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Barbershop in Reynolds Club closes after over 100 years of service Cairo Lewis Senior News Reporter On July 17, 2015, the University of Chicago’s Administration closed the doors of the century-old barbershop in Reynolds Club for financial reasons. Student Gov-

ernment (SG) has moved into the space.

Located in the building’s basement, the barbershop was best known for the outstanding service provided by barbers Mitch Mutluguler and Sil Vigilante. Together, the barbers had 60 years of

hair-cutting experience.

In a July 17 statement, University spokesperson Marielle Sainvilus said that the decision to close the barbershop was difficult but necessary: “At times, universities have to make difficult BARBER continued on page 4

University announces two new programs for low-income students Katherine Vega Senior News Reporter Holy Cross Hospital, pictured above, will house a Level-1 Trauma Center. They have partnered with UCMC to fund the $41.3 million project.

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Trauma center on the South Side: an in-depth look Brandon Lee Associate News Editor UChicago and Mount Sinai are bringing a Level I trauma center to Chicago’s South Side.

Last month, Mount Sinai Health Systems and the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) announced

a joint partnership to create a comprehensive network solution that will provide Level I trauma care (T1) services to Chicago’s South and Southwest neighborhoods.

The creation of a state-ofthe-art T1, an expansion of Mount Sinai’s Holy Cross Hospital at 68th and California Avenue, will aim to curb

trauma and gun-related mortalities. This news comes after years of tension between students, community members, and hospital administration.

In June, a demonstration involving lock-in-tactics ended in the arrest of nine activists.

What concerns do community members still have

The University recently announced the new Center for College Student Success (CCSS) as one of several initiatives to support low-income and first-generation students. The Center, which currently runs the Chicago Academic Achievement Program (CAAP) for entering

first-year students, serves as an advising and college transition support center, especially for traditionally underprivileged students.

Operating under the Dean of Students in the College, CCSS is distinct from Student Support Services (SSS), a new branch of the Center for Identity + Inclusion. Though both will serve lower-income and first-generation students,

CCSS will specifically support students in the College, while SSS will serve as a resource for University students as a whole.

Students can access links to information about emergency financial resources offered by the College through CCSS’s website. The Center also has a staff of CCSS advisers who will work with students and CENTER continued on page 3

A-level of Regenstein to be renovated and remodeled

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SG appoints 15 students to 2015–2016 cabinet Wendy Lee Associate News Editor At its first assembly of the year on Monday, October 12th, Student Government announced 15 appointees to its 2015–2016 Cabinet. While the students were notified of their appointments two weeks ago, they were approved by the Executive Committee last week.

Co-Director of Comm.: Asya Akça, Class of 2018 Co-Director of Comm.: Zachary Schuyler, Master’s Candidate The Directors of Communication create and implement SG’s communication strategy

on social media, email, and web platforms.

Director of Technology: Jeremy Archer, Class of 2016 The Director of Technology manages SG’s web presence and assets, including Marketplace, and develops new applications for use by the student body.

Director of Finance: Cesar Domingues, First year, Graham School The Director of Finance oversees all funding committee chairs and fulfills the role of treasurer for SG’s $2.2 million budget.

Chair of the Finance Committee: Katherine Shen, Class of 2017 Chair of the Coalition of

Academic Teams: Cosmo Albrecht, Class of 2018 The Chair of the Coalition of Academic Teams supports the work of academic teams and oversees their $210,000 budget.

Chair of the Committee on Academics in the College: Vo Ram Yoon, Class of 2016 The Chair of the Committee on Academics in the College oversees a new committee that will work to address concerns with curriculum and academic life.

Chair of the Committee on RSOs: Lauren Culbertson, Class of 2016 The Chair of the Committee on Recognized Student OrganiSG continued on page 3

Partial view of the north side of the redesigned A-level; rendering by Woodhouse Tinucci Architects.

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Quentin Dupouy Maroon Contributor The University of Chicago Library recently announced a major renovation to remodel Regenstein Library’s A-Level. According to the announcement, the entire space will be redone, complete with a new 72-foot glass wall that will provide a view of the Jean Block Garden, as the library

moves forward with its plan to transform the dark basement floor into a “vibrant laboratory of interactive learning.”

According to Jim Vaughan, Associate University Librarian for User Services, who is heading the project, the remodel is part of a continuing effort to update Regenstein. The plan is a response to students’ complaints about the lack of

group workspaces.

The renovation layout calls for café style seating, similar to Ex Libris’s popular set-up, along a large glass wall that will bring daylight deep into the space. John Carey, Library Facilities Manager, believes the sunlight will attract students in the same way it has done for Mansueto.

The new design will also A-LEVEL continued on page 4

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Cathey Dining Hall hires new nutritionist

Grounds of Being reopens after summer renovations

Lorentz Hansen Associate News Editor

Alex Ward Maroon Contributor

UChicago Dining is taking steps towards safer dining for students with allergies after problems with allergen labeling were discovered last winter. The impetus for a safer labeling system came in January when second-year Max Freedman, dining hall representative for Jannotta House, noticed discrepancies between allergen information and ingredient lists provided at Cathey Dining Commons.

Freedman wrote in an email to The Maroon that he observed milk listed as an allergen at Cathey’s Kosher station, which would be in violation of the Jewish laws of Kashrut that forbid mixing dairy and meat. “Either the station was disobeying Kosher law, or the allergen information was listed incorrectly,” Freedman said.

“I know that the corporate policy vis-à-vis allergen and nutritional labeling was always to ensure accuracy, and that the breakdown came from how the dietician had to enter recipes into the computer system

that generates the signs,” he said, adding, “this is worth fixing, and they know it.”

He mentioned this incongruity to the Dining Committee at their next meeting with student representatives. “I asked whether I could go back to my house with a guarantee that allergen information would be 100 percent accurate,” he said. The answer he received from the Dining Committee “fell short of a promise,” he said, but “from what I can tell, the allergen information seems to be correct right now.”

The main goals of Aramark’s allergen policy are to follow procedures closely and to make sure that there are systems in place to monitor and evaluate all food being prepared.

UChicago Dining is working closely with Aramark and is “committed to providing safe and healthy options for all students,” said Marielle Sainvilus, the director of public affairs for UChicago Dining.

Sainvilus said that UChicago Dining is focused on working with students that have special dietary needs including Kosher, Halal, vegetarian,

and gluten-free options.

UChicago is accredited by the Gluten Intolerance Group and gets all Kosher meals approved by the Chica g o R abbinica l Council.

At the beginning of the quarter, UChicago Dining hired its only nutritionist, Jiyoung Kang, as part of a broader effort to ensure safe nutrition at Cathey.

Kang hopes to work with student health services and FitChicago to create a program that encompasses the idea of a healthy body and a healthy mind. She believes that the best way to ensure the health of students is not to focus only on nutrition, but on overall wellbeing. She said she hopes that discrepancies will be resolved quickly through better communication with the students and the Dining Committee.

This year, UChicago Dining is participating in the Food Allergy Resource and Education (FARE) pilot program, which allows the dining halls to access a wide variety of new resources. These resources will allow the staff to work closer with students with allergies, according to Kang.

Grounds of Being, the Divinity School’s coffee shop located in the basement of Swift Hall, reopened on September 28 following a series of renovations this summer. The renovations were originally designed to replace aging plumbing in the building and ensure the presence of accessible restrooms on all floors, but the project was expanded to include Grounds of Being, which had seen almost no physical change since the 1980s.

Thanks to funds provided by the Divinity School, Grounds of Being, and donation campaigns overseen by the Development Office, the coffee shop was able to dramatically improve its space.

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the seating area into what had previously been a side room and almost everything within the coffee shop was replaced, including the plumbing, floors, tables, and chairs.

The expanded space has also created an island that holds napkins, silverware, and other amenities.

Aside from a new loose leaf tea machine, the coffee shop’s equipment has mostly remained the same. However, the renovations prompted other changes, including the addition of a program to provide mugs for customers to use inside the café, said manager Greg Chatterley. Chatterley worked with an architect hired by the Divinity School to develop a design for the café and to submit suggestions for the coffee shop’s new aesthetic before he selected the final look.

Among the shop’s employees, who are all students at the Divinity School, opinions on the renovations are favorable. Barista Kylie Zane said, “It’s always been hard to operate in a basement, so it’s nice to have a space that flows.”

Cane thinks the renovations have been a positive change.

Before the construction, the shop would get a few bursts of activity around the first classes of the day and just after lunchtime, but now, “after 12, we’re busy pretty much until the end of the day,” Cane said.

