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Salma Elkhaoudi, Paulina Torres, Qudsiyyah Shariyf, and Megha Bhattacharya, from left to right, are the new Class of 2019 Student Government (SG) representatives.

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First-year students elect Class of 2019 representatives Wendy Lee Senior News Reporter Student Government announced the newly elected Class of 2019 representatives last Wednesday.

First-year students Megha Bhattacharya, Salma Elkha-

oudi, Paulina Torres, and Qudsiyyah Shariyf were elected after campaigning across campus.

Class representatives are largely responsible for their roles on the College Council, the primary governing body for the undergraduate

segment of Student Government. Class representatives make up roughly half of the entire Student Government Assembly. The other half consists of representatives from various professional schools and graduate diviSG continued on page 3

The University hosted its annual Humanities Day program this past Saturday, inviting the general public to campus to hear presentations on topics from linguistics to opera presented by dozens of professors in the University’s Humanities Division.

In the introduction to the event’s keynote address, Martha T. Roth, dean of the Humanities Division, emphasized the rich history of the event.

The first Humanities Day was held on October 1, 1980, and brought nearly a thousand people to campus. “There is a broad and deep public appetite to learn about the latest work of humanities scholars,” Roth said. “The status of humanities in today’s society is still and always will be a worthy topic of debate and reflection.”

The keynote address was then given by David Levin, the

Addie Clark Harding Professor in the Department of Germanic Studies, the Department of cinema and media studies, and the Committee on Theater and Performance Studies.

In his address, titled “Elektra Shock: Opera and Radical Interpretation,” professor Levin explored the opera Elektra, an adaptation of Sophocles’s tragedy. He focused on one production directed by Martin Kušej at the Zurich Opera House. Over the course of 40 minutes, Levin showed clips of the opera’s pivotal scenes and guided the audience through the decision-making process behind staging an opera, discussing everything from the set to individual costumes.

During a post-address interview, Levin emphasized that his address was less about Elektra as an opera and more about the specific production of Elektra he discussed, which used a harshly lit black and white set, modernized clothing, and

samba dancers.

“I’m particularly interested in figuring out how we can engage contemporary performance, in particular contemporary performance that is unusual, challenging—that offers an interpretation that is exciting, innovative,” he said.

“At the University of Chicago, engaging live performance is something that I feel we are doing now thanks to the Logan Center, thanks to initiatives on campus and in the city that mark Chicago as an exciting destination for artwork.”

In addition to the keynote address, the Humanities Day event included three sessions of presentations given by University professors.

Anthony Cheung, an assistant professor of music at the University, participated in the event by both attending the presentations of other faculty and presenting his own work in music composition.

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Senator Claire McCaskill promotes new book at IOP speaker series

New RSO aims to increase political participation on campus Peyton Alie Maroon Contributor UChicago Democracy Initiative (UCDI), a new RSO founded this quarter, aims to politically educate and engage University students and the residents of South Side neighborhoods in order to increase political participation.

As a nonpartisan organization, UCDI strives to call attention to threats to American democracy such as low voter turnout, money in politics, and gerrymandering, as well as research potential solutions. Currently, UCDI is involved in several public engagement projects including spreading awareness about issues affecting democracy and registering

students and Hyde Park residents to vote.

Co-founders second-year Adam Reynolds, fourth-year Alex Serratelli, and fourthyear Sam Zacher launched the organization at the beginning of Fall Quarter after developing their plans for UCDI over the summer.

UCDI is also developing a project to improve communication between constituents and representatives in local communities, starting with representatives for Chicago’s fifth ward. As part of the project, Reynolds, Serratelli, and Zacher are creating an e-mail newsletter for constituents of various representatives that will include information about the representatives’ actions.

“The goal is to try to solve

the problem of people feeling disconnected from their representatives of all levels,” Reynolds said. “We want to get people more easy, quick, concise information about what the representative is doing, and also create this communication network between people and representatives.”

Additionally, UCDI publishes student-written articles on its website about political issues related to the democratic process, including campaign finance reform and public confidence in government.

In the website’s first article, Zacher discusses the difficulty of preserving freedom of expression through campaign donations while POLITICS continued on page 3

Senator Claire McCaskill spoke at the Institute of Politics (IOP) last Thursday as part of the IOP fall 2015 speaker series.

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Rob Hayes Maroon Contributor Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) visited campus this past Thursday and delivered a candid account of the difficulties she has overcome as a woman in politics.

McCaskill was in Chicago promoting her new book, Plenty Ladylike: A Memoir, which looks back on her many years in public ser-

vice. Chicago Tonight commentator Brandis Friedman moderated the conversation with McCaskill, which was sponsored by the Institute of Politics, I-House, and the Seminary Co-Op. A major topic of the conversation that the senator also discussed at length in her book was the sexism she encountered throughout her time as a public figure. When McCaskill served in the Mis-

souri House of Representatives, she once attempted to promote one of her bills to the Speaker of the House, who then told her, “You’re gonna have to bring your kneepads.”

This sexism reinforced McCaskill’s desire to succeed. “I used that as fuel. I used that to motivate me,” she said. “As it turned out, he ended up in jail and I ended up in the CLAIRE continued on page 3

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Pelosi talks issues with Congress and U.S. debt at Institute of Politics Pete Grieve Maroon Contributor Institute of Politics (IOP) director David Axelrod sat down with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday in front of a full crowd at the International House Assembly Hall.

Bypassing small talk and introductions, Axelrod jumped into the tough questions.

“What the hell is going on in Washington? What is going on in Congress?

Are we ever going to have a Speaker?” he asked.

Since Speaker John Boehner announced his resignation, frontrunner Kevin McCarthy has withdrawn from the race to replace him. In Pelosi’s view, this is the latest sign that the Republicans in Congress

are struggling to govern.

“I would be the last person to tell you what is going on in the Republican Caucus, and anybody I might suggest as a good leader would immediately be not considered,” Pelosi said.

“The majority party in Congress is an anti-governance party,” she said, citing Republican opposition to a short-term bill with Planned Parenthood funding that prevented a government shutdown. “President Washington cautioned, as he left office, against political parties at war with their own government, and that’s kind of the situation we have.”

When asked by Axelrod if Congress will pass bipartisan legislation now that Boehner is a “short-timer,” Pelosi replied that Axelrod

started asking her about the Speaker crisis without talking about the Cubs, or giving her a chance to say hello.

Axelrod joked that he was getting lectured on his manners.

“I’m just changing the subject,” she responded.

Pelosi denounced the Republican Party for attempting to cut Pell Grants, social security, and Medicare in order to provide tax breaks for big oil companies. She also alluded to hypocrisy within the Republican Party platform, stating that a large national debt is of primary concern to the party, but student debt is not.

However, when asked if Boehner is committed to raising the debt ceiling by the November 3 deadline, she did not hesitate

to respond. “Yes, this is a moral obligation,” she said.

“We will lift the debt ceiling.”

The debt ceiling limits the amount of money the federal government may borrow, and failing to raise the borrowing limit could result in a default, which would hurt the country’s credit rating.

But Pelosi couldn’t respond with the same confidence when, moments later, Axelrod asked if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) will pass. She said that it would depend on how many Republicans vote for the agreement.

The proposed 12-country trade agreement would lower tariffs, but it has faced opposition from members of both parties, who believe it will send jobs overseas.

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks with David Axelrod during an event last Friday at the Institute of Politics.

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I-House forum considers New study explores how criminals acquire guns impact of Obama Library Anjali Dhillon Maroon Contributor

Adam Thorp Associate News Editor A forum at I-House this Saturday discussed issues including the transfer of parkland to build the Obama Presidential library and changes to the Chicago public schools system.

The talk centered on the University’s and the city government’s appropriation of common goods for private interests. It was sponsored by the Seminary Co-Op, I-House, and The Baffler, a national magazine of cultural criticism.

Rick Perlstein, an editor for the magazine, elaborated on an article he wrote for its most recent issue. The piece looked at the history of the bid to put the Obama Presidential Library in either Washington or Jackson Park.

Perlstein questioned why the University invested so much into a bid for a library to which it would not have any formal connection. “[The library] was the latest in University of Chicago’s some 60-year-old campaign to colonize not merely Hyde Park but Kenwood, Woodlawn, and in the case of the Obama Library, the Washington Park neighborhood,” he said.

