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DISCIPLINING DISRUPTION:

ONLY ONE SLATE FILES FOR SG’S TOP OFFICES

Inside the High-Stakes Faculty Debate

BY PETE GRIEVE SENIOR NEWS EDITOR

English professor and member of the faculty senate Elaine Hadley remembers a meeting when the University of Chicago’s faculty governing body was tasked with selecting fonts for the school’s letterhead. Those were simpler times.

These days, the faculty senate is in the thick of a complicated debate as it tries to decide how and when disruptive conduct will be punished at the University of Chicago. The upper administration in Levi Hall is eager for the University to establish a disciplinary system that could be used to sanction individuals who engage in speaker silencing, obstructive protest, and the like. It can’t create that system unilaterally, however, because the University’s statutes give the faculty senate jurisdiction to create rules pertaining to discipline for disruption.

The senate is nearing a May vote on a measure that would create a disciplinary system to respond to incidents of disruptive conduct. Levi Hall is now adding pressure by indicating to the senate that if the vote fails, the administration will instead revive a convoluted disciplinary system for disruptive conduct that hasn’t been invoked since 1974. This is according to several members of the faculty senate. A spokesperson said he would prefer not to speculate on what would happen in this scenario.

It is in an ultimatum of sorts.

T HE M A ROON spoke to a half-dozen senate members for this story—none of them were excited about the possibility of this

Samuela Mouzaoir Law School professor Randal Picker.

BY ADAM THORP & MARJORIE ANTOHI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AND STAFF WRITER

Maroon In 1969, hundreds of students occupied the admin building for two weeks. Over 40 students were expelled, prompting the University to reevulate its disciplinary systems.

Maroon In May, the student president was put on probation for facilitating a sit-in in Levi Hall.

outcome. Even the Provost’s office has indicated that it thinks the 1970s system, the “All-University Disciplinary System,” is flawed.

Last June, the Provost initiated this senate debate by charging a faculty committee to produce a report on how to “revise or replace the disciplinary procedures and standards set forth in the All-University Disciplinary System,” which “has seen little use due in part to cumbersome procedures.”

That committee issued its report last month, with Appendix V attached. Appendix V is a proposed new disciplinary system for disruptive conduct, which is what’s now moving through the faculty senate. The man who chaired the committee, Law School professor Randal Picker, is also the spokesperson for a seven person sub-committee of the faculty senate that meets more regularly. That makes Picker the highest-ranking professor in faculty governance.

Picker does not claim to be the leading expert on the University’s statutes (though he says he now has them saved on his iPad). But he thinks it is somewhat unusual

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that the statutes give the faculty senate the power to create this disciplinary system. The senate generally does not have jurisdiction over other areas of discipline. In fact, it’s relatively uncommon that the senate votes on any matter of University policy.

For those reasons, this is all very unfamiliar to the faculty senate. There appears to be a relatively strong consensus among members of the senate that the University ought to respond to disruption in a centralized, uniform manner and that the current disposition in which disruption is handled at the divisional level is unsuitably disjointed.

But the diverse senate body, which is composed of professors selected by most of the faculty atlarge, has a range of opinions on how exactly a centralized system should function. Some of the most staunchly opposed members say they’d rather the 1970s system be revived than vote yes on the system that has been put forth in Appendix V, barring substantial revisions.

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The members of the Rise slate will head Student Government (SG) next year, barring a successful write-in campaign or procedural problems.

The slate, which consists of third-year Calvin Cottrell for president, second-year Sabine Nau for vice president for administration, and third-year Chase Harrison for vice president for student affairs, filed their petition for candidacy by the 5 p.m. deadline Tuesday.

They were the only slate to do so.

Provided at least 300 of the signatures on their petition can be verified as eligible voters, and they attend a mandatory candidate’s meeting Thursday, their names will appear alone on the ballot in the race for Executive Slate.

This means only two elections this spring—for undergraduate liaison to the board of trustees and to represent the Class of 2020 on College Council—will feature more candidates on the ballot than there are positions available.

Candidates running under the banner of United Progress have won contested elections each of the last three years,

though the 2 014 slate was opposed only by one satirical slate, the Moose Party, whose candidates are members of the Delta Upsilon (DU) fraternity.

T his yea r, however, not even the Moose Party is running, ending a 23-year tradition. DU President Stephen Moreland did not respond to request for comment on Moose’s absence from the slate.

C ottrel l , Ha r r ison , a nd Nau decided to run because they believe Student Government has been unsuccessful in recent years. “ The Rise slate formed because the three of us saw that SG was not working,” Cottrell told T HE M AROON in an e-mail. “We saw ways that SG could be more effective in supporting student aspirations.

SG has an image problem of dealing with issues outside its scope while being ineffective on addressing pressing student concerns.”

C u r r ent pr e s ident a nd member of the United Progress slate, third-year Eric Holmberg, is graduating at the end of fall quarter and is therefore ineligible to run for re-election.

He believes that interest in running for an executive slate position may have declined due to increasing interest in study abroad programs or early graduation, which preclude Continued on page 2

Man Barricades Himself in 62nd St Apartment KATIE AKIN NEWS EDITOR

At 11:45 p.m. on T uesday night, Chicago Police Department (CPD) off icers left the scene on 62nd Street and Ellis Avenue, where a man barricaded himself in an apartment this afternoon.

A S WAT t e a m wa s d i s patched to the scene a little after 5 p.m. A police dispatcher said the man was armed with a knife. Police on the scene gave instructions to the man over a megaphone to stay away from the windows and exit the house.

South Siders Come Back via Bat Power

C P D of f ic er s wer e p o sitioned on South Ellis Avenue, Woodlawn Avenue, and East 62nd Street to block off the area. Ellis Avenue was lined with multiple emergency vehicles, including an ambulance and firetruck.

According to a University spokeswoman, the UCPD was not called to respond to the incident. W hen asked why a security alert was not sent to students, she wrote, “[The situation] was resolved peacefully and there was no danger to the surrounding community.”

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Events 4/14 — 4/17

UChicago Carillonneurs Take Midwest Tour

BY TYRONE LOMAX NEWS STAFF

Today A Philosopher in the Land of Climate Science: Reports from the Field Franke Institute for the Humanities, 3 p.m.

Professor Elisabeth Lloyd will discuss the current state of climate change research.

