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Veteran trustee picked to head UCMC Board

By Asher Klein News Editor L ongtime trustee Rodney L. Goldstein was appointed chairman of the U of C Medical Center (UCMC) Board of Trustees last week.

Goldstein has served on the Board for 18 years and was vice-chair under James S. Crown, the interim chair of the Board, whom Goldstein will replace when the University approves the move in June.

Goldstein will be the first person appointed to the position full-time since Valerie Jarrett, who stepped down last year to move to Washington, where she is a senior advisor to President Obama.

“I am honored to have this oppor-

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tunity to serve our exceptional medical community in this new role and to work even more closely with our outstanding physicians, researchers, nurses, management leaders, and volunteers,” Goldstein said in a press release.

The managing director of Chicago investment firm Frontenac Company, Goldstein has served on a number of other boards of directors, and is trustee of Cancer Research Foundation, Chicago, among other civic foundations.

University and UCMC officials were confident in Goldstein’s future success, emphasizing his experience and insight.

“We are fortunate to have someone of Rod’s dedication and experience to serve in this important role at a time of both tremendous opportunities and complexity,” said Andrew Alper (A.B. ’80, M.B.A. ’81), chairman of the University’s Board of Trustees. “Rod shares with University and Medical Center leaders a compelling vision of the Medical Center’s continuing role as a leading institution of research, clinical care, education, and community engagement.”

University President Robert Zimmer said Goldstein’s abilities match the Medical Center’s goals.

“The University is committed to outstanding research and education and the impact of that research and education on improving the quality of people’s lives. These values are powerfully demonstrated through the work of the Medical Center, where we are

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At Summer Breeze, Illmatic is the move

The Major Activities Board (MAB) unveils the performing acts for this year's Summer Breeze Friday afternoon.

Nas will perform at the event, which takes place May 15.

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By Asher Klein News Editor Summer Breeze will look and sound a little different this year. Nas, Damian Marley, and the Dirty Projectors are set to perform at the May 15 concert, which will this year feature a DJ and a Fire Escape film.

The Major Activities Board (MAB), which organizes the show, was careful when finding artists after complaints that last year’s show was too indie—

Voxtrot, Santigold, and Broken Social Scene performed, all of which are known as indie acts.

Only one indie act will play this year: the Dirty Projectors. Nas gained widespread acclaim for his 1994 rap album, Illmatic, and Damian Marley, Bob Marley’s youngest son, incorporates hip-hop and reggae into his music.

“I think Summer Breeze this year is going to appeal to a lot of different people, both graduates and undergraduates,” third-year MAB Board

member Marie Joh said.

Fourth-year MAB Chair Liat Bird said the last Summer Breeze’s indie bent wasn’t deliberate. “MAB always tries to go for as diverse a lineup as possible.

Last year was kind of a rough year for us in terms of who was available,” she said. “There’s always an element of luck to it.”

The Board did its best to find a wide range of artists, Bird said. “We had broken it down into three genres: rock

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Funding drop-off threatens UCMC's Haiti operations

Offering experience and engagement, teaching programs attract students

By Carolanne Fried News Staff The Haitian field hospital where University Medical Center staff treated patients in the wake of the January earthquake is now struggling with funding issues and faces possible closure.

Th e Fo n d Pa r i s i e n D i s a s t e r Recovery Center (DRC), located in the small town of Fond Parisien near the Domincan border, was established soon after the earthquake.

Since its inception, the DRC has been run collaboratively by the University of Chicago, Harvard, and several NGOs. The hospital has treated over 1,200 patients to date, but it may close soon.

DRC administrators have applied for funding from the United Nations and the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, but have been caught up in bureaucratic red tape, repeatedly being asked to resubmit their application.

“The reason the hospital is closing is due to funding constraints,” said Vincenzo Bollettino, director of Programs and Administration at

the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), which founded the hospital and displacement center. “The real thing that has kept us alive through this is individual donors. The U of C was a life saver because they provided some crucial initial funding,” Bolletin said.

University of Chicago’s support on the ground was mainly channeled through the Medical Center's Global Health Initiative (GHI)—aimed more at research, teaching, and clinical work abroad, rather than disaster relief—but its assistance seems to be nearing an end. “We’ve been scaling down for the past three weeks or so, and many patients have been discharged,” said Mélodie Kinet (A.B. ’08), a GHI coordinator.

“We are still talking with University leadership about the role that the University of Chicago is going to be playing in Haiti,” Kinet said, although not on behalf of the GHI. The instability of the post-disaster environment in Haiti, as well as funding uncertainties, have made the decision-making process difficult.

“The University won’t make a sound commitment about exactly what it will do, because that doesn’t make

sense due to the conditions on the ground,” she said.

The U of C and Harvard have shared the burden of directing the hospital, with different physicians holding the position as they have flown in and out of the country.

“We have alternated leadership the whole time based on who is available,” Bollettino said. “There is a very organized method of signing off to each other. The people who have led the operation so far have all worked together previously.”

The hospital has been directed

by U of C physicians Christian Theodosis and Chrissy Babcock, but was placed back under the leadership of the HHI April 21, when Harvard’s Dr. Hilarie Cranmer returned to Fond Parisien for her third tour of the hospital. Cranmer has been involved in the hospital since its instantiation, founding the project in January.

A message on the HHI website calls for “urgent financial support” on behalf of the Fond Parisien DRC. “We would like to be able to reduce the number of patients, but a little more slowly. We would prefer to downsize over the next six months rather than

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By Amy Myers News Staff From the Mississippi Delta to local Chicago neighb orhoods, Teach for America (TFA) and the Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) will send University students to schools across the country next year.

Programs like TFA and UTEP have lately become popular options for U of C graduates seeking hands-on work experience before entering the job world or graduate school, which some participants have credited to an increased interest in civic engagement.

O f 17 8 Te a c h f o r A m e r i c a applicants, 29 University students have accepted positions in Teach for America’s two-year program, up from 19 last year. TFA sends recent graduates to low-income schools, teaching in a range of areas. Students become full-time teachers in these school districts, observing the educational gap firsthand.

According to Recruitment Associate Alyse Lattanzi, Teach for America actively recruits across 400 college campuses, including at the U of C. “We know that the high caliber of students from the University have an incredible opportunity to make an impact in the classroom after graduation,” Lattanzi said.

