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— Election Day— BALLOT PREVIEW

BY KATIE AKIN DEPUTY NEWS EDITOR

Tonight, the country will have a newly elected president.

Thousands of state and local officials will also be chosen for office.

Whether you are registered in Hyde Park or your hometown, it’s important to be aware of who your local representatives might be in Chicago.

Trump Rushed off Stage After False Shout That Booth Alum Had a Gun

BY PETE GRIEVE NEWS EDITOR

A Booth alum was ejected from a rally for Donald Trump in Reno, N V Saturday night amid commotion that prompted Secret Ser vice agents to rush the Republican nominee off the

LinkedIn Austyn Crites (M.B.A. ’09) was ejected from a Trump rally due to false accusations.

Baseball’s Other Curse Page 6 W hile the Indians lost the World Series, Native Americans continue to lose much more.

stage.

Austyn Crites (M.B.A. ’09) told reporters that the commotion started when he held up a sign that read “Republicans against Trump.”

A witness said he heard someone scream, “This guy has a gun.” According to a Secret Service statement, an “unidentified individual” in the crowd shouted ‘gun,’ but the statement said no weapon was found.

Agents entered the crowd and detained Crites. Crites said he was relieved when the police broke up the crowd. He said he was kicked, punched, choked, and grabbed by the testicles.

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BY CAMILLE KIRSCH

Hyde Park’s new Target, located at 53rd Street and South Dorchester Avenue, had its grand opening on Sunday.

The store contains a CVS Pharmacy and a Starbucks in addition to a curated selection of Target items. These include a fully stocked pharmacy section, a large selection of groceries and household goods, and a large selection of beauty products.

The store also sells a limited selection of electronics, home furnishings, toys, and clothing.

The Hyde Park location has been open for limited hours since Tuesday, when it held a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by local community leaders.

However, Sunday marked its permanent opening. To celebrate, employees at the front of the store handed out white canvas

BY KATHERINE VEGA SENIOR NEWS REPORTER

bags with red dots to shoppers.

Children received stuffed dogs with the Target logo.

The store was bustling on Sunday afternoon. Registers had consistently long lines, and people streamed in and out of the front doors.

According to one Target employee, Janessa Salinas, several thousand customers had visited the store by late afternoon.

“Since eight in the morning until now, we’ve had…more than four thousand,” she said. “Just within a couple hours.”

Jakiah Browley, another Target employee, agreed that turnout was high. “I wasn’t expecting that many,” she said.

Most of the store’s shelves were packed to maximize space, although two aisles of empty shelving stood out—they were labeled with the names of various brands

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Student Activists Discuss Campaign Demands With Provost Last Friday, five student activists representing Fair Budget UChicago (FBU) and UChicago Student Action ( UCSA) met with Provost Daniel Diermeier in a closed meeting at Levi Hall to discuss their campaign’s demands.

Their demands include a $15 per hour minimum wage on campus, increased staffing for Student Disability Services (SDS), increased accessibility for disabled people in campus buildings, and a reformed leave of absence policy. In response to recent complaints about late or missing financial aid awards this year, the students also advocated for financial aid reform.

“At the meeting, we shared our experiences of struggling to fully engage in student life: whether due to issues with financial aid, low wages resulting in long work hours, an inaccessible campus, or underfunded disability services.

Then we spoke to the Provost about both our longer term demands and our more immediate demands to improve financial aid,” third-year and co-coordinator of FBU Anna Wood wrote in an e-mail to T HE M A ROON. Fellow FBU co-coordinator and third-year Jessica Law wrote in an e-mail to T HE M AROON that approximately 15 to 20 percent of the meeting was devoted to financial aid while the majority of their meeting was focused on outlining their other long-term demands.

“We were able to speak on all of our demands, though not at length due to only having an hour to meet with the Provost to talk about all of our concerns,” Law wrote.

Law and Wood both wrote that Diermeier told them he would look into their concerns,

Senate Mark Kirk (R): Mark Kirk has been Senator from Illinois since 2010. He sits on the Senate Committee on Appropriations, the Senate Committee of Banking, Housing, and Urban Development, the Senate Committee of Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and the Special Committee on Aging.

Before running for the Senate, Kirk served as a Navy Reserves intelligence officer and spent five terms in the House, representing the 10th District.

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The volleyball team lost to Wash U in the third-place match this Saturday.

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How Hyde Park Votes

Adam Thorp

BY ADAM THORP NEWS EDITOR

The question of who Hyde Park will choose for president is in serious contention for the least dramatic storyline on a very dramatic election day. Illinois will almost

certainly opt for Hillary Clinton; Hyde Park will also do so, by an even higher margin (the Senatorial contest isn’t looking to be competitive either— for down-ballot information, see our ballot preview, which starts on the front page).

These maps include

precincts from the Fourth, Fifth and 20th Wards, including Hyde Park, Kenwood, the very northern portions of Woodlawn.

The map from 2008 looks different, since Chicago’s wards have been redrawn since that election. Precinct level results came from the Chicago Board of Elections.

Breaking down returns by precinct in Hyde Park and Kenwood in the 2008 and 2012 general elections and the 2016 Democratic primary reveals some interesting patterns. Specifically, results seem to be somewhat different in precincts closer to the University. More than 99 percent of votes in the precincts on the fringes of Hyde Park and Kenwood voted for Obama (some precincts did not register a single vote for another candidate in 2008).

In Hyde Park’s Republican bastions, Romney sometimes registered as much as 11 percent of the vote. That was the highest result for Romney among the precincts included on these maps in 2012, in the

27th precinct of the Fourth Ward, which includes most of the quad. (No matter how much time you spend in the Reg, you won’t be registered to vote there, so the precinct’s voting population is presumably concentrated in the upscale blocks west of campus and

in Snell-Hitchcock and Max P). Perhaps not surprisingly, precincts closest to Bernie Sanders’s alma mater also provided his Hyde Park majorities.

What does this mean for today’s election? As foreshadowed above, more or less nothing, though

it’s interesting to consider whether an election without Hyde Park’s favorite son on the ballot—but with a, let’s say, exceptional Republican candidate— will see the Republican ticket break 10 or even 5 percent in any Hyde Park precinct.

Adam Thorp

Alumni Association Awards University Graduates and Faculty Member

BY HILLEL STEINMETZ ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

Last Friday, the Alumni Association gave eight University graduates and one faculty member awards in recog nition of professional accomplishments, service to the University, or teaching.

The awards were given at a dinner at the Drake Hotel in the Near North Side of Chicago.

F ive alumni awards were g iven

to graduates of the University who excelled in their careers. They were awarded to Elizabeth Smith (A.M. ’71), former executive director of the Hyams Fou nd at ion , a n orga n i zat ion that fights for racial justice and economic equity in the U.S., Gordon Quinn (A.B. ’65), documentary filmmaker and executive producer of Hoop D reams, Lawrence F riedman (A .B. ’48, J.D. ’51, LL.M ’53), a professor at Stanford Law School, Eugene Van Scott (S.B. ’45, M.D. ’48), a dermatologist who pioneered a treatment for lymphoma, and

Obama Library Records Move to Chicago

BY GREG ROSS NEWS STAFF

Last week, President Obama’s paper trail began winding its way from Washington to a northwest suburban warehouse, where his presidential records will be sorted by archivists before ending up in the Obama Presidential Center.

The records—a trove of documents and artifacts—will be organized by the National Archives and Records Administration over the next several years.

Eventually, the material will find a home in Jackson Park, the future site of the presidential center. The center is expected to open in 2021.

A rchivists will have their hands full: Obama’s eight years in office have produced an estimated 200 terabytes of electronic records. Regenstein library’s digital collection, for comparison, is 153 terabytes.