CP-1: The Experiment that Changed the World University Bookstore, 5 p.m.

On the 75th anniversary of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction, University faculty will discuss the importance of nuclear power throughout history. Food will be served.

Mamma Roma Screening Logan Center for the Arts, 7 p.m.

The Department of Cinema and Media Studies will host a screening of the controversial 1962 fi lm Mamma Roma, which centers around the life of an Italian prostitute looking for her longlost son.

Sunday, April 16 Grandma’s Kitchen Smart Museum of Art, 11 a.m.

Visitors to the Smart Museum will be invited to discuss their experiences with family and food, as inspired by the Frank Lloyd Wright table on display in the galleries. Food and drinks will be provided.

The UChicago Guild of Student Carillonneurs took a tour of the Midwest recently, visiting St. Louis, Centralia, and Springfield two weeks ago for their second annual road trip.

The Guild, which consists of students who play the carillon in the bell tower of Rockefeller Chapel, serves to inform the populace about the Rockefeller bells and give lessons to those who are interested in playing. By providing the chance to try out different bell towers and meet fellow student players and several professional carillonneurs, the trip held more than just tourist appeal for the Guild members.

Both of the road trips were planned by Joey Brink, the current University Carillonneur and Guild teacher. Brink said he wanted to encourage Guild bonding while providing a learning experience to its members. According to current Guild president Josh Kaufman, a third-year in the College, these aspects of the trip made for a fulfilling weekend.

The players seldom have time to listen to the bells from the ground. Often, towers are equipped with amplification systems so that performers can hear all of the bells.

This results in an unbalanced, augmented sound present only within the tower. Hearing the carillon from outside the tower was gratifying for Kaufman.

“The best place to go is to be on the ground, in line of sight to the tower, and you’ll be able to hear

the instrument as it’s intended to be heard,” he said.

Kaufman added that it was an additional benefit to play other carillons. As the second-largest carillon in the world, the UChicago tower bells require more force than typical towers in other cities. “[St. Louis, Centralia, and Springfield carillons are] so much lighter that it’s very easy to just play with the same force that we would here and play too loud,” Kaufman said. “In some ways, adjusting to a new instrument can be challenging, but it’s a great experience to not only have a chance to play some other instruments but also meet [their] carillonneurs.”

While in Springfield, the Guild took a master class and had a concert with Carlo van Ulft, Springfield’s professional carillonneur.

Kaufman described Ulft’s class as “refreshing,” since the lessons were taken within a different context and from a new instructor.

The Guild also met with Roy Kroezen in Centralia and John Klinger in St. Louis, who are both professional carillonneurs in their respective cities. The Guild did not take master classes with either Kroezen or Klinger, but toured their towers and had performances with them instead.

Overall, Kaufman enjoyed the weekend. “When I came to this university back in September of 2014, I had no idea that I would even be playing on a carillon,” he said. “And to be here, two and a half years later, and to say that I’ve had the opportunity to play on seven of them…[it] has been a fan-

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tastic experience.”

Shu Zhang, a second-year in the College who helped organize this year’s trip with Brink, agreed with Kaufman. According to Zhang, the trip was just as important for her socially as it was in improving her playing skills. As a new carillonneur, Zhang said that she greatly appreciated the masterclass they took with Ulft as well as the tour of the different towers.

“It’s rare to have the opportunity to learn how to play an instrument as unique as the carillon, [to] actually go out in an organized fashion with a group of people who have similar interests and explore

different carillons together,” she said.

The guild currently has 15 members. This is just over double the amount of members they had last year, and they intend to grow to around 20 members by the end of next year—the maximum number Brink could feasibly teach while maintaining a close-knit feel amongst the members.

The Guild offers lessons for newcomers at the beginning of fall quarter to anyone who wants to learn more about playing the carillon.

Monday, April 17 Fourth Ward Alderman “On the Block” P Berry Kafe, 3428 S. King Drive, 4-7 p.m.

Fourth Ward residents are invited to meet one-on-one with Alderman Sophia King. Meetings will last 15 minutes each, and no appointment is needed.

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Personal Papers of Nobel Laureate Available in Regenstein Library

BY LAUREN PANKIN SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

The world’s largest collection of Nobel laureate Saul Bellow’s personal papers is now accessible for research in the Special Collections Research Center in Regenstein Library.

The collection is comprised of manuscripts, Rolodex record cards and personal correspondence. According to Processing Archivist Ashley Gosselar, scholars may use these documents to research Bellow’s career as a writer and professor who spent three decades at the University of Chicago.

These papers also give researchers a glimpse of Bellow as an engaged thinker who fostered many personal relationships with his intellectual contemporaries, Gosselar said. Bellow’s epistolary network rapidly grew after he won the Nobel Prize and the Pulitzer Prize in the same year, 1976.

“That really is what an archive of personal papers is like: you’re going to get great insight into Bellow as a human being in addition to Bellow as a writer,” Gosselar said. “One could conceivably come to this collection without any interest in Bellow and spend days going through his correspondence because of

one’s interest in other thinkers and writers of the 20th century.”

The archival work was sponsored by a gift from Robert Nelson (A.M. ’64) and Carolyn Nelson (A.M. ’64, Ph.D. ’67) according to a University press release. Gosselar said she spent around a year reviewing and organizing the collection, in addition to writing the online guide for its voluminous contents.

The collection physically fills 254 boxes and spans 90 years.

Some of the collection’s highlights include letters exchanged with Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison, who lived with Bellow in the late 1950s.

“It’s just a folder, but the letters are lengthy, and Ralph discusses his thoughts about writing,” Gosselar said. “There are these nice personal asides about housework and maintenance, things like, ‘Oh, I bought a rake.’”

Since Bellow was not only a prolific author but also a relentless editor, a large portion of the collection consists of his manuscripts, Gosselar said. Bellow typically began his works longhand in notebooks, then worked from multiple typescript drafts.

“Some of the drafts were for writings never published, so there is room for discovery,” Gosselar said. “It’s an opportunity for re-

searchers to see how his work evolved and what his creative process was like.”

According to Gosselar, the collection of Bellow’s works coincides with a resurgence in Bellow’s literature. In 2011, the Chicago Public Library chose Bellow’s novel The Adventures of Augie March as its “One Book, One Chicago” selection. In summer 2017, playwright and director David Auburn, a visiting fellow at the UChicago Neubauer Collegium, will write a stage adaptation of the same novel to be premiered at the Court Theatre.

