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Report on student arrest outlines policy changes

By Asher Klein News Editor The University apologized over the February arrest of fourth-year Mauriece Dawson and announced a s e r i e s o f p o l i c y ch a n g e s t o prevent a similar incident in an announcement Friday.

Addressed to the University community and in part a response to a March 2 open forum on the arrest, the announcement contained a somewhat detailed report on Dawson’s arrest in Regenstein Library and the month-long investigation that followed. It indicated the University police (UC P D) officer who arrested Dawson was suspended from the force, and that Dawson may not face criminal charges.

The Alliance for Student and Community Rights (A S C R), a

working group of concerned students that organized the night of the open forum, has stayed involved with the investigation and are drafting a response to the announcement that was unavailable as of press time. ASCR met with administrators as they were drafting the report; the group issued a list of demands to the administration Saturday. Students privy to the demands told the Maroon the report addressed them in part.

Chief among the announced policy intiatives are the creation of a code of conduct for the Libraries; a new, independent official to review complaints made against the U C P D; and official and regular communication between the UCPD and various groups across campus.

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DISCOURSE

RESEARCH

Durbin: Chinese economy rising

UTEP gets federal grant

China's investors besting America's in third world, senator says

By Al Gaspari News Staff Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) cast doubt on America’s place in the global economy in the face of a rising China at a talk yesterday in the Cloister Club.

Durbin s aw his experiences from a recent visit to Ethiopia as exemplary of China’s success in the international economy. According to Durbin, Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis responded to a question about the American and Chinese presences in Africa by say-

ing, “With all due respect, you’ve given up on Africa. The Chinese invest in Africa.”

Woldegiorgis also said, “[The Chinese] are prepared for that day when we have an emerging middle class and a market for their goods,” Durbin said.

Durbin contrasted the strategy of Chinese businesses, who win contracts by offering low bids in the hopes of collecting greater returns on investments later, with that of American companies. “We have no plan or coordination in expanding our presence,” he said.

In response to a question, Durbin explained that investment, not charity, should defi ne the United States’ strategy in Africa. “We are

committed to development assistance. It defines who we are that we are caring for the poorest in the world…but we should be talking about how we should be investing capital in these parts of the world,” he said.

Durbin recounted his first trip to the Soviet Union, another communist superpower, during the 1970s.

Bored, he ducked out of a meeting and took to the streets of Moscow.

“I noticed a long line—about two blocks long—in front of a shop,” Durbin said.

“This shop had just received a shipment of toilet paper. People were coming in with twine to buy 100 rolls of toilet paper,” he

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By Ella Christoph News Editor Th e U n i v e r s i t y o f C h i c a g o U r b a n Te a c h e r E d u c a t i o n Program (UTE P) received an $11.6 million federal grant last week allowing it to quadruple its class size, certify teachers in mathematics and science, and improve its curriculum and recruitment.

The grant was awarded by the U.S. Department of Education to support initiatives that help struggling schools by improving teacher training.

“This is a really promising signal from the federal government about our model and its capacity to train high–quality teachers for urban schools,” Kavita Kapadia Matsko, associate professor and director of UTEP, said in a press release.

The UTEP curriculum focuses on Chicago and public schools in

other urban areas in an effort to prepare teachers specifically for those environments. Matsko said in an interview.

The grant will expand the program from its current class size of 15 students to 60 students per year. Because of the postgraduate support program, UTEP will be working with 300 teachers each year after five years.

Ninety percent of UTEP graduates continue to teach after three years, far above Illinois and Chicago averages, a press release said. The program, which grants masters degrees to its graduates, includes one year of preparation prior to a yearlong residency program in the classroom. After being placed in a school, teachers continue to receive support from the program for three years.

This “residency model” drew the interest of the Department of Education.

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AWARDS

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Trustee liaison wins Truman scholarship Ellen Dunn News Contributor

Senator Dick Durbin speaks on China's global economic presence at the Clositer Club yesterday. The event was organized by the Chicago Society.

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Third-year Greg Nance was a w a r d e d a H a r r y S . Tr u m a n Scholarship Tuesday for his work on incorporating financial literacy into public school curricula.

In 2 00 8, Nance founded an RSO called American Investment Fellows, which teaches Chicago Public Schools teens basic investment techniques and the value of saving. The program paired stu-

dents with business professionals and had them compete in teams to build the best mock portfolios.

Th a t p r o g r a m g r e w i n t o Moneythink, which has spread to six Chicago schools and insprired similar groups on 12 college campuses. Moneythink is an after-school program led by U of C student volunteers and focuses more on teaching students basic economic principles and practical financial skills.

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ACADEMICS

Durbin: Health care, energy, education must fuel economy

Deans meet with CMES students concerned over associate director's dismissal

By Adam Janofsky Associate News Editor Administrators met with Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) students on Friday in an effort to address lingering negative feelings regarding the dismissal of CMES Associate Director Rusty Rook three weeks ago.

Rook, the main overseer of a $2.9 million Department of Education grant proposal that provides much of the Center’s funding, was fired two weeks before the grant’s deadline. CMES faculty scrambled to finish the grant and successfully submitted it on time, but remained puzzled by the administration’s firing decision.

Dean of the Humanities Martha Roth and Dean of the Social Sciences John Mark Hansen went over student concerns with a panel of six CMES graduate students and answered questions about Rook and the future of the CMES from audience members.

Many CMES students were particularly troubled by the way administrators acted in the aftermath of Rook’s firing. “The deans of students are the first point of contact between students and administration but…there hasn’t been any direct communication,” said panelist Neeraj Malhotra, a CMES graduate student who called for more administrative transparency. “We want to know with confidence that [the administration] is aware of what the students are concerned with.”

Malhotra said e-mails and phone calls

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to administrators did not receive responses.

However, the deans said dozens of “copy-andpasted” e-mails were received and were later responded to as a whole.

Although students persisted in searching out the reasons behind Rook’s dismissal, which they allege came suspiciously close to the grant’s due date, the deans continued to call it a “personal issue not to be commented on.” They assured students there was no ill intent against the Center, however. “The firing was what it was, without any plan for anything,” Roth said.

But panel member Will Kent mentioned that the Humanities Department nominated Rook for an administrative excellence award in 2005. “We find it difficult to match that kind of support from your office with [Rook’s] termination,” Kent said to Roth.

Roth responded by saying that the nomination was from several years ago and that it is unreasonable to think the University no longer supports CMES because of Rook’s firing. “Remember the grant was submitted not by Rook but by the faculty…with the full support of the division,” Roth said.

Although administrators made an effort to answer questions about CMES, some students were disappointed by the answers they gave. “[The meeting] didn’t really accomplish anything; they were so defensive,” said one CMES student who asked that his name be kept confidential.

“And our biggest concerns, like Rook’s firing, were brushed off.”

The time it takes teachers to learn the trade may go down, Matsko said.

The University will reduce program tuition and teachers will receive a $20,000 living stipend funded by the grant during their residency. The stipend is meant to offset some of the costs of the program, which is longer than other teacher certification programs.

Ultimately, UTE P hopes to form a network of graduates to serve as expert teachers mentoring current students— what Director and clinical professor of the Urban Education Institute (UEI) Tim Knowles described as a “human capital pipeline which is vertically integrated.”

Knowles said that the grant would make a significant impact, not just on the UTEP program, but also on the students

Hyde Parkers toast City Council vote that declares Chicago one of the fairest (traders) of them all who will one day learn from graduates of the program. “It’s an extraordinarily important grant in the sense that the most important thing for the improve ment of the trajectory of children’s l i v e s i s t h e q u a l i t y o f t h e t e a c h e r s .”

According to Knowles, one of the strengths of UTEP’s grant application was its in-depth description of plans to analyze the success of the program.

Some of those metrics include analyzing student test scores, observing teachers in the classroom, and evaluating student work. UTE P, which is part of the U E I, will be working with the Consortium on Chicago School Research to research the effects of the program.

