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Higher costs force Metra Istria to close

Update to wireless network eliminates login

By Jonathan Lai Senior News Staff

Belinda Lipscomb, co-owner of Café 57, stands behind the counter of what was formerly Istria Café. Lipscomb was store manager at Istria.

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By Crystal Tsoi News Staff Istria Café on East 57 Street closed its doors on December 18, but not a single commuter missed their morning coffee. The following morning, a new coffee shop, Café 57, opened its

doors at the same location.

Under the same management, the new owners plan to change the former Italian-style café into a local café for residents, commuters, and bicyclists.

The new co-owners, Belinda Lipscomb and Tony Wilkins (M.B.A.

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’86), have worked extensively to redevelop a new vision and menu for the café. The café will no longer serve gelato or paninis, but instead will offer whole fruit smoothies, fruit cups, homemade ice cream, and hoagies.

Wilkins said he hopes Café 57 “will

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IT Services unveiled a secure campus wireless network over break that also bypasses the u n w i e l d y l o g - i n p r o c e s s . Th e release date of the new network was bumped up in response to security concerns about the old network, which was not secure and was more vulnerable to hacking.

Dubbed uchicago-secure, the new network runs on a framework called IEEE 802.1X, which allows users to store credentials on their wireless devices in order to connect securely to the Internet without going through a log-in page.

According to Senior Director for Emerging Technologies and Communication Oren Sreebny, the uchicago-secure network had been planned before he arrived in September, though the implementation was accelerated because of the security vulnerabilities exposed

by Firesheep. Firesheep, a plugin for the Firefox web browser, allows users on unsecured WiFi networks to access and modify the Facebook and Twitter accounts of other users on the network.

“It was supposed to be a little later on in the first quarter of the year, and we ended up accelerating the rollout as a result of some of

Wallace Goode, who served as the director of the University Community Service Center (UCSC) for more than five years, left the University last month in a move that some students are calling abrupt.

University administrators sent an email to community service registered student organization (CSRSO) leaders December 10 informing recipients that Director of College Programming Lori Hurvitz would be the interim director until a permanent replacement is found.

Goode said he will continue his community service work in Woodlawn and surrounding neighborhoods, but unaffiliated with the University. He said he is looking forward to having a more hands-on role instead of an administrative one, but will also miss the benefits of working with the UCSC. “The University has acted as a great connection to work with so many enthusiastic students,” Goode said.

During Goode’s time at the UCSC, the number of CSRSOs grew from 30 to 75. Goode, who has been the official advisor of the 75 CSRSOs, said the permanent replacement will likely

The announcement surprised some students. “At first I thought it was a really terrible practical joke,” said fourth-year Kristian Coerper, a Peer Health Exchange coordinator and treasurer of Best Buddies.

“His not being at Chicago is odd,” Coerper said. “With the replacement, I’m going to constantly have to compare to Wallace and say, ‘Who are you to be in this position?’”

Many students spoke of how Goode was an inspiring and influential mentor. “About five minutes into my first meeting with him, he had already convinced me to join the Peace Corps,” said fourth-year Jacqui Gurevitch, the director of CHAMP (Chicago Adolescent Mentorship Program). “Wallace is a powerful personality and he won’t be replaced any time soon. The University has lost an incredible asset.”

Around November, Wallace “disappeared from the University without word,” Tenika Handy, a student at the University of Wisconsin-–Madison who often worked with Goode when she visited her parents in Kenwood, said in an e-mail.

Neither administrators nor Goode would respond to questions regarding

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ADMINISTRATION

UCSC director leaves University Along with new quarter come take up his old role. three new administrators

By Adam Janofsky News Editor

the security issues we were seeing towards the end of the calendar year,” Sreebny said.

“The vulnerabilities have been there, but all of a sudden, there was a much easier way to exploit them. And we were at a point in the project where we knew things were stable and things were good to go, so we moved them up.”

Th e u c h i c a g o - s e c u r e n e t work closes that vulnerability by encrypting all wireless traffic.

Traffic on the old network was unencrypted, though some individual websites—those with an address beginning with https://— did encrypt traffic. Some sites, like Gmail, allow users to choose whether to use encryption, but other websites like Facebook and Twitter remain unencrypted and open to others using Firesheep on an unsecure network. A secure network encrypts all information through the router, protecting data sent over the Internet.

A pilot of the new network was conducted last fall at the Regenstein Library and Harper M e m o r i a l C o m m o n s . “ Th e responses that we got from the test are that people loved it, especially not having to log in all the time,” Sreebny said.

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$215 million science research building announced

By Giovanni Wrobel News Staff

Vice President for the University Medical Center Kathleen A. DeVries. Lickerman and McDade have already begun work in their new positions, and DeVries will start February 7.

Lickerman will work toward consolidating the University’s various student health–related services into one unified agency, with a particular focus on improving the resources

The University plans to break ground on a $215-million physical science research center that will incorporate a new institute for molecular engineering this September.

The seven-story William Eckhardt Research Center (ERC) will take the place of the Enrico Fermi and James Franck Research Institute and Accelerator Building on South Ellis Avenue between East 56th and 57th Streets. Construction will begin shortly after the opening of the nearby Mansueto Library.

“As we developed the design, we set as guiding principles for ourselves that the building would express a fusion of science, engineering, and architecture,” University Architect Steve Wiesenthal said. “One of the ways we are doing that is through very active glass façades that will reflect and channel light through the building.”

The ERC will provide under-

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A student submits a pink slip in the Administration Building.

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By Haru Coryne News Staff In late December, the University appointed three new administrators to usher in the new year: interim Assistant Vice President for Student Health and Counseling Alex Lickerman (M.D. ’92), Deputy Provost for Research and Minority Issues William McDade (Ph.D. ’88, M.D. ’90), and Communications

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Istria's closing surprises some customers and employees

IT admin urges attention to password security

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become more bike-friendly and let people up north know that they can use the place and have a few Cliff Bars.”

Despite a set of regular patrons and a location near University of Chicago students and Metra commuters, a “multitude of inflationary pressures and operational constraints…led to this difficult decision,” former owner Marc Pribaz wrote in an e-mail response to Eater Chicago Blog.

Lipscomb believes the unexpected closure was catalyzed by growing investments by Pribaz’s other building, an Istria Café located inside the Hyde Park Art Center building on South Cornell Avenue at East Hyde Park Boulevard. “He was investing money in the other shop and was backed up behind on so many of his bills,” she said.