“Thinking even bigger picture, as President Obama was getting ready to leave office, he gave an interview with The New York Times about books which were important to him during his presidency,” Gosselar said. “He cited Bellow’s fiction, because for him the story of the immigrant outsider that Bellow’s work so often portrays provides very relevant insight into the longings of the outsider in American culture.”

Special Collections is open to the general public, not just UChicago students and faculty.

Because a guide to Bellow’s documents is published online, people interested in accessing his papers can request specific papers for perusal at their convenience in Special Collections.

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students from running for Executive Slate.

Cottrell speculated that fewer students are running due to a decline in Student Government’s reputation. “The popular view of SG is that it is ineffective and that campaigns get nasty,” he explained. He added that early support for Rise might have discouraged students from running as well.

Wr ite-in cand idates can run for any position, though they would not have access to the money available to reimburse campaigning costs and pay for printing, which totals $350 for Executive Slate candidates. According to the head of SG’s Election and Rules Committee (E&R) Max Freedman, the E&R will need to vote to determine whether write-in candidates would be able to participate in the debates the committee organizes.

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VIEWPOINTS Fraternities Committed to... Something With PSA’s Recent Reports, FCS’s Cracks are Beginning to Show Fraternities Committed to Safety (FCS), a policy that provided guidelines for internal accountability among campus fraternities, appeared to be a step in the right direction toward reducing sexual assault and creating a safer campus when it was first adopted by campus fraternities last quarter. However, the signing fraternities’ recent failure to address and respond to many of the violations reported by the Phoenix Survivors Alliance (PSA) reveals the policy to be a hollow solution.

The M AROON Editorial Board believes that UChicago should follow its peer institutions—including MIT and Northwestern—and establish an Interfraternity Council (IFC). This council, composed of elected fraternity members, would be the governing body responsible for overseeing fraternities.

It would be recognized by the University, which would have the ability to sanction fraternities that fail to meet its guidelines, avoiding the drawbacks of fraternity self-regulation, and consequently hold Greek life accountable to its commitment to a safer campus. Such a council would require active University participation, including recognition of fraternities. Until an IFC is established, there should still be some measures in place to keep fraternities accountable for their role in creating a safer campus; these should include changes to FCS to improve its credibility and effectiveness.

FCS currently misses the mark in three crucial respects: it is entirely self-enforced, re-

ported violations could remain unaddressed for weeks (Section V, Article C of FCS policy states that reports only need to be reviewed on a monthly basis), and it doesn’t require transparency with the student body.

These unresolved ambiguities began to pose a problem for FCS when PSA, an RSO that advocates on behalf of survivors of sexual violence, conducted fraternity party assessment visits on the nights of February 18, March 1, and March 31.

In response to these assessments, PSA reported a series of alleged FCS violations, both privately through the FCS website and publicly via its Facebook page. According to PSA, some of the violations were swiftly addressed; other reports received no response and remained unresolved.

During the April 9 re-signing meeting, some fraternity heads apologized for previous infractions while others explained their fraternities’ behavior. Nonetheless, the FCS board was reluctant to entertain PSA’s recommendations, deferring them for a revision meeting in two weeks. The decision to prioritize the unanimous re-signing of FCS above thoroughly addressing infractions proves, yet again, that self-regulation is ineffective and disingenuous.

The very fact that PSA has taken it upon itself to report on fraternity-hosted social events and publicize these allegations points to the need for external regulation. However, the onus of regulation should never have to

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fall on those who have experienced sexual violence, or those who advocate on behalf of survivors.

The University is poised to be the most effective regulatory entity when it comes to campus fraternities, but it is unlikely to assume that role anytime soon—which leaves us with FCS. However, because the policy’s current incarnation has proven to be troublingly ineffective, the M A ROON Editorial Board urges FCS signatories to consider the following revisions to the document: Review reports as they are filed, not monthly. Under the current FCS, violation reports could go unaddressed for weeks at a time—which, according to PSA, they have.

Use FCS’s website to make public announcements stating previous policy violations, the date of submission, and the date of rectifi cation. As it currently stands, FCS is only explicit-

ly responsible for announcing when the document has been re-signed each quarter. If FCS were completely transparent about fraternities’ individual track records—their history of violations and efficiency in addressing them—students could draw their own conclusions rather than blindly accepting the takeaways of FCS’s quarterly renewal meeting.

Procure a third-party entity outside of Greek life to review and enforce the standards set forth by FCS. Fraternities should actively seek students not affiliated with Greek life who are interested in forming a task force to complete random inspections of fraternity parties in order to ensure FCS compliance.

Widely publicize the time and date of the quarterly re-signing. PSA had to e-mail fraternity presidents several times to fi nd out the time and date of the quarterly re-sign-

ing. In the future, these meetings should be widely publicly advertised ahead of time, and FCS signatories should consider publishing minutes of their proceedings. Fraternities should use the quarterly re-signing as an opportunity to solicit input from the broader University community.

These suggestions are, for the most part, in line with some of PSA’s own recommendations, which FCS signatories should consider implementing in full.

Let’s assume FCS is a goodfaith effort toward a safer campus. But, unless fraternities demonstrate over the next few weeks that they’re willing to put in the hard work to implement these changes, FCS will inevitably devolve into a toothless publicity exercise.

Patrick Lou recused himself from the writing of this editorial due to his membership in an FCS fraternity.

Letter: Administration Needs to Divest from Companies Supporting Israeli Occupation of Palestine A year ago, UofC Divest’s Resolution to Divest University Funds from Apartheid passed in College Council, gaining student government support for divestment from 10 international companies complicit in the Israeli occupation of Palestine. This spring, UofC Divest renews its efforts with a let t er c a mpa ig n , ask i ng everyone recently motivated into political engagement to put those tactics to work right here on campus. By pressuring the Board of Trustees to divest from the oppression of Palestinians, we as a university community can make the statement that no mistreated group is exempt from our solidarity, and our own complicit institutions are not exempt from our demands.

