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DISCOURSE

CAMPUS LIFE

Zinn and Zirin urge activism

Girl Talk mashups come to Mandel November 21

Authors speak out against death penalty and capitalism

By Ella Christoph News Editor

By Adam Janofsky News Staff A People’s History of the United States author Howard Zinn urged a crowded Mandel Hall to take action against injustice in a conversation about social activism Saturday.

Though his talk kicked off the citywide Campaign to End the Death Penalty over the weekend, Zinn’s view on the death penalty was only one of many liberal viewpoints he shared. Soldiers receive commendation for killing in times of war, Zinn said, while the judicial system puts Americans away in droves for the same actions.

Dave Zirin, a progressive writer for Sports Illustrated and The Nation, moderated the talk, w h i c h i n c l u d e d D a r b y Ti l l i s , the first exonerated death-row inmate in Illinois, and Lawrence Hayes, a Black Panther. Zirin wrote A People’s History of Sports in the United States, an homage to Zinn’s history of underrepresented classes since the nation’s founding.

Zinn urged the audience to remain skeptical toward the government, especially when considering the death penalty. “I don’t trust the states, the government, the judicial system,” Zinn said. “These people are not fit to make [capital punishment] judgments.”

Zirin asked both serious and humorous questions of Zinn

Mashup artist Girl Talk will be performing November 21 in Mandel Hall, the Major Activities Board (MAB) announced Monday. Girl Talk, whose digital samples draw on trendy and retro pop and hip-hop tracks, is widely known for his energetic performances.

“He’s got an awesome live show.

People go up on stage, he throws

confetti and toilet paper,” said Liat Bird, fourth-year and chairperson of MAB. The Board was looking for an artist to contrast with last year’s fall act, indie-rock band The Decemberists, said Bird. “We were trying to steer away from what we call ‘white guys with guitars,’” she said.

Girl Talk became an Internet sensation when his fourth album Feed the Animals was released in

GIRL TALK continued on page 3

ADMINISTRATION

Econ prof appointed director of Milton Friedman Institute

By Asher Klein News Editor

Historian Howard Zinn discusses war, imprisonment, government, and the death penalty in Mandel Hall Saturday. The event was held by The Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

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ZINN continued on page 2

Economics professor Lars Peter Hansen was appointed director of the Milton Friedman Institute for Research in Economics (MFI) last week. Hansen headed the faculty committee that proposed the MFI and was its acting director from its inception in July 2008.

The MFI has sponsored four conferences so far, but Hansen said he plans to bring more visiting academics to campus to teach and collaborate on economics research with Booth and Law School faculty members.

The MFI has already hosted visiting fellows from Columbia, Stanford, the University of Zurich, and University College-London. ”I think it’s going to be a very

interesting challenge for taking an institute that was non-existent into something that will have a full range of intellectual activity,” said Hansen, who has done major work in econometrics and asset pricing.

The MFI’s creators came out in support of Hansen, whose appointment comes after a prolonged debate over the institute’s creation.

When it was proposed in 2007, the foundation was to be named the Milton Friedman Institute and came under fire for its namesake, an influential economics professor and Nobel prize winner who helped found the Chicago School of Economics, a form of free-market capitalism attacked by the Left in recent years. “[Hansen]’s very bright and

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Heavy hitters

ACADEMICS

Booth bucks trend: no required ethics courses

By Aviva Rosman News Staff When the financial crisis revealed holes in the ethical education of corporate workers, business schools reviewed their course offerings and made changes to their curriculum in an effort to prevent future failures.

While the Booth School of Business is offering new courses dealing with the crisis, the core requirements have not changed, officials said last week.

“Chicago Booth completed a periodic review of our academic program and implemented a new curriculum,” said Lisa Messaglia, director of faculty services at Booth. “Our change was relatively minor and was not in direct response to the crisis.”

This quarter, Chicago Booth is offering a new class called “Money and Banking” on the operation and regulation of financial institutions, and two classes in the spring, “Business, Politics, and Ethics” and “The Analytics of Financial Crises.”

Some schools have completely over-

hauled their curriculum, either incorporating ethics into a wide array of courses or requiring ethics courses. Harvard Business School now requires students to take a course titled “Leadership and Accountability.” Nine hundred students took the course this fall.

Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business includes an ethics unit in their required organizational leadership course and The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School requires students to take a class called “Ethics and Responsibility.” NYU Stern School of Business, which has required an ethics course in their graduate program for 30 years, recently added a required ethics course to their undergraduate program as well.

At Chicago Booth, a committee interviewed various stakeholders— faculty, recruiters, students, and alumni—for their input on current required classes.

“The message we heard was the people liked the curriculum and that no major changes were needed,”

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ourth-year Hwa Rang Do Club member David Mahoney instructs fourth-year Ashley Angulo in a variety of basic martial arts techniques at a workshop in Henry Crown Saturday. Attendees received one-on-one guidance from Hwa Rang Do Club members.

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CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | November 10, 2009

DISCOURSE

Zirin, Zinn: Skip class and head to the stacks for the whole story

Panelists discuss Iranian revolutions, past and present

ZINN continued from front page

DePaul professor Kaveh Ehsani speaks at “30 Years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: The Tragedy of the Left,” a panel held at International House Thursday evening.

throughout the panel. “This will be like Frost/ Nixon except I’m not British and he’s not evil,” Zirin said.

Several audience members wore shirts reading, “I Am Troy Davis,” a criminal defendant sentenced to death in 1991. Davis’s sister, Martina Correia, was present; she said that seven of the nine trial witnesses have recanted their original testimonials since the trial, but Davis still remains on death row. “We have to be determined, not deterred, and be in it for the long fight like Howard Zinn,” she said, referring to Zinn’s long career as a civil rights activist.

Zinn also voiced his opinions on the current wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which he called “unjust wars against children.” Zinn pointed to the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, last week as “a demonstration of what war does to people.” He compared the shooting to statistics that claim more Vietnam veterans have died as a result of suicide than combat.

Zinn, a self-avowed socialist, called capitalism “a total failure,” which prompted Zirin to riff on the University’s famed free-market scholar Milton Friedman. “How great is it we’re doing this at the University of Chicago,” Zirin said. “Milton Friedman is not very happy.”

A People’s History focused on historical examples not usually taught in classrooms, such as Chicago’s Haymarket Riots, Zinn said, instead of stories more favorable to the political elite. “If you want to study history, don’t go to school, go to the library instead,” Zinn said.

“Especially not the University of Chicago.”

In a closing statement, Zinn encouraged the young audience members to embrace activism.

“It’s fun to be in a social movement with other people who think and feel the way you do. It’s fun, it’s fulfilling. So whether you win or lose, in the meantime, you win.”

Th e t a l k w a s c o - s p o n s o r e d b y t h e Organization of Black Students, the Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and the Illinois Socialist Organization.

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By Amy Myers News Contributor Experts on the Iranian Left marked the 30th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and its impact on present-day Iran at a panel discussion Thursday at I-House. The panel, hosted by the Platypus Society, was structured around a single question: Was the establishment of the Islamic Republic a tragedy for the Left?

The panel focused on the role of progressives in the overthrow of the Shah of Iran, from 1977 to the coup itself in 1979. According to Kaveh Ehsani, a professor of international studies at DePaul University, “This was one of the largest political events of the 20th century.”

Progressives during the Islamic Revolution were anti-imperialist, leading them to question Western ideas such as free press and women’s rights. Panelists said contemporary progressives in Iran should be careful not to make the same mistake of being too dogmatic and ideological.

In June, new progressives protested election results that kept conservative Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in office because they suspected the election had been rigged. The Green Movement, as it became known, was the first widespread outpouring of Western

sentiment in Iran since 1979.

Journalist Danny Postel, a strong supporter of the Green Movement, explained that mistakes from the Left caused the failures of the Islamic Revolution, deriding the Iranian government’s actions against a free press.

The panelists agreed that change was necessary in Iran, but disagreed on what the goals of the revolution should be. Postel said he was disappointed by fellow panelist Chris Cutone, the founding editor of left-leaning Platypus Review, professor at the Art Institute, and lecturer at the U of C, who criticized the Green Movement’s recent activities. Cutone responded to Postel’s accusation by sympathizing with Iranian protesters, but also pointed out that the Green Movement carries ideological problems.

