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Five Weeks Into School Year, University Says Financial Aid Awards Have Been Resolved

BY FENG YE NEWS STAFF

More than five weeks into fall quarter, a University spokesperson told T HE M AROON that all students should have received their financial aid awards. Some students say they are still struggling to fund their time at the University.

The Office of College Aid attributed the delays to staff departures and training related to its switch to a new payment system.

On Sunday evening, second-year Trenton Crawford sent out a collective complaint form to John “Jay” Ellison, dean of students in the College, and Jim Nondorf, dean of College admissions and financial aid. The e-mail attached a total of 66 student narratives about students’ difficulties with financial aid.

On Monday, both Ellison and Nondorf replied to Crawford’s letter. According to Crawford, Nondorf said in his reply that staff from the Office of College Aid, the Office of the Dean of Students, and the Office of the Dean of the College would meet within the next few weeks to create a plan to address demands listed in the original letter, including hiring an adequate number of properly trained staff members and releasing a statement to the College community explaining the delays in financial aid decisions.

Crawford has also been invited to meet for lunch with Nondorf to share his thoughts, once the deans’ discussions are in progress. Ellison said that he would meet with Nondorf and others to make sure experiences reflected in Crawford’s letter not happen again, Crawford told T HE M AROON. A coalition of campus activists has secured a meeting with Provost Daniel Diermeier on Friday. Fair Budget UChicago, an activist group under the umbrella of the coalition UChicago Student Action (UCSA), said in a statement that it is demanding that the University make staffing in the fi nancial aid office a

priority and that it commit to firm, public deadlines for issuing financial aid awards.

The group is also asking that the University refrain from cutting aid packages after making an initial offer, create a committee for financial aid oversight with representatives from Student Government, and pay late fees to the students whose aid packages were delayed.

“Especially for a university that is so well-known for giving the financial aid packages…it contradicts that image that [the College] puts forward,” third-year Anna Wood, one of the co-coordinators at Fair Budget UChicago, said.

An e-mail to the UCSA listhost in advance of the meeting said that UCSA is “collecting stories about how the administration has screwed people over.”

The e-mail includes student employment and financial aid on the list of topics.

Several students who experienced delays told T HE M AROON they are facing looming student debt. All of these students whom THE M AROON successfully re-contacted had received a fi nancial aid package since they spoke to THE M AROON. Crawford, who received his financial aid two weeks after the quarter started, told THE M AROON that the financial aid office suggested that he take out an emergency loan. According to Crawford, such a loan is commonly referred to as an “advance” by the Office of College Aid, but is actually a student loan given by the Maroon Financial Credit Union.

Typically, these loans need to be repaid within a few weeks, and can be as large as $500. “[It] has become almost a common practice in the Financial Aid Office. For anyone who has issues, their solution for them is just go and take out a loan… being in debt is terrifying, especially when you have no savings to pay off that debt…I think it goes against everything that the No Barriers Program stands for, because this is a barrier, and the Continued on page 4

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MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

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Violence and Vandalism in Hyde Park Over Halloween Weekend

BY JAMIE EHRLICH & PETE GRIEVE

Many people came wearing masks or face paint, and a few were seen wielding baseball Hyde Park saw a rash of bats and golf clubs.

Two nights before, many of vandalism and violence after sunset last night as hundreds the same individuals gathered of teens gathered in the area in Hyde Park to cause mayhem.

Over the course of the two around 53rd Street, attracting n ights, teens smashed the a substantial police response.

As one Kenwood Academy window-front of a store, shot High School student put it, the at passers-by with pellet and crowd gathered to “do bad things.” paintball guns, and threw eggs The student, who did not give his at police cars and officers.

Although teens only cited name before running off, said that the teens had organized a “the purge” when asked by T HE “purge” on Instagram.

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WHPK Spins on the Quad in Protest of Policy Changes

BY KATIE AKIN DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

WHPK held a “DJ-In” on the quad last Friday to protest recent changes to station policy. The event, which lasted from 10 a.m. until late evening, had station DJs spinning while volunteers from the station distributed flyers and invited passing students to participate in the calling campaign that began last week.

WHPK has been operating with reduced hours since it reopened this September. The station had been off-air for more than two months as homes of DJs were inspected following a spotting of bed-bugs at the station. Before that, the station broadcasted 24 hours a day from its Reynolds Club studio.

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The Maroons racked up their first away victory of the season at Sewanee with a 49–30 victory.

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By mishandling its finances, the University mistreats its students.

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“As part of ongoing safety and security assessments of the campus and its facilities, it was determined that making the studio, which is located in a University facility, accessible after hours devoid of adequate building staffi ng, security, and supervision is no longer possible,” News Office spokesperson Marielle Sainvilus wrote in an October 20 statement.

WHPK administration has made many changes in order to accommodate its programming within the shorter time window.

DJs in the rock genre have had their shows cut from two hours to just one. WHPK leadership is struggling to fi nd time slots for new applicants. Traditionally, beginner DJs would have shows

David Axelrod sat down on Friday with Maureen Dowd, Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist for The New York Times, and Carl Hulse, chief Washington correspondent for the Times, for the latest in a series of conversations about the presidential campaign.

Dowd opened with her characteristic colorful language.

“Watching Trump was like watching a bank robber go into a bank and fi nd for some crazy reason all the doors open and no guards there…he’s stunned, more than any of us are flabbergasted, that he is where he is.”

Hulse agreed that Trump has been surprised by his own success. Axelrod asked the panel to address Trump’s unpredictable, often self-destructive behavior.

“He self-destructs, because he’s a clinical narcissist and he can’t stop himself, and celebrity is like his heroin and he’s in an overdose now, and every rejection, every humiliation, is a small death,” Dowd said.

Axelrod pointed out that the Republican base is willing to support Trump “when he behaves himself.”

The problem for the GOP, according to Dowd, is Trump’s caprice. “It’s like being handcuffed to a hurricane. Nobody knows, minute to minute, when he’s going to do something like that all-night tweet thing about Miss Universe.”

Despite what she called a “racist and sexist” base, Dowd credits Trump’s rise to legitimate anger and frustration. “American citizens have the right to be really angry because we went into a misbegotten war without anyone knowing the difference between Sunni and Shi’a. The economy almost collapsed and no one even knew what a derivative was.”

“There are rage rooms opening across the country where you can go in and destroy a TV set with a baseball bat. To some of these

Police prepare to break up a crowd at 53rd Street and Lake Park Drive at appoximately 9 p.m. on Monday.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON - NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Students Launch Arabic Magazine

BY SARAH FINEMAN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

UChicago Majalla, the University’s first Arabic-language publication, will debut this winter.

The publication will feature student work ranging from research papers to poetry.

The idea for Majalla, which in Arabic means “magazine,” was conceived last year by fourth-year Near Eastern languages and civilizations major Elysa Bryen and fifthyear Nick Posegay who is pursuing a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Middle Eastern studies. Second-year Madeline de Figueiredo, who like Bryen is majoring in Near Eastern languages and civilizations, became involved in the magazine over the summer after meeting Posegay on a Critical Language Scholarship trip to Tangier, Morocco. The goal of Majalla, according to de Figueiredo, is to share work from students studying Arabic on campus.

Faculty member Noha Forster, of the Near Eastern languages and civilizations department, provided assistance and guidance in the magazine’s creation. In order to

receive funding, de Figueiredo, Posegay, and Bryen applied for and received a grant from the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. The grant is part of the Department of State’s efforts to support the study of Arabic, which is classified as a critical language.

Majalla’s founders, who will be editing and formatting the magazine, plan to publish the first issue at the beginning of winter quarter and to operate on a biannual publishing schedule. The first issue will consist of work collected from students over the last academic year in addition to newer pieces, which can be submitted via e-mail to uchicagomajalla@gmail.com until November 7.

This year, the magazine’s staff hopes to publish its first two issues, apply for RSO status, and explore possible additional funding sources. The founders envision the magazine becoming a resource for the community of Arabic-language students at UChicago.

“We’re looking for a way to unite the student body that speaks Arabic, studies Arabic on campus and bring them together through the language,” de Figueiredo said.

As Premiums Jump, Conference Considers Obamacare

BY ADAM THORP, EUGENIA KO, & VIVIAN HE NEWS EDITOR & MAROON CONTRIBUTORS

An all-star cast of University of Chicago experts on health care gathered downtown Monday for a Halloween-themed take on President Barack Obama’s chief domestic accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

Panelists at the event, titled “The Affordable Care Act: Trick or Treat?” included Obama’s chief political advisor, the head of his Council of Economic Advisors, University of Chicago economists, and representatives

of the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC). Steep hikes in premiums on ACA-created health-care marketplaces announced earlier this month rocked the presidential election and prompted concerns about the sustainability of the law.

