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VOL. 128, ISSUE 35

Title IX Complaint Preceded Promotion of Women’s Lacrosse to Varsity Status

BY FENG YE AND PETE GRIEVE SENIOR NEWS REPORTER AND SENIOR NEWS EDITOR

When the athletics department announced in January that women’s lacrosse will be added as a varsity sport, it noted that the University of Chicago will have the same number of men’s and women’s sports teams.

What the University of Chicago did not say in that announcement, however, is that it was under investigation by the Department of Education following a Title IX athletics complaint to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR). Title IX is a federal law that, among other things, mandates equal treatment of male and female student athletes.

A months-long investigation into the matter by THE MAROON involved inspection of more than 60 pages of documents obtained from the OCR through a Freedom of Information Act request, interviews with current team members as well as the athletics director, and analysis of the roster sizes of men’s and women’s varsity teams.

Many identifiers are redacted from records obtained by THE M AROON. One of the e-mails sent from the complainant to the OCR, however, was signed with a first name that is the same as that of a former women’s lacrosse team captain. She did not respond to a request for comment.

The complainant met several times with the athletics department, and they sent some e-mails back and forth. It appeared that

the team was making some progress. The person at the athletics department with whom she was corresponding, whose name is redacted in the files, wrote in an e-mail, “I will be in touch as needed through the year. I will also try to attend at least one of your games in the spring.”

When the complainant followed up, the athletics department official wrote back: “This is a major University decision that will take time to unfold. We have taken the appropriate steps to have the appropriate conversations on campus. There is an extensive process that we must undertake to follow proper protocol.”

The complaint was filed on September 20, 2016.

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New Brief Filed Against Order

BY LEE HARRIS DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

On Friday, the University of Chicago joined 30 other universities in filing an amicus brief opposing President Donald J. Trump’s revised executive order restricting immigration from six predominantly Muslim countries.

In February, the University filed a brief with 16 other universities in opposition to Trump’s original executive order. The order was scaled back in March in an effort to avoid the legal blocks and bureaucratic tumult that resulted from the first ban. Since the original filing, university backing for the new brief has nearly doubled, with 14 new universities joining the amici,

including Georgetown University, the University of Michigan, and the University of Southern California.

Amicus briefs are filed by individuals or institutions who are non-litigants in a case but who have a strong interest or stake in the subject matter.

“In light of their educational missions, amici have a strong interest in ensuring that individuals from around the globe can continue to enter the United States and share their unique skills and perspectives,” the brief reads.

The brief cites the University of Chicago’s high recruitment of international students and professors, including 24 percent of faculty and academic appointees and 65 percent of postdoctoral researchers.

Law Grad for Top Border Post

BY EMILY KRAMER

On March 30, President Donald J. Trump announced his intent to nominate University of Chicago Law School graduate Kevin K. McAleenan to a key administration post. If confirmed, McAleenan will assume the position of commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Department of Homeland Security.

After graduating cum laude from Amherst College in 1994, McAleenan received his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1998.

McAleenan has served as deputy CBP commissioner since 2014

and became acting commissioner this past January. As the Department of Homeland Security’s chief executive, McAleenan is responsible for managing a budget of over $13 billion, overseeing 60,000 employees, and ensuring the effectiveness of CBP’s efforts to protect national security and promote economic prosperity.

Since McAleenan assumed the position of deputy commissioner, CBP has developed new methods of protecting U.S. borders from terrorism and attacking criminal networks across the world while also promoting commerce and travel. In 2015, McAleenan earned a Presidential Rank Award, the nation’s highest award for civil service.

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Events 4/4 — 4/6 Today Tamil: An Autobiography Seminary Co-op, 6:00 p.m.

Hebrew University professor David Shulman will discuss the storied past of the language Tamil, from its earliest origins to modern-day usage.

Wednesday, April 5 Mussolini, the Pope, and Italy’s Racial Laws Neubauer Collegium, 5 p.m.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author David Kertzer will discuss his latest book, The Pope and Mussolini.

P h i l ip p e D e s a n : “ M o n taigne” Seminary Co-Op, 6 p.m.

Author Philippe Desan will speak about the life and influence of Renaissance writer and politician Michel de Montaigne.

Free University of Chicago: Diversity Politics vs. Class Politics Seminary Co-op, 8 p.m.

F ree University of Chicago devotes its inaugural Spring quarter to the theme “Politics Now.” Professor Walter Benn Michaels argues that the more the left is focused on diversity, the easier it is for the right to ignore inequality. Professor Marshall Sahlins will follow with a discussion of diversity politics as a tactic in the present political situation.

Thursday, April 6 Intersextionality: A Talk with Pidgeon Pagonis Kent Hall, Room 120, 6 p.m.

Filmmaker and activist Pidgeon Pagonis will discuss their experience as an intersex person of color. Their biographical documentary, The Son I Never Had: Growing Up Intersex will be screened afterward.

“We never want to have this success because of [a Title IX complaint]. We want to have this success because of our undefeated record, the work we’ve put in, and the goals we gathered.”

