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Uncommon Interview: New Provost Daniel Diermeier BY ISAAC STEIN SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

The University announced last Thursday that Daniel Diermeier, currently dean of the Harris School of Public Policy, will replace Eric D. Isaacs as Provost as of July 1. THE MAROON spoke with Diermeier about his background and University policy last Friday. Chicago Maroon (CM): I noticed that you have a master’s and doctorate in philosophy. Can you tell me more about the value of a liberal arts education, particularly for undergraduates, as well as the highlights of your own undergraduate experience? Daniel Diermeier (DD): I

started getting interested in philosophy in high school...and I’m German by origin, so I started getting engaged with that in my last two…three high school years, and really got excited and interested in it, and then decided to do this as my undergraduate major at University of Munich, and actually went to graduate school for one year at the University of Southern California in the Ph.D. program. [I was] very passionate about it, loved it, started out studying classical philosophy….I shouldn’t say that… classical German philosophy. So, Kant, Hegel, Heidegger and so forth, and then got interested in analytical philosophy a little Continued on page 3

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Alex Peltz, a second year organizer with Students for Disability Justice, protests at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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Journalist Addresses Racial Segregation in Chicago BY EMILY FEIGENBAUM SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

On March 31 at the International House, journalist Natalie Y. Moore discussed the politics behind policies that she said have sustained a stark racial divide in Chicago. In her book The South Side: A Portrait of Chicago and American Segregation, Moore attributes the ghettoization of Chicago to segregationist housing policies. The separate and unequal living conditions of black, white, and Latino communities is hardly unique to Chicago, although the city has maintained notoriety for such prominent segregation. Black families are burdened with unfavorable loans, subprime mortgages, and low home-value appraisals. She explained that this “black tax,” or the notion that blacks face more adversity than their white counterparts in their pursuit of success, is further demonstrated by fewer city services, resources for schools, and amenities in black communities. Moore criticized the University for its history of supporting restrictive covenants that limited where black Chicagoans could live. Her condemnation was met

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by audience applause. According to Moore, segregation is strikingly prevalent in the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system. Moore stated that CPS schools are more segregated than suburban schools. She added that while not all schools in black communities are low-performing, white families are wary to send their children there. Moore attributed the failure to further integrate CPS to Mayor Richard J. Daley, who served from 1955 until his death in 1976. Moore also stressed the importance of outside business owners in the pursuit to tackle segregation. She urged policy-makers to help business owners understand the logistics of opening businesses in black communities and prove there is opportunity for success. Moore noted that expensive stores are perceived by many members of the black community to be a “welcome mat for gentrification.” She argued, however, that the introduction of Whole Foods to Englewood does not compromise the community’s identity but rather ushers in a form of coexistence. “When something good comes to a neighborhood, black people sometimes think it’s not for them,” Moore said.

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Students and activists protested higher education budget cuts at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) on Saturday evening before its 8 p.m. performance. UChicago students from Fair Budget UChicago joined their parent organization, IIRON Student Network, and IIRON, an activist group, at the protest, which targeted two UChicago trustees. Protesters meant to gain the attention of Sam Zell, James S. Crown, and Kenneth C. Griffi n, large-scale donors to Governor Bruce Rauner’s super PAC. All three also donate to the CSO, though the protesters did not know whether or not they were at the symphony Saturday. The protesters urged Zell, Crown,

and Griffin to advocate for higher education funding. They also sent a letter to the president of the CSO. Second-year A nna Wood, an organizer with Fair Budget UChicago who participated in the protest, said that people are suffering because of the cuts. “These billionaires like Sam Zell and Ken Griffi n are actively using their money to make that happen, so I don’t think they’re going to respond to polite requests for them to change their mind,” Wood said. “They’re only going to respond if we’re taking the crisis to them and things they care about, like the CSO.” Fair Budget UChicago also hoped the protest would advance its cause of a $15 per hour minimum wage for workers on campus, as Crown and Griffi n Continued on page 2

President Obama will visit the Law School on Thursday to discuss his nomination of Chief Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. This will be Obama’s fi rst public discussion of the nomination since he announced it on March 16. The town-hall format of the event will enable the president to talk with law students and push the importance of Senate consideration of his nomination. Controversy regarding the nomination looms as Obama attempts to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat with only a year left in office and in the face of strong opposition by Republican Senate leaders. Both Obama and Garland consider themselves Chicagoans. From 1992 until his election to Senate in 2004, the president served as a professor at the Law School. The city will also be the site of the Obama presidential library, which is expected to be completed by 2021. Garland, who has served as chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit since 1997, was born in Chicago and raised in the suburb of Lincolnwood. Upon being nominated by Obama, Garland stated that it was a “a great privilege to be nominated by a fellow Chicagoan.” The event is exclusively open to Law School students.