While examining past failed revolutions, panelists remained hopeful for change in Iran.

“We are all involved in a political struggle that we may lose,” Ehsani said. However, Ehsani cited the maturity of contemporary revolutionaries and expressed optimism for Iran’s future.

Though the Green Movement represents another attempt at change in a long history of political turmoil, the panelists said it could prove to be a necessary change in Iran. “We are living, again, through a historic moment,” Postel said.

CORRECTION In the November 6 op-ed “Rethinking the Right to Work,” the organization SOUL was written out as Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation, which is a coalition of South Side churches. The SOUL in the article stands for Students Organizing United with Labor, a campus group.

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Ethical case studies optional for Booth students BOOTH continued from front page Messaglia said. “We did simplify the structure a bit to make it easier for students to understand what a required course is. But in fact, I don’t think students will take a different course as a rule.”

Chicago Booth has no set standard for ethical case studies used in the classroom, Messaglia said, but leaves it up to faculty, instead.

According to Messaglia, the business school is disciplined-based, meaning that classes are divided by disciplines such as sociology or psychology, rather than by industries. As a result, she said, professors may use different examples in their lectures, but Chicago Booth “[doesn’t] change required classes based on trends in the economy.”

Other business schools throughout the country are grappling with the ways in which they should respond to the financial crisis.

Writing in Forbes Magazine last year, Dean of the Yale School of Management (SOM) Sharon Oster said that “students must understand that even the narrowest business decision can have wide-ranging consequences.”

According to Elizabeth Stauderman, SOM spokeswoman, several Yale classes discuss the financial crisis.

“Our case writing team is writing a series of cases about the crisis, and many of our faculty are researching and publishing in this area,” she said. A new course called “The Global Macroeconomy” will develop a framework for understanding macroeconomic events in real time, she said.

At Columbia Business School, professor Paul Glasserma led a faculty committee that recommended changing the school’s curriculum to reflect the economic downturn.

“Two major initiatives are now underway, an integrative case on the auto industry cutting across multiple core courses, and a new course in the spring on ‘The Future of Financial Services,’ focusing on new opportunities in the wake of the crisis,” Glasserman said in an e-mail.

While the committee did not recommend creating a new required course in response to recent events, Glasserman said, he believed that Columbia’s mandatory unit on corporate governance is directly related to the crisis.

Ines Hubler, a first-year M.B.A. student at Booth, said she thinks it is less important to have specific courses on the financial crisis than to have teachers in specific subjects address the crisis.

“Nothing is really required at Booth,” Hubler said. “I would hope that students going here would seek out answers from themselves, from their professors, and from speakers. We all have been personally affected by the crisis— for many people the reason they’re here is because they lost their job as a result.”

She said that having a mandatory course on the crisis would suggest that there is one explanation for how the crisis occurred.

“There is no one real answer,” Hubler said, “and if anything I would rather have the option of choosing from multiple explanations.”

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MEDICAL CENTER

Discharge lounge latest in changes to aid ER wait time

By Nathalie Gorman Senior News Staff The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) will open a pilot discharge lounge for recently discharged patients Wednesday, the most recent in a series of changes that came out of a review of the hospital’s emergency room policies.

After facing accusations of patient-dumping and sub-par care last year, the UCMC hired advocates to conduct the review. They consulted with released emergency room (ER) patients, created staff positions to transfer lower risk patients to other hospitals, and streamlined its admissions and ER waiting room policies.

Wait times have decreased 65 percent since the changes, according to UCMC officials.

The discharge lounge is intended for patients waiting to be picked up after receiving care in the ER and will operate Monday through Friday between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. The lounge will allow patients to wait more comfortably to go home, and create more space in the ER, UCMC officials said. Until now, discharged patients have often waited in their beds, taking up valuable ER space. “We’re hoping that by freeing up inpatient beds

and allowing patients to wait in comfort in the discharge lounge, [we will] see an improvement in both our ER and our recovery room areas,� said Jean Blake, a hospital operations employee who helped set up the discharge lounge.

The lounge follows other steps taken to combat criticism of the hospital for the implementation of the Urban Health Initiative (UHI) last year. The UHI was designed to help patients using the hospital for primary care to transition to clinics on the South Side for regular, non-emergent care.

Many critics claimed that it resulted in uninsured and low-income patients being turned away from the emergency room.

Dr. Everett Vokes, acting UCMC chair, subsequently conducted a review of Emergency Department policy that resulted in the changes that took place over the spring and summer. These also included changing the ER admissions policy to make it more efficient and creating a surge plan to deal with overcrowding in the ER. The lounge will be available to three to four patients at a time, though Blake said the

hospital hopes to accommodate more patients in the future.

Blake said there will be boxed lunches, water, and a handicapped accessible bathroom. “We will have it staffed with a nurse aide who will assist with making phone calls or will get a patient a blanket and will actually wheel a patient out to the curb so their family can pick them up,� she said.

Blake said the hospital would help patients learn about the lounge. “We’re going to probably do education for the different services in the hospital making sure that the physicians know that this is available for patients. The way it will be successful is if the care team can talk about it,� she said.

She added that measures of success would be how many people use the lounge and whether the ER beds will be efficiently reassigned after becoming available. “This is one of many, many steps that we’ve taken to try to take the pressure off the emergency room,� said John Easton, spokesman for the UCMC.

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Heckman says MFI naming controversy “in the past�

MFI continued from front page he’s a major leader. He’s a symbol of what Chicago economics is about,� said James Heckman, an economics professor and Nobel laureate who is on the MFI’s board of directors. “I think what sets [the Chicago School] apart is the fact that it’s empirically oriented and rigorous in that it defines problems carefully and in a clear way.�

Hansen said the MFI has a long way to go before it achieves the goals he’s set for it, which include inviting long-term visitors doing research on “a wide variety of themes in economics,� which he said would rotate.

Hansen has been a faculty member since 1981 and has served as chairman of the economics department. He won the Frisch Medal from the Econometric Society, and the University of Chicago Faculty Award in graduate teaching.

Faculty members protested for months following MFI’s announcement, originally called simply the Milton Friedman Institute, taking issue over donors’ potential academic influence and MFI’s alleged support of Friedman’s ideology. Many formed the Committee for Open Research on Economy and Society (CORES), which opposed the institute’s name. CORES petitioned President Zimmer to convene the University Senate, which consists of some administrators and all faculty members; it had not convened in 10 years.

The meeting helped garner a name change, which CORES co-chair and Divinity School professor Bruce Lincoln said at the time was a “wonderful� indication that the University had addressed their concerns.

Nonetheless, CORES’ other co-chair and statistics professor Yali Amit used Hansen’s appointment to further criticize the MFI, although he praised Hansen’s academic achievements. “Lars Hansen is a world-famous economist and has been chair of the economics department. He has won multiple honors from his community. His work on stochastic processes motivated by economic questions is fascinating and of interest in fields beyond economics,� Amit said in an e-mail. “The problem is in the institute he is heading,� Amit added, saying the MFI is named after an “ideological flag-bearer.� “Originally they had planned on finding an outside director. But I wonder who would be willing today to move to the U of C in order to head an institute named after Friedman?� said Amit, who is a member of the Committee of the Council of the Senate, one of the University’s highest governing bodies.

Heckman said he considers the issue of the institute’s name to be in the past. “I think all the controversy last year has been blown past.

This is not a political unit—if you look at all the conferences that have been held and the ones that will be held, you’ll see a strong interest in creating a research center that is of the highest quality.�

Girl Talk to shake up Mandel Hall GIRL TALK continued from front page 2008. Available both as a $10 CD and as a “pay-what-you-want� free download on his MySpace page, the songs are packed with dozens of samples from artists ranging from Ludacris and Michael Jackson to Queen and Led Zeppelin.

Bird said she could not disclose the cost of bringing Girl Talk to campus, but said the tickets will be a bargain compared to usual ticket prices of about $30 for his shows.

Tickets go on sale Friday in the Reynolds Club at $10 for students and $15 for faculty.

