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FRIDAY, MAY 27, 2011 • VOLUME 122, ISSUE 51 • CHICAGOMAROON.COM

ENDOWMENT

Making Waves The band Moving Mountains sat down with the Maroon to discuss their new album.

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STUDENT LIFE

ALUMNI

Zimmer calls SRIC Caffeinated champions creation “unlikely” at student meeting

Gillis details Libyan capture and release

By Crystal Tsoi Senior News Staff

By Jonathan Lai Associate News Editor

President Robert Zimmer, a member of the Board of Trustees, and the University’s Chief Investment Officer met with two students on Monday afternoon to discuss the prospect of creating the Socially Responsible Investment Committee (SRIC) that students largely supported in a referendum last month.

Although the April referendum passed with a sweeping majority of the student body, the Administration remains fundamentally opposed to the formation of such a committee.

“The board is unlikely to want to establish an SRIC. More conversation is useful and important

most feasible, in terms of cost.

Campus dining will negotiate with Aramark, Sodexo, or Bon Appetit, depending on which provider is chosen for next year, according to Panek, though he sees no reason late-night dining could not become a campus tradition.

Panek said that the additional c o s t s o f Fo u r t h M e a l w i l l b e reduced by the fact that the program is replacing late-night dining at Hutch Commons.

The offerings of the Fourth Meal program came under some scrutiny by students who asked for healthier options than those available during the pilot, according to Panek. The pilot included a fruit

While detained in Libya for 44 days, Clare Gillis (A.B. ’98) had to keep secret the death of her colleague in order to ensure her safety. Now back in the states, Gillis is speaking out in criticism of the Libyan government and calling for the release of the slain journalist’s body.

Gillis, a freelance journalist, was reporting outside the eastern Libyan town of Brega when she was captured with American journalist James Foley and Spanish photographer Manu Brabo.

On April 5, Gillis, Foley, and Brabo left Benghazi at around seven in the morning with a fourth journalist, Anton Hammerl, to report on the Libyan civil war.

The journalists had originally planned to ride with Libyan rebels for the day and possibly spend the night in the desert.

As they stood talking with rebels, they received information that el-Qaddafi forces were traveling in their direction; suddenly, Gillis said, two rebel cars tore past them in the opposite direction.

The journalists took cover under nearby shrubbery, lying facedown in the desert as el-Qaddafi forces fired at them.

“We heard Anton call out, ‘Help,’ and then I thought, ‘Oh shit, it sounds like he’s been hit, something’s happened to him.’

When there was a lull in the shooting, Jim asked him, ‘Anton, are you okay?’ And he said ‘no,’” Gillis said.

Gillis was hit in the face and lost her glasses, giving the next month and a half a “further surreal, absurd fuzzy quality,” she said. As the forces loaded them into the back of a truck, hands bound behind their backs, they looked down and saw Hammerl lying wounded in a pool of blood, the last they would see of him.

Immediately, the three journalists felt that they would not be safe if they mentioned Hammerl’s death, especially as the soldiers appeared to panic at the killing of a Western reporter.

“We all looked at each other and said in the same breath, ‘We can’t talk about this,’” Gillis said.

“It was immediate and instinctive, and we were very much agreed that our own safety had to be the first consideration because there was simply nothing we could do for him anymore.”

The three were held in a detention center in Surt for two nights before being moved to a military detention center on April 7.

Around 1 a.m. on April 8, Gillis

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FACULTY

Daley to take five-year post at Harris School

By Crystal Tsoi Senior News Staff Former Mayor Richard M. Daley announced his appointment as a distinguished senior fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy during a news conference Tuesday morning at International House.

Daley’s five-year appointment as a distinguished fellow, effective at the start of the 2011–12 school year, will not see him at the head of a classroom.

Rather, he will coordinate a number of guest lectures by a variety of world leaders with whom he has worked, with focus being on the city itself.

“I look forward to lending my voice and experience as an urban leader in the important work of this great university,” Daley said. “I can think of no

better way to feed excellence.”

Speaking at the press conference, President Robert Zimmer expressed excitement about the educational involvement of someone so deeply involved in Chicago policymaking.

“We believe that his extensive practical expertise will bring an important perspective to vital urban policies,” President Zimmer said.

In an interview yesterday, Zimmer stressed that Daley’s experience in bridging the gap between making and implementing policy would be an asset to the Harris School.

Harris School Dean Colm O’Muircheartaigh described Daley’s appointment as a “crucial component” of the School’s urban policy studies, adding that the former mayor’s

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Former Mayor of Chicago Richard M. Daley addresses members of the Harris School of Public Policy faculty and the local media about his appointment as a senior distinguished fellow at the Harris School.

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DINING

Fourth meal deemed likely for next year

By Rebecca Guterman News Staff The success of the Fourth Meal pilot has made the program’s implementation next year increasingly likely, though the University’s Global Dining Initiative has yet to settle on a replacement for its current food vendor.

According to Campus Dining Advisory Board (C DAB) head Gabriel Panek, the most likely scenario for next year would be a Fourth Meal program that begins third week of the quarter, running Monday through Thursday and alternating between South Campus and Pierce dining halls each week.

Panek also said that this plan is the

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Gillis attributes broad outlook and journalistic success to her time as a U of C undergrad GILLIS continued from front page was brought blindfolded into a room and interrogated.

“They asked me why I was there, what I was doing, why, if I had a Ph.D., was I going to come risk my life in Libya to talk to these rebels, these crazy hash-smoking idiot rebels that are probably all Al-Qaeda anyway,” Gillis said.

When Gillis was transferred to a women’s prison on April 19, she began to worry seriously for her safety. She said the move felt more permanent than staying in the military detention center and she was separated from Foley and Brabo for the first time.

Gillis was also worried about the potential for abuse at the hands of the female prisoners. “Women are just very nasty.

Nasty, I mean, not that guys aren’t or can’t be, but I saw factions form and leaders rise and fall in the space of the week I was there,” she said.

On April 26, Gillis was moved to the Corinthia hotel, a luxury hotel in Tripoli,

where she stayed for three days before rejoining Manu and Foley at a government house.

After a judge gave them a one-year suspended sentence on May 17 for illegally entering the country, the journalists left the next day. Instead of being driven to the Tripoli border as promised, they were taken to the Rixos hotel, where members of the foreign press were staying.

“We were so pissed. Just so incredibly angry,” Gillis said, “that [government spokesman Moussa] Ibrahim would stage this kind of publicity stunt, which was so ridiculous.”

When he brought the journalists to the hotel, Ibrahim made a show of their physical health and well-being. He also invited them to remain in Libya and continue reporting with proper documentation, which Gillis said was ridiculous. All four journalists declined to stay.

The three journalists, along with British freelance journalist Nigel Chandler, were

taken to the Libyan-Tunisian border the next day, and Gillis arrived in Boston Logan airport at around 7 p.m. on May 20 after a series of connecting flights.

Since arriving in the U.S., Gillis has been publicizing South African and Austrian dual citizen Hammerl’s story in an attempt to push the Libyan government to release his body and highlight its hypocrisies. When South African president Jacob Zuma visits Qaddafi next week, she hopes that he will demand a search for Hammerl’s body and a full investigation. Zuma visited Libya five days after Hammerl’s death but did not comment on the situation at the time.

“Shame on him. I want to shame him into doing something for Anton and for his family. I want to be one of those voices shaming him,” Gillis said.

While some might not see the logic in her transition from Ph.D. in history to freelance journalist, Gillis credited the University with giving her a broad-picture worldview.

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Students will plan for additional meetings, despite early setback SRIC continued from front page to have, as this is a situation where reasonable people can disagree and both come to reasonable conclusions. But ultimately it’s up to the Board to decide,” Zimmer said in an interview yesterday.

Third-year Nakul Singh, the incumbent liaison to the University’s Board of Trustees, and fourth-year Craig Johnson, an active member of Students for a Democratic Society, represented the group of students who collaborated on the referendum.

They discussed how the University could reconcile such a committee with its past adherence to the Kalven Report, which the Administration has repeatedly cited to defend its stance of political neutrality.

Over the course of the meeting, the administrators explained how the University makes its investment decisions, detailing how it subcontracts 200 managers to invest its roughly $6-billion endowment in various areas, according to Singh.

“Knowing this, our proposal has always been about standards for investment. We want some additional standards to be directed towards the firms and individuals that invest the University’s money,” Johnson said.

Yesterday, Zimmer said that before there can be any conversation about establishing an SRIC, both sides need to lay out certain facts about the endowment itself.

“There’s a lot of important things to be understood about what the University is investing in,” Zimmer said. “Questions about the endowment, about where it comes from, [need to be addressed] before one even talks about an SRIC.” Both Zimmer and Alper invoked the sentiments of the Kalven Report, and the University’s stated commitment to free speech and discourse, as reasons for concern about the establishment of strict ethical standards for investment.

Despite the Administration’s resistance, both Singh and Johnson are hopeful that the dialogue will continue into the next school year, and they aim to establish an SRIC by the spring of 2012. They want to address fears students raised during an open forum this month with President Zimmer that momentum for establishing an SRIC would dissipate over the summer.

Johnson and Singh also said that the meeting with the Administration gave them a stronger understanding of where to take the initiative.

“Though we didn’t exactly get the go-ahead for the formation of a Socially Responsible Investment Committee at this meeting, I am confident that we can work together to reach a solution,” Singh said.

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“I think that the spirit of the University of this open mind for intellectual exploration and seeing connections where it’s not a connection that everybody would see right away, it’s not the obvious way to think about it,” Gillis said, “I have a B.A. in Old English and a Ph.D. in medieval history and then I go to Libya and report on a civil war.

It seems random, but if you think about it, and if you’re informed by this broad, humanistic way of looking at the universe, I think you see a lot of logic in it.”

Dean of the College John Boyer, who was one of the people calling for Gillis’s release, expressed his happiness at her return.

“She has a very close friend on the faculty and she’s an alumna of the College, so I’m really delighted everything worked out, and I’d like her to come to the College at some point and talk to students about her experience, so it’s a public invitation,” Boyer said.

Gillis said she is open to visiting campus in the fall.

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INTERVIEW

Uncommon Interview

with Ann Marie Lipinski

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efore becoming the University’s Vice President for Civic Engagement, Ann Marie Lipinski was the Executive Editor at the Chicago Tribune from 2001-2008. In 1988, Lipinski’s series exposing conflicts of interests in the Chicago City Council won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting. Lipinski, who currently co-chairs the Pulitzer Prize Board, will leave the University in the fall to head the Niemann Foundation at Harvard. Lipinski sat down with the Maroon to discuss her time at the Tribune, the Pulitzer Prize board, and why 8 a.m. classes can be disastrous.

