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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2010 • VOLUME 122, ISSUE 7 • CHICAGOMAROON.COM

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

VOICES, p. 10

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Bukhart wins CC spot in tiebreaker CC picks another grad liaison

By Ella Christoph News Editor & Amy Myers Senior News Staff Jordan Phillips (A.B. ’10), a first-year graduate student in the Committee on International Re l a t i o n s p r o g r a m , h a s b e e n chosen as Student Government’s candidate for the position of Graduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees. If appointed, Phillips will be the fourth person to hold the position in the past year.

The winner of the 2009-2010 graduate liaison election, fourth-

year anthropology graduate student Joe Bonni was forced to resign winter quarter when he could not attend the quarterly meeting with the Trustees due to research abroad. Fourth-year history graduate student Touissaint Losier was appointed to carry out the rest of the term.

Booth School of Business student Daniel Kimerling ran unchallenged and was elected for the 2010-2011 term, but resigned this spring after receiving a job offer in San Francisco.

Phillips must receive a majority

GRAD LIAISON continued on page 2

DISCOURSE

Author Byatt interprets character development

By Asher Klein News Editor First-year representative Katie Burkhart speaks to the College Council prior to winning the tiebreaker election.

By Hannah Fine News Staff

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In an unprecedented tie-breaking special election held last night, Katie Burkhart was nominated as the fourth and final first-year College Council (CC) representative. It came after a tie for the spot between Burkhart and Angela Wang in Thursday’s general election, the first tie of its kind in open electoral history, according to fourth-

year Interim CC Chair Jason Cigan.

Each candidate gave a five-minute speech and answered questions in front of the fifteen members of CC, which is composed of four students from each class. They then voted on who should be their 16th member.

The event took place in the basement of Reynolds Club.

Although the vote totals weren’t released, it was a close race, according to Cigan.

CAMPUS LIFE

OBITUARY

By Adam Janofsky Associate News Editor

“Both candidates told me it was a good thing to have this opportunity,� said Cigan, who presided over the special election. “Here you’re communicating directly to the people you’re going to be working with.�

Both Burkhart and Wang won 161 votes from a record turnout of 671 voters in Thursday’s election.

Unlike the regular election, when they tried to win votes with name

TIEBREAKER continued on page 3

Acclaimed British novelist Dame A.S. Byatt traced the development of the fictional character in the Western novel this Friday at a lecture in Mandel Hall.

Byatt, winner of the 1990 Booker Prize for her novel Possession, described her talk as addressing “what I, as a child, called ‘making up people.’� She discussed features of literary characters ranging from the intensely detailed interior life of James Joyce’s Mr. Bloom to two

line sketches of characters in the works of Gogol.

Byatt is the author of nine novels and five short stories, in addition to her critical work.

Analyzing authors as diverse as George Eliot and Philip Roth, Byatt explained the social influences that have affected the creation of characters in literature.

She explained that Western novelists emphasized aspects of identity that were relevant to the cultures they lived in. Byatt explained that Roth’s characters are dominated

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"Outober" draws Reinhard Oehme, influential theoretical physicist, dies at 82 insight led to further experimentation in visibility to queer issues By Ivy Perez particle symmetry.

M Staff Oehme, who was born on January 26, with Coming Out Stories AROON

By Rebecca Guterman MAROON Staff Campus LGBTQ support groups are aiming to increase visibility this “Outober� as national attention is drawn to social pressures faced by queer youth.

Posted by the Office of LGBTQ Student Life, the Coming Out Stories, a project to counter the social pressure put on queer youth with public displays of unity and support, will share the coming-out narratives of university community members.

The project is part of Outober, a series of events organized by the Office of LGBTQ Student Life in recognition of LGBT History Month and National Coming Out Day, October 10.

LGBTQ Student Life Director Jeffrey Howard got the idea for the Coming Out Stories project from talking to students, staff, and alumni of the university, who expressed a desire for more visibility. “It’s something that I’ve seen done

LGBTQ continued on page 2

Celebrated theoretical physicist Professor Reinhard Oehme, most famous for his insight into the violation of symmetry in physics, recently died at the age of 82.

He died sometime between Thursday, September 29, and Monday, October 4, at his home in Hyde Park.

Oehme, who taught at the University for forty years, first arrived through a recommendation from Nobel Laureate Werner Heisenberg to Enrico Fermi, joining the Enrico Fermi Institute of Nuclear Studies as a research associate in 1954.

The winners of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize in Physics, Chen Ning Yang and Tsung-Dao Lee, credited Oehme with providing crucial insight into their work that dealt with the violation of symmetry in physics. They proposed that the laws of physics do not obey the conservation of parity—that laws of physics can essentially tell left from right.

In a letter to Yang, Oehme pointed out that if one element of symmetry in the equation was violated, other elements of symmetry would be violated as well. Oehme’s input was included in their award-winning paper and his

1928 in Wiesbaden, Germany, attended Frankfurt University, from which he graduated in 1948. He received his doctorate in 1951 from the University of Gottingen in Germany, where he studied under Heisenberg.

Oehme married Mafala Pisani in 1952 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, while she was working as a secretary for physics Nobel laureate Max von Laue. They were married for over half a century. Pisani died in 2004.

While at the Fermi Institute, Oehme published a number of works before joining the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University in 1956. It was there that he helped formulate the “Edge of the Wedge� theorem, now used extensively in both math and physics.

Returning to the U of C in 1958, Ohme joined the physics faculty and retired forty years later in 1998. He received a number of awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship in 1964, the Humboldt Award in 1974, and a Fellowship of the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science in 1977 and 1988.

Oehme left no known survivors.

Plans for a private funeral and memorial service are pending.

Reinhard Oehme, who taught at the University for more than 40 years, died in his Hyde Park home at the age of 82.

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CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | October 19, 2010

SAFETY

Cops patrol quad in response to assault

By Asher Klein News Editor In response to last week’s assault outside Cobb Hall, the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) is posting an officer on the main quad 20 hours a day according to UCPD Chief Marlon Lynch.

Suspects were detained in connection with the incident, in which three men grabbed a student by the neck, took his iPod and wallet, and ran away, Lynch said, but he did not indicate if charges had been

pressed, saying the investigation is still pending.

“We have a few people in mind,” he said, adding that they were apprehended based on descriptions given by the victim and witness statements.

To prevent similar assaults on the quad, Lynch has posted an officer on the main quad from 7 a.m. to 3 a.m. “Usually we place officers where the incidents occur,” Lynch said.

He didn’t indicate how long the officer would be posted. “We’ll see how it goes.

If there’s a need for us to continually have an officer there, then we’ll go wherever the need is,” Lynch said.

While UCPD has been installing sophisticated, multi-directional cameras on and around campus as a means of preventing and tracking crime, there are no cameras yet installed in the area in front of Cobb Hall.

“We only have a couple up on the main quad at this point,” Lynch said. “That installation is in a phased approach. We’ll be adding cameras throughout the year....

The installation on the main quad will continue and hopefully just as quick as we can get the equipment in and get it installed.”

Ly n c h s t r e s s e d t h a t l a s t M o n d a y ’ s assault was unusual. “Violent crimes usually do not take place on the main quad, but by placing an officer there to increase police presence [and with the addition of cameras] we would hope to be able to have more tools in place to prevent future incidents like that from occurring—and also to help with investigation.”