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New Poetic Associations exhibit highlights rare poetry from 1800s May Huang Maroon Contributor In the hallway between Regenstein and Mansueto Libraries, those who pass by find a window into the past. Poetic Associations is an exhibition featuring 104 of the items the University has acquired this year from the 19th-century English poetry collection of Dr. Gerald N. Wachs (1937–2013).

Wachs, who collected everything from lapel pins to tropical fish, amassed nearly 900 books for his poetry collection with Stephen Weissman, a rare books bookseller. The two friends spent 40 years, starting in 1970, procuring as many of the 19thcentury poetry books listed in The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (CBEL) as possible. According to Catherine Uecker, UChicago’s Rare Books Librarian, “[the CBEL] was the basis of creating the Wachs collection.”

More than 600 items have now been donated to the University by the Wachs family, largely thanks to

Dr. Wachs’ son, Joel Wachs (A.B. ’92). “In the years before he passed away, he [my father] worked with library leadership and staff on ways that he could make his collection available for academic research,” Joel said. “I have worked hard to help fulfill my father's hopes."

Regarding the significance of the donation on a personal level, Joel reflected on his time as a student here. “The libraries were central to my experience at the University,” he said.

“Supporting them has been a way of making sure that these resources are available for generations to come.”

The collection features the first books published by well-known romantic poets, such as John Keats and William Wordsworth.

Yet it is also marked by its diversity. One of the early poems Wachs collected is “Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery” by John Clare, a working-class poet.

The exhibition also features Anglo-Indian poetry volumes published by Shoshee Chunder Dutt, an Indian

poet. Although 19th-century poets were mostly male, female poets such as Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley also have a place in Wachs’ collection.

The collection also includes “Wise Forgeries,” works procured by Thomas James Wise (1859–1937) that were later discovered to be expensive fakes.

Nonetheless, the forgeries are important to the era. As Uecker says, “Thomas Wise and his forgeries are a part of the history of Victorian printing. […] He was a very prominent bibliographer of his time.”

Wachs constantly sought to refine his collection; for example, Wachs No. 268 is a finer edition of Wachs No. 1, “Lord Byron’s Hebrew Melodies.” The collection is also quite personal, as the annotations (and, in some cases, doodles) from the original owners remain in the margins of certain books.

The exhibition will remain open to the public until December 31.

New cabinet officially announced at the first SG Assembly meeting last Monday SG continued from front

zations (CORSO) works to improve resources for student organizations, including funding the RSO application process, and to implement the Student Leadership Stipend program.

Chair of the Committee on Student Services: Morgan Redmond, Class of 2018 The Chair of the Committee on Student Services will oversee a new committee tasked with working to address student concerns with services on campus, from Student Health and Counseling to transportation and financial aid.

Chair of the Community Service Fund: Akanksha Shah, Class of 2018 The Chair of the Community

Service Fund oversees the allocation process for Community Service RSOs and oversees its $79,500 budget.

Chair of the Committee on Campus Sustainability: Jamie Ehrlich, Class of 2018 The Chair of the Committee on Campus Sustainability will oversee a new committee tasked with working to identify improvements that could increase campus sustainability and channel the student voice concerning environmental issues on campus.

Chair of the Programming Coordinating Council: Andrew Jiang, Class of 2018 The Chair of the Program Coordinating Council supports the work of major arts and programming organiza-

tions on campus and oversees its $500,000 budget.

Chair of the Sports Club Fund: Alicia Zhao, Class of 2017 The Chair of the Sports Club Fund supports the work of club sports teams and oversees its $148,000 budget.

Chair of the Uncommon Fund: Elizabeth Miller, Class of 2016 The Chair of the Uncommon Fund will work with the Executive Slate to revamp the Uncommon Fund and its $15,000 budget.

Secretary: Brennan Hodgson, Second year, Pritzker Medical School The Secretary takes minutes at SG meetings and handles logistical and event planning tasks.

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NEWS IN BRIEF UChicago named one of top money management feeder schools UChicago has the highest per student alumni representation in the asset management industry, according to the 2015 eVestment Education Report released in September.

The University ranked above schools such as Harvard, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania, with 769 total alumni working in 365 ranking firms. The alumni included 75 bachelor’s degree and 619 MBA graduates from the University.

The University also topped the list of graduates working in roles related to risk management and due diligence, a

key subfield of asset management, and was ranked among the top 12 feeder schools for every five year interval from 1961 to 2015. Amongst graduates from the past five years, the University ranked third, with 20 alumni working in the industry.

The University ranked 31st for the number of bachelor’s degree graduates working in asset management; scaled to account for size of the student body, however, UChicago moved to 16th. When it came to MBA graduates, UChicago ranked first in graduate representation in the same industry, without adjusting for stu-

dent body size.

The eVestment Education Report analyzes the representation of the country’s top universities and colleges across the asset management space, using data on 35,000 active professionals and 4,500 ranking firms. The report investigates the strength and concentration of school networks in the industry, and how they compare to each other. Rankings are based on the total number of graduates in asset management, their roles at each firm, and a variety of other factors.

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AAUP revives chapter to advocate for professors Katherine Vega Senior News Reporter On Wednesday, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) UChicago Chapter held its inaugural meeting. The meeting, led by Willemien Otten, chapter president, and Ken Warren, vice-president, was open to University faculty and staff.

Approximately 25 people attended the meeting, during which the chapter’s bylaws were approved.

The AAUP is a national nonprofit professional organization with chapters at colleges and universities that discuss issues of shared governance, faculty oversight, and academic freedom.

The UChicago chapter is an advocacy chapter, as opposed to a collective bargaining unit.

Advocacy chapters aim to discuss issues in the common interest of faculty, while collective bargaining units function more like unions.

“We advocate for certain things that we deem important. And we’re not by definition adversarial vis-à-vis the University administration, not at all,” Otten said.

Otten noted that while specific goals are to be determined, the chapter will focus on shared governance. She added that

while faculty play a large role in campus life, many faculty members do not get a say in what administrative decisions, like budget cuts, are made.

Although this chapter is currently in its early stages, the AAUP has a long history at the University. The AAUP was founded in 1915 by John Dewey, a former UChicago professor, and Arthur Lovejoy.

Both men sought to create an organization that valued academic freedom and shared governance. By 1916, the University already had its own chapter.

However, the chapter soon became inactive and for years had no presence on campus.

“It just seemed that there might be need for a more structural way for faculty to connect on certain issues having to do with things like shared governance and faculty oversight of the University. The AAUP is really the natural home for such discussions,” said Otten.

In February, a small group of faculty members met and officially revived the AAUP at UChicago. Otten, professor of theology and history of Christianity at the Divinity School, and Warren, professor of English, were nominated and elected to their posts. In June, the group met to discuss their support of the current union drive for adjunct and

contingent faculty. One of the chapter’s first projects before hosting its first official meeting was to write a letter to the University President, Provost, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees asking them to remain neutral and not interfere with the union drive.

Currently, the chapter is focusing on expanding and refining its goals. Although the chapter’s charge does not specifically focus on the rights of adjunct, contingent, and nontenure-track professors, chapter leadership wanted to ensure that these individuals—who make up 41 percent of teachers at UChicago, not including graduate students—could feel included.

The chapter will tentatively hold meetings four times a year, although they could become more frequent if and when relevant issues arise. The chapter currently has a membership list of around 100 people, mostly in the humanities. Otten hopes that, as word spreads, there will be more representation from other divisions.

“At this point, we’re trying to reach out to a wider group of faculty across divisions to get a representative sense of faculty priorities in what should be advocated for. We’re just starting,” Otten wrote in an e-mail to The Maroon.

CCSS will support low-income and first-generation students’ transition into the College CENTER continued from front

provide specialized programming, according to Devon Moore, the Center’s director. “They are holistic advisers who aim to help students navigate the College and can also provide insight to students experiencing financial difficulties,” Moore wrote in a statement to The Maroon.

In addition, CCSS is piloting a mentorship program for first-generation college students. Through the men-

torship program, college students will be matched with young alumni in the Chicago area who were first-generation college students themselves.

CCSS hopes that this mentorship program will provide a way for mentees to expand their networks. Similarly, CCSS will also host “FirstGeneration Facul-Teas” to connect students with faculty members from all divisions who were the first in their families to attend col-

lege. “The Center is working on offering other programs throughout the year, including workshops on navigating University resources, and is working closely with students and campus partners to identify and develop other resources and support,” wrote Mary Abowd, news officer for Campus and Student Life, in an e-mail to The Maroon.

