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PLEDGE ‘PHI NUKED’ ON INDUCTION NIGHT Brother Paints Different Picture of March 7, 2015 than Pledge Suit; Denies Assault, Provides Documents Phi Delt Served ‘Copious’ Amounts of Everclear; Held Pledges in Basement Room Before Surprise Party

BY PETE GRIEVE NEWS EDITOR

A University of Chicago student named in a hazing lawsuit against Phi Delta Theta (Phi Delt) says that pledges were given alcohol to the point of vomiting and then held in a basement room as part of an initiation ceremony in 2015—but that the plaintiff in the lawsuit suffered injuries from a fall and not because he was assaulted by fraternity members.

The events of that night led to a University disciplinary investiCourtesy of Dakota Ford gation, a three year suspension of Brothers pass around green ‘Phi Nukes’ on induction night. Pledges drank the University’s Phi Delt chapter, from the Everclear-concentrated “Φ”; brothers drank from the dilute “Θ.” and an ongoing $250,000 lawsuit

UChicago Dining and Humanities Division Close Classics Café

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Classics Café has been permanently closed following a joint decision made by UChicago Dining and the Humanities Division.

In 2015, the University created and released a Request for Proposal (RFP) which included a thorough review of all campus dining options. The review showed that the Classics Café did not average as many transactions as other cafés on campus, according to Marielle Sainvilus of the UChicago News Office.

The Classics Café averaged only 80 transactions per day, while other cafés averaged about 150 to 250 transactions, according to the RFP. T here are no immediate plans to bring retail operations back to the unoccupied space.

“UChicago Dining is working with colleagues in Classics to envision how this space may be best used to meet the needs of the campus community in the future,” Sainvilus said in a statement to T HE M A ROON. The café staff was given the opportunity to work at other

against the fraternity and some of its members.

Documents and interviews recently given to THE MAROON allow new insights into what happened that night. Some elements of the case are still disputed. Dylan Kanaan, the injured student, alleges in his lawsuit that he was singled out and beaten by fraternity members. Members of the fraternity, in interviews with THE MAROON and statements to University investigators, say Kanaan slipped and fell on a patch of ice.

Accounts generally agree, however, that an enormous quantity of alcohol was consumed that night. And though members of the

ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

T HE M AROON sat down with newly elected President Eric Holmberg yesterday to discuss his plans for Student Government (SG).

Holmberg, a third-year geography major from Nebraska, began his SG career by running as a Class of 2018 representative in the spring election of his first year.

He was selected by fellow College Council (CC) representatives to chair the council last year. Alongside current second-year Salma

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A coalition of South Side community groups and students convened in Reynolds Club this Monday to promote a community benefits agreement (CBA) they hope to push the City of Chicago and the Obama Foundation to sign.

With the CBA, community leaders are hoping to foster closer community ties with the Obama

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Elkhaoudi and graduate student Cody Jones, Holmberg led the United Progress Slate to victory last May. CM: Thank you for coming.

Let’s just jump into it. What inspired you to become involved with SG? EH: Well, I wasn’t involved in SG my first year actually. It wasn’t until spring of first year that I decided to run for CC. Much of my first year I was involved with [the University Community Service Center], Seeds of Justice Cohort Continued on page 8

Students Promote Community Benefits Agreement

BY JAEHOON AHN

BY PETE GRIEVE

Presidential Center set to be built in Jackson Park. The agreement would legally bind the presidential center to provide surrounding communities with specific benefits.

While the presidential center has been touted by the University, City, and Obama Foundation as a major cultural and economic boon for the South Side, Monday’s forum revealed that questions remain among community members

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Financial Aid Still Delayed More than a week into fall quarter, some students are still waiting to receive their financial aid packages.

“It’s kind of a disaster,” thirdyear Bella Levy said.

Despite submitting her materials on time, Levy said that she did not receive her package until a week before her first payment was due on September 23. Due to late changes to her application materials that weren’t considered by College Aid, Levy said that the award that she received was insufficient.

The short notice to get it fixed made that week very stressful, she said.

“I received my package when I was about to fly back to Chicago and I was a little worried that I would not be able to pay for this upcoming quarter, and it was a week and a half away, so there wasn’t much I could do at that point. I already had my living situation sorted out, I already had my plane ticket bought, I was already enrolled in classes, but I didn’t know if I was going to be able to afford all that, which is really scary. I had friends who were worried about paying rent because they hadn’t gotten their packages yet.”

Third-year Averi Ayala said that she was told by College Aid over the summer that she was supposed to receive her package by September 23. On September 28, she still had not received her package and decided to post on Overheard at UChicago.

“I feel like the needs of low income students weren’t really being taken into consideration,” she told THE MAROON. On September 29, she went to College Aid’s office. They expedited her package and she received her award on Saturday.

Ayala said that she wishes College Aid had been more transparent with her about the delays. According to Ayala, she received only one email and it was so unhelpful that she deleted it. She said that she would have understood if the issues were due to the new electronic system, launched on August 1, and if College Aid had conveyed that there was nothing that could have been done to speed up the process.

Uncommon Interview: SG President Eric Holmberg

BY EMILY FEIGENBAUM

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A Winter’s Tale of Warmth, Intimacy, and Music

Maroons Win Southern Shootout

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The intimacy of the setting promised what any good Shakespeare production should.

In a thrilling win, the football team imroved to 2-2 this weekend, to Birmingham-Southern.

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Overblown attacks from the Democratic Party over the years have allowed for Trump’s rise.

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Author Discusses Book Analyzing Republican Presidential Candidate

BY STEPHANIE PALAZZOLO MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

A small audience gathered in the back of 57th Street Books on Monday to discuss Trump Unveiled, a book that analyzes Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, his beliefs, and the reasons behind his quick rise to popularity during the campaign season.

Trump Unveiled author John Wilson, co-editor of AcademeBlog.org and the author of six other books that focus on demystifying and inspecting political figures and eras, was joined by historian and journalist Rick Perlstein, the author of T he New York Times bestseller Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America and Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the

American Consensus.

Wilson began the hour-long talk by comparing Trump’s personal views to those of his party.

“Of course, Trump is not ideologically conservative,” Wilson said. “He follows the ideology of Trump. Back in 1999, he was pro-choice, he wanted a 14 percent wealth tax, the biggest tax on the rich in history—and now he’s turned around and he’s become a conservative.”

According to Wilson, in many ways, Trump serves as a “litmus test” for the Republican Party, showing how far its platform has shifted over the past few decades. “ Trump is a mixture of self-promotion and opportunism from an ideological perspective, but he also reveals a lot about where the Republican Party is,” Wilson said. “ Trump is the ulti-

mate; Trump blows in the wind. So the fact that he’s taking these positions shows where the party has gone and how Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh have pushed it in these directions.”

According to Wilson, the disparity between Trump’s beliefs and conservative policies is often a source of humiliation for the party.

“So [MSNBC talk show host Chris Matthews] asks [Trump], ‘What about abortion, do you punish the woman?’ and Trump goes, ‘of course,’” Wilson said. “[ T rump is] telling him what he thinks conservatives believe. He doesn’t understand that the anti-abortion movement has said, ‘To make our position popular, you have to go after the doctors and you have to make abortion illegal, but you can’t go after the women and throw them in jail because

it’s just too unpopular.’ He’s so focused on being Donald Trump that he doesn’t study any of these issues or communicate with the people who understand what he’s supposed to think.”

Delving into Donald Trump’s complex character and popularity despite his ideological discrepancies captivated Wilson while writing Trump Unveiled.

He says it will continue to fascinate him for the remainder of the election.

“He’s like a great comic book villain to me that embodies so many terrible things that I wanted to get into his head and understand him,” Wilson said. “For me, he’s also interesting as a continuation as a type of radical extremism in the Republican Party and the conservative movement, the fulfillment of all the things I’ve watched in conservatism during the past quarter century.”

Serbian Ambassador Satisfied With Relationship to U.S.

BY ADAM THORP NEWS EDITOR

Serbia’s ambassador to the United States presented a positive picture of the country’s relationship with the United States and its future in Europe in a talk on campus Tuesday.

Djerdj Matkovic visited the Institute of Politics (IOP) as part of its “Diplomatic Encounters” series, which the IOP hosts with the help of the International Institute and various area studies programs at the University. Nada Petković-Djordjević, a lecturer in South Slavic Languages at the University, moderated the discussion.

According to Matkovic, the relationship between Serbia and the United States has improved substantially since the 1990s. The ambassador emphasized the economic aspect of the relationship.

Matkovic hopes more American companies will move production facilities to Serbia in order to take advantage of its free trade agreements with much of the old Soviet bloc.

“In one sentence: I am very satisfied with the relationship. It makes my job easier,” Matkovic said.

Though crises across Europe have

sparked skepticism about European integration elsewhere on the continent, Serbia’s government has remained committed to its goal of joining the European Union (EU), Matkovic said. However, Matkovic said that the addition of barriers imposed on Serbia’s accession dampened enthusiasm to join the EU and that the process was sometimes “a little frustrating.”

“We would be a very constructive and cooperative member of the EU. We meet all the EU standards in Serbia, and we would be a member which would contribute to the richness of the European Union,” Matkovic said. Matkovic expressed appreciation for American support of Serbian entrance into the EU. Matkovic touched on the issue of Kosovo, a region with an ethnically Albanian majority that proclaimed its independence from Serbia in 2008. Kosovo has been a topic of contention between the United States and Serbia. Serbia does not recognize the country’s independence; the United States has championed it.

Matkovic said the Serbian government was not interested in negotiating Kosovo’s fi nal status, but was willing to take steps to improve the conditions of

Another Free Speech Debate

Alexandra Davis Serbia’s Ambassador to the United States Djerdj Matkovic speaking with Nada Petković-Djordjević.

ordinary Kosovars.

In a Q&A session, following the discussion, an audience member asked Matkovic about Serbia’s relationship with Russia. Matkovic said that Serbia had alienated Russia, a traditional ally, by speaking in support of the territorial integrity of Ukraine, but was unable to join the Western sanctions regime against Russia, one of largest trading partners.

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Ahona Mukherjee Members of the University of Chicago Political Union considered the issues raised by Dean John “Jay” Ellison’s letter about freedom of expression at the University.

Matkovic hopes Russia and the United States will be able to resolve the tensions between them.

“Yes, Putin has a huge ego—he wants to be a world leader, he wants Russia to become again a superpower,” Matkovic said. “Instead of going against them and trying to create more negative effects on the Russian side, I think the U. S. should engage more in dialogue and in trying to fi nd solutions.”

locations on campus as employees of Bon Appétit. According to a poster on Overheard at UChicago, staff members have been seen working at various café locations on campus.

In 2009, Classics Café closed its back room seating, which now functions as a classroom—Classics 21. At the time, a petition was circulated by David Wellbery, a professor of Germanic studies, who “[urged] reversal of a decision that would eviscerate a singular milieu of humanistic conversation at the University of Chicago.” The change cut then-available seating by nearly half.

Classics Café was remembered for being the single source of Peet’s Coffee on campus, as well as for serving an array of soups with pretzel rolls. Busts and gargoyles lined the shelf above the register.

Fourth-year Hazal Goksu has been going to Classics Café since fall of her first year. “Classics Café had this charm I’ve never found anywhere else.

I don’t think any other café on campus can take its place for me.”

G oksu wasn’t the on ly reg ula r.

“Classics Ca fé created a cozy and friendly space for all of its patrons,” said fourth-year Classical studies major Matthew Cartier, who met with UChicago Dining on Monday to discuss the café’s closing.

“In the end, the allure of the café had more to do with the community and atmosphere created within than the food,” Cartier said. “ I hope that the University can reopen the space in a way that recaptures that community and atmosphere.”

