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In Case You Missed It 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. News Natalie Friedberg, editor Alec Goodwin, editor Marta Bakula, deputy editor Isaac Easton, associate editor Raymond Fang, associate editor Shelby Lohr, associate editor Maggie Loughran, associate editor Annie Nazzaro, associate editor Isaac Stein, senior writer Viewpoints Sarah Zimmerman, editor Nina Katemauswa, associate editor Patricia Nyawga, associate editor Kayleigh Voss, associate editor Arts Andrew McVea, editor Evangeline Reid, editor Ellen Rodnianski, editor MJ Chen, associate editor Hannah Edgar, associate editor Grace Hauck, associate editor James Mackenzie, senior editor Sports Helen Petersen, editor Zachary Themer, editor Ahmad Allaw, associate editor Katie Anderson, associate editor Tatiana Fields, senior editor Sarah Langs, senior editor Grey City Sindhu Gnanasambandan, Editor-in-Chief Kristin Lin, Editor-in-Chief Design Annie Cantara, head designer Copy Sophie Downes, head editor Alan Hassler, head editor Sherry He, head editor Morganne Ramsey, head editor
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Three seasons have come and gone, and at this point it’s hard to remember what a Chicago winter feels like. In the past year, much has happened, but it’s understandable that you might’ve missed some things while holed up in the stacks or curled, defeated, in the fetal position under an armchair in Harper. Don’t worry, we gotchu. Here are the top stories of the year, and some additional details that, at the time, went unreported: 1. No Econ Nobel this year. Time to sacrifice a humanities major on the altar of the Money Church (a.k.a. the Cathedral of Capitalism). 2. Aramark introduced its Purple Menu. Next step: Soylent Green. 3. Speculations that Student Government elections this year were really just an elaborate drama put on by University Theater remain unconfirmed. Regardless, we bought into it, with elections seeing the highest voter turnout in years. 4. With a second term, T-Kiss’s fame moves into the T-Pain realm. Is T-Swift level next? 5. Kanye got an audience turnt up, and Dirt Red got an apartment floor caved in. 6. Fortunately, Kanye’s performance at Logan did not involve canola oil. 7. The UCPD released its records, but not on vinyl, disappointing the staff of WHPK. 8. Yik Yak made Overheard look classy. 9. Bonanza was once again relegated to NOnanza. 10. The University might be wiping the name of Sophonisba Breckinridge, the first woman to graduate from the Law School, from its dorms. But that’s OK, because they named South after Renee Granville-Grossman, the first woman to donate $44 million to the University. 11. A fire alarm triggered Regxodus, followed by 40 years of wandering in Crerar trying to finish B.A.s. 12. Final assignment for all you graduating fourth-years in Global Warming: Why was it so cold in May? 13. A-level of the Reg continues to be the No.1 student destination on Memorial Day. 14. A new library: #ThanksObama. —The Maroon Editorial Board
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UChicagoGRAD to streamline and increase graduate student services, resources Adam Thorp Senior News Writer
A range of services for graduate and postgraduate students—from their admission to their interaction with the University of Chicago as alumni—will be consolidated into UChicagoGRAD, a new office doing much of the work of the Office of Graduate Student Affairs, which has now been dissolved. The new office was announced last week in an email by Eric Isaacs, the University provost. “In the decentralized structure of UChicago, it can be very hard to navigate through, to get where you want to be. I just want grad
students to know that this whole operation was designed completely with grad student success in mind,” Brooke Noonan, the director of graduate student and postdoctoral experience for UChicagoGRAD, said. Noonan described the new office as a “one-stop shop” for the University’s services for graduates and postgraduate students, where students can come in for one service and discover another. The office will provide support for students seeking fellowships, and their writing program, as “gateway drugs.” One aspect of the new office, a graduate and postgraduate–specific career development program, started
last summer as part of the Office of Graduate Student Affairs. The program is meant to prepare graduate students for careers in business, nonprofits, or government agencies as well as academia. “We know that the academic job market is not what it was even 10 years ago, and certainly not what it was 20 years ago. So what we want to do is be very nimble in training our graduate students to have successful careers that translate the work that they’ve done here in a variety of ways…. I’ve said we want our grad students to make as much of an impact after they leave here in the classroom as they do in the boardroom,”
Noonan said. Some elements of the new office, like interview preparation, public speaking practice, and writing programs, also began as pilot projects in the office of Graduate Student Affairs. “While we were trying out these little pilot programs we just didn’t have a lot of resources, staff-wise or otherwise, to dedicate to them. So with UChicagoGRAD we’ve not only institutionalized these resources, I think we’ll be ramping them up to serve a broader population within the grad community,” said Noonan. Admission decisions about graduate and postgraduate admissions will still be made by their di-
vision or school. In what Noonan called “the biggest change” in the rollout of UChicagoGRAD, the yet-to-be-hired Director of Graduate Enrollment will be the first senior administrative figure to support admissions and recruiting across every admitting academic unit. “What we’re hoping to do is to provide some nondiscipline-specific support around recruitment strategies, marketing strategies, under-represented minority recruitment. If we get a specialist in all of those areas that can help the academic units, we think that it's going to be an unstoppable combination,” Noonan said. Over the course of the
next year, Noonan hopes the office will add a digital communication equivalent to the office’s programs for written and oral communication. Noonan also plans to set up a data collection system that will allow the office to evaluate the success of its programs. Sian Beilock, a professor of psychology and vice-provost of academic initiatives, will lead UChicagoGRAD. Beth Niestat will be the director of graduate student and postdoctoral administration and policy. Debby Nelson, who ran the office of Graduate Student Affairs as the deputy provost for graduate education, will return to her full-time work as an English professor.
Sexual Assault Awareness Week features speakers, art displays
Private college counseling companies see increase in use internationally
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From May 17 to May 22, a wave of student-run anti-sexual violence events and initiatives washed over campus as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Week (SAAW). An allocation of $10,000 from Student Government and additional funding from the Campus Dialogue Fund, the Office of LGBTQ Life, and the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA), along with the efforts of many students and RSOs, provided for a week’s worth of workshops, lectures, and artistic displays aimed at raising awareness about and working toward the prevention of sexual assault on campus. Over the course of a week (with a few events occurring before and after the seven-day period), Lambda Pi Chi, Hillel, UChicago Clothesline Project, Phoenix Survivors Alliance, Risk Aware Consensual Kink, UChicago Amnesty International, Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention at UChicago, Know Your IX, Axis UChicago, and the Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies teamed up with the Student Government to host 21 different events. The SAAW programming included workshops on topics ranging from trauma to domestic violence to abuse in the BDSM community. Speakers included Dana Bolger, a founding co-director of the Know Your IX’s ED ACT NOW Campaign; Ali Safran, founder of Surviving in Numbers, an internation-
ally-recognized initiative aimed at raising awareness of the prevalence of sexual assault; Wagatwe Wanjuki, the survivor activist behind the nationally trending #SurvivorPrivilege hashtag ; and John Kelly, the first person to testify before the Senate about queer dating violence. Much of the week’s programming underscored the significance of recognizing marginalized groups in assault, with the keynote address including speakers that challenge conventional perceptions of victims. Veronica Portillo Heap, the Student Government coordinator of the week, described the misperceptions surrounding rape. She states: “Previously the only narrative of assault was [that it occurred to] women who were teenagers and young adults, and [the rape was perpetrated by] strangers jumping out of a bush.... I truly think the new version [of this stereotype] is gang rapes at fraternities.... but there are so many other narratives that just aren't covered in the media.... It's not effective for social movements to focus on one.” Olivia Ortiz, who served as a speaker for the keynote event and engaged in discussions on a series of panels, said in a phone call: “I'm someone who expressly does not fit that mold [of the white assault victim]: [I’m] brown [and] it was my partner and not a stranger... the media has treated me as a special case.... Black women survivors are all treated as special cases when in reality we are the norm according to data, so it’s hard to experi-
ence that marginalization. It’s very invalidating.” A “Lunch with John Kelly” event during the Sexual Assault Awareness Week highlighted queer dating and assault. While a student at Tufts University, Kelly was the victim of same-sex sexual violence and became the first person to testify against dating violence within the LGBTQ community before the Senate. His work has achieved a level of prominence, with features on NPR and a host of other media outlets. “For a long time, Kelly was a sort of token male survivor.... I think one of the things good about John [is that he represents] survivor advocacy on campuses. A lot of the people who attended were survivors or genderqueer and/or activists. People who had things in common with the speaker [attended the speech], so it was very personal,” Portillo Heap said. SAAW included a weeklong installation of the UChicago Clothesline Project, a campaign that seeks to magnify the voices of sexual assault survivors through art. The project at UChicago began in 2012 shortly after Angie Epifano, a former student at Amherst College, published a widely read essay on the mishandling of her sexual assault on campus in the Amherst student newspaper. The project displayed 170 shirts hung from a clothesline spanning Hutch Courtyard, each one representing the story of a UChicago sexual assault survivor. Poems and narratives affixed with clothesSAAW continued on page A6
The use of private companies in college counseling has grown dramatically in recent years, particularly in China and India, where admission to American universities is becoming increasingly competitive. UChicago, currently ranked fourth in the U.S. World & News Report, is one of the top tier colleges to which companies promise to increase students’ chances of being admitted. Nikita Sachdeva, a fourthyear in the College, commented on the recent trend of explosive growth in the Indian college counseling industry. “The supply of these services in India has increased phenomenally. When I was applying, there were only two or three, maybe five companies that did these things, and now I know
so many. I know people who graduated from U.S. universities and went back to India to start a company like this,” Sachdeva said. Lily Xu, a second-year from China, used one of the many college counseling companies in Beijing when applying to American colleges. The firm, run by an American couple, advertised their network of connections at American universities. During the summer before her last year of high school, Xu participated in a threeweek college tour run by the firm, which brought students from different high schools in the Beijing area to visit colleges such as UChicago. During the visit, she had the opportunity to speak with current students, professors, and admissions officers. Later in the year, the company also helped her with brainstorming essay ideas and practicing
interviews. Sachdeva personally knows Indian students at UChicago who used the companies, although she herself did not. The appeal of the companies, she believes, lies in the personalized attention they provide on components of the applications, such as the SATs and essay writing, which are not included in the normal Indian curriculum. The companies also target a very specific clientele—wealthy Indian families who live in big cities like Delhi and Mumbai and already plan on investing significant sums of money in overseas education. According to Sachdeva, counselors at Indian high schools often discourage the use of private companies due to their exorbitant fees. However, Sachdeva and Xu claim that a large number of COLLEGE ontinued on page A5
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DJ’s Bike Doctor remains open despite financial troubles
Meal-making appliance and campaign info website win Booth venture challenges
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Local bike store and repair shop DJ’s Bike Doctor remains open for business months after founder and owner David Jones launched a fundraising campaign to save his store from financial troubles. Jones created a GoFundMe page and reached out to the Hyde Park community in January to keep his businesses afloat after unpaid taxes and low revenue threatened to close his shop. As The Maroon reported in January, the shop’s financial troubles began after two consecutive accountants failed to make the proper tax payments for the store. The accountants’ missteps amounted to approximately $30,000 in unpaid taxes to the IRS, according to a DNAInfo article published in January. Although, as Jones noted in an e-mail, he has “been
working on bikes in Hyde Park for over 30 years in five different addresses,” DJ’s Bike Doctor first opened on 1500 East 55th Street in 2009. Since then, the increasingly long and harsh winters have shortened the cycling season and reduced profits, making the unpaid tax dollars more difficult for the store to repay. “The bicycle business is a seasonal one that often presents challenges, and when you combine that with the last two extra long winters we had here in Chicago, things have gotten hairy for us,” wrote Jones in an e-mail this week. Since January the GoFundMe campaign has collected only $525 of its stated $25,000 goal. However, Jones cited the contributions and the payment plan he worked out with the IRS as reasons for his shop’s survival thus far. “Taxes and GoFundMe are both long-term processes
that I am working through with a payment plan [with] the government and additional operating funds from GoFundMe,” he said. Jones didn’t specify the exact conditions of his payment plan with the IRS, but said they reached an agreement to pay in the tax money over time. Jones also credited the Hyde Park community for his shop’s perseverance. “Our landlord [the University] has been very understanding and is always willing to work with us, and the community continues to bring their bicycles in for repairs and to purchase their new bikes from us,” he said. Jones has kept busy in recent weeks working on bike repairs. He attributed the recent uptick in business to improved weather conditions and the end of the school year, both of which typically bring more bicycles to his shop for repairs.