UTE P, a University masters program, has grown in popularity for students seeking teaching certification and firsthand experience in urban schools. Chicago UTEP Director Kavita Kapadia Matsko attributes the program’s growth “to an increased awareness of the complexity and challenges associated with effective teaching in urban settings.”

“Both UTEP and TFA are committed to preparing teachers for urban schools, which aligns well with the social justice orientation that so many of our University students exemplify,” Matsko said.

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Despite budget problems, Harvard administrator foresees continued involvement in Haiti

Faithful or no, couples misunderstand monogamy, scholar says

By Leland Bybee News Staff Whether they’re cheaters or chaste, people in relationships often set the bar higher for their partners than they do for themselves.

“My research showed a great variety in the way couples view cheating,” said anthropologist Katherine Frank, a scholar-in-residence at American University during a talk Saturday.

Her recent research focused on how couples understand monogamy. Frank drew from interviews and ethnographic studies performed with both monogamous and non-monogamous couples. Frank found a wide range of relationship configurations that dealt with boundaries in a variety of ways. “I found that monogamous couples differed from non-monogamous couples in the way they felt about love, but both still established boundaries,” Frank said.

Frank found that couples had differing standards for the others’ behavior, and often had difficulty communicating their desires. In one couple Frank studied, both partners believed the other would be unwilling to make their relationship non-monogamous, while at the same time both desired to do so.

Frank’s past works have dealt with swinging, the sex industry, and pornography. She is the author of G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire, in which she uses her background as an anthropologist to look at the nature of strip clubs and the sex industry.

The talk, entitled “Feminism, Heterosexuality and Non-monogamy,” was hosted by the Center for Gender Studies, part of the center’s Friday Lunch Series.

A military helicopter flies a patient to the USNS Comfort, a Navy medical ship. The patient had stumbled injured into a doctor's camp in Fond Parisien, after wandering for a long time looking for medical care.

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While the overall environment in Haiti may be unstable and the leadership ever-changing, the Fond Parisien DRC “has been pretty-user friendly,” Bollettino said. “It’s safe, it’s clean, a lot of people know each other, and we have decent resources,” Bollettino said.

The program even has a Humanitarian Studies group, so that people come understanding principles of humanitarian assistance in addition to their own area of expertise, he said.

While speculation circulates, Bollettino fore-

New Board chair worked on recent hospital expansions TRUSTEES continued from front page committed to delivering outstanding clinical care,” Zimmer said. “Rod will be a wonderful leader for the Medical Center Board in working with the University and the leadership of UCMC to see these values realized at the highest levels.”

Goldstein was on the committees that initiated the construction of Comer Children’s Hospital and Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine; he serves on three Trustee committes and has chaired the Finance and Strategy Commitee for 13 years, which he said has prepared him to be chairman.

“I come out of that experience understanding the importance of consistent investments in human capital, as well as facilities, that can sustain our position at The Forefront of Medicine. I’ve learned that while long–term economic sustainability is a foundation for our important work, it

is just the starting point, and not an end in itself,” Goldstein said.

Dr. Everett E. Vokes, interim dean of the Biological Sciences Division and CEO of the UCMC for over a year, said that “Rod’s background in planning for the success of varied enterprises will be invaluable as the Medical Center enters a critical period of growth and new opportunities.”

Goldstein joined the UCMC Board in 1992, after his mother and a sister passed away from cancer. “Everyone has been touched in some way by health challenges to those they love. That experience drives my commitment to the Medical Center’s efforts to eradicate disease, change people’s lives for the better through research and education, and see that the sick receive superior clinical care,” Goldstein said.

Nas and Marley may play combined set SUMMER BREEZE continued from front page and indie, rap and hip-hop, and if possible, dance and electronica,” she said. The group tried to find an act from each genre, but Nas and Damian Marley, who have a joint album coming out May 18 and will go on tour together soon after that, came as a kind of “package deal,” Bird said.

“When Nas and Damian came along, they were at such a good price and such a good act that we decided to go for them,” Bird said. “It was a great opportunity for us.”

The two are slated to play individual sets, then finish the show together, as they did in March at South by Southwest.

The line-up isn’t the only change to this year’s Summer Breeze. DJ OCD Automatic will spin between Nas’s and Marley’s sets, Bird said, and Fire Escape Films is putting together “a fun little MTV-esque type collection of images” to play after the Dirty Projectors play. “This is something we’ve talked about a lot in the past,” she said. “Just because

it’s kind of boring for people to watch us moving things on stage, and another criticism we’ve heard is that it takes too long on the set changes.”

The beer garden will also move, to SnellHitchcock quad, and Bird suggested outdoor furniture might be brought in to allow for more casual drinking.

Bird said she was “super stoked” for the show, and Joh said, “As a fan, it’s actually going to be ridiculous.”

First-year Henry Ginna said the line-up was “prime meat” and surpassed his expectations for a college concert.

“I was really impressed that they were able to pull a line-up like that together, with a well known artist like Nas and a more independent band like the Dirty Projectors,” Ginna said.

Tickets are on sale at the Reynolds Club; in a number of graduate schools; and, also for the first time, about one thousand will be available on Student Government's uBazaar Web site.

sees some type of continued presence in Haiti.

“It has been a great project; it has just been a challenge because of funding constraints,” he said. “It’s likely that we’ll have a role in the medical treatment; it will just downsize.”

The project may shift away from a clinical presence toward support of other NGOs already working in and around the camp, Bollettino said. “The American Refugee Committee runs a family camp nearby, and housing is such a huge need,” he said. Other NGOs involved in the project include LoveA-Child Orphanage, which owns the land, and Operation Smile, which performed reconstruc-

tive surgery in the camp.

As programs such as 24-hour surgery fade, the hospital’s aims may shift toward case management and less intensive forms of care.

“Getting people into their own homes or transitional homes instead of sitting in a hospital bed is important,” Bollettino said.

While the University of Chicago has not decided what its future involvement in Haiti will be, continued partnership with HHI and other NGOs on the ground in Haiti is a possibility. “We’ve had a really close partnership with U of C, and they’ve been amazingly dedicated in pushing this thing forward,” Bollettino said.

TFA helps students determine grad school plans, how to fix problems within educational system TEACHING continued from front page has allowed for the expansion of the University’s UTEP program. The grant will provide a living stipend for teachers.