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“I used to cut hair for so many people... all of them were shocked [about the closing]”

New space will transform Reg basement into a “vibrant laboratory of interactive learning” A-LEVEL continued from front

open up the center of the room, replacing the tables and storage cabinets with movable whiteboards and a variety of collaborative spaces, including lounge chairs, high work bars, and several conference tables.

There will be a 36-person classroom for active learning, with sliding walls that can be closed for classes and workshops or left open for general use. There will also be an easy-to-use video production studio and video monitors throughout the area. The east side of the

floor will include a ‘technology zone’ that will offer a studio for producing web tutorials, webinars and other tools that are still under consideration as plans are finalized.

Phase one began with the demolition of the outer wall. It will be completed in November with the installation of the glass wall and the café area.

Phase two, beginning in 2016, will focus on the open center area and the collaborative spaces along the sides.

The third and final phase, focusing on the active learn-

ing classroom and the ‘technology zone’, should be completed in 2017.

Construction will not restrict student access to Regenstein. Demolition work was finished before orientation week to prevent distractions from studying.

Vaughan said he looks forward to the completion of a space that will be both “handsome and inviting.”

“We have the ability to focus on the A-Level now and we feel that that’s a space that is really needed by students … to work and meet in groups.”

Sil Vigilante cuts a client’s hair last year, prior to the closing of the barbershop in Reynolds Club.

SYDNEY COMBS | THE CHICAGO MAROON bershop just one day before he still visits Mutluguler BARBER continued from front

personnel decisions, particularly when making efforts to control costs.”

On a larger scale, the University is making significant budget cuts. This past April, Provost Eric Isaacs e-mailed University-specific faculty and staff, explaining that recent investments such as the Mansueto Library, Logan Center for the Arts, and Campus North Residence Hall and Dining Commons required the University to maintain a smaller administrative budget. He also wrote that non-academic departments would be most affected by the budget cuts.

Dean of Students in the University Michele Rasmussen said that the College and Campus and Student Life are hosting a recognition party for Vigilante and Mutluguler in the coming weeks, and that details will be released to the campus community.

“The space is now housing Student Government, and is part of an overall effort to optimize the use of limited space on campus to meet the diverse needs of student groups and RSOs,” Rasmussen said in a statement.

Sil began as a barber in Italy and continued his work at the Reynolds Club after moving to the United States over 50 years ago.

Mutluguler spoke to The Maroon about the history behind his work, his partnership with the University, and his future plans. He said he learned about the University’s plans to close the bar-

its doors closed, on July 16.

“When I heard about the closing, I wondered what to do with the appointments that I had already scheduled for the next few days,” Mutluguler said.

Mutluguler who has been a barber since 1948, came to Chicago in 1980 after living in Macedonia and Turkey.

“My father died shortly after the second World War. He told me I could be one of three things—a shoemaker, a tailor, or a barber. I chose to be a barber,” Mutluguler said.

Since his arrival, Mutluguler has worked at the Drake Hotel downtown, University Hair Stylists, and Hyde Park Salon and Barber Shop before moving on to the Reynolds Club. During the 10-plus years that he had spent working at the Reynolds Club Barbershop, he met and provided service to countless students, professors, faculty members, surgeons, inventors, and politicians. Many of them were surprised to hear about the closing.

“I used to cut hair for so many people. Surgeons, people who invented the Rover on Mars, people who work for the president, former University presidents and vice presidents, CEOs of banks—all of them came to see me, and all of them were shocked [about the closing].

John Mearsheimer saw me a lot,” he said.

Mearsheimer, a professor from the University’s political science department says

for haircuts and highly values his work and friendly personality. “I’ve been seeing Mitch for about twenty years. I even take my son to let him [Mitch] cut his hair…. It was heartbreaking to see him go. He’s a fantastic guy and a talented barber.”

Mutluguler attributes his past success to two key elements. “Two things make you successful in any business – you have to be professional, and you must have personality,” he said.

Jonathan Arone, a student building manager at the Reynolds Club, visited Hyde Park Hair Salon and Barber, where Mutuguler used to work. “When I told the barbers, some of them were really shocked. Some said that he was the one who taught them how to cut hair,” Arone said.

Tony Coye, a barber at the Hyde Park Salon, recalls his earliest childhood memories of Mutluger.

“I didn’t personally know him, but he is definitely wellknown. When I was growing up, me and my friends used to see him cutting hair at the University shop,” Coye said, referring to University Hair Stylists at 5700 South Harper Avenue.

While Mutluguler enjoys being a barber, he also stays in the business to support his ailing wife. Since the Reynolds Club Barbershop closing, Mitch has been at Yehia & Co Hair Designs, which is located at 1455 East 53th Street.

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“Trauma has no easy solution” TRAUMA continued from front

about the proposed new trauma center? Furthermore, what are the physician and administrative responses to those concerns? The Maroon investigated these basic questions surrounding the complex, ongoing issue of trauma care on the South Side.

How the Partnership Began “We were looking at more traditional service data first, but the trauma data really just popped out at you. It was impossible not to be drawn to where the trauma was coming from, and it was a really big cluster around the Holy Cross community,” said Karen Teitelbaum, CEO and president of Mount Sinai Hospitals, as she detailed how the idea to collaborate began in late spring of this year. After considering input from town hall meetings with community members and an awareness of UCMC’s relationship to trauma care, Teitelbaum contacted President

Longtime South Side resident, President of Medical Students for Health Equity, and fourth-year Pritzker medical student Abdullah Pratt spent much of his childhood in the Woodlawn area and had grown accustomed to the impact of violence in the South Side, especially after his brother was killed. He saw this push for a systemslevel solution as a step in the right direction from both UCMC and Sinai.

“Putting the community members first was the objective [of UCMC and Mount Sinai]. It was a demonstration in looking at problems that face the community that have no easy solutions.

Trauma has no easy solution,” Pratt said, emphasizing that a partnership solution between two hospitals in the South Side represented an unconventional approach to a familiar problem. “Finding a solution out of the box throughout the community is what it’s really going to

A map of Holy Cross Hospital’s primary service areas, outlined in blue.

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Sharon O’Keefe of UCMC, and relayed her interest in establishing a trauma center at Holy Cross.

Seeking a network solution to begin with, O’Keefe said she felt the partnership was a natural choice. “We were extremely excited about the partnership with the Sinai Health System…and over a course of 8 to ten weeks, we came together and worked out the major elements of the partnership going forward,” O’Keefe said.

Though the UCMC and Sinai joint T1 talks started in the spring, they weren’t announced publicly at the time because, according to O’Keefe, the UCMC board, Sinai Health System Board, and university representatives were required to agree on partnership criteria before public release of the talks could be done on good principle.

The Community Response and Concerns

take to solve many of the healthcare issues, whether it be diabetes, asthma, cancer, and other chronic diseases, trauma care included in that.”

As Holy Cross is situated close to several of the highest crime neighborhoods, Pratt believes the trauma center will go a long way towards reversing the trauma desert currently plaguing the South Side. “Some of the most violence-ridden areas, such as Englewood…which is a huge area, directly east of where the trauma center will be built, will be helped,” Pratt said, though he also expressed some concern that neighborhoods further east will still have to travel far to reach a local trauma center.

However, not all community members agreed with Pratt’s overall positive reaction to the UCMC-Sinai partnership.

“I went through a roller coaster of emotion. I was angry because [UCMC] didn’t

consult with [TCC]. Kenneth Polonsky, Derek Douglas, they had an opportunity to at least let us know that something was being done.

But they didn’t want our opinion,” said Veronica Morris-Moore, a long-time community and youth organizer for Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY) and the Trauma Center Coalition (TCC).

She does not believe UCMC would have moved to expand T1 coverage had it not been for black youth protests, arrests at demonstrations, and time spent raising awareness about the lack of a T1 center in the South Side.

Furthermore, she remarked that the location of Holy Cross did not make sense to her. “If you can do it at Mount Sinai, why can’t you do it at [the] University of Chicago? [Holy Cross] is closer to the trauma center at Advocate Christ than it is to South Shore [neighborhood] that has some of the highest trauma related deaths in the South Side,” Morris-Moore said.

Regarding distance, she expressed concerns that many of the highest gun-violence neighborhoods will still be outside a five-mile radius from Holy Cross Hospital, citing a popular study done

by Northwestern which concluded that mortality increased for trauma patients outside a five-mile radius from the nearest trauma center. Finally, due to high resource demands, she also worried that the building of the new Level I trauma center at Holy Cross will result in the withdrawal of UCMC’s proposed plans to raise Comer’s pediatric T1 age to include 16- and 17-yearold children, which was announced last December.

