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Amid Criticism Over Violations, Frats Re-sign Safety Pledge

BY KATHERINE VEGA SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

According to Phoenix Survivors Alliance (PSA), a sexual assault survivor advocacy and support group on campus, several fraternities have violated the Fraternities Committed to Safety (FCS) policy created and signed last fall. Despite a push from members of PSA to delay the re-signing of FCS, nine fraternities re-signed the document in a meeting on Sun-

day afternoon.

FCS is a policy that outlines “a baseline of procedures aimed at preventing and properly responding to incidents of sexual violence,” according to the FCS website. The policy details a number of educational, preventative, and responsive steps that its signatories must follow at public events in order to prevent sexual assault. Each signatory then provided a fraternity-specific code of conduct.

Last fall, 10 fraternities signed

onto the policy.

O n M a r c h 1 , P S A a nnounced on its Facebook page that it would be visiting fraternities intermittently to see if they were adhering to FCS. “We attend the parties generally sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight (always completely sober). We usually go in groups of two to four. We also usually let them know at the door that we are with PSA....

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PAGE 6: Sunset over Vue53 by student photographer Luke Sironski-White, interviewed by senior arts editor Grace Hauck in a new column featuring student artists.

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Urban Studies Track Added to Environmental Studies Major

BY DEEPTI SAILAPPAN DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

The environmental studies major will become environmental and urban studies, effective next fall.

The new name accompanies the addition of a four-course urban environments track within the major, which will complement two existing tracks in environmental economics and policy, and socio-natural systems and frameworks. Students in the new track will be able to sample classes in urban design and planning, as well as explore urban issues in courses across a variety of departments, from economics to creative writing.

Sabina Shaikh, director of the Program on the Global Environment, which oversees the major, stressed the relevance of cities to environmental studies.

“Under the leadership of previous directors, the major has always taken a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary approach to [the] environment and the place of humans in it,” Shaikh wrote in an e-mail to THE M AROON. “Chicago

became a hub of economic activity because of our natural landscape and geographic setting, and understanding those connections between the social, natural and physical realms of human activity is critical to the future of sustainable, resilient cities.”

The major has also been redesigned to incorporate the newly created Chicago Studies certificate program, which Shaikh says is a “natural partner” for the environmental and urban studies department.

As part of the certificate program, which is an expansion of the Chicago Studies quarter, students will select three Chicago-centered courses—ranging from a history colloquium on World’s Fairs to an environmental studies practicum on urban gardens—and complete a capstone project linking academic study with sustained, practical “high-impact community engagement.”

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Woodlawn Anticipates Development, Change Ahead of Upcoming Obama Presidential Center

BY GREG ROSS SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

Hyde Park has seen its fair share of new construction over the past several years, but now Woodlawn, its neighbor to the south, is experiencing a building boom of its own. Developers are banking on the upcoming Obama Presidential Center and an upswing in the neighborhood’s population, causing both excitement and concern for changes to come. “[Woodlawn] is changing… changing rapidly,” said Mattie Butler, a Woodlawn resident of 53 years and executive director of Woodlawn East Community and Neighbors (WECAN). “The way the developers are moving right now, [change] is already happening.”

As people and politics stream into Woodlawn, in large part

due to anticipation of the Obama Presidential Center, various community organizations are jostling over what exactly Woodlawn is and what it should be.

One new organization was announced in a series of community meetings this past month.

Tentatively called the Woodlawn, Washington Park, and South Shore Community and Economic Development Organization (WWPSS), it has the backing of the Obama Foundation and various other high-profile organizations, including the University and the City of Chicago.

According to Joanna Trotter, senior program officer of the Chicago Community Trust, the foundation that awarded grant money to WWPSS, the organization was formed to “ensure that opportunities related to the development of the Obama Presidential Cen-

ter are leveraged to benefit the residents and local economy in the surrounding community.”

The organization is currently soliciting applications for

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Co-opting the American Homosexual Page 4 LGBTQ+ people on campus must resist appeals to fear that stir up Islamophobia.

OLAS’s Politically Charged Showcase Page 5 Politics, art, and cultural pride commingled on Saturday night at the fi fth annual Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS) Cultural Show and Art Fair.

its board, which will consist of business and civic leaders across these three neighborhoods.

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(1) Greenline Homes plans to build single-family homes at several locations in Woodlawn (2) Non-profit organization Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) plans to add 24 units of mixed-income housing, 7,000 feet of retail space, and a grocery store. (3) POAH plans to develop 70 mixed-income residential units, including 55 at the intersection and 15 one block to the south, as well as 15,000 feet of retail space. (4) New high school building for University of Chicago charter school’s Woodlawn campus (5) 12-story building would include 135 residential units and retail space. (6) Phoenix Pavilion and Music Court. (7) Obama Presidential Center. (8) $30 million, 18-hole golf course renovation.

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Events 4/11 — 4/14 Today Scott Simon: My Cubs Seminary Co-Op, 6 p.m.

National Public Radio personality Scott Simon will discuss his relationship with the Cubs in the wake of their World Series win, the subject of his new book.

Community Meeting on Performance of the UCPD Human Resources Offi ce, Room 144, 7 p.m.

As part of the University of Chicago Police Department’s re-accreditation process, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies will hold a public forum.

Wednesday, April 12 Benjamin Morgan: The Outward Mind and Lorraine Daston: Science in the Archives Seminary Co-Op, 6 p.m.

Benjamin Morgan, an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago, discusses his new book, which considers Victorian-era attempts to apply scientific rigor to the study of aesthetics. Lorraine Daston, a visiting professor at the Committee on Social Thought, considers the role of archival work in the sciences in her recently published Science in the Archives.

Racing the International: Globalizing Racial Capitalism Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, 4:30 p.m.

A panel will discuss the role that the transatlantic slave trade had on early American capitalism.

Thursday, April 13 Seminary Co-Op Town Hall Meeting Seminary Co-Op, 6 p.m.

Members of the Seminary CoOp will discuss the future of the organization with Co-Op Director Jeff Deutsch. Coffee will be served.

Self-Publishing for Activism Logan Center, 6 p.m.

A panel of activists will discuss the role of self-publishing in educating the public and effectively dissemintaing information. The event will focus particularly on zines.

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be Alpha Delt, where we did not attend any of their events in any official capacity, but as regular partygoers, where we noticed several violations (and informed a brother as soon as we could),” PSA Co-President Ryn Seidewitz wrote in an email to the M A ROON. On April 5, PSA published a document on Facebook outlining their observed violations of the policy. The alleged violations occurred at fraternity-sponsored social events at Delta Upsilon (DU), Alpha Delta Phi (Alpha Delt), Sigma Phi Epsilon (Sig Ep), and Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE), and were recorded on four separate dates. During the meeting on Sunday, members of PSA noted that they had not attended events hosted by every fraternity.