For those just now hearing about this campaig n, a summary: Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza, and within Israel have asked for international support in their struggle against Israeli occupation, a system of rule fully comparable to South African Apartheid which deprives them of basic human rights. Specifically, a broad civil society coalition called on the international commu n ity i n 2 0 0 5 t o use non-violent economic means to pressure Israel via boycotts, d ivestment , a nd sa nc t ion s ( BDS). Last year, the UofC Divest campaig n responded to this call by demanding the University administration di-

vest from companies complicit in the occupation, and the resolution won the endorsement of College Council on April 12, 2016. Now, we are encouraging members of the University community to write letters to the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees, or sign on to our own letter, demanding that they implement our resolution.

Many A merican progress i v e s , i n c lud i n g s ome o n our own campus, have been spurred into civic action by recent political events. Letter writing and call-in campaigns have mobilized entire populations not previously involved in political advocacy, and the pressure generated by these actions have had some significant effects on the national level. But some have been left out of the discourse —which has been mostly focused on national electoral politics — and we can do better, starting from our own campus.

Palestinians have not been included in mainstream advocacy campaigns on the national stage. This is not new: The one thing around which there seems to be a consensus in American politics is unconditional military aid to Israel, now billions of dollars per year, even as they steal Palestinian land, bomb Palestinian homes, kidnap Palestinian children, deny Palestinians access to resources, harass Palestinians at checkpoints,

a nd i mpr ison Pa lesti n ia ns without charge. David Friedman, an extremist who raises money for an ultra-nationalist illegal settlement in the West Bank, was recently sworn in as A merican ambassador to Israel, but it was not even mentioned in The New York Times. It may be in vogue to stand with Muslims—but apparently not if those Muslims are Palestinian.

We can bring Palestinians into our political discourse, starting here, where we can truly make a difference. Our own university is likely investing in companies which support the occupation of Palestinian land, such as weapons manufacturers and construction material providers. There is also virtually no detailed public information on our own university’s finances. Students may join the UofC Divest campaign in writing letters to the Board of Trustees Investment Committee, or sign on to ours online, calling for transparency in the University’s financial information and an end to our complicity in Israeli apartheid.

With enough engagement, we have the opportunity to widen the scope of our solidarity while focusing on our own institutional complicity, showing Palestinians that their suffering will not go unheard in the halls of those who fund it.

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Hadley, who described herself as a vocal voice of dissent to the report, said she’d prefer the 1970s procedures—even though they’re not “gorgeous”—because she feels the proposed system is too punitive.

History professor Jane Dailey, who served on the Committee that produced the report, dismisses this criticism. “We were charged with writing a disciplinary report, so by definition it was going to be punitive.”

The goal, she said, is to avoid the prospect of students being disciplined by setting a clear and consistent line for what behavior will be punished.

The Picker report—as some members of the faculty senate are calling it—invokes the Board of Trustees in addition to the faculty senate because it recommends changes to Statute 21, which defines disruptive conduct, and only the trustees have jurisdiction to amend the statutes. The Board will convene for its quarterly meeting in May. The committee that drafted the report is currently taking feedback on the system it proposed in Appendix V. The report was presented at the senate’s March 28 meeting.

There will be time for discussion at a meeting near the end of the month. On May 23, the Senate will have an up-or-down vote on a potentially amended version of Appendix V. A vote was at one point slated for April, but the timing was pushed back when a member of the senate requested more time for discussion. As Hadley indicated, the faculty senate has laid low for much of its history.

Most students have probably never heard the of the body—officially named “The Council of the University Senate.”

Charles Wegener, who served on the Council from 1964–67, wrote in a 1969 edition of THE MAROON: “Month after month would go by in which there was nothing on the agenda other than routine ‘reports’ generally remarkable only by their dullness, and perhaps a few honorary degrees. On occasion it was difficult to believe that a quorum was in fact present. I cannot now recall why I went to the meetings and in fact I simply forgot a few.”

He wrote this reflection amid a highly tumultuous time for the senate in the aftermath of a two-week occupation of Levi Hall by more than 400 students that led to more than 60 expulsions. The process of expelling those students stretched out over months.

At one protest of the disciplinary process, a student kicked in the door of the president’s house and pinned a message on the inside.

At another, Julian Levi, an urban studies professor and the brother of the University’s president, responded to protesters chanting “sixty-one”—the number of students then facing disciplinary action—by pointing at one protester after another and counting up: “sixty-two,” “sixty-three,” “sixty-four.”

The protests spilled into the deliberations of the disciplinary committees themselves.

Within a week of the end of the sit-in, two hundred protesters blocked one disciplinary committee in a Law School courtroom for two and a half hours. The stand-off ended when 20 law students and security guards rushed past students guarding the doors, allowing the disciplinary committee to leave through a baseball exit.

Call that the worst-case scenario. In the aftermath, the administration thought it would be prudent to get the faculty senate involved to “decentralize” the decision-making process.

The faculty senate sprang into action. It passed resolutions, held regular meetings (which demonstrators tried to protest too), issued statements, created committees, and asked for reports. The majority of the faculty senate ultimately came out in support of the disciplinary actions the University took against the protestors, but it called for a committee to conduct a larger review of the University’s disciplinary response to disruptive conduct.

A few months later, the “Subcommittee on Disciplinary Procedures” had issued its report. It recommended the creation of a new disciplinary system to address disruptive conduct. In May 1970, the faculty senate voted in favor of the disciplinary system. The resolution it passed also recommended a change to the Statutes of the University that, when approved by the Board of Trustees, put jurisdiction over rules regarding discipline for disruptive conduct in the hands of the Senate. The “All-University Disciplinary System” is this system, although it was amended in 1976.

Now, in the wake of much smaller-scale occupations of Levi Hall last year and other incidents of disruptive protests on campus, the faculty senate is again at the center of the debate about disciplinary response. Last June, then-Provost Eric Isaacs sent an e-mail officially announcing the creation of the “Faculty Committee on University Discipline for Disruptive Conduct.”

The charge to the committee states, “Given the increase in disruptive conduct at the University as defined by Statute 21, it is important that an improved system be developed and approved.”

The administration’s charge to the committee referenced an uptick in disruptive behavior last year, but a list of incidents was not included. That meant the committee had to do research.

“We put together a list of what we thought of were situations that might be within the ambit of this that occurred on campus in the past couple years. The truth is the people who were appointed—it is faculty members—we didn’t necessarily know anything about this,” Picker said. “I gotta say—we looked at The Maroon a lot.”

