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Residents of satellite dorms protest following housing changes by admin Annie Nazzaro News Staff Residents of satellite dorms are protesting changes to housing, following the news that five dorms are closing after the 2015–2016 school year, with the nine

Student Government candidates Holly Rapp, Katherine Shen, and Mike Viola from The Very Good Slate discuss their campaign platform during an annual candidate debate in Harper 130 last Monday.

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SG candidates debated last night in anticipation of this week’s election Raymond Fang Associate News Editor On Monday night, students gathered in Harper 130 for the annual Student Government candidates’ debate. The debate occurred ahead of the election, which lasts from Wednesday to Friday.

Candidates for Executive Slate, undergraduate liaison to the Board of Trustees, graduate liaison to the Board of Trustees, and community and government liaison all participated in the debate, which covered the issues of divestment from fossil fuels, SG stipends, early selection of student government cabinets, and graduate student loan debt.

During the debate, each candidate and slate introduced their platform, answered a series of pre-selected questions from the moderator, and then fielded moderated questions from the audience.

For the Executive Slate portion of the debate, the Moose Party, composed of members of the Delta Upsilon (DU) fraternity, led a raucous supporting crowd of fraternity brothers as they leapt onto tables, hollered, and danced around.

When asked about the legitimacy of pre-selecting cabinet members during the campaigning process, three slates (United Progress, The Very Good Slate, and ONE) criticized Open Minds for announcing their cabinet before the required Student Assembly approval process.

Open Minds responded by claiming that ONE had done something similar on their website, and that the decision acknowledged the wisdom of pre-selecting a cabinet as a move towards transparency. ONE denied that claim.

The event turned tense during the debate between Andrew Young and Anthony Downer,

candidates for the undergraduate liaison to the Board of Trustees, when an audience member asked the question: “What are your reactions, if any, to the ‘Pay to Play’ article in The Maroon?” referring to a Viewpoints article that claimed Young had a financial advantage in the election.

Young implied that Downer’s friendship with the writer of the article implicated him in its publication. Young also called the article’s accusations unfounded because both candidates had been given a stipend to fund their campaign. Downer responded that he had no involvement with the publication of the article and that, though he conceded that some of the accusations were unfounded, the article’s arguments about privilege in SG were still valid.

The SG election will occur from Wednesday, April 29 through Friday, May 1.

Rally for UCPD transparency held after passage of H.B. 3932 in the Illinois House Brandon Lee News Staff Campaign for Equitable Policing (CEP) members, UChicago Democrats, and community activists rallied to protest the lack of legal transparency mandates applied

to the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) this past Friday. The protest followed exactly one hour after the unanimous passage (108–0) of Illinois House Bill (H.B.) 3932, which would require the UCPD and other private campus police forces

to follow similar transparency standards that public law enforcement does under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The bill must pass the Illinois Senate and receive Governor Bruce Rauner’s signature before beCEP continued on page 2

houses in those dorms consolidated to eight and moved into Campus North Residence Hall.

Students feel that housing changes will weaken house culture, especially in the case where two houses will be merged into one. “I think

there is of course a concern that aspects of our house culture will not be able to survive a move and a name change,” said Aliyah BixbyDriesen, secretary and Save Our Satellites (SOS) Council representative of Maclean DORMS continued on page 3

Divvy adds eight new bike sharing stations in Hyde Park Last week, Divvy, Chicago’s bike share program, unveiled eight new bike stations in the Hyde Park area. The effort is part of the company’s recent announcement to bring over 176 new bike stations to neighborhoods across the city by June 2015. With the newest set of expansions this week, Chicago became the city with the largest number of bike share stations in America.

On April 16, the popular bike share program opened stations at the intersections of South Lake Park Avenue and East 53rd Street and South Cornell Avenue and East Hyde

Park Blvd. The following day, additional bike stations were created at the Museum of Science and Industry, South Ellis Avenue and East 55th Street, South Ellis Avenue and East 53rd Street, South University Avenue and East 57th Street, South Ellis Avenue and East 60th Street, and South Harper Avenue and East 59th Street.

Divvy’s equipment provider filed for bankruptcy last year, delaying planned expansions from the previous spring.

However, the yearlong delay allowed the company to obtain all necessary permits and start their expansion on schedule

this year, beginning on April 13.

The two-month expansion will result in Divvy’s bike share territory expanding to 87 square miles and 38 percent of the city’s total area. The program will also cover various Chicago neighborhoods with 1.3 million people (56 percent of Chicago residents) and expand across 33 of 50 wards.

After the 2015 expansion is completed, Divvy will become the bike share program with the largest number of stations in North America.

–Marta Bakula

Hyde Park sees slight increase in violent crime this year Sonia Schlesinger News Staff Last Monday, April 20, three people in a parked car on the 5400 block of South Ellis Avenue were shot and wounded. This marked the second Hyde Park shooting in eight days, after a man was shot on 62nd Street and Ellis Avenue on April 12. This particularly violent week in Hyde Park has sparked discussion regarding this year’s seemingly higher crime rate near campus and whether it will change student habits and policing in the area.

Graduate student Xinzhu Zhou, whose apartment directly overlooks the area where the shooting occurred explained, “I have always been very cautious when walking in Hyde Park, but

there is only so much you can do about it.” Due to several recent robberies around her street, she will be moving next year.

Violent crime, which primarily includes murder, assault, and battery, has fallen drastically in the Hyde ParkSouth Kenwood area in recent years: between 2009 and 2013 the violent crime rate dropped 31 percent, according to a 2013 University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) safety report. While the violent crime rate remains far below that of 2009, 2015 has seen a slight rise in crime compared with recent years.

Two shootings in a single week, or even a month, is unusual for Hyde Park. In the first half of 2014, the Chicago Tribune reported, only one person had been shot in

Hyde Park. In all of 2014, the number rose to four. So far in 2015, three people have been shot in Hyde Park during the month of April.

In spite of this year’s increase in violent crime, Hyde Park’s crime rate remains drastically lower than nearly all other neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side, including Washington Park and Woodlawn, which immediately surround it. Compared with this year’s three shooting victims in the University area, and last year’s four victims in total, 18 people have been shot in Woodlawn this year, and 49 were shot last year, according to the *Chicago Tribune*. Washington Park’s numbers are similar, with 12 victims so far this year and 45 total in 2014. This may be SHOOTING continued on page 2

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Civil rights conference hosts Garcia, Jackson

Members of many community orgs. came to the rally

Tamar Honig News Staff

CEP continued from front

On Friday and Saturday, the Chicago Theological Seminary (CTS) hosted its spring conference on civil rights, “Selma at 50: Still Marching.” As its title suggests, the conference honored the 50th anniversary of the historic civil rights actions in Selma, AL for voting rights for black Americans. Through a diverse array of panel discussions and workshops that featured speakers such as Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. and Cook County Commissioner Jesús “Chuy” García, attendees were encouraged to examine the systemic causes of social problems and to craft strategies for implementing positive change.

“We chose to focus this year’s conference on the 50th anniversary of the civil rights actions in Selma, AL because of the seminary’s important and specific connections to that particular event,” CTS marketing director Susan Cusick said. “We decided on a very forward-focused tagline, ‘Still Marching,’ to assure attendees that this conference was much more than a commemoration—it was a rally cry around the work being done, and yet to be done.”

Regarding the connections to Selma, CTS was involved in various efforts to advance the cause of civil rights, and in 1957 became the first seminary in America to award Martin Luther King, Jr. an honorary Doc-

tor of Divinity degree for his activism. In 1965, then-CTS President Howard Schomer and other CTS faculty and students marched with King in Selma.

Jackson, an activist and founder and president of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, a nonprofit organization dedicated to pursuing social justice and civil rights, delivered the opening plenary on Friday morning.

Jackson recounted the history of the civil rights movement and emphasized the ongoing struggle for equality.

“Civil rights came with the combination of litigation, legislation, and demonstration,” explained Jackson, who also marched alongside King in Selma a half-century ago.

After tracing the accomplishments and setbacks of black Americans from the time of slavery to the present day, Jackson portrayed the racial inequality that continues to plague the nation.

He had the audience repeat after him several times the refrain, “We are free, but not equal.”

“Poverty abounds, and for those persons there is a safety net called jails,” Jackson continued. “We must fight to wipe out hunger, not wipe out the hungry.”

García was another key speaker at the conference. In a special panel for pre-registered conference attendees called “Chat with Chuy,” García dis-

cussed his recent campaign for mayor of Chicago, which resulted in a runoff election between himself and incumbent Rahm Emanuel (García lost the runoff ).

Garcia’s discussion was tinged with a mixture of disappointment and hopefulness. While he seemed somewhat bitter over the election outcome, Garcia expressed determination to continue fighting for working people and for families across Chicago and the nation.

The conference also featured performances by hip-hop activist artists—Jasiri X on Friday, and FM Supreme on Saturday—as well as finalists from Louder Than a Bomb, a Chicago youth poetry festival. Furthermore, a team of graphic artists from the Ink Factory Studio captured many of the sessions in posters that will be compiled into a “wall” to be displayed in the CTS lobby.

Cusick noted positive feedback from the two days of discussing, networking, and artistic showcasing. The conference hashtag, #CTSSelma, trended at number 10 nationally, she reported.

“People told us they did not want the conference to end, yet they were ‘full’ as one participant told me,” Cusick concluded in her statement. “‘Full’ with passion, ideas, strategy and motivation to continue the work of social justice activism—of making positive change…. I think we did what we set out to do.”

NEWS IN BRIEF Provost announces new administrative cost-cutting initiative In an email to Universityspecific faculty and staff last week, Provost Eric Isaacs announced that there would be administrative budget cuts.

The email did not specify the exact figures for the cutbacks, but indicated that recent investments such as the Mansueto Library, Logan Center for the Arts, and Campus North Residence Hall and Dining Commons required the University to keep a smaller administrative budget.

“While we are increasing the University’s budget

and investments overall in academic areas, we need to reduce spending for administrative operations. This means a change in how we think about administrative costs, not just a temporary adjustment of expenses,” Isaacs wrote in the email.

Neither Isaacs nor the News Office could be reached for further comment.

According to the email, Isaacs and his team are working with offices across campus to locate potential areas of financial inefficiency. Non-

academic departments will be the hardest hit by these budget cuts in line with the University’s core mission, Isaacs wrote.

In addition, the University is planning a review of administrative services. In the next few weeks, department and unit leaders will receive more information about their budgets for the upcoming year.

In the meantime, staff are encouraged to “offer creative ideas for cost saving.”

–Katherine Vega

coming law.

H.B. 3932 was first introduced on February 27

by House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie and was co-sponsored by Representative Christian Mitchell, whose districts fall within the UCPD’s jurisdiction. The bill proposes to amend the Private College Campus Police Act, which has remained largely unaltered since its passage in 1992. The current act grants campus police at private colleges and universities all the powers of municipal police, including making arrests and regulating traffic, and sets baseline standards of training for hired officers.

