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SG cabinet and committee applications total over 200 Isaac Easton Deputy News Editor Over 200 students have submitted applications for recently reopened Student Government (SG) cabinet and committee chair positions. Tyler Kissinger, SG

president, attributes the high number of applicants to two main factors: a newly centralized application process and the proactive reputation of his slate, United Progress.

The three cabinet positions are director of communications, director of finance, and

director of technology. Two of the 10 committee positions include chair of the Committee on Recognized Student Organizations and chair of the Uncommon Fund.

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UChicago geneticist links African heritage to breast cancer Raymond Fang Features Editor The facade of one of three residential towers that will be contained in the new space, along with a dining hall. The project is set to be completed in June of 2016. Photo essay continued on page 2.

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Onwards and upwards: Campus North construction reaches 15th story Annie Nazzaro Deputy News Editor Campus North has faced no delays so far in its construction—the new dorm is on schedule for June 2016 completion. The structure topped out at 15 stories this past August.

Though the dorm has been under construction since July of 2014, progress became much more visible over the summer, after the underground work was completed.

“The reason why it seems like it sprung up overnight is because the first six to eight

months, almost all the work was below [ground], because the foundation is the hardest part,” said Eric Eichler, senior project manager for Campus North. “Once we got out of the ground we were able to basically add a floor to the structure almost weekly.”

“Weather has been the main obstacle in construction,” Eichler said. Working the cranes to attach the concrete-paneled façade became impossible when the wind was over a certain threshold, occasionally cancelling shipments of the panels and delaying work.

However, none of that was significant enough to push the construction off-schedule.

Campus North will be open for students in September 2016. Planned to house 800 students, the complex will also include a dining hall and five built-in retail spaces on the ground floor. One of those, along South University Avenue, is meant to be a restaurant with an outdoor dining space. However, which retailers or restaurants will occupy those spaces won’t be determined until after construction is complete.

University launches new preorientation programming Eileen Li Associate News Editor In the week before this year’s O-Week, UChicago first-year students had various opportunities to get to know each other and the City of Chicago. In addition to Chicago Bound, the University sponsored new programs called Chicago

Urban Experience (CUE) and UChicago Leads.

The Chicago Urban Experience, offered by the College Programming Office, helped students explore what it means to be a Chicagoan outside of campus. Each day, the program involved lectures and tours around the city focusing on different themes, such

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Hannah Trower, a participant in the program, said the program helped acclimate her to Chicago as someone coming from a non-urban environment.

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Last August, Olufunmilayo Olopade’s long list of accolades grew even longer after she was selected as a winner of the FDR Four Freedoms Medal, an award given annually to four recipients who exemplify President Roosevelt’s four essential freedoms outlined

in a 1941 speech. Olopade’s award, “Freedom from Want,” was given on the basis of her 18-year long research project linking specific, aggressive forms of breast cancer to women of African descent. *The Maroon* sat down with Olopade to discuss her research.

Olopade is no stranger to academic accolades. Not

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Local activist fights for historical garden name Adam Thorp Associate News Editor Peter Zelchenko, a community activist, presented concerns about the naming of a slice of land on the Lab School campus between East 58th Street and the new glass-and-stone

Gordon Parks Art Hall at a meeting he arranged in Hyde Park on Wednesday, September 30.

Hyde Park community members and people at the Lab School have long called the land Scammon Garden, or “Scammons,” after Jonathan Young Scammon.

Scammon was a prominent early Chicagoan whose family donated or sold much of the land on which the Lab School would be built to the University.

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Campus North rises: dorm and dining commons on track for June 2016 completion.

Through rain, wind, and cold, construction on Campus North has continued steadily since July 2014. The team recently celebrated reaching the highest point of the structure, the roof of the fifteen-floor tower, with a topping-off party in August.

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point students to fill these positions.

This is a change from past years, when cabinet and committee leadership positions were assumed by executive committee vice presidents. This spring, SG realized that having the vice president fill these roles was a poor allocation of resources.

Kissinger suggests that, in addition to the restructuring, the high number of applicants might be due in part to a new centralized application on the SG website. For many years SG used a spinoff website that often confused users..

“We wanted a process that was integrated with our website, especially for first-years and people who don’t really know as much about us.”

In addition to bringing the application over to the SG website, SG made all the applications due on the same day (Friday, September 25).

According to Kissinger, this made the application process more intuitive and caught applicants who otherwise wouldn’t have known when their applications were due.

Kissinger said that a lot of the applicants—60 percent—were firstyear students, suggesting that the attention surrounding last year’s election did not greatly influence application volume. However, none of the cabinet position applicants were first-year students. First-years are discouraged from applying to cabinet positions given the amount of work and commitment required.

her interest in the city, saying, “I’m the type of person who will explore, but I have to have a reason to explore. Now that I have a little taste of what the city has to offer, I’ll want to get out more.”

The brand-new nature of the program provided both challenges and opportunities for both the first-year participants and the leaders. Anthony Lovell Downer, a third-year student leader for CUE, described the first few days as “pretty hectic” and discussed how in many cases, the pre-orientation leaders were learning alongside the students.

Being a leader in the first ever year of CUE also allowed Downer to play a role in shaping the program for the future. Downer said, “I definitely feel I had an impact on the program. I hope to come back, I hope to see some of the students who participated be leaders in the future.”

UChicago Leads, the smallest of the three programs at only 25 students, was also new this year and sought to expose firstyears to leadership in diverse disciplines across the city of Chicago. The program had no upperclassmen student leaders and was led by program coordinators from the Center for Leadership and Student Involvement. For each of the program’s six days, the students met with leaders in different fields. One meeting was with the owner of the White Sox, and another was with a behavior-

behavior and its implications for human collaboration.

A highlight for Bruce Li, a first-year interested in entrepreneurship, was seeing the collaboration rooms and start-up CEOs at 1871, a co-working community. Li strongly recommends the program to future first-years because it allowed him to get comfortable meeting people before being inundated with new faces during O-Week.

Meera Dhodapkar, another participant, agrees that the preorientation programs provide a smooth transition to college life.

She continues to talk to her network of friends from UChicago Leads every day.

In addition to the social aspect of the program, Dhodapkar also appreciated the focus on leadership at UChicago, saying, “Coming out of this week where you’ve just learned a lot about yourself and this institution, there’s a clear page turning in terms of going into college.”

Chicago Bound, the only Chicago based pre-orientation program that existed prior to this year, began in 2012 and focuses on immersing 40 first-year students in community service and social justice issues around the city of Chicago. Sponsored by the University Community Service Center and the Institute of Politics, the daily itinerary of the program involved meeting local leaders and participating in ser-

activities. Students engaged in the local community by making sandwiches for the Night Ministry, an organization that delivers food to the homeless, and painting a mural at a local elementary school.

Sophia Zaller, one of the firstyear participants, said that meeting a woman who founded the Office of New Americans at the mayor’s office was her favorite part of the program. One of the overarching themes of the program, Zaller said, was that “[the program’s] leaders really wanted us to see that the South Side wasn’t something to be afraid of. [At UChicago], people don’t go south of 61st, but that’s obviously kind of one-sided and you don’t need to be scared of a certain place. There are good people everywhere.”