Picker said the committee identified two different types of disruptive situations. The first is “speech-speech” conflict. In this category, he said, is the incident last February when the state’s attorney, Anita Alvarez, was shouted down at the Institute of Politics by Black Lives Matter protesters. Clashes between Israeli-affiliated groups and Students for Justice in Palestine that are common across the country may also fall into this category, he said.

“On the one hand you might say—‘Well, that was free speech by those individuals.’

On the other hand, you had a group of people who had come to hear Alvarez; Alvarez herself wanted to speak; she left; and the group that wanted to hear her couldn’t hear her.”

Picker sees another category of disruptive speech that does not directly interfere with

the speech of others, but instead interferes with the activities of the University. Two incidents last year when protesters occupied Levi Hall fall into this category of speech, he said.

“The people taking over the building would say they’re engaging in an act of protest and, in that sense, speech,” he said. “In one situation quite clearly the elevators were blocked and that creates safety hazard issues.

So that can’t happen.”

The committee also studied incidents on campus when protesters were able to communicate a message without escalating to disruption. He cited a silent protest last April by members of the Armenian Students Organization.

The committee kept track of protests this year. Picker said he stood out in the cold for an hour in February to observe the protest outside an IOP event with Corey Lewandowski.

Senate member and comparative literature professor Haun Saussy also attended the Lewandowski protest, but as a participant. Saussy, who pointed to a “Fuck white supremacy” sign in his Wieboldt office as he talked about his political ideology and his opposition to the current administration, said that he and other members of the senate are concerned about a more “heavy-handed” response to protest from the University.

The Senate met with dozens of members of the University of Chicago community with a range of ideological views. A list of those people—attached to the report—includes administrators who work closely with discipline, campus police, deans, faculty, and community members. In terms of students, the committee held an open forum in October, and it solicited feedback directly from Student Government leaders, activists, and the president of College Republicans (CR).

Picker and Dailey said the main item of feedback the committee gathered from students was interest in more clarity from the school on what is and what is not punishable disruption.

“While incidents obviously can differ on a case by case basis, it is very important to have a basic set of expectations for all students when we arrive on campus,” third-year CR President Matthew Foldi said.

Student Government President Eric Holmberg also confirmed that this was a “prominent” point expressed by students, but he noted that a range of issues was discussed.

The committee studied the University’s most recent reports on related subjects—the Stone report and the Strauss report—and strengthened its understanding of the various layers of jurisdiction. The Council of the University Senate, the Board of Trustees, and the administration each have jurisdiction to implement parts of the Picker report.

The educational and administrative recommendations in the report can be implemented without a vote from the senate or the trustees.

This includes recommendations in the report pertaining to changes to event management intended to reduce speaker silencing.

The report calls for deans-on-call trained in responding to disruption and for educational programming by the Office of Campus and Student Life on “the rights and responsibilities of participating in the free-speech com-

mons at the University.”

The faculty senate could potentially vote on whether to recommend the Statute 21 revisions to the trustees. It was unclear to several members of the senate—Picker included—if that would definitely happen.

Vice President and Secretary of the University Darren Reisberg has been helping the senate navigate procedural questions.

Reisberg directed a request for comment to the University’s press office. The University issued a general statement in response to THE MAROON ’s request for comment, but had no comment on the process in the senate because it is ongoing.

A biology professor on the faculty senate, Erin Adams, said that a recommendation from the majority of the faculty senate could carry a lot of weight with the Board of Trustees, even though it would not be binding. Adams, who is a member of the seven person sub-committee, believes it’s critical that protesters do not obstruct the rights of others to express themselves, and she generally spoke in support of the Picker report.

Other members of the senate raised concerns that the definition of disruptive conduct in Statute 21 encompasses legitimate protest.

Math professor and faculty senate member Denis R. Hirschfeldt pointed to an article about the report by John K. Wilson on the Academe Blog. Wilson criticizes the definition of disruption in Statute 21, and he is skeptical that the proposed revisions will improve it.

“Any rule that says ‘includes but is not limited to’ is completely unlimited. The University can literally say that anything is disruptive conduct,” he writes. “And it definitely should not be defined to include ‘enjoyment of the activity or facility.’ ... A protest almost always affects the enjoyment people have at an event. It can annoy and inconvenience people.

But being annoying shouldn’t be punishable behavior.”

Picker, however, says that the committee was not tasked with reinventing Statute 21.

“You’re given a point, and you should stay in the neighborhood of that,” he said regarding the charge from the administration.

Though he did not write it, Picker defended parts of the language in the statute and contested some of the criticisms in Wilson’s blog post. “There was a definition of disruptive conduct there. The first part of Statute 21 is that definition.” Picker added that ‘included but is not limited to’ is common language in law and contracts.

Hirschfeldt raised another point that Wilson’s blog makes about the new sentence in Statute 21 regarding aggregation of repeat incidents. “If a single incident does not justify punishment, then repetition of it at different events should not be punished,” Wilson wrote.

Picker did not entirely dismiss this argument. “We’re hearing feedback; we’re going to iterate. And maybe we’ll say, ‘Oh, that didn’t work.’”

Wilson also blasted the proposed revision to include the word “group” in the statute. He argued that it seems to open up the possibility that a member of a group could be disciplined for group behavior even if the individual did nothing wrong. Picker said that is not the inContinued on page 5

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tent behind this proposed language revision.

He said the intent is to reflect the reality that oftentimes disruption is not the act of a single individual, citing the incident at Berkeley this year.

Section 12.5.3.5 of the University’s statutes gives the faculty senate jurisdiction to determine the University’s rules pertaining to Statute 21. That means the senate is responsible for figuring out how the principles in Statute 21 are enforced in practice.

After massive sit-ins at the University of Chicago in the late 1960s, the faculty senate instituted in 1970 the All-University Disciplinary System for disruptive behavior.

At the start of each fall quarter, the president of the University was to appoint five faculty members to a standing “University Disciplinary Committee.” A panel of 15 students (five undergrads and 10 graduate students) was to be appointed by Student Government and the graduate school student bodies. From this pool of students, two would be selected to join the standing faculty committee to hear a particular case.

The accused individuals could choose if the hearings were conducted in public or in private and they could call witnesses to testify or submit written statements. Notably, the disciplinary committee “ignores any previous history of disciplinary action with respect to the student charged.”

Possible sanctions include disciplinary probation, suspension, and expulsion.

