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New Storage Restrictions Prompt Complaints

BY JAMIE EHRLICH MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

College Housing and Residential Services recently announced changes to its storage guidelines for residents in housing, effective this summer quarter. The new changes include a limit of four boxes, no larger than 13x13x17 inches, as well as a ban on mini-fridges, suitcases, plastic bins, and bikes.

As stated on the College Housing and Residential Services website, students’ belongings must now be stored in their future assigned residence hall, rather than their current hall. The guidelines are standard across residence halls.

“It is great to have a trunk room program. Many of our peer insti-

tutions do not have a free storage program,” the Office of Housing and Residential Services said in a statement.

Students were previously allowed to store five boxes instead of four. According to the statement from Housing and Residential Services, the change will allow more students to use the storage rooms.

Boxes larger than 13x13x17 inches caused “a dangerous work environment for staff and reduced the availability of space for all students,” Housing’s statement said.

Storage of mini-fridges, when not properly cleaned out, posed a significant pest control issue, and Housing decided to standardize practice and prohibit them.

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Groups Gather to Share Anti-Violence Strategies

BY ALEX WARD SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

In light of the already more than 230 homicides in Chicago this year, representatives of three local gun violence prevention organizations met at Harper Theater to discuss their approaches to the issue.

The event was hosted by Evanston-based lawyer Vanessa Tanaka, as well as the owners of Harper Theater, Wendy and Tony Fox. Before the discussion, Lydia Jessup from the University of Chicago Crime Lab spoke briefly about the

extent of Chicago’s gun violence problem and the difficult environment in which the organizations represented are working.

Panelist Marshaun Bacon from Youth Progress’s Becoming a Man (BAM) program, which focuses on character education for at-risk youth, spoke about his program’s work and the systemic difficulties and racial prejudices it combats.

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New Collaboration Will Explore the Microbiome

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to consider a list of questions about their priorities for the center and its relationship with the community.

I n S eptember 2 015, the Un iversity announced that it would open a Level I adult trauma center in partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital on 68th Street and South California Avenue. In December, the University decided the center would be located in Hyde Park at UCMC instead. TCC and other activists had urged the University to build a center since 2010 and are now organizing to develop plans to ensure that the community is best served by the future center.

Approximately 50 people attended the meeting, including

The University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and the Marine Biological Laboratory on May 13 announced a new cooperative effort to discover and research the function of microbes.

The Microbiome Center will collaborate with private medical companies to find ways to use microbial research in the clinical sector and educate the next generation of scientists in microbiome research.

Microbial research is becoming an increasingly important part of a diverse set of fields, including urban planning, ecology, marine biology, human health, energy, and bioengineering.

“We are an evolutionary blip…

Microbes will long outlive us; they are the entire reason we can survive on this planet. Microbes have a profound, immediate, and continuous impact on all aspects of our health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and continued security on this planet,” said Jack Gilbert, the Faculty Director of the Center and Professor in the Department of Surgery.

The Center will aim to fill gaps in scientists’ knowledge of the ways microbes interact with each other and their environments.

“Anywhere there are bacteria, fungi, viruses, and Archaea, we are trying to understand how they interact with each other, how they interact with their environment, and how we as the human race can manipulate that and use it to our benefit,” Gilbert said.

Peter Littlewood, the director of Argonne National Laboratory and professor of physics in the James Franck Institute at the University, noted that each of the three institutions involved will bring its unique perspectives and expertise to enrich this research.

Argonne Laboratory will study the interaction between microbes and the environment, and will use its computational strengths to run complex simulations of microbial interactions for the University and

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Alexandra Davis Students march toward the main quad in Rally to Democratize the University.

Rally, Sit-in Aims to “Democratize” University

BY ANJALI DHILLON ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Students, staff members, and alumni joined in protest on Thursday to express concern about a range of issues from equitable policing to the University’s divestment from fossil fuels. The protest called for increased accountability and democratization of the University.

The protesters gathered outside Ratner Athletic Center and

marched across the main quad to Edward H. Levi Hall. Before the protest, a group of 34 students and alumni had gathered to occupy Levi Hall until a meeting with the administration was arranged.

They joined the crowd when the UCPD escorted them out of the building.

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At Town Hall, Trauma Center Activists Lay Out Goals

BY SONIA SCHLESINGER DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

Many of the people who successfully fought for a trauma center at the University of Chicago over the past half-decade are now pushing to define what that center will look like.

Community residents met at Kenwood’s Kennicott Park Fieldhouse on Thursday to discuss their goals for the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) Trauma Center, which is set to open in 2018. The town-hall style meeting organized by the Trauma Center Coalition (TCC) began with a panel discussion by nurses and social service workers from local hospitals and organizations. After the panel, attendees broke into smaller groups

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Affordable Housing Planned for Green Line Stop

BY GREG ROSS MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Wood lawn Station, a fou r-stor y building slated for construction on the northeast corner of East 63rd Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue, will bring 70 units of mixed-income housing and 15,000 square feet of retail space to the busy Woodlawn intersection.

Preservation of A ffordable Housing (POAH), a non-profit developer, aims to break ground this fall.

Set to overlook the Cottage Grove Green Line stop, Woodlawn Station will qualify as a transit-oriented development (TOD). By virtue of their proximity to public transportation, TODs reduce the need for residential developers to provide parking, thus promoting demographically dense, walkable neighborhoods.

A recent Chicago Tribune article reported that the city has over two dozen recently completed and in-thepip eline TOD projects. Most are upscale developments clustered in North Side neighborhoods along the Blue and Brown Lines. However, half of Woodlawn Station’s units will be low-income apartments. The other half will be a mix of affordable and market-rate apartments.

B i l l E a g er, V i c e P r e s ident o f POAH’s Chicago office and alumnus of the Harris School of Public Policy, said POAH approaches its Woodlawn projects with a community-centric lens.

Its existing Woodlawn developments, including four recently completed housing developments on South Cottage Grove Avenue, offer a wide range of rental units as well as senior housing. “[POAH] has an obligation to provide affordable housing, but also to supplement it with mixed-income housing. This combination is a springboard for the community’s revitalization,” Eager said.

T h is obl igation stems f rom the site’s history. Since 2008, POAH has been working to replace Grove Parc Plaza, a dilapidated low-income housing complex on South Cottage Grove Avenue between 60th and 63rd Streets, with new mixed-income developments.

The last section of the 504-unit Grove Parc complex was demolished in 2014.

Woodlawn Station will be built on a vacant lot.

Today, 266 low-income units are scattered among POA H ’s buildings between 61st and 63rd Street. POAH aims to deliver a total of 378 low-income units to the area, meaning that Woodlawn Station likely will not be the last project to spring up along Cottage Grove.

While Woodlawn Station, designed

by Nia Architects, will differ from previous POAH projects in its orientation toward the Green Line, Eager emphasized the bigger picture: “ Woodlawn Station is not just a housing project, but is part of a broader multi-year, multi-phase effort to revive the local economy.”

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members of TCC, Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP), and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs.

The panel featured UCMC nurse Adriana Sanchez; Carol Reese, a member of Stroger Hospital’s Healing Hurt People (HHP) program; and Sheila Regan, a CeaseFire employee at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). HHP and CeaseFire are violence prevention programs that aim to decrease re-injury among youth. CeaseFire currently partners with four trauma centers in Chicago and hopes that UCMC will be its fifth.

Regan explained the need for violence-interrupters in the communities that the trauma center will serve. “Forty-five percent of patients treated for

injury are re-injured within five years,” she said. “We have credibility and relationships with the people of highest risk because we pull our staff from those pools. We feel we can improve their lives.”

After the panel, attendees broke into four groups to discuss the meeting organizers’ list of seven questions including how the University of Chicago can help prevent gun violence and improve its relationship with its neighbors.

One group proposed the establishment of a community center and training program such as CPR classes for community members to be able to volunteer in the hospital. Other suggestions included reductions in parking costs at the center and satellite clinics in neighborhoods throughout the South

Side.

Several groups discussed the importance of a community advisory board to the center. They hope such a board will include patients, families, youth, people of color, and low-income members of the community. Attendees also emphasized the need for the board to communicate effectively with members of UCMC staff.

Veronica Morris-Moore, a STOP organizer and co-founder of Fearless Leading by the Youth, which helped plan the protests for a trauma center, concluded the meeting. “ This is real, this will happen, and the community needs to understand that these groups aren’t going anywhere,” she said. “We will keep organizing to bring the U of C to where it needs to be so that the community can continue to survive.”

Harris Strategic Advisor Joins Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

BY TAMAR HONIG NEWS EDITOR

Fay Hartog-Levin, strategic adviser at the Harris School of Public Policy and lecturer at the Law School, has joined the board of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation as a trustee. In addition to her roles at the University of Chicago, Hartog-Levin is a distinguished fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the former U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands.

“I am delighted to join the Weinberg Foundation and look forward to contributing to the Foundation’s long-standing commitment prioritizing those in the greatest need in our communities,” Hartog-Levin said in a statement released by the Weinberg Foundation.

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is one of the largest private charitable foundations in the country, whose mission is “to assist low-income and vulnerable individuals and families through nonprofit grants to direct-service providers,” according to the Foundation’s website.

