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University endowment reaches alltime high of $7.58 billion Emily Kramer Maroon Contributor

A crowd surrounds Chicago police on November 2 as they arrest UChicago student Spencer McAvoy at a protest at the Chicago Board of Trade.

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Four students arrested at downtown protest Katherine Vega Senior News Reporter Forty-two protesters, including four University of Chicago students and two alumni, were arrested at a protest at the Chicago Board of Trade on Monday. The protest, organized by a statewide coalition called Fair Economy Illinois (FEI), called for higher taxes on the rich to balance

Illinois’s budget.

Hundreds of protestors representing organizations across Chicago and Illinois participated. Carrying signs that read “Students’ needs, not Corporate Greed” and “Fund Education, Tax Big Corporations,” the protesters marched from the Thompson Center to the Chicago Board of Trade, where they blocked entrances and staged a die-in.

Southside Solidarity Network (SSN) and UChicago Climate Action Network (UCAN) were two of the organizations that sent protesters. Both groups are part of IIRON, an Illinois organization that promotes economic equality and social justice. IIRON is a member organization of FEI. According to second-year Anna Wood, an organizer ARREST continued on page 3

Doug Hallward-Driemeier addresses gay marriage decision at Law School Pete Grieve Maroon Contributor One of the two attorneys who successfully argued that state bans on same-sex marriages were unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges spoke at the Law School on Wednesday.

Doug Hallward-Driemeier began his discussion by saying the Obergefell v.

Hodges case rested on two questions: 1) are states required to license marriages between two people of the same sex? and 2) are states required to recognize marriages of same-sex couples licensed out-of-state?

Mary Bonauto argued Question 1 for the plain-

Hallward-Driemeier spoke about his role in the landmark Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodge on November 4.

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The University of Chicago’s endowment is at an alltime high of $7.58 billion as of June 30, 2015, according to a press release from the University News Office last week.

The portfolio’s return for the fiscal year, which ended on June 30, was 4.8 percent.

This exceeded the 3.1 percent previously used as the portfolio’s benchmark return.

During the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009, the University of Chicago’s endowments decreased in value by approximately 21.5 percent. Since then, average investment returns of 11.4 percent have contributed over $4 billion to the endowment.

In the past two decades,

the University of Chicago’s endowment has grown more than sixfold, increasing from $1.1 billion to its current $7.58 billion.

The University of Chicago’s investment gain for the past year is higher than the 3.6 percent that Wilshire Trust Universe Comparison Service reported to be the median return for endowments above $500 million.

However, the University’s return is lower than the investment gains of some of its self-declared peer institutions, such as Brown University, the lowest-performing Ivy League Institution, which had a return of 5.7 percent. The highest performing institutions include Princeton and Yale, whose investment gains are 12.7 percent and 11.5 percent respectively.

Every year, a portion of

the endowment is appropriated to the University budget. Trustees of the University may approve a certain amount of spending that falls within the range of 4.5 to 5.5 percent of a certain average market value over a three-year period.

“We view investments as an important part of an integrated approach to the University’s fiscal health,” Vice President and Chief Investment Officer Mark Schmid said in the University’s press release. “Working closely with the Board of Trustees’ Investment Committee and Financial Planning Committee, as well as University leadership, we continue to believe this integrated approach will best support the University’s mission in all types of market conditions on a long-term basis.”

Economist ranks UChicago below peer institutions for “best value” Katherine Vega Senior News Reporter The Economist has ranked the University of Chicago 1151st out of 1275 institutions for “best value” on its first-ever list of college rankings, released October 29.

Rather than using metrics such as acceptance and retention rates, the study operated on a “simple, if debatable premise,” according to The Economist—that the true economic value of a school lies in whether or not its students could have had higher earnings had they attended a different school.

The list measures best value by taking the average amount of money a student earns 10 years after graduation and then subtracting how much money the students would be expected to earn at a comparable school.

In other words, the list subtracts “expected earnings” from the actual earnings of graduates. The study controlled for schools with

similar racial breakdowns, religious affiliations, sex ratios, average SAT scores, and a number of other variables.

The Economist’s methodology used a governmentcompiled dataset from the Department of Education’s college scorecard that matched a student’s college loan application with his or her student tax returns 10 years later.

In a blog post explaining the ranking methodology, The Economist noted a study by economists Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger that found that students who were accepted to, but did not attend, top colleges made as much money as people who did attend the schools.

Thus, the “best value” concept stems from the idea that students who are smart and hardworking might do well regardless of the school they attended.

According to a 2012 study by the Chronicle of Higher Education, the University has eight peer institutions

that also consider UChicago a peer. Of these eight, University of Pennsylvania ranked 15th, Cornell ranked 203rd, Northwestern ranked 696th, Washington University in St. Louis ranked 988th, Johns Hopkins ranked 1029th, Brown ranked 1125th, California Institute of Technology ranked 1260th, and Yale ranked 1270th.

The Economist did note potential shortcomings of the study, including the fact that the government information only included students applying for federal loans, which is a small subset of students in college.

In addition, the earnings are taken from 10 years after graduation, meaning that a large percentage of future high-earners could have been in the middle of graduate school. Finally, the numbers used are for the entering class of 2001, meaning the information might be outdated or the year might be an outlier for high earners.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | November 6, 2015

New online portal archives Chicago’s history and culture Olivia Rosenzweig Maroon Contributor On October 22, the University and 21 other institutions helped launch Explore Chicago Collections, a new online archival portal for discovering the history and culture of the city.

In 2011, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provided a grant to the project, naming UChicago and 12 other institutions, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago History Museum, and Northwestern University, as founding members.

Ashley Gosselar, a processing archivist at the University Li-

brary, has worked on this project for two years. “For years the Chicago cultural institutions have communicated about the scopes of their collections…but what this portal is doing is essentially connecting the dots and making this information more publicly discoverable,” she said.

Charles Blair, Director of the University of Chicago Library’s Digital Library Development Center, is co-chair of the portal committee. “The idea for [Chicago Collections] grew out of conversations between the library directors of the Newberry Library and the University of Illinois at Chicago Library and their staffs

[nearly eight years ago],” Blair wrote in an e-mail.

Blair also discussed how he and his colleagues approached the creation of this huge Chicago database. “Deliberately we were looking at not skewing it so you could only be an advanced researcher who knew a whole bunch of jargon, and we certainly did not want to skew it so that if you were a professional researcher it would be too dumbed-down to use,” Blair told The Maroon.

He emphasized that the main goal of this collection is to give anyone who is interested access to the kind of information that is at a UChicago student’s disposal.

While the portal has many historical pictures uploaded to the interface, the biggest resources the portal provides are finding aids. Finding aids are reference tools that describe a certain archival manuscript and direct users to where they should look to find the original document.

Kathleen Feeney, head of archives processing and digital access at the University Library, said that UChicago’s contributions to the portal include information on historical figures, like Ida B. Wells, and on famous UChicago faculty like Edith and Grace Abbott. “Within our 13,000 guides our goal was to ultimately [con-

Urban Labs launches innovation challenge to design Delhi

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Sophia Zaller Maroon Contributor

The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) plans to open its Center for Advanced Care, an outpatient clinic, in the South Loop in October of 2016.

