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Out of the stacks, back to the newsstands: Editor tries to resurrect dormant porn mag By Asher Klein News Editor For the last two years, fourth-year Jackie Todd has been trying to get ahold of the student body. A naked student body, to be precise. Todd is looking to publish another issue of Vita Excolatur, a pornographic magazine made by, for, and about students at the U of C, last published in 2007. The magazine translates the name, which is taken from the University’s motto, as “the life well lived.” But as the head of the organization since her second year, Todd has had trouble getting people to join, from photographers to designers; even asking people to help her table at RSO fairs “was like pulling teeth.” Todd heard about Vita as a senior at a conservative Catholic high school, where “sex and sexuality were

never explored,” she said. “Having a venue where sex can not only be explored, but can be brought up as a topic of conversation” appealed to her. When she matriculated, she approached the editors with an idea that she produced and posed for. “Everyone thinks that you go off to college and its going to be this crazy place full of co-eds hooking up, booze, all that stuff. And while it’s funny to joke around about sex, it should be addressed in a way that’s not super serious,” she said. “It should be out there in a magazine.” Todd is hoping to resurrect the magazine, which once printed seminude fashion photography shot on top of the Reg, an article explaining the Asian fetish, and even a “money shot,” to use a trade term. Vita didn’t look much like a porn

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ALUMNI The Mac Lab in the Regenstein Library will no longer offer free printing in an effort to cut costs, which have been increasing every year.

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Students breaking Mac Lab rules threatened to “bankrupt” University By Nathalie Gorman Senior News Staff The Computer Science L ab, commonly known as Mac Lab, terminated its popular free printing service last week. It was the last such service available on campus. Mac Lab is now integrated with the unified campus printing system, which charges 10 cents per blackand-white page. Until this quarter, Mac Lab provided up to 30 pages of free black-and-white printing per student each week, but only for usercreated documents. Terminating free printing is one of several measures taken to curb the

University’s printing costs. “It had to be stopped because it was bankrupting the University,” said William Sterner, director of the computer science department and Mac Lab. Sterner sympathized with students’ frustration over the disappearance of the service, but said the widespread flouting of the Mac Lab’s rules played a role in precipitating the change. “I don’t think anybody involved here...wants to make this difficult for students,” he said, adding “we constantly found students trying to push the limits that we were setting. It’s clear that we could have a very large expense if we just let that happen.” To Sterner, this activity suggested a misunderstanding of the Mac Lab’s purpose. “We’re here to provide space for computer science courses,” he said. “We’re not a print service.”

Sterner said the “explosion of printing” coincided with many course documents being placed online in 2000. “NSIT was confronted with the problem of people printing thousands of pages, where before they printed 15.” While other parts of the University began to charge for printing, Mac Lab developed the policy that allowed students to print content they had created, which was considered responsible and practical. “That carried forward until very recently—until the library and the dorms and the college offices were revamped—and now they have a relatively uniform system. When that came up the library asked us to stop our free printing and switch to a payfor-print [model],” Sterner said. He added: “Basically, we decided

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By Evette Addai News Staff Dozens of alumni and hundreds of students converged downtown Saturday to explore career possibilities and share trade tips at this year’s Taking the Next Step (TNS). David Medina (A.B. ’91), the event’s keynote speaker, challenged the classes of 2011 and 2012 to make public service a part of their future and to “live life out loud”. Medina, director of public engagement for the Peace Corps, traced his experiences in Chicago social and political activism, urging students to give their lives greater meaning. Medina, who worked on Carol Mosley Braun’s (J.D. ’72) successful senate campaign in 1993 and later became her aide in Washington, moved to the Peace Corps to focus on resolving

poverty around the world. He formerly served as Michelle Obama’s deputy chief of staff in the White House. After a recent trip observing Peace Corps volunteers in Panama, Medina said he felt humbled and inspired. “These volunteers were living their lives out loud with their service in the Peace Corps.” Medina ended the talk by asking the students to imagine their futures. “Imagine devoting your life to helping. Imagine standing up here and being able to say, ‘I lived my life out loud.’” Dean of the College John Boyer spoke before the lunch, joking that TNS would have made former President Robert Hutchins roll in his grave. Boyer said Hutchins, who believed universities should not “teach the young how to make a living”, would be appalled at an event so focused on getting students jobs outside of college.

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New technology director suited to University’s decentralized system, admins say By Michael Lipkin News Editor Klara Jelinkova will serve as Chief Information Technology Officer, the University announced Monday. She will be responsible for NSIT and represent the University on IT issues nationwide. Jelinkova, who will start at the U of C March 1, is currently an information technology administrator at Duke University. At Duke, Jelinkova was in charge of campus e-mail and developing systems to support campus research. She also served for 10 years at the University of WisconsinMadison, where she centralized data storage and implemented universitywide infrastructure changes.

Chief Financial Officer Nim Chinniah, to whom Jelinkova will report, said he was impressed with her ability to lead Duke through IT changes and her skill at collaborating with faculty, students, and staff. He added that her background at Duke, another large research university, was a key factor in the decision to hire her. “We do a lot of research across our divisions and we’re decentralized in the way we approach our information technology...which lets deans and faculty have a lot to say about how it’s managed, while accounting, payroll, and alumni networks are managed centrally,” Chinniah said. “Duke has a very similar environment.”

Chinniah said Jelinkova will be in charge of “any new technology we roll out,” and will develop new ways to get feedback on the University’s projects and services. She will also oversee NSIT, which handles campus e-mail, server management, networking, and telephone services. Jelinkova’s predecessor, former Chief Information Officer Greg Jackson, also represented the University’s technological interests, once testifying before a U.S. House of Representatives committee on copyright infringement on college campuses. Jackson left the University in early September and now works for a nonprofit that advocates for technology-based higher education issues.

