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Lab School proposal evokes memories of failed Doctors Hospital bid By Hannah Fine Senior News Editor

President Robert Zimmer at a student forum last November. Zimmer moved out of the President’s house in September after separating from his wife and is now seeing a University professor. JEREMY MARTIN/MAROON FILE PHOTO

Board of Trustees chairman confident in Zimmer’s leadership By Asher Klein News Editor President Robert Zimmer is dating a faculty member after separating from his wife and moving out of the President’s house in September. Zimmer’s wife, Terese, is a director at the Urban Education Institute

and will continue to live in the president’s house in Zimmer’s absence. Zimmer notified administrators and trustees about his relationship, University spokesman Steve Kloehn said, to prevent even the appearance of impropriety. “The President has worked with the University leadership to ensure that there are no conflicts of interest. It’s something that all the parties who might be involved in any way have worked out,” Kloehn said.

Board of Trustees Chairman Andrew Alper (A.B. ’80, M.B.A ’81) said the relationship shouldn’t have any bearing on Zimmer’s ability as an administrator. “I see this as a personal matter, not an issue of University governance,” Alper said in a released statement. Crain’s Chicago Business connected Classics professor Shadi Bartsch with Zimmer in an article Friday. Jonathan Hall, chair of the Classics

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Hyde Parkers are recalling tension and politicking with the University after the Lab School announced tentative plans to build a new building on the site of the Doctors Hospital. This isn’t the first plan for the shuttered site, on 58th and Cottage Grove, which the University bought for $10 million in 2006. The original University proposal included a hotel that was strenuously opposed by community members. In November 2008, the 39th precinct of the Fifth Ward passed a referendum banning the sale of alcohol in the area, the so-called “dry vote,” that effectively killed any hotel proposal before the measure can be reconsidered in 2012. The future of the Early Childhood Center (ECC), an expansion of the Lab School for nursery school through second grade, still depends upon a permit to change the zoning of the site. This will require the support of the city, local officials, and community members, many of whom voted to obstruct the hotel plan over a year ago. Jack Spicer, a Hyde Park community activist and preservationist, said that the failure of the hotel plan was the result of poor communication with Hyde Park residents. Spicer said that the University needs to change its development strategy for the ECC so that the community “doesn’t feel it’s being

hustled. We’re not just sheep needing a shepherd.” Spicer said he has not seen evidence of more substantive community outreach. The University can best produce results, he said, by “treating the community as a partner, not the enemy. Sometimes the phrase ‘civic engagement’ can have a certain Orwellian quality when used by the University.” Fifth Ward Alderman L eslie Hairston said fears that the University would ignore community input were unfounded. “The approach of the University will be different this time. They will actually talk with people in the community,” she said. Lauren Polite, president of the Lab School Parents’ Association, said the Doctors Hospital site is just one site on which the ECC may be built. The Lab School needs to expand, she said, because it has become too competitive for many students without University affiliations to get in. “One thing parents value is diversity. If there’s not room to admit students from different backgrounds, then there is no diversity,” she said. Polite thinks the University has been able to get many opinions on the proposal from within the Lab School community. “I think the school and the University have done a good job of including everyone affected, including parents. They’ve reached out to everyone. From what I’ve seen they’re very committed to an open process.”

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Uncommon Fund proposals whittled down, several devoted to Haitian earthquake

University doctors and medical supplies sent to displaced persons camp

By Adam Janofsky News Staff The Uncommon Fund Committee took the first step Saturday towards picking the “uncommon” ideas that will share $40,000 in grant money this year. Th e f u n d , r u n b y S t u d e n t Government, aims to support student-proposed projects that would otherwise go unfunded. “The University does a great job facilitating student organizations, but not so much with student ideas,” fourth-year committee member and College Council representative Race Wright said. “The Uncommon Fund is the place to promote student initiatives.” Although the committee received 54 submissions, roughly the same as last year, there were more current event –related submissions this year. “We’re seeing quite a few about Haiti,” Wright said. “It’s obviously a very hot topic.”

Several RSOs sent proposals to benefit student artwork and spread art around the college community, Wright said. Past grants have helped bring back the Lascivious Ball as well as “the shanty,” a recreation of the first building on campus. Almost 20 percent of this year’s submissions, roughly $45,000, are requests to bring various speakers to campus. This reflects the fund’s history as an outgrowth of the University’s big-speakers fund. The Zombie Readiness Task Force was given nearly $6,000 to bring Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide, to campus for an Uncommon Fund lecture in 2008. “The speakers are unique and uncommon in their context,” Wright said, “but not off-the-wall like the zombie attack one.” Final funding decisions will be made on February 22 after fund candidates give presentations to the committee.

