch Courtyard for what will be a fantastic opening set,” said fourth-year MAB chair Jack Friedman in the press release. “His appearance will allow us to continue a year-long trend of featuring leading Chicago performers like Chance the Rapper and Hannibal Buress, which was part of the calculus in initially selecting Jeremih, a Chicago native himself.”

MAB will be offering refunds

due to the lineup change. Interested students can receive their refunds on Thursday in the Reynolds Club between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Friedman said that MAB does not anticipate that many students will seek refunds.

“Given our hope that refunds will be relatively limited, we will determine the most efficient way to distribute that number of tickets to students who [have] not yet had the chance to purchase one,” Friedman said in an e-mail. “We will announce those plans on Thursday after the refund window has closed.”

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Professor honored in Napoleonic style Isaac Stein Associate News Editor Robert Morrissey, Benjamin Franklin professor of French literature at the University, was decorated with the Légion d’Honneur by the French government in a ceremony held at the Quadrangle Club on Sunday evening.

The award was issued to Morrissey by French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius.

The Légion d’Honneur is an Order of Merit that was created by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1802, and recognizes

those who have provided outstanding service to France in either a civil or military capacity. Fabius said that Morrissey received the award due to a combination of his scholarship in French literature and leadership of programs that facilitate cross-cultural exchange between France and the United States.

In addition to teaching, Morrissey is also the director of the France Chicago Center and the Project for American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language (ARTFL). The France Chicago Center is a University LEGION continued on page 4

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UCMC contacted the deans-on-call, who asked the group to pray outside UCMC continued from front

ing by the Youth (FLY), Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO), SHE, and the Coalition for Community Benefits. The faith-based wing of the advocacy group began about a year ago, according to Johnny Kline, minister for social justice at University Church.

The faith-based wing represents the churches that have formally supported the TCC. Kline said that the official collaboration of the University Church and Kenwood United Church of Christ (UCC) began after conversations between himself, Alice Harper of Kenwood UCC, SHE, and FLY. “We invited FLY and SHE to come into our congregations, so they made a presentation at University Church, they made a presentation at Kenwood UCC, and those presentations led to

the board at each of those churches making a decision to offer the Church’s resources, the Church’s support, to the campaign in an official way,” he said.

Since those churches committed to TCC, another one, Good Shepherd in Englewood, has followed, and the coalition is in conversations with other churches as well. The coalition has also received support from well-known priests Senior Pastor Michael L. Pfleger of Saint Sabrina’s Church on 78th Place and Reverend Doctor Otis Moss III at Trinity Church on West 95th Street.

The group was first asked to leave on April 26, according to Ahmad. He said the group usually tells people in the lobby they are going to form a prayer circle and carries flyers to inform people that they are praying for a trauma center. On that date, he said, a security officer joined the prayer circle and saw

the group’s flyers.

“He was standing there with us, and he looked down and saw that it said, ‘Prayers for a trauma center,’ and my impression of it was that was when he made the decision of, ‘Oh, you guys need to get out of here,’’” Ahmad said.

On May 3, the group returned with more people and was told to leave and threatened with arrest, according to Ahmad. On May 9, Deans-on-Call Lynda Dahler and Vicki Sides met the group as it entered the DCAM entryway and asked them to leave and pray outside.

UCMC contacted the deans-oncall, according to University News Director Jeremy Manier.

“Hospital security staff formally requested to have Deans-on-Call present on Friday, and at other vigils going forward,” he wrote in an e-mail. “This

approach to protest activity is a result of years of thoughtful dialogue on campus, including the January 2014 Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Protest and Dissent, which emphasized the role of Deans-on-Call,” he added.

Because the hospital is private property, only individuals with “official business” have the right to enter, Dahler said during the conversation with TCC. “We just want this to be as successful as possible, and the best way to ensure that success would be if you would pray outside by the planters,” she told the group.

The group said a quick prayer inside the vestibule after debating with the deans-on-call and security, then left and said a longer prayer outside. Several group members had remained outside the entire time, not wanting to risk the

possibility of arrest. A group member who tried to film the encounter was told to stop by hospital security.

The deans-on-call and UCMC spokeswoman both emphasized the importance of keeping space clear for patient care.

“Any action, protest, or dissent on medical center property cannot, even potentially, interfere with patient care or hospital operations. In addition, videotaping or photographing on hospital premises poses a threat to patient privacy,” Wong wrote in an e-mail.

Ahmad said that the political dimension of the prayer circle has changed in recent weeks.

“I’d say at this point [the prayer circle] has been forced into a political sphere just because of how aggressively they’re shutting it down and why they’re shutting it down,” he said.

“[Morrissey’s] work has facilitated a remarkable... connection between French and American scholarship” LEGION continued from page 3

program that networks University faculty with French academics; ARTFL is a joint project between the French government and the University that digitizes French-language printed material.

University President Robert Zimmer, who spoke before Morrissey’s decoration, characterized Morrissey’s career as a boon for both the University and relations between French and American academia at large.

“Robert was…instrumental in developing the [University] Center in Paris, the success of which gave us the

confidence to create Centers in other countries,” Zimmer said during the ceremony. “His work has facilitated a remarkable, flourishing connection between French and American scholarship.”

Fabius, who identified as Morrissey’s personal friend as well as fellow scholar, formally presented the award with a short official speech in French, but preceded this with a lighthearted speech in English.

“It is with Napoleonic glory that I have the honor of bestowing an award created by Napoleon upon a scholar of

Napoleon and a great friend of France,” Fabius said.

Upon receiving the Légion Morrissey spoke of the unconventional path he took to become a professor of French literature. “I graduated from college with a degree in economics. I took one French literature class; we read the English translation of ‘Swann’s Way,’ the first volume of Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, and it was a conversion experience. I realized that if I was going to follow models, it was not going to be those of homo economicus, it was going to be models put forth by great literature,”

Morrissey said.

But Morrissey said that it was a visit to France in the summer of 1970 that left him with inextricable ties to the country.

“It was post graduation, and my adviser gave me a check for $500. It was just enough for one plane ticket to France via Icelandic air. I ended up in the student quarters.... They had a sovereign disdain for Americans, so the challenge was to go underground, and the first step was with language. Configurations of words in the French language became of serious interest to me. Words

carry the weight of tradition and the power of innovation,” Morrissey said.

After the formal conclusion of the event, Fabius spoke with the Maroon regarding the future of relations between French and American citizens.

“Relations [between the peoples] have always been positive; despite recent political developments, such as the war in Iraq, this never really changed, and that dispute belongs to the past.

The fact that France and the U.S. have not engaged each other in war in over 200 years of co-existence is an indicator of these good relations,” Fabius said.

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Constitutional but still disputable Affirmative action mistakenly combats one form of preferential treatment with another Nathan Howe Maroon Contributor In light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision on affirmative action in Schuette v. Coalition, many articles on the issue have appeared in the maroon. These articles have argued everything from the need for affirmative action based upon vacuous assertions about institutionalized racism to complaints about public participation in public universities (see “Diversity, not Democracy” [5/9/14] by Elizabeth Aditeba).

First, I think it is important to consider the catalyst of all of the articles: the Supreme Court’s decision in Schuette and an apparent fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of the Supreme Court by the authors of those articles. The 13 colonies united and wrote the Constitution to allow states vast leeway in deciding what

their governance and society would look like and specifically reserved certain “inalienable rights” to be protected from a simple majority democratic process. The Supreme Court’s job was codified to decide the constitutionality of legislation, not whether or not the justices think it is a good law (see Justice Robert’s opinion on Obamacare).

Upon reading David Grossman’s article, “A Poor Constitution” (5/9/14), I was floored by his claim that the Supreme Court justices should willfully impress their views on legislation— instead of determining its constitutional validity—because they are “on average” smarter and more “forwardthinking” than everyone else. I believe our Constitution and consequently our Supreme Court was founded to prevent this kind of monarchism.

In the case of Schuette v. Coalition, the Supreme Court decided that the

State of Michigan was not in violation of constitutional rights when it passed legislation specifically barring racial preferences in admissions decisions for publicly-funded universities.

