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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

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HYDE PARK

CRIME

Harper Court plans get off the ground

Vandals break into Harper weeks after robbers strike Classics quad By Amy Myers News Staff Intruders broke into Harper Library Sunday, weeks after the UCPD increased patrols to combat a string of similar crimes. Room 135 in Harper was broken into through a window between 1:30 and 7:00 a.m. Sunday morning, according to UCPD spokesman Robert Mason. He did not know if anything was stolen. The incident follows several thefts since December in which burglars targeted Goodspeed, Cobb, and Gates-Blake and made off with several laptops and computers. Mason said the Harper break-in was near enough to the other thefts to raise the possibility that they were

related. “It’s in the proximity. If it’s the same person, we do not know,” he said. “There’s intense investigation underway.” The Music, Film, and French departments, as well as the Center for the Study of Languages, were robbed over the past two months, prompting UCPD to increase patrols in Goodspeed between 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Mason said those changes made the area secure and UCPD was not planning on any further increases. “It’s pretty intense over there with surveillance. We have security officers over there,” he said. The University said last week that it was considering adding afterhours card readers to some buildings or additional video surveillance in response to the thefts.

TRANSPORTATION James M. Plunkard, partner at Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture, reveals plans for the new Harper Court to community members at Canter Middle School Monday night. ERIC GUO/MAROON

Plaza will include movie theater, hotel, space for farmers’ markets By Adam Janofsky News Staff The new Harper Court will include a movie theater and a 200-unit hotel, Vermilion Development announced Monday when it unveiled its plans for the shopping center’s renovation. Vermilion, which was selected by the University and the city last month to develop the former commercial hub,

presented the plans during a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) meeting at Canter Middle School. The project, which will also feature retail stores, office space, and apartments, was influenced by comments solicited from Hyde Parkers over the past several months, Vermilion said. “We saw that Hyde Park really needs a good hotel,” project designer and architect James Plunkard said. “Our project includes a 200-unit hotel that will be at the development’s center.”

The design creates two new streets through Harper Court that will act as venues for events like the Hyde Park Jazz Festival. Their 30-feet-wide sidewalks will also provide ample space for farmers’ markets, designer Sophie Bidek said. Two apartment complexes and a condominium building will surround the two streets. An office building will be located at the corner of the development and an attached garage will help ease congestion. “We also pulled our building back to

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Late-night shuttle may change hours after IHC vote, but will ignore safety concerns, SG says By Tiffany Young News Staff After the CTA reduced service for the #55 and the #6 bus routes Sunday, the University’s late-night South Loop Shuttle has become the only scheduled mode of transportation directly into Hyde Park after 12:30 a.m. However, Houses are requesting by a margin of two-to-one that the shuttle’s hours of operation be moved two hours earlier, with 60 percent of Houses responding

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DISCOURSE

UCMC team relieves doctors in devastated Haiti

Activist: Sex offender laws ignore threat of family molestations

By Asher Klein News Editor Twenty-two doctors, nurses, and specialists affiliated with the University of Chicago are traveling to Haiti to replace the first team sent there two weeks ago. “It’s hard to wrap your brain around the level of devastation,” said a doctor who landed in Chicago last night, one of the original eight staffers who left last month. Over 200 University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) staffers had volunteered by Friday to go to Haiti, according to a UCMC press release, and 22 will have arrived in Haiti by next Thursday. UCMC is working with other medical schools in Chicago to ensure hospitals at home don’t lose too many staffers at once. Eighteen physicians, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, a pharmacist, and an administrative worker will replace groups in the

in an Inter-House Council (IHC) vote. But some Student Government (SG) representatives believe the shift will detract from the shuttle’s intended use—a safe after-hours route to Hyde Park from downtown—while some students argue the change will make travel downtown more convenient. The shuttle leaves the Reynolds Club for the South Loop hourly between 9 p.m. and 12 a.m. and again between 1:30 and 3:30 a.m. The last bus leaves the

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small town of Fond Parisien, near the Dominican border, and a team working in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, the release said. Team leader and emergency medicine specialist Dr. Christian Theodisis will remain in Haiti until the end of February, a UCMC spokesman said. An assistant professor of medicine, Theodisis was one of the first UCMC doctors on the ground. An additional group of four plastic surgeons already scheduled to go to the Dominican Republic will perform reconstructive surgery on patients flown in from Haiti. Dr. Heather Costello, an attending physician at UCMC–affiliate North Shore’s emergency room, arrived in Chicago last night. “It was frustrating and horribly sad and overwhelming,” Costello said in a phone interview. “It’s unbelievable; it’s hard to wrap your brain around the level of devastation. It’s just thousands upon thousands of

Sex offender statutes often fail to protect victims while permanently stigmatizing the offenders, activist Laurie Jo Reynolds said Friday in a lecture at the Center for Gender and Race Studies. Statutes requiring the registration of sex offenders and restricting them from living in certain communities do not combat the more pressing dangers of unreported sexual offenses by respected community members, Reynolds said. Reynolds, an adjunct faculty member at Loyola University and an organizer of the prisoners’ rights group Tamms Year Ten, pointed out that repeat offenses make up less than 20 percent of sexual assault cases. More often, the perpetrators are not predatory strangers, but relatives or family friends whose offenses

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Activist Laurie Jo Reynolds discusses sex offender law Friday in a lecture at the Center for Gender and Race Studies. MATT BOGEN/MAROON

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Preckwinkle praises Harper Court plans, but some skeptical of funding for $250 million project

