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VOL. 128, ISSUE 41

Dining Pilots Saturday Night Meal OBAMA VISITS CAMPUS, SPEAKS Swipe Program TO STUDENT LEADERS

BY TYRONE LOMAX NEWS STAFF

During each Saturday in May, UChicago Dining will pilot a new Saturday Night Meal Swipe Program. The Saturday Night Meal Swipes will be automatically added to student accounts on the Unlimited, Phoenix, and Apartment meal plans, as well as resident staff accounts.

Saturday Night Meal Swipes will be redeemable only at Hutchinson Commons between 4:30 and 7:30 p.m. The swipes will not roll over between weekends, and will include combo meal specials and dessert options from each station in Hutchinson Commons, including Saffron and Noodles.

The number of meal exchanges and Maroon Dollars in a student’s account will not be affected by the Saturday Night Meal Swipes.

Hutchinson Commons will be open for an additional 30 minutes for each Saturday throughout May, closing at 7:30 p.m. instead of at 7 in order to accommodate the pilot program.

The program is intended to provide more weekend food options for students while addressing student concerns about the limitations of the Saturday Night Social Club (SNSC) program. The SNSC serves as a meal option for students on Saturdays, providing a themed, “family-style dinner,” according to UChicago Dining’s website.

The SNSC program is free to students on a meal plan and $10 for students not on a meal plan. SNSC also operates by appointment, although students without appointments are provided food. The issue of inflexibility, particularly for students who did not know their weekend plans in advance, was one of the concerns voiced to Dining.

Dining proposed the Saturday Night Meal Swipe Program as a solution to allow more flexibility for students and for food to be taken outside of Hutchinson Commons after collaborating with various student groups, the Center for College Student Success, and the Campus Dining Advisory Board (which is composed of Student Government and Inter-House Council representatives).

The next SNSC will be on April 29, but the program will not be held in Hutchinson Commons throughout May. Feedback will be taken each Saturday from those who participate in the Saturday Night Meal Swipe Program and a survey will be sent out after the pilot period to those who did not redeem their swipes.

If the feedback is positive, Dining will consider implementing the program for the entirety of the 2017–18 school year at no additional cost to students, according to Stacey Brown, the assistant executive director of dining operations.

Courtesy of the University of Chicago Former President Barack Obama speaks with third-year Max Freedman in an appearance at the Logan Center.

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In 2008, Barack Obama told Chicago that he was “fired up and ready to go.” Monday morning, now on the other side of his two terms in office, he showed the city’s students that he still is.

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SG’s plan to dissolve the Uncommon Fund lacks common sense.

On Monday, Student Government (SG) Assembly passed the proposed budget for the 2017–18 academic year. After 23 minutes of discussion between Graduate Council and College Council members, the budget passed with 24 in favor, four opposed, and two abstentions.

The SG budget is generated from a pot of money gathered from the Student Life Fee, a quarterly fee paid by undergraduate and graduate students on campus. Each year, the budget, which often totals over

At last weekend’s meet, the women and men’s teams placed second and fourth, respectively.

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Fourth-years Breanne Johnson and Alice Xiao discuss their work and artistic growth.

You’ve sat in them. You’ve studied in them. Maybe you’ve even slept in them. But do you know their story?

on Friday, the University and press outlets released few details. As students speculated about who would be invited to attend the event, second-year Richard Omoniyi-Shoyoola, who was in Regenstein Library at the time, received a personal call from an Obama staffer asking if he would introduce Obama.

Setting the tone for the event, Omoniyi-Shoyoola spoke about Obama’s rise to the top in his introContinued on page 2

SG Passes Budget Cutting NYT Readership, Uncommon Fund

South Siders’ Stellar Showing at UAA Championships

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Uncommonly Fun

off his post-presidency public life at UChicago’s Logan Center for the Arts as students, educators, and community organizers from across Chicago gathered for a panel on young people in civic engagement.

Six current students and graduates of Chicago schools participated in a Q&A panel onstage with Obama, discussing youth mobilization in politics, media in the age of the internet, and dialogue across the aisle.

When the event was announced

$2 million, is allocated to a number of funding committees supporting student groups, campus initiatives, and the College and Graduate SG Councils.

Prior to 2016, when funding committees didn’t spend their total allocated funds, the leftover money would lay dormant in individual accounts, slowly accumulating over time. In the budget for the 2016–17 year, Former SG President Tyler Kissinger swept up the layover funds in the various bank accounts and accounted for them in the allocated budget. SG was able to provide services beyond the amount providContinued on page 2

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Events 4/25 — 4/27

“The understanding should be that slates, along with the Assembly, find responsible ways to spend down reserves. There is no need to require that be done by November 1 every year.”

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Today Bad Deals? Those Disastrous Trade Agreements Booth School of Business (104), 12 p.m.

Dartmouth professor Douglas Irwin will present his second lunch seminar on the history of the United States’ involvement in trade deals and their impact on the economy.

Wednesday, April 26 Dr. Elisabeth Rosenthal’s “An American Sickness” Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 6 p.m.

The award-winning New York Times reporter will discuss how the American healthcare system came to be the expensive, dysfunctional and dangerous institution it is today. In a conversation that will elucidate the social and financial incentives that have encouraged the system currently in place, Rosenthal will tell us just what we can do to solve the the myriad of problems our healthcare system is facing.

Thursday, April 27 Stress Relief Day McCormick Tribune Lounge, Reynolds Club, 11 a.m.

The Center for Leadership and Involvement (CLI) has teamed up with the Health Promotion and Wellness Center for Stress Relief Day. This event is a time for you to receive back rubs (three massage therapists will be present), indulge in some relaxing music, and eat some great winter snacks. Stop by the McCormick Tribune Lounge in Reynolds Club on Thursday, April 27 from 11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. See you all there! For questions, please email Tempris Daniels at tedaniels@uchicago.edu.

