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Students Voice Opposition to Convocation Changes BY ALEX WARD SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
Student Government (SG) has finished collecting feedback on the upcoming changes to College Convocation, which University officials have confirmed will be implemented starting this year. In an e-mail sent on October 27, Dean of Students in the College John “Jay” Ellison announced that the 2017 College Convocation would occur as eight separate ceremonies, one for each residence hall.
Students will receive their diplomas from their Resident Masters with members of their house. P rev iously, students across the College had received their diplomas from President Robert Zimmer in one large ceremony. The e-mail also announced the creation of a Class Day, which will take place on June 9, the day before Convocation. Class Day will include an address to the graduating class by a guest speaker, as well as a reception for seniors at the
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Campus Climate Survey Results Released ADAM THORP NEWS EDITOR
the water, bantering in-between. One of the men—who goes by Strohs—fishes the harbor religiously. “I get back from work in the morning and come out. I spend almost all day out here fishing.” What if it’s 20 degrees and snowing? “We always fish. We get out on the ice. Some of us here get out on the ice,” said Strohs, notso-subtly indicting his counterpart as a fair-weather fisherman. The supposed lightweight—a man named Day—was not pleased. “C’mon now. I get on the ice when it’s 14 inches thick.” Strohs: “If the ice is over a foot and a half we’re good.” Day: “Hell no. Fourteen inches. If there’s over a foot and a half, they drive trucks on it.” Like Kingfisher, these two have frequented Jackson Park since a young age. “I was out here 40 years ago,” Day said. “Then I took a break, but been here for the last 25.” Said Strohs, “Let’s just say I been here 30-plus.” A nearby man, however, was fishing in Jackson Park for the first time. But Sunday wasn’t his first rodeo: “I’m all over this country. Wherever there’s water I’ll be on it.” Tall gates line the western edge of the harbor. A digital code— or the audacity to sneak in behind an authorized vehicle—is needed to get through to the wharfs. Outside this gated oasis, cars careen by on Lake Shore Drive. Cyclists whiz around the water’s edge. Sitting in the shoreline brush is a red-tailed hawk, eyeing
More than 20 percent of respondents found the overall environment on the University of Chicago’s campus racist, according to the results of a survey of campus climate conducted by the University in the spring and released today. The report, which also measured the number of respondents who found the overall environment sexist (21 percent), unwilling to accommodate people with disabilities (14 percent), and homophobic (6 percent), noted that the survey found sometimes substantially lower numbers reporting bias in their classes, department, or work unit compared to the campus as a whole. Only 12 percent of people responding to the survey found this—what the report called their “proximal campus climate”—racist. Racial minorities were much more likely to report that the overall environment, as well as their proximal environment, was racist. More than 40 percent of black students said the overall environment was racist—a number that fell to only 27 percent for their proximal environment. White students were least likely to find the overall campus environment racist (18 percent). Women were more than twice as likely as men to indicate that the overall campus environment was sexist. Almost five times as many heterosexual students as non-heterosexual students responded to the survey, which explains the relatively low number of respondents who reported that the campus environment was homophobic: 3 percent of heterosexual students thought the campus environment was homophobic, as opposed to 13 percent of non-heterosexual students. “This disparity suggests that there is incongruence on perception of the climate around homophobia between those most likely to be affected by homophobia and the majority of the cam-
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On Tuesday, volunteers gathered a large pile of leaves for students to jump in as part of the “Make Chicago Smile” project.
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back from a 1–0 deficit to top host As leaves fall and daylight DePauw University (12–6–2) 2–1 fades, a group of fishermen gather SPORTS STAFF in the second round. On Sunday, around Jackson Park’s Inner HarThe No. 1 men’s soccer team host Chicago cruised past West- bor, replacing summertime boats continues postseason play this minster, scoring less than two with rods and reels. About 25 fishermen were scatweekend, hosting a four-team sec- minutes into the game and netting tional of the Sweet 16. Coming off three more shots in the first half. tered about the harbor on a recent of a first-round bye and a dominant The win gave UChicago and third- Sunday morning, casting lines 4–0 victory over Westminster Col- year goalkeeper Hill Bonin their and basking in mid-November sun. The crowd here is not young. lege (MO) in the second round, the 15th shutout of the season. Chicago and Redlands will “I’ve been coming here since I was Maroons (17–0-2, 5–0–2 UAA) will take on the No. 25 Universi- play each other for the first time 13,” said Robert, a 50-somethingty of Redlands Bulldogs (17–5–1) in program history on Saturday. year-old fisherman who lives “just on Saturday. The winner will face Last year, both the Maroons and around the corner.” Bundled up in either the Benedictine University the Bulldogs went home in in the a hat, camouflage coat, and sunEagles (Ill.) (16–4–2) or the No. second round of the NCAA tourna- glasses, Robert paced the harbor’s 8 University of St. Thomas (MN) ment, with the Maroons falling to concrete dock, tinkering with his Tommies (18–1–3) on Sunday in Kenyon in a penalty kick shootout rod and cursing a flock of geese and Redlands dropping to Trinity overhead. the quarterfinals. Most of the inner harbor is Last weekend, Redlands (Texas) 1–0. Chicago returns to the knocked off No. 23 Wash U (10– Sweet 16 for the second time and ringed by vegetation, so the reg4–3) in penalty kicks in the first first since 1996, while Redlands ulars populate the wharfs on the western shore. They sit on buckets, round of the tournament and came Continued on back page securing bait to hooks and casting lines into the blue-green water. At the end of one wharf, an unruly sprawl of nets, tackle boxes, and bags full of bluegill surrounded a large, seated man. The man— let’s call him Kingfisher—said he has been fishing the Jackson Park harbors for 60 years. Are there more fish or less fish nowadays than six decades ago? “Same fish, same fish,” he grumbled. “There’s always fish.” Kingfisher muttered “I don’t know” to himself every several seconds that went by without a bite. Twenty feet down the pier, two University of Chicago Athetics Department men cast their lines in and out of Third-year goalkeeper Hill Bonin prepares to face a shot.
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There wasn’t a “sol” who didn’t sway, dance, or sing in Chicago’s Riviera Theatre last Friday night as Rufus Du Sol performed old hits and new tracks.
The women’s basketball team will play their first games of the season in St. Louis for the McWilliams Classic.
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The Maroon’s fashion feature rigoriously inquires: “Who are you wearing?” This week, we talked to third-years Tuyaa Montgomery and Lexi Drexelius.
To use the economy to argue in Trump’s favor is vastly misguided and wrongly turns the conversation away from ill-framed policies and disastrous issue positions.
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Protestors Walk Out of Classes, Rally Against Trump BY ALEX WARD SENIOR NEWS REPORTER
More than 200 students, faculty, and members of the campus community gathered outside Levi Hall Tuesday for a rally against Donald Trump and the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The demonstrators met to show solidarity with groups that face increased prejudice in the wake of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency. The rally was also part of a national day of action to support the North Dakota Standing Rock Sioux tribe in their effort to halt the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) across their primary water source. The event’s Facebook page asked students to walk out of classes during the rally to show their support. The rally was organized by a group of campus organizations including UChicago Student Action (UCSA), the Organization of Black Students (OBS), Phoenix Survivors Alliance, and el Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan (MEChA). Speakers addressed the crowd, many of whom held signs with messages including “Legalize Melanin,” “No Carrot is Gonna Deport Me,” and “Stay Outraged,” from the steps in front of Levi Hall. The speeches were broken up by rounds of chants including “No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA,” and “Say it loud, say it clear, refugees are welcome here.” Third-year Christina Uzzo read a statement released Monday by the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe following the Army Corps of Engineers’ decision to delay an easement necessary to the DAPL’s construction pending environmental review. After Uzzo’s speech and another round of chants, Luis Gomez, an undocumented student at the Illinois Institute of Technology, spoke about the fears he had about his family and friends being deported under Trump’s administration. José Heredia, a third-year and member of MEChA, warned the crowd that
they should expect increased violence against minorities, fi nishing with MEChA’s slogan of “La union hace la fuerza,” which translates to “Unity creates strength.” Fourth-year Mari Cohen highlighted the Trump campaign’s close associations with white supremacists and anti-Semitic groups, particularly highlighting Trump’s appointment of Breitbart executive Steve Bannon as his senior advisor. The mention of Bannon’s name drew boos and shouting from the crowd. OBS organizer JT Johnson stressed a perceived connection between the Standing Rock Sioux’s opposition to the DAPL, solidarity with victims of racially motivated assaults and harassment at colleges including the University of Pennsylvania, and challenges to legal discrimination against transgender people as smaller bouts in a long-running fight against prejudice. Anna Wood, a UCSA representative, told the crowd that opposing Trump should not be the end of their activism. “If we only resist Trump, without also fighting for a bold, radical vision of what our country and our world could look like, the best thing that we could possibly end up with is the same thing we had before, which is already bad enough for a lot of people.” Following the rally, Johnson spoke about the importance of unity. “Native Americans, black Americans, Latinx people, all of our struggles are tied, and none of us can be free unless we’re all free.” Third-year and UCSA leader Alex Ding encouraged students feeling disheartened after the election to become involved in activist efforts moving forward from the rally. “More than ever, I think we need to put up a united front as students to stand opposed to the policies that Trump would employ, but also to the policies that this university employs as well…. Plug in, get involved, stand up, and fight back.”
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Protesters gathered on the quad with to hoist handmade signs and yell anti-Trump chants.
