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DISCOURSE

Terrorism experts praise Obama’s war tactics

CAMPUS LIFE

DINING

Bin Laden’s death met with fanfare, sobriety at U of C

Dining halls to stay open until midnight

By Jonathan Lai Associate News Editor

By Rebecca Guterman News Staff

Two U of C terrorism experts praised President Barack Obama in a press conference downtown at the University’s Gleacher Center yesterday following the news of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s death. The two then sat down for more personal remarks after the media briefing.

Jenna Jordan, a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism (CPOST) at the Harris School of Public Policy who specializes in leadership decapitation of terrorist organizations, cautioned that bin Laden’s death is not in itself enough to destabilize Al Qaeda.

Jordan’s research points to three key variables in the effectiveness of leadership decapitation: the organization’s size, its age, and its type. Al Qaeda is a large, old, and religious organization, Jordan elaborated, which suggests that leadership decapitation will not itself be effective in stopping the organization.

Instead, bin Laden’s death may be counterproductive, generating support for the organization, fueling recruitment momentum, and prompting retaliatory attacks in the short-term, she said.

U of C political science professor Robert Pape agreed, describing the next few months as an opportunity for the United States to eliminate the threat of Al Qaeda.

news showing flash crowds gathering at Ground Zero, the White House, and at other college campuses. They quickly planned a party for the next day, titled “America!!! F*CK YEAH!!!” on Facebook.

Sunday night, fifteen miles north, around 100 Northwestern University students paraded around campus playing instruments and singing with flags

Late night dining at Hutchinson Commons might be having its last call, but that won’t stop students from enjoying a midnight omelet in South Campus.

The Campus Dining Advisory Board (CDAB) will pilot a new afterhours dining plan in South Campus and Pierce this month, replacing late night dining at Hutchinson Commons. The new program will go into effect during seventh week.

During the pilot, dubbed the “Fourth Meal,” designated residential dining halls will reopen on Monday through Friday from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m.

Each dining hall will serve breakfast food as well as grilled food and smoothies. Students in residential dorms will be able to use their meal plan, or pay $5.99 plus tax in Flex dollars or cash for an unlimited night of dining.

The plan will be available in South Campus during seventh week and in Pierce during eighth week.

Mason expects roughly 5 00 patrons per night for the Fourth Meal pilot. However, because Mason is confident that students will be attracted to the program’s social atmosphere, he would consider a continuous turnout of even 300 a night to be a success.

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Though it recieved 600 "attending" responses on Facebook, fewer than 100 students show up by midnight to Sigma Phi Epsilon's party in celebration of the death of Osama bin Laden. Student reaction to the news was highly varied.

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Christina Pillsbury News Editor Following the announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death Sunday night, only a few students took to the streets for celebration–most kept their opinions to Facebook status updates.

Members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp) fraternity set off to Jimmy’s Woodlawn Tap after President Barack

Obama’s address, expecting to be met with a stars-and-stripes celebration.

Instead, they marched, chanting and singing patriotic songs, into a nearly empty bar. Meanwhile, others were criticizing celebratory reactions to bin Laden’s slaying, and some brought attention to the possibility of antiMuslim actions.

The fraternity brothers were disappointed while watching national

POLITICS

DISCOURSE

Burns optimistic about local funding

Khalidi talks Arab revolutions

Alderman-elect Will Burns speaks to University of Chicago Democrats in Harper on Saturday about funding for community needs.

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By Amy Myers News Editor State Representative and Fourth Ward Alderman-elect Will Burns (A.B. ’95, A.M. ’9 8) discussed local issues over lunch with students and community members Saturday in Harper at an event organized by the University of

Chicago Democrats (UCDems).

According to third-year and UC Dems President Dick Zacharias, the talk was meant to touch on a variety of topics relevant to the local community. Burns discussed funding for Chicago Public Schools (C P S) and the lack of a trauma center at the University of Chicago Medical

Center (UCMC).

“Burns offered a refreshing level of optimism. He was optimistic and excited,” fourth-year and SG Community and Government Liaison Allen Linton said.

Addressing students in the audience who had political aspirations, Burns encouraged involvement in local government.

He offered stories from his own experiences working for political campaigns, including then-State Senator Barack Obama’s bid for South Side Congressman Bobby Rush’s seat.

Ev e n t h o u g h t h e c a m p a i g n was virtually impossible to win, Burns said, he learned from all the mistakes that were made.

According to second-year and UC Dems Campus Outreach Coordinator Stephen Lurie, Burns recommended that young people work on a failed campaign and use it as a source of inspiration for future political work.

Linton, a C P S graduate, questioned Burns about better ways of funding Chicago’s public schools.

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By William Wilcox News Staff Columbia University Arab Studies professor Rashid Khalidi weighed in on the U.S. response to the situation in Libya Friday at I-House, adding insight from his recent travels in Cairo.

“Washington has been forced to respond tepidly [to the Libyan situation],” Khalidi said. “One can only wonder what will happen when the attention of the American public wanders.”

Discussing what he called “recent preliminary observations on the recent Arab revolutions,” Khalidi offered his opinions on the upheavals that started in Tunisia and have since spread throughout the Arab world, though he was careful not to make any long-term assessments.

“It is impossible to say if these revolutions can be sustained,” he said. “What is sure is that the elite in these countries will not easily cede their power.”

While the ongoing revolutions in Syria and Libya are still unresolved, Rashid explained the far-reaching

effects that they and others like them have had on the balance of power in the whole region.

“The Arab dictators have been put on notice that they can no longer ignore their peoples,” Khalidi said. He highlighted the loosely networked, decentralized organizational structure of the recent revolutions as the key to their success, adding that the absence of a single leader inhibited the effectiveness of government crackdowns.

However, at least one attendee was doubtful of the long-term success of these revolutions, pointing out how the differences that exist between the various nations make it difficult to pass any concrete judgments at this point.

“I think he was a little too optimistic,” said Elias Gotz, a visiting political science graduate student.

