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Center for Identity and Inclusion Hosts Discussion on Queer Asian Experience

BY PEYTON ALIE NEWS STAFF

On Monday evening, approximately 50 students gathered at the Center for Identity and Inclusion for a discussion held by Queer and Asian, a new student group focused on the experience of being Asian or Asian American and queer at UChicago.

T he d i s cussion was i ntended to help the organization better understand how to meet the needs of the queer Asian community on campus.

Third-year Frank Chiang a nd second-yea rs Sisi L iu and Avery Yuan, the founders of Queer and Asian, hope to create a community for queer Asian students.

“For Frank and I, when we first started college, we tried to

check out different queer RSOs, and we realized there is just such a small amount of Asians involved. We want to create that space here,” Yuan said.

Some attendees spoke about the lack of media representation of queer Asian people, which can make it difficult for people to accept themselves as both queer and Asian. Others discussed the role of colonialism in shaping cultural views of queer ness a nd the lack of information about queer identities in some Asian and Asian-American communities.

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Eastman Egg Company Sponsors Nutrition Lessons

BY KAITLYN AKIN NEWS STAFF

The Chicago-based Eastman Egg Company has recently begun a program in which it uses its food truck during the off-season to deliver free snacks and nutrition lessons to Chicago elementary schoolers. It recently completed a 12-session program at Ray Elementary School on 57th Street and Kimbark Avenue.

“We wanted to do something with the food truck that was more meaningful and kind of develop a more philanthropic branch of the company,” fourth-year student and Eastman Chief of Staff Laurel Freidenberg said.

The truck comes to the elementary schools at 9 a.m. and kids line up to receive their snack: scrambled eggs with bell peppers, spinach, and a salsa verde.

Talk to Me About My Eating Disorder Page 5 The first step of working through mental illness is being able to talk about it.

“From the kids it’s been mixed, as you’d expect, on the food side,” Freidenberg said. “The coolest part has been hearing kids say that they hate red peppers or they hate spinach and then getting them to try it, and they eat the whole thing.”

After the snack, the students listen to a 15-minute presentation on nutrition tailored to their grade level. The younger children get a lesson on trying new things and the different food groups, while the older grades hear about seasonal eating and sustainability. After the lecture, the students have the chance to do nutrition-related activities and games with volunteers, and they receive recipes to take home and try with their families.

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CHRIST THE KING TO BE RESTORED

BY KAITLYN AKIN NEWS STAFF

nonprofit organization that endeavors to rebuild the cultural foundations of underinvested neighborhoods and incite movements of community revitalization that are culture based, artist led, and neighborhood driven.”

HPHS chose to recognize Gates and the Rebuild Foundation for their work on the Stony Island Arts Bank. The abandoned building that housed the Stony Island Bank was purchased from the city of Chicago for $1 in 2013. Gates and the Rebuild Foundation repurposed the building to house art exhibitions and archives of the foundation.

“Because of the work that the Historical Society does, I hope

The Archdiocese of Chicago announced Sunday morning that it will not demolish the Shrine of Christ the King, a church in Woodlawn that has been threatened since it was damaged in a fire last October. Instead, it will deed the land to the Catholic priests that currently run the shrine so they can make the necessary repairs and renovations to make the church usable once more.

The transfer of the property to the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest was possible largely due to community organizations rallying for the protection of the Woodlawn church. The Coalition to Save the Shrine, a group of community members who gathered soon after the Archdiocese announced its intent to demolish the building, reached out to a number of local and national organizations in hopes of raising awareness and funds.

The coalition involved Preservation Chicago, an organization devoted to protecting historic Chicago landmarks that raised $650,000 in donations for the stabilization of the church. Additionally, a community GoFundMe page has raised almost $70,000 since October. With this money, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest has enough funds to stabilize the building, according to the Archdiocese press release.

“We express our deep gratitude to all the individuals and organizations whose most generous and timely donations helped bring us to this moment,” Reverend Canon Matthew Talarico of Shrine of Christ the King said.

The institute plans to begin the stabilization process immediately, according to the Archdiocese. The 92-year-old building was declared unsafe by the City of Chicago after a fire severely damaged essential structural elements.

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Protestors in the Fight for $15 movement march to Levi Hall.

Students Protest for Higher Wages

BY PETE GRIEVE NEWS STAFF

A coalition of about 60 students participated in a protest on Friday demanding that the University pay all of its workers, including student employees, a “living wage” of $15 an hour. The protesters gathered outside Regenstein Library before marching across the quad to Levi Hall, where they took

the protest to an administrative lobby on the fi fth floor outside of Provost Eric D. Isaacs’s office.

Fair Budget UChicago, a student organization that seeks to combat racial and economic injustice, hoped to deliver a petition, which has collected over 1,000 signatures, demanding a higher wage for University employees to Isaacs, but he was not in his offi ce. One student Continued on page 4

Hyde Park Historical Society Honors Theaster Gates and Dean Boyer

BY RENA SLAVIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The Hyde Park Historical Society (HPHS) presented University of Chicago professor Theaster Gates and Dean of the College John Boyer with awards at its annual dinner on Saturday, February 27.

Theaster Gates is a professor in the Department of Visual Arts and serves as the director of arts and public life for the University. Gates and his brainchild, the Rebuild Foundation, received the 2016 Marian and Leon Despres Preservation Award for their work in preserving the architectural heritage of the South Side.

According to its website, “ The Rebuild Foundation is a

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Panel Parses Questions of Race, Class in Concert Hall Gates and Boyer

BY HANNAH EDGAR ARTS EDITOR

Last Friday, the University of Chicago’s student-run Chamber Music Organization (CMO) collaborated with the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and Student Government to host Studying the Score, a panel discussion on race, class, and privilege in classical music, in the Performance Penthouse at the Logan Center.

According to CMO President and thirdyear Lily Chen, the idea for the panel was born from her observations of social dynamics in symphony orchestras, especially as an Asian-American violinist.

“My experience has been that orchestras are very classed, raced, and gendered: for example, you tend to see Asians in the string sections, and bass sections are usually white and male,” Chen said. “Being a musician just means that you’re part of [that dynamic], and you see it all the time.”

The event featured seven panelists, most of whom were affiliated with the University’s Department of Music: violinist and pedagogue Lucinda Ali-Landing, violinist and alumna Meredith Aska McBride, the Department of Music’s Director of Public Relations Rashida Black, associate professors of music Steven Rings and Travis Jackson, and Ph.D. students Lauren Eldridge and Braxton Shelley. The discussion was moderated by Ph.D. student Lindsay Wright, whose dissertation addresses musical talent as a Western construct and its relation to social privilege in the U.S. Wright opened the discussion with a disclaimer, acknowledging the limitations of the terminology used in the discussion: “‘Classical music’ is a deceivingly complicated term…. Music scholars sometimes talk about ‘Western art music’ as though when they put it that way, it’s no longer ambiguous. It’s also been described in certain textbooks as a body of ‘literate’ European

music, which also raises a whole set of questions,” she said.

McBride (A.M.’12, Ph.D.’15) expressed her skepticism toward the implications of certain outreach and educational campaigns—something fellow panelist Shelley later identified as a “theme of a therapeutic effect of whiteness.” She drew upon her experience doing fieldwork with a music education program in Albany Park as an example.

“The theory of change behind that program was that low-income children, largely children of color, would raise their grades and become better citizens through classical music,” McBride said. “It was explicitly intended to be this engine of social mobility, by basically mapping this notion of gaining talent on a European instrument to other sorts of social opportunities.”

Rings agreed that such mapping is problematic. He cited a recent “hydrogen bomb” set off within the American Musicological Society (AMS), regarding a personal essay by musicologist Pierpaolo Polzonetti about his experience teaching an opera course in prisons. Polzonetti was immediately challenged by other AMS scholars who claimed his writing made unfair, even racist assumptions about the inmates in his class.

“The hoary trope of classical music as the ‘universal language’ serves many purposes,” Rings said. “It’s a particular manifestation of…this cringe-worthy notion of social betterment: by seeing some scene in Don Giovanni, criminals are going to be rehabilitated, or something.”

Panelists continued to challenge other buzzwords that arise when discussing representation in classical music. Ali-Landing, a black third-generation musician, pointed out that even the word “diversity” can be limiting.

“Are we talking about black people? Or are we talking about all kinds of people?

That’s really important, because in my world, black people have always been in

classical music, whether you see them or not,” she said. “Are we talking about black people getting the highest-paying jobs—the good jobs?”

For example, the Chicago Symphony, which in 2012 was the highest-paying American orchestra, currently counts its first and only full-time black musician among its ranks: trumpeter Tage Larsen, a member of the orchestra since 2002.

McBride pointed out that for many musicians of color, getting a spot in a top orchestra is less a matter of talent than having a strong network—networks which are not yet well-established in professional ensembles or conservatories. She mentioned the Sphinx Organization in Detroit, which supports the careers of talented black and Latino musicians, as a leader in building these networks.

“Some orchestras had genuinely never thought of [Sphinx’s approach] before and were happy to have their insight, but others were like, ‘Oh, that’s too hard; that’s not how we do it. We’ll just sit here and complain that we can’t find any good people,’” she said. “It’s more a matter of whether [orchestras] really want to do it, and if they do, they need to change a few things about their tools.”

One conclusion emerged from the 90 minutes of discussion: for orchestras to truly diversify their ranks, more than just the orchestras need to change. As Black aptly said earlier in the discussion, “Are we talking about classical music as a cause or product?”

