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FABIANA’S WILL MOVE TO 53RD STREET

IOP ANNOUNCES SPRING FELLOWS

BY EUGENIA KO STAFF REPORTER

Fabiana’s Bakery, a campus favorite located in University Church at the corner of 57th Street and University Avenue since September 2015, will move to 53rd Street and South Hyde Park Boulevard on March 1.

Owner Fabiana Carter said that while the bakery’s current location is hard to leave, the business is “growing rapidly” and is relocating for more kitchen space.

However, she is considering opening a second location on campus if a space opens up.

Many Fabiana’s customers are students, Carter said, and she hopes that those who live further west in the neighborhood will continue to visit the bakery. She said the business will maintain its student discount and social media presence.

“I have made many friends during the time that Fabiana’s has been on campus, and I really hope that students will make the extra walk to the new location,” Carter said.

BY LEE HARRIS STAFF REPORTER

While at the University of Chicago, Peterlin was the first editor-in-chief of The Chicago Journal of International Law. Following her graduation, she clerked for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and later worked for House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX).

Following the September 11 attacks, Peterlin drafted pieces of national security legislation, such as the authorization for the use of force in Afghanistan, the U.S.A. Patriot Act, and legislation behind the establishment of the Department of Homeland Security.

Peterlin also spent time at the Department of Commerce, where she was the second-highest ranking official in the Patent and Trademark Office.

Most recently, Peterlin worked in the private sector for XLP Capital, a technology investment firm.

The Institute of Politics announced on Monday that it will host seven fellows in spring quarter, including a former governor of Michigan, a former U.S. Representative, a human rights activist, two journalists, and two former Obama administration officials.

The fellows include former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Tony Blinken, Democrat and former Governor of Michigan Jennifer Granholm, Republican and former Representative for the 10th District of Illinois Bob Dold, award-winning journalists Steven Greenhouse and Alfredo Corchado, lawyer and former Afghani judge Najla Ayubi, and former senior advisor to President Barack Obama Shailagh Murray.

Blinken served directly beneath John Kerry as the State Department’s second in command. He was closely involved with strategy in the Middle East, and drew attention for his role in the Obama administration’s 2013 decision to arm Syrian rebels. Blinken frequently argued that “superpowers don’t bluff,” emphasizing that U.S. rhetoric should be supported by measurable action, according to a Wall Street Journal article in 2013.

Greenhouse spent 31 years as a New York Times reporter, primarily as a labor correspondent.

Although he officially left his post in 2014, he has continued to write articles for The New York Times, including a prescient article in July 2016 on Trump’s popularity among white Rust Belt workers.

In 2002, Granholm became the first woman elected governor of Michigan. Four years later, she defeated Dick DeVos, husband of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, and was reelected with the largest number of votes ever cast for a governor in Michigan. A vocal advocate for Clinton during the election, Granholm was succeeded by current Republican governor Rick Snyder.

The fellows will each host weekly seminars and office hours throughout spring quarter.

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University Files Joint Amicus Brief Opposing Immigration Order

BY JAMIE EHRLICH DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

The University of Chicago has jointly filed an amicus brief with 16 other universities, claiming that President Donald Trump’s January 27 executive order on immigration threatens the ability of the universities to “educate future leaders from nearly every continent,” and “attract the world’s best scholars, faculty, and students.”

Amicus briefs are filed by non-litigants in cases who have a strong interest in the subject

that the appellate court is hearing. The briefs advise the court and provide relevant information and arguments for the court to consider.

The brief states that the University of Chicago has 23 students from Iran, one student from Syria, and a recent graduate from Syria who is employed under Optional Practical Training status with University sponsorship.

Also according to the brief, Trump’s executive order threatens to shut down Oriental Institute excavation projects in Iraq,

Iran, and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Trump’s executive order temporarily barred travel into the United States for people from seven Muslim-majority nations and suspended the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days.

The total number of refugees admitted to the U.S. would also be capped at 50,000 for the 2017 fiscal year.

On February 9, in a unanimous decision, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled to continue blocking the enforceContinued on page 2

College Housing: Past and Present LAW SCHOOL ALUM TO BE CHIEF OF STAFF TO TILLERSON

BY JAMIE EHRLICH DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

Giavanna DeCastro Campus North, which opened in 2016, houses about 800 undergrads.

BY CAMILLE KIRSCH STAFF REPORTER

Housing at the University has entered a new era. The closure of satellite dorms at the end of the 2015–16 school year and the construction of large, centrally-located buildings is reshaping what it means to be a resident at the University of Chicago. But is

this restructuring for better, or for worse?

The past decade has been formative for campus housing. 2007 was the first year that first-year students were required to live on campus. Granville-Grossman Residential Commons opened in 2009, originally named South Campus.

From 2008 to 2011, the percent Continued on page 2

A University of Chicago Law School alum will be Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s new chief of staff.

According to a piece published in The Washington Post, Margaret Peterlin (J.D. ’00) was on President Donald Trump’s staff prior to the confirmation hearings.

However, after guiding Tillerson through the confirmation, the two developed a rapport and she was invited to work at the Department of State.

David Wade, who was chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry, told The Washington Post that Tillerson’s selection of Peterlin “sends a serious and reassuring signal to the building,” because she is considered to be “substance- and policy-focused.”

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of students living on campus stayed fairly constant at around 60 percent, according to archived versions of the College Housing website.

However, over the past four years, campus residency levels gradually declined, from 60 percent in the 2012–13 school year to only 52 percent in 2015–16.

Now, amidst the opening of Campus North Residential Commons, we may be seeing a resurgence in campus residency.

According to College Housing, 55 percent of students decided to live on campus for the 2016–17 school year.

This is the highest proportion of on-campus students since 2013. College Housing said in a written statement that the department “had a higher than average return rate for 2016–17,” than last year, meaning more second-, third-, and fourth-years chose to stay on campus.

In a 2009 paper, “‘The Kind of University That We Desire to Become’: Student Housing and the Educational Mission of the University of Chicago,” Dean of the College John Boyer set a goal to have 70 percent of students live in campus housing. According to a statement from Housing, with the addition of Campus North, the University now has the capacity to house approximately 55.6 percent of undergraduate students, and it currently houses 55 percent.

Campus North, a collection of three brand-new, bright-white buildings that houses about 800 students, towers over the northern end of campus. As the University’s newest dorm, it also has some of the nicest amenities. Each of North’s eight house communities have access to multiple study rooms, spacious lounges, and communal kitchens. Apartments in North are roomy, and many offer views of the lake or the Chicago skyline.