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“The rare smut mag with extensive footnotes,� Vita struggled with reluctant models and small staff VITA continued from front page magazine at first. Put out in spring of 2004, the first issue contained lots of words and some pictures, too, but a lot of clothes stayed on for the camera and there was little nudity. “I’d like to think that it grew more sophisticated,� Ceda Xiong (B.A. ‘05), Vita’s first editorin-chief and founder said in an e-mail, referring to the polished content Vita later produced. The next issue, published in the fall, featured more professional photography and writing. Its cover story involved a shoot with the men’s ultimate Frisbee team posing naked in an empty pool; entitled “Discus,� it was lit and shot in a highly stylized way meant to invoke Greek art and athletics. The issue also contained an investigation into the BDSM scene in Chicago and accompanying pictures in the basement of a University building, with a topless, female model dominating a topless, male one. One thing that didn’t change was the female-focused content, in part because the top editors were women, and in part because it took an enlightened view towards sex, sexuality, and pornography that didn’t treat women solely as sex objects. There were, at least in the first year, as many depictions of the male form as there were of the female form; the first cover story was on demystifying female masturbation for women. Paul Mantz (B.A. ’07), who wrote and modeled for the magazine starting in winter of 2005, said the staff ’s attitude was positive and adult. “People were much more frank and straightforward about their desires and the way they were talking about things. There wasn’t any unspoken pressure or things like that. It wasn’t the hormone keg of high school,� he said. Vita came of age by the spring of 2006, when it featured prominently in an April article in The New York Times, along with similar magazines published at Harvard, Yale, and Boston University, which cropped up around the same time. The article called it “the rare smut rag with extensive footnotes,� and portrayed the students involved as scholarly artists looking to update the school’s image. It printed with glossy, color covers, and the quality of the pictures, both in terms of resolution, concept and novelty, only grew. But by then, both finding models—and securing their consent—had

become difficult, Todd said, and Mantz called it a “huge problem� that led to delays in production. One model said in an e-mail that she pulled out of one shoot after she found out her wish to remain anonymous on a previous one had not been honored (she asked for anonymity in this article as well). “I did a shoot for hot girls reading books [a series that appeared in each issue] during the end of winter my first year, under the condition that it just be my pic, no name no nothing,� she said. However, her name, year and hometown were printed on the inside cover of the magazine. “I was livid,� she said. Although he was not aware of any prior incident, Arthur Lundberg, Vita’s ORCSA adviser for the past two years, said the University has a contract with the publication that ensures students’ wishes are safeguarded. “There are more concerns than with any other general campus publications,� he said. “Things like...making sure people sign consent forms both before a shoot and once they’ve seen a mock-up of what’s being presented in context.� Upholding these standards was one problem Todd encountered when trying to put together an issue of her own, which she almost pulled off for O-week in 2008. Looking to write an issue on “getting to

know your university through sex,â€? Todd and a few other Vita veterans almost put a short issue together, but didn’t find enough production designers to put the content together. Another reason Vita hasn’t come out in years was the organization’s structure. Mantz, who was on staff during Vita’s last issue, said succession wasn’t clear. “There wasn’t anybody who was driven completely. Nobody wanted to own the project,â€? he said. The last issue was published in spring 2007. A few attempts to put Vita online were stymied because of privacy issues—people didn’t want their names attached to risquĂŠ photos online. Todd didn’t want to take on the job of editor in chief, but when “everyone else that was doing it left,â€? she did it out of a sense of duty. “I’ve been a part of it for so long that I feel like it’s a personal fail if I don’t produce something before I graduate,â€? she said. Todd is still trying to get contributors for an issue to be put out at the end of the academic year. She also hopes to set up a structure that would ensure the magazine stays in print beyond her graduation. “I really wish I could say that I’m really optimistic,â€? she said, “but I’m still really worried that people are going to cop out and not follow through with their plans.â€?

Mac Lab anticipated student frustration with paid printing MAC LAB continued from front page that our alternative solution simply wasn’t working anymore and that we would throw in with the University system to help the University and make that as cost-effective as possible,� he added. When the unified print system was implemented this year in libraries and dorms, traffic to the Mac Lab increased, Sterner said. “Once the unified print system got into place, students were very quick to identify that some free printing could be gotten in CS Lab. We saw a significant increase in printing.� Second-year Jason Rowley expressed frustration at the decision to charge for printing. A frequent Mac Lab user, he said that while the change would not likely diminish the amount of time he spends there, he would be less likely to print at the Library in the future. “I’m still going to use [the Mac Lab], but it’s definitely more prudent...printing at home,� Rowley said. Rowley added he used the Mac Lab to print PDFs he hadn’t created. Sterner said the Lab is expecting similar reactions from other students. “It’s likely that we’ll see fewer people coming to the Mac Lab just to print,� he said. “As far as support for coursework and other things, I think we’ll see just the usage we’ve seen before.�

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SUPRIYA SINHABABU, Editor-in-Chief TOM TIAN, Managing Editor MICHAEL LIPKIN, News Editor ASHER KLEIN, News Editor EVAN COREN, Viewpoints Editor HAYLEY LAMBERSON, Voices Editor BEN SIGRIST, Voices Editor JAKE GRUBMAN, Sports Editor JORDAN HOLLIDAY, Sports Editor