Journalist Declares Buchanan the “Worst. President. Ever.” BY DEEPTI SAILAPPAN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR
James Buchanan’s failure to hold the Union together in the face of spiking regional tensions over the issue of slavery cements his status as the worst president of the United States, journalist Robert Strauss declared at 57th Street Books on Wednesday evening. Former Chicago magazine ed itor-in-chief Richard Babcock interviewed Strauss, who has written for the New York Times and Sports Illustrated, as part of a promotional event for Strauss’s new book, Worst. President. Ever. James Buchanan, the POTUS Rating Game, and the Legacy of the Least of the Lesser Presidents. Strauss painted a picture of an extremely inept man with complex intentions. “There is no evidence that he ever said anything bad in public about anybody,” Strauss said of the 15th president, adding that Buchanan, a Pennsylvania-born Northerner, “didn’t want to own slaves and didn’t believe in slavery for himself.” Buchanan’s reluctance to curb slavery as a whole—because he felt its impractical economics would cause it to die on its own—would, however, doom his term in office. According to Strauss, Buchanan is fascinating for other reasons as well. A famed partier and the only bachelor president, he is suspected to have been gay, having lived with an Alabama senator for several years prior to his presidency—though in
his book, Strauss said, “I conclude that he wasn’t [gay], only because I can’t prove that he was.” Buchanan also remains “the most experienced man to run for office” (he is outstripped in terms of years in politics by Hillary Clinton, and then only because of her tenure as First Lady). Prior to the presidency, he served in both houses of the Pennsylvania state legislature, as a U.S. Senator and Congressman, as Ambassador to Russia and to Great Britain, and as Secretary of State. He ran for president three times, Strauss said, before garnering the Democratic nomination at age 65 by virtue of being “the guy that had been waiting for it all this time.” The disasters Buchanan oversaw while in office are numerous. Most notable is the Supreme Court’s pro-slavery ruling on the Dred Scott case, released two days after Buchanan’s inauguration—and at least partly due to Buchanan’s petitioning Northern justices on the Court while still President-elect. As a result of new competition from slave labor, commerce slowed in Northern states, ushering in a long-lasting recession. Antislavery sentiment also strengthened, leading to the organized abolitionist movement that, according to Strauss, Buchanan would ultimately blame for inciting the Civil War. Seven states seceded during Buchanan’s five-month lame-duck period, after the election of Abraham Lincoln. Strauss finished with an anecdote that he said best exemplifies Buchanan’s gener-
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Robert Strauss addresses the crowd at the Institute of Politics.
al distance from reality. In 1861, just after the Union’s crushing defeat in the Battle of First Manassas, Lincoln opened a letter from Buchanan—the only note Buchanan would ever write him, in fact—that asked
him to retrieve some novels Buchanan had forgotten in the White House and have his secretary send them to Lancaster, PA. “He was just oblivious,” Strauss said, “even after the Civil War started.”
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Friday, 11/18 Pre-Xmas Holiday Bazaar VOV Gallery, First Unitarian Church, 5650 S. Woodlawn Avenue, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. Sales of items hand-crafted by Afghan women, including tapestries, rugs, and jewelry, will go to support access to education, micro-financing, and basic services. The church will also show a documentary tracking how women’s lives changed from 2005 to 2014.
On & Around Campus The State of Nuclear Technology Harris School, Room 142, 12–1:30 p.m. Bob Rosner, the founding co-director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC) and the chief scientist and director at Argonne Lab will explore the role nuclear technology might play in fighting climate change by displacing fossil fuels. Cookie Johnson: “Believing in Magic” Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 1–2 p.m. Wife of NBA star Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Cookie Johnson will discuss and sign her new memoir, Believing in Magic: My Story of Love, Overcoming Adversity, and Keeping Faith. The book explores her life’s experience with faith, marriage, motherhood, and HIV/AIDS. Diplomatic Encounters: The Future of U.S.-Cuban Relations Coulter Lounge, I-House, 2–3:30 p.m. Miguel Fraga, the First Secretary at Cuba’s Embassy to the United States, will discuss how the still contentious but shockingly improved relationship between the two countries will move forward. Fraga is the first to hold his position since diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba were reestablished last year. “Am I Alone Here” Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 6 p.m. Author Peter Orner will discuss his new book, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live, a collection of essays about living through reading and writing. He will speak with the Chicago Tribune’s literary editor-at-large. An Evening with Sarah Price Logan Center, Screening Room 201, 7–9 p.m. Independent filmmaker Sarah Price will be speaking about her body of work, which includes documentaries, television shows, and commercials. Her fi lm American Movie, which followed the production of an independent horror fi lm, won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary. She will also preview her newest project. Gargoyle Gala Ida Noyes Hall, 8–11 p.m., $15, purchase tickets online This event, hosted by the Graduate Council, is intended to provide a space where graduate students can relax, socialize, and have fun! Food, drinks, and music will be provided. UChicago Choral Showcase Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, 7:30–9 p.m. Three of the University’s forefront choral groups will join forces to present this event. The Motet Choir, Women’s Ensemble, and University Chorus will each be performing a selection of traditional and modern choral compositions. Snack and Chat Reynolds Club, Room 016, 12–1:30 p.m. This lunchtime event will offer a chance for RSO members to meet with staff of the Center for Leadership and Involvement to discuss available opportunities for their organizations. Attendees will also have a chance to meet with leaders of other RSOs to compare organizational strategies and discuss collaborations. Shabbat Talk UChicago Hillel, 6–9 p.m., for students. Hebrew University Professors Sarah and Guy Stroumsa will be joining UChicago Hillel for a dinner and subsequent discussion on how Abrahamic religions should be studied. Conserving Industrial Materials and Processes in Art: Panel 1, Concrete Cochrane Woods Art Center, Room 157, 9:10–10:40 a.m. The fi rst panel in this two-day symposium will discuss concrete in art and art preservation, with a focus on the “Concrete Traffic” sculpture, a 1957 Cadillac encased in concrete, which was just moved to campus. At 1:30 p.m. the symposium will move to the east entrance to the Ellis Parking Garage to visit the sculpture itself. Information about all of the events in the symposium can be found online. CONNECT: Hyde Park Art Festival After-Party The Promontory, 5311 S. Lake Park Avenue, 10 p.m.–2 a.m. The CONNECT Arts Festival is a celebration of all artistic mediums. On Friday, there will be an evening reception at 10 p.m. at the Promontory. This party will feature jazz musician Kahil El’Zabar. Visit CONNECT’s website for more information about events throughout the weekend. Saturday, 11/19 Things to Works: Ethical Challenges in the Care and Display of Industrial Materials Logan Center, Room 901, 9:40–11:10 a.m. The fi rst panel on the second day of this two-day forum will return to the newly-installed sculpture “Concrete Traffic,” as well as artifacts of space his-
tory at the National Air and Space Museum. Information about all of the events in the symposium can be found online. An Evening with Vince Staples Mandel Hall, 8 p.m.–10 p.m., $5. The Major Activities Board is hosting its annual fall showcase with Vince Staples, a prominent rapper from Long Beach, CA, headlining the evening. Doors close at 9:15 p.m. The Turkish Concert Logan Center Performance Hall, 7–9 p.m. The 45-piece Middle East Music Ensemble will be performing popular and classic Turkish music under the direction of Wanees Zarour. Admission is free, but donations are strongly encouraged. The Science of Myths and Visa Versa Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 3–5:30 p.m. Gregory Schrempp, professor of folklore at the University of Indiana Bloomington, will be discussing his The Science of Myths and Vice Versa, in which he explores the reciprocal relationship between science and mythology. “Shared Eye” Exhibition Opening 5811 S. Ellis Avenue, 5–8 p.m. The Renaissance Society will host a solo exhibition of Sadie Benning’s artwork, with a discussion of the artwork hosted by Benning and curator Solveig Øvstebø at 6 p.m. Patient Perspectives: A Photo Journey of Tuberculosis in Peru McCormick Lounge, Mandel Hall, 6–8 p.m. A variety of media at this event will convey the experience of the patients of the Asociación de Personas Afectadas por Tuberculosis (ASPAT), an organization that fights tuberculosis in Peru. This event is sponsored by GlobeMed, a student organization that works with ASPAT.
Harper Center, Room 104, 12–1 p.m. Douglas W. Diamond, a professor at the Booth School, will discuss how financial regulations can ensure that banks have enough money on hand to weather bank runs. The Social Origins of Institutional Weakness and Change Foster Hall, Room 505, 12–1:30 p.m. Professor Yanilda María González of the School of Social Service Administration will discuss the development of strong institutions and will examine the development of democracy in Latin America as examples of institutional building. BDS 101 Stuart Hall, Cox Lounge, 6 p.m. The campus conversation last year was largely defined by the successful passage through College Council of a resolution calling on the University to divest from ten companies its proponents considered complicit in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. The pitch for this event suggests that students who do not understand the larger Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement or what that campaign was pushing for can learn here. Fourth Ward Aldermanic Meeting St. Paul and the Redeemer, 4945 S. Dorchester Avenue, 6 p.m. Sophia King has served as an alderman since Rahm Emanuel appointed her to fill the seat vacated by alderman Will Burns. The Fourth Ward includes much of Bronzeville, Kenwood, and the very northern fringe of Hyde Park. What is Research? Harper Memorial Library, Room 130, 6–7:30 p.m. Learn about the scientific method and research opportunities with Dr. Nancy B. Schwartz, a professor of pediatrics and biochemistry. Food will be provided.
Middle East Music Ensemble: The Music of Turkey Logan Center, Performance Hall, 7–9 p.m. The University’s Middle East Music Ensemble will perform a series of Turkish songs at the Logan Center beginning at 7 p.m.
In Conversation: Marshall Sahlins Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 6–8 p.m. Marshall Sahlins, a colleague of Claude Levi-Strauss and a professor of anthropology at the University, will talk with Michael Dietler, also a professor of anthropology at the University. Sahlins will read from his to-be-published book Still Waiting for Foucault, the third edition of a collection of anthropological satire.
African American Film Pioneers: Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. Logan Center, 7 p.m. Spencer Williams’ film Dirty Gertie from Harlem U.S.A. adopts a short story by W. Somerset Maugham, which follows a Harlem-based nightclub performer confront her past at a Caribbean resort. Professor Allyson Nadia Field will introduce the film. Short films will accompany the screening.
Turkish Politics 101 McCormick Lounge, Mandel Hall, 6:30–7:30 p.m. Christopher Nicholas Sheklian, an anthropology Ph.D. student, will unpack Turkish politics, including his concerns about the government’s stance on minority rights. He recently spent two years living with the Armenian community in Istanbul. The event is hosted by the student group Al Sharq: East Meets West. Dinner will be provided.
USO Concerto Showcase Logan Center, 8 p.m. Listen to fourth-year College student Isaac Friend perform Concerto No. 9 in E-Flat Major at the Logan Center. Friend came in third place in the University’s concerto competition.
