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TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2011 • VOLUME 122, ISSUE 46 • CHICAGOMAROON.COM

CAPS

SCAV HUNT

B-J dethrones Snitchcock dynasty Dramatic rise in job Scavenger Hunt weekend marked by lion, tiger, car crashes

offers graces campus

By Benjamin Pokross News Staff Clue 109 on the Scav list asked students to secure jobs, but more than twice as many jobs have been offered to U of C students this year than last, likely thanks to CAPS. The University’s Career Advising and Planning Services (CAP S) saw a 189.2-percent increase in full-time job offers to undergradu-

ates this year. Graduate students received a 150 -percent increase in full-time job offers, according to CAPS Senior Associate Director of Employer Relations and Development Marthe Druska.

While job offers fell slightly during the recession, Druska still believes that the current increase is significant. “This is a pretty big

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ARCHITECTURE

Mansueto opens special collections exhibit

By William Wilcox News Staff Curious students marvel at the tiger brought to the Midway by the Snell-Hitchcock scav team on Sunday.

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By Harunobu Coryne Associate News Editor & Benjamin Pokross News Staff Car crashes. Big cats. A four-year dynasty kicked from its throne. Is this Hollywood’s latest summer blockbuster? No, just Mother’s Day at the U of C. Burton-Judson (B-J) took the winning spot from Snell-Hitchcock

after a four-year streak, while a pair of road-trip car accidents and caged animals on the Midway have led some to question the safety and spirit of the University tradition.

Judgment Day took place at Ida Noyes on Sunday, during which judges tabulated points and declared the winner.

B-J’s 2011 team, John D. Rockefeller and the Captains of Injury, won first place in this year’s Hunt after securing,

among other things, a pair of Grammy Awards and a live lion.

Lion and tiger cause uproar B-J helped to foot the $1,200 bill for the big cat with the assistance of The Rahmones (Maclean and Pierce), Phoenix Envy (Max Palevsky), Scampi People, Dear Judges (South Campus), and Blintzkrieg (Broadview, Stony Island and Flint).

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A new exhibit at the Regenstein Library examines the past as it commemorates the upcoming unveiling of the new Mansueto Library. And as the opening of the high-tech library nears, students are considering how it will fit into traditional research habits.

The Special Collections Exhibition Gallery in the Regenstein Library re -opened yesterday, featuring an exhibit on architectural design. The gallery is part of the Special Collections Research Center, which re-opened

March 28 after being closed for renovations to accommodate the Mansueto Library.

Th e e x h i b i t o p e n i n g w a s designed to coincide with the city of Chicago’s celebration of the first illustrated architectural book, containing the works of Vitruvius Po l l i o , a f i r s t - c e n t u r y Ro m a n architect, according to a May 4 library press release.

Colleges, universities, and libraries across Chicago are opening similar exhibits as part of the tribute. Titled Firmness, Commodity, and D elight, the U of C exhibit touts the library’s

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DISCOURSE

HYDE PARK

Wirszup lecture goes post-punk

Comic shop reopens in a larger lair

By Sherry Cao News Contributor Ethnomusicology Professor Travis Jackson spoke about postpunk music in the Max Palevsky East Lounge on Monday night as part of the Wirszup Lecture Series.

In the talk, titled “Post-Punk S o u n d a n d Vi s i o n , ” J a c k s o n addressed the distinction between punk and post-punk genres of music, arguing that the latter is not merely “adolescent aggression."

Jackson examined the relationship between album design and sound aesthetics, using sound clips of post-punk artists like The Slits’ “Tropical Girls,” The Clash’s “Brand New Cadillac,” and Joy Division’s “Passover.”

Jackson also discussed how post-punk album art related the music to its cultural movement and analyzed the use of digital sound processing tools (such as synthesizers) and their role in post punk.

First Aid Comic book shop held its grand opening Saturday

The long-standing series dates back to the days of Woodward Court, a residence hall demolished in 2 001; it stood where the Harper Center of the Booth School of Business now stands.

The lecture series began in 1971 under the guidance of Resident Masters Izaac and Pera Wirszup at Woodward Court. Over a span of 14 years, 200 lectures were given as a “way of furthering social interaction between faculty and students in the college,” Max Palevsky Resident Master David Wray said.

Still, the dynamic has changed through the years. While the lectures of Woodward Court served as general entertainment, recent lectures, such as last year’s lecture on St. Augustine, are much more topic-specific.

Jackson’s lecture gave way to a question-and-answer session that covered irony in post-punk, the emergence of the C D, and the band Interpol.

Second-year Ed Powell from

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Nikola Jajic signs a copy of his graphic novel called "Loosely Based," as a special guest at Free Comic Book Day Saturday at First Aid Comics.

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By Mahmoud Bahrani Maroon Staff Th e Re g e n s t e i n i s n ’ t Hy d e Park’s only fortress of solitude anymore.

First Aid Comics held a grand opening for its new venue at 1617 East 55th Street on Saturday after moving from its previous location

on East 53rd Street. The event c o i n c i d e d w i t h n a t i o n a l Fr e e Comic Book Day. The storefront had previously been occupied by Noon Hookah Lounge. In January, lounge owner Kal Muhammad did not renew his lease with MAC Property Management after his rent increased. First Aid owner James

Nurss said that he is confident he can handle the higher rent of the new space since there are no other comic book stores in Hyde Park.

“I never understood why there wasn’t a comic book shop here,” Nurss said. “It was always in the back of my mind that when I was ready to open my own shop, [Hyde Park] is where I would go.”

The store officially opened its doors last Wednesday, but Nurss held off on having the grand opening until Free Comic Book day last Saturday. Chicago-based musicians Julian Berke and Ryan Priester entertained fans with live music, while customers met local artists and writers.

“The only way to compete is if somebody wants to come in, because they get to talk to other fans or talk to the people that work there, and hang out, and be in a community,” Nurss said.

The new store features twice the square footage of its previous

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CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | May 10, 2011

Road trip car crash sends teammates to hospital SCAV continued from front page The group mobilized after the The Dark Side of the Quad (Snell-Hitchcock) raised $1,100 in one day to acquire a tiger. Both the lion and the tiger were unloaded onto the Midway from a truck on Saturday afternoon, safely confined to their cages.

The high price of the two animals, as well as the cages that contained them as they snarled out at a crowd of hundreds, have led some to doubt the ethics and “Scavviness” of item number 265: “A lion, tiger, or bear. With trainer. On campus.”

Breckinridge initially led the charge for collectively renting the lion, but backed out over ethical concerns regarding bringing the animal to campus. “We didn’t think it was a good item, we didn’t think it was a good representation of what Scav is about,” third-year and Breckinridge Team Captain James Townsend said.