By Burke Frank Associate News Editor The University Medical Center sent two teams of physicians and nurses to Haiti last Monday in an effort to provide medical aid to victims of last month’s earthquake. One team was sent to Port-au-Prince; the other, to a town called Fond Parisien near the border of the Dominican Republic, along with 1,100 pounds of medical supplies. The University presence in Fond Parisien will last until at least the end of February; a University press release did not mention how long the Port-au-Prince team would stay. John Easton, a medical center spokesman, said the internally displaced persons camp in Fond Parisien is extremely busy, secure, and currently operating on around 20 patients a day. He forwarded a text message that team leader and professor of emergency medicine Christian Theodosis sent after his

Two medical personnel teams teams left the U of C Medical Center for Haiti earlier this week. COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER

first day at the camp. “Just finished getting crushed,” Theodosis wrote, referring to the volume of injured patients at the camp, “67 patients on 3 buses, after dark. Conditions quite intense, quite rough. Running short on tents, short

on hands, several generators now, security intact. Many quite vulnerable people. Hungry and tired.” Easton said it wasn’t clear how many more Haitians would be treated at the camp. “Many of the patients

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U of C consul: Conflict of interest unlikely while Zimmer dates professor ZIMMER continued from front page department, did not respond to questions about Bartsch’s alleged relationship with Zimmer, but said in an e-mail that he was “satisfied that University policy has been complied with.” Zimmer and Bartsch did not return calls for comment. Zimmer’s family will continue to live at the President’s house on 59th Street and University Avenue, and pay for any costs “that arise” out of personal funds, Kloehn said. Zimmer and his family are discussing living arrangements, in consultation with the Board of Trustees. Presidential business and University receptions will continue to be held at the house in the interim. Terese Zimmer is director of Strategic Initiatives at the U of C’s Urban Education Institute, and “there is no reason to believe that will change,” Kloehn said. According to General Consul Beth Harris (A.B. ’74), Zimmer and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum have come to an “understand-

ing” about potential conflicts of interest. “The president and the provost have made extra provisions to make sure that the president doesn’t get brought into a situation in which there would be decision-making involved,” Harris said. She said it is not uncommon for a relationship to develop between faculty members or faculty and their supervisors at a university. However, she stressed that because the president is not the professor’s direct superior, there are few circumstances in which a conflict would arise. Alper said Zimmer handled the situation professionally. “President Zimmer has been forthcoming with me and the board regarding his family situation. The president has gone out of his way to ensure that there is no conflict of interest, or appearance of a conflict, stemming from his personal life. I am satisfied that his actions are in accord with the policies of the University,” Alper said. “President Zimmer has my full support.”

Over 160 Medical Center staff members volunteered for mission in Haiti HAITI continued from front page have had amputations and are also, since the earthquake, homeless,” he said in an e-mail. Chrissy Babcock (M.S. ’09), an emergency physician and instructor who will leave for Fond Parisien this weekend, said there are currently 500 people housed at the camp at Fond Parisien, about 200 of them patients, with at least 1,000 more are the way. “A lot of it is social support as well,” Babcock said. “You really have to rely on your physical exam skills. You have to rely on the story and what’s going on with someone more than your equipment.” Babcock said doing triage work in devastated countries like Haiti is a unique experi-

ence. “You don’t have laboratory tests, you don’t have any imaging. It’s a different way of practicing medicine.” Easton said that 160 people volunteered for the University’s mission as of Friday, which allows for rotating teams of volunteers on twoweek rotations. Babcock and Theodosis will remain through February. Easton said employees working in Haiti would continue to be paid. “The best part about this is the collective response of the entire University of Chicago community. It’s phenomenal,” Babcock said. “There’s no other institution in the area that’s given even close to the amount of support that we’ve had here.”

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s a young man, Albie Sachs vigorously advocated for the rights of those oppressed by apartheid in South Africa, both as a political activist and as a lawyer. After being jailed and tortured for his work against the apartheid system, he left South Africa and lived in exile in Mozambique. While there, a car bomb— planted by the South African government—exploded, costing him an arm and sight in one eye. Sachs eventually returned to South Africa, where he helped write the South African Constitution. He was appointed to the South African Constitutional Court by President Nelson Mandela, and served on the Court for 15 years. He sat down with the MAROON to talk about his new course at the U of C, getting blown up, and the fiery relationship between reason and passion in law. CHICAGO MAROON: You’ve taught at several other universities throughout your career. What do you think of teaching at the University of Chicago, and of being a part of this community? Albie Sachs: I’ve usually taught in law faculties. Here I’ve been teaching in the College. That’s been new for me. It’s been beautifully organized. [With college students] there’s still an openness and an eagerness. It’s particularly challenging and inviting. I’m overexperienced and they’re underexperienced. I like to feel I still have the eagerness I had when I was their age. CM: Your course is based on your new book, Reason and Passion: The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law. What is the course about and how is it structured? AS: It deals a lot with the way judges function. The formal [academic] approach is that judges are completely detached and objective, and they apply formal rules to factual situations to get inevitable legal consequences. The reality is far more complex, far richer. There’s almost a kind of loving combat between reason and passion. Reason is abstract. Passion is empathy: the meaning of law for people out there. It makes the process of judicial decision-making far richer, far more complex, than the story of complete detachment would have it. Then I look at the way very intense personal life experiences have fit into my working as a judge. I think these processes are universal. In my case, they are melodramatic: going to jail, being blown up, losing an arm. This is not a normal career path for a judge. But the relationship between empathy and reason apply to all judges everywhere. CM: Why did you decide to become a lawyer? AS: It was in my last year of high school. I don’t know what triggered it. I was going to be a doctor, I was going to be a doctor, and suddenly I decided I was going to study law. I was influenced by a book called [Clarence]