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Student Groups Protest With Striking CPS Teachers BY ALEX WARD SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

As part of the Chicago Teachers Union’s (CTU) Day of Action Friday, CTU members protested in Hyde Park and student groups demonstrated in solidarity. From 6:30 to 9 a.m. Friday morning, members of the Chicago Teachers Union and supporters protested outside William H. Ray Elementary School on South Kimbark Avenue in Hyde Park. The group of protesters, made up primarily of teachers, students, and parents from Ray Elementary, demanded that Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Governor Bruce Rauner, and other area politicians increase funding to Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and address other issues such as institutional racism and tax rates for top-income citizens. Participants in the strike held signs displaying messages such as “CPS: Broke on Purpose” and “Shut Down the School to Prison Lifeline.” They also chanted various slogans, including: “We need teachers, we need books, we need the money that Rahm [Emanuel] took.” Some protesters also made noise with tambourines and small drums, and passing cars occasionally honked repeatedly in support. After fi nishing the protest at Ray, the strikers moved to the nearby Bank of America on 53rd Street, which was targeted along with other banks due to the strike’s focus on “toxic swaps,” fi nancial deals made by the city of Chicago that the CTU argues are unnecessarily draining money that could be going to CPS. Also as part of the Day of Action, University of Chicago student groups supporting the CTU strike held a speak-out on the quad at 2 p.m. Friday. Starting at the center of the campus before marching to several other targeted locations, participants from various organizations chanted and gave speeches expressing solidarity with the CTU and its demands. Although the protesters had brought a bullhorn, they were asked by UChicago deans-on-call, who introduced them-

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UChicago students, teachers and other suppor ters rally for the Chicago Teachers Union’s strike on April 1.

selves before the protest and shadowed the event throughout, not to use any loudspeakers on the quad in compliance with University rules. Gathering in a circle at the center of the quad, the protesters alternated between prearranged and on-the-spot speeches, messages of support, and chanting. Two participants held a large banner reading “Workers of the World Relax.” Speaking on behalf of UChicago’s Graduate Students United, Social Sciences Division Master’s student Andrew Messamore emphasized that the issues facing the city of Chicago addressed in the CTU’s demands also affect the University. “Austerity increases the cost of tuition, decreases pay for graduate workers, and overworks the people who make education possible. I think that we at this university have every reason to join the CTU, because universities are not only places of learning, they’re also workplaces,” he said. Other speakers at the event voiced support on behalf of organizations including the Midwest Workers Association and UChicago student groups such as Campaign for Equitable Policing, The

Fight for Just Food, and Fair Budget UChicago. After spending just over half an hour on the main quad, the protesters began marching around the UChicago campus, eventually fi nishing with a gathering in front of Saieh Hall, targeted by the protest’s organizers as a symbol of the economic systems they argued to be responsible for many of Chicago’s fi nancial issues. A fter the protest, pa r ticipants marched as a group to a nearby CTA train station on their way to meet up with the rest of those involved in the CTU’s day-long strike at a rally at the Thompson Center in downtown Chicago. The rally, which was attended by thousands of people, was intended to be the central event of the strike. The rally at the Thompson Center concluded a day of coordinated protests across the city, beginning with strikes at CPS buildings in the morning and continuing with events at universities citywide, local protests, and a press conference at noon. Protesters came together to listen to speeches by CTU President Karen Lewis, leaders of various supporting organizations, and CPS teachers, and to march along Michigan Avenue and through other prominent public spaces.

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are University trustees. Fair Budget UChicago has previously targeted the University’s trustees in its campaigns by demanding the opportunity to make its case to them directly. According to Wood, about 250 students and activists entered the CSO at 7:45 p.m. A performance of Debussy’s Gigues, Bartok’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherezade was meant to start at 8 p.m. “We didn’t want to actually stop that performance from happening,” Wood said. “Our point was to target the donors rather than the CSO itself.” The performance went on as planned after the protest. Most protesters concentrated themselves in the fi rst- and second-floor lobbies, rather than in the performance hall. There, activists introduced their causes,

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chanted, and gave speeches. One of the speakers was Esau Chavez, a junior at Illinois Institute of Technology, who shared his experiences with higher education cuts. Due to state budget problems, Monetary Award Program (MAP) grants that are due to 130,000 Illinois students haven’t been given out this year, according to ABC7 News. “For me in my situation, the fact that the MAP grant was cut really didn’t help at all. I had to take a semester off because of that,” Chavez said in an interview. “Luckily I was able to find an internship at a political campaign this past semester, but still I wish I would have been able to be in school and doing that.” Five protesters who had purchased tickets to the CSO show entered the performance hall and dropped a banner from the second-floor balcony. The banner

read “Sam Zell, Ken Griffin, Tell Rauner: Don’t Cut Colleges.” Security and audience members quickly moved to take the banner down, according to Wood. After about 15 minutes inside, security threatened the protesters with arrest, and the protesters left the building. Chavez said they spent about 30 more minutes outside the CSO building before ending the protest. No protesters were arrested. IIRON Student Network has yet to receive a response from Zell, Crown, or Griffin, but the organization hasn’t given up. “If they don’t respond, this isn’t just a one-time thing,” Chavez said. “When election time comes around, we’re going to be ready to make sure our demands are met.” T HE M AROON reached out to the CSO for comment but did not receive a reply before publication.

On April 3, the Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK) Hyde Park/ Kenwood branch held its second organizational meeting in preparation for its summer anti-violence campaign at the Hyde Park Neighborhood Club. MASK was founded last year in Englewood as rumors of retaliation shootings arose after 34-year-old Lucille Barnes was shot and killed in June. A group of neighborhood mothers with the aim of keeping their children safe patrolled the area and kept watch in folding-chairs on street corners in brightpink MASK T-shirts. Twelve residents of Hyde Park and Kenwood gathered to hear more about MASK and to participate in preparing for the summer patrols. The residents included undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Chicago, a mother from the Laboratory School, and people working in downtown Chicago. The event began with a brief status update followed by an explanation by the founder Tamar Manasseh on the aims and activities of MASK. Then the group broke into smaller sections to brainstorm ideas for gaining recognition and recruiting additional volunteers for the upcoming summer patrols. “ My theory is young people…don’t l i ke t o be seen doi ng th i ngs they shouldn’t be doing…. So I figure, if we went into the area where [Barnes] was killed and we set up a barbecue grill and set up lawn chairs and basically turned it into an outdoor living room, nothing would happen,” Manasseh said. After MASK’s initial success in reducing violence at the corner it staked out in Englewood last summer, the group is seeking to mobilize additional groups of volunteers in Hyde Park and Kenwood neighborhoods for the upcoming summer, which the Chicago Police Department (CPD) expects to be particularly violent in Chicago. According to the CPD, the number of shootings in the first three months of the year increased from 359 in 2015 to 677 in 2016, which marks an 88.5 percent increase. Manasseh strongly emphasized the preemptive nature of M ASK and her belief that the areas that need the most attention are the ones people most avoid. “ We are all about revision, what we can stop from happening. If you know that there is a chance that there is something that will be happening right there, that’s where you want to be, because it will not happen if you are there,” Manasseh said.

