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FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 2011 • VOLUME 122, ISSUE 22 • CHICAGOMAROON.COM
HYDE PARK
DISCOURSE
Celebration, protest mark MLK Day TEDx prepares for U of C convention
By Hans Glick News Staff
By Adam Janofsky News Editor
Judith Jamison, Artistic Director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, gave the keynote speech at the Martin Luther King, Jr. commemoration service in Rockefeller Chapel. MATT BOGEN/MAROON
On the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a group of activists honored his legacy with a nonviolent protest against health care concerns on the South Side. The 25 protesters staged a mock funeral—complete with people lying in makeshift caskets—outside Rockefeller Memorial Chapel Friday during the M LK Commemoration Service, which featured Alvin Ailey Artistic Director Judith Jamison as its keynote speaker. The event was one of a number of demonstrations by the local student activist group Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY), protesting the absence of a level-one adult trauma center at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC). A statement issued by the UCMC on Friday said that adding a level-one trauma center would require changes in staffing and facilities, and could limit the hospital’s ability to provide other important services, including pediatric, neonatal, and advanced speciality care. “Achieving geographic balance on trauma care must not come at the expense of such lifesaving services,” the press release said. But activists believe a trauma center
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By Willy Hu News Staff & Jonathan Lai Senior News Staff A new RSO is bringing the TED experience to the University of Chicago on April 17 with a convention licensed by the global non-profit organization. The event, modeled after the annual Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) conference, will feature 14 speakers, of which six names have been revealed: former President of Bolivia Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada (A.B. ’51), Executive Director of the Kellogg Innovation Network Robert Wolcott, U of C Genetics professor and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner Janet Rowley (A.B. ’44, B.S. ’46, M.D. ’48), Cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick, Director of the DaVinci Institute Thomas Frey, and Mark Inglis, who was the first man with no legs to reach Everest’s summit. TEDxUChicago is a licensed satellite of the TED conference which brings academics, philanthropists, politicians, and business magnates together under the slogan “Ideas Worth Spreading.” Several U of C professors have made presentations including professors of economics Steven Levitt and Emily Oster, and professor of organismal biology and anatomy Paul Sereno.
TEDx events are entirely locally organized, receiving the TEDx license in exchange for agreeing to a set of rules. One of those rules is finding a previous speaker or attendee to agree to sponsor the TEDx event. The students running TEDxUChicago reached out to Levitt, Oster, and Sereno. Levitt and Oster said they were unable to do so due to other commitments, but both expressed excitement about the proposed conference. “What makes TED-like events great are that the speakers are outstanding,” said Levitt. “If there’s any place to do this, [the U of C] would be it.” “The grand challenge of our century is to activate the life of the mind in more than just a small population,” said Sereno. “If we can build a model to link the university and the community, then we should take the opportunity to do so.” According to TEDxUChicago cochairman and third-year Güimar Vaca Sittic, planning the event wasn’t easy, especially because of the rules that the organizers had agreed to follow. “We want to bring in a lot of inspiring people from abroad, but we have to follow very strict guidelines in order to be allowed to host this conference,” he said. The organizers of a TEDx event will
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POLITICS
HYDE PARK
STUDENT LIFE
Fourth ward candidates debate education, safety
Hyde Park laws cork barcade proposal
Forum brings dining questions to the table
By Linda Qiu News Staff
By Gabe Valley MAROON Staff & Ennuri Jo News Contributor
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO) hosted a moderated forum for the fourth ward’s alderman position January 13 at Sixth Grace Presbyterian Church on East 35th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue. The six candidates addressed concerns regarding housing, education, jobs, and public safety to an audience of 150. The six candidates who attended the forum were Will Burns (A.B. ’95, A.M. ’98), Brian Scott, George Rumsey, Normal Bolden, Adam Miguest, and Lori Yokoyama. The other candidates under review, James E. Williams and Valencia “Mother Diva” Dantzler, did not attend. The candidates questioned the economic disparities between Hyde Park, Kenwood, and Bronzeville, the neighborhoods that make up the fourth ward. The concept of turning areas in the fourth ward into walking communities was brought up by both Burns and Rumsey. The former suggested narrowing East 47th Street, calling it a dividing line. Rumsey said his “final step is to get a new business strip, a small business strip
When L aura Green, former member of the Chicago-based band I Fight Dragons, wanted to open an arcade-themed café and bar, she thought U of C’s campus would be the perfect place. But shortly after she began her search for real estate in Hyde Park she realized she was fighting a losing battle. Green grew up visiting Hyde Park to see her grandparents, who were neighborhood residents and local business owners. She revisited the area when she took a job at the Court Theatre after graduating from Roosevelt College. She then realized she wanted to continue the family legacy by opening her own business in the area. Her business venture, a “barcade,” would b e a bar-arcade combo by night and a café by day that would fit with the college community. “It would be a cross between nerd and awesome, which seems like exactly the kind of thing that the University of Chicago would want,” Green said. But when she came to scope the
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By Amy Myers Associate News Editor
Laura Green, a former member of the band I Fight Dragons, hoped to open an arcade-themed bar in Hyde Park, but was confounded by red tape. COURTESY OF PISCESBLUE81'S FLICKR ACCOUNT
University administrators discussed new campus dining initiatives at the Student Forum on Campus Dining and Co-Curricular Life yesterday. The hour-long forum included a panel on new campus dining initiatives, comments on co-curricular life by Assistant Vice President for Student Life and Associate Dean of the College Elly Daugherty, and a Student Government (SG) update from fourth-year and SG president Greg Nance. Aramark’s residential dining contract with the University will expire in June 2011, and the administration has launched efforts to reevaluate the dining system across campus. The Global Dining Initiative (GDI), the committee of administrators and students reevaluating current dining programs, has begun reviewing interested providers and will make a proposal request by the end of January. “The question is, can we do better? Or, can we do different?” said Associate Vice President for Campus Life Karen Warren Coleman.