HYDE PARK

Swan song: Dr Wax closes its doors By Ben Sigrist MAROON Staff

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Surrounded by movie posters and record covers hung on the walls, patrons of Dr Wax browse an extensive collection of CDs and LPs organized alphabetically by plastic placards or stacked haphazardly in cardboard boxes. With so much merchandise apparently waiting to be unpacked, first-timers walking into the store might imagine the business had just moved in. Without asking, it would be difficult to know that Dr Wax’s 20-year stay in Hyde Park is about to come to an end. As a supporter and supplier of local music, Dr Wax is something of a Hyde Park icon. Actively cultivating relationships with local artists since its opening in 1988, the record store became a representative of the unique music trends that developed in Hyde Park. “In the last 15 years, we’ve become a place where the local artists would drop off their stuff because we would sell it,” owner Sam Greenberg said. But the record store fell on hard times two years ago after the University purchased nearby Harper Court. Many businesses had to move or close their doors for good after redevelopment plans for the shopping center were announced. In March 2008, Dr Wax reopened near 53rd Street and Harper Avenue, across the street from its old location in the shopping center. But on February 30, the store will add its name to the list of businesses formerly located in Harper Court that have been forced to shut down. At the height of Dr Wax’s success, Greenberg owned four stores throughout Chicago. After earning some experience operating a record store in Columbus, OH. He opened the first Dr Wax in Lincoln Park 30 years ago. Drawing from the musical tastes of their respective neighborhoods, each Dr Wax store specialized in different genres and styles of music. “I hire people who I know like music,”

improve the walkability of Lake Park Avenue,” Plunkard said. The redevelopment aims to be a hub for student recreation as well. “When I was a student there were no coffee shops on campus, and Hutch didn’t even have food. The campus was a much less sociable place,” said Fourth Ward alderman Toni Preckwinkle (A.B. ’69, M.A.T. ’77), who partnered with the University to select a developer and oversee the project. “This is definitely going to make student life more exciting.” While the area around Harper Court has not always thrived financially, Vermilion expects the new designs to create a social center in Hyde Park. “The planning felt like being a doctor,” said urban planner Doug Farr, who worked with Vermilion on the project. “[Harper Court] wasn’t well and we needed to figure out why.” Redevelopment plans for Harper Court started in May 2008 when the University b ought the property for $6.5 million. Vermilion was selected as the developer January 14. “We picked Vermilion because of… their experience in large-scale, university-related projects,” Chicago Project Manager James Wilson said. Hyde Parkers applauded the plans and voiced their support for them during the Q&A period. “This is the biggest thing to talk about since the Olympics didn’t happen,” TIF Board Chairman Howard Males said. But many audience members were wary of the company’s ability to finance the $250 million project while coming out of a recession. “My main concern is financing. Are the banks behind it? It will be tough,” said Hans Thilenius, a local contractor. Construction is scheduled to start next year, with the first phase completed by 2013.

Dr Wax owner Sam Greenberg inventories the store’s remaining stock of CDs, which he plans to liquidate this month. DARREN LEOW/MAROON

Greenberg said. “Then, they could bring in whatever they want. Each Dr Wax store was completely different from the others.” Hyde Park’s Dr Wax is the last of Greenberg’s stores to close its doors. “Hyde Park was known for being this really culturally diverse neighborhood. It was almost like being in a different town,” Duane Powell, the last remaining Dr Wax employee, said. “It made it easier to sell independent music.” Powell can name more than a few now-popular independent artists, such as Eric Roberson, Common, and Lesidi, whose early work was carried by Dr Wax. Through word of mouth, Dr Wax employees acted as a bridge between the local artists and their fan base. Renowned for its ever-expanding knowledge of the local scene, the staff was always able to provide recommendations. But the business has not been able to survive fulfilling this same role. “In the last couple of years I thought we hit our niche with neo soul and acid jazz,” Greenberg

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said, referring to local music that the store had started to support more recently. But foot traffic and sales fell in recent years, Powell said. The new, smaller store didn’t help business either. “We moved from a space that was designed for what we were doing,” Powell said. The store lost some of its significance as a hub for people to come together and talk about music because of the cramped space, Powell said. Greenberg said “lawyers were involved” in the move out of Harper Court, but declined to discuss it further. Greenberg said that he plans to “try to sell off the remaining stock online over the next few years,” but has no definite plans beyond that. Similarly, Powell, a Dr Wax employee for 11 years, said he did not know what he would do after the store closes. A farewell concert for Dr Wax is planned for February 28 at McCormick Auditorium.

A New Mandate for Human Rights: Why a Half Century of Human Rights Activism and International Development Is Failing the Poor and What Can Be Done about It

Gary Haugen, JD ’91 President and CEO of the International Justice Mission

Thursday, February 18, 2010 4:00 p.m. Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom s University of Chicago Law School 1111 East 60th Street s Chicago, IL 60637 Reception Following This event is free and open to the public. No response is required but seating is limited. For special assistance or needs, please contact Rebecca Klaff at 773.834.4326 or rklaff@law.uchicago.edu.

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Sex offender laws treat teenage consensual sex like heinous crimes, activist says SEX OFFENDER continued from front page are often less clear-cut and often go unreported. “The sex offender laws have been ignited by the heinous cases,” Reynolds said, “but these cases are extremely rare.” In other cases, children and young adults may end up on the sex offender registry for life because of ambiguous definitions of sexual offense, which in many states includes nonviolent crimes such as consensual sex between teenagers. “It’s hard to think of ways that children or teenagers can explore sexuality without the danger of being accused of a sexual offense,” Reynolds said. Instead of labeling offenders, Reynolds proposed encouraging family support so they can reenter society, and many audience members agreed. “The law creates a self-fulfilling prophecy,” said Patrick Waldron (A.B. ’06), who attended the talk. “The policy of notifying the entire community increases people’s hysteria and parents’ concerns.”

U of C doctors staff hospitals in Port-au-Prince, working in tents reaching 110 degrees HAITI continued from front page homeless people with injuries and no water.” Doctors worked 10 to 14-hour shifts on between 350 and 500 people a day, Costello said. They worked without ventilators, respirators, or CAT scans, and X-rays worked only half the time. She then compared it to an extreme case of a city with an overburdened health care system. “You still have the general population, so you would see gunshot wounds, heart attacks, the same stuff you see here,” she said. “But then we were seeing terrible wound infections. There were still people two or three weeks out with open fractures that hadn’t been treated yet.” With no outpatient care or a steady supply of food and water, “the hope of [patients] staying well after we tried to fix them up was not very encouraging,” Costello said. Even when doctors deemed patients well enough to be released, they often had no home to return to. “The infrastructure was bad to begin with, but now there’s just none,” Costello said. Nevertheless, Costello’s patients were “incredibly grateful and incredibly patient and

incredibly hopeful, which was astounding to us, because externally it looked so hopeless,” she said. “It’s unbelievable how in the midst of all that, they’re singing gospel songs, smiling, and thanking you for whatever you can do.” Fluent in French and experienced in thirdworld medical techniques, Costello felt she’d “been training for this,” and signed up. She worked at the University Hospital in Port-auPrince, a site run by the International Medical Corps. Doctors worked in tents outside the structurally damaged hospital in tents that reached almost 110 degrees, she said. She added that between 50 and 150 of the hospital’s staff had died in the earthquake, but exact numbers were unknown as excavation and the recovery of bodies had only begun Saturday. Costello suggested doctors and nurses being sent to the country should be briefed and debriefed much more thoroughly than her team was. “There were a lot of people there who had never done any international medicine, had never been to a disaster. I worry about their psyches,” she said.

