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FIRE campaign promotes UChicago free speech policy Tamar Honig Associate News Editor The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) launched a national campaign in support of the free speech policy statement produced by the Committee on Freedom of Expression at the University of

Blackstone is one of the dorms that will be sold after this school year.

COURTESY OF UCHICAGO HOUSING

University to sell Blackstone, Broadview, and Maclean Katherine Vega Senior News Reporter On Monday, the University announced that it will sell Broadview, Blackstone, and Maclean Halls after the end of this school year.

The University will not sell the New Graduate Resident Hall or Breckinridge, the two other satellite dorms set to close after this year.

The sales will not disrupt daily operations at Broadview, Blackstone, and Maclean, which will continue as normal for housing stu-

dents for the remainder of the school year.

Jennifer Luttig-Komrosky, executive director of College Housing & Residential Services, said in an e-mail to current residents that potential investors will start touring the buildings in the coming months. During the academic year, the tours will be primarily of common areas. Over breaks, potential buyers will be able to enter individual rooms when accompanied by housing staff. In these cases, students will be notified in

advance.

The decision follows an April 2015 announcement that these residence halls, along with New Grad and Breckinridge, will no longer house students after the 2015–2016 school year. At the time, it had already been announced that New Grad would be remodeled to serve as the new Harris School of Public Policy, to be renamed the Keller Center. Breckinridge’s new function has not been announced. College Housing could not be reached for comment.

The Dean’s Advisory Council: behind the scenes with the Dean Wendy Lee Senior News Reporter “When students come here, do they think about the students they start with?

Or the students they finish with? Do students feel any kind of relationship with their entering class?”

Dean of Students John “Jay” Ellison brought these questions of class affinity, or how students identify with their peers, to a recent meeting with the Dean’s Advisory Council (DAC).

The DAC is an advisory group composed of nine undergraduate students and

two undergraduate co-heads.

The DAC was formed under the leadership of former Dean of Students Susan Art, who retired in the spring of 2014. The group meets with the Dean and a rotating cast of academic advisers in the College three times a quarter to discuss a variety of topics pertinent to student life on campus.

The current undergraduate Council members are Olivia Markbreiter, Xinyi Ge, Raymond Fang, Melissa Li, Brandon Kaplowitz, Molly Robinson, Shae Omonijo, Agwangnjoh Tchadi, and Zach Wehrli.

Each meeting typically consists of a list of agenda items generated by the Dean. For the next and last meeting of the quarter, however, the Dean will be soliciting agenda items from the students on the Council.

“The old model used to be that students would submit agenda items, and then they would be curated by the co-heads for discussion.

That ended up with a lot of topics that weren’t what [the Dean] had on his mind or that weren’t in the purview of his office,” fourth-year Claire Fuller said, a co-head DEAN continued on page 4

Chicago earlier this year.

FIRE is an organization whose mission is to defend and sustain individual rights at America’s colleges and universities. The campaign comes at a time of nationwide debate over what constitutes free speech and to what extent expression should be protected or censored

by universities. Recent raciallycharged issues at the University of Missouri and Yale University have raised concerns over how administrations handle speech that makes students feel offended, uncomfortable, or unsafe.

To encourage adoption of the UChicago statement, FIRE FIRE continued on page 4

Apology sparks discussion on role of admin. in Halloween costumes Isaac Stein Senior News Reporter Last year, fourth-year Vincente Perez brought the subject of cultural appropriation in Halloween costumes to the forefront of campus debate, when he wrote a column for The Maroon that described an incident on a UChicago shuttle bus, when he encountered a student dressed as a “cholo”—a stereotypical Mexican gangster. This year, first-year Parker Groves wore a similar costume at a University-sponsored event, for which he later publicly apologized. In the aftermath, both Groves and Perez questioned what University protocol should be with respect to Halloween costumes.

Recently, national media attention has focused on whether college administrators should advise students against wearing Halloween costumes that some find to be culturally appropriative, as well as how students and administrators should respond to such incidents when they occur. In a high-profile incident at

Yale University, students called for the firing of Erika Christakis, a Yale lecturer and housing officer that sent an e-mail to her residents in which she argued that administrators ought not tell students what to wear.

On October 30, the Council on University Programming (COUP) held “Boos n’ Ribs,” a Halloween-themed version of its annual live music and food festival, in Ida Noyes Hall. The event also featured a costume contest. Groves, who said that a friend asked him if he wanted to go to Boos n’ Ribs right before it started, hastily chose to wear a bandanna and a plaid shirt, with only the top button buttoned.

He said that the design was inspired by Stand and Deliver, a 1988 drama film about Hispanic high school students in Los Angeles who overcome disadvantaged backgrounds to learn advanced mathematics. Groves, who identifies as White, added that he did not know that the costume would offend; prior to coming to college, he had worked at a Taco Bell near his hometown in Colorado, where

he said that the “cholo” stereotype was a common joke in a work environment where many of his co-workers were Hispanic.

“About talking about ‘cholos’ and gang life, it was always kind of a joke with them, between me and them. So I wasn’t aware of the offensive nature that could have. In retrospect, I should have known better. But at the time, I was only acting on what I knew, which was that a number of individuals joked around about stuff like that,” Groves said.

Groves went to Boos n’ Ribs with his friend and fellow firstyear, Danie Daniels. They were photographed together at the costume contest, and Groves titled the entry “West Side Pride.”

Both Groves and Daniels said that neither the COUP staff nor the other students present took issue with Groves’ costume at the time.

At 5:21 p.m., COUP uploaded that photo, along with photos of other entrants into the costume contest, to the COSTUME continued on page 2

University introduces M.A. in computational social science Isaac Troncoso Maroon Contributor The University’s Division of the Social Sciences announced its new Master of Arts in Computational Social Science (MACSS) program at the end of September, which will use mathematical methods to answer questions about the behavioral patterns of

human populations.

The MACSS curriculum will devote two years to studying core areas including perspectives on analysis, modeling, big data, and computer programming. It is intended to give students who have begun or are considering work in the social sciences a quantitative skillset, focusing particularly on statistics and computer model-

ing.

The study of computational social science revolves around the intersection of data interpretation and human psychology, especially valuable in areas such as urban studies or marketing, according to Chad Cyrenne, managing director of M.A. Programs in the Social Sciences. As such, SOCIAL continued on page 4

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New boutique hotel in Hyde Park to begin construction spring 2016 Marianne Dolan Maroon Contributor Construction on a new boutique hotel on the corner of 53rd Street and Dorchester Avenue is set to begin in spring of 2016. This hotel will be the second collaborative development between Smart Hotels, LLC and the Olympia Company in Hyde Park.

Their first property, the Hyatt Place, opened in 2013 on Harper Court as the first hotel to come to Hyde Park in 50 years. With their focus on campus communities, Smart Hotels’ initial interest in Hyde Park began in 2009.

“It had a commercial district that was strong, and it had institutions, namely the University of Chicago and University of Chicago Medical Center, that were committed to strengthening it, not only being there but making it better by it being there,” Ed Small, president of Smart Hotels, said. “The opportunity to come to Hyde Park for us was great.”

In addition to over 50 percent of the employees of Hyatt Place coming from Hyde Park

and the surrounding area, Small estimated that Hyatt Place currently brings in over 50,000 people a year for overnight stays in the neighborhood, resulting in more money spent locally within the community.

“Sometimes in Chicago, for reasons beyond us, the South Side is under-appreciated, so people come with low expectations, and I think when they finally get there and see how strong of a community it is, we give them a great experience at our hotel,” Small said.

After the success of the first hotel, the developers decided they wanted to create a smaller, more intimate hotel with 90 rooms. Besides the smaller size, Small noted the greater freedom an independent hotel allows due to the lack of brand standards.

“Everything will be customdesigned from scratch,” Small said.

GREC Architects is the firm behind the design of new building. Greg Randall, the firm’s principal architect, stated that the design while not yet finalized will incorporate both the vibrant character of Hyde Park

and the luxurious aesthetic of the hotel.

Additionally, the design will incorporate sustainable features to aspire to make the building at a minimum LEED Silver certified. The building will have an energy efficient heating and cooling system and an efficient electrical system. The selection of materials used will also be chosen through the lens of environmental consciousness.

DNAinfo reported that some local residents express concerns at a local meeting over a lack of parking, increase in traffic, and obstructed views due to the new hotel’s location in the midst of 53rd Street.

Small stated the building would be shorter than the surrounding buildings.

“We’re seeing the neighborhood boutique hotel all over the country. You’re seeing it in Chicago as well. There’s a little bit of it in the north side, certainly the West Loop, it’s happening.

But we also feel that Hyde Park and the surrounding area is deserving of a hotel that respects the local character and puts its stamp on what a neighborhood boutique hotel can be,” he said.

Students involved stated support for admin. identifying culturally appropriative costumes COSTUME continued from front

Boos n’ Ribs Facebook page, where viewers could vote for the costumes that they liked best.

That night, Perez said that he saw the picture online, but hesitated before commenting on it.