Though many questions posed at Friday’s panel lack clear answers, Chen is happy to have started the conversation.

“People do create change, and I see the initiatives and the work that people do to try to combat these larger social infrastructures that [perpetuate] forms of privilege,” she said. “All these panelists were so excited to be a part of this event, and that excitement makes me hopeful.”

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that we can encourage more people to think more closely about the assets that we have on the South Side to make amazing things happen,” Gates said in his acceptance speech for the award.

Dean Boyer received the 2016 Jean F. Block Award for his book The University of Chicago: A History, published in 2015.

Although he officially began writing this book three years ago, it is based on several shorter monographs, the fi rst dating back to 1996.

According to Ruth Knack, the HPHS board member who presented Boyer with his award, only six books have measured up to the standard of the Block Award since it was instituted in 1988. She mentioned several points of the book that intrigued her: the intellectually grounded educational philosophy, the connection between UChicago and Hyde Park, and the fi nancial growth of the University. “[The award] was a complete surprise…I think it’s very appropriate. Jean Block was herself a historian of the University, so to receive this award is a great honor, all the more so because this is a group of folks who are concerned not only with the history of our neighborhood but also with the present and future of [it],” Boyer said.

The HPHS also awarded the Hyde Park Jazz Society, represented by Judith Stein and Almarie Wagner, with the 2016 Paul Cornell Award for their work promoting jazz music in Hyde Park.

Guest speaker and University of Chicago alumnus Jay Mulberry closed the evening with a presentation on his friend Cyrus Leroy Baldridge, an accomplished 20th-century artist.

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Zimmer to Help Teach Public Policy Seminar

BY EMILY KRAMER NEWS STAFF

This upcoming spring, University of Chicago President Robert J. Zimmer will help teach two meetings for the Public Policy Seminar: Leading Complex Organizations.

According to the course description, the seminar will be oriented around studying the leadership of the various organizations that constitute our society. Its objective is to prepare students to assume leadership positions within these organizations in the future.

Open to third- and fourth-year students, the seminar will be led by Thomas Amor Cole.

Cole graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1975 and is a partner at the Chicago office of law firm Sidley Austin LLP. Cole plans on incorporating Zimmer toward the end of the curriculum to discuss organizational transformation. “President Zimmer has firsthand experience and firsthand observations about roles in leadership,” he said.

This is the first year that the course is being offered. Cole’s initial interest in the subjects surrounding the seminar stemmed from his personal experiences working with his law firm. “I was a chairman of the executive committee here, which is a leadership role. From my own role here in my law firm together with the nature of my practice, in which I am frequently working with boards and CEOs, the subjects of leadership and organizations caught my attention.”

According to Cole, while in the process of creating the course, he and Zimmer discussed the fact that everyone is, in one way or another, involved in an organization. “It is interesting that most college curricula don’t really address that, and we thought it would be an interesting and stimulating thing to discuss that would be useful to the students.”

The seminar will address a wide variety of subjects ranging from the difference between leadership and management, building and leading a team, and how leaders are held accountable.

“Leadership is obviously vital to the public policy enterprise...so I am excited about the opportunity this elective class presents for our students,” said James A. Leitzel, Ph.D., director and senior lecturer for public policy studies.

The seminar will also include former or current leaders of nonprofits, corporations, professional services firms, and governmental entities. Cole has incorporated outside speakers into his classes in the past as well.

“All of my outside speakers and visitors, including President Zimmer, will be there to share their firsthand experiences,” Cole said. “It’s basically a facilitated conversation on various subjects.”

“The course appears well suited to the mission of our public policy major, which in part aims to provide a window outside of the ivory tower, and to do so in a manner that recognizes that real-world issues do not fit comfortably into traditional disciplinary boundaries,” Leitzel said.

“We all have a shared passion for nutrition and education.”

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for the community. It decided that the food truck, which is normally used sparsely in the winter, would be an excellent vehicle for education and outreach.

“We all kind of have a shared passion for nutrition and education and making sure that’s accessible to as many people as possible,” Freidenberg said.

Providing food to public school students

Regenstein Library Pilots Undergraduate Exhibit Program

BY GABE BENNETT-BRANDT MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Beginning spring quarter, the Regenstein Library will be piloting an undergraduate exhibit program for students and RSOs. The Library will select one student-curated collection for display on the first floor that features materials from the Regenstein book stacks.

“A research library of our size has an amazing range of materials from around the world, and there are a lot of treasures to be found only in our collections,” librarian Rebecca Starkey said. “Doing an exhibit is a great experience for students, both for their academic work and professional development. We are looking for students to be active participants—develop the exhibit themes, content, and supporting materials.”

Currently enrolled students may submit applications as individuals or in RSO groups for exhibits that focus on the humanities or social sciences. The exhibits should be based on original research and accompanied by an abstract and bibliography. Items within the exhibit should be contextualized around a common theme.

The library will provide display space and reference assistance as well as promotional and publicity support.

“Based on our experience this year, we’ll probably continue the program in the fall and have a better idea of how many exhibits per year we can mount,” Starkey said.

Applications for the program will be accepted until March 27.

is a delicate situation when it comes to navigating regulations. The food truck cannot serve food at the same time as the cafeteria does, and the eggs have to be within a certain portion size so they qualify as a snack rather than a meal.

“Any food that you could possibly serve a kid is restricted in some way,” Freidenberg said.

The program has been a success so far,

and Eastman is looking to bring the program to more elementary schools in the area. It has been tentatively discussing involvement with Burke Elementary School on the west side of Washington Park. It is also interested in working with medical centers to present a more medically detailed view of nutrition and implementing a work-study program of sorts for students interested in learning about cooking.

“It’s not just a queer Asian issue, it’s a queer person of color issue.”

Continued from front page can engage different sections of the Asian population on campus. So far, it’s challenges you face?” Chiang said.

Attendees also discussed the expe- been very much an organic process—we riences of transgender and gender-non- just speak to people who we know. Beconforming Asian people and gender cause [the organizers] happen to all be Chinese or Chinese American, that’s roles in Asian cultures.

“Growing up, there was a lot of frus- been the makeup of our organization so tration from my parents about ‘Why are far,” Chiang said.

Many of the events’ attendees are not you less feminine or more masculine about certain things?’ I think a lot of fully out, and Queer and Asian hopes that is rooted in culture, and it really to provide a supportive environment for affected how I viewed my sexuality and students in the coming-out process.

“We’re trying to build visibility. We my gender,” Liu said.

The organization is hoping to develop believe that the more Asian people who a more Pan-Asian focus, ensuring that are out and proud of their identities, the it is a welcoming environment for Asian more people who will feel comfortable students of all ethnicities and identities. coming out,” Chiang said.

“We’re trying to figure out how we

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PROFESSORS TALK ISLAMIC STATE VIDEOS AT NEUBAUER COLLEGIUM

BY ALEX WARD NEWS STAFF

Monday n ight at the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society in an event entitled “Idols of ISIS,” University of Chicago assistant professor Aaron Tugendhaft presented his paper on a video released by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (also known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh).

Assistant professor Lawrence Rothfield opened the presentation by introducing the program and giving a brief description of the Islamic State’s looting and destruction of sculptures and other artifacts, before handing the presentation over to Tugendhaft. Tugendhaft began by showing a clip from the video, posted on February 26 of last year, which begins with a statement by an Islamic State spokesman standing in front of various reliefs from the Mosul Museum. The clip then moves to footage, shown partly in slow motion, of Islamic State members destroying artifacts from the museum’s collection with sledgehammers, jackhammers, and other power tools.

Tugendhaft brief ly explained the reasoning presented in the video and in other Islamic State media, which calls for the destruction of such pre-Islamic artifacts based on Muhammad’s destruction of idols in the Ka’ba and Qur’an passage in which the prophet Ibrahim is said to have destroyed various non-Islamic statues in his hometown.

T ugendhaft questioned the Islamic State’s interpretation of this passage, suggesting that the destruction was a tool for converting and educating the people present.

Arguing that destroying the statues and reliefs constituted a war crime, Tugendhaft dismissed the widespread reaction on social media that the artifacts in the video were “innocent bystanders” of the conflict. He noted that the Islamic State would have no reason to destroy the works if they were of no modern significance. Tugendhaft highlighted the history of images from ancient Mesopotamia being used as modern propaganda by Western imperial powers and Saddam Hussein’s Baathist government. In particular, Tugendhaft highlighted American media coverage of the toppling of a statue of Hussein in 2003 Baghdad as using imagery of the destruction for political ends.

After the presentation, Tugendhaft took questions from members of the audience. Responding to a question about the distinction between “images” and “idols,” Tugendhaft focused on the role ancient and modern media play in societal organization. “I’m interested in how those [images] that are humanly constructed can be used to organize a community, and that that’s [even] necessary for the organization of a community,” Tugendhaft said.

T ugendhaft’s event was part of the Neubauer Collegium’s ongoing research series “ The Past for Sale: New Approaches to the Study of Archaeological Looting.”

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asked for a commitment from the Deanon-Call to deliver the petition to Isaacs.

The Dean-on-Call, who declined to identify herself by name to T HE M AROON, told the protesters who had moved outside of Levi Hall after about 20 minutes that she could not promise the petition would get to Isaacs. Protesters booed at the dean when she said she didn’t have the authority to ensure that Isaacs would see the petition, and several other students shouted “do your job.” She did later say that she would make an effort to get the petition delivered.