Removal of free printing in Mac Lab is an inconvenience to students Last week, the Mac Lab put an end to its longstanding policy of free printing for user-generated content. With the termination of this service, the University completes its transition to a unified printing system. Although administrators have explained the change in service as a cost-cutting measure, the inconvenience it will pose for students outweighs the money saved. While the Mac Lab is under no obligation to provide free printing, the former policy offered a wellused, much appreciated student

service. The change in policy will be a hit both to students’ wallets and to their schedules. Previously, the Mac Lab was a haven not only for free printing, but for quick printing. Now, students have to remember to bring cash or credit to fill their cards before they print at the Lab, which means that those working on deadline or putting the finishing touches on their work before class will be inconvenienced. Moreover, the move to payfor-print seems unnecessary given the strict regulations on printing already in place at the Lab, which

limited the number of pages per user to 30 per week and banned PDF printing. If 30 pages proved too costly, then the Mac Lab could have lowered the individual cap to 15 pages per week, cutting the costs by half without negatively affecting the majority of student users. The Lab has opted for this cost-cutting measure in the past, reducing last year’s printing limit of 100 down to 30 pages. Given current restrictions and the potential for a more accommodating solution, it seems abrupt that the Mac Lab would cut their service completely before try-

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ing other options. There may be genuine moneysaving value in discontinuing the Mac Lab’s free printing, but it seemed like a reasonable burden for the University to bear given all the service it provided. Whatever the reasons behind it, this policy change is a serious inconvenience for students. — The MAROON Editorial Board consists of the Editor-in-Chief, Viewpoints Editors, and an additional Editorial Board member.

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As 2008 drew to an end, we had reason to be hopeful about government. The leader of the free world was to be none other than Barack Obama, an Illinoisan who would usher in a new political world order, one devoid of lobbyist influence, campaign kickbacks, and “politics as usual.” Just as things were looking bright for the Land of Lincoln, our Governor reminded us what was wrong with government in the first place. Facing impeachment and felony indictment, “Golden” Rod Blagojevich made his last major move in office, appointing former comptroller Roland Burris to the

senate seat Obama would vacate when he ascended to the presidency. This “valuable” seat, of course, was the very seat Blagojevich was charged with attempting to sell. It was the same seat Burris subtly bargained for on wiretapped phone calls, alluding, “I know I could give him a check…myself.” After initial resistance from Senate leadership collapsed, Burris was seated as the next senator of Illinois. So much for “change we can believe in.” Then, a funny thing happened. The Washington establishment shunned their shady new colleague. Legislators blacklisted Burris, his state-wide approval ratings dipped below 20 percent, and, perhaps most importantly, he was unable to raise money. Despite his incumbent status, Burris announced he would not file for the February 2010 Democratic primary, a political reality that occurs when you only have $845 in

your war chest just months before an election. It appeared as though the world had righted itself: Barack was the president, Burris’ reign would be short-lived, and the man Obama once called “one of the most outstanding young men that [he] could ever hope to meet,” state treasurer and former U of C student Alexi Giannoulias, was lined up first to vie for the seat of his former mentor. It seemed too good to be true, and it was. As the only veteran in a field of political newcomers, Giannoulias has thus far capitalized on higher name recognition, allowing him to sneak through the lead-up stages of the primary largely untested. As the frontrunner, he has adopted a “no news is good news” mentality, dropping out of Democratic debates and skirting media availability. What’s more, his Obama-like vow to deny “contributions from corporate

PACs and federal lobbyists” has turned out to mean little more than accepting donations from only state-registered lobbyists and some PACs. Most troublingly, Giannoulias is uniquely vulnerable to the attacks of Congressman and presumptive Republican nominee Mark Kirk, who will tout the treasurer’s ties to Tony Rezko and look to expose questionable loans Alexi made while working at Broadway Bank, the Giannoulias family business. With the February 2 primary quickly approaching, it was becoming clearer to the political elite that if the Democrats wished to retain Obama’s former seat, Alexi wasn’t their man. This is the reason why the White House urged Attorney General Lisa Madigan to enter the race this summer, and the reason why Chicago political guru Paul Green currently rates Kirk’s

dynamic research university. In the current educational paradigm that bills students as consumers, I wanted to get the best bang for my buck, to buy the essential features: small classrooms, smaller faculty-to-student ratios, and opportunities for undergraduate research and faculty collaboration. The innovative amalgam I imagined turned out to be something of a debased compromise, a nakedly insufficient only-on-paper resolution of antitheses not unlike the spork, a species of tool whose matching inadequacy for spooning and forking even homo erectus would have scorned. As the old fogies who still champion it will tell you, the College

is a crumbling inheritance of old days, when it served as the University’s true locus centris. With its own exclusive faculty of pedagogues and a trendsetting core curriculum evincing pride of place for undergraduate education, the College of latter days bears little resemblance to the gilded ruins of today, where under-prepared and often inarticulate graduate students lead classes that betoken more burden than intellectual benefit, if only to justify graduate aid on a “work done, work paid” basis in satisfaction of a creeping audit culture. But the patchwork now encountered by bright-eyed first-year students is

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The bitter end Feeling of academic disappointment grows as college draws to close

Marshall Knudson Columnist

Dear Professor Z, You probably don’t remember me. I’m the kid who would wait unobtrusively outside your office door, when you would poke your head out and flash a signal that you were too busy to see me. My e-mails are probably loitering somewhere in your inbox, or perhaps you’re better at emptying the trash than filling a request for your time.