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CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | January 21, 2011
MEDICAL CENTER
Barcade not only Hyde Park business to have trouble getting licensed
Panel argues for trauma care By Amy Myers Associate News Editor Local groups Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY) and Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) hosted a teach-in and panel last Thursday in Harper to discuss how the lack of a trauma center affects South Side residents. Around 50 attendees, composed mostly of community members and some U of C students, attended the event. The panel brought together local residents, health care experts, and students to discuss the possibility for placing a level-one trauma center on the South Side. The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) closed its trauma center in 1988, due to high operating costs. “U of C greed, making us bleed,” the activists chanted. Handouts circulated at the event pointed to the $58.6 million in tax breaks given to the UCMC as a non-profit hospital as a means of financing the trauma center. FLY–member Veronica Morris and fellow panelists acknowledged that the high operating costs would be a major obstacle for opening a trauma center. “We have to prove it’s cost-effective,” Morris said. “It’s worth the money to open up a hospital right down the street.” “I’m sure a lot of the higher-ups at the U of C are considering the bottom line,” panel member Sheila Rush said. Rush’s son, FLY’s co-founder Damien Turner was shot three blocks from the UCMC last August and died after he was taken to
Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH). Rush believes that a trauma center at the UCMC would have saved her son’s life and the lives of others in the community. To Turner’s friends and fellow protesters, his death underscores why the UCMC must reinstall the level-one trauma center. The trauma center campaign “shines a lot of light on a lot of dark places,” Morris said. Panelists said they believed the UCMC has the resources to treat level-one trauma victims. “[The UCMC] can treat you if they really want to,” Rush said, sharing from personal experience. Rush was shot in 1996 and the UCMC treated the wound. Though no trauma center existed at the time, she was driven to the UCMC before an ambulance arrived and was treated in the emergency room. Hyde Park resident of 45 years and panelist Marcia Rothenburg shared a similar story. Following an automotive accident on East 57th Street and South Dorchester Avenue, Rothenburg and her husband were taken to NMH for treatment. “I heard [the ambulance workers] calling the University of Chicago, the obvious place to take us.” Rothenburg recalled. “The University of Chicago would not take us.” “I want to point this out because I want people to understand that it’s not just a question for poor folks, it’s not just a question for the uninsured,” she said. The issue affects everyone in the surrounding community, according to Rothenburg.
UCMC trauma center protest was in spirit of MLK, Losier says MLK continued from front page would be a more effective distribution of UCMC resources. “Our point that we’re trying to make is that more lives could be saved if the U of C had a level one trauma center,” said FLY member Darris Lightfoot. “In our society, we have a Martin Luther King holiday, but oftentimes we don’t live up to Martin Luther King’s example and his message in terms of justice and equality and looking out for the poor people in society,” said Toussaint Losier, a fourthyear history graduate student who became a FLY supporter when the group’s campaign to improve conditions in juvenile detention centers crossed paths with his dissertation research. Losier acknowledged that balancing health care services is a complex issue, but said that the University’s stance fails to address the South Side community’s greatest need. “If you’re talking to folks on the South Side, particularly young people like those in FLY, gun violence is one of the biggest concerns, and one of the biggest public health concerns is people either getting shot or dying from gun violence,” Losier said. The mock funeral’s position outside Rockefeller’s main entrance caused a brief moment of tension between protesters and chapel security personnel, who were concerned that the demonstration would disrupt the audience’s departure from the
chapel. The group refused to clear the pathway until threatened with arrest. “We’re going to keep doing this until we get a trauma center,” said FLY member Kurtis James. University spokesperson Jeremy Manier said it was important to balance the rights of the people attending the MLK memorial service and those holding the protest. “It was important to respect people’s free speech and the people who were attending the event,” he said. Splashed across the group’s banner was a quotation from King, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Another read, “MLK would be with us demanding a trauma center at the U of C.” According to several attendees of the service, an announcement was made in the chapel alerting the audience to the presence of the protest, and reminding them that they could leave through any of Rockefeller’s exits. Six police officers were on scene, but didn’t take any action other than to confer with chapel security personnel. According to Losier, the protests have brought the issue into the public eye in the spirit of Martin Luther King. “Even though it might make some folks uncomfortable, it really starts a conversation that wouldn’t exist otherwise,” he said.
BARCADE continued from front page neighborhood, she was met with swift rejection by local business owners. Soon after, she learned that zoning laws would make her venture even more difficult. “It was scary for me as a twenty-something wanting to open my own business to have multiple people say, ‘You should not open it down here,’” Green said. She consulted a commercial real estate agent who “told me that I would be throwing my money away [if I tried to open a bar in Hyde Park], and that was very shocking,” she said. John Lathouris, the manager of Valois Cafeteria at East 53rd Street and South Harper Avenue, agreed opening a successful bar in Hyde Park would be difficult. “People don’t drink here,” he said. According to Leigh Ann Smith- Gary, a graduate student in the humanities, the reason people don’t go out to bars in Hyde Park is because choices are limited. “I often go to another neighborhood because there aren’t very many options in Hyde Park,” she said. Smith-Gary pointed to Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap as the usual student drinking hole. But she said increased nightlife options would offer an incentive for students to stay in Hyde Park. “It would be nice to have a bar where the walls aren’t completely black,” Smith-Gary said. Apart from the community’s opinion, Green found that zoning and licensing
regulations made her idea seem impossible. “The zoning laws are another problem. For someone wanting to open a business, there’s so much red tape to go through anyways, and then to have the layer of the community against you, it gets frustrating,” Green said. Licenses have restrictions on where and when alcohol is served, as well as an indooronly policy, and all require a biannual fee. And upon application for a license, the surrounding community is notified and can make objections. Historically, Hyde Park businesses have faced diffi culty in obtaining licenses. Four Hyde Park Walgreens locations sought liquor licenses in 2010. The requests for licenses were met with strong opposition from the local police district and thenAlderman Toni Preckwinkle, according to an April 14 Hyde Park Herald article. Residents of the 39th precinct voted the precinct dry as the University considered transforming the Doctors Hospital at South Stony Island Avenue and East 58th Street into a hotel, plans that were scrapped after the ban. For now, Green’s project has come to a stopping point, as Green does not want to come up against any community adversity. If the neighborhood were more welcoming, she said she would still look into bringing the barcade to the area. “I would most definitely want to open it in Hyde Park,” Green said. “You shouldn’t have to hop on the Metra or the 6 bus to hang out.”
CORRECTION » The January 14 Uncommon Interview with Ruth Anne Whitfield misspelled Whitfield’s name. 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.