Grad students talk “culture of fear” Raymond Fang Associate News Editor Some graduate students in the natural sciences claim they are prevented from participating in extracurricular activities due to an alleged “culture of fear” surrounding the relationship between faculty advisors and graduate students. Anthony Martinez, president of Graduate Council, said that some graduate students in the natural sciences claim to face constant fear of losing their positions at the school due to participation in extracurricular activities. In addition, widespread ignorance regarding the existence of Student Government (SG) and its purpose has led to low graduate participation and minimal funding for graduate activities. “Graduate students have their schedules essentially set before they even arrive, and have to drag out their degree to do extracurriculars. This situation is made worse, since we often have advisors (and many call them bosses), who actively prevent us from participating in anything outside our core work,” Martinez wrote in an email. “I’ve met with grads who have told me that if they participated in SG, they’d probably get fired, and kicked out of school (which is something that can happen very easily to graduate students). Even if this is often not the case, there is a very prevalent fear of it happening.” A graduate student in the Biological Sciences Division (BSD), who preferred to remain anonymous, agreed with Martinez’s analysis. “The culture of fear exists in both [natural sciences and
social sciences/humanities], but it’s a bit different for us [in the natural sciences] for two reasons. The first is that we have much closer relationships with our advisors, since we are answerable to them for everything.... They basically shape our projects because they fund us,” the source said. “Unlike in the social sciences, where money comes from a departmental funding system, often we are funded directly by our principal investigators (PI). That creates a whole layer of who’s funding us, when funding dries up, what do we do, do we get grants, or are we eligible for those grants?” The source also indicated that the lack of regulated working hours for graduate students meant they could work up to 40 hours a week. “There’s the expectation that anything you do outside of the lab will cut away from that responsibility of research, and that’s probably why PIs are not super excited about extracurricular activities,” the source said. “Anything is viewed as distracting from the lab. That expectation grows and grows... there’s no circumscribed working hours, you can work 20, 30, 40, hours a week. Oftentimes graduate students in the sciences work most holidays.” However, according to Marvin Makinen, professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the University, the alleged culture of fear comes from a lack of understanding by the graduate students of their capacity as students and the restrictions of the funding system. “I would argue that graduate students who claim a ‘culture of fear’ thwarting them from en-
Winners of Chicago Booth’s Edward L. Kaplan, ’71, New Venture Competition (NVC) and its offshoot, the John Edwardson, ’72, Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC), were announced this week. The winner of the NVC was Maestro, a countertop cooking appliance, while the election soft ware platform called BallotReady won the SNVC. The results came out after day-long presentations as part of the competitions’ processes, which the SNVC held on May 26, while the NVC held it on May 28. Both of these competitions are renowned for helping develop venture capitalist projects, and the NVC ranked fourth in best competitions for launching U.S. start-ups by The Seed Accelerator Rankings Project. The competitions provide a supportive route for enterprising students. Part of the requirements for the competitions is that every team must have a UChicago student. Students thus have the opportunity to set in motion their entrepreneurial ideas by using the resources the competitions provide.
gaging in extracurricular activities have not understood their own role and the constraints on the system. I have known of graduate students who have participated in extracurricular activities but they did not do so at the expense of completing academic requirements within the time period to which they obligated themselves,” Makinen wrote in an e-mail. “For the COLLEGE continued from page A4 first year of graduate study [in their peers both in India and the biological sciences]...the tu- China still utilize these adition and cost-of-living stipend missions firms. are provided generally through Sachdeva thinks that, training grants from the Na- while the counselors may intional Institutes of Health. The crease the probabilities at the requirement in accepting that margins and help the applicafinancial support is that it is tion read better, they are not 100 percent effort, that is, it is fate changers. While she does know students who used the equivalent to a full-time job.” Makinen also noted that, companies and got into Ivy after completion of the one- League schools, Sachdeva is and-a-half-year training grant, confident that those students students begin Ph.D. research, deserved admission regardwhich also requires a 100 per- less of their use of private cent time commitment in a set services. period of time, typically five Xu, on the other hand, believes the companies are and a half years. “Research grants are award- especially useful for internaed for a defined length of time tional students who may not within which the principal in- really understand the Amerivestigator (PI), i.e., the Ph.D. can education system. “In China, we went research advisor, has set forth a program to achieve objec- through a very different tives outlined in the grant ap- education system. It influplication,” Makinen wrote. “If ences your thinking prothese objectives have not been cess and your writing style, achieved by the time the PI ap- so we had no idea how to plies for continuation of grant write the American college support, no study section will application...I think the firms approve of continued research were there to help us present support if the PI were to state, the best out of ourselves,” Xu ‘the student who was support- remarked. Xu also highlighted the ed by the grant spent too much time leading a rock band,’ for visit to UChicago as a key benefit of the firm, as she had instance.” The BSD responded in a never heard of the university statement that they support before coming to the United extracurricular activities, and States and only became interthat individual PIs cannot dis- ested after coming to campus. Many of these companies, GRAD continued on page A6
The NVC and SNVC have already supported a number of now-prominent businesses and organizations. Some of the more familiar ones include GrubHub, Inc., a mobile and online food ordering company that connects customers to different takeout restaurants in the surrounding area; Bump Technologies, an iPhone and Android application that allows for certain information to flow from one smartphone to another by means of bumping the phones together; and LuminAid, an organization that develops cost-effective and efficient solar-rechargeable lighting products so that light can be used by low-income communities. This year, the winner of the NVC was Maestro, a cooking appliance. According to its website, the Maestro can cook a “healthy, complete meal” by roasting, boiling, and steaming meats, vegetables, and grains inserted into the appliance in custom pods. Though all the finalists in the NVC will share in $250,000 (in addition to $250,000 worth of office space and professional services) from the program’s sponsors, Maestro won
$50,000 from the NVC along with $20,000 from the Pritzker Group Venture Capital. The runners-up, ExplORer, a workflow management tool that organizes tools and tasks for surgeons, and NETenergy, a thermal energy storage company, each received $30,000 from the NVC. This year’s winner of SNVC, BallotReady, is an online platform that allows users to be notified of elections in their area and to be more informed before they enter the ballot. As their website states, they “envision a future in which voters are informed and engaged with their local elected officials, in which candidates for local office know that their activities and positions will be held to a high standard, and where municipalities and local policies are improved as a result.” BallotReady, which has David Axelrod, head of the Institute of Politics, on its advisory board, was awarded $30,000 of the $50,000 total prize for the SNVC. The other $20,000 was awarded to the runner-up, Arev, an organization that tries to improve economic growth in Armenia through marketing Armenian goods in the United States.
International students applying to American universities increasingly use private counseling such as IvyCoach and ThinkTank Learning, do not publicize the cost of their counseling services. One Bloomberg Business report cited a custom contract between ThinkTank Learning and a Hong Kong CEO of $700,000, paid over five months. While these numbers are cited in the news, most packages offered by college counseling services cost significantly less. Based on her experience using these companies, Xu said that the average is around 100,000 RMB, or $16,667, though the prices in China vary significantly by firm. Younger, less experienced counselors can be as cheap as 30,000 RMB, while one of her friends paid around 200,000 RMB for a top-of-the-line firm. ThinkTank Learning’s 2015 admission results list two students who were accepted to the University of Chicago, with SAT scores of 2350 and 2340 and unweighted GPAs of 3.92 and 3.88, respectively. Brian Taylor, the director of IvyCoach, stated in an email that IvyCoach does not release the number of students they work with or the price of their packages to the press. When asked about the firm’s goals for the future,
he wrote, “Our goals for the past remain our goals for the future…helping students gain admission to their dream colleges. This has not changed. This will not change.” He attributes the firm’s business from China and India to the fact that “education is highly valued in these countries.” When discussing UChicago in particular, Taylor praised the school for keeping its quirky essays because they discourage those students who are not truly interested in UChicago from applying. “UChicago is defying what every other school is doing to boost their U.S. News ranking. UChicago wants students who really love it,” says Taylor, adding that UChicago’s rise in rankings has occurred in spite of its difficult application. As a part of the college counseling business for nearly 10 years, Taylor believes that one of the biggest misconceptions about admissions is that every year it becomes harder to get into top colleges. “Schools encourage unqualified students to apply to Harvard or Princeton, but that doesn’t mean the student pool has become more competitive,” Taylor stated in a phone interview.
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pins accompanied the suspended shirts. A warning sign cautioned viewers entering the courtyard about the graphic, explicit content of some of the survivors’ stories. “You will see hope, love, and healing,” read the sign. “You will also see anger, fear, and sadness. Each story is different, and each story took courage to share.” “This project is extremely important because it amplifies the voices of those who have been affected by sexual violence—it isn’t statistics, it’s stories,” said second-year Sydelle Keisler, co-director of the UChicago Clothesline Project. “I think it’s important for
survivors of this violence to have as many outlets to express themselves as possible.” “I think the UChicago Clothesline Project is, in itself, a form of resistance,” Keisler continued. “Survivors at this school and in general are told to shut up about their assaults, and so they do… This project rejects the isolation that comes from sexual violence and encourages community instead.” Third-year Leah Von Essen, official photographer and staff member of the Clothesline Project, commented on the potential impact of transforming trauma into art. “We take these stories
of people who have gone through terrible things, and they become art, and that art draws people in and causes an impression that no PSA or poster can,” she said. “We have so many diverse stories, some that break from the ‘common’ narrative that we see most represented in the media.” Describing recent changes by the University, Ortiz said, “I think there will be some improvement this year, but it should be ongoing. There is a small office called Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention, and lots of students don't even know their office exists. [But] the University has a federal obligation to tell students these things.”
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miss graduate students without a detailed review by a faculty committee. “The BSD has a new NIHfunded career development program, myCHOICE, that includes internship opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral trainees. This is one of the many ways the BSD supports extracurricular activities,” wrote a representative for the BSD. “Students who are admitted to the BSD cannot be dismissed by any individual faculty PI. Any dismissal would require a detailed review by a standing faculty committee and would include an appeals process.” Ka Yee Lee, professor of chemistry at the University, offered another view. Likening
working in different graduate labs to working at different companies, she noted that such a culture of fear was true in some labs, but not in others. “I believe some graduate students are experiencing it, but I do not think that this is true across the board. Different advisors can have different ways of running their research groups and can have different expectations for members of the group, so the experience of an individual graduate student depends largely on the culture of his/her own immediate work environment,” Lee wrote in an e-mail. “While I can believe that some advisors might not endorse graduate students participating in extracurricular activities, there are others who believe that it is important to
strike a balanced life in graduate school, and are supportive of students engaging in activities outside one’s core discipline.” Lee indicated she had several graduate students in her own lab who were, for example, involved in RSOs, tutoring young adult immigrants from outside the University, performing as a pianist in a musical, and participating in the chemistry department’s softball league. Lee also drew a distinction between being dismissed from a lab and being expelled from the University. Though students may be dismissed from a lab for a number of reasons, there are a large number of checks and balances to protect graduate students from being expelled from the University outright.
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The little ice princess Music can be used as a force to capture the often silent feelings within a marginalized culture Kanisha Williams Maroon Contributor Azealia Banks was on our campus. She stood no more than 20 feet away from me, powerfully performing “Ice Princess” from her debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste, and I prayed with every atom of my being that she would play “Liquorice” before the end of her set. She didn’t. That’s fine, too. While wheezing through my asthma and sweating out all of the water that was left in my body, I screamed every word (that I remembered) of “Ice Princess” right back to Yung Rapunxel herself, jumping higher than I ever had before, and hoping that Mz. Bank$ would notice a short black girl exerting all of the energy she could muster to show her appreciation for her music, her presence, and her words. Although I think it would’ve felt more rewarding had Azealia’s final song been “Liquorice,” I know that any song would’ve sufficed. It was still her. And to see Azealia in the flesh was the actualization of thoughts and feelings that had been bubbling under my skin for quite some time. Somehow, this rapper from Harlem, who is only five years my senior, captured what it felt like to grow up in a white community—to be told that you are Other, that you can’t have crushes on your white friends, that doing what feels natural to you is unnatural and odd. She not only captured these feelings but also gave me the strength to confront them head on. My first introduction to white culture was when I was seven and my
best friend introduced me to country music for the first time. I’d never heard anything like it before—I was so used to the Whitney Houston, Trina, and Mariah Carey that my parents had conditioned me to love that I thought all music was supposed to sound like that. However, a seven-year-old white girl proved me wrong. There was a whole other kind of music that was completely foreign to me, but popular with everybody else. From there, I started to explore different genres of music. Because I grew up in a middle-class, predominantly white, and fairly suburban part of northern Alabama, I mostly listened to the same music as my peers: pop, country, classic rock, or some God-forsaken mix of all three. I bought directly into their respectability politics—I liked what they liked so they would like me—and this was easiest through music. However, some of my white peers weren’t impressed by my façade, while my black peers either thought that I was weird or that I believed that I was too good for them and their culture. My family constantly taunted me and asked why I listened to “white music.” I lived in flux. I didn’t know who or what to listen to or why it mattered so much, and it took years for me to stop analyzing what I liked and why I liked it. Why exactly was it so odd for me to listen to Slipknot? And why did that mean I couldn’t like Lil’ Flip or Ja Rule? And when I noticed my white friends becoming fans of Rihanna and T-Pain, I knew the issue wasn’t limited to me at all. Why was it that my white friends could listen to music closely tied to black culture, but I was shamed when I listened to “white music”?
