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Contingent faculty file petition to hold union election Lorentz Hansen Associate News Editor

Kenya Senecharles leads protestors in a series of chants. The October 30 rally was part of the Campaign for Equitable Policing’s Week of Action.

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Last Thursday a group of UChicago’s contingent faculty members, in conjunction with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to hold a union election. The faculty members cited lack of job security and low wages among other factors motivating them to seek collective bargaining rights and representation through the

SEIU, Local 73.

The faculty members behind the petition are part of the University’s Faculty Forward chapter.

Under the organization of SEIU, which represents nearly two million public employee, health care, and property service union members across North America, Faculty Forward has established chapters on campuses throughout Illinois in recent years to help contingent faculty unionize.

The contingent faculty includes adjunct and full-time lecturers, senior lecturers, and postdoctoral researchers.

At the University of Chicago, non-tenure track faculty comprises roughly 45 percent of the teaching faculty, according to 2013 data released by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Contingent faculty members are afforded varying benefits and wages according to their job titles.

Senior lecturers, for example, are paid more per course and are given health benefits, while adjunct faculty members are paid less, can only teach a certain number of courses per year, and are not given benefits. All contingent faculty UNION continued on page 4

Campaign for Equitable Policing UCMC sponsors community hosts Week of Action programs to prevent violence Katherine Vega Senior News Reporter

The Campaign for Equitable Policing (CEP) organized a week of action last week in order to promote awareness about policing on campus and in the surrounding community.

CEP is an activist group that is a part of the Southside Solidarity Network (SSN), which organizes to promote social justice on the South Side. CEP’s principal demand was to meet with Provost Eric Isaacs to discuss the Independent Review Committee (IRC), which reviews complaints against the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD). Three events were held throughout the week, culminating in a rally out-

side of Levi Hall on Friday.

On Friday, approximately 50 protesters participated in the direct action rally. Carrying signs accusing the administration of racial profiling, over-policing, and a lack of transparency, the protestors marched from the Booth School of Business to Levi Hall.

The protesters shouted numerous chants that echoed the messages on their signs, such as “Who made you the law? No one!” and “No justice, no peace, no racist police.”

First-year Rahmel Robinson shared a personal story during the rally. Earlier this year, he was confronted by a security guard and was told that he should not be on campus. Robinson believes that he was racially profiled.

“I wasn’t doing anything wrong when I was told to leave the quad, it was just a matter of me being thought to be a community member because of my urban clothing and the fact that I was black. Obviously, the people at the bottom of the totem pole are advised by the people at the top to ostracize community members and be…selective about who is allowed to walk across the quad. If I was actually a community member and I was white, they would’ve never thought that I wasn’t a part of the College, and I wouldn’t have been kicked out,” Robinson said in an email.

The rally ended after approximately 40 minutes with CEP delivering a letter to Isaacs that POLICE continued on page 4

University sells 690 graduate student and faculty apartments Lily Li Maroon Contributor In early October, the University of Chicago sold 19 apartment buildings and two vacant lots to Pioneer Acquisitions LLC, a New York-based real estate investment firm. The portfolio contains 690 apartments that house graduate students and faculty members.

The University decided to sell the properties to fund teaching and research activities, according to Calmetta

Coleman, University director of communications for civic engagement. Coleman said the timing of the sale took advantage of a strong real estate market, caused by a recent influx of businesses and restaurants in Hyde Park.

The University purchased the majority of these properties when the real estate market was weaker and property prices were low. It did so to provide secure, quality housing for students, faculty, and staff within walking distance of campus.

The 19 apartment buildings are located on South Blackstone Avenue, South Greenwood Avenue, South Woodlawn Avenue, South Dorchester Avenue, South Kenwood Avenue, East Hyde Park Boulevard, South Ridgewood Court, East Madison Park, and South Kimbark Avenue. The two vacant lots are located on East Hyde Park Boulevard.

Though the sale sizably reduced the University’s total residential property holdings, APARTMENT continued on page 3

Raymond Fang Features Editor What do after-school glassblowing, an original theater production, and religious trauma counseling have in common? Despite their apparent disconnection, all three of these programs are part of the University of Chicago Medical Center’s (UCMC) effort to address violence and crime prevention in the South Side of Chicago.

Through various programs, such as the Urban Health Initiative and the Center for Community Health and Vitality, the UCMC supports and funds numerous community health and violence prevention initiatives. Three of these programs are: Project Fire, an after-school glass-

blowing program for youth who have been affected by gun violence, Community Grand Rounds, a health and wellness education outreach program, and Brightstar Community Outreach’s Bronzeville Dream Center, a post-trauma counseling cen-

ter in Bronzeville led by faith and community leaders.

Leif Elsmo, the executive director of community and external affairs at the UCMC, said the violence and crime prevention programs are part of the UCVIOLENCE continued on page 4

Project Fire sells their artists’ glassblowing projects, in which a percentage of the profit earned goes to the artist RAYMOND FANG | THE CHICAGO MAROON

University hosts forum in honor of late professor Friedrich Katz Laila Abdelmonem Maroon Contributor Last Friday, UChicago hosted the inaugural Cátedra Internacional Friedrich Katz forum in honor of the University’s late professor Katz, whose work examined Mexican politics through the 19th and 20th centu-

ries.

History professor Emilio Kourí served as the forum’s organizer. Kourí spoke highly of Katz’s contribution as a cornerstone of UChicago’s strength in Mexican History. “Professor Katz was a member of the faculty here for close to three decades. He was

one of the most important historians of the Mexican revolution, and he also was very important for making Chicago a center for the study of Mexican history,” Kourí said.

Kourí highlighted that Katz was one of the first professors to put the UniKATZ continued on page 2

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Breckinridge hosts final haunted house event Zoe Kaiser Photo Editor The last Breckinridge Haunted House opened its doors to the community from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Halloween night. Children and their parents shrieked and sweated as they walked through the house. The scenario was that Breckenridge was the site of a nuclear meltdown and people were exploring the ruins for the first time.

Breckinridge students also

used the haunted house as a forum to spread awareness about Breckinridge’s upcoming closure. People coming out of the haunted house wrote messages in support of the haunted house and Breckinridge. One read, “It’s a community tradition. Note to self: don’t kill the community.”

Breckinridge students plan to give these “Save the Breck” cards to Dean Boyer.

Editor’s Note: Zoe Kaiser lives in Breckinridge .

“[Professor Katz] was one of the most important historians of the Mexican revolution” KATZ continued from front

versity of Chicago at the forefront of international engagement in academia.

Using his work and life experiences, Katz was able to bridge the international stage; his family escaped Vienna during the Second World War before seeking refuge in Mexico.

The planning for the program began a few years ago

when a group of historians discussed Katz’s work at a conference.

“A number of us from these various institutions were a part of [the conference], and there we decided that maybe we should do something more regular to allow this [gathering ] to happen, and one way or another, this is how it came out,” Kourí said.

The Cátedra Internacional brought together six universities: the University of Chicago, El Colegio de México, CIESAS, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Vienna, and Columbia University.

“These were all institutions either with which [Katz] was associated himself, like Vienna, Berlin, or Chicago, some of the Mexi-

can ones, or some where his closest colleagues were,” Kourí said.

Each year the conference will shift locations. Next year, it will be hosted by El Colegio de México and CIESAS; it will move to Berlin in 2017 and Columbia in 2018.

Keynote speaker John Womack of Harvard University was a colleague and

friend of Katz. “We were friends, real friends…We often shared research. He was always very generous,” Womack said.