The day of the show, tickets will be $15 for students and $20 for faculty. Sales will continue up through the concert date, or until tickets sell out.

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CHICAGO MAROON | VIEWPOINTS | November 10, 2009

VIEWPOINTS

EDITORIAL & OP-ED NOVEMBER 10, 2009

EDITORIAL

Reasonable hours CHICAGO MAROON

The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892

SUPRIYA SINHABABU, Editor-in-Chief TOM TIAN, Managing Editor ELLA CHRISTOPH, News Editor ASHER KLEIN, News Editor MICHAEL LIPKIN, News Editor CLAIRE McNEAR, Viewpoints Editor HAYLEY LAMBERSON, Voices Editor BEN SIGRIST, Voices Editor JORDAN HOLLIDAY, Sports Editor MATT BARNUM, Editorial Board Member BEN ROSSI, Editorial Board Member DANI BRECHER, Head Copy Editor SHAHZAD AHSAN, Photo Editor JEREMY MARTIN, Photo Editor

The University’s approach to cuts in worker hours is appropriate Last week, student activists and campus workers continued to protest the University’s decision last summer to cut the hours of Residence Halls and Commons (RHC) workers. For housekeepers and engineers on the RHC staff, the workweek was reduced from 40 hours to 35, lowering takehome pay by 8 percent. Workers and their supporters argue that plans for faculty expansion and continuing construction on several campus projects demonstrate that the administration could have avoided budget cuts. Yet the University has acted reasonably, shedding a total of just four jobs in RHC due to the recession. Moreover, while the decrease in hours is not insignificant, such a cut seems like a fair prioritization of competing interests.

Setting priorities is an essential part of running any university. By cutting the hours of RHC workers, the administration is necessarily prioritizing certain spending above giving staff a 40-hour workweek. It is understandable that the union watches construction and reads news of the faculty expansion with some frustration, as the University attempts to make it through the recession. It is important, however, for the administration not to halt long-planned construction projects; similarly, the faculty expansion seems long overdue.

That being said, it is not at all clear that money for these initiatives came from the pockets of RHC employees.

The University’s full line-item budget is not publicly available, so it would be impossible for us—or, for that mat-

ter, union leaders—to fully evaluate the University’s decision in the context of all other spending. What can be said is that in the midst of the recession, an 8 percent cut in hours with only a few layoffs seems reasonable.

While the reduction in hours amounts to an effective 8 percent decrease in pay, RHC workers retain their full-time benefits packages and the peace of mind that accompanies a steady job. With national unemployment levels reaching double digits, the University has kept the vast majority of RHC employees in the workforce, and has avoided casting large numbers of workers out into one of the worst job markets in years. Furthermore, the administration could have simply cut pay by 8 percent without a similar

reduction in hours. This option might have been a more appealing one to the University since service would not have been reduced, but not following this path shows the administration’s willingness to compromise and not pass all the costs of the recession on to its workers.

Not surprisingly, nobody wants to be paid less. But tough choices have to be made. By allowing the vast majority of RHC employees to retain their jobs, the administration has made a tough choice in a responsible and equitable way.

— The MAROON Editorial Board consists of the Editor-in-Chief, Viewpoints Editors, and two additional Editorial Board members.

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OP-ED

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Staying in touch

Soccer coverage overly pessimistic

ERIC GUO, Associate Photo Editor CAMILLE VAN HORNE, Assoc. Photo Editor JUDY MARCINIAK, Business Manager

Culture of hostility and indifference toward politics is unhealthy

take some care about the underwear you wear—and hopefully not for medical reasons. For those of you who missed its grand reopening last year, the Lascivious Ball, which will be held in Ida Noyes this Friday, is a revival of the celebration of debauchery by the same name that went on in the ’70s and ’80s. I actually wasn’t alive in the ’80s, but if I had been, I don’t know if I would have been able to handle it. The stuff that went on at the old Ball makes my leadership camp roommate’s nice underwear look like a steel chastity belt.

Just like all the other loyal Maroons on campus, my first source of University news is not the famed Twitter feed or University homepage, but the Chicago Maroon. The newspaper is hard-hitting and often critical of the administration, something that, as a student, I am always delighted to see. When looking at the back page of the November 6 issue, however, I was distraught to see the article on the men’s and women’s soccer teams (“Wins Against Wash U Could Clinch N CA A Bids”). Since most readers of the Maroon are affiliated in a positive way with the University, I expected the article to be encouraging and sing the praises of two teams that have had tremendous seasons and were both on the verge of reaching the playoffs in the same year.

At the time the article was written, both the men and women had one regular season game against Wash U remaining. It was nice of the author to point out that the men were nearly guaranteed a spot in the NCAA tournament, but he also made a point of saying it was damn near impossible for us to win UAA Championship, something the men did in fact do on Saturday. An added attraction to the men’s game was that second-year goalkeeper Chris Giusto was attempting to tie the school’s season shutout record (11), which he did.

The author did make a point of singing the praises of the Wash U women’s soccer team’s (14-2-1) 15-game undefeated streak after their two losses to begin the season, and expressed the dire situation our women’s team (13-3-1) was in prior to the game. He did not mention that last year, at Wash U no less, UChicago was the winning school in a 3-0 game. As a school newspaper, the Maroon should indeed be committed to unbiased reporting;

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Politics suck.

There it is: probably the only consensual opinion of our generation, the lofted and lauded children of the new millennium, the oh-so-optimistic builders of society’s future. Our skills, besides an incomparable technological familiarity: a black belt in apathy, a knack for no longer caring, and a curious acuity when defending our own indifference.

A little exaggerated, I admit. But the point—the general stigma that all political notions retain in our frantic, furious college lives—remains, and it’s starting to become just a wee bit of a problem.

On Saturday, for example, the House of Representatives approved arguably the most massive health care reform

in the history of our nation. They passed a policy, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, that overturns the foundational assumptions of what health care is and can be. Not many of us care. What’s worse, the pervasive opinion is that it won’t affect all that many of us. Yes, the health care debate has been heavily involved, but with a critical caveat. Over time, this involvement has been perpetuated not by the general public, but by the ideologues and commentators, the activists and protesters. The common man, much less the common college student, is nowhere to be seen. You’re more likely to hear Bill O’Reilly’s opinion on the matter than your neighbor’s—and this is a problem. The ideas of the artificial politician and artificial advocate—the stereotypes of the self-serving, ineffec-

tive nature of politics in general— have become engrained, embedded in the social conscience, and it isn’t doing much good.

Now, I’ll be honest. We have been inundated with health care hullabaloo for quite some time now, whether it’s been the looming possibility of reform or the looming possibility of no reform. It makes sense that, after the 15th time we read about the 15th stalemate in the Senate, we call it a day and vow to sustain a politics-free diet for the rest of eternity.

But this is big. Even though the Senate hasn’t proffered its approval yet, the mere fact that the bill passed, that an idea so fundamental was converted into action in such a big way, that a political campaign seemingly executed

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OP-ED

Thinking Lasciviously Reinvented Ball could better live up to its name

By Alison Howard Viewpoints Staff During my freshman year of high school, I went to a leadership camp.

I learned a lot of useful information— and by useful information, I mostly mean awkward icebreakers like “Pass the Lifesaver” and “Lap Sit.” The most informative part by far, however, was the dance at the end, if only because of something my roommate said in passing. While getting ready, she remarked that her mother always told her that she should wear nice underwear,

because she never knew who was going to see it.

For years, and I really mean years now, I thought her mother must have been referring to emergency paramedics cutting through her clothing to treat a wound brought about by either a horrific car crash or a horrifically random gunshot.

No other options even crossed my mind. You have no idea how much I wish I were joking.

Why am I telling you this? Well, because the Lascivious Ball is coming up, and this is, theoretically, an event at which you might need to

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After Obama election, excitement about politics has turned to apathy

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By Marshall Mundy Viewpoints Staff The ongoing debate over health care raises some interesting questions about the health insurance that students receive through the University Student Health Insurance Plan (U-SHIP). The total cost for one year of U-SHIP basic coverage is $2,025. Three quarters of Student Life Fees for graduate students—78 percent of which goes toward health and wellness services—comes to $714. Thus, a graduate student who enrolls in the basic U-SHIP plan will fork out $2,739 for the 2009-10 academic year. Since the one thing that students everywhere agree on is that college and graduate school cost far too much, should we just accept that $2,739 is the best deal we can get?

