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Uncommon Interview: Alum up for re-election Natalie Friedberg Associate News Editor In 2012, Wisconsin State Representative Daniel Riemer (A.B. ’09) ran in a primary against a 30-year incumbent and won a landslide victory.

He is now running for reelection.

Riemer, who represents parts of suburban Milwaukee, sat down with the Maroon to talk about his days as a student during Barack Obama’s rise, his experiences as a young state representative, and the role of the Core in modern-day politics. To read the extended version, visit chicagomaroon. com.

Chicago Maroon: How did you decide that politics or elected of-

fice was something that you wanted to pursue, and how did the University of Chicago shape your ambitions or political views?

Daniel Riemer: I took the classes that pretty much everyone else takes, you know, Self, Culture, and Society, the rest of the Core. I think a lot of what I started to get interested in when I was in college was what makes society function the way it does. How does law play a part in what makes a cohesive society or a society unable to stay together? A lot of those questions are ones that Chicago kids have to deal with as a part of the Core Curriculum…. And that’s why I pursued law and law school, but what I discovRIEMER continued on page 3

Dirty laundry hampered by payment relocation Anne Nazzaro Maroon Contributor The University removed cash-tocard machines from residence halls at the beginning of the school year.

As a result, students can reload their cards at locations near either the Midway Market or Maroon Market, also known as Bart Mart, in order to

prepay their ID cards for laundry. The former machine is located in the vestibule of South Campus’s convenience store, while the other is located left of the Trophy Lounge in Bartlett.

The change resulted from new contracts for the library's printing service and the residence halls' laundry services, according to Jennifer LAUNDRY continued on page 3

Native American activist puts mascots in penalty box Katherine Vega Maroon Contributor In the midst of the recent controversy surrounding the Washington football team, Charlene Teters, a Native American artist, professor, and lecturer, attacked American Indian sports mascots as demeaning. Her Columbus Day talk,

sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs, was accompanied by an abridged screening of the documentary In Whose Honor?: American Indian Mascots in Sports, which follows the story of her early protests against the mascot of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC),

Newly elected Student Government class representatives for the Class of 2018 (from left to right): Preethi Raju, Michael Meng, David Shapiro, and Asya Akça.

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First-years join Student Government Hafsa Razi Maroon Contributor First-year students elected four Student Government representatives to the College Council on Friday. The winning candidates were Michael Meng, with 196 votes; Asya Akça, with 143 votes; David Shapiro, with 139 votes; and Preethi Raju, with 136 votes.

A total of 17 candidates were on the ballot this year.

Voter turnout was at about 40 percent, which is fairly normal for a fall election, according to College Council Interim Chairperson, third-year Mike Viola. Viola said he was surprised by the aspi-

platforms on campus living issues. Popular ideas included subsidized public transport and the use of Maroon Dollars for printing and laundry. However, due to the multitude of candidates and unfamiliar electorate, Meng said that achieving name recognition through posters and social media might have been more important than a unique platform.

“I don’t think that any one of the candidates that were running could claim something that was uniquely theirs…that others couldn’t promise,” Meng said.

The similarities between platforms, according to Meng, were FIRST-YEARS continued on page 2

Stone to update free speech policy Raymond Fang Staff Writer

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Anthony Roy (left) and Charlene Teters (right) discussed the use of Native Indian figures as sports mascots.

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rational nature of the candidates’ pitches.

“Candidate platforms were particularly ambitious this year, to the point that I was worried the candidates may not be able to realize such plans in one year or that they were focusing too much on politicized issues that may be inappropriate for Student Government to get involved with,” he wrote in an e-mail. “That being said, I was very glad to see that candidates found a wide range of student life matters that they wished to improve and that they made rather substantial efforts to speak with their constituencies.”

Many candidates focused their

The committee established last month by President Robert Zimmer to review the University’s free speech policy was created due to free speech-related incidents at other universities around the country, committee head Geoffrey Stone said. The committee will send its recommendations to the Faculty Council by the end of 2014.

According to a University-wide e-mail from Zimmer on September 25, the committee will “draft a statement reflecting the Univer-

sity’s commitment to and tolerance of multiple forms of free expression.”

The committee began meeting last month and will release its statement on free speech on January 1, 2015, after which the statement will head to the Faculty Council for a vote during winter quarter. Zimmer selected Stone, along with the other committee members, for their diverse fields of study, their well-respected status in the University, and for their judgment, which, according to Stone, Zimmer “thought well of.”

Stone said that Zimmer’s decision to form an updated statement

on the University’s free speech policy was unrelated to anything specific that occurred at the University.

“I think what triggered it was more the fact that issues have arisen in universities across the nation in the last couple of years, and we didn’t have a formal statement on policy on these issues,” he said.

“The president thought it would be useful to have one, but it was not triggered by anything in particular at Chicago."

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Uncommon Interview: TFA Vice President David Omenn

David Omenn, vice president of recruitment at Teach for America, talks with the MAROON about his experiences as a TFA Corps member and the future of the organization.

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Sarah Manhardt News Editor David Omenn rose through the Teach for America (TFA) ranks from teacher to vice president of recruitment. Omenn joined TFA after graduating college, teaching science to every grade at an elementary school in Houston.

Omenn sat down with the Maroon to discuss his experience in TFA, recruiting at UChicago, and the future of the organization. To read the extended version, visit chicagomaroon.com.

Chicago Maroon: I’ve read studies that TFA teachers tend to help their students make the most noticeable strides in math and science. I was wondering, as a previous science teacher, where you think that difference comes from.

David Omenn: To some de-

gree, you have to look at some of the causes of the issues that TFA teachers aim to address in the first place. We live in a society where very few really promising young people are encouraged to become teachers, particularly in math and science where you’re much more likely to go to medical school or into academia or into an industry job. Students are generally more likely to have a math or science teacher that does not have content area knowledge, and a lot of TFA teachers do come in with content area knowledge. And my own [experience in teaching] elementary school is relatively mediocre, but I came in with more of a content area background than anyone from my school had ever had.

CM: I recently read a Vox article about TFA that quotes the figure that 35 percent of principals say

that they think the two-year commitment is too short. As a teacher what are your thoughts on the twoyear commitment? Should it be shorter or longer?

DO: I think there needs to be a short enough commitment that isn’t so daunting to people to ensure that they get into the door and enter the profession to see what kind of impact they can have and see how rewarding, challenging, yes—but rewarding the profession truly is…. I saw how it was not just about disparities in education; it was also about challenges in health care and housing and nutrition and transportation, the list goes on. It’s critical that we do choose to stay in education but that we also choose to advocate outside education for students.

CM: You mentioned being responsive to specific schools. I saw

you had started recruiting in Chicago around 2007. Are there any specific challenges or benefits to recruiting in Chicago as compared to any areas you’ve worked in since then?

DO:I think what is unique specifically about the University of Chicago, especially compared to some specific universities, is just [that] students are aware of the juxtaposition between the idyllic Hyde Park and being on campus here between a lot of areas in the South Side that are truly struggling, both with education and with other factors—housing, health care, etc., that I mentioned earlier. There are a lot of ways students are involved, both in [the] Neighborhood Schools Program or other organizations that allow them to understand firsthand some of the challenges but also some of the possibilities for impact. So I think that is uniquely important here in Chicago, and not all campuses have that opportunity.

CM: I’ve seen a huge presence of TFA recruiting around the school, and I wanted to know if you have a sense of how many applicants, both from UChicago and nationally, come in seriously committed to a career in education. How critical do you think that is for TFA or the applicant?

DO:Do you have to have a longterm commitment on the front end? No, I don’t think that’s critical…. It reflects a greater fault in our society that it’s not as though a whole bunch of high-achieving high school students are saying, “What I want to do is teach.” There are some people who do that, but not enough; too often we push people to business, to law, to medicine. Too often it’s just because those are the prestigious careers, and I think if our society really focused more on considering careers in education we would see many more people come in knowing they want to be in education long-term

and frankly that would strengthen our schools of education and have many other impacts down the line.

CM:You mentioned touching on diversity earlier. Teach for America has made a really big push to have more applicants and more teachers who have come from diverse backgrounds. As a recruiter, what sort of specific steps have you been taking to diversify the core?

