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APRIL 26, 2016

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SINCE 1892

VOL. 127, ISSUE 42

STUDENT GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS 2016 Meet the Candidates

1002 Sign Petition for Fair Compensation for Resident Assistants

BY ANJALI DHILLON ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

A petition calling for fair compensation for A ssistant Resident Heads ( R As) on financial aid has been signed by 1,002 supporters as of Monday evening. T he petition is directed at University of Chicago College Housing and the Office of Financial Aid. The petition began with a 500 -signature goal, which was adjusted to 1,000 and then 1,500 signatures upon reaching its first goals in a few days.

According to the petition letter, written by second-years Casey Mulroy, Michelle Gan, and Sara Maillacheruvu, RAs on need-based financial aid receive grants depending on their expected cost of attendance.

Currently, RAs on aid see a decrease in their official expected cost of attendance because they are not billed for room and board. As a result, their grant money also decreases. “ These students are working for free as a direct result of their family’s low income,” Continued on page 9

University Church Provides Sanctuary to Immigrant Fugitive

BY KAITLYN AKIN ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Last Monday, a Bolingbrook man took sanctuary in University Church on 57th Street in an attempt to avoid deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Jose Juan Federico Moreno-Anguino had been ordered to leave the country after an aggravated DUI conviction prompted deportation proceedings in 2009, accord-

ing to The Chicago Tribune. Since then, Moreno has been fighting the ruling in order to stay in the country with his wife and five children.

“Mr. Moreno-Anguino failed to depart the United States by April 15 as ordered by a federal immigration judge,” an ICE statement said.

“Since he did not depart the United States to Mexico, ICE considers him to be an immigration fugitive.”

The Chicago Religious Leadership Network (CRLN) put UniverContinued on page 8

Call Me Crazy

Protest of Genocide Denial Jeremih, SOPHIE, Interrupts Talk on Turkey, Armenia TOKiMONSTA to

BY ALEX WARD Perform at 2016 Summer Breeze SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

On Monday night, members of the University of Chicago’s Armenian Circle and supporters staged a protest at an International House ( I-House) lecture by a scholar they say denies the A rmenian Genocide.

Un iversity of L ou isv i l le professor Justi n McCa r thy spoke at the I-House Assembly Hall about his most recent book, Turks and Armenians: Nationalism and Conf lict in the Ottoman Empire. McCarthy has been accused of Armenian Genocide denialism

by orga n izations i nclud i ng the International Association of Genocide Scholars (I AGS).

McCa r thy a rg ues that the events others call genocide were part of a civil war between the Ottoman Empire and A rmenian rebels during World War I. Before the event, members of the Armenian Circle standing outside I-House passed out f lyers condemn i ng the event. One part of the f lyer noted that the event, which was sponsored by the Turkish A merican Cultural A lliance (TACA) and the Turkish Consulate General in Chicago,

Sunday evening, the Major Activities Board (MAB) announced on Facebook the lineup for its annual Summer Breeze concert. Jeremih, SOPHIE, and TOKiMONSTA will perform at the May 14 concert in Hutch Courtyard.

The announcement was originally scheduled for April 21 in Bartlett Quad, but was canceled due to inclement weather, according to a MAB Facebook post.

Continued on page 9 Jeremy Felton, known as Jeremih, is a singer and songwriter from the South Side of Chicago.

His hit songs include “Birthday Sex” (2009), “Down on Me” (2010), and “Don’t Tell ’Em” (2014). He attended the University of Illinois before transferring to Columbia College Chicago.

Jeremih was supposed to headline 2014’s Summer Breeze concert before he dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. He was replaced by Vic Mensa.

Samuel Long is an electronic music producer from London who performs under the name SOPHIE. He established popularity with his singles “Bipp” and “Elle” (2013), and also released popular singles Zoe Kaiser Protestors stand with their backs to speaker Professor Justin McCa- “Lemonade” and “Hard” in 2014. rthy, a prominent denier of the Armenian Genocide.

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Page 14 Dismissing vocal women as hysterical delegitimizes feminist movements.

“Stay near these young musicians.

Because they need you, and you need them.”

Uncommon Interview: Composer Stacy Garrop, A.M. ’95

South Siders Grab Third at UAA’s After Victory Over Tartans

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Page 16 The finish has surely placed the Maroons on the radar of the NCAA tournament selection committee.

“She was a woman who wasn’t afraid to look like a woman…”

Continued on page 8

Contributing to THE MA ROON

Maestro with a Mission: A (Very) Open Rehearsal with Riccardo Muti

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BY PETE GRIEVE DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - APRIL 26, 2016

STUDENT GOVERNMENT EXECUTIVE SLATE OUR CAMPUS

UNITE & SUPPORT

Left to right: Drexler, Woods, Monteiro

Left to right: Green, Meng, Zubi

Chase Woods: President Paul Drexler: VP Administration Victoria Monteiro: VP Student Affairs

Michael Meng: President Kennedy Green: VP Administration Sarah Zubi: VP Student Affairs

Platform: “Common themes throughout the entirety of our platform are transparency and accountability. We’re really going to focus on making student government accessible to all students—not only accessible but inviting.... We want to bring SG to students, but we also want to bring students to SG.”

Platform: “Having a variety of perspectives and being able to bring the 2.1 million dollars in resources and access to administration to students and supporting them in their efforts is the bulk of Unite & Support’s mission. We want all student groups to get the same access to funding.”

Grad Student Unionization: “It’s actually to our advantage that we don’t have a grad student [on our slate], just because we realize that, especially through our conversations with people in all of the grad divisions, that they really aren’t a monolith, and they can’t be spoken for by just one person. And so by not having someone on our slate we want to keep these discussions more open, and we think that we are really in a position to do that.... We realize it’s a really nuanced concern, so we think not having a member of the GSU is to our advantage.”

RSO Funding: “This year, we were allocated roughly $750,000 for SGFC [Student Government Finance Committee] and annual allocations. We never use all of that money.

That money needs to be used more accountably and openly. Oftentimes, when smaller RSOs attempt to fund larger events, they don’t have that access. I [Meng] think the SGFC process should be open to people to watch and to attend, much like our college council meetings.”

Greek Life: “In terms of Greek life, we’ve been sitting down with different fraternity presidents… I’m [Monteiro] in Greek life, I’m in a sorority, and something we’re really looking to do is expand our presence on campus and not to be us versus them. Especially with recent events, that’s definitely not the way we want to be portrayed... When this happened [AEPi emails], it seemed like within Greek life there was more of an effort to push it under the rug. Within my own sorority, I was very vocal about the fact that we need to do bystander training, have an open conversation about sexual assault and racism.”

National Issues: “Although we are members of this university, there are other identities that we hold… I’m [Woods] from Illinois, so I’m very concerned about the human trash that is Bruce Rauner… We have concerns that expand much larger than this university but we also realize that those concerns might not be the most productive or the best use of our time.”

Intrafraternal Council: “The interfraternity council doesn’t seem like it has support within Greek life.... We are looking to develop a peer standards board. This would be very similar to an interfraternity council.... The purpose of the standards board would be to craft policies that are directly reflected by the values held by fraternities held on this campus and various other stakeholders.”

Divestment: “The biggest things we think are that while all of us support divestment, we think that critical things lacked from this, from the meeting… there was not an ability for groups concerned with this to be able to voice their concerns… so one, that wasn’t included and two, if it wasn’t meant to be an ostracizing political statement, because there was an obvious group that felt targeted by it, then we feel like it’s necessary to include language within such a resolution that says something about the right of Israel to exist... [We are all] Pro-divestment, but the process was fundamentally flawed.”

Lack of Experience in SG: “I think if you are an active and engaged member of UChicago, you have experience for SG. We’re smart people, we’ve read through the constitution, we have our own experience with the administration, we’re 100% capable.”

Support for Chicago State University (CSU): “There are many other platforms we could use to try to help CSU… so we’re very much for trying to help CSU in the capacities that are here for us, but the endowment is not a piggybank…. Maybe it’s meeting with administrators to say ‘Hey, can we try and host a rally to try to raise funds for CSU to stay financially solvent.’”

Reporting by Annie Cantara, Maggie Loughran, and Forrest Sill. Photos by Eva I.

Grad Student Unionization: “I [Green] do support this union, at least theoretically. I don’t know enough about the particulars of what they’re asking. Even though I’ve been to their teach-ins, I still don’t completely understand. There’s a lot that hasn’t been quite revealed.

I’ve read their proposals but I’ve been trying to get in touch with some members of the graduate student union to meet with them more this next week.”

Handling of Sexual Assault: “I [Green] don’t think there’s enough involvement on the student government and college council and the graduate council side supporting the people putting on these events for the sexual assault awareness month. In our administration, we would seek to work with not only Phoenix Survivors Alliance but other RSOs to expand that funding and access to create a larger platform for them.”

Greek Life: “The fraternities, in particular, need more governance and more accountability. I [Meng] don’t think the administration should have a relationship with Greek life, but I think there should be accountability mechanisms that Greeks themselves would enforce. This is something I think Panhellenic and MGC [Multicultural Greek Council] have done very well with... When I say no relationship, I mean the University should not run the programs for them. But as students, they’re still accountable.”

AEPi E-mails: “We heard apologies on behalf of AEPi. All I [Green] felt was that the University had slacked off responsibility to the Center of Identity and Inclusion, and that really is not how it should work. The apology felt disingenuous, and I think it did more to hurt those at the apology than to help. There has to be more University involvement. A hands-off approach just doesn’t work.”

When those emails were released, members of SJP [Students for Justice in Palestine], OBS [Organization of Black Students], and MSA [Muslim Students Association] and I [Zubi] met with Dean Rasmussen and Dean Coleman. Prior to that, they had no idea how large Greek life was on campus, how prevalent it was, and the types of atmospheres it facilitated.”

Campus Climate Survey: “I [Green] think the University as a whole likes data rather than personal accounts and stories. We need to stop having surveys. Of course, we should fill out the survey, now that it’s here. But in general, the University has to have a different way of remaining accountable to students. When anything that hurts the student body happens, responding with a survey seems really insensitive.”

Divestment: “It’s hard, as a student, to have access to the administration, and that’s an issue. Also, when you bring up divestment from anything, the administration throws around the Kalven Report and claims that it’s political and that we not political and are not going to divest from anything. While our slate does support College Council’s decision on the divestment vote and we do support the notion to divest from fossil fuels and companies implicit in human rights abuses, we are also supportive of having open debates and rigorous inquiry.”

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - APRIL 26, 2016

ELECTIONS 2016

MEET THE

CANDIDATES

EXECUTIVE SLATE UNITED PROGRESS

Left to right: Jones, Holmberg, Elkhaoudi

MOOSE PARTY

Left to right: Golding, Decety, Moreland

Eric Holmberg: President Salma Elkhaoudi: VP Administration Cody Jones: VP Student Affairs

Nathan Decety: President Stephen Moreland: VP Administration Ryan Golding: VP Student Affairs

Platform: “We have a vision of a campus where decisions are made by the people who are affected. For student government that means being a voice for students and getting a seat at the table so students are represented at decisions that are made on their behalf.

Platform: “The biggest thing is that we’ve had enough with democracy. We propose to secede from the Union and reform Hyde Park into the People’s Republic of Hyde Park. We will have an absolute monarch.”

We are running because Student Government has gotten a lot more credible and stronger over the past few years but we think that we need experienced leadership to stay involved if that’s going to continue.”

Will UChicago students be open to accepting a monarchy? “Absolutely. They have no choice.”

Graduate Student Unionization: “We’re just interested in having the administration take us seriously as a collective bargaining unit so we have legally recognized rights to express our concerns with for instance pay, the way TA-ships and RA-ships are doled out amongst departments so people can graduate on time, the way we look at health care and how that affects graduate families and childcare, how we look at student life fees, how they can be adjusted, how we look at advanced residency fees... I [Jones] am on the organizing committee for the GSU, Grad Students United. Our main concerns are this: we are interested in improving how we’re paid, improving healthcare for every graduate student, we like to improve support for how families are treated under healthcare, spouses are treated under health care, as well as abolishing the hours cap for graduate labor, the 19 hours cap per week because it actually hurts, for instance, not-fully-funded masters students when they are trying to pay for their own education... There’s nothing particularly extreme here.”

Handling of Sexual Assault: “First of all, it’s going to take some money. They can put more resources toward this. In the middle of a $4.5 billion capital campaign, they could allocate more resources. That takes the form of a lot of thing: training, they need to support students who are doing advocacy on this...”

Greek Life: “The University has done a disservice in acting as if they have no relationship with fraternities, which we know need to be brought in line because they are not a safe place on campus right now. They are allowing violence and sexual violence to continue and we think that needs to be addressed and they cannot continue to hold this stance that they have no liability or responsibility for what takes place at fraternities.... The University needs to join the push for an Inter-Fraternal Council.”

