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Graduation Issue MAY 27, 2016

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Table of Contents 2 - Week of 5/27 12 - News: Year in Review 15 - Viewpoints: Year in Review 17 - Arts: Year in Review 20 - Maroon Sports Awards B1 - Graduation Announcements

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - MAY 27, 2016

NEWS Michael Polsky (‘87) Donates $35 Million for Entrepreneurship

BY KATIE AKIN ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will be expanding in response to a $35 million gift from the Center’s namesake and CEO of Invenergy, Michael Polsky (M.B.A. ’87). The expansion will unify the current Polsky Center with the Chicago Innovation Exchange (CIE) on East 53rd Street and UChicagoTech.

“This gift will create new ways for individuals to turn their ideas into solutions in fields as diverse as science, engineering, business, policy, and education,” President Zimmer said in a CIE e-mail. “We are grateful to Michael Polsky for his generosity and continued support of innovation and entrepreneurship at the University.”

The Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation was founded in 1998 and was later endowed and named by Polsky himself in 2002. The center, which describes itself as a “venture creation engine,” focuses on providing students with workshops and resources to begin working toward creating start-ups. It also runs the New Venture Challenge, an annual competition in which students from the Chicago Booth School of Business compete to have their startup ideas funded.

This is Polsky’s third major do-

nation to the organization, bringing his total contribution to $50 million. Polsky is a graduate of Booth, and according to the Polsky Center’s website, he thanks the school for teaching him to be a “complete package as an entrepreneur.”

The goal of the unification of the organizations is to provide a more streamlined process for innovators to turn ideas into reality.

“Where a startup or entrepreneur may have first gone to the Polsky Center for resources and then the CIE, they will now have one place and hub to help them on their entrepreneurial journey,” current CIE president Jeremy Flavin said.

He will be the Associate Vice President of the new Polsky Center when it begins operations in July. Former Provost Eric D. Isaacs will serve as the University’s Executive Vice President for Research, Innovation, and National Laboratories.

As part of the Polsky Center, UChicagoTech and the CIE will continue to provide their usual services, although the CIE will be rebranded in Polsky’s honor as the Polsky Innovation Exchange (PIE).

Currently, the CIE houses the “Fab Lab”, a collection of machines for creating physical products and spaces where teams can meet and collaborate. UChicagoTech is a group that works alongside University researchers to conduct research into marketable products.

City Inspectors Find Code Violations at Remake the World Veterans Center

BY PEYTON ALIE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

On April 1, city building inspectors found 32 code violations at Remake the World (RTW) Veteran Center in Washington Park near a proposed site for the Barack Obama Presidential Library. Since the inspection, RTW leaders have expressed concern that they are being displaced in advance of development associated with the library.

The violations included defective plumbing, a broken fence, and wood rather than tile floors in the kitchen.

RTW Veteran Center provides services to veterans and their families, including food, housing, employment training, and job placement. The center offers similar services for the general public, as well as gang intervention programs and a community garden.

“Unlike the other landowners that the university negotiated with to purchase their land, the veteran center was cited in June of 2015 for 32 code violations, with the city requesting fines of 16,000.00 per day along with seeking receivership for Continued on page 4

CC Passes Resolution to Diversify Sosc

BY ALEX WARD SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

hangout, study, or activity space that stays open until 3 a.m., after the rest of Bartlett closes. Before deciding on the best use of the third floor, UChicago Dining is looking for more input from student organizations, including SG, IHC, and the Socioeconomic Diversity Alliance.

Accord ing to University spokesperson Marielle Sainvilus, there will also be retail establishments opening in Baker Dining Commons at North Campus Residence Hall. The University has signed a lease with Dollop Café, a chain cafe that has eight other storefronts around Chicago, to open a new location in Baker, and is in discussions with other prospective tenants.

Besides the space for dining

At Tuesday’s College Council (CC) meeting, representatives passed a resolution calling on the University to diversify the Social Sciences (Sosc) general education curriculum.

The resolution, introduced by first-year Mary Blair, criticizes the lack of texts from “non-Western and non-male people and perspectives” in Sosc classes. According to the resolution, “The University’s failure to incorporate diverse points of view in its Social Science General Education sequences means that it is also failing to support diversity and inclusion in the classroom, a place where students should feel safe in expressing their intellectuality and identity.”

In response to the lack of diverse perspectives, the resolution calls on Dean Boyer and Provost Isaacs to increase the number of non-European thinkers represented in all Sosc core sequences, particularly members of marginalized groups such as women of color.

Additionally, the resolution asks the University to create a critical race theory–focused Sosc sequence supervised by faculty members of color, and to provide competency training for all faculty.

Blair told CC representatives that after going through hundreds of Sosc class syllabi from past years, she had found that on average only two of 15 texts listed per syllabus were not written by white men and that only one syllabus had included a text by a woman of color. She also shared personal anecdotes about her own negative classroom experiences and those of another unnamed student.

Referencing the University’s online course catalog, Blair said that without greater diversity, the Sosc sequences could not live up to their stated goal of preparing students to confront rapid social shifts in the modern world. “To achieve its own aims, the social science education policies need to change,” she said.

The Core’s current lack of diversity had come up in a previous CC meeting on April 12 during a discussion with Dean Boyer about upcoming changes for the 2016– 2017 academic year. Class of 2019

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Fabiana’s Bakery A chalkboard sign outside Fabiana’s Bakery at 5655 S. University Ave.

Uncommon Interview: Fabiana Carter of Fabiana’s Bakery

BY CAIRO LEWIS ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

L o c at ed at 5 6 5 5 S outh University Avenue is an unexpected blessing inside the University Church—a bakery.

The highly sought-after Fabiana’s Bakery opened last September and offers a variety of food and beverages, including pizza, sandwiches, coffee, and tea. Perhaps the most popular items, however, are the pas-

tries and baked goods.

Fabiana Carter started her business in the kitchen of her Chicago home prior to opening the café. The Brazilian, selftaught baker grew up in an Italian household, where she says that cooking was a big priority. Carter believes that her mixed roots and experience as a current Hyde Park resident inspire her desserts.

On Tuesday, she sat down Continued on page 4

More Changes Coming to Dining With Bon Appétit

BY FENG YE NEWS STAFF

Since deciding to hire Bon Appétit Management Company to replace Aramark next year, the UChicago Dining and the Campus Dining Advisory Board (CDAB), which is composed of Student Government (SG) and Inter-House Council (IHC), have made more changes to the dining program.

The third floor of Bartlett Dining Commons might be converted into a lounge and dining area, according to second-year Michael Meng, a member of the SG Dining Advisory Board. During recent town hall meetings with UChicago Dining, many students expressed desires to turn the space into a

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - MAY 27, 2016

Harris Student Claims University Is Violating Disability Laws

BY HILLEL STEINMETZ NEWS STAFF

Harris student Cecilia Black has claimed that the University is violating disability laws as mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

Black, a second-year in the Master’s of Public Policy program, has used a wheelchair since she was injured in a car accident when she was 16. In an interview with THE CHICAGO MAROON, she stated that while the University offers accessible transportation, it does not appropriately serve disabled students in severe weather.

“When there is snow it’s really awful to get around, and I couldn’t go a block to catch the buses at all,” Black said. “My first year, I was calling Ubers to take me like two blocks away.”

“Dial-A-Ride,” run by the University’s Transportation Services, allows students with mobility issues to schedule pick-ups as long as they send an e-mail request 24 to 48 hours in advance.

“If it was snowing and if I didn’t know I was going to the library at least 24 hours beforehand, there was no way for me to get there,” Black added.

Black said she was told by Transportation Services that the University could not offer a call-in program since it would divert services away from the Dial-A-Ride program.

According to Black, the inadequate transportation services violate Title III of the ADA laws. A subsection describing transportation states that discrimination includes “a failure to make reasonable modifications in policies, practices, or procedures, when such modifica-

tions are necessary to afford such [...] accommodations to individuals with disabilities.”

According to an e-mail from Director of Public Affairs Marielle Sainvilus, the University’s transportation services are in accordance with the ADA. “Although not legally required, UChicago provides a Dial–A-Ride Program, which is a door-to-door service only available to students with disabilities, or students with short term conditions. Dial-A-Ride does not operate as a taxi service and students must request the service in advance. This ensures optimal efficiency and coordination for students to help prevent long wait periods, especially during severe weather,” Sainvilus said.

Black also claimed that the University did not adequately respond to her requests for a hand cycle to be made available at Ratner Athletic Center. She said that when she began going to Ratner in fall 2014, she requested that the facility order one, but Ratner still had not purchased a hand cycle by spring 2015, citing remodeling and space concerns.

According to an e-mail from Sainvilus, Ratner made a hand cycle available for general use in December 2015. Previously, Black was offered permission to use the hand cycle from 9 a.m. to noon on weekdays in Ratner’s training facilities, which are only for student athletes.

Black believes that this practice violated Title III by not integrating the hand cycle with the gym’s main facility.

Black said that the summer 2015 renovations to the Harris student lounge also did not properly integrate accessible features. Harris only added a small accessible portion to the lunch table in February 2016 and the small

Hillel Steinmetz Harris Student Cecilia Black.

“I think all of this demonstrates a really desks in the student lounge only partially complied with the ADA Accessible Design clear pattern of behavior on the part of the University,” Peltz said. “It shows that they guidelines.

The University has previously faced com- don’t understand anything about the spirit of plaints about accessibility. In 2006, the Uni- the law, and it shows that they really don’t versity settled out of court after it was found have a vested interest in making sure that that the University did not have accessible students with disabilities are treated equally features for its bathrooms and buildings en- to the rest of students on campus.”

Black thinks that Student Disability trances and did not provide listening devices in its large auditoriums. Student Counseling Services needs to advocate more for stuServices was inaccessible until it moved to its dents and added that she is more optimistic since the University hired an ADA comcurrent location in fall 2014.

Alex Peltz, a second-year in the College pliance officer for the next academic year. and co-coordinator of Students for Disability “[Student Disability Services] needs to reJustice, said that the University’s treatment ally understand the impact these practices of Black highlights an overall apathy toward and policies have on students, and I think disabled students. Student for Disability Jus- that they don’t understand that yet,” Black tice is an affiliate of the Organization of Stu- said. “I think they need to be better advodents with Disabilities, an RSO on campus cates for students and really stand up when that advocates for the University to become a department is being unfair.” more accessible.

Resolution criticizes lack of texts from “non-Western, and non-male” perspectives Continued from page 2

representative Qudsiyyah Shariyf asked Boyer about the Core’s current Eurocentric focus, prompting him to defend the curriculum and stress upcoming additions such as the new neuroscience major and community service programs.

During the resolution’s discussion period, much of the dialogue was supportive of the resolution, with a few reservations, particularly about the creation of a critical race theory–oriented Core sequence and about CC potentially taking a stance on relatively specific social sciences issues mentioned in the resolution.

Class of 2018 representative Calvin Cottrell told CC members that the issue had come up previously during meetings of the Committee on Academics in the College (CAC), made up of two CC members, including Cottrell, and seven other College students.

Cottrell said that he had been in similar classroom situations to those Blair described because of inadequately trained faculty, and

that the issue should be a priority for CC next year.

Cosmo Albrecht, a Class of 2016 representative, said he supported the resolution generally but wondered whether lack of understanding between students was more due to the demographic breakdown of the University as a predominantly white institution than to the curriculum. Albrecht also expressed fear that students interested in critical race theory would saturate the proposed new Sosc sequence, homogenizing the other sections.

The resolution eventually passed 12–1–1.

CC representatives also voted to approve a proposed transparency bylaw that had previously been tabled until after the Student Government (SG) elections earlier this month.

The bylaw allows “note-taking, photography, and the use of video and audio recording” at all CC Assembly meetings except in cases involving “sensitive or potentially endangering information,” in which representatives may forbid photography and video recording by a two-thirds vote.

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“It’s nice to know that people are coming to the bakery and they enjoy what they eat” Continued from page 2

with T HE M A ROON to discuss her move to Chicago, her business, and her favorite desserts.

C HICAGO M AROON (CM): How long have you been in Chicago? How did you get here?

Fabiana Carter (FC): Four years.

I used to live in London for seven years, and I met my husband in London. He’s from Chicago and always wanted to come back, so we ended up here again.

CM: How did you get the idea of opening a bakery?

FC: I always baked, and when I was doing that from home, I was making cakes for weddings and birthdays.

Even in my free time, I was always making pastries, and we’d give them to people to try, like my neighbors and my friends. And then somebody was like, “Why don’t you open a business?

You’re so good at it.” So then I talked to my husband and he said, “You should definitely do it.” Then, we started pursuing locations and pulling everything together.

CM: How long have you had the bakery, and how did you find the space?

FC: I have been working as a baker for a total of three years. I was at home, and then we moved to this space last September. We are members of the church.

CM: Do you own any other businesses, and if not, have you ever considered opening anymore?

FC: I don’t own any other businesses, but my husband is very business-oriented, so he’s always looking to expand.

We actually want to expand to Pilsen, and we have two other locations that we are working on expanding to next year. The Pilsen location is also in a church, and we are still working to get the building, but my husband is overseeing the business side of it. We hope that in another year, we’ll have that location and a bigger kitchen so we can provide even more.

CM: How is your business different from others in Hyde Park?