The UCMC has been looking to expand its access to patients throughout Chicago in response to the growing demand for its services on national, regional, and community levels, according to Ashley Heher, assistant director of the News Office at UCMC. The new clinic at South Loop will serve patients near the Southgate Market, a retail center located at the intersection of Roosevelt Road and Canal Street. 75,000 patient visits per year are expected for this 18,000-square-foot clinic. The project will cost around $8 million.

The primary incentive for develop-

This December, the University of Chicago Urban Labs will launch the Delhi Innovation Challenge, a program aimed at alleviating environmental issues in India’s thirdlargest city.

According to Emma Berndt, the executive director of the UChicago Energy and Environment Lab, the purpose of this challenge is to explore which urban policy interventions work, why they work, and whom they benefit.

“The Delhi Innovation Challenge will crowdsource the best local ideas from the community, provide funding for these projects, and partner with the city to rigor-

ously evaluate and scale effective programs,” she said.

The University of Chicago Urban Labs will provide up to 20 million rupees—the equivalent of $300,000—to implement the winning idea after its evaluation by Urban Labs researchers. The competition will solicit ideas for energy and environmentally-focused programs from Delhi’s citizens, civil leaders, corporations, and other institutions. The most promising projects will be evaluated by Urban Labs researchers and tested in Delhi.

The Delhi Innovation Challenge builds on several other successful innovation challenges that Urban Labs has sponsored in the Chicago area. One such challenge

was the Urban Labs Innovation Challenge, for which the winners were recently announced.

The Delhi Innovation Challenge, the Urban Labs’ first international venture, is the result of a new partnership between UChicago Urban Labs, UChicago’s Energy Policy Institute, and the Delhi government.

“We see this innovation challenge as a promising way to identify, test, and scale up ways to meet future energy needs while minimizing air and water pollution,” Berndt said. “If successful, the winning idea could become a policy solution implemented by the government. It could eventually provide an important model for other cities across the world to follow.”

tribute] about 400 of them, so we started with uploading 50,” Feeney said of the finding aids.

The University also benefited from its partnership on this project. “We are using their code model [that was created for the portal] to build our digital collections [at the University]…we gave something to them, we’re getting something new and improved back, so we’ve leveraged our involvement in this project,” Blair said.

The University’s involvement with the portal continues as the Library uploads more finding aids to the website.

UCMC to open outpatient clinic in the South Loop ment in this area came from patients living in and around South Loop who have asked UCMC to bring care closer to them, according to Heher. The center is looking to employ physicians in cardiology, primary care, orthopedics, and a variety of other specialties.

Other recent UCMC expansion projects include the Center for Care and Discovery, a 1.2 million-squarefoot facility in the Medical Campus that opened to patients in February of 2013. UCMC’s clinicians have also provided care in a variety of satellite clinics throughout Chicago, including the South Side, downtown Chicago, and Chicago North. It also offers care in the Chicago suburbs and northern Indiana.

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Non-profit seeks to rebuild Woodlawn Park neighborhood

65 units of affordable housing were constructed for the elderly on South Cottage Grove Ave between 61st and 62nd Street EVA I | THE CHICAGO MAROON

Isaac Troncoso Maroon Contributor On October 22, a non-profit company known as the Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) completed construction of The Burnham, a 65-unit housing project for the elderly.

This construction, located on South Cottage Grove Avenue

between 61st and 62nd Street, is part of POAH’s initiative to redevelop a residential and commercial corridor from 60th to 63rd Street. This site previously held decades-old, poor quality housing and still suffers from above-average crime rates, according to the Chicago Tribune.

A three-block strip of privately owned, low-income housing units

known as the Grove Parc Plaza Apartments had been constructed on the current project’s location in the late 1960s and has since fallen into disrepair.

“By the mid-2000s, it was in very poor shape physically. It had every issue you could think of— obsolete building types, just really awful conditions. It was among the worst housing you’ll ever see,”

said Bill Eager, Vice President of POAH and an alumnus of the Harris School.

In December 2008, POAH decided to acquire and demolish the deteriorating and nearly foreclosed properties. It pledged to provide alternative housing in Woodlawn Park for residents in the 378 occupied units of the 504 that were to be torn down.

In 2011, POAH partnered with the city of Chicago and received a $30.5 million grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to create higher quality affordable housing, improve community safety, and provide educational opportunities.

So far, POAH has largely completed redevelopment of 61st and 62nd Street. Across from The Burnham, the company constructed The Grant in November of 2013—a now fully occupied 33unit rental apartment building.

POAH offers many free services to all locals within this mixedincome housing, including a Family Opportunity Center and an Employment Center. “We really want this to be a center of activity for this part of Woodlawn,” Eager said. POAH also plans to incorporate commercial real estate into its properties more heavily, promising to provide 6,700 square feet of commercial space on the first floor of a development that will

begin next year on the southeast corner of 61st Street.

In 2016 POAH will start work on a 15,000-square-foot, five-story commercial and residential building next year known as Woodlawn Station on the northeast corner of 63rd Street, as well as a grocery store on the northwest corner of 61st Street. According to Felicia Dawson, POAH’s Director of Community Partnerships and Engagement, this initiative will provide an estimated 300–400 union jobs for the area.

“It’s a nice community in so many ways: its location, its amenities, and there’s plenty of room for wonderful development,” Eager said. “We’re really optimistic, not only about our projects but about Woodlawn’s future.”

Residents echoed Eager’s hopefulness, painting a complex portrait of the south Woodlawn Park neighborhood: an area with persistent crime but also great potential.

“This neighborhood isn’t too good, the crime rate is so high— it’s our own killing our own,” said Alton Brown, who has been a member of the local community for most of his life. “But there’s been a change; people are rebuilding the neighborhood, and I can see that. They should get it all cleaned up in the next couple of years, I’m sure.”

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Study links math time with parents to success in school Anjali Dhillon Maroon Contributor Increased parental involvement in math at home considerably improves children’s math skills throughout the school year, according to new research released by the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago.

The study, “Math at home adds up to achievement in school,” was published in the October 9 edition of Science. Ph.D. students Talia Berkowitz and Marjorie Schaeffer are the lead authors of the study, and professors Susan Levine and Sian Beilock are senior authors.

For this research, Schaeffer and Berkowitz enlisted first grade children and their primary caregivers from 587 families across 22 Chicago-area schools. In their study, the authors reason that it is important to pay attention to math education at that age because first grade students “who begin school behind peers in math tend to stay behind in later grades.”

“We wanted to look at first graders as they are at the beginning of organized math instruction…. Previous work from our lab showed that math anxiety develops as early as first grade,” Schaeffer said.

Parents and children were asked to use an iPad application called Bedtime Math. The app provided short numerical stories, mathrelated reading passages, and word problems on which families would work together several times a week over the span of the school year.

Children’s math skills were assessed in one-on-one sessions with trained research attendants twice: once at the beginning of the school year before they were introduced to Bedtime Math, and once at the end of the school year.

The new research shows that it is important for parents to engage their children in math at home at a young age in order to create a strong foundation for their future studies.

“We need to bolster math achievement particularly for kids who come from underserved backgrounds and help them build

[math] skills early on, because once you build their interests and once they enter school prepared, there is a snowball effect, where the achievement keeps going,” Levine said.

The study suggests that while most parents feel responsible for developing their children’s reading and language skills, they believe math development should be left up to the school system.