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had a number of meetings to discuss alleged Title IX non-compliance at the University of Chicago.

Her complaint alleges that the athletics department acknowledged its non-compliance in these meetings, and told her that it would be remedied.

The complainant attached a spreadsheet showing that there were 336 male athletes compared to 169 female athletes. A M AROON analysis using rosters on the Athletics website found that there is still a similar ratio of male to female athletes. Altogether, there are 54 people who coach men’s teams compared to 32 people who coach women’s teams.

On December 12, 2016, the OCR wrote a letter to President Robert Zimmer informing the University of Chicago of the investigation. The letter also requested that the University turn over documents pertinent to the investigation.

On January 13—five days before the varsity team was publicly announced and before the club team had been made aware—the OCR notified the complainant that the University was creating a varsity team.

“The University informed us that it has finally decided to create a varsity lacrosse team. That, of course, does not resolve the complaint. We need to review the data they will be producing soon, as well as interview the key decision makers,” an OCR attorney wrote to the complainant.

In response to the OCR’s notification of the news, she wrote, “I am speechless. That is the best news I could have ever hoped for.

This is going to provide an incredible opportunity to so many young women.”

A month later, the OCR followed up with the complainant to inquire if she “had made a de-

cision to move forward with the case or have decided to withdraw the complaint in light of the information we have received from the University regarding the women’s lacrosse team.” The complainant notified the OCR that afternoon that she wished to withdraw her complaint.

On February 20, 2017, the OCR sent a letter to notify the complainant that the OCR was dismissing the original complaint effective on the day of the OCR’s letter. The OCR also sent a letter on the same day to notify Zimmer of the drop of the complaint.

Fourth-year Alexa Bieler and third-year Katie Mott, senior and junior captains of the team, told THE M AROON in late January that the women’s lacrosse team’s transition to the varsity level was unrelated to a Title IX complaint.

The athletics director also maintains that the University’s decision had no relation to the Title IX investigation.

Erin McDermott, Director of Athletics and Recreation, confirmed that the women’s lacrosse team approached the athletics department during the 2013–2014 academic year. According to McDermott, changes in leadership at the University slowed down the process. These include changes of the Provost, the overseer of the athletics department and the Chief Financial Officer in the past few years, she said.

When asked about Title IX complaint issues mentioned during the meeting, McDermott responded that the complaint was not related to the decision that lacrosse would be varsity. “We knew that a Title IX complaint certainly could happen along the way. But this was a decision that was purely based on a commitment to expanding the program, expanding opportunities for women athletes here at the University and was

not at all in reaction to any kind of complaint,” McDermott said.

On the same day that the University announced the team’s transition to varsity, McDermott met with the entire women’s lacrosse team to announce the news. According to a team member who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be able to speak openly, McDermott mentioned the existence of the Title IX complaint and denied that it was related to the decision. “I’m kind of glad that she was open about it, just in case we were worried about it,” she said.

Bieler and Mott attributed the success of the campaign to the team’s constant efforts and hard practices over the recent years. “We never want to have this success because of [a Title IX complaint]. We want to have this success because of our undefeated record, the work we’ve put in, and the goals we gathered,” Bieler said.

Bieler and Mott have been discussing the possibility of the team becoming varsity with McDermott and Brian Bock, Assistant Athletic Director of Intramurals, Recreation, and Sport Clubs.

“They [McDermott and Bock] have been really great about advocating for us and the team, and really keeping us posted,” Bieler said.

The women’s lacrosse team relies on an annual allocation of about $5,000 from Student Government, which was usually enough to meet the needs of the club team, according to Bieler. The new varsity team will require extra expenditure to afford additional travel, a coach, a trainer, and other necessary support. Until it officially transitions to varsity, women’s lacrosse will continue to depend on the annual fund for club sports.

The player who asked to remain anonymous told T HE M A-

ROON that it is hard for club sports to obtain field time. Unlike varsity teams, club sports do not have access to athletics trainers in the gym. The team used to practice on the side of the Midway and had to line the field with flour because it was not allowed to put paint on the Midway. “That [the transition] is actually happening is very exciting,” the anonymous player said.

Another team member who would only speak on the conditions of anonymity said she thought that the sudden transition to varsity was surprising.

Even though she had heard about the possibility of such a transition during her fi rst practice on the team, she did not expect it to happen during her time in college. “At the beginning of this year, when the current captains brought up the potential to become a varsity team, they made it seem like it would be much longer. That [the team became varsity] sort of came out of nowhere, all of a sudden,” she said.

To Bieler and Mott, however, the timing seemed reasonable.

The source added that Franklin, the previous senior captain, mentioned the Title IX complaint once during a team practice before she graduated last year. She was confused by McDermott’s denial of any correlation between the team’s transition and a Title IX complaint. “That directly contradicted what we have been told by [Franklin].”

This winter quarter, club lacrosse held three team practices and three individual workouts every week, in contrast to only weekly practices during winter of 2016, Bieler said. “[The team captains] are really stressing that we have to have a good season in the spring, because we’re becoming a varsity team,” she said. “There is no room for relaxation.”