Darrow for the Defense. And there was so much patent injustice in South Africa. The direct contact to the struggle for justice appealed to me. CM: In the U.S. there’s a lot of talk about whether using the courts to create social change is effective or positive. How powerful do you think courts can be? How powerful should they be? AS: In South Africa we refer to our Constitution as a constitution for transformation. The Constitution envisages and calls for an activist Court. And so the text will always guide us, but the context is one of a society of patterns of gross inequality based on race and gender. Our judiciary would fail if its pronouncements did not promote measures designed to further the principles of non-racism and non-sexism. When the Constitutional Court was established 15 years ago, we in fact drew heavily on the jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court, starting with Brown v. Board of Education. The more conservative position of the majority of the United States Supreme Court in recent years has been less helpful to us. CM: You’re quoted as saying that “judges are the storytellers of the 21st century.” What does that mean? AS: There are many ways of telling the story. The one is just the deciding of the particular case before the court. But the other is the implications for the whole of society, the symbolical meaning. Judges write in different ways. Each has his or her own voice. Some are technical in the extreme—but even that tells a story. Others give more overt expression to what I call judicial passion. Society listens to and takes account of these stories. Each judicial opinion both resolves a particular dispute between particular parties and at the same time serves as a parable. Judges should acknowledge their oracular power, neither giving way unduly to it, nor pretending it doesn’t exist. —Nathalie Gorman

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Administration should improve planning and communication of campus construction projects In a move to comply with accessibility requirements, the administration began renovating sidewalks around campus over winter break. The construction, which has closed p a t h w a y s o u t s i d e Re g e n s t e i n Library, Reynolds Club, and the 5700 block of Woodlawn, among many other places, has complicated travel at a time when pedestrians must frequently contend with snowcovered terrain and freezing temperatures. Although any large-scale sidewalk renovation is bound to be an inconvenience, the administration should have taken greater care to minimize the headaches associated with a construction project of this kind.

There were several steps the University should have taken to blunt the impact of the renovations, the most prudent of which would have been to complete construction over the summer when far fewer people would have been affected. The fact that several campus locations, including the dramatically inclined walkway under Cobb Gate, failed to comply with accessibility codes was perfectly clear back in August when the quads were repaved to meet code. Moreover, since none of the projects are off schedule, according to a University spokesperson, it was apparent to the administration when they approved plans to begin construction over winter break that

these projects would continue well into winter quarter. Even if the timing of the project was somehow unavoidable, there is no reason why the administration could not have better publicized the extent and duration of construction to students. Project updates were listed in a difficult-to-locate section of the University website; a brief email notification at the beginning of the term would have gone a long way toward dispelling frustration and facilitating regular commutes across campus. At the very least, noisy saw-cutting outside of SnellHitchcock Hall could have been pushed back a couple hours from its start time of 8 o’clock one Saturday

morning in order to accommodate the building’s 156 residents. Campus construction is a bittersweet reality for our community. Indeed, it is encouraging to see continued commitment to new projects such as the Searle Chemistry Lab renovation and the Mansueto Library. However, with ongoing construction engulfing much of campus on a regular basis, the administration should take additional care to minimize difficulties associated with smaller, more flexible projects.

matters on Election Day is who shows up: A simple percentage that slays dreams and makes kings. L ast Sunday, Jacob Meister ended his bid for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, endorsing frontrunner and Illinois treasurer, Alexi Giannoulias, who leads former Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman (whom I endorsed in my last column) and Urban League President Cheryle Jackson in the quest for the Senate seat soon to be vacated by Roland Burris. Perhaps in an effort to “save face,” Meister, a first-time candidate favored by only 1 percent of voters in a recent Chicago Tribune poll, suddenly dropped out and backed Giannoulias, writing on his website, “Alexi has assured that he will…fight for the issues that

have been the cornerstone of my platform.” While this is certainly a plausible explanation, candidate Cheryle Jackson reacted in a more cynical fashion, saying of Meister’s announcement, “This was not a surprise…. This is something we knew all along, that [Meister] was in the race to help the treasurer.” This is no doubt a serious allegation, and it is one that should be approached with measured consideration. Perhaps we should take a closer look at the Meister campaign…. On October 6, attorney Jacob Meister announced that he had raised $1,057,000 in the third quarter of 2009, effectively kicking off his 2010 Senate campaign. Almost all of that cash came via loans Meister