“The grant will help us strengthen our curriculum to align with the needs of Chicago Public Schools and expand programming to include high-school math and biology preparation,” Matsko said.

For students like fourth-year Ryan Mills, TFA offers the chance to tackle the issues studied inside the University’s classrooms in the real world. After studying poverty and educational issues, Mills felt “a desire to put into practice what I’ve studied.” Mills majored in Law, Letters, and Society and minored in Human Rights and plans to teach secondary math in the Missippi Delta region next year.

Mills named initiatives like the Neighborhood Schools Program as the inspiration for many students to continue on into educational fields. “The issues that you read and study about are not things happening far away. It’s something happening in our own backyard,” he said.

Graduating third-year Political Science and Latin American Studies double-major M a r k Re d m o n d s a i d t h e U n i v e r s i t y ’ s

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atmosphere makes these service programs attractive. “There’s a really strong feeling of [students] wanting to get involved in public service somehow,” he said. “TFA is looking for individuals who have been challenged in the past.” He will teach high- school biology in Phoenix, AZ, next year for TFA. Fourth-year Kimberlee Pelter majored in Public Policy, specializing in education and race. The University’s location on the South Side led Pelter to seek a teaching job. “We are an island, surrounded by low income neighborhoods,” Pelter said. “That’s our context.”

In light of the poor job market, some students view these programs as a means to determine and further their future careers.

“Education will let me see if I want to work directly with the people who are experiencing poverty,” Pelter said. She plans to use the program to decide in what capacity, whether first-hand or a legislative view, she’d like to be involved in the educational process.

Other students, like Mills, plan to attend graduate schools following the two-year program. The University of Chicago Law School is one of many graduate schools that offers scholarships to TFA alumni.

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JORDAN HOLLIDAY, Editor-in-Chief JAKE GRUBMAN, Managing Editor ASHER KLEIN, News Editor ELLA CHRISTOPH, News Editor PETER IANAKIEV, 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 ALISON HOWARD, Assoc. Viewpoints Editor

Preaching to the listhost The University needs better outlets for publicizing events across campus At noon today, the Center for the Study of Race, Culture, and Politics Artist-in-Residence Kimberly Mayhorn will put on a performance entitled, “The Tea Party: An Intimate Conversation.”

(If you hurry, you might still make it.)

Thursday night at I-House, there will be a talk and reception with James Fallows, the Vare Writer-in-Residence, who has written articles for The Atlantic and speeches for former President Jimmy Carter. Two nights after Fallows, I-House will host the African and Caribbean Student Association’s cultural show, “Woman Take Two.” Mayhorn, Fallows, and the ACSA might sound like an odd trio, but their events have at least a few things in common: They are interesting and rewarding additions to our usual routines of sitting in class, sitting in the dining hall, and sitting at our computer desks; they require significant investments of time and dollars; and, of course, most of us

on campus haven’t heard about any of them.

It’s a shame that so many campus events don’t receive the publicity they deserve. Not every school is so fortunate to have the breadth and number of speakers, performances, exhibits, discussions, and free meals that are offered at the U of C. Too often RSOs and departments pour hours of work into these events, only to have a handful of people show up. Large events like Summer Breeze, Scav, and UT shows have established reputations, plus the manpower to advertise widely and turn out hundreds of people. High-profile events are only a small slice of what the campus offers, though, and lesser-known events with only a few people backing them shouldn’t get swept under the rug.

At present, the resources available to those advertising new events just aren’t sufficient. Putting up posters on bulletin boards is easy enough, but the boards become multilayered hodgepodges of

outdated, oversized fliers, and information about campus events gets crowded out by ads from grad schools and test-prep companies. Listhosts help spread the word, but they miss a large chunk of any event’s possible audience.

Many people on campus—and not only students—would be interested in hearing Jimmy Carter’s speechwriter talk, but only a fraction of them are on listhosts that have received the e-mail blast about the Fallows event. Relying on listhosts will get you an audience, but it will be essentially the same audience each time. This doesn’t facilitate the sort of intellectual dabbling the University endorses.

A few measures could help the situation. For RSO events, Student Government should consider putting up weekly fliers for the events it sponsors—similar to the highly visible fliers Doc uses to advertise its weekly lineups. The my.UChicago portal already features a calendar of com-

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ing events; the same widget could be placed on other pages students frequent, like Chalk and cMore. And the Events calendar at event.uchicago.edu should allow community members to subscribe so that they receive notices about events that interest them, like physics lectures or literature readings.

Few people will visit the Events calendar daily, but notices in their inboxes would help remind them.

For all the work that goes into organizing events on this campus, the publicity shouldn’t be a slapdash, scattershot effort, but that’s often what it comes down to. The events can be a tremendous addition to the campus experience of staff, faculty, and students, and more should be done to ensure that organizers can get the word out to everyone interested.

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

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The pompousness of prescriptivism

MATT TYNDALE, Designer ATHENA JIN XIE, Designer ANNA AKERS-PECHT, Copy Editor ALICE BLACKWOOD, Copy Editor

There is no point in following grammatical rules purely for their own sake

science and my mother say that the sun still shines in the winter. But my mother lives in Florida, so I think that has something to do with it.

Obviously, science has never been to Chicago.

The fact that my mother lives in Florida is important because I live in Florida, too. Now I only live there for six weeks a year or so, but it used to be more. Like 52 weeks a year. And you know what I saw in all my weeks in Florida? Your future. And it looks

Since the 1960s we have increasingly seen a deficit of thought about what overcoming sexism would mean. Robert A. Heinlein wrote books filled with strong female characters in sexual relationships based around respect, loyalty, and communication. As a vision of the future it is now unthinkable as a possibility. To think that when these books were written they were criticized for being overly patriarchal seems absurd to us. But they were.

And yet, sexism was not merely endemic in 1961, it was the norm, enforced by law. Help-wanted ads in newspapers were segregated, abortion was illegal, and married women could not legally learn about contraceptives in Connecticut. Sex remained a mystery. The female orgasm had not been spotted in the wild since the days of Freud, and was believed extinct because no one was looking for it. The Pill had been introduced just one year earlier.

What happened? How is it that with the progress feminism has made, the dreams have become so much less than what they were? As women gained equality before the law, increased equality in the workplace, and control over their sex lives, the political promise died out.