Was Michigan’s law a good one? That is certainly debatable. Was it constitutional? Yes. And people who disagree with the law should level their complaints with the legislature and people of Michigan, not complain that the Supreme Court wasn’t activist enough.

So then, was the law a good one? I don’t think so, but not because I think we need affirmative action. Public universities’ admission decisions currently involve various forms of favoritism or preferential treatment (aside from affirmative action), including donations and legacy appointments. One of the problems is that many of the affluent “name-on-the-building” mega-donors can and oftentimes do buy their chil-

dren’s way into school. Yet this problem was not addressed by Michigan’s law, which was primarily aimed at eliminating racial preferences.

Perhaps we should concentrate more broadly on the fact that public universities base their admissions on criteria other than merit, but the solution to this unequal treatment of college applicants is not affirmative action. As a response to the issue of preferred classes, affirmative action only creates further preferred classes and disadvantages Americans who do not belong to any of those groups. We need to resist the temptation to balance one form of favoritism with another. Instead we should collaborate to create objective admissions standards that do not include points for belonging to the “good ol’ boys’ club” or having a certain skin color.

This solution would still allow for diversity in the student body, which

does not simply mean, “having more [insert any racial category here]’s around makes me learn more.”

The most critical aspect of diversity in a college classroom need not be based on a person’s race, but rather on the worldview she brings to that class.

If we want to live in a truly postracial society, we need to start looking at things differently. Rather than letting racial differences color our worldview, we should stop assuming that race is a primary factor in all problems and fitting our facts to those assumptions. Policies should be completely race-neutral, so that we do not unintentionally disadvantage any group.

In order to move toward a postracial society, we need a more postracial response to issues—not trite condemnations.

(CI) on this campus. We feel that terminating the contract is consistent with the University’s absolute commitment to academic integrity and free and open inquiry.

Confucius Institutes are Chinese government-funded organizations embedded in foreign campuses, which provide Chinese language instruction in addition to funding research and putting on programming that promotes the study of Chinese language and culture. They are widely accepted to be an exercise of “soft power” on the part of the Chinese government, teaching

Mandarin using non-traditional, government-promulgated characters and highlighting certain aspects of Chinese history and culture. At the same time, the curricula and programming put on by CIs avoid any discussion of more controversial cultural, social, and human rights issues, and it is known that instructors at some universities are trained to change the topic of discussion if and when such issues come up.

The staff that works for the CI (and thus that provide Chinese language instruction at the host university) CONFUCIUS continued on page 6

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Confucius contusion Student Government president-elect urges closure of Confucius Institute Tyler Kissinger & Max Samels Maroon Contributors “At its inception, the University of Chicago purposefully distinguished itself within the landscape of higher education in the United States. It was intended from the start to be, and it remains today, an institution where the culture supports open, rigorous, and intense inquiry as the highest value, where education and research are embedded in this culture of inquiry, where intellectual freedom is viewed as essential to open inquiry, and where

we are open to all people and all perspectives that can stand the scrutiny of argument. Over the years, most of the universities on the east coast gradually moved toward aspects of this model themselves, but resonance of the distinctiveness of UChicago remains both in culture and in policies reflecting that culture.”

The above is an excerpt from an address made by University President Robert Zimmer at a conference titled “What is Academic Freedom For?” As students concerned that the distinctiveness of this Universi-

ty’s uncompromising commitment to academic freedom is threatened, we believe these words are a good place to start.

As was reported by the Maroon (“Confucius Institute Protested by Faculty” [5/02/14]), over 100 faculty members have signed a petition calling on the Committee of the Council of the Faculty Senate to terminate the University’s contract with the Head Office of the Confucius Institutes (part of the Office of Chinese Language Council International, colloquially known as Hanban) for a Confucius Institute

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New FCC open internet proposal opens door for corporate strong-arming and consumer exploitation

Anastasia Golovashkina

Not Impressed If you live off-campus, you probably pay a monthly Internet bill— right now, probably just a flat monthly fee. Imagine instead having to pay a premium surcharge for access to specific services like Netflix, Skype, or Facebook. Thanks to a new set of regulations put forth by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), this could all too soon become reality.

Back in 2010, the FCC announced an Open Internet Order that, though flawed, introduced some semblance of a reasonably regulatory framework by banning content blocking and “unreasonable” discrimination by Internet service providers (ISPs). In particular, the order warned extensively against the type of “fast lane” arrangements that would allow companies to further

exploit their monopoly power, taking advantage of Internet companies and consumers alike.

In 2013, Verizon took these rules to court, won, and the Open Internet Order was struck down. This left the FCC—now chaired by Tom Wheeler—with a couple of options.

“We will consider all available options,” Wheeler said, “including those for appeal.” Needless to say, the FCC didn’t appeal, announcing in February that they would instead aim to regulate ISPs “on a case-by-case basis.” They proceeded not to do that either, opting instead to issue a set of proposals that put blind faith in monopolistic ISPs to provide honest and quality service to their consumers.

Though the media has repeatedly described these proposals as “net

neutrality,” they’re really anything but. Net neutrality is the idea that ISPs should treat all online traffic equally—that, for example, AT&T shouldn’t be able to offer faster connections to certain types of websites and slower ones to others. It’s the idea that the Internet should be equally accessible to everyone— nothing like cable, and everything like the low-barrier-to-entry “information service” (FCC’s own words, as of 1996–2010) it was originally designed to be.

Instead, the FCC now proposes to classify the Internet as a “telecommunications service.” Though these new regulations would ban providers from blocking specific websites, they’d still allow ISPs to set aside special “fast lanes” for preferred websites, ensuring that some sites load faster for customers as others load slower—or, more likely, not at all. Notably, these are the same exact “fast lanes” the FCC so adamantly warned about in 2010.

Permitting them is an absurdly terFCC continued on page 6

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The Confucius Institute program compromises our commitment to free inquiry CONFUCIUS continued from page 5 are, while ultimately selected by the University, initially recommended

by Hanban. However, Hanban has been known in the past to adhere to a hiring policy illegal under American law, by prohibiting members of the spiritual movement Falun Gong “and other illegal organizations” from being candidates for a position with a CI abroad. By yielding to Hanban’s hiring policy, the University is complicit in discrimination both religious and political. In 2012, such a case resulted in McMaster University being brought before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario,

and McMaster ultimately terminated the contract for their CI. This is not the only incident having to do with CIs that has been problematic with regards to academic freedom. From impacting North Carolina State University officials’ decision to cancel a planned visit to that campus by the Dalai Lama, to a case where officials at Tel Aviv University shut down a student art exhibition regarding the oppression of the Falun Gong out of fear of damaging the University’s relationship with China and Hanban, elements of censorship and internal pressure to stifle the expression of

certain views have manifested themselves in ways incompatible with the intellectual aims of this University.

More than 400 Confucius Institutes exist worldwide, primarily at smaller colleges and universities which otherwise would not be able to provide language instruction without outside support. Increasingly, however, prominent universities with large endowments are signing onto the program. Incidentally, the University signed its contract with Hanban just under a year prior to the establishment of the University Center in Beijing. Regardless of the exact political circumstances

that led to the University signing a contract for a CI with Hanban, we feel that by subcontracting out control over academic programs to an entity shown to be biased, and which participates in both passive and active censorship, is a grave breach of the tradition of academic freedom we seek to uphold at this university. By lending our name to the Confucius Institute program, we compromise our commitment to free inquiry and risk doing irreparable harm to our reputation as a university with an unparalleled commitment to academic freedom.

Administration can step in and—as

they did before—support a Chinese language program run entirely by the University, and continue to support the research done by faculty in the Department of East Asian languages and civilization, both of which are of profound value to this institution. However, of the utmost value to our University is our commitment to academic integrity, and for this reason we support the faculty petition and urge the termination of the contract for the CI. Tyler Kissinger and Max Samels are second-years in the College.

Net neutrality is still only a band-aid solution for the blurred lines between the regulators and the regulated FCC continued from page 5 rible idea, and not at all what net neutrality is about.