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There seemed to be some sort of societal convention, some rule I had been breaking all along. Both sides— black and white—were trying to box me into one form of music, one culture. What they didn’t understand was that I was a complex human being with a range of emotions and interests. My classmates weren’t prepared for that. One day, I put my headphones on and listened to NWA because they seemed like something my dad would like. I cried. They captured my anger. They captured my hopelessness. They cap-
tured my hope. They captured exactly what it felt like to live like me. To live my experience. It was then that I understood what black culture was and why it was important. It was then that rap music became a part of me. To my father, rap is dying. The majority of what he hears on the radio is now seeped in drug references, sexualized content, and assertions of avarice and narcissism that he finds too distracting to sift through. The activist and rebellious energy of NWA and their contemporaries seemed to be lost to glamour and greed. To
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his eyes, rap was no longer filling its original purpose. For a long while, I couldn’t help but agree. Fast forward to 2012. I see the video for “212” and I am flabbergasted. A little black girl with a long weave and a Mickey Mouse sweater dancing in front of a brick wall and yelling profanities, confident and unforgiving. I wanted to be her. I needed more. After a few more Google searches, I decided that Azealia and I were the same. Of course, physically we’re not. I’m not a skinny 5-foot-7 girl from Harlem with an excellent BANKS continued on page 4
Free passage Increasing house subsidies for low-income students, as Coulter House has done, fosters inclusivity Vo Ram Yoon Maroon Contributor Prospective students who consider applying to this University often hear that “the College Houses are one of the signatures of a University of Chicago undergraduate education.” However, this “signature” experience is not available to every student. The UChicago housing program prioritizes maintaining a tight-knit intellectual and social community without also equally focusing on meeting the needs of low-income students within those houses. There are students on this campus who struggle with purchasing even the most basic goods; there’s simply no way that they can afford house trips and events—which are arguably integral to fostering the house community. A good proportion of students are alienated from their peers not by choice, but because of their financial situation. On top of the College’s participation in the U-Pass program and SG’s proposal for a Student Leadership Stipend program, both of which aim to let
all students have the full UChicago experience, implementing an expanded house subsidy program would be an effective, simple way of making house cultures more inclusive. One house in particular has done just that. With only 42 residents, Coulter House in Burton-Judson is the second smallest house in the entire system; however, it has one of the largest house funds due to a successful student-run fundraiser. Resident Head Bettina Houlihan, in conjunction with Resident Assistant Udayan Vaidya and the house residents, decided to use these funds to implement a program known as the Coulter Pass, which aims to reduce the costs of house trips for lower-income students. The Coulter Pass allows any resident to receive twice the usual subsidy on any house trip. For example, if a low-income resident wanted to go on a house trip to a restaurant on a Saturday night, they would normally be allocated a subsidy of $5 to $7; with the Coulter Pass, they receive twice the
usual amount—in this example, $10 to $14. This amount will cover transportation fees in addition to some of the costs of the meal, making all the difference for a low-income student. Events that require residents to pitch in if they want to participate, such as communal Thanksgiving or Valentine’s Day dinners, are altogether free with the Coulter Pass. To be eligible for the Coulter Pass, a resident can email the Resident Head at any time in the year and arrange a private meeting to talk about the logistics of the pass itself in addition to other forms of financial support outside the house. The procedure is designed to be as simple as possible in order to make it clear that lowincome residents should not be intimidated by the process of taking advantage of such a resource. Through an online anonymous survey, Coulter House collected feedback on the impact that the pass has had on house life. One student knew that “one of the first things [to] cut back on would be house trips.” Residents were en-
couraged to take the survey even if they had not used the Coulter Pass and responses demonstrated that the Coulter Pass was valued even by non-users. For instance, a resident who had yet to use the Coulter Pass said, “Although I’ve never yet used the Coulter Pass, the possibility of there coming a time when I need it is very real for me. With the increase in tuition costs, my family’s putting even more than last year into this school, and that’s very stressful for my parents. It’s comforting to know that if I ever need the Coulter Pass, it’s there for me, and I’ll be able to participate in House events without burdening my family.” Some students on campus who cannot afford to go on house trips for Saturday dinners have proposed having the dining halls open Saturday nights while others have encouraged low-income students to use their Maroon Dollars to purchase dinner at various on-campus locations. Although both of these proposed solutions address the problem of helping students
afford food, they don’t address the fact that low-income students are still excluded from participating in social opportunities that are supposed to be the highlights of house life. As one of the survey respondents said, “Providing the economic means for low-income students to attend these trips will expand the inclusiveness of house culture, and may even foster greater diversity within housing.” And the program has expanded inclusiveness. Vaidya commented that the Coulter Pass made him more conscious about offering enough house activities that have a smaller financial burden on students, and that it also alleviates some stress knowing that there would be extra support available for students who needed it. He also notes that house participation in trips increased after the Coulter Pass’s implementation. In addition, Houlihan observed that the costs of house trips are a part of a larger important issue. Offering the Coulter Pass on the sole condition of having a private conversaCOULTER continued on page 4
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The blame game By attributing personal problems to an instituition, it is possible to ignore more personal causes of depression
Liam Leddy
Sprezzatura I stepped on the seal for the first time near the end of my first year. It was neither on purpose nor on accident; it simply happened to fall in my path and under my foot. I’d decided to stop avoiding it—if the seal happened to be between me and where I was going, it would get stepped on. And if it wasn’t, it wouldn’t. Some time later, probably toward the middle of my second year, I started stepping on the seal on purpose. I would be sure to tread on at least a corner of it whenever I passed by, sometimes veering far out of the way to do so, sometimes turning around and marching back into Hutch if I’d forgotten. I took great pleasure in stepping on the seal, especially in front of prospies. It was, on the smallest of scales, a means to rebel against an institution I viewed as flawed, a way to flip the bird at something as abstract as a school of thought. I didn’t care for UChicago. I thought the school cared little for its students, and I saw those same students as both cynical and naive. I viewed the life of the mind as a foolish one. When I looked down at the seal I saw a school that glorified suffering and self-loathing, and collected silly traditions in a feeble attempt to cobble together some sort of collective positive spirit. So I stepped on the seal and I stepped on all of that. I blamed UChicago for a lot. I blamed it for filling my head with growth models I’d never find relevant, for filling my arms with more work than I thought necessary, for filling my stomach with overcooked chicken during the week and Svedka on the weekends. But most of all I blamed UChicago for my depression. Because for much of my first and second year, I was depressed, and the University is an easy thing to pin that on. It was easy to ignore the fact that I’d pretty much been depressed from ages 10 to 17, that only a solitary year had actually separated me from that. It was easy to ignore that I’d been home-schooled before going to a high school with a graduating class of four, and that perhaps my social skills were not at a college level. It was easy to ignore that I’d never really had homework before, that I was stepping up from Tball to triple A in terms of workload. It was easy to ignore a lot of things, and easier still to blame my being unhappy on something else, to be mad at an institution famous for killing fun rather than to challenge myself.
This is not to say that UChicago is free from blame in my or any other students’ depression; this is a hard place to be if you have inclinations toward that. Reasons for stress aren’t exactly hard to come by, and clear opportunities to enjoy yourself often are. My point is not that UChicago is a great place to enjoy yourself, or even a good one, but rather that I’ve found that happiness has far more to do with yourself than it does with what’s around you. I think there are many of us at this school who have a hard time with happiness, and many who blame that difficulty on the school, because, well, it’s kind of an easy target. Obviously this place isn’t the right fit for everyone, and I definitely still have plenty of issues with it, but I think it’s important to recognize just how easy it is to ignore other, often internal, causes of depression when a scapegoat is so readily available. Earlier this year I stopped stepping on the seal on purpose, and this quarter I’ve started avoiding it altogether again. I don’t avoid it for fear of not graduating in four years, because, well, I’ve already blown that, but rather out of respect. Because I recognize now that in making the school my scapegoat, in blaming it for many problems that were mine and mine alone, I unfairly blamed an institution, hundreds of faculty, and thousands of students for issues that weren’t theirs. And then I trod on them. I disrespected all the people who do love this place and all the people who work hard to make it what it is. I disrespected a philosophy and a way of life because I didn’t agree with it and I thought it had harmed me. I was a dick (I still often am) and I’m sorry for that. While treading on the seal may be a great way to give the finger to an otherwise faceless entity, it’s much harder to apologize to this particular faceless entity. I suppose I could just say sorry to the seal, but that might be kind of weird. So really, I guess the best I can do is to simply say to anyone thinking of stepping on the seal: Don’t. Because you can’t take back your footsteps.
Liam Leddy is a third-year in the College majoring in economics.
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voice who spits straight fire and speaks with a light Dominican accent. But I felt that she gave me a voice of my own. “Liquorice” is the ultimate manifestation of this. The paradoxically confident insecurity throughout (“I could be the right girl./ Tell me if you like your lady in my, my color./ Can I be your type, yeah?”) reflects what I feel day after day, throughout a lifetime of living in predominantly white spaces. She hit the nail on the head of being young and weird and black. So, to see her in front of me being that and celebrating that among all
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my drunk, exhausted classmates—it was everything to me. She is not all of rap. She is just a drop in the ocean. But she is proof that rap is still serving a purpose. It is still connecting with people. It is still mobilizing people who look all sorts of ways and live all sorts of lives. It is still alive. Kanisha Williams is a first-year in the College majoring in cinema and media studies.
tion with the RHs turned out to be a great way to encourage residents to talk about their financial struggles and seek help. Last month, the University announced that certain dorms will be permanently closed and that the house names will be retired. Although such a drastic change is lamentable, student efforts could focus on making sure that the residents of the newly constructed North Campus are able to enjoy house life more fully than before. For houses that have more residents, a portion
of the donors’ money could be used to increase house funds and better accommodate those who lack the means to afford weekly house outings. Although the identities of the dorm buildings should not be taken lightly, let us not forget about caring for the lives of the students who live in the buildings themselves. No one should be barred from socializing and bonding with their housemates. Vo Ram Yoon is a third-year in the College majoring in public policy.
Correction: A previous edition of “CAT’s out of the bag” (published on Tuesday, May 19, 2015) incorrectly stated CAT raised a total of $100,000 in the past year. This number had changed to $75,000. A previous edition of this article also incorrectly stated that 2015 College Council Rep Kay Li was the originator of the proposal to cut CAT’s budget.
ARTS
What is art?
MAY 29, 2015
UBallet presents: Pirates of the Mediterranean
UBallet worked with dancers of all levels of experience in presenting Le Corsaire last weekend. GRACE HAUCK
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Grace Hauck Associate Arts Editor “You know how people say it takes a village to raise a child? It takes a country to put on a ballet,” said Amanda Block, interim artistic director of University Ballet, in reference to this past weekend’s production of Le Corsaire. A country indeed. This year’s spring production witnessed the collaboration of everyone from students to faculty and staff to professional and lifelong ballet lovers commuting from two and a half hours away. This diverse group tackled a ballet typical of the classical style, urged onward by the upbeat score of Adolphe Adam. Le Corsaire is a lively, playful tale of romance, pirates, and kidnapping. The plot centers on the coveted Medora, a
Grecian slave in love with the corsair Conrad. Despite their promise of love, Medora finds herself sold to the powerful yet obtuse Pasha by the slave merchant Lankendem, spurring Conrad on an Odyssean quest to retrieve her. He endures poison, mutiny, fighting, and an inevitable storm on the high seas, but of course, in the end, the lovers are reunited. It is distinct among ballets for its spirit of ceaseless adventure, as well as the predominance of pantomime, the universal gestural language of ballet. “It really is like a foreign language,” Block said. “Unless you’re aware that it is a new language, it just looks like gestures.” To accommodate this, the cast decided to preface the performance with a quick pantomime lesson to introduce the audience to this theory. During the Sunday perfor-
mance, Mandel Hall was oppressively hot, yet the dancers persevered. UBallet matched the building intrigue of the plot by revealing more and more talent and increasingly complicated maneuvers. Among the standouts was first-year biology major Kyle Wickham, a dancer with absolutely no prior ballet experience who happened to notice UBallet at an RSO fair. “I was involved in musical theater [in high school] and wanted to continue that somehow, but I didn’t know [how]. This was something new, so I just did it,” Wickham said. Directors and dancers alike raved about Wickham’s improvement over the past months, and, from the audience’s perspective, he certainly commanded the stage as Lankendem, leaping across the length of the floor and managing to hold a three-second lift
above his head, a feat which inspired directors Amanda Block and Janey Lee to squeal with pride. Similarly, third-year Wes Mills, who took on the daunting lead role of Conrad, only has a year of dancing under his belt and joined on somewhat of a whim. “A friend of mine… actually convinced me that they needed more guys in ballet,” he said. Le Corsaire encountered challenges as well. In the middle of the Saturday night performance, the backdrop for Act II ripped, obliging the directors to close an outer curtain and forcing dancers to execute their leaps within an even more confined area. The greater issue, as many dancers admitted, was the overall preparedness of the production come crunch time. “Even during tech week and after Tuesday night, I was
thinking this wasn’t going to turn out well,” Mills said, “but then I just go get Harold’s and try to forget about it. It wasn’t until Thursday that I thought this ballet would be presentable.” While the Sunday performance went off without a hiccup, one nagging, subtler issue remained: The fun, exotic, swashbuckling drama of this work starkly contrasts with the disturbing presence of human trafficking embedded within the plotline. It is taken as a given, and while Le Corsaire does not glorify this reality, it portrays it. “Even though in the actual course of the storyline the issue of human trafficking is taken lightly, I think that UBallet…made an effort to confront the issue,” said core dancer Shawnteal Peery in an email. “I felt much better about my participation because they
faced the issue head on,” she said. UBallet chose to sponsor the Dreamcatcher Foundation, an organization committed to ending human trafficking in Chicago. “It’s just not something you think of that exists in the world today,” Mills said. “Even if you do, maybe it’s something reserved for other countries—not the U.S. or not Chicago—but there’s a lot of human trafficking going on in Chicago itself and it’s a) terrifying and b) something that never really would have come to the forefront of my mind if it wasn’t for this ballet.” Amanda Block expressed a similar view, stating, “I see it as compelling people to talk about things in a new way. You can read an article or watch a Law & Order: SVU episode about human trafficking, or you can see a ballet.”
English Graffiti draws upon its predecessors, for better and for worse Miriam Benjamin Arts Contributor These days, British indie rock bands seem more interested in popularity than longevity. “We wanted to make [a record] that sounds amazing next year and then terrible in 10 years,” said Justin Young, lead singer of The Vaccines, in an interview with the British music magazine NME. English Graffiti, The Vaccines’ third album, represents a paradigm shift: It’s supposed to be, in Young’s words, “genre-defining.” The point of English Graffiti was to take a risk—to move away from the catchy-but-generic guitar music The Vaccines have been making for four years. Labeling their music as “generic” has historically been the easiest way to shit on The Vaccines, and more generally the other 2000s British indie groups that spent their forma-
tive musical years under the reign of Oasis frontman Noel Gallagher. “It’s boring!”—“It’s derivative!”—“It’s imitating imitators!” critics have shouted, mainly from this side of the pond. But this isn’t a review of The Vaccines’ first album, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?, nor of their second, Coming of Age. English Graffiti is an album by a band that realizes that rap and electronica are the most musically innovative genres today. Good on The Vaccines for understanding this, good on The Vaccines for wanting to make interesting music with guitars, and good on The Vaccines for attempting to better their sound while preserving the catchiness of their songs. English Graffiti isn’t “genre-defining,” but it certainly is a turning point for the band. English Graffiti is definitely
a Vaccines record, but it’s easy to tell that their sources of musical inspiration have shifted: Instead of following the sound exemplified by the Arctic Monkeys-Libertines-OasisStone Roses-Sex Pistols axis, they went for a diverse mix of surf rock, ’80s synth rock, and a dash of the Beatles at their most experimental. The third track, “Minimal Affection,” has a synth-y intro and a guitar riff that reveals the band to be a fan of The Strokes’ polarizing Comedown Machine. Later on, “Give Me A Sign” uses the same keyboard power chords as Van Halen’s 1984 classic “Jump.” English Graffiti accumulates too many debts to its predecessors to be “genredefining,” but it’s indisputably more complex than the band’s two previous efforts. Though The Vaccines had previously been reluctant to add studio effects that deviate even slightly
from the classic two-guitarsa-bass-and-a-drum-set sound, “Handsome,” the lead track, immediately features a drum machine beat flitting between the listener’s earbuds. Historically, the best Vaccines songs have always been fun, upbeat, frantic, and painfully catchy; I once accidentally listened to “Norgaard” (a playful, 90-second balcony-scene love song to a Danish model) 100 times in a row. Those types of songs are still present on English Graffiti, albeit with the band’s new “more is more” studio philosophy. “20/20” sounds like The Maccabees taking on Vampire Weekend’s “Worship You,” with the classic Vaccines failed relationship trope (“Hindsight sees in 20/20/But I’m through thinkin’ about you”). “Handsome” has the same chugging guitars and madcap pace as “20/20,” and the likelihood of
the riff leaving your head after the first play is very, very slim. English Graffiti also includes forays into a more mellow, psychedelic sound. The instrumental “Undercover” is obviously inspired by The Beatles’ classic “A Day in the Life,” and “All Afternoon (In Love)” is an airy, melancholy ballad in the same vein. All of this drawing from synth rock and psychedelia makes English Graffiti a richer record than its precursors, but cutting and pasting from other rock subgenres doesn’t make a genre-defining indie rock record. The lyrics on English Graffiti still feature a heavy dose of Young’s bratty sense of humor (“Lonely, bored and bad, thank God I’m handsome”). These lyrics are probably the best-preserved aspect of The Vaccines’ old essence. Yet in English Graffiti, Young moves beyond the trials and triumphs of love: The
title track examines the misattribution of appearance to reality, specifically addressing the perception of globalization where there is none: “We’ve been all over the place, from Peru to Taiwan and Ukraine, and it’s no surprise that the graffiti’s always in English. But the homogeneity and connection is really a misconception.” With English Graffiti, the Vaccines add their thoughts to the discussion about the state of indie rock music. British critics question how much further rock can go. After all, rock has a much longer history than electronic music or hip hop— it’s probable that everything interesting that can be done with a guitar has been done. The Vaccines disagree: Although they aren’t making anything that will change the face of rock music, The Vaccines are trying, and that’s got to count for something.
