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OCTOBER 11, 2016

THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SINCE 1892

CC CANDIDATE REMOVED FROM BALLOT

Shrine of Christ the King Church Commemorates Anniversary of Fire

BY KATIE AKIN

After mass, Reverend Canon Matthew Talarico led the group DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR of more than 100 people across The Shrine of Christ the the street, where he delivered King Church in Woodlawn held a speech recognizing the many an event on Saturday morning people who had made it possible to commemorate the anniversa- to save the Shrine.

“This is a day of thanksgiving, ry of last year’s fire that severely this is a day of hope,” he said. damaged the historic building.

The event began with an out- “Today this blessed day, one year door mass in the lot across East after the fire at Shrine of Christ 64th Street, facing the church. the King.”

A mong those recognized An altar, a statue of the Virgin Mary, and the Shrine’s prized were the community groups who 17th-century figure of the infant had rallied to save the church Jesus were brought out to the from demolition, including the lawn for worship.

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Uncommon Interview: Writein Candidate Larry Kotlikoff

BY HILLY STEINMETZ ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

On Thursday, the Chicago Maroon interviewed Laurence Kotlikoff, a professor of economics at Boston University who is running as a write-in independent candidate in the 2016 presidential election.

Kotlikoff stressed that current policies place an unfair burden on the current generation of college students. He spoke about how the United States’s poor fiscal policy has resulted in a massive amount of debt. He also said that the United States’s current stance on climate change is endangering future generations.

T he Facebook page Laurence Kotlikoff for President is

managed by first-year Adam Oppenheimer. The page had 120 likes at the time of publication.

C H IC A G O M A R O O N : W hat makes you a better candidate than Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, or Gary Johnson?

Laurence Kotlikoff: Being a trained economist, having dealt with these policy issues that were facing policy problems, knowing how to measure our fiscal insolvency, having written a book on healthcare reform, having written a book on banking reform, hav ing written a book on taxes and tax reform, having written a book about social security and social security reform, and having done lots of research on these Continued on page 2

SG Cabinet Positions Announced

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Student Government General Assembly confirmed the Student Government (SG) Cabinet for the academic year on Monday evening. The executive committee is responsible for reviewing applications and interviewing candidates. The cabinet is composed of directors, committee chairs, secretaries, and the parliamentarian.

The Cult of Donald Trump Page 7 Trump reflects his supporters: those who are hateful toward the country’s present and scared of its future

The Committee on Student Employment is the only new committee for this academic year and will be chaired by graduate student Claudio Sansone. The only unfilled position in the newly appointed cabinet is the Director of Technology.

According to SG President Eric Holmberg, the committees will be filled by Wednesday. Below are the cabinet positions that were confirmed for the coming year: Continued on page 5

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JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Alexandra Davis

Gary Johnson speaks with Steve Edwards at the I-House Assembly Hall.

Gary Johnson Touts Honesty, Defends Foreign Policy Lapses

BY HAICHAO WU

are not hypocrites.”

Dissatisfaction with the major party candidates means Gary Johnson, the Libertar- Johnson has significantly imian Party nominee for president, proved on his showing in the addressed a crowd of over 200 2012 election in polls so far this cycle, putting him in position to students on campus Friday.

The former Republican Gov- play a decisive role on Election ernor of New Mexico began with Day. In his address to a packed a remark on honesty: “If you I-House Assembly Hall, Johnson tell the truth, you don’t have offered a clear vision of what he to remember anything…. One stands for: limited government, of the unforgivable sins in life protection of minority rights, is hypocrisy—saying one thing and freedom of choice. “ I also believe that most and doing another thing. Myself and Bill Weld, [the Libertarian Americans are [for a] free marnominee for vice president], we Continued on page 5 MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Law School Professor Discusses Free Speech in Book Talk

BY DEEPTI SAILAPPAN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

A Law School professor led a discussion on Thursday evening on how judicial enforcement of free speech was reached through compromise between liberals and conservatives in the early twentieth century.

The hour-long discussion held at the Seminary Co-Op focused on Laura Weinrib’s new book The Taming of Free Speech: America’s Civil Liberties Compromise.

After reading the book’s fi rst few pages, Weinrib described modern America’s conception of free speech: the idea “that people are free to stand on the street corner or publish a journal with the most infl ammato-

ry, unpopular, subversive sorts of arguments, and the First Amendment supports them in this.” Weinrib argued that this liberty is fairly recent, as illustrated by the lax oversight of courts over Congressional free speech restrictions before 1925.

According to Weinrib, law historians have traditionally attributed the shift in judicial interpretation of free speech to a realization of its importance after stringent government restrictions on speech during World War I. Weinrib said the conventional view holds that “this repression was so obviously bad, it chilled speech to such an extent, that a number of important thinkers, legal theorists, and especially a couple of Continued on page 5

Finding Value at the 10th Annual Hyde Park Used Book Sale

Maroons Defeat No. 4 Rochester

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The event brought together a community of booklovers for dirt-cheap finds last weekend.

Rochester pressed for an equalizing goal at the end of the game, but the Maroons managed to hold on.

MCA Panel Discusses Black Identity, Beyoncé, and Beyond Page 9 The Museum of Contemporary Art hosted a panel on the role of black artists.

T he Election a nd Ru les ( E&R) Committee met Sunday afternoon to deliberate on whether first-year Andrew Harrington could remain on the ballot for the Class of 2020 College Council.

Ha r r i ng t on v iolat ed A rticle I, Section 1 of the Election By-Laws, which states that candidates must attend a candidate meeting prior to the election. At the meeting on Friday, candidates were read a candidate’s packet containing rules and guidelines for the election and were assig ned time-slots for tabling in Reynolds Club.

When given a chance to explain his absence at the rules meeting, Harrington said it was intended as a protest of the student government system. “ The way I see it there are fundamental f laws that exist within the University of Chicago. The only way to dig at them is to not have empty platitude…I’m not here because I broke procedural rules, but because I broke the status quo.”

“I am bedeviled,” said Max Freedman, the chair of E&R. Har r ing ton has been removed from the ballot for this election cycle but may still run as a write-in candidate. This is the second complaint filed w ith E&R for this election cycle. Another candidate was issued a warning last week after a student affiliated with his campaign vandalized an opponent’s chalkings, erasing some of them and adding text to others implying the opponent supported Donald Trump.

Ballots will be emailed to first-years on October 12 at 10 a.m. Students will be able to vote for four out of the now 18 candidates who will be on the ballot. Voting closes October 14 at 4:30 p.m.

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New Student-Focused Publication Arrives on Campus

BY RADHIKA UPADHYE MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The Tab is the newest publication on campus.

Founded in the U.K., the student-focused media startup is now establishing itself in the U.S. and Canada. The UChicago branch will become part of a network that includes over 80 other universities.

Second-years Rachel Bailey and Maya Freddy Jones are working as co-launch managers of The Tab UChicago.

Bailey, an international student from the U.K., was asked over the summer to

help set up The Tab at the University.

She enlisted Jones to help with the task, and they expect The Tab UChicago to officially launch later this month.

While The Tab’s website does not yet link to a page for University of Chicago news, the branch has already begun to publish articles. These stories are published both online and on The Tab’s app.

“The Tab is basically a mix of everything,” Bailey said. The Tab puts up polls, quizzes, and light, entertainment-driven articles as well as more serious news stories.

For example, the very fi rst piece published, “An Ode to the Harper Bathroom Graffiti,” featured photographs of what

the article calls “the most inspiring pieces of writing on the Harper walls.” The next day, they released a news article about the statue of Georgiana Simpson, which will be the fi rst statue of a woman on campus.

The Tab UChicago is currently focused on recruiting writers. There will be a group of 10 fellows, each committed to writing three stories per month.

A group of contributing writers will also write for The Tab. “[The Tab] kind of wants to have a perspective that only a UChicago student can provide,” Jones said.

While Bailey and Jones are not paid

for their work, writers can earn money based on the number of times readers interact with their articles online. Fellows are given the opportunity to apply for internships with The Tab as well as with some of the publication’s partner organizations, including Buzzfeed and the Daily Mail.

“It’s just a great opportunity for people to speak their minds, have their views heard,” Bailey said. “We want to hear the stories which people aren’t telling.”

While the deadline to submit fellowship applications was October 10, The Tab UChicago is still open to having contributors join the team.

First Statue of a Woman on “I’ve had a lot of experience that equips Campus to Be Installed in Reynolds me to handle foreign policy challenges.”

BY FENG YE NEWS STAFF

A statue of a woman will be installed in Reynolds Club in early 2017, the students in charge of the project told WBEZ Chicago.

The bronze bust of Georgiana Simpson will be the first statue on campus to solely feature a woman. The only existing statue that includes a woman is the sculpture of Jules and Gwen Knapp in front of the Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery.

Simpson was the first black woman to receive a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and the second black woman to earn the honor in the United States.

In March, Monumental Women, found-

ed by third-years Asya Akca and Shae Omonijo, received $9,500 from the Uncommon Fund to create the statue.