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NEWS IN BRIEF Brick Painted With “Juden” Found at Hillel Not Anti-Semitic Students responded with outrage on social media to perceived anti-Semitism on Monday when a UChicago Hillel employee posted a picture of a brick painted with the German word for “Jews” being used as a doorstop outside of the center’s building.

According to a Hillel representative, the brick was placed outside the building by a non-Hillel employee who was unaware of its significance.

The brick was apparently left in storage following a Hillel event commemorating Kristallnacht, a 1938 attack on Jewish communities, synagogues, and businesses in Nazi Germany.

The image of the brick with the

word “Juden” was accompanied on Facebook by a caption reading “Nothing says ‘Welcome back to school’ quite like this…”

The color used to paint the word onto the brick is the same shade of yellow as the Star of David badges Jewish citizens were ordered to attach to their clothing under Nazi rule.

The photo was shared widely on social media as a perceived intentional anti-Semitic insult. The image was removed after the original poster began an investigation which led to the conclusion that the brick’s placement had been accidental.

–Alex Ward

The image of the brick with the word “Juden” was accompanied on Facebook by a caption reading “Nothing says ‘Welcome back to school’ quite like this…”

Class of 2020 Students Declare College Council Candidacy Several first-years have declared their candidacies for College Council (CC) on Facebook and with chalk campaigns on the quad.

In order to be eligible to run, first years must accumulate at least 30 signatures from peers in

their year by 5 p.m. this Thursday and submit their petition to the Center for Leadership and Involvement. Petitions for the election are now available on the Student Government website.

During election week, October 10–October 14, candidates will

run a table in Reynolds Club for an hour and have their candidate statements posted on the Student Government website.

Polls will open on Blueprint at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, October 12 and close at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, October 14. Winners will be an-

nounced at 5 p.m. in the Bartlett Trophy Lounge.

Students in the Class of 2020 will run for four seats on CC. CC representatives for other classes in the college were elected in the general election last spring.

–Anjali Dhillon

Vacancy in Class of 2017 College Council Seat

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

There will be an unexpected vacancy on College Council (CC) for the Class of 2017.

Katherine Shen, who was elected in the spring to be a representative for the Class of 2017, failed to nominate a “Declared Proxy” for her fall quarter abroad by eighth week of spring quarter, the deadline in Article II Section 6 of the College Council bylaws.

When a CC seat becomes vacant, the position goes to the next-highest vote getter. Only four candidates ran for the four 2017 CC seats; therefore there will be a special election to fi ll Shen’s seat. Shen can run for her CC seat from abroad, but she must announce on the ballot that she is abroad per Article II Section 6.

The CC bylaws state that once the CC chair announces a vacancy, likely in this case

through a class-wide email, a special election will be held within five days of the announcement.

“To my [knowledge], there is not precedent for a situation like this,” said Student Government Parliamentarian Max Freedman.

In the spring, Shen was also elected as the interim chair of CC, which fourth-year representative Peggy Xu has been occupying since Shen decided to study abroad. Once the full

CC is able to convene with newly elected Class of 2020 representatives after their election October 14, CC will elect a permanent chair. This leaves another vacancy to be fi lled by the next-highest vote recipient of the class of the elected chair.

If the chair is a member of the Class of 2017, there will be a second special election.

Katherine Shen d id not immediately respond to request for comment.

Yale Professor Reinterprets Declaration of Independence

BY MELANIE WANG MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

A prominent scholar of early modern British history proposed a new interpretation of the Declaration of Independence and its implication for the U.S. government at a talk on campus Monday.

Steve Pincus, a history professor at Yale, spoke on Monday at the Seminary Co-Op Bookstores about his latest book, The Heart of the Declaration: The Founders’ Case for an Activist. The discussion was moderated by Eric Slauter, an associate professor in the English department.

Pincus began by explaining how, as a specialist in 17th and

18th century British history, he came to write a book about 18th century America and politics today. In response to this question, Pincus said that “18th century problems are in fact the modern problems.”

In regards to early British history, Pincus said that “the big issue was sovereign debt, and the big debate was whether to promote economic growth or austerity. This struck me as a modern problem.”

Pincus’s book focuses on the lesser-known parts of the Declaration of Independence, and what they actually mean. He notes that people often cite the Declaration as a justification for limited government, which is the opposite of his interpretation. He concludes

that the document intends for “a government with extensive powers to promote and protect the people’s welfare.”

After the discussion, Pincus offered advice for other historians as well as insight into the creation of his book. He noted that historians tend to focus too much on finding new information, and be too antiquarian. “I felt the obligation to bring the fruits of my research to a broader public,” Pincus said, stating that he speaks on behalf of the 18th century in his book.

“I based this book on archival research, which is significantly different than other books about the Declaration. I want to try to stimulate new kinds of research, and raise new questions. I wrote this

book to try to open up new interpretive terrains. I wanted the book to be accessible for people that didn’t know the first thing about this particular issue, but also be interesting for those who did,” Pincus said.

After the discussion, Pincus opened up to questions about his book and specific events or ideas from the 17th and 18th centuries. Multiple audience members approached him with detailed questions concerning the issues of slavery and activist governments.

He spoke passionately about these topics, and went into some detail about his Washington Post article about Brexit.

His book is currently available for purchase in the Seminary CoOp Bookstores.

University Moves Up in Reuters’s Innovative Universities List The University moved up from more than twenty spots in Reuters’s list of the most innovative universities in the world.

The University climbed from 71st to 47th in the second annual edition of the rankings released on Wednesday.

According to the Reuters’s website, “The list ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and help drive the global economy.”

The commercial impact score, which measures the influence of the University’s research on commercial research and development activity, jumped 11.4 points to 56.7.

While total patents filed dropped from 160 in 2015 to 149 in 2016, the rate for patents granted increased by 2.9 percent from 30 percent to 32.9 percent.

Reuters only takes empirical data such as patent filings and research paper citations into consideration, while other rankings place an emphasis on subjective surveys.

“According to our findings, consistency is key, with truly innovative institutions putting out groundbreaking work year after year,” the Reuters website reads.

–Jaehoon Ahn

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“College Aid continues to work through financial aid materials that were submitted over the summer. Awards will continue to be released throughout the first weeks of class,” Marielle Sainvilus, director of public affairs, said in a general statement to THE MAROON on September 16. Sainvilus did not address requests for comment on how many students were still waiting for their packages, the timeline for when all students will have received their packages, and what caused the delay.

T HE M AROON contacted College Aid directly about the delays several times. College Aid said “no comment” and directed THE M AROON back to the News Office. THE MAROON contacted Sainvilus again on September 29. She responded, “The office is working on getting the packages out as quickly as possible, below is what I received: *The Office of College Aid is working diligently to process financial aid award packages. They are reviewing applications daily and releasing awards on a rolling basis*.”

That statement closely mirrors a notice on College Aid’s website.

Sainvilus did not respond to whether students who haven’t received their packages will be expected to pay full tuition and then later have the aid deducted or whether any students who submitted their materials before the informal deadline (June 10) haven’t received their packages.

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fraternity disagree with Kanaan’s version of events, in e-mails they exchanged the night of the event some brothers expressed regret for their approach to the induction ceremony; one called them “blatantly irresponsible.”

On September 21, fourth-year Phi Delt brother Dakota Ford, who did not respond to THE MAROON’s request for comment at the time the suit was filed, said in an e-mail to THE MAROON that he initially did not want to talk publicly about the case because he had been advised not to, but was “now very eager for the UChicago community and general public to know Phi Delt’s side of the story.”

Ford provided statements made by pledges to University investigators and emails sent to the fraternity listhost the night of the induction ceremony.

Ford said that brothers gave pledges, including Kanaan, large quantities of alcohol. Ford said that the pledges were brought down to a basement room in the house as guests arrived upstairs for a surprise party to celebrate the induction of the new pledges to the fraternity earlier that evening.

Brothers had to restrain Kanaan when he desperately tried to leave the house, according to Ford and some of the pledge statements.

Ford and some of the pledges rejected Kanaan’s allegations in the suit that he was singled out and assaulted. Ford said that Kanaan sustained his injuries—a concussion, a fractured cheekbone, and a large cut under his eye—from a face-first fall on ice outside the chapter house.

“This kid definitely has a case,” Ford said. “He deserves something, it’s obvious.

He has a personal injury case.”

Kanaan’s attorney Jonathon Fazzola said that evidence proving Kanaan’s allegations will be presented at trial. “Fraternity men facing liability for hazing and other conduct regularly change their stories to fit a narrative that they hope will cover up or minimize their misconduct,” he added.

The University opened a large-scale disciplinary investigation into the actions of eight fraternity brothers on the evening of March 7, 2015.

Five brothers, all of whom Ford said had leadership roles in the chapter, were sanctioned with two quarter suspensions.

The University’s 2014–2015 report on disciplinary actions states that three of the students were found not responsible for hazing.

In January 2016, the national branch of Phi Delt announced that the chapter would be suspended for three years due to risk management policy violations. According to Ford, the national organization’s investigation into the induction night incident prompt-

ed the suspension.

Kanaan filed his lawsuit on July 16, 2016 alleging that he was physically assaulted by brothers. The suit is seeking more than $250,000 from thirteen fraternity members, the chapter, and the national fraternity.

Ford agreed to a recorded interview and provided four redacted statements by pledges to the University during its disciplinary investigation; photos of brothers and pledges taking shots after the induction ceremony; and listhost emails sent between brothers before, during, and after that night. The documents corroborate parts of his account of the night.

chanting and ceremonial candles, dates back to the founding of the fraternity in 1848 at Miami University.

“Phi nukes” are shots of Everclear mixed with a green non-alcoholic chaser. Ford said that he’s seen old photo albums of pledges taking the green shots on pinning night as early as the 1960s. A boat race is a drinking race in which two teams go down a line chugging full beers as fast as possible.

Brothers were told to keep quiet about pinning night and the after party.

“DO NOT TELL THE BIDDED KIDS ANYTHING ABOUT SATURDAY,” the brother wrote in his email. “Do not mention

Courtesy of Dakota Ford In his suit, Kanaan claims that he was forced to drink a full cup of the green liquid.

At around 7 p.m., 12 students who had rushed the fraternity during winter quarter arrived at the chapter house, not knowing much other than that they were supposed to be wearing formal attire.

Five days earlier, a brother sent an email to the fraternity listhost informing the chapter of some changes to induction night. “Pinning” is a Phi Delt ritual in which new members receive their “pledge pins.” Although Phi Delt is officially a nationally dry fraternity, pinning has long been followed by a night of drinking at the chapter.

“Pinning is Saturday and this time we’re going to try and incorporate a surprise factor with the party afterwards,” the brother wrote. “This means we’ll do the normal rituals / phi nukes / boat races then for a 30 min time period we’ll lock them up in the basement or attic while we have girls and the newly pinned pledges friends storm in the house preparing for the big surprise party we’ll be throwing them afterwards.”

The “normal ritual,” which features

Zoe Kaiser The national organization suspended the chapter for three years for risk management violations. The chapter house is currently being renovated.

pinning and especially don’t mention anything about the party afterwards.”

On that Saturday, pledges lined up in front of the house around 7 p.m. Two brothers led them from the house to the fifth floor of Regenstein Library, where they ranked their top three choices for their “pledge father” and exchanged phone numbers.

“The pledges were left in the room while the brothers left the room to determine our pledge fathers. One of the pledges, [redacted] made it a huge point that there would be no drinking that night. He said it 6 or 7 times. with [sic] a huge grin on his face.”

In his suit, Kanaan alleges that he was relieved to be told by a brother before pinning night that there would be no alcohol because he was concerned about his final exams.

Finals week began on March 16, nine days after pinning night.

“We left the Reg and went to the house where we were told to form a single line and walk in with our eyes closed and our hands on the person in front of us. They brought us into Chapter Hall, where there were 13 chairs, one for each of the pledges, lined up down the middle of the room,” the pledge statement read.