Nikhil Mandalaparthy, another participant, also commented on the University’s relationship with surrounding communities and the powerful effect of hearing people talk about the Hyde Park bubble. “Coming [in] as freshmen, we didn’t really know the reputation the University had around different parts of the city and…we weren’t really students yet, but we were already branded as UChicago students trying to get out of the bubble,” he said.

“I think that sort of set the precedent for the rest of our careers here—to get out into the city.”

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Scientist and Exceptional Mentor Award, an American Cancer Society clinical research professorship, a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Fellowship and the Officer of the Order of the Niger Award.

MAROON: Can you tell me about what you found in your research on breast cancer genetics among women of African descent?

OLOPADE: The work has been going on since 1997, when we first started doing work in Nigeria. Genetics is one of those things that is underappreciated in medicine, and so we were looking for families with inherited susceptibility to breast cancer. Because I am a medical oncologist, I see patients in the clinic. Most of what had been in the literature had been about women of European descent, especially Jewish women. In 1997, we published on a series of nine families that we had seen at the University of Chicago in my clinic. They were no different from the Jewish families that had been in the literature.

The only difference was that no one had studied them because it’s hard for minority families to get access in this country.

I then made it my life mission to increase the literature on minority families and raise awareness about the fact that research needs to be expanded to all racial and ethnic groups. It was easier for me to further the work by going to Nigeria and recruiting lots of women in my alma mater—my medical school. I think that’s something that’s unique about the work that I did. The more I looked into it, the more I realized how important that work was. Most people associate health disparities to lack of access, but it goes deeper than that.

MAROON: You mentioned that there’s something deeper than just lack of access. Can you expand on that?

OLOPADE: What has been really profound in the work we do is that if you have an understudied population, you’re not really going to be able to solve the problem that they have. It’s just that it’s challenging to study populations when they are not part of the

larger biomedical establishment.

Until recently, when NIH started funding work in global health settings, most of the work that’s really been done has been to take care of 10% of the world’s population in industrialized, Western populations. Because this country is an immigrant country, there really needs to be a lot more work based on population genetics that can pay attention to the geographic diversity in disease onset, as well as specific diseases that impact particular populations.

MAROON: In the FDR Four Freedoms description of the award, they mention that your work would lead to a lot of clinical changes in the treatment of black women. Could you elaborate on what those clinical changes would be?

OLOPADE: When we started our work, everyone thought breast cancer was one disease, and in low-resource settings, the policy had been: “Well, they don’t have a way to diagnose breast cancer, so if a woman shows up with a lump, just give Tamoxifen and send them back to their village.”

We showed that that was the wrong policy because the majority of those women would not respond to that medication. In fact, their suffering will continue.

What will it take to actually have the proper diagnosis and the proper treatment? A lot of policies that are based on what you see in the majority population actually end up being the wrong policies. In this country, black women are more likely to have breast cancer at a younger age, and yet we ask everybody to go get a mammogram at 50. A third of black women will get breast cancer before age 50. The question is: what should be our population strategy for identifying and taking care of those women? So that’s the kind of work that we are trying to shed light onto.

MAROON: As far as your sampling procedures go, I looked briefly at one of your articles online and I noticed you had collected samples from various racial groups like Caucasian, African, Asian. How did you label the race of those samples? Was it self-identified, or did you assign races?

OLOPADE: That’s actually

been very interesting. We have a real debate about self-reported race/ethnicity versus using Ancestry Informative Markers (AIM). What we found is that the lived experience of somebody is just as important as their genetic background, and so in as much as we’re interested in gene-environment interactions, we ask the patients what they self-report, and then we also—at least in some of our work—try to use Ancestry Informative Markers. What we find is that there’s actually very good correlation between Ancestry Informative Markers and self-reported race, at least in our cohort of patients that we’ve studied.

Part of the reason we went to Nigeria for our study is also to remove the admixture issue, and study a homogenous African population, and see what the gradient is in terms of the differences in breast cancer, age of onset, and breast cancer subtypes.

MAROON: A lot of social scientists, particularly scholars in the anthropology, sociology, and history of science and medicine, have critiqued the use of race in genomic research because they argue that it creates a false biological idea of race.

OLOPADE: Mhm. It’s a social construct.

MAROON: Yeah. They argue it risks ignoring larger social determinants of health. Additionally, a lot of biologists also point to epigenetics as proof of how environment should be taken into account in genetics research. In your work, how do you try to balance the genetic and social components of health?

OLOPADE: We actually just wrote a paper, The Perfect Storm, and this is really looking at how genomics and our healthcare system actually collide. A medical student went and said, “How many doctors on the South Side of Chicago will accept, or even know where to send, a woman to get a mammogram?” And so there are no doctors on the South Side.

So, that woman will have to be sent to go and look for a doctor who can help her diagnose her breast cancer.

Now, you can imagine how long that might take. So even if it wasn’t that the tumor was

Dr. Olufunmilayo Olopade, winner of the 2015 FDR Four Freedoms medal, has researched the connection between breast cancer and African heritage.

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large at the time it started, by the time you find a doctor, in a rapidly growing tumor, it would be large, and it could be lethal. You also can see what happens when people have some form of deprivation in a low socioeconomic class. They’re going to be more spiritual, they’re going to not want to look for trouble because they are just barely making ends meet. They have to go to work, otherwise they’re not going to get paid. So if you have to go and find a doctor and take time off work, you might not be so happy to go, because you know you’re going to lose wages.

So I think both are right, because the social determinants of health are really, really important, but there are also biological reasons why people might get sick. As a result of that, we cannot but study that. I think if there are population geneticists, or if you are a social scientist, you have to understand that biology happens, and you have to take that into consideration to explain even the social determinants of health.

That’s how we’ve tried to integrate that into our work.

MAROON: Great. Finally, looking to the future, what are your plans?

OLOPADE: Right now, everybody really is doing Big Data science, and genomic technologies are getting cheaper and cheaper.

One thing that we know we can do is diagnose cancer, and diagnose it accurately by using genomics. We should be able to do that for everybody, no matter where they live.

As a result of the President’s Precision Medicine Initiative, we should be able to find the right drug for the right person at the right time. If we are able to develop such an infrastructure, then I think some of the misdiagnosis, misuse of treatment—because if you give somebody the wrong drug and they don’t get better, they’re not going to trust you the next time—and that’s why there’s been a lot of mistrust about medical enterprise in the black community. That’s real. And that’s really what we should be fighting to change by doing rigorous research and using it to inform policy.

“Two little bronze plaques do not a Scammon Court make.”

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be taken to promote Scammon’s place in history.

In an interview, Calmetta Coleman, director of communication for civic engagement at the University, said, “We are looking into whether or not [his proposal] is something we can accommodate.”

School and neighborhood tradition, as reported by Zelchenko and published in some older histories published by the University, held that the agreement transferring the land to the University required this northern section of the block be named in honor of

Scammon and kept open to the public. Over a year of research found no evidence of such an agreement.

“It’s not legally Scammon Gardens—it’s by acclamation Scammon Gardens. Faculty and students and families for the last 100 years have simply called it Scammon Gardens,” Zelchenko said.