I remember reading your book in high school, enraptured. When it came time to take the next step, the surefooted way lead straight to the doors of the anthropology department, I never strayed. The memory is green though the feeling it once kindled has long since faded. Here and now at the end of my tenure, I can see the doors closing, without ever having tasted the nectars—the promised intellectual delights—that once drew me in. I suppose I was mesmerized by the persuasions of collegiate marketing, for I subscribed wholeheartedly to the fetching promise of having the “best of both worlds”, a distinct, deep-rooted undergraduate college imbedded in a

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Poor instruction, meaningless requirements, and undergraduate dismissal add to disillusionment after bright-eyed first year

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parking meters as a massive rip-off. I was beginning to realize that despite chances as “excellent” in the general election. For Illinois Democrats, the immediate future Giannoulias’ repeated attempts to ally himself with the President in policy, ideology, looked dark. Then, at December’s Chicago Tribune and even cadence, their relationship stood editorial board debate, the skies offered a for everything that Obama decried: It was glimmer of light. Former Chicago Inspector political favor, “politics as usual.” You see, General David Hoffman introduced in 2004, Giannoulias had allowed Obama himself as a legitimate force, shredding to tap into the Greek community, helping Giannoulias point by point, and solidifying raise over $100,000 for Obama’s senate himself as the thinking man’s candidate. campaign. In return, Giannoulias’ 2006 The performance (which can be found campaign for treasurer was endorsed by the on the Tribune’s web site) made me look then-senator. A clearer line, at deeper into the paths least ideologically and of each candidate, and symbolically, can be their U of C roots. David Hoffman drawn between Obama Giannoulias’ stay is everything and Hoffman. He is at the University was, embodied by the rise everything embodied by suffice it to say, brief. of Obama. the rise of Obama. He is a After graduating from politician unbeholden to Chicago’s Latin School, he enrolled in the College, but lasted only the ways of old, passionate, and, above all, one quarter before transferring to Boston intelligent. People’s admiration of Barack University to fulfill his dream of playing Obama is bigger than the public option, Division-I basketball. Hoffman also “hit the “Cap and Trade,” or any singular policy court” after leaving Hyde Park, although decision. Ultimately, elections should be under very different circumstances. After about selecting the person most likely graduating from U of C Law (where he was to make sound, informed, and unbiased President of the Law School Democrats), decisions. That’s why I wanted Barack David accepted a clerkship with Chief Justice Obama to be president, that’s why I want of the Supreme Court William Rehnquist. David Hoffman to be our next senator, After serving as a federal prosecutor for and that’s why I’ve chosen to volunteer for seven years, Hoffman was appointed Hoffman’s campaign. The first televised Chicago’s inspector general, a post designed debate airs tonight at 7p.m. on ABC7: as a taxpayer watchdog, and one all too often tune in to remember what “hope” was all filled with the political lapdogs of Mayor about. Daley. Instead of rolling over, however, Hoffman dogged the long-time Chicago — Steve Saltarelli is a fourth-year mayor, outing shady hiring practices and in the College majoring in criticizing the deal that privatized the city’s Law, Letters, and Society.

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Positive self-talk and the inertia of illusions only go so far, so that as the collegiate hourglass flows not enough to dissuade their eager minds from staying the course. Cerebral advertising targets near empty, there is palpable anguish at what the imagination, but as experiences fall short of can only be described as insult to injury, when expectations month by month, it is the audacity passivity and neglect are surpassed by active of hope, whose insolence is revealed only in its disinterest and disregard by the faculty. Refrains tragicomic denouement four years later, that like “it is a graduate-focused department” and “it sustains forward motion. In the undergraduate life is a research-driven faculty” become understated cycle, the Common Core shrinks from the fore euphemisms for professors’ unresponsiveness, just at the moment when praise for the merits of a indefinite unavailability, or flat proscription of general education is muted by the frenzied search undergraduate students from their classes and for a nook or cranny in the academic division their purview. There is a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy of labor. It is then that the hapless encounter hidden in the implicit claim with that elusive beast, the that undergraduates are department, begins. As the collegiate ill-equipped to be treated As you know, it is a hourglass flows near as serious students. The cliché of formalist analysis empty, there is treatment of undergraduates that form reflects function, palpable anguish at so often results, as my and as such, the form of the what can only be friends would tell you, in a undergraduate program in described as insult kind of mental turbulence anthropology is perplexing to injury. and muddle, no doubt a but its functions crystal microscopic replica of the clear. It is a structure whose essence is anti-structure, an order composed curriculum they’re served. Even when advanced of complete disorder, hierarchically arranged undergraduates, having combed and clipped the only by numbers, as it were, an ordinal series. confusion of classroom experiences, advance Students are enjoined to take classes in four into the departmental sanctum, they often find opaque categories practically indistinguishable themselves excluded a priori from advanced from one another; it is a mere simulacrum of classes. I sometimes wonder what I’m paying for, a meaningful plan. Yet, charged by optimism or awed by the department’s illustriousness, Professor, but then I realize that the lion’s undergraduates render one feeble dictate share of University funds go straight into the after another, trying to justify the haphazard pockets of its personnel, like you. And when hodgepodge curriculum that bespeaks little undergraduates help pay the salaries and more than long-term neglect. How often I spread the gospel of faculty celebrity, it seems have heard students try to cloak the ugliness immoral to ignore the etiquette that a gift of “loose requirements” and “lack of strict received incurs an obligation to give back. determination” with allusions to intellectual freedom, pedagogical innovation, or just some — Marshall Knudson is a fourth-year in the College majoring in anthropology. post-modern zeitgeist.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT JANUARY 12, 2010

LITERATURE

U of C students kick Spark Notes to the curb with Twitterature By Ben Sigrist Voices Twitchy Twitterer While many U of C students may have wished for the condensation of classic texts as they suffered through Hum and Sosc, second-years Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin have found a way to make this dream a reality with their new book Twitterature. Recently published by Penguin, the book reimagines great and popular works of literature into a handful of Twitter posts each. The Maroon sat down with Aciman and Rensin to talk about the publishing process, the reception of their book among Australian women, and the benefits of poking fun at the canon.

