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Pi Beta Phi sorority pays for event damages with charity money Isaac Stein Senior News Writer A performance at Arrowfest, Pi Beta Phi’s annual charity event, resulted in $5,000 in damages, which the sorority plans to pay for using funds raised at the event.

As previously reported by The Maroon the event featured various performances from all on-campus fraternities and raised money for the Pi Beta Vue53, a new building development on East 53rd Street, received approval to begin construction last Thursday. The complex, which will feature 267 luxury apartments, is set to break ground shortly.

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Vue53 gets go-ahead to start construction after prolonged lawsuit Adam Thorp News Staff According to a sign posted at the planned site of Vue53, a mixed retail and apartment building on East 53rd Street, excavation of the plot was supposed to begin about a week ago. However, construction has been stalled for more than a year by a lawsuit filed by nearby property owners concerned about the building’s scale. Earlier this month, an appeal in that lawsuit was dismissed in the developer’s favor.

The suit argued that the local property owners had been denied due process by the rezoning that allowed a 13-story building to go up on a block of mostly three- or four-story buildings. State law requires nearby property owners to be informed about challenges to zoning; the suit was dismissed because the plaintiffs did not contact some of the property owners. The appeal was dismissed on March 13.

The lead plaintiff in the suit, Michael Scott, said “I think the main reaction [to the deci-

sion] is that we’re really disappointed that we did not get to argue the merits. It would have been good to argue the substantive part of the lawsuit.”

The University has pushed projects up and down East 53rd Street, including the planned and completed portions of the Harper Court development. The completed building will be part of the 53rd Street Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district, meaning tax revenue from the building will be redirected to other VUE continued on page 2

Cairo Lewis News Staff The University of Chicago plans to sell 21 properties in Hyde Park to raise funding for teaching and research, according to a statement released by the University News Office.

The properties, which are mostly six-unit, three-story walk-up apartments, will be available for sale in May. Sales are expected to close in the fall.

Students, faculty, and staff members currently occupy nineteen of the properties. The University will

also sell two vacant lots.

According to the statement, “the University is committed to working with residents and with potential buyers to ensure a smooth transition, with as little short-term impact as possible, while providing support and guidance for those who may want to examine their options.”

According to the statement, the University purchased the apartments during the recession of 2007—2008 “to ensure the availability of stable, quality housing for students, faculty, and staff near campus.”

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The University has now decided to sell the apartments in light of the expansion of more residential options such as MAC apartments.

The University will hold town-hall meetings with residents and building managers to provide additional information. Residents will also be given more information via e-mail. Existing leases will be held to term, and building workers will not be laid off due to the sales.

The University declined to comment until after more information is provided at the town-hall meetings.

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At Pi Beta Phi’s regular chapter meeting on Monday, the sisters voted to pay the University using proceeds from Arrowfest instead of drawing from their budget for a spring formal dance, said Weil.

“People donated to the Pi Beta Phi Foundation knowing that the proceeds would go toward helping kids learn how to read, not to pay for a stage. I PI PHI continued on page 3

Arrested protestors for trauma center appear in court, are released Katherine Vega News Staff On Tuesday, nine members of the Trauma Center Coalition (TCC), seven of whom are UChicago students and members of Students for Health Equity (SHE) and two of whom are from Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY), appeared in court and

were released without charges. The activists were arrested on March 5 and were charged with Class C misdemeanors for disturbing the flow of traffic after making a human chain across Michigan Avenue at a protest downtown.

The protest, located near an event for Impact and Inquiry, a $4.5-billion University fundraising campaign,

was aimed to raise awareness about the lack of a Level I trauma center on the South Side. According to the Illinois General Assembly website, Class C misdemeanors are punishable by a maximum sentence of 30 days in prison or a $1,500 fine.

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New academic center opened in Hong Kong will host study abroad Eileen Li News Staff

Univ. to sell 21 residential properties in Hyde Park

Phi Foundation, which funds youth literacy programs, among other charitable causes.

However, the performance by the Sigma Chi fraternity involved the use of canola oil, which stained the floor of the Logan Center’s performance hall. Repairs are estimated at $5,000 and the University held the sorority, not Sigma Chi, solely responsible, said fourthyear Tessa Weil, a Pi Beta Phi member who was present at the

In an event on March 28, the University introduced a new international academic center in Hong Kong, which will be involved in a range of workshops and conferences in addition to being the base for an undergraduate study-abroad program focusing on colonization as part of the Civilizations Core.

The Center in Hong Kong will also host the Booth School’s Executive M.B.A. Program in Asia, which is already located nearby. The University moved the Chicago Booth M.B.A. program from Singapore to Hong Kong in 2013 due to the city’s proximity to mainland China, where demand for the degree is high.

Like the University’s other centers in Beijing, Delhi, London, and Paris, the Center in Hong Kong will centralize ac-

tivities for UChicago faculty and students living and working in the city. Hong Kong was selected as a location because of the collaboration that the University has already undertaken with many universities in the Hong Kong area through the Center in Beijing.

Recent events at the new center include a meeting about the Asian Family in Transition Initiative, a series of conferences held in conjunction with the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and an upcoming quantum technology workshop.

The March 28 event, which celebrated the launch of the new center, featured two panel discussions and keynote remarks, including from President Robert Zimmer and Sunil Kumar, the dean of the Booth School.

In the first panel discussion, Dali Yang, the faculty director of the Center in Beijing and a professor of political science,

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moderated a discussion on human capital and development, which featured UChicago professors in economics and psychology along with faculty from the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

The second panel discussion at the event, entitled Frontiers in Science, covered topics such as quantum technologies, big data, and molecular medicine. Ka Yee Lee, a professor of chemistry at the University, participated in the panel and is the chair of the Faculty Advisory Board at the new center.

In the University’s press release, Lee stated, “Our goal is for the center to be an intellectual destination that expands opportunities for collaboration with researchers and students representing a wide array of institutions in Hong Kong and the region.”

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According to admin survey, Reggie Love, Obama’s “body man,” UChicago students are satisfied talks at IOP on desire to serve Maggie Loughran Associate News Editor College students had the opportunity to share their thoughts about UChicago with the administration by completing the Enrolled Student Survey in March.

The survey had students reflect on a range of topics, including safety and security, which have been controversial issues since fall quarter.

The Enrolled Student Survey, which was e-mailed to students last month by Dean Boyer, is administered every couple years, and is unrelated to UChicago’s larger effort to address diversity and inclusion by administering two campus climate surveys.

However, the results of the Enrolled Student Survey may be used to compare and validate questions on the upcoming campus climate surveys.

Specific results of the Enrolled Student Survey will not be released to the public, but according to

the administration, responses show that UChicago students are comparably satisfied with their overall experience compared to students at peer institutions.

The Consortium on Financing Higher Education (COFHE), an organization of 31 private American universities including the Ivy League, Stanford, Georgetown, and Williams College, was responsible for creating and maintaining the Enrolled Student Survey. While COFHE focuses primarily on tuition and financial aid, it collects data about other aspects of student life as well. “Over the past three decades,” according to its website, “COFHE has crafted a suite of surveys that allows for a systematic and robust examination of the undergraduate experience.”

Similarities among the selective member schools are conducive to data sharing and comparison. “The aim of the survey is to understand broadly how

the student experience differs at participating institutions, covering a wide ra nge of academic, co-curricular, and non-academic activities,” administrators involved in the survey wrote in an e-mail to the maroon. Areas of interest include the classroom experience, advising, and “high-level questions of campus climate.”

Senior administrators and academic officers will review and discuss the results of the survey. Responses to this survey will be compared to those from past surveys and those from other COFHE institutions to help the administration understand student concerns and shape campus policy.

The deadline to complete the roughly 20-minutelong survey was extended from March 24 to March 27. The final response rate was lower than usual, at 44 percent. However, response rates this year were low across the board among COFHE members.

“The point was to draw attention to the issue and show how far we are able to go.”

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only lasted approximately 45 minutes, according to thirdyear SHE organizer Kayli Horne. All nine arrested protesters faced the judge at the same time.

“Because the police officers [who arrested us] didn’t show up to court, the charges were dropped. So there’s no further action that needs to be taken…. It seemed to be a pretty quick process,” Horne said.

After being arrested on March 5, the students were taken to a precinct on the North Side, according to Veronica Morris-Moore, a community organizer, youth program coordinator for Woodlawn’s Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY), and student at Harold Washington College. The nine arrested protesters were held at the precinct for approximately six hours while they were processed.