For Istria employees and regular customers, the closing of the coffee shop underneath the Metra Tracks came as a surprise. Former store manager and current co-owner of Cafe 57 Lipscomb and other employees were notified a week before the café closed.

Liz Moyer, a professor of geophysical sciences, shared the news with members of the University of Chicago Velo Club and rallied fellow cyclists to help keep the café open. Moyer helped convince Booth School graduate Tony Wilkins to invest in Lipscomb’s

vision of Café 57.

Wilkins spent four hours observing Lipscomb and the business at the café. “I saw her greet everyone who came in by their first name and making their drinks before they had even ordered,” Wilkins said.

Lipscomb stepped in to become a co-owner of the café.

“I have been with Istria for six years already as a store manager,” Lipscomb said. “This wasn’t a plan of mine. I was not planning to do this, but I was pushed into a situation that was bigger than me. [Pribaz] offered me another job at the other shop, but the thing is, it’s not fair to the community, the kids who are growing up in this area, and to the rest of the staff since the staff was going to be out of work about a week before Christmas,” she said. “The place wouldn’t have been safe empty. It needs to be occupied.”

Wilkins also agreed that the café should remain open during the transition of ownership, and so they opened shop on December 19.

Wilkins believes that Hyde Park retail is now experiencing an upward trend which will help the cafe venture. “I think a big turning point is the Harper Square development,” Wilkins said.

“People who won that bid really paid attention to what Hyde Park is about, and [they are] putting in a program that I think is going to give us a better retail profile.”

Biochem prof Goldwasser dies at 88

By Jingwen Hu News Staff Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Eugene Goldwasser (BA ’43, Ph.D. ’50) died in his Hyde Park home on December 17 from kidney failure associated with prostate cancer. He was 88 years old.

Goldwasser was also known as the “Father of EPO” for isolating and purifying the hormone erythoproietin (EPO), which is used to treat anemia.

Goldwasser shared the protein hormone, which is instrumental to producing red blood cells, with a bioengineering firm that used it to produce a drug to treat anemia.

Goldwasser began his research on EPO at the request of his mentor, hematologist Dr. Leon Jacobson. A project he estimated would last several months turned into a 20-year pursuit.

“He was the type of guy who was committed to a goal. It was a very difficult thing, and he didn’t have much funding for it, and people

didn’t think it could be done, but he stuck with it and got it done,” chairman of the biochemistry and molecular biology department Anthony Kossiakoff said.

Goldwasser served as chair of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology from 1984-1985. Despite retiring in 1987, he acted again as chair from 1994–1998 and as the chair of the Committee on Developmental Biology from 1976–1991 before retiring again in 2002.

“He had an enormous attachment to the University,” Jackman said. “He found intellectual stimulation among his peers and wonderful support in terms of his work. He was also a man who was enormously loyal.”

Goldwasser lived with stage-IV prostate cancer for 25 years, but he continued to be active in lab until he retired in 2002. “He was always the scientist. He was always observing the biological processes, including his own illness,” Jackman said.

A memorial service will be held at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on January 24.

network helps reduce wireless security risks, it will not remove them altogether, Sreebny said. He warned that while CNET credentials and Internet traffic will remain secure, automatic authentication can pose problems of its own. “What you do have to worry about is, let’s say you left your laptop sitting open on a desk in the library, and somebody else came up and started using it, they could just, you know, use it. So you start to worry about that.”

Now more than ever, Sreebny s aid, “People should be careful about making sure they have a password on their device.”

While the new network will make connecting to the Internet easier for most users, the old network will continue to run indefinitely while IT Services makes sure all devices will work. According to Sreebny, wireless devices sold in recent years have the necessary hardware and software installed, but “if you had a laptop that was older than, say, three years old, I’m not sure that it would work.”

The implementation hasn’t been a problem so far, said Sreebny, adding that the pilot program was extremely successful.

“Everything seemed to work, and there were very minimal problems,” he said.

Second-year Shah chosen CC chair in special election

By Ella Christoph News Editor College Council (CC) elected secondyear Neil Shah as chair of CC Wednesday in a special election to fill the seat.

According to Undergraduate Liasion to the Board of Trustees and second-year Frank Alarcon, former C C chair Jason Cigan emailed the council in the final days of winter break to inform them that he would not be at the University this winter for personal reasons.

Two CC members ran for the position: Shah and fourth-year Joseph Dozier. Shah was voted in by CC members in the closed election.

Shah has helped coordinate the Student Government–sponsored (SG) airport shuttles at the end of the quarter and coordinated an SG hot chocolate study break on the quad at the end of November.

Shah said attending SG meetings helped him to find specific issues he wanted to address. “I’ve only been in Student Government for a year officially, but I went to almost every meeting my first year,” he said. “I had a lot of concerns with the way Student Government was shaped, and I wanted to fix them.”

He said his main priority is to improve the lack of communication between College Council and the Graduate Council.

CORRECTIONS The November 30 Grey City article “Murder, They Wrote: The Story of the Lipstick Killer” contained several factual errors. » The article claimed that William Heirens’s fingerprints were “almost immediately” matched to those found at the scene of Frances Brown’s murder. In fact, after some initial dispute, police attached Heirens’s prints to the crime four days later. The article also claimed that Heirens confessed to a team of psychologists. While Heirens did admit to the murders during an interview with psychologists, he had already confessed to the crimes to police. According to the article, another suspect, Richard Thomas, confessed to the murders the day Heirens was arrested. Although this confession was first published in newspapers the day Heirens was arrested, police had interviewed Thomas two days prior. » The article also incorrectly identified Delores Kennedy’s department at Northwestern and the year her book was published. Kennedy, who works for the Northwestern School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, is the author of William Heirens: His Day in Court, which was published in 1991. » Finally, the article reported that Heirens was convicted of three counts of manslaughter and sentenced to three concurrent life sentences. Heirens was convicted of three counts of firstdegree murder. Also, while Heirens was initially sentenced to three consecutive life sentences, the terms became concurrent after Illinois adopted the Unified Code of Corrections in 1971.

The November 30 article “Council Bridges Faculty Gender Gap” incorrectly reported the gender of Victoria Prince’s mentor while she was a junior faculty. Prince’s mentor was a man.

A point of clarification on statistics: Information about department gender breakdown in this article and the accompanying graphic came from departmental websites.