In the document, PSA specifies whether or not the violation is “major” or “minor,” and whether or not it was corrected immediately, hesitantly, or never. The severity of the infractions depends on the magnitude of the infraction relative to the size of the event, as decided by PSA. DU had the fewest number of alleged violations, all of which were characterized as minor and corrected immediately, according to the PSA document. DU was visited by PSA representatives at an event on February 18 and was cited only for unattended drinks, which were disposed of as soon as a brother was notified.

DU President Stephen Moreland told the M A ROON in an email that the fraternity appreciates PSA’s effor ts and that he had already spoken with the PSA representatives who were present at the February 18 event. He claims that since the event, changes have been made to make the shirts worn by sober party monitors more obvious and to include the DU code of conduct in the description for public event pages. “ DU is incredibly appreciative of PSA’s willingness to work with us in creating a safe and comfortable environment during social events…. [I am] happy to report that our chapter has implemented their recommendations,” Moreland wrote in an email to the M A ROON .

Other fraternities did not fully agree with the PSA allegations. PSA wrote that on March 31, Sig Ep hosted a social event that did not have o b v i ou s ly d i s t i n g u i s h a ble monitors and had a monitor of “questionable sobriety.” They also alleged that there was no accessible water cooler and that there were unattended drinks, procedures for which are outlined in FCS. In the policy, fraternities pledged to have accessible water coolers on every floor, but Sig Ep only had “unattended water bottles.” PSA classified these as

major and minor violations, and specified that they were never corrected.

In an email to the M A ROON , Sig Ep president Rahil Khemani wrote that he did not know who was told to correct the issues at the time, since he was not informed of the infractions, and neither were the other risk managers at the party. Khemani suggested that a number of the allegations made by PSA did not fit his interpretation of the events.

“I’m mainly confused as to the water issue. I couldn’t get coolers in time, so I bought cases of water bottles instead, which in my opinion are actually way safer than coolers.

The bottles are obviously completely sealed and we had more than enough of them,” Khemani wrote.

F u r t her mor e , K hem a n i claims that since the sober monitors were the only brothers wearing letters, he thought they would be easily identifiable to other attendees. In the future, he hopes to have the party monitors wear safety vests so that they are more visible. As for their sobriety, K hemani wrote that he was “pretty sure” they were sober and was not made aware if they weren’t. He also wrote that he will encourage the party monitors to take sobriety at the party more seriously.

One of the major allegations against Alpha Delt was that a person wearing a sober monitor vest implied he was intoxicated in a Snapchat to a PSA member. Alpha Delt President Nate Lewis wrote in an e-mail to the M AROON that because the only people at the event were current or potential brothers, the vest was not being used by someone in an official monitor role. PSA claimed that because the vest represented the party monitor role, wearing it while intoxicated was against the “spirit of the document.”

L ew is wrote that A lpha Delt intends to uphold the policies and spirit of the document in the future.

PSA found five violations at a DKE event on March 31, which it said ranged from major to minor. Kev in Walsh, DK E president, wrote in an email to the M A ROON that the fraternity is fully committed to the FCS. “ We will gladly take up the recommendations given to us by PSA , and we truly appreciate the work that they are putting in to make our campus a sa fer place! ” Walsh wrote.

P S A subm it t ed the ob served violations on the FCS website, which states that “a representative will reach out to you shortly after submission” of a reported violation. As of the meeting on April 9, PSA had not heard back about any of submitted complaints.

Discussion of these alleged violations dominated the first half of the meeting on Sunday, which was attended by nine fraternity presidents, former

Psi U president and meeting facilitator Drew A rmstrong, and PSA representatives Ryn Seidewitz, Juliette Hautemont, and Alice Kallman. The president of Lambda Phi Epsilon (Lambda), one of the 10 original signatories, was not present.

According to Michael Meng, vice president of Lambda, the signing member of the fraternity was out of town and unable to make the re-signing meeting. In an April 10 e-mail to the M A ROON , Meng wrote that all the other fraternity presidents who were at the meeting are now aware of the situation.

On the day of the meeting, the other presidents seemed unaware of the circumstances surrounding Lambda’s president’s absence.

At the meeting, PSA distributed more detailed copies of the document that they had published on Facebook earlier that week. Each fraternity listed in the document had the opportunity to respond to the allegations. Furthermore, the document suggested some ways that the policy could be changed to better uphold the “spirit of the document.”

While both groups mostly agreed that there was room for improvement in the adherence to the policy, at least among the fraternities with recorded violations, the two groups disagreed on the overall effectiveness of the document.

At one point in the meeting, Hautemont stated, “ We can all agree this isn’t working, right?” and was met with a chorus of objections. When Kallman stated that all of the fraternities had in different ways violated the policy, many of the fraternity presidents whose fraternities had not been visited by PSA claimed they had never been in violation.

Zeta Psi president Josh Warren claimed that his fraternity had been following the guidelines “to a T.” At one point in the meeting, Hautemont objected to one president’s claim that the document was a “good start,” since several of the fraternities had already had trouble following their own guidelines. Her statement was met once again with objections. “ The presence of an effort is a marked difference from my freshman year going to a frat party,” Moreland said, garnering head nods from his fellow presidents. He noted that during his first year, he would rarely see sober monitors or water coolers at parties.

PSA critiqued the document as unenforceable, noting that there were no formal methods for enforcement outlined in the policy. PSA also stated that it should not be the sole party responsible for monitoring compliance, because it is unable to cover every social event. Several options were discussed, including the incorporation of unofficial sorority monitors at events. PSA argued that this

would also be complicated, since sorority members might have complex social ties to fraternities.

PSA’s final and strongest recommendation was that the fraternities should attempt to gain formal recognition by the University through the creation of an Interfraternity Council, which would serve to enforce the policy and hold fraternities.

The request was met with resistance from the presidents, who claimed that it would be inappropriate for them to commit to looking into creating a University-sanctioned Interfraternity Council without speaking with their national organizations. They also claimed that the creation of such a council was not solely dependent on them, but also on the University. PSA offered to help them put pressure on the University in order to facilitate the process, but the fraternities were unanimously opposed to promising that they would look into the creation of a council.

M o r e l a nd t he n t r a n s i tioned the group to the issue of re-signing. He suggested that the group move forward and promise to discuss PSA’s recommendations, sans Interfraternity Council, for a revised version of the document.

PSA said that the fraternities should not be able to re-sign at all, since they had not followed the policy.

“I’m going to motion to resign now adding the stipulation that we as a group are committed to revising the document in the future [...] and allowing this to be a working document, and once there is another revision, having to resign that,” Moreland said.

Each fraternity president was given the opportunity to comment on the current policy and PSA’s suggestions before the others voted on whether or not they would be allowed to re-sign. Then, the fraternity affirmed their desire to re-sign. All fraternities were unanimously voted to be allowed to re-sign.

PSA argued that Lambda should not be able to re-sign at all, since no representative was there to hear all of PSA’s suggestions for a revised document. The presidents voted to allow Lambda to re-sign.