Morris-Moore, who has had two other altercations with the police in trauma center–related protests near campus, said that in her own

opinion, the people she was with in the holding cell were treated well by police officers.

“We [in the female holding cell] were allowed to be together. We talked. We told stories. We did hair. And the police were very nice,” Morris-Moore said.

However, Horne refused to comment on the treatment of the protesters while they were in the holding cell.

Although the University never officially acknowledged or contacted any of the protesters to Horne’s knowledge, she still believes that the arrests had a tangible effect on campus.

For instance, the same day that the nine arrested protesters appeared in court, an “action,” or rally, was held after school outside of Levi Hall, the administrative building on campus that houses the offices of high-level faculty.

Morris-Moore and a local rabbi, among others, gave speeches at the event. Based on photos from the SHE Twitter page, approximately 30 people attended the rally.

The rally also popularized

“#TraumaCenterNow” on Twitter the day of the court appearance, with several members of the University, Hyde Park, and surrounding communities voicing their support for the trauma center campaign.

“The point was not to have to get arrested and go to jail.

The point was to draw attention to the issue and show how far we are able to go as part of the campaign to put pressure on [Pritzker School of Medicine Dean] Kenneth Polonsky and [President of the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC)] Sharon O’Keefe,” Horne said.

Morris-Moore also felt that the fact that they were arrested helped give their cause a wider audience. “I think that [the arrest] was important because the message wouldn’t have had the reach that it has…. Throughout history, that’s how great social justice leaders reached the masses…. For me, it’s a very proud moment…. I am honored to say that I did something like that,” MorrisMoore said.

Brandon Lee Maroon ContrNews Staff Reggie Love, Obama’s “body man,” spoke Thursday evening about how persistence, maturity, and a passion for a cause greater than oneself landed him only steps away from the Oval Office. The event was held at the Quadrangle Club, hosted by the Institute for Politics (IOP), and moderated by IOP Fellow and ESPN columnist LZ Granderson.

Love was the captain of the Duke Blue Devils basketball team in 2001 and pursued a short stint in the NFL before beginning his career as Barack Obama’s personal aide in 2007 during the 2008 presidential campaign. He then left the White House in November 2011 to complete his M.B.A. at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

Granderson set the stage for what would be a lighthearted night with a quip about Love’s transition from relative obscurity to fame within the black community.

“As you know, your pres-

ence was of much conversation, particularly within the African-American community because we were trying to figure out who the heck you were,” Granderson said.

When asked what his most notable experience as personal aide was during his career, Love mentioned that he gave an off-the-schedule, impromptu tour to French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s then-11-year-old son around the White House.

“From then on out, every time I would see President Sarkozy, he would, like, hug me… I think that’s still one of the weirdest things,” Love said.

Love then spoke about why he had forgone a potentially lucrative career in sports to work for then-Senator Obama.

“I wanted to serve; I wanted to give back,” Love said, stating that his job included smaller elements that, while not “sexy,” were impactful to the people he worked with. He told of how, as a staff assistant, Love helped manage a mailroom backlog through clever use of Excel

spreadsheets, and was then considered the go-to man for difficult problems. Through this, he emphasized the importance of playing a role as part of a greater cause, rather than being the star of the show.

“Do I want to go someplace where they’re going to pay me three or four times the salary, or do I want to go someplace where I’ll have impact? It’s much easier to scale up than it is to scale down,” he said, reinforcing that while many want to secure themselves financially before pursuing impactful careers, they move themselves out of these opportunities because of the lives they grow accustomed to.

When discussing how Obama has been criticized as soft on those who veer from party lines, Love explained that Obama’s eagerness to get everyone’s opinion, rather than impose a position, is a strength rather than a weakness. He saw it as an effective means to get the best out of people.

“I don’t think it’s soft to be inclusive…it’s empowering.”

Univ. research center wins $20-million grant for material design Zeke Gillman Maroon Contributor The University of Chicago’s Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) was recently endowed with a six-year $20.6-million grant by the National Science Foundation through the efforts of MRSEC staff, faculty, postdocs, and students. The University of Chicago’s MRSEC was one of 12 institutions to receive funding from the National Science Foundation.

“My white hair is from there,” joked Professor Ka Yee C. Lee, director of UChicago’s Materials Research Center, as she described the stress involved in the 15-month grant-writing process. The application process for the funding began in April 2013. From that time, MRSEC staff engaged in writing various proposals to defend their work to the foundation. In preparing for this grant, the MRSEC team had to account for a change

in its organization, specifically the new “E” (for engineering) part of its name.

This was the first grant sent to the National Science Foundation where the Materials Center could claim engineering colleagues within the Institute of Molecular Engineering.

Lee noted how the MRSEC enables interdisciplinary collaboration between different kinds of scientists.

“There’s really a cross talk between experimentalists and theorists, between biologists and physicists, that make a very rich interdisciplinary environment to attack the very complex problems that we want to talk about,” Lee. The research that MRSEC focuses on falls into one of three categories: IRG I, IRG II, and IRG III, where IRG stands for Interdisciplinary Research Groups.

“The first one has to do with soft matter, the second one has to do with spatial-temporal control of biologically

inspired smart materials, and the third one has to do with engineering quantum materials,” explained Lee. In other words, IRG I deals with that state of matter that falls between a solid and liquid state, hence the term “soft.” It explores the interfaces of such materials and their interactions.

IRG II explores dispersed molecular components that are not in a state of physical balance and which convert energy from an array of different sources into mechanical work. Finally, IRG III is concerned with designing materials that are among the smallest units of matter that may exist independently.

Lee finds that the work the MRSEC does is important beyond the science. “I think the idea of the Materials Research Center is not only to come up with a basic understanding of materials broadly defined, but also have a way of impacting society for societal benefits,” she said.

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nearby projects.

The plaintiffs in the suit were concerned about the impact the large building would have on the character of the surrounding neighborhood.

Scott says the plaintiffs will now turn their attention to ensuring that commitments to provide affordable housing and a diverse and somewhat locally based workforce will be kept. Scott expressed hope

that the opposition in this case will make similar projects less likely.

“I do think that the lesson here is that the legal battle is only a vehicle for the community discussion. It doesn’t mat-

ter so much that we lost the legal case in the end because the community relations part is so important,” Scott said.

The building will contain 267 residential units and almost 30,000 feet of retail

space. Most of the luxury apartments in the building will be sold at market rate for the Hyde Park area. The University selected Mesa Development as the developer of the space. Mesa Development

and the University of Chicago committed to make affordable housing available for one-fifth of the units in the building after community discussions.

Mesa Development was unavailable for comment.

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Uncommon Fund money for quadcopter, “hanging out,� and more Sonia Schlesinger News Staff The board of UChicago’s Uncommon Fund announced on March 10 that it would grant funding to 16 projects this year, totaling nearly $85,000. This year’s projects included bubble soccer, a pig roast on the quad, and more.

Student Government designates money each year for the Uncommon Fund, whose aim is to “realize unique ideas and projects proposed by University of Chicago students,� according to its mission statement.

Usually, funding from Student Government is allocated to RSOs and their projects, but the Uncommon Fund allows individuals to apply for funding without RSO status. The projects and budget allocations are chosen by a board of nine

students and a staff adviser.

This year about 75 percent of projects proposed were funded.

Second-year Alec Goodwin’s National Symposium on Hanging Out received $25,000, more than a quarter of this year’s total funding. The Uncommon Fund staff adviser, Derek Bundy, explained that the project aims to bring in several high-profile speakers to campus to discuss hanging out, and therefore required a significant portion of the funding. “For the board, this was a unique idea, and relaxation needs to be discussed more at UChicago so that students can learn more about reducing stress,� Bundy said.

Further projects include third-year Alex Pizzirani’s Sky Lanterns at Logan, as well as fourth-year Adrian Aldana and third-year

Konje Machini’s UChicago Quadcopter ($1,334), which involves filming the city of Chicago from an unmanned helicopter. “We got our inspiration from a video we watched of this in Beijing and the shots were pretty stunning,â€? said project leader Machini. “We wanted‌ to also see Chicago from quite literally a greater perspective.â€?