The University declined to comment on the bill.

UCPD currently patrols approximately 65,000 residents, 50,000 of whom are not students, with 95 officers.

Of the officers, 63 percent are black, 25 percent white, and 12 percent Hispanic.

The passage of the bill was preceded by an official University press release, which stated that the University will make changes that “go beyond

the requirements of Illinois law for police forces at private institutions,” which includes records of arrests upon request, background information on how the department fulfills its duties, traffic stops and field contacts by UCPD, and daily online updates detailing stops.

“Today we’re here to demand from the University a more transparent and accountable University police force,” said Alex Ding of CEP during her address to the crowd. “We know exactly what a UCPD that is not accountable or transparent looks like. It looks like a UCPD that we know systematically racially profiles and harasses…with complete impunity.” She states that the University’s proposed changes are not a voluntary act on the part of the University, but rather the result of sustained student, community and electoral pressure.

H.B. 3932 will require disclosure of information and records in the custody or possession of campus police departments that encompasses, but is not limited to, traffic

stop and field contact information, arrest reports, and broadcast radio communications among officers.

Yet the CEP noted that there are pitfalls in the recent University announcement, stating that “without a legal mandate, data release remains at the sole discretion of the University.

Furthermore, the information the University will provide under today’s measure excludes critical areas of the UCPD’s records.” Finally, the CEP stated that the Independent Review Committee, the UCPD’s primary accountability mechanism, is insufficient, as “all of its members are appointed by the University administration, and its capacity to ‘review’ police misconduct complaints is limited to commenting on internal investigations after they are closed and a final decision has been reached.”

In an e-mailed statement

by University spokesperson Jeremy Manier, the University denied racial profiling accusations. “The University of Chicago Police Department does not deploy tactics that support racial profiling.”

Slight increase is still far below rates from six years ago SHOOTING continued from front

due in part to the UCPD’s extensive presence in Hyde Park and the South Kenwood area.

Illinois holds some of the strictest gun laws in the country, with particularly stringent local laws in Chicago and Cook County. Illinois was the last state to pass concealed carry laws in 2013.

To obtain a concealed carry permit, residents are required to undergo rigorous training and background checks, and registration for the permit comes at a high cost, the

Washington Times reported last year.

Regardless of these laws, the city remains one of the most violent in the country.

Gun rights advocates point to the fact that residents in Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods, including Englewood, West Englewood, and West Garfield Park, hold the fewest concealed carry permits in the city, as they cannot afford the high cost. Residents in more affluent areas, where crime rates are lower, hold the highest number of permits, according to the Times.

As summer approaches, which is typically the most violent season in Chicago, students remain concerned about the recent spike in Hyde Park crime. Yet Zhou believes the problem in the immediate campus area can be improved. “Campus police can rearrange their patrol area and put more focus on places where students tend to go a lot and are not that safe,” she said. Meanwhile, the UCPD is continuing to investigate the cause of recent shootings and working to prevent similar occurrences.

The University of Chicago Program in the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science and Medicine presents a lecture by

Laura J. Snyder – St. John’s University Eye of the Beholder: Johannes Vermeer, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and the Reinvention of Seeing Thursday, May 7th 4:00pm to 6:00pm Social Science Research Building, Room 105 1126 E. 59th Street “See for yourself!” was the clarion call of the 1600s. Scientists peered at nature through microscopes and telescopes, making the discoveries in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and anatomy that ignited the Scientific Revolution. Artists investigated nature with lenses, mirrors, and camera obscuras, creating extraordinarily detailed paintings of flowers and insects, and scenes filled with realistic effects of light, shadow, and color. In the small Dutch town of Delft, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, a city bureaucrat and cloth-salesman, made his own microscopes and used them to discover a realm of living creatures never before imagined: microscopic life. At the same time, Leeuwenhoek’s neighbor Johannes Vermeer was experimenting with lenses and a camera obscura, experiments that taught him how we see under different conditions of light and helped him create the most luminous works of art ever beheld.

By extending the reach of sight the new optical instruments prompted the realization that there is more than meets the eye. But they also raised questions about how we see and what it means to see. In answering these questions, scientists and artists in Delft—particularly Leeuwenhoek and Vermeer—changed how we perceive the world.

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Univ. hosts Youth/Police Conference Abandoned homeless encampment found on the Midway last week Lorentz Hansen News Staff

The University of Chicago Law School held the Youth/Police Conference last Friday and Saturday, during which professors, journalists, activists, police officials, and community members convened to discuss the fractured relationship between police and youth of color in the U.S. and potential ways to mend it.

Sponsored by the Law School, Urban Network, and Office of Civic Engagement, the conference arose from collaborative efforts by the Invisible Institute and the Law School’s Mandel Legal Aid Clinic to encourage discussion among Chicago-area youth about their interactions and relationships with police officers and make their stories heard.

The conference, moderated

by Institute of Politics Executive Director Steve Edwards and Jamie Kalven of the Invisible Institute, dedicated the first day to youth perspectives and the second day to police, scholarly, and legal perspectives. Both days alternated between panel sessions and questions from community members.

In light of ongoing clashes between police and residents in cities such as Baltimore and Ferguson, the panelists reiterated that they wanted to encourage discourse in other cities as well.

Community members present

at the conference also repeatedly stressed the importance of these discussions between the University and local residents given accusations of racial profiling and unfair policing practices by the University of Chicago Police Department.

The conference began with a video made by the Invisible Institute and Mandel Legal Aid Clinic in which students at nearby Hyde Park Academy described their interactions with police officers. One student responded, “When I call what’s going to come? A good cop or a bad cop?

Are they going to be effective, do their job…or criminalize and penalize me before even knowing me?”

During the second day of the conference, participants focused on the larger implications of this broken police-youth relationship. Marq Claxton, director of public relations and political affairs for the Black Law Enforcement Alliance, said, “part of what needs to be done, is for us to stop…as police, being defensive, and acknowledge that there are some huge, systemic, engrained problems within the profession, that there have been a decrease in professional standards.”

In the subsequent panel, Chris King, managing editor of the *St. Louis American*, said, “everyone [in Ferguson] would say…police officers protect themselves first and they protect

their fellow officers second, and the community…is third.”

Craig Futterman, founder of the Civil Rights and Police Accountability Project of the Mandel Legal Aid Clinic, described the consequences of this police mentality on their constituents.

Speaking about frequent police stops of youth of color, he said they send “an unmistakable message…that we think you’re a criminal.”

Beyond breeding mistrust between law enforcement officials and young residents, police interactions with adolescents of color have much broader repercussions. Political science professor Cathy Cohen said that these interactions cause teenagers to shy from their communities. “However, in a supposed democracy, the way in which you get your rights is…to make claim to them, and the way you make claim to them is in fact to be visible,” she said. “So if in fact I’m invisible, I’m already kind of a secondary citizen if I’m a citizen at all.”

The conference concluded with a session titled “Where Do We Go From Here?” in which audience members were invited to share their thoughts about possible solutions. This community involvement, Edwards said, is “a pivotal part of the conversation,” and he encouraged community members to continue to think about and take action to address these issues even after the conference ended.

Exhibit on immigrants on display at Reynolds Tamar Honig News Staff

lated the often-painful process of acclimating to a new life.

Last week, an interactive exhibit called *My Immigration Story* on display in Reynolds Club invited students to delve into their family histories and share stories of how they, or their ancestors, arrived in the United States. The exhibit was organized by New Americans, a civic engagement project at the Institute of Politics that aids immigrants in the process of becoming American citizens.

Throughout its time on display, the six-foot whiteboard stationed outside C-Shop filled up with colorful anonymous messages scrawled in dry erase marker or posted on sticky notes. Students told stories of families torn apart and reunited, relatives who fled civil wars, poverty, and struggles for citizenship that lasted decades.

Second-year Daphne McKee, who organized *My Immigration Story*, explained the purpose of the project.

“I intended for this exhibit to raise awareness of the importance of immigration networks and stories to the UChicago community, but I also wanted more people to know that resources for undocumented students exist at UChicago and to know about New Americans,” she said.

Some of the stories articu-

“My dad left one kind of violence in El Salvador and found another, much more sinister kind here,” read one sticky note affixed to the board.

Another participant in the exhibit wrote, “My parents came from rural Mexico. They traded one life of poverty for another.”

“I boarded a plane; the rest has been a living hell,” was the message scribed in another corner of the board.

Other stories expressed admiration and gratitude for ancestors who took great risks in search of a better life for their families.

Wrote one student, “My grandfather got a scholarship to leave Pakistan and study to become a professor in plant biology—he left a wife and 2 children behind to come study here…. We made it in America b/c of him. Love you, nana.”

Second-year Elaine Yao, the director of New Americans, elaborated on the organization’s mission of helping immigrants jumpstart their civic lives.

“Naturalization is an incredibly lengthy and demanding process. On top of having incredibly strict eligibility requirements, it requires the filling out of a very long (and expensive) application, a back-

ground check, being fingerprinted, and obviously undergoing an interview that tests your English abilities and your knowledge of U.S. government and civics,” said Yao. “That’s where we come in,” Yao continued. “Our main community partner, the Instituto del Progreso Latino, runs classes for applicants who need help preparing for their interview and test. We act as tutors in these classes, working one-on-one with students to help them develop their language skills, give them individualized attention, and conduct mock interviews.”

The exhibit received positive reviews from those who viewed and participated in it.

Its stories of hope and strife from around the globe resonated with many students and faculty.

“I think it was amazing how intimate the experience of writing on the board was,” said Yao. “Standing at the board could make you feel really vulnerable and exposed….

The most moving thing was watching someone you didn’t know stand at the board very introspectively with a marker in their hand for a while, and then look around and start to draw strength from the other messages and stories that had been written. Then they would write something down and promptly disappear.”

Adam Thorp News Staff Last Monday, 12 volunteers cleared out an extensive and apparently abandoned homeless encampment and dumping ground hidden away on the Midway Plaisance. The camp was in a group of trees flush against the Canadian National Railway Line, towards the east of the Midway.

“I was blown away,” said Louise McCurry, who helped clean the area. “I had no idea that there was so much trash up there.”

The volunteers found five shelters at the top of the hill.

According to McCurry, the shelters did not seem to have been recently occupied and were in different stages of disrepair: some had apparently caught on fire and others had half-collapsed. Still, some

of the structures had been screwed into trees or were too large for the people in the group to move. Canadian National, who is responsible for a small slice of land near its tracks, was scheduled to send people to dismantle what remained of the encampment sometime in the last week.

The group found dead animals in the structures. McCurry said that people in the surrounding neighborhood had complained about rats coming out of the park and that a concern about vermin was one reason for cleaning the site.