“How I see it, when he quoted and gave examples, it was always from Egypt or Tunisia, but in Libya it’s more like a struggle between ethnic and tribal groups.”

Khalidi admitted that the same loose style of organization that he

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Graduate Council discusses possible anti-Islam action on campus STUDENTS continued from front page waving, according to The Daily Northwestern. At Harvard, 200 students congregated on campus chanting “U.S.A.,” while Obama’s speech was blasted from speakers in a student's apartment, according to The Harvard Crimson.

SigEp brothers were disappointed as they walked from their house at East 62nd Street and South Ellis Avenue to Jimmy’s at East 55th Street and South Woodlawn Avenue. “We thought we would see flash mobs. We were really disappointed by how mild the reaction was,” third-year SigEp brother Jim Murray said.

However, some are disappointed with how rowdy the national reaction has been.

Urban Teacher Education Program (UTEP) student Dustin Hedmark said, “It is particularly tasteless to celebrate when somebody dies.”

Second-year Etan Heller said that he thought much of the exuberance he observed, even on Facebook, was in poor taste. “I’m not very into nationalism,” he said, adding that a more appropriate response on campus would be one that sparked conversation about the September 11 attacks, about American foreign policy, and about terrorism.

SigEp Vice President of Programming and Event Planning Chris Kingdon said they’re “not throwing a party to celebrate Osama’s death; we’re celebrating the U.S.’s ability to get the job done no matter how long it takes.”

Second-year Alex Read was training all weekend to enter the Marines upon graduating. He said although he would gladly go fight in the Middle East, he did have doubts about the purpose of the current war until Sunday.

“I had the feeling of, 'why are we still [at war]?'” said Read, SigEp Vice President of Recruitment.

“People were thinking it was a mistake of the previous administration. [Bin Laden’s death] seemed to remind people of why we were there. It completed

the mission.”

“I think that [celebration] is a reasonable reaction,” said first-year Seung Hwan Lee, who is not an American citizen. “Because of the terror of 9/11, I assume a lot of U.S. citizens have hatred toward Osama bin Laden. The expression seems quite normal.”

At 11 p.m. last night, 70 students dressed in plaid shirts, cowboy hats, and red, white, and blue partied at the SigEp house, which had a flag flying from the window, “Home of the Brave” written in chalk on the walls, and country music blaring from the speakers.

Instead of partying, the RSO Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) adjusted their monthly open meeting to talk about the future of Middle Eastern politics in a post-bin Laden world.

And at last night’s Graduate Council meeting, representatives talked about increasing awareness regarding the possibility of anti-Islam sentiments, according to Law School Representative Lubna R. Malik. In the wake of the death of the man behind the 9/11 tragedies, she said, “We don’t want to have these bad feelings [toward Muslims]. We want to talk about these events in a respectful and tolerant manner.”

Malik said she reported an incident of mild verbal harassment by a member of the community yesterday at Ratner Athletic Center, and that raising awareness about this type of action is important. She said she hopes students will feel comfortable reporting incidents of bias to the University.

But in accordance with Obama’s reaffirmation Sunday night that America is not at war with Islam, Read was quick to state, “By no means is [the celebration] anti-Muslim, I hope that no one is seeing it that way. . . Tonight I will be celebrating that we achieved this goal after working for 10 years collectively towards it. And that is extremely noteworthy.”

—Additional reporting by Harunobu Coryne

Late night dining a priority for Campus Dining Advisory Board DINING continued from front page “Late night dining is about community and eating and breaking bread together,” Mason said. “[We hope students] will use it as a chance to sit down and talk.”

The Hutch program needed to serve some 200 students per night in order to be considered viable, but it failed to meet even a quarter of that number, chalking up just over 47 transactions per night over 16 weeks this year.

In order to gauge student satisfaction, Mason also said that CDAB will be asking all who attend the Fourth Meal to fill out a survey.

Because the Global Dining Initiative (GDI) is still reviewing proposals from four different campus dining companies, dining administrators cannot guarantee that the late night program will become permanent, even if it is successful, according to second-year and CDAB student head Gabe Panek. Panek added that CDAB will discuss late night options with potential vendors if the pilot is successful.

“If it really succeeds, [Fourth Meal] is definitely going to be in the conversation,” Panek said. “Late night dining is a priority for campus dining.”

Panek said that the board has been trying to provide late night options in campus dining

halls since the beginning of the quarter, and it finalized the plans at the beginning of last week.

The original plan was to rotate each week among all three dining halls, but further discussion among the board and students led to the final decision to use only South and Pierce.

Mason said that Bartlett would not participate in Fourth Meal because its limited visibility from the street would not attract diners as strongly as Pierce and South. Mason added that the location of the Bartlett kitchen, below the main dining room, made it an inefficient choice.

According to Panek, approximately seven staff members will operate the dining halls during the extended hours, which should be cost-effective and provide satisfactory service.

Labor will be the main additional cost if the program is implemented permanently in the future, Mason said.

Mason speculated that the prospect of easily accessible food at midnight could motivate students to eat less at dinner or even breakfast the next day, mitigating the cost of the additional meal. He added that there is only so much more food a person can and should eat in one day.

Burns confident in opportunities for UCMC trauma center BURNS continued from front page Although Burns spoke out against the current property tax system that funds CPS, alleging that the current model favors wealthier areas, he acknowledged the complexity of the issue.

Burns also supports the reinstatement of the UCMC trauma center, but he again identified funding as a real challenge, Linton said. Burns expressed confidence that Mayor-Elect Rahm Emanuel will bring new opportunities to the city and the fourth

ward.

Linton called for additional talks from other aldermen and local politicians to raise awareness of city issues on campus.

Burns is set to fill the seat left vacant

by Toni Preckwinkle, who was elected as president of the Cook County Board of Commissioners in November. He currently serves as the state representative for the 26th Ward and will take office in two weeks.