Even among a student population that encompasses a more narrow age bracket than the nation as a whole, apparently there are still some striking differences in terms of costs. An article available on the University’s Student Health Affairs Web site entitled “Why Student Health Insurance Rates Vary by School� contains some interesting statistics about the costs of health insurance for students. The author of the article, an actuary for the Chickering Group named Paul Cronin, claims that graduate and professional students have health insurance costs that are an average of 160 percent higher than those of undergraduates. (I guess our bodies begin breaking down from the wear and tear of being slumped over a computer screen for too many years. Oh, and we all start procreating like crazy.) Also, within the typical age range of undergraduate and graduate students, females

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have 150 percent higher insurance costs than males. Finally, Cronin claims that international students’ insurance costs are 20 to 25 percent lower than domestic student costs.

First of all, where do these statistics come from? Cronin does not provide a source. If these statistics are accurate, students might want to think about asking for additional health insurance options from the University. By requiring undergraduates to enroll in U-SHIP or have equivalent coverage, presumably the University is lowering or at least stabilizing costs for graduate students. That would appear to be an inference that Cronin makes in his article by pointing out the disparity in costs between undergraduates and graduates. Yet if that is the case, how much are the prices being lowered, if at all? Would the inclusion of more plans have any effect on price?

One option that has previously been discussed by the Student Health Insurance Review Committee (SHIRC) is a switch from a co-insurance plan to a co-pay plan. Under the current U-SHIP co-insurance plan, students pay a $200 deductible. After that deductible is met, students pay for 10 percent of additional in-network coverage. Because the U-SHIP plan is a PPO, out-of-network care is covered as well, though only at 60 percent of its costs (as opposed to 90 percent for in-network care).

If a co-pay plan were enacted, students would merely pay set fees for procedures as opposed to a percentage of costs. Though there would be a potential cost increase, the set fee’s element of co-pay plans simplifies costs for students.

All of this is not to say that we have a substandard health insurance plan. Unlike many other

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Karim Al-Zand (b. 1970)

Lamentations on the Disasters of War, after the etchings by Goya (2006)

Frederic Rzewski (b. 1938)

Knight, Death, and Devil (2008)

Laura Elise Schwendinger (b. 1962)

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its vision—implies that something monumental is occurring in our country. The bill has colossal undertones, such as the public option, or the fact that abortions not caused by rape can no longer be funded by the government’s public health insurance plan. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that it will reduce the federal deficit by more than $100 billion over the next 10 years. It also costs $894 billion. This bill is important. It is influential. And it is controversial.

Yet many have responded with cynicism.

Instead of constructive conversation, we have declamations of the political system and denigrations of the partisan separation. When I tried to ask a friend what she thought about the health bill, she said she had learned to stay out of politics for the sake of “two main reasons: convenience and comfort.� The discussion that we so greatly need is smothered under a blanket of fear, a fear of exclusion and categorization and hate. A fear of judgment.

Oh, you have an opinion? You think that abortion is wrong, or that public health care is inherently flawed? Well, you better keep your mouth shut, because if you even whisper a word against the political zeitgeist, you will (a) get a dirty look from the hipster-activist kid at your house table, (b) get a dirty look from the pretty girl you were trying to impress at your house table, and (c) be met with such a menagerie of malaise you will want to run south of 61st Street and never come back.

This isn’t an affliction specific to the University of Chicago. But it can be seen here, from the scarce voter turnout at Student Government elections to the fact that on any given day there are probably more people on campus waiting in line for a C-Shop milkshake than actively expressing their political opinions in an educational manner.

Our generation, in colleges across the nation, is growing up and entering the world at an indescribably pivotal time. But despite being at the cusp of a global power shift, politics still holds, for most of us, the taint of deception and lies and insignificance. We have seen in just the past five

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It has been one year since Barack Obama was elected. A whole year. At that time, it seemed like the youth of this country were once again compelled to listen and speak, once again ignited to emerge from apathy into action. That fire has since diffused, and most of our peers have settled back into their routine, roundabout schedules, with politics and its meaning gradually sifting down the list of priorities until everyone is, as Roger Waters would put it, comfortably numb.

Taking the initiative to engage ourselves in what is happening, in what surrounds us in the here and now, is crucial to our future happiness.

No matter how much we hate the supposed reek of the political sphere, we must always maintain a dialogue. If not, what we hold as holy may be profaned, what we see as sensible may be branded impossible, and what we know to be just will be twisted into the lies we know so very well from our newspapers and television screens.

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Going fully clothed to Ball just to observe others misses the point BALL continued from page 4 The University shut down the old Ball because it was dangerous. I’m talking emergency-room-level shenanigans. There might even have been speedballing. I’m not entirely sure what speedballing is, but I hear it killed John Belushi, so it has to be unfathomably hardcore. Plus, I think the guy who wore a single Styrofoam cup probably freaked out some administrators. This might be a good time to mention that one of rules of the reincarnated Ball is “no genitalia.” I presume they mean “no genitalia in plain sight.”

The old Lascivious Ball lived up to its name, and had a lascivious reputation in the we’re-all-going-to-hell-but-we’re-goingto-look-really-hot-doing-it kind of way. Or maybe by “hot” I mean slutty. I definitely don’t mean classy.

The new Lascivious Ball doesn’t have the same reputation. This makes sense—last year was only its first year back, and maybe debauchery isn’t as easy to achieve in the 2000s as it was in the 1970s. Plus, there’s the student body’s natural skepticism of schoolsponsored depravity. It’s like watching soft-core porn in your 10th grade Spanish class. (That actually happened to me, but I think PG-13 means different things to different countries, and my teacher was very distressed over the whole thing.)

And then there’s the fact that quite a few people showed up to the Lascivious Ball last year just to observe the lasciviousness, and not to actually contribute to it. In this case, “quite a few” refers to the majority of the attendees. There were an awful lot of street clothes and party dresses, and the people who had dressed down stuck out like, well, like half-naked people walking around Ida Noyes.

The lack of lasciviousness at last year’s Lascivious Ball begs the question: What does lasciviousness even mean? I’m guessing it has to do with the loss of inhibition—an intoxication of sorts. Of course, at a schoolsponsored event, we can’t and shouldn’t expect literal intoxication—speedballing, suspicious pink punch, and orgies outside of CAPS. After all, that isn’t very classy, and if anything, last year’s Lascivious Ball tended toward classiness. However, this classiness also displayed a sort of prudishness that made me seriously doubt the capacity for lasciviousness and classiness to coexist.

What we should be able to expect is an intoxicating atmosphere that lessens the awkwardness that ensues when some of the participants take their lasciviousness very seriously, and the others are distinctively half-hearted about it. It should be fun and irreverent, like a day at the beach.

Coincidentally, half-naked people don’t look awkward on the beach. Fully clothed people do. We shouldn’t treat the Ball like the broken remnants of some other age— with a handful of dinosaurs decked out in a few feathers (literally: a few strategically placed feathers) while the rest of us gawking tourists are still wearing our fully buttoned flannel shirts.

Basically, step it up, Lascivious Ball. I’m not entirely sure how to accomplish this, but it’s definitely something both the organizers and the partygoers need to keep in mind. Maybe Hype could sponsor some icebreakers. Come to think of it, “Pass the Lifesaver” and “Lap Sit” are pretty lascivious, especially if people are scantily clad. Or they could put out some suspicious pink punch that isn’t really sketchy, and let people think they’re intoxicated, like that one episode of Freaks & Geeks (or Ten Things I Hate About You). Or they could turn off the lights. In any case, all you people planning on wearing street clothes should wear nice underwear. You never know who might see it.

— Alison Howard is a second-year in the College.

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plans, U-SHIP covers preexisting conditions.

The fact that it is a PPO gives students more flexibility in terms of choosing a primary care physician. Students only have to pay for 10 percent of in-network costs over the $200 deductible.