Zelchenko did find a covenant between an executor of the Scammon estate and the school requiring the southern end of the block to be known as Scammon Court (as opposed to Gardens) and marked as such; plaques bearing

the Scammon name are posted in an open-air courtyard in that section of the land. Zelchenko argued that this consideration is insufficient.

“Two little bronze plaques do not a Scammon Court make, and the fact that nobody’s ever called it Scammon Court… [The terms of the Covenant] mean the University must make proactive efforts to make it known as [Scammon Court]. The University has not honored the terms of the covenant,” Zelchenko said.

Among other proposals, Zelchenko asserted that the Scammon name should be for-

mally and permanently attached to the land at the northern end of the block, and that the land be kept open to the public and free of further construction.

Zelchenko is circulating a petition in print and online to this effect.

Wednesday’s meeting at First Unitarian Church of Chicago was lightly attended; a meeting earlier this year on the same topic attracted more interest. Wednesday’s event was hosted by the Racial Justice Task Force, part of the Church’s Social Justice Council. Finley Campbell, the chair of the task force, said their interest

in the issue was related to Scammon’s history as a supporter of abolition and the Underground Railroad.

“These little small gestures of community responsibility, community awareness…connecting the 150th anniversary of the final legal passage of the 13th Amendment with the 120th anniversary of Scammon’s death is a wonderful win-win situation for publicity, for a greater image [for the University]. And we settle a question that has evidently been irritating [members of the community],” Campbell said.

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Letter: Bernie Sanders and the merits of challenging your core education Nicholas Saffran’s recent oped in the Maroon about Senator Bernie Sanders’s speech at Rockefeller Chapel touches on a few universal truths about modern American politics, especially during a presidential election.

Much of the rhetoric espoused is vague, and on the rare occasion that it is actually rooted in fact, it tends to oversimplify the details of what are almost always complex issues. In an increasingly polarized system, candidates tend to rely on appeals to the beliefs of their electoral base or mischaracterizations of opposing positions.

Famed though he may be for his unorthodoxy, Senator Sanders is no different.

It is unfortunate, then, that such legitimate criticisms are couched in an article that ultimately amounts to a hit-piece on the intelligence of Sanders and the political left, even as it masquerades as something else. And it is truly unfortunate that such a fully-throated defense for nuance and honest engagement hinges on an egregious mischaracterization of Sanders’s words.

Mr. Saffran writes that Sanders began “his address to throngs of cheering students by boasting that he was not a very good student while here at the University, that he read very few of the books he was actually assigned, and that he did most of his learning outside of the classroom.” Sanders’s actual words paint a slightly different picture: “When I think about my years at the University, I think about many of the excellent and provocative teachers and classes that I had. I think about the physics class that I struggled with end-

lessly and the fact that I will not go down in history as one of the great students at the University of Chicago. And I think about the many, many hours that I spent in the basement of Harper Library reading everything except the books that I was supposed to read for the class the next day. [Applause] Don’t take that as advice.

That’s not what I’m suggesting.

Do better in school than I did.”

As Mr. Saffran notes, Sanders was in all likelihood joking, making a self-deprecating attempt to reach common ground with students at his undergraduate alma mater, one of the most infamously difficult institutions in the entire world. But whether he meant it or not, this is hardly the “boast” of a man who revels in anti-intellectualism. And Sanders’s stated embrace of learning beyond the ivy-covered confines of the University hardly amounts to a rejection of the Western canon, the contention on which Mr. Saffran’s entire editorial rests.

In my time at the University, I read and relished the work of Plato, de Tocqueville, and Nietzsche; I encouraged anyone who would listen to read and reread Niccolo Machiavelli’s The Prince. But my education was buttressed by the works of du Bois, Fanon, and Michelle Alexander, by several texts recommended by classmates and professors alike that never appeared on a syllabus, by living and talking and working in the iridescent tapestry of Americana that is my hometown of Chicago.

My instructors would often assign contradictory texts and ask me to argue the merits of one over the other without any intimation as to the “right” answer,

as anyone who can remember the winter quarter of Classics can attest. What Mr. Saffran decries as an attempt to “gut core curricula in America” is more accurately described as a broadening diversification of that curricula; that while there is still great worth in the study of “Dead White Men™,” that alone is no longer sufficient.

The voices and perspectives of those traditionally silenced by the tide of history should now be considered by those endeavoring to join the company of educated individuals.

Contrary to what Mr. Saffran believes of Sanders and, presumably, his liberal supporters, it is quite possible to both interpret the world and attempt to change it based on those interpretations.

So earnest though it undoubtedly is, Mr. Saffran’s critique of Senator Sanders’s economic positions largely amounts to a transparent paralipsis with a naked claim to the intellectual high ground, suggesting that any educated or intelligent person armed with the wisdom of Hayek and Smith would not support a $15 minimum wage or oppose free trade agreements, and neatly ignores any counter-arguments that might oppose his point. Mr. Saffran invokes the classic refrain of teaching “how to think, not what to think,” then effectively attacks Sanders for not arriving at the “right” (in every sense of the word) conclusions, even as he claims that he is not doing so.

And if he is fearful of true antiintellectualism, I would invite Mr. Saffran to take a closer look at some of the people against whom Senator Sanders is running—not only at self-effacing

jokes intended to shed the dreaded mantle of an elitist, but also at their actual stances. At American conservatism, not its continental or English cousins. At Rick Santorum, who called President Obama a snob for wanting to expand college access, and placing American minds within reach of “some liberal college professor.”

At Carly Fiorina, who continually touts the horrors of Planned Parenthood videos that have been repeatedly debunked. At Mike Huckabee’s flagrant misunderstanding of the Constitution and the powers of the Supreme Court. At virtually every single thing Donald Trump has said, a man who has so richly earned the label of demagogue that Mr. Saffran affixed to Sanders.

None of this is meant as a defense of Senator Sanders’s positions or an endorsement for his campaign, especially with election day over a year away. Setting aside the specifics of his stances and policy proposals, there are legitimate concerns that liberals and conservatives alike should have over how his raw populism will translate into an ability to actually govern, especially in negotiating with what will likely remain a Republican Congress. No one running for president should be inoculated from criticism, even when delivering a stump speech to a mostly supportive audience, and Mr. Saffran’s willingness to publicly criticize one of the University’s favored sons is commendable. But in a piece where he routinely calls for a greater examination of and respect for nuance and complexity in politics, one wishes that he had endeavored to follow his own ad-

vice in writing it.

In closing, I would echo Mr. Saffran’s invitation for students to vote for whomever they wish, though I would plead with them to strongly reconsider supporting Donald Trump should the opportunity arise. I will also echo his exhortation that they read their assigned texts, in Sosc and beyond.

But I would also encourage students to read more than what is assigned—to dip a toe into the ocean of literature not contained within the limits of the hallowed Western tradition. I would encourage them never to take what they’ve read as gospel, traditional or otherwise, and to always challenge what is presented in front of them. I would encourage them, as Senator Sanders did, to take their education beyond the confines of the Reg and Harper and out into the surrounding streets of the Windy City.

And failing any of those, I would urge them to never dismiss their fellow students who engage with the same material and come away with different conclusions as less intelligent or anti-intellectual for having done so.

