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Financial aid lags behind other schools Sarah Manhardt News Editor

with delivering financial aid packages this year.

With last week’s announcement of No Barriers, the University set an ambitious vision for the future success of lowand middle-income students.

The new program guarantees University aid packages without loans and a simpler financial aid application process, among other initiatives. The need for these new programs appears strong: The University lags behind peer institutions in accessibility and has had problems

Depth vs. breadth in University aid Approximately 60 percemt of students currently at the University receive some form of aid, according to Campus and Student Life News Officer Mary Abowd. About 47 percent of students in the College receive need-based aid, according to U.S. News and World Rankings. Financial aid at the University includes need-based and AID continued on page 2 Breckinridge Hall, pictured here, is one of the dorms that may be closing down next academic year.

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Scientists talk bees at Four dorms may close with Campus North the Field Museum Christine Schmidt News Editor

Tamar Honig Maroon Contributor Rather than the birds and the bees, butterflies and bees were instead the topic of conversation at an event held by the University’s Program on the Global Environment at the Field Museum on Monday. Speakers discussed the challenges pollinators face in Chicago and encouraged people to plant native, pollinator-attracting plants in their yards.

Panelist Victoria Wojcik,

a biology professor at UC Berkeley as well as the research director at the Pollinator Partnership, emphasized the endangered state of pollinators worldwide as well as their effect on our daily lives. Drawing attention to the large effect of pollinators on the food we eat, Wojcik explained that 1,000 of the 1,200 most common crops are pollinator-dependent, as is one-third of the human diet.

Opportunities to restore BUILD continued on page 2

Three weeks after two deans named Maclean, Broadview, Blackstone, and Breckinridge as possible closures when Campus North opens, the University has not made any final decisions about changes in housing options when Campus North—set to house approximately 800 students—opens in 2016.

The concern over those four dorms closing arose during OAide training last month, when a student asked Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Karen Warren Coleman

about the possibility of “satellite dorms” closing with the opening of Campus North during a question-and-answer panel with administrators including Dean of the College John Boyer, Dean of Students in the University Michele Rasmussen, and Dean of Students in the College Jay Ellison.

When Warren Coleman addressed the student’s question, she emphasized that no final decisions had yet been made but directly named Maclean, Broadview, Blackstone, and Breckinridge—all four on the edges of campus and ranging in age from 79 years to 98 years—as dorms

potentially under consideration by the administration for closure.

“There were speculations and rumors [that Breckinridge would close when Campus North opened], so I wanted to use that as an opportunity to talk about whether or not that was true,” said Adan Meza, the fourth-year from Breckinridge who asked the question at the panel. “I was very concerned…. It all [seemed like] a very nuanced way of saying that there is a big chance of these closing.”

At the panel, Warren Coleman identified the costs of maintaining those dorms and each of the dorms’ lack of a Resident

Master as factors in the administration’s thinking. For example, Blackstone underwent significant renovations this summer.

Several of the rooms were scaled down from the apartment-suite style into a less expensive option for students, and the study room was converted into a community kitchen.

Warren Coleman and Boyer also both spoke to the importance of having Resident Masters—a professor within one of the University’s divisions who is charged with organizing events that enrich the intellectual and social life of the dorms. None of DORM continued on page 2

Uncommon Interview: Professor Steven Salaita Emma Broder Editor-in-Chief During the height of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict this summer, Palestinian American Steven Salaita prepared to begin his new job as a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Some of Salaita’s academic work focuses on the connection between Native American and Palestinian colonial struggles, and over the summer Salaita regularly tweeted proPalestinian statements from his Twitter account. A few weeks before classes started UIUC Chancellor Phyllis Wise rescinded Salaita’s job offer,

prompting student and faculty protests on campus to reinstate Salaita. Hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine, Salaita will speak at International House tonight as part of a Chicagowide speaking tour.

Chicago Maroon: What led you to begin tweeting about Palestine? As a scholar and writer, how do you view the use of social media as a mode of communication for one’s intellectual ideas versus personal beliefs?

Steven Salaita: Ever since I started actively using this Twitter account, it’s mostly been about Palestine. The medium is really active with a large community of folks who focus on

Palestine, so Twitter became a source for me to find interesting articles, interesting viewpoints, interesting takes…. I don’t see Twitter activity and my scholarship as connected.

I see it as something separate from teaching and research, on own time. It’s a way to interact with a wide range of people on an interesting but frustrating platform.

CM: How do you interpret the “gray space” between personal and public that Twitter occupies? For example, for some writers Twitter is a professional platform. Why is it frustrating?

SS: There are some folks who become well known be-

cause of Twitter, so I know what you’re getting at there.

I look at Twitter as a performance…but personally I never looked at Twitter as the primary vehicle of engagement with the world. That’s something I tried to do in my scholarship and long-form essays, but one thing this situation has done is made a lot of my personal political points of view public.

CM: In your Chicago Tribune op-ed, titled “U. of I. destroyed my career,” you frame this as an intensely personal affront to your individual life and livelihood, even though this seems at first glance like a political narrative. Why did you choose to do that in that

particular op-ed? How do you make choices about framing your story across contexts?

SS: Mostly I wanted to give readers a sense that these sorts of positions coming from universities do have intensely personal consequences. The university’s decision did cause harm to me and my family, not only in my career prospects, but in my ability to have a livelihood. I agree that it’s intensely political. We have a situation wherein the intensely political situation had serious personal consequences. There are so many issues that intersect with my situation. It’s feasible depending on context to discuss as intensely political or in-

tensely personal. Lots of people are discussing this as symbolic of the corporate university, the relative weakness of Palestinians vis-à-vis Israelis in public discourse.

CM: Recently MIT professor Noel Jackson was arrested and institutionalized by his employer for tweeting. Do you think your case is specific to Israel-Palestine discourse, or is institutional restriction on free speech a national issue?

SS: I think that the kind of tightening of the range of speech of the professoriate is a general problem. The [University of ] Kansas doesn’t allow professors to use social media, SALAITA continued on page2

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NEWS IN BRIEF ORSCA renamed Center for Leadership & Development The University renamed the Office of the Reynolds Club and Student Activities (ORCSA) the Center for Leadership and Involvement (CLI) on September 22, 2014. The CLI said they changed the name to better suit the comprehensive, motivational needs of the organization.

None of the organization’s existing functions have changed. It will still be responsible for providing assistance to the more than 400 Registered Student Organizations (RSOs) that exist on campus and for scheduling evening classes and rehearsal venues, as well as spaces for various functions and events.

Sarah Cunningham, the senior director for student life and assistant dean of students in the University, was enthusiastic about the name change. “This new name more accurately reflects the Center’s mission to engage students in transformative leadership opportunities through their participation in student organizations and programs. The Center is focused on helping students develop the skills necessary to be effective communicators, team members, and leaders by building on their distinct strengths and interests,” she said in a statement. She also thanked students and alumni who were involved in the process.