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bit later, and that was really the reason for me to go to the United States. So, I think that a liberal arts education is a wonderful, extremely valuable pursuit, because what it does is it forces you to think rigorously, and it forces you to really engage with difficult, challenging problems in a genuine way. Where there are no shortcuts and where you have to invest the time and the effort to get to the bottom of things, and, you know, in the philosophical discourse that sometimes only means that you’re going to clarify the problems that you thought you had understood, and get a new layer of understanding. But I think the discipline, and the ability to not take the shortcuts… to do the hard work, is something that a liberal arts education really can engender, and I find this as a formative experience—has served me extremely well, throughout the rest of my career. CM: From the beginning, the U of C aimed to combine the American college with the German research university. Can you tell me more about whether you think that intended combination remains true today, as well as more about any German-specific theories of education that you subscribe to? DD: I’m glad that you bring this up. The University of Chicago is one of the only universities, maybe the university in the United States, that has been most influenced by the German model, going back to [Wilhelm von] Humboldt’s original concept of what a university should be: it’s really a community of scholars and students engaging in intellectual discourse and conversation and learning, and I think that is one thing that has certainly influenced the founding principles of the University of Chicago deeply. So, I would say that these principles are still very much alive. I think one of the things that’s particularly prominent when you think about the culture of the University of Chicago is that it’s really the place where ideas matter… and where you are expected to engage in intellectual debate, whether you are studying music or are studying philosophy or are studying astrophysics, and your status doesn’t matter much, your experience doesn’t matter much, your age doesn’t matter much. What matters is whether you have a deeper insight, and whether you can push the conversation forward—where we challenge each other in the pursuit of knowledge, and of understanding. That is a unique feature of the University of Chicago, it is distinctive from other universities, and when you look at the reality, unfortunately in many German universities now, that particular culture has often atrophied, and has been difficult to sustain, in large part because of the expenses of the universities. They’re much bigger now, they’ve had structural reforms and so forth, there’s a whole set of reasons for that, but in practice, it has been very challenging for German universities to maintain that culture and maintain that idea. So, ironically, you’ll see a lot more of these values of rigorous inquiry being present at the University of Chicago right now than you would find it at most German universities. CM: But it seems as though the liberal arts education, as well as the institutions that continue to provide it, are increasingly under attack. Since 1980, several books about the state of American higher education at the U of C and other “elite” institutions, such as William Deresiewicz’s Excellent Sheep and Allan Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind, argue that we are becoming more diverse on a surface level, i.e. admitting more women and persons of color, but becoming a bland morass of pre-professional 18 through 22-year-olds. How do you respond to such a charge? DD: I think that there is an interesting question, and I think that fundamentally, it’s an empirical question, of whether this

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Daniel Diermeier, the Emmett Dedmon Professor and the dean of the Harris School of Public Policy, was named as the university’s next provost on March 31.

is the case… that the increased diversity of the student body goes hand-in-hand with increased homogeneity, in terms of the underlying approaches, or ways of thinking about it. So, I’m not sure that we have a lot of evidence for that that goes beyond observation at this point. I think that the role for us at the University is to create an environment where we encourage diverse opinions to be expressed freely, to engage in intellectual debate, and our responsibility as a university is to create structures and a platform for where undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and so forth can engage, and exchange ideas, and engage in this type of intellectual debate, where respect that there are diverse opinions, and we value that because it drives the intellectual engagement forward. So I think that it’s important for us as universities to be very careful and deliberate about creating these types of environments, these types of structure, that the diversity of points of views can become real, and we don’t get unintended homogeneity that these and other critics are talking about. CM: On that note, I am interested in your thoughts on the recent Report of the Committee of Free Expression, as its authors explicitly and intentionally left out a definition of “ideas.” A few weeks ago, a protest group interrupted an event at the Institute of Politics (IOP), and Director Axelrod condemned the interruption as an impediment to free expression. Some students, however, argued that the interruption was a political act that falls under the umbrella of free expression. More broadly, what are your thoughts on of what constitutes an “idea” in intellectual debate? DD: You’re going through the philosopher in me again. I think that’s exactly what we should debate, you know, we should have these debates, we should have these discussions about concepts like that—what constitutes an idea, how do we think about creating the structures for that… that encourage free discourse, and I think the types of conversations that are going on on-campus around those types of issues—that’s exactly what should happen. These are tough issues, they’re not easy, they’re difficult... and the fundamental principles that we are committed to is to providing the platform for free ideas can be expressed, people can have different views for what that entails, where the boundaries are drawn, but our job as a university is to maintain those values and to make sure that they are part of the educational and scholarly reality that happens on campus every day. CM: Moving more towards administrative policy, I noticed that Provost Isaacs has initiated several new programs with respect to the University’s adjudication of sexual assault, which is a big topic in campus activism here, as well as in national conversations about higher education. His initiatives included the UMatter website and reporting form, as well as mandatory training for all members of the U of C community on this subject, effective July 1. Can you talk a bit more about your plans regarding the U’s sexual assault policy, as well as what directives regarding sexual assault policy, if any,