During Outober, Coming Out Stories and Monologues inspire and show support for those who feel isolated LGBTQ continued from front page in different forms in other places and it’s an idea I got from talking to people here and seeing that we need more visibility,” Howard said. “I think we have a very large queer community on campus.”

Twelve gay youths committed suicide in September, according to Howard, including a high-profile case at Rutgers University, a sign that LGBTQ individuals still face significant social pressure.

Howard said the U of C’s queer community will do its best to counter that in October, offering LGBTQ students, staff, and alumni the opportunity to submit their coming-out stories to inspire and comfort others who may feel alone.

Outober will also feature an annual performance called the Coming Out Monologues and anonymous, rapid-result HIV testing at 5710 South Woodlawn.

The Coming Out stories are displayed all over campus, including on posters in the LGBTQ student life office, on the Outober website, and on

the UChicagoLGBTQ YouTube channel. They will soon have a permanent home on the Office of LGBTQ Student Life website.

Other LGBTQ groups around the country have started similar campaigns, including columnist Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better Project”, which started on September 22nd, a YouTube channel where people who have already come out record themselves explaining how their lives improved after facing bullying early on.

The project is aimed at young gay men and women who don’t have support groups like the Office of LGBTQ Student Life.

Howard, who hopes that the U of C’s Coming Out Stories will be useful to everyone who needs them, said it was important to put them on posters and on the Web. “Sometimes people feel isolated in general, not even just in coming out. Maybe someone will see the picture and see that person on campus and won’t feel so alone,” Howard said.

Twelve stories were posted on the Outober website as of press time, written by College stu-

dents, graduate students, an alum, and a chaplain at the University hospitals. They tell stories that range from parents who already knew their child was gay to long struggles for acceptance among family and friends.

Howard’s story explains how hard it was to come out at “a somewhat conservative Christian college” where his roommate wasn’t accepting of his sexual orientation.

Though the process of coming out was initially traumatic—leading to serious depression—Howard writes that he found comfort in accepting friends and his parents, who, as it turned out, already had an idea of his orientation. “Why did it seem like I was always the last to know?” he asked.

The Coming Out Stories project will continue until the end of October.

The third annual Coming Out Monologues will share coming out narratives through informal performances, according to fourth-year Dan Forbush, a board member of Queer and Associates.

Last year the performances included not

only gay performers, but performers who had identified as queer but ultimately “came out” as straight, Forbush said. “We want to increase awareness about the idea of coming out, whatever that may be,” Forbush said.

Fellow board member and second-year Nicholas Cassleman added that the audience can participate as well. “People in the audience at the end can say things. We encourage everyone to come because a lot of people are uninformed, especially in the non-queer community,” he said.

Howard said that although the plans for Outober were in the works prior to the twelve gay suicides in September alone, Outober came at a good time.

His office started Outober last year, with speakers, documentary screenings, and panels.

He estimated that about 500 people participated in the events throughout the month.

About 250 people have participated so far this year, Howard said, noting that many more will attend lectures and read the coming out stories by the end of the month.

Graduate Liaison nominee Phillips says he'll help the Board of Trustees move forward on projects GRAD LIAISON continued from front page

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vote Tuesday from the Assembly—members of College and Graduate Council—before assuming the position. Phillips was chosen from a pool of five applicants who applied, indicating more interest from the graduate population than in recent years.

Phillips, who was on Inter-House Council as an undergraduate and worked on the gender-neutral housing initiative, said he wants to continue his involve ment at the University in leadership roles.

“It really sort of showed me that there is room for improvement,” he said.

At the University for only a few years, students “can kind of slip through the cracks, and our interests aren’t really represented,” he said, contrasting them with administrators, faculty, and Trustees, who may be involved for decades. “The University should put us front and center.”

Phillips said the main job of the liaison is to help move current projects along as well as to introduce new ideas, at least in a limited way. “I’m pretty humble about what my aspirations are for,” he said. “Our job is to really stick to it, to stick with projects over the long haul... not to get too distracted by everybody having their own personal agenda.”

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to students, Phillips said, even if they won’t get to experience the changes themselves.

“The way to engage people is to say, look, it’s not about what we can do for you, it’s about what can we do for the next guy in your seat,” he said.

Second-year and Undergraduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees Frank Alarcon expects Phillips to be approved at Tuesday’s meeting. “He is abundantly qualified. I expect the Assembly to recognize this,” he said.

Student Government (S G) searched for a candidate “with experience dealing with both students and administrators at the University of Chicago,” according to Alarcon.

“What really impressed us about Jordan was his involvement in IHC” Alarcon said.

He pointed to Phillips’ involvement in the push for gender neutral housing. “He amassed a record for looking out for other students and fighting for them.”

Phillips said it was understandable that many graduate students have not traditionally jumped at the chance to be liaison to the Board of Trustees. “The problem we face is that the University of Chicago has 10,000 graduate students who represent a remarkably diverse range of experiences,” he said.

“It’s very understandable why graduate students are such a disconcerted force.”

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CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | October 19, 2010

SCIENCE

CONSTRUCTION

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists now home at Harris School

Construction to fix leaky pipes continues near Cobb

By Hiba Fatima Ahmed News Contributor The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, most famous for its Doomsday Clock, moved its headquarters from downtown Chicago to the Harris School of Public Policy on September 30.

The clock, currently set at six minutes to midnight, gauges how far humanity is from catastrophic destruction by nuclear weapons, climate change, and biological terrorism.

Headquartered on the U of C campus for 60 years, the Bulletin moved to the Loop in 2007 for more office space, but is returning in order to foster its relationship with students and faculty at the University.

Within the next year, the Bulletin hopes to create internship programs and volunteer

opportunities in graphic design and research for both undergraduate and graduate studnets. “We are now closer to the research [at the U of C] and hope to make it more accessible,� said Kennette Benedict, executive director and publisher of the Bulletin. “We would very much like to be more involved with students and faculty at the University.�

Professor of physics, astronomy, and astrophysics Bob Rosner stepped down as director and chief scientist of Argonne National Laboratory to return to the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board, Benedict said. According to Benedict, Rosner called the move to the Harris School “an offer we couldn’t refuse.�

Manhattan Project physicists founded the organization as the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists of Chicago after the 1945 atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and cre-

ated the Doomsday Clock in 1947.

Today, the Bulletin’s primary goal is to educate people worldwide about nuclear weapons and energy policy, climate change, biological and global security, and new technologies. “[It] is a vehicle for informing people [with knowledge] from leading experts who follow this eagerly,� Benedict said.

The Bulletin will hold its second annual symposium in Washington D.C. in early November. The symposium, which attracts hundreds of academics worldwide, aims to analyze the events of the past year relating to nuclear policy, climate change, international relations, and modernizations. It also decides if the time on the Doomsday Clock should be changed—this January, the Bulletin changed the time from five to six minutes to midnight.

Burkhart wins on platform of more Safe Ride buses and smoothies TIEBREAKER continued from front page recognition, both Wang and Burkhart tried to gain support for their stances regarding Student Government (SG) issues. “Student Government should facilitate communication between RSOs,� said Burkhart, adding that SG could hand out hard copy lists of all RSOs to each incoming student and create a “suggestions� tab on the SG website.