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Discusses Foreign Policy at IOP The former U.S. ambassador to Israel spoke about settlement negotiations, Iran, and President Donald Trump’s foreign policy at an Institute of Politics (IOP) event on Thursday.

Daniel Shapiro was hosted by Steve Edwards, the IOP’s current executive director, in the International House’s Rockefeller Lounge.

During the discussion, Shapiro expressed concerns about past statements made by the Trump administration’s recently appointed ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, including an assertion that former President Obama is antisemitic. However, Shapiro said that, as an ambassador, Friedman’s personal views will not play a major role in developing foreign policy.

Shapiro disagrees with many of the Trump administration’s policies, but is more comfortable with their approach to relations with Israel. “I think they’ve been much more responsible and more reasonable, and at least closer to the mainstream of historic U.S. policy, including back during the Obama administration but also preceding ours, than in almost any other area I can think of,” Shapiro said.

Shapiro believes that the possibility of achieving a two-state solution in Israel, the stated goal of the Obama administra-

tion which Trump has said he does not necessarily support but has so far promoted in practice, is growing more difficult as a result of both Israeli settlement in the West Bank as well as incitement to violence against Israel by the Palestinian authority. Shapiro does not believe that the goal is completely out of reach, however, and noted the 2005 Israeli withdrawal from Gaza as an indication that the current challenges to a two-state solution are not irreversible.

Shapiro also discussed his alarm at the Trump administration’s recent acceptance of the Assad regime’s continued power in Syria, which he argued could be a step towards cooperation with the regime and its chief ally, Russia, that could jeopardize Israeli national security. The Assad government is supported by both Russia and the Iranian-backed militant organization Hezbollah, a group that Shapiro fears may gain increased leeway from Trump to put pressure on Israel, as a condition of Russian efforts to combat ISIS. In a letter to a Maroon editor entitled “IOP must stop prioritizing the voices of bullies over their victims,” the UChicago branch of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) criticized the IOP for hosting Shapiro without presenting a contrasting position, and tied Shapiro to U.S. logistical support of Israeli policies in Gaza and the West Bank. SJP argues that the IOP should invite Palestinians affected by Is-

“Poetry and the Human” Course to Be Offered for Humanities Core Requirement

BY LAUREN PANKIN SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

A new course called Poetry and the Human will be offered beginning in Autumn 2017. This course will fulfill the Humanities Core requirement.

The course will study the techniques, concepts, and social implications of poetry from various cultures, according to a University press release.

Unlike other Hum courses, it presents the option of taking a creative writing poetry course in the spring, which can satisfy a quarter of either the Humanities Core requirement or the Arts Core requirement.

Na’ama Rokem, associate professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, led the course’s development along with Sarah Nooter, associate professor in the Department of Classics.

Nooter said she was inspired to create Poetry and the Human two years ago. “ T here was a moment when I looked at the list of classes and tried to imagine what I would have wanted to take as an 18-year-old,” Nooter said. “I was looking for a class which spoke to me, and I didn’t see it.”

According to the preliminary syllabus, Poetry and the Human will include the works of Sappho, Homer, Catullus, Hafez, Ki no Tsurayuki, John Donne, Louis Zukofsky, Dahlia Ravikovitch, Anne Carson, N. Scott Momaday, and Claudia Rankine, as well as poems from China’s Tang period.

A faculty meeting later this quarter will compile a more comprehensive list of poems, Nooter said. Approximately 30 professors have been involved in the program’s development thus far, with over than 20 professors representing

more than 10 departments slated to teach the course during the 2017–18 academic year.

During the first three years of any new Hum sequence, only junior and senior professors are permitted to instruct the course. According to Nooter, implementing new material often involves unforeseen challenges. Older Core Humanities sequences are also taught by Harper-Schmidt Fellows and graduate students.

According to the syllabus, Poetry and the Human will investigate the role of poetry in society in regard to memory, storytelling, and history; ritual and magic; knowledge and formation of selfhood; and institution and revolution.

“Poetry is not an apolitical, removed event, and it’s especially important now,” Nooter said.

The third-quarter creative writing Art Core option coincides with the new creative writing major, which will be offered starting in the 2017–18 academic year. Nooter said the sequence was not devised with this explicitly in mind, but that she would love to have students with no creative writing experience feel confident enough to experiment with classes in the new major.

Nooter said that even if students do not take further creative writing or poetry courses at the University, she hopes students develop and refine skills in this course that they can later apply to other academic realms.

“I would want students finishing the Poetry and the Human course to read and notice things in precise and pointed ways, because that is how the best scholarship starts,” Nooter said.

Courtesy of the Institute of Politics Daniel Shapiro, the former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, expresses concerns over past statements made by David Friedman, the Trump administration’s recently appointed ambassador to Israel.

raeli policies supported by the U.S. if it aims to adequately teach students about the topic.

“It is a mark of shame on the Institute of Politics that they prioritize the voices of the powerful and those that facilitate the bullies over the weak and oppressed struggling to secure their basic human rights,” the letter reads.