Third-year Casey Mulroy lives in one of those apartments. She says she probably would not have chosen to live on campus this year if it weren’t for North’s apartments, and she said that others in her house felt the same. But Mulroy, who was formerly a resident of Midway House in New Graduate Residence Hall, doesn’t love everything about life in North. She says she felt a sense of community in the smaller, more distant building that can’t be replicated in North.

“I really liked the feeling of going back to New Grad because I felt like I was going home,” Mulroy said. “You [would] get back and the front desk staff knew everyone…I really like that feeling. I lost a little bit of that in North.”

Second-year Ricky Novaes, the president of Trott House, formerly Midway, agrees with Mulroy that large, close-to-campus dorms don’t tend to foster strong house communities. “It seems that ever since we moved closer to campus, people have been less involved with the house. It’s not so much that people don’t like the house, but everybody’s got something going on,” he said.

Representatives from College Housing disagree with the claim that larger dorms are less conducive to community. In fact, according to a statement released by College Housing, “Campus North Residence Hall and Dining Commons were designed to promote the University’s vision for undergraduate housing that…fosters the longstanding House tradition with dedicated spaces that encourage community building.”

Many of those living in North say that their Houses are an integral part of their lives. First-year Michael Montoya says that he finds North’s size actually makes community building easier.

“I think it’s easier to be social,” Montoya said. “You’re around more opportunities in a dorm with 800 people whereas if you’re in a dorm with like 80 people. It’s easier to be connected.”

Like Novaes, first-year Schuyler Penn thinks North’s location attracts residents

who cultivate social circles outside their House communities. “We have a lot of swimming and football kids, and we have a lot of sorority girls and fraternity boys,” she said.

“I think the location does really pull in a lot of athletes…. I feel like there’s a niche for certain kinds of kids in North.”

Penn plans to move off campus for the next school year. Although she loves her house, she says that she can get a nicer living space for less off campus.

Price is a significant consideration for many students who are thinking about moving off campus. A single room in a University dormitory costs $9,435 over three quarters, or about $1,048 a month. A space in an on-campus apartment is $10,134, or about $1,126 a month.

By contrast, the average studio apartment in Hyde Park goes for $950 a month, according to Chicago Apartment Finders— and a room in a 2-, 3-, or 4-bedroom apartment can often be much cheaper. Many students also save money on food once they are no longer required to buy a meal plan.

Despite the increased space and savings, Penn is worried she’ll miss the social aspect of living in North. However, she’s in a sorority and has many friends there. She says that if she didn’t have that social circle to fall back on, she’d be unlikely to leave.

Giovanna DeCastro Granville-Grossman Residential Commons.

“Diversity for the University is...particularly germane to our core perspective” Continued from front page

ment of President Trump’s executive order.

According to a CNN report, the Trump administration will not appeal the travel ban decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.

However, Trump has expressed interest in rewriting the executive order.

The amicus brief was filed in pending litigation on the executive order in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

“Because amici seek to educate future leaders from nearly every continent, attract the world’s best scholars, faculty, and students, and work across international borders, they rely on the ability to welcome international students, faculty, and scholars into their communities. The Executive Order at issue in this case threatens that ability, and creates significant hardship for amici’s valued international students, faculty, and scholars,” the brief reads.

Under the Interests of Amici section, the University of Chicago states that “[d]

Novaes also plans to move off, but he’s moving off because of his social life, not in spite of it.

“Since a lot of my friends are moving off, even though I obviously really like my house, I’m going with them,” he said. “Because I’d rather be with my friends than be in a place that’s convenient.”

College Housing declined to give a projected return rate for North. “It is difficult to predict return rates,” College Housing said in a statement. “Campus North has been an exciting and well-received residential community, and we expect it to be a vibrant community for residents from all four class years.”

Only time will tell whether North residents are more or less inclined to stay on campus than those from other dormitories.

But even if they leave, North is here to stay—and so is the housing culture it represents.

“North is a cool building,” said Mulroy.

“It’s just an unfortunate casualty that all these satellites had to be closed, because it really does represent, like, a shift in the University. These satellite dorms kind of catered to the old UChicago…. I mean I’m super grateful for this building, but I think it represents more than just a building. It’s a change in the University.”

iversity for the University is…particularly germane to our core perspective. We must ensure that our scholarly community is composed of a rich mix of individuals who, through their own distinctive viewpoints, contribute to the intellectually challenging culture of the University.”

The University of Chicago signed the brief with Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, Vanderbilt University, and Yale University.

The University’s sign-on to the brief is the latest in a series of actions that the University of Chicago administration has taken against the executive order. When the order was still being drafted, the Office of International Affairs sent out an e-mail to warn international students of its possi-

ble effects. On January 29, after the order was signed, University President Robert J. Zimmer and Provost Daniel Diermeier sent out an e-mail to the campus community “to reaffirm, in the strongest terms, the commitment of the University of Chicago to our international students, faculty, scholars, and staff as well as to those members of our community with undocumented immigration status or who qualify for relief under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.”

Zimmer and Diermeier additionally sent a letter to Trump to “assert in the strongest possible terms the importance to the United States of continuing to welcome immigrants and the talent and energy that they bring to this country.”

University of Chicago Law School professor Aziz Huq has also filed an amicus brief against the executive order on behalf of several Muslim groups to the Ninth Circuit court in Washington State.

EVENTS TODAY News & Views Presents: The Chicago Justice Report The Institute of Politics, 12:15–1:15 p.m., RSVP online The IOP will host a discussion of experts on the future of policing in Chicago. How will the Trump administration change CPD policies and attitudes? How can we improve the current state of the city?

Critical Failure, Critical Success The Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, 5733 S. University Avenue, 4:30–7:30 p.m., free This event is the third in a series of roleplaying experiences designed by the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. All levels of roleplaying experience will be welcome.

Free Vegan Cookies for Valentine’s Day Reynolds Club, 12–1:30 p.m.

The UChicago Animal Welfare Society will provide free cookies and milk at a study break in honor of Valentine’s Day. How sweet!

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Students, Faculty March in Solidarity With Immigrants, Others

BY LAUREN PANKIN STAFF REPORTER

Around 60 students and faculty took part in a “Solidarity March” around campus on February 10 to show their support for immigrants, minorities, and women.

