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DU brings party to SG debates By Ella Christoph News Editor Ne x t G e n e r a t i o n a n d D e l t a Upsilon’s Moose Party traded promises and pithy remarks at a Student Government (SG) elections debate in the Reynold’s club yesterday. The debate, which attracted few attendees, also featured candidates for undergraduate liaison to the Board of Trustees. Next Generation is running on a platform based in part on accessibilty transparency, posting a plan for its first 30 days in office on the slate’s Web site. “Every single year, transparency and accountability is brought up," said third-year Patrick Ip, Next Generation’s candidate for vice president of Student Affairs, in an interview. “I don’t think any other slate has put up a timeline of what they want to do in previous years, and despite the Moose Party being our only competition, we want to be held to the highest standards.” The slate is running to help RSOs by buying three used vans that can be rented out, and to make SG more accountable by moving office hours to the C-Shop. Ip said his party “got many points across. . .despite that the crowd was mostly supporting DU.” DU’s Moose Party, which advocated a physical fitness test of beer
pong, keg stands, and flip cup, made up 80–95 percent of the audience, according to estimates by candidates from both parties. In an interview, third-year and Moose Party candidate for president Riley Heckel said this “shows the apathy that exists among the campus. ” Heckel said the debate should be an opportunity for SG candidates to share their platforms and also “simultaneously allowing the Moose Party to have a really great time with it.” Third-year and candidate for Undergraduate Liason to the Board of Trustees Rafael Menis said he would focus on unifying the community rather than communicating with the Board—the liaison only meets with a few members of the Board once a quarter. Without student unification and communication, “this is the vote of one student who happens to have this opinion, but we don’t know if its supported or not,” he said. Menis proposed that Facebook and the SG Web site be utilized more fully in order to connect students and gather student feedback. First-year candidate for Undergraduate Liaison Frank Alarcon said in an interview he was “both realistic about the role of the liaison and at the same time. . .optimistic about the ability of the liaison to expand its influence.”
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Hutch offering late night breakfast
Executive Chef John Seagro prepares a breakfast skillet for the Late Night Dining Program in Hutchinson Commons Monday evening. CAMILLE VAN HORNE/MAROON
By Adam Janofsky Associate News Editor As a response to student requests for on-campus late-night dining, Campus Dining Services is piloting a made-to-order dinner and breakfast food program in Hutch Commons this week. The pilot late-night food program, which runs until midnight from Monday to Thursday, will be used by Aramark to
gauge the need for after-hours dining on campus. In addition to the standard pizza and grill stations, breakfast skillets, biscuits, and French toast sticks will be offered starting at 9 p.m. Depending on how many people show up, late-night dining may be offered at the end of this year or the beginning of Fall quarter. The Campus Dining Advisory Board developed the program based
on responses to student surveys. The board, which consists of six Student Government and Inter-House Council appointed students and is chaired by Director of Campus Dining Richard Mason, saw the opportunity to meet a student need. “There has been a consistent message from surveys and our committee that [late-night dining] was a big student desire,” Mason said.
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HYDE PARK
STUDENT LIFE
For one month, the Op Shop fills vacant storefronts with art
Some grads struggle to make ends meet
By Stacey Kirkpatrick News Staff Located on the corner of 53rd Street and Lake Park, the Opportunity Shop turns an empty storefront into temporary art space, garden shop, thrift store, and anything else its creators want to be. Better known as the Op Shop, it “is an idea to activate otherwise vacant spaces through art to improve the quality of life for the community now,” said Laura Shaeffer, the Op Shop’s head operator. Inside, one spacious room houses a variety of items for sale and exchange. Art installations fill the back half of the building and, after a bit of rearranging, the open space is also used for live music performances. The University, which owns the space, is permitting the Op Shop to occupy the building that was formerly a Blockbuster for a month; the shop closes May 1. This Op Shop is the second in Hyde Park, and another will likely pop up in a different vacant store in the future, according to Shaeffer, who is looking around. The last
Op Shop was on 55th Street and Cornell at a space owned by Mac Apartments for December. “We adapt ourselves to the space, the context, and the lessons we have learned with previous Op Shop experiences, as well as ideas that have developed from past incarnations,” Shaeffer said. This version of the Op Shop is more interested in “ad hoc-ism, and we call this ongoing project space ‘Adhocity,’” Shaeffer said. “This one is a raw unfolding project space, reflecting what we believe to be the concerns and needs of the community at this present moment in time.” Shaeffer describes herself as “a humanistic artist” who creates art “that results in meaningful change and exchange.” “This project is my response to the environment here in Hyde Park,” she said, The Op Shop features Saturday market days, during which sellers, led by Hyde Park resident and Union Church member Jane Comiskey, put up personal collections for sale. The Church not only sponsors the market days but helped get the Op Shop insured.
