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Spontaneous combustion causes church fire on 64th Street Katie Akin Maroon Contributor “We will not be discouraged—not by fire, not by destruction.” These words rang out over the crowd at St. Thomas the Apostle Church on Sunday, October

18, as Monsignor Michael Schmitz gave his sermon to the displaced people of Shrine of Christ the King Church, which was damaged in a fire earlier this month.

Chicago Fire Department detectives told ABC7 News

that the spontaneous combustion of wood-staining rags may have caused the October 7 flames.

Now roofless and smokestained, the 92-year-old Shrine of Christ the King Church stands on the corFIRE continued on page 2

Associate professor Jack Gilbert named one of “Brilliant 10” Alessandra Leong Maroon Contributor

Flyers reading “Stabbing Jews for Peace” were hung anonymously on bulletin boards in response to Students for Justice in Palestine’s “Day of Action.”

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Popular Science magazine recently honored University of Chicago Associate Professor Jack Gilbert as one of the country’s “Brilliant 10” young scientists.

The 15th annual awards list recognizes Gilbert for his research on microbial organisms and their surroundings.

Popular Science also noted his devotion to making an impact on the world and improving

human lives from his research.

The diversity of microbial ecology allows Gilbert to explore many different areas within his field of research.

He studies microorganisms in the soil as well as bacteria at crime scenes for forensic evidence.

“One key interest I have is whether there are universal principles that govern ecological interactions,” Gilbert wrote in an email.

Stationed at the Argonne National Laboratory, Gilbert

and his team currently oversee 43 ongoing studies. His projects include collaborations with many researchers both within and outside of the University of Chicago.

Gilbert will continue his research in hopes of applying it to other fields. “I hope to also influence the world by determining whether we can manipulate microbial communities in predictable ways to influence human health, food security, energy production, and many

SJP files complaint with University South East Chicago Commission after Posting Policy violations installs banners on 53rd Street Isaac Stein Senior News Reporter

Students for Justice in Palestine at the University of Chicago (SJP) has filed a written complaint with the Office of Campus and

Student Life, University administrators confirmed on Thursday. SJP asserts that its on-campus posters have been repeatedly written on, improperly removed, and criticized by unsigned flyers, all of which are vio-

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lations of the University’s posting policy.

According to its Facebook page, SJP is a RSO dedicated to “raising awareness about the injustices concerning the occupation

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NEWS IN BRIEF College Programming Office makes changes to O-Week programs For O-Week 2015, the College Programming Office (CPO) decided to eliminate the reception at the John Hancock building and enhance the Museum of Science and Industry Night experience in order to cut costs.

Some of the changes made to MSI Night included more food options, a DJ, and a more festive atmosphere overall.

These changes occurred due to a need to trim excess spending, and the CPO saw holding the John Hancock Reception and the MSI Night back-toback as excessive.

“The receptions at the MSI are long-standing College traditions, occurring both during Orientation Week and Senior Week and serving as bookends to the College student experience. While we’ve enjoyed the reception at John Hancock for the last several years, the increasing costs for catering, space rental, and transportation make such an investment costprohibitive,” wrote Régine Desruisseaux, Assistant Dean of Students in the College and Director of College Programming, in an email to The Maroon.

“I don’t think I noticed there was a DJ or any of that,” said first-year Sarah Choe. However, she thought the event was fun and enjoyed exploring the exhibits. In regards to the enhanced food choices, Sarah said that she thoroughly enjoyed the mac and cheese bites.

These changes came in addition to changes in the University’s sexual assault education programming, now entitled UMatter. An article about UMatter will be published in The Maroon next week.

–Sarah Wasik Maroon Contributor

New banners on 53rd Street read “Embrace the Uncommon,” and “Deep Roots. New Vibe.”

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Dianne Kim Maroon Contributor Colorful banners meant to reflect the character of Hyde Park and the recent development of 53rd Street were added to lampposts

along the street in May. The slogans “Deep roots, new vibe” and “Embrace the uncommon” along with a new badge saying “Downtown Hyde Park Chicago” adorn each pair of banners, installed by the South

East Chicago Commission (SECC).

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Active Minds holds “Day Pozen Center hosts conference on human without Stigma” trafficking Anjali Dhillon Maroon Contributor Active Minds hosted its second annual “Day Without Stigma” on Wednesday, October 21. The daylong event aimed to show support for those on campus struggling with mental illnesses. Founded last year, Active Minds is a RSO focused on promoting open discourse on mental health and empowering students struggling with mental illness to seek help.

The RSO is a chapter of the larger national organization, also called Active Minds. With this event, the campus-based club hoped to gain recognition for itself and combat stigma surrounding mental health, starting with the student body.

“Because [mental health] is a thing that is not talked about, people tend to think that they’re alone or that they’re weird, weak, different, or bad in some way,” said fourth-year Madeline Klinger, the president of Active Minds.

“Day Without Stigma” invited the student body to wear green clothing to express soli-

darity with those facing mental health problems. In addition, Active Mind members and the Student Counseling Service (SCS) gave out green ribbons on campus.

In preparation for the “Day Without Stigma,” Active Minds set up an orange and blue flag display outside Bartlett Dining Commons to represent the 59 percent of college students nationwide who reported feeling “very lonely” last year, according to Active Minds.

By creating a strong show of support, the RSO aims to create a safe environment, where people feel compelled to seek help instead of hiding their illnesses.

Klinger advises students seeking mental health care to reach out to SCS. The University of Chicago reports that 16 percent of the student body used SCS services last year.

“We want to start changing society at this campus and hope that it spreads outwards so that people in high school can start getting treatment as soon as the mental illness or disorder arises,” said Klinger.

Theresa Yuan Maroon Contributor The Pozen Center for Human Rights and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality hosted a conference on human trafficking last weekend.

The conference, titled “Human Trafficking, Labor Migration, and Migration Control in Comparative Historical Perspective,” sought to challenge traditional ideas about human trafficking through a crossdisciplinary approach.

Panel titles included: “Narratives of Sex in Motion,” “Boundaries between Sex and Not-Sex,” “Roundtable from the Field,” and “Producing and Undermining Borders.”

Most panelists were historians but also included anthropologists, sociologists, and contemporary activists.

“Human trafficking is a highly visible human interest issue,” said Tara Zahra, conference organizer and Pozen Center co-chair. Zahra argued that the lines between

voluntary and forced migration are more blurred than a strict binary of traffickers and victims would suggest.

Panelists presented research on various historical episodes over the last two centuries in which traffickers were paid to move migrants, some of whom were volunteers and others of whom were not.

