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GRADUATE AID

Arrest uproar prompts forum, answers from admins

Graduate students rally for advanced residency tuition cuts

Fourth-year Mauriece Dawson speaks about racial profiling at an open forum Tuesday in the Reynolds Club. UCPD officers responding to a complaint about unruly behavior arrested Dawson in the A-level last Wednesday. DARREN LEOW/MAROON

By Asher Klein News Editor Administrators outlined preliminary steps yesterday to remedy percieved racial profiling within the University police department (UCPD) after issues were raised at a contentious Tuesday open forum. They will also consider revising Library behavior

policy and protocol for how staff ask for ID. Over 200 people attended the forum, which was convened to address a powerful student response to last Wednesday’s arrest of fourthyear Mauriece Dawson in the A-level. Many at the meeting said the arrest part of a larger culture of racial profiling on the part of UCPD.

A Regenstein clerk called the UCPD last Wednesday night to report an “unruly” group of students, including Dawson, although witnesses said they were not unusually loud for the popular study area. When told to leave the building by a UCPD officer, Dawson repeatedly asked why he had to leave; the officer placed him in a

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By Al Gaspari News Staff Wearing cardboard mouse ears and holding mousetraps, about 50 members of Graduate Students United (GSU) yesterday said they had fallen into the advanced residency (AR) “trap,” weeks after the Provost did not recommend a cut in AR tuition. Graduate students receive full funding in their first four years; AR tuition begins in graduate students’ fifth year, meaning many must find a job or additional sources of funding to pay their bills. The AR trap, GSU said, causes students to take longer to complete their degrees because they have to work to pay tuition. Many wrote personal messages on the bottom of the traps, which were not activated. “We want [a] commitment to reducing AR tuition to a level that would allow students to work on their dissertations,” said Duff Morton, a fourth-year graduate student and GSU member. Provost Thomas Rosenbaum recommended keeping AR tuition at its current level for the next two years, which has been frozen since 2008. Given the historical five percent annual increase, Rosenbaum’s February 25 report said, many graduate students will save $1,350 over those four years. AR can be up to $5,300 per quarter in some departments. Cathy Cohen, deputy provost for graduate education, stressed the University is addressing AR tuition positively. “If you look at most universi-

ties, they are considering an increase in tuition,” she said. Cohen acknowledged that AR tuition can place a burden on students, but said the University can only meet so many needs with the resources it has. As they marched from Ida Noyes behind a pied piper, the students chanted, “AR tuition is a trap. Students get a bum rap.” After leaving the provost’s office, they gathered on the steps of the administration building where the crowd rallied around a few speakers. “The provost did not address the two main sources of student grievances that the committee recognized as valid,” said fourth-year Divinity school student Dave Mihalyfy in reference to adjusting AR tuition and restructuring teaching aid. Mihalyfy was part of last year’s Provost’s Committee that recommended “making every attempt to reduce” AR, and was disappointed the provost did not follow the report’s recommendations. Cohen understood the Committee’s role differently. “I was part of the Committee, and we were clear that the Provost might listen to other parts of the community as well,” she said. The GSU wants to end AR tuition but will accept reform, where graduate students can qualify for financial aid packages similar to ones for undergraduates. AR tuition does not treat all graduate students fairly, they said. “It privileges students who are single and from wealthy backgrounds. And when our graduate programs look like that, our professors look like that,” Morton said.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

STUDENT LIFE

Liasons’ role is sufficient, Alper argues

Out of the limelight, a cappella groups work in harmony

By Michael Lipkin News Editor University students have fundamental misconceptions about the Board of Trustees’ role in University governance, Board Chairman Andrew Alper (A.B. ’80, M.B.A. ’81) said in an interview Tuesday. “People assume we pull all the strings,” Alper said. “But flat out: We don’t get involved in day-to-day management.” Alper was responding to last month’s resignation of Joe Bonni as graduate liaison to the Board. Bonni’s resignation rekindled arguments for increased student representation and voting rights on the Board. “Increasing student influence is a necessary first step to earn a voting position for the student liaisons, to increase student access to Board committees, and to have a greater role in setting the meeting agenda,” undergraduate liaison and third-year Greg Nance wrote in a Maroon letter to the editor last week. Alper said many of those arguments assume the Board exerts direct control over University policy. Trustees often report that their quarterly luncheons with students are dominated with issues they have no control over, like campus

parking or CAPS. Students will never have voting rights on the Board, Alper said, because it would violate the Board’s commitment to objective discussions. “We need trustees who are disinterested with respect to any one issue,” Alper said. “And issues students care about almost by definition create an interested party.... They can’t have a vote at the table.” Liaisons only sit on one of 12 trustee committees—Student and Campus Life— but Alper said issues from other committees, like Campus Planning, are often brought to liaisons to get student input. “Hearing students is very important to this board,” Alper said, adding that trustees also get student feedback from quarterly lunches and Vice President for Campus Life Kim Goff-Crews. While the Board approves the administration’s budget and weighs in on projects like the China center and the Milton Friedman Institute, it mainly considers decades-long investment strategies and merely advises the president on specific initiatives. “We care about eminence, but not how we get there,” Alper said. “The Board can’t front-run the faculty...We can’t do that and never will.” Student Government President

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By Dani Brecher MAROON Staff The U of C’s a cappella groups have historically been overshadowed by their east coast counterparts, but after forming the A Cappella Council (AC), the singers and beat boxers are finally poised to take center stage. Compared to a cappella groups at universities like Yale or Brown, the U of C a cappella scene is relatively young, and it’s still forming. Only about 100 students sing in the seven a cappella groups on campus, about one-fifth the number of students who are involved with University Theater, according to the UT website. “At other universities, a cappella dominates campus social life,” said Jessie Reuteler, a fourth-year and musical director of Men in Drag. “We want to improve the face of a cappella on campus.” The seven groups formed AC at the end of 2008. Previously, each of the seven a cappella groups on campus individually held auditions, scheduled concerts, and purchased equipment. A grant from the Uncommon Fund for the purchase of

wireless microphones served as the catalyst for a cooperative effort. “We needed to formalize a group to use the money,” Reuteler said. “Technically only one group could use the money, and since several individual people from several groups were award-

ed the grant, that was a problem.” The solution was the brainchild of M.D./Ph.D. student Chris Rishel, a member of Voices in Your Head. He proposed forming a consortium that would control the use of the new micro-

COUNCIL continued on page 2

Second-year Amanda Jacobson (left), graduate student Chris Rishel (center), and fourth-year Jessie Reuteler (right) are members of the A Cappella Council, bent on improving the voice of a cappella on campus. CAMILLE VAN HORNE/MAROON