The pledges took turns standing on the chairs to receive their pledge names. They were given their pledge fathers and their pledge pins. All pledges were then read the Phikeia oath, part of the induction ritual, and told to recite it.

“We were told to close our eyes after that, and when we were told to open them, brothers rushed at us and frantically told us to stand up and sit down,” the pledge statement read. “I was grabbed by the shoulders to stand up and pushed to sit down.”

The pledges were taken to the dining room where Phi nukes were lined up on the table to form “ΦΔΘ.” Pledges drank from the Theta; brothers started to chip away at the more dilute drinks in the Phi, according to a pledge statement.

After they finished the Phi nukes, pledges lined up against brothers for boat races in Chapter Hall. According to a pledge statement, some brothers poured shots into the pledges’ beers.

After the second boat race, some pledges

and a few brothers vomited, but that didn’t stop brothers from running another boat race with the pledges who didn’t already have their heads in a trashcan, according to a pledge statement.

Kanaan alleges that he was forced to drink eight shots and six beers, including a full cup of the clear-green alcoholic liquid, in less than half an hour. In an interview, Ford initially said that Kanaan’s estimate seemed plausible, but later in the interview said that the pledges only drank three or four Phi nukes each. One pledge said in his statement that he thought they did “3 cycles” of Phi nukes before the boat races. In e-mails, brothers used the words “copious” and “absurd” to describe the quantity of alcohol that they told the pledges to drink.

After the drinking games, the pledges were taken down to Ford’s double-sized room in the basement of the house. Ford insisted that his room was chosen “solely based on its size.”

Asked if pledges were told why they were being held in a basement room, Ford said, “We kinda kept them in the dark on that. It was supposed to be a surprise party, which probably wasn’t the best idea, in retrospect, regarding risk management stuff.”

While the party was being prepared upstairs, the pledges sat on the floor in a circle in the basement room and took turns vomiting into a bucket, according to a pledge statement. Ford, Phi Delt President Nicholas Luthi, and a few other brothers were in or near the basement room, Ford said.

At this point in the night, Kanaan’s account in the suit starts to diverge from some of the pledge statements and the story that Ford told THE MAROON. “[Kanaan] was singled out by [the defendants] and was taken to Defendant Ford’s room in the basement of the Chapter House,” the suit alleges. “Isolated there, [they] continued to haze [Kanaan], whereby they and/or others physically assaulted him.”

Ford said, “No assault on any pledge took place that night and no one was singled out.”

A member of Kanaan’s pledge class who was only willing to speak to THE MAROON on the condition of anonymity said that he did not see Kanaan being singled out.

“At no point were any of us pledges subjected to physical violence as part of our initiation ceremony, and at no point was I aware of Dylan Kanaan being ‘singled out’ by the fraternity,” he wrote in an e-mail.

According to Ford and a few of the pledge statements, Kanaan knocked over a bookshelf in the basement room with all the pledges and asked to be let out of the room.

“He began crying, saying that he had to go home—really rough scene,” Ford said. “He says, ‘I have to go home. I have to get the fuck out of here. Let me out, let me out.’ And he starts running into things, knocks over my bookshelf, he’s running into people.”

A pledge described the situation similarly in his statement.

“One of my fellow pledges, [Kanaan] began to act slightly paranoid, knocking down a bookshelf and asking the brothers to let him out of the basement,” it read. “The brothers reassured him that they would let him out soon, but could not tell him about the party because it was to be a surprise. [Kanaan] just pushed a couple brothers out of his way and ran out of the basement.”

Another pledge wrote, “I had some memory of two brothers trying to restrain [Kanaan] who had gotten fairly violent in his drunken stupor and was ramming himself against a wall or a bookshelf.”

A third pledge said that he was coming down from an upstairs room in the house when he walked past Kanaan in the doorway of Ford’s room. As he entered, he said he saw Kanaan crying as he exited the room, but Kanaan’s face appeared unhurt at the time. The fourth pledge remembered KaContinued on page 5

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naan knocking over a bookcase and exiting the room at around 10 p.m.

According to Ford, Kanaan “desperately” tried to leave the basement room and brothers were unable to restrain him because of his size.

“Dylan was recruited to the University of Chicago for football. He’s a very big kid.

A very muscular guy. Stronger than most brothers or pledges in the house. And there’s not really much we can do to control this guy,” Ford said. “He leaves my room, runs along the hallway of the basement, runs up the side stairs of the house, opens the side entrance of the house, and gets outside. We did touch him. We did hold his arms and try to calm him down. Told him that everything was going to be fine, told him ‘we have a big party planned for you guys.’”

“Kanaan continued to yell out, ‘I need to go home, I need to get the fuck out of here,’” Ford said. “He was sobbing hysterically the whole time.”

Kanaan alleges in his suit that he was isolated in Ford’s room in the basement and physically assaulted. Ford said that he slipped on ice and fell on his face.

“The injuries sustained by Dylan Kanaan were a result of one fall in a walkway alongside the house,” Ford said. “He basically just broke free while two guys were trying to hold him, and took off on a full sprint along this walkway along the side our house. He slipped and fell face fi rst.

He didn’t use his arms [to brace his fall]—I saw this happen, I was one of the like four or five brothers who followed him outside.”

The pledges got an e-mail from a member of the fraternity the next day saying that Kanaan slipped on ice and hit his face on some stairs, according to one of the statements.

Ford said that when he approached Kanaan after the alleged fall, he saw that “there was blood pouring down his face.”

The brothers who were outside decided against taking Kanaan to the hospital and instead brought him to his resident heads, Marc and Kara LiVecche, at Graham House in Max Palevsky.

Marc LiVecche declined to speak to THE MAROON about a student’s case. Then asked what the two brothers told him about how Kanaan sustained his injuries, LiVecche did not respond.

At 10:57 p.m., Ford started an email thread on the fraternity’s listhost.

“I don’t think it’s arguable that [Kanaan] should be a dry pledge,” Ford said.

“When we told him to sit with everyone else [in my] room, he escaped and started running away. When he ran outside, [redacted] and I tried to restrain him. He broke free and ran, then slipped and fell, cutting open his face. He also banged his head against walls and knocked shit over the entire night.

I think for attic night, as his pledge brothers work through two kegs and two handles, [Kanaan’s] challenge should be to kill six liters of Sprite.”

“Dry pledges drink milk,” a brother joked.

Another brother said that spilled milk would smell bad, and backed up Ford that soda would be a better option for a dry pledge.

He added that Kanaan was already considering dropping before sustaining his injuries because of his “degrading pledge name.”

“On the subject of altering tradition, I don’t think phi nukes are a good idea for pinning night. Making 18 year olds take many shots of Everclear is a terrible idea. I think boat races and shots are fun, but what’s the point of pinning night if none of the pledges remember it? Hell, we can still make green shots and call them phi nukes, but they shouldn’t be as strong/or we could not make pledges drink absurd amounts of them,” a brother wrote.

“Dry pledge with redbull,” a brother

Annie Cantara Dakota Ford gave THE M AROON four pledge statements to the University and listhost emails before, during, and after the night.

joked.

At 12:10 a.m., the listhost conversation got serious: “Can’t wait to explain to [Kanaan] when he wakes up tomorrow why the fuck he was phi nuked with Everclear shots after already stating, ‘this is the drunkest I’ve ever been,’” the brother wrote. “I probably could be misinterpreting the story though because he threw up before, during, and after telling it. There are some pretty stupid things we do but this is blatantly irresponsible. Also, [redacted] looked like he was on bath salts tonight. Reality check, some of these kids did not drink in high school. They want to impress us and drink their fair share. This is BAD. So far we’ve gotten really fucking lucky but all we need is one kid to fall out the window on the third floor or hit his head on the side walk [sic] and we are boned. Goddamn, let’s [sic] use our fucking brains.”

At 1:43 p.m. the next day, a brother wrote, “The unfortunate events that took place last night were completely our fault.

[Kanaan] went to the hospital to take an X-ray and CAT scan, and found that he not only has large cuts on his face but also a concussion and fractured cheekbone. He’s said he’s going to drop. We gave him copious shots of Everclear, we failed to restrain him as he tried to run out into the night, we failed to salt the icy ground outside to prevent people from slipping. The blame collectively falls on us as a house. We completely failed this kid.

Pinning night is seriously flawed; we give these kids way too [sic] much alcohol and don’t have enough people managing risk.

It’s a stupid fucking old house tradition and needs to be changed.

“I suggest we all collectively pay for his hospital bills regardless of whether he drops or not (he most likely will). It’s the very least we can do.”

An hour later, a brother responded, “This discussion ends now. Absolutely no discussion of this on the list host. Any brother who posts will be J-Boarded [judicial board] and severely punished.”

Ford said that brothers took Kanaan to the hospital in an Uber the next day. One pledge said in his statement that Kanaan messaged him a picture at 4 a.m. the next morning of his bloodied face. The pledge said that he went to Kanaan’s dorm and took him

to the hospital, where he waited with Kanaan until he was seen by a doctor at 6 a.m.

Kanaan’s suit states that he was treated for seven hours.

Within two days, Kanaan had cut off all contact with the fraternity, Ford said.

Ford denied that Kanaan was assaulted in retaliation.

“There was no drug dealer revenge story to this,” he said. “That’s Yik Yak rumors.

None of that is true. I think like a lot of this was kind of like the UVA thing, like the Rolling Stone article. Just to throw an allegation out there.”

“A house full of brothers wouldn’t viciously assault someone who they had spent 10 weeks getting to know and befriending,” he said.

Ford said that the incident revealed issues in the chapter’s handling of the ritual.

“We clearly had some stupid traditions,” Ford said. “We clearly gave a bunch of eighteen and nineteen year old kids a bunch of alcohol in their first year of college that a lot of people aren’t ready for. Phi Delt was definitely at fault. Rightfully so, we had our charter taken away because Phi Delt is a nationally dry fraternity.”

Phi Delta Theta has been dry since 2000.

According to Ford, the national organization determined in investigating the incident that the chapter was hosting events with alcohol and drinking games in the house, which was enough for the charter to be suspended.

Asked whether a chapter could be suspended for alcohol violations alone, Chief Operating Officer of Phi Delta Theta Sean Wagner said, “Any violation of Phi Delta Theta risk management policies or actions that contradict Phi Delta Theta values, either by an individual or the chapter, can result in temporary or permanent disciplinary action.”

Ford said he’s visited five Phi Delt chapters and brothers at all of the chapters consume alcohol, while avoiding mention of it on social media.

The five students who were suspended by the University all requested a review of the decisions, but all five decisions were maintained by the disciplinary committee. Ford said that he was one of three students summoned to a disciplinary hearing who did not

receive a formal punishment.

Ford showed THE MAROON a letter from the University after his hearing that said the University found his actions irresponsible, but was only giving him a warning.

The University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) filed an incident report.

“Individual became involved in an altercation while attending a party / Received minor injuries / Treated and released at ER,” it reads. The report says the incident occurred at 9:30 p.m. at the Phi Delt house.

Because the UCPD is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act and because the Chicago Police Department was not involved, no reports or police records are publicly available, said UCPD Safety and Security Public Information Officer Robert Mason.

With the exception of the one student who spoke on the condition of anonymity, the pledges in Kanaan’s class did not respond to requests for comment.

Luthi, pledge educator Mihir Dubey, and social chair Sommy Irani did not respond to requests for comment. Five brothers who were identified in the photos provided by Ford to THE M AROON as being at the pinning ritual did not respond to requests for comment.