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SHUTTLE continued from front page Red Line’s Roosevelt station at 4 a.m. “Some people thought that having the shuttle end at four was a little too late, that it was unrealistic, and that most people didn’t come home too late,” third-year and IHC’s Residential Life Chair Patricia Padurean said. “And since we don’t have money to extend the hours, [shifting the hours backwards] would be the response to that.” Between 100 and 150 people ride the shuttle on Friday and Saturday nights, University spokesman Jeremy Manier said in an e-mail. An IHC recommendation to begin shuttle service at 7 p.m. would not guarantee that the University would implement the change. IHC and SG representatives form the Transportation Student Advisory Board (TSAB), which passes recommendations to the administration. Manier said TSAB will discuss the shuttle at an upcoming meeting in February. “The University will continue to monitor bus usage and demand, and will make transportation decisions based on need and available funding,” Manier said. SG members said TSAB’s decision could be influential, especially if it involves a shift in hours rather than adding hours. But those interviewed were not willing to overlook the program’s intended use. SG President and fourth-year Jarrod Wolf said the shuttle was created to ensure the safety of students returning to campus late. Convenience and ease of traveling downtown are important but secondary, he said. “I want to see it accommodate CTA’s recent cuts and the safety of our students,” he said. First-year and College Council representative Frank Alarcón agreed. “The Transportation Department has made it clear that the main purpose of the shuttle is student safety.” Some students, however, found flaws in the current system unattractive. “I haven’t gone downtown that much this year because it’s been such a pain. I’ve never used the downtown shuttle. I actually don’t know when it leaves, and it doesn’t seem very well publicized,” second-year Elaine Singerman said. Wolf said a compromise might involve expanding the budget to start the bus earlier on Saturdays, to make students more familiar with the service. “When administrators evaluate the success of the service, I would urge them to consider how ridership would increase if the shuttle started running earlier on one day, say 5 p.m. on Saturdays,” Wolf said. Efforts to link campus with the city have failed in the past, mostly due to expense constraints. “Ultimately, if students want this service, they need to use it and talk about it,” Wolf said.

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South Loop Shuttle cutbacks would discourage students from experiencing Chicago nightlife The Inter-House Council is revisiting the hours of operation for the weekend South Loop Shuttle, with many members citing low ridership as a reason to reduce evening service to and from the Roosevelt Red Line station in the South Loop. At the same time, a number of CTA service reductions and route eliminations went into effect this past Sunday as the CTA tries to make up for the almost $300-million budget deficit it faces this year. In light of these cutbacks and their effect on available transportation to and from the South Side, the University should avoid further cuts and reconsider the transportation options it provides to students.

U of C students are isolated as it is, and recent cuts will only compound the problem. Grappling with funding cuts and revenue shortages, the CTA has eliminated a number of routes, including the X55 Garfield Express, and has reduced the frequency of many more, including the #6 Jackson Park Express and the #55 Garfield. Many students returning to Hyde Park after hours use the Jackson Park Express, and its new end time of 12:30 a.m. would mean that more students would need to ride the El southbound to the relatively unsafe Garfield Red Line station. The South Loop Shuttle, which currently runs from 9 p.m. to 4

a.m., would still be a safe alternative to the El, but the University’s proposal to cut hours from 4 a.m. to 2 a.m. will compel students returning from downtown after 2 a.m. to use the El. Given the CTA’s cuts, which leave the Red Line as the only option after 12:30 a.m., it is more important than ever for the University to keep the shuttle running late into the night. At the very least, the University should allow the regular South Loop Shuttle hours to continue into the spring quarter b efore it reevaluates the program’s use, given that low ridership could merely be a reflection of below-freezing temperatures and not of a lack of enthusiasm.

CTA service cuts mean longer waits for buses downtown and fewer opportunities to get home safely, resulting in expensive latenight cab fares or, more likely, even fewer trips downtown than before. The University should remain committed to the original purpose of the South Loop Shuttle: to give “members of the University community easy access to downtown locations at a time when other options are limited.” — The M AROON Editorial Board consists of the Editorin-Chief, Viewpoints Editors, and three Editorial Board members.

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“ Yo u m a r k m y w o r d s , ” Pa t Robertson intoned on television last May, legalizing gay marriage means “the beginning in a long downward slide in relation to all the things that we consider to be abhorrent.” Allow homosexuals to marry, he insists, and you must allow “polygamy,” “bestiality,” and “child molestation and pedophilia.” Robertson’s phrasing may be extreme, but among conservatives, the argument is common. Defenders of gay marriage go to

great lengths to tape off this slippery slope. Legalizing gay marriage, they argue, is just a matter of ensuring equal protection of the law. It has zero bearing on sexual behavior and no connection to any kind of dark carnality. Now, the liberal argument isn’t wrong. Gay and lesbian couples deserve the same protection that their heterosexual counterparts enjoy. But by avoiding the question of sexual freedom, by insisting that it is just a matter of formal rights, they concede too much to the moralists. I want to make a modest proposal: a campaign for universal sexual freedom. We ought to be free to enter into whatever kinds of relationships we want with each other.

This means getting the state out of our bedrooms, our bathhouses, our porn theaters. But there are material conditions for freedom. You can’t sustain, experiment, form, forge, develop, and enjoy relationships if you’re overworked, underpaid, and struggling to make the next bill payment. Sexual freedom requires social freedom. This may sound completely unrelated to the fight for gay marriage. But historian George Chauncey suggests that the gay marriage movement is, fundamentally, pursuing forms of social security. Marriage means bedside visitation, custody, and estate rights, and our (highly

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People-minded pre-meds The pre-med curriculum should include training in human dignity

