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Talk attendees question president of Feminists for Life Shelby Lohr Maroon Contributor

Jamel Triggs, a Hyde Park resident and youth mentor at Blackstone Bikes, shares his frustrations about the intrusive presence of the UCPD in the South Side during a community hearing hosted by the Coalition for Equitable Policing at the Experimental Station on Wednesday night.

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Students recount racial bias of UCPD Tamar Honig Maroon Contributor The Coalition for Equitable Policing (CEP) joined the Invisible Institute, a Chicago-based production company that seeks to increase visibility of controversial issues, at a community hearing Wednesday evening to advocate for greater transparency and accountability in the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD).

Held at the Experimental Station, the event was moderated by Jamie

Kalven of the Invisible Institute.

Community members were invited to share opinions about the UCPD in an open mic format. Several local elected officials were in attendance, including local alderman Leslie Hairston. Over a hundred people attended the event.

Community members of various ages and affiliations spoke about the UCPD, alleging racial bias. Several black students from the University alleged that racist treatment from the UCPD has been a burden on their college experience.

“Even if you’re walking out of the

library, you gotta make sure you’re wearing a book bag,” one of the attendees said. “It’s like, me going through all these thoughts is detrimental to my college experience. Even subconsciously it’s killing my college experience when there are white students who don’t have to deal with this.

And I worked just as hard as them to get here.”

Hyde Park resident Jamel Triggs, who has been involved with the CEP campaign for around six months, said that the UCPD should stop discrimiCEP continued on page 2

New building for south side of Midway Eileen Li Maroon Contributor In honor of David M. Rubenstein’s ( J.D. ‘73) significant monetary gift to the University, a new building under his name will be constructed on the south side of the Midway. The Rubenstein Forum will serve as a “social space” for students and faculty, in addition to hosting conferences, workshops, and lectures.

While the selection process for an architect starts this fall, construction is not set to begin until 2016.

The building will be located along East 60th Street between South Woodlawn and South Kimbark Avenues, next to the present Charles

Stewart Mott building.

The building continues a trend in the University’s efforts to expand facilities south of the Midway Plaisance. Relatively new facilities there range from the well-known South Campus Residence Hall and Logan Center for the Arts to the new Chicago Theological Seminary building, an office building at 6051–57 South Drexel Avenue, the renovated 6045 South Kenwood Avenue building for University IT services, and the South Campus Athletic Field.

University President Robert J. Zimmer envisions the new physical space as a location for the exchange of ideas among members of the UChicago community. “By offering

new physical capacity for convening and exchange, the David M. Rubenstein Forum will contribute significantly to the University’s character as an intellectual destination,” Zimmer said in a press release.

The creation of the Rubenstein Forum marks the continuation of a long relationship between the University and David M. Rubenstein. In 2010, Rubenstein gifted $10 million to the Law School to create 60 full-tuition scholarships for the Classes of 2014, 2015, and 2016. This scholarship program was renewed in 2013 to ensure that 60 additional full-tuition scholarships would be awarded to the Law School Classes of 2017, 2018, and NEW continued on page 2

President of Feminists for Life Serrin M. Foster addressed social pressures regarding pregnancy in her speech, “The Feminist Case against Abortion,” on Wednesday.

The speech was hosted by UChicago Students for Life.

She addressed a crowd of approximately 40 students, faculty, and visitors in the screening room of the Logan Center. Her speech engaged contemporary conversations about feminism and reproductive rights.

Foster argued that abortions performed today are largely due to a societal disapprobation of pregnancy, particularly within academia.

“Women should not be forced to choose between their education and life plans for their child,” she said.

Foster maintained that students and professors on tenure track are discouraged from keeping a baby once pregnant. In order to ameliorate the social pressure, Foster advocates for greater resources and promotion of resources for pregnant students and faculty, including affordable child care and housing, telecommuting possibilities, and the opportunity to retain scholarships while taking classes part-time or taking a leave of absence, among other ideas.

During her talk, Foster asked attendees what services the University offered for pregnant women.

Students were unaware whether affordable family housing and chil care were available for students and faculty at the University of Chicago.

Some attendees disagreed with FOSTER continued on page 2

University gala disturbed by trauma center protests Theresa Yuan Maroon Contributor While the University celebrated the public launch of its major new fundraising campaign, activists from the Trauma Center Coalition protested outside the private event. More than a hundred students and community members demonstrated near Reynolds Club, where the event took place.

The protest featured several stages: the rally began at the corner of East 57th Street and South University Avenue, moving through Hull Gate and through the main quad to Eckhart facing Hutchinson Courtyard. Some members of Students for Health Equity (SHE) stood outside the reception entrance dressed in suits, distributing pamphlets about the trauma center movement with the University seal on the cover.

The reception itself celebrated the start of the University’s new fundraising campaign, The University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry and Impact. The campaign has so far raised over $2 billion of its $4.5-billion goal. The event celebrated, among other items, recent investments in the College such as the developments for Campus North and the recent expansion of financial aid, and the University of Chicago Medi-

cal Center’s latest advances in cancer research.

The UCPD lined up before traffic barriers but took no further action to stop the protesters. An officer who requested anonymity said the UCPD decided not to stop the protest.

“The protesters were just trying to get a point across, exercise their First Amendment right, and we let them,” he said.

Outside of Eckhart, SHE member and Ph.D. candidate Emilio Comay del Junco addressed the protesters. One of the select students invited to attend the event to speak with donors, he said that at the event it was announced that the Board of Trustees had singlehandedly raised $128 million so far.

“They have raised enough money in there alone to run a trauma center for 20 years,” he said.