—Additional reporting by Sam Levine

Student said Khalidi's view of Arab revolutions “too optimistic” REVOLUTIONS continued from front page believes aided Egyptian revolutionaries has proven problematic for rebels in Libya.

“We’ve seen the problem with leaderlessness, not so much in Benghazi, but more in the battlefield,” Khalidi said. “You can’t fight a guerilla war in the desert. They will need a much higher level of sophistication to fight a war, especially in the desert.”

However, Khalidi argued that the success of the revolutionaries has forced Western powers to depart from previous foreign policies in favor of a more democratic approach to the region.

“Far from giving support to democracy in the Middle East, the United States preferred to deal with autocrats who were pliable to do their bidding,” Khalidi said, also criticizing the Saudi Arabian government for undermining

the revolutions.

Khalidi also argued that the revolutions have displayed an emerging public sphere in the Arab world, brought together by cell phones and other technology. However, he was careful not to overemphasize the importance of technology in the revolution, as he said the Western media had.

“The Arab world has shown that it exists as a cultural and intellectual whole,” Khalidi said.

Before taking up his position at Columbia, Khalidi taught at the U of C for eight years as head of the Center for International Studies.

Th e U n i v e r s i t y o f C h i c a g o h u m a n rights program, Center for International Studies, International House Global Vo i c e s P r o g r a m , a n d C e n t e r f o r Middle Eastern Studies sponsored the lecture.

Pape: remove troops from Afghanistan to weaken Al Qaeda EXPERTS continued from front page “The question is, is [bin Laden’s death] actually going to weaken the group over time or not? And that’s up to us. It depends on what our next steps are. Our next steps should be to weaken the popular support that made Osama bin Laden popular in the first place,” Pape said.

Bin Laden rose to prominence not because he was an Islamic radical, Pape said, but because he represented opposition to large-scale deployment of U.S. ground troops in the Arabian Peninsula in the 1990s. To weaken support for Al Qaeda, Pape argued that the number one thing the government should do is begin major withdrawals of ground forces in Afghanistan. Pape argued this point in his 2010 book, Cutting the Fuse: The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It. “It’s really possible, if we do the right things in the next six to twelve months, to put the War on Terror behind us. Dick Cheney, right after 9/11, said Americans would never live without the fear of terrorism again in their lifetimes. He was wrong. It was up to us to do the right thing,” said Pape, who is also the director of CPOST. Bin Laden’s death came at a time when Al Qaeda was already facing a blow from changes in U.S. foreign policy, Pape said. He credited Obama with policy that opposes, rather than supports, authoritarian regimes, a move which has generated momentum in destabilizing Al Qaeda’s base of support.

Characterizing the covert operation that resulted in bin Laden’s death as “virtually ideal,” Pape defended Obama as a careful leader.

Pape discussed the irony in recent criticisms of Obama for being too careful and slow-moving.

“He got it through meticulous day-by-day, weekby-week planning to get it right. So it might look to others as dithering, but it’s actually deliberate, forceful steps to achieving the goal,” Pape said.

Pape noted that he had never met Obama in person and had been a Republican in the 1980s and ’90s. Since the War on Terror, however, Pape has supported Democrats, including Obama, because of what he considered better policy. “[Bush] took his eye off the ball of getting Osama in order to go and conquer Iraq. And for years now I’ve argued this was a fundamental strategic mistake,” Pape said. “I’m afraid Bush, after all this huffing and puffing, all he did was make matters worse.”

U of C political science professor Charles Lipson, who did not attend the conference, also applauded the operation. “[Bin Laden] was not killed by a drone or some routine air operation. The president himself ordered this daring raid and deserves credit for a decision that worked out so well,” Lipson wrote in an e-mail statement. “This moment is a triumph for America’s covert ops, intelligence gathering, and executive decision-making.”

Ultimately, Pape said, the challenge of making the most of the opportunity in the upcoming months does not detract from the impact of bin Laden’s death.

“President Obama has done more for America’s security in one day than President Bush did in eight years,” he said.

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Scavenging for support Scav Hunt offers meaningful U of C experiences to scavvies and non-scavvies alike Whether you call it The Scavenger Hunt, Scav Hunt, Scav, Jar Jar Binks, or Solipsistic Bastards (all of these, and many more, are approved names according to the organization’s bylaws), one thing is certain—it’s hitting campus tomorrow.

Shortly after midnight, team captains will run from Ida Noyes to their dorms holding the 2011 list full of items that have historically ranged anywhere from a book bound in human skin (2006) to a Stradivarius instrument (2010). It’s a campus tradition that captivates a huge fraction of the student body, propelling them to build, paint, destroy, inflame, and search for an endless variety of objects—despite the classes and midterms that are brushed aside. But at the same time, a fraction of students just as large avoids the jubilation and

caffeine-fueled terror like the plague.

This polarizing aspect of Scav need not divide the student body.

Admittedly, sacrificing hours of sleep and brainpower to conquer a dorm competition may not be as compelling to one undergraduate as to another.

However, the structure of Scav allows for contributions from every member of the campus community: This is its single greatest strength. Team captains this year span a range from first-years to sorority sisters to graduate students to alums. There’s even a team aptly called the “Rural Jurors,” officially listed as representing the University of Wisconsin Law School.

The tradition and history of Scav, along with its ability to motivate such a wide portion of students, make it a perfect opportunity to engage in and contribute to the larger community.

Take, for example, the Scav Hunt Blood Drive. Held until this Friday afternoon, the annual event is the single largest intake of blood by University Hospitals for the entire year. This quarter, Scav will also more than likely take the official name as the “World’s Largest Scavenger Hunt,” a title it has previously used through the ages but is currently held by 212 Canadian school children.

The world record attempt, set to be staged on Friday at 6 p.m., invites both scavvies and non-scavvies alike to help bring the University increased recognition and the Scav tradition indisputable legitimacy. Initiatives like these perfectly combine the immense enthusiasm of scavvies with tangible, real-world projects.