“Many of the Foundation’s grant areas mirror my own passions and interests, including addressing hunger and better nutrition, promoting programs that help disadvantaged children to succeed in the

classroom, and providing vocational training for teens and adults with disabilities,” the statement continued.

In an interview with T HE M AROON , Hartog-Levin noted how her previous experiences and personal background have led her to her current position.

While working as the vice president of external relations at the Field Museum, a position she held from January 1996 to December 2005, Hartog-Levin had the opportunity to meet the state senator in whose district the Field Museum is located—Senator Barack Obama.

Impressed by Obama, Hartog-Levin became involved in his fi rst U.S. Senate campaign. This experience proved pivotal in cultivating her interest in social policy.

Hartog-Levin’s family history also shaped her commitment to the well-being of those in need. Her parents were Dutch Jewish refugees who fled from the Netherlands during World War II. “My parents…were very committed to civil rights as well as to assisting those people who came from disadvantaged backgrounds…. Their experiences through the war and reestablishing themselves in this country, I think, gave them that commitment. So it was always a part of, in ways I didn’t realize until later, my own fabric,” she said.

According to Hartog-Levin, the am-

bassador position (which she held from May 2009 to October 2011) was a special opportunity because of her Dutch heritage. It was also another formative experience in influencing her perspective on global issues.

“The Dutch are among the most generous in providing development aid and assistance to their citizens who need it, and that made a big impression on me about how culture in a certain country can be more generously disposed,” she said.

“Even though the Dutch are committed capitalists, they’ve got a real focus on social responsibility.”

Hartog-Levin sees potential for valuable connections between her work with the Weinberg Foundation and her work at UChicago. Although the Weinberg Foundation does not fund academic institutions, she believes that there are people in both environments who would benefit from meeting one another.

“There are some extraordinary people at the University of Chicago. For example, at the Harris School there are experts in the problems of urban communities— whether it be crime, poverty, education, or whatever—and that goes to the heart of what the Weinberg Foundation is seeking to address,” she said. “I’d be interested in pursuing whether the two could have mutual benefit.”

Interfaith Dialogue Starts Back Up

BY BEN ANDREW NEWS STAFF

After a long hiatus, Interfaith Dialogue at the University of Chicago is back, and with a new leader.

The RSO, which seeks to promote dialogue between members of different faiths, had been inactive for close to two years. However, It officially became active again this past Thursday, when it hosted an event called “Why Have Interfaith Dialogue?” At this event, students gathered in the Spiritual Life Common Space in Ida Noyes Hall to discuss issues of interfaith dialogue in practice and plan for the year ahead.

Karl H. Seigfried, a Master’s student

at the Divinity School, decided to resurrect the club after a suggestion from Director of Spiritual Life Jigna Shah.

Seigfried hopes that the RSO will allow religious voices to better contribute to the dialogue surrounding campus issues.

“Interfaith dialogue is now more important than ever. The University of Chicago has been attempting to address issues of diversity and the campus climate for members of various minority groups…. This revived organization can provide a platform for voices that have not been heard on campus, and it can bring together people from the rich tapestry of religious traditions represented at the university to really listen to what others have to say,” Seigfried said in an email.

In the future, the RSO hopes to host discussions on religion and spirituality, present guest speakers from various religious traditions, and publish an interfaith journal.

According to Seigfried, for the upcoming fall quarter, the RSO plans to present speakers from the Ásatrú tradition. Ásatrú is the modern iteration of the Norse religion which worships gods and spirits such as Odin, Thor, and Freyja. Seigfried is also currently the contact person on campus for the Ásatrú Student Network and a respected researcher and teacher on Norse mythology.

Students who want to get involved with Interfaith Dialogue should visit its Blueprint page.

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The University Will Work With Argonne National Laboratory, the Marine Biological Laboratory to Research Function of Microbes Continued from front

the Marine Biological Laboratory. The University will leverage its expertise with medicine and human health to study microbes in the human body, and the Marine Biological Laboratory will study microbes in marine environments.

“I expect that we will stimulate each other by the types of questions that we will ask, that wouldn’t normally be asked by the others,” Littlewood said.

Gilbert gave examples of specific collaborations. Argonne and the Institute for Molecular Engineering might work on developing novel ways of manipulating and controlling bacteria. Researchers at the University might use resources at Argonne to develop novel modeling systems to predict how microbes could affect climate change or human health. The Microbiome Center might

leverage the Marine Resources Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory to develop new models of human and animal health.

Eugene Chang, Martin Boyer Professor in the Department of Medicine, who is on the Steering Committee for the Microbiome Center, noted that collaboration is easy because “many of the same principles are shared among microbiomes whether they are environmental or human.” Advances in one area of microbiome research can lead to discoveries in another area.

The Microbiome Center’s mission to translate findings to clinical and private sectors might lead to new medical treatments.

Chang said, “We are very goal directed. My hope is to take what we have learned to develop novel therapies. In most cases, I think that we may need the support of industry, which is so much better able to translate this information into the clinical arena.”

The Center will train the next generation of microbial researchers by creating new courses for graduates and undergraduates, increasing faculty interaction, implementing interdisciplinary training, and reaching out to middle and high school students, according to Gilbert.

“I want to promote science in the U.S., and to me that is an essential component of what the University of Chicago can do for the country and the neighborhood in which it lives,” Gilbert said.

The Center is part of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s National Microbiome Initiative.

According to Littlewood, the Department of Energy (DOE) wants to fund and support microbiome research because it is interested in understanding global change and the interaction between the environment and biology. Other government agencies, such

as the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), view the importance of microbiome research from different perspectives, and will fund different initiatives.

Because the Center is interdisciplinary, the “researchers who are collaborating in the center can have an understanding of the needs and opportunities that are going to be represented by a diverse set of funding agencies,” Littlewood said.

Microbiome research will “educate the funding agencies on what issues have come up, for they themselves are looking at a new area and maybe not quite sure what to do with it. And there is of course the question of whether this should be funded by the NIH, USDA, DOE, and understanding the boundaries with which they operate,” Littlewood said.

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riences such as nearby shootings, as well as media and public perceptions of what causes violence, which he said lead to increased incarceration but no real improvement. “I think we have to refocus and readjust the lens so we can understand that this is not a problem of criminality, of savagery. This is a problem of oppressed peoples, oppressed populations, and a system that is designed to profit from them economically,” Bacon said.

Norman Kerr, Vice President for Violence Prevention at the Uhlich Children’s

Advantage Network (UCAN), described the intersection between combating violence and mental health programs.

According to Kerr, children affected by traumatic violence often face an expectation to “figure it out” on their own without receiving mental health assistance. Kerr also discussed funding for violence prevention programs, saying that it is common to focus on creating new programs rather than providing funds to ones than have already proved successful. Kerr also criticized funding cycles that demand significant violence reductions over the course of a single year rather than acknowledging the generational

nature of the issue.

CeaseFire Illinois’s LeVon Stone, Sr., spoke about his organization’s successes in reducing violence by understanding it as a contagious disease and hiring local community members to patrol police beats in affected neighborhoods. According to Stone, the Illinois state government cut funding for CeaseFire Illinois in March of 2015 despite the program’s achievements in violence prevention, which included the first homicide-free Fourth of July in the recent history of the Englewood neighborhood.

Referring to his organization’s work with at-risk individuals, Stone said, “To

me, it wasn’t just a CeaseFire effort, it was a community effort, and to me I think out of all the things we’ve done, no matter how many patients we send to the hospital, no matter how their evaluations went, I think to me that was one of the things we’ve done that was profound.”

Responding to a final question about how those present could best contribute to the organizations’ work, the panelists suggested that commitments of time are more valuable than those of money. Asked about what the audience could provide that would be most valuable to UCAN, Kerr simply responded, “We need your voice.”

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“Residents were previously permitted to store up to five boxes. The program has experienced increased demand in recent years and in an effort to accommodate as many students as possible, the maximum number of boxes has been reduced to four, and a size limitation has been clarified,” University spokesperson Marielle Sainvilus told THE MAROON in an additional statement.

“The Trunk Room program is periodically evaluated to ensure we are providing an opportunity to store items to as many students as possible,” she added.

College Housing plans to communicate the new guidelines via its website, through house meetings, on residence hall media boards, and the Move Out Memo. For those moving to Campus North, the information was provided through their representative on the Special College Housing Advisory

Committee (SCHAC), a committee of memCollege Housing and Residential Serbers from the decommissioned houses who vices recommends on its website both Hyde provide input on the transition to Campus Park Self Storage/U-Haul Storage at 5155 North Residence Hall.

South Cottage Grove Avenue and College SCHAC was slated to have a meeting on Boxes. Students have expressed frustration May 17 to discuss the changes but College that they will now have to pay for off-campus Housing rescheduled the meeting to June 1. storage.