She also called to increase the number of Safe Ride buses that drive through campus, which struck first-year CC representative Ben Yu as a good idea that would have wide appeal. “No one’s going to be against an additional Safe Ride bus,� said Yu, who came on top of Thursday’s election with 280 votes.

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a unified student body at the University, Wang told CC. “Before we become a good representative government we need to become a community,� she said, adding that small things like green initiatives, pulling out staples on boards and adding smoothie machines in the dining halls can go a long way in spiking student appreciation.

Burkhart will join first-years Forrest Scofield and Alex Bennett, the two other winners in Thursday’s election besides Yu, as the Class of 2014’s College Council representatives.

Though the tie-breaker gave the candidates an opportunity to set themselves apart after an election where candidates had difficulty distinguishing themselves among the 20 people running, for second-year CC representative Travis Benaiges it highlighted the difficulty of developing a plat-

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form after only four weeks on campus. “There’s only so much you can know about campus,� Benaiges said. “With first-years, running is a lot more personal.�

Wang said she recognized why Burkhart won the tie-breaker. “Katie was overall a better communicator,� said Wang, who felt that both presented good and often overlapping points. “She’s friendly and it’s easy to like her.�

Although Burkhart won the position, Wang still plans to work with Student Government. In addition to joining one of their committees, she was appointed Secretary for Council meetings at the end of the election. “A lot of work with College Council happens outside of College Council,� third-year representative Sohrab Kohli said.

By Adam Janofsky Associate News Editor Emergency repairs in the ground behind Cobb Gate to fix a leak in the Main Quad’s chilled-water pipes may take two weeks to finish, according to U of C Facilities Services.

The paved area between Culver and Erman Halls is currently fenced off as workers excavate and fix the leaking pipe valves ten feet underground.

In addition to limiting pedestrian traffic and prohibiting vehicle traffic, the repairs, which started October 13, also impact the buildings on the Main Quad.

According to a facilities statement, sometimes the “chilled water will be shut off to the Main Quadrangles in order to make the necessary repairs,� which will turn off air conditioning in Harper, Haskell, Cobb, Admin, Kent, Searle, Zoology and Erman.

The fences were originally planned to be taken down by Friday, but because of safety issues, work will continue until at least the end of the month. “Workers needed to do some shoring of the soil... to make sure the soil is stable,� University spokesman Jeremy Manier said, referring to a buttressing process that prevents soil collapse during digging.

Because of the construction work, cars are restricted from the area and cannot enter through Cobb Gate. Pedestrians are limited to the adjacent walkways.

The area under construction was not renovated as part of last summer’s stone walkway project on the Main Quad and will again be repaved with asphalt, not stone, after construction is complete, Manier said.

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DISCOURSE

Fields of study interconnected for Qu'ranic scholar and ophthalmologist

By Hiba Fatima Ahmed News Contributor Qurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;anic scholar and ophthalmologist Dr. Kamran Riaz spoke on modern science and the Qurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an Thursday in Harper at a talk hosted by the Muslim Student Association and the Interfaith Dialogue group. â&#x20AC;&#x153;God told Muslims to seek knowledge, found everywhere in nature, through objective and deductive reasoning. He stressed cradle-to-grave learning, to create a society of students of all knowledge,â&#x20AC;?

Riaz said.

Riaz is a resident in the ophthalmology department at Northwestern University Hospital and a teacher of Qurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;anic studies at Darul Qasim, an institution of Islamic learning in Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

He spoke on scientific issues ranging from the big bang theory and dark matter to embryology and heart surgery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The facts mentioned in the Qurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an challenge the human being to look at the macro- and microscopic world,â&#x20AC;? Riaz said.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;These facts are like appetizers that stimulate people to go out and accumulate both religious and secular knowledge.â&#x20AC;?

Riaz spoke on scientific facts present in the Qurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an, the 1300 year old holy book of Islam. He said knowledge should inspire people and lead them to a greater appreciation of God. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We can never prove God. God exists only subjectively in faith,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Riaz incorporated various faith traditions into his talk in an effort to make it relatable to a broad audience. He described the preservation of the Hebrew language

by Jews and Muslims working together in Cordoba, Spain during the Middle Ages, citing it as an example of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;spirit of knowledge.â&#x20AC;?

Riaz said his main goal was to educate the audience and relay information, not to force his opinions on others or to prove that the Qurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;an is a book of science. He stressed the importance of mutual and interfaith dialogue. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When we have an exchange of ideas,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;amazing things can happen.â&#x20AC;?

Byatt frustrated by poor interpretations of her characters BYATT continued from front page by sexuality and their bodies, a departure from previous focuses such as the religious characters of Balzac and Gogol or the Freudian characters of D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Mann. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have progressed from Dostoevskyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Christ to thinking of ourselves as our bodies,â&#x20AC;? Byatt said â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do I or do I not live in the world described by Roth? I do not because a) Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m too old, and b) because I live in books,â&#x20AC;?

Byatt said.

In the question and answer period following her talk, moderated by English Professor Maud Ellmann, who studies the development of the novel, Byatt elaborated on her own process of character formation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have been accused of developing characters so extensively that readers cannot put themselves inside of it,â&#x20AC;? Byatt said.

Byatt explained she wants her readers to be able take the position of the writer, moving about the world of the novel and understanding many characters rather than identifying strongly with just one. Her most recent novel, The Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, has no central characters, instead interweaving the stories of many.

Byatt described how intricately she details

the lives of the characters she creates. Her characters are never fully modeled after reallife individuals.

This level of detail isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always understood, Byatt said, remembering being upset about the British cover of her book The Biographerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tale, which had a photograph of a woman on it; the woman did not look like the character Byatt had crafted in her mind.

She said she was also frustrated with the film adaptation of her novel Possession, as not all of the actors were cast according to the personality of her characters.

One audience member asked a question about Byattâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sharp wit and sense of humor, which was on display throughout the event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;People are surprised because my books are so serious. They expect a woman of a certain age with a bit of academic weight not to be funny,â&#x20AC;? Byatt said.

The event was sponsored by the Artspeaks series, which brings a variety of artists to campus to engage with the community and diverse disciplines in the University.

As part of the Artspeaks program, Byatt held a reading on campus and also spoke in a panel discussion with Philosophy professor Robert Pippin and French Literature professor Thomas Pavel.

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EDITORIAL & OP-ED OCTOBER 19, 2010

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CHICAGO MAROON

The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892

JORDAN HOLLIDAY, Editor-in-Chief JAKE GRUBMAN, Managing Editor ASHER KLEIN, News Editor ELLA CHRISTOPH, News Editor PETER IANAKIEV, Viewpoints Editor ALISON HOWARD, Viewpoints Editor HAYLEY LAMBERSON, Voices Editor JORDAN LARSON, Voices Editor WILL FALLON, Sports Editor NICK FORETEK, Sports Editor VICTORIA KRAFT, Head Copy Editor MONIKA LAGAARD, Head Copy Editor HOLLY LAWSON, Head Copy Editor MATT BOGEN, Photo Editor JACK DiMASSIMO, Head Designer JOSH SUNG, Web Editor BURKE FRANK, Assoc. News Editor ADAM JANOFSKY, Assoc. News Editor ILIYA GUTIN, Assoc. Voices Editor JUDY MARCINIAK, Business Manager

Dangerous liaisons

Graduate Liaisons to Board of Trustees should be democratically elected and ready to serve a full term When the Student Government (SG) Assembly appoints a new representative tonight, there will have been four graduate liaisons to the Board of Trustees since February.