should come from the federal government? DD: I think that, you know, the University, we have commitment, and it’s a crucial commitment, to creating an atmosphere and an environment of diversity and inclusion that allows our students in particular to engage in their pursuits in a way that is not threatening, and allows them to engage it in an inclusive environment. Now what the specifics are on that… my job over the next three months is really to learn a lot, to talk a lot to faculty, to hear from the students, to look at what the reports are, to understand these policies, to think about the broader context. I have the great fortune that we have a transition period here of three months, which allows me to familiarize myself with all the details of University policies and positioning and precedents and so forth in great detail, and my job over the next three months is really to learn as much as I can about that, so, then, when on July 1 I’ll officially take over the position as Provost, I can do this with a deep understanding on the culture, the different points of views, and the various policy debates that are ongoing on campus, so we can make progress in creating [an] as inclusive and open environment as we can. CM: Can you also tell me more about your responsibilities at the Harris School in the next few months? I know that there are a lot of recent initiatives and fundraising campaigns there. DD: The way it works now is that there are, fundamentally, kind of three phases here. What will happen in the next three months is that Provost Isaacs will continue serving as Provost of the University, and I will continue to serve as the Dean of the Harris School. In the meantime, I will also spend a significant amount of time, as I mentioned before, talking to faculty, talking to students, familiarizing myself with some of the broader administrative issues that are pertinent to the role, and that I didn’t have to deal with as Dean so far. Then, the second phase is that we will select an interim dean, that will guide the [Harris] School for the next academic year, and during that time we will engage in an international search for the next dean. Obviously, that will be something that I will be heavily involved with. So, basically, the goal for the next three months is to continue to execute our strategic plan. As you correctly point out, there were a lot of initiatives that were started in the last two years. These initiatives are in great shape. You mentioned the fundraising, you mentioned the new building—the Keller Center [now New Graduate Residence Hall], the intended new home for the Harris School— there’s various curricular activities, there’s activities in terms of student life, there are faculty that we want to bring onboard… there’s a whole variety of different things. But my sense is that most of them are well-defined, they are in good shape, there’s a momentum...and so the goal for the next three months, and certainly for the year, when we have an interim dean, is to make sure that we continue to execute and implement these strategic initiatives. I’m confident that we can do this, we have a great team here—great team of administrators, great team of faculty, a line behind common vision—so our goal will be to maintain the momentum. I will be helpful first in my role as dean, and then in my role as Provost to make sure that this continues. CM: Can you just clarify what you meant with respect to the interim dean search? I didn’t hear if you said “internal” or “international.” DD: No, no, sorry. The interim dean will be a search that takes place within the University, and we will be starting a search for the next permanent dean, and that will start in the Spring Quarter, but will take place mostly in the next academic year. And that will be an international, so…

all we mean by that is that we’re going to look globally at what the appropriate next permanent dean for the Harris School is. Does that clarify it? So, there’s three steps, so to speak. First, I’m continuing for three months, then we’re putting an interim dean in, and then there will be a permanent dean that will start, hopefully taking office starting the academic year 2017. CM: It still seems as though there was quite a lot going on at Harris when the University announced Provost Isaacs’ promotion, and you accepted the Provost post. Can you tell me a bit more about the milieu in which the University contacted you about the position? DD: Provost Isaacs is moving into a new role—this is an executive vice president role, overseeing the national labs, the research infrastructure, and so forth. This is a role that was elevated from a vice presidential role. He will take this over by July 1, and at that point, that meant that there was a vacancy in the Provost position, and President Zimmer then engaged in discussions internally about filling the role—the usual process that would take place when there is a vacancy. I met some of the University officers, and then I was selected, and then now I’ve had quite an intense 36 hours. CM: Going back to international themes: something that I’ve noticed as a trend in U of C enrollment is the increasing share of international students, particularly from mainland China. Recently, I was talking with International Communications director Sarah Nolan, and she said that the University aims to draw more students from certain countries in Africa, although she didn’t specify which ones. Do you have goals for international enrollment as Provost? DD: That’s another thing that I will spend some time on in the next three months, is to try to understand from a student point of view, from an admissions point of view, what are the plans that are in place, how are the various different divisions, how is the college [and] the schools thinking about this, because global reach and connection with various countries is a very important part of us. Global engagement is something that the University has pursued over the last years with the centers in Delhi and Beijing, for example. But what the specifics are—the specifics will be something that we will discuss over the next three months, so we can think about what the right priorities are for the University moving forward. CM: Can you tell me a bit more about your plans for fundraising goals and strategies, and, again thinking more broadly, the point at which the endowment would be valuable enough so that fundraising would no longer be necessary? DD: That’s a great question. That’s another philosophical question, right? I think what we have to do is, we always have to think about what our ambitions are as a University, what are the goals that we want to accomplish, and then how do we think about providing the financial resources for that. So, what that means… I don’t think there’s a concrete number or something, what that means. But thinking about what the long-term strategies are with respect to fundraising… these are good questions to have, and it’s been my pleasure now to think not just from the point of view of the Harris School, but to think about it from the [perspective of the] whole University is something I very much look forward to. CM: I think undergrads would be interested in reading like a Provost. Which periodicals do you read or subscribe to? DD: You want to read like a Provost? OK, so...newspapers: New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, every day. I also read The New Yorker regularly, and I also like The Economist. And then I also read some German papers from time to time.