The conference began with a panel titled “Policy, Politics, and Law.” Featured guests were Law School professor Jennifer Nou, Director of the Institute of Politics David Axelrod, and Harvard School of Public Health professor Thomas Lee. Booth School professor Austan Goolsbee moderated the Continued on page 5

Inuit “Arctic Defender” Speaks at I-House

BY MICHELLE BRITO MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Global Voices, an organization that hosts speakers, discussions, and seminars, premiered a documentary on the Inuit community and its fight for land claim with an Inuit activist guest speaker.

Aaju Peter opened up the event with a traditional lamp-lighting ceremony common in the Inuit community. Following the ceremony, Arctic Defenders, a documentary on the Inuit fight for land claim and the salvation of their language was screened.

The documentary, which was directed, narrated, and written by John Walker, starts with Walker’s first memory of the Inuit people. Although he first learned about them in school, he first encountered them as a 16-year-old working on a supply ship as a summer job.

He said that his encounter with the Inuits differed greatly from what he had expected.

His prior knowledge had come from watching films of the Inuits commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada. He would later learn that much of the Inuit community was relocated to the High Arctic in order to preserve Canadian sovereignty. During this time, a group of Inuits was fighting to claim their land and to get representation in Canada’s parliament. This discovery gave him the inspiration to make Arctic Defenders.

The relocation of the Inuits started with the Arctic Oil Exploration which began in the 1950s. The Canadian government asserted control over Resolute Bay where oil was located; this area was the home of many Inuits. The Inuits in Resolute Bay were moved

2,000 kilometers farther north from their home on Inukjuak. The Canadian government provided the Inuits with neither supplies nor shelter, so they had to adapt to the new territory quickly.

From the late 1960s to the 1980s, the newer Inuit generation began questioning the Canadian government. Inuit leader Tagak Curley formed the Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (ITC), which translates to the “Inuit Brotherhood of Canada.”

After a decade long fight, the ITC was able to gain control of 35,000 square miles of land for the Inuit community. This agreement, known as the Inuvialuit Final Agreement, was signed on June 5, 1984. The ITC negotiated for Nunavik land claims from 1976 to 1986. The ITC supervised the Inuit Committee on National Issues created in 1979 which fought for Inuit representation in the Canadian constitution.

Although an agreement was reached, there are still struggles within the culture and community. From the 1960s to 1990s, an assimilation process took place. English was the only language taught at school. Many teachers were from southern Canada, where Inuit traditions were largely unknown.

“You have to start the children, the small children, to speak in their own language in order for the language to survive, there is only one daycare that is run in Inuktitut,” Peter said.

Peter was then asked how the Inuit community would make its voice heard. “We are a territory and we take part on the international stage for a very small number of people. We have a very big voice per capita, and we make our voices heard,” Peter responded.

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Communist Plans to Defy Ban

BY SOFIA GARCIA MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Noche Diaz, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) who was arrested last Wednesday, will come to speak at the University of Chicago this Tuesday.

The event is intended to challenge Diaz’s ban from campus. The RCP stated on the event’s Facebook page that the ban is “illegitimate and will not be respected.” The RCP is a Maoist organization promoting “real revolution” in the United States. It has protested on campus for several weeks as part of a national tour.

The University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) arrested Diaz for trespassing after he stood on a table in Baker Dining Commons during an RCP protest. He has since been released, but is still barred from visiting campus.

The event was first announced at an RCP talk titled “America Was Never Great! Overthrow–Don’t Vote for–This System!” held in Stuart Hall on Thursday. Sunsara Taylor, a

University Ranked 1st for Intellectual Diversity

writer at the RCP’s Revolution newspaper, and Carl Dix, a founding member of the RCP, were the main speakers. The Platypus Affiliated Society, a campus organization for the “critique and education towards the reconstitution of a Marxian Left” sponsored the event.

The talk dealt mainly with the goals of the group and its guiding ideology, denouncing the political system of “capitalism-imperialism” of the United States and calling for an RCP–led revolution. They promoted The New Communism by Bob Avakian, the chairman of the RCP. The RCP holds that the arrest of Diaz was an instance of police brutality, and framed his talk on Tuesday as both a challenge to the UCPD and a protest for free speech. Taylor encouraged students to “challenge the University of Chicago, embarrass [the] University of Chicago. Make it live up to its so-called proclamation of free speech.”

Diaz will be on campus at 3 p.m., at a location to be announced.

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BY EMILY FEIGENBAUM ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The University of Chicago was recognized last week as the most intellectually diverse top university by a group of scholars advocating for viewpoint diversity in the social sciences.

The sampling of schools was drawn from the top 150 universities, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report.

Heterodox Academy describes itself as “a politically diverse group of social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and other scholars who want to improve our academic disciplines and universities.” The first edition of the Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges, a list of colleges ranked from least to most intellectually diverse, was published on October 19.

UChicago topped the list with a Heterodox Academy Score (HxA Score) of 93.75, with Dean John “Jay” Ellison’s letter condemning safe spaces and trigger warnings listed as a relevant event. Purdue University followed with a HxA score of 87.5, and 12 universities tied for third. Notably low scores include a 6.25 for both Harvard University and Northwestern University, in addition to zero for both the University of Missouri and the University of Oregon.

To compile the rankings, Heterodox assigned four criterion a value from zero to one, multiplied by 25, and summed the numbers to get a score between 0 and 100, with a higher number signifying a more diverse intellectual climate.

Heterodox considered whether schools have endorsed the University of Chicago’s speech policies, ratings from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute Rating, and

accounted for large-scale events since 2014 on campuses that “indicate a commitment by faculty, administration, and/or students to protect or restrict free inquiry and viewpoint diversity.”

Heterodox Academy enumerated four dangers associated with uniform beliefs on college campuses. First, insufficiently justified ideas remain unchallenged in the absence of intellectual debate. Second, students fail to learn “how to think” when not presented with counter-arguments on issues about which they are passionate. Third, by failing to challenge insufficient dogmas, students will continue working to advance insufficient solutions to little avail. Finally, uniform thinking breeds intolerance toward diversity and dissent, which Heterodox Academy states are fundamental to universities.

Several initiatives are currently being developed and finalized by Heterodox Academy in an effort to address these perceived dangers. In addition to the Heterodox Academy Guide to Colleges, Heterodox Academy proposes a Heterodox University Student Resolution, in which collegiate student governments vote to establish their universities as “Heterodox Academies” where viewpoint diversity is encouraged. A Viewpoint Diversity Reading List and a Fearless Speech Index, which professors can use to gauge the willingness of their students to speak freely in class, were also listed as solutions to combat intellectual conformity.

“We share a concern about a growing problem: the loss or lack of ‘viewpoint diversity.’ When nearly everyone in a field shares the same political orientation, certain ideas become orthodoxy, dissent is discouraged, and errors can go unchallenged,” reads the Heterodox Academy website.

Carl Dix and Sunsara Taylor present the position of the Revolutionary Communist Party.

Panel Discusses Digital Strategy for Campaigns and Voters

BY RYAN FLEISHMAN NEWS STAFF

A panel of experienced entrepreneurs discussed the effects of technology on the current election cycle and electoral politics in general at the Polsky Center last Thursday.

Founding partner of 270 Strategies Betsy Hoover, Optimus co-founder Scott Tranter, Director of Data Science Research and Development at Civis Analytics David Shor, and BallotReady co-founder and CEO Alex Niemczewski were the panel members.

While each organization discussed different aspects of the election, they all emphasized addressing gaps in logic and information with technology. Tranter and Shor, for example, both started their work as a response to the guesses and assumptions campaigns would use to make decisions.

“We were always in a room where people would say ‘huh, I won this race like that, let’s do that again’, and there is really no rhyme or reason behind it,” Tranter said. “We wanted to bring some rigor, specifically academic rigor, to the testing side of it.”

On the voter’s side of the process, Niemczewski of BallotReady aims to reduce the number of empty boxes or uninformed checkmarks that voters leave on the ballot by providing accessible information about candidates. “We want people to know who is running and whether or not they are choosing the best candidate, or the best of bad options. We want them to feel confident about their decisions,” she said.

Not all changes in the modern era have advanced data science in electoral politics, Shor said, citing a drop in response rates to polls throughout his career. These lower rates make proper research more difficult to obtain as certain demographics are significantly more likely to respond to polls and are consequently overrepresented. “If you are an older white woman, you are 100 times more likely to pick up the phone than a young Hispanic man,” Shor said.

Shor added that Democrats lost by vast margins several Senate races in 2014 that were measured as close by public polling.

The panel agreed that there is plenty of room for progress at the intersection of technology and elections.