United Healthcare is also able to negotiate discounts at the University Medical Center.

With new health care legislation on the horizon, SHIRC may have the opportunity to negotiate better rates with insurance companies and give students more competitive pricing options.

However, to ensure that SHIRC understands the needs of the student body as a whole, more involvement is required on both sides. SHIRC holds a town hall meeting each spring, providing a forum for students to learn more about the U-SHIP and give some feedback. Students should make an effort to attend this meeting and demand better service or more options if they are

unsatisfied with the current health insurance plan.

SHIRC also surveys students regarding the health insurance plan. The most recent survey available on the Student Health Affairs Web site is from 2008. These surveys should increase in frequency.

The Student Health Affairs Web site should also be updated. The current documents available under the “Background Materials” section of the site are outdated, as evidenced by the fact that Paul Cronin is an employee of the Chickering Group, a company that no longer provides health insurance to the University of Chicago. The University community could benefit from more recent statistics on the costs of providing insurance to students, and these numbers should come from our current provider, United Healthcare.

— Marshall Mundy is pursuing a degree with the Master of Arts program in Social Sciences.

however, it should also be trying to foster school spirit, and encouraging student body support for our successful teams would be a great way to do that. Certainly it would better unify our campus as the Maroons rather than as the campus where fun goes to die.

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VOICES

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ART

Questioning Kushner

Student filmmakers race the clock Chicago IN:60 Seconds video contest asks where Chicago's heart lies

By Katie Tu Voices Stopwatch How do you define the heart of Chicago in 60 seconds? How would you convey the vibrancy, glamor, and grit of the city? What would you include: the lakefront, the crowds, or that iconic Millennium Bean? These are the questions facing University of Chicago student filmmakers as they try to encapsulate their vision of the city for the “Chicago IN:60 Seconds” video contest. The grand prize? A showing of the film at the Smart Museum, $500 in cash, and honor.

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laywright Tony Kushner, 1993 Pulitzer Prize Winner and 2009 Chicago Tribune Literary Prize Winner, spoke downtown at the Chicago Symphony Center. The event was part of a series of lectures and performances for the Chicago Humanities Festival.

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This is only the second year of the contest, which is hosted by the Chicago Media Initiatives Office and the Smart Museum. It emerged out of a desire to engage the campus and, in the words of organizer Renee Balsick of the Chicago Media

Initiatives, to acquire a “great collection of authentic perspectives.”

However, unlike many of the other University-sponsored creative contests, such as Snapshots, there are no future plans to incorporate the videos into any specific administrative project. “We’re still trying to see what we’re getting,” Balsick said.

Last year, the contest’s theme was the University of Chicago’s connection to the greater Chicago community. Out of the six to seven videos that were submitted, current fourth-year Justin Staple’s abstract interpretation won both the grand prize and the Rising Phoenix Award, given to the audience favorite. Staple sums up his video with the phrase “The city feeds the Life of the Mind.”

He explained, “You absorb so many different things from being downtown and take that inspiration back to Hyde Park and dream your own dreams in this separate and unique setting.” Staple’s video expresses this idea with a dreamy stream of handdrawn images (evocative of United Airlines commercials), inserts of panoramic video, and a blasé female voice-over.

This year’s contest is a bit more open to interpretation. Staple, who is assisting in the production of another video, hopes to show “how innovative the campus has become

and how modern the lifestyle is here. Instead of an analog feel, this time we’re going to make something clean and crisp.” Another participant in this year’s contest says that it is an opportunity for her to gain muchneeded video experience. She drew her inspiration from two very disparate sources: the “awakening lion” montage sequence in Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin and the Heartland exhibit at the Smart Museum. “I’m trying to get across the struggle this school is,” she said. “Tons of almost unbearable work for a hopefully bright future.”

A panel of seven judges will decide on the top three prize winners (first place: $500, second place: $200, third place: $100) for this year.

The panel includes: organizer Renee Balsick; Judy Hoffman, a documentary filmmaker and lecturer in the University’s Cinema and Media Studies department; Chad Kainz, the director of academic technologies for NSIT; Tony Hirschel, the director of the Smart Museum; Julie Peterson, vice president of communications, whose office is funding the contest; David Hays, assistant director of the University Community Service Center; and Justin Staple.

The judges are given three criteria for judging the entries: “The video’s

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THEATER

Personal Encounters gets to the core of communities

DEEP shows audiences how to become a hardened hipster

By Mitch Montoya Voices of the Third Kind At most art exhibit openings, the procedure is pretty standard: Mingle with artists, eat hors d’oeuvres, and try not to get drunk off the free wine. At the opening of Close Encounters at the Hyde Park Arts Center this weekend, however, the procedure was far from ordinary; the artists forced patrons to take part in the exhibit itself. As a part of Close Encounters, visitors entering the gallery must answer a series of personal questions such as, “What is your income?”, “How old are you?”, and “What are your expectations for the exhibit?” This strange and rather frustrating screening process, imagined by artist Tania Bruguera, is part of the exhibit’s goal to explore the various ways that communities are created and discussed.

Based on the artists’ experiences at various community gatherings in 2008, the pieces in Close Encounters brilliantly examine the various aspects of the communities—racial, ethnic, regional, and otherwise—that constitute our world. Bruguera’s bizarre but innovative welcome to the exhibit questions the bureaucracy that can often affect a person’s desire to belong to a certain group.

More specifically, the screening

makes those waiting in line want to be included in the group of participants privileged enough to enter.

This sets up a political theme that is expressed in most of the exhibit’s other works.

Walter Hood and Wayne Youle adhere to this theme by addressing the unique problems of a multicultural society. Specifically, the artists focus on stereotypes and their troubling implications. Hood’s “Why am I the Only Black Guy Without a Tattoo?” is a fascinating installation that plays with ideas of generalization and projection. On six video screens, Hood shows a video in which he projects images directly onto people and documents their reactions to the bright light.

The individuals’ uncomfortable and funny facial expressions illustrate the awkwardness that can be felt when certain ideals are projected onto someone by their community.

Like Lowe, Youle’s “Erection Destruction Relocation Reflection Erection” also addresses stereotypes; however, this piece deals with American iconography and

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ideals. Youle uses various items of Americana and distorts them in several ways. In a picture called “Erect/ Flaccid,” Youle juxtaposes a United States flag in the wind and a still flag to compare impotence and patriotism. “Erection” certainly references the societal commonality that iconography represents, but Youle’s subversion rightly questions how we use the notions behind it.

Artist Juan Angel Chávez takes a more peaceful approach by illustrating how nature can unite people.

After participating in a Maori tribe meeting, Chávez created a structure that mimics the smoke from the Native American tribal rituals.

The immense spiraling sculpture, entitled “Bogart,” twists upward like smoke from a fire, demanding both visual attention and physical participation from attendants—it is situated directly in front of the exhibit’s doorway, forcing people to walk around it. Chávez’s beautiful artwork demonstrates the intimate practices of the Maori community, as well as the power of nature to connect a group of people.

Artist Truman Lowe also incorporates the theme of nature in his work “Water, Origin, Myth.” Using pieces of a willow tree, Lowe constructed parts of a canoe and placed them in

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By Jordan Larson Voices Cobb Coffee Employee Musical DEEP, one of the Gorilla Tango Theater’s newest productions, embodies all that is quirky and kitschy about small theater. While the glitteradorned, handmade playbills and amateur, four-person cast are endearing, the play’s cuteness couldn’t keep it afloat in its sea of pseudo-intellectual themes.

MUSICAL DEEP Gorilla Tango Theater Through November 23

DEEP—only 45 minutes long— centers around a group of teenagers named Paragraph, Friday Night Text, Rock, and Boey, who decide to create a truly deep, moving piece of experimental musical theater after seeing one of transformative greatness. They soon realize, however, that their suburban, middle-class lives have no source material with which to create such a piece.

They ultimately decide that they will have to mess up their own lives and dedicate themselves to self-destruction, all in the name of their musical.

The beautiful performance piece that acts as the group’s catalyst to action changes nightly with a revolving cast

of characters. On the night in question, the spot was filled by Jeezy McNeezy, a burlesque performer dancing to the tune of Gogol Bordello’s “Start Wearing Purple.” This sets the group off on a fantastical exploration of all things stereotypically “artistic,” which apparently nowadays means “hipster.”

