JANUARY 10, 2017
THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SINCE 1892
University Community Commemorates MLK BY JORDAN KARPIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR
On Monday evening, a leading advocate against injustice in the criminal justice system delivered the keynote address during the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at Rockefeller Chapel, speaking from same pulpit from which King spoke in 1956. The celebration has been a tradition since 1990. Past speakers include P resident Barack Obama in 2002, then a senior lecturer in the Law School. This year’s speaker, Bryan Stevenson, is a public interest lawyer and law professor at the New York University School of Law, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), a MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, and author of a bestselling memoir, Just Mercy. The New Yorker* named Stevenson’s viral TED Talk about injustice one of the five key TED talks. T he Ch icago Ch i ld ren’s Choir per formed before he
spoke, singing iconic songs of the Civil Rights Movement such as Sam Cooke’s A Change is Gonna Come. Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., keynote speaker at the 2015 celebration, made a surprise appearance on stage, singing with the children. Fourth-year student Elizabeth Adetiba delivered opening remarks that addressed the event’s theme, Why must we continue to sing this song? “Why must we continue to sing this song? An all too poignant question given the current state of our society. For centuries, marginalized communities in this country have been subjected to the song of racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, and state violence. It is a song that has claimed countless lives, from the strange fruit hanging in the trees during Jim Crow, to the lifeless bodies brutalized by those charged with protecting and serving them…. A song that preaches the myth of disposability—that there are certain classes of people who are just not worthy of justice or Continued on page 6
Student Government Launches New Version of Marketplace BY EUGENIA KO NEWS REPORTER
A new version of Marketplace that launched Friday now requires users to login with a CNetID in order to view the site. T he University required St udent G over n ment (S G) to shut down the website in mid-December due to what SG President Eric Holmberg called “illegal postings.” The site was shut down on December 13, and was revived on January 6 with stricter moderations and new restrictions. Although students with valid CNetIDs will not be affected by the update, alumni and many Hyde Park residents who frequented Marketplace can no longer access the site. According to University
Trust Deficit Page 7 Democracy has an unfortunate reliance on trust. Voters must have trust in the structure and integrity of their democratic institutions to believe their vote is worthwhile.
spokesperson Marielle Sainvilus, there has been no change to the access policy for the Marketplace site, and external users should never have had access. “ There was a temporary glitch discovered which mistakenly allowed external users to temporarily access the Marketplace site which has been addressed and resolved,” Sainvilus said in an e-mail. “Any person in the UChicago community with a CNetID can access the site.” Community members voiced their concerns with the change in the comments section of a Facebook group called Free & For Sale, an alternative to Marketplace that many users turned to during periods when the site was down in past years.
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- UNCOMMON INTERVIEW -
Photographing Obama, Eight Years Later Obama comes to Chicago today to give his final speech as President. We interviewed former photo editor Chris Salata about what it was like to shoot Obama’s 2008 election night rally in Chicago for the Maroon. (page 4) - ALSO Students wait hours in cold in freezing temps for tickets to the farewell speech (page 4) NBC’s Lester Holt will interview the President at an unnannounced Hyde Park restuarant (page 6)
Chris Salata | Chicago Maroon
Obama waves to a Grant Park crowd on election night / Front page photo of the Nov. 7, 2008 issue of THE MAROON.
SG Assembly Passes Resolution Calling for Part of SG Budget to Be Allocated Toward Undocumented Students BY JAMIE EHRLICH
protected under DACA. The first resolution— calling upon the University to establish an advisory council consisting of six undocumented students and six administrators—was passed with no amendments. However, many members of Graduate Council saw merit in calling for student participation in an existing administrative body. Many campuses across the country have declared themselves “sanctuary campuses” in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory, indicating that they will limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities in order to protect students from deportation. The University has avoided calling itself a sanctuary campus, though it has
committed to take some steps to support the students threatened by T rump’s education policy, including continuing to provide financial aid without regard to immigration status. Trump has promised to repeal DACA, an executive order made by President Barack Obama in 2012. The repeal of DACA would eliminate work permits and protection from deportation for young people who were brought to the United States as children. B oth resolutions passed Monday are primarily calls to action aimed at the administration, apart from the emergency fund allocations. First-year representatives Kosi Achife, Veronica Myers, and Jahne Brown proposed the
La La Land Taps Into Nostalgia on the 405
Chicago Secures Huge Win Against UAA Rival
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The relatively pared-down nature of their performances anchor the film against its lush, saturated back- drop.
“I see this win serving as a reminder that we can beat any team if we play hard and believe in each other for all 40 minutes.”
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DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR
Student Government (SG) General Assembly passed two resolutions on Monday evening—one calling for the creation of a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) advisory council, and one calling on the University to become a “sanctuary campus.” General Assembly consists of College Council, Graduate Council, and SG Executive Committee. T he “sanctuary campus” resolution included an amendment calling on SG to create a “designated portion” of the SG budget to be allocated by the proposed advisory council with the goal of supporting undocumented students and those
History, Hysterics, and the Dun Page 9 William Rainey Harper apparently had a habit of playing the clarinet around campus like a pied piper.
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