Hyde Park Book Club Treasure Island, Basement Reading Room, 7:30 p.m. Listen to Carol Herzenberg discuss Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project, a book she co-authored. Herzenberg worked for decades at the Argonne National Laboratory and received her graduate degree at the University of Chicago. Her book tries to excavate the long-neglected role of female scientists in the creation of the first atom bomb.
Sunday, 11/20 Campus Sustainability Town Hall and Workshop Stuart Hall, Room 101, 9:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. Members of the Student Government Committee on Campus Sustainability set up this event, which will give members of the University community a chance to engage with efforts to make the campus more environmentally friendly. Representatives of the administration and other groups on campus will attend. A light breakfast, coffee, lunch, and giveaways will be available. UChicago Chamber Orchestra Logan Center, 3–4 p.m. Isaac Friend, who won third place at the 2016 University of Chicago Concerto Competition, will perform Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat Major with the University Chamber Orchestra. The program will also feature Gioacchino Rossini’s Overture to La Scala di Seta and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C Major. Voices Heard: Black Women in Creative Music Logan Center, Room 901, 3 p.m. This is a pilot event in the Voices Heard series, which highlights the intergenerational musical expressions of Black women. Shanta Nurullah, a multi-instrumentalist and composer, will be performing in duo with Dee Alexander, a famous vocalist and composer. War Stories Storytelling Session Hyde Park Arts Center, 2–4 p.m. Head on over to the Hyde Park Arts Center and listen to veterans and an Iraqi refugee tell their accounts of service in the military. Tellabration for Adults Logan Center, Room 901, 7–10:30 p.m. This is the 20th anniversary of this yearly worldwide simultaneous storytelling event, featuring renowned tellers and musicians. There is a suggested donation of $20. The Space Between: Fluxus Art Music and Poetry, An Artist’s Conversation on Creativity Performance and Culture Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 3 p.m. Enjoy a musical performance and listen to a discussion on art, music, and poetry with Hannah B. Higgins at the Seminary Co-Op. Higgins is a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, but received her M.A. at the University of Chicago. Monday, 11/21 All About EndNote Crerar Library, Computer Classroom, 12–1 p.m. The library will be holding a workshop of how to use the desktop version of EndNote, a reference manager used to manage citations, PDFs, and create formatted bibliographies as you write your paper. Registration is required. Liquidity Regulation and the Risk of Bank Runs: Why the Last Taxi Must Never Leave the Train Station
Making the Most of the Library’s News Databases Regenstein Library, Room 207, 10–10:30 a.m., registration required. Learn about how you can gain access to a variety of news sources and their databases with this info session at the Reg.
Listen to academics debate the superiority of the latke and the hamantash in one of UChicago’s longest and quirkiest traditions. Mandel Hall may be filled to capacity so arrive early to get a seat.
Thanksgiving Break Events (11/24–11/27) The University may be closed, but the city of Chicago is as vibrant as ever! If you’re staying in town for the holiday, here are a few events to fi ll your brief respite from schoolwork. Christkindlmart Daley Plaza in the Loop, November 18–December 24 This annual holiday market offers a wide variety of handmade, traditional German goods. From festival food to hand-carved ornaments, this event is a must for the holidays in Chicago. Thursday, 11/24 McDonald’s Thanksgiving Parade State Street, between Congress and Randolph, 8–11 a.m. The McDonald’s Thanksgiving Parade will feature equestrian units, marching bands, dancers, stage performances, and floats—including the iconic “Big Red Shoe.” Getting there early is recommended in order to reserve a good spot along the parade route! Interfaith Thanksgiving Service Rockefeller Chapel, 11 a.m. This annual event brings together religious congregations from around Hyde Park. The Chicago Children’s Choir will perform. Donations will go to support local food pantries. Friday, 11/25 Wreathing of the Lions Art Institute, Michigan Avenue entrance, 10 a.m.–3 p.m. At this annual event, the Art Institute will adorn the lion statues while the crowd sings carols and drinks hot chocolate. This year, the ceremony will be led by the Chicago cast of Hamilton and will feature a performance from the Soul Children of Chicago. After the event, the museum will host an array of art-making activities. Winter Flower & Train Show at Lincoln Conservatory Opens Lincoln Park Conservatory, 2391 N. Stockton Drive, 9 a.m.–5 p.m. The Conservatory will be unveiling its annual winter fl ower and train show. This exhibit, which will be housed in the Conservatory Show House, features model trains, which run past miniature houses nestled among the plants. ZooLights Opening Night Lincoln Park Zoo, 2001 N. Clark Street, 4:25 p.m. After you visit the conservatory, be sure to stop by the zoo! The annual Lincoln Park ZooLights will be switched on for the fi rst time this season! These creative light displays fl ash in time to holiday music and illuminate the zoo exhibits. Caroling at Cloud Gate Millennium Park, 6–7p.m. Chicago choral groups will lead the audience in a selection of well-known holiday tunes. A Santa Claus will also be making an appearance—what a profi le pic opportunity! Saturday, 11/26
Congo Square Theater Reading of The Warmth of Other Suns Logan Center for the Arts, Room 801, 6:30–8 p.m. Members of the Congo Square Theater will deliver a staged reading of Isabel Wilkerson’s The Warmth of Other Suns. The Congo Square Theater presents plays inspired by the African Diaspora. Stories from the Campaign Trail Ida Noyes Hall, Cloister Club, 6:15–7:30 p.m. The Circus would probably be a decent name for a political documentary show for any election season, but this year proved to be an especially fortuitous year for its debut. Hear from Politico’s Mark McKinnon and Atlantic journalist Alex Wagner on the making of the Showtime program.
Randolph Street Holiday Market 340 W. Washington Street, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., ticket $5 with UCID Randolph Street will be lined with vendors selling handmade goods. Gift wrapping will be provided, so this is the perfect time to get some holiday shopping out of the way. Monday, 11/28 “Supremely Partisan” Book Signing Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 1:30.–2:30 p.m. Listen to James D. Zirin, a lawyer who has participated in both state and federal trials, discuss his book on how the justices of the Supreme Court are becoming increasingly partisan.
Tuesday, 11/22 Pet Love Reynolds Club, McCormick Lounge, 11:30 a.m.–1 p.m. There will be pet certified therapy dogs available to play with in Reynolds Club to help students reduce stress. The Noisy Renaissance The Seminary Co-Op, 6–7:30 p.m. Department of Art History’s Niall Atkinson will be joined by Sarah Geis to discuss The Noisy Renaissance: Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life. The book considers how sounds like church bells helped people navigate pre-modern cities. This is the third event in the Urban Readers Series. The 70th Annual Latke-Hamantash Debate at Mandel Hall Mandel Hall, 7:30–9 p.m.
Angolan Writer and Filmmaker Ondjaki–Victoria Saramago Seminary Co-Op Bookstore, 6–7:30 p.m. Author Ondjaki will be discussing his work, which was recently translated into English. He will be speaking with Luso-Brazilian Literature Professor Victoria Saramago. Decoding 2016: David Axelrod with Joel Benenson and Sean Spicer Quadrangle Club, Dining Room, 6:15 –7:30 p.m., RSVP online. David Axelrod will be hosting a discussion with the chief strategist for Hillary Clinton, Joel Benenson, and Sean Spicer, chief strategist and communications director for the GOP. The panel will focus on the recent election results and what a Trump presidency will mean for America.
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NEWS IN BRIEF Professor Chosen as Chair for Telescope Board A physicist who taught and guided research at the University of Chicago will lead the effort to build a telescope its builders claim will produce images 10 times sharper than those produced by the Hubble Telescope. The Giant Magellan Telescope Organization (GMTO), a partnership between the University and 10 other schools and institutions, announced Wednesday that Walter Massey will chair its board. Massey worked at the University as a professor and as the vice president for research. Massey has since worked in the administration of several other academic institutions, and is currently the chancellor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also headed the National Science Foundation and was the founding chairman of the National Society of Black Physicists.
The Giant Magellan Telescope is under construction in Chile. It will be the largest optical ref lecting telescope in the world at its scheduled “fi rst light” in 2025, though it will eventually be outpaced by the even more literally named European Extremely Large Telescope and Thirty Meter Telescope. “The GMT is one of the most exciting and important scientific projects underway in any field, and it has true potential to play a major role in developing programs and opportunities for the future of astronomical discovery. I’m excited to participate in maturing and shaping a scientific instrument of this caliber, and I’m honored to have the opportunity to see it through to successful discovery,” Massey said in a prepared statement. — Adam Thorp
UCIB Receives Donation, New Name The University announced Tuesday that a University trustee and his wife donated $10 million to endow the UChicago Careers in Business Program, which will be renamed to the Trott Business Program. Byron D. Trott (A.B. ’81, M.B.A. ’82) serves as the founder, chairman and, CEO of the merchant bank, BDT & Company. A Fortune magazine profile published in 2014 called him the “billionaires’ banker” and noted that Warren Buffet and Walmart chairman and heir Rob Walton bank with him. He is married to Tina Trott. The donation will be used to support and expand the Trott Business Program, which they helped launch in 2006 along with other donors as UChicago Careers in Business (UCIB).
The T rott Business Program is a selective three-year program that aims to provide College students with skills essential for careers in business. Drawing from its partnership with the Booth School of Business, the program offers workshops, professional advising, and the opportunity to take courses at Booth. “This program helps students connect the distinctive and rigorous education they have in the College with their future life. It has dramatically enhanced students’ opportunities after graduation. We are extremely grateful to Byron and Tina for providing this long-term support,” President Robert J. Zimmer said in a news release. —Anjali Dhillon
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pus community,” the report reads. The survey was answered by 29 percent of the 12,384 students, faculty, and staff who received it. The race and gender of the people who opted to participate roughly reflect the demographics of the school, though Asian students were somewhat underrepresented and white students were overrepresented. The report also asked whether respondents had experienced different forms of discrimination or harassment because of their identity. Two percent of students said they had experienced physical harassment, 4 percent said they had experienced harassment or discrimination online, and 16 percent said they had experienced some other form of discrimination or harassment. Again, some groups reported fewer positive experiences: 11 percent of people who identified themselves as trans, genderqueer, or agender said they had experienced physical harassment, 25 percent of black respondents, 31 percent of non-heterosexual respondents, and 43 percent of trans, genderqueer, or agender respondents said they had experienced some other form of discrimination or harassment. The survey also measured student responses on a variety of more specific questions about their life on campus. These responses indicated a gap between white respondents, male respondents, and heterosexual respondents and their classmates
and co-workers. Sixty-nine percent of black students said their racial or ethnic group was not respected on campus, for instance, compared to 4 percent for white students. Forty-three percent of black students said they could not “fulfi ll the requirements of [their] coursework without unduly repressing [their] own identity, background, or experience.” Fourteen percent of all students said the same. The survey was part of a pair of climate surveys launched in response to a petition launched in 2014. In the wake of a racist Halloween costume incident, a petition demanding a campus climate survey accrued almost 2,500 signatures. The University subsequently announced that it would conduct two such surveys. The fi rst, released in the spring, covered issues of sexual misconduct on campus. Based in part on the early results of that survey, the University made several policy changes, including extending sexual assault training to graduate and professional students, revamping O-Week sexual assault training for students in the College, and launching the UMatter website. The second survey was developed by a faculty committee and a faculty working group, with reference to forums open to campus community members. According to a preliminary report, a campus-wide committee appointed by the administration will develop action steps based on the results of the survey.