The CLI will also launch a debt reduction program in fall quarter, mainly to help RSOs that are currently experiencing financial deficits.

The leaders of participating RSOs are expected to meet with members of the CLI and the University’s financial advisers to analyze their budgets for the year.

The CLI’s Activities Center and Advising Center, both located in the lower level of the Reynolds Club, are currently undergoing renovations to allow for more meetings and events to be held there. The RSO offices in Ida Noyes and Bartlett also underwent renovations over the summer.

—Cairo Lewis

Maclean, Broadview, Blackstone, and Breckinridge may be on the chopping block DORM continued from front

the four dorms in question have Resident Masters (although Broadview is home to three houses, while the other three only have one house each). However, there is a faculty fellows program that is intended to offer similar programming for residence halls without Resident Masters.

At that panel and at a second panel with representatives from the University housing and dining offices the next day, it was emphasized that the University would seek student input before making

any final decisions about closing dorms.

This would likely be done in a similar way to how student-administration discussion was coordinated regarding the closing of the Shoreland in 2009 and Pierce in 2013. Both dorms had multiple houses but had fallen into disrepair when the University decided to shut them down.

When the decision to close the Shoreland was announced in 2003, the housing office worked with Student Government, the Inter-House Council, and the

Shoreland Council to set up forums for students to share their thoughts on the matter before moving the last houses out of the former hotel in 2009. Pierce, now known for its exploding toilets, was a more urgent situation and was quickly closed in 2013 after major issues with the living conditions arose in 2012.

Students from Maclean, Broadview, Breckinridge, and Blackstone all expressed interest in participating in focus groups or committees discussing the future of their dorms if the University

offered the opportunity after the panels.

“The fact that [UChicago] had a college housing system was one of the reasons I applied,” said fourth-year Maclean associate and Orientation Leader Henry Stone. “[But at the panel] they generalized—they said yes, no, of course there will be some sort of discussion, but I can’t guarantee where or when it will happen relative to the decision-making process, or how many students will be involved, or to what degree they’ll have a say. There were no promises made.”

Protecting pollinating species is important, say Field Museum panelists BUILD continued from front

pollinator populations, Wojcik continued, include habitat improvement, stakeholder education, research, and policy support.

The issue of declining pollinator populations has received national attention. On June 20, President Obama signed a memorandum to protect pollinators and restore their populations, calling for federal agencies to work together and develop a

National Pollinator Health Strategy.

People may think of pollinator conservation as an issue outside urban areas, but panelist Emily Minor, associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago and director of the Urban Pollinator Project, emphasized the importance of bees in the city. “Residential areas are key in providing habitats,” she said. In fact, “residential yards can make up more total

area than urban parks or preserves.”

The third panelist, Ralph Grundel, U.S. Geological Survey ecologist at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, proposed incorporating science into public policy. The most effective way to embed the notion of green space in urban planning, he said, is for “biodiversitarians to run for public office.”

From planting florally diverse gardens to advocating for pollinator-

friendly public policy, the panelists emphasized that there are many ways to help restore pollinator populations, but said that people must first get educated. “The issue of pollinators is a crucial and often invisible one,” said Mark Lycett, director of the Program on the Global Environment. “We must bring awareness to the public about the benefits of pollinators and the importance of the city as its own kind of habitat.”

Professor fired from UIC talks Twitter and scholarship before Tuesday event SALAITA continued from front

but if they do and [their tweets] are deemed to be [inappropriate], they can be held “accountable,” meaning fired. But the Israel-Palestine conflict is a particularly fertile area of this type of repression. First, because it’s so controversial; second, because Israel supporters in the U.S. are so active in silencing Palestinian voices. It makes it an easier target to take it out of context, misrepresent it, and tell our employers. There is a larger pattern of this in academic freedom, with IsraelPalestine as the most active stage.

CM: In your case, there was a direct link between wealthy donors and your offer for a tenured professorship being rescinded. Do you think your case is a micro-example of a struggle for power within universities that’s being played out across contexts?

SS: That’s one way it’s been symbolic and generated such interest. This tension has existed between employees and university management and administration, and a lot of the time corporate interests are at the expense of academic freedom, at the expense of students and faculty raising questions about the way our government is run and the conduct of administrators themselves, and you see this play out in the reactions to my situation.

CM: Has media attention over the controversy changed your opinion about your career being over? What’s next for you?

SS: Right now I’m just taking advantage of the opportunities I have to go around and give talks about my scholarship, my situation, and academic freedom. I don’t even know, I’m just taking it one day at a time.

On Sunday night, students of the American Friends Service Committee planted black pinwheels across Bartlett Quad. Each pinwheel represents one of the 521 Palestinian children killed during Israel’s bombing of Gaza in Operation Protective Edge.

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No Barriers released amid criticism for low percentages of Pell grants and late financial aid packages AID continued from front

merit-based aid.

Recently, the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance (SDA) reported on Twitter that 41% of incoming firstyears received some type of aid in the 2014-2015 year. This statistic, however, is from a self-reported survey in a Chicago Life Meeting during O-Week, and cannot be verified. In fact, according to the 2013–2014 financial aid profile from College Data developed from Peterson’s database of college data and a College Board survey, approximately 69% of incoming first years in the College received some type of aid in the 2013–2014 school year. In comparison, 67% of incoming first-years to the College received some type of aid in the 2012-2013 school year, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics.

Student Government President Tyler Kissinger, a low-income and firstgeneration college student, praised No Barriers but expressed concern at the number of students on financial aid.

“Something that I’m concerned about is that while the University is making great strides in increasing the

depth of their quality in their aid they offer to students, I sincerely hope that doesn’t come at the expense of the breadth—the number of students they’re admitting on financial aid— because it’s one thing to support lowincome students and get a lot of good press, and it’s very easy to do that by admitting less of them and letting rich students subsidize that,” he said.

University behind most peer institutions in Pell Grants Last month The New York Times created a College Access Index, ranking the socioeconomic diversity of universities with a four-year graduation rate of at least 75%. The Times ranked colleges using the percentage of students on Pell grants, the second-largest government financial aid program, and the average net price for tuition in 2012–2013 for students from households making between $30,000 and $48,000 a year.

On its scale, the College-Access Index gave the University a -0.1, which is below the average score of 0. Twelve percent of University students received a Pell grant between 2012 and 2014,

and the net tuition price for low- and middle-income student is $8,400.

The College Access Index also includes universities’ endowment per student, which is $450,000 at Chicago.