“I think it’s very significant to have Dr. Georgiana Simpson’s bust in that building to symbolize not only the different triumphs, but also to have a more unifying factor that Georgiana Simpson’s history is as important as the other alumni that we honor,” Akca told WBEZ. Simpson earned an A.B. in German language and literature at the University in 1911. After teaching in Washington, D.C. at M Street High School and later Dunbar High School, she returned to the University and received a Ph.D. in German philology from the University in 1921.

Courtesy of the University of Chicago

CORRECTIONS: The headline of an article published on October 7 about a College Council E&R complaint stated that a candidate’s ads were “defamed.” It should have said “defaced.”

An article published on October 7 titled “UCSC Celebrates 20th Anniversary” incorrectly stated that the first UCSC Second Saturday session was to be held on Saturday, October 8 not Saturday, October 15. The article reflected a misprint on the UCSC website.

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topics, that makes me more knowledgeable about the problems from a position of technical knowledge to understand where the country is and where it needs to go. When you’re trained as a lawyer and you do not have economics training, you’re not really equipped to assess economic problems and to fix them. When you’re trained in business—well, in Trump’s case he was not trained; his experience is in scamming people and ridiculing people, and he’s sold himself up as a brand, but that doesn’t give him any expertise in dealing with any of these domestic issues. He’s got no real handle on our policy problems and how to fix them. And I don’t see anything in terms of concrete policy proposals coming out from Clinton or Trump on their websites that really is what’s needed.

When it comes to foreign policy, Secretary Clinton has had a lot of foreign policy experience which I haven’t. On the other hand, I’ve been all over the world. I travel all the time. I’ve talked with high level officials from presidents to heads of central banks to labor ministers. So, I’ve had a lot of experience that equips me to handle foreign policy challenges [...]

CM: W hy do you think students like those at the University of Chicago should vote for you in this upcoming election?

LK: I think they should think about their future and understand the problems we’re facing. […] Then, go back to the website of Clinton and Trump, and see whether any of these problems are even being described or addressed. And I think [...] that they’ll see that I’m a far better choice to be serving as president than either of these individuals. […] I remain optimistic about my chances. In economics we have game theory where you can have multiple equilibria. You can have an outcome that’s stable but you can have another equilibrium that’s equally stable.

Which equilibrium is chosen is based on people’s beliefs of what other people are doing. If everybody coordinates on equilibrium A, they go there. If everybody coordinates on equilibrium B, they go there. There’s nothing in economics and the math that will tell us the probability of this equilibrium versus that, that’s the nature of mobile equilibria.

So, we can’t put in a probability assessment. For example, if John Kasich were publicly to endorse me tomorrow […] it would flip the entire election with one tweet. [...] So many people are unhappy with the equilibrium they’ve coordinat-

ed on, which is Trump or Clinton. […]

So, I think, going back to your question, I’m expecting and hoping that Chicago students will do their homework and that they will immediately get to work to make it happen. I put myself out there, it’s now your generation’s job to make this happen.

CM: One of the most extensive parts of your platform is tax reform. [Would] you mind briefly explaining some your proposals and how they might be better than current tax policy?

LK: So, right now we have three taxes that are dysfunctional. We have a corporate income tax that is generating very little revenue. Its biggest “achievement” is to drive investment and jobs out of the country. It’s not hurting the companies, it’s hurting the workers who are left behind without the jobs and the higher wages. We have an estate and gift tax that’s generating far too little revenue given the spending we have. So, I’m going to replace these things with functional taxes that are going to do what we are trying to achieve. So, one of the things I have is a personal consumption tax on the rich. It’s on consumption so it’s not paid for out of wages but paid for out of the wealth. That’s a proposal that dates back to a bipartisan bill called the USA Tax. It was introduced years ago […] You’d have to pay taxes […] on your airplanes, yachts, and cars, any major durables that you purchased, you’re getting consumption services and you have to pay on those. […] I’m introducing an $80 per cubic ton CO2 emission carbon tax, starting immediately. I’m also introducing a tax reform, a $2000 payment per person that’s independent of your income— something we reference as a negative income tax. I’m also modifying the food stamps program so that free food is distributed to children in low-income neighborhoods in schools in the form of free meals a day, and also to adults in food distribution centers in low-income neighborhoods. I’m also introducing a new health reform that’s a fundamental change. […] It’s shifting the tax system towards consumption taxation and away from income taxation. But, it’s doing it in a way that is going to stimulate investment. Because getting rid of the corporate income tax when you the highest effective income tax rate in the developed world which is around 35 percent, and you set it to zero, and everybody else is at 22 percent, you’re going to have a massive inflow of investment Continued on page 4

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Law Professor Discusses Latest Book A distinguished scholar of corporate law and investment funds examined the way Americans save money at a talk on campus Monday.

William Birdthistle, Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, spoke at the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore on Monday about his latest book, Empire of the Fund.

He began with an overview of how Americans save now. With demise of the pension and diminishing returns from our social security, personal saving has become the last source of incomes for our retirement, he said.

So, what’s wrong with the way we save now? Birdthistle said that Americans normally put their personal savings into mutual funds in hopes of receiving a decent rate of return when they retire.

Birdthistle said there are three major problems with that approach.

First, he said the structure of the mutual fund industry is fl awed. “Most mutual funds compensate their advisers by giving a certain percentage of the money they are managing,” he said, “but simply adding more people (and more money) into the fund doesn’t make you, the individual investor, any richer.” The incentive is misplaced, he said.

Second, he said individuals are not good at making the right investment decisions. Birdthistle noted that it is difficult for individuals to decide upon the amount of money they should save and

the best person to manage their money.

Third, the fund managers can work against the interests of the investors.

Birdthistle described various tricks played upon the investors as “the dark testimony to human creativity,” saying that “people can use your money under their care for their own benefit.”

Turning to solutions, Birdthistle suggested the audience choose the fund that charges the smallest fees.

He also discussed the advantages and challenges of alternative investment options, such as money market funds, exchange-traded funds, and target date funds.

Yet the best and simplest suggestion Birdthistle gave is to keep an eye on investments. “ You just put the money in and you don’t worry about it anymore, and if it doesn’t work in the way that you think is going to, you will be in a horrible surprise,” Birdthistle said. “ That’s what happened in 2008.”

A fter the talk, Birdthistle took questions from the audience. During the Q&A, he touched on the disparities in different countries’ saving systems, and the role of government regulation in finance. Birdthistle said he became aware of the huge risks of the system when he worked as a corporate lawyer. “Over the course of the few weeks, dur ing the boot train ing camp, [ I learned] all the amazing ways people accuse the mutual funds of swindling.”

His book is currently available for purchase at the Seminary Co-Op Bookstore.

First Year CC Candidates Weigh in on Divestment , SG Pay, Free Tampons

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

On Thursday, THE MAROON sent the following questions to the candidates for Class of 2020 College Council representatives.

The candidates were given until Sunday at 11:59 p.m. to respond. The candidates submitted 50-word explanations to the questions. Their responses can be found online at chicagomaroon.com.

Ballots will be emailed to first-year students on October 12 at 10 a.m. and polls will close October 14 at 4:30 p.m. Students may vote for four different candidates.

Question 1: Would you support a resolution proposing divestment from countries that commit human rights violations?

Yes: Adam Berger, Jay Gibbs, Mike Wiley, Edward Chang, Jahne Brown, Veronica Myers, Antonia Stefanescu, Teddy Knox No: Grant Morrison, Andy Hatem, Jersey Fonseca, Zarek Drozda Abstain: Anitej Ramesh, Andres Leland, Kosi Achife, Sat Gupta, JP Neenan, Hunter Brookman Question 2: Would you support the resolution that calls on the University to condemn any student who “obstructs or disrupts” free speech?

Yes: Jay Gibbs, Mike Wiley, Anitej Ramesh, Antonia Stefanescu, Teddy Knox, Hunter Brookman No: Edward Chang, Jahne Brown, Andres Leland, Veronica Myers, Zarek Drozda, Kosi Achife, Jersey Fonseca, Andy Hatem, Sat Gupta Abstain: Grant Morrison, JP Neenan, Adam Berger Question 3: If so, would you consider pro-

posing it again?

Yes: Jay Gibbs, Mike Wiley, Anitej Ramesh, Antonia Stefanescu, Teddy Knox, Hunter Brookman Question 4: Would you support a transparency bylaw amendment, which reads, “College Council shall not prohibit photography or the use of recording devices at its meetings”?

Yes: Adam Berger, Mike Wiley, Anitej Ramesh, Edward Chang, Jahne Brown, Andres Leland, Veronica Myers, Antonia Stefanescu, Zarek Drozda, JP Neenan, Sat Gupta, Kosi Achife, Jersey Fonseca, Andy Hatem, Grant Morrison, Teddy Knox, Hunter Brookman No: Jay Gibbs Question 5: Would you support the University providing free sanitary pads and tampons in campus bathrooms?