“The allegations in the complaint will be proven in trial. In our experience, fraternity men facing liability for hazing and other conduct regularly change their stories to fit a narrative that they hope will cover up or minimize their misconduct,” reads the full statement from Kanaan’s attorney. “The University investigated the incident and disciplined the fraternity and certain fraternity members. Photographic and other evidence will prove Dylan’s claims. We have no intent to try this case in the media, and we instead intend to hold these individuals accountable to the fullest extent of the law.”

The next court date is November 2.

Editor’s Note: Ford redacted the names in the documents he provided to The Maroon.

The Maroon added Kanaan’s name in brackets where it was clear from context or Ford’s own account of the night that Kanaan’s name was beneath the redaction. The Maroon left names redacted where it was unclear.

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Uncommon Interview: 1945 Maroon Editor-in-Chief Abe Krash

BY MAGGIE LOUGHRAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

The Maroon’s tagline is “The independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892.” You can find it at the top of the paper, on our website, and even (the more colloquial “Since 1892”) on the back of our sweatshirts. Our longevity is part of our identity, but it’s something I too often take for granted as the Editor-in-Chief of T HE M AROON in 2016.

I realized this in June when I sat down with Abe Krash, who held my job 71 years ago and happened to be on campus for his granddaughter’s graduation from the College. Krash told me about his education at the University of Chicago during the golden age of Hutchins and his experience as editor-in-chief, including the time the federal government almost shut down the paper for unknowingly divulging classified information about the Manhattan Project. Here’s how our slogan, and our 124-year streak, almost died.

“I came to the University in September of 1944. I had graduated from high school and the University at that time was “Hutchins College,” and Hutchins College began in the 11th grade. You could come here in 11th grade or after you graduated high school, which I did as a conventional freshman. If you came as a conventional freshman that would be the third year of the College. All of the courses were required of you in two years of the College, effectively as a junior and senior. At the end of the second year you got a B.A. degree, after two years. I had grown up in a small town in Wyoming—Cheyenne, Wyoming, which is the capital. I graduated from high school there and I had an unusual newspaper experience for a young

fellow. In a small town like Cheyenne, high school sports was important. And they needed someone to write about it. So I started to write articles when I was in 10th grade about the high school team. It was during the war, 1942, and the sports editor was drafted and went off to war. So they asked me to take over writing stuff and I became the sports editor of—there were two daily newspapers, one was called the Eagle and one was called the Tribune, and I was the sports editor of one of the newspapers when I was in high school. Every day I would come down, and they gave me a desk, and I began to learn about the newspaper trade: the other reporters, they trained me. So when I came to UChicago I had been writing every day for several years for a daily newspaper.

“So about a month after I came here and got adjusted I came over to T HE M AROON office, which was—we had what was called a Lexington Office, which were back behind Rockefeller Chapel.

There were temporary buildings there at that time and we had an office there, T HE M AROON. And I showed up there and I had a lot more experience than most of the people showing up. So they immediately asked me if I’d like to be a reporter and that’s what I wanted to do so I became a reporter. That would have been the fall of 1944. And sometime around January or February of ’45 the editor[-in-chief] had to go off to the war. This was wartime, so you have to understand what the University was like: there were guards patrolling the quadrangle and in front of the buildings because that’s where the atomic energy research was going on.

“So, anyway, the editor departed and they had to pick a new editor. I was only

a freshman but I was picked as editor because there were very few people around.

There were a number of women but very few guys. And so I was picked to be the editor. I was very young—only 17-yearsold, just a freshman. This would have been in February or March of 1945. I had had a good deal of experience so I began to reorganize the staff and the paper and the make-up. T HE M AROON then came out on a Friday once a week.

It was circulated around the campus and it was free—they gave it to everybody.

So I became editor and the paper took off. I was very interested and spent a lot of time on it and there were some very good people still there working the few years after. David Broder for example, who later became a famous columnist, was editor after me.

“So anyway, I was running THE M AROON. We scored one of the great scoops of the 20th century unknowingly, and I’ll tell you about that. You have to realize that the University was one of the centers of the Manhattan Project. And in the spring of 1945 the war was still on and we were running a series every week of faculty profiles. So I asked a reporter to do a profile on the guy who was the dean of the Division of Physical Sciences. He won the Nobel Prize—his name was Arthur Holly Compton. So the reporter went over to check the University’s public relation files. I had been told when I became editor by the guy who was the director of public relations that I was not to write any stories about the buildings where the guards were patrolling. They didn’t tell me what was going on, just ‘don’t write about that, okay?’ So I sent this reporter to do a story on [Compton] and on Friday the paper came out and we had a long column on page seven about [Compton].

Chicago Maroon Archives The seventh page of the April 20, 1945 issue of THE M AROON which included the article that alluded to the Manhattan Project and almost got the paper shut down.

“On Saturday morning we had an editor’s conference for the following week and I got here around 9:30. I had a little office and the phone in there rang and the guy on the other end says, ‘It’s Major So-and-so of the G2 military intelligence.’ I thought it was some guy pulling my leg over from Burton-Judson, where I was a resident.

He said, ‘we want to come see you,’ and I laughed and hung up because I thought it was just a joke. About half an hour later, two guys show up in trench coats and one guy takes out his pass and shows it to me and says, ‘It’s Major So-and-so and Captain So-and-so from G2 military intelligence.’ So we sit down in this little office and he says, ‘We have come to see you because there’s been a real serious security violation you’ve committed.’ I didn’t know anything about a security violation, or security regulations. I was 17 and running a university newspaper. He said he couldn’t tell me what we had done, but he said they were concerned it would be done again.

“While we were sitting there, the circulation manager pokes his head in the door and says, ‘Abe, great news, man, every paper has been picked up.’ Every copy of T HE M AROON had been picked up! And this major cleared his throat and said, ‘Well I have to tell you something, we went around campus with agents and picked up every copy of T HE M AROON we could fi nd and went to the press and destroyed the plates.’ So he said he couldn’t tell me what we had done but that he would arrange for me to see the dean of students, a man by the name of Lawrence Kimpton, who later became the president of the University.

His office was in Cobb Hall.

“On Monday morning (I had dealt with him before as editor of the paper) I went over to his office. It was a sunny morning in April of 1945. You have to bear in mind that the war in Europe is still going on. The war in Europe didn’t end until May—that’s when the Germans capitulated—and the war in Japan ended a couple months later. Kimpton said to me, ‘You know, you’ve given us a really stormy weekend.’ He had T HE M AROON in front of him and points to page seven, where we said that Compton had been busily engaged in trying to break the atom. One sentence, among other things, [said that] he was trying to break the atom. Every physicist in the world in 1944 was trying to break the atom, Compton included. I said, ‘Yes?’ and he said, “The reason the military was concerned was because they felt this, what was going on at the University, might be revealed to enemy agents.’

That was absurd for reasons I will describe. And he says, ‘We have to tell you something because we don’t want to shut down T HE M AROON and we want to prevent a recurrence.’ He said the reason they were concerned was they felt this would disclose to the Germans and the Japanese what was going on here at the University.

What they were doing at the University, he said, was working on a great new weapon that will revolutionize warfare. He told me that, just like that. ‘A great new weapon that would revolutionize warfare.’ He did not use the words ‘atomic weapon,’ but I never forgot it. That’s exactly what he said. He said, ‘You must not write anything about Compton or anything that’s going on in these buildings that would reveal that face.’ I didn’t understand what he was talking about. ‘Great new weapon’ meant nothing to me.

“A few weeks later, Compton was named to be the president of Washington University at St. Louis, and that was a big story for T HE M AROON because the dean was leaving. The next day I get a call and here’s my friend the major on the phone and he said, ‘I assume that you’re Continued on page 7

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Community Leaders Push City of Chicago and Obama Foundation to Sign CBA Continued from front

as to the extent of the center’s community reach. “[The center] is not just a building and not just a library,” Southside Together Organizing for Power (STOP) member Haroon Galel said. “This is something that can transform the whole neighborhood.”

The coalition behind the proposed CBA hopes to secure commitments to jobs for residents, community school partnerships, contracts with locally-owned businesses, and public transport and parkland improvements.

“The University, the Obama Foundation, and the City of Chicago are now barreling ahead with the expressed philosophy that no CBA is necessary,” Blacks in Green (BIG) founder Naomi Davis said. “No one can manage a project that big without alignment of parties, interests, targets, timelines, and finances.”

As the first presidential center to be built in a largely low-income, urban area, pressure for the center to provide cultural and economic benefits to surrounding communities is high.

“We believe the Obama Presidential Center can make or break the South Side, and we’re committed to [help] make it,” Davis said.

While the center will not break ground until after Obama’s term is over, the plan-

ning process has been underway for nearly two years. In December 2014, the University submitted its official bid, which included potential sites in both Jackson and Washington parks. In May 2015, the Obama Foundation announced the library would be built on Chicago’s South Side, selecting the University’s bid over Columbia University in New York, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Illinois at Chicago. This past July, the foundation announced the center would be built in Jackson Park, along Stony Island Avenue between 60th Street and 63rd Street.

Shannon Bennett, deputy director of Kenwood Oakland Community Organization (KOCO), mentioned his organization’s past experience in securing community agreements. In the city’s bid for the 2016 Olympics, the organization secured a memorandum of understanding with the city that laid out development principles.

For the Prayer and Action Collective—a faith-based group of University students working with community coalitions—the fight for a Level I Trauma Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center gives the group a foundation for its current organizing efforts. Now, by partnering with various coalitions such as

BIG, KOCO, and STOP, the Collective has focused its efforts toward guaranteeing community benefits from the presidential center. Town hall meetings this summer jump-started the discussion.

“This development certainly holds incredible potential to strengthen communities around the library, but we know that economic and social benefits will not materialize unless the voices and needs of the residents are not only heard but adhered to,” said fourth-year Collective member Rob Hayes.

Little of Monday evening’s discussion focused on the specifics of the proposed CBA. It was not clear how the CBA would affect Washington Park, which lost out on the presidential center to Jackson Park and the neighboring Woodlawn neighborhood.

At an August news conference announcing the selection of Jackson Park, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Obama Foundation Chairman Martin Nesbitt stated that efforts will be made to spread the presidential center’s resources to not only neighboring Woodlawn, but also to Washington Park, which was passed over for the Library. The specifics regarding how they intend to do so remain unclear.

Washington Park’s Arts Block, a clus-

ter of renovated buildings on East Garfield Avenue, is an ongoing initiative by the University to develop gallery, performance, and retail space on the block around the Garfield Green Line station.

However, hundreds of vacant lots remain in the neighborhood, lining the elevated Green Line tracks and dotting residential districts.

Instead, Monday’s meeting—primarily attended by students—was heavy on the University’s history of strained community relations. The panel members were not shy in voicing a long list of grievances against the University, which they painted as a self-interested institution of clandestine intentions. “[The University] could use its power and purse to help neighbors to acquire that land,” Davis said, referring to the large swathes of land in Washington Park the University has acquired in recent years. “It doesn’t have to own everything itself.”

In attendance was State Representative Mary Flowers, who joined the panel members in urging students to advocate for change. Flowers concluded, “The only way we are going to solve these problems will be discussion.” For thi s coalition, Monday evening was a start.

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going to be running about Dean Compton being named as the president of Wash U St. Louis.’ and I said, ‘Absolutely. That’s a front page story for us.’ And he said, ‘Well we would like to come look at your story before you publish it.’ And here I was, an 18-year-old editor, and I stood up and said, ‘Well in that case, we’ll have to put a slug line on the story that says, “passed by military censor.”’ I remember there was a long silence at the other end and he said, ‘I don’t think that would be advisable.’ And after a few seconds it dawned on me that I would be the editor of The Maroon that gets us shut down. They were going to shut us down! And so then when he asked again I concluded it would be the better part of wisdom to let him come down and look at the article.

“He came down here and I gave him the article to look at and he didn’t change a comma. We were very careful about what we wrote about Compton. And he smiled and said, ‘No problem,’ and he left and we ran the story, needless to say, without a

note that said, ‘passed by military censors.’