Campus Climate Survey: “The only reason the University has made this shift to start addressing diversity and inclusion or even vocally recognizing it is because of sustained pressure from students.... I’m committed to continuing that pressure to make sure they actually follow through.”

Campus Climate: “It’s hot one day, it’s cold the next. We’re just going to expand Mansueto across the quad. It’s always nice and temperate so we can just expand that bubble all over campus.

We’re here for change.”

Budget: “We will use $2.2 million to buy a lot of oxygen and stick a pipe into Mansueto to increase its pressure and force it to grow over time.”

Current Presidential Race: “Hillary Clinton lies, Bernie Sanders is completely unrealistic and a communist, and Donald Trump is nuts. Clearly democracy has failed us, so clearly we believe monarchy is better.”

Other Plans: “We’re going to replace the TVs in Jimmy’s. That’s the biggest thing. We are going to restore the balance of power to Hyde Park. We are going to lower the drinking age for the Pub. It will be 18.34 years.

We’ve had it with this artificial divide between church and state. We want to return to our religious roots, so we want UChicago to become a Jesuit University. Saieh Hall will now be named ‘Money Church.’ Resident Masters will be replaced with monks.

We’re going to replace the incoming Barack Obama Library with the Amay Sheth Memorial Library. Bar Night will be a national holiday. And we’ve had it with the bagpipes. We’re just going to play Kygo during the graduation procession.”

Moose Party has lost for over twenty years in a row. Why try again this year? “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take.”

Editor’s Note: Moose is a satirical slate and as such did not comment on issues including sexual assault, diversity and inclusion, Greek life, unionization, and divestment.

Stephen Moreland is a former Managing Editor of THE MAROON.

Is UP a Party? “I [Holmberg] don’t know that I would call it a political party. The reason that we took on the banner of United Progress is that we are organizing around a lot of the same values and we come out of some of the same experiences at this University and we want to see similar institutional changes.”

Support for Chicago State University (CSU): “The initial iteration of that is that this university is in the middle of a very large capital campaign..., while higher education on the state level is critically, systemically underfunded and we thought it was important that the University acknowledge that and acknowledge that thousands of students in the state of Illinois are not receiving higher education. I [Holmberg] misused the word of endowment. I do think that leaders like President Zimmer and others or people in the Office of Civic Engagement probably have the relationships necessary to push people to fund higher education.”

Divestment: “This is part of a large conversation about the kinds of investments we need to be looking at. This also includes fossil fuels. It also includes investment in, say, certain kinds of unsavory business practices, certain kinds of products such as armaments, things like this.”

Be sure to pick up Friday’s issue for THE MAROON Editorial Board’s official Executive Slate and liaison endorsements.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - APRIL 26, 2016

STUDENT GOVERNMENT LIAISONS KENZO ESQUIVEL

LAURA BRAWLEY

UNDERGRADUATE LIAISON TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

UNDERGRADUATE LIAISON TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Platform: “My platform is based on and informed by my previous two years in SG, having been pretty steeped in the work that we do. I think that I’ve tried to make it something that sounded feasible.... Having a clear channel for all student groups to meet with the board, not just the loudest, should they have a need, is something that’s really important to me.... The centering principle of my platform is greater transparency and understanding for the student body about what the board of trustees is and what it does and what the channels are for students to actually access the board.”

Platform: “The three things that I think could really be accomplished are diversity, environmental stability (things we could do to make the campus greener), and also accessibility for people who have disabilities to certain buildings on campus.

I think it’s important to not only foster racial diversity and diversity in sexual orientation—all the, I guess, common things that we hear about every day…. I also think it’s important to foster diversity of thought and diversity of opinion on campus… The fact that we have closeted Republicans on campus shouldn’t be happening, right?[...] In terms of environmental stability, I think that a lot of the things that UChicago does, particularly in the dining halls, could be improved to make a more greener campus… We could work to have composting programs and increase the scope of our recycling on campus.

The fact that we have students who can’t really get into some of the buildings… I think the university can really work to open up accessibility issues for students to have disabilities.

Voting Power: “I don’t think that it’s the best use of time, frankly. I think it’s a highly symbolic thing and even if there was somehow a way for a student to get a voting seat at the table, you still have a huge number of trustees who would easily outweigh a single student vote on an issue. I think that some of these other things that I’m discussing have a lot more potential to effect change.”

Hot-button Issues: “Fossil fuel divestment is a campaign I’ve worked really closely with over the past two and a half years and I think given the student support, given the faculty support, it’s something that I would certainly advocate giving space with the board. Also, the campaign Fair Budget UChicago has been asking to meet with the board for some time and has accrued significant student support on campus to the point that they are warranted at least some time to discuss. The [U of C Divest] has certainly riled up campus, but given the CC resolution and the student petition, I think they’ve merited themselves time to present their case to the board.... I do generally support divestment as a tactic of social stigmatization.”

Voting Power: “I think that even as a non-voting person who is privileged to attend these meetings… I still wouldn’t have a loud enough voice… to persuade the board to listen to the student body…. Lobbyists can still have a huge impact on what’s going on in our government.”

Why Vote for You?: “I think that I still have lifeblood in me.

I’m not jaded, I’m still fresh, I have time to devote to the board in a way that he may not. But also, he’s [Kenzo’s] been part of this political establishment really that I think a lot of students have been unsatisfied with, and I think I could really come into the position of liaison with new ideas and fresh energy and a fresh approach that would be very helpful.

FADI HAKIM

COSMO ALBRECHT COMMUNITY AND GOVERNMENT LIAISON TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Development: “What I want to focus the majority of my time on is first a greater degree of transparency on the part of the University with respect to its land acquisitions in Woodlawn and Washington Park, a greater degree of transparency in terms of development it’s bringing to the area.”

Role of the UCPD: “I’m grateful the administration has been responsive in terms of being forward about releasing data and having incident reports and data available online.... I don’t know if the transparency measures it has instituted are enough. There’s FOIA to be won for the UCPD, the IRC [Independent Review Committee] appointment on the part of student government is something I will fight relentlessly for if elected.”

Obama Library: “I’m glad the Obama Library is coming to the South Side…. That being said, there are concerns I have with how the University is capitalizing on the Obama Library being on the South Side to try to advance their own interest and not the interests of the Obama Foundation.”

Centralization of College Housing: “College Housing is significantly more expensive than living in an apartment off campus. I don’t know if that will be the case in a few years because of the way I feel the University is deliberately making Hyde Park a more costly place to live.... So I think we need to be diligent as students about not letting the University increase costs of living when they are not seemingly willing to increase wages for student workers or peg the financial aid allowances to the rising costs of living. “

MEGAN BECK

GRADUATE LIAISON TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

GRADUATE LIAISON TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Platform: “The University has made great progress in fundraising from private donors, for instance the Neubauer Collegium and the Pearson Center. These are great things to have on campus, but many graduate students and undergraduate students still live with incomes below the living wage. Of course we can pile as much resources on this University, and we’ve been great at that, but how do we make sure that it’s equitable, that everyone benefits from the resources?”

Platform: “The first would be diverse perspectives, and bringing a plethora of graduate experiences to this role. I think there are a lot of issues, especially right now, that affect different graduate divisions very differently, so for me a key part of my platform is understanding those differences and understanding how to bring those perspectives to the Board of Trustees. I think secondly it would be somewhat of a customized experience.... So I think understanding what issues we can come together as a graduate community on and what issues really should be decided on more locally within each division, can be decided more locally for absence of a better term within each division, and how to present those issues in a unified but distinctive way to the Board of Trustees. The third part would be unified progress.

Student activism is a wonderful thing, especially on this campus—it’s a strong culture on this campus, but there are other stakeholders that need to be engaged in producing change.”

Unionization: “With GSU [Graduate Student Unionization] I’ve been involved as a member of the organizing committee since fall 2014, when I started my PhD….

Given that many graduate students do not have legal representation, and this applies to all divisions, in terms of what benefits they get from the University, the administration is not likely to advocate for the interests of graduate students and employees. I cannot imagine why any sort of graduate student worker would not take advantage of this opportunity to fight against the increasingly corporatized nature of the University and the increasingly precarious nature of their work.”

Minimum Wage: “To be honest, the liaison position is a liaison position. As liaisons you don’t draft policies. You don’t draft anything equivalent to the level of legislation. I think it’s important that during these meetings—and these meetings are something we for sure will have—these concerns will be voiced. These are concerns that might make certain trustees feel uncomfortable; they might make certain students feel uncomfortable. But it’s important to do so.”

Other Issues: “There are many issues that are going to be raised in the following year, for instance, the lack of sufficient Title IX coordination, and also how the trauma center will be established and how it will keep incorporating community input. There’s also the diversity and inclusivity survey, which has not articulated student concerns well enough in the form that it takes right now.”

Unionization: “I’m not sure that a one-size-fits-all solution is the best way to address issues in a population that’s as differentiated as the graduate community here, and even to some extent between the undergraduate and the graduate community. I think unionization makes sense for a lot of the programs here, and I can understand the challenges that some of those divisions face are different than the realities of being a Booth student. So that would certainly be part of the conversations I would need to have, and, you know, it’s hard to say one division falls a particular way—I’m sure there are people within that division that may fall one way or another.”

Minimum Wage: “One of the wonderful things about the University of Chicago is this culture of activism and a culture of ethical responsibility. From that perspective, I think it would be great to see more movement on that issue. At the same time, I don’t have enough financial information on where that comes from, so I think it’s worth looking into how that affects other fees to just understand the funding mechanism. But I think that’s something we should move toward if it makes financial sense.”

Editor’s Note: Emma Gardner, candidate for Undergraduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees, declined THE MAROON’s request for an interview.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - APRIL 26, 2016

ELECTIONS 2016

MEET THE

CANDIDATES

COLLEGE COUNCIL: CLASSES OF 2017 & 2018 LOUISA RICHARDSON-DEPPE

CHASE HARRISON

Campus Climate: Campus climate is not ideal: UChicago doesn’t effectively support many students, including (but not limited to) LGBTQ students, non-white students, students with disabilities, sexual assault survivors, and first generation & low-income students. The Committee on Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention, which funded and organized Sexual Assault Awareness Month, is a great example of progress, but we need to put a lot more time, energy, and financial resources into supporting the students who need it most. A “good” campus climate is more possible when students feel that their University (and their Student Government) are working for, not against, them.

Divestment: I voted for the resolution because I do not want my school—a powerful financial institution—to invest in weapons manufacturing, thereby supporting and financing violence. I am also disturbed by the fact that UChicago did not divest in previous cases such as South Africa. I think SG can discuss these national and international topics, but that my work as a representative day-to-day is much more about serving students’ needs on campus, which can range from participating in the Committee on Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention, supporting initiatives like the Uncommon Fund, and participating in conversations about how to provide more resources to low income students.

Transparency: Office hours are a start and something I’m hoping to make weekly or (at least) twice a month throughout all of next year, with a regular time & place so that anyone on campus knows about them and can use them as a resource. Meeting minutes are always taken by SG secretaries and are technically available to everyone, but the website has made it difficult for non-SG students to access minutes. I’d like to really improve access to any/all records of SG decisions, past and present, so that anyone can find the information about our votes quickly and easily.

Campus Climate: One major problem with the campus climate right now is the tension between Greek life and the rest of the student body. Greeks often feel misunderstood and underrepresented in student government. Conversely, SG has struggled to find agreeable ways to address problems with Greek life. As a member of Greek life deeply concerned about social justice issues, I think I would be an ideal person to serve as a liaison between these groups to find a way to allow Greek life to thrive safely on campus.

Divestment: I largely agree with T HE M AROON editorial that Israeli divestment was ultimately an inappropriate and distracting issue for SG. There are so many student life issues that SG needs to tackle, yet divestment, a mostly symbolic and divisive issue, seemed to simply cause friction on campus and distrust between SG and the student body. U of C Divest should have looked towards other avenues to achieve their goal.

Transparency: I think SG could do a better job communicating its agendas and meeting highlights through social media and emails to the student body. Broadly, I think having students from a wide swath of campus would increase transparency and awareness. As a student involved in Greek life, University Theater, the IOP, and several comedy organizations, I think I could do a lot to help various constituencies feel more connected to SG.

KATHERINE SHEN

Campus Climate: Campus climate is still a work in progress. Racism, classism, and a slew of other -isms still plague this place. Honestly, no matter how earnest our efforts may be, we will not eliminate them—they are facts of life. Of course, we should continue attempts to minimize their presence on campus. What we can also do is support the growth of niche communities to build a more comfortable campus. In SGFC, I learned about the importance of RSO funding and collaboration between RSOs. We have to promote and fund RSO endeavors and RSO collaborations more than we do now.

