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OCTOBER 18, 2016

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Seminary Co-Op Looks Back, Forward With New Book

BY SOLOMON DWORKIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

On Sunday, the Seminary Co-Op hosted a launch party for the new book Celebrating the Semin ar y Co- Op: Pa st, Present, Future, which reflects on the role of the bookstore as a Hyde Park institution.

The book, written and compiled by Jasmine Megan and Kwong Doherty, is an amalgamation of essays on the Co-Op, interspersed with pictures of both the old and new locations, as well as excerpts from interviews with professors, students, and other patrons of the store.

The Seminary Co-Op was founded in 1961, in the basement of the Chicago Theological Seminary. As the number of small independent bookstores has shrunk in recent years, the Co-Op has continued to faithfully serve the Hyde Park community.

After a short reception, former general manager of the Co-Op Jack Cella delivered an introduction. During his tenure as general manager from 1970 until his retirement in 2013, Cella oversaw the expansion of the Co-Op to 50,000 members and its relocation to an aboveground location next to the Robie House.

Cella began by thanking members of the Co-Op. He emphasized that the event was more than a book launch; it was also “a celebration of you as owners of the Cooperative,

and the community as a nurturer of the Cooperative.”

He told stories about some of his favorite Co-Op members while he was general manager.

One, a math teacher at the lab school who “would call early in the mornings, three, four, five times a week, and talk about a book he would like to read” with the (possible) insinuation that the Co-Op might like to purchase it.

Cel la a lso d iscussed an encounter he had with the late Dr. Subrahmanyan Chand rasek ha r. Cha nd rasek ha r “was thinking about Monet’s series paintings” and needed a book of them, but was unsatisfied with the copy Cella offered him.

Eventually, a student working at the Co-Op realized that they would have to buy multiple copies of the book and jerry-rig them together to get the layout Chandrasekhar wanted.

The new book was eventually published, and today sits in his old home office next to his copy of one of Newton’s Principia.

Following Cella, Megan and Doherty discussed the making of the book. The project originated as a photo documentation concept. Doherty explained that following the announcement of the Co-Op’s move, she “started thinking, well gosh, this space is magical and magnificent and completely unique and nothing else exists like it, maybe someone should be tak-

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

on campus is part of a tour targeting universities the church sees as friendly to transgender people.

“The young people attending america’s universities are aggressively brainwashed to think God’s commandments are up for discussion and are a matter of personal preference instead of being absolute and eternal,” the announcement reads.

The Chuch has encountered opposition as it moved through the country. At Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis counter protests stood between nine Church members and University students when

Ver on ic a Myer s , Ja h ne Brown, Kosi Achife, and Sat Gupta have been elected to Student Government (SG) College Council (CC) to represent the Class of 2020.

The winners of the election were announced Friday evening in Reynold’s Club South Lounge, after the polls closed at 4:30 p.m. Eighteen candidates were in the running for four positions.

Myers received 224 votes, Brown received 206, Achife received 173, and Gupta received 154. Last year, 536 students voted in the fi rst-year CC elections. This year, 654 students voted.

“Despite what some might have you think, turnout is important to me and I’m glad to see it continue to rise,” Max Freedman the Chair of Elections & Rules (E&R) said.

Brown, Achife and Myers ran on a joint platform, named #K J VA which also included candidate Andres Leland. Leland achieved the fi fth largest vote total.

“I’m very excited that I won a spot as [College Council] representative and I look forward to working with the rest of the 2020 representatives and I’m very excited that three women were in the top three vote-getters,” Brown said. “It’s really important that women, black people, and black women are represented on student government and I’m excited that we won.” There were four female candidates on the ballot, and three were granted positions.

Gupta’s chalk adver tisements for his campaign were defaced last week by a friend of one of his opponents. Some of his ads were written over. In a few cases, the ads were edited to suggest Gupta supported Donald Trump. E&R issued a warning to the candidate who said his friend had done the chalking.

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One of four packages sent to academics over the summer.

Law Professor Rejects Accusation That He Mailed Feces

BY VARUN JOSHI

setts Institute of Technology, J. David Velleman at New York University, and Carrie IchikaA Law School professor has wa Jenkins at the University of been accused of sending feces British Columbia.

Leiter claims that the accuto four of his academic rivals.

Brian Leiter, a leading Ni- sations against him are false.

L eiter created the inf luetzsche scholar and director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, ential Philosophical Gourmet and Human Values, has had Report, a ranking of the top past conf licts with all three graduate programs in philosoof the recipients: Carolyn Dic- phy, when he was a graduate ey Jennings at the University student in 1989. According to of California at Merced, Sally Daily Nous, a news site about Haslanger at the MassachuContinued on page 4 NEWS STAFF

Westboro Baptist Church to Picket Campus Friday

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BY ADAM THORP & PETE GRIEVE NEWS EDITORS

Alexandra Davis

Jack Cella, who managed the Seminary Co-Op for 43 years, addresses a group gathered to consider its past and future.

T he We s t b o r o B ap t i s t Church says it will picket the University and the Law School next Friday.

From 11:30 a.m.–noon p.m., the group plans to protest the University ’s gender-neutral housing and “handy list of bathroom options in each building on campus.” The church’s website does not give a specific location.

F rom 12:05 –12:35 p.m., members of the church say they will picket the Law School for promoting “adultery, sodomy, and gender confusion.”

The Church’s appearance

Joffrey’s Romeo & Juliet Balances the Classical and Contemporary

No. 1 Ranking Fails to Intimidate South Siders

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“Their defenders just weren’t as good as our attackers were and we were just able to overpower them as the game went on.”

Everyone in the audience knows the fate of Romeo and Juliet. They know, yet wait, frozen, as it unfolds.

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A disciplinary system devoted to dissent is essential, as is student representation among those deciding punishments.

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The Apostolic Church of God was filled with sound, applause, and people of all ages who loved what they heard.

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New State-of-the-Art Birthing Center at UCMC

BY KATIE AKIN DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital on 58th Street unveiled their new Family Birth Center last month.

The facility, nestled in the third floor of the hospital, is state-of-the-art and welcoming. The walls are adorned with murals and photographs, and the floors are a warm hardwood.

The introduction of the Family Birth Center has streamlined the birthing

State Senator Lays Out Path From Prof to Politico

process significantly. Outside, the hospital offers special parking spots denoted by a sign with a stork for emergency births. After entering through the lobby of the children’s hospital, mothers are taken directly to the birthing center, without needing to go through any ER. In the case of an unscheduled, emergency birth, patients will be taken to one of the five triage rooms offered, which offer a full scope of amenities including a television with movies and relaxing music.

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BY MAX FENNELL-CHAMETZKY MAROON CONTRBUTOR

A former assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Chicago laid out his path from lecturer to legislator at a talk Monday.

Daniel Biss, current member of the Illinois Senate for the Democratic Party, discussed how his Ph.D. in mathematics from MIT helped propel his ascent, in the latest in a series of My Choice seminars at the Biological Sciences Learning Center. law had dedicated much of his life to

the pursuit of math for math’s sake. But after working at the University for close to six years, Biss began having “quick flirtations in my head. I thought I was gonna be a photographer for a while, thought I was gonna be a journalist for a while.”

In 2004, Biss happened to show up at a meeting for presidential nominee John Kerry. “It was utterly amazing.

An incredible experience,” Biss said of the door-to-door campaign process.

The event helped him realize that he perfectly fit the demographic of candiContinued on page 5

Flint Water Crisis Will Be Repeated, Academic Says

BY MAX FENNELL-CHAMETZKY MAROON CONTRBUTOR

Katie Akin

A maternity-themed mosaic at University of Chicago Medical Center.

Preckwinkle Headlines Criminal Justice Conference

BY SARAH LEWIS MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Community leaders gathered at a conference on Saturday at the Harris School to discuss criminal justice reform throughout Chicago. Among these leaders were Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, Inspector General of the City of Chicago Joe M. Ferguson, and Officer Vanessa Westley of the Chicago Police Department (CPD).

The summit, “A New Forward: Criminal Justice in Chicago and Cook County,” was led by Harris School students actively involved in Students for Criminal Justice Reform (SCJR), including fourth-year co-founders Barbara Barreno-Paschall and Daniel Kowalski. The conference featured interactive panels,

a keynote address by Preckwinkle, discussion workshops, and a closing address from Reverend Alexander Sharp.

At the summit, Preckwinkle elaborated her plan for a tax on soda. Preckwinkle’s soda tax would help to avoid further criminal justice budget cuts in the future.

“I could put forth a proposal that would significantly impair our criminal justice system over the next three years and undermine the progress we are making in public health,” Preckwinkle said to the Chicago Tribune . “It would mean at least 1,000 fewer positions in our criminal justice system, including prosecutors, public defenders, sheriff ’s deputies and critical support staff, programs and services.”

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Axelrod, Journalist Discuss Election, Post-Election “Hellscape”

BY LEE HARRIS MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

David Axelrod met with John Heilemann, co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics, at Saieh Hall on Monday, in the latest of his Decoding 2016 series of guest talks. Heilemann also covers U.S. politics for New York magazine, and is a frequent contributor on MSNBC. Heilemann opened the talk with the claim that the presidential race is over, and Hillary Clinton will be our next president, barring “intervening or exogenous events.”

“A huge terrorist 9/11 scale event on U.S. soil, I don’t know what that does to the political dynamics. A piece of WikiLeaks e-mail that in a clear way

found Hillary Clinton guilty of some criminal conduct. Hillary Clinton collapses on stage in the third debate.

Those things could change the electoral dynamics,” Heilemann said.

Axelrod asked Heilemann to speak to the economic conditions that have given rise to Trump.

“For 30 years, life has sucked for somewhere between 40 and 50 percent of the American people. The wages have been stagnant or falling, they don’t believe their kids are gonna be better off than they have been, the death of the American dream… all of that’s really deep, and people are pissed off.

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The Virginia Tech professor who spearheaded the investigation into lead-poisoned water in Flint, Michigan, delivered this year’s Social Justice Address at International House on Friday evening.

The Social Justice Address is held annually as part of the School of Social Service Administration alumni reunion. Marc Edwards, a civil and environmental engineering professor and 2007 MacArthur Fellow, first gained fame in 2004 for exposing high lead levels in Washington, D.C.’s water supply.

Edwards said his dealings with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in D.C. convinced him that

another, similar crisis was inevitable.

Even though 5,000 D.C. children were shown to have blood lead levels above five mg/dL —the CDC’s stated “level of concern”—no employee of either agency was fired for negligence or misleading the public. Instead, five CDC engineers who had previously attempted to warn the public about lead poisoning were let go, never to be compensated for their losses.

Edwards resolved to act quickly should another emergency materialize, stashing $300,000 in personal savings for the cause. When reports surfaced in 2015 that Flint residents were complaining of rashes, hair loss, their children’s mentally and physically stunted growth, and growing distrust of the local tap water, Edwards and his reContinued on page 7

Millenial Vote Considered Through New Survey

BY LAUREN PANKIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

A collection of politicos looked at a new poll and the millennial vote in the impending 2016 election at an Institute of Politics (IOP) event Monday.

IOP Director David Axelrod, political science professor Cathy Cohen, and Vice President of Civic Engagement for the voter registration nonprofit Rock the Vote Jesse Moore answered questions about the GenForward survey from moderator and Atlantic staff writer Emma Green and audience members for over an hour in the International House Assembly Hall.

In 2005, Cohen founded the Black Youth Project, which works with the independent research organization Associated Press-NORC at the University of Chicago to conduct the GenForward survey. The monthly poll targets around 2,000 voters 18–30 years old and oversamples for Latino, African American, and Asian American populations, Cohen said.