Yes: Adam Berger, Mike Wiley, Anitej Ramesh, Edward Chang, Jahne Brown, Andres Leland, Veronica Myers, Antonia Stefanescu, Zarek Drozda, Sat Gupta, Kosi Achife, Jersey Fonseca, Andy Hatem, Grant Morrison, Jay Gibbs, Teddy Knox, Hunter Brookman Abstain: JP Neenan Question 6: Would you support a payment program for members of executive committee, as proposed last year?

Yes: Jay Gibbs, Jahne Brown, Andres Leland, Veronica Myers, Antonia Stefanescu, Kosi Achife, Jersey Fonseca, Andy Hatem No: Adam Berger, Mike Wiley, Anitej Ramesh, Zarek Drozda, JP Neenan, Sat Gupta, Teddy Knox, Hunter Brookman Abstain: Edward Chang, Grant Morrison Question 7: Do you support graduate student unionization?

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William Birdthistle discusses his book Empire of the Fund: The Way We Save Now on Oct. 20 in the Seminary Co-op.

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Outdoor Mass Held in Honor of Those Who Fought Fire and Saved Church from Demolition Continued from front page

Coalition to Save the Shrine, the nearby churches that had shared their space with the Shrine’s congregation, the Archdiocese of Chicago, and the fi refighters who battled the blaze.

Many of the historical societies involved with the initial campaign to save the church were also present at the event to pledge their continuing support of the Shrine.

“We want you to know we are here with you, on behalf of all the preservation communities in Chicago, we are here with you,” said Ward Miller, director of Preservation Chicago. “It doesn’t stop with just a landmark designation and a change, if you will, in ownership. We are here with you, in Woodlawn, and with the faithful, and with the community, until your building is reconstructed.”

In the procession that followed the speech, the firefighters led the group around the block, carrying the restored statue of the infant Jesus that they had saved from the wreckage just a year before. Behind them was a group of church leaders leading the congregation in prayer and song while carrying the statue of Mary.

Talarico invited guests to join the congregation in praying the rosary as they walked. “The fire occurred on October the

seventh, which is that very special day in the whole year when we commemorate the rosary,” he explained. “We thought this would be a most appropriate prayer on this anniversary.”

He continued, “Despite the sorrowful thorns that cause us pain in life, God does send many roses to us.”

Last October’s fi re began when rags covered in wood stain were left out and spontaneously combusted overnight. The building, which was over 90 years old and the only Catholic church in Woodlawn, was declared unsafe after the roof, windows, and interior of the building suffered significant damage. In February, after months of negotiations, the Archdiocese deeded the property to The Institute of Christ the King, a national collection of Catholic churches. Since then, the Institute has been working alongside multiple historical preservation groups to stabilize and restore the church.

Kaitlyn Akin The restoration process officially beFirefighters carry the restored statue of the infant Jesus that they saved from the wreckgan in April when workers cleared rubage a year before. ble from inside the church and catalogued the damage. It was determined that the pairing the roof, will cost approximately support and hope throughout the rebuildsteel beams supporting the roof were $3 million. With over $1.5 million raised ing process.

“We thank God, as we pray for one anunstable and would have to be replaced. through crowdfunding and donations to These new beams will be made during the date, the Shrine expects to secure large other and for peace among all our fellow donations through several estates. At citizens, and [...] we ask God to bless our winter and installed next summer.

This initial phase of the project, which the event, church and community leaders efforts to rebuild his home in the midst of will include stabilizing the facade and re- emphasized the importance of community our community,” Talarico said.

Disruptive Conduct Committee to Hold Forum Thursday

BY ALEX WARD SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

At an open forum on Thursday, students will have the opportunity to give a University committee suggestions on how and when it should discipline students who disrupt free speech on campus.

The meeting will run from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Reynolds Club South

Lounge. Committee Chair Randy Picker, committee member Michele Rasmussen, and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs Ingrid Gould will be at the discussion.

The newly created Committee on University Discipline for Disruptive Conduct has been tasked with reviving a disciplinary system that hasn’t been used since the 1970s.

According to a message sent by Provost Eric D. Isaacs announcing the committee’s creation, the members will evaluate issues with the All-University Disciplinary System’s procedures regarding disruptions of University functions. T he announcement also states that the committee was formed in response to the perceived threat to the University’s values posed by multi-

ple situations last year in which speakers were interrupted by shouting and protests from the audience. The committee’s recommendations are due on December 15.

The Maroon obtained a copy of the All-University Disciplinary System’s procedures from Committee Chair Randy Picker. The procedures can be found online at chicagomaroon.com.

“I’m a far better choice to be serving as president than [Clinton and Trump].”

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into this country. Companies are going to be dying to operate here.

CM: In terms of gun policy, how do you hope to achieve reform with the help of the NRA, an organization that is known for its stubbornness on gun policy reform?

LK: I think part of where the NRA is coming from is that people want to be able to defend themselves. In situations where they’re being attacked, you’re in a nightclub and somebody comes in and locks the door and starts killing people, you want to be able to defend yourself.

When I think about what seems to be irreconcilable differences between people, I try to understand both sides of the groups’ sense of concern. So I’m proposing that we deputize a large fraction of the population to be carrying all the time non-lethal weapons to defend themselves and others, including police in these gun terrorist situation.

They could be guns with rubber bullets, they could be Tasers, they could tear gas canisters, they could be smoke grenades. […] I’m proposing that police be armed with non-lethal weapons so that they don’t approach people who they suspect of having violated minor traffic ordinances with drawn guns. That’s ridiculous. It should be a last means of defense. I think there’s ways to deal with this series of brutal police inci-

dences that have led to innocent black men being killed by police. That’s destroyed not only the lives of these black men, but also the lives of these people that perpetrated those mistakes or crimes depending on how you read it. […]

If the NRA is not willing to work with me on this, I would take the lead in setting up an alternative NRA, because I think that a majority of NRA members have a different perspective than the leadership of the NRA. So, I would encourage the formation of a substitute NRA with a slightly different name that would put the NRA out of business if it came to it.

I don’t think the A R-15 assault weapon […] [is] a hunting weapon, I don’t think we need that for recreation.

I think it should be banned, and I think we should be banning assault weapons. And I think I can get the NRA to agree to this in the context of addressing some things that they’re concerned about and that everybody should be concerned about. But, I’m somebody who’s very impatient to fix things, and if I were president I would not be cowed down to anybody. […] It’s about time to start acting reasonably. […] These issues are fixable.

CM: You also support a warmer relationship with Russia, however, many members of NATO such as the Baltic states, currently fear Russian aggres-

sion. What would be the benefits of bettering our relationship with Russia over fracturing these alliances?

LK: I want to be clear: I’m not suggesting that in any way we…undermine NATO. I’m suggesting from some experience working in Russia in recent years, and consulting in past, I have some understanding of some part of the concern that the Russian government has with their sense of being encircled

by NATO and if you ask where they’re coming from when they think about Crimea, they feel […] that K hrushchev just handed this as a present to the Ukraine, never thinking that the Soviet Union would ever be dissolved.

When Ukraine had this uprising that kicked out the Russian-backed president and replaced him [...] with the current leader, the next thing was going to be Ukraine becoming a part of NATO and the Crimea having NATO troops right next to Russia’s major naval base. […] Putin is not our friend and not our enemy. He’s a very brutal leader I think, he’s not somebody that we should underestimate in terms of his [lack of ] concern of human rights and we see that right now in Syria. [...] There’s enough areas of give and take here where we can reach an agreement with Russia. […] This relationship needs to be normalized. It just doesn’t make any fundamental sense for us to be be in

conflict with Russia, for the Cold War to be restarted. […] But we can’t underestimate Putin and we can’t think he’s a good guy. I’m trying to talk about a relationship that normalizes our relationship, I’m not understating the nature of this person. […]

CM: How do you hope to alleviate student loan debt?

LK: I’m proposing that every student be able to borrow at the long term government bond rate, which is three and half so percent third year bond rate. That’s a whole lot lower than the eight percent that a lot of people are repaying or borrowing. Why do I justify that? […] We have to understand that education is a public good that creates external benefits to society by having an educated population. I think that justifies this kind of […] investment in the education of younger people. […]

I would also be publically advocating parents […] take as their responsibility helping their children with educational expenses.

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very important Supreme Court justices awoke to the importance of a robust commitment to free speech enforced by the First Amendment.”

The Taming of Free Speech claims the opposite: the emergence of free speech as a protected doctrine occurred despite, not because of, the courts. The movement toward free speech was also both more radical and conservative than is typically assumed, Weinrib said.

Weinrib identified two phases in the development of free speech: the 1910s through the 1920s, dominated by pro-

gressive defense of strikes, boycotts, and other economic activities, and the 1930s through the 1940s, marked by conservatives’ use of the First Amendment to protect corporations’ privacy.

Progressives distrusted courts and viewed them as backing the interests of industries over the rights of workers, Weinrib said. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), founded in 1920, called to eliminate judicial review—a sharp contrast, Weinrib observed, to its focus today on slashing laws it feels constrain individual liberties.

A c c ord i ng t o Wei n r ib, be cause grassroots efforts promoting workers’

rights often failed, the ACLU began working within the court system. Judicial review gained further public support in 1937 when President Franklin R oosevelt, irate with the Supreme Court for claiming New Deal legislation overstepped the Interstate Commerce Clause, issued his court-packing plan, a decried abuse of executive power.