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For Illinois, today is about more than just Punxsutawney Phil; it’s about filling out ballots for the 2010 Primary Election. In this wild world of Illinois politics, campaign season, at least, comes early every year. Our February 2 primary—the earliest in the nation—sits a whole month before Texas’s March 2 date, a whole spring before the June 8 “Super Tuesday” of primaries, and about a baseball season from the last primary on September 18 (Hawaii). For Illinois, the implications of an early primary are far from inconse-

quential. Prevailing wisdom dictates that early primaries are beneficial to established candidates and incumbents, as the holiday break restricts advertising run-up for political hopefuls (attack ads aren’t terribly effective when voters are either traveling or eating Christmas dinner), and sub-zero temperatures stifle large voter turnout on Election Day. Such is the ingenuity of machine politics— they’ve even found a way to harness the cold. Early primary or not, today is the culmination of months of campaigning on the candidates’ part. All the press conferences, all the phone banking, all the attack ads, all the debates, all the baby-kissing—it all comes down to this. Never mind the polls, never mind the newspapers’ endorsements, the only thing that

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Recommended shift in detainee policy remains unjust and hypocritical

By Andrew Thornton Viewpoints Contributor An Obama administration official (nameless as always) recently leaked to the press the recommendations of a high-level task force charged with reviewing the government’s “lawful options” to detain, try, or release terrorism suspects. According to the official, the task force recommends that Obama separate the Guantánamo Bay detainees into three groups: those who can be tried in a federal court or a military commission, depending on the quality and admissibility of the evidence; those

who should be transferred to another country for possible release; and those who should be imprisoned indefinitely, because while we think they pose a danger, we cannot provide evidence of a crime they have committed. There are a few things worth noting about this third group of detainees, the indefinitely detained. The government argues that it may use perhaps the most extreme example of police power: the power to imprison people not for crimes they have committed, but for crimes they might commit in the future. Skepticism is warranted here for several reasons. Most importantly, we should not

grant our leaders this power when they criticize its use by other nations. Commenting on Iran’s arrest and imprisonment of three American hikers last July, Assistant Secretary of State Philip Crowley found it “outrageous that Iran refuses to abide by international standards and international agreements in terms of treatment of those who are in their care.” According to a fellow prisoner who has been recently released, the hikers appear to be “well-fed but suffering from the effects of prolonged imprisonment, including solitary confinement.” The torture techniques used by Americans on detainees at

Guantánamo and abroad are wellpublicized, but it should still be emphasized that by American standards of detention and interrogation, solitary confinement is a modest technique. The hypocrisy displayed by our government and the doublestandard to which we hold foreign countries is staggering, but even this hypocrisy is minor compared to the offense against our history. In 1895, the Supreme Court held that “[t]he principle that there is a presumption of innocence in favor of the accused is the undoubted law, axiomatic and elementary, and

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Recent Meister campaign tactics suggest Giannoulias connection PRIMARY continued from page 3 personally offered to his campaign—one for $1 million, and a second for $30,000. While bringing in outside cash was (and remained) a problem for the campaign, the loans gained Meister an air of viability in what was sure to become an expensive Senate campaign. During his formal campaign kickoff, Meister announced that he was running for Senate in order to “take back Illinois politics from career politicians,” adding on his website, “Some known names have already begun to declare their candidacies for the U.S. Senate seat that will open up next year in Illinois. Trouble is, while these candidates’ names are known, so is their baggage.” It was an obvious swipe at Giannoulias, who was in hot water for the questionable loaning practices of the Giannoulias family-owned Broadway Bank, which counted Tony Rezko and accused mobsters amongst its clientele. It was also a shot at Jackson, the former Press Secretary to impeached Governor Rod Blagojevich. Meister had officially announced himself, and came out swinging. As the campaign progressed, Meister found his rhythm. He opened six campaign offices across the state, gathered 20,000 signatures to get on the ballot, and garnered significant

Sound detention policy requires greater check on presidential authority DETENTION continued from page 3 its enforcement lies at the foundation of the administration of our criminal law.” Axioms cannot be dismissed nonchalantly, and certainly not by way of loopholes such as the fact that our detainee is not American, or that he was captured “on the battlefield.” The due process clause of the Fifth Amendment does not distinguish between citizens and aliens. There seems to be no reason why an alien is somehow less deserving of protection from unjust, indefinite detention as an “enemy combatant” than an American is. The War on Terror is both indefinite geographically (the “battlefield” is anywhere) and indefinite temporally (“victory” means the permanent end of terrorism). These factors understandably lend themselves to abuse by the state. Because lack of oversight makes abuse of preventative detention more likely, we should be concerned about the increased likelihood of false positives: that is, innocent bystanders who were captured in good faith by the military. Judicial oversight is absolutely necessary in these instances because from the government’s perspective, the innocent detainee proclaims his innocence just as much as the true terrorist. So, without being required to prove the legitimacy of detention, the government will treat bystanders and terrorists alike. This is not mere speculation: The Obama official above who spoke to the press says that the task force will recommend that Obama release 110 of the 200 detainees at Guantánamo. The fact that most of the enemy combatants currently at Guantánamo have no reason to be there should be a sobering lesson about the abuse of indefinite detention without oversight. The Bush administration previously asserted that every detainee at Guantánamo was an enemy combatant; the Obama administration currently says that although half of them were not terrorists and should be released, a quarter of them should be kept indefinitely. Why should we trust the intelligence of the current estimate any more than that of previous assertions? We must demand oversight of the government’s detention policy, and we must insist that the President defend his authority in each case by providing evidence of each detainee’s past crimes, not speculation about future ones. — Andrew Thornton is a third-year in the College majoring in philosophy. He is also a member of the MAROON editorial board