CHICAGO MAROON: You were the first woman editor of the Tribune, you’ll be the first female director of the Niemann Foundation— what does that mean to you?

Ann Marie Lipinski: I think it was really when I was leaving the paper that I became aware that it was somewhat significant.

Younger reporters, women who had looked around and were trying to figure out how to balance life and work, I think they found some example in me, which they could choose to follow or not.

CM: What were you most surprised about finding in your Pulitzer Prize–winning series about conflicts of interest in the Chicago City Council?

AML: I think how brazen and commonplace conflict [of interest] had become, and that it was just an accepted form of behavior

among council members. In fact, a lot of the systems under which the council operated had been established to allow for the kinds of conflict that had become commonplace there. It’s a government body where a lot of fabulous and extraordinary public servants have been, but it’s also a place that for various reasons has attracted a different kind of public official.

CM: What’s it like to sit on the Pulitzer Prize board?

AML: It’s been one of the great joys of my life. It’s the world’s best book club.

It’s a group of really impressive individuals from lots of different backgrounds. Even the journalists in the room, while they have journalism in common, they have very different backgrounds. That combination of that group, with extraordinary academics, just

makes for a very rich conversation. I’ve felt so fortunate to be a part of that group.

CM: Was there anyone early on at the Tribune who was your mentor and who you looked up to there?

AML: The day I arrived I was sitting there in my new blue suit, scared to death, two reporters came up to me, and one of them turned out to be [later Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama] David Axelrod (A.B. ’77). He welcomed me to the paper, and talked to me a little bit about his experience, and complained about a bunch of the editors.

CM: At the University of Michigan you were the editor of the Michigan Daily. Were you there all night during the week?

AML: Yes, we used to brag about on the front page of the paper that we had the latest

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deadlines in the state. The paper didn’t go to bed until 2 a.m., which was later than the Detroit papers, and it was not unusual that we could beat them with a big breaking story.

We were there very late. 2:30, 3:00 was when I’d start working on homework. I figured out pretty quickly that the 8 a.m. class was not going to work for me.

Keeping SG in check

CRIME

NextGen: Final Report Card

UCPD called in after reports of A-level poetry graffiti = ACHIEVED

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University Police (UCPD) officers detained three students in the A-Level of the Regenstein Library = IN PROGRESS Thursday morning after a library staff member As Next Generation leaves office, which campaign promises were accom- reported that patrons were defacing a bathroom wall at 3:40 a.m. plished and which fell by the wayside?

Officers found one individual writing on the wall and detained two others based on information Procurement for RSO van rentals. - Passed down to LiveChicago provided by a third party, according to UCPD spokesperson Robert Mason. The students were not charged with any crime; the officers turned Designating more funds to bring speakers to campus - Completed them over to the Dean-on-Call, per University

by Funding TedxUChicago protocol.

Webcasting athletic events, Scav Hunt,and speakers - Completed + Partnership with OnCampus + UChicago Live + Bleed Maroon An online, comprehensive events calendar for students - In Progress Electronic RSO accounts - Final Stage, and passed down to LiveChicago A student health center on the quads - Dropped

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The graffiti was a transcription of Ezra Pound’s “Canto 83.” The graffiti appeared in both the men’s and women’s bathrooms. According to fourth-year Johanna King-Slutzky, a student involved in the graffiti, they graffitied the wall so that others would contribute marginalia (commentary written in the margins of a book), an idea conceived by KingSlutzky and four other students in an Advanced Poetry Workshop. They were responding to a class prompt asking for an experimental piece in the style of Pound’s criticism.

The other students involved were Zak Federer, Kirsten Ihns, Brendan White, and Krystin Gollihue.

King-Slutzky, Federer, and a student unrelated to this group were detained by the UCPD.

Daley will run ten lectures in his new position DALEY continued from front page experiences will provide unique lessons into policy implementation that faculty alone cannot provide.

Daley said that he accepted the appointment because of his high regard for the University as an institution that has “put Chicago on the map.”

“The University of Chicago holds a very special place for me and my family,” he said. “To me, the most exciting part of my life has always been University’s students working on policy in my office.”

According to O’Muircheartaigh, Daley’s experiences in the often fiery world of Chicago politics makes him a strong fit for collegiate academia.

“The tradition of the University is to have vehement and sometimes destructive arguments about every topic,” O’Muircheartaigh said. “His training

as mayor for the last 22 years has equipped him for these discussions. We can only hope that we will be able to provide as much aggravation as he had with the city council.”

During Daley’s stay at the University, he will coordinate 10 lectures, inviting speakers from the network of urban leaders he has worked with over the years.

“Daley will take advantage of the enormous amount of people around the world who think about and work on urban renovation,” Zimmer said in an interview.

While Daley’s appointment will only last five years, O’Muircheartaigh joked that the man who presided over 22 years of Chicago’s history could stick around for far longer than that.

“I enjoy keeping busy, and I’m not one to just sit back and watch the flowers grow,” Daley said.

week’s highest), but that number fell to 582 by the end of the week. According to surveys collected during the pilot, 80 percent of attendees were coming from their residence halls, and 79 percent had their house tables in South.

Pierce Dining Hall, which has 373 seats to South’s 550, saw a similar trend, with 768 students turning out on Tuesday but only 484 showing up for Friday. In a given week, Pierce serves as many as 400 for weeknight dinners and around 250 for weekday breakfasts, according to Mason.

The surveys revealed that about 50 percent of Pierce attendees were coming direct-

ly from their residence hall, with significant percentages also coming from the Regenstein Library and Ratner Athletic Center.

Attendees at the Pierce pilot hailed from a more diverse range of residence halls than at South, possibly because, Mason speculated, fewer students have their house tables there.

Of the students who attended the Pierce pilot, 42 percent had their house tables at Bartlett Dining Hall, 32 percent at South, and 26 percent at Pierce.

Mason again stressed Fourth Meal’s social atmosphere, citing it as a major success of the program. “People were interacting with each other,” he said. “It wasn’t a study hall.”

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He does not know exactly how Campus Dining would bring healthier options to the table, but he said he intends to address the issue.

Director of Operations and Communications for Campus Dining Richard Mason said that the program will have to balance the reality of cost concerns, which will prevent dining halls from keeping all of their stations open with healthier food.

“Fresh fruit and vegetables are among

some of the highest cost foods on their own, and also some of the most labor-intensive,” Mason said. “It would be diffi cult to have the full-blown offerings without some sort of significant change [in cost].”

The pilot, hosted in South Campus during seventh week and in Pierce during eighth week, attracted more students than expected, but Mason was careful not to view the high turnout as a guarantee of similar results in the future, explaining that attendance will likely come down once the program becomes a staple of campus dining.

During the South Campus pilot, 1046 people turned out for opening night (that

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Investing in dialogue The Board of Trustees should make an honest effort to compromise with SRIC supporters Over the past year, a coalition of undergraduate students has spearheaded a movement to establish a Socially Responsible Investment Committee (SRIC) on campus.

The University has yet to support the idea, despite the presence of such committees at various peer institutions, as well as sustained trumpetings from student groups over the past several years. In last month’s Student Government elections, 76 percent of voting students endorsed the creation of an SRIC, once again conveying interest in a rethinking of University investments.

Unfortunately, the Administration has been uncooperative on this issue. Though the referendum in the election was nonbinding, it represented a serious call by the student body to consider and discuss the need for SRIC. The lack of

constructive feedback by President Zimmer and the Board of Trustees has therefore been a disappointing and discouraging reaction. Recent statements have hinted that they do not accept the SRIC as it has been proposed, nor have they provided any practical compromises that would change their mind.

The SRIC is not set in stone. There has been no formal proposal detailing its framework, therefore the University should play a part in developing a functional structure. Students have done all the requisite legwork to ensure that this is a credible initiative; to merely reject or ignore the idea is an insult to their effort. We must be provided with criteria, or some set of requirements, that would make an SRIC a palatable option for trustees and administrators.

These are problems that cannot be

denied; the University does, in fact, engage in questionable investments.

Many cite the example of investing in Arch Coal, whose mountaintop mining practices in West Virginia have come under the scrutiny of the Environmental Protection Agency.

The Darfur Divestment campaign, aimed at protesting investments in war-ravaged Sudan, was one of the predecessors of the current SRIC campaign. There is no shortage of dubious investments that taint the University’s image.

SRIC has always been a call for dialogue, and dialogue requires communication from Administration.

It requires mutual respect and consideration from each party, as well as articulation and accommodation of each side’s ideas. The University has not displayed this accommodation, though SRIC’s supporters’ requests

If you’re bored, you’re boring A positive social life at the U of C can be hard to find, but seeking it out is a worthwhile effort

By Ivy Perez Editorial Board Member In 2007, while I was searching for a school, the University of Chicago was ranked by the Princeton Review as having the number one “Undergraduate College Experience.”

When I got here, I bought many of the funny T-shirts that the U of C had to offer, from the self-deprecating to the smug to the self-deprecatingly

smug (or smugly self-deprecating). I was so excited to be at the U of C that I could be proud to be from the school where “the only thing that goes down on you is your GPA,” where “the squirrels are prettier than the girls,” and where we assert that if we’d wanted an A, we would have gone to Harvard. I thought it was all in good fun, a celebration of what made us unique, and that the complaining was at best subtle boasting about how intelligent we really must be in order to attend such a difficult school and still laugh about it.

But I soon learned that the selfdeprecation was more than a joke for many, and that the cynicism about the U of C was based on an earnest self-hatred. I was disappointed to learn that the joking inferiority com-

plex displayed by so many wasn’t really a joke. At some point I began to feel that all of the complaining was actually keeping my fellow undergraduates from enjoying themselves.

Of course, I’ve done my share of complaining about some of the quirks of the U of C, such as the twoday reading period, the shortage of food options around Hyde Park, and the eternal mystery that were SOSC papers. But I disagree with the essentialist nature of many of the assumptions about life at the University of Chicago, and I especially lament the fact that they sometimes actually affect people’s experiences here.

I am sure that my success in having a fulfilling social life was in large part because I never accepted the idea that this was a boring campus

and that there wasn’t anything to do. I’ve had my share of awkward experiences, from frat parties where guys and bodies far outnumber girls and alcohol, to parties among insular social groups where I hover with my drink by a corner and awkwardly introduce myself to anyone who looks even slightly friendly. But awkward experiences were the exception rather than the rule. I sought, and for the most part found, fun and exciting things to do.