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ed by the SLF due to over $200,000 in rollover funds.

SG President Eric Holmberg said in an interview with THE MAROON that SG is trying to establish a new system in order to prevent the accumulation of rollover funds yearto-year. The system includes spending rollover funds on the Summer Fund, which funds RSO projects, purchases, and activities during summer quarter. The proposal calls for all rollover funds to be expended

by November 1.

Calvin Cottrell, the thirdyear expected to become SG President next academic year—barring disqualification or a write-in candidate—applauds the goal in this proposed system to protect RSO funds in light of the fact that the SG reserves are depleted, but opposes SG legislation to dictate the spending of rollover funds to the first few months of a year.

“By restricting the time frame for future slates to use rollover funds SG would be taking away the ability for slate to react to needs as they arise on campus. Several scenarios could require the spending of rollover funds: committees overspending, the need for campus wide events to respond to pressing issues, or the discovery of SG partnership opportunities unknown by November 1.”

Cottrell said.

“The understanding should be that slates, along with the Assembly, find responsible ways to spend down reserves. There is no need to require that be done by November 1 every year.”

However, no extra funds exist this year. The new budget proposal attempts to “[maintain SG’s] current level of support for students with

fewer dollars.” In trying to close the gap between last year’s funding and the lower amount available this year, the proposed budget states that “any reductions should first affect line items that do not fund student organizations directly.” Items that will face cuts are considered to be redundant or direct funds to administrators rather than students.

The proposed budget recommends a cut in $160,000 from the Center for Leadership and Involvement (CLI) and a $8,400 cut from the University Community Service Center (UCSC). The CLI provides administrative support within the RSO and Student Government community, and the UCSC is part of the Office of Civic Engagement (OCE), which supports the community service programming of student-run organizations. According to Holmberg, both of these cuts have been worked out with the administration, and both the CLI and UCSC have agreed to make up for the funds being lost in the budget through their other funding sources.

Holmberg argued that these costs should have been shouldered by the administration to begin with.

“Why are Student Life Fee dollars paying for [the CLI and UCSC]?

You would think the administration should be providing that so that they can lead student life. It’s kind of on them to have that. So we made a case to CLI that we shouldn’t be funding that… we worked it out so [the CLI and UCSC] are going to find the money from elsewhere,” Holmberg said.

The University confirmed on Friday that they were aware of the cuts, and that the CLI “will continue to serve and support the RSO and Student Government community at

levels consistent with prior years.”

University spokesperson Marielle Sainvilus also said that the UCSC and OCE just learned of the proposed cuts this week and have not yet determined any potential impact.

“It’s all money that was going to administrators before that is now going to students. So that’s good,” Holmberg later mentioned.

Another proposed cut is the New York Times Readership Program which was budgeted $33,000 last year. Due to a price increase per paper, SG has only been purchasing 150 copies each day— which, according to Holmberg, leads to papers being often all taken by 9:30 a.m. Holmberg also suspects that most of the papers are being taken by individuals not paying a student life fee, due to the high percentage of complaints SG receives about the program from non-students. Following the cut, access to this and other major newspaper will still be available through the UChicago Library, which SG would try to publicize. The University will still get the Times delivered through the end of the year.

The Uncommon Fund is also proposed to be dissolved in the budget for next year, which in the past has received approximately $31,000 dollars. The Uncommon Fund provides funding to “uncommon” and typically out-of-the-box project proposals. Holmberg called the fund “redundant,” saying there are many sources of funding if students have an idea for a project, citing both the Dean’s Fund and the funds allocated to both College Council and Graduate Council. He called the Uncommon Fund as is, a “bureaucratic mess,” due to the need to cre-

ate separate financial accounts for each project, with an extreme lack of accountability. Last year, when the various accounts were emptied out, there was $70,000 just sitting in the dormant accounts.

“The decision to eliminate the Uncommon Fund was unnecessarily punitive and counterproductive.

It is true that the Fund has seen a precipitous drop in funding and interest over the past few years. However, the way to save the Fund was not to eliminate it completely, especially when other budget line items are bloated. Truthfully, I think part of the lack of interest in the Uncommon Fund could be attributed to the lack of communication from this year’s Executive Slate. That can easily be remedied in the coming year,” third-year CC representative Chase Harrison said.

Alongside the budget cuts also come budget increases. CAT is receiving an increase of $7,000, which will help accommodate the addition of a sixth team on CAT, Moot Court.

With the increase in funding, along with the addition of a new team to CAT, funding amounts to the individual teams should remain similar to last year’s budget.

The Program Coordinating Council is also receiving a small increase. According to Holmberg, the small increase will make a large difference for student organizations like Fire Escape Films.

SGFC and Annual Allocations will also be both receiving an increase. Holmberg plans to propose that SGFC funds become available to organizations recognized by graduate divisions. They expect to see an increase in demand due to this proposal, and SGFC is proposed to receive an increase in their budget.

“I want to work with [young people] to knock down those barriers.”

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duction, recounting Obama’s humble origins as an organizer. “His story and life’s journey have solidified their place alongside America’s great historical narratives,” Omoniyi-Shoyoola said of Obama’s path to the White House. On the South Side, Omoniyi-Shoyoola continued, “his role as community organizer instilled in him a foundational respect for civic engagement.”

Obama then opened the event, quipping “What’s been going on while I’ve been gone?”

He began to speak on the importance of young people to a healthy democracy. “Are there ways in which we can knock down some of the barriers that are discouraging young people about a life of service?” he asked. “I want to work with them to knock down those barriers. And to get this next generation and to accelerate their move towards leadership.