“Quite often polls do not include an adequate number of folks of color, and we’re trying to correct for that,” Cohen said.

Because the GenForward survey is conducted on a monthly instead of an annual basis, questions can be more topical, Cohen said. Issues polled have included support of the Black Lives Matter movement and views on public education.

In the June survey, GenForward asked participants whom they voted for in the presidential primaries. Results ran contrary to

the “Bernie myth” propagated by the media, which pitted white male “Bernie bros” against southern African-American millennials voting for Hillary Clinton, Cohen said.

According to the GenForward data, a majority of African-American, Latino, and Asian-American millennials voted for Bernie, while less than a majority of young whites voted for him.

“This is an example of how polling changed what the narrative could have been,” Cohen said. “What would have happened if the press would have gotten that story right? If we had thought about the Obama coalition among young people as gravitating around Bernie?”

Viewing millennials as a like-minded monolith is part of the problem of other polls, Cohen said. Her research has shown various racially-defined schisms. For example, black millennial voters consider racism a far more serious problem than white millennial voters do, and white millennial voters are split between Trump and Clinton.

“This is a dispiriting election,” Axelrod said. “It’s very hard to get motivated simply by your distaste for the other candidate.”

During the Q&A portion of the discussion, University of Chicago Laboratory School high school history teacher Naadia Owens asked how she can prepare and excite disillusioned students for future elections.

In response, Axelrod said, “I think what we can’t do is surrender to this notion that it doesn’t make a difference, that it’s all futile.”

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Uncommon Interview: Rebecca Jarvis, A.B. ’03, Journalist and Apprentice be the journalist telling the story. And I felt like I just had to pursue it, otherwise I would always wonder—I would always wonder what if.

BY MAGGIE LOUGHRAN EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

This summer I had the opportunity to sit down with Rebecca Jarvis (A.B. ’03), who wrote for THE MAROON during her time at UChicago and is now, over a decade later, one of the most distinguished financial journalists in the country. In addition to hosting her own online show, Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis, she is the chief business, technology, and economics correspondent for ABC News. She came in second on The Apprentice at age 23. Rebecca explained how she ended up where she is today (mostly a UChicago education and an undying work ethic), gave some advice for aspiring journalists, and told me what it was like to work with Donald Trump.

CHICAGO MAROON (CM): Tell me a little bit about yourself.

Rebecca Jarvis (RJ): I graduated in 2003. I studied Law, Letters, and Society, and I did four years—moved there from Minnesota—and then went into investment banking.

CM: Why’d you leave investment banking?

RJ: I left investment banking because I knew in my gut that I wanted to be a journalist. I was in Chicago at the time in investment banking and I was working on this transaction, writing a memo about why a company should invest in the company we were selling. And I really wanted to instead [be] the New York Times reporter writing the article about why the transaction wasn’t a great idea, or—I really wanted to be on the other side of it. I wanted to

So I left investment banking, and started pitching all of the editors in Chicago, which is something my mom—who is also a journalist—recommended I do. She said that the one thing every editor wants is story ideas and if you have story ideas based on your background, make their job easier for them. So that’s what I did. Well I wouldn’t say I made their job easier, but I went with lots of ideas. So I just literally called around to every business editor in Chicago who would take a call from me and said, “Would you be willing to meet me for coffee? I’d love to hear about your work… and I have these ideas for you,” and my mom’s advice to me was: “Tell them your ideas, see how they react, and if they say they might be interested in you writing for them, great. If they’re a little iffy, offer to write for them for free, but not at first.”

to Crain’s and started writing for them.

One of the very first articles, this was 2005, I had pitched to Crain’s was—when I was in investment banking I had seen all of these companies taking on more and more debt—and so the article was all about why companies were taking on so much debt and how banks were allowing companies to take on more and more debt that was known as covenant-free or covenant-light, meaning they didn’t have restrictions on them and they could really—they were able to borrow more money than ever before and they were able to do it without having to live up to standards that had been in place years before.

In 2005 it was kind of the beginning of the—people can argue about when the actual beginning of the housing bubble was, and the debt bubble—but really, the Great Recession was caused in large part by people in all facets taking on too much debt.

The housing crisis is the biggest part of it that we all know. There was just way too much leverage in the system.

CM: Did you start out in print journalism and then go to broadcasting?

CM: Sounds like you had some pretty good foresight there.

RJ: I started out writing for Crain’s Chicago Business , and a magazine that’s no longer around called Business 2.0.

RJ: I’m not saying I called the financial crisis, but I called the financial crisis. No, I’m totally kidding.

When I was in college, Business 2.0 had offered me an internship but I ended up taking instead an offer in London with Citi. So I circled back around with the people who had offered me the internship in college and said, “I would love to write for you— freelance, whatever,” and I pitched them some ideas and started writing freelance for them and also pitched a number of ideas

CM: You said your mom is a journalist as well?

RJ: Yes, when I was growing up and in college she worked for the Minnesota Pioneer Press, and then later, when I moved to New York, just as I was moving to New York, she got hired by the Chicago Tribune to come and be their personal finance column.

So she works at the Chicago Tribune now.

CM: Did you know from your mom that you wanted to be a journalist? What made you start writing for T HE M AROON when you were at UChicago?

RJ: For me, the number one thing that has always driven and motivated journalism for me has been this pursuit of the truth and the ability to ask any question of any person—an insatiable curiosity—and the ability as a journalist to go out and talk to anyone.

You have cover. There are very few jobs where you can pick up your phone and, you might not get an answer on the other end, but there are very few jobs where you can call up anyone in the world and ask them a question. And journalism allows you to do that.

I love that about my job. At its best, you are calling the most interesting people—not necessarily the most famous or the most known—but you’re able to call or meet incredible interesting people or travel to very interesting people and ask them what they think about the world and hear their stories. That’s one kind of journalism that I love in sort of more of the feature reporting. And the other part that I love is the investigative part when something doesn’t make sense.

CM: Are you still writing? I know you have a show online, right?

RJ: My job now: I’m the chief business, technology, and economics correspondent for ABC News, which means I report for Good Morning America, World News ToContinued on page 6

NEWS IN BRIEF BSD, Stuart Cafés Close Both the Biological Sciences Learning Center and Stuar t Ca fés have closed after being reviewed by UChicago Dining.

Both cafés required significant subsidies to operate, and were underutilized, each averaging 100 transaction a day in comparison to other cafés around campus which averaged 150 –

250 transactions a day, Marielle Sainvilus, director of public affairs said.

The decision to close the cafés was part of a larger reviewing process by UChicago Dining, which undertook a review process of all the campus dining options part of a Request for Proposal (RFP), a process which also resulted in Bon Appétit’s acquisition of the role of

food service provider, Sainvilus said.

The staff, previously Aramark employees, were given the option to work for Bon Appétit in other UChicago Dining locations.

Classics Café was closed last month following a similar evaluation process.

about the ability of felons and terrorists to purchase guns. In reality, VCDL’s suit claims, members of the group actually responded immediately.

Couric issued a statement apologizing for the filmmakers’ creative decision to add an eight-second beat after the question for “dramatic effect”. She agrees that the exchange with VCDL was misrepresented.

Under the Gun will be screened at Harper Theater on the October 27 at 6:30 p.m. and will be immediately followed by a panel discussion and Q&A session.

The University of Chicago Medicine and Ingalls Health System completed a merger on October 4, 10 months after signing a letter of intent to combine the two institutions for the purpose of improving health care throughout South and Southwest areas of Chicago.

Ingalls, an independent hospital in Southland suburb Harvey, is to be integrated into the UChicago Medicine brand.

Kenneth Polonsky, the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC)’s executive vice president for medical affairs, told the Chicago Tribune earlier this month that UCMC was in communication with other community hospitals.

A press release published by UChicago Medicine states that both organizations will keep their names and operating licensure. Additionally, Ingalls will maintain a local board of directors and be represented on the UCMC board. UCMC will serve as the corporate parent to Ingalls.

“The transaction joins assets to create a hospital system that is stronger combined than each institution is individually,” the press release reads. “That includes Ingalls’s five outpatient centers, as well as UChicago Medicine’s main medical campus in Hyde Park, planned ambulatory facilities in Orland Park and the South Loop, and expansive network of physicians.”

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Lawsuit Makes Gun Control Film’s Hyde Park Screening Its Last, for a While The Hyde Park screening of a documentary about gun violence will be its last public appearance until a legal challenge against it is resolved.

The documentary Under the Gun, which explores the gun violence debate as well as state and local politicians’ responses to the increasing incidence of mass shootings, will be screened at Harper Theater on October 27.

Under the Gun is directed by Stephanie Soechtig and produced by Katie Couric. People for a Safer Society, a gun prevention organization, is hosting screenings to raise awareness and educate people about gun violence.

W hile the f ilm has been shown throughout Chicago and the greater Illinois area, the Harper Theater screening will be the documentary’s last for an indefinite amount of time, the Hyde Park Herald reported.

T he V i rg i n ia C iti zens Defense League ( VCDL), a pro-gun organization featured in the documentary, filed a lawsuit against Soechtig, Couric, and production networks Atlas Films and Epix for defamation in September.

VCDL claims that the filmmakers manipulated the documentary’s footage to depict the pro-gun group as speechless in response to Couric’s question

UCMC ABSORBS SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL

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the philosophy profession, Jennings created an alternative assessment of Ph.D. programs in philosophy by looking at job placement records on July 1, 2014.

“Leiter responded on his blog, Leiter Reports , by calling her work ‘nonsense’ characterized by ‘perverse ingenuity’ and insinuated that she is not ‘smart enough’ to be a philosopher,” Daily Nous reported.

A fter the incident with Jennings, Jenkins wrote on her blog on July 2 that she would treat “more junior and/or professionally vulnerable [philosophers] than myself with respect.” According to Daily Nous, Leiter viewed this as a threat, accusing Jenkins of issuing “threats aimed at me on your blog” and that she came off as a “sanctimonious asshole.”

Haslanger and Velleman published e-mails that Leiter sent to Jenkins. “ The e-mails published here contain serious and credible threats aimed at silencing the recipients,” Haslanger and Velleman said in a Statement of Concern. “Such threats are not protected either by academic freedom or by confidentiality.”

Leiter was forced to resign as editor of the Philosophy Gourmet Report following a statement by 624 philosophers “declining to volunteer our services to the PGR while it is under the control of Brian Leiter.”

Velleman, one of the philosophers who received feces, concurs with Leiter’s statement that the sender must have been someone else. In an e-mail to Leiter published on Leiter’s blog, he writes: “A few people have received packages of excrement from someone using your law-school address and a name widely [sic] believed to be your pseudonym. I assume it can’t be you– –which means that someone is trying to embarrass you. I don’t know if there’s anything you can do about it, but I thought you would want to know. Some of the recipients have reported the packages to the police.”

The package sent to Jenkins contained a return address that differs by one digit from Leiter’s office address, according to Buzzfeed . The sender of Jenkin’s package also signed off as “Peter Aduren,” which Leiter writes is “a

pseudonym attributed to me by a law blogger who had championed the idea that ‘law school is a scam’ and whom I had mercilessly criticized for years.”

Leiter writes that this crowd is likely behind the mailing: “Since the only people invested in the pseudonym are part of the ‘law school is a scam’ crowd… the best hypothesis is one or more of them is behind this vile stunt.”

Leiter further claims on his blog that the package to Jenkins was mailed on June 23, when he was in Germany.

This narrows “the suspects down to two, both in Chicago—one, part of the ‘law school is a scam’ crowd, the other, a law-connected person who has been obsessively cyber-stalking me for at least six years now.”