T h e U n i ve r s i t y o f C h i c a g o L a w S c h o o l P re s e n t s 2 0 1 1 R O N A L D H . C O A S E L E C T U R E I N L AW A N D E C O N O M I C S
Economics and Judicial Behavior Thomas J. Miles Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Tuesday, January 25, 2011 4:00 p.m. Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom University of Chicago Law School 1111 East 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637 Reception Following
TEDx speakers will mingle with attendees during all-day conference TEDX continued from front page record each speaker’s lecture and upload it to their website and restrict the speakers’ talks to 18 minutes each. They are not allowed to pay any of the speakers outside of lodging and transportation fees. “The speakers are also required to stay for the entire conference, and they have to mingle with the conference-goers, which gives us an unprecedented opportunity to interact with and learn from such inspiring figures,” said Vaca Sittic. One of the concerns for the RSO was money. According to Vaca Sittic, companies were unwilling to donate money because the RSO was new. “A lot of companies said, ‘That sounds interesting, so maybe we’ll donate next year after we see how it goes,’” he said. According to Pedro Sanchez de Lozada, the
Chair for Marketing and Public Relations for TEDx, about a quarter of the conference is being funded from campus sources, including Student Government, and another quarter is coming from corporate sponsorships, with the rest being made up of ticket revenue. A student competition open to any undergraduate or graduate student in the Chicagoland area will give the winner the chance to be one of the speakers at the conference. The deadline for applications was moved from January 5 to January 25 due to low student response, which Vaca Sittic attributed to winter break. According to Levitt, “It’s hard to recreate the magic of the real TED, but anything that can even accomplish a tenth of what they can accomplish [at TED] is a monumental success.”
This event is free and open to the public. No response is required but seating is limited. For special assistance or needs, please contact Marjorie Holme at 773.702.0220 or mholme@uchicago.edu.
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CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | January 21, 2011
Sustainability will factor into selection of food service provider
Candidates unanimously support school board elections
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community,” said Mason. Mason also identified a potential model which could incorporate two separate contracts—one to service residential sites, like dining halls, and another contract to handle sites such as Hutchinson Commons and the C-Shop. According to Coleman, the committee has considered sustainability to be a major factor in choosing a food service provider, working closely with the Office of Sustainability. For example, while leftover food is currently composted, the group will consider food donation services, such as the Food Donation Connection, which will offer food from dining halls to homeless shelters, according to Mason. The committee is still seeking student input with ongoing focus groups set to continue. “We really want to continue an open dialogue,” Coleman said. “This is a huge initiative.” Students can expect changes to the current system to occur in phases, beginning next fall, said Coleman. The new contracts will go online August 15.
The ongoing dining system evaluation process so far has included 40 interviews, seven focus groups, and a fall quarter survey of University students, faculty, and staff. One of the options on the table is a currency system, which would incorporate all University-run dining sites on campus. “There’s just no sense of integration,” said Coleman, of the current dining system. “Part of this initiative is to integrate a one-card experience.” The system would not include student-run cafés. The GDI is also considering the addition of local businesses to the campus dining system. The group plans to investigate the option of an off-campus meal plan, which Mason indicated was a major point in the dining surveys and focus groups. However, according to Director of Operations and Communications for Campus Dining Services Richard Mason, the group must balance an expansion of options with the continued desire to foster a campus community through dining, as seen in the tradition of house tables. “We see food as an enabler of
on 31st Street.” Bolden said reducing regulations would be a better way to attract more businesses than increasing development. “Force banks to lower their lending standards. We have to lift the restrictions government is placing on these businesses. We may need to loosen up fees for start-up businesses and pay the fees later,” he said. To keep tenants in affordable housing, Burns emphasized tenant rights and safety deposit security, whereas Brian Scott and former Hyde Park–Kenwood Community Conference President George Rumsey suggested working with the banks. Norman Bolden, owner of Norman’s Bistro and Room 43, suggested auditing housing developments and building on vacant lots. Adam Miguest, a 21-year-old from Kenwood who recently graduated from University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana and interned for Representative Bobby Rush in Washington, D.C., said he would improve transparency. All of the candidates advocated for improving education and reducing youth violence. Burns and Miguest agreed on gun control as the best prevention against youth violence. Burns
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EDITORIAL & OP-ED JANUARY 21, 2011
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The Chicago Career Connection website fails to meet student needs It’s around winter break that most students realize that they should maybe consider applying for summer internships and jobs. This revelation is usually followed by a flurry of productivity involving close collaboration with Career Advising and Planning Services (CAPS) and frequent trips to Chicago Career Connection (CCC), the job database CAPS maintains. So it’s unfortunate that CCC sometimes ends up being a burden rather than a blessing. Marketed as the ultimate online destination for the employment-hungry U of C student, the site’s most potent power seems to be its ability to aggravate a student looking for a straightforward solution to a real-world problem. Technical glitches are the main issue. Basic functions are unreliable— for instance, pages often don’t load completely. Much of the website is
incompatible with tabbed browsing. When uploading resumes and cover letters, the page frequently will freeze. Going back and forth between searches and selections can lead to page load errors, and the filters, intended to weed out unnecessary or implausible options, often simply fail to filter. The problem isn’t the database’s content: CCC does possess an admirable array of resources. The scope of its job listings is truly impressive: There probably isn’t a more comprehensive, connected system available to Chicago students. Finding internships suited to your interests becomes considerably easier with industry searches, and filling out a profile for your account is a great way to channel results in your favor. None of this matters, however, when the site fails on the levels of functionality, accessibility, and trans-
parency. For example, when one applies for a Metcalf, they should get an email, or contact of some sort, notifying them if they’ve been granted an on-campus interview; instead, they have to manually check each day if they’ve been able to procure one, a fact that isn’t aptly communicated by either CCC or CAPS. And students should be told when they’re out of the running for an interview, so they can immediately focus their efforts elsewhere. Additionally, other than a “Favorites” tab, there is virtually no way to organize or monitor pending and submitted applications; keeping track of that obscure non-profit internship becomes very difficult when you’re also managing the applications for ten other positions. Why not include within the tab the ability to sort your favorite postings by industry, position type, and whether
or not you’ve applied yet? Or a way to prioritize by deadline and your level of interest in the job? While the existence of CCC is beneficial, the site itself is far from cohesive and very often just confusing. The site should be reworked to reduce glitches; there should likewise be options, like a better calendar function and a more capable tracking ability, that emphasize the organizational aspects of the application process. More than anything, students need not only a listing of available positions, but also a well-structured and functional aid, a sort of “home base” for all their job needs and application efforts that will show them opportunities and, more importantly, do a better job facilitating and organizing them. The M AROON Editorial Board consists of the Editor-in-Chief and the Viewpoints Editors.