interest from the media as the first openly gay Senate candidate from Illinois. Additionally, he continued his attacks on those leading the polls, stating in the December 2009 Chicago Tribune questionnaire that, “When voters go to the polls in February and again in November, they can be sure that I am neither connected to Rod Blagojevich or Tony Rezko.” Meister’s campaign was, in fact, moving full speed ahead—they relaunched his website, began releasing campaign commercials, and Meister was invited alongside the “Big Three” to the Tribune Editorial Board debate. Despite their best efforts, though, the campaign didn’t appear to be gaining any traction: fundraising was stagnant, and Meister was yet to break five percent in any poll. Heading into the holiday season, things looked grim for the first-time campaigner. Then with 2010 came not only a new year, but also a major strategic shift within the Meister camp. During the first televised debate on ABC7 (January 12), Meister spent nearly all of his time bashing Hoffman, who despite surging in the polls after sweeping the newspaper endorsements was still a distant second to Giannoulias. In his opening statement, Meister pounced on what he perceived to be negative campaigning from Hoffman, stating, “Those are the type of tactics he learned

working for the Daley Machine.” Hoffman, a vocal opponent of the Mayor’s office, ignored the repeated barbs. For Meister, though, there was nary a word about the Treasurer. Instead he persisted with the “unexplained attacks” (as one reporter categorized them) in the postdebate press conference. “[Hoffman]’s running on a platform of integrity. I have seen nothing of the sort,” said Meister. While the attacks raised more than a few eyebrows, they did little to boost Meister’s Senate chances. A January 26 poll done by Public Policy Polling showed Meister garnering only one percent of likely voters, with 18 percent favoring Jackson, 20 percent backing Hoffman, and Giannoulias ahead with 32 percent. The fact that 27 percent of the poll’s respondents were undecided was troubling to the Giannoulias camp, suggesting Alexi was not yet out of the woods despite his doubledigit lead. More unfavorable news soon came for Giannoulias, as Broadway Bank entered a consent decree with the FDIC in order to keep the bank afloat, requiring Broadway to raise $50 million in capital and cease dividend payment without regulatory approval. The announcement drew immediate criticism from Giannoulias’s opponents—Jackson called the Treasurer “unelectable” while Hoffman ham-

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mered Alexi for personally collecting $8 million in bank dividends over the last four years. On January 27, Meister weighed in. “Mr. Giannoulias’s family business is suffering from the economy, and his opponents are trying to take advantage of that. That’s wrong.” It was a strict departure from the message purported on Meister’s website, where he posted, “Those who can best offer fresh ideas are those who haven’t been associated with what has brought us to the verge of systemic collapse.” Like, bankers? Attacking Alexi, apparently, was no longer fair game for Meister. Four days after those comments, Jacob Meister dropped from the Senate race and stood next to Alexi Giannoulias, who continued to duck questions on Broadway Bank until after the primary. When asked whether he was simply a stalking horse for Giannoulias during the campaign, Meister replied, “The suggestion that I was in any way recruited or in cahoots with Alexi or anyone in his camp is ridiculous.” Ridiculous indeed, Mr. Meister. — Steve Saltarelli is a fourth-year in the College majoring in Law, Letters & Society.

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Family matters in Steppenwolf's Brother/Sister trifecta The lights fade as the last murmurs of the sentence “End play” echo through the theater. Indeed, the last of the three segments of Steppenwolf ’s staging of The Brother/Sister Plays, written by dramaturgy wunderkind Tarell Alvin McCraney and sensitively directed by ensemble member Tina Landau, had ended, but the transgenerational narrative, both intimate and sweeping, remains beautifully complex and unresolved.

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THE BROTHER/SISTER PLAYS Steppenwolf Upstairs Theatre Through May 23

Ensemble member Alana Arenas (above) and Jacqueline Williams (below) declare their love for Jimi Hendrix. COURTESY OF STEPPENWOLF THEATRE