Shapiro’s visit was part of the International House Global Voices Lecture Series, which hosts speakers with backgrounds in widely ranging global issues, such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Omar Barghouti, founder of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement aimed at organizations with fi nancial ties to Israel.

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VIEWPOINTS Begin at Home President Zimmer continues to advertise the University’s support for freedom of speech in a variety of off-campus forums; an invitation to do the same on-campus has gone unanswered.

President Robert Zimmer rarely seems to shy away from an opportunity to express his unyielding commitment to unrestricted, open discourse. He has spoken about free speech in interviews with The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, and recently discussed free speech with students at Colgate University. It is surpris-

ing, then, considering his evident enthusiasm for discussing free speech issues in a national setting, he has not responded to College Council’s now weeks-old invitation to discuss free speech in a public forum on campus. If the University wishes to continue presenting itself as a bastion of free speech, the administration ought to make the same ar-

gument to the students, faculty, and staff who will presumably be called on to guard the ramparts.

The remarkable recent development in this long-standing commitment, as CC’s letter points out, is the administration’s decision to wade into the fetid swamp of national controversy over campus speech. It

seems likely that this university has something to add to that debate, drawn from its admirable consistency on the issue stretching back decades. But why not begin at home, where a portion of the University community could apparently use some convincing?

The logic of free speech— the idea that a spirited airing

of diverse views will bolster the strongest of those views— ought to prompt its supporters to engage with their opponents.

If President Zimmer wants to inculcate on campus the values that he evangelizes off campus, publicly making his case in front of the University community would be a good place to start.

Renovation or Gentrification?

Hyde Park is a Vibrant, Diverse Neighborhood, and It Should Stay that Way

Andrew Nicotra Reilly The moral, economic, and racial issues underpinning gentrification are especially pertinent to the future of Hyde Park, a rapidly developing neighborhood. New properties obviously bring in lucrative businesses that would not otherwise move into the area. You need not look far to see the products of gentrification—Whole Foods and Vue53 are just some examples of the changing nature of Hyde Park’s development. For every glass building and organic market that comes into Hyde Park, there is a chance that rents will increase and local businesses and residents will strug-

gle to pay the bills.

Convenient access to these amenities perhaps constitutes an improvement in the standard of living for those who can afford them.

That being said, a large portion of the Hyde Park community, mostly distant from the privileged masses on UChicago’s campus, cannot afford these amenities. Is there a way for those who reap the benefits of a gentrified neighborhood to make sure that they are not implicitly contributing to that neighborhood’s transition into unaffordability? Any neighborhood can have a Whole Foods—not any neighborhood can

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have Valois. I’m doubtful of the efficacy of “conscious capitalism” from the outset, but we need to do what we can to make sure that Hyde Park remains a neighborhood that is affordable for local residents, as well as students who see off-campus housing as a cheaper alternative to the costly dorms.

The argument that everyone loses from gentrification is overly simplistic; those with socioeconomic privileges, often the wealthy and the white, stand to profit immensely from the increasingly prevalent process. It is an all-too-common story, and one that remains especially relevant in Hyde Park—people on the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder are the undisputed losers in processes of gentrification. The University has a responsibility to its surrounding community to ensure a vibrant Hyde Park community that remains affordable for people who are already here, instead of focusing on bringing in more wealthy individuals or catering to current students, who will likely only reside in Hyde Park for their collegiate years.

It is easy for the University, concerned primarily with immediate benefits to the immediate student

body rather than the diverse population of Hyde Park more broadly, to tacitly condone neighborhood gentrification. More troublingly, the University has a history of actively funding gentrification efforts, prioritizing a supposedly more student-friendly neighborhood at the expense of permanent Hyde Park residents.

Lincoln Park exists already, and Hyde Park does not need to be the same, especially if the process of gentrification disproportion-

ately harms already vulnerable populations. While the sheen of a new dorm or the allure of a new restaurant might seem superficially appealing, it is necessary that we keep sight of what is important— the continued vitality of our current neighborhood and the people that live in it.

Andrew Nicotra Reilly is a third-year in the College majoring in economics and political science.

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Dylan Stafford We live a privileged—and in many ways, arrogant—life here at UChicago. Each of us either pays or receives in aid the more-than $70,000 cost of attendance. In fact, the annual expense of being a student here is more staggering when you consider what the typical family of four in America lives on in a single year: the median household

income of $56,516. What’s more, a recent study found that 10 percent of students here hail from the top 1 percent of the income scale ($630k+), while only 24.5 percent are from the bottom 60 percent (<$65k).

Our schooling comes at an indisputably steep cost. To say that we are anything but an affluent community is inaccurate. Yet despite how much

of society’s resources we consume in pursuit of this education, we spend a tremendous amount of time concentrated on the theoretical and intellectual underpinnings of a world that only seems to exist in the UChicago imagination.

If this sounds harsh, it is because it should. We live in a troubled globe faced with increasingly complex challenges. Our response as members of an institution with impressive financial and human resources cannot simply be to evade the difficult reality that surrounds us.