In one panel, University of Massachusetts anthropologist Svati Shah complicated the black-and-white conception of trafficked women as powerless victims. She noted that in her interviews with Mumbai sex workers over the last twenty years, none of the women used the Marathi word for “forced” labor, instead invoking the Marathi word for “choice” or even choice within “structural constraints.”

In another panel, Stanford historian Matthew Sommer expanded the definition of trafficking to include wives of impoverished Chinese peasants living in the late Qing Dynasty. The practice

of polyandry, wife sales, and other wife-loaning strategies would appear on the surface to be a patriarchal exploitation of women. Yet, as Sommer discussed in the panel, the wives sold to new husbands could escape poverty or unhappy marriages through these strategies and these women would sometimes initiate the entire transaction.

Throughout the event, panelists broadened the definition of what constitutes trafficking and invoked instances of personal agency from trafficked individuals.

Debate ensued over whether or not “human trafficking” was a useful term altogether due to the name’s implication that individuals being moved are stripped of all personal agency. California Polytechnic Institute historian Christina Firpo rejected the term “human trafficking” altogether in favor of “unfree labor,” while other historians, including the University of Chicago’s Johanna Ransmeier, called

for unapologetic but careful and precise use of the term “human trafficking.”

The conference was particularly timely given ongoing discourse about migration in light of the current Syrian refugee crisis. Ransmeier warned against drawing direct parallels between past historical events and contemporary crises, but she asserted that historical insight about trafficking continues to hold relevance today.

“Borders create trafficked people, and I hope that the conference allowed people to think about the concept of trafficking in a way that is particular and still leaves room [for] considerations about the exercise of choice on the part of people moving through constricted spaces,” Ransmeier said.

The conference, which was open to the public, was originally scheduled to take place in a common room in the Social Sciences building, but was moved to Swift Hall due to overwhelming reception, according to Zahra.

“Stabbing Jews for Peace” flyers among other anti-Palestine posting violations SJP continued from front

of the Palestinian people.”

In e-mail, Dean of Students Michele Rasmussen confirmed that the administration is investigating SJP’s complaint, and condemned the anonymous postings as contrary to University values.

“The University is aware of the anonymous flyers that have been posted around the campus. The failure of the creator of these flyers to attribute them to an individual or group leaves little doubt as to their intent to deceive, and undermines the free and rigorous exchange of ideas. A complaint has been filed with Campus and Student Life…[and] Campus and Student Life has contacted the leaders of [SJP],” Rasmussen said.

She added that the University “will pursue disciplinary action against any individuals responsible for violating University policies to the extent that is possible based on the complaints that we receive and evidence gathered in the investigative process.”

The Posting Policy which is available on the Center for Leadership and Involvement website, states that “individuals should only remove other’s postings if the date of the event has passed,” and that “posting should not cover current postings belonging to other organizations or individuals.” Anonymous postings are prohibited in University buildings, with the exception of the Reynolds Club.

Third-year Cara Piraino, the president of SJP,

said that the origins of the group’s complaint date back to the morning of October 14, when the group posted flyers across campus in conjunction with its “Day of Action,” which took place later that day. The posters stated the names of various individuals that had been, according to Piraino, “murdered by the Israeli military.” However, some of the Palestinians that SJP listed as dead are, in fact, still alive.

Graduate student Simcha Barkai noted this in a recent letter to The Maroon, and SJP has since retracted the information contained on those posters. However, Piraino said that some of the posters were improperly removed and “vandalized no more than 10 minutes after they were posted.” In

photos submitted to The Maroon, which the group dates to October 14, the SJP posters appear covered in handwritten graffiti, such as “Six million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust,” and “Stop Venerating Terror.”

SJP has also sent photos to The Maroon that show various unsigned posters that criticize the group, which it said were posted recently. One batch of unsigned posters, which Piraino said appeared on the 15th, correctly disputed SJP’s posted claims that Esra’ Zidan Abed and Ahmad Manasra were dead. A second, which Piraino dates to October 19, was an apparent play on the “SJP” abbreviation that reads “Stabbing Jews for Peace.” However, Piraino and third-year

Zach Taylor, another member of SJP, said that the unsigned flyers were posted outside of the Reynolds Club, which would contradict the Posting Policy, irrespective of their editorial content.

Citing violations of the Posting Policy, Taylor said that SJP and one student not affiliated with the group filed their complaint at a Tuesday meeting with Jeremy Inabinet, associate dean of students in the University for disciplinary affairs. At the meeting, Inabinet verbally promised the group a meeting with Rasmussen.

“First, we want an investigation into who is vandalizing SJP posters. Second, we want the administration to take the necessary steps to punish the people who van-

dalized our posters, and the people who distributed the anonymous posters. Third, we want the University to make a public statement against the harassment of SJP members. Fourth, we want a guarantee that SJP members will be [physically] safe, in accordance with the group’s rights as an RSO,” Taylor said.

In response, Rasmussen said that the administration is planning to “facilitate conversations on these issues in the coming weeks, [and that] these discussions will be open to all members of our community, [including ] students, faculty, staff, and alumni.”

As of press time, Taylor said that Rasmussen had not responded to the meeting times that SJP suggested at the Tuesday meeting.

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Junot Díaz visits University to participate in OMSA speaker series Katherine Vega Senior News Reporter Pulitzer Prize-winning author, activist, and MIT creative writing professor Junot Díaz spoke to a large crowd in Mandel Hall on Monday night.

His talk, which focused on his writing and life as a person of color, was part of the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs’ (OMSA) Heritage Series. The series, according to OMSA’s website, allows guest speakers

to address current events as they impact multicultural communities.

Díaz discussed his voracious reading habits, his time in Mexico City, his job teaching creative writing at MIT, and his art in general. A Dominican immigrant who grew up in a poor household, Díaz spoke at length about how his heritage has intersected with other facets of his life.

Before the talk, Díaz participated in a small question and answer session held

by the Center for Identity and Inclusion. Rachel DeWoskin, core faculty in the creative writing department, introduced Díaz at the Q&A. “Junot Díaz is an inimitable voice in contemporary literature, someone willing to break rules and embrace difficulty and contradiction. He gave our community, particularly those who have felt marginalized, ways to imagine making art and being able to be— and express—themselves,”

DeWoskin said in an e-mail to The Maroon.

When asked how he separates his art from his activism, Díaz explained that the two should not be mutually exclusive. He contended that poor artists or artists of color are considered revolutionaries because of their identities, and their work is often politicized.

Díaz thinks this politicization, though unintended, is sometimes beneficial.

“You could set yourself up to introduce themes that are

not normally a part of the conversation,” Díaz said.

Díaz, 46, published his first novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, in 2007 and subsequently won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His second collection of short stories, This is How You Lose Her, was published in 2012 to received critical acclaim.

