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Two Students Arrested at Funding and Free Tuition Protest

BY ALEX WARD SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

Two University of Chicago students were arrested downtown at a protest demanding funding and free tuition at Illinois public universities on Monday.

Third-year Jessica Law and fourth-year Johnathan Guy joined eight other protesters blocking access to the intersection of West Adams Street and South Michigan Avenue, just outside the front entrance of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Dressed in blue graduation gowns and chained together in groups of four, the protesters stood in the road until police warned them that they would have to move, at which point they sat down. Several minutes later, police officers clipped the chains that connected the protesters together. Law, Guy, and most of the other protesters who blocked the intersection went limp as police officers dragged them to a waiting police van.

Around 22 University of Chicago students participated in the larger protest that led up to the arrests.

At around 4 p.m., a group of more than 50 protesters gathered in Congress Plaza. Protesters held signs reading “Students’ needs, not corporate greed” and “Make LaSalle St. pay, not the 99%,” referring to the center of Chicago’s financial district. Other signs showed the faces of Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and hedge fund manager Ken Griffin. Griffin, one of Rauner’s largest donors, is a trustee of the Art Institute.

The protesters split into two groups to march to the site of the demonstration, which had been kept under wraps beforehand. One group walked east to South Wabash Avenue before turning north, while the other group marched along South Michigan Avenue. The marchers recited chants including “Education’s for the masses, not just for the ruling classes!” and “Say it ’til they got it, students over profit!”

The protest organizers used a megaphone set on the sidewalk in front of the Art Institute to address the protesters standing in the intersection. Several of the protesters in graduation robes spoke about their experiences struggling to pay for higher education in Illinois, and called on the state government to Continued on page 4

A Purpose for Protest Page 4 The WBC will never wave a rainbow flag, but that doesn’t mean that we are powerless to stand against it.

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REPORT RELEASED ON CPD “CODE OF SILENCE”

BY STEPHANIE PALAZZOLO MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

ects planned for the coming year.

They plan to create a neutral website to inform students about the issue of unionization, which will include reports on student employment around campus. They also plan on distributing a survey to different parts of the University. The Committee will create a contact form on their website so students can request reports on stu-

Journalist Jamie Kalven’s recent Intercept article, “Code of Silence,” has raised questions about corruption within the Chicago Police Department (CPD). The article features officers Shannon Spalding and Daniel Echeverria’s claims of having been silenced after discovering a cop-run crime ring.

This piece examined the elusive “code of silence” within the CPD, an unspoken policy encouraging officers to ignore or cover up the illegal actions of fellow cops. When Spalding and Echeverria investigated suspicions that a fellow officer, Sergeant Ronald Watts, had been imposing a “tax” on gangs in exchange for protection from the law, their supervisors expected them to follow this code. According to Spalding and Echeverria’s findings, Watts planted drugs on those who refused to pay and then jailed them, sometimes for years.

After reporting Watts to the department, Spalding and Echeverria were outed as “whistleblowers,” moved from department to department, and purposely placed in dangerous situations until they were forced to resign.

That’s when Spalding turned to Kalven.

“I had spent years writing about police abuse and suing the city for documents,” Kalven said. “[Spalding] entered with this other piece that was just fabulously interesting, and it was like a piece of a puzzle that I had been working on for years.”

Kalven’s article, “Code of Silence,” is a 20,000–word project that details Spalding’s story. According to Kalven, the purpose of the article is not to guide readers towards a specific conclusion about the truth behind Spalding’s claims, but rather to encourage readers to inspect the intentions and actions of the police.

“Where I wanted [the article] to come to rest is with the question of, ‘If [Spalding is] substantially telling the truth, then are [the authorities]

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Except the Things I’d Change: Second City Reflects on 2016

Senior Night Provides Motivation for No. 1 South Siders

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What Fool Me Twice, Déjà Vu lacked in cohesion, it made up for in sheer comic force.

The win was a perfect representation of how the season has gone for this dominant Chicago squad.

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Protesters sat in the street as police officers clipped the chains that connected them.

Counterprotesters Show Up at Westboro Church Picket

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The Westboro Church picketers and the counterprotesters stood on opposite sides of 55th Street.

Nine picketers from the Westboro Baptist Church faced opposition from counterprotesters this Friday. The Church was on campus to protest the University’s policies toward transgender people, particularly its gender-neutral housing and lists of bathroom options for campus buildings.

At around 11:30 a.m., the Westboro picketers arrived at the intersection of 55th Street

and University Avenue, standing across from the recently completed Campus North Residential Commons.

Holding signs reading “Repent or perish” and “Why did God destroy Sodom? ” among others, the picketers sang along to versions of pop songs including “Burning Down the House”

by Talking Heads with the lyrics changed to reflect Church messages.

On the opposite side of the street from the Church picketers, more than 50 counterprotesters gathered with signs of their own.

The counterprotesters included students from UChicago and other nearby institutions including Columbia College Chicago and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. Members of an organization called the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a Continued on page 3

SG Executive Slate Creates Three New Committees

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Each year, the Student Government (SG)’s executive slate is given the opportunity to create ad-hoc student committees to address issues they feel are important to the student body. This year, executive slate created three new committees: the Committee on Student Employ-

ment, the Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Committee, and the Constitutional Review Committee.

The Committee on Student Employment will be chaired by Claudio Sansone, a graduate student in the Humanities Division studying comparative literature. The committee will seat five students from various areas of the College and University.

The Committee has several proj-

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Axelrod Discusses 2016 Election

BY VIVIAN HE MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

David Axelrod sat down Monday to discuss the 2016 election with John Weaver, the chief strategist behind John McCain and John Kasich’s presidential campaigns, and Glenn Thrush, Politico’s chief political correspondent. The event, a latest in Axelrod’s Decoding 2016 series, was hosted by the Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago and took place at Saieh Hall.

With the final Presidential debate behind us and the election only 15 days away, Axelrod centered Monday’s dialogue on three questions: where we have been, where we are now, and where we might go after November 8.

Axelrod began with the observation that the more moderate Republican candidates in recent decades, represented by Weaver’s clients, have largely failed in their attempts to appeal to a general electorate. Axelrod asked his guests if there still is a market within the Republican Party for moderates.

“Not at this point,” Thrush replied decidedly. In his view, the political landscape that underlies the current election is characterized by fragmentation. Thrush listed gerrymandering in Congressional districts and profit-oriented media outlets as major factors that are precluding the possibility of consensus. Where compromise is a sellout, moderates stand no chance.

The conversation then turned to predictions for the nearing election. Both Weaver and Thrush agreed that a Clinton victory is a certainty. “She will be somewhere North of 300 [electoral votes],” Thrush said. “Weaver predicted a landslide for Clinton, one that would surpass President Obama’s margins

of victory in both 2008 and 2012.

The precarious position of Republican candidate Donald Trump is equally glaring.

When asked about his likely performance in Texas, a traditionally secure Republican state, Weaver predicted a mere two to three point margin of victory. Previous Republican candidates have generally performed far stronger. McCain won the state by 12 points against Obama in 2008, and Romney by 16 in 2012.

On down-ballot implications, Axelrod predicted that it would be almost impossible for Democrats to take back the House of Representatives, as they would need more seats than the number of competitive races available. With regard to Senate races, Thrush believed that the resilience displayed by Republican Senatorial candidates thus far in face of polarizing controversies could wither away when Trump is overwhelmingly defeated.