Following the keynote lecture, a panel of five graduate students, each of whom had contact with Katz before his passing, discussed their research. While this year’s conference focused on Katz’s work, the forum’s

goal is to expand their focus to talk about Mexico at large and continue researching the region and its politics.

“If you ask me what people are going to be talking about at this gathering in 10 years, I don’t know, and that’s probably what’s exciting. It’s alive; it’s new research that’s coming through,” Kourí said.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Southside Hub of Production seeks to create allied UChicago RSO The Southside Hub of Production, a neighborhood arts space that encourages the exchange of ideas and the preservation of local arts and culture, has recently reopened on 57th Street and Blackstone Avenue.

According to Artistic Coordinator Candice Ralph (AB ’13), the Southside Hub of Production (SHoP), founded in 2011, is “a project to provide a space for the creative soul and heart of people that live in and love the South Side of Chicago.”

The organization closed its original space in Fenn House on East 56th Street and South

Woodlawn Avenue in December 2012 after the First Unitarian Church, which owns the mansion, decided not to renew SHoP’s lease; the First Unitarian Church was approached by a buyer for the property.

SHoP hosts a variety of arts and cultural events, including art exhibitions, writers’ circles, open mic nights, and yoga classes. It recently organized an art exhibit, curated by artist Jorge Lucero, that displayed public submissions regarding the Barack Obama presidential library.

The organization is also looking to get more University stu-

dents involved in the project, with potential to create an allied RSO on campus.

“An RSO representing students who are interested in social engagement and local culture would be mutually beneficial to both students and SHoP members in many ways,” co-founder Laura Shaeffer said.

As an RSO, SHoP would attempt to integrate the South Side and UChicago communities by bringing students out of the University and into an arts space that promotes cultural activity.

–Hilly Steinmetz

University launches first summer programs for international high school students Feng Ye Maroon Contributor In May and July 2016, the University plans to launch its first summer program for international high school students in Delhi and Beijing, respectively.

The summer session will consist of two weeks of intense critical thinking, reading, writing, and discussions. Classes will be five hours long and are to be led by a University faculty member and a graduate school intern at the UChicago centers. Writing seminars will be offered to hone academic writing skills, like in the Core sequences. The program will also include an online session in which the admissions office discusses the U.S. college admissions process.

At the end of the program, students will receive a grade, a narrative evaluation, and a certificate of completion.

However, according to Stephanie Friedman, director of the UChicago Summer Sessions, the students will not receive any college credit, since the College is not accredited in China and

India.

The $2,800 Summer Sessions program fee will include tuition, course materials, educational activities, and lunch each day. Scholarships will also be available.

Only 20 spots will be offered for each city in order to increase the selectivity and competitiveness of the program.

The program is an innovation among U.S. colleges. Other higher education institutions, most notably Duke University, have cooperated with Chinese and Indian high schools and universities to offer similar educational opportunities. However, the UChicago program differentiates itself by sending its own faculty to teach at its University centers.

According to Friedman, the new program may be a good adjustment for students in Asia, whose education system differs much from that of the U.S. “They might not be accustomed to seminar-style discussion-based education, which is a big thing that we do here,” Friedman said. “[We want] to

give them a sense of…the interdisciplinary focus on larger issues and fundamental questions that mark the Core sequences.”

Xu Xiao (AB ’14), a Chinese alumnus who is now running an educational startup called AcadeMe, recalls how difficult the transition can be.

“I’m glad that the University is creating this program…

It took me at least two years to figure out what a liberal arts education means. If I had known what to expect in Core when I entered UChicago, my college education would have been much more effective,” Xiao said.

In regards to college admissions, the University wants to interact with students who “fit.”

“What we’re looking for are students who would be good prospects for admission to the College; that’s the kind of student profile we’re looking for… but this isn’t just about applying to the University of Chicago, although that would be lovely if people were to do that. It’s for people who are interested in studying in any U.S. university or college,” Friedman said.

University-owned residential buildings sold to help fund teaching and research activities APARTMENTcontinuedfromfront

there are still 14 buildings available for rent by graduate students and nine buildings available for rent by faculty and staff, according to the University of Chicago Residential Properties’ website. The University has not purchased new property for graduate student housing to make up for the loss caused by this sale.

“We recognize that our grad-

uate students, many of whom are not local to the Chicago area, require a high level of residential services. The University has launched a process to develop better support for our graduate students seeking residential housing,” Coleman said.

The University announced plans to sell the properties in March and listed them with Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP, a commercial real estate agency,

in May. The University is not disclosing the financial details of the sale at this time.

The decline in housing did not affect faculty and staff employment, as staff members who lived in these buildings were given the opportunity to stay in their buildings and positions under new ownership. Rent at other Universityowned housing has not been affected by this sale.

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New RSO aims to advocate for a more transparent government Emily Kramer Maroon Contributor UChicago Common Cause (UCC) is a new organization on campus that advocates transparent, ethical, and reliable government.

A nonpartisan grassroots organization, UCC is part of Common Cause Illinois, an umbrella organization that seeks to enforce accountable democracy on local, state, and national levels. Currently, UCC is supportin g a legislative push to establish a smalldonor based public financing system throughout Illinois.

Small-donor based public financing matches typically multiplies small donations from individuals up to a certain monetary limit.

UCC’s campaign to support this push will begin in

early December.

Until the campaign’s launch, UCC will advocate the legislation on the UChicago campus; UCC will also advertise in Hyde Park and other communities within the Fifth Ward.

Third-year Ezer Smith founded UCC after interning this past summer for Common Cause Illinois in order to help the organization reach younger audiences.

Though he has not yet obtained RSO status for UCC, Smith began recruiting once he returned to campus. He reached out to individual undergraduates and other RSOs, including the UChicago Democrats and College Republicans.

Smith thinks the interest exhibited by the student body stems from the unique nature of UChicago Common Cause.

“The nonpartisan nature of what we’re doing is what sets us apart,” he said.

According to Smith, UCC is the only organization on campus whose focus is money, politics, and campaign finance reform, which Smith believes is crucial for democracy. The UCC’s current efforts are directed toward the legislative push, but its long term focus, Smith says, will be to uphold the principles of democracy.

“UCC is about fixing a broken political system before it is too late,” Smith said. “We think the best way to go about that is to reach out to everyone we can with the hope that people of all ideological backgrounds will understand how important it is we solve the issue of money in politics.”

University alumni invent an underthe-desk elliptical machine Marianne Dolan Maroon Contributor Cubii, an under-the-desk elliptical designed by recent UChicago graduates, will be shipped to Kickstarter backers later this month.

As fourth-years in the College, Arnav Dalmia (A.B. ’13), Ryota Sekine (A.B. ’13), and Shivani Jain (A.B. ’13) undertook a business endeavor to address the prevalence of physical inactivity in today’s workplace.

The classmates’ work experiences, which they gained from internships, combined with Dalmia’s interest in health encouraged them to increase workplace activity.

The trio consequently worked to create an unobtrusive exercise device through experimentation and self-study. According to Dalmia, despite its lack of a dedicated engineering faculty, UChicago provided many engineering resources.

The inventors first gained success in 2013 when they earned second place in UChicago’s New Venture Challenge. The New Venture Challenge is

an opportunity for student entrepreneurs to present and gain support for their business ideas. According to Jain, the competition gave them the resources to further develop and refine Cubii.

“It really gave us not just that initial push but a way to try our product out,” Jain said. “Of course, the first competition we took part in through UChicago.