While this research concedes that some math achievement may be attributed to an inherent capacity for the subject, it found that the simple act of parents talking with their children about math significantly contributed to mathematical success.

In an earlier study it was noted that many parents feel anxious about math and are less likely to conduct effective math interactions at home. Whether parents are high-math-anxious was determined by a survey prior to the study, questioning parents on their comfort with answering math problems on the spot, calculating everyday math such as tips, and solving a problem in front of friends. The more uncomfortable parents are about math, the more high-math-anxious they tend to be.

The authors found that with anxious parents, “even a modest increase in high-quality parentchild math talk could boost their children’s math achievement.”

Their research suggests that using the app will be even more beneficial for anxious parents because it enables parents and children to discuss math at home with a written script, taking the pressure off the parents. Bedtime Math serves as a consistent resource for both low-math-anxious and high-mathanxious parents, nearly eliminating the difference in the quality of math lessons at home.

The study cites success in math as essential for long-term benefits. It stipulates that with strong standings in math, children will be on trajectories to academic success and careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), for which there is a growing demand.

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The article published on November 3 about the Campaign for Equitable Policing’s week of action stated that the Independent Review Committee “will” be a provostial committee. However, it always has been.

The photo accompanying the November 3rd article “Talk at Hillel adresses ethics, war, and the Jewish state” was captioned with incorrect spellings of Noam Zion and the Shalom Hartman Institute’s names. These misspellings have since been corrected.

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“People were willing to risk their bodies in order to gain some kind of power”

Protesters march on November 2 at the Chicago Board of Trade.

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with SSN, 700 people participated in the march, including social service providers, clergy members, and other South Side community members. “[Protesters] spoke about how the [budget] cuts would affect them and the vulnerable people of the state. Then we marched in four groups to surround each entrance of the Chicago Board of Trade, where 64 activists blocked all doors of the building and temporarily shut down access to it before police began to remove them,” Wood wrote in an e-mail.

Police began making arrests shortly before noon, when the protest was set to end. The arrests attracted local news and social media attention.

Third-year Brooke Adams was one of the four UChicago students arrested. An organizer for

UCAN, she had helped plan the demonstration a month prior.

Adams said that she always knew there was a possibility she would get arrested if she blocked the entrances. “None of us were going to be taken seriously unless people knew that we were willing to take a risk…People were willing to risk their bodies in order to gain some kind of power.”

She, along with 22 others, blocked one entrance to the Chicago Board of Trade by sitting inside revolving doors and in front of accessible entrances. When the police made arrests, the many protesters opted to go limp and be carried out by police officers rather than actively struggling or walking out themselves.

“The idea there was that first we would shut down the building... but we would also cause financial harm…and get carried out by the

police for a strong visual image,” Adams said.

According to Wood, people were charged with offenses ranging from trespassing to resisting arrest. Adams herself spent approximately eight hours in jail in the Chicago Police Control Detention on the corner of 18th Street and State Street. She was charged with criminal trespassing, obstructing a police officer, and disorderly conduct in public.

Adams also noted that she had not been in contact with the University at all about her arrest.

“I was pretty angry about being constantly told that as a young person, as a woman, you have to be realistic, and that you have to take small steps to make very deliberate political change. That seemed to me like a narrative that was keeping us from making any real change,” Wood said.

“Sue loves Bill and Tom loves Bill. Sue can marry Bill, Tom cannot... Why isn’t that gender discrimination?”

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tiffs; Hallward-Driemeier argued Question 2.

The plaintiffs were concerned the Court would issue a partial victory, ruling “yes” on Question 1, but “no” on Question 2.

Hallward-Driemeier said they didn’t want a partial victory.

“Those who were involved in this movement were not looking for a patchwork across the country of marriage equality. They wanted marriage equality to be uniform,” he said.

Hallward-Driemeier said his goal was to reinforce Mary Bonauto’s Question 1 argument while he argued Question 2.

“One of the real hopes of [my] preparation was making sure the second issue did not become an off-ramp,” he said.

Hallward-Driemeier said he tried to convince the Supreme Court that ruling “no” on Question 1 and “yes” on Question 2 would establish same-sex marriages as second-class marriages, which would have some constitutional protection but not the same level

of protection as heterosexual marriages. The Supreme Court decided in favor of the plaintiffs on both questions.

Equal protection cases are analyzed under three types of scrutiny: strict, intermediate, and rational basis. Historically, sexual orientation discrimination cases are analyzed under rational basis scrutiny, which is extremely lenient, as it only requires government to justify discrimination with a “rational” reason.

Strict scrutiny, the most stringent level of scrutiny, which requires government to prove discrimination, is “narrowly tailored” to serve a “compelling interest,” is only applied to discrimination of “suspect classifications.” Race, religion, nationality, and alienage are defined as suspect classifications; sexual orientation is not.

“The Court hasn’t recognized a new classification as suspect in many many years, and some question whether it will ever recognize another,” he said.

Hallward-Driemeier said that might change after Obergefell.

“I do think that the pieces are there for lower courts, and maybe for the Supreme Court, eventually, to find that [sexual orientation] is a suspect classification,” he said.

Much of Hallward-Driemeier’s talk was a sophisticated discussion of the case’s legal arguments.

However, when arguing that laws against recognizing same-sex marriages discriminate on the basis of not just sexual orientation, but also sex, he provided an extremely simple example.

“Sue loves Bill and Tom loves Bill. Sue can marry Bill, Tom cannot, and it’s only because of the respective genders of Sue and Tom. Why isn’t that gender discrimination? I’m still waiting for the answer to that question,” he said.

Moderator Professor Daniel Hemel asked Hallward-Driemeier about harsh criticism from legal scholars of the Supreme Court’s majority decision, which was written by Justice Kennedy. HallwardDriemeier called the decision “perfect.”

“It’s the perfect opinion for this movement for this time,” he said.

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Editorial & Op-Ed NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Independent Review Committee in review SG should make the nominations for student members of the UCPD’s Independent Review Committee.

This year, students interested in serving on the Independent Review Committee (IRC) of the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) were directed to apply through Campus and Student Life instead of Student Government (SG). In the past, students have been nominated by SG and then approved by the Provost, but this year students would be selected by Dean of Students Michele Rasmussen.

The IRC is made up of students, staff, and community members and is tasked with reviewing the complaints filed against the UCPD each year. Especially as the UCPD moves to become an organization which is increasingly transparent and accountable to the concerns of its community, it only makes sense that the student representatives of the IRC are chosen by students, and not administrators. The ability to nominate student candidates to the IRC should be returned to SG. Especially in the past year, UCPD has announced changes to increase its accountability to the community. Most notably, in April the UCPD made public the information on traffic stops, field stops, and arrests. However,

excluding student voices from the process of selecting members of the IRC seems to contradict this message, and weakens the community’s trust in the UCPD. The IRC plays a significant role in the relationship between the public and UCPD, and the importance of this role cannot be overlooked—both when selecting its members, and also when considering its annual reports. The IRC is able to review complaints against the UCPD and make corresponding recommendations, but these recommendations must be taken seriously and given a path towards implementation. To ensure that the IRC’s recommendations are utilized, the committee must work closely with Executive Director of Campus Safety Eric Heath, who works independently of the UCPD but oversees their professional accountability, reporting directly to Associate Vice President for Safety, Security, and Civic Affairs Marlon Lynch. Only by including community voices in each phase can the IRC meaningfully impact the relationship between the public and the UCPD. —The Maroon Editorial Board ALICE XIAO

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Letter: Law School professor makes the case against divestment A petition is circulating among the faculty of the University of Chicago to “urge the University to divest from the fossil fuel industry.” As of now, it has over 109 signatures from professors across the University. This is a small part of a larger campaign spearheaded by Students for a Just and Sustainable Future (SJSF) to get universities out of the busi-

ness of profiting from fossil fuels through divestment. The goal of these efforts is to put pressure on the stock price of fossil fuel companies and therefore force the firms to change their behavior.