In other words, Scav does not have to be the domain of the uncommon

student. It doesn’t even have to denote participating in the actual hunt. The more significant opportunity it provides is one of the few moments in the year when the student body can be wholly united. Students should by no means feel stigmatized or judged by participating; in fact, they should see the hunt and its various corollary projects and fundraisers as a unique and singular facet of their U of C experience. As a tradition celebrating its 25th year of existence, Scav should be embraced not for its quirky culture, but for its integral role in uniting the student body in 84 sleepless hours of practical and impractical challenges.

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Media terrorism

Misplaced patriotism

Social media distracts from reality of War on Terror

Bin Laden’s death is more symbolic than significant

By Emily Wang Viewpoints Columnist The world is on fire with the news of Osama bin Laden’s death.

And by world, I mean social media: YouTube, the Twitter-verse, and of course, Facebook. Having no Twitter, no Facebook, and no YouTube account, I don’t really feel the heat of this fire. I haven’t been bombarded by tweets, haven’t seen pictures of “patriotic” riots from other college campuses on my newsfeed, and haven’t seen a video of a random guy melodically intoning, “Osama bin Laden is dead, let’s have a moment…of happiness!” before giving two thumbs up to the world.

Except, for some reason, I have.

I am writing this, mind you, on the same night of the president’s announcement. Within moments of the news’ first break, and despite my detachment from the social networking sphere, I am already suffering from media overload. In this day and age, we’re all so deeply entrenched in the instant-media driven culture that it doesn’t really matter whether or not you “actively” participate in social media. You’ll feel the pulse of the social body as long as you still interact with other human beings, the majority of whom have tried to Facebook you.

As cheers erupt around the nation celebrating bin Laden’s death—cheers seen and heard largely through social media (though it’s surprisingly quiet here on the U of C

campus)—I can’t help but wonder: Have these websites and online outlets fundamentally changed the way we react to news? Are our attitudes towards these major events shaped, facilitated, and validated through our tweets, our statuses, our videos?

The answer is painfully clear: Of course they are. But what are the implications? Good? Bad? Or do they encourage that old college tradition: ambivalence?

Something makes me feel just a little uneasy about it all. There’s something disturbingly self-reflexive about the media these days. Take, for instance, the recent coverage of the royal wedding, when articles about the affair were accompanied by articles about other articles.

Tweets and Facebook statuses of the same event repeated the same, monotonous comments about how hot Pippa Middleton looked. There seemed to be more buzz about frivolities like the supposed flirtation between Prince Harry and Pippa than the significance of the wedding itself, a ceremony loaded with history, tradition, and expectation. We apparently need the media to tell us what the media thinks, a need that almost always leads to a dilution of quality content.

The reaction to bin Laden’s death has been no different. When the first tweet of his demise triumphantly arrived, the public decided that jokes were in order. A sampler of the most popular variants (tweeters, surprisingly, are not particularly creative): “Donald Trump has just demanded to see bin Laden’s death certificate.”

“Osama bin Laden just blew up our Facebook news feeds. #toosoon?”

“Osama bin Laden is dead. But, like Tupac, I’m guessing he’s got a few more tapes to release.”

The comedy continued, especially

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By Suchin Gururangan Viewpoints Contributor Osama bin Laden’s death comes as great news for American counterterrorism efforts in Afghanistan and Pakistan. However, the American civilian response has treaded too far in its fervent and often mindless patriotism. The youth, in particular, have responded with too much emotion and too little reason. For example, the U of C chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon launched a party immediately after news of bin Laden’s death had broken. According to its Facebook event, the party is aimed at “celebrating the death of America’s most wanted enemy.” Students across the country are engaged in similarly excessive adulation of a perceived American victory against terrorism, and the general population is exploding with cheer in light of retribution.

The flow of patriotism sweeping the nation following the assassination is not abominable; it is justified in that it represents united achievement after 10 long years of struggle and sacrifice. But the celebration is ultimately too much, too soon.

Though bin Laden will not be spearheading terrorist attacks anymore, Al Qaeda will not be dismantled any time soon. Bin Laden’s death would have been more important 10 years ago, when he possessed more power and influence within the organization. For the past decade, he was mostly just a face, a symbol, an idea. Before we applaud America's triumph, we must remember that dangerous individuals like Egypt’s Ayman al-Zawahri and Yemen’s Anwar al-Awlaki are still undeterred.

Our war has in no way ended– Afghanistan and Pakistan are still virulent pits of corruption, terrorism, and oppression. The killings of top

Al Qaeda officials like bin Laden are merely symbolic victories—nothing tangible, nothing concrete, and nothing substantial.

Even more importantly, let’s not forget the often counterproductive catalysts of our military achievement.

According to The New York Times, Al Qaeda detainees at the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention facility told U.S. military interrogators some time ago that bin Laden used a specific courier to maintain contact with the outside world. This information assisted U.S. intelligence officials in indirectly locating bin Laden’s whereabouts. In addition, the notoriously corrupt Pakistani ISI gave a lead about the highly secure compound bin Laden was residing in.

But, even though these institutions did assist us, Guantanamo Bay still evades ethics and the Pakistani I.S.I. is still a dubious and unreliable ally (the compound bin Laden was residing in was located less than an hour away from the I.S.I. headquarters).’

So let us reflect on our precarious relationships with these institutions: Are they maintained only to gain symbolic victories?’ They certainly haven’t extinguished the chaos still burning throughout Afghanistan and Pakistan, no matter how much they are lauded as being useful in targeting high-profile enemies. Will our victory in eliminating bin Laden validate unjust and unethical prisons as well as destructive relationships with foreign governments that are wholly ineffective in producing real regional progress? It seems that the goal of these relationships are to gain leads to target individuals and bring faces of depravity to their knees, a method that only dents the armor of these organizations. These dents are quickly refurbished with replacements of new leaders and soldiers,

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Twitter, Facebook updates focus on details and not genuine analysis MEDIA continued from page 3 in schools, across the country. My friend at Yale received, to our complete shock, an e-mail from their Chief of Police with a fake campus security alert about bin Laden’s death. A good joke, right? Ha ha! Photos of riots on various college campuses are increasingly littering news feeds around the nation. On the streets, wild chants of “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!” mingle with blaring notes of vuvuzelas and profanities shouted indiscriminately against invisible enemies.