“I saw the pictures when they were posted. At the time, I dropped the issue, because I didn’t want to be personally attacked. But other people messaged me and said ‘I can’t deal with this,’ and another friend of mine started sharing the photo, so I eventually commented,” Perez said.

COUP has since removed the photo from the Boos n’ Ribs page. Perez said this was a misstep in addressing the issue, which was that he considered the photo to be an affront to his identity.

“It’s not just that it’s offensive to me; that’s what people don’t get. I’m hurt because that’s part of my ethnic identity. It erases the prevalence of police brutality and the labeling of Latinos as criminal,” Perez said.

Daniels, who identifies as Black, said in an e-mail that there was a disconnect between how she and Groves thought their costumes were perceived at the event, and the response to the photos on Facebook.

“What had us enter the contest in the first place were recommendations from people affiliated with the event. That was why being greeted the next morning with housemates talking about how things ‘blew up’ was very confusing and disheartening...we had faced threats and many rude remarks stating that

Parker is an ‘unapologetic racist,’ and it definitely took a toll on him when it happened,” Daniels said.

On the afternoon of the 31st, COUP posted a strongly worded statement condemning Groves’ costume on both its main Facebook page and its Boos n’ Ribs event page.

“In a deluge of photos that were automatically uploaded to our costume contest album, there was a representation of an incredibly stylized and defamatory stereotype. We accept responsibility for the posting of this picture and apologize for propagating the image. It was not, and is not, and will never be our intention to promote such messages of intolerance,” the statement read in part.

Underneath the COUP post, both Groves and Daniels publicly apologized for the incident. Perez said he was dissatisfied that the apology only appeared on the Boos n’ Ribs page, as opposed to the COUP general page, which he said was an attempt “to minimize the number of people who knew about the incident.”

Meanwhile, Groves said that COUP told him not to contact any of the students who commented on the photo, and that the University got involved when COUP called his Resident Head (RH) and Resident Assistant (RA) in student Housing. Groves then met with the RH’s to discuss the incident.

“I think that [the RHs] played a pretty unbiased role, and made sure that I was OK. It was very non-judgmental,

they weren’t blaming me at all, but explained how that was offensive to some of the other students,” Groves said. COUP Chair Emma Almon confirmed that the organization contacted “the housing staff of the costume wearers,” but could not be reached for comment on whether COUP told Groves not to contact the other students.

University spokesperson Marielle Sainvilus confirmed that “Campus and Student Life was made aware of concerns regarding a particular Halloween costume worn at a COUPsponsored event on October 30,” but did not comment on Housing’s involvement.

Both Groves and Perez said that they would support increased University involvement in identifying culturally appropriative costumes in advance of next Halloween. Groves said that he would support a message or e-mail from the University with examples of unacceptable costumes in order to inform the student body; Perez said that he wants the administration to actively condemn instances in which students wear unacceptable costumes.

“It’s a tricky issue, but the University has to take a more staunch stance against appropriative costumes. It has happened every year since I’ve been here. President Zimmer talks about the balance between free speech and civil behavior...but when the University says nothing, it makes activists look like the only people who take issue with the costumes.”

Community members voice concerns over Jackson Park improvement plans Ben Andrew Maroon Contributor A group of Hyde Park locals gathered at the Washington Park refectory on Monday night to voice concerns about a draft of a city plan to improve Jackson Park.

Patricia O’Donnell, the preservation landscape architect leading the planning process, said that the plan seeks to improve pedestrian and vehicle movement through the park, as well as enhance the landscape visually and ecologically.

One of the most contentious aspects of the plan was the proposal to open the Clarence Darrow Bridge to vehicle traffic. The bridge is located immediately south of the Museum of Science and Industry.

O’Donnell, who presided over the meeting, said that not opening the bridge to

vehicles would be politically infeasible and that opening the bridge would improve the access of emergency vehicles to the park. Another meeting attendee also pointed out that the bridge had been open in the past.

“One of the beautiful things about Jackson Park was the peace and quiet, except on Labor Day weekends, and I would hate to have vehicle traffic there [on the Clarence Darrow Bridge] disturb that peace and quiet,” one meeting attendee said.

This was followed by an outburst of cheering and clapping from the audience.

Another point of contention was a proposal to build a pavilion and concert space in the park. Many meeting attendees thought it seemed inconsistent with the vision of the park designer, famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead. Others

questioned who would be managing this area and worried that it would lead to, as one of them put it, “the corporatization of our park.”

Despite the criticism of the plan, O’Donnell thought the meeting was productive.

“This was a good meeting, we had lots of good input.

We really want people to have opinions, and we want to hear them,” she said. She said that the plan will be revised and presented to the public again sometime in the future.

There are also plans in the works to redesign parts of Washington Park. These plans will also be subject to public review.

Jackson Park and Washington Park are the two potential sites for the Obama Presidential Library and Museum.

The Obama Foundation says that it plans to make its final selection this spring.

University Center for Global Health hosts Global Health Week Olivia Rosenzweig Maroon Contributor Last week, the University’s Center for Global Health hosted Global Health Week, which featured three separate events focused on human health and the global environment.

Doctor Funmi Olopade, director of the Center for Global Health, explained the importance of the program.

“My job is to get students motivated, excited to be part of a global village and want to do your best to contribute to health and well-being for people all over the world, whether it’s in our communities here or communities abroad. […] The goal for this week is to really celebrate the fact that we live in a global village, that our students are making an impact all over the world.”

The first event on Tuesday featured presentations of student projects and research in the global health field.

Doctor Sola Olopade, the clinical director of the Center for Global Health, worked closely with many of the student researchers who presented at the event. “The students have opportunity for scholarly work where we’re helping to bring good health and development to some of these people who need them,” Olopade said. Five of the student presenters were Metcalf recipients. Two did research in Nigeria, two in Cameroon, and one in Ghana.

Doctor Sola Olopade advised students who researched the impact of household air pollution on pregnant women in Nigeria and

Bangladesh, which results in over 4 million deaths every year.

Not all presenters did their research abroad. Fourth-year Senxi Du spent the summer at University of California, Irvine, studying the disparities in terms of doctor-patient relationship between high- and low-acculturated Latina cancer patients. “We found that, essentially, high acculturated patients tended to react to the doctor-patient relationship in terms that align more with white woman, whereas less acculturated patients tended to a relationship that is due to different expectations for health care in Latin America,” Du said.

Doctor Brian Callendar, assistant director of Clinical and Education Programs at the Center for Global Health, worked closely with a number of student presenters and spoke of the importance of events like Global Health Week for presenting academic research.

“What you see presented here is different than an academic paper because it’s more lively and it’s an opportunity for faculty, students, trainees across the university to actually interface with the student who did the work, went abroad, and actually did the international experience that from my perspective is very important for their development as a future physician,” Callendar said.

Doctor William J. Martin II, MD, dean of Environmental Health Sciences at the Ohio State University College of Public Health, gave the keynote address for the second event, which

took place on Thursday. He discussed his work to raise awareness of the dangers of household air pollution from burning biomass in low-income countries. He described this pollution as “the worst environmental cause of death in the world…[and] the number one preventable cause of pneumonia of children under the age of five.”

The final event, held on Monday, featured a lecture

by Anand Grover, a former UN special rapporteur on the right to health, who spoke about access to essential medicines for vulnerable populations. In the lecture, Grover discussed the corruption of the corporate pharmaceutical industries in India and the United States. “It’s a very big problem for a lot of people to access medicines that are very expensive. And the obligations of government are to make sure that they are available and affordable,” he said.

Grover concluded by encouraging civilians to take action. “Corporates should not be the only people acting; there should be activists…to pressure the government for local regional manufacturing,” Grover said.

Doctor Funmi Olopade reiterated the relationship between the environment and global health. “Part of the reason why the environment matters, why we have to clean up is because we can’t afford to treat disease in poor people, and the health effects that we try to mitigate by taking care of the environment will help us to not have to...spend, as we do in this country, 17 percent of our GDP on taking care of health problems.”

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Economist Thomas Piketty speaks at Logan Center

New Law School Innovation Clinic advises CIE entrepreneurs Pete Grieve Maroon Contributor

Piketty examines statistics on wealth inequality in the United States.

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Jaehoon Ahn Maroon Contributor Thomas Piketty, a professor at the Paris School of Economics, delivered a lecture on global economic inequality to a soldout audience at the Logan Center on Friday, November 6.

The lecture was based on his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which discusses his research on global historical trends in income and wealth distributions.

The talk revolved around three points: the long-term dynamics of income inequality, the return of wealth-based society, and the future of wealth concentration.

Piketty discussed the faults of certain widely accepted economic beliefs, such as the idea that inequality rises and then

declines as economies develop.

He cited the incline in inequality in the U.S. during the 1970s as evidence against this theory.

“Today we are not just talking about a small group of people making more than average.

We are talking about changes which have macroeconomic significance,” he said.

Further, Piketty said the wealth-to-income ratios observed in rich countries today seem to be returning to the high values of 18th- and 19thcentury Europe, which could be relevant for the rest of the world in the long term.