“The people who were going to be uplifted by [the Obama Presidential Library] are going to be gentrified out of the neighborhood,” Perlstein said. “What was so brilliant, and what my article ultimately argued, was the University has been able to use the arts of public relations to get the community to cheer its own dispossession.”

Baffler senior editor Chris Lehmann spoke next about the influence of wealthy individuals on education policy. Lehmann talked about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s 100 million dollar donation to Newark pub-

lic schools and compared the situation in Newark to the situation in Chicago. Mass closings of traditional schools in Chicago have coincided with a push to establish charter schools, which receive public funding but are run by private organizations.

“Rahm Emanuel doesn’t have to rely on a single 20-something billionaire donor—he has a whole Daley-bred political machine to unilaterally impose change. But you still see the same chatter of millennial excellence and how the charter school movement is going to basically alchemically produce knowledge out of money,” Lehmann said.

Labor and civil rights lawyer Tom Geoghegan closed the event by discussing his attempts to use the law to reinforce the position of the public in the face of efforts to dispossess public property. He specifically discussed a case his firm is taking on behalf of Friends of the Parks against the city regarding plans to build the Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts in parkland along the lake shore.

“One of the things we said is that as trustee… [the city] has a fiduciary duty to hold [the park land] for us. And the city’s answer is ‘we have no fiduciary duty.’ And that is not legally correct, but I think it’s a pretty good description of how the city feels about the rest of us,” Geoghegan said.

By the end of Geoghegan’s talk, the event had run well past its scheduled end time, and Perlstein was told to leave the I-House Assembly Hall almost immediately. Regardless, several members of the audience took up the microphone to respond, speaking against white supremacy and for continued organization against the current Presidential Library site, among other issues.

A recent survey of inmates at the Cook County Jail (CCJ) by the University of Chicago Crime Lab showed that an overwhelmingly large majority of criminals use firearms acquired in secondary markets rather than through gun shops, the Internet, or trade shows.

The study, “Sources of guns to dangerous people: What we learn by asking them,” will be published in Preventive Medicine’s Special Issue on the Epidemiology and Prevention of Gun Violence this month.

The study has been available online since April 30.

Information from the study in this article is based on this online version.

The study, which explored the sources through which criminals acquire guns, found that only two of 99 respondents had bought their weapons at a gun store.

The authors of the survey concede that the sample size of 99, representing a small subgroup selected by the Chicago Police Department (CPD) of prisoners incarcerated for violent crimes involving a firearm,

is not statistically meaningful and note that the survey should be viewed as a “qualitative not a quantitative” exercise.

Most of the transactions were made with offenders’ family members and trusted acquaintances. 60 percent of the guns involved in violent crimes were either bought or traded underground; the remainder were shared, borrowed, or being held for others.

“We are hoping to understand how one might disrupt underground markets in guns, or alter the incentives for people to possess, brandish, or use weapons in potentially lethal situations,” said co-author of the study and Crime Lab co-director Harold A. Pollack.

The data in this study were obtained from an open-ended CCJ pilot survey of 99 inmates, in fall of 2013. The scope of the study was limited to a narrow subgroup of men disposed to crimes involving firearms; the respondents had been arrested an average of 13 times, with a range of two to 54 arrests. The survey does not cover the larger gun-owning population, which includes law-abiding Americans who legally acquire guns.

The survey was structured

as a series of face-to-face conversations over several months.

Interviewers asked inmates open-ended questions on the types of guns that the offenders had access to six months prior to their arrest and the transactions that provided said access. To ensure a high degree of credibility in the responses, the respondents were granted anonymity, and any part of the survey that could be used as indirect identification was redacted from file.

Neither the interviewers nor the research team were given the names of the offenders.

Incentive for participation was a $10 phone card, the same as what an inmate would expect for work undertaken at prison.

The study acknowledges that the CPD “has a considerable effect on the workings of the underground gun market through deterrence.” The fear of getting arrested for selling to an undercover cop buyer or mole (an informant to the police) or getting found out with a “dirty” gun (a gun previously fired in a crime) effectively deters gun transactions in the underground market.

The interviews attempted to understand the mindsets of the respondents in regards to gun

use. Many felt compelled to possess a handgun to protect themselves: “I’d rather be judged by 12 than be carried by six,” one respondent said.

According to the study, “many...CCJ survey respondents were convinced that the police placed a high priority on guns and posed enough of a threat to warrant caution in dealing with buyers or sellers whom they did not know or have reason to trust.”

Thus, offenders turned to trusted contacts and associates to obtain guns.

The CPD appears to be an influential and omnipresent consideration in the underground gun market. The fear its presence incurs is already causing a dent in the market’s efficiency potential. “[The respondents] are not sophisticated gun users or consumers, which increases the odds that we might prevent some of them from getting such easy access to guns,” Pollack said.

The study ends with the suggestion that perhaps a proliferation of the existing program’s model is needed to further daunt the underground gun market and change the face of Chicago’s violent crime scene.

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United States Senate.”

McCaskill did not shy away from discussing her own political maneuverings, embracing terms like “calculating,” “strategic,” and “risky.” She argued that these concepts empower women to succeed in politics by leveling the playing field between the sexes.

“Taking risks and being highly strategic is part of winning. I want women to feel comfortable with that level of risk and with that level of

strategic thinking,” she said.

“What’s wrong with calculating? There are a lot of successful men who are calculating. Well, if women want to be successful, we’d better get on the calculating bus.”

McCaskill is no stranger to political hardball. When she was up for reelection in 2012, she ran ads during the Republican primary to endear Todd Akin, one of the candidates, to conservatives.

Her message was simple: “I’m Claire McCaskill and I approve this message. Todd

Akin is too conservative for Missouri.”

Sure enough, Akin went on to win the Republican primary and soon after ended his general election chances with his “legitimate rape” comments. “He exceeded our expectations,” McCaskill said.

The discussion turned to policy as McCaskill took questions from the audience.

She pushed back at the characterization of her military sexual assault bill as conservative compared to New York

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s bill, and she decried the media coverage that accompanied that debate. “Nothing was more painful for me than being painted that somehow I was being less aggressive on behalf of victims,” McCaskill said.

On a lighter note, McCaskill revealed her desire for a Trump/Carson Republican presidential ticket. She said that, should this ticket become a reality, she’ll be “dancing a jig in St. Louis, Missouri.”

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UCMC brings subspecialty pediatric UChicago and Northwestern receive joint care to Naperville area 5 million dollar nanotechnology grant Shereen Al-Sawwaf Maroon Contributor The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) and EdwardElmhurst Health Center have partnered to provide advanced, subspecialty pediatric care to the Naperville community.

Last month, doctors from the UCMC’s Comer Children’s Hospital joined suburban outpatient clinics at Edward Hospital in Naperville and Elmhurst Hospital in Elmhurst. New services include pediatric gastroenterolog y, pulmonary, and rheumatolog y.

Additional subspecialties such as sports medicine, cardiology, hematology/oncology, neurology, and sleep medicine will be added later in the fall “From the University of

Chicago’s point of view, [this partnership] allows us to provide care for children whom we believe we can provide outstanding care for in the community,” said Dr. John M. Cunningham, chair of the pediatric department at UChicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital. “It also identifies children who have complex diseases where we not only have expertise but also scholarly interest in actually advancing and changing outcomes for children with serious and often devastating diseases.

This partnership reinforces a long-standing relationship between the UCMC and Edward Hospital. For the past nine years, Comer Children’s Hospital doctors, under the direction of Dr. Charles Reuben, have provided advanced pediatric care for Edward Hospital

patients fighting complex cancers.

Dr. Reuben was appointed the first medical director for the Edward-Elmhurst program but he passed away in late July. “[Dr. Reuben] was one of the catalysts that allowed us to develop that relationship rapidly with Elmhurst,” Cunningham said.

“The partnership illustrates the importance and direction of pediatrics, and more broadly the University of Chicago Medicine, in developing the relationships across Chicago to provide outstanding care to all the communities in Chicago,” Cunningham said. “It also illustrates an ongoing trend of academic medical centers providing care not only on their campuses but also across the region that they serve.”

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sions. Members of the Assembly serve as both a general legislative body and as a link between the student population and university administrators.

This year, 536 first-year students participated in the election. Bhattacharya came in first place with 159 votes, Elkhaoudi came in second place with 143 votes, Torres came in third place with 138 votes, and Shariyf came in fourth place with 128 votes.