What should we expect for the future?

For one, Clinton faces a difficult path ahead.

“She will be the most unpopular president elected in history,” Weaver said. She must confront, among others, doubts on her trustworthiness, contention over her free trade position, and the lingering specter of Trump.

More adversaries exist. Russian President Putin has already demonstrated his disruptive prowess in this election cycle. On WikiLeaks and Putin, Weaver warned that what Putin wants is not to support Trump, but to instill in American citizens a profound doubt on their own democracy.

Weaver also repeatedly claimed that an “existential crisis” is gripping the Republican Party. The road ahead will evidently be difficult, and not only for Clinton and the Democrats.

Author, Veteran Phil Klay Discusses New Novel

BY SOLOMON DWORKIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Bestselling author Phil K lay engaged in a Q&A session with Scott Moringiello at the Lumen Christi Institute on Friday afternoon. Klay discussed topics ranging from his diverse fiction and op-ed writings to the veteran experience in America.

Klay was raised in New York and attended Dartmouth College before joining the Marines in 2005. He served as a Public Affairs Officer in the Anbar Province during the troop surge in Iraq before leaving the military in 2009. He went on to earn an M.F.A. in creative writing from Hunter College, and currently teaches at the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University.

Klay spent some of the discussion on how veterans struggle to readjust after a tour of duty. He explained how, upon returning to America, veterans often found peaceful society surprisingly foreign.

Klay recalled being on a two-week furlough from Iraq, walking down Madison Avenue in New York City, and being overwhelmed by the disparity, thinking “there’s something grotesque about the fact that these two exist.”

Klay also talked about how veterans struggled to find purpose after leaving the military when purpose is “not just given to you” anymore by orders and the family of the marines. Finding purpose in civilian life involved both making sense of, as well as finding the meaning of, their time in Iraq, in addition to finding meaning again in the banality of everyday civilian life.

T hese struggles are not unique to veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Klay recalled talking to a W WII veteran and asking the veteran what he thought about the idea of the “greatest generation.” The man, as Klay recounts,

got mad, exclaiming “‘it’s bullshit, Tom Brokaw is bullshit.’” Even America’s most morally unambiguous conflict did not allow for simple glory.

Klay’s book of short stories about the American veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Redeployment, won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction. It was Klay’s first book.

Moringiello also asked Klay about how he used his writing to make sense of experiences. Klay explained that as a veteran, “you’re so used to meeting people who have such strong opinions of the war that are so far in advance of their knowledge of it” and that he used writing to try to find out “what’s going on” and what he really thought of the war.

K lay’s book is fiction, not a first person account of his own experiences in Iraq. Moringiello synthesized Klay’s v iews by say ing that “authenticity doesn’t come from sitting in a room by yourself having experienced something.”

Klay explained that he thought that anybody could write about anything regardless of personal experience, provided they “did their homework” and “didn’t fuck it up too much.”

Klay was clear that he was not worried about being “pigeonholed” into military writing. “Right now, I’m writing about what I find important,” Klay said.

“I don’t know if I want to write about war for the rest of my life.” He jokingly added that nobody ever says, “Toni Morrison, oh, love it, amazing—being a black American—not a big enough subject—have you ever considered writing about something else?”

Klay also sounded concern at the fact that American civilian and military spheres have become so disconnected from one another. He explained, “American society is weird and fucked up and not paying attention to the fact that, like, we’re at war.”

John Nuveen Lecture Covers Faulkner and Black Disenfranchisement

BY MICHELLE BRITO MAROON CONTRIBUTOR Brooke Nagler

(left to right) IOP Director David Axelrod discusses the presidential election with John Weaver, chief strategist for John Kasich’s presidential campaign, and Glenn Thrush, chief White House political correspondent for Politico.

Thursday’s 2016 John Nuveen lecture focused on how the works of William Faulkner relate to black disenfranchisement in the past and present.

Professor Kenneth Warren has been part of the UChicago faculty since 1991. He teaches American and African-American literature from the late 19th century through the middle of the 20th century. In two of Warren’s books, Black and White Strangers: Race sory Council Board last year after meeting with students and student groups (including and American Literary Realism and So the Phoenix Survivors Alliance) because I Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the felt that there was an opportunity to develop Occasion of Criticism, Warren discussa vital and meaningful connection between es views on race in American literature.

Warren opened the lecture by readthe student body and my office,” Wake wrote.

Shea Wolfe, whom Wake appointed as ing a letter written by William Faulkdeputy Title IX coordinator for students this ner on March 5, 1956.

William Faulkner born in 1867, grew past summer, will chair and manage the up in Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner’s board.

The goals of the council include assessing works generally focus on the evolving the efficacy of current campus resources, in- political and social climate of the South.

In the letter, Faulkner writes, “I forming the campus community of those resources via social media and other forms of was against compulsory segregation. I communication, receiving student feedback am just as strongly against compulsoand suggestions on current and future sexual ry integration…. So I would say to the misconduct trainings, and fielding concerns NA ACP and all the organizations who would compel immediate and uncondiabout University policies.

Office of the Provost Launches New Student Advisory Board

BY KATHERINE VEGA SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

The Office of the Provost is launching a new student advisory board to address sexual misconduct and assess current University resources. The Provost’s office, which is currently accepting applications, plans to recruit 12–15 students and seeks representation from across the undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools. Applications are due Friday, October 28.

Associate Provost & Director of the Office for Equal Opportunity Programs and Title IX Coordinator Sarah Wake, wrote in an email to THE MAROON that the advisory board has been in development since last year.

“I created the idea for the Title IX Advi-

tional integration: ‘Go slow now. Stop now for a time, a moment.’”

Warren then discussed how Faulkner’s southern background inf luenced his published remarks on civil rights.

Political participation by the black community was an anomaly around the time Faulkner grew up, Warren explained.

Warren quoted Gavin Stevens, a character in Faulkner’s novel Intruder in the Dust, as saying, “In time the black American will vote any when and anywhere a white man can and send his children to the same school anywhere the white man’s children go and travel anywhere the white man travels as the white man does it.”

Faulkner conveys through Gavin that these changes will not happen right away and that they will not happen through the simple ratification of a piece of legislation. The 1965 Voting Rights Act, enacted right after Faulkner’s death in 1962, brought along these changes faster than he had expected.

The Voting Rights Act, Warren said, is a piece of legislation still praised today. He quotes Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who called the Voting Rights Act “one of the most consequential, effiContinued on page 3

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GC Proclaims Neutrality on Issue of Graduate Student Unionization

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Graduate Council (GC) passed a resolution Monday evening expressing neutrality on the issue of graduate student unionization.

The resolution was proposed by GC CoChairs Jake Nebergall and Carlos Grandet-Caballero. They said they wanted to have a “unified” stance for answering questions about GC’s position on unionization.

The resolution states that GC will commit time at meetings, along with other resources,

to provide a forum to afford graduate students and their representatives the opportunity to ask questions about the pros and cons of unionization.

“This is a moment for you to discuss your position,” Grandet-Caballero said. “We think this is the best course of action. The student body is composed of those in favor and those against, and we represent all of them.”

The body expressed interest in further discussion and research, and in the possibility of taking a firmer stance at a later date. The resolution passed 11–2–2.

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cacious, and amply justified exercises of federal legislative power in our Nation’s history.” Warren then noted the irony of Section 4’s coverage formula of the Voting Rights Act being struck down in the recent Shelby v. Holder case.