To look at modernity as the cause is to render this unique phenomenon outside of history, and make it mysterious.

Rather it was a general failure of emancipation from 1965 onwards that led to political disunity, infighting, and a renewed focus on women as women, victims because of who they were, rather than women as people who deserve the freedom

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I find it amusing when people correct my English. Not because I am so self-assured as a native speaker that my mastery could be beyond question—far from it, actually—but rather because my friends’ corrections are often either insignificant or based on their belief in some sacred “rule” that I have trampled upon. For example: “I meant to put Nussbaum’s new book in my backpack this morning so I could give it to you, but I forgot it at home on accident.”

“By accident,” they reply with a most pompous sigh. I didn’t correct them, of course, because one learns quickly that the sort of person who is driven to constantly correct others’ English is exactly the sort of person who will never be convinced they are doing so unnecessarily.

Why do some among us feel compelled to point out these “errors,” however unimportant they may be?

Or even when the error isn’t one at all, such as the prepositional phrase “on accident”; using “they” to refer to a single person; ending sentences with prepositions; splitting infinitives; using the passive voice; and beginning sentences with coordinat-

ing conjunctions like “and,” “but,” and “or?”

Comrades and friends, leave your false religion. Neither heaven nor good writing will be found by submitting to the indoctrination you received in grade school or by studying Strunk & White’s Elements of Style. If we use language to convey information, then a good test of a practice’s utility is its maintenance of intelligibility. Perfect intelligibility was achieved in the preceding paragraphs, even while I broke each of those so-called rules.

One hypothesis is that my comrade merely wants to inform me that begin-

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Here comes the sun Wearing sunscreen essential to avoiding tanlines, sunburns, and death

By Alison Howard Associate Viewpoints Editor Wear sunscreen. I’m serious, do it. This isn’t a metaphor for achieving your dreams. I mean, you should achieve your dreams (if they’re sensible, anyway. If you’ve dreamed about kissing a zombie Angelina Jolie, then I’ve got nothing. We’ll see how the zombie apocalypse goes). I’m not wearing sunscreen right now, and I can already tell I’m going to regret it.

If you’re not, you’re going to regret it,

too. Unless it’s nighttime. Then you don’t have to.

I’m not suggesting that you don’t know how to wear sunscreen. I mean, it’s pretty easy (a refresher, though: you slather it on your exposed skin.

Hawt!) And that’s exactly why I’m reminding you about sunscreen. It’s getting hot outside, and many of us UChicagoans have forgotten all about how to deal with sunny weather— you know, by wearing sunscreen. I know that technically you’re supposed to wear sunscreen in winter too, because

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When you get down to it, wearing sunscreen is a really good idea SUNSCREEN continued from page 4 like a leatherback sea turtle. Well, that’s what it will look like if you don’t wear sunscreen, that is.

Otherwise, it kind of looks like an old person.

Maybe you’re thinking, “Ha! I’m never gonna get old like that!” And maybe you won’t— there is that whole zombie apocalypse thing after all. But the threat of future leathery skin isn’t even the least of your sunscreen-less worries. You know what I’m talking about: awkward tan lines. Let’s perform a thought experiment, and say you sat in Hutch Courtyard for an hour last Wednesday, and were all like, “Yes! I’m soaking up some Vitamin D! This is awesome!” But you know what isn’t awesome? Having a reddish forearm and a pale upper arm because of how you rolled up your cardigan sleeve. Did this happen to me?

No way! Because I wear sunscreen. In theory.

Basically, if you are sitting outside, and you start to feel your skin getting hot and red, your skin actually is getting hot and red. It’s called sunburn.

You should put on some sunscreen.

Besides, sunscreen actually does help you achieve your dreams. And escape from prison.

You know Icarus, right? He’s this Greek dude who was stuck in prison with his dad— family business, you know. His dad was all like, “Let’s escape! Here, put on these wax wings I made you! Just don’t get too close to the sun, son.”

And then they just flew out of there. Can you

guess what happened? Icarus did fly too close to the sun, and then he died! The moral of this story isn’t that you should listen to your parents.

It’s that you should wear sunscreen, because sunscreen protects you from the sun. If Icarus had worn sunscreen, then he wouldn’t have died. I may be leaving out some details, but they’re not important. It logically follows that, if you wear sunscreen, you won’t have to listen to your parents. This will allow you to achieve the dreams that they expressly forbid, like becoming a basket-weaver, an English major, or Angelina Jolie’s zombie hook-up.

In conclusion, you have three options here. You can stay inside all the time. This is like being in prison. This is a bad choice. You can go outside and forget sunscreen and grow up to be a leatherback sea turtle. This isn’t as cool as it sounds, because you would be a land-locked sea turtle, and then you’d reverse-drown. Or you can wear sunscreen and grow up to be a nice old person and retire to Florida, where you’ll wear sunscreen every day. OK, so there are more options. You can buy a parasol, move to Washington State, or simply count on the zombie apocalypse happening. But really there’s just one option that’s worthwhile. And do you really want me to say it again?

—Alison Howard is a second-year in the College majoring in English.

Focus on language insufficient for addressing complex issue LETTER TO THE EDITOR continued from page 4 to create their own lives. The culture of male privilege is an easy target in this narrative: Women are oppressed by men; therefore the oppressing culture must change. But this ignores the ways in which culture is determined by other forces.

Changing the culture of male privilege requires more than banishing gendered pronouns in favor of “they,” a linguistic evolution I wholeheartedly endorse. Rather, it requires consciously deciding how we want to address the questions of sexual freedom, of gender roles, of social visibility of different ways of life, of socialization by the state, of religious practices that continue oppression, and, ultimately, of the role of the state in society. It is a conversation that focusing on particular instances of oppression and particular methods of socialization render impossible.

To have this conversation requires imagining a society in which consciousness can decide how society evolves, and in doing so will enable a more complete transformation of society than merely achieving equality of the sexes. Piecemeal moral reformism will never be able to act on enough of society to effect genuine transformation. While at the most immediate level it is true that social relations are not preordained but are the results of

choices, our understanding of social relations must take into account the fact that they are at once real and imaginary, at once abstract and immediate. To deal with either one of these prongs in isolation is to either react or affirm, neither paving the way forward nor having a goal beyond the present.