This year’s election saw a voter turnout of 36 percent, which is lower than last year’s turnout of 40 percent.

This year’s election was particularly competitive, with 20 students running for four slots. Torres said that there was no knowing who would win because all of the candidates were so qualified.

“I think so many people ran because we all come from schools where we are used to being super involved, whether it’s taking on leadership roles or just feeling passionate about our school,” Torres said.

This year’s elected reps stood out for their platforms based on social justice.

For Torres and Elkhaoudi, who are both Questbridge Scholars, the Chicago Academic Achievement Program (CAAP) inspired them to base their platforms around inclusion. The Questbridge scholarship program links low-income students to elite colleges and universities, and CAAP is a seven-week residential program that provides early exposure to scholarly and social life at the University for incoming first-year students from low-

income backgrounds.

Additionally, for Shariyf, who participated in Chicago Bound this past summer, the program opened her eyes to both the diversity of the University and the rich history of social justice movements in Chicago. The Chicago Bound program is an eight-day pre-orientation community service and civic engagement program for incoming first-year students.

Because all three candidates shared similar backgrounds and values, they decided to unofficially run together as a “slate.” “[Coming to campus] was a huge culture shock for me,” Torres said. “I definitely had my struggles during CAAP, even when I was with people who were also first-generation and/or low-income students. It’s really important for any student who feels underrepresented to feel like they have a voice through their class representatives in student government.”

“It’s all about awareness and exposure to social injustice…CAAP helped me realize…my goal is to be a loud and inclusive voice for everyone who wants to be voiced on a level that can invoke change,” Elkhaoudi said.

As members of the Southside Solidarity Network (SSN), Torres, Shariyf, and Elkhaoudi also plan on using their role in College Council to increase student body engagement with residents of the South Side.

“We want to bring what we’ve learned from our participation in SSN, CAAP, and the Chicago Bound program to the College Council,” Shariyf said.

The Class of 2019 representatives are also all women of color. The addition of the four female class representatives brings some gender balance to the College Council, which, prior to the elections, had nine male representatives and three female representatives. Bhattacharya noted that the fact that they were all women was empowering.

“We are all strong women with issues that we care very deeply about. We’re also aware that we have a very interesting and diverse student body, and that we can still be representatives of that student body even though we are all women,” Bhattacharya said.

Bhattacharya also took inspiration from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who spoke at the Institute of Politics on October 15.

“Nancy Pelosi was talking about how there aren’t enough women in government, and here we are with an all-women board….

[Women] just need the opportunity to prove themselves, and that’s what we are doing here…. This just shows how progressive our student body is.”

The representatives hope to bring more attention to the issue of sexual assault on campus, citing their concern with the results of last year’s campus climate survey. “[As someone who is] sitting on the Student Services Committee, there will definitely be a lot of conversations about sexual assault,” Shariyf said. “And, in general, about microaggressions and how it relates to gender inequality on campus.”

Sophia Zaller Maroon Contributor UChica g o and Northwestern received a joint $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) last month to advance collaborative nanotechnology research efforts in the Chicagoland area. The NSF distributed a total of $81 million in grants to 16 research sites across the country as part of a new initiative called the National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI).

“The NNCI is meant to make nanotechnology-related facilities more available to academic and non-academic institutions that do not have such infrastructure available to them locally,” said Andrew Cleland, the co-principal investigator on the NSF proposal.

Cleland is also the faculty director of the Pritzker Nanofabrication Facility (PNF), a brand new 10,000-square-foot facility located in the basement of the new Eckhardt Research Center on Ellis Avenue. “The

facility is focused on nanofabrication, and provides the most advanced tools for researchers in all fields,” he said.

Researchers in the PNF aren’t limited to electronic circuits but can also create optical, fluidic and mechanical devices at the nanoscale.

According to Matthew Tirrell, director of UChicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering, the NSF’s grant will defray the costs of operating the PNF, making it more affordable for all users to conduct original research.

The bulk of the funds will go toward supporting the salaries of staff members who maintain the research equipment that was donated in 2014 by the Pritzker Foundation. “We’ve set up a fabrication facility very much like one that you’d find in a company that makes computer chips or microchips or communication chips,” said Tirrell.

Tirrell began writing a joint proposal with Northwestern professor Vinayak Dravid in order to avoid competing headto-head with Northwestern’s already-established engineering

program. “Together, we developed a strong proposal that covered the entire Chicago region,” he said.

The proposal, titled “Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental Resource (SHyNE),” describes how the two universities plan to increase accessibility to their nanofabrication facilities for researchers from around the world. “Our facilities offer some unique capabilities especially for patterning ‘soft’ materials as well as hybrid combinations of ‘soft’ and ‘hard’ materials, a combination not available at very many other locations, which was one reason we were selected to be funded,” said Cleland.

Cleland said that the grant will also deepen existing relationships between UChicago and Northwestern, adding to the quantity and range of research topics pursued at the two campuses. “This will also expand the number of people that students and faculty at UChicago and Northwestern interact with, enabling more communication and potentially collaborations that otherwise might not be formed.”

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Cheung commented on how Humanities Day offered a rare and welcoming environment for exploring the different humanities topics studied at the University. “The sheer breadth of what is on offer is staggering,” Cheung said. “I myself would’ve liked to see other things, including things during the same [time] slot [as my own presentation]. It’s just not possible. It’s a good problem to have.”

In his own presentation, “Of Myth-making and Monumentality: A Composer’s Response to Beethoven,” Cheung attempted to make Beethoven’s influence in his work accessible to those who may not have a background in music. “I had, for instance, excerpts of scores up, which I use to illustrate things and might be helpful for those who do read music, but I try to make sure that it adds to the experience without intimi-

dating or taking away from it,” he said.

Mario Santana, an associate professor of Spanish literature, believed the main challenge of the event was showing the relevance of his research to a broader audience.

“When you’re in a particular field…you don’t need to explain why you study Spanish literature, because everyone in the field is doing the same,” Santana said. “If you’re trying to do something about literature with people who are not in the discipline, you need to show why this is relevant.”

In his presentation titled “Translation and the Implosion of National Literatures,” Santana sought to accomplish this by emphasizing the important role of translation in cultural communication and other fields outside of academic research.

Jason Merchant, another presenter and chair of the Department of Slavic languages

and literatures, is a veteran of the event, having participated in the last five Humanities Days. He commented on how this year’s event uploaded several presentations for online viewing. “The biggest change… is that now we film some of them and put them on the web, which I think is a great idea because not everybody can make it to sit in this room at this time,” Merchant said.

On the overall theme of Humanities Day, Levin remarked that critically analyzing dogma lies at the heart of the humanities.

“There’s a broader sense that what the humanities can do is make us think about things we think we know in different ways, such that maybe rather than being settled in our convictions, it can unsettle those convictions.” Levin said. “I find I prefer to be unsettled; it’s a much more exhilarating way to live.”

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preventing candidates from becoming dependent on large donations from corporations. As a solution, Zacher advocates for public campaign financing, which provides candidates with government funding if they receive a certain amount of individual donation under a certain value.

Through UCDI, Reyn-

olds, Serratelli, and Zacher hope to inspire people who are not particularly interested in politics to pay more attention to current events and become more involved in the political process.

“We want to bring people in who aren’t just thinking ‘I want to be a politician when I grow up,’ or ‘I want to be a lawyer,’” Reynolds said.

“We’re trying to deal with

issues that affect every single person. Pretty much everything you do in your life is at some point affected by the government, and what we want to do is to teach people that these things actually affect them…and to say, ‘Here’s a way you can fix this.’”

Editor’s Note: Sam Zacher is a former Maroon editor.

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Letter: SJP responds to allegations of spreading false information On October 5, Abdulrahman Shadi Obeidallah was shot in the chest with a live round by an Israeli soldier near the main entrance of the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem. He died a short while later, still wearing his school uniform.

Unfortunately, this was no isolated incident.

Since October 1, Israel has killed 32 Palestinians and injured nearly 2000 more according to conservative estimates. On October 14, as part of the International Day of Action on University Campuses for Palestine, Students for Justice in Palestine decided to commemorate the lives of these latest victims of Israeli state violence. Some, like Abdulrahman, were civilians who have been shot to death when Israel opened fire on unarmed protesters. Others Israel summarily executed without trial, after accusing them of involvement in violent incidents.