No matter what your views are on the climate change debate, no rational person should support divestment. There is no evidence to demonstrate it will do any-

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thing to help the climate, and it will ultimately cost the University hundreds of millions of dollars—Swarthmore estimates it would cost their endowment $200 million over 10 years to divest. This is money that could be spent on research, scholarships, or perhaps best of all for the cause, reducing the University’s carbon footprint.

Here is why divestment won’t work: A central tenet of corporate finance is that demand curves for individual stocks are approximately horizontal. For most things we buy, demand curves slope downward. This means if we demand less, less will be supplied and at lower prices, but stocks are not like other products. The stock price is merely an estimate of the cash flows that ownership of the stock will produce in the future, and therefore is not determined by a “demand” for the stock. Unless the sale of stock conveys information to the market about the future cash flows, no individual sale can move the price.

If the Office of Investments, which manages the University’s nearly $9 billion endowment, sells all of the shares it owns in ExxonMobil, the stock price of ExxonMobil should not change.

Others will stand ready to buy the shares at the current market price, meaning supply and demand aren’t helpful ways to think about stock prices. Unless the money that ExxonMobil is expected to earn in the future

goes down, the stock price will stay the same. And nothing about the decision of a few university endowments to sell the shares provides the market information about how much oil or coal will be sold at what prices tomorrow. Undervalued shares in the near term will be bought up until their price more or less reflects the expected gain from holding those shares. In an extreme case, ExxonMobil could simply go private, removing any need to rely on public markets for funding or valuation.

The fact that the stock price of divested companies will not fall means that these firms will not experience a higher cost of capital, and therefore nothing about their capital raising activities, project choice, or other decisions will be affected by divestment. Managers with stock-based compensation won’t be affected either nor will other shareholders of these firms. In short, the economic impact of the SJSF demands on the targets of their ire would be nearly zero.

Making matters worse, universities—or rather their employees and students—would bear large costs to achieve no benefits.

The endowments already have to spend money defending their investment decisions, and, if it comes to it, will spend more selling shares and accepting lower returns than would otherwise be available. Taking profitable investments off the table also means lower returns for endow-

ments. This means taking money out of the universities’ pockets and putting it into the hands of other people, all without actually imposing any cost on the alleged bad actors.

SJSF and others might argue that their campaign is about raising public awareness of the problem of carbon emissions and fossil fuels. If this is their goal, there are far better ways to proceed— for instance, getting universities to use energ y more efficiently, to source their energ y from more renewable sources, or to change students’ energ y usage. Not only would these strategies potentially reduce the use of fossil fuels, but they would also not put the costs onto others—namely future students who will pay more to attend colleges made poorer by bad investment decisions of their schools.

Perhaps the real lesson of the divestment wave building on American campuses today is that colleges should devote more time to teaching economics and elementary finance to their students. Armed with some basics, these well-meaning students would be able to make a much bigger impact on our world.

— M. Todd Henderson Professor of Law & Mark Claster Mamolen Research Scholar, University of Chicago Law School

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But what they don’tt know is why. They’vee all thought it: “Whyy h is she so obsessed with that mag?!” But nonee of them have heardd at the answer. This is that story. *** For so long I’ve triedd to make sense of things. Like: why is every poem I write a xactly is “race” poem? What exactly ple call it, this thing that people et go of race, and why can’t I let it? n’t it let Or, rather, why won’t go of me? ld take I know that it would n to anseveral books to begin swer these questions. I won’t n entire attempt to map out an explanation here. I will, however, begin by mentioning some key facts about race.

The two main theories concerning race are a) essentialism, or the popular idea that race is inherent, unchangeable, and a biological fact of human existence,

and b) constructivism, or the contention that race is real— not necessarily in its biological foundations but as a fluid political instrument used to define, hierarchize, and exploit peoples.

That being said, I am an construcanti-essentialist tivist. I recognize that it is a historical fact that the definition of race has shifted

across time and space and that racial categorization has been used to justify an uneven distribution of privilege.

Furthermore, claims for the biological basis for “race” as category have been refuted time and time again. In fact, people within the same racial categories have more genetic variation than between people of different racial categories.

I remember feeling overwhelmed by all this evidence.

I tried to piece it all together.

I understood what I was reading in theory, but it all felt useless somehow. After all, even if race was arbitrary, black; I my daddy was still “black;” was still

“ m i x e d .”

I saw the world in discrete colors, and frankly, I couldn’t help it! What was I supposed to do about that?

What could anybody do about that?

It took meeting a cyborg to arrive at the answer. Or rather, it took watching a

documentary about a cyborg.

Greg Brunkalla’s documentary Hearing Colors follows Neil Harbisson, completely color-blind and a self-identifying cyborg who, thanks to an antenna directly implanted into his brain, ca “hear” can

color. the Throughout documentary, Harbisson describes how his antenna allows him to make connections between things that he had never known before, like the similarity between the color of the sky and someone’s eyes.

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“I used to think people were black and white,” he begins. “And since I hear color, I’ve detected that [that] is ere’ss no completely wrong. There black skinned [person]; people who say they are black are actually very, very dark orange. And people who say they are white,

t h e y ’r e not white; they’re actually very, very light orange. Well, so, we are actually all sharing exactly the same hue.”

My knee-jerk reaction to Harbisson’s worldview was something along the lines of “Aww, what a sweet idea.

Wouldn’t it be lovely if the world were actually this way?”

But why does it seem so mind-bogglingly absurd to

understand the world in this way? Where being human not only comes before race, but replaces it?

The more readings I do in my sociology class, the more I become convinced that Ha Harbisson is right. The point is isn’t just that our skin tones ex exist on a continuum but that there are no discrete lines be between us.

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Race fee feels naturalized, it feels discrete and immutable— but it is not. So I hold onto H Ha rbi Harbisson’s metaphor and try to see the world in ora orange, in human, and to keep on the lookout fo anything that atfor t tempts to mask this.

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To join the t movement, submit your pieces pie to Blacklight Magazin Magazine at blacklightuchicago@gmail.com.

MeeSoh Bossard is a thirdyear in the College majoring in comparative human development and minoring in creative writing.

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When bullets hit too close to home No one should have to lose a loved one to gun violence I want to one day be as motivated as Kaylyn Pryor. I want to have two jobs and be interviewing for a third tomorrow. In absolute horror and outrage, I am devastated to share that Kaylyn never made it to that third job interview. She was taken away from us before she could return to Robert Morris University, where she ran track and was planning to pursue a law degree. Kaylyn was walking in the Englewood neighborhood of Chicago on November 2, when someone in a vehicle opened fire, killing her just as the sun was setting.