The October 29 article “Holy Rigamarole” misstated the year of second-year chemistry graduate studen Ben Zalisko. It also misquoted him. The correct quote is “Faith is the willful suspension of critical thinking.” Faith, Zalisko clarified, imposes divine consequences, rather than drawing attention to humanist consequences.

The MAROON is committed to correcting mistakes for the record. If you suspect the MAROON has made an error, please alert the newspaper by e-mailing Editor@ChicagoMaroon.com.

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Eckhardt's eco-conscious design may save $250,000 in annual expenses ECKHARDT continued from front page ground space for precision-based research in ultra-quiet and ultra-clean laboratories for astrophysics, astronomy, chemistry, physics, and molecular engineering. Argonne National Laboratory will provide research collaboration through the Institute of Molecular Engineering, a new addition to the Physical Sciences Department, qualifying the project for government funding.

The building is designed by James Carpenter from the architecture firm HOK. Carpenter designed the lobby of the 7 World Trade Center in Manhattan and helped to renovate the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

According to a University press release, Carpenter aims to pull design inspiration from the surrounding structures. The bronze Henry Moore “Nuclear Energy” sculpture located

outside of Max Palevsky West Residential Commons will act as a focal point of the ERC design.

To increase the statue’s visibility, the new design will create a passageway connecting the area between the BSLC and Eckhardt Research Center to South Ellis Avenue.

Slated for completion in 2 015, the University is planning to apply for LEED (Leadership in Energy and Design) gold status for the structure’s environmentally conscious design.

Sustainable elements of the building include the active glass facade, as well as a combination of chilled beams that will circulate water through coils to cool rooms and a heat recovery system that will recycle the building’s exhaust air.

HOK expects these types of design aspects

will save the University $250,000 in utilities expenses every year.

Hyde Park architectural scholar and preservationist Grahm Balkany fears that building expansion puts the University at risk of losing the rich architectural history and connections to the Hyde Park community.

“The small buildings are what give the campus its richness,” Balkany said. “Each of these three buildings is trying to relate to the campus, each in an idiosyncratic sort of way,” he said, referring to the limestone buildings along South Ellis Avenue.

The ECR project team is still discussing how, if at all, the current Research Institutes building and its legacy will be memorialized.

Although a formal decision has not been finalized, the team is considering displaying a cornerstone.

Next UCSC director to be in place for 2011–12 school year GOODE continued from front the nature of his departure.

Staff members at the UCSC said Goode was not in communication with the center. “He hasn’t been in touch with any of us senior staff at UCSC for many weeks,” said USCS assistant director Trudi Langendorf in an e-mail. “I know nothing about his whereabouts or what he’s doing.”

A selection committee for the permanent director is being formed by Assistant Vice President for Student Life Eleanor Daugherty, who said the committee will be a broad representation of the campus community.

“The search will last six months, and my goal will be to have a permanent director in place for the 2011–12 academic year,” Daugherty wrote in a December 10 e-mail to CSRSO leaders.

Lickerman, first VP for Student Health and Counseling, hopes to reduce SCC waits ADMIN continued from front page provided by the Student Care Center (SCC).

Lickerman currently holds the position on an interim basis, and the search for a permanent administrator will begin at the end of this month, but he is focusing on the task at hand. “I’m approaching this job as if it’s mine,” he said. “I have short-term goals and long-term goals, and I am working on them simultaneously.”

Chief among those goals is the streamlining of the University’s existing health infrastructure. “The most immediate thing really is improving access: getting students into appointments at the Student Care Center in a timely way,” he said. Tackling the issue requires a two-pronged approach, he said: First, the physical space of the SCC has to be reformatted to maximize the number of stu-

dents it can serve; second, the SCC needs to hire more care providers.

Also in the works is a new program geared toward spreading more health awareness in all forms—physical, emotional, mental, and even spiritual. While the initiative is only in its first planning stages, and Lickerman did not have many details to offer, he expressed excitement at the new project. “If I had one overriding goal,” he said, “it would be to turn student health from a topic of derision and despondency to one in which students are pleased and even proud of the services that are offered.”

The administration appointed Lickerman as part of an effort to provide a more comprehensive and better organized health network on campus. Lickerman is the first to hold the position.

McDade will be responsible for coordinating the University’s efforts to improve diversity among the faculty and student body. “We want to improve the environment to help people understand how diversity is the equivalent of excellence,” said McDade.

While he praised the diversity in some areas of the University, he said other departments could stand considerable improvement.

“There are some areas where the University has not changed so much in the last few decades,” he said, singling out the physical sciences department as being particularly homogeneous.

McDade also wants to develop the University’s pipeline programs, or programs that recruit promising high school and college students from underrepre sented minority groups interested in pursu-

ing long-term careers here in medicine or health-related research.

He replaced Kenneth Warren, who occupied the position since its creation in 2005.

McDade previously worked for 16 years on the admissions board at the Pritzker School of Medicine. The University has not yet identified a candidate to fill the admissions position.

DeVries will begin her work as communications vice president once she leaves her current position at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital & Medical Center in St. Louis early February.

Her primary responsibilities will b e to coordinate marketing for the UCMC, which has faced criticism for its decision to focus on research and unusual cases rather than providing general care to South Side residents.

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Righting the wrong The Core’s writing seminars should provide more rigorous training There is perhaps no skill more central to success in college than the ability to write well. Students in the humanities and social sciences are evaluated almost exclusively on their written work, and there are countless other situations that require students in all disciplines to express their ideas in a clear and compelling fashion: applying for scholarships and jobs, creating fliers and other materials for RSOs, or petitioning a stickler professor for an eleventhhour extension.

We’d expect, then, that the attention given by the Core to the development of writing skills would be commensurate with the importance of writing well, but that isn’t the case—not by a long shot. For College students, the only mandatory writing training occurs in the Humanities Writing Seminars, the small sections conducted by the writing intern

assigned to each Hum class.

These seminars consist of three brief sessions during fall quarter and an unspecified number—generally even lower than three—of meetings in subsequent quarters. No quality grade is given. Regardless of the writing chops you bring to the College, you can easily finish off your formal writing training in less than five hours.

What’s worse, students from a Hum section are usually lumped into the same seminar, without concern for their levels of preparation; a published writer might be sitting at the same discussion table as someone who’s never heard of a thesis statement. The group sessions are, accordingly, aimed at the lowest common denominator, and any oneon-one meetings are so brief as to hardly make a difference.