The protesters marched from the main quad to the Reynolds Club courtyard, chanting slogans like “this is what America looks like” and listening to speeches of encouragement from community leaders involved in social justice work.

“The main purpose here was to show students who are especially vulnerable under Trump’s presidency that there are students on campus who want to protect them and to resist the violence of this presidency,” co-organizer and second-year Mary Blair said.

Third-year Shae Omonijo, one of the organizers of the event and a first-generation American, explained that the

purpose of the march was to demonstrate unity and to emphasize the importance of civic engagement, rather than being an “anti-Trump” rally. “ This event came out of weeks of frustration with our current political climate,” Omonijo said. “ The things that we are seeing right now in politics allows people to fold into themselves and not find some sort of community or coping mechanism.”

Blair said she wanted to organize a solidarity march long before Donald Trump was elected President, but that his recent anti-immigration executive orders catalyzed her immediate action.

Third-year Musaab Bashir said he joined the march because Trump’s immigration ban directly impacts his Sudanese family. “ This march is important because it’s all about bringing people together, showing us that we are not alone,” Bashir said.

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Nikita Dulin Xavier Ramey from the UChicago Office of Civic Engagement speaks to the crowd.

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in the courtyard included Kevin Lane, the campus prog rams manager for Barack Obama’s initiative Organizing for Action, which supports community organizing in alignment with the former president’s policies, such as immigration reform.

Lane said that during his first year of college, Obama was elected for the first time, resulting in a “joyful” and “hopeful” atmosphere on campus. “ Today, we are obviously in much more challenging times,” Lane said.

“But I am still hopeful because of the huge amount of people in action, in protest, in rallies all across the country.”

Fifth-year Ph.D. student in sociology and leader of UofC Resists, a group opposing Trump, Jaclyn Wong spoke to the crowd protesters.

“We need to be coming together, because coming together makes us really powerful,” Wong said. “When I look out and see this crowd, I feel confident that

what we are doing will make a positive change for our community and for our country.”

Senior Assistant Director for Social Innovation and Philanthropy Xavier Ramey encouraged students to reexamine the concept of community and their interactions within those communities.

“When we talk about diversity, when we talk about what it means to be community, we have to also understand that we must also reexamine and re-engage the way we relate to one another,” Ramey said. “Let us be very clear: this is a culture war.”

Groups which supported and attended the event include Organization of Black Students, African Caribbean Students Association, Muslim Students Association, Students for Justice in Palestine, MEChA, J Street, Leaders of Color Initiative at the Institute of Politics and the PanAsia Solidarity Coalition.

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VIEWPOINTS Letter of (No) Intent Students Affected by the EO Affirm the University Needs to Do More Than Send Letters

Soulet Ali The current political climate in the United States has been shaky in its leadership and has upset people worldwide, and President Donald Trump’s radical executive order on immigration has put lives at risk.

Many individuals in the University community have been distressed by this policy, and students and faculty alike have expressed how their personal and academic lives have been put through turmoil. While the University community has been incredibly supportive of the troubled University population, the administration itself has done little to show that it will actually protect the safety of their students if U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were to show up to campus.

UChicago students have protested on campus, downtown, and at O’Hare Airport to show their support for Muslims. Individual academic departments have also shown their support: the Centers for the Study of Gender and Sexuality/Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC-CSGS) have offered discussions for UChicago students affected by the executive order.

However, the University leadership has been lukewarm at best in its support for members of the University community. The University cannot be neutral in this case and hide behind the Kalven Report to shirk responsibility. In this case, neutrality will not protect student interests, and the administration needs to take bold and decisive action instead of sending out letters that are little more than a token gesture of support.

Students at the University have not only had their personal lives jeopardized, but also their academic work. “I was planning on traveling to the U.K., South Africa, Kenya, and Pakistan for research within the next two years, and I don’t want to risk it now because I may not be allowed back into the country, even though Pakistan is not on the list of countries targeted by the EO,” Usama Rafi, a history graduate student, said. Shaahin Pishbin, a dual British-Iranian national, does not believe that he will be directly affected by the ban for now, but he still raises several concerns about his future. “This uncertainty facing my friends, colleagues, family and myself is, to put it mildly, not particularly conducive to a stable and optimistic outlook for my future here as a graduate student and beyond. I am only in the first year of my Ph.D.; moving to America to pursue my academic ambitions was a difficult decision for me.... Were I facing that decision this year, it would have been a much harder one to make,” he said.

Affected students have found some solace in the support of their classmates and faculty. Students participated in larger demonstrations against the order, gathering at O’Hare to show solidarity. Pishbin, a graduate student in Near Eastern languages and civilizations, spoke about how the protests have given him hope in a bleak time: “If there had been silence following the ban, I’d be a thousand times more anxious about my future in this country

than I am now.”

Alex Shams, an anthropology graduate student at the University, added that the protests brought visibility. Considering that some Muslims detained at airports know little English, the sheer presence of protesters makes a powerful impact.

“It makes a statement to the people in Homeland Security that there’s an immense public opposition to the ban,” Shams said. “I think it’s very meaningful...it’s a way to show visually that we’re willing to fight back.”

The University faculty has also worked as hard as possible to accommodate students affected here on campus. CSRPC-CSGS hosted a discussion-based seminar focused on providing students with reassurance and information. “Hearing the testimonies of individuals affected by the ban empowers us all in the struggle against it, and knowing that our stories are being listened to and acted upon by our peers is heartening,” Pishbin said.

These actions stand in stark contrast to the University’s reaction to the ban. President Zimmer and Provost Diermeier’s letter to the White House, albeit well-intended, was ineffective and lacked conviction. The letter chose to ignore the awful implications of Trump’s policy, and instead emphasized the loss of talent the nation would suffer without immigrants coming to the United States. Not only that, but it also sympathizes with

Trump’s “concerns,” by saying that they understand the “motivation for recent actions concerning immigration” and concedes that Muslim countries have “been a concern for national security.” By writing that Muslim countries bring the “threat of terrorism,” the administration validates the harmful stereotypes that continue to portray Muslims as dangerous individuals.

While affected students appreciate the University’s show of support, they also wish it went further.

Saying that the order will “weaken the nation’s world-leading higher education institutions” values institutional goals over the well-being of human beings, and fails to show a commitment to taking bolder action to protect students.