DO:We’re very conscious of the need to be responsive to schools, communities, and districts. And we know that across the country, Teach for America teachers teach somewhere in the neighborhood of 90 percent of students who identify as either African-American or Latino. And so it’s important. We have more individuals in the front of classrooms who share both the racial and socioeconomic background of their students. I rely on my own experience in the classroom as a white man. I could do a number of really remarkable things for my students but they could never really look at me but see themselves. Whereas down the hall, there was another Teach for America member who identifies as a black man. There’s just a different relationship there.

And so I saw from my time in the classroom, and I think most Teach for America Corps members are aware of that early on. This year, a full 50 percent of our incoming teachers identify as people of color, 47 percent [are] from low-income backgrounds, 34 percent [are] first-generation college students.

And so on the recruitment end, a big part of it is relationship building. So much of this work is wordof-mouth…. Now Teach for America’s diversity has about tripled, the racial diversity of the national teaching voice. It’s really shown that with concerted effort, you can make a difference [in] ensuring that there are more individuals working in classrooms who share the backgrounds of their students.

Native American mascot at speaker’s alma mater spurred her to action MASCOT continued from front

Chief Illiniwek.

Teters, an alumna of UIUC, grew up in a traditional American Indian community near a reservation in Spokane, Washington. After arriving on the central Illinois campus, she took her children to a basketball game that featured Chief Illiniwek dressed in traditional American Indian clothing.

Her immediate response was to feel angry and caricatured.

“At home we’re taught to respect eagle feathers, respect the chief, respect dance, respect the paint

that’s sacred to us,” she said in the film. “If you come from a community where you grow up with those things—where those things have meaning—[their use as a mascot] is going to have that impact on you.”

Both Teters’s talk and the film spent a significant portion of time focusing on how her protests caused division in the community.

When she began picketing the mascot, she said, several basketball players showed their support by marking the logo on their uniform with a taped X. By next season, it

was written in their contracts that players were not to have a public opinion in the matter.

In the film, several proponents of Chief Illiniwek defended his use as a mascot, citing tradition.

“I don’t consider Chief Illiniwek to be a mascot,” former trustee Ken Boyle said in the documentary.

“I consider the chief to be part of the heritage and tradition of institution.” Susan Gravenhorst, another former trustee, said, “I can’t imagine why the chief…who deports himself with such dignity, with such solemnity…could be per-

ceived as a racial insult or as a slur.”

Teters’s anger with Chief Illiniwek sparked her mission to end the use of American Indians and American Indian imagery as sports mascots and logos. Over the course of her advocacy, Teters has been ridiculed, beaten, and in 1998 arrested for protesting at a Cleveland Indians game. She is currently the president of the National Coalition on Racism in Sports and Media.

“It’s been a real struggle to make people see why this issue is important,” Teters said. “The reason

people don’t get [why this is offensive] is because we’re so invisible.”

She added, though, that in the two decades since she left UIUC, her movement has picked up steam.

“I think the film had a lot to do with sustaining the movement,” she said, speaking of the cultural impact of In Whose Honor?, which has won nine awards and was broadcasted internationally.

Near the end of evening, an audience member asked how the film could be used as an education tool.

“It certainly humanizes us,” Teters said. “And that’s a start.”

Election saw 17 candidates, four spots, and 40% voter participation FIRST-YEARS continued from front

the result of how long first-years have been on campus and the issues they’ve encountered in the past three weeks.

Raju said she formed her platform through Facebook polls and student interviews, revealing concerns about transportation, dining, and communication with school officials. However, she said,

some students questioned whether first-year representatives would be able to implement these goals.

“My response was, ‘I mean, I’m not promising I can get any of this stuff done, but I’m definitely going to advocate what the students want and to solve the students’ needs,’” Raju said. “So I’m going to do my best.”

Part of the reason for the criti-

cism of similar candidate platforms, Shapiro said, is a lack of clarity on the role of SG among first-year students; clarity which he gained by talking to older students already involved in SG. “It’s pretty complex,” he said. “…

For the vast majority of candidates and the general student population, I think it is pretty difficult to determine what exactly their

elected representatives do.”

However, Akça said, while firstyear candidates don’t have much experience on campus, criticizing them for putting forth “big ideas” is unfair. “I don’t think there’s any harm going into this position with optimism and enthusiasm and goals that we want to achieve,” she said.

SG president Tyler Kissinger

said that there are inherent problems in a fall election, such as firstyears’ lack of familiarity with the campus and student government.

This year, Kissinger said he does anticipate SG action on aspects of campus life brought up during the election, such as U-Pass. He also expects to form committees on dining and transportation and other “college-centric” issues.

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Alum says Core helped him prepare for politics RIEMER continued front

ered very quickly was that the big issues about how to shape a society and a political community so that the problems we’re facing in the 21st century can be solved, requires some active role in government. To really get my hands on being able to shape what government should do and shouldn’t do in response to the big problems, I had to get involved in government through political campaigns, which brought me to politics.

CM: Are there any aspects of your political platform or goals that come directly from things you learned in Chicago, in Sosc class, for example?

DR: It’s tough to draw a direct connection between reading Durkheim and 21st-century American politics. I think what I did develop through Chicago was thinking some of the big problems that need to be addressed, I come from the city of Milwaukee and it’s a city with a great deal of poverty. And it’s a city where people were often employed in the factories and manufacturing sector and saw a lot of the work that had traditionally grounded the community and saw the middle class disappear…. What Chicago did was give me a careful way to look at what the evidence says about how we can solve things like that. Sociological Methods is a class that I took at Chicago— I was a sociology major. You design experiments, look at evidence and data, and think about questions like, what solves poverty? It is disappointing to some extent in politics about how little that factors into discussion on how to solve problems. Chicago trains its students to have those conversations and to pursue that inquiry in an effective way.

CM: What was it like to be living in Hyde Park when Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency? Was it exciting?

DR: It was very exciting….

I admire him greatly. His candidacy during that period did a lot to shape my thinking on the possibility of running for office at all, but he was a well

known U.S. Senator and within a few years his street over

by Hyde Park Boulevard was covered in Secret Service as I imagine it is currently…. There was a certain electricity in the air during that time period which made it special, not just for me but for a lot of people because he was really a Hyde Parker through and through.

We were all, at least for a time, Hyde Parkers as well.

CM: Your opponent in 2012, Peggy Krusick, was someone who had held that state representative position for almost 30 years. Why do you think the people chose you, after decades of voting for her?

DR: The pitch I made was focused not on being heavily critical of my opponent; in fact I didn’t mention her very often. I wanted to talk primarily, almost explicitly about what I planned to do. But the big thing to focus on was to address the issues that had not been addressed by a generation of political leadership, in this case it was a fellow Democrat who had been part of a group that had not effectively addressed the problems of a shrinking middle class, of job insecurity, of access to affordable health care for the people of the state of Wisconsin, of coming up with creative and effective solutions to educating kids, especially kids from lower income communities and most of what I talked about then and continue to talk about now focuses in those topic areas…. And just working incredibly hard. I mean, I’m a skinny guy but I must have lost 10 or 15 pounds going door to door.

CM: As state representative, have you made any headway on the issues you focused on during the campaign?

DR: It’s been difficult so far.

Both houses of the legislature are currently held by Republican majorities and the governor is also a Republican, who is not a moderate Republican, and neither are the majorities in the legislature. I think to some extent I’ve been able to push the discussion of fairer tax policy, to some extent I’ve

been able to work with Republicans on bills that promote transitional jobs programs, which are similar kinds of things that Franklin Roosevelt and his team put into place during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to get people working again for wages on public works projects and other projects as well.

That’s something that has had support from Republicans and Democrats. But a lot of the things that had Republican and Democratic support that had been built up around consensus and collaboration have not made as much progress as I would like…. Within the constraints of partisan politics I’ve made some progress, but there’s still a great deal more to do.

CM: Do you have any advice for UChicago students who are looking to get into politics or public office?

DR: I would say they should do it, they should run for office…. They should feel free to reach out to me; I mean it’s not rocket science. I tell people if you ever sold Girl Scout cookies, you’re pretty well trained to be a candidate for local office. But I would really encourage people to do it, to throw their hat over the wall.