The result is that the College’s writing requirement, which is fulfilled

by the seminars, is no more than a formality for most students: show up, go through the motions, get the “P” on your transcript. And it’s not that we students are short on room for improvement; in fact, the brevity and ease of the requirement help ensure our writing skills have ample space to grow.

The possible improvements to the seminars are so numerous, that it’s hard to say where to begin. Students could be grouped not by their Hum section but by their writing ability— we have placement tests for many other subjects—so that all students stand a chance of benefiting from the seminars. There could be more than three meetings during fall quarter, and there could be a minimum number of sessions in winter and spring quarters as well.

Assignments and participation in the seminars could be graded, or

make up a substantial portion of the Hum grade, so that students have reason to work. Hum professors could supplement the seminars by paying greater attention to writing skills during regular class time.

Sosc classes, which are no less writing-intensive than Hum, could also include a writing development component.

No part of an education at the U of C should be perfunctory, and certainly not the part where you learn to write well, but as it stands, that’s exactly the word we’d use to describe the Humanities Writing Seminars.

Design a more thorough and effective means of teaching us to express ourselves, and maybe we’ll be able to think of a better word.

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STATE & MADISON

Choosing brains over Braun Carol Moseley Braun’s mayoral campaign focuses on race at the expense of policy

By Jake Grubman MAROON Staff Whatever “consensus” Carol Moseley Braun has been referring to over the past week definitely doesn’t include me.

Near the end of the month, State Senator James Meeks and Congressman Danny Davis with-

drew from the mayoral election and swung their support to former Senator Carol Moseley Braun as the only major African-American candidate in the field—the “consensus candidate,” in her words. But as inclusive as that sounds, Braun’s definition of “consensus” ultimately undermines her candidacy and hurts this election as a whole.

Carol Moseley Braun is the wrong choice for mayor for any number of reasons. She calls herself the experience candidate, even though she hasn’t held office since losing her U.S. Senate seat in 1998.

She calls herself the business candidate even though her own businesses have lost money over the

past few years.

But one candidate’s bad track record isn’t the kind of thing that will have a lasting impact on the system (that is, unless she wins).

The bigger story has to be the route she has taken to becoming one of the top three candidates for mayor a month and a half before the election.

As early as September, certain leaders of the black community called for aspiring candidates to pool their support and back one African-American for mayor. At first, it looked like Meeks and Davis would forge ahead, even against each other. But in the end, Meeks pulled his name out of the running,

and a week later, Davis agreed to support Braun as the “consensus candidate.”

As much as Braun has tried to channel her inner Harold Washington by bringing together “black, white, brown, one side of town to the other,” the label of “consensus candidate” ultimately isolates her as the African-American c a n d i d a t e , s a n s Wa s h i n g t o n ’ s coalition-building. As much as Braun wants to be the whole city’s choice, Meeks’s words reveal the real motive behind his and Davis’s withdrawal: “We need one AfricanAmerican candidate for mayor.”

Braun and others behind the

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ON THE OTHER HAND...

Republican myopia GOP proposals emphasize short-term political gains, not solving nation’s problems

By Ajay Ravichandran Viewpoints Columnist After the Republican electoral victories last November, many have commented on the new vitality of an American right that appears to have avoided the exile to political wilderness that

seemed to be in store for it after the 2008 Democratic landslide.

This energy is claimed to flow from an eagerness to respond to public anger about our government’s indebtedness and to restore fiscal sanity. A look at the seemingly obscure issue of accounting rules in the House of Representatives, however, shows that this view is largely misguided.

The new Republican majority has recently made two changes to those rules that reflect a lack of genuine interest in restoring fiscal responsibility or in pursuing virtually any other public policy goal.

Both changes involved departures

from the pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules that both houses have recognized (but often neglected to follow) for the past four years, which mandate that any measure which adds to the federal deficit must be offset by either spending increases or tax cuts.

Th e G O P ’ s w e a k c o m m i t ment to fiscal responsibility is most evident from a change in the rules that exempts all tax cuts from PAYGO requirements; the increase in the deficit which results when Congress reduces federal revenues while keeping spending constant does not need to be offset in any way. The right

would presumably respond to this claim by asserting that tax cuts can potentially increase the total amount of federal revenue because they increase the rewards attached to hard work, and therefore give people incentives to work more. While there is some truth to this logic, it applies only when tax rates are relatively high.

Currently, there is widespread agreement amongst economists that tax rates in the contemporary United States are not high enough for tax cuts to increase revenue.

In fact, the new rule governing tax cuts is likely to make it harder

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Braun should follow Preckwinkle’s example, campaign on policy ideas BRAUN continued from page 4

Current Republican positions spell long-term disaster for the party GOP continued from page 4

Dorothy Brown, Congressman Danny Davis, and Preckwinkle—all matched up against one major white candidate (Water Reclamation President Terrence O’Brien). Just like we’ve seen in this mayoral election, certain members of the African-American community clamored for three of the black candidates to drop out to clear the path for one of them. When a group of African-American ministers announced their support for Todd Stroger in October 2009, they specifically called on Preckwinkle, Brown, and Davis to end their bids for the position. Said Leonard Muhammad: “Everyone should think about what’s in the best interest of their constituent base, and we’re just simply asking everyone to do that.”

Fortunately for us, Brown and Preckwinkle stayed in the race—even though that meant three African-American candidates—and the best candidate still won easily.

In saying that the African-American community needs one unified base and that she represents that unity, Braun has demonstrated a short memory and the kind of short-sightedness that make her the wrong choice in this election. Her label is a backward strategy that makes race the main issue at a time when the city needs new policy ideas. So with multiple strong candidates in the field, the only campaign that makes any kind of sense is one without Braun’s brand of “consensus.”

consolidation of African-American support continue to drop Harold Washington’s name, but in what could have been a monumental election—the first competitive race in 20 years—this is a move that’s unworthy of Washington’s legacy. It’s true that Harold Washington was the only black candidate when he became the first African-American mayor in 1983, but he didn’t win because he was the black candidate; he won because he was the best candidate.

Now, Braun has put herself in a no-win position. In asserting herself as “the black candidate,” she is defining her campaign according to her race. That means that if she wins the election, it will be hard to go back and redefine herself according to the merits that I’m sure some of her policy ideas have.