—Mickey Desruisseaux A.B. ’15

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The half-dark tale of what happens when a (diabetic) dumbass tries (and fails) to eat nothing but Harold’s chicken for two and a half days

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Sprezzatura Apologies to my coach, my mother, and my endocrinologist. This was bad for me, it was foolish, and I shouldn’t have done it. But somebody had to.

I stare down at the wings. They stare back at me. I sit on a park bench at East 54th Street and South Blackstone Avenue, just south of Giordano’s. I’m the only one here, save for the dude who just walked by, talking into his phone about the Snapchat story he just watched (apparently some girl got real fucked up at a club).

I ordered wings because they were the smallest possible meal I could get. Fries are piled atop the wings;

everything is drenched in hot sauce. Finally I place the flimsy cardboard receptacle on the bench next to me, and I begin. The fries are on top, so I have to plow through them to get to the wings.

They’re soggy and mushy, soaked in sauce, and I eat them as fast as I can so that they’ll be gone. My bike, leaning on its kickstand right in front of the bench, glares at me disapprovingly. I see a friend walking in a group down East 54th Street. My impulse is to call out to him, wave and say “hi,” but then I look down at what I’m doing and see my hands covered in sauce. I imagine the wave, red and messy.

I turn away, making sure I won’t be seen, that this remains between me, my bike, and the wings.

I finish quickly, and attempt to wipe my hands and face with the sheet of what seems to be halfply toilet paper that came with my meal. It’s terribly insufficient, and my fingernails remain lined in a color that I would call a faintly pretty orange if I didn’t know where it came from. I don’t have a mirror, and I’m sure I have bits of fried skin stuck in my atrociously hideous facial hair. I put all evidence of the meal—the paper tray, the fork I didn’t use, the wax paper, the crumpled orange napkin, my pride—back into the paper bag, and furtively throw it in the trash can on the street. I get back on my bike and ride to the Reg. As HAROLDS continued on page 4

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I pedal I realize that, in spite of all the shame and self-loathing, I actually enjoyed that meal.

The whole thing started, like all foolish acts do, as an idea. I let it sit for a couple years. I tried to get myself to do it a few times, told myself this would be the weekend, but I never managed it. Until this past weekend, when, starting Friday evening, I endeavored to eat only at Harold’s until Monday morning.

My first half-dark was fine, accompanied by only the usual amount of regret and sadness— the Harold’s Hangover as I call it. And the second wasn’t too terrible either—I’d skipped breakfast so I was hungry enough to make it work. Saturday night I cheated though, and ate all the sushi I could at Shinju. It was a team dinner, so my commitment to Harold was trumped. And thank goodness it was.

But Sunday morning I was back again. The tables in Harold’s were full, so I took my wings to the park, and had what I thought would be the low point of the weekend, alone on a park bench.

There was still another halfdark to come. After a day in Mansueto spent taking partial derivatives and setting them equal to zero, I found myself back in front of the bulletproof glass, this time with a friend. The sound of the bells banging against the glass, the harsh light, the jumbled mess of people in line and people only waiting—it was all more familiar now than I wanted it to be.

After I finished the last leg, and forced the final fry into my mouth,

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there was no triumph; there was no joy. My friend and I sat on the couch, watching the Cowboys lose to the Saints on his laptop. We didn’t move; we hardly talked. I had a headache, speech was difficult, and any sort of complex thinking was out of the question.

My head felt simply empty, a great chasm in which there were only sorrow and loathing. I hated Harold’s now, and I hated myself.

The next morning I woke up with a sore throat and congestion in my lungs. I think I have a cold now, but it could just as well be

scurvy, or perhaps acute idiocy.

My head still feels mostly empty, slow and brown and sad. After my wings on Sunday morning, I’d gone straight to the Reg bathroom, and tried my utmost to get the residual sauce off my hands. I scrubbed and scrubbed, and I’ve

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showered and washed my hands many times since then. But still, if I look closely enough, the edges of my fingernails glow with a pale, faint orange.

Liam Leddy is a fourth-year in the College majoring in economics.

Peering into Pearson A 100 million dollar donation could have the University pandering to special interest groups Landing large corporate donations for a new initiative on a university campus is always a challenging sell. It requires great patience, savvy political instincts, and careful management. And when they come, such donations are always—rightfully—the object of celebration and positive marketing for the school’s victory. The announcement of the Pearson brothers’ $100 million pledge to underwrite the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts was indeed one of those moments, and the event hit a “sweet spot” in identifying a critical problem.

Namely the fact that the new policy, although appearing coherent and promising, may present some unique challenges to the University’s ability to execute a truly objective, fact-based program.

Chicago stands out as a vital and unique university that supports an extraordinary level of critical analysis across many fields including business, law, science, and the humanities. In the political domain, I would argue, it may struggle to sustain a similar level of probity, as it is the most vulnerable to bias, not only by special interests, but also by the University’s dominant institutional beliefs and preferences.

In the case of the newly announced Pearson Institute, the donation comes loaded with a heavy set of biases. Those include a ready acceptance of government narratives concerning terror and security. The Pearson Foundation is a reliable ally to the US government’s broad foreign policy activities. Indeed, Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, called the new institute a “halfway house between pure academics and the State Department.” In such circumstances, how can UChicago provide a well rounded and, more importantly, objective education to students when the University is, effectively, a privately sponsored consultant to the government?

Moreover, the Pearson family itself represents some unique challenges. Much of their wealth derives from the coal industry (Thomas Pearson was previously senior executive of Alliance Resource Partners, the third largest coal mining company in the Eastern U.S., which is still partly owned by Pearson-controlled Alliance Holdings GP) while their private equity firm, Cohesive Capital Partners, has been or is invested in several industries: offshore oil and gas, Bermudabased insurance, medical claims

management, government IT outsourcing, and energ y fracking.

Meanwhile, its executive council is represented by the global oil and gas sector, international employment outsourcing, and military defense applications that the University would find difficult or impossible to confront or undermine in any way. Expectations and outcomes, then, are implicitly tied to sponsorship.

That may be especially the case when government is an effective co-sponsor and corporate donors are seeking government regulatory favor or forbearance. At Mandel Hall, a limo waited outside (attended by an armed paramilitary security guard) for Haass, a former Bush Administration official and CFR president, who then went directly to Midway Airport’s private terminal where a corporate-owned jet flew him back East. Also in attendance at the campus event were former military officers, World Bank affiliate executives, and government consultants. The event’s program notes, along with press announcements by the Pearson family, made it clear that the U.S. government’s global war on terror (GWOT), its characterizations of “non-state entities” such as “ISIS” and “Al Qaeda,” its Middle

East war prosecution, its assertions as to the source and number of global terror acts, and its domestic security programs were all readily accepted as legitimate, as right and proper and subject only to further “data” techniques. But is data the right objective, or is it intelligence? Where does one begin and the other end, and who is providing the information?

It is obvious that to apply a method of scientific inquiry into global conflict is a much different problem than assessing security prices, predicting the location of exoplanets, or uncovering polymer solar cell performance.