“We’re fed up,” said Casey Mulroy, Stephanie Diaz, the Co-Coordinator of SCHAC representative and resident of Mid- the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance, found way House, in an e-mail to THE MAROON. “We the news of the changes troubling. “The new were told since the fall that storage would be housing policy is an unexpected cost for stusimilar to years past. We specifically asked dents,” said Diaz in an email to THE MAROON, about bikes and were told that there would “When the University expects people to bear be storage in North…. This very quiet ‘an- an additional cost with little warning, it renouncement’ came as a surprise to all of us.” inforces how this institution is not built for According to Mulroy, SCHAC was told the economically diverse population [it] now that a closing memo detailing storage policy boasts about.” would be distributed before the end of April, After the announcement, third-year Wilbut they have not yet received any official liam Thomas, along with a group of students word from College Housing regarding the from Phoenix House, began circulating a letnew procedures. ter to College Housing expressing concerns

about the new storage policy, and urging a reconsideration of the change.

“I think this reflects a longstanding disregard for student input, lack of transparency, and insensitivity to the needs of low-income students at this university. The collective voice of students is powerful, though, so I believe that we can change policies if we’re organized and work together,” Thomas said in an email to THE MAROON. Thomas met with Jennifer Luttig-Komrosky, the Executive Director of Housing, on Thursday afternoon and delivered the letter, which had received 521 student signatures.

According to the Office of College Housing and Resident Services, feedback on the new changes can be provided to College Housing and Residential Services at collegehousing@uchicago.edu. In addition, housing staff is willing to meet with or discuss the changes with residents.

NEWS IN BRIEF Whole Foods To Open in June Whole Foods will open its new Hyde Park franchise on East 51st Street and South Lake Park Avenue on June 22, according to a Wednesday announcement.

The organic grocery store will open for business at 9 a.m.

The store, which has been under construction for three years, comprises 30,000 square feet in the City Hyde Park development, according to DNAinfo.

The City Hyde Park complex includes apartments and office spaces. A Marshall’s department store opened in the complex Thursday and, along with the Whole Foods, will anchor the development. One of the complex’s two parking lots will serve Whole Foods customers only.

The grocery store replaces Village Foods, a low-cost grocery store that

occupied the space until 2012. The Whole Foods construction project was announced in 20 05 and orig inally planned to open in 2014, but the date was pushed back due to construction delays.

Whole Foods plans to celebrate the opening by providing its first 500 customers with gift cards ranging from $5 to $50. One customer will be selected

at random to receive a $500 gift card.

The Hyde Park branch will be the chain’s 11th in Chicago. A 12th location is expected to open in Englewood this fall.

—Sonia Schlesinger

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On and Around Campus: Week of 5/20-5/26 Friday, May 20 Ana Castillo: “Black Dove” 6 p.m., 57th Street Books, RSVP online Chicana novelist and playwright Ana Castillo will be discussing her new book, Black Dove: Mamá, Mi’jo, and Me. In the book, Castillo remembers raising her son and the pain of witnessing his incarceration. She also examines the experience of being an inner-city Latina single mother. Castillo is the author of So Far from God and Sapogonia, two New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her newest novel, Give It to Me, won a 2014 Lambda Literary Award.

Saturday, May 21 Festival of Nations All day, International House.

International House (I-House) will be hosting its annual Festival of Nations on Sunday. I-House residents will share their cultures through music, food, and performances. The event is a long-established I-House tradition, and International Houses worldwide hold similar festivals.

Christena Nippert-Eng: “Gorillas Up Close” 2 p.m., 57th Street Books, RSVP online Scientist Christena Nippert-Eng and photographers John Dominski and Miguel Martinez will be discussing their new book, Gorillas Up Close, in an event for all ages. Gorillas Up Close explains the differences between gorillas in zoos and gorillas in the wild, and examines the similarities between gorillas and humans.

John N. Low: “Imprints” with Gary Johnson 3 p.m., Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, RSVP online John N. Low, a professor at the Ohio State University at Newark, will be discussing his recent book, Imprints: The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians and the City of Chicago, with Gary T. Johnson, president of the Chicago History Museum. Low’s book discusses the Pokagan Potawatomi Indians, who have fought against assimilation and marginalization throughout Chicago’s history. Low is himself a Pokagan Potawatomi Indian and was previously the executive director of the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston.

Sunday, May 22 Ending the AIDS Epidemic on the South Side 11 a.m.–1 p.m., Newberger Hillel Center, 5715 South Woodlawn Avenue, RSVP online The 2016 Rabbi Daniel I. Leifer Lecture will focus on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, which still disproportionately affects people of color, those in poverty, and the LGBT community despite advances in treatment.

Dr. John Schneider, the director of the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination, will be in discussion with other HIV prevention professionals from across the city. The event begins with a brunch at 11 a.m. and the lecture will start at 11:45 a.m. The Center will also be collecting toothbrushes, tooth-

paste, and small bottles of shampoo and lotion for hygiene kits at the event.

Monday, May 23 Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder 6–7:15 p.m., Gordon Parks Assembly Hall, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, 1362 East 59th Street, Register online Eric Holder, who served as the U.S. Attorney General from 2008 to 2015, will discuss his career, which has involved issues such as criminal justice, terrorism, immigration, and same-sex marriage, as well as his experience in politics and his views on current events. University of Chicago Law professor David Strauss will moderate the discussion.

Jeffrey Winters: Literary Public Sphere “The Panama Papers: Unmasking the Wealth Defense Industry” 6–8 p.m. Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, RSVP online Jeffrey Winters, professor of political science and director of the Equality Development and Globalization Studies program at Northwestern University, will discuss the Panama Papers in relation to his academic work on oligarchy and extreme wealth stratification. The event is part of a series of monthly conversations at the Co-op focused on creating a “literary public sphere,” in which individual readers are encouraged to be participants rather than audience members in a discussion combining contemporary issues and informed scholarship.

Tuesday, May 24 The Privilege of Innovation 5–6:30 p.m., Center for Identity + Inclusion, 5710 South Woodlawn Avenue, Register online Panelists Demond Drummer of CoderSpace, Alex Niemczewski of BallotReady, and Katherine Darnstadt of Latent Design will speak with Shaz Rasul, the director of community programs at the UChicago Office of Civic Engagement. They will discuss systemic barriers to women’s and people of color’s involvement in entrepreneurship. A reception will follow the panel discussion.

Energy Breakthroughs: A Glimpse into the Future 5:15–7 p.m., Chicago Innovation Exchange Skydeck, 5235 South Harper Court, Register online Several speakers will discuss the advancements in solar technology, storage, and the electric grid necessary to create a more sustainable world. Seth Darling, a scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory and a fellow at UChicago’s Institute for Molecular Engineering, will examine the future of solar technology, while Kevin Gallagher, a chemical engineer at the Argonne National Laboratory, will discuss the future of energy storage. Leah Guzowski, director of strategy and research programs and an energy policy scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory, will explore the future of the grid.

Philip Bohlman: Jazz Worlds/World Jazz with Travis A. Jackson, the University of Chicago Music Department 6 p.m., Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, RSVP online Philip Bohlman, the Mary Werkman Distinguished Service Professor of the Humanities and of Music at the University of Chicago, will be speaking about his new book Jazz Worlds/World Jazz. The book explores the reach of jazz beyond America, tracing stories from India to Armenia, and explores how jazz influences cultures through themes of place, history, mobility, media, and race. The event will also feature a jazz guitar performance by Michael Allemana, a guitarist, composer, and Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at the University of Chicago.

A Conversation with Senator Tom Harkin: The Future of the Senate 6–7:15 p.m., Quadrangle Club, 1155 East 57th Street, Register online Tom Harkin, who served as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Iowa from 1985 to 2015, will discuss the current state of the Senate, including important upcoming Senate races and the nomination of Merrick Garland. Harkin introduced the Americans with Disabilities Act into the Senate and has been a strong supporter of rights for people with disabilities.

Wednesday, May 25 Ahmed White: ‘The Last Great Strike” 6 p.m., Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, Register online Ahmed White, a professor of law at the University of Colorado at Boulder, will discuss his book The Last Great Strike. In the book, White examines the Little Steel Strike, a 1937 strike that included violent clashes with police and National Guardsmen in which at least 16 strikers were killed. White argues against the traditional narrative that the Little Steel Strike was only a modest setback for workers, writing instead that it exposed the contradictions of the labor movement and the strength of corporate power.

Martin Seay: “The Mirror Thief” with Scott Onak 6 p.m., 57th Street Books, Register online Author Martin Seay will discuss his first novel The Mirror Thief with Scott Onak, who teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago Graham School. The Mirror Thief is a mystery-adventure novel focusing on the team of glassmakers who worked to perfect the mirror in Venice in the 16th century, while weaving in stories from Venice Beach in 1958 and the Venice casino in Las Vegas in the present day.

In the Crosshairs: How Campaigns Use Data to Target Voters 6–7:15 p.m., International House, Register online The IOP is hosting a panel discussion on the emerging ways that campaigns use data, from home addresses to magazine subscriptions, to profile and target voters.

Alex Lundry, former chief data scientist for the Romney Campaign, and Tom Bonier, CEO of TargetSmart and a prominent

Democratic strategist, will speak as panelists. Sasha Issenberg, a political reporter and the author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, will moderate.