Regardless of the circumstances of their deaths, many, if not most, of these deaths are unjustifiable. They are the direct result of an Israeli policy of shooting first and asking questions later. Israel’s loose rules of engagement have garnered widespread criticism, including from Amnesty International, which has stated that there is “no justification for [Israel’s] deliberate attacks on civilians, unlawful killings by Israeli

forces, or collective punishment of Palestinians.”

Israel applies these shoot-to-kill policies exclusively to Palestinians.

Although there have recently been several stabbing incidents committed by Israeli Jews, Israel has managed to apprehend Jewish perpetrators without the need for summary execution. In the West Bank, the Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem has documented Israeli soldiers accompanying and even aiding violent settlers as they attack Palestinian civilians with stones and burn their property. As with so many aspects of contemporary Israel, here too there is one system of law and policing for Jewish Israelis and another for Palestinians.

In the midst of this violence, the Palestinian Red Crescent has declared a state of emergency, as hospitals and first responders are overwhelmed with the number of patients injured by Israel’s security policies. Compounding the challenges faced by Palestinian medical and human rights groups, Israeli officials have so far been slow to provide updated medical information about Palestinian civilians who have been either detained or treated in Israeli medical facilities, and in some cases Israeli hospitals have even refused to release the bodies of killed Palestinians for autopsy. Needless to

say, these flagrant violations of international humanitarian law have contributed to the continued assault on Palestine’s already fragile healthcare infrastructure, from recent IDF raids on Palestinian hospitals to the abduction of an injured patient near Nablus, actions that directly contravene Geneva Convention protocols on the protection of wounded civilians.

As a result, mistaken information about the names of two victims of Israeli violence was widely reported in the media. Students for Justice in Palestine repeated this mistaken information on two of the 18 variations of posters we distributed across campus (“Letter: SJP spreads false information around campus” [10/15/15]). We are heartened to learn that initial reports have since been updated to reflect the fact that these two individuals survived the attack on them by Israeli security forces. We only wish there were more survivors.

While we are relieved to learn that Ahmed Manasra, age 13, and Esraa’ Abed, age 30, survived after being attacked by Israeli security forces in separate incidents, we also reiterate the statement released by Physicians for Human Rights in Israel, condemning Israeli officials for briefing the public “with details of [Manasra’s] condition while his

parents are prevented from visiting him and have not been provided medical information on the condition of their son. Furthermore, one can see from the picture that Ahmed is bound to his bed, in violation of juvenile law, which bars [such] constraints on a minor.”

Notwithstanding this relatively minor reporting error, the overall situation that we sought to highlight through our action on Wednesday remains grave. The Israeli government is killing and injuring Palestinians at an alarming rate. And, while the specific rules of engagement may be new, these deaths and injuries are an intensification of a much longer pattern of apartheid, occupation, and systematic discrimination.

We hope that our action will cause people to become more aware of the oppressive policies of the Israeli government and join us in seeking to bring about a more just and peaceful resolution, in which the human rights of all people in Palestine/Israel may one day soon be respected.

Shockingly, some members of the University community have taken offense at our simple efforts to acknowledge the humanity of those Israel has summarily executed.

Many of our posters were torn down or defaced. On one poster, someone wrote “Am Yisrael Chai” in Hebrew, citing a Zionist slogan that origi-

nated in the 1960s but has more recently become a slogan of the violent Israeli street gangs who roam the streets of Jerusalem seeking out Palestinians and violently assaulting them. On another, someone graffitied that the largest Palestinian refugee camp is located in Syria, apparently unaware of the irony that Israeli policies are the only thing standing in the way of Palestinian refugees being allowed to return to their homes.

Regardless of the specific acts of disrespect to the dead, these reactions display a profound lack of concern for our freedom of expression, a core principle of any university community. More worrisome is that they are also evidence that some members of our community seemingly suffer from an inability to see Palestinians as human beings. Like all human beings, Palestinian lives have intrinsic value. Whether on the streets of East Jerusalem or on the sidewalks of Ferguson, no one deserves to be extrajudicially killed or executed by state police forces.

No life is expendable, and all life cut tragically short by excessive state violence deserves to be mourned.

We are saddened that this simple fact is so hard for some people to recognize.

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Where Fun Comes to Write Svetlana Alexievich’s recent Nobel triumph comes at a critical time in her field. Best known for her wrenching exposé on the

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Committee’s award a too-littletoo-late gesture, or a reminder that, even in the digital age of journalism, people still want hardhitting, well-researched pieces like Voices from Chernobyl?

This summer, I was convinced that the former was true after I was invited to visit my local newspaper’s headquarters. It was easy to imagine the newspaper’s office in its pre-Internet atmosphere: furious typewriters, hissing faxes, and vertiginous stacks of papers, not unlike (to use an analogy dear to all the econ majors out there) the Stratton Oakmont offices in Wolf of Wall Street Instead, I found a hint (a full comparison would be inappropriately hyperbolic) of Alexievich’s Chernobyl. There was a sense of emptiness among all the deserted desks as a few isolated keyboard clicks echoed, as if reverberating in a mausoleum.

That isn’t to say journalism is a dying field. Print journalism, however, has largely acquiesced to online news, because most of today’s readers—not just Millennials, the topic of so many of the tired, fluff think pieces that plague the Internet—not only want, but expect news at Twitter-like speeds.

After all, it’s much easier to access the front page of the New York Times from a smartphone screen than it is to bend over in the driveway and pick it up.

Forgive me if I sound nostalgic, but in the romantic heyday of journalism, or at least before the

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French fried Navigating a new country can be isolating and just plain tiring

Brooke White

A Belle Abroad After standing in line for 20 minutes only to find out that the Starbucks on Paris’ famous ChampsÉlysées had finished brewing decaf coffee for the night, I resigned to order anyway, struggling to communicate that I just wanted a normal coffee. No, not an Americano or a Cappuccino or a café allongé (which is just espresso with added water).

After a back-and-forth verbal tug of war resulting from both linguistic and cultural barriers—because the French don’t understand regular drip coffee—I cupped my hand for my change, and the barista, leaning over the counter, whispered in his broken English, “I’m so tired, and my boss is a dick.”

Good for you, barista boy. Learning foreign street slang is one thing, but correctly using it scores major bonus points among natives. After I learned how the French say “tipsy,” I’d asked everyone if their postdinner pinot noir had them feeling a little pompette.

This wasn’t the first time I made the most of my study abroad experience by picking up the more unteachable things. My Friday nights spent along the banks of the Seine with French friends studying at the Sorbonne have taught me the more useful (if less appropriate) vocabulary I need. Because the only word I knew for “to kiss” is used in the context of kissing your grandmother on the cheek after Thanksgiving dinner, I have said, “OK, just tell me how you say ‘to make out.’”

Studying abroad creates, without a doubt, a heavily filtered reality.

Essentially, it is an extended vacation. But I wouldn’t call myself disillusioned by the Parisian charm—I have become hypersensitive to my surroundings. The cultural differences between America and France have helped me recognize how arrogance, in general, is relative to one’s own culture. In the United States, we are proud to be cigarettefree. But in Paris, where it’s custom to see ashtrays on Starbucks tables, your smoke-free attitude would have Parisians blowing smoke in your face. Walk along the Seine any Friday or Saturday night, and you’ll find groups of French teens and 20-somethings, sipping wine and smoking Camels. For Americans, cigarettes equate to cancer. For the French, they’re casual. Don’t take this as a go-ahead to pick up smoking as your newest habit. All I know

is that being dropped in a culture with different values and expectations can ultimately make us turn from viewing something as completely appalling to quite appealing.

During my first few weeks here, constantly speaking and simply thinking in French exhausted me.

On the first day, when I grabbed groceries, it took me four times to understand the cashier when she told me that I had to weigh my fruit before bringing it to the register, and because the words “to dress” (s’habiller) and “to live” (habiter) sound somewhat similar, I accidentally told a French friend that I had to go live in my clothes. When I went to the doctor because my eyes felt strained, I approached a waiting room full of patients and stuttered, in French, “I’m not French, and I’ve never been here. So what do I do?” and an elderly woman sitting closest to me laughed and motioned for me to sit next to her: “You sit down and you wait.”