According to Sharon O’Keefe, the application to the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) to raise the pediatric age at Comer’s Level I trauma center will not be withdrawn, nor will the proposal of raising the age require a capital investment. The request is still pending review at IDPH, though O’Keefe stated that, as the new partnership will mitigate some of the need for the raising of the age at Comer, the predicted services provided by the trauma center will affect the IDPH’s decision to approve or reject the application.

Despite their concerns, Morris-Moore and other protestors of the black youth community are proud of the announcement to build a new Level I trauma center as a tangible result of their sacrifice. “It’s a victory. Nobody can deny what people who are in our position made happen, whether people say it or not,” said Morris-Moore.

Physician Responses to Community Concerns

A map of a four-mile (green) and ten-mile (blue) radius from Holy Cross Hospital. They show the radii from which an ambulance would take 12 minutes to get to Holy Cross at speeds of 20-28 miles per hour and 50-71 miles per hour, respectively.

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“We discovered that we could do more when working with the Sinai System at Holy Cross than either of us could have done separately.

This is a perfect example of an honest-to-goodness synergy,” said Dr. Doug Dirschl, chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine at UCMC, emphasizing that collaboration, and not which institutions will be contributing what personnel, is the key to the success of this trauma center.

“This will become one of the busiest [hospitals], if not the busiest, in the area of Chicago,” Dirschl said, though he cautioned against any predictions toward the capacity of the new trauma center.

Dr. Gary Merlotti, chairman of the Department of Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital, corroborated Dr. Dirschl’s emphasis on the importance of the collaboration, and believes that each institution’s strengths will complement the other to allow for a high-functioning T1 center. According to Merlotti, the University of Chicago only has expertise in managing pediatric trauma, not adult, while Mount Sinai has had over 25 years of experience in overseeing such an operation. Furthermore, the current configuration of Holy Cross doesn’t lend itself well to treating some forms of trauma due to restrictions in space and the lack of conveniently located rapid services related to trauma care, which will be addressed as part of the $41.3 million provided

by UCMC. “In addition, we [at Holy Cross] don’t have enough of, nor high enough quality of, subspecialties services to meet the trauma patient’s needs,” Merlotti said, emphasizing that UCMC will aid in supplying needed subspecialists.

Both Merlotti and Dirschl expressed concerns that too much emphasis has been placed in the media on the “five-mile radius” rule. Merlotti, who has over 35 years of experience in trauma care

and was one of several architects of the Chicago Trauma Network in the mid-1980s, feels that using this rule to assess the future efficacy of the new T1 is inherently flawed. “[Five-mile mark] is a completely empiric number and highly debatable as to whether or not it’s of any significance,” Merlotti said.

Concerning the Northwestern study that defined the five-mile radius rule, Merlotti said that no further studies have been able to replicate it, and that the key factor when it comes to trauma isn’t distance to a hospital, but the severity of trauma and the total time injured. “It’s interesting that if you look at the data at seven miles, as opposed to five, it doesn’t make a difference [towards trauma mortality].”

Merlotti said.

In a previous edition of The Maroon, we analyzed several studies which demonstrated that scene time, or the time EMS is at the scene with the patient until the patient is transported, and trauma severity, but not transport time or distance, impacted mortality of penetrating trauma. According to a 2013 study done by McCoy et al., in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, if scene time was 20 minutes or more, patients were much more likely to die.

Given that McCoy et al. found that median ambulance transport times were 12 minutes for all cases of blunt and penetrating trauma, a rough estimate of a trauma center’s radius of coverage can be estimated within a range of ambulance speeds.

In addition to the new T1, the initiative includes the creation of a new stateof-the-art emergency department at UCMC, which will aim to expand available services to the South Side communities closer to Hyde Park. According to Phil Verhoef, an ICU Pediatric and Adult physician, the expansion of the ED will go far toward adjusting to the patient load that UCMC handles at the ER each day. “I’ve been a patient in the ER and, as

it is now, there’s hardly any privacy; Mitchell Hospital can’t handle the volume it receives, and it has outdated technology. So, this is very much needed,” Verhoef said.

What are the next steps?

Amidst the hype of a joint, systems-level approach to the trauma desert on the South Side, the proposed Holy Cross Level I trauma center and the new adult ER still require regulatory approval through the filing of a Certificate of Need (CoN) application with the Illinois Health Facility and Services Review Board.

“In addition, [Holy Cross] will have to achieve Level I designation by IDPH. That will probably come a little bit down the road. It’s hard to get them to approve a trauma center that doesn’t yet exist,” Merlotti said, when asked about what still needed to be done before construction would begin. At the earliest, approval processes and construction are expected to take at least two years. During that time, both Sinai and UCMC will recruit additional staff and healthcare professionals to bolster the needed personnel to operate the endeavor.

Despite criticisms made against UCMC, O’Keefe believes that expanded emergency services at Holy Cross and UCMC will be invaluable to the South Side. “We’re aware that some people have different vantage points on this, but the value that [this partnership’s] bringing to the South Side is absolutely tremendous.”

Morris-Moore expressed caution in celebrating too early, elaborating on the need for student and community members to make sure that the Level I trauma center will operate at the expected level.

“We’ll keep fighting to make sure that the University does what it says it’s going to do.

We want to make sure that, not only does this trauma center get built, but that it’s a quality trauma center. That it saves lives,” Morris-Moore said. “That’s what the community deserves and needs.”

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Just a trim The closing of the Reynold’s Club barbershop raises questions about the University’s cost-cutting initiative On April 20 Provost Eric D. Isaacs announced an upcoming set of budget cuts at the University, aimed primarily at administrative services and nonacademic departments. In a second announcement on July 26, Isaacs announced that academic units reduced their administrative budgets by an average of two percent and administrative units reduced their budgets by an average of six percent for fiscal year 2016.

“The vast majority of budget cuts related to staff will be accomplished through attrition and elimination of vacant administrative positions, and units are working to limit any layoffs that may be necessary in particular circumstances,” Isaacs wrote in an e-mailing, adding, “We will also communicate to staff in a transparent manner as cost containment initiatives proceed.”

In light of these announcements, the Maroon Editorial Board is troubled by the handling of the closing of the barbershop in the Reynolds Club.

When the University announced its budget cuts, it emphasized reviewing administrative costs and positions.

These jobs likely cost the University much more than two barbers in the basement of Reynolds club, and the Editorial Board questions the necessity of cuts like these when the University has recently invested $1.5 billion in campus construction and is in the middle of a $4.5 billion capital campaign.

Furthermore, the lack of communication to the staff employed there

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belies the “transparent manner” Isaacs promised in July. While budget cuts may be necessary, there is no excuse for not communicating the cuts to the

people affected by them.

If the University is serious about the need for large cuts, it should consider the structural organization of admin-

istration rather than slashing small programs. In the midst of student concerns surrounding the cutting of low-wage workers along with the Uni-

versity’s budget, the closure of the barbershop certainly doesn’t help.

—The Maroon Editorial Board

Letter: UCAN demands that Trustees consider divestment In September, the University of California Board of Regents divested itself of $200 million worth of investments in coal and

oil sands. We want our university to do the same. Since 2012, the University of Chicago Climate Action Network has been advo-

The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892.

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cating for the university to divest from fossil fuels—more specifically, to sell all direct and indirect investments in the 200 companies that own the largest coal, oil, and gas reserves because climate change is an immense problem facing human life around the world.

Last Friday, The MAROON published an article (“Zimmer says University Unlikely to divest from fossil fuels” [10/09/15]) about fossil fuel divestment campaigns across the country, highlighting our group and describing comments made by University President Robert J. Zimmer about divestment. We’re here to remind the UChicago community why we believe our university needs to stop funding climate change.

As a strateg y, the logic of divestment is simple. Climate change is a scientifically proven threat to human welfare and is perpetuated by the energ y production of fossil fuel companies. UChicago funds these companies through its investments, profiting from and furthering the destruction of the climate. The strateg y of divestment aims to socially stigmatize the fossil fuel industry. As a coalition of higher education institutions and other wealthy bodies draw attention to the destructive

effect these companies have on our planet, legislative bodies will respond by enacting legislation to restrict the actions of these fossil fuel companies and empower the clean energ y industry.