By Hannah Koch Viewpoints Contributor When people think of the essence of medicine, the Hippocratic Oath leaps to mind. Yet, despite its enduring tenets, some phrases may seem old-fashioned. For example, the oath says, “Into whatever houses I may enter, I will come for the benefit of the sick.” The promise to respect any household the doctor enters seems anachronistic in the age of hospitals and doctor’s offices. But Leon Kass, in his article “Is There a Medical Ethic?” makes the intriguing observation that respect for the household is rooted in the great

privilege—and great burden—doctors have: to see humanity at its most vulnerable. He says a doctor sees “without illusion the darker side of the human condition, and sees humanity, unprotected and stripped of pretense, struggling gamely to preserve itself.” Now, when I read this article for class, many of my fellow students objected to it. After all, the oath may not have been written by Hippocrates. Other Hippocratic treatises describe practices that do not follow the oath. Some people simply objected to Kass himself, because of his controversial personal viewpoints about stem-cell

research. Despite these objections, his point still stands. A physician is privileged and burdened to see a person at his or her most vulnerable. How much does the pre-medical curriculum prepare students for this type of responsibility? In my observation, there are two types of pre-meds: those who are scientifically-minded and those who are people-minded. The first type is fascinated with the human body as an organism, with disease as a puzzle to solve. The relational part, though important, is secondary. The other type’s primary

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Your otherwise excellent article on the MLK Day Rally in Hyde Park (1/22/10: “Politicos Flock To Hyde Park For MLK Celebration”) missed a couple of key points. First, the huge turnout—as your correspondent noted, over a thousand people were present—was the result of weeks and months of organizing in communities across Chicago and northwest Indiana. The list of politicians in attendance was indeed impressive, but it is important to remember that they were only there because of a grassroots movement that brought so many of their voters together that they couldn’t afford not to be there. Second, a large part of this turnout—close to a hundred, according to the organizers—was made up of students from the U of C and a number of Hyde Park seminaries who, as part of a coalition headed by the Southside Solidarity Network, organized one of the largest campus mobilizations for a political action in recent memory. Against a backdrop of gloomy assessments of the state of political activism both in the national media and in the Maroon, such a vibrant reminder of the potential of students to be a part of real, concrete change in our community is truly something to be celebrated. Mark Hopwood Third-year graduate student in philosophy and Southside Solidarity Network member

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Pre-med curriculum deters potential great doctors DOCTORS continued from page 4 focus is to heal others. The scientific way to go about it is simply a means to an end. Of course, there is a large overlap between the two groups, but those are the general trends. The modern pre-med curriculum is designed to take these two groups and weed people out, so that only people who are truly dedicated to medicine survive. It is a rigorous range of classes designed to teach hard science: chemistry, organic chemistry, mathematics, biology. It takes sacrifice: fewer electives, lower GPA, difficulty in studying abroad. In the end, the scientifically-minded types persist. The humanity-oriented pre-meds decide to go into professions more conducive to treating people relationally, such as social work, psychology, or education. “If the pre-med curriculum were more people-friendly,” a friend told me the other day, “I would still be pre-med.” He facetiously added, “The pre-med classes turn people into tiny little hermits.” I have known so many people who would have made incredible doctors who gave up because of the hardscience focus. Do we want hospitals full of doctors only concerned with people as puzzles? In some cases, yes. We want the puzzle of our illness to be solved. But don’t we also want doctors whose primary focus is to heal us as human beings and who recognize that sympathy and understanding may be just as powerful as any drug? The combination of the two different focuses is crucial for the practice of modern medicine.

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Democratic Party cannot deliver on gay rights I recently spoke with a family friend, who is an internist on the faculty of Northwestern Medical School. I was interested in the psychological aspect of medicine, and asked him how much he needed psychology. “It’s 70 percent of my job,” he said. People are much more likely to discuss their emotional or mental struggles with their doctors, he said, because they distrust psychologists as quacks. He went on to say that he had received little preparation in psychology in either college or medical school. He had to learn the art of counseling on the job. Counseling is a puzzle, but a different type of puzzle than how to defeat cancer.

Do we want hospitals full of doctors only concerned with people as puzzles? What if we make psychology classes part of being pre-med? What if training in human dignity is simply part of being a wellrounded pre-medical student, just as important as organic chemistry? We would have doctors who understand, just as the ancient Hippocratics did, that a doctor interacts with people when they are most vulnerable. Only the recognition of that burden, as well as thorough training in how to solve the medical problem itself, will make doctors into the healers they set out to be. — Hannah Koch is a second-year in the College.

RIGHTS continued from page 4 hypothetical) campaign for universal sexual freedom will fight for that security. But there’s more to fight for than security. For the liberals, being gay means belonging to a minority whose rights must be protected—hence the endless comparisons with the civil rights movement. Fair enough, enough, but not enough. See, there’s another way of understanding gayness. Capitalism broke us free from traditional society: Today we develop and pursue our own goals and pleasures. We should count gay life—from Oscar Wilde to Tom of Finland to Butt Magazine—as a signal achievement of capitalist modernity. But gay life, like all of modern life, remains incomplete. Capitalism gets in the way of its own promise: disease, poverty, and ignorance all prevent the development of true sexual freedom. We work fulltime for our careers when we could be sharing our lives full-time with those we love. We need to achieve our gayness, and that means overcoming capitalism. This sounds superficially similar to the language used by so-called queer activists. Last October, a group vandalized the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) building and shot off a communiqué claiming that, “The queer liberation movement has been misrepresented and co-opted by the HRC. The HRC marginalizes us into a limited struggle for aspiring homosexual elites to regain the privilege that they’ve lost and climb the social ladder towards becoming bourgeoisie.” Such quasireasoning confuses liberal civil rights with capitalist domination, and justifies impotent,

theatrical acts of vandalism. We shouldn’t let the HRC off the hook. But the problem isn’t that they are aspiring homosexual elites. The problem is with their politics, with the perpetual, pitiful and sometimes petulant lobbying of the Democratic Party for piecemeal reform. Such pleading may eventually deliver gay marriage. But it won’t give us anything more. The fantasy of the Democrats representing the interests of all the marginalized groups, the “us-es” in Harvey Milk’s memorable phrase, is a product of miseducation. Lobbying the Democratic Party will not loosen the moral-

For liberals, being gay means belonging to a minority whose rights must be protected. Fair enough, necessary enough, but not enough. istic death-grip that strangles American politics. Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act during his reelection campaign, and the Obama administration has demonstrated by its actions that its opposition to the act was just a campaign promise. The Democrats won’t deliver the real social changes needed to ensure sexual freedom or any other kind of freedom. To get the most basic reforms, something bigger might just be needed. — Greg Gabrellas is pursuing a Master of Arts degree in the Social Sciences.