STATE & MADISON
Choosing policy over personality Mayoral candidates have moved beyond the superficial and started focusing on the issues
By Jake Grubman MAROON Staff
When Richard M. Daley announced in September that he would not be running for another term as mayor of Chicago, I got in line for a circus. Instead, an election is coming to town. When the four major candidates
sat down with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune last Friday, they finally started to focus this election on what matters most—the issues. After months of posturing and framing (Who’s representing whom? Who’s from where? Who has whose support?), the candidates have started to give Chicago a real contest for the city’s highest office. It’s a breath of fresh air for residents of Illinois who, late last year, faced two of the worst election choices in memory in the state’s gubernatorial and senatorial elections. Even with the paring down of the election field that we saw in November and December, Gery Chico, Rahm Emanuel, Carol Moseley Braun, and Miguel del Valle
have emerged as four formidable and viable choices for mayor. But regarding the shift of focus in this campaign from personal reputation to policy ideas, the candidates still have work to do over the next month. The problem of the early part of the campaign was that it focused far too much on the frontrunners’ reputations instead of the political ability of the candidates. Now, every contested election at this level is crucial because there are so few of them. Not counting those serving partial terms, Chicago has had four mayors over the past 55 years, and two of those mayors held office for over 20 years. Chicago likes its dynasties. Maybe it’s just for the storyline, or
maybe it’s for the sense of security that comes with continuity. The point is that Chicago voters are viewing February 22 as a long-term commitment. The winner might guarantee him- or herself only four years in City Hall, but consider Daley the Younger’s contests: In 1989, he won by a margin of 11.7 percent (that after losing in 1983). In five elections from 1991 to 2007 (replacing the 1991 and 1995 election results with their closer Democratic primaries), Daley’s margin of victory was over 43 percent. Once he got into office, nobody could touch him, and even with the parking meter debacle and the shambles that is the city budget, he’d
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Dead on arrival Republicans should strive for incremental changes to health care reform rather than outright repeal
By Ajay Ravichandran Viewpoints Columnist On Wednesday evening, the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives turned that body’s proceedings into what was effectively a massive campaign commercial. The repeal of the recently passed health care law is
doomed to fail in the Democraticcontrolled Senate and is certain to face a presidential veto. While it may have been politically necessary to pass a symbolic repeal in order to appease the GOP base, Republicans should now dedicate themselves to the real work of making changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) that both improve the law and stand a reasonable chance of passing. One major problem with the law provides at least one opportunity to do so. This problem concerns the muchmaligned individual mandate to buy health insurance. While the right has been criticizing this provision
as an infringement of autonomy, there is also a more concrete problem with the mandate as currently designed: It cannot accomplish its main goal. This feature of PPACA was necessary because the law also bans insurance companies from refusing to cover people with preexisting health problems. Without a requirement that people have coverage, there would be an incentive for people to wait until they get sick to buy insurance, and insurance companies would soon go out of business because they would not take in enough revenue from premiums to pay claims. However, the fine that will be levied on those who do not comply with the
mandate falls below $700 a year—it is thus much smaller than the several thousand dollars that a typical family pays annually in premiums. Even many of PPACA’s most ardent supporters, like Ezra Klein of the Washington Post, have argued that the mandate needs to be strengthened. The existence of a flaw that even those sympathetic to the bill wants to fix gives Republicans an opportunity—they can offer their support for efforts to strengthen the requirement in exchange for other changes in the bill that they want. One major improvement that they should seek concerns insurance regulation. PPACA imposes
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Campaign’s new focus on policy will help voters choose best candidate MAYOR continued from page 4 probably have won again if he had decided to run this year. So with decades of City Hall’s future potentially on the line this year—depending on whose corruption the public latches on to over the next few years—voters are looking for a candidate with enough on his résumé to prove his ability to lead for a long time to come. Rahm Emanuel was able to spend the first three months of this campaign snoozing on his laurels, and his opponents didn’t just let it happen—they encouraged it by focusing their critiques on his Chicago-ness (or perceived lack thereof ). Emanuel was able to focus instead on his past credentials, which seemed to tip the scales in his favor. Some
quick hits from Emanuel’s résumé: senior advisor to Bill Clinton, Congressman, Democratic Congressional Campaign Chairman, Chief of Staff for Barack Obama. No one else comes close. Where the other candidates can and probably do match up with Emanuel is in the area where it matters most—the issues, specifically regarding solutions to Chicago’s vast and varied budget problems. We’re coming to a crucial point of no return in this campaign. At some point, it’s too late for the candidates to refocus. Fortunately, it appears now that they’re finally moving policy proposals into the spotlight, and that’s a much-needed change from the past month’s trends. The Chicago Tribune has followed the elec-
tion appropriately, at least according to what the candidates seem to want to talk about, with almost daily headlines over the past month on the candidates’ dedication to Chicago and Carol Moseley Braun’s tax problems. But how many times have issues gotten front-page coverage in the past month? Two. Two times, and yesterday’s paper was the first time that an actual policy proposal was named on the front page of the city’s newspaper of record. The candidates—especially Chico, Braun, and del Valle—have to push the issues to the front of the voters’ minds. We shouldn’t just trust the candidates based on their reputations; we should trust them based on their ideas too. And the good news for Chicago voters is that all four candidates are finally finding their
rhythm in policy debate. In an election like this, where Chicago is facing such enormous budgetary problems, superficial campaigning can’t be tolerated, and fortunately, with such a high-quality pool of candidates, it won’t be. While I wouldn’t support all of the candidates, I do think they’re all at least good challengers. Chico, Emanuel, del Valle, and Braun are all bringing serious firepower to the debate on the issues, and hopefully the spotlight will remain on policy. If it does, this campaign will be good for more than just entertainment.
them will make health care unaffordable for less well-off Americans. Republicans should respond to this concern by also urging changes to the subsidies that PPACA gives to those who cannot afford insurance. Since an insurance plan that offers less coverage will not cost as much, some of the funds allocated for these subsidies should be turned into government-provided healthsavings accounts (HSAs). These would be designed to help low-income Americans pay out-of-pocket, as required by their insurance policies. People with HSAs could draw on them to pay out-of-pocket costs, and any funds left over in a given year would roll over to the next. The last feature is very important, since it gives poorer citizens an incentive to shop wisely. In addition to its substantive benefits,
adopting this proposal could yield significant political benefits for a Republican Party that has not fully recovered from its rout in 2008. It would allow the GOP to stake out a position that is not opposed to all efforts by government to help the needy, but strives to make those efforts less costly and combine them with market forces. Such an approach should appeal to voters who are more worried about public debt and wasteful spending than ever but also have economic anxieties that lead them to look to the state for help. And in a period where both sets of problems really are increasingly severe, a worldview that is sensitive to both may be just what the country needs.
Jake Grubman is a fourth-year in the College majoring in Law, Letters, and Society.