“A fter I have a chance to read over the edits we as a fraternity will decide quickly whether or not to re-sign and then act accordingly. Each of the fraternity presidents present are aware of our situation,” Meng wrote in an e-mail to the M A ROON. The fraternities agreed to meet in two weeks to discuss PSA’s suggestions and incorporate them into a revised policy, which they would then re-sign.

D elta Upsilon P resident Stephen Moreland is a former Managing Editor of the M A ROON .

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Permanent Secretary Talks Nobel Center for Contemporary Prize Picks, Definition of “Literature” Composition Established

BY CYRUS PACHT NEWS STAFF

On Thursday afternoon, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy Sara Danius gave a talk for UChicago Arts at the Regenstein Library about the process of selecting a Nobel laureate in literature.

In 2015, Danius became the fi rst woman to hold the Permanent Secretary position for the 231-year-old Swedish Academy.

In 2016, she presided over the decision to give the Nobel Prize to Bob Dylan. The year before, she was responsible for the award going to the Belarusian investigative journalist Svetlana Alexievich. Her lecture focused on the process by which these two winners were selected.

Each year, Danius, along with the rest of the Academy, begins with a longlist of 300 candidates, narrows it down to a midlist of 20–30, and a shortlist of five, before arriving at a winner.

She countered the suggestion that, in giving the prize to a journalist and a singer-songwriter, the Swedish Academy had expanded its definition of literature.

“Has the Academy undergone a radical change?” she asked.

“Has the Academy started to pay attention to middlebrow, even lowbrow forms of culture?

We don’t mind such characterizations. I’d even say we like them.

But I’m afraid they’re not true.”

“As far as the Nobel Prize is concerned, the Swedish Academy works in the spirit of Alfred Nobel’s will. It has been doing so ever since 1901, when the prize was fi rst awarded. The task of the Swedish Academy is a simple one: to find a writer—and this you fi nd in Alfred Nobel’s will—who has produced truly outstanding work in an idealistic direction.”

Svetlana Alexievich wrote about the women who enlisted in World War II. For Danius, Alexievich’s work transcends mere journalism because “her project is to describe the human soul…with the fieldwork carried out in the Soviet Union, tracing periods stretching from World War II to the post-communist era.”

Danius spoke of Bob Dylan’s gift for rhyme and his lyrical work, which falls within the lineage of Homer, Sappho, and Pindar. She also mentioned his scandalous switch to electric music and his temporary conversion to Christianity.

“This means that Dylan has found himself by losing himself, over and over again,” she said.

“He constantly undergoes metamorphoses. He feels the compulsion to change, as well as the

pleasure of change, indeed the joy of change. He feels the pull of the past, and he feels the pull of the future. Dylan is the Ovid of rock music.”

A n aud ienc e memb er asked Danius how she chooses the best writer from the Swedish Academy’s shortlist of five.

“It’s not about selecting the best one. It’s about selecting an outstanding one,” she said. “See the difference? All five could get the prize. Perhaps even 20 could get the prize. But we have to select one. And there are lots of people who have been on the shortlist for years. They will never know about it. It’s all confidential, and that’s how it works.”

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Sara Danius was appointed Permanent Secretary in 2015.

““[Woodlawn] is changing…changing rapidly.”

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residents are hesitant to endorse it. Woodlawn resident Jeanette Taylor remarked, “Come to the people who’ve been been working on this. They don’t need to create an organization to try to undermine the community.”

Butler agreed: “I’m a little leery of [WWPSS] because they came in and said we’re going to X, Y, and Z. But there are other groups who have been working diligently on this for years now.”

A coalition of several community groups has long been pushing for a written agreement between Obama Presidential Center officials and community residents to guarantee that certain economic benefits generated by the Obama Presidential Center are directed to community functions. According to some coalition members, the formation of WWPSS does not represent such a guarantee.

“I was surprised when I read in the newspaper that Torrey Barrett and Byron Brazier received support to create a new organization in Woodlawn to ensure the Obama library benefits the community when there are already organizations fighting to protect residents here,” said Michele Williams, a longtime Woodlawn resident, referring to two area pastors who were involved in the creation of WWPSS. B r a z ier, pa st or of t he 20,000-member Apostolic Church of God in Woodlawn, could stand to profit from the Obama Pres-

idential Center. The center will be built just four blocks east of the church. According to the SunTimes, Brazier said last month that the church would not sell any of its several parking lots to interested developers.

Since those remarks, a private developer released plans for a 10-story, 135-unit residential building on the corner of East 63rd Street and South Blackstone Avenue, just one block east of the church’s property.

In addition to the Obama Presidential Center, other changes planned for Jackson Park may spill over into Woodlawn. Ongoing restorations to the park’s Olmsted-designed landscapes, plans to construct a concert and event pavilion just south of the Museum of Science and Industry, and the upcoming re-design of the Jackson Park Golf Course— to be led by Tiger Woods and intended to qualify for the PGA Tour—are all expected to draw visitors to the area.

While the Obama Presidential Center will not be completed until 2021, developers are already digging in with their own shovels. According to DNAinfo, one builder aims to construct 19 single-family homes in Woodlawn by the end of the year. A four-story residential building is nearing completion on the southeast corner of East 61st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. Down the street, at 63rd and Cottage Grove, a 55-unit complex is soon to break ground.

Yet these developments are a long way from restoring Woodlawn to its mid-century prosperity. In 1960, over 81,000 people lived in Woodlawn. “We didn’t have to go downtown for anything,” said Butler, who moved to Woodlawn in 1964, when the population was at its peak. “We had everything we needed right here. But when the people left, the shops closed their doors. It became a desert of all sorts of things, including food.”

Today, Woodlawn’s population is 25,000. However—as indicated by current residential developments—Woodlawn’s population has recently been on the rise, increasing by 2,859 between 2010 and 2015.

While plenty of vacant lots still line 63rd Street, Woodlawn’s historic commercial stretch, there are signs of a retail rebound. Both new residential complexes on Cottage Grove will have retail space, and plans for a grocery store on the northwest corner of 61st and Cottage Grove are being finalized.

Butler reflected on these prospects for change. “Having the library come is an exceptional and wonderful thing for Chicago, and especially Woodlawn,” she said.

“But we know it can also become a detriment if those who voted for [Obama] and fought for the library in the first place won’t be the ones who benefit.”

BY CYRUS PACHT NEWS STAFF

The Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition has been established within the music department, the University announced in March. The center will focus on integrating the diverse talents of composers, performers, and scholars of 20th- and 21st-century music.

It accommodates current faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates, and encompasses several well-established performance opportunities, including the Contempo ensemble series and the New Music Ensemble, under a single umbrella. “ The center is building on traditions in the past,” said Augusta Read Thomas, co-director of Contempo. “The Contempo series has been wonderful. It morphed into us having visiting ensembles. We have the sense that if we put the series together with the CHIME [Chicago Integrated Media Experimental] Studio, and if we built on Contempo’s longstanding vision and excellent concerts with all these artists, we’d have more impact.”