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LITERATURE

NSIT employee hatches Fish fantasy By Yasmeen Hussain Voices Hobbit Amid an ever-expanding selection of young adult fantasy novels, NSIT employee James Kennedy’s debut novel The Order of Odd-Fish carves its own niche in the genre. While some fantasy books (which shall remain unnamed) are filled with tried-and-true fantasy staples like vampires or wizards, The Order of Odd-Fish features three-foot-tall cockroaches and armored ostriches. The Maroon sat down with Kennedy as he tells the history of some of the novel’s characters, as well as his own.

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CHICAGO MAROON: So just to give an idea to the readers, what is the plot of The Order of Odd-Fish? James Kennedy: It’s about this girl, Jo Larouche, who was found in a washing machine when she was a baby with a note that said, “This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby.” And the reason why she was thought of as dangerous was because she was born in this fantastic world, this metropolis called Eldritch City. When she was born, it caused half

the city to be destroyed, and a lot of people were killed because this apocalyptic cult called the Silent Sisters believed she was a reincarnation of their goddess, called the All-Devouring Mother. So Jo is whisked out of that world and brought to our world, [where] she lives with her Aunt Lily. Thirteen years later, she and her aunt come back to Eldritch City, but she can’t tell anybody who she really is. Otherwise, they will turn against her. So she and Aunt Lily join the Order of OddFish, which is this knighthood that her parents and aunt were in. And each knight studies a different branch of useless knowledge. One knight studies unusual smells, one knight studies ludicrous weaponry, one knight studies the art and science of wasting time. Jo falls in love with Eldritch City. She makes friends with the three-foot-tall cockroach butlers, and she goes on quests on flying armored ostriches. But she finds out little by little that she is turning into a monster [that a prophesy] said she would become, and she needs to find some way to stop this prophecy before it comes true.

the middle of the desert that had paraphernalia from when she was a burlesque dancer. And every year, she would have all her old burlesque dancers come over and put on strip shows, and they were all 90 years old, [which] was all very strange. I heard about it on the news and I read about it

on the Internet, and it was fascinating enough that I wanted to put that in a book somehow, so I thought [to] put a thirteen year-old girl who is not like that at all there and have this crazy aunt, who is kind of senile that she has to take care of... Her

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CM: There are a lot of interesting characters in this book. Can you tell us the inspiration behind them. Aunt Lily, for example? JK: Aunt Lily is kind of the classic… there [used to be this] place in Helendale, CA called Exotic World, and it was run by an ex-stripper from the 1930’s and ’40s. She had this huge palace out in

James Kennedy, an NSIT employee, published a young adult fantasy novel, The Order of Odd-Fish, in 2008. On February 11, Kennedy will give a reading and signing at 57th Street Books. CAMILLE VAN HORNE/MAROON

MUSIC

Bad Plus trio jazzes up Mandel Hall By Marcella De Laurentiis Voices Jazz Hands While the Bad Plus played to a packed crowd in Mandel Hall last Friday, heads bobbed, a few air drums were sighted, and an exuberant “That was a great song!” reverberated from the balcony after one particularly crowd-pleasing piece. After three encores and three standing ovations, the Minnesota-based jazz trio finally succeeded in exiting the Mandel Hall stage. Everyone was rooted to their seats in the

hopes that bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson, and percussionist David King would add yet another finale. Although the Bad Plus has received a lot of attention in recent years for their jazz renditions of popular rock and pop songs, they stuck to their original compositions for this particular Chicago Presents performance. It certainly was a successful move, if the rapt attention of the audience was any indication. The Bad Plus records without the use of any special electronic effects, so their performance was

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refreshingly identical to their album. Similarly refreshing was their apparent joy for the music they were playing. Anderson demonstrated his enthusiasm with periodic punctuations of “Whoo!” throughout certain songs. Their straight-forward approach showcased their talent and—as exemplified by songs such as “Bill Hickman at Home,” “My Friend Metatron,” and “And Here We Test Our Powers of Observation”—their unconventional humor. Another particularly animated song had Iverson standing up over the keys, King scraping the

cymbals, and Reid closing his eyes in joyous concentration. “That was ‘2 p.m.,’ my song,” Iverson said, “a song about tea time.” But those who attended the concert with hopes of hearing smooth jazz appropriate for a mid-afternoon meal of cucumber sandwiches, Earl Grey, and scones sorely misjudged the Bad Plus’s repertoire. Their approach to jazz is quite unorthodox and, although conventional jazz listeners were reluctant to laud them in the band’s early days, their hybrid music has

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THEATER

Gorilla Tango plays the name game with Jessica Presents By Will Sims Voices Allman Brother

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Novak, actor, comedian, and writer for The Office, models for the cameras with Shy Puppet, his quiet companion. The performance took place last Saturday in Mandel Hall.

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For sketch comedy to be truly captivating, the actors must remove their egos and plunge, without self-awareness or reservation, into the absurd characters and situations they have created. Do the actors who make up local sketch comedy group Jessica do this? At times yes, and when they do, the show is truly a joy to watch. However, both the sketches and the jokes themselves were not strong enough to keep their latest show at Gorilla Tango Theatre, Jessica Presents… Yet Again, from dragging when the acting fell flat. The show started off slow, with a fairly weak sketch about a high school Model U.N. team offering little more than an excuse for the actors to indulge in a series of foreign accents, which were neither accurate enough

to be convincing, nor overblown enough to be funny. At first, the cast seemed reluctant to dive into their roles and had trouble finding their rhythm, often stumbling and halting through their lines.

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But after several sketches, they seemed to loosen up and began to enjoy themselves, and I found myself enjoying it too. While there weren’t a lot of deep-belly laughs coming from the audience, it was hard to resist smiling or chuckling at the untamed goofiness transpiring onstage. Courtney Hummel offered several talented performances, stealing the show as both a

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Chicago Improv is above average, but actors need some work JESSICA continued from page 6 middle-aged mall walker and a sassy teen girl. One of the best scenes of the show featured Hummel perfectly inhabiting the role of a crazy woman. Even her cast-mate Leonardo Garcia was in stitches. She was also quick to cover for technical fumbles, improvising jokes that made prop malfunctions funnier than the props themselves. Garcia was also a treat to watch. While his almost-permanent grin did not match his role as a funeral pastor or a basketball player, he seemed right at home as a teenage hooligan or behind his guitar for a musical number. The other two actors, Lindsey Finn and Nikhil Gahlawat, both offered solid per-