GOP compromise on individual mandate can improve health care bill HEALTH CARE continued from page 4 various requirements that insurance companies must meet in order to sell insurance in the health exchanges, government-organized markets where those without employerprovided health insurance can compare policies and get subsidies to help pay for them. Two features of this provision should strike the GOP as especially objectionable. First, the law places stringent restrictions on companies’ ability to sell policies that require out-of-pocket spending. It thereby exacerbates one of the main factors driving up health care costs: the way that the comprehensive coverage offered by many employer- and state -provided insurance policies makes consumers less price-sensitive, since they pay for their care indirectly through premiums or taxes and therefore are
never billed for the full cost of any one treatment. Second, PPACA gives the Secretary of Health and Human Services the authority to add new requirements without consulting Congress. This feature of the law parallels similar policies at the state level, which have typically increased costs by enabling doctors and medical-device manufacturers to lobby for the inclusion of treatments of dubious medical value; the fact that the person deciding is not directly elected makes it hard for citizens to fight back. Republicans should therefore tie their support for strengthening the mandate to a loosening of the restrictions on out-of-pocket spending and the creation of some form of Congressional review of new insurance regulations. Supporters of the restrictions on out-ofpocket spending might claim that removing
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Overproduction UBallet combines two classics for winter performance reography [goes] from just movements takes away veteran By Michelle Lee in a specific order to an actual artful Voices Perfectionist performance.” punk-rockers' power By Matt Sellman Voices Boys Are Back In Town Marking the group’s return from a six-year hiatus, Social Distortion’s Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes offers their classic punk rock sound with some surprises. Highly reflective in substance, the album revisits lessons learned by these seasoned musicians, who’ve been on the punk scene for more than thirty years. Both earnest and honest, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes is a humble, accessible album, rather than an abrasive comeback. Bluesy, country influences pervade the album, along with some occasional gospel riffs. Themes of bad-boy deeds, long drives, and lost loves complement the band’s new country blend. These qualities denote a turn in the group’s style, whose last album, 2004’s Sex, Love, and Rock ‘n’ Roll, took a more alternative rock approach.
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Yet, perhaps a product of the modern studio, the new sound lacks some grit, smoothed over by perfectly tuned backing harmonies. Not missing, however, is front man Mike Ness’s raspy leading voice, a much-welcomed and perfectly intact characteristic of old school Social D. The album’s opener, “Road Zombie,” sticks to the group’s roots, with two minutes of hard-hitting punk rock guitar. But the subsequent tracks do not follow this familiar suit. “California (Hustle and Flow)” and later “Can’t Take It With You” introduce heavy, gospel-styled female backing vocals. These lie on top of a country-infused guitar sound that verges on classic southern rock. While this combo creates a couple of anthem-like jams, the only blunder comes when the recurring female vocals run over and above the melody, taking the tracks too far away from their punk core. The next two tracks, “Diamond in the Rough” and “Machine Gun Blues,” demonstrate the album’s faults and successes in perfect contrast. The former presents a safely suburban croon; the latter, a rough and spirited rock song. The overdone backing vocals in “Diamond in the Rough” mimic a church choir, detracting from Ness’s weighty sound, which, in the case of this track, would benefit from a more stripped-down performance. While “Machine Gun Blues” also makes use of a multilayered vocal sound, it’s much less contrived. The coarser backing tones, coupled with a quick-paced guitar, sound like a soaring rebel howl, enhancing the song’s tough-guy vibes. The album achieves artistic unity with its gem, “Alone and Forsaken,” a remade Hank Williams song. This punked-out cover of an old ballad brings cohesion to the country influ-
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Coinciding with the buzz around Black Swan, University Ballet (UBallet) will be putting on its own performance of Swan Lake this weekend. Starring International Relations graduate student Megan Furman as Princess Odette, third-year Vivi DiMarco as Odile, and computer science graduate student Eugene Shumkov as Prince Siegfried, the show will be an abridged but accurate portrayal of the original production.
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We all know the story of a beautiful princess transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer. The spell can only be broken by a vow of true love and is nearly resolved when a prince stumbles upon the princess mid-transformation. Enchanted by her beauty, he falls in love. Their love is thwarted, however, when the evil sorcerer disguises his daughter as the princess and tricks the prince. “This ballet is usually staged in four acts with varying endings, but due to time constraints we have taken some creative liberties with the plot,” said fourth-year artistic director Michael Scalzo. “Our production will center around Acts II and III with a condensed ending.” UBallet will also be performing a student-choreographed Peter Pan, with
Odile (third-year Vivi DiMarco) and Prince Siegfried (graduate student in computer science Eugene Shumkov) perform in Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. CAMILLE VAN HORNE/MAROON
third-year Tiffany Hu starring in the title role. A more modern production, Peter Pan’s tone will be lively and light-hearted. Scalzo says that one of his favorite moments in the ballet is the entrance of the Lost Boys. The choreography is “a unique fusion of both modern and ballet techniques and is both high energy and comedic,” he said.
Since UBallet is open to dancers of all skill levels, managing the choreography can be one of the production’s greatest challenges. It has to be “aesthetically pleasing [yet] within the capabilities of [the] performers,” said Scalzo. Persephone Ma, third-year executive director of UBallet, says one of the most satisfying moments is “when the cho-
“Seeing that process where the dancers [learn] to actually understand the subtleties in their movement and the motivations behind what they [are] doing reminds me why we perform and have art,” Ma said. “Especially at a place with such a rigorous academic schedule.” In addition to adjusting the choreography to fit all of the dancers’ skill levels, another problem that faced the dancers was finding a balance between academics and rehearsals. Each dancer is required to attend one ballet class per week as well as their rehearsal. “The commitment [ranges] from two hours to seven or eight,” said Ma. Of this year’s particular production, Ma says the RSO held about 100 hours of practice. Practice was held in the Ida Noyes Dance Room—a difficult place to secure for 100 hours. “Each group gets a very limited amount of rehearsal time,” said Scalzo. “The space of performance venues available to use are sometimes hard to work with when setting a ballet with a 50-person cast.” With 56 associated members, this year’s production boasts one of the largest casts in UBallet history. Though staging Swan Lake, one of the most iconic and well-known ballets, was an incredible challenge for UBallet, there has been “an overwhelming sense of dedication from the company,” said Scalzo. “[It] has been an amazing experience...[having] the opportunity to work with an incredibly talented group of dancers and choreographers who share [a] love of ballet.”
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Glover graduates from community college to U of C By Mae Rice Voices Renaissance Man Have you seen Donald Glover shirtless? If you saw Community’s Halloween episode this year, you have, and you know guys that ripped usually aren’t funny. But as Troy, the sometimes-dense exfootball player on NBC’s Community, Glover is hilarious. Before his role as Troy, Glover wrote for 30 Rock, where his writing was nominated for an Emmy. He recently started doing stand-up, and he’ll be bringing his act to Mandel Hall this weekend. Before the show, the Maroon talked to him about his favorite jokes, the difference between acting and writing, and getting free stuff.