Uncommon Fund applicants begin by submitting outlines for potential projects to the board. The board primarily considers the feasibility of the projects and “if we would‌fund these projects if we had all the money in the world,â€? said third-year board director Evan Rocher. “We then decide which projects we want to fund by looking at‌feasibility, impact, and how well it meshes with the

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Uncommon Fund mission.�

Most projects are approved in the first round, and their l eaders then submit a YouTube video for online student voting, more detailed plans, and specific budget logistics.

These plans have the largest impact on the selection of the projects. “The more detailed the plan is, the more likely we are to provide complete funding,� said first-year board member Sharan Subramanian.

Rocher, Subramanian, and Bundy all expressed excitement about this year’s projects. “They are plausible, safe, and meet policy,�

Bundy said. “We expect them all to benefit the student body.�

Editor’s Note: News Editor Alec Goodwin had no involvement in the writing, editing, or production of this article.

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think that we should have taken the money from the social budget. It would have sucked to not have a formal, but at least it’s not lying [to the donors],� said Weil.

Third-year Lukun Zhang, chapter president of Pi Beta Phi, said in an e-mail, “While our chapter was not made aware of the incident until after Sigma Chi took the stage, we took full responsibility for the damages caused by their performance. We worked closely with the venue to ensure the repairs were promptly made. Pi Beta Phi is also still in communication with Sigma Chi regarding the damages.�

Offering a different perspective, Weil said, “There are precedents to doing this type of thing—using proceeds to pay for the unanticipated costs of a charitable event. But we chose to do this in order to have a formal.

I don’t know what Sigma Chi would or wouldn’t be willing to

pay for the damages. But this says that Pi Beta Phi didn’t want to push the subject and make it an issue throughout Greek life.�

Eily Cummings, a national representative of Pi Beta Phi, said that the organization has learned from the experience of the oil spill. “It is unfortunate the poor judgement of a few resulted in fewer dollars being raised for Pi Beta Phi’s Read > Lead > Achieve literacy initiatives. Our chapter is reevaluating our event policies and procedures to ensure a more successful event next year,� she said.

Campus and national representatives of the Sigma Chi Fraternity and University of Chicago Facilities and Operations could not be reached for comment.

Editor’s Note: Deputy Editorin-Chief Sarah Manhardt had no involvement with the writing, editing, or production of this article.

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Students insecure in security alerts Lack of information on the function of security alerts leads to student frustration with the UCPD During finals week last quarter, the University of Chicago community received a security alert about Ross Jacobs, who had stabbed his roommate multiple times and had not yet been apprehended. This was after the incident had already been reported by media sources, such as DNAinfo and the Chicago Tribune. Many students were upset to learn of the stabbing through these sources first, rather than through the University. However, the frustration surrounding this incident and other similar cases speaks to a misunderstanding on the part of students regarding the criteria under which incidents are reported in security alerts. Students should not expect to receive a security alert for every mugging or robbery reported in Hyde Park.

However, in the interest of alleviating students’ frustrations and ensuring a sense of safety, the University should take steps to better communicate to students the purpose of security alerts and to clarify the conditions under which they are issued.

The University policy on security alerts reads, “The goal of sending a timely security alert is to

give members of the campus community information that will allow them to adjust their behavior to protect their personal safety.”

Security alerts are not intended to inform students of every crime that occurs on or near campus.

Such information is reported through the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) and Chicago Police Department (CPD)’s incident reports, which are updated daily. If security alerts were released with the same or similar frequency, students would likely just stop reading them, and the security alerts would be less effective. This is one of the factors the UCPD must weigh when deciding to alert the community of an incident. Security alerts specifically focus on incidents that involve “continuing threats to the campus community,” a judgment made on a case-by-case basis by UCPD Chief Marlon Lynch. Incidents which are considered isolated by the UCPD do not warrant a security alert.

Many students, though, do not fully understand the end goal of the security alert system or what factors need to be weighed to

achieve this goal most effectively.

Although the purpose and scope of security alerts are outlined in the policy online, this policy’s existence is not readily apparent to students. In addition, it is filled with vague and legalistic terms.

It is clear that, in order to address student frustrations surrounding security alerts, the UCPD must take further steps to educate students about the policy. At the very least, the current policy on security alerts could be attached in a hyperlink at the bottom of securityalert e-mails.

Because the current policy does not lend itself well to student understanding, we advise the UCPD to go further. The UCPD should publish a more readable document with the purpose of explaining to students in clearer terms the function of security alerts and the general guidelines followed when considering whether students should be notified of a particular incident. A link to this could then be attached to the bottom of security alerts, and its contents could be explained in Chicago Life Meetings during O-Week. There are many ways that the UCPD could

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go about elucidating the function and process behind security alerts, and these are just some of them.

When students first hear about a crime through the media rather than from the UCPD, they may feel left out of the loop and possibly unsafe. The typical reaction to

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these feelings is not to go online and search for the UCPD’s security alert policy. Thus, the onus falls on the UCPD to proactively educate students and address these frustrations.

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Let’s put the (I)X in sex ed UChicago’s sexual assault education is still not in compliance with Title IX—and yet the University has no intention of changing it Veronica Portillo Heap Maroon Contributor When I arrived in Hyde Park for my O-Week in September of 2011, I was woefully ignorant about sex.

I did not have any form of sex edu-

cation at my high school and never received any “sex talk” about sexual decision making, much less about the mechanics of sex.

So when I attended the Sex Signals presentation during O-Week, a nationally popular sexual assault

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awareness program whose inaugural college performance was given at the University of Chicago in 2000, I was unfamiliar with what consent meant in regards to sexual encounters. Two actors—a man and a woman—performed an interactive stand-up routine about “hookup culture” and gender roles, followed by a series of skits. Audience members were instructed to hold up a red stop sign whenever the man “crossed the line” at any point during the performance.

In the first skit, a man continued to perform sexual acts on a woman in her dorm room after she whispered, “Stop.” I did not hold up my stop sign because I thought the situation was too ambiguous to be considered assault. The presenters clarified that this situation was not consensual and then quickly moved on to another skit. In the next scenario, a man continued to grope a woman at a party, despite the fact that she was visibly uncomfortable. The audience members were encouraged to intervene if they ever witnessed a situation like this, and were repeatedly identified as a group of potential bystanders, as opposed to a group of potential victims or perpetrators. The creators of Sex Signals have told The Atlantic that this framing is intentional, albeit inaccurate.

At the subsequent Chicago Life Meeting titled UChoose, I received what other students called a rape whistle and participated in a 10-minute conversation about the Sex Signals presentation. Unfortunately, this discussion promptly moved on to other topics and non-sex-related

campus safety issues. The description in the relevant O-Book from 2011 described the session not as one that would deal with sexual assault explicitly, but where we would instead “learn about campus resources related to sexual identity and health, alcohol education, social responsibility, and informed decisionmaking.” This hasty glossing over of the reality of sexual violence was simply not enough to adequately get students on the same page in a group

“I was left still unclear on what sexual assault encompassed or how it was defined”

with varying levels of familiarity on the topic. I was left still unclear on what sexual assault encompassed or how it was defined, and I did not understand what my options were or where to turn if it ever happened to me. Because of the framing of the issue, assault seemed to happen rarely and I naively thought that it would never happen to me.

In my third year, it did happen to me; I was raped by someone that I went on a date with. While he was assaulting me, the thoughts running through my mind were variations of, “Why is he doing this when I said I did not want to do this,” “That really hurts,” “Why is he hitting me,” and “Why won’t he stop?” The words “sexual assault” and “rape,” however,

did not initially come to mind as a way to think about my experience.

I spent a few weeks in denial about my own assault because I had not internalized that I truly had autonomy over my own body. The preventative education from O-Week provided only a cursory understanding of sexual violence, without any sustained dialogue or examples of what constituted sexual harassment, dating violence, and stalking. In addition, it did not clarify that a lack of a sustained or verbal “no” was not indicative of a “yes.” This lack of education ultimately contributed immensely to my denial.

