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FRIDAY • MAY 25, 2012

ISSUE 49 • VOLUME 123

THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SINCE 1892

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Frats under fire after bias claims Pledging and party seen as troubling to Latinos, admin, OMSA Ben Pokross Associate News Editor

Tennis, anyone?

The U of C women’s tennis team captured second place at the national tournament on Wednesday after losing to Williams, 5–2, the best finish in the program’s history.

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Two racially-tinged incidents related to fraternities in the past month have drawn sharp criticism from Latin student groups and their allies, along with admonitions from University administrators and officials in the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA).

The first episode occurred May 8 around 4:30 p.m, when a student saw what were believed to be first-year pledges performing a racial caricature, mowing the lawn in front of the Alpha Delta Phi (Alpha Delt) fraternity house wearing oversized sombreros while Latin music played from a stereo.

The student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter is ongoing, reported the incident to OMSA. Fourth-year Guadalupe Leon, a student on OMSA’s advisory board and co-chair of the Mexican students RSO Movimiento

Estudiantil Chicago De Aztlán (MEChA), passed along the complaint.

In response to the complaint, a meeting was called between Alpha Delt leaders and three University officials: Elly Daugherty, assistant vice president for student life; Lynda Daher, director of the Bias Response Team; and Kristen Siron, assistant director of Greek life for ORCSA. At the meeting, Alpha Delt was asked to talk about the issue openly, and possibly to make a public apology.

Meanwhile, word of the incident quickly spread.

Robin Graham, associate director of OMSA, e-mailed Leon about how the University was responding. Lupe circulated it on MEChA’s listhost.

Daugherty also notified the national Alpha Delt administration, as well as its alumni organization.

However, Alpha Delt’s chapter on campus has not admitted any wrongdoing and has declined FRATS continued on page 2

Timuel Black, civil rights Journalist traces path to political reporting activist, gets Benton medal leaders in Chicago history. He has been a community leader, political activist, thoughtful critic, and national voice in the cause of American justice,” wrote one of his nominators.

Despite Black’s service abroad in the segregated U.S. Army in WWII, his roots trace back to Chicago, where he returned from war and “decided to dedicate his life to work for peace, equality, and justice,” according to a University press release.

Black has had a long history working with leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who he

Crystal Tsoi Senior News Staff Timuel Black (A.M. ’54) will be honored with the William Benton Medal for Distinguished Public Service at this year’s June 9 UChicago 511th Convocation, joining only 10 other recipients since the award began in 1967.

In the past, the Benton award has been given to honorees such as Senator Paul Simon and American publisher Katharine Graham for accomplishments in public service in diverse fields.

“Timuel Black is one of the most influential civil rights

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Pre-meds get new options Sequence for non-majors adapts to changing field Previously, non-major students would have had to take the same assortment of biolog y classes as those within the major.

However, non-major students now have their own set of six courses relevant for pre-medical students that start a quarter earlier than students in the major, other than those in the AP 5 sequence. Ordinarily, the biological sciences division cites 12 quarters of science and three of calculus as common medical school requirements.

The majority of pre-med students still major in the biological sciences, and just 30

James DelVesco News Staff To keep pace with the shifting job market in the medical professions, faculty and administrators introduced a separate track in winter for pre-med students not majoring in biolog y. As those students approach the halfway mark of their education, the department is closely monitoring their progress and weighing the program’s future.

This is the first year the University has offered a separate track for non-major students preparing for medical school.

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New York Times political correspondent Jeremy Peters discusses his Pulitzer-winning work and his origins at a minor Virgin Islands daily with SG President Youssef Kalad at a talk in Kent on Tuesday.

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Marina Fang Asscoiate News Editor Pu l i t z er - w i nn i n g Ne w York Times reporter Jeremy Peters discussed the sweeping trajectory of his career as a political correspondent, from his haphazard encounter with Senator John McCain in 2000 to his recent coverage of political ads in the upcoming presidential election.

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After college, Peters worked at the Virgin Islands Daily News, a small paper where he was free to cover all aspects of city life, from murders to carnivals. “It was a great little laboratory for honing your skills,” he said.