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“We should stop mistaking pretentious rhetoric...for intellectual rigor” Continued from page 4 Working through the Core, however, we students spend countless hours reading about, mulling over, and interrogating the world of— let’s be frank—mostly male western European thinkers from well before the 21st century. In doing so, we neglect the opportunity to delve more deeply into the much-changed, globalized, and diverse world of 2017. While it is true that many of the thinkers we read retain some relevance today, our breadth of study should not be limited to these texts alone.

As students, our attention focuses narrowly on works from a breathtakingly limited scope of cultural perspectives. We spend hours trying to piece together the often incoherent or untenable pieces of different writers’ theories about our world. Then we try to construct our own arguments built on their ideas, and, in doing this, we often strive for grandiose theories that sound smart but often aren’t smart in reality.

And the truth is that the climate here encourages all of this. Our humanities and social sciences curriculum—with few exceptions—revolves around an almost exclusively textual, and thus necessarily limited, reading of a handful of classic texts. “Why do we read these works?” my humanities professor wondered with a sarcastic smile on the first day of class last fall. “Well, because we always have!”

It’s not necessarily wrong to have syllabi that center on what we consider classic texts.

But for an institution that claims its curriculum is “devoted to ‘the knowledge most worth having,’” one must wonder what it says that we have deemed this particular selection of texts most worthy of study. Tradition alone is an appallingly weak justification. Have women and thinkers hailing from beyond the European continent really not produced works worthy of our pursuit?

More troubling in some respects, though, is

the intellectual environment that encompasses our studies. Too often, we are rewarded—and we reward one another—for elevated language and over-complicated arguments that offer some sort of cognitive challenge. We prize the sophisticated over the straightforward and the abstract over the applied. And to what end?

What do we gain from this?

Often, it seems, we do this to impress ourselves and our professors, or to simply enjoy the puzzle and debate of it all. Perhaps it is no surprise that we feel a pressing, if not subconscious, need to fulfill our reputation as “one of the world’s great intellectual destinations.” But in a world struggling with a host of grave threats and challenges—from climate change to nuclear weapons to the global refugee crisis and a rising tide of nationalism—it is not enough to simply take delight in our own scholarly musings. Our studies and focus should center much more squarely on the real world. We cannot be content to merely seek out intellectual fodder and fun, new arguments for the sake of making new arguments. Our global reality and our unique position in the world necessitate that we do more with the tremendous resources and limited time we have in Hyde Park to think about these challenges.

This is not to suggest that tremendous work isn’t being done already, that the Core should be scrapped, or that liberal education is in any way an unworthy goal. The opposite, in fact, is true. Every day, UChicago students and faculty make critical advancements in a wide range of fields that positively impact our planet. In truth, I don’t know about 1/10 of the progress researchers and academics here make. But to be satisfied with all of our curriculum and our intellectual climate simply because great strides have been, and continue to be, made is deeply complacent and contrary to our very mission as an institution.

It is time for our curriculum—and our

humanities and social sciences Core, in particular—to more actively reflect the world in which we live, with its diversity and desperate need for real, practical solutions that are informed by history. What’s more, we should stop mistaking pretentious rhetoric and highbrow theories for intellectual rigor and achievement.

Call me crazy, but it would seem that as students fortunate enough to attend one of the nation’s top universities, we will be better prepared to lead in all fields when we have dedicated great thought to the forces that will shape the century ahead of us—issues like globalization and its effects, nativism and the crisis of displaced peoples, the future of international institutions, automation and artificial intelligence, and yes, the existential threat of

climate change. We not only have a responsibility to think more about the world outside of our Hyde Park bubble, but we have real incentives to do so that have nothing to do with morals or responsibility. We will be all the more successful, intelligent, and informed when our studies reflect our world and our attention is paid to reality—not the clouds.

After all, the great intellectual does not seek to merely rehash the treatises and debates of the past. The great intellectual eagerly seeks to make sense of the future—not for their own sake—but for the benefit of those who aren’t afforded the immense privilege of fully engaging their intellect in the first place.

Dylan Stafford is a first-year in the College.

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ARTS That’s So South Asian: 30 Years of Channeling Diversity

Top: Raas originates in the northern Indian state of Gujarat and is typically performed at Hindu festival Navratri. The dance mimics a swordfi ght. Right: Translating to “intoxicated with joy”, bhangra is a high energy dance from the Punjab province of India.

Yao Xen Tan

BY EMILY EHRET

and Elora Basu. “Given the prevalence of Bollywood, it is easy to think of South ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR Asia as a monolith,” they added. “We took “Give us 110 percent of your energy, great care to represent various regions and we will give it back to you on stage.” and cultures in our show.” In addition to This was the challenge that launched this this goal, SASA used the proceeds from year’s South Asian Students Association this year’s sold-out production to support (SASA) cultural show, “The SASA Chan- RefugeeOne, an organization that helps nel,” on Saturday night. After a dinner about 2,500 refugees per year resettle in spread of South Asian dishes from sa- the Chicagoland area.