In my opinion, one of the primary goals of studying in a foreign country is to push students really far out of their comfort zones. And it’s true that when I walk alone in the Marais or near Notre Dame, I deal with sudden spurts of melancholy. Call it what you will—homesickness, culture shock, perhaps a little nostalgia—but sometimes I miss Sunday night football and raking fall leaves and Hershey brand chocolate. But as I persevered through the discomfort, I’ve been able to level-up from a timid tourist to a quasi-local helping lost Frenchies get to the right metro stop.

I want to be French just as much as the next Francophile and just as much as the Parisian girls enchanted by Rihanna and T-Swift want to be American, but I’m not French, whatever that means. The cultural mélange that sweeps through Paris makes identifying the disparity of cultural expectations quite tricky: French McDonald’s sell every macaron flavor imaginable, and chain stores advertise their “MEGASALES!!!” promotions in English.

Once, in the cramped cars of the Parisian subway trains, I sat awkwardly among a group of sweaty French teenage boys, one wearing a snapback and another with his skateboard propped next to him.

OK, so are these like French…bros?

I eavesdropped on their weekend adventures around Paris, and as the

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two across from me stood up to leave, they both kissed their skateboarding friend on each cheek and yelled, “Bisous!”—“Kisses!”—before leaving.

Explaining the basics of fraternities, sororities, my senior prom, and homecoming football games spurred another realization that so much of what is important to me, and to my friends, and to my cul-

ture, is nearly incomprehensible to others. A lot of what I’ve come to value is of no importance to a lot of French students, which has at times created an intense feeling of isolation while abroad.

The work of study abroad seems to be bridging that gap, finding the similarities, noticing the differences, and somehow letting the isolation dissolve. I keep expecting

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things here to be the same as they are in America. They are and they aren’t at the same time. The navigation can be bumpy at times, but I’m coming to find a home in Paris, one that is different and the same all at once.

Brooke White is a second-year in the College majoring in political science.

“The jobs aren’t disappearing; rather, the demands of the industry have changed.”

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rise of the Internet, reporters were literally superheroes. Beneath the Spiderman mask and Superman suits were two contributors to the Daily Bugle and The Daily Planet, respectively. In the inevitable cinematic reboots of both series, we should really expect to see Spidey and Superman as Buzzfeed staffers instead, where prerequisite knowledge of journalistic writing and ethical standards are less important than command of Frozen

GIFs and Friends quotes.

As easy as it is to ridicule Buzzfeed and VICE’s online articles for their seeming amateurishness and lack of editing, they represent the greater direction of journalism. If journalism is an evolving field, then the ones who label it a “dying profession” are the ones who aren’t adapting.

Although aspiring journalists and other humanities majors are constantly decrying (or are warned about) the lack of jobs in their

field, this simply isn’t true. It’s not that the jobs are disappearing ; rather, the demands of the industry have changed. With the Internet, information is more accessible than ever. All it takes is a quick Google search or a Wikipedia article to confirm or factcheck a suspicion. Internet journalism, with its myriad hyperlinks, is a platform that allows for faster publishing and better-researched pieces, which ultimately benefits the industry.

While even respectable publications (Time, The Huffington Post, etc.) on the Internet will continue to produce click bait due to the very nature of the Internet itself, there will always be a need to piece together available information, analyze it, and create accessible, digestible narratives. And with news moving at lightning speed, there will still be a niche for those works that dive beneath the surface, and for those that demand perilous trips to perilous places

where Internet coverage may not even be available. In our srirachasoaked, Girls-referencing world of Buzzfeed-style journalism, Alexievich and her contemporaries—the ones that brave gunfire and explosions, the ones that risk televised beheadings, the ones that fight for free speech in repressive regimes—are proof that journalists can still be heroes.

Felipe Bomeny is a first-year in the College.

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Full Disclosure, DJ set at Navy Pier refused to Settle for the expected

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Disclosure provided a killer set from their new album Caracal along with old favorites from their debut album Settle.

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Alexia Bacigalupi Arts Contributor The bare walls of Navy Pier were bathed in a brilliant amethyst light. The screen facing the crowd depicted two openmouthed profiles, the familiar bars of “Latch” trickled in, and the crowd started to roar.

“Latch” is the song that catapulted Disclosure to fame.

Topped off by Sam Smith’s silky falsetto, “Latch” is an intriguing blend of snappy staccato beats and slick synth swooshes. Disclosure completed the Chicago stop of its American tour for its new album, Caracal, with a classic. This left the crowd full of smiles and ringing ears.

The opening act of the night was Pomo, a Montreal-based EDM producer and instrumentalist. Unlike other artists in his genre, Pomo eschewed the increasingly tense buildups followed by a heart-thumping drop in favor of a more subdued and minimalist sound.

Because Pomo was so intently focused on his music, producing on the fly without pre-recordings, there was little interaction with the crowd that was slowly filling the space. Following him was the more established Claude VonStroke, whose stuttering beats and thumping bass, reminiscent of Steve Aoki’s, got the crowd on its feet. The blinding strobe lights and fist-pumping sounds provided a welcome contrast to the more restrained Pomo,

but they quickly became tiresome.

The audience was a mix of college students, young professionals, hard-core EDM enthusiasts, and middle-aged guys in buttondown shirts. More downtown edge than Coachella, the vibe was characterized by beanies, backward caps, leather jackets, and flannels.

By the time the opening acts had finished, the space around the stage was full but not uncomfortably so.

There was plenty of space near the back for those inclined to dance.

After an intermissionlike pause, Disclosure finally took the stage. The two brothers, Howard and Guy Lawrence from the U.K., took their places on two raised podiums. Facing each other in a Roman emperor style, each podium had a complete DJ setup.

After a brief introduction, they launched into the song “White Noise” from their first album, Settle. The light show on the screen behind the brothers was simple but engaging, and the sound— not unlike the album itself—was slick and minimal, despite the added snarl of a bass guitar.

The set list was a mix of classics from Settle and some of the more popular singles from Caracal.

While one might imagine that watching two music producers on stage would be dull compared to a live pop performance, the duo’s energy was infectious. The brothers threw themselves

into their equipment and occasionally played the bass guitar and contributed vocals in songs such as “F for You,” “Jaded,” and “Willing and Able.” The production was more pumped-up than in the studio; the beats were bulkier, and there was more urgency and edge to the songs, particularly the spiky “When a Fire Starts to Burn” and “You & Me.” Unfortunately, though, some of the crispness and focus that defined the sleek tautness of Settle was lost in the cavernous venue. The intricacies were slightly muddled, but Disclosure made up for it in the general energy and elastic flow of the music; it was full of well-timed swells, dips, and bulked-up bass, which alternated with more delicate diminuendos.

Howard Lawrence’s vocals were solid but often got lost in the ocean of sound.

This was a recurring issue throughout the night.

Standouts included “Magnets”—where Lorde’s vocals were perfectly languid and sultry above the pulsing beat—and “Nocturnal,” where The Weeknd’s ethereal voice floated above as Disclosure warped the music from a slow lullaby into a heart-pumping anthem.

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Nancy Meyer’s newest movie, The Intern, is an unusual take on the classic buddy film. Ben Whittaker (Robert De Niro) is a septuagenarian intern to Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway), the ambitious founder and CEO of an e-commerce fashion startup.

A widower who is bored with the monotony of retirement, Whittaker is adorable in a grandfatherly way; while he helps around the office, he dispenses old-timey wisdom.

I found De Niro’s grandpatype character to be more two-dimensional than the neurotic father he plays in Silver Linings Playbook and the aggressive father-in-law that he presents in Little Fockers. The Intern is also starkly different from the other movie centered on an elderly character that came out recently, Grandma, which stars Lilly Tomlin as a swearing, feminist badass.

In The Intern, Whittaker falls into more typical senior tropes, playing a big-

hearted, but uncomplicated character. In comparison to Tomlin, he’s depicted as a saint. Whittaker cleans up the office, suggests groundbreaking ideas, saves Ostin from getting in a car with a drunk driver, and even babysits Ostin’s daughter. He gets a little bit of a story arc with his courting of the office masseuse, Fiona (Rene Russo), but there is no sort of backstory or insight into his character otherwise.

Despite the title, it is Anne Hathaway’s Ostin who drives the plot. Ostin falls into the typical working mother archetype to some extent, but this movie is also refreshingly aware of this fact. At one point in the movie, Ostin drops her daughter off at a birthday party, where the other snobby mothers spurn her success by implying her job has made her absent.