Díaz claimed that despite the awards, most of his immediate family is either unaware or uninterested in his success. Even some of his

MIT students, the majority of whom plan on going into STEM, are oblivious. “[Former students] will write me cards, years later, on the letter heads of the companies they’ve started.

They say, ‘I read about you in the paper! I didn’t know you wrote books!’” he said.

He accepts these comments with humility and humor, attributing much of his success to luck. “I’m nothing special and no genius,” he said.

Harris School launches new public service leadership program for women

“Bacteria are just such awesome organisms, capable of incredible things”

Victoria Cattelona Maroon Contributor

other facets of importance to humanity,” he wrote.

The prospect of his emerging research—efforts to use medicine to improve gut health and, indirectly, mental health—excites Gilbert.

“One of my key research fields, which we are currently developing, is looking at bacteria associated with autistic patients and people who have depression,” he said. “This is of particular interest because mental illness and neurodevelopment conditions are at epidemic levels in our society and discovering ways to influence this through your diet or

The Harris School of Public Policy will launch a new public service and leadership program for women next month.

According to its website, the Women in Public Leadership Executive Education Program (WIPL) is a rigorous program designed to feature “prominent female leaders and distinguished scholars who will offer tested strategies and firsthand advice on how to break through the glass ceiling.”

Rebecca Sive, the program’s academic director and a lecturer at the Harris School, began as an adjunct lecturer in the Harris School in 2012. She decided to establish the program because of

her students’ enthusiasm in her courses about women in politics.

“One of the reasons I started the program was the interest of the young women who want to be involved,” Sive said. “We want to be able to train these women and to show the importance of women in public service.”

The program will begin its first week-long seminar on November 16. Ertharin Cousin, the United Nations World Food Programme’s executive director, will present at the program’s kickoff event. Other featured program speakers will have backgrounds in various areas of public service, including academia, business, philanthropy, and politics.

Sive emphasized the timeliness of the program’s ini-

tiation. “This is a unique historical moment,” Sive said.

“We have the leverage of the general public’s willingness to see women serving at higher levels of government and of activism. We’re ready for a woman president. The program is going to push that idea.”

Sive also expressed hope that the program will make a long-term impact in addressing the gender disparity in public service.

“There’s a dearth of women in [this field],” Sive said. “The rate of progress is slow, and we want to speed that up.

We have a long way to go to achieve parity—the program will make the case, show women should have this opportunity, and prove that the more diversity we have the better.”

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nance projects throughout the area. It was created in 1952 by the University to lead its neighborhood renewal plan.

Over the past several years, SECC has been an important part of the development of 53rd Street’s commercial corridor. Other local beautification and maintenance projects in which SECC is involved include cleaning viaducts and sidewalks three times a year and replacing lids and liners on trash containers to ensure the cleanliness of the neighborhood.

Eric Reaves, the Special Service Area Program Manager at the SECC, said that “deep roots” signifies the history of Hyde Park, while “new vibe” refers to newer renovations happening in the area: housing buildings such as the Vue53 and the high-rise on 51st Street, along with the Promontory on the far end of 53rd Street.

“Embrace the uncommon” is a reference to embracing the diversity of Hyde Park, Reaves concluded.

The banners are part of the SECC’s Brand Identity Strategy, which aims to individualize rapidly develop-

ing areas of Chicago. According to SECC’s website, the badge will also be displayed at various businesses throughout the community.

Skip Hampton, a hair designer at 57th Street Hair Salon, and Hyde Park resident since 1988, thinks the slogans fail to resonate with the community.

“I’d rather the banners say things that are actually happening in the community, rather than just being edgy,” said Hampton.

“They should inform the community about things that are happening within the neighborhood.”

ed out as an entomologist, but switched to microbiology when he was offered an opportunity to conduct research in Antarctica for 18 months and subsequently complete a Ph.D. within the discipline.

“It was an awesome opportunity, and I jumped on it. Through my Ph.D., I got hooked on microbiology, moved into marine microbiology and then ended up diversifying infinitely. To be honest, bacteria are just such awesome organisms, capable of incredible things, and they are among the smallest organisms having the largest impact!”

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SECC has been an important part of the development on 53rd street

the use of probiotics, could have a truly transformative influence on society.”

Gilbert sees Popular Science’s recognition as a chance to promote interest among young people in science.

“I am also honored to be acknowledged by the public as having made a contribution. Scientific outreach, especially in STEM and for young people, is a real passion of mine, and I am very keen to do whatever I can to inspire young people to take a career in STEM,” he wrote.

Gilbert would have missed his true passion had he not kept an open mind. He start-

ner of South Woodlawn Ave and East 64th Street, next to the Church’s offices and rectory and the St. Martin de Porres House of Hope shelter for women and children. While the fire seriously damaged the church itself, it did not spread to any other buildings. Many religious artifacts were salvaged in the fire, including the Church’s prized statue of Christ from 18th-century Spain. “[The congregation was] really in shock because nobody thinks something like this could happen to them,” said Reverend Canon Michael Talarico, provincial supervisor of Christ the King Church.

While the Archdiocese of Chicago evaluates the damage, masses have been moved

to nearby St. Thomas the Apostle Church, a Catholic church located about a mile north of the Shrine of Christ the King Church.

Dan Sharp, a member of the Shrine of Christ the King congregation and attendee of Sunday’s mass, said, “Everyone’s been very supportive, everyone’s come together.” The congregation is currently working to raise funds to repair the church.

Their GoFundMe page, under the name “Shrine Fire Restoration Fund,” has raised close to $50,000, and other branches of the Shrine of Christ the King Church across the world have also been sending donations.

“I’ve been receiving even little letters from children,” Talarico said. “A little sixyear-old had written a very nice message, he put four

dollars in there, and he sent it. He said, ‘I want to help you to rebuild your church.’”

It is unclear how long it will be before the Shrine of Christ the King congregation can return to its place of worship. After the analysis of the damage is completed, the church leadership will examine their options concerning the repairs.

In the meantime, the Church’s leadership is focusing on continuing to serve the community.

Classes for children and adults will continue in the rectory and baptisms are being conducted regularly.

“This is really the Chicago way,” Talarico said. “The Chicago way has always been, in a time of tragedy like fire, [to say] ‘Let’s band together and let’s bring some good out of this.’”

CORRECTIONS: An article that appeared in the October 13 issue (“Classes test new course portal as improvement to Chalk”) misstated that Canvas would ultimately replace Chalk. Canvas is still being evaluated, and its implementation will depend on the results of this pilot period.