Victoria Bills, a high school student in the L ab School, is working with other students from the Lab Schools and Kenwood High School on a mural called, “An Exquisite Corpse.” Inspired by Oulipo poetry, Bills decided each student would take a section of the wall to paint a section of the corpse. Similarly, the mural will be a compilation of different students’ sections of the corpse. At the Shop’s entrance stands a large calendar board covered in post-it notes promoting upcoming events. Opposite sits a large chalkboard that reads, “General Economy Exquisite Exchange,” the motto of the Gardener’s Exchange, which was created by an artist collective comprised mostly of School of the Art Institute graduates. Patrick Thornton, one of the artists in charge of the Gardener’s Exchange, described it as not only a place for sales and trade—on Saturday, Thornton traded a bucket of compost material for a basket of biscotti—but also as “an installation art piece.”
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Graduate Student Tuition By Ilana Kowarski News Staff “If I had more money, I could save up and some day start a family. I wouldn’t have to feel bad about going to the theater once in a while,” seventh-year anthropology doctoral student Joe Feinberg told the maroon in an e-mail. “I might be able to work fewer hours so that I could devote time to my research and other writing and organizing. But also I wouldn’t feel like a second- or third-class person in the University,” Feinberg is one of many graduate students campaigning for the University to recognize Graduate Student United (GSU) as a union. Graduate students must pay Advanced Residency (AR) tuition after their fourth year at the school. GSU has been campaigning for higher wages and lower tuition for years and declared its intent to unionize this March.
The University does not plan to increase wages, decrease tuition, or recognize GSU as a union, Deputy Provost Cathy Cohen said. Feinberg said he and his wife--a graduate student at Northwestern— live on a tight budget and can’t start a family, though they would like to. “We’re living below the poverty line. We can try to economize, but if you have children there’s no way you can support them on this amount of money,” Feinberg said in an interview, where he wore a GSU button. “Positive reforms will not happen without a union,” Feinberg said in the e-mail. “A union says that we can no longer be ignored.” Cohen and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum announced in February that the University could not afford to eliminate AR tuition in the current economic climate, and wrote that, though they appreciated “the need to ensure that a University of Chicago education is affordable to all,” they believed doctoral students had a responsibility to contribute to their education. While rates vary by division, typically about 80 percent of the tuition is paid by the division and the rest is either waived if the graduate
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Candidates oppose expanding Liaison role
Ip: Program solves late food pickle
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Second-year candidate David Akinin pointed to low turnout—he said a maximum of 10 students attended the debate—as proof “students at our University are not as passionate about our [student] government as they should be,� and suggested working with advisors and SG’s Graduate Council to build awareness around SG. Neither Menis, Akinin, nor Alarcon said getting a vote in the Board meeting is a goal. “The
advisory role that the student liaisons play is far more important than the ability to cast one more vote . . . l can still be extremely influential without the formal power to cast a vote,� Alarcon said. Akinin argued for restricting plans for explanding the liaison’s role. “We should try to impress them with our voice, we should try to gain their trust, because right now we are just students and they are fellows with 40 years of business experience making strategic decisions,� Akinin said.
First-year board member Patrick Ip said the student body obviously needs late-night dining. “In Hyde Park it’s really hard to get food after 10 o’clock,� Ip said. “We need an alternative, and I think [Hutch breakfast] is the solution.� Although the board has made late-night dining changes in the past, like extending Bart Mart’s hours to 3 a.m. last year, this is the first attempt to serve food on campus so late, Mason said. With flyers and Facebook groups promoting
the program, the future of the late-night dining service will largely come down to student turnout and reactions to the program. Mason said that 200–300 people each night will be the target for the service to be continued. "It's perverse and baffling how good this breakfast is, but at 10 [p.m.] I'm happy just to have a warm meal," first-year DJ LoBraico said in Hutch last night. If the program is made permanent, the size and variety of the late-night dining service will depend on surveys and comment cards, Mason said.