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DISCOURSE

U of C is the Great American University, author says By Adam Janofsky News Staff Former Columbia University Provost Jonathan Cole expressed his admiration for the U of C Wednesday, but cautioned that recent government intrusions on areas like stem cell and global warming research are weakening and threatening the University and its peers. Cole, who has never been affiliated with the U of C, said it embodies the values of academia more than any other American university. “I hold the University of Chicago in such high regard because it offers us a reference point for how a value system associated with greatness…can pervade an institution in ways that advance free inquiry and open discourse,” Cole wrote about the U of C in his recent book, The Great American University. U of C–affiliated panelists struck a similar tone. Chemistry professor emeritus R. Stephen Berry said the University’s attitude toward criticism and peer review makes it a self-selective university. “When I was in high school, I knew I was not mature enough to come to the University of Chicago,” Berry said. “I went to Harvard—that was okay. But I wasn’t ready for Chicago yet.” Dean of the College John Boyer, law professor and former provost Geoffrey Stone, and psychology professor Richard Shweder also sat on the panel. Cole said American universities are most

valuable for the scientific discoveries they produce—calling them “the only American industry with a favorable balance of trade today”—but audience members and panelists said he was neglecting the value of undergraduate education. “I don’t think you can talk about universities without talking about undergraduate education,” said former University President Hanna Holborn Gray, the first female president of a major American university. “A great university has to have a great undergraduate education.” Although some see China and India’s intellectual growth as a threat to the preeminence of top American universities, Cole said it’s an opportunity. “We would get better if we had competition from abroad,” he said. The American government is more likely to be a threat to the continued growth of the American university, Cole said, referring to restrictive and antiterrorist visa policies, restraints on biological research, and increased research surveillance conducted by the government. American universities began to dominate global education during and after World War II, when German universities’ top professors were sent into exile because of their religion, Cole said. Robert Maynard Hutchins, who was president of the University at the time, was able to push the U of C past its peers. “This university was much more open to bringing in students based on their talent rather than their social factors,” Cole said, calling the U of C the best example of an academic meritocracy.

Students may vote on Board of Trustees one day: “Nothing is ever set in stone,” SG President Wolf says ALPER continued from front page and fourth-year Jarrod Wolf agreed that most students don’t understand the Board’s role. “We don’t want to marginalize students, but a vote, in the grand scheme of student power, is not significant versus working more intimately with vice presidents and deans,” Wolf said. He added that SG should do a better job of informing students

of the Board’s powers. Wolf took issue, however, with Alper’s unequivocal stance against student votes on the Board, since the Board had added a liaison in recent years. “Nothing is ever set in stone,” Wolf said. “We really won’t know what conditions at the University will be like in 30 years. It seems conceivable his position might change.”

While competition hampers singers at other schools, friendly rivalry pushes groups in A Capella Council COUNCIL continued from front page phones, as well as generally advancing the interests of the a cappella community as a whole. “I saw a lot of potential here,” Rishel said, “but also a lot of risk to such a young community.” Rishel worried that rivalry between singing groups could be detrimental to the wider community. “There was a big rivalry between two groups at my undergrad [University of Illinois],” he said. “Part of the job of the council is to act before people get upset, not to respond to an existing problem.” For some a cappella members, however, a little antagonism is a useful thing. “I would characterize [our] relationship as a friendly rivalry, where groups push each other to be the best that they

can be,” said third-year Matt Chan, president of the Ransom Notes. The Council consists of Make a Joyful Noise, Men in Drag, the Ransom Notes, Rhythm and Jews, Run for Cover, Unaccompanied Women, and Voices in Your Head. Upcoming AC events include a spring concert featuring all seven groups that will also fundraise for Haiti relief. By increasing their presence on campus, AC members hope to demonstrate that a cappella can be both hip and fun, contrary to stereotypes. “When people think of a cappella, they tend to think cheesy—Billy Joel’s ‘The Longest Time,’ or old-timey barbershop quartets,” Rishel said. “But it doesn’t have to be that way.”

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Admins: UCPD officer who arrested student no longer on patrol, clerk who made the call not reassigned due to union rules FORUM continued from front page choke hold, pinned him to the floor, and placed him under arrest. Witnesses said Dawson, who is black, was never asked for identification. He was charged with criminal trespass and resisting arrest. Since the arrest, students’ parents have contacted administrators, including President Robert Zimmer, to express distress at Dawson’s arrest, which witnesses claim was unwarranted and inappropriately violent. In an e-mail response to the parents of one student, Dean of Students Susan Art said, “We too are very upset about this situation, and I am in complete agreement with you that this is a heart wrenching situation...I hope this situation can ultimately move our campus in a positive direction, though it is hard to see right now if this can happen.” Art did not return requests for comment. At the forum, UCPD Chief Marlon Lynch and Associate Director of the Library Jim Vaughan told the crowd that investigations into police and library staff conduct are underway, but could not say when they would conclude. As of Thursday night, one-third of witnesses and all UCPD officers had been interviewed for UCPD’s investigation. The arresting officer, whom witnesses have identified as Sergeant Eric Grays, has been taken off patrol, according to Vice President for Campus Life Kim Goff-Crews. Vaughan said union rules prevented him from reassigning or firing the clerk, whom witnesses identified as Lynn Franco. Many of the comments at the forum centered on a perception of racial profiling by the UCPD. Lynch said he took those concerns seriously, and the community could hold him responsible for changing UCPD culture. “It’s my responsibilty,” he said. “But I’m also going to ask and put some responsibilty on those in this room to assist me

with that, to provide the input neccessary to make it effective.” Goff-Crews also sought student partnership on policy changes at the forum, although none in the audience offered any suggestions themselves. Yesterday she provided a summary of topics covered at the forum for students who did not attend. That summary, posted on the Office of Campus and Student Life Web site, included several responses to student comments, including the appointment of UCPD Lieutenant JoCathy Roberts as “a liaison between students of color and the police” through the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Goff-Crews also wrote that there would be a review of what constitutes acceptable behavior in the Library, and how to deal with disruptions, a process she said will involve students. Forum attendees had suggested there was a strong disparity between the response to Dawson and his friends, who were laughing loudly, and when “white frat boys” drank beer and ate pizza in the A-level. She and Lynch said that students would be informed of the investigations’ results. Goff-Crews said at the forum that the University cannot drop any charges against Dawson once they had been filed in court, although a press officer at the State’s attorney’s office could not confirm charges had been brought and police officers said the investigation is ongoing and could not comment. Dawson could not comment on the status of his charges. “The charges were made by the police, so they’re responsible for shepherding them through the system. We don’t think, legally, the University can pull them back,” Goff-Crews said at the forum, adding later in the meeting, “We’ll do what we can” to support the student. At the forum, which was sponsored by the