The dismantling of the encampment was the first workday for the revived Midway Park Advisory Council (PAC). PACs are groups of volunteers who take some responsibility for maintenance and improvements at their affiliated parks. McCurry, the

current president of the Jackson Park Advisory Council who has been working with the new PAC, compared the process of cleaning the Midway to the Jackson PAC’s early work in Jackson Park. According to McCurry, Jackson PAC spent the first two years of its existence clearing out spots where trash was habitually being dumped. Midway PAC elected its first new officers in more than a decade last night.

McCurry said that members of the group were planning to plant flowers and beautify the area, in order to discourage dumping. “[Like Jackson Park] this is another Olmsted-designed park. It’s a beautiful, beautiful park. Clearing it up from the Sands of Time all the way to the Circular Garden is our goal. To make it a beautiful place to be again,” said McCurry.

“The students’ anger and disappointment comes from the feeling that students were not consulted” DORMS continued from front

House. SOS is a student organization that aims to preserve the house culture of satellite dorms.

The closure of the satellite dorms along with the move to Campus North is meant to strengthen the Resident Master model while continuing to foster community building within the house system, according to a statement by Karen Warren Coleman, the vice president for campus life and student services. “These signature aspects of the College housing experience have been developed over time with thoughtfulness and student input,” she said.

However, much of students’ anger and disappointment comes from the feeling that students were not consulted about these changes and were given little to no notice. “Despite all of the administration’s claims that they think this is the best thing for the students, they don’t seem to have any idea of what students value,” Bixby-Driesen said.

There is a Campus North Residence Hall and Dining Commons Advisory Committee, comprising 14 students, according to committee member Yi Xuan Song. Song said that they were consulted on furniture and retail space in Campus North, but not house culture or house names.

Affected houses will also have their names “retired” at the end of the 2015–2016 school year, a move which has confused and angered many. “They [College Housing] explicitly said that it was an opportunity to solicit

new donors. They’re making no bones about the money grab,” said Mike Dewar, vice president and SOS Council representative of Maclean House, referencing Maclean’s meeting with College Housing representatives.

As a result of these sentiments, students have organized in the Save Our Satellites Facebook group and have also set up a listhost.

Their protest strategies include hashtag takeovers, alumni outreach, flyers across campus, and meetings with school administrators.

SOS has also created a council, made of representatives of each house, to establish the official goals and strategies of the movement.

They released their formal statement of purpose this morning, and will be holding a town hall–style meeting for the University community on Monday, May 4, according to an e-mailed statement from Dewar.

The SOS Council is separate from the executive council that College Housing plans to create to help make housing decisions— that council will include a student representative from each affected house (nine total) and two Resident Heads.

According to Housing’s FAQ, this committee will help plan celebratory events to honor the closing of their houses.

Students from SOS made efforts to disrupt UChicago’s 24 Hour Impact campaign from April 22–23, a period in which student donations would be matched by larger alumni donations.

Using the fundraiser’s official #24hourimpact tag,

students tweeted about their disappointment with housing rather than encouraging donations. Their impact on actual donations, however, was unclear.

Similarly, SOS students have been using the Alumni Weekend tag, #UChiAW, to voice their displeasure with housing while hoping to attract the attention of alumni.

The protest group has since started their own tag, #SOSUChicago, to consolidate their movement.

The administration has drawn additional ire from affected students due to its lack of transparency. Breckinridge House, for example, anticipating their closure, had scheduled a meeting with Dean of the College John Boyer and Warren Coleman. According to Emma MacDuff, a first-year from Breckinridge, the house was told that the meeting would take place before any final decisions regarding housing had been reached.

However, the announcement that the satellite dorms would close came Monday, April 20, a week before the meeting, which was scheduled for April 27.

In the meantime, College Housing administrators Sophia Chaknis and David Clark have met with all nine affected houses to hear student concerns and answer questions.

But according to BixbyDriesen, the SOS movement is just beginning. “For us the building itself is a big deal; we have quotes painted all over our walls that represent years of history, and we don’t want to see that go away,” Bixby-Driesen said.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT COLLEGE COUNCIL: CLASS OF 2016 & 2017

CLARK HALPERN

LEEHO LIM

Stance on U-Pass: Yes Stance on trauma center: Yes Student Leadership Stipend Program: Yes Stance on UCPD Transparency: The UCPD needs to be more accountable for their actions. By calling for an increase in the transparency of the UCPD's everyday stops and arrests, Student Government has the power to truly make a difference.

Stance on RSO Funding: I disagree with the current practice of relying on RSO members to purchase supplies out of pocket with the intention of getting their money reimbursed at a later date. This process can be improved by having a credit card directly linked to the RSO's financial account. This can prevent unintentional financial burden on RSO members.

Stance on U-Pass: No Stance on trauma center: Yes Stance on student leaddership stipend program: No Stance on UCPD Transparency: Yes How can the RSO funding process be improved? Can be improved by allocating more of the Student Life fee into RSO funding and urging the administration to pool more money into the student life fee.

Additionally, we can hold SG fundraisers that will be focused on increasing RSO funding (although this would probably be more of a way to increase funding marginally). What the administration does not understand is that as the number of RSOs increase, and as students are encouraged to participate more in RSOs and student life, the amount of funding that is allocated to the student life fee should go up proportionally, and not down. After sitting on Annual Allocations last year, it was def a shame that we had to cut back on some RSO funding due to a lack of the overall funds we were given.

CLASS OF 2016

MARK SANDS CLASS OF 2016

Stance on U-Pass: Yes. The referendum passed.

Stance on trauma center: Yes. If this is going to happen on the South Side, UChicago will have to be a big part of it.

Stance on student leadership stipend program: Yes, absolutely. I'm super excited about this idea.

Stance on UCPD transparency: I'm glad that HB 3932 passed the IL House, and I hope it will pass the Illinois Senate. It's vital that the community, both within the University and outside of it have data about the police forces operating in their neighborhoods.

How can the RSO funding process be improved? We should work on improving the communication to RSOs—I think many still come out of the process without an understanding of how their request was evaluated. We should also work on better publicizing funding guidelines, since I think there is still confusion about what SGFC, AnAll, and other funding bodies are supposed to fund.

MIKE VIOLA CLASS OF 2016

Stance on U-Pass: Since this was an issue based entirely on how many students would benefit, the only appropriate way to come up with an answer was by referendum. I do believe that we should keep an eye on the cost versus the benefit once U-Pass is implemented, but this will be after my time as an undergraduate so this is largely irrelevant to my position.

Stance on trauma center: While I certainly see a trauma center as being desirable in the long term, there are a number of conversations to be had on the issue. Where would funding come from? Would it come from another essential service or field of research? Is a partnership with the city or another hospital network realistic? Is it the University's responsibility to build one if the primary users are expected to be people from outside the UChicago community? A greater exploration of these questions needs to occur before this can be portrayed as a black-and-white issue.

Stance on student leadership stipend program: Yes, provided there are adequate safeguards to prevent bias on the student-led committee that pays the stipends. Such safeguards could include greater staff oversight and a provision ensuring that students on the committee come from an ideologically diverse selection of RSOs. Stance on UCPD Transparency: I support UCPD transparency efforts because the powers granted to it by the city require accountability—I consider it a private police force in name only.

How can the RSO funding process be improved? Some funding rules, like no funding for fundraisers, disproportionately disadvantage small RSOs and should be changed. As it stands, members of a small RSO just getting off the ground must pay out of pocket for fundraisers and hope that they make enough money back to both get reimbursed and to benefit the RSO. A more productive system could involve an RSO incubation pot—funds set aside to help new RSOs get fundraising support.

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LOUISA RICHARDSON-DEPPE CLASS OF 2017

Stance on U-Pass: Yes Stance on trauma center: Yes Stance on student leadership stipend program: Yes Stance on UCPD transparency: I stand with and will support the goals of Southside Solidarity Network's Campaign for Equitable Policing.

How can the RSO funding process be improved? Increased access to RSO funding for a variety of RSO events and functions is important.

Travel and large RSO events should be able to request greater allocations of funding. The Student Life Fee should directly benefit student life, so the Student Government Funding Committee as well as Annual Allocations (both funded fully by the Student Life Fee) should receive a greater portion of that money. In addition to being better funded both SGFC and Annual Allocations hould distribute their funds to RSOs more fully.

KATHERINE SHEN CLASS OF 2017

Stance on U-Pass: No—I think given that the majority of students are for U-Pass, it is something Student Government should be a proponent of. However, I'm personally particularly concerned by U-Pass' effect on middle income students whose student life-fees are not covered by Financial Aid and thus will be paying for U-Pass out of pocket.

Stance on trauma center: Yes Stance on student leadership stipend program: Yes Stance on UCPD transparency: Can definitely be improved. The recent resolution supporting UCPD records is definitely a step in the right direction and the Campaign for Equitable Policing has brought about huge improvements. However, it is still a work in progress.

How can the RSO funding process be improved? Directing left over Executive Cabinet budget into Annual Allocations. Creating a honorarium pot so RSOs can bring in big name speakers; increasing the money in the Travel fund so student travel can be funded at more than 50%. Finally, increased funding support for new RSOs.

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Stance on U-Pass: Yes Stance on trauma center: Yes Stance on student leadership stipend program: Yes Stance on UCPD transparency: I am a supporter of the efforts of the Coalition for Equitable Policing and am glad to hear about the recent passing of the HB3932 house bill.

SAACHI GUPTA How can the RSO funding process be improved? I’d like to see a CLASS OF 2017 larger portion of the Student Life Fee be allocated to student organizations. I also hope to advocate for higher fund limits for RSO travel Stance on U-Pass: Yes Stance on trauma center: Depending on the results of the studies cur- and large events, as well as for lower fundraising requirements for these rently being conducted to determine the whether the growth of trauma student organizations. cases requires another center.

Stance on student leadership stipend program: Yes Review last week's interviews featuring the Stance on UCPD transparency: Yes candidates for Executive Slate and liason positions: How can the RSO funding process be improved? Having served on annual allocations, and as VP of the largest women's organization on campus, I recognize that the process is bureaucratic, and complex, however, I chicagomaroon.github.io think that in its current form, it serves student needs effectively.

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Stance on U-Pass: I am very pleased with both the fact that a referendum occurred this year on U-Pass which allowed for the students’ voices to be heard in the decision making process, and also on the fact that the Office of Financial Aid agreed to cover the costs of this program for students on financial aid.

Stance on trauma center: There is no question that the South Side needs a trauma center. I definitely think that Student Government should help facilitate dialogue between the students on campus about this issue, and I acknowledge that there needs to be greater conversation between the city and the University. I am, however, happy to see progress being made with the UCMC’s recent decision to admit 16-17 year olds into pediatric trauma care.

Stance on student leadership stipend program: After the unsettling introduction of the stipends program for SG cabinet positions in Fall 2014, I was very pleased to hear about the new Student Leadership Stipend proposal which focuses on providing stipends for student leaders of RSOs in a quest to promote greater participation in RSO leadership by students who might not be able to financially support themselves otherwise.