FC: We are the only bakery, actually, because we have others like the Medici’s, and they have a few pastries, but more American food. And I think it’s also different because I’m Brazilian and I sell Brazilian pastries, and

everything is made from scratch. That’s something that I think really brings people in. I feel like sometimes, nowadays, food is so processed, so it’s really nice to go to a place where you know you’re going to have a homemade meal or pastry. We order local produce from Hyde Park Produce, and we love them.

CM: What’s a day at the bakery like for you and your team? What has been your busiest time since you opened?

FC: Well, it’s really crazy. We don’t stop. We start at five o’clock in the mornings and are sometimes here until nine o’clock at night. Like on Monday, I think I had seven orders of cake in one day. On the weekends, it’s really crazy. On Saturdays, we have orders all day. We’ll have 10 to 15 cakes to make, which is really nice. It’s nice to know that people are coming to the bakery and that they enjoy what they eat.

That’s so fulfilling for me. And we’ve grown so much since we started, which is awesome. So far, I can tell you that Easter, Christmas, and holiday times were very busy. In terms of working in the bakery every day, we are always busy.

CM: What’s the most common thing that your customers order?

FC: The cinnamon rolls are famous.

People love them. And the Brazilian chocolate cake is something they request a lot. And the roulade is really good. It’s a pizza dough with filling.

If you haven’t tried it yet, you should!

We always have different fillings. And of course, there are our cakes that we have in the case. We always have about five of them, and they really sell out.

CM: Are you doing anything new for the summer?

FC: We just set some tables and chairs outside, and it’s really nice because it’s under the shade. I’m also working on having smoothies too, and also a variety of other things.

Author’s note: I tried Fabiana’s for the first time two weeks ago, after having a rough day. The bakery is gorgeously decorated, and the staff are all friendly. Being there lifted my mood immediately. I highly recommend the chocolate bundt cake, the strawberry cake, and the apple pie—which is all I’ve tried so far. This place is definitely the icing on the cake at UChicago!

Baker Dining Commons Will Include Dollop Café and Other Retail Spaces Continued from page 2

tables and retail, Baker will have two private dining rooms at the back of the dining area. These spaces contain projection equipment and may be reserved for student groups, campus visitors, and other guests to hold meetings and catered events within the dining hall. They are large enough for about 30 or 40 people, according to Meng.

The dining halls’ operation hours will remain the same. Fourth Meal will continue. Both Maroon Market and Midway Market will maintain late-night hours until 3 a.m. every day while the academic quarters are in session. Weekend arrangements, including Saturday night programs to replace the Saturday Night Social Clubs that Aramark conducted, are still undecided.

“UChicago Dining and Bon Appétit will continue to meet with CDAB and other student organizations to discuss dining programming and development,”

Sainvilus said. According to Meng, however, since the board’s major responsibility was to choose a food provider, CDAB is no longer as involved in making decisions about the dining program as before.

“These decisions are ones that are, in my opinion, much less consequential than Aramark or Bon Appétit,” he said.

While visiting the dining hall operation at Wheaton College, Meng observed that many items were made from scratch daily. “They’ll buy bones, literally big bones, and grill the shit out of them, and then make a soup stock out of that and then make you a soup,” he said.

Meng expects that the general quality of food at the dining hall will improve next year. “Bon Appétit has a different way of thinking about food than Aramark. Bon Appétit thinks about the ingredients and building from the base up,” he said.

Violations Include Defective Plumbing and a Broken Fence Continued from page 2

the building. The city asked for these things before the center ever appeared in court. Since then, the center has been struggling to make the repairs and stay open to continue serving the veterans and the general public,” reads a statement from May 15 on the RTW Veteran Center’s website.

“The mission of providing support for veterans is extremely important, and numerous University of Chicago community members have volunteered their time at the RTW Veterans Center. The University is not engaged in discussions regarding the center’s property and has no plans to purchase it,” Jeremy Manier, Executive Director of News and Public Affairs at the University, said in an e-mail.

RTW receives no government funding because it does not meet requirements that limit aid to honorably discharged veterans. The organization’s leaders worry that addressing the violations has taken away funding from their programs, which depend on the support of donors.

“We rely on donors, but the donations have been slowing since the inspection,” said Daniel “Doc” Habeel, a Vietnam War veteran and a co-founder of RTW Veteran Center.

According to DNAinfo, the center is the last remaining property not owned by the University or the City of Chicago in the area surrounding the proposed Washington Park location for the presidential library. The University has bought around 10 acres of land around 55th Street and Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr. Drive since 2008, according to DNAinfo.

“I can’t accuse the University of anything,” Habeel said. “But the library was announced in May, and we got the 32 violations in April.

We’ve had violations before, but never for all these tiny things.”

The presidential library has sparked broader debate in Hyde Park and surrounding communities about gentrification and the role of the University on the South Side. Last May, residents of Washington Park presented a list of demands to President Robert Zimmer, the University, and the Obama Foundation calling for benefits to the surrounding neighborhoods, such as a trauma center on the South Side (plans for which were announced this fall) and local park representatives on the library’s advisory committees. In January, community members expressed concern about using public park land for the library at a meeting.

In February 2014, Student Government donated $1,500 from its administrative budget to the veteran center when it temporarily shut down after the building’s pipes froze and burst.

According to Habeel, the veteran center has reached out to the University for support, but has not received a response.

The University of Chicago is not our enemy,” Habeel said. “We know they’re patriots. We like Barack Obama, the first African-American commander in chief.

More than 20 Shots Fired at 62nd and Kimbark

BY PETE GRIEVE DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) and Chicago Police Department (CPD) officers responded to shots fired in the area of East 62nd Street and South Woodlawn Avenue around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon.

Block residents told DNAInfo that at least 20 shots were fired by at least two shooters.

“Officers responded to a call of ‘shots fired’ in the area of 62nd and Kimbark. No victims could be located, no injuries reported and no offender in custody,” CPD News Affairs told THE MAROON in an e-mail.

“Police are seeking four possible suspects riding in a white Chevrolet Impala seen leaving the area at a high rate of speed,” according to a 5:10 p.m. university-wide security

alert. “A female who was wanted on a warrant and was trying to flee the area has been detained by Chicago Police for further investigation.” DNAInfo reported that the woman was questioned by police for backing into a parked car while trying to flee the shots, but said residents thought the arrest was unrelated to shooting.

The shooting occurred as school was getting out at Carnegie Elementary School, located at 61st Street and Dorchester Avenue.

An 18-year-old male was shot in the right calf on the same block last Tuesday at 9:31 a.m. by two men, News Affairs told THE MAROON in an e-mail last week. DNAInfo said that neighbors said on the condition of anonymity that they had seen the white Impala circling the block over the past week.

CPD is investigating.

Blackstone, Maclean, Broadview to Become Apartments

BY JESSIE LI MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Three current University dorms will be made into apartments in the Hyde Park area starting next academic year. According to Hyde Park Places, a neighborhood residential community, the University of Chicago will sell the three closing dormitories—Blackstone Hall, Maclean Hall, and Broadview Hall—in the coming weeks, and the apartments will open in the fall.

Construction of Campus North Residential Commons was announced in July 2013, and the new dormitory building is expected to open in September. According to an announcement made by College Housing in April 2015, four residential halls, including Blackstone, Broadview, and Maclean, would no longer house College stu-

dents. The decision was made because the University is looking to “[strengthen] the Resident Master model and [house] more College students closer to campus.” College Housing stated at the time that Blackstone, Broadview, and Maclean would be sold. Breckinridge Hall, the final closing dormitory, will remain part of the University portfolio in a manner that is not yet determined.

The University will sell the three dormitories to Hyde Park Places, which offers private and shared apartments in the neighborhood. According to Hyde Park Places, the three buildings will be refurbished and remain open during school breaks.

The three apartment buildings are now taking reservations for the 2016–17 academic year.

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Summer Storage Policy Changes Reversed

BY SONIA SCHLESINGER DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

College Housing said in an e-mail on Wednesday that it will reverse the updated summer storage policy it announced last week. The new policy was to limit students to four boxes, no larger than 13x13x17 inches, and banned mini-fridges, suitcases, plastic bins, and bikes in trunk rooms.

The current policy, to which Housing has decided to revert, allows students to store five boxes instead of four with no size limit. Students may also replace one of five boxes with a refrigerator and must store all other items in a box, bin, or trunk.

“In recent years, we have seen increased demand for the Trunk Room program,” Director of Residential Services Dominic Petruzzelli said in Wednesday’s e-mail to the housing community. “The program was recently evaluated and changes were recommended; however, after receiving additional feedback, we will continue to review the policies and procedures related to the trunk room.”

Several students expressed disappointment at the short-notice change in policy when it was announced and started a petition online to revert to the old policy. Housing had suggested that students use off-campus storage for the items they could not fit under the new regulations, which writers of the petition said was not feasible for low-income students. The petition had received 410 signatures as of Wednesday evening.

“Given that this change has not been widely publicized until the beginning of eighth week of spring quarter, it creates significant difficulty for low-income students who must now find a way to store their items over the summer,” the petition read. “In announcing a new policy that creates an additional cost for students without providing any advance notice, College Housing creates a barrier for economically diverse students at this institution.”

According to Petruzzelli’s Wednesday e-mail, Housing will reevaluate Trunk Room guidelines for next year.

IOP Event Explores Use of Data in Political Campaigns

BY EILEEN LI DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

On Wednesday, former Director of Data Science for the Romney campaign Alex Lundry and veteran Democratic strategist Tom Bonier discussed how campaigns use information to profile and target voters. Sasha Issenberg, political reporter and author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns, moderated the discussion.

The event kicked off with Bonier demonstrating the use of the Democratic National Committee’s online voter database by pulling up Donald Trump’s profile on the website. Bonier found records including the day Trump registered to vote, the number of primary elections he had voted in, and his personal phone number.

“Where do we think his phone number came from?” Issenberg asked. Bonier explained that the data was collected from different sources, including phone directories, consumer data, and companies who sell cell phone data.

“We actually have two different numbers here, one which would presumably be an office number...and another one here which is presumably more accurate. I would suggest people not call,” Bonier said.

“Unless you’re seeking vengeance on behalf of Lindsey Graham,” Issenberg joked.

Issenberg then asked Lundry, who most recently worked on Jeb Bush’s primary campaign, to explain the creation of statistical models used to predict how likely a voter was to support gun control or to identify as a progressive. Lundry said that the modeling process involves taking all known information about voters, including thousands of variables, and using algorithms to make an informed estimate about how a voter is going to vote, whether they will vote at all, and what issues are most important to them.

“The way I like to explain this is, it’s basically a very sophisticated form of stereotyping. All of us have had life experiences that sort of lead us to make guesses about who people are that we don’t know. You go into a coffee shop and maybe the person in front of you in line, you can look at the book they have with them, the way they’re dressed, the car they drove, and you can probably make some reasonable guess about who they voted for, just based on these kinds of signals that they’re throwing off,” Lundry said.

Lundry went on to address the concerns

that the public may have about such intrusive data mining. “The format of the information we get is detailed enough to be helpful, but not so detailed as to be intrusive…. You may be flagged as having a technology interest because you subscribe to Wired magazine, but we don’t know that. You may have that flag because you have a Best Buy rewards card, but we don’t know that. We just know that you have this technology interest.”

Bonier then discussed some of the variables his firm, TargetSmart, used in making models, ranging from homeowners’ insurance to owning stocks to whether the person had traveled abroad in the last year. From his experience working for the Romney campaign, Lundry highlighted purchases from a Christian bookstore and having a hunting or fishing license as two vital predictors of Republican voters.

The discussion also looked toward the future and the possibility of using data from search engines and social media to target voters. “That’s really the next frontier and there are some not insignificant hurdles.

There are sort of two phases to that. The first challenge is being able to take the findings, which are quite robust, where we really know a whole lot about most people… and the challenge is, from a digital perspective, then being able to find them online,” Bonier said.

Bonier also spoke on the difficulties of working with social media companies that want to guard their own data sources. “Facebook is not going to tell us everything they know about you. They wouldn’t give away their keys to the castle. So we work with third party intermediaries who can match the data from Facebook and our data and create handshakes so then our campaign can advertise directly.”

Issenberg concluded by asking Lundry and Bonier whether Edward Snowden and the domestic conversation around online privacy have shaped their work.

Lundry said that privacy and security have always guided their work and referenced his recent tenure with the Bush campaign. “We’ve always been very concerned about security and now we’re even more extremely concerned about it. On the Jeb Bush campaign, on the day we announced, we had North Korean hackers trying to get into our stuff.”

Issenberg responded, “Are they the ones that stole the winning strategy?”

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VIEWPOINTS Philosophical Policy Isaacs’s and Diermeier’s Inability to Separate Administration From Academia Does the University No Favors

BY DOMINIC SURYA MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

On Monday, May 24, at Student Government’s last assembly of the year, outgoing provost Eric Isaacs invoked academic ideals to resist multiple questions about his decisions: “We’re the University of Chicago; we’re really about discussion and debate—we’re not about yes or no questions,” Isaacs said. This would be all well and good were we students in a classroom or faculty at a conference. But Isaacs was addressing his Title IX staffing, minimum wages, meetings, and more—and not in an academic setting.

This recalled Daniel Diermeier’s remarks in an interview with THE MAROON last month, after he was appointed Isaacs’s successor. In response to a question about the University’s recent report on free expression and the interruption of a campus event, he said, “You’re going through the philosopher in me again.” When asked about the point at which he could step back from fundraising, he replied, “That’s a great question. That’s another philosophical question, right?”