Divestment: On the moral level, I sympathize with any pursuit of justice. Personally, I see the campaign as peripheral to more salient campus concerns. The purpose of SG is to represent the student body and work toward the betterment of the UChicago community. The time and effort SG devoted to this issue could have been allocated to others where there would have been greater effect. As a SG official, I believe that once the issue was on the table for CC, the student body should have had the final word on it by means of a referendum.

Transparency: My time on SGFC and AnnAl has shown me that SG has been working toward more transparency with diligence. Continuing this momentum is crucial because a significant portion of the student body does not feel represented by SG. I, personally, may not be able to cause much improvement in this area for all of SG, but I will continue to hold myself to a high standard of integrity and do what I am able to resolve this disjunction. My actions in SG have been transparent since day one, and they will remain that way if I am elected to CC.

CLASS OF 2017

CLASS OF 2017

Campus Climate: I don’t think an individual can accurately gauge the campus climate given that different groups have differing experiences; it’s presumptuous to describe the “campus climate” in a few words as it can easily cut out the voices of some people. I am happy to work on issues and articulate the concerns that other students have voiced to me.

Divestment: Please refer to my comments during the meeting where the vote took place.

Transparency: Publish the minutes in a more up-to-date manner. Perhaps move towards having audio recordings of meetings.

PEGGY XU CLASS OF 2017

Campus Climate: There is still much work that needs to be done to enhance today’s campus climate, and SG has continued to push for positive developments to this end. This year, College Council voted to increase funding for Sexual Assault Awareness Week to expand it to a full month of programming. The release of the campus climate survey, moreover, has been a crucial step toward assessing and improving today’s campus climate. Looking forward, SG is responsible for making sure that university administration is held accountable for taking concrete actions in response to the results of this survey.

Divestment: I voted to divest from 10 companies that are complicit in human rights violations committed in the occupation of Palestine. I advocate for a university that invests its money in socially responsible ways, and believe that the University should have divested from apartheid in South Africa and should currently divest from fossil fuels. I also continue to strongly condemn anti-Semitism, as per the language of the College Council resolution, and to support the continued existence of a Jewish state as well as the Jewish right to self-determination.

Transparency: We are currently working on a new by-law that will improve SG transparency by unambiguously permitting constituents to photograph and record at College Council meetings. Our new College Council Office Hours has also been a great way to increase the accessibility and availability of Class Representatives to the wider campus community.

ADAM BIESMAN CLASS OF 2018

Campus Climate: Campus climate is at the lowest it has been since I have been a student at the University of Chicago. I would promote programs that create dialogue, not simply education. As important as programs are about our language and actions, students at the University of Chicago are in an environment that encourages active discourse. I believe that SG funds should be used to create settings that are productive for discussions about emotional topics such as race, religion, and sexual assault.

Divestment: I am very opposed to the divestment resolution for multiple reasons. First, the divestment resolution attached itself to the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement which openly seeks to remove the right of Jewish self-determination and to delegitimize the existence of a Jewish state. Secondly, I do not believe it is the Student Government’s role to make decisions related to foreign policy or international law. I cannot support a resolution that directly targets any community on campus so harshly. Because the resolution is so controversial, it is impossible for SG to represent the entirety of the College through one vote.

Transparency: While I believe that CC represents the legitimate voice of the College, it can only do so by not only upholding, but promoting transparency. Representatives must actively seek to display the work they are doing, whether it means having all meetings on the record or actively advertising some of the work that SG has accomplished. Therefore, I like the office hours that were recently implemented and would strive to make sure they are much more accessible and better advertised. This way, representatives can continue to learn about the specific requests of students and address the actions that they have already taken.

CLASS OF 2018

JAMES HILTON CLASS OF 2018

ELIJAH WOLTER CLASS OF 2018

Campus Climate: Based off my personal experiences as a low-income student and the experiences of other students from marginalized backgrounds, it is clear that our university is still mired in racism, sexism, classism, ableism, and transphobia.

Students are being deprived of the opportunity to succeed because they face harassment, exclusion and discrimination that is inadequately addressed, if at all, by the University. Through SG channels and other forms of action, we need to hold our university accountable to Title IX and the Americans with Disabilities Act, as well as work towards ensuring transparency and ending racist policing with regards to the UCPD. Divestment: I do not think that the University should be invested in companies that actively contribute to human rights violations in the occupation of Palestine.

I think there are also other companies and industries that the University should divest from, including private prisons and the fossil fuel industry. More generally, I am in favor of establishing a student oversight committee to monitor and advise where the University is putting its money and fighting for a more democratically governed university.

Transparency: I think that SG is already doing a lot now to operate transparently; the minutes to meetings are made available online and all of the meetings are open to the public. I think that there is progress to be made in developing opportunities for more students to be involved in putting forth initiatives and participating in committees that speak to their interests and concerns, as well as ensuring that those opportunities are being effectively communicated and facilitated.

Additionally, if I’m elected Class Representative, I’ll start an e-mail listhost to talk about what I personally am doing as part of SG.

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT COLLEGE COUNCIL: CLASS OF 2019

ZANDER COWAN

QUDSIYYAH SHARIYF

Campus Climate: I see the University of Chicago’s campus to be one full of potential for diversity, inclusion, and safety for all. However, in my observation, at times, especially in the past few quarters, many students, especially minority students, feel distanced from the campus community as a whole. I think the first step to a more inclusive and healthy campus climate is ensuring the safety of all students within Greek organizations as well as social settings on campus. Additionally, campus-wide initiatives like sporting events or a Mental Health Awareness Week, could help bring the student body together.

Divestment: The U.S. Congress is currently passing legislation that will prohibit trade with countries (and organizations) that have divestment policies. Both Republicans and Democrats, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders, find divestment from Israel to be extremely hateful, bigoted, and counterproductive to peace. Therefore, it is offensive to a large group of students (including myself) and nonsensical for the SG to make a one-sided decision like divestment. Bringing topics like this to SG is a blatant misuse of the purpose of SG—additionally, decisions like divestment further divides the student body and contributes to a hostile campus climate.

Transparency: Many ideas and topics discussed within SG are thought of purposefully on short and quiet notice. In fact, SG is run as a somewhat secretive entity that lacks in transparency and focuses on pet topics of a few radical members. I will ensure that SG meetings are allowed to be publicly recorded and meeting topics are communicated well in advance to allow for widespread input. Using social media to engage with the student body will make for better communication. I also will make sure that the interests of the entire Class of 2019 are brought before the SG.

Campus Climate: I believe there is much to be done to improve the campus climate.

Many students feel alienated and even unsafe on this campus, and I think SG can do concrete things to combat the fractured sense of community on campus. With the completion of the Campus Climate Survey, SG can continue to meet with administrators and hold them accountable to allocating more resources into doing something about the results of the survey.

Divestment: It’s problematic that student tuition dollars are being funneled into companies that are complicit in human rights violations. I support the student call for the University to divest from companies that aide in human rights violations in the occupied lands. Additionally, the resolution was not a call to divest from companies active in Israel— 8 of the 10 companies were American. I voted on the basis of human rights advocacy, as proposed by the student body; I did not vote based on any political stance. In fact, by continuing to invest in these companies, we continue to politicize our University.

Transparency: As a current College Council representative I have worked to implement College Council Office Hours, a program that’s sole aim is to make College Council representatives accessible to the student body. Additionally, I have worked with the Co-Directors of Communication to make the SG website more accessible. In the future, I plan on continuing to sustain these projects and I have established a personal blog (qudsiyyahcollegecouncil19.tumblr.com), which will serve as a regularly updated publication of my personal views on issues brought to SG.

CLASS OF 2019

LILY GROSSBARD CLASS OF 2019

Campus Climate: We need a campus that is far more concerned with student health —mental, physical, and sexual—than our current campus is. The reality is that Student Disability Services and Student Counseling are not equipped to handle the problems our student body is facing in this day and age. Furthermore, I think the attitudes around mental illness, physical disability, and sexual assault among the student body need to be changed significantly. Fortunately, I think that attitude is something that can be improved by appropriate outreach and education programs, which is definitely one small step in the right direction.

Divestment: While I don’t agree with every aspect of BDS (I want a two-state solution), as a Jewish woman, I believe the University has an obligation to divest from a moral standpoint. Our school’s mission is incompatible with the human rights violations in Israel. SG must advocate for a socially responsible investment committee (which many peer institutions have) that would make decisions about asset management based on student and faculty input.

Transparency: One very simple and immediate way would be to have College Council representatives post updates on the SG website about motions they intend to introduce, so that other students have a general direction of where CC is headed and can hold class reps accountable. Similarly, while meeting minutes are important, I think opt-in, biweekly bulleted updates released via email to respective classes would keep the student body informed without forcing them to arduously dig around for information. Finally, I would do my utmost to make as many meetings as possible open to the public, and open to recording.

CLASS OF 2019

MICHAEL SITVER CLASS OF 2019

Campus Climate:Our campus climate is much better than it’s been, but we can make it better. I have some ideas of my own, but more important to me are student ideas. I look forward to reading the latest campus climate survey results to see exactly where students stand. We need to continue to invest in diversity, safety, and free speech, but we must also invest more in making our campus a pleasant place, and that starts with the little things. We need better dining options (particularly for diners with special dietary needs), a better printing service, and better SG-sponsored activities.

Divestment: When UofCDivest entered our campus this quarter, I was one of the first to stand against it. It’s toxic to our campus climate and it goes against everything our University stands for—free speech, diversity, and open discourse.

More broadly, it’s not the College Council’s role or right to make political statements for the entire student body. The College Council’s only role is to make life better for students of the college. With that in mind, I would vote against any resolution that attempts to do so, and lobby other council members to do the same. No exceptions.

Transparency: A few weeks ago I was attacked at an open CC meeting for openly recording it. Every student’s right to information on their school has been seriously disrespected in recent weeks. That’s why I’m running. If elected, I will pass open meetings rules requiring that CC meetings and votes be publicly recorded. No exceptions. Our student government also has a sizable budget—student money—and finding out where much of that money goes is impossible. CC Members have taken advantage of this secrecy to direct significant funds to their own RSOs. I’ll make our budget available and easily searchable, so that students can see exactly where their money goes. I also plan to fight for a judicial branch to enforce our Constitution. Representatives continue to neglect the rules, because there’s no body to enforce them. There’s no accountability.

That needs to change.

PAUL SOLTYS CLASS OF 2019

GEORGE KITSIOS CLASS OF 2019

Campus Climate: I think that the work the university has done the last two years to more accurately gauge student feedback on campus climate issues is a step in the right direction. This year’s campus climate survey should hopefully provide necessary insight for administrators to get a different perspective on a number of issues on campus. As far as my involvement on College Council goes, I intend on doing my best to promote a campus climate that is inclusive and welcoming, while fostering a strong relationship for the administration to open a dialogue with Greek organizations at UChicago.

Divestment: As a new member of the College Council given the unique opportunity to vote on the actual resolution calling for divestment, I ultimately voted to abstain.

I don’t believe it is within the purview of the SG to take a position on a geopolitical issue that clearly doesn’t have an objective, widespread consensus by the student body. I approach my responsibilities as a representative irrespective of my personal political or ideological agenda, because I don’t believe I can speak to the political beliefs of every single undergraduate, nor should I. It’s not my place to tell you what you believe.

Transparency: During my short time on College Council, I’ve witnessed an irresponsible lack of transparency. Students deserve to be involved while decisions are being made - not after the fact. Consequently, a large part of my campaign is dedicated towards specific ways to increase SG transparency. I intend to make meeting minutes more accessible (beyond the depths of the SG website), create a Class of 2019 Facebook Page for weekly updates on SG progress, and develop new, innovative ways for direct involvement with the SG. Because communication can only be as effective as it is accessible to the student body.

Campus Climate: I believe the campus climate is, on the whole, very good. Many people I’ve talked to have been happy with the friends they’ve made, the interactions they’ve had with peers, and how they fit in as a member of the community. However, there’s always room for improvement, and I’ve heard stories from friends who haven’t felt safe or accepted on campus. On Council, the focus should be on making O-week present the campus culture we want first years to buy into, and on improving awareness of resources and not just awareness of issues the majority of students already know about.

Divestment: Divestment is more complex than 100 words allows, but I will try anyway.

The issue of Israel and Palestine is very complex, and as a foreign policy issue is something outside of our Council’s purview. Even disregarding this, the way divestment was passed here had many problems. Two amendments intended to assuage the concerns of those who found the resolution anti-Semitic or too radical were rejected, no formal speaking time was given to anti-divestment groups, and the resolution ignored the financial impracticalities of what it proposed. Divestment lacked transparency, and in the end accomplished nothing but a worse campus climate.