Kaylyn and I were in the

same class at Evanston Township High School, the only public school in the Chicagoland suburbs.

I want to write in the hopes of spreading my sadness that this tragedy has occurred, not only to Kaylyn, but to dozens of youth in Chicago and throughout America. This senseless violence has wreaked havoc on my community for far too long, and it needs to stop.

Kaylyn was a magnetic presence. So magnetic, in fact, that she took up modeling in the recent months. She won the Mario Tricoci model competition out of 500 contestants and

was quoted in the Chicago Tribune saying that modeling was a “passion.” The most rewarding part about this win, at least for the Evanston community, was that it was based primarily on public vote. Every day for the past couple months, it was a part of my daily Internet routine. I checked my e-mail, then Chalk, and then voted for Kaylyn to win her modeling contest. And then she won. And now she’s gone.

It’s extremely difficult to know what do in this situation.

I have read dozens of Facebook statuses commemorating her death, saying she will be missed

and that God loves her as we all do. She is an angel. She was an angel on earth and is now an angel in heaven. This is all true. However, this outpouring of grief on social media feels empty—not in emotion, but in effect. How many pictures and videos of my classmate will it take for someone to realize just how annihilating and unfair gun violence is to my community? How many news blurbs and statistics do you require to understand that gun regulation is not an issue open to debate— it is an epidemic that needs to be addressed with utmost immediacy?

Unfortunately, Kaylyn is not the first angel to be taken away from Evanston Township High School’s class of 2013. One young man did not even make it to the graduation stage. It is unacceptable that the death of classmate due to gun violence is not an anomaly in my hometown.

I am not a political science major, and I would not consider myself an extremely political person. But I am a friend. Kaylyn was one of the friendliest, most outgoing, and genuinely positive people I have met in my life. She was a person who had dreams and the vision

necessary to follow through to achieve her goals. She was well on her way to exceeding all of her dreams, both professional and personal.

But her path was cut off; her dreams taken from her. Kaylyn deserved better, like all victims of gun violence do. These victims are our neighbors, our classmates, our friends, and our family members—something needs, and can, be done to protect them.

You will be missed, Kaylyn.

Molly Sevcik is a third-year in the College majoring in cinema and media studies and English.

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Plenty to celebrate in Chicago Sinfonietta's Día de los Muertos concert Hannah Edgar Associate Arts Editor Having attended plenty of Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) concerts in the past year, I’m accustomed to routine. Every concert, I take my seat, gloss over the program notes, and perhaps wander to the Grainger Ballroom—a grand, opulent space on the second floor of Symphony Center—to stretch my legs during the interval and watch Chicago’s white-collared elite sip merlot.

But on Monday night, the CSO was out, having returned from a domestic tour just a few days before. That left the Chicago Sinfonietta—a treasured, if not lesser-known local mainstay—to take over the space and shake things up for its first concert program of the season, a Día de los Muertos-themed celebration.

And shake it up, they did.

The buttoned-down, predominantly white mass that so often frequents Symphony Center was diffracted into a rainbow of faces—young, old, black, white, brown, sneakered, bow-tied, and everyone in between. Even Grainger Ballroom itself was splashed with color, strewn with festive decorations and activity stations—a coloring table here, a costume prop station there.

All this was centered around an interactive offering table, upon which patrons could pin the names of deceased loved ones during intermission.

Needless to say, the Chicago Sinfonietta isn’t your grandparents’ symphony orchestra. It’s something more vibrant, laidback, and intrepid all at once— a formula enticing to both seasoned aficionados and classical music initiates alike.

Such is the legacy of conductor Paul Freeman, who founded the Sinfonietta in 1987 and died this summer at the age of 79. Though Freeman may have passed the baton to current

music director Mei-Ann Chen in 2011, the orchestra remains committed to Freeman’s raison d’être, which is to increase the visibility of nonwhite musicians and composers. As a case in point, three of the six composers on Monday’s program— which was dedicated to Freeman’s memory—were Latin American.

True to Día de los Muertos fashion, jaunty guest conductor Andrés Franco led both the Sinfonietta and the Waubonsie Valley Varsity Combined Choirs—a high school ensemble from Aurora, IL—through a smartly-crafted program which progressed from solemnity to sheer joy.

The program began with Samuel Barber’s wrenching Adagio for Strings, in a gorgeously contoured and amberwarm interpretation. The lights in Orchestra Hall were dimmed throughout, then faded to complete darkness as the choir filed across the terrace, singing the “Dies irae” plainchant. As they entered, each member of the chorus clasped a small, white light, evoking the movement of stars across the sky.

After the choir completed its celestial migration, it joined the orchestra for three movements from Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem.

The three selections were organized so that the elegiac first and fifth movements were performed before intermission, with the seventh movement saved for the second half.

As it happened, high schoolaged voices fit Fauré’s masterpiece quite well. The young vocalists were mature enough to meet its technical demands but were endowed with a softness of delivery well-suited for the Requiem’s pastels. Alongside the intuitive accompaniment of the Sinfonietta, the Waubonsie Valley Choirs delivered a profound, hair-raising interpretation that was impressive regardless of age or professional

experience.

Two three-movement suites by contemporary Latin American composers sandwiched intermission: Ofrendas

by Chicago-based composer Elbio Barilari and Three Latin American Dances for Orchestra

by Gabriela Lena Frank. Commissioned by the Sinfonietta for the concert, Ofrendas is an evocative triptych of motifs associated with Día de los Muertos, with stylistic undercurrents reminiscent of Silvestre Revueltas. The first movement, “Mictecaihuatl,” is named for the Aztec queen of the underworld, and sounded accordingly: distorted and dirge-like, similar to the awakening of some long-dormant beast. The ensuing dance movements— “Marigold” and “Dance of the Sugar Skulls”—fittingly united the playful and grotesque.

Before conducting Frank’s Three Dances, Franco quipped on the podium that the Berkeley-based composer may “take the prize” for the composer most representative of the Sinfonietta’s mission. An American of Chinese-Peruvian and Lithuanian-Jewish extraction—and a woman to boot— Frank also took the prize for the most sonically intriguing contribution on the program.

In the second dance, “Highland Harawi,” the strings are directed to play in a staggered, delayed fashion that mimics the sound of echoes—an ingenious expansion of space.

After the angelic last movement of Fauré’s Requiem, the program hit its only major stumbling block with the odd inclusion of Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. Though this detour into Germany is understandable within the context of its source opera—in which fallen heroes are whisked away to Valhalla, the hall of the Norse gods—it was paired poorly with the preceding “In paradisum” movement of the Requiem, and

Alongside the Chicago Sinfonietta, conductor Andrés Franco bows for a receptive audience in Orchestra Hall.

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Chicago Sinfonietta conductor and founder Paul Freeman, who died July 21, was memorialized at Monday's concert.

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seemed to just be thrown in as a recognizable crowd-pleaser.

Luckily, all was forgiven when the Sinfonietta brought it home with José Pablo Moncayo’s rollicking Huapango, played with as much joy from the orchestra as the audience felt in receiving it.

Surely, Freeman would have shared in this mutual joy, had he been present at this concert.

During an emotional speech given at intermission, Sinfonietta violinist James Sanders paid tribute to Freeman, whose every mention was met with hums of approval from the audience. Paraphrasing Freeman’s mission, he asked the audience, “Why is diversity important? Is diversity important?”