The personal is not the political because personal choices, as important and meaningful as they are to the persons making them, take place in a society that is not controlled by its members. Our good wishes do not become represented in society automatically, even if we live the life we ourselves consider ideal. As Socrates says in The Republic, while the lone philosopher may live his own life justly, he has not contributed to social justice by doing it, no matter how virtuous his conduct is.

In conclusion, I can only state that the failure of our parents and grandparents to emancipate themselves in ’68 leaves us with the unenviable task of having to address the social questions they left behind in an environment where nothing is political, and everything has to be. Addressing these questions will require reexamining the path that has led us to this dreadful place.

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African-American Vernacular English no less correct than standard forms LANGUAGE continued from page 4 ning a sentence with “but” is incorrect. The intention to educate usually isn’t malevolent, but I don’t think it’s the right explanation here, because in my experience prescriptivists have little reason why I should follow their usage.

“Why can’t I split an infinitive?” I’ll ask.

“You can’t.”

“Why not?”

“It’s not proper English.” Ah, yes. This, I think, is the source of Prescriptivists’ fetishization of all these rules: they see themselves as speakers of something called “proper English,” which I undermine when I split an infinite or use the passive voice. But really, the worst we could accuse them of is being a little arrogant; more chilling is denigration of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE, a variety of English spoken mostly in black communities) based on the same proper/ improper false dichotomy.

In 2004, Bill Cosby gave a much-discussed speech about the state of the urban black youth population. Notably, he described AAVE as not English and lamented some black youths’ (“knuckleheads”) inability to code-switch between the way they spoke “on the corner” and speaking English in the home. They “don’t want to learn English,” Cosby claimed.

I am doubtful. Cosby simply plays into the traditional explanation of AAVE’s existence (a myth, obviously): Blacks are mentally inferior (“knuckleheads”) and too lazy (“don’t want to”) to learn proper English.

Two years later, in Akeelah and the Bee, a black professor-patriarch played by Laurence Fishburne warns the young, gifted Akeelah not to speak “ghetto talk” in his company. The film’s director and screenwriter, Doug Atchison, later won an NAACP Image Award for the film’s writing. Aside from the explicit antagonism to AAVE expressed

by Fishburne’s character, we can read the film as Akeelah’s admission to “proper” society by metaphorically mastering its language when she

becomes national spelling bee co-champion.

One final example: In their 2010 book Game Change, reporters John Heilemann and Mark Halperin revealed that Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid had said Obama might win the election because he has “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to.” Which is to say, America would only elect a black person if she spoke Standard American English (SAE) in addition to AAVE, if she spoke AAVE at all.

This is really how we should think about the relationship between SAE and AAVE: simply two different varieties of English. To speak of one as proper English and the other as improper, illogical, inferior, etc., is simply to unscientifically infect social science with racial prejudice. Worse, research shows that when teachers consistently put down AAVE in the classroom, children become discouraged and their learning of SAE suffers. Instead, we should merely teach SAE at school as a supplement to AAVE, which is learned among one’s peers and family, because that’s all it is: a vernacular learned informally, not an immoral corruption of English.

“Why no pearl-clutching about Appalachian or White Southern English? They are two varieties as different from SAE as AAVE is, and while they are mocked, there exists no effort to stamp out their usage. Our double standard is clear. Let’s dispense with the lurid digs at the state of black youth culture, its supposed rejection of proper English, etc., and address the real problem: Our education system is failing to adequately teach the variety of English spoken in most jobs, academia, and the government, and thus is failing too many black children. Yes, speaking SAE is necessary to access most institutions of American society—but learning SAE does not mean losing AAVE, and any notion of “proper” or “improper” is just an effort to self-aggrandize.

—Andrew Thornton is a third-year in the College majoring in Philosophy.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT MAY 4, 2010

FILM

The Clash: DKE's Battle of the Bands

Street art goes from back alley to box office

By Jordan Larson Voices Was Here “I don’t know who the joke is on, or if there’s even a joke.” This line aptly summarizes Exit Through the Gift Shop, the “Banksy movie” currently making its tour across the country. The film has been marketed as the story of Theirry Guetta, a.k.a. Mr. Brainwash, a former French shopkeeper who infiltrated the world of street art and befriended the infamous British graffiti artist Banksy. But Banksy, who’s also the film’s director, had something different in mind.

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP Banksy Landmark Century Centre Cinema

FSSSH! performs as part of Delta Kappa Epsilon's annual Battle of the Bands on Saturday. The winning band, Pidgin Patches, earned a chance to open at Summer Breeze on May 15.

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Guetta entered the world of street art via his cousin, the French street artist Space Invader.

Guetta eventually befriends some of the largest figures in the scene, meanwhile taping thousands of hours of footage of the artists.

After several years of aimless filming and becoming more and more entrenched in the street art scene, Guetta is finally introduced to Banksy by their mutual friend, street artist and designer Shepard Fairey (famous for his Obama “Hope” poster). Banksy and Guetta then become a nearly inseparable pair; Guetta gains Banksy’s trust and is even allowed to film the intensely mysterious artist.

It is here that the film’s mood dramatically shifts. After the immense popularity of Banksy’s 2006 Los Angeles exhibition, Barely Legal, Guetta decides to put his hours of footage to

EXIT continued on page 9

ART

Rennaissance Society invites us to the space between

By Jordan Larson Voices Femme Fatale In Seductiveness of the Interval, the form is just as important as the content.

The Renaissance Society’s latest exhibit attempts to give a multicultural look at v u l n e r a b i l i t y , a c t i o n , a n d m e m o r y. A collaboration between Romanian artists Stefan Constantinescu, Andrea Faciu, and Ciprian Muresan, the exhibit is a mixture of video, audio, and mixed media pieces, all shown together in one house-like structure, complete with separate rooms and hallways.

SEDUCTIVENESS OF THE INTERVAL Renaissance Society Through June 27

Although the exhibit does not present an exclusively Romanian perspective, the mark of the brutal regime of pre-revolution Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu is certainly present, though the influence is far less obvious than one might imagine.

Constantinescu’s two video pieces depict a man’s personal crisis on public transportation in “Troleibuzul 92”, and the lives of Chileans immigrating to Romania and Sweden in “Passenger”. Both works explore the relationship between the public and the personal.