Transparency: Student Government’s transparency hinges on making sure that its debates and actions are fully public, and that students can easily learn what is happening in SG. There has been some controversy over the meeting minutes from just a few weeks ago, and as someone present at that meeting, it was clear that some important parts of the meeting were dropped from the minutes. Setting stronger, clearer rules when it comes to making sure SG meetings are recorded properly is essential.

Editor’s note: Lily Grossbard is a an Associate Viewpoints Editor. Jake Mansoor, Alice Kallman, Michael Meng, Megha Bhattacharya, Elizabeth Ortiz, and Mahi Senthilkumar did not respond to T HE MAROON ’s inquiry.

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African Civ To Be Held in Dakar, Senegal Starting in Winter 2018

BY ISAAC STEIN SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

According to faculty who taught the African Civilizations (African Civ) program in Paris, Study Abroad will offer an African Civ study abroad program in Dakar, Senegal starting in winter quarter of 2018.

Currently, the African Civ program is offered on campus and, every two years, in Paris. After 2018, the quarter-long sequence will be taught in Paris every other time it is offered. In College Council and in the pages of campus publications, some students had expressed concern about the location of African Civ in a European capital, which made it the only Civ program not based in the region it studied.

A Short History of African Civ Abroad From its inception, the African Civ curriculum has been overseen by members of the African Studies Committee. Among them are Emily Lynn Osborn, associate professor of African history, Jennifer Cole, professor of comparative human development, and Cécile Fromont, assistant professor of art history.

According to Osborn, she and François Richard, assistant professor of anthropology, have “taken the lead on the African Civ program.”

Richard could not be reached for comment for this story.

Starting in the 1999–2000 academic year, the University offered African Civ abroad in Cape Town, South Africa. Cole and Osborn said that while a contingent of the faculty wanted that program to be in Senegal, South Africa was chosen because of the international faculty connections and research interests of John and Jean Comaroff, who led the program. When the Comaroffs left the University near the end of the decade, African Civ in Cape Town was discontinued.

African Civ in Paris was then developed as a “stopgap measure” to ensure that the University continued to offer African Civ abroad, Osborn said. Given the diversity of faculty interests, she said France was “a place where we could build something for the time being,” and funding constraints and other logistical challenges prevented a fully-fledged Senegal program from coalescing sooner. Fromont added that French collections of African art fit with her research interest in African material culture. In 2014, an influx of money from the Women’s Board also provided for an optional week of study in Dakar, which was a pilot for the upcoming 2018 program there.

“I came in 2007, and we probably had our first conversation about it in 2009. We’ve long talked about it, but the stars did not align until more recently,” Osborn said.

The Plans for Senegal According to Cole and Osborn, the University will probably not construct a Center in Dakar for the upcoming study abroad program.

In terms of curriculum, Osborn said that the alternating Dakar and Paris programs will reinforce each other, as each has separate strengths as a base for African studies.

She characterized Paris as “an invitation to [teach] Africa as a diaspora,” as “you can go down the street and see the legacies of colonialism, and streams of immigration to different neighborhoods in the city.” She added that while she acknowledges the colonial history of African artwork in French museums, the reality of that colonial past means that “Paris is a place where you can compare and contrast different parts of Africa, different kinds of art production…different ethnicities, countries, and regions in a way that you cannot do in any one African country.”

In contrast, Osborn said, the Dakar program “would be African Civ, yes, but it would also be Senegal Civ. In a way, it would be more constrained…more Senegalese focused, more Wolof focused, and more Francophone.”

Fromont added that she hopes the 2018 trip is concurrent with the Biennale, Dakar’s biennial contemporary arts exhibition.

Student Experience and Criticism Fourth-year Alex Bahls, who participated in African Civ in Paris in 2014 and in the weeklong program in Dakar, referred to the optional extension as “one of the best weeks of [his] life.” He noted that his interactions with Senegalese people revealed to him “the effects of colonization that still pervade the society” in ways that were not possible in the Paris classroom. One of those experiences was with a passerby at a Dakar market.

“In class, we’d talk about how whites characterized Africans during the colonial period as cannibalistic. Going to the market, someone will come up to you and say, ‘I’m not going to try to eat you or anything.’ But just that imagery has stuck, and has a contemporary component to it as well…. There’s a ton of things like that, and I was just there for a week,” Bahls said.

Bahls said that while he understands the appeal of teaching African Civ in Paris as a hub for African art and archives, he would have preferred if the program was wholly in Senegal.

“I do understand where the professors are coming from; there was a lot of interesting stuff to see in Paris...but if you’re studying African Civilizations, there’s enough art to find in Africa. Also, living there and having that immersive-ness is something you can’t

commitments for teaching in Senegal from really get in Paris,” he said.

Fourth-year Alexa Daugherty, who partic- François Richard, Salikoko Mufwene [proipated in the Civ program but not in the Da- fessor of linguistics], and myself. [Cole and kar extension, said the validity of the program Fromont] are also interested in contributing was constantly questioned by its participants. to the program as time and scheduling allow,” “I came out of the Paris program not she said.

Fromont added that the small size of convinced, but willing to accept why the program was in Paris. The professors definitely the University’s African studies faculty presented the history of what we are study- means that it is not logistically possible to ing and the African nations that we were offer an African Civ program abroad evstudying through this history of colonialism... ery year, irrespective of its location. Osborn and it really left me with a bad impression of also said that students ought to consider France, which maybe wasn’t the main goal, that faculty interests contribute to the debut there [wasn’t] so much acceptance [among sign, timing, and location of study abroad the group] of the program being in Paris…. programs.

“We professors are not here simply to serve There are reasons for the program to be in undergraduates. The demands on our time Dakar,” she said.

Bahls, however, recalled the group’s inter- are many…. Money is an issue when you start nal questioning of its studies in Paris differ- a study abroad program, and also all sorts of ently, and said that he “did not remember a other circumstances, like getting tenure, writton of dialogue about it,” with the exception ing books, and having children. It’s not like of “people on campus who chose not to go, be- we can just sort of drop in and say ‘let’s do cause they thought [African Civ in Paris] was this now, because undergrads want it. I mean, that might not sound like what you’re paying kind of weird or messed up.”

One of those students was Shae Omonijo, for, but there are constraints on how we can second-year and Undergraduate Liaison to do things, especially when our cohort is this the Board of Trustees. Last November, she small,” she said. wrote an op-ed titled “A Case for African Fourth-year Liam Leddy, who particiStudies” for publication in The Gate, in which pated in the 2014 African Civ program and she detailed the reasons why she could not the Dakar extension, said that while he participate in African Civ in Paris “in good “lean[s] towards” support for an African Civ conscience.” program exclusively in Senegal, he recomOmonijo referred to the planned 2018 mended the African Civ in Paris program program in Senegal as “wonderful news,” and to other students. He added that while echoed Bahls in noting that she hopes that “in he agreed with the majority of Omonijo’s the future we can see a full transition to [Afri- points in “A Case for African Studies,” he can Civ in] an African country.” She also said thought that she did not give Cole, Osborn, the interviews that she did for her article with and Fromont “enough credit.”

Cole, Fromont, and Osborn led her to conclude “All of the issues that [Omonijo] was that the continued existence of the African Civ raising were issues that our professors program in Paris is driven by faculty research were equally concerned about. I know that interests. some of our professors wanted our pro“Just the fact that there’s a lot of African gram in Africa, at least half of the time, art in France is an issue that needs to be but, logistically, that’s difficult to do. Some addressed in the first place.... At the end of people aren’t going to be happy [with the the day, I think that a lot of the programs alternating locations], but for now, I think that [the University] puts on are very facul- it’s a good compromise...those ten weeks, ty-driven...so it makes sense that they would and especially the three weeks with Emily want to continue for interests of their own per- Osborn, and the week with her in Dakar, sonal research, and I think, once again, that’s were probably the most influential weeks of why it’s important to have faculty from multi- my education at this school…. Maybe the ple disciplines study various parts of Africa,” program should be in Africa, but living in Omonijo said.

Paris for 10 weeks isn’t a bad deal.”

In an e-mail, Sarah Wolter, the DirecFaculty Resources and a tor of Study Abroad, added that the Uni“Good Compromise” versity also aims to “triple” the current For the foreseeable future, African Civ opportunities for independent study in Afabroad will alternate between Dakar and rica by the summer 2017 quarter through Paris. Osborn said that the faculty for the increased grant and internship funding.

Dakar program will likely include instructors who did not teach African Civ in Paris in 2014.

Editor’s Note: Liam Leddy is a former “As our plan stands now, we have firm Viewpoints Editor for THE M AROON.

Election and Rules Committee Discusses Monetary Value of Social Media Exposure

BY GARRETT WILLIAMS NEWS STAFF

The Student Government (SG) Elections and Rules Committee (E&R) met last Tuesday to discuss the monetary value of social media exposure in the Executive Slate campaign process.

This investigatory meeting was called to determine if the expenditure limit had been surpassed by the candidates on this year’s United Progress (UP) Slate, who are using a Facebook page created by a past year’s UP candidates. Opposing candidates from the Our Campus (OC) Slate initiated the meeting, but an official complaint has not been filed.

E&R works to create a balanced campaign race for SG candidates. In order to create a level playing field, slates are only allowed to spend up to $200 on campaigning.

This meeting was largely concerned with determining what constitutes spending in the campaign process. The committee also

discussed whether or not slates should be allowed to reuse their social media outlets, including Facebook pages, from year to year, which could lend an unfair advantage to established or incumbent parties.

Second-year Max Freedman, chairman of E&R, presided over the meeting, which was attended by members of both the UP and the OC slates. Third-year OC candidates Paul Drexler and Chase Woods were present at the meeting, as well as third-year Alex DiLalla, who is helping them with the campaign.

“We wonder whether any other group on campus would have had an equal access to 500 plus likes on a Facebook page coming in the race,” DiLalla said. Our Campus was involved in initiating the investigation process and valued United Progress’ spending at about $1500.

“The question is whether a financial value could or should be ascribed to the digital campaign assets that UP is using again from last year’s election, namely whether

there is any monetary value to likes on a Facebook page and/or any layout work done to the website’s formatting last year,” Freedman said.

Assigning monetary value to Facebook likes has been a topic of discussion for years in the marketing industry, and there has been no widespread agreement among professionals. Cody Jones, UP’s vice president for student affairs candidate, spoke in response on behalf of his slate. “We are unclear as to how likes can be monetized without purchasing some kind of third party service to generate likes,” Jones said. The reuse of Facebook pages from year to year also brings up issues, since it gives candidates access to an established fan base. The Moose Party was referenced throughout the meeting as an example of a long-standing slate that has reused its Facebook page in the past.

Fourth-year Tyler Kissinger, incumbent SG president, weighed in as well: “Last year, when I was running, I reused the same Face-

book page... and there was no issue,” Kissinger said.

The committee also addressed the financial value of in-kind donations to slate campaigns. Seeing as some students may have greater access to certain services, it may be unfair to allow these services to be used in the campaign process. This includes campaign donations from friends and family.

The committee was particularly concerned with web editing and photography assistance.

“If, within the student body, you would normally find people capable of doing such things, and you wouldn’t need to look outside the student body… then it’s not something that counts to the expenditure limit, as long as it is not physical materials, and merely intellectual property,” E&R member and law school student Josh Savitt said.

The meeting was adjourned for the E&R to discuss the matter further in private.

This discussion may influence campaign processes and spending rules in future years.

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Inaugural Washington Park Arts Festival Draws Over Two Hundred

BY ISAAC TRONCOSO SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

This past Saturday, the University partnered with neighborhood residents and organizations to hold the inaugural Annual Washington Park Arts Festival for over 200 attendees.

Student Government (SG), the University Community Service Center, and the Office of Civic Engagement sponsored the event in coordination with Chicago Youth Programs foundation and the K.L.E.O. Community Family Life Center nonprofit organization.

The Arts Festival was meant both to celebrate the artistic abilities of UChicago students and local residents, and to generate a discussion on how the University and surrounding community could increase their level of interaction.

For several years the University has pushed the development of arts institutions and programming along a block of Garfield Boulevard, beginning with the Arts Incubator in 2013. Future plans for the block include the Green Line Art Center and a public pavilion.

The festival included performances from various UChicago poetry, a cappella, dance,

and music groups: Maroon TV, Le Vorris & Vox Circus, The Chicago Swing Dance Society, Memoryhouse Magazine, The Ballroom and Latin Dance Association, The Ransom Notes, The Underground Collective, Run For Cover, and UChicago Maya.