By focusing on herself as the “consensus candidate” of the African-American community, she devalues herself as a member of the policy discussions that matter most. It is her policy ideas that will make the biggest impact on the city’s future, meaning that her identifi cation as the African-American candidate can only hurt her contribution to the campaign.

I wish I didn’t have to keep going back to Toni Preckwinkle as Chicago’s politico upon a hill (not actually true—I love writing about Preckwinkle), but her campaign for Cook County Board President again should serve as an example for Braun.

When that campaign started in mid- to late 2009, there were four black candidates— incumbent Todd Stroger, Circuit Court Clerk

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| VIEWPOINTS | January 7, 2011

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for the Republicans to achieve what is presumably one of their main aims: avoiding disruption of the economy through sudden tax increases. This is because, as the great libertarian economist (and University of Chicago icon) Milton Friedman often pointed out, a tax cut without offsetting spending cuts is just a deferred tax increase. Any debt the federal government incurs must eventually be paid off, and if spending is not reduced in order to pay for increases in the deficit caused by tax cuts, then taxes must be increased. Given the political difficulty of raising taxes, the increases necessary are likely to be postponed until the last possible moment and then suddenly enacted, which will probably damage our economy more than moderately higher rates in the present. In light of the inconsistency between this change and the Republicans’ professed interest in fiscal responsibility, it seems likely that the change is meant largely to enhance the party’s political prospects by making it easier to give voters free money. It therefore demonstrates just how little genuine energy or enthusiasm the party has.

The second change demonstrates even more powerfully that the GOP lacks the sort of vitality necessary to be politically viable over time: It posits that any increase in spending can only be paid for by a reduction in spending elsewhere in the federal budget. This measure is clearly designed to make it as difficult as possible to increase spending since, as conservatives rarely tire of noting, government programs tend to create their own constituencies and there-

fore existing programs will all have lobbies trying to prevent cuts while proposed programs will have none. Therefore, the Republicans’ decision to enact this new rule suggests that they have no positive agenda of any kind: They want to roll back President Obama’s expansions of government but have no plans to use government power more constructively to address the problems his new programs are designed to solve. This indicates unresponsiveness to the concerns the American people actually have which, if not fixed, could again consign Republicans to the political irrelevance which loomed after their losses in 2008.

While many Americans resent overly large and intrusive government, they do expect the state to play an active role in addressing their economic anxieties, and a party which cannot speak to those anxieties has no political future.

The overarching problem which both changes reflect is a lack of seriousness about governance. House Republicans prefer politically advantageous posturing to real deficit reduction, and a purist rejection of all spending increases to concrete efforts to make government programs less wasteful and more effective. Until the Republicans are willing to present a governing agenda that has both political viability and some plausible connection to its aims, they will not be able to restore their competitiveness in a sustainable way, and the continuing impoverishment of the national debate that will result will hurt all Americans.

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MUSIC

With a classical pedigree, the Dead Superheroes Orchestra revitalizes goth rock including death, is better than what this world has become. It’s easier to explain in songs than in real life…I’m also pondering the prospect of bringing back the dead, in a Frankenstein sort of way.

By Charna Albert Voices The Rocking Dead Watching the Dead Superheroes Orchestra perform is a little like watching the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. That is, if the CSO had an electric guitar section, dressed in all black, and sang about death.

The 15-member gothic chamber rock orchestra, which includes guitar, violin, viola, bass, drums, cello, a keyboard, and a choir, will b e playing this Friday at Mayne Stage Theater along with Atomica Project and Grace Kulp.

Members of the Orchestra spoke with the Maroon about gothic rock, bringing people back from the dead, and air guitar.

DEAD SUPERHEROES ORCHESTRA Mayne Stage Theater January 7, 8 p.m.

C H I CAG O M A RO O N : Where did the name the Dead Superheroes Orchestra come from?

Mark Winston (vocals and guitars): The name comes from a rock opera that my friend from college wrote the story for. I started writing music and sketches for the story on my own in 2005, and

CM: So bringing back the dead is something you guys are interested in?

Julia Berian (viola): We’re in that business.

M W: I’ve often thought, Why can’t we bring people back from the dead? Not only scientifically, but also metaphorically. Why can’t we instill in them the humanity they used to have and have now lost?

Mark Winston's (left) and Julia Berian's costumes function as both appropriate superhero attire and funeral wear.

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then my friend helped me write a script, which is called “The Dead Superheroes.” We called the band the Dead Superheroes because we mostly play music from that script.

CM: I was going to ask if you guys ever dress up as superhe roes…

MW: That question is off-limits.

CM: What genre would you classify your music as?

MW: We started calling the band gothic rock because of the subject matter. Obviously you’ve noticed that we have a lot of songs about death and coming back from the dead. We [more often] refer to our band as a gothic chamber rock band—gothic because of the subject matter, chamber because of the strings, and rock because

we play rock music.

CM: Is the preoccupation with death a central theme of your work?

MW: I use death as a commentary on the state of the world. In our song “The Last Superhero,” one of the characters from the rock opera kills himself with his own guitar. He’s giving up, but he’s also saying that anything,

CM: How long have you guys been playing together?

MW: I’ve been running the group in some form or another since 2004. Q, the percussionist, and Shani, the violinist, have been a part of it since last December.

Craig, the guitarist, has been a member on and off for the last two years. Julia, Adam the bass player, and Carlos, a violinist, have been part of it for longer.

C M: Mark, your twin brother

SUPERHEROES continued on page 8

FILM

Blue Valentine gives new meaning to "labor of love"

By Julia Greenberg Voices Love is a Battlefield “You always hurt the one you love, the one you shouldn’t hurt at all,” sings Dean, one half of the il-fated couple spotlighted in Blue Valentine. Following the relationship of Dean and Cindy, a bluecollar couple in Pennsylvania, the film shows the constant, universal struggle of love. Most romantic movies fail to tackle what those in love know best: the painful yet subtle line between love and hate, bliss and pain, beginning and end which becomes blurred in the memory of a failed relationship.

But Blue Valentine, the indie directorial debut of Derek Cianfrance, sets out to examine just that.

The film begins dangerously close to the end of Dean and Cindy’s marriage. Cindy, played by an unmatched Michelle Williams, is an ambitious nurse who’s tired, worn down, and frustrated, having had higher aspirations for herself. Dean, played by the charismatic Ryan Gosling, is a house painter and a hopeless romantic who wants nothing more than to spend his life loving his wife and daughter, Frankie (Faith Wladyka).