T he CHI ME Studio was founded this year by assistant professor of music Sam Pluta, with the goal of making electronic music part of the dialogue at UChicago. The recording and mixing studio will support the technological aspect of concert production.

“A s t h e d i r e c t o r o f CHIME, what I want to create

is an environment where we have the knowledge and the resources to allow music students to take on projects and then to be able to support those projects: an environment for making music and sound installations, building instruments, putting on concerts (whether on campus, downtown, or on the North Side), and providing its resources to the students,” Pluta said.

The Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition will bring in a distinguished guest composer once a year, as well as a postdoctoral fellow who will teach undergraduate and private composition.

T his year, after sorting through the 20 most qualified applicants, the center chose composer Aaron Helgeson as its inaugural postdoctoral fellow. “ There are very few postdoc opportunities in the arts, especially the musical arts,” Thomas said. “There is none in the world just for a composer of classical art music. For instance, you can get a fellowship as a composer, but you’re competing with someone in philosophy, mathematics, history. We are only for composers.”

According to Thomas, the center endorses no particular compositional style or ideal.

“I’m interested in excellence of any kind,” she said. “I’m proud that we do not have a house style. None of my students sound like me. Someone might write an electronic piece or a symphony. We value their ability to express themselves freely.”

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for community-based research and experiential learning at the University Community Service Center, who supervises the program along with the Program on the Global Environment.

The Chicago Studies quarter will continue in its current form, but all three courses in it will now count toward the new certificate program.

“I think the challenge of the Chicago Studies quarter has been that it ate up a whole quarter without feeding into anything else,” Skrable said. “My hope is that [the Chicago Studies certificate] is going to attract any student who is passionate about either their field of study or the city of Chicago and is trying to think of a way to put those two things in dialogue in a way that enriches both.”

He noted that Chicago Studies is “not a discipline-bound certificate,” though it shares a special relationship with environmental and urban studies. Most courses form part of the major’s new urban environments track, and completion of the certificate fulfills the major’s requirement of an internship or field studies experience.

“For students who are inter-

ested in urban and environmental issues generally, Chicago Studies opens up a dynamic, living classroom, and the University is situated within that classroom,” Shaikh wrote. “We learned over the past few years that there is substantial overlap between students who express interest in Chicago Studies quarter and those with academic interest in urban issues.”

Both Shaikh and Skrable emphasized that the initiatives in environmental and urban studies and Chicago Studies were sparked by a surge of existing faculty and student interest in urban issues.

“In the last ten years, the University has been reclaiming its identity as Chicago’s university,” Skrable said.

Shaikh added in her e-mail that the University’s global centers, Urban Labs, and Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, a center for “interdisciplinary urban scholarship” scheduled to launch this summer, represent a monumental effort to engage in problems surrounding cities. “[These facilities] are all drawing attention to the University as the premier urban research institution,” she said.

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VIEWPOINTS Co-opting the American Homosexual Despite the GOP’s Pandering, the LGBTQ+ Community Must Resist Islamophobic Appeals

Jake Eberts In high school, I was one of those cocksure libertarian Republicans consistently less outraged by predatory lending or police brutality than by the abhorrent violations of the Fourth Amendment that I endured whenever I was forced to take the belt off my cargo shorts in airport security lines. I was very close to turning into one of those gays who whispers “yas, gawd” to himself every time Ann Coulter— proof that good hair can happen to bad people—uploads a picture of herself to Facebook, and most people would have rightfully found me insufferable. I also vehemently defended the right to bear arms on the basis of my own security as a gay man; if I had a gun, it would not matter how homophobic Dirk the Football Coach was.

That phase of my life is thankfully over, but I still have the Email confirming my donation to Log Cabin Republicans and reread it every once in awhile to keep my special snowflake sense of selfworth in check. And unfortunately, the security logic that informed much of my former worldview as a gay Republican still endures today among many in the queer community. Most notably, it has adopted a virulent, repulsively Islamophobic bent. Even those on largely liberal college campuses are not immune from tacitly accepting the right’s increasingly Islamophobic appeals.

The Moral Majority has long since entered its death throes, and

even conservative youth are far less hostile to LGBTQ+ rights than the current GOP platform. If the young Republicans of today are any signal of the party’s future, it is only a matter of time before the Republican establishment considers basic acknowledgement of gay rights palatable. In the aftermath of the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando last summer, however, some defenders of the Republican Party, in a halfhearted attempt to express solidarity with the queer community it ignored for years, have asserted that the GOP could protect LGBTQ +people from Islam. This is done in an attempt to mask the current damage state- and national-level Republican advocacy does to queer communities. Twitter trolls regularly barrage progressive LGBTQ+ accounts with pictures of the Islamic State (ISIS) throwing gay men off of buildings in a particularly twisted form of capital punishment. Who, they ask, will protect you from these barbarians?

Certainly not the globalist Hillary.

Similarly, Islamophobia was the most jarring takeaway from the spring 2016 Campus Climate Survey report. A disproportionate number of Muslim students, staff, and faculty feel unable to express their religious identity without fear of backlash. After a year of controversies, including the leak of denigrating emails sent by members of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and a poster campaign likening divest-

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ment activists to “Hamas Terrorists,” the far-reaching perception of Islamophobia on campus should perhaps not come as a surprise.

Ultimately, the survey’s conclusions made clear that many Muslims on campus do not feel that the umbrella of religious tolerance and COEXIST-ness extends far enough to reach them. As the issue of gay rights may move into the background in the coming decades, the Republican Party’s oft-repeated appeals to Islamophobia may become even more enticing for LGBTQ+

voters.

To be clear, there are varied reasons gay men in particular might vote Republican. You might like Ann Coulter’s hair or be a genuine believer in the power of free markets to allocate resources in a fair manner. But in the words of one absolutely charming former acquaintance, some of them just “don’t care as much about a border wall compared to a halved corporate tax rate,” which is a statement I’m sure sounded completely reasonable when it was probably first uttered

in a Lehman Brothers elevator a decade ago. I would exhort other white gay men in particular, even ones on this supposedly tolerant campus, to be sure that any swing to the right they may entertain is not done by means of antagonizing the millions of Muslims who they live with as citizens in the United States. Islamophobia must not be allowed to co-opt the gay vote.

Jake Eberts is a third-year in the College majoring in political science.

Amelia Frank

Letter: Theories of the Past Still Have Relevance Today W hile I commend Dylan Stafford’s critical attention to the University’s curriculum, I cannot agree with his castigation of historical texts, described in his M AROON column of April 3, 2017, “Intellectual Malpractice.” Perhaps this is because we start from different fi rst principles: I do not grant any solvency to the fictive category of the “great intellectual,” nor do I think that one must be enrolled in an elite university to fully engage one’s intellect.

Moreover, if Stafford begins his argument by suggesting that the “affluence” of the undergraduate community is partly to blame for his peers’ interest in the canon, I am a member of the underpaid, overworked graduate student community that cannot be considered “affluent” by any reasonable metric. More importantly, I believe that he mischaracterizes the texts of the past and the relevance of these texts to the present moment.