“Obviously this bureaucracy is not equipped to deal with such complexities as the delivery of a letter, so we will be back,” second-year member Elijah Wolter said over a megaphone.

Un iver sit y sp oke sm a n Jer emy Manier confi rmed in an e-mail to T HE M AROON on Monday that the Provost has received the petition.

The protest was kept secret and off social media prior to the time of action in order to delay a police presence, according to fi rst-year Gabby Thomas, an organizer of the protest. In the past, University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) offi cers have locked the doors protesters use to enter Levi Hall, Thomas said.

“Typically either the [UCPD] will bar the doors [to Levi Hall] and won’t let us in or they will remove us from the building. Typically it’s just by telling us to leave or we’ll be arrested or fi ned…. We were told to leave, but we weren’t told to leave with a threat of arrest,” she said.

Fourth-year organizer Spencer McAvoy said that shortly after the protesters entered Levi Hall, three police offi cers entered the room and asked them to leave.

The protesters recited several chants as they marched from Regenstein Library to the provost’s office in Levi Hall: “What do we want? Fifteen. When do we want it? Now.”

“Provost Isaacs can’t you see? Poverty wages are killing me.”

“One, two, three, four, Isaacs we are at your door. Five, six, seven, eight, 10 dollars is not so great.”

As the protesters rushed up the stairs of Levi Hall toward the provost’s office, several organizers stayed behind to unravel a 45-foot scroll displaying the signatures on their petition for a higher minimum campus wage.

Inside Levi Hall, Fair Budget UChicago leaders as well as a representative from Graduate Students United (GSU), an organization that works to increase wages and benefi ts for TAs and RAs, spoke about their experiences working low-paying jobs as full-time students and their demands for higher wages for University workers. Before learning that the provost was not in his offi ce, protestors tried to shout their messages at him with a megaphone through the walls separating the lobby and the administrative offices.

“We all deserve the right to a full, good education and you guys should not have to put your education aside just to eat on the weekends or be able to pay for your books. And moreover, the workers who clean the building, who paint everything, who make everything run— they’re struggling too, and [the University] keep[s] saying there isn’t money.

There is always money,” GSU member Trish Kahle said.

After the protesters learned that Isaacs was not in his office, they began to chant: “We’ll be back. We’ll be back.

We’ll be back.” Thomas said she wasn’t sure whether Isaacs was out of the office on Friday in anticipation of the protest, but the protesters seized on the opportunity to criticize him for his absence.

“Provost Isaacs is not at his job today, but we have a letter that we are trying to leave with the Dean-on-Call, but they cannot be found either…hopefully, Isaacs will be here at some point in time to do his job,” Wolter said.

Students faulted the University for paying high salaries to administrators and for spending money on new academic buildings and dormitories before raising wages for campus workers.

“Even as it spends billions of dollars remodeling its campus, and raises billions more in capital campaigns, the University of Chicago continues to pay hundreds of its workers, including many students, poverty wages. At the same time, this school has distributed $7.6 million dollars to just eight top administrators in the last five years. Clearly the University, one of the richest in the country, can afford to pay its workers a living wage,” reads the Fair Budget UChicago petition.

Wolter said that the group will continue its fight with the University until it agrees to meet with the coalition of students and recognize their demand for higher wages.

“Clearly there is public support for what we are doing. There is public need for what we are doing, but the administration doesn’t listen to all these people.

They listen to each other, and they listen to the Board of Trustees. We are just not going to allow them to continue to ignore the needs of the people who constitute the workforce of this University,” Wolter said.

Second-year organizer Hanna Gregor said that they protested outside the provost’s office in Levi Hall in the hope that he would agree to meet with them about their demands. She said that Isaacs has not agreed to meet with the organization in the past, but she remains hopeful that he will respond to the petition they gave the Dean-on-Call.

“What happens to student workers when tuition increases by 4 percent, but student wages remain constant?” Gregor said in a press release last Friday.

According to Manier, the provost took questions from Fair Budget UChicago on November 2, 2015 at a Student Government Assembly. The University

has encouraged the organization to continue to use that forum to discuss campus wages with the provost, he said.

“Since the topics that this student group is raising are of interest to a broad range of students, University representatives have encouraged them to request engagement through the Student Government Assembly—a venue that is, in our experience, effective for student engagement with University leaders and administrators,” he said.

Manier added that the University does not enforce a minimum wage on its “hiring units,” but rather enforces the minimum wage set by legislative bodies like Chicago’s City Council.

Student organizer Juhi Gupta said Fair Budget UChicago is pushing for a $15-an-hour wage because it is “widely acknowledged” as the minimum wage to support a “decent” and “healthy” life.

The organization has also been influenced by the Fight for $15 movement, a nationwide campaign for higher wages, she said.

Fair Budget UChicago indirectly canvasses for presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who has advocated for a $15-an-hour minimum wage, under its umbrella organization Southside Solidarity Network, which works with Reclaim Chicago to canvass for Sanders.

According to Gupta, while Fair Budget UChicago does not officially endorse Sanders and members are not required to canvass for him, most members support the Senator, who taped *Hardball with Chris Matthews* in the Quadrangle Club the evening before the protest.

Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, who supports a $12-anhour federal minimum wage, and Bernie Sanders have both expressed support for raising the minimum wage, which currently stands at $7.25 an hour. Republican frontrunners Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and Ted Cruz have publicly opposed raising the minimum wage.

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from the coalition, the cost to fully restore the building would be anywhere between $3 million and $6 million. Although it has yet to release any formal plans for renovation, a press release confirms that the institute does intend to do a complete restoration of

the church.

“This is great news, but it means that the coalition’s work has only just started,” coalition member Gabriel Piemonte said in a press release. “We have said all along that the Institute is a part of the Woodlawn family. If they are staying and taking on this

CLASS OF 2019 REPRESENTATIVE RESIGNS FROM COLLEGE COUNCIL

BY WENDY LEE SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

On February 16, Class of 2019 Representative Paulina Torres announced her resignation from College Council, citing her desire to focus on other RSOs. Torres came in third place with 138 votes during elections last October.

College Council is the primary governing body for the undergraduate division of Student Government (SG). During her time as representative, Torres served on the Campus Dining Advisory Board and the Transportation Security Advisory Board.

Second-year Eric Holmberg, chair of College Council, said Torres’s resignation was unexpected.

“Paulina was super engaged as a representative. She decided that she would rather focus on specific RSOs rather than on campus-wide issues. There is a challenge

in jumping in your first week of college and running for [SG], and she gave it a sincere effort,” he said.

The SG bylaws dictate that the vacant spot be offered to the student who was the next highest vote earner during elections last October. Holmberg said that College Council has already begun the process of contacting potential students to fill the vacancy.

College Council has also begun the process of seeking spring quarter replacements for two more class representatives: fourthyear Ted Barrett and third-year Louisa Richardson-Deppe.

“Next quarter, Ted Barrett is graduating, so we just approved his permanent proxy, [fourth-year] Holly Rapp. Louisa Richardson-Deppe is going abroad during the spring, so we will be getting a permanent proxy for her as well,” Holmberg said.

Torres declined to comment.

challenge, we will all take it on with them.”

The Shrine of Christ the King will be holding a celebratory mass on March 19 at 10 a.m. to recognize the occasion in its temporary place of worship, the gymnasium of the First Presbyterian church on Kimbark Avenue.

The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest had its U.S. headquarters at the shrine before the fire. The group of priests, which emphasizes the performance of the pre-Vatican II Latin Mass, has a history of restoring and occupying historic churches in American cities.

Institute of Politics and CNN Partner to Promote Podcast

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nership with CNN. “When we started this podcast, I enviMAROON CONTRIBUTOR sioned it as a chance to provide rare insights Last week, the UChicago Institute of into some of the smartest people in politics, Politics (IOP) and CNN announced a new a way to give listeners a richer sense of who partnership that will promote The Axe these people are and what they do. With its Files, a podcast hosted by Davi Axelrod, growing podcast network, CNN is a perfect former senior adviser to President Obama, fit for this program, especially in this fascicurrent CNN senior political commentator, nating election year,” Axelrod said in a Feband director of the IOP. The Axe Files was ruary 23 CNN press release.

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Talk to Me About My Eating Disorder The First Step of Working Through a Mental Illness is Being Willing to Talk About It

BY EMMA PRESTON MAROOON CONTRIBUTOR

The kitchen has always been privy to my secrets. When I was 10 years old, it was a sugary haven; I clambered onto its counters holding a spoon, once shoveling exactly six heaping spoonfuls of brown sugar into my mouth. Knees bruised from the sharp linoleum corners, I licked the sticky grains off my fingers.

I looked out the window to make sure that my parents, weeding the petunia bed in a sticky Iowa August, were none the wiser.

But the kitchen always knew, wracking me with guilt.

The kitchen was the first to notice, when, while clearing the table after family dinners, I snatched fistfuls of leftover food from the plates and shoved them into my mouth. I chewed frantically as ice cubes clinked cheerfully in the glasses of my family in the dining room. It was also the first to notice that as, over time, I began to immediately regret this binging and would empty my mouth’s half-chewed contents quietly into the trash can.

It was the first to notice when, after the dishes were done, and my stomach was so swollen with food I could think of nothing else, I crept quietly away to the basement bathroom to find a darker kind of relief, and the euphoric sense of control that followed.

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Parting with such heavy cargo has been a long process.

It’s one that I’m still undergoing, and it’s one that I might never completely finish. But I had to start somewhere.