Stance on UCPD transparency: Despite recent progress, there is still more progress that needs to be made. A greater push for a University-wide open data plan would not only make UCPD more transparent, but would also encourage student innovation.

How can the RSO funding process be improved? In order to make the RSO funding process as coherent and objective as possible, there needs to be a greater accountability structure and potentially a greater check on SG’s funding bodies to ensure that the process is as formulaic as possible.

Stance on U-Pass: Yes Stance on trauma center: Yes Stance on student leadership stipend program: Yes Stance on UCPD transparency: Transparency leads to more equitable policing, which is why I have helped lead an effort to push the Illinois General Assembly to pass a bill that would hold the UCPD to the same transparency standards as public forces. Just last Friday, the House passed that bill with a vote of 108-0, which is an exciting step in the right direction!

How can the RSO funding process be improved? I am confident that SGFC can budget its funds better to remove the need for small RSOs to do fundraising by continuing to improve internal accounting.

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Stance on U-Pass:Yes. Stance on trauma center: Yes, it is extremely important for Hyde Park to have Level 1 trauma center.

Stance on student leadership stipend program: Student leaders vie for their positions not for their own sake, but because they truly care about making change in the community they love. Therefore, this will and ability to make change should be compensation enough. As a founder of a nonprofit organization I know for a fact that if you are truly invested in a cause, payment should be secondary to a call to action.

Stance on UCPD transparency: The recent move of the UCPD to release records of incidents in the community is a great first step in the direction COSMO ALBRECHT of transparency, but more needs to be done. Students have the right to be CLASS OF 2018 involved in their own safety.

How can the RSO funding process be improved? With over 400 RSO’s Stance on U-Pass: A very enthusiastic yes! on campus,we need to make sure every organization gets the support they Stance on trauma center: Yes need from student government. There needs to be a more streamlined and Stance on student leadership stipend program: Yes efficient process by which RSO’s are reimbursed for expenses and small Stance on UCPD transparency: I'm an active member of the Campaign RSO’s are able to gain footing and establishment. Improved budgeting, for Equitable Policing and an intern for State Rep. Christian Mitchell, the better access to funds, and simpler application processes for becoming an chief cosponsor of HB3932, which will require the UCPD to be held to RSO and gaining funding would be steps in the right direction. the same accountability standards as any public law enforcement agency. I wholeheartedly support a UCPD that keeps us safe without alienating students and community members of color.

How can the RSO funding process be improved? Fostering better rela- MICHAEL MENG tions between leaders of RSOs on campus and members of College Council CLASS OF 2018 is essential to understanding the distinct funding needs that each organization has. I propose that CC strive to increase the transparency of the Student Stance on U-Pass: No—1) Not subsidized by administration means burGovernment Finance Committee (SGFC), as few members of the student den on many students - especially those who do not use it ~3 times a week. body concretely understand the process of allocating funds.

There are many students on the cusp of receiving financial aid especially who would be hurt by this. 2) UChicago shuttle expansion ( including to the Red Line ) would be helpful.

Stance on trauma center: Yes—BUT it should not be solely the University's financial burden. I agree the existence of a trauma center in the South CALVIN COTTRELL Side is crucial, but I believe the financial burden should be shared with the CLASS OF 2018 city.

Stance of U-Pass: Yes. I support U-Pass. The University has promised to Stance on the student leadership stipend program: Conditionally—fihelp those on financial aid with the costs which is a huge win for first gen- nancial need and time commitment must be strongly assessed with the aperation and/or low income students on campus; however, participation in plication available to everyone, not just SG. I strongly opposed the initial the U-Pass program will help everyone better take advantage of one of the stipend program in Fall 2014. university's greatest resources: the City of Chicago.

Stance on UCPD transparency: Very necessary and beneficial Stance on a trauma center: Yes. The University should build a level-1 trau- How can the RSO funding process be improved? I served on SGFC as a ma center. It is a shame not only on the university but the political system first year and will serve on Annual Allocations and have strong insight into the funding body. I believe it should be expanded beyond four voting memas a whole that there is not a trauma center on the South Side of Chicago.

Stance on student leadership stipend: Yes. I support the stipend program. bers with one tie-breaker, oftentimes the negotiations are very insular and Students put in so much time into RSOs on campus that balancing their opinions do not greatly reflect those of the community at large. I believe studies and working may be impossible. The stipend program will help stu- that past funding decisions including applications and comments should dents with financial difficulties focus on the most important part of the col- be made more public for RSOs applying for funding to be able to look at and review. There needs to be more public input and influence upon this lege experience: their studies and RSOs. Stance on UCPD Transparency: Yes. UCPD should have to report all of committee to hold it accountable to the RSOs they serve. Finally, I think the same data that other, public police departments have to report. Students that SGFC needs to hold office hours. often forget that the UCPD patrols a huge swath of the South Side and many problems that UChicago has with surrounding communities can be tied to the UCPD. UCPD transparency would help to fix these problems by building trust, and allowing for certain parties to be held responsible PREETHI RAJU CLASS OF 2018 when there are policing inequities.

RSO Funding: I feel RSO funding should be streamlined. After talking to several RSOs I have found the process to be overly complicated and that the Stance on U-Pass: Yes funds are not given out equitably. If elected I would try to find ways to bet- Stance on trauma center: Yes Stance on student leadership stipend program: Yes ter fund newer RSOs. Stance on UCPD transparency: Yes How can the RSO funding process be improved? A coherent stance on RSO funding that does not change from year-to-year or case-to-case would Editor's note: Due to space restrictions, The Maroon staff has condensed candidate give new RSO's more chance to be heard and evaluated. It feels that someresponses. Additionally, three candidates for College Council—Ted Barrett, Blaine times similar funding cases are rejected from different RSO's; our funding Crawford, and Ala Tineh—were unable to be reached for comment. committee does wonderful work, but it's difficult at times to interpret our current rules and consistently apply them.

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Editorial & Op-Ed APRIL 28, 2015

The Maroon Editorial Board endorses United Progress SG Elections 2015: Executive Slate The Maroon Editorial Board endorses United Progress (U.P.) for Executive Slate. The slate consists of Tyler Kissinger for president, Alex Jung for vice president of administration, and Kenzo Esquivel for vice president of student affairs.

U.P. has real initiatives to address issues of socioeconomic and racial diversity and sexual assault, including a plan to work with affected groups to ensure that the diversity and inclusion climate survey released next fall addresses issues relevant to their communities. Furthermore, U.P.’s members have demonstrated an investment in reaching out to members of the student body affected by these issues. U.P.’s endorsements come from many student leaders who have given marginalized groups voices on campus. The members of U.P. have been listening to these groups and will come into office with formulated plans to address their needs. In some cases, these plans have already been put into action—including the climate surveys on both sexual assault and diversity and inclusion.

In addition, U.P. also has concrete plans for addressing more surface-level issues on our campus. The slate plans to create student-led committees as an arm of SG to address many different facets of student life, including academics,

student services, and dining. These SG committees are more likely to advance change than the current administrationled “advisory boards” which are supposed to fulfill this role.

All of the members of the U.P. slate have previous experience in SG and have a demonstrated ability to get things done. In addition to the climate surveys, Kissinger presided over the rolling out of U-Pass (to be implemented fall 2016), significant steps forward in UCPD transparency, and a proposal for providing RSO leaders with stipends. This last proposal follows Kissinger’s initial plan to pay stipends to a newly created SG executive cabinet—a decision which was highly unpopular with students and never went through (despite other slates implying otherwise in their platforms).

Kissinger’s new proposal learns from the criticisms students had of his first proposal, and shows his ability to listen and react to student complaints.

Finally, the Editorial Board opposes the proposal put forth by Open Minds, ONE, and Moose to announce their cabinets before the election is held. This change is supposed to address a lack of transparency in the cabinet selection process, but fails to realize that creating a cabinet without an application process open to all students is hardly transparent. An open application process which

is clear in its criteria and expectations for cabinet members better serves our University.

More than any other slate, United Progress has an understanding of athe issues facing a broad cross-section of our campus, and feasible, effective plans to address them.

ONE ONE has several worthwhile proposals to help RSOs. They plan to make it possible for new organizations to apply for RSO status and SG funding online, which will be decided on a rolling basis instead of only twice each year. ONE also plans to publish more detailed information about SG’s budget online.

However, although ONE effectively addresses these issues, it misses many more.

They have three proposals for new annual parties (a fall carnival, spring firework show, and a formal in Mansueto), but only one proposal to address sexual assault (through more coverage during O-Week). While social life on campus is important, this imbalance suggests that ONE is out of touch with the concerns of a significant portion of our student body.

Open Minds The Open Minds Slate has a detailed, impressive policy on sexual as-

sault, though it was not included in the original version of their platform.

They also have novel ideas regarding increased RSO involvement in student government, including the creation of an RSO congress for better communication between organizations on campus. However, such a large gathering of students meeting only twice a year will be unwieldy and is unlikely to effect meaningful change. The same goes for their proposed “Multicultural Conference” to deal with racial discrimination on campus. This conference offers little to alleviate the real problems affecting students of color. It gives them another avenue to discuss their concerns, but students of color have been discussing their concerns about the campus climate all year (and earlier). Being open-minded and listening to students is a good idea, but what is also needed now are real stances and action.

The Very Good Slate The Very Good Slate’s platform emphasizes increased transparency through organizing town halls and holding more frequent social events for students. They plan to allocate more SG funds to student projects and to hold a month-long sexual assault prevention and awareness campaign in October.

We commend them for their afford-

ability initiatives, which include lowcost dining options on Saturday nights and more uniform house subsidies for students who cannot afford weekend activities. However, many other aspects of The Very Good Slates platform feel minor in comparison. Their platform has more to say about campus social events and recreation than diversity and inclusion. The Editorial Board is also not convinced of the slate’s ability to accomplish its initiatives. The slate’s candidates have a combined seven years of SG experience, but only pointed to one concrete accomplishment in their endorsement interview with The Maroon: Mike Viola and Holly Rapp pioneered the SG restaurant discount program.

Moose Party This is the 21st year the Moose Party is running for executive slate. This year’s edition is not particularly impressive.

While The Maroon endorses their plan to end all social constructs on campus, we somewhat doubt their ability to do so if elected.

T.K. Appreciation What we said for Moose Party, but just a little worse.

—The Maroon Editorial Board

The Editorial Board endorses Young and Perri SG Elections 2015: Liaisons The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892.

Eleanor Hyun, Editor-in-Chief Sarah Manhardt, Deputy Editor-in-Chief Stephen Moreland, Managing Editor The Maroon Editorial Board consists of Alan Hassler, Eleanor Hyun, and Lear Jiang.