In April 2014, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released a document entitled “Questions and Answers on Title IX and Sexual Violence,” which it describes as “further clarify[ing] the legal requirements under Title IX [...] and provid[ing] recommendations for addressing allegations of sexual violence.” Title IX, which I heard no mention of during my O-Week, is a federal civil rights law which prohibits sex discrimination in public and private educational institutions that receive federal funds. In the fall and winter quarters, I and other concerned students from the survivor advocacy RSO Phoenix Survivors Alliance met with administrators such as Dean of Students (DOS) in the University Michele Rasmussen, Associate DOS in the University for Disciplinary Affairs Jeremy Inabinet, DOS in the College Jay Ellison, and Title IX Coordinator for Students SEX EDcontinued on page 5

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“Of the 12 points that OCR calls to be included in the training ‘at a minimum,’ the University covers...two�

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Belinda Cortez Vazquez to address several points in this document where it seemed that the University was not compliant with Title IX. Our concern focused on preventative education as prescribed by section J-4 of the OCR 2014 document. Most students in the College attend Sex Signals and incoming first years in more recent years have participated in Haven, a module that focuses on bystander intervention as a solution to preventing sexual assault. A script sent to O-Leaders for the 2014 UChoose post— Sex Signals meeting indicates that the University added a 15-minute-long “Title IX and VAWA Overview� portion, part of which was spent talking to students about changes to the University’s sexual misconduct policy. Of the 12 points that OCR calls to be included in the training “at a minimum,� the University substantively covers only two, one on by-

stander intervention strategies and the other on the role alcohol often plays in incidents of sexual violence. Given the general confusion about what this policy and the relevant laws are among students on campus, and given that the burden of educating students in the

“Of the 12 points that OCR calls to be included in the training ‘at a minimum,’ the University substantively covers only two�

Class of 2018 was placed on O-Leaders (who are, at the end of the day, just other students), the University is not providing adequate education. It does not incorporate the meat of these OCR recommendations, including but not limited to what constitutes sexual vio-

lence and consent in University policy, how the University analyzes whether sexual conduct was unwelcome under Title IX, and how to report sexual violence to administration and law enforcement. We were told in person by Cortez Vazquez and via e-mail by Ellison that they believed their programs to be “effective and compliant,� despite the fact we presented to them, in full, the 10 points that are not included in existing programming, and despite the fact that they could not point us to where these points were covered. It is unclear how they can be “effective and compliant� when the University of Chicago does not follow even the minimum guidelines outlined by OCR. Students and alumni of Phoenix Survivors Alliance aren’t the only ones who call for improved preventative education. In March 2014, we distributed an anonymous form where we collected student feedback on Sex Signals.

The criticism of the program can be separated into three main categories: (a) that it diminishes the harsh reality of sexual violence through the use of humor, (b) that it presents a heteronormative view of sexual violence even as people of all genders and sexual identities are victims, and (c) that it treats everyone in the room as a potential bystander, which neglects to acknowledge that many students have been sexually abused before coming to campus, and that many more will be victims or perpetrators during their time as students in the College. The UChicago Clothesline Project has collected more than 150 personal accounts of assault from UChicago students since we opened our submission form more than two years ago, and we continue to receive a fresh wave of stories every time we put up a round of fliers in bathroom stalls on campus. Clearly, then, not everyone is simply a bystander—sexual assault is

prevalent on this campus, and students need more robust education than what the University currently provides.

The University of Chicago has neither a compulsory follow-up to Sex Signals nor programming in place for students beyond the start of their

“...not everyone is simply a bystander—sexual assault is prevalent on this campus�

first year. While the University Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention program has developed workshops concerning sexual violence, there is no mechanism in place to widely share them with students, nor is attendance mandatory. The vast majority of students in the

College have little to no interaction with any sort of preventative education past O-Week, even though students cannot reasonably absorb the high volume of information thrown at them in one week alone.

The University has the time, money, power, and resources to supplement this programming for O-Week 2015 in order to comply with OCR guidance. All students deserve comprehensive education on sexual violence and to be informed by their school of their rights under Title IX. It is on the University to at the very least inform students of its own responsibilities as an institution to respond to this violence. Â This institution owes it to the survivors in its community and the community as a whole, on ethical grounds and on legal ones.

Veronica Portillo Heap is a fourth-year in the College majoring in history and gender and sexuality studies.

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Backstage with Clean Bandit, Grammy-winning British pop sensation Ellen Rodnianski Arts Editor Exactly a year ago, if someone were to have asked me whether I had heard about the band Clean Bandit, I would have responded with a solid no.

Today, the Grammy winning band is not only a sensation in its native UK, but is also rapidly growing in popularity in the United States. Its speedy rise to fame was largely the result of its hit “Rather Be”, which was in the number one spot in U.K.'s top singles charts for four consecutive weeks. On its first U.S.-wide tour (it performed in Chicago’s Lincoln Hall in September on a smaller tour) the band is supporting the extended version of its debut album New Eyes. This past Wednesday, prior to its taking the stage of Wrigleyville’s Metro, I chatted with Clean Bandit’s Grace Chatto about the band’s past work, influences, fame, and future plans.

The four permanent members—Chatto, Jack Patterson, Luke Patterson (who are brothers) and Milan Neil AminSmith—came together when they were at Cambridge. While Chatto and Amin-Smith had known each other since childhood from playing together in orchestra, the band really came together when they met Jack Patterson. In Chatto’s words, “we just wanted to do something together.” While the band’s work is generally categorized as pop or house,

Chatto and Amin-Smith have a background in classical music and Jack Patterson in jazz. Thus, their instruments of choice are cello (Chatto); violin and piano (Amin-Smith); keyboard, bass guitar, and piano (Jack Peterson); and drums (Luke Patterson, who is also the youngest member of the band). While both Chatto and Jack Patterson do the occasional vocals, their vocals mostly rely on collaboration with other musicians.

According to Chatto, the process of finding a vocalist differs from song to song. For instance, the collaboration with Jess Glynne on “Rather Be” was the result of pressure from Atlantic Records. But the case was essentially the opposite during the process of creating their newest hit “Real Love,” for which Glynne wrote some of the lyrics. Usually the collaborators are friends of the band members or musicians whose voices they love upon first hearing. On New Eyes a lot of the singers were young musicians that they met through a community project with which they were involved before Atlantic Record signed them. The way it worked was that instead of paying rent in a studio in London, they took up trainees from the area. One of these trainees was Sharna Bass, who sings the vocals on “Extraordinary,” and whom the band members met when she was only 14. While Clean Bandit collaborates with a number of musicians, only one singer is touring with the

band: London-based Elisabeth Troy, who is featured on the tracks “Show Me Love” and “Heart on Fire.”

The concert Wednesday night was sold out. About 1110 Chicagoans showed up to dance to Clean Bandit’s catchy beats. According to Chatto, the band did not expect either the fame or the incredible popularity of "Rather Be". In fact, the band “had never thought about America before because it just seemed so far away, so big and [the band members] were just trying to break out in the UK.” “Rather Be” was written later than the rest of the album, and while they did not initially expect the scale of its success, it became immediately evident when the band started performing it in festivals across the U.K. As Chatto explained, “We saw that people were reacting particularly well to that song, and like, singing along by the time of the second chorus even though they were just hearing it for the first time. So we decided for that reason to release it and to record it.”

Clearly the band made the correct decision. The audience at Metro nearly exploded with joy when the band played the single during its encore. Other favorites were “Real Love,” “Extraordinary,” and “Show Me Love,” although all the songs were incredibly well received.

Along with all of its previously released songs, Clean Bandit surprised the audience by

Elisabeth Troy, Grace Chatto, and Jack Patterson on stage at Chicago's Metro performance hall this past Wednesday.

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performing a new song called “Superstar.” Written in collaboration with Andrew Martin, “Superstar” leans more toward hip-hop and further from house—a direction Chatto said was probably going to be the trend on their next album, which they are currently writing. As they did with New Eyes, they are approaching the new album by looking at each song as an independent project; the underlying theme for the album comes later.

Clean Bandit’s success across the world becomes apparent with the staggering near-256 million views on the music video for “Rather Be” on YouTube.

This was shocking to the band because the process of making the video, which was filmed in

Tokyo, was “such a small production,” Chatto explained. “It was just me and Jack in the crew and then one of our friends [came]…and we were just like, relying so much on people who wanted to be involved and be in the video and [who would] let us film in the fish market and stuff and at that point we had no idea that video would grow and have like 260 million views.” Even now that the band is signed by Atlantic Records, it continues to play a large role in the makings of its videos. While Chatto, who used to produce them, is no longer involved due to lack of time, Jack Patterson continues to direct them. The two most recently released were “Stronger” and “Real Love.”