The University’s own document, the 1967 Kalven Report, states that “in the exceptional instance, these corporate activities of the university may appear so incompatible with paramount social values as to require careful assessment of the consequences.”

We argue that profiting from companies that facilitate the destruction of our planet absolutely violates “paramount social values.” Climate change is one of the most monumental problems that humanity has ever faced, and how we aim to ameliorate this crisis will define who we are. Our group, along with 70 percent of the student body and countless world leaders and institutions, believe that UChicago must divest.

Last June, in an interview with The MAROON, President Zimmer suggested that trustees will not make decisions based on the positions of specific groups.

However, the UChicago fossil fuel divestment campaign has the support of the majority of the student body and an increas-

ing number of faculty members.

We believe that, based on the severity of the threat posed by climate change and the widespread support for our cause, President Zimmer’s assertion that we don’t deserve the attention of the Board of Trustees is misguided.

Simply stated, our campaign is ready to discuss the issue. However, the many barriers erected to prevent students from contacting trustees—from the inaccessibility of trustees’ contact information to refusals to allow students to present their ideas at the Board meetings—prevent open discourse. We ask to meet with the Board of Trustees, or at least a portion of it, to present the case for fossil fuel divestment. The threat posed by climate change is catastrophic and unmatched, and a large portion of the UChicago community stands with us when we say the University must divest from fossil fuels.

— Nadia Perl (‘18), Will Pol (‘18), and Sam Zacher (‘16) on behalf of the UChicago Climate Action Network

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Letter: SJP spreads false information around campus On posters all throughout campus, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) claim that the Israeli military murdered Esra’ Zidan Abed and Ahmad Manasra.

I am not writing to provide context or commentary. I am not writing to debate SJP on the ongoing

events in Israel. I am writing with a single purpose: to refute lies told

by SJP. I am not asking you to take me at my word; you can verify the facts on CNN, BBC, and Reuters.

Asraa Zidan Tawfik Abed and Ahmad Manasra are alive.

On October 9, Asraa Zidan

Tawfik Abed was shot by security forces in the Israeli city of Afula.

She was transported to Poriya Hospital in Tiberias, where she was reported to be in moderate condition.

On October 12, Ahmad Manasra was hit by a car in the Pisgat

Ze’ev neighborhood of Jerusalem.

He was transported to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem, where he was reported to be in moderate to light condition. He is expected to be released from the hospital in the coming days. Images and videos showing Ahmad

recovering at Hadassah Ein Kerem have been released to the public.

avoid showing weakness, which is fundamental to forming meaningful connections with others. For us at UChicago, part of the joy of being so closely competitive is that our struggles and doubts are the same, so we run the race together instead of alone.

A New York Times article looks at power in a different context: “The more powerful people perceived themselves to be in their everyday lives, the less frequently they reported feeling lonely.” It doesn’t always matter how much power you have over others (like those executives); it matters more that you feel in control of your surroundings.

We can choose how we respond to other students (a.k.a. the other tributes) at UChicago, whether that takes the form of fear or of dynamic and sincere engagement.

Interacting with one another is what makes us understand ourselves better—and that’s a form of power over our everyday lives, isn’t it? Maybe that’s what so many people miss about college once they leave it, the constant intellectual ping pong that leads to self-discovery. We don’t know how good we have it right now.

A few weeks ago, I went to a

Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance downtown. As we made our way to our seats, we were handed booklets that opened with a beautifully written letter by the CSO’s music director, acclaimed Italian conductor Riccardo Muti. As I read it, I could feel tears forming in my eyes: “It is no coincidence that the word ‘symphony’ means ‘the togetherness of sound.’ Music itself is formed by many musical lines that seem to be against the other—what we call counterpoint—but, in fact, each line needs the other in order to have a reason for existence.”

It not only made me want to grab my oboe and sprint back to my third-rate high school band, but also to want something like that beyond the realm of music—to be part of a community with members that relied on one another while seeking to be heard.

But I don’t need to want it, I already have it here at UChicago.

Let’s make counterpoint together; let’s give one another a reason for existence.

Why is SJP lying?

— Simcha Barkai Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics

It’s lonely at the top Why you shouldn’t aspire to be the smartest one in the room

Sophia Chen

PhiloSophia Harper is half empty. A paper cup sits placidly in front of me; a tea bag that’s been used multiple times lies dead on the open lid.

It’s so late that the usually stifling heat has been turned off for hours, yet the students are still here.

My mind is so tired that reality doesn’t feel real to me anymore, and even the cold winter breeze that needles its way into the room can’t wake me up. It’s nights like these that I ask myself and the stupid paper cup, Why can’t things be easier here? Why can’t I be smarter?...Actually, why can’t everyone else be dumber?

Even when it’s not finals week, I still feel shades of these unfortunate sentiments coloring my experiences here at UChicago— whether it’s when I despair about ever feeling competent in that difficult class, or when it seems that every student around me is doing more with their time. If I spent less time comparing myself to others and wishing I were better, I could probably finish all my P-sets and have brunch too. I miss

brunch.

I think I’m not the only one who feels this way. How can I be, when everything seems to be a competition? Our classes constantly curve us in relation to one another. We thoroughly feel the laws of supply and demand during recruitment season. Even the marked lack of forks during peak dining hall hours reminds us that the things we want have to be fought for.

For me, it’s easy to solely contemplate the immediate, negative consequences of having talented individuals around me. I’ve been conditioned to deflate a bit when I hear someone else share a brilliant insight or quickly understand a concept, because it only means more competition for me to overcome in order to do well.

At least, it feels that way. For a lot of us, no matter how far we’ve come, our confidence never lasts long when our peers have come just as far, if not farther.

But, I’ve recently realized that the pressure we feel here due to

the excellence of our peers—no matter how hard it makes getting an A, no matter how stressful it makes landing that internship—is a true blessing. Being surrounded by brilliant, articulate, and ambitious individuals is part of what makes our time here worth it. Every single one of our classmates whom we dehumanize as obstacles is probably an indispensable friend to someone else at UChicago.

I know that we all have those moments of fantasizing what this school would be like if we were the smartest ones in the room. But also imagine how deeply lonely that would be, if no one else cared for—or even comprehended—the ideas that excited you. Many of us have found our closest friends here, and one of the many reasons for that is our ability to understand one another intellectually.

An article by the American Society of Association Executives discusses why it’s often more lonely at the top: “Many [executives] feel they don’t have anyone they can confide in.” They can’t trust anyone because they’re constantly trying to defend their position, which they feel could be taken away at any time. As a result, they

Sophia Chen is a second-year in the College double majoring in economics and English.

Match made in Tinder Despite being perceived as superficial, technology can serve to promote meaningful human connections

Nick Aldridge

The Skunk at the Lawn Party Oh, the ephemerality of the modern world! Oh, the superficiality of modern attachment!

Damn you, overly-convenientdating applications! Romanticism, how you have been deflated by the attention-impaired youth of today, sucking the meaning out from your heart with every text, swipe, and snap!

I don’t buy it.

The growing trend of devaluing modern society as the epitome of all meaninglessness is the simple out, the proliferation of the stereotype of the modern generation, and I have to question the validity of this claim.

98 percent of Americans ages 18—29 own a cell phone, the vast majority of which are smartphones.

Effectively, this means that today, we are receiving an unprecedented amount of information at an increasingly rapid pace. This observation is trite, but true.

One need only dip one’s toe into this mind-numbing barrage of information, or just be in any public place to note the superficiality and appearance-centric nature of young adults.

For those of you who have never followed through on the urge to download Tinder, the app presents you with pictures of men or women within a certain age range and in a given area. You then have the option of swiping right, indicating that you “like” that person, or swiping left, indicating that you find that person’s image absolutely repelling. When you swipe right on an individual and they swipe right on you, the two of you “match” and you can begin a conversation.

What could be more superficial?

So I downloaded Tinder, got some matches, and went on a few dates. Here’s where it gets interesting though.

Kimberly (that’s not her real

name) and I first met on the sidewalk level of the Eastern Market Metro stop in Washington, D.C. I was standing around waiting for her to arrive, and trying to remember what she looked like, when all of a sudden I turned my head and was face to face with her.

We had talked for about a week, mostly the banal platitudes of any conversation with a new person.

Eventually though, I decided to ask her out, knowing next to nothing about her, and knowing that I had next to nothing else to do.

There was an awkward hug, and I asked if she had been to the Capitol yet.

“No, I actually haven’t,” she replied.

“You go to school in D.C. and haven’t been to the Capitol building?!” I exclaimed. “Come on, you have to see it.”