According to Comay del Junco, University staff acknowledged the protest as a part of free and open University discourse in an announcement before the festivities began. At the event, donors and alumni were sitting in Mandel Hall when they overheard the protesting. A few members of the audience examined the brochures protesters distributed.

University spokesperson Jeremy Manier said the protest “did not disrupt or interrupt the event.”

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Homecoming banner competition raises issue of house censorship Maggie Loughran Maroon Contributor A semi-nude Dean Boyer was the focal point of Chamberlin House’s 2014 Homecoming Banner. If you don’t remember seeing it, that’s because it was disqualified.

The banner was a spoof of Botticelli’s painting “The Birth of Venus,” which depicts a nude Venus emerging from the ocean. Chamberlin’s banner, entitled “Birth of the Phoenix,” depicted Dean Boyer emerging from Botany Pond with a phoenix flying overhead. Chamberlin students deliberately omitted genitalia from their design out of respect for the dean and potential viewers on Family Weekend, according to second-year banner artist Molly Robinson.

However, the Student

Alumni Committee (SAC), which was in charge of Homecoming this year and sponsored the competition in conjunction with the College and Alumni Relations and Development, gave Chamberlin 24 hours to change its design. When Chamberlin refused, the banner was disqualified on grounds of “indecent nudity.”

One of the rules, which can be found on SAC’s website, clearly states: “Banners will be reviewed and cannot contain any images, verbiage, or innuendos which could be deemed inappropriate or profane.”

University spokesman Jeremy Manier emphasized in an e-mail to the Maroon that all submissions are subject to review. He also noted that the competition is optional and disqualification is

highly unusual.

Robinson disagreed with the disqualification.

“I don’t think [they] had the right to censor this particular banner because I don’t think there was anything overtly offensive about it. If we had gone in with the obvious intention to make it overtly offensive then whoever disqualified it would have been perfectly right in making that decision,” she said.

This is not the first time student artwork has been rejected on the grounds of propriety. An incident with a house shield last year raised questions about students’ artistic freedom.

Last year, Graham House’s proposed shield design, which featured a graham cracker, was rejected because it was deemed “disrespect-

ful” to the Graham family, according to Graham resident and second-year Owen Charles. The housing office chose a simple “G” for Graham’s shield when the students refused to revise their proposal.

Robinson said she wished she could have talked to the judges of the competition before being faced with an ultimatum.

“Bridging the gap, in terms of conversation— when it comes to students and faculty or students and committees—is definitely something the University needs to concentrate on in the future,” Robinson said.

The SAC could not be reached for comment.

Editor’s Note: Associate News Editor William Rhee is a member of SAC.

President of Feminists for Life speaks at Logan NEWS IN FOSTER continued from front

points of the speech and brought forth concerns in discussions following the talk. First-year Tamar Gordis questioned when life begins.

“What bothered me was describing abortion as ‘ripping a child away from its mother.’ It is a fertilized egg.

If you value all life equally, where do you draw the line?”

she said.

While Foster did not engage in an extended discussion of when fetal life began, she expressed a belief in life following conception, saying, “40 years after Roe v.

Wade, [we should] not deny humanity as it evolved in the womb.”

Second-year Charlie Salmans said the idea of giv-

ing women more resources resonated with him.

“I am pretty undecided on this issue, but the speech resonated with me because by giving [women] few resources if they are pregnant, [the woman’s] decision to have an abortion is skewed, which inhibits their ability to make a fully-informed and supported decision,” he said.

BRIEF Early voters can get free rides to polls Voters in Hyde Park—including University students—can get free rides to area polling stations this week in a push for early voting ahead of the November 4 election day. Local political groups Chicago Votes and Raise Action Illinois, an advocate for a $10 minimum wage in Chicago, have organized shuttles between campus and the polling stations.

According to Patrick Dexter

The Student Alumni Committee disqualified Chamberlin House’s banner, “Birth of the Phoenix,” from this year’s Homecoming Banner competition.

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(A.B. ‘14), a field manager for Raise Action Illinois, a new law was recently passed in Illinois to allow early voters to register at the polling stations before election day. This change seems to have contributed to the early voting push.

“I’ve been driving cars full of people to early vote all over the city for about a week now, and nobody has ever had to wait in line to vote,” Dexter said.

“Whereas if you show up on election day in your precinct you’ll find lines out the door, and in some cases around the block.”

40 different vans are in use to take people to the polls in differ-

ent neighborhoods throughout Cook County, which encompasses Chicago. The van that circulates around the University of Chicago campus has transported 25 people to the polling stations so far in the past week.

The program will continue throughout the weekend, with bussing every hour from 1–4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

“This is the first time something like this has been done and it’s exciting to see it come off the ground and see if it’s something that could happen in other elections in years to come,” Dexter said.

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nating against and start collaborating with the local youth, as they are the future of the community. Triggs works with youth at Blackstone Bicycle Works and is a former U.S. Marine, which he said colors his view of the UCPD. “UChicago police is essentially a private military, as far as I’m concerned,” he said. “I’ve been over in Afghanistan where you see mercenaries contracted by the government to do things that the United States will not and cannot do. Essentially the university did the same thing—on a smaller scale, but it’s still wrong.”

Former UCPD chief Rudy Nimocks commented on the disparity between the standards of transparency and accountability that apply to the CPD and those that apply to the UCPD. “University police departments do not have to disclose information in the same way that the city police do. Whether or not that’s a good thing or a bad thing—that’s for you all to decide. That’s what we’re discussing here today. It’s not that this can’t be changed. Police departments should respond to the kind of law enforcement that the communities they serve require,” Nimocks said.

In regards to the future, Alderman Hairston

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suggested a way to transition the discussion into action. Hairston proposed convening an ad hoc committee to make recommendations to the University in order to leverage change.