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Editorial & Op-Ed OCTOBER 23, 2015

Off the (Ara)mark As the University’s contract with Aramark comes to a close, the University should dictate higher standards for its foodservice supplier In June 2016, the University’s contract with Aramark will end and UChicago Dining will have the opportunity to either renew their partnership with Aramark or begin anew with another foodservice provider. As the University moves forward in this process, the Maroon Editorial Board encourages UChicago Dining to take student input and the history of issues with Aramark into account when choosing a new contract.

Dining is an integral and meaningful part of students’ college experiences on this campus. Every student has something to say about dining, and it is especially important that the University hear and consider these concerns. Students should have clear avenues to share their thoughts, and opportunities for students to provide input should be open and advertised to all.

Over the past three years, students have dealt with with dining hall closures due to repeated health violations, a new “Purple Menu” which led to a decrease in variety of foods and negative student feedback, and incorrect allergen labeling. Other problems include day-to-day issues such as the scarcity of silverware and cups in both

dining halls, and concerns about affordable dining plan options for students. When asked, students will probably articulate other issues as well. Now, as the University considers alternatives to Aramark, it is a great opportunity for them to address long-standing student concerns about cleanliness, food quality, and price.

From this student input, the University should set defined standards for their food service providers. These standards should aim higher than the current ones, with the goal of providing on-campus dining that sustains students and other campus members in their different pursuits. The University should communicate these standards to the campus community, and institute concrete measures to regularly evaluate the new foodservice provider once approved.

Such standards will mark a distinct change for UChicago Dining. The Maroon Editorial Board strongly urges the University to consider if Aramark can meet higher standards on campus, and to wholeheartedly examine other options in order to better serve the campus community.

—The Maroon Editorial Board

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Let autism speak for itself University policies could do much more for people with neurological conditions In recent years, the concept of neurodiversity has been making a bit of a fuss within social justice circles. The movement advocates for an increased awareness of neurological conditions (autism, dyslexia, etc.) not as illnesses, but as normal variances in

our extant human allele set that can contribute to group fitness.

Unlike movements such as Autism Speaks, which pathologize these variations, neurodiversity calls for such variations to be accepted and accommodated. Although Autism Speaks claims to be an advocacy or-

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ganization for autism, it routinely alienates actual autists by treating autism as an illness that needs to be cured or eliminated.

The Autism Speaks campaign is additionally problematic in the sense that it is devoted to ameliorating the distress of caregivers of autists. And, as any student of Kant can tell you, it is dangerous to treat people as means to ends, as opposed to ends in themselves.

Addressing the suffering of people who find that they have birthed or adopted a dependent who is an autist ought to be a secondary concern to the treatment of those people as ends.

I say this all as a utilitarian, but more importantly, I say this as an autist diagnosed in 2014. I have been a useful and productive member of the University community since my matriculation into the College back in 1993. And I hope I may continue to be so.

So what does adopting a “neurological diversity” policy mean for the University? It means understanding architecturally distinct varieties of the human connectome not as diseases, but as differences.

It means not pathologizing us.

It means allowing us to identify without forcing our coworkers and colleagues to see it as an appeal for pity. Difference is, after all, the engine of evolution, and it is not difficult to understand that extreme homogeneity is not a virtue among any population. To approach it

aphoristically: it takes all kinds.

To approach it genetically: it helps to have more than simply the most successful alleles present in the population since the conditions of success are always changing.

And yes: I have suffered from the implication that I was attempting to curry pity from my former supervisor at the University’s Digital Management Services. When I tried to share my identification as an autist with her, she responded that she would need to forget that information so as to avoid allowing feeling sorry for me. Both employee and employer suffer for the lack of policies guided by the neurodiversity movement. It is my belief that most supervisors in the University ecosystem can and should do better. But my supervisor, I believe, felt forced into an inflexible box. It was my intent to offer her sincere and useful guidance on how to bridge the autist-allist gulf, but that proved to be impossible as she saw me as somebody with an illness. She wanted medical proof of something that only someone living inside my own head could offer. And she only saw my attempts to explain as something that would expose her to unjustified risks.

In response to my subsequent and unfair dismissal/forced longterm disability claim, I sought a face-to-face meeting with a University Leave Administration official so I could discuss a critical comorbidity: my generalized anxiety

disorder. I asked how I could and if I could receive information principally via email as it is the least triggering mode of contact for for me. I was unable to arrange such a meeting. Even if an affirmative answer was not possible, a meeting would have allowed me to know that and plans could have been drawn accordingly.

I am an autist. I enjoy being an autist. We autists are the classic verbal tip of the spear in this war for neurological diversity, but we are not the only stakeholders. There are other ways of being architecturally atypical from the norm: some allistic people have other architectural distinctions including dyslexia, dyscalculia, and bipolar. Many of you within the University may have one or more of these “conditions.” Welcome to the family; welcome to this civil rights war.

Recently, my emotional health has been called into question by the administration. I ask that before this is used as an excuse to avoid hearing me, that the administration instead chooses to meet me face-to-face to establish and clarify the rights of minority populations within the community. I additionally demand to meet with the University to not allow the debts incurred by me in this prolonged underemployed state to bring me, or my cat, Kosh, to harm or homelessness.

Jason Robertson is a College alumnus (A.B., ’97).

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Eating my words When vegetarianism turns into an excuse to feel superior, it’s time to reconsider

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Ink the Barrel When I was eight, I decided it would be funny if I stopped eating meat. I don’t remember why the idea struck me as being so comical, but I do remember that I found it funny enough to tell my parents over dinner that I was renouncing meat forever.

My parents didn’t get the joke (my mother thought it was a notso-subtle judgment of her cooking ), and the fact that I believed I could actually pull it off for longer than a day was apparently hysterical. Laughing heartily, my parents told me I’d only be a vegetarian between meals. I viewed that as a challenge.

I didn’t eat meat for another ten years.

Overnight, I was inducted into the cult of vegetarians. What I had thought would be a simple refusal to eat meat quickly evolved into much, much more.

I found fellow vegetarians everywhere. I’d be standing in line in my high school’s cafeteria and the person behind me would ask why I’d refused the chicken nuggets— was I also a vegetarian? I’d ask if there was a vegetarian option on a plane ride and two or three other passengers would all chime in at once. I met other vegetarians so

frequently that I wondered if it wasn’t some massive conspiracy.

Once introduced to a fellow vegetarian, conversation invariably turned to why I chose to stop eating meat. I learned that when it comes to vegetarianism, motive is everything. Saying that I made the choice to spite my parents was generally met with awkward silence or forced laughter. It was like telling a born-again Christian that you went to church because you thought the building was pretty. I had to adapt to fit in.

I began to cite all the compassion I felt for animals, how I couldn’t bring myself to devour them anymore. While I did love most animals, this wasn’t an entirely honest reply. I found chickens terrifying and I was convinced that fish were evil (this is an indisputable fact). I don’t exactly empathize with cows. Hamburgers are delicious, after all, but live bulls can kill you. Nonetheless, my fake empathy for the entire animal kingdom struck a chord.