Wrong. To be sure, answers like “right” and “wrong” or “yes” and “no” are inimical to academics. But by that token, they are essential to administration. Clear, solid decisions are precisely what empower the obscure, fluid investigation for which the University exists.

Or at least, I was emphatically taught as much in my Core classes. In particular, one instructor of mine was both an academic (“Senior Lecturer”) and an administrator (“Director”). Meanwhile, I was a first-year, slow to transition from the rigidity of high school assignments to the flexibility of college ones.

Time and again, that instructor admonished me and my peers when we failed to distinguish between types of problems, not least “philosophical” and “pragmatic” ones. Repeatedly we were warned: confuse pragmatics for philosophy in a paper on, say, sexual assault, and risk not doing justice to the concept; do the reverse with a peer dealing with sexual assault and risk not doing justice to the survivor.

Likewise, professors may study policy; Diermeier undoubtedly did at the Harris School. But at just as basic a level, provosts

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ARTS Seven Concerts in Seven Days: Aca-scuse Me?

BY GRACE HAUCK AND MAY HUANG ARTS EDITORS

Prepare for an onslaught of beatboxing, mic drops, and album releases. Next week, seven of UChicago’s a cappella groups will perform across campus to round out a year of growth and International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella (ICCA) successes. As the quarter comes to a close, THE MAROON asked each group to reflect on this year’s highlights and preview what’s in store for next year.

Run For Cover Pentatonix Can’t Make It “The most exciting thing for the group this year was our second ICCA. We also recently performed at Northern Illinois University with the Harmelodics, an all-female group who we met during ICCAs. Our upcoming show is going to include our ICCA set from winter quarter, four new songs (including a co-ed collaboration with UChica-

go’s Unaccompanied Women), as well as something a little bit outside our comfort zone—a cover of “Trap Queen” by Fetty Wap. In terms of the future, we are planning on releasing an EP soon. The goal is to release it during O-Week, so recording is going to begin shortly.”

— A le s s a nd r o Giova n n i Clark-Ansani Sunday, May 29, 7 p.m., McCormick Lounge. Tickets $5 in advance, $7 at the door.

Make a Joyful Noise This is Our Praise!

“The most exciting thing for our group this year has been the growth in number and enthusiasm. In previous years, we have been a relatively small group, and this year we’ve had excited new members join. For this show, we have a guest a cappella group from UIC joining us! For the future, we would like to see continued growth in numbers, and we would like to begin arranging more music ourselves. We would also hope to get

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closer as a group.”

—Shantal Jayawickreme Sunday, May 29, 7:30 p.m., Logan Penthouse. Free admission.

Men in Drag Medusa Complex “The most exciting thing for us this year was being a slightly bigger group (12 compared to last year’s nine), which allows us to do more complex arrangements. We also have more people who can beatbox and arrange music, so everyone is just very versatile. It makes us more well rounded as a group. The show coming up next Wednesday is an album release concert for our new record Medusa Complex, which we have been working on for a little more than two years. We are very excited to share it with the world!

We are losing two women this year at graduation, and though we will miss them far too much to even begin to express, it is also true that next year we should be able to grow even more.”

—Rachel Hile-Broad Wednesday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., University Church. Tickets $5 in advance, $7 at the door.

The Ransom Notes Bedtime Stories “The theme of our concert this year is “Bedtime Stories,” which we’re all really excited about. We’re trying to incorporate different aspects of the theme into our concert such as telling bedtime stories about members of our group and serving late-night snacks like cookies at the event. One of the biggest highlights of our year was taking third place at this year’s quarterfinals for ICCAs! We also recently released our fourth studio album, Black and Blue. Next year, we’re very excited to compete again in the ICCAs, and we’re hoping to put out another album! We are also looking

forward to finding new members to join us next fall.”

—Melissa Infosino Thursday, June 2, 5:30 p.m., Logan Penthouse. Tickets $5 in advance, $7 at the door.

Voices in Your Head Lights “We’re celebrating the release of our sixth studio album and premiering a ton of new music—including three original songs written by current members and alumni. In addition, we’ll be performing songs from the set that won us second place at the ICCA last year. The incredible singers of The Remedy, an all-male R&B vocal group from Washington Park, will also be joining us to open the show. They’ve got an amazing sound, and we’re excited to be bringing a cappella from around the city to the UChicago community.

“This winter we were honored to have performed for the President, First Lady, and guests of the White House. That experience alone was surreal. Then over spring break, we caravanned up the Pacific for our spring tour (with stops in Tijuana, San Diego, and San Francisco along the way). The traveling, the performances, and the general craziness that ensues when 20 college students are in one place definitely brought us closer together. After this concert, about half of our group will be graduating. While we’re sad to see them go, we’re also excited for what’s next.”

—Jaclyn Sattler and Will Cabannis Friday, June 3, 8 p.m., Logan Performance Hall. Tickets $10 or $7 with UCID. Unaccompanied Women Club W “We’re debuting five new songs, experimenting with being a

co-ed group for a second, and following it up with an alumni-sponsored dessert reception. A huge highlight: singing with Vampire Weekend at a Bernie rally featuring Bernie Sanders, and we generally got closer as a group—lots of group Netflix and chill (jk) (maybe). Next year, we look forward to trying new things, welcoming new members, and showing them how wonderful their life can be as a part of the growing UW family!

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—Kate Scheuch Saturday, June 4, 12:30 p.m., Logan Penthouse. Tickets $7 in advance, $10 at the door.

Rhythm and Jews Rhythm and Jews for President: The Schmear Campaign Begins “The set list for our concert is one of our most ridiculous, hilarious, and fun line-ups yet.

We’ll be featuring a wide variety of soloists and saying goodbye to our six graduating fourth-years.

Also, since our concert is presidential-themed, we will be handing out our very own RnJ campaign buttons at the door.

“This year has been an incredibly exciting year for us. We competed at ICCA Quarterfinals for the first time, went on tour in Phoenix, AZ, and recorded four new songs for our upcoming album release. We’re looking forward to releasing our album, Jews On First, hopefully competing at ICCAs again, finding new members during auditions, and continuing to grow musically and bond as a group over the next year.”

—Katy Surhigh Saturday, June 4, 7 p.m., Bond Chapel. Tickets $5 in advance, $7 at the door.

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Wednesday, May 25 – F riday, May 27, 7:30 p.m. Cobb Quad (Rain Location: Logan 501). Free.

THE QUEEN HAS ARRIVED Bey is coming, Bey is coming!

That’s right folks, Beyonce is gracing Soldier Field with her ethereal presence. No other artist could drop a surprise single a day before the Super Bowl and still kill it. But the Queen does what the Queen wants. Get in the Beyhive.

Friday, May 27, Saturday, May 28, 6 p.m. Soldier Field.

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Le Vorris & Vox presents: Yuusha Yuu sh a is a n or ig i na l a nime-inspired comedy that traces the journey of a hero who, cursed by a demon lord, must defeat him with the help of a warrior, a rogue, and a mage.

Performed by Le Vorris & Vox,

Yuusha features juggling, aerial silks, poi, acrobatics, lyra, trapeze, and more circus arts.

Friday, May 27, Saturday, May 28. Doors open at 7:30 p.m., show begins at 8 p.m.

Logan 701. Tickets are $5 at the door.

nals stress away. Dance lessons will be held from 5 – 6:30 p.m., followed f rom per formances until 7 p.m. and open dancing until 9 p.m.

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Midway Plaisance Park. Free admission.

Salsa, Mambo, Bachata & More at the Midway Plaisance Park L o ok i n g for a n exc u s e t o dance outdoors now that it’s spring? UChicago’s Ballroom and Latin Dance Association, along with non-campus organizations, including El Caobo Internacional, will be hosting an outdoor dance night this Saturday on the Midway Plaisance Park. Trade ice skates for dance shoes as you salsa, bachata, and cha-cha your fi-

University Choral Union Concert Get a taste of UChicago’s vast vocal talent at this end-of-year vocal showcase. The University Chorus, Motet Choir, and Women’s Ensemble are teaming up for a final vocal concert of the 2015 –16 school year in the lovely scenery and acoustics of Rockefeller Chapel.

S aturd ay, May 28 , 7:30 p.m. Rockefeller Chapel. Free.

UT/TAPS presents West Side Story U T/ TA PS is presenting this classic American musical as a respite from the horrors of 10th week. Featuring iconic music by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story is a retelling of Romeo and Juliet set o n New York City’s Upper West Side in the 1950s. Come on, you go to UChicago; you’ve definitely read Romeo and Juliet. Treat yoself to a fun Shakespeare musical adaptation. It would be a tragedy if you didn’t.

Free preview on Thursday, June 2, 7:30 p.m. Performances are Friday, June 3, 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 4 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $6 in advance and $8 at the door.

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Alex’s Food Journal: Chicago’s Chinatown: High on MSG, Low on Authenticity

BY ALEX YE ARTS STAFF

The gentrified streets of Chicago’s Chinatown are little more than a highly belabored attempt at making the neighborhood authentic enough for nostalgia but palatable enough for Westerners. Countless restaurants of Lao this and Lao that seek to monopolize the food options, and the lack of stellar cuisine puts Chinese-Americans like me in the dilemma of combating our cravings for childhood fare with food from sub-par establishments. After vacillating back and forth on the quality of Chinatown’s offerings, I’ve decided that the grub does the job.

Cai Cai is another addition to the Cantonese-headed restaurants that pose as staple Chinese institutions.

It serves an overwhelmingly varied menu that features southern Chinese cuisine mixed with internationally clichéd dishes like Beijing roast duck.

Xian Yu Ji Ding Chao Fan (Salted fish and minced chicken fried rice, $9.99): Definitely not for the weaker palates. For the inexperienced, the fragrant chicken fried rice is all fun and games until you bite into the aggressively funky salted fish.

Jiao Yen Yu Pian (Deep fried fish fillet) ($9.99): The batter wasn’t too heavy and the medley of garlic, chilies, and scallion took me back for a short-lived moment of nostal-

gia, as the dish definitely packed on the MSG. Lobster (Hong Kong style) (MP): Don’t waste your $35 on this hot mess. Chicago suffers from being in the middle of the country, and picking out flesh from this lobster was unrewarding.

Cai’s business model is much like that of Phoenix Restaurant and other predominantly Cantonese restaurants: serve dim sum, then a vastly varied dinner menu that caters to the Westerners who want to feel “exotic” as well as to the Chinese who just want to grab their favorites for the occasional night out. Don’t get me wrong, if you visit Cai often enough with large parties, you may foster relationships with the staff—the best part of being a dedicated diner at a Chinese establishment, with benefits including off-menu regional gems, a massive upgrade in service, and occasional complimentary alcohol. The staff is undeniably Chinese, but forced to cater to non-Chinese for economic survival, which is the overwhelming theme of this neighborhood.

Lao Sze Chuan Lao Sze Chuan’s food pretty much has the same flavor profile.

The staple combination of garlic, chili oil, dried red chilies, ma la oil, and cilantro forms the foundation for countless hot and cold dishes in the region of Sichuan. Eating through a meal of Sichuanese food is not recommended for people who can’t take their spice. I found myself

in a good amount of pain, though I had grown up on the cuisine. Ask politely for less spice; you’ll only be mildly judged. Order plenty of rice to survive the inevitable hell.

Fu Qi Fei Pian ($6.95): This cold appetizer of strips of beef tendon and meat, garnished with fresh cilantro, is one of my favorites. But this serving was too overwhelmed with ma la for my tastes.

La Zi Ji ($11.95): The badass cousin of Gong Bao Ji (Kung Pao chicken), La Zi Ji is a simple, dry stir-fry of chicken and red peppers.

Don’t make the mistake of eating the actual dried chilies; they’re just for fragrance.

Spicy Stewed Pork Intestines ($11.45): One of my particularly adventurous photographers ordered this dish. They are unsettlingly chewy, allowing you plenty of time to think of what has passed through them. Beware.

Shui Zhu Yu ($14.45): The quintessential hot Sichuan dish contains unctuous pieces of white fish fillets in a diabolically spicy soup with plenty of stewed cabbage. Ours was served with an unappetizing, thick layer of chili oil, but the fish itself was perfectly cooked.

Smoked Tea Duck ($14.45): This non-spicy dish featured pleasantly smoky, crisped skin. The fat was well rendered and the duck was slightly stringy but compensated more than enough in flavor.

Though relatively authentic, Lao Sze Chuan is mediocre in its execution. It is by no means compa-

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Cai’s Hong Kong style lobster doesn’t give you much bang for your buck.

rable to the Sichuanese joints that have a clear understanding of the balance of garlic, chili pepper, and ma la, as well as more focused menu offerings. Like Cai, Lao Sze Chuan degrades its quality in attempting to cater to everyone. Its place in the empire of restaurants—including Lao Hunan, Lao Shanghai, and Lao Beijing—is a deliberate attempt to feature the major cuisines in China and stuff them into one neighborhood, and it’s overwhelming.

Chinatown’s faux authenticity gives you just that: an experience that’s more of an illusion. The strip on Archer Avenue of what

vaguely resemble Tang Dynasty buildings irks me as plasticky, much like the recently built Qi Bao Lao Jie in Shanghai that is unquestionably aimed at foreign tourists in the name of exhibiting ancient Chinese culture. It feels superficial—the quintessential aspects of a vast and rich history plucked out to cater to an era of diners who want to feel like they can travel the world without leaving their city. Perhaps next quarter I can head up to the northern suburbs like Naperville and Skokie to touch ground with their Chinese-American communities.