DONALD GLOVER Mandel Hall January 22, 8 p.m.
Chicago MAROON: What about Community drew you to the project? Donald Glover: The pilot script was really funny...Dan Harmon, the creator, really knows his comedy.
It was a job that I thought could go either way, and thank God it turned out this well, because I think Dan Harmon knows what he’s doing. It’s allowed me to do comedy and be myself. I think it is the only comedy that really allows me to be myself. Troy’s character is a lot like me now, and I don’t think on any other show I’d be allowed to do that, so I’m very thankful. CM: Why did you decide to make the switch from writing for 30 Rock to acting on Community? DG: First of all, writing’s really hard. It’s really, really hard. It’s long nights and you’re banging your head against the wall, trying to make stuff work...And people don’t give you a lot of free shit when you write. That’s the main reason I became an actor, to step up my free shit game...I mean, the first day I was on Community, Joel McHale gave me free silver moon boots, these kind of Kanye shoes that I fucking loved. And Band of Outsiders gave me a whole bunch of free stuff, and I love their shit. I’ve gotten…you know, free hugs! CM: What was the transition
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Punk and country mix in Social Distortion's long-awaited album DISTORTION continued from page 6 ences throughout other tracks. Social Distortion revamps a simple melody by quickening the tempo and adding an energetic rhythm guitar, layering new flair onto old. The lyrics stay simple yet genuine throughout the album. Lines such as “My motor runs a lover’s heartbeat” from “Far Side of Nowhere” put an effortless spin on relatable experiences. However, this simplicity often turns to cliché. Lyrics like “put the pedal to the metal,” and “so close, yet so far, far away,” do little to show that Social D’s no rookie band. Just as the album’s closer, “Still Alive,” declares, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes reasserts Social Distortion’s place in punk rock. Minor mixing flaws do inhibit the album’s successful merging of otherwise disparate influences. Entering the new decade, the group attacks their newest venture with relaxed vengeance, at to the benefit of the listener.
Down 1. 1958 horror film creature 2. When it all began 3. “___ d’Amélie” (3/4 time song heard in many a coffee shop) 4. “___ knew that!” 5. Guitarist Cooder and namesakes 6. President’s confidante 7. Trattoria dumplings 8. RPG menu for swords, helmets, and such 9. Skilled 10. Sesame Street monster 11. Hirsute 12. Comeback 13. Blows one’s stack 19. Gas bill fig. 21. Scream at 24. Nickname for Cubs skipper Leo Durocher 26. Comic-book sound effect 29. Guzzling sound 30. Place to get laid in the Reg 32. Really high 33. Stooge’s laugh 34. Quit 37. Country within South Africa 38. Ladies’ man 39. Barack Obama, allegedly 40. Eisenhower’s home town 41. People without tan lines? 42. Auburn’s 2011 BCS foe 43. A ___ be reckoned with 47. “____ Femme Mariée” (Jean-Luc Godard film) 48. Hybrid garment for women 50. Austen and Flaubert heroines 52. Their, in Munich 53. Summers in Nice 56. Ball with a blue stripe 57. Wonder
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Glover adds stand-up to his comedic repertoire GLOVER continued from page 6 from writing to acting like? Was there anything about acting you thought was weird or strange at first? DG: I was always acting and writing, both at the same time—you know, when you write your own stuff you just perform it. I guess the [main difference] is that people care, or pretend to care about your health. As an actor people are always like, “Are you getting enough sleep?” “I want to make sure you get enough ginger in your diet so that you, like, feel good.” “Put this on your eyes to make sure you look good.” People are worried about your health because it affects the show immediately. As a writer, no one gives a fuck. I was eating like shit, I never worked out, I stayed up... If I didn’t get enough sleep, people were like, “Good, that means you’re doing your job. Shut up and work.” It’s not that people care about me more, it’s just that your outward appearance affects the show. So I’m not allowed to eat what I want anymore. I guess that’s a little strange.
CM: You got your job writing for 30 Rock straight out of NYU, and I saw you say on Conan that you were the youngest person in the writer’s room. How did you get that job so early in your career? DG: I was working at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, and when I was there, [I met] Amy Poehler. And when Tina [Fey] was asking for writers, Amy Poehler told Tina [Fey]. It went up the chain like that like, “Oh, this guy writes. Maybe he can do this.” I guess it was kind of the right thing at the right time. I was working at the theater, and I also had two spec scripts written. I was still in college at the time, but I had two spec scripts ready to go. CM: So when you were writing for 30 Rock, who was your favorite character to write for? DG: I feel like Tracy gets a lot of the glory and a lot of the shine...and his character on the show is really funny and he says a lot of really funny things. But if I had to pick the most fun character to write for, it would probably be Jenna. I mean, her life is a mess. It’s a total fucking mess. And it’s really awful...Her mom
[is] homeless, but [Jenna] pretends like she doesn’t know it, and her ultimate goal is dating a football player who’s white. It’s just so funny. Her life goal is so dictated by her abysmal childhood. And there’s something funny about that. And she’s really good at getting the lines out there and saying them. CM: What’s your favorite Jenna joke? DG: So they’ve given [Tracey] a fake awards show, and they’re saying it has to be at like, four o’clock in the morning because it’s broadcasting live in Taiwan, or Japan. So [Jenna] finds out it’s fake, and she’s like, “I can’t believe—do you know what I had to do to wake up at four o’clock in the morning? I had to wake up, get dressed, walk back to my house, take a shower…” That was my favorite joke. It was like, the sneakiest joke, because you realize she was sleeping at somebody else’s house. I like sneaky jokes, so that one’s my favorite. Read the rest of the interview at ChicagoMaroon.com/Voices.
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Hot Doug's? More like Not Doug's! Hot Doug’s: A very popular and acclaimed restaurant in a northerly, westerly neighborhood of Chicago where bungalows and industrial parks abound like sunflowers in a subsidized tract of Italian farmland. Perhaps even more than food, standing is a big part of the Hot Doug’s experience—more precisely, standing in a frigid queue filled with other cold, encased-meat fiends. And this standing period goes on for a very long time. Standing in line, we couldn’t help but recall that scene in John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982) where they’re all standing in the room and getting their blood tested. Indeed, it was just like that. The day we went to Hot Doug’s, we decided to wear athletic socks and sneakers. Usually when we go to a restaurant, a decision like this has little to no impact on the experience. Sometimes people will complement our socks, other times not—and this is fine too. However, at Hot Doug’s the choice of footwear is just as important, if not more so, than the choice of meal. On weekends, you’ll be asked to stand outside of Hot Doug’s for about an hour, on weekdays it’s probably shorter. Either way, you’ll be made to wait. But is it worth it? No. Not really. Chicago is famous for its encased meats.