As I grew older, my answers became more sophisticated. I was a vegetarian because I loved animals, yes, but more importantly, I loved the planet. I’d go on about how the meat industry was killing

the earth. I’d talk about methane emissions from cows and the amount of water it takes to process meat. While none of this was why I’d become a vegetarian, I began to think it was why I’d chosen to remain one. My fellow vegetarians found these answers satisfying, and I became a “real” vegetarian at last, reveling in my moral superiority while my meateating acquaintances unwittingly killed Mother Earth, one strip of bacon at a time.

To be clear, the meat industry is bad for the planet, and loving animals is a great reason to not eat them. The problem is that ethical considerations are often used as motives to brag about certain choices, like vegetarianism, rather than legitimate reasons to make those choices in the first place.

I used to only joke that being a vegetarian was like being a member of a cult, but I was beginning to realize that I was more right than I’d thought. The worst part was that all the extremely ethical reasons I cited in clinging to vegetarianism were starting to look like excuses to be obnoxious instead of genuine concerns. I really liked the feeling of belonging to a small, exclusive club of people who could say they ate ethically. I memorized facts about why meat was bad. I flirted with veganism, because vegetarianism

didn’t seem extreme enough. I had once been annoyed by those vegetarians who would remind you at every opportunity that the stuff on your plate used to be alive; now, I was one of them. I was using every opportunity to remind people that I was a vegetarian, but like most cult members, I liked the feeling of belonging to a small movement. I didn’t want too many people to become vegetarians, because if everyone made that choice, I wouldn’t be special anymore.

This fear was realized when I went on a backpacking trip and discovered that precisely one third of the trip was vegetarian.

My dietary preference was very nearly a dietary norm. This was profoundly unsettling for me.

How are you supposed to act morally indignant when everyone agrees with you? The entire experience was akin to a hipster waking up to find his favorite obscure band has gone “mainstream.” The horror!

A few weeks later, I did some reluctant soul-searching over tofu. I came to several realizations. Chief among those was how much I hated tofu. But I also realized that, like many vegetarians, I had always thought in the back of my mind that by being a vegetarian I could make myself a champion of cows, poultry, and fish. But once I began to really

think about it, I realized that I despised fish, and couldn’t for the life of me figure out why on earth anyone would want to be known as a salmon savior. As a vegetarian, I’d never been anything more than someone desperately looking for an opportunity to pat themself on the back. It was moral vindication, not animal lives, I’d been campaigning for.

This isn’t to suggest that all vegetarians are like that; most of them object to eating animals for a genuine and legitimate reason. But it is all too easy to forget good intentions entirely as you congratulate yourself for your exemplary ethical standards.

When I found that my motives for a decade of vegetarianism were morally suspect, I decided I didn’t have to be one anymore.

I quit the very next day. I had been a vegetarian for over half of my life. The last time I had eaten meat, I couldn’t spell “desert,” and memorizing times tables was by far the greatest achievement of my life. Now I found myself at a restaurant about to order meat.

After ten minutes of agonizing deliberation, I got a hot dog.

Like everything else on the menu, it tasted like cardboard.

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Uncommon Interview: Filmmaker Patrick Thomas Underwood, A.B.’03

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Robert Sorrell Arts Staff Patrick Thomas Underwood (A.B. ’03) graduated from UChicago with a degree in Cinema and Media studies, studied opera in Venice for a year after graduation, and received an M.F.A from the American Film Institute in Los Angeles in 2008.

In 2009, he moved back to Chicago and shortly thereafter began work on The Middle Distance, a character drama set in the depths of the Michigan winter. The film was shot in New Buffalo and Three Oaks, Michigan during the polar vortex of

2014. Underwood explained that although “you can’t photograph cold... you can make a movie feel cold,” and that winter functions as more than just a setting in the film. Also, that winter boots are important.

Underwood sat down with the Maroon to discuss his debut feature film The Middle Distance, as well as Heat, French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, and how to make a movie with your iPhone.

Chicago Maroon (CM): Why don’t you start by giving me the elevator pitch ver-

sion of The Middle Distance?

Patrick Thomas Underwood (PTU): So, the true elevator pitch is, a guy falls in love with his brother’s fiancée, and complications ensue. The slightly more elaborate pitch is, you have a Don Draper type, intentionally estranged from his family, who thinks he’s living the good life in L.A. His brother calls to tell him their father died.

Our guy comes back to the Midwest to help him sell the house.

The brother shows up with his fiancée and then has to leave for work, and the fiancée has to stay.

Our guy decides to stay because

he wants to sell the house, and the two have an unexpected connection.

Lost in Translation was a big influence. Two lost souls get stuck in a place where they don’t really know anyone else and they kind of find each other. I really think—and I’m sure I’m stealing this line from someone—the best love stories are the ones that end badly. I’m not saying the film ends badly, but I like loves that cannot be.

CM: When did you first start writing the script of The Middle Distance, and when did you start production?

PTU: So, I started writing the script in August of 2010.

And we were five days away from shooting in March of ’13 when my lead actor called me and said, “Look, man, I got really bad news. I got offered a pilot on ABC and I can’t not take it.

Can we push?” And the movie is set in winter. Winter is a character, so pushing meant we’d have to push 'til next year.

It’s a cliché that casting is everything, but it’s true. Even if you’re Hitchcock and say, “actors are cattle”—Hitchcock said it, I’m not saying I believe it— even if that is true, you have to have the right cattle.

So we pushed. In the end it was four years from outline to people sitting in a movie theater with popcorn watching the movie.

CM: How did you come up with the title, and how does it relate to the project?

PTU: So, the honest truth is that my uncle gave me that

title. Titles are very valuable, very hard. And my uncle, who’s been a big supporter of mine for many years—he’s a landscape photographer—we were talking about the movie one day and he interrupted me and said, “I’ve got a title: The Middle Distance.” And I immediately was like, “Oh, that’s a good title.”

There’s an idea in art, especially in painting and photography, that the middle distance is what ties together the background and the foreground. But it’s also something that is easily ignored.

I liked that idea a lot.

CM: You mentioned earlier that Lost in Translation was an influence. I also read that [Assayas’] Summer Hours was one of your influences for this film.

It definitely has a thematic resonance—the story of the family coming together over the death of a parent—but I wondered if there was anything else you took from his style?

PTU: My favorite filmmaker is Yasujiro Ozu. And I think there’s a lot of Ozu in Summer Hours, in terms of family drama, a keen sense of things passing away. It is very much a picture of the faster, upper-middle class lives that I think many people in major metropolitan centers of the world live. It’s a new model of life, I think, in a lot of ways.