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VIEWPOINTS UChicago Isn’t a Charity Why Does the University Offer Financial Aid? Why does the University offer financial aid? The first reason I’ve heard is that financial aid is a good thing, and the University does good things when it can. The second is that poor people have had significantly fewer opportunities than wealthier people. By offering financial aid, the University is doing its part to make up for that. The third explanation is that UChicago has been awful to disadvantaged communities. Offering financial aid is how it atones for its sins. None of these explanations seem terribly persuasive. For 2015–16, the University had a financial aid budget of $117 million. If it wanted to do good or help out the poor, that $117 million could do a lot more good outside of Hyde Park than inside it. One hundred seventeen million dollars of funding for homeless shelters, free clinics, or cancer research could do wonders. Whatever your opinions on the merits of a UChicago education, I’m sure you agree that spending money on housing the homeless does more good than spending it on core classes. Because financial aid is such a (relatively) bad way of spending

money to do good, I don’t find any of these explanations persuasive. Besides, I doubt that the University spends $117 million to do good; that is what charities do—and UChicago certainly is not a charity. So what could explain its nine-figure spending on financial aid? The University’s motto might help us understand its massive investment. Translated into English, it reads “Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched.” UChicago isn’t a charity, it is an organization with a narrow purpose: to increase human knowledge. It offers financial aid to further that purpose. But if this is UChicago’s sole purpose, then why does it teach undergraduates at all? It’s not like undergrads meaningfully contribute to the pool of human knowledge. (Apologies to anyone whose thesis is groundbreaking; mine certainly is not.) My best guess is that the University teaches undergraduates so that they can go out and create knowledge after we graduate. In other words, UChicago is like a developmental league—hopefully, after our four years here, we are

prepared to go out and do the tricky work of actually adding knowledge to the world. The University does that by finding the smartest students it can and training them to the best of its abilities. To have the best alumni—the alumni who will be most capable of creating new knowledge and fulfilling the University’s mission—UChicago needs the best undergraduates. It seems obvious, then, why we have financial aid, and it has nothing to do with charity: in order to most effectively do its job, UChicago has to be able to get the highest quality undergrads, and the quality of an undergrad does not correlate with how easily they can bear the $65,000 annual cost of attendance. Thinking about our motto, it seems kind of offensive that we don’t have more financial aid. Every talented student we admit who cannot come here for financial reasons is a failed opportunity for the University to live up to its mission. If that is true (and I believe it is), there is a strong argument for UChicago to increase its financial aid spending, and that argument has nothing to do with the University being charitable. Like any effec-

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tive organization, it should strive to fulfill its mission as well as possible, and financial aid is clearly an essential part of that. It makes you wonder why financial aid is not fully funded when the University is willing to spend millions on 53rd Street and Washington Park; surely, in order to “let knowledge grow from more to more,” it is more important

for UChicago to have an excellent student body than an excellent real estate portfolio. Perhaps the University should reconsider its expenses and spend more on what makes it the world-class institution that it strives to be. Evan Rocher is a fourth-year in the College majoring in Law, Letters, and Society.

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finals, the thought that no failed exam could keep me from the freedom of driving through the Appalachians. But as I folded shirts and selected which skirts would go with them, I could feel myself sporadically nodding off. Leaning against my bedroom door to rest for a second, I realized that I would be back at UChicago in only a week. Spring break is, after all, our shortest time off between quarters. Even though I had been so excited before, I suddenly began to wonder if I would be able to truly recharge during the endless travel and sightseeing before returning to the grind, especially since I was already sleep- and nutrition-deprived from finals week. But the regret over agreeing to this trip was fleeting. I mean, when does a college student ever prioritize rest over fun? I climbed into the car the next day happily resigned to both impending enjoyment and exhaustion. After some idiotic initial mishaps on the highway with toll booths and one rather disgruntled police officer, we were on our way east, with light streaming through the sunroof and throwback Jay Chou ballads reverberating through the car. There were four of us on that trip. Two of them I’d known for years, but it was the other—a friend of a friend—who taught me some unexpectedly lasting lessons. On the first night, when we stopped at our Airbnb, she set the tone of how early we should go to sleep and wake up that week. I was thoroughly con-

fused, having expected the same gleeful atmosphere of staying up during a childhood slumber party after your parents have given up trying to force all of you to be quiet. But no, we were all to rest for at least eight hours, waking up—as another trip member put it—at an “unreasonably early time.” I’ve always been a pretty entrenched night owl, no matter how hard I try not to be. After a long day, I like to recharge alone for a long time, which often goes late into the night. Even when I don’t have work to do—like when I’m on break—I still stay up for no reason other than a fear of missing out on time to think, of letting go of the world until the next sun arrives. But throughout the week of spring break, I began to realize how much more rested I felt compared to not only during the quarter, but also to other breaks when I had an irregular sleep schedule. In fact, my usual habit of sleeping late was what was truly causing me to miss out. To be fully awake when experiencing the mountains surrounding Pittsburgh, the cherry blossoms of D.C., and the forests and gardens of Cranbrook was something I wouldn’t have been able to do if it had not been for that friend’s discipline. There were no instances of any of us oversleeping and wasting a precious day of sightseeing opportunities, no exhaustion from sleep deprivation. This friend was also a genius about indulging in moderation. As a quintessential foodie whose finger