“I think the University has not taken a proactive role in assuring students who are directly affected by the ban…. They didn’t know who was impacted by the event even though there was a Ph.D. student who could not come back,” Shams said. “Writing a letter to Trump...I don’t know what that does, particularly when that letter does not take a strong stand against Trump’s policies.”

“Not only this, but in the past, I have had meeting after meeting with the administration to recognize Islamophobia, but the administration ignores this issue, and the climate survey does not recognize this in any way,” he continues. “I think the University needs to think

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ahead...the University needs to be more proactive. [The travel ban] is going to have serious, grave consequences on the students, and the University has a responsibility to protect its community. I commend them for what they have done, but they need to be going further.”

It is imperative for the people of this country to not only recognize the bigotry of the Trump administration, but to actively and visibly confront the issues that our nation and the world will face. During such a time of discord, resistance is necessary and, frankly, vital to the oppressed and marginalized. Resistance does not mean writing statuses, op-eds, or even letters to the president on their behalf. Rather, it means taking the time to listen to those actually affected by the ban in order to understand what concerns to address. It is time for the University administration to stop taking the easy road of neutrality and to protect and commit to its own community members. In the following uncertain weeks, we all—students, faculty, and the administration—need to work together to resist the Trump administration. In this tumultuous time, the University administration must explicitly choose who it will side with; this decision will be remembered for decades to come.

Among the diverse list of topics for which President Donald Trump has come under fire, fashion is the latest addition. A week ago, Nordstrom dropped Ivanka Trump’s fashion line because her brand was not performing well enough to keep it in stores. Six days later, Trump used his personal account to blame the store’s decision on politics, tweeting, “My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person—always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!”

Why does it matter that the president tweeted to defend his daughter? Trump used his political power to attack a corporation not for presidential matters, but in his separate capacity as a financially incentivized businessman. In being unable to divide his interests between those of the country and those of his family business, Trump, in turn, has reflected these values onto his staff—most notably Sean Spicer, the White House communications director. At a press briefing last Wednesday, Spicer attacked

Nordstrom in his official capacity, alleging that the department store had a “problem with [Trump’s] policies,” ignoring the fact that the fashion line itself was underper-

forming. To put it simply, it matters because Trump used his presidency to advocate for his daughter’s brand, blurring the lines between his roles as a political leader, businessman, and father.

We’ve seen Ivanka Trump wear a $100,000 bracelet on 60 Minutes in a blatant display of retail opportunism, and most recently, we saw Trump issue a report to his staff Continued on page 5

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“This is the age where clothes have stopped becoming products and have started espousing positions.”

Continued from page 4 requiring women to “dress like [women].” This is clearly problematic and reinforces harmful stereotypes that prescribe what a woman is and isn’t supposed to look like. There’s a reason why so much controversy has risen from simply a bracelet and a dress code. Like it or not, fashion has come to the forefront of politics as a tool, and it involves the consumer. As Miranda Priestly, played

by Meryl Streep, said in The Devil Wears Prada, “you think this has nothing to do with you. You go to your closet and you select…I don’t know…that lumpy blue sweater, for instance, because you’re trying to

tell the world that you take yourself too seriously to care about what you put on your back...However, that blue represents millions of dollars and countless jobs, and it’s sort of comical how you think that you’ve made a choice that exempts you from the fashion industry when, in fact, you’re wearing the sweater that was selected for you by the people in this room from a pile of stuff.”

This is the age when clothes have stopped becoming products and have started espousing positions.

They have always mirrored the economic and political landscapes of our times, but they do so now more than ever. We see Trump asking his

men staff to wear Trump ties and his women staff to dress “like women” because the dress code sends a message of homogeneity. It reinforces their support of the president and his values. The W.N.B.A. swapped their uniform warm-ups for black T-shirts that said #blacklivesmatter.

Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad became the first Olympic athlete to wear a hijab while competing for the United States. And most recently, at New York Fashion Week, Calvin Klein had his models wear patterned bandanas and clothes to reflect the coming together of different characters and different individuals, creating a representation of America itself.

As UChicago students, we understand the intellectual rigor associated with our courseloads and the sleepless nights we pull to understand the Slutsky equation, Durkheim’s collective effervescence, and other such ideas. However, a common question we all have is this: That’s all great in theory, but how does it work in practice? More often than not, before we listen to a person’s thoughts, we look to a person’s clothes to find the story before it is told. This is a reality that, instead of deterring us, should help us understand that we don’t need to look beyond college to start actively contributing to the fabric of society.

Find brands dedicated to ethical labor practices: from Patagonia, which was one of the first adopters of using recycled materials, to Everlane, which strives to maintain ethical production processes. Wear colors such as white, which the suffragists in 1913 used as their signature color, and which Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan in 1978 wore to the women’s rights march on Washington. From brand to color to an article of clothing, a simple but powerful statement can be made, and it starts with your wardrobe.

Jasmine Wu is a second-year in the College majoring in economics and philosophy.

ARTS WHO RUNS THE WORLD? STILL STRAIGHT WHITE MEN, WITH ONE CONDITION

BY HANNAH EDGAR ARTS EDITOR

Playwright and director Young Jean Lee’s Straight W hite Men grabs you by the collar even before the curtain rises. As the audience files into the performance space—in this case, S t epp enwol f ’s Up s t a i r s Theatre—they are met by blasting, thumping hip-hop, with lyrics vulgar enough to ma ke Dona ld T r ump blush blood- ora nge (e.g.

Lady’s seminal “Pussy Be Yankin’”).

“Do you want earplugs?” an androgynous-looking usher yelled to a middle-aged woman in my aisle. More than a few patrons in the 50plus demographic took him up on his offer.

As the clock struck 7:30, the music faded suddenly, and said “usher” took the stage, alongside a similarly coiffed companion, donning a jacket with “2 CUTE 2 BE CIS” emblazoned on the back. They introduced themselves (Elliott Jenetopulos and Will Wilhelm) and stated their preferred pronouns as they/them/theirs.

“Some of you might have walked in feeling completely comfortable while others felt uncomfortable,” Wilhelm said with a small, sad smile.

“Kind of tough, isn’t it, being in a situation where you’re forced to feel uncomfortable?”

Jenet opu los a nd Wi lhelm’s introduction set the tone for the show to follow: hyper-aware, multilayered, and incisive—just what you’d expect from a play called Straight White Men. But despite the duo’s near-apology that the story ahead only featured straight white men, Lee’s narrative proved to be much more nuanced than a mere takedown of privilege.