Thursday, May 26 The State Of LGBT Entrepreneurship in the U.S. 5:30–8 p.m., Gleacher Center, Room 621, 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive Waverly Deutsch, Clinical Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Booth School of Business, and other scholars will present research on LGBT entrepreneurship and its implications for economic growth. The event will also include a panel discussion with Chicago entrepreneurs and members of StartOut, a nonprofi t that aims to advance LGBT entrepreneurship.

Indie City Writers Live-Lit at 57th Street Books #2 6–8 p.m., 57th Street Books, RSVP online Indie City Writers, a collective aiming to enhance the writing community on the South Side, will host a night of literature readings. Featured writers include Samantha Clark, Yvonne Jeffries, Alex Weiss, Della Leavitt, Steve Bellinger, Marissa McCants, K.B. Jensen and M.L. Kennedy. Books by local authors will be available for purchase.

David Satter: “The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep” 6 p.m., Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, RSVP online David Satter, a former Moscow correspondent of the Financial Times of London and the fi rst American journalist to be expelled from Russia since the Cold War, will be discussing his new book, The Less You Know, The Better You Sleep: Russia’s Road to Terror and Dictatorship under Yeltsin and Putin. The book examines the apartment bombings in 1999, which Satter argues were conducted by the Russian FSB security police, though they were blamed on Chechens. He will also discuss the authoritarianism of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin.

2016 Presidential Election: The Effects of Political Rhetoric on Minority Communities 6 –8:30 p.m., International House Assembly Hall, Register online As part of its annual Chicago Interfaith Gathering, the Niagara Foundation, which works to advance conversations and relationships between people of different cultures and faiths, will offer a panel discussion about the effects of racist political rhetoric in the 2016 election on racial and religious minorities in the United States. Reverend Dirk Ficca, the director of the Interrelig ious Initiative for Middle East Peace, will be the keynote speaker, while Michael Dawson, a political science professor at UChicago, will moderate the discussion.

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mate Action Network (UCAN) organized the march and action. These four campaigns are a part of the IIRON student organization.

IIRON Student Network (ISN) has a base at University of Chicago and coordinated the protest.

The rally was organized in response to the administration’s lack of attendance at a public meeting of various RSOs. IIRON invited administrators including Provost Eric D. Isaacs, incoming Provost Daniel Diermeier, and Dean of Students in the College John “Jay” Ellison to a meeting during fifth week at which students planned to present their concerns and propose changes. The administrators did not attend the meeting.

Second year Hannah Breslau, an organizer with ISN and a member of its media team, said that local and national news agencies were contacted to report on the rally. According to Breslau, the University turned the press away with threats of trespassing charges. Student Body President and fourth-year Tyler Kissinger and Class of 2018 College Council representative Cosmo Albrecht wrote on Twitter that TV news reporters were denied access because the campus quadrangle is private property.

“The people who entered Levi Hall for today’s demonstration left without incident when the building closed at 5 p.m. TV crews are free to film from public sidewalks, but to be on campus they need prior permission from the University,” University spokesperson Jeremy Manier said.

According to the UChicago News website, the University’s policy regarding visiting journalism is that “Journalists who wish to visit the University of Chicago campus, which is private property, should notify the News Office...before arriving. Special arrangements may need to be made for camera-carrying journalists.”

First-year Juhi Gupta, the FBU and rally’s media liaison, said the four campaigns collaborated in hopes of attaining shared governance and democratization of the University. She said that the campaigns have tried to contact the administration and establish a forum in which they could communicate their concerns to the University, but that the administration has been unresponsive.

At around 4 p.m., before the protest, a coalition of 34 students and alumni entered Levi Hall when the locked doors were opened as someone was exiting the building. The group sought to meet with the administration and present its demands for accountability. The individuals gathered in the waiting room on the fifth floor outside of Provost Eric D. Isaacs’s office before they were escorted out by UCPD. They then joined the crowd outside Levi Hall chanting, “We’ll be back.”

The group had originally planned to sit in the administrative lobby until a meeting with the University was arranged. Students and alumni were equipped with adult diapers, blankets, and clothes, but were forced to exit within an hour of arriving. Officials told the students that if they remained, they might face disciplinary action or arrest by administrators and the UCPD. Kissinger was among the group.

“I was just kicked out of the admin building that my tuition dollars go to pay for. I was kicked out with 33 other people, students and not students, because we wanted to talk to some people…. The same people who live in this locked castle are people who make decisions about our endowment, that make decisions about if we invest money to support people with disabilities, if we invest money to support survivors, and they make bad decisions,” Kissinger said.

Outside Levi Hall, members from FBU, UCAN, CEP, SDJ, Phoenix Survivors Alliance (PSA), Student Government, and Local Teamsters 743 took turns speaking about

their experiences communicating with the administration and affirming their support for democratizing the University’s decision-making process.

First-year Marielle Ingram, a representative from FBU, reiterated the campaign’s demand that the University raise the campus minimum wage to $15 per hour. FBU also calls for the administration to ensure a fair and equitable transition and affordable health insurance for dining hall workers as UChicago Dining brings in a new catering company, Bon Appétit.

“Working under the University, I just started working minimum wage recently, and it isn’t enough, especially living in Chicago.... Many of the students who actually need the money aren’t given work-studies and there’s nothing subsidized for them.

There is a notable lack of accountability and transparency from the University admin,” Ingram said.

Several members from UCAN, a campaign pushing for the University to divest from fossil fuels, also spoke of the difficulty and inefficiency they encountered while presenting their concerns to the administration.

Graduate student Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier, a representative from CEP, criticized the UCPD’s lack of transparency and accountability. She argued that as one of the largest private police forces in the country, the UCPD is supposed to serve the entire community, but only answers to a few in the administration as complaints are dealt with internally.

On behalf of SDJ, fourth-year Nora Helfand said that the campaign demands that the University provide more funding to expand and revitalize Student Disability Services and ensure that all the buildings on campus are physically accessible. She discussed the University’s history of noncompliance with disability laws, and the Department of Education’s lawsuit against the administration. She added that the University has rejected a proposal to add another special access button to a campus building.

Members of PSA, Local Teamsters 743, and Student Government then took the floor to criticize the administration’s lack of accountability and to express support for the IIRON campaigns.

Protesters chorused a series of chants as they marched from Ratner and gathered outside Levi Hall: “Show me what democracy looks like.

This is what democracy looks like.”

“What do we need? Living wages. When do we need it? Now.” Gupta said, “The goal of the protest should not even be ambitious. It is ridiculous that this has to be ambitious. Getting a meeting with the University to discuss implementing these demands should not be an ambitious goal. But it is, because they refuse to meet with us countless times in the past. Regardless of even getting them to agree to some of the demands we are putting forth, they won’t provide us with a public forum in which to discuss our concerns.”

In response to the rally and the 34 students’ forced departure from Levi Hall, Manier stated, “Dissent and protest are integral to the life of the University of Chicago. The University welcomes a wide range of voices, and has policies ensuring that all members of our community have broad freedom to share their opinions and engage in rigorous debate. These policies provide guidance for protests and demonstrations, protecting students’ right to expression while maintaining the normal functioning of the University.”

According to Manier, the administration and faculty members regularly meet with students through various platforms to discuss issues, such as Student Government meetings.

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Police wait outside Levi Hall.

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VIEWPOINTS Letter: Nussbaum Ignores the Many Options Available for Survivors of Sexual Violence After Sexual Violence, Examples of What Student Survivors Do Venues for Action Informal Disengage Act as if pp nothingg happened Reduce risks

Possible Survivor Actions

Handle on own

Disclose violation

Reach out Ask for help Seek to restrict violator Seek violator accountabilityy

Counter violator

Institutional

Legal

Stay in room; write in journal Maintain normal routines

Stop going to class

Shower off evidence

Keep going to class

Don’t call the cops

Change phone number

Request class change

Decline police interview request

Report to school

Report to police

Go to hospital; get counseling

Research laws online

Request school alter violator class schedule File disciplinary complaint

File order of protection Cooperate with criminal charges; sue

Admit rape to self; tell family; tell media Request companionship Demand violator stop calling Ask violator for apology & amends

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In her talk, “Accountability for Sexual Violence,” for the Law School’s Domestic Violence Project on Wednesday, University of Chicago distinguished law professor Martha Nussbaum addressed legal precedents and university challenges but not her January Huffington Post blog post, “Why some men are above the law.”

While the blog post was clearly on the table, it wasn’t substantively discussed until the off-the-record question and answer session afterward.

In that post, Nussbaum tells us that, in her own personal “Bill Cosby tale,” she did not pursue justice. For many victims, that’s an understandable and wise response, but Nussbaum then goes on to commit a logical fallacy. She generalizes from that one experience and gives blanket advice to all others raped by famous men.

“Move on,” she says. “Do not let your life get hijacked by an al-

most certainly futile effort at justice.” Then, in her post liked by 2,500 Facebook users, UChicago’s Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics concludes: “Forget the law.”

Nussbaum believes she made a good decision for herself, and she may have, but that doesn’t mean her decision would be right for everyone else. Every assault is unique. Every perpetrator unique. Every survivor unique.

Every vision of justice unique.

We need to honor each survivor’s unique path to healing and recognize that what’s right for one survivor is not necessarily going to work for all others.