perpetually rested on the Yelp app of her phone, she was the one who directed us to the trendy places where we ate. I was semi-terrified about how much unhealthy food I would consume on the trip, because of the “if I’m going to have fun, why not go all the way?” vacation-time mentality that people generally have. But I ended up not doing so from watching my friend. She lived so consistently—she tried all the decadent foods on the trip, but also made sure to have tons of vegetable and water. I learned from her that it wasn’t necessary to always be in one extreme or another. In fact, instead of returning from break desperate for a detox, I felt recalibrated from finals—when I had blindly eaten bits of random food while working instead of consuming the surprisingly balanced meals I had on vacation. Instead of returning to UChicago exhausted and unhealthy, I not only felt way better physically, but I also felt great having learned how I could live a more disciplined and moderate life after meeting one of the most responsible people I’d ever known. Throughout the trip, the four of us made fun of our sensible habits, deeming ourselves “nerdy grandparents” who talked about statistics and slept long hours. But I’m glad that this was no Spring Breakers vacation. I’d take my friend and her sound judgment over James Franco any day. Sophia Chen is a second-year in the College majoring in economics.

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Lights, Camera, SASA! Breaks Records BY REBECCA JULIE ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

W hen you sel l out Mandel Hall, you know you’ve made it at UChicago. On Saturday night, all 1,045 seats in the Reynolds Club theater were filled for Lights, Camera, SASA!, the South Asian S t udent s ’ A s s o c i at ion (SASA)’s annual cultural show. Lights, Camera, SASA! tells the story of

a struggling South Asian performing arts center that submits a documentary to a Chicago film festival in hopes of winning a cash prize. D u r i n g t h e s h o w, each act was introduced with clips from this mockumenta r y. Featu r i ng spoofs of television shows l i ke D ance Moms and American Idol, the film guided audience members through the different acts while providing laughs

as their classmates made their big-screen debuts. Directed by third-year Ratul Esrar and fourthy e a r A n d r e w Ya n g , Lights, Camera, SASA! featured performances by S A S A’s c l a s s i c a l , Raas, Kathak, Bhangra, and Tamil dance groups, as well as collaborative performances with PhiNix and Maya. SA SA’s a cappella group, Aag, ended its set in a joint performance with Voices

in Your Head, UChicago’s awa rd-w i n n i ng a cappella group. The show also included a tribute to the fourth-year members of SASA, who performed a special dance number. With 2 0 0 per formers from different backg r ou nd s a nd over 5 0 volunteers, this year’s SASA show was the biggest ever. A production this big required months of planning by a special committee within SASA.

SASA’s cultural show also g ives back to the communities whose culture it celebrates: this year the event benefited Pratham USA, a charity dedicated to increasing childhood literacy in India. Before intermission, the president of P ratham’s Chicago branch spoke to the dire need for more literacy programmi ng i n I nd ia, where “ 10 0 m i l l ion ch i ld ren cannot read at the appro-

priate grade level.” Lights, Camera, S A S A ! wa s a per for mance, a charity fundraiser, and an immense c e l e br at i o n o f S o ut h Asian culture. As each group took the stage, raucous applause from the audience underscored the infectious energy buzzing in Mandel. One audience member summed it up best when she remarked to a friend, “That looked like so much fun.”

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Art and Activism Intertwine in Thompson Talk BY KENNETH TALBOTT LA VEGA ARTS STAFF

Last Saturday, a vibrant mix of adults and students— evenly split between the University of Chicago and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—gathered at the Logan Center Penthouse to listen to artist, author, and curator Nato Thompson speak about his latest book, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century. The event was hosted by UChicago Careers in Journalism, Arts & Media (UCIJAM) in conjunction with the Department of Visual Arts (DoVA). Every seat in the expansive event space was occupied. Zachary Cahill, the DoVA Open Prac-

tice Committee Coordinator, gave Thompson a warm introduction as an artist who “encourages us to take courage” in the infrastructural world we cohabit. Thompson primarily focuses on socially and politically motivated art. In 2007, after working as a curator at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, he became the chief curator of Creative Time, a New York City–based nonprofit arts group. There, he organized some of the most famous contemporary public arts projects in the United States. Thompson brought to the podium a youthful energy and blithe buoyancy atypical of more traditional arts presenters. His blend of lightheartedness and bluntness on social activism and

the institutions governing art paralleled his advice on how to penetrate the elitism in the art world—“be cynical but also happy.” Thompson opened with a 2001 Fox News interview with him and other demonstrators protesting MTV’s “active gentrification” of Chicago during its filming of The Real World: Chicago (look up “Real World Protest Chicago News Clip” on YouTube if you’re curious). There were plenty of laughs from the audience (and from Thompson too) as he blasted MTV with an idealism and shamelessness that made the news clip feel almost like a scene from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. While a clip like this could have spooked some unfamiliar with Thompson’s work, he successfully con-

nected with his audience members—both those interested in politically-motivated art and those involved in what he humorously referred to as “weird poetry.” Thompson began his talk by establishing the challenges and lack of praise that political artists like himself face. “The world of political art is one where you will never win,” he admitted. Regarding It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq, a mobile project he worked on in 2009 with Jeremy Deller, he observed that critical outlets, such as The New York Times, often labelled the project “too didactic,” while his leftist friends panned it as “too artsy and poetic.” Thompson went on to decry the overwhelming elitism that plagues political art. He