Only 20 colleges have an endowment per student greater than $400,000, and of those only five, including UChicago, received a below-average score on the College-Access Index. The University also has a notably low percentage of student with Pell grants, compared to peer institutions.

Kissinger said the low percentage of students on Pell grants at the University is not surprising to him. “There’s no reason we should have the lowest number. There’s a reason we do, and I think part of that is that we have a campus climate that’s not super open for low- and middle- income students,” he said.

“Some fluctuation in Pell numbers is normal among institutions with needblind admissions policies,” Abowd wrote in a statement. “Recent changes in undergraduate admissions selectivity, yield, and class size also may have played a role in this fluctuation.”

“I didn’t want to take out the loans

for a bill I know could change” This year many students received financial aid packages late, and some have still not received their packages.

For many students the delay was attributed to a verification process, a requirement of the U.S. Department of Education for additional documentation for information on the FAFSA, according to the Office of College Aid. For second-year Alyssa Cox, who received her aid during Orientation Week, the delay in her financial aid package due to verification meant she missed the initial deadline to pay tuition. Cox pays the expected family contribution of her aid package through private loans.

“What they told me, because we got the bill for $22,000, was to pay the same amount you paid last year, and if it’s more [they]’ll change it as a late fee, and if it’s less [they]’ll refund the money,” she said. “Which works for people who can usually pay what they’re told to pay, but in my case I didn’t have the money at my disposal. I didn’t want to take out the loans for a bill I know could change. It doesn’t make sense to go ahead and take out loans before you

know what you have to pay.”

Second-year Chris Munoz had to delay signing a lease due to his late aid.

“They told me the general rule is that they’re gonna probably give me the same amount,” he said. “And I said, ‘Is it possible I could get less aid?’ And they’re like, ‘Well yeah, it’s not unlikely that it could go up by as much as $5,000.’”

The News Office said this year was a fairly typical one for aid processing.

“As in years past, financial aid applications are reviewed as they are received, with some arriving in the last month,” Abowd said in an e-mail. “All applications received through August have been processed.”

Kissinger emphasized the importance of both improving aid and the general campus climate.

“Just getting students and getting them through all the four years, those are really big tasks,” he said. “But also what is incredibly important is having a campus climate that is friendly and supportive and accessible in a social way.”

—Additional reporting by Alec Goodwin

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Editorial & Op-Ed OCTOBER 7, 2014

Letter from the public editor Dear Reader, Welcome to the public editor column. As the inaugural public editor of The Chicago Maroon, I will act as a liaison between you —the reader—and all facets of the newspaper to navigate any feedback or criticism you may have regarding the content and

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Through a regularly updated blog and biquarterly print column, I will write about The Maroon and its journalism, informed in large part by your demand. I will handle your comments and questions, and investigate matters of journalistic integrity. In addition,

I will offer insight and information regarding how The Maroon functions, or should. My work will be independent of the traditional Maroon structure and all opinions and conclusions voiced in this space will be my own.

The Maroon recognizes the importance of developing a strong and open relationship with its

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and/or contact me directly at publiceditor@chicag omaroon. com. I want to hear from you.

It is with great enthusiasm that I begin my duties as public editor, and I look forward to building this space together.

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Letter: Grossman misrepresents Iran Hamid Bendaas Maroon Contributor A post–9/11 and Iraq War childhood and adolescence provoke the question, especially for young Middle Eastern Americans like myself: Would our peers who grew up witnessing and enduring the disastrous consequences of those misinformed policies in turn reject them and advocate for policies based on understanding, accountability, and, more than anything, compassion for those most greatly affected—the civilians in the Middle East?

David Grossman’s worrying piece in the last Maroon issue, “Bombing Blind (10/3/14)” is evidence of how little we’ve learned. It is riddled with error and misrepresentation, and lacks any semblance of compassion.

A bizarre comparison to ISIS incongruously inserts Iran into Grossman’s piece; “Like Iran’s nuclear

program, these militant extremists represent a threat that is easier to contain than to defeat.”

First of all, if we’re talking about Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, then every bit of U.S. and Israeli intelligence makes quite clear that there haven’t even been internal talks in Iran about nuclear weapons since 2003. But maybe Grossman is referring to Iran’s current negotiations with the U.S. and other major world powers for a civilian-purpose nuclear energy program. Grossman’s comparison seems a little off—what with ISIS being an overtly violent and extremist organization that kills villages of people without remorse, while Iran’s nuclear energy program would do little more than provide jobs, new infrastructure, and economic growth to a developing nation of 80 million people whose economy is dangerously reliant on its dwindling fossil fuel reserves.

Splitting hairs, I realize.

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What’s most fascinating and ironic, though, is that Grossman commits the political sin his piece is ostensibly about refuting, namely the recent “fear mongering” by politicians “in an attempt to appeal to [the] distressed” and “less-than-fully-educated.”

What takes Grossman’s piece from ill-informed to sinister (from Bush-level to Cheney-level, if you will) is the conclusion he draws at the end of the piece: “Considering that fighting [ISIS] head on puts us on the same side as Assad and Iran, it’s better to let them fight it out.”

However, here’s very strong evidence that Assad ignored ISIS for years because its existence provides cover for his war crimes, and Iran has been the most vocal critic of the U.S.–led coalition against ISIS. But worse than being false, that statement shows how much contempt still remains for people in the Middle East. It’s likely true that ISIS

poses little threat to U.S. citizens, at least in the short term. In this selfish, short-sighted sense, ISIS is “not our problem,” as Grossman says.

But in a broader and more emphatic sense, where we are accountable to help resolve dissasters for which we are partially responsible, ISIS is very much our problem.

Our invasion and failed rebuilding of Iraq and our punitive, imperialist policies across the Middle East have laid the real and ideological habitat for ISIS to flourish, and our client states in the Arabian peninsula have been funding the group for years. Regardless of its potential for expansion, the extremist group will kill thousands of innocent people across Iraq and Syria, and obliterate any chance of peace in either nation for the near future. Regardless of whether stopping ISIS helps Iran, the fact that Grossman believes it does and is willing to let thousands of innocent people die so the two

can “fight it out” is an atrocious, repulsive doctrine; it’s the doctrine that helped create ISIS, and the doctrine which, if continued, will perpetuate it and create more organizations like it.

To conclude, Iran’s support for the Assad regime over the last three years is unforgiveable and horrid, and has helped give radical Sunni groups in the region a hell of a recruiting pitch. But any policy chosen out of a desire to punish Iran, either for these real grievances or Grossman’s manufactured ones, if it comes at the cost of protecting innocent lives, will only send us tumbling backward.

Grossman’s is more than just the contemptuous ideology that will cost us real victory and great loss of life; it’s the ideology that already has.

Hamid Bendaas is a fourthyear in the College majoring in political science.