Ozu is a genius but I think part of that is that cinema is so much about time, and Ozu is so much about time. And how time is always slipping away, no matter what. And I think all the films I love are in some way about that.

Heat is one of my favorite films. The DeNiro character has, in his hands, this chance to capture something and it’s slipping away from him as we’re watching. Now maybe that’s not so much about time as about his bad decisions, but it’s in there.

There’s a mournfulness in Heat, and I think that’s about the inevitability of missed opportunity and things passing.

But, forget about Heat, Ozu is all about that. And I think Ozu managed to put that on film in a way that no one really has ever been able to do, and I think Assayas does that in Summer Hours.

I think that Summer Hours is one of the best examples of the last 10 years of films that just nail that incredible subtle, delicate, light touch. It gets at the ephemeral. I think it’s in the camera; I think it’s in the lighting. I love Summer Hours, and I think Ozu would’ve liked it a lot.

CM: And have you seen Assayas’ newest, Clouds of Sils Maria?

PTU: I have. I didn’t love it. I found the meta-ness of it a little exhausting. But Kristen Stewart has grown on me a lot as an actor. For my new project, she’s like my dream lead.

CM: Part of the reason I bring up Sils Maria is that I think it sort of has resonance with this idea of locations “becoming characters.” What is the importance of the landscape in this film?

PTU: I really wanted to have very big vistas that dwarfed DISTANCE continued on page 8

Long-awaited Forsythe front and center at Hubbard Street Dance Season 38 opener

Hubbard Street dancers perform in the American premiere of Forsythe's N.N.N.N. COURTESY OF TODD ROSENBERG

Eva Reid Grey City Editor-in-Chief Hubbard Street Dance opened their last season with a show that mesmerized and surprised audiences. This fall, they did it again.

Hubbard Street has recently taken to staging entire series based on the work of only one choreographer, an uncommon and somewhat risky move even for such a well-established company. Season

38 opened this past weekend at the Harris Theater with a fall series entirely choreographed by William Forsythe.

The conclusion of season 37 last June featured three pieces by Hubbard Street’s resident choreographer Alejandro Cerrudo. The result was a strong but chronically repetitive show, with surprises few and far between.

However, Forsythe’s series was far from monotonous. Each of the

three pieces stood independently and left the audience with something new.

Of course, Forsythe is no upand-coming artist. The awardwinning choreographer got his start dancing in Chicago’s own Joffrey Ballet Company before moving abroad and spending many years directing and choreographing for ensembles in Germany. He has worked on innovative computer programs for dance

education and even on an art exhibit shown at the University of Chicago’s Renaissance Society in 2005. His pieces are cornerstones of almost all major ballet companies’ repertoires, and his most recent works—born from the past decade he spent with his own company—are hot commodities in the dance world.

In fact, the first piece of the evening, N.N.N.N., had never been performed in the U.S. despite its success abroad. So when the lights dimmed on the first audience of the series last Thursday, a hush filled the room.

A single dancer stood silently on stage in athletic pants and a Tshirt. He moved his arm, amazed by gravity; he flung it, surprised when momentum carried it up to slap him in the face. He was astonished by his own body, and the audience was too.

Three more dancers joined him onstage, filling the silence with the strange music of grunts and pants of exertion. They dragged, kicked, pushed, and held each other, moving at times in sync and at other times with liberty.

It was chaos interrupted by moments of stillness, violence inter-

rupted by tenderness, and earnestness interrupted by silliness. The four dancers would return to a refrain, placing their hands on each other’s stomachs in an interlaced line, seemingly correcting and joking with each other through movement. Despite the strength of all the pieces in the evening, it stood out.

The second piece, Quintett, was a Forsythe classic first re-staged by Hubbard Street in 2012. The movements grew naturally within Gavin Bryar’s evocative orchestral composition Jesus’ Blood Never Failed Me Yet, which prominently features a scratchy recording of an unknown homeless man singing the song of the same name.

It is not surprising that this score was initially created for a documentary. What plays out on the stage makes familiar movements seem strange and difficult ones seem easy—as much a tribute to the consistently impressive technical and artistic prowess of Hubbard Street dancers as to the choreography. Interwoven solo, duet, and trio vignettes spanned the breadth of human emotion before settling somewhere near the bittersweet.

The piece closes with a single woman caught in the flickering of a projector, repeating the same dance and falling each time, only to be caught by a dancer from offstage and gently pushed back into the movement unharmed.

The final piece, One Flat Thing, reproduced, was set to a wild, aggressive score by Thom Willems and performed on a stage filled with large metal tables.

Fourteen brightly colored dancers slid and tumbled across and under the tables, turning and leaping in the small aisles between them, creating a whirlwind of movement. It was mesmerizing and astonishing all at once, much like the whole night.

This fall series was a triumph for Hubbard Street. But for those who missed out, they can still see another show that swept Chicago off its feet. The Art of Falling, a collaboration with Second City, was Hubbard Street’s great success last year. And it will be returning to conclude this 38th season next June.

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Tricks and treats in store at Music Box Theater horror movie marathon Dan Ackerman Maroon Contributor Few theaters in Chicago are better equipped to explore the full range of horror—a genre characterized by a constant negotiation between classic and kitsch—than the Music Box, a space practically carved into that intersection. So it’s only fitting that this weekend, the historic Music Box Theatre will screen a dozen horror movies in 35mm and digital projection back-to-back for its annual Music Box of Horrors 24-hour movie marathon.

In addition to screening films that run the gamut in obscurity from it-would-be-generous-tocall-this-“cult” to knowing-thismovie-alone-makes-you-a-hor-

ror-buff, the Music Box will host giveaways and contests between films. Expect vendors with limited edition merchandise, food trucks parked outside the theater to fuel the true all-nighters, and a couple of special guest appearances. One of these guests, Joseph Maddrey, author of Beyond Fear and Nightmares in Red White and Blue, will help kick off the long slog with a special tribute to Wes Craven: The iconic director’s under seen gem The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), plays at noon on Saturday.

In the hopes that the dinner crowd might see their meals again soon, director William Lustig will present his 1980 slasher Maniac, an innovative film now marred by association with the 2013 Elijah

Wood-POV remake, at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday. It gets really exciting at 10:45 p.m. that evening when musician and composer Paul Buscarello will provide live accompaniment on the Music Box organ to Tod Browning’s 1927 silent horror film, The Unknown. Though horror buffs might know Browning better for Dracula (1931) or Freaks (1932), cinephiles may thrill at seeing Joan Crawford in her breakthrough role as the carnival girl Nanon, pursued by Lon Chaney’s circus freak Alonzo the Armless.