Paul Campos is the Chicago lawyer referenced by Leiter as part of the “law school is a scam crowd.” He wrote in The Atlantic that “the odds of a graduate of one of these schools getting a job that arguably justifies incurring the schools’ typical debt level are essentially 100 to 1.”

Campos replied to Leiter’s statement that he might be behind the mailings on his blog, Lawyers, Guns & Money.

“It is of course extremely unlikely that the perpetrator of this pathetic and disturbing publicity stunt is from the world of arguments about the behavior of contemporary American law schools, since the number of people from that world who even know who Haslanger, Jenkins, Velleman, and Jennings are can be estimated as one (1),” Campos wrote.

“Now that I put it that way, I realize it isn’t unlikely at all. But since publicity tends to encourage lunatics, it would probably be best not to give this latest little outburst any more of it than necessary.”

T HE M A ROON reached out to Leiter, who wrote, “I have no further comments to make beyond what I have already said on my blog.” “ The University of Chicago Police (who have the full investigatory powers of Illinois police) have agreed to investigate these events,” Leiter reported on his blog. Seven days following Leiter’s post, the University of Chicago Police Department said that “this incident is currently not under investigation.”

The package sent to Jennings took six stamps to send.

Humanities Day

When Westboro Came to Campus in 2009, Alpha Delta Phi (Alpha Delt) Staged a Counterprotest Continued from front page

they protested there on October 5. Counterprotesters again outnumbered Church members at a protest the next at the University of Houston.

When Westboro came to campus in 2009, Alpha Delta Phi (Alpha Delt) staged a counterprotest. Brothers dropped a sign from the second floor of the house that read “Alpha Delta Phi presents Straight Hug-

gin’” while scantily clad brothers danced to the tune of Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out”.

The conservative group has built its public profi le on stridently offensive public protests, most prominently at funerals of dead soldiers. The Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League classify the church as a hate group, citing especially its “anti-gay beliefs.”

Chris Salata

Scenes from the last Westboro Baptist Church protest on campus.

Sat Gupta, Jahne Brown, Kosi Achife and Veronica Myers Will Represent Class of 2020 Continued from front page ROON ’S

survey question regarding divestment. Achife abstained, saying that she “can’t at this time answer a question that glosses over the complexities of foreign relations.” Gupta also abstained, saying that “SG should deal with issues that are of practical importance to students, not global issues that are mostly symbolic.” Gupta is also the only new Representative that would not support a payment plan for the executive committee. The issue failed twice last year. After the last attempt to pass a pay plan was foiled by last-minute parliamentary maneuvering, its proponents said they would revive the proposal this year.

Zoe Kaiser There were two E&R hearings this English professor and Franke Institute Director James Chandler keynoted this year’s Humanities Day with a talk titled “Doing Criticism / Doing Without Criticism.” election cycle. The fi rst was following

the defacement of Gupta’s chalking and the second was regarding a candidate’s failure to attend a mandatory candidate’s meeting. The candidate in the second case was eliminated from the ballot.

College Council meetings are every Tuesday at 7:30 in Stuart 104, and are open to the public.

1. Veronica Myers – 224 (10.4%) 2. Jahne Brown – 206 (9.6%) 3. Kosi Achife – 173 (8.0%) 4. Sat Gupta – 154 (7.1%) 5. Andres Leland – 131 (6.1%) 6. Eddy Chang – 124 (5.6%) 7. Teddy Knox – 109 (5.1%) 8. Adam Berger – 107 (5.0%) 9. Jersey Fonseca – 104 (4.8%) 10. Antonio Stefanescu –103 (4.8%)

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Center Features Walking Track for People in Labor Continued from page 2

Here, the patients are examined by nurses who determine whether or not they need to be admitted. The triage rooms are fully equipped for a birth, if necessary. Each triage room is flanked by a hallway on either side: one for the patients and visitors to walk down, and another for the nurses. This structure allows the medical professionals to do their work as efficiently as possible.

If admitted, the woman will be taken to one of the nine new birthing rooms. These suites are spacious and private, with a private restroom, bed, pull-out couch, TV, and an isolate bas-

sinet. Two of the birthing rooms have tubs for patients interested in hydrotherapy during labor.

The birthing center includes a long hallway where mothers can walk to encourage labor. To motivate the woman to continue walking along the path, pictures of smiling babies are strategically placed every few feet.

Alongside the staff of doctors and nurses, Comer has a team of three midwives who are available for all stages of the birthing process.

Comer Children’s Hospital is in the process of obtaining a baby-friendly accreditation from the World Health Or-

ganization. The Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative is a program meant to encourage mothers to breastfeed their children.

One of the main focuses of the program is promoting skin-to-skin care for infants. According to the International Breastfeeding Center, direct contact between the skin of a mother and baby can help to stabilize the infant’s body temperature and heart rate, as well as to expose the baby to essential bacteria that can help build its immune system.

After birth, the mother and baby are taken to Mitchell Hospital next door to stay in the Mother/Baby unit, which has been renovated over the course

of the past year. In order to prevent switched-at-birth scenarios, the mother and infant are given matching tags.

The baby’s tag has a sensor which will sound an alarm if it is taken past the doors of the maternity unit. As part of the Baby Friendly Initiative, the infants spend about 23 hours of the day in the room with their caretakers.

On average, mothers stay in the unit for two or three days before going home.

During this time, the hospital provides an array of services to ensure that the parents are prepared to care for the child, including lactation workshops and car-seat installations.

“These people,” Heilemann said, gesturing around the lecture hall, “are entitled and happy.”

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mostly. These people,” Heilemann said, gesturing around the lecture hall, “are entitled and happy.”

Axelrod looked around the lecture hall. “How many are entitled and happy? ” he asked. Most students raised their hands.

As Trump has slipped in the polls, he has ramped up his claims that the election will be rigged against him. Heilemann thinks Trump may be positioning himself for a post-election business opportunity.

“25 million people who are virulently anti-Clinton and believe the election was stolen, that’s a pretty good market opportunity—if you want to start a radio network, a television network, a website, if you want to become the new farther right rival to Fox News, you want to team up with Steve Bannon, who’s now running your campaign, call it Breitbart-Trump network,” Heilemann said.

As the pair discussed the future of what Heilemann called a “deeply fractured” Republican party, they emphasized the importance of Clinton’s margin of victory.

“I think there’s a reasonable chance the Republican Party won’t exist six

years from now, if it’s a really close outcome in November,” Heilemann said.

If Clinton wins narrowly, “ Trump will say three things. One, the election was stolen at the ballot box. Two, the media was stacked against me. And three, the Republican establishment fucked me. With Paul Ryan and the rest of those Republicans, we would have carried it… He will exacerbate that, and will drive towards a civil war within the party,” Heilemann said.

Axelrod doubts House Speaker Paul Ryan’s capacity to garner support and lead an increasingly reactionary caucus. “To do things, he’s gonna have to work with Democrats, and to work with Democrats is a firing offense for many people in that caucus,” Axelrod said.

Hei lema n n hopes for a D emo crat-controlled Senate but wants to see Paul Ryan lead a slim Republican majority in the House, without which he doesn’t think Ryan will be able to corral Republican support for any bipartisan measures.

“If Republicans are out of power in both the Senate and the House, their attitude will be fully nihilistic. Their attitude will be, just make Hillary Clinton’s first two years a bitter hellscape,” Heilemann said.

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David Axelrod in conversation with John Heilemann, co-managing editor of Bloomberg Politics.

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dates for political office, as he was a passionate follower of politics and, he suggested, not completely crazy.

Riding a theory of increased democratic turnout resulting from the popular appeal of Barack Obama, Biss ran for the Illinois House 17th district seat in 2008. He lost. “I was an idiot, the whole thesis was wrong,” the mathematician said of his running strategy.

“The whole underlying theory was stupid...I lost with 48.5 percent of the vote, which sounds like a lot unless the only thing you care about is whether or not it’s more than 50.”

Through a series of fortunate events involving help from other Illinois government officials, Biss was able to run for the seat again in 2010 —this time winning with 55 percent of the vote.

Since then, Biss said, “It’s been amazing. It’s been weird and frustrating, and it’s changed a lot.”

A n aud ien c e q ue s t ion f i n a l ly prompted Biss to address the value of a Ph.D. in public office, the stated topic of

the talk. “I describe myself as a former mathematics professor, and that has a huge reputational benefit. It confers a kind of instant credibility,” Biss said.

Though not much in the day-to-day life of a state representative requires his expertise in pure theoretical math, Biss notes that the experience of working on his degree has helped with focusing on long-term tasks and conducting extensive research.

The most important aspect of the Ph.D. in public office for Biss, however, is the ability to deal with adversity. “ Doing a Ph.D. is, in most cases, not something that everything goes right the first time. That’s very useful.” Biss tied the academic training to his persistence after his loss in 2008.

The night ended with a Q&A segment in which Biss revealed that he has never taken a college stats class, detests T he Chicago T ribune , and realized after his congressional race that he was overly cynical about the moral character of everyday people.

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State Senator Daniel Biss addresses University of Chicago students.

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night, Nightline, 20/20, This Week, and then I also have my own show, which is Real Biz with Rebecca Jarvis , which is on ABCNews.com and on Apple TV and on YouTube. So I write every story I do, top-to-bottom for ABC News, and I’m also producing and coming up with all of the content as well.

CM: So when do you sleep? Sounds like you’re pretty busy.

RJ: We just did this story earlier this week about how your productivity starts to decline after 50 hours of work per week.

And there was an op-ed in I think The Washington Post about how all these people who are talking about waking up at four in the morning and going without sleep are just terrible examples of what it takes to get ahead.

I have very mixed feelings about that because for me, I honestly really can’t see how I would have gotten to where I am right now if I had done anything but push myself to my utmost limits—and sometimes push myself even farther—than I probably physically should have. I just don’t think it would be possible.

I raised this question in an interview not that long ago with Arianna Huffi ngton, who talks about the importance of sleep. I raised this point with her because I always struggle with these topics right now that are so much in the zeitgeist about personal wellness and taking care of yourself.

And it is important to take care of yourself—you do have your physical limits— but I liken it a little bit to an Olympian.

Olympians exercise for hours a day. They eat, breathe, sleep whatever it is that they are training for, and most of them start when they’re really young. A lot of people could look at that and say, “That’s not the life I would want.” But for them, they’re Olympic athletes and they have to do that.

There’s no shortcut to getting there. And I think that there are ways to impose more balance on your life, and I have definitely tried to impose more balance on my life now that I’m 34 years old versus when I was 24 years old. But, in my personal experience, you have to go above and beyond in order to get the big, big opportunities.

CM: Spoken like a true UChicago student.

RJ: Well, the University of Chicago certainly is like that too. People will probably read this before midterms, but once those come around, you start to realize that if you’re not working really hard right up until those final moments before your tests or papers, you know, it’s probably not going to work out so well.

CM: I can definitely attest to that. Going back to your time at UChicago, what was your role on The Maroon ?

RJ: I was a staff writer. I wrote a lot of things for News. I wrote a lot as an undergrad at the University of Chicago.

You know, people will ask what they should study. And I think it’s completely fi ne to not study journalism. In fact, in my experience, having courses that were heavy in writing but not necessarily journalistic per se helped.

As a Law, Letters, and Society major, I was in a lot of Dennis Hutchinson’s classes. And he is someone that almost became a journalist at one point in his life, and I think that a lot of the skills I picked up

from his coursework help me a lot now as a journalist. So I would say: Look, there’s not a journalism major at the University of Chicago, but that’s not a bad thing.

That’s actually potentially a good thing because you can differentiate yourself.