The team sent an e-mail to the Scav judges, arguing that the item was not in the spirit of the Hunt. Instead, to fulfill the item’s requirements, they staged a skit involving a student in a bear suit and brought a Cub Scout to campus, Townsend said.

“The total cost per animal was somewhere around $1,200 just for the afternoon,” Townsend said. “What it got down to was that it would be these teams buying points.”

According to Townsend, the other teams ultimately secured their lion from the Chicagobased company Animal Rentals, Inc., which also provided Snell-Hitchcock’s tiger.

Third-year and Snell-Hitchcock Captain Nikolaj Zemesarajs argued that Snell-Hitchcock’s success was not due to superior resources. But, he admitted that the tiger’s $1,100-per-hour price tag was “completely ridiculous.”

Instead of appropriating its Scav budget for the animal, Zemesarajs said, the team solicited its roughly 100 participants for $20 donations. After first contacting Animal Rentals, Inc., on Friday morning, the team was able to raise enough money for the full cost by later that night.

“A lot of people think Hitchcock has a lot of money for Scav,” he said, “but we have nowhere near that kind of money for a tiger.”

Fourth-year and Scav Head Judge Grace Chapin maintained that, while certain Scav items are bound to be expensive, a high price tag does not necessarily take away from the creativity required. “We never put an item on the list assuming that the only way to get it done is to pay someone to do it,” she said, citing an item on last year’s list, which three teams completed at no cost, that called for a $3 million Stradivarius violin.

Breckinridge’s complaints weren’t all about the money, though.

“The big issue [was] potential exploitation of animals—the guy we were dealing with for the lion, the tiger, the bear, whatever, seemed like a really shady character,” Townsend said.

“He was demanding cash on delivery, he didn’t know anything about where the animals were coming from.”

However, according to Chapin, the Office of the Reynolds Club and Student Activities (ORCSA) stipulated that the animal trainers

have proper certification—an order both Flint Captain Polly Faust and Zemesarajs agree was obeyed.

“Some of the teams felt uncomfortable,” Faust said. “B-J checked it out a lot, made sure the company had all their permits in order and didn’t have any violations or anything,” she added.

“The guy brought a lot of paperwork to campus,” Zemesarajs said of the tiger trainer.

ORCSA, which vets the Scav list every year to make sure that none of the items are too dangerous, also required that both the lion and the tiger remain within their cages at all times and that they stay off of University property–hence the showcase occurring on the Midway, which belongs to the City of Chicago.

“Our guidelines came from ORCSA and the Risk Management[, Audit, and Safety] office,” Chapin said. Though she declined to comment on the ethical questions raised in Breckinridge’s boycott, she said that the judges do not list any items without the expectation that students will take them seriously. “When we write items, we fully expect that people will do them,” she said.

“We’ve learned never to be surprised by what Scavvies can do.”

Representatives of Animal Rentals, Inc. could not be contacted in time for this article.

Crashes cause chaos for roap trippers A day before fundraising began for SnellHitchcock’s tiger, however, an anxious mother and costumed Scavvies were dealing with car accidents on the road trips for two teams.

Every year, several items on Scav Hunt’s list require teams to travel out of the state in order to complete them, with this year’s teams making the trek to Wisconsin and Minnesota to collect items like “JFK’s ball of twine” (item 108) and to visit the National Mustard Museum in Middleton, WI (item 104).

The Max Palevsky team, consisting of fourthyear Joe Tomino, third-years Carolyn Bolger and Jason Rowley, and first-year Daniel Lewis, were driving outside of Eau Claire, WI, when, according to Bolger, they saw what they initially thought was a deer.

“I didn’t see it until the last minute, and then I did the one thing that you’re not supposed to do: I swerved,” Tomino, who was driving at the time of the crash, said.

According to Bolger, the car then flipped into a ditch on the side of the road, where it tipped onto its side. “No one was hurt, which was pretty much miraculous,” Bolger said. The car was totaled.

According to Rowley, the four students were taken to Sacred Heart Hospital in Eau Claire, WI, at the insistence of one team member’s mother.

After being released at around 2:00 a.m. Friday morning, they spent the night in a Holiday Inn. The next day, according to Bolger, one student’s mother drove the team to Minneapolis, where they boarded a Megabus back to Chicago.

Bolger was adamant that Tomino had been driving safely when the accident occurred and that none of the road trip’s rules had been broken.

SCAV

BY THE NUMBERS POINT BY POINT

RESULTS

216 Tweets with the #scav11 hashtag $2,300 Cost of the tiger and lion rental combined 2 Number of Grammys trophies procured by B-J’s team 277 Items on the list this year 924 People present at the world record 207 Height of the Rockefeller Chapel, affixed with googly eyes 6'6" Circumference of the twine ball made by the Snitchcock team

1 B-J 2 Snell-Hitchcock 3 Maclean-Pierce 4 Max Palevsky 5 TIE: Breckinridge and South Campus 7 Broadview-Flint-Stony Island 8 The Grad Students and Alumni team 9 CBGB & OMFUG 10 Federation of Independent Scav Teams (FIST) 11 University of Wisconsin Law School team 12 the Greek Life team

“We weren’t speeding at the time. We were driving carefully,” Bolger said.

Scav Hunt rules for the road trip, outlined in the official list, are explicit and strict in their focus on safety. Drivers must have “more than 2,000 miles driving experience” and are required to take shifts lasting no longer than three hours at a time. No driving is allowed between midnight and six a.m. as well.

Bolger maintained that the accident did not ruin her Scav experience, adding that she was happy that the team managed to track down item number 223—the Forevertron, an enormous scrap metal sculpture in Sumpter, WI. Rowley, a first-time Scavvie, expressed concerns about the safety of the road trip and wondered whether it was possible to prioritize responsible driving in a Scav-like situation.

“Because of the way things are structured, point-wise, it’s to your advantage to pack things into a short time,” he said.

In such a rushed situation, he said, “very rarely are people focused first on safety.” However, when asked if he would change anything about the road trip, he said that he did not have anything specific in mind.

Tomino thinks that the road trip should be changed next year. He declined to discuss specifics, but maintained that he would be open to working with Scav judges on the issue.

Chapin challenged the notion that the accidents were symptomatic of greater safety issues.

“Every year we go into Scav Hunt making sure that everything will be done in a safe manner,

and this year was no different,” she said.

Blintzkreig’s team also had a road accident involving a deer, though the incident was less serious than the one suffered by the Max Palevsky team and only set their itinerary back an hour.

“You can’t really avoid it, the deer was just by chance,” first-year Cindy Wang said. She also said that what happened to her team or the Max Palevsky team was not indicative of a structural fault in the road trip.

Even with the cat controversy and the roadtrip accidents, many students believe Scav is simply being its quirky self.

“To my knowledge, Scav is crazy,” Faust said.

“That’s the whole point.”