Starting with its first recorded

song “Mozart’s House” (which was released in 2010 and shot while both Chatto and Jack Patterson were studying in Moscow) the music videos have been a memorable and highly entertaining part of the band’s work.

The band’s name derives from the Russian way of emphasizing a noun with the word “clean,” where it functions like the words “total” or “absolute.”

Chatto explained that a Russian lady once “affectionately” referred to the band members as total bastards, thereby inspiring the band’s name, which they translated into English to come up with Clean Bandit. While I doubt that they are indeed “total bastards,” it is clear that the band is a “clean” sensation.

The good kid returns to the m.A.A.d. city with fresh societal reflections Andrew Yang Arts Contributor

Late in the evening on March 16, rapper Kendrick Lamar dropped his third studio album, To Pimp a Butterfly, in a surprise early release. Kendrick’s previous album, 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d city (GKMC), was hailed as a classic, praised for its

artistic coherence and cinematic storytelling. Kendrick created further buzz with a verse on the Big Sean song “Control,” in which he proclaimed himself simultaneously “King of New York” and “King of the Coast” and called out numerous other rappers by name (including Big Sean himself ). With all of this preceding it, To Pimp a Butterfly arrived as one of the most

The cover to Kendrick Lamar's new album, To Pimp a Butterfly.

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hotly anticipated rap albums of all time. The album’s first single, “i,” was released in the fall of 2014 and was met with a lukewarm reception from critics and fans alike. Although the song won Kendrick his first Grammy Award, it was criticized by some as trite, overly upbeat, and radio-friendly. But now, within the context of the full album, the complexity of Kendrick’s perspective and the narrative abilities he displayed in his previous music are apparent.

While GKMC stayed true to Kendrick’s Compton, CA roots with Dr. Dre–influenced West Coast beats, To Pimp a Butterfly veers more toward jazz and funk, with an overall sound that harkens backs to both ’90s Afrocentric rap and ’70s blaxploitation music. Blackness is an important focus of this album, both sonically and thematically. Kendrick takes aim at institutionalized racism, with anger at American society that comes through in particular on “The Blacker the Berry.”

But the greater part of his focus is on unity and division within the black community. On the excellent “Complexion (A Zulu

Love),” Kendrick discusses the use of Willie Lynch theory to pit slaves against each other based on skin tone, and again on “The Blacker the Berry,” he turns his attention to the destructiveness of gang violence and compares Crips and Pirus to South African tribes clashing during Apartheid. The historical perspective that Kendrick wields raises the stakes of his discussion of black unity and makes his imagery—including the stunning album art, featuring a crowd of black men outside the White House standing over a dead white politician with his eyes X-ed out—all the more powerful.

Yet while Kendrick takes on difficult social issues, this is also his most personal album thus far, and he devotes most of the album to discussing the corrupting powers of fame. The best moments on the album are those that explore the paradox of being a successful rapper: the simultaneous expectations of both flaunting materialism and maintaining street credibility or a “thug” image. Kendrick delivers a critique of both institutions. On album highlight

“Wesley’s Theory” he describes the “pimping” of rap stars by American society, which uses the lure of spending money to ensnare and control then, on “You Ain’t Gotta Lie (Mamma Said)” he mocks the rapper who returns home to flash his money and prove his hood status.

There are moments that feel overwrought, where Kendrick overreaches in his attempts at artistry. Songs like “u,” in which Kendrick takes on a squeaky, drunken delivery to voice the demons in his head, and “How Much a Dollar Cost,” in which he relates his encounter with God disguised as a homeless man, toe the line between moving and silly. But even these are forgiven because of Kendrick’s masterful flow and storytelling.

His rapping abilities are as impressive as ever, and Kendrick has constructed layers of rich symbolism and narrative, some of which refer back to past albums Section.80 and GKMC. This is a dense album that requires multiple listens to fully unfold.

This album is not as polished as GKMC, and nor should it be. It’s as chaotic and conflicted

as Kendrick’s own grappling with fame, self-hatred, and racism. There are moments that are difficult and controversial, such as the ending of “The Blacker the Berry,” in which Kendrick calls himself a hypocrite for mourning Trayvon Martin despite having participated in gang life and being a part of the deaths of numerous black men. These are questions without easy answers, and even the optimism of “i” doesn't dispel the doubt and darkness that Kendrick builds leading up to it. The album ends with a long conversation between Kendrick and the recorded voice of the late Tupac Shakur, in which they discuss the future of Kendrick’s generation.

Kendrick himself sounds uncertain: He has learned many lessons from his young career but is still unsure of his own future, and the future of racial politics in America, and is looking for answers. But this album is a monumental achievement, creative and unique, and one that cements Kendrick’s status as one of the most thoughtful and talented artists of his generation.

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There is no protection against sex-themed horror film It Follows Walker King Arts Contributor A young woman lazes in her backyard pool somewhere in the suburbs of Detroit, enjoying the waning days of a midwestern summer. The camera cuts to her arm, floating on the surface, and a tiny ant crawling down its length. She pushes her arm down and the ant is stranded on the water, drowning in an ocean beyond its comprehension. The lives of small things are fragile, and just the slightest action can upset them forever.

You don’t need to be a devoted observer of the indie movie circuit to notice a revival in art-house horror. Films like House of the Devil, Cabin in the Woods, The Guest, and

The Babadook have formed a new wave of scare-em-ups with the critical imprimatur that was lacking in the endless Saw and Paranormal Activity sequels. Often these films either toy with well-worn horror conventions or introduce allegorical elements into the slaughter—an approach that usually inspires affection towards the genre rather than embarrassment. David Robert Mitchell makes his contribution to this new terror movement with his second film, It Follows.

In the film’s first scene a young women in a negligee bolts from her house and backs slowly away from some terrifying unseen entity. Panicked, she gets in her car and drives to the beach to make an apol-

ogetic last phone call to her family, and by morning she’s been gruesomely mangled at the hands of an unseen force.

We find out shortly that she was the victim of a mysterious curse being transmitted sexually among the young suburbanites of Detroit (think The Ring meets Charles Burns’ Black Hole) that takes the form of a malevolent shape-shifter walking toward its singular victim slowly but relentlessly until close enough to strike.

Jay Height (Maika Monroe of the aforementioned film The Guest) is the latest to catch the bug.

With the aid of her friends, Jay aims to outrun the thing for as long as possible. Over the course of the film she comes to terms with her condition, tries

to fight back, weighs the moral costs of passing the curse on to save herself, and gets caught up in a love triangle between gawky childhood friend Paul and shaggy-haired ne’er-dowell Greg. But despite how much she tries, the curse can’t be shaken, and it changes things in ways she never could have expected.

It Follows walks an allegorical route, but does so thoughtfully, spacing out its plot deliberately without making its central metaphor too explicit.

As a horror experience, it’s somewhat less effective. There are moments of genuine terror in the movie, but, just like in a zombie movie, watching the monster walk towards Jay is never as scary as waiting for it to show up next, and it's

sometimes too easy to anticipate when those moments are coming for a sustained sense of dread.

But It Follows still manages to succeed. Monroe, who was also excellent in The Guest, has an inner ennui that gives her moments of brief joy and more lasting fear greater resonance—a reprieve from an immediate death does nothing to alleviate her existential troubles. Mitchell, too, has a few clever tricks in his bag, like shooting his subjects from a distant point of view, and closing in through long, dynamically composed tracking shots.

Sometimes this puts the viewer in the eyes of the follower, and sometimes it’s just a fabulous psych out. He also shows a fascination with the empty streets

and deserted parks where the invisible dangers of suburbia emerge, often filming 360-degree tableaus that reshape swathes of space from innocent to sinister.

It Follows is far more rewarding as a broad parable about the slow, painful transition into adulthood along an untraceable path, rather than a pinned-down metaphor for whatever sexual bugaboo one prefers. Near the end of the film, Jay asks a sexual partner if he feels different in any way, post-coitus. He says he doesn’t, but the couple knows something has changed, and they’ll now face the consequences, as mysterious as they are terrible.

Becoming an adult is scary and beautiful. So is It Follows.

It takes a village: CSO's French festival hits on both the personal and the grand Hannah Edgar Arts Staff There was a story floating around Symphony Hall Saturday night. As it goes, French-Canadian pianist and program soloist Louis Lortie had been rehearsing Vincent d’Indy’s Symphony on a French Mountain Air with conductor Charles Dutoit and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra earlier in the week when Dutoit noticed that Lortie was playing the piece entirely from memory. The touch was professional, Dutoit noted, but not really necessary: The piece is rarely programmed—the CSO last performed it in the 1940s— nor would it figure prominently into the pianist’s post-concert repertoire. So, why had he memorized it?