These outings were more than frat parties and social parties. I modeled for MODA one weekend and had a Settlers of Catan tournament the next. I accidentally participated in an impromptu freestyle rap session, and had parties at my apartment dissolve

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Not just business as usual

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are not rooted in unilateral action or one-sided demands, but in a desire to better the University’s image as a responsible actor.

Students understand the need for neutrality and practicality. SRIC was proposed to ensure that those principles could be reconciled with morally responsible investment.

The Administration should honor this concern and actively communicate what, exactly, it would take to make SRIC a reality.

To not do so would be to shy away from the University’s promise of productive dialogue.

As spring quarter draws to a close, students are preparing for their next endeavor. Graduating seniors are taking that long awaited–and often times long dreaded–plunge into the “real world”; some students have secured their old jobs back home; some lucky

travelers will be heading overseas to acquire new languages; some fortunate few will be watching the entire series of Lost and having time-travel debates over Thai food. Another group however–about 450 students– will be beginning Metcalf Internships in Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., Dallas, Los Angeles, Beijing, and just about everywhere in between.

CAPS has done an overall exemplary job not only growing the Metcalf program over the years, but also preparing current students for their opportunities. There are however several practices that seem to run contrary to the U of C spirit.

The Metcalf Fellows Kickoff Reception last night provided a wealth

of information for those who will be embarking on a Metcalf this summer or in the upcoming academic year.

While most of the information provided and advice given was ultimately practical, some of it did not seem to coalesce with the stated academic aims of this institution.

Level-headed, practical advice goes a long way, especially at a school like the U of C known for its abstractminded students–the veritable manifestations of the proverbial philosopher with his head in the clouds who falls in a man hole. Networking, not getting too drunk at company events, planning out your route before your first day of work–these are all valuable and appreciated tips.

But what about the age-old conflict for any new employee: sucking up to your boss? CAPS, in the spirit of sensible career advice, essentially advocates the bite-your-tongue position. Which, to be fair, is not unreasonable. They may be motivated to attempt to temper the potentially worst impulse of the prototypical U of C undergrad: brash hot-headedness bordering on arrogance. It’s possible that CAPS fully expects its students to tear down the office doors, usurp the CEO’s desk, and start imposing their infallible will on the entire company. If that’s the case, then they are completely correct to advocate the opposite position and hope for

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into drunken men singing Russian pop songs.

As head designer of the Maroon, I often saw the sun rise after production nights that could feel, really, like sleepovers with friends, if those sleepovers had happened to include hard work.

I doubt I could have had any of these experiences if I had gone to another school, or if I had believed that this is the place where “fun goes to die.”

Ultimately, complaining about the rigors and idiosyncrasies of the U of C should only go so far as not to actually prevent the university’s population from having as fulfilling of an experience here as possible. Although the selfdeprecating humor of the U of C lends to our quirky personality, I also think it can be actually damaging to our experiences here. Believing that there isn’t something to do on Saturday nights can lead you to spend them indoors watching television, or (perish the thought) actually doing homework.

So, repeat the jokes, and wear the T-shirts, and envy those at “party schools” or the Ivy League for their more definable allures. But my advice is to only go so far down this road.

Incoming first-years or underclassmen, keep this in mind: You will get as much out of the U of C as you put into it. For upperclassmen and graduating seniors who have always envied those at party schools or the Ivy League, accept what you should have accepted years ago: For better or for worse, you came to the U of C. My years here have been fulfilling academically and socially, although I am skeptical that these spheres could ever be fully divided. Life is life, and for me the “life of the mind” never stopped being lively.

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The fact that a noticeably large portion of the presentation was devoted to wardrobe selection was also somewhat unsettling. Again, this advice was rooted in practical necessity; pink cut-off jean shorts under a striped Urban Outfitters tank top probably wouldn’t cut it in the workplace, neither would an all tie-dye outfit (sorry, Rafael), or a beret (sorry, kid who wears the beret). Ultimately, the slant of the presentation was too much focused towards “fitting in,” being inconspicuous, and more or less playing a role of some sort.

The U of C teaches constant questioning, fierce independence, and modest self-assertion.

These traits were not only absent in CAPS’s advice session, but they were largely contradicted. I understand that what we learn is all well and good in theory, but what about practice?

(Isn’t that how the T-shirt goes…?) What is the point of the U of C if not to educate future world leaders? As I see it, U of C students and alumni should aim to shatter these ridiculous corporate codes of conduct, not conform to them so that Metcalf Fellows will have a good reputation and the program will continue to grow without end.

Yes, it is still a necessary evil to comport yourself, at least to some degree, by the expectations of corporate culture. But on the other hand, we cannot forget what we learn at the U of C. We should not contradict and condescend to our superiors, but we should not abandon our inquisitive, challenging nature; we should not show up to work in our sweatpants, but we also should not disguise our inner Maroon under a business-casual façade.

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Code of honor Basketball and philosophy with Taotao Zhang (A.B. ’08), founder and former commisioner of the Chicago Basketball League

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Henry Crowd Field House is buzzing. It’s March 29, and the basketball courts on the second floor are filled with young men in gym shorts and warm-ups.

Guys are walking around, saying hello to old friends and making introductions with players they’ve never

to recruit an NBA Development League player. At the games and the organizational meetings, you’ll hear players say, “If you don’t play in the CBL, you suck at basketball.” It’s half a joke, but no more than half.

CBL rules are simple: shots inside the arc are one

When people play pick-up, they tend to be pretty honest because they’re regulating themselves. That’s the social contract of the basketball court.

met. Everyone is straining to look comfortable and at ease, but there’s an unmistakable sense of anticipation in the gym—it’s opening day for the latest season of the Chicago Basketball League (CBL), and it’s the league’s biggest year yet.

Play begins on three different courts, without a referee in sight. Taotao Zhang (A.B. ’08) is bouncing around happily and directing traffic, letting people know where they’re playing and who they’re playing against. In an hour, Zhang will play in his own game, but for now he wants to make sure that the first games go off without a hitch. The league is extremely well-organized, thanks largely to Zhang’s work as comissioner. It’s the first night, but teams know exactly where they need to be and when.

Not only well-organized, CBL also features some of the most competitive basketball on the South Side.

Talent ranges from undergrads hand-picked for their play in intramural games, to varsity basketball players finishing their fourth years, all the way to former D-I basketball players now in graduate programs at the University. A couple years back, CBL was even able

point, anything outside the arc counts for two, first team to 30 wins, call your own fouls. It’s the “call your own fouls” rule that differentiates CBL from so many other basketball leagues.

The rule is partly practical: CBL is entirely free to its participants. Despite small sponsorships from Citibank, 7-10 Bowling, and the U of C Bookstore that pay for prizes given to league champions, there’s no money to hire referees. But it’s also a philosophical gamble on the part of Zhang, the commissioner.

Zhang has a tattoo on his back of the Chinese charcter for “honor,” which, not coincidentally, is the principle upon which CBL is based. (The two on his shoulders mean “ambition” and, roughly, “good Chinese person.”) As commissioner, Zhang trusts his players in every facet of league play: They have to call all fouls, they have to give accurate information to the general managers who draft them, and they can’t game the system. “When people play pick-up, they tend to be pretty honest because they’re regulating themselves. That’s the social contract of the basketball court,” Zhang said.

Though league play doesn’t always go smoothly—there are arguments about fouls in most games— over four years of league play, punches have been thrown only once. Of course, not every player believes in Zhang’s system.

“I completely disagree with the league not having referees,” said James McGhee, general manager of ‘The Monstars,’ a CBL team.

“People come to the table with different standards and knowledge, and some people will do anything to win.

Some will try to bend the rules to their advantage.”

But Zhang says that keeping refs away encourages respect for the game and for other players. “If refs are added to the equation, players are no longer responsible for themselves,” he said. “Not only are they not responsible for themselves, they’re not allowed to be responsible for themselves.”

Playing without refs is a gamble which rests on Zhang’s hope that players will view basketball as reverentially as he does, and that they’ll play honestly instead of indulging their own desires to win. For the most part, Zhang is right.

“I would say basketball is definitely bigger than just a game,” fourth-year Ji-Hoon Hwang said. “It brings a community of people together through cooperation and friendship.”

Zhang’s obsessive dedication is a large part of what makes the league tick. As commissioner, Zhang is in charge of everything, including acquiring sponsors, registering and scouting players, and keeping schedules.

Zhang also runs the draft, CBL’s second most important event behind the championship game. General managers congregate

and pick their teams from a pool, which this year included over 140 players. A winning team is built on draft day, but scouting all the available players and drafting them in the right spots is a long, daunting task—that is, it would be, if the general managers didn’t have Zhang around.

Weeks before this year’s draft, Zhang visited each of the 14 general managers.

One by one, he presented them with his scouting report, a massive compendium of information on all registered players. Zhang’s files are complete with a short summary of every player’s skill set, attribute scores for things like speed and shooting, and a comparison to an NBA player with a similar style of play. The scouting report also includes other vital player information

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like height, weight, and what kind of availability the player will have during the regular season.

“I think we are all a little obsessed with something, and for Taotao, basketball is that obsession,” said fourthyear Paul Vithayathil, who managed a team for the first time this year.

Vithayathil and fourthyear Jake Grubman agreed that Zhang’s presence and commitment are key reasons why they took on the additional work of being general managers. “Once I decided to be a general manager, I was able to talk over some draft strategies [with Zhang]. He was just fully immersed in the league,” said Grubman, a former managing editor of the maroon.

The league’s success had Zhang dreaming of expan-

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Taotao Zhang (A.B. ’08) was commissioner of the Chicago Basketball League until May 3.

DARREN LEOW/MAROON sion. He wants to see CBL branches popping up at other Chicago area schools, like DePaul, Loyola, and Northwestern, and have the winners of each league come together to play in a city-wide tournament.

Zhang even had visions of that final citywide tournament being played at the United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls.

But for the first time in league history, he won’t be making the calls alone.

“You don’t care if you mess it up for everyone else!” Zhang yelled at Marcus Board, a Monstars guard. He had stewed the whole game he played May 3. The Monstars crushed Zhang’s team 30—15, the Monstars’ sixth win in a row. Zhang ripped into several of the Monstars, accusing them of trying to game the system and ruining the league for everyone.

This year, more than a few players listed limited availability but ended up becoming regulars, showing up at every game. The Monstars were able to take advantage of players listing incorrect availabilities for the draft and then steamrolled through the regular season, beating teams by an average of seven points a game.