While portraying a wide range of mosas to paneer, the bubbly and satiated audience spilled into Mandel Hall. The dancing, singing, costumes, and cultural performers delivered consistent energy values, the SASA crew kept their tongues throughout the show’s eight acts, their planted fi rmly in their cheeks. Acts were own movement and expression mingling punctuated by short video skits in which with claps and shouts that resounded three TV executives for the SASA Chanfrom even the back rows of the balcony. nel receive a new assignment: fi nding a As a fi rst-time SASA attendee with min- South Asian performer or group set to imal exposure to South Asian culture, I be the next reality sensation. Narrowing never would have anticipated the explo- such diverse cultures into a single cast sion of student artistry and enthusiasm proves more difficult than anyone expected, and the team discovers it must I experienced.

SASA takes fun seriously. The event, embark on its own project to celebrate a now in its 30th year, demonstrates that variety of talents and traditions.

The acts themselves can best be dethere is “a lot more to South Asian culture than meets the eye,” according to fourth- scribed as an adrenaline rush. Dancers year show coordinators Sumit Banerjee entered in bright teals and greens, rich

purples, and brilliant reds all adorned with glitter, sparkling trim, or sequins.

Most wore dramatic headpieces that perched improbably on their heads or swept out around them as they moved.

As I followed their precise choreography, I couldn’t help but reflect on how much more aerobic activity these performers got through excitement and quick-stepping bare feet than I ever manage in my weekly jaunts to the gym. My heart beat along to a mixture of traditional South Asian sounds and 2017 pop hits as if receiving a jolt of energy by proximity, and I knew from the noises of my fellow audience members around me that they felt the same.

The show proceeded with increasingly rowdy contributions from the crowd. Audience members enjoyed calling out to familiar faces among the combined 200 performers in the Classical, Tamil, Maya, Raas, Bhangra, Senior, and Fusion danc-

es and Aag a cappella. It’s great to see that a cultural event has the power to quite literally turn up the heat in Mandel Hall, which was loud and warm by the time the performers took their final bows.

“The SASA Channel” reached out to its audience and declared that everyone, regardless of background, will always have much to learn about South Asian culture. It connected students seeing the show for the fi rst time, like myself, with those participating for their fourth year in a row. “This event is an amazing opportunity to showcase our culture to the greater University of Chicago community,” said Banerjee and Basu. “While we can’t hope to provide an exhaustive picture of such an expansive and diverse region, our aim is that the audience leaves the show with a newfound appreciation for South Asian culture.” The picture may not be exhaustive, but the performers certainly exhausted themselves in its painting.

Left: Classical Indian dance is rooted in a Sanskrit text called the Natya Sastra, an ancient treatise on the performing arts. Top: The Raas insert team performs exlclusively at the SASA show. The twirling sticks are known as dandiya.

Brooke Nagler

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CSO Explores Late Schubert and Mahler, Albeit with a Mild Case of Hiccups

BY REBECCA JULIE DEPUTY ARTS EDITOR

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) prepared for a reunion last Thursday when it booked previous CSO music director Bernard Haitink to conduct Schubert’s eighth symphony, the “Unfi nished,” and Mahler’s symphonic poem Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth). When Maestro Haitink took ill, the concerts became a different sort of homecoming for Los Angeles Opera conductor James Conlon, former music director for the Ravinia Festival, the CSO’s summer residence.

While successful overall, Conlon’s direction felt at times reserved, to the detriment of the performance. The second— and last—movement of the incomplete Schubert symphony, marked Andante con moto, lacked uniform enthusiasm. The ascending string lines in its latter half, expressive and sensitive as they were, contended with sleepy moments and shaky tuning in the horns. Principal clarinetist Stephen Williamson gave a particularly commendable performance on Thursday.

He performed the famous clarinet solos in “Unfi nished” with consideration: The solo melody’s third appearance in the first movement was colored with forte intensity and musicality, while the technically difficult second-movement solo, pianissimo in the altissimo register of the instrument, sounded effortless.

Conlon’s interpretation of the Schubert was dependable but not overwrought, at times veering a bit too conservative for this reviewer. His interpretation of Mahler’s

Lied—a “song symphony” of six Chinese poems set to music for orchestra and two vocalists—was similar. The work is one of the composer’s most elaborate and demonstrates the extremes of his compositional gifts, in particular a mastery over largescale orchestral writing. The Lied’s six movements alternate soloists and grapple with the complexities of the human experience.

In her CSO debut, mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly carried the finale (“The Farewell”) with little orchestral support. A discussion of impending death, a theme familiar to the dying Mahler, “The Farewell” was the longest, least orchestrated movement in the piece and undoubtedly one of the evening’s highlights. While at other points her voice felt thin, here she dazzled with sensitivity and intimacy: Silence held the hall as Connolly finished her song.

Tenor Stephen Gould sang on Thursday despite a bad cold, which was audible particularly in his upper register. However, Gould was at his most vibrant during “The Drunkard in Spring,” and it was here that his voice shone in full health.

Earlier movements felt less powerful. The first (“The Drinking Song of the Earth’s Sorrow”) lacked its expected whimsy; the fourth (“Beauty”) sounded tired, its flourishes in the middle staid and anti-climactic.