Actor Ethan Embry rounds out the special guest list, presenting the Chicago premiere of The Devil’s Candy (2015) at quarter past midnight on Sunday. The film’s Tasmanian director Sean

Byrne—known, if at all, for his adorable 2009 black comedy The Loved Ones—serves as a secondrate contemporary keystone in an arch curving otherwise exclusively through the second-rate twentieth century.

Genuine genre fans will likely appreciate Child’s Play 2 (1990), the last Chucky movie with any legitimate claim to serious horror status, as well as Deep Red (1975), a Dario Argento Giallo(2009) inferior to his Suspiria (1977).

Ganja & Hess (1973) comes bafflingly at 4:15 a.m. on Sunday, as if the theater meant to ensure only dedicat ed connoisseurs would enjoy Bill Gunn’s experimental African/African-American vampire masterpiece, which inspired the Spike Lee remake Da Sweet Blood

of Jesus (2014).

Most years, Halloween lasts longer than Hanukkah on college campuses. Communities work to spread the parties occasioned by the spookiest night of the year over whatever two weekends bookend the 31st. With Halloween sitting squarely on a Saturday this year, students must satisfy themselves with stuffing the celebration into a single 24-hour period. Horror fans have the same opportunity, only a week earlier.

From 12 p.m. Saturday, October 24, through 12 p.m. Sunday, October 25. Marathon passes are $30 through Friday, October 23. Day of passes are $35. Passes can be purchased online.

“I made the mistake of getting caught up in the equipment. . .”

DISTANCE continued from page 7

verywlittle people. There Will be Blood was an influence. We jokingly said we want to make Lost in Translation meets There Will be Blood. I really wanted to give this film as much of the sense of the epic as I could. The change in this film is a small change, no one’s saving the world, no one’s dying – CM: Except the dad.

PTU: Right, but still it’s a small change. An incremental change. To me, there’s something relatable about incremental change, and I wanted to make that feel as big as possible, in spite of the fact that it is a small change for the character.

CM: Are there any plans for this film after the festival?

PTU: The hope is to play a handful of festivals in the new year, and then the ultimate goal is to get distribution.

CM: What are you up to after this film?

PTU: Working on a new script, set in Chicago. It’s the polar opposite—like the intersection of politics, the police, and the inner city. And it’s a thriller.

CM: À la Heat?

PTU: More Collateral. Sort of one night.

CM: If you could tell college students interested in going into filmmaking, into directing, one thing to do, what would it be?

PTU: I mean, this is such a cliché, but I think it’s true: I made the mistake of getting caught up in the equipment

and not just going out and shooting.

I’m sure some of your readers saw Tangerine. Tangerine was shot on an iPhone. [And it was] played all over and was one of the two biggest movies at Sundance! It’s really good, it feels big, epic, and it’s shot on the phone you have in your pocket.

I heard someone say one time that the best film school is to shoot twelve shorts over the course of twelve months.

Just shoot someone making coffee. How do you see that scene? How do you see someone making a cup of coffee? I see that in a specific way. You’re going to see it in a different way. Shoot that.

The other thing is I would tell everyone to watch Mark Duplass’ keynote address at South by Southwest. It’s on

YouTube. The title of it is “The Cavalry Isn’t Coming.”

Lastly, I would say to look at what’s working. Look at what people are actually seeing. I think it is worth your time to see the movies that are like showing up at the Music Box, showing up at AMC Independent. You’re not going to have a big star in your next film. Edge is good; people want to see edge.

CM: My last question is partly a joke, but…what went into your decision to use your first, middle, and last names professionally?

PTU: I’ll be totally honest, growing up I was always embarrassed about my name because Underwood became “underwear” really fast, and I just thought Thomas sounded old. Thomas

was my grandpa’s name.

But Patrick Thomas Underwood, I’ve been told, sounds like a good filmmaker name. And of course the other reason is, there’s another P.T. out there —P.T. Anderson—and I think he’s the greatest living filmmaker. And, I don’t know, it’s like an homage to Paul Thomas Anderson. I hope he reads this and laughs a bit.

Patrick Thomas Underwood has previously written and directed seven shorts.

The Middle Distance will have its world premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival on Friday, October 23 at 6 p.m. at AMC River East. Additional screenings will be held on the October 24 and 26.

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Maroons decisively sweep Wheaton in straight sets Volleyball Erik Wong Sports Contributor This Tuesday, the Maroons thrashed Wheaton in the final home game of the 2015 season. Not only was it a great win for the Maroons, but it also came on Senior Night, which honored standouts Ragine Graves, Maren Loe, and Jasmine Mobley for four amazing years with the team.

The team made it their goal to play a flawless game to truly thank the three

fourth-years for all of their hard work, dedication, and leadership throughout this season. And they certainly did not disappoint.

“The game was very bittersweet—it’s so sad to have played our last game with our three amazing fourthyears,” said first-year Sydney Majors. This shows the type of respect the team has for their fourth-years as well as the overall bond the squad has developed this season.

Although the team got off to a slow start in the

first set, Chicago came back to win all three sets 25–23, 25–20, and 25–18 respectively. First-year Audrey Scrafford had an impressive performance with 17 kills and five blocks from the outside hitter position and fourth-year Graves had an astounding 37 assists and 11 digs from the setter position.

The South Siders picked up the energy after this slow start and never looked back.

At times, Wheaton battled back to intensify the sets,

but the Maroons thwarted their attempts each time.

Third-year Amy Risk said, “The Wheaton game was an important step forward for us given the poor weekend we recently had,” proving the importance of a solid win like this after a recent struggle against both Case Western Reserve and Carnegie Mellon on Saturday and No. 3 ranked Emory on Sunday.

The squad also looks forward to taking this burst of energy to both of their

games this weekend in a double-header against No. 19 UW–Oshkosh and unranked Milikin. A win, especially against Oshkosh, would certainly pad the Maroons’ already impressive season and could fuel the fire for the games to come.

With only seven more attempts to make their mark in the University Athletic Association (UAA) as well as set themselves up with a promising rank in the D III playoffs, Chicago must perform at a top level, with

continued high energy throughout each game. Another sluggish start could prove fatal for the South Siders, but team morale is high. The Maroons also know what they are truly capable of if they come out of the gate strong.

The rest of the season looks promising, but the squad is looking to focus on one game at a time to ensure their success. The action starts this Saturday October 24 at 1 p.m., followed by a second game at 3 p.m.

South Siders kick off season at home in cross-division competition Swimming & Diving Rhea Bhojwani Sports Contributor As the school year comes back in full swing, the men’s and women’s swimming & diving teams look to start their intense fivemonth athletic seasons off strong. The Maroons hope to make a profound statement this Saturday against Denison, Northwestern, and University of Illinois at Chicago.