You can study English, you can also study history or economics, or Law, or some sort of science and—guess what?—become an expert in one of those fields and a newsroom is going to want you even more, assuming that you can write, than if you’re just another journalism kid.

Not to say that those people don’t succeed and excel in newsrooms (ABC News is filled with people who studied journalism, as have been every place that I’ve worked), but when you can put your hand up in a moment of breaking news or you can say when there’s no one else in the building who has that specific set of knowledge or background—when you can say, “Hey, I can help,” they’re going to go to you for that help.

I think the world—especially journalism—has really evolved and changed, especially in the 11 years I’ve been doing this. The hierarchy still exists. You have to have certain experience to do certain jobs, but it doesn’t exist to the degree that it even did when I started. So if you’re young and hungry and motivated, you can really get in there and do a lot of things that you’re probably hoping to do as a journalist. You’re not just getting coffee for people. In fact, there’s no budget for coffee anymore, so you’re not getting coffee.

CM: I’ve been told, and found, that hands-on experience is much more important than formal training when it comes to journalism.

RJ: The hands-on experience is really important, and I do think that there are certain things—learning standards is the one truly beneficial thing people could get out of going to journalism school. I say that having never gone to journalism school, but from what I hear, just learning how to fact-check a story and what’s necessary—to know that before you get into a newsroom certainly helps. But I think the main skills that you really need: you need to know how to write, and nowadays you probably need to know how to write quickly. You need to know how to ask questions and be incredibly curious and inquisitive, and you need to be really willing to work hard for little pay—which is the way it works now too.

CM: I know you were on The Apprentice , so I have to ask you about that experience.

RJ: Of course you do. When I was writing for Crain’s in Chicago, I was 23 years old and on a lark I went to the audition for The Apprentice at NBC. In the back of my mind I really didn’t see it as something I would ultimately do. I thought I would write some story about what it’s like behind the scenes to do this kind of thing and what an audition for The Apprentice is. Then after a couple rounds of auditioning I ended up getting on the show and had actually a lot of really serious conversations with my parents at the time about whether or not I should do it. Because I was really concerned about what it would mean. Would it undermine the things I had worked so hard to do?

And what I mean by that is: when you go on reality TV, it’s up to the producers on reality TV who you are. You can control

who you are to some extent because you are who you are, but the editing and the decisions that are made to make something dramatic can change. That’s the kind of danger I’m always apprehensive about: putting my words into someone else’s hands, allowing someone else to tell my story. That’s something that I’ve always been concerned about and that’s ironic because I’m a journalist and that’s kind of what we do.

I was worried, and I thought a lot about it, but I ultimately decided to do it. I was 23 and I was like, what’s the worst thing that can happen? When you’re 23 you can blame whatever happens on youth.

I broke my ankle three days into fi lming and was on crutches the entire time.

It was not the most pleasant experience because of that in part but I made it through. People say, “Well what did you learn from it?” and I think, for me, I learned that the world is really big, and it’s interesting to see that audiences see the truth. You don’t have to tell people what’s happening; audiences can see what’s happening. And that was a big learning experience for me when it was all said and done.

CM: And you were the runner-up, correct?

RJ: First off, let me say this: We had limited interaction. But in my interactions with him he literally came across exactly on air when you would watch the show back as he came across in person.

So with my experience, it was: what you see is what you get. And there were two major questions that people would ask me when I would travel and when I came back from the show. People would ask me, “Is his hair real?” because that was a thing for a really long time, and they would ask me about his book, The Art of the Deal , and what we learned from him.

CM: So you didn’t get to know him on a personal level?

RJ: For me, it was a positive experience. I didn’t have any negative interactions with him that I can recall. It was 11 years ago, but also, the biggest difference is that the content of our interactions was very different than the content that you now see of him.

I mean, never once did politics come up as far as I can remember. We didn’t talk about the Iraq War. We talked about whether or not you did what Microsoft wanted you to do on a task. Or whether or not the tagline you came up with was the right tagline, or whether or not you sold enough widgets or whatever it was we were selling on a particular task.

RJ: Yeah.

CM: In the long-run, are you happy that you didn’t end up winning?

RJ: Absolutely I’m happy! All this stuff is so weird, obviously, because of everything that’s happening in the world now, but right after the show wrapped up, I did this interview with Larry King. It was Larry King and Donald Trump and the other person from the show. During the commercial break I was alone in the studio with Larry King and the other two were via satellite. He said, “This is the best thing that ever happened to you.

Mark my words. Coming in second is the best thing that ever happened to you.”

And frankly, the show gave me a forum to be who I was, and for people to see that, and put me in touch and in contact with people who it would have taken much more heavy lifting probably and a lot longer time. I don’t regret doing it, but fi rst of all, I didn’t ever think about it as a stepping stone. I thought, I’m doing this on a lark, it could be something fun.

I could have some great stories as a result of this—that’s how I went into it.

Coming out of it (and I’ve talked to a couple of other people who were in similar positions to mine), there are some great opportunities that may or may not come along, but once you get in those opportunities, you have to really work hard, which is what I did when I went to CNBC afterwards. I cared more about how the other employees saw me and wanted to work really hard to earn their trust and respect and wanted them to know I deserved to be there and wasn’t just the girl from reality TV. And 11 years in hindsight to that full experience, I realize there was probably a lot of skepticism from the other journalists at the time, and I’m really grateful I had the great experience early on that I did, because there could have been a lot more hazing.

CM: Fond memories of Donald Trump, or not so much?

CM: We just had this letter from Dean Ellison go out to fi rst-years about free speech (which I’m sure you’ve read about), and I think it will be one of the things that stands out in my mind down the road when I think about my generation at UChicago. So I’m wondering what you feel defined your time at UChicago?

RJ: One of the most defi ning things of my experience was Dennis Hutchinson’s First Amendment law course. I think a lot about that class now still and I think the bottom line for me is the idea that you essentially have to protect all speech in order to protect the things that are most important to you. Because if you start going around and selectively saying, “Well this speech doesn’t work” or “this speech I’m not comfortable with,” someday when times change and opinions change, it’s going to be your thoughts. It’s going to be what you have to say that will be outlawed—if you go the opposite direction is my point.

I think for me it’s such an important point; it was a very pivotal course for me while I was in school, and it’s still an incredibly important course for me now and I think about it a lot.

Something that I thought a lot about when that note came out was that there were a lot of discussions in University of Chicago classes that made me uncomfortable—that were viewpoints that I had never heard before—and I’m so glad I heard them. And I’m so glad I heard them at the University of Chicago where there was respect for everybody.

And I think that the experience that I had as a college student would have been dramatically different if I or anyone else was in a position to shut down a conversation. Because there were some things that were said in classes—and I still remember people in class being like, “That’s crazy!” but you know what? The discussion went on. And there was a conversation. And it was, I think, an important one. And who knows? The people on the other side of it, who a lot of people thought were crazy, might have learned something too.

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search team traveled to Michigan to investigate.

Their experiments—which involved testing steel and copper in water samples from Flint and Detroit— definitively showed corrosion in Flint’s supply. When the CDC refused to validate these tests, Edwards’s team “broke all the rules that we had been taught” regarding research.

“We did science as a public good . . .

We had to declare war on our own government and unethical industry to get people in Flint, Michigan, protected,” Edwards said.

T he team asked a fou r th-g rade classroom and Brownie troop to replicate the experiments and send letters to the Michigan governor. Media outlets broadcasted both stunts, sparking local protests and national outrage. It was revealed that a Michigan Department of Environmental Quality employee had neglected to put a required inhibitor chemical in the water supply to prevent lead and bacteria contamination. The department had recognized an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease in 2014 after twelve Flint residents died from the water-borne infection, but did not alert the public for fear it could “inflame the situation,” Edwards said, quoting an e-mail between state officials.

Edwards’s research resulted in the indictment of eight civil servants. Federal funds totaling $600 million also

poured in to pay for local children’s healthcare and education costs, confirming for Edwards that “Flint was exactly the community I am glad we went out on a limb for.” Noting Flint’s status as the second-poorest U.S. city, Edwards called the situation an “environmental crime, perpetrated by our government, against one of our most vulnerable populations.”

Exposing the crisis came at some personal cost, however. “I am a coward 99 percent of the time,” Edwards said. “I have to be, to maintain what little semblance of an academic position I have after this journey.” He cited an editorial published just last month in the journal Environmental Science & Technology by David Sedlak, who criticized Edwards, arguing that scientists’ research funding is too precious to jeopardize by allying with social causes.

E dwa rds concluded h is ta l k by warning of yet-unsolved crises—particularly in Chicago, which he described as the city “with the worst potential lead problem in the country” due to a local law mandating lead pipes until 1986. He also reiterated the importance of socially conscious science. “ When you see an environmental injustice,” he said, “and you see the harm that it can do to people. . . you will never again be a bystander.”

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The overarching goal of Preckwinkle’s plan to tax sugary drinks at a penny per ounce is to evade extensive cuts in health care and police departments, among other sectors. Preckwinkle also suggested a plan to increase allocation towards anti-violence initiatives, raising their budget to roughly $6 million.

Preckwinkle’s main point was that further budget cuts would only bring more damage to the criminal justice system by keeping inmates who have already fulfilled their sentences in prison and even suspending trials.

I n ad d i t i o n t o P r e c k w i n k l e ’s key not e add r e s s , t he fou r pa nel s add ressed ja i l a nd pr ison reform, p ol ic i ng st rat eg ie s for bet t er p o lice-community relations, the legal system, and community and youth engagement.

Ferg u son pa r ticipat ed i n pa nel three —“ Policing and Strengthening Police– Community Relations”—in which topics such as the fundamentals of policing and youth intervention were explored.

“Fundamental to good policing is… good relationships and a community policing program that is not a tactic to be enforced in certain places, but a philosophy,” Ferguson said. “In addition, we have to hold our leaders into account. Political will from leaders who have the authority to act is required. Every interaction is a human interaction and human dynamic, and the basic norms of human intercourse actually matter a lot.”

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ing some pictures of it.” Megan was also interested in taking some pictures in the Co-Op. They joined forces in 2011 and have been working together since.

The project “evolved slowly and organically over the course of time.” They began doing audio interviews and started compiling a history of the Co-Op. They set up a website and had a small exhibition at Regenstein Library with artifacts from the Co-Op history, and

eventually decided to create a book.

The Seminary Co-Op has been an enduring icon of the University for more than half a century—Megan and Doherty’s book celebrates that. But its persistence is not inevitable. As current general manager Jeff Deutsch put at the very beginning of the evening, “the Seminary Co-Op is not a given.”

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VIEWPOINTS

A Jury of Peers A Disciplinary System Devoted to Dissent Is Essential, as Is Student Representation Among Those Deciding Punishments In June, then-Provost Eric Isaacs announced the creation of a faculty committee tasked with recommending how and when the administration should punish protesters who disrupt University activities. On the committee’s to-do list is reevaluating a disciplinary system for disruptive protests that hasn’t been used since 1974 due to unspecified “cumbersome procedures.”

While the committee should simplify and re-introduce this system, it should also include students in the disciplinary process to prevent disproportionate and uninformed punishments. The fact that fewer than 10 students attended the committee’s one and only forum for student input and feedback on Thursday is disappointing given the context of the committee’s creation, but it should not deter the committee from including student voices in whatever system it ultimately recommends.