Picker confirmed what senate faculty member Na’ama Rokem first told THE MAROON—that the administration will use the 1970s procedures if the senate does not pass a version of what’s proposed in the Picker report. Asked what happens if the measure fails, Picker said, “Well, the answer to that— according to the University—is the 1970s procedures will be applied on a going-forward basis.”

Picker said that’s not necessarily a nightmare scenario, but it’s not ideal, either.

“The thing that I think one should be concerned about about the 1970 procedures [is] there seems to be no statutory or rule-based path for an informal resolution. Once you sort of get on the train, I think the train runs forward. I don’t think that’s good. I think you want to have the chance to make an assessment, and then say ‘OK, we don’t have to go through a full blown hearing.’ And I think there’s a concern that the disciplinary results aren’t as flexible as you’d like.”

In addition to suspension and expulsion, the Picker system would equip disciplinary committees with a range of lesser sanctions: warnings on students’ educational records, probation status that would have to be considered if a student were to be summoned to another hearing during the probation peri-

od, loss of certain University privileges, and discretionary sanctions that “may require the completion of additional academic work, community service, or restitution/fines by a given deadline.”

Section IV of Appendix V outlines an informal complaint resolution process that would give the Associate Dean of Students in the University for Disciplinary Affairs the ability to resolve alleged violations of Statute 21 without a hearing. The respondent would be able to accept the informal resolution or request a hearing by a committee.

There are a number of other substantial differences between the procedures in the Picker report and the 1970s procedures.

Under Appendix V, disciplinary committees would be comprosed of three faculty members, one staff member, and one student. The report says that the committee will be drawn from a larger pool of individuals appointed by the Provost. Appendix V, however, does not say who will select these people.

Several members of the faculty senate object to a system in which the administration is responsible for appointing the members of disciplinary committees. Hadley said she worries that a future administration could use appointment power to “stack the committee.” Hirschfeldt raised the concern of partiality in the case of a protest that is directed at, for example, a trustee.

Presented with this criticism, Picker seemed open to revision. “We should think about that. Certainly our intention was not to stack the deck.… It sounds like we need to fix that. I don’t know what that fix looks like exactly. I’ve heard the idea of a vote suggested. That’s a pretty cumbersome mechanism, but it sounds like we need more clarity there.”

Picker did not totally dismiss the viability of a random, jury-style selection process. “I don’t know if that’s crazy—not at all,” he said.

“My understanding, unsurprisingly, is that actually getting people to do this turns out to be hard. That’s true in sexual misconduct [proceedings], it’s true in other disciplinary proceedings, as I understand it.”

After the 1969 sit-in, the idea of random selection was considered. Noting the technological difficulties of creating a random system for selecting disciplinary committee members, Harry V. Roberts, a University statistician wrote, “In principle, [randomization] might be achieved by mechanical mixing or other gambling-type devices, by use of published tables or random numbers, or by use of computer procedures for generation of psuedo-random numbers.”

Roberts, whose paper advocated for randomization to prevent the administration from “load[ing] the dice,” acknowledged that randomization was unlikely to be adopted.

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confident that the proposal will not be adopted by the University of Chicago,” he writes.

“Many feel, for example, that only people with a certain combination of sensitivity, judicial temperament, tough-mindedness, compassion, coolness under fire, and the like, should be considered for a job that is arduous, frustrating, and even hazardous.”

Picker’s committee modeled much of its Appendix V system after the University’s disciplinary system for sexual misconduct.

A couple of faculty senate members were confused as to why the committee chose to do so. Hirschfeldt noted that there is a very high degree of confidentiality in the Picker system as both disciplinary proceedings and disciplinary outcomes are to remain confidential.

Appendix V reads: “All parties and witnesses involved in an investigation or proceeding under this disciplinary system are prohibited from disclosing, at any time and through any medium (including social media), the identity of the parties and witnesses, and any details or information regarding an incident, investigation, or proceeding.”

Although there are some exceptions to this rule, in this respect, Appendix V is in stark contrast to the 1970s procedures which allow for public hearings.

Picker said that the committee looked toward the sexual misconduct disciplinary system as a starting point because it is the most recent University disciplinary system: “You try not to reinvent the wheel.” And, because that system has seen use, he said the committee could get “a sense of what is working and what is not working.”

Picker said that his aim with regard to confidentiality was to create the least burdensome rules possible “consistent with FERPA and consistent with proceedings that actually work.” FERPA is a federal privacy law pertaining to educational records. Although there are confidentiality rules in the University-wide Disciplinary System, Appendix V is even stricter. For example, participants in sexual misconduct proceedings can share the outcomes of hearings and facts about incidents that they knew prior to the proceedings—Appendix V does not have these exceptions.

The confidentiality rules that go beyond FERPA are intended to make the hearings function smoothly, he said. “Try this—if someone was livestreaming a hearing, would that work? I doubt it.”

This all may seem technical, but confidentiality rules could matter, for example, in the case of a leader of a sit-in who wants to tell his story to The New York Times.

Other points of debate in the senate concern the role lawyers should be allowed to play in the hearings and whether accused students should be able to call witnesses—as

the the 1970s procedures provide—or merely “suggest” witnesses be called, as Appendix V proposes.

Unlike the 1970s procedure which ignore student’s previous disciplinary records, Appendix V has a procedure for a dean to notify disciplinary committee’s of prior Statute 21 violation allegations against the student in question.

Anyone can initiate a complaint under the Picker system, which diverges somewhat from the 1970s procedures which leave more of this responsibility to deans. “In SJP-Israeli conflicts, I could see either side doing that,” Picker said. “In the IOP situations, maybe it would be IOP.” It could also be the administration, and he stressed that deans would be able to initiate complaints.

All this comes at a time when the president of the University of Chicago, Robert J. Zimmer is making a stir by weighing in on the national dialogue on how colleges should respond when campus groups invite provocative speakers like Milo Yiannopoulos, Charles Murray, and Richard Spencer.

Zimmer’s position, which is bolstered by the Picker report, is that campus groups should be allowed to invite anyone to speak to them. This means the administration plays no role in approving speakers, and it means that the University of Chicago thinks members of the University community and people outside that community should not be able to prevent those people from speaking—exercising what is sometimes called a heckler’s veto.

The corollary to that is the possibility for a scenario in which a deeply controversial speaker comes to campus and the University is responsible for shielding that speaker from disruptive protest, even if the speaker is spreading a message that is antithetical to the mission or values of the University.