Metra Announces Fare Will Increase Next Year People traveling downtown from one of Hyde Park’s three Metra stations will pay a little more than 6 percent more in 2017 due to hikes in fares across the system. Metra announced Saturday that it will charge 25 cents more for one-way passes anywhere in its system, an increase from $3.75 to $4 for tickets from Hyde Park to Metra’s downtown station. It has also increased the cost of 10-ride and monthly passes. This is the third increase in Metra fares in the last three years. Metra announced in 2014 that it would gradually increase the cost of tickets over a decade in order to pay for investments in trains and other equipment. This increase will almost double the costs for a ticket in Hyde Park by 2024.
When announcing the 10-year increase, Metra’s then-chairman Martin Oberman pointed out that Metra’s oldest trains dated to the Eisenhower administration, and that the average train in its fleet was older than Metra’s average commuter. The 2017 fare increase will provide $16.1 million for capital improvements. The Metra Electric District serves Hyde Park and then branches out to terminuses at 93rd Street in the South Chicago neighborhood, Blue Island in Chicago’s southern suburbs, and South Bend, IN. It is Metra’s second busiest line, and the 55th–56th–57th Street station in Hyde Park is one of its busiest stations. —Adam Thorp
Nussbaum Sponsors New Graduate Scholarship A portion of professor Martha Nussbaum’s Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy will be donated to the UChicago Law School and the Department of Philosophy to fund an annual award for a graduate student pursuing interdisciplinary scholarship in one of the two fields. The Kyoto Prize is awarded annually by the Inamori Foundation to three scholars who have contributed to the betterment of society in their respective studies of advanced technology, basic sciences, and arts and philosophy. Each category is divided into four subfields, with a winner chosen from a different subfield each year. For this reason, the thoughts and ethics subset of arts and philosophy is awarded only once every four years. Nussbaum, the current Ernst Freund
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, was recognized for her new theory of justice that accounts for marginalized peoples who are deprived of opportunities to develop their capabilities in society, and her proposals for how to apply this theory. Winners were announced in June and formally awarded on November 10 in Kyoto. Each of the three laureates is awarded a diploma, a 20-karat gold medal, and 50 million yen ($472,000). Roboticist Takeo Kanade won the advanced technology award in information sciences, and immunologist Tasuku Honjo won the basic sciences award in life sciences. —Emily Feigenbaum
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“People say, ‘fishing is boring.’ But it don’t matter if you don’t catch nothing. It gives you time to yourself.” Continued from front page
passersby. The fishermen study the water under a light breeze. The scene is quiet, occasionally splashed by intervals of small talk and profanity. Mainly, though, the harbor is governed by an easy rhythm: cast , reel, repeat. Across the water, a solo fisherman was becoming impatient. Slow day? “It’s them chemtrails,” he said, attributing a lack of salmon to the vapor clouds streaked across the orange sky. “They keep the fish away.” “The salmon come back to the harbors in the early fall. They come to spawn, laying their eggs in August, September, and October, and the older ones die out around now,” said Steve Palmisano, co-owner of Henry’s Sports & Bait, a long-standing equipment shop in Bridgeport. As a non-native species, salmon—Chinook and Coho—were introduced to Lake Michigan in the late 60s to prey on the abundant alewife population, said Palmisano. Although the arrival of November marks the tail-end of salmon season, Jackson Park has a year-round trout population. Perch, too, swim into the harbor as the water cools. Salmon, however, remain the prized catch this time of the year. Many fishermen here come to snag, a type of fishing that involves swinging one’s line back and forth in hope of “snagging” a salmon with a threepronged hook. Jackson Park is one of two
designated snagging locations in the city. For some, snagging is a workout. “I come out here to get my exercise,” a local fisherman named Willie told me as he wrestled with a tangled line beside his parked car on East Hayes Drive. Snagging season runs from October 1 through the end of the year. While the Illinois Department of Natural Resources restricts the catch to five salmon per day, one Jackson Park fisherman said, “If you go home [after catching five] and then come back, then that’s different. You can fish for more. You don’t stop just like that.” Rich, a broad-shouldered, hooded fellow of few words, was also intent on bringing home a big haul. He had already reeled in one prize: a rainbow trout, struggling to free itself from the line that Rich tied to an underwater ladder. Dinner for tonight? “It’s gonna be somethin’. I’m going to sell him,” said Rich. Where? “To my friends.” No more was said of the subject. Jojo—a man from the Little Village neighborhood in his early forties—pointed to a sizeable salmon swimming near Rich’s line. “What does something like that go for?” Jojo asked. “Twenty, 40 maybe.” Jojo has been coming to Jackson Park since he was nine. Pulling out his phone, he showed me a picture of his 20-year-old self hoisting a big catch. The picture was taken right where we were standing. With his rod ready for action, Jojo scans
Activist Reflects on Election BY G. CYRUS PACHT MAROON CONTRIBUTOR
Social justice activist Angela Y. Davis addressed a full house at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on Wednesday to discuss the presidential election and her latest book; Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement. Davis was a long-term member of the Communist Party and an affiliate of the Black Panther Party. In 1970, she was accused of providing weapons used to take over a Marin County, CA courtroom. Four people, including a prosecutor, were killed in an exchange of gunfire. Davis maintained her innocence, and became a cause célèbre before being acquitted two years later. In the time since, she has taught and lectured at a number of American universities and has advocated for numerous radical causes, including abolition of the prison-industrial complex. She ran for vice president twice on the Communist Party ticket in the 1980s, and today holds the chair of Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The talk explored the idea that the election of Donald Trump proves that America is not a post-racial society. “Do you remember how it felt this time, last week?” Davis said once she reached the podium. “We all felt like we had the rug pulled out from under us. I remember hearing the news at 3 a.m., and trying my best to go to sleep. Because I remember the 2000 election when Gore had been elected, and then I went to sleep, and then…you know the rest.” Davis suggested the method opponents of Trump should use going forward is “experiencing, and building, and rebuilding, and consolidating a community. Community is the answer. By recognizing that we will have to struggle over the coming years. . . Because freedom is a constant struggle.” She acknowledged that liberals may
have been complicit in Trump’s win, because “we were overconfident that there was no way Trump could win,” given his treatment of women and his racism. Davis also blamed Hillary Clinton for failing to incorporate intersectionality into her ideal of feminism, and instead holding to an outdated notion based on white middle-class women. “We need a complicated narrative that blends all forms of justice together,” she said. “And none of the candidates reflected a sense of the interrelationship, the interconnectedness, the intersectionality of our struggles.” She went on to analyze how, within the electoral college system, Trump could have won despite the fact that he was not preferred by a majority of those who cast their vote. After all, a majority of black and Hispanic women (and women overall) preferred Hillary Clinton, while nearly half of eligible voters did not cast a ballot at all. Davis urged the abolition of the electoral college, which was created only to protect the legitimacy of slave states, as well as the abolition of the current policing and criminal justice systems, and proclaimed her support for Black Lives Matter. “They don’t recognize that [Black Lives Matter] is not a statement of exclusion. It is the most inclusive possible statement,” Davis said to great applause. “If we reached a point that black lives really did matter, it would clearly mean that all lives matter.” Davis also expressed solidarity with the Palestinians under Israeli occupation, warned against the alienation and inherent racism of global capitalism, and envisioned an America that provides free healthcare and free education and stands with its undocumented immigrants. She holds hope that through widespread organizing and radicalizing our struggles, it will be possible to achieve a kind of intersectional justice. “I always insist that movements have to be led by young people. That is the only way we’re ever going to change.”
Greg Ross
A man takes advantage of a quiet place to fish in Jackson Park.
the water. Whatever he catches, he gently returns to the water. “It don’t matter if I catch nothing. I won’t say I wasted a day. I can never go back home and be upset.” “People say, ‘fishing is boring.’ But it
don’t matter if you don’t catch nothing. It gives you time to yourself. All your problems—even if you don’t have problems—are gone for the day. It gives you something to yourself. It gives you time.”