So here we were in possession of one of the greatest stories of the 20th century. I was in possession of the story of the atomic weapon! That was a great scoop, I mean, think of that!

“When I said earlier that the notion that this would tip off enemy agents, here’s what I meant. All you had to do was stroll through the quadrangles and you would see guys pacing back and forth with a rifle.

If you had walked into Hutchinson Commons any morning or any lunchtime, you would have seen Enrico Fermi, you would have seen the most famous physicists in the world having breakfast or lunch—and obviously they’re not here engaged in the study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. You would see these very famous scientists, so the notion that The Maroon would have tipped off enemy agents with this one sentence was preposterous.

“We ran the story about Compton in May of 1945 and I went home for the summer after I finished my first year. In July the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and

then I realized all that Kimpton had been telling me. It suddenly dawned on me what the ‘great new weapon’ was and what they were worried about. Two years later The New Yorker magazine ran an article about security breaches that occurred connected with the Manhattan Project and in the article there’s a paragraph where they say that the managers of the G2 office in Chicago were all exercised. They described this incident and they described us as the schoolboy editors of the University of Chicago student newspaper who revealed what Compton was doing. Of course that was preposterous too when you stop to think about it because to say the guy was breaking the atom was nonsense. Anybody would have said that about anybody doing physics at that time. So I say The Maroon was in possession of one of the greatest stories of the 21st century, and in fact we had, according to G2, tipped the enemy off—even though we didn’t have the foggiest idea of what it was and needless to say we never said anything further about it.

“I really did not perceive or understand fully what Kimpton said to me, though he

did say the words ‘atomic weapon.’ Kimpton, unbeknownst to me, was the personnel director of the Manhattan project. He didn’t say that to me and he didn’t use the term Manhattan Project. So T HE M AROON sailed through and we were not shut down. Then I came back in the fall of ’45 and I was the editor that quarter. By that time the war had ended and the University changed because veterans were flowing back from the war. I concluded at the end of December that I came here to get a degree and do my studies and I spent an enormous amount of time at T HE M AROONso I better stop, and I stopped.”

After Krash and I had talked for about an hour, I pulled out the bound volume of 1945 Maroon issues from our archives, and he found the first article about Compton. Happy that G2 evidently hadn’t picked up every copy, he read through and said, “Here’s the sentence that really busted their balls: ‘Compton and his colleagues are working on the problems fraught with tremendous possibilities to mankind of releasing atomic energy.’”

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“Connecting the needs and struggle of students to faculty and staff as well is key to making change on campus.”

Continued from front

Program, learning about social justice in Chicago and on campus. I also became involved in the campaign for equitable policing, and so my eyes really being opened to the University’s relationship with its students, with its community, and asking questions about that relationship. So I guess I was active in those circles; and as a result, I wanted to get involved in using a SG platform to kind of move on issues. Policing was one example.

The first thing I did when I got SG Assembly in the fall was introduce the resolution regarding the UCPD in appointment to the Independent Review Committee. So anyway, that was the key issue that got me involved.

CM: What has been your greatest success as a member of SG? EH: One that I’m feeling really positive about right now with the new school year has been the creation of the Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Committee that started out in CC last year. We were able to use funding for sexual assault awareness month last year, and I think it’s a good example of success because this year it’s a full SG committee. It got increased funding for the year and we’re putting an awesome team together to lead that. That’s coming at a moment when the University is also getting more serious. This year we have mandatory timeline training that we’ve all been taking.

CM: On the contrary, what has been your greatest setback or mistake during your time in SG? How has this shaped your plans as president?

EH: I think my greatest challenge was the learning curve last year being CC chair and on Executive Committee, working with all of the undergraduate student body, and all of the graduate student body. That’s a challenge just because of sheer numbers and the character of each school and division of the college is so different and diverse. Over the course of the year I think I learned and grew into that role on Executive Committee and working with graduate leadership and undergraduate leadership, so it was an exciting challenge. This year, I knew that it was key to have a graduate student on Slate to reach more constituencies and continue to develop relationships with graduate students, ensure that graduate students are accurately represented on committees. If you recall, we also allocated significantly more resources to Graduate Council (GC) this year, so that’s one thing that I’m really dedicated to seeing succeed, is all that money being used successfully to improve graduate student life. I wouldn’t call that a setback by any means, in fact I think we’re improving on how graduate students are involved in SG, but it’s definitely a challenge because this is a sprawling university with lots of different student needs, so learning about that as a college student is exciting and challenging.

CM: Do you think that the administration will be more likely to meet with SG and address the demands of SG in comparison to last year? I remember there were meetings that you would invite the entire administration, they wouldn’t show up. There was the Assembly meeting with the Provost, and it was very much like an interrogation given that there were hostile relations between the student body and the administration about how they didn’t meet often or at all, how the student body felt ignored. I’m curious as to how this year the relationship between SG and the administration will be different or improved.

EH: I think it’s important to differentiate that there is this strong student movement on campus and there’s also SG. I think the administration certainly needs to be meeting more with groups that are organized around issues. I know that the new Provost, Daniel Diermeier, has extended invitations to several of those groups that had difficulty meeting with Provost Isaacs, so that’s a positive step.

I don’t think that ever negatively impacted

Zoe Kaiser President Eric Holmberg discusses his plans for Student Government.

SG’s relationship so much, the hostility was coming more from…I didn’t view the relationship between SG and the administration as hostile. I certainly think that this year we have a fresh start with those relationships. I would say it would be in the best interest of the administration to not only meet with SG as they have been but also to directly meet with many of these groups raising issues on campus.

CM: In what ways are the objectives of this Executive Slate different than those of last year’s Slate? In what ways are they similar?

EH: Some are similar, some are different. A similar one: we’re continuing the work of implementing the U-Pass. I love public transit, love the CTA, love the city of Chicago, so that’s kind of a personal passion project but also something I think is great for the student body. There’s a lot of excitement and energy around it, so I want to implement that well and make sure that students are getting the most out of that program. You’ll be seeing SG encourage students to use the U-Pass, both in Hyde Park and out of it. We’re going to be expanding the local business discount and pairing that with U-Pass to access this discount provided by SG. That’s one thing that’s a continuation of previous goals. Some goals have also changed due to the political landscape with [the National Labor Relations Board] ruling on graduate worker unionization, we have more ability to weigh in on that issue that previous Slates have.

Of course there’s been great work to push toward that, but now that the political, the legal landscape has changed we have the ability to weigh in on the issue in a different way that’s new and exciting. Another one that is similar and different is the campus climate survey. There was previously a lot of energy into getting the climate survey done, but this year we will be seeing the results, and that critical moment for discussion and change will come. I hope that our Slate will be able to actually be a part of the changes and the dialogue produced by the results of the campus climate survey.

CM: Is there a single agenda item you’d like to make the center of your platform this year?

EH: I guess I’ll say broadly my single driving idea is that the University of Chicago should be a place of teaching and research that allows every individual to participate in that mission. That includes faculty, students, and staff. There are a lot of barriers, I think, in the way of that now. So you saw with Shared Services and the cutting of academic staff over the summer caused a lot of backlash amongst faculty, staff, and students. So I think we need to be lobbying to protect the academic mission of the University and make sure that there are the resources we need as students and teachers to accomplish that. It’s hard to boil it down to one agenda item, right? I think we need more labor unions on campus. I’m pushing for graduate unionization. I think that will

help achieve that. I’m pushing for a raised minimum wage because it’s difficult to run a university when you don’t value the labor of the people who make it run. All summer I’ve been working on the Responsible Business Act on the Cook County level which would raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

That’s a huge thing I want to see happen this year. There are a lot of barriers to full participation due to a toxic campus climate, to be frank. We’re going to see that quantified as a result of this campus climate survey. But when you do have structural racism and sexism, and this kind of climate, you’re going to limit the opportunities available to people. So that’s the sweeping vision we want to work on. Of course we have to move the needle on all these issues—I want to move the needle on getting more funding for student disability services because three staff people is not enough to serve the needs of 15,000 students.

That’s a way we can move the needle. Working with the Center of College Student Success, or LGBT student life, to increase for the support for students so that they have their basic needs met and they feel that they are supported and welcomed at this university.

That’s important to every student being able to learn and grow here. That’s the broad vision, there’s a lot of specific manifestations of that.

CM: THE MAROON has been publishing articles about U-Pass since 2005. After at least eleven years of discussion, U-Pass has become available to students. Do you think SG’s role in pushing U-Pass could change people’s estimation of what SG can accomplish?

EH: That’s really encouraging for me to hear since this has been going on for so long and I get to be at the University when it actually comes to fruition. I think it definitely did help. The U-Pass referendum, for example, made it a prominent issue among the student body. It was something the administration could no longer ignore. It really did channel student needs and demands in a way that the administration had to respond. So the college is implementing this program and they say: “You asked for this, students in the college, you said you wanted this, and that’s why it worked out.” That’s how the University should work. When students decide democratically that they want or need a program, that’s when decisions should be made. SG was able to facilitate that decision-making process, and I think that’s a great example of how SG could operate in the future as well.

I think there are other issues…. Just a few years ago, just looking through some MAROON archives, and just a few years ago SG began talking about issues like graduate unionization or getting a Level I trauma center.

A few years ago, that was very far off. But look where we are now. The Level I trauma center, it looks like there will be a strong graduate student unionization effort this year…. Of course SG isn’t solely responsible for that, but SG has added to the voices and added to the legitimacy of voices calling for

those things. I think there’s a huge role there.

CM: You touched on this before, but it looks like graduate student unionization will be a big issue this school year. What role do you think SG can play in pushing that issue?

EH: It is a student-led movement, and I think there’s a role for SG to give students information about what this process is, what a union campaign will look like, and how they can and should get involved and participate. Because the idea of unionization centers around workplace democracy, and that means everyone needs to participate, so all of the teaching assistants and research assistants who weren’t able to vote in the election should participate and do so in an informed way. I think SG can be putting out clear information about that. I also think there will be a role for SG to counter the narratives we’re getting from the administration.

I think there is room for SG to be putting out information about it and countering the messages that the administration has been putting out.

CM: Matthew Foldi’s free speech resolution was tabled indefinitely the last time it was brought up. Is there any chance this resolution will come up again this year?

EH: No member of Assembly has brought it to my attention that they plan to introduce that, but they certainly could at any time.

CM: What is your stance on that?

EH: I haven’t read it in six months and haven’t seen the current version that might be introduced, so I can’t comment on that.

CM: Fair point. Last question, in the aftermath of Dean John “Jay” Ellison’s letter, you told us you disapproved of disinvitation.

Is there a meaningful difference between blocking a speaker from coming to campus and preventing them from speaking once they have arrived?

EH: On our campus, I don’t think it’s quite as simple as that. I think an example that people often point to is the Anita Alvarez at the IOP, but I don’t view that as silencing a speaker or not allowing her to speak. There were members of the audience who asked her pointed questions that she chose not to engage with. She could have responded, she could have addressed the issues that those members of the audience were raising, and she chose not to. I think as a public figure, I think it is her responsibility to respond. I disagree that something like that is not allowing someone to speak. I think that could have been a meaningful engagement. It was not, I’m going to use a double negative, it was not not a meaningful engagement because of the audience members. It was on the part of Alvarez that it was not a meaningful engagement. But we should still bring these figures to campus, engage with them in whatever way. Disinvitation is inappropriate.

CM: Okay, those were all of the questions I prepared for today. Is there anything else you would like to add?