The end of a dynasty As for the end of Snell-Hitchcock’s four-year reign, the prevailing opinion is that B-J’s rising star is nothing to complain about.

“Even though we drank beer out of their skull, I’m very happy for them,” Townsend said of the newly crowned champions.

Item 196 asked participants to “drink a beer out of the skull of your enemy. [7 angry points]".

Behind B-J were, in descending order, SnellHitchcock, Maclean-Pierce, Max Palevsky, Breckinridge and South Campus tied for fifth, Broadview-Flint-Stony Island, the Grad Students and Alumni team, a team named CBGB & OMFUG, the Federation of Independent Scav Teams (FIST), the University of Wisconsin Law School team, and the Greek Life team.

Increased number and types of industries represented in on-campus recruiting CAPS continued from front page spike,” she said. Overall, Druska said, CAPS didn’t see a huge drop in the number of job offers during the recession.

Throughout the year, CAPS has been seeing stronger results among fourth-years. In March, CAPS reported a threefold increase in the number of job offers made to fourthyears compared with the same time last year.

Th e e s c a l a t i o n i s c o n s i s t e n t w i t h national trends. According to the National Association of College Employment’s “Spring Update,” employers said that they were planning to hire 19.3 percent more graduates in 2010–11 than they did in 2009–10.

There was also a 31.5-percent over-

all increase in the number of companies recruiting on campus this academic year, according to CAP S Associate Director of Employer Relations and Development Shelia Boysen-Rotelli. In particular, she said, the number of Fortune 500 companies recruiting on campus has increased 62 percent.

Druska cited company visits—such as one paid by the CFO and CEO of Burger King—as examples of the widening range of industries that find U of C students to be attractive job candidates.

These new organizations are also making an attempt to attract students from more diverse majors, Druska added. “They’re casting a very wide net in terms of reaching out to student groups,” she said.

The number of U of C–sponsored internships has also increased over the past year.

There are 85 new Metcalf Internships, a 26.9-percent increase from last year.

Druska credits student participation in the “Chicago Careers In” programs and quarterly career fairs as two of the reasons for the increase in job offers. “We’ve had huge amounts of students attending. We had more than 600 at each [of the winter and autumn career fairs],” she said.

Even first-years have been more interested in attending CAPS. As of February 1, the number of first-years coming to CAPS had increased by more than 50 percent from last year.

“Students are starting earlier, both in terms of what year they are in school, and

what quarter they come in,” Druska said, citing another reason for student success finding jobs.

Druska emphasized that these new programs and opportunities for students do not distract from the University’s commitment to education for education’s sake.

“I think that the creation of the ‘Chicago Careers In’ Programs allows students to engage in the liberal arts curriculum and be really passionate about what they’re studying,” she said. “At the same time they know that, when they look beyond their time in the college, they know they’ll be supported when they’re pursuing fulltime work or graduate and professional school.”

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Mansueto prepares for its May 16 "soft" opening, and books will be loaded by October MANSUETO continued from front page existing materials on architecture. Items dating as far back as 1485 are displayed in the new space, the release noted.

At the same time, the exhibit is intended to highlight the new Mansueto Library.

After nearly eight months of construction, the library will open its doors to students on May 16, in a “soft” opening.

The opening next week will make the reading room available to students and faculty, but the books will not be fully moved in until the grand opening in October. The library will have a total capacity of 3.5 million volumes that is expected to allow for library growth until 2029.

Completely housed underground, books will be retrieved when a student puts in an online request. A robotic crane will retrieve the storage bin containing the book, and library staff will then deliver the book to the requesting patron.

Although many library staffers and students hail the structure as a mark of pride, some students fear that this auto-

Writers, artists appear at First Aid Comics grand opening; Rhymefest endorses the shop COMIC continued from front page space, which was on the second floor of an office building, according to Nurss. He added that he had been eyeing the property near East 55th Street and South Cornell Avenue for a long time.

“It’s really very much a neighborhood kind of place. [Nurss has] really established himself in the community,” third-year Meru Bhanot said.

Free Comic Book Day is an industrywide event on which stores buy comic books from publishers at marked-down rates and then hand them out to customers as a way to increase foot traffic. Over 250 people took advantage of the offerings at First Aid Comics.

“Readership is smaller and more niche of a market than ever,” Nurss said, adding that he believes Hyde Park offers the ideal community for a comic book store, and that the store could draw more Chicago residents down to Hyde Park.

Nurss was originally introduced to comic books by his mother, who used them as a way to encourage him to read.

He began helping out at Graham Crackers Comic Book Store in Chicago, bringing the owner fast food in exchange for free comics. Nurss later became an employee of the same store, filing and working with back issues.

He waited a year before finally deciding to open his own store on East 53rd street. “I thought I’d be conservative about it and open in the smaller space to make sure that there really was a base, that I was seeing what I was seeing,” Nurss said.

Following the recent success of the store, Nurss is now booking shows and conventions, as well as looking to open a second location early next year.

Already local artists and writers have visited the store, including Millennia War creator Ashley A. Woods, Black Age o f C o m i c s c r e a t o r Tu r t e l O n l i , D e v i l ’ s Island and Loosely Based creators Mike Czerniawski and Nikola Jajic, and Bride of the Wolfman creators David Gruba and Rene Castellano.

The store also boasts some famous clientele, including rapper, songwriter, and former alderman candidate, Che “Rhymefest” Smith, who declared in a commercial for the shop that, “You need First Aid!”

mated retrieval system will negatively affect research by limiting opportunity for browsing.

“My only concern with Mansueto is that when I’m doing research, the books that I look up on Lens are not necessarily the best books, but it’s those books around them that are the best,” third-year Ben Smithgall said. “I’m not sure if, with the mechanical crane, I’ll be able to do that.”

But other students have high expectations for the dual functions of Mansueto as a study space and library.

“If the study space is actually some place where you can go and sit down and write a paper or read, then it is going to get used,” second-year Molly Cunningham said.

“I think it’s going to be a nice way to interact with nature while in the reading room,” first-year Jonson Berman said. “A lot of times in a library you get shut in, especially in the Reg. I think it looks clean and modern, reminiscent of the pyramids at the Louvre.”

Wirszup lecture draws crowd despite eccentric title WIRSZUP continued from front page Hoover House in Max East has attended the lectures since arriving on campus; yesterday’s lecture was his third.

“They don’t usually draw huge masses, but I would say that there are about an even number of students and faculty who attend,” Powell said.

Some talks by big names, however, have drawn larger crowds. “The turnout for Steven Levitt’s speech was out the door.

The Commons room was just absolutely

packed,” Wray said, noting that then-University President Don Randel gave a wellattended lecture on musical instruments, during which he played a Baroque piece with a garden hose.