Even the law and economics tradition, or behavioral economics, are handicapped by the new institute’s data dilemma. The Pearson Institute, like the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) relies on secondary, reported data. But it’s not all data: It’s also narratives, stories, opinion, positions, edited reports, anecdotes, and, in some cases, disinformation. Generating primary data and insight (e.g. who exactly are “insurgents” and who is actually backing them) would task the Institute with a capability in investigation and intelligence operations that it does not possess, being fraught with

state interference or other barriers to reliable objectivity. Moreover, the Pentagon’s recent 1,000 page memorandum on media and investigative reporting and its classification as potential “nonviolent terrorism” or reporters and researchers as “unprivileged belligerents,” puts a chill on any university institution’s ability to conduct its own independent investigation of conflict, without which no true independent policy can be crafted. Would an archaeologist rely strictly on a government museum of filtered, treated artifacts to uncover evidence of social practices, culture, and rivalry?

With such intense institutional sponsorship and biases already weighing so heavily on the Institute’s culture and outlook, does an objective approach to foreign policy even stand a chance, or is this merely an example of an interlocking arrangement of university reputation with commercial and state special interests—or as Lawrence Lessig calls it, a “whitewashing” exercise, one that seeks to characterize private special interests as public ones?

Matt Andersson is a Booth School of Business alumnus (M.B.A. ’96).

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Smart Museum curator Richard Born gives American Idiot interpretation will life to 100 years of Expressionist art be the time of your life Ellen Rodnianski Arts Editor This past Saturday I travelled to Wicker Park’s Den Theater to see The Hypocrites’ take on the successful Broadway musical American Idiot. The musical, written by Green Day lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong and original director Michael Mayer, follows the lives of three friends who are trying to escape their boring suburban lives...and is entirely guided by Green Day songs.

The Hypocrites’ rendition of American Idiot was just as quirky and entertaining as one would expect from the theater company whose self-proclaimed motto is “to reintroduce communal connection into

contemporary theater.”

They draw inspiration from children’s stories, the circus, nightclubs, slumber parties, pirate ships, and more to create what is a truly unique theatrical experience. Walking into the theater to find a seat, the audience was confronted by cast members who were casually welcoming them in, dancing, singing, or jamming on stage. At one point, when most of the actors had disappeared from sight, a particularly confident audience member was left dancing solo to a rendition of Katy Perry’s “Roar.”

What particularly struck me about this performance was the set. The interior of the theater was covered in graffiti, and there were seats on three sides of the

stage with a large open space in the middle. An asymmetrical stage with all the necessary instrumental equipment was set up behind the empty space on the only side without an audience. The edginess of the set underpinned the conflicts unraveling on stage, with the three friends experiencing distinctly dissimilar paths. Two friends leave the suburbs, and one’s “dreams turn red, white and blue” as he joins the military, while the other finds comfort in heroin and experiences of lost love. The third friend stays in the suburbs in hopes of making a future with his pregnant girlfriend, but life doesn’t turn out quite as he hopes.

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Ren Society explores sirens, darkness, and non-violence in new exhibition Andrew McVea Arts Editor

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Dodo in the Studio is one of many Expressionist drawings on display currently at the Smart Museum.

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Grace Hauck Associate Arts Editor Within a compact, square gallery of no more than 100 by 100 feet, Smart Museum Curator Richard A. Born has managed to orchestrate an exhibition spanning a century of turmoil, half of a continent, and an entire movement of art.

Clearly, Expressionist Impulses: German and Central European Art, 1890–1990, now on view at the Smart, is no small feat. The exhibition encompasses an ambitious scope of work in its drive to trace the origins and progression of the Expressionist movement. Featuring works by artists from Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, and more, the exhibit is arranged chronologically in a fluid tour of five sectional rooms, each dedicated to a particular era and narrated by quotes taken from contemporary theorists.

“For me,” Born said in a phone interview, “walking through is a memory maze.

Each room could be viewed as a separate exhibition, but I like framing them this way because each one looks to the past and the future.”

The section entitled “Around 1900: The Acad-

emy/Symbolism” introduces the viewer to the idea of Expressionism—a movement that rejected Impressionistic depictions of everyday life and, instead, endeavored to convey the raw essence of an idea or emotion. This theory lent itself to the use of representational language as well as more abstract works highlighting color and line, though Expressionism was united solely in theory rather than artistic style.

“I wanted to play off of different definitions of Expressionism and make you wonder why this artist is included in this group,” Born said.

German painter Georg Baselitz’s drawing Untitled (man’s head upside down with bottle) greets you upon entry.

The work is rough and unpolished; Baselitz’s charcoal markings are gestural, suggesting just enough form to convey the general idea of confusion. In this very same room, you’ll behold Belgian artist George Minne’s Kneeling Youth (1989), an early example of Expressionist tendencies executed with much more deliberation than Baselitz’s loose strokes. This long, lone white figure, cast in plaster, appears emaciated, embracing himself in private suffering.

In the adjoining section, Otto Gutfreud’s Job, a smaller-scale bronze sculpture, provides a welcome example of an evolved Kneeling Youth.

Gutfreud’s form is more abstract than Minne’s, and the figure of Job appears to be at once consumed by and composed of his convulsive bronze foundation. Born’s structuring of this exhibition is indeed effective, and viewers constantly finds themselves comparing and contrasting nearby works.

This second section, “Before the Great War,” features works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Dungert, and Wassily Kandinsky. These pieces highlight the importance of a somewhat unexpected trend of international appropriation—particularly from African, Asian, and South Sea cultures—as well as French Fauvist and pointillist influences. The works range from figurative to nonfigurative yet all evoke a certain spiritual, longing quality, as seen in Albert Bloch’s painting Night II (1914).

Bloch balances the simultaneously nonfigurative-figurative realm by depicting faint human outlines marching across a backdrop of simplified cosmological forms. His SMART continued on page 9

You never quite know what to expect when visiting the Renaissance Society. In the past, I have seen pieces ranging from a fully recreated whale skeleton to a room of bedazzled lampshades to an animated short film of a thumb being inserted into an eye narrated by a gorilla.

Although certainly eclectic, the museum on the fourth floor of Cobb is consistently thought provoking and intriguing, even if it’s hard to tell what exactly is going on some of the time.

Irena Haiduk’s new exhibition—Seductive Exacting Realism—is no exception.

More a piece of performance art than the visual art usually on display, the display begins once every hour from 10 a.m.–4 p.m. on the hour and lasts 35 minutes. Before entering the main room, participants sit in an airy waiting area.

The white, flowy fabric gave the room an outdoor, tentlike feel highlighted by the light penetrating the thin fabric of the walls. On the wall leading to the larger room is a gold sign reading “SER” in large gold letters and framed by three gold lines. My first thought seeing it was the Spanish word for “to be” but after reading the program notes I realized it is more likely just an abbreviation of the title. After a few minutes of waiting, a siren—another recurring

idea—declared the time and we were invited to enter.

The setup of the large room was by far the most striking element of the exhibit. The room was almost completely dark, as all of the windows were covered by white shades, and the lights were all completely off.

Only a small rectangle of white light from the highest eastern windows illuminated the cavernous space. After my eyes adjusted to the darkness, they were drawn to a makeshift balcony at the front of the exhibit.

Truly, it’s the only thing one could be drawn to. At first glance, the space is completely empty other than letters marking the south and east sides of the room.