Zhang later apologized for his outburst. “Even if I was a nobody, [what I did] still wouldn’t be appropriate,” Zhang admitted.

CBL was created four years ago, the brainchild of Zhang and Keenan Pontoni (A.B ‘08). As undergraduates, they played pick-up games twice a week during the school year at Ratner Athletic Center, often staying until the building manager threw them out. Games were a microcosm of the Hyde Park community: a mix of undergraduates, graduates, and community members. Teams were created on the fly, and players played until they got tired and left.

It was Pontoni in 2008 who first suggested formalizing the outings at Ratner with “keeper” teams that would carry over from one game to the next. Zhang ran with the idea, expanding on Pontoni’s vision with the idea of a league complete with a regular season and playoffs, general manag-

ers, and even a serpentine draft to allocate players to different teams. The regulars at Ratner loved the idea, and the 40 players who had signed up to play were chosen by eight different teams at the first ever draft at Pontoni’s house, with Zhang handling the administrative duties as commissioner. The

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done. It was never supposed to get beyond ue without its commissioner of four years. that,” Zhang said. But as more and more Some general managers, notably McGhee, players from the previous year approached felt the altercation was not reason enough him, Zhang became convinced that the to resign. “Taotao was a well-liked guy, and league had a place in Hyde Park. still is,” McGhee said.

A long-time intramural basketball referee, Zhang was already familiar with every undergraduate and graduate who played. He recruited the best to CBL, and its second The trophy in Zhang’s hands commemoyear was an enormous success: The league rating the 2002 champions of the American more than doubled in size, to 96 players Badminton League Great Lakes College and 12 teams in two conferences. CBL for- Regional has nothing to do with basketball. malized even further, adding sponsors and Like many of the other aspects of CBL, it’s prizes for league winners. symbolic, giving the champions a chance to But after that May 3 outburst, Zhang sent hoist something over their heads. out a league-wide e-mail that threatened to Zhang cheers and hollers with onlookers. destroy all of his accomplishments.

Zhang’s team was knocked out Tuesday in the semi-final, and he jokes with another “Dear Leaguers: player about how he’s I apologize for my bethe one who should be havior tonight. It was cerout there. His team lost tainly not befitting someby only two points, after one in my position. None I have decided to all. Even after all that’s of you needed to see that.

I represent the school, the announce my res- happened, Zhang’s competitive streak is as fiery neighborhood, you guys, ignation as CBL as ever. and above all the League The Warm-up All Stars, to our sponsors and our Commissioner led by second-year genercommunity. effective immedi- al manager Jordan Green, In light of this, I have ately won the title Thursday in decided to announce my a thriller over the Ballers. resignation as CBL ComThe championship game missioner effective immewas just as it had been in diately.” previous years: a reminder that the league is In a phone interview minutes after he sent out his resignation, Zhang said he had bigger than the people that run it.

Still, it’s hard to ignore the increasing lost faith in the league and the system upon which it was based. “I just don’t believe in it rigidity of the league. Changes have been introduced every year since its creation, anymore,” he sighed.

Zhang said that he had been considering and a voucher system is currently beresigning from his position for some time, ing discussed which would prevent playeven as he was planning on expanding the ers next season from showing up to more league across Chicago. “I didn’t consider games than what they list on their availmy vision strong enough anymore. And ability. Zhang mentioned the “social conwhen that happened, I felt like it was a bad tract of the basketball court,” and it’s easy idea for me to be the number-one guy,” to wonder whether bringing the league out Zhang said. The altercation, however, ex- of its would-be state of nature and impospedited the process, and Zhang felt he had ing more structure will hamper the league’s free spirit. to step down.

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12-game regular season culminated with team Bigtime defeating The Wet Bandits in the championship game. They earned the honor of being named the first-ever CBL champions, and Zhang and Pontoni graduated thinking that their CBL days were over.

But the following year, all the old players still living in Chicago started asking Zhang and Pontoni when CBL was going to start up again. “It was supposed to be one and

Zhang will still be an important member of the new administration, taking over as chief strategy officer. Next year, all the responsibilities that previously went with the title of commissioner will be split into six, with different commissioners in charge of different aspects of the league, such as scouting and finding sponsors.

Taotao’s resignation sent a shock wave through the league, with many worrying whether the CBL would be able to contin-

But at the end of the day, CBL is about players coming together to celebrate their unwavering love of basketball, which the players insist isn’t going to change, regardless of who is at the top. If the league is going down, it’s not going down without a fight.

“We let everything else out. We just ball,” said second-year Thomas Chun. “Hopefully it’ll keep going, and if it does, I’ll be here every year.”

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With the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a monstrous new particle accelerator, slowly powering up deep underground in the Swiss mountains, particle physicists are examining some of the most important data the field has produced in years. Global attention is focused on the LHC project, yet some of the biggest news isn’t coming from the collider, nor is it about the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle the LHC was designed to produce. Rather, it originates about 50 miles from Hyde Park, where the University of Chicago-run Tevatron—the largest particle accelerator in the world after the LHC—recorded an unexpected statistical deviation that might uncover an unforeseen subatomic particle. If it does, it could alter our understanding of the structure of the atom.

Announced in April, the news came as something of a shock to those who know the Tevatron is closing this September. Fermilab, the U of C associate that oversees the Tevatron, could not secure federal funding to extend the life of its accelerator, which the LHC renders obsolete.

“The LHC, because it has much more energy, is more capable of exploring the full range of where the Higgs is,” explained Pier Oddone, director of Fermilab and adjunct professor of physics. “If we don’t find it here in the next year, we may be able to prove that it is unlikely that the Higgs exists. It would be easier for us to do that than to find it. Then the game really moves to the LHC.” Without the Tevatron, the laboratory will have to adapt to stay relevant, though that won’t be much of a problem, according to Oddone, an expert on subatomic particles who was elected to the National Academy of Sciences May 3. One week later, GREY C ITY spoke to Oddone about the search for the Higgs boson and other particles, Fermilab’s somewhat uncertain future, and whether Fermilab competes or collaborated with the LHC. GREY CITY: News reports in April were ebullient over the possibility that Fermilab scientists found a new particle in the atom. What could it be?

Pier Oddone: What we’ve seen could be a new particle that cannot be explained by the standard atomic model. It would have to be a completely different particle than the Higgs. There are several theoretical papers now trying to explain what that particle might be. When you do this kind of work, all the papers are statistical. That’s really based on an analysis of a bump, which is a three-and-a-half standard deviation bump. So if you take more data, it might go away or be confirmed. If it’s confirmed, it’s a really big discovery, but we are not claiming a discovery at this time.

GC: How was the news that the Tevatron might have found a new particle received at Fermilab?

PO: It’s a very good feeling that we’ve been able to stretch the machine to get this level of performance. We had various people give talks at the American Physical Society meeting in Anaheim a couple of weeks ago, and the guy who built the Large Hadron Collider said he never in his life would have believed that the Tevatron could achieve such a high level of performance. The fact that we have been able to even get close to this territory is a fantastic achievement.

We are colliding protons with antiprotons. But you know, you don’t go to the store and buy antiprotons. You have to make them. When you make them, you have to condense them...with something we call stochastic cooling—sensing them and punching them with electromagnetic forces. You then put them collinearly with a beam of electrons to cool

them further so you can inject them into the Tevatron. We basically manufacture protons for a day and then we inject them in the Tevatron. This whole machinery involves eight or nine accelerators and has to work like clockwork. It’s very challenging.

GC: How much do your results have to be corroborated by other experiments?

PO: People can make mistakes in analysis; that’s why you have to wait for your collaborators to confirm that the experiment was done correctly. But if the signal is strong enough, one of the collaborators can make a clean discovery of a particular particle or a phenomenon.

And then of course you want to see it corroborated, and in this particular case, we’re lucky because there are two very competent experiments that use different technologies, and it is going to be the case that whatever one of them finds, it is very likely that the other detector, even though it uses different technology and different geometry, will have comparable sensitivity. In some cases one detector is a little better for one thing, the other is better for another thing, but they will have comparable sensitivity so that we will have rather quick confirmation of any discovery that is made.

GC: How long have particle physicists been looking for the Higgs boson?

PO: The Higgs is one of the hardest things to find, but we’ve been finding lots of things on the path to the Higgs.

With the total sample of things we’ve collected over the

Pier Oddone, adjunct professor of physics and director of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

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years, we are only now getting into the territory where predictions about the range of the Higgs make it possible for us to say something about it. We can predict, to some extent, the mass from knowing the masses of other particles. We can predict the rate at which we should see it. We are gradually working to say that it is unlikely to be in some regions, because the Higgs does different things if it has different masses.

GC: So these experiments have been going on for years?

PO: We’ve been working with the Tevatron for 25 years. We haven’t been searching for the Higgs because, when we had a small amount of data, it wasn’t worth doing…

It’s only in the last couple of years that [particle physicists in search of the Higgs] have been able to start issuing statements because we finally have gotten a level of “integrated luminosity,” we call it. Now you can start to see signals for it. So the real heating of the battle for the Higgs for us has happened in the last two to three years.

GC: What is communication like between the Tevatron and the LHC? Is there a rivalry?

PO: We have collaborated with the Europeans very strongly. They built the first proton-antiproton collider with enough luminosity to discover the W and Z bosons. When we turned on the Tevatron, eventually they shut down their machine and all the Europeans came to work here.

In fact, we have a very, very strong participation of the European groups at the Tevatron, and about 1,500 American physicists are working on the Large Hadron

Collider…We contributed to building the accelerator; we contributed to building the detectors. We’re both, in some sense, competitive because we would like to get the discoveries first, but I think above all else, we are collaborators.

GC: Last year, the U.S. High Energy Physics Advisory Board recommended that the Tevatron stay open until 2014, but the Department of Defense decided against providing further funding for the accelerator, and it’s shutting down. What’s the feeling like at Fermilab?

PO: Our base plan was to shut it down. It was only last fall that this extension was proposed, so for several years we have been developing post-Tevatron plans for Fermilab. Fermilab will stay open as a vital institution. We are going into producing the best beams for neutrinos and rare decays,

see, mostly because they are important historically, but also because they are the precursors for the LHC detectors, which people cannot see. We are concerned about the public. We have 30,000 kids coming through here a year, and we want to show them and get them excited about the technology and open up their eyes to this kind of research.

GC: Fermilab announced that it is planning a few new projects to develop after the Tevatron shuts down this November, like Project X and a muon collider. Can you explain what those are?