In the vein of negotiations that currently take place between television channels and cable companies (recall last year’s infamous showdown between CBS and Time Warner), fast lanes would likely entail websites being strong-armed into paying providers to ensure that their users have adequate access to their services. This is an especially real threat for sites like Netflix, Skype, and YouTube, whose content generally calls for a faster connection and competes directly with providers’ own cable and phone services. If customers are already getting their calls through Skype and their TV shows through Netflix, what incentive do they have to pay for a cable company’s overpriced alternatives?

The biggest problem with the

FCC’s proposal is that it places trust in companies that have earned anything but—companies that habitually exploit their monopoly power to sell mediocre if not downright infuriating standards of service at highly inflated prices. These are companies that are routinely dishonest about the products they sell, providing users with Internet speeds up to 46 percent slower than advertised—a laughable 3.5 times slower than our friends in Hong Kong. In fact, the United States ranks a pathetic 31st in the world’s consumer download speeds, behind Latvia, Estonia, and Uruguay.

It’s not that the United States lacks the technology to provide faster service (think Google Fiber).

It does, however, lack the infrastructure. That’s why, according to the FCC’s own data, two-thirds of households have access to just two

or fewer broadband providers, 28 percent of households, to one or fewer.

But so do most other countries.

There’s no real reason to construct twenty different private Internet infrastructures. If the industry is regulated properly, there isn’t even a real reason to lay out more than one. The problem here is regulation, and even more so who’s doing the regulating.

So, who is doing the regulating?

FCC’s current chairman Tom Wheeler, for example, was formerly president and CEO of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA), which spends over $20 million annually lobbying for the interests of cable companies including Comcast and Time Warner. He’s also served as CEO of the CTIA, the nation’s largest cell and wireless trade group. Prior to him, the regulatory lobby—excuse me,

body—has been chaired by both current CTIA CEO Meredith Attwell Baker and current NCTA CEO Michael Powell. From Vice President Dick Cheney’s military contracting gig to Representative Richard Gephardt’s lobbying firm, the FCC isn’t the only place where high-level executives float between governing the regulated and the regulators.

The issue of net neutrality is of paramount importance. Even if the FCC does move forward with classifying the Internet as a telecommunications service, specifying it as a Title II telecommunications service—a “common carrier” like the telephone, which must be open to all users at a uniform rate—would be a crucial way to help prevent “fast lane” company abuse. Especially now that the FCC has expressed some interest in revising its propos-

als, I strongly encourage anyone who cares even remotely about not seeing their Internet bill segmented into an (even more) overpriced, cable-esque collage to share their thoughts with the FCC at openinternet@fcc.gov.

But until we address the problem of the revolving door between federal agencies and top lobbying firms—until we regulate the regulators—any fix on individual topics like this will only be a Band-Aid on what amounts to a very broken bone.

The revolving door never seems to hit people hard enough (or at all) on their way out…or, for that matter, back in. Let’s give it another push.

not it was temporary, I did live at that old address.

We’re taught that everything we choose to present needs to be as perfect as possible. That’s how we all got here, isn’t it? By meticulously putting together a representation of our best academic selves and submitting it to be scrutinized by the admissions office. But that’s only the beginning of our self-representations. In a way, everything, from comments we make in class to articles we write, and even down to the way that we introduce ourselves, is part of these

representations. Instead of fretting about whether or not how we present ourselves is how we want to be permanently, what if we accepted them as accurate reflections of who we are at the time?

If I’m going to end up with grimy hands anyway, I’d rather have it be from ink rubbing off from the newspaper residue now than from digging through old cardboard boxes later.

Anastasia Golovashkina is a third-year in the College majoring in economics and public policy.

Come as you are Why fret over past imperfections when they make up who we are?

Grace Koh

No Airs and Graces There’s something so odd about reading my own clumsy words in print. The newspaper residue blackening my fingertips seems to signal a legitimacy that my words don’t deserve. I make out a better way something could have been phrased, an unclear transition in the next paragraph. All these imperfections represent thoughts and a self, both subject to change and yet permanently etched onto this newspaper, rubbing onto my fingertips.

My ink-dusted fingers remind me of how my hands feel after digging through old boxes in my garage— musty cardboard leaving an invisible layer of grime on my hands. I moved around as a kid, so oftentimes I had to dig through old boxes to find things that I had neglected to unpack.

I remember a notepad that I owned and loved in elementary school. It came with a pen and had a little section on the back where you could fill in all of your personal information. I easily wrote in my name and my birthday, but got stuck when I reached the line for “address.”

I knew that my parents were only renting the apartment where we

were living at the time; I knew this wasn’t the house that I was going to be in a few years down the line; I couldn’t really say this was my address. So I tucked the notebook away in my desk drawer and decided that I would start using it when we moved to our permanent house and I could write in an accurate address.

The funny thing is that after we moved, I was digging through our boxes and couldn’t even find the notepad. I guess it had gotten lost between all the packing and unpacking. All I could do was clap the dust off my hands and trudge back upstairs.

Today, I toss the newspaper in the recycling and run my hands under the sink water. I don’t even feel the residue washing off because phrases from my article keep trickling through my mind.

The sentences from my past columns sound too…something. Too wordy? Too awkward? Maybe it sounds too “me.” Too untouched, too raw. It’s like the feeling I get when I say something in class and realize how mediocre my comment is even as the words are slipping out of my mouth, and before I know it

someone else is pointing out the flaw in my argument.

It’s not simply the fact that I wasn’t perfect, but more like I know I could’ve done better and that others will see me as less than I can be.

It’s not embarrassment so much as a sense of injustice that others are left with an inaccurate picture of my abilities.

But is it really inaccurate?

At some point I consciously did choose to write that awkward phrase, and it’s not like anyone was holding me at gunpoint when I uttered those mediocre words. If I actually were something other than that, I would not have written it or said it.

When watching a trivia game, everyone hates the kid that shouts out the wrong answer to a question and then, after the right answer is revealed, proceeds to comment, “Oh, that’s what I meant.” But I guess that’s what I’m doing now when I disown those awkward phrases or mediocre arguments.

Similarly, I think I was wrong in believing that my address didn’t belong in a page of information about me just because it was temporary.

Just like I would rather spend the time that I spend fretting about the great injustice that I have accrued upon myself instead just taking steps to improve, I think I would’ve rather just written my address in and used the crap out of that notepad. Because the fact is, regardless of whether or

Grace Koh is a second-year in the College majoring in political science.

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Burton-Judson claims victory in Scav Hunt Evangeline Reid Arts Staff The famous student-run University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, more familiarly referred to as “Scav,” takes over campus each year during the four days leading up to Mother’s Day. Scav is the world’s largest —and arguably quirkiest—scavenger hunt, and this year’s event was no exception. Burton-Judson’s team reigned supreme in 2014 with 3198.02 points. SnellHitchcock with 3153.71 and BroStoMP with 2883.33 (the joint Broadview–Stony Island–New Grad–Shorey House coalition) took second and third place, respectively.

Breckinridge (2715.04) came in fourth, and Max Palevsky (2656) followed in fifth.

“The first emotion I had… was just that I was thrilled at how excited everyone else was.

The entire team was screaming, shouting, and hugging,” said Emma Goehler, a thirdyear captain from B-J’s triumphant team. “I wasn’t expecting that we would win.” But victorious or not, the students started a chant, yelling, “We had fun!” One of the creators of the first Scav Hunt in 1987, Diane Kelly, was in town on Sunday and decided to stop by to help judge. Jeremy Ziring, the fourth-year head judge, shared the story of her speak-

ing to the students. “She said, ‘Clearly after 28 years, people are still having fun with this.’”

But everything was still up for grabs when this year’s 308item long list was released on Wednesday at midnight in Ida Noyes. The list included the rules; the event lineup for the Scav Olympics on Saturday (which included a videogame triathlon); and the items to be located, created, or accomplished. Items ranged from donating blood to creating a massive pop-up book or a door that opens automatically after the correct sequence of knocks. As for events throughout the fourday period, this year included a team full-body shadow puppet competition at night on the quad, an air-guitar championship in Hutch, and an event called “Pillowtown and Blanketsburg” perhaps best explained as a pillow fort battle concluding with an epic pillow fight. Most of the curious things happening on campus last week—the quotes and thought-bubbles attached to buildings, the girl crowdsurfing between classes, the strange contraptions being hauled across the midway— could be attributed to the Hunt and its sleep-deprived “scavvies.”