Picker said it’s the best of bad options.

“I’ll say ‘yes.’ This is one of these things where you announce some principles, and then you take them to their logical or illogical conclusion, and that’s I think where you end up,” he said. “I don’t want Richard Spencer on campus. I’ve watched him on YouTube for two minutes. I’ve seen enough. I don’t need more. But if someone invites him to campus, we’re stuck.”

After talking about how much time the committee has spent on the report, and how sometimes he’ll sit back in his chair to stare at the ceiling to brainstorm ideas, and how he’s had to wrestle with and try to make sense of feedback from a community member who invoked a Foucauldian opposition to discipline for protest, Picker mused about how hard the debate is and how the country has struggled over time to get it right.

“We’re wrestling intensely with this on university campuses,” he said. “And wow—if we can’t get this right, who can?”

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The University of Chicago Law School Presents The 2017 Maurice and Muriel Fulton Lectureship in Legal History

The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court Laura Kalman, Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Thursday, April 20th 4:00 p.m.

Reception Following Weymouth Kirkland Courtroom University of Chicago Law School 1111 E. 60th Street Chicago, Illinois 60637

This lecture is free and open to the public. No response is required but seating is limited. For special assistance or needs, please contact Erin Wellin at 773.834.4326 or ewellin@uchicago.edu.

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uchicago MANUAL OF

STYLE

by christian hill, mj chen, & chris d’angelo

ANYA MARCHENKO / FOURTH-YEAR I’m an economics major and philosophy minor. On campus, I’m involved in Peer Health Exchange and work at Grounds of Being.

“Details... make clothes into pieces rather than just pieces of fabric.”

A nya is wearing a vintage dress, shoes

by Aerosoles, and a watch by Movado.

This Movado watch is probably my favorite piece of jewelry. My parents gave it to me when I was 16 and said, “This is a watch you’re going to have for the rest of your life.” You invest in something that will last the rest of your life. Of course, you have constraints—not everybody can afford luxury items like these, and it’s a great privilege to be able to do that.

My style is very sleek and chic. I try to do hipster-grunge sometimes, but I fail pretty spectacularly. I try to come off as somebody who knows what she’s doing, somebody you don’t mess with. You’re not going to mess with somebody in this coat. If you were to map these clothes to stereotypes of people, that’s what I think the feeling would be.

When I worked in consulting last summer, I was very keenly aware of how easy it was to look bland in the business world. I was trying to balance dressing appropriately for the environment with standing out. I even wore those green Armani Exchange pants to work—with a blazer.

I like wearing these pieces because people don’t perceive clothes as art or expression to the extent I think they should. The ability to mold people’s perceptions of you based on what you’re wearing is a powerful one. As the saying goes, “Wear perfume because it introduces you before you even walk into the room.” Fashion is the same concept: when I feel like I look good, I have a presence that I don’t even have to craft. —ANYA

I want to fuck people up when they see the clothing I wear—that’s the way I like to wear pieces. I really like statement pieces, whether it’s big swishy pants or a bold red outfit. I also want to feel comfortable and unconstricted.

Both outfits I picked are very easy to wear, but the pieces themselves have such quality and beauty that combining them takes little effort.

People always wonder: “Why does this simple black dress from Dolce & Gabbana cost $3,000?” That’s because of the detail and craftsmanship in the dress. I don’t necessarily own pieces like that, but I really like the intent of detail. Look closer and you notice, for example, intricate black folds or that the seam is sewn a certain way. Those kinds of details bring me happiness because I can feel the thought that the designer put into it. Chanel designed her ladies’ tweed suits with a weight in the back of the jacket, so it wouldn’t ride up when a woman raised her hand to hail a cab. To me, details like that make clothes into pieces rather than just pieces of fabric.

My family has influenced my approach to style by handing down pieces from older generations that I wouldn’t be able to buy elsewhere. They’ve also passed down an appreciation for things that people perceive a little bit differently in America. Sometimes I tie a scarf around my head when it’s cold and people say, “You look like a babushka!” I’m like, “No, this is just what women wear in Ukraine.”

I was born in the Ukraine and moved here when I was eight years old. My grandmother gave me a fur coat when I was 16. I’m pretty sure that’s why MJ asked me to model, because he loves that coat so much. It’s actually very common for women to have fur coats in Ukraine and Russia. It gets very cold, it’s part of the culture—in Moscow, you’re not considered a real society woman unless you have two or three fur coats. At first I didn’t appreciate it because it looked different from the coats people would wear here.

Now, though, people stop me every time I wear that coat and say “Oh my god, that’s an incredible coat.” It’s so easy—you put it on, and instantly it’s an incredible piece no one else has.

A lot of things that I have were given to me by my grandmother. My family had a lot of jewelry from weddings and birthdays back in the Soviet Union, which they gifted to me as they got older. You wouldn’t find these things in stores these days, so they’re very special to me.

“When I feel like I look good, I have a presence.”

A ny a i s w e a r i n g a mink fur coat, a sweater by A STR , pa nts by A r m a n i Exchange.

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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “Blazers in 6.” — NBA star Damian Lillard when asked about the Portland Trailblazers’ series against the Golden State Warriors in the NBA playoffs

South Siders Come Back via Bat Power BASEBALL

BY MAGGIE O’HARA SPORTS STAFF

The UChicago baseball team came through with a big seventh inning to eliminate an early 6–2 deficit against Dominican University (6–16) on Wednesday. The Maroons (15–5) strung together five runs in the seventh to run the score to 7-6 and would hold on to this lead the rest of the game.

The Stars jumped out to an early lead, plating two runs in the first inning and another four runs in the third. The Maroons

struck back, scoring one in the first and another in the fourth, but stranded a runner at third in the sixth.

In the seventh inning the bats came alive for the Maroons—the inning began with a walk of first-year Payton Jancsy which was followed up by a single up the middle by fourth-year Tim Sonnefeldt. The first run of the inning came in to score on a fielder’s choice ground out to shortstop by second-year Max Brzostowski. The next run came in on second-year Connor Hickey’s second single of the day. Three more runs would come in

on subsequent singles by second-years Ian Bohn, Brady Sarkon, and Josh Parks to run the score to 7-6.

The Stars struck back right away in the top of the eight, with the first two batters getting on base via a single and a hit by pitch.