Upset, Ostin later complains, “It’s 2015, are we really still critical of working moms, still?” Watching this, the viewers are left with some questions of their own: Why is being a successful female with a

family still a central movie theme? Shouldn’t society be so beyond this convention of a stay-at-home dad and working mom that it doesn’t even need to be addressed?

On the comedic end, I found some of the humor a little weak. Most of it is centered around the “hilarity” of a 70-year-old being able to still have a relationship with a woman or the various hijinks the interns get into while trying to help Ostin. Besides that, most of the movie is just the humdrum of everyday life played out with a little exaggeration.

Sometimes it’s nice to watch a movie where the main characters are mostly good people worth rooting for, but in my opinion, this movie isn’t nearly engaging or groundbreaking enough to warrant seeing it in theaters. However, if you’re looking for some lighthearted fare featuring some good life lessons and not too much drama, this film would be great for a chill weekend night once it is released to TV or Netflix.

CSO contends with On the Waterfront score this Friday Rebecca Julie Arts Contributor “It is really sort of like all the planets are lining up perfectly,” Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) conductor Richard Kaufman said in anticipation of the upcoming October 23 performance of On the Waterfront.

Maestro Kaufman will be leading the orchestra in the opening night of the annual CSO at the Movies concert series, for which the orchestra will play scores from beloved movies, for the 10th time. Kaufman is a veteran film score conductor.

He has collaborated with countless film and television stars, received two Emmy nominations, and worked as the vice president of music for Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer.

On Friday, under Kaufman’s baton, the CSO will play Leonard Bernstein’s score for Elia Kazan’s On the Waterfront, starring Marlon Brando.

“This film was done many decades ago, and the sound of that time was not as advanced in the theater as it is now,” Kaufman said while discussing the upcoming concert. “The idea that an

audience can not only hear the score played live, which will be kind of like attending the recording session for the film, but hear it played by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra…will be truly a unique experience for both film and film score lovers.”

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Marolon Brando makes a different appearance at a previous CSO at the Movies show.

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lian Hervey of the duo Lion Babe and Brendan Reilley were particularly notable. Lion Babe performed the vocals for “Hourglass” and commanded the stage in her silver bodysuit and feather boa. Her strong, sassy vocals cut through the drum fog while the screen, which her figure partially shadowed, showed a montage. It looked like an intro sequence of an Austin Powers movie. During the encore, Reilly truly shined while singing “Moving Mountains.” His powerful falsetto rode above the soulful, swelling music, and the crowd swayed slowly in time.

Settle established Disclosure

as a band to watch; Disclosure’s honed production skills, snappy beats, and well-matched vocal collaborators were a welcome relief amid the sea of sloppy, formulaic EDM beat-makers. Caracal found the Lawrence brothers playing it safer. While exploring a variety of sounds and collaborations, Disclosure softened the razor-sharp sound and mellowed slightly to create more of a radio-friendly electro R&B sound. Live, the two Brits managed the delicate balance between showing off their technical prowess and maintaining the crowd’s energy and enthusiasm. The result was nothing but fantastic fun.

as well as musical scores; West Side Story is the most notable example.

However, On the Waterfront was Bernstein’s only work for the screen.

“I believe that what Leonard Bernstein wrote musically truly creates a musical environment under and around the film,” Kaufman said. “Elia Kazan made certain choices on how to use the music in the film, and I believe his choices were brilliant, and they certainly have helped make this motion picture iconic in many ways. It would have been interesting to know what Bernstein would have written for other films, but he made the choice to have this be his only film score. And I believe that he really hit a home run in

this effort.”

In December, Kaufman will once again take to the podium in a performance of the holiday classic Home Alone, starring Macaulay Culkin and Joe Pesci, with music by the great John Williams. “Each season we try to put together a contrasting group of evenings.

Making the decision on what to present is an exciting challenge, and a lot of fun,” Kaufman explained. “There is so much that can be presented in concert in terms of music that represents different films, different film composers, and different genre of music.”

Kaufman’s vast knowledge of film scores will be on full display on the final evening of the series, “Hooray for Hollywood.” The

CSO will play selected excerpts from such classics as Citizen Kane, Gone with the Wind, King Kong, and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, among others. With each excerpt, the orchestra will play alongside the corresponding movie scene.

The success of the last 10 years of the CSO at the Movies series is a testament to the unparalleled experience of hearing film scores live, and Friday will be the start of another season of film score celebration.

“I think everyone has their favorite films and film music,” Kaufman said. “To be able to hear that music performed by one of the greatest orchestras in a concert setting…gives the listener an exciting and unique opportunity to enjoy the music.”

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Joshua Redman and the Bad Plus perform at a radio event earlier this year.

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Rebecca Julie Arts Contributor If music could materialize, then the sound that engulfed the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s (CSO) Hall on Friday night might resemble a piñata raining colorful, sophisticated surprises. The Symphony Center Presents Jazz Series featuring The Bad Plus with Joshua Redman perfectly embodied the fun of a child’s birthday party but with all of the class you would expect from a concert at the CSO. To say that The Bad Plus is avantgarde is an understatement. The trio—an ensemble that has released recordings ranging from Igor Stravinksy’s Rite of Spring to covers of Neil Young and Ornette Coleman— has an almost inhuman capacity for creativity. They typically perform without guests, but after a hugely successful series of Blue Note performances in New York with Joshua Redman in 2011, the group began to collaborate more with the famed saxophonist. This ultimately resulted in a well-received album that was released in the spring of 2015.

To whatever forces brought the two artists together four years ago, I am forever indebted to you. Everything about Friday’s performance was fresh, tasteful, and so fiery that at the end of the performance, I actually had to remain in my seat for a few moments to collect myself.

Redman, a skilled saxophonist in every way, demonstrated not only his technical prowess—his command of the tenor saxophone was impeccable—but his musical gift. At one point during “County Seed” by pianist Ethan Iverson, he jumped into a rapid succession of sixteenth notes that resembled a technique-building étude, but he placed it so skillfully that it sounded like the embodiment of joy. (Any musician can tell you that technique-building etudes are typically far from the embodiment of joy.)

The group opened with drummer David King’s “Beauty Has it Hard,” which began with a comfortable piano melody that turned dissonant a few moments later. Surprisingly, this dissonance was easier to swallow than that of other famous jazz artists, such as Wayne Shorter, who enjoy harmonic experimentation. Never

once did I feel like the compositions were purposely jarring for the sake of hurting the audience, but rather, they were very tastefully portrayed—never fussy, never overdone, always meaningful, enhancing and wonderfully surprising.

By the time Redman entered on “Beauty,” he was so flawlessly integrated that he seemed like the longlost fourth member of the group. It never felt like an uncomfortable or forced collaboration. The Bad Plus is known for its strong group mentality, and Redman, although technically the guest of honor, never seemed to outshine the other members. The ensemble’s collective energy was infectious. However, there were a few moments during the performance when the energy made King overzealous to the point of overpowering the group. King, probably one of the most skilled and inventive jazz drummers alive today, was a pleasure to listen to because of his immense creativity and metrical variety in each tune, but it was a shame that he sometimes smothered Redman’s solos.

My only other criticism is that during bassist Reid Anderson’s ballad

“Lack the Faith but not the Wine,” the band seemed to lack a bit of its trademark intensity from earlier in the performance. That being said, it was a treat to hear Joshua Redman’s velvety tone soar through the acoustics of Orchestra Hall on something slower. The audience definitely needed to take a break from the thrilling roller coaster of some of the earlier compositions. I only wish the band hadn’t seemed like they needed the break as well.

However, these slight shortcomings were fleeting. From the moment the ballad ended until the end of the concert, the show was so vibrant that it could have been a Red Bull commercial—and a highly enjoyable one at that. The music climaxed in a nearly pyrotechnic display of sound in the finale of “Silence is the Question,” which is also by Reid Anderson. Up until this point, Anderson had not taken any solos of his own, something conspicuously odd about the concert.

Thankfully, “Silence” opened with a lengthy bass solo, giving him a chance to stretch out and show off his lustrous sound.

By the end of “Silence,” the piece

had evolved to such an extreme height that I was convinced that if anything could bring down the roof of Orchestra Hall, it would be this group. Redman’s final solo was outrageous, musical, and incredibly full of raw emotion.

Anderson, in addition to being a skilled composer and bassist, attempted to sing at the end of the night when he gave a comical advertisement for the group’s album: “So many things to do in Chicago/ You might want to walk by the lake or go to the art museum/ It’s always a good day in Chicago to do whatever else you want to do/ So buy our CD and thank you.”