“Ultimately what we really want to do is understand the extent to which our students are learning more,” Knowles said.

Nance is fourth U of C Truman scholar in five years TRUMAN continued from front page Nance, who serves as the undergraduate liaison to the Board of Trustees, has long been interested in education reform and financial literacy. He began to learn about finance when he was 14, working with his father to invest his college fund. “The University of Chicago soon took [all the profits] back,” Nance said.

Nance learned of the award Tuesday after Dean John Boyer called him into his office. Nance called his mother, who was driving to work on a Seattle Freeway and started crying in joy. “It was a great way to start the day,” Nance said.

tives: health care, energy, and education.

The health care bill that just passed will control health care costs, Durbin said, and he advocated for economics-based solutions, rather than government mandates, for energy and education. He endorsed cap-and-trade to reduce carbon emissions and suggested that financial incentives could motivate states to improve their schools.

Though he stressed their importance at home, Durbin tied domestic issues back to global ones. “These are the three things our president is leading us on to develop our economic potential. But we don’t have a plan for our economy like the Chinese,” he said.

Durbin also discussed immigration reform, advocating a path to citizenship—learning English, paying taxes, and prioritizing legal immigrants—for the 12 million undocumented aliens currently living in the U.S. Durbin also explained an immigration reform project of his called the Dream Act. “The Dream Act says, if you came to the US before the age of 16, graduated high school, and are without a criminal background, if you serve in the military or complete two years in college, you have a path to citizenship,” he said. It has not yet passed Congress in several attempts, and Durbin expressed an urgent hopefulness that it will do so soon.

“We need Republican support. It has to be this year,” he said.

The event was hosted by the Chicago Society.

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said. “This is what happens with a planned economy when the government tries to decide how much toilet paper people can buy,” he said.

But Durbin saw China’s global position as different than that of Russia. “So I saw the line in the snow in Moscow as the failure of central planning, but it appears that there is another type of planning going on now,” Durbin said, referring to China’s long-term investment planning.

Compounding America’s problem of competing with China, Durbin said issues at home would make improving the international role of the U.S. more difficult. The recession removed $17 trillion from the economy, he said, but he insisted that the benefits of the government stimulus package passed in 2008 to combat the recession outweigh the problems of the deficit. With an even split between safety nets, infrastructure, and tax breaks and a cost of $1 trillion, the stimulus put $5 trillion back in the economy, Durbin said.

He emphasized a need for a consumer protection agency to prevent abusive practices and regulation of the derivative market to prevent future crashes. He also said that the bill may not pass easily. “It is hard to imagine that, after what we’ve been through in our economy, the banks and financial institutions have the influence that they do,” he said.

Durbin also discussed his and President Obama’s three main domestic initia-

Nance joins a long list of Truman scholars from the U of C, including four in the past five years. According to Boyer, the public policy focus of the scholarship provides a counterbalance to the University’s theory-based reputation. “I especially admire his ability to blend scholarly theory with real-world problems,” Boyer said.

The Truman Scholarship is a $30,000 prize awarded to juniors who show a commitment to public service. This year, 576 nominees were narrowed down to 60 winners. Nance plans to use the award for postgraduate work in either business or education policy.

By Kayley Ingalls News Contributor Fifteen Fair Trade supporters celebrated the passing of a Chicago Fair Trade Resolution with fair trade coffee, chocolate, and a talk at the Chicago Public Library in Hyde Park Saturday.

The Resolution, which declares Chicago a Fair Trade city and will make it more Fair Trade-friendly, passed unanimously in the Chicago City Council on February 10.

The talk was delivered by Cindy Pardo, coowner of The Fair Trader in Hyde Park.

Pardo was excited at the new business the Resolution may generate for the store. “I think it will increase awareness of Fair Trade and people’s understanding of how business affects people throughout the world,” Pardo said. “It acknowledges that Fair Trade is important and says that Chicago is savvy enough and aware enough to support this way of doing business.”

Pardo emphasized the importance of sustainability in the movement. “We want to

empower people to run their own lives [by creating] opportunities for Fair Trade artisans to continue what they’re doing,” Pardo said.

The program supports marginalized demographics; of producers participating in Fair Trade, 76 percent are women and 19 percent have either HIV or a family member with HIV, according to Pardo.

The Fair Trade movement aims to connect producers in developing countries with the American and European markets while promoting better trading conditions like higher pay and sustainability. Wholesalers in the United States and Europe visit artisans around the world to advise them about what products will sell best and give them about 50 percent of the value of orders up front.

The Fair Trade Resolution was drafted by 4th Ward Alderman Toni Preckwinkle and the Chicago Fair Trade Association.

Pardo hopes the resolution will bring more business to The Fair Trader, which has suffered since the University sold the Shoreland last year. “We want everyone back; we don’t get the foot traffic anymore,” she said.

CORRECTIONS » Friday’s News article “Acceptance Rate Falls By One Third, Reaching Record Low Of 18 Percent” misstated the University of Pennsylvania’s admission numbers, saying the admission rate was 14 percent, down 17 percent from last year. Rather, the rate is down three percentage points from 17 percent. » The grant requested by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies mentioned in Friday’s News article “CMES Quells Fears, Submits Grant Application In Spite Of Recent Firing” is for $2.9 million, not $600,000. As it is a proposal, funding must be approved by the Department of Education.

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Student group finds "holes" in University report on student arrest DAWSON continued from front page

POLICY RESPONSE TO THE STUDENT ARREST IN THE REG

“We would like to say at the outset that we are deeply sorry for the events of that evening, grateful for the many ways in which campus constituents have contributed to the resulting discussion, and committed to implementing a set of thoughtful institutional changes that will prevent a recurrence,” said the announcement, which was written by Vice-President for Campus Life Kim Goff-Crews, Chief of Police Marlon Lynch, and University Library Director Judith Nadler.

The announcement was contrite over the police officer’s response to Dawson's arrest and said current policies were inadequate in informing decisions as they happened. “At the same time,” the report said, “it is important to recognize that there is shared responsibility: each of the individuals involved in this incident made choices that contributed to an unfortunate escalation of events.” The announcement was posted on the Web site of the Office of Campus and Student Life.

University spokesperson Steve Kloehn said Student Government (SG) and certain student groups have been made aware of the announcement’s existence, although he did not mention ASCR. “We’ve made an effort to make sure that anybody who's expressed concern about it...are aware that that report is up and available now.”

In addition, the two official complainants were told of the decision.

The investigation into the conduct of the officer, whom witnesses identified as Sgt. Eric Grays, determined he failed to explain why he was called to the Library (Dawson and his friends had been making noise on their way to the A-level, apparently upsetting a library clerk), failed to explain why he asked Dawson to leave the Library (witnesses said Grays demanded Dawson leave without explanation), and that he used excessive force in handcuffing Dawson (who was wrestled and pinned to the ground, possibly hitting his head on a desk in the process).

The officer has been suspended and recieved a written reprimand, the report said, and he will undergo further training on how to use force. Kloehn could not identify the officer due to employee privacy issues.

The investigation was led by U C P D Captain Kelvin Pope and conducted by UC P D officers “at the command level,” Kloehn said, although he could not be more specific. In the interest of objectivity, the report said, Lynch brought in Dr. Alex Weiss, a consultant on cases involving racial profiling and a former public safety officer at Northwestern, to examine the evidence.

Twenty-five people were interviewed by the UCPD, according to the report.

The University will enact a number of policy changes and new initiatives based on the investigation (see sidebar), which consisted of an internal Library review besides the UCPD investigation. The report will also act as the basis of a further review conducted by the standing Independent Re v i e w C o m m i t t e e . H o w e v e r , A S C R argues that there are "holes" in the report,

The University announced a number of major policy changes and new initiatives in the wake of the arrest of fourth-year Mauriece Dawson. Other reviews are still pending, and some details have not been fully resolved.