mentioned his involvement in artist Tania Bruguera’s project Immigrant Movement International. Between its lines of approval, a review from The New York Times passively accused the project of being that of a “fancy artist” doing something just for “social capital” and not of real political import. Thompson believes these accusations of duplicity are not just an issue for socially engaged art, but for social justice as a whole. He brought up his studies of arts administration in school. He challenged the perception that arts administration is a weaker major for an arts student, arguing that it facilitates communication within infrastructures and promotes accountability for large, legitimizing institutions. Their legitimacy

makes the nature of producing art more difficult, especially with political art. Thompson gave a piece of advice to the artists in the audience: don’t strive (often fruitlessly) for institutional legitimacy. “Create your own spaces!” he said, advocating for “alternative” infrastructures. In order to support both socially-charged art and “beautiful, dreamy, ambiguous” art, he said, we must hold our institutions (both artistic and political) accountable and create alt-infrastructures that subvert the status quo of producing meaning. Thompson’s book, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century, is on sale at the Seminary Co-Op.

UChicago Alum’s Musical Charity Pareto Optimal BY MAY HUANG ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

It is common to assume that the subject you major in will directly correspond to your career path. Chris Leamy (A.B.’10), however, is now making his name in the music industry, despite having been an economics major at UChicago—albeit in an unexpected way. As an undergrad, Leamy was already writing original songs and playing in bands. He played acoustic covers of songs at The Pub in Ida Noyes and performed throughout Chicago at venues such as the House of Blues, Double Door, and Beat Kitchen. Since last year, however, Leamy has taken his musicmaking in a new direction: raising money for the homeless by playing his guitar next to homeless people around New York City. He was inspired to do so after a homeless woman spotted him carrying his guitar case on the subway. “This would be much easier if I had one of those,” she had said, pointing to his case. Thus began Leamy’s campaign, known by the hashtag #heplaysforme. All the money that Leamy raises in a given sitting goes to the homeless person for whom he plays. However, he takes

his campaign a step further by personally donating the same amount to the Bowery Mission, a New York City– based organization providing food, medical services, and employment aid to the homeless, while challenging the public to do the same through an online fundraising page. Through such combined efforts, Leamy has raised over $6,000 since he started #heplaysforme last year. Beyond the money he has raised, what makes the whole experience meaningful to Leamy is the interactions he has with the people he helps. “It really taught me a lot about perspective,” says Leamy. For example, he once related a tough day at work and argument with his sister over the phone to his companion. His response: “Oh, but you have a job? Man, that is awesome! And about your sister, I haven’t talked to mine in years; I don’t even have a phone or number to call.” Leamy says that the thing that makes the biggest impression on him is the selflessness of the homeless community. “Almost every person I sit with wants to split the money we make,” he says. “These are people with nothing, often alone without any support. Their burdens in life are much heavier than my own.” For Leamy, witnessing

their generosity is a humbling experience. When he approached a man in Union Square to ask if he could play for him, the man said, “There’s gotta be someone else who needs it more than me.” With a new EP titled The American Man coming out later this year under SONY RED and a single, “Crime,” already available on Spotify and Apple Music, Leamy’s own musical career continues to grow. Meanwhile, he continues to raise money for the homeless and shares the inspiring conversations he has along the way on his Instagram account. “As I try to navigate my way through the finance and music industries, I am so grateful for the problem solving skills I developed while at school,” says Leamy. “The University of Chicago taught me how to think.” Evidently, his learning has not stopped there, for he continues to learn more about the homeless community and the compassion of people as he plays music for them. Combining social media with compassion, #heplaysforme brings a personal touch—and sound—to charity. You can follow Leamy’s campaign on his Instagram, @leamy_alone, and donate via The Bowery Mission’s website.

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Lucy Tang blasted past their competition 8–2 while simultaneously allowing the Maroons to capture the clinching team point and advance to the fi nal. Moving on to the championship match, the Maroons took on fi fth-seeded UW–Whitewater. The Warhawks had surprisingly upset the top seed Wash U with a fi nal score of 5–4 earlier in the invite. UW–Whitewater started off with a slam by taking a 2–1 lead following the doubles. The South Siders, however, rebounded and scored their fi rst point against the No. 1 seed as Tang and Kim won the set 8–6. The singles matches played out differently as the Maroons eliminated the Warhawks with ease by winning four out of the five completed matches. Tang took her match at No. 3 within three sets while the three other victors did not give up more than four games in their astounding straight-set victories. Looking at the invite as a whole, Tang was undefeated at 4–0 in both singles

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Chicago’s team fi nished with a victory at the Midwest Invite following multiple wins over Kenyon College and UW–Whitewater this past Saturday. The Maroons, who are ranked No. 15, improved their record to 8–3 and were the second overall seed out of the 11 teams participating. The Kenyon College women dropped to 8–8 and the No. 26 ranked UW–Whitewater team fell to 8–3. For the semifi nals, the South Siders competed against Kenyon College to kick off the match-fi lled day. Kenyon took a pair of singles victories, both in three sets, at No. 1 and No. 4, but those would be the only wins they would get on the day. Aside from these two defeats, Chicago dominated the rest of the matches as it won four singles with ease in straight sets. The No. 1 doubles tandem consisting of fi rst-year Rachel Kim and fourth-year

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and doubles. Kim was 3–1 between No. 2 singles and No. 1 doubles. In addition to these impressive performances, thirdyear Tiffany Chen and first-year Kat Stevanovich won both their singles matches seeded at No. 5 and No. 6, respectively. This illustrates the depth of an already solid Maroon squad as they look to improve their national ranking. “It’s a great feeling to recapture the Midwest Invite Championship again,” head coach Jay Tee said, when assessing the team’s performance on the day. “It’s been a couple years since we won it last so it feels good to be back on top of the region. We played hard and fought off some tough competition and found a way to win some close matches. Hopefully this gives us some confidence as we head into the last month of the season.” The women will face off against the No. 9 Wash U Bears next Saturday at 2 p.m. The conference rivals missed the chance to play this weekend, but it will certainly be a solid matchup.