“Yes!” came an emphatic cry from the balcony. The cries pro-

liferated, then were overridden by applause.

In a genre that is too often marred by socioeconomic exclusivity and homogeneity, the Chicago Sinfonietta is a resounding voice in the classical music world, insisting that yes, diversity is important. As Monday’s concert affirmed, there is much to celebrate, but also much to be done.

The Oscar-nominated Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski (Before the Rain) will present his film Mothers. Blending fiction and documentary, Manchevski’s experimental triptych deals with the lives of contemporary Macedonian women.

Friday, November 13 at 7 p.m., Logan Center for the Arts, free admission.

collection of the mementos to trace the University’s history. Although the exhibit opened Tuesday, the formal opening is this coming Tuesday, including an opening reception, a lecture by Professor Emeritus in History and Art History Neil Harris, and a guided tour.

Now until January 3, Logan Center for the Arts.

Opening lecture and tour November 10, 6 p.m.

quartets by Schumann and Smetana, as well as selected arrangements of Bach’s The Art of Fugue. The Telegraph praises their “freshness, close rapport, finesse, [and] blend of eloquence and vitality” and lauds them as “one of the most stimulating and enjoyable ensembles to listen to, no matter what is playing.”

Friday, November 13 at 7:30 p.m., Mandel Hall, $5 tickets for students, $35 otherwise.

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The South Asian Students Association (SASA) brings comedian Hari Kondabolu to Mandel Hall. Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most exciting political comics in stand-up today,” Brooklyn-based Kondabolu has performed stand-up on The Late Show with David Letterman, Conan, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. The show starts at 7:30 p.m., but festivities begin outside Mandel Hall at 6:30 p.m., including an interactive photo booth and Indian food.

Tonight, doors open at 7 p.m., Mandel Hall, free with UCID.

Chicago Artists Month (October 1–November 15) continues with a performance of “expanded cinema” presented by Full Spectrum Features and CIMMfest.

Chicag-area filmmakers will creatively reinterpret their own works in ways that intersect live music, narration, and performance.

November 6–7, 7–10 p.m. Locallective, 1257 Milwaukee Avenue.

Now that Halloween has come and gone, it’s time to focus on the most important fall activity: pie baking and eating. Join the South

Side community’s annual pie bake off this Saturday.

There are four categories: fruit, nut, sweet potato/ pumpkin, and crème. The pies will be judged by a number of professionals from around the city, including award-winning chef Yoshi Yamada (of Lula Cafe and Blackbird), as well as Matt Sliwinski (chef de cuisine at the Promontory).

All proceeds from the bakeoff go to the Hyde Park & Kenwood Hunger Programs.

November 7, 2–5 p.m.

Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 5480 South Kenwood Avenue.

Ever wondered who actually buys those University of Chicago postcards at the bookstore? Greetings from the Midway puts more than one hundred years of UChicago-themed postcards to good use, using its vintage

The Arcanto Quartet— Antje Weithaas, Daniel Sepec, Tabea Zimmermann, and Jean-Guihen Queyras— will make their Chicago debut at Mandel Hall with

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Squad kicks off season against North Central tonight WRESTLING Erik Wong Maroon Contributor The University of Chicago wrestling team kicks off its 2015–2016 season today in a battle at North Central. With the first match of the season, the squad looks forward to starting off the season with a victory, but this win will not come easy.

The match is against a tough North Central team that the Maroons have fallen to several times in the past few years.

Despite recent losses against the Cardinals, fourth-year Steven Franke, one of the few veterans on the team, recalled upon the University of Chicago’s recent success against teams in the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin.

“We’re coming off two wins over CCIW teams, Augie and Elmhurst, so I’m hoping we can carry that trend over into this season,” he said.

The Maroons acknowledge this recent success, but it is up to them to prove themselves out on the mat.

Second-year Nick DiNapoli commented about the first match of the year: “This is an important dual because it sets the tone for the rest of the season, so everyone will

A Maroon wrestler competes at a tournament last season.

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be looking to wrestle hard,” which shows the importance of locking down and seizing this first win.

This year, the men are confident that they can start their season off right due to the intense practices the team has had for the last month and the offseason beforehand. The South Siders have worked hard, both on technique and conditioning,

and they have remained disciplined throughout the offseason, readying themselves for a successful season ahead.

The Maroons will also need to fill some gaps in their lineup because of the graduation of some starting players. The team looks forward to using several first-years in the first match in order to fill these holes. Look for a possible first collegiate appear-

ance from Mason Williams in the 149-pound weight class, Louis DeMarco in the 125-pound weight class, and Luke Iida in the 149-pound weight class. The team is certainly young, but this will not stop them from stepping up.

“We are coming off a great season, and I expect us to be even better this year and continue to improve in further

years,” DiNapoli said, proving the team’s confidence in such a young lineup.

Although the team is calling upon several young members to step up, there are several returning members who look to improve their performances from last year. The Maroons return with secondyear Devan Richter, who was the UAA champion in the 125-pound weight class, as

well as the UAA Rookie of the Year. Also watch out for second-year Nick Ferraro, who was the UAA champion in the 174-pound weight class.

Two young wrestlers proved themselves last year, and it is up to the next class to prove themselves as well.

The action starts tonight at 7 p.m. at North Central in Naperville, Illinois.

UAA Tournament looms for South Siders

Chicago carrying momentum into Wash U meet

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Gary Huang Maroon Contributor This weekend, the Maroons take a trip to Rochester, NY where they look to claim the coveted UAA Championship.

The No. 20 ranked squad will look to bounce back from a disheartening (1–2) weekend, where it dominated Hiram College in straight sets, but lost against Carthage College and DePauw University by the same frustrating margin of three sets to two.

Ranked No. 7 in the Midwest region, it is even more crucial for Chicago to be successful this weekend, as the winner will automatically receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament. Otherwise, the Maroons will have to hope that they are rewarded with an at-large bid by the NCAA committee.

In the must-win opening match, the South Siders will open their championship bid against Carnegie Mellon (CMU). Head-to-head, Carnegie holds the advantage, as it overcame Chicago in their competition three weeks ago, 3–1. Nationally and tournament ranking-wise, CMU and Chicago come into their second meeting evenly matched with the South Siders at No. 20 nationally and No. 5 in the tourna-

ment, and the Tartans at No. 24 and No. 4, respectively.

Carnegie possess the better record of the two institutions at a strong 25–6 compared to Chicago’s 19–10, but it is important to note that the Maroons have had a more difficult schedule and perhaps have gained more experience facing difficult opponents. Additionally, the Maroons are led by three veteran fourth-years compared to the Tartans’ one. That leadership and experience could prove to be pivotal in the showdown, as nerves and pressure will command a large role in the final result.

Fourth-year Maren Loe comments on this advantage. “Being successful the past few years gives us an edge up on our opponents because we know how to win in the important situations,” Loe said. “We always come into UAA Championships with an extremely focused mentality.”

Players to watch for this weekend include fourth-year libero Mary Claire Tuohy, who was named to the IWU Classic All-Tournament Team. She led the South Siders over the weekend with an incredible 75 total digs. Chicago all-time kill record holder and leader, Loe continues to work like a machine from the outside hitter position. Over the past weekend, she racked up a

total of 56 kills and 44 digs. Her contribution will be influential as usual.