Because if that happens, I think we’re going to be just fine.”

For the next hour, Obama moderated the discussion, asking the panelists questions about their involvement in civic engagement and community service, which ranged from military duty, to volunteer work in New York’s South Bronx, to campaigning in Iowa. He also pressed them on how they think

young people can be encouraged to play a greater role in civic life, and concluded by taking questions from the panelists. While the topics covered in the discussion were mostly serious, Obama kept the event lighthearted, making several jokes about his age relative to the panelists.

UChicago’s panelist was thirdyear Max Freedman, who is involved in the Student Government Election and Rules Committee, the Institute of Politics, and UChicago College Republicans.

Obama asked Freedman how he connects with campus Democrats and whether he feels that it is difficult for him to voice his opinion as a Republican on a mostly liberal college campus.

Freedman explained that, for the most part, he values his role as a Republican on campus.

“Being a Republican on a college campus is in and of itself a sort of honor,” he said. “Because you know most people don’t agree with you and when you engage in the dorms and in the dining halls…you’re forced to know yourself well and to do soul-searching well and to understand why it is you think what you think and what parts of your past impact what you believe now and might believe tomorrow.”

Freedman was not sure why

he was chosen as a panelist, but said that the Obama staffer was concerned that he would decline because he is a Republican. “I think that’s a silly reason not to do it,” he said. “Everybody was on that panel because they brought something different.”

Neither Obama nor the panelists mentioned President Donald Trump during the panel. Freedman told THE MAROON in an interview following the event that students were not specifically instructed to withhold Trump’s name, but that panelists understood that references to the current political state were not in the spirit of the event.

“They just wanted us to be ourselves out there and I think it’s clear that President Obama was not going to say anything about the current administration,” he said. “The point was not getting digs at the current administration or anything else, it was about getting young people involved in the process.”

Multiple panelists highlighted the importance of direct interaction between youth and their politicians.

Panelist Tiffany Brown, who graduated at the top of her class from Chicago State University for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees, told Obama that he had made a lasting first impression on

her years ago when he was an upand-comer on the political scene and she was in high school.

“Is this another story about how old I am?” Obama joked. Brown went on to recall how Obama and other local politicians had an event downtown where the Kenwood Academy concert choir was performing. She spotted Obama in the crowd.

“I tapped you and said ‘Hi, Mr. Obama, can I please take a picture with you?’ And you said no. I was like, ‘What’s going on? They say on TV that they care about people and then in person they don’t want to talk to me.’ But then you said, ‘No, not until you tell me your name first.’”

“That did help me want to get involved too,” Brown explained as the audience laughed. “I did feel that you cared about someone, a little black girl from Chicago like me.”

Before offering a round of handshakes to those in the front row and departing the Logan Center, Obama concluded the panel with the hopefulness that has become his trademark.

“I have to say, there’s a reason I’m always optimistic, even when things look like they’re sometimes not going the way I want,” he said.

“And that’s because of young people like this.”

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Third-Year Student to Serve on School Board of Home District

BY DEEPTI SAILAPPAN DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

Third-year Mary McNicholas has been elected to serve on the school board in her home district, Illinois District 300, which is headquartered in the northwest Chicago suburb of Algonquin, Illinois.

McNicholas triumphed in an April 4 election featuring six candidates, three of whom will serve four-year terms beginning this Monday, May 1. She won 18.5 percent of votes in the election—just behind 58-year-old attorney and six-term incumbent Anne Miller, who earned 19 percent of votes, and fellow challenger David Scarpino, a 63-year-old former associate superintendent of the district, who won 18.9 percent of votes.

At 21 years old, McNicholas said she believes she is the youngest school board member in District 300’s history. She noted that although the race included another young candidate, 27-year-old Nicole Beyer, “I don’t know if she was very serious about it, actually. I was definitely singled out for my age….

It was a novelty.”

McNicholas described campaigning as “exhausting in a really, really fun way.” The difficulty was amplified, she said, by the fact that she spent winter quarter studying abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico.

“Most people I don’t think knew I was abroad, since most of the on-the-ground work was done in the last two weeks anyway,” McNicholas said.

She Skyped into an interview for the Daily Herald, a suburban Chicago newspaper, and dealt with campaign strategy from

afar. Campaign funding was sourced from an online GoFundMe account; a friend’s father provided discounts on signs.

“What surprised me most was just how important building name recognition was,” McNicholas said. “So many people will go in and vote for you just because they’ve seen your name on a sign.”

McNicholas, a public policy studies major specializing in education policy, said her choice to run came naturally when vacancies opened up on the school board.

“Education has always been a topic I’ve been aware of and that has been present in my house,” she said, adding that her mother is a former teacher who now directs a preschool. Her interest in education advocacy was sparked during her first months as a student at Dundee-Crown High School, where she saw billboards daily proclaiming that the State of Illinois owed District 300 $40 million. “That was a huge wake-up, that the state can just choose to stop funding schools.”

She added that her district is still owed significant funds; seeking this payment is an existing priority for the school board.

For McNicholas, other concerns include expanding a dual-language program, implemented as a pilot program in one elementary school for the past few years and slated to include five more schools starting in fall 2017, to even more schools across District 300. The program places Spanish-speaking English-language learners and students for whom English is a first language in classrooms with blended instruction in both languages.

McNicholas is also a staunch advocate

Nikita Dulin Mary McNicholas discusses her experience running to serve on the school board in her home district, Illinois District 300.

for computer science in schools, and supports last year’s adoption of computer science as a high school graduation requirement by Chicago Public Schools (CPS). “I would love to see District 300 follow CPS,” she said. “I think [computer science] is something that as a young person I see as more important than other board members or other people in the district might…. It’s one of the fastest-growing fields, but it doesn’t seem to be a priority on other people’s minds.”