ER: That was the primary motivation. CM: That was the motivation? I ask because it seems to be like a joke that you came up with at a party. AA: There were a lot of historically great things that happened from party jokes.

TWITTERATURE By Emmett Rensin and Alexander Aciman Penguin

ER: America. CHICAGO MAROON: When did the idea for Twitterature happen and what made you decide to pursue it? Alexander Aciman: Spring quarter, I think. Emmett Rensin: Maybe winter. It was still cold. AA: It was cold. ER: So you couldn’t go outside. AA: And the promise of fame, money, and— ER: Beautiful, beautiful Australian women. AA: Abounding mountains of sirens flowing toward us.

AA: Yeah, America was like— ER: “Look at these fucking taxes, man. Fuck, that. Brandy. Shit’s expensive. The paper. Shit’s expensive. Fuck this, we’re shooting at Lexington.” Possibly agriculture, you know. AA: That was definitely deliberate. That was not a drunken party thing. ER: No, some protohuman lived in a cave and he had some seeds and he really didn’t understand them. And he valued them—he thought they were religious relics. And then his friend got drunk, and hid them in the ground to confuse his friend and a plant grew and they were amazed. AA: Oh, maybe.

Second-years Alexander Aciman (left) and Emmett Rensin (right) discover that pool-side lounging is very conducive to tweeting. COURTESY OF SUSAN PETERSON

ER: It’s just very cold outside in the winter, as you know. Max Pavlesky—the rooms are very small. I guess that’s conducive to something. Bloodletting, usually, depending on who you are. CM: Were there a lot of those things that you were going to put in print and—

AA: No, there was never stuff that was written down. There were always moments where we were doing it—it wasn’t like they were saying, “You can’t do this.” It never even got to that. It was like, “You know what? We probably shouldn’t be doing this.” Sometimes we let it slip anyway.

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Shteynshleyger allows a limited glimpse into her history with solo exhibit munity. Portraits are of close friends and family members, and still lifes focus on banal subjects. For example, Steynshleyger captures a plate of pears beside an old-fashioned calculator in “Pears and Calculator,” a plastic picnic table covered with used plates and an opened pack of Parliaments in “Picnic,” and the interior of a public laundry through a fogged window in “Vogue Cleaners.”

ANNA SHTEYNSHLEYGER Renaissance Society Through February 14

In Anna Shteynshleyger's "Father and Son," the father (left) attempts to lead his son away from the age of technology and into that of the druids. COURTESY OF ANNA SHTEYNSHLEYGER

By Katherine Koster Voices Quotidian Anna Shteynshleyger’s solo exhibition at the Renaissance Society blurs the boundaries that are usually well-defined: boundaries between ethnography and history, individual and community, and otherness and belonging. Comprised of large-format photographs docu-

menting the artist’s life as a mother and wife in a tight-knit, ultra-orthodox Jewish community in Des Plaines, IL, the exhibit raises important questions about the relationship between the artist and her work. Shteynshleyger’s works span a broad range of subject matter, but much of it is devoted to documenting and glorifying the human, material, and visual fabric of daily life in her com-

Shteynshleyger’s works testify to the power of photography to transform the mundane. Shteynshleyger’s photographs are beautifully composed, detailed, and sharp. White light washes the subjects of Shteynshleyger’s photographs, strengthening the dark green tonal palate of her landscapes, sensuously revealing texture and surfaces in interiors, and exposing wrinkles, freckles, pores, and blemishes in portraiture. Combined with the sheer scale of her images, Shteynshleyger’s potraits have a sense of presence and objective artistry that transcends her past. The critical, impersonal quality of her work suggests an ethnographic or documentary approach to life in American Jewish Orthodox communities. However, the exhibit is not merely about Judaism, which is something that Shteynshleyger and Renaissance Society curator Hamza Walker emphasized at a public discussion following the exhibit’s opening. “The

subject matter is biography. It isn’t Judaism, with Judaism being a sort of red herring–but, being her biography, unavoidable,” Walker said. Brought up by a secular Jewish family in Moscow, Shteynshleyger and her family emigrated to Gainsburg, MD, in 1992 when she was 15. Shteynshleyger began her conversion to Orthodox Judaism on a trip to Russia the following year, a change that significantly affected her work. However, if the exhibit explores Shteynshleyger’s personal baggage, she keeps that baggage zipped up and locked. Although her past dictated the contents of Shteynshleyger’s exhibition and draws each piece together, ostensibly essential biographical information is intentionally withheld from the viewer. Shteynshleyger does not provide captions or descriptions to explain her photographs. “I want to make a work about biography, but I don’t want to talk about myself,” Shteynshleyger said. Yet Shteynshleyger describes her artistic process as intuitive and the work in the exhibit as “very indulging.” Both personal connection and visual fascination inspired her choice of subject matter. Shteynshleyger’s portraiture captures family members and close friends; objects that invoke strong emotions in the artist are the foci of other works. For example, “Bathroom”–a tightly cropped image of chipped grey floor and wall tiles, a frayed maroon rug, and a torn sink scrim–was inspired by visceral disgust. “My experience of the place was very intense,” Shteynshleyger said. The image represents “the feel, the smell,