Grad students earn less than peers, but admin decries mentions of poverty UNION continued from front page student is teaching or the student must pay the remaining 20 percent if they are not currently teaching. The University already increased graduate student wages in 2008, Cohen pointed out in an interview. In 2008, the University doubled TA quarterly salaries from $1,500 to $3,000 and increased graduate instructor quarterly salaries from $3,500 to $5,000. These salaries are independent of any tuition fees waived by the University. Feinberg said AR tuition is used to coerce graduate students into providing cheap labor and to discourage them from seeking higher paying work outside the University of Chicago, since the fee is only charged to students who do not work for the University. Cohen said she was upset by GSU statements that graduate students live in poverty. “Graduate students are not like fast-food workers paid minimum wage. There are poor people in the U.S. with no prospect of a different existence. We’re talking about students who will soon no longer be in this situation. We should be very careful with the imagery we’re using,� she said. “That’s not to say that they are not techni-
cally making wages below the poverty line, but just to say that a lot of people would jump for the opportunities they have,� Cohen said. Based on figures calculated two years ago by the University’s Graduate Student Life Working Group, U of C graduate students are still paid less than the average wage offered at peer institutions in 2008. “In a study of peer institutions, as well as other schools where we would have expected teaching pay to be less competitive than at Chicago and its peers, we found the average pay for an 11-week course (reckoned at 20 hrs/week) to be $5,868, with a median pay level of $5,018,� the Working Group wrote. Feinberg said GSU is advocating for a financial position similar to that of its peers. “Grad students shouldn’t and don’t claim that we are the most miserable people in the world. And we shouldn’t demand to live better than anyone else,� Feinberg said in an e-mail. Duff Morton, a GSU member and fourthyear anthropology and SSA graduate student, said the University should not make graduate school prohibitively expensive. “Our wages are still at the very bottom of comparison groups. We’re at the bottom of the barrel.�
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Gardeners exchange compost and art OP SHOP continued from front page In addition to plants, seedlings, and gardening books, there’s also a heaping pile of compost sitting inside the entrance. The compost is collected from restaurant waste
and is used to provide nutritious soil for gardening. The group works “to trade with trust, transparency, and love, as any neighbor would do,� rather than barter, Thornton said.
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Aramark fulfills long-standing student request for late-night dining From Monday through Thursday this week, Aramark will be offering late-night dining on a trial basis at Hutch Commons. In addition to standard pizza and grill options, breakfast choices like French toast sticks and biscuits with gravy will be available from 9 p.m. to midnight. This trial is a welcome first step and, with a few small changes, could be a very successful addition to campus life. Students often lament the lack of late-night dining options around Hyde Park, but that very problem also presents an opportunity for Housing and Dining Services to create a social space that is inviting to all parts of the
campus community. Currently, the University lacks the kinds of events and venues that unify the student bodies of other schools. Annual events like Summer Breeze and Scav provide some semblance of that unity, but a late -night dining option in the middle of campus would be a year-round, common social space for students, whether they’re first-years or fourth-years, live in dorms or off-campus, or are coming from the A-Level or Alpha Delt. Chicago students may never all join the same clubs, party in the same places, or rally around their sports teams like students elsewhere, but most of us are still up at midnight, and we all love
French toast sticks. Since this initiative contributes to the goal of improving social life on campus, profitability should not be the sole standard used to determine whether late -night service continues. If the 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. mealtime does not prove profitable, the University could still consider subsidizing a latenight dining option as a service to the campus community. If profitability is to b e the metric of late-night dining’s success, the timing of this trial might not capture the enterprise’s full potential. Students studying at the Reg or partying would likely arrive well past midnight; in the world of late-night dining, 9 p.m.
to 12 a.m. is the early bird special. Extending the service past midnight and including weekends would better reflect student demand for late-night dining. But whatever the issues with this trial run may be, any student who has ever been frustrated or annoyed with late-night dining in Hyde Park should eat late at least once this week, if only to show Aramark and the administration that this is a service Chicago students want. Go early, go often, and we’ll see you there.