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Office of Campus and Student Life, and Student Government (SG), administrators had few specific answers to attendees’ questions. “We heard the same things over and over in that room tonight,” said fourth-year Brittany Little, a former member of the Organization of Black Students’ executive board. She and others interviewed said the forum did have a positive outcome, in that many took the opportunity to mention times when they felt they were treated inappropriately or racially profiled by the UCPD. “I feel like the discourse went well, because students who have been keeping silent for a very long time were able to bring their problems around experiences with UCPD,” Dawson said. Concerns over Dawson’s case and other potential cases of racial profiling dominated proceedings. Around 50 attendees raised their hands when Dawson asked how many felt that they, or someone they knew, had been racially profiled by UCPD officers. More than half were black. “This is not an isolated incident,” Dawson said. Divinity Ph.D. student Reverend Paul R. Ford (M.A. ‘05) interrupted one administrator to say the UCPD has engaged in racial profiling since at least 2003, when he said the University accosted a black SSA graduate student when he met a white, female friend on campus at 3 a.m.; the first thing Ford said officers did was ask the woman if she was okay, suggesting they viewed the student as a threat. Wanting to “cut the crap,” Ford received applause when he yelled: “I am sick and tired of black students being racially profiled at the University of Chicago by their own police department.” The occasionally restless crowd applauded when some speakers expressed frustration or indignation. Many at the forum were confused about ID policy, and Lynch pointed to the fine print on the back of the card: “Must be shown on

demand.” When investigating a call, Lynch said an officer should attempt to identify the person about whom the call was made, to hear his or her side of the story, and then make an arrest if the person is not forthcoming. “Can you ask questions to an officer? Sure, of course you can,” Lynch said, but allowed for exceptions. He said a police officer is expected to ask questions of the student before making an arrest. Witnesses have said that did not occur in Dawson’s case. Goff-Crews said the ID policy needs clarification and that students should help administrators understand “how do we talk to staff and train staff...so that you feel comfortable” in showing identification. Second-year Margaret Marion, who witnessed Dawson’s arrest and filed a misconduct report with UCPD, said the meeting left her feeling disheartened. “I don’t feel hopeful at all. I think this is going to blow over, and the only way this isn’t going to blow over is if enough of us speak up,” she said. Director of the University Community Service Center and longtime Woodlawn resident Wallace Goode said the UCPD has a history of racial profiling. “What occurred has been part of the UCPD’s M.O. ever since I can remember, and students often hear the story of when I was by harassed by the UCPD when I was a sophomore in high school—that’s 1968.” Goode said he saw “frustration, concrete examples of unfair treatment, a desire to be a part of the solution, and doubt that the University will successfully address the situation” at the forum, but he had hope that the situation would finally be addressed, not least of all because he had expected the discourse to be more heated. “This is a real opportunity for Kim GoffCrews, Marlon Lynch, and a committed student community to turn this around,” he said.

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Core class in computing skills would benefit students across all disciplines For many decades, the Core has challenged U of C students to extend their reasoning skills to encompass all of the major academic disciplines. However, the College’s flagship program is in need of an update. Introducing a course on computer programming, data analysis, web development, or graphic design into the Core curriculum would benefit students intellectually and practically, fitting well within the Core’s mission “to cover the whole scope of Human knowledge, and to teach not facts but the tools of inquiry.” The reasons for this addition are clear. As computers become integrated into an increasing number of fields of analysis and discourse, students who possess a strong computing background will be able to segue more easily into professional practice. Practicalities aside, a thorough introduction to com-

puting would be in keeping with the ideals of the Core. Hum cultivates critical thinking skills and builds upon writing mechanics; a computer technology Core course would similarly develop abstract problem-solving skills alongside concrete proficiency in programming languages. In both Hum and computer science, students acquire fundamental abilities to analyze complicated situations and express creative solutions. The College recognized this in the mid-nineties when it established Mathematical Sciences, a three -course sequence that, according to Committee on Social Thought student Adam Kissel (A.B.D. ’0 3), brought together “c o n c e p t s a n d m e t h o d s f r o m mathematics, computer science, and statistics, emphasizing interdisciplinary aspects of these subjects.” However, this sequence was shortened and ultimately discarded

in the following years. Currently, students may take Introduction to Computer Science to fulfill the Core’s math requirement, but few do so, and students with no prior programming experience often find the pace and depth of the course difficult to manage. What is needed are courses providing an introduction to computer-related reasoning abilities and technical skills that have broad application in the wider world. Th e n e w C o r e r e q u i r e m e n t would be divided into diverse introductory offerings. All would focus on problem solving, analysis, and expression, but different courses would emphasize particular aspects over others. Accordingly, programming courses would introduce students to basic languages such as C or Python, data analysis classes would provide overviews of STATA, R, or Root, and web

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Eyewitness: Dawson arrest emblematic of wider racial distrust

Chat Roulette’s mix of theatrics and voyeurism ultimately disappoints I played Chat Roulette for more time than I’d care to admit the other night, and I’m not entirely sure if I’ll do it again. For the uninitiated, Chat Roulette, ironically enough, developed by a Russian teenager, is a Web site (chatrt. com) that randomly connects your webcam with some other webcam anywhere in the whole world. The two of you can talk for as long as you like, or you can skip ahead as quickly as you like. The apparent theory behind this is that you’ll be exposed to complete strangers and thus be able to make connections with people you’d otherwise never meet. As a warning, know that you will also be exposed to a lot of other things, especially after 9 p.m. Chat Roulette is perhaps best sampled for the first time in a group environment—at least, that’s how I did it. Traveling in groups on Chat Roulette provides the same safety that traveling in groups in “real life” provides. Don’t get me wrong—the whole thing is pretty harmless as long as you don’t do anything incredibly stupid, like reveal your social security number. Even so, having friends around helps keep the experience light and impersonal, because for all the social interaction that is supposed to happen, Chat Roulette is an alienating experience. It’s far from guaranteed that you’ll come out of it feeling like you have actually been “connecting with a partner” as the text box proclaims as it s e t s u p a v i d e o ch a t c o n n e c -

development and graphic design classes would focus on tools like the Adobe Creative Suite. The Core teaches students to read, write, and prove arguments in new ways. It is designed to give students the basic theoretical “tools of inquiry” that allow them to flourish as members of society. As that society changes, so too must the basic set of abilities that the Core inculcates. Adding computing skills as a Core requirement would go far toward providing students with the tools necessary in so many areas of practice, without diverging from the University’s commitment to theory.

tion. (Creepily enough, this text alternates with “looking for a stranger,” but who ever thought Chat Roulette wasn’t creepy?) The fact is, you spend a lot of time waiting around for other people, real people—not just blurry, flesh-colored movement, or the corner of an arm or maybe a leg, or a plain black box—to show up on your screen. Then, once you’ve found a real person, you might just get skipped right away. Sometimes they do stick around, and you might have a good conversation. But most of the time, you’ll find yourself with nothing to say, and nothing to do except skip ahead. This last part—the part where you have nothing to say—is not a fault of the interface, but rather of the users. For my own part, I know why we were F9ed, another word for skipping due to the function of the F9 key, so quickly: We were being boring. If you’re going to believe my mother about this (“If you’re bored, it’s because you’re boring, Alison! Go make your own fun!”—thanks, Mom), then the whole Chat Roulette system is full of boring people boring other boring people. Most of the time, when we weren’t reading Pablo Neruda poems out loud, or Cosmo horoscopes, we were trying to make small talk with people. I’ll admit, most of our small talk was geared toward the wonderful hairstyles we saw. There was the Spaniard with the wonderful moustache, the other