Isaacs created the Faculty Committee on University Discipline for Disruptive Conduct shortly after IIRON’s (UChicago Student Action) May 19 “Rally to Democratize the University,” which included a sit-in in Levi Hall in protest of administrators’ unwillingness to meet with student activists. All 34 of the protesters left the building after an administrator told them that they would “face the real possible consequence of discipline…up to and including suspension or expulsion.” The sit-in topped off a year of contentious demonstrations that fueled debate about how and when to enforce punishments for disruptive behavior at a private institution whose commitment to first amendment rights implies protecting the right to protest.

The University’s current stat-

ute governing punishment for disciplinary action reads, “Conduct of members of the University disruptive of the operations of the University, including interference with instruction, research, administrative operations, freedom of association, and meetings as protected by University regulations, is prohibited and is subject to disciplinary action.” A faculty committee created in the wake of trauma center protests unanimously found in 2014 that the “[statute], taken literally, is too broad” because all protest is disruptive by nature. This year proved the need for clearer cut definitions of what is and what is not punishable disruption, as well as concrete disciplinary policies to accompany lofty institutional ideals.

The faculty committee answers this call. Its objectives are to make recommendations to revise or replace the procedures and standards initially set forth in the 1970s and to consider the range of disciplinary sanctions that may be imposed and under what circumstances. The defunct system from the ’70s, known as the All-Disciplinary System, emerged after 42 students were expelled for a sit-in in protest of the Vietnam War. The procedures at the time of the sit-in were controversial and drawn-out, thus exacerbating the anger of the student body. Foreseeing more protests at the scale of the 1969 sit-in, the new system was designed to address disruptive conduct that that put disciplinary decisions up to a committee comprised of president-appointed faculty, undergraduate Student Government (SG) members, and division-appointed graduate students. The system was able to process a large number

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of students at once and included student representation, but the process of convening committees was laborious. The All-University Disciplinary System largely fell by the wayside as years went by due to its complexity and the infrequent need for largescale discipline.

The current student manual lists only three different disciplinary mechanisms: The Area Admission Review Systems, meant to address violations of University policies for incoming students; the Area Disciplinary Systems, which addresses violations of University policies for current undergraduate and graduate students; and the University-wide Disciplinary System, for student offenses that involve unlawful discrimination or sexual misconduct. At the forum, the committee said that it is likely

to recommend the re-introduction of the All-University Disciplinary System as a fourth mechanism, with protesting as its specific focus.

Reintroducing a revised All-University Disciplinary System or building a similar system from the ground up seems like an essential first step to finding a balance between rightful protesting and disruptive behavior. It would have been valuable to have had a functioning disciplinary committee focused exclusively on disruptive conduct last year to determine thoughtfully how to address the Anita Alvarez and Bassem Eid events and the May sit-in. Disruptive behavior deserves unique attention—particularly at a school that claims to lead the national dialogue on free inquiry and expression—because it differs enormously from more common dis-

ciplinary violations like plagiarism, physical violence, and drug and alcohol abuse.

While a disciplinary system devoted to dissent is necessary, a cumbersome administrative structure is not. Furthermore, simplifying the All-University Disciplinary System does not have to mean getting rid of student representation. The student perspective is essential in judging instances of disruptive conduct on campus because so often these instances reflect the mood and dialogue of the student body.

Having a voice, or multiple voices, that understands the context of the disruptions in question would help mitigate tensions between administrators and student activists and result in balanced judgments.

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“Hillary Clinton was angry and defensive the entire time—no smile and uncomfortable—upset that she was caught wrongly sending our secrets,” Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said on Twitter.

Though currently the most obvious example due to the spotlight of the presidential election, Hillary Clinton has been only one of many women told to smile. After Serena Williams won a physically exhausting quarterfinal match at the 2015 U.S. Open, she was told to smile by a male journalist. At the third Republican debate, when Carly Fiorina acted no differently

than the 10 other men on stage, she was the only one told to smile more. Most familiarly, random strangers tell women in their dayto-day lives to smile. This subtle form of harassment exemplifies a common misperception about women: smiling marks one’s femininity, and as Marianne LaFrance, a professor of gender and sexuality studies at Yale, put it: “it falls to women to do more of smiling because we want to make sure women are doing what we expect them to do, which is to care for others.” Women are told to smile, and not men.

In a study conducted by Lisa

Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern, male and female faces were photographed in various poses from smiles to frowns.

These were then shown to test subjects, who were asked why these faces appeared the way they did. Were they being emotional or rightfully upset from a cause?

From looking at these faces, the subjects attributed an internal, emotional cause to women yet a situational cause for men. As the election so helpfully underscores, a woman who is not smiling is falsely assumed to be angry or upset, while a man with that same facial reaction must be focusing on serious matters.

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still exist in the workplace. It’s one story to see a glass ceiling in which women cannot advance while men can in male-dominated fields like finance, but it’s another to see a glass escalator for men to advance in female-dominated fields like nursing while women are discriminated against. Men earn more than women in female-dominated jobs. White men in particular can easily move up into supervisory positions. Needless to say, men are hardly better performers in these jobs than women are; it’s simply that they fit the prototypical stereotype of a manager. Telling women to smile perpetuates the idea that if they don’t, they’re unlikable and untrustworthy. Telling women to smile perpetuates ideas of male dominance because a woman in a public space is not there for herself but there to respond to a man’s request to smile. This disparity results in far-reaching consequences that affect not only the day-to-day lives of women, but their overall chance of long-term success. To see it reach the national level of the presidential election in which

Hillary Clinton is reprimanded for being a “bitch” while Trump is simply seen as serious about the debate is the most disheartening.

Progress has surely been made for women; the number of women in the workforce has more than doubled from 31 million to 67 million since 1970. Still, when women who hold the same qualifications and experience apply for the same jobs as men and end up with a lower starting salary, there is still evidence of a deeply rooted problem. A female presidential candidate from a major party, while an important symbol, is not enough. Neither is the presence of programs to help women enter typically male-dominated fields.

It’s not that the gender gap has closed because of this progress— these opportunities are useless without uncovering the root of the cause in the first place. It’s that the gender gap can close because of it, but it has to start with changing society’s perception of women.

Jasmine Wu is a second-year in the College majoring in philosophy and economics.

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A Deafening Silence UChicago College Republicans Have an Obligation to Denounce Trump

BY JAKE EBERTS MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

At this point, it would be redundant to rehash the slew of repulsive comments, actions, and policy positions that have led the Donald Trump campaign to where it is today. Taking the trip down that particular back alley of memory lane would rightfully make at least a few people dangerously nauseous.

After all, the campaign has been driven from the get-go in large part by blatant misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and fear. It should be abundantly clear that in terms of his temperament and a stunning lack of substantive policy proposals, at least, Donald Trump is categorically unfit to serve as the president of the United States.

Thus, the silence coming from the University of Chicago College Republicans is very interesting. The College Republicans declined to endorse—or denounce—Donald Trump in late September, in what could be interpreted as a rebuke of the candidate overall. However, President Matthew Foldi emphasized that the group is not formally opposed to Trump and will remain neutral for this election cycle. Foldi framed the decision in terms of precedent, saying that College Republicans have not always endorsed presidential candidates. This year, they are apparently too busy endorsing senators, governors, and welcome letters.

The aforementioned traits of misogyny, racism, and general

bigotry are no new features in American politics, and they’re probably not going to go away anytime soon. Perhaps it makes sense that the College Republicans withheld an endorsement of a candidate who goes out of his way to display these features for all voters to see, like a brilliantly tanned peacock with a tenuous grasp of reality that surrounds him.

Beyond the obvious danger presented by a man who openly bragged about sexual assault, discriminated against minorities as a businessman, and continues to heap praise upon authoritarian adversaries of the United States, there is something even more concerning about Donald Trump’s tragicomic quest for the presidency. Trump presents a unique and real threat to the democratic institutions and broader civil society that compose our republic in a way unlike any other figure in our lifetimes.

That assertion does not require a loud brand of fiery, youthful college #BernieOrBust progressivism to be substantiated; there is no tenable conservative justification for a Donald Trump administration. Trump is a proto-autocrat whose candidacy endangers the core of our political process—sowing seeds of doubt over the election, threatening to jail his opponent, and trying to silence unfavorable media coverage. The sheer magnitude of what is at risk outweighs the cost of a liberal-leaning court or an increased tax rate that would be wrought by a Clinton administration.

Trump’s candidacy itself is a strong argument against democracy. Yet despite the clear danger he poses, there are still those very much involved in the political process who are convinced they can stay on the sidelines.

Our university’s College Republicans are one such example. It is deeply unsettling that a group representing one of the two major factions of our representative democracy is trying to avoid the discomfort of picking a president when one of the candidates is an outright disaster-in-waiting. The College Republicans are a part wider of the political landscape Trump threatens to upend.

Unlike the GOP officials still clinging to Trump over the last few weeks, the board of the College Republicans does not have to worry about losing seats in Congress. It would seem that at worst there is a danger of angering their parent Republican National Committee or otherwise staining party credentials. And so we are left with the supposedly neutral UChicago College Republicans. The social media accounts of the College Republicans, and now their board, operate as if they wish Trump did not exist. It is a deafening silence. Unfortunately, Trump does exist. If the College Republicans lack the courage to denounce him today, perhaps they should learn from Mark Kirk, whom they endorse. This is not the election to sit out.

Jake Eberts is a third-year in the College majoring in political science.

“Centrist” of Attention Under the Guise of Moderation, Gary Johnson’s Policies Are Dangerously Radical

Fred Kardos It’s not ever yday that a presidential candidate comes to speak at UChicago. In the rare case that one does decide to make an appearance, it is necessary to ask questions. In Gary Johnson’s case, the most pressing question was: “ Why would it be a good idea for a Libertarian candidate to visit a mostly progressive college, especially at this late stage in the election? ” Unfortunately, even after his speech, Johnson offered no clear answer to this fundamental question.

Especially since he has rapidly descended in the polls over the last few weeks, Johnson’s visit to the University of Chicago is just about as weird as his presidential campaign as a whole.

For many disenfranchised voters, Ga r y Joh nson may seem like a decent option. He is not as overtly bigoted as Donald Trump, and perhaps more trustworthy than scanda l-prone H i l la r y Cl i nt on.

Johnson promises a socially liberal and fiscally conservative policy that theoretically acts as a bridge between the Democratic and Republican parties. However, the theoretical goal of a viable libertarian

candidate wasn’t fully realized at his UChicago visit.

In his stump speech, Johnson heralded his liberality in social policies, while still managing to squeak in a subtle reference to “All Lives Matter.” He tried to display some knowledge on foreign affairs, showing improvement since his notorious Aleppo moment. However, he neglected to mention anything substantive about his economic policy. Why? Because he knew his audience full of college liberals wouldn’t find any of his zany Libertarian ideas even remotely convincing.

It’s easy to seem like a rational, level-headed thinker when you refer generally to the importance of equality and protecting our nation for a mere 45 minutes. But once you start talking about zero taxes on corporations, it all falls apart.

Gary Johnson swerved away from practically every issue of controversy, as most politicians do, but most notably, he avoided every issue that would spark controversy among college students. He especially avoided mentioning his brutal stances on education reform, such as Continued on page 10

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ending Pell Grants. Johnson argued for small government, as expected, but he mainly focused on topics that nobody, liberal or conservative, would find offensive. Johnson presented himself as a moderate centrist, not a radically lib-

ertarian ideologue. So why would Gary Johnson brush over his actual policy propositions, especially at such a late and pivotal stage in this election? Ultimately, Johnson, like everyone else in America, knows he cannot win; thus, he is merely taking advantage of an oppor-

tunity to increase the visibility of the Libertarian Party.