Groups such as the StoryArts Summer Camp and South Side Free Music Program arranged outdoor games for children. The Southside Scribblers worked with UChicago’s ArtShould RSO and others to put on interactive arts activities.

The Arts Festival offered free food from many South Side food providers including Senegalese restaurant Yassa, native Chi-

cagoan chef Bryson Lenon, the Bronzeville Jerk Shack, Ain’t She Sweet Café on 43rd street, Jennifer’s Edibles, Inc., Daley’s Restaurant, and Catering Out the Box. Aside from setting the stage for future annual Arts Festivals, the event was aimed toward broadening collaboration between the UChicago student body and the surrounding South Side community. “Hopefully, together we can make this a great day for students and community members alike, and build bridges for future endeavors,” SG Community and Government Liaison Carlos Adolfo Ortiz said.

Zoe Kaiser

UChicago students and local residents come together at the Washington Park Arts Festival to enjoy a day of crafts, performances and community on April 23.

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His productions typically include high-pitched female vocals and underground dance–style beats.

Jennifer Lee is a record producer and DJ from Los Angeles who goes by the stage name TOKiMONSTA. She produces in the genres of electronic, R&B, and dance, and her releases include EP Cosmic Intoxication (2009) and album Midnight Menu (2010).

Only current students will be able to purchase tickets, but students can purchase up to two tickets per UCID and non-UChicago

students can attend if a ticket is purchased on their behalf.

The first 800 tickets will go on sale on May 1 at 10 a.m. at the Mandel Hall Box Office in Reynolds Club. The remaining 1,450 tickets will be sold online through the Logan Box Office beginning at 5 p.m. on May 1 and in person on May 3 at noon at the Arts Box Office in Logan. Tickets will cost $20 for students and $25 for faculty and staff.

Last year, when Azealia Banks, T-Pain, and Madeon performed, there were no online ticket sales, and students waited for hours

in line to buy tickets at the Mandel Hall Box Office and in Cobb. The online Logan Box Office takes a 3 percent cut of revenue from their ticket sales, which was one reason why MAB hadn’t wanted to use it last year, then MAB Chair Natalya Samee told The Maroon Editorial Board last May. Tickets for MAB’s Fall Show were also sold in-person and online, while tickets for the Winter Comedy Show were only sold in-person.

In the case of a rainout, the event will move to Mandel Hall, but only holders of the first 800 tickets will be able to attend. The

rest of the tickets will be refunded.

Doors will open at 5 p.m. and the show will start at 5:45 p.m. Doors will close at 8:30 p.m. and there will be no re-entry. The Chicago-based Half Acre Beer Company will sponsor a beer garden at the concert.

Last year, the Council on University Programming (COUP) hosted a “Carnival on the Quad” from 12–5 p.m. with free food, inflatables, a hypnotist, a dunk booth, a fraternity cook-off, and RSO performances. COUP has yet to announce whether it will host a similar event this year.

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sity Church in contact with Moreno initially.

As a member of CRLN, the Church has designated itself as an “immigrant-welcoming” congregation, meaning they would be willing to harbor people avoiding deportation.

When Moreno’s deadline for self-deportation passed, University Church invited him to stay.

“We don’t see him as a felon, we see him as a child of God,” University Church Reverend Julian DeShazier said.

ICE policy states that officers may not arrest people in churches, schools, or hos-

pitals unless there is an immediate threat to their safety or the safety of those around them, or ICE’s Washington office gives special permission. According to DeShazier, Moreno’s sanctuary is a tactic to force ICE to reconsider what his deportation would mean for his family.

“We’re hoping that ICE will exercise some humanity and not just make him another number on a sheet, but to really look at him as a person and to look at this situation as such an important situation not only for his family, but for the Latino community,” DeShazier said.

This is not the first time the church has offered a safe space to immigrants. According to DeShazier, they also housed families being deported to Guatemala during the Guatemalan Civil War in the mid ’80s.

University Church has been overwhelmed by mixed responses to Moreno’s situation, and both phone and e-mail lines have been compromised due to the strain.

DeShazier said that, as a whole, the church community has been enthusiastic and welcoming.

On Monday evening, the Church held a vigil in support of Moreno and his fam-

ily. Leaders from both CRLN and University Church attended along with a number of community activists. After a short ceremony of prayer and song, University Church leaders advertised a meeting at 7 p.m. this Wednesday at the Church for any local groups that want to get involved in the effort to help Moreno.

“We should try to do everything we can,” DeShazier said. “If we’ll do everything to keep our family together, how can we watch the government tear another family apart and do nothing?”

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UCMC Releases Information on Future Initiatives

BY BEN ANDREW NEWS STAFF

The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) recently released more information about its Get CARE initiative, the best-known aspect of which is the plan to build a Level I adult trauma facility.

The UCMC also discussed the plan at a community forum at the KLEO Community Family Life Center, 119 East Garfield Boulevard, on Thursday night.

As part of the Get CARE plan, the UCMC also intends to transform Mitchell Hospital into a dedicated cancer treatment facility and to relocate and expand its emergency room.

The UCMC recently said that it expects to treat 2,700 new patients per year at the trauma facility, according to a DNAinfo article. The UCMC expects that three quarters of those new patients, many of whom will likely be gunshot and car crash victims, will require stays of more than a week, which is significantly longer than the average hospital stay.

The UCMC also announced that its hearing with the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board (IHFSRB) will occur on May 10. The IHFSRB must approve the UCMC’s plan before it can begin construction.

At Thursday’s community meeting, executives of the UCMC announced that

they plan to create a community advisory board for the hospital as part of the Get CARE plan. Details about who will be chosen to sit on the community advisory board and its exact role have not yet been decided.

UCMC administrators solicited community input at Thursday’s meeting.

Multiple audience members applauded the University for finding a sustainable revenue stream for the trauma center, which is expected to cost the University around $20 million per year. The University plans to offset these costs with increased revenue that will come from expanding its more lucrative cancer care to more patients at the new facility.

O rga n i zers of the for um u rged community members to unite in supporting the UCMC’s plan. “ We have to make sure [the UCMC ’s pla n] passes i n Spr i ng f ield .

We still have a lot of work to do, and you know, just like anything else, if there is a divided community, people can play off of that to not get things through,” said pastor of the Apostolic Church of God and one of the local leaders who moderated the forum Byron Brazier.

The UCMC also launched the website uchicagogetcare.org, where people can learn more about the plan and sign a petition in support.

Members of the UChicago Armenian Circle and Supporters Staged Protest at International House Lecture Continued from front

was scheduled for the day after A rmenian Genocide Remembrance Day (April 24).

During the first minutes of McCarthy’s speech, protesters filling the second and third rows, including members of the Armenian Circle, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Hellenic Students Association, placed red tape over their mouths before standing and turning to face the audience, prompting some applause. McCarthy and various members of the audience began asking the protesters to sit down on the grounds that they were blocking the audience’s view of the stage, though other audience members shouted out

that they could still see and hear the presentation.

After the protesters refused to sit, I-House staff inter vened, at which point the protesters walked out of the Assembly Hall, joined by other attendees, to further applause.

McCarthy went on to discuss the history of tensions between Ottomans and Armenians, describing how hostilities between the two groups led to violent rebellion by Armenian nationalist organizations, leading the Ottomans to deem them a threat to their war effort and Muslim population. Accord ing to McCarthy, there were insufficient numbers of Armenians in all provinces of the Ottoman Empire to justify the

creation of an independent Armenian state. “ The only way that you could create an ‘A rmenia’ in this territory was to create an apartheid state, like something that was in South Africa,” McCarthy said.

R espond i ng later t o a question about the protest, McCarthy said, “If I ’m wrong, prove I ’m wrong. I f I ’m wrong, have a discussion, if they’re wrong, have a discussion. What’s been saddest about this whole business is that we’ve had nothing but protest.

What we need is dialogue.”

In an e-mail, second-year Daron Bedian, a member of A rmenian Circle, said that the historicity of the Armenian Genocide should not be up for

debate, because evidence in favor of the Genocide’s occurrence is overwhelming and easily accessible with basic research. Bedian also mentioned that the Armenian Circle will be distributing a petition calling on the University to explain its reasoning behind hosting the event.

“By allowing McCarthy and those like him to speak at the University, we are granting his name and his stance of denial credibility that it does not deserve…. To tacitly approve of such denial is despicable, and there is no place for that at this, or any, university.”

Booth Professor Wins University Laing Prize

BY GRACE HUACK ARTS EDITOR

Last Wednesday at the Quadrangle Club, the University of Chicago Press awarded its annual Gordon J. Laing Prize to Booth School professor Amir Sufi.

Suf i, the Bruce L indsey P rofessor of Economics and P ublic Policy at the Booth School of Business, won the award for his book House of Debt: How They (and You) Caused the Great Recession, and How We Can Prevent It from Happening Again. He co-authored the book in 2 014 w ith Ati f M ia n, a professor of economics at Princeton.

“ T his book is particularly satisfying to read because every time you have a d iscussion of the f i na ncia l crisis, it’s always: this is the problem, this is the problem, this is the problem,” University President Robert Zimmer said during his opening remarks. “A nd the nice thing about this book is that it actually looks at the complex web of underlying interactions of governments, events, and individuals who were in a type of unwilling collaborative dance to create what was a serious problem.”

The University Press presents the Laing award each year to honor a notable faculty member and commemorate the late Gordon J. Laing, editor

of the Press during the ’20s and ’30s.

T his year, the Board of University Publications evaluated over 400 publications, eventually nominating 38 for the prize. After two months of deliberation spearheaded by Chair Eric Slauter, an associate professor of English, the board selected Sufi’s book on the 2007 economic crisis. “ We wrote this book because we felt that even though we’d completed all the academic research, the narrative about the Great Recession—while obviously very important to Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns —lacked the perspective of households and the role that just normal people played in it,” Sufi said.

Suf i and M ian based their narrative on the last seven years of research on the recession, much of which was conducted at Booth. Heavily datadriven, this work takes a macro- and microeconomic look at systemic issues to arrive at actionable conclusions, lending equal weight to famed economists from Milton Friedman to Paul Krugman—polar opposite ends of the economic spectrum. “ It is this scholarly environment and the colleagues here that really push you to think very seriously about the conclusion you’re coming to, which really helped us to come to the conclusion that we did—the backbone of the book,” Sufi said.

“These students are working for free as a direct result of their family’s low income,” the petition reads.

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the petition states.

Based on the current policy, students on financial aid pay the same tuition when they take on RA positions, while those not on aid see a decrease in their expected family contribution by about $15,000, according to the letter.

Therefore, a student on financial aid is working as an RA without adequate compensation for their work.

“Fewer and fewer people are applying to be an RA, a lot of it is because people know their financial aid is going to be affected,” Gan said.

The petition emphasizes a perceived lack of diversity that is fostered by the Office of Financial Aid’s current pol-

icy. As financial aid packages are negatively affected, the petition says only students from a certain socioeconomic background are able to become RAs. “There’s a real value in having RAs who understand what it means to be lower income, Odyssey scholars; people who get what’s it’s like to come from certain places,” Gan said.

The letter also notes that increased demand for R As with the opening of Campus North Residential Commons has been met by a decreased number of applicants. The petition reports that in previous years, College Housing had about twice as many applications as open RA positions. However this year, with increased demand and fewer can-

didates, it only has about 10 more applicants than available positions, according to Gan. “Following practices in place for at least a decade, and in accordance with federal guidelines for financial aid, the University currently processes the waiver of room and board costs for Resident Assistants as estimated financial assistance. This means the University is unable to provide additional aid to Resident Assistants who already receive financial aid from the University for the costs of education, including room and board,” University spokesperson Jeremy Manier said in an email.

According to Manier, the University doubling its funding of financial

aid over the last ten years perhaps resulted in more students experiencing decreased grants because an increased number of students are receiving grants that finance all educational costs.

The petition suggests that the Office of Financial Aid adopt a credit-based system, similar to how merit aid and Resident Masters’ Assistants pay work.

Under that system, RAs would be billed for the full cost of room and board, but would be compensated with credit for the same amount on their quarterly tuition bill. This system would not affect need-based grants.

O nce the petition meets its 1,500-signature goal, it will be delivered to the administration.

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Call Me Crazy Dismissing Vocal Women as Hysterical Delegitimizes Feminist Movements

Urvi Kumbhat

Alphabet Soup One fateful day during fall quarter, my roommate and I were struck by inspiration. As a result of our random surge of artistic energy, our door is now proudly adorned with a poster that says “Feminists Only.”

T h is seemed i n no cuous enough, and I was quite convinced that in this day and age, gender equality wouldn’t be a radical notion. But our poster had some interesting effects. Coupled with the fact that I’m pretty unapologetically outspoken when it comes to sexism, the poster earned me a strange reputation: The Hyper Liberal Feminist.