It was this moment that proved how The Bad Plus has all the ingenuity without the pretense. The entire night was dedicated to a full display of their inventive artistry, yet this brief moment showed that they, like the audience, were just there to have a good time. Sketchy vocals aside, Anderson was right about the fact that there is an abundance of things to do in Chicago; I’m just glad I chose to go to this concert. The album was 11 dollars well spent.

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Women shine at Wisconsin-Oshkosh AAE Invite CROSS COUNTRY

The squad readies before its early-season meet at the Wheaton Invite.

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Katie Anderson Associate Sports Editor Both the men’s and the women’s cross country squads had impressive showings at the UW–Oshkosh AAE Invite this weekend.

The meet is notoriously one of the toughest of the season for both teams, with compe-

tition from 13 states and 26 nationally ranked Division III teams.

Despite the field of brutal competition, the men placed 14th out of the 45 teams competing, with a score of 374 points. In the 8K race, located at Lake Breeze Golf Club, fourth-year Michael Frasco led the way for the

Maroons, placing 19th out of 419 total runners. Thirdyear Gareth Jones was right behind him, finishing 28th at 25:11.

Frasco attributes the Maroons’ success to the consistent effort that the team has demonstrated through its training. “We had terrific summer and fall training that

prepared us for this meet. All of the miles and hard workouts are starting to pay off as we enter our championship races,” said the fourth-year captain.

Now in his final season, Frasco credits much of his success to his ability to remain poised even in highpressure situations. “On the

starting line, I try to relax and remember my training to stay confident. This race was amazing for me because I felt so smooth. I was on my toes for most of the race,” he said.

Although people are quick to consider cross country an individual sport, Frasco also comments on the ways his teammate, Jones, has helped him through the season. “Gareth and I ran together really well. It is great to have him as a training partner. Gareth and I almost set personal bests in this race, which is something that we were not expecting. It was a great surprise to see that we are fit and ready to run fast,” he said.

While the men have clearly had strong performances on the season thus far, the women have been particularly dominant. Among 46 teams, the women tallied 201 points to place third in the 6K competition.

Second-year Khia Kurtenbach has been leading the charge for the Maroons, placing 13th this weekend in the field of 414 participants, with a time of 21:45. Kurtenbach, formerly a swimmer for the South Siders, is a newcomer to the cross country squad, and has certainly proved that she is just effective on land as

she is in water. In addition to being Chicago’s top finisher this weekend, she also placed first overall in the Illinois Intercollegiate Competition two weeks ago, and fifth overall in the Wheaton Invite the weekend before. In the four meets she has competed in thus far, she has always been the Maroons’ top finisher.

Impressive upperclassman leadership has also made a significant contribution to the women’s success. Fourthyears Catherine Young and Brianna Hickey have provided consistent performances for the South Siders. This weekend, Hickey finished 26th overall at 22:04, followed by Young, who finished 48th overall at 22:31.

Next up for both the men’s and women’s teams is the UAA Championships, which will take place in Boston.

“The entire team is motivated and ready to compete in Boston at the UAA championships,” Frasco said.

The meet will take place on Saturday, October 31, giving the Maroons two weeks with no meets. With a weekend off, hopefully Chicago will have plenty of time to recover and prepare, with the goal of bringing two UAA titles back to the South Side.

Iranpour, Chua hold their own at ITA Nationals

Team struggles to gain footing at second UAA Round Robin

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Britta Nordstrom Associate Sports Editor While the “sophomore slump” is all too real for many college athletes, second-years Ariana Iranpour, David Liu, and Nicholas Chua have not felt the effects. All three athletes had the opportunity to travel to sunny South Carolina for the ITA National Small College Championships to represent the Maroons this past weekend.

Regarding youth, Iranpour said, “I think college tennis gives an advantage to younger players because you have a lot of room to grow.”

This was displayed at the competition; three of the four players to which Chicago fell were underclassmen.

Iranpour and Chua both competed in the singles draw, while Liu and Chua also participated in the doubles tournament. Expectations were high for the South Siders; the tandem of Liu and Chua came in seeded at No. 4, and both Iranpour and Chua were seeded at No. 2 in their respective divisions.

The matches commenced on Thursday. Chua led

the way with an 8:30 a.m. match. The pressure was high for the second-year: Although he is young, he is the defending champion of the singles draw. Unfortunately, this ranking didn’t help him capitalize on his talent. Despite being unranked, his opponent, fellow second-year Noah Farrell from Middlebury, ended up dispatching Chua in two sets (6–2, 6–2).

The Maroons were able to bounce back, however, as Liu and Chua took on a team from UC-Santa Cruz and were able to defeat them in two sets (6–4, 6–2).

Iranpour was also successful on the women’s side, beating her opponent from William Paterson in a hard-fought game that went to three sets (7–5, 2¬–6, 7–5).

Chua was able to win his Friday match against the No. 3 seeded player from Carnegie (6–4, 1–6, 6–1) to advance to the fifth-place singles match on Saturday.

The doubles tandem, however, was unable to continue their 9–0 fall streak on Saturday, and fell in three hotly-contested sets to a team from Trinity that eventually went on to win the doubles championship.

Even though Chua and Liu were not crowned doubles champions, they were still able to come back from the loss to win the thirdplace match later on Friday.

They defeated the Skidmore doubles combo of Leung and Tong in two sets (6–1, 7–6) to wrap up the ITA doubles competition for the Maroons.

On the women’s side, Iranpour faced the No. 3 seed from Hopkins on Friday and lost in two sets (6–4, 6–1), bumping her to the third place game on Saturday.

Unfortunately, neither Chua nor Iranpour was able to close the deal in their respective games. Kai Yuen Leung from Skidmore was able to exact his revenge against Chua in two sets (6–4, 6–3), and Iranpour fell in three sets to UAA foe Taylor Cosme from Emory.

Although the results may not be what Chicago was aiming for, the players are still positive with their hopes for spring season and the NCAA tournament.

“I’m excited for the spring season and the matches to come,” Iranpour said. “We have a great team dynamic this year and I can’t wait to see how we thrive.”

Katrina Williams Sports Contributor Chicago hit the road again this weekend for their second round of UAA play in Cleveland, OH. Coming off two wins several weekends ago in the first UAA Round Robin, hopes were high and the team was rested after their bye week this past weekend. They went into the weekend 14–5 overall and 2–1 in the UAA, and were looking to augment their wins against some formidable foes.

The first game of the weekend pitted Chicago against the host team, Case Western.

The Spartans swept the South Siders in three matches to take home the win. Third-year Mary Claire Tuhoy displayed the team’s shock when she said, “I think we felt good. Confident. Surely we weren’t expecting the outcome on Saturday.

We had a bad day. It happens.

Looking ahead, we really just need to return to being a unit.

Finding a way to bind together and build each other up when the going gets tough. Especially when the going gets tough.”

The Maroons had an opportunity to bounce back when they faced Carnegie Mellon later that Saturday, but Carnegie led the Maroons in all the significant statistics: hit-

ting percentage, blocks, and digs. The teams tied with 6 aces apiece. Carnegie won the first two matches, 25–23 and 25–22, respectively. The Maroons stepped up their game in the third match, winning 25–21, but it was not enough, and Carnegie came back with a 25–10 win in the fourth match to seal the deal.

Sunday provided the Maroons’ solo win of the weekend.

Chicago swept Brandeis in the first three matches, coming out on top on Sunday morning. The South Siders started strong and maintained their powerful hitting throughout the game; they nearly tripled the Judges’ hitting percentage.

Chicago also dominated with their serves, totaling 11 aces, while Brandeis had only three.

The last game of the weekend was the showdown between two ranked teams: the No. 15 Maroons and No. 3 Emory. The Eagles came out on top in the first three matches (26–24, 27–25, 25–17), completing the sweep. Fourthyear Maren Loe obtained nine kills, seven digs, and three aces, and Ragine Graves had a very good game with 36 assists and nine digs, but it wasn’t enough to achieve the upset.

Although the Maroons didn’t come out on top, it was a

very competitive game. Tuhoy comments, “We hung with Emory all the way through.

It was the only match this weekend that I felt we played Maroon volleyball. Emory is ranked No. 3 in the country right now and our scores were 24–26 and 26–28 in the first and second set. We need to take those scores, realize how good we are, and get back the competitive fire we had earlier this season.”