“Having a high wealth-toincome ratio is not very bad in itself if it comes with equality.

But it creates new policy challenges in terms of financial regulation,” Piketty said.

He said that the high rate

of return to capital over the growth rate of aggregate GDP as seen today tends to amplify inequality in the long run and must be accounted for in shaping future wealth regulations.

“The ideal solution to correct this kind of process will be to have more transparency about wealth dynamics and to be able to adjust the tax rate to what is happening,” Piketty said.

He said that there is still a lot more research to be done on inequality, but that he is happy to have achieved his aim of stimulating more debate on the subject.

The lecture was followed by a discussion between Piketty and professor Kerwin Charles at the Harris School of Public Policy, as well as a book signing.

Buildings disrupt bird migratory patterns Peyton Alie Maroon Contributor Every year, approximately 7 million birds migrate through the city of Chicago as they travel the Mississippi Flyaway, one of the primary migration routes for North American birds. However, for these birds, buildings throughout the city, including on UChicago’s campus, can be deadly. As the University constructs new glass buildings, it is working to reduce hazards for birds on campus.

Tens of thousands of birds are killed annually by flying into tall buildings because they mistake reflective windows for open sky or are attracted to lights at night. Buildings with reflective glass exteriors, such as the new William Eckhardt Research Center, which opened this fall, are particularly dangerous.

According to University spokesman Steve Koppes, architect James Carpenter used the best bird safety techniques available at the time when

designing the Eckhardt Research Center, such as physical extensions separating the building’s flat and opaque glass surfaces. Nonetheless, students have amassed dozens of dead birds on the ground by the building.

“What should be done, in my opinion, now that the glass is up and killing tons of birds, is that the University should stop building glass buildings and start listening to real ecologists on campus to get advice about what will not be as detrimental to Chicago birds,” said thirdyear biology major Emily Lipstein, who has helped collect dead birds along with other students as part of an informal “dead birds society.” “For the current glass buildings, predatory bird decals can be affixed to the windows to scare the birds away.”

The University is currently determining how to make buildings on campus safer for birds.

“We are taking steps to reduce the risk across campus, including at the Eckhardt

Research Center. Those steps include designing the building to avoid trapping birds in interior courtyards or alcoves that contain food, vegetation, and water, and treating windows to make them more visible to birds within 300 feet of landscaped areas with food, habitat, or water,” Koppes said.

The designs for Campus North Residential Hall and Dining Commons, which is slated to open in fall 2016, were specifically developed with bird safety in mind.

The building will feature fritted glass windows, which combine dotted patterns of opaque glass with clear glass to make the windows more visible to birds. “[Campus North] is designed to meet our bird safe criteria. Architect Jeanne Gang is very engaged with bird safety issues, and we continue to examine the design and construction to determine whether additional bird-safe measures are required. Those discussions continue,” Koppes said.

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The Chicago Innovation Exchange (CIE), law firm Perkins Coie, and the Law School announced the creation of the new Innovation Clinic at the Law School last Tuesday. The clinic will offer legal assistance to CIE entrepreneurs and experience with start-up and technology law to Law School students.

The CIE is a University of Chicago innovation hub that supports the start-up business ideas of students, faculty, and South Side residents.

The three organizations partnered to start the new clinic, which will provide a space for CIE entrepreneurs to receive counsel from law students on legal questions related to their start-ups.

CIE Executive Director John

Flavin called the Innovation Clinic one of the most comprehensive legal clinics, saying that it will cover a broad range of legal issues, from incorporation to employment agreements to the protection of intellectual property.

With the new partnership, CIE entrepreneurs also have the opportunity to attend a workshop series held by Perkins Coie that will address the most common legal questions for start-ups.

Flavin is excited to work with the Seattle-based firm, which he calls the “perfect” partner.

“Perkins Coie has tremendous expertise and resources as a longtime industry leader in the West Coast start-up space, making them the perfect partner for this clinic,” Flavin said in an e-mail.

For Perkins Coie, the partnership is an opportunity to establish connections with Chicagobased start-ups.

“Through this partnership, we will be able to foster great ideas and support new business growth in Chicago while building long-term relationships with the region’s most promising entrepreneurs,” said Perkins Coie partner Steve Ducommun, according to an article from the UChicago news office.

Director of the Innovation Clinic and Assistant Clinical Professor of Law Salen Churi said the partnership will give University of Chicago law students valuable experience in the up-and-coming field of start-up law.

“Our students have expressed a great deal of interest in working with emerging companies, and the Innovation Clinic will give them practical experience with start-up clients that will prepare them for success in this growing field,” Churi said in the same UChicago news office article.

Squash team volunteers at MetroSquash Kaitlyn Akin Maroon Contributor The University’s squash team has started volunteering with MetroSquash, a local organization that teaches youth how to play squash while also preparing them for academic success and college.

The squash team has decided to focus its efforts on the athletic component of MetroSquash as opposed to the academic component. Given that other UChicago students tutor students at MetroSquash, third-year and co-captain Tom Wilberg believes that his team can make the greatest difference by offering squash lessons.

“Just in terms of the number of people that are academically very accomplished at UChicago versus the number of people who are experienced at squash [...] we’re going to be more useful and have more of a unique contribution

by trying to get involved in the squash programming as opposed to the academics.”

The new building on 61st Street and South Cottage Grove, which the University squash team shares with MetroSquash, has eight squash courts and, in the back, an academic center with classrooms and offices. Students enrolled in the MetroSquash program spend half of their time at the center learning squash and the other half working on academic skills. Co-captains Wilberg and fourth-year Daniel Kang have organized a tentative schedule in which different pairs from the UChicago team will be committed to volunteering daily and helping the students with their squash skills.

“Now that we’re in that building, there is some obligation to get more involved in the programming there,” Wilberg said.

“The idea is to set up that kind of continuous interaction and have more of a formal robust relationship with the MetroSquash programming.”

Volunteers work with students of all ages—younger kids work on basics like bouncing a squash ball on their racquet while older kids receive advice about gameplay. “I had a lot of fun with them and [I] am looking forward to going back,” first-year team member Jay Modin said in an email.

MetroSquash relies heavily on volunteer participation to keep things running smoothly and maintain a reasonable instructorto-student ratio. “Many [of the team members] are exceptionally strong squash players, and they have an exceptional impact in our ability to provide meaningful programming,” MetroSquash Executive Director David Kay said in an e-mail.

Fourth-year chosen for Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Award Annie Guo Maroon Contributor Cynthia J. Avila, a fourth-year in the College, was one of 57 Illinois college students chosen for this year’s Abraham Lincoln Civic Engagement Award. Avila was invited to speak and accept the award on behalf of all of the recipients at last Saturday’s Student Laureate Convocation.

University faculty from each of Illinois’ four-year, degreegranting colleges and universities nominate candidates. From that pool of nominees, the Lincoln Academy of Illinois selects a winning senior from each school.

According to the website, Laureates are chosen for excellence in academic and extracurricular activities. Avila is majoring in History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science (HIPS). She

works at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics and is an RA for Vincent House in Burton-Judson Courts.

This year, the Laureates gathered in the House of Representatives Chamber at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois to be recognized for this honor.

Those in attendance at the ceremony included the governor of Illinois, the chancellor and trustees of the Academy, and multiple university and college presidents.

Avila’s speech referenced President Lincoln’s frequent metaphors about trees, which she saw as a call to find inspiration and motivation in everyday life.

“I pointed out that these quotes in which the trees were involved in were all inspirational quotes, and so I think our President is far more clever than that. I think he used trees because you see them

every day, and I think something he was indicating was that you need to find inspiration everyday, whether that’s in a person or doing a good thing,” Avila said about the message of her speech.

The presentation of the 2015 Student Laureates followed her speech, and Governor Bruce Rauner closed the ceremony with ending remarks. Each Laureate received a Student Laureate Medallion, a $1,000 educational grant, and a certificate of achievement.

Reflecting on the ceremony, Avila said, “So many people have been involved in shaping who I am today and helping me figure out what it means to lead by example, stay positive, and how important it is to be open-minded. I'm eternally thankful for the opportunities I've been given, and I hope to help others in the same way these mentors have helped me."

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The campaign encourages universities across the Dean’s Advisory Council is “really a nation to adopt the policy concentrated town hall” FIRE continued from front

has written to hundreds of faculty members, students, and student journalists at colleges and universities nationwide, encouraging them to join the effort. Additionally, FIRE has published an online statement on the UChicago principles to which visitors to the website can pledge their support, as well as a model freedom of expression resolution based on the UChicago statement that can be adopted by other institutions.

“Our plans are to continue to promote the University of Chicago report,” FIRE’s Vice President of Legal and Public Advocacy Will Creeley said.

“We think that the report very eloquently captures the importance of preserving the principle of free expression on the college campus, both for students and for faculty and for the larger public.”