One of Scav’s traditional events is a road trip within a 1,000-mile radius from cam-

pus. Excitement had been building with the prospect of an international road trip, and no one was disappointed.

Item number 173 sent carloads of costumed students toward Canada with teammate created itineraries in hand, starting at 8 a.m. Thursday morning with the goal of accomplishing a number of items along the way and returning in time for judgment on Sunday morning. While two whole days of class get the axe for this adventure, fourthyear Breckinridge scavvie Jason McCreery explained his thoughts on the road trip, sentiments that reflect a greater spirit among the participants: “Especially at UChicago, it’s so easy to just be like, ‘Oh I can’t do this, I have class. I’m busy. I have homework’…. The road trip forced me to just stop doing that—to stop making excuses—and just go have an experience. So even though I am sort of dealing with the collateral and catching up with everything, I’m so happy that I went through with it.”

As he put it, “There’s never going to be another time that I’m going to be in Niagara Falls, Toronto, Detroit, and Chicago in one day.”

The process to create this large-scale event begins in the fall when hopeful judges apply by creating a list of potential Scav items. Once

A vocal poet experiments with silence in new collection Angela Qian Associate Arts Editor In the titular poem of her Pulitzer-winning collection, The Wild Iris, Louise Glück takes on the voice of a flower and proclaims: “You who do not remember/passage from the other world/I tell you I could speak again: whatever/returns from oblivion returns/ to find a voice.” As a poet, Glück of all people would know about voices—her ability to inhabit the personas of everything and everyone from flowers to characters such as Persephone, Penelope, and Dido are part of her claim to poetic fame. But speaking at the Logan Center last Thursday, May 8, Glück said her newest book is centered on a new type of expression: silence.

Grey-haired, slight, with sharp black eyes and wearing a dramatic cut-out black shirt, Glück looked like the kind of sharp-witted, shrewd professor who doesn’t let any BS pass in class. If you’re at all in step with the poetry world, Glück is a giant, her poetic

presence almost akin to the mythological figures that populate her work—which has been described over and over again as fierce, focused, and intense. She’s the recipient of innumerable poetry prizes, has served as U.S. Poet Laureate, has taught poetry at Williams College and is

now at Yale. Her clinically detached, razor-honed poetic style is difficult to match anywhere.

The accessibility of Glück’s poems belies their subtle, profound insights, their humor, and the feats of creative genius which have her speakPOET continued on page 9

Louise Glück read works from her latest collection, Faithful and Virtuous Night, at the Logan Center last Thursday.

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they’re chosen, the group— comprised of about 15 judges, including graduate students and alumni—begins in earnest in January as they start the long process of composing the official list, which is then workshopped and eventually finalized. “We try to have a mix of things that are challenging and funny and…really

interesting when you look at them,” said Ziring. “We’ve just gotten a lot of positive feedback…. Overall, I think it was a really good year.”

Of course Scav—like all things strange and distracting—has its critics. The phrases “annoying” and “nerdy” have been tossed around in reference to the event on nu-

merous occasions. McCreery summed up what most supporters see in it: “It’s almost the quintessential UChicago thing to do. It’s not just about some items hidden on the quad or something—it’s about using your creativity to make something new and make something interesting and unique.”

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NORTH SIDE WEEKLY ARTS, CULTURE & OVERPRICED BEER ਂ SINCE 2014 Miller High Life and checkerboard fedoras in Wicker Park Rohan Sharma maroon Contributor Super Orgy Porno Party: words I found myself chanting at 10:30 p.m. on a Friday night in a small venue packed full of people (read: sweaty shirtless dudes). To clarify, I was not at a steamy sex party bonanza, but rather at a ska show in Wicker Park. I’ve been all hip-hopped out lately, coming off a string of concerts that most recently included DJ Mustard & YG. I figured it was about time to hit up a show for the pure nostalgia and save any rap juice I have left for MAB’s Summer Breeze.

As a result, I dropped something short of two sawbucks for a ska show; you know, ska, the music you used to listen to when you were around 15 to justify your participation in your high school’s brass band and kick your legs vigorously to an upbeat tempo and a trombone solo. I have no idea if its hip now to like ska, or if pop-punk took over the ska crowd, but I like to think of myself as a ska OG, bumping Mustard Plug in the car on summer days while speeding on suburban

roads because it’s impossible to go the speed limit when your music is flying by at 135 BPM. Although my night ended with excessive perspiration, thoroughly stomped toes, and aching knees, it didn’t begin that way.

In fact, it began with what is effectively a margherita pizza from Dimo’s Pizza on Damen Avenue and a chocolate malt from Potbelly, because sometimes I want to relive the carefree and sugary days of my childhood digestive system. Dimo’s is pretty solid and a great drunk food choice since they are open late and offer pizza by the slice as well as a variety of beer options. However, I imagine having Flash Taco across the street from you steals a lot of precious drunk dinero. The show was at the Subterranean, an intimate venue just off the Damen Blue Line stop that features two levels of viewing space and charges you $2.50 for a very classy-concert-sipping experience courtesy of Miller High Life.

The first opener, a local band by the name of Run and Punch did about as well as an opening act slated for 8 p.m. can do,

which is to say that they provided high-quality music to stand and drink to. Having only been to rap shows for a while, I was ill-prepared for the headwear culture shock that I experienced, by which I mean trading out 5-panel hats for mohawks and checkerboard fedoras.

Following Run and Punch was Los Vicios De Papá, a name that Google insists translates to “Vices of Santa,” which I will choose to believe is accurate. Referring to themselves as LVDP Sound System, the band provided a cool fusion of spacey reggae and Latin ska complete with a conga player and three different woodblocks.

LVDP claims to be “born out of a crumbling public education system and failing immigration policy in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood” so there’s probably something serious to discuss and think about there, but I’m gonna avoid that because this is about a fun ska concert and not structural inequalities on the South Side.

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WHPK commemorates longtime DJ Like many student-led radio stations, University of Chicago’s WHPK is known for its quirky offerings. In what may be a first, however, WHPK will broadcast a memorial service Monday, May 26, 12–3 p.m., for opera DJ Hedy Staskus.

Staskus passed away at the age of 80 on April 3 after a short illness, as reported in the Hyde Park Herald. A retired nurse and longtime student, Staskus was working on a masters at the University of Chicago upon her death. She shared her love of opera through the Lyric Opera’s Lecture Corps and her decade-long WHPK program “Chicago Tessitura: Music and Musings from the Opera Canon,” broadcasting under the handle “Stacey Staskus.”

The memorial service will be broadcasted during her regular timeslot and will feature personal reminiscences and music requests made in Staskus’s honor. Current requesters include the South Shore Opera Company, which Staskus supported. Listeners are also invited to gather at the studio during the service.

Cameron Day, a WHPK DJ and second-year in the College, is gathering reminiscences and requests by e-mail (camkday23@gmail.com), although he did not personally know Staskus.

“She was with the station for a long time,” Day said. “As the station manager I would like to pay

tribute to a DJ who worked with the station for 10 years and who ran our classical schedule.”

“Hedy was just a sweetheart,” said co-organizer David Mihalyfy, a Ph.D. student in the Divinity School and an instructor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. “She knew people in a lot of places, and hopefully this will open up a space where everyone who wants to can show their appreciation of her.”

Currently, the service is also slated to be recorded and made available on WHPK’s website.

—Tori Borengässer

California and Roscoe. It has since been featured on shows like No Reservations and as one of Bon Appetit’s 50 Best Restaurants on the Planet.

Even so, Hot Doug’s could not survive the vacillations of its mercurial owner, wiener wunderkind and sausage savant Sohn. "There really is no overwhelming reason other than it’s time to go do something else,” Sohn told DNAinfo Chicago.

“The plan is not to own a restaurant anymore.”