First-year outsider hitter Audrey Scrafford was not far behind the veteran, as she racked up an impressive 45 kills. Last week’s UAA Co-Athlete of the Week, fourth-year setter Ragine Graves, was instrumental yet again in the Maroons’ offense with 116 assists and 48 digs.

Fourth-year Jasmine Mobley and first-years Sarah Muisenga and Jessica Wang will also be looking to make an impact in Chicago’s effort to win the tournament.

Though the results haven’t been positive as of late, the South Siders are confident in their ability to have a strong showing.

“Whether or not we make the NCAA tournament depends on how well we do this weekend,” Loe said. “So that’s pretty energizing and motivational.”

The Maroons’ first match is Friday at 2 p.m. Eastern Time against Carnegie Mellon University. The winner will have a quick turnaround and play the winner of the Emory vs.

Brandeis match in the semifinal immediately after at 4 p.m. The loser will play in the consolation semifinal at 6 p.m. The UAA Championship game will take place on Saturday at 1 p.m., center court.

Rhea Bhojwani Maroon Contributor Coming off of big dual victories, both squads aim to continue their strong streak as they will be welcoming Wash U into Maroon territory with the hopes of obtaining victory once again.

The Maroons left a mark in Wheaton as Chicago’s men won 117–86 with seven top finishes of an event while the women obliterated their opponents by a score of 122–83, and took home six wins.

This impressive achievement included first-year Michael Todd finishing as a two-time winner, claiming the top spot for both the 200-yard backstroke and the 1000-yard freestyle. Alexander Farrell also displayed an exceptional showing as he won the 100-yard freestyle and also contributed to the 400-yard freestyle relay win.

For the women, first-year Cecile Kurman-Browning finished first in the 1000-yard freestyle and also played a vital role in the

success of the top-placing 400yard freestyle relay team. Maya Scheidl also played an integral role in the beat-down; she took first in the 200-yard freestyle and started the team out strong in the 400-yard freestyle.

When asked about her impressive performance against Wheaton, Kurman-Browning stayed focused on the team.

She said, “Last week went really well; we had a hard week of practice going into it so we knew we would be tired, but everyone really pulled through and had some really great swims.”

As the squads train for the upcoming meet this weekend, they anticipate using their immense depth and talent across the board to prove themselves against a very talented Wash U team.

Wash U is also coming off a win against fellow Chicago-based team DePaul.

The Bears won by a landslide, winning the men’s side by 69 points while the women took victory by 85. Wash U, unlike the Maroons, is dominated by the

older members of the squad— of their 17 individual first place finishes, 13 came on the backs of upperclassmen.

Chicago is looking to use their youth and energy to their advantage this weekend, as KurmanBrowning highlights. “This week we will be a little more rested and really pumped up to race Wash U, so it should be a really exciting meet,” she said about the South Siders’ outlook for this weekend.

The team understands that last weekend was a success because of the hard work they put into their training and preparation. Each athlete on the team continues to reiterate the importance of continuing to put in the effort needed to succeed every single week. With so many impressive performances from upand-coming first-years, the team is ready to continue their upward trend to success.

The Maroons look to put a show on with their detailed and targeted training this coming Saturday. The meet begins at 1 p.m. in St. Louis.

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Maroons march to the Steel City to tear into Tartans FOOTBALL

A slew of Maroons take down a running back out of Berry earlier this season.

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Michael Perry Maroon Contributor As football season begins to wind down, the Chicago Maroons find themselves hosting their final home game of the year this weekend at Stagg Field. Playing host to the Sewanee Tigers, this Saturday will be Senior Day, as the team’s 14 members of the Class of 2015 will be recognized.

The Maroons will enter the game behind a respectable 5–2 record, coming off their second loss of the season in a nail-biter against Hen-

drix College last weekend at Homecoming. However, the Tigers will tread in during the midst of a dismal season, having gone 1–6 to date.

When they take the field, the South Siders will be looking to avenge their previous defeat from the last time they faced Sewanee, a heartbreaking 47–0 loss back in 1973.

The Tiger’s offense will provide an interesting challenge as well, as the team utilizes three quarterbacks and uses an option-heavy approach to run the ball frequently. “The preparation for Sewanee has been more unique,” noted

third-year lineman Eddie Giannina. “They do not run a prototypical college spread offense.”

Meanwhile, Chicago will be looking to third-year quarterback Burke Moser to lead their offense. The play-caller has spearheaded the team’s offense much of the season, throwing 16 touchdowns and averaging 263 yardsper-game. On defense, the Maroons will likely lean on Giannina (seven tackles for a loss) and third-year Jackson Garrey (70 tackles on the year) to help stop the run.

This week’s game will be

special for the fourth-years, who have been present for one of the most successful stretches of the football team’s history. “I think the biggest takeaway for us seniors is that ‘we left our jersey in a better place’ as Coach Wilkerson would say,” remarked fourth-year kicker Karol Kurzydłowski. “As freshman we were 4–6, but since then we have managed to finish each year with a winning record and bring home some trophies too. It’s nice to think that our class has put UChicago football back on the national scale, especially

with our first ever Top 25 ranking this year.”

The seniors are the last holdovers from the team of coach Dick Maloney, and were key cogs in last year’s 8–1 squad that won the UAA conference title. They’ve all played large roles in the success of this year’s team as well, and will walk away at the end of the year with a record well over .500 during their time here. “We have gone through the highest of highs and lowest of lows together,” observed Kurzydłowski.

The day will undoubtedly be emotional for those in-

volved. “Senior Day is always a special time,” said Giannina. “[The fourth-years] put so much time and effort for four years into a commitment that not many people around the university recognize and all of the sudden they are playing the last football game of their entire lives.”

“I will miss the preparation and pressure that comes with playing,” confided Kurzydłowski. “However, I will miss hanging with the boys the most.”

Kickoff is scheduled for noon on Saturday at Stagg Field.

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“I take a vitamin every day. It’s called a steak.”

- University of Michigan football head coach Jim Harbaugh on performance enhancing drugs.

Beltrano carries “Good Works” off the gridiron FOOTBALL

Fourth-year Vinnie Beltrano defends the backfield in a game earlier this season.

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Emmet Rosenbaum Sports Staff Vincent Beltrano, the football team’s fourth-year defensive back, is more than meets the eye. One of the team’s captains, he leads them with four interceptions and has already recorded 55 tackles on the year.

However, what he’s done off the field has garnered national attention.

Beltrano, who goes by Vinnie, was informed at the beginning of the year that he had been selected to the Allstate AFCA Good Works Team. The team is comprised of 22 college football players (11 from Division I, 11

from all other divisions) who have made positive contributions to their communities and the lives of others.

“It’s unbelievable,” Beltrano said. “It’s something that I never would have thought would be an opportunity coming here.

Even when I was nominated, I thought it was a long shot. I was

fortunate enough to receive it, and I consider it a blessing.”

The Allstate AFCA Good Works team was created in 1992 to honor college athletes who demonstrated “the importance of community service and volunteerism.” Having been selected by prominent members of the college football media, the 22 members of the team will go to New Orleans for New Year’s weekend, where they will be honored during halftime of the Sugar Bowl. One member will then be named captain of the team as voted on by the fans at ESPN.com.