This led Chicago to bring in closer third-year Michael Davis. The first batter he faced sacrifice bunted the runners over, leaving Davis to intentionally walk the next batter to recreate the force out. The intentional walk paid off as the next batter grounded into an inning-ending double play.

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First-year Peyton Jancsy at bat against Finlandia last weekend.

The Maroons would hold on to their lead the rest of the game as Davis retired the side in the ninth to pick up a six-out save.

The Maroons look to continue to build off this comeback victory as they take on North Central (9–7) and Beloit (8–11–1) this weekend. While neither team has a remarkable record, it’s crucial for the Maroons to continue taking wins from regional teams.

North Central will come to Chicago on Friday. This matchup should stand to be a hitter’s duel, as they average over 7 runs per game and the Maroons are average 7.6 runs per game. North Central is currently sharing the top of the CCIW standings with Illinois Wesleyan.

On Saturday, the Maroons will hit the road at the completion of their nine-game home stand and head up to Beloit College.

Beloit has lost a lot of close games, indicating that their record isn’t a holistic view of their true talent.

The Maroons will continue to pace games with their bats, as they are currently ranked fifth in Division III with a .349 team batting average. They are led by superstar Hickey, who is pacing the offense with a .442/.511/.636 slash line. The Maroons have nine hitters who are hitting right at or above .350 on the season.

Chicago will next see action on Friday at home against North Central at 3 p.m. They will then head out to Beloit to play two on Saturday. The first game is scheduled to start at noon.

Maroons Aim to Fly High SOFTBALL

BY NATALIE DEMURO SPORTS STAFF

The University of Chicago softball team looks to improve its 13–8 season record when it takes on North Central College this weekend and Hope College on Monday in doubleheader matchups. The Maroons will travel to Naperville for games against the Cardinals on Saturday before heading to Holland, MI to face off with the Flying Dutch. Since 2006, North Central has won nine out of the last 13 games with the Maroons, including four out of the last six.

UChicago has historically performed well against Hope, having won 13 of the last 17 games played.

After going 9–4 in March, the Maroons got off to a rocky start this April, dropping

three out of their first four games. The squad rallied back last weekend against Wash U with a 3–1 record over a four-game series, including a 4–0 shutout in the final game. Third-year Molly Moran was selected as UAA Pitcher of the Week on Monday after tallying one save and one win against Wash U. Over 12 innings pitched, she struck out 12 batters and did not allow any earned runs.

The Cardinals have dropped five straight games, including a recent 8–11 loss at Concordia University Chicago on Tuesday. Their even 12–12 record features impressive victories over No. 23 Illinois Wesleyan University. The Cardinals took home matching 6–3 wins against the Titans in a doubleheader earlier this month.

The Maroons played Illinois Wesleyan just three days prior, but fell in close contests, 3–2 and 5–3.

In last year’s doubleheader, the Cardinals and Maroons each took home a win and a loss. In the first game, UChicago faced a 5–0 deficit in the bottom of the sixth, but an offensive outburst sent the teams into extra innings. The Maroons were ultimately defeated after the Cardinals hit a grand slam in the eighth. UChicago rallied back for the second game, outscoring North Central 2–1.

Hope’s six-game win streak has improved its season record to 16–6. The Maroons and the Flying Dutch have faced five mutual opponents and have come away with similar outcomes. Both squads defeated North Park University and Fontbonne Uni-

versity, but fell to Wisconsin–Oshkosh and Tufts University. The teams split results against No. 9 Wisconsin–Eau Claire, as Hope came away with a 3–2 victory, while UChicago lost 3–1.

UChicago shut out Hope in both matchups last season, tallying 1–0 and 5–0 victories. The Maroons recorded a no-hitter in the first game and allowed five hits in the second.

Second-year do-everything player Carly Schulz said, “We’ve been working a lot on solidifying our defense and minimizing errors, alongside executing offensively in games—if we can hit consistently and aggressively throughout our lineup and score runners early, we should do very well in our upcoming games.”

Chicago Goes Off to the Relay Races TRACK & FIELD

BY ALYSSA RUDIN SPORTS STAFF

This weekend, the men’s and women’s track and field teams will be heading to Lisle to compete in the Benedictine Relays. Both teams have been very successful so far in their outdoor season, with the men coming in second at both the Ted Haydon Invitational and the Wheaton Invitational. Not to be outdone, the Maroon women were champions at both meets.

This past weekend at Wheaton, the Maroons enjoyed plenty of individual success across events. On the women’s side, fourthyear Michelle Dobbs, NCAA champion in the 800-meter, has seemingly returned to

dominant form, winning the 800 race in 2:17.25. Third-year Khia Kurtenbach, indoor UAA champion, impressed in the 5,000 meters, finishing 31 seconds ahead of the second-place runner with a time of 17:06.78, and third-year Megan Verner-Crist was also victorious in the 1,500 meters.

In the field events, however, it was the first-years who made their mark. UAA Indoor Rookie of the Year Alisha Harris has transitioned smoothly from indoors to outdoors, winning the long jump at 5.48 meters and claiming second place in the 200-meters.

Isabel Garon won the pole vault, flying to 3.52 meters.

The men, too, racked up team points through solid individual performances.

First-year Tyson Miller won the 400-meter race, securing the only individual win of the meet for the men. Runner-up finishes were abound, as Jatan Anand, Andrew Kates, and Obinnaya Wamuo all came in second in 100-meter, 5,000-meter, and 400-meter hurdles, respectively. Andrew Maneval also finished second in both the shot put and hammer throw.

Looking ahead to this weekend, the Benedictine Relays will serve as a final opportunity for the teams to tune up before conference, the culmination of their outdoor season. According to third-year Olivia Cattau, “Some of the team will be competing both days which will be good practice for the two-day UAA meet.” With few meets between the begin-

ning of outdoor season and outdoor UAAs, Cattau explained, “We don’t taper until the last possible moment. This year most of us will be training right through conference because we have more athletes than usually trying to qualify for nationals.”

Maneval, reflecting upon his impressive career, could not help but be a little nostalgic. “It’s pretty surreal how fast four years has gone by. During my freshman season, the UAA meet was also in Chicago, so it’s very poetic that things will come full circle.”

Looking ahead to UAAs, he hopes that the men’s team, which has never won conference, can “shock the nation” and come away with the title.