With names like Paragraph and Friday Night Text and outfits consisting of plaid and tights, it is clear from the very beginning that the play is a parody of today’s hipster-inspired music and art trends. The play is further saturated with such satire by way of the characters’ speech; they are prone to dramatic pauses and the phrase “dot dot dot” as the verbal expression of an ellipsis. Witty, right?

Even as the characters begin to wreck their lives, the play maintains its tone of light mockery. For example, after it is revealed that Rock and Boey are having an affair, Paragraph’s accidental confession of her homosexual love for Rock is light and humorous.

However, the play’s ending abruptly shifts away from this light-hearted mood. As Rock and Boey are suddenly confronted with the very real problem of unwanted (or, in this case, somewhat wanted) teenage pregnancy, one cannot help but recall the humorous treatment of child neglect only a few scenes earlier. In the final chaotic and

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Style

Chicago Manual of

by Jessica Hester

ON THE PROWL FOR STYLISH STUDENTS

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lthough many University of Chicago students spend more time with vectors than with Vogue, brainiacs can dress smart,

too. This week, I profiled some students who earn an “A” in style. They were even helpful enough to provide tips on how you can also make the grade on a student budget.

Amulya Mandava, fourth-year

Patrick Gallagher, first-year

The outfit: Boots from Chinese Laundry, H&M cardigan, earrings and silk scarf from India

The outfit: Cardigan and shoes from Urban Outfitters, pipe jeans from Levi’s

Budget-friendly tip: “To make your shoes last longer, get them re-soled. Try Mr. T.’s Shoe Repair on 53rd, between Greenwood and Ellis. Also, don’t fall into the trap of buying something just because it’s on sale. You should never buy something that doesn’t really fit you, no matter how cheap it is.”

Budget-friendly tip: “When you’re going shopping, have a plan. Don’t just go browse aimlessly—you’ll end up spending a lot more money than you mean to.”

Patrick’s dressed-down take on men’s suiting is casually chic. “I like layers, which are the basis of men’s dress clothes,” he said. Here, he plays with suit-inspired pieces like the cardigan, cut to resemble a men’s blazer, and suede shoes that reference timeless wing-tips. He keeps the look youthful and fashion-forward by pairing the pieces with low-key Levis and choosing a cardigan with interesting detailing, like wooden buttons.

Whether curling up for an all-night library session or getting decked out for a night on the town, Amulya always manages to look comfortable, chic, and confident.

She attributes her fashion fluency to dressing for her body type, without regard for other people’s expectations. “I wear a lot of layers and high-waisted skirts and pants because they flatter my figure,” she said.

She often swaddles herself in cozy shawls and oversized cardigans, meaning she sometimes feels as though she dresses like someone twice her age. “I dress like a lot of older or middle-aged women. Women at that age are good at expressing a powerful femininity while dressing for themselves, instead of trying to project a specific kind of image,” she added. For Amulya, getting dressed in the morning is more than finding clean clothes or putting together an outfit that matches—it’s about dressing for who you are and who you want to be. She finds that dressing well helps her feel invigorated and prepared to conquer any challenges.

“Fashion gives me a sense of stepping out of the house with faith in my day, and with the confidence to face anything,” she said.

Liz Baker-Steimer, second-year The outfit: Boots from Steve Madden, blazer from Unique, vintage Banana Republic skirt, silk scarf from France Budget-friendly tip: “Check out Unique, a chain of vintage stores with shops on the North Side.

Everything is half-off on Mondays!”

Though she looks right at home in welltailored woolen pieces like this skirt and blazer, Liz says that her personal style is still under construction. “My look is always evolving as I get more exposure to different styles,” she said.

Since she’s an avid traveler, Liz is constantly finding new fashion inspirations. “I’ve done a lot of shopping in France, so my outfits often have a European flair,” she said. Liz’s ensemble is a great example of how an accessory—in this case, a silk scarf—can add a little je ne sais quoi to an outfit.

DEEP's tonal shift takes turn for the worse MUSICAL DEEP continued from page 7 confusing scene, Rock and Boey bounce back and forth between aborting the baby and carrying it to term. As the characters suggest, the baby could represent an act of creation comparable to the artistic creation of the musical. The play does indeed end with the baby being born, in the name of art, to hipster teenage parents who have no idea how to take care of him. Rather than providing a shocking and thought-provoking ending, the birth

scene only comes across as extremely contrived.

The dramatic tone of this scene emerges so suddenly that it is devoid of any real emotion.

The play’s theme and main question—to what extent real life should be transformed in the name of art?—is an interesting topic that could have been explored in a satisfying and thoughtful way. As it is, the play is weighed down by too much satirical baggage to be truly emotional or thought-provoking.

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Exhibit examines tribal rituals, political processes

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ability to convey the contest’s theme, creativity, and production values.”

However, each judge must also bring his or her own ideas to the table. For Balsick, who also judged the videos last year, she is looking for a video that tells its story from an interesting perspective and has great production quality. As the only student on the panel, Staple said he’ll look for something that’s not what you would immediately think when seeing the “Heart of Chicago” tag line. He wants “something that really tries to interpret the theme, and also has shown some time [with] the production quality.”

separate pieces on a gallery wall. The segments of the boat collectively represent a community that uses this vessel, but individually they create a distinct significance for each viewer. The pieces project intricate shadows on the wall that change given the weather and time of day, giving guests both individual and shared experiences with the work.

Close Encounters’ unorthodox welcome may leave some afraid to delve into the exhibit, but if people can get beyond the unusual entrance, they will not only find extraordinary views of intriguing communities, but also the creation of communities.

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Coville scores golden goal on controversial penalty kick in 100th minute M. SOCCER continued from back page to confirm for them that this was not their last game.â&#x20AC;?

Coville ensured that the fourth years would not finish their Chicago careers against Wash U after fourth-year forward Edgar Friloux was taken down at the top of the box. Although the penalty was disputed by the Wash U fans and players, Coville felt that it was the right decision. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Edgar played me a great ball in and made a great run in behind. I was lucky to get it to him, but Edgar worked really hard and got what we deserved in a [penalty kick],â&#x20AC;? Coville said.

This was not Covilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first instance of lategame heroics this season. Against Rochester, he rifled in a goal with six seconds remaining in the first overtime period to win the game at the death. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wash U and Rochester are two teams we have not beat in a while, and to score against those two teams is something I am really happy to do for our team. They all deserve it,â&#x20AC;?

Coville said.

Until Covilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal, the Maroons had little success mounting a strong offensive attack. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did a lot of standing around. We let a lot of balls bounce and we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pass it very well,â&#x20AC;?

Wiercinski said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve talked about it all year; if we play hard, play for each other, and cover for each otherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mistakes, even when we donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play well, we can still be in the game.â&#x20AC;?

What Chicago lacked in offensive success, they made up for with a stout defensive performance. The Maroon back line collaborated to smother the Wash U attackers as soon as they approached the domain of second-year goalkeeper Chris Giusto. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone on the defense is so close; we all just work so well together. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all friends on and off the field,â&#x20AC;? second-year defender Ryan Tunstall said.

Giusto extended his league shutout streak to six games and recorded his 11th clean sheet of the year, tying a school record and leading the

Fourth-year forward Edgar Friloux goes for a header against Wash U. In overtime, Friloux drew a foul that gave Chicago the winning penalty kick.

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UAA in shutouts on the season. He displayed his quick reflexes on one particularly impressive save off a corner in the first half that kept the game tied. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The ball came in and [first-year midfielder] Garrett Laird lost his mark and [the Rochester forward] headed it on goal, but Chris made a really fantastic save,â&#x20AC;? Tunstall said.

Giusto and the rest of the Maroons will

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At Maroon Invitational, men and women easily outpace opposition

By Jessica Sheft-Ason MAROON Staff Hosts are supposed to be generous, but the Maroon swimming and diving teams didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t display much hospitality as they dominated the Maroon Invitational Friday and Saturday.