In order to retain authority, courts drifted away from the Interstate Commerce Clause and toward the First Amendment to defend corporate rights, Weinrib said. This ushered in the second age of the free speech movement,

marked by cases like National Labor Relations Board v. Ford Motor Co. (1940), as a result of which Ford was allowed to distribute anti-union pamphlets to its employees.

Asked how her project came about, Weinrib revealed that she originally planned to study internal ACLU conf licts and “places where there was a clash between what seemed like two liberal values: equality and autonomy.”

The real story, however, proved more complex. “ This was a surprise,” she said. “ This was not what I expected when I set out to research this book.”

“We need a chess player in the White House.”

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ket,” Johnson told the crowd. “Free market is the bottom line. I think it means more U.S jobs, not less U.S jobs.”

He embraced immigration, and said the U.S. should make it as easy as possible for immigrants to fi nd work: “Building a wall across the border is...just crazy.”

After touching on his support for marriage equality, abortion rights and the legalization of marijuana, Johnson addressed military spending and foreign policy, two of his signature issues. He fi rst affi rmed his support of a strong national defense: “The president’s fi rst and foremost responsibility is to keep us and our freedom safe...[That means] having a military capability that is unquestionably second to none.”

However, Johnson voiced his skepti-

cism about military interventions abroad.

Before intervening, Johnson said, he “would have to be convinced it is absolutely necessary to protect the American people or clear U.S interests.” Johnson said, “I would be the skeptic in the room.”

Johnson referenced the U.S intervention in Iraq and its unintended and undesirable consequences as reasons to question the effectiveness of policies of regime change. “Saddam was horrible,” Johnson said, “but is what we replaced him with any better?”

“We need a chess player in the White House,” Johnson said of the need to balance priorities and consider consequences before foreign interventions. “More importantly,” he said, “we need a policy guided by principles, not politics.”

Students’ reactions to Johnson’s lecture varied, but overall he was warmly

SG Assembly Confirms SG Cabinet

received in the hall. During the ques- “What is Aleppo?” response to a question tion-and-answer session that followed, on the crisis in Syria on MSNBC, and dozens of students lined up to ask the his inability in a recent MSNBC town governor his views on immigration poli- hall to name a foreign leader he admired. cy and government-provided health care, The student asked if those responses how he’d handle Russia and China, and undermined his credibility as a presihis opinions of the other presidential dential candidate. Johnson responded candidates, Donald Trump and Hillary that knowledge of foreign leaders is not a qualification for putting American solClinton.

A second-year law student asked diers in danger. He said that being able Johnson how he would continue protect- to “dot the I’s and cross the T’s on names ing LGBTQ+ rights if Trump or Clinton of foreign leaders or geographic locations” becomes president. Johnson responded does not qualify a candidate to be presthat even if he failed to become president ident.

After the session, Johnson moved to he had no intention of receding from public life. “I would provide—and continue to the lounge to answer questions from the provide—a voice to protect those inter- press and spoke on topics like drug polests. A vote for Johnson is the fi rst vote icy and campaign fi nance reform. “I am for whole lot of people to say these issues putting myself out here to answer any questions you may have,” Johnson said. matter.”

Another student brought up Johnson’s “Other candidates may not do that.”

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Class of 2020 College Council Representative Candidates Respond to Survey Continued from page 3

Yes: Adam Berger, Mike Wiley, Edward Chang, Jahne Brown, Andres Leland, Veronica Myers, Antonia Stefanescu, Zarek Drozda, Sat Gupta, Kosi Achife, Jersey Fonseca, Andy Hatem, Grant Morrison, Jay Gibbs, JP Neenan, Teddy Knox, Hunter Brookman No: Anitej Ramesh The candidates were also asked to write a 100-word candidate statement: Adam Berger Global Studies (intended) Bainbridge, OH UChicago already feels like home. This class feels like family. You, my new friends, are unbelievably caring and talented. You’re artists and essayists, thinkers and learners.

You’re creators, people who bring value into the world.

I am a communicator. As a leader in my high school and in my job as a waiter, I’ve learned to use that trait to solve problems.

Now, I want to advocate for you. I will listen to you and be your voice. You have something to say; let me shout it out for you. Let’s be a force for good.

Anitej Ramesh Mathematics Cedar Park, TX Student Government in past years has been a disgrace to this student body and campus. Instead of effecting real change for the students of this esteemed university, it has often prioritized the needs of its own governing body over the needs of its constituency. I am dedicated to increasing transparency, eliminating the scourge of resume inflation in SG, and reversing climate change, a task that my opponents have failed to champion. My other economically feasible proposals include building a new L Line through campus, placing curtains on Mansueto, and hosting Bar Night every night. I will set the record straight.

Jay Gibbs Economics and East Asian Studies Chattanooga, TN Class of 2020, this year’s elections have been about reality. Potential Presidents and Council Representatives alike need to examine both what they ought to do and what they CAN do. Campaigns must be rooted in feasibility. As a candidate, I want to promote achievable modes of transparency, promote existing groups for menstrual products, keep the budget fair for undergraduates, and ensure that racist and predatory fraternities are held to the standards of the proper ones. I won’t promise to halve tuition or make water from wine. I will fight for reality and the preservation of our class’ voice.

Mike Wiley Public Policy St. Louis, MO At the end of breakfast last week, I stood up and told everybody, “I’m heading back home.” I almost corrected myself; it was the first time I had ever referred to ‘home’ as anywhere other than St. Louis, MO. So why am I running? I’m running for everybody who sees this school as home, or anybody who wants to.

Home isn’t a perfect place. There will always be cleaning to do. But together, we might just make this place a little nicer, a little warmer, a bit more like home.

Edward Chang Economics Beijing, China Hey Class of 2020, My name is Edward Chang, and I’m run-

ning to be your class representative.

In my decade at the International School of Beijing, I lost my circle of close friends about every three or four years because they would move on to a different country for their parents’ jobs. These moments of loss have helped clarify what matters most to me, and in turn, have shaped my ambitions for our school: a home for everyone, regardless of background.

Find out more about my platform at www. facebook.com/bereadyvoteeddy Jahne Brown Political Science Louisville, KY Hello Class of 2020, I’m Jahne Brown. I am extremely passionate about activism and the inherent right of all students to attend a school that is both inclusive and challenging.

In high school as president of the Black Student Union, I was an activist who organized around protecting marginalized groups. As a student government representative, I will build on this experience with a platform centered on transparency. Specifically, I am advocating for administration office hours, a State of the Union like address, a quarterly forum with the provost and president, and several more Climate Surveys with higher student turnout.

Andres Leland Political Science Wichita, KS My name is Andres Leland and I’m running with #KJVA for College Council! As a Latino and Kansan, I value caring for my community. The phrase “Mi casa es tu casa” taught me the importance of connecting with others and fostering open communities. Thus, I’ll focus on making our campus a gateway to the community by promoting better student-employee relations through surveys and employee-student meals and engaging with neighborhood-businesses by expanding the Maroon Dollar’s usage. I also support working with student activist groups and groups focused on creating better non-binary/transgender housing policies.

Veronica Myers Political Science and Public Policy with a Human Rights Concentration Camarillo, CA My name is Veronica Myers and I am part of the #KJVA slate running for Class Council. As a bisexual female, I know firsthand what it’s like to not see yourself represented in positions of power, so it is imperative for me to make sure all voices are equally represented. I hail from Southern California, a place that directly suffers from the consequences of climate change, which pushed me to focus my platform on sustainability. The university needs to be held to higher standards of energy efficiency and responsible consumption through investment in both sustainable resources and local businesses.

Antonia Stefanescu Political Science and Philosophy New York, NY A vote for Antonia is a vote for yourself!

I don’t plan on putting my policies first and I certainly don’t plan on promising you things I can’t achieve. What I do promise is to value your voice more than my own, since I’m representing you. I also promise to make small but effective improvements, like I did in changing the Bartlett breakfast time to end at 10:30 instead of 9:30. If you want this type of representation, vote Antonia. Together we can make UChicago a comfortable home for the next four years!

Zarek Drozda Public Policy and Economics Los Altos, CA My primary focus will always be on representing the Class of 2020 as opposed to advocating for my own ideas. Standing up for students, finding common ground, and implementing concrete solutions will always come first. My “platform” is just a list of proposals - initiatives that in an ideal world I would like to see happen, but also goals I will continue to work towards.

Quick-list of proposals: better shuttle routes, fitness facility for South/BJ, printers for Max, make the campus greener, further support for sexual assault programs, and repair admin relationship.

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ zarekd20/ JP Neenan Undecided Kenilworth, IL Hi my name is JP Neenan and I am running for College Council. I am passionate about service and nothing would be more inspiring or fulfilling than to be allowed to serve such a diverse, intellectual and impassioned community to the best of my ability. I want to bring my passion, work ethic and leadership skills to the College Council to get you, the Class of 2020, what you want out of your university. My campaign will focus on three areas: Mental Health, Budget/Costs, and School Pride. Check out my Facebook page (JPNEENAN4UChicago).