SPORTS
IN QUOTES “Ray McDonald has got to be the STUPIDEST person I have encountered in quite some time” – Stephen A. Smith comments on former Bear Ray McDonald’s recent arrests for domestic violence
Future is bright for young but experienced Chicago team
THIS WEEK IN SPORTS: HOCKEY
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Women’s Tennis Britta Nordstrom
Sports Staff The Maroon’s season came to a close last Friday as first-year Ariana Iranpour, one of two Chicago players to go to the NCAA Championships, reached the Elite Eight in singles play, but ended up falling to the No. 1 seed in the country. Fourth-year Megan Tang, the other South Sider to appear in the championships for singles, made it to the Sweet Sixteen before falling to the No. 2 seed. The duo came together for a final appearance as a doubles team in the championships, but unfortunately was dispatched by a pair from Bowdoin College. They finished their season with a doubles record of 23–13. “My favorite memory was playing with my teammates at ITA Indoors. It was our first big tournament of the season, and I really believe that we all started playing our best tennis there,” Tang said upon finishing the season. “It showed us how strong we could be if we continued to work hard.” The team portion of the season wrapped up for the South Siders on Sunday, May 10. No. 15 Chicago finished at 13–12 on the season, and reached the regional final of the NCAA team tournament before falling to No. 5 Carnegie Mellon 5–1. While it is difficult for any team to end the season with a loss, the fourth-years of this squad can leave Chicago confident that they have left a legacy that will be noted for years to come. This is the seventh straight year that the Maroons have made it to the regional final, and this year’s graduating class totaled a four-year record of 66–34. The awards that the three
Fourth-year Maggie Schumann reaches to return the ball at a match against Gustavus Adolphus second week of this month. COURTESY OF UCHICAGO ATHLETICS
fourth-years have garnered are amazing : two singles second-team All-UAA, two doubles first-team All-UAA, one doubles secondteam All-UAA, one first-team AllUAA, three singles and one doubles All-American accolades, and finally an ITA Regional Championship in doubles. Tang said on the opportunity to have played on a team with a rich tradition of winning, “I have actually been very lucky to have competed all four years here in post-season competition. I think the best part has been watching the team progress throughout the
season and working to overcome any obstacles.” And these fourth-years can rest assured that the program will be left in good hands; Iranpour tallied a record of 27–9 this season, second-year Tiffany Chen went 20–10 in singles, and first-year Jasmine Lee posted a 22–10 record. These underclassmen also have the benefit of playing top competition this past season; of Chicago’s 25 matches, 16 were ranked in the top 25, and six were in the top 10. Not only will the seniors have entered into a program with a history of success, but they will also
leave it ripe for the chance of future wins and championships. “The experience I have gained over four years of practicing and competing has taught me what is important in order to be successful,” Tang said. “I have learned that there are really only a few aspects that will inevitably lead to wins: energy, positivity, and the true belief that you will win a match.” All these intangibles will certainly be passed down for years to come. It seems safe to assume that the Maroons will continue to triumph on the biggest of stages and at the highest of levels.
Trio return to Chicago after showing at NCAA Championships Track and Field Russell Mendelson
Senior Sports Staff In the outdoor season finale, all three athletes representing the Maroons made it to their respective championship finals. On Saturday, third-year Brianna Hickey, second-year Michelle Dobbs, and first-year Ade Ayoola competed in the 1500-meter, 800-meter, and high jump finals at the NCAA DIII Outdoor Championships in Canton, NY. Hickey walked away with a 12th place finish, while Ayoola came in at 20th overall in her first collegiate national final. Dobbs recorded the fourth-fastest time in the preliminary round, and eventually finished fourth overall the following day in the finals. Dobbs bested her previous day’s time by over one second, and snagged herself AllAmerican recognition. “It was an honor to be able to make the podium for All-Amer-
ican status,” Dobbs commented on the honor, before going on to explain the added difficulties she faced competing on the national stage. “A big challenge of racing at the national level is that the fields of competitors are so much closer together than the races during our regular season,” Dobbs continued on the strategy that goes into racing at the championships. “Because of this, positioning and strategy become much more important, and at times I found it difficult to find a balance between being in a position to respond to moves and in a position out of the wind and on the rail.” Halfway through her college career, Dobbs has already amassed four All-American honors, collecting one for each championship she has been able to compete in. Three of those have now been achieved in the 800-meter, with the fourth earned this March at Salem, North
Carolina in the Distance Medley Relay (DMR). Hickey, who has two All-American indoor honors on her résumé, was looking to add her first in an outdoor event. Previously, she took her first in the mile during the 2014 season, and her second in the DMR with Dobbs. Besides having a lot to focus on individually, all three of the women also expressed their excitement at being able to share this experience with one another. “My favorite part of the experience was the people I went with,” Ayoola said on her first championship. “The fact that everyone competed on Saturday [in the finals] was fantastic.” “It was a very fun day for us all to compete on Saturday. I also feel that watching Brianna qualify on day one was a perfect way to start off the meet for us and contributed to my mindset for my Day Two race,” noted Dobbs, who shared
similar sentiments with Ayoola on the collective experience. Hickey had her preliminary race on Thursday, while the other two Chicagoans had their respective opening rounds on Friday. Despite the season finally coming to a close, there is still work to be done for these athletes as they set their sights on next season and beyond, ready to embark on a new set of goals and aspirations. “From this experience, I’ve learned to stop putting so much pressure on myself,” Ayoola explained. “I’m excited to see what I can do in the future,” Dobbs said, referring to her middle distance running, as well as her long distance events which were cut short this season due to injury. “But even more so, I am excited about our strong team and would anticipate an even larger number of nationals-caliber performances from us next year across the board.”
It’s May 29, and not one team has been locked in for the Stanley Cup Finals. These final four teams are duking it out until the very end, as both the west and the east are going to need to go the distance before anyone books their ticket to the finals. Both Anaheim and Tampa Bay failed to finish off their opponents after getting 3–2 series leads, and are now facing a huge task going into the weekend with the series tied 3–3 apiece. On Friday, we have the President’s Trophy-winning New York Rangers, 7–0 in their last seven Game 7s, hosting the young Tampa Bay Lightning. New York fans rest in the fact that “King Henrik,” as they call their star netminder, is virtually unbeatable in Game 7 situations—posting a save percentage of .966 in his last seven Game 7 situations. Forward Rick Nash, who I called out to step up last week, has steadily racked up points—he registered a goal and three assists in elimination Game 6—and is now second on the Rangers with 14 points. Defenseman Keith Yandle is making General Manger Glen Sather look like a genius for acquiring him at the deadline this year; the 28 year old has two goals and five assist in his last four games. “It’s a totally different situation from when I was with the Coyotes. Every game we were just happy to win. Here, we’re expected to win,” Yandle says. “There’s no quit in this group.” Fresh off a 7–3 win, there’s a lot to look forward to if you’re the home team, but Tampa Bay is eager to come in to Madison Square Garden with an upset in mind. We might not have any Alex-Ovechkin-like “we will win” guarantees, but Tampa young-gun Alex Killorn, looking at the Rangers’s 7–0 record, wasn’t afraid to say, “Guess that means they’re due to lose one, right?” On Saturday, we’ll have Chicago trying to snatch a road victory in Anaheim. The Chicago Blackhawks scored three goals in a 3:45 span during the second period of Wednesday’s elimination Game 6, and that’s all they needed to muster out a 5–2 win and keep their season alive. Duncan Keith is leading the way, delivering yet another monstrous performance, clocking in 28 minutes on Wednesday on the way to three assists and a last-second save of a puck. If Keith had not saved that puck at the goal line, the Ducks would have tied it up in the third. Instead, Chicago’s now in the Western Conference Final Game 7 for the second time in as many years. Last time, they didn’t make it past the eventual cup-winning L.A. Kings. The Blackhawks have been here before, know what it’s like to lose, and with their upcoming roster-breaking capcrunch, they certainly don’t want to lose again. We’re in for a great weekend. While these four teams prepare for win-or-go-home showdowns, you can sit back and enjoy back-to-back Game 7s.
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NEWS: FALL QUARTER IN REVIEW Hackers Accuse student of creating Hyde Park List
Sarah Manhardt Deputy Editor-In-Chief Early Wednesday morning, a group calling itself the UChicago Electronic Army (UEA) hacked the MODA fashion magazine’s website and publicly accused a University student of creating and distributing the Hyde Park List, a list of students accused of sexual assault. The group created a fake e-mail address, purportedly belonging to the student it accused, and sent an e-mail to a Maroon reporter directing them to the website. The UEA previously hacked into Freenters, the
free printing service, in what they said was an attempt to expose its lax security last November. The Hyde Park List, a Tumblr accusing students of sexual assault, appeared over the weekend with accompanying flyers posted around the University. It was taken down Sunday night but reappeared Tuesday, generating controversy and media attention. On the hacked site the UEA satirizes the Hyde Park List, copying its format but with its own message. “OBJECTIVE: Keeping the Hyde Park community safe from people who publicly accuse other
people of committing varying levels of gender-based violence without any proof whatsoever— since the University won’t,” the site says, in a parody of the Hyde Park List’s stated purpose. UEA goes on to mock feminists, social-justice warriors, and others and threatens “to rape harder.” Several hours later the Hyde Park List updated its Tumblr with a post entitled “Addressing Your Concerns.” The post stated the Hyde Park List does not intend to accuse students of sexual violence, but rather intends to provide warnings of “individuals
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we would warn our friends about, because of their troubling behavior towards romantic or sexual partners.” It noted that the rankings of warnings, red and orange, do not have a specific meaning to them. The post also announced the Hyde Park List will create a Google document with specific allegations, with the accused students able to send in their responses to the allegations. The Google document will only be accessible to those with a UChicago e-mail account. The post also included further reasoning for creating the Tum-
Admin, student confirm fake Facebook hack Ankit Jain & Isaac Stein Former News Editor & News Staff
Kenwood Academy career coach Lindsey Hunter speaks at a news conference announcing the new financial aid initiatives. The initatives will replace student loans with grants, beginning with next year’s Class of 2019. COURTESY OF JONAH RABB
Sarah Manhardt Deputy Editor-In-Chief The University announced sweeping changes to its financial aid policy Wednesday, most notably through a new initiative called “No Barriers.” The revisions include eliminating loans, waiving the application fee, and providing additional funding and support for low- and middle-income students. “No Barriers” will benefit all students applying to the College, and additional initiatives will expand the Odyssey Scholars program. Most of the new initiatives expand the existing UChicago Promise program to the general population. The new programs will take effect beginning with the class of 2019, and were announced at a press conference Wednesday. Current students of the University will not be eligible for any of the new programs. The University estimates that the new programs will include more than half of incoming first years, according to Campus and Student Life News Officer Mary Abowd. “With UChicago ‘No Barriers’ and our other commitments, we are ensuring that people from
all backgrounds and all incomes can afford to attend the University, and that they can thrive and succeed in whatever path they choose,” University President Robert J. Zimmer said at the conference. “No Barriers” guarantees no loans in need-based financial aid packages for undergraduates and no application fees for students in the College applying for financial aid. It also replaces the CSS/Financial Aid profile, a form required by most colleges when applying for financial aid, in addition to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), with a simpler form, and will establish free workshops across the country about applying to selective colleges and applying for financial aid for students and families. The Odyssey Scholars program was established in 2007 to reduce student loans for low- and middle-income College students and will expand under the new initiatives. Most notably, it will now guarantee paid internships or research opportunities for the summer after first year, and it will eliminate work-study for students during the academic year.
Changes also include financial support for study abroad and new programming for first-year orientation, as well as leadership and networking. Many of the changes are modeled after the program UChicago Promise, which was launched in 2012. Aimed at students applying from the city of Chicago, the program eliminated loans in financial aid packages, waived the application fee, established an Admissions Academy for high school counselors to prepare students for the college application process, and added supporting roles within the University to help counsel UChicago Promise students. In addition, the University awards several different full-tuition, merit-based scholarships like the Chicago Public Schools Scholarship, the Chicago Police and Fire Scholarship, and individual scholarships to students from specific high schools. The University also hosts a College Bridge Program, Collegiate Scholars Program, and Upward Bound readiness program. The total cost of the program will not be known until the full makeup of the Class of 2019 is deBARRIER continued on page A13
blr. “The University has failed to protect the community, sexual assault is historically deeply underreported, and we have failed as a campus to have a real and serious conversation about sexual assault on campus, even after the Title IX investigation,” it says. The University News office could not be reached for comment at press time. Continue checking back for updates as the story develops, including an interview with the owner of the Hyde Park tumblr.