It’s a risk worth taking and it is one that they have trained themselves to do. They’ve suffered away at the Reg working hard; they’ve got the discipline to suffer. All University of Chicago students have that ability. But also having been part of a discussion about what government should do, what government shouldn’t do as a way to create a freer, fairer, more just, more prosperous society. Whatever they majored in, whatever they studied, the learning will be adequate, excellent actually, to allow them to be a part of that discussion.

If they don’t end up doing it, someone else will. These positions have to be filled, and I feel that they ought to be filled with people who are thoughtful, who have taken the time and effort to think carefully about what government should and shouldn’t do. Just do it, just run.

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New contracts mean laundry pay boxes removed LAUNDRY continued front

Luttig-Komrosky, executive director of College Housing.

Previously, students could use the cash- to-card machines to directly add money to their ID cards that could be then be used to pay for laundry and printing.

“When the old print copy contract ended at the library [in] July 2014, the vendor removed these cash-to-card machines,” Luttig-Komrosky wrote in an email.

The current laundry contract provides for two machines, instead of the previous five. Luttig-Komrosky pointed out that “the cash-to-card

machines are conveniently located near residential dining commons in Bartlett (Maroon Market) and South Campus (Midway Market).” Students are still also able to use quarters to pay directly for the use of a washing machine or dryer.

Some students consider the removal of the cash-to-card machines to be an inconvenience, especially in dorms located far from campus. “It’s made it a lot more difficult,” said Zach Bradley, a secondyear resident of Broadview.

“Quarters are, like, a godsend now. Every time you get a quarter, people are going crazy to save them.”

The school also has a pilot program in place to accept debit and credit cards as payment for laundry services (the “Change Point” system) but it currently only runs in Maclean, Max Palevsky Central, and International House.

Luttig-Komrosky said that College Housing and Residential Services does not have plans to expand access to the Change Point system or to cash-to-card machines. However, laundry services will be reviewed and discussed at Inter-House Council’s Housing Facilities Advisory Board meetings, which begin this month.

Committee to finalize policy by New Year’s Day POLICY continued front

at other universities might have been the cause for the committee.

“My guess is Zimmer talked with other university presidents and they were wrestling with some of these questions, and he realized it would be a good thing for the University to think about this and come up with general principles that would help guide discussion when such issues arise in the future,” Stone said.

The University’s neutrality policy, the Kalven Re-

port, sets a precedent for the current committee’s work.

The Kalven Report was produced in the 1960s by a similar committee headed

by Law Professor Harry Kalven, Jr. as a response to student protests at the University and across the country.

It proclaims an official University policy of neutrality on social and political issues.

Stone indicated the committee would draw from sources both inside and outside the University when drafting the statement, which includes both state-

ments from other universities and input from students.

Additionally, in crafting their statement, the committee will incorporate feedback from prior controversies concerning free speech, such as Dan Savage’s controversial statements at an IOP event last June.

The committee includes representatives from a variety of departments and divisions, including Booth School professor Marianne Bertrand and Astronomy and Astrophysics professor Angela Olinto.

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Google “sexism” Tech fields remain inhospitable to women

Anastasia Golovashkina An

Not Impressed Last week, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made a series of comments about women in the tech workplace that…well, I’ll let you be the judge: “It’s not really about asking for the raise, but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along...one of the additional superpowers that, quite frankly, women who don’t ask for a raise have, because that’s good karma. It’ll come back.”

Except, no, Satya Nadella, that estimated half a million dollars in average lifetime earnings I, and other women, will lose to the gender pay gap clearly won’t be coming back—at

least, not in the meaningful financial sense. (Perhaps he meant I’d find a husband who’d earn it back for me?)

It’s completely absurd to be advising women to trust a system that, by systemically marginalizing and underpaying them, hasn’t proven itself to be trustworthy in the least. Though Nadella did eventually tweet a helpful acknowledgement of being “inarticulate re how women should ask for raise,” his 140-character elaboration on the classic “oh shit” did little to allay the very real, unique challenges women face as they struggle to navigate tech’s male-dominated culture.

Beyond the immediate backlash

that followed Nadella’s comments lies a series of important questions that demand not only answers, but solutions.

Because while Nadella may be the most prominent tech leader to claim that all women need to do is trust the system or, more broadly, work harder, he’s merely (in)articulating a belief found far too often among tech employees across all ranks and companies. From TechCrunch Disrupt’s “Titstare,” an app for “tak[ing] photos of yourself staring at tits,” to an international tech conference presentation that compared an app to the presenter’s girlfriend (“looks beautiful, complains a lot, demands my attention, interrupts me when I’m working, doesn’t play well with my other friends”), examples abound of tech leaders acting, speaking, and leading in ways that further alienate their industry’s current and prospec-

tive female members.

Even more illustrative of this disturbing trend, however, are the myriad company reports and industry-wide studies that, time and time again, reveal how deeply embedded gender prejudice and sexism are within tech industry culture.

Microsoft’s 71 percent male/29 percent female personnel makeup (83/17 for tech jobs), for example, provides some much-needed context for its CEO’s recent kerfuffle.

But it’s important to know that even companies you’d expect to be more egalitarian—“likable” companies that, like Facebook, Yahoo, and Google, preach diversity on every corner—are generally anything but.

In a national professional workforce that’s 47 percent female overall, the aforementioned tech giants employ workforces that are more than 69, 62, and 70 percent male, respec-

tively. Apple and Twitter are both 70 percent male, with the latter’s “commit[ment] to making inclusiveness a cornerstone of our culture” on clear display in its 90 percent male (!) technology team. Despite being uniformly penned in a tone of pride and transparency, it, in fact, took a twoplus-year-long antitrust lawsuit to force these and other firms to publish data on their employee demographics in the first place.

Even they, however, represent but a fraction of the problem. Beyond the borders of the San Francisco Bay Area lies a nation—a world—brimming with STEM–centric sexism as staggering as it is reprehensible.

In virtually every STEM classroom, academic department, and leadership position across the country, talented female scientists, developers, engineers, and researchers are TECH continued on page 5

asked back. There is a certain hesitancy to divulge details about our lives and opinions without prompting--a characteristic not shared with my other groups of friends, especially non-Asian ones. On the contrary, as my friend above demonstrated, there’s an expectation for me to inform them about myself proactively.

Let’s twirl out of this scenario into the second, at my workplace, where, as the only quarter–system student, I started work almost a whole month after everybody else.

The other interns already seemed very familiar with each other, easily

picking up on each other’s references and occasionally stepping out to coffee together. I assumed I would quickly catch up.

In that intern room, all the desks lined up along the sides of the room were facing the walls. Occasionally, all the other interns would converse by turning away from their computers and toward the center of the room—except, I realized, for the three Asian girls in the corner (literally—we were all assigned cubicles in one corner, next to each other), myself included, who remained facASIAN continued on page 5

Dancing around the topic How do we address cultural differences without being stereotypical?

Grace Koh Gr

No Airs and Graces One premise that I’ve heard in pretty much every single class I’ve ever taken here at this university is that culture and environment play integral roles in shaping people.

And yet identifying such trends in my own experiences as an Asian American has proven to be a complex dance of tiptoeing past ste-

reotypes and maneuvering around overly general (and potentially offensive) semantics.

Watch. Let’s try dancing between two settings from this past summer that prompted me to consider how Asian-ness affected my social interactions.

The first occurred when talking

with some friends; I casually mentioned that I tried hockey this past year. “I didn’t know you were doing that!” one of them said, shocked, “How come you never told us?” almost as if I’d offended her. To me, the answer was simple—because she had never asked.

After starting school at UChicago, I spent a lot more time around people who grew up in culturally East Asian households. With these friends, I noticed most of our conversation was driven by questions: I ask them about their lives with a subconscious expectation of being

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University’s approach to study abroad misses the point Maya Handa Maroon Contributor Before we left for Oaxaca last winter, UChicago gave everyone on my study abroad program a student handbook with a packing list (recommended: anti-diarrheals and laxatives), a guide to overcoming culture shock (“try journaling!”), and a final admonishment: “You are expected to treat this dynamic city as your fifth course, engaging it as you would an assigned text.”