Argonne, University Install Environmental Sensors Throughout City BY TYRONE LOMAX MAROON CONTRIBUTOR
Argonne National Laboratories (ANL), in partnership with the University, installed six Array of Things (AoT) nodes on August 29 throughout the city. Funded by a $3.1 million grant by the National Science Foundation, the project will continue until 2018, by which time a total of 500 nodes are expected to be installed and operational. There are two components to each node: a white capsule containing sensors and an attached operating box functioning as a power source and control center. The nodes are designed with several environmental features; each is capable of measuring air and surface temperature, barometric pressure, levels of carbon monoxide, ozone, nitrogen and sulfur dioxide, as well as the level of ambient sound intensity within the immediate area. In addition, there are two cameras that collect data on vehicle and foot traffic. The goal of collecting this information is to improve the city’s infrastructure, environment, and pedestrian safety. Although it is too early for ANL to report any data as of yet, they plan to upload it onto both the City’s data portal as well as their own platform, Plenar. io. Data for nodes that will be installed in other cities in the future will be also uploaded to Plenar.io. As AoT grows, so will Plenar.io, and the system will become a global network of information utilizing the AoT project as its medium. During this process, all of the information will be accessible to the public. “We’re very interested in public engagement with this project because we see the project, we see the nodes, we see the data as being a public utility first and foremost,” said Rob Mitchum, media correspondent for the AoT Project. According to Mitchum, Pilsen was given preference as an installation location because of the public’s concerns regarding the community’s air quality. Due to the close proximity of multiple power plants and nearby factories, various community organizations
have formed and worked with both the City and CTA to combat the environmental damage through implemented policies. By using the nodes, they would have more substantial evidence to support legislative change within their communities. Similar concerns have arisen in neighboring communities during the multiple public meetings the AoT team has held before the official installations. Being able to hear the various types of problems people bring as well as the creative uses suggested for the nodes embodies the ideal behind the project, Mitchum says. The aspect of providing open data to be used by the public is parallel to taking suggestions from local communities for potential improvements. Douglas Pancoast, an associate professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), argues that this degree of openness also influenced the nodes’ design. Before being finalized and manufactured at Product Development Technologies, the enclosure design of the nodes was originally designed at SAIC. The nodes were continually tested under different conditions both on campus and at ANL for over 18 months. The nodes are still in their beginning stages. According to Pancoast, the data will not only benefit the city but also provide insight into how the nodes could be improved for future generations. In light of this, Pancoast added, the design team is eager to see how the nodes perform within the city. Multiple partnerships are backing the project. Vision Zero Chicago, an interdepartmental initiative dedicated to increasing roadway safety, strongly supports the potential applications of AoT. By collaborating with the Chicago Department of Transportation, Vision Zero hopes to gain a better understanding of travel behaviors within the city in order to improve pedestrian safety and congestion management. The implementation of AoT will be highly encouraged by Vision Zero Chicago, among other engineering and educational initiatives contained within their three-year action plan, which will launch early next year.
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Doctoral Candidate Sues University for $1 Million BY LAUREN PANKIN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR
A doctoral candidate has filed a $1 million discrimination lawsuit against the University of Chicago board of trustees, claiming that she was fired from her University position in retaliation for race-related complaints she made. Sameena Azhar’s lawsuit was filed Nov. 7 in U.S. District Court in Chicago. The suit concerns incidents which occurred in 2014 and 2015. Azhar, a Muslim and Indian American, was suspended and ultimately fired from her job at the Chicago Center for HIV Elimination (CCHE) in November 2015 after she complained that white students had received business cards while she had not, according to the lawsuit. Azhar alleges that in response to her complaint, Dr. John Schneider, the Director of CCHE, suspended her for four months. Within a few weeks of the initial suspension, Azhar was informed that as a student-employee, she was ineligible for a suspension and would consequently be terminated, said Azhar’s lawyer, Zubair Khan. “Business cards were the last straw for her,” Khan said. “When she was denied a card and complained, that’s what preceded the termination.” Before the business card incident, the CCHE segregated staff based on race and paid white employees more than their non-white counterparts, Azhar’s lawsuit alleges. The lawsuit also claims that the CCHE offered white employees more flexibility in their schedules and work responsibilities. Azhar’s termination led to several academic consequences. “After she was terminated, it almost felt like a bunch of dominoes falling,” Khan said. Two members of her dissertation committee resigned their positions on the committee. When Azhar attempted to find replacement members, unnamed U of C faculty told her she should not have complained about discriminatory actions if she wanted to complete her dissertation, the case alleges. Following Azhar’s termination, Schnei-
der allegedly forced her to discontinue work on a number of publications, including one about sexual networks in India. The lawsuit also said that Dr. Leyla Ismayilova of the School of Social Service Administration refused to continue work with Azhar on a publication regarding gender violence in refugee camps in Uganda following the termination. “Azhar was told, ‘I don’t want to work with you because of how unprofessional you are with other staff members’,” Khan said. The lawsuit also made Retaliatory defamation of Azhar within the academic community constitutes part of the lawsuit. Defamatory statements about Azhar were made to other staff members at CCHE and academic collaborators at UCLA, University of Texas and Argonne Labs, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that Azhar has not received compensation for her contributions to a reproductive health study, and received compensation a year late for grading papers that graduate students completed for Dr. Bouris in the Winter Quarter of 2014. After unsuccessfully attempting to clarify and resolve the dispute surrounding her termination, Azhar’s suit said she filed a formal grievance with the human resources manager in the Biological Sciences Division. This process did not allow Azhar to bring legal counsel to the hearing, Khan said. Azhar then filed a formal grievance with the provost’s office. The lawsuit alleges that this investigation did not involve any testimony from CCHE employees. Azhar said she was again prevented from bringing legal counsel to the investigation. “The university is taking a hard line, saying, ‘We don’t have to talk to the other employees, we don’t have to allow an attorney, we don’t think anything has happened here, we’re not going to help someone with potential race-related issues’,” Khan said. The university declined to comment, saying they do not comment on pending litigation. The university has one month to admit or deny the allegations and to file for further motions, Khan said. “My client is not somebody looking for a buck,” Khan said. “If the U of C were to come by and acknowledge what has happened here, that would be a big part of resolving this.”
Students for Life Cancel Event due to Anticipated Protests BY PETE GRIEVE NEWS EDITOR
Citing the “prospect of organized protest ,” a n a nti-abor tion student group cancelled an event planned for tonight that would have featured a prolife speaker. UChicago Students for Life planned to host a discussion with the founder of the pro-life Radiance Foundation Ryan Bomberger at 7 p.m. His mother was raped, but she chose not to get an abortion. Students for Life frames its opposition to abortion as a social justice issue. The event was titled “Black and Beautiful: The Social Injustice of Abortion.” “But given the present political cli-
mate and the prospect of organized protest focusing on issues that had little or nothing to do with the core message of Bomberger’s talk, we have decided to cancel the event. It became clear to us that this event was not going to be about abortion in the black community. And we are not interested in fighting skirmishes in the culture wars, involving ourselves in presidential politics, or joining the ongoing battle over free speech on college campuses,” the cancellation read. In the lead-up to the event, pro-life and pro-choice chalkers jockeyed for space on campus sidewalks, as advertisements for the event—“Abortion=Social Injustice”—were erased or paired w ith counter-messag ing — “ We Support Women’s Rights,” or “Abort Mike Pence,” for instance.
“Student input was not considered before, during, or after the development of changes to the College Convocation.”
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Museum of Science and Industry. The same day that the e-mail announcing the changes was sent, SG President Eric Holmberg and College Council Chair Peggy Xu posted an online form on Facebook to collect student feedback. In the post, Holmberg and Xu wrote, “Student input was not considered before, during, or after the development of changes to the College Convocation.” A petition asking Ellison, Zimmer, and Dean of the College John Boyer to return to the previous format had gathered over 1,100 signatures by the time of this article’s publication. Holmberg said in an e-mail that as of Tuesday, SG had received 57 responses, of which more than 30 were from members of the Class of 2017. According to Holmberg, “ The overall theme was an anger and frustration with students being kept out of the decision-making
process. Many students shared specific stories about Housing that they felt were overlooked in the decision to make Convocation focused on housing communities.” On Monday, Xu and Holmberg met with Ellison and Boyer to discuss the changes. In a College Council meeting on Tuesday, Xu said that the pair had confirmed that the changes would be implemented as proposed. Xu told representatives that the University hopes to begin collecting student input on specific parts of graduation, including Senior Week and Class Day, starting in January. In an e-mail, Holmberg said that he and Xu had worked out an agreement with Ellison and Boyer for SG members to be a part of the planning process. According to Holmberg, “There has not been a consistent relationship between SG and the College, so this is an encouraging takeaway.”
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TUYAA MONTGOMERY / THIRD-YEAR
from H&M because I always hunt their sales rack for jewelry!
Hi! I’m Tuyaa. I’m a biology major and Slavic languages minor. I’m the promotions director at WHPK and a DJ as well.
“A lot of my style revolves around metal and hardcore subculture.”
I’m also wearing American Apparel disco pants, which are more pricey than I normally spend on clothing but they’re very comfortable and versatile. And then my shoes are my favorite platform sandals. I like to mix something that’s more fashionable with my heavy metal stuff. I’m a sucker for platforms.
Coral rings from Tuyaa’s mother, silver -tone rings by H&M, assorted band buttons.
My dad’s very into metal. I didn’t get into it until thirteen or fourteen when you start getting super angsty. So I started listening to it. Some of my friends at school started getting into it too, and we went to shows together in Cleveland. At UChicago and as a WHPK DJ, I’ve met people in the music scene here and abroad. I know bands from Sweden and stuff. Wearing my jacket reminds me of all the cool people in music I’m connected to.
You go to festivals or concerts—people are out there wearing their battle jackets, showing them off. There have been books and photographs on this. Because it’s all handmade. You pick the patches, pick where you want to sew it, you pick which bands you want to show off and support. So you can gauge someone’s music taste through their jacket. It’s a great way to meet friends, new people. When you have the same patch, it’s easy to start up a new conversation. Tuyaa is wearing a le ather jacket she customized, a band T-shirt by Forever Street Metal Bitch, disco pants by American Apparel, platform sandals by Sam Edelman, and cateye sunglasses by F21.
A lot of people will have the same patch: We all like the same band, so it’s not uncommon. It’s the way you lay it out that makes yours unique. It’s a kind of style. I’ve noticed that some people try to patch it up, grid it with as many as possible. Some people will have one or two. Some people will hand-paint it. It speaks to who you are. Mine is pretty orderly—it has a slightly feminine touch, because it’s a smaller jacket. I have many sources of inspiration. Rob Halford of Judas Priest is my biggest fashion influence. I saw pictures of Japanese punks from the ’70s and ’80s, and I really liked how they did their makeup. I’m really inspired by the L.A. metal scene as well: They’re really big on do-it-yourself jackets. I remember seeing a book with a bunch of battle jackets in it and thinking, “This is really cool. I’m going to try to make one on my own, so I can show off the bands that I like.” —TUYAA
In high school I dressed more conservatively. I would still wear band T-shirts, but I wouldn’t wear leather jackets in case they drew the wrong kind of attention. I grew up in a conservative suburb: I was afraid of people making fun of me for being weird. But people wear whatever they want in college. Wearing pajamas in class is totally normal. And so I thought, “I’m just going to show off my jacket.” I get compliments, even from people who aren’t in scene. I’ll be washing my hands in the bathroom, and someone will be like, “Hey, I like your jacket!” It’s really nice. A lot of my style revolves around metal and hardcore subculture, which is the music that I love the most. My leather jacket— they’re called “battle jackets” in the scene, with all the patches sewn on—it’s basically a way to show everyone what bands you like, what bands you support. I’m all about Asian representation in music, so my biggest patch on the back is Sabbat, a Japanese band that I like a lot. Under it is Bathory, one of the bands that got me into metal. Some other buttons are from bands I’m friends with, like Bonehunter, a band from Sweden. My favorite one is the one that my mom gave me, which she brought from Siberia. Tuyaa’s favorite button, on the bottom.
