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VOL. 128, ISSUE 11

How University of Chicago Employees Donated This Election Cycle 370x More Money to Clinton than Trump Higher Sanders/Clinton Ratio Than Harvard, Yale

by Vishal Talasani

Democratic Primary: Total Money Donated for Clinton vs. Sanders

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GOP Primary: Total Money Donated for Trump vs. Cruz vs. Kasich

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The Federal Election Commission maintains a database of political contributions and asks donors to self-report their employer. THE MAROON used this information to examine donations at the University of Chicago and six peer institutions in the U.S. The full analysis and more graphs on Page 4.

Vince Staples to Perform at MAB Fall Concert Trustees Discuss Divestment,

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

Vince Staples will perform at the Major Activities Board (MAB) fall concert.

The show will be held on Saturday, November 19 in Mandel Hall. Doors open at 8 p.m. and close at 9:15 p.m.

M A B hosts three shows throughout the year: a fall concert, winter comedy show, and the spring music festival “Summer Breeze.” Last fall, Cloud Nothings and How To Dress Well performed in Mandel Hall.

In 2014, Danny Brown performed.

Vince Staples is in a hip-hop trio with A$ton Matthews and Joey Fatts. In 2015, he earned a spot in XXL’s 2015 Freshman Class. His most popular song is “Norf Norf,” which was released June of 2015.

MAB teased the fall show

at coffee shops around campus Wednesday afternoon. The number “90805” was printed on coffee cup sleeves, which is the zip code of Long Beach, California, Staples’ hometown.

Last fall, MAB began selling tickets online at the Logan Box Office for the first time.

In the spring when Summer Breeze tickets went on sale online, the website crashed due to high demand and students were charged multiple times.

Tickets will go on sale Saturday, November 5 at Mandel Box Office at 11 a.m. The price is $5 for students and $10 for staff.

Creative Commons (The Orange)

Vince Staples performing live in concert.

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MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Nine students and four trustees had a closed meeting on Thursday to discuss fossil fuel divestment and Dean Ellison’s letter condemning trigger warnings and safe spaces.

It was the first installment of Student Government’s Student Perspective Series (SPS) initiative, which organizes quarterly forums for students to engage with trustees on campus issues.

Kenzo Esquivel, the undergraduate liaison to the Board of Trustees, selected the students who attended the meeting.

Three representatives from the Stop Funding Climate Change (SFCC) campaign spoke on the divestment issue.

Esquivel, who was present at the meeting, said the dialogue on

fossil fuel divestment focused on the Kalven Report’s clause regarding “exceptional instances.”

The Kalven Report was a 1967 report commissioned by the University that recommends political neutrality on social and political issues. The University board has declined previous requests for fossil fuel divestment by citing the Kalven Report.

However, the Kalven Report includes a clause which reads “instances will arise in which the society, or segments of it, threaten the very mission of the university and its values of free inquiry. In such a crisis, it becomes the obligation of the university [...] to oppose such measures.”

In their dialogue with the Board, SFCC representatives focused on this ambiguity in the clause and raised concerns over the Continued on page 2

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The University should have sent students a warning before the Halloween “purge.”

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History of Art in Concrete Cadillac

Tricks, Treats, and UCPD

Ellison Letter With Students

What do we make of the relationship between Chiron’s black masculinity and queerness?

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Communist Protester Arrested Last Week Gives Talk on Campus, Defies “Ban”

BY EUGENIA KO MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Noche Diaz and other members of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) protested in the center of the quad Tuesday afternoon in defiance of Diaz’s ban from campus.

Diaz, who was arrested by the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) and banned from campus property last Wednesday for trespassing in Baker Dining Hall, accused the University of acting against its commitment to free speech by shielding its students from the RCP’s ideas.

“There is a wall being built around the University of Chicago,” he said to a crowd.

Diaz attributed his arrest last week to police brutality and said he was taken into custody even though he was exiting the dining hall on his own.

“This had nothing to do with the way I said it,” he said. “This had to do with suppressing the message and the messengers.”

Diaz denounced the presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and spoke about America’s history of genocide, slavery, and Jim Crow laws that he believes has resurfaced with recent events of police brutality around the country.

When two students arrived at the protest and held up an American flag in defiance of Diaz’s message, Diaz called it a “putrid, genocidal rag.”

“That flag is dripping with the blood of the people of the world,” Diaz said to the students.

The RCP promoted The New Communism by Bob Avakian, the chairman of the RCP, and encouraged students to sign a petition for an RCP-led revolution.

“You have to become part of the people who are making it their mission to put an end to the long nightmares facing humanity.

You need to get with this revolution,” Diaz said.

Though the event defied Diaz’s ban from campus, the UCPD was not present at the protest. Diaz is not the first protester to be banned under the University’s No Trespass (Ban) policy only to later appear on campus without incident. Last fall, proponents of a Level I trauma center at the University of Chicago Medical Center spoke at a scheduled event in a University building despite having been banned from campus after locking themselves in the first floor of Levi Hall that summer.

Four Delta Upsilon (DU) pledges and a brother shotgunned Natural Ice beers at the center of the quad while Diaz was giving his talk. At the end of the talk, the brother, with a beer in his hand, approached an RCP member and asked, “Is there any way you could just describe this [movement] to me?”

A man went over and talked with them for a few minutes, but he declined their offer for a beer.

The RCP’s heavy presence on campus for the last several weeks is due to the University’s position as an early stop on the group’s “Get Into the Revolution National Organizing Tour.”

— Pete Grieve contributed reporting

CC Fills Vacancy With Write-In

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

A fifth-place finisher from the last spring’s Student Government elections has filled a vacancy on College Council (CC) for the Class of 2017.

The vacancy was created when fourthyear Peggy Xu, former Class of 2017 representative, was elected as CC chair for the coming year. She ran uncontested.

Fourth-years Joshua Engelman, Kareem Kebaish, Sumit Banerjee, and William Jones each received four write-in votes in the spring. All candidates were sent an e-mail by Max Freedman, chair of the Election and Rules Committee, which gave them the opportunity to submit a statement of intent and one signature from their constituency. If more than one was interested in the position, CC would vote on who became the representative. This rule is present in Article V §2 of the CC by-laws.

Article V §2 was changed last year to require that write-in candidates have to earn at least as many votes as the lowest ranked official candidate in order to claim a vacancy. However, the by-laws were not properly filed. By-laws are not technically in effect until they are made available for public inspection.

Engelman was the only student to submit a statement of intent and signature.

“Josh submitted his statement and the signature he collected on Sunday,” Freedman said. “Kareem Kebaish initially expressed interest, but rescinded his interest when it became clear that others were interested. William Jones declined to claim the seat, and Sumit Banerjee also did not claim the seat.”

On Tuesday, Engelman was seated on CC. T HE M AROON asked him for comment Wednesday night and all he had to say at the time was, “Go Cubs!”

Student Employment Site Launches

BY JAMIE EHRLICH SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR

The Student Government Committee on Student Employment (CSE) launched its inaugural website on Wednesday.

The website includes information on graduate student unionization, a student employment knowledge base for student-to-student support on employment matters, and access to a diagnostic survey.

The Committee on Student Employment was created by this year’s Executive Slate in response to the lack of accessible information on employment.

“The website and the CSE at large are necessary because student concerns include more than academics and dining options,” Elijah Wolter, College Council class of 2018 representative and member of the committee, said.

“The economic dimension of being a student here is something that doesn’t get discussed or addressed enough and I think that CSE will provide more opportunities for discussion and progress in that arena.”

The information on graduate student unionization serves as a “neutral and nuanced” resource for students who are searching for information on current unionization efforts, according to committee chair and doctoral student Claudio Sansone. This aspect of the website was created as a direct response to the University’s web page on graduate student unionization, which Sansone said was biased.

The committee will also be conducting preliminary reports on several issues and posting these reports their website. Their first report will answer the question, “Are large corporations finding a way to get

Student Group Runs Shuttles to Early Voting Locations

BY TYRONE LOMAX MARO O N CO NTRI BUTOR

This Friday from 3–6 p.m., the UChicago Democracy Initiative (UCDI) will be organizing buses to transport students to register and vote early at the MLK Jr. Community Center on 43rd Street and Cottage Grove.

The buses will leave every half hour from the Regenstein Library. The trips will continue on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The deadlines to register to vote by mail or online have passed (October 11 and October 23, respectively), thus registering can only occur at an early voting location. Informing students of this information, as well as enabling students to act on it, has been the central goal of UCDI’s latest campaigns.

UCDI was formed early last year for the March primaries. Since then, it has collaborated with the Institute of Politics (IOP) in addition to hosting separate campaigns to further student engagement.

Third-year Andrew Corzo, a project manager within UCDI, said the voting and turnover rates for UChicago students during the past presidential election were both below the national average. According to Corzo, 41 percent of UChicago students voted at the last presidential election in contrast to the 53.6 percent national average; and just 19 percent of students voted in the midterms in comparison to country’s 36.4 percent average. “Considering we are a liberal arts school, you’d think more people would be engaged in voting, but that really wasn’t the case,” Corzo said.

UCDI staff and volunteers since then have worked to raise the voting percentage.