Chicago Improves to 11–4

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The University of Chicago men’s baseball team went 1–1 this weekend after splitting a doubleheader against UW–Platteville at home on Sunday. The team was supposed to play another doubleheader against UW–Oshkosh on Saturday, but those games were cancelled due to weather conditions consisting of snow and winds reaching 50 mph. When the weather cleared up on Sunday, the squad won game one in a strong 5–1 performance before dropping the second game 13–4. The Maroons are now 6–8 while the UW–Platteville Pioneers are 10–5. The offense consistently wore down the Pioneers, scoring a run in all but one inning in which the Maroons batted. The team combined for eight hits, led by second-year Max Larsen and first-years Connor Hickey and Ian Bohn. Second-year Michael Davis knocked in Hickey for a run in the bottom of the first inning and the Maroons never looked back. The big story of the day, however, was fourth-year pitcher Lucas Friss, who pitched a complete game with eight strikeouts and only one run. Friss is now 2–2 on the year and boasts a 1.04 ERA. Friss dominated with his fastball and curve, but was also aided by a defense that did not commit any errors.

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The second game did not go the Maroons’ way. Going into the third inning the game was tied 3–3, but by the time the inning was over the Maroons were on their third pitcher of the game and faced a six-run deficit that would only grow. As the game went on, it proved to be too much for the Maroons to fight back. “We have a very young team and I think consistency is something that will come with time,” Hickey said. “And it’s not any big thing that this team is missing, which is a good thing. There are just small things that pile in those tough games. If we can limit those, we will be able to keep ourselves within reach, which is all this team needs.” The inconsistency of the team could at least in part be due to the huge amount of newcomers transitioning into their first year of collegiate baseball. Hickey is just one of 14 first-years on the roster, with many of them serving as starters in the field such as Ian Bohn, Josh Parks, and Max Brzostowski. “I think a big help has been the amount of freshmen that came in this year. With so many of us having to make the transition, it really I think,” Hickey added. “The upperclassmen have been very inclusive from the start, and I think that feeling of being a team has been very important for not only me, but all of the freshmen.” The Maroons’ next game is this Wednesday at 5 p.m. at Dominican University.

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After their successful spring break trip, the Maroons headed into a week of doubleheaders against some tough teams. To start off their first week of regular season play, the Maroons took to the road on Tuesday to face off against neighboring competitor Lake Forest College in Lake Forest. It was a tough day for the Maroons as they fell to the Foresters in both games 10–4 and 8–0. The first three innings of the first game were tough for the Maroons, as they were down by four at the end of the third inning. In the fourth, the Maroons began to mount a comeback thanks to first-year Colleen Bennett’s single to centerfield, which brought in two runs on an error. The Lake Forest squad responded, putting six runs on the board to bring the score at the end of the fourth inning to 10–3 in favor of the home squad. Chicago was only able to post one more run due to first-year Serena Moss’s single to kick off the fi fth inning. Moss was able to score herself, using her extreme speed for an impressive double steal. But this was still not enough, as the Maroons fell by a score of 10–4 in the first game of the day. In the second game of the doubleheader, the team fell victim to another round of solid hitting by the Foresters, who tallied four homeruns to fi nish the game 5–0. Fortunately, the South Siders saw better results in their doubleheader at Kalamazoo College on Friday. With this pair of wins, the squad improved to 10–3 for the season. In the first game of the day, first-year Maeve Garvey came out swinging, hitting her first homerun of her collegiate career in the third inning to bring the score to 4–1. First-year pitcher Jordyne Prussak pitched all seven innings, improving to a 5–0 record on the mound this season. In Friday’s second game, Chicago tal-

lied a season high of 15 hits, along with an impressive four stolen bases. First-year Carly Schulz went three for four hitting, including an RBI single in the first. The Maroons saw mixed results on Sunday against UW–Whitewater to fi nish off the week’s series of doubleheaders. While the squad fell in the fi rst game of the day 4–2, it rallied to take the second 6–4 after a dominant first inning of play. “I think the team defi nitely brought more energy to the second game,” fi rstyear Schulz said. “We found out pretty quickly that beating Whitewater, an offensively solid team, would require more consistency in our hitting and mental approaches than what we showed in the first game. So, starting the second game with more intensity as a team made everything else—our hitting, defense, and pitching— fall into place.” The doubleheader also marked the first time that the Maroons played at home this season, making it an exciting day, especially for Schulz and her fellow first-years. “Playing at home for the first time this season was really exciting,” Schulz said. “By the second game, we were all as comfortable as we should’ve been with the extra energy on/around the field, and I think we were able to harness that energy to pull off a good win against Whitewater.” This week, the squad will be preparing for the first weekend of UAA play at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland where they will be playing both Case and NYU. Schulz said, “I think we’re all going to focus a lot on refining what we need to work on individually—mainly things like hitting and pitching—alongside getting ourselves in positive, team-centric mindsets for this weekend.” The Maroons will play NYU on Saturday at 11 a.m., followed by a game against Case at 1 p.m. They will face the same competition on Sunday with a 9 a.m. game against NYU, followed by a 1 p.m. game against Case to close out the first weekend of UAA competition.