“Even though we do a lot of data and analytics and technology, campaigns haven’t really changed since how they were run 30 years ago. There are still clipboards, there are still knocking on doors,” Shor said. He continued to explain that voter targeting today has become much more sophisticated, but the actual methods campaigns use has not changed in decades.

Hoover said the implementation of technology for electoral uses has lagged in part due to the cyclical nature of elections.

“We end up being set back each cycle, and having to build back from the ground up,” Hoover said. Other panelists, however, said that many corporations and non-profits engage the community in ways similar to an electoral campaign, and these electoral advances provide a framework for engagement.

The talk was jointly hosted by the Polsky Center for entrepreneurship, the Social Initiative Center, and the Institute of Politics.

Target to Open Sunday

BY OLIVIA ROSENZWEIG ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

On Sunday, Target will open its new location in Hyde Park on 53rd Street between Kimbark and Dorchester Avenue.

The store is approximately 20,000 square feet and is housed within the Vue53 development. This store is smaller than the size of most Target locations.

The store will offer a wide range of merchandise, including expanded beauty products, apparel, kids and baby items, a curated home selection, tech accessories, and a select

The interior of Hyde Park’s new Target.

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grocery. It will also include a pharmacy, a Starbucks, and mobile phone stand.

The store recently applied for a liquor license, which has been opposed by the Nichols Park Advisory Council (NPAC), Fourth Ward Alderman Sophia King, and the Schools Committee of the Hyde Park–Kenwood Community Conference.

According to Money magazine, almost all of Target’s planned store openings in 2016, 2017, and 2018 are for smaller retail stores located in densely populated urban areas or college towns.

Pete Grieve

An article titled “Students to Receive Diplomas With Housemates at Eight Separate Ceremonies,” published on Thursday, October 28, said that a petition opposing the change to the convocation ceremony accrued likes. It accrued signatures.

The article was also clarified to make clear that President Robert Zimmer verbally conferred degrees in past years and that the Class Day speech is not replacing the faculty speech at Convocation.

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Message to Kenwood Academy Parents Warned of Hyde Park “Purge”

Pete Grieve

Jeffery Dollar Store’s window-front was shattered Monday night. directions, and officers shouted out Continued from front

M A R O ON why they were out Monday night, anti-police sentiment was in the air—teens were constantly giving officers the finger and shouts of “Fuck 12!” rang through the night. “12” is a slang term for law enforcement.

The crowds mostly gathered on 53rd Street, as far west as Woodlawn Avenue and as far east as Lake Park Avenue.

As large crowds periodically formed on 53rd Street, officers used a variety of strategies to try to break them up. Police cruisers drove on the sidewalk to disperse the masses, lines of off icers wielding batons and f lashlights marched individuals in different

over megaphones that they would start making arrests if individuals did not disperse.

Officers and dispatchers related information about arrests by radio transmission throughout the night.

Officers were able to temporarily break up crowds, but in a matter of minutes the teens congregated just down the block. “ We got calls of everything…anything and everything that could have happened tonight did,” a Chicago Police Department (CPD) officer said about Saturday night.

In a Monday e-mail to parents and

guardians, Kenwood Academy principal Gregory Jones warned that individuals were planning to “purge” in Hyde Park on Halloween. As early as 3:45 p.m. on Monday, Chicago Police, University of Chicago Police, campus security, and private security were stationed on nearly every intersection in the area.

A CPD officer said around 4 p.m.

Monday that CPD had several large police vans standing by to transport arrested individuals “in case people start acting up.”

On the 4900 block of Dorchester Avenue, a female minor was arrested Monday after hitting a victim in the back of the head, according to a CPD officer. A crowd of approximately 70 people dispersed southbound when police arrived, according to the scanner. Around 7:30 p.m., an ambulance was at the scene treating the victim and the minor was seen in handcuffs. CPD News Affairs did not immediately have information about the arrest.

On Saturday, at least six people say they were struck with airsoft, BB, or paintball ammunition, according to interviews, Facebook posts and University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) incident reports. One person was arrested for shooting a BB gun, according to a UCPD incident report. On Monday, there were scanner reports of weapons at 51st Street and Kimbark Avenue and at 52nd Street and Blackstone Avenue.

At both locations, individuals also reportedly struck or jumped on cars.

At 12:55 a.m., third-year Aaron Cendan was shot with a paintball gun behind his left ear, according to him and a UCPD incident report. He was walking on 55th Street between Kimbark Avenue and Woodlawn Avenue when he felt a sharp pain behind his ear.

“I felt warm liquid running down the back of my head/neck and had honestly thought I’d been shot with something much worse than a paintball gun,” Cendan said.

After being temporarily deafened in his left ear, Cendan notified the nearest University security guard. The impact of the paintball left a welt and bruise where he was hit.

“Nobody really wants to contemplate mortality on a Saturday night,” Cendan said. The students were not able to identify the vehicle.

On Saturday at 7:53 p.m., an individual walking on a sidewalk off-campus was struck on the left arm and hip by a missile fired from a paintball gun, according to a UCPD incident report.

The suspect was chased on foot and arrested by UCPD. F irst-year T yler Raclin and second-year Jackson Mariotti were also shot at on Saturday night.

First-year Solomon Dworkin and second-years Sam David and Scott Continued on page 5

Committment From Administrator: Situation Will Not Be Repeated Continued from front

financial aid office is creating it and perpetuating it,” Crawford said.

Crawford took out an emergency loan to cover short-term costs before he received his financial aid, from which he eventually drew money to pay back the loan. “The Office of College Aid has made access to aid even more difficult and less transparent,” he wrote in an e-mail.

Not awarded fi nancial aid as a fi rstyear, second-year Hanna Pfeiffer said she submitted new fi nancial documents this year significantly different from what she submitted the previous year. She said she had received a package that contains only her National Merit Scholarship, and added that she might have to take out federal loans in the future.

“I feel that UChicago through its No Barriers Program has promised each and every student the fact that they will cover enough tuition so that the student doesn’t have to take on loans…I just wish the program applies to everyone. I don’t see why they are selective about it,” Pfeiffer said.

No Barriers is the University’s program to increase accessibility to the College and supposedly enable students to

graduate with no loans.

Another second-year who was only willing to speak on the condition of anonymity expressed dismay with the idea of emergency loans. She said that even though she received confirmation on multiple occasions over the summer that all her financial documents were received, she was notified around second week that one of her documents had not been submitted.

Before she communicated with the financial aid office and ultimately received her package, she said College Aid offered the option of emergency loans on two different occasions. “[The College] takes students who come from difficult backgrounds to try to help them move forward, and [the College] is still treating them like second-class students,” the student said.

Second-year Maura Lynch said last Tuesday that she still had not received her financial aid package for this year. For the fi rst week and a half of the quarter, she said she could not register for classes due to financial issues with the school.

Lynch said she experienced delays with the financial aid office last year too. Her struggle with the financial aid office lasted

for her entire fi rst year. She has had to take out external loans to cover her tuition.

After being admitted to the College two years ago, Lynch said she was awarded full financial aid. After taking a gap year, however, she received an e-mail in November of her first quarter last year telling her that she had a bursar restriction because one of her documents was missing.

“It was a logistical error on their part that my documents weren’t processed, but they refused to [lift the restriction], and they said we have to pay the full amount [of my fi rst quarter tuition] before my financial aid comes in,” Lynch said.

Because of problems with her aid package, Lynch received e-mails from College Housing during winter quarter last year saying she had a few days to move out of her dorm. “It was very emotionally abusing, especially to a first-year student coming from a low-income family, that they were telling me that I was going to be kicked out of school…that I may have to take a ‘voluntary leave of absence’ when nothing about it was voluntary, all because of a logistical error on their part,” Lynch said.

Lynch’s family took a total of three external loans to cover the cost of her school last year, she said. On Friday of fi nals week last year, Lynch went into the Offi ce of College Aid to sign a contract for a loan that would cover her outstanding balance. The loan, however, was never applied to her account. When Lynch called College Aid during the summer to ask why she still wasn’t able to register for classes, she was told that her paperwork might have been lost. “ Not only is this cycle starting again, I also lost the money I was supposed to be granted from that loan,” Lynch said.

Lynch and her family were still working with the financial aid office to figure out what happened to the contract, Lynch told T HE M A ROON last Tuesday.

University spokesperson Marielle Sainvilus said in a statement, “Any student with remaining questions about their specific financial aid award can contact College Aid to work with an officer directly.” Director of the Office of College Aid Tina Baskin did not reply to T HE M A ROON ’s request for comment.

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in the late night and early morning, but these options are no longer possible. “It’s like able to be operational, but then, how do you expand? How do you grow?” DJ Andrew Fialkowski said at the “DJ-In” Friday.