One evening when I exited my basement bathroom, I ran into my mom. She was walking down the stairs to switch over a load of laundry, completely oblivious to the guilt coursing through my malnourished veins. Shaking, I summoned all of my courage. Over the hum of the washer, I told her.

For the past three months, I’d been regularly forcing myself to vomit after meals.

My mom was heartbroken.

She took me to a therapist, whom I grew to love and trust very much. A few months in, though, my therapist and I had a difficult conversation.

“Honey,” she said, “I think you have depression.”

She hugged me and I sobbed, into her shoulder, completely broken—but also shocked. When I had started going to therapy, I’d assumed that it’d be a quick, sterilized, blackand-white experience. I’d spend a few sessions learning how to stop throwing up my dinners each night, and that would be the end of it.

How painfully wrong I was.

It was just the beginning. My bulimia, my therapist told me, was a symptom of my depression.

When I got home that afternoon, I cried to my mom in my room.

At only 16 years old, my life felt over. All my lofty ambitions, my aspirations, my college goals, felt completely trounced by a dark, cackling dementor: depression.

My mom, as the supportive and

caring mother she is, read me a Wikipedia page about influential people with mental illness.

From there, my focus was on my depression alone. I went to a psychiatrist. I took medicine. I wrote in a journal. I exercised.

I spent lots of time in the sun.

And I stifled any bulimic urges.

I avoided even talking about my bulimia in therapy. When my mom asked me about taking a selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitor (SSRI) advertised to improve body image, I was embarrassed. We sat in matching seats looking across the desk at my psychiatrist. “Mom, I don’t need that. I’d rather have something just for depression,” I told her.

Despite my efforts not to acknowledge my problem and treat it, my binging and purging tendencies declined in frequency, until one day, they stopped altogether. And for a while, I thought that their absence constituted complete recovery. Of course, now I realize that’s not the case. Four years later, I still find myself feeling nauseous when I don’t have control, or when I feel sad, or when I’m reminded of a past trauma. The temptation to duck into the Bartlett bathroom after an all-too-filling dinner has never completely left me.

And yet, I don’t talk about it.

I’ve talked about my depression extensively. I’ve written about it.

I’ve performed speeches about it in front of hundreds of people. I’ve explained my illness to classrooms of young children. I’ve sobbed into the arms of my 11-year-old sister, and promised her that I was going to be okay, reassuring her that the only thing causing my tears was my botched serotonin system.

I’ve opened up to my parents and friends. And when depression comes up in conversation, I don’t pretend that it doesn’t affect me.

This has, of course, been incredibly difficult; it’s important to acknowledge that mood disorders are heavily stigmatized. But eating disorders, even though they are mental illnesses themselves, tend to be ignored altogether.

This is the first time I’ve ever used a public platform to talk about my experience with bulimia. It took me a long time, and while I think that there could be a number of reasons for this, I think the biggest one is my own embarrassment. And truthfully, sometimes I still feel embarrassed about it. Now, though, I recognize that my feelings of shame are something to work through. All feelings are valid, but these are unfounded; my bulimia is not my fault. It is nothing to be ashamed of.

So, when you’re ready, I want to talk about it. I know that it might feel uncomfortable. I know that it might feel weird. I know that it might even feel gross or shameful or confusing. I myself have felt all of these things. But I also feel that eating disorders, as serious illnesses, should not be treated any differently than we treat other life-threatening diseases, mental or physical.

Eating disorders are not born from vanity. They are not lifestyle choices, and they are not exclusively caused by Photoshopped celebrities on magazine covers. They are serious mental illnesses, rooted in biology, genetics, and psychology. They are not of just two types; yes, they are anorexia and bulimia, but they are also binge-eating disorder, purging disorder, pica, atypical anorexia, orthorexia, and a great deal more.

They are not “phases.” They are not exclusively experienced by rich, white, teenage girls. They are not discernable by the way someone looks. Most importantly, they are not something from which one is unable to recover.

Now, I step into the kitchen cautiously.

It haunts me, dwells within me dangerously, threatening to force my hands and arms and mouth into motion, threatening relapse, to revert my body back into its enslavement to blind consumption and regret. I focus, and I take a deep breath, and then, finally, it is just me. My body is here, and it’s okay. It’s true that this shadow might always be there, but I know how to pry its spindled fingers back from my spine. This burdensome weight is grasping at its last handholds.

Emma Preston is a second-year in the College majoring in political science with a minor in human rights.

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Bernie’s Political Evolution To Effect Change, Bernie Sanders Should Go Back to His Roots

BY MATTHEW KLEIN

I’ve come to realize that these two are not the same person: we see the former push for change at the grassroots level in black and white, while the latter, in color, pushes for the topdown changes of the commander-inchief. Chamberlin Bernie would not describe the presidential candidate as a revolutionary. Yet. Now, the Sanders campaign finance model is novel, but I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about campaign promises that can only be realized in a liberal Democratic Congress. In order for a President Sanders to finance his proposals, he would have to push legislation that is in direct opposition to conservative ideology. His promises to gain funds via increasingly progressive taxes, I’m afraid, cannot be kept without a Democratic congressional majority.

In the setting of a Republican or moderate Congress, Bernie’s agenda would be doomed and Hillary Clinton would be the better president.

This is where Bernie has the chance to actually revolutionize a presidential campaign, increase the chances that his promised policies pass through Congress, and once again lock up my vote. He has to support, and potentially campaign for, congressional Democrats, especially senators. He has to support Democrats at the local and state levels. He has to shift the revolution away from “us,” the voters and donors, and toward the

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Late last year I learned that Bernie Sanders and I are both alumni of Burton-Judson’s Chamberlin House. My vote was locked. But as the race matured, my vote shifted from locked to conditional. (If he Scavs for B-J, it’s back to being a sure thing.) I found myself preferring Hillary Clinton’s platform and record in certain cases, such as gun control.

More fundamentally, I recognized the fragility of a campaign promise founded on a proposed monumental shift in Congress and the judiciary.

Bernie’s so-called grassroots “revolution” began to ring hollow, especially when I compared the Bernie who lived in Chamberlin in the 1960s to the Bernie running for president in 2016.

Photos of Bernie during his time at UChicago have been surfacing recently, depicting scenes of him being arrested while protesting, speaking at a sit-in, and fighting for civil rights. These make me proud, but I’m skeptical of their use.

Bernie’s supporters generally point to these photos to support the image of his campaign as grassroots, antiestablishment, and anti –super PAC. They contribute to the revolution discourse by drawing a direct link between Chamberlin’s activist Bernie and the presidential candidate. But

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At each campaign stop, he can brief ly bring local and state politicians on stage to extol their records or promising futures, and he could even invite them to speak. Bernie should also publish a detailed outline of how he would support a continued effort to bring more progressives into Congress post-nomination.

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ARTS Uncommon Fund Project Draws Upon Asian-American Experience

BY GRACE HAUCK ARTS EDITOR

Mid-forkful at a Cathey dining table last year, Vo Ram Yoon was struck by an idea: pioneer a two-part initiative consisting of online photo narratives and campus gallery displays to address the severe lack of dialogue regarding the Asian-American experience at UChicago.

Now, just days after voting closed for the 2016 Uncommon Fund candidates, I sat down with the minds behind this past year’s Through My Asian American Eyes project to reflect on the fantasy-turned-nationalcampaign.

Last year, third-years William Rhee and Raymond Fang, along with Yoon, now a fourth-year, applied to and successfully received sponsorship from the Uncommon Fund. Midway through spring quarter, they put their proposal into action by launching a Humans of New York–style photo essay on Facebook to feature Asian-American students—a page that now boasts 645 likes from students across the country.

Part two of this project, a collection of visual artworks created by six Asian Americans, currently shows in both the east and west second-floor stairwells of Harper and will conclude its seven-week run this Friday.

“We realized that being political about Asian-American identity isn’t something that a lot of people here are comfortable with yet, so it was easier to create a safe

space where people could explore their Asian-American identity and think about their stories without reframing it as this activist-y, political thing. We want people to think about it in that way, but that’s not something that we want to pressure them to do,” Yoon said.

The Through My Asian American Eyes photo narrative on Facebook has already featured more than 30 students of varying years and origins as well as a campus Resident Head. Beyond showcasing personal student testimonies, the site remains an active interface that connects students to similar projects like those at the University of Illinois at Chicago that inspired efforts here.

“UIC has very active Malaysian, Vietnamese, and Thai organizations,” Yoon said.

“When we were accepted and we were going through with this process, we were actually talking with students from UIC,” Rhee added. “In a way, it’s just another step in seeing where the influence might go.”

It didn’t take long for the movement to branch out of the Midwest; just last month, students at Cornell University took up the baton.

Asian Pacific Americans for Action (APAA), a student group at Cornell, recently launched its own version of the UChicago-inspired project, shortening the name to “Through My Eyes” to encompass Pacific Islanders.

“We were trying to bring out the diversity that’s in the Asian-American commu-

nity to showcase the experiences that people have gone through,” said Xiao Yin Ma, a second-year at Cornell who recently conducted APAA’s first round of photo-narrative interviews. “We make up 20 to 30 percent of [Cornell’s student] population, but I feel like there is a lot of apathy on campus in the Asian community. And I don’t think that’s just Cornell; I think that’s everywhere in general.”