UCPD INITIATIVES An independent position will be created that will review investigations into complaints filed against the UCPD. That position will be supplemented with an Independent Review Committee (IRC) review of the procedure by which community members file complaints against the police.

The UCPD will begin meeting regularly with SG members, black students (through the Office of Multicultural Affairs [OMSA]), students who were at the March 2 open forum, and possibly others, “in order to improve communications, discuss issues of concern, and build trust,” the report said.

according to fourth-year Tsion Gurmu, an ASCR spokesperson. ASCR is advocating that the University do more work “We look forward to seeing and hearing from [President Robert] Zimmer and other people who are in decision–making positions,” Gurmu said.

The report concluded that while library policy was not violated by the clerk who reported Dawson to the UCPD, it needs to be revised. To that end, a number of library bodies will soon approve a draft of a code of conduct “that will help to identify common ground, serve the scholarly mission of the Library, and articulate what constitutes accepted behavior in the University’s libraries,” the report said. The draft will be vetted by the Library Board, staff from the Library and the Office of Campus and Student Life, students on a Library committee, other community members, and finally at an open forum.

The code of conduct is slated to be put in place by the end of spring quarter, the report said, and Library staff will be trained based on its contents. At the March 2 open forum, assistant Library director James Vaughn said any new code would try to respect the Library’s culture.

UC P D initiatives will be aimed at increasing oversight of UCPD review processes and promoting communication with other bodies in the University, including the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA), the report said. A new position, independent of the UCPD but within the Office of Safety and Security, will review investigations into complaints, and a new Deputy Chief of Police will communicate regularly with OMSA. Administrators will attempt to communicate across departments, with UCPD and Campus and Student Life officials working to prevent and mitigate incidents

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like Dawson’s arrest, which will include training staff members on ways to interact with students. Additionally, the UC P D will meet regularly with S G members, black students through OMSA, students who were at the March 2 open forum, and possibly others, “in order to improve communications, discuss issues of concern, and build trust,” the report said. Furthermore, the UC P D will hold speaking events where speakers will lead conversations on racial profiling and police accountability.

However, the report was not clear on how the UCPD would approach racial profiling in the future, a concern raised by many at the March 2 open forum. Though it said “The UCPD abhors the notion of racial profiling and will continue to train its officers not to engage in such profiling,” the report did not mention ending the practice entirely; the report continued: “The department also will continue to work toward better understanding with the community about what constitutes racial profiling and what is the basis of good police work.” Kloehn did not clarify.

Th e a n n o u n c e m e n t a l s o i n d i c a t e d Dawson may not face criminal charges.

Dawson faced two charges, criminal trespass—he allegedly did not produce identification on request—and resisting arrest.

The University said the trespassing charge was dropped in a hearing the day after Dawson’s arrest, which the Cook County Attorney’s Office spokesperson Tandra Simonton confirmed with the Maroon, citing court records.

The University said the second charge would be dropped at a future court date: “The city ordinance-based resisting arrest violation was continued at that time, with a tentative agreement to dismiss that charge at a future court date. That outcome would end the case without any conviction or finding of fact.” Simonton could

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Th e a d m i n i st ra t i o n h a s p l a ce d renewed emphasis on the Dean-onCall program in order to mitigate the severity of similar incidents, as it has done in the past, the report said.

The CSL and Human Resources will organize a “University-wide program for training staff members for interaction with students,” the report said.

CSL will also undertake a review of student’s legal options in the event of a similar incident.

not confirm whether that was true.

Student response has been tempered in those who spoke with the Maroon, although all those who did mentioned they were grateful for the response. “The apology was graciously accepted and definitely appreciated,” said fourth-year Anya Thetford, a College Council representative and member of ASCR. Speaking of AS C R’s response to the report, Thetford said, “It’s not a response to what our demands are, it’s just a response to the incident, but we also presume that when they were writing the report, they were taking our demands into account.”

Gurmu said the report did not address ASCR's demands adequately. “There are a number of points that the report failed to respond to from our list of demands, or fell short of what we asked of them,” she said.

Gurmu said ASCR has been working to represent as much of the student body as possible since it collected names in a notebook at the March 2 open forum. “We’ve been working to make sure that everything we're doing is public and transparent. We want as many students to be involved in this process as possible,” Gurmu said.

Though the administration did not meet many of AC S R’s demands, Gurmu said it was communicative and helpful. “The administration has been pretty cooperative throughout this process. They were ready and willing to meet with us right away.

They talked to us the night of the public forum and we met with Kim [Goff-Crews] and other administrators since that time.

She’s been an excellent resource throughout this process,” she said.

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EDITORIAL

Undue process CHICAGO MAROON

The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892

JORDAN HOLLIDAY, Editor-in-Chief JAKE GRUBMAN, Managing Editor

ASHER KLEIN, News Editor ELLA CHRISTOPH, News Editor EVAN COREN, Viewpoints Editor HAYLEY LAMBERSON, Voices Editor BLAIR THORNBURGH, Voices Editor AUDREY HENKELS, Sports Editor WILL FALLON, Sports Editor A. G. GOODMAN, Sports Editor VICTORIA KRAFT, Head Copy Editor MONIKA LAGAARD, Head Copy Editor HOLLY LAWSON, Head Copy Editor CAMILLE VAN HORNE, Photo Editor MATT BOGEN, Photo Editor JACK DiMASSIMO, Head Designer ABRAHAM NEBEN, Web Editor ADAM JANOFSKY, Assoc. News Editor

U of C students face unnecessary challenges in the law school application process Pursuing a U of C education often means taking on a mind-boggling reading load, rising to lofty writing standards, and actively advocating complex ideas in class discussion.

Although this academic rigor serves us well in many ways, it can be a liability when students apply to law school. But by introducing preparatory measures with precedents at the U of C and peer institutions, the College can substantially improve its students’ odds of getting accepted into top law schools.

First, the College could collaborate with the Law School to create a program analogous to the Business School’s Booth Scholars program, which enables fourth-years to apply for admission to the M.B.A. program. The core ideas of that initiative could also be applied to pre-law students. The University of Michigan and Georgetown already

have scholar programs which allow their students to apply to their law schools on the basis of undergraduate performance alone, without taking the LSAT. Instituting a similar program at Chicago would improve the options available to undergraduates who have excelled here, but might not fare as well on standardized tests.

Second, a better pre-law program would surely include an LSAT prep course similar to the MCAT course currently offered by the Biological Sciences department. Even if the course were only offered on a pass/fail basis, it would save pre-law students time and money.

Prep courses offered by companies can cost more than $1000 and require multiple trips downtown each week. The opportunity to take a University-run course would make getting ready for the highly-important LSAT much easier for Chicago students.

Lastly, because of the way students’ GPAs are recalculated when applying to law school, the College should modify its grading scale to include A-pluses. All law school applicants are required to submit their materials to the Law School Admission Council (LSAC), an organization that compiles and submits their applications wherever they want to apply. Before sending out students’ applications, the LSAC recalculates their GPAs on a standardized scale which weights each A-plus as a 4.33. As a result, students from schools where A-pluses are available have an advantage when applying to top law schools, which place such an overwhelming emphasis on GPAs that few hundredths of a point can make the difference between an acceptance and the wait list. The University could adopt a policy

similar to Princeton’s, which gives A-pluses but weights them the very same as A’s in university-calculated G PAs. This would be a minor change to Chicago’s grading policy, but it would allow students who performed exceptionally in a few courses to benefit when applying to law school.

Whatever the LSAT and GPA numbers that show up on their applications, graduates of the College are eminently prepared to succeed when they move on to law school. By creating a scholars program, providing an LSAT prep course, and allowing A-pluses, the College could more fully ensure that law school admissions committees don’t overlook that.