That’s double the expected amount in a position that exists to provide stability and consistency to trustee relations. Establishing a rapport with the secretive board in just a year is tough for a single liaison; for four separate ones to do it in the same time interval is impossible.

In February, graduate liaison Joe Bonni resigned after his request for a proxy was rejected. Bonni, who had to conduct field work in Syria, hoped to have a sit-in representing him present during that quarter’s trustee meeting so he could continue his duties on his return. The position instead went to Touissant Losier, who served out the rest of the term after being appointed

by Student Government. Recently, Dan Kimmerling, this year’s newly

elected graduate liaison, resigned after accepting a job in San Francisco. His replacement will not be elected, but will likewise be selected by the SG Assembly out of a pool of applicants.

The liaisons serve an important purpose. They are the result of years of student government efforts to eliminate the bureaucratic barriers between students and the administration. Each liaison—one an undergraduate and the other a graduate representative—serves as the primary mediator between their student constituency and the powerful, influential, and often enigmatic Board of Trustees.

So when we have to cycle through liaisons every few months, something is very wrong. These positions, once filled, should be held by one person throughout the course of the year.

That is the only sensible way to establish a productive relationship with the trustees, one that has the potential to get something done.

Both sides—students and administrators—are at fault here. To begin with, a prerequisite for the position should be the certainty that one can, in fact, serve for the entire academic year. This is common sense. Jobs and field work are necessary facts of graduate life, but if you want to be a liaison, sacrifices must be made.

Don’t run if you can’t fulfill the basic office requirements, one of which includes attending quarterly meetings with the trustees.

However, idealism can only go so far. When liaisons are unable to fulfill their fundamental duties, they should be replaced. But, if a liaison does need to be permanently replaced, he or she should be elected, not selected by an ambiguous and impromptu student government process. Secretary and Vice President of the University David Fithian, who serves as the administration’s main liaison to the Board, has said that the University’s

goal is to ensure consistent dialogue between liaisons and trustees. Fithian also noted that since proxies are not elected, they are not authentic representatives of their student body. This logic would seem to apply to liaison replacements as well, since when a liaison resigns, his or her replacement is chosen by the Assembly and not by general election.

The frequent resignations and appointments of graduate liaisons do nothing to ensure the student body serious, sincere representation.

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The University’s artistic community needs more emphasis and visibility

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The arts community here at the University of Chicago exists.

This seemingly innocuous statement raises several questions. One can’t help but ask: How does it exist, to what extent does it exist, and do students care that it exists?

During Orientation, I was exposed to all that the University had to offer in terms of the arts, and I was left, well, hungry. Before I paint a picture of the dire condition of the arts here, I want to say that there are many successful organizations and RSOs, including Doc Films, Sliced Bread, University Ballet, University Theater, Fire Escape Films, and Off-Off. There’s a niche for you if you look for it—but then why does the community still feel so small? I love this school b ecause I love the social and intellectual culture, but there’s an enduring disconnect between the University of Chicago bubble and the city itself, which is throbbing with vital, creative energy.

Being in the city and being on campus are two very distinct sensations. This, I believe, is a problem. There’s something about the city, which many of my peers can attest to, that imbues one with the sense of infinite capability.

On campus? It can be cold, and our collective voice, our unimpeded daring, is often muted. If there’s one glaring hole in the arts community here, it’s that the University is so disconnected from the city that bears its name. The University should be an opportu-

nity not only to explore Chicago, but also to use the numerous resources available to expand our knowledge and make connections in the world. The reality is, of course, that it is a fair trek from campus to downtown, and there’s always so much work to do that every move feels like a calculated risk. The University, then, needs to play a greater role in giving

The University needs to play a greater role in giving the arts some breathing room. the arts some breathing room by encouraging students to take that risk, even if it means falling behind on reading Wealth of Nations, especially for first-years that have yet to test the waters in a big city.

The most immediate way to do so would be to bring more of Chicago arts to campus, and vice-versa. I, for one, would love to be able to see and hear from professional artists of all kinds from the city here on campus, or participate in large-scale art projects that connect the two communities. Physically transplanting the arts from point A to point B would encourage the movement

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Despite stereotypes, student activism effective and admirable

By Lexie Grove Viewpoints Contributor The chants were yelled snappily, the signs were held confidently, and the speeches were delivered indignantly.

Our cause was just, and we knew it.

But apparently the significance of our action wasn’t as obvious to the Magnificent Mile shoppers as it was to us. “Get a job!” one man yelled as he angrily tried to bypass us on the sidewalk.

On April 14th, members of the group Students Organizing United with Labor (SOUL), along with students from other campus RSOs, made the trek to the Niketown on North Michigan Avenue. We joined students from other Chicago universities and two Honduran garment factory workers, Gina Cano and Lowlee Urquia. We were protesting in support of Gina and Lowlee and their 1,800 fellow employees to whom Nike owed over $2.2 million in legally-mandated severance pay and other benefits.

If only this angry shopper had taken a minute to listen to our message, maybe he would have dropped the snide remark and thanked his lucky stars for his own job. After all, he was insulting people who had lost their jobs because Nike subcontractors who owned the Honduran factories, Vision Tex and Hugger, where these workers were employed, had closed them.

To him, and probably to many of those who saw us, we were just a bunch of two-bit hippies looking for something to yell about. We would have done better to abandon our ill-conceived convictions, get off the sidewalk, and set about

looking for a more productive way to spend our time, these more responsible adults surely thought.

It turns out that we weren’t such a non-productive waste of space: On July 26, Nike agreed to pay $1.5 million in cash, to provide a year of health insurance, and to give priority training and re-hiring to the 1,800 workers.

Our rally was just one component of the Just Pay It campaign that was run by United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), a national student organization that fights labor abuses domestically and internationally. Students first at the University of Wisconsin and then at Cornell pressured their administrations to cut their apparel contracts with Nike. Nike’s Facebook and Twitter pages were bombarded with negative comments.

A large demonstration, complete with the drop of a banner bearing the “Just Pay It” slogan, was held at Nike’s flagship store in Portland, Oregon.

The negative publicity was enough to cause the image-conscious Nike to reach an agreement with Central General de Trabajadores (CGT), the union representing employees of the two factories. This agreement represented a complete reversal of Nike’s previous stance; the company had previously denied even outsourcing production to Hugger and Vision Tex and had stated publicly that it would never pay the severance.

USAS’s history of successful activism played a large part in causing Nike to respond to the actions of the Just Pay It campaign. In November 2009, members of USAS forced apparel supplier

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Students also responsible for promoting the arts on campus

Nike victory shows that student activism can produce change

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of students as well. There also seems to be a clear lack of venues for displaying student artwork and connecting young artists to one another, and there should be a movement towards encouraging this kind of interaction. After all, a complete education includes a cultural immersion, an opening of creative doors to places not seen before.