His experience at the Times began with a stint at the paper’s Detroit bureau, reporting on the Midwestern economy. Since then, he has covered media and advertising, along with New York state politics. He was a part of JOURNALIST continued on page 3

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Closing on a few good notes » Page 6

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Peters reflected on the state of the journalism industry and shared anecdotes from the presidential campaign trail, claiming that his journalism career was mostly the result of chance.

“It’s often said that it’s who you know, but I think a better way of looking at it is where you are at the right moment,” he said.

Peters himself made the foray into political reporting when he found his way onto Senator John McCain’s campaign bus while it

Novel ideas: Tips from a more tenured book club » Page 7

Whitmore’s all-American hopes dashed » Page 32

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Meetings between frats, admins, and Latino students raise questions about campus culture FRATS continued from front

requests for an apology, according to Graham’s e-mail.

Anger again flared up the night of Monday, May 21, this time directed at Delta Upsilon (DU) fraternity.

Members of the fraternity had posted a Facebook event for a party billed, “DU Presents: Conquistadors and Aztec Hoes [sic],” which in its description encouraged attendees to bring “an unlimited need to conquer, spread disease, and enslave natives.”

Response to the posting was immediate, as students were still working to resolve the previous incident with Alpha Delt. After discovering that the 24-hour phone line operated by the Bias Response Team was nonfunctional, a group of students associated with different Latin organizations gathered in the C-Shop that night, including members of MEChA and the Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS).

Within an hour, all reference to conquistadors and Aztecs had been removed as DU members became aware of the growing controversy via Facebook and word of mouth.

After the meeting, Leon sent an e-mail to DU on behalf of the Latin student organizations that had met.

At 12:54 a.m. that night, first-year Daniel Kraft— one of the brothers who created the event—sent an apology to Leon, expressing DU’s regret over the name. Soon after, he posted a second apology on Facebook.

“There is no question that the previous event title was unacceptable and offensive, and we would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the Latino community and any other groups that have been offended and hurt by the title of the event,” Kraft’s letter to Leon read.

However, the controversy continued to build, since Latin students believed that the apology was insincere and dismissive.

“One of the things that we emphasized was an open forum where we can talk about culture and how to handle this,” said third-year Lizbeth Cordova, a member of MEChA. “They completely disregarded it.”

The party changed names twice, becoming first “DU Presents: Safari Bros and Jungle Cats,” then “DU Presents: Hats.”

Kraft, along with another DU brother who created the event, posted on the event’s Facebook wall that they were “sad safari bro[s]” because of the name change.

“I personally didn’t see it as a sincere apology,” Cordova said.

The party was finally cancelled Thursday afternoon. DU issued a third apology on Tuesday and met with OMSA and representatives from Latin RSOs on Wednesday.

“We wanted to confirm the sincerity of our apology,” Kraft said in an e-mail.

DU has committed to an open forum, tentatively planned for next week, which will bring together individuals from OMSA, DU, and members of Latin interest groups.

As the two incidents have developed, questions have been raised about campus culture, the University’s relationship with its Greek organizations, and the effectiveness of “dialogue.”

At the meeting on Tuesday, students repeatedly asked why it was that the University could not take concrete action against either fraternity by revoking privileges or cutting funding, for example.

The University can discipline members of a fraternity as individual students but not Greeks as a whole, since they are not officially recognized as student organizations. That has left many of the offended students feeling without recourse.

But the University is not powerless just because it cannot mete out punishments on entire frats, Daugherty said. She can still use her position to bring fraternities to the table.

“Like other students, fraternity members take part in the Bias Response Team process and are subject to disciplinary procedures if a case calls for that,” Daugherty said in an e-mail.

Alpha Delt still has not made any public statement about the incident, although according to Cordova, they have a meeting next week with Dean of Students in the College Susan Art. Meanwhile, the original complainants are trying to present the issue as one that impacts students of any race or ethnicity, and are looking to form an RSO coalition to deal with bias of any type in the future.

“People are getting it,” Cordova said. “We’re getting a response not just from the Latino community but the entire campus community.”

EVOLUTION OF A PARTY The iterations of DU’s Facebook event First invitation

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New pre-med track places non-majors among their peers in advanced biology classes PREMED continued from front

first-years from outside the department enrolled at the start of the sequence in winter. That number has since fallen to about 20.