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Multimedia Forrest Sill, editor Photo Marta Bakula, editor Frank Wang, editor Yeo Bi Choi, associate editor Video Amber Love, editor Social Media Emily Harwell, editor Online Ryan McDowell, web developer Business Nicolas Lukac, chief financial officer Ananya Pillutla, vice chief financial officer Andrew Ahn, co-director of marketing Eitan Rude, co-director of marketing Ben Veres, director of operations Patrick Quinn, director of strategy Lenise Lee, business manager Harry Backlund, distributor Kay Li, director of data analysis This issue: Copy: Megan Daknis, Kyra Martin Design: Stephanie Liu, Elle Rathbun, Kaitlyn Shen Editor-in-Chief E-mail: Editor@ChicagoMaroon.com Newsroom Phone: 773.702.1403 Business Phone: 773.702.9555 Fax: 773.702.3032 For advertising inquiries, please contact Ads@ChicagoMaroon.com or 773.702.9555 Circulation: 6,800. © 2015 The Chicago Maroon Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637

Undergraduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees: The Maroon Editorial Board endorses Andrew Young for the position of undergraduate liaison to the Board of Trustees. While Anthony Downer is a capable and highly qualified candidate, their platforms differ in one key area: pursuing voting representation for students on the Board of Trustees.

Downer will work for permanent representation for students in the form of at least one voting or ex-officio position.

Young believes that such representation for students is unachievable, and he does not plan to push for it. Instead, Young hopes to provide monthly opportunities for students to meet with trustees (something Downer also supports) and to connect RSOs with trustees whose professional experience is relevant to their work (something Downer does not see as feasible).

Undergraduate liaisons to the Board have been pushing for some form of increased representation for students for years, with little success. Young hopes that his plan to prioritize increased student interaction with trustees will build relationships that make voting representation easier to achieve in the long run.

His plan will only succeed if trustees are

willing to volunteer more of their time to interact with students. However, Young’s plan is thoughtful, well-formulated, and worth trying. Years of campaigning for student enfranchisement have yielded no results, and it is time for a different approach to the liaison position. Young’s platform reimagines a role that has long been ineffective and ill-defined.

Editor’s note: Andrew Young was an associate Viewpoints editor of The Maroon in spring quarter of 2014. Eleanor Hyun, who worked with him at the time, recused herself from the endorsement process for this position. Lear Jiang was not affiliated with The Maroon and Alan Hassler was not part of the Viewpoints section or Editorial Board at the time.

Graduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees: The Maroon Editorial Board endorses Katie Perri, a student in the Booth School, for the position of graduate liaison to the Board of Trustees. Perri brings pragmatic solutions that will once again make the graduate liaison position relevant after there were no declared candidates last year. Her new approach involves making more

data—including campus climate survey results and University financial information—available to students and using it to pinpoint areas where students and administrators can collaborate.

Being a successful liaison to the Board of Trustees requires not only a firm understanding of how to best leverage the position, but also the communication skills necessary to work proactively with busy trustees. Perri brings acumen from years of experience in the business world, where many of the trustees spend most of their time. In addition, Perri brings keen awareness of the issues that concern her fellow students. More than any other candidate, she recognizes the discussions that students may want to have with the trustees and how they can be conducted in the most productive way.

Community and Government Liaison: Editor’s note: The only candidate on the ballot for this position is Nina Katemauswa. She is also an associate Viewpoints editor of The Maroon. Thus, the Editorial Board will not make an endorsement for this position.

—The Maroon Editorial Board

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Hillary and her hair Hillary shouldn’t have to wear pantsuits to be taken seriously

Eliora Katz

Katzenjammer Last week, Hillary Rodham Clinton officially announced her presidential bid. This should come as no surprise. You needn’t have avidly followed Politico or know someone in Hillaryland to have realized she’d be running—you could just tell by, well, her hair. The media is quite obsessed with Clinton’s coif, from her bangs to her scrunchies and headbands.

The head covering even has its own topic page on the Huffington Post.

Clinton playfully acknowledged the special spot her hair holds in U.S. history by teasing that she nearly called her memoir “The Scrunchie Chronicles: 112 Countries And It’s Still All About The Hair.” At the Yale commencement speech in 2001, thenSenator Clinton gave the students advice drawing from her experience.

“The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters,” she said. “Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.”

And pay attention she has. When Clinton ran for President in 2008, she opted for a power cut: short on the sides, but feathered on top. Then, as Secretary of State, Clinton grew her locks past her shoulders, defying age appropriateness and the norm for Washington’s seasoned female elite, such as presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett and Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren. Recall the image that has become the face of her email scandal: Hillary texting in sunglasses on a plane to Libya in 2011 with her long locks curled at the bottom.

In our cultural conscious, long hair denotes youth and sensuality, whereas shorter hair is fierce, serious, and refined. Short hair is often associated with lesbians who, perhaps not so coincidentally, outperform straight women as a recent study by the Center for American Progress discovered.

It’s a social paradox to see elongated

tresses, a sign of vivacity and sex appeal, not to mention the inevitable hair flips or aberrant strands that may result in an occasional demure playfulness, sported by an elegantly wrinkled woman on the cusp of 70.

But this length was a wise decision for her diplomatic meetings with foreign leaders. She wasn’t holding an executive position; her job was coaxing and improving foreign relations, a role in which a little femininity could go a long way. By 2014, her hair began creeping up again, signaling her political intentions which solidified in 2015 with a return to her short ’do,” almost as severe as that of 2008.

Clinton is smart enough to recognize that not just hair sends political messages— wearing a tangerine or fuchsia pantsuit could also turn heads. Those pantsuits reflect carefully crafted decisions. They are masculine and tough in form, yet fun, progressive, and feminine in color. Those are the color choices of someone who wants to stand out, and is happy to do so in a ladylike palette. As First Lady, she answered to tradition, obediently wearing boxy jackets and skirts of an unflattering length. But when vying for a traditionally male position, she’s adopted a pantsuit uniform with a kick. Her liberal wardrobe reflects her progressive agenda and stands in stark contrast to Republican counterparts like Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, who’ve always opted for more traditional and conservative skirtand-jacket combinations in muted tones.

But Clinton and her wardrobe have undergone a volte-face. If the 2008 elections were the era of the badass yellow suits, this time around, Clinton is channeling grandma chic. In February, she issued a pro-vaccination tweet with “#GrandmothersKnowBest,” leading to a slew of “Grandma-

in-Chief ” articles highlighting a new theme for her election. Now Clinton is going small, trying to look more approachable and making it about voters—as exhibited by her debut campaign video featuring everyday Americans. “Unlike in her 2008 campaign, when she played down gender and sought to show she was tough enough to be president,” says the New York Times, this time “Mrs. Clinton pplans to highlight g g that she is a grandg mother and trumpet her chance to make history.” The home page of her campaign site prominently features her sitting sittin i g in a simple turtleneck and baggy jacket, having coffee in what appears to be a retirement home. P ePeter Beinart notes how “emphasizing grand-motherhood may be authentic for Hillary in another way too. In the popular imagination, grandmothers are both caring and conservative.”

And her clothing today looks like it came from your Bubby’s closet. We have yet to see a bright pantsuit in the past year and we likely will not.

The Hillary of 2015 is sporting less structured masculine suits and more collarless jackets in calmer colors and tweeds. Even her hair is less severe— it’s still short, but a bit softer, longer, and less boyish than 2008.

Perhaps Clinton’s turn towards more womanly wear, as opposed to her earlier aversion to it, is actually in step with feminist progress—but arguably not enough. It seems that to be taken seriously as a woman in politics, you either have to dress like a man or like an old grandmother—traditional

“femininity” is off the table. We have yet to see strong female politicians in full-out “womanly” attire, hair and all. Femininity should be taken just as seriously as masculinity; there is nothing inherently weak about being a woman.

Recently, Michelle Obama went on an Asian tour to promote female education while donning distinctly “girly” clothing—big skirts, cinched g pprints. “Shouldn’t waists, and bright she have worn a sharp-shouldered suit to talk about achievement?” asks Vanessa Friedman in the New York Times. Friedman argues that Mrs. Obama flouted “the Merkelization of female political dress which has seen women like Ms. Merkel, the German chancellor, and Hillary Rodham Clinton adopt what is effectively the male uniform in softer, brighter colors to remove the topic from the conversation.” Mrs. Obama instead wore girly clothing insinuating that girls can dress like her and still get a PhD or a law degree. But Friedman doesn’t mention politics, and Michelle is distinct from Merkel and Clinton—she is the First Lady, a traditionally

female role—she’s not the head of state.

It’s about time we reclaim Prada from the devil. We need serious female figures and, more importantly, female policy makers who needn’t wear traditionally male clothing in order to be taken seriously in traditionally male roles. Only by continuing to wear pink and Prada with pride can sartorial stereotypes be dismantled. Taking g shouldn’t be about wearingg the charge pants in the relationship—a woman can call the shots even in a full, floral, and fabulous skirt.

Eliora Katz is a second-year in the College studying philosophy.

Letter: E&R committee

Letter: College Council candidates pledge to an

illuminates issues on SG

open application process for cabinet members

candidate spending

Last year, the Student Government (SG) Executive Slate appointed a cabinet in order to allow SG to do its job better. These individuals were chosen after a fair and open application process, and they were subsequently approved by both the College and Graduate Councils. In the past year (2014–15), cabinet members have enabled us to fund RSOs more efficiently, to start a newsletter, and to maintain services like Marketplace.

They have never received any payment or stipend for their work.

This year, on the other hand, at least one slate has offered individuals these roles before the election has even occurred. This runs counter to

A recent opinion piece in The Maroon unfortunately contained a glaring omission regarding the elections process. The election rules impose strict campaign spending limits on each and every candidate. The limits for Slate and Liaison candidates correspond to the amounts furnished by the Election and Rules committee, so out-of-pocket expenditures in those campaigns are strictly prohibited. If violations are reported and confirmed, candidates are penalized either by vote deduction or disqualification. Additionally, expenditures are measured at fair market value in order to eliminate any advantage a candidate or slate may obtain from special donations or discounted election materials. Also, we’d like to note that campaign deposits, collected in case of physical campus damage caused by candidates, are returned after the election and can be made by check. We do not deposit the check if no damage occurs, and hence students do not have to pay these deposits out of pocket. We hope that these rules and

policies help to serve the needs of students from all backgrounds who wish to take part in our student government.

We appreciate and encourage vigorous campus debate and discussion regarding all issues facing the student body, including privilege. This is the essence of what the student government, and the attendant elections process, is all about.

We welcome conversation about the elections process and are always striving to make it more fair and transparent, and appreciate the spirit that the author was trying to capture. Our intention with this letter is merely to promote this discussion in its properly and fully informed context.

If anyone has any questions or concerns regarding the election process or potential violations, feel free to contact us at swendeborn@uchicago.edu.