Both the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teams took top honors at the meet, which was held at Ratner Athletics Centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Myers-McLoraine Pool. The men beat out all five opponents, winning with a score of 1,365 points. Lincoln took second with just 778 points. The women also swept the meet decisively with a score of 1,405 that far outdistanced second-place Carrollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tally of 399.

One of the most intense moments of the meets came Saturday, when Chicago went up against Lincoln in the 800-yard freestyle relay finals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lincoln College was about a body length ahead going into the last leg of the relay. Then [first-year Roger Fan] caught up to their last swimmer by the 100 and then surpassed him and ended up winning the relay by 1.5 body lengths. It was so exciting and such a strong team effort by the four guys on that relay,â&#x20AC;? first-year Julie Pendleton said.

Second-years Paul Morimoto and Marius Aleksa and third-year James Schlabach rounded out the 800-meter relay team.

Some of the most exceptional efforts of the meet came from the diving teams. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The best performance overall came from the divers. All of them,â&#x20AC;? head coach Jason Weber said.

First-years Bobby Morales and Rebecca Schmidt broke school records. Schmidt made NCAA qualifying scores of 404.38 and 439.73,

respectively, in winning the one-meter and three-meter events. Morales set school marks with scores of 375.13 and 357.53, but finished second in both events behind Lincolnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s star first-year Tyler Clingerman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My favorite moments [of the meet] were seeing my family and a bunch of my housemates cheering up in the stands and finding out that I had national-qualifying scores on both boards,â&#x20AC;? Schmidt said.

Despite being unaccustomed to competing on the three-meter board, Morales stunned his teammates. â&#x20AC;&#x153;During a practice two days before the meet I over-rotated the dive and landed flat on my front. So I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t warm it up and just threw the dive hoping for the best to happen during the meet,â&#x20AC;? Morales said.

After two more early-season victories, the teams are anticipating another successful season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We posted some fast times in our first meet of the season at Wheaton and I think we can only get better,â&#x20AC;? Aleksa said.

In addition to looking forward to training in San Diego over winter break, many members of the team have hopes of possibly qualifying for NCAAs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Currently undefeated and posting excellent early-season times, things are looking good for our training trip in San Diego and for the remainder of the season,â&#x20AC;? said Schlabach.

Weber feels that this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team is far ahead of where last seasonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team was at this point. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is just more drive and determination.

Last year, they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really know what they were capable of,â&#x20AC;? Weber said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This yearâ&#x20AC;Ś they expect to do just as well, if not better than, last year.â&#x20AC;?

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Chicago beat first-round opponent Aurora 2–0 in September match W. SOCCER continued from back page dence, but it also increased the Bears’ determination as they sought to regain equal footing with the Maroons.

“We didn’t have to worry about getting a goal, so we weren’t trying to force it. At the same time, though, being down a goal made Wash U come at us even harder. They had nothing to lose really by sending everyone up,” second-year goalkeeper Emma Gormley said.

As the first half wore on, the Bears began to pepper Gormley’s goal, but she was equal to the task. In the 33rd minute, she saved a header off of a long throw-in by midfielder Rachel Haas. Another header, this time from Emily Bylsma, forced a diving save in the 43rd minute, but didn’t get the Bears on the board.

Wash U continued to pour forward in the second half, but in the 54th minute, it was the Maroons who found net and grabbed an insurance goal for themselves.

The scoring chance began with Loh, who dribbled past two defenders on the right wing and sent a ball into the box. Her cross was cleared, but only as far as Benoit, who unleashed a strike from 15 yards into the top left corner of the goal. Jaques managed to get a touch on the ball but could not handle the velocity of the shot.

“I was just holding as the center midfielder at the top of the box to keep everything in the mix, and the ball got knocked out and I just ran through it,” Benoit said.

Now trailing 2–0, the Bears were further emboldened to push players into the attack, knowing that only a win could guarantee them the UAA championship.

“They were already down by a couple of goals, and it didn’t matter if they lost by one or five,” Gormley said. “Their aggressive play did, however, leave them vulnerable to counterattacks, and our forwards were able to capitalize on the opportunities they had.”

Brizzolara sets modern-era record with 218-yard performance

It looked as if the aggression might pay off in the 68th minute, when second-year forward Allison Hegel appeared to commit handball in the box on a Wash U corner kick. Whether Hegel handled the ball or not, the referee ignored the Bears’ appeals and did not award a penalty.

Not long after that escape, Chicago pierced the Wash U defense with yet another counterattack and sealed the game with a third goal.

Third-year midfielder Kate Manuelli won the ball near midfield, then played a give-andgo with fourth-year forward Brooke Bontz.

Bontz’s return pass found Manuelli perfectly in stride behind the defense and Manuelli applied the finish, sliding the ball low and to Jaques’s left, making the score 3–0 in the 81st minute.

The loss, while surely disappointing, ultimately did not cost the Bears, who still won the UAA championship because Rochester (12–3–3, 5–1–1) could only manage a tie against Case (9–6–3, 3–3–1). For Chicago,

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Second-year running back Francis Adarkwa churns through the Wash U defense. Adarkwa rushed for 143 yards on 26 attempts in St. Louis.

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FOOTBALL continued from back page their own 32. The next possessions for both teams ended in punts, and through the first 11 minutes of the third quarter neither team had managed to score.

Then, on the first play of the next Bears drive, running back Jim O’Brien broke through the Maroons’ defense for an 87-yard touchdown run, which made the game 27–24.

The Maroons immediately retaliated on their next possession with a 45-yard pass from Oium to first-year D Brizzolara, who had 218 all-purpose yards on the day to establish a new record for the modern era of Chicago football.

Brizzolara has 1,737 yards on the year, with one game left to play.

Two plays later the Maroons had a first and goal on the Bears’ six, but a holding penalty and three Oium incompletions forced the Maroons to settle for a field goal and a 30-24 lead.

“Things happen a lot quicker [in the red zone], you lose your speed advantage…the field gets a lot smaller,” Maloney said.

Trying to maintain their slim fourthquarter lead, the Maroons again halted the Bears, but the Bears’ punter managed to pin Chicago down to their own one-yard line.

When the succeeding Maroons drive stalled inside Wash U territory, the Bears got the ball back and O’Brien once again punctured the Maroons’ defense and scored on a 51-yard touchdown run.

Now trailing 31-30, the Maroons again orchestrated a long drive into the red zone and earned a first and 10 on the Bears’ 14.

But a bad snap out of the shotgun resulted in a Maroons fumble and a 15-yard loss. After

another loss of yards on third down, the Maroons punted.

After a 59-yard touchdown run by Wash U’s Greg Lachaud and a failed fourth and one attempt by the Maroons that resulted in another touchdown for the Bears with less than two minutes to play, the Maroons’ fate was sealed.

The Maroons’ second-half struggles stood in contrast to their strong first-half performance.

The scoring started early in the opening period. Wash U scored a touchdown on their first possession after only six minutes had elapsed on the game clock. Chicago responded quickly with a two play, 79-yard drive to tie it up 30 seconds later. They followed that up with another touchdown less than five minutes later on their next possession, making the game 13–7 after a blocked PAT. Late in the second quarter, Chicago went ahead 27–17 thanks to a seven-yard strike from Oium to third-year receiver Clay Wolff.

Chicago moved surgically down the field with completions of 20 and 11 yards by Oium that put the Maroons inside the Bears’ 20. On second and goal from the Bears’ nine, Oium’s pass to Wolff was tipped and picked off in the endzone by Wash U linebacker Bryce Buchanan—a seven-point swing that seemed even more costly in hindsight.

In truth, the Maroons are only a few big plays away from being 6-2 and undefeated in conference play. If they can resolve their red zone issues and manage to stop the big play, they should be able to defeat Carnegie (5–4, 1–1) on Saturday. If they do, Chicago will finish with a winning record for the first time since 2005.

a win over a top-shelf team like Wash U gives them momentum as they prepare for the NCAA tournament, which they’ve now reached in three consecutive years.

“This is a great win to have going into the postseason. It shows us that we can compete on the highest level,” Gormley said. “After losing last weekend to Brandeis, we were feeling a little down, but beating the seventh-ranked team in the nation leaves us feeling like we can do well in the tournament.”