To deliver this prodigious pile of papers, 24 semi-truck trips from Washington to Chicago will take place over the next few months, the Chicago Tribune reported.

Also being preserved by the National Archives is the Obama administration’s social media presence. The White House said last week that the @POTUS Twitter handle will be passed on to the victor of Tuesday’s election. Obama’s tweets will be transferred to a new account, @POTUS44.

Similar transfers of social media accounts will take place with Obama’s Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat.

While the public can thus continue to browse Obama’s social media posts, what will ultimately be exhibited in the presidential center remains a matter of conjecture. It is a safe bet, however, that Obama’s beloved White Sox cap will be on display—despite the recent glory of the other team in town.

Gary Haugen (J.D. ’91), the founder of International Justice Mission, an organization that saves people from human trafficking and slavery.

Michael Murrin, a professor emeritus of religion and literature and Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, received the Norman Maclean Faculty Award for his teaching and contributions to the student community. Murrin has published works on comparative literature and has taught classes in the College, Divinity School,

and the Humanities Division on topics such as medieval English literature, fairy tales, and Renaissance epics.

The Alumni Service Award, which is given to alumni for their significant service to the University, was awarded to Dalita Balassanian (A.B. ’01) and Neil Faust, (A.B. ’86, M.B.A. ’91) for their contributions to the Alumni Clubs of New York and Japan, respectively. Shalin Desai (A .B. ’05) was awarded the Young A lumni Service Award for his service as president of the Alumni Club of Boston.

War Correspondent Discusses 42,000Word NYT Piece on the Middle East

BY CYRUS PACHT MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

War correspondent and novelist Scott Anderson came to Ida Noyes this Wednesday to discuss his 42,000 word landmark New York Times Magazine piece on the collapse of the Middle East, “Fractured Lands.”

The IOP-hosted event, How the Arab World Came Apart: The Groundbreaking New York Times’ Multimedia Project “Fractured Lands,” was moderated

by Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer and former Chicago Tribune Foreign Editor Kerry Luft.

Anderson discussed his months visiting Middle Eastern and Arab countries including Syria, Iraq, Tunisia, and Libya, and how he incorporated the stories of six individuals he met there into the article. “Fractured Lands” encompasses the Iraq War, the tumultuous Arab Spring, and the creation of ISIS.

“I would go to a country, and usually spend about anywhere from four to six weeks there,” Anderson said. “And the idea was to always find a small story, a story about an individual, or a family or a village that had a compelling narrative; that people would follow the story along, but that also spoke on a larger level, that said something about the country or the region or the conflict.”

The editor-in-chief of The New York Times Magazine, Jake Silverstein, gave Anderson the unique chance to spend 18 months developing a comprehensive look at the modern Middle East since the Arab Spring in 2010.

The article was the first in the history of The New York Times Magazine to fill an entire issue.

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Social Sciences Collegiate Assistant Professor Discusses Palestinian Economics

BY MAX FENNELL-CHAMETZKY MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

A collegiate assistant professor in the social sciences gave a talk on economic state building and “bubble language” in the West Bank Friday afternoon.

Kareem Rabie read from his upcoming article on Palestinian economics and “bubble talk,” the current dialogue concerning quality of life and capitalistic development centered around the city of Ramallah. Rabie was looking for feedback from the audience on the content, structure, and persuasiveness of the article.

Rabie began by outlining his intention behind the piece. “I tried to see what Palestinians are actually doing to shape Palestine, and where and how ideas about this place get generated.

Ideas that I think contribute to a lot of the flat representations about Palestine on both left and right, and that reiterate modes of thought that come through histories written in terms of the occupation. That’s one of the threads I’m trying to pull through this thing.”

“Bubble talk” plays a big role in what Rabie wants to communicate about Palestine and in particular, Ramallah, a West Bank city, which Rabie sees as a preeminent example. This “bubble talk” is the idea that economic development in the Ramallah area is not sustainable, founded on falsehoods, and will eventually burst.

For example, even though the housing market is rising in Ramallah, it originates from projected numbers and not actual buyers’ demand. “The housing market has been fabricated to some extent. They’ve created a fictitious demand of 150,000 units. It has no basis in reality,” Rabie said. This kind of economics makes many believe that there is a “bubble” in Ramallah that will pop

at some point.

“The bubble language is pervasive, but it is not coherent. Some argue the bubble is economic, poised to pop, and thereby destroy Ramallah’s boomtown economy. Others contend the bubble is an artificial force that encourages inorganic businesses and can’t survive the occupation,” Rabie said.

Regardless of the future effects of the Ramallah “bubble talk,” it has led to the creation of a capitalist society in Ramallah. “Whether or not it succeeds or fails, [the economic state building project] has organized a massive economic opening in Palestine,” Rabie said, even though he is critical of these ideas. “ The form of investment that makes sense to the donors isn’t philanthropic giving or building a community center: it’s privatization. What the bubble language points to is the seeming contradiction between political instability and attempts to stabilize the West Bank through economic intervention.”

Much of Rabie’s talk covered the history of Ramallah, from its conception through the occupation under Jordan to modern occupation. Rabie drew heavily from the official histories for this portion, and most of it is uncontroversial, but when official history lacks coverage, Rabie contends that personal histories should be treated as official. Thus, parts of his history come from volumes of personal histories and the village histories of the area.

To end the event, Rabie listened and responded to feedback from the audience, jotting down important takeaways with the red pen in his ceaselessly moving hands. Audience members pointed to areas where Rabie could clarify terminology, incorporate talk of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, and discuss resistance politics through economic structures such as capitalism.

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particularly the issues regarding SDS and financial aid, within the next two to three weeks. Wood and Law also noted that Diermeier committed to meet with the students again in December.

“I welcome the dialogue with students across campus. T he meeting touched on a number of issues identified by the students. The discussion was productive and my office and Campus and Student Life have committed to continuing the conversation,” Diermeier wrote in an e-mail to T HE M A ROON. Law and Wood criticized Diermeier’s response to their demand for a $15 per hour minimum wage for all campus workers. Both co-coordinators claimed that in response to their argument, which was political in nature, Diermeier cited the Kalven Report and did not take a stance on the issue. The Kalven Report is a 1967 report on the University’s role in political and social action, which states that the University “cannot take collective action on the issues of the day without endangering the conditions for its existence and effectiveness.”

Wood wrote in her e-mail that the group would be collecting stories from

student and non-student workers about how their wages on campus currently affect them and presenting their stories to Diermeier at a later date. “If this doesn’t move him to act, we will plan on taking further action, as it is unacceptable for the University to keep its workers in poverty,” Wood wrote.

According to Wood, FBU was formed in response to the idea that the University’s budget and priorities do not match up with the needs of the University community. After the group participated in UCSA’s sit-in at the Provost’s office last year, which received national coverage, several student leaders worked through the end of summer and early this quarter to coordinate meetings with Dean of Students in the University Michele Rasmussen as well as Provost Diermeier.

E-mails obtained by T HE M A ROON show that Diermeier suggested that the group meet with Rasmussen first in order to address demands directly related to campus and student life. The five students met with Rasmussen during the second week of the quarter and eventually scheduled a meeting with Diermeier to further explain their campaign, demands, and next steps. Rasmussen was also present at the second meeting.

Polsky Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Shares Advice in Entrepreneurship

BY JAEHOON AHN ASSOCIATE NEWS EDITOR

The former leader of two successful start-ups, SurePayroll and The Tie Bar, shared five pieces of essential advice in entrepreneurship to a group of students on Thursday.