How can a student gain a truly well-traveled mind without experiencing the arts?

Of course, it ultimately comes down to us, the students. Not just those who are leaders on campus and founders of clubs, but those with smaller, but no less important, voices: the talented painters, writers, and performers who would rather keep their work to themselves than risk looking for a community that fails to satisfy their hunger. Remember that the arts at the University of Chicago exist, and they can even grow if more people embrace the greater community. Take the risk and go to the city on a week night.

The University’s Arts Pass is a gift, but rarely opened: free access to the Art Institute, the MCA, Court Theater, the National Museum of Mexican Art, and reduced-price access at numerous other theaters and cultural centers. In this particular respect, the University has a done a great job in giving students, eternally hardpressed for cash, incentive to go, guilt-free.

But students shouldn’t just make the Arts Pass a one-time “try it out” sort of privilege.

For one thing, there’s more to be mined from the Art Institute after each successive visit. After my tenth, I can still stand in awe of new works of art that I simply never noticed before.

It’s not enough, though, just to go and observe—find your people and bring a piece of that community back to campus. Adam Smith can wait.

Russell Athletic to re-open a Honduran factory that it had closed in a union-busting maneuver.

Students won this victory, which led to the re-hiring of the factory’s 1,200 workers, by pressuring the administration of nearly 100 colleges and universities to cut their contracts with Russell Athletic. Nike surely had this precedent in mind when it decided to settle with the CGT after only two universities cut their contracts.

The implications of this victory are huge. The lives of 1,800 Honduran factory workers have been changed dramatically. One of the apparel industry’s leading companies has finally accepted responsibility for the actions of a subcontractor. And this happened primarily because of those two-bit hippies looking for something to yell about.

The point is simple: Student activism is nothing to mock or scoff at. The success of the Just Pay It campaign is proof enough that, in addition to taking up sidewalk space, students can fight injustice on a global level. As USAS so clearly understands, students have a special type of leverage that allows them to pressure such large corporate entities as Nike Apparel.

And if students can get a company like Nike to hand over $1.5 million, there is no telling what else we are capable of. Group of hooligans that we may seem to be, student activists can actually be quite strategic and organized. Running a campaign against a corporation like Nike certainly requires an incredible amount of planning. An important component of this planning is the ability to generate reasonable demands; also contrary to the stereotypes, student activists are capable of channeling whatever idealistic convictions we may have into goals that can actually be achieved.

With an understanding of both their power and their limitations, student activist groups can reasonably hope to tackle worthy causes of all sorts.

Maybe student activists will never shed the unfair jobless-idiot stigma, but at least we can remember that historic $1.5 million and take heart from our numerous clear-cut victories.

Emily Wang is a first-year in the College.

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ART

On Books and Bookers

Beds and Guns, sort of: an abstract view of comfort

By Wenjia Zhao Voices Death Bed

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ooker Prize winner Dame A.S. Byatt presents "Soul, Body, and Psyche," a lecture about the changing forms of the construction of 'characters' in fiction at Mandel Hall on Saturday. Byatt is the author of The Children's Book, as well as Angels & Insects. She won the Booker Prize for her 1990 work, Possession.

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Attracting attention in modern art is not easy. It’s an area where the unconventional is the norm, and where even the oddest eccentricities hardly cause its connoisseurs to bat an eye. But the latest exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center, artist Kim Piotrowski’s Beds and Guns, is imbued with just a bit more of a twist to make its viewers pause and think.

Featuring the largest collection of acrylic paintings on paper by the artist to date, it juxtaposes comfort and familiarity (beds) with chaos and disruption (guns), and compares the emotional concoctions that arise from both.

Piotrowski, a mixed media artist from the Chicago area, has a unique style, distinct in its myriad use of color and lack of determinate form, which is evident in this present exhibit. It is this hazy, blurry impression of her paintings that can first throw people off. For those of us who are used to clean lines and clear shadowing, the formlessness can be disconcerting.

In Beds and Guns, the images are defined through vacuoles and

splotches of intense neon against soft pastel, ink against acrylic, and distorted shading. Occasionally, a bit of foil or denim work their way into a painting. Sometimes, there are outlines drawn with permanent markers, but they barely work as guidelines amid this ambiguous mix of colors and materials.

BEDS AND GUNS Hyde Park Art Center Through January 30

Entering the exhibit, a glimpse around gives the impression that all the paintings are the same— that they are all of the s ame ambiguity and strange contrasts.

But, upon a closer look, the vagueness takes on a different tone.

For instance, “Arm in Arm in Arm” depicts a mass of beige tones that stems upwards and grows into the shape of a pistol.

A jagged blue outline around the gun eats into the surrounding soft sea-green background. "In the Evening”, another painting, a couple sits beside a plant-carpet

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THEATER

Candide takes too many pages out of its own book

By Ana Klimchynskaya Voices Voyager To w a r d s t h e b e g i n n i n g o f Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of Candide playing at the Goodman Theatre, the play’s namesake is presented on an empty stage that represents the world he knows, as well as those he will journey, to see which one is truly the best.

Candide is the story of a journey of discovery, and the audience (although presumably less naïve than Candide) is along for the ride to learn (or relearn) some of his lessons.

CANDIDE

Goodman Theatre Through October 31

Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation is a new one: Unhappy with the previous stagings of the show, she wished to create a more faithful adaptation of Voltaire’s novella and sought permission to write her own book for the show, which she based on the original text. In the end, this ended up being an almost word-for-word adaptation.

But stage and book are differ-

ent mediums that require different approaches. Even those who lament Hollywood’s tendency to adapt novels to film wouldn’t like to see a word for word translation, because what then would be the point of making a film?

Unfortunately, this is what Zimmerman has done with Candide. In her zeal to stay true to the original, she has created a three -hour-long performance (with one short intermission) that contains no departures from the novella. The play becomes repetitive and tiresome after a couple of hours, hours, when characters whowere supposed to be dead are not actually dead for about the fifth time and the tenth new character been talking about how unfortunate he is.

In the b ook, it's not necessary to take all of this seriously, as the naïve Candide is less of a rounded character and more of a tool Voltaire uses to make a point. When staged, however, Candide becomes more flesh-and-blood. While his story b ecomes more real and visceral, all the repetitions and coincidences that were part of the novel make the play drag.

That is not to say that the production wasn’t enjoyable—it was

Cunegonde (Lauren Molina) and Candide (Geoff Packard) see a member of the opposite sex for the first time.

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even funny. The staging is as witty and fast-paced as the novel, capturing the humor of the original and its satire of aristocracy, philosophy, optimism, pessimism, and bureaucracy. The actors are phenomenal both at acting and singing: Geoff Packard was exquisite as the naïve Candide, as was Lauren Molina as Cunegonde.

Despite the new interpretation, the performance contained all of composer L eonard Bernstein’s music, from the uplifting overture to the witty and incredibly funny “I Am Easily Assimilated” to the final “L et Our Garden Grow.” In fact, the ratio of the music to everything else was very low, with the songs stringing

together long sequences of plot.

The funny bits came from the novel, of course (with some witty additions coming from Bernstein’s lyrics), but they were found in the midst of long tales and digressions.