The restaurant, known for its bangin’ bangers and specials named after an ever-rotating gallery

of female celebrities (based largely on Doug’s current tastes), will go on “permanent vacation” on Saturday, October 4.

You have until then to run, walk, or crawl the 14 long miles from Hyde Park to North California avenue for what are—until October at least—the best rabbit, duck, beef, pork, lamb and alligator dogs in the whole damn world. If only Doug’s buns could soak up tears as well as mustard.

—Arts Editors

Hot Doug's closing Chicago’s dog days are almost over.

Yes, Armageddon has come for lovers of encased meats from Wisconsin to 61st street: Hot Doug's, famed provider of bratwurst and sausages of all types since 2001, is closing its doors.

Doug's, which on busy days can serve up to 800 of the world’s best hot dogs, gained notoriety for owner Doug Sohn’s refusal to comply with a citywide foie gras ban in 2006, when he continued to serve duck fat fries and foie gras dogs (the latter named in honor of Alderman Joe Moore, who spearheaded the ban) despite incurring the wrath of Chicago culinary legend Charlie Trotter. The restaurant burned down in 2004, after which it rose, phoenix-like, from the flames of its destruction to hot dog glory at its current location on

Doug Sohn, owner of Hot Doug's, is shutting down his beloved stand after 13 years on the North Side. His "permanent vacation" will begin in October. Say it ain't so, Doug!

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High budget, low quality: Penny Dreadful gets it half right James Mackenzie Associate Arts Editor “Penny dreadful” was a term coined in the late 19th century to describe extremely cheap “literature” which would appeal to the masses on the basest possible levels. Scandalously raunchy sexual content, prolific violence, and the most simplistic of plots were par for the course. Those first two types share a lot with the modern cable dramas which have grown so popular that they are now pushing the limits of what was once considered decent to air on television. Some approach their material with an air of class and high storytelling craft (Breaking Bad, Mad Men), others toe the line between intellect and smut with varying degrees of success (Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead), and some merely hide behind the façade of drama while being little different from those old one-cent novels. Enter the appropriately titled Penny Dreadful, which premiered Sunday on Showtime.

Set in London during the 1890s, the show follows a group of individuals attempting to tackle a who’s who of 19th-century gothic horror lurking in the city’s underworld. And that’s about all the show cares to tell before plunging the viewer straight into

that underworld. Within 15 minutes, we follow American gun-for-hire Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett) as he’s dragged by his mysterious benefactors into fistfights with vampires with only the cryptic warning: “Do not be amazed at anything you see, and don’t hesitate.” This may as well be the show runners’ final message to the audience before taking the plunge. In other words, “just go with it.”

Sure enough, mere minutes later we’re treated to Dr. Victor Frankenstein (yes, that Dr. Frankenstein, played here by Harry Treadaway) performing an autopsy on a recently killed vampire, which reveals a layer of tattoos beneath the skin bearing Egyptian hieroglyphics transcribing a spell designed to bring about the end of the world. It’s that kind of show.

Don’t get me wrong—it can all be great fun. It becomes very clear within the first two episodes that the show is not taking itself terribly seriously.

There are as many cheap thrills to be had as in any of those original penny dreadfuls, from the supernatural horrors to the perverse sex which has survived on television to this day. Surprisingly, in spite of these sex scenes, Penny Dreadful shies away from nudity far more than most of its contemporary cable dramas, but more than makes up for it with an extra helping of that other staple of basic TV

viewer-bait: copious blood and gore.

We are treated to vampire stabbings, bloodied bodies heaped upon one another, vampire dissections, the disemboweled remains of serial killer victims, other kinds of dissections, and a tuberculosisthemed sex scene. Don’t think too hard about that last one.

There is plenty of interesting source material to draw upon for this show’s future, of course. The aforementioned Dr. Frankenstein and his famous monster look to feature prominently in the show, and the writers have also resurrected the less famous but no less interesting Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney) from Oscar Wilde’s well-regarded novel.

These two inclusions set a precedent that allows the show to introduce any figure from 19th-century gothic horror that happens to be in the public domain. Online cast listings mention Mina Harker, the lead character from Bram Stoker’s Dracula. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see werewolves, Van Helsing, the ghost of Jack the Ripper, or even Abraham Lincoln as a vampire hunter.

In spite of all this dressing, Penny Dreadful ultimately wants the audience to be connected to its cast of original characters, a tall order in an already overpopulated Edwardian London. In addition

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ing from the voices of so many various objects and characters—and yet also in her own, surprisingly empathetic voice. It is perhaps this creative empathy, which may, despite or because of its unyielding quality, enable the depth of imagination required for her book-length sequences of poems and give them their widespread popularity.

She read from Faithful and Virtuous Night, her new collection which will be published this September by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. The book centers around an artist who can no longer paint. Following on the heels of Glück’s first large volume of collected poetry last November (the publication of which she at first resisted, thinking it would be too “valedictory”), this collection will take on the questions of old age and

artistic work about which Glück, 71, says she now feels allowed to write.

Glück acknowledged that her usage of parables and allegories within the book helped to create its narrative, and it is the mixture of these poems with those from the painter’s voice that she hopes will give the book a “billowy” quality. Yet Glück, in the (paradoxically) straightforward-yet-oblique manner that creates such intensity in her poetry, did not read from the artist’s point of view. Her reading style, clear, focused, and dry, did not prepare me for the kindly humor with which she met the audience’s questions: She spoke frankly on her love of teaching, her tarot-reading sessions, her hatred of poetry readings, and her pleasure in traveling.

Her selections included “Par-

able,” from the point of view of a group of wanderers—or are they pilgrims? —questioning the purpose of their journey; “A Sharply Worded Silence”; and “Aboriginal Landscape,” which memorably opens with "'You’re stepping on your father,’ my mother said.” Her poetry, frequently taking the form of a casual narrative, occasionally shocks with such hidden gems as, “I was like you once, he said, in love with turbulence.”

Despite Glück’s fears, the collections of her works are far from being valedictory. Instead they are opening up her work to larger audiences.

Her own distinctive voice shines through even in her poems on silence. And her reception among poetry-lovers proves that whatever the future holds in store for Glück, it will be anything but silent.

to Chandler, the show is headlined by Vanessa Ives and Sir Malcolm Murray, played by the talented but underemployed Eva Green and Timothy Dalton, respectively. Sir Murray’s motives are fairly clear; he wants to rescue his missing daughter from vampires by any means necessary. Ives’s are less clear-cut; her highlight of the series so far was a bizarre 10-minute-long (at least it felt that long) possession scene at a séance gone wrong, where she lambasts Dalton in the most over-the-top manner imaginable. It was very fitting with the tone of the show thus far.

These two actors share an odd connection with show creator, John Logan, through the James Bond franchise: Logan penned the most recent installment Skyfall, Green played one of the more memorable love interests in Casino Royale, and Dalton took a turn as one the least memorable men to play Bond himself before Pierce Brosnan took over. The result is a group of underappreciated talents attempting to carve out featured roles in careers that have frequently seen them fall just outside the edge of the brightest spotlights. Based on what we’ve seen so far, it doesn’t look like a good bet that they’ll get anything other than cheap thrills out of it. And nor will the viewers.

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the pit was packed and even the balcony level was at shoulder-to-shoulder capacity. Planet Smashers is a bread-and-butter ska band in terms of sound, but their energy, stage presence, and crowd-work made them a highlight of the evening for me. With songs such as “You Guys Are Assholes, Let’s Party,” “Pee In The Elevator,” and the earlier alluded to “Super Orgy Porno Party,” there was plenty of moshing to be had and skanking to be done. It is to be noted that this crowd was one of the best in terms of moshing etiquette and general awareness of other concert attendees, which was very refreshing. Also, why did we as a society limit skanking to only ska? It’s a fantastic and fun dance that even I, someone with two left feet, can do; it should be a staple of every genre, we could skank

to everything from “Wagon Wheel” to “Get Low”!