I have five other jackets. I kind of mix it up, each one with a theme—one jacket with only Asian metal bands, another with only one type of metal. And I have my oldest one which I’ve had since I was fourteen, which is the one I am most comfortable wearing. The red rings are coral, which is a gemstone frequently worn by my people, the Buryats. They were passed down to me by my mother. The silver rings are
“Wearing my jacket reminds me of all the cool people in music I’m connected to.”
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LEXI DREXELIUS / THIRD-YEAR
My true fashion icon is Margaret Howell, a designer. I’ve always been attracted to the kind of color palette she uses in her designs and also how she plays with the balance between structured and unstructured garments. She does a really good job of designing wearable clothing while experimenting with different cuts. It’s not over-designed, just well-designed. I guess that’s something I admire in general—economy in design.
My name is Lexi. I’m an art history major with a focus in modern and contemporary art. I work in the Preservation Department at Mansueto. I’m a DJ for WHPK, too!
“I used to work in a woodshop, so I’m just very used to workwear.”
Lexi is wearing a popover shirt jacket by Eidos, a shirt dress by Whistles, wool pants by YMC, and mules by Seychelles. I grew up in England. In London, the style is—I don’t want to say classic, but it is very much a modular style. You know, where everything you own goes with everything else you own. My parents also greatly informed my style. They’re both very stylish people. Growing up around them, they would take me shopping a lot. I’m studying minimalist art right now. I definitely keep it minimal. I’ll wear patterns with an outfit that doesn’t have patterns sometimes, and that’s fun. But I tend to stick to monochrome pieces on a daily basis. A lot of my inspiration for dressing comes from menswear lookbooks. I find the clothing a lot more comfortable—I used to work in a woodshop, so I’m just very used to workwear. In a lot of ways, that’s definitely inf luenced my style. I look a lot at menswear brands that I like, which include COS, Black Crane, and Toast. Uniqlo is a go-to for basics. I’m inspired by the aesthetics of A Kind of Guise and Opening Ceremony as well. I grew up around this kind of subdued European style, so I like to use pattern sparingly. K ind of like easy leisure wear, but still classic in a way. It’s not exactly androgynous, because I will wear super-feminine pieces—the slip dress— but tra nsitiona l pieces work rea lly well for me. I can wear them into work; I can wear them out dancing. I’ve been very obsessed with the pants I’m wearing a lot these days. T hey ’re super soft and versatile — painter pants, they’re called. They’re modeled after a traditional painter’s pants. The pants are a monochrome navy blue, with patches sewn in that are stitched from upper thigh to just below the knee. They’re low-rise and I wear them cuffed. They’ve been very comfy for the fall. I got them at Steven A lan—yes, it was a splurge! I tend to go between nice items that I can wear over and over again, paired with stuff I thrift. It works out better.
by jessica hwang
I feel like my style changes a lot, depending on my mood and environment. I worked at a woodshop for all of last year. I can wear open-toed shoes or a dress now when I couldn’t before, because I was working in the woodshop. I used to wear paint-stained clothes, so I’m a little less casual now. My work has limited the way I can accessorize. It’s actually illegal for me to have my nails painted right now! I’m work on preserving paper media like maps and such— we don’t wear gloves to limit our dexterity so chemicals on the hands are a bad idea. I change what I wear because my jobs are so hands-on: whether I’m outdoors doing maintenance on a sculpture, or indoors working on a project in the woodshop.—LEXI
“That’s something I admire in general: economy in design.”
Lexi is wearing a turtleneck from United Colors of Benetton, a black slip dress, and earrings from Scout.
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Symphony Orchestras Have a Race, Class Problem BY ZEKE GILLMAN ARTS STAFF
Last Friday, the Chamber Music Organization (CMO) hosted Thalea Stokes, a Ph.D. student in UChicago’s music department, to speak about the effects of race and class on the diversity of American symphonic orchestras. The event, titled “Problematizing the Intersections of Class and Race in American Symphonic Orchestras,” focused on Stokes’s experience playing in Atlanta orchestras as an aspiring black bassist, and her current research on minority representation in orchestras. While the event was presented as a continuation of a discussion the CMO began last spring on race and class in classical music, this conversation acquired new weight following Election Day’s victory for Donald Trump. After the election results, the CMO issued a sort of clarion call on its Facebook page asking members to come and discuss diversity. “Discussing
the issues of class and race are more important than ever, no matter how small of a community they might affect,” the organization wrote. “Everyone deserves a voice and everyone deserves to be heard.” S t oke s op ene d her pr e s ent ation with some of her observations on popular stereotypes concerning racial groups and classical music. “When you look at professional orchestras today around the country and around the world, blacks and Latinos are very much underrepresented groups,” she said. “When you talk to people, there’s a theory that goes that black and Latino people are underrepresented in symphonic orchestras because that’s not part of their culture. That they don’t do classical music.” Stokes argued that there is a better explanation for the disparity. “I posit that that’s due more to class and not necessarily completely to race,” she said. “I won’t subscribe to the idea that classical music is not for blacks; that classical
music is not for Latinos. I will never subscribe to that because I spent my entire life in classical music and in orchestras.” To demonstrate the alienating effects of class, Stokes used an episode of the comedy-drama Atlanta to illustrate her point. The episode, “Juneteenth,” follows working-class couple Earn and Vanessa as they attend an upper-class party of one of Vanessa’s friends. Particularly poignant in the scene, as Stokes showed, was the discomfort Earn and Vanessa felt in a milieu they knew was not their own. Using this example of class-induced tension, Stokes showed just how foreign the world of classical music, with its ostensible extravagance, may be to the working class. Stokes added that the class dynamic is not only applicable to blacks and Hispanics, but also to whites. She argued that orchestra programs largely cater to children of well-to-do families that have the time and resources to support their participation. Additionally, Stokes also
touched on her knowledge of the experience of Asians. While Asians may be among the more overrepresented members of symphonic orchestras, Stokes called for people not to over-generalize. “If you all notice, people in professional orchestras do tend to be overrepresented by Asian people, but these are East Asian people,” she said. “You don’t see as much representation by Southeastern Asians or Pacific Islanders. This kind of representation dynamic makes you wonder why it is that East Asian people are more overrepresented…. That’s another layer of discussion that needs to be had when talking about increasing representation in symphonic orchestras.” While diversity remains a persistent issue among American symphonic orchestras, Stokes implied that outreach programs, as well as communal orchestras and quartets, are strong ways to combat the problem. Like most problems of race and diversity, the resolution relies on education.
On Tour: RÜFÜS in Bloom BY TIFFANY CHEN MAROON CONTRIBUTOR
There wasn’t a “sol” who didn’t sway, dance, or sing in Chicago’s Riviera T heatre last F riday night as Rüfüs Du Sol performed old hits and new tracks from its second album released earlier this year, Bloom. Rüfus Du Sol, also known as Rüfüs, is an alternative electronic trio from Sydney, Australia, consisting of vocalist T yrone Lindqvist, keyboardist Jon George, and drummer James
Hunt. Rüfüs has performed at prestigious electronic festivals around the world, including Coachella, Lollapalooza, NSW Bluesfest and Splendour in the Grass—it has also toured with the likes of Odesza and Hermitude. Its current tour, promoting Bloom, is the first the group has done internationally. Like its predecessor, Atlas, Bloom reached the number one spot on the Australian Albums Chart. For the full story, go online to chicagomaroon.com.
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Not-So-United States of America A Rise in Hate Crimes Shows That Trump Has Completely Lost Control of His Supporters
Soulet Ali A week has passed since the presidential election, and although the shock of the results has somewhat subsided, many Americans and much of the world still feel as if their new reality is like that of an episode of The Twilight Zone. Donald Trump has been consistently incoherent when explaining his policies and fl agrant in his racist, sexist, and overall offensive speech—yet, somehow, America still elected him. His extreme rhetoric has now seemed to inspire hatred and violence far beyond his control, exposing his vulnerabilities as a supposed leader.
Although he has weakly called for some attempts at bipartisan unity, it will take much more than that to fi x the deep chasm that now runs through the country. In the wake of Trump’s win I was left du mbfou nde d , w it h a burgeoning horror rising inside me as I considered how this ref lected on A mer ic a n s o c iet y. T he resu lts i l lustrat e that bigotry, though perhaps not flagrant, is still strong and alive in this nation. For those that voted Trump, claiming to have sided with him over Hillary Clinton on matters of “policy,” you
may not be a racist, homophobic or sexist—but you voted for a man and an administration full of this hateful and polarizing spirit to lead our country. If anything, this decision discloses the priorities of the American people. R ea l economic issues with industry and Obamaca re do ex ist — and they are all valid issues—but why are these seen as more important than the lives of women and minorities? This is an unpred ictable man with a united Republican Congress and a vice president-elect that advocates for conversion therapy. One can only hope for the best and assume the worst. Trump himself has stated after the election results that “it’s time for America to bind the wounds of division,
we have to get together” and that “all R epublicans and Democrats and independents across this nation…[need] to come together as one united pe ople.” However, the extensive damage that a Trump win has already inf licted upon the minor ity population w i ll prove more than difficult to repair: It will be a tremendous and near impossible undertaking. Starting from the onset of his campa ig n, T r ump has snowballed a fiery rise of hatred in the nation, which has now inf lamed beyond his control. His v ict or y has creat ed a new wave of hate crimes: Muslim women have reported their hijabs forcibly being torn off and the LGBTQ+ community has seen a rise in both physical and verbal attacks.