confirmed at a conference in March. For much of modern history, he explained, one’s political alignment depended on one’s interests and conception of freedom. Conservatives held that liberty would be best preserved by adherence to tradition and moderate, republican rule; conscious political action in any one direction would result in unintended and bloody consequences. Liberals disagreed: They held that it was necessary to politically ensure that individuals were free to choose and pursue their own ends; monarchies must be overthrown, censorship fought, segregation destroyed, and workers allowed to form unions and pass reforms. For the Left, this was not enough to free humanity. Emancipation, they held, could only come through the conscious overcoming of capitalism. Dr. Goldstein
paused and then reminded himself that both the concepts of capitalism and the Left have gone extinct. If all of this sounds strange to us, Dr. Goldstein relates in his latest paper, “It’s because sometime around 1972, for various reasons, the concept of freedom disappeared from politics. Went extinct. Like the dodo, it only exists as a stuffed carcass in museums and laboratories.” Now, cutting-edge research performed by Dr. Goldstein’s lab technicians reveals that “conservative” simply denotes a disappointed supporter of the Republican Party, “liberal” a disappointed supporter of the Democratic Party, and “leftist” a very disappointed supporter of the Democratic Party. This semantic realignment helps us understand the duckspeak con-
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Linguists at the University of Oceania have discovered a startling phenomenon: The political vocabulary of the English language is shrinking. Dr. Emmanuel Goldstein, a distinguished service professor and widely respected researcher in his field, reports that the range of words available for political use has diminished at a rate of 13 percent per year. Although the words occasionally remain in use, the concepts to which they refer are disappearing at a remarkable rate. As part of this process, the remaining words rapidly lose their context and nuance. Political speech becomes more
and more automatic, with fewer and fewer political differences able to be indexed by vocabulary. Dr. Goldstein calls this new kind of talk “duckspeak.” To understand duckspeak, Dr. Goldstein offers the example of gun control in American politics. Some time in the coming months, the Supreme Court will rule on the constitutionality of the City of Chicago’s h a n d g u n b a n i n M c D o n a l d v. Chicago. The case hinges on whether the right to bear arms, as given in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, applies to the states and local governments. Politically, liberals are said to support gun control whereas conservatives are said to oppose it. “This automatic equation of liberalism with gun control here is duckspeak at its clearest,” Dr. Goldstein
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The dark meaning behind Earth Hour Earth Hour places the environment over human progress
By Manuel Alex Moya Viewpoints Contributor On the last Saturday of March, buildings and monuments everywhere around the world went dark. From the Eiffel Tower, to Big Ben, to the Empire State Building, the lights went out. This was not due to a freak power outage. In fact, humans in over 4,000 cities in more than 120 countries deliberately chose to switch off their lights. They did this in the name of the environment. The World Wildlife
Fund, which sponsors this global initiative known as Earth Hour, wrote on its Web site, “The movement symbolizes that by working together each of us can make a positive impact in this fight, protecting our future and that of future generations.” But just what kind of world are they fighting for? What kind of impact do such initiatives intend to have on mankind? Imagine if we extended this initiative and endured not merely a simple hour, but an entire year without
light. Imagine further that we not only gave up light, but all applications and devices that “waste” some form of energy, in order to “make a positive impact.” For example, consider how much carbon dioxide would be saved if you abstained from using all forms of gas and oil. If you lived far away from work, would you be willing to sacrifice the comfort and privacy of your own car for a ride on public transportation? How many miles do you think you would be able and willing to walk on foot for the sake
of the environment? Could you go a year without any cooked food? Would you want to live and sleep in an unheated home? How would our economy be “impacted” if we shut down all the polluting machines and factories that produce our clothes, furniture, and all the other goods we enjoy? And while you struggle without gas and oil in this hypothetical “Earth Year,” try adding electricity to your list. Would you be willing to give up computers and write
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At its root, environmentalism seeks to protect Earth from man, not for him EARTH HOUR continued from page 3 your school papers laboring with a pen and paper? Do you think the environment would care if you stopped telecommunicating with people at long distances by giving up devices such as the telephone, the Internet, faxes, etc.? Could you imagine the electricity that would be saved if you gave up watching your favorite programs on television, or listening to music on your iPod? In fact, such a green utopia already exists. In one country, there is no traffic, since there are no automobiles, airplanes, or any engines that can harm the environment. In such a country, hardly anything is produced since machines and factories are used on a severely limited basis. In this paradise, citizens have been celebrating Earth Hour, indefinitely, every hour of the day, 365 days a year, for the past 62 years! Anyone who doubts North Korea’s commitment to Earth Hour can look at satellite images of the country to see how it is always pitch black, compared to its brightly lit and industrialized neighbor, South Korea. In such a country, where virtually nobody is allowed to “waste” energy on themselves, millions die. When we take this initiative to its logi-
Gun control debate exemplifies political “Newspeak” cal extreme, the real meaning behind Earth Hour and similar environmentalist campaigns becomes clear. The kind of future that is envisioned by environmentalists is one that does not include human beings. This is because the worldview of environmentalism holds as its fundamental premise, that nature should be protected, not for man, but from him. Those who ask man to stand by in stupid admiration of the darkness long for a world of permanent darkness. They envision a future where no sacrifice is too great for the intrinsic preservation of the environment, free from any industrial achievement or human development. If we want to continue to survive on this Earth, we must exploit its resources for our needs. The environment and our lives in it can only be improved when we apply our minds to our surroundings and manipulate them through science and technology. We must recognize that environmentalism and its initiatives like Earth Hour are not interested in improving mankind, but in ending our impact, our “footprint,” and ultimately our existence. — Manuel Alex Moya is pursuing a Master of Arts degree in the social sciences.