We got second place and that’s how we first got validation and a great network of inventors and advisers who even today have been helping us.”

The team continues to consult with a vast network of UChicago professionals and thinks Chicago’s entrepreneurial environment played a part in Cubii’s success.

“When we started the company, it was a time when a lot of new companies were coming up in Chicago, and now there’s a huge network,” Jain said.

“While there’s competition, everyone just wants to help each other. That’s also one of the reasons why we, without any professional proficiency in engineering, could self-learn and not make some of the mistakes

that others might make.”

In June of 2014, the inventors decided to crowdfund their project, launching a Kickstarter campaign.

The campaign ultimately raised nearly $300,000 and gained the support of over 1,000 backers.

“It was not just about the money raised,” Dalmia said. “It was essential that we had a good public response and that people would buy the product. I would rather us have 1,000 backers who contribute $100 than a single investor contributing $300,000.”

Now, over 18 months later, Cubii has around 1,500 pre-orders, which will ship in mid-November. Many companies have expressed interest in implementing the product in their workplaces.

Over the next few months, the focus will remain on product manufacturing and building the company.

According to Jain, the three inventors are not finished tackling the problem of workplace inactivity.

“We are actually planning on coming up with a few more ideas and new ways we can integrate exercise into people’s lives.”

CORRECTIONS: A front page photo that appeared in the October 30 issue misidentified the subject as Arielle Brotherson; her name is actually Mariam Desta.

An article that appeared in the October 27 issue (“Special Collections Research Center hosts second Wikipedia edit-a-thon”) originally stated that Choo uses his administrator privileges to add original research. In fact, Wikipedia discourages original research on its pages.

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“We reached out to colleagues to identify common causes Programs include Project Fire, Community of concern: job security, health insurance, and class size” Grand Rounds, and Bronzeville Dream Center UNION continued from front

members, however, are unable to negotiate their contracts or pay with the University and are not granted seats on the University Senate. According to the Faculty Forward website, these conditions sparked the movement to unionize.

According to Janet Sedlar, senior lecturer and member of UChicago Faculty Forward’s organizing committee, the Faculty Forward chapter started at the University after SEIU representatives contacted UChicago faculty last winter and discovered farreaching support for unionization among non-tenure faculty.

“We reached out to colleagues to identify common issues of concern: job security, health insurance, class size, lack of raises in wages,” said Andrew Yale, a fulltime lecturer in the Humanities core. “But one thing I’ve heard over and over is the lack of respect for the work they do.”

Michael McCarron, a fulltime lecturer in the Spanish department, described the repercussions of these conditions for his classes.

“I work three different jobs and I just feel the more I’m stretching myself out, the more I’m sort of watering down the job that I’m doing, and students at UChicago pay top dollar to get their education, and most of their educators are contingent faculty and they’re likely not doing the best they can because they don’t have the kind of job security that McDonald’s employees enjoy,” he said.

Many faculty members have expressed their support for the unionization movement, Sedlar said. The University’s American Association of University Professors (AAUP) advocacy chapter, which represents tenured faculty

members, and Graduate Students United (GSU), which represents graduate students, expressed their support for the contingent faculty’s right to unionize in separate letters to President Robert Zimmer, Provost Eric Isaacs, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees Joseph Neubauer. The University’s AAUP chapter and GSU sent these letters on June 19 and October 15 of this year, respectively.

Faculty Forward and SEIU also received a letter of support from U.S. Senator Dick Durbin on October 22, nearly one week after the Chicago City Council passed a nonbinding resolution on October 14 supporting Chicago-area non-tenure track faculty’s right to unionize without university interference.

After filing the petition last Thursday, UChicago Faculty Forward sent a delegation to inform Zimmer of their petition and to request that the University remain neutral during the union election. Zimmer was not in his office, said Sedlar, and the deanon-call present could not at the time say whether Zimmer and the University would commit to neutrality.

Early Monday evening, Isaacs addressed the petition in an email to non-tenure track faculty.

He informed them of the election date and encouraged eligible voters to educate themselves about what collective bargaining and union representation would mean for them.

“Your relationship with the University, your department, school or division will change in ways that cannot be foreseen. In light of this inherent uncertainty, you should educate yourself about what collective bargaining will mean for you and what it

would mean to be represented by this Union,” he said in the e-mail.

As of Monday evening, the University news office had no comment on the petition or the request for neutrality.

Since the University has yet to confirm whether or not they will remain neutral during the union election, Faculty Forward is preparing for the possibility of interference from the administration, said Yale and Sedlar. Yale said that although the University is not legally permitted to stop contingent faculty from holding an election to unionize, many universities have deployed so-called “scare tactics” in response to petitions to unionize.

Yale, Sedlar, and McCarron, as well as representatives from SEIU, are confident that they have enough support to win the election and establish a union.

According to NLRB union election laws, at least 30 percent of the employees must show support for the petition before it is filed. In the petition, the Union requested a mail-in ballot election, held from November 20 to December 5 of this year. Under federal law, a union is certified as the employees’ bargaining representative if it receives a majority of votes cast in the election.

If the contingent faculty votes to unionize, the members of the bargaining unit will then vote on a bargaining agenda to present to the University, and will choose representatives to meet with university representatives.

Beyond the efforts at UChicago, contingent faculty and members of Faculty Forward hope the “international sway” of the University will provide momentum for unionizing efforts on other campuses in the Chicago area, according to Yale.

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voiced their demands. When asked about a meeting with CEP during a Student Government (SG) General Assembly on November 2, Isaacs said he would not meet with CEP because he considered the General Assembly meeting the most appropriate place to discuss the UCPD. Second-year Cosmo Albrecht, CEP and College Council member, noted that the week of action was partially framed in response to a recent change in one of SG’s committees, the IRC. The change was announced at the October 1 SG meeting.

The IRC’s members will no longer be selected by standard committee applications sent to SG. Instead, the committee will be provostial, with members selected by Dean of Students Michele Rasmussen in Campus and Student Life (CSL). In past years, CSL passed this responsibility onto SG. Third-year Sofia Butnaru, cocoordinator for CEP, noted that that if the administration selects the IRC members, the IRC will no longer be independent. CEP wants Isaacs to instate an inde-

pendent community oversight board to review complaints against the UCPD. Second-year Alex Ding, co-coordinator of CEP, added that the organization does not want to abolish the new iteration of the IRC entirely, nor do they want it to return to its former state. The new board would be comprised of independently selected students and community members and would have expanded powers compared to the original IRC, which was able to make suggestions but could not implement them.

CEP reiterated several times during the week of action that the UCPD’s jurisdiction extends far beyond campus boundaries. The University of Chicago Police Department is one of the largest private police forces in the country and operates between East 37th and 64th Streets to the north and south and South Lake Shore Drive and South Cottage Grove Avenue to the east and west. The UCPD serves in a supportive role to the Chicago Police Department (CPD), the area’s primary policing agency, according to the UCPD website.

In total, some 65,000 residents

live in the UCPD patrol area. Of these, 50,000 are not affiliated with the University, according to CEP. According to the UCPD website, specific laws are in place that allow universities in Illinois to hire private police forces. and city ordinances protect the UCPD’s ability to operate as “peace officers” beyond campus borders.

On Wednesday, CEP hosted “Know Your Rights,” a workshop that brought Liz Homsy, a criminal justice lawyer, to campus. At the workshop, the attendees, comprised of mostly students and some community members, were informed about what their legal rights are during an interaction with a police officer. Approximately 40 people attended the workshop.