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HardCore Curriculum How many times will we watch Michael Cera lose his virginity on screen? Now how many of you wish that you were Michael Cera so that you could finally get some? He’s nerdy and socially awkward like U of Cers, yet he’s getting laid left and right, which is probably not the case for most of us. So today we’re going to give you some tips for losing your virginity, and what to do when the moment arrives. Finding that first partner Looking and feeling good An easily identifiable problem on our campus is the lack of caring for one’s appearance. I know that your mother told you that people should like you for who you are, but she was operating under the assumption that you kept up basic hygiene and that your general appearance didn’t make children run away in fright. My mother always told me that other people have to look at you, and it is an insult to them if you don’t look your best, or, at the very least, passable. When you smell good and look good, you’ll feel better about yourself. And trust us, confidence is attractive! Socializing for success If you’re still wondering why you haven’t gotten laid, a good question to ask yourself is, “How do I spend my Friday nights?” It’s true that college is a time for meaningful friendships and academic pursuits, but if your Friday nights are wasted away watching reruns of Glee, than maybe you should break out of your social shell a little. It’s time to push boundaries and meet new people. It’s simple math; the more people you know, the greater the chance you’ll find someone to form an emotional and/or physical bond with. Audition for a play, go on blind dates, talk to that attractive girl/guy in your physics lab, etc. Who knows where you could find someone? You’ll never know unless you explore. Keeping it casual If you’re getting impatient, something to remember is that being in a relationship is not entirely essential to losing your virginity. If you think you will be comfortable with it, there is no shame in just picking someone to have sex with and going for it. If you don’t want any commitments and just want it over with, don’t let other people’s opinions about losing your virginity affect your first time. However, on a similar note...

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Be sure, because guilt sucks The most important thing is that, when all is said and done, you do not regret your decision. With something as personal as this, buyer’s remorse is a very distinct possibility. So, while you are working up to the momentous occasion, keep asking yourself if you feel comfortable, because once it’s gone, its gone–no take backs, no do-overs. That being said, trust us when we say you’ll know when it’s time. Setting expectations While a subscription to Playboy can useful for many nights of masturbatory fun, pornography isn’t a reliable source for how real sex works. Just think of it this way: Losing your virginity is kind of like being at the U of C. It's awkward, it's stressful, and it’s nearly impossible to do it right the first time around. But that shouldn’t stop you from having fun as you give it your best shot. When the moment arrives Letting your partner know Although it may seem to you that everyone and their dog knows that you’re still a virgin, it’s actually a very private matter. There aren’t little lights that appear over our heads once we become sexually active, and unless someone decides to tell you, people will never know. However, when the times comes, you can decide to share that information or not. Some people are really turned on by deflowering someone, and others may turn you down. Personally, I feel as though it’s more appropriate to tell someone before you go to bed with him/her so that they can make an informed decision. Just don’t tell them during the act (awkward, much?). Keeping it going Having sex with someone, whether it’s just casual or part of a larger, deeper relationship, is an intimate moment between you and someone else each and every time. If you want to continue having sex, you need to be open to that kind of intimacy. Now what if you’re in a relationship? Adding sex to a fulfilling relationship is great, but with complicated relationships, sex can just make things messier. Also, keep in mind that you should never ignore your own boundaries in order to please your significant other. Yes, sex is important, but it should only be done when everyone involved is comfortable. Also, just to be clear, don’t ever make drunk decisions. Your first time should be memorable, not a “Texts From Last Night” post.

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Photographer focuses her lens on small-town reality

Rensin and Aciman pull no punches with literary satire

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the stuff, the actual materiality of the place. And the acoustics of the place, and the light and colors of the place.” Another piece, “Backyard,” places pressure on the narrative power of photography. On its own, the image is visually banal. Two figures dressed in red and blue stand at a distance from each other, separated by billows of white smoke that rise high above a barbeque. Evergreen trees and shrubbery stand between the figures and the photographer, and distance reduces the figures to red and blue specks against green and white. The figures in the image are Shteynshleyger’s parents, captured the first time they were together in over 20 years. This biographical information, withheld from the viewer, provides its meaning. The scale of the figures and their distance from each other stands in contrast to the intimate relationship between husband and wife, or between the photographer and her subject. Excluding textual narrative frees the images from the confines of Shteynshleyger’s biography. This history dictated the material and thematic content of the exhibition’s photographs, and this biography is the central figure around which the images organically cohere. Yet the artist omits herself from the exhibit, including only one image of herself, pregnant, sitting beside, yet apart from, her husband. The images lack the cohesion given by repeating faces, expressions, and interiors in albums and in similar biography-driven works. The images are free-floating, like planets orbiting the void left by a now-absent sun. Without access to Shteynshleyger’s biography, viewers of the exhibit must draw connections between the images themselves; the exhibit is no longer about its artist but about the photographs’ subject matter: faith and Judaism, suburban life, marriage and relationships, and otherness.

ER: Yeah, though the Helen Keller one, at least in England–was the only one that was excluded not for copyright reasons, but for character defamation reasons. AA: We defamed the shit out of her. We defamed all over her face. ER: I think it was usually more when we didn’t have anything. We hadn’t thought of what was right yet. AA: We’re just saying this incredibly terrible— ER: Offensive. AA: –offensive thing. Let’s try to build up on that using that same kind of humor, but not– ER: Not with all the racial charge, and the sexism, and the language. AA: And the antisemitism. ER: And the antisemitism. CM: So, on one hand, you’re making fun of these great works of literature, but on the other hand, did you feel a responsibility to treat the material properly? ER: Factually. Though, to a certain extent, I think to really feel that I would have had to assume that we had the life of the classics in our hands. AA: It’s not even like we did anything terrible. Basically, the only damage we can do is to misrepresent their stories. Even still, they’re still a bunch of jokes. Read the full interview online at chicagomaroon.com/voices.