By promoting TurboVote, an IOP civic engagement project, as well as reserving bus trips, the staff said it has begun to see an im-

pact. “I’ve tabled a lot, and people have come to me to register and also to take the buses, and they’re always so grateful to have that kind of service because otherwise, they’d be lost,” Corzo said.

Third-year Adam Reynolds, one of the co-founders of UCDI, has noticed that students often have misconceptions about the voting process. Using TurboVote assuages the dilemma. Through its guided step-bystep instructions, TurboVote’s interface streamlines the process of registering or voting. However, should students have any questions regarding TurboVote, or about voting practices in general, UCDI staff are willing to help.

Their responsibilities extend beyond just the voting process. Reynolds said, clarifying what exactly the process is, and what it isn’t is equally as important. Once people “realize that it’s easier to do than what [they] think it is,” they’re more likely to vote again—and if that happens, UCDI would have been successful.

By utilizing the National Study of Learning, Voting and Engagement, UCDI will be able to obtain campus-wide information about student registration and voting, as they did for the primaries. This will allow them to reflect on the effectiveness of their campaigns, or shed light on specific demographics to target. In addition, it would especially be useful for February, which is when the Fourth Ward elections will be held—an event they plan to promote once students return from winter break.

Until then, UCDI will continue to release the Citizen Bulletin, a bi-weekly informational newsletter. Their meetings are held at Regenstein on Thursdays at 8 p.m., and they are open to student suggestions regarding future events or programs they could assist in hosting.

Trustees Hold First Meeting With Students lack of clear definitions in this consequential report.

Claudia Fernandez, a coordinator for SFCC, said that the Board members present at the meeting explained that the Kalven Report relies on precedence instead of definite protocols. Therefore, there are no clearcut delineations, and situations are examined on a case-by-case basis.

According to Fernandez and Kosi Achife, a class of 2020 student representative also present at the meeting, Trustee Thomas Cole said that the “exceptional instance” clause would only be applicable in an extreme situation. He gave the hypothetical of a United States President threatening to fire all professors in the country with certain political associations, as a situation that would likely fulfill the clause as it signifies immediate impact on the University community.

“Some [board members] were interested in discussing the efficacy of divestment and, to be honest, some seemed more interested in stalling the conversation or steering the conversation away from UChicago’s support of the fossil fuel industry,” Fernandez wrote in an email.

As the dialogue pivoted to Dean Ellison’s letter, the Board members primarily listened to the opinions of the student representatives.

“I think [the Board members] came into [the conversation] being aware of the ways in which the letter could have been better executed,” Esquivel said.

Kosi and Jahne Brown, another class 2020 representative, described the two dominant concerns they raised during the meeting.

“A lot of people agreed, at least in our class, that the issues around the letter came from the fact that the administrators seemed to have a different understanding of these definitions [of “trigger warning” and “safe space”] from a lot of us,” Brown said.

Students also questioned the motivation behind this letter. Many, including Achife, thought it to be a publicity stunt to strengthen the University’s brand.

“They were pretty shocked,” Achife said on the Board members’ reactions to concerns over the letter being a publicity move.

Student Government, Campus and Student Life, and the Board jointly started the SPS initiative. It provides the first opportunity for students to directly communicate concerns to the Board. “[Thursday’s] meeting with the Trustees and student representatives was both enlightening and productive,” Michele Rasmussen, dean of students in the University, wrote. “The students and trustees look forward to continued dialogues on a range of topics that are important to students.”

cheap labor through work study and financial aid schemes?” The next report will be focus on the delays in financial aid, payroll, and stipends, according to Sansone.

In response to the delays in financial aid, payroll, and stipends, Sansone added, “If there was a massive system failure, why did all the professors and admin get paid

on time?”

According to Wolter, the site will be a resource for students to get clear information on how to navigate being a student worker and where to seek and secure employment.

The site will also allow students to bring their work-related concerns to an unbiased source.

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Friday, 11/4 The Ninth International Education Conference: Power in Transition? International Politics and Troubled Elections International House, 8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.

Recommended for all educators, this conference will focus on training teachers to integrate international politics and the role of elections into a practical curricula. Light breakfast, lunch, and instructional materials will be provided. This event is five PD hours.

On & Around Campus “Going forward with our heads forever turned back”: Re-reading Giorgio Bassani Harper Memorial Library 104, 9 a.m. –1:30 p.m.

A conference on writer Giorgio Bassani is being hosted by the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and the Italian Cultural Institute.

Various speakers from UChicago and other schools, followed by lunch.

Inhibiting the Past Social Sciences 401, 9 a.m. –6 p.m.

A one-day workshop that will bring together scholars in various departments, including anthropology, history, religious studies, Near Eastern studies, and South Asian studies, to discuss issues relating to historical writing, memory, myth, and oral traditions, and other topics, in 20th-century South Asia.

Planning for the Future Regenstein 207, noon –1:30 p.m.

A workshop focusing on establishing a “sustainable journal” by teaching attendees to write preservation policies and establish governing bodies with funding options.

Carl J. Vyborny Memorial Lecture for 2016 “Controversies in Breast Cancer Screening” Billings Hospital, Room P-117, 950 East 59th Street, 12:30–1:30 p.m.

Dr. Etta D. Pisano, vice chair of research in the Department of Radiology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Senior Director for Research Development at the American College of Radiology, will discuss various controversies relating to breast cancer screenings. The talk will include discussions about the age at which screening should begin, how often screening should be done, and with what technologies, and over diagnosis, among topics.

Facing the Financial Challenges of Nonprofit Operations 5225 South Cottage Grove Avenue, Chicago, IL 60615, 12:30 p.m. –2 p.m.

A workshop focusing on the fi nancial management of nonprofit organizations. Topics on the agenda include federal and state tax compliance, grant management, daily fi nancial operations, and fi nancial software.

Lecture: Bubble Talk in Ramallah with Kareem Rabie Wilder House, 5811 South Kenwood Avenue, 3:30 –6 p.m.

Kareem Rabie, assistant professor in the social sciences at the University, will talk about the concept of the “bubble” in Ramallah, meaning the apparent contradiction between quality of life there and other occupied areas of the West Bank. He will discuss the conception of this bubble being an economic force versus a force of resistance in the area.

East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop Center for East Asian Studies, 4 p.m.

A workshop open to all students, faculty, and outside scholars to present papers on East Asia and its many boundaries throughout history The Cinema, the Female Star, and the Paradoxes of Mass Culture: Reflections on Max Ophuls’ La Signora di Tutti Logan Center, 4:30 p.m., free Film theorist Laura Mulvey will be discussing the implications of La Signora di Tutti, a 1934 fi lm. The movie centers around a suicidal actress who watches her life fl ash before her eyes, reflecting on the men she foolishly loved. Mulvey will be focused specifically on the themes of consumerism and capitalism, and how these interact with the concept of traditional femininity.

Speakers’ Podium for Citizens and Non-Citizens The Muffler Shop, 359 East Garfield Boulevard, Chicago IL 60637. 6–7 p.m.

Weekly programs featuring activists, artists, students groups, and individuals that seek to engage audience in conversations on mass incarceration, immigrant detention, and citizenship.

Discussion of Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia with Sergei Antonov and Faith Hillis Seminary Co-op, 6–7:30 p.m.

By examining hundreds of primary source documents, Sergei Antonov, a professor of history at Queens College and Columbia University, has compiled a comprehensive picture of the average fi nancial situation for Russians in the late 19th century.

Systems of credit were unregulated and based largely on trust, leading to countless disputes and court proceedings. Antonov’s book, Bankrupts and Usurers of Imperial Russia, provides a glimpse of the fi nancial, legal, and social interactions of Russians in the 1960s.

Paquito D’Rivera Logan Center, Performance Hall, 7:30–9:30 p.m., $5 for students, purchase tickets here Famous clarinetist and saxophonist Paquito D’Rivera will be performing his distinct jazz-classical-Afro-Latin style alongside his quintet. D’Rivera has won 14 Grammy awards and the award for the Best Latin Jazz album of 2015.

Saturday, 11/5 Family Day: Butterflies in the Sky Smart Museum of Art, 1–4 p.m.

There was a whole collection made, the Smart’s ongoing photography exhibition, brings butterfly-themed activities and art-making to this month’s family day.

Materials will be provided for butterfly face-painting and ink prints. While activities are recommended for four- to 12-year-olds, nobody’s stopping you from dropping by to make your own fabric butterfly wings.

Chicago International Children’s Film Festival Logan Center 2–4:30 p.m.

“Phantom Boy”, a critically acclaimed animation about an 11-year-old boy named Leo working with a detective to save New York from destruction, will be screening at the Logan Center. Leo’s mysterious illness allows him to escape his body and wonder the city as a phantom.

In the hospital, Leo makes friends with a cop named Alex who informs him of a villain who has wreaked havoc on the city by stealing the power supply. Leo, Alex, and Mary, a journalist, must work together to stop the villain and save New York City.

Discussion of Site Specific with Ken Vandermark and Lou Mallozzi Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 3 p.m.

Musician Ken Vandermark will discussing his Site Specific, a book in which two CDs and a collection of his photography from his musical performances from throughout the world are combined. Lou Mallozzi, an interdisciplinary artist whose work also focuses on sound and site, will serve as interlocutor.