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Navigating Nuance At age 20, I am eight years older than Tavi Gevinson was when her fashion blogging began receiving national attention. I am four years older than Taylor Swift was when her debut album was released. I am halfway through my college career and nowhere near making a Forbes 30 under 30 list, as Gevinson did at age 14 and 15, or dating Harry Styles, like Swift did in late 2012. But even compared to my friends, classmates, and the mere mortals that I know in real life, at age 20 I am struggling not to feel under-accomplished, untalented, and aggressively ordinary.

At 20, I am also two years older than most of the Class of 2018. Driven by voyeuristic urges and a desire to get as much free stuff out of this university as possible, my roommates and I wandered the quads on movein day. Seeing the panicked first-years and their overwhelmed parents, I was immediately transported back two years to the paralyzing fear of my own O-Week that carried over into much of my first year. And then, after obtaining plenty of free pens and water

bottles, I left, dogged by the realization that I was officially a third-year, and feeling very old for someone only a quarter of the way through her life.

This is a maddeningly easy trap to fall into. Everyone loves a wunderkind, and I suspect that, as students at this university, many of us grew up as “gifted” children, believing that our prodigious abilities would allow us to excel long into adulthood—or at least into our 20s, which is apparently when all of our lives will peak.

After all, according to data from OKCupid, women will pretty much never be as attractive to men as they are at 20. We are doomed to get less hot and have our success become less and less impressive as we enter the crushing monotony of adulthood, or so our collective anxiety would have us believe.

I often have trouble conceptualizing “growing up” as anything other than a terrifying process to be avoided at all costs. Adulthood looms large at the end of college, as does debt, nine-to-five jobs, bills, and the prospect of eventually trying to

“settle down” and “find the one.” But imagining the years ahead as a terrifying monolith ignores the fact that, despite the chaos and overwhelming fear of young adulthood, things are, slowly but surely, getting better and easier and less scary. At least, at the risk of jinxing it, I think they are.

After the unnerving move-in day adventure, I returned to the apartment I now share with my two best friends. We cooked dinner together, making the kind of healthy, delicious meal we used to dream about while still on the meal plan. We took a break from doing the dishes to have an impromptu kitchen dance party. It’s true that two years ago I didn’t have an electricity bill to pay, or constant anxiety over what I’m going to write my B.A. about. But I also didn’t have a home or a family in Chicago. I do now. Despite the fact that I am already way too old to ever be an Olympic gymnast or musical prodigy, these are the kinds of accomplishments that I’m choosing to celebrate, while also slowly coming to terms with the fact that I will never be Taylor Swift.

Clair Fuller is a third-year in the College majoring in gender and sexuality studies.

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Heartlandia OCTOBER 7, 2014

He’s got a ticket to write, and he’s pretty enthused about it Will Dart Arts Editor Korey Garibaldi, a Ph.D. candidate with the history department, was recently selected as one of 24 writers to take part in the new Amtrak Residency program. Garibaldi will be riding the rails on a longdistance train journey, free of charge, and writing all the way. He talked to The Maroon about travel writing, uncomfortable journeys, and the films of Wes Anderson.

Chicago Maroon: So what made you want to try out the Amtrak Residency program?

KG: I’m in my final year at the history department, so I spent a lot of spring quarter applying to fellowships, and my roommate sent me a link to this Amtrak writer’s residency thing. I sort of treated the Amtrak one the same as the other ones, so they got this intense, grad-student application that was meant for a University of Chicago fellowship, which happened to be compelling to Amtrak, I guess. When I told my roommate that I was a semifinalist, he was like, “What?”—I guess he sent it as a joke. But I’m glad I did it anyway.

CM: And what made you decide to pick this over other fellowship programs?

KG: OK, so the other funny thing that happened was that, when it was announced that I was one of the winners, DNAinfo.com did a story on it,

and they actually misrepresented the story. It’s not a yearlong,“ride around on trains” fellowship; it’s just a free, round-trip train journey, about five days long. Amtrak is actually pretty upset about that story, and, I don’t know why, but they’re not retracting it.

CM: Weird.

KG: Yeah. So the Amtrak fellowship is not really in competition with the other fellowships I’m doing, no.

CM: What are you planning on writing while on the train?

KG: My friend Ben Shepard and I were traveling around Japan and China with a couple of other U of C people, and once I figured out that I was one of the finalists, I just sort of saw this opportunity to write a book on trains. I was struck by how nice the trains in Japan were, how beautiful the interiors are, and how much fun it is just to hang out on the platforms, and we really felt like there was an interesting book there, and by connecting it to the broader relationship between the U.S. and Asia. So the “train book” thing is still in play.

CM: Are you a “travel writer”?

Have you written on trains before?

KG: I travel by plane quite a bit, so I get an epic amount of work done on planes. I don’t buy the Boingo WiFi thing or whatever you’re supposed to buy; I just take that time to put materials in order, get my reading done, etc. It’s not like the Reg, where someone will tap you on the shoulder at any moment. I can just sit in my seat

and write. My experience on trains has been similar, where you can just sit down and focus, which is nice.

CM: As you’ve said, you’ve spent some time riding the rails in Japan.

How does that compare to Amtrak?

KG: Yeah, when’s Amtrak gonna get those Japanese trains? Honestly, I think the Japanese example is a bit too easy. They’re the gold standard— even China copies their model. I think part of Amtrak’s problem is they’ll never be able to replicate the Japanese experience, even if they did get the green light. They’ve got generations of planning and infrastructure behind them.

I think China in particular is fascinating given how quickly they’ve developed the technology and implemented the networks for it. Funny story: I actually took a slow train in China by accident over the summer from Guangzhou to Beijing. Instead of six hours, it took about 20 hours.

You can take that train for, like, two hours, and it’s mostly migrant workers who were like, “Why are you guys on this train?” So we had a lot of epic conversations about that. Experientially, it was definitely something different, and 20 hours isn’t all that bad.

It was rough, but it’s definitely going in the book.

CM: Speed isn’t Amtrak’s forte, but I guess there’s a certain appeal to slowness, yeah?

KG: Oh yeah. I took Bill Sewell’s History of Capitalism class my first year of grad school, and we read

Ph.D. candidate and Amtrak Writer in Residence Korey Garibaldi.

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch’s The Railway Journey, which actually compelled me to take my first long-distance Amtrak train from Chicago to Boston. I knew that it was going to be slightly uncomfortable, but the book made me curious to see how I’d react to that.

CM: Have you seen The Darjeel-

Big stars, small fl icks: films of the summer Daniel Rivera Arts Staff The Skeleton Twins Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader are national treasures. In fact, I’d argue that their dual departures were the major stumbling block over which SNL lost its footing last season. So when I heard that The Skeleton Twins was finding success in the festival circuit, it was cause for celebration—Hader’s been sidelined for too long, and Wiig’s last effort, Girl Most Likely, ran at best like the actress’s annual charity case.