The next day, CEP hosted a teach-in that shared information about policing on campus and in Chicago in general. The event began with 25 minutes of “silent discussion,” during which students were encouraged to respond to facts and stories posted around the room with sticky notes.

The UCPD could not be reached for comment.

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MC’s larger attempts to address community health needs.

“There are data that say… [it is] important for community health in general if we work together on addressing these issues, because a safer community is a more healthy community,” Elsmo said.

According to Elsmo, these programs are a collaborative effort between local organizations and the UCMC to improve community health.

“We have some resources here—faculty, knowledge, medical students, and other resources—that can be helpful in helping communities work on addressing health needs. We also believe that the communities are our neighbors and have assets as well that can address some pressing health needs. We try to bring those things together, so we work in collaboration where possible to improve health,” Elsmo said.

Project Fire Funded by the Urban Health Initiative, Project Fire is an after-school glassblowing program started in March 2015 for young people who have been affected by traumatic violence in Chicago. Developed by clinical psychologist Dr. Brad Stolbach of the UCMC, Project Fire is a therapeutic program aimed at providing psychological counseling and preventing the recurrence of violent incidents by providing a safe space and community for youth affected by violent trauma.

The idea for Project Fire came after Stolbach heard about its therapeutic potential from a colleague, who was taking glassblowing classes at the time. The colleague connected Stolbach with her instructor, Pearl Dick, and together they started applying for funding in October 2014.

Stolbach explained that Project Fire challenged common media portrayals of young black men, educating the medical community and the public about the contexts in which gunshot and knife trauma occurs.

Stolbach also pointed to an economic advantage to the program, as most violent trauma injuries are expensive to treat and recur within five years of the first incident.

“We can try to intervene and reduce the likelihood they are going to come back with another injury. That benefits [the patients] and also the institution because these are very expensive injuries to take care of, and we don’t have a health system that adequately covers the costs of benefit care for poor people,” Stolbach said.

Alex Harris, an 18-year-old participant in the program,

joined Project Fire after he lost his brother to gun violence a little over a year ago.

He says glassblowing serves as a form of meditation, and looks forward to entering the medical field in the future.

“To me, the glass is alive.

Most of the time, it’s moving; every time you turn the pipe it goes one way, then you have to turn it another way, and you’re constantly rolling your wrist. Eventually, you get a rhythm,” Harris said. “While you’re subconsciously doing that with one hand, with another hand you’re over here just using your tweezers or your jacks or your shears, and you’re either cutting hot glass away or using your tag wheels to mold it into a star….Eventually, once you do it so much, it’s just subconscious. It changes everything, it gives you something to do, gives you something to look forward to.”

Community Grand Rounds Community Grand Rounds, funded by the Center for Community Health and Vitality, is a health and wellness education outreach program run by Dr. Doriane Miller of the UCMC. The program, launched in 2010, hosts events in community centers outside the University where community members can discuss with and ask questions to medical professionals about broad health issues such as diabetes, mental health, and gun violence.

Miller, a primary care physician, says that the inspiration for the program sprung from her experience working with grieving patients.

“When I would start asking about their past medical history, social history, some of whom had been shot themselves, they did not make a connection between what their physical symptoms were and their unresolved grief and distress over what had happened to them or a loved one,” Miller said. “That’s when the lights started going off for me as a primary care provider to say, ‘It’s not about giving somebody medication, it’s about what has happened to them in their lives and how it’s being manifested in other ways.’”

One early success of Miller’s program was an original 2010 play called *It Shoulda Been Me*, which addressed the psychological effects of violence and trauma on South Side youth. “[The play] addresses the issue of a young man whose friend was killed in a driveby, the subsequent deterioration of class relationships, and the potential of a teacher coming in and talking with the family members and the young man about ways in

which he could start to heal and develop some resilience,” Miller said.

The play was so successful it was picked up by a local South Side theater company and performed for over 60 middle and high schools in Chicago over a two-year period.

Bronzeville Dream Center - Brightstar Church The Bronzeville Dream Center, a program run by Brightstar Church and funded by the Urban Health Initiative, provides post-trauma counseling from faith and community leaders for residents of Bronzeville. Pastor Chris Harris, who founded the Dream Center in 2012, said that the program was developed due to social norms and stigma deterring black and brown people from seeking clinical therapy.

“When there’s trauma, [people affected by the trauma] still call the church. They call the faith community because the faith community and church and clergy are still looked at as trusted partners. So, I decided I wanted to take faith leaders, identify, train, and certify the faith leaders and community leaders to do post-trauma counseling,” Harris said.

Indicating the need for independent, non-governmental funding, Harris expressed satisfaction with the way the UCMC and Northwestern had invested in Bronzeville.

“We want to have the right type of proper funds to be able to provide the services that our community needs.

What the universities have also been sensitive to is that a lot of times, these organizations or universities or medical centers will come into communities and they do research, and they get the data, but they never provide resources or programming to change the issues,” Harris said. “But that’s not the case with the University of Chicago and Northwestern, and we’re really, really excited about this.”

Harris is beginning another violence prevention program, combining prevention science and social development strategies, with funding from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University called Communities That Care (CTC).

CTC has already completed a 127-question survey of over 1,600 middle and high schoolers in Bronzeville on various social conditions that may lead to violence and tension.

Harris indicated that the survey may open the door for evidence-based violence prevention programs, though he did not mention any details since they have not yet been implemented.

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Editorial & Op-Ed NOVEMBER 3, 2015

O say can you hear Public opinion shapes policy more than you would think—and that’s not always a good thing

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Nick Aldridge

The Skunk at the Lawn Party The popular political narrative of this decade depicts a legislative body so encumbered by partisanship that it cannot facilitate national progress or meet the problems facing our nation. This idea is one expressed by both the public and the media. While it is a popular contention, it is not only unfounded,

but also wrongly asserts culpability and absolves average voters of their inherent democratic responsibility. Statements that reinforce this notion perpetuate division in modern politics and are more to blame for engendering partisanship than the actions of the politicians themselves. In the end, it’s the loud voices

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that truly dictate politics and policy.

Take, for example, September 30, 2014, when the CDC confirmed the first diagnosis of Ebola in the United States, inciting a national scare. The emergence of this disease within U.S. borders unleashed a torrent of media coverage and public outcry, which escalated with each new diagnosis. At the epicenter of this eruption was an accusatory finger pointed directly at Washington. The media and the public immediately blamed languid policy makers for their lack of foresight and for their votes on dozens of bills that could have assuredly mitigated this plague.

Despite the uproar, Ebola would claim only two lives in the United States. To put this in perspective, diabetes, which does not demand 24/7 attention of the news, affects in excess of 29 million Americans, and is estimated to kill over 250,000 Americans every year.

Furthermore, in the wake of Ebola’s appearance on U.S. soil, Congress appropriated over five billion dollars to combat and respond to the disease, a number which dramatically dwarfs the federal funding appropriated to prevent and treat diabetes.

The response of the public and the media to a disease which, a consensus of health officials agree, did not pose a veritable large-scale threat to public health in the U.S. demonstrates public irrationality amplified by fear. The immediate response from policymakers in Washington speaks to the impact that constituent positions, even irrational ones, have on politicians who can be ousted in a heartbeat.

Tepid sentiments are non-sentiments in modern politics and it is often the recalcitrant few—the people calling their Senators, posting on social media, and phoning their local radio stations—that ultimately spur political action. It is thus that the voice of the greater public is

drowned out by the incessant booming of the staunch liberals and the unflagging conservatives; it is thus that partisanship and poor governance spreads like a plague across the country.