Spaniard with the wonderful sideburns, the French boy with the wonderful fauxhawk. I think he was my favorite. In any case, people don’t go on Chat Roulette to make small talk, not really. The apparent fun of anonymous video chatting is that you can act however and say whatever you want, because you will never ever see your connections again. So people go on there seeking the outrageous— users who wear gorilla masks or Stormtrooper masks or Guy Fawkes masks, or who maybe just aren’t wearing anything. It’s a mode of entertainment, and everyone is out for his or her own fun. So, you are either the skipper or the skipped, and you are either a desirable partner or you aren’t. Or you’re masturbating to the camera, and that’s just gross. On the positive side, Chat Roulette is bound to be interesting, just based on pure probability. But this is only after a lot of waiting. To me, that makes it intrinsically unsatisfying—not because delayed gratification is bad, but because this gratification is at the expense of connecting with real people in real life. And while playing the game with your friends takes the sting off, it makes you wonder what other things you could be doing with all that time instead. — Alison Howard is a second-year in the College majoring in English.

I witnessed the student arrest on the A-level last Wednesday night. As a second-year student from a rural town in Virginia that’s still plagued by racism, I’ve grown increasingly disillusioned as I’ve realized that race relations in Chicago aren’t much better than those I’ve left behind in the South. I strongly believe that if I had walked into the Reg laughing loudly with a group of other white students, we would have been seen as loud and obnoxious, but not “unruly and disorderly,” as the police incident report describes the group of black students in the Reg. I understand that the UCPD can request to see students’ IDs at any time; however, it should have been clear that the “disruptive” person in question was a student, as we all have to use our IDs to swipe into the Reg in the first place. The UCPD is meant to protect students, not to harass and scare us, and the Reg is oppressive enough without the added threat of spending an entire night in jail after being wrestled to the ground by a UCPD officer. The force with which the officer pushed the student to the ground and handcuffed him was alarming and unnecessary, but what bothered me the most was some of the reactions I heard after the officer escorted the student out of the A-level. When a group of students began collecting names of witnesses, a girl at the table next to mine refused to sign her name because she “didn’t really see what happened,” when I clearly saw her craning her neck to see what was going on just like the rest of us. There seemed to be an assumption that, because

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OP-ED

Point–Counterpoint: Civil discourse on an uncivil incident Columnists debate race, legality, and details surrounding Dawson arrest » DEAR MATT,

Matt Barnum Columnist

Andrew Thornton Columnist

» DEAR ANDREW, I’m not sure if you went to Tuesday’s open forum regarding the student arrest on the A-level. But if you did, you would have heard Divinity School student Paul Ford say, “I am sick and tired of black students being racially profiled at the University of Chicago by their own police department.” This is a serious charge to make. In the present case, there is no question that the police officer did not profile Mauriece Dawson. The officer (who is black) was called by a library staff member (who is also black) to remove a student whom she deemed unruly. Now, without knowing all the facts, it seems to me quite unnecessary for the policeman to have put Dawson in a chokehold and placed him under arrest. But this was not profiling, which is when an officer assumes that someone is “suspicious” because of his or her race. This is not a semantic point. On the issue of race, the worst that the officer can be accused of is giving Dawson harsher treatment because he is black. There is no evidence of that; however, it’s not hard for me to imagine an officer doing the same thing to a white student whom he deemed was “mouthing off.” We’re examining the wrong problem here: It’s not one of racism, but rather of excessive force, and an assumption, it seems, by some officers that “contempt of cop” is an arrestworthy offense. Similarly, the library clerk may have been guilty of poor judgment. It seems a lot more likely to me that she held some personal grudge against the specific students. This is not an insignificant personnel problem, but it hardly seems worth extrapolating much further than that. CHEERS, MATT

I guess we’re just two white guys talking about racial profiling. Our ignorance isn’t that bad in this situation, though, since the students’ charges are nothing more than speculation (the officer treated Dawson differently because of his race) or anecdotal (black students were stopped by the police on occasions X, Y, and Z). Without further evidence—e.g., the officer called Dawson an epithet while arresting him; aggregate statistics about profiling and discriminatory treatment—such claims don’t contribute fruitfully to the discussion. To draw a comparison: If Dawson were speeding and the police had pulled him over, would he have also refused to cooperate on the assumption that racial profiling was involved? After all, giving over his driver’s license isn’t a guarantee that the officer would write a ticket, because the officer perhaps just wants to make sure Dawson has no outstanding warrants. Similarly in the A-level: The UCPD officer may merely have wanted to make sure that Dawson was a student before bringing him upstairs to be lectured by the librarian. Anyway, why refuse to show identification? Is the cost of cooperating with the police really so great? (Keep in mind you’ve already given up anonymity by swiping your card to gain access.) Would you feel as safe working late in the library if you did not know that there was a staff member making sure that every library patron was actually a student? Even if showing your UCID to staff is some invasion of privacy, isn’t it worth the enhanced security?

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» DEAR ANDREW, I’m genuinely thrilled that we can agree that the argument-byanecdote that these types of discussions seem to always devolve into is unproductive. I would argue in fact that such arguments are destructive, serving only to further polarize both sides. Our agreement, I regret to say, ends with your analogy. It is reasonable—so says the Supreme Court and I happen to agree—for a police officer to demand an ID if he has reasonable suspicions of wrongdo-

it was a young, black male being arrested, the UCPD must have had a good reason for arresting him; thus, many students returned to studying without questioning the scene they had just witnessed. I’m upset because this arrest is not an isolated event—it points to an underlying climate of racial distrust on our campus (and, unfortunately, a racial distrust that permeates much of our society at large). At the forum Tuesday night, many students shared their own stories of being racially profiled by the UCPD, but it wasn’t until after the forum that one of my close friends told me her

own recent encounter with a UCPD officer, who flashed his headlights and told her that she and a group of Hispanic friends “needed to leave soon” while waiting for a shuttle in front of a dorm one night. No student should have to put up with such behavior from our own University police. More students should speak out about what they saw on the A-level, because such treatment of minority students perpetuates a distrust that harms everyone, regardless of race. — Anna Akers-Pecht is a second-year in the College and a MAROON Copy Editor.