We walked over, slowly letting the awkwardness fade from our conversation. We talked about home and high school and argued over which restaurant could claim to be the best brunch place in the district.

For the next three hours, we lay in the grass outside the Capitol like old friends, looking up at the clouds and talking about whatever came to mind. She told me about her bacchanalian Friday nights as a freshman, and I told her about the Senate and about the project I was working on. We rambled on about our roommates and our mutual frustration with the D.C. metro and after a while we wandered over to Ebenezer’s, a quirky coffee shop with big comfortable leather armchairs and stacks of books piled on every coffee table, and talked for hours more.

I saw Kimberly a few more times, but eventually I got caught up in my life, and she in hers, and we went our separate ways.

Our relationship didn’t blossom into some Hollywood-esque love story, and it’s true that it had its roots in superficiality, but what I found was something altogether substantive. My exercise in ephemerality became a day of real, human connection.

There’s more to our apparently

gilded society than meets the eye.

Yes, things do move at a very fast pace nowadays, and maybe we are guided by our more appetitive desires, but at the end of the day most people just want to feel liked, even loved. We just want to be able to say, “Here is my world, and over there, that’s my little place in it all.”

We do this by constantly comparing ourselves to others—that’s our only metric, other people. What good is it to love if you aren’t loved back? What good is it to win a race if you’re the only one running?

People like to reiterate that soundbite of wisdom to the effect of “the only enemy is yourself.” That’s ludicrous.

In a vacuum devoid of all other humanity, the vast majority of our daily actions would be meaningless. The people we know, and particularly the people we are close with, are the individuals who give meaning to our lives. Regardless of whether you are a Natty Litedrinking frat bro or a mathematical genius, you must interact with other individuals frequently and TINDER continued on page 8

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on a fundamental level in order to exist in modern society.

One of the scariest elements of conformity is the fact that the individual loses his or her ability to distinguish his or her place in the world. We lose our metric. On the other end of the spectrum, being alone can be scary too. Imagine spending weeks in a room all by yourself.

Put phones in our hands, earbuds in our ears—hell, create the modern cyborg—we will all ultimately endeavor to know ourselves through others, to escape the deeply lonely condition of individuality, and eventually we will realize that our panacea was and always will be human interaction. Our obsession with technology may not be grounded in our love of the phone screen so much as in our desire to constantly interact with one another. While these interactions may be shallow at times, they demonstrate a deeply human yearning for connection. Often it is this longing and subsequent interaction, whether initially superficial or not, that prompts two people to come to understand one another.

It can begin with a handshake, a word of greeting, or a swipe on your phone.

Nicholas Aldridge is a first-year in the College.

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ARTS

What is art?

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Krista Franklin’s Like Water exhibit explores female ability to shapeshift

An image from "The Two Thousand & Thirteen Narrative(s) of Naima Brown" series currently displayed at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture COURTESY OF

KRISTA FRANKLIN

Peyton Alie Arts Contributor Combining visual art and writing, Like Water, now on view at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC), uses a fantastical story of shape shifting

to examine themes of identity, power, self-determination, and the malleable nature of memory.

Like Water is a solo exhibition of several works by artist Krista Franklin, who served as the 2013–14 Arts + Public Life/CSRPC Artist-in-

Residence. Based in Chicago, Franklin is a writer, a performance artist, as well as a visual artist who often combines a variety of artistic forms in her work.

The exhibition is curated

by Dara Epison, the program coordinator for the CSRPC,

and is presented by the CSRPC as part of its 20th anniversary programming.

On display across several rooms in the CSRPC, Like Water is centered around the fictional Naima Brown and her family, who have the ability to shape shift.

“I wanted to explore the notion that women, in this case black women, can turn themselves into a lot of different things. It’s a supernatural tale, but on the undercurrent of it is the idea that women do that kind of thing all the time,” Franklin said. “We shape and shift and change over time, from young to old, and sometimes put on different kinds of masks for people.

That’s essentially the core idea behind Naima Brown.”

Franklin was inspired to create Naima by Wildseed, a novel by science fiction writer Octavia Butler in which an African shape shifter is abducted and travels to the United States during the time of slavery.

“I wanted to create a contemporary shape shifter character, another young black woman, and look at how she would move through the world when she figured out that she could change herself to anything from an animal to another person,” Franklin said.

“The Two Thousand and Thirteen Narrative(s) of Naima Brown,” a series from 2014 included in the exhibition, features three mixed media works, each accompanied by

a paragraph of text displayed in a case beneath them. The first work consists of thick, curly, synthetic hair laid out on handmade paper and almost entirely covered by silver paint.

Several strands stick out from the ragged edges of the paper.

The second work mixes faded flower petals and dark artificial hair laid out in spirals on top of brown handmade paper, while the third features synthetic hair in twists, formed into circles and loops and spread across brown handmade paper with white beads scattered across the page.

In one accompanying paragraph, Naima pictures the perfect black cat to transform herself into, while another explains that the Brown women carry a gift passed on through generations, “a glitch in the matrix of their complex cellular structures that allowed them to change whenever they wished, into whatever they wished.” This ability manifests itself differently in different women. “Like in Naima’s case—it was hair, and lots of it,” writes Franklin.

“When I was working with the project, I was working with handmade paper. So I was thinking about the hybridization of the synthetic with the natural,” Franklin said. “I was thinking about synthetic hair as an art material—how could I incorporate it into my work? Symbolically, in the story, Naima Brown sheds her hair with every transformation. And so I used

the hair as a touchstone for that transformation.”

On the wall ascending the building’s stairway, three selections from 2014’s “We Wear the Mask” series are displayed. Each work is a collage of cutout images and pictures women in bathing suits with their heads obscured. In “We Wear the Mask II,” sea anemones cover the woman’s head and one of her hands, while a squid hides her feet. Next to the woman, there are many small, cutout eyes.

2014’s “What Big Teeth You Have,” another collage featured, is centered on a woman wearing a bikini bottom with her head covered by a cutout image of a wolf ’s head. The image of the woman lies on top of bright lines painted with watercolors, which bleed down towards the bottom of the page, and small, difficult to read pieces of text from newspapers and magazines.

The collages are separate from the narrative of Naima Brown though they are thematically linked to it.

“They have to deal with transformation and shifting, but it’s more about wearing masks,” Franklin said. “There’s this notion around women being dangerous and women being shifty… the idea of women being kind of monstrous.”

Like Water will be on view at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, 5733 South University Avenue, until December 11.

Rocking and raging at Riot Fest; highs and lows of a musical weekend Miriam Benjamin Associate Arts Editor More than anything else, Riot Fest is about community.

Every band that played Riot Fest had an above average ability to resonate with their fans.

From Bayside to Speedy Ortiz to Anthrax to De La Soul, the artists inspired massive audience participation, the like of which I’d only ever experienced in tiny clubs. Only at Riot Fest can I see a bunch of my favorite bands with a bunch of people who love them as much as I do, and there’s no better feeling than that. Here are some highlights: Oldest frontman who’s still got it: Iggy Pop (who else?). You could say Iggy is an embarrassment: He rips off his leather jacket a minute in, revealing an equally leathery chest. He throws his mic stand around like he’s having a tantrum (his poor stage manager was having quite the time). He brought out a chair for “Nightclubbing,” only to heave it over his head and try to bash it to pieces. But for all of his bratty stage maneuvers, Iggy didn’t come across as a 68-year-

old trying to be a 20-year-old: He was a riveting live performer.

And of course, his performance didn’t exactly suffer from starting off with one of the greatest rock songs ever, “No Fun,” or from following it up with another great rock song, “I Wanna Be Your Dog.” If anyone was put on this earth to be a frontman, it was clearly Iggy Pop. Winner of raging egomaniac award: Henry Rollins (Black Flag).

Rollins was the moderator of the second inaugural “Riot Fest Speaks” conversation, and this year’s lineup featured members of the West Memphis Three, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), and Steve Ignorant (Crass).

Rollins dominated the conversation, focusing more on his contribution to the West Memphis Three’s case than letting the actual West Memphis Three speak. He only loosely tied in Moore and Ignorant, even though Ignorant was the funniest and most interesting person on the stage. All in all, it was noble experiment helmed by a faulty leader.

Most adoring crowd:

Joyce Manor. During the panel with Henry Rollins, Thurston Moore said that the key to achieving success was to “speak the truth [and] engage the people.” The wisdom of this was apparent during Joyce Manor’s set: It was an outpouring of teenage feeling. Our prophet was lead singer Barry Johnson, who spewed velvet-voiced tales of pool parties, bad tattoos, and SoCal beaches in two minutes or less. When Johnson occasionally dropped out to concentrate on one of his careening guitar riffs, the audience handled the vocals just fine without him; we knew the tunes backward and forward.