Muresan’s two video pieces deal with the nature of revolution and torture: “Dog

Luv” depicts several scenes of dog puppets torturing each other, while “Auto-da-Fé” creates a narrative out of political street graffiti.

The exhibit’s only ray of happiness comes from Faciu’s work “EXUBERANTIA suspended”, a mixed media piece consisting of one room playing an audio track, and a small garden on the roof of the exhibition’s all-encompassing structure. Seductiveness’s theme of vulnerability is most clear here.

As Faciu explained in the discussion with the artists, the garden is meant to represent hope and the frailty of life.

According to the artists, the exhibit attempts to function as a theater piece, with each work representing a separate act. The structure serves to unify them by acting as a stage. According to the artists, one of their main influences was French playwright Eugène Ionesco, who emphasized the space between acts. The space between the exhibit’s installation rooms are these intervals— the spaces between the different acts in the play. At one point, Constantinescu quipped that “an artist should be really active, otherwise they die out.”

Therein lies the seductiveness of the interval: In the space between acts, the viewer isn’t doing anything. The intervals between rooms in the exhibit act as negative spaces in which the viewer can consider their role as participants in the play. Or perhaps the interval is seductive because of its relief from the pain depicted

in the video installations; the exhibit is pretty bleak in its depictions of torture and repression.

Seductiveness of the Interval succeeds as a group exhibition. The structure, though seemingly redundant, does make one aware of one’s progression through the exhibit, which is an experience in itself.

Andrea Faciu's "EXUBERANTIA suspended" puts a new spin on the traditional kegger.

COURTESY OF THE RENAISSANCE SOCIETY

And according to the artists, we are privy to the exhibition’s best realization to date.

Although the exhibit debuted at the 2009 Venice Biennale, the artists believe that the exhibit works much more effectively at the Renaissance Society, as they “couldn’t realize [the structure] as beautifully in Venice.”

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Style

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by Jessica Hester

If the swimsuit fits...

I tried to sneak out of the changing room so that no one would see me. I was trying on bathing suits in a quiet beach-side store in Ft. Lauderdale, and at the salesgirl's request, had left half of my fitting-room haul on a rack outside. Having already thrown out all of the other contenders, I needed the suits that were hanging just out of reach. I attempted to slink stealthily out of my fitting room and back inside before my friends noticed. It didn’t work.

After turning in our honors theses, two of my friends and I dragged our exhausted, sick selves to Florida to get some shore-side sunshine and much-needed sleep. I was looking forward to napping on the sand and waking up sun-kissed and rested. I wasn't eager to bare my pasty, slightly doughy torso on a strip of sand famous for rocksolid, golden bodies. I thought my biggest obstacle would be flying there (I hate planes) until I realized that I had forgotten to pack a swimsuit and would have to buy a new one. At least you get a free drink and a little snack on an airplane; trying

on bathing suits feels like nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment.

Every spring, fashion magazines claim to have found “the best swimsuit for your body,� but I am convinced that the best swimsuit for me is an oversized t-shirt or tunic. Left to my own devices while my friends browsed some other local boutiques, I had selected some modest, monochromatic suits: a brown-and-black tankini, a blue one-piece, and a pair of boyshorts paired with a black tank top. When I proudly held up the hangers to show off my finds, the salesgirl looked unimpressed. “Those are for old women,� she informed me. “Also, they’re ugly.�

I had to argue with her claim that the suits were for old women. There are many reasons why women, young and old, would want to buy a onepiece suit. Whether for athletic, religious, bodyimage related, or numerous other reasons, many young women feel more comfortable in a onepiece suit, and many brands such as BodyGlove make attractive options. I couldn’t disagree with

the salesgirl over her other claims, though. With garish color combinations and awkward cuts, these particular suits were definitely ugly.

Even at my healthiest, when I was toned and held to a diet more nutritious than Swedish Fish and late-night Domino’s delivery, I never felt comfortable prancing around in skimpy suits.

Two-piece swimsuits always just made me feel physically agitated. I hated the feeling of ties digging into my hips or back. I’ve always been an avid swimmer, and never one to lie around on the sand. I didn’t like worrying that I was going to flash the entire beach when I dove into a big wave. Now, after gaining weight and struggling to lose it healthily, one-piece suits have become a safety blanket.

Standing in the dressing room—almost naked in front of a mirror that showed me all of my cellulite and my now-protruding tummy—was a lot worse than airplane take-off and landing. I kept tugging at the suits, trying to find something that helped me have confidence in a body that is still

somewhat unfamiliar.

When my friends marched to the fitting room to check on my progress, they were disgusted by my selections. It wasn’t just that the suits were ugly or too mature; they just weren’t “me.�

On a whim, buried beneath my “safe� choices, I had also grabbed a suit from the sale rack, an adorable—but barely-there—polka dot bikini with red buttons at the hips and shoulders. I had to admit, it didn't look bad. The buttons reminded me of a bracelet I made and wear every day, and the suit was flattering in a way I hadn’t expected a two-piece to be.

Although I felt a little out of my element walking around with so much skin exposed, I felt good in the bathing suit. It was fun, comfortable, and true to my style. I might have flashed a few people while splashing around and jumping through waves, but I didn’t notice. Once I got in the water, I forgot I was wearing it. It just felt like a second skin. To me, that’s the sign of a bathing suit worth keeping.

MUSIC

Virtuosity and vivacity: a night at Mandel Hall with the Belcea Quartet

By Alexandria Pabich Voices String Theorist The Belcea Quartet’s show last Friday at Mandel Hall brought together young and old to admire and experience the quartet’s classical music. Belcea Quartet is on a worldwide tour, with diverse locations including Louisiana, Brussels, and London.

Their great energy and chemistry was evident as early as the first note and brought together this dynamic group of four from around the world.

The group started out strong, putting to rest right from the beginning any notion that classical music is boring. All the musicians displayed considerable liveliness and passion. Each member in the quartet took charge of the music in turn, without any one sound dominating. Their balanced, fourvoice texture was impressive—the first violin did not take charge above all, but instead shared the role with the other instruments in different parts of the pieces.

The music chosen for this performance created a program full of energy and variety.