Taken aback by the maestro’s intimation, an astonished Lortie responded as though the answer was obvious: “Well, the Chicago Symphony is not a village!”

Indeed it is not, which the orchestra demonstrated a thousandfold in a program that opened and closed with works composed by Maurice Ravel: concert go-tos Rapsodie espagnole and the Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé, respectively. Lortie was featured as the soloist in the concert’s middle portion, which included d’Indy’s aforementioned Symphony (which is not really a symphony at all, but more of a symphonyconcerto hybrid) and César Franck’s Symphonic Variations (also a misnomer, and also spotlighting the solo piano).

Rapsodie espagnole is an example of “Spanish” music actually penned by a French composer, standing along standard repertory pieces like Édouard Lalo’s Symphonie espagnole, Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen, and Debussy’s Ibéria, the last of which was performed by the CSO earlier this season. However, unlike the company Ravel joined in composing Rapsodie espagnole, most of whom only had a tenuous connection to Spain at best, Ravel actually had a direct tie to the country: His mother was Basque and grew up in Madrid, and he himself grew up near the Spanish border.

That being said, the Iberian touches in Rapsodie espagnole are more thematic than characteristic.

The Malagueña and Ha-

banera movements borrow rhythmic elements from traditional Spanish dance— and naturally, there are the obligatory, raucous castanets in the fourth-movement Feria—but on the whole, the piece is unmistakably a product of French Impressionism.

And how sumptuously the CSO breathed life into Ravel’s classic: Red-blooded and impossibly full, the CSO’s performance of Ravel had

a distinctly different taste than the Rotterdam Philharmonic, who performed Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite and Piano Concerto in G at Symphony Hall last month.

Generally put, for the Rotterdam Phil’s silvery and lithe Ravel interpretations, less was more; in the CSO’s case, more was more: more sound, more drama, more passion.

As for the underperformed Symphony on a

French Mountain Air, something was left to be desired from both orchestra and soloist, especially at its beginning. Though there were memorable solo turns aplenty from individual members of the orchestra—a program all-star was Scott Hostetler, whose sublime English horn solos graced almost every piece on the program—on the whole it sounded stale, especially compared with CSO continued on page 8

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the richness of the preceding Rapsodie espagnole. I recall feeling similarly underwhelmed when the CSO gave its first performance of a Pierre Boulez piece some months ago, and I can’t help but wonder if “Warhorse Syndrome” is accountable for the flat execution of these neglected pieces. All in all, the standard concert repertory is actually quite small; oft-performed pieces

like Rapsodie espagnole gain a superhuman degree of Polish while others languish in obscurity, forgotten to musicians and audiences alike. It’s only a hypothesis—even a subdued CSO packs quite the punch, and it certainly warmed to the d’Indy by piece’s end—but Saturday’s concerts brought these sentiments back with a vengeance.

Nor did Lortie help the orchestra out much at all: In the first two movements,

he sounded just as tense as he looked on the bench.

Lortie’s nervous energy was finally put to good use in the jaunty third-movement Animé, whose main theme the soloist aptly described as an “earworm” in rehearsal.

He was certainly better suited to Franck’s Symphonic Variations than the d’Indy, but the same deficits marred both pieces. Often the CSO nobly attempted to compensate for his lack of lyricism, but Lortie never

fully reciprocated. An example that’s fresh in my mind was acting principal violist Li-Kuo Chang’s gorgeously phrased solo in the second movement of the d’Indy, over which the solo piano plays a twinkling tremolo, during which Lortie blithely hammered away at the keys instead of sensitively adjusting to his partner.

Conversely, in moments that begged for more virtuosic sparkle, Lortie never seemed to coax enough con-

trast with the orchestra to be heard.

Lortie’s playing was not without its merits, but for all his conviction that Chicago is “not a village,” his playing more often than not came off as disappointingly provincial.

If anything, a concert of so many ups and downs made the CSO’s closing performance of Daphnis et Chloé all the more rousing. Each swell inundated the hall; the sound gener-

ated by the CSO with each sweeping, languid gesture from Dutoit was absolutely astounding. Unsurprisingly, it was the ethereal, atmospheric strains of Ravel’s suite that swam in my ears as I left the concert hall.

No, the CSO is not a village. But for such a towering institution, it does have a way of drawing you into its intimate sphere, making you feel as though you, too, took part in something as personal as it is grand.

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The biggest Christian service of the year will be receiving appropriately monumental treatment at Rockefeller Chapel this Easter Sunday. Organ music? Plenty. Trumpets?

We’ve got ’em. A sermon rousing enough to raise anyone from the dead? Naturally, courtesy of Rockefeller’s own Associate for Congregational Life, Pastor Bromleigh McCleneghan. Musically, the service will feature classics old and new: both Mozart’s Mass in F Major, K.192 and UChicago Ph.D. candidate Katherine Pukinskis’s To Welcome in the Year, the latter of which was commissioned by the Rockefeller Children’s Choir and will be enjoying its world premiere. Go for a beautiful non-denominational Easter service. But if that’s not your thing, go for the stained glass windows and magnificent music.

Sunday, April 5, Rockefeller, 11 a.m., free Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare, the same minds that brought An Iliad to the Court Theatre to widespread acclaim in 2011, offer up yet another fresh take on a classic text with The Good Book. And what text is more classic than the Bible? Identity and spirituality clash throughout, with the play’s protagonists—Connor, a devoutly Catholic teen coming to terms with his sexuality, and Miriam, a jaded biblical scholar—both struggling to reconcile the two. An imaginative epic which the Court describes as “[spanning ] millennia, languages, cultures, religions, and even theatrical styles,” The Good Book is sure to have something for believers, nonbelievers, and everyone in between. While the show runs through April 19, today is both the opening run and a student night, which offers the bonus of free food and drinks after the opening run.

Friday, April 3, Court Theatre, 8 p.m., $15 for students with UCID, $25 for faculty, $35-65 general admission

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Brush off your best lungi and bust out your brightest sari; tomorrow evening is the South Asian Students Association (SASA) Cultural Show. This year’s theme is Journey, and acts ranging from traditional Kathak dance, to Hindi a cappella, to more modern fusion dance will be the focus of the show, while a series of sketches moving through the diverse cultural landscape of Southeast Asia will play in between each of the performances.

Along with the show, food will be catered beforehand from Udupi Palace and ticket holders will receive a SASA Journey T-shirt.

Dinner tickets for the show have already sold out, but there are still a limited number of tickets to the show available, which can be purchased in the Reynolds Club. Part of the revenue from the evening will be donated to the organization Pratham U.S.A., which funds educational opportunities for underprivileged Indian youth.

Saturday, April 4, Mandel Hall, dinner at 5 p.m., show starts at 7 p.m., Tier 1 Ticket: $10 with UCID, $15 otherwise, Tier 2 Ticket: $12 with UCID, $17 otherwise It’s time to embrace the

fact that you are already losing sleep one week into the quarter and support people who pull all-nighters for a higher cause: theater. Theater [24] is a quarterly University Theater ritual that puts six groups to the test and makes men out of boys.

Can they create a show— from writing to blocking to performance—in just 24 hours? That’s a question only those who attend the show will be able to properly answer. Come one, come all. This is a one-night-only show that you can’t miss.

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Maroons start strong on annual spring break trip Softball Andrew Beytagh Sports Contributor Chicago recently concluded its annual spring break trip to Clermont, FL. In the Sunshine State, the Maroons competed against a variety of DIII schools from across the country. The trip provided experience, confidence, and sunburns for the promising squad.

Overall, the Maroons compiled an 8–4 record, with notable victories over MIT, Wellesley, and Carleton. Over the course of the 12 games, the South Siders posted an impressive team batting average of .327 while scoring 58 runs.

While the young squad got off to a bumpy start, dropping three of its first four games, the team pulled it together in the second half of the trip to win seven of its eight remaining games.

March 25 proved to be momentous for Chicago. After struggling to find their footing in the season thus far, games against MIT and Wellesley brought out the perseverance and skill of a high caliber team.

In an especially exciting game, Chicago defeated Wellesley in extra innings by a score of 6–5. The team fell behind early, entering the fourth inning down by a score of 3–2.