“[ Hate crime is] everywhere,” said Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen to CNN. “In schools, in places of business like Walmart, on the street.” And although there have been various reports of Trump supporters being physically attacked, this number pa les in comparison to the amount of harassment and cruelty minorities have had to face. T he S outhern Poverty Law Center has actually reported more than 300 counts of hate crime since election day, as of November 15. That number is sure to grow not only in the upcoming days but also throughout the next four years. Our nation is radically estranged, and Trump’s best effort at attempting to cleave the major
d i f fer en c e s h a s b e en to simply say “Stop it.” This is as juvenile and foolish as a man can get. Now that the campaign is over, Trump needs to form some semblance of propriety, and the use of volatile rhetoric will no longer appease the public over the many issues facing our country. T he problems that exist cannot be cured by his speech, only his actions, and he has already proved to be utterly inade quate. Trump has lost reign over his extremists, and in the face of this, he has been fully revealed as spineless. This is not a man worthy of the Oval Office. I have no respect for him. And he is certainly #notmypresident. Soulet Ali is a firstyear in the College.
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VIEWPOINTS Letter: Widespread Delays in Graduate Employees’ Pay Editor’s Note: Graduate Students United will be hand delivering this letter to the administration office Nov. 17. As graduate employees of the University of Chicago, we write to you in regard to the consistent and widespread delays in pay that have affected us and our colleagues. Even prior to this year, Graduate Students United (GSU) was aware that delays in payment have been a longstanding concern for our membership. However, due to the recent implementation of revisions to the payment system and timelines, and as a result of cuts to administrative staff, many graduate employees at the University find themselves in a precarious situation that is unprecedented in scale. This recent change in payment structure affects us alongside oth-
er measures taken (and not taken) by the University administration. This summer, graduate employees were affected by an increase in rent prices on the part of the administration because of the selling-off of University property, which forced many of us to move, incurring further expenses. Last year’s cap on working hours for graduate employees in a number of divisions lowered our standard of living, also affecting our ability to pursue academic work. Our members were informed of changes to their payment structure on June 1 and were told these changes would take effect on September 25. Even so, many of us had our first payments arbitrarily delayed until late October without announcement, meaning that previously budgeted-for expenses were left uncovered by our relatively smaller summer stipends.
Unable to receive effective communications from administrators and departmental finance officers as to when and how we could expect to be paid, many of us paid rent under strain and continue to have our Student Life Fees outstanding, as well as the late fees that have accrued due to the fact we missed the standard deadlines. Graduate Students United hereby demands an explanation as to why graduate employees of the University suffer regularly from delayed payments even though comparably complicated payroll systems in comparable institutions do not suffer from similar problems, and the faculty and administration of this institution seem to have not been affected. We ask that the University administration recognize its negligence and errors, and that it
intervene immediately in order to make the employees affected whole. Graduate Students United asks that the employer: –Pay employees who have not been paid what they are due, carefully considering differences in taxes, deductions, etc., so as to not cause further mistakes and delays. –Waive late payment fees for the Student Life Fee. –Immediately make accessible a 0 percent interest emergency loan to employees affected that is commensurate to the outstanding payments, if for any reason the above requests cannot be fulfilled promptly. –Commit to providing a transparent explanation of how payment is handled, and to designing a clearer and more efficient procedure for reporting errors, communicating to affected em-
ployees, and resolving issues, be they systematic or occasional. –Make an official apology to its employees. –Abandon “Shared Services” and plans for staff layoffs and review other administrative decisions that have caused the problems in payment and communication outlined above. Further, if the University administration foresees that the issue of late payment will continue into winter quarter, we request that the quarter’s Student Life Fee be waived and the aforementioned remedies be made available to all affected employees, and that an announcement to that effect be circulated immediately. —Daniela Licandro, Claudio Sansone, and Agatha Slupek. The letter has been endorsed by Graduate Students United
The Art of The Deal? The Economy Has Improved Since Trump Was Elected—But That May Not Mean Anything
Jasmine Wu In an unbelievable race that was predominantly made up of ugly, personal attacks, the circus that was the U.S. presidential election is fi nally over. Rejecting political norms and winning states that Republicans have typically never won, Donald Trump, in a shocking turn of events, is now president-elect of the United States. Everyone, particularly those in Hyde Park, seems to be stunned and
in disbelief. While the uproar and outcry is sure to continue, many are actually claiming that a Trump presidency is actually good, citing that since he has been elected, the stock market has soared. However, this falsely equates numbers on a stock board to Trump’s potential as a leader. The market does not necessarily ref lect a strong, unified country but rather reacts to possible projections of
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the future. It is not some objective gold standard-bearer of progress, but is driven by human emotion and opinion, both of which are fallible. Prior to the election result, the mere idea that Trump could win the presidency caused the S&P 500 Index to fall 5.3 percent in two days. Dow futures had plummeted nearly 400 points; sectors that were predicted to be hit the hardest range from consumer stocks to transport and healthcare stocks. Consumer stocks in particular will likely be hurt because of his intended immigration restrictions on Muslims, which would constrain labor supply and consumer demand. Yet, after the initial shock that occurred when Trump became the president-elect, the stock market turned for the better. Most indexes from the DJIA to S&P rose, as investors became more optimistic in the markets. President-elect Trump has promised a big boost in spending on defense and infra-
structure; given this, companies that engage in civil infrastructure could rise due to a greater demand for government work. The same goes for Trump’s claims to loosen environmental policies and his investment in the fossil fuel industry, which could spur the energy sector upwards. Essentially, investors are for the most part optimistic about what Trump’s loosening hold on regulations could do for the economy. The U.S. has responded, but they have responded to a president-elect who continues to rapidly change his policies on a myriad of issues. Despite these concrete numbers of stock prices, interest rates, and more, which appear to starkly illustrate the present and possibly the future state of the economy, Trump has not concretely done anything. His team is in disarray, with near-constant hirings and fi rings; the president-elect and his team are still in transition. The reason why the mar-
kets are moving is thereby not because anything tangible has happened, but because of investor sentiment. Before he was elected, investors believed that the notion of a Trump presidency would be disastrous, leading to a plummeting market. But, after the “dreaded” event actually occurred, the markets seemed to wrap their heads around the idea of President Trump to the point that they saw something that could potentially work in their favor, leading to the economic upturn we’ve seen. These are mere projections and hopes for the future, not any indication that Trump is actually an effective leader and a strong businessman. To use the economy to argue in his favor is vastly misguided and wrongly turns the conversation away from illframed policies and disastrous issue positions. Jasmine Wu is a second-year in the College majoring in economics and philosophy.
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South Siders Head Further South for First Games WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
BY ALEC MILLER SPORTS STAFF
After a long off-season, the University of Chicago women’s basketball team returns to action this weekend. They will start the season down in St. Louis, where they will face off against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on Friday and against Hanover on Saturday. The women’s basketball team is coming off a good season last year, when it finished with a record of 16–9 overall and
8–6 in the conference. It will come into this year trying to improve on that mark. “Heading into the season, I’m feeling that if we’re consistent we’ll succeed,” said second-year guard Alyssa Clemente. “There are going to be ups and downs in all of the games but we just have to make sure we stay even-keeled and calm in order to win. “ Experience will be key to the Maroons’ success this year, as they’re bringing back many of their key players from last year. Two fourth-years, forward
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Britta Nordstrom and guard Stephanie Anderson, have already made big contributions during their time on campus and will be the leaders of the team this year. The South Siders will look to use this experience to build chemistry this weekend when they start off their season. “We are really excited to be going to St. Louis this weekend,” said Anderson. “Not only is it my home town, but it’s our fi rst chance to travel and have the opportunity to become an incredibly close-knit group. It also doesn’t hurt that St. Louis
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is supposed to have really great weather this weekend. We are pretty confident heading into this weekend.” Their first game of the 2016 –2017 season will be against the No. 25 ranked Athenas of Claremont, which finished last season with a record of 23–6 and went to the second round of the NCAA tournament. They come into the weekend after defeating Sierra by a score of 77–48. Claremont should be a very tough opening game for the Maroons, but the squad isn’t losing any of its confidence. “We had a couple of great practices leading up to this weekend, which our coach loves,” said Anderson. “I think our defense is really starting to be great after these four weeks, and as it is really difficult to play against, I think we will fi nd success. [Claremont] and Hanover are a couple of great teams, but we can defi nitely come out of the weekend with two wins if we play our game and stick to our principles.” The next day, the Maroons will lace it up again when they play Hanover, which is coming off a 9–16 season in 2015–2016. They are looking to bounce back this weekend. Hanover plays No. 9 ranked Wash U on Friday and will then tip off against Chicago on Saturday. The Maroons will start the season with confidence and high expectations. They will play Claremont on Friday at 5 p.m.; on Saturday they will play Hanover at 5 p.m. After the weekend, Chicago will be back in action on Tuesday against Carroll.
NCAA Championship Race Looming
Three Days of Swimming on Tap for Maroons
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BY MAGGIE O’HARA SPORTS STAFF
The UChicago women’s cross country team will lace up this weekend in Kentucky for the NCAA Championship. This marks the seventh straight season the Maroons have qualified for the NCA A nationals. Currently ranked 15th in the country, the team looks to bring home some hardware. The Maroons earned an at-large team bid after placing four runners in the top 40 in a highly competitive regional this past weekend. This weekend, the Maroons will see many familiar faces in the likes of UA A teams Emory and Wash U, and regional competitor University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. The Maroons will be anchored by third-year Khia Kurtenbach, who won the regional this past weekend and was recently named the Regional Runner of the Year via the U.S Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. The Maroons will also look for strong performances out of third-years Cassidy McPherson and Kelsey Dunn and fourth-year Madeline Horvath who all picked up All-Region accolades this past weekend. McPherson feels the team is clicking right now, running its best races with a healthy squad. “It’s been a really great season so far. It’s been fun to see how our team has progressed, we had a lot of injuries at the beginning of the year which hurt our depth a bit, but as we’ve gotten healthier we’ve continued to progress and I really think we are running our best when it matters.”