A s t he movement spreads, Through My Asian American Eyes continues to take root here on campus, where the works of undergraduates Michelle Huang, Catherine Chen, Lindsey Jay, Sean Whang, Helen Zhang, and Lavina Li don our gray stone walls. Over the summer, these six artists received e-mails from Rhee, through the PanAsia and InterVarsity listhost, calling for visual pieces reflecting on Asian-American identity.

While several students were already following the project’s Facebook page, others received a pleasant surprise.

Huang, perhaps better known on Instagram as @ michellethewise, is a secondyear from a large majority -minority town in California.

While both of her parents are Chinese, she recently returned from a trip to Korea, which inspired her contribution to this showcase. Her untitled black-and-white marker drawing depicts the face of an indistinct Asian girl. Peonies caress her cheeks—a nurturing gesture that Huang translates as the implicit love, loyalty, and respect that Asians,

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Second-year Michelle Huang’s black-and-white marker drawing depicting the tacit compassion of Asian communities currently hangs in Harper’s West stairwell.

particularly Asian families, have for one another.

“I think the discourse on the Asian-American experience right now is on things like model minority stuff or the mental health problems that are going on, or the opposition that we have with the white hegemony,” Huang said. “But I feel like we don’t talk about very key, central aspects of our culture—this tacit compassion.”

Fo u r t h -y e a r S e a n Whang, a soft-spoken biology major and visual arts minor descending from an unusual legacy of doctors and artists, approached this

assignment through a different lens. Rather than execute outward explanation, Whang chose to embark on an inward journey of acceptance. In Lonely at the Top, drawn on his tablet using Photoshop CS2, Whang addresses the pressures—culturally exacerbated and selfwrought—that drive him to compete with his peers.

“It’s always going to be like this,” Whang said. “But even in this reality, it’s still possible to find freedom and still find peace despite all of the pressures and comparisons.”

This work marks one of

Whang’s first attempts to break from his formal training as a realist portraitist and move to digital sketching. The risk was an indubitable success: Whang’s combination of unnatural color and digital mapping achieves a supremely magical realist effect. He crystallizes the ephemeral aura of his piece with an accompanying C. S. Lewis quote: “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”

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2016 MacArthur Grants Spotlight Chicago Arts Institutions

BY TAMAR HONIG ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

T he C h icago -based MacArthur Foundation recently doled out more than $6 million to arts and cultural organizations as part of its Awards for Creative & Effective Institutions.

Since 2006, these awards have helped support institutions around the globe covering a wide range of disciplines.

This year, for the fi rst time, the grants were directed entirely at Chicago art groups—14 in total, specializing in jazz, theater, fi lm, dance, opera, visual art, and more.

“This is the first year we drew Awardees from one city,” Cate Fox, program officer for arts and culture at the MacArthur

Foundation, wrote in a statement. “MacArthur picked Chicago because it is where our Foundation is headquartered. Each year we invest more than $10 million in Chicago’s arts and culture community so this was an opportunity to strengthen the city’s vibrant cultural life in a different way and affirm our commitment to our hometown.”

According to Fox, MacArthur has a long tradition of nurturing emerging organizations and celebrating creativity. Early recipients of the foundation’s support include what became Human Rights Watch, the largest U.S.based human rights organization; Creative Commons, a nonprofit that has revolutionized the concept

of copyright; and World Resources Institute, a global environmental think tank.

Fox noted that the intended immediate impact of a MacArthur Award is to affi rm the work of the recipient as well as Chicago’s arts and culture sector in general. The long-term effect, however, is more difficult to predict.

“We live in a city that is second to none in terms of cultural life…. Our hope is that these organizations continue to produce high-quality artistic experiences. Previous Award recipients have told us that the Award has allowed them to take more risk, seed projects that they knew they would not receive an immediate return on investment but would

be critical to the organization’s mission,” Fox said.

Among the winners of this year’s awards was Eighth Blackbird (styled as eighth blackbird), a music ensemble that performs new classical works in Chicago and beyond.

Peter McDowell, managing director of eighth blackbird, explained why his organization is worthy of its MacArthur Award.

“Eighth Blackbird is a model for small to mid-size arts organizations. [It] has grown significantly over the past few years while maintaining a strong, fiscally responsible budget,” he said.

McDowell highlighted eighth blackbird’s major recent accomplishments: hiring a full-time staff of four people; touring nationally

and internationally; winning four Grammy awards; recording and releasing eight albums; and achieving ensemble-in-residence status at the University of Chicago, the University of Richmond, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

“In addition to providing extraordinary financial stability, the MacArthur Award funds effectively eliminate the need for further capital fundraising campaigns—potentially for years into the future—freeing up staff and artists to cultivate program support at a pivotal moment in the company’s history,” McDowell said.

The other organizations that received a MacArthur Award this year include Albany Park Theater Proj-

ect, A Red Orchid Theatre, Chicago Film Archives, Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, Chicago Opera Theater, Chicago Sinfonietta, Hyde Park Art Center, Links Hall, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Lucky Plush Productions, The Hypocrites, TimeLine Theatre Company, and Young Chicago Authors.

“Our focus on small and mid-sized organizations is purposeful—these organizations have an outsized impact supported by a meager infrastructure,” Fox said. “We hope that the Award calls attention to their creativity and effectiveness, while providing resources to build-out the internal supports the organization needs to be creative and effective in the future.”

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Reg Exhibit an Homage to Yiddish Culture in Chicago

BY REBECCA JULIE ARTS STAFF

When people think of American hubs of Yiddish culture, New York City tends to come to mind.

In reality, however, Yiddish art, literature, and theater thrive in cities all over the country. Chicago, for example, houses a n e s t a bl i s he d , mo dernist Yiddish theater scene as well as numerous publishing houses.

T hese publ ish i ng houses were the inspiration for the ex h ibit currently on display on the th i rd f loor of the Regenstein Library titled Yiddish in Chicago: A Hi st or y of P ubli shing. Ru n n i ng th rough March 20, this exhibit gives library visitors an oppor tunity to look at or ig ina l Yidd ish texts from the Reg’s collection

that were published in a plethora of Yiddish publishing houses in Chicago. According to the ex h ibition des cr iption on the UChicago Library website, “there existed no fewer than 13 [ Yiddish] publishing houses i n C h ic ago by 19 4 0 .”

T he d isplay is the brainchild of Sunny Yudkoff, Ph.D., a senior lecturer in Yiddish at the University. She explained that the idea to showcase some of the library’s Yiddish collection occurred to her one day while she was teaching third-quarter Elementary Yiddish. “ I decided t o focus our weekly conversation sections on the history of Yiddish culture in Chicago and soon learned that the library had an amazing collection of illustrated Yiddish texts that were published in

Chicago,” she said. “As part of the course, students examined a number of books in the library’s collection and also presented oral reports on individual writers who lived, worked, or were published in Chicago. The exhibition was an opportunity to introduce this lesser-known moment in Yiddish literary history to the wider University of Chicago community.”

According to Yudkoff, the books featured in the three display cases include literary criticism, modernist poetry, philosophical treatises, and yizker-bikher — books c om memor at i n g E a st er n E u r op e a n Jew i sh communities that were destroyed during WWII. “ The books featured i n the ex h ibition a lso boast a va r iety of i nt r i c at e i l l u s t r at i o n s ,

broadcasting the artistic sensibilities of the writers and publishers,” she added. “ T he books that were chosen for the ex h ibition represent a small range of the texts published in Chicago.”

These texts are also just a f raction of the UCh icago l ibra r y system’s immense collection of Yiddish texts. The library’s collection is est i mat ed t o be a r ou nd 6,000 volumes, according to Anne Knaf l, a UChicago librarian specializing in Jewish studies, philosophy, and religion.

The library’s collection “includes all formats, such as print monographs and journals, microforms and electronic resources, as well as polyglot works written in multiple languages, such as Yiddish and English together,” K naf l said. She added

that about one quarter of the works were published in the United States and that the rest were published in Europe ( pr imarily Eastern Europe) or Israel. “In addition, we hold titles published in Australia, Buenos Aires, and Canada,” she said.

T he libra r y also boasts a number of ext r emely r a r e Y idd i sh texts, including a 1904 biography of Theodor Herzl published by Sholem Aleichem and a first edition collection of wood engravings by Chicago artist Todros Geller, published in 1937 and signed by the author. However, the oldest Yiddish material in the Reg’s collection is a polyglot Bible that includes a Yiddish translation of the Old Testament and printed with Roman letters so that it could be read by those

not literate in Hebrew.

The texts included in the display cases may be just a small portion of the library’s selection of Yiddish texts, but as Yudkoff pointed out, many of the volumes in circulation feature inscriptions from various authors and poets to their readers. “ T he s e a r e pa r t ic ula rly exciting to featu re in the ex hibition as they shed l ight on t he r el at ion s h ip s b e tween writers, readers, and their literar y circles,” Yudkoff explained.

Yiddish in Chicago: A History of Publishing is not only an opportunity for members of the UChicago community to learn more about both pre- and post-war Yiddish culture, but is also a particularly poignant homage to Yiddish life i n ou r ow n backya rd.

Jukebox the Ghost’s Show a Shot of Espresso

BY ANNIE NAZZARO NEWS EDITOR

Ju kebox the Ghost k nows ex ac tly what k i nd of ba nd it is. “ You know how there are bands for drinking, a nd ther e a r e st oner bands? We’re a caffeine band, generally speaking,” said lead singer and keyboardist Ben Thornewill between songs at Jukebox the Ghost’s Thalia Ha l l show on F r id ay.