She will have to juggle the new position alongside college life, a challenge McNicholas said she finds exciting. Her spring quarter

schedule has intentionally been left free of classes on Tuesday afternoons and Wednesday mornings so that she can make the 50mile drive to her home in the town of West Dundee and attend biweekly school board meetings. She also plans to make frequent weekend trips home to visit schools and attend events.

“The level of engagement and involvement of a board member can really vary, but it’s always been my dream to be able to go into schools and learn about them,” McNicholas said. “So I’m really hoping to be pretty active.”

March and Science Expo Held in Downtown Chicago

BY ALEX WARD SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

An estimated 50,000 people gathered in downtown Chicago Saturday for a march and science expo, one of numerous “March for Science” events worldwide set to coincide with Earth Day. Marchers showed support for science-based political policy, action on global warming, and funding for clinical trials. Rallies and events were also held in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Berlin, and other cities around the world.

After a rally in Congress Plaza, the march moved south toward Museum Campus, which includes the Field Museum, Shedd Aquarium, and Adler Planetarium. Although the event was officially nonpartisan, some people in the crowd held signs with politically tinged messages like “Science trumps ignorance” and “Make America think again.” Other messages were critical of Scott Pruitt, President Donald Trump’s pick for head of the Environmental Protection Agency, who has been criticized for his views on climate change. One group of marchers danced along to the theme song from the TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy.

Once they reached the grounds of the Field Museum, many of the marchers stayed to visit tables hosted by different science-oriented groups, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the UChicago branch of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/ Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).

The chief March for Science organization, which helped organize the Chicago rally, is following it with a “week of action” until April 29, with each day of the week focusing on a different type of scientific activism. The theme for Tuesday is “Science Empowers,” and features initiatives to register new voters and build support for carbon footprint–reducing projects.

At the SACNAS table, first-year Christian Porras and Ph.D. student Cody Hernandez, two of the UChicago branch’s leaders, said they were using the expo to promote their events and get members of underrepresented groups interested in the University’s science programs. “The point of the organization is to establish a community for underrepresented minorities in science to have a space to connect, network, and develop their skills,” Porras said.

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VIEWPOINTS Uncommonly Fun Student Government’s Plan to Dissolve the Uncommon Fund Lacks Common Sense

Brian Dong W hen I was apply ing to colleges a year ago, UChicago stood out to me because of its undeniable quirkiness. With beloved traditions like Scav, Humans vs. Zombies, Kuvia, and a general culture of nourishing the life of the mind, this school undoubtedly lives up to its reputation.

I was disappointed to learn that Student Government was planning to dissolve funding for the Uncommon Fund. This fund gives life to classically unique projects such as Uncommon Hacks and the Sexy Men of UChicago calendar.

It is symbolic of UChicago’s broader culture and deserves to stay part of campus life.

Student Government president Eric Holmberg claimed that the Uncommon Fund is redundant when the College Council and Dean’s Funds are available. This claim is blatantly false. In an interview w it h T H E M A R O O N , for mer Uncommon Fund marketing director George K itsios said that “unlike cyclical funding bodies such as Student Government Finance Committee, RSOs cannot apply for funding from the Uncommon Fund.

The fund was created with the intention of providing funding opportunities for unconventional applicants such as individuals or non-registered

student groups that wanted to contribute to student life in creative ways.” In other words, the projects funded by the Uncommon Fund are unlikely to receive funding from Student Government, as there are few ways for non-RSOs to receive funding from the latter.

Moreover, the Uncommon Fund is an incubator for creativity, which differentiates it from other sources of funding on campus. The College Council and Dean’s Fund can certainly fund an especially atypical RSO, but they do not specialize in that. Comparatively, the Uncommon Fund’s mission is to suppor t “creative and innovative student projects a nd i n itiatives on campus.” The culture it seeks to engender is fundamentally different from that of other sources of funding on campus.

The Uncommon Fund is a substantial asset for the campus community. T he fund’s wel l- establ ished bra nd encourages students to come up with creative ideas. Under a more generic fund without a specialized mission, this creative process would be stif led.

Without the Uncommon Fund, students or g roups without RSO status would be barred from submitting their ideas for consideration, and there would be less incentive for pursuing

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projects purely for the sake of creativity. The Uncommon Fund inspires innovation from students who may otherwise not propose their potentially cutting-edge ideas.

Moreover, the fund’s democratic selection process increases student engagement and allows for the most popular projects to receive funding, as each year’s winning projects typically receive the most votes from the student body.

Last year, there were over 660 students who voted for Uncommon Fund projects. Without the Uncommon Fund and if the same student submissions had to go through College Council, there is a possibility that they may not receive any funding.

All that would be required is for the small group of council members, hardly representative of the entire student body, to determine that the endeavor would be a waste of resources.

The fund receives less than 2 percent of the Student Government’s $2.3 million budget per year, but it has been able to fund widely popular projects. There are effective ways to streamline expenses, but dismantling a low-cost incubator that adds intangible value to student life is a poor way to do so. In the 2015 –16 school year, the Uncommon F u nd est abl ished a set of funding guidelines designed

to help the projects it funds be self-sustaining. It is meant to be a springboard for unique and creative projects to receive initial funding so they can successfully operate with financial independence later on.

Many projects like Uncommon Hacks do not apply for funding every year, unlike RSOs that annually apply for money from the Student Government. The Uncommon Fund operates on a low-cost and sustainable scale; it is a worthy investment that does not merit being cut.