Even as we’re being helplessly, recklessly compelled by social media into these furious, spontaneous, and collective responses, we’re simultaneously being rendered increasingly remote to the realities of these world events.

We can pick apart every minute detail of the royal wedding and still not comprehend a single thing about its meaning for Britain, for the royal family, or for the world that watches with abiding attention. Similarly, caught in the fervor of the we-finally-caught-the-badguy moment, the current U.S. coverage of bin Laden’s death seems almost wholly composed

of rote retelling of the facts, generic and exaggerated patriotism (U.S.A.! U.S.A.!), and mindless, ridiculous, speculative drivel. Analysis?

Well…perhaps it’s too soon.

But the “too soon” argument doesn’t change the absurdity of the way Americans have responded to the situation. What is our merrymaking telling us? Is bin Laden’s death a cause for drunken celebration or careful reflection? Is it a tactical victory or purely a symbolic one?

Does anyone know, or are we content with the meaningless and unfounded information our social media produce?

So I suppose it’s here that I once again arrive at ambivalence. Social media can at once electrify millions to fight for their liberties and catch those same millions in its voraciously attention-seeking, trivializing, and universal grip. But whether we like it or not, it’s redefining the way we think about the world around us.

Emily Wang is a first-year in the College.

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While happiness is justified, Osama's death is only a small victory BIN LADEN continued from page 3 bringing us back to square one. We must step back even further and ask: Do we perceive this struggle against terrorism as some sort of mystical, symbolic, cosmic war against good and evil, or as a realistic operation to extinguish organized threats against civilians around the world?

To succumb to the former perception is to succumb to a fantastical narrative that is unnecessarily wasting lives and money. To align with the latter perception is to align with a just initiative guided by rational purpose. The people’s happiness is justified, but a line has to be drawn somewhere. Our military operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan have been conducted in the name of those who lost their lives on 9/11, those families who have endured

the pain of loss for a decade, and those service men and women who risked their lives to assist those in dire need. We cannot compromise our mission by using immoral means or displaying premature ignorance of international situations.

We must realize that the assassination of Osama bin Laden is not cause for a drunken party celebrating a victory in some sort of cosmic, transcendental war. Our response to the death of such an iconic and vilified figure must reflect the fact that the event brings closure and peace for American victims and fighters, and confidence to the soldiers fighting the much more difficult struggle abroad to help rebuild a fallen state and protect the innocent against terror.

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FILM

Incendies trips over political issues, but remains gripping

By Pete Brooks Voices Empty Intrigue Incendies opens with a challenge.

The camera floats through a room of child militants having their heads shaved. For a moment it lingers on the mark that distinguishes them all: three small dots on the heel. Then, we meet one boy’s gaze head on. We do not yet know who he is, and we glean nothing from his expression.

The scene dares us to discover an answer and make sense of a tragedy. The challenge remains, driving a relentless plot supplemented by the history of a civil war, with some family drama thrown in for good measure.

Director Denis Villeneuve has created a film that, admittedly, tries to do too much at once. Still, when it succeeds, Incendies is gripping.

INCENDIES Denis Villeneuve Landmark Century Cinema

Since its premiere on the film festival circuit last year, Incendies has been lauded by critics, nominated for an Academy Award, and showered with just about every Canadian film prize there is. It’s hard to view a film like this without some set of expectations, which are unfortunately not always fulfilled.

The film follows twins Jeanne and Simon Marwan as they leave their home in Québec to locate their father and brother and execute their mother’s will. The setup is simple, but the search is another story. We discover

Nawal Marwan (Lubna Azabal) is a political prisoner in the film Incendies, a movie that chronicles the journey of two siblings as they uncover their mother's past.

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hardly anything about the protagonists before their adventure, but it’s no matter. The pair act as guides through the scavenger hunt of a plot, which is often more functional than expressive.

A parallel story concerns their mother, Nawal, whose heart-rending history is uncovered by Jeanne.

Nawal’s involvement in the conflict (which, though unnamed, resembles the Lebanese Civil War) unfolds in fragmentary flashbacks, contextualized

by Jeanne’s detective work. The story of her imprisonment—15 years of torture in a political prison—is oddly uplifting, even as the details border on unbearable.

The themes at hand are proudly contemporary. At times, Incendies can feel like an assault, enumerating tragedy after tragedy in an unnamed Middle Eastern country. But even with its intense preoccupation with recent history, Incendies is never entirely consumed by the political. Instead,

it plays like a tall tale, its theatricality slowly becoming evident. The film flirts with grandeur, and tries its hardest to maintain a gloss of plausibility despite its whirlwind plot.

Based on the play by Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies unfolds like a

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THEATER

Madness of George III glosses over the true King George research report than a play. The Madness of George III opens with a brief picture of everyday life in the king’s household, with a couple of monologues pointing out the king’s punctilious knowledge of Britain’s industrial resources and agriculture and his interest in such

By Gabriel Raleheim Voices Prince of Whales A play combining the fascinating epoch of England’s King George III with the shrewd and intelligent eye of playwright Alan Bennett is incredibly alluring.

Bennett, who won the Tony Aw a r d f o r B e s t P l a y f o r Th e History Boys (2006) and was nominated for an Academy Award for the film adaptation of The Madness of George I I I, is nothing if not talented. George I I I’s 60-yearlong reign is remembered best for Britain’s defeat in the American War of Independence. However, it was also a time of sweeping social and political change, attendant upon an inexorable sweep towards democracy, in which an English king still attempted to reassert monarchical authority.