After climbing back into the game and battling it out for the rest of the match, the two teams were tied at the end of nine innings. With two teammates on base following a pair of bunts, third-year Kristin Lopez brought them home for the extra inning win with a line drive to center field.

The Maroons faced off with MIT later that same day.

Again, Chicago fell behind early, heading into the fifth inning down by a score of 3–0.

Things looked gloomy even in the Florida sun. The seventh inning brought good fortune for the Maroons. After MIT walked second-year Maggie O’Hara with bases loaded, Lopez came up big again to send two players past home plate.

Third-year Kathleen Kohm and first-year Molly Moran followed Lopez’s example and each contributed a two-run single to give Chicago the 7–3 advantage at the end of the seventh. MIT was unable to recover from this seventh inning bashing and the Maroons walked away victorious on the day.

Over the course of these 12 games, the squad’s returners proved to provide a steady backbone. Second-year slaphitter Anna Woolery hit .395 and scored an impressive 10

runs, while outfielder Kohm led the team with eight RBIs. Third-year Devan Parkison also stole 10 bases for the Maroons and amassed a teamleading 16 hits.

New additions to the team provided depth to the bench.

First-year designated hitter and infielder, Alyssa Stolmack, provided a spark in the middle of the Maroon lineup. With a team-leading seven doubles in just 12 games, Stolmack said that she is “excited for the opportunity to contribute to such a positive team atmosphere and is looking forward to the rest of the season.”

Chicago’s pitching squad boasts the lone fourth-year on the team, Tabbetha Bohac, while also integrating the last week’s UAA Pitcher of the Week, second-year Jordan Poole, and a pair of rookies Molly Moran and Olivia Haney. After a shaky first outing, first-year Moran rebounded to post an impressive 1.98 ERA and led the pitching staff with 26 strikeouts in 28 and one-third innings. Poole also posted a record of 3–1, allowing a team-low nine walks in six appearances. Finally, to round out the starting pitchers, Bohac posted 24 strikeouts in six appearances and an ERA of 2.50. First-year Olivia

Fourth-year Tabbetha Bohac prepares to pitch a ball at a game against North Park last year FRANK WANG | THE CHICAGO MAROON

Haney anchored the pitching staff as the Maroons’ catcher, starting all 12 games of the trip.

Their season continued last night as the squad traveled

to Lake Forest to play in an afternoon cross town game.

The Foresters have posted an impressive 13–3 record thus far and have won four straight games. The Maroons look to

continue their own three game winning streak. The Maroons then host a doubleheader tonight at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. against Lawrence of Appleton, WI.

Chicago gains valuable expe- Team looks forward to rience in spite of frustrating kickoff of outdoor season defeats Track and Field Women’s Tennis Brad Bozych Sports Contributor The Maroons went off to California over the academic break to take on No. 13 MIT, No. 8 PomonaPitzer, and No. 9 Middlebury. This trip proved to be a tough one for the South Siders as they fell 7–2, 5–4, then 6–3 to each of the three opponents, respectively.

Chicago started its trip off against MIT, a contest that eventually wound up in the Maroons falling 7–2 to their Boston counterpart. In singles play, first-year Ariana Iranpour at No. 1 singles defeated MIT’s second-year Elysa Kohrs 6–4 in the first set and 7–5 in the second.

Fourth-year Megan Tang of the Maroons also won in her No. 2 singles match against first-year Sonya Das, by a score of 6–3 in both sets. However, these were the only wins for the Maroons on the day, but they would take on Pomona-Pitzer next.

The toughest match of the trip would come

Russell Mendelson Sports Staff against Pomona-Pitzer, as the Maroons fell in heartbreaking fashion to the California side 5–4.

Ranked No. 8 at the time, Pomona-Pitzer proved to be an excellent test for the No. 13 ranked Msaroons during their trip. On the singles side, the Maroons got wins from Iranpour as well as third-year Sruthi Ramaswami, who won their matches 6–3 6–0, and 4–6 6–2 6–1, respectively.

Iranpour and Tang teamed up to win their doubles match 8–5. The Maroons also got a doubles win from Ramaswami and thirdyear Lucy Tang 8–6. The Maroons couldn’t hold onto their early lead in the match though, and eventually and fell 5–4.

First-year Courtney Warren spoke about the tough loss the team took saying, “Losing 5–4 is always very tough because they’re matches that could go either way, but we just fell short. We have lost a few matches 5–4, starting with our match against Case Western, and after this match our team is ex-

cited to start winning some of these close matches.”

“This weekend will be a good test for us, and hopefully we can pull out a good result. The team’s energ y has been very positive, and everyone is very excited for next weekend,” Warren added.

The Maroons then took on No. 9 Middlebury to wrap up the trip. The Panthers were the Maroon’s seventh consecutive match against a nationally ranked opponent, proving a good test for the South Siders.

Lucy Tang won her singles match for the Maroons over the Panthers 6–4 in both sets. The doubles duos of Warren and second-year Tiffany Chen and Ramaswami and Lucy Tang were victorious for the Maroons, winning 8–2 and 8–5 respectively. However, the Maroons fell short, losing 6–3 to the Panthers in California.

The Maroons play in a week as they will head to Madison, WI next weekend for the Midwest Invitational.

The Maroons begin their outdoor season at home with the Ted Haydon Invitational this weekend in what will be their sole home meet of their spring season.

Chicago capped off an exciting indoor season with the women clinching the conference championship at home by over 20 points, while the men fell just short of a title by just a point to Wash U. For the men, the crowning of the UAA champion came down to the final event, the 4x400-meter, where they fell just short to Wash U. Additionally, the women sent their thirdranked Distance Medley Relay (DMR) squad to the DIII National Championships in Salem, N.C. where they finished third overall. The men also sent their 4x400-meter squad, which qualified at their last chance meet just a week prior and finished ninth overall the following weekend.

Pole-vaulter Michael Bennett earned a spot at Nationals but did not compete due to injury.

“The conference championships were a big improvement from last year but unfortunately we came up one point short,” said first-year Obi Wamuo who ran the second leg of the 4x400meter for the men at UAA con-

ference.

“This close call to what could have been has made the team hungry for a championship that we believe we deserve,” added Wamuo.

Unlike the men’s successful relay squad, on the women’s side the competitors will be split up into their other events for the remainder of the season as there is no outdoor DMR event.

“Everyone comes back from nationals in a different way. Especially with spring break and finals week, there are not many team practices happening, so it really is an adjustment period,” said second-year Michelle Dobbs, who ran the third leg of the DMR at Nationals.

“For some this means pushing the workouts harder than ever during indoor, and for others it’s best to ease back a little bit and make sure to stay healthy in the long run,” continued Dobbs.

The outdoor season includes environmental factors that are not present during the indoor months. Leading up to this weekend’s meet, some athletes were concerned that competition would be difficult due to the recent snowfall and colder weather last week, but as of late Thursday the conditions appear favorable with the temperature slated to be in the high 50s and sunny.

“Chicago can be a little unkind to us on practice or meet days,” said Dobbs on the tougher climate athletes must face outdoors.

“We definitely have to prepare mentally to be able to face these differences and understand that worse times at this point in the season don’t necessarily mean worse performances,” said Dobbs.

Despite the challenges the weather may bring, there are other concerns that some of the athletes may have to address as well, such as the wear and tear from the indoor season.

“The biggest challenge would be overcoming the sense of being burnt out from track and field,” said Wamuo on the metaphoric hurdles he will need to jump over this weekend.

“Track and field is not only physically exhausting but also mentally and it will be easier to zone out when facing external factors such as weather,” finished Wamuo.

Both athletes have had three weeks to recuperate from their strong winter campaigns, but most of their teammates are itching to compete after over five weeks of competitive inactivity. The Maroons rush out of the starting gates tomorrow morning at 11 a.m. at the Haydon Track.

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IN QUOTES “I don’t even know how I got to my hotel last night” –New England tight -end Rob Gronkowski disregarding the impact of concussions in football

Men’s relay captures national title in Texas Swimming and Diving Katie Anderson Associate Sports Editor The Maroons excelled at the four-day NCAA DIII Championship in Shenandoah, Texas last week, as the men finished 14th and the women 13th.

On the men’s side, Kenyon College placed first, tallying 468 points, while the South Siders finished with 94 points.