Uncommon Interview: Barbara Schubert Reflects on 40 Years With the USO

BY REBECCA JULIE ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

On Friday, June 3 and Saturday, June 4, the University Symphony Orchestra ( USO) will be performing Shostakovich’s “Festive Overture,” Ravel’s “Daphnis et Chloe,” and the world premiere of Ricardo Lorenz’s “Catálogo Fantástico,” which was inspired by the UChicago course catalog. The concert also marks Music Performance Program Director Barbara Schubert’s anniversary with the USO. Schubert, a graduate of the University’s music theory and music history Ph.D. program, also conducts the DuPage Symphony and the Park Ridge Symphony. T H E M A R O ON sat down with Schubert to discuss her thoughts on music, conducting, and her time as the USO’s conductor extraordinaire.

C HICAGO M AROON : I saw from your bio that you studied music and math in undergrad. What ultimately led you to pursue music at the graduate level [at UChicago]?

Barbara Schuber t: My heart, my passion.... Some people say that conducting is like a fatal disease; that once you get bitten by the bug, you can’t do anything else, and certainly that it is sort of an all-encompassing endeavor—that when you decide that is what you want to do it is really hard to think about committing yourself to anything else.

CM: Do you find that the “life of the mind” atmosphere here inf luences the way you go about conducting the USO as opposed to the other ensembles you

conduct in the area?

BS: Yes, it is different.... [The students are] very talented, and they respond to having a big challenge ahead of them. And we have very little rehearsal time.... I do set the bar pretty high, sometimes maybe a little too high, but I actually find that UChicago students respond quite well to that. The couple of times that a program has not been sufficiently challenging, I find that the musicians lose interest.... I think it’s important for a conductor to recognize the personality of the group of which he or she is working and then target your approach to that.

CM: Going off of that, with the performance program here, how have you seen the musical culture shift on campus, if at all?

BS: Well, aside from conducting the USO, I’m the director of performance programs, so I’ve sort of nurtured this whole growth. Now, we have 18 different ensembles and 750 students involved. When I came here there was an orchestra that was really not so good, one chorus, and an early music group and that was it. And they each did six, seven, eight concerts a year at most. We didn’t have a separate chamber orchestra, we didn’t have multiple choirs, we didn’t have a jazz group, we didn’t have the Spektral Quartet in residence, we didn’t have any of this stuff. Gradually we’ve been able to add [to the program] with a number of highly specialized and highly skilled part-time directors of the ensembles.

CM: The USO’s upcoming concert, which will be your 40th anniversary concert, includes a premiere of a work

by a Ph.D. student from UChicago who graduated here in 1999. Tell me a bit more about that collaboration.

BS: He is a very talented composer.... He studied conducting with me, and I’ve done a couple of pieces over the years here and with other orchestras....

I think the idea for the piece is just marvelous: to try to—rather than just do a sort of tribute, abstract piece — to try to connect it to the University of Chicago. So he perused the catalog for intriguing course titles that would then set off his imagination to think about the symbiotic relationship between the life of the mind and the life of the soul. He then used each of these course titles as a jumping-off point for each of the four movements. It’s very

complex music, and in some ways, that’s also typical University of Chicago.... For me and for the orchestra, it’s taking a while progressively to be able to play it, because it’s not simple, and then to understand and appreciate it. The first rehearsal was just chaos, but then it slowly comes through. And in some cases maybe that’s like some courses—you’re totally baff led after the f irst lecture, you have no idea whether you’re going to survive. And then slowly, through working, it starts to make sense, you start to uncover the richness in it, and you start to really appreciate it.

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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “Can’t believe I didn’t make Trump’s list of Supreme Court nominees—been judging beach events in redondo beach all winter?” —Former MLB All-Star Jose Canseco

Maroons’ Season Comes to a Close at NCAA Quarterfinals MEN’S TENNIS

GARY HUANG SPORTS STAFF

This past Monday, the nationally ranked No. 9 University of Chicago women’s tennis team played in its sixth NCA A Division III Elite Eight match in program history. En route to their quarterfinal berth, the Maroons beat Gustavus Adolphus College and the UW–Whitewater in NCA A regional play. After a scintillating run in the postseason with seemingly unstoppable momentum, UChicago’s season came to a premature end, suffering a 5 – 0 loss to No. 2 Williams College.

As the defending national champions, Williams College was always destined to be tough match. Entering the final rounds of the tournament as the No. 7 seed, the South Siders were always the underdogs and sought to upset the more experienced Ephs team.

Dominant doubles play from Williams proved too much for UChicago, and the Ephs swept all three tandem matches.

Only needing two more wins to take the match, Williams rode its confidence into singles play. However, the Maroons refused to give up and claimed the two first sets at No. 2 with first-year Rachel Kim and No. 4 with third-year Tiffany Chen. Kim was poised to win her match 6 –3, 5 –1, but the match ended with Williams clinching the No. 5 and No. 6 positions. The first four singles battles went unfinished with Williams claiming the sufficient number of victories to advance to the Final Four. The match finished 5 – 0, with the Ephs emerging

on top. They would continue to beat Bowdoin College by the same score in the semifinals before losing in a closely contested match, 5 –4, to the new national champions, Emory University.

Chicago concludes the season at 13 – 6, finishing among the top eight teams in the country. It earned a fantastic 8 – 4 record against nationally ranked opponents. With only two players graduating this year and a strong incoming recruiting class, the Maroons will surely be looking to make a deep run into the postseason next year.

The Maroons will enter their preseason this August with chips on their shoulders and more to prove than ever before. The future of the program is certainly bright.

Meanwhile, the men were able to get off to a hot start at the national championships with a victory over the No. 2-ranked team in the country, and the defending champion– Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. The Maroons were able to dispatch the defending champions in only seven matches.

The South Siders lost two of the three doubles matches, and faced an early 1–2 deficit. However, they came out strong in singles, and the four matches that were finished all went to the Maroons. Winners on the singles side included second-year David Liu, third-year Sven Kranz, first-year Charlie Pei, and second-year Luke Tsai. By clinching the fifth match, the Maroons booked a ticket to the national semifinals for a match-up with Middlebury College.

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Second-year David Liu plays in a match against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on March 25.

“We were not fazed by the early doubles deficit,” Kranz said. “We knew we were the better team, and we came out confident in the singles matches.”

Unfortunately for Chicago, Middlebury proved to be the largest and last challenge of the season. The squad fell to the No. 3 Panthers in the semifinals by a score of 5 –2, ending the season with an impressive fourth-place finish. It is the 12th consecutive season in which the men’s tennis team has placed in the top five.

“While we’re sad to see the season come to an end just two matches short of a national championship, I know this was a great season for us,” Kranz said.

“We fully plan on coming back next year stronger than ever, and finally capturing that national crown.”

With that, the tennis season has come to an end on the South Side. When the men’s and women’s teams take the courts again in the fall, both will be among the favorites to win the national title.

Nine Maroons Take Part in NCAA Championships OUTDOOR TRACK & FIELD

MICHAEL CHEIKEN SPORTS STAFF

For the next two days the DI I I Men’s and Women’s Outdoor T rack and Field Championship will continue

in Walston-Hoover Stadium at Wartburg College. The Maroons have sent nine participants to compete in seven different events at the Knights’ home in Waverly, IA. Anticipating a thrilling meet, third-year steeplechase runner

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Fourth-year Rachael Jackson and second-year Aleksandra Makja compete in hurdles during the UChicago Windy City Rumble in February.

Minnie Horvath said, “It’s been exciting to see that we have some of the top athletes in the country and to see everyone’s hard work paying off. As for this weekend, I hope we have a lot of people competing on Saturday! We’re in an excellent position to shock the nation in every event!” But immediately, all of the athletes were thrown a curveball, as the events on Thursday were moved up two hours in order to avoid impending thunderstorms.

Fourth-year vaulter Michael Bennett was the first to feel the effects as his event was moved up to the first spot on the timetable at 10 a.m. Just coming back from injury, the former indoor national champion qualified with a 4.91m height. The height set him as the 18th of 20 qualifiers, but if he had been able to match his personal record height he would have challenged for some points in the event. Unfortunately, it was not to be. Bennett’s final height of 4.90m was good for an impressive 14th place finish in the event.

T he next Maroon to take to the track was second-year Megan Verner-Crist, running in the second preliminary heat of the 1,500-meter race. As the 18th qualifier in a field of 22, she needed to make up some ground on the rest of the field in order to qualify for the final to be run on Saturday. Garnering sixth place in her heat, Vern-

er-Crist turned in a 4:36.71. However, it was not enough, as she came a mere two seconds short of qualifying for the final. Horvath was in a similar predicament for the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Also the 18th qualifier in a field of 22, Horvath needed to finish in the top five of her heat or have one of the next four fastest times between the non-automatic qualifiers from both heats. Struggling through some nagging injuries, Horvath was unable to achieve these goals, but certainly had nothing to hang her head about. The final Thursday preliminary race was the women’s 4x40 0 -meter race. The team of first-year Nicole VacaGuzman, fourth-year Mikaela Hammel, firstyear Emma Koether, and anchoring third-year Michelle Dobbs came into the race as the 12th-seeded team. The quartet set a personal record for the season with a time of 3:48.60, but it was only enough for 11th place with the top eight teams making Saturday’s final.

W i t h T hu r s d ay ’s p r e l i m i n a r y events yielding no finals appearances, it is up to fourth-year high jumper Nelson T rotter and reigning indoor 800 -meter national champion Dobbs to represent the Maroons on Friday, and second-year Khia Kurtenbach to do the same in the 5000-meter on Saturday.

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NEWS: YEAR IN REVIEW Adult Trauma Center Approved and Scheduled to Open in 2018

Final Year for Satellite Dorms and Aramark

BY SONIA SCHLESINGER

The 2016 –17 school year will bring new housing and dining providers to campus. Starting in September, 800 matriculating fi rst-year students and current students from satellite dorms will move into the newly constructed Campus North Residential Commons, located north of Henry Crown Field House at the corner of 55th Street and University Avenue.

Four members of the UChicago faculty will assume the roles of Resident Masters of Campus North: Steven Rings, an associate professor of music theory and chair of the Society of Fellows; Gretchen Rings, a reference and interlibrary loan librarian at the Field Museum; James Evans, an associate professor of sociology, director of the Knowledge Lab, and a senior fellow at the Computation Institute; and Jeannie Evans, a trial lawyer and founding partner of Agrawal Evans LLP. “[Campus North’s] unique architecture, the communal spaces and views, proximity to the art museum, theater, and gyms, and direct access to the wonderful Washington Park, in addition to its natural connection to the University make this an environment that reaches out beyond campus, while still remaining within it,” Evans said in an interview with T HE M AROON last month.

While the names of eight of the nine house dorms being affected by the construction of Campus North will be retired, Breckinridge will retain its name and relocate to International House (I-House) this upcoming fall. Craig Futterman, a clinical professor at the Law School and campaigner against police abuses, and Kenyatta Futterman, the youth program coordinator for the Department of Safety and Security’s Office of Risk Management and a former academic adviser in the College, will serve as I-House Resident Masters.

Along with the opening of Campus North will come the introduction of Bon Appétit, a food service provider replacing Aramark for the upcoming school year. In an e-mail, Vice President for Campus and Student Life Karen Warren Coleman said that Bon Appétit was chosen after the company’s officials demonstrated a commitment to creating a variety of healthy, high quality meals.

“Aramark very much values the contributions of our employees, and we are particularly proud of the service they have provided at UChicago throughout our successful partnership,” Aramark Vice President for Corporate Communications Karen Cutler said. “For almost three decades, Aramark has developed, implemented, and continuously enhanced UChicago Dining’s residential, retail, and catering programs, resulting in increased customer satisfaction, revenue growth, and operational improvements.”

Toward the start of May, student activists and members of the Fight for Just Food held a 24-hour long hunger strike and rally in protest of what they believed was the University’s complicity in mass incarceration as revealed through its choice in food service providers. In a statement released to T HE M AROON, Bon Appétit said that it has never provided food services to prisons. The company

BY EMILY FEIGENBAUM SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

This year, a University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) Level I adult trauma center was announced, approved, and scheduled to open in 2018.

In September, the UCMC announced plans to establish a Level I adult trauma center through a joint partnership with Mount Sinai Hospital. The center was to be located at Holy Cross Hospital on West 68th Street and South California Avenue with the goal of serving surrounding neighborhoods.

Activists from the Trauma Center Coalition (TCC) have been pushing for a Level I trauma center since 2010, after Damian Turner, an 18-year-old community activist and founder of Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY), was shot three blocks away from the UCMC and died in the ambulance to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Streeterville.

Several activists expressed dissatisfaction with the University’s decision to build the center so far away from the UCMC and Hyde Park.

In December, the University announced that it will bring the center to the Hyde Park campus instead. A press release from UChicago Medicine explained that University officials had concluded that they would like to integrate the new Level I adult trauma center with the existing Level I pediatric trauma program and Burn and Complex Wound Center.

“At the end of the day, we realized that integrating all of these services on one site, on our campus, made the most sense for South Side patients,” Sharon O’Keefe, president of the UCMC, said in a statement.

“We applaud the University of Chicago for taking responsibility as a member of the broader South Side community. A Level I Adult Trauma Center at the University of Continued on page 14

Annie Nazzaro A model of Campus North displays the three residential towers and dining hall.

Divestment Issue Rocks Campus

BY PETE GRIEVE DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

On April 12, College Council (CC) passed a resolution that calls on the University to divest from 10 companies that the U of C Divest coalition sees as complicit in Israeli human rights abuses against Palestinians.