PO: Project X is a linear accelerator that injects into the existing complex of our remaining accelerators, other than the Tevatron. It boosts the number of particles that we can have by a factor of 100, depending on exactly what physics one is

Project X is a way to get this complex souped up to produce 100 times more particles than we are producing now. as well as working with the Large Hadron Collider. We are a very vital program and we’ll go with what was always our plan, that at some point machines come to an end and we’ll have to shut it down.

GC: What’s going to happen to the machinery of the accelerator?

PO: Mostly it will be decommissioned.

We are going to keep some parts to make a display that visitors to the lab can

doing. So Project X is a way to get this complex souped up to produce 100 times more particles than we are producing now. It enables a really vast program of research that will be the premier program in the world.

Essentially, when you look at particles with accelerators, you can have two different approaches. With one, you try to get to the highest possible energy. A demonstration of that is the Tevatron,

The 16-story Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall houses Fermilab’s administrative staff near Batavia, IL. COURTESY OF FERMILAB

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But for many processes, neutrinos, rare decays, and so on, we do not need the highest possible energy. What counts is having the greatest possible number of particles. Neutrinos, for example, interact very weakly, so you need lots of them.

The second is the muon collider, which is a very long-range dream. The muon collider belongs to a class of colliders that we call lepton colliders. Colliders like the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider are hadron colliders. The hadron is like the proton or the antiproton. They are particles that are very complicated because they have quarks inside; the quarks are exchanging gluons.

When you collide a proton against an antiproton or a proton against a proton... quarks and gluons are being produced and absorbed inside these particles. Typically, you are colliding 10 particles against 10 particles inside the proton. What you are looking for is the collision of a quark against an antiquark, which is one little bit of the proton against one bit of the antiproton— they produce a violent collision. But the collision is complicated because you have all this other stuff around.

Now, when you collide leptons as hard as we bang ’em, we don’t see any internal structure. These are very simple particles, so it’s much more powerful if you make a collision and you know the energy of the particles you’re colliding, if you’re colliding leptons.

-Asher Klein

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yellow door chronicles

by Christina Pillsbury

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lexandra Hoffman’s artistic nature shows on her skin, in the various tattoos on her arms that she designed herself. She fidgets with her clothing and her jewelry when she talk, and runs her fingers over the scars on her arms—some new and some 10 years old—that showed her parents she needed professional attention.

Hoffman, 22, is now a senior at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, where she studies psychology. Hoffamn struggles with depression and bipolar disorder. Partway through her freshman year at Evanston High School she was checked into Highland Park Hospital for a month. During her stay, a medication mix-up sent her into an extreme manic episode, and she snuck a razor blade into the ward inside a stuffed animal, intending to cut herself.

She was moved to Rogers Memorial Hospital’s residential program for depression, but it didn’t include an educational component and her disorder proved too much for public school counselors to handle. At her doctors’ recommendation, she was sent to the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School (O-School), a renowned but low-profile school affiliated with the University of Chicago. Located on East 60th Street, just west of South Dorchester Avenue, the O-School is considered one of the top residential school facilities in the country for emotionally disturbed students.

In each of the O-School’s seven classrooms, one instructor and an assistant teach nine students, all of whom are autistic or have been declared emotionally disturbed. Besides the math, science, and humanities curriculum standard at any school, O-School students spend a half-day every week in group therapy, a method of rehabilitation that its adherents credit for giving patients time to relate to one another, in part to take the shame away from their condition.

Hoffman settled in at the O-School. She had no choice, really— for her first two months, she had no contact with the outside world. She now says that the O-School saved her life, but when Hoffman checked in, she wasn’t prepared: “When a lot of kids come, because they’re adolescents, they come because they got put there, not because they said ‘I’m having a hard time, so I think I’m going to go to residential.’ No. It’s more like ‘You’re fucking up hardcore and you’re going to residential.’”

At the O-School, Hoffman met other student who also suffered from bipolar disorder, along with more dealing with schizoaffective disorder, depression, schizophrenia, and autism. As she set her belongings down in the dorm room that she shared with six other girls around her age, she noticed a poster of Jesus Christ next to one of Cradle of Filth, a goth band.

For Hoffman, still reeling from her merry-go-round of treatments, the sight was more comforting than disturbing, even though she felt she’d been branded as crazy. “There’s this need to be cared for—especially for me—as a crazy kid,” she said. “At the O-School, no matter what time of day or night it is, you can always find someone who will listen...But at the time I was just thinking ‘Thank God there’s crazy kids here, and I’m not going to be the craziest one!’”

The only remarkable feature on an otherwise standard-looking building on the Midway, the O-School’s yellow front door is its unofficial emblem. The school’s newspaper is called The Yellow Door Chronicles; the student-produced handbook for new students bears its image; alumni often give each other trinkets resembling the door; and recent grads, like Hoffman, have started tattooing the door onto their forearms.

In June 2014, after 84 years, the yellow door will be taken off of its hinges to reappear at the school’s new location a few blocks southwest. The nature of the O-School’s affiliation with the University is up in the air, meaning one of the last and oldest vestiges of a rich history in education research at the University may be set adrift.

The school’s trademark door and ornate rooms and residences, full of original art and antique furniture, are part of the legacy of child psychologist Bruce Bettelheim, an early director who established much of the school’s policy and operational procedures. The decor of the school reflects his theory that, for troubled children, an environment should look and feel much like a home as possible. “Spend some money and have some nice stuff around, like it was your own living room,” President of the school’s operational company Brooke Whitted said, elaborating on one of Bettelheim’s ideas. “These are kids you should treat with love, and

part of what parents do when they love their kids, they have nice stuff around that is not institutional.”

Bettelheim declared the school an unlocked facility, unlike most other residential facilities for the disturbed. (Illinois requires that all institutions classified as schools be unlocked.) Students at the O-School can leave anytime they want, though doing so will trigger an alarm, and as they spend more time at the school, they earn leaving privileges, first in groups, then alone. “To make this school work, somebody has to want to be here,” said Peter Myers, one of the O-School’s two executive directors. “If someone needs to be locked in, there are other places that do that.”

The school also adheres to Bettelheim’s idea of milieu therapy, which emphasizes constant group interaction over one-on-one therapy. The O-School draws much of its national recognition from being the first school in the country to offer milieu therapy, Whitted said. The school measures success based on where its students go next; if it’s a lower level of care, home, a day school program, or college, it demonstrates success.

Having spent time in more conventional, one-on-one therapy sessions before arriving at the school, Hoffman was initially unsure about the effectiveness of milieu therapy, especially when she saw several students going into crisis, but through her time at the O-School, she saw its benefits. “The milieu really makes a big

The courtyard of the Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School was designed to be therapeutic for its emotionally disturbed students. Administrators hope the statue will accompany the school on its tentative move further south of the Midway.

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difference. I define it to myself as the static energy you get from everyone, and whether or not they click,” she said. “If the milieu is good, you don’t really need a therapist. It fuels itself.”

Once, Hoffman and her roommates were listening to a Prince album when another roommate jumped out of bed, grabbed the CD, and shattered it. “I had to save myself,” the roommate said.

Hoffman and her roommates calmed the girl down and put her to sleep. Although staff intervenes in severe cases, students are expected to support one another through most crises.

In order to be accepted into the O–School, prospective students must undergo a variety of psychiatric and personality evaluations completed by an outside psychiatrist. The median IQ of O–School students is 120, according to Whitted, and 85 percent of graduates go to college. For Myers and his co-Executive Director Diana Kon, the academic program is a source of pride. “So many of our kids have not been challenged academically, they don’t see themselves as learners. It’s really intrinsic to development for them to see themselves academically,” Kon said.

Tuition at the O-School runs upwards of $130,000 a year for the 45 students who live there year-round, though Hoffman, along with approximately one quarter of students, received an Illinois Individual Care Grant, which funds a private school education for students who cannot attend public schools due to mental problems. Hoffman has friends from out of state whose families sold their houses to keep their children enrolled. The school’s tuition is set by the Illinois Board of Education, so it can’t offer scholarships.

In the morning, after eating breakfast with staff members in the large dining room below their dorms, students trek through a hall adorned with square stained glass windows that connects the living quarters to the school. They take classes and participate in individual extra-curricular activities, individual therapy, and field trips in Hyde Park. Blue lights in dorm rooms allow staff members to periodically check on students throughout the night, without interrupting their sleep.

Hoffman said she and other students came to see the O-School staff as family. A few months into her stay, Hoffman’s individual therapist left, leaving a hole in the fabric of the group; The abandonment issues experienced by many of the O-School’s students only deepened the sense of loss, Hoffman said. “They were like parents, they raised you. At the same time, that was the changing force, building those relationships and learning how to trust again, because so many kids have written off the world as a bad place.”

At 16, a year after enrolling at the O-School, Hoffman was able to demonstrate her ability to manage herself outside of the milieu setting, and she was moved from the common dorm rooms to the school’s less-supervised Transitional Living Center, which resembles a college dorm room. Hoffman was also allowed to take classes at Roosevelt University through its head-start program.

But the transition was hardly flawless. When Hoffman was close to leaving, she had a particularly difficult night, in which she locked herself in the bathroom with a sharp piece of metal she had confiscated, and ended up in the hospital to get stitches; one of her favorite counselors was able to talk her through the rest of the night. She said this is a common occurrence. “When a kid’s getting close to their time to leave, they start freaking out all the time,” she said. “The idea of losing all that support and people forgetting how much you hurt is really scary. So when people started to back away, I was thinking, ‘Don’t leave me! Don’t leave me!’”

Through its affiliation with the University, students from the School of Social Service Administration train at the O-School as counselors. Additionally, the O-School updates the University on

Abby Hoffman, 22, sits on a stairwell in the Orthogenic School. She credits the school for helping her deal with her bi-polar disorder.

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its progress and collaborates on long-term schematic issues, and its students can use Ratner Athletic Center and the Regenstein Library. Being an affiliate “means that you have to make sure that you’re self-sufficient, but that there is a collaborative relationship with the University,” Whitted said.

Additionally, the O-School often accepts students from the Lab School, and provides psychological research opportunities for the University. For example, in the 1920s, student files from the

To make this school work, somebody has to want to be here.

If someone needs to be locked in, there are other places that do that.