The Brother/Sister Plays is a three-part series consisting of In the Red and Brown Water, The Brothers Size, and Marcus: Or the Secret of Sweet. The works don’t trace a single story or resolve a single problem. Since the plays don’t portray a continuous storyline, they can be seen in any order. In the Red and Brown Water is the longest play, with a running time of two hours, and is shown on alternating evenings; the latter two hour-long plays are shown back-toback every night. Like one’s own infinitely varied interactions with the people in their lives, some characters’ presences are fleeting, while others endure. Some characters recur and others disappear, never to be mentioned again. The plays don’t explore causation, but relationships and their processes: An aging Ogun re-evaluates the homoerotic relationship he condemned, while young Marcus wanders a path to self-discovery. The Brothers Size explores the fraternal relationship between Ogun (K. Todd Freeman)

and Oshoosi Size (Phillip James Brannon), as illustrated through Ogun's confusion and fury about Oshoosi's homoerotic experiences with Elegba (Glenn Davis), his former cellmate in prison. One moment the brothers are breaking into a spirited rendition of Motown songs, complete with jubilant, Jackson 5-style choreography, and the next, they are spitting scathing words at one another with such ferocity that the audience can almost feel the anger balling up in their own throats. It’s this complicated, sometimes incomprehensible dynamic that makes the characters feel so accessible and recognizable; they have the easy comfort and tendency toward provocation all siblings share. Phillip James Brannon’s Oshoosi is compellingly emotive in both his excitement and despair, while K. Todd Freeman perfectly captures the dynamic of an older brother who has to be both a parent and a friend. The relationship between Oshoosi and Elegba is tender and tumultuous, and moments of sensuous, graceful pas de deux are punctuated with hyper-masculine grunts. The men who had just been embracing each other with lust and profound affection turn and ball their hands into fists, as though torn between their romance and the social expectations that prescribe a hypermasculine, heterosexual identity. The characters speak the stage directions, which seemed gimmicky and frustrating at first. The contrast between the passionate dialogue and the blasé recitation of the directions broke the illusion of the self-contained scene and emphasized the artifice of the scenario. However, in the eloquent mouths of the brilliantly talented cast, the directions allowed a degree of access into the characters’ inner monologues. If any-

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Dennehy's dramatic transformation dominates one-act duo By Ilana Kowarski Voices Alter Ego The Goodman Theatre presents a double feature with Hughie and Krapp’s Last Tape, a duo of one-acts by Eugene O’Neill and Samuel Beckett, respectively, that are a treat for theatergoers who enjoy philosophy laced with black humor. O’Neill’s Hughie tells the story of Erie (Brian Dennehy), a lifelong gambler who feels lost and alone after losing his gullible and attentive buddy, Hughie.

HUGHIE AND KRAPP'S LAST TAPE Goodman Theatre Through February 28

Krapp’s Last Tape depicts a night in the life of an elderly man who reflects on his past while listening to taped memoirs he made years ago. These plays address difficult questions, such as how we deal with death and regret, but they do so in a way that is profoundly funny. Both plays place emphasis on comedic elements that break up an otherwise somber tone. In Hughie, Brian Dennehy manages to make his Erie offensive, amusing, and pathetic all at the same time, portraying a man both fallible and likable. The interactions between Erie and Charlie Hughes ( Joe Grifasi)— Hughie’s replacement—provide poignant

humor, allowing the audience to laugh at the awkward exchanges between a storyteller and a listener who doesn’t care to listen. Other bittersweet moments ensue as Erie deceives himself into believing that he is younger and more promising than he really is. In the one-man show Krapp’s Last Tape, Dennehy takes on an entirely different but equally engaging persona: Krapp, a bitter old man with a bone to pick with his former self. The opening scene, involving Krapp and a banana, is rife with hilarious moments and, though it seems to stretch on for far too long, is a fine example of silent acting and a tribute to Dennehy’s talent. Other amusing moments include Krapp mocking a recording of his younger self. But these moments also pose a difficult question: How do we live with regret without hating ourselves? Each play ends wonderfully, but it is hard to say if this is due to the acting, the playwrights, or a combination of the two. Hughie gives the audience a perverse sense of resolution with a thought-provoking combination of satisfaction and concern over Erie’s fate. Whether Erie’s life has improved or whether he is hiding from his problems are things left for the audience to decide. Krapp’s Last Tape leaves the audience on the brink of tears with an all-too-real image of what it is like to have loved without expressing that love. Performing these two one-acts back-toback, Dennehy showcases his versatility as an actor. He appears just as comfortable playing

Charlie Hughes (Joe Grifasi, left) and Erie Smith (Brian Dennehy, right) have very different reactions to the failed fire breather just off to their left. COURTESY OF LIZ LAUREN

a New York City bachelor who longs for girls and glory as he is playing an elderly, alcoholic Irish man with a broken heart. The show is worth seeing, if only to watch a masterful actor transform entirely from one character to another.

Both plays feature sparse sets, which puts pressure on the actors to convey a sense of place without many props. For the most part, this is done quite well through elegant staging. Director Robert Falls has blocked Hughie