The Committee on Freedom of Expression was appointed in July 2014 by President Robert Zimmer and Provost Eric D. Isaacs. Their charge was to draft a statement articulating the University’s commitment to free expression.

“The Statement reaffirms the University’s distinctive commitment to academic freedom and freedom of expression,” said Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law Geoffrey Stone, who chaired the committee. “Its main points are that a vigorous freedom of speech is essential to the mission of a great university; that it is the responsibility of the University and its members to promote and support that freedom of speech; and that although civility and mutual respect are important values, they cannot justify the suppression of ideas because some or even most members of the University community find those ideas offensive or hateful.”

FIRE endorsed the statement in January, and since then several institutions have followed suit. Princeton University and Purdue University have adapted

its core values to their own policies. Johns Hopkins University and American University have endorsed a similar set of principles as well. In September, faculty at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina endorsed the UChicago principles—the first historically black institution to do so. The campaign is ongoing at schools such as the University of Minnesota, where an academic freedom group is pushing to adopt the UChicago policies.

“Other institutions are, of course, perfectly free to adopt their own positions on freedom of speech. But as the statement notes…in our view an institution must be committed to a robust, vigorous, and open freedom of debate and discussion of all ideas, however offensive or disturbing some members of the community might find them, if it is to be a ‘true’ university,” Stone said.

Kenneth Warren, professor in the English department and member of the Committee on Freedom of Expression, cautioned against assuming that the UChicago statement is a perfect fit for all institutions.

“While I am generally pleased that other organizations and institutions that value freedom of expression have found our statement useful, I wouldn’t want to see the issue of freedom of expression reduced to a question of whether or not an institution decides to adopt or endorse the University of Chicago’s statement,” Warren said.

“If they do, that’s great. But it’s too easy to forget that part of what’s valuable about adopting such a statement is the process of debate and discussion that members of an institution engage in for the purpose of determining how they want to affirm the principles of freedom of expression….It would be the height of irony if FIRE’s national campaign were to end up compelling a certain outcome rather than facilitating the open, vigorous debate that the statement seeks to uphold,” he said.

As part of the efforts to gain traction for the UChicago principles, Creeley and Stone cowrote an op-ed for The Washington Post in September decrying what they characterized as recent incidents of censorship in the academic community and arguing that restrictions on free expression on college campuses violate the values of higher education. The article goes on to laud the UChicago statement and encourage its recognition by other institutions. “[Students] would be taught that the proper response to ideas they oppose is not censorship, but argument on the merits,” the article reads.

Azhar Majeed, the director of FIRE’s Individual Rights Education Program, commented on the nature of a university’s obligations to its students.

“Students do not have a ‘right not to be offended’ on college campuses,” Majeed said. “However, they do have a right to be free of harassment, truly threatening behavior, and interference with their ability to receive an education. Thus, it is the job of the university to prevent the second type of scenarios from happening, while making sure that their students’ free speech rights are upheld. If students feel upset or offended by particular viewpoints, their best resource is counter speech, not censorship.”

Stone affirmed a similar stance on the bounds of a university’s responsibilities. “It is not the responsibility of the University to ‘protect’ students or any other members of the University community from being exposed to ideas that they find offensive, hateful, or upsetting,” he said. “Learning to respond effectively to ideas we oppose or even loathe is an essential part of learning to be an effective citizen.”

According to Creeley, FIRE’s plans are to continue to promote the UChicago statement and the allowance of robust freedom of expression amongst students and faculty on campuses around the country.

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the discipline fundamentally requires both the skills of a sociologist and a mathematician.

“Computational social science is a way to connect questions about humans and the world as a whole with large scale data to creatively answer them. It’s also for folks who have technical computer science or mathematical backgrounds and want to deepen that by linking their skills to a set of rich social science inquiries,” James Evans, the program’s faculty director, said.

Cyrenne described the fundamental concept of computational social science using an example he attributed to Evans: “Suppose the cure for cancer has already been

discovered, but no one human mind is able to perceive it because it’s written across hundreds of thousands of different articles in cancer research. What if we could develop an algorithm—a computational approach—that could simultaneously absorb, map, visualize, and draw connections across those hundreds of thousands of pieces to show us the cure for cancer that is in fact already there?”

To gain a wide array of viewpoints on questions like these, the MACSS initiative is designed to accommodate those in any field of social science who are just beginning to learn computational techniques. “Our program is importantly different from the

10–12 high-level computational programs that presently exist on other campuses. Most of our peers are also one-year programs, and as a result have exceptionally high quantitative thresholds for admission, so there’s really no opportunity to have a shot unless you’ve already done that computational work,” Cyrenne said.

“Our real hope with this program is to transform the social sciences. We want to build people who will go on to get their doctorates in political science, economics, history, or what have you, but with this unique computational skill set. We believe that with these skills they will be able to have a transformative impact on their disciplines,” Evans said.

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of the DAC. “The Dean of Students office here...is really concerned with the academic side of student life,” Ellison said.

The Dean of Students office has traditionally overseen the College advising programs and the College Programming Office (CPO). The office also recently established two new offices: the Center for College Student Success (CCSS) and the College Center for Scholarly Advancement (CCSA). The CCSS supports students who come from under-resourced backgrounds, such as first-generation students and students who might be undocumented or have problems with their citizenship. The CCSA advises students on scholarships, fellowships, and postgraduate opportunities.

“For the [next] meeting of the quarter, we are going to be soliciting agenda items from the students. It’s a good balance because [the Dean] can get the most use out of it as possible and students can also feel like their voices are being heard,” Fuller said.

As co-heads of the DAC, Fuller and third-year Daly Arnett helped select this year’s Council members.

The DAC’s application process is unique in that students are nominated by advisers, resident heads, students currently serving on the Council, and/or the dean of students himself, rather than through campuswide elections.

“The idea is that the advisers will put forward students who they see as being engaged in a wide variety of campus activities, students who might have a perspective on a lot of different groups on campus,” Fuller said. “Because it is a council meant to serve the Office of the Dean of Students and Advising, it makes sense that they do nominations this way.”

Although Council members aren’t elected by their peers, Arnett says the selection process helps the Dean and the co-heads maintain a consistent level of diversity within the group.

“Diversity is our number one goal, in terms of diversity of interest and diversity of involvement. We’re looking for students who would be respectful in an environment...where we often talk about contentious issues; where one student or another may have a lot at stake,” Arnett said. “We’re looking for people who would be able to respectfully discuss some of the problems the University does face: people with a keen interest in fixing those problems and making the University as great as

possible for all students.”

Ellison says consistency is another defining characteristic of the DAC. “I tried to find a way so that I could have a group of students who feel comfortable talking frankly to me.

I want a group that I could feel some consistency with so we could continue a conversation over the course of a quarter or a year. The DAC gives me a group of students who get to know me a different way [and] who get to make suggestions for how I contact other students…I want people to know that they can come in and talk to me,” Ellison said.

The Council differs from other representative bodies, such as Student Government and Inter-House Council, in that its goal is to advise the dean of students rather than to serve as a legislative body. “[The Dean] will bring things that he has already made a decision on or things that he’s thinking about in advance [because] he wants a student perspective. [The Council] is a way for him to be aware of what the campus climate is like. [For example], we recently talked about how to make the new offices for fellowships and student support more accessible and how to make [the Dean] a more accessible figure on campus,” Fuller said.

“It’s really a concentrated town hall,” Arnett said.

“How do we represent the voices of 5,000 students?

The way we do that is by getting a small cross-section of as many communities as possible so that [the Dean] can use us as an advising body.”

Ellison says meetings focus on issues and problems that are affecting student life in real time.

“The Council plays a big role in my thoughts on how to communicate with the student body and how to make sure I’m hearing from the student body...I can’t fix a problem I don’t know exists, and I also can’t let students know what I do unless I find a forum where they will listen, learn, and engage with me. Agenda items are relevant to the moment.

Our winter quarter meetings will really depend on what happens between now and then.”

Arnett says that the Council also benefits from its small size.

“Since we are nine people for the entire year, we really get to know each other, and we’re able to cultivate a culture of openness and understanding within the group,” Arnett said. “[The Dean] is able to tap into each student and realize what voice they are representing on campus…I think our size is really to our advantage, and it’s different from other or-

ganizations similar to us on campus.”

Arnett and Fuller express their interest in not only being advocates for positive change on campus, but also changing the student perception of the Dean of Students office as a whole. “[The DAC] is a really good vehicle for transparency for the Dean of Students office because we have become ambassadors for their program,” Arnett said.

“People think the administration [makes] decisions without student input, and that’s not what [Dean Ellison] is about. He makes a lot of decisions with our input…

He wants our advice in terms of how to make [the result of these decisions] clear to students.” åFuller says the DAC’s main goal as a student advisory group under the Office of the Dean of Students is to open as many avenues as possible for productive conversation between the administration and students.

“Legitimate critiques of the administration are more productive when you know the people who are making those decisions. Clearly our intent is not to make everybody love the administration. The DAC isn’t a propaganda council.”

Both Fuller and Arnett say that student animosity toward the University is caused by the fact that the administration is a powerful body that is often shrouded in mystery.