Survivors, myself included, have an overwhelming array of choices. We need to choose not only what to do but also where to do it. To help people understand and navigate choices after sexual violence, I’m developing a “decision explorer,” Our Choices for

Healing In Justice, based on the PrOACT decision-making framework.

In Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Life Decisions, John Hammond, Ralph Keeney, and Howard Raiffa describe the basic elements of decisions with the acronym, PrOACT, which stands for Problem, Objectives, Alternatives, Consequences, and Tradeoffs. The matrix above, “After Sexual Violence, Examples of What Student Survivors Do,” is a highly simplified representation of alternatives.

The fully expanded version has hundreds of cells relevant to survivors in workplaces and homes as well as schools and other settings.

Survivors have three basic possible actions. Firstly, they can handle the situation on their own as Nussbaum did and counsels others to do. Such personal coping may involve disengaging, acting

as if nothing happened, and reducing risks. Survivors can also reach out, disclosing the violation and asking for help. Finally, they can counter violators by seeking to restrict or hold them accountable. Each of these actions can happen in informal and institutional venues in addition to the legal space that Nussbaum tells survivors to avoid.

At first glance, Nussbaum’s advice to survivors to “forget the law” is understandable. The legal system, in its present state, is problematic. It’s fair to warn survivors that, with the low probability of successful litigation, the legal system can constitute a second victimization. Some may, nevertheless, choose to counter the violator using law enforcement and the courts. Whether or not survivors’ legal tribulations provide vindication, they may sleep better at night, knowing they tried to protect others from assailants likely-to-continue violence.

Others do “forget the law,” but that doesn’t mean they need do nothing. Nussbaum equates justice and the legal system, but the legal system is not our only venue for justice. Survivors—and we’re not, as Nussbaum implies, only women—can take action in informal and institutional venues as well as, or instead of, legal ones. It is precisely because the law is so problematic that survivors find other options for getting a modicum of justice. For example, while the statutes of limitations for most Cosby survivors have expired, many are speaking out in the court of public opinion.

Also, many student survivors are getting school accommodations mandated by Title IX. One reason some people are

above the law is because of advice like Nussbaum’s. She doubts society will stand up to power and tells survivors that seeking justice is futile. Nussbaum is wrong, and the fact that Nussbaum herself is powerful—a well-respected, influential thinker with a substantial following—makes her stance particularly distressing.

I much prefer the perspective of a professor at the university across town: that no man should be above the law. Jeffrey Winters, a political science professor at Northwestern University and the author of the 2011 book Oligarchy, notes that “one of the greatest challenges in history has been to create legal governing institutions that are stronger than the strongest people in society.”

A good first step would be creating spaces at the table to dialogue on the topics on the table.

No one should be able, in Winters’ words, to deploy “their wealth and power to free themselves of constraints that others in society face.” Some people will stand up to power—sometimes at great personal cost—and survivors can find justice. Indeed, experts are recognizing an unprecedented and accelerating trend of sexual assault victims speaking out.

Let’s hope this tide is a turning point. While we work to reform the legal system, we may need to be creative in how we define and pursue justice. Let’s keep the law, imperfect as it is, but also expand our definition of justice beyond it. Each unique survivor should be able to choose among the full array of possibilities.

—Michele Beaulieux, A.B. ’82, curates news about sexual assault at facebook.com/cultureofconsent. Follow her on Twitter at @ReservoirOfHope.

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Urvi Khumbat It can be difficult to make sense of how the myriad of growing social justice movements intersect, and simultaneously, how they are independent. Solidarity with a movement should be all-inclusive, but there is a line between supporting and co-opting a movement. Co-opting a movement (for a variety of purposes) can reduce its potency and sometimes even delegitimize its original aims. It’s a dangerous line that we as a majorly capitalistic, often selfish society tread, and it’s high time that we realized how these

lines are drawn.

The Black Lives Matter movement emerged in response to murders like that of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman and the intense grief and frustration that surrounded them. It is a response to the historically rooted dehumanization of black lives, “a call to action and a response to the virulent anti-Black racism that permeates our society.” It is an intersectional movement that wants to rebuild the black liberation movement, and bring to its center disparate groups

that have too faced undue discrimination. It is a cry of support, anger, and resilience that quickly spiraled into something momentous, pivotal, and possibly redefi ning for black liberation. In its success, the movement has received an outpouring of support from the world over, including from people of different races.

But then the All Lives Matter movement became mainstream. This movement was based on the claim that the Black Lives Matter movement was not inclusive of other races (especially white people), that it was guilty of the same discrimination it was accusing others of.

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“It’s about time that we...learned the difference between solidarity and co-opting a movement.”

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in creating a sense of community and inciting discussion, the All Lives Matter movement grew out of privilege and a fl agrant mischaracterization of the Black Lives Matter movement’s goals. It was not born of systemic discrimination or historical oppression, but of a need to perpetuate the existing system that benefits whites. Ultimately, all this reactionary movement does is invalidate black lives and their cries for justice.

Though proponents of the color-blind argument would say that this is untrue, it seems clear that color-blindness is rooted in denial and not acceptance. By starting the All Lives Matter movement, supporters are perpetuating the same systemic racism that is hidden under a seemingly neutral approach. The color-blind approach is problematic because it literally blinds people to the role color plays in existing structures, both big and small.

All Lives Matter takes the very core of the Black Lives Matter movement and fundamentally disrespects it. It denies that there is any need for black lives to receive immediate and focused attention. It denies a history of organized oppression and slavery. It denies black people their right to emancipation and equality by refusing to even acknowledge the problem. The numbers prove an indisputable point that many cannot accept—that black people are seen as subhuman, both socially and politically.

By parading under the facade of non-racism, the All Lives Matter movement co-opts a movement and panders to a large group of people that are already complacent in their privilege. It derails change and conversation and misdirects the rightful attention that the black liberation movement rightfully deserves.

Though these activists could claim that All Lives includes Black Lives, they need to realize they are not allies of the movement, but adversaries. How in the world did they translate black lives matter to: only black lives matter? The answer is simple—their principles are based on convenience and fake intersectionality, not reality.

The co-opting of this movement has occurred in subtler ways as well. Capitalism has swooped into what seems like the newest profitable niche market. In an attempt to boost sales among black people, many companies have utilized ads that subtly portray political images of black people. On Aphro-ism, a black feminist blog, a post on this issue prominently features two uncommon-looking ads. The first is an ad by Discover, featuring a black woman with her natu-

ral hair, her fist raised in a way clearly referential to Black Power. The second image portrays a black man shouting into a megaphone in an ad for T-Mobile.

It’s hard to relegate these poses to mere coincidence, in an ad campaign that was presumably impeccably planned. This is without a doubt politically charged, and its convenient appearance during a period which renders it relevant seems absolutely deliberate.

This is a cop-out: Discover and T-Mobile can simultaneously present themselves as empathetic with black resistance yet avoid being overtly political, in case other consumers were to feel uncomfortable with their symbolism.

They are afraid to commit themselves fully, but not afraid enough to exploit a movement for its own economic advantage. As Aph Ko, the writer of the post, powerfully puts it, “they are reducing our anti-white supremacy movements to an empty aesthetic. This is a form of digital minstrelsy, using our faces and struggles to be the cover art for capitalist, anti-black corporations.” Though greater visibility of minorities in mainstream ad campaigns is an exciting development, the ads hardly seem designed for inclusivity. They are more defined by half-heartedness and economic expediency; they create the impression that black lives matter only when they add value to other lives.

The Black Lives Matter movement was also manipulatively co-opted by right wing pro-life advocates. Fran Eaton, a white woman, wrote in her blog post that the movement ignored the lives of aborted black babies, and black women who had lost their lives in surgical abortions. Eaton blames Planned Parenthood for diminishing black lives, taking away agency from women who actually chose to have abortions. She oversimplifies the situation, saying “16 million tiny Black lives have perished in abortion clinics,” as though the abortion of fetuses is a crime of the same magnitude as murdering innocent black men.

Eaton and others like her have adopted a movement that does not overtly concern them and molded it to fit their own beliefs. This is selfish and misinformed.

It is disrespectful to all those who have suffered brutality and years of oppression and stigma. The ambiguity of the words “black lives matter” in some way affords them the freedom to distort the aims of the movement to suit their own needs.

Yet what is not ambiguous is what the Black Lives Movement actually set out to do and who this movement actually belongs to. This does not include those

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people who lack a critical understanding of institutionalized racism. This does not include activists of other movements that are disconnected with justice for black lives. This does not include a corporate world that cheapens a movement by putting a price on it. This is for, by, and of the black people. Though the movement’s voice resonates in a call for global solidarity, it does not call for a detached observer’s patronizing view of what black people should really protest against. It’s about time that we as a society learned the difference between solidarity and co-opting a movement.

Author’s note: As a non-black per-

son, the irony of my writing this article is not lost on me. However, this column is not my way of adding my personal narrative to the movement, or saying I have a rightful claim on it. It’s just a navigation of the confusing politics of identity, and an expression of my longtime disdain for people co-opting stories that were never theirs to tell. I hope everything I say in this article is respectful of the same boundaries I’m trying to understand.

Urvi Kumbhat is a first-year in the College majoring in English and political science.