The first piece by Beethoven, String Quartet No. 13 in B-flat major, was played with a kind of back and forth figure, and went from lively to chaotic. All the movements worked with this same idea, and the musicians

incorporated it into their physical presence on the stage, making a lovely piece of music enjoyable to watch as well as hear. Each member was taken over by the music, moving freely with their bowing and showing the deep emotions of the piece in the way they played.

The second piece by Szymanowski, String Quartet No. 2, was somewhat eerie sounding and a little dark, but it still maintained a playful nature. Changing with each movement, the piece kept a rushed and unsettling feeling before finally arriving at a calm ending. The last piece by Bartók, String Quartet No.1, brought the different instruments all together and had the quartet follow each other in a canon-like fashion. The cello took charge with a sort of solo—something very different from the other pieces. The long bows moving in sync with one another were beautiful to watch and equally beautiful to listen to.

While the performance was not long— about an hour and a half—it felt complete and whole. The audience was engaged throughout the whole concert, captivated by the emotion and passion filling each musician. The music felt not only elegant and joyous, but personal as well. The audience members could not keep their eyes off the quartet, as they were amusing and impressive not only in their playing, but in

From left, Corina Belcea-Fisher, Laura Samuel, Antoine Lederlin, and Krzysztof Chorzelski form the Belcea Quartet. The group played selections of Beethoven, Szymanowski, and BartĂłk at their Friday performance.

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Banksy paints a muddled portrait of Mr. Brainwash EXIT continued from page 7 use. However, after gentle encouragement by Banksy, Guetta abandons his ridiculous film and instead begins making even more ridiculous art. After mortgaging his business to pay for a studio and staff, Guetta suddenly fancies himself to be a pop artist. He begins calling himself Mr. Brainwash and churns out candy colored, satirical prints, essentially becoming some exaggerated combination of Warhol and Banksy.

The insincerity and outlandishness of Guetta’s “art” is clear from the beginning; the speed with which he suddenly becomes an artist, the blatant unoriginality of his work, and the total selfishness with which he conducts himself all make it clear that Guetta—and the film itself—is not what we originally thought he was. The film culminates in Guetta’s 2008 Los Angeles exhibition Life is Beautiful, which is the result of some reluctant (and probably later regretted) help from Fairey and Banksy. Fueled by an influential LA Weekly article, naive fans and celebrities pour into the show on opening day, single-handedly making Mr. Brainwash a success. Though an egotistical and artistic fraud, Guetta’s art makes him into a millionaire nearly overnight.

Th e p r e v i o u s l y n o n e x i s t e n t t e n s i o n between Guetta and the other street artists becomes palpable and almost uncomfortable. Banksy even says, “I used to encourage everyone I met to make art. I don’t do that so much anymore.” The disapproval of Banksy, Fairey, and other street artists completely changes the theme and tone of the film. Though it took the majority of the film’s running time to arrive here, this seems to be its main point. To this end, the film is sloppy and confusing in how it gives the audience its message. It’s unclear what Banksy’s intentions were in making the movie: Is it a cautionary tale, an apology, or a trick on the audience?

While firmly criticizing Guetta, the film never even considers turning the same critical eye to street art itself. What does the ease with which Guetta imitates and fakes his way to fame say about the nature of the art he’s copying? If street art has now been brought into the mainstream and commoditized, is it still really street art? Exit Through the Gift Shop brings up many more questions than it answers, leaving us to wonder what the point of this film really is.

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CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | May 4, 2010

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Q&A: Servin’ it up with two-time UAA MVP Kendra Higgins

By Will Fallon Sports Editor Every team has a leader that it takes cues from. In the case of the women’s tennis team, it becomes a little more overt thanks to weekly-updated rankings.. For the Maroons, this position is filled by secondyear Kendra Higgins. She has been voted UAA MVP twice since she began playing for Chicago. We had the chance to talk to her about the season and what her goals are for the upcoming regional and national competitions: C H ICAGO M AROON : How’s it feel to be the best tennis player ever?

Kendra Higgins: At the school? Or this nation? I’m not the best. There are a lot of great players out there. It can change every day and little points can make or break a match. I mean, right now, I’m on a high, obviously, and I’m really happy right now.

A national title would be awesome, but I’m going for a team title first.

CM: With just two tournaments left, regionals and then nationals, what are you looking to do?

KH: Obviously, as a team we want our first national championship. We’ve made a great name for ourselves so far. Individually, I would like the opportunity to win the singles title, as well as defend the doubles title. The Emory win was huge for us, and it will help us to get a bid from our region. We may have another face-off with Emory, we may have another face-off with Williams, but our goal is [not to settle old scores; it’s] to be number one.

C M: At the UAAs, you faced a new number-one player from Emory; was there anything you did differently that you would attribute your win to?

KH: In any match, once in a while, I change up the game when something’s not working. I go for my shots though; I step in early. Good placement is important. I was very nervous going into the match [against Zahra Dawson], because my teammates have all had difficult matches against her.

Each point was critical; there were points where she nearly missed, or if I nearly missed, everything could have been different.

CM: How are you preparing for the end

of the season?

KH: We’re playing a lot every day and doing a lot of conditioning to get up to that extra level of endurance and stamina and strength. We’re all really eager to see how that pays off. We’re doing the same old routine; we aren’t going to add anything because it has been working out for us!

CM: Is there anything in particular you want to work on before regionals?

KH: I’m really nervous. I know I have a game, but it’s also about having patience and not getting aggravated. Especially in some of the closer matches, [I know] I’m [going to have to] really try to maintain my focus and take it one point and one match at a time.

CM: Do you have any good-luck rituals before games?

KH: Before every singles match and team match, we blast Taylor Swift and other pop music. We just like to dance in order to pump ourselves up, or basically wake ourselves up for an early match. But, we are very serious when we get on the court.

We’ll root for each other warming up for matches and try to stay loose. I also always

like to use the same vibration dampener. If I don’t, I feel like I’m going to lose. I have like five rackets but I only use two of them.

It’s all about superstition for me.

CM: Venus or Serena?

KH: I’ve actually met them both. I’ve seen them up close in person at one of the higher-tiered tournaments where they all play at. But, I have to go with Venus. She is poised. Serena is great also, but she comes across as a little stuck-up. Venus is just an amazing player.

CM: What is your favorite tennis movie?

KH: I actually really liked Wimbledon. If I could go to any grand slam it would be Wimbledon. And it’s a romantic comedy, and what girl doesn’t like a romantic comedy?