Coalition founder and fourth-year Ava Benezra said she intends to join Hairston’s proposed committee to promote transparency and accountability in the UCPD. “I think...organizing specifically around issues of legislative change is a really good possibility for us right now,” she said. “It shouldn’t be legal for a private police force with such a public function to have such narrow accountability…. The next step for us will be making sure that that happens.”

CEP leader Tristan Bock-Hughes said the community’s comments resonated most with him.

“For me, the most important part that came out of tonight was how much of an understanding the community has about how intentional this racist policing is,” he said. “I’ve seen how people can sort of just shut off to this kind of stuff, and it’s very cool to see that there are people in this community who are still able to have a very solid understanding that this isn’t right.”

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Rubenstein is a trustee of the University and the cofounder and co-CEO of the Carlyle Group, a large private equity firm that manages

more than $203 billion in assets, according to the firm’s website.

When asked about the possible effects of the new Rubenstein Forum on future developments south of the

Midway, Susie Allen, a University spokesperson, said in an e-mail, “No decisions have been made about the footprint of the building and how that might affect other University property.”

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Editorial & Op-Ed OCTOBER 31, 2014

Closed-off Commons Fundraising event inconvenienced students without warning Student access to Hutchinson Commons was restricted this week to accommodate the University’s latest fundraising initiative, the University of Chicago Campaign: Inquiry and Impact. The main event was hosted in Mandel Hall on Wednesday, but construction and preparation for the event closed down Hutchinson Commons and Hutchinson Courtyard for the week. While the University’s fundraising efforts are commendable, the administration should have communicated better with students about the closure of Hutchinson Commons given its central role in student life.

Reynolds is a popular gathering place for students living both on and off campus. Given the centrality of its location, Hutchinson Commons

often serves as a space for casual socializing, RSO meetings, and study groups. Restricted access to Hutch affects weekly student activities, and many students found themselves unprepared to relocate and rearrange their plans in response to its closure.

This confusion could have been avoided if students were notified in advance of the restricted access.

Though a flier was placed outside to notify the University community of restricted access, we feel this is insufficient notice in light of the area’s high traffic.

Furthermore, many students did not know that a major fundraiser was occurring on campus at all. If this information had been more broadly publicized to the student body, then the closure of Hutch would not have been a problem—

the occasional use of that space for fundraising is reasonable. But without having received any prior information about or justification for this decision, students were left insufficiently prepared to adapt to the changes that they were forced to make. In the future, the University should give at least a few week’s notice to the student body before restricting access to major sites of student activity, and can do so through more comprehensive methods, such as campus-wide e-mails.

The inconvenience of the Hutch Commons closure is relatively minor. However, when dealing with similar situations in the future, the administration should communicate with students more proactively.

—The Maroon Editorial Board

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What I am What I Be project reduces its subjects to their insecurities instead of empowering them to transcend their struggles Kiran Misra and Jeanne Lieberman Maroon Associate Viewpoints Editor and Maroon Contributor

Last week, many Facebook news feeds were populated by portraits of friends produced by the What I Be project, a socially engaged public art project by Steve Rosenfield that visited UChicago. According the website, the project aims to “open up the lines of communication, and to help everyone accept diversity with an open mind and heart and empower those who feel they suffer for something they may see as a flaw.” Taken by this mission and the opportunity

to participate in a dialogue about identity through art, we committed 45 minutes of our week to being interviewed and photographed in the basement of Logan. While this experience of “going public” with our struggles and seeing others doing the same was certainly empowering for some who participated, we both walked away frustrated and disillusioned, feeling that the images we were able to produce in collaboration with the artist fell far short of their potential to combat stigma and create more empowering terms for conversations about identity. Though the insecurities we portrayed were different, many of our

thoughts and reactions are shared.

Stigma and stereotypes are disempowering and limiting because they lead people to make an array of assumptions about another person based on a single characteristic that is seen as determinative of their whole self. They oversimplify people and are used as an excuse to bypass getting to know others as individuals. Ironically, the artistic portrayals in the What I Be photos, which aim to combat stigma, enact almost the same oversimplification, presenting the subjects solely through their insecurities and nothing more. The “imperfections” are the only things the subjects are allowed to com-

municate about themselves, literally written on their faces.

The entire project felt rushed and oversimplified. One of us came to the project unprepared, lacking a concise, relatable, and compelling insecurity, and the other with a number of unconventional insecurities that she was hoping to figure out how to share. But for both of us, the half hour felt like an exercise in trying to find any experience that fit these aesthetic boundaries, rather than an effort to fully portray us as people. The realizations that truly generate productive conversation about many of these disorders and insecurities are things that people

won’t get upon first glance at one sentence fragment. While he said, “You can say whatever you want; the image is for you,” Rosenfield strongly stressed that he didn’t think people would understand the meaning of any statement that was not directly related to the well-established stereotypes of what feelings accompany loss and anorexia.

Having our stories manipulated by another person to condense into an aesthetically powerful four words led to a representation of ourselves that was largely inaccurate. Our stories and the stories of many others STRUGGLE continued on page 4

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What I Be relies on “overgeneralized popular perceptions of insecurities,” and thus fails STRUGGLE continued from page 3 cannot be summed up in a handful of syllables.

The project was limited in that it didn’t allow for the artist to work complex thoughts into simpler statements that might work within the frame of the project. This would require working outside of the frame of overgeneralized popular perception of insecurities, something the project relied on to succeed. In this way, it felt dishonest and exploitative of other people’s bad experiences in order to be consistent with an artistic mission.

There is a need to complicate the narrative.