A University of Chicago student has admitted to posting a racially charged Facebook status which they had previously claimed was a hack by the UChicago Electronic Army (UEA). The University had been investigating to find who was responsible for the initial incident of hate speech. As previously reported in the Maroon, the Facebook account of firstyear Derek Caquelin was allegedly hacked last week by the UEA and a status was posted containing a racial slur and threats of sexual assault. However, at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Caquelin posted a Facebook status on their personal account in which they claimed responsibility for the incident. “I am behind this, and only I. No others were involved, so I really would like to ask you to leave them alone. There is no excuse for hate, which includes what I did,” Caquelin wrote in the post. Caquelin declined to comment any further. In an e-mail sent to the University on Monday morning, the administration announced that the post was not a hack. It later posted a FAQ on the Campus and Student Life website, after Caquelin’s post admitting their role. The website reads, “It became clear that nobody broke into the Facebook account in question, and that in fact the posting was not the anonymous threat against a student that it first appeared to be.” The earlier e-mail, written by Karen Warren Coleman, vice president for Campus Life and Student Services, said that the hoax does not affect the University’s interest in promoting diversity and inclusion. “Whatever its purpose, the language used in this incident does not constitute discourse and will not be tolerated. Its use underlines questions about campus climate already raised in other contexts,” Coleman wrote. “These emerging facts do not in any way diminish the University’s commitment to a diverse campus, free
from harassment and discrimination.” A statement which was allegedly written by the UEA last Wednesday and posted to an anonymous online forum denied involvement in the hack and accused Caquelin of fabricating the accusation. Vincente Perez, a third-year who is currently leading a campus movement against racial bias, suggested on Monday that Caquelin, who has also been involved in the movement, resorted to a dramatic measure due to the lack of dialogue on race relations on campus. Caquelin’s original post named Perez as a target for a future attack. “Someone felt they had to show something extreme to get people to care. Think about that. This is not a justification. But think about what the weight of apathy can force people to do,” Perez wrote in an e-mail. Third-year Nina Katemauswa, a founding member of Students Against On-Campus Racial and Ethnic Discrimination (SACRED), a group formed after the Halloween incident that launched the movement and includes both Perez and Caquelin, said that the original post’s threats of sexual assault made her especially upset. Katemauswa is a sexual assault survivor. “[The post] made me feel very unsafe and violated initially, and then coming to find out about it made me feel exploited,” she said. “I feel like he turned a serious issue into something that can now be mocked alongside everything else about that post.” Fourth-year Jaime Sanchez, who co-led the recent protests, said that he does not think that the revelations concerning Caquelin’s Facebook status will affect the work of the students’ movements. “From the very beginning, our movement was never about particular incidents; it was about addressing the structural problem of everyday micro-aggressive racism on campus,” he said. “It’s unfortunate that this betrayal happened, but it was never even about the Facebook incident to begin with. It was always about the larger culture of intolerance that we should continue to focus on.”
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Protests against racism escalate after online threats not only addressed recent incidents but also recounted previous instances of discrimination and intolerance at the University. The hashtag, a play on the University’s slogan “life of the mind,” started trending on Twitter in Chicago after Tuesday’s Facebook hacking. It was included in more than 300 original Tweets and retweeted multiple times, culminating in 1,500 total Tweets with the hashtag.
At noon on Wednesday, 50 Univeristy students staged a protest against what they consider to be a racially intolerant university in Harper Memorial Library. The protest is a response to a series of recent events on campus beginning with an incident in which a number of students dressed as Mexican gansters on Halloween. COURTESY OF ANKIT JAIN
Isaac Stein & Raymond Fang Senior News Writer & Associate News Editor Students continued to rally against racial insensitivity on campus this week. A petition that began circulating last weekend now has more than 2,000 signatures. The hacking of a student’s Facebook account Tuesday evening has led to a federal investigation; a subsequent movement on Twitter resulted in 1,500 related Tweets; and a protest took place Wednesday afternoon in the middle of the Harper Reading Room. These events come days after thirdyear Vincente Perez and fourth-year Jaime Sanchez presented the University administration with a petition to “address the culture of racial intolerance” at the University of Chicago. The petition, which had 2,175 signatures as of early Friday morning, was precipitated by racially charged Halloween costumes of lower-class Mexican gangsters worn by a few students. On Tuesday, the Facebook account of first-year Derek Caquelin was allegedly hacked by the UChicago Electronic Army. The hacker posted a Facebook status on Caquelin’s account that contained a racial slur and a threat to commit sexual assault, and also named Perez as a target for a future attack. “Vincente you are next. None of your profiles are safe. This is the beginning of our rape season,” the message read in part. In an e-mail to the University, President Robert Zimmer condemned the Facebook post as hate speech, and said that the University is pursuing a federal investigation of the incident, and would pursue criminal prosecution of the individual behind it. “A message with hateful and abhorrent attacks on members of our commu-
nity was posted. This is unacceptable and violates our core values…. An investigation is underway with the help of federal law enforcement agencies and third-party website providers to see if we can determine who posted the message,” Zimmer wrote in the e-mail. Joan Hyde, the media coordinator for the Chicago FBI Office, declined to comment as to whether the FBI is currently involved in the case. Perez and Sanchez said they did not find Zimmer’s response to be satisfactory, on the grounds that it responded to an isolated incident of racism as opposed to a larger campus culture that abets similar behavior. “Zimmer’s e-mail was reactionary at best, in the sense that it was only a response to personal attacks on students. It was not a response to an entire culture of intolerance. In this sense, the e-mail says that it takes an instance of someone being seriously threatened for the University to respond to this issue at all,” Sanchez said. At noon on Wednesday, 50 Univeristy students staged a protest against what they consider to be a racially intolerant university in Harper Memorial Library. The protest is a response to a series of recent events on campus beginning with an incident in which a number of students dressed as Mexican gansters on Halloween. “We Are Here” On Wednesday, more than 50 protesters, led by Perez and Sanchez, marched through the Reading Room chanting, “We are here.” Perez said they chose Harper as the location because it symbolizes how institutionalized racism impedes student learning. “I think that our message was pow-
erful and clear and was conveyed by the theme of absolute disruption. We intended to bring attention to the culture of intolerance at the University of Chicago,” Perez said. The protesters entered the reading room chanting before stopping in a single-file line. They read comments from the signers of the petition aloud; the comments addressed concerns including frustration with the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD), allegations of inadequate University resources for students who are children of firstgeneration immigrants, and the “academic disenfranchisement” inherent in the experience of being a minority student at the University. As protesters left, several students in the library applauded. Students who witnessed the protest had mixed feelings. Second-year Edward Huh said that he thought that the message of the protest was somewhat muddled, since they did not discuss the specific actions they wanted. “I get that they’re showing discontent, but it was not completely clear as to what they were fighting for. It was like a Sosc paper with no thesis,” Huh said. Third-year Sean Gasiorowski, however, said that the symbolism of the protest was clear. “I understand the slogan of ‘We Are Here,’ as well as the choice of Harper. The protesters intended to represent the silence of people who aren’t or are unable to actively speak up about discrimination,” he said. The demonstration was shared on social media via the hashtag #liabilityofthemind, which was created to highlight experiences of all marginalized students on campus. Content shared on Twitter with the hashtag
University response President Zimmer said in a previously scheduled interview with The Maroon on Tuesday before the hacking surfaced that the administration is preparing to create a new administrative position through the office of the provost charged with promoting “diversity and inclusion.” Creation of this position, Zimmer said, is not a response to recent events and has been in the works for some time. Zimmer did not explicitly state what the job description of the new administrator would be. Perez said that he finds Zimmer’s promise to create a new administrative position to promote diversity and inclusion well-intentioned, but it falls short of a comprehensive solution to student grievances. “Small initiatives certainly help, but the addition of one [administrative] position is not going to help. What we need is for the University to create a campus climate survey, as outlined in our petition. Every time an act of discrimination happens on campus, such as what happened on Halloween, it goes by and nobody notices. A survey which collects data on these types of incidents would be more comprehensive,” Perez said. Students were not the only ones reacting to the incidents: 41 faculty members signed a petition addressed to Zimmer and Provost Eric D. Isaacs and written by Tianna S. Paschel, an assistant professor of political science at the University, commending the student protesters and “demand[ing] a meeting between Provost Eric D. Isaacs and faculty representatives from the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) to discuss a long-term plan around these issues [of race relations].” Paschel said that the intent of the letter was to use faculty power to help the student protesters achieve tangible change. “We as faculty felt like there needed to be more than just a symbolic response,” she said. “We decided to support students in a way that the administration could listen exactly to the demands of students, and have a real conversation around what’s actually feasible and what isn’t.” Professor Stephan Palmié, the chair of the anthropology depart-
ment at the University, said that he signed both documents because of his desire to see University policy address the systematic racial issues present on campus. “It’s really obvious that it’s time for the University to put some kind of systematic policy in place to address these kinds of issues. Every other year, it seems like some kind of incident similar to what happened on Halloween happens at the University, and it is dealt with on a piecemeal basis. The official response is always that this is some kind of aberration by a misguided collection of students. That is not so,” Palmié said. Next Steps On Thursday afternoon, a letter by John Boyer, dean of students in the College, and Karen Warren Coleman, vice president for Campus Life and Student Services, was posted to the Campus and Student Life website. The letter referred to the hacking incident as “part of a larger pattern,” and said that the University would work with Perez, Sanchez, and other students to “improve the campus climate.” In the previously mentioned interview with The Maroon, Zimmer said that he beliees that fostering diversity at the University is essential to creating an environment of academic inquiry. “If you imagine yourself at a place of inquiry, and you imagine yourself at a place where the toughest and most rigorous inquiry takes place, you cannot do that unless you have people both asking questions and coming at questions from different perspectives. If everybody’s got the same experience, you’re going to get a limited set of questions,” Zimmer said. He added that diversity, in and of itself, is an essential feature of student life. “How can you talk about yourself as the place which takes serious inquiry as the highest value if you’re not actually a community that has that kind of diversity built in to it?” Zimmer said. Following the Wednesday protest, Sanchez said that he and the other demonstrators are continuing to discuss their petition with University representatives. He was encouraged that the letter showed that “the [administration] would like to work with us,” but cautioned that “no dates are guaranteed.” Sanchez said that the protesters won’t stop until they see substantive action: “We want complete transparency, and a real timeline so that we know how to plan ahead. We want to know who [from the University] will be at the table, because we’re the ones who brought these issues up, and we’re the ones who are suffering.”
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termined, according to Abowd. In March, the University announced it will spend $112 million on undergraduate financial aid for the 2014–15 school year. In an article published in The New York Times, Dean of the College John
W. Boyer said a goal of the $4.5 billion fundraising campaign is to raise $150–$200 million for financial aid. According to the website College Data, the sticker price of attendance at the University is $64,258 for the 2014–2015
school year. This includes $48,253 in tuition and fees, $14,205 for room and board, and $1,800 for books and supplies. Approximately 60 percent of students receive some kind of financial aid, and currently twothirds of students with aid gradu-
ate debt-free. At the press conference, Boyer commented on the history of diversity in the University and discussed being a first-generation college student himself. “This is a place that’s always valued success on its own, not
based on who your father or your mother is, or what side of town you were born on, and the new program we’re announcing today, No Barriers, is in some ways bringing to fulfillment these traditions and older patterns of policy of the University,” he said.
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NEWS: WINTER QUARTER IN REVIEW U-Pass approved for Fall 2016
Univ. releases freedom of speech report
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On Tuesday, the Committee on Freedom of Expression (FOE) issued its report, which stated that it is imperative for the University to defend the expression of ideas, even at the fringes of unpopular or offensive opinions. The FOE is a seven-person faculty group organized in July to articulate the University of Chicago’s institutional values in a formal statement. The report, which was distributed by President Robert J. Zimmer to the student body via e-mail, stated that the University must be an environment in which all “ideas and opinions” may be expressed, “however offensive or disagreeable those ideas may be to some members of our community.” The report was compiled by the FOE over a period of six months, and was released in the wake of several recent controversies related to on-campus race relations. While the statement did indicate that the University would stand behind expressions of unpopular opinions, it also acknowledged that certain forms of speech exist that go against the University’s mission as an institution. “The University may restrict expression that violates the law, that falsely defames a specific individual, that constitutes a genuine threat or harassment, that unjustifiably invades substantial privacy or confidentiality interests, or that is otherwise directly incompatible with the functioning of the University,” the statement read. According to Amanda Woodward, a member of the FOE and a professor
10 out of 12 divisions of the University voted in favor of Student Government (SG)’s referendum on U-Pass, a CTA program that provides unlimited rides to full-time students during the school year. Approximately 50 percent of students in the College voted on the referendum, with 55 percent voting in favor. “I’m incredibly encouraged by the amount of turnout we received,” SG President Tyler Kissinger said. “[T]here’s obviously a lot of very real interest in the issue, and I think this is a fairly commanding margin in the College, particularly given the turnout.” 4,878 students voted in the nonbinding referendum across 12 divisions of the University. The College, Law School, Biological Sciences Division, Booth School of Business, Divinity School Graham School, Harris School, Humanities Division, Institute for Molecular Engineering, and Social Sciences Division all voted in favor of U-Pass; Pritzker School of Medicine and the Physical Sciences Division voted against it. The School of Social Service Administration did not participate, as it already has U-Pass. The CTA allows universities to join the program by school or division, though all full-time students
in participating schools or divisions must take part in the U-Pass program. If approved by the deans of divisions, U-Pass will be rolled into the Student Life Fee and will cost approximately $85 per quarter per student, roughly equivalent to four CTA rides per week. Students on financial aid will have the $85 fee factored into their aid awards. Kissinger said he thinks the decision of the Office of Financial Aid in the College to subsidize UPass for students on financial aid was a major factor in the success of the referendum in the College. During the three-day voting period, discussion about U-Pass circulated throughout the College, especially on social media. Many students focused on the fact UPass would be subsidized for students on financial aid, with some saying that students not on financial aid would effectively subsidize the U-Pass program for students who receive financial aid. Kissinger objected to this characterization. “I think by participating in UPass you are not subsidizing other peoples’ travel,” Kissinger said. “You pay your own fee, which is for your U-Pass, which you can choose to use or not to use, based on your preferences.” Kissinger said SG will work with deans of different divisions, who have the final say on U-Pass.
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of psychology at the University, the purpose of the report was to issue an affirmation of the University’s values, which can then be used as a reference by the Administration in evaluating cases involving questions of free expression. “We were not attempting to create a statement of values that did not already exist as a part of our institutional culture. The points outlined in the document are a statement of principle. It’s not a manual for how the University should respond to particular cases, but rather a tool which it can apply when working out what to do in a difficult situation,” Woodward said. The document does, however, leave an open-ended question of what, exactly, constitute “ideas” and “opinions,”— the two classifications of speech covered by the statement. According to Geoffrey Stone, chair of the FOE and a professor of law at the University, to define those terms is outside the intend scope of the statement. “We actually played the game of imagining lots of hypotheticals [of cases involving freedom of expression] and trying to figure out how we would resolve those issues, but that’s not what we were asked to do,” Stone said. However, Stone acknowledged that a gray area clearly exists in the hypothetical cases that the FOE broached. “There might be some situations in which I might think an action in question fits within the concept of an idea that someone else does not think fits within the concept of an idea, so there will be cases where interpretations or applications are necessary. The word ‘idea,’ to me, at the margins, is ambigu-
ous,” he said. Students responded to the FOE statement with suggestions as to what the “offensive or disagreeable” ideas mentioned in the statement might manifest as in terms of on-campus issues. Fourth-year Rachel Katz said in an e-mail that the foremost concerns would be incidents in which issues of individual conceptions of “identity” are called into question. “Persons of this generation seem to be particularly concerned with “identity”… not only particular descriptions of ‘identity groups,’ especially as understood traditionally, but perhaps, more substantially, claims that suggest reduced stock be placed in the protection of ‘identity’ as such. So, challenges to the emotional orientation underlying ‘identity politics’ might constitute ideas ‘unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive’ to members of the University community,” Katz said. Third-year Ken Armstrong agreed with Katz, and cited an incident which took place last May at the Institute of Politics (IOP) in which some students alleged that Dan Savage, a guest speaker and columnist who focuses on LGBT issues, had used language that was derogatory toward transsexuals. “The University does a service of bringing guys [like Savage] to campus, so we as students can determine what is valid, and what is bullshit. We’re mature enough,” Armstrong said. In the e-mail in which he sent the report to the student body, Zimmer said that the University will hold an official forum in February for students and faculty to discuss their thoughts on the FOE report.