Stafford argues that when we privilege works from bygone eras we neglect a “globalized and diverse world.” I submit that

Herodotus’s Histories offer an excellent opportunity to inspect a globalized and diverse world, as do the writings of Muslim and Jewish philosophers writing in medieval Spain, or objects like Trajan’s Column. We should not labor under the illusion that migration or trade are constituent features of a new, unique human existence. Such a notion would have come as a surprise to the Aksumite traders on the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian merchants who regularly visited the Swahili Coast. Neither should the desire to read women and non-European thinkers disqualify the “philosophies of the past” from examination in the present, when the textual record boasts the likes of Hildegard of Bingen, Margaret Cavendish, and Ibn Khaldun.

My own syllabus for the Introduction to Medieval Art course is largely composed of female authors, includes sections on Islamic science and cartography, and dwells at length on the spectacular paintings and drawings made by medieval nuns.

Finally, Stafford construes

the study of past texts as a frivolous pursuit, irrelevant to present-day concerns. I will simply note here the outsize role that history plays in contemporary discourse and decision-making.

While neoliberal hawks and “altright” trolls delight in reprising crusader rhetoric, Chicago itself is a case study in the enduring power of racism and segregation.

A faculty member in the University’s own history department has gained national prominence by justifying hate speech with the rhetoric of the Middle Ages.

White supremacist poster campaigns on this campus—particularly those by the group Identity Europa—have drawn on the art of the Renaissance and Roman antiquity to buttress their distasteful political positions. No study of the present, as thinkers from Augustine to Hannah Arendt have noted, can afford to ignore the powerful afterlife of the past. To do so would truly be intellectual malpractice.

Luke A. Fidler is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History.

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ARTS Concert of Polish Works by Dank Teems With Subtle Politics

BY IVAN OST MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

While studying under contemporary pianist and instructor extraordinaire Ursula Oppens, Israeli pianist Ran Dank probably didn’t have to think twice about his last name. But now Hugo Seda, the director of production and education for UChicago Presents, says, “it’s nearly impossible not to read it as an adjective.” (“Though only,” Seda went on to say, “if you’re under 30.”)

Dank himself suggests that he is probably comfortable with a little wordplay here and there.

He floated Opposite Poles as a potential title for his concert last Friday, a groaner of a pun on the nationality of two Polish composers, Frédéric Chopin and Frederic Rzewski, as well as their divergent styles. Also on the shortlist was The Tale of the Two Frederics. Dank ultimately settled on “Politically Inspired: Rzewski and Chopin”—less funny, perhaps, but a professional needs gravitas.

As if reflecting the seriousness of his title, the works on Dank’s program carried substance de-

spite their deceptively simple beauty. The Rzewski, an hourlong marathon piece delivered with a concentration so intense Dank was often nearly kissing the keys, was a set of variations on the Chilean protest piece “El Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido”—“The People United Will Never be Defeated.” Dank’s Chopin selections, which included the C-sharp minor and A-flat major (“Heroique”) polonaises, as well as a variety of mazurkas, were less openly political but stood as an expression of the exiled composer’s longing for his native Poland.

Dank, at times barely in control of his wispy hair or dramatic playing style, let no chance to throw his hands far above the keys pass by. Nonetheless, he was clearly conscious of the challenge of addressing political content, particular in today’s United States. While the silent pianist—a mystery onstage—ferries us to another musical world, Dank takes the time to comment on the sounds ahead. He introduced the structure and meaning of each piece, the secrets he saw

in them, and the surprises that awaited. Growing particularly animated, Dank noted that the final Rzewski variation, the 36th, summarized not just the previous five (as every sixth variation had done up to this point in the piece), but rather every single one of the 36 variations. Hearing him speak, it was hard not to share in his enthusiasm for that last variation.

As if to match his lush verbiage, Dank delivered a marvelous performance, rich and colorfully articulated. It was clean enough—free of excessive pedal or sentimental chord accumulation—to showcase both Rzewski’s modernity and Chopin’s lyricism.

He played with a practiced fire.

The audience called him back onstage three times with a standing ovation, as is standard for the generally excellent UChicago Presents concerts. After a final bow, Dank left us wondering what he had told us with this program of nationalist and leftist music.

When he was training under Ursula Oppens, the message might have been subtler.

Today, it rings as loud as that last name.

EXHIBIT [A]rts [4/13] THURSDAY 5–7 p.m. Check out the opening reception for Chinese artist Ai Weiwei at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. A provocative artist known for his outspoken stance on human rights and criticism of the Chinese government, Ai’s exhibit #AiWeiWei consists of social media installations and early photographs that center on what he calls “social activism.” Museum of Contemporary Photography, free.

6–9 p.m. Appreciate art a little closer to campus at the UChicago Night at the DuSable. Enjoy special access to items of the museum’s special collection as well as presentations by University graduate students. DuSable Museum, free.

7 p.m. Third week means New Work Week for UT/TAPS students. The festival features the premieres of 12 new plays and staged adaptations. Logan Center 501, $5 per show/$12 pass for all 12 shows.

[4/14] FRIDAY 6 p.m. Get pumped for warm weather by learning how to spin fire with Le Vorris & Vox Circus this quarter! There will be a safety lecture for the first hour and a half,

followed by a fire orientation from 7:30–8:30, and a fire jam to music!

Logan 701 and Courtyard, free.

7 p.m. Celebrate the arrival of spring (finally!) with the Taiwanese American Student Association’s annual Spring Lantern Festival.

Write your dreams and wishes down and release the lanterns over Botany Pond while munching on snacks from Chinatown. Reynolds Club, free.

[4/15] SATURDAY 7 p.m. Missed your chance to watch this year’s Best Picture, Moonlight? You’re in luck, because Doc Films will be screening the film three times this weekend: at 7 and 10 pm on Saturday, and 4 pm on Sunday. Doc Films, $5.

8–10 p.m. From freestyle to bhangra, PhiNix Dance Crew’s Revival celebrates all kinds of dance in Chicago’s largest collegiate dance showcase. In addition to UChicago’s PhiNix, Maya, and Bhangra groups, crews from UIC and the greater Chicago area will be performing. Mandel Hall, $6 advance/$8 door.

Many Flags Fly at Politically Charged OLAS Show

BY REBECCA JULIE DEPUTY ARTS EDITOR

Politics, art, and cultural pride commingled on Saturday night at the fifth annual Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS) Cultural Show and Art Fair. The performance in Mandel Hall included dance, spoken word, musical numbers, and two video features.

This year’s show, Un Pueblo Unido (“A People United”), addressed the current political climate in which issues like immigration and border security have particularly affected Latin American students and students with immigrant backgrounds. The slogan Un Pueblo Unido, one of the most widely-recognized political lines in Latin American history, is a reference to a popular Chilean political movement of the 1970s.

“We thought it was important to find strength in our unity,” third-year Paula Carcamo, one of the evening’s emcees said , in her opening remarks.

And find strength they did.