Warren explained that Chief Justice John Roberts’s written majority ruling shows how Roberts believes that the South should no longer be held to its past actions and should be treated no differently than the rest of the nation.

Roberts claimed that the pre-clearance mandated by Section 4’s coverage formula chains the South to its past. “ The Government falls back to the argument that because the formula was cused on support and advocacy for survivors of relevant in 1965, its continued use is sexual violence, for a reaction to the Advisory permissible so long as any discrimination remains in the States Congress Council.

“In our view, the advisory council is a great identified back then—regardless of replacement for financial commitment (as in how that discrimination compares to hiring more staff) from the Provost’s office, discrimination in States unburdened by and we hope students are able to contribute coverage,” Roberts writes in the majoriin a concrete, meaningful way to ending rape ty opinion of Shelby v. Holder. “This arculture on campus,” Phoenix Survivors Alli- gument does not look to ‘current politance Co-President Simone Brandford-Altsher ical conditions,’ but instead relies on a comparison between the States in 1965.” wrote in a statement to The Maroon.

“We hope students are able to contribute in a concrete, meaningful way to ending rape culture on campus.”

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“[Wolfe] and I are especially interested in receiving recommendations regarding how to continue to increase student knowledge of and confidence in the University’s processes and resources and receiving student feedback regarding increasing reporting from students of color, the LGBTQ+ community, and international students,” Wake wrote The Maroon reached out to The Phoenix Survivor’s Alliance, a student organization fo-

Warren then directed his attention to the dissenting opinion, in which Justice Ginsburg states that history is still ongoing. Ginsberg believed that Congress’s consideration of history was appropriate, challenging Roberts’s view that Congress had failed to see the historical changes that have occurred since the passing of the Voting Rights Act. Warren ended the lecture by noting Faulkner’s inf luence on the present political condition of the South. “ The South is indeed the land of deregulation, anti-unionism and abandonment of the public sphere, but that doesn’t make it distinctive. Just another part of the neoliberal America that was decried and paradoxically enabled by the world that Faulkner made.”

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group calling for the immediate overthrow of the U.S. government, also participated in the counterprotest and brought a megaphone which they shared with students.

The counterprotesters held signs carrying messages including “Trans lives matter” and “God loves, hate kills Second-year JT Johnson, one of the UChicago students who organized the counterprotest, expressed concerns about the RCP’s motives. “I don’t have anything against the Revolutionary Communist Party, but I think they came for their own purposes. Their goal was separate from mine, and it seemed like they were trying to take it over, although they disagree,” Johnson said over e-mail after the protest.

“I appreciated them allowing people to use their mic, but I wish they had used it less or said different things.”

Speakers on the megaphone expressed their opposition to the Church and its ideas and voiced messages of support for transgender individuals. Sunsara Taylor, a member of the RCP, spoke about the broader influence of the Church’s beliefs in America. Explaining the RCP’s presence, Taylor said, “They [the Church] really do concentrate a long tradition in this country of bigotry and hatred against anybody who defies their literal, fascist interpretation of the Bible.”

A student at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago voiced support for the counterprotest and reminded attendees that the Westboro Baptist Church’s beliefs are strongly opposed by many religious groups. Several UChicago students spoke about their own reasons for participating in the counterdemonstration.

At one point, Johnson took the microphone and reminded those present about the purpose of the event. “It’s important for all the trans people out there to know that even though there are idiots like those across the street, we outnumber them by so many.

For the most part, the Church picketers and counterprotesters did not interact.

At one point, a picketer holding several signs and an American flag he left trailing on the ground began shouting in the direction of the counterprotesters, but he was drowned out by shouts of “What?” and “We can’t hear you.”

“It’s really nice seeing the support everyone’s giving against this kind of movement,” said second-year counterprotester Mark Chen.

Just before noon, the Church picketers climbed into a van and moved to the intersection of Midway Plaisance and Woodlawn Avenue. After walking to the new location, the counterprotesters formed a barrier around the Church picketers,

Booth Holds Number One Spot in Economist Ranking

BY EMILY KRAMER NEWS EDITOR

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business was ranked first on The Economist’s M.B.A. rankings, the magazine announced last week.

This is the sixth year in a row that Booth has been ranked first. Following Booth this year is Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, and Harvard Business School.

Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, which last held first in The Econ-

omist’s 2012 M.B.A. rankings, was ranked sixth in the 2016 rankings.

The Economist was less kind to the University last year in its first-ever college rankings. The College placed 1,151st in the rankings, which compared the actual earnings of graduates to their expected earnings based on their demographic profile.

Booth was also ranked second by the U.S. News & World Report’s 2017 Best Business Schools rankings, second in Bloomberg’s 2015 best business schools, and ninth in the Financial Times’s 2015 global M.B.A rankings.

facing outward onto the street in order to obstruct visibility of the picketers. At 12:23 p.m., about ten minutes before their schedule, the Church members loaded their signs into a car that pulled up next to them and drove off as counterprotesters waved them goodbye.

“I’ve never seen a ‘Christian’…group so hateful before, and I just wanted to see what they’re all about,” Columbia College Chicago student Jaye Rodriguez said. Rodriguez came with several classmates to participate in the counterprotest.

The Church’s visit to campus came as part of a protest tour of perceived transgender-friendly institutions across the country. The Church’s official announcement for the picket cites the University’s gender-neutral housing and bathrooms, and accuses Law School faculty of promoting LGBTQ+ oriented policy changes on a national level.

The counterprotest was not the only response to the Church’s visit. Brent House, the home of UChicago’s Episcopal Campus Ministry, held a safe space with tea and snacks. The event was inspired by an event in 2010 when the Church came to protest outside Hillel. Campus groups cooperated to hold a pizza party at what

is now the Center for Identity and Inclusion, asking students in the area to ignore the picketers. After standing for several minutes without receiving any attention or opposition, the Church picketers abandoned their protest.

The Church also protested the University in 2009 over its employment of Barack Obama, and was met with counterprotests and parties. Members of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, whose house was near the site of the protest, danced to songs including Diana Ross’s “I’m Coming Out” in bathrobes and without shirts. Students also organized a party in Hutchinson Courtyard to celebrate diversity and raise money for an LGBTQ+ oriented charity.

Misgivings aside, Johnson considers the event a success overall. “Protests are about visibility. They [the Church] do what they do because they want their hatred to be seen and heard. I can’t stop them from doing that. I can’t end their tour, but I knew if enough people came, we could outdo their hatred with supportive voices.”

The Church did not respond to a request for comment.

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dent employment and share their experiences.

“We selected Claudio because of his deep experience with student advocacy and his commitment to research and empirical data collection on the topic of student employment,” Student Government President Eric Holmberg said. “He will be an excellent leader for students and a strong liaison to administrators as well.”

“We hope to see a lot of good data about the ways in which students are employed,” Vice President for Student Affairs Cody Jones added.

The Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Committee will be chaired by Alice Kallman. Last year, $10,000 of the SG budget was allocated to Sexual Assault Awareness Week. The executive slate created the new committee with a $12,500 budget in order to extend the programming throughout the entire year.

According to Kallman, the Committee has recently reviewed and analyzed the results of the 2015 Campus Climate Survey in order to create programming tailored to

the student body.