Atop the balcony sit eight “sirens” or female mannequins dressed in black dresses, wigs, and shoes. These mannequins are lying down or letting their feet dangle over the edge. While certainly a trick of the light, the darkness made it look almost like their feet were swaying casually.

Upon further exploration I discovered that each of the corners are equipped with two speakers and a bench.

A seemingly more experienced Renaissance Society patron went immediately to one of the corners to sit, and after exploring the rest of the room I also took a seat. I then sat in silence— other than the air vents and the quiet sounds of the

couple kissing in the opposite corner—for 12 minutes before the time was again announced and the program began.

For the piece, Haiduk interviewed Serbian activist Srđa Popović, an instrumental leader in the student led non-violent overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic in the late ’90s. Using this interview she hired voice actors to recreate her conversation, which is then broadcasted out of the pairs of speakers in each corner. It’s a bit like being in on the conversation between the two, but unfortunately, the volume between the two parts was not consistent and although I could hear Haiduk’s questions—mostly philosophical queries about one’s place in history and non-violence in general—Popović’s responses are way too quiet to understand outside of a few scattered phrases. At one point I thought he might have been speaking French it was so incomprehensible and quiet. Perhaps this was the intention of the artist, but regardless it made for a rather frustrating listening experience.

Even with the audio issues Haiduk’s piece was an immersive experience unlike any the Renaissance Society—or any local art venue for that matter—has put on in recent memory. Seductive Exacting Realism is free and runs through this Thursday, so catch it before it ends.

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“His world, on the eve of a great and terrible war, is dreamlike.”

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world, on the eve of a great and terrible war, is dreamlike.

Although the exhibition at times appears haphazardly curated, the themes of loss and struggle run strong throughout. Käthe Kollwitz’s The Widow, a crayon drawing on wove paper, features a hauntingly expressionless woman with her hands outstretched in both longing and prayer. Emil Nolde’s painting Two Girls (1929) poses an interesting example of struggle in itself, for this bestial depiction of two twin-like figures was confiscated by the Nazis and deaccessioned as “degenerate.”

As you move through the following sections, “Between the Wars,” “1930s-1950s,” and “After Yalta” you become a voyeur into the life of exile.

Yet the world’s slow dive into war, tension, and depression spurred varied artistic responses even within the movement of Expressionism.

While some artists turned to more subjective, expressionistic takes on landscape, others explicitly addressed their political reality: Felix Nussbaum’s Carnival Group (1939) elucidates his experience as an exiled German Jew. The painting features a menacing crowd clad in

gaudy hats all set before a withering landscape. The scene is repellant and exudes a combination of alienation and frustration. Like Nussbaum, Jorg Immendorff expresses his lived experience in a divided Germany with his massive oil painting No Light for Whom? (1981)—a work saved for the exhibition’s finale.

Although Expressionist Impulses—all 80 pieces of it—is extensive, it is by no means comprehensive.

Rather, this broad collection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures takes you on a tour of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, forcing you to question, compare, and eventually develop your own definition of Expressionism.

“Maybe the 100-year period is a bit overwhelming,” Born admitted with a laugh. “but I don’t think anyone has ever framed it quite like this before.”

Expressionist Impulses will be on view through January and is running in concert with two other Smart Museum exhibitions: To See in Black and White: German and Central European Photography, 1920s–1950s and Expressionist, New Objectivity, and Constructivist Prints, 1905–1925: Recent Acquisitions.

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“White... embodied the enticement of heroin itself ” IDIOT continued from page 8

set, I was impressed by the immersive costume choices.

While the majority of “chorus” actors were wearing punk outfits reminiscent of Green Day itself, the three friends went through costume changes that reflected their changing lives.

The friend who joined the military transitioned into a military uniform, the friend who started taking heroin wore costumes with red accents, and the friend who stayed behind in the suburbs wore a regular

black sweatshirt and pants combo that was distinctly less punk than the rest of the cast.

Most of the actors on stage were part of a “chorus” that fulfilled multiple roles, including singing and playing instruments.

This was a particularly entertaining part of the show, and I always found myself looking forward to hearing a new performer’s vocal ability as each one took a turn in the spotlight. My only criticism is the sound mixing throughout the per-

formance: only the instrumentally-quieter songs let the audience hear the lyrics and the powerful vocals that all of the actors undoubtedly possessed. However, during more upbeat songs, the vocals were lost underneath layers of drums, guitars, and keyboards.

All of the performances themselves were strong, with each of the three male leads bringing his own unique energy to stage. My personal favorite, however, was the actor who played addiction personified: Ma-

lic White, a transgender figure whose red mohawk, petite build, and physical seduction embodied the enticement of heroin itself.

Regardless of whether you’re a Green Day fan or you preferred bumping to Christina Aguilera during your middle school days, this musical proves entertaining in all respects and is definitely worth 100 minutes of anyone’s time.

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Jay W. Cullen takes center stage alongside recent alum Malik White AB '12 seen here in a red mohawk and torn red jacket.

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Hard hitting squad goes 2–1 in the Big Apple VOLLEYBALL Britta Nordstrom Associate Sports Editor Instead of wallowing in the mounds of schoolwork assigned after first week like the rest of the College, the Maroons took a trip to New York City for the first Round Robin of UAA play. While Chicago is coming off of a bit of a rocky patch, losing three of their last four games, UAA play is always where the Maroons seems to peak. Last season, they took second place after claiming the conference title the previous year to secure an NCAA Tournament Bid. “The UAA is consistently the toughest conference in Division III, so it’s always exciting and challenging,” said fourth-year Maren Loe. “Wash and Emory are both top five teams [nationally] right now, which is great competition for us.”

The weekend started off extremely strong as the squad demolished Rochester 3–0.

Rochester never broke 20 points as the Maroons bested them in every significant statistic, with the exception of aces.

Later on in the day, the South Siders dispatched NYU, 3–1. Despite the win, it came with much less ease.

Fourth-year setter Ragine Graves was able to dish out 56 assists, only six less than the individual school record that has been held since 1998.

In her last UAA season, the setter is certainly looking to capitalize on her experience.

“Since I am a senior, I never want to have any off-games. I think it makes me value every contact more than I have before,” said Graves.

Loe also spoke on her final year, saying, “At this point, being a senior, I feel like I know each team so well, and it’s really fun to play against them all.”

The final game of the Round Robin pitted the Maroons against their archrival, No. 2 Wash U. This rivalry game certainly lived up to the hype, with the first set going to extra points, and every set except the last being decided by three points or fewer. Unfortunately, the South Siders fell in four sets to the Bears, although they aren’t letting the loss damper their spirits.

“Wash was definitely the

most fun to play, not just because of the rivalry and the history, but also just because we played so hard and so did they,” said third-year Katie LaPorte. “We just need to execute the details better, especially in such a close game against such a good team.”

Loe echoed her teammate’s sentiments. “Hopefully we’ll transfer that effort into practices in the coming days, before heading into our next UAA weekend at Case in two weeks,” she said. “We’ve got a lot of season left, and I think we’ll be able to finish very strong.”

Chicago has a week off before they head to Case Western to play the remaining UAA teams: No. 21 Carnegie Mellon, Brandeis, No. 3 Emory, and the host school Case. Graves remains optimistic about her team’s ability to bounce back. “I think this loss showed us that we have the heart and desire to win,” she said. “There are just a few things we need to fine tune.”