At the event, when students asked why they should vote for him, he made vague references to voting based on principle. So if you believe that Gary Johnson espouses the principles that you believe in, fine. Go ahead and vote for him. Voting based on personal principles is an acceptable, if overly idealistic, value in electoral politics. But when Johnson is too afraid to seriously discuss his actual ideology, then what principles underlie a vote for Johnson?

While Johnson may appear to be somewhat reasonable in his speeches, he believes debt can be removed by ending corporate taxes, that the Department of Education should be abolished, and that environmental issues can be fixed

by going to Mars. Those are hardly moderate, acceptable ideas.

S o wh i le Ga r y Johnson at th is UChicago speech acted like the perfect centrist solution to an increasingly polarized America, he failed to represent the entirety of the actual Libertarian Party platform. During a normal election cycle, an attention-seeking, ideologically incoherent Libertarian candidate would be a mostly innocuous addition. However, in an election cycle far from normal, there is no room for a candidate like Gary Johnson. Ultimately, his visit to UChicago is as inconsequential and unnecessary as his candidacy.

Fred Kardos is a first-year in the College.

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ARTS Joffrey’s Romeo & Juliet Balances the Classical and Contemporary

BY LELA JENKINS MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Romeo & Juliet began with stillness. As the curtains rose and the music crescendoed, the audience was confronted by dancers staring at the audience head-on, unmoving. Behind them a backdrop is illuminated, an industrial set. We observed their old-fashioned clothes, vintage palette, and the pedestrian way in which they carried themselves. We had been transported to a different, yet somehow similar, era, one in which movement was mundane yet determined.

The Joffrey Ballet performed its modern rendition of Shakespeare’s classic last Thursday at the Auditorium Theatre.

With a multimedia video backdrop, minimalistic set and simple costume design, the production relied solely on the dancers to convey director and choreographer Krzysztof Pastor’s reinterpretation of the play.

The performance, which was divided into three acts and commented on three highly political eras of the 20th century, emphasized the timelessness of conflict and its disastrous effects on love. The fi rst act takes place in a fascist 1930s Italy, the second in the communist 1950s, and the third in a 1990s Italy under Sil-

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Dylan Gutierrez and Jeraldine Mendoza don’t just play lovers. Their relationship continues after the curtain falls, and the chemistry is apparent.

vio Berlusconi’s tyrannical rule.

“The story is meant to take place in three different eras so it’s showing the same story happening over and over again,” said lead dancer Dylan Gutierrez, who plays Romeo. “[The ballet] kind of has an underlying message…. We as

A minimalist set complements a contemporary take on an iconic story.

human beings tend to make the same mistakes,” he said.

Pastor incorporated the advanced technique of 19th-century Imperial Russian Ballet, stripping it of its heavy, theatrical setting and melding it with the more unconventional lines and abstract shapes of

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20th-century Balanchine technique. The result was sleek, bold movement still reminiscent of its classical foundation, directly reflecting Pastor’s innovative take on Romeo & Juliet.

Gutierrez dances alongside lead dancer Jeraldine Mendoza, who plays the role of Juliet.

This is Gutierrez and Mendoza’s eighth and sixth seasons with the Joffrey Ballet, respectively.

In addition to playing lovers onstage, the two are also a real-life couple who fi nd that dancing together as lovers comes with ease.

“I like to go back and remember how I felt when I fi rst met Dylan, when I fi rst started noticing him,” Mendoza said.

“I like to incorporate that into the role of Juliet because in the ballet there’s a huge scene where they fi rst meet, and it’s just magic, and I feel like we definitely have that between us.”

The scenes between Romeo and Juliet are calm moments in the midst a storm. “There’s a really calm scene where Juliet kind of just walks across the stage. It happens after the quarrel and the two deaths of Mercu-

tio and Tybalt,” Mendoza said.

“She symbolizes innocence and the beauty of that innocence.”

When the violence in Romeo & Juliet reaches its peak and the two lovers are set to be alone together for the very last time, the performance takes the audience by surprise by reaching its calmest point. The dark, imposing geometric shapes hanging in the background are replaced by mirrors, one of which raises Juliet into the air for her balcony scene. Then the two lovers are dancing alone, with nothing but a white silk sheet, a bed, and a soft blue light. The most intimate, most raw moment of the ballet plays out.

Everyone in the audience knows the fate of Romeo and Juliet. They know, yet they wait, frozen, as it unfolds. The story has been transformed for them by the Joffrey, still loyal to Shakespeare’s classic, yet brought into modern times through movement and art.

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Clowning Around With Elizabethan “SNL”

BY REBECCA JULIE ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

Shakespeare is turning 400, and in celebration the Newberry Consort, a Chicago-based early music ensemble, is marrying the Bard and music.

The first in their series of performances, entitled The Clown, will feature a number of historically accurate Elizabethan jigs that highlight the famous Shakespearean clown Will Kemp, for whom the Bard wrote some of his most famous jester and clown roles. Steven Player, a master Kemp impersonator, will be collaborating with the Consort for

this performance, using his expertise as a singer, actor, dancer, and musician to bring this Shakespearean tour de force to life.

Elizabethan jigs were short, comedic musical sketches performed during the intermission or at the end of serious theatrical performances in Shakespeare’s day. Saturday’s performance at the Logan Center will be a compilation of such sketches, which Newberry Consort co-artistic director Ellen Hargis likened to Adam Sandler’s “Opera Man” skits on Saturday Night Live.

“I think the easiest way to imagine what it will be like is [to] imagine something like a really hilarious…skit that is all done

to music,” she said. “These are ballads, everybody sings all the time…it’s completely full of jokes… and the plots are actually kind of complicated, because they are full of people trying to trick each other. They’re only about 15–20 minutes tops…so they are quite quick, but they have dancing, they have cross-dressing, they have sword fights, they have pick-pocketing and all kinds of trickery.”

The Newberry Consort, an ensemble-in-residence at both the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, is no stranger to providing audiences with unique early music experiences.

For the last 30 years, the Consort

has been delivering Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music to audiences worldwide in a way that is as educational as enjoyable.

“We are in a field that can be highly intellectual and very interestingly so, very entertainingly so,” said Hargis. “Even if somebody has never heard of this stuff before, they’re going to come to the concert and have a great time.”

Historical context is key to all performances. Audience members are provided with information on the music’s contemporary culture and politics in an effort to make the listening experience as accessible as possible.

For The Clown, the Newberry

Consort is producing a fully staged production, complete with singers, actors, authentic costumes, and a historically accurate set, including a traditionally structured orchestra with two violins, a viola, a cello, a lute, multiple guitars, and a fiddle played by the U.S. National Scottish Fiddling Champion, Tim MacDonald.

The performance, which is showing at other Chicago locations on Friday and Sunday as well, will be unique. “It seems as though this is one of the first historical performances of Elizabethan jig that has happened in modern times in North AmerContinued on page 13

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Finnish Biopic Pulls Punches and Heartstrings

BY KENNETH TALBOTT LA VEGA ARTS STAFF

Check out Kenneth’s running coverage of high-profile films screened at the Chicago International Film Festival.

His third review of the series tackles a Finnish biopic by Juho Kuosmanen.

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is a Finnish biopic directed by Juho Kuosmanen. While Olli Mäki is his first independent directorial debut, Kuosmanen’s graduate work has already received plenty of recognition in the Finnish film world. Olli Mäki premiered at the Un Certain Regard section of this year’s Cannes F ilm Festival, dedicated to encouraging innovative and daring works by young talent, where it won the top award. *** T he Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is a biopic of Olli (Jarkko Lahti), a brawny but modest and compassionate rising boxer in 1950s Finland. At face value, Olli Mäki is

a routine boxing film—there is the cold, unsympathetic coach; the emotionally charged training sessions; the vomiting-in-a-toilet-to-make-it-into-a-weight-class scene. In actuality, the film works foremost as a romance, focusing less on Olli the featherweight boxer, and more on Olli the young man caught in the throes of true love.

Olli Mäki succeeds on several formal and stylistic levels. Shot entirely on black-and-white film with unassuming, well-lit use of fluid long shots and no soundtrack, the film acquires the narrative power of f lipping through a well-curated photo album. The camerawork has a documentary quality to it, both in its movement and tracking of figures and conversations. Kuosmanen’s technique produces a heightened sense of association with the film’s protagonists, especially when the camera transfixes on Olli or his love interest Raija (Oona Airola), whose faces and silhouettes are projected in clear contrast to their colorless backdrops.

For a relatively young director, Kuosmanen composes mise-en-scènes with remarkable control and a layered use of foreground and background.

This becomes particularly useful in balancing the elements of Olli’s athletic and romantic narratives within a single scene. His style is considerate rather than imposing, and illustrative as opposed to expository. With his natural and authentic execution of such intimate scenes as an affectionate couple’s bike ride or (very) naked roughhousing in the men’s locker room, Kuosmanen creates a sense of comradery between the film and the viewer.

A ll these f ilmmaking elements, tied together with mature and sensitive performances from the lead actors, create a film that seeks not to impress, or even narrate, but rather to unearth a charming, nuanced por-

trait of a couple challenged by the demands of international sports. Olli Mäki is an effortlessly enchanting film about competition, character, and (most importantly) romance, pulled off with unwavering craftsmanship.

The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki runs 92 minutes in Finnish with English subtitles. It will screen Wednesday, October 19 at 5:45 p.m., Thursday, October 20 at 8:30 p.m., and Monday, October 24 at 3:15 p.m.

Director/writer Juho Kuosmanen is scheduled to attend the October 19 and 20 screenings. Individual tickets and festival passes are available onlin e at chi c a gof ilmfestival .c om.

EXHIBIT [A]rts [10/18] TUESDAY

[10/21] FRIDAY

7:30 p.m. Enjoy food and drink alongside good music as Third Tuesday Jazz Series presents saxophonist and clarinetist Eric Schneider and pianist Jeremy Kahn. Café Logan. Free.

7:30 p.m. Freddy Cole and René Marie take to the stage to perform jazz classics in the tradition of Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong or Ray Charles and Betty Carter. Logan Center Performance Hall. $5 with UCID, $28 faculty and staff, $35 General.

7–9 p.m. Join the Arts Incubator as they screen DeWitt Beall’s Lord Thing (1971) as part of their Moving Images, Making Cities Film Series. Arts Incubator in Washington Park. Free.

[10/19] WEDNESDAY 7 p.m.–midnight Dance your midterm woes away at the Promontory’s monthly 3rd Wednesday Salsa as they celebrate their second year ann iversa r y. B a l l r o om L at i n Da nce A ssociation will lead a free dance lesson from 8 – 9 p.m., followed by open dancing. The Promontory. Free.

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[10/22] SATURDAY Noon–5 p.m. Join The Arts Club of Chicago at its Centennial Open House as Grammy- and Pulitzer-winning artists discuss and perform their work. The Club’s permanent collection and special loans will be open for public view. The Arts Club of Chicago. Free.

8 p.m. Enjoy a good laugh as the Newberry Consort invites Steve Player to perform a number of Elizabethan jigs as Will Kemp, the clown featured in many Shakespearean plays. Logan Center, Performance Hall. $5 with UCID, $35–45 general.

Jarkko Lahti plays the titular character in this Cannes Film Festival favorite.

Court’s Man in the Ring Stuns in Closing Weekend

BY EMILY EHRET MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Two versions of a man stand opposite each other on stage. One is young, full of dreams, and grinning so hard he could almost levitate. The other is old, still, and puzzling over memor ies he can ba rely hold onto in his mind. This is the scene set in the Court Theatre’s Man in the Ring

by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award– w in n ing play w r ight M ichael Cr istofer, a gripping world premiere that throws viewers into the world of boxer Emile Griffith. Tensions of guilt, love, a nd identity cou rse th rough matches both physical and mental.