In Oaxaca I walked down streets and sat in parks and ate Styrofoam cups of corn slathered with delicious mayonnaise.

I went dancing and lay in the sun and played soccer under an aqueduct with a man who called himself Pechugas. I got a library card and read Ender’s Game on top of a mountain. I filmed a stop motion video about a werewolf with my friend for her film class. I cooked crepes, disappointed my host mother, and walked around a department store for several hours without buying anything. Oh, I engaged.

But had I treated my experiences with the same objective intellectual curiosity I use to analyze texts, I would have limited my ability to learn.

The U of C is big into learning; so am I. But this school is teaching us the wrong lesson about study abroad.

At our pre-departure meet-

ings, they told us that study abroad would be a great résumé builder because it would show future employers “an interest in and understanding of global cultural differences and issues.”

UChicago emphasized that living in another country would be a chance for me to find and adapt to the differences between Mexico and the U.S. in pursuit of an experience that would simultaneously improve me and my chances for employment.

And finally, the school’s handbook told me that living in Mexico and engaging with the “local culture” for three months would put me on the path to “becoming interculturally fluent” and increase my “ability to reach my goals.”

The University is right to be pragmatic about study abroad.

It may impress employers and I, like many, would love to be employed one day. However, to focus on the superficial professional benefits of the experience is to take a drug for the side effects.

Portraying study abroad as an opportunity to go somewhere, suffer alternately from diarrhea and constipation, learn how to be “interculturally fluent,” and return, flattens our time into just another engaging text—another “learning experience” that I don’t have to leave Chicago (or even the dining hall) to benefit from.

Beyond that, in depicting

another country as a kind of cultural boot camp designed to be stressful but rewarding, the University limits students’ perceptions of “abroad” to an experience that can be gained.

Instead, our program should at least remind us to view Mexico (or France, or Israel, or Italy, or Morocco) more realistically and positively, as a place in which we can reside and make friends and have breakfast every morning.

The best thing that I “learned” in Mexico is that it’s possible for me to live in a country that’s not the U.S. and make it my home. When UChicago puts forth the goals and benefits of study abroad, they should demonstrate a transnational ideal: young people who can live and thrive and get an everyday kind of fulfillment from a life outside of the United States.

The University should add a section to its handbook (perhaps replacing the section suggesting writing poetry as a means of getting over culture shock) explaining that study abroad is not about floating along the surface of a country, “engaging,” and learning how to communicate with the “other”; it’s about discovering that you can make a home far away from where you thought you belonged.

Maya Handa is a third-year in the College majoring in public policy.

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finding themselves consistently marginalized, underrepresented, and underpaid in fields and workplaces where they’d otherwise excel. Nearly every woman has such a story—a multi-volume memoir, really—of relevant personal experiences. That seems to be why study after study of women formerly employed in tech find many leaving, with large majorities—majorities as great as their underrepresentation in the field, in fact— saying they have no plans to return, despite enjoying the work itself.

But saying all of this is not

enough. It’s long past time to move past surface-level criticisms and vague demands for “change.” It’s time to change—for companies and colleges alike to implement measures that will have a real impact on making tech socially and culturally welcoming to women. It also means that women can’t be the only ones preaching to the choir about these issues—in other words, invite more male voices into the conversation. Not because women need men’s validation, but because those are so often the voices that hold the most power needed to actually implement these long-overdue

changes.

Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg’s new book How Google Works, for instance, is among the best to concisely articulate the extensive economic benefits afforded by greater workplace diversity. “From a strictly corporate point of view,diversity in hiring is even more emphatically the right thing to do,” the coauthors advise.

Their first example: “women and men.”

Anastasia Golovashkina is a fourth-year in the College majoring in public policy.

Communication breaks down when our differences aren’t acknowledged debunking stereotypes by showing real life exceptions, which is great. Showcasing an individual’s uniqueness, transcendent of all societal labels, is completely necessary. But how do I deal with the problem of stereotypes in real-life situations where they aren’t so loudly and clearly destroyed?

The fact that there are especially vocally assertive Asian females in American society is not sufficient reason to invalidate my observation that many of my female Asian friends are not. In the case of trying to understand my summer experiences, a focus on pushing back against a stereotype is relatively unhelpful, because I’m not trying to push against the character traits that others have ascribed to me as an Asian woman—I’m trying to work with the ones I do have as a result of my being an Asian woman.

Ultimately, people are people, but people are also inevitably shaped by the influences of the society around them. And while this view is so readily acknowledged and studied in academic discourse, it doesn’t seem as readily applied to constructively improving interpersonal relationships, probably because there are a lot of ways

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ing our computers while the conversation went on behind us.

As I listened to the conversations flowing behind and without me, I found myself facing a degree of social anxiety that I thought I had grown out of since coming to college. I found myself hesitant to make comments and join the conversation, going over my words with an alltoo familiar paranoia about how they would be received.

I began to re-examine the social circumstances in which I felt comfortable being outgoing and circumstances such as these, where my E.Q. sinks to my middle -chool levels (atrociously low).

These observations triggered a series of connections for me between the off hand comments of my non-Asian peers about Asians being exclusive to my feelings of isolation in predominantly white settings. And I realized that, at my job, the other interns weren’t excluding me, I just wasn’t actively including myself.

But see how my dancing has become dangerous? I’m promoting the stereotype of Asian women as submissive and white women as outspoken. There is a lot of discourse that focuses on

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One group expects the other to speak; the other asks and expects to be asked back.

And when these two types of conversationalists interact, the former leaves with the idea that the latter is closed off, while the latter leaves with the idea that the former is uninterested. But this isn’t the case, and realizing that communication was breaking down between me and my fellow interns because of different expectations of that communication enabled me to adjust and strengthen my relationships with them.

There’s no denying that discourse around stereotypes is a complicated and delicate balance, but if that effort can result in deeper, more genuine forms of integration and understanding across barriers, the dance is worth it.

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British songstress Lily Allen sticks it to the man with Sheezus

Lily Allen recently finished her Sheezus tour with a mind-exploding performance at the Riviera Theatre on September 30. Her hair is real.

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Jon Catlin Arts Contributor Tuesday night of first week, I found myself enraptured before all the outrageousness that is British pop star Lily Allen, my hands in the air, singing along to each and every song. When she giggled, I giggled. When she stroked one of

the giant light-up baby bottles on the set (she’s gotten married and had two kids since her last tour), I gasped. These are the hallmarks of a true diva. After taking five years off recording and performing to start a family, Allen’s new album Sheezus proves she’s still got it.

I never thought my relationship with pop music would come to

this. Going into the concert and buying my ticket, I swore Allen’s act had to be just that, an act, and that my job as a skeptical concertgoer was to laugh at her derisive lyrics and ridiculous outfits (a sequined dress with a jersey reading “Lily” and a bottom with pink frills and baby bottles), and join her in the game of making fun of what pop music has become. But after enjoying myself, I’m not so sure. To pull from Allen’s “22,” “[He’s] thinking how did I get here, and wondering why.”

When I was first introduced to Allen in 2011, it was through her music videos, which accentuated the persistent wit and social commentary of her lyrics; she actually seemed to be saying something while the rest of the pop-diva heap seemed stuck on senseless repeat. Now I’m starting to think I am her ideal target, precisely because I haven’t sworn loyalty to any American divas, and I haven’t been seduced into their exclusive cults and Twitter wars. In that sense, I was a blank slate for Allen’s own flavor of pop to impress upon.

Still, I’ve always thought of my relationship with Allen as ironic.

I would share her videos mostly to provoke laughter at their outrageous excess and superficiality, as typified by her 2009 “The Fear”: “I want to be rich and I want lots of money; I don’t care about

clever, I don’t care about funny/ I want loads of clothes and fuckloads of diamonds; I heard people die while they’re trying to find them./ I’ll take my clothes off and it will be shameless, ‘cause everyone knows that’s how you get famous.” By taking such pop clichés to their limits, Allen simultaneously parodies her competition and beats them at their own game.

When you hear Allen’s interviews, it’s clear that this song isn’t just a façade. She does want to be famous and says she’ll do basically anything to achieve that, including releasing some pretty tasteless songs and videos—see 2009’s “Not Fair,” about women stuck with impotent men, set to an outright silly country-western tune.