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Simplifying the hunt for vintage with Avant Gaudy Thrifting isn’t an activity for those afraid to get their hands dirty. Though there’s a definite thrill in searching for buried treasures hidden in boxes overflowing with vintage clothes, accessories, and photographs, thrift stores are often dusty, musty, crowded, and disorganized. If you hardly have time in the morning to throw together an ensemble of stained cords and a wrinkled button-down, you might not have what it takes to sift through piles of sometimes-smelly stuff. When you do stumble across a can’t-live-without-it item, you have to make sure that it’s not irreparably stained or ripped. Then, once you get it home, you have to carefully wash out layers of caked dust and a few decades worth of funk. Although I love the eco-friendliness of thrifting—better to buy old clothes than to support the energy-guzzling mass production of new ones—and like to imagine the clothes’ history, I don’t enjoy the hands-on aspect of thrifting. “Looking at a thrift store is overwhelming and time -intensive,” says Deborah Umunnabuike, a fourth-year in the College and co-founder of the Internet vintage fashion emporium Avant Gaudy. Her useful Web site, which she started with her sister Jessica in the summer of 2005, stocks high-quality,

fashion-forward vintage items, solving all of my thrifting conundrums. On buying trips throughout Chicago and the rest of the Midwest, AG staffers wade through rack after rack of vintage goods and handpick chic pieces in runway-ready condition. The clothes are awesomely outlandish pieces, which Umunnabuike describes as “avantgarde sensibility for the new guard,” and are targeted to hip teens and twenty-somethings with a strong sense of personal style. As Avant Gaudy’s success suggests, vintage clothes are anything but outmoded. Avant Gaudy staff scours blogs, pores over fashion magazines, and scouts merchandise at various clothing stores in order to forecast emerging trends. “We look at publications like Women’s Wear Daily to look at what colors and styles will be popular for the coming season,” says Umunnabuike. “References in fashion designers’ collections help us figure out what will be important next season, which in turn tells us what we need to be looking for,” she added. Last summer, the company hosted an internship program where merchandise buyers searched for vintage items that reflected the ’80s glam aesthetic reintroduced by contemporary designers like Marc Jacobs

When the curtain comes down, Brother/Sister's resonant characters live on BROTHER continued from page 5 thing, the spoken stage directions, in which the actors stepped out of character, successfully illustrated how fully they embodied their roles throughout the rest of the play. Marcus: Or the Secret of Sweet portrays a young man’s poignant quest to understand himself by uncovering and arranging familial secrets and half-truths. In this play, Glenn Davis, who plays Elegba in The Brothers Size, is cast as Elegba’s son, Marcus. The bespectacled, endearingly cloying teenager is struggling with his sexual identity, hoping to construct a sense of self by learning about his absent father. Marcus asks everyone, from his evasive mother (played with elegant restraint by Ora Jones) to sardonic septuagenarian Aunt Elegua (played impeccably by Jacqueline Williams) to tell him stories about his father. The guilelessly innocent teenager wants to know if his

father was “sweet,” a euphemism for “gay” that one of the characters claims originated during slavery, when malicious masters would pour sugar into the open wounds of slaves caught having same-sex intercourse. When the last play’s characters declare, “End play,” only part of the story has been told. McCraney writes a narrative that weaves together generations and geographic locations, dividing the overarching narrative between different days. The cast’s brilliant acting makes the characters appear so alive that it doesn’t seem their stories can end with the fading lights. As I put on my coat and headed for the parking lot, I found myself hoping that somehow Elegba and Oshoosi would live and love in peace, and that Marcus would gain some understanding of his absent father and, in the process, of himself. The Brother/Sister Plays were ones I wished wouldn’t end.

and Christophe Decarnin. To capitalize on the ’80s homage taking the contemporary runways by storm, Avant Gaudy stocked short dresses, sequined pieces, and sky-high shoulder pads, all of which they were able to sell successfully this fall. However, there’s a fine line between looking chic and looking crazy, so in addition to their online store, Avant Gaudy also features a blog that shows customers how to prevent their ensembles from appearing costume-y. “Most people aspire to look great, but aren’t fashionistas. The blog is a mouthpiece for advertising, but also shows people how they can wear current trends in an accessible way, like by taming down crazy dresses with tailored blazers or sweaters,” says Umunnabuike. Umunnabuike, a political science major, believes that there’s an overlap between her academic work and entrepreneurial endeavors. The ability to prioritize, think critically, and effectively manage her time, which have become crucial as she works on her B.A. paper about black youth and music, are also important in the business world. “At the U of C, you’re taught to analyze a situation, figure out what’s important, and ask questions. That’s the kind of thinking you need to run a

business,” says Umunnabuike. The resources and networking opportunities at CAPS and the Booth School of Business, where she had temporary office space last summer and had the opportunity to seek mentors, helped Umunnabuike get her footing in the fashion world. Whether working on a midterm or selecting items from Avant Gaudy’s 500-piece inventory to feature on the company’s web site, the skills she has honed at U of C have served Umunnabuike well. As graduation rapidly approaches, Umunnabuike has stepped down from her position as CEO. Though she’s still involved with operations in a consulting capacity, the company is now helmed by Marife Nellas, a recent college grad from Creighton in Nebraska. Umunnabuike has her sights set on future entrepreneurial opportunities, but wants to take some time after graduation to hone new skills. “I caught the entrepreneurial bug and want to be running my own business long-term, but want to spend some time in [the] corporate world to gain credibility and experience,” she says. Whether she’s running her own business or revitalizing preexisting brands, this stylish girl is poised to take the fashion world by storm.