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DUCKSPEAK continued from page 3 nection of liberalism and gun control, Dr. Goldstein explains. In an attempt to win the urban vote in the 1990s, the Democratic Party made a conscious decision to appear on the side of “law and order”: local Party officials called for an increase in funding for the police, and a tough ban on handguns. So-called liberals, i.e. “supporters of the Democratic Party,” rationalized gun control as part of a concern for the well-being of the cities. If we remove guns, we can make the inner cities safe and put an end to violence—or so the logic goes. Instead of seeking a solution for the actual misery of inner cities—unemployment, chronic underemployment, major deficits in health care and education—liberals instinctively parroted the rhetoric of the Democratic Party
and demanded more and more social control. Such illiberal liberalism, Dr. Goldstein suggests, is highly symptomatic of contemporary duckspeak. When asked if the shrinking political vocabulary could be reversed, Dr. Goldstein shrugs: “Whole careers, institutions, and campaigns have been built on duckspeak. Just look at the universities!” He adds that if there is hope for this, it will come from looking back in time to rekindle the political imagination of the next generation. “Liberalism,” he wistfully intones, “can only have a future if it understands its past.” Only by going backward, he quips, could we ever move forward. — Greg Gabrellas is pursuing a Master of Arts degree in the social sciences.
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Derby girls roll with the punches By Madelyn Freed Voices Hell on Wheels
was trying to bring Lynyrd Skynyrd back in style, and the guitarist looked just like Jerry Harrison from early Talking Heads footage. Together, the more or less 19-year-olds looked something like the younger brothers of my friends from middle school who you’d never noticed before, but now that they’re in high school (let’s say Ridgemont High), they’re Spicoli: pretty-boy wastoids. You kind of feel proud watching the Dubs, as they call themselves, even if it brings you back to the first time you realized you were older than a celebrity. (For me, it was finding out JoJo is a year younger than I am.) It’s weird, for sure; you almost get the sense they’ll mean a lot more to people a lot younger than you. They were having a lot of fun, emitting exuberance like first-graders playing tag, but with more self-consciousness.
The first rule of watching roller derby is that it doesn’t matter whether you know the rules. In fact, I would hazard a guess that knowing the rules significantly diminishes roller derby enjoyment. Would you rather know what it means when the Lead Jammer passes the Pivot but steps out before the Engagement Zone, or would you rather yell with equal parts enthusiasm and confusion when the girl with the best alter ego name decks someone? The Windy City Rollers hosted a bout between their four competitive teams at UIC last Friday as part of their regular season. I was cheering for Beth Amphetamine, Notorious D.I.E., and Zombea Arthur. I was a fan of Loco Chanel until she nearly killed a girl and was asked to leave the game. But certainly some small notion of what the game entails is required. A game is played between two teams in two 30-minute halves. Each team has one jammer, their point scorer, who earns points by legally passing the members of the other team, all of whom are attempting to block her and make room for their own jammer to pass through. There are penalties aplenty for improper blocking, and most of the time they are incomprehensible. It was difficult to determine what a legal pass was, and don’t even get me started on Grand Slams. My favorite team, the Manic Attackers, at one point was suddenly losing by 30 points because The Fury kept Grand Slamming them. The pack of skaters whips by so fast that knowledge of the rules takes a backseat to pure visceral enjoyment, and there is plenty to be had. The game is played in bursts of two minutes, facilitating fast and well-controlled violence. The brutality of the matches goes without saying—like football, aggressive blocks happen often enough to be non-notable. The women of roller derby are athletes of the punk variety. The audience, on the other hand, is not very intimidating. I would suggest wearing your best “I’m considering getting a motorcycle” get-up, coming drunk, and treating your fellow patrons politely. The Windy City Rollers is just one of more than 80 all-women’s roller derby leagues in the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA). WFTDA was founded in 2004 as part of a growing movement to reincarnate roller derby as an athletic sport, instead of the fake-fighting, performative, and corporatebacked spectacle popular in the 1970s. The modern roller derby is, at its core, “by the skaters, for the skaters,” with a DIY ethic. The flat track, as opposed to a more traditional banked track, is a conscious effort to make teams easy and inexpensive to found. All one needs is a big flat space, some tape, and very serious knee-pads to get a derby going. The idea has spread like wildfire and with it a subculture that is quickly becoming mainstream; last year Ellen Page starred in Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut about roller derby, Whip It. We didn’t see any smalltown girl find her sport all while finding herself, unfortunately. The players of Windy City are slightly older alternatives, and they seem to have found themselves already. One woman had two full black eyes and no inhibitions; another smashed into an audience member and didn’t even dust off before reentering the fray. The leagues are overwhelmingly all-women,
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Hamm (William Petersen, left) asks his loyal servant Clov (Ian Barford, right), "Hey, who turned out all the lights?" COURTESY OF MICHAEL BROSILOW