The squad will head to Cleveland for competition next Saturday and Sunday, October 17–18.

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The drive included a 30-yard completion from Moser to fourth-year wide receiver Sam Coleman, and concluded when Carroll threw himself across the goal line from a yard out. On the very next drive, Carroll, who had set the UChicago single-game rushing record the previous weekend, managed to find a seam and cruise down field for a 53-yard touchdown.

“Chandler comes to work every single day,” said Coleman of his running back’s recent run of success. “He is the most humble guy I know, and

whatever personal success he has, I know it will never change his demeanor. He is the ultimate teammate and is constantly giving thanks to those that help him be successful.”

Carroll ended the day with a total of 245 yards rushing to go along with three touchdown runs.

Yet the Panthers did not go away, scoring in the second half as second-year receiver Jamal Watkins ran a 55-yard pass from second-year quarterback Mickey Courtney into the end zone, making the score 14–7 at the half.

However, the Maroon defense stole the show in the second half. Fourth-year cornerback Vincent Beltrano, who already had one pick in the second quarter, added two more in the third. On top of that, fourth-year linebacker Nick Pielech forced a fumble midway through the quarter on the Panther’s 25-yard line. Fourth-year cornerback Chris Dengler recovered the ball, returning it all the way down the field for a touchdown.

After allowing an average of 29 points per game in the first three contests, the Chicago defensive line demonstrated a more solid performance in its fourth go-around. “It was great to

see the defense making so many plays when the offense would put them in tough situations,” said Coleman.

“Offensively we didn’t play our best yesterday, but it’s a team game and the defense played great and that allowed us to be successful overall on the day.”

While the offense did have a bit of a sloppy day on the field with three turnovers, it has been putting up points effectively throughout the season. The team has been averaging over 32 points per game, and has been at the forefront of the Maroon’s early success.

“We have a group who really understands the offense and what we are trying to do offensively,” added Coleman, who finished the day with five receptions, good for 51 yards. “On top of that, we have a lot of weapons, which allows us to be balanced with both the run and pass. This allows us to be flexible when a team tries to take away an aspect of our offense.”

The Maroons return home next weekend to take on Berry College. The game time is set for noon at Stagg Field, and the team will attempt to remain unbeaten and keep the hope for an undefeated season alive.

Katrina Williams Sports Contributor After coming off a strong showing at the Wheaton Invitational, the Maroons travelled to the village of Bourbonnais, IL to compete in the Illinois Intercollegiate Championships.

“Though we were satisfied with our performance at Wheaton, we knew that we had to physically and mentally prepare for a challenging meet on Friday. With Nick Nielsen injured, we knew that other athletes needed to have stellar performances to fill his shoes,” Second-year Peter Kreuch explained. “We approached this race ready to jump into a competitive field.

We were eager to see how we compared to the top programs in the meet.”

The women came away from the weekend victorious, beating out 17 other teams to earn first place. The squad was dominant, compiling only 28 points to beat out second place St. Francis, who ended the day with 62 points.

The men’s side earned fourth in the field of 16 teams. They ended the day with a total of 76 points while Augustana, the ultimate victor, had only 38.

On the women’s side, second-year Khia Kurtenbach

and fourth-year Brianna Hickey led the way for the Maroons, earning first and second, respectively. Kurtenbach came in with a time of 18:23 with Hickey trailing just behind at 18:26.

“We felt like our performance at Wheaton didn’t show off our true strength as a team. Going into this meet, we decided to be more aggressive at the beginning of the race. I think our confidence really led to a strong performances.” Kurtenbach explained.

A slew of second-years, including Kelsey Dunn, Cassidy McPherson, and Claire Costelloe came in behind them earning sixth, ninth and 10th, respectively. The lone rookie who placed for the Maroons was first-year Anastasia Bernat with a time of 19:16, earning her 15th place.

Kurtenbach explained, “I think it’s most important that everyone stays confident going into races. We are a really strong team. If we don’t back off from competition, we can ride our early successes into a great post-season.”

On the men’s side, secondyear Gareth Jones and thirdyear Michael Frasco lead the pack for the Maroons, taking sixth and seventh place. Jones

earned a time of 25:47 while Frasco came in just nine seconds later at 25:56. From there, the Maroons earned the 16th spot and finished with seven runners in the top 40.

The men’s squad recognizes that as the season gets further along, there will be more obstacles to face. Kreuch said, “At this point in the season, injuries are the biggest obstacle facing individuals and cross country programs alike.

The workouts get tougher, athletes get tired, and balancing training and schoolwork poses challenges.”

However, he has hope for the rest of the season, “In terms of the team as a whole, we are excited about the coming two weeks. Our next races will expose us to a host of great programs. We’re eager for the chance to compete with these teams and see how we stack up. As an individual, I am excited to push to better my personal bests. Improving as an individual will subsequently push the guys ahead of me and pull the guys behind me forward.”

This weekend, the Maroons head to UW–Parkside to compete in the Lucian Rosa Invite. The race begins at 10 a.m. on Saturday

SPORTS

IN QUOTES “We want to be the least penalized team in the league.”

– Head coach Rex Ryan prior to the game against the Giants during which the Buffalo Bills earned 18 flags

Iranpour steamrolls her way to ITA Central Region victory WOMEN’S TENNIS

Second-year Ariana Iranpour prepares to return a serve from her opponent.

COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

Max Hawkins Sports Staff This weekend, the No. 15 Maroons traveled to Kalamazoo, MI, looking to continue their dominant play through the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Central Regional Championships after having had a successful opening weekend performance at

the Bradley Invitational in Peoria, IL the previous week.

Second-year Ariana Iranpour came away with her second first place finish to the season and a bid to the National Small College Championships.

The Maroons prepped for the Central Regional Championships by facing off against Division I teams at the Bradley Invitational. Three singles players and two doubles pairs

were still alive for the South Siders on the last day of the tournament. First-year Adrienne Travis won the consolation final of the C Flight 6–4, 6–0, while Iranpour defeated Chicago’s first-year Rachel Kim 0–6, 6–2, 10–4 to win the A Flight, the most difficult pool.

Third-year Tiffany Chen and fourth-year Lucy Tang teamed up in doubles play to win the consolation of Flight B, 8–1. Kim again found herself in the Flight A finals playing doubles alongside secondyear Courtney Warren. The duo grinded out an 8–7 victory, 7–5 in the tiebreaker.

The Maroons walked away from their opening weekend with confidence and solid team chemistry to set the stage for a strong performance at the ITA Central Regional Championships.

“We have had a lot of success because of our support for one another. I think that is one of the biggest reasons we are all advancing in the draw,” said Iranpour.

She added, “I think the keys to a successful ITA are energy and confidence, both from yourself and your teammates.

We really bonded as a team on

and off court which made our practices more competitive and unified.”

The Maroons are looking to build off their results not only from the Bradley Invite but also from the previous season.

Last year in the ITA Central Regional Championships, the Maroons advanced four players to the quarterfinals: second-year Jasmine Lee, Chen, and Iranpour, in addition to recent graduate Megan Tang.