EH: I would just say that where my vision comes from is, during my campaign I wasn’t just talking to college students. I was talking to graduate students. I met with admin faculty, faculty, I was endorsed by union stewards of Teamsters Local, which represents dorm workers, library staff, and academic staff. I have good relationships with the administration, but I have relationships with students, faculty, and staff who actually operate the University on the ground. Those are the people who are really agitating for change. It’s the dorm workers who have been working here for twenty years and still aren’t making a living wage. It’s the admin faculty who are fighting for a fair contract. It’s those people, in addition to students, really motivate me to make change in the lives of everyday people, whether they’re students, faculty, or staff at this university. Connecting the needs and struggle of students to faculty and staff as well is key to making change on campus. That’s something that I hope to carry with me in SG.

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VIEWPOINTS Fitting the Bill It’s Time the Office of College Aid Gives Us All Some Answers According to the Office of College Aid’s (OCA) website, the 2016–2017 year at the University of Chicago costs a total of $71,559 for upperclassmen living on campus, $68,487 for those living off campus, and $61,434 for commuters. However you slice it, a degree from UChicago costs a lot of money.

The Financial Aid office is a powerful bureaucratic arm of the University, doling out an annual $135 million to undergraduate and graduate students.

With that power comes a great responsibility: to ensure that the best and brightest students can call the University of Chicago home, regardless of their families’ income levels. But beyond fulfilling its basic function, the

office owes students who receive financial aid peace of mind.

However, a week and a half into fall quarter, some students are still waiting to receive their financial aid packages. The circumstances vary from student to student, but many who submitted their materials both before and after the informal deadline of June 10 have been told to expect their packages by progressively later dates (some were told September 9, which got pushed to September 16, followed by September 23). The cause of this year’s delays and disorganization is unclear, leading some to suspect the University’s new online tuition payment system.

Our peer institutions, most of which provide cut-and-dry

deadline information on their websites, seem to have avoided similar problems. At Harvard, Columbia, and Princeton, applications are due in early May and decisions are released before July 1. Stanford, which also follows a quarter system, has a deadline of April 30. According to its financial aid website, award letters for on-time applicants are available beginning August 1.

The OCA has not responded to undergraduates’ frustration and confusion with a systematic response, but instead responded to individual inquiries vaguely and inconsistently. It has a short notice on its website similar to the statement it sent to THE M AROON via the University News Office, the latter of

which says: “As in past years, College Aid continues to work through financial aid materials that were submitted over the summer. Awards will continue to be released throughout the first weeks of class.”

This lack of clarity leaves THE MAROON, and the rest of the student body, with a lot of unanswered questions, such as: Will students receiving their packages late be billed in full and refunded the value of their awards at a later date? The OCA repeatedly funneled our inquiries to the News Office, and when one of our reporters finally got through to College Aid, he was told “no comment.” The representative on the other line hung up on him when he asked how the office could

possibly be unwilling to inform students how much they’ll be expected to pay.

As the quarter ramps up and midterm season looms, the last thing UChicago students need is to be burdened by the specifics of their tuition payments. How can students who depend on the OCA trust that it will come through for them when it cannot, or will not, give them clear answers? The uncertainty that results from a lack of transparency is the most immediate concern here. The College owes its students a reliable financial aid program, but even more simply, it owes all of them an explanation of this year’s delays.

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Make Political Discourse Great Again Overblown Attacks From the Democratic Party Over the Years Have Allowed for Trump’s Rise

Natalie Denby The Democratic Party has a rhetoric problem. This might be a strange criticism to lodge against the party fighting an overtly racist, misogynistic, and xenophobic Republican nominee who has blatantly lied more times than all other candidates in this election cycle combined. In 2016, it feels almost treacherous to waste time criticizing Democrats

when Trump presents a much starker threat. But we’ve fallen into the habit of attacking all of our opponents on overblown, farcical grounds. While this habit is by no means unique to the Democrats, its consequences for the Democratic Party are grave. Our toxic rhetorical excess has transformed Democrats into the voters who cry wolf. Faced with a candidate

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of winning the election. When most of us refused to consider that Trump could even win his party’s nomination earlier this year, FiveThirtyEight’s estimate sounds 42.3 percentage points too high.

In reality, the stubbornness of Trump’s supporters isn’t actually that surprising: since we caricatured Mitt Romney, John McCain, and every modern Republican figure along the same lines, our objections to Trump have now begun to ring hollow.

The Democratic Party has fallen into a bad habit of attacking all of its foes on the same overblown, disingenuous moral grounds. Think back to Romney’s 2012 presidential run, and the many weeks dedicated to smearing Romney on ethical grounds. Mitt Romney was heartless and unfit for the presidency because he once made his dog ride on the top of his car. Mitt Romney wasn’t just an out-of-touch elitist for his 47 percent gaffe—he had rendered himself unqualified for the presidency. The

remarks were unforgivable.

Months of speculation and unfounded accusations about Romney’s tax returns seem overblown today, when Donald Trump refuses to release his returns at all.

Evidently, it wasn’t enough to criticize Romney’s policy stances. It wasn’t even enough to identify his personal shortcomings for what they were.

We had to eviscerate his character, stretching the limits of credulity. We had to make him seem malevolent. In the short run, this is a neat political trick. Worried about low voter turnout? Want to ensure that your lazy neighbor goes to the polls? It won’t do to simply call one candidate less qualified than the other. He has to be evil. He has to be a threat to the fabric of society. He has to have a penchant for continuously disqualifying himself from the presidency.

Of course, many of us know that this is ridiculous. Mitt Romney isn’t evil, or heartless, and he didn’t “disqualify” Continued on page 10

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whose fl aws are legitimately dangerous and unique, Democrats find themselves unable to say anything new. And while the threat of a prospective Trump presidency will hopefully end in November, the consequences of a broken system of political discourse could linger for years to come.

Pundits, politicians, and ordinary people from all walks of life have criticized Donald Trump as vile —rightly so.

Most are shocked by how little their objections have been heeded by Trump’s supporters.

When half the country fi nds a candidate morally repugnant, and when much of the remainder of the globe agrees, shouldn’t Trump supporters begin to question their choice?

We seem to think that the sheer weight of the anti-Trump rhetoric should be enough to implode his candidacy. But Trump supporters remain multitudinous and mostly undeterred. On September 25, FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver’s polling aggregation site, gave Trump a 42.3 percent chance

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Trump Succeeds When Rational Dialogue Fails Continued from page 9

himself for the presidency, although his gaffes were both insensitive and troubling. But that’s a boring story. It’s a far more expedient narrative to make the other guy unacceptable rather than less desirable, heartless rather than out-of-touch, sociopathic rather than coldly managerial. It wasn’t just Romney, either. We did the same thing with John McCain in 2008. After McCain’s “Bomb Bomb Iran” gaffe, critical floodgates burst open. McCain wasn’t simply being crass and hawkish. No one was willing to concede that he’d made a bad joke; people everywhere rushed to call him despicable, war-mongering, and unqualified for the presidency. And now, in the shadow of a truly morally bankrupt candidate, the outrage machine appears to have broken down completely. We’ve effectively made party affi liation the sole litmus test for moral standing. This makes morally-grounded criticism sound empty— when you call every other person evil, no one really is.

This isn’t just a Democratic problem; Republicans are just as guilty.

You don’t need to look any further than the loud chants of “Crooked Hillary” and “Lock her up” at Trump rallies to realize that the political outrage machine has been perfected on both sides of the aisle. But in this election cycle, it’s the Democrats who fi nd themselves effectively immobilized by trigger-happy moral policing. How can you properly critique a morally objectionable

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candidate when you’re accustomed to throwing around the word “evil” every four years? The audience we most need to reach with our criticism of Trump—voters still on the fence and Republicans uncomfortable with their nominee—have been desensitized to the only terms we know how to use.

Our outrage machine was designed to whip up Democratic voter turnout.

When we called Mitt Romney and John McCain heartless, we weren’t trying to reach their tentative supporters; we pushed them away in an effort to ensure that less motivated Demo-

crats still voted on Election Day. In 2008 and 2012, this worked. Unfortunately, years of insincere criticism of Republican figures (all those “evil,” “unqualified,” “heartless,” and “despicable” candidates you’d love to see on the ballot today) have left many onthe-fence voters leery of those terms in the one modern election year in which these labels fit the Republican nominee perfectly.

Yes, we’re absolutely right when we say that the Republican presidential candidate is abhorrent. But we’ve said that before. Why should a lifelong

Republican heed Democratic criticism now, when every one of her past voting choices was slandered as evil and unforgivable? Why consider jumping onto the #NeverTrump ship, when its champions routinely depict you as devoid of a moral compass? The tragedy of our outrage machine, at the end of the day, is how well it worked and how it eliminated any chance of a rational dialogue in a time when such a dialogue is needed most.

Natalie Denby is a second-year in the College majoring in public policy.

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ARTS A Winter’s Tale of Warmth, Intimacy, and Music

BY EMILY EHRET MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

One step inside Logan Center’s Theater West, and I found it transformed. Bean bags adorn deep risers and pillows surround the beginnings of a holiday banquet. Wine glasses and goldwrapped gifts shimmer under the glow of string lights. Audience members are offered snacks and candies from small platters.

It felt almost as if the performance of University Theater’s A Winter’s Tale had already begun even before the actors even took the stage. The instant intimacy of the setting promised what any good Shakespeare production should: theater up close, evocative, and timelessness.

But this wasn’t any old Shakespeare of course. Director Shade Murray, a lecturer in the University’s Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS) department, chose a unique adaptation.

Before the show could even start, the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way” suddenly piped into the cozy space. Various pop songs from across the decades soon followed. Two guitars, a cello, and various other instruments around the room indicated that music was going to play a key role in this adaptation.

A Winter’s Tale quickly dove into 70 minutes of drama and tragedy. King Leontes of Sicilia suspects his pregnant wife, Hermione, of a love affair with his visiting friend King Polixenes of Bohemia. Consumed by jealousy, he orders nobleman Camillo to poison Polixenes. Camillo disobeys and flees with Polixenes to Bohemia. Tension continues to mount as Hermione’s fidelity is questioned publicly and the still-enraged Leontes imprisons her.

However, the play maintains

Hermione (Michaela Voit, fourth year) confronts Leontes (Alex Morales, fourth year).

a sense of lightness and humor all the while, driving toward an eventual happy ending. This is exactly as it should be, even as indicated by the title. A Winter’s Tale is not so much a seasonal indication but a reference to an “old wives’ tale.” The familiarity of the emotions in the play—love, jealousy, and redemption—and the assurance of a peaceful resolution by the final act are both part of its charm.

Despite this straightforward, comfort food type plot, the adaptation strives to innovate. Performers take up instruments during emotional moments and sing reimagined and loosely iam-

bic pop songs. At their strongest, the songs are creative and powerful. They draw a compelling connection between the four-century-old text and our experience of the present. Other times, this musical element brings the pace to a near standstill, during which the audience began to fidget.

Fortunately, A Winter’s Tale delivers in its second half. An impressively staged storm sets in as a character hides Hermione’s newborn daughter in the Bohemian countryside. As he flees, the production offers one of its most memorable moments when an oversized teddy bear

atop a mound of presents is given the spotlight in perhaps the most quoted line of the entire piece: the simple stage direction, “Exit, pursued by bear.” I found myself desiring similar succinctness from the production elsewhere.

Sixteen years pass in (celebrated UChicago Shakespeare scholar) David Bevington’s performance as Time. Hermione’s daughter Perdita, raised by shepherds and now grown, falls for Polixenes’s heir. Their love drives their two families back together in an almost reverse Romeo and Juliet situation.

A Winter’s Tale requires a strong cast to breathe warmth

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and life into its tidy plot. TAPS does not stumble in this regard; Fourth year Michaela Voit and third year Grace Bolander give especially emotional performances as Hermione and Paulina. The sheer number of musical numbers performed throughout adds interest even when the songs themselves fall short. In the end, the spirit of the play not only survives but strikes a definite chord—a fun and uplifting one that guarantees another week of successful performances.