Mustard Plug, the headliner for the evening, finally came out to a very sweaty crowd and opened with classics like “Box” and “You” off their 1997 album Evildoers Beware before transitioning into more recent songs that I haven’t really kept up with. The highlights of the set included a guy getting launched face first onto the stage via crowd surfing, me getting pinballed around by people much larger than myself, and a tripleencore from Mustard Plug. Overall, it was a great show, and it’s nice to know that Wicker Park can be a destination for those who aren’t interested in thrifting or Big Star, not that there’s anything wrong with old clothes and fancy tacos.

But to end on a serious note, please make skanking mainstream, guys.

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I think, therefore I run Sarah Langs Senior Sports Editor It still sounds funny as it rolls off my tongue, but I’m a runner. This is new for me, so my identification with the noun itself hasn’t quite sunk in. What’s the difference between being somebody who runs and being a runner?

Well, we learned about a term called lexicalization last week in a psychology course I’m taking called Development of Social Cognition. Lexicalization in the form of a noun means to make a noun label into a descriptive factor. The study we read set up a contrast between telling children that others are “carrot-eaters” versus just saying “that person eats a lot of carrots.” The children in the study judged the lexicalized nouns to refer to longer-lasting traits, while the verb descriptions, such as “eats a lot of carrots,” weren’t seen to be as stable over time That was a lot of psychology jargon for the Sports section, and I’m not sure you could get a lede like that in any paper other than one here at the University of Chicago.

Where else does social cognition class overlap with one’s athletic tendencies? But I bring it up to show the distinction of calling myself a runner, when I used to be a person who runs. By choosing to now subscribe to the lexicalized noun, I’m conveying that I see this to be a part of me. And trust me, running has not always been a key component in my life.

I was never much of an athlete—I used to fake injuries and stomachaches to get out of P.E. (yes, Dalton P.E. department, those were pretty much all lies). I tried some of the team sports, playing three years of middle school softball and one uneventful year on the high school team’s “development squad.”

I swam, too. That was my sport from a pretty young age, once I finally learned to put my head underwater, which I did about five years later than most kids. I loved to swim, and only stopped as a junior in high school when extracurricular activities impeded the time commitment.

The thing with swimming was, I liked it, but I really wasn’t that great. I was definitely “good” at points, but I had reached my ceiling. I wasn’t going to improve. I didn’t quit because I couldn’t do better (I’ve heard Jimmy Valvano’s “don’t ever give up” speech far too many times to do that), but my just-decentness was certainly a thought that put my mind at ease when I stopped swimming. My P.R. times for my best event had leveled off about a year before I quit, and I knew I couldn’t swim any faster unless I dedicated a huge amount of time that I just didn’t have.

Despite my relatively unathletic history, though, I am inordinately competitive. I can’t even begin to explain how most things in my mind end up playing out as competitions, but they do.

Two years ago, in early Feb-

ruary, an e-mail popped into my inbox. I was on some San Francisco Giants e-mail list, and this installment was reminding me that sign-up was now open for The Giant Race.

I had no idea what that was, but I saw the words “set foot on the field at AT&T Park,” so I figured I should read the email. Turned out, this was a 5K race that ended on the field. My mother and grandmother are huge lifetime Giants fans, and I decided that we had to get that chance to step on the field. Plus, they advertised an exciting bobblehead as part of the race goodies, and we’re bobblehead fanatics. So I forwarded the e-mail to my mother, with the note, “Want to do the race?

We could walk it.” She wrote back 20 minutes later with, “Yes.” And with that, our fates were sealed. I signed us up, and we planned a trip to California for the summer to participate in the race. From then until about July, I was determined to walk this 5K with my mother and set foot on the field.

But something changed. I can’t remember what it was exactly, but I realized that I should try to run this thing.

I’d never run in my life, with a few (notable) exceptions: running down Lake Shore Drive with my friend Amanda early first year, completely unaware she’d been a cross-country runner. I spent the next five hours gasping for breath. I also did a few New York Road Runners races before the age

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of 10, when my father was still a runner—the Mother’s Day race, the Father’s Day race, etc.

When we did the President’s Challenge in fourth grade, I had the second-slowest mile time in my entire grade, and, to put it nicely, the person who was slower than me was about four times my size. But I had never run more than a mile at once outdoors or indoors.

I started running on a treadmill at the gym, and quickly realized my utter hatred for the machines. I consider myself to run at a pretty steady pace now, but early in my running career, when I was still figuring out my body’s limits, the constancy of the treadmill’s movement made five seconds feel like five minutes and 10 minutes feel like an eternity. And even now, it makes the entire process lose all of its fun for me.

With treadmill animosity deeply ingrained into my head, I tried running outside.

I think I ran a half-mile once or twice, and a mile maybe once. And with that, it was time to head to California for the race.

I ran outside a few times there, too, prior to the day of the race. The day before, I set foot outside my grandmother’s house and decided I needed to run a 5K, just to know I could. So I ran for about 35 minutes, and finished those 3.12 miles. In between breaths, I was the proudest I’d been of myself in a long time.

The next morning was the race. Somewhere along the way, my mother had also decided she would run this race after all, taking her time and going at her own pace.

The experience of being in a race, surrounded by other people who were alternately talking, listening to music, or tripping, was something I hadn’t prepared myself for.

So I put in my headphones, opened up my WFAN app (New York sports radio, for you non-New Yorkers out

there), and listened to New York Giants Pregame Live. I’d learned somewhere along the way that music doesn’t motivate me to run faster the way it does for most people. Instead, it makes me anxious, because I finish the lines of the songs in my head and then am impatient for the songs themselves to end. The race was on the first Sunday of the football season, so there was certainly enough football chatter to occupy my racing time.

Thirty-three minutes and 31 seconds later, I was standing on the field at AT&T Park. I’d never been on the field at a Major League ballpark, and still haven’t been on any other one, and the experience was surreal.

About 10 minutes later, I got the joy of seeing my mother finish the race, too. I think she was more tired than I was, but I was more proud of her than I was of myself. To take up running at the age of 19 having never done it before is one thing. To do the same at the age of 57 is a whole other animal.

Since then, I’ve run in 11 other races, and have at least three more on my agenda for the rest of 2014. My times have improved, though not steadily. But I feel when I run, I can run faster and can train my lungs to make me feel less sick. Unlike when I bottomed out in swimming, I still feel room to grow here. Maybe after I’ve been running as long as I’d been swimming, I won’t feel that way. But hopefully, I’ll be at a point in terms of times that I’ll be glad to stay at.

Why should you care? Why did I just spend 1,000-plus words talking about my personal running story?

Here’s my pitch: I run because it makes me feel like I’m accomplishing something.

Even if all I have time for in my day is a mile, getting that mile done is the most productive eight minutes of the day. And at a school like this,

it’s hard to think in terms of anything other than productivity. This is part of another psychology point, from Social Psych: running facilitates high self-complexity. Selfcomplexity is the phenomenon of having different selfconcepts for different roles, and having multiple roles in general. High self-complexity mitigates stress, because even if you fail in one domain, you still have others to prop yourself up on. No matter how badly a day goes—assignments, grades, presentations, anything—if I can run a mile or two, I can remind myself of that accomplishment.

This brings me to my next point: Running is for thinking. I don’t run with music, and I don’t run with talk radio anymore, either. Sometimes I run with friends, like my best friend with whom I tackled my first, and her first, 10K this past Sunday. It was the farthest each of us had ever run, but we got through it together. But most of the time, it’s just me and a pair of sneakers—and twenty other layers over this past winter, at least—and the sidewalks.

My mind flits in and out of conscious thoughts and more cerebral things, but I’ve never had a bad set of thoughts while running. Sometimes it’s planning out assignments, homework, and to-do lists.

But sometimes it’s broader than that, thinking about the people I know and am surrounded by.

Believe it or not, I wrote the lede to this article in my head as I ran just the other day. I find that tuning one’s brain out and letting it just do what it will—a modified form of stream of consciousness, perhaps—encourages my creativity in multiple realms.

Unlike other sports, all running really truly requires is a pair of sneakers. That versatility means it’s something I can see as being a part of me for the rest of my life. I’m a runner.