One goes to Chicago Shakespeare Th e a t e r ’ s p r o d u c t i o n o f Th e Madness of George III, which first premiered in 1991, not so much interested in the peculiar nature of that king’s bout of lunacy, but in what it represents and who King George really was.

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Queen Charlotte (Ora Jones) speaks to her ailing husband King George III (Harry Groener) about the future of the monarchy.

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Director Penny Metropulos has directed a talented company of actors, led by the captivating Harry Groener in the title role.

David Lively as Lord Thurlow and James Newcomb as Dr. Willis also gave particularly fine performances. The theatergoer expect-

ing a rich exploration of Europe’s social upheavals of the 1780s and 1790s will be sorely disappointed in The Madness of George III, which never really seems to fill itself out as a play. Indeed, I left the theater with the feeling that I had just sat through what was more of a

ostensibly humble subjects as pigs and “good husbandry.”

We are then introduced to the king’s handpicked Tory prime minister, William Pitt the Younger (Nathan Hosner), and the opposition leader of the Whigs, Charles James Fox (Jeff Cummings). Yet I can’t say I really came to know the true King George at all after this brief introduction, before he is overcome by illness and rendered an entirely different person. The only source of drama thereafter is if and how the king will recover from his madness.

The political situation surround-

ing the crisis is not particularly interesting. Pitt’s government is being steadily undermined by its attachment to an incapacitated sovereign, with the Prince of Wales (the overly foppish Richard Baird), waiting to seize royal authority. The king’s doctors are mystified by the illness, and a former Churchman is called in whose approach is to keep King George bound in shackles until he learns to behave himself.

Bennett’s portrayal of absurd 18th century medicine and the comic relief it provides also tends to get old rather quickly.

It is certainly possible to see a great deal of symbolism in King George’s madness in its historical context. Democracy and modern industrial capitalism are taking hold, and the power of a hereditary monarch seems, more than ever, to be far too tenuous a foundation for effective governance. The tide of history seems rather to have turned in favor of the Whig leader Henry Fox’s vision, that government should be “prodigal, rather than thrifty,” and against Mr. Pitt’s idea—too

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CHICAGO MAROON | VOICES | May 3, 2011

Lem's BBQ House, redux As our editors put it rather succinctly in an e-mail, “Your latest column has gotten some negative attention.” This “latest column” refers to our review of Lem’s BBQ House, which appeared in last Tuesday’s Maroon. This “negative attention” most clearly manifested itself in a letter to the editor published in last Friday’s issue. In this letter, or at least in the parts of the letter we find pertinent, the author details what he believes to be some racially insensitive content in our review of Lem’s. Upon reviewing his letter and our article, we concede that he was right to point out this content as being insensitive. In the questionable service of our column’s conceit, we alluded to several racial stereotypes in what we thought was a satirical fashion.

Moreover, our editors did not feel the need to pull the article from last Tuesday’s issue, nor did they even change any of the content of the article that would later be called into question.

In retrospect, we all feel quite stupid. More than that, we all feel incredibly sorry. We should have been more careful, sensitive, and thoughtful, especially since we were dealing with a sub-

ject as important as race. If anyone was offended or hurt by our column, please accept our sincerest apologies. We did not at all intend to do what we turned out to be doing. Our method of expression—and, specifically, our method of humor—was faulty, and one that we sincerely regret to have employed. In short, we simply wish to offer recognition, an apology, and, of course, nothing but the highest praise for Lem’s and our experience there.

The issues that critic pointed out in his letter do merit some further consideration, however.

The most important one of these issues is, again, race. He wrote, “Moreover, when the authors write that in spite of their appearance, ‘people were really friendly and made some nice conversation,’ they imply that by virtue of their not being black they expected hostility from the restaurant’s customers and staff.” Beyond not providing the full quote (“…nice conversation about the strange places they would be taking their rib tips while we ate at a standing bar.”), he makes some, perhaps understandably, false assumptions about what we meant by this. We did not

mean to imply that we were expecting hostility; rather, what we desired to point out was simply that there can be a change in experience that comes from being white in a neighborhood that is 97.8 percent black. People do often treat you differently in the capacity that it is readily apparent you are a stranger. On three separate occasions on our visit to Lem’s, our whiteness was directly brought up in conversation. Perhaps regrettably, in retrospect, we chose to change one of the words in the following exchange we had in the parking lot of Lem’s: A patron asked us, “What are you kids doing at the hottest spot on the South Side?” The word we changed was “kids”; in reality, he said “white boys.” He then told us he wasn’t from the neighborhood either, but that it was less obvious since he looked like “all the other folks.”

The reason we did not bring this up in the initial column was that we believe there is, unfortunately, a belief that white people will be greeted with hostility if they visit certain neighborhoods to the south and to the west of Hyde Park. Perhaps it is just us, but it seems like a sort

of ready conclusion following both the formal and informal messages that the University regularly sends out regarding security. The point we wanted to make is that, yes, often one’s whiteness will be noticed—it by no means happens every time—but that this should never ever stop anybody from experiencing the incredible culinary and cultural offerings of the South Side. We, again, are also at fault: only three of our reviews have been of establishments south of Hyde Park, when, given what’s there, there should have been a lot more. Instead of taking that long-ass Red Line trip to some place in Belmont, maybe try taking the roughly halfhour round trip bus ride on the 4 to Barbara Ann’s BBQ. Having by now addressed our last column’s embarrassing and hurtful failure of delivery, we maintain that Lem’s indeed merits the secondhighest review that we have ever awarded (interestingly, the highest went to Calumet Fisheries, which is also on the South Side). And we’d like to end this column in the same way we did that one: “So, yeah, go.”

Incendies loses clarity with overly ambitious plot INCENDIES continued from page 5 mystery, entailing the form’s intrigue along with its superficiality. The film’s 130 minutes are as lean as they could possibly be, but the exposition necessary to sustain the plot crowds out much character or thematic development. Incendies is heavy throughout, not only for its subject matter, but for the bulky plot Villeneuve is constantly struggling against.