“A private institution sometimes needs to make some decisions that will upset people…Through the DAC, I’d like to see the [student perception] of Jay Ellison change. I want people to know who he is; that he’s a really nice guy...very concerned with student issues and how we actually feel,” Arnett said. “[We want] people to feel more comfortable going to him and…with him making decisions for the University.”

Ellison echoed this sentiment, stating that student animosity is often rooted in misunderstanding.

“There are a lot of decisions that have to be made for the long-term...and students don’t necessarily know what’s going on, and I think that does cause some concern with students,” Ellison said. “What the DAC does is help me be as transparent as I can be. Not everything can be transparent, but they can help me make sure I’m communicating [information] in a way that students realize is transparent.”

Editor’s note: Clair Fuller was a former associate Viewpoints editor, and Features Editor Raymond Fang is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council.

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Time to take the campus climate Recent events at universities nationwide reinforce the need for the campus climate survey on diversity, inclusion, and underrepresented groups Last December the University announced two campus climate surveys, the first concerning sexual misconduct and assault and the second concerning diversity, inclusion, and underrepresented groups. While the first campus climate survey was released and the results were published last spring, we have still not seen the second campus climate survey. With both our campus context and the national movement on college campuses concerning the treatment of underrepresented groups, The Maroon Editorial Board urges the University to prioritize releasing this campus climate survey by the beginning of winter quarter.

Alongside the announcement of the campus climate survey concerning diversity, inclusion, and underrepresented groups, the University also announced it would convene a Diversity Advisory Council and hold a meeting to solicit student input, both of which it did.

These steps were important, given the discussion and protests culminating in a petition with over 2,500 signatures calling for the University to address racial issues, and the recent history of racial incidents that have occurred on this campus. While we are glad the University took these steps, it is high time

that that the University fulfills its full promise by releasing the second campus climate survey.

Beyond this campus, the recent events at the University of Missouri and Yale, as well as other universities, have demonstrated the importance of a real understanding of the campus climate on racial issues nationwide. The past week has seen students across the country testify to the physical threats and microaggressions they face as members of underrepresented groups, and the failure of universities to fully recognize and address these concerns. It’s time to take a real measure of the climates of our campuses to understand how all members of our communities, from administrators to students, can contribute to a community welcoming to all.

At Student Government Assembly last week Provost Eric D. Isaacs said that the campus climate survey on diversity, inclusion, and underrepresented groups is a priority to his office but is more difficult to conduct because there are not many similar surveys. The Maroon Editorial Board calls on the University to direct its efforts and resources to release this survey as soon as possible.

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Safety, in numbers Statistics show that victims of violent crime are far more likely to be individuals of color, not rich white kids who “feel unsafe”

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Opinions from the ‘Bard As a University of Chicago student, it is a point of pride for me that I often study late into the night at the library, returning to my dorm across the Midway sometimes as late as one or two in the morning. If I happen to leave with a friend, more often

than not they will exclaim, “It’s so late! This is so scary… Don’t you feel unsafe?”

There’s a lot that goes through my mind when someone asks me a question like this. I grew up in a wealthy neighborhood in New York but was raised by parents

who grew up there in the violent and turbulent 1970s. They taught me that no matter where I am, who I’m with, or what the time of day, I should always be looking over my shoulder—especially as a woman “of a certain age.”

But ultimately, the reality of crime for a white, upper-class woman like myself is more or less nonexistent. Yes, I’ve had friends of similar backgrounds

mugged, and I have seen phones and $20 bills stolen out of back pockets, but these types of crimes are ubiquitous in all cities. But violent crime? I’ve never been witness to or victim of any—and growing up, I’ve known only a few who have been. And that is a point of enormous privilege for me—that because of my white skin and nice clothing, I will be safe almost anywhere I go.

So when I leave Harper alone at 1 a.m. and the Midway is deserted, do I feel unsafe? No. I am sure that some will call me naïve, but the reality is that while many people are not safe in these neighborhoods, I am not one of those people.

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Joining the diaspora “I am a product of some bastardized, whitewashed version of my parents’ culture... and I’m okay with that.”

Ada Alozie Before I came to this school, “African diaspora” was a term released into the ethers of my U.S. history class during the slavery unit and never mentioned again. I had assumed that the diaspora did not pertain to me. I was part of the new wave of AfricanAmericans displaced from my homeland—by choice.

My parents immigrated here from West Africa about 35 years ago for their college educations. They brought with them all the traditions, culture, and food that I was too young and naïve to appreciate.

They brought their home to me. Although I lived in America, it was to West Africa that I always felt a strong sense of loyalty and pride.

Last school year, when the African and Caribbean Students’ Association (ACSA) designated their theme to revolve around the African diaspora, I felt uncomfortable.

There was an assumption that every black person on this campus was a part of the African diaspora, and I privately resented that

presumption. No way was I a part of the diaspora. My parents are directly from the motherland. I know my roots. I am aware of what tribes I belong to. I may be far from West Africa, but my place of origin has always played a considerable role in shaping who I am.

To consider myself part of the diaspora was to break the fragile links between the home I wanted to have and the home I was expected to understand—and that’s exactly what happened when I realized I did belong to the diaspora.

The diaspora was and is a historical process. It describes the migration of black people from Africa—not solely as a result of slavery, but also because of colonialism, Western imperialism, and white hegemony. None of them chose to move, but instead, circumstances either led to their forced capture and exploitation or created a situation where to live in their homeland was to live on disappointment and scarce resources. I mentioned earlier that my parents made the choice to immigrate. But they didn’t actually. They

were forced out. In postcolonial, post-revolution times, Cameroon and Nigeria suffered. After colonialism and war destroyed the infrastructure of most public services, there was nowhere for my parents to go but America. Immigrating wasn’t a choice; it was survival. The ACSA show forced me to come to terms with what it really meant to be the child of firstgeneration immigrants. I idealized my African-ness to the point that I was in denial as to how emotionally unsettling the reality of my existence was. I was born in a country where I have been afforded many opportunities—but this country can give me these opportunities because it was able to get incredibly rich off the backs of people who looked like me.

My parents moved to this country as a result of the harsh, violent, and abusive ways which countries that share the same Enlightenment values of this country used to rob them of any means they could’ve had to rebuild their infrastructure and their lives. To be a part of the diaspora is to reckon with the historical violence

of being from Africa, and I wasn’t ready for that.

The purpose of the ACSA show was to celebrate and explore the variety of blackness that we have on this campus. How diverse and extensive has African culture become!

African, Caribbean, and American influences yield a myriad of different experiences and dimensions of what it means to be black.

However, it also showed me that this diversity of blackness or Africanness is not a joyous collection of trap beats and djembe drums with a red, black, and green motif. To be black outside of Africa is to be a symbol of violence, oppression, and white domination. It is to understand that blackness is a historical construction constantly developing despite being situated in what seems to be a more benevolent world than the one it was before. It’s to understand that trauma and pain, although expressed beautifully through the arts and traditions, remain an integral component of what it means to be black everywhere in the world.

My hesitation to accept

my place in the diaspora came from believing that to be diasporic was to not be a true African. To accept that I was part of it was to acknowledge that I am a product of some bastardized, whitewashed version of my parents’ culture.

And I’m at a place in my life where I can accept that.

I’m okay with that. I tried so hard to grasp onto two countries that were only my own in the abstract. On top of that, I never felt like an American because I was mostly raised in a different cultural environment. For so long, I felt trapped between various borders feeling too much like an outsider to belong to Africa, but also feeling too different to belong to America.

I was trying to understand my identity through the lens of these nation-states and borders that I had no control over creating. But most importantly, I had to understand that my cultural identity had no borders.

I don’t have a homeland.

Instead, I must reconstruct myself in the context of my history. When people asked me where I was from, I, without thinking, would rattle off that I was

half-Nigerian and halfCameroonian. But what does that even really mean?

And how does the American element factor into that? Now, some would say, “Oh, you’re half-Nigerian and Cameroonian ethnically, but your nationality is American.” Yet it seems silly to compartmentalize my ethnic background and national background, as it ignores how those two categories actively engage and interact with each other.

Why I gravitate, now, toward calling myself a part of the diaspora is because the diaspora explains the boundless intersection between place, culture, and history in constructing a cultural identity that percentages could never do.

I am Nigerian, Cameroonian, and American. All at the same time.

To exclude one aspect from the other is to take out the missing link as to why I, a diasporic black girl, am able to type these words on a laptop in a library at the University of Chicago.

Ada Alozie is a secondyear in the College majoring in anthropolog y.

Share, like, judge, destroy Public shaming online is all the rage, but we’re forgetting what the repercussions are for the targets of our anger

Natalie Denby

Ink the Barrel You probably wouldn’t be able to find anyone who thinks a Facebook page is a 100 percent accurate reflection of a person, or that a lone tweet tells you everything you need to know about somebody. It’s harder still to find someone who believes that it’s the responsibility (or even the pleasure) of the masses to destroy a stranger’s life because of a poorly planned comment. Most people could easily cite a time when they said something they shouldn’t have and, instead of being condemned, were glad to have been given the benefit of the doubt. Nonetheless, many have still eagerly jumped on the public shaming bandwagon.

