NOVEMBER 18, 2016
THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SINCE 1892
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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South Siders Head Further South for First Games
Contributing to the Maroon
Camelia Malkami
On Tuesday, volunteers gathered a large pile of leaves for students to jump in as part of the “Make Chicago Smile” project.
A Day on the Jackson Park Docks
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No. 1 Maroons Ready for Redlands’ Tournament Test
BY GREG ROSS NEWS STAFF
BY NATALIE DEMURO
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 Art of the Deal?
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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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