Holmberg also claimed that the Uncommon Fund is a “bureaucratic mess,” largely due to a perceived lack of accountability. If his claims are true, then he has identified an important issue, but his plan to deal with it is unnecessarily harsh. Instead of punishing the student body for the fund’s poor management by dismantling the campus staple, a better solution could be to ensure more rigorous management of the money. More specifically, a Un iversity facu lty member could closely monitor the fund’s financial accounts. This could perhaps be the Student Involvement Advisor from the Center for Identity and Inclusion, who acts as the fund’s adviser, or a new position could be created altogether. Another solution could be regular account audits, to help ensure

that operations are being executed properly. There are far better ways of dealing with supposedly poor management than dissolving the fund completely.

In such a heavily academic collegiate environment, it is nice to have events that help take people’s minds off their classes. From the silent disco, Club Sueto, to the Doomsday Clock, to the “ Stop Telling Women to Smile” art series, The Uncommon Fund indisputably facilitates student-led ingenuity.

Brian Dong is a first-year in the College majoring in geophysical sciences and economics.

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ARTS Tragedy and Tradition at Latino Film Festival Opening

BY MAX MILLER MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

From its opening shot, which brings the viewer to the ground from far above a swampy inlet, Between Land and Sea establishes its steely hold on our sense of movement. Viewers are captured and contained by the film’s many intense close-up shots, akin to how the protagonist Alberto (Manolo Cruz) is trapped in his dystrophic, decayed body. The gripping tension in the fi lm comes from the way that Alberto, struggling and writhing ineffectively in his bed, cannot accomplish even the simplest tasks without help from his mother, Rosa (Vicky Hernández), or his would-be lover, Giselle (Viviana Serna). Alberto’s world is so small and contained, from decades spent laying in his one-room stilt shack with his mother, that his main goal in life is simply to see the ocean.

The world of Between Land and Sea is both destitute and beautiful. Sunlight pours onto Alberto’s face and ramshackle room, creating an angelic setting that contrasts his own hellish circumstances.

Cruz, who both starred in and directed the fi lm, uses bold and powerful colors to highlight the striking beauty found in even the darkest of places. He guides the viewer with extreme close-up shots through the minutiae of Alberto’s constant struggle to live, which renders us as helpless and drained as another of Alberto’s observers, his mother. Cruz’s style is pensive and relaxed; the fi lm meanders through tense and heartbreaking scenes with Alberto’s constrained pace.

Deft use of cinematic composition shows character status throughout the film, such as when Giselle towers over Alberto

as she watches him sleep, or when Alberto and Rosa are framed in an over-theshoulder shot crying on each other from a shared feeling of cosmic injustice.

Between Land and Sea gracefully explores sacrifice, desire, and helplessness.

Giselle, Alberto’s young, beautiful neighbor who dotes on him despite his handicap, goes to extraordinary lengths to help him. However, Rosa forbids the girl from seeing Alberto further, afraid that the tragic impossibility of the couple’s love will be torturous and soul-rending to her son. Alberto’s feverish desire to be free of his physical burden and embrace a love with Giselle is reflected in a number of dream-like dérives, wherein Alberto is powerfully swimming in a cerulean ocean or is passionately kissing Giselle.

These dream sequences are washed out by the intensely bright light of fantasy, which makes the return to Alberto’s darker reality deeply upsetting for both Alberto and the viewer. Cruz pulls at our heartstrings and leaves us awestruck by showing the complete devotion and care that Alberto’s mother gives her son, knowing that she can never give enough of herself to heal him.

The film, more than anything, espouses the value of hope. Manolo Cruz emblematizes an aspect of Latinidad, the constant struggle for a better life in the face of adverse circumstances, and the beauty and kindness to be found therein. There is a telling afterword to the fi lm: “it only takes one small crack to let the Light come through and change our lives.” For viewers with an interest in a contemplative, beautiful story of hope and tragedy, Between Land and Sea will surely prove gratifying.

BY IVAN OST MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Watching Salsipuedes (Leave if You Can), I was most impressed by the camerawork. Not the script, the acting, the Panamanian setting that elsewhere, in less original hands, would be pumped-up to a cliché Las Vegas neon—but the way it looked to see Andres Pimienta (played as a boy by Samir Flores, as a man by Elmis Castillo) grow up, move out, and come back.

The visuals are so interesting because they are unexpected. Salsipuedes takes place in a world that is almost dull, bluedout—but these muted shots are overflowing with potential brilliance: color lurking in a colonial home’s lurid maroon glow, a woman’s indigo tiger-print leggings. These colors, so clearly overwhelming in person, are washed clean. Odder still, the fi lm slinks along with the camera, stalking the characters like hunters. We spy the protagonist at his grandfather’s funeral from behind a gravestone and observe as he sees, for the first time since he’s returned to Panama from the U.S., the face of his estranged father. In a flashback, we crawl along beside Andres and his childhood friend Nati (Chiara Lorena Díaz) as they spy on Andres’s father, sneaking behind pillars and through billowing furls of white laundry.

Why hide the colors, why slink alongside the plot? The answer emerges as we watch Andres return home to a country he hasn’t known for decades. His mother disapproves of his imprisoned father but loves him anyway, and his father immediately uses him in a ploy to escape prison. The same violence and divisions that plagued his upbringing persist into the present.

Seeing his internal division, the pallor cast over the brilliance of Panama begins to feel right. At its heart, Salsipuedes knows that Andres is torn between love for his family and home country, and his baggage having grown up in a home divided along a rift his father left. And it knows that even a home as challenging as Andres’s can have an irresistible draw.

Salsipuedes is being shown as part of the Latino Film Festival; its questions of guilt for leaving home are perhaps an effort to address questions of obligation to honor one’s heritage, even in a world that might not seem friendly to such tradition. After his father escapes and he returns home to have a quiet dinner with his mother, Andres asks, “What does this mean for my destiny?” How can he address the pain of leaving a family that could not support him and kept breaking up? Is his destiny determined by the sins of his parents? How much of what he must do is already determined by others?