—The Election & Rules Committee Steve Wendeborn Max Freedman Rahul Bhide

the spirit of an open and accessible Student Government, and instead potentially reinforcing student fears that Student Government is a place for nepotism and resume-padding.

We believe these important roles should instead be filled after the election through an application process open to every UChicago student, as is the case with other governments, student or otherwise.

As such, we, the undersigned College Council candidates, will only vote to confirm individuals to cabinet positions if they are selected through a fair and open application process after the election. All students should be able to get involved in the work

done by Student Government, and we hope you’ll join us in ensuring that cabinet positions are held to that standard.

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it The University is trying to solve problems that don’t exist in the housing system Nathaniel Rossum Maroon Contributor I was disappointed to wake up this morning and find out that The Maroon had failed to take a stance on an issue that affects hundreds of students at this university.

The op-ed states that most students are upset with this decision and that the University had failed to enter into a dialogue with the students. All true. Over the past week, hundreds of current students and alumni have united in an effort on Facebook to “Save Our Satellites,” with more members joining every day. The status is far from quo, and the Maroon’s article does not reflect the thoughts and feelings of these upset students.

Instead, the editorial board erases student feelings, saying that “most students would rather live closer to campus, particularly incoming first-years.” That may indeed be true, but it’s far from absolute. While many people may not live off campus, I am sure that most people appreciate having a choice.

While it may not be the majority,

a significant number of students make the decision to live in an off-campus dorm, and by all accounts seem to be happy with this decision. For incoming first-years, housing decisions don’t come out until the middle of summer, and the housing deposit deadline has yet to pass, so there’s no way to know for sure what they want.

“In fall 2016, first-years moving into Campus North will be happy with the new, updated facilities and probably will not wish that they could live in a dilapidated building a mile away from campus instead.” Maclean is only two blocks away from campus. Even Broadview is less than a mile away. I run by these dorms almost every week on a grand tour of Hyde Park that takes me past every dorm—and the run is fewer than four miles. And dilapidated?

The University has spent a good deal of money in recent years upgrading and repairing these dorms.

The exploding toilets of Pierce is one thing. Leaky faucets and faded paint is another. The fact that many students of these dorms would rather live in an older, more

remote building over a new, shiny, and central dorm speaks volumes about the value that students place on these dorms.

And these old dorms have a charm to them. They may not have the same creature comforts as South and Max P, but they have a sense of permanence and strength that I don’t feel in the newer dorms.

The quotes on the wall of Maclean, the tradition of receiving rocks in your first year in Blackstone, and the strong, thick walls of Breckinridge make them feel less like living in a hotel and more like an actual home. There is a history there that goes beyond just a name.

This is the third time in the past two decades that a set of houses have been closed or moved, with students tasked with creating an entirely new house culture. Even after 14 years, many houses in Max P are still trying to establish distinct house traditions and identity.

While I know that there are more traditions going on than I know about, the fact of the matter is that people often point to smaller houses and dorms with a stronger tradition of house culture over the

newer dorms like South and Max P. Ending decades’ worth of history and making students start from scratch again only exacerbates this issue.

It’s more than being off campus that makes these dorms special. By focusing on smaller houses, these dorms, while remote, foster a very strong sense of community. The physical space contributes greatly to the culture. These dorms create a close, comfortable space where people can feel safe and make it easier to interact with their housemates. Far from being the refuge of the “anti-social,” these dorms produce an immensely strong culture due to their relative isolation. A close-knit group of people living in a space where everybody knows your name has created hundreds of families over the years (both literally and figuratively). Communal living areas further add to this environment. While Campus North may have a lot of amenities, it won’t provide the same sense of community that form houses like Tufts, Breckinridge, or Maclean.

While the University keeps trying to reassure us that this decision

The Fa m ily

is a good one, and that students will like the outcome, nobody seems to have asked the students what they wanted. Sure, closing some dorms and houses was inevitable.

But it should have been done with student input from every dorm, as a collaborative effort. One of the most often cited reasons for choosing UChicago is its diverse housing system, with a variety of house sizes, locations, and amenities. By closing and consolidating, the University is diminishing what makes the school unique—or better yet, uncommon. We have the Uncommon Fund, the Uncommon App, and we have (or had) an uncommon housing system.

In an effort to promote “parity” the University thinks it is trying to make every dorm equally special.

But to paraphrase The Incredibles, “When every dorm is special, no dorm will be.” The students here deserve better from the University.

And readers deserve a better response from The Maroon.

Nathaniel Rossum is a fourth-year in the College studying history.

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Stevens can’t translate intimate album to 3,500-seat venue Miriam Benjamin Arts Staff “Thank you. So, we watched Bring It On 2 on the bus last week,” Sufjan Stevens said, speaking for the first time eleven songs deep into the set list. It was an attempt to jerk the audience back to reality after being enmeshed in Stevens’s emotional turmoil for 40 minutes straight. The transition was an awkward one, and it is an apt metaphor for his performance as a whole: The translation of Stevens’s most recent LP, Carrie and Lowell, to the stage is poorly handled at best, a disgrace to the album at worst.

I say this with a heavy heart. Carrie and Lowell, the album Stevens’s tour is supporting, is my favorite album of 2015 so far; it’s probably the best translation of heartbreak into music I’ve ever heard. Stevens wrote the album after the death of his estranged mother, Carrie, and all of his feelings of abandonment, guilt, love, regret, depression, and inadequacy, even his grappling with mortality, are poured out lyrically.

The personal poetry (“The man who taught me to swim, he couldn’t quite say my first name/ Like a father he led community water on my head, And he called me ‘Subaru’”) is coupled with devastatingly sparse musical arrangements: delicate fingerpicking on guitar, beautiful keyboard chords, the occasional synth, and whispery, falsetto vocals. Unlike on his previous records, especially the bombastic state-themed albums,

Michigan and Illinois, Stevens can’t hide behind trumpets, cymbals, and backing orchestras. The music on Carrie and Lowell almost functions like a film score—it heightens the audience’s emotions and beautifies the sentiments, but doesn’t distract the audience from the real action.

Unfortunately, on tour, Stevens throws out the idea of brutally minimalistic musical arrangements. As a result, the songs that he performed off Carrie and Lowell didn’t pack the same emotional wallop that they do on the record. Stevens added drums, bass, a backup vocalist, and an electric guitar to his live performance, and it seems to me that he did this for four main reasons.

Firstly, when you’re performing for a sold-out crowd at the Chicago Theater (3,500 capacity), it’s almost a requirement that you do something flashy to justify that massive a venue—it’s designed for a Broadway show, not a folksy singer-songwriter. It may be possible that Stevens alone would have gotten boring, although I doubt it; the songs are too shatteringly honest not to be captivating.

Secondly, although Stevens proved with one number (“Eugene”) that he could indeed command a huge stage with just his guitar, performing 11 songs that way may have seemed a daunting task, especially considering their soul-baring nature.

Thirdly, Stevens has always been prone to grand displays. Have a look at his Christmas tour (titled “The Sirfjam Stephanapolous

Christmas Sing-A-Long Seasonal Affective Disorder Spectacular Music Pageant Variety Show Disaster”) if you have a hankering for an extreme extravaganza.

Finally, everyone at the concert (and everyone not at the concert) knew Stevens had to perform his song “Chicago” at the Chicago Theater in Chicago. This song, as well as many of the other nonCarrie and Lowell songs, required backup musicians (hell, Stevens couldn’t even do the Carrie and Lowell songs entirely by himself ), and his band couldn’t just pick their noses on stage while Stevens plucked tremblingly on his guitar.

But Carrie and Lowell just wasn’t made to be performed live.

Everything that made the record moving—its lack of adornment, the feeling of intimacy with the artist that Stevens’s lyrical honesty creates—couldn’t be recreated in a seated, 3,500 person venue. A spectacle was required to cover up this fact, and so the extra musical personnel loudly attempted the feat, but in doing so clouded what little purity a minimally-aided Stevens could have held on to.

For example, the beautiful piano-led second half of “Should Have Known Better” was mutilated by some drum freak-outs.

“Drawn to the Blood” featured an attempt by Stevens’s percussionist to recreate a thunderstorm on his cymbals. This was particularly frustrating because the racket drowned out both the lyrics and the harmony between Stevens and his backup vocalist, who had a sweet, lovely voice. The last song

before the encore, “Blue Bucket of Gold,” had lights like a rave and an instrumental ending that went on longer than one of Led Zeppelin’s.

Perhaps the most annoying moment of the night was when Stevens made a brave stab at “Casimir Pulaski Day,” from his fifth album, Illinois. He started over once, and then completely forgot the lyrics to one of the verses—his pianist had to prompt him. “Take it away,” Stevens ruefully told his trombone player when it was his time to solo.

To add insult to injury, “Casimir Pulaski Day” was played in place of “John Wayne Gacy Jr.,” everyone’s favorite song about a serial killer, which he had pulled off perfectly the night before. The crowd was forgiving, although to be fair, what self-righteous Midwesterner could be irritated at a man who wrote two albums specifically about the region? That’s two more albums than had ever been written about the Midwest before he came along.

There were bright spots. “Eugene” was by far the highlight of the performance: It was Stevens and his guitar, with a lone spotlight trained on them. Being alone on a huge stage evoked the vulnerability and personal nature of the record, which the concert as a whole failed to do. The song quietly ended with a crushing line directed towards his deceased mother: “What’s the point of singing songs/If they’ll never even hear you?”

“Fourth of July” was less lavishly adapted, at times sounding almost choral, and “No Shade in

the Shadow of the Cross” was only slightly re-touched. The militant drumbeat added to “Fourth of July” was mildly pleasant, or perhaps my brain had just adapted to the shock of the elaborate arrangements. The older songs from albums other than Carrie and Lowell were great; the guitarist shone on the gorgeous Durutti Column– esque solo part of “Sister.” And the encore, even accounting for the rocky “Casimir Pulaski Day,” was a triumphant ending. Stevens played “Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois,” with just himself and the piano, and the backing band’s crowning moment was “Chicago.”

Even the Carrie and Lowell songs had redeeming qualities, namely that most of them started off with a solo Stevens (with band members joining in as the songs went on or hit an instrumental section). Thus, the emotion present on the record wasn’t entirely lost; there were plenty of girls in the restroom after the show reapplying makeup that they’d cried off. But because most of the songs (save “The Only Thing”) ended with an unnecessary amount of noise, it’s hard to remember that they started with the best of intentions.

I don’t think I’ve ever been to a show where I didn’t get anything at all out of a live version that I couldn’t have gotten from the record. The Carrie and Lowell tour might be the closest I’ve come to feeling that it might have been better to stay at home and marathonlisten to the album instead.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra strides through Bruckner orchestral marathon Hannah Edgar Associate Arts Editor Tell orchestral musicians to prepare a Bruckner symphony, and nine times out of 10 they’ll blanch a little.