To not oversimplify. To accept that things are actually much more complicated than they appear in a couple of words written on a person’s face. Though this artistic limitation—the inability to portray someone perfectly—applies to every artistic project, this project did not just portray us incompletely, but inaccurately: a crucial distinction.

One important function of narrative social change work is to challenge people’s ability to make assumptions when confronted by representations of others. While the purely visual aspect of providing many faces for each of these struggles hints at the potential to combat these assumptions, the way the text is structured limits participants’ power to use the images to add a new story to the conversation about the insecurity that they struggle with. The end result is that the process for producing the images fairly narrowly channels people into simply restating the stigmatized words or thoughts that they hope not to be confined by. While “going public” in that way is understandably empowering for some people, it doesn’t advance the conversations about these issues.

The statements that define our relationships to our own insecurities should not be simply, “We are not [our insecurities],” but rather, “We are our insecurities and more.” Our statements said, “I am not my loss” and, “I am not my eating disorder.” However, I AM my loss and

I AM my experience with anorexia. Though these parts of us do not entirely define who we are, our loss and our struggles with control have greatly shaped our interactions, existential beliefs, character, and many other facets of our being. Not acknowledging that does a disservice to our representations of ourselves.

Characteristics and experiences with negative connotations are highly formative in a person’s life, and therefore denying their importance is a disservice to the complexity of identity. Denying their importance is still stigmatization, in a different form.

What we believe to be truly empowering is saying who we are and who we’ve become out of those experiences. Saying, “I am not my loss” doesn’t do much for me, but saying, “I am brave and resilient” means much more.

But how can I embody the strength that came out of an experience if I am denying that importance of the experience in the first place?

The most powerful and honest version of myself,and the one I want to present is the one who holds all of these different but connected pieces inside her.

Rather than feeling like we had peeled back some layers of ourselves and let people see some aspect that was previously hidden, we felt much more like we had gained a mask that instead obscured and flattened the “us” that people saw.

For a few days after the posting of my “I am not my eating disorder photo,” I got lots of pats on the back from acquaintances telling me I was brave and that they support me just the same despite my struggle to be “healthy” in that respect. However, conversations about my experience in which I can talk about how this aspect of myself that I actively struggle with is also the source of many other parts of myself that are central to my thriving and my passions are far more useful in facilitating growth, comfort, and resilience. There may be times when people do need those pats on the back

as support in what feels at the moment like an isolating struggle, but for me, strength comes not from being able to have people tell me “it’s all OK,” but instead from having them be willing to listen while I talk about the complexities of my anorexia—the underlying thought processes and transformative elements of the experience that structure who I am as a person.

The potential power of the project, as is true for socially engaged art as a category, is to use the artist’s mastery of aesthetics and medium specificity to communicate messages in a way that is more powerful, impactful, enticing, and effective at drawing the audience in than other presentations of the same information.

As the project currently stands, there is some room for that in the longer “personal statements” that participants can submit to explain their photos after the fact. However, these are not integrated into the photos in a way that viewers can effectively engage with, nor are

the viewers motivated by the photos’ format to do so, since participants are encouraged to make the meaning of their image entirely transparent on its own. Having only this additive component that can be tacked on as a place for the information that the participant actually wants to contribute left us both feeling misrepresented. We felt we were not allowed to create a narrative that would complicate the conversation in ways that parallel the multifaceted and untethered identities that we hope to empower people to build, aiming to show the diverse and complex ways that those characteristics play out for different individuals, not just restating the characteristics themselves.

Kiran Misra is a second-year in the College majoring in public policy and comparative human development. Jeanne Lieberman is a third-year majoring in Law, Letters, and Society.

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Heartlandia OCTOBER 31, 2014

Students explore identities, insecurities through photography

Medha Biswas's photo examines the conflicting representations of race to which she feels compelled to conform.

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Sammie Spector Maroon Contributor Third-year Medha Biswas recently played model for a photography project with more depth than your average 2-D print photo. “It took only 20 minutes, all in one session, just two pictures. That’s all we needed.” Photographer Steve Rosenfield

worked with a group of UChicago students to create the What I Be project, which captures insecurities faced by everyone, every day. I sat down to talk with three students who participated in What I Be on campus.

Rosenfield invites his subject to talk with him about his or her “biggest insecurity” and then to

pick a pose that speaks to them from previous portraits he’s taken.

Biswas told me how comfortable Rosenfield made her feel; she was not forced to share, yet found herself talking about the first insecurities that popped into her mind.

From their discussion, he pinpoints keywords and pens them onto his models with a black sharpie. In

her photo, Biswas holds her head with her hands outstretched at the elbows, her expression a mixture of confusion and contempt, brandishing the words, “What can I do to look more” written on her right arm and both “Indian” and “White” on her left arm. For Biswas, this was the perfect representation of her insecurity: literally labeling herself.

Rosenfield brings these internal realizations to life.

Each model is asked to post their portrait on Facebook and write 500 words on their insecurity, titling it “I am not my ______." This fillin-the-blank piece is the most significant factor, and can lead to the most impactful feedback. Fourthyear Riva Letchinger simply wrote “slut” on her forehead. It was her 500 words that gained true depth, rather than the shock value of such a harsh word. She titles her insecurity “I am not my clothing,” and goes into a full description of harassment, abuse, and rape that she has faced over the last few years. “I’ve never centralized all of my experiences of assault and harassment into one place before I posted the photo online so that was terrifying. But it was also really incredible to have upwards of 10 women reach out to me to tell me about their personal experiences with similar issues.”

Letchinger shares her stories with other women in the hopes of opening a discussion about sexual assault that promotes awareness and selfconfidence.