Many within the WHPK community have been working to negotiate a new policy with the administration to reinstate 24-hour access to Reynolds Club. Earlier this month, the station began a calling campaign where DJs and community supporters called Sarah Cunningham of the Center for Leadership and Involvement

(CLI) and Michael Hayes of the Center for Student Life (CSL). Volunteers signed up for time slots every 15 minutes. According to multiple WHPK DJs, Cunningham did not answer any calls from the campaign.

“This response, or rather lack of response, is one of the problems we would like to call attention to with our campaign,” WHPK DJ Lexi Drexelius wrote in an e-mail. “The University professes a commitment to open discourse and free speech and yet by ignoring these extremely thoughtful calls and e-mails they contradict themselves.”

According to the News Office, WHPK

administration has been working alongside the University to establish remote broadcasting.

“WHPK is an important part of our campus community and due to their unique programming hours, we are aggressively working with the WHPK station manager to help fi nd a solution for continued 24-hour programming, including remote broadcasting capabilities,” Sainvilus said. “We hope to have the technology installed and operational as soon as possible.”

However, many DJs expressed hesitation about remote broadcasting options.

“It denies the use of our extensive record and CD library, technology, and completely misses the point of getting real experience in an actual studio where one learns the nuances of working with radio,” Drexelius said.

Although WHPK’s future remains unclear, the DJs are committed to continue protesting the changes. As DJ Ethan Weinstein wrote, “It is my hope that the University hears our voices and gets off their high horse some time soon so we can stop pestering them and find out what it will take to reinstate our 24-hour access, but in the meantime we won’t stop calling and emailing.”

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Wang were walking down 52nd Street near Greenwood Avenue when two men in a car pulled up beside them and began shooting metal pellets from what they think was a BB gun. At around 10:30 p.m., David was hit in the back, and Wang was hit in the back of the head, drawing some blood.

“We were incredibly fortunate that it had been a BB gun instead of a real pistol. It was traumatic when I brushed blood off my head,” Wang said. “Moreover had we been shot in the opposite direction we could have sustained serious injuries to our eyes.”

The police began to enforce an 11 p.m. curfew for minors under the age of 17 around 10:50 p.m. on Saturday night as they pushed the groups closer to the area of Lake Park Avenue. “You’ve got 15 minutes to leave the area,” a police officer yelled out his cruiser window, “or your parents can pick you up at the station.” When T HE M A ROON asked for the officer’s name, his car pulled away from the corner of 53rd Street and Lake Park Avenue.

Another patrol car was parked along Lake Park Avenue on Saturday. Officer Mendoza, the driver of the cruiser, cautioned University students who were out on the street. T HE M A ROON asked Mendoza where students should stay away from. “Everywhere,” he said. “You want a story here? Where are their parents?”

On Monday night, the front window of Jeffery Dollar Store at 1443 East 53rd Street was shattered, and the CPD police scanner mentioned that individuals were trying to “bust” into the unopened Target store on 53rd Street though no damage was reported or seen.

There were also scanner reports of broken glass at 5230 South Lake Park Avenue. Damage to cars was also reported on the CPD scanner.

Individuals got up on the Harper Court parking garage roof, according to police scanner reports, but by the time officers got to the scene they had dispersed. Officers were also seen removing a trashcan that had been placed on the roof of a car.

In the UCPD daily incident report for Saturday October 29, there is a report of a fight on 1452 East 53rd Street where the victim was treated by EMS on scene and declined further medical attention.

Flower pots were seen emptied on the sidewalk and broken eggs were splattered on the windows of Boston Market and Wingers on 53rd Street.

According to a cashier at Wingers, upwards of 40 people entered the restaurant to avoid the police and began to “play with napkins.” When the cashier was unable to get them to leave, the police came and escorted out everyone who hadn’t ordered anything.

According to an eyewitness report,

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A medic treats a victim who was struck in the head on the 4900 block of Dorchester Avenue

McDonald’s on 52nd Street and Lake Park Avenue was stormed by police officers twice on Saturday and an EMS was on scene. On Saturday and Monday, the McDonald’s closed early based on recommendations by the CPD. T he manager at McDonald’s declined to comment on the events that tra nspi red a nd CPD cou ld not be reached for comment on these particular incidents.

The UCPD and the University of Ch icago News O f f ice poi nt ed T H E M A ROON to the daily incident reports released for the days of the incidents.

The situation at the McDonald’s was

reportedly under the jurisdiction of CPD. L a Keisha Hamilton, Hyde Pa rk resident and youth development practitioner, sat in her car on 53rd Street and watched events unfold around her on Saturday night.

“For years people have been dropped off by their parents in Hyde Park [on Halloween weekend],” Hamilton told T HE M A ROON. “If we, the community, do not open doors and give them activities to engage in, what do we expect?”

Editor’s note: Solomon Dworkin is a M A ROON news contributor.

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discussion. Goolsbee and Axelrod were prominent figures in the Obama administration, Goolsbee as Chair of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors and Axelrod as Obama’s Senior Advisor.

“Obamacare is under duress, but I am optimistic,” Lee said. In Lee’s view, the new system is displaying turbulence because it is still in an adjustment period. He predicted that this period could end in one to two years.

What comes out of this “settling down,” as he called it, will be a better system.

Nou, evaluating the ACA from a legal perspective, acknowledged that because the Supreme Court upheld the ACA’s constitutionality, its framework is protected to an extent. Yet, pending litigations surrounding the ACA still contribute considerable uncertainty to its future. Zubik v. Burwell, a case challenging the religious exemption from the Act’s contraceptive mandate, is one example of consequential legal debates that could either broaden or constrain the ACA’s influence.

Politically, the public has a mistaken perception of the ACA, said Axelrod, in that they see it as only usurping the wealth of some to alleviate the plight of others. The misunderstanding has fueled opposition to the ACA and created a formidable obstacle to the Act’s success, he said. Axelrod said he believes that conveying the truthful and complete content of the ACA, especially to young and healthy Americans, should be a priority going forward.

The public’s reception to the ACA can be equally contingent on their emotional attachment to the status quo, or Medicare.

Axelrod observed a paradox when he said, “Our results are not good, our costs are too high…and yet people still [say] don’t temper with [Medicare], because the American system is the best.”

The second panel focused on the medical impact of the ACA. Moderator David Song, CEO of the Permanente Group Robert Pearl, CEO of the American Medical Association James Madara, and Executive Director of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania Daniel Polsky spoke about a range of topics including the effect of the ACA on the health of the population as well as end-of-life care and the future of the medical field.

“As a practicing physician, I saw about twenty patients in the morning, and [this discussion] is absolutely germane and near and dear to everyone in this room,” Song said. “This is something that is consuming everybody in this country.”

Because many of the panelists agreed it was too early to see the full impact of the law on the population as a whole, Polsky spoke about the improvements he saw in the Oregon Health Experiment and Pearl spoke about the impact that Kaiser Permanente has seen from its patients who have benefited from affordable care.

He said the issue is “not the 5% but the 95%.”

“We’ve changed the health of those patients for the better but does that change the American health care system? No. It’s too small a number,” he said.

The panel also discussed end-of-life care and a shift from “volume to value” that Polsky believes gives patients more choices

at the end of their lives. As a professor at UPenn, Polsky also spoke about how the ACA will affect future generations of students who hope to become physicians.

The panel hoped to highlight the implications of the law and answer the question of whether the law should be left alone, modified, or repealed.

Pearl called for further change, an “evolution in medical healthcare” through the use of technology.

“Rather than blaming it, we have to understand its power, and figure out how to harness that,” he said.

The third panel covered the Act’s economic impact in theory and practice with School of Social Service Administration professor Harold Pollack and UCMC head Kenneth Polonsky. David Meltzer, an economist, medical internist and Chief of the Section of Hospital Medicine at the University of Chicago, moderated the panel.

Pollack’s take on the Act was broadly positive, though he acknowledged that further steps might have to be taken to fill in the gaps left by the plan.

“There’s no question that we face challenges in the implementation of the ACA, but it’s really a historic accomplishment in terms of bolstering our safety net,” Pollack said. “I think it’s important to note that the ACA has been, for poor and sick people in particular, an important accomplishment.”

Pollack especially emphasized the expansion of Medicare to all low-income people as a central advantage secured by the ACA. He noted, however, that the decision of many states to refuse the Medicare expansion, and structure of the insurance ex-

changes, left some patients in a lurch.

“Those of us who are very proud of [the ACA] and worked to enact it, it is important we acknowledge the difficulties it encountered, and not fall prey to trying to somehow paper these over,” Pollack said.