In youth, this ambition seemed romantic and brave, but for Cindy it has become an annoyance and a sign of weakness.

We follow two days in the present lives of Dean and Cindy, who barely speak to one another, yet continue to wear each other down.

Dean tries to rekindle the spark in their relationship by spending a night in the “Future Room” of a sketchy theme motel. The room is an aluminum covered, claustrophobic chamber—as Dean states, “the inside of a robot’s vagina”— with a rotating bed and rocket controls.

Cut between this present day action are flashbacks to the beginning of their relationship, when

BLUE VALENTINE Directed by Derek Cianfrance Landmark Century Centre Cinema

carefree Cindy (a remarkably transformed Michelle Williams) is a college student with dreams of medical school. Charming Dean, working for a Brooklyn moving company, first catches a glimpse of the cheerful Cindy as she’s helping her grandmother in a retirement home. Their chance encounter is, for Dean, love at first sight.

Moving back and forth between present day and six years before, the story swtiches between that of a couple falling blissfully in love—dancing and singing to the

Cindy (Michelle Williams) ponders her crumbling marriage and the color blue.

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ukulele on abandoned streets—and that of their brutal fall out of love— screaming, crossing arms, wincing, and clenching jaws in moments of frustration and disgust. The middle of their relationship is left to the imagination of the viewer, who must sort out what went wrong.

However, subtle revelations throughout the story, mirroring the gradual unfolding of truths

over the course of a relationship, hint at past troubles.

The on-screen chemistry and frustration of Williams and Gosling is very real, making the film viscerally believable to the audience who smiles, cries, laughs, and winces alongside Dean and Cindy. In fact, during production, Williams and Gosling spent a month living together in Dean and Cindy’s

house, baking birthday cakes for their “daughter,” buying groceries on a small budget, and fighting for hours.

The brilliant cinematography adds b eauty to a film already steeped in heavy metaphors and foreshadowing. The present is shot with sharp colors on two HD cameras that rarely include Williams

VALENTINE continued on page 8

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Gosling and Williams capture the complexities of real-life romance VALENTINE continued from page 7

Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) congratulate themselves on their retro threads.

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and Gosling in the same shot. The past is represented in a subtler 16mm, and Dean and Cindy are often seen wrapped around each other. The chipper music of their young love is foiled with the sounds of silence, fighting, and the rumble of their SUV driving down the highway in the present day.

Yet the story feels too one-sided as the audience sympathizes with Dean, who seems to have good intentions despite his flaws.

Cindy is positioned as the antihero, who seems more at fault for her failure. While the traditional family structure and gender roles are purposefully reversed—Cianfrance and Dean seem to believe men are the more classically romantic gender—the reversal creates resentment towards Cindy’s harshness, leaving both Dean and the audience limp at

the failed love.

Nonetheless, the dark tale, despite slightly unrealistic (or perhaps idealistic) leaps of faith, is predominately a brutally honest look at love. The film accurately captures vivid, emotionally violent sex scenes, including intense moments of passion in the past and pain in the present.

It provides a raw and gripping reminder of the pains love can bring, and anyone who has ever been in love can easily and anxiously identify with both the best and worst moments of each character. The beauty of Blue Valentine is how it, like love itself, is filled with emotional landmines, leaving the audience both smiling and heart-wrenched with disappointment. In the end, the film asks one crucial question: Where does the love go?

A rock opera and the U of C form the origin story of the Dead Superheroes SUPERHEROES continued from page 7 Craig (guitarist) is also in the band. Did you grow up playing music together?

Craig Winston: We learned to play the trombone for the marching band in the fifth grade. And before that we had an air guitar band. It was called Big Foot and the Muscle Machines. We covered “La Bamba.”

CM: On the air guitar?

CW: On tennis rackets.

MW: We did have a drum set made of buckets and pans.

CM: Many of the band members attended the University of Chicago and performed i n t h e C h i c a g o Sy m p h o n y O r ch e s t r a together. How has this classical background influenced the band?

JB: It’s using what we know in new ways.

Shani Schechter (violin): [Classical] music inspires us because it’s so wellwritten.

CW: We have a lot of rotating band members, and sometimes it’s strange for the more classically trained players to adjust to the way rehearsals are run. Playing in a rock band is very different from playing in an orchestra.

Q and I are the only ones in the band who don’t really know what Mark means when he says, “Let’s take it from measure 58.” But for a long time when Mark would say, Let’s take it from the chorus” the string players wouldn’t know what he was talking about. There are basic little things about structure and the way rehearsal is

run that make it hard for traditional players to adapt to a rock band, but I think they’ve done it very well.

CM: Why should UChicago students go to your concert on Friday?

M W : A lot of people enjoy our stuff because it’s more complex than a lot of rock music. There’s a lot of emotional and intellectual depth to it. We try to bring that depth to performance as well. We spend a lot of time working on dynamics. Though the subject matter is somewhat challenging, I find it a very cathartic experience to listen to and play music about death. Even though it’s really dark music sometimes, I think it’s really fun music. It’s whimsical.

CW: As far as the local and maybe even national music scenes go, there aren’t many groups doing what we’re doing—we’re a string ensemble playing rock music. This band is set apart from a lot of groups in the way the music is written and the drive for complexity. I think the current scene is all about simplicity, having as few members in the band as possible, and overall sounding as underwhelming as possible.

When you see the Dead Superheroes, you’re seeing a string section, a choir, and just a ton of really talented musicians. It’s important for anyone to see—even your 80-year-old grandma. Because this is an all-ages show. Also, the venue is an old Vaudeville -style theater in Rogers Park.

It’s the most gorgeous theater we’ve ever played in. So see it as a black tie affair.

Make a night of it, dress up, and go see the orchestra.

Adam Hubbell (left) gives Mark Winston (right) the stinkeye.

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Voices STD (Stuff to Do) With Christine Yang

Friday | January 7 If Christmas isn’t your thing, celebrate the feast of Epiphany with a special performance by the Schola Antiqua vocal ensemble of Chicago. The concert, titled “Follow the Star: Medieval and Renaissance Music for Epiphany,” will include a program of both seasonal and 12th-century works.