In the orchestra, oboe soloist Alex Klein and flautist Stefan Ragnar Hoskuldsson performed commendably throughout the Lied. Both soloists successfully demonstrated stylistic flexibility, balancing moments of frantic energy with soulful, poi-

gnant passages. Still without a leader, the CSO trumpet section played under Houston Symphony trumpet Mark Hughes, cementing their reputation for finesse and dexterity.

While unsatisfying moments in parts

detracted from others of stunning nuance, Thursday’s concert thrilled with the undeniable genius of Schubert and Mahler.

Whether it deserved as lengthy of a standing ovation as it received is another matter.

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6 p.m. Join writer and dancer Harmony Holiday, whose works tap into jazz and diaspora, for a reading of her poems and lecture on Mythscience, a collective that helps artists re-engage with the physical world in today’s digital age. Regenstein Library, Room 122A-B, free.

9 a.m.–7 p.m. Centennial Brooks continues to celebrate Gwendolyn Brooks with panel discussions on her work’s relation to Chicago’s urban landscape, her female contemporaries, and her career. Moderated by UChicago professors, the panels will feature visiting faculty. Opening reception 9–10 a.m., Lectures from 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m., reception until 7 .

7–9 p.m. Watch UC Dancers explore home through dance—what it means to be at home, to have one, to lose one. FXK Theatre, $5 advance/$8 door for students/$8 general .

[4/06] THURSDAY 7–9 p.m. Honor a momentous artist with a collaboration between the DuSable Museum, Poetry Foundation, and UChicago to present Centennial Brooks, a three-day tribute to the first African American poet to win a Pulitzer Prize. The kick-off event will feature Brooks’s contemporaries and canonical poets such as Sonia Sanchez, Haki Madhubuti and Angela Jackson. DuSable Museum, free.

4:30 p.m. Come find out what it takes to win the Nobel Prize in Literature from professor Sara Danius, the first woman to become the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy office in 230 years. Franke Institute for the Humanities, free.

[4/08] SATURDAY 9:30a.m.–9p.m. Centennial Brooks explores Brooks’s work as both a poet and performer in relation to the Black Arts Movement and the Civil Rights Era. The conference will close with a newly commissioned music suite composed by Nicole Mitchell performed by her Black Earth Ensemble, and a performance from singer/poet Jamila Woods. Discussions 9:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m., performance 7:30–9 p.m.

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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “It was hit hard, but it was one foot to my left. It was a double play.” —Cubs second basemen Javier Baez on missing an out during Sunday’s game

Chicago’s Arms Have an Elite Weekend BASEBALL

BY MICHAEL PERRY SPORTS STAFF

The UChicago baseball team had a strong weekend, sweeping their three home games against University of Wisconsin–Superior and raising their record to 11–4. The team is now tied for second in the UAA by winning percentage, but doesn’t actually have a place in the standings as they have yet to play any conference games.

The Maroons’ fi rst game on Saturday was a pleasant 4–1 affair. Second-year starter Brenton Villasenor tossed an effective eight innings, only allowing one run and seven hits while striking out three batters. Although he allowed his lone run in the first, the offense showed up in support of the hurler, manufacturing a couple of runs to take the

lead before second-year left fielder Josh Parks crushed a two-run dinger. Firstyear Arno Curtis was brought on to close the game out and did just that, striking out the side to earn his fi rst save of the season.

The next day saw Chicago face the Yellowjackets twice more. The fi rst game was a tight one. The Maroons scored in the fi rst after second-year center fielder Connor Hickey singled, stole second, and scored on a single by fourth-year third baseman Thomas Prescott. While the UChicago bats were held silent for the rest of the game, the pitching staff had their back. Second-year Joe Liberman went six innings without giving up a run and only surrendered two hits before fi rst-year Nate Hendley came in to close it out in the seventh, as games in doubleheaders only go seven innings.

The second game saw the same quality run prevention paired with a much livelier offensive performance. Firstyear pitcher Jacob Petersen threw six shutout innings while striking out five before turning the ball over to third-year Ricardo Fernandez to close the door. The offense provided plenty of support as third-year Maximiliano Larsen knocked a pair of doubles while Parks drove in another couple of runs and the Maroons cruised to a 6–0 victory.

The pitching was the story of the weekend as the staff surrendered a lone run over 23 innings. “Coming into this weekend I know the staff had a point to prove,” Parks said of the group’s performance. “I felt like Brent [Villasenor] really set the tone for us this weekend on Saturday night. We felt that energy carry over into Sunday with Liberman

and Peterson putting on incredible performances in our fi rst action at home.”

The Maroons have now won six games in a row and nine of their last 11. Their success this season has mainly come due to the offense, but the recent pitching performance has the team feeling very good about itself at this point in the year.

“This team has a different mindset in the sense that we know what we are capable of and we’re not shy about talking about our goals,” Parks said. “We want to be playing in the tournament in late May and that means everyone pulling on the same rope, every day, every practice, every game. This weekend was another step in that direction and we’re looking forward to getting back out there on Saturday.”