Polonsky said he also saw positive aspects of the ACA, but noted that “the jury is still out” on some of the structural changes the ACA encouraged. As an example, he noted that Act encouraged hospitals like UCMC to expand to become larger networks. He linked this element of the Act to UCMC’s decision to merge with Ingalls Health System in Chicago’s southern suburbs this year.

“Will these large health systems and these large physician groups deliver better care, more efficiently, more cost effectively, and with better quality than the smaller groups and the isolated hospitals? I think everybody hopes that that will be the case, but it’s still a work in progress,” Polonsky said.

Illinois is fairly stingy in compensating health care providers for working with Medicaid recipients, Polonsky noted, posing a challenge for people obligated to balance fiscal rectitude with their patient’s welfare.

“This is something that is going to have to be addressed. We don’t think that the Affordable Care Act is going away, and we don’t think it should go away, but on the other hand there has to be an economically sustainable model…to take care of these vulnerable populations and poor people in a way that one can at least approach break even,” Polonsky said.

“I think he’s going to hit the earth like a giant orange fiery comet” guardedness to longtime aides she called Continued from front people, Trump is the baseball bat,” Dowd “creepy attack dogs.”

“She calls up this wall of secrecy and said.

The panel characterized Clinton as un- paranoia that tends to send her foes and necessarily defensive and prone to add fuel the press into this frenzy where they think to the fire of scandal by being unforthcom- she’s hiding something,” Dowd said. “Her ing in investigations. Dowd attributed her success in the White House will depend on

whether she’s able to dismantle the paranoid side and get rid of Sidney Blumenthal and David Brock, these attack dogs who feed that side. But I’ve never seen people get less paranoid in the White House.”

Previous IOP panelists in the Decoding 2016 series have conjectured that

Trump might be positioning himself to build a far-right news network if he loses the election. Dowd disagreed. “His brand is ruined,” she said. “I think he’s going to hit the earth like a giant orange fiery comet, and we’re not going to hear from him again.”

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Back to the Drawing Board for Convocation Changes As we go on/ We remember/ All the times/ We had together?

Last week, Dean of Students in the College John “Jay” Ellison announced programming changes for closing convocation ceremony, starting this year with the Class of 2017. Most notably, Saturday’s single diploma ceremony on the quad will be replaced by eight concurrent ceremonies across campus, with students split up by the residence hall they were placed into first year. It would make sense to break up the ceremony to be more manageable for both students and family members stuck sitting in triple digit temperatures, especially with increasing graduating class sizes. But, dividing students based on the location of their fi rst-year house or last-lived-in house is not the right solution and represents a step too far in the administration’s campaign to make College Housing the center of undergraduate life. If the duration of the single diploma ceremony is as problematic as the administration suggests, then the University should go back to the drawing board and find a way to divide graduating fourth-years by academic department or division.

While President Robert Zimmer will “verbally confer the degrees” at a University-wide ceremony in the morning as in past years, he and Dean of the College John Boyer will not be handing out the diplomas themselves, denying many students the opportunity to shake hands and personally meet two figureheads of the University. Ellison promises that these new ceremonies will be more “intimate” than ever before in his University-wide email last week, as students will receive their degrees from their Resident Masters, with whom students are theoretically much closer than Zimmer and Boyer. But some students in satellite dorms didn’t even have a Resident Master and, over the course of three years, many Resident Masters have retired and been replaced, meaning that a chunk of the student body will receive their diploma from a complete stranger.

Also, by organizing the ceremonies around houses, the administration seems to be emphasizing the cultural and social aspects of college life. This is misguided un-

der the current housing system because students do not choose their houses and often distance themselves from their housemates over time, finding their niches in other parts of the University community. Most students appreciate that house culture, as it stands now, offers a strong and fulfilling community for those who choose to embrace it, but, in the end, is a choice. The administration should not start imposing house culture on upperclassmen now, especially after closing satellite dorms. These smaller houses were in many ways the representation of the housing system the administration wants to recreate in large new dorms on campus: They had a long history of traditions and a strong culture that encouraged students to stay past their first or second year. It’s almost hypocritical of the administration to dispose of these houses and then expect students to accept changes to convocation that center around the importance of house culture.

If the ceremony’s length was really the main issue then why not have multiple convocations,

but divide students by major and division? It would be more natural to group UChicago students based on academic pursuit than by the rather arbitrary housing assignments they receive in their first year. Convocation should be a celebration of one’s academic accomplishments within a community of scholars with which one has chosen to associate. In response to this proposed solution, the administration states that “holding ceremonies based on units of majors would have produced uneven results, with some relatively small groups and others that would be quite large.” But this answer seems insufficient, and the prospect of clumping students based on division in a balanced way seems far from impossible. Although no solution is immediately clear and convocation by division still raises conflicts regarding double majors and department heads busy with graduate school ceremonies, these logistical challenges don’t seem like insurmountable roadblocks and administrators should be able to put their heads together to address them.

The changes to the convocation ceremony and the University’s complete failure to incorporate student feedback throughout the decision-making process raise the question of whether the University is more concerned with future generations of students than the current graduating class. Given the administration’s push to centralize housing and its initiative to encourage students to stay in the dorms all four years, a convocation divided by residence hall may be welcome down the line, possibly starting with the Class of 2020.

But, for now, a large fraction of the current fourth-year class has made clear that it does not identify strongly enough with its current or former residence hall to support the plan. Convocation is a day for graduating students, so the administration should respond to fourth-years’ input by working toward a different plan that has more to do with students’ academic experiences than their social ones.

—The MAROON Editorial Board

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By Mishandling Its Finances, the University Mistreats Its Students

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The Office of College Aid and the Office of the Bursar have been egregiously ineffective this year, seriously inconveniencing both the undergraduate and graduate populations of the University of Chicago. Weeks into fall quarter, many undergraduate students have not received confirmation of their completed financial aid packages from the Office of College Aid. The Office of the Bursar has been similarly inefficient this year, as there have also been delays in supplying students with a refund of financial aid and loan credits.

Underlying all these problems plaguing these financial offices is a lack of proper communication, or simply no communication at all. E-mails, calls, and meetings with the Office of College Aid have proved to be fruitless for many students. A first-year in the College, Alexis Wolf, had an original financial aid offer of $57,123 altered

twice, initially to $43,306 and finally to a mere $21,353. Each time the Office of College Aid’s e-mailed the same letter, starting out with a detached, “we are pleased to offer you the following financial aid award.”

“They don’t specifically tell you why they change the financial aid,” said Wolf. Even speaking to an employee of the Office of College Aid proved fruitless: “The people in the office have no idea because they don’t make the decisions. A worker thought the change in my aid was a system error because it was such a severe cut.”

Wolf hypothesized that a possible reason for the reduction of aid could be related to a misinterpretation of their family’s income, which did not take into account piling medical bills from multiple surgical procedures in the family.

The committee on College Aid rejected a letter of appeal related to

these medical expenses and wrote back an almost demeaning, “we do thank you for taking the time to explain your situation to us.”

The University’s inability or unwillingness to properly compensate its students is not a problem isolated to undergraduates. Graduate students are treated like menial laborers, and not properly paid for their work. Many classes in the College are taught by graduate students either fully or as teaching assistants. However, by limiting their work to 19.5 hours per week, the University treats these full-time instructors as part-time workers and therefore refuses to acknowledge working graduate students as legitimate employees, probably to avoid being legally required to provide adequate health insurance to the students, as mandated by the Affordable Care Act. “The weekly hour-counts assigned to TA–ships Continued on page 7

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The University’s Financial Mistakes Have Grave Implications for Students Continued from page 6 and lectureships are a gross underestimate of the hours we spend on our duties for these positions,” reads a statement from the Graduate Student Union (GSU) on its website. “Graduate students are full-time employees, alright, but the University has found a way to keep us from appearing on their rolls.”

Adding insult to injury, the sixthyear Ph.D. candidate reported only receiving compensation for the first time this school year last Friday, three days before the Office of the Bursar’s bill was due. Under law, part-time employees are expected to be paid every two weeks.

The Office of the Bursar generally awards five years of full funding to graduate students as a form of compensation for their

work. A sixth-year Ph.D. candidate and member of the GSU, who has requested anonymity due to concerns about losing his job in housing, explained that, “in return [for full tuition], we provide low-cost teaching for the real customers, namely the undergraduates, who, as you know all too well, are cash cows here along with the master’s students. The Ph.D.s are who provide the basic teaching workforce, in conjunction with the contingent and tenure-track faculty.”

The University frequently sends students on a wild-goose chase to get basic information in regards to financial aid and health care services. The majority of students are given the runaround and exist in an eternal cycle of abusive authority taking over both their

livelihood and education.