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

LIAT SPIRO, Assoc. Viewpoints Editor PETER IANAKIEV, Assoc. Viewpoints Editor

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Aggressive ignorance

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ANDREW GREEN, Designer IVY PEREZ, Designer CHRISTINA SCHWARTZ, Designer JESSICA SHEFT-ASON, Designer MATT TYNDALE, Designer

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JORDAN FRANKLIN, Copy Editor DANIELLE GLAZER, Copy Editor LAUREN LARSON, Copy Editor MIRANDA LI, Copy Editor LAUREN MAKHOLM, Copy Editor SAALIKA ABBAS MELA, Copy Editor ALEX WARBURTON, Copy Editor LILY YE, Copy Editor The CHICAGO MAROON is published twice weekly during autumn, winter, and spring quarters.

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If you keep up with the pontifications of American pundits and the boardroom agendas of mass media organizations, you’ll have caught wind in recent weeks of an increasingly petulant brew of news clippings and, point-for-point, news commentary.

It seems the thick “consensus” shine buffed over the cracking ship of state has finally worn off, leaving stark naked the very sutures of the American polity. No longer can we pretend that the American Left has any truck with the main column of the Republican Party or any of its degenerate spinoffs. The

marriage of compromise Obama tried to forge in Washington never reached its one-year anniversary. So now it’s time to make a virtue of necessity, to stop cozying up to a gang of fools and thieves who clamber up the Temple mount, changing money and sticking to a few dumb principles.

If ever there was a time when the patriotic spirit of Jeffersonian democracy fell squarely on the shoulders of the Left, surely this is such a time, when even Jefferson is being erased from our history books. And while it’s no secret that our education system has been for years a key battleground in the so-called “Culture Wars,” few seem to recognize that culture itself is now under assault and insult. Our society is ailing, and while its up-and-coming bloodletters forecast that “the future is

in good hands,” it takes no great acuity to see a much less hopeful picture.

With liberal education reaching the heights of obsolescence, now is precisely the time for its defense—not on the standard of the privileged few, but on the principles of a country that takes seriously its citizens’ education as members of a nation of democratic ideals and aspirations. “Civic” education, like “liberal” education, is a dead letter these days, reserved for the privileged few who draw the spotlight of business-savvy, bonus-busting employers, who realize that corporate image is tied with corporate earnings. Whether “image” hinges on environmental policy, community service, and corporate charity, or general ethos, caring about other people and the world looks great

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The write stuff Defeating writers’ block ultimately comes down to, well, writing

By Alison Howard Viewpoints Columnist In honor of the beginning of a new quarter, I feel it is appropriate to hit you up with some useful scholastic knowledge, or really, life knowledge. More specifically, I would like to offer you guidelines to aid you in the process of overcoming writer’s block, a challenge to both the great artist and

the unexpected hero just trying to get through Hum. Step one: Check your e-mail.

This is a crucial step when beginning your paper, or other written work (such as cover letters, Maroon editorials, and important e-mails). Who knows what inspiration you’ll find in the middle of a movie study break reminder forwarded to the Free Food listhost?

It’s possible you might even find

an e-mail telling you that what you have to write about has been cancelled!

Step two: Check Faceb ook.

Because you probably did not find an excuse not to write your paper while perusing your e-mail, the next logical step is to peruse Facebook. This will mentally prepare you for the task you must do.

While on this Web site, consider

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In the 195 0s and 196 0s, the Confederacy was portrayed in a sympathetic light, both in the north and in the south. Huge numbers of students were simply shuffled off to vocational or technical high schools. Southern blacks remained entirely outside the reach of formal education, even after Brown v. Board of Education. Indeed, the kind of education described in “Damaged Discourse” (4/2/2010) was only ever available to a small minority of students.

The political discourse was also not much improved. Lee Harvey Oswald killed John F. Kennedy amid attacks on Kennedy’s religion, birth, and claims that Kennedy was a soviet agent destroying America. The idea that 1970 was the year in which violence became a political tool is founded on forgetfulness. Lynching was a political act, and one that was unceasingly employed to fight against civil rights activists since the end of Reconstruction. Political violence has a long history in the U.S. Against this backdrop, civility became not a virtue but a vice.

The unending calls for moderation and understanding when the United States engaged in an illegal and horrific war in Indochina were calls for compromises with evil.

When it came to civil rights, the calls for moderation were no less pernicious in their intention. By creating a common narrative of U.S. history that whitewashed slavery, ignored the labor movement, and justified segregation, the education system in the 1950s created a narrative whose believers supported a status quo that was unjustifiable.

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The Right recasts egoism as a political philosophy in Washington, on Wall Street, and on Main Street

Facebook, PostSecret, and endearing conversations with friends ultimately do not help with writing papers

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But while civic education is absent at worst and disfigured at best, these are halcyon days for modular education, the call-and-response model of learning. When else could a President infamous for his own intellectual poverty succeed in carving an Ark of a pedagogic vision—named No Child Left Behind—that guarantees a spot to everyone provided, of course, that they follow just one commandment: learn how to provide the correct answers to the correct questions.

Education is tanking, and yet our politicians seem bent on emulating China, on boosting math and science scores to “make America competitive,� when so many Americans lack even basic reading comprehension. Students compete for schools, and schools compete for students—and funding. How can citizens make informed decisions when they are under-equipped to evaluate the arguments of political demogagues, when Tocquevillian democracy appears a mere mirage?

Long past is the time when Left and Right agreed on core values for democratic discourse and practice, kept sacrosanct against the whims of popular fashions and the threats of political sloganeering. Today the slogans are pretty much all that remain. The bleating chorus of Bill O’Reilly– styled vituperation, full of “Liberty,� “Freedom,� “America,� “Terror,� “Socialism,� “Barack Hussein Obama,� etc.—betrays a politics suited for the kind of people only dreamed up on the chalkboards of ad agencies. And as much as words like “Liberty� have lost their sense, ripped out of the history of our people and their social struggles, they have gained new meanings as ready-made labels for a people that has lost its sense of humor, adrift on a sea of literality. In their over-literalism, critics of climate change cheer when the mercury drops, so crude is their notion of “global warming� and the signs they take for wonders to confirm it.

Or to cite another example, I recently came upon an Amazon.com review of a book that taught philosophical concepts using jokes. The reviewer claimed, “I could never give communist propaganda any more than one star. I wouldn’t want someone who values freedom to fund communism in any way. That’s why I’m glad I didn’t buy this book, but rather checked it out from the library.� The reviewer proceeded to cite a “blatantly communist passage,� which read: “Under capitalism, man exploits his fellow man. Under communism, the opposite is true.� Not only had the reviewer badly missed the joke, but he also made a joke of himself, citing neo-liberal writers for heroes and cheering himself for obtaining a public library–issued copy, rather than promoting communism by participating in capitalist commodity exchange.

Small-mindedness is on the rise. Old guard-

ians like moderate Republican Justice John Paul Stevens (a graduate of this institution and former editor of the Maroon) are on the way out, replaced by folks like John Roberts and Samuel Alito who have no scruples trampling over the constitution and strangling the country with simple ideological directives. It is not that there is suddenly contention today; there always has been. But today the very forum of contention is dissolving as the Right commits either with John McCain to “no further cooperation this year,� or with Sarah Palin to a politics of warfare.

The ideology of the Right today does violence to the possibility of democracy and the values of a healthier, more just society. They display a remarkable consistency of principle from Washington to Wall Street to Main Street America: miserliness.

But it isn’t just Scroogism. Unlike the good liberal gentlemen of whom Dickens wrote in the throes of the industrial revolution, today the Right in general has managed to copy the surliness and angst of adolescence—egoism—and mold it into a moral compass. It seems its ranks now include not only runt-of-the-mill racists and bigots coughed up by the FOX News era, but also the crudest effluent left oozing from the MTV generation.