CM: Does your dominance in actual tennis matches translate to Wii tennis?

KH: I get that question all the time.

I’m actually one of the most horrible Wii tennis players! I’m horrible with the Wii. My strengths are just real tennis. And ping pong. I can’t play any other games relating to tennis.

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TRACK AND FIELD

Omueti breaks 100-meter record at Benedictine

By Dave Kates Sports Staff The men’s and women’s track and field teams got a unique chance to compete as individuals Friday as they traveled to Lisle, IL, to compete in the Benedictine Twilight Invitational.

Unlike at other track meets, team scores were not compiled.

However, the competition, as well as the weather, was still fierce.

“The wind was blowing really hard most of the day, and it would start pouring rain for about 30 seconds, then stop,” third-year Jacob Solus said. “Everything kept getting postponed at the end, and we didn’t even end up finishing all the events.”

Despite this, both male and female athletes posted outstanding performances.

For the men, fourth-years Blake Obuchowski, Patrick Offner, and Bill Cheng, along with first-year Demetrios Brizzolara, placed first in the 4x100-meter relay. In the 100meter dash, Cheng and Obuchowski grabbed first and third, respectively.

On the field, first-year Solus won the gold in the triple jump, and firstyear Eric Villhauer took second in the javelin.

Women jumpers had success as well Third-year Dipti Karmarkar took first in the triple jump, secondyear Paige Peltzer placed second in the high jump, and fourth-year Emma Finestone brought home the bronze in the long jump.

Fourth-year Nicole Murphy took second in both the shot put and hammer throw. Fellow shot putter and fourth-year Claire Ray, who was recently named the UAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Most Outstanding Performer for Field Events, grabbed the bronze.

Karmarkar as well as Finestone, and third-years Ashley Eaves, and Stephanie Omueti composed the winning 4x100-meter relay team.

Eaves also took the gold in the 400meter hurdles. Omueti, who was not supposed to compete due to prolonged illness, ended up winning the 100-meter dash, setting a new school record for the event: 12.02 seconds.

“I was very proud of myself and ecstatic because I was not expecting to post such great times considering I’d been really ill,” Omueti exclaimed. “[But I] showed up ready to give it my all, in particular for Finestone, Karmakar, and Eaves. I am glad I did.”

With these recent victories and with the NCAA Championship only three meets away, the team is in a good position. “[We are] focusing on improvements now: longer jumps, faster times, further throws, etc.,” Omueti continued. “The finish line is within sight and we are going to come home strong!”

Obuchowski is also confident about the team’s prospects for nationals: “There are more athletes on this

First-year Henry Ginna (right) competes at the Chicagoland Championships at Haydon Track. At this week’s Benedictine Twilight Invitation, Ginna placed 9th in the 1500-meter run.

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team right now capable of placing at the National Championships than ever before. It’s just a great team all around,” he said. “Good people, positive attitudes, and a great understanding of what it means to have fun.”

Chicago has this weekend off; their next competition isn’t until May 15.

Murphy thinks this will allow athletes to “slow a down a bit and commit to practice, technique, and strength training while taking a break from the pressure and demands– emotional and physical–that come from competition,” she said.

“You could say the next couple of

weeks are the calm before the storm; we’ll hit the next two last-chance meets with all we got,” Murphy continued, “and then tackle nationals.”

The Maroons will next compete at the Chicago Penultimate, which they will host Saturday, May 15, at the Haydon Track.

BASEBALL

DePauw gets best of Chicago in doubleheader

By Audrey Henkels Sports Editor

Third-year Nick Fazzari and the Maroons struggled at the plate Saturday, as Chicago had just four hits in the second game of the double-header.

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Men’s baseball put up a struggle, but fell twice to host DePauw this weekend; the Tigers (26–17) won 6–5 in a close game one, followed by 7–2 in game two.

In the opening contest, the Maroons (16–14) fell behind 3–0 after one inning before rallying to take a 5–4 lead in the top of the fifth. Third-year out-fielder Marshall Oium and second-year third baseman Stephen Williams led off the fourth and fifth innings, respectively, with home runs.

Yesterday, Williams along with first-year Jack Cinoman earned All UAA First Team honors.

The Tigers tied the game with a base hit in the seventh, then scored the winning run on a single to right center field off fourth-year pitcher Joe Pankow.

Pankow (3–5) notched his fifth complete game of the season.

In Saturday’s second game, the Tiger pitchers combined to hold the Maroons to four hits.

DePauw scored all seven of its runs in the bottom of the fourth inning off one of their starters, who suffered his first loss in six decisions. A bases-loaded triple was the key to their victory.

“We struggled defensively, and that cost us a chance at victory in game two,” said Oium. “We were able to come up with some big hits against DePauw but we never really were able to bust the game open with a huge inning.”

Williams drove in both Chicago runs as he extended his hitting streak to 15 games.

“As a team, we obviously didn’t play our best games of the season against DePauw,” Oium continued.

He explained that part of the challenges the Maroons had to overcome involved early departure time.

“It’s difficult to wake up at six in the morning, ride on a bus for three hours, and play a game against a tough opponent,” Oium said. “But as far as the competition was concerned, I didn’t feel like they were any better of a team than we are.”

“Individually, I felt like I could have hit better; striking out twice in game two and only coming up with one hit in both games just isn’t getting the job done,” he said.

The team’s struggles extend beyond this past weekend’s performances. “ Fo r w h a t e v e r r e a s o n w e

haven’t been able to find a way to find baseball games this year,” Oium explained. “It’s not because of our lack of talent. I feel like this year’s team has the ability to play with any division three baseball team; it’s more of an issue of us not being able to find that winning formula like we were able to at the end of last year.”

He is optimistic, however, looking forward to their next home game against North Central.

“They are playing really good baseball right now and are a difficult team to play, but —as I said earlier—I think that if we play up to our potential, we can beat anybody,” Oium said.

“I’m feeling confident; we are facing a good team, but I think we are up to task,” fourth-year shortstop Rob Serpico added.

Chicago returns home today to host North Central College at 3 p.m. at Stagg Field.

CA LEN DA R Tuesday

5/4

• Baseball vs. North Central, 3 p.m.

Wednesday

5/5

• Baseball @ Northwestern, 3 p.m.