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» DEAR MATT,

EARNESTLY AWAITING YOUR REPLY, ANDREW

It’s time for other witnesses to speak up

ing. A traffic stop is an example of this. But if an officer were to ask me for a state-issued ID without stating any cause, then I think I would decline (if I had any guts). Such a situation is different, though, from one in which a university police officer asks for a university ID on university grounds, which seems quite reasonable. By accepting this ID we agree to present it “on demand,” after all. Does that mean it’s all Dawson’s fault? No, of course not. What it does mean is that he can perhaps take some responsibility for the situation, without, it’s worth adding, excusing any police misconduct that might have occurred. In other words, I think I agree with you: He should have presented his ID upon the officer’s request. My guess—and let me emphasize guess—is that Dawson was asked by the police officer to show his ID, and Dawson assumed some sort of racial animus, made this apparent, if not by words, by actions and by tone, and that this set the officer off. This is what, it seems to me, occurred with Henry Louis Gates. Instead of focusing on how to stop all these supposedly racist cops, we need to talk about breaking such a cycle: dropping the assumption of racism and ensuring that police officers don’t criminalize disrespect, perceived or real.

I’m not sure that I understand your point of disagreement about my traffic-stop comparison; it seems to be quite similar to the A-level incident. In both cases, the officer is entitled to quell his suspicion by verifying Dawson’s identity, and my view—albeit layman—is that he doesn’t have a justification to refuse in either case. Of course, the applicability of my comparison depends on the officer actually requesting Dawson’s identification, admittedly a point of dispute. If the police officer merely ordered Dawson to “come with me,” should he still have refused? Doubtful. To be frank, I’m embarrassed by several things about this incident: first, that a student thinks that breaking library rules is acceptable

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Resisting arrest is different from civil disobedience POINT–COUNTERPOINT continued from page 5 because everyone else is; second, that these students refused Ms. Franco’s direction to keep it down, despite her warning of police involvement (Ms. Franco’s explicit warning—supported by witness reports—effectively destroys Dawson’s later claim that he didn’t know why he was being asked to leave); third, that students think they have an inherent right to be in the library regardless of their illicit conduct (Do I have a right to work out at Ratner if I am too loud?); and fourth, that a student would physically resist arrest just because he thought the arrest was unmerited. Each of these is apparently undisputed by witness reports, and each is contrary to my ideal of intellectualism. There exist grounds for disobeying unjust police requests—most notably, in the course of civil disobedience. Dawson lost whatever moral superiority he had when he resisted this arrest. A TOUT À L’HEURE, ANDREW

» DEAR ANDREW, Fair enough about the analogy. I think looking back, I may have been a bit too nitpicky with it. I’m surprised, though, that you’ve saved all of your embarrassment for Dawson, and none for the police officer. You ask whether Dawson should have refused the officer’s request to “come with me”; I would ask whether the officer should have declined to answer Dawson’s perfectly reasonable reply: “Why?” (You say that his right to ask why was “destroy[ed]” by the clerk’s warning. I disagree. It’s one thing to be told to quiet down by a library employee; it’s quite another thing to be asked to leave by a police officer.) I agree that Dawson—like many of us might have— probably didn’t handle the situation perfectly, but you seem to have no anger for the officer, whose job it is to handle such situations. Couldn’t the situation have been avoided if only the officer had been more forthright? Did Dawson’s noise, which by most accounts was not notably loud for the A-level, really merit his removal from the building?

Yes, Dawson shouldn’t have resisted arrest (if indeed it’s true that he did). But should he have been arrested? I think you need to engage that question as well.

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YOURS, MATT

» DEAR MATT,

Gives you a break with the

The reason the officer’s alleged impropriety doesn’t embarrass me as much is that I am not a fellow UCPD officer, whereas Dawson is my fellow student. The question “Why [must I leave]?” can be interpreted as either “Under whose authority am I being requested to leave?” or “On what basis am I being asked to leave?” Both answers are obvious: “On the property owner’s authority” and “For refusing to follow library rules.” If Dawson thought discrimination was afoot, he should have simply complied and then filed a complaint of disparate treatment with University administrators ex post. We don’t know how forthright the officer was in this situation, do we? After all, the UCPD says Dawson was asked for his identification, but witnesses dispute this. Hence, it’s difficult to say whether or not Dawson or the officer acted improperly. My points earlier were based on facts that I thought were undisputed. Regarding Dawson’s unfortunate arrest, the statute is clear: “A person who knowingly resists or obstructs the performance by one known to the person to be a peace officer . . . of any authorized act within his official capacity commits a Class A misdemeanor” (720 ILCS 5/31-1(a)). So, yes, for refusing the officer’s lawful request that he leave, Dawson should have been arrested. THIS HAS BEEN FUN, ANDREW

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT MARCH 5, 2010

ACADEMY AWARDS2010 by Michelle Welch

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

* Penélope Cruz, Nine * Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air * Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart * Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air * Mo’Nique, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire

win because she’s got many more nominations coming in the future. Mirren is just filling out the requisite “English and regal” nomination archetype.

ACTOR * Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart * George Clooney in Up in the Air * Colin Firth in A Single Man * Morgan Freeman in Invictus * Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker

Early into the Oscar season, Anna Kendrick broke out from the Twilight shadows opposite George Clooney in Up in the Air and seemed destined to wow the Academy with her strong turn as a corporate upstart. Then the Precious train rolled in and despite mixed reviews for the film, Mo’Nique, most commonly known as a comedienne, talk show host, and TV actress, emerged as the award-winning favorite with her powerful role as a stridently negligent and abusive mother to Gabourey Sidibe (nominated in the lead category). Vera Farmiga, always brilliant, had no chance with Anna Kendrick overshadowing her. Penelope Cruz snuck in, but Nine bombed with critics and audiences alike--plus she won last year in the same category. Look to dark horse Maggie Gyllenhaal as a potential upset.

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Jeff Bridges has emerged as the favorite after recently scooping up a Critics’ Choice Award and Golden Globe, but don’t count out George Clooney, who was the early favorite, as the Academy digs actors looking into their own depths. Jeremy Renner is the potential upset, as he is the life of The Hurt Locker and gives a fearless performance that will earn him coveted roles in the future. Colin Firth has his first nomination here playing a troubled homosexual planning to commit suicide. It’s a meaty role that just doesn’t have the buzz that veteran Bridges has, and Firth lacks Clooney’s popularity. Morgan Freeman, we’re sorry. You aren’t even within reach of an upset.

ANIMATED FEATURE

* Coraline * Fantastic Mr. Fox * The Princess and the Frog * The Secret of Kells * Up

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Anybody who a) saw Inglourious Basterds or b) paid any attention to the awards season buzz knows that nobody is going to steal this win from Christoph Waltz. Nobody.