Hot Doug’s claims to be one of the inheritors of this hallowed tradition—but it’s not. It’s sort of like a Rain Forest Café in disguise. It’s like the Meat Forest Café. It’s also like a T.G.I.Friday’s, Ruby Tuesday, or Steak and Ale in that the walls are covered with numerous artifacts of Americana. Essentially, Hot Doug’s is like a really kitschy local meat museum, and their food is like the collectible spoons in the
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gift shop—it’s just whatever. Maybe the best part about Hot Doug’s is ordering the food. The eponymous man himself mans the register and is friendly to you in an unabrasive avuncular sort of way. He’s enthusiastic about your choices and wants you to succeed. His eyes are big and wet, and they look at you as if to say, “Hey. I’m your tour guide through this unfortunate Forest of Meat. Let’s make the best of it.” At this point, you’re still excited too. You’ve
heard a lot about this place, and you’ve also been standing in the goddamn cold for forever. After the wait, the option of food is, well, truly exciting. Especially when it’s things like “French Fries, fried in Duck Fat” or $8.00 opuses like “The Mountain Man” (a sausage filled with antelope, among other things). But after the Wet-Eyed man concludes your tour through the preserve he holds in everlasting stewardship, the fun ends. “And that will be AN INORDINATE AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR PROCESSED MEAT, gentlemen,” he says. But his eyes say, “I’m so sorry.” Yet you tell yourself it’s all worth it. It’s all worth it… But it’s not. Not at all. The food is fine. Eating antelope, wow that’s cool. It’s a lot like how team handball is cool. But then you watch team handball, so not cool. It's even less cool when you try to eat the ball. And then there’s those duck-fat fries. To our mind, they’re sort of like putting a HEMI in a pickup that already has enough torque to power an 8-piston diesel engine—certainly enough power to tow a medium-size snowmobile (or “winter waverunner”). And that’s all we have to say about those duck-fat fries. Let’s get to the long and the short: Hot Doug’s is fine, it’s just in no way worth it. There are dozens of places to buy encased
meats in Chicago. Many of them are far better, and all of them are far, far cheaper. You’re not paying for any additional quality at Hot Doug’s, you’re paying for one part novelty, one part reputation, one part Doug. Try places like Bobak’s or Winston’s if you want to taste some highly suggestive, cheap, and delicious meat products. So, in conclusion, Hot Doug’s is a lot of things. It is cold and far away. It is busy and expensive. It is like playing team beach volleyball in the National Park of Meat with John Carpenter, director of Universal Studios’ 1982 motion picture The Thing. But is it worth it? No. Not really. Not really at all. Farewell, stay well, eat well.
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CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | January 21, 2011
Illness, injury hamper Chicago in unexpected loss to Augustana WRESTLING continued from back page “Coming into Wednesday, I was very, very nervous, but about a half hour before, I got my head right. I bumped up a weight class, so I knew the guy was going to be stronger than me,” Smith continued. “Even though I won, I could have won more points for the team if I had taken more chances. I had a good stance and technique, but I could have opened it up even a little more.” “We did not know Jacob would be competing until six hours before the meet,” Kocher added. “He had to go up a weight class because the two wrestlers we had there both took ill. Jacob rose to the occasion, wrestled a very solid match, and got the win.” Smith’s last-minute insertion into the lineup was representative of most of the Maroons’ downfall throughout the meet: they were marred by both injury and pressure. “Two of our five freshmen took tough losses— one was an overtime loss and in the other we were pinned late in a match where we were pretty much in control,” Kocher continued. “[And] Jimmy Layton being out with illness at 157 resulted into what was probably a nine- orten point turnaround as well.”
Roussell downplays national rankings The match Wednesday was a huge upset for the Maroons after Saturday’s exciting result. At Elmhurst, six Chicago wrestlers had top-three performances as the team finished second out of 11 teams. Second-year Francisco Acosta and Pennisi finished runner-up in their weight classes to lead the team to a strong outcome. “The fact that we finished ahead of an Elmhurst team that beat us handily in a dual earlier this season talks about how our guys wrestled that day,” Kocher said. “It was just a real strong overall team effort. Everyone seemed to be wrestling well. It was probably our best performance to date.” Yet even with the slip Wednesday after such success over the weekend, Smith remains optimistic. “It wasn’t a setback. Losses are motivators for us. We’ve had a good run of wins, so if anything, it keeps us from being too satisfied and not working hard because we’ve been successful,” he said. “ “Especially with the UAA conference event coming up, it was a learning experience moving forward.” The team’s next action is at the Wheaton Invitational on January 28 and 29.
Third-year Meghan Herrick shoots a free throw against Rochester last Friday. The Maroons head east this weekend looking to continue their winning ways against Brandeis and NYU. MATT BOGEN/MAROON
W. BASKETBALL continued from back page much more focused and energized,” said Simpson. “We know we are going to get our opponents best effort.” Roussell stressed the importance of approaching each game individually and not getting caught up in the hype surrounding national prominence. “I have no idea where we should be ranked,” Roussell said, “and to be honest, it doesn’t really
matter—the only thing we are focused on is winning our next game and continuing to improve so we reach our potential by season’s end.” As for Simpson, she knows that the Maroons need to guard themselves against complacency. “We have to go into every game like it is the championship,” she said. The Maroons face Brandeis at 5 p.m. tonight and NYU at 1 p.m. Sunday.
2009–2010 leading scorer Stefanou easing back into offense after injury M. BASKETBALL continued from back page those games are the ones that prepare us for the grind of the UAA.” The Maroons are in for a difficult game against Brandeis, a tough defensive team that has held opponents to under 60 points and 40-percent shooting a game. It is also the team’s first UAA road game after playing to huge crowds against Wash U and at Beach Night against Rochester. “Playing at home is a definite advantage and it
was a good way for this team to start UAA play,” coach Mike McGrath said. “We have played well on the road at times this year and need to do so this weekend to stay in the heat of the UAA race.” McGrath remains confident in his team despite its losing record thus far. “I think that some of that is the result of us getting better throughout the year and adjusting to
not having Steve Stefanou in the lineup,” he said. Stefanou led the Maroons in scoring last year, but had been injured and out of action this season until returning just in time for UAA play. However, he won’t be the only dangerous scorer on the court this weekend. Though NYU has yet to win a conference match, the Violets arguably have the UAA’s most talented team. Their sixth man, fourth-year Richie Polan, averages a double-
double off the bench, and second-year Carl Yaffe ranks among the UAA’s top 20 in scoring, rebounding, assists, and blocked shots. “Yaffe is a forward, but he has a really wellrounded game,” Johnson said. “He scores and rebounds very well, and gets a lot of assists in NYU’s Princeton-style offense. His versatility can be difficult to defend against but I think our forwards match up particularly well with him.”