“We are also working with Sarah Wake and Shea Wolf, the University’s Title IX coordinators to restructure O-Week programming and current policies on continued education,” Kallman said. “We hope to partner with them on specific events targeting populations that are often ignored on this campus such as LGBTQ+ students and graduate students.”

The Constitutional Review Committee will be chaired by third-year Max Freedman. The Committee will be tasked with reviewing SG’s governing documents, which are over a decade old, to ensure that they’re working optimally, in what Holmberg called a “best practice.” The committee was created by the recommendation of the Center for Leadership and Involvement According to Freedman, the Constitutional Review Committee is planning on fixing the constitutional hurdle to voting rights for students on extended-college status, will be addressing issues with how the Assembly By-Laws handle study abroad, and fixing bylaw contradictions.

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solve the problems they faced.

Esau Chavez, a media liaison for the protest, spoke about the demonstrators’ motivations. “We chose the Art Institute because museum trustee Ken Griffin is one of the largest donors to Bruce Rauner’s agenda of austerity that has seen public cuts to higher education, K–12 education, social services, infrastructure, and so much more.”

The protest was organized by Fair Economy Illinois (FEI), a political activism group, as well as The People’s Lobby, of which Chicago Student Action is a member organization.

The protest was part of FEI’s campaign to promote its People and Planet First Budget, under which Illinois would close corporate tax loopholes, enact a progressive income tax, and pass a tax on Chicago stock exchanges. The state government would use the estimated $23.5 billion produced to fully fund education, including free college tuition and a spending level of $9,000 per student in Illinois public schools, convert the state to environmentally friendly energy sources over the next 30 years, and implement universal healthcare.

According to the event’s Facebook page, the protest also called for increased access to Monetary Award Program (MAP) grants and access to financial aid for undocumented students. The page also accuses state leaders of denying funding to public colleges with large African American and Latino populations, including Chicago State University and Northeastern Illinois University.

Student Government (SG) member Cosmo Albrecht voiced his support for the protest to THE MAROON after a Graduate Council meeting Monday. “The action today represented a call to action on the part of our Republican governor and his billionaire donors to prioritize the needs of these students over the profits of corporations and the austerity agenda that the governor has been pushing for the last two years,” he said.

SG President Eric Holmberg had a similar stance. “[Wealthy Illinois residents like Ken Griffin] can find money to donate to the Art Institute or donate to Governor Rauner but they can’t find enough to make education accessible for every student. And that is not right.”

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all lying?’” Kalven said. “I think it’s a question that remains open and that, I hope, will be answered by further investigation.”

Kalven encourages Chicago citizens to pressure the city to increase police accountability through acknowledging the existence of the “code of silence,” releasing those who had been framed by Watts, and persuading cops to report suspicious activity.

“Right now, cops like Spalding and Echeverria are vilified and subjected to retaliation,” Kalven said. “Other officers look on and say,

‘Woah, I’m not going to come forward with in- stream journalism,” Kalven said. “They’re trying to steer the battleship from day to day and formation if that’s going to be my fate.’”

“Code of Silence” was written through the figure out how to sustain the thing, whereas Invisible Institute, a journalistic production we can think about the best possible way to tell company that focuses on giving citizens tools an important story.”

The Invisible Institute produced 40,000 to accurately judge public institutions. Housed in the Experimental Station, the small yet copies of the “Code of Silence” with the help of tightly-knit organization lacks the confine- the South Side Weekly and distributed them in public libraries throughout Chicago. ments of larger publications.

“If you look at the back page of the article, “There are journalists from [big publications] who’ve reached out in an exploratory there is contact information,” Kalven said. way to see about working with [the Invisible “The hope is that it will create a feedback loop Institute] because of the frustrations in main- where we’re putting out information and also

eliciting information from people [who know] about these officers or about other related incidents.”

Kalven hopes to incorporate tips from community members into his next pieces and invites other journalists to join him.

“Above all, I want to keep this story going,” Kalven said. “As big as it is, the piece provides a map for this set of issues, [and] there are some areas of that map that are relatively blank and can be filled in—and not just by us, but by other reporters. We hope that people jump on this.”

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Hope and Change, Interrupted The Proposed Location for Obama’s Presidential Library Only Harms the People It’s Supposed to Protect

BY PETER DRAPER MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

I went for a run yesterday in Jackson Park through the proposed site of the Obama presidential library—this is between the Midway Plaisance (East 60th Street) and East 63rd Street, and between South Cornell Drive (within the park) and South Stony Island Avenue. Directly adjacent is northeastern Woodlawn, an area penetrated by gentrification driven mostly by the University, my alma mater. While many claim the Obama library will rejuvenate the area, it will actually provide little or no benefit to the poor, mostly black-inhabited communities of the South Side.

Rahm Emanuel failed to find an appropriate, development-driving site for the Obama library, and what he and his friends (and Obama’s friends, and their allies on the City Council) came up with is another example of Lakefront-oriented development, fueling the ongoing neglect of offshore neighborhoods. This is not the way to leverage development resources to where they are most needed, nor to maximize a golden opportunity for our city.

The Obama Foundation claims that it was also considering a Washington Park site for the library, one that would have been adjacent to the Green Line station

on Garfield Boulevard. That site would also have included the development of many acres of blighted land between the park and the train, while still allowing for proximal involvement by the University of Chicago—and the DuSable Museum. The advantages of helping the disadvantaged nearby community there, promoting rapid transit, using less green space, having parked cars use already-vacant land, seem so obvious that one has to wonder about the Obama Foundation’s priorities and motivations, and those of its supporters.

So, before bulldozers start tearing up recreational facilities in Jackson Park (including a football-soccer field, a competition running track, baseball diamonds and children’s playgrounds), destroying picnic areas crowded with families on summer weekends, and uprooting scores of beautiful old trees, let’s pause and consider why this “done deal” should be undone.

We might start with significant community-level input, something which, in my view, the library foundation and its political allies have not sought.

The Obama library, for all its potential educational and historical value, is largely a political and monetary enterprise being pushed by local politicians and developers eager to get their share of the money to Continued on page 5

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VIEWPOINTS A Purpose for Protest The Westboro Baptist Church Holds Little Influence in Society, but We Should Still Protest Its Hatred

Ashvini Kartik-Narayan The first-ever student protest was held at Harvard in 1766 over the the subpar quality of dining hall food, but student protests since then have undertaken far greater feats. Especially at an institution like UChicago, where so many different views are represented, students exercising their right to free speech should seemingly come as no surprise. However, when the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) came to campus this past Friday, many were conflicted about whether or not to counter-protest: would it even be worth it?

Arguments for a “silent treatment” are certainly reasonable.

Particularly with the WBC, infamous for its hateful rhetoric against the LGBTQ+ community, simply ignoring it is an appealing proposition. The group’s hate speech could easily be perceived as actively harmful to the communities it targets. A counter-protest might even mistakenly legitimize its dangerous rhetoric, while simply ignoring it denies it an audience. Additionally, no amount of active opposition will cause WBC to change its deeply ingrained beliefs.

At the protest this past Friday, no more than ten WBC members showed up to spout their beliefs.

Matched by a much larger and committed community of students, the protesters were quickly isolated and overpowered. Their place in society is also a minority: ridiculous claims and warrants for their beliefs mean that they are

essentially powerless as a group.