Then of course there’s “Fuck You,” written about George W. Bush, which has become a catchy liberal anthem. “You think it’s not OK to be gay, well I think you’re just evil” is followed by choruses of the title. Even if her songs are satire, there’s something intoxicating about how well done they are, not only in the catchiness of her lyrics but also in the sharp cultural criticism they pack.

A 21-year-old Allen’s first album Alright, Still (2006) cemented her public image in Britain as a charming and refreshing London girl with its easy-listening light pop hits “Smile” (a No. 1 hit in the UK), “LDN,” and “Little

Things.” Performing “Smile” on Ellen in 2009, Allen sported a cute white dress, always wore a smile, and had an old-style, threepiece horn section playing behind her. This was the pop genre from which she soon deviated.

Her 2009 It’s Not Me, It’s You (which opened at No. 1 in the UK) begins with pop interventions and goes into numerous social issues. The opening track “Everyone’s At It” cries out, “Why can’t we all just be honest/ admit to ourselves that everyone’s on it/ from old politicians to young adolescents/ prescribing themselves anti-depressants.” From her very first album, she’s especially focused on feminist issues—“If I buy those jeans, I can look like Kate Moss”—but sharpened her criticism in “22”: “When she was 22 the future looked bright/ she’s nearly 30 now and she’s out every night…/ It’s sad but it’s true how society says her life is already over.”

For her Sheezus tour, Allen ditched her cute white dress for obnoxious sequined jerseys and her three-piece horn section’s stepping and swaying for a troupe of female backup dancers. In the show’s finale “Hard Out Here for a Bitch,” an in-your-face feminist bash of Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines,” her dancers put on rubber dog masks and shimmied and ALLEN continued on page 8

American Horror Story gets its Old band, new marketing strategy: freak on in new season U2 embraces the future James Mackenzie Arts Editor American Horror Story (AHS) is a show that it is easy to root for. It’s a pulpy, genre-minded show in an era of sometimes excessively highminded programming. It was at the forefront of the anthology TV format three years before HBO’s True Detective (which will, much to my chagrin, likely get credit for popularizing the concept). And it has a real dedication to one of the most under-represented genres on television: horror, as you may have guessed.

The rollercoaster AHS takes the viewer on is relentless. Each new scene might bring an unwelcome turn of plot or a would-be-dramatic moment that falls flat. But almost every episode is good for at least a few truly scary moments, and, every once in a while, a genuine stroke of genius in writing or cinematography. All throughout you can expect gorgeous production value and well-realized characters played by a reliable cast of TV stalwarts.

FX’s latest incarnation of the series, Freak Show, takes the viewer to 1950s Jupiter,

Florida, where German expat Elsa Mars ( Jessica Lange) runs a financially struggling carnival that features a number of the so-called “freaks.” Mars hopes to reestablish the carnival’s viability with the introduction of a new main attraction: Siamese twins Bette and Dot Tattler (Sarah Paulson), who are on the run from the law after the murder of their mother. Meanwhile, a psychotic clown ( John Carroll Lynch) is on the loose in Jupiter, killing and kidnapping its residents at an alarming rate.

Freak Show does no favors to the already slim hopes of rehabbing the clown’s image in the current pop cultural consciousness. Clean, normal—looking clowns are already creepy enough, but the show refuses it even that veneer. With its dirty and faded outfit and make up, this clown has the appearance of a deranged homeless man doing his best It impression. His silence and threatening set of prosthetic teeth complete the almost comically disturbing visage. It strains credulity that any of his victims would do anything other than run at the first sight of him, but horror has long rested on the

stupidity of its cast, and such things must be forgiven.

Aside from demon clowns, the season premiere was fairly light on scares, opting instead to establish its cast and their various hopes and fears.

American Horror Story has been consistently strong in this department, thanks in no small part to its talented recurring cast. Lange is a veteran of all four seasons and has walked away with two Emmys for her efforts. Evan Peters is another such veteran, and while he lacks Lange’s hardware, he has consistently been one of the emotional anchors of this cast. In Freak Show he plays a young man with deformed, claw-like hands who challenged Mars for leadership in the carnival.

Like any good horror story, the show has typically given significant time to the underlying mental and emotional states of the characters so as to better frame the actual scares.

This episode spends far more time dealing with the dynamics of being societal outcasts than it does with the threat of killer clowns, and that’s a very good thing. But rest assured, that clown is still coming to get you.

Clara Sava-Segal Arts Contributor In an age where a common complaint is the price we have to pay for our music ($1.29 for a new release), most have turned to other, non-Apple

sites such as YouTube or Spotify for their music needs. And when so much music is available for free already, few feel the need to actually purchase music conventionally from iTunes. Cashing in on the new trend of online radios like Pan-

dora, iTunes has begun changing its marketing campaign by introducing iTunes Radio with newer updates. In addition, more recently, Apple decided to experiment with a new form of viral marketing: providU2 continued on page 8

Insufferable U2 frontman Bono shakes hands with insufferable Apple CEO Tim Cook as they team up to annoy iPhone owners everywhere. Not pictured: the ghost of Steve Jobs, weeping.

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Activism is so in at Fashion Week Maria Alvarez Arts Contributor One might think that fashion is immune from having to think about what goes on outside its own world—that the only time fashion and politics coincide is when somebody talks about Hillary Clinton and her pantsuits, but that is not the case. Activism has been very much in vogue, with designers looking towards social and political issues for inspiration. Maybe designers have finally realized that getting dressed every day is the one art form that everyone is forced to participate in.

So why not say something with the clothes that you are already putting on?

This past year it’s been all about women, their rights, and who gets to decide what they are. It seems that the world has been weighing in on what exactly feminism is and bringing this idea to a whole new generation of Betty Friedans.

So it’s only fitting that at this past spring/summer 2015 fashion week, Karl Lagerfeld, head designer and creative director of Chanel, held a feminist protest reminiscent of the 1960s women’s liberation movement. Lagerfeld is known for his runway

shows—just think of the Chanel Supermarket catwalk of autumn 2013. This year was no different: The runway was complete with signs that read “History is Her Story,” “Ladies First,” “Boys Should Get Pregnant Too,” and even gave a nod to Emma Watson’s now

iconic U.N. speech with “He for She.” This was no shabby get-together. Cara Delevingne, armed with a quilted megaphone, led a pack of “it” models, such as Gisele Bundchen, Georgia May Jagger and even Kendall Jenner around the BouFASHION continued on page 8

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Karl Lagerfeld, head designer at Chanel, making a powerful statement on gender roles with his army of supermodels.

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TARA ZAHRA

TODAY TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14 The Division of the Social Sciences and the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society present a celebration in honor of the University’s 2014 MacArthur fellow, Tara Zahra, Professor of East European History and the College. The MacArthur Foundation praised her for, “challenging the way we view the development of the concepts of nation, family and ethnicity and painting a more integrative picture of 20th-century European history. With conceptual and empirical rigor, Zahra’s writings combine broad sociohistorical analysis with extensive archival work across a wide range of locales.” Please join us for Tara’s lecture about her research, followed by a congratulatory reception.

LECTURE AND RECEPTION Location: Regenstein Library, Room 122, 1100 East 57th Street Lecture: 3:30pm Reception: 4:30–6pm

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A technical wonder, Iñárritu's Birdman takes flight Michael Cheiken Arts Contributor With his fifth feature film, Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu has proven himself to be an extraordinarily capable director. Michael Keaton (Riggan Thomson/Birdman) performs admirably in his self-referential titular role, while supporting players Edward Norton (Mike Shiner) and Emma Stone (Sam Thomson) also display exceptional skill. Yet despite its stacked arsenal of acting talent, when viewers arise from their seats, what they are guaranteed to be marveling at is the film’s stellar cinematography and soundtrack.

As one would expect from a superhero title, the movie does not cease to visually amaze. However, it does so in all of the most unexpected ways. Whereas the average shot length in most Marvel movies is around four seconds, Birdman is phenomenally shot and edited by cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki (of Gravity fame) so that it appears to be a single take. While the modern-day superhero movie wows its audience with CGI visuals, Birdman impresses viewers with its persistent camera movement. Each of these

wild and winding shots deconstructs the set. To make sure that the shot length difference is noticed, in a short sequence, Iñárritu relentlessly pummels the audience with CGI explosions while the voice of Birdman proclaims that this is what the people want.