The coalition said it was acting in direct response to the “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions” (BDS) movement, to which the resolution references five times. At the April 12 meeting, an amendment removing all references to BDS was narrowly passed by a vote of 8–7. Representatives’ votes were not documented, however, and THE MAROON’S attempts to re-poll CC members yielded a 7–8 vote total.

Another amendment that would have added a clause affirming Israel’s right to exist failed. The amended resolution without references to BDS also failed in a 4–6 vote, but CC motioned to vote on the original, unamended version of the resolution, which passed 8–3.

Opponents of the resolution criticized CC for choosing to represent the student body on a highly controversial political issue. “I think that we voted on something that no one on this Council ever ran on voting on, and I think we voted on something that is truly out of our scale,” said Calvin Cottrell, a second-year representative who opposed the

motion. Resolution supporters on CC insisted that the group was, per its bylaws, “the legitimate voice of the student body,” and had a moral obligation to express the will of the students on the issue.

The University has said that it will not divest from the listed companies, citing the 1967 Kalven Report which maintains that the University will not take collective action on social or political issues, with the exception of narrowly defined “extraordinary instances” when the University’s mission or value of inquiry is threatened. “The University of Chicago will not divest from companies for doing business in Israel,” reads an April 14 statement. “The University continues to strongly oppose boycotts of academic institutions or scholars in any region of the world, including recent actions to boycott Israeli institutions.”

The University did not divest from Sudan during the war in Darfur, and it did not divest from fossil fuels after a 2013 referendum on the matter showed that 70 percent of the student body supported divestment. It also did not divest from South Africa during the apartheid era, when an ad hoc committee called on the University to do so under a name remarkably similar to U of C Divest—“U.C. Divest Now”—outdated now as “U of C” rose in popularity.

At a well-attended meeting on May 3, CC Continued on page 14

Significant Changes to the Hyde Park Scene

BY TAMAR HONIG NEWS EDITOR

Hyde Park’s history continues to be shaped by the University that sits at its center; this academic year, the University in some ways retreated from its traditional support for the Hyde Park real estate, but other significant University-affiliated projects are in the offing.

In October, the University announced the sale of 21 properties in Hyde Park to the New York–based Pioneer Acquisitions, LLC, an investment company that also owns many buildings in Lincoln Park. The properties included two vacant lots and 19 residential buildings, which housed graduate students, faculty, and staff.

The University had purchased the buildings to ensure a sufficient quantity of stable housing near campus but now believes “the area real estate market is...strong enough to attract a number of potential investors and support a range of residential options,” according to a statement from the News Office.

In January, an agreement was released that defines the relationship between the University and the City of Chicago in anticipation of the University spending $750 million on the Mid–South Side over the next

three years.

The non-binding agreement, signed alongside memorandums of understanding (MOUs) between the city and seven other Chicago-area universities, renews a 2011 version of a similar agreement that expired in 2015. The 2011 MOU included provisions for development on East 53rd Street, including street and park improvements and community planning in the area. The new MOU plans for the continued development of East 53rd Street and for similar initiatives in Washington Park and Woodlawn.

Expansion of educational initiatives, especially through the University’s Urban Education Institute and improvements to Metra in the neighborhood, are also planned. Timika Hoffman-Zoller, president of the Hyde Park–Kenwood Community Conference, expressed satisfaction with the new MOU’s commitments.

“It’s just so good that these new developments aren’t just about things like the [Obama] Library,” she said. “It’s about economic development in the community, people getting jobs, wanting to eat, and go to the parks and enjoy themselves in the communities where they live.”

The Obama Presidential Library is slated to be built in either Washington Park or

Jackson Park by 2020 or 2021. The Barack Obama Foundation, which recently moved into Harper Court, is expected to announce the location shortly. Some are excited about the economic opportunities the library will bring to the South Side, while others are concerned about gentrification and the possibility of an increased patrol zone of the University of Chicago Police Department.

If the Library lands in Washington Park, it could bolster the University’s efforts to develop Garfield Boulevard west of Washington Park into an arts hub. More details are forthcoming, but the corridor may include an open-air pavilion and a venue for community theater.

The University has placed closing undergraduate dormitory buildings Broadview, Maclean, and Blackstone on the market.

Construction on Campus North topped out at 15 stories in August, and the new dorm, which has been under construction since July 2014, is on schedule for completion in June.

At a College Council meeting in April, Dean of the College John Boyer raised the possibility of adding at least one new dorm south of campus. He has said that his goal is to have at least 70 percent of students living in on-campus housing.

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High-Profile Speakers and Protests Come to the IOP

BY PEYTON ALIE ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Over the course of the school year, the Institute of Politics (IOP) hosted many events featuring high-profile speakers, including several that attracted protests and controversy.

High-Profile Speakers On September 28, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (A.B. ’64) spoke at Rockefeller Chapel to a crowd of more than 1,800 people. In addition to discussing his views on issues such as women’s rights, criminal justice reform, and campaign finance, Sanders spoke about his time at UChicago. Coming from a low-income background, Sanders struggled to adjust to UChicago, where many students came from wealthy backgrounds.

This experience shaped Sanders’s commitment to socioeconomic equality.

On October 16, IOP Director David Axelrod moderated a discussion with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (DCA) at the International House (I-House) Assembly Hall. Axelrod and Pelosi discussed the then-vacant Speaker of the House position in light of John Boehner’s resignation. Pelosi argued that the lack of a clear successor to Boehner indicated

that the Republican Party is an “anti-governance party.�

On April 7, President Barack Obama, a former constitutional law professor at the University, returned to the Law School to discuss the resistance to his nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. Obama argued that Senate Republicans’ refusal to consider his nomination of Garland represents a failure of the Senate to fulfill its constitutional duty and the infringement of party politics on the judicial branch.

On May 9, former Daily Show host Jon Stewart spoke in Rockefeller Chapel for a live recording of Axelrod’s podcast, The Axe Files. Stewart and Axelrod discussed the 2016 election, with a particular focus on Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

Stewart stated that Trump’s reputation for “telling it like it is� and battling against political correctness is unwarranted because of Trump’s sensitivity to criticism. Stewart also criticized Clinton for not clearly expressing her convictions.

On May 12, whistleblower Edward Snowden addressed a crowd at Ida Noyes Hall over a video call. Snowden said that he had taken an oath to uphold the U.S. Constitution and that he believed he had an obligation to the Constitution’s princi-

ples in spite of the illegality of his actions. which aims to put pressure on Israel to Snowden also advocated for a simpler in- alter its policies towards Palestinians. A ternal complaint system at government Palestinian audience member questioned “what brought Palestinians to a place where agencies. they have to go work for their occupiers,�

Protests On February 17, Cook County State’s leading to a tense argument between Eid Attorney Anita Alvarez left 20 minutes and the audience member. After the audiinto a talk at the IOP after vocal protests by ence member was ushered away by I-House representatives from several organizations, staff, others asked similar questions and including Black Lives Matter (BLM) Chi- questioned Eid’s status as a Palestinian cago. Alvarez has been heavily criticized and human rights activist. University of in light of the release of a video showing Chicago Police Department officers then 17-year-old Laquan McDonald being shot intervened, removing the two audience 16 times by a police officer, which reignited members and Eid, and ended the event.

On April 25, members of the Armenian discussions and protests regarding police brutality against black people nationwide. Students Organization, Students for JusProtesters held signs and chanted “Anita tice in Palestine, and the Hellenic Students Alvarez does not believe that black lives Association protested a lecture by Universimatter,� prompting Alvarez’s exit. Follow- ty of Louisville professor Justin McCarthy, ing the incident, Axelrod wrote a Letter who they say denies the Armenian Genoto the Editor published in THE M AROON on cide, at I-House. McCarthy, who claims February 18 denouncing the protests and that the events deemed genocide were part arguing that “free and open debate should of a civil war between the Ottoman Empire not be muzzled by government, university and Armenian rebels, has been accused of Armenian Genocide denialism by the Interadministrations, or angry mobs.�

On February 18, police intervened in national Association of Genocide Scholars. a talk by Palestinian human rights activ- Protesters filled the second and third rows ist Bassem Eid at I-House after disagree- of the audience and placed red tape over ments between Eid and the audience. Eid their mouths. McCarthy asked the proteshas vehemently criticized the Boycott, Di- tors to sit down, but they refused and then vestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, exited the room to applause.

While the IIRON’s Hot

BY ANJALI DHILLON ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

IIRON—once the Illinois-Indiana Regional Organizing Network—has linked University students with opportunities to advocate on behalf of local and national issues for years. This year, the IIRON Student Network (ISN) has brought its activism to campus with a series of attention-grabbing protests. Many of the University’s most important advocacy groups joined under ISN’s banner for a series of actions which escalated as the end of the year neared.

On November 2, four University of Chicago students and two alumni were arrested along with 38 other protesters at the Chicago Board of Trade. The protest, organized by the Fair Economy Illinois (FEI) coalition, demanded a “LaSalle Street Tax� on corporations and higher income taxes on the rich to balance the state’s budget. Southside Solidarity Network (SSN), a UChicago student organization, and UChicago Climate Action Network (UCAN) both sent protesters. Hundreds of protesters marched from Thompson Center to the Chicago Board of Trade, where they blocked entrances and staged a die-in.

On February 26, 60 students from Fair Budget UChicago protested to demand that the University raise the minimum wage on campus to $15 an hour. The protest included a march from Regenstein Library across the main quad to Edward H. Levi Hall.

T h e p r o t e s t e r s g at h e r e d i n the f ifth-f loor waiting room outside Provost Eric D. Isaacs’s office to deliver a petition with more than 1,000 signatures calling for a higher wage for University employees. When Isaacs was not found in his office, protesters asked the Dean-onCall to commit to delivering the petition to Isaacs. Initially the Dean-on-Call stated that she could not promise to deliver the petition because she didn’t have the authority to ensure that Isaacs would see the petition. Later she stated that she would make an effort to deliver the petition to Isaacs. University spokesman Jeremy Manier later confirmed that the provost had received the petition.

More than a month later, on April 2, students and activists gathered outside the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) to protest higher-education budget cuts before the

Saturday 8 p.m. orchestra performance. Students from FBU participated in the protest directed at two University trustees along with the IIRON Student Network.

A public meeting, organized by IIRON and attended by over 50 student activists from IIRON and Phoenix Survivors Alliance (PSA), was held in Reynolds Club on May 2. The meeting aimed to provide a forum at which students could express their concerns over administrative policies and advocate for increased transparency and communication with undergraduates. The meeting was initially organized as a town hall meeting that Isaacs, incoming Provost Daniel Diermeier, Vice President and Secretary of the University Darren Reisberg, and Dean of Students in the College John “Jay� Ellison were invited to attend. However, no administrators attended.

A week later, on May 9, three University of Chicago students, among many protesters unaffiliated with the University, were arrested for blocking the entrance to Citadel Headquarters, a hedge fund based in downtown Chicago. The students were participating in a rally led by FEI and IIRON against the Illinois budget crisis and Governor Bruce Rauner. The protest, urging advocacy for higher education funding, was directed at Sam Zell, James S. Crown, and Kenneth C. Griffin, significant donors to Rauner’s super PAC and to the CSO. In response to the administration’s lack of attendance at the May 2 public meeting, IIRON organized a protest on May 19. According to protest organizers, more than 150 students, staff members, and alumni participated in the rally calling for increased accountability and democratization of the University. Issues ranging from equitable policing to the University’s divestment from fossil fuels were discussed.

The protest consisted of a three-block march on the street from outside Ratner Athletics Center, through Hull Gate across the main quad, to Levi Hall. Before the protest, a group of 34 students and alumni had gathered to occupy the administrative lobby outside Isaacs’s office once again until a meeting with the Provost was arranged. The sit-in lasted over an hour, and at 5 p.m. the participants joined the rally outside after the UCPD told them they could face disciplinary action up to suspension and expulsion or arrest if

they remained, and escorted them out of the were ready with questions. They demanded building. yes or no answers, which Isaacs refused to At Monday’s Student Government Gen- supply. After a tense half-hour, Isaacs left. eral Assembly meeting, IIRON was finally As for IIRON, the participants in the sit-in able to speak to a top-level administrator. chanted “we’ll be back� after they were exWhen Isaacs appeared before the General pelled from Levi Hall on May 19, and this Assembly, activists associated with IIRON seems more than likely.

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Provost Isaacs Is Out, Provost Diermeier Is In

BY PETE GRIEVE DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

President Robert J. Zimmer announced in a March 7 e-mail that Provost Eric D. Isaacs will leave his current role this summer and take on the new position of Executive Vice President for Research, Innovation, and National Laboratories. Isaacs’s new role will replace the position of Vice President for Research and for National Laboratories, which was held by Don Levy, who is stepping down at the end of the academic year.

“I am grateful that he is taking on this new challenge, which is an essential one for the University,” Zimmer said in an e-mail to staff and students. “His particular set of experiences make him singularly well positioned to lead this rapidly evolving set of activities.”

On April 1, the University announced that Dean of the Harris School of Public Policy Daniel Diermeier will succeed Isaacs as the provost starting July 1. Diermeier’s academic work has focused on formal political theory, political institutions, the interaction of politics and business, computational linguistics, public perception, and crisis management, Zimmer said.