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At penultimate qualifying meet, athletes tear up track once more Track & Field Zachary Themer Marooon Contributor With the final meet of the regular season approaching and the NCAA DIII Outdoor Championships looming on the horizon, the Maroons hit their stride last week at the Dr. Keeler Invite at North Central College.

Following a scorching hot Thursday afternoon, where fourth-year Sarah Peluse in the 10,000-meter and first-year Gareth Jones in the 5,000-meter turned in strong times and high finishes, the rest of the Maroons embraced a cooler Friday afternoon, where several individuals sought to put themselves in position for not only personal records and high finishes, but also qualifying times for Nationals.

“This weekend was about

individuals trying to qualify for Nationals or accomplish an unsatisfied goal,” second-year Ben Clark said.

“We were hoping for optimal weather conditions for the short sprints, which is something we haven’t had all year. The track was too soft to yield fast times, and there ended up being a slight headwind.”

Regardless of the conditions, Clark was still able to turn in an impressive time of 11.09 seconds in the 100-meter dash, good enough for a top-20 finish in a field of over 50 competitors. Other Maroons contributed impressive performances on the day as well, including first-year Michelle Dobbs, who took second in the 800-meter, second-year Ryan Manzuk, who placed 13th in the 400-meter hurdles, first-year Olivia Clink, who turned in

a distance of 10.87m in the triple jump for sixth place, and the women’s 4x400meter relay team of Dobbs, second-year Alison Pildner, first-year Eleanor Kang, and third-year Francesca Tomasi, which continued its impressive season with a time of 3:53:50, good enough for first place that afternoon.

“There is still definitely some room for improvement. One area I’m especially focused on is our 4x400 relay,” Dobbs said.

“We broke the school record on Friday, but I don’t think any of us are completely satisfied, especially as a couple more seconds off would probably qualify our team for Nationals.”

For the women’s 4x400 meter relay and the rest of the Maroons, there does remain one opportunity to qualify for Nationals: the Last Chance Meet this

Thursday and Friday, again at North Central. With several Maroons only mere seconds, centimeters, and splits away from qualifying for the NCAA Championships in Delaware, OH, Friday will prove to be a pivotal moment in the season

for the men’s and women’s Maroons.

“Now that we’re onto the Nationals part of the season, there’s still a small group who’s looking to Nationals, and for us, there’s still definitely work to be done, but it varies much more on

In the Chatter’s Box with Sarah Langs

Nikki DelZenero is a fourth-year setter on the volleyball team from Willowbrook, IL. We chatted with her to get some insider info on the life of a Maroon athlete.

Kim: “I will definitely miss...receiving the ball from my coach when the game is on the line” BASEBALL continued from back

ers slid into third base, knocking the ball into the dugout, and [that] allowed us to take the lead,” said fourth-year pitcher Ray Kim. Massey hit a sacrifice fly to center field to bring in Prescott, topping off the Maroons’ 7–5 victory.

In game three, the Maroons were caught in a similar situation as game one and lost 11–1. Wash U’s pitchers were on point, and there were hits coming from all over the Bears’ lineup.

“They got a strong pitching performance from their starter, and their relievers continued to shut us down. They hit and knocked runners in from top to bottom of their lineup, battling every at-bat and making it exhausting for our pitchers,” Wagner said.

Despite a rough season, in which Chicago ended 10–27, the Maroons were able to finish with some memorable moments on Senior Day. “Massey went 4-for-5 in his last collegiate game,” VanWazer said. “It was great to have Ray Kim come in to pitch in the seventh inning of game two and pick up the final win of his college career.”

The most memorable moment of all for the Maroons was spoiling the Bears’ postseason opportunity.

“It felt great to knock off our rival and be the reason why Wash U lost its chance at the tournament,” Wagner said.

“Our motto for the weekend was, ‘If we’re not going to the tournament, they’re not either,’” VanWazer said.

As what happens after any team’s season ends, emotions and memories bubble to the surface.

“I will never forget getting ready for a baseball game or going to a game far away early in the morning, only to return late at night, or even just sitting in the bullpen with my fellow pitchers,” Kim said. “I will definitely miss coming into a game and receiving the ball from my coach when the game is on the line.”

Along with Kim, fourth-years Massey, Bartelman, pitcher Alex Terry, infielder Will Katzka, first baseman Ricky Troncelliti, outfielder Brett Huff, and pitchers Claude Lockhart and Chris Warren were honored on Senior Day. “I’m going to miss their presence a lot, not only on the field but off as well,” VanWazer said.

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an athlete-to-athlete basis,” Dobbs said.

The Maroons hit the track this Thursday at North Central at 12:15 p.m. and once again on Friday at 3 p.m. before select athletes head to Nationals next week in Ohio.

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Chicago Maroon: When did you start playing volleyball?

Nikki DelZenero: I started playing volleyball when I was in seventh grade, so I was 12.

CM: Did you play other sports beforehand, or at the same time?

ND: I played softball from ages eight to 16. During my freshman and sophomore year of high school I played both softball and volleyball, and then had to give up softball because I was playing volleyball yearround, and it got to be way too much to try and balance.

CM: When did you know you’d play in college?

ND: I knew that I wanted to play in college my sophomore year of high school. It was kind of the first year that it occurred to me as being a thing, when I was on the varsity team as a sophomore. I switched clubs into a more competitive one that could help me with recruiting, and so that was when I first kind of made the move towards that direction.

CM: You’ve been playing since you were young, and you’ve played here now. How do you think you’re going to continue with volleyball after you graduate?

ND: I definitely think that coaching is going to be a part of my life in some capacity.

Right now I am a setter’s coach—a positional coach—for a travel club team in the area.

They’re nice because a lot of the travel teams in the area are in the suburbs, and they take a lot of the city kids. And I’m hoping that if I end up in the city after graduation at some point, I will be able to have my own team, instead of just being a positional coach. And then coach every weekend, or every other weekend, with my own team instead of just once a week for random girls who play my position specifically. I’ve definitely given thought to going to graduate school and be-

ing a graduate assistant at a program, be it at Emory in our own UAA, because I think I have a lot of good DIII knowledge, or going somewhere that’s a big DI school where I can learn even more from a coach who has had a fantastic DI team in the Sweet Sixteen or the Elite Eight a few years. So, I’ve given thought to that, but I think that I want to look into that more in a couple years. That’s kind of the coaching route. The other route is the playing route: There is opportunity to play volleyball professionally in Europe, but the information about how to do that and how to get there and how to get coaches to see you—there are just a few people in the United States who are the gatekeepers of that information, so I’ve been doing research and trying to figure out if it’s plausible.

Those tryouts are in September, or in the early fall, so it’s something that’s a bit on the back burner for now, because I try to get the rest of my life figured out. But it’s something that’s occurred to me and that I would really like to do.

CM: The same way that you realized in your sophomore year of high school that you wanted to play in college, was there a point in the last four years when you realized that this was something you wanted to interact with after graduating?

ND: I think sophomore or junior year of college, when I realized that there is an end point on my saying, “What can I work on for next season?” That number of seasons I have left playing competitively with a jersey on my back, with a group of people who are willing to come into the gym and work towards the same goals every single day, that was dwindling.

CM: What’s on your mind when you’re playing?

ND: I got really lucky that in seventh grade, my coach decided to put me in the setter’s position, because I think 100 miles a minute. And I talk that fast, oftentimes. And my position is one of few where that’s not only allowed, but kind of encouraged. And the best players who set are able to think and do a lot of things at one time. Because I’ve had so much practice in real life, I’m able to do it without feeling or looking frazzled, just my mind can be running around a lot.

I, especially in the last couple of years, tried to improve at both thinking about what was happening on my side of the net and the other side of the net, too, which is kind of a dual-minded thing to be thinking about. I’m always thinking about what I need to do to continue the game and to focus on my skill.

But I also need to think about how each of my teammates is reacting and performing and how what I do to them or in what way I give them the ball, or what I say to them after I give them the ball, affects them individually. And then at the same time, I have to be thinking about what patterns are happening on the other end of the net and how my decisions are affecting their decisions and their actions and their movements.

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IN QUOTES “He was excited where he was hitting today. He asked me how much I had to drink last night.”