“I definitely think if students are interested in the topic, they’ll go,” first-year Maddie Kusch-Kavanagh said. “[Because] they’re not your mainstream lectures, [the style of these lectures] limits the crowd but also allows it to be more active and interested.”

CORRECTIONS » The May 6 article “Clarke’s, Whole Foods Come To Harper Court,” misstated when Clarke’s will open. It is scheduled for later this year. » The May 3 article “Terrorism Experts Praise Obama’s War Tactics,” Jenna Jordan’s position was misrepresented. She is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Harris School and the Chicago Project on Security and Terrorism, which is not part of the Harris School. » The April 29 editorial "Constructive Criticism" misstated the number of times Mansueto Library construction has been delayed. Since last year, construction was pushed back once from Fall to Spring.

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VIEWPOINTS

EDITORIAL & OP-ED MAY 10, 2011

EDITORIAL

Playing the lottery CHICAGO MAROON

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Students staying in housing are in a game of blind man's bluff due to a lack of information Last Monday, Director of Undergraduate Student Housing Katie Callow-Wright sent an e-mail to the student body regarding the latest developments of the Global Dining Initiative (GDI). Specifically, she informed students that next year’s meal plan details would not be available in time for the in-house lottery the next day. The GDI, a holistic analysis of campus dining designed to ensure student satisfaction and a more cost-effective student meal plan, has throughout the year surveyed students for input on their dining needs. For the initiative to fall through on providing timely financial information goes against its very purpose.

A large segment of the undergraduate population, including a majority of first- and second-years, resides in dormitories on- and off- campus. When students participated in their respective house lotteries, they essentially locked themselves into a future meal plan that doesn’t yet exist. Though Callow-Wright apologized for this inconvenience, her e-mail failed to grasp the magnitude of this oversight: For a student in housing, the dining plan is one of the most significant expenses of attending the U of C. A perpetual source of controversy, the cost of a student meal plan is often one of the main reasons students leave housing in

the first place. Unfortunately, the lack of timeliness in providing students with financial information does nothing to remake campus dining’s image in the way the GDI intends.

Apart from placing unnecessary stress on students whose fiscal situations require planning, the lack of financial information simply does not allow undergraduates to make careful decisions about their housing status. The one option for students not in housing — finding an apartment — is a process that can take months to come to fruition.

The GDI has been ongoing for nine months, during which it has collected responses from almost 5,000

members of the community; for all this effort, it has not produced the most basic information needed to ensure student trust in its sincerity.

Leaving undergraduates in the dark about such a cost is both unfair and entirely counterproductive to any attempts to increase the number of students in housing.

By neglecting to give students necessary fi nancial information about their housing, the University and the GDI have placed student needs on the backburner.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Across the board

Columnists fail to deal with significance of bin Laden's death

Campus flyers and ads are one example of the many unexpected ways students can express themselves

By Chris Stavitsky Viewpoints Columnist As opportunities come and go, the tides of color on popular campus bulletin boards ebb and flow.

A large theater poster welcomes all audiences to a Friday evening show with its professional-looking design; the next week, an exclusive psychology study in a simple font offers five dollars to speakers fluent in both English and Korean.

Many flyers, as the warning on the second floor of Harper reminds us, will be taken down on the

last Friday of each month. The notice, however, verges on irrelevant; most flyers are covered up in a matter of days by gentrifiers absconding with the culture and tacks of the bulletin board’s original occupants. A continual stream of flyers quickly builds a three-dimensional timeline of flyer history reminiscent of sedimentary rock. Many flyers are only visible for such a short period of time that to see them, you need to look for them.

We divide the inhabitants of the flyer world into the avid reader, the casual reader, and the nonreader. The nonreader ignores flyers completely; he learns of events through friends, word of mouth, or Facebook. The casual reader will take a glance at flyers, when he has the time: often before class, or on the way out of a building. The third type of reader is the

type that inspires this article. He scours the hidden corners of Kent and the higher floors of Eckhart for posters, devouring every word and image whether they relate to him or not. He makes it his duty to scan the boards frequently, and, in doing so, he begins to notice the inherent patterns, beauties, and intricacies of posted communication. For better or for worse, this is who I have become.

I believe that it is difficult, if not impossible, to be an avid reader of flyers if you have never posted them yourself. In my first year, I was a casual reader; I can remember a specific moment after Sosc in the fall of last year when staring at the bulletin board outside my classroom became intensely overwhelming—a plethora of summer school programs snarled and barked aggressively at me with size

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OP-ED

Party time Planning an enjoyable party at the U of C is a complex, almost quixotic process

By Peter Slezkine Viewpoints Contributor A party has been scheduled for Friday, May 13, in a three-story, four-bedroom, five-person rowhouse at 5440 South Ingleside Avenue. There will be a sign out front instructing guests to “go around back”; there will be a bunch of booze in the basement and “BMF” blaring from a base amp; there will be stacks of red cups and a dimly lit lamp.

Several days ago, my roommates and I decided that it was time to host a party. We had

spent the previous Friday, the one before that, and the Saturday in between bouncing from one Woodlawn apartment to the next, never quite sure whose guests we were. At each stop, I would end up stuck in line for the bathroom, trapped by traffic moving from the living room to the kitchen to the balcony and back.

Having a party at our place should solve some of these problems. At least it would spare us the embarrassment of looking lost at the locked door of what seems to be the correct address, faced with an unrespon-

sive buzzer and unreliable text message directions. It would also eliminate the wobbly walk home at the end of the night.

A proper Hyde Park party needs an occasion. Unfortunately, none of us has a birthday coming up, we haven’t recently lost an SG election, and our address isn’t written in Greek. We could always associate ourselves with a cause ($5 for the environment, a stamp, and some beer) or come up with a theme (wear a bikini and call it a costume), but it might be safest to stick to a simple celebration of

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The news of bin Laden’s demise was shocking and the American reaction was explosive.

Commentators have been quick— all too quick—to attempt to reorient us, to give us perspective beyond the raw event. They would have us look past this event and understand the death as a “merely symbolic victor[y]—nothing tangible, nothing concrete [or] substantial,” and ultimately think about the real question of how we should conduct the broader war on terror. Some go a step—several steps—further and ask us to see through this event and to notice that “...we’re being helplessly, recklessly compelled by social media into…furious, spontaneous, and collective responses,” and that we are simply “caught in [a] fervor of the we-finally-caughtthe-bad-guy” media narrative.

It seems that the event is all too simple for these writers, and that what really deserves reflection lies fully outside it. Perhaps these writers grasp something that I don’t, but I’d like to naively suggest that the event itself merits some thought.

The Dalai Lama recently gave bin Laden’s fall some consideration: “He said in the case of bin Laden, his action was of course destructive and the September 11 events killed thousands of people.

So his action must be brought to justice...But with the actor we must have compassion and a sense of concern, he added.”