Falling between the periods which saw Richard Wagner and Gustav Mahler’s greatest outputs, Anton Bruckner’s symphonies take the noholds-barred, emotional universalism of both composers and infuse it with the inspired piety of Bach. The result? Sprawling devotional proclamations whose music can, at longest, clock in at a taxing 90-plus minutes.

The Eighth, in fact, is Bruckner’s longest, though one wouldn’t have guessed as much during the CSO’s “Afterwork Masterworks” concert on Thursday evening. Bruckner’s last complete symphony was articulated with an elocution too often lost when tackling such an unwieldy work.

Having gone through an almost obsessive editing process, the Eighth often feels patchworked and at times utterly pastiched. It’s no wonder that Thursday’s greatest victory was making a work of many seams feel seamless, and for this we have conductor Semyon Bychkov to thank. He expertly led the CSO in a Russian program last week featuring soloist Daniil Trifonov, and this week he

brought the same mastery to the podium. Bychkov’s chemistry with the CSO has been rarely equaled this season, and he has been the most compelling of any guest conductor in recent months. One got the sense that the orchestra was duly engaged as well.

The inhibited drama that defines Bruckner’s music is a true test of conductor-orchestra cohesion: Good Bruckner sounds like an epic narrative, bad Bruckner a shapeless heap of maudlin extremes and repetitive phrases. Thankfully, Bychkov and the CSO lent the Eighth the architecture it deserved.

The first movement was an admirable display of well-tempered might. A stormy movement that whirls itself into a number of tumultuous climaxes, it never succumbed to bathetic excess, save for an occasional soupiness from the strings.

The CSO knew when to rein in its power without sacrificing its passion, and it certainly had plenty of power on hand when it was necessary. The Eighth calls for an expanded horn section, and Thursday’s performance saw nine hornists, with four doubling on Wagner tubas (an instrument which creates a sound somewhere between a French horn and a trombone).

The second movement was a

Semyon Bychkov led the CSO through one of the most taxing of Bruckner's symphonies Thursday.

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scherzo marked by an athletic theme depicting Deutscher Michel, a personification of the German people.

The theme is introduced in the violas over shivering, falling tremolos in the violins, and the music whips

itself into what sounds like it could be a display of patriotic bravado: The brass snarl, the timpani comes in pounding, and the major-key tonality of the opening peels away into a menacing minor. But Michel

is no Uncle Sam: He’s a sleepy lad usually depicted in a nightcap. Fittingly, even in his musical portrait he sneaks in a snooze—a light and dreamy trio emerging like a bud BRUCKNER continued on page 10

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Forty Carrots strikes gold in Chicago Emily Bichsel Palate Contributor On the first true day of the arctic thaw, with the sun shining in the sky and a warm breeze (OK, maybe that’s a bit of an exaggeration) in the air, I found myself on Michigan Avenue in need of a snack. My rigorous excursion of window-shopping had left me feeling famished, and I knew just the solution.

Forty Carrots, the iconic New York Bloomingdale’s frozen yogurt and natural food restaurant, has an outpost in the Chicago Bloomingdale’s. When I found out a few weeks ago, I simply could not wait to go.

Fans of the New York branch may be slightly disappointed by the lack of atmosphere in the Chicago location, but the yogurt tastes just the same. The original tart still bursts with sunny flavor.

Topped with mixed berries, the concoction feels like a vacation, but also vaguely healthy (I usu-

ally justify it with the phrase, “Hey, shopping burns a lot of calories!”). The yogurt tastes tart without being aggressive, and creamy without crossing into the too-indulgent ice cream territory. Although I didn’t eat a proper lunch in the restaurant, the menu is virtually the same as the New York location and packs healthy-but-substantial sandwiches, salads, and entrees alongside smoothies, juices, desserts, and of course, frozen yogurt.

Unlike the New York location, which always hums with activity, Forty Carrots Chicago provides the perfect quiet oasis away from the hustle and bustle of Michigan Avenue. It’s a great place for lunch or for muchneeded replenishment after a long day of shopping. Unfortunately, like the New York store, there is no seating for those who order only frozen yogurt; seating is reserved for guests ordering lunch. I had to go down a

floor to the general restaurant level of the mall to find a table.

Although the Forty Carrots Chicago doesn’t quite capture the bright style and happening atmosphere of the original New York location, it has its own charm, and the yogurt is perfection. I think it’s safe to say I’m already planning my next trip.

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from the scherzo. This part was played especially memorably by the orchestra, with principal harpist Sarah Bullen contributing airy ornamentation.

The third movement Adagio was unparalleled in both beauty and length, and here it becomes obvious that more than just the horns have Wagner’s fingerprints on them. There was a certain broadness in this movement, a harmonic know-how that simply smacks of the German master. (Then again, that goes for most of this symphony: Intimations of the Siegfried motif from Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen popped up throughout—some more explicit than others—and Bruckner outspokenly idolized Wagner). The same restraint which made the first movement so cogent was put to good effect here, the cli-

max made all the more triumphant because of it.

The fourth movement took off galloping, with earthshattering entrances by the low brass and timpani. (The latter was a bit too earth-shattering; principal timpanist David Herbert impresses at any volume, but less so when he overplays his solos) The fourth movement cleverly incorporates themes from previous movements; it was as though Bruckner was kindly giving us a recap of the journey the audience has been through.

For some more forgettable performances of the Eighth, the recap is not just a graceful musical trick but also a necessary reminder. Not so for the CSO’s performance, which was cohesive from beginning to end and anything but forgettable. In a post-concert Q&A, Bychkov mentioned the importance of “conver-

sational propulsion” in a phrase—that is, just as speech orients itself toward the most important words in a statement, a musical phrase should be subtly shaped toward its most emphatic note or notes.

Whether Bychkov intended it or not, his analogy perfectly described his pacing of the entire symphony—never overwrought, never rambling.

And pacing is certainly crucial for Bruckner, both on and offstage. At the end of the Q&A, Bychkov told the audience that the evening’s performance in particular had been a testament to the musicality and stamina of the CSO: It had been the ensemble’s second time that day playing the piece all the way through, the first being a morning rehearsal.

“They are quite phenomenal in pretending it’s a piece of cake,” Bychkov said. “It never is.”

THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | April 28, 2015

This Week in Sports…

CHICAGO SPECIAL

with Sarah Langs

CHICAGO CUBS: The Cubs were able to make the most of a rain-shortened weekend. On Friday night in Cincinnati, the Cubs and Reds went 11 innings, with Chicago emerging victorious. Jon Lester gave up three runs over six innings with 10 punch-outs. The Cubs scored four runs in the top of the 11th. The deciding inning included a pinch-hit appearance from pitcher Travis Wood. The final score was 7–3. The Cubs did not get the chance to make it two in a row on Saturday, as the game was rained out. Thus, the Cubs would have to wait it out until Sunday to get another crack at the Reds. In the end, the Cubs won the finale on Sunday 5–2, behind a strong pitching performance from Jake Arrieta, whose ERA currently hovers right around 2.00. With the Cubs already ahead 2–0 after a Miguel Montero jack and an RBI single from Montero two innings later, rookie infielder Addison Russell notched a bases-clearing three-run double to stretch the Cubs’ lead to 5–0 which would prove to be enough. The Cubs will play six games this week: a three-game set with the Pirates and then a weekend series with the Brewers.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX: The White Sox played two games this weekend, and both ended on Sunday, but there was no doubleheader involved. The solution to this riddle? A suspended game!

The White Sox home matchup with the Kansas City Royals on Friday night was suspended at the beginning of the ninth inning, tied at two. On Friday night, Jose Quintana let up two runs over seven innings while his counterpart, Danny Duffy, yielded just one unearned run. The Royals’ bullpen gave up a run in the bottom of the seventh. Saturday’s play was washed out entirely due to rain, which meant the completion of the suspended game would have to wait until Sunday afternoon. At 1:10 p.m. on Sunday, closer David Robertson took to the mound for the ninth. He struck out three batters for a scoreless ninth. In the bottom of the ninth—around 1:20 p.m., mind you—Avisail Garcia notched a two-out single to score Melky Cabrera and end the game 3–2. The White Sox celebrated with fireworks and then got back to work. The offense came alive in the sixth against Kansas City starter Edinson Volquez.

Chicago plated a five-spot against him in the bottom of the sixth to come back from a 3–0 deficit.

Robertson had two strikeouts and a groundout to close the game. Robertson earned both a win and a save in the same day, the first time a Sox player has done that since 1999. The White Sox will be on the road this week, first for a three-game set in Baltimore and then four in Minnesota.

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS: The Blackhawks punched their ticket to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs this past weekend. The Hawks defeated the Nashville Predators 4–3 on Saturday night at the United Center to clinch the series victory, 4–2. The Blackhawks were down 3–1 early with Scott Darling in net. The goalie controversy continued to be a factor this postseason for Chicago, as Coach Quenville pulled Darling in the first period after the quick goals. Replacing him was Corey Crawford, who didn’t allow a goal after entering the game in the first period. The Blackhawks were able to fight back thanks to goals from Patrick Sharp, Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane, and Duncan Keith. Keith’s goal with under four minutes to go in the third sealed the victory.

The Hawks will face the Minnesota Wild in the second round. The specific starting date and times have not yet been announced.

CHICAGO BULLS: After pulling out a double-overtime victory in Milwaukee on Thursday evening, the Bulls were unable to complete a sweep of the Bucks on Saturday night. The Bulls fell 92–90 to the Bucks at the buzzer on an inbound pass to Jerryd Bayless with 1.3 seconds to go. Still, the Bulls hold the upper hand in the series, returning home for game five in Chicago. If they manage to lock up the series, the Bulls will face the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round.

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Mixed results for South Siders Softball Emmett Rosenbaum Maroon Contributor On Thursday, the Maroons hosted two games against Wheaton College looking to build on their momentum, and get their record back to .500 after winning two games earlier in the week against North Park.

In the first game, after jumping out to a lead with a three-run third inning, the team held off a persistent Thunder squad until the final inning of the game, which the Maroons entered holding onto a precarious 4–3 lead. However, the visiting team managed to complete the comeback by scoring two in the top half, and eventually held on to eke out the victory by a score of 5–4.

The South Siders came back with some fire to start the second game, getting out ahead to a four-run lead by the third inning.

Yet once again, Wheaton was able to answer the call, coming from behind and scoring three runs in the seventh to earn a 6–4 win. The Maroons’ record dropped to 14–18 for the year with their two losses on the day.

“Wheaton was a very

persistent opponent who refused to allow a run deficit to discourage them at any point in the double header,” said first-year first baseman Alyssa Stolmack.

“If anything, we grew very comfortable with the leads we established, so we took our foot off the gas pedal and allowed them to come back and take over the pace and outcome of the game.”

Fourth-year Tabbetha Bohac had a similar assessment of the day.