On the women’s side, swimming and diving powerhouse Emory University was victorious with 603 points, while the Maroons finished with 82 points.

Collectively, Chicago placed an impressive 13 individual All-Americans and seven relay All-Americans to conclude a banner year for the squad.

Highlights on the women’s side include the seventh-place finish and All-American status of second-year Alison Wall in the 200-yard backstroke. Wall was also a member of the 13thplace 400-yard freestyle relay squad alongside second-year Maya Scheidl, third-year Jen-

nifer Law, and fourth-year Jennifer Hill.

Swimming and diving may technically be individual sports, but Wall attributes much of the success to Chicago’s team spirit throughout the weekend.

“Having the team around supporting and cheering definitely contributed most to both the team’s success and my personal success. We trained hard the whole season for this meet, so we knew we were ready to swim fast,” Wall said.

Undoubtedly, the meet highlight for the Maroons came in the final event of the competition. The team of second-year Mantim Lee, third-year Thomas Meek, second-year Jeremy Estes and third-year Matthew Veldman claimed the national title in the 400-yard freestyle relay, and shattered the previous school record in the event.

As the fourth-seeded team at the conclusion of preliminaries, it wasn’t until race time that the group actually realized their chance of winning a na-

tional championship.

“Between sessions on the last day we joked about winning the relay,” Meek said. “I don’t think any of us really considered the possibility until during the race. Jeremy Estes even admitted during his portion of the post-race interview that he didn’t think until his leg that winning was possible.”

During the third leg, Estes placed the Maroons in a neckand-neck position for first, where they stayed. Remarkably, the South Siders tied exactly with The College of New Jersey with times of 2:57:85 to tie for the national title.

“The feeling was definitely euphoric,” Meek said. “I can’t describe how great a feeling it is to win alongside your teammates and greatest friends.”

Seeing that many of the top Maroon swimmers are underclassmen, Chicago has much to look forward to for next year.

“I think I am most looking forward to getting to meet and know the new first-years and seeing what new depth they

South Siders narrowly miss out on blemish free start Men’s Tennis Britta Nordstrom Sports Contributor

While most of the campus was off doing whatever it is that college kids do on spring break, the No. 13 Maroons played four matches in four days—two of which were against ranked opponents. Fortunately, they had the opportunity to play under cozy conditions in sunny California. First-year Peter Leung was especially effusive in his praise of the weather.

“Comparing its weather to Chicago’s or Houston’s [his hometown], I would consider it heaven,” Leung said.

The Maroons kicked off their campaign by sweeping Glendale 9–0, followed by victories over No. 24 Cal Lutheran by a score of 7–2 and Whittier by a final tally of 8–1. Chicago’s lone loss of the weekend came at the hands of No. 4 PomonaPitzer in a battle that ended at a close score of 5–4.

Possibly the nice weather contributed to the Maroons’ strong start, where they swept their first match against Glendale 9–0, extending their winning streak to seven straight matches in the season.

This streak continued against Cal Lutheran, as the Maroons won 7–2. While Cal Lutheran came out hot, winning two of

A University of Chicago swimmer dives into the pool at the start of a race at the Phoenix Fall Classic last year.

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can bring to the team. With that being said, I will definitely miss all of the seniors next year,” said Wall, who has two more years in the pool.

As Wall mentioned, the fourth-years will be missed, as many of them had great careers in the pool and on the board.

Notably, Matthew Staab and Anthony Restaino concluded their illustrious careers as Hon-

orable Mention All-Americans in the three-meter dive, as Staab finished 10th with 494.05 points and Restaino 14th with 462.35 points. On the women’s side, swimmer Jennifer Hill wrapped up her time in the pool by breaking the school record, placing 15th in the 200-yard breaststroke, and earning Honorable Mention All-American honors.

Looking forward to next year, Wall said, “Personally, I would just like to keep getting stronger and continue to drop time in my events. I think it would be cool to break more records, especially relay records.”

With lofty goals and a tremendous pool of returning talent, the future looks bright for Chicago swimming and diving.

Prescott shines as squad has rocky start to season Baseball

the three doubles matches, the Maroons stormed back to take all six singles matches.

The following day, the Maroons continued their dominance, defeating Whittier 8–1.

This brought the South Siders’ win streak to a total of nine straight matches. While they dropped the No. 1 doubles match, the Maroons were resilient and proceeded to only lose one game in the second set of their singles matches.

Unfortunately, the ninematch win streak came to a close on last Friday against No. 4 Pomona-Pitzer. It was a closely contested game, with the Maroons falling 5–4. Chicago won one of the three doubles matches, followed by a very contentious group of singles matches, in which three of the matches went to decisive third sets. The contest came down to No. 4 singles, which was one of the three that went to a tiebreaker. In the end, the Maroons were unable to muster enough strength to take down Pomona-Pitzer.

Although the streak has ended, there were several positive points of the Pomona-Pitzer matchup. Fourth-year Deepak Sabada was named the UAA Co-Men’s Tennis Player of the Week after he extended his singles matches streak to eight.

“The streak isn’t something

that is on my mind when I play so I don’t think it adds any pressure,” said Sabada. “[It] definitely helps with confidence as you know you’ve been successful in many different situations in the past.”

This confidence was extremely helpful against Pomona-Pitzer, where he was able to come back from being down 5–1 in the third set to win.

“I played more fearlessly when I was down 5–1 and once I got a couple of games, my opponent got tight,” Sabada said.

Another highlight of the match was Leung’s easy win, as he triumphed 6–1 and 6–3 in straight sets in his singles match.

“What enabled me to be successful against Pomona was having the confidence that I was part of a team that was just as good, if not better, than Pomona,” said Leung.

Moving forward, this sentiment was also echoed by second-year Sven Kranz who said, “We almost upset the No. 4 team in the country, and we will take that as motivation in the upcoming weeks.”

The Maroons’ next match is against No. 3 Wash U, and based on how close their last match was, it will definitely be one to watch. It will take place at Wash U next Saturday at 9 a.m.

Michael Cheiken Sports Staff While most of the student body vacationed for spring break, the Maroon baseball team got to work.

On March 21, the squad kicked off its week with a visit to Blackburn. When Blackburn pitcher Tyler Morgan threw wild pitches in the sixth and seventh innings, Chicago capitalized and stole the game away 4–3. Backed by a threehitter from second-year pitcher Thomas Prescott, the South Siders won the second game of the day, sweeping the doubleheader.

As the road trip continued, however, the Maroons struggled. Millsaps in Jackson, MS was the next stop, and the Chicago squad got shellacked by the Majors, losing all three games by a combined score of 36–18.

Chicago looked forward to better days against Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. Those days did not come.

A nine-run second inning from the Lynx highlighted the first game. Later in the day, even though third-year pitcher Nick Watson threw a fantastic complete game,

the offense was unable to provide any support.

Rhodes took both games.

Chicago’s spring break journey continued into Georgia. After a quick loss to LaGrange, the Maroons hopped back aboard the bus. The spring break tour ended in Atlanta with a doubleheader against UAA rival Emory. The Eagles handily beat the Maroons 11–4 and 10–1.

The team returned home after the week with a 2–8 r e c o r d .Un d i s c o u r a g e d , however, Watson noted, “We definitely showed some bright spots both defensively and at the plate during the trip, but we had trouble putting it all together.”

The postponement of the March 29 game provided the Maroons with some reprieve and time for reflection. “Our practices continued to focus on good hitting approaches at the plate, playing solid defense, and throwing strikes,” Watson said.

While Chicago had previously struggled to perform well in all of these aspects during a single game, the Maroons were able to complete the puzzle during

the April 1 doubleheader against Benedictine.

Watson threw his second complete game in as many starts, giving up just one run on three hits. The batting provided him offense to match, giving the Chicago squad a 5–1 victory.

After the intermission, first-year Michael Davis took the mound. He gave up three earned runs during his 2.1 innings, but by that time the Chicago batters had already amassed a hefty total of six runs.

Benedictine kept the game close, but the Maroons were able to hang on to a 7–4 lead as second-year William Potebnya-Meyer earned his first save of the season.

The Maroons’ newfound success certainly is encouraging. The season is still young, the team is just starting to kick into gear, and a single home game has yet to be played. This weekend the Maroons will travel for a doubleheader against a 5–7 UW–Platteville team. They will hope to extend their two-game winning streak and prove that their record is nothing more than a past already far behind.