Between the lines we can read: Evil men do not exist, there are only evil actions; man is infinitely redeemable. Men’s actions take their bearing by good and evil, but men themselves are somehow beyond these fundamental moral categories.

History seems to verify this.

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Choosing food, drink, and music among the crucial components of planning the perfect party PARTY continued from page 4 spring (birds sing, flowers bloom, beer is king, and the bass will boom—or something to that effect).

In any case, we’ll need to create a Facebook event. The description should be written in ironic ebonics, the start time should be unrealistically early, and at least a quarter of the invitations should go out to “friends” who have long since left Chicago. But the guest list is merely cosmetic, of course. The Facebook event will undoubtedly be public. The less we know you, the more excited we are for you to come.

With our prospective attendance accurately estimated to the nearest 50, we’ll

have to head over to Kimbark to purchase supplies. First-year Econ suggests that big plastic bottles are best, but the exact number to be bought and the perfect ratio of lights to darks is an argument that four years at the U of C has yet to resolve. Beer is also a problem. College students develop peculiarly strong opinions concerning the relative merits of the bargain light beer they buy in bulk. At least we know that the keg will be heavy.

Getting the juices, sodas, and snacks right at CVS is, if anything, an even more daunting task. The purpose is to make the act of drinking pleasant. But for an undergrad party held underground, the above proposition is dangerously close to being a

contradiction in terms. This doesn’t mean that we’ll stop trying though. Lost causes inspire the greatest passions, and in the quest for a palate-pleasing party, crackers vs. cupcakes is bound to spark a heated debate.

Preparing a playlist poses its own set of problems. We’ll have to determine the perfect proportion of hipster to gangster and sing-alongs to dance-tos, while striving to maintain a Summer Breeze—like balance between the completely unknown and the relatively obscure. What is clear is that a well-thought-out playlist is absolutely tied to a party’s success—until someone walks toward the sound system with an iPhone in hand.

Finally, we’ll have to set up the house.

This involves blocking doors and mopping floors, hiding toothbrushes and towels, and doing all sorts of other chores. But all of this preparation and hard work will be worth the trouble, because we do, after all, represent a cause. We are dedicated to resurrecting fun on campus. Although I have just been told that, in a display of disdainful disregard for the College’s carefully crafted image, a dozen other parties will be held this Friday. So chances are you’ll never appreciate our noble fight. You’ll be off having a good time elsewhere.

Peter Slezkine is a fourth-year in the College majoring in history.

On bulletin boards, humor and creativity occasionally combine to produce art FLYERS continued from page 4 and loud color, while subdued, grayscale ads for ethnic meals pleaded with me to attend.

The bulletin board as a whole screamed at me in the same frantically incomprehensible way that epsilon-delta proofs did during math class. YAAHHH! YAAAAAGHHH! Somehow, I acclimated myself to the scattered muddles of the boards and began to pay attention, particularly to the paid studies advertised in sickly orange and over-saturated blue. One day, outside of the bookstore, I noticed a blue flyer promising Barnes & Noble gift cards to any uncircumcised man willing to participate in a short study. At the top, the flyer read “Uncircumcised?” in large font, followed by some smaller text halfway down the page regarding the details of the study. Twelve scissor-snipped, sideways partitions at the bottom regarding contact information fluttered in the wind. Inexplicably, I was inspired. After talking over the idea with my friend, I scurried back to my room in a frenzy of inspiration, booted up Photoshop, and got to work. Within half an hour, it was done.

“Circumcised?” read the text of my new flyer in large Times New Roman.

“Want to be?” appeared in smaller font halfway down the page, followed with a convincing explanation of the study.

Our flyer offered a Barnes & Noble gift certificate as compensation, but, regrettably,

could not guarantee the return of a participant’s foreskin. Even from a short distance it was easily mistakable for the original. One fall evening, two friends and I struck out with a stapler and thumbtacks, decimating indoor and outdoor boards alike with our bootlegged ads. I still remember the click of satisfaction I felt upon stapling one of my homemade flyers next to the original one I had found by the bookstore. I came back in two days and saw that mine had been ripped down but the original remained.

Someone had taken notice—quite literally, it seemed.

This is why I became an avid flyer reader.

Ever since then, I’ve paid close attention, hoping to find a kindred spirit on the boards. Last week, I finally found what I was looking for, in a simple flyer with large, allcaps, sans-serif font punctuated by careful, unnecessary indents. The flyer lists multiple items of used furniture for sale, yet provides no way of contacting the seller to actually buy them. It wasn’t a typo. Mystery seller, thank you for helping me keep faith in the boards. The flyer is not only a medium of commerce, but also one of humor, and possibly, depending on who you ask, of art. All you need to do to be a part of it is look at the walls.

Chris Stavitsky is a second-year in the College majoring in economics and English.

Absolute views of good and evil are often dangerous, but ultimately necessary for proper orientation in the world BIN LADEN continued from page 4 We’ve learned that supreme moral judgment, when applied to men, has often rationalized the basest cruelties, and that the idea of pure evil has often been used to dehumanize those different from us. To judge a man as either absolutely good or evil is to cast him as either a god or a beast.

If nothing else it seems bin Laden himself has taught us the dangers of orienting and judging the world of men by reference to the sublime good and infernal evil. It was only by reference to what he took to be the superb good (divinity) that he was able to justify and take pleasure in the destruction of 3,000 human lives on September 11. Bin Laden’s life—in his own view—was aimed at the pursuit of the good.

It is all the more striking, then, that many took refuge in those absolute ideals upon his death. Many were quick to point out that it is simply immoral and depraved to take pleasure in and celebrate the death of another human being. Some sought to remind us that the fact that his capture

might have been the result of intelligence obtained through torture in no way justifies these inhumane methods. Still others contend that if he was unarmed (as some reports now claim), then the justice of his death should be rightly called into question. In short, they pointed to that unyielding maxim: To return harm with a harm is always wrong, and justice cannot be founded upon injustice.

Bin Laden’s life and death point to a fundamental tension: To judge men by the unrelenting light of the ideal is dehumanizing, but in the absence of that light, we are without orientation. History has shown how perilous it is to seek to mold, shape, and judge our world directly by absolute moral principles, since if the greatest good is known, then there is no cost too high to pay to achieve it. All the same, to abandon those principles would mean to abandon the bearings by which we act in the world.

Jorge Muniz Class of 2012

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Fourth-year Allen Linton introduces Sabrina, the tiger which the Snell-Hitchcock Scav team brought to the the Midway Plaisance Saturday afternoon (right). The Max Scav road trip team was involved in a car accident (bottom) just short of Eau Claire, WI, when the driver of the car swerved at 55 mph to avoid a raccoon in the middle of the road. The car hit a berm and flipped 540째.