The fact that the WBC’s platform is so ridiculous also means that it is pretty easy for the majority of us to disagree with it: simply denying the idea that members of the LGBTQ+ community are destined for hell doesn’t make us special. If done incorrectly, a counter-protest can make a cause seem superficial by stating the obvious.

Perhaps most unique about the WBC is that it seems aware of the fact that most, if not all, people that it comes across will vehemently disagree with it. It realizes that the vast majority will not listen to its highly offensive rhetoric, nor will they ever be drawn to follow the Church. The WBC stages these public events not to convince anyone, but because it craves attention.

And that’s exactly why counter-protests make an impact.

When students organized to

protest the WBC this past Friday, they made it clear that their goals were support and visibility, not single-handedly dismantling the Church’s ideology. “This isn’t about them,” the Facebook page for the counter-protests explains.

By diverting attention away from the attention-seekers, these counter-protesters reclaim the power that could have otherwise been taken from members of targeted communities.

There are, of course, a multitude of potentially successful counter-protests. Having separate gatherings that celebrate diversity, easily accessible safe spaces, and resources for support are excellent ways of showing our solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community.

We should always strive to build up those who have been marginalized, more than a focus on tearing down the opposition.

But if we look through history, protests have often been extremely valuable in granting marginalized communities the opportunity to craft their own narratives out of oppression and effect change.

Of course, one counter-protest

against an extremist group hardly represents an entire movement of historical significance, but there are many important parallels. The Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins in the 1960s through the Civil Rights Movement resulted in the desegregation of the Woolworth lunch counter at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. A heavily contested issue in College Council elections this year was divestment, and if we look into the past, we find that student-led protests have actually made a significant impact in university action. Columbia students essentially forced the administration to divest from South Africa, in protest of racial injustice, by occupying administrative buildings and chaining themselves to walls until they were required to leave.

The protests I’ve just described obviously don’t directly mirror the counter-protests against the WBC, but the underlying message is the same.

These protests were successful, not merely because they created systemic change, but because

they gave visibility to important causes, and at the very least, demonstrated the solidarity of the protesters with marginalized communities. In many ways, they were stating the obvious: Standing against racial, gender, and class inequality has become an expectation of our society today.

But it was only by building up the power of communities in the past that they could carry that strength through to the present.

The Westboro Baptist Church will never wave around a rainbow flag, but that doesn’t mean that we as students are powerless to stand against it. Counter-protesting the WBC makes an impact because students can actively disavow their beliefs, signifying a refusal to let hatefulness go unchecked. A handful of extremists chanting alone on a street corner hardly presents a pervasive threat to the communities they’re targeting, but that image is one we have to preserve to ensure that they remain powerless.

Ashvini Kartik-Narayan is a first-year in the College.

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be made through contracts, contributions and jobs. Of course job creation is good, indeed essential on the neglected South Side, but the proposed library location will not maximize this benefit, especially in regard to spurring needed business growth near the library. There are so many areas that have so much less and need so much more, such as street-level commerce. Any financially interested parties will of course do better if they don’t have to pay for the land.

In fact, the Obama library may do more harm than good to the Jackson Park community.

A recent front-page story in the South Side weekly newspaper The Crusader, referring to the track and field at 61st Street in Jackson Park, was headlined “Game Over: This facility will be destroyed when the Obama library is built, leaving Black

Sports programs nowhere to go.”

In the article, a longtime community activist and youth soccer coach talked about the planned destruction of the football field and running track which are within the library footprint, without any planned replacement.

These facilities are important to students from two nearby high schools and to the community in general.

To build on a recently popular political sentence: When they go low in land-grabbing from Jackson Park, next to an already gentrified neighborhood, we go high in demanding reconsideration of the Washington Park site, where much of the library complex would be built on empty land in a developmentally-starved area. Less park land and recreational areas would be taken, and only a gasoline station would have to be removed.

As Chicagoans, we are proud that the President chose our city

to launch his political career, and look forward to having the Obama presidential library on the South Side. But this emotion should not cloud a rational, progressive, community-oriented assessment of whether the library’s development as proposed will really help those who need and deserve it, or whether it could do much more towards that goal.

Unfortunately, as admirable as Obama has been—a fairly unusual quality for a politician— arrogance, greed and dishonesty have not faded from Chicago’s politics. I sincerely hope that community and civic organizations, and concerned individuals, especially residents and leaders in the affected communities, will demand a reconsideration or mitigation of the Obama library’s Jackson Park proposal.’

Peter Draper is an alum of the College (A.B. ’75).

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - OCTOBER 25, 2016

ARTS Except the Things I’d Change: Second City Reflects on 2016

BY G. CYRUS PACHT MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

How absurd would the War on Terror, the widespread use of electronic mail, and the grotesquely successful presidential bid of Donald Trump—defi ning moments of the 21st century thus far—look to someone from the fuzzy vantage point of 1990?

Second City’s Fool Me Twice, Déjà Vu sets out to answer this question, addressing domestic strife, race, police brutality, transgender bathrooms, Apple-driven consumerism, religion, sports, superstition, institutional sexism, book clubs, and the impending election—that is, the bloated underbelly (not to say double chin) of American life—with as much levity as a two-hour hysterics session can muster.

The sketch comedy show, directed

by Ryan Bernier and starring co-writers Chelsea Devantez, Paul Jurewicz, Rashawn Nadine Scott, Sarah Shook, Daniel Strauss, and Jamison Webb, begins with an innocuous corniness: Webb, an office worker in 1990, expresses bafflement as his colleagues dismiss what we now know to be the future, laughing off the possibility that The Simpsons will last another season (let alone 26 years), or that Nirvana will get big, or that Jazzercise, alongside the War in Iraq, will become a thing (I confess to having viewed this with skepticism before its purpose became apparent; Webb’s over-acted confusion is at the heart of the skit’s humor).

Eventually, Webb does catch on. Spoofs of time-travel clichés serve as a cue to the audience that the rest of Act I will attempt, in a loose way, to summarize 2016 in all of its dark and varied glory.

Though the act proceeds with a hilarious riff on fighting mothers- and daugh-

ters-in-law based on a word suggested by the audience (it was “marzipan” the night I went), it would be misleading to characterize the show as improv. Most of what followed were pre-written and reliably funny, if not necessarily cohesive, sketches, including lengthy scenes about overly dramatic driver’s ed instructors and a Black Heaven whose god is Prince, interspersed with pithy interludes referencing Colin Kaepernick and bathroom bills and, yes, Trump. In fact, it’s easy to see how Second City is a feeder for Saturday Night Live, as the performance seamlessly shifts from random silliness to politically charged topicality.

The second act has a similar opening in 1990, in which The Simpsons, Nirvana, Gulf War jokes, etc., are reiterated, calling to mind the déjà vu of the show’s title. The rest of the act balances itself between the trappings of déjà vu, where Act I scenes are rehashed with different actors playing similar roles and fresh skits. Highlights include a self-deprecating moment when a drama school graduate confesses to having “majored in Pretend,” a badly characterized sports fan who grunts and curses as his favorite team loses, and, true to reputation, a full-fledged, audience-prompted improv scene. One of the great strengths of the Second City troupe is how it exploits its own moments of ignorance for maximum comic potential: It isn’t necessary to know anything about sports to see the ridiculousness of a die-hard fan watching his favorite team repeatedly lose and weeping, “But. . . my identity!”, nor must one have an ophthalmology degree to chuckle as a pretend eye doctor struggles to ask his patient, “So. . . does your cornea hurt?”