Michael Alter, who is an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Polsky Center, co-founded SurePayroll, a business that provides payroll support to small businesses, and was the former CEO of The Tie Bar, an e-commerce site for men’s accessories. Alter’s talk was pa r t of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship’s Lunch n’ Learn workshop, where students learn from entrepreneurs-in-residence about various aspects of launching and growing a start-up over lunch.

Alter’s first advice was to embrace failures and to learn from them. This echoed many start-up communities’ positive sentiments toward failures as stepping stones for growth. “Don’t be afraid to make mistakes, but make them quickly,” A lters said. He compared business ventures to baseball, where even the best hitters fail around 70 percent of the time.

W hile the small size of start-ups poses some disadvantages to companies that compete with larger corporations, Alter suggested that students think of being small as an advantage. He said

that small size allows for a customized approach to customer service that bigger companies often overlook.

A lter emphasized the importance of focusing on the start-up’s business model. He said entrepreneurs should be extremely conscious of what they are saying yes and no to, instead of trying to capitalize on every opportunity that comes their way.

Alter also advised students to identify their strengths and primarily do what they are good at, while outsourcing work they are not as passionate about to others who are. “ You are not good at everything. The sooner that you can learn what your strength is and concentrate on that, the more successful you will be,” he said.

Finally, Alter encouraged budding entrepreneurs to take advantage of today’s technology. He said that through new technolog y, start-ups have the same access to the resources large corporations use, citing customer relations products such as Salesforce.

Through leveraging such technologies, Alter suggested that start-ups could appear bigger and more established.

The workshop was capped at around twenty people to foster discussion and to address unique problems students faced in building their companies.

The talk drew a diverse audience from interested undergraduates to Booth M.B.A. students with previous entrepreneurial experience.

Pozen Center for Human Rights Director Speaks at Seminary Co-Op

BY YAO XEN TAN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Mark Philip Bradley, the Faculty Director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, discussed his latest book, The World Reimagined: Americans and Human Rights in the 20th Century, last Tuesday evening at the Seminary Co-Op. Set against an international backdrop, The World Reimagined follows the development of modern America’s ubiquitous language and understanding of human rights.

Looking at the 1940s and 1970s, two significant decades in America’s human rights history, the book reviews how new ways of communicating political and legal thought transformed everyday Americans’ understanding of human rights.

“I was constantly having to remind myself that this was a history of human rights and Americans, not the human rights movement as a whole,” said University of Chicago professor Haun Saussy, who joined Bradley in conversation about the book.

“The more I read, the more I realized how unusual the American understanding and the story is in the context of all nations involved in the conversation,” Saussy said.

Saussy opened the discussion by describing several aspects of the book he found surprising. He said that the circulation of visual evidence in publications like Time and Life “very deftly shows how involved the major illustrative magazines were in talking about issues of inequality…in showing how the other half lives.”

Images of farmer hands leaving the dust bowl for California or prisoners in concentration camps, Sassy said, were “now brought home.”

Saussy also emphasized that America’s human rights history was exceptional.

“Americans’ public diplomacy has always been quick to talk about rights to free speech, rights of the individual person; and much less quick to talk about rights to education, rights to medical care…these sorts of things worry Americans because they cost money.”

The rest of the conversation between Bradley and Saussy covered broader issues ranging from the professionalization of human rights, to the different types of human rights prioritized in the 1940s and 1970s, to the promotion of human rights as a discourse by universities and state systems.

The World Reimagined is the third and latest book Bradley has written.

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has served the Eighth District of Illinois since 2013. Before her political career, she fought in Iraq as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot, where she lost her legs to a rocket propelled grenade and was awarded a Purple Heart. When she returned to the States, she became interested in promoting the rights of veterans, and decided to get involved in politics. In 2006, she began working as the Director of the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs. She continued to advocate for veterans in 2009, as the Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ Affairs, and as a Representative in 2013.

Congress (First District) Bobby Rush (D): Representative Bobby Rush has been serving Illinois’s First District for over 20 years, consistently achieving over 70 percent of the vote in consecutive elections.

August (O’Neill) Deuser (R): August Deuser is a retired high school teacher. This is his first time running for office.

Illinois Comptroller The Illinois comptroller is charged with managing the state’s fiscal accounts and, oddly enough, regulating cemeteries.

Leslie Geissler Munger (R): Munger was appointed Illinois State Comptroller in 2015, after the death of her predecessor, Judy Baar Topinka. Munger had previously worked as a corporate executive for Unilever before running for the Illinois House of Representatives in 2014 and narrowly losing.

Susana Mendoza (D): Mendoza has been City Clerk for Chicago since 2011, and was previously a state representative in the Illinois House of Representatives.

State Senate (13th District) Kwame Raoul (D): Raoul, a Hyde Park/ Kenwood native, has been serving as a state senator since 2004, when he replaced Barack Obama. He is running unopposed in this election.

State House (25th District) Barbara Flynn Currie (D): Barbara Currie has been serving in the Illinois House of Representatives since 1978, and has been Majority Leader since 1997. She is running unopposed in this election.

Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx (D): Foxx has served as Assistant State’s Attorney and the Chief of Staff to Cook County Board of Commissioners. Foxx won a contentious race in the Democratic primary earlier this year, which saw her opponent, incumbent Anita Alvarez, driven from the University’s Institute of Politics by protesters.

Christopher E.K. Pfannkuche (R): Pfannkuche served as a prosecutor in Cook County for three decades before deciding to run for State’s Attorney. A March article on Pfannkuche’s candidacy in the Chicago Tribune described him as “little known and self-funded.”

Cook County Clerk of Circuit Court The Clerk of Circuit Court in Cook County is in charge of record-keeping for the court.

Dorothy A. Brown (D): Brown has served in the position since 2000. Brown came under scrutiny earlier this year for requesting a pay raise while her office was under federal investigation.

Diane S. Shapiro (R): Shapiro has a varied career history in education and criminal justice. She is the Republican committeewoman for the 46th Ward.

Ballot Measures (Binding) Transportation Lockbox: If passed, this amendment to the Illinois Constitution would prevent the state legislature from using transportation-related revenue for any other purpose. Passage requires 60 percent of the vote. It would protect funding for transportation projects, but limit the flexibility the legislature currently has to patch holes in Illinois’s budget.

Consolidate Government Offices: If passed, this amendment would eliminate the Office

of the Cook County Recorder of Deeds and give its responsibilities to the Cook County Clerk. Each office is responsible for maintaining a different set of records for Cook County government. Proponents say the consolidation will lead to significant savings. Opponents suggest that the way those savings will be achieved hasn’t been spelled out, and that eliminating the recorder’s office will hurt the vulnerable populations it serves.

Ballot Measures (Advisory) Earned Sick Time: Expresses support for the Earned Sick Time for Employees Act, which is before the Illinois General Assembly. The act, if passed, would allow any employee to earn up to 40 hours of sick leave a year.

Firearms: Expresses support for more stringent penalties for illegal firearm trafficking and background checks for owners and employees at gun-dealerships in Illinois.

School Funding: Expresses support for “full and equitable funding” for Chicago Public Schools from the State of Illinois.

Infrastructure: Expresses support for new, coordinated investments in infrastructure from the city, state, and federal government.

Cook County Circuit Court Retention Hyde Park voters will see a substantial number of judges on their ballot. Prior to the election, the 12 lawyers’ organizations in Chicago and Illinois issue recommendations as to judicial candidates. At least one of those groups expressed skepticism about the following judicial candidates. Many of these organizations do not typically explain their determination, and some groups deny recommendations to judges that do not respond to their questionnaires.

No candidate in Illinois received fewer than nine endorsements. A judge will be retained if they receive three-fifths of the vote.