Suddenly, I found people addressing me with the epithet feminist—a label I’m happy to be identified by—but their tone wasn’t appreciative or supportive. It was ironic, and even slightly patronizing. I realized what I had become: some kind of implicit spokesperson for all things feminism, someone who you had to be “careful” around. “Hey Urvi, I’m not trying to be sexist, but…” became a statement I heard (sadly) more than once. Casual sexism in conversations was accompanied by profuse apologies, directed specifically toward me. And yes, you should be apologizing! But what I understood is this: they weren’t apologizing because they were genuinely sorry. They were apologizing so that I wouldn’t get started

again.

It’s important to understand that this isn’t a phenomenon that’s exclusive to me. Feminists all over the world are often labeled as irrational, angry women who are on a mission to attack everyone. We’re always overreacting to everything, making a big deal out of problems that either don’t really exist or are too small to be concerned with. You can turn a deaf ear and continue to be unabashedly feminist, but the real world isn’t that simple. These sweeping labels have potentially pervasive consequences: they’re often capable of silencing anyone who speaks out. I saw this mirrored in my own experiences. I got tired of being perceived as the buzzkill, as the one who always got too serious, and sometimes I let things slip. Ashamed as I am, there have been so many instances during which I just stayed silent, telling myself that I should pick my battles.

C om i ng f r om I nd ia , I learned that women are expected to do (or not do) certain things. We’re seen in two ways by the average Indian: paradoxically both as a goddess and as a man’s property.

As I grew up hearing that good girls dress conservatively, while also being subjected to the lecherous stares of men and the judgmental glances of women, I found myself inadvertently trading

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shorts for jeans and covering up in shrugs. I often argued with my parents about what I could or could not wear, and their refrain was always, “It’s for your safety.” Eventually, I got tired of the arguments and just wore whatever would incite the fewest remonstrations.

It wasn’t until much later that I realized clothes had nothing to do with the way men on the street looked at my friends or me. They felt entitled to look. They thought our bodies were well within their rights to objectify.

I realized that this objectifi cation persists because a man is seen as the sole initiator of physical intimacy. A woman who expresses carnal desire (mistakenly linked to the clothes she wears) is often seen as promiscuous and dishonest. I would hesitate to be seen in public with a man for a very long time. I was afraid of being labeled as immoral by prying eyes.

C ontrasti ngly, because women are traditionally seen

as goddesses, the pressure on us to be permanently virtuous and sacrificing often overwhelms rational thinking. I feel this pressure from aged relatives who know no better.

Despite being fully aware of my rights, their societal conditioning wins once in a while.

Similarly, women aren’t expected to speak up and defend themselves. And when we do, the misogynists are threatened—threatened by the unsettling of a centuries-old balance, scared that someone dared to question what has long been established. And so they hide their fear behind poorly-thoughtout accusations of oversensitivity and craziness. In popular culture, outspoken or emotional women are often depicted as unhinged, and this sexist undertone can define the way people of all ages and genders see women.

We have no right to protest because we aren’t capable of thinking clearly, because emotions and logic are mutu-

ally exclusive, because we’re just plain wrong.

This is a form of gaslighting—reducing the validity of someone’s feelings so much they doubt their own sanity, perception, and memory.

Women then fall into the habit of relying on someone else to tell them how they should feel—and the world is particularly good at doing that.

So the next time you dismiss a woman as crazy, remember this. With just one word, you’re disrespecting people with actual mental illnesses. You’re delegitimizing an entire feminist movement that has fought for decades.

You’re hurting the women around you by ripping away their self-determination, their right to decide how they feel.

You’re being manipulative and deceitful. Some might say you’re even being crazy.

Urvi Kumbhat is a firstyear in the College majoring in English.

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ARTS New Work Week Offerings Both Whimsical and Hard-Hitting

BY RYAN FLEISHMAN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Fourth-years Elisabeth Del Toro and Cynthia Campos-Costanzo and second-year Grace McLeod each premiered their respective work at the Logan Center this F riday, as part of University Theater ( UT )’s New Work Week. Each student made use of a unique medium to tackle deeply relevant topics, such as religion, gender, and sexual assault.

I n her one -woma n T he ater and Performance Studies (TAPS) B.A. performance, The Perfect Woman, Elisabeth Del Toro constructs the wholesome alter ego of a vlogger named Kayley Taveras who begins a quest to write a musical about the titular “perfect woman.”

W hat originally seems to be a story about femininity and the actress’s personal struggle gives way to an outstandingly intimate gaze into K ayley ’s life. From the high of Kayley buying her first guitar, to the low of her relationship with her mother, one is drawn into the nuanced life of a vlogger trying to accomplish her dreams in the mercurial face of reality.

Particular credit is due to Del Toro’s acting prowess. In the blink of an eye, Del Toro transitions from a saccharine playwright celebrating a new accomplishment to a melancholy child, swamped in her own morose circumstances. It is near unbelievable that Kayley is not a real person, with the way Del Toro captures her

character down to the smallest of details.

T he v ide o blog med ium gives a sense of intimacy unobtainable in traditional theater. It removes all the barriers between the viewer and the performer, allowing the viewer to personally take in Kayley’s deeply personal monologues.

By distancing itself from the standard presentation of theater, the performance allows the viewer to forget the theatrical nature of it all and devote all attention to the character center stage.

“It gave her the opportunity to monologue without it feeling contrived. She was able to talk to herself in a candid way,” said Emma Maltby, a secondyear in the audience.

Cynthia Campos-Costanzo’s TA PS B.A. performance took a completely di fferent approach to storytelling. Her B.A. was a goofy, modern retelling of the well-known story of Moses and his Jewish brethren. This updated story, supported by meticulously choreographed shadow puppets, gave the piece an approachability lacking in the Old Testament’s original. Most importantly, it left me wanting to watch Veggie Tales again.

S e c ond-ye a r Gr ac e M c Leod’s 80-minute play, Girls Drink For Free, did not explore alternative performance methods like the other two pieces.

However, this is by no means an omen of lowered quality: it doesn’t search for alternative methods because it does

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This past Friday, three undergraduate students presented their original performance pieces, including two alternative B.A. performances and an 80-minute play.

not need them. While simply a read-through rather than a performed play, Girls Drink For Free strikes thoroughly into the ever-present issue of sexual assault on campus.

Rape: It’s a core problem in society, distilled into the nooks and crannies of college life.

Girls Drink For Free explores the half-stigmatized, half-sensationalized leviathan of an extremely publicized rape case.

In a show of blinding ambition, the play attempts to fully take on the varying perspectives of such a case. Does it succeed?

Maybe. Tackling such a highly controversial topic is bound to bring both critics and support-

ers, regardless of the material.

Even so, McLeod attempts to cover the entire situation.

The world of Girls Drink for Free consists of dark gray, and equally dark is its message: it showcases the rampant hypocrisy and selfishness of its characters, with an overarching focus on an inherently f lawed system.

Not a single character in this play is likeable in the broadest meaning of the word, from the neurotic, unstable Leah to thoroughly unpleasant Sonya. McLeod’s skilled writing keeps the unrepentant cast in check, which allows us to hate them while still being

absorbed in the play. This virtual lack of positive character qualities helps f lesh out the idea that there are no winners and no bright side to the situation.

The play excels in its focus on the deep f laws of universities’ sexual assault policies, rather than imposing an ideal onto the viewer. It is ultimately up to the viewers to decide their own justice. “ These situations are convoluted. Unless you’re one of the people involved, you don’t know what happens. No one knows,” McL eod said. “ Not a single person in the play knows what happens.”

UNCOMMON INTERVIEW: IN CONVERSATION WITH COMPOSER STACY GARROP, A.M. ’95

BY HANNAH EDGAR ARTS EDITOR

Stacy Garrop (A .M. ’95) knows a thing or two about overcoming odds: she transcended a non-musical background and male-dominated academic world to become one of Chicago’s most in-demand composers. Though Garrop is based in Chicago, her music has been commissioned by celebrated ensembles like the Minnesota Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, and San Francisco’s Chanticleer.

In an interview earlier this month, Garrop recalled her time at the University of Chicago and gave T HE M A ROON a preview of her upcoming projects—but not before striking upon an unexpected coincidence.

CHICAGO M AROON: Reading your bio, I have to admit that I was pleased to see that you, too, are a San Francisco Bay Area native who relocated to the Midwest. I’m from Walnut Creek [northeast suburb of San

Francisco].

S t a c y G a r r o p: T h at ’s where I grew up!

CM: Wait—you’re serious?

SG: Yeah, my elementary school days up through my junior high school days were spent in Walnut Creek.

CM: No way! That’s insane!

How would you say, then, that Walnut Creek and the Bay Area nurtured you as a young composer?

SG: You know, I don’t really know if it did. I didn’t really discover composing until I was 15, when I was in an AP Music Theory class. At that point, I’d been in choirs ever since grade school and I was in marching band. One day, our teacher said, “Go home and write a piece of music,” and if he hadn’t [given us that assignment] I certainly wouldn’t have found composing—I’m pretty darn sure of that.

Suddenly, I just couldn’t stop composing, and within about six months, I found a Bay Area composer who taught

at the Walden School for Young Composers, a five-week summer program in New Hampshire. He taught me during the [school] year, and I studied at the Walden School for two summers.

Then I went to the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor for my bachelor’s [in composition].

CM: And after graduating from the University of Michigan and getting into a number of master’s programs, you picked the University of Chicago. Why? SG: There was a number of us graduating [at once] at Michigan, and we had a teacher, Michael Daugherty, who got us each to apply to a different school that the others [weren’t applying to]. For me, that other school was the University of Chicago.

I was at the University of Michigan from 1988 to 1992, and at that point, all my composition and theory teachers had been male. [That] was an era when female composers and professors weren’t that common. I thought it would be im-

portant to study with a woman, so I actually auditioned at a couple schools with female faculty on purpose, just to see if I would have a different experience working with a woman. So I went to U of C to study with Shulamit Ran [Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professor of Music, who retired in 2015].

CM: What was the academic environment like?

SG: It was very intense, that’s for sure. I found it hard coming from a performance school like Michigan to a very theoretical school. The classes themselves were fantastic. I felt like I was learning so many new concepts; I explored ethnomusicology for the fi rst time, and I really got excited about that.

But I realized the tradeoff was that I wasn’t having any performances, and since I felt like I was coming to composing very late, I needed the practical application of working with musicians.

I figured out I needed to

head back to a performance school, and that’s why I made the unusual move of taking my master’s and then leaving the program after my two years were up. But when I looked at doctoral programs, I looked for ones with ethnomusicology programs—that became my minor at the next school [Indiana University at Bloomington].

CM: What compromises did you make to work your way around the lack-of-performers dilemma?

SG: Back then, [music notation computer program] Finale had become stable enough that people could use it for playback.

But it didn’t tell you anything about balance, or if people can even play what you’re writing.

I tried to meet people from outside the school, but I didn’t have a car. That, in addition to my academic workload, made it very hard to reach outside of Hyde Park and meet more people in the music community.

And again, you have to put Continued on Page 13

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Returning to Her Roots, Sarah Howe Finds Poetry in Pilgrimage

BY MAY HUANG ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

Br itish-Chinese poet Sarah Howe is many things: the founder and editor of online poetry journal Prac Crit, a judge in the National Poetry Competition held annually in the U.K., and the winner of the 2015 T.S. Eliot prize, to name a few. Yet it was only after she finished writing Loop of Jade—10 years in the making—that she started calling herself a poet.

Last Thursday, Howe spoke in the South Lounge of Reynolds Club in a talk entitled “ Between the Occident and the Orient.” The event was organized by PanAsia and Blacklight Magazine and funded by Student Government and the Program of Poetry and Poetics.

Howe told the audience that she did not begin writing poetry seriously until she came to the U.S. as a 21-year-old, when she won a scholarship to study at Harvard for a year. While in the U.S., Howe decided to explore classical Chinese poetry Continued on Page 14

Eva I | The Chicago Maroon

Last Thursday, PanAsia and Blacklight Magazine hosted poet Sarah Howe to discuss her work and pilgrimage from the U.K. to China.

“She wasn’t afraid to look like a woman...”

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it in the era. In the 1990s in Chicago, there just weren’t that many new music groups anyway. Actually, the [class] that came in right after me said, “Hey, we need reading sessions at this school,” and that’s when groups like eighth blackbird and Pacifica Quartet started having residencies at the school. I was just in that era where they hadn’t matured the program to that point. If I’d waited just one more year, these possibilities would have started to come up!

CM: You mentioned studying with Shulamit Ran. What kind of teacher was she?