Another instance of mass alarm this past year was caused by a proposed amendment to the landmark 2010 Citizens United bill that would effectively overturn the original ruling that prohibited the government from regulating independent political expenditure. The resulting protest from an enraged public shook the Capital to its core: thousands called, emailed, and faxed their pleas to their politicians, entreating them not to eliminate the First Amendment. On top of this, media hubs on either end of the political spectrum each harangued the opposition, and turmoil ensued. Politicians who once claimed to loathe the impact of money in politics were now vehemently decrying the proposed resolution at the entreaties of their constituency. What was once a clear question of regulating campaign spending transformed into a national quarrel over legal specificities, moral and ethical implications, and our political system as a whole. The misinformed invective of the general public seemed to have crept into the political sphere, poisoning the minds of politicians and forcing them to oblige their foolish constituency. The resolution was not enacted and America responded by lambasting Washington’s ineptitude.

Once again the public, acting illogically based upon unfounded fears and overly biased by extreme beliefs, derailed the legislative process and pushed Congress toward even more extreme separation.

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Security, a number of politicians seek to truncate the number of covered benefits to solve the impending monetary deficiencies, but it is evident that in doing so, necessary care would be denied to many individuals. Contrarily, common sense proposals including rebalancing the two Social Security funds and increasing the maximum percentage of covered wages will not only address the immediate problem, but will also do so without jeopardizing the quality of and the extent to which individuals may receive essential care. The reason the choice doesn’t seem obvious to all is because most people are not paying attention.

Social Security is a bedrock of welfare services in the United States, and yet most are entirely apathetic to this debate and may not even know that this issue is immediately pressing. Legislation on this issue has languished in both the Senate and the House for many sessions of Congress, impeded by an unresponsive public and media.

Like water, the majority of politicians follow the path of least resistance; they are pawns in the hand of the mob that is their constituency. If the public is indifferent to a cause, a politician has little incentive to pursue it.

A government, of, by, and for the people is strongest when those people involve themselves in the process of politics and endeavor to understand and work with others in order to reach effective solutions. The public blames politicians for what it perceives to be systemic failings in politics and the political system. However, it is the public that is largely responsible for the problems that we see in our current political system, and it is up to the public to turn things around.

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It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a feminist spin on superhero clichés!

Andrew McVea Arts Editor In a world where characters like Ant Man get film adaptations before Wonder Woman and Black Widow do, seeing that Supergirl would be getting her own TV show filled me with excitement usually reserved only for Muppet-themed shows. While I don’t watch many superhero TV shows or films—actually, the last one I saw was the original Avengers film three years ago—based on the trailer, this one seemed like an exciting, feminist take on the genre. Right up my alley.

These hopes were almost immediately dashed by one of the most cringe-worthy and poorly written backstories ever broadcasted. The eponymous Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), also known as Kara Zor-El, meets with her parents on Krypton just before the planet is destroyed.

Her parents give her a quick overview of her mission: Keep her younger cousin Superman safe on Earth,

where, due to the yellow sun, she will have super powers. All of the background information is just thrown out without any real explanation, and it all feels a bit forced. It doesn’t help that the actors are rather robotic in their delivery, not to mention the distractingly horrible CGI. Kara is then blasted off into space, where her ship is immediately hit by the shockwave of Krypton exploding. Her ship is thrown into the “Phantom Zone,” a part of space where time doesn’t pass, and stays there for 24 years. By the time she finally arrives on Earth, Superman is already a hero.

Instead of protecting him, she assumes the identity of an ordinary woman named Kara Danvers, who works as an assistant in National City. Fortunately, all of this convoluted, pseudosciencefilled exposition only lasts about three minutes, and although it’s an intense and unpleasant knowledge dump, it allows the series to move on to better things.

Once we reach the point where Kara is living in National City, things immediately perk up. Unlike recent adaptations of DC comics such as the The Dark Knight or Man of Steel movies, Kara isn’t a broody, complicated recluse with something to prove to the world. Instead, she’s a perky everywoman just trying to make it, and make a difference, in the big city. The setup feels almost like The Devil Wears Prada, but with super-strength.

Kara feels unsatisfied getting coffee for her demanding, self-centered boss every day.

She has “nothing to wear” on a blind date that goes terribly wrong and is adorably star-struck when she meets a famous photographer at work. She just also happens to have heat vision and the ability to fly.

In probably the most endearing moment of the first episode, Kara describes flying as “that moment before you kiss someone for the first time.” It’s moments like these that mix the heroic aspects of her character

with a genuine personality that makes the show worth watching. In another standout sequence, Kara tries on various styles of costumes before going out to stop bad guys in a silly ’80s style montage that’s just the perfect amount of camp. When lives are on the line, it’s all business, but hopefully they leave room for her funny dorkiness to shine through as the series progresses.

Supergirl’s appeal is grounded in Benoist’s performance in these lighter moments. She plays Kara with a perfect mix of charm, enthusiasm, and slight awkwardness that makes Supergirl instantly lovable and much more relatable than her cousin. Her boss Cat Grant (Calista Flockhart) is also a standout, but for the opposite reasons: She’s selfcentered, passive-aggressive and super critical, but her biting comments give the series a needed cynical edge.

Other than those two, the other leads are kind of duds so far. James Olsen (Mehcad Brooks) acts as a potential

love interest/mentor for Kara, but doesn’t really do anything except encourage her to become a hero. The same goes for her other potential love interest/best friend Winn Schott (Jeremy Jordan). Her older, adoptive sister Alex (Chyler Leigh) has a lot of potential to become an interesting character, but the show rushed through a subplot about jealousy and wasted her character in the first episode.

Pacing was a big issue with the pilot due to the large amount of time devoted to her backstory. It also felt tonally uncertain. The show is obviously trying to be less serious than Man of Steel while trying to avoid the camp of earlier superhero shows like Batman, but in the moments when the show becomes more serious, the stakes feel artificial. This week’s villain is intercepted

by Supergirl on his way to National City to “start killing humans,” but no one is ever in any real danger. His downfall is ultimately underestimating Supergirl be-

cause she’s a woman—something he, for some reason, is continually yelling while fighting her—but it will be interesting to see how the series deals with less overt examples of sexism as it moves forward. The show tries to touch on other feminist issues when Kara confronts her boss about why the media names the hero Supergirl instead of Superwoman, but after bringing up the issue, they never actually address it.

Despite a hard-to-follow intro and issues with pacing, I left my viewing of Supergirl feeling strongly optimistic.

It’s certainly not a perfect superhero show, and it may not be as groundbreaking on social issues as I would like, but it more than makes up for it with its endearing lead and premise. Whether the general public will latch onto this kind of hero narrative is a different story, but as Grant said in one of the show’s more self-aware moments, “Besides fatty foods, there is nothing people love more than a hero.”

Outside that system defies boundaries of university, UCPD Alexandra Blankenhorn Maroon Contributor For her project Outside That System and Hence Unspeakable, third-year Juliet Eldred spent several weeks walking around Hyde Park photographing places within the University of Chicago Police Department’s jurisdiction.

After making her photographs public on her website last month, Elder was interviewed

by Mike Stephen for WGN radio and published an article in the South Side Weekly. Eldred has been working on her photo essay for a long time: She began her project last winter as part of her advanced photography class, but her inspiration dates back to something she was told during O-Week of her first year. “[The O-Aides] didn’t tell us where we could or couldn’t go, but they told us where the boundaries of the UCPD patrol zone were…the fact that the policing boundaries are so much bigger than campus is really significant and made me think a lot about how these policing boundaries can define neighborhoods,” Eldred said.