Rina Friedberg, a fourth-year, wrote, “I am not my reality,” to accompany her headshot. She splattered the words “I can’t be perfect” around her face. On contributing this sentiment to the project and her community, Friedberg told me quite honestly, “I had no idea what my insecurity would be, and I think I immediately recognized in some of the models a bravery I could not put forward, but I wanted to contribute to it in some small way. We’re under so much pressure here, constantly, and I think it’s completely unhealthy to try to maintain the image that nothing’s wrong. Sometimes it becomes too much, and that’s not unusual, and it shouldn’t be isolating. I guess that’s what I hope people can take away from this.”

Although it seems these students and Rosenfield are on a mission to share awareness of imperfection and insecurities to their family and friends, they did this primarily for themselves. While Letchinger shared some of her most intimate fears and triumphs, Friedberg kept her input more general in an effort to express a sentiment to an entire student body. All three received overwhelmingly positive feedback, though. When asked about posting something so personal online, Friedberg was the first to admit her apprehension. “Because I went into the project with its public nature in mind, it was relatively easy for me to share the image afterwards. I’ve talkWHAT I BE continued on page 6

Ghosts of Hyde Park almost as scary as impending midterms Will Dart Arts Editor On a dark, chilly Wednesday in late October, I found myself standing under the 57th Street Metra stop, hoping to catch sight of famed defense attorney Clarence Darrow.

Darrow’s is just one of countless souls said to haunt Hyde Park, and among the friendliest—a great first meeting for a newbie paranormal investigator like myself.

The lead ghost hunter on the scene that night was Greg Fairbanks, a youngish dude with a newsboy cap, a Transformers hoodie, and a pretty nasty chest cold. “A group had me out in the rain a few days ago,” explained Fairbanks as he led a small group of paranormal enthusiasts toward the under-lit back lawn of the MSI building. A victim of his own success, Fairbanks has been living in Hyde Park for 13 years, but the idea to do ghost tours of the area only came to him this fall, apparently the result of demonic possession. “I made a deal with the devil,” he explained of his Haunted Hyde Park Tour, “aka Groupon.”

For a nominal fee, guests on the tour (tours began on October 15 and run through November 2) were treated to a walking tour of Hyde Park’s spookiest landmarks, among them H. H. Holmes' prowling ground at the World's Fair site, the old elevated train stop on East 59th Street, and Robie House. I

was surprised to learn that this last spot—the angular masterwork of deranged madman-cum-architect Frank Lloyd Wright—is not only an eyesore but a house of horrors as well. The overwrought mansion is apparently uninhabitable, pushing out three successive owners in the first 16 years of its existence alone, all of whom experienced grave family tragedies while living in the house. “You can sometimes see a woman’s face in the window,” Fairbanks said. The ghost of Dean Art, perhaps?

And then there’s the curious case of Professor Ioan P. Culianu: noted historian, philosopher, and possible warlock. Culianu was known for his interest in the occult, and, according to Fairbanks, his “dabbling in the dark arts” might have precipitated his mysterious murder. Culianu was found dead in the Divinity School bathroom, a single bullet wound in the top of his head. Elaborate suicide? Execution by Romanian agents? Blood magic ritual? At any rate, Culianu’s ghost continues to haunt the Divinity School men’s bathroom to this day, and works the 1–4 p.m. Thursday shift at the café.

There’s also the infamous Lipstick Killer, who earned his moniker via a ghoulish message written in lipstick on one of his victims' walls.

He didn’t commit his ghastly acts in Hyde Park, but he was a student at the University and apparently lived near Nichols Park, which is really

Not pictured: ghosts. But we promise they're around here somewhere.

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quite spooky at night, even with its lamentably common street lamps.

“It takes away a bit of the ambiance,” Fairbanks said of the recent additions to Hyde Park’s lighting system as we passed through the park. (“Hopefully nothing will be jumping out at us,” Fairbanks said before

the tour began, “although I’m probably the fastest runner here.”)

The tour concluded with a terrifying last stop at Cafe 53 for Halloween-themed cupcakes, where Fairbanks told me of his nefarious plans. The ghost season might be coming to a close, but he hopes to

use his encyclopedic knowledge of Hyde Park’s history for a yearround Urban Legend tour in its place. And, regardless, you’re always free to wander the campus’ dark byways on your own time. Ghosts, as they say, do not sleep—nor do they have to study for midterms.

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ed to some friends for whom I think it was a bit more emotional. I was insecure about it— my picture is all about admitting to a façade, and the utterly unrealistic nature of my own.

That’s a scary thing to post on your Facebook for everyone you know to see and judge. That said, though, I’ve gotten wonderful feedback on the project. I honestly felt overwhelmed at first with the support I received from friends, some of whom I hadn’t spoken to in a few years, about the image.”

Fifteen years ago, Rosenfield had a successful finance job in Boston, a bodybuilder physique, and a “typical ego,” as he puts it. The worst part about his seemingly happy life: He just wasn’t happy with himself, nor with his materialistic outlook. After making the decision to get out of his funk, Steve began to share more of his feelings and his own insecurities with friends and family. Fast forward to the What I Be project, where Rosenfield is sharing his worst-kept secret: sharing insecurities. It worked for him, and now he’s seeing if it works for strangers. Initially, his project goal was to involve around 150 people and make it into a book; months later, What I Be has included more than 4,100 people.

When asked on the statistics of sorts of his project, Rosenfield told me that most universities struggle with the exact same problems.

The most prevalent insecurities he hears revolve around depression, anxiety, and eating

disorders. Then, those are followed by a diverse spectrum from race to sexuality, which act as personal anecdotes to the stories relevant to national news today. Rosenfield told me, “Everyone judges each other, but what it comes down to, really, is don’t judge people for things that aren’t true, or even if they are, just not knowing someone and still calling them a name.”