What Fool Me Twice, Déjà Vu lacked

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Comedian Daniel Strauss in a scene from Second City’s 104th Revue.

in cohesion, it made up for in sheer comic force. After all, the well-placed one-liner may play as substantial a role in sketch comedy as the plot arc does in drama, and this show is chock-full of them. It’s not a ruthless, take-no-prisoners brand of satire (well, few prisoners to the left of center, anyway), but it’s got more chutzpah than most. My endorsement may not be an altogether ringing one, but if you’re looking for laugh-out-loud

comedy that tackles head-on the frustration most of us feel about our current political-cultural situation, I can’t recommend it highly enough. In the spirit of Fool Me Twice’s musical coda: If I could go back, I’d do it all the same. . .

Ex cept th e things I ’d ch ange.

Fool Me Twice, Déjà Vu will be running at Second City through April. $15 with UCID.

Japanese Anime “Beyond Ghibli” at Doc Films

BY HENRY BACHA MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

This fall marks just the third time that Doc Films has presented an anime series in its 76-year history. True to its mission of offering fi lms that cater to diverse interests, Doc Films is presenting series ranging from the musical films of Judy Garland and Liza Minelli to a retrospective on acclaimed Spanish director Pedro A lmodóvar. “ The Taste of Spanish Rouge,” curated by Jola Idowu, showcases Almodóvar’s penchant for comedic irreverence, melodrama, and his emphasis on female protagonists, as well as his technical innovations with regard to bold chromatic schemes and unusual camera angles. Films chosen for the series consider quintessential themes for the director: homosexuality, transsexuality, drug use, sacrilege, and Catholicism, tied together with cultural elements of modern Spanish society.

Meanwhile, another series includes “Altered States: Body Horror in Cinema,” curated by Alexander Fee, which features classics of the genre, including The Fly, The Thing, and Eraserhead.

But for many, the highlight is “Beyond Ghibli: Contemporary Japanese Animation,” a rare anime series. A previous series in 2012 was composed entirely of fi lms from the catalogue of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese anime studio founded by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. “Beyond Ghibli,” curated by Helen Wilkey and co-sponsored

by the Center for East Asian Studies, focuses on fi lms and directors outside the Ghibli fi lmography, which includes successes like Howl’s Moving Castle and Spirited Away. “Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli have largely served as the f lag-bearers for Japanese animation fi lms within the U.S.,” said Doc Films programming chair Anton Yu. “Their fi lms are wildly popular here— and for good reason—but there are a number of other contemporary anime fi lms and directors who deserve broader recognition and don’t really receive it.”

The fi lms in the series emphasize the genre’s recent developments in the past decade, years that saw Studio Ghibli slow and eventually halt production of new fi lms following Miyazaki’s retirement in 2014. For instance, Paprika, a 2006 fi lm directed by Satoshi Kon, centers around a research psychologist and her use of a newly invented dream therapy device. Paprika was praised by critics on both sides of the Pacific, with the Houston Chronicle calling it “as trippy as a Jefferson Airplane light show,” and The New York Times declaring it to be “evidence that Japanese animators are reaching for the moon, while most of their American counterparts remain stuck in the kiddie sandbox.”

A Letter to Momo, released in 2011 and directed by Hiroyuki Okiura, depicts the experience of a young girl and her widowed mother, who encounter three yokai (supernatural spirits of Japanese folklore) upon their move from Tokyo to a new home on a remote island.

“ The goal of the ‘Beyond Ghibli’ series is to showcase these films and provide a more general overview of Japanese animation films,” Yu said.

“I think it’s a particularly relevant series as well, given Miyazaki’s recent

retirement and Studio Ghibli’s hiatus.”

All films are screened at Max Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall. For f ull sch edul e an d m ore informati on , vi sit d o cf ilm s.u chi c a go.edu .

EXHIBIT [A]rts [10/25] TUESDAY

[10/29] SATURDAY

7–9 p.m. Join the Poetry Foundation for a bilingual presentation of Pablo Neruda’s newfound lost poems, which he handwrote on materials ranging from napkins to playbills. Poetry Foundation. Free.

7 and 9 p.m. Let the University Symphony Orchestra and Hyde Park School of Dance cast a spell on you with performances of pieces including John Williams’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. Come in costume—the performers will, too!

Mandel Hall. $10 general/$5 students.

[10/27] THURSDAY 5 p.m. Listen to an 11-person ensemble perform “Carl Sandburg’s Chicago Poems,” a musical project by David Nagler, who has set Sandburg’s poems to music. Cindy Pritzker Auditorium, Harold Washington Library Center. Free.

8 p.m. Join the Hyde Park Community Players for Horror on the Homefront, a live Halloween-themed rad i o s h ow. A u g u s t a n a L u t h e r a n Church. $10 advance/$15 at the door.

[10/30] SUNDAY

[10/28] FRIDAY 7–10:30 p.m. End fifth week with a bang at Boos n’ Ribs, where there will be live bands, a cappella performances, a haunted house, and a costume contest as well as free food including Insomnia Cookies. Ida Noyes Hall. Free.

7 p.m. Doc Films presents the 1923 silent film Hunchback of Notre Dame in Rockefeller Chapel, alongside live organ and carillon accompaniment by Dennis James and University Carillonneur Joey Brink, respectively. $20 general/ free to students and Doc pass holders.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - OCTOBER 25, 2016

CSO Revives the Revolution

BY BRYAN MCGUIGGIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Last weekend’s program at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) was a story of polar opposites linked by a common thread.

The concert featured Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto, with Emanuel Ax as soloist, and Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony under the direction of David Afkham. The pieces display their composers at different points in their careers: Beethoven, in his early period, starting to break the mold of Haydn and Schubert, and Shostakovich, at the height of his creative powers, completely in control of the groundbreaking rhythmic patterns and orchestration techniques that defined his legacy. Opposite as they seem, these pieces share a revolutionary, artistic bent.

Beethoven’s first piano concerto might seem shocking to those who are familiar with his repertoire because it is, on the surface, so conventional. The opening of the first movement is a straightforward 1–5–1 cadence and a predictable C major! And the piano’s solo entrance, a textbook Classical-period double exposition, is positively Mozartean, with block chords and virtuosic arpeggiated figures between truncated hints at the main theme from the orchestra. But things get weird in the development, when we suddenly find ourselves thrust into E-flat major, with atmospheric chromatic scales in the piano.

There’s no mistaking this for anything but Beethoven. And the cadenza chosen by Ax is no different. The second and third movements contain much of the same straightforward material, upset by bold harmonic moves.

Ax played with characteristic grace and charm, essential qualities for early Beethoven. Especially wonderful was his first-movement cadenza, which he allowed to wander through copious but judicious use of pedal. This technique made the orches-

The Reg Showcases Wiesel’s Legacy

tra’s deliberate coda entrance all the more exciting and energetic. Slow movements of the large Beethoven pieces are very direct, and Ax handled this with agility and a clear sense of purpose. The finale was conceived with a tremendous sense of humor and the various strange angles of the rondo theme were playfully manipulated. The music danced all the way to the final chord.

Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony, on the other hand, has no such surface-level conventionality. A revolutionary at heart, Shostakovich incorporated his contentious relationship with Stalin’s regime as a central theme of his music. This is most famously the case in the Tenth Symphony’s second movement, a wild cherzo meant to be a musical portrait of the Soviet leader. The piece, propelled forward by a set of of intense ostinati and military-style snare drums, paints Stalin as violent and unpredictable. The rest of the symphony shows Shostakovich’s revolutionary style operating on a less political level, with archetypal styles—namely, the sonata form and the waltz—filled with capricious material and unexpected harmonies.

The CSO was in top form while executing the Shostakovich. Particularly striking were the wind players, who carried off Shostakovich’s exotic lines with clarity and conviction. Most notable was the principal clarinetist’s solo, which added superb character to the first movement through articulate phrasing.

Afkham also made a strong showing, communicating ideas clearly to the audience and orchestra. The former fact implied some over-conducting, which became slightly frustrating on occasion (aimlessly shaking your hand in the air during a horn solo doesn’t do any good for anybody). Nevertheless, he produced an exciting performance, worthy of these genius pieces of political and musical drama.

BY REBECCA JULIE ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

Elie Wiesel, prolific author, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Holocaust survivor, died earlier this summer. In honor of his astounding legacy and impact on the portrayal of the Holocaust in the arts, Regenstein Library is featuring an exhibition entitled Representations of the Holocaust and the Legacy of Elie Wiesel.

Wiesel, who was born in Romania in 1928, is perhaps best known for his novel Night, in which he recounts his boyhood experiences in Auschwitz. The book has since been translated into 30 languages and is the inspiration for the two-case exhibit on the Reg’s fourth floor reading room.

In a 1975 interview entitled “An Interview Unlike Any Other,” Wiesel asked, “How does one describe the indescribable?

How does one use restraint in recreating the fall of mankind and the eclipse of the gods? And then, how can one be sure that the words, once uttered, will not betray, distort the message they bear?” Such questions are explored in the exhibit, which features the works of other artists who attempted to capture and convey the ethos of the Holocaust.

Under the curatorial guidance of Divinity School student Tzvi H. Schoenberg and Anne Knafl, a Regenstein librarian specializing in religion, philosophy, and Jewish studies, the cases represent a wide array of artistic endeavors. The cases contain the poetry of Sylvia Plath, excerpts from George Steiner’s literature, Arthur Miller’s plays, and manuscripts of Arnold Schoenberg’s dissonant music.

Representations of the Holocaust also acknowledges and explores the differing artistic philosophies held by artists who grappled with this period in history. “Special attention is paid to attempts to confront both personal and collective experiences pertaining to the Holocaust and the critical reception of such at-

tempts,” reads the exhibition description on the library website. But the exhibit also examines the way in which critical reception prompted alternative forms of representation. Such was the case of George Steiner who, objecting to Plath’s “personification of the Holocaust,” attempted a non-personal representation of the Holocaust by rendering it philosophically and in light of the problem of anti-Semitism, in his Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. (1982).

In this way, the exhibit celebrates Wiesel’s lifelong goal of using artistic voice as a megaphone for genocide prevention and remembrance. By featuring artwork alongside its dialogue and criticism, Representations of the Holocaust highlights the countless answers to Wiesel’s question of what it means to “describe the indescribable.” The cases do not suggest that there is a correct answer to this question. Rather, they pay homage to Wiesel’s firm belief in the power of the arts to attempt a response—viewers can decide for themselves which artist employs the most masterful “description.” Thus, despite the fact that there is only one work by Wiesel (a copy of Night) in the cases, the exhibit is inherently about him and his unyielding commitment to fulfilling his civil duty through the arts. It explores how prolific artistic figures used art in the ways Wiesel imagined and strove to promote.

In his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, Wiesel said, “I have tried to keep memory alive…I have tried to fight those who would forget.” Representations of the Holocaust and the Legacy of Elie Wiesel captures this spirit through artistic inquiry, imagery, and exploration. For as Wiesel concluded in his speech, “every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.”

The exhibition runs through October 31 on the fourth-floor reading room of Regenstein Library.

SPORTS Offensive Battle Hands Chicago Loss at Hendrix

Maroons Fall in Hotly Contested Match

FOOTBALL

BY MIRANDA BURT MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

T he Maroons took a trip down South to Conway, A rkansas, where they dropped a tough contest against the Hendrix College Warriors 52–28.

Chicago racked up almost 500 yards of total offense but were doomed by their four turnovers in the day. The squad was looking to get its fi rst road victory of the season and improve its hopes of a Southern Athletic Association (SA A) Championship.

The game was full of the Warriors’ offensive success, as they accumulated 760 yards of total offense. Hendrix also converted 75 percent of their third downs and took each of its fi rst three drives into the end zone. The South Siders, however, seemed up to the challenge at fi rst. Fourth-year quarterback Burke Moser led a nine-play, 90-yard drive to knot the score at 7–7 in the fi rst quarter. Moser and the offense rallied again down 21–7 in the second quarter to tie the game 21–21 before the home team kicked a 32-yard at the end of the half to go up 24–21.

“We had another big day through the air,” Moser said of the offense’s continued success. “Our offense is really clicking on all cylinders. We really feel comfortable with each other out there, so it honestly feels like backyard football.”

The second half was not as kind to the Maroons as they struggled to match the Warriors’ fast-paced offense. The South Siders found themselves down

38 –21 before Moser threw a two-yard touchdown pass to fellow fourth-year Syd Reynolds. This score pulled the visiting team to within ten points of the home side, but that was as close as it would get. The Warriors would get in the end zone two more times before the end of the game. Chicago closed out the game with three straight drives ending in interceptions.

“We are scoring points, but I have to do a better job of protecting the ball,” Moser said. “Obviously, four interceptions are not part of a winning formula, but all we can do is show up ready to work this week and try to get our fi rst road win. There is still a lot to play for this year.”

First-year wide receiver Dante Nepa led Chicago in receiving yards with seven catches for 98 yards along with two touchdowns. Third-year running back Chandler Carroll was big for the Maroons, leading the team in rushing yards with 118 along with 47 receiving yards.

The defense was anchored by fourth-year Jackson Garrey, who totaled 12 tackles on the afternoon. With his performance on the day, defensive captain Garrey maintained his SAA lead in tackles per game (12.4). He also had a forced fumble, becoming the Maroon’s all-time leader in that category with seven in his career.

The Maroons will look to bounce back next week as they take on the Sewanee Tigers in another road matchup that kicks off at noon. However, road games have not favored the team so far this year, as they are 0–4 in away games.

VOLLEYBALL

BY CAVELL MEANS MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

After coming off a solid weekend of UAA play, the Maroons took a tough loss Thursday at Wheaton College, falling to the Thunder College in a hard-fought 3–1 series. This loss drops the team to 15–8 on the year, snapping its four-game win streak.

Statistically, the team excelled, with 79 digs, three blocks, and five aces. All this was achieved while hitting at a .247 clip, but unfortunately Wheaton was able to best even these impressive statistics. Individually, second-year Audrey Scrafford had an incredible 21 digs while swinging .353, second-year Sarah Muisenga pitched in 14 kills and 8 digs, and first-year Anabella Pinton had a well-balanced 12 kills and 12 digs.

Fourth-years Erin Risk and Mary Claire Tuohy contributed 46 assists and 11 digs, and 27 digs with 6 assists, respectively. Risk was also one of five players with service aces throughout the game, alongside Scrafford, Muisenga, second-year Jessica Wang, and third-year Frances McDonald. Pinton praised her teammates for the well-balanced play.