Sat Gupta Public Policy Short Hills, NJ Here are my main policies: UChicago should provide free tampons and sanitation pads in all bathrooms. If houses can provide free condoms, then the University can provide free menstrual health items. Period.

The University should also improve its wifi, because good Internet access is a necessity for all classes and RSOs. Finally, because of scandals, Greek Life organizations have been put on probation. Organizations aren’t affected equally by these restrictions, and there needs to be a dialogue on how organizations can be held accountable while still keeping fun alive.

Also, put air conditioning in Rockefeller Chapel and Mandel. Plz. Obi Kosarachi (Kosi) Achife Economics Pearland, TX My name is Kosi Achife, and I’m running with #KJVA slate! My focus is to improve services on campus in order to provide greater care for students with disabilities and mental illness, sexual assault victims, and students of low income. I will push for more funding to go towards strengthening Student Disability Services. Also, UChicago must reform its policy on leave of absence for students with mental illness. I will advocate for sexual misconduct training for perpetrators of sexual assault.

Finally, for low income students, dining hall hours need to be extended on Saturdays.

Jersey Fonseca Computer Science and Economics Paterson, NJ I am beyond proud to be at The University of Chicago, and that is why I’d be honored to represent the students I feel such a strong connection to. Something I’ve learned here in such a short time is what it means to have a moral obligation. For the first time in a long time, I feel like I’m at home. For that, I feel obligated to do my part and contribute to the betterment

of this school as so many before I have done so that I can feel the way I do now.

Andy Hatem Public Policy New York, NY I will Make UChicago Great Again by making UChicago more affordable and by fighting sexual assault on campus, addressing the biggest issues facing our university.

I want to expand financial aid, limit tuition increases, raise work-study wages, and eliminate the summer work expectation. This will ensure that no student leaves college with crushing debt. Let’s Make UChicago Affordable Again.

Resources for Sexual Violence Prevention has one staffer for thousands of students. I won’t rest until RSVP funding is doubled. Let’s Make UChicago Safe Again.

To read the rest of my platform, visit facebook.com/AndyHatem.

Grant Morrison Undecided Brighton, MI Attention, people of Bikini Bottom! You have been cheated and lied to! The gentle laborer shall no longer suffer from the noxious greed of Mr. Krabs! We will dismantle oppression board by board! We’ll saw the foundation of big business in half, even if it takes AN ETERNITY! With your support, we will send the hammer of the people’s will crashing through the windows of Mr. Krabs’ HOUSE OF SERVITUDE! Nobody gives a care about the fate of labor as long as they can get their instant gratification.

Teddy Knox Economics Davis, CA I’m committed to feasible goals that can concretely improve the lives of all UChicago students. Most importantly, that means making college life more financially accessible by opening the dining halls on Saturday nights, and including laundry and printing credits with the Student Life Fee. Students that are already paying to attend this school shouldn’t have to go out of pocket to cover necessary living expenses. I also support better Internet communications on campus, primarily by dedicating funds to fixing the uchicago_secure wireless network. Check out my detailed platform at facebook.com/opportunityknox2020, and add the campaign snapchat @tknox2020.

Hunter Brookman Economics Los Angeles, CA I am Hunter Brookman, and I am running to be your College Council Class of 2020 representative.

I believe the dynamic between our Student Government and its constituents holds much more potential.

I hope to unify our student body on the notion that our academic successes are unattainable without our overall wellbeing.

Such issues as campus safety, sexual assault prevention and response, and mental health are of the utmost importance, and will be at the forefront of my work on Student Government.

Together we can create a vision for our future, making us a more cohesive, united university moving forward.

Editor’s Note: Andres Leland changed his answers before the deadline, and re-submitted the form. His revised answers are above.

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VIEWPOINTS

The Cult of Donald Trump Trump Reflects His Supporters: Those Who Are Hateful Toward the Country’s Present and Scared of Its Future

Andrew Nicotra Reilly Polling for elections centers on predicting how different groups will vote. Questions of which candidate will get the “black vote” or the “women vote” are touted as important questions for understanding who will be the next president. But this election, perhaps more than any other, has shown that these types of baseline biographical details do not go far enough to explain the way people will vote come November. The two remaining candidates represent two fundamentally different views of America’s past as well as America’s future.

Trump’s optimal America is one of the past, an America with less diversity and more isolationism. Clinton’s perspective, while not necessarily outwardly progressive, posits an optimal America in which there is social progress and the acceptance of globalization. Her appeal to voters is not intrinsically linked to her own identity. She does not strive to only gain the acceptance of people who are like her in every way. Trump, however, uses his own personal identity in an unprecedented way—as a basis for his political support.

There exists a Donald J. Trump experience of America. Trump’s most significant policy concerns are business and trade generally, but his campaign is most noted for its exceptionalist rhetoric, most famously his assertion that America is no longer great. In order to “Make America Great Again,” Trump envisions a society in which immigrants are not allowed into the country so that “real Americans” face less competition in the job market. Globalist policies, embraced by establishment Republicans and Democrats alike, present a challenge, since they allegedly take jobs and money away from hardworking Americans. But who are these “Americans” in Trump’s mind? These are people, predominately white men, who feel left out of an increasingly diverse America. As such, he appeals to a demographic of people who believe that America is at its best when those in control are people like Trump.

The cult Trump has created around his candidacy is so unyielding that his supporters are willing to forgive him for any vulgar, offensive, or untrue statements he makes.

A frequent rebuttal from his supporters is that Trump merely says what everybody is thinking but is too afraid to vocalize in an increasingly politically correct society.

The identity of a Trump voter is thus intrinsically intertwined with the identity of Donald Trump himself. They connect with him because he is able to tap into their identity. The fear he peddles, the anger he articulates, and the success he brags about are all things his voters see within themselves or admire.

Trump appeals to people’s feelings, not their political orientations. He is a candidate of emotion and prejudice, and like the casinos he is famous for, he gives people a twisted sense of opportunity. But also like his casinos, the majority of Trump supporters will inevitably lose out. His candidacy, despite its guise of altering the status quo, is primarily built around the preservation of a predominantly white, patriarchal society. Trump supporters want people like Trump to remain the winners.

For example, much of his campaign has focused around anti-immigration measures, specifically targeting Mexicans and Muslims. He has posited these two groups as holding values antithetical to American ones, thus undermining American domestic security.

Ultimately he is playing into his voters’ fear that their power in society would be compromised if they were to ac-

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cept different types of people.

That’s why the sheer impossibility of his policy ideas, like banning Muslims or building a wall funded by the Mexican government, hardly alienate his core supporters. His voters are driven by emotion, not a reasoned consideration of what his policies would actually entail. His policy recommendations sound more like something a relative would yell in a heated Thanksgiving political argument than a coherent argument from a serious presidential nominee. But this is exactly the appeal of Donald Trump—he is a familiar face with familiar speech, and he consequently personifies the ideas, identities, and prejudices of many Americans.

This is why we cannot dismiss Trump as ridiculous. While he is certainly

not offering rational solutions to America’s problems, he sheds light on the ways in which many Americans think.

He is the crazy uncle at the Thanksgiving table. Many men in America share his view of women. Many people share his view of immigrants.

Whether or not Trump actually believes what he himself says is unimportant, because he still represents what many Americans perceive the ideal America to be. It is only by understanding Donald Trump as the man and the identity that he has cultivated that we can begin to try and unravel the types of hatred and bigotry he represents.

Andrew Nicotra Reilly is a third-year in the College majoring in economics and political science.

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Finding Value at 10th Annual Hyde Park Used Book Sale

BY MAY HUANG ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

The annual Hyde Park Used Book Sale brought a community of booklovers to the Hyde Park Shopping Center last weekend for dirt-cheap finds from literary non-fiction to romance.

This year marked its 10th anniversary under the management of the Hyde Park–Kenwood Community Conference (HPKCC), which took over the project in 2007 after the Hyde Park Co-Op (a supermarket) went out of business. Having begun as a community fundraiser for a refugee camp in South Korea during the Korean War, the book sale goes back 62 years. Today, the money raised goes to needs closer to home.

Jane Ciacci, who worked in Regenstein Library for 35 years and retired from her position as director of library human resources this March, co-chairs the book sale with George Davis (S.B. ’66). The pair has been in charge of the sale for the past 10 years.

“We have 1,000 banana box-

es full,” Ciacci said, estimating that almost 50,000 books would be on sale this year. The boxes are provided by Treasure Island, which—apart from being the go-to supermarket for many UChicago students—is where books are donated and sorted.

The books they receive differ every year, although mysteries and fiction tend to consistently be the largest categories. Some of the other categories present at the sale include poetry, foreign languages, and child care.

There was also a section dedicated to “special” books, which are usually priced higher. This year, a large hardback edition of The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker was on sale for $5, while a stack of original copies of the music magazine The Etude from the 1930s–50s wa s b e i n g s old f o r $ 3 0 .