By Jonathan Grabinsky There is no Voices Human nature is pathetically absurd. In Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, one of his most popular tragicomedies, the playwright explores this outlook as he examines the fragile, yet comical, nature of mortality in human relationships. The production of the play at The Steppenwolf Theatre, under the direction of Frank Galati, is a faithful and courageous depiction of Beckett’s masterpiece. The play follows the relationship between
ENDGAME Steppenwolf Theatre Through June 6
Hamm, an irritated old man unable to stand, Clov, his reluctant yet obedient servant who is unable to sit, and his parents, Neil and Nagg, who lost their legs in a bicycle accident and are now constrained to lives inside ashbins. In this one-act play, Hamm is constrained to a chair from where he abuses his servant’s good nature by making him perform customary, frivolous, and ultimately annoying tasks. Similarly, he treats his parents like dogs and forces them to occasionally emerge from their ashbins only to listen to his life stories. The acting is immaculate. Beckett’s text, packed with repetitions, silences, and “trivial dialogue,” of sorts, could be easily butchered by bad timing—but the timing of the actors is beautiful. Ian Barford as Clov very honestly
portrays the anxiety and frustration of being unable to break the chains that make him dependent on his master. Likewise, William Petersen as Hamm is also superb in representing the old, blind master who attempts to make up for the lack of control he feels in delaying death by giving his life a “false, kingly empowerment.” Martha Lavey and Francis Guinan as Hamm’s leg-less parents are also quite remarkable. With a cynical, dark, and witty British interpretation reminiscent of a Monthy Python sketch, their acting is nevertheless sincere in portraying the humor behind man’s miserable state of being. Their comical yet sad representation could perhaps be summarized in one of Nagg’s lines: “Nothing is funnier than
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MUSIC
If it's too loud, you're too old By Asher Klein Voices Kid Rock The Smith Westerns are four kids from Chicago who have memorized every page in the glam and garage rock playbooks. They swagger, they croon about “the kiss of love,” and they are really good. But when I call them kids, I really do mean kids. Watching the Smith Westerns rock a quick set at Schubas’s on Saturday made me feel old. They seem more likely to win a high school battle of the bands competition than tour America (which they just finished doing) or Europe (where they’re headed in May). Schubas is a small venue in the back of a bar, and the room on Saturday night was full but not packed, with a certain patient feeling in the air. Right as the band was slated to go on, an exit door next to the stage opened up and a bunch of teenagers walked in. They
headed up the stairs to the stage and threw their instruments on. Then they just stood there. For a moment, I thought, “Where are the Smith Westerns, and who do I have to ask to get up there, too?” There were no whistles, no yelling, maybe a smattering of applause from the few who recognized them. Then the next half-hour rollicked along very fast, never slowing down—a sign that the band wasn’t quite in control of the show, at least in my own short-lived experience of playing shows in a high school rock band. But the band rollicked, too, keeping time to the near-bursting tempo by bobbing along to the music. They were teeny-bopping. They sort of looked it, too. Half of the band looks like a girlish, teenaged Keanu Reaves, and the other two come straight out of the 70s: The long-haired, mustachioed drummer wore a sleeveless shirt like he
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Apathy and cynical humor take center stage in Endgame
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unhappiness.� Aesthetically, the production is magnificent. The tall, pale, prison-like walls of the room, combined with the dusty old furniture and worn-out clothes, give the stage a sense of hopelessness and abandonment. “Everything is gray,� says Clov at one point. Artistic director Martha Lavey does justice to the apathetic grayness of human nature as portrayed in the text by reflecting it visually on stage. Endgame explores the comic and poignant emptiness of the human condition and the unbearable reality of the human life as it is pestered with mortality and enslaved by routine, apathy, and dreariness. The production fulfills the ultimate intention of theater: It provides a frank and aching account of human life. Jean-Paul Sartre once suggested that art was one of the means of providing meaning to a meaningless world. In an intimate creation, Frank Galati does precisely this: He leaves us with a glimpse of color in a gray world.
and though the modern derby player is seriously athletic, she is decidedly campy and burlesque. Third-wave feminism, punk, and sex play crucial roles in roller derby culture. Tattoos and fishnet stockings are as much a part of the uniform as helmets and quad skates. The players have a great time and they look very, very cool. The referees had their own aesthetic too—each had co-opted the classic black and white vertical stripes into their own alter egos. Ref Sheik Yerbouti’s helmet was modestly covered by a turban, and he was wearing harem pants. In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that no small part of my derby-going experience was spent considering how feasible it would be to join a team. But if I participated I would have to learn the rules, which appears to be far too academically challenging. That won’t stop me from attending again, though. The next bout is on May 1, and the national championships are being held in Chicago in the fall. I’ll be there with a beer, a little more eye make-up than usual, and my roller derby alter ego: Sin-dee Lou Who.