Irwin J. Solganick: Not recommended for retention by the Cook County Bar Association.

Daniel Joseph Lynch: Not recommended for retention by the Illinois State Bar Associ-

ation and the Chicago Council of Lawyers (CCL). The CCL, the only organization that regularly releases explanations for its retention decisions, said that Lynch was “widely respected for his knowledge of the law and procedure,” but has sometimes “reached beyond his immediate role as judge in a particular matter to engage in legal acts that seem to be outside his normal course of deciding a case before him.”

Laurence J. Dunford: Not recommended for retention by the Lesbian and Gay Bar Association of Chicago (LGBAC).

Jeanne R. Bernstein: Not recommended for retention by the Black Women Lawyers’ Association and the Cook County Bar Association.

Sharon O. Johnson: Not recommended for retention by the Hellenic Bar Association, which represents Greek-American lawyers.

Sandra D. Ramos: Not recommended for retention by the LGBAC. Bonita Coleman: Not recommended for retention by the CCL. Some lawyers responding to the CCL’s survey questioned Coleman’s knowledge of the law and suggested that he favored male lawyers in court, though others disputed this characterization.

Daniel Malone: Not recommended for retention by the LGBAC. Nicholas R. Ford: Not recommended for retention by the CCL. The CCL cited two instances in which rulings by Ford were overturned on appeal. In one of these cases, Ford sentenced a sixteen-year-old to a hundred-year sentence. The appellate court determined that Ford had dwelt on inadmissible factors when determining the sentence.

William Maki: Not recommended for retention by the LGBAC. Diane Joan Larsen: Not recommended for retention by the Illinois Civil Justice League, a group opposed to what it characterizes as excessive litigation. It cites her decision to block a referendum proposed by Governor Rauner that would have required independent creation of legislative maps and an initiative that would have limited medical liability.

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of wine, beer, and liquor. Target has applied for a liquor license, but doesn’t yet have permission to sell alcohol. A community meeting on Wednesday at 5 p.m. will consider Target’s application. The meeting will be held at Murray Language Academy, 5535 South Kenwood Avenue.

Customers present for the grand opening were generally happy with the store, although several said they were disappointed by its small size and limited selection.

At approximately 20,000 square feet, the Hyde Park store is a TargetExpress, the smallest size category of Target stores.

In comparison, typical full-size Targets range from 80,000 to 160,000 square feet.

“It’s a small Target—like a portable Target,” said Don Cee, a lifelong Hyde Park resident. But Cee said he didn’t mind the size limitations. “Target is a super convenient store.”

However, local resident Eduardo Perozo, who was shopping with Susan Mochel, said he was unable to find some items he

was looking for.

“And there’s no bike rack,” Perozo said, a problem for Perozo and Mochel, who biked to the store. Target is geared toward pedestrian shoppers, although a limited number of free one-hour parking spaces are available above the store.

Mochel added that she was worried about the impact of the Target on local small businesses, such as Hyde Park Produce.

In contrast, Target employee Browley said she believes that the Target will

coexist with neighboring businesses, because it fi lls a niche that other Hyde Park stores do not. “There’s not many grocery stores or any markets like this, besides a Walgreens and a CVS,” she said.

Salinas concurred, saying, “I’m excited for what this little Target can bring to the community.”

The Hyde Park Target will be open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays, from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Saturdays, and from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Sundays.

Pete Grieve Target has applied for a liquor license, but does not yet have permission to sell alcohol.

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rapher I’ve worked with for about twenty years and I traveled through the region in search of people who I felt had very compelling narratives to tell.

Not the idea that they were somehow a personification of the country or the region they were from, but that somehow their personal story, the challenges they faced, the decisions they made could say something larger. The hope was that by following these people through these individual stories, you could actually build a tapestry.”

Of these six individuals, according to Luft, two are refugees today, one is likely fighting ISIS, another awaits execution, the children of one are in jail as political dissidents, and another is described as hoping for the unlikely return of a monarchy.

Anderson briefly provided the backstories behind Pellegrin’s projected photographs, which depicted these six people as well as many others, including fleeing civilians in southern Iraq, Libyans crossing over into Tunisia, a secret prison camp in Kurdistan, a pro-human rights activist in Egypt, and a massacre

by ISIS in northern Iraq.

Having covered some fifteen wars, Anderson noted the changing face of foreign correspondence in the Middle East.

“With the rise of ISIS, you have a price tag on your head as a western journalist,” he said. “I’m far more careful now than I used to be. War kind of changed on me having done it for a long time, and being fascinated by it, to be honest. But I’m not sure how much longer I’m gonna be able to do it or have enough interest to do it.”

“And somebody yells something about a gun, and so that’s when things really got out of hand.”

Alexandra Davis Journalist Scott Anderson (center) discusses his New York Times piece “Fractured Lands” on the Arab world at Ida Noyes Theater on Nov. 2 with Pulitzer executive director Jon Sawyer (right) and former Tribune editor Kerry Luft.

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just, just beating the crap out of me,” Crites told CNN affi liate KTNV. “And somebody yells something about a gun, and so that’s when things really got out of hand.”

Secret Service agents, police officers, and SWAT officers carrying assault rifles led Crites away from the crowd to a side room.

Crites was released from custody after the rally with no charges, CNN reported.

Trump returned to the stage minutes later. “Nobody said it was going to be easy for us but we will never be stopped,” he said. “Never ever be stopped.”

In the aftermath, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted false reports that there had been a gun involved in the incident and other tweets that wrongly referred to the incident as an “assassination attempt.”

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VIEWPOINTS Baseball’s Other Curse While the Indians Lost the World Series, Native Americans Continue to Lose Much More

Felipe Bomeny “W”s are flying; Old Style is pouring. With the curse fi nally lifted, Chicago is jubilant. It took 108 years and an extra inning, but the Cubs narrowly edged out the Cleveland Indians for this year’s World Series title. But as Chicago continues to celebrate, decked in royal blue, we cannot forget that the losing team came tantalizingly close to winning and having their own Indians-themed parades—and that’s a problem.

Chief Wahoo, the official mascot of the Cleveland Indians, is racist. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Wahoo reduces an entire nation of people into a red-skinned caricature with a rascally grin. Various Native American activists and scholars, including novelist Sherman Alexie, have decried Wahoo’s feather, which mocks the ceremonial value of eagle feathers.

Moreover, Wahoo has been rightfully likened to the racist Little Sambo trope. While the debate on Native American names and iconography is unfortunately far from new, Chief Wahoo is so blatantly offensive that the Cleveland Indians cannot even adopt other Native American–themed teams’ excuses. Other teams using Native American–inspired names are far from innocent, but many at least make efforts to aid Native American causes. The Chicago Blackhawks, for example, donate to Native American organizations and foundations, while Florida State University

maintains a close relationship with the Seminole Tribe of Florida and claims a reverent representation of Chief Osceola in their pregame pageantry. This hardly excuses the mostly white crowds tapping their mouths in cartoonish war cries and wearing headdresses like teenagers at Coachella. But Cleveland’s only excuse is that Chief Wahoo is part of their long-standing history and thus cannot be changed.

This heritage-based appeal is suspiciously similar to common defenses of the Confederate flag.

Native American mascots disrespect the people they mock by relegating them to the past, perpetuating grotesquely outdated stereotypes while turning a blind eye to contemporary problems.

Before Native American culture was appropriated, the American government unashamedly appropriated Native American land. Modern-day reservations are in many cases impoverished.

In fact, the nation’s lowest per capita income rate is found in the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The economic conditions have turned reservations into veritable food deserts, resulting in Native Americans suffering from a disproportionate obesity epidemic. Other land issues continue to affect Native American communities, whose recent confrontations with police at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota belie any myth of progress in government–Native

American relations.