The prices of all the other texts at the sale ranged from 10 cents (National Geographic) to $2 (hardcovers). Large paperbacks were sold for $1 each, while small paperbacks, children’s paperbacks, and audio-visual materials (VCRs, re-

cords, etc.) sold for 50 cents. On Monday, the last day of the sale, customers could pay $4 for all the books they could fit in a bag. “ We keep our prices low so that people can afford to indulge themselves, and perhaps even sta r t a l ibra r y of their own,” Ciacci said.

According to Ciacci, book dealers who attend the sale generally say that it is one of the best around. She credits this to their collection being in Hyde Park, though the book sale attracts people of all backg rounds and ages, both as donors and buyers.

“Most of the donations come from the neighborhood, and you can imagine with the kind of academic community that we’re in that we get some really fascinating donations,” Ciacci said, adding that faculty members often donate collections of books.

“I [also] spend a lot of time in the cashier’s tent, and it’s great to see students and children, in particular, come up with a stack of books that they have found and that they’re excited about.”

Ultimately, the book sale

is about, and entirely for, the c om mu n it y. T he money it raises goes to fund community projects, parks, and local schools. Non-profits that registered with HPKCC in advance could also pick up books for free during the last two hours of the sale on Monday before the remaining books are either sold, recycled (based on their condition), or given out to loca l chu rches, schools, hospitals, and other similar c om mu n it y or g a n i z at ion s .

A s a commun ity ef for t , the book sale also depends on the support of nearby organizations like Treasure Island and the help of many volunteers in order to take place every Columbus Day weekend. “ T he volunteer base for all community activity in the neighborhood is getting older, and this is a concern, not just for used book sales,” Ciacci commented. “ Book lovers always like the idea that their donated books will be enjoyed by some one else.”

While e-books and the like a re g row i ng i n popu la r ity

and book-shopping has largely become a speedy online operation done through outlets such as Amazon, used book sales still retain their charm.

A nother committee of HPKCC, Friends of Blackstone Library, held its fi rst used book sale last spring and is already planning another one for 2017.

“I always used to enjoy the feeling of holding a book in my hands,” Ciacci said. “At a book sale, there’s that serendipity of wading into boxes of a subject that interests you and going home with something wonderful and unexpected.”

The Hyde Park Used Book Sale continues to delight and surprise decades after its inception. For whether you fi nd a novel with annotations inked into its margins, an original edition of your favorite vintage classic, or an almost-falling-apart collection of old maps, the books stacked inside the cardboard boxes are testaments to the beauty of fi nding the new in the used and continuing the magic of reading in print for generations of readers to come.

It’s from and for the community: The sale is run by volunteers and uses Treasure Island as its home base for collecting and sorting the donated books.

Evangeline Reid

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Chi Film Fest: The Salesman Peddles Meditative Drama

BY KENNETH TALBOTT LA VEGA ARTS STAFF

Check out Kenneth’s running coverage of high-profile films screened at the Chicago International Film Festival in the next two weeks. His first review of the series tackles The Salesman, a drama by Asghar Farhadi.

The Chicago International Film Festival—the largest in the city and the longest-running international competitive film festival in North America—will take place at the AMC River East 21 Theater from October 13 to October 27. With its impressive roster, special post-screening Q&As, informative panel events, and convenient location, the Chi Film Fest is a unique opportunity that cannot be passed up by any enthusiastic moviegoer.

The Salesman is an Iranian drama written, directed, and produced by Asghar Farhadi.

Farhadi is internationally and critically acclaimed as Iran’s premier contemporary fi lmmaker; his notable works include Academy Award winner A Separation (2011), About Elly (2009), a nd F irework s Wedn esd ay (2006), which was a past winner of the Chicago International Film Festival’s own grand prize, the Gold Hugo. The Salesman premiered in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where Shahab Hosseini won the Best Actor award and Farhadi won the Best Screenplay award.

There is a powerful scene half an hour into the fi lm: Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) buzzes open the front door of her building to let in whom she believes is her husband before returning to her shower. As she walks from the bathroom to the intercom, the handheld camera following her heightens the sensation of her solitude and starts to unsettle the viewer-as-voyeur. The camera rests on the door as it swings ajar, ever so slowly and evenly, for 20 whole seconds. We hear nothing but the background noise of the apartment. We can only watch as the door in front of us crawls open insidiously, powerless to do anything about it.

The scene cuts to Emad (Shahab Hosseini), her husband, grocery shopping. He arrives home to discover that his wife has been assaulted and taken to the hospital, a moment that sets the fi lm’s narrative in motion. As a narrator, Farhadi is skillful and confident—even when his material is so realist that it feels unscripted. This is Farhadi’s signature approach: discreet and unobtrusive, yet i r resistibly immersive a nd naturally dynamic. It’s akin to sinking into a warm bath, the water rising up and enveloping the body. His style is artful but in no way artsy, his formalism favoring utilitarian over aesthetic presentation.

L i ke A Separation, T he Salesman works as a character study: the exposition of plot and character tightly intertwined

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Lingering shots build tension in the film, which took Best Screenplay at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

and understood in reference to each other. This development unfolds with commendable fi nesse as Farhadi measures teaspoon by teaspoon the rate at which narrative information is disseminated, the rate at which the many character dynamics—cultural, familial, gendered—solidify their roles.

While The Salesman may not be as grand or profound in content as A Separation, its more minimalist, microcosmic approach allows it to explore the power dynamics—especially the gendered ones—between characters in sharper focus.

For example, Rana’s command of the camera’s gaze compen-

sates for the agency that she lacks in shaping her destiny.

W hile the medium close-up shots of male characters like Emad evoke feelings of motivation, anger, or desire, the shots of Rana are reserved for the passing of resounding moral judgment. Farhadi never coerces the viewer to pick sides through narrative exposition.

Rather, he engages us with the people onscreen through careful cinematic construction of his characters and their circumstances—and no character is more compelling than Rana.

At the heart of this film is the expectation of forgiveness. T herein lies issues of

i nt ention , respe c t , mora l ity, shame —all of which are fairly and thoughtfully mana g e d by a w r it er - d i r e c t or who shows no sig n of stepping down. For anyone with a general interest in meditative, character- and relationship-driven drama, Farhadi’s film is an absolute must-see.

T he Sa lesma n r un s 125 minutes in Farsi with English subtitles. It will screen Sunday, October 16 at 5:45 p.m. and Wednesday, October 19 at 6 p.m. Individual tickets and festival pa sses are available onlin e at http:// www.chicagofilmfestival.com.

MCA Panel Discusses Black Identity, Beyoncé, and Beyond

BY ALEXIA BACIGALUPI ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

“ W hat is the role of the black artist? What duty do we have to the black collective? ” M ichelle M. Wright turned a question often posed to her to the audience and her fellow panel members. The panel, “Art and Life,” was hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art ( MCA) on Saturday, October 1, following a wrapup of an extensive exposition on notable African-American artist Kerry James Marshall.

Wright, a professor of African American Studies and Comparative Literary Studies at Northwestern University, was f lanked by longtime staff writer and chief theater critic for The New Yorker, Hilton Als, and a UChicago professor of cinema and media studies, Jacqueline Stewart.

The talk focused on the intersection of art and race, using Marshall’s works as a primary example. But before the role of black artists could be explored, a more fundamental question had to be faced. How did they define “ blackness”?

The panelists lingered on the many inherent paradoxes of the question. Wright com-

plicated the prevailing definition of American blackness as “ Middle Passage blackness” in reference to the slave trade of the 17th and 18th centuries. W hile the narrative of an identity based on common suffering and injustice created by racists carries moral and

black a r t is noth i ng more than a reaction to white art.

A rt can be a productive medium for such discussions because of the complementary work of both content and form.

“We’re always talking about the ways in which blackness is diverse, to demonstrate we’re not

Collection of Dick and Gloria Anderson, Photo courtesy of E. G. Schempf

Campfire Girls, by Kerry James Marshall, explores black identity, a dominant theme in his work.

political weight, it also reduces blackness to a mere object of history instead of an agent—

a monolith. [Marshall] creates a visual monolith and in doing so...forces us to think about

what we mean when calling ourselves black, when we call a subject black,” Stewart noted. It is through such aesthetic questions that the political and social questions can emerge.

The cultural significance of Beyoncé is such that no discussion on race and art in 2016 can be complete without including Lemonade in the analysis.

Here once again the panelists felt conflicted. Beyoncé’s use of black female directors, including Octavia Butler, and her homage to independent filmmaker Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust was appreciated.

Yet disappointment remained that the album missed a chance to make a bigger point, merely giving a superficial nod to its source material. What could have been a powerful statement on the state and impact of race in our pop culture was instead a move to help her husband’s business and her own brand.

“Why is it that black American culture has never put itself forward as a currency, as having value? Does it mean that we are so debased that we don’t believe in it ourselves or is it because of the power structure? ” Als wondered, a theme Stewart picked up on later in reference to art.

“ Black audiences will value a black artist once the white world values them. [Only then will] the people who need to be showing up from the beginning begin to show up,” she said.

Als’s discussion presented equal parts humorous zingers, thoughtful ruminations— stories of his childhood and his work at The New Yorker.