Public shaming can be appealing. Being outraged at someone is really, really easy, and being outraged at someone you don’t have to look in the eye is even easier.

All you have to do is take a single quote, get a name, and rage away. You don’t have to personally know whomever you’re criticizing. You just need to find one damning slip-up, and you’ve got your-

self an opportunity. There’s no need to worry about explaining yourself to the victim of your attack. With one press of a button, you’ve registered your fury with the world. It’s so ludicrously simple, you could be forgiven for forgetting that what you said won’t disappear. You could also be forgiven for thinking that what you said doesn’t matter because so many people are saying the same things, too.

As one voice in a million, swept up in an instantaneous tidal wave of anger, you can feel self-righteous—because you’re picking on a bad guy, after all—and harmless—because who will remember a few days from now, right?

The problem is that the victims of public shaming aren’t always bad guys, and it doesn’t matter how quickly you forget their names. The tirade of rage heaped against them doesn’t just disappear once the world’s moved on. The repercussions of a backlash can reverberate for years, long past whatever sparked it. Think of Walter Palmer, who notoriously hunted Cecil the lion, or Justine SHAME continued on page 7

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“79.7 percent of homicide victims in the city of Chicago were black.”

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sions for petty crime—are individuals of color, and in particular young males of color. So when friends from middle- and upperclass backgrounds who are not people of color tell me that they feel “unsafe,” I am compelled to explain why, in fact, they are not.

The kid who’s really unsafe is the black boy walking around with his hoodie on.

Statistically speaking, yes, the neighborhoods surrounding the University do report more crime than most others in the city. But it’s also worth noting that in 2014, the most recent year for which full statistics are available, there were no reported incidences of violent crime occurring on “public property” around the University, defined by the UCPD as “all publicly owned property within the campus…or immediately adjacent to and accessible from the campus.” In fact, the only crimes that occur immediately around the campus, more or less, are petty crimes like theft and vandalism.

According to heyjackass.com, an unaffiliated group that regularly tracks Chicago media and police sources to carefully collate their statistics, 79.7 percent of homicide victims in the city of Chicago were black.

More than 90 percent were male, and the majority were between the ages of 18 and 24. Similar statistics from the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics show that, nationwide, victims of violent crime are far more likely to be individuals of color.

And the University of Chicago Police? Many students view them as a bastion of security, one that can save them from the “Big Bad” of violent crime.

But the UCPD does little more than help to maintain the protective bubble that surrounds the school, effectively shutting out any “suspicious” characters— mainly young men of color.

A 2014 article in The Gate, Chicago’s undergraduate political publication, detailed numerous instances of racial profiling of students and neighborhood residents and the unequal

treatment that individuals not affiliated with the University receive.

From a student perspective, one of the easiest things we can do to actually stop crime is to shift our narratives around safety and policing. If you, like me, are privileged enough to be from a higher-income background and/or are white, then stop saying you feel unsafe. You’re not. Stop acting like the neighborhoods around us are “dangerous” and that the police are the only ones standing between you and the communities that our school, in reality, has successfully shut out.

Ultimately, when we continue to say these things and act these ways, we perpetuate systemic racism and promote police brutality.

The more we say we’re unsafe, the more we reinforce the idea that we are, and the more we destroy any chance for safer communities in the long run.

Lily Grossbard is a first-year in the College majoring in gender and sexuality studies.

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Sacco, who made an offensive joke on Twitter about AIDS in Africa. Their punishments extended far beyond what their offenses called for. Both received death threats; Palmer is still a target of ridicule and hatred, and Sacco lost her job and her sense of safety within a few hours.

What is disturbing about these cases is that criticism quickly became outrageous harassment—and it wasn’t just a few people who crossed the line. As a vengeful mob, we laughed gleefully when we heard of how unbearable Palmer’s life had become.

Sacco tweeted her offensive joke while boarding a plane; midair, as her joke went viral, people tweeted about how excited they were to watch her response when she landed, and they later learned that she had been fired and was the target of a movement calling for her head.

Most people would agree that both Sacco and Palmer should have been criticized and punished for what they did—in both cases, they were wrong. The fact that they were wrong, however, doesn’t

make it permissible to turn their destruction into entertainment. Of course, what Sacco said was horrible, and Palmer’s actions were disgusting, but that doesn’t give a mob the license to rip them to shreds. Online congregations of bullies aren’t supposed to administer justice; that’s the responsibility of the law.

Assigning the role of judge, jury, and executioner to whoever happens to be flipping through their newsfeed is a perversion of justice.

If we believe in redemption, public shaming becomes all the more outrageous because it’s inescapable. Once, you might have been able to get a true second chance, but today it’s a completely different story. You can’t move to a new town and start over.

You can’t make amends to the people you offended and move on. All it takes is a simple Google search, and something you did years ago could come back to haunt you as if you’d only done it yesterday.

We might argue that public shaming is what you deserve if you say something awful or do something terrible; if you want to avoid it, all you’ve

got to do is not make racist jokes or kill famous lions. But people are routinely crucified for far less, and we’ve all made mistakes; we should know that expecting people to have spotless records is unrealistic.

In the heat of the moment, people don’t think things through. Jokes that might’ve been poorly received and never repeated in conversation are preserved forever on the Internet. Comments that might not have seemed terrible at first are easily misconstrued or taken out of context. Ordinary people are regularly transformed into supervillains. When we put the onus on victims of public shaming to avoid provoking the ire of the masses, we make an impossible and unfair request: Don’t mess up. Ever.

Instead, we should reconsider our own moral indignation.

Sure, you’re offended. Yes, it would feel great to let everyone know how angry you are.

But ask yourself: Should you go as far as to destroy another person’s life?

Natalie Denby is a first-year in the College majoring in public policy.

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Adia Sykes & Ellen Rodnianski Maroon Contributor & Arts Editor “I’m awkward and black.

Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone can be. That someone was right.” –Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl Issa Rae’s Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl propelled her into YouTube stardom. Her character, J, was a sharp departure from the usual roles that actors of color are relegated to in popular film and television. Rae writes with an acute awareness of the often-overlooked, multifaceted experience of what it’s like to be black, female, and, in this case, awkward.

It is no surprise, then, that her visit to the University of Chicago drew a crowd as diverse as her audience. Her evening discussion in Mandel Hall attracted an audience that was a sea of varying shades of brown, and each face was enthralled by Rae’s thoughtful yet humorous insights into her childhood, Stanford education, and creative process.

She elaborated on her

childhood: moving from Los Angeles to Senegal and back to the United States.

Rae eventually found herself in a predominantly Black and Latino middle school, one in which her black wasn’t deemed to be “black enough.” She found herself performing a brand of blackness that wasn’t really her up until she reached high school.

Then, she said, it hit her—the need to sit back, observe, and be herself. She carried that same sentiment into Stanford University, where she created her first mockumentary video series Dorm Diaries, a comedic look at what it’s like to be a student of color at an elite academic institution.

Since Dorm Diaries and Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Rae’s career has spiraled upwards. She wrote a book—also titled Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl—and two years ago she signed a contract with HBO. Rae is now working on a show for HBO titled Insecure with the actor and writer Larry Wilmore, whose resume includes such titles as In Living Color, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and The Jamie Foxx Show.

For 30, Rae’s accomplishments are impressive, especially considering that her ascent to Hollywood fame was not an easy one.

At lunch with a group of students interested in entertainment, Rae explained that networks’ initial reaction to Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl was their desire to adapt it into something “less black.”

One network proposed that an actress with lighter skin and straight hair play the lead instead of Rae— ignoring and undermining the entire point of the series. The effect that had on Rae was to strengthen her belief in the necessity of “real,” non-stereotypical black characters.

Recently, Rae did a cover for Essence magazine with Shonda Rhimes, Ava DuVernay, Debbie Allen, and Mara Brock Akil. They are four of the leading black women in the entertainment industry, an industry which suffers from the lack of both women and people of color. In a conversation following the photo shoot, Rae complained to her cover stars about how hard it was for her to maintain artistic control when dealing with television networks.

In response, “these badass bitches” told Rae to just put her foot down and insist on her artistic decisions.

During the evening discussion and subsequent Q&A, Rae emphasized time and time again that she writes from her own experience and refuses to compromise her artistic integrity. She’s filling a gap in TV writing where characters of color are the sidekicks, butts of jokes, or simply comedic relief.

Rae left Mandel Hall having inspired the need not to be like her, but instead be uncompromisingly and unapologetically you.