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The Max Palevsky Scav team mounts a pair of giant googly eyes on top of Rockefeller Chapel for item 40.

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Burton-Judson's Frown Clown Matt Dannenberg, a student at McGill, pies Small Paul Bunyan Third-year Eli Sentman for Scav item 260 at the Norske Nook in Eau Claire, WI. COURTESY OF BLAIR THORNBURGH

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Second-year Thomas Moore and First-year James Fleming from Burton-Judson perform Scav item 219 (lounge singing) in an elevator in Cobb, Friday (above). Breckinridge showcases their giraffe for item 79 (a Trojan vertebrate) at Scav Judging on Sunday (left).

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Technology and fashion meet on FOTA’s “wired” runway

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he Festival of the Arts (FOTA) kicked off its week of student exhibitions with a launch party and fashion show last Saturday in Hutch courtyard. The dresses above were designed by Lily Lai, Linda Chyr, LizMarie Oliveras, Ariya Sasaki, Maya Fraser, and Hana Erkou. Designers Alice Nasto, David Nasca, Bradford Black, and Harmon Seigel also had their designs showcased. The works varied tremendously in scope, with one collection made almost entirely out of issues of the MAROON, one reimagining classic

’50s styles, and another taking inspiration from the recent tsunami in Japan. FOTA will continue through the week, with student exhibitions taking place across campus. The festival's theme this year is "Wired," which can be seen in the exhibitions, many of which relate to technology. Firebread, Project Walk, the Dance and Theatre showcase, and UChicago Arts Awards Ceremony will take place this week. Find more photos in our online slideshow at ChicagoMaroon.com.

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Of Montreal brings glitter, politics to the Vic Theatre

By Chama Albert Voices Satanic Panic Prolific glam-pop band Of Montreal always promises an intensely visual concert experience. With past shows that have featured dancers dressed as enormous pigs, live horses onstage, and a brief stint in L as Vegas where front man Kevin Barnes performed six shows entirely in the nude, you never know exactly what you’re signing up for when you buy your concert tickets.

The Chicago performance of the band’s North American tour at the Vic Theater last Thursday didn’t disappoint; I’ll say upfront that while Barnes stayed clothed, he did change outfits three times.

Even disregarding Barnes’s abundance of (or as the case may be, lack of ) apparel, Of Montreal strives for a visual aesthetic in their performances that places them in a class apart from other pop artists. The artistic motif of this tour, promoting the band’s new E P thecontrollersphere, can probably best be described as “A m e r i c a - t h e m e d .” D a n c e r s pranced around onstage in latex American flag body suits while the show culminated in a frenetic solo violin hoe -down and the most chaotic and hard-core rendition of “America the Beautiful” I’ve ever heard.

In an interview with the online m a g a z i n e Th e N e w G a y , t h e band’s artistic director (and Kevin Barnes’s brother) David Barnes said he envisioned the tour’s theme as a way of reclaiming the American flag—and with it the idea of patriotism from people who have a more narrow conception of what it means to be an American—and giving it back to the country as a whole.

Make of that what you will, but the performance did go beyond latex stars and stripes to remind us there’s more than one way to express patriotism. During the performance of “Gronlandic Edit,” a hit off the 2007 album Hissing Fa u n a , A r e Yo u t h e D e s t o y e r ? , backup dancers marched among the band members carrying banners emblazoned with gay pride slogans, staging their own threeminute gay civil rights protest.

During one numb er the band was joined by dancers wearing fat suits made to look like Glenn Beck’s head. With the surge of patriotism following Osama bin L aden’s death coming smackdab in the middle of the North American tour, the irony of the coincidental America theme may have been lost on the audience at the Vic, who at one point began enthusiastically chanting “U.S.A! U.S.A!” No matter: the dancer in the skintight American flag body

suit joined them, pumping his arm good-naturedly.

The elaborate visuals served to enhance rather than distract from the music. (In addition to the Americana imagery, the show featured a revival of the giant pigs, silver-winged butterfly women, and some sort of gargantuan creature with one oversized lobster claw.) Almost the entire set was upbeat; the band opened with the funk-rock “L’age D’or,” a song from their new EP, then immediately launched into a smattering of high-energy hits from their past albums. The all-ages audience at the Vic ate it up; every few minutes the horde of teenage girls at the front would get a little more violent as they fell over themselves to get a split-second touch of Kevin Barnes’s hand.

I could understand why, too.

He exudes charisma, even with (or perhaps because of ) the drag outfits and circus-like performance antics. During “Oslo in the Summertime,” an eerie, catchy tune from the 2005 album The Sunlandic Twins, Barnes was at his most alluring, singing directly to the audience as the stage was bathed in a cascade of glittering lights. I did feel sort of old as the audience sang along to the most popular songs; I started listening to Of Montreal in middle school, when, from the looks

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of them, a lot of the kids in this audience were just getting into Sesame Street, possibly making Of Montreal their equivalent of The Beatles.

Still, one of the best moments of the night was when Of Montreal played a sped-up, frantic cover of the White Stripes song “Fell in Love with a Girl,” allowing us all to revel in gritty, hyper, early 2000s rock. This ode to a simlarly

gimmicky band that recently officially announced their breakup left me crossing my fingers that Of Montreal won’t be headed on that path anytime soon. But with their crazy intense shows, willingness to take risks, and the arrival of a new EP that proves they’re “done fucking around” (in the words of music blog Sound of Consequence), I’m not too concerned for this band’s future.

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Sarpino's Pizzeria, a.k.a., you will never have to leave the house again There’s really not a lot to say about Sarpino’s. They will bring you well-aboveaverage pizza (miles beyond Domino’s and miles above Cholie’s) and they are open until 4 a.m. They are located in the South Loop, but they deliver to Hyde Park.

Only takes 45 minutes. It isn’t as cheap as Domino’s, but it isn’t too bad price-wise.

You can get a combination of specialty or gourmet pizzas for around $11 a person, tip included. Specialty and gourmet pizzas (which are really just salad dressings) are $21, and each second pizza is “up to” 50 percent off.

A good indication of this pizza’s value is that Ben had his first one about four days ago and he thought, “That’s pretty good,” and he’s ordered seven since then. That’s all you really need to know. And Sarpino’s has a website that is even more entertaining to use than Domino’s. It has a favorites option, which is great, and it means that Ben gets e-mails suggesting that he buy “that sweet dankness.” Ben is literally half an hour away from ordering another one.

He has an account on their website. Evan spent Sunday afternoon cutting cabbage for lentil stew, and then dolloping Kirkland mayonnaise into a big Tupperware filled

with “Chicken of the Sea Chunk Lite” tuna.

This is what he did, instead of ordering pizza for every meal. You make the decision: What do you want your life to look like? You decide how exactly you want to throw up your hands and call it quits.