The Dead at Home: Reception Rooms in Early Egyptian Cemeteries Oriental Institute, 5–6 p.m.

Ann Roth, Ph.D., will be discussing how the tradition of a reception room in Egyptian tombs evolved between the Second and Fourth dynasties. These rooms represented a symbolic link between the deceased’s mortal house and their tomb.

African American Film Pioneers: The Bronze Buckaroo Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall 306, 7–9 p.m.

The Bronze Buckaroo, a fi lm about a cowboy who rescues his friend and his beautiful sister from an evil land grabbing rancher, is being screened at the Film Studies Center. The film features actor Herb Jeffries, who pioneered the role of the Black singing cowboy.

The fi lm will be introduced by associate professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies Allyson Nadia Field.

OWL: Steve Edwards: “How did we get to this point in our political history?”

Treasure Island Lower Level, 55th Street and South Lake Park Avenue, Chicago, 1–3 p.m.

Hyde Park Older Women’s League meeting will be hosting Steve Edwards, the executive director of Illinois Institute of Politics at the University of Chicago on “How did we get to this point in our political/ historical history?”

2016 South Side Pie Contest!

Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, 5480 South Kenwood Avenue, 2–5 p.m.

It’s high time for pie time. To enter, two identical pies must be delivered between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m.

To eat, bring some cash and an appetite. $3 a slice.

All proceeds will go to the Hyde Park and Kenwood Hunger Programs.

sition—David Clay Mettens’s “He Dreams a Mother” and Jack Hughes’s “Two Poems by Eleanor Ross Taylor.” Both with feature guest soprano Jessica Aszodi, as well as Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez’s “Mano a Mano”, Robert Morris’s “Doubles and Pairs”, George Lewis’s “String Quartet No. 1.5: Experiments in Living”, and Simon Steen-Anderson’s “Study for String Instrument No. 1.” A reception will follow.

“The Emancipation of Cecily McMillan” with Cecily McMillan and Maya Schenwar Seminary Co-op, 3–4:30 p.m.

Author and activist Cecily McMillan will be discussing her autobiography. From her tumultuous childhood to her eventual arrest at a police raid, McMillian will account her experiences as an inmate, a friend, and a writer.

Unitarian Church: Sale: “Dances of Universal Peace” First Unitarian Church, 2–4 p.m.

First Unitarian Church will host meditative, multicultural circle dances that use sacred chants, music, and movement from different spiritual traditions.

Monday, 11/7 Library Book Sale Regenstein Library, Room A10, 9:30 a.m. –3:30 p.m.

The Regenstein Library is holding a sale of more than 10,000 duplicate and discarded books, including hardbacks, trade and scholarly paperbacks, multi-volume sets, maps, and miscellaneous material. Prices start at $20 for Hardbacks, $10 for paperbacks and CDs, and $5 for miscellaneous materials, and will be reduced on each successive day with all remaining items free on the fi nal day, Monday, November 14.

Effect of Air Pollution on Health Status in China Saieh Hall for Economics, Room 112, noon–1 p.m.

Maigeng Zhou, professor and deputy director of the National Center for Chronic and Non-communicable Disease (NCD) Control and Prevention of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and Peng Yin, associate professor at the NCD Control and Prevention of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, will discuss the effect of air pollution on health status in China.

Rules for a Flat World with Gillian K. Hadfield and James Robinson The Seminary Co-op, 6–7:30 p.m.

Gillian K. Hadfield will be joined in conversation with James Robinson to discuss Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law & How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy, which discusses the effect of technology and globalization on daily life and economy.

Study Abroad on a Budget Center for College Student Success, 6–7:30 p.m.

Students and staff will talk about financial resources for study abroad and ways to make it more affordable.

Food will be provided.

Terry Grimm on “Becoming Lyla Dore” and Amy Hassinger on “After the Dam” 57th Street Books, 6–8 p.m.

Poet Terry Grimm will be reading from his new collection of poetry written in the persona of a young silent film star named Lyla Dore. Then, Amy Hassinger will be reading her latest novel, After the Dam. This work of fiction revolves around a troubled new mother who goes looking for solace in her grandmother’s lake house.

Tuesday, 11/8 MOSTRA Film Series: Nise: The Heart of Madness Social Science Research, Room 122, 5 p.m., RSVP here The Center for Latin American Studies will be showing the Portuguese drama, Nise: The Heart of Madness. This fi lm is about a doctor recently freed from prison. As she resumes her work at the psychiatric hospital, she wrestles with the ethics of using newly developed electroshock therapy.

Religion and Human Science Workshop: Alireza Doostdar Swift Hall, 5–6:30 p.m.

Alireza Doostdar, assistant professor of Islamic Studies and the anthropology of religion, will discuss his work on public screenings of spiritual fi lms in Iran and the recent Satanic accusations that responded to the fi lms.

Sunday, 11/6 Wednesday, 11/9 Día de los Muertos I-House, 4–6:30 p.m.

MEChA de UChicago is hosting an annual celebration of Día de los Muertos, a traditional Mexican holiday to honor deceased loved ones through a celebration of life. The program will include a lecture by Paulina Lopez, Arte Ambulante Coordinator for the National Museum of Mexican Art, a performance of traditional ballet folklórico dances by Ballet Folklórico Xochitl, a dinner, and a viewing of altars created

by UChicago advocacy organizations.

New Music Ensemble: Varied Voices Fulton Hall, 3–4:30 p.m.

New Music Ensemble concert will feature recent works by two UChicago graduate students in compo-

CORRECTIONS: An article published in the October 21 issue titled “University Removed Posters Link [sic] Divestment Activists to ‘Hamas Terrorists’” stated that students and faculty members were targeted by the posters. Students and alumni were targeted; faculty members were not targeted. The headline also suggested that the posters succesfully established a link between the people referred to and “Hamas terrorists.” The posters did not succesfully establish a link. The headline has been updated online to “University Removed Posters Claiming to Link Divestment Activists to ‘Hamas Terrorists.’”

Zen Meditation Rockefeller Chapel, 5–6:30 p.m.

A half hour of Soto Zen meditation with Nyozan Eric Shutt. Instruction will be followed by meditation and optional dharma discussion.

Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse: “Debating Darwin” Seminary Co-Op, 6–7 p.m.

Robert Richards, Morris Fishbein Distinguished Service Professor of the history of science and medicine at the University of Chicago, and Michael Ruse, Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Florida State University, will be discussing the historical contexts of Darwin’s work. Who

was Darwin? What did he believe? How did Darwin’s existence as an individual influence his discoveries?

Sean Lewis and Benjamin Mackey: “Saints” 57th Street Books, 6–7 p.m.

Writer Sean Lewis and illustrator Benjamin Mackey will be discussing their comic book series, “Saints.” The story focuses on a group of misfi t teens who discover that they are the reincarnation of Catholic saints.

Thursday, 11/10 Timothy Melley: Conspiracy Narrative and the Epistemology of Security Society Swift Hall, 4:30–7:30 p.m.

Timothy Melley, professor of English at Miami University, will be discussing how conspiracy theories have evolved in culture since the Cold War. Melley supposes that conspiracy is closely related to anxiety over secrecy and privacy within the general population.

Diversifying the Classics: Bringing Hispanic Classical Theater to LA Audiences Franke Institute for the Humanities, Regenstein Library, Room S-102, 4:30–6 p.m.

Barbara Fuchs, a UCLA professor, will give a talk about her project Diversifying the Classics. This project has created a community of scholars, translators, and professional companies to adapt and perform Hispanic classical theater in Los Angeles.

Veterans Art Tour and Workshop Smart Museum of Art, 5:30–7:30 p.m.

Artwork from the Smart Museum of Art’s collection made by veterans will be presented the day before Veterans Day. Visitors will also make block printed cards to send to soldiers stationed overseas.

New Voices in Fiction Reading by Chinelo Okparanta Logan Center, Seminar Terrace 801, 6–7:30 p.m.

Chinelo Okparanta will read from her work. She is the author of Happiness, Like Water (2013) and Under the Udala Trees (2015), each a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. Her honors include an O. Henry Prize, two Lambda Awards in Fiction, and fi nalist selections for the Etisalat Prize, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the Caine Prize, and the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.

“The Minority Paradox: Blackness in France,” Pap NDiaye in conversation with Professor Michael C. Dawson Centers for Gender/Race Studies, Community Room 105, 6:30 p.m.

There will be a lecture by, and conversation with, Pap NDiaye, author and professor at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and historian of the social history of America with a focus on minority groups. The post-lecture discussion will be moderated by Michael Dawson, a professor of political science.

Liberation Narratives Logan, Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m., $5 student tickets Liberation Narratives is spoken word jazz collaboration between composer/fl utist Nicole Mitchell and Chicago treasure, and poet Haki R. Madhubuti. Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble will include Madhubuti performing poems from his book Liberation Narratives, which covers about 50 years of his creative history.

Joshua Clover on Riot. Strike. Riot: The Era of Uprisings with William Sewell The Seminary Co-op, 6 p.m.