Not shaken and hardly stirred: a Spectre of the original series Alexia Bacigalupi Maroon Contributor It begins as they all do: throngs of people in the streets of an exotic city. Dressed in somber black suits and frilly white dresses, they flood the wide boulevards of Mexico City. Their faces are obscured under mocking skeleton masks and intricately painted sugar skull designs, traditional costumes of Day of the Dead celebrations. Despite the dizzying atmosphere—people spilling out of buildings and alleyways to join the giant, writhing parade—the scene has an oddly hushed quality to it. The old colonial buildings of Mexico City’s central square are bathed in a dusty sepia haze, and beyond the rhythmic thump of drums, it is a quiet affair, developing the sensation that the whole scene has been captured in a highexposure Polaroid shot.

So begins Spectre, the most recent addition to the James Bond canon and Daniel Craig’s fourth appearance as Agent 007. Spectre checks off all the requisite Bond boxes.

The visuals are lush and detailed, and the camera lazily pans to let the viewer soak it all in. Craig’s Bond is as dapper as ever in his never-ending slew of expertly cut Tom Ford suits. But the action, the core of the series, is flat and detached.

Spectre dutifully goes through the motions, but hardly makes a compelling case for sitting through its two-and-a-half hour duration.

The plot follows the usual formula: Following the introductory chase scene, Bond returns to London to embark on a secret mission not condoned

by MI6, and sets out to track down a mysterious, villainous organization across various glamorous locales, picking up a beautiful girl or two along the way.

The shallow but impressive action (heavy on twisted metal

going up in flames and light on the slick hand-to-hand combat that was Pierce Brosnan’s signature) centers on Bond’s quest to hunt down a new evil organization called Spectre. The organization itself is not new, but Spectre presents itself as a “Greatest Hits” compilation of all the other recent villains, including Raoul Silva from Skyfall and Le Chiffre from Casino Royale, under the direction of a not-so-hardto-find man once known by Bond as Franz Oberhauser (played with a precise childish pettiness by German actor Christoph Waltz). As Craig waltzes around the world to come face-to-face with his nemesis, tension mounts in London as M (portrayed by Ralph Fiennes taking over from Judi Dench) deals with the potential extermination of the 00 program and MI6’s autonomy. Andrew Scott, whom fans may recognize as the devious Moriarty from BBC’s hit show Sherlock, returns in a similar role to play C, an agent locked in a power struggle with M. Providing a welcome hiccough to the usual pace of the plot is Monica Belluci, the grieving widow of a minor bad guy whom Bond offs in his hunt for Spectre. Much has been made of the fact that Belluci, at 51, is significantly older than the typical ingénue picked up by Bond in his far-

flung adventures. Craig, however, was quick to point out during interviews that Belluci was a far more age-appropriate romantic interest for Bond (Craig himself is 47). Dressed like a glamorous Italian widow out of a Dolce & Gabbana ad, Belluci exudes old-school sex appeal. The chemistry between her and Craig is intense—almost animalistic— and it is unfortunate that she is featured in so few scenes.

Bond’s companion for the majority of his escapades is Dr. Madeleine Swan, played by the lovely Lea Seydoux, a wellestablished French starlet. Her Bond girl is more reserved than the usual, and the attraction between her and Craig is slightly anemic, failing to spice up the flatness of the action scenes.

Despite all the crashed cars and flaming buildings necessary to stop Spectre, the real villain of the film is modernity and technology. It is C, with his plans to infiltrate a joint group of intelligence agencies from around the world, who poses the real danger. He fights his battles with drones and omnipresent surveillance, making an accomplice out of the today’s indispensable technology. This is the true threat to Bond and MI6 as the series advances past its mid-century Cold War era roots and into the modern age.

Daniel Craig as James Bond in the latest installment of the Bond franchise PHOTO COURTSEY OF METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER PICTURES

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As part of the 20th Anniversary Series at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, there will be a screening of the documentary Regarding Susan Sontag, followed by a discussion with Associate Professor Deborah L. Nelson of the English department.

The documentary follows the life of the provocative thinker, University of Chicago alum, and passionate

feminist.

November 18, Regenstein Library 122, Tickets are free.

This weekend the Hyde Park community is coming together to sell, buy, trade, and drink hot cider at the inaugural 57th Street Community Flea Market. Items on sale will vary from antiques to designer clothing. If you are

looking for a community event and/or a unique gift for yourself or a loved one, check this out.

1448 East 57th Street, Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Presale tickets have already sold out for this evening’s “Diwali 2015: The Festival of Lights,” an annual event presented

by the South Asian Students Association (SASA) to celebrate the biggest Hindu holiday of the year.

Diwali, a four-day holiday, began this past Wednesday and offers participants a time to reflect on new beginnings and the triumph of good over evil.

Tonight’s program begins at 5 p.m. in Rockefeller with a traditional Puja ceremony, sponsored

by Hindu Student Sangam and the Office of Spiritual Life. This offering is free and open to the public.

Festivities continue at 7 p.m. in Hutch, where you can enjoy an Indian dinner from Upudi Palace and performances by RSOs like Chicago Aag , UChicago Bhangra (UCB), Chicago Raas, the UChicago South Asia Music Ensemble, and Aspara.

Close the night by shining some light of your own with a group sparkler ceremony. Students of all faiths are welcome.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. program are eight dollars at the door.

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Hopes soar for No. 17 team as they kick off the season MEN’S BASKETBALL Alec Miller Sports Staff The leaves are falling and the temperatures are dropping. Yes, it’s that time of year again: basketball season. Chicago will open up their 2015–2016 season this Saturday against North Park.

Last season the Maroons finished 16–9 overall and are looking to improve on that this year. The team is bringing back all five starters —third-years Tyler Howard and Waller Perez, and fourth-years Jordan Smith, Nate Brooks and Alex Voss—from last year.

Third-year starting point guard Tyler Howard is excited about the team’s experience. “We have the entire team back from last year including our starting five. The year of experience under our belt will be huge when we’re playing good teams or close games,” Howard said.

The Maroons also brought in four first-years this year to help the team. The firstyears—Noah Karras, Max Jacobs, Justin Jackson, and

Ryan Jacobsen—will all be young players to watch out for this season and in years to come.

The team finished fourth in the UAA last year with a conference record of 8–6.

However, they were not far behind last year’s conference winner Emory who had a record of 10–4. Chicago hopes that this year’s mix of experience and youth can prove to be a deadly combination and hoist them to the top of the conference.

Although this is the first regular season game for the Maroons this year, it is not the first game that they have played this year. Over the summer, the team went on an adventure to the land down under and played an exhibition game in Australia.

Howard believes this trip helped the squad. “Although we only played one game during the trip we got to practice and workout as a team for 10 days in the preseason.

This was a great jumpstart to our season because it allowed us to run through our offense and defense so when the first practice of the year came we

were ready to go,” Howard said.

With the off-season fully behind them, the South Siders focus in on their first opponent. North Park finished 15–10 last year, which is just one game worse than the Maroons. If last year’s records are a sign, the game will be tightly contested. The Maroons have scouted their opponent and are prepared for this tight matchup.

“North Park is a quick team and has one of the best scorers in the country so we’ll need to slow him down in order to give us the best shot of winning the game,” Howard said. The player Howard mentioned is Juwan Henry, who averaged 22.5 points per game last year. The Maroons will need to keep him on lock down if they want to come out victorious.

The South Siders are looking forward to opening the season with a win.

Chicago will tip-off against North Park at 7 p.m. on Saturday at North Park. After Saturday the team’s next game is against Lake Forest on Tuesday.

Fourth-year Jordan Smith takes a shot against an opponent last year.

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Six straight home games set the stage for Chicago

Squad looks to flip momentum in Indiana

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Gary Huang Maroon Contributor This Saturday the Maroons will kick off their season at home against regional opponent Lake Forest. In their 2014 – 2015 season, the Maroons earned an 18–7 record and brought home a UAA Championship.

In that stretch, they averaged 71.0 points, 40.0 rebounds, and 6.8 threepointers a game and held a 12–2 record in UAA Conference play, winning an impressive 12 games in a row. The South Siders will certainly look to continue their success in the 20152016 season, but they will be doing so with a new look to the team.

After graduating six seniors, including All-Region honoree Claire Devaney (12.7 PPG/6.4 RPG) and All UAA-selections Morgan Donovan (9.8 PPG) and Hannah Ballard (7.5 PPG/4.3 RPG), Chicago’s roster now lists ten first and second-years and five upperclassmen.

Last season’s top performers, fourth-year guard Caitlin Moore (7.0 PPG/3.9 RPG), thirdyear forward Britta Nordstrom (7.9 PPG/4.0 RPG/honorable mention All-UAA), and third-year

guard Stephanie Anderson (5.4 PPG/4.5 RPG/2.1 SPG/honorable mention all-UAA), will all look to increase their impact this season. The current fourthyears, Caitlin Moore, Paige Womack, and Helen Petersen, look to lead the team in their quest to win the UAA again and earn a bid to the NCAA tournament.

In her fourth season as head coach, Carissa Sain Knoche hopes to ride their momentum from last season and will be looking to try out different combinations of players in the Lake Forest game.

When asked about her thoughts on the team’s new personnel, Sain Knoche said, “Graduating six players off of last year’s team is certainly an adjustment.