IN QUOTES
SPORTS
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TRACK & FIELD
Maroons fall short in season opener
Third-year Kayla Queseda, first-year Erika Rist, second-year Jen Berger, and second-year Vicky Espinoza lead the field in the 800-meter run last weekend. The Maroons face off against strong competition tonight at North Central. MATT BOGEN/MAROON
By David Kates Sports Staff Men and women’s track and field opened their indoor seasons with losses to the UW–Oshkosh at Henry Crown
Field House on Saturday, January 15. The men’s team suffered a 98–55 loss while the women’s team was barely edged out 82–79. Fourth-years Dipti Karmarkar and Kristin Constantine met the NCAA
D-III provisional qualifying standard in the triple jump and weight throw respectively, while fourth-year Drew Jackson met the NCAA automatic qualifying standard in the triple jump. For his performance, Jackson was
selected as the UAA Athlete of the Week for men’s indoor track and field. Constantine was also selected as the University Athletic Association Athlete of the Week for women’s indoor track and field. Jackson’s jump of 14.94 meters was only 0.18 meters short of the jump that earned him second place at last year’s outdoor national meet. Jackson’s ability to jump a similar height this early in the season in an inconsequential meet against weaker opponents speaks volumes for his future success. Fellow fourth-year triple-jumper Jacob Solus did not compete, but qualified for the indoor national meet last year. When both are jumping, they form one of the most potent duos in the UAA. The men’s team was led by victories from Jackson as well as victories from second-year Isaac Dalke and secondyear Dee Brizzolara in the 3,000-meter run and 55- and 200-meter dashes respectively. Although the loss for the men’s team seemed as if it was by a large margin, members of the team were not overly concerned. “The main point of this weekend
was to get everybody out competing,” Dalke said. The men’s team hopes that performances peak towards the end of the season. “If people are better now than at the end of the season, then they are in bad shape,” Dalke said. The women’s team, aside from Karmarkar and Constantine, was led by event winners fourth-year Liz Lawton in the 3,000-meter run, fourth-year Molly Peverada in the 5,000-meter run, second-year Emily Hren in the high jump, fourth-year Stephanie Omueti in the 200-meter dash, and first-year Jennifer Porter in the 400-meter dash. Lawton’s time of 9:59.62 outpaced her next closest opponent, third-year teammate Rachel Ohman, by almost 40 seconds. The time is a good indicator of future success; Lawton ran a similar time last year at this meet and went on to win both the 5,000-and-10,000-meter runs at the outdoor national meet. The Maroons will travel to Naperville tomorrow to compete at the North Central Invite, with events beginning at 5 p.m.
WRESTLING
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Augustana gets the best of Maroons
Seven-game win streak on the line at Brandeis
By Noah Weiland Sports Staff Wrestling fell to Augustana 31—10 at home Wednesday night, letting their record dip to 5—8, after arguably the best finish of the season at the Elmhurst Invite. The big let-down left the Maroons hurting after the loss Wednesday. “This team was good, but a win was clearly in our reach,” said head coach Leo Kocher. “We had some backups in the lineup, but so did Augustana. My expectations were that if all of our wrestlers competed their best we had a good chance to win.” Despite the loss, three Chicago wrestlers posted wins, including
fourth-year heavyweight Ryan Hatten, first-year Sam Pennisi in the 184-lb weight class, and first-year Jacob Smith in the 141-lb class. Pennisi and Smith held their own opponents scoreless, but the combination of two nationally ranked wrestlers and a host of strong competitors from Augustana proved to be too much to handle for the rest of the team. “The score didn’t represent the match we had. We had a couple tight matches we lost toward the end, so the score didn’t do justice to our team effort,” Smith said. Despite the team’s struggles, he stepped up for the team on a night when seemingly nothing could go Chicago’s way with a 5-0 decision.
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By Henry Phillips Sports Staff The 11–3 women’s basketball team takes its seven–game winning streak on the road this weekend with games at Brandeis (9–5, 1–2 UAA) and NYU (8–6, 2–1). Entering the road trip tied for first place in the UAA, the Maroons have yet to face a conference challenger on the road. “All we have done up to this point is win our home games,” head coach Aaron Roussell said. “To really prove that you are a good team, you have to show that you can win road games.” Third-year forward Taylor Simpson
has emerged as the top scoring and rebounding threat on the Chicago squad this season, averaging 14.4 points and 9.5 rebounds per game. Despite her own success, Simpson believes that the Maroons will have to play well as a team in order to come away with two victories this weekend. “Lately, we have been successful playing together as a team, which is crucial for us to carry over to this first road trip. We are going to have to feed off each other even more without the energy of a home crowd,” she said. Roussell, however, seems unfazed by the challenges that come with playing on the road. “I don’t know how much
the travel plays a factor, to be honest,” he said. “This team is so mentally tough that they should be able [to play well] on the road.” Last season, the Maroons went 5–2 on the road in the UAA, and 6–1 at home. They are 4–3 on the road this season and undefeated at home. The Maroons are the favorites heading into this weekend’s contests. They swept both Brandeis and NYU last season and, thanks to their recent win streak, are ranked 16th. “I definitely feel like we have put a target on our back, but that just means we have to go into every game that
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Young team travels to face ranked UAA foes By Matt Luchins Sports Staff Though their record (5–9, 2–1 UAA) would not suggest it, in big games—those against ranked teams or UAA opponents—the men’s basketball team has proved itself a worthy opponent, winning three of six games. This weekend, the Maroons travel east hoping to continue their success against two teams that both fit biggame criteria. They play 21st-ranked Brandeis tonight at 8 p.m. and 25thranked NYU on Sunday at noon. Though both opponents are ranked and ended non-conference
play undefeated, they find themselves 6th (Brandeis) and 7th (NYU) out of eight UAA teams after three rounds of conference play. In a further quirk, the Maroons have the worst overall record of any UAA team, but sit 2nd in the conference rankings with a 2–1 record. “I think it speaks to the depth of our league,” third-year point-guard Matt Johnson said. “There are no easy wins, but every game is there for the taking. The discrepancy could be attributed to a lot of things, including strength of schedules. Three of our non-conference games were against top 25 teams, two of which were in the top 10. Ultimately,
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econd-year Grete Grubelich swims last Saturday in the Chicago Invitational. The Maroons defeated eight other teams to take first place. Log on to ChicagoMaroon.com for a recap of last weekend’s events.
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