Hader and Wiig’s chemistry sells the vehicle miles beyond its capable script or earnest, if sometimes distracting, direction. They lean into each other, and find on one’s shoulder the perfect nook for the other’s head. Their respective characters, Milo and Maggie, laugh at fart jokes and get high on various gases from a dental hygienist’s office. Together they’re mercury, dangerous and lilting, perceptive to temperature in a manner that cannot be learned but rather must grow organically, over years. Dud family flicks come and go, but never have I seen one so astutely capture what it means to be saddled with loving someone who’s so close and yet also a world away. This is siblinghood, messy and tragic and worth it.

Maps to the Stars Screenwriter Bruce Wagner wrote Maps to the Stars while working as a Hollywood limo driver in the 1980s. I didn’t realize this while watching the film, but in some sense I felt it: David Cronenberg’s latest has the vibe of a dated origin story, like some sort of forwardlooking odyssey that was only unearthed after we’d all been living in its world for a little while.

Maps is an Oedipal dip into the nepotistic cesspool that is Tinsel Town, and although the

uneven script at time defeats him, Cronenberg finds a sticking point in stars Julianne Moore and Mia Wasikowska.

Moore plays Havana Segrand, a semiwashed up actress who’d dance on the grave of a dead baby to get the film she feels will define her—an art-house remake of the very movie for which her late mother became an icon. In between a ménage-a-trois and insane, John Cusack–driven psychotherapeutic message sessions, Segrand spends her days getting berated by the ghost of her dead mother. Colinearly, Wasikowska plays Agatha Weiss, a young burn victim who’s come to find work in Hollywood on a bus ticket footed by Carrie Fisher, playing herself.

There are insane, alienesque child actors and scenes of self-immolation, but nothing is more startling than Moore’s Segrand, who at one point shouts for Agatha to go buy her some all-natural laxatives from Whole Foods whilst sitting on the toilet. Moore has made a career of going for broke, and Maps popped up on my radar initially as the film in which she’d finally get her Oscar. Distribution woes have dashed these hopes, but there’s still something to be had from watching Moore anchor a movie by sheer force of her will to articulate insanity.

Honeymoon Rose Leslie (“You know nothing, Jon Snow!”) and Harry Treadaway star as Bea and Paul, a recently married couple whose honeymoon vacation at a secluded lake house goes awry, as honeymoon vacations at secluded lake houses are ought to do. Leslie is a world away from Game of Thrones’ Ygritte, trading fur cloaks and arrows for denim Bermuda shorts and boat shoes. And I can’t underplay the shift away from her warm layers; this movie is about bodies, and embodiment. Just as we see

the sharp angles of her knees and elbows as she bends over to hook a worm, so too does the camera linger on the bruises that are the only mark of the movie’s central tension: a strange encounter in the woods one night that leaves Bea seemingly a different woman than she’d been before.

The lake house—which belongs to Bea’s family—is decorated with hollow wooden ducks in which Bea hid treasures as a child. Their quaintness morphs into something alien as Paul hurls them across the room, seeking answers as to what happened to his wife in the wake of her silence. Violence registers quietly in this film, in much the same way as it did throughout last year’s Under the Skin. Both films concern themselves with female bodies and explore the everpresent tension of what it means to be female in a world constrained by men. But whereas Skin's central conceit is that star Scarlett Johansson’s body is not her own from the start, Honeymoon complicates—or simplifies, depending on who you ask—that premise, and situates itself on an axis of before and after.

ing Limited?

KG: I have seen that movie.

CM: OK, so you know what you’re getting into.

KG: Oh yeah. Although that train car is going to make all the difference.

Their big thing was, like, “YOU ARE GOING TO GET A DESK,” which is great.

Chicago FireFest sputters Andrew McVea Associate Arts Editor

White Bird in a Blizzard Doc Films’ summer screening of Mysterious Skin (2004) was a welcome reminder of director Gregg Araki’s unparalleled style. Teenagers are to Araki what, say, depressed women are to Von Trier. Though where Von Trier’s camera lingers on naked bodies in order to elucidate a sort of despondent rawness, Araki celebrates texture and fur, bright eye shadow and costumery that’s almost Warholian in its desire to replicate a culture that might never have existed. Araki’s latest, White Bird in a Blizzard, continues this trend, starring Shailene Woodley, Eva Green, and Christopher Meloni as a miserable family fighting the monotony of late

There are plenty of puns to be made about the rather overconfidently named first annual Great Chicago Fire Festival. The festival was missing a spark; it failed to generate any heat; it was a very slow burn and ignited the disdain of nearly all who attended. This fire festival did not burn brightly.

On Saturday evening, more than 30,000 Chicago residents, commuters, and tourists flocked to the Chicago riverfront for a festival celebrating the dynamic spirit and resiliency of the city of Chicago as demonstrated during the Great Chicago Fire of the late 19th century. Despite being an event commemorating an event that killed more than 300 people and left more than 100,000 Chicagoans homeless, the excitement and engagement in the festivities during the day, at least, enlivened the riverfront with activity.

Festival attendees could listen to slam poetry, watch dance troupes perform, and peruse a street market highlighting 15 neighborhoods throughout the city. While Hyde Park was not included as one of the featured neighborhoods in the festival, Woodlawn, located just south of the Midway and home to Burton-Judson, South, and New Grad, had various local artists and shops featured among the art and food vendors lining the river. All of this led up to the Grand Spectacle where three houses styled after the buildings during the Chicago Fire were to be set ablaze in the river to reveal three different symbols of the city. With so much pomp and circum-

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Art Institute explores the weird works of René Magritte Evangeline Reid Associate Arts Editor According to TripAdvisor’s Travelers’ Choice awards, the Art Institute of Chicago is the number-one attraction in Chicago and also the number-one museum in the world. But what does that mean for those of us who aren’t quite tourists? We have free entry with our University IDs for a reason: this fall, through October 13, the museum is showing a collection of surrealist artist René Magritte’s most formative and prominent work in an exhibit that is definitely worth a visit.

Magritte is well known for sev-

eral iconic images. One famously depicts a pipe with the sentence, “Ceci n’est pas un pipe,” or “This is not a pipe.” The man in a bowler hat with a green apple in front of his face and the fireplace with a train extending from it are also well-known works. The exhibit follows Magritte from his first exhibition of surrealist paintings in Brussels in 1926; through the time he spent in Paris, where he met other surrealist artists; and culminates in 1938 just before World War II, thus encapsulating some of the most important parts of his career.

Despite the wild reputation of other artists creating similarly

strange pieces at the time, Magritte sought to remain independent of that movement by maintaining the air of an academic exploring and communicating his discoveries.