SG: At the time, she was both the composer-in-residence of the Chicago Symphony and Lyric Opera. I studied with Shulamit my first year, but ironically, she took a leave of absence my second year. Instead, they brought in Andrew Imbrie, a professor from University of California, Berkeley—also, ironically, a school I’d gotten into and considered attending. So I had a chance to study with him after all!

But Shulamit was a wonderful role model. She was a woman who wasn’t afraid to look like a woman—what I mean by that is that other female professors I met [while auditioning] would wear a drab suit, or not really any jewelry.

But when [I met] Shulamit, her hair was humongous and curly, and she was wearing a red dress. It was like, “This woman is not afraid to show that she’s a woman!” That was very striking in that era.

CM: Now you’re teaching

the next generation of composers [as an Associate Professor of Composition at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at R oosevelt University.] How have attitudes toward female composers changed, both inside and outside academia?

SG: Well, the difference within academia is that the old guard is retiring, so the attitudes that they had are also retiring. Some of the people I met at Michigan were simply not used to the idea of a female composer. I won a prize called the Elaine Lebenbom [Memorial] Award that was started in memory of the fi rst woman to [study composition] at the University of Michigan. When I went out for the award, [I heard] stories about how she met a lot of pushback by people that said things like, “How dare you take this composition opportunity for a man who has to provide for his family?”

Well, wait—this woman might want to provide for her family!

That just wasn’t in the thinking. That kind of thinking has thankfully been leaving as that older generation retires.

Actually, it’s funny: My own program [at Roosevelt] is female [Garrop and Associate Professor and Department Head Kyong Mee Choi are the sole faculty members]. And at the University of Chicago, most of your faculty have been female for quite a while. You’ve got Shulamit, Marta Ptaszynska, Augusta Read Thomas….

So I think it’s been an interesting reversal. Sometimes I wonder if the male students at my school feel like they don’t have a role model! [Laughs]

CM: You have two world premieres coming up, both of which are nods to Helios, a piece you wrote for brass quintet in 2011 [Chariot of Helios, a wind ensemble arrangement of the work, premieres on April 28 and three additional movements of the piece will be premiered in October part of University of Chicago Professor of Composition Augusta Read Thomas’s Ear Taxi Festival]. Tell us a little about this piece and what brought you back to it, four years after its composition.

SG: Helios was originally commissioned by Gaudete Brass Quintet as a short, stand-alone piece. I was studying a lot of Greek mythology at the time, as I was in the middle of completing my Mythology Symphony, which was all based on female Greek characters. The members of Gaudete Brass Quintet liked

the piece so much that they commissioned me to write three additional movements. So now the entire piece is called Legends of Olympus, and Aphrodite, Hermes, and Apollo will join Helios to complete the piece.

Chariot of Helios is my wind ensemble arrangement of the original; I’m differentiating the title to help avoid confusion when brass quintets and wind ensembles contact my publisher.

I have been wanting to jump into the wind ensemble world for a while but haven’t had time to take on a completely new work. Arranging Helios has been a logical place for me to delve into this world. Eventually, I want to orchestrate all the new movements of Legends of Olympus as well, so that the piece will exist in both brass quintet and wind ensemble formats.

CM: A topic you’ve broached in previous interviews is fi lm music. Is this something you’d be interested in trying? What other projects are you interested in that you haven’t tried yet?

SG: I think I’m at a point where I’d love the opportunity to do that. It’s awesome to have complete control over what you’re writing, but I understand the value of collaboration. For me, getting into opera and musical theatre would be great as well—they’d be interesting avenues to try.

—Hannah Edgar The Chicago College of Performing Arts Wind Ensemble will give the world premiere of Chariot of Helios in Ganz Hall (430 South Michigan Avenue, Seventh Floor) this Thursday, April 28, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free.

Frank Ishman

University of Chicago alumn Stacy Garrop sat down with THE M AROON to discuss her upcoming projects.

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Maestro with a Mission: A (Very) Open Rehearsal with Riccardo Muti

Todd Rosenberg

CSO conductor Ricardo Muti returned to the podium Sunday night to lead a relaxed evening with an orchestra of college and graduate musicians.

BY REBECCA JULIE ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

W hen Riccardo Muti took the podium on Sunday night, he was not in his usual tuxedo. Instead, the venerated maestro —whom T he New York T imes recently hailed as “the K ing of Verdi”—looked at ease in a plum pullover sweater and khakis. Before picking up his baton, he turned to the audience and cracked a few jokes, speaking a hybrid of English and Italian.

Muti, a veteran conductor known for h is ster n a nd st oic conducti ng style, showed off a more playful side at Sunday’s open rehearsal with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the city’s premier pre-professional orchestra for college and graduate students. “ I ’m su re they w i l l play at the beg inning the way it should not be played,” Muti said to the audience before leading the orchestra in Verdi’s The Four Seasons. The young musicians chuckled.

Despite Muti’s joking nature, however, it was clear that he expected nothing but excellence from Civic, who played the difficult piece exceedingly well for an ensemble of its age group.

Muti held the Civic musicians to the same standard to which he holds the C h ic ago Sy mphony O r chest ra (C SO). A tr umpet solo in the f i rst movement, “ Winter,” was repeated nearly five times before the maestro was pleased. The quality and lyricism of the end result, however, was truly magical.

During a quiet, sensitive passage in “ Winter,” someone in the audience sneezed, to which Muti replied, “A lways during the piano passages!” He joked about how audiences all over the world never feel the need to cough or sneeze during forte, boisterous portions of pieces.

At the end of the movement , a c he er f u l , c elebr at or y melo dy, t he orchestra soared; in response, a del ighted Muti rema rked that young people play with a markedly different

amount of enthusiasm than do jaded professional musicians. “ Spr i ng,” the second movement of the piece, is more reminiscent of a small clarinet concerto than an orchestral work. Unusually, Muti let the principal clarinetist, JJ Koh, lead the orchestra, and Koh rose to the occasion: his tone was bright, even, and controlled even during the pianissimo por tions in the altissimo reg ister.

Muti and the audience were pleased— the soloist received lengthy applause.

During “ Summer,” the principal oboe’s chance to shine, Muti also offered compliments to the soloist and the ensemble. T here were moments when the Civic bore more resemblance to the CSO more than to a training orchestra; their expressivity was at times even more vibrant than some recent CSO performances.

Perhaps the most exciting moment of the rehearsal came at the end of “Summer,” a point in which the melody jumps, note by note, between string families in a frenzy of bowing

and lush ha rmonies. T hei r precise execution was not lost on Muti: he stopped and turned to the audience, face aglow with joy, as the musicians played.

A fter the last movement, “ Fall,” the Maestro made sure to shake hands with every first-row musician. When the cheering quieted, Muti turned to the audience, thanking them for their ongoing support of classical music and expressing his hope that they would continue to support this next generation of artists. Chicagoans should be grateful to these musicians’ parents, Muti said.

He then tasked the Civic Or chestra with a “mission”: “ Words can be m isu nderst o od . Music — never,” he said. He told the musicians that, as the future of classical music, it was their job to “reinstate” the values of society in a tumultuous world.

Then, he tasked the audience with a mission of their own: “ Stay near these young musicians. Because they need you, and you need them.”

“She did not begin writing poetry seriously until she came to the U.S. as a 21-year-old, when she won a scholarship to study at Harvard.”

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for the first time. She had moved from Hong Kong to the U.K. at age seven, but the experience of moving to a new country made her feel like a foreigner again.

“It switched something in my head,” she recalled.

From there, Howe decided to travel to China, making what she called a “pilgrimage” to see the country where her mother was born. It is fitting that Howe should use this word, because as she noted during her talk, writing Loop of Jade was “a literal journey.” Poems in the collection, such as “Crossing from Guangdong ” and “ Islands,” directly chronicle her travels. “Islands” begins: “At the boarding school we used to chant them/ Ping Chau, Cheung Chau, Lantau, Lamma.” Later in the poem, she writes, “My heart was drowning–

the long anticipated sight/ of home.”

“It was strange being foreign in my point of origin,” Howe remarked about going back to China.

“Howe mentioned that a critic one said that he could not follow her poem ‘Yangtze’ because she introduced the collective pronoun ‘we’ into the lines.”

Yet she is no stranger to the feeling of “being foreign.” She has always been fascinated with what she calls the re-

lationship between “sound and sense”; as a child, she would hear her relatives speak Cantonese but be unable to make sense of the sounds around her. “[ I thought of ] language as a musicscape whose meaning was hard to push into,” Howe remembered.

Ironically, Howe’s British teachers assumed that she was not a native English speaker because of her Chinese heritage. They even told her mother to send her to speech and drama lessons, where she and other Asian students would learn to “perfect” their English accents by reciting poetry. These lessons exposed Howe to literature at an early age, and she did not think twice about studying it at university.

Yet the kind of discrimination she faced at school would manifest itself in more serious forms when she became an

adult. Howe mentioned that a critic once said that he could not follow her poem “ Yangtze” because she introduced the collective pronoun “we” into the lines.

“It is easy for an unmarked male poet to assume a sort of universality,” Howe said, “[whereas I can be read as] a female writer trapped in the particularity of my viewpoint.”

Howe said she did not use “we” in the poem to exclude readers; in fact, she intended the opposite. “I think of it as an invitation in the poem for us all to stand together in our differences under an umbrella for a spell and shelter there.”

“Something sets us looking for a place,” she writes in “Crossing from Gua ngdong.” T hu rsday ’s event a ffirmed that Howe’s poetry can be that umbrella, providing a “place” for the placeless.

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SENIOR SPOTLIGHT: Jordan Poole Poole Has Shined On and Off the Diamond

BY KATIE ANDERSON SPORTS EDITOR

Fourth-year softball star Jordan Poole is approaching her fi nal days on the mound for the Maroons and is certainly going out in style. The pitcher set records just last week, throwing a no-hitter against Hope College to lead UChicago to victory.

Even more impressive was that the no-hitter was not her fi rst: she also allowed no hits against Carthage College on March 23, 2014 in her sophomore season.

At the end of her third year, with still one full season to play, Poole ranked eighth in the UChicago record books for her 30 career wins as a pitcher and seventh for 267 career strikeouts. Poole’s status throughout her senior campaign has only improved and she will soon leave Hyde Park as one of UChicago’s most accomplished pitchers to date.

Poole comes to the South Side from her home in Austin, TX, where she became involved in athletics at a young age. “I first started playing softball around five or six because my dad wanted me to get some experience with team sports before starting basketball, his (and my) favorite sport to play. I played volleyball for a bit, but mainly basketball and softball before I was forced to realize in high school I was never going to be

fast enough to play basketball at a high level.”

Speed has defi nitely not held her back as a collegiate softball player, as she made an immediate impact on the program upon her arrival to the South Side. In her rookie campaign, she started 15 out of 16 games pitched, striking out 79 batters in 89 and twothirds innings played. Her productivity was not limited to the mound, as she had a 0.302 batting average, one home run, 13 RBI, and a team-best 15 walks in her first year wearing maroon.

From there, Poole continued to improve. In her second year, she compiled a 15–5 record with four shutouts, a no-hitter, and 119 strikeouts in 128 and onethird innings. Her performance landed her a UAA Athlete of the Week Honor, as well as NFCA Third Team All-Region recognition. In her third year, she started 15 out of 17 games and pitched 69 strikeouts, earning her UA A Pitcher of the Week status.

Despite her individual successes, Poole’s best memory on the field comes from her team’s accomplishments, not her own.

“I think my most memorable moment from softball thus far would have to be making it to regionals my second year,” she said. “I remember sitting and waiting anxiously with everyone to hear our name be called, and it was such a great feeling

to see ‘Chicago’ come up on the board. I’m hoping for a repeat of the experience this year.”

Her goal for this year’s squad just may come true, as the team now boasts a winning record of 20–6, on the path to be UChicago’s best team in Poole’s four years.

Poole’s impact is not limited to the field. The Law, Letters, and Society major has made her known on campus as more than just an athlete. Off the mound, Poole is a member of Delta Gamma, a tutor and coach for various organizations, and an executive member of the Women’s Athletic Association, Additionally, the Dean’s List student earned UA A All-Academic honors in all three years that she was eligible. Poole is also a student in the M.A. Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS), a one-year selective program offered at the University for students concentrating in anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, sociology, or in interdisciplinary research. Currently, Poole is working on finishing her M.A. in the MAPSS program, in addition to writing her B.A. Her M.A. thesis is on Iraqi refugee admissions after September 11, 2001.

After graduation, Poole will continue working for Stratfor’s security team, doing research and analysis on terrorism and

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Jordan Poole delivers a pitch earlier this season against University of Wisconsin–Whitwater.

organized crime. She will spend most of the year abroad, traveling from Indonesia to Kenya, in order to gain more international experience while working fulltime.