–S.F. Giants manager Bruce Bochy describes third baseman Pablo Sandoval’s reaction to his spot in the lineup against the Dodgers on May 11.

South Siders’ impressive year concludes after NCAA losses Softball Jenna Harris Sports Staff Finishing with a 25–10 record, the Maroons completed their 2014 play this Saturday with losses in the NCAA Regional Championship against Thomas More College (31– 12) and University of Wisconsin–Whitewater (35–10).

However, these losses do not detract from the remarkable season the Maroons have had.

“Our team continually rose to every occasion and highpressure situation,” said second-year first baseman Kathleen Kohm. “We embraced hitting with two outs, and our defense continually shut down opponents’ attacks. This definitely all came from the top down, starting with our seniors and their leadership and relentless desire to win, all the way to our freshmen that stepped up to the high level of collegiate softball. The past weekend certainly was not a re-

flection on our team or on our ability to play and win softball games. Our success this season absolutely overshadows this past weekend.”

Last Friday afternoon, the South Siders faced Thomas More, resulting in an 8–0 loss.

All of Thomas More’s runs came in the top of the third inning. The first five runners reached base, and the team would go on to score eight runs en route to an insurmountable advantage. After the fifth inning, the game ended because of the run rule.

Chicago was eliminated from the tournament on Saturday after its game against UW–Whitewater ended in a 4–0 loss. It was a battle of the pitchers with second-year Jordan Poole and third-year Tabbetha Bohac leading the way, but the game finished at 4–0, with all four runs coming in the sixth inning.

“So yes, this weekend was frustrating, as we didn’t do

as well as we had hoped to,” Bohac said. “We played well but had two bad innings that we weren’t able to come back from. Making regionals, though, was always a goal for our team, so to be able to do that and to host them for the first time in school history was awesome!”

Poole agrees.

“Clearly, regionals didn’t end the way we wanted it to, but the biggest takeaway is that this was an amazing season with an amazing group of girls… I don’t think anyone is quite ready to admit it is over,” Poole said.

Indeed, the Maroons definitely proved themselves contenders this year.

“I think our team went through a lot of tough situations on and off the field during the winter, and that made us incredibly strong and resilient as a team together,” Kohm said. “We had always believed that our team was the best

Fourth-year Julia Covello makes a play in a game against Wesleyan in April of last year.

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out there…and once we got to Florida, we just had the chance to show that to the world… our team continued to believe throughout the season, and our resilience showed every day.”

1–1 performance ends Nationals run Women’s Tennis Helen Petersen Maroon Contributor The Maroons hosted the NCAA regional tournament this weekend.

After easily making it through the first day of the tournament with a 5–0 win over Principia on Thursday, the No. 12 South Siders were met with hard-fought challenges in the following days.

On Friday, Chicago defeated No. 28 Carleton 5–2 in its first match.

Chicago began the matches against Carleton with two decisive doubles wins. In No. 2 doubles, second-years Helen Sdvizhkov and Sruthi Ramaswami defeated Grace Davis and Mikayla Becich, 8–3. No. 3 doubles partners third-year Kelsey McGillis and second-year Stephanie

Lee followed with a victory over Katherine Greenberg and Molly Hemes, 8–2.

Third-year Megan Tang and first-year Tiffany Chen dropped the No. 1 doubles match to Joyce Yu and Anne Lombardi, 8–5.

The duo, which recently qualified for the NCAA Championships, battled hard but could not seem to put the ball away at critical points.

“In doubles, it was just a matter of who made less errors, and unfortunately Tiff [Chen] and I made a few too many, which likely cost us both of the doubles matches we lost,” Tang said.

“The Carleton team was able to deal with the wind a little better than us and make fewer errors, while also executing more shots at the net.”

Third-year Kelsey McGillis returns a ball in a game against Rochester two seasons ago.

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Both Chen and Tang bounced back from their doubles losses to earn wins in singles. At No. 1 singles, Tang had a convincing win over Anne Lombardi, 6–4, 6–1.

Chen, on the other hand, had a hard-fought, three-set match victory over Claire Spencer at No. 2 singles. After a solid 6–0 first set, Chen dropped the second set, 6–4.

“My singles match against Carleton was a test of mental toughness,” Chen said.

“Because the sun and wind were difficult to deal with, I had to play smart, especially in tight moments in the third set.”

Chicago dominated the singles matches, dropping only one of the six played. At Regionals, teams only need to win five total matches in order to defeat an opposing team. With two doubles matches under their belt, the Maroons needed to win three singles matches to win the whole thing.

At No. 6 singles, Lee won two close sets to set Chicago up for the win. Chen and Tang’s wins secured the victory for the Maroons. Ramaswami, at No. 5 singles, and Sdvizhkov, at No. 4, were both ahead in the third set of their respective matches when play ceased.

This win sent Chicago to the finals of the regional tournament, where it met up with Carnegie, a fellow UAA team.

The day did not begin as the Maroons had hoped, as dropping two of the first three doubles matches proved to be too much to come back from, and the Maroons dropped three singles matches, giving Carnegie the win. McGillis was the lone Maroon to pull out a singles win. She defeated Nicholle Torres, 6–4, 6–3.

The loss ended the season for Chicago.

“As a whole, I felt like we all competed really well,” Tang said. “Because NCAAs were the last matches we had as a team this season, we definitely wanted to implement all the strategies we’ve been working hard on in practice.”

Tang and Chen will continue on through individuals and doubles postseason competition. Tang was one of 32 women selected for the NCAA Championships.

“I’m really looking forward to NCAAs,” Tang said.

“In doubles, Tiff and I will definitely work on being more aggressive together at the net, hitting our spots for serves, and hitting our ground strokes more heavily so the net person can get easy volleys. For singles, I’ll be focusing on playing more offensive tennis by hitting my ground strokes deeper and out of the middle of the court.”

The individual Championships begin on Thursday, May 22 in Claremont, CA.

Chicago’s season-ending games reminded the team how important the fourth-years were to this year’s success.

“We had a great senior class this year, and after having the privilege to play with them for

the last three years, it’s hard to imagine a team without them next year,” Bohac said. “As far as goals for next year, we are going to feed off the energy from this year and make it back to the tournament.”

Maroons halt Bears’ playoff hopes Baseball Eirene Kim Maroon Contributor Chicago spoiled longtime rival Wash U’s chances at an NCAA tournament bid with its game two win in this past weekend’s threegame series, which included Senior Day. The Maroons wrapped up their season by going 1–2 this past weekend against the Bears. Chicago had a rough start in its final UAA matchup against the Bears on Friday afternoon. In game one, the Maroons were unable to defend against a Wash U lineup that was constantly producing hits throughout the game.

“Wash U jumped all over our pitching with tons of extra base hits, including two home runs,” said thirdyear second baseman Nate Wagner.

Wash U was constantly on the attack, and the Maroons’ defense allowed a couple of runs in each inning. Fourth-year second baseman Dylan Massey hit a home run in the bottom of the eighth inning, but by that time the Maroons were already far behind.

“We seemed to lack a sense of urgency the entire game until we were in holes too big to climb out of,” said second-year pitcher Pat McManus.

The Maroons struggled to perform offensively against the Bears’ pitching, as they tallied only five hits by the end of the game.

“We faced their best pitcher and couldn’t get much going at the plate,” said third-year third baseman Andrew VanWazer.

Chicago ended game one with a 13–1 loss.

Despite the tough loss, the Maroons bounced back the next afternoon and beat Wash U. Chicago was led by fourth-year outfielder Connor Bartelman and thirdyear shortstop Kyle Engel, both of whom singled up the middle to bring in two runs each in back-to-back innings. Bartelman and Engel’s hits would not have been as effective without a strong performance from the entire lineup, though.

“What helped was the bottom and the top of our order produc[ing ] big hits for us,” said Wagner.

Wash U fought back and was up 5–4 by the top of the eighth inning, but the Maroons forced a Bears’ throwing error that drove in two runs.

“We fought back after Wash U took the lead with a key single by [first-year] Tom Prescott to take the lead for good,” said Wagner. “[Third-year] Eddie AkBASEBALL cont. on page 11