In response to a comment on how blacks can express humanity in moments of crisis, A ls commented, “maybe sleep with more white people,” which elicited a round of laughter from the aud ience, which spanned the spectrum of age and race from young black art students to a pair of elderly white women.

The Q&A at the end of panel wrapped with Als reflecting on the need for more from the black community: more art, more support for one another, and a greater sense of selfworth. And as a rebuttal to the almost attractive prospect of nihilistic black pessimism, Als offered the audience advice that his mother always taught him: “ I f you have the sk i l ls and the means, why wouldn’t you be out there in the world trying to make a difference, no matter how painful it is? ”

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The Sky Trembles, Fails to Impress

BY ALSTON BOYD MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Who is Ben Rivers? In the most immediate sense, he is the director of THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS (2015), but he doesn’t seem to be comfortable with the category of director.

Rivers splits his time between the gallery and the cinema, and The Sky Trembles was screened in conjunction with the Renaissance Society’s presentation of his first U.S. exhibition, Urth. The unwieldy title is taken from the 1947 Paul Bowles short story “A Distant Episode,” of which much of the film is an adaptation. In short, Rivers makes art film, and in that respect, he has certainly succeeded here. Unfortunately, it seems that he was so concerned with making true art that he forgot to check if he was making good art.

Before addressing the film’s issues, credit should be given where it is due. This film has some truly innovative sound design and breathtakingly beautiful wide landscape shots. The use of camera-microphone separation creates an effect that can be truly uncanny. In fact, if Rivers limited his goal to making a collection of pleasant sights and sounds, the film would be a resounding success.

Unfortunately, his repeated insistence on tackling big topics undermines the film and leaves the audience dissatisfied. Take, for instance, the question of the line between documentary and fiction. This is certainly a subject about which there is much to be said. It’s disappointing then that this film refuses to say anything at all.

It is true that the beginning of the film is

documentary footage of real director Oliver Laxe making a real film, Mimosas, and it is also true that the end of the film is not documentary footage according to Rivers.

But within the sphere of the movie itself, there is nothing to suggest that the austere beginning is not just as staged as the more outlandish final act. To truly elicit a meaningful response from the audience, he would have to establish a verisimilitude early on that could then be broken for some effect, be it alienation or simply interest.

The story the film is based on is often read as an early example of literature addressing postcolonial themes. Clearly, Rivers thought that the use of Bowles’s story would be sufficient to carry this theme into his film.

Here we see the difference between difficult filmmaking and lazy filmmaking. Difficult filmmaking buries the value and meaning in the film in such a way that accessing it requires cognitive work on the part of the viewer. Lazy filmmaking merely suggests the issue and relies on the viewer to fill in the trenchant commentary themselves. The postcolonial theme of this film never progresses beyond the rather facile role reversal of the white man who was controlling natives now being controlled by them. Rivers fails to use the substantive tools at his disposal to address the postcolonial problem.

The second half clearly aims for a tone somewhere along the lines of harrowing, but it hits closer to tedious. Perhaps this is because we’ve become used to Rivers’s bag of tricks at this point, but it is hard not to view the abuses heaped on Laxe as a sort of art-house “torture porn,” perfect for the 25- to 50-yearold intelligentsia to gasp over and relay in hushed tones to their 25- to 50-year-old intel-

ligentsia friends. The beautiful landscapes of the opening section are abandoned for claustrophobic desert villages, but the novelty doesn’t seem to go further than the visual.

Ultimately, this film is a lesson in proper expectation-setting; Riv-

ers has used the trappings of a great movie for one that is simply cute.

B en River’s f ilm-ba sed exhibit, Urth, will be at the Renaissance Society through November 6.

EXHIBIT [A]rts

[10/11] TUESDAY 4 p.m. Tea and Pipes presents Jewish music for the High Holy Days on Rockefeller’s majestic Skinner organ. Tea and biscuits provided. Rockefeller Chapel. Free.

[10/12] WEDNESDAY 6 p.m. The Seminary Co-Op’s sponsors a talk by Forrest Stuart, assistant professor of sociology. His latest book, Down, Out, and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row, investigates the policing of poverty in America. Seminary Co-Op. Free.

[10/13] THURSDAY 7:30 p.m. The CSO presents Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and the thunderous fifth symphony, conducted by Riccardo Muti. Apostolic Church of God. Free.

[10/14] FRIDAY 4 p.m. Ensemble-in-residence Imani Winds perform pieces from their repertoire, followed by a Q&A and reception.

Logan Center Performance Hall. Free.

6–8 p.m. North Parking Garage becomes an art installation, with film projections and a showcase of Concrete Happenings (a 1957 Cadillac encased in concrete). German food provided. North Parking Garage. Free.

[10/15] SATURDAY All day through Sunday. Over 200 buildings around the city open their doors for Open House Chicago, presented by the Chicago Architecture Foundation. Free.

9:30 a.m. Campus sponsored Humanities Day showcases research and opportunities in music, literature, and other disciplines. RSVP at humanitiesday.uchicago.edu. F ree.

4:30 p.m. The Seminary Co-op celebrates its past, present, and future with the release of a documentary project book, If You Weren’t Looking for It: The Seminary Co-Op Bookstore. Seminary Co-Op. Free.

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Maroons Defeat No. 4 Rochester MEN’S SOCCER

BY DANNY EISGRUBER SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR

The men’s soccer team defeated No. 4 Rochester 2–1 in front of a season-high 284 fans at Stagg Field on Saturday, improving to 12–0–0 on the year and earning the No. 1 national ranking. The loss was the first of the season for the Yellowjackets, who now stand at 7–1–2.

Although UChicago and its fans went home victorious, the game did not start off on a great note, with the Maroons down 1–0 when Rochester forward Jeff Greblick converted from close range in the 16th minute.

However, rather than losing morale from the early deficit, the team remained positive following the goal. “We weren’t really that fazed. It was a slight obstacle we had to overcome but it wasn’t anything insurmountable,” said first-year forward Dayo Adeosun. “As an overall team we’re clicking in pretty much all aspects, so when we went down 1–0, it was really just a wakeup call… it motivated us to play even better.”

It took until the second half for the home team to eventually break through. In the 54th minute, first-year midfielder Nate Johnson collected the ball just outside the penalty box and passed to fourth-year defender D.J. Weiss, who flicked it with his head to first-year defender Sam Drablos for the goal.

The Maroons then quickly pressed their advantage and scored their second goal just over a minute later when Adeosun found Johnson again, who managed to find the top corner on a first-time strike from 22 yards out. Both the goal and the assist

were the firsts of Johnson’s collegiate career and came in just his fifth start for the Maroons.

“Immediately after we scored that first goal we were already thinking ahead to score the next,” said Adeosun, who now has five goals and two assists this season.

“That’s why I decided to turn on my defender and start attacking immediately and then Nate decided to attack and as a team we really just connected in that moment.”

Rochester pressed for an equalizing goal in the closing stages of the game, but the Maroons managed to weather the storm and hold on for the win.

“I did what I could and I guess what I had to do,” said third-year goalkeeper Hill Bonin. “But, I give most of the credit to the four or five defenders right in front of me who had fantastic games against…one of, if not the best, strikers in the UAA [in Jeff Greblick].”

When asked about his takeaways from the game, Bonin said he valued the way the team played more than the actual result. “I think for a couple games we got caught up where our passing wasn’t so good or we tried to press too much and got countered for it,” said Bonin, whose two saves both came in the second half. “This was a game against a really good team where we were able to spend the week fine-tuning some things and making sure we were prepared and we really got after them and played in a way that they struggled to do anything about”.

The Maroons’ next opponents are the Brandeis Judges, who they will play this Friday at Stagg Field. Kickoff is scheduled for 5:30 p.m.

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First-year Nate Johnson drills the ball up the field.

Maroons Rock Rochester, Roll Back Into Form WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY MICHAEL PERRY SPORTS STAFF

Following its first loss of the year, the Chicago squad responded by beating the University of Rochester 1–0, improving its record to 10–1 overall, 1–1 UAA. Rochester dropped to 2–5–4 overall and 1–1 UAA. After coasting through non-conference play, the No. 6 ranked Maroons came up short in their first UAA game last week against Emory University.

Third-year defender Kaitlin Price commented on the team’s work ethic and renewed focus following that loss in preparing for the Yellowjackets. “Our heads were in the right place,” she said. “It was hard to lose the way we did because we got outworked. So the next week of practice we did a lot of competitive games. We knew that we needed to work hard with and for each other to get the outcome we wanted.”

The game was a nail-biter, as it remained 0–0 until the 80th minute when

first-year Rachel Dias broke through to score the game winner with help from fellow first-year Clare Suter and thirdyear Caroline Olivero. Chicago tallied 21 shots on the day, with 15 coming in its second half barrage of Rochester. Ten of the Maroons’ 16 corner kicks also came in that second half push to take the lead.

“I think we stayed very calm throughout the entire game. We have gone through games where we have had a hard time scoring, so no one freaked out,” Price said. “Of course it would have been

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Third-year Kelsey Moore attacks from the wing against Kalamazoo earlier this year.

great to have put one away earlier than we did but with the momentum we had, we all believed the goal would come.”