In doubles play, Iranpour and Tang won the tournament and earned All-American honors with Chen and Warren losing in the round of 16.

Despite the strong start to the season last year, the Maroons feel even better about their prospects this year. “I thought this year we are a lot stronger of a team, especially with the new first years’ talent.

The dynamic is a lot different since we only have one thirdyear and one fourth-year,” said Chen.

More competitive practices along with heightened team chemistry allowed the Maroons to live up to high expectations in the ITA Central Regional Championships this past weekend.

On the first day of the tour-

nament, the Maroons went 11–2 in singles play. Strong performances by first-years Kaela Bynoe and Kat Stevanovich, along with Iranpour, Kim, and Chen advanced five Maroons to the round of 32.

Warren and Travis each earned a victory before being eliminated in the round of 64.

In doubles, the Maroons finished 7–1 on the day, with three of the four pairs concluding the morning session victorious.

The second day of play narrowed the field for the Maroons as only two singles players advanced to the quarterfinals. Tang, Bynoe, Stevanovich, and Chen all fell at the hands of the ultra competitive Central Regional Championship opponents. Iranpour and Kim proved victorious, however, both advancing to the quarterfinals on day three.

Kim defeated her opponent 6–2, 6–2 to advance. Kim followed this up by teaming with Bynoe in doubles play to make it the farthest of the Maroons squads. Wash U knocked out the duo later in the quarterfinals.

On the third day of competition, Iranpour proved resilient. After dropping the first

set of the quarterfinal match, Iranpour fought back, taking the last two sets 6–3, 6–3 to reach the semifinals. Kim, meanwhile was fighting her own battle against the No. 17 seed out of Denison. Two hard-fought sets resulted in a 7–6, 7–6 two-set victory for the rookie, sending her to the semifinals. However, Kim’s impressive run was put to an end at the hands of the No. 5 seed from Case Western. She dropped the semifinal match 6–4, 7–5.

Iranpour, however, was far from done as she made quick work of her opponent out of Kalamazoo to qualify for the championship game. At this point in the tournament, there seemed to be no stopping the hard-hitting powerhouse.

Iranpour won the tournament by defeating a No. 5 seed from Case Western. Iranpour steamrolled her opponent, winning 6–1, 6–2.

Iranpour will continue her fall season when she heads to the ITA Small College Championships later this month.

The rest of the team will get a break, however, as their short fall season comes to an end.

They will resume play again in January.

Maroons upend Eagles to 0–1 double overtime loss stay undefeated at home stuns Chicago at home WOMEN’S SOCCER Michael Cheiken Sports Staff Saturday morning, the Eagles of Emory University sauntered up to Stagg Field, confidence aplenty, eager to blemish the Maroons’ perfect 7–0 home winning streak. Despite their even and impressive 7–3–0 records, both the Eagles and Maroons were near the bottom of the stacked UAA standings due to the fact that four of the eight teams are ranked in the top 25. This made victory in the conference opener essential for both squads.

The Maroons got the memo. In just the sixth minute of play, a well-placed clearance found the feet of lone striker Mia Calamari at about half-field. A beautiful flick-on by Calamari sent Jenna McKinney forward into the heart of the Eagles’ back line. She took it from there.

The midfielder wiggled her way through five blue shirts on her path to goal before coolly playing the ball under the oncoming diving goaltender. The promising first-year found the back of the net, giv-

MEN’S SOCCER ing the South Siders an early 1–0 lead.

It was all the Maroons would get out of the Eagles defense. McKinney continued to wreak havoc on Emory, tallying four more shots, although the Maroons were unable to get the ball past the Emory goalkeeper a second time. It didn’t matter. One was all the Maroons would need, as first-year Piper Mik proved stingy minding the net.

The Eagles got their fair share of pressure on the Maroons, forcing Mik into eight saves. She was up to the task and doubled her collegiate career high saves in a game. The defense in conjunction with Mik has proved quite stout, especially at home where the team has only conceded twice.

However, the Maroons’ road results have proved less spectacular. The team is 0–3 on the road thus far in the season. Saturday, the ladies will travel to Rochester in search of their first away win.

The 4–4–1 Yellowjackets should be an easy task for the Maroons. The Rochester offense has been less than stel-

lar, amassing only 12 goals through nine games.

The Maroons’ defense, on the other hand, has allowed only eight goals though their 11 games. In addition to being particularly strong in the back, Chicago also has a tremendous amount of depth.

Through this juncture of the season, Coach Amy Reifert has started at least six different players on defense. This incredible interchangeability has been one of the main factors in the Maroons’ success thus far.

Not to be understated, however, is Calamari’s transition from a holding midfielder to a striker. The efficacy of Reifert’s tactical changes from last season to the current one depends very much on Calamari’s ability to play the striker position in a back-tothe-goal, distributing manner.

So far she has exceeded all expectations, scoring twice and tallying 10 assists. It is with this same excellence that the Maroons wish to perform this Saturday at Rochester as they continue conference play. The game will begin at 4 p.m. CST.

Katie Anderson Associate Sports Editor This past Saturday, the Maroons took to their own Stagg Field for the first UAA match of the season against the Eagles of Emory. The South Siders took a hard loss after 100 minutes of scoreless play, when a Chicago foul outside the box allowed fourth-year Sebastian Hardington of Emory to connect on a free kick in double overtime.

A history of brutal Chicago vs. Emory battles on the field only makes the loss sting more. Although the Maroons defeated Emory in Atlanta last year, the Eagles were victorious in the teams’ two previous matches.

With the loss, the Maroons dropped to 7–3–1 overall, (0–1–0 UAA), while Emory improved to 6–3–1 (1–0–0 UAA).

While Chicago dominated for most of the second half, producing six corner kicks, the team struggled to complete on its opportunities.

“I think the team is still trying to find good offensive

chemistry,” said second-year goalkeeper Hill Bonin. “We have a few new players in our front line and it takes time for the first-years and returning players to learn each other’s movements and intentions.”

Despite needing chemistry to develop, especially into conference play, the newcomers have demonstrated their talent early in the season. First-year forward Matthew Koh has made an immediate impact on the right wing, tallying two goals and three assists thus far in his collegiate debut. First-year midfielder Max Lopez has also been a crucial new addition, with two goals and two assists.

Although the squad fell short in its efforts against Emory, Bonin recognizes how far the team chemistry has come.

“In the last couple games we have been so close to putting all of the pieces together,” he added. “It’s an encouraging sign. We are just waiting for that moment when everyone figures each other out.”

Bonin’s own performance in goal has been a consistent factor for the Maroons all season. Allowing only one ball past him into the upper corner of the net, the keeper made four saves on the game.

In the previous match at Carthage, Bonin made a seasonhigh of eight saves. The game ended in a tie despite Carthage having an 18–8 advantage in shot attempts.

After a difficult loss at home, the squad recognizes that it must now focus its efforts on the next challenge: four consecutive road games, beginning with a match against Rochester on Saturday.

Bonin said, “We will look at the film of the Emory game and improve tactically from it. Other than that, the game is out of our heads. It’s time to focus back in and get ready for the next game. We need to get back down to basics and finish the year concentrating on only the next game.”

Chicago’s next match will take place this Saturday at the University of Rochester at 7:30 p.m. ET.