But in the end, the film concedes. Jeanne and Simon complete their mission (with a halfsatisfying twist) and disappear. The puzzle has been solved, and Villeneuve wants to leave it at that. The historical and cultural questions which kept us looking for something more beneath this mystery are too conveniently abandoned.

Still, it would be wrong to characterize the film as a failure. Villeneuve deftly avoids many of the pitfalls that keep similar films from finding an

audience beyond the film festival crowd. His allegiance remains with direct storytelling, not with artistry, lending the film a kind of immediacy that is hard to ignore. Ultimately, what counts is the film’s unflinching humanity and refusal to dip into easy sentimentality.

Despite its faults, Incendies is marked with moments of uncommon understanding, and occasionally, Villeneuve’s camerawork is profound. Images like an abandoned concrete cell, a pair of machine guns adorned with a portrait of Jesus Christ, and a bus aflame amid a barren landscape lend the film a serene and brutal beauty. These striking moments and the humble insights they impart will remain with any viewer. Even if it isn’t the film of the year, Incendies is too careful and too warm a film to ignore.

Bennett's play explores political symbolism of king's madness MADNESS continued from page 5 late to give it any real thematic significance in this play—that the essence of government is “economy and the elimination of waste.”

With the rise of bourgeois democracy, the notion that the virtues of the household are also those of the nation state—an idea symbolized by the authority of a single ruling family—is beginning to sound passé. One could, indeed, read King George’s illness as a symbolic result of that disastrous assertion of royal authority that was the king’s hard taxation policy against the Americans.

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monarchs has passed and can no longer stomach (both literally and figuratively) the flattery of a court life that serves to reaffirm such authority. Had Bennett emphasized any of these themes more clearly, possibly through a more personal exploration of King George’s character, The Madness of King George would be a more compelling drama. As it is, fine acting aside, we have a banal version of King Lear in which Lear is fully mad by the end of Act I, and the whole essence of the drama is whether anyone will find a way to cure him.

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Timely hitting by DePauw costs Chicago in extra innings

Shorter races have distance runners feeling fresh for future meets

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14 games. Chicago was not able to hold on to its lead for long, as DePauw retook the lead 8-7 at the top of the sixth.

A sacrifice fly by first-year first basemen Claude Lockhart sent the game into extra innings. The Maroons’ hopes for making the series even, though, were short-lived as DePauw shortstop Zach Starr knocked in a run at the top of the eighth with an RBI single, giving DePauw the lead. DePauw would go on to score twice more in the inning to take an 11—8 lead. Chicago scored once more in the eighth off a double from first-year Brett Huff, but fell short of evening the score.

The loss was handed to second-year Jack Cinoman after allowing the game’s winning runs in his two innings at the mound.

DePauw reliever Zach Sroka (1—1) was credited with the win.

“We are hitting the home stretch of our season now. These next two weeks will ultimately define our season,” Bartelman said.

That four-day, fi ve-game stretch begins on Tuesday, as the Maroons will face North Central College in a doubleheader at 2 p.m.

distance events, raced in the 800-meter run.

Others used the meet to try and improve upon their overall seasons.

“I’m very pleased that I was able to hit a provisional mark while having a mediocre race, although I’m certainly frustrated that I could have bettered my national standing,” said Andreycak.

But all in all, the Maroons mainly used Benedictine as an opportunity to relax and have fun. “Another big part of these late meets is to just go out there and have a good time running track again,” said Fernandez del Castillo. “We definitely got to do that.”

Fernandez del Castillo placed second in the 3000-meter, a distance that he does not ordinarily run. “For myself, I was glad to just go out and practice running quickly in a shorter race. I think it will leave me in good position for my 10k at the Chicago Penultimate invite.”

Although Benedictine offered a break for Chicago, the Maroons will begin to train hard again this week in preparation for bigger meets down the road.

The team will travel again this weekend to Madison, WI for the Wisconsin Twilight Invitational.

The Lure of the Relic Collecting the Holy Land

Dr. Morag Kersel WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 2011 - 7 PM - ORIENTAL INSTITUTE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC The relationship between people and things is a crucial avenue of investigation in understanding past cultures.

While the social aspects of material culture have come under closer scrutiny over the past few decades, what remains largely unexplored are the reasons why people collect archaeological artifacts. Employing case studies f rom Jordan, Israel, and Palestine, this lecture examines the collecting of archaeological materials from the Holy Land, the effects on the archaeological landscape, and the object biographies of those artifacts enmeshed in the trade in antiquities.

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“Especially against Illinois Wesleyan, we knew we needed to come out with a lot of energy to rebound from our loss from North Central,” resolved Cygan.

“The first Illinois Wesleyan game, we were hitting well, but they were scattered throughout the game. We weren’t able to successfully chain hits together and score runs like we usually do. Our defense really helped us that game. Everyone was making incredible plays and Illinois Wesleyan wasn’t able to score. [But in the second game], they played the game the way we should have,” said Carpenter.

“In the second game against IWU, we started getting on the pitcher toward the end, but then ran out of innings,” said Kmak.

The Maroons finished up the season on Sunday against Beloit. Second-year Melissa Collins got in on the pitching act with a shutout of her own in the first game. The Maroons’ offense rapped out a few doubles and powered themselves to a 4—0 victory.

The second game of the doubleheader started with a quick burst of fire from Beloit but they were stymied the rest of the way.

The Maroons collected runs in each of the fourth, fifth, and sixth innings to close out a 4—1 win.

“Over the weekend, we came back in a positive manner,” said Kmak. “Both IWU and Beloit had interesting mixes of pitchers that can keep teams off-balance. Fortunately, in three of the four games, we were able to catch up to them and score.”

It would all be lost without a few strong players like Cygan, who pitched over 15 scoreless innings over the weekend. “Cygan really showed up this weekend,” said Kmak.