The fi lm knows that these are questions without clear answers and does not attempt to give any. It concludes on an ambiguous note, in that same muted, numbed way. Andres saves his father’s life by shooting a mugger and gets to hear his father say: “I’m proud of you.” Underneath the grays and blues of the shot, the glow of their connection is obvious. But then Andres must leave and flee the violence of the scene. Their joy cannot be simple, after all. We watch, their deeply personal moment, yet the cool colors belie the content of the shot. But then they begin to make sense when Andres’s forced exit corrupts the goodness of the moment. Salsipuedes knows: In questions of identity, of obligation, of duty and right, the answer is rarely simple.

RE-PAINTING PORTRAIT: FAMILIAR TALES

by grace hauck

BREANNE JOHNSON // FOURTH-YEAR

This multimedia painting on canvas incorporates a thin layer of plastic wrap.

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do mostly 2D art–painting, ink, some sketching. It’s something I’ve done since I was little that my teachers have always encouraged. I don’t have any formal training, so I try my best to learn on my own. Art was something that made me feel like myself. As I got older, I became interested in writing as well, so I try to combine a lot of fairytales and themes from stories that we’re all familiar with.

Some of the works I’ve done in high school and college combine well-known classical tales from different countries with classical painting techniques.

In high school, I was really inspired by one of my teachers who did a lot of ink drawings, so a lot of my portfolio is black-and-white ink.

When I took AP Studio Art, my concentration was fairytales: Snow White, Little Red Riding

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make a lot of paintings—some woodworking, some sculpture. I recently finished an installation piece and want to go more in that direction. But I’ve been painting my whole life, mostly oil painting. I like to work with whatever is around me and incorporate that into my paintings. I like to paint realistic stuff and then make it weird.

My work has changed a lot since coming to UChicago. It’s a really conceptual, theoretical place. Before I came here, my work was really aesthetic. I was making things because I liked the photographs they were based on. When I came here, I started working at the Renaissance Society and thinking about work with deeper meaning. Part of my job there is to go through archival boxes, so I do a lot of reading about cool

Hood, The Little Mermaid. A lot of it involved the metaphor of making a trade. The Little Mermaid trades her greatest asset—her voice—to catch the eye of someone she likes. It’s a materialistic gain. There was another one that involved the Mad Hatter. Back in the day, hatters were mad because there was mercury in the hats that they made. It was a trade in his : he traded sanity for his passion.

What draws me to fairytales is that it’s not always so clear what’s good and what’s evil in a story.

In drawing or re-drawing a scene, you can portray it in a way that speaks to the viewer or asks questions. Say Snow White’s taking the apple from the witch—is there a parallel there to Eve taking the apple from the serpent?

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artists—the conceptual work that they’re making and the responses of really smart people like Hamza Walker.

My first two years here, I didn’t really make art about racial or identity politics, but then I picked up a political science major because I care about race. In studying and learning about that, I brought it to my [art] major as well. So they’re meshing.

Right now, I’m working a lot with identity, race, and racial politics. I’m trying to work with my own family tree without making self-referential art. There’s this dichotomy that seems inescapable in the way that we talk about race in Chicago.

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ALICE XIAO // FOURTH-YEAR

This painting was featured in FOTA’s Spring fest last year. It depicts Esau trading his lineage for food.

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BY ISAAC TANNENBAUM MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

PHOTO BY NICK WINOKUR MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

the best seats on campus

What is a chair? The definition is loose––almost anything can be a chair, so long as it has a seat and a back.

I love chairs. In each of my classes, I have my unofficial seat. I always sit at a desk on the fourth floor of the Reg, and when I find it occupied, it’s like a metaphysical blow that makes concentrating on work impossible. A seat––one’s place––cannot be divorced from the chair itself. It molds your experiences and affects your state of mind in significant, if unconscious ways.

The dorms are stocked with wooden monstrosities whose lean makes lounging comfortably nearly impossible. Bartlett, too, has a subpar collection of chairs, which are simply too large for the tables, while the School of Social Service Administration (SSA) library has quite lovely chairs that are ideal back-cracking height. Throughout UChicago’s campus there are some chairs whose designs are so noteworthy that they merit a catalogue.

Barcelona Chair, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Knoll School of Social Service Administration Building, Lobby $5,760 Mies van der Rohe, a highly respected modernist architect whose works can be found throughout Hyde Park and downtown Chicago, is known for his sharp lines and angular constructions. The Barcelona Chair, which Mies designed for the German Pavil-

ion at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, has become the pinnacle of modern and Bauhaus furniture design. Originally intended for the king and queen of Spain to sit upon while watching the event’s opening ceremonies, the Barcelona Chair has

since become one of the most recognizable pieces of furniture today. Mies designed the SSA building, so it is fitting that he outfitted its lobby with the only furniture that could ever truly complement its architecture.

Eames Wire Chair with Bikini Pad, Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller Regenstein Library, Ex Libris Café $1,549 Husband and wife designers and architects Charles and Ray Eames pioneered the mid-century modern movement, and this chair is the ultimate culmination of their work. Perhaps best known for their curved

plastic and molded plywood chairs (the latter of which Time called the best design of the 20th century), the Eameses were committed to “design [as] an expression of the purpose.” They sought to balance price

with quality while still promoting utility.

After perfecting their molded plastic chairs, the couple turned to metal and landed on this wire weave with the same “Eiffel” base as their other famous chairs.