Charlie Hebdo journalist defends satire, free speech at Univ. event
Zineb El Rhazoui spoke at the Law School COURTESY OF THE HUFFINGTON POST
Anne Nazzaro Associate News Editor Zineb El Rhazoui, a journalist at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, discussed free speech in an event Thursday at the Law School. The event, titled Who Is Charlie?, referenced the hashtag #JeSuisCharlie that trended worldwide following the assassination of 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris last month, and was organized by the University of Chicago French Club and moderated by Robert Morrissey, a French literature professor at the University. On January 7 two gunmen stormed the offices of the newspaper and opened fire, killing 12. The gun-
man claimed to be acting in revenge for satirical cartoons about Islam, including some depicting the image of the Prophet Muhammad, that the newspaper had published. Before the attack, Charlie Hebdo had 10,000 subscribers; after, it had more than 200,000. “All of us, we would have preferred to stay poor… instead of paying the very expensive price that we paid to have 200,000 subscribers,” El Rhazoui said. She said that this has made them more committed than ever to following a code of ethics, keeping with the limits of free speech according to French law. El Rhazoui mourned her coworkers’ deaths at the event. “My colleagues have been killed because
of something superfluous. My colleagues were simple people, intelligent people, nice people, humans, and they had lives,” she said. “They have been killed by stupid men…. Incredible stupidity has killed brilliant intelligence.” Despite the attack, and the subsequent public uproar over the newspaper’s cartoons, El Rhazoui defended Charlie Hebdo’s right to publish what it did and what it continues to publish. She stated that just because it is a satirical newspaper doesn’t mean that it does or publishes whatever it likes; it remains within the bounds of French law. “The limits of freedom of expression in France are clear,” she said. In response to anger over the pub-
lishing of the Prophet Muhammad’s image, she said that in her studies she has found that there is not even one line in the Koran that states that one should not publish his image. She also pointed out that in Shiite Islam, it has become more acceptable to publish the Prophet’s image. But most importantly, she said that the law banning his depiction belongs to Islam, not to France. “Keep in mind, we work under the French law. Not under the Shariah law,” El Rhazoui said. “We mustn’t accept the rules of a game that are imposed to us by guns, and by crime.” She said that if people are offended by the paper, and do not support its ideas, they are “not obliged to buy it.” El Rhazoui also addressed the tension surrounding the “survivors’ issue” of Charlie Hebdo, which depicts the Prophet Muhammad holding a sign that says “Je suis Charlie,” or “I am Charlie,” a phrase that people picked up in solidarity with the newspaper after the tragedy. Above the cartoon is the title “all is forgiven” in French. “I see, first of all, a message of forgiveness,” said El Rhazoui. “Why do they feel offended? … We are not insulting the Prophet.” During the question-and-answer session, Aseal Tineh, a fourth-year in the College and a first-year at Harris, heavily involved in Student Govern-
ment and Students for Justice in Palestine, criticized Charlie Hebdo’s form of satire for making fun of an already marginalized population in its depictions of Islam rather than attacking the powerful. Overall, she said she wanted to know how she could condemn the actions of the attackers but still say, “No, [I am not] Charlie.” “Today, being Charlie Hebdo means to die because of a drawing, because of its own ideas, and not everyone, excuse me, has the balls to die for his ideas. And no, not everyone can be Charlie Hebdo,” El Rhazoui said in response. Additionally, El Rhazoui found that the “ugliest caricature” of Muslim people is not found in the pages of Charlie Hebdo, but in people like those who killed in their religion’s name. “I think the problem is that this religion must today ask itself why it produces criminals, why it produces terrorists. And not only in France, also in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, in Iran, in Syria,” she said. “I think in your religion you have other priorities than Charlie Hebdo, you have problems that are much more urgent than Charlie Hebdo.” El Rhazoui continued to defend Charlie Hebdo’s free speech and satire, including its treatment of religion: “If we forbid blasphemy, we have to forbid religions, because each religion is blasphemy to the other religion.”
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NEWS: SPRING QUARTER IN REVIEW UCPD to make public information on traffic stops, field stops and arrests
The UCPD will release traffic stop data more frequently and arrest records will be made available by request, in addition to consolidating information that is already available on one website. JAMIE MANLEY | THE CHICAGO MAROON
Natalie Friedberg News Editor
In an effort to increase transparency, the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) announced that it will release daily traffic stop data, field contact data, and information on arrest records – available by request. This information will be conveniently collected in a new website set to go live in June. A field contact is a report on an incident where a UCPD officer stops someone in the street. Records of these contacts will now
be released daily, along with traffic stop data. Traffic stop data will include the race, gender, location, and justification of those stopped. Currently traffic stop data is only available on a quarterly basis. In addition, arrest records will include date, time, and charges. The website will assemble this new data as well as information on the UCPD that is already available by providing links to different sources on one web page, including a link to the Illinois Department of Transportation’s traffic stop data, a link to instructions on how to fill out an incident report with the Chicago Police Department,
the Independent Review Committee’s yearly summary of complaints against UCPD officers, the daily crime and fire log, and security alerts. “There was a positive exchange of information and that’s something that we want to continue and keep those lines of exchange open,” Marlon Lynch, chief of the UCPD, said. He added, however, that the exact mechanisms for continued community outreach and cooperation have not yet been decided on. This development comes after a ten month process of negotiations between the UCPD and a variety of community and school groups,
Record-low admissions rate in 2015
including the Campaign for Equitable Policing, student government, elected officials including Aldermen Leslie Hairston, Will Burns, Willie B. Cochran and Pat Dowell, Illinois state representatives Barbara Flynn Currie and Christian Mitchell, individual community members, and neighborhood organizations. “What we did was create opportunities for them to share their concerns about what was perceived to be a lack of transparency about the UCPD [and] what their expectations were. It also gave UCPD an opportunity to share why it operates in the manner that it does and how things are implemented,” Lynch said. Student Government president Tyler Kissinger says that this announcement is an encouraging development but notes that the UCPD can still go further in its disclosure of information. Student Government signed a petition to sponsor Bill HB3932 earlier in the year, which would amend the Private College Campus Police Act to require private universities to make their records available to the same standards of the Freedom of Information Act, the standard to which the Chicago Police Department is held. “Putting it into law and not making it an institutional prerogative is a good thing to do,” Kissinger said. The newly released records place the University of Chicago above its legal obligation of information to release. However, the proposed bill sponsored by Barbara Flynn Currie would raise the requirements of what private universities legally have to disclose. This would
Nine houses to be “retired” when Campus North opens Natalie Friedberg & Anne Nazarro News Editor & Associate News Editor
University of Chicago’s admissions rate has dipped at a much faster rate than peer institutions. Each point in the graph displays the average percent change over an interval of three years. FORREST SILL | THE CHICAGO MAROON
Marta Bakula Deputy News Editor This year, undergraduate acceptance rates have dropped from 8.4 percent to a record low, with only 7.8 percent of applicants admitted to the Class of 2019. The College received 30,162 applications for the incoming class and extended 2,356 offers of admission. The decline in this year’s acceptance rate continues the trend of increased selectivity in applications to UChicago, as well as many other comparable institutions.
The lower acceptance rate marks the 10th consecutive year of a decline in admission rates, beginning with a 40.3% admission rate for the 2005. Application numbers have also jumped from roughly 9,100 applicants for the Class of 2009, marking a 331% increase in the past ten years. The College also saw almost a 10% increase in applications this year, as compared to the previous year with 27,499 applicants. However, the admission cycle for the Class of 2017 still boasts the highest applicant number, with 30,369 applications received through the
Early Action and Regular Decision cycles. Acceptance rates to many other colleges also declined in comparison to previous years. Columbia accepted 6.1 percent of applicants, Stanford accepted 5.05 percent, Duke took in 10 percent, Brown extended admission to 8.5 percent, and Dartmouth had a 10.6 percent acceptance rate. Only five peer institutions (Stanford, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and Columbia in that order) reported lower rates of admission than UChicago. Much of the University’s steep ADMIT continued on A16
include more detailed reporting on complaints against UCPD officers and field contacts. The statement released by the Campaign for Equitable Policing lauded the progress made by the University, but stressed the need for more disclosure on records of allegations of police conduct, what constitutes a stop, and the policy of not collecting contact cards for interactions with students. According to the statement, “today’s changes, while substantial, fall short of making the UCPD an adequately transparent police force. Without a legal mandate, data release remains at the sole discretion of the University.” Emma LaBounty, a member of the Campaign for Equitable Policing, referred to the announcement as a “substantial win.” “What transparency does is that the eyes of the community are on [the UCPD] now,” LaBounty said. According to LaBounty, the UCPD has additionally initiated changes in policing practices in preparation for the increased information disclosure. There is now a stricter policy on what justifies a traffic stop (driving that constitutes a dangerous threat to traffic as opposed to minor seatbelt violations) and stricter policy on inperson stops (a person must fit the description of a suspect the UCPD is actively pursuing or visibly engaging in criminal activity). The University will also post a list of frequently asked questions developed through the community discussions about the UCPD on the new web page with the other information.
Five residence halls—Blackstone, Breckinridge, Broadview, Maclean, and New Grad—will close after the 2015–2016 school year. The houses of these dorms will be moved into the new Campus North Residence Hall. This news follows the earlier announcement that after the 2015– 2016 school year, New Grad will become the new Harris School of Public Policy building and be renamed the Keller Center. The University’s provided FAQ states that the dorm closures are part of an overall plan for “strengthening the Resident Master model and housing more College students closer to campus.” According to an e-mail from Dean of the College John Boyer and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Karen Warren Coleman, the nine houses currently in those halls—Blackstone, Breckinridge, Henderson, Maclean, Midway, Palmer, Talbot, Tufts, and Wick—will have their names retired. Eight new houses will be
created in Campus North, and students in each affected house will have the opportunity to move as a community into the new residence hall. As for how the nine affected houses will be converted into eight, University spokesperson Jeremy Manier said, “There is precedent for merging house communities. The process in this case is still under development.” For Hadiya Hewitt, a first-year from Wick House in Broadview, the announcement was like a “slap in the face,” especially because the house will be losing its name. Hewitt also fears that the move will be detrimental to Wick’s house culture. “A lot of elements of our house culture…[are] predicated on the fact that we’re so far from campus,” she said. “That’s just the biggest fear I have, that the house culture that the people in this house have worked really hard to create and cultivate and protect—it’s going to die.” Students have already created a Facebook group and listhost in order to coordinate protests against HOUSES continued on A16
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Obama Foundation officially announces South Side library
Washington Park is one of two proposed sites being considered to house the Obama Presidential Center, along with Jackson Park. In response to the recent announcement, community members are planning to organize neighborhood benefit agreements to be implemented when the center is built. COURTESY OF MARTA BAKULA
Maggie Loughran Associate News Editor The Barack Obama Foundation announced on Tuesday that the Barack Obama Presidential Center will be located on the South Side of Chicago. In the coming months, the Foundation will choose either Jack-
son or Washington Park as the site of the Center, which will include a library, museum, office, and activity space. Martin Nesbitt, chairman of the board of the Foundation, expects the doors to open sometime in 2020 or 2021. “This day has been a long time coming and over the past few days, it has become the worst-kept secret
in the City of Chicago,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel at a press conference at the Gary Comer Youth Center on the South Side. “But today we can finally say the words that all of Chicago has been waiting to hear: The Obama presidential library is coming home to the City of Chicago.” The South Side personally and politically influenced President Obama,
who began his career in Hyde Park as a community organizer. “All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago,” Obama said in a video announcement on the Foundation’s website. “That’s where I was able to apply that early idealism to try to work in communities in public service. That’s where I met my wife. That’s where my children were born.” In the same video, Mrs. Obama called herself a “South Sider.” Overwhelming community support helped the University of Chicago win the bid over Columbia University, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. “The reason the library is coming to the city of Chicago is because we came together, not as different communities, but as one city with a common purpose,” Emanuel said. The University drafted the proposal for the South Side, but will neither oversee nor fund the project. The Obama Foundation will independently raise money for the Center and eventually turn the operation of the library and museum over to the National Archives and Records Administration. “The idea of a presidential library as a great urban institution is new, and the realization of the Obama Presidential Center will bring this idea to life,” said University President Robert Zimmer at the press conference. “We are honored that the University of Chicago will have the opportunity to collaborate with the
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increase in applications is credited to recent changes in the application process. Applicant numbers rose after the University announced earlier in 2014 that it would be utilizing the Universal College Application (UCA), an alternate application system to the Common Application, for the Class of 2019. Technical glitches in the Common Application system around the time of application deadlines earlier last year resulted in a decline in applicants. Similarly, application numbers rose dramatically when the College first adopted the Common Application in 2009 and hired Jim Nondorf as the new dean of undergraduate admissions in 2010, resulting in changes to the College’s marketing
strategy. The University cites other major developments as a part of the recent success in attracting applicants, from the new Institute of Molecular Engineering to the Logan Center for the Arts. According to Chicago Magazine, the University “embarked on a $1.5 billion spending spree” in recent years as part of efforts to build the new arts and engineering centers, among other new buildings. University spokesperson Jeremy Manier credits a large portion of the University’s successes to recently implemented financial aid initiatives. “We believe some of the increase in applicants was influenced by this year’s announcement of the No Barriers initiative and the complementary programs
of UChicago Promise and the Odyssey Scholarships,” he said. “For example, the College is on track to increase the proportion of students who are eligible for Pell grants, which suggests that more outstanding students from families with low to moderate incomes are applying.” Through these various initiatives, the College has secured one of the highest ranks in the U.S. News & World Report Best College Rankings, tying for fourth place with both Columbia and Stanford and surpassed only by Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. A record-breaking 11,403 students applied to the College through the nonbinding Early Action round, making up over a third of this year’s applicants. Students
applying during this application round were notified of their decisions in mid-December, while Regular Decision applicants received their decisions in mid-March. Another cause of the declining admission rate stems from recent increases in yield to the College, or the number of students who choose to accept their offers of admission. “[The yield rate] is expected to be similar to last year – around 60 percent. Between 2009 and 2014, the yield rate increased by about 20 points,” said Manier. “It’s one more indication that students admitted to the College are enthusiastic about attending UChicago.” Admitted students will have until May 1st to accept enrollment in the College.