With just a handful of games left in her college career, and only five short weeks before graduation, Poole imparted a word of advice for the athletes she will leave behind. “My advice would be to take some time and remember what it was like to play your sport at nine or 10, and to channel that excitement every day,” she said. “I know for

me personally, and for many of my athlete friends, it is really easy to get bogged down in a cynical and negative mindset when it comes to so many things here. But this is something we worked our entire lives to be able to do, and it should be fun. At the end of the day, participating in athletics is something we should enjoy and be grateful for, not another chore to knock off our to-do lists. I have so many things to be grateful for at UChicago, and my experience with softball is defi nitely at the top of the list.”

Maroons Look Ahead to Wednesday After Troublesome Weekend

Squad Takes Fifth at UAA Championships

BASEBALL

MEN’S TRACK

BY RHEA BHOJWANI SPORTS STAFF

The baseball frenzy began on Saturday afternoon when the Maroons kicked off the busy weekend with a doubleheader against Beloit College. The first of the two games that day started with a pitcher’s duel between UChicago first-year Joe Liberman and Beloit fourth-year Ryan Kaveney.

Chicago struck first in the bottom of the fifth inning. Third-year designated hitter Nicholas Toomey managed a single into the outfield and subsequently moved to second base following a sacrifice bunt. With two outs, first-year outfielder Connor Hickey smacked a powerful liner, allowing Toomey to score.

The Maroons never scored again though, and Beloit won the game 2–1.

In the second game of the doubleheader the Maroons fell 8–5 in 10 innings. Chicago got the scoring started in the top of the first inning. With two outs, the squad picked up momentum, successfully pulling off a double steal. Then first-year second baseman Max Brzostowski smacked an RBI double to give the Maroons a quick 3–0 lead.

The Maroons left the bases loaded three different times, allowing for many missed opportunities. This lack of execution came back to haunt the team when Beloit took a 5–3 lead in the top of the seventh inning. With two outs in the ninth inning, the Maroons rallied back to take the game into extra innings. Krob sin-

gled to begin the inning and moved forward with a bunt by Larsen. First-year Josh Parks then came through in the clutch, knocking an RBI single to bring in Krob and tie the game 5–5. Unfortunately, the Bucs scored three times to grab a lead of 8–5 in the top half of the 10th inning.

On the second day of doubleheaders, the team played Rockford University, splitting the two games with one win and one loss. The first game proved to be a high scoring one.

Rockford kicked off the run frenzy in the third inning with an RBI scoring double, but the Maroons came out on top with high scoring in the third and fifth innings. Bryce Hinkelman, Ryan Scarpetta, and Evan Frantini, among others, played massive roles in the big win with booming bats and an explosive offense.

Following the impressive win, the Maroon men suffered a big loss in the second game, finishing after only seven innings. Nonetheless, Nick Toomey continued his hot streak well into the game, and was responsible for half of Chicago’s hits.

Looking back on the weekend, first-year Brady Sarkon said, “We had a pretty tough weekend overall weekend.”

However, the first-year remains optimistic about the team’s ceiling. “I believe we were the better team in all of the games we played,” he said.

Following a slightly rough weekend, the Maroons look to make strides of improvement against North Park University at 3 p.m.

Wednesday at home.

BY MICHAEL CHEIKEN SPORTS STAFF

This past weekend, the Maroons traveled to Wash U to compete against their conference rivals in the UAA Outdoor Track & Field Championship. The twoday meet was to start Saturday morning and conclude Sunday afternoon.

The Maroons got off to a roaring start.

The javelin was the first event of the day, and on just his second throw, third-year Joey Gary reached 52m. Conserving his energy for the long jump to take place less than two hours later, Gary passed on his remaining four throws and took third place with his massive toss.

Unfortunately, the long jump was not as successful for the Maroons, who were unable to crack the top eight. As Chicago’s three long jumpers were leaping, their teammates were taking their turn with the hammer throw. Two third-year throwers impressed, with Andrew Maneval (49.32m) and Brandon Dixon (45.55m) taking second and fourth place, respectively.

But Maneval wasn’t done yet, and just hours later, tossed the discus 44.12m en route to another second-place finish. The vaulters were not to be outdone by their throwing teammates, however, and when it was their turn to hoist themselves over the bar, fourthyear and former national champion Michael Bennett and second-year Nathan Downey took the top two spots on the podium with

heights of 4.85m and 4.52m, respectively.

The track events were mostly trials to qualify for the final races to take place on Sunday, but the 3000-meter steeplechase, the 4x800-meter race, and the 10k all had their final heats on Saturday. The young Chicago 4x800-meter squad took sixth place of seven teams to earn three points, and third-year Timofey Karginov took sixth place in the 10k for an equal three points.

With the slew of great performances on the first day, the Maroons were in a great position.

On Sunday, the Maroons put forth a couple of excellent performances. Seemingly unfatigued by his previous day’s work and eager to improve upon his duo of second-place finishes, Maneval threw the shot put an astounding 15.40m and took first place in the event.

Fourth-year Ryan Manzuk stepped up to the occasion as well, starting the day helping the 4x100 relay team to a third-place finish and then setting a personal record by over a second with a time of 54.84 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles on the way to a second-place finish.

Unfortunately, these great performances were not quite enough. The Maroons finished in fifth place with 121 points, a mere three and a half points behind Emory and five points short of NYU. With that in mind, first-year Owen Melia was optimistic. “It was a great weekend; we really had some great individual performances. It made me proud to call UCTF my family,” he said.

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South Siders Grab Third at UAA’s After Victory Over Tartans WOMEN’S TENNIS

BY GARY HUANG SPORTS STAFF

The No. 16 Maroons traveled to Altamonte Springs, FL on Thursday in preparation for the three-day-long UAA Championships. With many of their hopes for qualifying for the NCAA tournament riding on a much-needed strong performance, the South Siders opened the weekend with a close 5–4 win in Friday’s quarterfinal contest against Case Western Reserve.

With the victory, UChicago improved to 10–4 on the season, dropping the No. 20 Spartans to 12–5. In the eight-team conference tournament, UChicago entered as the No. 4 seed with the Spartans following at No. 5. It was a reversal of a result two weeks ago, when the two teams faced off indoors in Chicago, with the Spartans coming out on top, winning the deciding No. 6 singles match. This time around, the match once again arrived with the two teams holding four points apiece, heading into the No. 6 position. First-year Kat Stevanovich dueled with her opponent, winning the first set 7–5, before Case Western’s Sara Zargham evened up the match. However, Stevanovich confidently won the game, set,

and match with a 6–1 result in the third set.

With their Friday win, the Maroons advanced to the semifinals to play top-seeded Emory. Unable to capitalize on their momentum, the Maroons produced only one point, and the Eagles proved to be the better team with a dominant 8–1 win. UChicago dropped to 10–5, and Emory improved to a conference best 22–4 record. The only Chicago win came at No. 1 doubles when fourth-year Stephanie Lee and third-year Tiffany Chen triumphed by an 8–3 margin. Emory consequently took the remaining eight matches to move on to the UAA Championship final.

Advancing to the UAA third-place match, the Maroons looked to wrap up their sunfilled weekend and finish strong against No. 9–ranked nationally and No. 2–seeded Carnegie Mellon University. Strong play from all the doubles pairings gave the South Siders a commanding 3–0 lead, only requiring two wins out of the six singles matches to claim victory. Second-year Ariana Iranpour efficiently clinched at No. 1 singles with a 6–0, 6–2 rout of her opponent. Firstyear Rachel Kim provided the match-winner minutes later, sealing a 6–3, 6–1 win at the No. 2 spot. Chen added another win at No. 5 singles to put the icing on the cake.

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First-year Rachel Kim prepares to return.

Earning a third-place finish among a field of highly ranked opponents has surely placed the Maroons on the radar of the NCAA tournament selection committee.

Asked for her thoughts about this weekend, Chen replied, “I thought the team did really well. We fought through adversity and pulled through in pressure moments. There was a lot on the line because our performance at UAAs would determine if we would

make NCAAs, and I think we persevered.”

Asked about the team’s efforts moving forward, she continued, “In the next few weeks, we’ll find out if we made NCAAs, and in the meantime, we’ll be sharpening up for that.”

The Maroons await their fate until early May, when the NCAA tournament committee will announce the bracket.

Should they be selected, the Maroons will play the weekend of May 13–15.

South Siders Grab Third at UAAs After Victory Over Tartans

Chicago Disappointed After Third-Place Conference Finish

MEN’S TENNIS

WOMEN’S TRACK

BY FRANCES MCDONALD SPORTS STAFF

The Maroons placed fourth after playing in three matches during the UAA Championships in Florida this weekend.

The Maroons went 1–2 in the eight-team tournament, facing the University of Rochester, Wash U, and Carnegie Mellon. The Maroons blew past Rochester in the quarterfinal match, coming out with a 9–0 finish over the Yellowjackets.

The semifi nal match had a different outcome as UChicago faced nationally seventh-ranked Wash U. The Maroons entered the weekend as the No. 2 seed while Wash U was seeded as third. UChicago lost after a series of long matches and tiebreakers by a match score of 5–3.

Two of the three doubles matches went to a tiebreaker, one resulting in a win for UChicago from second-years Nicolas Chua and David Liu, while the other tiebreaker resulted in a loss for the Maroons. Four out of the six singles matches went into three-sets. Two of the three-set matches went to Wash U, one resulted in a win for Chicago, and another was declared unfinished at the No. 1 spot. Because of the loss, UChicago was set to play Carnegie Mellon for the third-place match.

UChicago lost to nationally eighth-ranked Carnegie Mellon by a match score of 5 –4 for a fourth-place finish on the weekend. Carnegie Mellon came in as the fifth seed for the weekend. The Maroon men won two singles matches and two doubles matches.

L iu c om ment e d on t he c ompetition of the weekend that resulted in their fourth-place finish: “Wash U and Carnegie were just a little tougher, and a little better than us this weekend. In reality, the matches were even closer than the scores suggest—in a couple matches, we were literally only one or two points away from a win that would’ve caused the whole match to go the other way. But, that’s no excuse and we have to give credit to Wash and Carnegie for playing some great tennis,” he said.

Liu believes that this past weekend w i l l assist i n sma r ter play f o r t he N C A A C h a mpi o n s h i p s .

“As of now, we’re hoping the NCAA committee sees our potential and lets us into the tournament. If we get in, we’ll be focusing on fitness and playing the important points smarter because that’s what will make the difference in close matches,” he said.

If the Maroons receive a bid for the National Tournament, it will take place May 13–15 (the location and time are TBD).

BY MICHAEL PERRY SPORTS STAFF

The Maroons came in third place this weekend at the University Athletic Association (UAA) Championship. The Maroons scored 161.5 points during the two-day meet in St. Louis. The nation’s No. 2-ranked team, the Wash U Bears, took home first place for the weekend.

During the two-day meet, the Maroons took home first place in two events and collected 10 All-UAA honors. Fourth-year Nelson Trotter came in first place in the high jump with 1.69 meters, while second-year Megan Verner-Crist also came in first in the 1,500-meter with a time of 4:43.33. Secondyear Ade Ayoola followed in Trotter’s footsteps by coming in second in the high jump for the Maroons as well with a jump of 1.65 meters.

The team nearly had a third Maroon come in first place, as second-year Khia Kurtenbach’s second place finish in the 5,000-meter was only 0.02 seconds shy of first. Third-year Madeleine Horvath was hot on her trail as she finished in third place.

The other second-place finishers for the Maroons were fourth-year Nkemdilim Nwaokolo in the shot put, third-year Michelle Dobbs in the 800-meter, and the dominant 4x400-meter team of Dobbs, first-years Emma Koether and Nicole VacaGuz-

man, and fourth-year Mikaela Hammel.

At the end of the day, however, the impressive Maroon performances were not enough to overtake the Bears, who won eight different events on their way to the school’s 14th conference title.

The Maroons still have plenty of meets left on the docket as they look towards the NCAA DIII National Championships that will take place at the end of May. Even though they didn’t win, the team felt good about their performance.

“This weekend was definitely a success,” said first-year Grace Penders.

“We surpassed our expectations coming into the meet. We had personal bests in nearly every event, as well as a few school records. It was a great weekend to lead off into our next two meets before Nationals.”

The women also have much to look forward to, as this third-place finish is the lowest they have placed since their third-place finish on January 23 at the Illinois Wesleyan Triangular. It seems that the Maroons won’t settle for a finish like this again, as after that third place, they ripped off four straight victories to close out the indoor season. Expect a bounce-back meet to come.

The Maroon’s next meet is this weekend at the Valparaiso Crusader Open, which will be held a short drive away from Hyde Park in Valparaiso, IN at 11 a.m.