The Maroons have had a season for the books, but they look to continue writing it. They have the opportunity to top the all-time UChicago record of fourth place, which came in 2013. “We’re really excited for nationals. It means so much to be able to carry on the legacy of success that the women’s cross country team has achieved for the last seven years,” said Horvath. “We’re running against the top teams in the country, and I believe that we’ll be most successful if we run confidently, with the goal to take one more step forward.” The team has been tapering workouts since post-season has begun, relying on their preparation all season to shine through. “We’ve put so much hard work into this season, and this week we’re just doing some light workouts to maintain fitness and maximize efficiency,” said Horvath. “All of our workouts earlier this season have been to prepare us for November, and every meet we’ve taken a step forward.” “People are stepping up every week and contr ibuting and ever yone is working towards a common goal,” said McPherson. “NCA As will obviously be challenging and will put some of us in positions we maybe haven’t been in yet this season, but I feel we all are ready both physically and mentally to put it all out there on Saturday and see how we match up against the best DIII teams in the country.” The NCA A Championship will take place this Saturday at E.P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park in Louisville, Kentucky, at 11 a.m. EST.
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The swim and dive teams host the Phoenix Fall Classic this weekend at the Myers-McLoraine Pool, featuring teams from William Jewell, Lake Forest, Illinois Tech, and Hillsdale. The South Siders are poised for an auspicious showing, as both squads have had great results in their last competitions. The women beat a DI team for the first time since the Maroons became DIII, and lost by a very close margin to UAA rival Wash U. Despite a slightly less successful season so far, the men’s team has also seen some exceptional individual swims throughout their meets. The first-years particularly have enjoyed great success since the beginning of their season in late October. On the men’s side, in their first meet of the season, first-year Aaron Guo broke a school record in the 1000-yard freestyle and first-year Reona Yamaguchi won the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke. These first-years continued their winning streak in their second meet. Guo swam in a first place 400-yard freestyle relay and Yamaguchi won the 200-yard breaststroke again. Classmate George Reuter also stepped up and topped the competition in the 200-yard butterfly. Guo took first in three different events against Wash U, Yamaguchi tied for first in one, and first-year Taye Baldinazzo won the 500-yard freestyle. The first-year women have also been making a splash. Nicole Garcia, Yifan Mao, and Audrey Mason have been consistent top performers in their first college season. Garcia has been victorious at least once in all three meets of the season so far, winning the 100-yard butterfly twice and swimming a leg
in a victorious 400-yard medley relay. Mao has been impressively consistent as well, helping bring home two victories in the 200- and 400-yard freestyle relay. Mason has had remarkable past two meets, posting four victories total across the 500-, 1000-, and 1650-yard freestyles. Diving has proven a force to be reckoned with as well, as first-year Agnes Lo has posted NCAA zone qualifying scores in her past two meets as well as winning the one and three-meter dives once each. Guo, reflecting on his and the team’s success, attributes it to the team’s fantastic team spirit and culture. “The team captains and coaches have cultivated an atmosphere of encouragement and positivity where all swimmers strive to swim their best,” he said. Looking forward to the meet this weekend, he stressed the importance of mental preparation. “We just need to prepare ourselves for three days of grueling racing. We must be cognizant of the minutiae outside of swimming; eating healthily, sleeping well, and engaging in proper recovery,” said Guo. “Establishing these habits now will serve as good preparation for our more important championship meets, such as UAAs and NCAAs.” Yamaguchi echoed his teammate’s sentiments but also stressed the energy that the squad has. “The team has been training with a new attitude, looking for redemption of sorts,” he said. This meet is especially important for the South Siders as these times can help them qualify for the NCAA Championship early. Also, this is the team’s last meet for a month as they take a break for finals and winter break. The teams will be in action Friday through Sunday in their home pool.
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SPORTS IN-QUOTES... “This game is a highly concentrated version of the Jay Cutler” —Robert Mays
Maroons Head to Wisconsin for Third Round WOMEN’S SOCCER
BY SIMONE STOVER SPORTS STAFF
This weekend is shaping up to be an exciting and nerve-wracking experience for the South Siders of Chicago. The No. 11 Maroons are set to travel to Whitewater, Wisconsin, this Saturday to participate in the third round of the NCAA DIII Championship. Riding high off of their wins against both Webster and Augsburg in the first two rounds of the Championship, the South Siders are set to face off against No. 3 Thomas
More in their first away game of the tournament. The 2016 season has been an overall successful one for the Maroons. They currently stand at No. 11 within DIII, touting a 17–3 overall record and an undefeated home record. This is a major improvement from last year’s season, which the Maroons finished out with a No. 25 ranking during the second round of the championship tournament. Additionally, their wins against Webster and Augsburg this year—although expected— were both decisive; the Maroons finished
with a 2–0 win over Augsburg and an even more impressive 6–0 win over Webster. Despite boasting a successful run thus far, the South Siders face a major challenge in the form of Thomas More this weekend. The Maroons and Saints have faced two common opponents this year: Illinois-Wesleyan and Carnegie Mellon. Both teams were successful against the former. However, the Maroons suffered a 1–0 loss to Carnegie Mellon while the Saints managed to achieve a 2–1 win. In addition, the Saints have had a near perfect season, managing
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to stay undefeated throughout its entirety. Their current record stands at a very impressive 22–0–1. Going into the game this weekend, the Maroons seem to be conscious of their disadvantage. “This of course is a huge game for us. Thomas More is ranked number three in the nation, and last year they ended our season in the tournament,” said third-year midfielder Kelsey Moore. “Practice this week will be very focused and will aim to give us the edge that we need on Saturday.” The Maroons’ loss against Thomas More last year was indeed a disappointing one. As Moore said, the Maroons’ 1–0 loss against the Saints in the second round of the tournament was what ended the South Siders’ season. Despite going into the game as underdogs, morale seems to be high amongst the South Siders. “Our team has been incredibly supportive of one another this season, which has created a cohesiveness that has been integral to our success thus far,” Moore continued. “The soccer part is of course the most important, but I believe the culture we have created this season is what will take us that much farther.” The game against Thomas More will be held at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s Fiskum Field on Saturday, November 19, at 11 a.m. If the Maroons are victorious in their matchup, they will advance to the quarterfinals of the tournament where they will face off against the winner of the Wisconsin-Whitewater–Pomona-Pitzer game on Sunday, November 20, at 1 p.m.
Sweet Sixteen Comes to the Windy City MEN’S SOCCER Continued from front
last saw action in the third round in 2011 On Monday, seven Maroons were named to All–UA A teams, including conference M V P second-year Nicco Capotosto and UA A Rookie of the Year, first-year Sam Drablos. Bonin, fourthyear forward Brenton Desai, and second-year forward Max Lopez joined Capotosto and Drablos as UA A FirstTeam selections, while first-year mid-
fielder Dayo Adeosun and second-year forward Matthew Koh received Second Team accolades. Head coach Mike Babst and his assistants were recognized as the UA A Coaching Staff of the Year. Third-year defender Stacey Reimann said of the team’s recent All-UAA honors, “Even with the impressive recognition our team and coaches received this week through the UA A awards, we definitely still have more to accomplish this season and do not plan to have it
end this weekend.” Of the team’s preparation, Reimann said, “ The best way we have found to prepare is to continue practicing and playing at our level, knowing that other teams will have hopefully not seen a team with our talent yet in the season.” Reimann is especially looking forward to having the home f ield advantage this weekend, as the squad’s only two ties have resulted from away matchups. He said, “We have had re-
ally incredible turnouts at most of our games this season, so being able to host the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight matches for everyone who has supported us throughout this season means a lot to the team.” The UChicago–Redlands matchup is set to begin at 11 a.m. Later that day, the Eagles will take on the Tommies at 1:30 p.m., with the winner of each game advancing to the quarterfinals on Sunday at 1 p.m.
Chicago Falls in Season Opener MEN’S BASKETBALL
BY KATIE ANDERSON SENIOR SPORTS EDITOR
The Maroons dropped their season opener to North Park on Tuesday night on a buzzer-beating three-point finish that brought the score to 88 –87. The South Siders started the game strong, going up 10 –6 early, spurred by second-year Noah Karras’s early layup and three-pointer. After an early advantage, the Maroons and the Vikings went back and forth for the remainder of the first half. North Park went 5-for-11 from behind the arc to add to an efficient offensive performance. Chicago responded well to its opponent’s efforts, and at the half, Chicago led 45 –42. Karras’s 11 firsthalf points led the home team’s charge while his squad’s 71 percent shooting
from the field gave him plenty of support. In the second half, the visiting team responded to the deficit with an 11–2 run out of the locker room. The Vikings led 63–57 halfway through the second half, but veteran point guard fourthyear Tyler Howard netted two layups to start the Maroons on a run of their own. Karras added two consecutive three-pointers, followed by threes from third-year Collin Barthel and fourthyear Waller Perez to cap off a 17–3 run for the home team. “We executed well offensively and kept our composure when they went on runs,” Howard said. “Our composure despite ups and downs allowed us to stay in the game.” With just 30 seconds left, Chicago led with a promising 86 – 80 and the
game looked in the bag. But a quick basket and a three by the Vikings brought the score to 87–85 with just seconds left in regulation. North Park then intercepted a long inbounds pass and netted a quick three-pointer to snag the victory in the final second. Typically, Chicago’s impressive stat line wouldn’t point to a loss for the home team. The squad shot 50.8 percent from the field, 41.9 percent from three-point land, and pulled down 40 rebounds in comparison to North Park’s 30. The Maroons’ starting squad was dominant, with all five recording double-digit points. Yet North Park’s sharp shooting from behind the arc at 50 percent was an issue for the Maroons throughout the game. Despite the loss, the Maroons’ play in its season opener shows promise for
the rest of the year. Karras, who did not play significant minutes last year, made an impressive debut with 17 points to lead the team. Howard proved to be a solid leader again, netting 10 points and dishing out five assists. The squad will hit the road for its next game at Lake Forest on Saturday. The Foresters dropped their season opener to Coe College 79 –71, so both teams will come in at 0 –1. Given its offensive success against North Park, Howard says the team’s focus now will have to be on the other side of the ball. “Next game we’ll have to be better defensively and get more stops. We can’t afford to be giving up uncontested shots against a strong shooting team.” Tip-off on Saturday is at 3 p.m. at Lake Forest College.