The band, composed of T hornew ill, Tommy Siegel on g u ita r, a nd Jesse Kristin on drums, is currently label-less, which might be worrying to a band working on a new album. But if they were at all worried, their ca f fei nat ed happi ness onstage didn’t betray it.

Ju kebox the Ghost has been performing together for more than 10 years, and their experience showed, especially in comparison to their opening act, Mainland.

A rather you ng ba nd f r om New York C it y, Mainland’s songs were a bit guitar-heavy and ha rmon ica l ly repetitive. However, they were called upon last-minute to fill in for the Family Crest for a few weeks on the Jukebox tour, so they get points for trying.

A fter about half an hour of hearing the same four chords, the stage went d a rk , a nd B er nie Sanders’s version of “This Land is Your Land” began to play over the spea kers. It was su r-

prising to much of the audience, but maybe not to those who had noticed Siegel’s Bernie shirt earlier during stage setup.

But Bernie’s voice soon faded away, the lights f lared on, and Jukebox the Ghost kicked in with “Good Day,” an upbeat song that set the tone for the rest of the show.

Thankfully, the band wasn’t afraid to deviate from the studio versions of their songs, and the expectation of the unexpected kept the night interesting. Thornewill improvised a piano interlude in “Girl” that transitioned right into “Sound o f a B r o k e n H e a r t .”

Eric Ryan Anderson T hey a l s o wer en’t Jukebox the Ghost performed at Pilsen’s Thalia Hall this past Friday night. a f ra id t o f ac e i mp er f e c t i o n . D u r i n g t h e wa s “ S t eve ’s C hoic e ,” The band also chan- the ha rmon ies moved vibes were as energetic show, they debut ed a where they would allow neled Queen w ith cov- from haunting to unset- a nd h appy a s a ny of song called “Keys in the a man from the audience e r s o f “ U n d e r P r e s - tling much too quickly their more upbeat songs.

Car ” from thei r for th- named Steve to pick a s u r e ” a n d “ B i c y c l e and lingered for too long. “ Unden iable You” may coming album. Midway song. Another option was Race,” the latter featurT h i s wa s t he one have just been the crash t h r o u g h , T h o r n e w i l l “Hold It In Supreme,” a ing actual bicycle bells. wea kness of the show a f t er a ca f fei ne h igh. forgot the ly r ics. T he different version of their T hat d id n’t cha nge T here was only one a n d m ay b e a w e a kwhole band laughed and song “ Hold It I n.” It slow moment in the show: ness of the band over- the genuine fun had by stopped, and as soon as was only different, how- Thornewill, left alone on all. Though Jukebox the the audience, especially Thornewill remembered ever, in that each mem- the stage under blue and Ghost ran through some since the band genuinely the word s , picked up ber of the band would purple lights, sang “Unde- of thei r more ser ious, s e eme d t o b e h av i n g right where they’d left off. play an instrument they niable You” with the help emotional songs earlier fun, too. And, much like “ Nobody k nows the didn’t know how to play. of a looper pedal. As he in the show, with “Post- caffeine, the energy of words,” Siegel said to him “For you, Chicago, we layered his own voice over ca rd” a nd “ W hen the Jukebox the Ghost’s show afterward. “You could’ve have put it on the wheel itself again and again, Nights Get L ong,” the was definitely addictive. sa ng, l i ke, ‘ Ga ng na m no more than five times,” S t yle ’ or s omet h i n g.” Thornewill said. W hen In fact, the band not it didn’t come up on one CORRECTIONS only faced imperfection— of h is spi ns, he spun they embraced it. Later the wheel again. With An earlier version of the Philip Glass Residency article published on i n the show, they Siegel on the keyboard, February 23 incorrectly referred to the McCarthy era as the Macbrought out a wheel with T hor new i l l on d r u ms Arthur era. songs they rarely perform and K ristin on guitar, written on it. Thornewill T h o r n e w i l l ad m i t t e d An earlier version of the Memoryhouse article published February would spin the wheel, and that they’d never made 23 misspelled the name of Memoryhouse’s performance ensemble the band would perform it past the bridge of the as “Momento.” The correct name is “Memento.” whatever it landed on. song. ( Thornewill dediOne of the options cated the song to Steve.)

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Afro-Futurism Delivers Comedy With a Conscience

BY MAY HUANG ARTS STAFF

When weather reporters cautioned people to avoid making their evening commutes due to the snowstorm last Wednesday night—the evening of Second City’s Afro-Futurism show—the old adage “the show must go on” came to mind. In spite of the wind and cold, the E.T.C. Theatre was packed with an audience ready to laugh.

Afro-Futurism came to Second City after Billy Bungeroth, the show’s director, approached comedians Felonious Munk and Dave Helem with the idea of collaborating.

Bungeroth had seen the duo perform in their show, “Blipsters on Broadway” ( Bl ipst ers st a nd s for “ black hipsters” ), and thought that their type of comedy would work well with Second City.

“There were very few black comedians on the North Side,” said Munk, one of the show’s creators and performers. “ David and I felt like we had to change that.”

A fro-futurism as a

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Comedian Felonious Munk collaborated with Dave Helem in Second City’s Afro-Futurism.

genre has been described as a meeting point for black culture and science fiction.

“It’s the idea of place in the society being reimagined through science fiction,” Munk explained. “In sci-fi works, there’s always this idea of a dystopian future

where certain things that exist now don’t exist then.”

Through portraying dystopian worlds, artists could escape from the discrimination and various social problems they observed in their current society. But Afro-Futur-

ism seeks to confront, not to escape. What the show aims to bring to Second City is social commentary through sketch and stand-up comedy—mediums that deliver messages in an up-close, personal, and striking way.

The themes that AfroFuturism tackles change every week. Earlier this month, their sketches depicted a world in which people no longer needed to fight for LGBT or women’s rights because present-day norms had been destroyed.

Last week, their theme was religion. One of the ensemble members, Aasia Lashay Bullock, did an interpretive dance to lines from a sermon. Sonia Denis and Dewayne Perkins were members of God’s “PR team” trying to convince “Joe,” played by Torian Miller, to keep his faith.

T he p e r f o r m a n c e s also targeted other topical issues. For example, Shantira Jackson personified water to criticize the institutional racism underlying the Flint water crisis. Munk satirized homophobia by pointing out the illogical way some

people believe rainbow-colored Doritos could affect their children’s sexuality.

Aside from pure standup, performances were also interspersed with music a l ac t s. S o - Chi Voices performed original songs while Marcel “Mr. Greenweedz” Wilks rapped freestyle between sketches. Perkins and Bullock even managed to deliver social commentary by singing their criticisms via nursery rhyme while playing a clapping game. Like the rest of the performances that night, their timing was impeccable.

At the start of the show, one performer joked that Afro-futurism was “the blackest show on Second City.” However, it is a testament to the power and range of comedy that the jokes made that night were far from being ones that only a black audience could appreciate. “ The first audience was 80 percent black, the second audience was more mixed, and on the following Wednesday there were six black people in the entire audience,” Munk remembered. “But everyone

seemed to get every bit.”

Munk believes that a good sketch can entertain a diverse audience even when it references particular niches associated with a specific group of people. He draws a helpful analogy to Beyoncé (whose song, “Formation,” the performers deemed America’s national anthem and played at the start of their show), saying, “Beyoncé made songs for women but you’re allowed to listen to it if you’re not a woman.”

But of course, good comedy also makes you think. Afro-Futurism has been described as “the future of comedy,” and its purpose befits this title.

“The future of comedy is a place where there’s [this] much social commentary,” Munk said. “If you can think of an issue that is happening right now, we address it in these shows.”

Throughout the night, the performers weren’t afraid to make bold jokes or involve members of the audience in their acts.

They were energetic, fearless, and funny. The show must go on, despite more obstacles than just snow.

“Just last month, students at Cornell University took up the baton.”

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mediary,” said third-year Catherine Chen, summarizing her perception of the Asian-American experience.

The American-born economics major was raised by her grandparents in China until the age of seven, when she returned to the United States. Her project, a large acrylic canvas painting of Chinese calligraphy, serves two functions. First, it depicts the sentiments of three successive generations of her family, beginning with those of her grandparents when they first immigrated to the U.S. Second, it reflects Chen’s own understanding of how people perceive her.

“Growing up in China and then here, it’s made me aware of how I feel like I could be a part of both places but not really either. For example, in the U.S. we’re considered Asian, but in China, when people find out I’m from America, they call me American,” Chen said.

Chen explained how her close friends would commend her for her work, admiring her skillful knack for writing Chinese characters. Chen’s sister, on the other hand, chided Chen for her sloppy costuming of culture—she didn’t even write out the characters. She had to trace them out and then fill them in with paint. While those

half-blind to Asian identity assumed her to be foreign, those who can read Chen’s words can see through the façade.

Lindsey Jay’s diptych, a favorite of Yoon’s, placed alongside Whang’s massive printed drawing, reflects on this same theme of duality. Meanwhile, secondyear Helen Zhang’s illustration-board cutout, titled Exercise in Cultural Exploration and Egotism, combines the ancient Chinese paper-cutting art of Jianzhi with a nod to stereotypically Western Renaissance portraiture. Yet amidst a sea of drawings and paintings, the work of second-year Lavina

Li stands out as the only photography series in the exhibit.

“Cockroaches are among the hardiest insects found in Hong Kong,” Li explained in her work’s accompanying statement. “Though commonly viewed as pests, few survive in extreme conditions. This photo exhibition documents and celebrates ‘cockroach’ moments and places—instances where something has managed either to escape from or thrive in the cold intensity of Hong Kong.” Crawling across the inter-f loor landing, the images are bleak and industrial like the crawlers themselves.