“My teammates and I are giving 100 percent perfect effort in practice so that it translates into the game,” she said. “This has proven to be effective for us in conference play as we are 7–0 in the UAA and are looking to continue winning this weekend against Dominican.”

The game started off roughly for the Maroons, as the home team quickly established a 13–4 lead. The South Siders rallied to make the set competitive, but unfortunately,

the comeback couldn’t be completed, and the Thunder won, 25–21.

The second set was much more contested, with both sides going on runs until Wheaton lead 24–22. This time, however, the Maroons would complete the comeback, winning 27–25. The set was settled by the heroics of first-year Madison Pearson, who had a clutch block by herself. Pearson was vocal after the game about how this loss will be used as a learning experience for next week.

“Although we lost this Thursday, I’m confident that this loss will propel us to new heights as we work and train harder in order to play our best against Dominican. Communication was a struggle against Wheaton so that will be something we emphasize a lot this week in practice,” Pearson said. “All in all, I think we’re all very excited to get on the court again and play Dominican after regrouping this week.”

The second half of the match ended up being all Wheaton. The Thunder scored six straight points to win the third set 25–20.

In the fourth set, which ended up being the final one, Wheaton seemed well on their way, leading, at points, 9–3 and 16–9. Chicago gave one last rally, and actually ended up taking a late lead of 25–24 after a timely service ace,and stopping the Thunder from finishing on match-point three times. The Thunder had an answer though, finishing the set and ultimately the match with two kills and a final block. The final score of the set was 27–25.

The Maroons are currently gearing up for their doubleheader on Friday, as they face Dominican University at 6 p.m., and North Park University at 8 p.m. Both games are at home.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - OCTOBER 25, 2016

SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “THE CUBS HAVE WON THE PENNANT!” —Joe Buck calling the Cubs’ pennant-winning double play.

Senior Night Provides Motivation for No. 1 South Siders MEN’S SOCCER

BY EMMETT ROSENBAUM SPORTS EDITOR

The No. 1 Maroons were back at it again on Sunday, winning their match against Aurora University 3–0 as they celebrated Senior Day. The win was a perfect representation of how the season has gone for this dominant Chicago squad. The South Siders controlled possession most of the game, unleashing an offensive onslaught on the opposing team while simultaneously suffocating any counterattack the Spartans tried to muster.

The Maroons jumped out in front almost instantly. Just over a minute into the game, second-year forward Matthew Koh took a feed from fellow second-year Max Lopez and burst into the box. He then drilled a shot on goal and, even though the opposing goalkeeper managed to get a piece of it, the ball still found its way to the back of the net.

“I think it’s always nice to get an early goal,” Koh said about the quick start for the team. “I really think that yesterday we came out firing really well in the first 20 minutes, because we were all really excited for Senior Day and wanted to make sure all the seniors got their moment on the field.”

Just three minutes later, an Aurora penalty led to a Chicago penalty kick.

Fourth-year forward Brenton Desai stepped up to the line and buried it,

giving Chicago a commanding 2–0 lead early on in the game. Though the Spartans managed to keep the Maroons off the scoreboard for the rest if the half, they were forced to withstand a barrage of shots.

Desai added another marker in the second half when he capitalized on a feed into the box from third-year defender Stacey Reimann. The goal was his eighth of the season. Chicago ended up outshooting Aurora 25 –3 over the course of the game as the offense was firing on all cylinders.

“During the week we worked a lot on our offense and supporting our front three more, and I think that helped a lot,” Koh said. “With a year of experience playing together under our belt, I think that our forwards and midfield are really clicking well together. We are playing unselfishly for each other.”

With the win, the Maroons improved to 15 –0 on the season, but the occasion marked a bittersweet moment for the team’s six departing seniors.

“I’m happy that we got the win and that all the seniors got significant minutes, but I still can’t believe I just played my last home game,” said fourth-year defender George Voulgaris. “This season has been something special and every player, both on and off the field, has played a significant role in our success.”

Chicago has three more games left on the regular season schedule and hopes

to fi nish out the year undefeated. However, with its match against No. 21 Carnegie Mellon approaching this Sunday and No. 22 rival Wash U looming the weekend after, the road to victory will

be anything but easy.

The Maroons face off against Case Western on Friday night and Carnegie Mellon on Sunday. Kickoffs are scheduled for 7:30 p.m. and 1 p.m., respectively.

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Second-year forward Max Lopez jumps to head the ball into the net.

First-Half Explosion Spurs Maroons to Win WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY NATALIE DEMURO MAROON CONTRIBUTER

T he No. 7 Maroons scored four goals in the first half to defeat Concordia University Wisconsin 4 – 0 on the road Sunday afternoon. With the

win over the Falcons (4 –11–1), the Maroons (14–1– 0, 3 –1– 0 UA A) tallied their fifth straight victory and finished their non-conference slate unbeaten for the first time since 2003—the last time the squad reached the NCA A tournament final.

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Second-year midfielder Jenna McKinney dribbles the ball past a defender.

Chicago started off its dominant offensive effort with six shots in the first ten minutes, including a header shot from third-year midfielder Mia Calamari just 22 seconds into play.

The Maroons continued to put pressure on the Falcon defense with a series of strong scoring chances before second-year midfielder Jenna McKinney finally found the back of the net at the 25:01 mark to put Chicago up 1– 0.

In the 28th minute, Calamari scored off a McKinney assist to give the Maroons the 2– 0 advantage.

C ont i nu i ng the on sl aught , the S outh Siders i ncreased thei r lead again less than three minutes later when third-year defender Kaitlin Price finished inside the right post off a Calamari corner at the 30:38 mark.

The final goal of the game came in the 40th minute when first-year forward Adrianna Vera tapped in a def lection off the Concordia keeper.

Despite a scoreless second-half, the Maroons kept the majority of play in Falcon territory and recorded nine shots in the remaining 45 minutes, two of which were on goal.

McK i n ney, who leads the team with 12 goals and 30 points, said of the team’s success, “Every girl connected super well with each teammate on the field, so our speed of play was fast and obviously effective.” She added, “Playing like that made for a super fun game and satisfying win.” Hopes are high that the team will continue playing with this sharpness and speed.

Since failing to score against Emo-

ry in their conference opener, the Maroons have been working hard to create and capitalize on their opportunities up front. The team’s 33 shots came from 14 different players, a testament to the depth and development of the Chicago roster.

For the third straight game and 11th time this season, the Maroon defense shut out its opponent. The Chicago goalkeepers faced just one shot in each half, both of which were wide.

F irst-year K atie Donovan and second-year Patty Dull combined for the win in goal.

Chicago had a significant advantage in shots (33–2), shots on goal (9–0), and corner kicks (14–0). The Maroons have now outscored opponents 45–5 and outshot them 340 –104, a remarkable difference for a team ranked just No. 7.

With three games left in the regular season, the South Siders have already recorded more wins than last year. The squad hopes to use these last few opportunities to improve their its play and build upon their its winning season before ultimately setting its sights on the NCA A tournament in November.

The Maroons look to maintain their momentum as they return to conference play this weekend. The team will be taking on Case Western Reserve University (6 – 5 – 4, 0 –2 –2 UA A) in Cleveland on Friday at 5 p.m. EST before heading east to Pittsburgh in order to face No. 16 Carnegie Mellon University (9 – 4 –1, 3 –1– 0 UA A) on Sunday at 11 a.m. EST.