This, of course, is not the only manner in which the Mexican director eschews run-of-the-mill superhero movies. Instead of the dramatic soundscapes full of bombastic noises and heavy bass, Iñárritu employs Antonio Sanchez to score the film with a variety of distinct and unconventional jazz drum solos. The soundtrack truly is a beautiful accompaniment.

The music seems so real and inherent to the set that when the camera pans to show Sanchez sitting behind a drum set near the film’s conclusion, his presence barely induces a double take.

That these technical aspects overshadow the rest of the film is nothing but the highest of praise for Lubezki and Sanchez, because the acting performances in Birdman were also top-notch.

In a very nuanced role, Keaton is able to portray the adequate amount of insanity while still remaining defini-

Michael Keaton squares off with Edward Norton in one of the more normal scenes from Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's Birdman.

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tively human. This attribute is something of a commonality among the characters, whose internal inadequacies manifest themselves in such different ways.

Norton steals the first act of the show as a self-consumed Broadway star. Shiner’s intricate knowledge of Broadway

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ing free albums, and directly downloading them onto their customer’s iPhones, iPads, and iPods.

However, when Apple CEO Timothy Cook decided to provide free music by releasing U2’s new album, Songs of Innocence, to the public, the response was far from positive.

One would imagine that in our capitalistic society, the term “free” would be met with nothing short of cheers. Defying expectations, the September 9 release, referred to as a “hipster tsunami of whinging” by British critic Neil McCormick, forced Apple to come up with tools that could be used to remove the album from people’s phones.

Many violently rushed to Twitter and other forms of social media to inquire about the new songs that had “magically” appeared in their music libraries. It was viewed as an intrusion; someone even created whoisU2.com to document the series of negative reactions.

Who is Bono? Who is U2?

Why should we care? Unfortunately, despite being recognized as one of the most iconic bands of all time, U2 no longer resonates with the world’s youth, which seems to prefer the work of Maroon 5, Iggy Azalea, and Ariana Grande, all of whom produce new hits by the ton. These newer acts are significantly more popular and more widely accepted by Apple’s largest demographic:

children to young adults. Regrettably, for many, U2 has been tucked away with other formerly popular bands like the Ramones or the Who, to be revived only by true fans and on reruns of Ross-and-Rachel episodes of Friends.

Despite being inspired by William Blake’s iconic collection of poems Songs of Innocence and of Experience, U2’s album didn’t get the best reviews.

This was the Irish band’s 13th studio album, following its disappointing No Line on the Horizon 2009 release, and has received a similar response from critics. The album was downloaded on 26 million phones, but surprisingly, 81 million actually listened to at least part of the album—whether because it appeared on their iTunes Radio sequences or because they had actually intended to find out more about the band’s music.

Only one in 20 actually downloaded the entire album and listened to it.

Even if it seems popular to hate on U2 and its lead singer Bono, the songs they have recently released display a significant level of emotional depth, similar to their popular songs “Mysterious Ways” and “One” from the 1991 album Achtung Baby, and “With or Without You” from 1988’s Rattle and Hum. The Songs of Innocence song “Iris (Hold Me Close)” reflects on the death of Bono’s mother when he was only 14, illustrating the impact that the event still has on his life so

many years later with lyrics like, “The ache in my heart/ is so much a part of who I am.” “Volcano” and “Raised by Wolves” have more of the rock undertones that the band was appreciated for in Achtung Baby. In a world where music is becoming increasingly electronic and fabricated by machines, U2’s album adds dimension to all of our iPhone libraries, bringing us back to what could be considered the good ol’ days of music.

The album probably would have received better reviews had it not been prone to so much international backlash from listeners who hated losing storage on their phones. Cook felt that the marketing campaign was worth $100 million and stands behind his decision despite the backlash, considering it to be the “largest album release of all time.” Likewise, the band is pleased, praising Apple for supporting musicians and the pay they need in a world where we are all finding alternative means to get free music.

Apple is planning on releasing a deluxe physical version featuring 10 bonus tracks on October 14. Maybe this trend toward releasing free music will continue, increasing the variety of the musical genres people listen to. With the new technology available to remove the songs, there is no reason for people to not leave their comfort zones and indulge in “free” music for a few minutes.

not only helps characterize him as a self-absorbed, knowit-all veteran, but also helps to shed some light on the differences between theater and cinema. His exuberance and wit make the on-stage rehearsals come to life, and the sparks keep flying as he meets Sam. The emotional dynamic

created by Norton and Stone is perfect. As equally selfaware individuals, Mike and Sam are able to lower their visages and speak with each other in a very real way. Each rooftop scene is filled with unparalleled passion and personality, and this excitement permeates the rest of the film.

Armed with a phenomenally talented cast, a cinematographer whose talent supersedes even his great reputation, and a jazz musician capable of creating the liveliest atmospheres, Alejandro González Iñárritu presents a movie that will surely contend for the title of best of the year.

“Allen isn't afraid of making enemies” ALLEN continued from page 6

twerked exhaustingly until you got the picture: “Forget your balls and grow a pair of tits/ it’s hard out here for a bitch.”

Her new album’s title song “Sheezus” is even more contentious and proves Allen isn’t afraid of making enemies. “RiRi isn’t scared of Katy Perry’s roaring/ Queen B's going back to the drawing/ Lorde smells blood, yeah, she’s about to slay you/ Kid ain’t one to fuck with when she’s only on her debut,” begins the chorus. Allen makes a feminist parody of Kanye West’s Yeezus by presenting the world of pop as a wrestling match to the death. “Give me that crown, bitch./ I wanna be Sheezus,” Allen swears, calling comparisons of her to other divas “dumb” and “embarrass-

ing.” She evidently wins the match, turning into a Christ figure: “Be nice to me, I’ll make you one of my disciples.”

One could argue that Allen invites this comparison by publicly engaging with her American fellow divas, from singing Spears’s “Womanizer” with Ellen DeGeneres on YouTube, to Instagram-ing pictures of herself wearing a giant “’Yonce” sash en route to a concert of Queen Bey, to publicly defending staged orgies and twerking in Miley Cyrus’s provocative 2014 world tour.

But Allen makes clear in “Sheezus” that comparing her with these divas is futile. Right in the middle of her seamlessly executed “Sheezus,” she drops a loaded bomb: “It makes me angry—I’m serious/ but then

again, I’m just about to get my period./ Periods, we all get periods/ every month, yo, that’s what the theory is.” Critics found these lines tasteless and confusing, and indeed they seem to serve no purpose besides breaking a pop taboo. Yet when asked to explain the lyrics on Twitter, Allen downplayed her feminist intentions and flatly claimed, “My intention was to write a song.”

Her irreverence soars to new heights in her video to “Hard Out Here” when we see her dancing around giant silver balloons spelling out, “Lily Allen has a Baggy Pussy.” Whether this is ironic or genuine attention grabbing is pointless to speculate. The message Allen proclaims with “Sheezus” is that she is her own animal, and she’s staying that way.

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levard Chanel.

This wasn’t the first time this had been done, nor will it be the last. A year ago, when climate change and global warming were the “it” words, Vivienne Westwood, a designer who made a name for herself in the '70s modern punk movement, produced a whole collection featuring

anti-fracking illustrations and slogans. Unlike Chanel, Vivienne Westwood did not stop at the clothes.

Instead she participated in anti-fracking protests, even leading one in Manchester.

This brings up the question of whether or not designers are looking to social and political issues just to stay relevant, or if they’re doing it because they actu-

ally care. I guess an even more important question is: Will the exposure they are giving the issues be enough to make a difference?

Maybe walking around a fake boulevard in the Grand Palais to Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every Woman” isn’t the most revolutionary form of protest—but it has to be the most fashionable.

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Victory propels South Siders to first 5-0 start since 1929 Football Russell Mendelson Senior Sports Staff The Maroon football team made its longest journey of the season this past weekend as it headed to San Antonio, Texas to take on the Trinity Tigers.