ACTRESS * Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side * Helen Mirren in The Last Station * Carey Mulligan in An Education * Gabourey Sidibe in Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire * Meryl Streep in Julie & Julia Even though Sandra Bullock has the momentum going into Sunday, and deep down I know the Academy is going to probably give her the Oscar for a role in a hokey crowd-pleaser like The Blind Side, I simply refuse to boldface her name as the winner. I can’t do it. Meryl Streep’s turn as Julia Child was charming and layered. It was Meryl doing what she does best: being the greatest living actress. It’s a shock that this is her 16th nomination, and yet she only has two wins. She hasn’t won an Oscar for two decades. Gabourey Sidibe gave a moving and visceral performance in Precious, but it’s probably not in the cards for her. Carey Mulligan is the fresh face that won’t

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ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY * The Hurt Locker, by Mark Boal * Inglourious Basterds, by Quentin Tarantino * The Messenger, by Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman * A Serious Man, by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen Inglourious Basterds is one of the strongest original stories to come along lately. It’s inventive, provocative, hilarious, and multilayered. But then again, so is A Serious Man, which I loved mostly for its story rather than as a whole cinematic package. I’m really happy with either winning at this point, but I think Tarantino could walk away with this one, depending on how much the Academy still loves him. The other story here is Mark Boal’s screenplay for The Hurt Locker, which has come under fire only this past week with claims emerging that Boal did not properly credit an army sergeant as the inspiration for the story. This late-season, anti-Hurt Locker conspiracy that has materialized could really dent the film’s chances, particularly in the screenplay category. Up could be the upset, despite its lazy, uninspired screenplay.

DIRECTOR

SUPPORTING ACTOR * Matt Damon, Invictus * Woody Harrelson, The Messenger * Christopher Plummer, The Last Station * Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones * Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

the statue, but I don’t see it happening. Personally, I found In the Loop to be an absolutely fantastic film and completely under-recognized this season, so I wouldn’t mind a surprise win there, but I’m pretty confident that I’ve boldfaced the winner here.

* James Cameron, Avatar * Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker * Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds * Lee Daniels, Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire * Jason Reitman, Up in the Air It's a three-person race again with Cameron, his ex-wife Bigelow, and back-in-the-game QT. Cameron made a hammy sci-fi romance that was beyond problematic and overly recognized, but he’s got that revolutionary 3-D thing going for him, along with a track record of great films. But he did win for the last film he made, and the Titanic afterglow died out over a decade ago. Bigelow made a gut-wrenching thriller and could be the first woman to win the Best Director Oscar. Tarantino is a worthy and deserving choice, and this could be one of those all-encompassing wins that honors the whole body of his work, but it’s mostly a competition between the former spouses. And again, poor Jason Reitman. Everyone told him he would win this...until all the other movies came out.

Here is where I could rant for 1000 words on why Up isn’t anywhere near as good as Fantastic Mr. Fox, but I’ll keep it to a minimum. Up is a Pixar film, so it has that going for it. Up made tons of money. Up is the frontrunner. The kicker: Up has 15 beautiful, emotional opening minutes, and then devolves into any other common kids’ movie with talking animals. It’s a Pixar film that dropped the ball, and Pixar’s tag is what’s going to win this. Undeserved. The honor should belong to Fantastic Mr. Fox, a film with 87 beautiful minutes.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY * District 9, by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell * An Education, by Nick Hornby * In the Loop, by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche * Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire, by Geoffrey Fletcher * Up in the Air, by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner Poor Jason Reitman. He had so much momentum when early screenings of Up in the Air caused it to surge to the top as the film to beat. And then all the other movies came out. Luckily, Reitman’s screenplay, with roles specifically written for the majority of its cast, has been a lock so far. Precious has potential to be an upset and swipe

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COURTESY OF SUMMIT ENTERTAINMENT

BEST PICTURE * Avatar * The Blind Side * District 9 * An Education * The Hurt Locker * Inglourious Basterds * Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire * A Serious Man * Up * Up in the Air Intuition says to pick Avatar because it already won the Golden Globe. It’s the “king of the world” of cinema, made a shit-ton of money, and critics loved it. However, ask Roger Ebert, and he’ll tell you he loved it but never meant it to be the best movie of the year. Avatar is a film that will be hated in hindsight, and one day everyone will face self-hatred for building it up. But before we can realize the error of our ways, Avatar is probably going to win the damn trophy on Sunday. The Hurt Locker is its closest competition, but the recent controversy involving a producer’s anti-Avatar emails to Academy members could be hurtful to its chances. I would hands-down prefer to see Inglorious Basterds win, because it is a complete package, where films like Avatar and The Hurt Locker had their narrative problems and weaker links.

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Voices STD (Stuff to Do) Friday | March 5 Spanish musician Pedro CarbonĂŠ will be playing a solo concert as part of the Beyond Flamenco: Finding Spain in Music festival, which explores Spanish identity beyond the stereotypes. Antonio MuĂąoz Molina will provide commentary as CarbonĂŠ performs books one through four of Isaac AlbĂŠnizâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Iberia. (Mandel Hall, 7:30 p.m., $5)

Saturday | March 6 Regain faith in the future at the finals for the 10th annual Louder Than a Bomb teen poetry contest. The competition is the largest of its kind in the world and features teams of teenagers reciting poetry, storytelling, and performing spoken-word hip-hop. This yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme is â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Real Chicago Renaissance.â&#x20AC;? (3145 North Sheffield Avenue, 6 p.m., $20) The self-proclaimed â&#x20AC;&#x153;poor manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cirque du Soleilâ&#x20AC;? is back for the latest installment of the El Circo Cheapo Cabaret. The show

at Aloft Loft showcases emerging jugglers, acrobats, clowns, and other circus performers looking for their big break. (2041 West Carroll, 10 p.m., $10)

Sunday | March 7 Learn more about the strange case of spirit photographer William Mumler and the objectivity of photographers at a lecture given by University of Toronto professor Louis Kaplan. In the 19th century, Mumler left his job as a jeweler after he developed a self-portrait that happened to include the apparition of his dead cousin. (Swift 106, 2 p.m., free) Get your arts and culture passport stamped at the Passport to Jazz concert with Reginald Robinson. The concert will tell the tale of those featured in the Oriental Instituteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pioneers to the Past: American Archeologists in the Middle East, 1919-1920â&#x20AC;? along with the founding of the museum. (Oriental Institute, 2 p.m., free)

With Christine Yang

Monday | March 8 After the release of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Icky Thumpâ&#x20AC;? in the summer of 2007, the White Stripes decided to tour Canada by playing a show in each Canadian province. The end result is the film The White Stripes' Under Great White Northern Lights, directed by Emmett Malloy, who followed the band as they played small shows across Canada. The film will be making its debut at the Music Box Theatre. (3733 North Southport Avenue, 7:30 p.m., $9.25)

Tuesday | March 9 Chicago-based band Califone will be performing a live soundtrack to its film All My Friends are Funeral Singers. The experimental, postrock bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s latest film and album is about a psychic woman who lives alone in the woods. (2424 North Lincoln Avenue, 9 p.m., 21+, $18)

Wednesday | March 10 The premise behind the New Colonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of 11:11 is quite straightfor-

ward: A group of Christian summer camp counselors decide to take ecstasy the night before camp starts. However, aside from its more obvious effects, the drug prompts the counselors to question their roles as young leaders and their identities as Christians. (2433 North Lincoln Avenue, 8 p.m., $15)

Thursday | March 11 If you thought cheesy â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s movies starring Emilio Estevez couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get any better, pH Productions is out to prove you wrong. The company dedicated to exposing nontraditional audiences to live theater will be performing the musical version of John Hughesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classic coming of age film The Breakfast Club, which will feature original songs and choreography. (3110 North Sheffield Avenue, 8 p.m., $7)

Have an event youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to see in STD? E-mail christineyang@uchicago.edu.