The treatment of graduate students as expendable by the University grossly undervalues their contributions to the UChicago community. The relationship between the graduate students and the administration is just shy of indenture. The GSU’s fervent efforts have not been officially acknowledged by the University, although gradual change has occurred. Many of the union’s demands have been gradually conceded, but always couched indirectly in the form of “charity” or “goodwill offering” on the part of the administration, rather than pressure from collective bargaining of student workers.

However, more support by the students of the University through active protest and vocalized de-

mands is necessary to elevate the quality of student life. As the sixthyear Ph.D. candidate stated, “The University’s administration has made important and valuable concessions in the past that have not only improved the overall quality of life for students but also literally enriched the University’s academic reputation and precious donor base.

Yet there is further work to be done both on their part and ours: administrative policies involving our funding need to be communicated more fairly, transparently, and dialogically, and we need to collectively raise our voices so that this need [for fairness, transparency, and dialogue] is heard.”

It is high time for the administration to scrutinize their management of student financial aid and

health services. Cost should be unambiguous to the students of the University, and vague responses to placate anxious students about their well-being are blatantly insufficient and irresponsible. Students, ranging from undergraduates to Ph.D. students, have been mistreated; the University needs to stop its habitual evasiveness and give students what they have been promised and what they deserve.

Editor’s Note: THE MAROON has proof of the quotes in this article but has agreed not to print the name of the Ph.D. candidate due to the sensitivity of the subject.

Soulet Ali is a first-year in the College.

Identity Theft Trump’s Vision of Whiteness Only Perpetuates an Exclusionary View of America

Andrew Nicotra Reilly While identity politics is usually perceived as pertaining to more marginalized communities, this election cycle has proven otherwise. Donald Trump emphasizes what he believes will attract white voters by positing that they have been the losers in America, a radical departure from a traditional reading of American history. Trump has explicitly created a new perception of “white identity” as part of his campaign, but his rhetoric is reductive, oversimplifying a more nuanced understanding of whiteness. In order to understand what the white identity is, we must first try and understand where it comes from.

Historically speaking, white culture and American culture are thoroughly enmeshed. White people were complicit in erasing the role of other racial groups in this initial construction of American identity. The history and culture of marginalized groups were either ignored or subsumed as being a part of white culture. The Civil Rights era most prominently questioned the prevailing narrative of America of that time. It redefined society’s perceptions of American history, deconstructing the notion that American identity and white identity were synonymous. As a response to this, a distinctly white identity comes into consciousness. For perhaps the first time, white people started to become aware of their own whiteness, and this has only continued to this day in the era of Trump.

To an extent, the development of an identity then involves a sense that you are only one part of a broader culture and that you are in fact, sometimes, the “other.” Minorities and marginalized groups deal with this othering all the time. Fetishization of cultures, cultural appropriation, racism, sexism, and other forms

of domination all represent different forms of this othering process.

White people hardly face these more overt manifestations of the othering process, thus muddling any simple explanation as to why they have so passionately embraced this white identity. To explain the othering that caused the rise and development of a white identity is thus more complicated.

Many white people, namely Trump supporters, still see a truly “American” identity as inextricably connected to whiteness.

Their cries to “Make America Great Again” mirror the perceptions of many white Americans before the Civil Rights Movement and its challenge of a white-centric American identity. This is relevant in contemporary discourse about immigration and the need for assimilation into an “American” culture. This culture that white people allude to is merely the one that they know. And this culture, is in fact, white culture.

For example, food illustrates how white culture is often perpetuated at the expense of other, more diverse cultures. The concept of “American” food is really derived from the European tradition, with foods that fall out of this European tradition labeled as ethnic.

White culture, therefore, seems to be derived from some sense of European tradition, but more notably from an absence of any other ethnic traditions.

It is not inherently wrong for a culture to form its own identity.

Where this becomes troublesome is when that identity becomes a norm. When American culture is solely perceived as an offshoot of white culture, other identities are erased and diminished.

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

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ARTS Creating Ephemeral Art Is an Enduring Tradition in Burton-Judson Houses Impressionism and the Mathews side portraying abstract art.

This title fits the house’s wide array of pieces ranging from a representation of Claude Monet’s “Bouquet of Sunflowers,” an Impressionist painting from

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Students fi nd ways to make their dorm rooms into homes, but some also bring that creativity into the common areas.

The brick walls of Burton-Judson Courts are lined with chalk murals inspired by Degas, Warhol, and Sherlock Holmes.

The art is an adaptation of the University house tradition to decorate the dorms before the first-years arrive. Most of the other dorms are lined with cut-out paper decorations related to the house theme. The detailed chalk art in B-J is unique.

In the days leading up to orientation, the house brings to life a theme that they plan over the summer. The execution of the artwork is largely a community effort, with house Resident Heads (RHs), Assistant Resident Heads ( R As), Orientation Aides (O-Aides), ex-pats, and even members of other houses lending a hand. Although there is no formal time to continue the work during the year, students find chalk and add their own marks; the art evolves along with the house.

B-J’s Salisbury House uses the art to add energy to its otherwise dark stairwells. This year, Salisbury residents chose to dec-

1881, recreated by Amber Estes and Rachel Hildebrand, to a depiction of Andy Warhol’s bright 1962 “Marilyn Diptych,” done

by Hildebrand with neon chalk.

The pieces are arranged Continued on page 9

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Rachel Hildebrand recreated Andy Warhol’s classic “Marilyn Diptych” on the walls of Linn-Mathews

orate their house with pictures of the other dorms. Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan, a second-year Salisbury O-Aide, considers the chalk art a way to welcome the fi rst-year students as they enter their new living space.

B-J’s Chamberlin House took a more clandestine approach to its wall decorations. With a theme entitled “Chamberlin of Secrets,” you would think it chose to decorate with Harry Potter symbols. But the house instead decided to display different forms of secrecy. Chamberlin residents created imag-

es relating to secret identities, conspiracy theories, and spies.

Chamberlin has a history of choosing themes that are out of the ordinary. As third-year R A Ashley Estes explained, “We are quirky. We are not afraid to push boundaries.”

Another house transformed its living space into a time-warp through art history. In keeping with the tradition of making the theme a pun on the house name, Linn-Mathews has titled this year’s theme “Linn-pressionism and Abstract Art,” with the Linn side of the house representing

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Dee Nitz created a ballerina inspired by Impressionist art for LinnMatthews’s walls.

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It is “dirtier than a museum.... It’s a place for things to happen.”

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chronologically starting on the ground floor, creating a visual representation of the progression of art as one climbs the stairs. The pieces are accompanied by phrases like “This is not a wall” and “The Goose is Loose,” a nod to iconic painters.

The grand finale on the highest floor is a large and colorful depiction of a ballerina

er than a museum…. It’s a place for things to happen,” Nitz explained.

The hard work and outstanding results of the project sadly cannot last due to the evanescent nature of chalk artwork. Amber Estes, R A of LinnMathews, explained that the pieces turned out better than expected and she would be saddened to take them

Brooke Nagler

A recreation of Monet’s “Bouquet of Sunflowers” on the walls of Linn-Matthews by Amber Estes and Rachel Hildebrand

Brooke Nagler

Spy-themed images etched on the brick walls by O-Aids and other leaders of Chamberlin House before first-years arrived

made by Dee Nitz, a fourth-year O-Aide.

The works provide comfort for students as they go th rough college. “ There’s some sort of familiarity you live on your f loor and you see the same pieces every day,” Nitz said.

A lthough the space seems li ke a gallery, it is not meant evoke a museum ne cessa r i ly. It is “d i r ti-

down. She said there is a possibility that they will keep the art up and add-on until the walls are all covered.

As Nitz said, “Change is scary and exciting and new and hard and fun… you have these memories of these things that you have lived for the year and you have to wash them away… [but] then there’s a new ownership.”

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6:30 p.m. Join Sliced Bread Magazine for the launch of its Spring/Fall 2016 issue with an open mic for performances and food. McCormick Tribune L ounge, Reynolds Club. F ree.

3–5 p.m. Support military veterans and catch Marvel’s latest flick, Doctor Strange, with Zeta Psi’s fundraising event In Flanders Field Fund. Veterans’ Supporters Tickets include popcorn and a commemorative pin. Harper Theatre. $10/$15 Veterans’ Supporters Tickets at zetapsi2016.eventbrite.com.

[11/3] T HURSDAY 7:3 0 p.m. U T/ TA P S present s a three play presentation Iphigenia & O ther Daughter s i n a moder n retelling written Ellen McLaughlin.

T heater West, L ogan Center. F ree.

[11/4] F RIDAY 4 –9 p.m. Celebrate the Indian festival of lights, Diwali, with a spiritual service at Rockefeller followed by a series of performances by South Asian RSOs, dinner, sparklers, and henna desig ns. Rockefeller Chapel, Reynolds Club. $7 advance/$10 at the door.