Biggest disappointment: Echo and the Bunnymen. They drew a large crowd, but based on the chatting around me, I realized the size had more to do with people massing for that night’s headliner, System of a Down.

The Bunnymen’s performance was an unremarkable one. Legendary frontman Ian McCulloch has a raw voice, but the high notes often eluded him, and the band was quiet and low-energy.

He introduced “The Killing Moon” as the greatest song ever

written, which might actually be true, but I felt no guilt about leaving once the song had finished.

Biggest “Fuck Yeah” moment: Babes in Toyland. Babes have dedicated their career to proving anything men can do they can do better, and they can: They scream louder, play louder, play better, and spit more. Lead singer/guitarist Kat Bjelland is a marvel—she plays and shrieks and high-kicks and has what I affectionately term “Amanda Bynes crazy eyes.” Lori Barbero, the drummer, is thunderous; she plays with the butt end of her drumsticks and it’s loud. At one point, Bjelland asks the crowd, “Is it loud enough?” The answer was yes, in every way. Babes were tremendous and vital and necessary and inspiring.

Biggest “Awww” moment: Against Me!’s Laura Jane Grace brought out her adorable daughter, Evelyn, at the end of their set. You could practically see the mohawks wilt and the leather jackets melt.

Best Band That I Could Talk About Forever: FIDLAR. At one point dur-

ing FIDLAR’s set, a wild-eyed boy standing behind me started shouting “OVER HERE!!” at the cameraman. When the cameraman turned, the boy yanked up his sleeve and jabbed at his FIDLAR tattoo. This is the kind of devotion that FIDLAR inspire and rightly so.

They play songs about shooting up and skateboarding until you can’t breathe, and even though I can’t really relate, somehow I can: Carper puts the worst parts of himself on display, and even though I’m not a junkie, I know his feelings of awkwardness, inadequacy, boredom, and futility. We all do—Iggy Pop does, Henry Rollins does, and most of all, the kid next to me with the FIDLAR tattoo does.

Best “Album in its entirety” performance Ice Cube, “Straight Outta Compton.” First things first: If, for some reason, you didn’t know there was a movie about N.W.A. called *Straight Outta Compton*, by the end of Ice Cube’s performance, you would have. Not content with just performing N.W.A.’s Straight Outta Compton in full, Cube even

showed a movie trailer for the damn thing. It was a testament to Cube’s ability as an entertainer that even blatant marketing didn’t bog down his set. His secret is his sense of humor—it allowed Cube to perform an important album all the way through without once coming across as self-reverential (case in point: The two giant inflatable hands throwin’ up the West Side gang sign). I was planning on leaving halfway through Cube’s set to check out Motörhead, one of the other headliners. I thought I was being incredibly clever—“Straight Outta Compton” and “Fuck tha Police” are the first two tracks of Straight Outta Compton, and Motörhead usually does “Ace of Spades” towards the middle of their set.

But when the time came, I had no desire to leave. Cube and fellow N.W.A. members DJ Yella and MC Ren were doing such a bang-up job of re-creating the energy of Straight Outta Compton that nothing short of Lemmy’s warts popping off his face could have compelled me to leave. Who knew gangsta rap could be so… fun?

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What to expect from the 51st Chicago International Film Festival

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Robert Sorrell Arts Staff The 51st annual Chicago International Film Festival opens this weekend at AMC River East

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Grouped together thematically into screenings ranging from roughly an hour-and-a-half to two hours, the series of shorts range from “Feel the Illinoise: City & State,” focused on films produced in or by Chicago and Illinois natives, to “New Voices of Israeli Cinema” to “Tracing Shadows – Cinematic Frontiers” to “The Life We Know – Bold Characters,” in addition to a series focused on documentary, animated, and horror shorts. These curated shorts are a great way to experience new cinema and navi-

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gate the often overwhelming festival world. Plus, this way you don’t have to commit to 90-plus minutes of a film you’ve never heard of by a director whose name you do not recognize. Divide and conquer, am I right?

But, for those of you out there who are brave souls, there are plenty of worthy feature films and documentaries hoping that you’ll pick them. The films in the main competition include Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, which garnered high praise in Berlin, Sweet Bean from Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase, which promises philosophical and culinary delight, and A Very Ordinary Citizen by Majid Barzegar, exploring age and loneliness in contemporary Tehran. These films and 14 others will compete for the festival’s top prize, the Gold Hugo.

Beyond the main competition, there are literally hundreds of films to choose from, so get out there and start watching.

The Chicago International Film Festival runs from October 15 to 29.

You can buy tickets online.

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Squad looks to rebound following first loss

Chicago looks to snap fourgame winless streak

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MEN’S SOCCER the national top-25 rankings and kept Berry undefeated in conference play. UChicago is now ranked at 31, though Berry was also edged out of top-25 rankings and now stands at 27.

The loss marked the first home loss for The Maroons since fall of 2011.The Maroons also had a pair of starters go down with injuries, including fourth-year tight end Nathan Massey who has been a consistent force for UChicago, specifically on third down attempts. Third-year defensive back Davis Bitton also went down with a shoulder injury.

“Everyone on our team has forgotten about the loss to Berry.

We strive to live under the philosophy that our next play is our best play. We are ready to go to Memphis and get back on track,” said fourth-year center Brock Appenzeller.

Rhodes is coming into the game hosting a 3–2. The Lynx were also defeated by Berry by a score of 24–0. Rhodes was also handedly defeated by WashU with a score of 37–7.

Rhodes lost their starting quarterback earlier in the season and has yet to find their footing on offense. The Lynx have only been able to score 35 points in the past three games while The Maroons

Helen Petersen Sports Editor Following their first loss of the season, The Maroons are looking to bounce back this weekend as they make the eight hour bus ride to Memphis, TN to compete against fellow SAA squad, Rhodes.

“I think what we learned more than anything from last week’s game is that every single opportunity we have to take the field, it is pivotal to bring our best,” said third-year captain Jackson Garrey. “In this new conference, every game we play is winnable, but at the same time losable if we don’t prepare well and come out ready to play. I think the guys are looking forward to heading down to Memphis and playing a team that for the last two years has been a really tough opponent for us. We have a good opportunity to get our season back on track and get back to our winning ways, and the guys and I are really excited for that opportunity this weekend.”

UChicago’s undefeated record was snapped last weekend when Berry edged the home team by a score of 24–17 in overtime. The loss knocked The Maroons out of

have racked up 94. The Maroon defense, anchored by Garrey, is eager to capitalize on this.

The Lynx’s defense, known for their elaborate stunts and blitzes, will put the offensive running game, fueled in large part by second-year running back Chandler Carroll, under stress. The Maroon offense will be looking to third-year quarterback Burke Moser and fourth-year receivers, Cole Thoms and Sam Coleman, to create a consistent offensive attack. Thoms, who is coming off a 63-yard touchdown last weekend, said, “With Nathan Massey going down, Sam and I know more of the passing game rests on our shoulders as well as some younger players. We are prepared for the increased attention we will be receiving Saturday.”

The Maroons will look to extend their record to 5–1 and climb back into the top-25 rankings. Cracking the top-25 was the first time in program history, and the Maroons are not quick to forget the importance of this ranking come playoffs.

“We are only halfway through the season and there is still a lot to be gained,” Thoms said.

The Maroons kick off the game in Memphis at noon on Saturday.

Michael Perry Sports Contributor The Maroons head out to the East Coast this weekend for a two-game event—the first at Brandeis College and the second at New York University.

After a promising start to the season, winning seven out of eight games, the Maroons have suffered two losses and two ties in their past four games, including a 1–0 loss to conference foe Emory and a 1–1 tie against another UAA opponent, Rochester. Both games went into double overtime and have resulted in a 0–1–1 record in conference play for the South Siders.

“These are our biggest games of the year,” said second-year keeper Hill Bonin. “If we don’t win both games, we will struggle to have a chance at the postseason. These games make or break our season.”

Despite playing both Brandeis and NYU in a

three-day span, the Maroons are placing their focus on their first challenge, as Brandeis is the No. 7 ranked team in the nation for Division III and first in the UAA standings with a 2–0 conference record (11–1–1 overall).