While the success of this dining-hall lightbulb moment proves clear in the emerging Cornell campaign, Yoon and Rhee acknowledge their project’s limitations: five out of six artists are female, and all of the artists— even most of the individuals featured in the photo narrative—are of East Asian descent. Cue APAA’s amendment to the campaign name.

These shortcomings are, however, excusable.

Far from the authority on Asian-American identity politics, the Uncommon Fund’s Through My Asian American Eyes project is merely the next natural link in an evolving campus dialogue.

While Rhee, Yoon, and Fang will take the exhibition pieces off their hooks this coming Friday, new groups like UChicago’s Confucius Society, which received official RSO status two weeks ago, will step in to preserve this momentum.

“I think a lot of times when there are conversations about identity—with racial and national tensions—they can end in frustration,” Chen said. “It’s hard for me to explain to my friends that have never experienced this, how I feel. And it’s frustrating because it’s so personal.… You can’t ask people to understand, but you can at least let them see what your story is.”

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Spree of Individual Champions at UAA Championships TRACK & FIELD

BY MICHAEL CHEIKEN SPORTS STAFF

This past weekend the Maroons traveled to New York to participate in the two-day UAA Championships at the prestigious Fort Washington Avenue Armory. By Sunday’s end, the women had secured a second-place finish while the men took fourth. Despite their disappointment at not winning the meet, there were quite a few highlights for the Chicago athletes.

The first day of the meet was predominately preliminary rounds for the finals races that would take place the next day, but finals were completed for the five-kilometer race and the distance medley relay.

Second-year Khia Kurtenbach captured the first Maroon victory of the meet with her extraordinary 17:07.64 time in the 5k race.

After a timing adjustment because the track at the Armory is banked, Kurtenbach’s time ranked fifth overall in DIII this year. Immediately afterward, third-year Gareth Jones took the top spot in the same race with a 14:47.89. The next race was the distance medley relay.

The Chicago team of second-year Cassidy McPherson (1200m), fourth-year Mi-

kaela Hammel (400m), third-year Michelle Dobbs (800m), and fourth-year Brianna Hickey (1600m) approached the race with the goal of qualifying for the national meet.

They may have pulled it off, as they won the meet in exciting fashion, besting the previous meet record by a large margin with a time of 11:52.28—the seventh best time nationally this year.

In Saturday’s field events, the Maroons also had several podium finishes. Fourthyear Nkemdilim Nwaokolo (14.63m) and third-year Andrew Maneval (15.11m) placed second and third respectively in the weight throw. Second-year Vivian Barclay (5.12m) and fourth-year Rachael Jackson (5.06m) took third and fourth, respectively, in the long jump, and second-year Angel Fluet (3.27m) finished fourth in the pole vault.

The second day of the meet started early with the women’s shot put, and the Maroons got off to a good start. Nwaokolo (12.19m) earned first place, and second-year Ade Ayoola (11.45m) got third, capturing a total of 16 points for the team. Third-year Joey Gary finished in third place in the triple jump. The men also dominated the pole vault, with fourth-year Michael Bennett winning his fourth consecutive UAA title

with a 4.76m vault and second-year Nathan Downey taking third at 4.66m.

The races began with the mile, where Hickey ran her second in as many days, and despite the wear and tear still came in second with 5:11.59. Second-year Megan Verner-Crist followed just behind her in fourth place with 5:14.28. On the men’s side, third-year Nicholas Nielsen took third place in just 4:15.41 minutes, and secondyear Patrick LeFevre captured his first UAA championship with an 8.35 second 60-meter hurdles race. Running in her third 800-meter race of the meet, Dobbs destroyed the competition, finishing in just 2:10.99 minutes, winning by over a second, and laying claim to the fifth best time in the nation. Not to be outdone with consecutive day victories, Kurtenbach returned for the three-kilometer race and laid claim to yet another victory, while fellow Maroon, thirdyear Minnie Horvath, took fourth place.

“The 5k, 3k double was definitely challenging,” Kurtenbach said. “ I tried to ride the excitement and momentum from my first race into day two of the meet.” Ultimately, Kurtenbach credited her team’s support for carrying her through when she was physically drained. “My teammates’ energy

and cheers helped push me to give just a little more effort when I was struggling in the second race,” she said.

Overall, the Maroons had a slew of great performances that were very exciting for the entire team. They are all very excited to watch and cheer on from home their teammates who qualify for the national meet and to compete in outdoor season this spring.

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Second-year Ade Ayoola competes in a track meet on February 6.

Maroons Close Season With Loss to Bears MEN’S BASKETBALL

BY MICHAEL PERRY SPORTS STAFF

The Maroons’ regular season came to an end at home with a 67–54 loss to rival Wash U on Saturday afternoon. The South Siders finished the season with a 17–8 overall record, and went 8–6 in the UAA. With this loss, it is highly unlikely that the team will earn a postseason bid from the NCAA. The final game of the regular season was also senior night, as fourth-years Scott Herlihy, Nate Brooks, John Steinberg, Jordan Smith, Alex Voss, and Eric Robinson were all honored during the pregame ceremonies. The Class of 2016 will leave UChicago with an impressive 59–41 cumulative record.

After a back-and-forth start to the game, the Maroons appeared to take control with a 30–19 lead with 5:32 remaining in the first half. However, the Bears went

on a 10–0 run to close out the half, cutting Chicago’s lead to one point going into the second.

Wash U then continued its offensive tear with nine more points, to open the half with 19 total unanswered points. The Maroons would not regain their bearings for the remainder of the game, shooting just 37.5 percent from the field and 25.9 percent from behind the arc.

Third-year guard Tyler Howard led the team with 18 points, six rebounds, and five assists, while Smith was right behind with 12 points. Smith will end his Chicago basketball career as the 10th all-time leading scorer in the history of Maroon basketball.

“The seniors really mean a lot to this team,” first-year guard Justin Jackson said.

“Jordan [Smith] did a lot for the team, but so did every senior. It’s a great group of guys to be around and play basketball with.”

The team was hurting for depth as the

game wore on, as second-year guard Jake Fenlon was out with an illness, taking away one of the Maroons’ best outside scoring threats. Herlihy saw increased playing time in Fenlon’s absence, scoring five points off the bench in the final game of his career.

“Obviously, we did not get the result we wanted in our last game,” second-year Collin Barthel said. “That shouldn’t take away from all of the team’s accomplishments this season. We will use this loss as a springboard for next season.”

The highlights of this season include a 13-game winning streak and being ranked as high as 13th in the country. However, as good as the season was, the South Siders are certainly going to miss the collection of leaders that played their last game on Saturday.

Smith has already been mentioned as an offensive spark for the team, but he’s not the only member of the graduating class that contributed significantly to this squad.

Since Brooks’s second year, he has started all games he played in and earned Honorable Mention All-UAA as a third-year. Herlihy was a walk-on as a third-year, which is almost unheard of on the squad, and even played in all 24 games last season.

Robinson, although plagued with injury throughout much of his career, was efficient, shooting more than 57 percent in his last two seasons. Steinberg, although he didn’t play this past season, was an integral part of the team and is a three-time UAA All-Academic player. Finally, Voss started every game of his upperclassman campaign and achieved second-team All-UAA as a thirdyear, and his 10.9 points and 7.7 rebounds per game this year will certainly lead to a UAA accolade.

The NCAA will host a selection show on its website this Monday, announcing its 62team field and revealing the postseason fate of the Maroons.

Chicago Ends Season With Upset Victory Over Rival No. 9 Wash U WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

BY MICHAEL HINKLEY SPORTS STAFF

In a game dedicated to the graduating class, the Maroons upset rival No. 9 Wash U in their season fi nale on Saturday afternoon. The team jumped out to an early lead and remained ahead for all 40 minutes to secure an 82–70 victory. This marked Chicago’s fourth win over a nationally ranked team this season, and its first over the Bears since 2012. With this result, the Maroons end their season with an overall record of 16–9 and a conference mark of 8–6.

Prior to the contest, the team honored the hard work and dedication of its three fourth-years. Caitlin Moore, Helen Petersen, and Paige Womack each contributed four long years of service to the basketball program, and they will be missed dearly.

After competing in her final match on

Saturday, Moore finished her career with 100 games played, averaging seven points per game over her tenure. Unfortunately, knee injuries prematurely ended the careers of both Petersen and Womack, but that didn’t stop them from making valuable contributions in practice and off the court over the years.

Against Wash U, Chicago took an early 9–5 lead thanks to five quick points by first-year point guard Alyssa Clemente.

Throughout the first quarter, the Maroons kept the tempo up and took a 25–17 lead into the fi rst break. And the team didn’t let up. Thanks to efficient long-range shooting, the Maroons extended their advantage to 15 points heading into halftime.

In the second half, the Maroons relied on efficient offensive play to stay ahead of their opponents. While the Bears fought back and closed the margin, clutch three-

point shooting by second-year Elizabeth Nye and first-year Rachel West helped to preserve Chicago’s lead.

Later, with 4:52 remaining, guard Moore made a layup and added a foul shot to complete the three-point play and extend the lead to 71–56. Then, in the final minute, Moore secured an offensive rebound and scored on the putback to ice the game.