While Beltrano is receiving the selection for the work that he has done this year, community service is nothing new to him. When Beltrano was a first-year, he co-founded the University of Chicago chapter of Project Rousseau along with fellow footballer Ian Lazarus.

Started in 2011 by Columbia student Andrew Heinrich, Project Rousseau works to help underserved youth by providing academic and personal mentoring. The organization currently has 17 chapters at universities across the nation.

At the UChicago chapter,

students from Hyde Park Academy will be matched with a student in their respective year at college, who will offer guidance, advice, and friendship as the teenagers navigate their way through high school. “We’ve taken kids to events around home and to sporting events here,” Beltrano noted. “ [We provided] mentorship for standardized and school tests. We’ve had a barbecue event where we relax and allow them to open up and develop a relationship.”

The program has grown massively since its inception, with dozens of UChicago students acting as mentors this year. Hyde Park Academy has also given its support to the program after having reservations for the past few years. “I don’t think the relationship was symbiotic at first,” Beltrano admitted. “However, they understand now that we are there for the betterment of these kids and that we want to see them grow and develop and progress into both excellent students, but maybe more importantly, excellent women or men.”

Beltrano now serves with Denaë Rollet as co-president of the UChicago chapter of Proj-

ect Rousseau, but he has been exposed to much more than he expected when he began his work three years ago. “One of the most sincere effects it’s had on me is when one of our mentees passed away,” Beltrano confided. “That was kind of my eye-opening moment. We’re really working with very serious, specific, and drastic cases here.

Kids who have struggles in their life that fortunately I don’t have, but I can help alleviate some of those problems in their life by just shooting a text or hanging out with them once a week or being a guidance for them when they might not have that.”

Beltrano is set to graduate at the end of the year. However, he sees the work he has done living on both through UChicago students and the kids who make it through the program. “If my student goes to college, he can become a voice of Project Rousseau,” a hopeful Beltrano envisions. “When he goes back to Hyde Park Academy, they’ll say, ‘He’s going to college. He’s going to be a professional. He’s been able to get away from the violence and drugs and bad that surrounds this community. I want to be like that.’”

Postseason dreams on the line this weekend

Maroons embark onto Cardinal territory

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Alexander Miller Maroon Contributor Coming off a rollercoaster weekend, where the Maroons split a pair of conference games, the team will wrap up its season against a No. 18 conference rival Wash U in St. Louis on Saturday. Chicago enters its final match of the year with an overall record of 10– 5–2, while Wash U boasts a record of 11–3–3. The South Siders are ready to face-off in a tough matchup for the season finale.

This past weekend, the Maroons battled hard against conference opponents Case Western and Carnegie Mellon. The squad was able to pull off the 1–0 against Case, however they were on the other side of a 1–0 outcome with a loss to Carnegie. After the emotional weekend, Chicago will have to have a short memory and focus on the task at hand.

Second-year goalkeeper Hill Bonin has been steady in net for the Maroons all season. He has posted 58 saves and has a record of 9–5–2 on the year. He

is not worried about the team’s tough weekend coming into play in St. Louis this weekend. “Spirits are better than ever,” Bonin said.

Yet it will take more than good spirits to take down this year’s Wash U squad.

The Bears are currently ranked 18th in the nation and first in the central region. This will be a big test for the Maroons, who have yet to beat a ranked foe this year.

While Chicago clearly wants to end the season on a positive note, there is even more on the line this weekend for the South Siders. Beating a team that is as highly ranked as Wash U would give the team a solid chance to make the NCAA Division III Tournament.

Currently, the Maroons are right on the bubble to get into the tournament and beating the best team in the central region would certainly improve their chances.

The team realizes that everything is on the line this week and is ready to play like there is no tomorrow because there may

not be one. “We are looking forward to this one. Of course it would be nice to finish with a win but, at this point, all anyone cares about is a bid to the tournament. That’s the goal,” Bonin said.

Also, with the regular season coming to a close, the Maroons will have Senior Day on Saturday to honor their fourth-years in their last regular season home game. The four fourth-years—Jorge Bilbao, David Cohen, Peter Boxley, and Parker Tikson—will be recognized for their outstanding commitment and contributions to the team. Bonin is sure that the team will be extra motivated. “They’re coming here for Senior Day and will be facing a team ready to fight for a postseason berth,” he said.

The South Siders are looking forward to ending the season with a bang.

They kick off against Wash U at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday on Stagg Field. This is the Maroons last regular season game, however there is a chance that they will play in the postseason.

Michael Hinkley Maroon Contributor This weekend marks one of the biggest games of the year for the Maroons, and such an occasion warrants a trip halfway across the country to Massachusetts for the UAA Championship at Brandeis. The Maroons’ weekend trip to Boston culminates on Saturday, when they will be matched against the seven other members of the conference, in a meet that will dictate which team takes home the conference title.

October has been a good month for the Maroons as they participated at the Illinois Intercollegiate Cross Country Championships in Bourbonnais, IL, the Lucian Rosa Invite in Kenosha, WI, and the AAE Invitational hosted by UW– Oshkosh. The men’s team finished fourth of 16 teams, sixth of 16 teams, and 14th of 45 teams, in each respective meet.

Meanwhile, the women’s team took first of 16 teams, fourth of 16 teams, and third of 46 teams, respectively.

The UW–Oshkosh AAE Invitational was a great test for the team, and they performed relatively well, especially considering the 45-plus teams

competing for both the men and women. Additionally, the past meets add a layer of experience: this weekend’s meet will feature several familiar faces from the AAE Invitational, including WashU and Emory.

Regarding the Maroon’s approach for this weekend, fourth-year Michael Frasco said, “The team is motivated to run fast this weekend. Competing against the teams in the UAA has a very personal feeling to it. We cherish the opportunity to assert athletic dominance over our somewhat comparable academic peers.”

Frasco is coming off a strong run at the UW–Oshkosh AAE Invitational where he led the team with a time of 25:04, good for 19th in the 8K. The team was also led by third-year Gareth Jones, in 29th with a time of 25:11, and third-year Timofey Karginov, who placed 86th overall with a time of 25:49. All will certainly be near the front of the pack at this weekend’s invite.

Of course, since this is one of the last meets of the season, it is a bittersweet time for many of the team’s fourth-years who want to close their career with individual and team conference champions. With this

thought in mind, Frasco said, “Last year, I led 7990 meters of the race. I felt amazing. In the last ten meters, a runner from Carnegie surprised me and won the race. It was devastating. It still eats at me. I’m going to try my best not to let it happen again this year.”

With that sentiment in mind, the women’s team is prepared to make a strong attempt at winning the meet this year.

The Maroons are led by secondyear Khia Kurtenbach, and fourth-years Brianna Hickey and Young, who placed 13th, 26th, and 48th respectively at the Wisconsin-Oshkosh AAE Invitational.

Last year, the South Siders lost the title to Wash U, but they won in 2013 and 2012.

Young said, “We are definitely looking to win the conference meet this weekend. It will be super challenging as Wash U has a great team this year and is currently ranked fifth in the nation. I think if we go into the race with a confident mentality, we can compete against Wash U for the championship spot.”

The women’s race is at 11 a.m. and the men’s race is at 12 p.m. at Franklin Park near Brandeis’s campus.