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Season-worst rebounding, shooting doom Maroons

Wrestling seeks consistency in the clutch as narrow losses plague South Siders at Knox Duals

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Even in the 29-point victory, the Bears played a flawed offensive game, shooting just 33.3 percent and finishing with their fourth-lowest scoring total of the season. Still, Roussell highlighted poor shot selection, over-dribbling, and a lack of ball movement as major factors leading to one of Chicago’s worst offensive performance of the last several years. Shooting 22.4 percent (11 of 49), the Maroons had their worst field-goal percentage in the available records, which date back to the 2003–04 season. Only four times during that stretch has Chicago dipped below 30 percent. “We didn’t shoot the ball well yesterday, but we also didn’t take great shots,” fourth-year forward Molly Hackney said. “We didn’t move the ball within our offense as well as we should have, thus settling for low percentage shots.” Turnovers also plagued the Maroons. An issue for the squad for much of the season. Averaging over 20 turnovers per game for the season, Chicago turned the ball over 29 times—the second most of the season—that led to 29 points for the Bears. “Some of those turnovers [for the season] come from trying to play more up-tempo; on Saturday it was just a lot of poor decisions,” Roussell said. “There are good turnovers and bad turnovers, so to speak, and Saturday there were a lot of bad turnovers.” The Maroons are at home this weekend, when NYU (7–4, 0–1) comes to town for Beach Night on Friday, and they will look to fix this weekend’s issues in order to build on their 5–2 home record. “It’s still one loss,” Roussell said. “It’s early and it’s a big loss, and I’m not trying to minimize that, but it counts the same as a one-point loss.”

over host Knox on the strength of three pinfalls. Eventual second-place finisher Loras then edged the South Siders 22–15 in the second match, with a pin in the heavyweight match to decide the contest. “We lost three tight matches [against Loras], any of which could have won the meet for us,” head coach Leo Kocher said. In the final match of the round robin section of the tournament, Wabash narrowly defeated Chicago 22–16. The last contest of the day matched teams from each pool based on record in the round robin, and the Maroons were paired with Augustana. Two late pins by fourth-year Troy Carlson and third-year Ryan Hatten swung the match in Chicago’s favor, for a 25–13 victory. “Our team balance right now is pretty good, in that we have competitive wrestlers in every weight class,” Kocher said, citing Carlson, red-shirt Spencer Burns, and first-year Jimmy Layton as key members of the team so far this season. “I think about 10 other guys have

stepped up and wrestled crucial matches in dual meet wins for us, but we are losing some close crucial ones in our dual losses as well. Our goal has to be to win those close matches consistently.” The Maroons return to action Saturday at the Elmhurst Invitational. — Jake Grubman

Defending champ UW–Oshkosh spoils track season opener There is something to be said for starting the season against the best competition in the country: At least when it is over you know where you stand. That’s the lesson Chicago’s track teams will take away from Saturday’s season-opening meet at UW–Oshkosh. Oshkosh, the national champion on the men’s side and runner-up for the women a year ago, beat the men 109–48 and prevailed in the women’s meet, which also included Augustana. On the women’s side,

the Titans beat the Maroons 82–60, while the South Siders defeated Augustana 83–63. The quality of the competition was exemplified by the throwing field, where fourth-year Claire Ray met the NCAA automatic qualifying standard in the weight throw and hit the provisional qualifying mark in the shot put but still finished second in both events. Fellow fourth-year Nicole Murphy’s 13.55-meter shot put came up just short of Ray’s 13.59-meter toss in third but still met the provisional standard. Third-year jumper Jacob Solus was the star Maroon performer for the men’s team. His 14.15-meter triple jump met the provisional standard in that event. Coach Chris Hall expects this meet to serve as a motivator for Chicago. “Overall, it was an opportunity to get started and see where we are,” he said. “We found out that we’ve got a lot of work to do, but I think we’ve got people that are ready to get down to work.” — Ryan Tryzbiak

Wallis tallies 24, Thompson 17 as two-man game overwhelms Chicago down stretch M. BASKETBALL continued from back page clock when a triple from Kinsella brought the Bears’ lead down to 63–60, and the Maroons got possession back with chance to knock down a three and force overtime. The ball ended up in Kinsella’s hands again, and he fired, but the shot rattled out. A free throw in the final seconds sealed Wash U’s 64–60 win. Even early in the game, while Chicago was ahead, Wash U stayed close on the Maroons’ heels, thanks largely to the work of its leading scorers,

Thompson and Wallis. Chicago did well to unsettle the Bears’ shooters—Wash U didn’t get a field goal from its bench, and only four players made more than one basket—but there was no stopping the individual efforts of Thompson and Wallis. “[Wash U] did not get a lot of baskets within their offense, especially a lot of easy baskets,” McGrath said. “I thought we defended very, very well. It became, for a lot more possessions than normal, them having to play one-on-one with Thompson and Wallis.”

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There were headshakes, shrugs, and forced smiles Monday in head coach Aaron Roussell’s office, but even days after the fact, he and the women’s basketball team are still looking for the right words to describe Saturday’s 63–34 loss in the UAA opener at Wash U. “I feel bad admitting this now,� Roussell said, “but that was the best I’ve felt coming into a game at Wash U and the worst I’ve felt coming out.� The Bears (11–1, 1–0) continued their dominance over Chicago (8–4, 0–1) at WU Field House, handing the Maroons their biggest loss against any opponent since an 83–54 game, also at Wash U, in March 2003. It was the 23rd consecutive loss at Wash U for the South Siders, who have won just once ever in St. Louis. Center Jaimie McFarlin recorded game -highs with 14 points and eight rebounds, while second-year guard Meghan Herrick was the only Maroon to score in the double digits with 11 points. Shooting just 22.4 percent for the game —by far the Maroons’ worst mark of the season—Chicago recorded season lows in points, field goals (11), rebounds (32), and assists (7), and Wash U built a 31–13 lead by the break and led by as many as 31 points in the second half. “We just didn’t show up,� Roussell