Steve is very impressed with the bravery exhibited by his models. According to him, it’s a courageous step be photographed, especially knowing the photos will be on Facebook, when they focus on a subject as intimate as insecurity.

If nothing else, the UChicago community has responded well; they’ve shown that voicing a fear or problem is not a weakness, but something quite audacious. Before I finished talking with Rosenfield, he summed up exactly what I took away from his project.

“There’s something really beautiful about people taking their walls down, allowing each other to be honest. Who needs to hide anything when we all struggle with something?

We need to focus on working together to help each other— that’s why sharing can be brave.

I am starting to see that from the UChicago community.” His statement encompassed the goals of students involved in his project: Voice your insecurities, because through sharing, even through Facebook, we’ll only strengthen our community.

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This writer did not watch Annabelle or any of these other movies. Neither should you.

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James Mackenzie Arts Editor It’s nearly Halloween, which means that the August–September film malaise is definitely over. Birdman! Nightcrawler! Interstellar! Filmgoers everywhere rejoice. Less exciting than these potential Oscar contenders, October also means a new slate of generic, disappointing horror movies. So in that sense it differs little from any other time of year. Finding good horror films requires sifting through a lot of garbage to find the gems that truly frighten and unsettle us. I’ll attempt to do that sifting by examining three newly released horror movies and trying to determine if they make the cut. Spoiler: They don’t.

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I’m not sure whether this film wants to be a pure ghost story, or one of the board game horror films inspired by 1995’s Jumanji.

On the one hand, the demons and ghosts indicate your typical supernatural fare. On the other, I think a Ouija board is used by enough derpy teenagers and wannabe mystics to qualify more as a board game than an actual magical apparatus.

This is one of those trailers that essentially outlines the film’s entire plot. Aforementioned teens mess around with a Ouija board for kicks and release an evil demon by accident. After it gets too real, our heroes realize that the only way to defeat the demon is to use the Ouija board further, exposing them to even more danger and justifying the film’s title and premise. The filmmakers are also hoping to justify more table-game movies, such as the rumored Rubik’s Cube and Magic Eight Ball. I’m not making any of this up.

It probably didn’t take too much effort to make up Ouija; unless it’s a dialogue-heavy indie drama, it’s pretty hard to make a compelling film about people sitting around a table, even if demons are involved.

Annabelle It is the prequel/spin-off to 2013’s The Conjuring, which was itself a spiritual successor of sorts to director James Wan’s Insidious and was based (loosely) on a true story about paranormal investigators Ed and Lor-

raine Warren. Annabelle features neither the Warrens nor James Wan, putting it on shaky ground right off the bat. Annabelle, the titular possessed doll, was the subject of this lengthy prologue to The Conjuring; a prologue which cynics may call a shameless attempt to bring in audiences for the prequel.

Of course, the cynics are right in this case.

If Marvel can tie together 20 different superhero movies and make billions in the process, then why can’t that same method be applied to a different genre, such as horror?

The Conjuring 2 is already slated for next year, and the real life Warrens have loads of cases that could be resurrected for further films. They even worked on the case that inspired The Amityville Horror, so there’s an obvious tie-in. Insidious: Chapter 3 is also due out next year, meaning that by 2017, we can have an Avengers-style crossover between the franchises wherein the characters will have to fight the Infinity Ghost or something.

Dracula Untold Despite the film’s title, I guarantee that we’ve been told this one before. You know, the classic tale turned on its head by making the bad guy a good guy and framing the whole thing as an action movie. WOW! This is really going to change how I think about Dracula. Except probably not.

Unlike the other movies in this column, Dracula does have some actors you’ve probably seen before. Charles Dance, better known as Tywin Lannister from HBO’s Game of Thrones, begins his career after the role of a lifetime as a vampire who gives Dracula his unholy powers (Relax—the trailer makes this non-spoiler readily apparent.) He’s seen better days, but he’s old and has lived that bit-role life. He knows the score. On the other hand, leading actor Luke Evans clearly has aspirations of stardom. You may know him as Bard from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, that guy who you thought was kind of cool, but seemed suspiciously like a rejected Thrones cast member. He’s now stuck in the catch-22 so many mid-tier actors face: He needs to take bigger roles to make it big, but the only starring roles for him are in movies like Dracula, which will take most of its actors nowhere. So, if you want to see Luke Evans be a big star, see Dracula Untold.

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Squad digs for redemption Maroons dive back into action at Volleyball

home against Wheaton Men’s & Women’s Swimming and Diving Zachary Themer Associate Sports Editor While the season of meets and races is only a week old, the Maroons have had to hit the ground running as their marathon five-month season hits fourth gear. After falling to Denison last weekend, the Maroons will look to turn the tide tomorrow against Wheaton College.

In order to win this weekend, the Maroons are going to look toward their strong core of individual swimmers. On the men’s side, the South Siders have a new face this year with first-year Alex Lin. Although new to college competition, Lin made a big splash last weekend when he won the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard I.M. Similarly, the Maroons will look to the talents of second-year Kevin Ku to lead the way. Last week Ku also took home a pair of top finishes, in the 100yard and 200-yard butterfly, with times of 52.10s and 1:53.96, respectively.

The Maroon men won’t just be swimming laps though; they’ll be diving dives. Leading the men will be fourth-years Anthony Restaino and Matthew Staab. Coming off an AllAmerican season last year, Restaino’s season will depend on raising the bar higher than last year, when he set four school records. Staab is also an AllAmerican in the three-meter dive. For the Maroons to get their momentum and mojo going, it’ll come down the leaders of the team—Restaino, Ku, and Lin—to lead the way.