Award-winning poet Joshua Clover, joined by William Sewell, will discuss Riot. Strike. Riot: The Era of Uprisings. The work explores the history of rioting and social unrest from the seventeenth century onward.

“Teaching Toward Democracy” with William Ayers, Kevin K. Kumashiro, Erica R. Meiners, Therese Quinn, and David Stovall 57th St Books, 6–7:30 p.m.

William Ayers, retired professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Kevin K. Kumashiro, dean of the School of Education at the University of San Francisco, Erica R. Meiners, professor at Northeastern Illinois University, Therese Quinn, associate professor and director of the Museum and Exhibition Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and David Stovall, professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, will discuss Teaching Toward Democracy 2e: Educators as Agents of Change. The book deals with the topics of education and school reform.

Crossing Arizona: A Movie Screening by New Americans UChicago UChicago Hillel, 8–10 p.m.

New Americans UChicago, a Civic Engagement Program of the UChicago Institute of Politics determined to impact the lives of aspiring new Americans, will screen Crossing Arizona, a documentary that presents an up-to-the-moment look at the hotly debated issues of illegal immigration and security on the U.S./Mexico border. After the movie, there will be a half-hour discussion about the themes of the fi lm and the important issues it addresses.

Snacks and refreshments will be provided.

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Employees of Elite American Universities Donate to Clinton over Trump by Wide Margins

BY VISHAL TALASANI DIRECTOR OF DATA ANALYSIS

Individuals employed by the University of Chicago and its peer institutions have overwhelmingly donated to Democratic candidates in this election cycle.

In the general election, people employed by the University have donated $370 to Hillary Clinton for every $1 donated to Donald Trump. During the primaries, Clinton received 212 percent more in donations than Bernie Sanders (A.B. ’64) did from University employees.

T HE M A ROON compared University employees’ donations with employees’ donations at seven peer institutions. The University was found to be one of the most pro-Sanders schools in this sample. Virtually all schools had few donations to Trump.

The Federal Election Commission (FEC) collects data on individuals who donate to a political committee. The Maroon looked at FEC data from March 1, roughly when the primary season began, to the present. Individuals were categorized by which university they said they were employed by. Individuals self-identify as affi liating with universities, so this analysis only counts people who reported being employed by academic institutions. The FEC also does not include money given to third-party companies (for example, a shell company used to funnel political donations) that is then donated to political candidates. This analysis does count some super PACs, but only when they are specifically tied to a political candidate. T HE M A ROON chose to look at Columbia, Duke, Harvard, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, UChicago, and Yale.

Figure 1 shows the total amount of money that was donated by individuals who said they are employed with each University since March 1, 2015.

People who say they are employed by the University have donated less money to political committees than any of the University’s peer institutions. People who list their employers as Stanford, Harvard, and Columbia have donated drastically more than the other schools looked at. Stanford tops the list at $1.6 million, roughly 4 times higher than UChicago’s $375 thousand.

Figure 2 breaks donations down by individuals at these institutions. The leftmost bar represents the 25th percentile of donors. If a school had 100 donors, this would be how much the 25th least-charitable donor gave. The middle bar represents the amount donated by the median donor. In the same example, this would be how much the 50th least-charitable donor gave. The rightmost bar represents the amount donated by the 75th percentile of donors. Using the same example, this would represent how much the 25th most-charitable individual donated.

The graph shows that the median amount donated by an individual at these universities is roughly $500 across the schools. The lowest median is at Princeton, where the median donor donated $400, while the highest median is at Stanford, where the median donor gave $528. The 25th percentile of donors is also roughly the same across institutions, with minor differences. This implies that the bottom 50 percent of donors across schools donate roughly the same amount per person. However, there were drastic differences in the

75th percentile. The 75th percentile of donors at Stanford gave twice as much as their counterparts at UChicago. Similarly, the 75th percentile donor was relatively high at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale. We can infer that most donors at these schools donate similar amounts, but the top 25 percent of donors at Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, and Yale donate substantially more than the top 25 percent of donors at UChicago do.

Figure 3 shows how many individuals donated at different schools. It displays unique donors; meaning if someone would donate today and tomorrow, that person is still only counted as one donor.

Again, Stanford leads this metric, with 889 unique donors. Princeton has the fewest donors, with 310. However, this is somewhat expected, as Princeton has a dramatically smaller staff than Stanford. It’s also important to note that this only includes donors who specified their employer.

The FEC also gives data regarding which candidates individuals are donating to. Figure 4 (front page) shows the amount of money given to Clinton and to Sanders during the primary season.

This analysis defines the primary season to end June 6, 2016, as that was when major news outlets officially declared Clinton as the winner of the primary. Figure 4 below shows the money given to each candidate between March 1, 2015 and June 6, 2016.

The first trend that becomes immediately clear is that Clinton received much more support across the board tha n Sa nders. Tota l donations by school to Clinton ranged from $44,440

at Duke to $308,857 at Stanford. Donations to Sanders ranged from $19,610 at Princeton to $61,949 at Columbia.

In fact, with the exception of Duke, staff at every school gave more money to Clinton than even Columbia gave to Sanders.

Figure 5 shows the Hillary Clinton vs. Bernie Sanders trend more clearly. The graph shows the ratio of money given to Clinton vs. money given to Sanders. So, for example, a value of five means that Clinton received five times more money than Sanders during the primary. This helps to isolate which schools are relatively more pro-Clinton or pro-Sanders while removing for total size of donations.

Duke was the most Sanders-favoring school. For every $1 given to Sanders in the primaries, $1.73 was given to Clinton. On the other side, Stanford and Yale were roughly the most Clinton-favoring schools. For every $1 given to Sanders in the primaries, Clinton received almost $5.15. UChicago is the second-most Sanders-favoring school, but even UChicago is considerably more Clinton favoring than Sanders. For every $1 given to Sanders at UChicago, $2.12 were given to Clinton.

Figure 6 (front page) does this same comparison for the Republican primaries. T HE M A ROON only looked at the three final candidates: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and John Kasich. For consistency, T HE M A ROON looked at donations made until June 6, 2016.

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schools donated about 100 times more money to Clinton and Sanders than they did to Trump, Kasich, and Cruz.

Part of this can be attributed to there being many Republican candidates, so money is split among different candidates. Additionally, people could have been waiting until the general election to give money to a candidate, as the Republican race was more uncertain than the Democratic race. However, this likely doesn’t account for the drastic difference between the Democratic candidates and the Republican candidates.

The next thing we see is that Trump received very few donations. At Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and UChicago, Trump received no donations in the primaries. We can also see that some schools were much more active in the Republican primaries. Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, and UChicago gave substantially more to candidates in the Republican primaries than the other schools did.

Figure 7 looks at money donated in the general election. Specifically, T HE M A ROON looked at money given to Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump be-

tween June 6, 2016 and the present.

If it looks like Trump is left out of the graph, he’s not. The values are just that much smaller than Clinton’s.

The school with the most donations to Trump is Harvard, with $7,662. However, even this is 60 times smaller than the amount of money donated to Clinton in the general election. At Stanford, over half a million dollars— $580,569 to be exact—were given to Clinton in the general election. This is over 500 times more than what Stanford employees donated to Trump. For comparison, the Clinton campaign has raised

$1.3 billion as of October 19, while the Trump campaign raised $795 million, according to The Washington Post. The donations made by employees at these eight Universities ref lect 0.3 percent of the total donations received by Clinton but only 0.003 percent of the total donations received by Trump. By any reasonable metric, employees at the University and its peer institutions have donated to Democratic candidates remarkably more than they did to Republican candidates.

The data used in this analysis is available on the FEC website.

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VIEWPOINTS Tricks, Treats, and UCPD The University Should Have Sent Students a Warning Before the Halloween “Purge” Last Saturday, 50 0 – 6 0 0 high schoolers from around Chicago came to Hyde Park.

There were scattered fights, eggs thrown at businesses, and at least six bystanders shot with BB and paintball guns, including one UChicago student who was struck in the head by a metal pellet that drew blood.

On Monday, Kenwood Academy sent a school-wide e-mail informing parents that there would likely be a “Halloween purge” that night, and that administrators had notified the Chicago Police Department (CPD) and the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD). “Please contact your student and inform him or her to go directly home after school,” read the e-mail statement in part. “Also, please inform your student not to visit 53rd street at dismissal,” and, “do not allow your student to ‘hang out’ tonight in the Hyde Park neighborhood.”

The Deputy Chief of the UCPD sent a similar e-mail, obtained by T HE M A ROON , to some Hyde Park businesses on Monday afternoon, also warning them that “there again may be increased activity and disorderly conduct along 53rd Street this evening.” However, no such warning reached UChicago students, many of whom live on or around East 53rd Street in off-campus apartments. Considering the UCPD’s heav y involvement on Saturday, the University should have followed Kenwood Academy’s lead by sending a University-wide e-mail warning students to

steer clear of the area. If the University thought that the area would be unsafe for businesses, it probably thought it would be unsafe for students as well. Although it is unclear as to why the administration did not send out a University-wide security warning, it seems clear that it should have.

Over Halloween weekend, two adults were attacked by teens, with one declining medical attention and the other reporting two black eyes, telling DNAInfo that his “life was damaged” from the encounter.