Many of his paintings play with themes of linguistic theory, perception, and the definition or purpose of art, ultimately challenging what is considered ordinary. Yet however bizarre the content is— images labeled with mismatching names or a human form made solely of legs—he paints them with technique so realistic and compelling that the content begs to be considered.

Through liberal spacing and bold lighting, the exhibit forces its

visitors to carefully consider the value of the bizarre and sometimes disturbing works he created. For those who are not fans of modern or experimental art, the exhibit makes its case well, sparking conversations with some of his less jarring work. (For example, one wall holds a series of images created by a mixture of white space and separately framed segments of the whole that perhaps more accurately captures the way an eye views an image.) Yet those who know and love surrealist art will find an immersive exploration of the themes and growth of an artist who both helped define and also in some ways defied the movement. How-

ever, both the uncharmed and the impassioned visitor will likely feel the very tangible connections his work has in the greater context of 20th-century thought.

After the museum closes, be sure to take a walk in the beautiful gardens on either side of the museum.

They are open to the public and will likely be in the final throes of their summer glory. Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary is not an exhibit that lets you leave without some new thoughts and greater appreciation. Take some time to chew on it. Let it brew.

The Art Institute of Chicago is open every day from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

After disastrous third season, Showtime’s Homeland soldiers on James Mackenzie Arts Editor Homeland star Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) looks tired. It’s a sleepy night in Islamabad when the bipolar and un-fire-able CIA analyst rolls into a dim and quiet command center in order to oversee a bombing attack on a key terrorist leader in the region. It is carried out with little fanfare; the group doesn’t even watch the run on video. Instead, Carrie goes home, downs an Ambien with a wine chaser, and goes to sleep.

Many of the returning cast members seem like they could use some Ambien, too. Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) is stuck in the career loop of consulting firms. Peter Quinn (Rupert Friend), once the

show’s cool operator, is now shaken with PTSD after one too many killings gone awry. Carrie herself is still the same irresponsible psycho she always was, but with her edge dulled by emotional toil. However, it would be unfair to accuse any of them of bad performances; this is merely the place the show-runners have left them in. One can hardly blame the characters after the emotionally and intellectually exhausting mess that was Homeland season three. Sharks were jumped, terror babies were bred, and at the end of the day the show runners made the wise decision to string up the show’s longtime co-star-turnedalbatross Nicholas Brody (Damian Lewis).

The idea was to make a clean break to start the fourth season, and

for the most part this has worked, despite a few moments when the memory of Brody hangs over the scene. But those characters that do remain among the living have been laid bare for the audience. Berenson and Quinn hold no more secrets. Nor does Carrie. Indeed, the show displays little interest in challenging or subverting any of the notions about Carrie that have been built up over three seasons, only in reinforcing them. She remains a highly intelligent and driven agent who nevertheless lets mental illness and hubris destroy her personal life and eventually her professional one. When Homeland started out, she had the chance to be the female answer, or at least equivalent, to the 2000s run of television’s so-called “difficult men.” From Tony Sopra-

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’80s suburbia. It’s angst as usual until Eve Connor (Green), matriarch, goes missing. The film’s based on the novel of the same name, written by Laura Kasischke.

This is Woodley’s The Dreamers, incipient and sexual in an exploratory way. Araki’s camera stares at her body with curiosity but it never feels predatory; this is a film about a young girl who’s grown into her-

self just as her mother’s stepped out, about being young and craven and bored. Green plays a woman whose sexuality represses her, a contrast from other films in which it was made to define her. Eve Connor is trapped by domesticity, a woman stronger than her constraints and yet still no more capable of undoing herself from them.

While the mystery of where Mom went is Blizzard’s easiest selling point,

it is also the film’s last concern. Araki establishes his movie stolidly within the confines of Kat’s head; we are not to be concerned with anything that doesn’t concern her—including the disappearance of her mother. Attention to the period is limited to hair crimping and a killer soundtrack, and yet all of this selectivity might be the film’s strongest point: It’s insular and weird and not a little uncomfortable.

In other words, it’s a teenager.

SNL alums Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader star as suicidal fraternal twins in summer dramady The Skeleton Twins.

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no to Walter White and Don Draper, these roles became TV icons for their subversive moralities and the talented performers behind them.

Carrie had these things too, but her creators have consistently misused her since season two, leaving twotime Emmy winner Danes twisting in the wind.

It’s not all bad, however. The premiere gets a much-needed burst of energy after the aforementioned bombing run triggers a brutal murder, shaking our leads awake if not quite into action. We also get some emotional resonance from newcomer Aayan Ibrahim (Suraj Sharma, the lead from 2012’s Life of Pi), a survivor of the attack who is swept up into the realm of politics and terrorism, which will likely tear him apart. His is by far the most

promising plotline of the young season.

But while the show has jettisoned the baggage of season three, it is still stubbornly insistent on employing the character-heavy psychodrama which created those problems in the first place. Early on, Homeland was at its best when it focused on the cat-and-mouse game played between the CIA and the terrorists, always questioning who was the cat and who the mouse. The parameters of the game as well as the true nature of the characters were obscured, creating wonderful tension for most of the first two seasons.

There are still mysteries to be had in season four, but with the characters’ souls revealed, we are left wondering less and merely shaking our heads more.

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stance preceding the event, including a choir, specially made boats to light the houses, and an appearance

by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, it was all the more tragic when the houses failed to catch flame that night.

The whole thing felt like a grand social experiment to determine how long a crowd of people would wait in 40-degree Fahrenheit weather to watch a house burn down. Apparently more than an hour, but truly only the most dedicated were willing to bundle up and stand packed in by the riverside for that long. By the time the houses had finally caught fire, a majority of the crowd had moved on, and most people were on their way home as the fireworks concluding the spectacle began.

Most unsatisfied festivalgoers, this reviewer included, will dwell upon the fact that the burning houses did not ignite according to plan, but the issues plaguing the Grand Spectacle began much earlier than that. As the “fire cauldrons” meant to light the houses were lowered into the river, a children’s choir from the many diverse neighborhoods sang a mash-up of a gospel hymn and the opening song from Frozen. While the choir was a stirring representation of the unique communities that make up Chicago, their audio setup was so poor that only those nearby the singers could actually hear them.

For the rest of the crowd, there was

only the low drone of the backing track playing seemingly endlessly.

In general there seemed to be a surprising lack of planning pervading the entire event. It was plain after nearly 30 minutes passed in silence that none of the organizers had a backup plan in case of a Grand Spectacle malfunction.

When they finally did announce the plan to manually light them, those who had decided to stay had already lost interest, and were standing merely out of principle and flagging respect.