Logan Center Theater West, Oct. 6, 7 at 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 8 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.; $6 advance/$8 door.

Paradise Lost: Renaissance Society Examines Heaven on Urth

BY NATALIE PASQUINELLI MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The Renaissance Society is currently showcasing Urth, London artist Ben Rivers’ fi rst solo exhibition in the United States. A collection of moving image works, Urth derives its name from an Old Norse word, meaning “fate.”

The three fi lms on display confront this idea by looking at the relationship between humans and their environment; in particular, Rivers grapples with the lure and impossibility of utopia.

The collection is dark in more ways than one. Upon entering, the viewer moves from the bright fluorescence of Cobb to an unlit space with a main viewing area and two dark passageways leading to hidden rooms. There are no benches or chairs from which to watch the pieces that run on

a continuous loop, seemingly existing for themselves and not a human audience.

In a 2013 interview, Rivers said his work was born from “a desire to make cinema that is not a representation of the world but that comes from actual people and places—and is then transformed through cinema into something that isn’t the world.”

The films and the space that houses them are uncanny, teetering just outside the realm of realistic representation. The pieces share an air of eeriness and desertion, a lack of human presence despite their investigation of human issues.

One film, Things, is a stream of video and stills, at times set to music, at others to an interview from Late Night with David Letterman. Projected in one of the enclosed rooms, the piece

is paired with framed sketches, stills, and photographs from the fi lm. Divided into four sections named after the seasons, it is an exploration of the artist’s home, from an estranged perspective.

Rivers takes what is known and familiar and combines them in a way that is unfamiliar, even to himself.

Slow Action, a 45-minute work consisting of four screens and audio narration, is tucked away in the second enclosed room.

In it, Rivers explores his theme of utopia by imagining a futuristic island living in complete isolation. In the same 2013 interview Rivers asks, “What does utopia mean? There is certainly not one answer.” Rivers investigates this question in an extreme circumstance. While the projections show deserted landscapes and the masked civilians of Rivers’

secluded island, the narration works through the role of desire and human nature in the quest for an ideal civilization.

The focal point of the exhibit is Urth, a 19-minute film commissioned by the Renaissance Society. The film is imposing; it is displayed in a projection four times the size of the other fi lms and greets the viewer at the entrance of the exhibition. Urth is also the most enticing of the three projects. Though the viewer may encounter the fi lm at any point in a 19-minute loop, the story is clear. The work imagines a scientist maintaining an artificial ecosystem after the earth outside has been destroyed. The audio captures recordings of her fi nal days in the structure. The visuals, entirely fi lmed in the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 research facility, complement the

narrative with lush recordings of nature trapped in a man-made structure.

While the exhibition initially strikes one as bleak, there is a beauty and hopefulness laced throughout. In the interview Rivers stated, “There is a sort of hope in the films I’m making, from looking at possible ways of being, further down the line.” In the reexamination of home and the imagination of a future planet, Rivers gives a new take on what it means to be alive. What do we do when our environment becomes foreign? And when we ourselves become foreign to our environment? The pursuit of those questions continues to be rich with possibilities for this artist.

Urth is on display at the Renaissance Society (fourth floor of Cobb) through Nov. 6.

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Smart Exhibits Snapshot of History of Humanity

BY MAY HUANG ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

In 2014, the estate of the late husband and wife duo Lester and Betty Guttman donated the couple’s photography collection—830 photographs taken by 414 different artists over the course of almost two centuries—to the Smart Museum. Now, one third of the works are on display at the Smart’s fi rst exhibit of the year, There was a whole collection made.

The Guttmans, who worked at the Argonne National Laboratory and co-edited a journal on mycology together, were scientists (Betty graduated from the University with a Bachelor of Science in 1943). Yet they were also, among other things, mushroom collectors, opera-goers, and art-lovers. They built their collection over the course of 31 years, amassing a range of photographs depict-

ing not just various landscapes but also the history of photography itself.

The exhibition was curated by Laura Letinsky from the Department of Visual Arts and Jessica Moss, the Smart Museum curator of ontemporary art. It begins with a wall of photos before segueing into six sections that feature different themes. Photographs near the entrance highlight the natural and built world: a photograph Richard Misrach took of pyramids is juxtaposed against Carleton E. Watkins’s photograph of Yosemite Valley in the 1860s. Toward the end, the section of the gallery titled “Living with Art” is modeled after the Guttmans’ own living room to echo how they decorated their home with pieces from their collection.

One section of the exhibition displays photographs that experimented with different mediums. Among such pieces is Susan Derges’s “The River Taw,” “Untitled,” André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri.

a print from 1998 that depicts water ripples and river debris, a technically difficult image to capture. Derges placed a weighted, light-sensitive paper below the surface of a river and shone a bright light up from under it. Timing was important, as Derges had to shine the light at the right time and to work at night to be in the low-light conditions to produce her print.

Before the existence of Photoshop, Nancy Burson worked with scientists from MIT to morph images together, originally intending to see how people age in photos taken over time. “Cog and Dat,” a 1983 gelatin silver print on display with the collection, was created from a computer generated negative born of that collaborating. It depicts what the merging of a dog and cat might look like but also reveals the evolution of photography.

Two other sections focus on documentary photography and portraiture, depicting people from different times and circumstances. Dorothea Lange’s “Funeral Cortege, End of an Era in a Small Valley Town, California” captures the migrant workers and farmers during the economic depression in 1965, while Martin Munkácsi’s 1936 print depicts two dancers doing the Lindy Hop. Indeed, most of the subjects in the pho-

“Photomontage,” Hannah Höch.

Courtesy of Smart Museum of Art

tographs on display are people, reflecting the humanist values the Guttmans championed as well as their proclivity for social engagement.

Some of the photographs in the last section of the exhibition, titled “Fifteen Minutes of Fame,” also feature Gertrude Stein, whose 1914 book Tender Buttons contains the quote from which the exhibition takes its name: “ There was a whole collection made. A damp cloth, an oyster, a single mirror, a manikin, a student, a silent star, a single spark, a little movement and the bed is made.”

The quote ref lects the variety of pieces on display at the exhibition.

There is something for everyone in the photos the Guttmans collected, which fittingly resonates with the theme of “Belonging” that the Smart is presenting as part of its “Conversations with the Collection” series. In this way, the exhibition captures the spirit of photography—its ability to capture moments, preserve them in their time and place, yet embody a sense of timelessness for the people who view them generations later.

There was a whole collection made is on display at the Smart Museum through Dec. 30.

Courtesy of Smart Museum of Art

EXHIBIT [A]rts [10/05] WEDNESDAY

[10/07] F RIDAY

The seventh annual Chicago South Asian Film Festival showcases a diverse array of feature films and shorts, alongside filmmaking workshops.

Through Oct. 10. Showplace Icon. $15.

A movie about a moviemaker that parallels a short story. Stuff ’s #meta.

The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers by Ben Rivers.

7 p.m. Screening Room, Logan. Free.

[10/06] T HURSDAY [10/08] SATURDAY Joey Brink rings in three world premieres from Rockefeller Carillon as part of the citywide Ear Taxi Festival.

Noon. Within earshot. Free.

Shade Murray directs Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale. See review, page 7.

7:30 p.m. Theatre West, Logan. $6 in advance or $8 at door.

C h ic a go Sy m ph ony O r c he s tra presents College Night. The programme: dinner, musician Q&A, and a world premiere of Carl Vine’s trumpet concerto, Five Hallucinations.

6 p.m. Symphony Center. $15.

Courtesy of Smart Museum of Art

“Sunflower” AFN 204, Adam Fuss.

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Volleyball Remains Undefeated in Conference Play VOLLEYBALL

BY BRITTA NORDSTROM SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

It seems as though every sports team at UChicago is on some sort of win streak, and this volleyball squad is no different. The Maroons are on an eight-game win streak and are also currently undefeated in conference play after a weekend in Pittsburgh.

The weekend started with a relatively harmless opponent in the form of Brandeis, and UChicago dismantled of the Judges in a quick three sets. Offense was a huge factor, as the squad was able to nearly double Brandeis’ hitting percentage and the Maroons came away with eight aces to the Judges’ one.

Next up, however, was No. 16 Carnegie Mellon. The Tartans were the third top-25 team the South Siders faced at that point in the year, falling to No. 5 Calvin and No. 17 Illinois Wesleyan earlier in the season. This

match was a different story. Second-year Sarah Muisenga and first-year Anabella Pinton put the team on their backs, smacking home a total of 34 kills and digging 46 balls. Second-year Audrey Scrafford was also a huge factor, leading the team with 20 kills and stuffing four of the Tartan’s attempts.

“Kills start from a good pass and a good set, so the fact that our hitters are getting lots of kills speaks volumes about the quality of our first contacts and setting,” Muisenga said.

The offensive prowess of the Maroons was too much for the Tartans, as the squad was able to take the first two games and then finish in a close fi fth game. Fourthyear setter Erin Risk also handed out 45 assists to these prolific hitters and came away with two aces.

“It’s all about focus and trust in your teammates’ abilities,” said Risk. “Trust

is something that is very important to the However, she followed that statement up team this year. We all play for each other by saying that beating Wash U was the and depend equally upon one another to “icing on the cake.”

The box score was extremely close, make exciting wins like the ones this weekwith the most defi ning statistics coming end a reality.”

In their final game of the Round Robin, from hitting errors, with Chicago comthe squad faced off against rival WashU, mitting six fewer errors, and blocks; the which sits at No. 15 in the nation. While the South Siders blocked three attempts to Bears are usually a formidable foe, Chica- Wash U’s zero.

The squad takes a break from confergo was not to be beaten this weekend. The squad was able to dispatch Wash U in just ence play as they come home this weekend four games. Muisenga had another mon- and take on two more top-25 teams, but ster night, registering 20 kills to go along the Maroons aren’t necessarily overjoyed with 14 digs and two aces, while Risk again at the chance to play on their home court.

“We had such a fun weekend both on and churned out 47 assists and 14 digs.

While Wash U is the rival that every off the court that we haven’t had during UChicago athlete wants to beat, Risk travel in years past, so I think all of us are said the match against Carnegie was less excited to be going home this weekend the most telling. “I think the team really than in past seasons,” said Muisenga.

As the squad is 4–0 in away matchhit its stride during the Carnegie game.

We proved that we are a great team and es and 5–0 in matches played on neutral can compete at an extremely high level.” ground, this isn’t surprising.

Women’s Cross Country Closes Out September with Fourth Straight Win MEN’S & WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY

BY KATIE ANDERSON SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR

The men’s and women’s cross country squads displayed their dominance yet again this past weekend at the Illinois Intercollegiate meet at the Aspen Ridge Golf Course, hosted by Olivet Nazarene University.

On the women’s side, the Maroons clinched the top spot in the field of 13 teams, topping the podium with 290 points at the conclusion of the 5k race.

Third-year Khia Kurtenbach grabbed second place among 140 athletes with a time of 18:27.2. Not far behind her, third-year Kelsey Dunn and fourth-year Michelle Dobbs came in to grab fourth and fi fth place respectively with times of 18:59.2 and 19:59.9. Third-year Cassidy McPherson nabbed eighth while fourthyear Minnie Horvath snatched 10th, de-

cisively rounding out the top 10 fi nishes for the Maroons.

This victory marked the fourth straight win for the South Siders, bringing a very successful month of September to a close.

On the team’s great success so far, Dobbs said, “I think the team’s success so far has come froma strong commitment to training together and training smart. Being able to stay healthy and fit is why this team can consistently place several people at the top of these early season races.”