On the same day, Cleveland fans—many of whom, judging from camera cuts, were beer-bellied white dads with face paint and feathered headdresses—restrained tears during a dramatic Game Seven, Native Americans in North Dakota were restrained and pelted with tear gas. The construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline poses yet another example of encroachment into Native lands—with dire ecological consequences—and the sustained, brutal police reaction to protests is a grim reminder that Native Americans, proportionally, suffer the highest rate of law enforcement homicides.

In light of these pressing issues, I hope the Cleveland Indians will actually address their problematic logo situation, as Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred promised in the aftermath of the World Series. The Indians’ previous compromise—reverting to the block C logo while retaining Chief Wahoo on jerseys—was hardly substantive, though it was more of a step than those taken by the offensively named Washington

“Sure sucks to be an Indian these days, huh?”

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Redskins when they came under fi re. Perhaps it is unsurprising that many white Americans are oblivious to Wahoo’s racism, considering that a demagogue, whose campaign is predicated on blatant racism, is a candidate for the Oval Office. It is no coincidence that Trump leads the polls in the Indians’ home state, a crucial swing state.

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Felipe Bomeny is a second-year in the College majoring in history.

Beyond Wrigley Field The Cubs’ Win Is to Be Shared Amongst Casual and Diehard Fans Alike

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deeply ingrained race problems overnight. But Chief Wahoo—a stereotype even older than the Cubs’ previous win, and one that does not belong in the 21st century—has simply got to go. The Cubs proved that it’s possible to break a decades-long curse. Racism is a tougher curse to banish.

Our live stream lagged behind our neighbors’, so every time something exciting or devastating happened, we heard their reactions across the street before we actually saw it. Lots of excited cheering usually meant the Cubs earned a base hit or got the bat t er out , depend i ng on whether we were at bat or in the field. When cheering was ac compa n ied by excessive “ Wo o’s! ” a nd i nt erm itt ent car honking, we scored. (And we so desperately wanted to hear this after the score was tied 6 – 6 in the bottom of the eighth.) “You’ve gotta be kidding me!” or “Come onnnnnn,” (interspersed with many “booooo’s!”) signaled that we had probably messed up.

R ight before m id n ight , after five hours of nail biting and absolute incredulity (“How did they mess up a 3-point lead? ”) the entire block erupted in celebration.

Broadway Street welcomed a mass exodus to Wr igley

Field—everyone started piling out of their front doors, and car horns honked continuously. We couldn’t peel our eyes from the screen. They won, but what happened? Montgomery was on the mound with the Cubs at the bottom of the tenth inning, with a score of 8 –7 against the Cleveland Indians. The Indians, with two outs, had Michael Martinez at bat with zero balls and one strike. And then, at lightning speed, as he swung at his second pitch, Martinez hit the ball in field, Bryant ran for it and threw it to Rizzo at first base, the Indians conceded their third out, and fin. The Cubs won the World Series. “ That’s it! That’s it! We’ve won. We gotta go.” We watched the enti re game i n a corner third-f loor apartment in Boystown, a 10-minute walk from Wrigley Field. I threw on my Rizzo jersey and bolted down the stairs. Fans crowded the streets: screaming, running, or screaming and running to Wrigley Field, even

though we won in Cleveland.

We strategized: All we needed to do was run four blocks north up Broadway and five or six blocks west on Addison, but the closer we got, the harder it was to move. We zig-zagged th rough the crowd hold ing hands. The most enthusiastic fans were climbing street lights and stop signs, and standing on the roofs of cars and buildings, and we held up beer cans and W flags and shouted at the top of our lungs, “Go Cubs go! Go Cubs go! Hey Chicago, whaddya say? The Cubs are gonna win today?” over and over until we were out of breath.

When Wrigley Field’s marquee sign flipped to announce “CU B S W I N,” the immed iate joy, whether celebrated by cheering, crying, honking horns, or popping a bottle of champagne, knew no bounds.

We celebrate in honor of fans’ loved ones who never had the chance to witness the Cubs win it all. We celebrate in honor of the players, like David Ross, who scored a home run in his last ever professional game of baseball, and Anthony Rizzo, who defeated cancer less than 10 years ago. We even celebrate Continued on page 7

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A Home Run for All of Chicago Continued from page 6 bandwagoners who never previously understood the unifying power that has always been characteristic of the Cubs.

On Saturday night, nearly half the audience at a Young the Giant concert was decorated in red, white, and blue.

Interspersed throughout the crowd, Rizzos and Bryants weren’t shouting at a ball game but belting the lyrics to “My Body,” and once everyone started exiting the venue, someone started a never-ending repetition of the victory song.

Shouts of “Go, Cubs, Go!” filled Aragon Ballroom. Our team had won the World Series and created a unifying identity

that extended far beyond just baseball.

Growing up near Chicago, I repeatedly heard, “We’ll get ’em next year!” from the die-hard fans. I didn’t grow up with a love of sports, but my cousin took me to my first ever ball game at Wrigley Field in the summer of 2012.

For my senior year post-prom celebration, my best friends and I watched the Cubs take on the Cardinals. I have hardly watched enough Cubs games to call myself a devoted fan, but they’ve always been my go-to team.

The Cubs’ victory represents more than the end to a 108-year-long drought.

On Wednesday night, the entire city

watched, listened, or screamed in the stands. I jumped in an Uber heading downtown right before the start of the game, and Betty, assuming I wasn’t from the city, apologized when she turned on the game: “I’m sorry, but this is really important for us Chicagoans.”

When I pointed to the Cubs logo on my jersey, she turned around, dipped her hat down to point at the Cubs’ logo, and asked, almost pleadingly, “So, do you really think they’ve got a shot?” Throughout the National League Championship Series and the World Series, whenever people asked, “So are you watching the game tonight? ” I immediately knew

what they were referring to.

So don’t lambast the bandwagon, fair-weather fans for hopping on the victory train and sharing in the celebration late in the game. Cubs fans are rejuvenated, and their positive energy permeates the city, encouraging other people to get involved. This team represents a certain sense of inclusivity, dissuading us from shaming the fans who just now decided to root for the Cubs. This win is not just for diehard Cubbies—it is for the city itself.

Brooke White is a third-year in the College majoring in public policy.

The America I Know With One Candidate Challenging Longheld American Values, This Election Is Uniquely Crucial

Dylan Stafford It is finally upon us: Election Day in America, when we’ll reckon with the preceding 20 months of the most erratic, unnerving, and—above all else— dispiriting presidential campaign cycle in recent American history.

Apart from making any last minute pitches and pleas to voters and anxiously biting our nails, there’s not much left to do between now and the moment that Wolf Blitzer announces he has an important CNN projection for viewers.

When we wake up tomorrow morning, however, I hope with every fiber of my being that we will wake up to an inclusive America that looks devotedly into its future and embraces its diversity as its greatest asset. I pray that we’ll live in an America that has turned out in droves to decisively reject the hateful bigotry and ugly bombast that are antithetical to our values and character as a nation. We ought to wake up to a country that embraces bold ideas and forward progress, not shallow slogans or vicious chants. One that relies on the genius and ingenuity of its people to solve its most pressing challenges, rewarding those who work hard and honorably along the way.

Sipping our morning coffee in this America, we will have elected a supremely qualified and capable candidate—a woman whose life’s work has the mantra “do the most good for the most people” at its core. At long last, we will have joined the ranks of more than 70 nations that have already had a female head of state or government.

Our president-elect will have a long history of improving the lives of millions of people in America and across the globe through an unrelenting effort to make progress wherever possible.