(Rockefeller Chapel, 8 p.m., $10) Despite having just released its 8th studio album, Hurley, in November, Weezer’s current Memories Tour is devoted to past albums. For all diehard =W= fans, the band will be performing The Blue Album in its entirety on Friday night, followed by all of Pinkerton on Saturday night. (1106 West Lawrence Avenue, 7:30 p.m., $42.25)

Saturday | January 8 In its show “BOOBS and GOOMBAS,” the Gorilla Tango Theatre presents a sexy, burlesque

tribute to the Mario Bros. video games. Mario and Luigi have become so frustrated in their fruitless pursuit of Princess Peach that everything they see now looks like sexy women. Don’t forget to bring coins to unlock the alternative ending. (1919 North Milwaukee Avenue, 11 p.m., $15)

Sunday | January 9 Contempo, the University’s contemporary chamber group, opens its 46th season with the “Lyre of Orpheus.” The concert is devoted to American composers, especially the work of Contempo founder Ralph Shapey. Performers include the Pacifica Quartet, eighth blackbird, mezzo-soprano Julia Bentley, and banjo player Jesse Langen. (430 South Michigan Avenue, 3 p.m., $5)

Monday | January 10 Celebrate the start of a long winter with the first day of Kuviasungnerk/Kangeiko. Monday

morning’s calisthenics will be led by Professor Kagan Arik, after which participants can join the Aikido or Ballroom and Latin Dance workshops. Those who brave the cold all five days of the program will receive a free long-sleeved t-shirt. (Henry Crown, 6 a.m., free)

Tuesday | January 11 In the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, filmmaker Jennie Livingston explores the ball culture of New York City and the African American, Latino, gay, and transgender communities involved in it.

Since the documentary was largely filmed in the mid to late ’80s, Paris is Burning also touches on racism, homophobia, AIDS, and poverty. (5710 South Woodlawn Avenue, 7:30 p.m., free)

times--he has just been fired from his restaurant gig, extortionists have threatened to steal his marimba, and his dream of making it as a marimba star seems less and less likely. However, everything changes when Alfonso meets an aging heavy metal star and the two combine their two seemingly incompatible music styles. (Gene Siskel Film Center, 8:45 p.m., $7)

Thursday | January 13 Join local writers Aaron Cynic and Jeff Phillips at the monthly Liquid Burning of Apocalyptic Bard Letters. Local authors read original dystopian fiction and then mingle with guests to discuss (and toast) the end of the world. (3101 North Sheffield Avenue, 8 p.m., free)

Wednesday | January 12 In the Guatemalan film Marimbas from Hell, street musician Don Alfonso has been hit with hard

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8. Mil. role for the President 9. Transcriber 10. Gives a hand 11. Small change 12. See 4-down 13. Beginning and ending of every classic?

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

New recruits dive into season

By Jessica Sheft-Ason Associate Sports Editor With a large women’s team and a notably smaller men’s team, the Maroons look ahead for the different types of challenges they will face in the New Year. The women’s team successfully recruited eight new members, while the men’s team only brought in five.

“The women’s team got a large and talented class, so this year’s team is definitely the deepest and most talented in the team’s history,” said head coach Jason Weber.

Conversely, Weber noted that, “The men’s

team didn’t bring in a big class, and a large group of the returning swimmers decided not to be a part of the team this year. So the men’s team is much smaller this year and will have some issues in depth, which used to be one of their strengths the past few years.”

Some of the new female swimmers to watch for will be first-years Vivian Yuen from Cupertino, CA, and Ashley Grimes from Naples, FL. Yuen showed her strength at the Phoenix Fall Classic where she made the national provisional standard in the 200-meter backstroke with a time of 2:06.15. Grimes placed third in the three meterdiving event and second in the one meter-diving

event at the Phoenix Fall Classic.

On the men’s side, Weber looked to first-year Eric Hallman from Oak Park, IL, to fulfill his exciting potential. Hallman swims the free and fly events and has consistently garnered top honors at this year’s meets against Wash U and Wheaton.

Exciting meets this winter should be against both Kalamazoo and DePauw, which are ranked fifth and 18th respectively. Chicago is ranked 21st.

“These meets are always close,” said Weber, adding that, “Our toughest competition, outside of the UAA Conference Championships, will be UW—Milwaukee since they are a D-I team and have beaten us pretty bad the last couple years.”

Both teams will face new challenges: The men have a significantly smaller team, and the women must be able to use their new talent to the best of their ability, avoiding injuries.

Yet Weber remains impressed by the strength of both teams, citing the women to have “depth, talent, confidence, and energy” and the men to have “competitiveness, toughness, and determination.” “[The men] are a tough team who will compete hard until the very end. They know they will be underdogs at most meets due to their lack of depth, but that only motivates them more,” said Weber.

Maroons plan to use balanced scoring attack to exploit Wash U weaknesses After non-conference struggles, Chicago is focused on UAAs W. BASKETBALL continued from front page of the Wash U game,” said Coach Roussell.

“They have such great players and a great coaching staff, and a game like this can’t help but be a measuring stick.”

Halfhill echoed her coach’s sentiments.

“This game is ‘The Game.’ Every game we say, ‘This game is the absolute most important game all season.’ But deep down we know that this game against [Wash U] is actually the most important game all season.

This game says a lot for our league play and can completely change the outcome of our entire season.”

In order to beat the Bears, the Maroons will have to shut down the production of senior Kathryn Berger, who leads the Bears in both scoring and rebounding. Berger is an assassin from deep, knocking down 40 percent of her shots from three point land this year.

The Maroons will counter the Bears’ double-digit scorer with four double-digit scorers of their own. Bryanne Halfhill, Taylor Simpson, and third-year twins Morgan and Meghan Herrick average upwards of ten points a game.

According to Halfhill, the balanced scoring attack is an integral part of the offense and what makes the Maroons so deadly.

“I think we do a really great job of exposing other teams’ weaknesses. If we see that they’re taking something away from one player, then the next girl will come in and give them something else to be concerned about” said Halfhill. “I almost feel like we have four dominant scorers rather than not having one [at all],” said Roussell. “Any of the four could be putting up even bigger numbers if in a different situation.”

The game against Wash U tips off tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Ratner.

M. BASKETBALL continued from front page majority of the game,” said third-year Matt Johnson, the team’s leading scorer and distributer with 14.7 points and 3.9 assists per game. “One characteristic of our team this year has been playing to the level of our opponent, which can be both a strength and a weakness. Unlike our game versus another very good opponent, Illinois Wesleyan, we gave up a double-digit lead and allowed Augustana to come back and win.”