What is failure to you? Anyway, their pizzas are fluffy-soft like a rabbit; they’re sort of halfway between Chicago and New York style, and can be covered by mounds of flavorful addendums.

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Here’s a (really tiny) sampling of the toppings you can get: Cheese, pepperoni, Italian sausage, alfredo sauce, anchovies, artichoke hearts, bacon, banana peppers, BBQ sauce, black olives, blue cheese dressing, Canadian ham, cappicoli, cheddar, chicken strips, chipotle ranch sauce, cilantro, clams, Dijon mustard, eggplant, feta, fresh basil, garlic, garlic butter, giardiniera, green olives, green peppers, ground beef,

Italian dressing, jalapeño, lettuce, marinara sauce, mayo, meatballs, mushrooms, olive oil, onions, parmesan, pesto sauce, pineapple, ranch, red peppers, ricotta, salami, salsa, seitan, shrimp, sour cream, spinach, steak, sun-dried tomatoes, tomatoes, and zucchini.

If you find yourself a little intimidated by choice—by freedom—and find that you, just for the life of ya, can't decide whether you and all your friends want steak and clams or bacon and clams, Sarpino’s is here to help.

Remember, hiking up the hip-waders and pulling back the elbow-highs and deciding to eat Sarpino’s pizza is already giving up, and Sarpino’s understands that. They know choice is hard and something that’s better left to someone else, someone in charge.

And believe us, they’re in charge. Sarpino’s offers a good thirteen varieties of pre-chosen “specialty pizzas,” two of which have sour cream on them. But just having that would be some bullshit, so they decided to give us all another 15 “gourmet pizza” options. One of their meatier offerings is called “Midnight Express.” Yep. “Midnight Express.” Of which we have two boxes in our apartment.

So let us just make it perfectly clear why

we’re writing this review, and why it’s sort of hard. To quote ourselves, “There’s really not a lot to say about Sarpino’s.” We haven’t really changed our minds about that one. This pizza is okay to good-okay, to maybe something one would eat before midnight. The cheese is Chuck E., and the sauce is overly sweet in that SpaghettiO’s sort of way. At the end of the day, descriptive language for Sarpino’s really, um, seems sort of unnecessary and perhaps pointless. The most important things we can tell you are a) that this place exists, and b) there are literally 2.64203265 × 10 99 (or something like that) combinations of sauces and toppings you can put on your pizza (please see the above catalog for a qualitative representation). If you didn’t read it, well you’ll have that same BAD experience you had after not reading that whole Catalog of Ships thing in the Iliad, and, well, you know that sucked (reading quizzes, what the eff?)

Now, next time you find yourself sitting in a pool of your own filth on Saturday night, you’ll know who to call. Make your choice, live or die, make your choice. Your choice has already been made for you.

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CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | May 10, 2011

Three-pronged pitching defense holds IIT to only six hits BASEBALL continued from back page same bases that baseball’s highest level of competition had run on just a few days prior.

Finding themselves on footing that every little leaguer imagines his cleats digging into one day, Major League clay, the Maroons fulfilled their dream game by overwhelming the Illinois Institute of Technology (11–23) by a score of 7–3.

Second-year left fielder Jack Cinoman said, “It is every player’s dream to play in a Major League Stadium, so it’s hard not to be amped up and have high adrenaline going into a game like this.�

That adrenaline is what drove Cinoman and the rest of the Maroon baseball team to one of the year’s most significant victories.

The left fielder was a major component of the win, almost going perfect on the day with four hits on five at bats, two RBIs, one stolen base, and one run scored. His finest inning came in the seventh, when he seemingly did it all: hitting a single, stealing a base, and driving in a crucial run.

First-year designated hitter Brett Huff also took advantage of the opportunity that most people only fantasize about from behind their television screens, going three-for-five with three stolen bases, an RBI, and a run scored.

What really pulled in for the Maroons, however, was their pitching.

Head coach Brian Baldea said, “The game was well played and we came through on the mound, at the plate, and on the bases when we needed to. Maybe the most impressive part of our game yesterday was the fact that our three pitchers did not allow an earned run and, after the first inning, prevented Illinois Tech from any significant threats to score at all.�

The pitcher who came away with the victory was first-year Alex Terry (5–1), who threw three scoreless innings while allowing just one hit. Terry also struck out two on the day. “It’s always nice getting the win, but Dan [McConologue] and [Alex] GarcĂ­a deserve the same amount of credit. It was a staff day,â€? Terry said after the game.

Third-year Alex GarcĂ­a closed the out-

ing for the Maroons, blowing by anyone and everyone who stepped up to the plate in the contest’s final innings. Garcia retired eight of the nine batters he faced and had his own take on what it was like to jog onto the mound at U.S. Cellular. �Making the long, majestic run to the mound from the bullpen was unlike any experience I have had in my baseball career.

Thinking about the great pitchers that have toed that rubber was mind-blowing. It was great to perform well also. It gave me a little taste of some of the success that has been achieved on that mound,� García said.

Cinoman also added, “Although it may seem intimidating playing in such a big stadium, I think the energy of the fans and our excitement to be there fueled us to play our game and ultimately play very strong baseball.�

The Maroons do not want this to be the last time they play on big league turf, however. They are hoping to make a tradition out of playing at the White Sox home stadium, especially with the performance they delivered and the support they received.

Baldea said, “Playing at U.S. Cellular Field was a special experience for us, and one that I’m sure our guys will always remember. We are hoping that this “South Side College Classic� will b ecome an annual thing that we can look forward to every year and that can progressively grow in terms of attendance and value to the University and our baseball program. It was good to see so many of our local alumni there, especially since it happened to fall on Mother’s Day this year.�

The Maroons’ win at Cellular Field followed their sweep of Rockford College (17–18) on Friday. Behind complete games by secondyear Matt O’Connor (5–0) and first-year Claude Lockhart (1–1), Chicago destroyed the Regents 16–1 in the first game and 11–2 in the second. Lockhart had a career day, not allowing a single earned run and striking out a team season high of 11 batters.

Chicago looks to carry its momentum from the weekend into its season finale, as they attempt to upset D-I and Big 10 power Northwestern at 3 p.m. on Wednesday.

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1:51.02 With his performance this weekend, Wells-Qu became the first automatic qualifier for the Maroons this year. His time of 1:51.02 broke his own school record by over a second.

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TRACK AND FIELD continued from back page selves in mentally like we want.�

But overall, the team was contented with the Chicago performance at the meet. “I was able to put in a strong effort to close out the last mile,�

Whitmore said. “It felt good to be back at a high fitness level.�

The recent origins of the Wisconsin Invitational hosted in Madison, WI, meant that there were sure to be uncertainties about the character and format of the contest. Said Andreycak: “Wisconsin treated it as a glorified practice. Some of their athletes only ran partial races, and the officials were very lax with some of the rules.�

One of the rules in question regarded false starts. There were two false starts in the 110 meter hurdles, which the NCAA rulebook states should result in disqualification. In this case, however, the officials simply allowed the athletes to compete.