The America we deserve to wake up to tomorrow morning is a place that elects role models over self-serving provocateurs with vices that would disqualify anyone from being a decent member of society. We’ll have repudiated—as best we can—the indefensible notion that bragging about sexual assault is mere locker room talk, that immigrants and Muslims wish to do us harm, and that you can bully your way out of conf lict. And rather than boil

down the issues facing an entire community to troubles of the impoverished “inner city,” a majority of us will have sided with a camp that talks about implicit bias and the responsibilities we must all shoulder as a result of America’s reprehensible history with race.

All this isn’t to say, however, that the road ahead will be smooth in the America I hope to wake up in tomorrow morning. It won’t be, and we could never have expected it to be. We will still confront the same anger and depravity we’ve witnessed in recent months.

Our country will still have to govern with a dysfunctional Congress and a disillusioned electorate. Perhaps our nation will even have to find a way to navigate the ugly waters that result from a presidential nominee convincing a plurality of his supporters that the election—administered independently on the county level in 50 states and the District of Columbia—was rigged.

Even with all this to grapple with, tomorrow morning we will have had the singular opportunity to accomplish two absolutely critical things. We will have been able to conclusively—once and for all— prevent the most dangerous and abhorrent recent nominee of a major political party from sitting in the Oval Office. Of equal import, we will have had the chance to elect an indefatigable, progressive public servant as our nation’s first woman president.

I have faith in both of these things happening. And I am confident this vision of America will prevail, because it’s the one I have grown up in—and it’s the one that has given me all the opportunities that have so far culminated in my being here in Hyde Park.

If there’s one thing I have learned from my 18 years as a citizen of this country, it is that in spite of all possible indications to the contrary, at the end of the day America keeps pushing forward. Its triumphs are ever greater, and slowly but surely more and more people are given a bona fide shot at success. This doesn’t happen without difficulty, regression, or gridlock, but it happens. Progress, after all, comes with a “two steps forward, one step back” cadence.

Of course, this election has tested a lot of assumptions. In 2016, nothing is ever truly off the table. We could very well wake up tomorrow morning with an imposter as president-elect. But this outcome seems only possible in an America that is entirely foreign to me.

So here’s hoping we still have our brains and that in the coming weeks

and months we’ll join together in appreciation of all that we do have right.

It’s a lot to hope for. But what are we —and what is this country—without hope?

Dylan Stafford is a first-year in the College.

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ARTS Race, Pain, and Laughter at the Revival

BY NICK OGILVIE MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

‘‘Happiness isn’t someth i ng that ’s mea nt t o last forever i n a world t h i s me s s e d up.’ ’ L ocal politician, philanthropist, and hip-hop artist Rhymefest put it eloquently during a speech on letting go of the small losses in life and learning to be happy by abstracting the everyday injustices experienced in modern society.

It’s exactly these injustices, and the consequent ability to both acknowledge and laugh them off, that “ Word Play” challenges every month. Curated by Dave Jeff, founder of local creative consultancy PHLI, and hosted

by Leon Rogers, local comedian and co-host of Chicago Morning Takeover on 107.5 WGCI, the show brings together and shows off some of Chicago’s local talent. From up-and-coming artists to Grammy winners, their aim is to “incite laughter, cheers, and tears” while providing an insight into some of the realities of modern-day America.

T he show ’s chosen med ia — h ip hop, spoken word, and stand-up—are as endemic as any of the issues the show addresses. At the grassroots level, these art forms provide viewpoints into the daily reality of what it’s like to be not-white and unfairly represented in a country that seems both obsessed with, and lackadaisical about, shaking off centuries of cultural hangover. Yet, at the mainstream level, they are commodified and marketed to exactly the audience that isolated these artists in the first place. It’s only recently that

this expectation in mainstream entertainment has been challenged by recent shows like Donald Glover’s Atlanta and the work of up-and-coming artists like Vince Staples and Chance the Rapper, who all remain staunchly uncompromising. It’s through shows and cultural movements like “ Word Play” that this positive trend can continue.

From Rogers laughing at the struggles of modern fatherhood, to 66 and Smitty B describing the experience of being young and a minority in Chicago, we can hear what life can be like for a true range of people minus the filter of the modern media cycle.

Voices like these are important because they can cut through this bias— imaginary or not, conscious or not.

They provide a reality check, reminding us that not everyone has forgotten the ills of the life of minorities in Chicago.

Maybe that’s why it’s important that we learn how to laugh when we hear T Murph describe having to get a “designated passenger” just to drive around Hyde Park without fear of getting stopped by the police—partly because they’re funny stories well told, and partly because we’ve run out of ways to cry at a system so obviously biased against some, with no clear exit.

At one point during his time on st age, R hy mefest re ca l led a ti me when, shortly after he won his Grammy, he was having dinner with a reverend who, having heard the news, turned to him and asked, “OK, that was yesterday, what are you going to today? ” He pointed out that even in our times of greatest success, modern

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Comedian T Murph has appeared in shows like Chicago Fire and Key & Peele.

life forces us to keep looking forward.

Perhaps the key word in the description is “incite,” from the Latin “to urge” or “to stir up.” These shows aren’t important just because they’re raw, real voices of modern life, but because they need to be heard if we want to acknowledge, process, and move onward.

W hat are you going to do today?

“Word Play” runs every first Friday of the month at The Revival at 10 p.m.

Tickets available online or at the door.

Another comedy show in a similar vein, “ Bla ck F riday,” runs on th e s e c on d F r i d ay of th e m onth .

James Levine Hits a Home Run with the CSO

BY REBECCA JULIE ASSOCIATE ARTS EDITOR

This weekend, as Chicagoans continued to celebrate the historic end to the 108 -year Cubs victory drought, the Ch icago Symphony O rchestra (CSO) ended a nine-year James Levine drought. Well, almost. A side from Levine’s appearance with the orchestra at the Ravinia Festival for Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony this past July, this weekend was his first downtown appearance with the CSO since 2005.

At Saturday evening’s performance, it was clear that audience members and musicians alike were thrilled to have this maestro back at the helm. Conducting from a custom-built podium to accommodate his motorized scooter, Levine led the orchestra in Mozart’s Paris Symphony, Schoenberg’s Five Pieces for Orchestra, and closed with a blazing, effusive Symphonie Fantastique by Berlioz.

Levine’s rapport with Mozart is well known. He conducted the first-ever Met performances of Idomeneo and La Clemana de Tito, and his interpretation of Paris on Saturday demonstrated nothing but mastery. The work’s dramatic opening theme was treated with care: the bold opening chords expertly contrasted with the upper strings’ gentle response just measures later.

The real magic of the piece, however, came from the Andante. Levine kept the movement bright enough to truly consider it andante, a welcome respite from its tendency to drag. It was this moment that allayed any fears that

had circulated around Levine’s conducting since a number of health issues forced him to step down last year from his 39-year tenure at the Met. However, Levine consistently showed a level of expertise and control on Saturday. His attention to detail on the Schoenberg was impressive. Five Pieces for Orchestra—running the gamut of moods and forgoing much traditional tonality—was played both sensitively and exuberantly. At times the orchestra felt slightly timid, though. The CSO is not known for its love of modern music, and there were moments when I felt their tangible discomfort, notably during the movement entitled Summer Morning by a Lake (Colors).

However, any hiccoughs or moments of shyness were very much compensated by the fact that the nuanced interpretation of this complex score allowed the musicians to demonstrate their most sensitive, energetic, and dissonant selves, all within 16 minutes.