They were wonderful, and we do miss them. But, with every graduating class, new opportunities emerge, and that is what is most exciting for us this season. I think the returners on our team all learned a lot from last year’s seniors—both on and off the court—and now they have a chance to showcase that.”

“Every team is different, and we will coach the group in front of us. We adjust based on the makeup of personalities, styles

of play and things of that nature. We’re not focused at all on under-class versus upper-class,” she said when asked about the disadvantages of a much younger team.

The Chicago team faces a Lake Forest team that finished with a 12–11 record last year. The Foresters are led by head coach Tamlyn Tills, who is entering her eighth season in charge.

Having also graduated a large class last year, the Foresters will be displaying new faces in the season opener. Their team is led by a second team AllMWC fourth-year guard, Michelle Ricolcol, who averaged 9.3 PPG last season. In the first Midwest Conference pre-season Coaches Poll, Lake Forest was picked to finish fourth.

Both Chicago and Lake Forest will be searching for their first win of the season this Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Competition Gym at Ratner Athletics Center. One will be looking to build upon their successes from last season, and one will be looking to ignite a new spark in their program.

Regardless, with the new season on the horizon, all slates are wiped clean, and the Maroons and Foresters will battle for a good start to the 2015–2015 season.

Erik Wong Maroon Contributor This upcoming weekend Chicago will travel to Angola, IN to compete in the 2015 Trine Invitational.

Hosted by the Trine Thunder, this will be the team’s first tournament of the 2015 season. Coming off a heartbreaking loss to North Central in the season opener, the Maroons look to stand out among some very good competition. Once again sporting a very young lineup, the team looks to improve upon the results of the last match against North Central, which ended in a tiebreaker. Unfortunately, the Maroons were unable to come through with the win, but this performance still shows the determination the team has throughout the match as a whole.

Despite this tie, it should be noted the Maroons also had to forfeit at the 141 weight class, which gave North Central a six point edge. We also saw notable performances from first-year John Jayne, who pinned his opponent, as well as secondyear Graham Grant, who won in a major decision with a score of 10–2. With great performances from these two young wrestlers, as well as an overall great showing from the entire team, this

close loss can only fuel a fire for the team to come out from the tournament with a victory.

As for the competition, Chicago will contend against the host team Trine, as well as John Carroll, Indianapolis, Olivet, Muskegon, Baldwin-Wallace, Indiana Tech, Manchester, and none other than North Central. The Maroons will surely want to gain revenge against North Central, as well as prove themselves worthy against the rest of the competition.

Going into the match, Chicago will sport its own ranked wrestler, Devan Richter, who is currently ranked eighth in the 125 pound class by InterMat.com. There are also several other ranked opponents who will be featured in this contest. In the 141 pound class, Zane Corey of Muskegon Community College is ranked sixth by InterMat.com. Not only that, but Muskegon Community College will bring four other ranked wrestlers: TJ Barnes, who is first in the 157 pound class; Davon Jackson, who is third in the 165 weight class; LaVonte Perdue, who is third in the 184 pound class; and Josh Colegrove, who is fifth in the 197 pound class, all according to InterMat.com.

Alma will also bring its own ranked wrestlers, including fifth-ranked Shawn Brewer

in the 157 pound class, tenthranked Jamie Jakes in the 197 pound class, and finally third ranked Trevor Maresh in the 285 pound class.

The team has some tough competition to face going into this match, but they are certainly well prepared to make a mark at their first tournament action of the year. What is notable about tournament style wrestling is the fact that a wrestler can wrestle against any other wrestler he wants to in his specific weight class.

Second-year Nick Ferraro said, “Coach Kocher has the tough job of picking the starter in a room full of wrestlers, and now that we have a tournament he can really set a solid lineup for future duals,” which shows the importance of each wrestler’s performance in this tournament. A standout performance from any single wrestler could set them up for a starting position for the rest of the season.

Look for a great presentation from Ferraro, who took third place at this tournament last year but would follow up later in the season to beat the first place finisher, and Louis DeMarco, who had an impressive match against North Central.

The Trine Invitational kicks off this Sunday at 10 a.m.

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IN QUOTES “I don’t care what people say as long as the ball goes in.”

- Louisville center Chinanu Onuaku on shooting his free-throws underhand this season.

Emotions are high as the South Siders head to St. Louis for final game FOOTBALL

Second-year running back Chandler Carroll looks down-field for an opening.

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Michael Hinkley Sports Staff Chicago will look to finish their season on a high note on Saturday as they head to St. Louis to take on Wash U for their final game. The Maroons enter the contest with an overall record of 6–3. The Bears stand at 5–4 on the year but have been perfect at home, posting a 4–0 record at Francis Field. The South Siders will need to play hard this weekend in order to overcome their opponent’s undeniable home-field advantage.

Regrettably, Chicago struggled on the road last week, falling to Carnegie Mellon in a 52–7 beat down.

The Maroons were simply outplayed by their opponents in all phases of the game. Despite not having a single turnover, Chicago was unable to produce much offense. Defensively, the team struggled to slow down the Tartans’ potent attack, and eventually the game got out of hand.

The team remains optimistic, though. The Maroons are hoping to move past their recent defeat, grow as a team, and cap off their season with

a much stronger performance on Saturday.

“We aren’t looking backwards,” insisted third-year quarterback Burke Moser.

“Dwelling on a 45-point loss will do us no good now, so we have to move on and finish the season on a strong note, especially for the seniors.”

Moser and the entire offensive unit will be looking to light up the scoreboard this weekend. In 2014, the Maroons racked up 44 points in a victory over Wash U, producing 480 yards of total offense and possessing the ball for over 40 minutes.

Fourth-years Sam Coleman and Nathan Massey, as well as second-year Chandler Carroll, all found the end zone that day.

The Maroons also had a strong defensive outing last year, holding the high-flying Bears offense to just 23 points. Fourth-year defensive back Vincent Beltrano led the team with 11 total tackles. Third-year Jackson Garrey also had a big day, posting five tackles of his own, along with two forced fumbles, a fumble recovery, and a sack.

Chicago will look to attain

a similar result on this goaround when they travel to the Gateway City on November 14. The team will depend on their four captains, Coleman, Beltrano, Garrey, and fourth-year Nick Pielech, to act as leaders both on and off the field in this intense rivalry game. The team enters the contest with a chance to retain the Founder’s Cup, the traveling trophy awarded each year to the winner of this historic matchup.

Moser is excited about the opportunity, saying, “The rivalry with Wash U is a special one… They don’t like us, we

aren’t too fond of them, it’s a fierce rivalry.” He added, “Last year we smacked them at home, so I know they are looking forward to returning the favor. But our seniors want to go out with a bang and sip the sweet taste of victory from the Cup once again.”

Chicago takes on the Bears this Saturday at Francis Field.

Wash U leads the all-time matchup with a record of 21–12. However, the Maroons will be trying to build off of their recent success in the head-to-head series.

NCAA Regionals looms large for speedy Maroons CROSS COUNTRY Michael Perry Sports Staff This Saturday, the men’s and women’s teams head out to the NCAA Division III Cross Country Midwest Regional. The event takes place at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL, with the women beginning at 11 a.m. and the men at noon.

The teams are fresh off of the UAA conference championships, where both the men and women took home third place.

Looking towards the Midwest Regional, the goal is to qualify for NCAA Division III Nationals.

“The team has been set on nationals since before

the beginning of the season,” said third-year runner Madeleine Horvath.

“We would be thrilled to qualify and have the opportunity to beat the best teams in the country.”

The easiest way to move on to nationals from regionals is to simply place in the top two finishers, but due to the overall strength of the Midwest region, there are typically multiple at large bids handed out beyond the first two.

Horvath added, “Our primary goal at regionals is to place in the top two and automatically qualify for nationals. We would like to run well as a team and try to make the gap between our one and five runners

as small as possible. If we don’t make the top two, placing in the top four or five would put us in a good spot to receive an at-large bid.”

Right now, the South Siders are focusing more on the mental aspect of the rise in competition and importance of the races and less on the physical side, as the season has already taken its toll on the bodies of the runners, most of whom reported to campus in late August to start the season.

“As far as preparing for regionals, we are tapering a little bit and getting mentally ready to run a fast race on a fast course,” Horvarth says.

Of the 38 teams in last

year’s NCAA Division III Men’s Cross Country Regional, Chicago’s men’s team finished in ninth place while the women’s team finished third out of the 41 teams that were present.

Last week, six Maroon runners participated in the North Central Open in a pit stop between the UAA

Championships and Midwest Regionals. The top women’s finisher for Chicago was first-year Anastasia Bernat, who claimed ninth place with a time of 18:40.54, while the top men’s finisher was firstyear Ansel Richards, also claimed ninth place with his time of 15:51.65.

The other member of the

women Maroons to participate was second-year Jenny Blazic, also accompanied by fourth-year Thomas Lynch, first year Jackson Mariotti, and Eric Guzman.

Going into this weekend’s races, the men are ranked seventh and the women second in the Midwest region.

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