“My job over the next three months is really to learn a lot, to talk a lot to faculty, to hear from the students,” Diermeier told

THE MAROON after his appointment. “I have the great fortune that we have a transition period here of three months, which allows me to familiarize myself with all the details of University policies and positioning and precedents and so forth in great detail, and my job over the next three months is really to learn as much as I can about that.”

Invoking his expressed interest in campus issues during the transition, representatives of the IIRON Student Network (ISN) invited Diermeier and other top administrators to a meeting with ISN in an April 14 Letter to the Editor. No administrators showed up.

“Annual or even quarterly appearances at College Council meetings are not enough to acquire a sufficient familiarity with the concerns and needs of this community,” ISN wrote. “To be clear, we are asking that Diermeier and Isaacs attend this meeting, but we are not just asking that the University divest from fossil fuels, expand and revitalize Student Disability Services, end its racist policing practices, and pay its workers a living wage. Those are demands.”

An ISN rally to “Democratize the University” was held weeks later in response to the no-shows. Diermeier has written a book about managing institutional reputations which has also attracted criticism from UChicago’s activist circles.

Gun Threat Cancels All Classes and Activities

BY SONIA SCHLESINGER DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

All classes and activities were cancelled on November 30 when a student from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) threatened gun violence on the main quad.

“Based on the FBI’s assessment of this threat and recent tragic events at other campuses across the country, we have decided in consultation with federal and local law enforcement officials to exercise caution by canceling all classes and activities on the Hyde Park campus through midnight on Monday,” President Zimmer said in an e-mail to the University community on Sunday evening.

The UIC student, who was later identified as Jabari Dean, posted the threat to worldstarhiphop.com on Sunday evening.

The post read, “This is my only warning. At 10 AM Monday morning, I’m going to the campus quad of the University of Chicago. I will be armed with an M-4 carbine and two desert eagles, all fully loaded. I will execute approximately 16 white male students and/ or staff, which is the same number of times [Laquan] McDonald was killed. I will then

die killing white policemen in the process.

This is not a joke. I am to do my part and rid the world of white devils. I expect you to do the same.”

Dean was detained by the FBI at 12:32 p.m. on Monday, though classes remained cancelled for the rest of the day. Investigators found no weapons in his off-campus apartment, and classes and activities resumed Tuesday. According to an e-mail sent

by Zimmer at the time, security presence increased on campus for the remainder of fall quarter.

Dean was then charged with transmitting a threat in interstate commerce. He was released into the custody of his mother, put into home detention at her house in South Shore, and ordered not to use the Internet.

In January, U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan E. Cox added that Dean must report the charges to any school to which he applies in the future.

In February, a federal judge loosened his house arrest so that he could search for jobs.

He is now allowed to leave his mother’s home between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

“Aramark has developed, implemented, and continously enhanced UChicago Dining’s ... programs” Continued from page 12

only works with museums and cultural centers, private colleges, and corporations, though it is owned by a larger company that does work in prisons.

“Bon Appétit is a subsidiary of Compass Group, which profits from serving food in prisons, so for us, this decision demonstrates the University’s continued complicity in mass incarceration,” thirdyear and member of the University’s Fight for Just Food Coalition Natalie Naculich said. “We’re continuing to push for

UChicago Dining to transition to self-operation within three years, and to give 40 percent of the dining contract to local South Side businesses.”

Bon Appétit says that it is committed to providing healthy, fl avorful food prepared from fresh ingredients and produced in a sustainable, socially responsible way. Students can continue to expect vegetarian, vegan, kosher, and halal choices, among others. Bon Appétit will begin working for the University on July 1.

“We applaud the Univerity of Chicago for taking responsibility as a member of the broader South Side community” Continued from page 12

Chicago will provide the best possible outcome for addressing the current lack of South Side trauma care. It also signals a significant shift in the University’s approach to responding to the needs of its predominantly black South Side neighbors,” the TCC said in a statement released December 17.

On April 21, the Illinois Health Facilities and Services Review Board (IHFSRB) issued a report that criticized parts of the UCMC’s initial proposal for expansion. It said that the proposal was too extensive in that it requested too many additional beds and emergency room stations; the report argued that the medical center needed only five additional medical and surgical beds, rather

than the 168 the center had proposed, and that it only needed 15 new intensive care units, not 20.

On May 10, IHFSRB voted unanimously to approve the UCMC’s $269 million expansion plan.

Activists involved in the campaign for a trauma center are now pushing for the creation of a community advisory board that would work with UCMC administrators throughout the construction of the center. The board would consist of patients, families, youth, people of color, and low-income members of the community. Additionally, TCC is pushing for the medical center to fund violence prevention programs and support victims of violence.

“The University has said it will not divest from the listed companies” Continued from page 12

representatives voted to avoid up-or-down votes on resolutions calling for Blue Chips to divest from the same 10 companies and for the University to divest from China. CC tabled the resolutions indefinitely, which means that they could not be considered for the remainder of this academic year. The

resolutions were proposed by Matthew Foldi and Tamar Gordis, members of the UChicago Coalition for Peace, a student group that opposes divestment from Israel. Critics of the China divestment resolution said that it was political maneuvering to attempt to expose hypocrisy within CC, rather than to express concern for human rights abuses.

Controversies Incite Debate on Role of Greek Life

BY PETE GRIEVE DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

Greek life is growing at the University of Chicago, and with it, controversy. Instances of racial intolerance and reports of sexual assault have incited debate about the presence of fraternities and sororities on campus and how they can be held accountable.

The Phi Delta Theta (Phi Delt) International Fraternity announced in late February that its UChicago chapter was to be suspended, and would be “re-colonized” with all new members after the current members have graduated. It was unclear exactly why the suspension occurred, beyond that members committed “risk-management policy violations,” according to a letter sent by Phi Delt’s director of chapter services to fraternity alumni.

A BuzzFeed article published on February 3 brought the presence of Greek life to the forefront of University discourse. The article revealed that brothers of Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) had circulated racist and misogynistic e-mails via their private listhost between 2011 and 2015. In their apology, published on Facebook, AEPi committed to take a series of actions to discourage hate speech in the fraternity.

A few weeks after the initial e-mails were leaked, a coalition of student groups authored a resolution stating that the University should suspend its relationship to AEPi until the brothers formally apologized to the student groups targeted in the e-mails, such as women, students of color, and Muslim students. Student Government (SG) passed the resolution in February.

“It is our stance that the University has a responsibility to clarify its relationship to its Greek life organizations [...] and to establish and enforce guidelines that will hold groups accountable for the racist, misogynistic, and Islamophobic actions exhibited by its members,” the SG Executive Council wrote in a statement.

The University responded to the incident by condemning the actions of the brothers in question and affirming its dedication to inclusion and diversity, but took no formal action against the fraternity.

Reports of sexual assault at Delta Upsilon (DU) and Psi Upsilon (Psi U) prompted CPD investigations. Two Psi U brothers were found responsible by the Student Disciplinary Committee for sexual misconduct in the spring and summer of 2015, and both were expelled from the fraternity. A MAROON investigation found that the president of Psi U’s alumni board received the phone number of one of the complainants from a Psi U alumnus in the CPD and reached out to her.

“I didn’t go to work for a week after he called, as I didn’t feel safe to be on campus,” the complainant said.

Not long after the news of the Psi U assaults was publicized on Yik Yak and Overheard at UChicago in March, the Center for Leadership and Involvement (CLI) launched the Student Engagement Fund for non-RSO student initiatives and organizations, including fraternities and sororities. Student groups now have to apply to receive support from the fund, which will allow them to reserve University spaces 10 times per quarter for meetings and three times per quarter for events. CLI’s website says that initiatives that are not part of a larger program are more likely to receive funding, and students applying for funding should inform the CLI of their affiliations with external organizations. Some students felt that the policy unfairly punished sororities, which do not have houses on campus and are more reliant than fraternities on access to University spaces.

While some students want the University to take further steps to manage and discipline Greek organizations, others want reform to come from inside fraternities and sororities— resulting in initiatives like Greek Life in Front and proposals for an inter-fraternity governing body.

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VIEWPOINTS: YEAR IN REVIEW Top 10 Most Viewed Viewpoints Articles of the Year Viewpoints has had another great year of content from students, professors, alumni, and even David Axelrod. We won’t play favorites, but these 10 articles did garner the most views on our website: 1.

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Cost-Benefit Analysis, The MAROON Editorial Board - February 5, 2016 A Student’s Guide to Sneaking Into Bartlett, Liam Leddy - February 18, 2016 3. Letter to the Editor: IOP Director Responds to Protests at Alvarez Event, David Axelrod - February 18, 2016 4. Stop Supersizing Our Global Footprint, Kristen Wacker - January 11, 2016 5. Letter to the Editor: President of Psi U Responds to Student Criticism Regarding Sexual Assault, Drew Armstrong - March 4, 2016 6. Safety Not Guaranteed, Morganne Wakefield - March 7, 2016 7. In Defense of Frat-ricide, Lily Grossbard - February 8, 2016 8. Not Just Black and White, Jane Jun - February 1, 2016 9. GMO and Science Free, Natalie Denby - February 8, 2016 10. A New Form of Political Discourse, Elizabeth Adetiba and Stephanie Greene - February 22, 2016

Memoirs of a Viewpoints Columnist

BY KAYLEIGH VOSS VIEWPOINTS EDITOR

When I first came to college, I was not concerned about my extracurricular activities. I was not worried about building a résumé, or snagging leadership positions, or being in any way impressive.

I was ready to be a really small fish in a really big pond, to swim comfortably along and just do my best to avoid being eaten.

As someone who genuinely panics when people sing “Happy Birthday” to me (what am I supposed to be doing? Is gently crying an option?), I should have stayed far, far away from THE M AROON. Instead, I applied to be a Viewpoints columnist during my second year, and became a writer for the now-defunct Viewpoints blog. By the time I was a third-year, the blog was dead and I’d inadvertently graduated to writing in print. The blog was small-time stuff, and I never worried about anyone actually reading what I’d written. Naïvely, the same feeling of security followed me as I agreed to write for print editions of the paper. No one I knew read Viewpoints, so what was the risk? I just wanted to write, to be a part of something.

I had either not heard or not paid attention to any criticism THE MAROON received prior to a day which, for me, will live in infamy: October 28, 2014. I had written an article—okay, fine, a listicle— for The Maroon and sent it over with a note: “You don’t have to print this.” It detailed some of the more unforgivable trespasses of guests at a party I had hosted in my apartment. Viewpoints was embroiled in a small controversy for having turned

down a piece by an outspoken activist on campus, and I knew a listicle was perhaps not the hard-hitting editorial the student body was looking for. Still, I was supposed to turn something in, and while I am largely fueled by rage, it’s not always of the social justice variety. Sometimes I’m pissed because someone spilled (threw?) an unholy mixture of fruit punch and Svedka on my living room walls.

The reaction (mostly on Overheard) was not kind. It was personal; these people weren’t just mad at the paper or the editors for their decision, they were mad at me—laughing at me—and my audacity to write perhaps an only moderately funny list of party fouls. I was crushed (I’m easily crushed), but then again, maybe this reaction—or some fraction of it—was warranted.

Since this debacle, I’ve moved up to be a head editor of the Viewpoints section (through what can only be described as a need to prove to myself and the world that I can do better) and I’m firmly, staunchly, stubbornly opposed to running listicles in the section—though I have been swayed a couple of times (see: this issue). The lesson was reinforced earlier this year after yet another listicle led to yet another online fiasco—apologies to everyone who can no longer steal from Bartlett as effectively.

Writing and editing for Viewpoints has proven to be dangerous.

When I sift through submissions and columns from writers, I question myself.

I wonder. What is valuable to the Viewpoints section? What isn’t? Do we reject pieces with clumsy prose but luminous ideas? Do we stomp on anyone’s attempt

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A Graduting Columnist and Editor Reflects on Her Experience Continued from page 15

to inject humor into an often dark campus culture? Do we let the unpopular-opinion holders speak out, or do we cherry-pick the most moderate ones, toeing the line and hoping to avoid another moment of humiliation?

I work hard. I work really hard on the Viewpoints section. I have something to prove. Viewpoints gets more criticism

than any other section of the paper, and that’s fair. Opinions are not holy. They should be criticized. I publish things I would never agree with, but I don’t do it because the section is sparse or because my friend wrote it. When I look back on my time with Viewpoints, I will be proud—no matter what people have said—because I wrote what I felt, I published what I thought needed to be put

out there, and I helped writers find their voices in a tangle of experience and emotion. There’s nothing like my phone buzzing on my nightstand, aglow with the notification that someone stayed up until 3 a.m. putting an opinion to words that couldn’t wait until the morning. Viewpoints is not perfect, and the opinions it holds are even less so, but we’re just college students. I’m thankful to have had

the chance to be a very tiny part of the lives of people who are writing, discovering, and learning about themselves and everyone else.

And I still think my listicle was at least a little funny.

Kayleigh Voss is a fourth-year in the College majoring in English. She is an editor of the Viewpoints section.

In Case You Missed It The Maroon Looks Back on Some of the Notable News Stories of the Past Year It’s been another eventful year at the University of Chicago, and the ever-reliable MAROON has been by your side through the whole thing. But just in case you were paying more attention to Yik Yak than our news breaks, let us bring you up to speed. Here’s what went down in 2015–2016 (cost-benefit analysis available upon request):

5. Always wanted a Canada Goose? You’re in luck!

There’s one nesting on top of Searle.

1. We were reminded that, even if we get nothing else from this place, at least we’ll be in the same alumni network as Bernie Sanders.