Take Keli Carender, unofficial founder of the Tea Party movement according to the New York Times, who exemplifies this movement with picturesque flourishes of theatricality.

In a video viewed 68,000 times on YouTube, she confronted Representative Norm Dicks (D-WA) at a town-hall-style meeting on health care. “If you believe that it is absolutely moral to take my money and give it to someone else based on their supposed needs,� she said, waving a $20 bill to boos and cheers, “then you come and take this $20 and use it as a down payment on this health care plan.�

According to the Times, Carender never engaged in politics before participating in the 2008 presidential campaign. Confident in her sophomoric understandings, Carender fits with the superlative she bears in the movement.

Although a good model for its thought, she is not its first militant. That honor goes to Sarah Palin, with her injunction, “Don’t retreat, reload� and for the not-so-subtle images on her Facebook page of rifle crosshairs aimed at the heads of prominent Democratic politicians. Death threats and other almost-forgotten modes of political expression are starting to surface, making us wonder what kind of rebarbative measures will come next.

A year ago it was fashionable to talk about anti-Intellectualism in American culture; now we must size up its more troubling bedfellow, proIgnorance. And it is a mighty foe. What’s more, it’s dangerous.

activities like searching for your professor or TA—bonus points if he or she has a horrible profile picture and is looking for “friendship,� “dating,� “a relationship,� and “networking�—and Facebook chatting for an hour and half with that kid in your class (that you have literally never talked to before, in real life) about how unreasonable your teacher is for assigning a 6–8 page midterm.

Step three: Check PostSecret, because this is all probably taking place the Sunday before your paper is due. Laugh at the ridiculousness of the despair of these anonymous people, which pales in comparison to the despair you feel now that you only have 18 hours left to start and finish your assignment. Briefly consider sending in a postcard, but decide to get back to work, or rather, get started on work.

Step four: Check your e-mail again, just in case.

Step five: Decide that you’re really going to get started now.

Step six: Talk to your roommate about your shared love of Madeleine L’Engle ‘s children’s books. Briefly consider writing a children’s book. Realize that you can’t even write this stupid paper.

Step seven: Prevent yourself from logging into Facebook again. Step away from your computer for your own good.

Step eight: Write a detailed outline of your paper, longhand, starting with your

thesis statement.

Wait, what? Was step eight actually work?

Yes, my friends, it was. Because if this is actually going to be an editorial about overcoming writer’s block, I decided that at some point I should probably write something to that effect.

You see, as far as I can tell, the only way to get over writer’s block is to start writing.

This requires, for the most part, getting off-line and out of the mind-set that your task is impossible and just writing something.

Then you can go back later and make that something into a coherent argument of sorts—you know, something passable—and not feel too horrible about what you have written.

That’s why I would generally recommend, as the ultimate prevention technique for writer’s block, that you start your paper early. This will give you time to procrastinate guilt-free, and thus avoid that soul-sucking oscillation between despair and steely resolve to make an effort (not to mention, if you actually get your paper done fairly early, you’ll have time for revision). Because, while writer’s block is a deceptively simple thing to overcome, vanquishing it does not always mean a decent paper is in the works.

But it does mean that you can at least write a paper, so that’s good news. — Alison Howard is a second-year in the College majoring in English.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT APRIL 6, 2010

MUSIC

THEATER

Newsom's quirks charm Chicago

Students crank out drama with 24-hour plays

By Jordan Larson Voices Harp-ee Joanna Newsom’s performance at Vic Theater this past Saturday night was a successful end to her tour for her new album, Have One On Me. Newsom’s music, a surprisingly enthralling mix of harp, piano, and romantic imagery, sold out the venue. Despite the unforeseen absence of the opening act, Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes, the show was genial and relaxed, with Newsom and her band often joking and talking with the audience between songs.

One might expect many of Newsom’s songs to lack cohesion when played live due to their great intricacy—the layering of instrumentation and Newsom’s own complicated vocals. However, Newsom’s voice was just as eerie, high-pitched, and charismatic as on her records and served as the centerpiece for each song.

And if anything, the diversity of instrumentation in Newsom’s music was made more evident and impressive by the live performance. The percussionist, guitarist, violinists, and trombonist each held their own while still complimenting Newsom, who played both harp and piano.

Despite, or perhaps b ecause of, the extreme popularity of her 2006 album Ys, Newsom stuck primarily to material from Have One On Me and even played more songs from her 2004 album The Milk-Eyed Mender. In fact, she didn’t play much at all from Ys. This successful departure from her most well-known album indicates the talent and sincerity that Newsom brought to her stage performance. While Have One On Me still echoes the song structure and enigmatic imagery of Ys, it is not a mere rehashing.

The abundance of the album’s content (clocking in at nearly 2 hours and 20 minutes), its more autobiographical themes, and greater variation in vocals all contributed to an album distinct from her earlier releases, and the songs translated well from the recording studio to a live performance.

O n s t a g e , t h e b a n d ’ s ch e m i s t r y w a s evident: Newsom was quick to praise her band members and careful not to take all the audience’s attention for herself.

During the performance of “Easy,” which featured only Newsom and her percussionist, Neal Morgan, all eyes were on the performers, yet the band’s expressions were rapt, as if they hadn’t already spent an entire tour with Newsom. The band members’ visible respect was mirrored by the audience, who was equally in awe of Newsom’s presence.

As noted by one of my fellow concertgoers, Newsom’s fans seemed to feel they had a personal connection with her, as if she were playing especially for them.

During the show, Newsom received both a gift and a bouquet of flowers from audience members, the latter given during a spontaneous question session with the band members while Newsom tuned her harp.

Though most of the show’s songs were at least six minutes long, the time never dragged, and it seemed like the concert finished sooner than anyone desired, leaving behind a dazed, captivated, and devoted crowd.

Second-year Nick Bailey brushes his teeth in the tech rehearsal for Denver, one of six plays featured in the 24-Hour Play Festival on April 3 at the Reynolds Club's First Floor Theater.

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By Jake Grubman Voices Nine-to-Five Put together 43 of the University’s most theatric students for the day, and the 24-Hour Play Festival was bound to end up as a mix of loud profanity and sex jokes.

The audience witnessed only the final hour. Before that, it was a race to write, direct, memorize lines, decide on the blocking for each scene, and figure out the sound cues. The final result: six plays that are each approximately 10 minutes long and hopefully

only minimally improvised.

“A lot of people kind of hate them because if you write six plays in the span of 12 hours, not all of them are going to be great,” said third-year Ethan Dubin, co-curator of the festival and actor in one of the plays. “So sometimes you tell someone that does theater ‘Oh, I do 24-hour plays,’ and they look like they’re going to vomit and pass out.”

Dubin and fourth-years Eliot Feenstra, Tamara Silverleaf, and Sara Tamler are decidedly not in that camp. The four curators have been working since the event’s first incarna-

tion in spring quarter of last year to develop the festival each quarter, this time switching to an alley-style stage (with audience on both sides of the performance) and inviting a dramaturge to help the writers through the overnight writing process.

“We really do try to change something every time,” Dubin said. “We very much think of it as an experiment in a laboratory.”

The event started just before 7 p.m. Friday.

The group packed into a classroom in Cobb for auditions, which featured short performances by each of the 19 actors. None of the actors were cut; instead, these performances introduced the actors to the writer-director teams. In one performance, third-year Will Bishop drew laughs with a dramatic reading of the festival’s schedule sheet, while secondyear Claire Stone had the group in fits with her rendition of “Scrubs” by TLC in the form of a classroom lesson plan.

After an “arbitration” meeting in which the writers and directors (teamed together prior to the event) selected their casts of three or four actors, the writers received their prompts—“Missed Connections”—and hustled over to the Woodlawn Collaborative to begin their night of writing. Around 3 p.m., the dramaturge, Chloe Johnston, A.B. ‘99, helped guide a discussion of the scripts to help the writing teams smooth out their pieces.