The window front of a dollar store as well as the windshield of several parked cars were shattered. Teens threw eggs at offi cers, passersby, and police vehicles. One individual allegedly climbed into a police car and tried to take a phone from inside, while another allegedly tried to obstruct an arrest by kicking an offi cer. At least 10 people were arrested—most placed in custody for small offenses. Officers instructed parents out trick-or-treating with their kids on East 53rd Street to head to East 57th Street and told T HE M A ROON ’s reporter to leave the area.

It is wrong to use the events over Halloweekend to exaggerate the level of crime in Hyde Park, as one of the victims did, calling Hyde Park “straight up Somalia.” Of Chicago’s 77 community areas, Hyde Park is 46th in incidents of violent cr ime per person repor ted in the last year, according to CPD data. As we reported in April, violent crime in Hyde

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an e-mail alert on Monday summarizing the activity of Saturday night and warning that similar activity was predicted for that afternoon and evening.

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stuck in the middle of a tense and chaotic scene. Though the news circulated slowly on social media, much of the community was in the dark for most of the night.

The University clearly suspected that this “purge” would occur, given the notice from Kenwood High School, its deployment of the UCPD to the area to aid CPD, and the e-mail statement to businesses in the area. Nevertheless, it chose to not share its knowledge with students either before, during, or even after the events. At the very least, the Office of Safety and Security could have sent

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Fred Kardos On the day of College registration dur ing O -Week, I thought the communist presence on campus was pretty funny. I took Snapchats of their pamphlets and smiled at all of the middle-aged revolutionaries trying to draw in young, impressionable college students to their movement. This is not me anymore. I am exhausted.

It’s one thing to try to spread awareness for a cause, but it’s an entirely separate issue when disruption of everyday life be-

comes the primary intention. It doesn’t matter what the cause is; the only thing that matters at this point is how annoying they’ve become.

T his marks the seventh week that Bob Avakian’s Revolutionary Communist Party (RevCom) has been on campus.

The group espouses radical communist ideology, often calling for a complete overthrow of the American government in favor of a Maoist regime which would probably be headed by

the cult-leader the group lovingly calls “Chairman Bob.” At this point, it’s impossible to walk through the quad without its members offering a pamphlet, all the while muttering about how their free speech is not protected. Being handed a pamphlet obviously is no tragedy, but after seven weeks it’s absurd to think that there are still people who could be convinced to join their cause or that their First Amendment rights are being violated. It’s clear that their intention is not to spread their message, but to push UChicago’s commitment to free speech as far as possible, even going so far as to commit illegal acts. If this Continued on page 7

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All they are doing is proving themselves to be nuisances on campus.

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Continued from page 6 was truly about just sending out a message of an ideology, then they should realize after seven weeks of little to no success that UChicago is a lost cause and it’s time to move on and spread the revolution elsewhere.

My initial moment of irritation with the RevCom demonstrators was when they stepped on the American f lag in order to prove that “A merica was never great.” Although I fully disagree with standing on the f lag, it is understandable that they would commit such an act as radical communists.

However, there’s no reason why they need to stand in the path of students going to class and proceed to heckle them when the students don’t pay attention to their unpatriotic antics. Furthermore, they repeat the same tactics over and over again, receiving very little support, which, to say the least, is baff ling. They are not achieving anything new by repeating this action at multiple times.

All they are doing is proving themselves to be nuisances on campus. So why continue protesting at UChicago?

W h i le st a nd i ng on t he American f lag was frustrating, the RevCom demonstrators’ progression to trespassing in Baker Dining Commons posed a more serious problem.

Not only do RevCom’s members somehow not yet understand that they have full exposure on campus, but they also believe basic laws do not apply to them because their protest was in the name of free speech. Following the arrest of Noche Diaz for trespassing and standing on a table in Baker, members of

RevCom became outraged, not realizing that they were not being silenced, but rather were being held responsible for their illegal actions. The October 31 edition of RevCom’s Revolution newspaper falsely claimed that their protesting began “mid-October,” and that their presence led to “swift and brutal” action from authorities. RevCom is intentionally lying to prove that UChicago isn’t as committed to free speech as it says it is.

Its members have been able to protest and organize on campus for weeks, with only limited action from the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) (telling the protesters to not block the public’s way) before the incident in Baker.

UChicago has been more than accommodating to their ridiculous movement, so to say that their freedom is being attacked is ludicrous.

At f irst, RevCom’s presence was amusing, but now it’s anything but. While I see no reason why RevCom has any reason to stay on the UChicago campus, its members still have every right to be here.

UChicago has been extremely tolerant of their presence despite what they may believe about the University engaging in a conspiracy to suppress their freedom of speech. Purposefully provoking the UCPD by engaging in illegal activity proves that they’re disrupting student lives just for the sake of disruption. They need to know that, as students, we are not supporting them and we have much greater concerns than their communist sideshow.

Fred Kardos is a first-year in the College.

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ARTS History of Art, University Cemented in Concrete Cadillac

BY MAY HUANG ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

Picture this: a 1957 Cadillac, almost entirely encased in 14 tons of concrete, parked in the east wing of the Campus North Parking Garage.

The sculpture, created by Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell in 1970, is “Concrete Traffic”. Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (MCA) back in 1969 and encased in concrete on January 16, 1970, the sculpture was given to the University of Chicago as a gift on June 13 of the same year.

“The MCA was not yet a collecting institution and was seeking to give the sculpture to a local university,” Christine Mehring said. Mehring is the head of the Concrete Happenings initiative as well as the chair of the art history department. “UChicago took it because the head of Midway Studio [at the time], artist and professor Harold Haydon, who also designed the stained glass windows at Rockefeller Chapel, lobbied for it and made it happen.”

Rain or shine, the concrete car remained parked outside Midway Studios for almost 40 years. On May 3 0, 2 0 0 9, however, the scu lptu re was forced to move to a storage and conser vation faci lity in Humboldt Park to make way for the construction of the Logan Center for the Arts.

Now, a fter almost eight years, the car is finally back on campus, thanks to President Robert Zimmer’s approval last April and the colossal efforts of a dedicated conservation team led by Mehring since 2011.

But one might wonder—why go to such lengths to conserve a concrete car?

The sculpture is of tremendous historical significance. Vostell was the leading German proponent of the Fluxus movement, and “Concrete Traffic” is the largest Fluxus object that exists today, which is notable, considering that Fluxus was largely a performance-based art movement that dealt with intangible media. As Mehring explained, Fluxus was also the fi rst transatlantic art movement; indeed, a plastic ‘twin’ of “Concrete Traffic” (“Ruhender Verkehr”, 1969) exists in downtown Cologne. As a sculpture that was created using nontraditional materials—which Mehring considers the trademark of 20th-century art—“Concrete Traffi c” further marks an important movement in art history.

As a large sculpture, “Concrete Traffic” fittingly tackles big themes.

It is no coi ncidence that Vost el l chose to encase a Cadillac in concrete, immobilizing an iconic American car that fascinated countless West German youth after the war.

“On one hand, it refl ected the Ger-

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Conservation specialists work on the underside of “Concrete Traffic.”

man artist’s attraction to America’s postwar dynamism, ‘preserving’ the Cadillac as a symbol of the country’s prosperity, mobility, and optimism,” Mehring commented. “On the other, it critiqued the destructive tendencies of contemporary American politics and society—riven by racism, violence, and the Vietnam War—by rendering the car nonfunctional, virtually unmovable, and more visually akin to a tank or machine of war.”

So when Mehring, already aware of “Ruhender Verkehr”, realized that “Concrete Traffic” was being kept in Humboldt Park, she considered it “the discovery of a lifetime”—but was at once thrilled and devastated upon seeing the sculpture. “[It] was in terrible condition,” she remembered. “I don’t think I have ever felt such an instant sense of responsibility for something that I had no idea how to live up to…. What was the right thing to do? …How could I possibly gather all needed information? …How would I convince anyone to help save this sculpture, let alone bring it back to campus?”

On September 30, the Cadillac made its way back to Hyde Park as part of a public procession. Starting from Humboldt Park, it stopped by the MCA, the Arts Club of Chicago, Midway Studios, and the Logan Center, before fi nally arriving at its new home in the Campus North Parking Garage. At the Drive-In

Happening, the official launch event for the sculpture on October 14, the garage transformed into a screening space for several of Vostell’s fi lms. Five were projected onto the walls of the parking lot using projectors stationed atop cars and equipment from the Logan Center media cage that hung from the ceilings.

As Mehring explained, Fluxus was a movement that was largely centered around “Happenings”: performances or public events that usually involved audience participation. Vostell used fi lm not just because of his material but also because of how it could project. The artwork he created was inserted into everyday life and places, although it often took on bizarre forms. One of the fi lms, Berlinfi eber, captured a Happening that took place on the streets of Berlin in 1973. Like many of Vostell’s Happenings, the participants who took part in Berlinfi eber had to follow a “score” that instructed them on how to behave as the camera rolled. In this case, the drivers lined their cars up in rows of ten as closely as they could and drove extremely slowly, all the while recording their movements on paper. They then would carry out a ritual of opening and closing the trunks of their cars 750 times, each time inserting or removing a white plate. Finally, they would tape the written record of their movements to the in-

side of the trunk and only remove it the next time they came down with a fever. “[It’s] very much in the spirit of Fluxus in the sense that this is a very multimedia event,” Mehring said about the Drive-In Happening, adding that Fluxus artwork involved a lot of fi lmmaking, sculptures, and unusual materials. Having the Drive-In Happening take place in a regular parking lot while transforming it into an unconventional art space was therefore quite fitting.