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Summer Breeze Was Frozen, Let it Go

BY MIRIAM BENJAMIN DEPUTY ARTS EDITOR

I n r e c ent ye a r s , M ajor Activities Board ( M A B) has moved Summer Breeze away from being a showcase for its tastema k ing sk i l ls and to ward being a show that most students can turn up to. This is a wonderful development, since: a) nobody except M AB cares about MAB’s highfalutin music taste, b) MAB has other opportunities to show off (i.e., their Winter Showcase), and c) the more people there that are having a good time, the better the time is.

On Sunday, most of the people I talked to didn’t have a strong recollection of really anything that had happened to them at Summer Breeze, which I thought meant the show was a success. So if the purpose of Summer Breeze is to have a good time—the quality of the performance being a secondary concern—I’m not convinced a traditional review is the best plan of attack. In lieu of a formal review, I will offer numbered thoughts.

10. Yes, it was cold. Suck it up, motherfuckers. Presumably every single person at Summer Breeze had lived in Chicago

for at least eight months prior to last Saturday, point being that everyone had experienced colder weather. Was the cold weather a deterrent to having fun? Tell that to the guy who, at 3 p.m., was walking in figure eights and stopping at every block to puke. Nobody ever said having fun would be easy.

You’ve got to want it.

9. MAB’s DJs were the unsung heroes of Summer Breeze.

I still remember one of the cameramen at last year’s Summer Breeze getting ridiculously stoked when Drake’s “Know You rsel f ” sta r ted blasti ng.

This year, I was not hyped—I repeat, not hyped—until some bright light played Chance the Rapper’s “No Problems,” a cut from his third mixtape. Seeing a couple hundred students sing along to a track that had only been released the day before was a bonding moment—it brought together people previously only connected through proximity, or maybe a shared desire to get fucked up. Those five minutes and five seconds turned Summer Breeze into a communal and particular UChicago experience, rather than a show that happened to be in Hutch Courtyard.

8. Another DJ played Kanye

West ’s “ Father Stret ch My Hands Pt. 1,” which was fun.

W here else can you scream, “Now if I fuck this model/ and she just bleached her asshole/ and I get bleach on my T-shirt/ I’m a feel like an asshole” in public?

7. I didn’t come in time to see TOKiMONSTA, and I suspect I would’ve hit my EDM capacity had I seen both her and SOPHIE. As it was, SOPHIE’s brisk 30-minute set was the perfect amount of electronic music. Although his set never felt monotonous, it did lag in a few places; however, this is characteristic of most EDM sets, as you can’t have a really high high without some filler. SOPHIE’s sweet melodies and trademark sped-up vocals combined with killer basslines to make interesting, cathartic dance breaks.

6. Joey Bada$$ is a highly decent rapper whose performance could’ve been elevated with a little more audience support. Yes, it was cold. God help me, I know it was cold. But Joey deserves more than limp hand-wav ing, a few “ B east Coooasts,” and polite applause.

MAB brought in a rapper who has a song with Kendrick Lamar, makes socially-conscious

but bravado-oozing classic East Coast rap, and, along with his DJ, was trying admirably hard to get the audience going. The music was there, the intention was there, and so if the performance wasn’t—that one’s on you, student body.

5. M A B clearly learned a sequencing lesson from last year: at Summer Breeze 2015, T-Pain performed f irst, put on a phenomenal show, and then Azealia Banks came out and everybody left. This year, M A B put the hipster rapper (Joey Bada$$) before the wildly popula r ma instream act (Jeremih), and managed to retain their audience until the end, or at least until “Birthday Sex.” 4. Speaking of “ Birthday Sex,” Jeremih’s most famous song wasn’t even the highlight of the show, although it was the most notable spectacle.

“Birthday Sex” started off with Jeremih tenderly stroking the keyboard for a few bars, and ended up with a UChicago student onstage grinding on Jeremih. It’s a testament to the versatility of the song—and Jeremih’s angelic crooning— that “Birthday Sex” works as both a blissful lullaby and as a danceable number.

3. The second best moment was when Jeremih brought out beloved drill rapper and fellow South Sider Lil Durk, and the two performed the 2015 Durk cut “Like Me.” Bringing a special guest out for a college music festival is going above and beyond the call of duty. If this was an apology for unceremoniously cancelling his Summer Breeze appearance in 2014, Jeremih can consider himself absolved.

2. The actual best moment was “Don’t Tell ‘Em,” a Late Night cut w ith rapper YG; more specifically, it was the line “Girl you know I’m from Chica-GO.” “Don’t Tell ‘Em,” Jerem i h , D u rk , “ No P r ob lems”—these were all timely reminders of Chicago’s long and continued history of musical talent, and how lucky UChicago students are to experience the city’s arts culture firsthand.

1. Finally, just to reiterate: if Jeremih can party in Vegas the night before Summer Breeze, f ly cross-country, and blow through a bang-up performance at Summer Breeze, bitching about the weather seems unreasonable. Look to Jeremih’s example. Be more like Jeremih.

Spring Snapshots: Classics on the Quad

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The Classical Entertainment Society’s reimagining of Euripides’s Bacchae is rife with duplicity, death, and drama. It continues Friday and Saturday night in Hutchinson Courtyard.

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SAIC Fashion Showcase Immerses Viewers in Nature

BY ALEXIA BACIGALUPI ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

Heels that looked like a ghost pulled from a bed of garish red concrete and construction nails, drawing to mind both iconic Louboutins and bloody toes. Delicate white muslin fused with clear plastic sprouting eyeballs—airy summer dress meets hydra-headed anglerfish—nestled in a sunny patch of ferns. A mint-green velvet dress with an exaggerated collar adorned with crumpled tinsel

and a print of young Justin Bieber pinned to the back.

An odd menagerie of headless mannequins found themselves scattered throughout the plants of the Garfield Park Conservatory as part of a showcase by fashion students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) this past weekend.

The exhibit featured the handiwork of nearly 100 second-years, third-years, and fourth-years in a display themed Reflexion, which was “inspired by the Garfield

Park Conservatory’s beautiful botanical setting, and seeks to evoke a personal and global reflection about both concept and material use.” Reflexion “explores the future of fashion in a sustainable world,” SAIC wrote on its website. Beyond the clothing and accessories designed by students, the Conservatory also featured several massive light and sculpture installations integrated into the gardens, created by a pair of alumni.

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago showcased its fashion students’ work at the Garfield Park Conservatory.

tions, or explanations. Each room led seamlessly to another and tucked into winding paths among the palm trees. Mannequins, shoes, and face masks were nestled between downy cacti.

Two collections stood guard by the entrance: male models carrying their shoes in their hands faced off against ruffled dressclad female models looking like they stepped out of an ’80s Madonna-DIY-Harajuku music video set. In the background rose a set of mirrored gates, reflecting the greenery and sunshine seeping in through the glass roof.

Sprouting up between huge leafy ferns and gangly palm trees, the clothes in the main room—mini collections created by seniors—took on new lives, like exotic flower species with feathered spines, Nike Air Jordan gas masks, and delicate bamboo-hatched bibs.

Descending the stairs into the bright fern room revealed an elegant tableau. Like a scene out of a Rococo painting, dozens of figures dressed in white appeared to be floating above a rippling green pond. Upon further inspection, new facets emerged in the sea of monochrome. Dresses had pirate ship masts rigged to their shoulders, exposed hoopskirts, elaborate neck ruffs, molded plastic resembling a spiky sea urchin, and metal adornments that, from afar, looked like mussel shells,

but could have been ears or lips.

A canopy of red and blue interlocking plastic disks distorted the light in another room, creating a sense of intimacy in the large space showcasing work from the seniors. Farther down the path was the cacti room, where hats and shoes created by the juniors were scattered amongst thorny plants.

With no signs or specified order, the exhibition invited meandering and introspection. Treading the dirt paths and stumbling upon a grouping of designs allowed for reconsideration of the meaning imbued in clothes. Most of it would not be considered attractive or wearable, not even in a fantastical couture sense. A green taffeta piece best described as a Venus flytrap poncho gave the uncomfortable impression that the fabric was consuming the wearer. A collection that at a distance looked like red, white, and black Power Ranger suits turned out to be cut up and repurposed sneakers forming a muzzle and handbag, perhaps addressing the noxious and overpowering consumerism rampant in modern society.

Simultaneously strange and awe-inducing, the avant-garde creations of the students of SAIC were refreshingly creative interpretations of renewal and reflection in an age of fast fashion and trend-driven runway shows.

Signed to the Streets: UChicago Professor Explores Connection Between South Side Gangs and Drill Rap

BY MIRIAM BENJAMIN DEPUTY ARTS EDITOR

To everyone worried that UChicago will remain a nerd school until the end of time, fear not—Forrest Stuart, a UChicago professor in the Sociology Department, was recently interviewed by music media heavyweight Noisey for a documentary on Chicago hip-hop. The YouTube documentary explores the social history of the South Side, highlighting its role in the emergence of Chicago’s drill rap scene. Drill rap, a subgenre of hip-hop, is characterized by trap-influenced beats and ultra-violent lyrics. Many drill pioneers like Chief Keef and Lil Durk have gone on to achieve mainstream recognition and success. Drill’s detractors charge the genre with the exacerbation of gang violence—however, after spending a year doing research on a Chicago gang/drill rap group, Stuart sees the relationship not as causal, but inextricably related.