O-School led to the release of a study by the University of Chicago’s Medical Advisor for Women and the physician for children at the University’s School of Education claiming that IQ is not static but can be increased with proper teaching. Today, O-School Medical Director of Psychiatry Louis Kraus is researching the overdiagnosis of bipolar disorder. “The more research that goes on in our institution the better, the more the University likes us…we

that the U of C has long held a role in running the O-School, and that the affiliation will not be compromised. Kloehn said that the relationship has evolved over the years in a way that maintaining it makes sense for both institutions, especially since the SSA’s relationship with the O-School is not dependent on their proximity.

The announcement jump-started a long-considered project, according to Whitted, that would mean moving the O-School and the adjacent Hyde Park Day School, which is run by the same administration. Officially, the decision to move was made one year ago. Parents were informed six months ago, and students and the public in March. But the possibility has been long considered. Whitted said one of the continual problems in the past is that the building belongs to the University, so financing renovations was difficult.

The new building will be located between East 62nd and 63rd Streets on South Ingleside Avenue, and paid for by the school.

The approximately $28-million move will be financed in part by students’ parents, some of whom have had experience with financial advising for nonprofits, and have pitched in to help the school find resources; according to Hoffman’s mother, parents were consulted on the location of the school. Kon and Myers said that staying within Hyde Park ended up a priority because the school has developed a relationship with the community, in

The O-School’s decor reflects early director Bruce Bettelheim’s theory that environment is crucial for troubled youth. The school is designed to look and feel as close to a home as possible.

CAMILLE VAN HORNE / MAROON then fit better into the academic mission,” Whitted said.

Yet that relationship is on the wane. The O-School was long operated by the University and a subcommittee from the University made decisions for the school. It was then a part of the education department, which the University phased out between the mid-nineties and 2001. In 1991, following the publication of a report that recommended that the University shut the O-School down, an administrative board including Whitted and a new board of directors was put in charge, giving the school a new degree of autonomy.

Although Whitted praises the relationship between the two institutions, there were different feelings surrounding the relationship after the report was released. “I think the sentiment back then was that we didn’t fit into their mission,” he said. “While the Orthogenic School is a school, they’re troubled kids, and the University is more oriented towards the biological sciences and the nuclear accelerators.”

Two years ago, University and the O-School administrators met to discuss extending the lease. The University said it had other plans for the land. “We were not entirely surprised,” Whitted said. “We have what could be considered a big piece of land, and we were not unaware that other departments wanted that land.” University spokesman Steve Kloehn didn’t say that there is a plan for that land, but Whitted believes that neighboring buildings–including the South Campus Chiller Plant, erected in 2008–may be looking to expand.

Both sides maintain that their relationship is now “monumentally supportive,” according to Whited. He said the relationship is strong enough that the kids are now up to date. The March 22 edition of the student paper, The Yellow Door Chronicles reported, “It just so happens the University needs our land in the year 2014, so we don’t really have a choice and...the University is working with us in a friendly way.”

The conditions of the affiliation with the University after the school moves off campus have yet to be determined. Kon stated that the terms have not been finalized, but Myers claimed that the affiliation will not continue, although the dissolution will be on friendly terms. Whitted, on the other hand, said

which special education resources are scarce.

The new facility will be more technologically advanced, compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, more accessible to needy members of the community, and able to hold up to 60 children in each school–currently the HPDS enrolls 40 students. Kon and Myers hope that the new school will be able to house a larger gymnasium–the current one is a small, all-purpose room—and a fine arts center. The school will keep Bettelheim’s homey feel in its layout, furniture, and artwork.

Hoffman, who stays connected to many of her former classmates, is conflicted about the O-School’s relocation. On one hand she wishes it were a perfect world in which “they would stay there

Hoffman thinks the University is losing out by relocating the O-School. It's a gem within the mass that is the U of C. and it would turn into a magical place where crazy kids frolic.” But she said the move might help her feel at ease should her future plans—to return to the school as an art teacher—come to fruition.

“I think it would be so strange to be at the O-School but being the one holding the keys,” she said. “Them moving would make it easier for me to work there and not have that weird transference.”

But in terms of the University of Chicago affiliation, Hoffman said the relationship wasn’t transparent enough as a student. “U of C doesn’t really acknowledge that the O-School exists, or that it’s part of it, and the O-school doesn’t really have that much connection to the U of C,” she said. “You’d think that maybe the kids would be able to take classes at U of C, or that U of C students would do internships at the O-School, but there’s not that connection. There is that connection to Hyde Park.” Still, she thinks the University’s losing out because “it’s a gem within the mass that is the U of C. But the O-School will probably do alright without it because they’ve got such deep roots within the world of therapy.”

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This guy posted an ad on UChicago Hookups entitled “Forever Alone with a Big Dick” looking for what the website promised—an easy hookup.

After making himself vulnerable to the entire campus, don't you think he deserves to get what he wants?

After all, he seems to be a prime example of the selfdeprecating, socially awkward UChicago student we're all supposed to be.

The website was created in February by UChicago students as an anonymous social networking site. Given the explosive social capability of nerds on the Internet, the website should work perfectly at this school.

Everyone knows the T-shirts.

In fact, many of the ads emphasized their nerdiness in their quest to get laid.

Indeed, when used correctly, UChicago Hookups will get you laid!

Some even took advantage of the anonymity and let their full freak out.

Sheila* responded to an ad earlier in the quarter.

But first the website changed its name and expanded nationwide. Then the domain was sold, and now redirects to another site. UChicago Hookups in its original form is defunct.

It seems like UChicago Hookups is a great addition to campus life.

The website could have been useful, but most of its users can't or just don't want to use it correctly.

If you're unwilling to be candid about sex and your sexual preferences, you shouldn't expect this website to work.

He's had two unsuccessful meetings.

How do you expect to have sex with random people if you can't even talk anonymously about it to a reporter?

Even for those with a more level-headed idea of hooking up, UChicago Hookups is perilous. Nerds asking for sex are obvious targets for teasing.

On May 8, Reddit reposted our well-endowed friend's ad. UChicago Hookups's servers crashed from Redditors trying to get a look at the ad.

Early in its run, the website received national attention as a perplexing tool for college students who should be getting laid without help from the Internet.

Now that it's a joke, if you're using something like UChicago Hookups, you'll probably be called out as incompetent or creepy. Those who could use it right and maybe even needed it can no longer use its services with confidence.

UChicago Hookups only existed for three months. Its domain name was sold and the original developers are completely out of the picture. It never had a chance to prove what it could do for our campus and others.

But maybe we aren't all squirrels, and the claims of our dating incompetence are overblown. Or maybe it's a tool too far ahead of its time. After all, Internet dating took a few years to become socially acceptable.

We can only hope those on campus who deserve to get laid, do.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT MAY 27, 2011

MUSIC

COMMUNITY

Voices In Your Head strikes a chord

Op shop gives art a chance

By Tomi Obaro Voices Grassroots Artist

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cappella group Voices In Your Head performs a concert celebrating the release of their album "I Used to Live Alone" Saturday evening in Bartlett Dining Commons. Off-Off Campus and Le Vorris & Vox, among others, also performed at the release party.

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Op Shop founder and artist Laura Shaeffer has always had an affinity for the unconventional.

After receiving her degree in sculpture and painting, she moved to Europe instead of pursuing a Master’s degree like most of her college friends.

Then, in 2004, she and her husband, fellow artist Andrew Nord, opened up their small Hyde Park townhouse to contemporary artists in a one-of-a kind experiment. “I had wanted to open up another gallery space, but we couldn’t pay the rent; it was too expensive,” Shaeffer explained.

So they turned their townhouse into a studio, called HOME, where local Chicago artists could display their artwork and the neighbors could get to know each other. After three years, the hassle of living in a studio 24 hours a day took its toll on Shaeffer and her two children, and she suspended the studio.

But the hunger to cultivate artistic innovation and stoke community collaboration was still there.

“I had already been thinking about how to create a temporary public arts venue, a community or cultural center within the community,” Shaeffer said. Unfortunately, the rents for space in Hyde Park were prohibitively high. So Shaeffer decided

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MUSIC

Moving Mountains makes a tsunami with Waves

By Bradford Rogers Voices Plate Tectonics One listen to Moving Mountains is enough to convince someone that the name wasn’t arbitrarily chosen. Indeed, hearing the band’s first full-length album, Pneuma, for the first time can be compared to seeing a mountain move.

Moving Mountains produces music that is consistently refreshing, passionate, and awe-inspiring in an industry of watered-down genre classifications, mediocrity, and recycled ideas. Comprised of guitarist and vocalist Gregory Dunn, drummer Nicholas Pizzolato, bassist Mitchell Lee, and guitarist Frank Graniero, the band has quickly secured its place among rock sub-genre giants like The Appleseed Cast, Hammock, and Thrice with its unique blend of spiraling guitars, piercing vocals, and unparalleled musical energy.

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The quartet from Purchase, NY, began as a studio project for Dunn and Pizzolato. Together, they wrote and produced the band’s first selftitled EP as well as Pneuma, the latter receiving a considerable amount of critical acclaim and mainstream exposure. Following the success of Pneuma, Dunn and Pizzolato moved out of the studio and onto the stage with the help of Lee and Graniero. Their added creative energy became immediately apparent with the more complex and urgent sound of 2010’s Foreword.

With Waves, Moving Mountains continues to develop its sound and deliver raw, energetic performances, leading us to wonder where the band will go next.

The Maroon chatted with Gregory Dunn of Moving Mountains about band life after being signed, clumsy honesty, and being ultimate fan boys.

CHICAGO MAROON: How has life changed for the band since being signed?

Gregory Dunn: Not a lot. I think what’s changed us more…is that we’ve been a band for six years, whether or not we were signed. It’s not as glorious as some people may think it is. It certainly takes [up] more of our lives now. We really don’t have so much of a social life when we’re actively touring. Six years ago, we had a lot more time to ourselves. So that’s probably the biggest difference so far, just how much more the band has taken over our lives.

CM: What’s the story behind the album name, Waves?

GD: [Laughs] I’m not sure how to go about answering that exactly…. It’s a bit of a reference to writing sort of the same CD three times, I guess, because Waves is sort of a continuation of our first record and our EP, Foreword. It’s a reference to taking apart the sound that we built up on the first two records and putting it back together and finding a new perspective on it.

Moving Mountains continues to transform their sound, moving past the post-rock label.

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CM: How has the band evolved from the first EP to Waves? Has this been a natural development or is there an ideal sound that the band strives for?

GD: When we first started, we had an idea of what direction we wanted to go in, but from there it just sort of developed naturally. The biggest influence was probably transforming from a studio band to a live touring band. The way we went about writing songs, we began to have more ideas about how we were going to play them live and knowing that we would be touring with new songs. So that was always in the back of our minds when we started writing the new record.