On the men’s side, Chicago took fourth place in the same field of 13 teams; however, the men raced on an 8K course and fielded 216 athletes. Host Olivet Nazarene finished at the top of the podium on the men’s side. Third-year Peter Kreuch led the way for the South Siders, finishing 10th overall at 26:42.3. First-year Tim

Koenning came in at 12th with a time of 26:45.0, trailed by fourth-year Nick Nielsen in 13th with a time of 26:46.0.

The squad started the year by winning their fi rst two meets but has fi nished third and fourth in the past two meets. Kreuch, however, is undaunted by what seems like a drop in performance.“This past week, I was most proud of our 7.7 second spread from fi nishers 1–4,” he said. “That metric is a great indicator of future success and proof that our ‘pack running strategy’ is being well executed. Individually, this race was a good breakthrough, and I’m excited for the meets to come.”

It seems that both squads have a lot to look forward to for the rest of the season. They will head to Kenosha, WI this weekend for the Lucian Rose Invitational. The women will look to continue their four-meet win streak, and

Dobbs is certainly looking forward to any additional competition. “The team is looking forward to getting into some deeper fields with more challenging competition,” Dobbs said. “While this will ultimately be a great step in the right direction for acclimating to competition, making sure to continue to run together in morecrowded races can be a bit of an adjustment.”

The men are also looking forward to the remainder of the season, but they aren’t just basing their definition of success on wins and losses. “I’m thrilled with how we’ve progressed as a group over the past few weeks,” Kreuch said. “We have tons of depth at the freshman level, a strong pack supporting our No. 1 runner, and a close-knit group of guys.”

If both squads are able to put together a solid meet, Chicago will be a force to be reckoned with at the end of the year.

Women’s Soccer Suffers First Loss After 9-0 Start WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY FRANCES MCDONALD SPORTS STAFF

The No. 4 Maroons suffered their first loss of the season this past weekend, going 2– 0 at the hands of Emory University. The team traveled to Atlanta on Saturday to play its first conference match of the season against the Eagles. The loss brought the South Siders to 9 –1 overall and 0 –1 in UA A play.

In the 21st minute of the first half, Emory scored its first goal, giving firstyear goalkeeper Katie Donovan her first allowed goal of the season. In the last minutes of the game, Emory scored again, bringing the lead to 2–0, where it would stay until the whistle blew to close the game.

For the first time this season, the Maroons were outshot by a mark of 18 – 9. Emory also led in shots on goal, 8 –2.

While Chicago led in corner kicks 7–3, they were unable to capitalize onopportunities to net a goal. First-year midfielder Hannah Watkins led the team in shots with three, while Donovan made six saves in the 90-minute match.

This was also the first time the Maroons have been completely shut out. The squad had only played one other match in which they scored less than two goals, and that was nearly a month ago against Kalamazoo. The Eagle’s goalkeeper also had to make fewer saves; Donovan allowed two goals but had six saves, while the Maroons only managed to produce two shots.

Third-year Kelsey Moore believes this fi rst loss of the season will motivate the Maroons for the rest of the year, and especially through conference play, which dictates the last half of the season.

University of Chicago Athletics Department “We didn’t come out sharp enough.

The Maroon women huddle together during a timeout.

They seemed to be one step quicker than us in getting to the ball and we “ This was our first conference game, this may have been beneficial for the just weren’t able to keep the ball like we and it goes to show that the UA A is a Maroons, and will definitely serve as a have been all season. Losing never feels whole different level of play than our learning experience.

T he squad’s next game w ill be good, but coming out of this weekend non-conference games,” she said. “ I has just given us another edge that we have no doubt that we have the abil- against another UA A foe, Rochester will use to motivate us for the rest of ity to be successful and rise to this University, who is coming off of a viclevel, which is what we are going to do tory against Wash U. The game will be our season,” Moore said.

Chicago’s first UA A competition on its Moore also recognizes that the start against Rochester next weekend.”

Even with the loss tarnishing the homefield, kicking off on Saturday, 11 of UAA play also means the start of the more competitive stretch of the season. squad’s flawless record, Moore believes a.m.

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Maroon Men Extend Win Streak to 11 Games MEN’S SOCCER

BY EMMETT ROSENBAUM SPORTS EDITOR

The No. 3-ranked UChicago men’s soccer team continued its historic season last weekend, beating conference opponent Emory 2–0, extending its winning streak to 11 games. The win marked the team’s first conference win of the year, and it now boasts a record of 11–0–0 on the season, a start that is undoubtedly the best in school history.

The match was pretty even throughout, as Chicago barely edged Emory 6–5 for shots in both halves. However, the big breakthrough came nearly 20 minutes into the game when fourth-year forward Brenton Desai capitalized on an Emory defender’s mistake and drilled the ball into the top corner for his fourth goal of the season. “[Emory’s] outside back was trying to play a big long ball switch but he mis-hit the ball and it sliced over to me about 25 yards out,” said Desai, who now has scored 28 goals in his UChicago career, good for sixth in school history. “I took my fi rst touch just out in front of me towards goal and struck it clean perfectly into the upper corner. It was defi nitely one of my best goals at this school.”

Inspired by the fourth-year’s marvelous play, the rest of the team put up a wall in order to shut down the Eagles attackers for the rest of the game. Fourthyear goalkeeper Hill Bonin stopped all three shots directed on net and posted a clean sheet on the day. The performance marked an impressive return to form for a Maroons defense that had ceded a sea-

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Second-year Juan Barrero attempts to kick the ball up the field.

son-high two goals in its previous match against No. 19-ranked Carthage.

“It meant a lot for our defense,” said Desai, “especially because they had an onslaught at one point in the game where our defense had to come up big multiple times in a row to keep the ball out. Hill also made a couple good saves to keep us alive and to keep the important shut out.”

While a win over Emory is an important step toward securing a conference title, UChicago now arguably faces its toughest test of the season as it gears up to face No. 7 Rochester this Saturday. Combine the conference implications of the match with the pressure to stay undefeated, the Maroons have some lofty expectations waiting for them.

“The goal is basically to stay humble

and maintain the mentality that we have something to prove,” said Desai. “We know that at our best, no one can stop us, so we’re all just trying to be at our best mentally for every game by giving each match its own importance.”

The Maroons will square off against the Rochester Yellowjackets at Stagg Field on Saturday, October 8th. Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “I love that point in the year where God decides he wants to play some baseball without anyone noticing and assumes the form of Joey Votto” —Jeff Sullivan on Twitter

Maroons Win Southern Shootout FOOTBALL

BY OLA OBI SPORTS STAFF

The Maroons faced off against No. 4 Birmingham Southern last weekend. Although it was a dicey game that had the crowd on edge on all times, the at-home mojo was once again at work for the Maroons as they came out on top for their second home victory of the season.

A rainy day and a shaky start for Chicago sums up the first quarter for the Maroons. The Birmingham Southern Panthers were also able to take the lead due to a bit of a hesitant display from Chicago’s defense. Scoring on an 11-yard run and an easy extra point, the Panthers took alead of 7–0 with 9:48 to go in the first quarter. Although the Maroons responded on defense, giving up no more points within the first quarter, the South Sider offense seemed to have a little trouble finding a way to beat the Panthers’ defense.

Mojo was passed around in the huddle between the first and second quarter as Chicago cameback fighting hard. The Panthers gained three points on a 31-yard field goal to bring the score to 10–0. However, their defense was less effective as Chicago was able to score a touchdown by third-year Chandler Carroll and a completed extra point from second-year kicker Mike

Kurzydlowski for a score of 10–7.

After a return from Chicago, the Panthers they managed to score another touchdown and field goal on a 56-yard pass. With a score of 17–7, Carroll scored another touchdown, giving the team even more momentum.

Fourth-year wide-receiver Syd Reynolds seemed to be playing in synchronization with fellowfourth-year and quarterback Burke Moser. Reynolds caught several passes from his teammate, gaining yards to keep pushing down the field that resulted in a final eightyard catch from Moser for a touchdown, bringing the final score at half to 21–17 with Chicago leading.

Coming out at the half, the Maroons seemed to have lost a bit of their steam. In the third quarte the Panthers were able to rebound, managing to outscore the Maroons via two touchdowns and matching extra points. With the only rally from Chicago being a three-point, 25-yard field goal from Kurzydlowski, the Maroons ended the third quarter down 31–24.

As the fourth quarter began the sun came out and things heated up among both teams. Due to great defensive efforts on both sides, the first points of the quarter did not hit the score board until the six-minute mark, from a field goal by the Panthers. First-year Dante

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Quarterback Burke Moser drops back to pass.

Nepa caught a touchdown pass from Moser at 4:16 to bring the score to a nerve wracking 34–31 with Chicago behind. After great blocks by the Maroon defensive line, Chicago was able to advance the ball.

With linemen playing cohesively, Carroll ended up scoring yet again on a short pass from Moser and a kick from Kurzydlowski brought the score to 38–34 with a little over a minute left on the

clock. With less than a minute to return, the Panthers hurried to get a touchdown, but their Hail Mary pass was ineffective due to a game-saving pass breakup by second-year defensive-back Bryson Merriweather. Even though Birmingham Southern was able to get close, the game ended in a 38–34 victory for the Maroons. The Maroons are now in a four-way tie for second place with Berry, Centre,

and Wash U. It’s obviously good to be up there in conference standings, but we understand that every team in this conference is solid; so just as every game is a winnable game, every game is losable if we don’t come out and play like we can,” fourth-year Jackson Garrey said. The Maroons’ next game is away at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, on Saturday, October 8.

Tennis Takes Home Both Singles & Doubles Divisions MEN’S & WOMEN’S TENNIS

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First-year Marjorie Antohi powerfully swings during her match.

BY MICHAEL PERRY SPORTS STAFF

Classes started just last week, but the tennis season is already in full swing, and the women’s tennis team competed in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Central Region Championships this past weekend. The squad made its mark as usual, taking home

second in both the singles and doubles divisions. The men had the weekend off after competing in the ITA Central Region Championships last week, winning both the singles and doubles championships.

W hile the Maroons sent players to both the singles and doubles championships after a long weekend of tennis, the squad fell just short of complet-

ing a full Chicago sweep of the ITA Central Region Championships.

First-year Marjorie Antohi competed in the singles championship after entering the tournament as the ninth seed.

Even though the squad was unable to get the win, in a field of 128 players, four of the final eight players in singles were Maroons, which is an accom-

plishment in and of itself.

To get to the championship, Antohi had to take down third-year Maroon and second seed Ariana Iranpour. Antohi would then face the top seed of the tournament, rival Wash U’s Rebecca Ho, falling 6 –4, 6 –3.

That was the second meeting of the day between Antohi and Ho, however, as they had already faced off in the doubles championship. Antohi paired with fellow first-year Estefania Navarro for just the second time in their young college careers. Just as in the singles matchup, it was the ninth-seeded Maroons versus the competitors of Wash U who held the top seed.

Out of the 64 doubles teams in the tournament, three different Chicago tandems made it all the way to the quarterfinals. Despite coming up short in both championship matches, the South Siders certainly made a statement this weekend with noteworthy success across the board, boding well for the upcoming season.

A nt oh i is excited about the team’s success, but acknowledges room for improve-

ment. “We have a very talented team and a lot of depth in the lineup on both the men’s and women’s sides,” the firstyear said. “I think that a little more practice indoors and training in general leading up to the matches might have helped secure us the first place win [in doubles], but my opponents played well and deserved the win.”

The first-year is certainly making her mark on collegiate tennis. On her first month she said, “ I’ve been enjoying college tennis a lot so far, largely because the team and our coaches have been so welcoming and fun to work w ith. Ma nag i ng time w ith practice and tournaments has been challenging, but, because our fall season is so short, tournaments will not be a problem for the rest of the quarter.”

T he Maroon women now have a long break until their matchup versus Kenyon College and Denison University at Greencastle, Indiana, on February 17. The men will compete in the ITA Oracle Cup in Surprise, Arizona, on October 13–16.