In the afternoon, the Maroons shot an all-time school best 63.8 percent from the field, surpassing the previous record of 63.3 percent set in 2003. The Chicago defense also held strong for the entire game. The squad forced 14 turnovers and held its opponents to 39 percent shooting.

Nye finished the game with a team-high 19 points after hitting a perfect 5–5 threepoint attempts.

Reflecting on her fi nal game, Moore said, “It was amazing! It was such a fun

atmosphere and a great way to end the season! Everyone played so well and did their part when they were on the court.

It was definitely one of our best games of the season and I’m so glad we were able to pull it off.”

While the Maroons narrowly missed playoff selection, it is hard to dispute their success this year. With a very young team, Chicago posted a winning record both in its conference and overall. Moreover, the team posted an impressive 10–3 record at home and defeated Wash U for the fi rst time since the seniors arrived in Hyde Park. All of these results indicate that the Maroons will continue to have a strong showing in the future. Looking ahead to the 2016 –17 season, the Maroons will be led by rising fourth-years Britta Nordstrom and Stephanie Anderson, as well as a slew of talented thirdand second-years.

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Squad Looks Ahead to Next Year After NCAA Regionals Defeat WRESTLING

BY ALEXANDER MILLER SPORTS STAFF

While the Maroons left it all on the mat at the DIII Midwest regional, they unfortunately came up short in their goal to make it to nationals. At the meet, hosted by Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Chicago finished 11th overall of 15 teams. Additionally, no members of the team were able to qualify for nationals, making the weekend the end to the 2015–16 wrestling season.

The winner this weekend was the host school, Wabash College. Wabash totaled 117.5 points to earn the squad first place.

In comparison, Chicago’s 28 points were enough to fi nish in 11th place. The individual winners in their respective weight classes were: 125-Zac Denny, Wisconsin-Whitewater; 133-Romeo Riley, Alma College; 141-Jimmy Nehls, Elmhurst; 149-Blake Santi, Elmhurst; 157-Nick Bova, Wabash; 165-Logan Hermsen, Wisconsin-Stevens Point; 174-Tyler Schneider, Wisconsin-La Crosse; 184-Riley Lefever, Wabash; 197-Angus Arthur, Adrian; 285-Trevor Maresh, Alma.

As for Chicago, the squad entered re-

gionals fresh off a second-place fi nish at UAAs. At regionals, they had a wrestler represented in every weight class, but only four were victorious in any of their matchups. Two Chicago wrestlers came up just short to qualify for nationals. Last year’s NCAA Midwest Regional champion at 125 pounds, second-year Devan Richter, could not repeat this year, but still nearly made it to nationals. He won his first two matches of the day by fi rst-round pins.

However, he went on to lose the next two including the semifinal and his first consolation bracket match. Richter would finish out his day with a win in his final match earning him fi fth place at 125 pounds.

Third-year Paul Papoutsis also came close to qualifying for nationals. Papoutsis and Richter were the only two Chicago wrestlers that came into the day seeded.

Papoutsis had a bye in his first round and then a came up with a 9–3 victory in his next round match. Unfortunately, like Richter, Papoutsis also lost his semifinal match. In the consolation bracket, Papoutsis bounced back to win his way into the third-place match. However, he lost 4–3 in the third-place match, earning him a fourth place finish on the day.

Men and Women Combine for Sweep Over Denison

Second-year Nick Ferraro and fi rstyear Mason Williams were the other two Maroons to get a win on the day. Both wrestlers went 1–2 on the day.

This will be the last action of the season for the Maroons. On behalf of the team, Williams said, “Overall I would say that the team feels disappointed.

We did not wrestle poorly, but we did not wrestle our best.”

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Third-year Paul Papoutsis competes in a match hosted by Wheaton on February 6.

Underclassmen Demuro, Gilrich Give South Siders Hope for the Future

MEN’S & WOMEN’S TENNIS

BY ERIK WONG SPORTS STAFF

This past weekend both the men’s and women’s teams recorded w ins against the squads of ranked opponent Denison University. The men routed No. 35 Denison 8 –1 and the women beat No. 25 Denison 6 –3.

Going into the match, the male Maroons did not prepare in any specific areas but instead focused on general improvements. Second-year Nick Chua commented, “There were a lot of lessons we learned from indoor nationals, so we’ve been working on improving those and then tried to implement them in the matches.” It became apparent that no specific preparation was needed after all, because the match was smooth sailing from the very beginning.

To start things off, in doubles, the men won three straight matches to go ahead 3– 0. Chua also mentioned, “The team did a really good job in executing in doubles at the second and third spot.

We need to sharpen up a bit in first doubles, but it’ll happen with time.”

The first doubles team of Chua and classmate David Liu has been superb all year, but the South Siders are setting their sights on perfection.

The duo won their match against Denison’s Kevin Brown and Jackson O’Gorman-Bean 9 –7, but Chua believed there was plenty of room for improvement. The second doubles team of first-year Charles Pei and secondyear Peter Leung and the third doubles team of second-years Bobby Bethke and Luke Tsai each won with impressive 8 –2 final scores.

In singles play, the Maroons won five out of six matches on the day. Chua

won his match against Brown in two sets, each with the score of 6 –2. Pei, Liu, Leung, and first-year Max Liu each recorded a win as well. The single loss for the Maroons came in the third singles match between Denison’s O’Gorman-Bean and third-year Sven Kranz. With this imperious win over Denison, the squad improves to 8 –1 on the season and a No. 6 ranking. And at this point in the season, the men must prepare for seven straight matches against ranked opponents before the UA A Championships in mid-April.

As for the women’s team, the win against No. 25 Denison came with a bit more trouble. In doubles play specifically, the Maroons’ first team of first-year Rachel Kim and fourth-year Lucy Tang and second pairing of second-year A riana Iranpour and firstyear Kaela Bynoe both fell to Denison 8 – 3 and 8 –1, respectively. However, the third doubles team of third-year Tiffany Chen and fourth-year Stephanie Lee provided a spark for Chicago, winning the match 8 –2.

Despite getting off to a slow start in doubles play, the Maroon women controlled almost all of singles play, winning five of six matches just like the men’s team. Kim, Tang, Bynoe, Chen, and Lee each came away with the win in order from the second match to sixth match. The sole loss came in the first singles match, in which Denison’s Lauren Hawley defeated Iranpour 6 –3 and 7– 6. Iranpour fought hard, but could not seem to gain the upper hand in the match.

This win brings the Maroons women’s squad to a record of 3 –2. T he team’s next match is this Saturday against No. 14 DePauw.

Although this season came to an end sooner than anticipated, the Maroons will have to prepare for next year. “We need to continue our improvement and get stronger in the weight room. If we do that, we should be in good shape for a breakout year,” Williams said.

With much of Chicago’s top talent returning to the mat next year, the 2016– 2017 season will be one to watch.

SWIM & DIVE

BY BRITTA NORDSTROM ASSOCIATE EDITOR

A season spanning four months and two quarters came to a close Saturday at the NCAA DIII Regional Diving Championships. While most divers went home after the UAA Championships on February 17 and 19, two Chicago competitors got the chance to move on to the national level after solid performances at UAAs in Rochester.

Second-year Natalie DeMuro finished seventh in the one-meter dive, while firstyear Anna Girlich won the one-meter and placed fourth in the three-meter dive. Girlich also previously earned the accolade of UAA Women’s Diver of the Year. Both women were extremely excited to represent the Maroons at regionals.

“There were 28 girls from 20 teams, so it was really awesome to have two divers represent Chicago,” DeMuro said on the opportunity. “We haven’t had any girls qualify the past couple of years, which made it that much more exciting for the team.”

Friday saw the Maroons head to Denison in Granville, OH for the three-meter dive. This board height seemed to be a favorite of both South Siders, as they both finished in the top 11. DeMuro slid into 10th place while Girlich was right behind her at 11th, falling by only 3.4 points.

On the second day, the duo took on 28 competitors, and finished quite well despite being underclassmen. DeMuro finished 10th while Girlich took 13th in the one-meter dive. This is especially notable because, of the top 10 finishers, only four were underclassmen. Girlich was one of only two first-years to crack the top 15.

Even though the two will not head on to the NCAA DIII Championships, as only seven of the women were selected, the

regional competition provided a learning experience and put a solid cap on a stellar season for both divers.

DeMuro reflected on the meet and its implications, saying, “Our region always has a strong performance at nationals so we knew there was going to be a lot of talent at the meet. We saw a lot of good divers, but we also saw that we can hang with the top girls.”

As early as November, there were signs of a promising season for both divers. Girlich placed first in both dives against Wash U, and later that month she also took first in the three-meter dive at the Phoenix Fall Classic. She also turned out a B-cut performance for both dives in that meet, and DeMuro qualified for the B-cut in the one-meter dive.

Both DeMuro and Gilrich came into their own in the month of January. At the tri-meet against Lewis and Olivet Nazarene, DeMuro took fi rst in the one-meter while Girlich won the three-meter. The ladies repeated this performance against DePauw and Calvin later that month.

Finally, they switched against Lake Forest and Olivet Nazarene: DeMuro placed first in the three-meter dive while Girlich snatched the one-meter.

Girlich also added a runner-up finish in the three-meter dive and a third-place finish in the one-meter dive at the UIC Diving Invite in February. This meet brought both DI and DIII athletes together for competition.

“One goal we both have for next year is to learn some of the harder dives that the nationals qualifiers completed,” said DeMuro.

Based on their results this season and the fact that both divers have a minimum of two more years, the future looks bright for the women’s diving program at Chicago.