[11/5] S AT URDAY 10 a.m.–7 p.m. Nosh on a variety of dishes from Chicago’s food truck scene at the Chicago Food Truck Fest Fall Social which includes a new fall drink lineup of hot cocoa, cider, and toddies.

There will also be games and live music at the event. Northerly Island, 1521 Linn White Drive. $10 (includes two drink tickets) to be purcha sed a t c h g o f o o d t r u c k fe s t . c om/t i c k e t s .

4 – 6:30 p.m. Learn about the history of the Mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, enjoy folk dances and dinner as well as face painting and sugar-skull making in an event put on by the R S O M E C h A de UC h icago. International House. F ree [11/7] M ON DAY 9:30 a .m.– 3:30 p.m. Splu rge on books at the R eg ’s l ibra r y b o ok s a le as more tha n 10 ,0 0 0 novels, maps , a nd other volu mes w i l l be sold for pr ices that sta r t f rom at most $2 0 a nd w i l l be f ree for the t a k i n g by t he fol low i n g Mond ay.

R o o m A -10 , R e g e n s t e i n L i b r a r y.

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Max Palevsky Residential Commons as depicted by Sebastian Fernandez-Mulligan of Salisbury House

USO Concert Casts Spell

BY MAY HUANG ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

ZEKE GILLMAN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

On Saturday night, the University Symphony Orchestra (USO) performed its annual Halloween concert, this year titled “Magic, Curses, and Spells,” in Mandel Hall. With conductor Barbara Schubert at the helm, the symphony tried to usher in the Halloween spirit with a solid performance of pieces ranging from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty to Dukas’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice along with tracks from John Williams’s Harry Potter score.

As is traditional of the Halloween concert, the student orchestra and audience donned their best costumes to create a festive atmosphere. A number of players were fittingly dressed as Hogwarts students; there was at least one Pokémon, six Waldos, and more costumed musicians. The doors of Mandel Hall were even decorated to mark the occasion with brick wallpaper meant to resemble “Platform 9 ¾” from the Harry Potter movies.

When the symphony first started playing the entrance music, the conductor was nowhere to be found; an usher holding up a large paper cutout of Hedwig ran across the front of the stage to music from the Harry Potter soundtrack. Then, as the entrance music eased into the Sleeping Beauty theme, maestra Schubert—dressed as Princess Aurora in a floor-length gown and a long blonde wig—came rolling down the aisle in a leaf-adorned cart. Holding a stuffed owl in one hand and conducting with the other, she stepped onto stage as the piece was ending...commencing the night’s performance.

Schubert began the concert with a

few poetic verses to introduce the night’s music. As she finished her rhymes, she segued into the first piece, the Act I finale of Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty: The Curse. The music played throughout the night, however, this was not the only notable component of the performance.

Franck’s The Accursed Huntsman and Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice were supplemented with choreography performed by the teenage students of the Hyde Park School of Dance, who danced in the aisles of the hall with props ranging from masks to brooms. Lighting effects also accompanied every piece to dramatic effect.

The performance of Tchaikovsky’s The Curse was impressive, while the John Williams’ pieces from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone were somewhat lacking. Although there were also a few moments during the performance when the strings could be heard out of tune, such mistakes were easy to overlook.

And yet, while the music was satisfactory, it was hard not to see the effect of the show’s primary demographic. The promotion of the show to a much younger audience may have been in good spirits, but it came at the cost of an appreciation for the musician’s playing.

There were moments when, at least for some, the music was overwhelmed by shrieking children insistent on leaving.

With the final note to Williams’s Harry’s Wondrous World, Schubert took a bow to a thunderous applause. And though there were some whose applause was genuine, there were still others who might have regretted attending the earlier of the USO’s two Halloween concerts that evening. Nonetheless, it was certainly a memorable fi rst performance from the USO.

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Moser Shines in First Road Win FOOTBALL

BY SIDDHARTH KAPOOR MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The Maroons racked up their first away victory of the season at Sewanee with an impressive 49–30 victory over the Tigers. This brought their record

up to 4–4 for the season and 4–3 in the Southern Athletic Association (SAA). Sewanee, on the other hand, continued their disappointing campaigning with an eight consecutive loss (0–8, 0–6).

However, the main story of the night was fourth-year quarterback Burke Mos-

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Fourth-year quarterback Burke Moser avoids defender as he tries to make a pass.

er, who broke 10 records on the day (five team, five individual). With a pass completion rate of around 62 percent, Moser threw for 558 yards and seven touchdowns, and tossed only two interceptions.

These stellar numbers led to the shattering of records for most touchdowns passes and passing yards in a single game. In addition, he broke the seasonal records for most passing touchdowns, passing yards, and passing attempts.

However, not everything was rosy for the South Siders. They found themselves down at halftime 17–14, and were even losing by 17 points at one point during the second quarter. However, guided by the brilliance of Moser, Chicago made multiple important plays as the quarterback linked well with fi rst-year wide receiver Dante Nepa for two touchdowns, 66 and 60 yards, respectively, as well as third-year James Rieger for a touchdown from 29 yards out. During the fourth quarter, the Tigers tried to make a comeback by scoring a touchdown and bringing the score to 35–30. However, all fears were allayed, as the Maroons put the game to bed with two consecutive touchdowns by fourth-year Syd Reynolds and third-year star running back Chandler Carroll.

While the entire team benefitted from Moser’s brilliance, Nepa in particular had a great game with seven catches for a

season-high 190 yards. “Any accomplishments I had would not have been possible without Burke making some great throws and all five of our linemen, fourth-years Andrew Maneval, Nick Zimmerman, and Max Schumann, and second-years Charles Shifman and Tucker Squiers, giving Burke the time he needed to throw.

I’m just grateful that I had the opportunity to get the ball and help my team win,” Nepa said after the game.

Although this win was uplifting for Chicago, it now turns its focus to an old UAA opponent: Carnegie Mellon. “We are happy to have gotten that win on the road.

However, we are now focused on what we can improve on in preparation for these next two games at home,” Nepa said.

“Both Carnegie Mellon and Wash U are very good teams, so we know we must be very focused in order to be ready to play our best football these next two weeks,” the first-year said on the mood in the team camp. If the Maroons are to make a push for the SAA title, they would need more such performances from Nepa, Moser, and the rest of the team.

Chicago next plays Carnegie Mellon University this Saturday with the game scheduled to start at noon at Stagg Field.

They would hope for a similar outcome to this game, and with Moser in the form he is, as well as home field advantage, the chances are high.

Senior Night Proves Motivational for Maroons

South Siders Back in Form at UAA Championship

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In the last home games of the season, the Maroons excelled, sweeping both Dominican and North Park. The results of the games were made only sweeter by the fact that it was Senior Night. Unfortunately, these wins were soon followed by a loss to Concordia, and Chicago ended the weekend with a record of 17–9.

After the conclusion of the games against Dominican and North Park, fourth-years Katie LaPorte, Amy Risk, Erin Risk, and Mary Claire Tuohy were honored. Over the past four years, thanks in part to these four honorees, the Maroons have taken trips to the playoffs three times, and boast a winning percentage of .664 (89 wins and 45 losses). Though the ceremony took place after the games, Senior Nightcertainly had an effect on the team’s play, according to first-year middle-hitter Madison Pearson.

“It was so exciting to go all out and play for our seniors,” Pearson said. “We all had a mindset in which we wanted to play with lots of energy and enthusiasm and make the last home games for our seniors a memorable one!”

The first match of the night was against Dominican University. Due to attack errors, the Maroons established a lead of 18–13. There was a slight resistance, and at one point the score was 23–22 Chicago. The Maroons held on to take the first set, though. The second set was much more back and forth until the score reached 18–16. From there, the team locked in and scored seven straight points to win the second set 25–16. The Maroons didn’t waste any time in the third set either, quickly going up 7–2. From there, it was smooth sailing as the set and match were clutched

by a score of 25–19. Notable stars of the game included second-year Audrey Scrafford who registered 13 kills, Erin Risk with 37 assists, and Tuohy anchoring the defense with 22 digs.

The second half of the doubleheader was against North Park, and once again, Chicago did not waste any time, jumping out to a 5–0 start in the fi rst set before winning 25–15. The first set had a highlight, when second-year Sarah Muisenga made a spectacular one-armed diving save to get a kill. The second set started out fast, with a quick 6–2 start for the South Siders. After an 8–1 run that made the score 22–10, the set soon ended 25–15. Not eager to get swept, North Park put an incredible fight in the third set, leading at one point and tying the game at 24–24. The squad quashed North Park’s hopes, however, winning the game 26–24. Like the first game, Scrafford, Erin Risk, and Tuohy excelled statistically, and Muisenga chipped in 14 kills and 11 digs.