The patrol zone, which extends from East 37th to 64th Streets and South Cottage Grove Avenue to South Lake Shore Drive/South Stony Island Avenue, includes many blocks unaffiliated with the University. To better visualize this massive territory, Eldred divided buildings into three categories that she refers to as

spatial typologies.

“The first one [is] buildings that are in the campus core but don’t really fit the university’s Neo-Gothic aesthetic or the image it’s trying to present. The second category is buildings that are inside police boundaries that aren’t affiliated with the university, which is a lot of spaces.

And the third category is buildings owned or operated by the university but are outside the campus core, such as the charter schools and the Arts Incubator.”

Eldred described her enterprise, a series of black-and-white shots, as a cross-disciplinary project using photography and archival research. She is most interested in observing seemingly banal spaces as a way to understand the definitions of space and place. In that vein, her subjects range from a dilapidated alley way with a worn out basketball hoop to corner stones of buildings, tunnels, and a lone swing.

Through her artistic pursuits and research, Eldred discovered that, as a private police force, the UCPD boasts massive numbers—one of the largest in the nation.

“Of the 65,000 people under the UCPD patrol jurisdiction, only 15,000 are university-affiliated, which means that 50,000 unaffiliated people live within the jurisdiction of a private police force,” Eldred said.

Eldred commented on another discovery she made through her weeks of attention

Juliet Eldred's photos explore the idea of boundaries, specifically in Hyde Park and the UCPD's jurisdiction.

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to space and boundary: “There so many dead ends, cul-de-sacs, or streets that just sort of don’t really go anywhere,” Eldred said. “I know they were not always that way, and this is at least in some way an attempt to constrict mobility."

In Hyde Park, there are only two streets—South Woodlawn Avenue and South Cottage Grove Avenue—that run unin-

terrupted north to south from East 47th Street to East 63rd Street. Over the last 50 years, the University has been expanding and acquiring more property in Hyde Park, and, in that time, extensive construction has altered the neighborhood’s buildings and streets, creating a patchwork maze of city blocks.

“The dead ends are spatial manifestations of the university’s desire to make it more

difficult for outsiders to enter,” Eldred said. “What are they trying to say? We don’t want you here.”

Despite her disapproval of some aspects of the UCPD, Eldred says she is not an activist.

However, she hopes her work will prompt people to think critically about their surroundings.

“I am not necessarily trying to effect policy changes in my work,

but at the very least I want people to consider the extent of the policing boundaries and what they mean and also the umbrella of the University of Chicago and how these definitions and places came into being.”

To view the photographs and learn more about the project, visit Eldred’s website at unspeakable.info and keep an eye out for her flyers hanging up in Hyde Park.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | ARTS | November 3, 2015

Quantum Café in Eckhardt Center gains momentum on opening day Grace Hauck Associate Arts Editor If Mansueto were reborn as a café, it would take the shape of the Quantum. At 9:30 a.m. yesterday morning, the William Eckhardt Research Center’s new groundfloor café was buzzing with a quiet intensity. Sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling glass walls, striking the spacious array of minimalist white tables as a few scattered students and researchers, coffee in hand, pecked away at their laptops.

This newest campus dining option seats over 80 people and offers an unexpectedly diverse menu, featuring sandwiches, salads, soups, entrées, sides, and desserts. Options range from your typical crispy buffalo sandwich and kale salad to more elaborate plates like the pineapple-soy grilled salmon and banana-schetta. Like Café Logan, the Quantum offers a “Trifecta” deal: combine three side dishes to make an entrée for $7.99. These smaller sides include zucchini carpaccio, brussel sprouts, greens and beans, and beets and sprouts.

I, for one, stuck with a classic: the egg and cheese breakfast sandwich on a croissant, complete with turkey sausage. My seemingly safe choice was, however, not as dependable as I had thought.

The Quantum’s service was friendly and efficient, and my breakfast was ready within five minutes. It was presented on a beautiful white ceramic plate, with finely sliced strawberry garnish and all. While the sandwich was decently tasty overall (thank you turkey sausage), the damp croissant was lukewarm and slimy between my fingers—satisfying enough for $4.99 in Maroon dollars, but not ideal.

As for drinks, the café sells a range of sodas, juices, and espresso brews. In the cooler case to your left as you walk in, you’ll spot a colorful assortment of bottles and cans ranging from Izze to RAAW fruit fusions. The Quantum sells two blends of drip coffee: “Slow Motion,” a smooth mix of molasses and cocoa flavors, and “Fast Forward,” a light and sweet nutty flavor.

The Quantum, like Eckhardt itself, has a clean, sharp finish.

Although the café is supremely utilitarian, it boasts one impressive artistic feature: the massive 12-screen high-definition photo display spanning the café’s southern wall. These stunning images—vibrant snapshots of molecular structures, arctic laboratories, cosmological bodies, and more— filter through every few minutes, cultivating an air of awe, adventure, and potential.

At its prime location on the

The view from the new Eckhardt Research Center Quantum Café looking out onto South Ellis Avenue.

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new North Science Quadrangle, the Quantum promises to fill the science quarter’s need for a social and dining forum. At the same time, the caffeine station is a con-

venient pit stop for all students rushing down Ellis in the early morning. Stop by the Quantum this opening week and assess the breakfast sandwich for yourself.

The Quantum Café is located on the ground floor of the William Eckhardt Research Center, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, and is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | November 3, 2015

Seniors shine in bounce-back win against Sewanee FOOTBALL Michael Hinkley Maroon Contributor The Maroons snapped a two-game home losing streak on Saturday with a 31–0 demolition of SAA foe, Sewanee. The Maroons improved to 6–2 on the season, while the Tigers dropped to 1–7. The South Siders overcame the howling wind and torrential rain to record their first shutout of the season while matching their high point total for the year.

Saturday also marked Chicago’s Senior Day. The team recognized all 14 of its fourth-year players in a pre-game ceremony. The graduating class boasts a 24–13 career record, including an impressive 14–5 home record on Stagg field, winning the University Athletic Association Championship in 2014.

Equally as importantly, the leadership shown by every member of the graduating class has been inspirational and has played a huge role in the Maroons’ recent success.

“This group of seniors has been steadfast in their continued commitment to this University and our football family,” said head coach Chris Wilkerson.

“Off the field, they have been instrumental in their ability to lead, mentor, and

motivate our younger players. On the field, they have had a tremendous impact in their abilities to make plays.”

Coincidentally, all 31 of Chicago’s points were scored by fourth-year players. Wide-receiver Sam Coleman caught a pair of touchdowns in the first quarter and returned a second-half kickoff 87 yards for the Maroons’ final score of the afternoon. His counterpart, wide-receiver Cole Thoms, also caught a pass for a score late in the second period. Finally, kicker Karol Kurzydlowski overcame the elements to convert a 42-yard field goal and four extra-point attempts.

On the other side of the ball, the upperclassmen played a crucial role as well. Fourth-years Nick Pielech and Greg Thome led the team in tackles with nine and seven respectively.

Vincent Beltrano also contributed, breaking up multiple passes and returning a punt 65 yards just minutes before halftime.

Coleman said, “It was nice to finish our last home game of the year on a good note and get back on track.” He added, “It was great for us seniors to be recognized for the time we have invested into this program. The entire team

had great energ y all day and that made a difference on the field.”