CM: Both Pneuma and Foreword are extremely thematic albums. Is there a theme on Waves?

GD: There is and there isn’t. The themes are the same; what’s different is the way I went about writing it. Pneuma and Foreword are both very poetic albums, whereas Waves is just so un-poetic and almost clumsy. But it is really honest, which is some-

thing I wasn’t really comfortable doing when I was younger. Pneuma was somewhat cryptic because I wasn’t secure enough to write the songs about these kinds of topics. But this time around I was like, “You know what, fuck it.” The lyrics might sound awkward to some people, but it was really the only way I could express what I wanted to express.

CM: You have self-produced every Moving Mountains record to date. How important is selfproduction to the band’s sound? Would you like to work with a producer in the future?

GD: Yeah, it is huge for us. But it’s not so much [about] producing as it is about our writing process.

We don’t write songs, finish them, and then go to the studio. We write the songs in the studio. We were going to go with a different producer for Waves, but we just sort of chickened out at the last minute because we didn’t know how we would explain to someone how to make these songs. We wouldn’t

know those bells and whistles with someone else.

But we did learn a lot with Waves and gained some experience in the mixing department working with Matt Goldman, who is a producer we admire. Going forward, we’re pretty much 90 percent sure we’ll be working with a new producer on the next CD. CM: The members of the band have described themselves as the ultimate fan boys. What’s it like starting to build a strong and devoted fan base?

GD: It is the weirdest thing in the world. It’s so strange--- I don’t think we’re ever going to get over that. Whenever we got offered to play a tour or a show, we’re always like, “Holy shit, look who we get to play with!” That feeling really never goes away. It’s just one of the coolest experiences. One of the most fun parts about being in a band, for us, is to meet fans, musical peers, and heroes that influenced us when we were kids.

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Style

Chicago Manual of

Accessible accessories for a variety of styles

by Jessen O’Brien

Accessories are always hard to dictate because they can be intensely personal. Unlike clothing, they don’t tend to age, and they can be worn as often as every day. A scarf might be special because it was a grandmother’s, or a necklace simply because it has been worn so often.

On the other hand, some accessories are as disposable as those snap bracelets so enthusiastically coveted in elementary school and just as vehemently dismissed upon graduation. Few accessories lie in between, most being either lifelong companions or an ultimately embarrassing fling. With an eye on weeding out the unworthy, here’s a look at the latest spring and summer accessory trends.

Primary Colors: Personally, I’m all in favor.

Bright, pre-school-esque accessories combined enthusiastically and with little care for restraint or the-oh-so-dated concept of “matching” are

simply fun, although not so simply fashionable.

Although the combo of colors should appear thoughtless, this trend works best with colors of a similar tone. A flat orange, green, and blue look great together, for instance. Also, either go big or small--- anything in between can look sloppy or uncoordinated. A large bright piece or two look clean and classic, and more than five colors woven together look bold, but make sure that whatever you do, you’re making a specific statement.

Flatforms, a.k.a. Platforms/Flats Hybrids, a.k.a. This is Why Fashion Has a Bad Rep: Theoretically, these are a comfortable way to gain some height, and they should appear sleek and modern. Practically, they appear more uncomfortable than either of their counterparts because they don’t mimic your foot’s natural slope and are stiff.

However, if done correctly they can look chic.

I would argue that “correctly” entails clean and

modern with enough on top of the foot to balance out the platform immediately beneath it.

Preppy: A sort of ironic/post-modern preppy has been in for a while now, and it works best with accessories. Mix tasseled loafers, oxfords, and plaid into your regular wardrobe for a playful look.

Even better, try a different take on these classics: metallic loafers, plaid oxfords, or seersucker anything are all great ways to ensure that you come across as slightly irreverent, not fresh off the golf course.

Belt Purses: Every couple of years, designers are convinced that what women really want is to wear purses around their hips, as if that is the most logical way to free one’s hands but still carry a wallet, sunglasses, phone, and all the other on-thego essentials. I prefer a cross-shoulder bag. Or a tote. Or pockets large and sturdy enough to carry my stuff, but, alas, that last one seems eternally

out of reach. If you want to attempt this trend, the trick is to go for a full-out modern, minimalistic look. You don’t want the words “fanny pack” to cross anyone’s mind, so avoid anything that sticks out too much. Some go around the waist, others around the hips, but all require a sizable portion of bravado.

As for jewelry, rose gold, plastic, tassels, and fringes are all in this season. Rose gold is great because it adds depth to the color and can be mixed with white plastic in particular to combine a vintage and modern feel. The plastic jewelry in style this season tends to be primarily playful, as plastic always should be. Tassels and fringe both work best when paired with restraint. Too much of this combo can look like an exotic animal.

Whatever trends you decide to go for, have fun, and keep wearing those oldies but goodies that will never go out of style.

Food Fight: Three cheers for wine, cheese, and beer at Pastoral

By Hannah Gold Voices Cheese Virgil This is the third installment of Food Fight, a competition we're having to find next year's food columnists. We will make our decision based on a combination of reader and Maroon editor feedback. Go to chicagomaroon. com to voice your opinion.

“In my dreams/…the moon is made of bleu, / rivers flow with fondue, / and Limburger wafts in the breeze.” This tasty little verse is written on the chalkboard above the checkout counter at Pastoral, a small but satisfying shop that sells wine, beer, and, not surprisingly, cheese. Pastoral offers a sizeable, though not overabundant, selection of incredibly diverse artisanal cheeses running the gamut from funky to fresh. Since a large part of Pastoral’s mission is to provide customers with the highest quality products, they have plenty of local options from Vermont, Wisconsin, and even Michigan-- though there is a decent amount of imported cheese as well, mostly from England, Spain, and France. Pastoral has three locations throughout Chicago, each one bound to satisfy your need for cheese.

Pastoral also sells scrumptious sandwiches, ranging from about 6 to 10 dollars, all of which are

Raw honesty abounds in Moving Mountains’s latest album MOUNTAINS continued from page 8 CM: Which Moving Mountains song means the most to you?

GD: Right now, I think “Tired Tiger” is the song that I like the most and has the most meaning for me. There’s something about that song…. I just really like the way it came out, and the lyrics were at first something that I wasn’t really comfortable with, but it’s super honest…. I don’t exactly know how to explain it. I’m just very aware of it, and it seems so relevant. When I play “Tired Tiger,” I’m very aware of what I’m singing about and very in touch with it.

CM: What are your dreams for the future of Moving Mountains?

GD: Whenever I’m asked this question the answer is always that I hope we can just continue to do what we’re doing. Being in a full-time band, or being a full-time anything for that matter, is really tough. It’s tough mentally, and it’s tough just as a lifestyle. At this point in our band’s career we’re all broke as fuck, which may be surprising to some people. We just hope to make enough to support the band and to continue doing what we’re doing for years to come.

made from the premium ingredients sold in the store. Le Canard is filled with melt-in-your-mouth duck confit, Fromager D’Affinois (a creamy, mild cloud of cheese), shallot confit, and grainy mustard.

It’s definitely one of the best sandwiches I have ever had in Chicago. Their Sandwich Campagne (country pate, gruyere, cornichons) is also delicious, and their turkey sandwiches are supposed to be exceptional. Also up for grabs are salads, crusty baguettes made fresh every day, charcuterie, spreads, and small curiosities such as long-stemmed artichokes and artisanal crackers. If that isn’t enough, Pastoral creates lovely gift baskets sure to please any friend who goes all romantic and starry-eyed at the mention of fine meats and cheeses.

But I was not there to barter for gift baskets—oh, no. I only had eyes for the cheese counter, but I was going to need a little bit of help. If you ever choose to go to the Loop location ask for Gene, a possible culinary student who was destined to be my very own heavily bearded Virgil for the next half-hour. My guide allowed me to taste everything from roquefort to ricotta. For a good creamy cheese Gene gravitated towards Zingerman’s cream cheese, which, he explained, is not as sweet as your average shmear and has a slightly tangy, yogurt-y taste to it. Stinkiest cheese definitely goes to the

ardrahan with its pungent notes of acerbic herb and chocolate. Gene’s personal favorite cheese is flagsheep, an English clothbound cheddar whose cheese maker, confusingly enough, also produces a cheese called Flagship. Another favorite is the winnimere, a cow’s milk cheese that is washed in lambic (dry, Belgian) beer, then wrapped in spruce bark, and ends up with a smoked bacon taste. It turned out to be yet another stellar recommendation from my own personal Gene Genie.

Maybe you can live without bark-rind beercheese, but can you live without wine? Body in wine is usually determined by alcohol content, and pungency in cheese by age. Essentially, you don’t want your wine to step on your cheese or vice versa. Pastoral helps in this matter by roughly organizing their wines into categories that compliment certain types of cheeses (e.g. light bodies pair with light and soft; creamy and gooey; and fresh and mild cheeses). Furthermore, cheese tends to go best with wines that are produced in the same area, and Pastoral, with its commitment to selling local wines and cheeses, is perfect for finding loads of well-matched combinations. Gene had several basic recommendations for wine and cheese pairings such as epoisses (a smelly, incredibly robust, and wonderful cheese with a mushy orange rind)

with champagne or the classic Stilton blue cheese with port. Bottles range from $20 to $25, save for a select few that are a bit pricier.

In the summer time, though, nothing beats beer.

Gene waxed poetic on the effervescence of beer bubbles for a while, then gave me a few recommendations. Pair goat cheese with French farmhouse beers such as Saison Du Pont, or finish off your fruity lambic beer with either wash-rind cheese or sturdy blue. Pastoral sells an excellent option called Point Reyes Blue—semi-firm, briny, luscious heaven.

If you’re going to drink beer, you might as well eat cheese.

But enough about cheese and wine and beer and long-stemmed artichokes. What ultimately makes Pastoral a great find is that it’s a small space with a homey and unpretentious vibe. “Quality food and local economy come first,” Gene said. “We’re a small business, and we support small business.”

Even though Pastoral is expanding, you will still get personal attention from its knowledgeable yet laidback staff, something that’s hard to come by. Gene eventually convinced me to go with the Dante (sheep’s milk from Wisconsin,) and I couldn’t have been more pleased. I left the store, a dreamer in a cheese daze, and as the door swung shut behind me I enjoyed a final waft of the Limburger breeze.

Op Shop provides a space for neighborhood artists, fosters a sense of community and collaboration OP SHOP continued from page 8 to talk to Peter Castle, the head of MAC realty.