Emile Griffith was born in the U.S. Virg in Islands and was discovered while working in a hat factory after moving to New York City. The factory owner, Howie A lbert, recognized Emile’s strength and encouraged him to become a professional fighter. Emile, portrayed in his youth by Kamal Angelo Brown, once dreamed of playing baseball, singing, and designing women’s hats. Under Howie’s training, however, he soars. Though hardened in the process, Emile embraces his new career—fraught by tension due to

his bisexuality—to provide a new life for himself and his immigrant mother.

I n Man in the Ring, Emi le ref lects o n these early days from an older age, as p or t rayed by A l len Gi lmore. He attempts to piece to gether his experiences but struggles with the effects of dementia pugilistica from injuries sustained during his career. As a result, Emile’s history and identity remain a tangle as his younger and older selves engage in dialogue. As the narrative unfolds, Emile is forced to face his own capacity for violence and rage even as his own brain and memories deteriorate.

The ensemble cast, under the direction of Director Charles Newell, blends Emile’s memories and emotions with dynamic staging and singing. The result is complete immersion in the narrative, rather like the boxing ring itself with all its conflict, anger, and high stakes.

This play has a special kind of resonance; every poignant picture made on stage had a way of echoing throughout the piece and even past the final bow.

Newell told Playbill, “We have dreamed of Court Theatre being a place where distinguished artists are willing to bring their newest and most daring work.” With Man in the Ring, this

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A fi ctional representation of boxer Emile Griffi th struggles with his memories in the show written by Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award–winning playwright, Michael Cristofer.

dream was made an undeniable reality.

In its closing weekend, the show continued to draw large and appreciative audiences.

With Man in the Ring, the Court T heatre promises another season of bold truths and emotions th rough acting.

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Fraternité and Free Music Ring With CSO

BY MAY HUANG ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

Last Wednesday, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) performed an all-Beethoven program at the Apostolic Church of God for free, drawing a crowd that filled the 3,000-seat venue.

The concert was part of the CSO’s tradition of performing a free concert at the beginning of every season that began when Riccardo Muti secured his tenure as conductor in 2010.

It was the second time the CSO had performed at the Apostolic Church of God for free, the last time being five years ago back in 2011. That concert featured a solo appearance by then-Principal Flute Mathieu Dufour as well as a performance of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.

Last week’s program harked back to the 2011 performance, as the CSO delivered Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3—also featuring a flute solo—alongside the instantly-recognizable Symphony No. 5 in C Minor.

Before the program officially began, however, the CSO first played “Lift Every Voice and Sing” (also known as the “Black American National Anthem”) accompanied by a group of choristers. It was fitting that Muti begin the night with that piece, as most of the attendees, and indeed the members of the church, are African American. The audience rose to their feet during the piece as they would again throughout the evening, after the Leonore Overture, and certainly after the Fifth.

The CSO’s performance of Beethoven’s Fifth at the Church was particularly memorable—not only because of the sheer dramatic gusto of the piece, the powerful dynamic contrasts, or the brilliant transition to C major—but also because eight notes into the piece, the musicians were forced to stop.

As soon as the audience heard the iconic dun-dun-dun dun, they began to clap. Muti, knowing that there was no way the delicate piano string phrase about to follow could be heard amidst such applause, paused and turned to face the audience with his hands on his hips. The crowd erupted in laughter.

“This is a very difficult beginning,” he said, before jokingly asking the audience whether they were dissatisfied with how the ensemble had played it. “You are forcing me to try again!”

And so the symphony restarted, beginning in minor with its memorable eight notes and concluding in major with thunderous accented notes.

Muti’s selection for the night was particularly fitting, not only for the music choices that corresponded to the 2011 performance, but also the sentiment. Back then, Muti promised to come back and also expressed a desire to see the audience, most of whom are based in the South Side, at the Symphony Center. On Wednesday night, he addressed the audience with a similar message.

“I will be very happy, and my musicians too, to see you in our concert hall,” Muti said, remarking that the CSO—although glad to

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The CSO performed its annual free concert to an enthusiastic audience at Apostolic Church of God on the south side.

give a free performance in the church—would love if the community they reached out to had the same opportunities to access them.

“Come to our rehearsals,” Muti said earnestly, before ending with characteristic humor: “to understand the sacrifices musicians make having to listen to the nonsense of the conductor.”

Muti’s words to the crowd—“let’s make us a big family”—truly reflect the symphony’s intention to be a part of the wider community. The CSO’s relationship with the Apostolic Church extends back 16 years, when Isabelle Brazier, the Church’s Fine Arts Guild director, wanted to start an orchestra. She coordinated with musicians from the CSO to arrange string lessons for young churchgoers on Saturday mornings.

Now, more than 100 students play in their orchestra. In his concluding speech, Muti also spoke about how the CSO has cooperated in the past with great black singers, whom he named among “heroes” in the field of music.

Wednesday’s concert was a special one, not only because it was free, but also because it placed a strong emphasis on brotherhood— the “fraternité” of the liberté, égalité, fraternité values that Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony champions. The concert was about more than just bringing music to the public; it was about bringing the major cultural institutions of Chicago to the South Side, uniting music lovers despite divisions and differences.

“We make music; we don’t entertain,” Muti said, when describing how the CSO sometimes plays for so-called “sophisticated” audiences who attend concerts out of self-interest rather than genuine interest in music.

“Historical context is key to all [their] performances.”

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ica,” added Hargis’s co-artistic director David Douglass. “It is only rarely done in England, where it was [once] so popular.”

Additionally, no two performances will be the same, harking back to early music’s propensity for improvisation. “The way that it was performed was closer to the way that jazz is performed today,” Douglass said. Player, whom Hargis hails as “a master improviser,” will only add to the spontaneity of the performances.

“He really owns all of his skills, his

playing, his singing, his dancing, his acting,” Hargis said. “I’ve performed with [him] a lot with some groups in Europe….

He keeps everybody on their toes, and he keeps us laughing. And I think that the audience will just be delighted with the skill and the humor of his performance.”

The Newberry Consort’s performance of The Clown will take place at the Logan Center Performance Hall on Saturday, October 22 at 8 p.m. Student tickets are $5 at the door, and general admission tickets are $35–45.

“[When] we play for you, we play better,” Muti told the crowd seated before him. “You make us better.”

The audience was one that clapped between movements and had the CSO redo a strong opening of a victorious symphony, but who cares about concert etiquette. The church was filled with sound, applause, and—most importantly of all—people

of all ages who loved what they heard.

One could certainly feel a special community being built that night, like the growing crescendo that delivers the final, triumphant notes of Beethoven’s Fifth.

The CSO’s All-Access Chamber Music Series will continue to offer free concerts throughout its current season in various locations.

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Final Tournament Bodes Well for Spring MEN’S TENNIS

BY ALEC MILLER SPORTS STAFF

Cold weather is rolling in, and that means the men’s tennis team’s fall season has come to a close. The Maroons capped off their play in 2016 this past weekend at the Oracle Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA) Cup. Chicago sent three student-athletes down to Surprise, Arizona to compete in both the singles and doubles national championships.

Unfortunately, the results may not have been what the South Siders were hoping for when they boarded the plane for Arizona. Neither the singles nor the doubles teams finished higher than fifth place.

On the singles side of the bracket, the lone Maroon competing was thirdyear David Liu. Liu was coming off a phenomenal first place finish at the ITA Midwest Regionals. This finish was good enough to earn him the second overall seed in the Oracle Cup. In Liu’s first match, the quarterfinals, he faced Lubomir Cuba from Middlebury College. Liu was defeated in straight sets 6 – 4, 7– 5. Following the loss, Liu was moved into the consolation bracket where he would have the chance to win a couple of matches. In the first consolation round, Liu

squared off against Nikolai Parodi from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. Liu defeated Parodi in straight sets 7–6 (5), 6 –3, advancing him into the fifth place match.

There, Liu went up against the No. 1 seeded player in the tournament, Kai Yuen Leung from Skidmore College. Liu was defeated in straight sets 7– 6 (3), 6 –3, landing him in sixth place for the tournament.

It was a disappointing finish for Liu, who believed that his best play did not show this weekend. “Of course finishing sixth wasn’t ideal, and I can’t say I played my best,” Liu said. However, Liu realized that it is important to recognize how hard he has worked to get this far and how much he has accomplished.

Liu said, “it’s important to put things in perspective and remember that I came from playing No. 6 on the team two years ago to being No. 6 in the country this year.”

Additionally, Liu was very respectful of his competition’s play this weekend. “Everyone there was at the top of his game and I have to give everyone full credit for playing lights-out,” he said. “It’s just a really high level of tennis that I was happy to be a part of.”

On the doubles side, fourth-year Max Hawkins and f irst-year T yler Raclin represented Chicago. In their quarterfinal match up, they faced the

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Third-year David Liu displays a triumphant fist in the air following a match point.

team of Tyer and Lambeth from Trinity College. Chicago was defeated in a heartbreaker 6 –4, 1– 6, 1– 0 (4). However, after their first loss, Hawkins and Raclin would start rolling through the consolation bracket. In their next match, they defeated Elifson and Beck from Saint Thomas 6 –4, 6 –1. Then in

their final match, they defeated Buxbaum and Walsh from John Hopkins 6 –3, 7–6 (3). This victory earned Hawkins and Raclin a fifth-place finish.

This tournament marked the end of the men’s tennis team for the Maroons in 2016. Play will resume in 2017 with the indoor season.

Biggest Race of Year Leads to Success for Maroons

South Siders Undefeated in Conference Play

CROSS COUNTRY

VOLLEYBALL

BY CAVELL MEANS MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

In their largest meet on the season schedule, both of the Maroons’ cross country teams placed in the top 10. On Saturday, both squads competed in the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh Kollege Town Sports Invitational, which featured a total of 45 schools and more than 1,200 participants. The women’s team placed third with 137 points and the men’s team placed ninth with 326 points.

On the women’s side, the South Siders placed five of their athletes in the top 40. The top fi nisher for the Maroons in the 6K race was third-year Khia Kurtenbach, who came in at a time of 21:58.41 earning her 11th place overall. The other top fi nishers for the women’s squad were third-year Claire Costelloe (29th, 22:42.48), third-year Kelsey Dunn (30th, 22:43.74), third-year Cassidy McPherson (32nd, 22:48.05), and fourth-year Madeleine Horvath (35th, 22:55.44). Although this meet was the fi rst time the women did not fi nd themselves on top of the pack this season, they are incredibly pleased with the outcome of the weekend.

Third-year Jenny Blazic spoke to the team’s success this weekend. She said, “We performed very well at Oshkosh this weekend with all five of our scorers placing in the top 40, so we feel really good about that and about our ability to move up and work well as a team. Obviously we were excited to fi nish third behind two very good teams in Wash U and Calvin College and we enjoyed taking on some tougher competition than what we’ve seen in previous meets.”

The men’s squad was also successful at the meet this weekend, running its

way to ninth place in the 8K race with three fi nishers in the top 100. Leading the pack for the Maroons was fourth-year Timofey Karginov (15th, 25:25.6), followed by third-year Peter Kreuch (79th, 26:18.3) and fourth-year Eyal Hanfl ing (86th, 26:21.4).

Hanf ling considers this weekend a success and great preparation for the tough schedule to come. “This weekend gave us a great opportunity to preview the rush and crowd that we will hopefully experience at the national meet in Louisville,” Hanf ling said. “While the UA A meet will be much smaller than what we saw at Oshkosh, our conference meet will be highly competitive with five nationally ranked men’s teams and three ranked women’s teams.”