Straight W hite Men is living-room theater in the most literal sense, taking place entirely in a family living room. As implied, the

cast of characters is entirely straight white men from an ostensibly “normal” middle-class family, home for Christmas: Ed (Alan Wilder), the endearing patriarch; Drew (Ryan Hallahan), an accomplished author and professor; Jake ( Madison Dirks), a banker who is at once socially conscious and emotionally stunted; and Matt ( Brian Slaten), the self less eldest brother and former child prodigy.

But, as we soon learn, this is no normal family.

Lee, who is Korean American, f louts whatever assumptions we might make about a play called Straight White Men by making its straight white men, well, woke. Our white, cis, heterosexual quartet know their place in the world and regularly remind each other of it. In one of the more humorous, if absurd, scenes in the play, Drew and Jake dust off a game of Monopoly, except that it has been renamed “PRIVILEGE” and modified accordingly—apparently the invention of their late mother. (A sample card: “Pay $50 to nearest LGBTQ community center.”) As a young man, Matt apparently protested his high school’s all-white adaptation of Oklahoma!, and the recollection cues a song-and-dance routine from the rambunctious brothers— one of many in Lee’s physical, exuberant script.

But the hol iday idyl l is suddenly shattered on Christmas Eve, when Matt breaks down in tears over Chinese takeout. The other three men are rattled, and before long, concern gives way to wild-eyed speculation. They know that recently, for reasons unknown to them, Matt—a Harvard a lum w ith mu ltiple advanced degrees—has moved back home and taken jobs for which he’s overqualified.

He’s depressed, Drew insists. No, Jake argues, he’s evening the playing field by

Michael Brosilow The calm before the storm: Ed (Alan Wilder), Jake (Madison Dirks), Drew (Ryan Hallahan), and Matt (Brian Slaten) enjoy a Christmas Eve meal together before the holidays go hopelessly awry.

sidestepping his privilege and valiantly challenging the socioeconomic world order. Meanwhile, Ed figures he’s stressed about his student loans.

Lee implies that none of these hypotheses are quite true, but the further the play progresses, the more Matt’s family needs them to be true.

Ed, Drew, and Jake can accept anything but the idea that Matt is who he is simply because he wants to be.

Their suspicions culminate in a series of dehumanizing interrogations; ultimately, Matt is completely abandoned by his own family.

Lee’s curveball conclusion is that even the privileged are policed by capitalist frameworks; to be unproductive is to be practically subhuman.

Sound like a lot? It is.

T hough S tra i ght W hit e Men’s central thrust is compelling, its sudden pivot from identity politics to capitalist critique is jarring, to say the

least. After hitting cruising speed, the play’s end feels a little something like whiplash—which it’s fair to assume Lee intended, but perhaps not to the finale’s level of implausibility.

For the most part, however, Straight White Men shines. Lee has a knack for situational comedy, evident from the hilarious first scene, in which Drew goes to absurd lengths to distract a video game-playing Jake.

Each character is keenly drawn to life, bringing their own distinct personalities to the table without deferring to archetypes. The occasional collision of clunky dialogue and stiff acting sometimes took one out of the play, but fortunately, these moments were few and far between. The standout, appropriately, is Brian Slaten as Matt: he portrays Matt’s wells of kindness and melancholy in such a way that one attribute seems incomplete

without the other.

That’s probably Straight W hite Men’s biggest surprise: ultimately, Lee’s portrayal of all of these men is a sympathetic one. As noted in the program, Lee was driven by one question while writing the play: “If I woke up tomorrow and I was a straight white man, what would I do?” Which in turn morphs into the question: W hat would it take for a straight white man to be marginalized by society? Whether her response is compelling, however, is up for debate.

Straight White Men plays at Steppenwolf Theatre (1650 N. Halsted Street) through March 19. Go to Steppenwolf. com or call the box office at 312-335-1650 for details and ticket pricing.

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Reg’s Répons to Boulez Honors Modern Musical Master

BY REBECCA JULIE ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

In 1952, Pierre Boulez wrote “Schoenberg is dead.” Arnold Schoenberg, the prolific composer and a founding father of atonal music, had in fact died in 1951, but his legacy was—and is—far from dead. Yet Boulez’s willingness to attack such a visionary is indicative of the audacity that made him famous. “Pierre Boulez,” an exhibit in the third-floor reading room of the Regenstein Library, commemorates the legacy of this remarkable conductor, author, and composer.

In Boulez’s obituary in The New York Times, journalist Paul Griffiths writes, “Mr. Boulez belonged to an extraordinary generation of European composers who emerged in the postwar years while still in their twenties. They started a revolution in music, and Mr. Boulez was in the front ranks.”

Born in France in 1925, Boulez began his musical career as the director of a theater company, later becoming a composer and formidable conductor. Upon his

death, he was the conductor emeritus of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, had stood at the helm of such institutions as the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and had gained many other accolades.

His works are considered cornerstones of postwar contemporary classical music. He engaged in numerous collaborations and projects, all the while seeking to reinvent the symphony orchestra. During his time as music director for the New York Philharmonic, he tried to institute “rug concerts,” which were performed for listeners on the floor of Philharmonic Hall, during the summer season.

The three glass cases in the Reg showcase a man who had a profound influence on classical music as a composer, writer, and maestro. They feature manuscripts of some of his most famous compositions. One case highlights Répons, a work composed for a large chamber orchestra, six percussionists, and live electronics.

In the 1980s, Boulez’s repeated attempts to write music that integrated electronics and orchestral music were revolutionary.

The cases also feature two versions of Movement IV from his piece Notations, one written for piano and one for orchestra. A prominent feature of the exhibit is its emphasis on Boulez’s habit of constantly revising and rewriting his works. In another section, images of some of his early notes show one of his pre-compositional charts. The exhibition of Boulez’s infamous aforementioned 1952 essay “Schoenberg is Dead,” in which he critiques the inventiveness of the iconic Arnold Schoenberg, demonstrates Boulez’s classic polemics and support of “a radically modernist tradition,” as the exhibit explains.

Yet Boulez is perhaps best known for his conducting legacy.

The two albums included in this exhibition, Boulez Conducts Boulez and Boulez Conducts Zappa, showcase his versatility on the podium.

His collaboration with famed musician and genre-bending composer Frank Zappa is telling of his insatiable hunger for new musical experiences, unlikely musical combinations, and redefinition of ex-

pectations. Though celebrated for his interpretations of 20th-century works, he was also an apt interpreter of Mozart and twentieth-century repertories, and, as he matured, Mahler, Bruckner, and Strauss.