Chicago is very optimistic about the future of their team.

Tuohey maintains hope for the remainder of the season, saying, “Our fire will be rekindled starting with the game against Wheaton.” They have eight games left, and three of the eight are in the IWU Classic.

The South Siders started off their season 11–2, but have since gone 4–6. However, they are confident that they can get back to their dominating force.

The Maroons are now 15–8 overall.

Chicago takes on Wheaton College on Tuesday, October 20 at 7 p.m. for senior night, and they’re hoping that the home crowd can spur them on to victory. The South Siders are undefeated at home with a 4–0 record, and this will be their first match at home since September 5.

SPORTS

IN QUOTES “Whatever was planned, things decidely did not go that way. It was not good. A complete cluster.”

–Colts punter Pat McAfee reacts to the impossibly bad fake-punt play the Colts ran against the Patriots on Sunday

Maroons return to norm with 21–7 win over Rhodes FOOTBALL Emmet Roseumbaum Sports Staff The Maroons rolled into Rhodes College on Saturday, the sting of the previous weekend’s loss to Berry still fresh in every player’s mind. However, the team managed to grind out a 21–7 win over their Memphis opponent behind a fast start and some stalwart defense.

Playing in the third-annual Blues Bowl, Chicago got started quickly. The team worked the ball downfield methodically, completing pass after pass before second-year running back Chandler Carroll eventually pounded the ball in from two yards out.

The Chicago defense responded with their own authoritative statement, forcing a quick three and out from the Lynx offense.

Getting the ball back quickly, junior quarterback Burke Moser wasted no time finding the end zone again. He hooked up with fourth-year wide receiver Sam Coleman for a 52-yard touchdown pass. Moser, who ended the day with 244 yards and two touchdowns, has played terrifically through the first half of the season, averaging 250 yards per game to go with 15 touchdowns.

After another three and out shutdown by the defense, the Maroons got the ball back and worked their way down field fast thanks to a 39-yard completion

by Coleman. In the red zone, Moser found second-year receiver Jamie Rieger from seven yards out to make the score 21–0 only 11 minutes into the game.

“We love going out with a lead and knowing if we stop the other team then we’re good,”

said second-year defensive end Peter Casey. “It lets us play loose and fast when the offense makes plays.”

Given their sizeable cushion, the Chicago defense went to work, shutting down the Rhodes offense for much of the game and only allowing two plays in the red zone until the fourth quarter.

“The D line was dominating out there,” Casey said, who had two sacks and six tackles on the day.

“Rhodes’ O line didn’t have any idea what was going on.”

The Lynxes managed to score in the fourth quarter off of a one-yard rush, but the game was well in hand by that point as the defense showed no sign of allowing anything more. The game was another mark in a string of recent success for the Maroon defense.

Though the offense has slowed down from its blazing start, the

Third-year quarterback Burke Moser rolls out for a pass against Berry.

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team has only given up an average of 15 points per game over the last three matches. Casey thought that their success has permeated the entire defensive unit, and that everyone had been making plays. “The D line and linebackers have really stepped

up in stopping the run and our secondary is making a lot more plays in the last few weeks.”

The Maroons will square off against Hendrix next Saturday in the homecoming game. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:25 p.m. at Stagg Field on October 24.

Squad splits pair of games in the Empire State

Chicago knocks off two ranked conference rivals

MEN’S SOCCER

WOMEN’S SOCCER

First-year Max Lopez regains his footing against St. Olaf.

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Frances McDonald Sports Contributor This weekend, the Maroons got the chance to hop on a plane to Boston and NYC for their third and fourth conference games of the season against Brandeis and NYU, respectively. Chicago split the weekend, losing to the No. 7 Judges 0–1, but snatching an exciting 3–0 win over NYU on Sunday.

In Boston, Brandeis scored in the last five minutes of the previously scoreless game to come up with a win.

In the game against NYU, Chicago’s stellar first-year forward, Max Lopez, scored early in the second half to kick off a scoring spree for the remainder of the game. After this weekend, the squad has an overall record of 8–4–2.

The South Siders came out strong in

the first half of the Brandeis match, tallying seven corner kicks. Lopez nearly scored for the Maroons on a header in the 14th minute but a Brandeis defender deflected the goal at the last second.

More action came about in the second half, when the Judges made four attempts on goal in the 69th minute.

Lopez got personal revenge by preventing a goal late in the game but the Brandeis’ goal in the 85th minute of the game ended the scoreless run, giving the nationally-ranked team another win.

“Throughout the majority of the game, we pinned them in their half [of the field] and didn’t let them breathe.

We were working so hard to get the goal that a moment of a loss of focus defensively allowed them to get an

easy goal. Even though we dominated them in most aspects of the field, their tough backline and a good amount of bad luck on our end kept us from scoring,” said second-year defender Stacey Reimann.

Brandeis held the edge on total shots (11–10), while Chicago had more shots on goal (5–4). These close statistics reflected the hotly contested match. The Maroons dominated the corner kick category (11–0), but were unable to translate these opportunities into goals, resulting in a disappointing loss for the South Siders.

On Sunday afternoon, Chicago had a chance to end the weekend even. After eight shots on goal during the first half, Lopez started the second half of the NYU match with a goal, assisted by first-year Matthew Koh, and put the Maroons up 1–0.

The score remained 1–0 for the rest of the match until the 86th minute, in which Chicago brought the excitement. Koh assisted another goal, scored by fourth-year Peter Boxley.

Two minutes later the team’s captain, third-year Chris Mathis, scored a 30yard goal, assisted by fourth-year midfielder Jorge Bilbao.

The Maroons beat the Violets in shots (21–15), shots on goal (14–8), and corner kicks (5–1). Just as the stats from the Brandeis match reflected the score, these stats showed NYU’s decimation at Chicago’s hands.

Defender Reimann is confident about the final few games of the season. “After putting three goals away against NYU on Sunday, we shouldn’t have a problem remaining scoreless against an opponent, no matter their ranking, again this season.”

Chicago faces Aurora University on Sunday at 1 p.m.

Michael Cheiken Sports Staff The Maroon women’s soccer squad had all week to dwell on their previous winless weekend, and they decided that they did not like losing very much. With much vim and vigor, the team traveled to the Northeast for two games this past weekend, and began their streak of six consecutive games against ranked opponents.

The first was against the No. 10 Brandeis Judges.

The Judges came into the game with an outstanding 11–1–1 record while the South Siders sat at a respectable, but underwhelming, 8–4–0. They were eager to tighten the gap, and they showed it. For the entire 90 minutes, each team was desperate to score. By the end of the game, Chicago had 12 shots compared to the home team’s 10, but the numbers do not quite tell the whole story.

The Maroons and the Judges have each been particularly stalwart on the defensive end throughout the season. Prior to Friday, they had given up a combined 14 goals in 25 games. This is in large part due to the fact that each team usually drops a holding midfielder back into the main section of the defensive line, effectively playing with five players in the back. Despite the crowdedness of the opposing third, the South Siders were still able to amass 12 shots (six on goal), forcing Brandeis goal-tender Alexis Grossman to make a seasonhigh of five saves.

One of those shots got past the adept keeper. In the 43rd minute,

striker Mia Calamari tallied her 11th assist of the season, feeding the ball to third-year midfielder Sophia Kim. Kim took the ball out of the air to put the Maroons up on the home side, and Chicago entered into the halftime period with a one-goal lead. It was all they would need. The goalkeeper minded the space between the pipes with great awareness and composure, making all seven saves required of her.

Continuing the trip, the team played against the No. 16 NYU Violets on Sunday. The Violets gave little resistance to Chicago’s balanced attack. The Chicago women were constantly barraging the Violets’ goaltender with shots, tallying a total of 26 by the final whistle. However, the squad struggled to find the back of the net, and when the Violets scored in the 14th minute, the pressure was on. It did not take long for the Maroons to reply. Center-back Kaitlin Price, always a threat on set pieces, found the end of a corner kick and nodded it home.

Despite their constant attack, Chicago was unable to add a second goal, and the game continued into overtime. Standout first-year Jenna McKinney was able to settle a long ball in from Calamari.

She quickly turned and fired the ball into the back of the net. The goal ended the game and boosted the South Siders to a 10–4 record (3–1 in the UAA).

On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., the Maroons play against Wheaton College here at Stagg Field, beginning a four-game home stretch to end the season.