Obama Presidential Center.” Shortly after the announcement was made, Zimmer wrote in an email to faculty, students, and staff : “The University will support efforts in community engagement, including planning, economic development, and individual and institutional collaborations.” Not everyone in the community is happy about the decision. The nonprofit organization Friends of the Park (FOTP) released a statement following the announcement expressing disappointment that the Center will be built in an existing park. Lauren Moltz, acting executive director of FOTP, is concerned that the undertaking will negatively alter the parkland that makes the South Side of Chicago unique. She was quoted in the press release: “‘We would like to ensure that any impact on historic Jackson/Washington Park will be minimal and will fit within the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted’s design.’” Carol Adams, community member and former president and CEO of the DuSable Museum of African American History, closed the press conference by emphasizing the transformative power the presidential library will bring to Chicago. She called the South Side “a community overflowing with assets and yet in need of the catalytic engine the Obama Presidential Center surely will be…. We eagerly await the economic, cultural, and educational development that is sure to follow.”
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the closures and name changes. Wick House, for example, may see if they can put up money to save their name. Manier stated that the University is still committed to building community. “That’s one reason why we incorporated a long lead time for this transition, so students can begin making plans for the fall of 2016, including moving as communities to new houses if they choose,” he said. College Housing leaders have met with Blackstone, Breckinridge, and Maclean already to answer questions about the move, and will continue to meet with the other affected dorms through April 26.
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ARTS: THE YEAR IN REVIEW High attendance makes MODA a run(a)way success
Student models walked the walk and let their newly designed outfits talk the talk in Union Station last winter. PHOTO COURTESY OF SARA LU
Ellen Rodnianski Arts Editor On Friday evening, Chicago’s Union Station was transformed into the glamorous venue for UChicago’s most impressive fashion event of the year, House of MODA. VIP tickets sold out in a record-shattering four days, a
testament to the event’s growing popularity over the past years: Attendance came in at a whopping 1,300 people. After the doors opened at 8 p.m., guests had an hour before the show to check out each other’s outfits, schmooze, munch on the snacks, and examine the cocktail menu if they were 21
or over. A striking 18 sponsors supported the MODA show, and this year’s VIP goodie bag contained swag ranging from Café Latte–flavored Vita Coco to beauty products like shampoo and shaving cream. The layout of the event was consistent with that of last year. The main floor of Union Station
was divided into two sections: one for the cocktail reception and the other for the runway. Two rows of VIP seating divided the runway into three corridors, with three additional rows along the sidelines. Standing room behind the seats was provided for guests with regular tickets. The show began with a performance by the student fusion
dance group Maya. As audience members settled down in their seats, 12 dancers were frozen across the runway. Their performance began with the Vitamin String Quartet version of Sia’s “Chandelier” and as the songs switched the dance group impressed the audience not only with their moves but also their coordination within the complicated space. As soon as Maya’s performance came to an end, the first set of models came out. This year’s theme was “nonchalant glamour” and 22 designers, only two of whom were not affiliated with the university, took up the challenge. Each designer presented at least three outfits that were modeled by undergraduate students of the College. The designing process was very demanding, but extraordinarily worthwhile. “The most exciting part is seeing our outfits come to life on the runway from the designs we created in November,” said Ray Thamthieng, a third-year who co-designed three outfits with fourth-year Elisa Li. “Also, seeing other designers’ pieces and how proud they were of their finished product was very exciting.” House of MODA was about the vocal support for partici-
pants rather than the judgmental, stony stares characteristic of professional fashion shows. As models strutted down the runway, friends and family shouted out their names in encouragement and awe, recognizing both the designs and the courage it takes to strut the runway. While modeling for MODA may seem daunting, it was without doubt a very rewarding experience for this year’s participants. “I went into it thinking it would be a fun and silly thing to do,” said third-year Samantha Buck, one of three models for fourthyear designer Tori Borengasser. “While it was definitely fun and at times silly, I came out with a really deep appreciation for the artistic ability of all the student designers. It’s so inspiring to see all the talent that exists within our campus, and I am really grateful that I got to be a part of making their visions come to life.” The night was an enormous success thanks to the efforts of the 17 board members and 40 volunteers, in addition to the designers and models that participated. The cherry on top was the after-party at The Underground—the details of which will not be reviewed in this article.
Sunrise at Sundance for film composer, UChicago alum Noah Potter Evangeline Reid Arts Editor The 2015 Sundance Film Festival wrapped up the Saturday before last. Noah Potter (A.B. ’99; M.B.A. ’07) and a group of his UChicago college friends started making a yearly pilgrimage to Sundance six years ago, but this year—after plenty of bumps and triumphs—was
different. Potter was making his debut at the festival’s red carpet as the music composer for the Romanian film, Pioneers’ Palace. The journey there was a little wild, but this year he got to go to the green room. He got the e-mail in December, while the film was still in postproduction. He said it was a huge shock and a huge honor, as so many
people submit films to the festival and so few are selected. “The most fun for me was actually collecting my badge…[with] the Sundance logo. That was the first feeling that I got that it was actually real. It’s a silly thing; the badge doesn’t do anything…. It has nothing except a little smudge of pride on it. I don’t think anyone is above a few gold stars in their life,” he
said with a laugh. Over the years the group has gotten better at making the most of the festival and its reunion. They take turns getting up before dawn to wait in line to secure the group’s screening tickets and have learned to book hotel rooms early and close to the Utah town. His friends have gone on to work in many different fields—they work as
doctors, editors, lawyers, or as Google masterminds—yet they all come together once a year for this fun event. Potter is the only one of them actually in the industry. When he describes his time in the College it’s clear he quite enjoyed the adventures he had on campus. He lived in Lower Flint House in Woodward Court, a house that sounds foreign
to modern-day UChicago undergrads, but once stood where the Booth School of Business does today. Potter was a music major among the ranks of what he called a very good class of music directors, but his musical life extended beyond the classroom, in more ways than one. While on campus, he founded a performance group for unALUM continued on A18
I am the Sax Man: Confessions from UChicago's last bastion of weird Will Dart Arts Contributor My musical career began relatively benignly: Like so many disenfranchised young men in the ska-happy days of the late ’90s, I took up the alto saxophone. I played a few bar gigs around the Upper Peninsula, applying my own plaintive wails to the greasy runs of Clarence Clemons and Tim Cappello. I was never very good, but then, as Brennan Andes of the Macpodz once told me, the saxophone is an instrument that “gets better the worse you are.” This is true. And then, near the end of that dark winter of 2012, I decided that it was time to use my nefarious skills for good: specifically, the good of keeping our campus weird. It’s a
noble cause. According to The Maroon, at least, circa 2010 “parts of our community have grown worried that the U of C’s unique culture is being diluted by changes in University policy.” They were referring to the proliferation of the Common App, then, but they might’ve been right. Already cargo shorts were beginning to go extinct; Humans vs. Zombies devotees were starting to get on people’s nerves. So I donned a pair of borrowed latex chaps, put on a pair of pink sunglasses, and headed to the BSLC, where I proceeded to serenade a biology lecture with a loving tribute to George Michael’s 1984 classic, “Careless Whisper.” Not particularly original, but remember: this act was not committed during Scav, that
one, University-sanctioned week in which we’re kind of allowed to cut loose. It was committed during Reading Period. I then did the same in Harper Memorial and Mansueto Library. A drop in the bucket, maybe, but a guy I met in the bathroom afterward did say he appreciated the music. Mission accomplished. Two days later I received my disciplinary summons—the members of the UChicago Administration are no great appreciators of George Michael, or of partial nudity in their facilities. What followed was one of the most uncomfortable disciplinary meetings of my young life. Difficult questions were asked: “What song did you play?”, the stonefaced Associate Dean wanted to know as though it were crucial to my fate. “And are
you good at playing the saxophone?” I told her I was not. All of this is contained in a file in the Mezzanine of Harper Memorial Library, where it will remain for the rest of my natural life. And so, rightfully chastened by the administration, I was forced to hang up my latex chaps, put on my shirt, and never again appear on University property with a saxophone, under threat of expulsion. My sax now gathers dust beside my futon, along with my commemorative “Keep UChicago Weird” t-shirt and fake Dean Boyer moustache. However quirky and awkward I might’ve been, the truth is that my spirit just isn’t in it anymore. I study in the Reg now. I eat at Z & H. I go to Bar Night. I wear boat shoes. I think it’s for the best.
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Camaraderie electrifies SASA's Journey dance show Eleanor Hyun Editor-in-Chief I attended SASA Journey on Saturday for the same reasons that most people do—a good friend of mine was performing, and I was aware of the show’s reputation for a good, raucous time. I had never seen the show before, so I can’t comment on its quality in comparison to past years, but I can say that I left the show this year with a goofy grin and without my voice. Among performances on campus, cultural shows have a unique feel to them. I can most closely describe it as nostalgia. Sitting in the audience, I felt joy that resonated so purely and simply that it felt like it was from childhood. Maybe this doesn’t make a lot of sense, but I think it has something to do with this: I’m not South Asian (I’m Korean) but I know that expressing my own Asian culture hasn’t exactly been rewarded in America. And as I’ve grown older, I’ve become more and more aware of this. But on Saturday night, I watched the members of SASA celebrate themselves and their culture in a way that seemed completely unrestrained by the fears I felt growing up. Even
if this wasn’t the intent of the performers, I felt a vicarious catharsis watching them perform. One thing that makes the SASA show singular to me is its attitude. It seems particularly resistant to audience pandering to make South Asian culture more palatable, abstaining from dousing serious moments with excessive self-deprecating humor and easily accessible references. There is a certain amount of fusion that naturally comes from representing a South Asian–American experience. For example, Bhangra (directed by Benita Glamour, Shreya Kalva, and Maggy Liu) transitioned into its next set of dancers to the beat of Kanye, to the delight of the audience. But this was only a few seconds amidst a soundtrack of largely South Asian songs, and when Bhangra quickly returned to dancing with an athleticism that I could only envy, the audience response was just as deafening. Even the seemingly less high-energy performances such as those of SASA Classical (directed by Swathi Krishnan and Mythili Vinnakota) were captivating. But credit for SASA Journey’s fearlessness must also go to scriptwriters Dave Thomas,
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Paras Mehta, Andrew Yang, Jyotsna Soundararajan, Meera Mody, and Sahiba Borisuth, as well as to their decision to engage with more political issues in the show. The show chronicles the story of four University of Chicago students on a road trip through South Asia. Having the protagonists of SASA Journey introduce themselves with their pronouns at the beginning of the show may seem simple, but when included in a show
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dergraduate composers and paired up with Off-Off Campus to do live scoring of its shows that he says lent him a good feeling for comedic timing that he would need later when scoring television shows. He joked that the rest of his time was spent playing the video game Starcraft, but he soon added that he also loved playing ultimate frisbee on the Midway and was an enthusiastic Scav captain. Despite graduating with a music degree, Potter’s first job was in web consulting and design. “It was the first dot-com boom… [It] was what everyone was doing,” he explained. When that company folded, he started a small video game developing company, which he later sold. He had moved to Los Angeles after getting his M.B.A. from the Chicago Booth School of Business—which he describes as an odd choice but an education he appreciated when the economy collapsed. “I had this soul-searching moment where I said I can fail at doing this, and if I’m going to fail at something, I want to fail at something tremendously worthwhile…. So that was what drove me to go back into music.” From the beginning, Potter said he could only recount “a cautionary tale,” the story less often told about
Hollywood. He started from the bottom, scoring reality television shows and working on friends’ films, and slowly worked his way up by forming connections in the field. Eventually he scored the film Nómadas directed by Ricardo Benet and starring Lucy Liu, fulfilling his long-time dream of scoring a movie with major stars. Now, he’s worked on films that competed at the Cannes Film Festival and one that won an Indie Award, but the path wasn’t easy. He said over the years he had sent thousands of emails that never received a response. “The thing about L.A. is that you keep expecting that if you just hit this next goal, success will come around the corner,” he said. But unfortunately it doesn’t work quite like that. Some of the best connections come by chance. His agent worked across the street from a Romanianowned yogurt shop in California where he met Viorel Sergovici, the director of photography for Pioneers’ Palace and the director of another Romanian film, both of which Potter went on to score. The same connections even led to a job scoring a Romanian T-Mobile commercial where he took a risk by asking to do something different from what was asked for. “I said I’d do something better and more mem-
orable,” he explained. For his Sundance film, he was asked to write 1980s Romanian New Wave music because, surprisingly, paying to compose new music was actually cheaper than paying the rights for the actual music of the era. “You have to expect you’ll be able to pull it out,” he said of encountering odd composing challenges. Of course then there’s the matter of actually creating that, but in true UChicago style, he does his research and delivers. Potter laughed, “I’m big in Romania now!” Potter recently moved back to Chicago with his wife, one-year-old twins, and three-year-old, and he seems glad to be back in a city that prizes talent over glitz and adores its intellectual artists. He recently won a silver medal at the Park City Film Music Festival for the score of the film Salvation that will be having a limited theatrical release soon. Looking ahead, he even has a musical, Ghosts of Baghdad, in the works. The path to being successful in entertainment is brutal, and Potter made no qualms about that. But being able to face failure and continue, and having a strong support from family is what he thinks has kept him going. Potter tells a cautionary tale, but one laced with hope for the next generation of UChicago artists.
representing the collective collaboration of over 200 performers, it makes a powerful statement. The same can be said for a brief, anecdotal reflection on the portrayal of Pakistan in American media in a later scene. These messages are incredibly strengthened by the collection of a community around them. The same can be said for SASA Journey itself—SASA is not just a show, it’s an interaction. The performers
cheered each other on with the same contagious energy they displayed during their own performances, as evidenced in Rishabh Agarwal’s in-character introduction as Raj Kumar: Rishabh: “Hey, I’m Raj.” Muffled voice from the audience: “YEAH, YOU ARE!” Rishabh: “Fourth year. He him his. Honestly, I’d like to see what’s fun and meet some new people.”