While many were hoping this would be a cultural festival meant to rival events such as Mardi Gras in New Orleans and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade in New York, the event lacked a clear direction of what it wanted to say or do. The expressed goals of the festival were to unite the communities of Chicago, but it was never stated what exactly people were uniting about.

Even if the Grand Spectacle had gone perfectly according to plan, the themes of unity and resilience were unsatisfyingly represented in the festivities.

Only time will tell if there will be a second annual Great Fire Festival, but it is doubtful that it will elicit the same amount of anticipation and turnout if it does. Perhaps the organizers should take a page from Neil Young’s songbook when looking toward future events: “It’s better to burn out than to fade away.”

THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | October 7, 2014

In the Chatter’s Box with Sarah Langs

Meghan Derken is a fourth-year soccer player from Madison, CT. We chatted with her to get some insider info on the life of a Maroon athlete.

Fourth-year Meghan Derken prepares to kick the ball in a game against the Redlands earlier this season. The Maroons won 2–0.

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Chicago Maroon: When did you start playing soccer?

Meghan Derken: When I was four.

Sixteen years ago.

CM: When did you start playing at

a competitive level?

MD: When I was 11.

CM: You do track here, too. When did you know what would be your track event in college?

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ters and blockers be successful,” Loe said.

Even with all this success, the team is still hoping to improve as it enters the second half of the season.

“There are always areas for improvement,” Loe said. “And we are looking forward to getting back in the gym this

week to prepare for [our] next matches. This [weekend] gives us a lot more confidence going into our second Round Robin in two weeks. We know we can play tough against any team and win.”

Chicago’s next match will be at the Tiffany Robinson Memorial Tournament in Naperville this Friday.

MD: I ran indoor season my freshman year, and then I got hurt.

And then I got pushed up into farther distances to not aggravate my injury and then ended up being pretty good at them.

CM: When did you know that you would play either sport in college?

MD: Not until halfway through my senior year. I kind of had this moment where I was just like, “Uh, I think I want to play sports in college, but I’m not sure.” And then I just kind of took the schools that were still looking, still recruiting.

CM: Can you imagine what it would have been like if you hadn’t played?

MD: Honestly, I can’t. I wouldn’t give these experiences up for anything.

CM: Let’s talk a little more about when you play soccer. What’s on your mind when you’re on the field?

MD: You gotta win. There’s this

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feeling when you come off the field knowing that you’ve played really well—and this is going to sound awful—but that the other team feels like shit. I go into a game being like, “I want this team to walk off the field never wanting to play soccer again in their lives.” This feeling after you score, after you play really well, after you beat a team, it’s just like you’re on top of the world and you feel so good about everything.

CM: What’s the equivalent in track?

That’s more of an individual sport.

MD: With track it was more like I would pick out a girl who I knew was running the times I wanted to run. And I would beat her. Or try to beat her.

CM: What’s your favorite part of playing soccer or running track— other than winning?

MD: I think the competition. I am one of the most competitive people. So besides winning, I like the opportunity to compete.

CM: Does the way that you approach track in any way affect the way you approach soccer, or vice

versa?

MD: I think the training I got through track definitely helped improve my soccer. Like, the speed training I got, the endurance. That’s definitely one of the biggest parts of my game now. When I’m on the field, I’m the player who just runs up and down the field. I would say that definitely contributed to it.

CM: Compared to me—someone who’s never played soccer in her life—do you think the way you watch a professional match is different than the way I do?

MD: I think so, yeah. When I watch soccer, it’s so much different than when I watch football or watch another sport that I don’t play.

Because I know what’s good and bad in those, but I can’t know how you fix it, why you do it. I can’t look at those other sports critically and know what to say.

CM: Is it more or less nerve-racking to watch the one you know how to play?

MD: I definitely get more emotionally invested with soccer.

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large I think our performance showed that,” Choquette said.

“We are ultimately happy with the tie, because it’s of utmost importance not to lose points in the UAA with there only being seven games. However, there were more than a handful of moments where we could have snatched the game away and

simply didn’t.”

Other Maroons, like secondyear defender DJ Weis, were at least temporarily satiated with getting a point in conference play but are hungry for more in the coming weeks.

“It’s always good to get a point in a conference matchup, but I think we feel a little disappointed not to come away with the

win,” Weis said. “In the end, we were unable to find the net, but I think we feel we should have scored.”

The remainder of the season may come down to how much Chicago can stay in control on the pitch.

“We needed to stay more composed and allow our style to dictate the game rather than

the game dictating our style,” said second-year forward Brenton Desai. “We have the technical and tactical ability to keep the ball moving fast and on the ground; we just need to play to that strength, especially when we are tired and the game is not going our way.”

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IN QUOTES “I talked to Sheed the other day. He was at home, on the couch, being fat.”

–Kevin Garnett on Rasheed Wallace’s new health kick

Ryan leads late-game comeback in 17–14 win Football

Third-year Vincent Beltrano rushes to tackle an opposing player in a game against Carnegie Mellon University last season.

COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

Helen Peterson Associate Sports Editor The second annual Blues Bowl between the Maroons (4–0) and Rhodes Lynx (4– 1) was the perfect setting for an introspective, bluesy jam

sesh: rain, wind, and a sense of despair filled Stagg Field as undefeated Chicago found itself down 14–6 with five minutes left in the game.

Then, as though Buddy Guy himself willed it upon them, the Maroons finally

found their footing. After the top-ranked Maroon defense forced a turnover on downs, fourth-year quarterback Patrick Ryan marched his team down the field for its second touchdown of the game, passing for 67 yards

on three completions, concluding with a touchdown to third-year receiver Sam Coleman. A successful two-point attempt to second-year tight end Brian Welch evened the score at 14–14 with 4:11 left on the game clock.

In the next Rhodes possession, the Maroon defense again proved its stinginess.

In his usual clutch fashion, third-year defensive back Vinnie Beltrano intercepted third-year quarterback Blake Box’s pass attempt and returned it to the Lynx 29-yard line with three minutes left in the game.

Ryan then connected with Coleman yet again on thirdand-19 to earn a first down and bring the Maroons into field-goal territory. After burning some clock, Chicago brought out its field goal unit.

Third-year kicker Karol Kurzydlowski, who had missed a point-after and field-goal attempt earlier in the game, kicked it right

through the uprights with 12 seconds left, giving the Maroons a 17–14 lead and the eventual victory.

“We were ecstatic to win the game in such an exciting way, but obviously there are things we could have done as a team to avoid getting ourselves in a fourth-quarter hole,” said fourth-year defensive lineman and team captain Scott Mainquist. “But it was awesome to see our team respond so well to the adversity.”

The Chicago defense, currently ranked first in the nation in yards allowed per game, sparked the comeback with three forced turnovers in the final five minutes.

“In the fourth quarter the defense basically knew we had to get quality stops and get the ball back to the offense in a position to score.