When Boulez passed away last year at the age of 90, current music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti said, “With the loss of Pierre Boulez, the world of

music today is infinitely poorer.” The Reg exhibit heralds Boulez as having a “resolute imagination, force of will, and ruthless combativeness”; the cases of his manuscripts, discography, and writings allow his works to speak for themselves.

“Pierre Boulez” is an exhibition located on the third-floor reading room of the Regenstein Library.

Rebecca Julie The Regenstein remembers legacy of Pierre Boulez, innovative conductor and composer, through third-floor exhibit.

Revisiting the Virus: Poignant Glimpse Into AIDS Epidemic Disturbs and Delights

BY MAX MILLER MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

This past Monday night, Doc Films screened A Virus Knows No Morals (1986), a pioneering movie in the history of queer cinema, in conjunction with the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.

The film, which Doc showed in its original 16mm format, is a cinematic reaction to the tragic early mishandling of the AIDS epidemic.

Doc screened Virus as part of the ongoing series called “Film and AIDS: Early Queer Responses to the AIDS Epidemic.” The series

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includes such films as The Living End (1992), Blue (1993), and Philadelphia (1993), to name a few.

A Virus Knows No Morals was criticized upon its release for including some comedic moments. One scene in the movie features a chorus of “nurses” in drag, singing a blithe and cheery song advising gay youth that their “fate is in [their] hands,” while one “nurse” makes certain suggestive gestures off to the side.

Some scenes in the film are striking in their hyperbole. One scene features a heterosexual couple getting progressively more turned on as they discuss the spread of the

AIDS virus. Another scene features one “Professor Doctor Blood” giving a sex-ed presentation about condom use, wherein she dips models of condom-free and a condom-wearing penises into a vat of AIDS-infected body fluids; the Doctor watches with glee as the condom-free penis swells and erupts into a boiling mess.

Ultimately, however, Virus is concerned with eliciting empathy for AIDS victims. A female therapist tries to convince a dying AIDS patient to strangle his own mother, who confesses to her son that she “hates all men,” including him. The film portrays a German homosexual man

images from the movie burned into my mind: syringes lying in tins of blood, used condoms hanging on trees. The movie brings to mind these horrific sights and sounds from within the realm of a disease-ridden culture, while simultaneously adding levity to them.

A Virus Knows No Morals is a part of the Film and AIDS: Early Queer Responses to the AIDS Epidemic series at Doc Films, which screens a different movie every Monday this quarter at 7 p.m.

EXHIBIT [A]rts the biwa, a traditional Japanese lute which often accompanies narrative storytelling. International House. Free and open to the public with online registration.

7:30 p.m. Arts Pass offers an exclusive opportunity to see playwright Marcus Gradley’s A Wonder in My Soul in its world premiere at Victory Gardens Theater. The story is an immediate one to the University: salon owners Bell and Birdie must decide either to stay in their South Side neighborhood or relocate under pressure from gentrification and crime. 2433 North Lincoln Avenue. $10 with Arts Pass.

7–8 p.m. Undergraduate students Lucas Tse (baritone) and Bryan McGuiggan (piano) perform an evening of art song, including pieces by Fauré, Debussy, and Berlioz. The recital culminates with Schumann’s Dichterliebe, a cycle of 16 poems by Heinrich Heine set to music. Bond Chapel.

8–11 p.m. Finally, a party you can bring home to mom: UChicago Hillel hosts the first ever Nice Jewish Ball (NJB). With perks like a drink deal, a meal catered by Wolfgang Puck dining, and a photo booth, this event isn’t one to Passover. 610 South Michigan Avenue. F or tickets, Venmo @uchicagohillel $10 per ticket with your email address in the memo.

7:30–9:30 p.m. Off-Off Campus presents “Fast and Furious: Continental Drift,” a reprisal of their weekly sketch comedy and improv show that promises to “blow your thongs off.” The Revival. 1160 East 55th Street. $5.

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[02/17] FRIDAY 5 p.m. Senior master performer Yoko Hiraoka gives a lecture and performance centered on

as endlessly persecuted, even when trying to get medicine or therapy, or when trying to seek help in a desperate moment from his own mother. In another scene, a gay bathhouse owner in the film tells his mother of his AIDS diagnosis and is met only with derision, and an accusation that he has ruined her reputation.

One comes out of the film with a newfound respect for the struggle faced by AIDS patients at the start of the outbreak, who were treated as “punished” by God, and denied disease research funding because of societal stigma. I had trouble leaving the theater without seeing

Kaitlyn Akin

7:30 p.m. “This Valentine’s Day, watch someone else’s relationship go up in flames. Literally.” Thus promises a recent Facebook post by the Lyric Opera promoting Belli-

ni’s Norma. Spoiler: The joke here is that the leading couple throw themselves into the fire. Heartwarming. Civic Opera House. 20 North Wacker Drive. For tickets, call the box office at (312) 827-5600.

7:30–11:00 p.m. Whether you are swingle or taken, come pick up some moves at the Chicago Swing Dance Society’s Valentine’s Day Java Jive. Newbies welcome: The first hour is a beginner lesson. Jams courtesy of the Petra van Nuis Quartet. Food provided. Library Lounge, Ida Noyes. $3 students/$5 general.

[02/20] MONDAY 7 p.m. Film and AIDS is an ongoing series that aims to explore the “diversity of aesthetic reactions to the AIDS epidemic,” supported by Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Mike Hoolboom’s Panic Bodies (1998) is an experimental video diary in six parts, meditating on living and dying with the disease. Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes. $5.

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SPORTS Top Five Finishes for Chicago TRACK & FIELD

BY EMMA GRIFFITHS SPORTS STAFF

In another two-day event, both the men and women of the indoor team showed very strong performances at the Chicagoland Indoor Championships at North Central College this past Friday and Saturday, with the women finishing third and the men snatching fifth place.

There were 19 teams competing and several Division I schools, including DePaul and Loyola. This created a great opportunity for the Maroons to reach new heights in their events.

As men’s head coach Chris Hall mentioned before the meet, this meet was the chance to put down some sol-

id times, heights, and distances for the conference meet, which is being held at Brandeis University in two weeks. Between now and then, there is only one more meet and one more chance to go into the UAAs as strong as possible.

Not leaving the meet until around 10 p.m. on Friday, the women’s team exhibited a range of success throughout a very long evening.