The Maroons are hoping to carry the momentum from this big win into their final two games against their traditional UAA opponents. Coach Wilkerson’s warriors will travel to Pennsylvania on November 7 to take on Carnegie Mellon, before battling to retain the Founder’s Cup against Washington University on November 14. They have a chance to clinch consecutive UAA titles for the first time in the program’s history.

“The intensity seems to increase a little anytime we play a UAA game, so we are excited for the trip to Pittsburg,” Coleman said.

“Coach has been telling us to really enjoy the moment and be thankful for the position we are in. We haven’t ever won back-toback UAA titles here, and we control our own fate, so it is certainly exciting anytime we have a chance to play for a championship.”

Chicago takes on the Tartans this Saturday at noon ET at Gesling Stadium in Pittsburg. CMU leads the all-time matchup with a record of 20–7–0.

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UAA title run halted by Carnegie Mellon WOMEN’S SOCCER Michael Cheiken Sports Staff

Fourth-year Mary Bitner drills a kick in a game earlier this season.

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Friday afternoon, the women’s soccer team ramped up for their final three games of the regular season by planning to knock out two in one weekend. Case Western was to serve as the team’s warm-up game before the ladies took on the third-ranked Tartans of Carnegie Mellon on Sunday. It proved to be nothing more than that.

“Our team has been really coming together and playing as a cohesive unit these past couple weeks,” secondyear Kelsey Moore said, reflecting on the team’s threegame win streak heading into the weekend. “We definitely haven’t been perfect, but there is no doubt how hard we’ve been working and how much we are willing to continue to work to make it to the post season.” Chicago did just that against the Spartans.

In just the third minute of play, the Maroons found the back of the net.

First-year Jenna McKinney played the ball to fourthyear Julia Ozello down the left edge of the 18-yard

box. Ozello then slid the ball across the mouth of the goal to an oncoming Moore and the second-year tapped the ball across the line to put the Maroons up 1–0.

The Chicago women dominated the remainder of the game. Case rarely found themselves in the attacking third of the field, and when they did they were absolutely abysmal. They tallied only two shots on goal, and neither of them remotely tested first-year goaltender Piper Mik. In the meantime, the Maroons continued to apply pressure. In the 30th minute, Moore struck again. After the Spartan goaltender mishandled a cross, fourth-year Naomi Pacalin blasted one towards the net. After a deflection, Moore was able to gather the rebound and put the ball away for her second goal of the game.

Despite consistently holding possession, the Maroons were not able to take many shots on goal and by game’s end, the score was still 2–0. The Maroons then prepared for their game Sunday against No. 3 Carnegie Mellon.

Sunday morning did not fare as well for the South Siders, and the first half of the game was a defensive battle. Each team had a few chances, but neither was able to put any numbers up on the scoreboard. Behind the dominating play of goaltender Katie Liston, the Tartans of Carnegie Mellon were able to shut down the occasional Maroons’ attack. Her stellar performance continued throughout the game. The Maroons defensive play, however, did not hold.

Said Moore on the tough game, “We expected Carnegie to be a solid opponent, and they were. But we definitely had them on their heels for most of the first half and had our chances to score as well. Unfortunately, they put their chances away.”

In the 58th minute of play midfielder Tori Iatorola was able to chip the ball over Mik and score to put the visitors up 1–0. The goal forced the Maroons to play more aggressively and in the 71st minute they felt the repercussions of the aggressive play style. The Tartans struck again after the

ball was knocked around a few times in the box. The Maroons gave up a third when Carson Quiros went unmarked on a corner kick and then a fourth just two minutes after that.

The Maroons were able to get one back in garbage time after a shot from second-year Madori Spiker hit the post and fourth-year Mary Bittner collected the open net rebound, but it was not enough. The scoreline was a bit harsh to the Maroons, and the 4–1 result is certainly worse than the women deserved.

However, Moore is optimistic about Chicago’s ability to rebound from the loss. “I have no doubt that if we see them again in the post season we will give them a run for their money.

This is a tough loss, but it only makes the stakes for Saturday’s game that much higher and gives us even more of a reason to come away with a win,” she said.

This weekend the Maroons conclude the regular season with a home game against Wash U, which will also serve as Senior Day to honor the eight fourthyears on the squad.

Handful of rookies lead Chicago past Wheaton SWIM & DIVE Max Hawkins Sports Staff After boasting impressive individual performances in their first meet of the season, the Maroons rolled over Wheaten on the road this past weekend.

“Although we didn’t win the tri-meet with NU and Denison, the team as a whole did extremely well. Therefore, we were super excited for this meet against Wheaton, especially with another week of good training under our belts,” first-year David Farr said.

The men used their training and excitement to their advantage, ending the day with seven first-place finishes on their way to a 117–86 victory.

“I was especially proud of the performance of my fellow freshmen, who on the men’s side had five of our seven event wins.

They really stepped up to lead the team to victory,” first-year Michael Todd said.

Todd finished first in the 1,000-yard freestyle and 200yard backstroke with times of 9:47.81 and 1:58.90. First-year Alexander Farrell won the 100yard freestyle with a time of

46.69. Farr won the 200-yard IM with a time of 1.59.78. Farrell also teamed up with fellow first-years Winston Wang, Keenan Novis, and Stephen Park to win the 400-yard freestyle relay with a time of 3:08.77.

Returning competitors also contributed to the squad’s success; third-year Kevin Ku won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 1:54.86, and secondyear Alex Lin won the 200yard breaststroke with a time of 2:12.21.

“Overall, the team as a whole performed at our best both in terms of swimming and team spirit. Everyone was trying the hardest and people were even achieving some best times, which is amazing this early in the season. And everyone was up and cheering on whoever was in the water,” Farr said.

That energy carried over to the women’s side as the women’s team finished with six first-place finishes on its way to a dominant 122-83 victory.

“We each stepped it up and raced some fast races against Wheaton,” first-year Hannah Eastman said.

“There was so much energy

on the pool deck, and this energy translated into some incredible performances, especially Cecile Browning’s and Michael Todd’s 1,000 free style,” thirdyear Alison Wall said.

First-year Cecile KurmanBrowning won the 1,000-yard freestyle with a time of 10:35.52.

Third-year Maya Scheidl won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:55.50, and Wall won the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 5:16.84.

Hannah Eastman won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:11.37, and fourth-year Karen Chu won the 200-yard backstroke with a time of 2:16.83. Scheidl, Wall, KurmanBrowning, and first-year Naomy Grand’Pierre teamed up to dominate the 400-yard freestyle relay.

“I was really happy with how I and the rest of the team performed, and I can’t wait to see what we are going to do next weekend against Wash U,” Wall said.

Both the men’s and the women’s team look to carry their momentum to next week, when they will face their rival Wash U.

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Chicago men and women clinch bronze at UAA Championships CROSS COUNTRY Zachary Pierce Maroon Contributor

Fourth-year Henry Blood turns a corner earlier this season at the Wheaton Invite.

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This past weekend’s UAA Cross Country Championships were filled with positives and negatives, major victories and a bit of disappointment. Both the men’s and the women’s teams traveled to Boston to compete in the biggest race of the year. More specifically, the South Siders traveled to Waltham, MA to compete against their UAA rivals in Carnegie Mellon, Rochester, Emory, Case Western Reserve, Wash U, NYU, and Brandeis, the hosts for this year’s championships at Franklin Park.

On Saturday, the Maroons men’s and women’s teams both placed third overall out of the eight schools competing.