OLAS members opened the show with a procession from the back of the auditorium, draped proudly with flags of Latin American countries. After filing onto the stage, students formed a circle, holding each other’s hands and flags in a display of solidarity.

Even before the show, members of OLAS seemed proud to share their cultures with the greater UChicago community. Flags decked the walls of Hutchinson Commons, where the audience dined on tacos, rice and beans, empanadas, arepas, and churros.

Across the hall in the McCor-

mick Tribune Lounge, visitors short, was poignant and powerful. browsed a collection of Latin Amer- It offered a striking account of how ican art from the Smart Museum, it feels to have lifelong dreams the National Museum of Mexican crushed by the land you call home.

In his own work, Cruz anArt, and Latinx artists from the nounced, “Last time I checked, ‘ilChicago area.

Un Pueblo Unido thrilled with legal’ is not a noun.” This political acts from across Latin America: candor was not lost on the audience. salsa from Cuba, cumbia from Co- Many of his emphatic remarks lombia, merengue from the Domin- were met with murmurs of agreeican Republic, and many more. The ment.

Second-year Ayling Dominballet folklórico, a traditional Mexican dance, featured live musicians guez also grappled with the chalfrom the University of Illinois at lenges of the immigrant experiChicago’s mariachi band Mariachi ence through her video montage, “Pa’arriba y pa’lante” (“Above and Fuego.

A particular highlight was Forward”). She included clips of “Carlota the Golddigger,” a parody former president Barack Obama of telenovelas, or Latin-American and of political posters, dedicating soap operas. The video chronicled the piece to her relatives as an acthe exploits of Carlota, a mon- knowledgement of their incredible ey-hungry woman who would stop strength. Addressing her Mexican at nothing for riches, including and Dominican background, she dramatically murdering a friend. proudly declared, “Being the child Witty and humorous, “Carlota” of immigrants was the best thing ended with a classic soap opera that happened to me”—a statetwist when the groom ran off with ment met with raucous applause.

Active audience support was his bride’s brother.

First-year Andrés Cruz Leland prominent throughout the evening. performed moving spoken word It was refreshing to attend a camperformances about the immigrant pus event composed of such collecand Latino American experience. tive joy. OLAS members whooped The first poem he recited was by and whistled for their friends onan undocumented youth and the stage. Audience members cheered when their friends, roommates, other was his own.

“When 65,000 dreams are de- and classmates danced or sang. In nied a year, there is something the penultimate samba number, wrong,” he said repeatedly in the done playfully to Pitbull’s “Firepoem written by a Chicago youth. ball,” dancers pulled audience The poem, which was written members to the front of the stage, pre-DACA, laments the fact that adorned them in colorful necklacundocumented children in Ameri- es and hats, and handed out glowca cannot attain the college educa- sticks.

Un Pueblo Unido may be a potion their parents have dreamed for them. “Being undocumented feels litical maxim, but its message of like being young forever,” the au- solidarity extended well beyond thor continues. The poem, though the political.

Grace Hauck and Camelia Malkami

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PORTRAIT:

CAMPUS PHOTOGRAPHERS by grace hauck

LUKE SIRONSKI-WHITE // FOURTH-YEAR “Art is ambiguous.

Art should be ambiguous.”

I

PHOTO White shot a series of the 2017 inauguration for The Gate (top), as well as a series in Altanta, GA (bottom).

I

originally started with filmmaking when I was in seventh grade. I won a film competition against 100 other films, and that was the day I realized people thought I must be good at this. It was called “Theses and the Minotaur,” and I made it with some friends in my basement. There was a disco light at some point.... It was a weird film.

Throughout college, I started to take more photos. I do a lot of portrait photography just because I am usually asked by clients to take photos of them or their organization.

For filmmaking, I like to make promotional videos because they’re usually more creative, short, fun. It does take a lot of time and effort.

On campus, I’ve made a lot for my business fraternity, AKPsi. When I became a brother, we had this crazy idea of creating a rush video. One of my friends came up with the idea to make a Fifty Shades of Gray parody. Everybody was against it at first because “we’re a business fraternity,” so it wouldn’t look good to show as our promotional material. But we really worked hard at it.

It took us ten hours over the course of two days to shoot it. We reserved the Logan Penthouse on the ninth floor. It was basically the perfect location. We took ourselves very seriously for a very non-serious topic. People loved it. People were watching it on other campuses too.

On Facebook, the video got 16,000 views–for a one-minute rush video

for a business fraternity.

When you have to set ceilings on certain things–whether it be budget or a time constraint–it sort of forces you to solve a problem. I’m always up for the challenge: to come up with something that’s as amazing as it can be for the resources that I have.

I like to make videos because it encompasses a lot of mediums into one: composing the shot, writing the storyline, working with sound.

I think for me, it’s a little bit hard to define myself as an artist, to be honest. I know how things work, in my brain. Then making those ideas come to life on my screen after I take a photo and edit the photo is the creative process. Maybe that’s creating a black background for a photo when I don’t actually own a black background. How will that work? A lot of times, the photos aren’t shot where people normally think. They’re in the most random places. The vision is the artistic part.

I’ve been told that I had a blue phase when my photos were slightly bluer and I didn’t even realize it. I use Lightroom for my photos and then Photoshop if I need to do extra work. I think that was just terrible editing on my part. The screen on my laptop was slightly warmer. I usually edit my photos late at night.

I’d look at my phone, which has the nightshift filter. Then I look at it the next day on my phone, and it looks blue. So the Chris D’Angelo filter was a mistake.

People have asked me why I’m not going into filmmaking. I think the reason why is eventually my

’ve bounced around a lot in terms of what I photograph and why, and it’s totally not fleshed out. I still want to photograph everything. But what I’m specifically interested in right now is photos that are not working individually but that are working as a whole to create a narrative.

At least at the beginning of the year, I was working on a meta-narrative about Hyde Park and the triad that I think exists: the Hyde Park community outside the University, the administration, and students–and how they interact together. I was approaching it from a fine art lens, which meant, necessarily, making the art ambiguous.

Art is ambiguous. Art should be ambiguous.

I would get up–sometimes

before sunrise–and walk around Hyde Park and find people and talk to them for a brief moment, ask them what they thought about the University, what they think about living in Hyde Park, and then photograph them.

I’m trying to find my feet still.

I want to do more editorial–pare it down, take away all the layers of aesthetic complication and just make it more direct. And tell stories. One of the things that photography as a profession allows you to do is to tell stories for people who don’t have the means, or the time, to do so.

I worked at CNN over the summer doing photo editing, so I had to look at all these images and it was like: “cover Trump at one rally,” or “Trump is in Pennsylvania today.”

The job of those photojournalists is to be there to get one photo that works and then move on. They’re not embedded in a space for a long period of time creating large sets of photographs that are working to tell a story.

I do this thing where I cold-call photographers that I really admire.

A lot of times they respond, which is really cool. There was one, Gregory Halpern, who released a book called *ZZYZX*. It’s named after a town in California, but it’s a very loose interpretation of a journey from the desert of California to the ocean. He started at Harvard, photographing for a strictly political end: campaigning to raise wages for workers who were not facul-

ty–garden or cafeteria workers.