THE MAROON sat down with Stuart to discuss drill rap and gangs on the South Side.

CHICAGO MAROON: You’re interested in music and social factors and how they relate to urban poverty.

Did that start in California, where you’re from, or only when you came to Chicago?

Forrest Stuart: It’s something that started accidentally. The accident, I hope, is a sign of doing good research. I’ve [previously] studied policing, and I’ve got a book coming

out in a couple months about policing in L.A.’s Skid Row. One of the things that I found there was that in really criminalized, minority, poor communities, there’s this whole range of really savvy, sophisticated, but also sometimes debilitating strategies that residents take up in order to avoid being put up against a wall and handcuffed.

When I got to Chicago, I was interested in taking a comparative case—looking at black youth on the South Side. And so I set up lots of interviews, and talked to people about how they avoid getting stopped by cops. In the midst of those interviews, we started talking less about cops and more about the gangs in local neighborhoods.

I was bowled over by the fact that all these kids could keep track of day-to-day gang wars, gang truces, and gang stalemates that were going on across the city. So I began asking young people, “Okay, 69th and Princeton: what gang is there, who are they fighting with, tell me everything.” And even kids who didn’t live in these neighborhoods could do so. I got to the point where I was like, “How the hell are you doing this? How do you know so much about every single gang conflict that’s going on across the city?”

And they were like, “Dude”—looking at me like I’m an idiot—“It’s the music.” They can listen to any drill rap group that has grown out of gangs here in Chicago—listen to the disses in their songs, who

they’re shouting out in their songs, what individuals they’re talking about—and use [this information] to keep themselves safe.

I hear all these stories about how somebody would be walking through a neighborhood that they don’t know—and just [by] keeping their ears open and hearing what was being played on stoops or in passing cars—be able to tell, okay, this is Black Disciple territory, [and they] appear to be somewhat okay with a nearby Gangster Disciples faction, because they’re playing their music. There’s a sonic landscape that overlays the physical and social landscape, and gangs are somewhere in between.

That’s my long story of the accident by which I came upon thinking about popular culture, social media, and music in ways that I didn’t expect. As I’ve gone on to argue, you can’t understand gang violence— and you certainly can’t understand youth culture in Chicago—without thinking long and hard about music.

CM: What is the role of youth in drill?

FS: I think the answer [lies in] the changing economic and organizational landscape we see in poor neighborhoods. If we think back to the 1980s, during the crack epidemic, gangs are corporatizing: developing vertical, formal, hierarchical structures. If you’re a 13-year-old young man growing up in a housing project or in a poor neighborhood in

Chicago, you look to that organizational structure, which operates like a parallel government. These people protect the community when the police won’t. The gang occupies an important role, both as a quasi-state and as a track by which people achieve our American ethos—you start as a foot soldier, you prove your merit, and you work your way up in the organization. The local gang structure is a career path for people who are locked out of the formal education system and job market.

But that declines in the 1990s.

The Chicago Police Department, departments across the country, [and] the FBI start using the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act (RICO) to behead all of these corporate gangs. If a young person was caught with a gun, or drugs, they were like, “Hey, we’ll cut you some slack if you give us the person ahead of you.” Eventually, they were able to put all of the leaders away for a while, and the gang structure crumbled.

CM: A power vacuum?

FS: Absolutely, but what also happened is [that] nobody else wanted to step up. Because suddenly, leadership ceased to be something that would help them get out of the hood, and became a liability. And when they brought down the housing projects, it dispersed [different gangs] out across the city. So [there was] a lack of leadership and intermixing of gangs.

Chief Keef, in the mytholo-

gy of poor Chicagoans, becomes the modern-day equivalent of the Robin Hood-esque gang and drug leader. He becomes the symbol of how [youth] can get out of the hood.

Drill has become this way of, “If I get enough views on YouTube, if I put enough guns in my videos, if I show that I am a real gangster like Chief Keef did...somebody—Kanye, Jay Z, Interscope—is gonna swoop in, grab me, grab my guys, and take me to L.A., where I’m safe, I’m paid, and I’ve finally made it out.”

So [youths] began to form rap.

You’ll see a drill rapper or two, and a couple shooters that surround them, and then a bunch of guys around them who are the support staff.

Although there’s still drugs going on, the commodity has ceased to be crack-dealing. [It’s] now the dealing of music, so to speak.

CM: Although there are some female drill rappers, like Katie Got Bandz and Sasha Go Hard, why aren’t there as many women in drill rap?

FS: I think some of it we can chalk up to [gangs in Chicago] being a hyper-masculine space to begin with, [although] savvy drill rappers and producers know that there’s a space for [female drillers]. If nothing else, Katie Got Bandz adds something new and exciting—a different style, a different look, a different kind of voice. It seems like there’s a logical progression with genres to become more open, more Continued on page 10

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mainstream-friendly. I think, in some sense, Katie Got Bandz is a movement by a smart person—like [associate] King Louie—saying, “Hey, we want to grab more of an audience.”

CM: Do any non-drill Chicago rappers have a place in your research?

FS: Not a whole lot of room, because my way into this is through gangs and gang violence. I’m not a hip-hop studies person, I’m not even a music sociologist. I’m an urban sociologist and criminologist who’s interested in gang violence—it just so happens that much of the gang violence is driven by drill rap. My book is on one particular drill rap group slash gang, one of the top five in Chicago right now.

CM: Which one?

FS: I can’t say, unfortunately. But [anyway], when Chance the Rapper was in the news, I asked, “Hey, what do you think about Chance the Rapper?” And they were like, “Who’s Chance the Rapper?”

It’s a pretty insular world. [Chance] is not even in their orbit—they had never heard his music. So I think maybe that contrast is something that folks from outside of the drill scene impose. The distinction between someone like Chance doing “good, well-meaning, socially conscious” rap and drill rap is a dichotomy that doesn’t necessarily exist in the heads of folks making drill. [It’s] something we’re

imposing on musical worlds to make sense of it. For these guys, the musical world is fellow drill rappers, [and] that’s kind of it.

CM: That reminds me of Lil Durk, who I feel like—I don’t wanna say he’s softening up a bit, but…

FS: I think Durk hit a place where he had to make this choice, [and] I feel like all the drillers that I’m researching are [also] willing to make that choice. They know that it’s the hyper-violent voyeurism and slumming that the mainstream wants to do through their music. They embody these scary, young, super-predator black men, and they’re willing to perform in vaudeville fashion to get enough views, to get enough likes, to get signed. At that point, they’re ready to sell out for whatever is going to keep them there. They’re going to use the stigma of Chicago violence.

Like, “We’re gonna give you Chiraq, we’re gonna give you Drillinois, until you give us some money, and then we’re gonna do whatever the heck we want. If, at that point in time, we have to start making slow jams and love songs and start doing stuff with Drake—we’re down. But we’re going to use essentially the only resource at our disposal—the stigma of being a young black man who’s assumed to be violent and gang-related—and we’re going to commodify it, and we’re going to make some money off it.”

CM: Could you talk more about the commodification of black poverty through drill rap?

FS: One of the more fascinating things that I’ve done with this particular group is travel around the country with them. We were in L.A. recently [with] rich, suburban white dudes, who think they want to be drill rappers. This guy [in L.A.] had consumed all [the rap blogs]; he was maybe more skilled and clued in on who was feuding with who than I am. He wanted to do a song with these guys, [so] he flew them out. For thousands of dollars to go and—I don’t think it’s inaccurate to say—be his young, black men pets. He imported gangsters so, through association, he could be a gangster too. That’s probably the most extreme form of how black poverty is commodified—[like] on Amazon, someone literally mail-ordered them to experience them in the pleasure of his own home.

In L.A., I asked [one of the guys], “Why are you acting like this?” And he was like, “I’m playing my role, man. This is what I’m hired to do, so I’m out here, and I’m playing my role.” On the one hand, they acknowledge [that] one of the ways out of the hood is by doubling down on the super-predator, dangerous young man stereotype; [but] on the other hand, they [also understand they] are reifying and reproducing the same image that

marginalizes them in public. They’re actively perpetuating that same thing that’s pressing down on their life chances.

CM: Why did they let you in?

FS: I think there are a lot of different reasons why I’m let in to do research for them. We have an exchange. I’m [a] ride to the probation office [and] to court. I’ve schooled them on music, music production, video production. I’ve written some copy for them, press stuff [they use] to try to sell themselves to major record labels. And we’ve since become friends.

I also think we shouldn’t underestimate the power of making someone feel like they’re an authority about something. As a fieldworker, I and other ethnographers go into places and say, “Look, you and what you’re doing are important enough for other people to know about this.” For young men who have been historically marginalized—whose everyday practice is dedicated to trying to have them heard as some kind of authoritative individual—I think something about my presence in their lives resonates. These are people who are silenced by teachers, by employers, by other people in their neighborhood, by society at large. I think they appreciate someone who [thinks] what they have to say is important, and that their lives matter. I don’t see them as caricatured individuals, [and] I understand that they are complex people.