Chicago (5–0) kept its perfect season intact, scoring all its points in the first quarter and fending off the Tigers (1–5) with a final score of 14–7.

“Our coaches put in a lot of work to come up with plays that would work against Trinity University’s defense and make sure our offense was ready to run those plays,” third-year tight

end Nathan Massey said. He caught the second of two touchdowns for Chicago on a 13-yard reception.

“The offensive line did a great job blocking and I had my number called, so I just gave it my all and got positive plays for the team,” Massey said.

On the defensive side, notable performers included second-year linebacker Jackson Garrey (14 tackles, one sack) and third-year defensive back Vincent Beltrano (10 tackles).

“Our defensive coordinator, coach Bo Flowers, emphasizes the fact that with preparation comes confidence,” Beltrano said. “[W]hen you’re confident in what you see, in what you

read, and most importantly in your teammates and yourself, it takes a lot of the thinking—or over-thinking— out of the game, and you can just react.”

Beltrano also credited the “elite run-stoppers” on defense for his ability to make plays.

Although the team did get off to a quick start, the offense was silenced for the remaining three quarters.

Fourth-year running back Zak RossNash credited the defense’s two turnovers as crucial to both scoring drives as they both put the team in good field position. Ross-Nash was responsible for over 60 percent of Chicago’s

yards, as he finished the afternoon with 101 yards on the ground.

“Coach Wilkerson focuses our program around three central pillars: accountability, adaptability, and toughness,” Ross-Nash said. “[W]e knew that we would have to adapt to the situation at hand in order to come out on top. Traveling is never great on the body.”

When asked about the added pressure of remaining undefeated, there was a general consensus among the players that the team as a whole has been, and continues to be, unconcerned.

“I don’t think anyone is feeling

any more pressure than we felt at the beginning of the year. We feel that we have a very talented team, and we don’t think we’ve ‘upset’ anyone we’ve played,” Garrey said. “Every game we’ve been in, we came in expecting that if we executed and did our jobs that we would come out on top. We’re exactly where we expected to be at the beginning of the season.”

The Maroons will travel up to Minnesota this weekend to face the Bethel Royals (4–1), who Garrey believes may be the team’s toughest opponent to date.

Chicago kicks off to defend its season at 1 p.m. at Bethel on Saturday.

Tiffany Robinson tourney yields 1-1 result Volleyball Bronagh Daly Sports Staff Sometimes momentum isn’t meant to last.

The No. 25 Maroons had a subpar tournament at the Tiffany Robinson Memorial Tournament this past Friday at North Central College in Naperville, IL. The team finished the weekend 1–1, bringing the season record to 19–8.

The first match against St. Mary’s (Minn.) started out as a very even match. The first set saw 10–10 and 22–22 ties but ended with three straight kills to leading to a 25–22

finish for St. Mary’s. The second set went better for Chicago, as it took a 9–5 lead, but the set quickly came out as a tie at 20–20 and ended with a 25–23 loss for the Maroons. The third and fourth sets weren’t as close, as St. Mary’s won 25–13 and 25–18, respectively.

In the second match, the downtrodden Maroons swept Wartburg.

From the beginning of the first set, the South Siders played well, winning seven out of the first eight points. The Knights tied the score at 13–13, and Chicago answered with five straight points to go up 21–17, finishing the match with a 25–20 win. The second

set saw many more ups, downs, and ties, but still ended with a 25–23 victory for the Maroons. The third and final set featured fourth-year, outside hitter Morgan Barry, who capped the set with three straight aces, finishing 25–16.

The Maroons seemed happy with the impressive win against Wartburg following the loss to Saint Mary’s but still voiced their disappointment on leaving with only the single win.

“We went into the Tiffany Robinson Memorial Tournament looking for two good regional wins,” said thirdyear outside hitter Jasmine Mobley.

Despite the split score, Mobley still

displayed the team’s overall positive attitude.

“When a team has a loss, you really just have to learn from it and move on to the next one,” Mobley said.

The team hopes that this past weekend’s tournament will just continue to stand as a learning experience and pinpoint which strengths and weakness it needs to work on for the approaching UAA Round Robin #2.

“This week we will go into practice ready to focus our energy and efforts towards four big conference wins in UAA Round Robin #2,” Mobley said. “It’s very simple—we will train like champions, and ultimately that is

what will allow us to be successful this weekend.”

Chicago’s focus will be on strategy and play on the court—enthusiasm will not be a problem.

“I am really excited going into our UAA Round Robin #2 coming up this weekend,” Mobley said. “Conference competition is such an exciting time!”

The home UAA Round Robin #2 tournament next weekend will feature a full slate for the Maroons, who will face off against Carnegie Mellon and Case Western on Saturday and Rochester and Emory on Sunday. The first game begins at 12:30 p.m. on Saturday in Ratner Athletics Center.

New faces, same paces for squad at Lucian Rose Cross Country Katie Anderson Maroon Contributor A combination of young talent and top-tier veterans made for a successful weekend in Kenosha, WI for the women’s Maroons and No. 17-ranked men’s Maroons.

Coming off of a first-place performance in the Augustana College Invitational at the end of September, the women continued their dominance, placing fourth out of 25 teams at the University of WisconsinParkside Lucian Rosa Invitational on Saturday. Chicago has now placed first in three of its five competitions and has yet to finish below fourth place.

Chicago had a successful weekend despite competing without three of its top runners. Fourth-year Isabella Penido, first-year Cassidy McPherson, and third-year Maggie Cornelius all did not compete in the invitational due to injury or illness.

However, the force of the young Chicago squad proved withstanding.

Strong performances by three firstyears displayed promise, not only for the rest of the season but also for the next few years.

First-year Kelsey Dunn placed 49th of 271 runners with a time of 19:12.9. Other first years, Megan Verner-Crist and Claire Costelloe, finished 27th and 32nd overall, re-

spectively.

“We were really excited to place fourth at the invitational, despite having three of our top runners out. Our success this weekend really just shows the depth of our team,” Dunn said. “I can’t wait to see what we’re able to do the rest of the season and as the UAA Championship gets closer.”

While it was the rookies who enabled the team to compete at all, it was a pair of veterans who ensured Chicago’s fourth-place finish. Thirdyear Brianna Hickey continued her hot streak, finishing first on the team and seventh overall with a time of 18:02.3. Hickey has finished first for Chicago squad at all but one meet

this season. Fellow third-year Catt Young finished 16th overall with a time of 18:27.5.

“Our team captain, Brianna, ran a great race out front finishing with a personal record for the 5K. Our freshman also raced phenomenally.

Two freshmen, Megan and Claire, broke the 19 minute threshold barrier.It’s incredibly exciting how well the team is doing, and I really look forward to what they’ll accomplish next weekend at the Oshkosh Invitation and at the upcoming Conference,” fourth-year Isabella Penido said.

Fourth-years Jennifer Uehling and Nissa Mai rounded out the Maroon squad, finishing 87th and 88th, re-

spectively.

On the men’s side, Chicago finished third out of 19 teams. Thirdyear Michael Frasco led the Maroons finishing seventh. Fourth-year Renat Zalov crossed 16th, and second-year Gareth Jones also finished in the top 25, at 23rd.

Fourth-year Kevin On (31st), firstyear Mitchell Dennis (32nd), thirdyear Henry Blood (36th), and firstyear Peter Kreuch (64th) also helped the squad’s result.

The Maroons will compete next Saturday, October 18, at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh Invitational before competing in the UAA Championship on November 1st.

Chua: “...hopefully I’ll be able to continue in the winter and spring” Kwan: “The win set the tone for No. 1-seeded fourth-year Alex intensity of it.

TENNIS continued from back to break Heinrich’s serve in the the rest of the season” were able to win the next five games to take the first set 6–4 and ultimately sealed the win with a second set win at 6–1.

While Sabada and Liu had their road to the national final stymied, they still remained motivated. However, they fell short in the third place match as they lost to the doubles pair of third-years Matthew Heinrich and Ben Foran from the Stevens Institute by a score of 6–4, 6–4; thus settling for fourth place.