In the end, it’s the same experience as reading the novel. So if

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Beige is a lumbering Miocenian giant sloth, unknowingly crushing the dried leaves beneath its bulbous feet. Beige is unthinking, unfeeling, and glacial. Thrust ordinary law-abiding citizens into an unnecess arily b eige environment, and they behave as though returned to the womb. They are quiet and dependent and warm, their eyes glazed, their minds a kind of pleasant jelly. Beige is the hand h o l d i n g t h e e t h e r h a n d k e r ch i e f f r o m behind the curtain; it is the pair of hands drawing you down slowly to a red-cushioned floor.

I think we can agree that no matter what its qualities, beige is powerful. And the Julius Meinl CafĂŠ is certainly aware of this.

It has yoked beige, tying the slumbering

giant to a fragile but resilient idea. And that idea is Austrian food.

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Julius Meinl stands as a warm, glowing outpost in a strange and dark sea all too battered by gray and heavy storms. Its beacon may be shattered and unclear, but with faith one can experience its greatest treasureâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;comfort.

When approaching Julius Meinl, one cannot help but feel a sense of hesitation.

The cafĂŠ, from the outside, could easily be mistaken for a Starbucks. The counters have the same assortment of espresso machines and variously-sized cups. The glass food display case is filled with the same ready-made sandwiches and wholesome desserts. Even the walls are lined with the same Thermoses and coffee beans, promising quality to those who want to take the ingredients home and grind them.

The difference is, both literally and on a deeper level, that all of these thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the cups, the coffee, and the pastriesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;bear the indelible stamp of Julius Meinl.

Our meal consisted of apple cider, fresh-roasted coffee, frittaten soup, bean and bacon soup, roasted lamb spätzle, butternut squash spätzle, and three desserts: the coffee cardinal, the Mozart torte, and the Esterhazy (pear and hazelnut torte).

So, our meal consisted of a lot of things, few of which were anything close to being normal. Most were completely superb, in a very notable and unique way.

Speaking of the desserts is probably the easiest and most familiar task. All three were great, but two were exceptional. They were as desserts should be, sweet but not overwhelmingly so. The cream was near

perfect in its richness: just the right point between sublime and coma. The complexity of all three items was also surprising.

Each played host to a wide cast of flavors, and as we ate, all three sensations mixed in exciting and unexpected ways.

Th e e n t r ĂŠ e s w e r e n o t a b l e f o r t h e i r subtlety, particularly the butternut squash.

The roasted lamb, though, was a little too subtle. But it was not the subtlety of the flavors that made the food of Mr. Meinl stand out; rather, it was the very sensation of eating it. Each bite of spätzle was like a hug from Grandma. It made you feel warm, cared for, and happy. As the food rolls into your stomach, a trail of warmth and comfort follows and leaves a sense of fulfillment.

Drinks were also present at our meal.

Drinks, of course, are not food, yet they deserve a passing mention here. They were very good, particularly the coffee. But this is not something we are concerned with.

This topic will be left to others.

Surprisingly, this place is pretty cheap.

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Chicago area artist uses mixed media to convey complex emotions BEDS AND GUNS continued from page 7 ed bed on which giant flowers bloom.

Nearby hangs an image of a poisoned man with bright colors melting into a muddied, indistinguishable face, right beside a painting depicting the colors’ celebration of love over a bed. Paintings of bold, murky confusion are shown next to paintings of soft, colored puffs of light.

Paintings of guns are seen side -by-side with paintings of beds.

This is not a simple exhibit. Viewers have to be able to distinguish things for themselves and accept some part of the paintings’ ambiguity. Some things are never clear. Yet, it can be an enriching experience.

This very same indefiniteness accentuates the paintings’ emotional expressivity. The paintings depict a fluidity of emotions that is unrestrained by solid lines. Emotions, like colors, diffuse into the unoccupied surroundings. In “Love in Plasma”, a cleanly outlined bed lies beneath a cloud-like collection of warm colors. The confines of the bed open to the emancipated flow of love and joy.

Perhaps without the ambiguity, viewers will never be able to feel the emotionality of the paintings in its entirety. It is a testament to Piotrowski’s experience and skill that the sharp disparity—from the harshness of chaos to the softness of love—can be conveyed so clearly and completely.

Piotrowski's "In the Evening" gives us a glimpse into a rare species of carnivorous bed flower.

Zimmerman's new interpretation depends on old jokes for entertainment CANDIDE continued from page 7 you’d rather go to a show than plod your way through Voltaire’s French, then you probably won’t have missed anything.

But if you have read the book, you might find the performance all too familiar and slightly too long.

Still, the music and humor compensate for the repetitiveness, making for an overall enjoyable experience if you’re willing to sit through the dull bits. As for me, I think I’ll take Voltaire’s advice and go “make my garden grow,” either by doing what the story teaches and cultivating my intellect, or by simply planting the flower seeds that came as an advertisement for the show.

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Sharkula (Non-sequitur rap): While perhaps not technically a real genre, little else can describe this Chicago rapperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s penchant for scatterbrained and playful lyrics that have little -to-nothing to do

with one another. Well, perhaps his first albumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s title can, most (in)appropriately named Martin Luther King Jr. Whopper With Cheese. The only possible common thread throughout his work is its apolitical nature, particularly considering that he mentions every other conceivable aspect of city-living, from Toyota commercials to lice and indigestion. Aside from his lyrical exuberance, his beats always serve as smooth underpinnings for an enthusiastic personality. Otherwise, he would lose himself in pure nonsense.

The Earth Is A Man (Psychedelic prog/ jam): Considering the genreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s recent tendency of individual largesse (along with dumb lyrics) rather than true collaborative improvisation, skepticism toward new outcroppings of prog-jam outfits is warranted.

The Earth Is A Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music, however, always displays their undeniable indie and distortion-inflected roots. While all members exhibit a clear rapport with their instruments and use techniques which raise them from talented to damn good,

rarely do they let themselves lose track of where the others are. Grooves build slowly from bubbly and exhilarating licks into either a frenzied guitar-solo finish, or a wash of pathos-infused distortion (a slight nod to shoegaze and its psychedelic possibilities). While their first album is forthcoming, The Earth Is A Man has been running the Chicago concert circuit and should prove to be a formidable musical group that can bring jam rock back to some level of prominence. And there are no lyrics, which is always a plus.

Th e E n g i n e s ( Av a n t - g a r d e j a z z ) : Comprised of some of Chicagoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s b est known individual musicians (trombonist Jeb Bishop, saxophonist Dave Rempis, bassist Nate McBride, and drummer Tim Daisy), this quartet relies heavily on the interaction between the horns and drums, furthered by the subdivision between the trombone and sax to create their unique sound. Non-linear and seemingly out-oftime toots are a consistent facet of their material, with either Bishop or Rempis tak-

ing the improvisational fore, but McBrideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s subdued, walking bass-lines keep the musical verbosities grounded and the horns short of unlistenable brassiness.