The team will turn to

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On the women’s front, the Maroons look to stroke their way to victory in order to reach their goal of a Division III Championship. Looking to obtain a quality victory, the ladies will turn to the likes of second-year Melissa Bischoff, who has the school records for 100-yard backstroke and the 400-yard medley

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Second-year Monica Kieff leads the women’s diving team into the season with high expectations.

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October 23, 6:00 pm Diagram as Paradigm: The Diagrammatic Mode in Medieval Art Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan October 26, 4:30 pm From Cross to Crucifix: Rereading Hrabanus Maurus’s In Honor of the Holy Cross in the Late Thirteenth Century Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 157, 5540 S Greenwood

October 27, 4:30 pm Marian Diagrams and Dominican Devotion: Berthold of Nuremberg’s Supplement to Hrabanus Maurus Cochrane-Woods Art Center, Room 157, 5540 S Greenwood

Lothar of Segni (Pope Innocent III), De missarum mysteriis (On the Mysteries of the Mass) (Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt-Gotha, Cod. Memb. I 123), Paris, ca. 1200.

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SPORTS

IN QUOTES “It’s tough because I’m a New Yorker and I would love to see the Mets do well .But I’d love to see the film be right. So I’m torn.”

- Michael J. Fox comments on the prediction in the film Back to the Future that the Cubs would win the World Series, in the NLCS series between the victorious New York Mets and Chicago Cubs.

No. 19 Chicago dominates regional rival No. 21 Wheaton 4–0 Women’s Soccer

First-year Dana Ulrich dribbles the ball earlier this season versus Kalamamazoo. COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

Michael Cheiken Sports Staff Tuesday night, Wheaton sent their women’s volleyball

team to the Ratner Athletic Center for a thrashing at the hands of the Maroons. The Thunder decided to try their luck again, this time on the

soccer pitch. The Chicago women were more than up to the task, and the injury-depleted Thunder were quickly dispatched.

The Maroons have been sensational at home, winning all eight of their home games while amassing a stunning 32 goals in such fixtures. They came into the game on the front-foot and exhibited their home-field prowess. Just two minutes into the game, the Maroons had already tallied their first goal. Fourth-year midfielder Naomi Pacalin took on an abundance of defenders on her way into the opposing penalty area. A mediocre clearance by the Thunder defenders resulted in a scrum at the top of box. Finally, the ball fell to the feet of third-year forward Sophia Kim, and she calmly placed it in the bottom right-hand corner, far from the goalkeeper Fuster’s reach.

The Maroons maintained their dominance throughout the first half and broke through once again in the 33rd minute. On the counter-attack, the Maroons were able to hit the wide man on the left side.

Second-year defender Whitley Cargile played a long, floating ball into the box. Fuster was caught flat-footed, and she stuck to her line as the ball fell to the second-year midfielder Kelsey Moore at the top of the six. The midfielder had no trouble with the finish and the Maroons doubled their lead.

Down 2–0, the Thunder were struggling to make it to the halftime break within a reasonable margin of the home side. They were unable to do so. In the 43rd minute the Maroons struck again. Fourthyear forward Mary Bittner made a dazzling run across the face of the Thunder back line, turning it upfield just as firstyear Elliana Graham played her through onto goal. With no one but the keeper left to beat, Bittner calmly slotted the ball to the far post for the Maroons’ third goal of the game and her third of the season.

The halftime break allowed the Thunder to com-

pose themselves. It was not nearly enough. They looked competitive at least, but all of their chances came up short.

The Maroons still looked to increase their lead, and they did. Just 10 minutes into the second half, the women struck again. Mia Calamari muscled her way through a pair of defenders marauding into the box. With just the keeper to beat, she played the ball across the face of goal to a wide-open fourth-year midfielder Julia Ozello, who put it away. It was a momentous assist, her 14th this year, for the second-year striker. With Ozello’s goal, Calamari broke the UChicago single season assist record she garnered just last season.

The remainder of the game was lax, as the clearly distraught Thunder team recognized the implausibility of a comeback. The Maroons closed out the game maintaining their 4–0 lead and increasing their record to 11–4–0.

Slew of rookies to face off against a veteran squad in Aurora MEN’S SOCCER Zachary Pierce Sports Staff Coming off of a 3–0 trouncing of UAA rival NYU, the Maroons will make the short trip to Aurora, IL on Sunday to face the Spartans of Aurora.

Chicago enters the game with a record of 8–4–2 overall, while its out-ofconference opponents stand at 6–6–2. The team will look to carry the momentum from its recent win into this match.

First-year forward Matthew Koh, whose creative offensive play helped the Maroons break down the NYU back line, is confident the team can build off of the recent victory.

“Our game against NYU was definitely a big win,” Koh said. “We are taking the rest of the season game by game, so I am excited to play against this Aurora team and keep the momentum we have going.”

Last year, the Maroons dominated Aurora in a 5–1 win. The Spartans hope to bounce back and exact revenge on the South Siders, who will need to avoid overlooking their challengers from the west.

Additionally, Sunday marks Aurora’s Senior Day. This is sure to be a real test, as the home team will come out highly motivated.

While the Spartans will try

to send their veterans off with a victory, the Maroons are looking to crash the party. Upperclassmen play a huge role on both teams, in terms of both leadership and performance; Aurora will be honoring six fourth-years this weekend while the Chicago roster lists only four graduating members.

Koh anticipates that the occasion will create a spirited playing environment.

“Playing an opposing team celebrating a senior day will definitely create a strong, competitive atmosphere that both teams can feed off of,” he said. “Both teams will come out extremely motivated, and it should be a fun thing to be a part of.”

While fourth-years will be celebrated on Sunday in Aurora, first-years have contributed a great deal to the Maroons success this season. Koh tallied two assists against NYU last weekend, rounding out his team-leading total of five on the season. His counterpart, first-year midfielder Max Lopez, has hit the back of the net four times this year, including two goals in the last three contests. This sort of young talent is promising for the Chicago squad and bodes well for the years to come.

“If anything, as a freshman, I feel more obligated

Fourth-year Jorge Bilbao makes a cut earlier this season versus Dominican. cOURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS

to work hard,” said Koh when asked about his experience as a first-year player. “I know when I am a senior I am going to want everybody else on the team

to give their all for me. In my mind there is no next season; I am dedicated to work just as hard as any senior on the team to achieve success this year and play

every game like it’s my last.”

The Maroons are looking forward to taking on the Aurora Spartans at 1 p.m. on Sunday at Vago Field.

This game will conclude

the team’s non-conference schedule and will prepare them to round out the regular season with three straight UAA home games.