The applause at the end of the evening was decidedly the longest and the most raucous that I have experienced at Symphony Center. This was undoubtedly because Saturday evening’s Symphonie Fantastique was stunning, the famous March to the Scaffold notably so. The movement’s famous opening theme in the cello and bass sections were dramatic, with players digging into their bows for the dry, full sound I had hoped for.

Soloists throughout the piece were consistently excellent, with the percussion section excelling in the complex timpani parts that are a hallmark of this work.

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Conductor James Levine returns to the CSO after almost 40 years at the Metropolitan Opera .

If the title of the final movement, Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath, is any indication, Berlioz’s conclusion to this nearly hour-long marathon is nothing short of a frenzy. Notable contributors to said frenzy were the clarinet section, particularly the E-f lat clarinet. John Bruce Yeh played the manic, witch-dancing solo with ease and an enthusiasm that had his section mate, principal Stephen Williamson, nodding his head with a sly smirk.

Saturday was E-flat clarinet at its most exciting, which is fitting, consid-

ering that Levine’s interpretation of Symphonie Fantastique was the CSO at its most exciting as well. When the piece came to a close, the house—sadly under-filled on Saturday—applauded long enough that Levine left the podium and returned back up the ramp three times. Each time he reached the top of the podium, he turned to the audience, hand on heart, acknowledging the musicians behind him, joy palpable. Welcome back to Chicago, Mr. Levine: I’m glad we did not have to wait 108 years to see you back at Symphony Center.

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Blue Man Group Shows Color with Humor and Social Commentary

BY ABBY KUCHNIR MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Well-established in cities across America, the Blue Man Group continues to draw crowds to their unique blend of performance art. The atmosphere of Briar Street Theater, home to Chicago’s Blue Man Group, is immediately different from that of Lakeview Street.

The walls of the lobby are covered with PVC pipes and the music has a thumping bass. The lobby and the auditorium are bathed in blue light, transforming spectators into blue men too.

The first glimpses of the show’s apparent message (and quirky style) appeared in the form of a screen with red lettering sliding across it, commanding the audience in a list of zany tasks.

We spoke, rather than sang, “Happy Birthday” in unison to a mysterious birthday boy. We instructed a woman with a headache to envision her cerebral ailment as a cheerful grazing cow, and then slaughter it. We all screamed t ogether, a nd the cu r ta i n opened.

With their audience primed for unsettling silliness, three performers indistinguishable from one another and slathered in avocado-based cerulean paint appeared on stage. The center Blue Man beat out a rhythm on a large, upr ight d r um while the other two poured on paint, which splashed rhythmically onto the stage and the first few rows of the audience. The percussion acts continued to impress throughout the show, done with unusual objects like PVC pipes and handfuls of cereal.

T he band per forming a longside was as skillful as the main act. Their smooth (and sometimes raucous) background music set the mood for the performance. At one point during their riff, an audience member cried out, “ Free Bird! ” The band picked it up with such fresh energy that I was surprised and disappointed to learn later that the caller was an audience plant.

T he Blue Men’s sketches played with some big ideas. The overarching theme was conformity, which we a l ready exper ienced at the beg i nning when we chanted in unison in response to the red-lettered screen.

T he screen’s decrees kept cropping up throughout the show. Later the audience uniformly performed “rock

concert moves” like the “one-handed fist-pump” and the “raise the roof ” as instructed by a digital stick figure, The conformity call-out was driven to an uncomfortable extreme during an act entitled “ The Feast,” during which the Blue Men brought an audience volunteer to the stage to eat Twinkies together. When the three Blue Men held up a bite of Twinkie on a fork held in their left hands, they looked expectantly at the volunteer until she held up her Twinkie’d fork as well. Seeing that she was using her right hand, all of the Blue Men transferred their forks into their right hands to match. Later in the sketch, one of the Blue Men used a Shop-Vac to suck the woman off of the copy of Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” that had been hanging in the background, undermining a painting that has become a classic representation of an individual’s spirit. The audience roared with startled laughter.

W hile the conformity theme hit home, the Blue Men were less successful in exploring the theme of humans and technology. Eight-feet tall iPhone look-a-like devices called “GiPads” descended from the ceiling and displayed factoids meant to induce guilt about the amount of time modern Americans supposedly spend with technology at the expense of our interpersonal relationships. Besides being annoyingly preachy, the act and others that referenced modern technology felt hopelessly outdated. The GiPads looked like iPhones from around 2010, an unfortunate testament to how difficult it is to keep a critique of technology in a show up to date at a time when technology is changing at an alarming pace.

The technology segment was a poorly executed part of an otherwise funny, weird, and thought-provoking show.

Blue Man Group is an art piece that is not only highly enjoyable at the surface level but also rewarding for viewers looking deeper. Throughout, the conformity motif was consistent and the percussion was tight. Despite occasional hiccups in execution, the Blue Man Group was an excellent way to spend a T hursday evening.

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The Blue Man Group uses avocado-based cerulean paint to achieve their signature look.

Korean Girls Dance for Prize

Estelle Higgins

International House hosted the 2016 International Korean Traditional Performing Arts Competition, an event sponsored with the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea that featured elementary-aged children through adults competing for a grand prize of $1000 from the Governor of Illinois.

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Regular Season Ends in Tie for No. 1 Maroons MEN’S SOCCER

DANNY EISGRUBER MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

The South Siders tied Wash U 0 – 0 this Saturday in St. Louis to finish the regular season undefeated. They managed the draw despite playing almost half of the game with only 10 players.

The No. 1 Maroons already clinched the UA A conference championship and a berth to the NCA A DIII National Tournament last weekend. They will play either Dubuque or Westminster College in the second round on Sunday at Stagg Field after a first-round bye.

The Bears, on the other hand, were competing for an at-large bid on Saturday, but f irst-year defender Sam Drablos does not think this difference in motivation impacted the game. “ I think we definitely went into that game treating it as a game that we should win,” Drablos said, who has started in 14 games this season. “They played a little bit harder than they normally did but I don’t think the fact that we had already secured a spot made us play any different.”

The Maroons controlled the first half of play and outshot their opponents 7–2. They nearly broke through in the 21st minute when second-year forward Matthew Koh beat the keeper but was denied by an outstanding team effort on the part of the Wash U defenders.

The momentum shifted in Wash U ’s favor when fourth-year forward Brenton Desai was sent off in the 61st minute, but the South Siders managed to keep the game scoreless and escaped with a draw.

“Putting us down to 10 men made it really difficult in terms of being able to attack, but the fact that we were able to keep out a goal while down a man really showed us as a team how mature we are,” Drablos said.

The red card was Desai’s second of the year, which means he would normally face a two-game suspension that would sideline him until the Elite Eight. However, the Maroons feel the red card was unwarranted and will be challenging the suspension. “ My coach and the Wash U coach both agreed that it wasn’t a red card offense, and my first red card was not a red card offense either, so my coach filed a formal protest with the NCA A to hopefully get that overturned so that I can play,” Desai said. He is second on the team in scoring with nine goals. “If I’m not able to play then I’ll just have to be cheering from the sidelines and hope that we can win.”

The draw means that Chicago finishes the regular season undefeated for the first time in program history, but the Maroons tied two of their last three games and only scored two goals in that

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stretch. Despite this stuttering end to the season, Desai remains confident the team will perform in the tournament. “ We just have been a little bit off with our attack, but I don’t think it’s any thing to worr y about,” he said.

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pens. It’s not a big deal. I think we’ll be back on track for the postseason.”

Due to its standout play and No. 1 ranking, the squad heads into the postseason with a bye and home field advantage. The Maroons will begin their postseason campaign this Sunday.