South Siders Duel in Doubleheaders SOFTBALL

BY MINNIE HORVATH SPORTS STAFF

Last weekend, the University of Chicago softball team played four games consisting of a doubleheader against Illinois Wesleyan on Saturday and another against No. 18 UW–Whitewater on Sunday.

On Saturday, the Maroons hosted the Illinois Wesleyan Titans in the first doubleheader of spring quarter. The Titans held the Maroons scoreless for six innings in the first of Saturday’s two games. Two home runs and one error put Illinois Wesleyan up 3–0 going into the seventh and final inning. In the seventh inning, the bases were loaded when first-year Christie Ambrose singled to bring home one runner, and firstyear Holli Jones grounded out to make the score 3–2. However, the Titans managed to strand the remaining runners on base to secure the victory. Third-year Molly Moran had an impressive day, pitching the entire game and striking out eight batters.

In the second game, Illinois Wesleyan got out ahead with a run in the fi rst inning, and a huge fifth inning that put the Titans up 5–0. The Maroons fought back in the bottom of the fifth with one run each from third-year Sara Koniewicz, fourth-

year Anna Woolery, and second-year Serena Moss. Woolery’s single brought in one run, and second-year Maeve Garvey also singled to bring in two. Although the Maroons put the tying run on base in the sixth inning, the Titans’ defense held strong to secure the 5–3 result.

The Maroons had a quick turnaround on Sunday morning to take on the nationally ranked Warhawks. The first game of the day turned out to be a high-scoring shootout with four lead changes and multiple shifts in offensive momentum. The Maroons tallied 17 hits and tallied a season-high eight bases stolen. Down 0–1 after the first inning, the Maroons scored three runs in the third thanks to back-to-back hits from second-year Colleen Bennett and Moss and RBI by Woolery, Garvey, and second-year Carly Schulz. The Warhawks responded to reclaim the lead with four runs in the next two innings to make the score 5–3. The Maroons went up 6–5 in the fifth inning, and both teams scored three runs in the sixth. A scoreless seventh inning locked in the 9–8 victory for the Maroons.

The second half of the doubleheader was much quieter on the offensive front, with both teams combining for just 14 hits, compared to 29 in the first game. The

Warhawks got off to early lead with a home run on their first at bat to go up 1–0. The Maroons responded with two runs in the third inning off of a single by Woolery to go up 1–2. Whitewater countered with a tworun single in the fifth inning to gain a 3–2 advantage that they held for the remainder of the game.

Koniewicz was happy with the way the team played this weekend and “picked up our energy and intensity from Wesleyan to Whitewater.” The Maroons will “work on timely hitting and stringing hits together” in preparation for four games at home against Wash U next weekend.

Zoe Kaiser Third-year pitcher Molly Moran delivers a pitch to home plate.

Maroons Speed Up in the Sunshine TRACK & FIELD

BY SIMONE STOVER SPORTS STAFF

The UChicago track team hit the ground running in the fi rst meet of the outdoor season and their first competition since the NCAA Indoor Championships at the beginning of last month. On Saturday April 1, both the men’s and women’s squads participated in the Ted Haydon Invitational, which was hosted here at UChicago. During the meet, they each went up against 14 different teams.

“The meet was a great season opener for both the men’s and women’s teams,” third-year Khia Kurtenbach said. “The weather ended up being really beautiful, which lead to some great performances.

The team did an excellent job bringing our energy from indoor season to the outdoor track,” she continued.

First-year Mary Martin was in agreement with her teammate.

“I thought the meet this weekend was a really good outdoor opener,” she said. “The weather was a lot nicer than expected and this was reflected in our performances. We had some great wins on both the women’s and the men’s sides.”

The weekend was indeed one of overall great performances. The men’s team finished in a solid second place with 180 points. The Maroons were just over 80 points ahead of the third-place finisher Loyola, who finished with 99.5 points.

Benedictine finished first with a score of

216.8 points At the individual level, the men managed to garner four wins. In the track events, fourth-year Nick Nielsen and firstyear Ralph Patejunas took fi rst place in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter races, respectively. In the field events, first-year Alexander Scott finished first in the discus, while fourth-year Joey Gary achieved a victory in the javelin.

While the men’s side did indeed have several stellar individual performances and a strong team showing, the women’s squad had an even more impressive meet.

The women finished first with 265.5 points.

The second-place team, Loyola, finished with a score of 107, putting them over 100 points behind the Maroons. Benedictine

finished third with a score of 58.

The women’s squad also managed to achieve 11 individual wins. Kurtenbach contributed to this list with a fi rst-place fi nish in the 1,500-meter, while Martin came out on top in a total of three events, including the 100-meter, long jump, and 4x100-meter relay. The relay also consisted of fourth-year Eleanor Kang, fourth-year Charissa Newkirk, and first-year Alisha Harris.

Other top finishers included third-year Megan Verner-Crist in the 800-meter and second-year Alexandra Thompson in the high jump. Both would also achieve a win as part of the South Siders’ 4x400-meter relay, which also included fourth-year Michelle Dobbs and first-year Shelby Smith.