THEATER

Big Love gets caught in bloody bad romance By Katie Tu Voices Runaway Bride â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fight call!â&#x20AC;? Six bloodstained brides and their accompanying grooms traipse onto the stage andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;quite literallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;start fighting for their lives. While Lady Gaga croons out â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bad Romance,â&#x20AC;? grooms get choked, a piano is smashed, saw pieces are thrown

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at an Andy Warhol picture on the wall, and smashed tomatoes litter the floor. Welcome to UTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s production of Big Love. To clarify, the show is not an adaptation of HBOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hit show Big Love and has nothing to do with Mormons. Charles Mee, a playwright hailing from Evanston, wrote Big Love as an adaptation of the early Greek play The Suppliant Women by Aeschylus. The basic premise features 50 Greek sisters who must be wed off to their 50 Greek cousins due to a pre-marital contract. Meeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adaptation provides a modern context so that the sisters, being the strong and rebellious women that they are, refuse to be confined to their predetermined fate. They escape to Italy where they are eventually chased down by their grooms and then, of course, all hell breaks loose. Visually, the show is what some of the cast members have called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;technical theater extravaganza.â&#x20AC;? Second-year Evan Garrett, who plays Giuliano, says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ultimately, I think Big Love is a show for the technicians.â&#x20AC;? Working a show that requires blood to be thrown on white wedding dresses each performance posed a difficult challenge for the costume team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of laundry,â&#x20AC;? costume assistant and second-year Molly Fitzmaurice

admits. The production also demanded the use of such dangerous props as knives and saw blades, which added an extra element of â&#x20AC;&#x153;chaosâ&#x20AC;? for the assistant stage manager, first-year Jake Smith. The greatest challenge for Smith during the show is â&#x20AC;&#x153;keeping everyone organized, safe, and alive.â&#x20AC;? Third-year Ellenor Riley- Condit, who plays Lydia, describes the show as an â&#x20AC;&#x153;intense experienceâ&#x20AC;Śa huge bloodbath where people are fighting for their lives. But at the same time, my character actually falls in love and has a different journey from the rest.â&#x20AC;? Th e t a n g l e d t h e m e s o f l o v e a l s o appealed to fourth-year Alli Urbanik, who plays Thyonia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was attracted to this show because it has such a strong story,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea of love in many forms prevailing through the most extreme chaos is provocative and very relevant to todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world.â&#x20AC;? This timeliness, which contrasts with the playâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s classical roots, is emphasized by the soundtrack composed by professional DJ Miles Polaski, who coordinated sound for the show. Polaskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sound design incorporates a wide range of pop music, including Miley Cyrus, songs from Moulin Rouge, and Lady Gaga. With six professionals at the helm of the show, Big Love is on a scale that hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been seen at any other UT production this past year. Assistant Director and secondyear William Bishop says that the difference for Big Love is comparable to the distinction between a political science student and a senator: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The first may be eager and excited, and sometimes they actually might be good at what theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing, but theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still learning, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not yet making massive waves. The second is a professional who actually has the ability to change things.â&#x20AC;? Big Love promises to have the feel of a massive party where everything is just a

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Yours, Hypothetically Dear Language Textbook Writers, I think there comes a point when most beginner-level language students, frantically committing to memory interminable lists of vocabulary, suddenly stop half-flash through an index card and think: Wait. What? Why the hell would I ever have to know the term for “pet grooming salon” in Russian? Are dogs even allowed in Russia? I don’t even know the verbs “to feed” or “to own” a pet, but I’ll damn well be taking my puppy to get shampooed and pruned the next time I’m in Moscow! And why does this Mandarin textbook require me to have such an eerily intimate knowledge of the names of gardening tools? Who even uses machetes any more? That’s a question I can’t answer, as I have not yet learned the Mandarin word for “people.” And why does this Greek textbook think it so very essential that I learn the word for “toilet paper” when a) we barely have reflexive verbs down and b) it’s Greece—I doubt that term is even very relevant there. What I’m trying to say is—and I’d hate to seem short-sighted, learned textbook authors— sometimes it just seems that there is a fundamental lack of prioritization when it comes to your selection of vocabulary. But maybe I’m just bitter because I’m taking Russian 102, I’m on my second 400+ page ($100+) textbook this year, and tomorrow one of the phrases I will be tested on (for my second vocabulary quiz this week) is: “These pants look good on Olya.” There’s a good chance that, should I go to Russia, I will be categorically unable to process basic directions, but will

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Chicago must slow Simpson’s break to advance to Saturday’s second round W. BASKETBALL continued from back page with the Iowa Conference. Back in November, the Maroons beat Coe 64–57 in the Midway Classic final. In addition to their conference tournament final, Simpson and Coe also met twice in the regular season with each team prevailing on its home court. The Storm also present a challenge in that they play a style that is almost exactly the opposite of Chicago’s. While the Maroons have built their success on a foundation of strong field goal defense and rebounding, Simpson’s main asset is a prolific fast break offense. The Storm rank ninth in the nation in scoring offense at 77.1 points per game and fifth in assists with 17.2 per contest. While their defense is only mediocre in most statistics, Simpson compensates for that by forcing frequent mistakes from their

opposition. They rank third nationally with 15.8 steals per game. Simpson’s standout players are second-year center Stacey Schutjer and fourth-year guard Katie Kitzman, both of whom were named to the All-Iowa Conference first team. Schutjer led the Storm in both points per game (15.3) and rebounds per game (6.4). Kitzman scored 13.7 points per game and proved a lethal longrange shooter by making 42.1 percent of her three-point attempts. Third-year guard Amy Hamilton was named to the second team. If the Maroons defeat Simpson, they face a likely rematch with third-ranked Illinois Wesleyan. The Titans visited Chicago on December 5 when they beat Chicago 64–57. The Maroons led by as many as nine points early in the second half of that game before

the Titans pulled ahead thanks to a 17–2 run. Much like Simpson, Illinois Wesleyan features a potent transition game and a press defense that forces opposing offenses into mistakes. The Titans rank second in scoring offense, first in assists per game, and second in turnover margin and are led by first team all-CCIW selections fourth-year center Christina Solari (13.8 points per game) and third-year guard Hope Schulte (11.7). The Franklin Grizzlies will attempt to play spoiler against the hosts in the opening round. Franklin won the HCAC automatic bid by beating Hanover 80–73 in the conference tournament final. The Grizzlies are led by HCAC Most Valuable Player, Sarah Condra. Condra scored 16.8 points per game and shot 43 percent from beyond the arc.