For the ladies, tomorrow is an equally crucial opportunity to take a step towards the team’s ultimate goal: an NCAA DIII National Championships appearance. Facing their season head on, the Maroons will also turn to underclassmen to lead the way.

One of the biggest surprises for the Maroons in their first meet was the quick emergence of first-year Melissa Bischoff. While Bischoff joined the team with high expectations as one of

the blue-chip recruits for the program, not many expected the underclassman to take home a victory in her first meet.

While Bischoff swam to the top place on the podium with a time of 58.83s in the 100-yard backstroke, her place as a top finisher was not a lonely occurrence: second-year Abby Erdmann took home some hardware of her own last Saturday, placing in the 100yard butterfly with a time of 59.71.

While swimming may appear to be an individual sport, it is anything but as fourth-year Robby Kunkel explains.

“The meets are much more team orientated than people might think.

We really put an emphasis on cheering on people swimming and trying to get everyone excited,” said Kunkel.

With their season entering only its second week, the Maroons will look to stroke their way into midseason form as they take on Wheaton College at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Gerald Ratner Athletic Center.

Derken: “...the energy...will give us a leg up” Third-year setter Ragine Graves prepares to serve the ball in a game against Wheaton last season.

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Michael Cheiken Maroon Contributor Two weekends ago, the Maroons played host to the final UAA Round Robin of the season. Disappointingly, the home squad emerged with only a single victory in four matches.

Chicago (20–11) will most certainly look to return to form as it heads to Lisle, IL this weekend to play in the Eagle Classic hosted by Benedictine University.

The Maroons will play the first of their four matches against North Central College (18–10). The Cardinals began the year 9–0, but have since dropped 10 of their past 19 matches. This includes their last three matches, in which the Cardinals failed to take a single set from nationally ranked teams. Chicago will look to provide the Cardinals with a beatdown of similar proportions and prove that it does indeed deserve a spot in the top 25.

After Chicago finishes facing off with North Central, the Maroons will have 40 minutes to recuperate before their last match of the day against Bluffton University. Bluffton’s 20–8 record may look intimidating, but in the Beavers’ only match of the year against ranked competition, they lost three quick sets. The Beavers will have the chance to prove themselves immediately before their meeting with the Maroons, in a matchup against No. 12 Elmhurst. Whether this match will leave Bluffton demoralized is uncertain. Regardless, the Maroons will be heavy favorites in this battle.

The Maroons’ second day of the tournament will be decidedly more difficult. The South Siders will be eager to exact revenge against Dominican and Elmhurst. At the Elmhurst Invitational two months ago, the Maroons dropped tough matches against

both teams. As the Maroons face Dominican on Sunday, they will have a chance to redeem themselves and end the regular season in a very different way from how they started.

The Dominican University Stars are very confident in their play right now. In their past nine games, they have lost only two sets. However, the leaders of the NACC will be arriving at the court immediately after a tough match with No. 17 Carthage.

The Maroons, aided by a good night’s sleep, will look to capitalize on the Stars’ exhaustion to win the match.

Regardless of the outcome, the Maroons will face their toughest task of the tournament immediately afterwards.

The matchup with No. 16 Elmhurst has undoubtedly been the Maroons’ focus in training for the past two weeks. The Blue Jays are looking for a good showing in Benedictine to provide momentum going into the CCIW Conference Tournament.

However, despite a 25–6 overall record, Elmhurst is just 2–3 in conference play.

“We have been working on converting free balls to kills and finishing sets quickly through game-like drills,” said first-year middle blocker Taylor David. “We are very excited to see what we have been working on in practice come to life in our games this weekend. This weekend is great for us because we get to play really competitive games in preparation for the UAA championship next weekend.

With a win over Elmhurst College and a spectacular performance in the rest of the tournament, the Maroons may be able to find their way back into the NCAA Division III rankings. This would also provide exactly the push this Maroon team needs to storm through the UAA Conference Championship bracket a week later.

SOCCER from page 8 team,” Cargile said. “They push us in practice and keep the team united off the field, which has been important all season. It’d be great to get a win on Sunday and

honor all the work they’ve done for us.”

Additionally, optimism is on the side of the Maroons.

“I think the energy from these being our last home games for the

season will definitely give us a leg up, especially on senior day on Sunday,” Derken said.

The Maroons will play NYU on Friday at 6 p.m., and Brandeis on Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

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–SF Giants first baseman Brandon Belt on KC Royals’ Alex Gordon’s hit that skimmed past Giants’ Gregor Blanco in Game seven of the World Series

NYU, No. 3 Brandeis pose challenge for UAA second-place Chicago Men’s Soccer Eirene Kim Sports Staff Chicago (8–5–2, 2–0–2 UAA) makes a push for the UAA title and prepares for one of the biggest weekends of its season, as it enters its fourth UAA weekend with home games against NYU (11–3–0, 2–2– 0) and No. 3 Brandeis (15–1–0, 3–1–0).

The Maroons have positioned themselves within reaching distance of the UAA title thanks to three successful UAA weekends against Carnegie Mellon, No. 24 Emory, Roch-

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“We’re really excited that we put ourselves in a position to win conference,” said fourth-year midfielder Nick Codispoti.

The South Siders are currently second in the UAA standings, behind

Brandeis.

“Everyone on the team is aware that this is the most important weekend of soccer thus far in our college careers,” said first-year defender Stacey Reimann.

The results for this weekend can mean a lot of firsts for many of the Maroons.

“For the seniors, this weekend is the last chance to clinch their first NCAA tournament bid. For the freshman, it is the opportunity to begin a new tradition of being UAA champions,” Reimann said.