Chicago’s attention now turns to Aurora, their first round opponent. Though no opponent can be overlooked in the playoffs, the Maroons know they have the personnel to handle the Spartans, who they already defeated 2–0 on September 26.

“We are so excited that we get another chance in the tournament. We just want to continue improving with each and every game and make a great run in the tournament,” Benoit said.

years, the Maroons (28–13, 7–4 UAA) went 2–1 in the opening round robin before beating NYU in the third-place match Saturday to close out their season.

The only squads to finish ahead of Chicago were third-ranked Wash U and fourth-ranked Emory; the Eagles beat the Bears in Saturday’s championship match to win the conference and garner the automatic NCAA bid.

Third place in the highly competitive UAA is an impressive showing from the muchimproved Maroons, who won just seven matches two years ago. However, they very nearly ended finishing even higher. Chicago was just a few points from beating Emory, the defending national champion, when the teams met in the final round-robin match Saturday morning. Beating the Eagles would have put Chicago in the championship match against Wash U, where they could have finished no worse than runner-up.

Chicago’s energy was high going into the Emory match, which helped earn them a 25–21 victory in the first set. Though Emory took the second set, the Maroons stayed within a few points most of the way before succumbing 16–25.

The third set was marked by aggressive blocks, especially by first-year middle blocker Caroline Brander and second-year outside hitter Colleen Belak, few errors, and excellent serves, which led to a 25–13 Chicago victory and a 2–1 lead in the match.

The Maroons were excited going into set four and fought hard before ultimately losing 25–27, which forced a decisive fifth set.

Chicago initially led the final set, but Emory worked back and ultimately defeated the Maroons 15–13.

The five-set thriller against the highly rated Emory side was far closer than the Maroons’ straight-sets loss to the Eagles earlier this season, and it was a sign of how far the team has

come, not only over the past couple years, but also in the past few weeks.

Second-year outside hitter Paige Peltzer said after the loss to Emory that the team was “proud of how they played, disappointed that they lost.”

Chicago’s first match was on Friday against sixth-seeded Carnegie. The Maroons started out strong in taking the first set but lost control of the ball in the second and third sets.

Chicago rallied in the fourth and fifth sets with the help of some particularly spectacular kills made by second-year outside hitter Isis Smalls to prevail over the Tartans 25–20, 12–25, 18–25, 27–25, 15–3.

Head coach Vanessa Walby said the team was especially excited for the rest of the weekend’s matches after defeating Carnegie, which beat Chicago earlier this fall. Even so, Walby remained focused on improving throughout the upcoming matches, reiterating that the two things required for a strong game were “to serve aggressively and block closely.”

The Maroons went on to defeat seventhseeded Brandeis in their second Friday match. During that game, Smalls collected 11 kills, third-year outside hitter Elizabeth Kossnar had nine, and Belak made seven kills and three aces.

First-year libero Sam Brown played excellently all weekend, totaling 67 digs over the course of the tournament, and repeatedly making digs that elicited gasps and cheers from the crowd.

In the program’s 38-year history, only one other Maroon squad has notched more wins than the 2009 Maroons’ count of 28. As good as that total looks now, the most exciting thing about it may be what it portends for the coming years. Chicago is an unusually young team, and their lone fourth-year, outside hitter Diandra Bucciarelli, took a medical redshirt during her third year and will return for one more season next fall.

“We’ll just keep progressing,” Walby said.

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IN QUOTES “It’s not easy when you get fired. I mean, that’s a bad day, okay? That’s not a good day at the office.”

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—University of Memphis football coach Tommy West, at a press conference yesterday announcing his dismissal.

MEN’S SOCCER

Late rally puts Maroons top Wash U to share UAA title, clinch NCAA bid Wash U past Chicago By Matt McCracken Sports Contributor in UAA shoot out

By Matt Tyndale MAROON Staff After losing a close game in the fourth quarter to Case, Chicago looked to rebound over the weekend with a win over the Wash U. However, after another close shootout, victory, not to mention the Founder’s Cup, again slipped out of the Maroons’ (4–4, 0–2 UAA) hands when Wash U(4–5, 1–1) put up 20 fourth-quarter points to pull out a 44–37 victory.

“We’ve tried to highlight the big plays against our defense; they’ve really hurt us,” head coach Dick Maloney said. “You can’t just let teams score in one play; it’s not a healthy thing.”

After the Maroons ran out to a 27-17 halftime lead, both teams’ defenses clamped down and silenced the offenses that had been so explosive in the first half. Following a fourth and three stop of the Bears at the Chicago 29, the Maroons moved down the field until Wash U intercepted a pass from thirdyear quarterback Marshall Oium at

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Second-year midfielder Stanton Coville really knows how to make his goals count.

After Chicago (12–3–3, 5–1–1 UAA) and Wash U (9–7–3, 3–4) held each other scoreless in regulation, Coville fired in a penalty kick with one minute remaining in the first overtime period to earn a share of the UAA championship for the Maroons and clinch a berth in the D-III playoffs with a 1–0 victory over Wash U. The win, coupled with ties by both Rochester (12–1–3, 5–1–1) and Carnegie (14–2–1, 5–1–1) in their Saturday games, put all three teams in a deadlock atop the UAA standings at 5–1–1 and secured a league co-championship for Chicago.

Though all three teams were locks to be chosen for the tournament field, it was the Maroons that prevailed in the UAA’s tie breaking procedure to earn the conference’s automatic NCAA bid.

“We were very excited to get into the playoffs,” head coach Scott Wiercinski said. “The results that gave us the automatic bid were thrilling. It’s a nice, fresh feeling, and we’re really glad it was able to work

First-year midfielder Daniel Hahn carries the ball down field against Wash U. Because Chicago won Saturday and Carnegie and Rochester both tied, all three teams were 5–1–1 in UAA play and shared the conference championship.

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out for us.”

Chicago will be matched up against Wartburg (15–4–1) on Friday at Wheaton, the host site for Chicago’s section of the bracket.

Coville’s shot put the Maroons in the playoffs for the first time since 2006 and gave Chicago its first UAA title since 2001.

“It was a cool moment, more

for my team than for me personally,” Coville said. “Our team and especially our defense deserved that goal. It was great for the seniors…

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

VOLLEYBALL

After besting seventh-ranked Bears, Chicago to host NCAA Regional

Third-place finish has Chicago back on UAA map

Third-year forward Sarah Loh traps a pass against Wash U. Loh’s 25thminute goal was the game winner in Chicago’s 3–0 victory Saturday.

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By Ryan Tryzbiak Associate Sports Editor

By Kate Marsden MAROON Staff

Fumbles are game changing plays in football, but they aren’t often associated with soccer. On Saturday, however, a crucial fumble swung the momentum in favor of women’s soccer and propelled them to a vital 3–0 win over Wash U. In the 25th minute, third-year forward Sarah Loh fired a speculative shot from 20 yards out in the left channel. Bears goalkeeper Clara Jaques was well-positioned to make an easy save, but the ball slipped through her fingers, between her legs, and into the Wash U goal.

Suddenly, Chicago (14–3–1, 4–2–1 UAA) had a 1–0 lead, which was, in the end, all the Maroons needed to top the seventh-ranked Bears (14–3–1, 5–1–1), who hadn’t lost in 15 contests since their September 5 loss at Johns Hopkins.

The victory was doubly satisfying for Chicago: Not only was it a convincing win over a ranked rival, but it virtually assured them of a spot in the NCAA bracket, which was released yesterday morning. The Maroons will host Aurora (16–5) in the tournament’s first round this Friday, and if they win there, will advance to play either Carleton (10–5–5) or Wheaton (15–4–1) at home on Saturday.

During the Wash U game, Loh’s early goal increased Chicago’s confi-

It’s not often that the UA A volleyball championships are in Chicago—they last came to town in 2001—so when the conference

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tournament arrived at Ratner Friday and Saturday, volleyball made sure to make good use of the home advantage Re g i s t e r i n g t h e i r b e s t UA A Championship performance in 13

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Second-year Isis Smalls goes for a block against Brandeis on Friday.

Chicago beat the Judges in straight sets.

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