7. United Progress pulled an FDR and got a third term.

6. Summer Breeze tickets were sold online this year, but it turns out the new system was just as fucked as waiting in line for hours.

8. The University is finally getting a trauma center.

(Apparently the Reg didn’t count.)

2. Aramark’s screwy behavior left students unenthused, but the University’s recently announced switch to Bon Appétit gives us something to hope for (and all the more reason to sneak into Bartlett).

9. David Axelrod feat. Jon Stewart: An oasis in the hell that is an election cycle without Jon Stewart’s commentary.

3. Grad students pushed for unionization, as if they weren’t united enough by the shared misery that is being a grad student.

10. After many months of anticipation, our relationship turned out to be passionate but fleeting. Pack it up, Packed—we’re dumping your dumplings.

4. The University heard UofC Divest’s demands and divested from…the Med?

11. A silent rave turned Mansueto into the glowing alien space ship we always knew it was.

12. You’re not paranoid: you really are surrounded by econ majors. But maybe soon neuroscience majors will dethrone them to become the new That Kids-in-residence.

13. No survey needed: Summer Breeze confirmed that the campus climate is as chilly as ever.

14. The University rolled out a new course registration system and immediately felt the red-hot anger of students whose eighth week was already complicated enough.

15. Students leaving their beloved satellite dorms for Campus North weren’t crazy about trading classic UChicago quirkiness for a life that’s more inside the box—inside four 13 x 13 x 17-inch boxes, to be exact.

—The M A ROON Editorial Board

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ARTS: YEAR IN REVIEW Seven Takes on Episode VII: The Force Awakens, Discussed My dad saw A New Hope in theaters in 1977 and he thought it was “okay.” Thirty-eight years later, it’s no longer possible to have a neutral opinion about a Star Wars episode: our reviewers either thought The Force Awakens wasn’t fit to wipe George Lucas’s bottom or that it was the best thing to happen to the franchise since the blissful lack of Jar-Jar Binks in Revenge of the Sith. It’s easy to see the downsides of The Force Awakens (same plot, bigger Death Star), but even its most stalwart haters saw potential. The Force Awakens clearly updated old Star Wars tropes—heroine Rey had Leia’s spunk but a Luke-like amount of the Force, while Poe Dameron performed Luke’s role in A New Hope with a decidedly Han Solo-esque temperament.

As for The Force Awakens, there’s not enough character depth in the new trilogy to spark a raging Han Shot First-style debate nor does this episode contain any lines as immortal as “I am your father”; still, there’s nothing in The Force Awakens as visually egregious as Anakin’s rat tail (excuse me, Padawan braid) circa Attack of the Clones.

The conclusion, accoring to our writers? Well, maybe that— laugh it up, fuzzball—The Force Awakens was just “okay.”

—Miriam Benjamin, Associate Arts Editor J.J. Abrams does what he does best in this seventh installment of the seemingly un-killable franchise known as Star Wars : make a horribly unoriginal and really, really dumb movie. New characters Finn and Rey alternate between setting off explosions and delivering somewhat pithy one-liners. Harrison Ford’s tired, wrinkled face also makes

Leia, and not just to follow Solo, BB, and R2 to become friends, It’s hard to wait for more Star Wars, Star Wars. Star Wars, Wars. (*My money’s on Kenobi.)

A —Abby Kuchnir ’19

Lucasfilm

Danger, deserts, and déjà vu: Rey (Daisy Ridley) and Finn (John Boyega) flee a squadron of Storm Troopers in The Force Awakens.

an appearance in this poorly made knockoff of the fi rst Star Wars fi lm. It might as well be called Star Wars: The Plagiarism Awakens, except that it’s worse than the 1977 classic in almost every way: worse characterizations, worse villains, poorly established stakes, an incredibly dumb script, and the worst use of the Wilhelm Scream I’ve ever heard. Have I mentioned it’s dumb?

If you do go see it, I’d like you to have a good experience, so you should probably bang your head against the wall as hard as you possibly can to inflict enough brain damage to keep you from noticing the plot holes. This is by far the worst seventh installment in a franchise to come out this year. Go see Creed instead.

C- —Harry O’Neil ’17 Like many people, I was a Star Wars fanatic as a child, having watched the original trilogy religiously and collected

the seemingly endless supply of merchandise. But as I grew older, I became more cynical over the merits of Star Wars, seeing it as the seed for the crass, shallow blockbusters that dominate present-day Hollywood. George Lucas has only continued to exacerbate his creation’s legacy through his widely maligned prequels and director’s cuts of the first three movies.

J.J. Abrams’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the fi rst of Disney’s new trilogy, is intent on washing away Lucas’s muck by returning to the original fi lms’ roots. The reliance on the initial trilogy is clear, featuring many old Star Wars landmarks and characters, and the story is nearly beat by beat the same as the fi rst movie, even including another Death Star clone.

Yet The Force Awakens gleefully embraces such comparisons and by doing so doesn’t get bogged down by simply catering to fans’ desires. Abrams’s direc-

tion is bright and buoyant; alongside John Williams’s boisterous score, it feels truer to the spirit of the older films than The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, and Revenge of the Sith ever did.

The Force Awakens’ exuberance and sheer energy melted away my pessimism about Star Wars.

Weighed down by an unoriginal plot, The Force Awakens is by no means great, but it is exactly what a new Star Wars movie should be like: vigorous, robust, and most importantly, enjoyable. Despite its flaws, The Force Awakens succeeds at redeeming Star Wars ’ reputation.

B+ —Charles Khosla ’18 Things I want from Episode VIII (sung to the tune of “Do-ReMi” from The Sound of Music): Poe, and Finn, to be best bros, Rey, to find out who she’s from,* Me, to laugh at, a lot of jokes, Finn, tempted by Sith scum, Solo, to inspire Kylo Ren,

Star Wars has grown to such behemothic proportions that it’s become unwieldy. Basically the only phenomenon that can match its weight pound-for-pound is the good ol’ Bible. So here I turn to Ecclesiastes 1:8–9 (King James Version): “All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”

Ergo: the last Star Wars movies sucked and blew and ever since then talking about the movies has been mealy-mouthed and frankly just a chore. Similarly, “that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun,” and so this new one is like the old: The Force Awakens is fun and shamelessly, even proudly, apes everything about A New Hope.

There’s an argument that Star Wars was always an unoriginal pastiche. This is half right, but would go a lot further with me if The Force Awakens was a particularly good rip-off, instead of an unsound scaffolding for a multi-billion-dollar trans-media endeavor that escapes catastrophe only by deploying what it managed to grave-rob. (Though I’ll admit, they found charming young actors who manage to sell character moments that are mostly under-justified nonsense.)

“I saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift…nor yet riches to the wise,” indeed.

C+ —Walker King ’16 Continued on page 18

All Packed Up and Ready to Go: The Rise and Demise of Packed

BY ALEX YE ARTS STAFF

My fi rst visit to the recently opened, and now recently closed, Packed: Dumplings Reimagined was full of expectations. I put aside my traditionalist views on dumplings and was ready to embrace the vision of Chef Mike Sheerin and Aaron DiMaria’s new, susta i nably sou rced , “farm-driven” fast food joint.

While ordering at the cash register and browsing the menu, I couldn’t help feeling the indignant insecurity in DiMaria’s manner, almost desperate to defend the unconventional dumpling fi llings. This was off-putting, as I was genuinely willing to give each one of the dumplings a try. After all, Mike Sheerin, once Chef de Cuisine at Paul Kahan’s Blackbird, was supposedly behind these dumplings, so I had to pay my respects.

However, the reality was that the beautiful produce and proteins that Packed sourced were not handled well. Their Peking Duck dumpling punched the palate with ginger, and their Pastrami reeked of salty whole-grain mustard. Their take on macaroni and cheese was a lazy combination of udon noodles and sticky queso cheese, unsalvageable even with toppings of raw jalapeños and stale dried shiitake. Lackluster food was compounded by a dent in my wallet and small portion sizes to create an extraordinarily mediocre experience.

To reiterate, I’m not opposed to innovative interpretations of traditional cuisines. Whether a Chinese dumpling, Polish pierogi, or Italian ravioli, this food form—things sealed in dough and then cooked— serves a few key functions that must not be screwed up.

The dough must be properly cooked. Notes of raw f lou r a re not welcome.

There must be some flavorful liquid. I don’t care if it’s gooey cheese or porky soup, this is the dumpling’s quintessential trait.

T he f illing needs to be seasoned well. You have one chance to salt the product you want to showcase, and that is before cooking. No sauce or extra salt and pepper atop the fi nished product is going to redeem an under-seasoned fi lling.

Packed violated all three of these criteria. W hat was termed as “reimagined” consisted mostly of familiar, even clichéd fl avor combinations inconsiderately sealed in dumpling wrappers. Did the corn dog really need to be in dumpling form? The Spicy Meatball Dumpling was pleasant, but I would have been just as happy with two succulent meatballs.

Sheerin and DiMaria weren’t working the same magic as Roy Choi with the Kogi Truck in Los Angeles or Eddy Huang with Bauhaus in New York.

More often than not, the pursuit of reimagination and/or cultural fusion will please neither trendy foodies nor purists.

Packed’s colorful website, sleek wooden decor, and avid so-

cial media managers dialed into the millennial aesthetic: fast, trendy, and environmentally friendly. Both Packed’s opening and premature closing gathered a considerable amount of attention, which is a testament to its customers’ faith in its mission. Packed wasn’t inherently doomed, just badly executed.

Karyn Peyton

Packed’s offerings proved to be too overpriced for student budgets. Now Packed is sacked.

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“This is Star Wars, and Star Wars is about fun...”

Continued from Page 9 Star Wars was and always will be a kid’s movie. The default mode of watching the movies should be eyes wide and mouth agape with an interspersed “wow.” Taking in the original trilogy, it’s hard to escape this mode. Viewing the prequels ...less so.

The Force Awakens does what a good Star Wars movie should and returns us to the shoes of our eight-year-old selves. Rey swinging around a Star Destroyer? Wowed me.

The dogfights? Wowed me. Everything about BB-8? Wowed me. Every scene is another step into the larger world of the galaxy far, far away. Admittedly, it can be hard to see through the cloud of nostalgia, and when one does, some flaws emerge. Key relationships could have used more development to anchor our emotional investment. The third act feels cobbled together. There wasn’t a Jar-Jar cameo.

But you know what? Formal critiques like these don’t matter because this is Star Wars, and Star Wars is about fun. And, thanks to J.J., this movie is fun in a way Star Wars hasn’t been

for a long time.

A- —Brendan McGuire ’16 I feel The Force Awakens addresses the Russia-Turkey confrontation in a lighthearted and surprisingly refreshing light.

I was worried it might be a bit too preachy; however, the fi lm elegantly summarized the complex geopolitical situation without blanketing over some rather important details. J.J. Abrams is a master storycrafter, and, while not a work of fiction, he manages to create an experience unlike any documentary or fi lm I have seen in recent memory. I will be the fi rst to admit that some of the obvious symbolism of the Force and how it relates to the growing need to combat ISIS was lost on me until a friend brought it up. After a second viewing, it became apparent I was the fool.

It was worth the second viewing. I await the sequel with bated breath.

B- —Angus Blaxall ’15 I really liked The Force Awakens, but it didn’t feel quite like a Star Wars movie to me.

It certainly had enough lightsabers, blasters, a planet-destroy-

ing sphere, references to the Force, etc. Yet all these elements did not quite mesh together into the Star Wars I’ve always known and loved.

The futuristic style used to explain the 30-year gap since Return of the Jedi felt wrong.

The Stormtrooper rifles and the TIE fighter wings had too much chrome coloring, and the ballshaped BB-8 looked out of place (despite being adorable); I disliked the silly floppy-ear panels on the sides of the Imperial officer caps. All of this felt less like Star Wars, which is known for its gritty, unpolished look, and more like the more recent Star Trek films (also J.J. Abrams).

What made this even weirder was the contrast with the utter lack of technology in some scenes, such as the basement to Maz’s cantina, where Rey fi nds Luke’s lightsaber in a room full of Victorian-looking chests.

The choice of planets was also peculiar. While paying homage to the original trilogy, The Force Awakens was also partly filmed in the British Isles, which I associate more with fantasy than scifi. The Resistance planet where Finn reunites with Poe—obvi-

ously a nod toward Yavin 4—was off, as was the fi nal planet shot in a stone village off the Irish coast.

Smaller matters felt strange, too. The music was unmemorable for John Williams, and I didn’t like Kylo Ren’s lightsaber, nor the ending helicopter shot. The terms “Resistance” and “First Order” are too generic for Star Wars. However, the dialogue (especially Poe’s), and special effects were executed very well. Nonetheless, I recommend watching it if you haven’t ...but please don’t be that guy who hasn’t watched the original trilogy fi rst.

B- —Ben Williams ’18 My Star Wars story is a saga in reverse. Because I apparently lived under a rock for the fi rst 20 years of my life, The Force Awakens was the first Star Wars movie I watched from beginning to end. Needless to say, the film was a total revelation for this bandwagon-jumper. I hastened to watch the entire series the week afterward, starting chronologically with The Phantom Menace.

Having taken this unconventional route to Star Wars fandom, my knee-jerk reaction

to The Force Awakens is that George Lucas has a point about the fi lm’s nostalgic pandering, though in the crudest terms possible. (“White slavers”? Oof.) More integrally, Episode VII carries over two of the three protagonist archetypes of the original trilogy: hotshot Poe Dameron steps in for Han Solo while Rey ratchets up Leia’s feisty-female-protagonist trope. But for this viewer, the nostalgia never devolved into schtick; rather, the nods to the original felt organic, almost necessary.