Real-life experience informs Kennedy's magical world KENNEDY continued from page 6 formances in more sedate roles, playing the straight characters opposite Hummel and Garcia. Nevertheless, their faux sincerity was spot-on, and gave the show a sense of realism that would otherwise be lost between the disparate sketches and their co-stars’ whacky performances. The sketches themselves were nothing if not original. It seemed like there was no situation or role that the Jessica crew was unwilling to tackle. The only flaw here was that several of the sketches felt underdeveloped. One scene, which featured the gods of every major religion as roommates, was only able to coerce a few giggles from the audience, leaving the scene’s full comedic

potential unrealized. I was unsatisfied by the conclusion of several sketches, wishing for just one more punchline that seemed to be left unsaid. Although the actors’ gestures sometimes seemed half-hearted, when the physical comedy was good, it was very good. A scene featuring the cast as four teenagers in a car was very well executed; watching their contortions as they changed seats in a small, imagined car was one of the scene’s funniest gimmicks. Overall, Jessica Presents…Yet Again was fun. It was not hilarious, not brilliant, but was definitely a creative and thoroughly enjoyable show featuring four performers with a lot of promise as both actors and writers.

aunt is very wild, while Jo is more level-headed. I think the character who has the most interesting story is the villain of the book, the Belgian Prankster. He’s this kind of whimsical Osama Bin Laden who [has] his own kind of apocalyptic T.V. show [where he goes] around the world doing these terrifying pranks--turning the Eifel Tower upside down, filling the Grand Canyon with pistachio pudding, things like that. He’s actually inspired by [an event] in 1997. When Bill Gates was in Belgium, some random guy ran out of the street and put a pie to [his] face. And the name of the man is Noel Godin, and whenever any of these major newspapers would refer to him, they would always say: “Belgian Prankster Noel Godin did this…” and his thing is that he goes around putting pies in [the faces of ] anybody he thinks is really pretentious and really ridiculous. Belgian Prankster— there is a sinister lilt to it. It sounds like the name of a super villain. So I put that in my head for a while, and when I needed a villain who was very crazy, I had him be the Belgian Prankster. It kind of feels like the Joker or like the Comedian from the Watchmen. And so I thought, “What if this Belgian Prankster graduated from just doing stunts, like putting a pie in somebody’s face, to more supernatural and insane stunts.” And that’s where the Belgian Prankster came from. CM: So from what you said earlier, this book took you about 10 years to complete. Can you give us some background about yourself and tell us why you started writing? JK: I always wanted to be a novelist—a children’s and young adult fantasy novelist. But when I got to college, I intuited that it would not be good for me to study English. If you become an English major... you are too synced up with everybody else, and you are not going to write something that is different enough that will put you apart. That’s my theory. I also really wanted to be a physicist back then. I was studying the philosophy of science, like the philosophy of space and time, and I thought “Oh, I’ll make a career in that.” Then I got to the end of university, and I was like, “I do not want to do that.” So I became a volunteer science teacher in the Archdiocese of Washington D.C. I lived in a convent with nuns and taught for nothing. What fantasy is good for is taking experiences and encoding them in such a way that our mind can deal with them and play with them and kind of get over the anxieties that we hold. For instance, Harry Potter is about the anxiety of going to school. And it playfully encodes those things— you don’t just get into a fist fight, you get into a duel with wands! And you don’t have a teacher who is mean, you have a teacher who is evil and is out to kill you! By blowing up all the problems to absurd proportions, they unexpectedly make it easier. It makes them playthings that the anxious mind can play with and kind of get control of, and it makes you feel better about going to school. So if Harry Potter is about a boy fitting in at school, then The Order of Odd-Fish is about a young girl finding her place in the big city. [There are] things like getting lost or being in the wrong side of town or getting to know your neighborhood or getting caught in some weird kind of bureaucracy… CM: So fantasy is kind of like having young people get over fear by making things seem just silly? JK: After 9/11, children all around were drawing pictures of planes flying into towers. And it’s not because they were perverse, it’s because they heard about it and had to find some way to control it and make it a mental thing that they could deal with and they could play with so it’s something they can get over. If it’s something you are not allowed to talk about or if it’s something that you haven’t found a way to conceptualize with, then it will overwhelm you. I just want to say that it’s not about making things silly. There are [themes] that are deadly and serious in a way. It’s just kind of whimsical and crazy and it has its own dignity when it’s whimsical and crazy.

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may have elicited the largest positive response. Iverson opened the song with a funny introduction about Jacques, a weight lifter who wins big and vows to wear his medal every day of the year. The song features a repetition of the same chords on the piano (presumably the consistently worn medal around Jacques’s neck) with an overlay of free–form notes on the piano, bass, drums, and tambourine. The band’s original compositions undulate

between hypnotic and energizing: While “Love is the Answer� was trance-inducing, the next song to follow—and the first of the Bad Plus’s attempts to end the concert—was the impassioned “The Radio Tower Has a Beating Heart.� While event advertisements promised to “provide an evening worth talking about,� it seems more accurate that this was an evening worth gushing about.

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hate you too much for this little rejection. An “I’d hate for this to ruin our friendship� will do. Chris: Here’s the reality about most of these situations: There is no way to let your friend down gently. You owe it to your friend to be completely honest with him, and to do anything else is unfair to both of you. When and if he asks you out again, you have to let him know that you are not interested in him that way. Be warned though, you’re likely to be in a rather stressful and awkward situation with your friend afterward. It takes a lot of courage to admit you have feelings for someone, and it is harder still when that person is one of your good friends. You are, essentially, rejecting him, and everybody deals with that differently. Like Anna said before, make it clear that you don’t want things to be awkward, but you should probably give him some time. Feelings don’t just disappear overnight. Tell your friend that it is in his hands, that you are there for him no matter what and are ready to talk to him when he is ready.