Building off the strong showing against Augustana, coach Mike McGrath hopes that a victory over Wash U can ignite a title charge.

“Wash U is a very good team, and we will have to execute in all phases to beat them, but we realize that this is the start of the race for a UAA Championship. The UAA race is hard to determine at this point, as our teams play so many different non-conference

opponents, but I suspect that the league will once again be highly competitive.”

Johnson also has high hopes for the Maroons’ UAA showing, starting with the rivalry game tomorrow.

“We see the UAA season as a fresh start, and an opportunity to compete for a championship and a tournament bid,” he said.

“Wash U is always a unique game because we have a whole week to prepare for them.

A fair amount of our ‘Wash Week’ is spent learning their plays and ways we can take advantage of what they do. Even though they graduated several key players last year, they have retooled quickly. Some of their upperclassmen are very effective offensively, and their whole team is great on defense. We expect to play them hard and are looking forward to a great atmosphere at home.”

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SPORTS

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Chicago to defend four-game win streak against Wash U

By Mahmoud Bahrani Sports Editor The University of Conneticut’s historic 90-game winning streak ended during winter break. But while that streak was ending, the University of Chicago Maroons were starting a streak of their own.

The women’s basketball team has not lost since winter break, pushing their overall record to 7—3 with wins over Carthage, the Milwaukee School of Engineering, Olivet, and UW-Platteville. The 49—46 win against Carthage was particularly impressive, considering that Carthage was ranked fifth in the country at the time (they are now ranked 16th).

“Our coaches scouted them very well, so we knew exactly what we needed to take away from each player, and we were very successful in doing that,” said third-year

Bryanne Halfhill, who leads the Maroons in scoring with a little more than 14 points a game.

Th i r d - y e a r Ta y l o r S i m p s o n agreed that the Maroons’ defensive effort put them over the top.

“I think that [defense] was really essential to our win. It was an extremely low-scoring game, so defense was a really important factor for b oth teams in that game.”

The Carthage game was not the only head turner. The 80—55 blowout win against Olivet less than a week later marked win number 116 for head coach Aaron Roussell, making him the coach with the most wins in Chicago’s history.

Coach Roussell was quick to deflect praise away from him. “I think [the record] speaks more to the type of players and assistant coaches we have had here over the

years than it does about me personally. We have been very fortunate to get hard-working and dedicated personnel in this program, and when you are surrounded by those types of people, ‘records’ like this happen,” said Roussell.

The Maroons will be looking to continue their winning ways as they begin conference play tomorrow afternoon against Wash U. The Bears are traditionally an extremely strong program, and this year is no exception, as the Bears are currently 9—2 and are ranked fifth in the country. Last year, the Bears were D-III national champions.

Coach Roussell acknowledged that the game against Wash U is not just another game. “We always take our season one game at a time, but everyone in this program knows and respects the importance

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By Gracie Sonnabend Sports Staff

MAROON Sports FantasyPick of the Week

Taylor Simpson

Women’s Basketball 1 p.m., Sunday @UW–Stevens Point

Third-year forward Taylor Simpson will need to have a monster game this weekend to contain forward Kathryn Bergel, Wash U’s main scoring threat.

Third-year Bryanne Halfhill goes for a lay up against North Central in November. Halfhill leads the Maroons in scoring with 14.1 points per game.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Maroons look to bounce back against rival Bears

By Matt Luchins Sports Staff After a rocky start to the season, the men’s basketball team shoots into conference play against Wash U at 3 p.m. tomorrow at Ratner Athletics Center.

While the Maroons’ record (3—8) compares unfavorably to that of the Bears (6—4), the squads have played four teams in common, with both collecting two wins and two losses. In fact, against ranked opponents, the Maroons have fared slightly better. They took down then second-ranked and undefeated Illinois Wesleyan on Decemb er 4 by a score of 83—75. While the Bears secured a similar victory against IWU two weeks later, they lost by 23 to 24th-ranked Augustana College in Novemb er. Meanwhile last Sunday, at home with a doubledigit lead and 14:01 left in the game, the Maroons seemed set for a victory against Augustana (now ranked 10th), but a 22—4 Vikings run led to a 56—63 loss.

“Augustana was probably the best team we’ve faced all year, and we played them really well for the

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WRESTLING

New lineup falls to North Central

By Henry Phillips Sports Staff The University wrestling squad fell to 27th-ranked North Central this past Tuesday, by the decisive score of 37-3. The loss drops the Maroons to 1-6 on the season.

Th e M a r o o n s h a d t o w a i t until the heavyweight bout for their lone victory, a 9-2 decision from fourth-year Ryan Hatten.

“Heavyweights frequently have close matches, but Ryan had more speed, strength, and technique a g a i n s t No r t h C e n t r a l , ” h e a d coach Leo Kocher said. Hatten had the initiative throughout his match, yielding only 2 points— both on escapes.

While Hatten has provided consistency in the heavyweight division, Kocher has talked about how the rest of the team needs

time to “gel.” Specifically, he has talked about altering the Maroons’ lineup so that wrestlers are “competing in their optimal weight classes.” Second-year Francisco Acosta moved into the 133-pound division against North Central, but he was pinned in the third round by North Central’s Nathan Fitzenreider, the third-ranked wrestler in the division. Kocher was optimistic about the move

Second-year Josh Hotta faces off against North Central’s Greg Schroeder during Tuesday evening’s meet at Ratner. Schroeder went on to win the match by decision.

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but said, “he will take some time adjusting to the weight class— opening against [Fitzenreider] would be a tough inaugural match for anyone.”

Along with the addition of Acosta at 133, Kocher expects fourth-year Takumi Mihami to improve the lineup in the 174pound weight class. Mihami, who was out against North Central due to an injury, began the season in the 184-pound division. First-year Sam Pennisi filled his vacated spot at 184.

Overall, Kocher expects more favorable results in the weeks to come. “Our schedule this year was front-loaded with nationally ranked teams…in the next 3 weeks we should be more competitive in our dual meets and the run-up to the UAA Championships.”

The Maroons head to Knox College this Saturday for the Knox Duals tournament. A few wins at Knox would give the Maroons something positive to build on as they head into the second half of their season and approach the February 5 UAA Championship i n N e w Yo r k . “ Th e p r o g r a m has always shot for peaking as a dual meet team for the UAA Championships,” Kocher said. “I think every wrestler can take it up to another level.”