Though having Rey as the film’s protagonist is refreshing—a female Jedi in the spotlight, at last!—my biggest hope is for more character nuance in fi lms to come. If Rey is prickly, why? And will J.J. Abrams maintain the balance between Rey’s femininity and grit without condescending to dismal, gold-bikini levels of objectification?

Rey deserves better than to be merely pigeonholed as the hot, kickass, female lead, as do the legions of young Star Wars fangirls who’ll grow up idolizing her. Take it from a girl who missed out.

A- —Hannah Edgar ’18

WHPK: Spinning With the Pride of the South Side

BY GRACE HAUCK ARTS EDITOR

Rock DJ Brian Sunberg climbs the stairs above Hutch, signs into WHPK, and pops open a 2 a.m.

Coke. He fingers through a stack of records and makes his selection, placing the vinyl on the turntable. He takes the mic, greets his listeners, and—like a pledge he knows by heart—repeats the government-issued advisory on bomb threat procedures.

“It’s nice to have a place I can go to and just relax for two solid hours. I don’t really think about outside stuff,” Sunberg, a second-year in the College, said.

Now in its 49th year, UChicago’s second-oldest RSO is undergoing some changes: DJs are working to increase public programming, archive the thousands of records in the office, and line up a pre-Summer Breeze sister show.

Just last month, WHPK invaded the Film Studies Center for its annual event “Pictures and Sounds,” a multimedia showcase featuring artists like Japanese electronic composer Ryoko Akama and Brooklyn-based rock musician Dan Friel. Basking in the wild success of the event, WHPK has now shifted gears to preparing for its May 13 show, which, after two years of preemptive rain cancellations, is finally back.

“This year we’re doing something different, especially with the weather we’ve been having,” rock format DJ Connor Plunkett said.

“So we wanted to make an event at ECO, a DIY venue. We’re having four acts with the headliner Pile, from Massachusetts, who actually has a pretty big following across the country. We sold out the last

show that we did like this in the fall.”

The Funs, Highness, and Crown Larks will play alongside Pile next weekend, interspersed by short sets by WHPK DJs. Liaisons from the Feminist Action Support Network will also be present.

Plunkett, a second-year, has been working at WHPK since last year, when he started with Radio Dada, a live, three-hour experimental show. He currently runs a show every other Friday, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., but his recent endeavors have begun to expand beyond DJing, becoming WHPK’s self-appointed archivist.

“I’ve started to organize all the records in our library. My estimate is that we have somewhere around 30,000 records—and that’s just vinyl. We also have a collection of 7-inches and CDs, probably around 20,000 CDs,” Plunkett said.

These thousands of tracks run the gamut: WHPK hosts shows across the major genres of international, jazz, rap, folk, classical, and rock, as well as a few talk shows and specialty sets. Technically a community radio station run through the University, WHPK maintains a staff of students and locals alike. Naturally, first-years get stuck with the 4 a.m. slot, but Plunkett’s slowly working his way up.

“Since we buy our own records and choose to curate our own collection, we’ve always been a freeform station: each DJ gets to pick what records he or she wants to play, and they’re not dictated by some sort of format of hit records,” Plunkett said. “There’s a huge variety—everything from ABBA or Beach Boys to Amon Düül, 1970s-weird Krautrock stuff or

Grace Hauck

Countless records line the walls of WHPK’s station in the Reynolds Club’s Bell Tower.

one-off punk compilations from the ’80s.”

Free-form always runs the risk of low listenership. For this nonprofit, however, that’s not a monetary concern; the RSO operates with sponsors and University funding, allowing it to cut out ads. While some DJs persevere through the early unpaid hours for the key to a hidden haven, others view their work as a public service. “ There’s obviously a slide across the whole country away from radio, but what I feel lacks

is the forced variety. Oftentimes, Spotify playlists just skim the surface of the music that’s out there, picking up the latest hits or ‘underground’ hits… But they’re not actually delving deep into an eclectic mix,” Plunkett said.

At most, Plunkett’s only ever had 16 listeners live-stream his set online. How many are really listening on the radio? He can’t be sure—although Sunberg and I got a call at 3:30 a.m. from a certain “Daddy Mac” asking for a legal consultation. But as WHPK begins to take inventory of its

stock and push for a combination of promotion and programming, listenership is looking up.

“Our unwritten rule is to play music that other sources wouldn’t be playing,” Plunkett said. “We want listeners to be open-minded—who just want to hear new music. So it’s up to us to play music of a high quality.”

Tune in to 88.5 FM or stream live 24/7 at whpk.org. Stay tuned for more info on the upcoming show at ECO on May 13. Show starts at 8 p.m. $10 donation suggested.

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The Prettiest Star: David Bowie Remembered, 1947–2016

BY ARIELLA CARMELL MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

It’s as though we hallucinated him. When I think of David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust days, it seems unfathomable that this pallid creature could have ever really slunk on stage in kimonos or space suits. But there he was, keening about being an alien, swaying against the microphone, going down on Mick Ronson’s guitar.

My dad ra ised me on a steady d iet of classic rock.

W hile I loved the pulsating anger of The W ho, the jauntiness of early Beatles, and the melancholy of Bob Dylan, the mythos of Bowie intrigued me most of all. I could spend hours gazing at his heterochromatic eyes, listening to his tremulous vibrato. He made me excited at the prospect of being an artist of any kind; he manifested the pure, unbridled euphoria of constant experimentation. When I listened to The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust on repeat, I wanted to create.

But Bowie wasn’t just Ziggy—his personas shifted from the pageantry of outlandish costumes to sharp suits and slicked-back hair. Some said that Ziggy was only a ploy for attention, a childish need to be transgressive, but I see Bowie’s gradual transformation as an embodiment of gender fluidity.

When I was in my early teens,

unsure of how I felt about my prescribed femininity, I looked to Bowie’s example (along with Judith Butler’s and The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as a way to live without inhibitions.

Gender expression should not be so narrowly conf ined to masculine and feminine, and he taught me to embrace gender as performance. Do not simply ignore the chagrin of the traditionalists, he seemed to say. Revel in it.

There was also Bowie the actor, though one could say he was always an actor. In Nicolas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell to Earth, he actually became the alien figure the media often described him as. He was pure luminescence on screen, though with an energy more subdued than on stage. His appearance in the film reminded me that Bowie was, first and foremost, a performer. He was interested in crafting characters: although their voices most often came to him through music, he also embodied an extraterrestrial, a vampire, a goblin king, and Nikola Tesla on screen. Who else had the mystical quality to portray all these souls and more?

W hen I saw the news of Bowie’s death, I couldn’t sift through my thoughts. If I had been 14 or 15 when this happened, I would have sobbed into my pillow and erected an elaborate, personal funeral for the man I swore I would someday

Jim King

David Bowie in one of the last photos taken before his death on January 10.

meet. But I’m older now and don’t worship celebrities like I used to. It had been a while since I’d listened to my favorite song of his, “Life on Mars,” so I pulled up the music video, and there he was—gleaming as the camera roamed over his rouged, pouting lips. He looked like a ghostly apparition even when he was alive. I remem-

bered what I loved about him: his ethereality, the sense that if you tried to grab him you would find he was impalpable.

A specter.

I walked around the whole day in a daze, listening to “Changes” over and over again, wondering why I had never acknowledged what a good song it is. I thought about the album,

Blackstar, that he released two days before his death. Had he waited to go until after he had brought one last artwork into the world?

I like to think he did. I like to think that his last act was an artistic f lourish, a final brandish of the hand in the grand performance art of his life.

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, mother f uckers. P re sumably 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 st oppi ng at ever y blo ck t o 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 . A n o t h e r D J pl ay e d Kanye West’s “Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1,” which was f u n . W he r e el s e c a n y ou

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 supp or t . Yes , it wa s c old .

God help me, I know it was cold. But Joey deserves more than limp hand-waving, a few “Beast Coooasts,” and polite applause. M A B brought in a rapper who has a song with Kendrick Lamar, makes socia l ly- 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 spe-

cial 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.

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SPORTS: YEAR IN REVIEW Maroon Awards 2015–2016 Female Athlete of the Year: Male Athlete of the Year: Michelle Dobbs, Track and Field Third-year Michelle Dobbs is wrapping up a historic year, highlighted by a fi rst-place fi nish at the NCAA Indoor Championships in March that made her a national champion in the 800-meter run.

Before the race, Dobbs had already earned six All-American honors, but the best race of her life not only broke her own school record, it finally earned her the national crown. Dobbs stood at the top of the podium as the ninth national title–holder in the history of Maroon track-and-field. From

Vinnie Beltrano, Football

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there, she went on to compete in the outdoor season, where she has continued to dominate.

She will compete in the

Outdoor NCAA Championships this weekend in the 800-meter and as part of the 4x400-meter relay.

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This one was an easy choice, as fourth-year cornerback Vinnie Beltrano finished up his collegiate career at the top of the

record books in three separate categories: interceptions, passes defended, and punt returns. Serving as a captain in his final

campaign, Beltrano led the Maroons to a 6–4 overall record, as well as the program’s first top-25 rank.

His performance in his last year earned him fi rst team All-American honors

by D3football.com, in addition to 2015 Allstate AFCA Good Works Team status, awarding him a trip to the Sugar Bowl. Beltrano is also only the fifth Chicago football player to be named Academic All-American, and the first since 1993.

Beltrano’s dedication on and off the field has made him one of the best student-athletes Chicago has seen, making him our Athlete of the Year.

Male Rookie of the Year:

Female Rookie of the Year:

Josh Parks, Baseball

Anna Girlich, Swim and Dive

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The first-year did not disappoint in his rookie campaign, becoming one

of only two players from the baseball team to earn All-UA A honors as Sec-

ond Team All-UA A. The rookie out of Holt, M I started in 36 games and led the South Siders with a .351 batting average, 46 hits, and 12 stolen bases. With the support of a talented g roup of other first-years, it will certainly be interesting to see where Parks can lead the program in the future. If Parks is able to show steady progression over his college career, there is no doubt that he will be a force to reckoned with well after next year and beyond.

To be named UA A Diver of the Year is an incredible honor for anyone, let alone for a fi rstyear. Anna Girlich certainly made waves in her collegiate debut, kicking things of f w ith f i rstplace performances in both the one-meter and the three-meter in a dual-meet against Wash U in early November. Her strong start earned her the honor of UA A Women’s Diver of the Week.

She fi nished an incredible rookie campaign at the top of the podium at the UAA

Championships, and subsequently placed 13th at NCA A Regionals. It will

be exciting to see what else is in store for Girlich over the next three years.

Coach of the Year:

Team of the Year:

Mike Babst, Soccer

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Coach Babst returned to Chicago after a stellar 2015, and the third-year men’s soccer coach ma naged t o exc e e d ex p e c t at ion s yet again. Babst steered his team to a 12–5 –3 record along with a second consecutive postseason berth and second round appea ra nce. H is t eam played with composure and poise on both sides of the ball, outshooting and outscor ing its opponents hand i ly wh i le receiv ing large contr ibutions f rom both up perclassmen and f irstyears alike. With Babst coming back for a fourth year in 2016, the soccer

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team’s future looks to be as bright as ever. If he is able to properly make use of the group of thirdyears coming back next yea r, as wel l as a re -

cruiting class that could be classified as his best ever, Babst may be the frontrunner to win this award again next year.

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A lt hou g h a r e c ent loss to Middlebury College brought its season to a disappointing conclusion, it is impossible to overlook the success

that the men’s t en n is squad experienced this year. At No. 8, the Maroons reached the Final Four of the NCA A DIII Tournament for the sec-

ond straight year after defeating the defending national champions, Clar emont - Mudd- S c r ipps , i n t he q u a r t er f i n a l s .

T h i s wa s t he s e c ond straight year that the South Siders qualif ied for the NCA A DIII Tournament , but on ly the fourth in the program’s history. T his string of recent successes demonstrates the talent of this pa r ticu la r g roup; a nd with standouts Nicholas Chua, David Liu, Sven Kranz, Charlie Pei, Luke Tsai, and Max Hawkins all returning next year, 2016 –17 looks promising, to say the least.

The Class of 2016

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Dear Darren Congratulations! We are so blessed to have you as our son. Words cannot describe how proud we are of all your accomplishments. Wishing you continuous success as you begin the next chapter of your life. Good luck and best wishes in all your future endeavors.

Keep up the hard work, pursue your dream, and listen to your heart.

Love Always Mom and Dad

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Monica Lanning uChicago Class of 2016 So proud of you!

Love, Mom, Dad & Sarah

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Congratulations!

Teddy Kim Class of 2016 We are so proud of you!

“Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and your plans will succeed.”

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Congratulations Sara!

It’s time for all of us to celebrate!

We are so proud of you for the wonderful and brilliant person you are and for everything you’ve achieved so far!

Many more goals and challenges will be ahead‌ We are confident you will know how to make the best of them and we will be there to support you every step of the way.

We love you!

Dad, Mom, Sis, Sophia and Jonathan

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! n o i t a u d a r C o ng

Evan Grace

nous sommes très fiers

de ta brillante réussite Lots of love, your family

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Congratulations to you, Alyna Y. Katti, on your graduation from UChicago!

Good luck on the next steps of your journey, including with your graduate school plans starting this summer!

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Dad - and from all the rest of us, of course!

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Congratulations,

GRADUATES!