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Emory, which is having its best season in 20 years, made things interesting with a 22–6 run midway through the second period courtesy of a barrage of three-pointers. Guard Alex Gulotta brought the Eagles crowd into the game with four treys over a 4:22 span, the last one cutting Chicago’s lead to 59–58 with 4:38 remaining. “We kept our composure,� head coach Mike McGrath said. “They got us on ours heels, and the way they play, they’re capable of coming from behind.... But we kept our composure and were able to withstand the run.� Still, the Maroons never quite relinquished their lead. Second-year forward Tom Williams, who recorded his seventh doubledouble of the season with a game-high 21 points and 13 rebounds, sunk seven of 10 free throws over the final 3:30. Emory’s final attempt, a contested layup from guard Austin Caunch, bounced out, and Williams sealed the 73-68 win with three free throws with one second remaining. A week after a pair of last-second free throws dropped Chicago at Rochester in overtime, the Maroons came out with some more first-half fire Sunday afternoon. The South Siders outpaced Rochester 35–16 over the first 20 minutes, with scoring from eight different players. This time, the Maroons kept their feet on the gas. “Against Rochester, that was our main goal,� Pancratz said. “We came out strong, and after halftime we had the mindset that it was 0–0, and we had to win the second half.� The advantage was never lower than 17 in the second half, and Rochester, a team that hadn’t lost by more than nine all season, fell behind by as many as 29 points late in the game. All 12 Maroons that dressed scored, with fourth-year John Kinsella’s 12 points pacing Chicago on the offensive end. Pancratz called the performance Chicago’s best of the season. Th e M a r o o n s w i l l h a v e o n e m o r e chance to put together a complete effort on the road next weekend when they head to NYU and Brandeis for the last road trip of the season. “[This weekend] just shows that if we come out and play the whole game, we can win every game we play,� Pancratz said. “If we finish games, we have a chance to beat anyone.�

Hart’s last-second victory helps Chicago down NYU WRESTLING continued from back page Chicago started out strong against NYU, winning three of the first four matches. The most significant bout in the lower weight classes was between Hart and NYU’s Gabriel Gleason, which Hart won on a last second takedown 6–4. “Matt Hart’s victory was crucial in our win because we knew their strongest part of their lineup was between 157 and 174. Without his victory we would have been hard-pressed to come out with the win,� Oster said. NYU stormed back, winning the next four matches. With only two matches remaining, NYU led 14-10. With the Violets forfeiting the heavyweight bout, the fate of the dual essentially depended upon the outcome of the contest between Carlson and NYU’s Jamie Myers, who came into the match with an 18–14 record. Carlson, who is currently ranked third nationally in the 197-pound weight division, controlled the pace of the bout and pinned Myers early in the third period. “When we won three of the first four matches we knew we were in good shape. NYU had a good wrestler at 197, but I did not think he would be able to stay with Carlson,� Kocher said.

Carlson could certainly be labeled the team’s most valuable wrestler this past season. He is undefeated in dual matches and was named the association’s Most Outstanding Wrestler. Looking ahead, Carlson is the lone Maroon favored to win the regional tournament on February 20, which would qualify him for the national tournament. Perhaps the unsung heroes of the NYU dual are the Chicago wrestlers who, despite failing to win their matches, did not yield a single pin. While the weight divisions were split evenly 5–5 between the two squads, the major decision by Schoettle, Carlson’s pin, and the forfeit for Hatten edged the score in favor of Chicago. “Our coaching staff saw us and NYU as evenly matched, and the fact that we went 5–5 in our matches confirmed it. But the important thing was all of our guys who lost still wrestled close matches,� Kocher said. This year’s win marks the second straight conference championship for Chicago and the team’s third UAA win in four years. When asked how the 2010 wrestling squad would fare against the 2009 championship squad, Kocher replied simply, “It would be a pretty good duel.�

Sting of loss at Rochester motivated Chicago this weekend

Second-year Megan Herrick, at the free throw line against Rochester. Herrick, who led Chicago’s scorers with 11 points, has now led the Maroons in scoring 12 times this season. CAMILLE VAN HORNE/MAROON

W. BASKETBALL continued from back page we have really stepped up that portion of our game, and when the opportunity arises, we try to get an easy basket.� That improved transition game was catalyzed by a huge first-half rebounding margin as the Maroons collected 31 boards against Emory’s 15. A short shift by Chicago’s starters at the beginning of the second period extended the lead to 44 and put the Maroons on pace to challenge the school record of 101 points in a game before Chicago emptied its bench in order to give lesser-used substitutes some valuable game experience. Chicago’s most impressive individual performance belonged to standout fourth-year forward Molly Hackney who nearly achieved a triple-double in just 16 minutes of playing time. Hackney recorded 11 points, 10 rebounds, and eight assists for the game. “She easily could have had 20 [points], but was unselfish with the ball. She made the extra pass,� Roussell said. “When she plays like she did this weekend, we’re a scary team.� Herrick led all scorers with 15 points in her 19 minutes of play while first-year guard Jenna Lillemoe enjoyed a breakout performance. She scored 14 points and

grabbed six rebounds. Friday’s emphatic win provided an extra measure of confidence in advance of a game that Chicago needed little extra motivation for. “You better believe we were coming back with a vengeance when we played Rochester this past weekend,� Herrick said. “We hate losing in general but we lost to Rochester last weekend, and it was not because they played better than us; we just did not perform as well as we should have.� The Maroons sublimated those emotions into an excellent first half performance and another sizable halftime lead over Rochester on Sunday. Chicago led 40–17 at the intermission thanks in large part to a stifling defensive effort. Defense has b een Chicago’s biggest strength throughout the season. In fact, Chicago entered the weekend ranked eighth in Division I I I for field goal percentage defense at 32.4 percent. The Yellowjackets struggled to do even that well. Rochester shot just 22.9 percent from the field in the first period and missed all nine of their three-point attempts. Rochester, however, did improve after the break and didn’t allow Chicago to have the kind of walkover that they enjoyed against Emory. Slowly eating into the Maroons’ lead down the stretch, the Yellowjackets managed to cut the final margin of victory to just nine. In truth, though, Chicago was never in very much danger of suffering what would have been a shocking collapse. Nonetheless, the Maroons’ inability to completely finish off Rochester is a reminder that Chicago still has work to do after an otherwise flawless weekend. “We really needed to come out strong and finish them off from the start, but we came out weak and let them into the game again,� second-year forward Taylor Simpson said. “Next time, we need to be disciplined enough to have a mentality that we are not going to let up.� Rochester forward Kate Agan was the game’s top scorer with 19 points. Chicago, on the other hand, was more balanced on offense. Eight players scored at least six points but none scored more than Herrick’s 11. Now, the Maroons’ attention turns to a crucial road trip that features mustwin games against NYU (13–7, 5–4) and Brandeis (13-6, 6–3), both of which Chicago beat earlier this season. If the Maroons win all their remaining games, they can still capture at least a share of the UAA title. “We just have to take care of our own business,� Roussell said.

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Sports + Leisure MaroonCity.com

IN QUOTES “This thing laid in my bed next to me last night. I probably drooled on it.”