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Hughie and Last Tape meditate on how to live with the past and find happiness in the present HUGHIE continued from page 5 so that Erie gradually approaches Charlie Hughes as the play progresses, which is an appropriate compliment to the increasing intimacy between the two characters. Director Jennifer Tarver uses almost every inch of the stage in Krapp’s Last Tape—an impressive accomplishment in a one-man show. Contrary to what one might expect, Tarver does not have Krapp sit in a chair the entire time, even though the character is working at a desk during the entire play. Instead, Krapp moves in and out of the room and all around the desk during the course of the hour. This directorial choice allows Brian Dennehy an impressive range of motion, which helps to keep the show from becoming static or boring. The two plays present the viewer with differing but realistic images of men who have failed to become what they would like

to be, and the combination of these stories forces the audience to consider how the characters should reconcile with their pasts in order to be happy with their present selves. The contrast between the two plays highlights the complications of this deeply philosophical question. Krapp mocks himself and his past bitterly, yet he seems very unhappy in the present. He eventually ends up only listening to tape recordings that recount the memories that please him, skipping over the portions of tape that upset him. Erie, though not entirely successful at pretending that he has met his personal standards, sometimes deceives himself into believing this is so, and in those blissful moments of forgetfulness, he appears happy. This dark contrast poses disturbing questions: Can being honest with ourselves cause us too much harm? How many lies do we tell ourselves to survive?

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forward John Kinsella fouled to send Rochester’s Milan Moncrief, an 82-percent free -throw shooter, to the line. Despite that impressive mark, the first-year missed both foul shots, leaving the door open for more heroics from Johnson in the final seconds. “When I saw that we got the rebound off the free throw, I ran up court to the same spot where I hit the previous three,� he said. “Jake Pancratz brought the ball up the floor and hit ahead to me. I saw the defender flying at me, so I pump faked, took one dribble, and put the shot up.� The shot dropped with just two seconds remaining to force overtime. In the extra period, it was Chicago who led with two seconds on the clock. Just as in regulation, the lead did not hold up. Just moments after Williams gave the Maroons a one -point lead, Rochester guard David Gould drew a foul off the forward. Gould made both critical shots from the line to secure the narrowest of victories. Rochester forward Nate Novosel was the game’s top scorer with 21 points. For Chicago, Williams led the way with his sixth doubledouble of the season, scoring 18 and pulling down 10 boards. McGrath felt that his team was unlucky to lose in overtime but expressed the need to avoid such tight finishes altogether. “You don’t want to leave it up to the last possession,� he said.

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Two throwers nab automatic bids as men, women sweep competition at Chicago Duals By Alex Sisto Sports Staff Undefeated this weekend and the best is yet to come. The Maroons hosted the Chicago Duals this past weekend and both men and women came out on the top of the heap. There were some impressive individual performances that added some icing to the teams’ victories, as the Maroons defeated all nine visitors on the women’s side and all eight on the men’s. While this decisive victory is a reassuring benchmark for the season, the pervading sense on the team is that they will only be throwing farther, jumping higher, and running faster in the near future.

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While it is impossible to have a solid track team without contributions from individuals, this team victory will give added incentive to work as a cohesive unit to keep the victories coming in the future. “We don’t see track as an individual sport,� third-year Drew Jackson said. “The support of other teammates really helps with performances, and I think that has shown in how the team has performed at such a high level early in the season.� That being said, the team did see some individual performances that are certain to draw the attention of our UAA rivals. Saturday saw yet another dominant performance from the women’s throwers with both fourth-year Claire Ray and third-year Kristin Constantine surpassing the NCAA automatic qualifying distance for the weight throw. Ray and fourth-

year Nicole Murphy also hit the provisional NCAA qualifying distance in the shot put. The throwers have a clear lead on the UAA leader boards. In addition, third-year Liz Lawton won the 3000 by 45 seconds, breaking 10 minutes on the way, with a final time of 9:59.50, currently the fastest in the UAA. “After last week’s race, Coach Hall wanted me to shoot for around 10:15. Once the race started though, I got comfortable at that pace and after the first mile I realized what I was running and just went for it,� Lawton said. “I had said earlier this week I wanted to break 10 minutes, but I didn’t know if it would happen this soon. I can easily say I’ve never been happier about a race and more excited for what’s to come in a season.� The mile run on the men’s side was certainly a highlight of the meet.

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Eleven of the top twelve finishers were wearing a maroon “C,� with the first non-Chicago runner coming in ninth. Second-year Brian Schlick’s winning time of 4:19.03 is currently the second fastest in the UAA. “I far surpassed the goals I had for myself coming into this meet,� Schlick said. “I was already coming into this meet with a big drop in time

from two weeks ago, and I dropped another five seconds this weekend.� “I think the team victory is giving us a good amount of confidence that should continue on to our meet at UW–Whitewater next week where the competition should be considerably stronger,� said first-year Chris Cheng, who placed second in the

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A Chicago-heavy lineup awaits the gun before the mile run. Second-year Brian Schlick (fourth from right) won the race with a time of 4:19. LLOYD LEE/MAROON

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