said. “We got outworked, outphysicaled, outplayed.â€? The Maroons held the advantage for the first five minutes of the game, with the Bears hitting just two of their first 10 shots and turning the ball over three times before the 15-minute mark. Still, Chicago’s work never found its way to the scoreboard, as the team’s six layup attempts in the first three minutes of the game added up to just two points, and the Bears were able to close the narrow gap at 6–6 with 15:04 remaining in the half. The game stayed close until the score reached 14–12 at 9:50, when Wash U busted the contest open. The Bears closed the half with a 17–1 run, collecting 17 first-half rebounds against a Chicago squad that entered the game as the top rebounding team in the country. “[At halftime] I called them out,â€? Roussell said. “I told them we weren’t playing as physically as we were supposed to or with as much heart as we were supposed to play with‌. When one team is at their maximum energy with that, you’re going to get steamrolled.â€? Th e h a l f - t i m e w a k e - u p c a l l couldn’t shake the Maroons out of their funk. Chicago slimmed the lead to 14 early in the second half, but Wash U held onto the doubledigit margin and was able to build a 31-point lead at 63–32 with just over a minute left.

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Fourth-year guard Michaela White (3) defends against forward Janice Evans last year in St. Louis, where Chicago has lost 23 straight games. MATT MITGANG/WASH U STUDENT LIFE

SPORTS SHORTS

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Chicago coasts past Kalamazoo, Carthage

Maroons’ upset bid falls short in St. Louis

Kalamazoo could have one of the best men’s swimming and diving squads at the NCAA Championship this March, but it was no match for Chicago in the dual meet action this weekend. Competing at home on Saturday, men’s swimming beat secondranked Kalamazoo 148–92, as well as 23rd-ranked Carthage 168–69. In its half of the meet, women’s swimming topped 13th-ranked Carthage 175–62, and an unranked Kalamazoo squad 187–56. “I was fairly confident the women were going to win both meets,� men’s and women’s head coach Jason Weber said. “I thought it was going to be a little bit closer on the Carthage side. In terms of the men, I thought it was going to be pretty close with the Carthage men, and I thought it was going to be really tough for us to beat Kalamazoo.� Weber pointed to first-year Justin Yu’s win in the 200 free as one of the highlights in Chicago’s victory over Kalamazoo. In that event, Yu finished a split second ahead of the Hornets’ Brian Bazzell, who was 14th in the 200 free at last year’s NCAA Championship. Other notable performances came from first-year divers John Gallagher and Becky Schmidt. Schmidt and

Gallagher both won from the oneand three-meter boards. Schmidt set Chicago records in each competition, while Gallagher recorded the school mark on the three-meter. The discrepancy between the national rankings of the Maroons’ opponents and their actual performance in Myers-McLoraine pool is mostly a matter of depth. The Kalamazoo men, for instance, have a few highly talented swimmers who are expected to be All-Americans and score at NCAAs, which will make them one of the best teams in the country at that meet. But success in dual meets depends on talent across all events, and on that count, Chicago’s teams far outdid their visitors. — Jordan Holliday

Wrestling finishes 2–2 at Knox College Duals Wrestling split four matches Saturday, as the Maroons suffered several key losses en route to a 2–2 record at the Knox College Duals. In the eight-team round robin tournament, Chicago was pooled with Knox, Wabash, and Loras for preliminary action. The Maroons opened the day with a 40–9 win

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By Jordan Holliday Sports Editor It would have been the perfect setting for men’s basketball to break out of a four-game funk: on the home court of rival Wash U, the defending national champion and the first opponent of the Maroons’ conference schedule. But perfection is hard to come by, and on Saturday Chicago just barely missed it: A three-pointer from fourthyear forward John Kinsella went in and out in the waning moments, halting the Maroons’ attempt to force overtime and sending Wash U (11–1, 1–0 UAA) to a 64–60 win. The loss is the fifth in a row for Chicago (6–6, 0–1), which began the season 6–1 but has now fallen to .500. “It’s disappointing. I think there was a win there that could have been gotten,� head coach Mike McGrath said. “It would have been a great start to the conference. Particularly at the returning national champions’ gym, that would have put us a big game up on everybody else in the league.� The Bears’ win stings that much more because Chicago actually led for the bulk of the game. With 11:15 gone in the first half, a pair of made free throws from second-year guard Michael Sustarsic put the Maroons up 22–15—which would prove to be

their largest lead of the game. Chicago was in the lead, 30–28, at the break, and held a series of small leads through the opening minutes of the second half. It wasn’t until there were 15 minutes remaining, when guard Aaron Thompson sunk a three, that Wash U finally got a lead it could hold. Thompson’s shot gave his team a one-point edge, 39–38, but the Bears’ advantage would swell over the next few possessions, as forward Caleb Knepper poured in three consecutive three-pointers of his own to put Wash U ahead 50–41. “Those four three-pointers in five possessions really determined the game,� McGrath said. At the 15:36 mark, just before Knepper and Thompson got going from deep, fourth-year guard Jake Pancratz went to the bench because of foul trouble. Pancratz was in and out of the game with fouls for most of the second half. Though he got four assists in the game despite his limited appearances, the Maroons’ play was hobbled in his absence. Still, Chicago slowed Thompson and fellow guard Sean Wallis enough to get the Bears’ lead down to one, 52–51, with 9:20 left, and within reach of Wash U for the remainder of the game. Less than a minute was left on the

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