She gave him a sense of her vision for this temporary art space, and Castle agreed to give her a building on East 55th Street for 45 days for a nominal fee. And so in November 2009, with collaboration from Nord, Amanda Englert and David Schalliol, the first incarnation of the Op Shop, or Opportunity Shop, was born. While the Op Shop is constantly changing location and concept, its core goal of community-building through art remains the same. “We want to create temporary communities with lasting connections,” Shaeffer said. The idea is that the community fostered out of a one to two-month Op Shop will continue to flourish wherever the next Op Shop is housed.

When asked how she came up with the name for the Op Shop, Shaeffer explained that she drew inspiration from her time abroad. In England and in Australia, thrift stores are called ‘opportunity shops.’ “I really liked that idea. We were also going to be an opportunity shop, but we would be dedicated to other forms of opportunity,” she said. For local community members and artists, the first Op Shop gave them the chance to display their own original pieces. “The first Op Shop was very visual,” Shaeffer explained. Seven local artists, whose interactive art had been displayed at

the Art Institute, were invited to showcase their work. Additionally, community members who wanted to hold lectures, readings, and dance and music performances were invited to do so. As for funding, Shaeffer and her husband shelled out the money for the vendor’s license, rent, insurance, and food and drink, and then raised back the funds from potluck dinners held in the shop.

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The concept for the second Op Shop, located on East 53rd street and Lake Shore Drive, for example, centered on an ad hoc theme. This shop, launched in May 2010, featured a lot of musical performances, including performances from several University of Chicago bands. There were film screenings, a mobile animation station, and the launching of a garden center. Throughout the process, local churches and other nonprofits have collaborated with Shaeffer to get these projects implemented. The United Church of Hyde Park, for example, and the Kiwanis Club of Hyde Park were both instrumental in paying building fees and

providing grants.

The third incarnation of the Op Shop on Harper featured a series called “30 days, 30 people.” “We learned a lot from the second shop and realized that what people had the most difficulty doing was giving up their time. So we asked thirty people in the Hyde Park area to commit to one day. They could do whatever they wanted with that day, read a book for four or six hours, have a meeting, show an art project. It gave them an increasing sense of ownership,” Shaeffer explained.

When asked about the future of the Op Shops, Shaeffer said that she has big dreams. She is in the process of getting nonprofit status for her latest concept, “South Side Hub of Production.” SSHOP, as Shaeffer calls it, would be a collaboration with local grassroots organizations that would result in the formation of a local community cultural center. Ideally, there will be a recording studio, artistsin-residence, art studio spaces, and a library made up exclusively of self-published work. Ultimately, it would also provide some stability for Shaeffer and her future Op Shops. “You know how in cartoons hobos carry around bundle sticks: those sticks with a bundle at the top of it full of all their worldly goods?” said Shaeffer. “That’s sort of how we are right now. It would be nice to have a home.”

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For the third straight year, the women’s tennis team captured a very impressive fourth place at the NCAA D-III National Tournament in Claremont, CA. After easily taking out Denison 5—0 in Tuesday’s quarterfinal, the fourth-ranked Chicago squad lost to the defending champions, Williams, 5—0 in Wednesday’s semifinal. A tight 5—3 loss on Thursday to UAA rivals Emory completed the three-peat for the veteran lineup.

Maroon tennis was at its best on Tuesday.

Having fourth-year Chrissy Hu fully back from injury, the experience of the South Siders was too much for Denison to handle in doubles. All three doubles teams cruised to easy victories, losing only nine games combined.

Singles proved to be just as easy as doubles.

Wins by third-year Carmen Vaca Guzman at three singles, 6—2, 7—5, and third-year Aswini Krishnan, 6—4, 6—1, at number six singles, clinched a spot in the semifinal against defending champions, Williams. Every other singles match went unfinished, with the Maroons each having one-set leads on their Denison opponents.

Williams had just as much momentum as Chicago going into the semifinal, losing the same number of matches they would have lost had they had no opponents: 0. Their 15 victories in singles and doubles going into the semifinal caused the dual to be a test of mental toughness. As the Maroons swept Williams in doubles in their last meeting in March, they knew the importance of getting in front again in the dual.

“I think that was very important, as it gave us more confidence and momentum going into singles,” third-year Jennifer Kung said of the value of getting ahead early in doubles play.

Unfortunately for Chicago, they saw the exact opposite fate. Surprising losses at number one

doubles by Hu and third-year Kendra Higgins, 8—3, and Kung and Krishnan, 8—2, gave the Maroons an unwanted and early 2—0 deficit.

However, Vaca Guzman and second-year Linden Li gave the Maroons a spark of hope.

After being up 7—5, one game would give Chicago a well-needed point to fight back in the dual. Yet, just as with the other matches, Vaca Guzman and Li were unable to pull off the victory. A hold of serve by Williams and a break of Chicago’s serve tied the game at 7—7. Vaca Guzman and Li then broke back to lead 8—7. Once again, a hold of serve would give the Maroons the point. That hold never came. Vaca Guzman and Li would lose by a score of 9—8 (5).

The momentum of Williams was too much for Chicago to handle in singles action. Losses by Krishnan 6—2, 6—2, and Hu, 6—3, 6—3 at number five singles gave the Maroons their first loss of the tournament.

However, the South Siders had to quickly forget about the loss in order take their best finish ever at the national tournament. Facing UAA rival Emory in a rematch of the conference final, the dual was as close as anticipated.

An 8—3 loss by Kung and Krishnan followed by an 8—5 win by Vaca Guzman and Li stagnated the match at one point apiece. The Maroons would need a win by one of the strongest doubles team in D-III NCAA history of Hu and Higgins to gain momentum going into singles.

Aggressiveness by both teams led to a tiebreak which the Chicago pair lost, ending the number one doubles match at 9—8.

With a 2—1 deficit going into singles, Chicago was unable to make a comeback, losing 5—3.

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“Thanks everyone for the kind words. Was fun out there today. Rafa is pretty good at tennis.”

—A tweet from tennis player John Isner, after losing a long, tough, grind-it-out match in five sets to Rafael Nadal in the first round of the French Open.

AND THE MAROONIE’S GO TO... the 100-yard butterfly at the NCAA D-III men’s swimming and diving championships.

In his three days at the national tournament, Hallman received 23rd place in the 200yard butterfly preliminaries with a time of 1:53.30., 23rd place in the 200-yard butterfly preliminaries, with a time of 50.62, and 37th place in the 200-yard individual medley with a time of 1:54.78. In spite of not making the finals in any event, Hallaman is going to be a force in his next three years at Chicago.

Eric Hallman

Being a first-year didn’t stop Eric Hallman from swimming his way to the top. Hallman was selected to take part in the 200-yard butterfly, 200-yard individual medley, and

Natalia Jovanovic

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

Honorable Mention: William Katzka

Chicago’s defense has long been the pride of the UAAs, but the Maroons came into this season still wondering as to who their offensive production was going to come from. They got their answer in the form of first-year Natalia Jovanovic, who scored five goals and had a team-high eight assists for the UAA champions. With senior Claire Denz locking down the defense, the Maroons relied on Jovanovic’s creativity to spark the offensive attack. Jovanovic had three game winners for Chicago, and will have many more before her career is over.

Honorable Mention: Michaela Whitelaw

INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR Fourth-year Kristin Constantine has always been a phenomenal thrower. However, she hasn’t always been recognized as such because of the other outstanding talent of the Chicago throws squad surrounding her. With the graduation of Nicole Murphy and Claire Ray, Constantine finally got her chance to shine, winning two UAA titles over the course of the two-day meet in Atlanta, GA, and being named UAA field event athlete of the meet. Constantine is currently competing for Chicago at the D-III NCAA Championships in the shotput and hammer throw, and regardless of what happens, Constantine will be remembered as one of Chicago’s all-time greats.

Kristin Constantine

Matt Johnson

Third-year Matt Johnson’s 39 points in Februrary 20’s men’s home basketball closer against NYU will be remembered for years to come. His proliflic shooting performance garnered him the Ratner Center record for most points in a game. Going 48 percent from the line, and scoring 7 of 17 three-point attempts, his shots went in at the right time. As the Maroons were down 80—76 with just over one minute remaining in the UAA contest, Johnson found the back of the net with a trey, giving the Maroons momentum going into the last minute of play. Then, with 15 seconds left, Johnson received a long pass from third-year Tommy Sotos and sunk the game winner, all with his parents in attendance.

Honorable Mention: Demetrios Brizzolara vs. Case

Honorable Mention: Bryanne Halfhill at Wheaton

MAROON OF THE YEAR Announcers of home basketball games for Chicago joke that if you just say, “Taylor Simpson, two points!” over and over, you would still be doing a relatively accurate description of the action on the court. A scoring savant, third-year Simpson makes a living on the low post, but also has range all the way out to the three-point line.

She led a historically powerful women’s basketball team in both points and rebounds, and shot an efficient 79 percent from the charity stripe. Her field goal percentage of .556 was also tops for the Maroons. With Simpson and frontcourt companion Morgan Herrick returning next year, Chicago will have a devastating offensive attack that many teams will struggle to defend.

Taylor Simpson

Andrew Wells-Qu

Andrew Well-Qu’s name appears in the Chicago track and field record book quite a few times, a testament to the perseverance he has shown over the years. WellsQu, a fourth-year, was injured all of his third-year after a breakout sophomore season in which he barely missed out on being an All-American. This year, WellsQu more than made up for past miscues, and took fifth place in the country at NCAAs, an All-American at long last. He is currently competing for a second AllAmerican medal at NCAAs in Ohio.

Honorable Mention: Marshall Oium

Honorable Mention: Kendra Higgins

Honorable Mention: Men’s Tennis

Football

The football team won their first UAA title since 2005 en route to posting a 8—2 regular season record.

The Maroons stunned 23rd ranked Case, 24-20, in front of a boisterous Chicago crowd. In what earned the Maroons the UAA championship, Chicago topped rivals Wash U, 13—10, in one of the biggest games in Chicago history.

Women’s Basketball

TEAM OF THE YEAR Led by third-years Meghan Herrick and Taylor Simpson, the Maroons won 21 games straight

after starting 4—3. Throughout the winning streak, Chicago defeated UAA foes Wash U twice and went undefeated in UAA action. Their stellar performances ended with a UAA championship and a loss at the quarterfinals of the NCAA D-III National Tournament, their best performance ever at the tournament. The future is bright for this Chicago team, as they are returning all five starters.

Honorable Mention: Women’s Tennis

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