Maroons hope individual achievement will lead to team success at UAAs TRACK & FIELD continued from back page would be awesome to win it.” The team competition for both the men and the women will probably come down to a battle between the Maroons, Wash U, and Emory. “We only get to see the other teams from our conference a couple times each year, which is rare since most conferences are organized by geography,” third-year hurdler Brian Andreycak said. “Whether you’re facing one of the top runners in the nation or your event is weak, winning and getting the 10 points for the team is the focus.” As the men and women compete in Boston today and tomorrow, the success of the teams depends on the ability of the athletes who have performed well throughout the season to once again deliver.

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Rivalries come to the fore at intramural championships A. G. Goodman Sports Editor Hearts were broken, victors were crowned, and a rivalry continued to grow as the I M championships in basketball, broomball, and indoor soccer took place this week. In what is quickly becoming a classic final match, the broomball championship was decided with a bang Thursday, as the mathematics and statistics grad students came out on top for the third year running, in a closely fought match against a team composed of biology graduate students. The aptly named Denominators eked out a 1–0 victory over the Peptides end the broomball season, which this year featured the added spice of the Chairman’s Cup. The indoor soccer championships came to a close on Sunday, with two close wins to settle the undergraduate titles. For the men’s final, the Vincent Large Roosters defeated Lisa Michelle Satlin 3–2, while in the coed final Voltron triumphed over “Enoq?” by a score of 5–4. For the men’s graduate final the Pritzker Seniors came out best in a high scoring game, defeating The Fury 8–7. In the only match that was not close, the Super Fun Happy Team 2000 took the graduate coed final by shutting out the Histone Hugs 4–0. In the basketball championships, Hoover took the men’s undergraduate final by beating Red Army 49–38 while in the men’s graduate final Illegal Defense required overtime to secure their win over the Pritzker Paeons 44–42. The undergrad men’s independent final was much more of a one-sided affair with All-Campus defeating UXD 63–27, and in the undergrad/ grad coed final the memorable Sucks to be the Only One Naked came out with a 51–42 victory over “212.”

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conference title this weekend.

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As track and field heads to UAAs this weekend, several Maroons hold the top marks among all conference athletes for their events during the indoor season.

55-meter dash Bill Cheng, fourth-year 800-meter run Chris Cheng, first-year

look on running. “I have a really different mentality about running now. I was focusing on things like times and [personal records] rather than focusing on the actual race and trying to push my body as far as it can go,” Lawton said. “In any sport, once you get wrapped up in the side details, you can lose what you love about it. I have goals now, but they’re not as concrete.” At the beginning of this season, it had been four months since her last race, but Lawton quickly established herself as a national contender, running the second fastest time in the nation in the 5000-meter run.

Distance medley relay Chris Cheng, first-year Patrick Offner, fourth-year Tobias Blattler, third-year Harry Backlund, third year

Triple jump Jacob Solus, third-year

Despite being careful not to reinjure her calves, Lawton has also been able to post impressive times in the mile - and 3000meter run. “Once you get injured, you’re hypersensitive to that area,” L awton said. “You have to be careful, but you also have to take chances. If you’re too cautious, you don’t end up pushing the boundaries of your body.” Lawton is but one member of an impressive ensemble of trackand-field athletes. Third-year Stephanie Omueti, also coming back from an injury, is currently seeded first in the conference in the 55- and 200-meter dash. The women’s throwers have domi-

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After getting the news two weeks into the cross-country season that she would not be able to finish the season or even run at all for two months due to a calf injury, third-year Liz Lawton couldn’t imagine that she would be traveling with the indoor track team to today’s conference championship as the favorite in two events. Lawton had a promising beginning to her cross-country season, but unfortunately it was cut off before she was able to capitalize on the hard work she had put in over the summer.

“Two weeks into the season I had to pull out,” Lawton said. “I finished fifth in a huge all division invitational and after that I had to take eight weeks of no running. It wasn’t the most depressing thing that’s happened to me, but it was a heartbreaker. We had a really amazing cross-country team and it was tough to not be a part of that.” After taking two months off to let her calf recover, Lawton began training again with cautious intensity, finding ways to push herself physically without reinjuring herself. After arduous months of watching her team compete from the sideline, Lawton has developed a new out-

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Maroons that have fought back from injuries to compete for the

55 & 200-meter dash Stephanie Omueti, thirdyear 3000 & 5000-meter run Liz Lawton, third-year

n a t e d a l l s e a s o n . Fo u r t h - y e a r Claire Ray currently has the farthest weight throw in the nation by about a meter. She is joined by third-year Kristin Constantine and fourth-year Nicole Murphy at the top of our conference. In addition, Paige Peltzer, who broke the school record in the high jump in her last meet, will defend her position at the top of the conference. “I’m feeling really good about the challenge UAAs are going to present,” Peltzer said. “Right now I know of three other girls who can jump right around where I’m at in high jump. It depends on who has a good day or not, but it

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Weight throw Claire Ray, fourth-year High jump Paige Peltzer, second-year

Shot put Nicole Murphy, fourth-year

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Maroons prepare to meet Simpson in first round of NCAA play By Ryan Tryzbiak Associate Sports Editor

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The time for worrying about regional rankings, selection committees, and all the other aspects of that pseudo-science known as “bracketology” is over. Now, performance is all that matters for women’s basketball. The Maroons were selected on Monday to appear in the NCAA tournament for the second time in three years and just the third time in program history. Chicago last made the tournament in 2008 when they beat St. Thomas and St. Norbert to reach the Sweet Sixteen. If this year’s team is to replicate that performance, the Maroons will first have to defeat Simpson (22–5) today. The Storm earned their sixth

straight tournament berth when they won the Iowa Conference’s automatic bid by defeating Coe 65–61 in Saturday’s conference tournament final. The winner of the Chicago–Simpson game will play either host institution Illinois Wesleyan (26–1) or Franklin (21–6) tomorrow. On paper, the Maroons appear unlikely to advance out of this regional, considering that they have the worst winning percentage of the four teams. However, Chicago’s record looks more impressive in light of the fact that each of their six losses came to another tournament team and four of them came against top-ten ranked opposition. If nothing else, the Maroons should be prepared for the level of competition

they will face in the tournament. Preparing for Simpson specifically might be more difficult. Today’s game will be the first ever between the two programs. However, Chicago is not entirely unfamiliar

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