Risom Lounge Chair, Jens Risom for Knoll Seminary Co-Op, Front Windows $1,025 Scandinavian minimalist aesthetic meets American mass production in Danish designer Jens Risom’s lounge chairs. Created in 1943, this chair was originally an example of wartime bri-

colage, with straps made of parachute scraps. Today, however, the chair’s iconic red basket-weave straps are made from high-quality cotton which allows the chair to expand just enough

to make reading Foucault while drinking Plein Air coffee as comfortable as possible.

Bertoia Side Chair with Vinyl Seat Pad, Harry Bertoia for Knoll Smart Museum, Lobby $794 This Italian-born designer’s chair consists of a steel wire seat and back with a minimalist base. This piece is a veritable design feat, having converted industrial wire into the material for one of the most important modern chairs.

Harry Bertoia was fi rst and foremost an artist, creat negative spaces and pockets of air out of wire rather than a chair with large empty spaces. Bertoia said about his seating set, “the chairs, they are mainly made of air, like sculpture.”

Wishes on the Water at Annual Lantern Festival

Top left and bottom right: Samuela Mouzaoir Top right and bottom left: Giovanna DeCastro

The artistry of these chairs is echoed in the museum’s current installation, Rose’s Inclination, by Jessica Stockholder. The two pieces appropriate air and negative space as part of the artworks themselves.

EXHIBIT [A]rts [4/26] WEDNESDAY

[4/28] FRIDAY

7 p.m. Join professor Matthew J. Adams, the Director of the W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, for a lecture on the groundbreaking archaeological work being done to uncover a prominent Roman military base constructed in ancient Israel. Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute, free. Register online.

7 p.m. Rhythmic Bodies in Motion’s annual show is Collective Conscious, an exploration of emotion and consciousness through dance performance. Mandel Hall, $5 in advance and $8 at the door.

[4/27] THURSDAY 8 p.m. It’s like Greek life, but not. Party at the Smart: A Classical Soirée is a semi-formal dance party for students based on Greek-symposium parties. The evening will include performances of A Classical Ballet (choreographed by third-year Magdalena Glotzer), UChicago’s Dirt Red Brass Band, and Chicago Swing Dance Society. There will also be classical garden games, art making, ancient Greek mocktails, free food, and more! Smart Museum of Art, free.

[4/29] SATURDAY 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. What Is an Artistic Practice of Human Rights? is a multi-day summit that will delve into how artists are using creativity to incite conversation and action around numerous issues, including LGBTQ+ rights, refugee crises, and youth poverty. Through the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, the Logan Center, and the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago, artists will give performances and presentations about how their work is illuminating human rights issues. Logan Center for the Arts, free. There will be a follow-up public forum on May 1 in which attendees can meet the artists.

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Hawks’ Future Uncertain After First Round Loss NHL Playoffs

BY EMMETT ROSENBAUM SPORTS EDITOR

Last Thursday, the Chicago Blackhawks were swept out of the Stanley Cup playoffs by the Nashville Predators, dropping the fourth game of the series 4–1. For a Hawks team that entered the postseason as the No. 1 seed and was the favorite to emerge from the Western Conference, the loss was a stunning blow that had the franchise and its fan base reeling. For a team that was close to entering the dynasty discussion, having the rug pulled out from under them in the first round is going to cause of a lot of soul searching this offseason. Here is what happened: The first game of the series gave little indication of Chicago’s vulnerability. The team dominated the game, controlling the puck and the pace of play for almost the entirety of the last two periods. Unfortunately, the group ran into a hot goalie as the Preds’ Pekka Rinne was a wall, stopping all 29 shots that came his way. Nashville managed to squeak a goal by Corey Crawford in the first period thanks to a tap in from Viktor Arvidsson. They then sat back and held down the fort for the rest of the match.

The Hawks had no major reason to worry after the first game as they were the better team, but the second game was a reality check for them. They were dominated by the Predators, falling in a blowout 5 – 0. The team was now headed to Nashville having dropped both games at home and having yet to

score a goal in the series. “They’re doing everything defensively to frustrate us and give us nothing,” said Chicago captain Jonathan Toews. The team had its back against the wall and needed to find answers.

Game three proved to be a tense, back-and-forth affair, but the Hawks ended up falling 3–2 in overtime. Once again, Nashville dominated the flow of play and Chicago found itself wondering if they really were the better team, even though Nashville was merely the No. 8 seed. With their backs against the wall, it was do or die for the Blackhawks.

Unfortunately for Chicago, it was the latter as they fell 4–1 in game four, leaving little doubt that they had run into a better team. For a team that had Stanley Cup aspirations, it’s a massive disappointment. “It’s tough to lose a series and fall short,” Toews said. “It’s a whole different story to lose four straight and get swept like we did.”

In the end, the Hawks were out-possessed across the entire series. “ We could have had the puck a lot more in a lot of situations,” said head coach Joel Quenneville. “I think that was contagious. We had to be better.” Their offense also came to a sputtering halt, mustering just three goals over four games. A s they spend the summer looking in the mirror, the Hawks will have to wonder if they should stick with the system that has brought them so much success over the past seven years, or whether the rest of the league has caught up to them and they need to adapt.

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SPORTS South Siders’ Stellar Showing at UAA Championships TRACK & FIELD

BY MINNIE HORVATH SPORTS STAFF

Last weekend the University of Chicago hosted the UA A Outdoor Conference Championships at Ted Haydon Track. On the women’s side, Wash U won the meet with 213.5 points, followed by UChicago in second with 182.5 points. The men’s title went to Carnegie Mellon University with 186 points, while UChicago was fourth with 118 points. The weekend was filled with outstanding competition, track facts, and tattoos featuring head coach Chris Hall’s face.