But where was the famous Cadillac itself amid all this commotion on the night of October 14? On the side of the parking lot, unfrequented at fi rst, but later surrounded by visitors who leaned against its concrete sides making small talk as children explored the sculpture by walking on its concrete top. There was a sense of normalcy surrounding the public sculpture itself, almost as if it were just another regular car parked in the garage—although the steel structure that engineers erected to support the concrete car in the basement below shows just how much work was necessary to make it possible for the Cadillac to “park.”

Indeed, Concrete Traffi c—although seemingly self-explanatory (it is best described, after all, as an old car encased in concrete)—is laden with inContinued on page 9

Moonlight Director, Playwright Talk Identity

BY KENNETH TALBOTT LA VEGA ASSOCIATE VIDEO EDITOR

Barry Jenkins is an American filmmaker who rose to prominence for Medicine for Melancholy (2008), which was and nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards.

He is the writer and director of Moonlight.

Tarell McCraney is an American playwright and actor who is best known for writing the Brother/Sister Plays trilogy. He is a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship Grant in 2013 and the Wind-

ham-Campbell Literature Prize in 2013.

He wrote the script for the play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, which was adapted into the story for Moonlight.

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“What it says about black masculinity, I don’t know necessarily,” playwright Tarell McCraney began at a roundtable discussion on his play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue. “I wish I had some sort of language for it. What I do know is that I’m watching a kid try and perform the masculinity that he saw in his life—poorly, to the point that he’s not

living it, he’s not inhabiting it. He’s performing it in a way that’s cutting off his sensitivity to other things, including his sexuality.”

It was a tricky question for McCraney to answer. Jenkins had immediately passed it over to him—and rightly so. Of the two men in the room—frankly, of everyone involved in film—McCraney would seem best able to answer this question.

McCraney’s past work, which has garnered him such accolades as an Olivier Award nomination and a MacArthur Fellowship grant, deals with themes

of identity. In particular, those closest to him: race, sexuality, masculinity, family. In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue was based on his own persona.

“It was an investigation of my life up until a certain point,” McCraney said. “I was at a crossroads: I had just graduated from DePaul; I was still living in Chicago; and I was about to go off either to grad school or to pursue my professional career as an actor. I had been writing plays, but I wanted to try to figure out, in a poetic way, if I had made a turn Continued on page 10

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tricacies that have complicated, and still affect, its conservation process.

Mehring found the car in a worrisome condition: When conservation fi rst began in 2011, the concrete on the car was falling and cracking from years of neglect. The entire car also needed to be cleaned because biological growth had developed on the concrete’s surface, obscuring the original marks Vostell left behind while making the sculpture. Furthermore, the salt that had originally been added to the concrete to make it dry faster had made the concrete less stable (as a creative touch, salt was added to the rye beer that Arcade Brewery had specially designed for the installation).

“At the moment, we have stabilized the structure and the cracks,” said Lisa Zaher, who has been involved with the project since 2013 and became the fi rst UChicago Arts conservation research fellow last year. “The area we are still addressing concerns the patches at the front and back, and there is still some discussion about the area[s of patching] at the front of the sculpture known as Dagmars.”

Understanding how to conser ve the sculpture also meant having to understand Vostell’s original artistic vision. L ooking at archival images helped Mehring and her team to conclude that Vostell orig inally wanted the sculpture to look as if it was solely supported by its tires—although the weight of the concrete made this a structural impossibility.

“Our task was to create a support structure that maintains the illusion of the sculpture as freestanding while ensuring the structural integrity of the concrete shell,” Mehring said. “ This was an enormous challenge.”

A nna Weiss-Pfau, the UChicago campus art collection coordinator and conservator who has been heavily involved with the sculpture’s movement and engineering over the past few years, also expressed concerns about protecting the car from natural elements and visitors. “Any time a condition issue arises for the sculpture, or organic debris or grease from the nearby cafeteria accumulate, it will have to be removed,” she said, pointing to how the conser-

vation of the sculpture continues long after its installation. Indeed, she wishes that all of the sculptures on campus could receive the same level of care that is being given to “Concrete Traffic”. “My hope is that this project just created an entire campus of conservation advocates and individuals interested in the theoretical complexities of decision-maki ng a rou nd publ ic a r t ,” she sa id.

Mehring did not exaggerate when she said at the Drive-In Happening that the entire initiative is an “incredible conservation effort.” Just as Fluxus was a very collaborative movement (for example, Vostell collaborated with Ulrike Ottinger, an avant-garde and documentary filmmaker, to film Berlinfieber), the whole process of turning Concrete Happenings into a reality involved collaboration on a citywide scale.

“Over the years I put together an incredible team to help bring this sculpture back, to research it and to conserve it and to actually move it here into the parking garage,” Mehring ref lected.

Just within the campus community, the Happening involved the Department of Art History, the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society, the Smart Museum of A rt, the Special Collections Research Center, and the Logan Center. Beyond UChicago, Mehring and her team worked with the MCA, engineers, car restoration specialists, and cultural heritage conservators to conserve the sculpture.

And now, Concrete Happenings is making its presence known over campus, with a strong lineup of events that will run until next May, including more screenings of Vostell’s 16 mm films and talks on concrete poetry. On January 22, three free exhibitions will open at the Neubauer Collegium, the Smart Museum, and Special Collections to further explore the history of “Concrete Traffic”.

“A public sculpture really has to be in a public space to be itself,” Mehring said about “Concrete Traffic” at the Drive-In Happening. “ This sculpture had to be where a real car can be.”

Minutes away from the Smart Museum and the newly-built Campus North Residential Commons, “Concrete Traffic” represents the intersection of visual art and campus life, marking it as an ob-

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The sculpture in January 1970, the month during which it was encased in concrete.

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“Concrete Traffic” in the North Campus Parking Garage, its new home on campus.

ject of significance in not only art history but also the University’s past. Its conservation process is a testament to the importance of preserving this history for generations to come, ensuring that—al-

though the car is stationed in place—its legacy will travel far into the future.

To find out more about Concrete Happenings, visit arts.uchicago.edu/concrete-happenings.

Timid Soloist Undercuts Bold Conducting at CSO

BY REBECCA JULIE ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

As with most stereotypes, that of the self-obsessed violinist may or may not ring true—but when going to the symphony for a violin concerto I enter the hall with the expectation, even some excitement, that I will get to witness unabashed violin prowess. The virtuosity of this instrument’s repertoire requires a certain level of showmanship.

Sibelius’s lone violin concerto is no exception. Rife with luscious, sweeping melodies and technical landmines, the work requires the soloist to be expressive, practiced, and above all, confident.

Unfortunately, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO)’s Sunday afternoon performance proved lackluster—Latvian-born soloist Baiba Skride offered a timid and inconsistent interpretation.

Skride’s more modest tempi stood in contrast to the breakneck speeds some soloists choose to shock and awe. While this was a welcome display of humility, the Adagio of the second movement dragged along almost unbearably so.

The movement begins with a mournful melody in the lower register of the instrument that has the potential to be sensuous and heart-wrenching. Yet Skride’s tone lacked the requisite richness, trudging through the phrasing with tedium. Her thin, inconsistent tone felt lost in the fabric of the orchestra. It was clear that the orchestra tried to play sensitively to accommodate her shyness, but even this was not enough to prevent her from being swallowed by the CSO’s phenomenal brass.

Even the famous third movement, a set of peppy variations on a waltz-like theme, was sleepy and disappointing. I was reminded of a recording by David Oistrakh: the fi re in technical passages, the controlled emotion in the double-stop sections. By contrast, Stride lacked an overall boldness and confidence that defi nes a satisfying performance. That’s not to say that Skride is not technically capable—her performance on Sunday was hardly sloppy.

For a soloist who has played with some of the world’s best orchestras, her rapport with the CSO bordered on fear.

Thankfully, conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada was daring enough for the both of them. The 38-year-old Colombian conductor made his CSO debut this weekend with an ambitious program, opening with a bright and effusive performance of Kodály’s Dances of Galánta.

Principal clarinetist Stephen Williamson took the famous clarinet solo in stride, offering an interpretation that mixed excellent technical ability with a clear tone and vibrant expressivity.

The orchestra responded fairly well to the young conductor’s exciting podium presence, particularly during forte sections. Orozco-Estrada clearly has a penchant for showmanship: he distributed the offstage trumpet role in Ives’s The Unanswered Question across three players, for example.

Placing the trumpets at different locations backstage made for a disconcerting listening experience. Given the orchestra’s sensitivity—lucid strings with well-balanced woodwinds—there was no need to compensate with kitsch.

In a second questionable move, the young conductor played the Ives and

Strauss without pause. Juxtaposing these two pieces is a clever way to showcase an orchestra’s ability to play the stylistic gamut. However, I would have liked at least a moment’s pause between the two. These are different works, by different composers: Any “wow moment” from hearing them together is overshadowed by an immediate sense of confusion.