Muffled voice from the audience: “MEET ME!” Beyond the performers, one of the most entertaining parts of the SASA show was how it fed off of the crowd’s energy through audience interaction. There is something to be said for a show that so vigorously celebrates its own kinship that, for a night, the audience members feel that they are part of it too. It’s not easy to do, but SASA pulled it off with a smile.
Korra ends eight-year run James MacKenzie Senior Arts Editor Maybe we all got a little old for cartoons. That’s the impression I got in the fleeting weeks during which The Legend of Korra’s third season aired on Nickelodeon this past summer. The commercials are what got me. Commercials for shoddily made children’s toys, screwball middle school comedies, plugs for the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie disguised as behind-the scenes special features. It was a bit of a culture shock, especially when football is the only other syndicated television I bother to watch live these days. I got the distinct sense that I was an intruder, and yet the trappings were familiar. It’s been a decade or so, but I did once watch those screwball middle school comedies on Nickelodeon and cartoons on free Saturday mornings (themselves now extinct in my youngadult life), and to my memory the trappings and tone of the channel were all the same. But we changed, and so did Korra, which might be the reason it’s now going online-only after two years on Nickelodeon. Avatar: The Last Airbender was set in a world of “benders” who could
manipulate the elements to do combat, following the titular Avatar as he opposed the evil Fire Lord in the Fire Lord’s bid for world domination. When the show began its extremely popular run in 2005, television occupied an entirely different universe from the one it does today. Streaming TV shows online had not yet entered the public’s imagination, let alone their computers. If you wanted to watch something, you would watch it live or you would set your DVR (or possibly even your VCR) to record it. Avatar was an excellent show then and it remains an excellent show now, even if our age has brought out some of its idiosyncrasies. That’s probably why Korra appeals to us so much. The sequel series, launched in 2012, was set several decades after the first and brought with it a very different tone. The characters were aged up, the moral balance became a little more nuanced, and the setting was even given a shot of steampunk for good measure. It was still Avatar, but tailor-made for a college-age audience, i.e. the audience of the original show nearly 10 years later. Now in its fourth season, the show centers on a political vacuum in the former Earth Kingdom filled by
a nationalist group with a strong allegorical connection to Nazism. Like past seasons of Korra, there is never enough meaningful ambiguity to blur good and evil, but just enough to make you think that the other side might have some valid points. This season almost went even further down that road, setting up part of its returning cast in alignment with the new villains. It only took about four episodes to put a stop to that however, with said cast members seeing the error of their ways. Similarly, the early season set up a more personal struggle for protagonist Korra, forcing her not just to grow but to deal with the damages she suffered after three seasons of battle. But here as well, that healing is tied up in a pretty nice bow after only a couple of episodes. It highlights both how much more adult the show has grown and also how much it clings to its roots. Unlike in the original Avatar, death is a constant and acknowledged threat for the cast. And while its occurrence is rare, the show does not gloss over it when it does happen. Because of that, it can be jarring, almost anachronistic, when some of the cartoon tropes come back KORRA continued on A19
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SNL's Sasheer Zamata brings standup to UChicago Andrew McVea Arts Editor For its annual winter comedy show, the Major Activities Board invited Saturday Night Live (SNL) actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata to perform along with two other stand-up comedians. Zamata joined the cast of SNL in 2014 and has made waves with her impressions of Michelle Obama and Rihanna. She was also the first black woman to be cast since Maya Rudolph left the show in 2007, though she has since been joined by Leslie Jones. This past Friday, Mandel Hall was packed as students stood in line to get in over an hour before the first performance, and by the time the first comedian got on stage the crowd was ready for some high quality comic acts. Kicking off the proceedings was third-year and Off-Off Campus cast member Collin Lapinsky, who opened the show with a set centered around New Year’s resolutions, self improvement, and the University community. Jokes about Mansueto Reading Room’s greenhouse-like appearance and underground robots were particularly well-received by the audience. Next up was Martin Morrow, a comedian chosen by Zamata to open for her.
While some of his jokes were among the edgiest of the night and received the most laughs from the crowd, many of them left the crowd murmuring uncomfortably. When he commented that “Chicago has the best homeless people” within the first minute of the set, most of the audience was unsure whether they should be laughing, agreeing with him, or waiting for an actual joke. After a slow start, though, Morrow managed to win the crowd over with his anecdotes about working in a school as his day job. His imitations of children, including one of his students who yelled, “Haha, you were worried!” when Morrow thought another student was choking to death, were spot on. Almost immediately after Morrow finished, Zamata walked onto the stage before the crowd seemed ready to receive her. After riffing a little bit about her “ninja” tactics she went straight into her set, making jokes on topics ranging from white people watching black people watching the movie Selma to her disappointment at never having the chance to play Beyonce on SNL and being forced to settle for playing the singer’s sister Solange. Beyoncé was a frequent topic of conversation for Zamata, as she came
up again in a story about Zamata meeting her the previous week and later in a bit where she did impressions of the members of Destiny’s Child deciding who would compete in a three-legged race. Other than Beyoncé, Zamata focused a lot of her show on life at SNL, her family, and issues of race and gender she has faced as a female comedian. All of the acts were very strong, but the progression of the acts was still quite striking. While Lapinsky and Morrow had great material to work with, Zamata’s flow throughout the evening and ability to interact with the audience set her act apart. Her experience and comfort with telling jokes in front of a large crowd paid off, and Zamata’s stage presence was so relaxed and engaging that it was hard not to fall in love with her. One of the highlights of the night came at the end of the show when she held an unscheduled Q&A session with the attendees. While some of the questions she answered were benign— what her advice to aspiring comedians was and who her comedic inspirations were— other questions took fun and unexpected turns. Upon being asked about her worst dating experience in New York she told a long and un-
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prepared story about meeting a guy at a party and then dragging him all over New York because she realized they had nothing in common and “he wasn’t as cute as I thought he was.” Most
of her jokes were anecdotal, which made the evening feel more like a long conversation with an old friend than a staged comedy show. While outside of SNL Zamata may not have many
credits to her name, she is certainly a rising star in the comedy industry. If her set on Friday is any indication, look for Zamata to be everywhere within the next few years.
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around: the non-swear words, the slapstick, the romantic entanglements without even the hint of sex. But I think that fusion is the core of the show’s charm. It’s perfectly suited to our college-age blend of serious and silly that drives the ups and downs of our daily lives.
That college audience has also been driving the many ups and downs of Korra’s production during its troubled history. Originally slated as a full-length series focused on one main story arc, the show was cut down to a 12-episode run before its release. That arc was the egalitarian, anti-bender
revolt storyline which became Season One, successful enough on streaming that more seasons were ordered with new storylines to follow. The show didn’t last much longer on the airwaves, however. Streaming saved the show from death, but the television ratings
were never there. We loved the show because it catered to us, but the younger audiences that Nickelodeon thrives on just were not interested anymore. Season Three was finished online, and Season Four was shoved out the door mere months later, Nickelodeon washing its hands of a property
which was once among its tent poles. The show has not quite regained the heights it reached in the first two seasons. It seems that being forced to condense those seasons from what would have been longer plot arcs also gave them a breakneck pace that the more concise
plotlines of these last two seasons could not match. Seasons Three and Four together feel like a victory lap for a franchise that will probably never return after this year. They may lack the thrill of the race, but victory laps have their own sweetness.
However, since the works are also not completely finished, it is also easy to wonder if those without a theater and performance studies background would be able to fully appreciate the shows, since they are more experimental. According to Levitas, everyone knows what they’re getting into when they buy a ticket. “I think it’s pretty clear…that this is new work. I’ve never heard people complain. In fact, I think it’s a good way to make people interested in theater that wouldn’t normally be.” New Work Week has a tendency to pull in people that normally would not
be interested in theater: actors, writers, and directors alike. New Work Week acts as a creative outlet for those who would not normally have the opportunity. “A lot of the people putting forth non–B.A. work are not Theater and Performance Studies students, and it’s just because we are passionate students who love to create something new…. And it’s just putting that creativity and that passion to use,” Hyman said. “We want to do things that aren’t just our academic work.”
Caps off to TAPS: B.A. theses among those profiled in New Work Week Shoshanna Coalson Arts Contributor It is likely that while wandering around the University in the first few weeks of the spring quarter, you will see signs plastering the performance spaces with advertisements for New Work Week. Once a year, UChicago’s Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) puts on a twoweek-long festival called New Work Week; the first week provides TAPS majors and minors a space to showcase their Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Theses, and the second week gives the general UChicago body a space to showcase their
New Work. “Usually, it’s just UT [University Theater] regulars that attend these, but also sometimes friends of the writers or directors,” said a TAPS major and actor in the New Work Week shows. “I wish it could become a regular thing because, while I love UT people, it would be great to meet non–UT people…and make art and theater with them.” This seems to be a widely shared opinion. Natalie Wagner, a second-year in the College and regular New Work Week attendant, stresses that since New Work Week is so eclectic in nature, the con-
tent that is put on would be interesting and pertinent to a large number of UChicago students. The content available at New Work Week comes in diverse formats, lengths, and cast sizes. For example, on Sunday fourth-year Alexandra Levitas’s B.A., "On Being a Polish Jew—An Experiment in Theatrical Museolog y," was a presentation on Polish-Jewish life in the format of a museum. Her show was interactive; characters stood around the audience in a circle while audience members prompted the characters with questions about their experience with Polish Jews. Shows range from
One Direction fan-fiction pieces to staged readings to dance pieces. It is easy to wonder, then, since a large component of New Work Week is that it’s so experimental, where the most helpful audience feedback would come from. “It’s definitely useful to have the feedback from other theater people who can give you more technical changes to make, but it’s also really helpful to get feedback from people who are outside the theater world, who can tell you objectively what to fix,” said Eloise Hyman, a secondyear in the College and a regular New Work Week actor.
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Maroon Awards 2014-2015 Male Athlete of the Year:
Female Athlete of the Year: Eirene Kim, Volleyball
Scott Mainquist, Football
Eirene Kim entered her final season as UAA co-MVP and the record-holder for most digs in a season along with most digs in a single game. It looked as though Kim would undoubtedly have another dominant year. Yet it was her courage in the face of adversity that demonstrated her full embodiment of the qualities present in a true competitor. Tearing her ACL 20 games into her senior sea-
This past campaign marked the conclusion to the career of a true “Monster of the Midway”: fourthyear Scott Mainquist. The star defensive lineman closed out his storied career as a Maroon with a remarkable season that included a trio of sacks and 43 tackles. Mainquist’s performance was good enough to earn him a horde of awards and honors, including FirstTeam All-American from
son, Kim chose to postpone surgery and to instead take on an intense rehabilitation program with plans of playing in the final games of her career. She succeeded, returning to the court with three weeks left in the season. Inspired by her unrelenting toughness, her team finished second in the UAA and made an appearance in the NCAA DIII National Tournament.
USA College Football, First-Team All-UAA, and UAA Defensive Player of the Year. With these accolades, we select Mainquist as our Male Athlete of the Year, an honor befitting of the fourth-year who has always left everything he had on the gridiron.
Female Rookie of the Year:
Male Rookie of the Year:
Ariana Iranpour, Tennis
Nicolas Chua, Tennis
Much like her male rookie counterpart, Iranpour did not need time to become comfortable playing at the college level. The Cleveland native placed second at the ITA regionals tournament before she even attended a class at UChicago. This was quickly followed by a third-place finish at the ITA National Small College Championships with partner Megan Tang. Iranpour capped off her rookie season by qualifying for
First-year Nicolas Chua burst onto the tennis scene this year in remarkable fashion. The young rookie earned six UAA Player of the Week honors, the UAA Rookie of the Year award, and the ITA National Championship. Simply put, Chua wasn’t just one of the best rookies in the country—he was one of the best players, period. The first-year made seasoned
the NCAA Championships in both singles and doubles. Heading into the competition seeded eighth, her skill and perseverance pushed her through to the quarterfinals of NCAAs, where she fell to the No. 1 seed in the country. Iranpour’s rookie season is one that promises good fortune for the program, and makes Iranpour the uncontestable Female Rookie of the Year.
veterans look foolish on the courts this year, all while showing the poise, passion, and determination expected of a fourth-year, let alone a first-year. With this, it is our privilege to select Chua as the Male Rookie of the Year.
Team of the Year:
Coach of the Year:
Women’s Track & Field
Carissa Sain Knoche, Women’s Basketball
The 2014–2015 season for the women’s track and field team was a series of historic accomplishments. Namely, it was the first time
in the program’s history the squad won not only the Indoor UAA Conference Championships, but also an Outdoor Conference title as
All-Maroon First-Team MEN
The women’s basketball coach, who just wrapped up her third season at the helm of the squad, has seen improvements in her record each year. After leading the team to a 7–18 record in her first season, Sain Knoche guided the Maroons to a 15–10 last year, before improving to an impressive 18–7 this season that included a UAA Championship. Quite simply, the coach has
well. The squad edged out the Wash U Bears in both meets to come out on top and etch their names in the record books.
All-Maroon Second-Team
shown the ability to make her players better, and that skill is reflected in the record of the team. She has spent the past three years inspiring her players to leave their all on the court, and she will surely continue to do so as she earns our Coach of the Year honors.
All-Maroon Rookie-Team
WOMEN Eirene Kim (Volleyball, Sr.)
MEN Matt Staab (Diving, Sr.)
WOMEN Claire Devaney (Basketball, Sr.)
MEN Nick Chua (Tennis, Fr.)
WOMEN Ariana Iranpour (Tennis, Fr.)
Sara Kwan (Soccer, Sr.)
Michael Frasco (Track, Jr.)
Alison Wall (Swimming, So.)
Chandler Carroll (Football, Fr.)
Elizabeth Nye (Basketball, Fr.)
Michelle Dobbs (Track & Field, So.)
Deepak Sabada (Tennis, Sr.)
Maren Loe (Volleyball, Jr.)
Devan Richter (Wrestling, Fr.)
Whitley Cargile (Soccer, Fr.)
Men’s 400 Freestyle Relay (Swimming)
Ariana Iranpour (Tennis, Fr.)
Vinnie Beltrano (Football, Jr.)
Megan Tang (Tennis, Sr.)
David Liu (Tennis, Fr.)
Mia Calamari (Soccer, Fr.)
Jordan Smith (Basketball, Jr.)
Nkemdilim Nwaokolo (Track & Field, Sr.)
Catherine Young (Cross Country, Jr.)
Collin Barthel (Basketball,Fr.)
Ade Ayoola (Track, Jr.)
Scott Mainquist (Football, Sr.) Nick Chua (Tennis, Fr.) Kyle Engel (Baseball, Sr.)
4 x 100 Relay (Track)
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