“She did an excellent job, along with our senior catcher/designated hitter Sara Whaley.

Sara has come up with some big RBI’s all year when we needed them.”

For now, the Maroons will play the waiting game to see if the NCAA committee will grant them a postseason bid. That announcement will come on Monday.

The Maroons also have a make-up game against North Central today, which will truly be the last game of this regular season. Said Carpenter afterwards, “I want to show them the real Chicago softball team and not the one that showed up for Thursday’s game. We owe them that.”

SPORTS

IN QUOTES “I don’t like to give Philadelphia fans too much credit, but they got this one right.”

—Mets third baseman David Wright. The Philadelphia crowd erupted into cheers of “U—S—A!” moments after finding that Osama bin Laden had been killed.

BASEBALL

Perfect record at home ruined by DePauw

By Vicente Fernandez Sports Staff

First-year William Katzka tags a DePauw player out at third base at Sunday’s game. Katzka had two hits in eight attempts over the weekend.

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It is not often that a team has a chance to be perfect. With fewer than two weeks left in the regular season, however, the University of Chicago baseball team had its shot at achieving a flawless record when playing at J. Kyle Anderson Field.

Unfortunately, the Maroons fell just short on Sunday, losing their first home game of the season.

Facing DePauw (19—21) in their last weekend home series, Chicago (14—10) lost both games in the doubleheader 6—10 and 9—11.

On a day when the stands were filled and Chicago was looking to bounce back from a loss against Concordia Chicago on Friday, the Maroons attempted to follow the formula that had helped them win at home all season by swinging away. Hitting the ball was not the problem on Sunday, however, as the Maroons had plenty of opportunities to score. It was hitting when it counted that cost them the series.

After the team fell behind in the first game, fourth-year right fielder Marshall Oium and first-year third

baseman Will Katzka started the furious comeback in the fifth, each driving in and scoring runs in a five-run outing to tie the game at 6—6.

DePauw rallied in the game’s final two innings, however, with right fielder Brendon Pashia hitting a two-run double to secure the victory for the Tigers.

First-year outfielder Connor Bartelman said, “DePauw’s timely hitting was key to their wins. We had runners in scoring position, but weren’t able to drive them in.”

The win went to DePauw starter Michael Chiaro (1 —2), and Hobs Donovan was given the save after holding the Maroons scoreless in the game’s final innings. The loss went to Maroon third-year Preston Atteberry, who came in as a reliever and allowed two runs in a little over an inning.

Game two was more of the same. The Maroons began the contest trailing 6—2 in the third before jumping ahead to a 7—6 lead behind a two-run homer in the fourth from designated hitter, Stephen Williams. Williams’ home run extended his hitting streak to

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Chicago strong at South Siders sweep at Sausage Fest “During that game, North Central way.” Chicago will have a second early game with a complete game Lisle, despite short

By Charles Fang definitely came out stronger than chance to take on North Central. one-hitter. The Maroons lineup colSports Staff us with their bats, which hurt us a The second game of the double- lected seven hits for the one run victurnaround from UAAs

By Daniel Lewis Sports Staff Track and Field took a much needed rest at the Benedictine Twilight Invitational on Friday in Lisle. After a series of grueling practices and the UAAs, the Maroons showed up at Benedictine with the intention of giving their athletes a break from intense competition and training.

Several regular competitors sat out at Benedictine, including fourth-year Andrew Wells-Qu, who has already qualified for nationals. Those who did compete were much more relaxed than at other meets.

“We were very laid-back at the meet.

We didn’t have the same competitive edge that we bring to conference and other big meets,” said fourth-year Brian Andreycak. “I think our performances suffered as a result, but we still accomplished some good things.”

However, such low-key events can still be useful in preparing for bigger meets later in the season.

“In these late season meets after conference, the point isn’t really to beat up on other teams, but to run fast times which builds confidence for next season,” said fellow fourth-year Felipe Fernandez del Castillo. “We definitely saw some of that on Friday.”

Many athletes used Benedictine to try events that they don’t normally compete in. For example, fourth-year Arthur Baptist, who normally runs long

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Despite some early setbacks over the weekend, the Maroons, braced by their second-year ace Melissa Collins, still finished strong for the season with a sweep on Sunday.

The games were accompanied by a bevy of bratwurst and hot dogs, as the Order of the C and WAA teamed up on Sunday to present Sausage Fest. The attempt at bringing more students out to the game worked. In all, eighty-five students, staff, and faculty were in attendance, about twice more than the Maroons’ average attendance of 39.

Things were not looking so rosy on a murky Thursday afternoon as the Maroons looked slightly lost against flame-thrower Vlasta Mangia of North Central. She allowed only four hits to the Chicago side, which was shielded somewhat by three hits from Julia Schneider. The North Central crew seized control of the scoreboard with a three-run third inning.

The Maroons’ poor offensive showing may have been due in part to some lingering health issues.

“Unfortunately, going into North Central, the team wasn’t incredibly healthy overall,” explained head coach Ruth Kmak. “We came out as strong as we could, but we had people playing through some illnesses and it affected us.”

“Going into the North Central game, we knew that they were a really well-coached and disciplined team,” said Kaitlyn Carpenter.

lot.”

“Their pitching kept us off-balance.

However, we really ran ourselves out of a couple of quality scoring opportunities,” added Kmak. “We would like to have that game back with a healthy mind-set going in.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that

header last Thursday was postponed, but is being replayed today with the Maroons at full strength.

On Saturday against Illinois Wesleyan, it was the Kim Cygan show, as she threw 11 consecutive scoreless innings over the course of the doubleheader. Cygan also won the

tory, 1—0.

In the evening game, Cygan started and continued her dominant ways, whipping the Wesleyans for four innings. But Illinois Wesleyan overtook Chicago on the scoreboard and pounded out seven hits

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Second-year Melissa Collins pitches against Beloit on Sunday. Collins had a monster performance, with no earned runs and 15 strikeouts in a complete game.

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