The photographs worked, but he said in an interview–and relayed the same information to me–that while producing those photographs accomplished something, they were boring because they were so intentional.

[Halpern] decided to move away from very editorial, documentary work, and make it more ambiguous–learn to look at the poetic nature of sequencing a certain set of images in a certain way.

Currently, I’m interning and being mentored by Jon Lowenstein, a photographer on the South Side. For the past 10 or 12 years, he’s been working on a huge project documenting the violence that goes on there, but also life as it is.

He does that by being very embedded and very familiar with all the communities on the South Side.

He’s where I’d like to be in 20, 30 years. I think one of the hallmarks of being a really good photographer is being able to spot moments that no one else is spotting, and create them if you have to.

If you look on my Instagram, it doesn’t seem like it from the outside, but I think one of the greatest challenges I’ve thought a lot about is finding meaning in photographing. What is the purpose of photographing outside of creating beautiful photos? The greatest challenge has been trying to tell a story. I have yet to succeed. I would like to soon.

CHRIS D’ANGELO // FOURTH-YEAR

“The Chris D’Angelo filter was a mistake.”

goal is to build up my own company. I want that company to encompass my passion–photography, filmmaking, music, arts–digital media. I play four instruments: piano, drums, guitar, and cello. I wanted to create that solid business background before I actually went to open up my own business.

I think that understanding econ is probably the best way because it’s a theoretical approach, especially at UChicago.

One of the craziest things about doing photography on campus is that there are so many people that meet me for the first time, and I introduce myself as Chris, and literally the first question that they ask is “are you the Chris that takes photos?” Every single time.

PHOTO D’Angelo shot the winte r M O DA s how a nd this year’s adver tising c a m p aig n fo r K a p p a Alpha Theta’s Mr. University.

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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “ I don’t sit, I’m a hooper.” — NBA Star Kevin Durant on not playing due to injury

Baseball Wins Weekend BASEBALL

BY EMMA GRIFFITHS SPORTS STAFF

This past weekend, the UChicago baseball team played four games against Finlandia University, winning three out of those four games. With two games on each day, the team came back strong on Sunday after a disappointing loss on Saturday.

The Maroons got off to a fast start in the fi rst game as they cruised through with 13 runs, ending the game 13–2. Second-year Brenton Villasenor pitched the fi rst four innings, allowing just one run.

The first inning set the Maroons up for a fairly easy rest of the game as they scored

six times thanks in part to six walks.

The game was closed by first-year Jon Kruppe and third-year Chase Packard.

After being up by a 3–1 lead during the second game on Saturday, the Maroons gave up seven runs in the sixth and seventh innings to lose the game 7–3. This collapse was partially due to the nine total walks conceded by UChicago.

This loss puts the Maroons in a tough place in terms of making it to the NCAA Tournament. They had been hoping to come away with four solid wins after the end of this series. It brought their record to 12–5 on the season and brought Finlandia’s record to 4–16.

The first game on Sunday was a close

battle for the win but the Maroons came out on top, scoring a run in the bottom of the seventh to win by a score of 4–3.

Chicago first gave up a run in the top of the seventh inning, which tied up the game 3–3. However, with fourth-year Tim Sonnefeldt on third in the bottom of the inning, second-year Connor Hickey stepped up to the plate. Hickey managed to lay down a bunt single to bring home Sonnefeldt and win the game. First-year Patrick Murphy pitched the last few innings to close it out and bring home the victory.

The fourth and final game of the series ended successfully as the Maroons defeated the Lions 11–4. They came out with a lead right from the start of the game and

consistently kept scoring until the end of the game.

First-year Jacob Petersen pitched the majority of the game, improving his record to 4–0. Third-year Ricardo Fernandez and third-year Michael Davis closed out the game with no runs allowed.

Second-year Connor Hickey had another successful game going 3-for-4 with two RBI. In total, the Maroons had 13 hits this last game, ending with an exciting bang.

The Maroons’ next game will be on Wednesday, April 12 against Dominican University. Coming off an overall successful weekend, the Maroons look forward to keeping their momentum going against a local rival.

Chicago Takes Tournament WOMEN’S TENNIS

BY SIMONE STOVER SPORTS STAFF

Last weekend was a resounding success for the UChicago women’s tennis team. On April 7 and 8, the Maroons participated in the Midwest Invitational, which took place in Madison, WI. While there, the No. 8 South Siders went up against No. 19 Case Western, Augustana, and No. 10 Wash U. The Maroons got off to a strong start on the first day of the invitational with decisive 8–1 victories against both Case and Augustana. The match against Wash U the next day turned out to be a closer contest, with the Bears beginning the match with a 2–1 lead. However, the Maroons emerged victorious in the end with a 5–4 victory.

“I think the team performed well this past weekend, especially since we had to adapt to different conditions as we switched between indoors and outdoors. We also managed to win the tournament even though we were far from our top form, as several

of our players were fighting injuries,” said first-year Marjorie Antohi, who contributed to the Maroons’ success with wins in singles against all three opponents.

First-year Laura Gutierrez, who was victorious in doubles and singles against Augustana and in doubles against Wash U, looked back on the weekend positively as well.

“Given how competitive the tournament was, I think what really helped us win this weekend was the fight in all the girls,” Gutierrez said. “At several positions, the girls found a way to come back from slow starts and win in three tough sets.”

After a triumphant weekend that brings their overall season record up to 12–3, the Maroons will look to build upon their successes in their matches this upcoming weekend. The Maroons will travel to St. Louis to face off against UW–Whitewater on Friday and Wash U on Saturday.

Given the team’s history, especially in light of their performances this past week-

end, the matchup against both of these teams should result in solid wins. While UW–Whitewater boasts a 17–5 overall record, they currently sit at a No. 22 ranking, a full 14 places behind the Maroons.

The more exciting match of the weekend will likely be against conference rival Wash U. After the close match this past weekend, the Maroons will look to achieve their second win against the Bears this season.

The team seems to be confident going

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - APRIL 11, 2017

SPORTS No. 5 Chicago Great MEN’S TENNIS

BY MINNIE HORVATH SPORTS STAFF

Last weekend the No. 5 University of Chicago men’s tennis team traveled to West Bend, WI for a match against No. 31 Gustavus Adolphus College. Dominant doubles play led the way for the Maroons’ 6–3 victory over the Gusties, improving their record to 14–2 overall, and 10–2 against nationally-ranked opponents. The Gusties fell to 20–8.

The Maroons captured all three points in doubles, gaining an early advantage that ended up being the decision in the overall match. The first-year duo of Erik Kerrigan and Ninan Kumar secured an easy 8–2 victory at No. 1. The teams of fourth-year Max Hawkins and fi rst-year

Tyler Raclin at No. 2, and third-year Bobby Bethke and second-year Charlie Pei at No. 3 both played tough matches to win 8–6 and earn the sweep.