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WESTERNS continued from page 5 But if watching the band felt like amateur hour, hearing them play was a totally different story. The Smith Westerns keep all their songs fast, tight, and always about girls. The songs are simple but never stale. Watching them hit their notes is as fun as it is impressive: They can make any sound you hear in a David Bowie or T. Rex record, except they sound like they’re having more fun doing it. They belong on the stage, but
I almost wanted to get up there and dance. The band is playing the Pitchfork festival this year. And with so much unadulterated talent (pun by all means intended), they could be the real deal—with the proper training, that is, so I suggest an internship. And after the apprenticeship with the right band—I’m talking the Stones or the Strokes—the Dubs can make it to main stage.
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SOFTBALL
Women’s tennis looks to end Emory’s UAA supremacy
Maroons split home doubleheader with Oshkosh two-for-three with three RBIs and one run scored. Chicago seized the lead in a three-run second inning thanks to a two-run homer by Tomaka, before Oshkosh responded with a three-run inning of their own. Another three-run inning in the fifth gave Chicago a definite lead as a solid defensive performance from the Maroons shut Oshkosh out over the last four innings. In the second game Oshkosh got off to a running start, scoring three runs in the first inning. The
By A. G. Goodman Sports Editor Strong hitting and smart play during critical innings helped the Maroons to take the first of two tight games in their doubleheader against UW–Oshkosh before falling by a single run in the seventh inning of the evening’s closing game. In their opening game, the Maroons were led by first-year shortstop Vicky Tomaka who went
Maroons fought back led by second-year secondbaseman Julia Schneider, whose two homers in four at-bats brought in three runs for the Maroons. However, going into the final inning tied at five, Oshkosh centerfielder Whitney Tornow’s lead-off home-run proved to be decisive: The Titans shut out the Maroons to take home the win. Chicago will complete their string of home doubleheaders when they face off against Hope next Thursday at 3 p.m.
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Alex Garcia moved to 4–0 as he continued his strong pitching on the year, scattering only seven hits across his nine-inning performance. “[Garcia] has been our best pitcher to date, and that is saying a lot because of the veteran talented guys that also pitch for us,” Budeselich said. “We hope his start yesterday leads to more innings like that
RBIs, as well as three hits from first-year catcher Tony Logli. “We were just trying to bounce back [from the previous night’s loss] and get a win; everyone played well and contributed. It was a strong game all around,” Cinoman said.
on the mound for all of our pitchers going forward.” The Maroons will hope to keep the momentum going from their hit barrage and smothering pitching performance on Sunday as they hit the road to take on Dominican today before returning home to face off against Benedictine on Wednesday at 3 p.m.
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TENNIS
Maroons place first, second at Chicagolands Teams dominate as women gear up for UAA Championships By Audrey Henkels Sports Editor
Third-year Drew Jackson competes in the 100-meter hurdles event at the Chicagoland Championships on Saturday. North Central won the event on the men’s side with 168 points, topping Chicago’s 123.5. DARREN LEOW/MAROON
By Dave Kates Sports Contributor Chicago and North Central grappled for top honors at the Chicagoland Championships this Friday and Saturday, which were held at Stagg field. The women captured first place, beating the Cardinals 149–131 in the 22-team event. The men were overtaken by North Central 168–123.5 and came in second place. There were many stand-out performances that provided key contributions to the overall team success. For the women, fourth-year Claire Ray won the shot put (13.4 meters) and hammer throw (51.02 meters), while fellow
fourth-year and shot-putter Nicole Murphy joined her on the podium in second place. As for the runners, second-year Jane Simpson claimed first place in the 10,000–meter run with a time of 37:04.14, while third-year Liz Lawton grabbed third place in the 5,000–meters. All four of these women met the NCAA Division III provisional-qualifying standard for their events. On the men’s side, third-years Drew Jackson and Jacob Solus finished first and second, respectively, in the triple jump with distances of 14.59 meters and 14.40 meters. Both marks met the NCAA Division III provisional-qualifying standard.