Even with these third place finishes, there were some standouts amongst the Maroons competing and overall positivity following the race.

These sentiments were echoed by second-year Khia Kurtenbach postrace, “Overall, I think our team has the potential to place higher than we did. I don’t think that as a team we have raced at our full potential yet.”

Kurtenbach finished highest amongst her teammates with a second place 22:04 in the women’s 6K race.

Kurtenbach was followed by fourthyear Brianna Hickey who took seventh place with a time of 22:18, third-year Madeleine Horvath who finished 16th place with a time of 22:46, and fourthyear Catherine Young, who took 26th place with a 23:00 time.

These four runners along with three others finished with 91 points. Wash U won first place with a dominant 35-point performance, and were followed in second by Rochester with 85 points.

Kurtenbach lost out on the top spot amongst the women by less than a second to Emily Bryson of Brandeis.

When asked how she felt about it she said, “I was happy with how I executed my race. I think I ran smart and confidently. Obviously it hurt a little bit to miss the win by a few tenths of a second.

All the same, I can’t be too disappointed because I think I executed well and gave it my best shot. It was an amazing first cross country conference.”

As aforementioned, the men took

home a third place finish as well. They were led by fourth-year Michael Frasco, who took home a fourth place finish in the 8K with a 25:08.

When asked his thoughts about the race Frasco said, “The person you really want to talk to is [second-year] Peter Kreuch. Peter had the best day on the team. Running a 40 second PR in a championship and becoming secondteam all conference as a second-year is phenomenal.”

Frasco was followed by third-year Gareth Jones, who took sixth place with a 25:20, Kreuch, who placed ninth with a 25:28, and third-year Timofey Karginov who placed with a 25:53. The men’s UAA title belonged to Carnegie Mellon who finished with 53 points, with Wash U taking second with 68 points, leaving UChicago with third place as they ran for 78 points.

November is a big month for the Maroon runners, as they will travel to Warrenville, IL next for the North Central Cardinal Open, followed by the NCAA Midwest Regional in Rock Island, IL and the NCAA Division III Championships in Oshkosh, WI.

Momentum doesn’t hold as South Siders go 1–1 at home against Maroons go 1–2 at IWU Case Western, Carnegie Mellon VOLLEYBALL Katrina Williams Sports Staff The No. 20 volleyball squad took the trip to Illinois Wesleyan for the second time this season, although they wouldn’t be facing the host team this time. The Maroons were playing in the IWU Classic, taking on Hiram, No. 14 Carthage, and DePauw over two days. Chicago beat Hiram 3–0, but unfortunately couldn’t quite get it together on Saturday, losing both games 3–2.

A bright point of the weekend was that third-year Mary Claire Tuohy was named all-tournament team. Tuohy tallied 10 digs and three assists on Friday, but followed with a monster day on Saturday, compiling an impressive 65 digs, and nine assists.

The South Siders started the weekend strong, sweeping Hiram. All of the sets were fairly decisive: 25–18, 25–20, and 25–14, and the Maroons added another win to their three-game streak. Fourth-year Maren Loe had a solid game with 16 kills and eight digs, and classmate Ragine Graves was a huge contributor with 31 assists and 13 digs.

Saturday started with a big rivalry match between the two nationally ranked teams: the Maroons and the Lady Reds of Carthage. Although it was a very competitive game, Chicago was unable to keep the momentum going, losing in five sets. The Lady Reds beat the Maroons 25–15 the first set.

Chicago was able to step it up in the next two sets, taking the lead 2–1.

However, Carthage won the fourth match to tie it up, and the South Siders couldn’t recover. The Lady Reds were able to take home the close win in the

MEN’S SOCCER fifth set 18–16.

Loe had another impressive allaround game with 22 digs, 23 kills and five blocks. First-year Sarah Muisenga totaled 15 digs, while Tuohy compiled 23 digs and six assists against Carthage.

Later that day, the South Siders took on DePauw. Chicago came ready to play winning the first set 25–15. The Maroons were unable to keep control in the second and third sets, losing 15–25 and 25–23 respectively. However, they fought back and were able to come out on top in the fourth set, winning 25–21. The Tigers clinched the fifth set 15–11 and won the match.

Although the Maroons went 1–2 this weekend, they played very competitively and took two good teams to five matches, even though the end result wasn’t what they hoped for.

“We were excited to play some really tough teams. Unfortunately, the weekend didn’t go as well as we were hoping for. We have brushed those losses off, though, and are completely focused on next weekend. We still have a chance to win some important matches at UAA’s,” Ragine Graves commented on the team’s weekend. “After the tough losses this weekend, it places even more pressure on us for the championships.

Honestly we just need to take care of ourselves and lock in mentally. At this point it is up to all the training we’ve put in this entire season, and I trust it will get us where we need to be.”

The Maroons are looking forward to next weekend, when they will travel to Rochester, NY for the UAA championships. The South Siders are determined to play the way they know how.

Chicago is 19–10 overall and confident that they can bring home the victory this weekend.

Frances McDonald Maroon Contributor Chicago took on two conference foes this weekend in the form of Case Western and Carnegie Mellon. The squad gained an exciting win in overtime against Case by knocking home a penalty kick goal after a scoreless 90 minutes on Friday. On Sunday afternoon, however, the Maroons were defeated by No. 3 Carnegie 1–0, as the Tartans scored early in the match and Chicago was unable to recover.

Toward the end of the tight Case game, the players from both sides started to get pushy, taking and giving hard fouls that resulted in penalty kicks. At the end of the regular time, Case earned a free kick but, luckily for the Maroons, missed. During overtime, Chicago also earned a penalty kick after first-year Matthew Koh was fouled during a corner kick, but was unable to capitalize. Finally, third-year forward Brenton Desai was able to score and get the win for the Maroons during the 92nd minute.

The statistics reflected the close game. Chicago led in shots on goal by only one (5–4), but had more corner kicks (6–2). The foul situation was also fairly close: 16–12 in favor of the Tartans. The win also pushed the South Siders’ conference record to .500 (2–2–1).

Sunday afternoon had a different ending against the nationally ranked No. 3 Tartans of Carnegie Mellon. Even after outscoring Carnegie in shots (13–2), shots on goal (6–1), and corner kicks (7–

5), the Maroons fell to Carnegie after a goal in the ninth minute of the game. Fourth-year midfielder Jorge Bilbao led the squad with five shots and was a key component in giving Chicago chances to score.

With the opportunities created and lack of shooting from the Tartans, one would think that Chicago would be the victor, but Bilbao explains the reason for the loss.

“We lost focus on a set piece in the early part of the game and that cost us big time. We’ll make sure that something like that doesn’t happen again if we’re able to make it into the tournament,” he said.

Even with a loss against a conference opponent, Bilbao is still hopeful of receiving a bid to the national tournament. This is even more likely should the squad get a win against rival Wash U.

On the subject of the Bears, Bilbao said, “We need to beat Wash U next Saturday and I have no doubt that we can do it. We’re one of the best teams in the country and I think every team that has played us is aware of it. We played really well this weekend but ended up dropping a critical game against Carnegie, so our team should be completely fired up to take out frustration out against Wash U. We should definitely win that game.”

The Maroons will play their last game of the regular season on Saturday at Wash U at 1:30 p.m. It’s a crucial game for the squad’s tournament hopes, as well as the final game for the fourth-years should Chicago not go on to the postseason. Rivalry, senior pride, and desire for a chance to win it all will come to a head in St. Louis.

First-year Nicco Capotosto drills a header earlier this season against North Park.

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