The women’s team produced four champions and 13 additional All-UA A performances. On Saturday, first-year Laura Darcey led the way to a sweep in the long jump with a winning jump of 5.60 meters. First-year Mary Martin took second with 5.40 meters, and third-year Vivian Barclay completed the sweep with 5.24 meters. Thirdyear Claire Costelloe dominated the 10,000-meter, with a time of 36:52.55, taking more than a full minute off of her previous personal best. First-year Magg ie B oud reau ran a UChicago freshman record of 37:51.12 to claim third place. Other notable Saturday performances included third-year Ade Ayoola in the shot put (second place), first-year Isabel Garon in the pole vault (second place), and the 4x800-meter relay (second place).

On Sunday, third-year Khia Kurtenbach won the 5,000-meter with a time of 17:22.04, and her teammate thirdyear Kelsey Dunn captured third with a time of 17:43.21. Ayoola and Darcey continued to dominate in the field.

Ayoola won the high jump with 1.64 meters and was joined on the podium

Zoe Kaiser Third-year Will Ackerman clears a hurdle at the Ted Haydon Inviational earlier this month.

by Darcey who took third with 1.59 meters. Ayoola noted that “our ladies were strong, supportive, and absolutely phenomenal. I’m so proud to be a part of such an incredible team.”

First-year Robin Peter set a school record and took third in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.85. First-year Alisha Harris was third in the 100-meter dash, th i rd-yea r Mega n Ver ner-Crist was third in the 1,500-meter, and both the 4x100- and 4x400-meter relays were third as well. Fourth-year Eleanor Kang scored in an impressive four events: both relays, the open 400,

and the 200. “ There were so many inspiring performances throughout the weekend. I could not be happier with how everyone performed,” Ayoola said.

On the men’s side, the Maroons had three champions and six additional AllUA A performances. Fourth-year Andrew Maneval led the way with victories in both the shot put (15.34 meters) and the discus (46.99 meters), and a thirdplace finish in the hammer throw (47.36 meters). “I was very happy to win both the shot put and the discus. It was a great weekend for both the women’s and men’s teams filled with record-breaking

performances, and a great way for the seniors to wrap up their careers,” Maneval remarked on the Maroons’ performance. The 4x800-meter relay captured third place in a battle that came down to an epic final leg. Third-year Obinnaya Wamuo won the 400-meter hurdles in 53.94, and fourth-year Jatan Anand was second in a photo-finish 100-meter dash with 11.14. Both 4x100- and 4x400-meter relays claimed third place.

Overall, it was an outstanding weekend of competition with many performances that placed Maroon athletes in national-qualifying position.

Maroons Clinch Third in the Conference Championships MEN’S TENNIS

MIRANDA BURT SPORTS STAFF

The University of Chicago men’s tennis team fi nished strong at last week’s UA A championships, meeting expectations as a No. 3 coming away with a third-place fi nish. The Maroons (17–4)

started off the competition strong, easily outpacing the No. 6 NYU Violets 8–1.

The Maroons only lost the No. 1 singles game, and cruised to easy victories in the rest of their matches.

The Maroons then advanced to the UAA semifi nals to play the rival Wash U Bears, and ultimately dropped the deci-

M AROON

SPORT

SCORE BOARD W/L

Opponent

Score

Baseball

L

Case Western

7– 5

Baseball

L

Case Western

7– 2

Baseball

L

Case Western

9– 4

Women’s Tennis

L

Emory

5– 4

Women’s Tennis

W

Wash U

5– 4

Softball

W

Case Western

12 – 1

Softball

W

Case Western

1– 0

Softball

W

Case Western

5– 3

Softball

W

Case Western

6– 5

UPCOMING GAMES SPORT

DAY

Opponent

TIME

Baseball

Wednesday

Benedictine

3 p.m.

sion 6–3. The South Sides came up empty on all three doubles matches, but had a few bright spots on the singles side. No. 1 third-year Nicolas Chua defeated his Wash U counterpart Johnny Wu (6–4, 6–3). No. 2 fi rst-year Erik Kerrigan (7– 5, 4–6, 7–6 (7–3)) and No. 5 third-year Peter Leung (6–2, 7–5) also picked up singles victories.

UChicago had a chance for redemption, playing in the third-place contest against the Carnegie Mellon University Tartans. The Maroons again relied on their strong singles play, as they won every match except the No. 4 singles. Firstyear Tyler Raclin and fourth-year Max Hawkins picked up the South Siders’ lone doubles victory. UChicago triumphed over the Tartans, 6–3.

One star of the weekend was Kerrigan, a former four-star recruit. Kerrigan went 3–0 in his singles matches as the No. 2 over the weekend, clinched their third-place finish, and also picked up one of the Maroons’ four doubles victories.

Kerrigan reflected on the weekend, saying, “Overall, I think we’re pretty happy with how the weekend turned out. Obviously it hurts to lose a tough one to Wash U in the semis, especially knowing that we didn’t perform our best, but I’m really proud of how we bounced back against CMU. The team did a re-

ally good job of not letting the 1–2 deficit after doubles carry into singles, and everyone brought the energy to carry us over. Personally, I’m really glad I had the opportunity to clinch in our fi nal match, and after a long battle the day prior, winning another third set really felt good for myself and the team. However, this was a team victory 100 percent. This is the most energy I’ve seen this team bring, especially after a bad day prior.”

The No. 5 Maroons now look ahead to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCA A) tournament, where a strong UAA slate of competition has prepared them to make a deep run. The UAA currently has four teams in the top 10 nationally, and an additional fi fth in the top 25.

Kerrigan looked ahead to the tournament, saying, “I think we’ve done a great job of putting ourselves into position for an at large bid for NCAAs, and we’re going to get right back out there working for it. I think our team has been improving the whole time this year, and hopefully we can keep that up and fi nish out the year strong, and I know that we can bring home that NCAA title if we can all lock in as a team.”

The Maroons are still awaiting their NCAA tournament fate.