Both squads are pleased with how they ran against a dense pack and look toward smaller, highly competitive meets in the following weeks. The teams will see a more tapered practice schedule as they prepare for the last legs of the season.

“At this point in the season, we’re transitioning from our “g runt-andgroan” phase to a more tapered schedule,” Hanfling said. “Our workouts and runs are designed to maintain the fitness that we’ve gained since our season began in June. We’re still doing multiple workouts each week but focusing our energy on preparing for races and executing a pack-running strategy.”

T he Maroons welcome in an off weekend as they prep for a dominant ending to their season. The squad will next lace up for the UA A Championship, which will take place on October 29 at Emory University.

BY ALYSSA RUDIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Last weekend, the Maroons headed to Waltham, M A for the second UA A Round Robin. The team faced New York University, No. 6 Emory University, University of Rochester, and Case Western Reserve University. The squad had an incredible weekend, extending their conference win streak to seven matches and improving overall to 15–7.

The South Siders had an excellent first day of competition. They swept NYU with scores of 25–15, 25–15, and 25 –16, respectively. Despite starting the fi rst two sets off very close, the Maroons gained momentum and closed out the sets with relative ease. Chicago dominated the hitting percentage, earning a .309 to New York’s .028. Second-year Audrey Scrafford was an offensive force, racking up 14 kills to just three errors.

Fourth-year Mary Claire Tuohy excelled on defense, leading the team with 18 digs.

Later in the day, they faced a very tough opponent in No. 6 Emory. The Maroons proved they were ready for the challenge, defeating the Eagles in four close sets. Emory started strong, winning the fi rst set 25–18 and holding the Maroons to a .083 hitting percentage.

Chicago, however, regrouped and won the next two close sets, posting improved hitting percentages of .364 and .324. The Maroons prevented a late fourth set rally by the Eagles to win the set 27–25 and take the victory. First-years Madison Pearson and Anabella Pinton handled the pressure of a game against a nationally ranked team with aplomb, as each had 14 kills.

The second day of the Round Robin proved to be just as successful as the fi rst, with the Maroons defeating both Case Western and Rochester in four sets.

Chicago handled Rochester in the fi rst set, with 11 kills and only two errors to Rochester’s nine kills and eight errors. Rochester fi red back in the second set, taking advantage of Chicago attack errors and winning the set 25–11. The South Siders maintained their composure, a theme throughout the tournament, and fought to win the next two sets, 25 –20 and 25 –19. Once again, libero Tuohy had a great defensive game with 20 digs.

The Maroons closed out their undefeated tournament with another close win over Case Western. Chicago lost a close fi rst set but rallied to take the next three contests, all by a narrow margin. The team was boosted by great performances from several players; Pinton, Scrafford, and second-year Sarah Muisenga combined for 47 of the team’s 60 total kills and fourth-year Erin Risk dominated with 47 assists and 12 digs.

Refl ecting on the team’s wins over the weekend and in conference, Pearson could not emphasize her pride for her team enough. “It felt like we had a target on our backs but we did a great job fighting our way to the top,” Pearson said. “Every single person played a role in the success of the team, no exceptions.”

The many great performances from such a wide variety of team members prove her right. While the squad gets a chance to play away from home again this weekend, they will return to Ratner the following weekend for Senior Night. The Maroons can enjoy a brief break before traveling to face Wheaton this Thursday.

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Senior Night Fuels Maroons’ Fire WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY ERIK WONG SPORTS STAFF

The No. 7 Maroons toppled No. 8 Brandeis at home on Stagg Field by a final score of 2–1. In first-half play, the Maroons fired from all cylinders, ending with a total of nine shots on goal, but they could not seem to find the back of the net. Brandeis also had two shots on goal in the first half, but failed to capitalize on either one.

After a tough fought battle throughout the first half, the Maroons opened up the second with two quick goals: one by third-year Kaitlin Price in the 51st minute and one by second-year Jenna McKinney in the 67th minute. .The Judges did not go down without a fight, as third-year midfielder Haliana Burhans scored off of an assist from Hannah Maatalah in the 73rd minute.

Fortunately for the Maroons, first-year goalkeeper Katie Donovan and the defense prevented Brandeis from scoring the rest of the game. With the win over the previously undefeated Brandeis squad, the No. 11 Maroons improved to No. 8 in the Dlll rankings. Even with the jump in rankings, the squad still had to put away an unranked opponent just two days later, and stakes were especially high as it was Senior Day, where the squad was to honor their three fourth-years.

On Sunday, October 16, the squad challenged New York University (NYU) at home on Senior Day. After suffering a loss from Carnegie Mellon on October

8th and tying Wash U 0 – 0 on October 14, the 7–3–3 Violets arrived in Chicago to dethrone the Maroons, but they could not come away with a win. NYU challenged the team with eight shots on goal, but could not put the ball in the net. As for the home team, the Maroons finished with an astounding 19 shots on goal and 13 corner kicks, proving their dominance throughout the game.

Third-year Madori Spiker capitalized on a cross from second-year Jenna McKinney, scoring the first goal in the 24th minute. After maintaining possession for most of the first half and the beginning of the second half, powerhouse midfielder McKinney scored on an extraordinary chip shot that deflected off of NYU’s goalkeeper Cassie Steinberg and landed in the back of the net.

Third-year Mia Calamari, who is the Chicago record-holder of assists in a season and is No. 2 for assists in a career with 28, was the contributor to this goal. After the game, Price commented on the Maroons’ hard-fought performance when she said, “ It felt great to get a win on Senior Day! The seniors are so important to us on and off the field, so everyone was willing to do whatever was needed to get them a win.”

Price emphasized the importance for the women’s soccer team to stay consistent with its play and move on to each team with the same mindset: to win the conference. When asked about the team’s goals for the rest of the season, Price stated, “Our team goals have

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Second-year Jenna McKinney chips the ball into the air toward her teammate.

been the same all year. Be the hardest working team and find a way to win together.”

If the Maroons continue their success on the field, they are going to do it together. The squad is looking to keep their playoff and conference title hopes

alive as they continue through the rest of their season. Their next game is Thursday, October 20 at 3:30 p.m. versus Illinois Tech on Stagg Field. They will also take on Concordia, WI, this weekend on Sunday at 1 p.m. to round out the weekend of competition.

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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “We’re like athletes. But athletes, they make them take a drug test, right? I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate.”

—Donald Trump, demanding that Hillary Clinton take a drug test prior to tomorrow night’s debate.

No. 1 Ranking Fails to Intimidate South Siders MEN’S SOCCER

BY DANNY EISGRUBER MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The men’s soccer team defended its No. 1 ranking and improved to 14–0–0 with a 2–1 victory over Brandeis on Friday and a 5–0 triumph against NYU on Sunday.

Both games took place on Stagg Field.

Despite their eventual victory, the Maroons got off to a slow start against Brandeis as the Judges scored off of a deflection in the 25th minute. Chicago trailed by a goal at halftime for the second straight game.

But, as was the case the other three times the men fell behind this season, they came back. This time the answer came in the 76th minute when second-year forward Max Lopez assisted fourth-year forward Brenton Desai for his fi fth goal of the season to put the game at 1–1 with just 14 minutes left.

The South Siders eventually prevailed in overtime when first-year forward Dayo Adeosun scored the game-winner with a breakaway goal in the 101st minute.

“We definitely showed a lot of resolve in that game coming back, but I don’t think we were worried because we were definitely outplaying them [even though] the energy definitely could have been higher,” Lopez said. He dominated during the weekend’s games with two goals and three assists.

Despite the close score line, the Maroons were in control for most of the game and finished the game with 17 more shots and eight more corners than their opponents.

While Friday’s game might have been a close call, Sunday’s game was anything but close for the Maroons. They took a 1–0 lead into halftime before breaking out for four second-half goals. Desai, Lopez, and first-year midfielder Gary Zhao all got on the score sheet in the team’s second-best offensive effort of the season.

“We were just able to put a lot of pressure on them and keep it in their half,” Desai said. He has scored four times in the past five games. “Their defenders just weren’t as good as our attackers were and we were just able to overpower them as the game went on.”

Third-year goalkeeper Hill Bonin also notched his 10th clean sheet of the season against the Violets, tying the UChicago career record of 22.

This weekend’s games both fit the season’s trend of slow starts followed by strong second halves for the Maroons, who have scored 26 goals in the second half or later as opposed to only 15 in the first half and have conceded all five of their goals in the first half of play.

“I think [our second-half success] has a little bit to do with our depth because we’re able to sub in players who are able

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Second-year Josh Scofield looks up the field for open players.

to raise the level and bring fresh legs on and that helps a lot…as the other team is getting more tired,” Desai said. “But we’ve also been coming out kind of flat-footed and unprepared at the beginning of

games, which we have to work on.”

The Maroons will play their final home game of the season next Sunday against the Aurora University Spartans at Stagg Field. The game will start at 1 p.m.

Home-Field Advantage Spurs Chicago to Win FOOTBALL

BY OLA OBI SPORTS STAFF

Going into the weekend, the Maroons’ performance was fairly stagnant, sitting at a record of .500 in their conference. However, the South Siders have proven themselves on their own field time and again, and this Homecoming weekend was another chance to bring a victory to the at-home crowd. The festivities brought more eager eyes to the gates and bleachers of Stagg field. Excitement was in the air as Chicago set their sights on a

victory against Rhodes College.

It was a great game to watch and a great game for the Maroons. Both the Maroons and the Lynx came out with tenacity. Exploding right out of the gate, the Maroons had incredible awareness of the necessary strategies to win. “Coming into the game we knew we had to stop the quarterback run or at least contain their quarterback who is a very dynamic athlete,” said third-year defensive back Andrew Beytagh.

Their plan was effective the first quar-

ter, as the South Siders held the Lynxes to zero points. On a fourth down and unable to score, the Maroons kicked for a three-point completion, taking the lead with 6:55 left in the first quarter. Then, with a 28-yard run from third-year Chandler Carroll, the Maroons were able to score a touchdown but unfortunately the snap was blocked. This brought the score to 10–0 at the end of the first quarter.

The second quarter proved a little less lucrative for the Maroons, as Rhodes scored a touchdown and completed a kick to bring

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Fourh-year wide receiver Syd Reynolds sprints past defenders after a catch.

the score to 10–7. With a 49-yard field goal by the Lynx, the score was made even. Although the South Siders struggled on defense a bit at this point, the Maroons did have a couple first-years step up on the defensive line for them. “First-year Zach Atiyeh started in his first collegiate game and I’m pretty sure he led us in tackles as well as jumping on the fumble that fourth-year Jackson Garrey forced to end the game,” Beytagh said.

Early on in the third quarter, the Maroons scored a touchdown off a two-yard pass from third-year quarterback Burke Moser to first-year Andrew Falk. However, Chicago was unable to convert on the extra point, bringing the score to 19–10. Responding to Chicago, Rhodes was able to score two on a 98-yard return for a score of 19–12. This back and forth play continued up until the last drive of the game, where the Maroons marched down the field with just seven plays to score a final touchdown and bring the game to 33–26.

The defense proved stalwart, as the South Siders were able to force Rhodes to fumble the ball on their last-chance drive, securing the Homecoming victory for the Maroons. As exciting as this win was, however, the squad has a difficult match-up this weekend in the form of Hendrix. “Hendrix is arguably the most talented team in the SAA,” Beytagh said. “We’re going to have to force turnovers and make their experienced quarterback and running back uncomfortable.”

He remained hopeful, however, as he said, “I hope we can turn this around next week and put ourselves in a great position to win an SAA title.” It remains to be seen what it can do when it squares up against Hendrix. The game will take place this Saturday at 1 p.m.