The final game of the weekend was an away game on Saturday, played at Concordia University in Wisconsin. The Maroons rallied back from a 15–12 hole to go up 21–16 and eventually win the first set 25–22. However, that was the last set the Maroons would win. Set two was close though, with back-and-forth scoring leading to Concordia winning 25–22 and evening up the match. Despite incredibly efficient offense from the Maroons, the home team was able to tie up the third set 23–23 before winning it 25–23. Despite coming back within one point in the fourth and final set, Concordia ended the game with a score of 25–22. First-year Anabella Pinton was a standout, with 11 kills and 10 digs.

The next games for the Maroons will be played Friday and Saturday at the UAA Championships in St. Louis, Missouri.

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This weekend, the men’s and women’s cross country teams headed south to Atlanta, Georgia, for the UAA Championships.

Both teams had a successful meet, with the women finishing second and the men placing sixth. The women collected 75 points, second to Wash U’s 33 points. On the men’s side, Carnegie Mellon and Wash U shared the title with 58 points each, while the Maroons took sixth in the 8K with 137 points.

Individually, the Chicago women did very well, with four runners placing in the top 20. In the 6K race, third-year Khia Kurtenbach came in second out of 78 runners with a blazing time of 21:47.29, garnering first team All-UAA honors. This is the second year in a row she has finished second at UAAs. She finished eight seconds faster than the third-place runner.

Third-year Kelsey Dunn, fourth-year Madeleine Horvath, and third-year Cassidy McPherson finished 12th, 17th, and 19th, with times of 22:23.74, 22:39.32, and 22:43.52, respectively. First-years Taylor Campos and Claire Brockway, finishing 32nd and 41st, earned All-Conference Freshmen accolades as well.

Campos, reflecting on her first experience at UAAs, was excited about how well the meet went,as well as the teamwork she and Brockway exhibited. “I’m very proud of how our team worked together over the entire course—Claire and I really pushed each other, which I think is helped both of us in the long run.”

On the other side of the coin, Horvath, considering her final conference meet, said, “It was crazy to think about this as my last conference meet. I love this team,and I just wanted to be able to lay it all out there for them.” Regardless of year, the South Siders’ passion for their team paid off, and they seem well positioned for another fast race at NCAAs. The men raced well in the 8K over the weekend as well. They were well represented with four fi nishers in the top 40.

Fourth-year Timofey Karginov was the first Maroon to cross the finish, coming in at seventh out of 76 with a time of 25:04.87. Like Kurtenbach, his speed earned him All-UAA First Team honors.

He was followed by fourth-year Nick Nielsen, third-year Peter Kreuch, and second-year Jacob Gosselin, fi nishing 25th, 31st, and 40th, with times of 25:30.96, 25:49.47, and 26:00.26, respectively.

“The UA Ais very deep this season and I’m happy with how we performed in a strong field,” Kreuch said. “Going forward, we need to keep executing our ‘pack running’ strategy. It’s important that our six to eight runners stay in close contact with our three to five for as long as possible.”

Coming off such a strong meet, the teams enjoy a brief break before heading back to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for the NCAA Midwest Regional on November 12. The dynamics of this race should be quite different, coming from the 90-degree heat in Atlanta to the usual Midwest chill.

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UAA Opponent Hands Chicago First Tie of the Season MEN’S SOCCER

DANNY EISGRUBER MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The men’s soccer team secured the UA A championship and remained undefeated after tying Case Western Reserve 0 – 0 in Cleveland on Friday and defeating No. 19 Carnegie Mellon 2– 0 in Pittsburgh on Sunday. The conference championship secures the team a spot in the NCA A DIII National Tournament. “[ Winning the championship] is a colossal achievement,” said first-year forward Dayo Adeosun. “ It started from the beginning of the year in preseason all the way to the game against Carnegie. Winning the UA A is a great thing for the entire team and shows that our hard work pays off.”

Third-year goalkeeper Hill Bonin also won his own personal accolades by setting the program’s record for most career shutouts and single-season shutouts with 24 and 12, respectively. “ I ’ve spent a lot of time in the off-seasons here putting in a lot of work, so it’s really cool to be able to see results and reap the benefits of that on the field, and leave a mark here for, I mean, maybe a little while,” said Bonin, who made eight saves this weekend. “However long [it stands], it’s cool to be able to do that.”

Friday’s draw against the Spartans was the first time the Maroons failed

to win all season. They dominated the game with 23 shots in comparison to Case’s seven, while tallying nine corner kicks while their opponents received only one.

Fourth-year forward Brenton Desai hit the post twice, in the 20th minute of regulation and the 101st minute during the first overtime. Third-year midfielder Andre Abedian also hit the post during the first overtime in the 98th minute.

However, rather than being disappointed, the team viewed the draw as a learning experience. “I thought we played really well for the final 30 minutes, [but] it was a point of growth that we didn’t play as well as we could have for most of the game and weren’t able to save it at the end like we have in some other games this season,” Bonin said. “So I think it was a really good experience going forward, and I think it really set us up for Sunday to play a lot better than we have in a while.”

The South Siders knew they could clinch the conference title with a win on Sunday, so the good performance was crucial. They fought evenly with the Tartans for most of the first half, but the South Siders f inally broke th rough in the 4 4th minute when Adeosun delivered a corner kick to first-year defender Sam Drablos, who headed the ball into the back of the net.

The team held on defensively and

eventually sealed its v ictor y when Desai scored in the 86th minute via assists from Adeosun and second-year forward Max Lopez.

Despite the score line, the game was even, with 11 shots and seven cor-

ner kicks for the Maroons, as opposed to 10 shots and five corner kicks for the Tartans.

The team concludes its regular season this Saturday at 7 p.m. on the road against Wash U.

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Third-year Hill Bonin guards the goal with immense focus.

Six-Game Streak Comes to a Halt Against Conference Foe WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY NATALIE DEMURO MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The No.6 Chicago women’s soccer teamsplit a pair of conference matchups over the weekend, defeating Case Western University in Cleveland on Friday afternoon and falling to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh on Sunday morning. The Maroons (15–2–0, 4–2–0 UAA) snapped a six-game win streak in their overtime loss to the Tartans.

In the first matchup of the weekend, Chi-

cago and Case (6–7–4, 0–4–2 UAA) were scoreless throughalmost 90 minutes of play.

With just 17 seconds left in regulation, the Maroons broke the tie with the Spartans to come away with the 1–0 victory. In the final minute, first-year midfielder Hanna Watkins sent a cross to second-year midfielder Jenna McKinney, who finished the shot and recorded her 13th goal of the season.

Last Monday, McKinney was named UAA Athlete of the Week, earning the title for the second straight week and the third

time this season.She tops both the team and the UAA conference standings in goals (13), points (32), and shots (66).

Ten different Maroons took shots on Case with McKinney leadingthe way with five and third-year midfielder Mia Calamari close behind with four. Statistically, Chicago dominated in shots (20–3), shots on goal (8–1), and corner kicks (11–1).

Second-year midfielder Naomi Weiner said of the team’s performance on Friday, “The team played one of the best games we’ve

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Third-year Whitley Cargile looks up the field for open teammates.

played all season this weekend against Case Western. We possessed the ball for the majority of the game and took many more shots.”

On Sunday, the squad traveled to No.18 Carnegie Mellon ( 10–5–1, 4–2–0 UAA) for an overtime thriller that sent Chicago home with just its second loss of the season. Despite a strong offensive effort in the second half, the Maroons were scoreless against the Tartans at the end of regulation. The South Siders found themselves heading into overtime for the first time this year. Less than five minutes into the period, the Tartans found the back of the net at the 94:44 mark to end the game at 1–0.

In spite of the loss, the Maroons held a slight lead in shots (9–6), shots on goal (4–3), and corner kicks (7–2).

First-year goalkeeper Katie Donovan (15–2–0) saved a total of four shots over the two games and currently leads the UAA standings with a .900 save percentage.

With the win at Case, Donovan increased her shutout record to eight.

Weiner said of the Sunday match, “Unfortunately, the score of a soccer game doesn’t always show which team controlled the game.”

With one game left before the NCAA tournament, Chicago hopes to bounce back from the loss at Carnegie and gain some momentum before the heading into the post season. The Maroons wrap up their regular season schedule this Saturday, traveling to No. 11 Wash U (13–2–2, 4–1–1 UAA) for a 4:30 p.m. kickoff. Wash U currently tops the UAA conference standings with 13 points, one more than UChicago and Carnegie Mellon. With a win this weekend, the Maroons are guaranteed at least a share of the UAA title.