A highlight from the night was both the preliminary races and finals of the 60m hurdles race, with first-year Robin Peter breaking her own school record in the prelims and again in the finals. Her determination and talent have created great enthusiasm and excitement among the women, especially as the team hud-

dled at the end of the meet. Interestingly enough, despite her outstanding time, Peter did not even win this event in the meet, showing how high the level of competition was that day.

The first place finisher of the night for the women’s team was third-year Kelsey Dunn in the 3000-meter race, with teammate and fourth-year Minnie Horvath only a second behind her. Other top finishes include third-year Claire Costelloe taking third in the 5,000 meters race, first-year Isabel Garon snatching fourth in pole vault with third-year Angel Fluet sliding into fifth right behind her, and first-year Alisha Harris taking fourth in the 60-meter dash. The 4x400-meter relay team also managed to take

fourth, as did thedistance medley relay team,and second-year Jenna McKinney finished fifth in the 800-meter race.

After a great showing by the women, the men’s team followed suit the next day with seven topfive finishes. The highest placer of the night was third-year Nathan Downey, who came in second in the pole vault with a jump of 4.90 meters. The other top-five finishers of the men’s team include second-year Owen Melia, who finished third in the mile; fourth-year Jeremy Ferguson, who finished right behind him taking fourth; and third-year Patrick LeFevre racing into third in the 60-meter hurdles. The distance medley relay came in third and the

4x400-meter relay took fourth, while fourth-year Eyal Hanfling took fifth in the 5,000-meter race.

With only one meet left to go before conference, the squad is looking very strong in a variety of events.“The team is showing very exciting times and we are looking really strong going into conference.

I can’t wait to see what next week brings,” said second-year Emma Koether, a member of the 4x400-meter relay team.

The Margaret Bradley Invitational, hosted by the University of Chicago, will take place this coming Saturday, February 18. The men and women’s teams will be able to come together and compete one last time before conference.

Solid Swims for UAA Meet Hosts SWIMMING & DIVING

BY NATALIE DEMURO SPORTS STAFF

At the 2017 UAA Championships this past week, the Chicago men’s and women’s teams broke 10 school records and garnered 23 All–UAA accolades on their way to fourth-and third-place team

finishes, respectively. UChicago served as host of the four-day conference event, the first of four championship meets this year for the Maroons.

For the 19th consecutive year, Emory topped the overall team standings for both men and women. On the men’s side, UChicago

came away fourth with 1,192.5 points, behind Emory (1,650.5), WashU (1,516.5), and N Y U (1,269). Carnegie Mellon finished fifth with 1,033.5 points. Despite a lead over NYU after Thursday’s events, the women’s team fell just short of second place, closing out the week with 1,440 points to Em-

ory’s 1,924.5 and NYU’s 1,468.5.

Carnegie Mellon ended up fourth with 1,091 points.

The men broke school records in the 400-yard medley relay, 100yard breaststroke, and 200-yard breaststroke. On Thursday, the team of first-year Byrne Litschgi, first-year Reona Yamaguchi, sec-

ond-year Michael Todd, and second-year Alex Farrell set a new 400-yard medley relay record with a time of 3:19:67 and a third place finish. The next day, Yamaguchi earned second place with a new 100-yard breaststroke record of 54.22. First-year Lance CulContinued on back page

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SPORTS Maroons Still on Top WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BY JOSH PARKS SPORTS STAFF

The first-place Maroons put their threegame win streak to the test over the weekend, hosting the University of Rochester Yellowjackets and Emory University Eagles in the final home slate of the season. After yet another sparkling display, the UChicago women picked up two more conference victories to stay even with No. 9 Wash U atop the UAA. After defeatingnationally-ranked Rochester in their first meeting of the season, the Maroons’ confidence was evident from the opening tip. The Chicago defense asserted itself early, holding the Yellowjackets to just eight points in the first 10 minutes of action.

With fourth-year Britta Nordstrom carrying

the load with 13 points before intermission, the Maroons carried a 31–26 advantage into the locker room.

True to the scouting report, the South Siders capitalized on halftime adjustments in what turned into a lopsided third quarter.

First-year Taylor Lake led the charge with seven points in the quarter as the Maroons exploded for a 21–5 run, forcing six Yellowjacket turnovers in the process. The streak proved to be decisive as the Maroons closed the door in the fourth quarter, cruising to a 72–53 victory.

Nordstrom finished the night with 21 points, five rebounds, and four assists, marking her fifth 20-point outing over a six-game stretch. Lake and fellow first-year Mia Farrell also finished in double figures Friday, chipping in 11 points each for the Maroons.

In Sunday’s tilt, fourth-years Michelle Dobbs, Stephanie Anderson,and Britta Nordstrom took the court for the final time at Ratner Athletics Center. After a heartwarming tribute to the successes and program contributions of the senior class, the Maroons sent their fourth-years out in style by rolling conference foe Emory University 77–56.

After trailing in the early going, a pair of threes from first-year guard Miranda Burt highlighted an 11–2 run that put the Maroons ahead 18–17 at the end of the first quarter. Chicago would not look back, extending the lead in the second quarter and carrying a 39–30 lead into the break.

Second-year Ola Obi anchored the first-half Maroon attack, recording eight points, four rebounds,and three steals in just 10 minutes on the floor.

Sticking to tradition, the Maroons came out of the locker room firing on all cylinders.

Tallying the first eight points of the quarter, Chicago rode the momentum to an insurmountable 17-point advantage. It was all Chicago down the stretch, holding the Eagles to just seven fourth-quarter points to extend their conference win streak to five games.

With just three regular season contests remaining, Chicago remains in control of its own postseason destiny. The Maroons kick-off their road trip Friday evening in Waltham, Massachusetts to take on the Judges of Brandeis University before heading to NYU to battle the Violets on Sunday afternoon. With a winner-take-all season finale looming, this weekend’s slate is crucial for the Maroons to realize their postseason dreams.

Friday’s tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. CST.

Bittersweet Weekend for South Siders MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY MICHAEL PERRY SPORTS STAFF

For the men’s basketball team (13–9, 5–6 UAA), this was a weekend of mixed results as they took down No. 4-ranked Rochester (19–2, 8–2 UAA) Friday night before falling to Emory (15–7, 6–5 UAA) at home Sunday afteroon. A close three-point win Friday was followed by an 11-point loss in two high-scoring games this weekend. Knowing how inconsistency has marked the Maroons’ season, these results are unsurprising. Even with three games left in the season, Chicago does not have a chance of making the playoffs after their latest loss.