We had the mentality that we had to leave everything we had on the field and execute, or we wouldn’t win,” Mainquist said. “The combination

of turnovers and execution in the passing game late in the fourth quarter were the sparks that led to the comeback. Pat [Ryan] and Sam [Coleman] really caught fire at the end of the game. I don’t think we win without their playmaking ability late in the game.”

Ryan and Coleman connected on six passes in the fourth quarter for 112 yards.

This included two thirddown conversions in the last three minutes to keep the ball in Chicago’s possession.

Fourth-year running back Zak Ross-Nash ended the game with 97 yards on 18 rushing attempts and one reception. Rhodes’s third-year running back, Kevin Vieira, rushed for 101 yards on 27 attempts.

This is the second straight year that Chicago has started the season 4–0.

With momentum in hand, the Maroons head to Texas next weekend to play Trinity University (1–4).

Maroons sweep Carnegie takes first conference contest 2–1 UAA Round Robin Women’s Soccer

Volleyball Bronagh Daly Sports Staff The Maroons returned home this past Sunday with high spirits after a successful weekend at the UAA Round Robin No. 1 in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Maroons won all three of their matches, improving their record to 18–7 on the season and 2–0 in UAA action. Similarly, the South Siders won in style with high kill rates and attack percentages, their highest being 52 kills and .285 percent in their final match against the Wash U Bears, who had a 48 kill and .174 percent rate.

“It’s a great feeling to go undefeated in the first weekend of conference competition,” said third-year outside hitter Maren Loe. “Especially considering five of the eight UAA teams made it to the NCAA tournament last year.”

What made the wins even more impressive, though, was the close final score of all of the matches.

Chicago’s first match against the NYU Violets started off very close in the first set, ending in a 26–24 finish in favor of the Maroons, while the second set instead ended in a 25–21 victory for the Violets. It all came down to the final set, where the Maroons brought home a 25–21 victory. The fierce competition of this match is best captured by the nearly identical kill rates of

the two teams, 55–54—in favor of the Maroons.

Chicago picked up its momentum in the second match against the Brandeis Judges, finishing off the match in straight sets, with the team’s attack percentage more than twice that of the Judges.

The Maroons’ final match against Wash U seemed as though it would also be close, but after losing the first set, the Maroons came back successively stronger and stronger each set, finishing the match with a clear 25–12 victory in the third set.

While each match was a clear victory, Chicago did not know what to expect heading into the weekend.

“We’ve had a lot of upheaval on our team,” Loe said. “So we didn’t know what to expect.

We expected to play hard and compete, and that’s exactly what we did. Winning is just a consequence of the effort and teamwork we gave.”

Although Loe herself was a standout player this weekend, she spoke especially highly of the younger members of her team.

“I’m really proud of how a lot of our younger players stepped up into new roles,” she said.

“They made a huge difference for us.”

Overall, though, it was very clear that the wins this past weekend were a team effort.

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Zachary Themer Associate Sports Editor

Coming off of a GermanyBrazil-like rout over North Central last week with a score of 7–0, the Maroons looked to strike again this past Saturday as they took on the Tartans of Carnegie Mellon University.

The Maroons (9–2) were not able to take down their conference foes as the home squad dropped a hard-fought opening UAA match by a score of 2–1.

In doing so, the No. 12 South Siders record dropped to 9–2, while the No. 4–ranked Tartans saw their record improve to 9–0.

“Coming off of that Carnegie loss, we realize that every UAA game is a 90-minute battle. As teammates, we have

to up the competitiveness of practice drills to prepare each other,” said second-year defender Bailey Sayin.

The match itself began quickly, as Carnegie Mellon was able to score in the 11th minute. Only 11 minutes later, the Tartans doubled their lead.

While the Tartans entered the half with a 2–0 lead, the scorebooks of the first half painted the picture of Maroon domination. In particular, the South Siders were able to outshoot their opponents by a total of 7–5. Unfortunately, none of those found the back of the net.

Entering the second half, the Maroons looked to not only maintain the pace and attack they established in the first half, but also to make some defensive adjustments, as head coach Amy Reifert inserted fourth-

year Mallory Morse in at goalkeeper for the second half.

While the Maroons were able to get some offensive runs going during the second half, they were unable to find the elusive net until the 83rd minute, when first-year forward Mia Calamari delivered a streaking corner that deflected off the hands of Carnegie keeper Katie Liston. Before Liston could adjust, third-year midfielder Naomi Pacalin was able to get a foot on the ball and deliver a laser to the top left corner of the net.

With their deficit halved, the Maroons increased the offensive pressure against the Tartans, but were unable to even up the score as they eventually dropped the hard-fought match, 2–1. While the Maroons lost, they were still able to outshoot the Tartans by a total

of 13–12.

With that in mind, the Maroons can draw positives from their loss and look ahead to their next UAA match: No. 5 Emory next Saturday.

“We have to start the match a lot more prepared to battle and play physical. Emory is a tough team, and we need to be ready from the initial whistle,” said third-year forward Mary Bittner.

“We have to overlook the result and continue focusing on our big games in the future. Between Wheaton and the UAA games, there is no time to dwell on past losses,” Bittner said.

With Emory in their sights, the No. 12 Maroons will travel to Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, this Saturday as they look to take the Eagles on their home turf.

South Siders tie Tartans in double OT Men’s Soccer Russell Mendelson Sports Staff Chicago faced off against Carnegie Mellon to begin a month filled with crucial conference matchups.

Neither the Maroons (6– 4–1) nor the Tartans (6–3–1) managed to put the ball in the net, and the game ended in a double-overtime tie, with each team shooting on goal nine times.

A combination of cold, rainy

weather, and the long match may have contributed to growing fatigue among players from both teams.

“I think it’s fair to say that we tired as the game went on, but surely they did too,” said fourth-year midfielder Michael Choquette. “They definitely had more of a foothold in the game in the last 20 minutes than we did, but we definitely had a chance or two to win.”

The Tartans managed six shots in both overtimes out of a

game total of 23, while Chicago took two in that same period out of a total of 22 over the entirety of the match.

First-year goalkeeper Hill Bonin kept Carnegie at bay with his nine saves, four of them coming after regulation.

“I am constantly watching the play and shifting the defense and midfield, which helps me stay engaged with the rest of the team,” Bonin said. “Doing a few short sprints at halftime and in the breaks between overtimes

helped my body stay warm all game, which was key on such a cold, wet day.”

This game had added significance, as it was Chicago’s first conference match. Games of this nature have critical implications for the team’s chances of making the NCAA tournament. “[W]ith a 6–4 record, we knew that this was going to be a very long, do-or-die stretch.

Coming into the game, we treated it as a must-win, and by and SOCCER continued on page 7