Moonshine Willy (Punk bluegrass/rockabilly): While many folk punk and country punk combinations consistently tilt toward the punk side of the spectrum, Moonshine Willy has been building a loyal fan base (not just in their native Chicago, but across the country) since 1992 by doing just the opposite. Punkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s proclivity for crooning vocals is almost completely thrown out here, with front-woman Kim Doctor-Luke maintaining a soothing balance between yodeling swoons and melodic balladry. Same goes for the string accompaniment, fleshed out not only with multiple guitars but also mandolins, banjos, and fiddles which reprise the bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bluegrass roots. While not the most terribly original or ground-breaking collective, the maintenance of musically legitimate country tones and refreshing vocalization make Moonshine Willy absolutely worth a listen.

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Dear student protestors of the early 2000s: Why did you take Taco Bell away from me?

To DragAnn: You are a beautiful animal.

To R-Geezy: My scowl's just a little softer, and my hair just a little poofier, whenever I'm in your presence.

Dear Ted O'Neill: You're head and shoulders above the rest of us. How is your hair so luscious?

Dear Brett: Those pics left me underwhelmed.

To the jerk who locked his bike on mine outside the Reg on Sunday: I doubt you will ever read this since, if bicycle etiquette is beyond your grasp, reading for fun is probably not a hobby of yours.

Dear Jam Girl: Keep jamming.

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CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | October 19, 2010

MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Maroons place ninth in field of 35

Women conclude two weeks of UAA play 3–1

By Will Fallon and Nick Foretek Sports Editors At Saturday’s Oshkosh Invite, a race comprising nine of the top-25 teams in the country, the men’s cross country finished with 233 points, 184 points behind winners North Central.

Running largely as a pack, the team was led by second-year Bill Whitmore, who ran a time of 25:17, finishing 30th out of 575 runners. The teams scorers followed closely, with all of the top five coming in within 27 seconds of each other.

Fourth-year Arthur Baptist ended the race in 36th place, finishing the eight kilometers with a time of 25:23 — a minute behind the winner, Michael Spain, of North Central.

“I think we have a lot we can improve upon. We had a couple of guys normally in our top five that didn’t run as well as they could have,” said Baptist. “Even still I think we had a pretty good day, and beat some of the teams that we wanted to beat.”

The team will fly to New York for the next race at the UAA Championships on Saturday, October 30 at NYU where they will look to improve upon their average time of 25:33.

The Maroons will run at Van Cortland Park, known for its treacherous and winding hills, including the vaunted Graveyard Hill, where the Maroons hope to resurrect a final victory.

“We’ll see NYU and Wash U in two weeks,” said Baptist. “They are the class of the UAAs right now, but after Saturday I think we showed that we can compete.

Our fifth man and NYU’s are seconds apart. Getting close to them and competing with them should set us up to compete at nationals.”

NYU came in third, clocking an average time of 25:11. Washington finished fourth with an average time of 25:15.

“I think we’re close,” Baptist added. “We would have liked to have a couple better days so far. I think we have the pieces though. It’s just about doing it at regionals.”

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“Had they broken the tie, we would have defeated Oshkosh as well based upon all the tiebreaking scenarios,” explained head coach Chris Hall. “Our goal going into the meet was to challenge those teams.”

“It was a hard race because of the heat and the condition of the course,” Lawton explained, “but we ran well and finished great.”

The strong finish could not have come at a better time.

“Saturday was a huge accomplishment because Coach had asked us to really step it up,” Ohman said. “It was the last meet before UA A championships and that’s what we did. All of us across the board committed to believing that we are not a good team but a great team. We ran for each other.”

“It was great to see our athletes not just run with them but to defeat some of the best in the country,” continued Hall.

The 17th-ranked Maroons return to action on Saturday, October 30. They’ll travel to NYU to compete in the UAA Championship. The Maroons hope to hold onto their reputation as a serious force within the UAA.

By Gracie Sonnabend Sports Staff

Second-year Bill Whitmore trucks through the 8K course at the recent Loyola Lakefront Invitational. Whitmore had Chicago’s fastest time in Saturday’s Oshkosh Invite.

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Maroons expect stronger showing against UAA foes during conference tourney VOLLEYBALL continued from back page 25–21, 19–25, 25–22 win.

A victory over the Eagles would have left Chicago in a three-way tie for the second-best record in the conference, but the final result left the Maroons sitting at fourth.

The problems added up for Chicago this weekend, as the Maroons needed strong service return to stay afloat as their defense and hitting faltered at times. The Maroons also fell behind early in several games—including their victories—a pattern the team is hoping to smooth out over the final weeks of the season.

“It’s hard to pinpoint [what went wrong],” Belak said. “It was just a domino effect. When something doesn’t go right, something else doesn’t go right, and it just happened that a lot of things didn’t go

right this weekend.”

NYU won the weekend, going 4–0, including a comeback win over top-ranked Wash U on Sunday.

Emory also left Boston undefeated, meaning that the Eagles and the Violets will have the first and second seeds in the UAA tournament, with Wash U finishing third after a disappointing 2–2 weekend.

With three weeks before the UAA tournament, the Maroons like their chances in the conference—if they show up better than they did this weekend.

“As long as we play as well as we’re capable of, which we did not this weekend, we can definitely come back,” Belak said. “Whoever we play in the UAA, we are capable of beating.”

Before they get another shot at the conference’s best, though, Chicago plays Dominican (12–13) Wednesday, with the action starting at 7 p.m.

Higgins, Kung finish fifth, seventh in singles bracket W. TENNIS continued from back page about the team’s outlook, saying there were “really strong performances all around. The losses were close.”

The singles competition finished Saturday afternoon when Kung overwhelmed Lisa Mertz of Hardin-Simmons with a 6–0, 7–5 win that gave her seventh place. Then Higgins took fifth place after a 7–6 (8), 7–6 (5) game against Emory’s Zahra Dawson.

Like coach Perry, Li was happy with the results. She spoke about feeling “proud to be on a team with so much talent and modesty.

We truly care for each other and cheer for each other with all our hearts. The tournament made me realize even more how lucky I am to be on a team with such great girls.”

While this tournament marks the end of Chicago’s season until January, the team can look forward to a strong upcoming season.

After challenging matches against Rochester on Friday and Case Western on Sunday, the Maroons return home still on top in the UAA conference.

Friday’s game, which ended in a 1-0 loss to Rochester, showcased excellent defense on both sides. Rochester goalie Bridget Lang pulled off three saves to shut out the Maroons, including a nearly successful shot by fourth-year Emily Benoit in the game’s 17th minute.

Chicago third-year Emma Gormley was no slouch between the goal posts either.

“They are a strong team, but we were very successful in limiting the number of chances they had to score throughout the game.

Unfortunately, one of the few chances they did have they were able to score on,” said Benoit. Gormley managed five solid saves, but couldn’t stop Ellen Coleman’s winning shot in the 75th minute.

The stakes were high coming into Sunday’s match against Case Western.

“Both teams were coming off a loss on Friday night so we knew they wanted to win just as badly,” said Benoit. “We knew we had put ourselves in a difficult position after losing on Friday and then being tied at halftime with Case. In order to keep our hope of winning a UAA title and getting an NCAA tournament bid alive, we needed to win this game.”

Benoit’s penalty kick in the 61st minute gave the Maroons their winning edge.

Chicago drew first blood with third-year Allison Hegel’s goal in the fourth minute, assisted by fellow third-year Maggie Tobin.