Additionally, the nature of the competition meant that team scores would not be factored

and created an informal environment for contest. Wisconsin’s distinguished distance running program utilized the 5,000–meter run as a training exercise, running an up-tempo jog which still outpaced most of the field. The Wisconsin athletes finished up their day with another workout after the race, running intervals on the track and while women competed in the 3000–meter run. “The competition was not as intense, but it provided a great opportunity to achieve individual and seasonal goals,� Whitmore attested The Maroons have two more meets before the national championships on May 26 in Delaware. The first, the Chicago Penultimate, is a smaller meet and will be held on the day of Summer Breeze. After that, Chicago will compete at the aptly named North Central Last Chance Meet.

Those who have qualifi ed, like Wells-Qu, may take a break, but there are still spots to be had in the national meet for those found most worthy in the fire of competition.

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BASEBALL

TENNIS

Chicago shines at the home of the White Sox Chicago receives at-large bids for championships

By Vicente Fernandez Sports Staff

Nerves, adrenaline, and excitement ran through the University of Chicago baseball team’s veins on Sunday as the Maroons stepped onto U.S. Cellular Field. They were set to play the game they love most in an arena that most people can only get to dream about.

It was not just any game for Chicago. It was nine innings of the Maroons running in the footsteps of some of the greatest to ever hold a bat and wear a glove. This was a game where the Maroons would not be walking through the visiting tunnel of Illinois Institute of Technology, but through the same hallways that once graced the presence of Cal Ripken, Jr., Barry Bonds, and Frank Thomas, past the same World Series Trophy that “uncursed” the “uncursable” Black Sox. On a day where the Maroons (18—11—1) played baseball on the sport’s biggest stage, a major league stadium, the U of C stepped up to the plate and rounded the

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By Alex Sotiropoulos Sports Staff

Fourth-year Dan McConologue pitches at a game earlier this year. McConologue pitched three innings against IIT. JAMIE MANLEY/MAROON

TRACK AND FIELD

Multiple provisional marks set at Madison

Fourth-year Brain Clarke throws in a track and field meet earlier this this season. Clarke, along with many of the other throwers, will compete in the 4x100–meter relay this weekend.

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By Charles Fang Sports Staff There is nothing quite like burning rubber with D-I competition to gauge one’s mettle. Chicago track and field had one of its last chances of the season to fine tune its skills and strategies at the Wisconsin Twilight Invitational.

Chasing mostly personal goals in what amounted to an individual freefor-all, the Maroons inched out some impressive triumphs while falling short in some devastatingly close finishes.

The field for the Wisconsin Twilight Invitational offered all manner of competition including D-I and D-III teams present, as well as junior and community colleges.

This meet, in its current form, was first run last year.

The meet offered one of the last chances for competitors to reach national-qualifying standards, thereby enabling a spot in the national championship meet in late May. Fourthyear Andrew Wells-Qu secured a spot in the national championship by posting a time of 1:51:02 min

in the 800 meter run, the nation’s fourth best score at press time. Fellow fourth-year Brian Andreycak qualified provisionally with a time of 14.82 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles.

“I’m pleased that I’ve been able to record only provisional qualifying times for the past five races,” Andreycak said. “But I feel like I’m not at the level that I’m capable of getting to, which I believe would secure me a spot in the national meet.”

“It was a bit nerve-wracking to race against such stiff competition,” Wells-Qu shared. “But we had a rab-

bit leading us through 600 meter, which let me focus on running fast rather than racing competitors.”

On the women’s side, fourth-year Kristin Constantine posted provisional qualifying scores in two events, the hammer throw and shot put.

She won the former with her second attempt of 51.43m.

Other notable performances were turned in by fourth-year Jacob Solus, who won the triple jump, fourth-year Ashley Eaves finishing second in the 400-meter hurdles, and fourth-year sprinter Stephanie Omueti finishing third in the 400-meter. One notable event, the 5,000-meter run, saw a slew of Chicago runners, led by second-year Billy Whitmore and third-year Moe Bahrani, finish in the top seven.

Some competitors deserve special mention for performance in several events. Third-year Daniel Heck won second in hammer throw and participated in the shot put and discus throw. Fourth-year Moriah GroomsGarcia won third in the 400-meter hurdles and fifth in pole vault. Thirdyear Paige Peltzer won fifth in javelin throw and seventh in high jump.

Third-year Madison Allen finished fifth in long jump, finished ninth in 100 meter dash, and was part of the team that won third in the 4x100 meter relay.

The overall spirit of the team hung in the balance with acknowledgements of deserving effort tempered by rumination or possibilities.

“Everyone is competing at a decently high level,” Andreycak said. “But we haven’t been able to quite dial our-

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Men’s and women’s tennis both learned that they had received atlarge bids to the NCAA regional tournaments yesterday.

Both teams were informed of their selection during yesterday’s NCAA selection show. Despite both teams being ranked top 10 in the country, neither received automatic bids. This was due to national qualification guidelines, which state that only conference champions are allowed to receive automatic bids.

The women’s team, hampered by injury, fell to Emory in the conference finals. The men were upset by rival Wash U in the conference semi-finals. The women will begin action at Stagg Courts on Saturday 2 p.m., playing the winner of the Luther/Penn State– Behrend match, while the men will travel to Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, playing on Saturday against the winner of the Grinnell/UW-Eau Claire matchup.

Although both men’s and women’s teams are the top seeds of their respective regions, only the women’s team plays at home due to the difficulty of both teams hosting the regional at the same site. In spite of the circumstances being less than ideal, the women’s team is pleased to host the regional.

“We’re definitely excited to host regionals again this year,” third-year Jennifer Kung said. “We don’t get to play very many home matches, so it’s always nice for our friends to be able to come out and see us compete.”

Although the women’s team swept both Grove City and Wash U in last year’s regional, this year they will have to probably pass a strong Gustavus Adolphus squad in the regional final. Although Gustavus Adolphus has dominated in the MIAC with a 10 —0 record, they haven’t fared well against national calibur copetition, sporting only a 3—5 record.

“We haven’t played Gustavus yet this year, but they always have a strong team in singles and doubles, so we can’t overlook them even though we are the favorites,” Kung said.

The men, being the favorites of their regional, feel confident going into Saturday’s match, in spite of a season-ending injury that caused first-year Zsolt Szabo to be sidelined.

“The draw we have isn’t that bad,” fourth-year Kunal Pawa said.

Both teams look to pass through this weekend’s regional action in order to play on Tuesday, May 24, in Claremont, CA for national quarterfinals.