“For as long as I’ve been here, Brandeis has always been among the top teams in the country and it’s always a battle playing them,” said third-year forward Brenton Desai, who has seven goals and one assist in the twelve games this year. “We are hoping that this year the game will be the turning point of our season, since we’re on a four game winless streak right now. We’re basically just waiting for Friday to come out and dominate them at their field.”

Bonin added, “The team is only thinking about Brandeis right now. If we don’t with the rest of our games, our season will be in jeopardy.”

Brandeis leads the series

at 14–12–2, but Chicago won their last meeting in 2014 in a 1–0 game.

After Brandeis, the team will turn their attention to NYU before coming home.

The Bobcats sit at the bottom of the UAA standings with a 0–2 conference record and a 4–8 overall record. They have a -10 goal differential on the season compared to Chicago’s +2 goal differential.

Despite all of the attention Brandeis is getting, the team is not forgetting about NYU but is simply taking the season one game at a time. “We will worry about NYU after Brandeis,” Bonin said.

NYU leads the all-time series against UChicago at 13–12–3, but once again the Maroons won the most recent matchup with a 2–1 victory in 2014.

On Friday, the Maroons take on the Brandeis Judges at 5:30 p.m., followed by a matchup against the NYU Bobcats on Sunday at 12:30 p.m.

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Conference foes loom on the road for the Maroons

VOLLEYBALL Zachary Pierce Sports Contributor

As the third week of fall quarter is wrapping up, the No. 15 Maroons head to the UAA Round Robin #2 this weekend.

The team is coming off a solid performance at UAA Round Robin #1 in New York with wins against Rochester (11– 10) and NYU (9–10). Their loss at the first Round Robin came against No. 1 WashU (17–1) in four sets bringing them to 2–1 in UAA conference play.

“Our team had a strong weekend. We played like a team, and played how we needed to play to beat Rochester and NYU. We knew WashU would be a tough match, and we played hard but lost 1–3.

Hopefully this weekend, we will come out even stronger,” said first-year middle-blocker Sydney Majors when reflecting on Round Robin #1.

“I have a lot of respect for each team we will face this weekend…The UAA is a very strong conference nationally and it’s so awesome to be able to compete all of this great talent,” said fourth-year outside hitter Jasmine Mobley.

The Maroons are traveling to Cleveland, OH where their

first match is against Case (18– 4), the round robin host. Their other three conference matchups include foes Carnegie Mellon (19–4), Brandeis (3–16), and a much anticipated game against No.3 Emory (22–2).

These team’s records speak for themselves; three of the four have winning records, and Emory presents a particular challenge due to its high ranking. Case and Carnegie also sit just outside the top 25, with both teams receiving more than 30 votes in the latest AVCA Coaches poll.

Majors went on to say that, “This weekend we will be playing four matches, which is very tiring and requires a lot of mental and physical toughness. I think our team is prepared, and we especially have to be ready to play Emory in our fourth and final match. Also, just as last weekend, we will miss our amazing teammate, on and off the court, Brooke Watson. She has a concussion, but we know she will be cheering us on.”

Brooke Watson, first-year libero, will be out for what seems to be the rest of the season. The South Siders will be focusing on defense without her this weekend, and thought it may seem daunting to reorganize a team in the middle of the season, the

Maroons still seem very confident in their ability to gets wins.

When asked about the key to success for this weekend, Mobley responded by saying, “I think that we as a team are in a great position! I think the key to our success this weekend is that each and every person holds herself to an incredibly high standard with each contact she takes--from warmups until the final match point.”

Personally, Mobley holds herself to these high standards and is looking forwards to the weekend. “I’m super excited heading into the second round of UAAs. We are a great team with a lot of talent; and some exciting competition awaits us this weekend. I couldn’t be more thankful for the opportunity to take the court and compete for our coaching staff, for my teammates, and for the university!”

It seems as if this weekend is going to be a great test of the Chicago squad against formidable opponents in their UAA foes. The Maroons open on Saturday against Case at 11:30 AM, followed by Carnegie Mellon at 1:30 PM. They will wrap up the Round Robin with two games on Sunday: Brandeis at 9:00 AM, and Emory at 1:00 PM.

South Siders saunter their way to Oshkosh this weekend CROSS COUNTRY Erik Wong Sports Contributor This coming weekend, Chicago is making its way to “Cheese Country” to compete in the Brooks Invitational hosted by UW–Oshkosh on Saturday. After hours of grueling training each day since the team began practices in early August, both the men’s and women’s teams are eager to see if their hard work has paid off.

The squad is especially excited because of the level of competition that will be present at this upcoming event in Wisconsin.

Third-year Michael Frasco of the men’s team said, “There will be 14 of the top 35 teams in the country on the starting line. We are very excited to see how many ranked teams we can knock off.”

The men’s team finished in 6th place out of 16 teams last weekend at the UW– Parkside “Lucian Rosa” Invite but looks to repeat their early season success that culminated in a pair of second-place finishes. The Brooks Invitational will surely provide a test for

The Maroons and aid in determining exactly what level the team is capable of competing at on both the regional and national level.

UW–Oshkosh will also be the location of this year’s national championship, which provides the team with a taste of what could come later on in November.

Second-year Cassidy McPherson said, “Practices have been looking solid on both sides so I am really confident in how we can do if we can put it all together in the races.”

This is certainly an opportunity the Maroons can take advantage of to make this season a historical one, and the practices have proven their dedication to this feat.

The women’s team specifically will be participating in the 6K, which includes over 470 competitors in total. Fourth-year Catt Young said, “Our ultimate goal is to win the meet, which I think is very realistic based on our current fitness level and mentality.”

Young also commented on the fact that Wash U, which is currently the top-

ranked team in the UAA as well as the entire country, will be present at this meet.

The Maroons, though, are currently ranked 13th in the nation at the DIII level and are excited to continue the great success they have become accustomed to this season. The women’s team finished fourth of 16 teams at the UW–Parkside “Lucian Rosa” Invite last Saturday and had an impressive first place finish at the Illinois Intercollegiate meet on October 2.

It is obvious that both the men’s and women’s teams have the components and enthusiasm to make a mark among the top teams in the country, but it is time to put their skills to the test.

The UW–Oshkosh campus itself is just over three hours away, which leaves the cross country team with ample time to mentally prepare for the race without the added pressure of a long bus trip. The meet will commence at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday.

Brandeis, NYU on the docket WOMEN’S SOCCER Katie Anderson Associate Sports Editor On Thursday morning, the women’s soccer squad (8–4–0 overall, 1–1–0 UAA) left campus bright and early to make its way to Boston for a match against No. 10 Brandeis (11–1–1 overall, 1–1 UAA). After facing off against the Brandeis Judges, the Maroons will then head to Manhattan for their second game of the weekend against No. 16 NYU (9–2– 0 overall, 1–1–0 UAA).

The weekend getaway to the East Coast provides an opportunity for the Maroons to bounce back from a disappointing loss at the hands of the University of Rochester last weekend.

However, bouncing back will not be easy, seeing as both opponents the Maroons will face this weekend are ranked in the top 25 nationally. Additionally, traveling has proven to be a challenge for the Maroons thus far in the season, with

all of the team’s losses coming on the road. The squad remains undefeated at home and had won three consecutive games on its own Stagg Field before traveling to Rochester, where the Yellow Jackets defeated them 1–0.

Brandeis is entering the match with a recent 2–0 win over conference foe Case Western. The Judges started the season with an impressive nine game winning streak and have only allowed five goals over their 13 games this season.

On the other hand, NYU suffered a recent 0–1 loss to conference opponent Carnegie Mellon in double overtime. The Maroons will look to exploit the Violets in their time of weakness.

“The team is looking forward to building on the momentum and success we had last year, especially with the promising and talented new first-year class we have onboard with us,” second–year Caroline Olivero said.

The depth that Olivero

talks about has been extremely evident all season.

In the team’s eight wins this season, it has won by an average of 3.25 goals, and eight different Maroons have netted two or more goals in the season.

Despite several disappointing losses on the road, there is still hope that the team can rally to win out the conference and qualify for the NCAA Tournament.

“The UAA championship and NCAA title are definitely within our sights, and now it’s simply a matter of putting the pieces together and realizing the potential of the team we have,” Olivero said. “As far as this weekend is concerned, a win on the road is definitely the goal. We have experienced a lot of success on our home field and are anxious to see that success translated at Brandeis.”

Chicago will face off against Brandeis this Friday at 4 p.m. EST, and NYU on Sunday at 11 a.m. EST.

First-year midfielder Jenna McKinney dribbles down the field against her opponent in a game earlier this season.

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