Case Western’s Deena Levey retaliated in the 12th minute with an assist by Devyn Lee, but the Yellowjackets were unable to hold off the aggressive Maroons, who outshot them 10-7. “It was not our best of games, but we were able to find a way to win in order to continue our pursuit of a UAA title and an NCAA bid,” Benoit added.

Chicago is certainly still strong in UAA standings, with a 3-1 record. The Maroons will play a non-conference match against North Park at home on Wednesday.

Conference play resumes October 29 against NYU.

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Wednesday

10/20

• Women’s Soccer vs. North Park, 4 p.m.

• Volleyball @ Dominican, 7 p.m.

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WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

VOLLEYBALL

Weekend woes Shaky Maroons go 2-2 in final UAA Round Robin before Championships

By Jake Grubman MAROON Staff A bumpy weekend that saw sloppy play cost the volleyball team two important conference matchups and has the Maroons shaking their heads as the final stretch of the season approaches.

Chicago went 2–2 in the final UAA Round Robin this weekend in Boston, leaving them with a 4–3 conference record and the fourth seed in the UAA Championships in November. The Maroons were victorious over Case and Carnegie, but lost to higher-ranked NYU and Emory, spoiling the South Siders’ weekend.

“We did not play our best, to say the least,” third-year Colleen Belak said. “We didn’t play up to our potential. We didn’t do a lot of the fundamental things that make us a good team and that led to our problems.”

Chicago (22–7, 4–3) opened its weekend Saturday morning against 14th-ranked NYU (25–3, 6–1), whose only loss in their previous 16 matches had come at the hands of second-ranked Emory at the last Round Robin.

The Maroons struggled defensively against the Violets, a problem that would plague them throughout the weekend, as NYU coasted to a 25–14, 25–22, 25–14 win.

“NYU had an excellent weekend,”

Belak said. “They looked really strong, although we made them look a lot better than we really should have. It was just a tough game. We didn’t play Chicago volleyball.”

A sour day almost turned worse for Chicago in the afternoon match against Case (19–7, 4–3), as the Spartans came back from a two-game deficit to force a fifth game. Eventually the favored Maroons were able to wrap up the 25– 23, 25–13, 22–25, 19–25, 15–11 win.

Looking to wrap up the weekend with a strong Sunday, the Maroons first took the court against Carnegie (11–13, 2–5), who played Chicago in five- games twice last season. It was the same story this time around. Chicago dug out of an early hole to win 22–25, 25–23, 17–25, 25–23, 15–12.

The Maroons hit just .115 for the contest, another pattern that hurt them throughout the weekend, as the Tartans’ strong defensive line tested the South Siders’ hitters.

With the long-awaited clash with Emory (20–4, 6–1) coming up Sunday afternoon, the Maroons were looking to close the Round Robin on a high note, and Chicago played what Belak called their best match of the weekend. While the Maroons went point-for-point with Emory through much of the contest, the Eagles walked away with a 27–25,

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MAROON Sports Fantasy Pick of the Week

OH Isis Smalls

You’re killing me, Smalls! After a dominant showing during this Sunday’s games, we suggest picking Smalls up in all fantasy leagues for the Maroon’s upcoming match against Dominican on Wednesday.

Third-year libero Alexandria Meyers smashes a serve at a recent home game.

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Total kills for Smalls this weekend at the UAA Round Robin, including 39 in two matches on Sunday. Her 337 kills lead the team for the season.

Maroons claim second against stiff competition

By Liane Rousseau Sports Contributor Th i s w e e k e n d t h e w o m e n ’ s cross country team tied for second place at the University of Wisconsin –Oshkosh Brooks Invitational. Competing in a deep field, the team raced with 36 teams, 10 of which were ranked in the top 25 nationally. The team tied with seventh -ranked Wi s c o n s i n – O s h k o s h , o n l y 27 points behind first-place finisher Minnesota–Duluth.

Four Maroons placed in the top 30 out of 499 runners participating in the six-kilometer event.

Competing against not just D-III but also D-I runners, fourthyear Liz Lawton came in as runner-up with a time of 21:15, finishing just 14 seconds short of Minnesota–Duluth’s Morgan Place. Third-year Rachel Ohman came in next for Chicago with a time of 2 2:2 2, good enough for a 17th-place finish. She was followed closely by second-year Julia Sizek and fourth-year Lizzy Bright, who finished 23rd and 2 9th with times of 2 2:3 2 and 2 2:41 respectively. First-year Michaela Whitelaw rounded out the scoring, placing 45th with a time of 22:55.

Th e i r p e r f o r m a n c e s a r e a l l the more impressive considering the breadth of competition.

Th e M a r o o n s w e n t i n t o t h e competition ranked 15th nationally and defeated fourth-ranked Wa s h U , 1 3 t h - r a n k e d H o p e College, and 10th-ranked Calvin College. Calvin came in closest with just one point less than the

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Hu and Higgins dominate D-III tourney, lose “Super Bowl”

By Kate Marsden MAROON Staff Women’s tennis finished their fall season this weekend at the I TA N a t i o n a l S m a l l C o l l e g e Championship in Mobile, Alabama.

Unlike the doubles results, the results for the singles games were a little disappointing.

Friday began with the doubles competition. Third-year Kendra Higgins and fourth-year Chrissy Hu faced the College of New Jersey’s Karisse Bendijo and Allison Tierney, defeating them 6–3, 6–0 in the semifinal match.

Higgins and Hu, the two-time NCAA Division I I I champions, followed their victory with a 6–3, 6–1 win against Claremont-MuddScripps, allowing Higgins and Hu to face the Division II doubles champions in the overall “Super Bowl” competition on Saturday.

Unfortunately Alida MullerWehlau and Barbora Kritchkova of Armstrong Atlantic defeated Higgins and Hu 6–2, 6–4.

Third-year Carmen VacaGuzman and second-year Linden Li took fifth place in the doubles competition with a 6–4, 1–6, 10–7 victory over Gustavus Adolphus’s Megan Gaard and fourth-year Marianne Barau, a victory they followed by defeating Washington & Lee’s Lauren Lukas and Trelsie Sadler 6–3, 6–4. “[We] were fully aware of how prestigious it is to even play in a tournament like this. We just started playing together a month ago and yet, here we are in a national ITA tournament,” Li said.

Because of their triumphs, VacaGuzman and Li are now second in the region and fifth in the national tournament.

Despite the straight set of doubles victories from Higgins and Hu, the

first day had some disappointments as well.

Higgins, an At-L arge, lost to freshman Kristen Lim from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Lim went on to defeat Chapman College’s Liz Lewis who was the D-III National Small Colleges singles champion last year.

Third-year Jennifer Kung was also unexpectedly defeated by Karisse Bendijo of TCNJ in the first day of play, but as Li said, “She played phenomenal tennis and lost in tight matches; ones that she definitely could have pulled off if she had only converted a few game points.”

Head coach Marty Perry noted that the “unfortunate loss in the first day” prevented the players from finishing any higher than fifth place in the tournament. For Perry, Higgins’ results were especially surprising.

However, he remained positive

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Third-year Jennifer Kung returns a shot during a recent match; Kung finished seventh in the singles bracket of this weekend’s ITA Small College National Championships.

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