Body of Artists Tackles Campus Issues at The Revival

BY KARDELEN SERTSOZ MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The Underground Collective’s showcase, “Anatomy,” took place last Friday at The Revival. Full of emotion and humor, the showcase featured original and classic pieces with a wide variety of themes. The show was meticulously constructed, simultaneously somber and humorous, and beautifully executed.

There were spoken word poems, songs, and, surprisingly, a small play from a few scenes of the film Juno. First-year Daniele Becker began the show with an improvised introduction, poking fun at UChicago’s serious school atmosphere.

The show was unapologetic in its approach to today’s issues: spoken word pieces on sexual assault and eating disorders and a slam poem on fraternity culture expressed hot topics on campus. Members of the Underground Collective spoke, sang, and danced about what they had to say, and they did it well.

Second-year Emma Preston, a member

of the Underground Collective, discussed the creative process. “We write to pick apart certain points of our lives and to expand upon them, through images that are unexpected,” she said.

Concerning the pieces about the recent passing of students this year, Preston explained, “It was really important to the Collective that we had some kind of content… addressing something so incomprehensibly difficult.”

Becker discussed how the show was compiled, and what went into its planning. “We decide amongst ourselves which pieces we like the most and we do those, making sure that everyone gets around the same time on stage.”

The event hosted by the Collective is hard to define: there are various means of communication, all done with wit and born of a keen desire to convey the intangibility of emotion.

The performance is best described as a show of expression and demonstrates that the Collective’s future shows are not to be missed.

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First-year Ilan Haskel and second-year Claire Moore performing during last Friday’s “Anatomy.”

the Sketch “I Am Not A Rapper” Release Party Tonight. the foremost hip-hop and taco artists of the UChicago student body will gather for a communal performance of grand proportions. featuring the bumping beats of rap from six of Hyde Park’s hardest hitting rappers —second-year Tric the Tyrant (Atrician Lumumba), third-year Kswiz (Kendall Elue), second-year Chief Wicked (Ben Glover), J. Watt (Jason Watson), firstyear Colo Quill (Nate Lewis), and first-year Surya (Surya Giri)—as well as the grand opening of Alen’s Tacos from third-year Alen Makhmudov.

Friday, May 20, 6–9 p.m. 5340 S. Drexel Avenue. Free admission.

UT/TAPS Presents: Noises Off Directed by third-year Alex Hearn, Noises Off is a 1982 play by Michael Frayn about a play called Nothing On. Famous for its slapstick comedy, Noises Off exposes the drama that happens both onstage and backstage as a frantic director and his crew try (both literally and figuratively) to get their act together.

Friday, May 20, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 21, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Logan Center, The-

ater East. $6 in advance and $8 at the door.

CES Presents: The Bacchae of Euripides The Classical Entertainment Society’s last show of the academic year is a reimagining of Euripides’s Bacchae. Directed by Lauren Eames, Bacchae will give you all that you can expect from a Greek tragedy, including, but not limited to, duplicity, death, and drama. Oh, and there will be fire.

Friday, May 20, 8 p.m., Saturday, May 21, 8 p.m., Hutchinson Courtyard (Rain Location: Hutchinson Commons). $5 online and at the door. 80 minutes.

This Chicago Life: A Live Magazine Cabaret A collaboration between the University Community Service Center and the Logan Center, This Chicago Life will merge journalism with art to present a night of performances that include spoken word poetry, film screenings from Fire Escape Films, a live digital art creation, and live music. Memoryhouse Magazine will also launch its spring issue.

Friday, May 20, 8 p.m., Logan Center

Performance Penthouse. Free admission and dinner.

Laying Down the Law: Songs and Arias on Social Justice Director of Vocal Studies Patrice Michaels is both curator and soloist in this program of songs about law and litigation.

On the program is Laurie Altman’s Laments of the Homeless Women, excerpts from Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg, and Michaels’ own song cycle, The Long View, inspired by her mother-in-law, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Michaels will be joined by CSO clarinetist John Bruce Yeh and Kuang-Hao Huang on piano.

Saturday, May 21, 7:30 p.m., Fulton Recital Hall. Free, but with an optional donation at the door benefitting You Can Make It!, a homeless shelter in southwest Chicago.

University Ballet Presents: Sleeping Beauty Choreographed by Marius Petipa, UBallet’s last show of the academic year is the classic Sleeping Beauty, a story of a princess who falls into a deep slumber and can only be woken by her true love’s first kiss. Set to mu-

sic composed by the inimitable Tchaikovsky, Sleeping Beauty is one of the most wellknown ballets performed today.

Saturday, May 21, 7 p.m., Sunday, May 22, 2 p.m., Mandel Hall. $5 for students (with UCID) online and at on-campus presale ($7 at the door), or $10 for adults online and at on-campus presale ($12 at the door).

Doc Films Mega Screening: Monty Python’s Holy Grail and Life of Brian Do you know the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow? Either an African or a European swallow? Are you part of the Judean People’s Front, or the People’s Front of Judea? Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for you? Find out next Thursday at Doc Films—as part of its Mega Screening next week, Doc Films will present a backto-back screening of Monty Python and The Holy Grail and Monty Python’s Life of Brian.

Come in costume!

Thursday, May 26, 7 p.m., Doc Films.

Free admission.

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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “If my spiritual and mental game is right, the physical part will follow.” —Dwight Howard on taking jump shots.

Maroons Jaunt to North Central for Last Chance Meet OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD

BY OLA OBI AND BRITTA NORDSTROM SPORTS STAFF

T h i s we e k , t he s q u ad hopped on a bus to Naperville, IL , for the North Central College Gregory Invite, or the “Last Chance Meet.” The Maroons were looking to lower their times and raise marks to qualify for the NCA A DIII Outdoor Nationals that are taking place in one week. If the meet this past weekend at North Central is any indication, the team is certainly hitting its stride heading into the end of the season.

A lthough no team scores were posted for the meet this past weekend, many individuals shone, including six relays and single-man finishes that placed top six in the meet. The women’s track and field team accomplished four out of the six finishes that were snagged this weekend.

High lighting the team’s top finishes, out in the field second-year Ade Ayoola held her own as she leapt high and placed fifth in high jump at a height of 1.60m. On the track, the women’s team showed up and showed out. F irst-year Nicole VacaGuzmán came in sixth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 57.67 seconds.

T h i rd-yea r M ichel le Dobbs in an individual race got an 800-meter time of 2:11:24 that nabbed her third place.

Second-year Megan Verner-Crist came one second away from taking first place in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:34:80. A nd together on the 4x4 relay, VacaGuzmán and fellow first-year Emma Koether, along with Dobbs and fourth-year Mikaela Hammel, brought in a victory with a time of 3:53:54.

The other two top finishes came at the hands of the men’s side of the squad. Fourth-year Ryan Manzuk took fourth in the 400-meter hurdles, while fellow classmate Michael Bennett snuck into sixth in the pole vault.

At last year’s Gregory Invite, Ayoola finished second in high jump and fourth-year MVP Brianna Hickey finished second in the 1,500-meter as well. T he men’s best f inish came when the 4x10 0 relay squad of second-year Obinaya Wamuo, third-year Temisan Osowa, and fourth-years Jacob Romeo and Ben Clark took sixth. “This meet is a big deal for our team because we have a lot of fourth-years like Alisha Ho running in their last collegiate races,” third-year Minnie Horvath said.

On Wednesday, Ayoola improved on her second-place finish from last year to win the high jump by two inches. The second-year showed her dominance, as the fifth-place finisher was only able to come within half a foot.

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First-year Emma Griffiths hands the baton to classmate Alexandra Thompson in an indoor relay earlier this year.

Another top finisher on the day for the women included second-year Angel Fluet, who took 11th in the pole vault.

S e c ond-yea r Ol iv ia Cattau was also able to claw her way to 11th place in the heptathlon. Fluet, Ayoola, and Cattau all lead the team in their respective events, and the fact that they are all second-years bodes well for the future of the squad.

Verner-Crist was able to take her revenge from last weekend, leading the pack and taking first in the 1,500-meter run on Wednesday. VacaGuzmán also broke into the top five in the 40 0 -meter dash, while Dobbs also finished fifth

in the 800-meter. “ Megan Verner-Crist had a fantastic race today and ran a great time, so we’re crossing our fingers that it will get her in,” Horvath said of her teammate. “ There are people like Michelle Dobbs in the 800 as well as her and the other members of the 4x400 who are just looking for a final-tune up before nationals.”

On the men’s side, Wednesday saw a third- and a seventh-place finish from Bennett and second-year Nathan Downey in the pole vault, respectively. The next day, second-year Cristen Bublitz took si xth in the javelin, while f i r st -ye a r T hom a s R h i ne s

stole eighth in the long jump and seventh in the triple jump.

As for the track events, second-year Jacob Amiri rushed to ninth in the 800-meter run and Manzuk finished ninth in the 400-meter hurdles. As with the women, that four of the six men who finished in the top ten of their respective events are underclassmen means that there are big things to come from the Maroons in the years to come.

A s Hor vath stated, this meet provided a valuable opportunity for several Maroons to both qualify for nationals and fine-tune their running.

The Outdoor Championship begins Thursday in Waverly, IA.