In the singles competition, Chua charged right out of the gate with a victory over the

Ruderman of Emory University by a score of 7–6, 7–5. In the semifinals, Chua faced his greatest threat to national triumph, fellow first-year Steven Chen from Wesleyan University. Chua was able to snag the first set with a score of 7–5, but dropped the second 3–6 to set up a winner-take-all third set. With a fortitude exceeding his age, Chua was able to take down Chen in the third set with a score of 6–3 and advance to the national championship final on Saturday.

Reflecting on the match, Chua couldn’t help recognizing the

“I think my toughest match was against Steven Chen in the semis. It was the closest match score-wise,” said Chua, “I think the toughest two games of the tournament were the last two in the third set against Steven.”

In the championship match on Saturday, Chua was able to get off to a lightning-fast start against No. 3-seeded Heinrich of the Stevens Institute. He took a 4–0 lead in the opening set, a lead that prevailed as he ended up winning the set by a score of 6–1. In the second set, Chua let Heinrich make things interesting, but was able

second set in route to a 6–4 win and a national championship.

“It feels great to win matches, and even better to win in bigger tournaments,” said Chua, “I’m happy to bring home the title, and hopefully I’ll be able to continue in the winter and spring.”

With a successful fall preseason wrapped up, the Maroons now enter the conditioning and training stage of their season. Chicago begins their regular season on January 24 with a match against DePaul University.

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its goose egg. A corner kick was deflected in by a Maroon defender to get the Eagles on the board in the 69th minute.

“Emory’s first and only goal was a fluke. Our team showed their maturity by continuing to just play our game and not get rattle[d] by the goal. We had quality possessions and finished the game strong,” Mullen said.

The Maroons held onto their lead for the rest of the match. Emory ended with 15 shots on goal, while Chicago

had just eight. Fourth-year goalkeeper Mallory Morse played the entire game and recorded six saves throughout the match.

“The win set the tone for the rest of the season. We now know that we can play with some of the best teams in the country and be successful,” fourth-year midfielder Sara Kwan said.

The Maroons face Rochester on Friday in another UAA matchup= on their path to the NCAA Tournament. The game kicks off at 6:30 p.m.

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IN QUOTES “They should get laid tonight.”

–New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski on the performance of his team’s offensive line against the Buffalo Bills on Sunday

Maroons upset No. 6 Eagles as true potential flourishes Men’s Soccer Ahmad Allaw Maroon Contributor All winning streaks must come to an end.

On Saturday, the Maroons traveled to Emory to take on the No. 6 Eagles. They entered the match having lost to Emory in each of the past three years, conceding a total of seven goals in those three chances, and scoring only three. But, if anything, the bitter losses served as motivation for the upcoming match. Indeed, Chicago headed into the contest hoping to give 11–0–1 Emory its first loss of the year.

And the Maroons did just that.

The South Siders controlled the match from the initial whistle, constantly threatening the Eagles’ defense. It didn’t take long for their aggressive attack to yield results. In the 29th minute, second-year forward Brenton Desai’s header found the back of the net, giving Chicago a 1–0 lead.

But the Maroons never settled; they kept their foot on the pedal, ending the half with eight shots to Emory’s unfruitful four.

The second half featured

much of the same, with Chicago dominating possession. Emory tried to break through the Maroons’ defense, but was left frustrated more often than not. The rare chances that did come Emory’s way were wasted.

Much of the South Siders’ success came down to new strategy.

“Our coaching staff decided to tweak our tactical setup and try a formation that no one had seen us play until yesterday,” said fourthyear defender Jorge SanchezCumming.

“That gave us an advantage going into the game because their game plan depended on us playing the same way we had been playing during the course of the season. Early in the game, we gave their defense a lot of trouble by moving the ball around and forcing them to chase us. In the second half, we kept our composure and kept possession for long periods of time, which ultimately frustrated them to the point where their attacks were no longer efficient,” he said.

All of this combined for a Chicago victory. The Maroons improved their record

Second-year midfielder Brenton Desai scored the winning goal in a match against Emory last Saturday.

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to 7–4–1 and their conference record to 1–0–1. Meanwhile, Emory has now split its first two UAA matches.

Chicago’s success has come at a critical point in the year. There are only a handful of matches left before the NCAA tournament rolls around. The interim

period will be a chance for the coaching staff to continue tweaking formations and for the players to continue improving execution. Regardless, the Maroons seem to be clicking at just the right time: the defense has recently seemed impregnable, with Chicago’s backline

conceding only three goals in its past five matches.

But the Maroons realize that this is just one of the many regular-season games.

While they won’t get too excited about the victory, they do have much to feel good about. Taking down the No. 6 team in the country doesn’t

hurt one’s national standing.

“Beating Emory proved to us that we can take anyone on and beat them if we play to our potential and stick with our game plan and style of play,” Desai said.

The Maroons’ next match will be at Rochester at 4 p.m. on Friday.

Chua crowned national champ at ITAs No. 14 Chicago knocks Men’s Tennis Zachary Themer Associate Sports Editor Reaching the ITA National Championships in South Carolina should have been enough of an accomplishment to quench the ambitious thirst of the three Maroons that qualified, right? Think again. The Maroons entered the ITA National Championships unsatisfied, even though this was the program’s first ever appearance at the preseason tournament.

“I didn’t really know what to expect coming into the tournament,” first-year Nicolas Chua said. “I knew I prepared well, but we all knew there were tough matches ahead.”

Indeed, this tournament was an unfamiliar sight for the Maroons. However, upon the arrival of head coach Jay Tee a few years ago, the Maroons have started to make their mark on the tennis landscape, and they saw this weekend as the opportunity to do just that.

On the doubles side of things, the Maroons were able to advance to the ITA Nationals on the backs of fourth-year Deepak Sabada and first-year David Liu. The duo’s welldeveloped chemistry faced its toughest test yet in their open-

ing match of the tournament, a heated contest against the doubles pair of second-year Christopher Ellis and fourthyear Pierre Planche from Bates College.

In the first set, Liu and Sabada dug themselves into an early hole by falling behind 5–3.

However, the two were able to fight back and take the first set via a 7–6 tiebreak. In the second set, the two once again fell behind 5–3, but were able to fight back as they strung together four games to ultimately take the match with a score of 7–6 (5), 7–5, moving onto

the semifinals against Trinity University.

Against Trinity, the Chicago pair got off to a hot start with an early 4–1 lead. However, this time around the Maroons were on the other side of a rally as their opponents from Texas TENNIS continued on page 11

First-year Nicolas Chua came out on top in singles play at the ITA National Championships last week in Sumter, SC. COURTESY OF NICOLAS CHUA

off No. 5 Emory Women’s Soccer Helen Petersen Associate Sports Editor The No. 14 Maroons (10– 2–0) faced off against No. 5 Emory (7–1–3) in a tough UAA matchup this weekend.

Currently, the UAA has five teams ranked in the top 20 nationally. The South Siders scored two goals in the first half and held onto their lead to upset the Eagles with a 2–1 win. This victory brings Chicago to 1–1 in conference play.

“Coming into this game, we knew we had to come to play with intensity and be ready for a physical battle.

Emory is a great team, but we knew if we played well and executed our game plan, we could compete with them,” third-year midfielder Nicole Mullen said.

The Maroons scored first in the 18th minute of the game on a high-pressure free kick.

Fourth-year defender and team captain Katie Shivanandan’s serve was deflected by an Emory defender and found its way to the back of the net.

“The first goal really gave

us an edge on Emory. That carried through the proceeding lightning delay. It was as a result constant high pressure from our attackers and a quality ball from [Katie] Shivanandan,” fourth-year forward Meghan Derken said.

Following the goals towards the end of the first half, there was a lengthy delay due to lightning strikes in the area. The delay lasted 45 minutes but did nothing to deter the Maroons’ momentum; the South Siders caught the Eagles on their heels and began attacking as soon as the game restarted. Within a few minutes of returning to play, third-year forward Mary Bittner scored off a cross from third-year outside midfielder Julia Ozello. The goal carried Chicago into halftime, up 2–0 against the No. 5 team in the country.

“The second goal was essential to maintaining our momentum. It was a great play by both Julia and Mary,” Mullen said.

In the second half, Emory finally rid the scoreboard of SOCCER continued on page 11