By the time the script deadline rolled around at 6 a.m., the writers were tuning their pieces as finely as is possible at such an early hour.

“It got very silly, but in a very good, productive way,” Tamler said. “There’s a lot of creativity that comes out at five in the morning that wouldn’t come out at any other time.”

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FILM

Simplicity is key to The Secret of Kells

By Ben Sigrist Voices Lucky Charm In the adult world, the delicate balance between indulging one’s curiosity and staying safe is disproportionately tipped toward the latter. Opposed to this scaredy-cat mentality, The Secret of Kells celebrates the magic and joy of discovery that only a child can know.

Said child is Brendan, a young monk who lives and works in an abbey in the wilderness.

As Brendan goes about his daily tasks, the other monks are preparing for disaster. The Abbot has ordered the construction of a massive stone wall to protect the monks and refugees from ruthless invaders prowling across the countryside.

destruction.

The exotic beauty of the wilderness presents an enticing new world to awe-struck Brendan.

The art of these hand-drawn—yet lush—landscapes is simply gorgeous. An apt comparison could be made to Cartoon Network’s Samurai Jack, another animated work that created lush environments from simple, two-dimensional shapes.

Like Samurai Jack, the animation of The Secret of Kells revels in the two-dimensional space of the screen, sometimes even foregoing three-dimensional perspective to create (aptly enough) scenes resembling stained glass win-

dows or tapestries. In a sense, The Secret of Kells is the ideal anti-3D film—the vibrant creativity of the animation accomplishes what 3-D glasses simply cannot. Dense forests, flowing streams, and brutal barbarians do not need to “pop out” of the screen to be immersive.

While exploring the forest, Brendan meets a young girl with magical powers named Aisling who provides him with much-needed guidance and protection. Together with Aisling, Brendan discovers both the dangers and the wonders that can be found outside the abbey’s walls. This may sound like a fairly

THE SECRET OF KELLS Directed by Nora Twomey Gene Siskel Film Center

However, the Abbot’s plans are disrupted by the arrival of Brother Aidan, a famed traveler who is said to carry a book of powerful secrets. Brendan is enthralled by Aidan and is eventually recruited by the wanderer to help complete his magical manuscript, apparently a work in progress. In order to assist Aidan, Brendan must venture into the woods surrounding the abbey, somewhere the Abbot has forbidden him to go. But with the barbarians literally knocking at the gates, Brendan is caught between his desire to complete the book and his dread of the approaching

Brendan (left) and Aisling (right) play follow-the-leader with their forest animal friends.

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ART

A many-sided man: Matisse in transition

By Jonathan Grabinsky Voices Fauve An artist must be in constant evolution.

French painter Henri Matisse is a perfect example of an artist who was constantly changing and innovating throughout his life as he experimented with different artistic movements. The Art Institute’s new exhibit, Matisse: Radical Invention 19131917, explores what is perhaps the most dramatic era of the artist’s evolution.

MATISSE: RADICAL INVENTION 1913-1917 Art Institute Through June 20

The Matisse that the exhibit repre sents is one that is a departure from his usual repertoire. After his rejection by the French Army during World War I, Matisse redirected his frustration into the development of a new form of artistic invention, focusing less on color and “the spontaneity of the moment” and instead

placing more emphasis on detail, precision, and “re -painting.” Unlike his most p o p u l a r p i e c e s w h i ch d r e w i n f l u e n c e from the Postimpressionist movement, the pieces shown in the exhibit lack soft, animated colors, harmonious patterns, and everyday scenes. The show presents a different Matisse: one influenced by cubism and concerned with geometric exactitude, mechanical drawing, still lifes, and using opaque, dark colors to represent abstract figures.

Th i s c o n t r a s t b e t w e e n h i s e a r l i e r work and his later, more radical period is highlighted throughout the exhibit. The exhibit does an impressive job of demonstrating Matisse’s artistic evolution by placing the paintings he did during his Postimpressionist era next to the work from his later experimental era. The lively, colorful, and spontaneous “Goldfish and Palette,” painted in 1914, is juxtaposed with a redo from 1915 that is more geom e t r i c . Th e n a t u r a l i s t i c a n d c o l o r f u l “Apples” contrasts with his more cubistlike painting “Still Life with Lemons.”

Likewise, Matisse’s innovative style is

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In Matisse's "Bathers with a Turtle," swimsuits are optional.

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Throughout the day, the casts worked to put together their productions, with each team practicing around campus before the tech rehearsals at 4:30 p.m. and, finally, the curtains went up at 8 p.m.

The final products covered a range of topics, from ancient Rome (in Tamler and partner Chris Shea’s “The Cherry Orchard”) to the lab of a modern-day, teeball-player-making mad scientist (in “What Hath Science Wrought”). “The Sperm Dance Commences” provided perhaps the most difficult performing task, telling the story of conception in musical form. While the performances didn’t all line up with the script, third-year director Elle Riley-Condit pointed out one of the main challenges of the 24-Hour Play Festival.

“It’s harder than you think to replace sex jokes with the lyrics to West Side Story,” she said. “Harder than you think.”

Kells keeps it short but sweet SECRET continued from page 6 traditional coming-of-age story, but the beautifully intricate animation compensates for the simplicity of the narrative. I do not have to empathize with Brendan to understand his sense of wonder—the magical world presented on the screen is enough to create the same feeling.

The simplicity of the story should not be counted against the film. This is a children’s movie, after all, so both the narrative and the “message” of the story are necessarily easy for children to understand. The film also reaches only 75 minutes, meaning it could be berated for its brevity. Some could go so far as to claim that it has little to offer besides pretty pictures.

But these criticisms are missing the point. The gorgeous animation captures the beauty of a world waiting to be discovered.

Presented with several lurking dangers, Brendan must decide whether to explore this new realm or to huddle behind the Abbot’s wall. There is no need to spend more time orating or describing the conflict between the wonder and the fear—it is all right there on the screen.

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Style

Chicago Manual of

by Jessica Hester

Florals spring eternal in perennial springtime fashion Everyone knows that April showers bring May flowers—but not just in gardens or window boxes. The spring season has always been the time when stores stock their shelves with floral prints ranging from demure daisies to heavy-duty hibiscuses, and this year the trend seems as prominent as ever.

This enduring trend is popular at price points from couture to chain stores, each with their own spin on the classic. For Spring 2010, high-end design houses like Chanel and Christian Dior showed thighgrazing floral minidresses, and Dolce & Gabbana designed collarless jackets, boudoir-inspired satin shorts, and billowing blouses adorned with blooming peonies.

While the floral print on these garments is rather bold, mid-range chain stores like J. Crew are selling items with more diminu-

Art Institute showcases Matisse's cubist roots with Picasso, Gris MATISSE continued from page 7 placed beside that of other painters as a means to further highlight the cubist influence in his art. The opaque and geometric “Still Life after Jan Davidsz de Heem’s La Desserte” is contrasted with its original “realist” painting from 1640. The cubist influence of his painting “Still Life with Lemons” is highlighted by its placement next to one made by cubist painter Juan Gris. The clever presentation of the pieces, focused on contrasts and similarities between different paintings, demonstrates to the viewer the extent of Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris’s influence on Matisse, as well as on the drastically innovative nature of his “time of invention.”

A less cubist but still spectacular and different example of Matisse’s most popular style is the “Portrait d’Auguste Pellerin II,” painted in 1917. The limits of the black paint becoming undefined as the subject’s jacket bleeds into the background. The oval-shaped head atop the dark suit and the expressionless, profound eyes invest the painting with mystery and obscurity.

The painting is a profound and intriguing mixture of caricature-like portraiture and a frightening and mysterious ambiance.