Men’s tennis (12–5) swept aside host Lake Forest and Carthage Sunday while women’s tennis conquered host Wheaton Saturday before defeating Coe 7–0 at a home dual match. The men’s team won a pair of matches against the Foresters and the Red Men, 8–0 and 7–2, respectively. Third-year Will Zhang, second-year Troy Brinker, and first-year Dillon Klincke, won each of their singles matches in the first, third, and sixth slots. Brinker extended his winning streak to eight matches and improved his season record to 14–3, while Klincke notched his fourth and fifth straight decisions and moved to 9–4 on the year. Chicago went six for six in doubles play with two wins each from fourthyears Garrett Brinker and Steve Saltarelli in first, Troy Brinker and second-year Jan Stefanski in second, and third-year Kunal Pawa and first-year Harrison Abrams in third. Troy Brinker and Stefanski, now 14–2 for the season, stretched their winning streak to 10 matches. Abrams and Pawa improved to 7–1. The third-ranked women’s tennis team won matches both days of
the weekend. They dominated 9–0 against host Wheaton Saturday and faced the 26th-ranked Coe at home on Sunday, winning their sixth consecutive match. Third-year Chrissy Hu and secondyear Kendra Higgins led the Maroons in doubles play on Sunday, delivering an 8–0 win and their 10th straight victory. The defending NCAA D-III doubles champions improved to 21–5 on the year. In the other doubles match, secondyears Aswini Krishnan and Carmen Vaca Guzman notched an 8–1 decision to win for the eighth time in nine outings. Chicago (16–3) won all five singles matches in straight sets. Higgins posted a 6–2, 6–2 victory in the first slot for her 18th consecutive win to go 27–1 this season. Second-year Jennifer Kung, secondyear Vaca Guzman, first-year Linden Li, and second-year Tiffany Nguyen, delivered wins in second through fifth singles, respectively. The Maroons look to hit top form before heading into their UAA matches this weekend. “I think both matches this weekend went well,” Kung said. “It was windy,
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On the track, third-year Arthur Baptist commanded the 10,000–meter run with a winning time of 31:27.90. Jackson was very impressed with the team’s showing: “We had a lot of great performances that we will only build on in these next weeks going into [the UAAs].” Jackson and the team hope to keep up this momentum for next weekend’s upcoming meet. “It [will be a] time for us to fine-tune everything and really focus on what we want to accomplish at conference,” he said. With the UAAs just two meets away, the Maroons will look to stay on track Saturday at the Wheaton College Invite.
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After rainout, Chicago takes two of three against Dallas By Matt McCracken Sports Staff Coming off a tough loss to Concordia and a subsequent rainout of a matchup with Aurora, the Maroons looked to get off the schneid this past weekend against the University of Dallas. The Maroons (10–8) got back to their winning ways by taking two out of three games from Dallas (9–20). Chicago split the Saturday doubleheader, which was moved to St. Xavier University to accommodate the Chicagolands track meet, and then rode a five RBI day from first-year outfielder Jack Cinoman, and a complete game from second-year right-hander Alex Garcia, to secure the series victory on Sunday. “It was very important for us to win the series over the weekend,” assistant coach Scott Budeselich said. “Not solely because of losing to Concordia, but
because all of our regional games are important to us. “We also felt that we needed to put a big win streak together and get way above the .500 mark,” he said. Chicago set the tone for the weekend with a 14–5 walloping of Dallas, led by third-year right fielder Marshall Oium’s four-for-four day with three doubles and three runs knocked in. “Marshall has been incredible at the plate and on the mound this year,” second-year catcher Stephen Williams said. “His hitting in the first game on Saturday really jump-started our offense.” Oium was not alone in his excellent performance in the series opener, as fourth-year pitcher Joe Pankow grinded out a complete game to keep the pressure of the Maroon bull pen in the first of three games. After allowing four runs and seven hits in the first three frames,
he settled in and gave up only one run and four base hits the rest of the way. The nightcap of the Saturday doubleheader did not turn out in Chicago’s favor as they dropped a close 7–5 contest. Down two runs with two outs and the potential game-tying runs on the basepaths, Jack Cinoman hit a sharp line drive, but it was snared by the Dallas second baseman, ending the game. “It was like any other at-bat,” Cinoman said. “I was just trying to get on base and keep the inning going any way possible. I hit the ball well, but right at him—just part of the game.” Back at J. Kyle Anderson field on Sunday, the Maroons demolished Dallas 13–4 to take the rubber match with a display of their all-around offensive firepower. Chicago totaled 14 hits, led by Cinoman’s three hits and five
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Second-year Jennifer Kung prepares for a backhand against Coe on April 11. Kung won her match 6–3, 6–1 as the Maroons triumphed 7–0. JAKE GRUBMAN/MAROON
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