More convincing was the orchestra’s immediate exuberance on the Strauss.

The Chicago brass proved its powerhouse reputation and then some —at times a touch overdone, the Durkheimian conception of collective effervescence palpable. Nevertheless, it was hard to hold back a smile during the iconic “sunrise” opening or when the power of the organ rippled through the hall.

As the large bell tolled in the final moments of the piece, the Sibelius from moments before seemed like an afterthought. Here was an orchestra that was both excited and exciting.

Wiggling on the podium like a thrilled child, Orozco-Estrada unleashed an enthusiasm that drove home a lesson learned: timid players not welcome.

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“What does the film say about black masculinity?”

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here, what my life would have been like.”

McCraney cited some challenges to his personal exploration, the most immediate being his mother’s passing. “The person who could have answered questions about me as a child was gone,” he confessed. This reality made his personal artistic project more demanding—and more necessary—than ever.

“I was trying to put a narrative together and I thought, ‘Okay, so if I had taken a turn left at this point, what would my life look like?’ And that’s where Chiron [the central character] in the original script came from. It wasn’t a huge departure; it was a minuscule left turn.”

In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue never made it to the stage. Fortunately, the script landed in the talented, enthusiastic hands of filmmaker Barry Jenkins. At the time, Jenkins enjoyed the indie spotlight. His 2008 romantic drama, Medicine for Melancholy, garnered critical acclaim on a budget of $15,000. Now McCraney’s deeply personal story has come to fruition in what critics and industry leaders proclaim to be the year’s best film.

“What does the film say about black masculinity?” I had posed that question to Jenkins and McCraney: I felt most compelled to explore the answer after watching Moonlight. A character study in three acts—each a different period in Chiron’s life played by an age-appropriate actor—Moonlight tackles the presence and performance of black masculinity. In the third act, we are presented with an adult lead (Trevante Rhodes) whose impressive physical build and street cred epitomize the perceived masculinity that both plagued and eluded him in his youth. Going by the nickname “Black”

on the streets, this reification of Chiron also seems to suffer from an uncultivated sexual identity that has been overwhelmed, almost to the point of repression, by his pursuit of masculinity. What do we make of the relationship between Chiron’s black masculinity and queerness, two facets of identity that appear at variance with each other?

McCraney discussed the adult Chiron with an unfaltering sense of familiarity. Interesting—Jenkins conceived this character in full, as an extension of McCraney’s original script. “For the third story, neither one of us is that character,” Jenkins elaborated.

“That character is a continuation of what comes in the first and second story, but [he’s] also this idea of what could have happened…”

Jenkins further expanded on his friendship with McCraney, which was already apparent given how the two men practically finished each other’s sentences. “One of the really beautiful things that happened over the process of this was that I realized that, even listening to [Tarell] now, our lives are just so fucking similar, that it was really easy for me to feel like Chiron is Tarell’s, but in this way, he’s also mine.” Both grew up in Miami and attended the same high school, with no knowledge of each other—it was truly remarkable how similar their lives were.

McCraney spoke with merited confidence on behalf of adult Chiron and his identity conflict: “I don’t think he’s [neglecting his sexuality] in an active form of repression; I think what’s happening is, he’s going, ‘I have to survive this world. The only thing I know about survival is that [my role model Juan (Mahershala Ali)], whom I love and adore, survived. I will now put that on and perform it the best I can.’”

McCraney wished he had some sort of

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A still from Moonlight, directed by Barry Jenkins and based on a play by Tarell Alvin McCraney.

language to properly express his character assessment—that language exists, and it is cinema. With spectacular camerawork, discerning formalism, and a vibrant Miami backdrop, Jenkins has composed an epic visual tapestry of gestures, relationships, confrontations, and memories. It hits all the right notes, from opening shot through to the mesmerizing and monumentally cathartic final scene. Complete with a careful attention to bodies, sounds, colors, and lingering gazes, Moonlight evoked the

long-lasting influences of such auteurs as Jean-Luc Godard and Claire Denis: The film is just as much a feat of pure artistic prowess as a watershed moment for black, queer, and intersectional cinema. My words can’t even try to do it justice. You really ought to go see it for yourself while it’s in theaters. And if you’re anything like me, bring a pack of Kleenex, just to be safe.

Moonlight opened in select Chicago theaters last Friday, October 28.

- SPORTS South Siders Sit at No. 1 for UAA Tournament `

VOLLEYBALL

BY SIMONE STOVER MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The Maroons will travel to Wash U’s campus in St. Louis this Friday to face off against Brandeis in the first matchup of the UAA championship tournament. The South Siders are coming off of an impressive regular season, touting a record of 17– 9. Even more impressive is their conference record: Chicago has managed to stay undefeated within the UAA conference throughout this entire season, earning them the No. 1 seed going into this weekend.

Chicago began their undefeated run at the beginning of October during the UAA Round Robin #1, during which they defeated Brandeis, No. 16 Carnegie Mellon, and No. 15 Wash U. Their success continued two weeks later during the second leg of the Round Robin, during which they de-

feated NYU, No. 6 Emory, Rochester, and said third-year outside hitter Frances McCase Western Reserve. The three wins Donald.

“Our practices this week will just be against top 25 competitors were the Maroons’ only wins against teams of that cal- focused on getting contacts and reps and then scrimmaging just to make sure we iber this season.

Although the South Siders were victori- feel confident this weekend,” she continued. ous against Brandeis in last year’s Round “We are particularly trying to focus on closRobin as well, their No. 1 ranking with- ing matches, which we have struggled with in the conference is indeed an unfamiliar our few past games, and winning the serve position. Last year, the Maroons suffered pass game against the teams we will play losses to Wash U, Case Western Reserve, for the UAA Championship.”

Fourth-year middle hitter Katie Carnegie Mellon, and Emory during the regular season and finished in fourth place LaPorte echoed her teammate’s sentiments. at the UAA Championships. With this in “We are so stoked to be going into confermind, the Maroons seem to be approach- ence championships in the position that we ing this weekend with a sense of cautious are in. Obviously it puts a target on our back and some pressure maybe we haven’t optimism.

“Basically we feel very confident going felt before, but it also helps us have faith into this weekend. We are very familiar and believe that we can do it,” she said. with how each team plays in the UAA, so “We just have to respect the game and evwe are pretty much ready for anything,” ery opponent and play at the highest level

we can. We need to leave it all out on the floor—you never know what happens [in the] postseason.”

Although they will face some stiff competition should they advance to the later rounds of the tournament, the quarterfi nal match against No. 8 Brandeis this Friday should be an easy victory for the Maroons. Chicago’s matchup against Brandeis during the Round Robin #1 was the Maroons’ most decisive victory of the entire tournament. In an impressive performance, the Maroons defeated the Judges by a wide margin of 3–0.

Chicago’s match against Brandeis will be held at Wash U’s campus on Friday, November 4 at noon. CDT. If the Maroons are victorious against Brandeis, they will go on to play the winner of the Carnegie Mellon/Rochester game at 4 p.m. that same day.

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Maroons Come Home for UAA Showdown FOOTBALL

BY MIRANDA BURT SPORTS STAFF

The Maroons will be back at home this Saturday when they take on the Tartans of Carnegie Mellon. The South Siders are coming off their fi rst road win of the season, taking down the Sewanee Tigers 49–30. Chicago will look to ride this momentum into a nonconference match-up with the Tartans, who are a very respectable 5–3 and are currently riding a threegame win streak.

The Maroons will look to build upon

an all-around impressive game last Saturday, where the offense was able to break ten school passing records and the defense was able to hold its ground after allowing the South Siders to go down 17–0 in the fi rst quarter. Fourth-year quarterback Burke Moser again led the charge, as he smashed five individual school records.

Moser established new marks for passing yards in a game (558), touchdown passes in a game (7), passing yards in a season (2,861), passing touchdowns in a season (24), and passing attempts in a season (406). Moser has a chance to continue to

add to these records with two regular season games remaining.

“We were struggling at fi rst, and then I think we found our rhythm in the second quarter. We just started airing it out,” Moser said of Saturday’s contest. “We have worked really hard all year long on deep balls, and it showed Saturday. With two games left, we look to continue that success by just staying confident and doing what we do.”

Moser was aided by big days from fi rst-year wide receiver Dante Nepa, who went for 190 yards and two touchdowns

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Maroon teammates celebrate after a spectacular touchdown.

on seven catches; third-year running back Chandler Carroll, who had nine receptions for 112 yards and two touchdowns; and fourth-year wide receiver Syd Reynolds, who went for 106 yards and one touchdown on just three catches.

The Maroons will look to utilize their potent offensive attack against a Tartan defense that is only allowing 234.6 passing yards per game. Carnegie Mellon’s offense also averages an impressive 37.4 points per game. The Maroons will look to extend their offensive success while looking to continue to improve on the defensive side of the ball.

“Well it’s no secret, Carnegie is a really solid opponent. They are coached well and are sound defensively. We are going to have to put up points to keep up with their offense, but as a team we should be able to come out on top if we stick to our gameplay and get ahead early,” Moser said.