The masterpiece of the exhibit is “Bathers by a River,” a painting that took Matisse eight years to finish. It was painted in different stages, each highlighting a different episode of his dynamic artistic career. The painting demonstrates how these stages changed and interacted with his exposure to different artistic movements. The piece is a perfect work of aesthetic harmony: a balance between bright and dark colors, pouring curves and rigorous geometry, shadows and light, and movement and stillness.

It is a pity that Matisse’s artistic exploration between 1913 and 1917 is often underestimated by art fans as an era of transition. What they do not realize is that art without innovation, invention, and reinvention is dull art. Many masterpieces can often be found in an artist’s transition periods, in the moments of their most radical explorations. Matisse was one of the brave painters who, for four years, abandoned most of his previous artistic styles and explored within the profundities of his own talent. He reinvented his art, and the result was extraordinary.

tive blossoms. J. Crew’s whimsical Adele romper ($98) features delicate blue, yellow, and green flowers.

Although this perennial trend sprouts up year after year, it’s not an easy one to wear.

Florals are often accompanied by fussy frills and can easily end up looking matronly; it’s hard to find a print and cut that’s neither saccharine nor stuffy. The key to wearing florals is to pay attention to the cut and color palette. To avoid looking like upholstery fabric or like I’m playing dress-up in a flower girl gown, I choose pieces with body-conscious details and restrained colors. My newest purchase is a knee-length dress from the Gap ($59, gap.com), with a delicate twisted collar, figure-flattering tiewaist, and ruched sides. The pink, yellow, and purple blooms are small and printed on a dark gray background, which prevents

the pattern from overwhelming the dress.

I’m planning to wear this piece now with rich tones like an eggplant-colored cardigan, and then, as the weather gets warmer, swap the dark colors for summery splashes of pink and yellow.

If you’re not interested in an allover print, another way to capitalize on the trend is by wearing solid-color items with floral appliqués. Anthropologie’s Curling Posies wrap ($88, anthropologie.com) is a quiet shade of cream, but the neckline is embellished with fabric coiled into the shape of flowers. This item is perfect for pairing with a dress or full skirt. Similarly bedecked is Forever 21’s Lace Front Cardigan ($28), which comes in pretty peach, taupe, and yellow, and features eyelet embroidery and a rosette brooch.

Florals are springing up on home décor

items, too. Liberty of London, designers famous for their printed dresses and cardigans, teamed up with Target to created a line of affordable decorative items and kitchenware for the store. Don’t expect any dainty daisies here, though. The set of Dunclare tumblers (8 for $23.99) has a cool sketch-like quality that is a welcome change from their typical flirty, girly floral patterns. The Sixty teapot ($12.99) is reminiscent of psychedelic 60s patterns and would brighten up any kitchen. Various picture frames and throw pillows (starting at $9.99) are other subtle ways to incorporate this trend into your décor.

With clothes and trinkets cropping up in every price range, it’s easy to break out of the winter doldrums and grow your own garden of floral-inspired ensembles and accessories—rain or shine.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Chicago wins two after opening loss to DePaul Will Fallon Sports Editor During halftime, all of the players on the women’s club lacrosse team sit down and discuss what just occurred during the first half. Fourth-year captain Molly Turner leads the discussion. There is no coach present, but she directs the team effectively and lets them know what they should be looking to do in the second half. On Saturday during the game versus Eastern Michigan, the score was 6–2 at halftime. Turner urged the team to double the score in the second half.

Women’s lacrosse has played three games on the Midway since this past Thursday. They lost the season opener to DePaul 5–12. Since then, they seem to have found their groove. They won both of their games on Saturday, first against Robert Morris (18–2) and then versus Eastern

Michigan (14–3).

“The team played better than in our first game of the season on Thursday against DePaul, who had already played six games before ours,” thirdyear Sam Levin explained.

A collective spirit dominates the lacrosse team, and every team member is quick to recognize the integral contribution that everyone else makes in order to accomplish these major victories. “In our first game alone, we had seven different offensive players score,” third-year Emily Wolodiger said. “Many of those goals can be attributed to clean assists and the execution of our set plays.”

Offensively, Turner was the top scorer in both games, and scored six goals in the second game alone.

Many of these assists came from second-year center Kelly Varney. “Varney was key at assist-

ing and transitioning as well as scoring in both games,” Levin said.

“Our transitions in the midfield were increasingly more precise over the course of the day,” said Wolodiger. This strong offense with clean passes helped keep pressure off the Maroons for a good portion of the game. They were backed up by a strong defense whenever control was lost in the game. “[The defense] was really effective in preventing both Robert Morris and Eastern Michigan from getting near the goal,” Wolodiger said.

Fourth-year defensive wing Sarah Carl was critical in this regard. She also won most of the draws, gaining initial control for many plays.

Saturday’s win was a major confidence booster for the team.

“We hope to maintain this momentum on Tuesday against Wheaton,” Levin said. “[They]

should be a well-matched team.”

Continuing their winning streak will be very important for the next two weeks. The team aims to qualify for WCLL playoffs in Toledo, Ohio, on April 18. “To have a chance at qualifying we will probably need a record above .500,” Wolodiger said. This means they need to pull out a win today as well as on Friday to keep qualifying a possibility.

This would be quite the accomplishment for any team, but to do it on a team without a coach would make it all the more impressive.

The women’s lacrosse team leads itself. They organize their own practices as well as games and find referees to officiate. They even go so far as to draw lines on the field using flour before each home game. In the end, it was not just superior abilities and athleticism which brought them their wins on Saturday, but their greater desire to play the game.

injury problems,”Andreycak added. “We’re looking to see where everyone is going to fit as we prepare for the conference meet on April 24.”

For the women’s team, eight individual Maroons as well as the 4x100 relay team won their events. On the track, third-year Stephanie Omueti and second-year Jalessa Akuoko earned top points for Chicago in the 200-meter and 400-meter dashes. Firstyear Kayla McDonald also took home top honors in the 8 00-meter run, and third-year Erin Cary did the same in the steeplechase.

In field events, Chicago’s women throwers, fresh off of their recent participation in the indoor national championships,

continued to demonstrate the dominant form they showed last season. Fourthyears Claire Ray and Nicole Murphy; and third-year Kristin Constantine, earned the first three spots in shot put respectively, with Ray and Murphy both posting provisional national-qualifying performances in the process. Ray also placed first in the discus throw as well as the hammer throw, in which she also achieved provisional NCAA qualification and set a new Haydon track record in the process.

The Maroons will continue their outdoor season this weekend when they host the Chicagolands. The women will be competing on Friday beginning at 12:45 while the men’s events begin Saturday at noon.

Maroons working to get into form before traveling to UAAs in late April TRACK AND FIELD continued from back page I didn’t know how I was going to perform, but it was a good start for the outdoor season.”

In short distances, fourth-year Bill Cheng took first spot in the 100-meter dash while third-year Brian Andreycak did the same in the 110-meter hurdles. The Maroons will look to build off of these individual performances in the following weeks, with their eyes set on the conference competition which will be held at Wash U in three weeks time. “ Th i s w a s a s o l i d w a r m - u p m e e t , ” Andreycak said. “While Whitewater is one of the better teams in the country, the rest of the field was pretty weak. With the next

two meets looking to be very competitive, it was good for everyone to get a race or two under their belt.”

Chicago will look to take full advantage of the next two meets, the Chicagolands and the Wheaton Invitational, since they are are the only competitive meets remaining before the Maroons head out to participate in the UAA championships.

“My goals for the outdoor season are for our team to win a conference championship, and for me to make nationals,” Jackson said. “It is important for us to return to top form quickly with our conference meet coming up in only a month.”

“We’re still working out a number of

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Men cruise in 8–1 home victory over Grinnell TENNIS continued from back page singles, and Pawa in sixth singles.

Brinker’s decisive 6–1, 6–0 victory was his sixth in a row and 12th of 15 matches this year.