“We started both games off strong but weren’t able to finish in the end. The major takeaway would be to play all seven innings with the same intensity.”

Bohac is the lone returning fourth-year for the young squad. In fact, Bohad was one of only two fourthyears on this season’s squad, along with Katharine Hedlund, who joined the team just this year for her first go -around as a Maroon softball player. Looking to the future, half of the Maroons 14 players were underclassmen, a group of seven that will surely bring good fortune to the program over the course of the next several years.

Despite the losses, the Maroons got a strong of-

fensive performance from third-year Kathleen Kohm, who provided four hits and two RBI for the day. From the bump, the Maroons were bolstered by complete game outings from pitchers third-year Jordan Poole and first-year Molly Moran. It was also Senior Day for the Maroons, as the team honored Bohac and fellow fourth-year Katharine Hedlund.

“My teammates were amazing and made my Senior Day a great one,” said Bohac. “It was truly humbling to see how supportive our friends and families were.”

When asked what she would be focusing on in her last games at Chicago, Bohac said, “Having fun, playing hard and always remembering that it’s a great day to be a Maroon.”

Looking ahead, the softball team will travel to play their last two games of the season against Elmhurst. It will be a tough doubleheader as the Blue Jays stand at a solid 19–15 on the year.

The South Siders will be looking to end the season on a high note.

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IN QUOTES “I think I have the big balls to cross the limit every time” – Formula 1 driver Pastor Maldonado declares the courage he carries every time he takes the race track

Maroons make history in Atlanta as women win UAA title Track and Field Andrew Beytagh Maroon Contributor At the 2015 UAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, the women’s squad snagged the conference title with 193 points, while the men placed third with 197 points.

Day one of competition for the women saw spectacular performances in field events.

The South Siders captured an impressive four victories, all of which played a part in the 76 points they had after day one.

Points which put them a comfortable distance ahead of the rest of the field.

Specifically, third-year thrower Nkemdilim Nwaokolo dominated the day, taking the individual titles for both the shot put and hammer throw. First-year Ade Ayoola and fourth-year Kelly Wood placed third in shot put and hammer throw, respectively.

Fourth-year Pam Yu finished at the top in the long jump at 5.23 meters, while third-year teammate Rachel Jackson placed third with a distance of 5.05 meters.

Andrew Maneval, a secondyear thrower, commented on Nwaokolo’s spectacular performance during day one of the Championships.

“Nkem has always been a dominating force in the UAA, and she continued that by entering and winning the gold in all three of her events.

It was an outstanding performance, and she deserves it because she has been working very hard to get to this point.”

The women’s team capped off an impressive first day with a blistering UAA record time of 9:07.68 in the 4x800-meter relay. The team of third-year Brianna Hickey, first-year Cassidy McPherson, fourthyear Jennifer Uehling, and second-year Michelle Dobbs broke the previous conference record by almost 10 seconds.

The men’s side also saw impressive performances during day one. After the first day’s events, Chicago stood in fourth place with 35 points, but they were well behind Washington University in St. Louis, which had 85 points.

Fourth-year Kevin On highlighted a solid day for the men, winning the 10,000-me-

ter with a time of 31:56.66.

Day two provided a lot of fireworks on both sides. For the women, the day kicked off with third-year Nelson Trotter winning both the high jump and the triple jump.

Trotter commented on the weekend saying, “I never could have won two individual events without the support of my teammates. The entire weekend in Atlanta was filled with such positivity and support that everyone felt motivated to perform well.

I went out and did my best in each event because I knew my teammates wanted to take home a conference champion title—something the women’s outdoor track and field team has never accomplished.”

Trotter added, “Another contributing factor to my double wins would be the waffles from Waffle House I ate the night before my competition. Those waffles are delicious.”

Trotter’s teammates followed closely behind, as Yu placed second in the triple jump, and Ayoola second in the high jump. Nwaokolo capped off her sweep of the

throwing events with a first place discus toss of 39.99 meters. On the track, Michelle Dobbs raced to an impressive win in the 800-meter with a time of 2:12.94.

The men’s team shined on the track during the second day. The Maroons began the day with a .07 second win in the 4x100-meter relay, a relay made up of second-year Temisan Owosa, first-year Nathan Downey, third-year Ben Clark, and third-year Jacob Romeo. The men continued this momentum with Downey grabbing second place in the 200-meter and Romeo sprinting to a thirdplace finish in the 100-meter dash. The men capped off a spectacular day two with a second-place finish in the 4x400-meter relay. The team of first-year Obi Wamuo, Clark, third-year Ryan Manzuk, and Downey finished with a time of 3:20.82.

At the end of the Championships, the Maroon women came out on top as they clinched their first ever UAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship. The men’s team improved their fourth-

Third-year Kyler Hu runs down the track at the Windy City Track and Field Invitational earlier this year.

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place standing after the first day to third by the conclusion of competition.

Third-year Mikaela Hammel commented on the coaching during the two days, saying, “Our coaches played a big part in pumping us up and making sure we were confident. They kept reminding us that a little over a month ago

we had walked away with the indoor trophy, and that we were the same team and just had to walk into the outdoor meet with our heads held high and do what we knew we could do.”

Chicago’s next meet will take place Thursday and Friday, May 7–8, at North Central College at 12:15 p.m.

Squad upsets Case, Carnegie to place third at UAAs

Weekend brings fourth place finish for No. 15 Chicago

Men’s Tennis

Women’s Tennis

Britta Nordstrom Maroon Contributor The Maroons are the No. 3 team in the UAA this year, and that’s not based on their No. 13 national ranking in the historically strong UAA Conference.

This past weekend, the South Siders took on three teams that are ranked above them: No. 12 Case Western, No. 2 Emory, and No. 9 Carnegie Mellon. All together, the Maroons went 2–1 for the weekend.

While most college kids were just waking up at 8 a.m. on Thursday, Chicago’s men’s tennis players were starting a game that was fueled, partially, by revenge.

The team took on Case Western earlier this season and suffered a 5–4 loss, but that was not going to be the case this time around.

The South Siders started the game strong, taking two of the three doubles matches, and never looked back. While they dropped the No. 1 and No. 2 singles matches, the next four singles matches belonged to the Maroons, and they finished the day with a 6–3 win.

“The match was on neutral ground, and we were more prepared and ready to go to finally beat Case,” said second–year

Sven Kranz, when asked what was different from this game to the one played earlier in the season.

The win pitted Chicago against the Eagles of Emory, who are No. 2 in the nation. While this would be intimidating for any other team, the Maroons have already taken on No. 3 Wash U and No. 4 Pomona– Pitzer earlier this season. Both of these games were closely contested, each ending in a 5–4 loss for Chicago.

Unfortunately, this game was to end in a similar fashion for Chicago. While the Maroons were able to take a 2–1 lead in doubles play, the Eagles snatched four singles victories, handing Chicago a frustratingly close 5–4 loss. Three of the six matches went to a deciding third set, and Emory’s 2–1 advantage in that department led to them clinching the fifth and final point.

This semi–final loss didn’t slow the Maroons down in the slightest; in fact, one could say that their next game was the best of the tournament. Chicago played No. 9 Carnegie Mellon on Sunday, but perhaps a better word to use would be “demolished.”

The Maroons came out swing-

ing, taking all three doubles matches, while only dropping a lone singles match, handing Carnegie their worst loss of the season.

“Emory is a hostile team to play so we used that energy to fuel us in the Carnegie match,” Kranz said. “From the perspective of a Carnegie fan, I’m sure the 8–1 bloodbath could also be considered hostile, but a staunch Chicago supporter would be gleeful.”

The past few years have yielded different results for Chicago, also ending 2–1, but with fifthplace finishes instead of third.

“I personally felt that there was a great team atmosphere this year and that everyone played not for themselves but for the guy next to them,” said Kranz when asked about his postseason experience this year compared to last.

That attitude bodes well for the South Siders, who are using the momentum of one of the best seasons they’ve had in recent years for bigger postseason dreams and, hopefully, results.

Rest assured, Chicago will be taking the experience they’ve gained against the top teams in the nation to the NCAA Regionals, which starts Friday, May 8.

Max Hawkins Sports Staff In the hot and humid conditions of Altamonte Springs, FL, the No. 15 Maroons (12–11, 3–4) finished fourth in the UAA tournament.

The Maroons started off the weekend with a rematch against rival No. 21 Case Western (13–7, 3–2). The teams had split victories in the previous two meetings.

“For Case we went in extremely focused, knowing that if we buckled down and played solid tennis we would come out on top,” said second-year Tiffany Chen.

Chicago came out firing in doubles, with third-years Sruthi Ramaswami and Lucy Tang earning a decisive 8–4 victory at No. 3 doubles. The other two doubles matches came down to the wire: Chen and first-year Courtney Warren closed out an exciting 8–6 win at No. 2 doubles, and first-year Ariana Iranpour and fourthyear Megan Tang followed with another 8–6 victory at No. 1 doubles.

Due to rain delays, the

singles play started hours later, but the Maroons used their momentum in doubles to earn quick victories. Megan Tang won 6–0, 6–0 at No. 2 singles, and Chen clinched the match with a 6–2, 6–0 victory at No. 4 singles. Lucy Tang also earned a 6–4, 6–4 victory at No. 5 singles while firstyears Jasmine Lee and Iranpour earned hard-fought three-set wins at No. 3 and No. 1 singles, respectively.

In the semifinals, Chicago faced No. 2 Emory (16–3, 3–0). “We were determined to play loose, since we weren’t the favorites to win,” said Chen.

The Eagles came out firing on all cylinders with a quick sweep in doubles followed by straight set victories at Nos. 3, 4, 5, and 6 singles. At No. 2 singles, Megan Tang took the first set 7–5 but ultimately lost in a third-set, 10-point tiebreaker. Meanwhile, Iranpour lost a hardfought 7–5, 6–4 match at No. 1 singles.

In the third/fourth place playoff, the Maroons looked forward to playing rival No. 11 Wash U (18–5, 2–1) for

the fourth time this season.

Wash U entered having won two of their previous three meetings. The Maroons started well, but ultimately wavered at No. 2 doubles, losing 8–3. At No. 1 doubles, Iranpour and Megan Tang led 5–4. However, Iranpour was forced to withdraw with an injury. Ramaswami and Lucy Tang lost a tight 8–6 match at No. 3 doubles as momentum swung to Wash U’s corner.

“I think Wash U came into the match really ready for us and we couldn’t quite compete the way we normally do,” said Warren. Without Iranpour for No. 1 singles, Chicago crumbled, losing at Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 singles. Chicago’s lone victory came at No. 2 singles, where Lee stepped up and won 7–6, 6–2 to beat the eighth ranked player in the Central region.

Chicago must now wait until next Monday to find out about its postseason fate. In the meantime, it will look to regroup and get healthy to help make a deep run in the NCAA tournament starting Friday, May 8.