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South Siders Fall in Overtime WOMEN’S SOCCER

BY ALEC MILLER SPORTS STAFF

This past weekend marked the end of the 2016 University of Chicago women’s soccer season. Fortunately, the UAA conference title was staring the Chicago women in the face. The South Siders squared off against archrival Wash U this past weekend with the conference title and postseason implications on the line. Unfortunately, the Maroons were not able to cap their season off with a championship. Wash U was victorious by a score of 1–0 in overtime.

The Maroons traveled down to St. Louis for the weekend with a 4–2 conference record and an overall record of 15–2.

Chicago’s conference record put it right behind fi rst place Wash U in the UAA standings. On Saturday, the table was set for the fi rst and second place teams to battle in a winner-take-all match for the UAA championship.

The match was all it was built up to be. Both sides came out playing fast and physical soccer. After the fi rst half of action, the score was tied 0–0. In the following half, the results for both sides were more of the same. Many shots yielded no goals for the Maroons and the Bears in regulation. When 90 minutes were up, the score was still knotted 0 – 0. This tightly contended match would have to be settled in overtime.

In overtime, the action picked up quickly. After 90 minutes of scoreless soccer, it took only nine minutes of extra time before there was a goal. Wash U’s Katie Chandler broke away from the Chicago defense in the 99th minute and Third-year forward Mia Calamari boots the ball downfield.

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finished in the back of the net. Chandler’s goal was the deciding factor in Wash U’s 1–0 victory. Wash U fi nished the 2016 season as UAA champions.

The UAA championship was not the only thing on the line this weekend for Chicago. There were also huge postseason implications for both teams. The Maroons came into the weekend ranked eighth in the nation and Wash U came into the game ranked 10th. With Wash U’s championship victory, they earned an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

Thankfully, the Maroons were not penalized for the loss and were still selected for the tournament. Additionally, Chicago was selected to host the tournament’s opening round games. This upcoming Saturday, Chicago is scheduled to face Webster. Then, if the Maroons win, they will host the winners of the Augsburg vs.

MSOE game.

The team is excited about the prospect of playing at home in the playoffs.

“We were very excited to fi nd out we will be hosting the fi rst and second round of the tournament,” third-year defender Whitley Cargile said. “Although we were successful [Webster], we are not taking the game lightly. We are focused on having a solid week of training, preparing for the game and hopefully more games to come.”

After this weekend the Maroons are down, but they are certainly not out.

They will need to forget the tough loss in the UAA if they want a chance to make a run for the NCAA tournament. Chicago will kick off against Webster on Saturday, November 12 at 11 a.m. in the fi rst round of the NCAA tournament.

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Fourth Place Finish for Streaky Chicago VOLLEYBALL

BY ANDREW BEYTAGH SPORTS STAFF

This weekend, the volleyball squad competed in the UA A Championships in St. Louis. Heading into the tourna-

ment, the Maroons were 7– 0 in UA A round robin play and owned the No. 1 seed in the tournament.

On the first day of competition at Wash U, the Maroons had two matches, one against Brandeis University

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Second-year outside hitter Audrey Scrafford rises high above the net for to strike the ball.

and the second against Carnegie Mellon University. In the first match, the Maroons dominated Brandeis, winning decisively (25–14, 25–14, 25–16).

Throughout the first match, the Maroons achieved a hitting percentage of .309 compared to Brandeis’s percentage of .038.

The second match of the day proved to be more challenging for the Maroons as they faced the No. 21 ranked Carnegie Mellon Tartans. It was a backand-forth battle as Carnegie struck first, taking the first two sets; however, the South Siders fought back and evened the match up with two sets of their own. In the deciding fifth set, the Tartans came out on fire, at one point leading 10 –5, and finished the set off with a score of 15–11.

With the loss, the Maroons were then set to play the host, Wash U, for third place. In the battle the Maroons struggled early, dropping the first two sets to the host. The Maroons took the third set hitting .419. In the fourth set, Chicago had the lead at 15–8, but Wash U stormed back to win the set with two kills 26 –24.

Four th-year libero Mar y Claire Tuohy said of the UA A tournament, “Our earlier performances during pool play put us in a position to win. And we played hard this weekend. Even

though things didn’t end the way we were hoping, that’s all you can ask for.” Looking back at the two losses to end the tournament, Tuohy said, “Unfortunately, when playing good teams like Carnegie Mellon and Wash U this weekend, the slow starts really hurt us. Taking Carnegie to five games after a two-game deficit was great. However, had we started out playing that match like we finished playing, I think the outcome would have been very different.”

A fter a weekend that did not go quite as planned for the Maroons, Tuohy was proud of how hard her team battled. “One of our starting outside hitters twisted her ankle in the first match against Brandeis and was out for the Carnegie Mellon and Wash U game.

I don’t think there are many teams who could come together the way we did after losing such an important player and still play as hard as we did.”

The Maroons were not selected to be part of the 2016 NCA A volleyball tournament despite an excellent year in UA A play. The Maroons will lose some tremendous fourth-years and should be proud of how well they played throughout the year. The South Siders should carry over their success to the next season with more than half of the team’s being first- or second-years.

Fourth Quarter Woes Lead to Loss FOOTBALL

BY SIDDHARTH KAPOOR MAROON CONTRIBUTOR

Conceding 23 points in the fourth quarter without scoring any in reply, UChicago lost to the Carnegie Mellon Tartans on Saturday 34–27. However, after holding a double-digit lead after the first three quarters, the South Siders were assuredly disappointed to come out of the game with a loss.

The Maroons came into the game with a 4–4 record (0–2 UAA) whereas the Tartans entered with a slightly better record of 5–3 (1–1 UAA). But with home field advantage and momentum on Chicago’s side after a strong win against Sewanee, it promised to be a fiery and tightly contested encounter.

As has become the norm, fourth-year quarterback Burke Moser had another stellar game, exceeding more than 400 yards for the third time in his career. The wide receiver pair of first-year Dante Nepa and fourth-year Syd Reynolds benefited with a combined 300 yards between them. In addition, third-year star running back Chandler Carroll ran for 122 yards with one touchdown rushing, while also catching 13 passes for 77 yards.

The game started with an ebb and flow.

Chicago took the lead after Carroll and Reynolds combined to lead the Maroons down the field and subsequently punch the ball in from five yards. CMU fought back almost instantaneously, scoring on its first possession after Chicago’s interception was cancelled out by a penalty. But, as time passed, Chicago started to grab a foothold on the game, scoring back-to-back plays

leading to a 17–7 lead at halftime for the South Siders.

There was more back-and-forth play after halftime as both teams scored plays in the third quarter. The key play came when the Tartans pickpocketed Moser and the resulting play brought the score to 24–21.

This was followed by barrage from the Tartans. In the end, they scored 28 points over the course of five plays and the Maroons had no answer to the eventual winners.

While the loss was disappointing, one player who is not losing hope is Carroll.

“We talk a lot about competing in our team room. A big aphorism for us is, it’s not if we win or if we lose, but how we win or how we lose. And how we lost the game was a bit disappointing last Saturday,” Carroll said.

“However, we are excited as we have an opportunity to compete against a formidable opponent this weekend in Washington University in St. Louis.”

Looking forward to the next game, Carroll said, “Our next game is a great opportunity, and one that we have had marked on our calendars for almost a year now. We are playing to bring the Founder’s Cup back to Chicago. Additionally, a win against our rivals would allow us to carry a lot of momentum into the offseason as we prepare for the 2017 football season. More importantly, it’s just another opportunity to play the game we love.”

The game against Wash U will take place this Saturday at noon. It is also Senior Day, and the Maroons will honor the fourth-years who will play their last game at Stagg Field.

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Fourth-year quarterback Burke Moser drops back to pass.