SPORTS

—Saints head coach Sean Payton, referring to the Lombardi Trophy during a press conference the morning after his team’s Super Bowl win.

WRESTLING

BROOMBALL

HOME, SWEET HOME

Alper, Crown to vie for “Chairman’s Cup”

With an undefeated record at Ratner this weekend, the Maroons showed why it’s good to be home. By Jordan Holliday Sports Editor

Chicago captures 14th UAA wrestling title By Henry Phillips Sports Staff The wrestling team successfully defended the UAA title this past Saturday, prevailing over Case Western Reserve 39–14 and NYU 22–14. Crucial victories against NYU by third-year Matt Hart and fourth-year Troy Carlson propelled Chicago to their second straight championship. Carlson, secondyear Jimmy Schoettle, third-year Chris Oster, and third-year Ryan Hatten each won individual UAA championships. “Many of these guys, from the

freshmen through the seniors, picked up the team when it was needed of them,” head coach Leo Kocher said. This is the 14th UAA title for Kocher, who is in his 31st year at the helm. Chicago defeated Case, winning seven of the 10 weight divisions with four pinfalls. Case lost to NYU in the first round, setting up a showdown for the title between NYU and Chicago—as has become the norm. “In the last four years the championship has come down to the dual meet between us and very competitive NYU squads,” Kocher said.

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Third-year Ryan Hatten faces a Case wrestler during Saturday’s UAA championships. Hatten won an individual championship at 285 pounds. ALEX GLECKMAN/MAROON

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Offense shines in wins over Rochester, Emory By Ryan Tryzbiak Associate Sports Editor

Fourth-year Anna Woods goes in for a lay-up against Rochester on Sunday. Chicago led Rochester 40–17 at halftime, and won 73–64. CAMILLE VAN HORNE/MAROON

It’s easy to understand why the women’s basketball team was upset with itself for losing in overtime at Rochester in a game where Chicago held a five-point lead late in regulation. This weekend, they put that anger to good use and earned convincing wins against both Emory and Rochester. C h i c a g o ( 1 5 – 5 , 7 – 2 UA A ) crushed Emory (2–7, 9–11) 82–51 on Friday night and then earned their revenge against the Yellowjackets with a 73–64 victory over Rochester (15–5, 5–4). Friday’s contest was never in doubt. The Maroons jumped out

in front of the Eagles early and never let up. Chicago led 15–3 after just five minutes and continually extended that margin throughout the first half, and the Maroons entered the break with a 53–23 advantage. One reason why Chicago was able to score so many points in the first half was an effective fastbreak offense that hasn’t always been in view this season. “In the past, we have not really been a fast-break team; even in the earlier parts of the season, [head coach Aaron Roussell] would encourage us to push the tempo of the game,” second-year guard Meghan Herrick said. “Recently

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Resurgent squad repays last weekend’s losses By Jake Grubman Sports Editor Th e E m o r y a n d R o c h e s t e r men’s basketball teams have to b e wondering who they have just played and what that team did with the Maroon squad that limped home after two harsh losses a week ago. Seven days ago, the story was one of disappointment: first a brutal 71–44 loss at Emory, then a stinging 76–75 overtime setback a t Ro ch e s t e r. Th i s w e e k , t h e Maroons reversed roles. Chicago dominated most of the weekend, topping the Eagles 73–68 before handling the Yellowjackets 69-34, by far their worst loss of the season. “Last weekend we played like crap. We were just not ready to go,” fourth-year guard Jake

Pancratz said. “This weekend, we started showing our potential of how good we can be. Now, we just need that on a consistent basis.” En route to two victories that put the squad’s record back above .500, the Maroons played arguably their best first halves of the season. They outscored Emory and Rochester by a 76–36 margin in the first halves of both Friday and Sunday’s games, shooting a combined 53.8 percent. On Friday night, a week after falling behind by 18 points at the break at Emory, the Maroons jumped out to a 41–20 halftime lead—their biggest of the season— as the Eagles stumbled out of the gates, shooting 23.1 percent for the opening period. “We didn’t really change much;

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Second-year guard Megan Herrick takes a free throw during last Sunday’s game against Rochester University. The Maroons defeated Rochester with a score of 73 to 64.. CAMILLE VAN HORNE/MAROON

Third-year Paul Riskus battles in the post during Sunday’s Rochester game. Riskus got seven rebounds, and Chicago had a 42–28 edge on the boards. CAMILLE VAN HORNE/MAROON

Officially, tomorrow night’s AlperCrown broomball match is only an exhibition game, but given the names on the guest list, it’s easy to see why the players aren’t taking it lightly. On hand to watch residents and expats of Alper and Crown battle it out on the Midway Ice Rink will be the two men who gave those houses their names: Chairman of the Board of Trustees Andrew Alper (A.B.’80, M.B.A.’81) and James Crown, who was chairman before Alper and remains a member of the Board. At stake (besides the chairman’s congratulatory handshake) is the Chairman’s Cup, which Director of Student Housing Katie CallowWright described as “a fairly large trophy” that will go home with the winning house. Though Callow-Wright and her staff have been responsible for planning the game, it was originally conceived by Alper, when he took over Crown’s post as chairman of the Board last spring. At that time, the Board decided to recognize Crown and his wife Paula by naming a house in South Campus Residence Hall in their honor. With Houses named after the two most recent chairmen, Alper thought it would be fun to see their respective broomball teams square off. “One of the joys of naming a House is seeing the great spirit and traditions that develop around the House community,” Alper said in an e-mail interview. “Mr. Crown and I both hope that this tournament will become an annual event that will continue long after no one remembers who we were.” To that end, the Cup was designed with ample room around the base for the names of each year’s winner to be engraved and immortalized, and the participants in tomorrow’s match aren’t taking lightly the chance to have their house’s name inscribed on the cup first. “A strategy book has been created, which will be showcased to the whole House during an upcoming strategy session before the game,” said Dustin Shaw, a first-year in Crown House, by e-mail. “We have also planned a pep rally for the whole House before the game, and have coordinated several surprises for the match.” Shaw said that the excitement surrounding the match was enough to pique the interest of residents who normally wouldn’t play or attend the games. Those who do venture onto the Midway tomorrow night—as of press time, the forecast calls for a wind chill hovering around zero when the broomball hits the ice at 8 p.m—will be treated to more than the normal game day festivities. The national anthem will be performed a cappella at 7:45, and hot chocolate and brownies will be available in the warming hut before and after the game.

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