We have seniors on this team who have been waiting for the chance to play for a conference title for four years. This moment has finally become a reality. We all know what is on the line this weekend,” Codispoti said.

The Maroons feel confident that they know what they need to do in order to come out with their first win of the weekend against NYU. “We know NYU will be a close game, as it has been for several years running. We’ll be looking to limit their chances on set pieces and use our quick passing game to break down their line of offense,” said fourth-year midfielder Conor Goodwin.

The Maroons know their NYU opponent well, as Codispoti describes it as “a stingy team.”

“NYU has a great keeper. They also

have a striker who has some pace and can cause trouble,” Codispoti said.

As for Brandeis, Chicago realizes that the Judges are “a different monster to tackle,” as Reimann stated. “[Brandeis] play[s] the best soccer compared to any team we have played this season,” Reimann said.

Despite the tough weekend ahead of them, the Maroons are confident in their game plan; a game plan that has produced shutouts against all of their previous UAA opponents.

In addition, Chicago feels optimistic with these two critical games at home.

“We expect everyone to do their job. We’ll be playing in front of our parents and alumni on senior weekend. We all are going to give whatever it takes and fight to the last minute for each other to win these two games,” Codispoti said.

After what began as a rather inconsistent season, the South Siders are ready to finish on a high note. “[I expect] everyone to be more excited and prepared than ever before,” Reimann said. “We are confident and ready to win, and there is no better way to do it than at our last home games of the season.”

Kickoff against NYU is on Friday at 3:30 p.m. at Stagg Field. After a day of recovery, Chicago prepares for its Senior Day against Brandeis, on Sunday at 11 a.m. at Stagg Field.

Fourth-year forward Kyle Kurfirst hustles toward the ball in a match against Benedictine earlier last month.

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Long-awaited conference South Siders to tackle final championships beckon this Saturday home weekend Men and Women’s Cross Country Russell Mendelson Senior Sports Staff A new month brings a new set of challenges to the Maroons, as both the men and women will head south to St. Louis tomorrow for the UAA Championships, their first of two championship tournaments taking place this month.

The women are hoping to defend their back-to-back titles, from 2012 and 2013, as they enter UAAs with three first-place finishes on the year. In their most recent meet, the Oshkosh Invitational, the defending champs placed ninth amongst one of the most competitive fields they have faced so far this year.

“The competition at Oshkosh was insane but very exciting. It presented a challenge to our team similar to the one we will see at Nationals, and many members of the team really rose to that challenge,” third-year Catherine Young said. “This performance shows ourselves and other teams that we are ready to attack UAAs at our very best ability.”

Young was the second Maroon to cross the finish line at Oshkosh.

The men put on a strong performance as well, finishing 14th

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of 45 in what was also a densely talented group of runners.

Fourth-year Kevin On stressed how important racing as a team was at Oshkosh and how that’s what will lead the team to success this Saturday.

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sciously give other people permission to do the same.”

Third-year Michael Frasco noted the importance of the mental game and putting mind over matter, especially at this point in the year.

“In order to be successful at UAAs, our team needs to trust our training and push our pain tolerance as far as we can,” Frasco said.

He led the team by finishing

49th at Oshkosh.

“Running a great cross country race hurts bad,” Frasco said. “But the twenty five minutes of suffering will be worth it if we are able to win the conference meet.”

Young was in agreement with Frasco about the role of the mental game when competing at this high level.

“Our team really needs to go into UAAs with confidence in how good we are. It is all a mental battle now for the championship season,” Young said. “The physical speed is there—we just need to trust our teammates and ourselves.”

Facing the best of the UAA will require aiming for near perfection as both teams contend to be the champions of the conference.

On explained how he looked at this necessity going into the weekend.

“Being perfect is about being able to look your friends in the eye and know that you didn’t let them down... you live in that moment, as best you can... if you can do that, then you’re perfect,” On said.

The Maroons will strive for perfection tomorrow in St. Louis at 11:30 a.m. as they race for the distinction of becoming UAA champions.

Katie Anderson Maroon Contributor This weekend, the South Siders (11–3–1, 2–1–1 UAA) are looking to get back on track after a tough loss last weekend against No. 7 Wheaton. The No. 16 Maroons will play UAA opponents NYU and Brandeis on Friday and Sunday at home.

The players recognize that NYU (10–4–1, 2–1–1) and Brandeis (11–3–1, 1–2–1) are both strong programs and that they will have to be on their game

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this weekend.

“Our games against Brandeis and NYU will be good ones, as conference games are always tough,” said fourth-year forward Meghan Derken.

“Every team in the UAA is good, and every game is a battle, so we can’t take anything lightly,” said first-year midfielder Whitley Cargile. “It’s important that we win these two [games] to secure a

spot in the tournament.”

The Maroons look forward to recovering from last weekend’s loss and feel confident going into the weekend after having had a strong week of practice.

“We played pretty well against Wheaton—it didn’t feel like it should have been a 3–0 loss,” Derken said. “We failed to score and broke down a few times defensively, and when you play a team as good as Wheaton, they will take advantage of your mistakes.

Because of that, we’ve been focusing on shooting and competing one-v[ersus]-one this last week to prepare us for this weekend.”

Having Senior Day on Sunday adds even more excitement, as the underclassmen look forward to honoring their six fourth-years: goalkeepers Mallory Morse and Jacinda Reid, defender Katie Shivanandan, midfielders Sara Kwan and Katharine Hedlun and Derken.

Fourth-year captains Shivanandan and Kwan both earned WAA Athletes of the Week this past week in recognition for their efforts in leading such a young squad, which includes 10 firstyears, to a successful season.

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