After starting the match up 3–0, “we had the momentum and were able to get the 8–1 stomp,” Brinker explained. “We’ve really been working a lot on winning the doubles point and using that momentum to help us in singles.”

Meanwhile, the third-ranked women’s team defeated three top-25 opponents en route to capturing the championship at the Midwest Invitational Friday and Saturday.

After opening the tournament with a 9–0 victory over 26th-ranked Coe College, the Maroons edged ninth-ranked Gustavus Adolphus College 5–4 in Friday’s semifinal.

Chicago took two of three in doubles play, with victories from third-year C h r i s s y H u a n d s e c o n d - y e a r Ke n d r a Higgins in first doubles, and second-year

Jennifer Kung and first-year Linden Li in second doubles.

Higgins, Kung, and Li won in first, second, and fourth singles, respectively, to move the Maroons past the Gussies and into Saturday’s title match.

In Saturday’s championship event, Chicago (14–3) won four of six singles matches and the only completed doubles match as they defeated sixth-ranked Denison University 5–2.

Higgins won her 16th consecutive match and improved to 25–1 on the season with a three-set win in first singles. Second-year Carmen Vaca Guzman, Li, and Hu notched respective straight set decisions at third, fourth, and fifth, respectively. Higgins and Hu won 8–3 in first doubles for their eighth win in a row and 19th in 24 contests this year.

Both the men’s and women’s teams will face Wheaton College in dual match play this Wednesday and Saturday, respectively.

WOMEN’S TENNIS’ RECORD AGAINST TOP-10 COMPETITION

5–4 W vs. Fifth-ranked Washington and Lee February 27 at ITA National Team Indoor Championship 3–6 L vs. Third-ranked Emory February 28 at ITA National Team Indoor Championship 4–5 L vs. Third-ranked Williams March 26 at Mary Washington 5–4 W vs. Ninth-ranked Gustavus Adolphus April 2 at Midwest Invitational 5–2 W vs. Sixth-ranked Denison April 3 at Midwest Invitational

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Defensive difficulties add to softball’s woes

Second-year pitcher Sarah Neuhaus went 2-for-3 with one run scored and one RBI as part of a 11–10 win during the Maroons’ doubleheader against UW–Whitewater.

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SOFTBALL continued from back page the strong defensive game they showed over spring break. Here, they proved that they can keep a streak alive and that defense can keep runs to a minimum as they won nine in a row during their weeklong training trip.

If they can replicate this performance on a more regular basis and put both their offense and defense together consistently, they will be a force to be reckoned with.

S e c o n d - y e a r o u t f i e l d e r L i z Pa y o n k remains confident that the team can find this needed consistency. “The way our offense

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has been battling back from deficits and the confidence we have in our pitching staff prove that it is only a matter of time before we start another win streak,” she said.

The combination of veteran strength and the up-and-coming talent of the seven first-years added to the roster this year puts Chicago in a unique position and makes it a team to follow, especially as its young pitching staff only improves with increased experience.

The Maroons will next face North Park Friday at 3 p.m. at Stagg Field.

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TENNIS

Chicago teams dominate as women claim Midwest Invitational Audrey Henkels Sports Editor Both men’s and women’s tennis were victorious this weekend. The men defeated Grinnell College in dual match play while the Chicago women came out on top in the Midwest Invitational.

Th e m e n ’ s t e a m d e s t r o y e d Grinnell College 8-1 at Saturday’s home tournament.

Enjoying the warm weather, students came out to support the Maroons (10–5) and watch them as they swept the three doubles matches and took five of six in singles.

Chicago saw wins in doubles from fourth-years Garrett Brinker and Steve Saltarelli in first doubles, second-years Troy Brinker and Jan Stefanski in second doubles, and third-year Kunal Pawa and first-year Harrison Abrams in third doubles.

Brinker and Stefanski notched their eighth consecutive victory, defeating their opponents 8–4, and improved to 12–2 on the season.

“I thought that Steve and I played really well on Saturday,” Brinker said of their 8–6 win. “It

was a solid match that will hopefully give us a lot of confidence g o i n g i n t o UA A s i n a c o u p l e weeks.

“We were actually down from the beginning, getting broken in the first game to start the match.

In an eight-game pro set, it’s difficult to get down early and try to come back, especially against a team that had very solid serves,” Brinker continued. “But we were able to grind the match out until at 5–5 we broke back. From there, the match was ours.”

In addition to their ability to keep their heads in the game and continue to work to turn the match around, the senior duo was also able to alter the type of strokes they were hitting.

“I think our half-volleys really contributed to the comeback,” Garrett Brinker added. “[Steve and I have] been working on trying to hit them more often, as opposed to stepping in and hitting a volley.”

Chicago’s singles wins included Stefanski in second singles, Troy Brinker in third singles, secondyear Johnathan Alexander in fourth singles, Saltarelli in fifth

TENNIS continued on page 11

Second-year Jennifer Kung reaches for a forehand while playing last spring.

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TRACK AND FIELD

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Maroons continue success as competition moves outdoors

Squad falters after fast start during Spring break

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Fourth-year Meaghan Ehrhard competes in the 100-meter hurdles at a meet last spring at Haydon Track.

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The Maroons started off the outdoor track-and-field season on the right foot on Saturday as the women’s and men’s teams placed first and second respectively at t h e Te d H a y d o n I n v i t a t i o n a l , in honor of the track’s name sake and former U.S. Olympic Assistant Coach.

In both cases Chicago’s strongest competition came from the U W–Whitewater. The women defeated the Warhawks handily, with the final score standing at 270.50–170.50 after 20 events had been scored, while Chicago’s men fell to Whitewater by a final score of 310–228.

Despite finishing as runners up the men put forth a solid performance, as six different Maroons took top honors in their individual events. Third-years Harry Backlund and Nick Nunez placed first in the 1,500-meter run and steeplechase respectively, while first-year Chris Cheng prevailed in the 800-meter run.

Th e s o l e v i c t o r y i n a f i e l d event came from Drew Jackson, whose triple jump of 13.87 meters helped him claim first place over fellow Maroon third-year Jacob Solus.

“I feel pretty good about my performance in the triple jump,” Jackson s aid. “Going into the meet my legs were really sore so

TRACK AND FIELD continued on page 10

Lori Knapp Sports Contributor After a strong spring break performance in Florida, softball has returned to Chicago only to struggle with consistency, failing to sweep any of three doubleheaders, and ending their fi rst week back 12–5–1.

On Friday, the Maroons faced t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f Wi s c o n s i n – Whitewater. After allowing three runs in the first inning, Chicago was able to rally in the second half of the first game to win 11–10, but then allowed Whitewater to come back in the second game, losing 7–8.

In both games, the offense performed strongly. Fourth-year fi rst baseman Kathleen Duffy started things off in the first game with a three-run home run in the first inning. The offense gave even more support in the fi fth inning, scoring seven runs on three hits, with a three-run double coming off the bat of second-year second baseman Julia Schneider.

In the second game, once again Duffy came out strong offensively with a grand slam in the third inning. The defense, however, struggled, and gave up five earned runs and three unearned runs.

In the coming games, the Maroons, currently ranked 21st, are going to need to see a return to

SOFTBALL continued on page 11

SOFTBALL STRUGGLES WITH RETURN TO THE MIDWEST

While Chicago’s hitting numbers have remained consistent since Spring break, pitching has played a key role in the Maroons’ struggles since returning to the South Side.

Spring Break (March 20– March 26) 10-2-0 5.9 9.17 .321 1.14

Post-Break (March 30– April 5)

Record Runs/Game Hits/Game Batting Avg. ERA

3–4–1 6.5 9.25 .319 4.15

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•Baseball @ Aurora, 5 p.m.

Friday •Women’s track and field host Chicagolands, 12:45 p.m.

•Softball vs. North Park, 3 p.m.

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