Now that the season is coming to a close, Friday night’s 90–87 win over Rochester may be the most impressive victory of the season for the Maroons,as they handed the

Yellowjackets just their second loss of the season. Everything seemed to fall into place for third-year guard Jake Fenlon, who shot eight for 13 behind the arc and an impressive six of his seven shots in the second half.

When the Maroons were leading 81–66 late in the second half, it seemed like victory was a sure thing. However, the Yellowjackets went on a 19–3 run and made Chicago work in the final minutes of the game.

“Every point mattered in this game,” said Fenlon, who led the team with 24 points. “When we lost focus at the end, they were able to make a run, but we kept our composure and fought to the end.”

Composure was huge for the Maroons, who made 28 of 37 free throw attempts as Rochester struggled with fouls, including an impressive eight for eight from fourthyear guard Tyler Howard. Fourth-year for-

ward Blaine Crawford, the team’s leading rebounder on the season, had another double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds.

Sunday did not go as well for Chicago in the last home game of the season. Despite it being Senior Day, the Maroons fell to Emory 99–88 in another high-scoring matchup. The team had no response to Emory’s Adam Gigax, who dropped 36 points.

To celebrate their last home game, head coach Mike McGrath played all four of his fourth-years: Alex Gustafson, Waller Perez, Blaine Crawford, and Howard. Perez led the team in scoring in his final game in Hyde Park, scoring 22 points and grabbing eight rebounds.

“Obviously, we would have liked to send the seniors out with a win,” said third-year forward Collin Barthel. “We were in it until the end, but Emory made more plays down the stretch than we did. On the bright side, we still have three

games to send the seniors out correctly.”

In a curious move by McGrath, second-year guard Noah Karras has averaged just 15 minutes a game and been relegated to the bench in the three games since he scored 39 points against Case Western Reserve. During that game, Karras also set the all-time school record for three-pointers in a game with 11 as well as scoring the most points by any Maroon this season.

The Maroons’ next game is this Friday night at Brandeis University. The squad faces off against a Brandeis team that has not been effective in the UAA, garnering just three wins and eight losses in conference play. Last time the two teams played, the South Siders defeated the Judges by ten. On Sunday, the team will travel to NYU to face the Violets.

This NYU squad is 2–9 in conference play, and also fell to the Maroons just a month ago.

Second-Place Finish in NYC WRESTLING

BY GARY HUANG SPORTS STAFF

In search of its 16th conference title, the University of Chicago participated in the 2017 UAA Wrestling Championship and came home with the silver medal as a team.

The Maroons defeated Case Western in their first match but lost to hosts, and eventual champions, NYU. With the results, the team moved to 6–4 on the season in dual meets.

The Spartans dropped to 2–7, and the Violets improved to 17–4. By posting two wins out of two matches, NYU claimed its sixth-consecutive UAA team championship.

In the first match-up of the day, Chicago

and Case Western dueled it out to the expected outcome. The Spartans possessed an initial 12–3 advantage with three wins out of the first four matches, but first-year Grant Morrison threw a wrench in their momentum with a 5–3 decision win at 141 lbs. From 157 lb. onward, the South Siders dominated to sweep the final six matches and claim a 29–12 team victory. First-year Steve Bonsall started the comeback with a 6–4 decisionat 157 lb. Third-year Nicholas DiNapoli (165 lb.) and second-year Jason Lynch (184 lb.) triumphed by major decision, while fourth-year Paul Papoutsis (174 lb.) and second-year John Jayne (197 lb.) recorded pins. Second-year Duncan Payneput the cherry on top with a

2–1 decision at heavyweight.

With the win, the Maroons moved onto face the No. 18 nationally ranked Violets. The lopsided 35–3 score line was unrepresentative of the tightness of the matches,with only one of NYU’s victories coming from a result other than a decision. Morrison provided the South Siders with their only win in another close match, scoring an 8–7 decision.

Following the meet, Morrison and Payne were announced to the UAA All-Association team with Morrison earning honors in the 141 lb. and Payne in the heavyweight class. Morrison was also awarded UAA Rookie of the Year for his outstanding performances throughout the season.

Team captain Papoutsis commented, “Morrison wrestled exceptionally well, taking home ROY [Rookie of the Year] from the meet.

Additionally, Duncan Payne came up with a big win with his bump up to heavy weight to take home a UAA title.” Asked about the team’s performance, he said, “We wrestled tough, but NYU showed us some areas where we need to improve.

The team will work in the coming weeks to prepare for regionals, and we will definitely send a couple of guys to the [NCAA] tournament in a month.”The UChicago wrestling team will next feature at the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament, held in Fort Wayne, IN, from February 24–25.

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jat broke his own record in the 200-yard breaststroke on Saturday, finishing second with a time of 2:00:69.

On the women’s side, first-year Yifan Mao and fourth-years Maya Scheidl, Alison Wall, and Jessie Ho were runners-up in the 200-yard freestyle relay with a new school record of 1:34:42. Wall took home third in the 200-yard individual medley, setting a record of 2:04:10 in prelims. In the 500-yard freestyle, second-year Han-

nah Eastman placed ninth in 4:58:40 for another record-setting performance.

Scheidl broke records in two more events on Saturday, the 100-yard freestyle (51:08) and the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:24:82).

Scheidl, Wall, Eastman,and second-year Daria Wick earned second-place in the final event of the meet.

Scheidl, who serves as one of the team’s captains, reflected on her last conference championships. “I am so proud of the team and how well we performed this year at

UAAs,” she said. “Our conference keeps getting faster every year, and we really stepped up to the challenge. Being a fourthyear, it was definitely sentimental, and I am so happy with how the seniors swam, proving that the hard work and dedication pays off.”

During the awards ceremony, first-year Agnes Lo was crowned Women’s Diver of the Year after winning both boards and breaking two school records. Coach Abbey Bernardo was named Women’s Diving

Coach of the Year.

The Maroons will compete as hosts this coming weekend at the Midwest Invitational, a two-day meet that kicks off Friday at 6 p.m. Four UChicago divers will return to the boards in two weeks for the NCA A Diving Regionals in Grand Rapids, MI. Both squads have already qualified a number of athletes for the season-finale NCA A Championships in March and hope to add more names to the list in the coming weeks.