In singles play the Maroons went 33, with wins at No. 2 from Pei, No. 3 from Kerrigan, and No. 6 from second-year Jonathan Li. Third-year Luke Tsai played a tough three-setter that included extra games in both the second and third sets, but was defeated in the end at No. 4. Pei won his opening set 6–2, lost the second 6–2, and came back in the third to win 6–3 and get a point for the Maroons.

“I’ve had a lot of matches go three sets recently and while I’ve perhaps had lapses of attention or played some poor sets recently, I’m glad I was able to pull out a tough victory,” Pei said.

Staying focused throughout the match can be difficult, but he says, “My past few matches, and particularly the three threeset matches I played over spring break have helped me prepare for this. In addition, all the drill work we’ve done in practice where we focus on specific patterns that apply nicely to match situations was extremely helpful.”

Kerrigan and Li both won in straight sets, only dropping three games apiece over the course of the match. Head coach Jay Tee said that both men played “focused, tough singles matches to clinch the win, and it was great to see them step up for their team.”

During his match, Li was “focused on staying in in the moment and not letting any lost points have a lasting impact on

[his] game.” He also noted that it was helpful to have “strong displays of energy and focus during the match from [teammates] Erick Kerrigan and Max Hawkins as inspiration.”

The team was pleased with the victory overall, but it also recognizes the work that needs to be done this week in preparation for next weekend’s matches against UW–Whitewater and Wash U. Pei says the team will focus on “playing with more energy and competitive spirit.”

“The goal for practice this week would be to bring the same level of energy and focus we would want on display in a match situation. I think this will definitely help us stay sharp and prepare for the upcoming matches at Wash U,” Li said.

Power Pitching Waylays Wash U SOFTBALL

BY GARY HUANG SPORTS STAFF

The University of Chicago softball team (13–8) took advantage of the beautiful weather this past weekend to take the series against UAA rival Wash U (14–9) three games to one.

On a perfect, 70-degree day with clear skies, the Bears scored all three of their runs in the first inning, but the UChicago pitching staff was able to quickly find its rhythm to prevent any further damage.

However, the Maroons were unable to bridge the gap, as their bats were kept in check by the opposing pitchers, connecting on only four hits and being held scoreless.

The South Siders threatened in the bottom of the sixth, loading the bases with two singles and a walk, before ultimately flying out to end the inning with runners stranded.

In game two, fi rst-year Megan Stoppelman continued her scoreless streak from the start of the third inning in the previous game into the fourth inning before finally allowing a run in five innings pitched. This time, the Maroons quickly dropped three runs on Wash U with Stoppelman, second-year outfielder Serena Moss and fourth-year third base Maggie O’Hara each earning RBI. Offensively, UChicago totaled six hits and two steals.

Third-year Molly Moran came into the second game for the final two innings to close out the game.

Day two of doubleheaders featured strong pitching and similar score lines, with the Maroons coming out on top 3–1 and 4–0, respectively. In game one, Wash U capitalized on a second inning error to drive in a run, but that would be the extent of their offense, as starting pitcher Moran struck out seven in just as many innings. UChicago produced a solid third inning, bringing home two runners and adding one more run in the sixth. Second-year outfielder Maeve Garvey accounted for half of the team’s six hits in the game, going 3-for-3 with one RBI. In the final match of the weekend, Moran and Stoppelman joined efforts to put away all of the Bears’s batters but three.

Moran opened the game, and the first-year put it away in four innings of relief, gaining the win and elevating herself to 5–2 on the season. Second-year second base Colleen Bennett and fourth-year second base Anna Woolery went 3-for-3 and 2-for2 respectively, accounting for five of the Maroons’ seven hits.

“Our pitching staff, some clutch hitting, and solid defense really helped us go 3–1 against Wash U. Staff especially did a great job keeping hitters off balance. I also think that our focus and confidence, which

has been continually improving throughout the season, was an important part of our success,” Woolery said.

“We stranded a decent amount of runners this weekend, so more timely hitting and execution will be something to improve upon going into Wheaton. It’s great that we’re getting lots of base runners, but stringing more hits together and bringing runners home is going to be huge in tight games,” she said.

This Thursday, the Maroons will take on Wheaton College (5–19) at home in a double-header game. The Thunder had lost seven games straight before beating North Park University in the second game of their duals. They will face Carthage College on Tuesday before taking on the Maroons in a two-day turnaround.

Zoe Kaiser First-year Christie Ambrose keeps her eye on the ball as she waits for the pitch.

Track Season Starts Strong, Runs Through Wheaton TRACK & FIELD

BY MIRANDA BURT SPORTS STAFF

The University of Chicago’s track and field teams continued their strong start to their outdoor season on Saturday, as the women captured the Wheaton Invitational team title and the men took home second place overall. The Maroons outpaced eight teams on the women’s side by accumulating 166.5 points to take fi rst place and beat host Wheaton’s 154 points. The men tallied 136 points in a ten-team invite, only falling short of North Central College (196 points).

On the women’s side, the South Siders had a first- or second-place finish in eleven events. First-year Alisha Harris, the UAA indoor Rookie of the Year and UAA

indoor long jump champion, continued her strong collegiate track and field debut. Harris finished first in the long jump with a leap of 5.48 meters and also tacked on a second-place finish in the 200m dash (25.68). Another first-year, Isabel Garon, helped the Maroons to their victory as well, vaulting 3.52 meters to rack up yet another fi rst-place finish. Third-year Khia Kurtenbach, this year’s indoor UAA 5,000-meter champion, collected a fi rstplace finish (17:06.78) in the same event, blowing away the field by 31 seconds.

The meet also marked the return of Michelle Dobbs, last year’s indoor NCAA 800-meter champion. The fourth-year took off this year’s indoor season in order to compete for the women’s basketball team, helping the Maroons to a second-round

NCAA Tournament appearance. “ Transitioning from basketball to track was a little bit of a shock with how quickly I started competing, but I’ve adjusted pretty well. I’ve found that I have a lot of speed right now, which has been good for my 400-meter races,” Dobbs said.

Dobbs picked up Saturday right where she left off, picking up a first-place finish in the 800-meter (2:17.25) and helping the 4x400-meter relay to a second-place finish (4:00.61).

Dobbs reflected on the weekend, saying, “I’m still kind of getting into the swing of things with racing longer distances, so that’s what this weekend was about. There are so many factors that go into running a good 800, and I felt like a few of the pieces fell into place for me

Saturday. There’s definitely still a lot of room for improvement though, which makes me look forward to being able to race it again.”

The men also found success Saturday, placing an athlete fi rst or second in six events. Tyson Miller was the Maroons’ lone first-place finisher, winning the 400-meter dash (50.19). Andrew Maneval took second in two events, shot put (14.94 meters) and hammer throw (48.93 meters).

Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams will be in action again this Friday and Saturday, as they compete in Lisle, IL in the Benedictine Relays. This will be the Maroons’ last meet before they host the UAA Championship on April 22 and 23.