While the Tartans do present a big challenge, Moser and the Maroons are ready to fi nish out the season strong and build on their recent success.

“This last win was huge for us; it kind of felt like we were getting the monkey off of our back as we had not won a road game all year before Saturday,” Moser said. “We are 4–4 with two games left, and the results of those games will truly defi ne the success of our season. There is a lot to play for, and everyone is aware that it is going to take two great weeks of practice to be ready.”

Kickoff is set for noon at Stagg Field, where the Maroons will look to keep their at-home record spotless.

Last Chance for Chicago to Rebound Before Post Season WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY MAGGIE O’HARA SPORTS STAFF

All eyes look to the No. 8 Maroons this coming weekend as they face off against their rival, No. 10 Wash U. It also just so happens that the Bears sit atop the UA A conference. If there’s ever been a perfect time to take a win at Wash U, it’s this weekend.

The current standings feature Wash U (13 –2 –2; 4 –1–1 UA A) at the forefront of the conference with 13 points and Chicago (15 –2; 4–2 UA A) one tick

under, tied with Carnegie Mellon at 12 points. Thus the final configuration of the standings is dependent on Saturday’s games. The Maroons have a chance to clinch a share of their first UA A title since 2010 with a win this weekend.

The South Siders have been a powerhouse in the UA A all season, suffering only two losses in hard-fought games. Though this past weekend they weren’t able to come away with a win over Carnegie, they feel confident going into this coming weekend.

“ This weekend was bittersweet,” third-year Caroline Olivero said. “ I thought we played some of the best so c cer I ’ve seen si nce joi n i ng the UChicago women’s soccer team my freshman year. I felt that we dominated Case Western and Carnegie on the field, though the Carnegie game was certainly more of a battle—physically and emotionally. Though we ultimately lost to Carnegie in overtime, I couldn’t be more proud of the team and what we put forward.”

The Maroons are clicking and fir-

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Second-year goalkeeper Piper Mik calls out to her defenders after gaining possession.

ing on all cylinders right now and are ready to take a game from Wash U and build momentum going into the postseason. They ’re eager to finish the season on a positive note and taking a game from their rival and hopefully solidifying a UA A title would certainly be positive. The Bears lead the alltime meetings 14 –11–2 and have won the last five straight.

“We still have a chance at the UA A title, something this program hasn’t achieved since 2010. We need to beat Wash U to make this possible,” Olivero said. “I think we can do it. I want this UA A title, shared or not, because it is such an accomplishment in our tough league and would be a true testament to the talent and work ethic of our team. It is the next step on our journey to the NCA A championships and I couldn’t be more confident in the women I have playing beside me in achieving these ends.”

For the Maroons to receive an automatic berth to the NCA A postseason via the Association title, it would necessitate a Chicago win over Wash U and a Carnegie loss or tie to Case Western Reserve. In the case of a tie between Carnegie and Chicago for the UAA title, Carnegie would receive the berth, as they won the head-to-head. If the Maroons don’t receive an automatic berth, they will have to wait until Monday’s selection show to find out their future.

Chicago will take the field for the final time during the regular season in St. Louis at Francis Field at 4:30 p.m.

CDT on Saturday.

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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “Jed’s in charge; I’m going on a bender” —Cubs general manager Theo Epstein after winning the World Series.

Happy Next Year! Cubs Win the World Series BASEBALL

EMMETT ROSENBAUM SPORTS EDITOR

At 11:48 p.m. on Wednesday night, with every street in Wrigleyville packed to capacity, a city held its breath. Kris Bryant, with a smile on his face, picked up a weak ground ball and threw to first. However, the grass was wet from the rain that had poured on Progressive Field in Cleveland just an inning before, and Bryant slipped. As his throw went to first, a fandom that has experienced misery like no other, saw, for a

moment, yet another heartbreak flash before their eyes. Then the ball settled into Anthony Rizzo’s glove, and the unthinkable happened. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series for the first time in 108 years.

The game itself was remarkable, an excruciating exercise in almost unbearable tension. The Cubs jumped out to an early lead thanks to a leadoff home run

by Dexter Fowler, yet Cleveland drew even in the third when Carlos Santana drove in Coco Crisp with a single. However, the Cubs struck back, scoring two

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runs in the fourth inning and adding another pair in the fifth. Possessing a 5 –1 lead, the team looked to be in the driver’s seat.

Postseason hero Jon Lester was called out of the bullpen to bridge the gap between starter Kyle Hendricks and closer Aroldis Chapman. While two runs scored on a wild pitch of Lester’s that hit catcher David Ross in the head, Ross managed to redeem himself an inning later by hitting a homerun to dead center. With the score locked in at 6 –3, Lester dealt into the eighth inning, when manager Joe Maddon signaled to the bullpen and Chapman entered the game with a runner on first.

T h i ngs i nsta ntly fel l apa r t for Chapman, who had thrown 20 pitches in Game Six the night before. He allowed a run-scoring double to pinch hitter Brandon Guyer, and then after a prolonged battle with centerfielder Rajai Davis, surrendered a game-tying home run that sent the Cleveland crowd into a frenzy. As neither team scored in the ninth inning, the game already had the makings of a classic.

Then came the rain. While most rain delays are cumbersome bores, this one only served to amplify the tension. The people standing at the intersection of Addison Street and Clark Street simultaneously couldn’t wait for the game to resume and hoped that it never would.

Kyle Schwarber led off the 10th inning with a single and was promptly removed for pinch runner Albert Almora Jr., who advanced to second when Bryant flied out to the wall. Rizzo was intentionally walked to set up the double play, but the strategy was for naught as Ben Zobrist doubled to left, scoring

Almora. Another walk loaded the bases and a single Montero drove in another.

The Cubs led 8–6 heading in to the bottom of the 10th, and a date with destiny seemed to be in the books.

However, after getting the first two outs quickly, reliever Carl Edwards Jr. walked Guyer, who promptly took second base. This brought up eighth-inning hero Davis, who singled to center to score Guyer and bring the series-winning run to the plate. Maddon made one more walk out to the mound to call in reliever Mike Montgomery. Two pitches later and the Cubs were world champions.

On a superficial level, Wednesday night’s baseball game was an instant classic. For the city of Chicago, it was so much more. When the final out was recorded, Wrigleyville exploded into a cacophony of yelling and shrieking and crying— stunned disbelief combined with overwhelming exuberance.

A lthough the neighborhood already seemed stuffed to the brim, North Side fans seemed to trickle out of their apartments and march toward Wrigley Field.

It was a pilgrimage, as if the haunted, ivy walls of the stadium were calling out to all. Up Clark Street and across Waveland Avenue they streamed, filling the streets with verse upon verse of “Go Cubs Go.” They formed drum circles, embraced strangers, sprayed celebratory beers up into the mild November night. For their entire lives they had watched their Lovable Losers come up short. But for that night, there was no next year to wait for. The Cubs were still beloved, but they were losers no more.

Rivals Set to Play Last Regular Season Game MEN’S SOCCER

EMMETT ROSENBAUM SPORTS EDITOR

The No. 1 Maroons will roll into St. Louis this weekend with the hopes of completing the first undefeated season in school history. Chicago enters Saturday’s match boasting a record of 16 – 0 –1, having already clinched the UA A conference with its win over No. 19 Carnegie Mellon last Sunday. Wash U comes in with an impressive 10 –4–1 record of its own and will be playing with its NCA A tournament berth on the line. The Bears will likely give it all they have, but there is no doubt that the Maroons would be happy to play the spoiler for their longtime rival.

Despite its surprising draw with Case Western Reser ve last F riday, Chicago comes in playing some of the best soccer in the country. The team averaged over two goals per game in October while conceding only two goals throughout the entire month. One of the largest factors behind the defensive wall has been third-year goalkeeper Hill Bonin.

Bonin has already set the school record for career shutouts (23 and counting) and he hasn’t even completed his third year yet. The Colorado native has

posted some absurd numbers this year, including a .878 save percentage and a microscopic .29 goals against average.

He hasn’t been without help though, as the entire defensive unit has been spectacular, allowing only 41 shots on goal with Bonin in the net, less than half of what they’ve allowed in previous seasons.

However, Bonin and company will be facing a Wash U team armed with a strong offense of its own. The team had averaged two goals per game over its last eight while also posting nine shutouts on the year. With this clash of two talented teams, Bonin expects Saturday’s match to be a hotly contested affair.

“It looks like Wash U will be playing for its tournament berth this weekend,” Bonin said. “A win against us will do a lot for its chances to make the tournament. We’ve spent a lot of time this week putting the thought of our records and accomplishments out of our heads—we are only focused on playing Wash U this Saturday. It’ll be a really tough test for us, and that will help prepare the team for the ‘win or go home’ mentality [that comes with] NCA A tournament soccer.”

While Chicago’s tournament berth

is already clinched, closing the regular season on a victory would be a fitting end to what has to be considered the best in school history. There is no doubt that the team will show up in St. Louis and play with the passion and

pride that it has displayed all season long.

The Maroons will face the Wash U Bears on Francis Field on Saturday, November 5. Kickoff is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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Second-year Michael Koh passes the ball to a teammate while surrounded by defenders.