First-year goalkeeper Katie Donovan made four saves for her sixth shutout of the year. The Maroon defense stifled the Yellowjackets’ attack, only allowing them six shots in the game.

Fourth-year Sophia Kim commented on how important this win was. She said, “This win was absolutely huge because the UAA is arguably the hardest conference in the country, and 3-4 teams on average advance to the tournament, so every win is big points. We’re training harder than ever since conference has started, and we’re fired up to continue upsetting teams. We really have an amazing group that I fully believe can make it to the finals this year.”

Three of Chicago’s remaining UAA games are against opponents who are nationally ranked, starting this Friday against No. 8 Brandeis University. Despite starting conference play with a loss, the Maroons can still win the UAA outright since every team has at least one conference loss of its own.

“UA A play has been great,” Price added. “We finally get to see good, hard teams that give us some challenges.

These games are fun because conference games are never easy and they mean a little bit more to everyone on the team.

Everyone has a loss, so the conference title is still up for grabs, which makes it that much more fun to play with each other.”

The women’s soccer team will play again this Friday at 3 p.m. at home versus Brandeis University.

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SPORTS

Berry Bests Maroons, Moser Sets School Record FOOTBALL

BY EMMETT ROSENBAUM SPORTS STAFF

Playing on the road, the Maroons took a plane ride down to MountBerry, GA to play conference rivals Berry College.

Going into this match, the South Siders were on even standing with the Berry Vikings in the conference. This was a game to see who would best the other, and for a chance to jump up in the stands. With only two away games left for Chicago, the team was in need of big wins on the road if they wanted to keep their season alive.

The first half saw an incredible effort from the Maroons as the defense stood firm against a powerful Berry offense.

On the other side of the ball, the Vikings were unable to stop the Chicago passing game as fourth-year quarterback Burke Moser found third-year running back Chandler Carroll for a 10-yard touchdown pass at the end of the first quarter.

The team didn’t stop there either, as they came back in the second quarter with a 79-yard drive that culminated with Carroll diving into the end zone from one yard out to secure a 14–0 lead for the Maroons heading into the half.

However, the Maroons were unable to hold the lead in the second half as Ber-

ry came out firing. The team started out the quarter with a 64-yard drive that was capped off by a 20-yard touchdown run

by Berry quarterback Slade Dale. The Vikings evened things up just moments later when they picked up a Chicago fumble and ran it into the end zone.

The game remained tied until the fourth quarter, when Berry broke through with a one-yard touchdown run of its own. However, Chicago answered back just two minutes later when Moser connected with second-year quarterback/ receiver Trevor Anderson from 15 yards out to even the score.

Moser had a career day Saturday, passing for 383 yards, which set a school record. However, the valiant effort just wasn’t enough as Berry drove back down the field and scored just two minutes later, taking a 28–21 lead. While the Maroons tried twice to march back down the field, the Vikings defense held on for the win.

“Berry was a tough game for us,” Anderson said. He had three receptions for 45 yards on the day. “We fought hard but it just got away from us late. We need to improve through hard work at practice this week. This is the most important week of the year. The team feels that

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Quarterback Burke Moser passes on the move.

we’ll be ready for Rhodes and hungry for a win, especially after a close game like this. We really want to be able to get the win for homecoming,” said the second-year.

Maroons Served Up Loss VOLLEYBALL

CROSS COUNTRY

BY CAVELL MEANS SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR

At Saturday’s Lucian Rosa Invitational, located at the University of Washington– Parkside campus in Kenosha, WI, the men’s side of the squad finished a strong sixth. Despite bringing only three racers, the women showed out as well, with first-year Taylor Campos placing 32nd out of 172 participants.

Second-year Ansel Richards anchored the men’s team with his time of 27:32.8, good enough for 40th place. The men’s race, which was an 8K, had 178 runners competing. His fellow Maroons, third-years Kirk Lancaster and Michael Stubna and fourth-year Corey Okinaka, weren’t far behind him, finishing 48th through 50th with times of 27:38.1, 27:40.1, and 27:41.0, respectively.

These student-athletes were proud of their team’s accomplishments, despite lacking some of their best runners. The runners with the top nine times for the men’s team this year didn’t participate in the meet. Regardless, Lancaster had high praise for his team.

“We were really excited to place sixth this weekend despite missing our top nine runners on the men’s side. It really goes to show the impressive depth of our team. I felt great out on the course, [and] we had excellent conditions,” Lancaster said. The squad will head to another UW school this weekend for their next meet. “Oshkosh is a course I ran on a lot in high school, so I’m pretty familiar with it. It will be fast, and we’ll be facing some of the toughest competition of the season so far.

But I can’t wait to see what we’ll be able to accomplish.”

Second-years Owen Melia and John Judge placed 52th and 59th, respectively, while first-year Cameron Dignan earned points for the squad with an 86th place fin-

ish. Together, the team gained 165 points, ranking behind Wheaton, Carthage, UW– Green Bay, UW–Parkside, and the leading University of Illinois at Chicago, which had 280 points.

First-years Taylor Campos, Sydney Smith, and Shelby Smith represented the Maroons for the women’s side of the team.

Campos had a time of 24:08.1, good enough for a pace of six minutes and 28 seconds per mile for the race, which was a 6K. “This meet was a great opportunity to finally race again after getting over a stress fracture in my right fibula,” Campos said.

“I’m so excited to be able to run with the whole team next week—we are looking really strong, and I’m so happy I can start contributing to their ongoing success.”

A hand-picked team of 12 men and 12 women will be at next week’s meet at UW– Oshkosh. First-year Sydney Smith says this last meet helped her out a great deal in preparing for next week’s competition.

“I really think the Lucian Invitational is going to prepare me well for Oshkosh next week because I was able to experience a 6K for the first [time] this season, as well as a hillier course far different from what I am used to running on back home,” Smith explained. “I was also able to get a greater sense of competition this race, which really helped me push myself. As I look towards next week, I know my team and I are very excited to compete with even greater competition on a wonderful course.”

The Maroons look to improve their national rankings at this next meet, which is scheduled for Saturday at 10:30 a.m., as the men are ranked 31st with 34 points and the women are ranked 20th with 122 points. The meet is especially important for the men, as the next ranked team under them, Gustavus Adolphus, is only two points away.

The Maroons take on the Rhodes Lynx on Saturday, October 15 at Stagg Field.

The game is homecoming and is expected to have the highest attendance of the year.

Kickoff is scheduled for 1:30 p.m.

BY MINNIE HORVATH SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR

This past weekend, the South Siders hosted Aurora, No. 15 Elmhurst, and No. 11 Juniata in the annual UChicago Invite. Sitting at 11–3, the Maroons headed into the weekend coming off of a great UAA Round Robin but got off to a difficult start with a 3-set loss against Aurora. Although all three of the sets were close, Aurora was able to come up with key runs at important moments to keep victory out of the hands of Chicago.

The hosts turned around quickly to square off against No. 15 Elmhurst in the evening game of Friday’s doubleheader. The Maroons got off to a strong start thanks to solid setting by fourth-year Erin Risk and dominant offensive performances by second-year Sarah Muisenga and first-year Madison Pearson.

Fourth-year Mary Claire Tuohy led the team defensively, racking up 31 digs over the course of the match. However, the Bluejays came back from a 4–10 deficit early in the first set to even the score at 23–23 and eventually win the opening set by just two points, 25 –23.

Back with a vengeance in the second set, the Maroons executed early with quick aces as well as composure and teamwork in the longer rallies. They closed out the set with a 15 –5 run to win 25 –14 and even the score to a set apiece.

Elmhurst took the third set, but Chicago rallied back to win the fourth, forcing a tie-breaker fifth set. The fifth set was a nail-biter that had fans from both teams on the edges of their seats.

The Maroons went up 14–13 with a perfectly placed kill by third-year outside hitter Frances McDonald, but the Bluejays were able to fend off match point and go on to win the set 16 –14, earning them the victory.

On Saturday the Maroons played against their second best opponent of the weekend with a match against No. 11 Juniata. Chicago answered a loss in the first set with a 25–20 victory in the second. The Eagles won the close third set despite dominant serving by firstyear Anne Marie Stifter. A 9 –2 run in the fourth set helped seal the victory for Juniata.

W hen asked about the weekend, fourth-year K atie LaPorte said, “ I think all teams have big wins and rough losses. It’s the fight and the reaction that shows who the good teams are.” LaPorte remains positive about the season however and said, “We are a great team, so I know we’ll continue to play hard and come back.”

The Maroons will look to the UA A Round Robin next weekend to extend their 3 – 0 record in conference play.

LaPorte is looking forward to facing off against conference opponents. “We still are undefeated in conference play and have this weekend to keep that up and put ourselves in an advantageous position for UAA Championships and therefore the NCA A tournament,” she said.

“We now know at what a high level we can execute and what an awesome energy we can play with and have together.

It’ll be awesome to see what more we have to bring to the table.”