“We wanted to have a small pilot class so that way we can track their progress closely, and [we] expect about twice as many people next year,” said Jose Quintans, dean of the biological sciences division.

The division is the second-largest in the College, handing out 164 undergraduate degrees last spring.

The biological sciences collegiate division spent a year alongside Chicago Careers in Health Professions (CCIHP) planning a curriculum that would reconcile students’ personal interests with

the changing demands of medical schools.

“This was designed di novo, from scratch,” Quintans said.

To that end, the six classes cover everything tested on the MCAT, but also hone in on other fields allied to the world of medicine.

“There are a lot of changes going on in terms of what medical school people want to see, and these changes will be happening over the next few years,” said Jett McAlister, a health professions advisor with CCIHP. “We’re trying to be ahead of the curve.”

First-year Orly Farber, majoring in comparative human development, says that studying medicine alongside nonmajors enriches the classroom experience.

“I don’t have a sense yet of whether or not it’s helpful [to be among non-majors],” she said. “But it’s much more enjoyable.”

But first-year Raymond Dong, majoring in economics, is pursuing business and health in tandem.

“Through the sequence, I’ll finish the pre-reqs I need for med school, as well as be able to fulfill everything I need for an econ major,” he said. “This seemed like a good way to do both without being overwhelmed.”

Fourth-year Alice Hyewon Won, president of the Pre-Medical Students Association (PMSA), says that students who try to complete the pre-med track— which requires several biolog y and math classes regardless of whether the student

is a biolog y major—often discover that other majors are impractical by their third or fourth years.

“The workload gets really heavy, and many people end up thinking, ‘Well, I’ve already ended up taking so many bio classes: I don’t think I can write a thesis for, maybe, public policy or poli sci,’” she said. “There are quite a few cases like that.”

However, for Farber, the freedom to take other classes has more than practical benefits.

“I want to be able to enjoy college and learn things outside of science, despite the fact that I really want to be a doctor,” she said. “I’ll have the rest of my life to devote to science.”

New dorm to replace Pierce in near future, committee says Ankit Jain News Staff Plans to replace Pierce are in full swing as the University begins the process of creating a concrete proposal due at the end of the summer, with hopes for final approval by the Board of Trustees by the end of 2012.

A committee of administrators chaired by Executive Vice President David Greene is currently conducting feasibility studies on several potential sites to determine “what size building the site would hold, what would it mean for the number of stories,

for example, or the kinds of courtyards you can create, and how you would open up to different areas,” Greene said.

The committee is currently considering a number of possible sites for the new dorm, including the property Pierce occupies now. Regardless, Greene expects Pierce to close soon after the construction for the new dorm starts, if not right when it begins. “Our expectation is that Pierce would not be a long-term solution for housing,” he said.

If all plans proceed at the absolute fastest possible speed, this means that Pierce could close before the 2013–2014 school year,

but the new dorm would open in the fall of 2017 at the earliest, Greene said.

In the interim, current Pierce residents would be relocated to several possible facilities including International House, the New Graduate Residence Hall, or an apartment-style University-owned building, according to Greene.

This summer, the administration hopes to conduct “programming studies” that configure the internal layout of the new dorm and begin the design process in the autumn.

Initially, the committee had hoped to draft a proposal by the end of this quarter.

However, the complexity of financing and choosing a site for a dorm—a largescale facility—requires more exploration, according to Green.

The committee wants to hasten the process, but not too rashly. “I’d like to move quickly on all of this, but no more quickly than would be responsible for really creating a great new building,” Greene said.

The administration is also dealing with an influx of unexpected students who accepted admission to the class of 2016, and will be placing them partially in graduate housing and International House next year.

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Alum, who had role in bringing MLK to campus and electing first black mayor, wins Benton award BENTON continued from front

brought to speak on campus in 1956, and W.E.B DuBois. He was involved in Chicago’s participation in the March on Washington in 1963 as well as more local efforts to end segregation in Chicago

Public Schools (CPS).

After the height of the Civil Rights Movement, Black headed the campaign to elect Harold Washington as Chicago’s first black mayor.

He also taught in CPS for four decades

and served as an administrator for the City College of Chicago. As a historian, Black has published a two-volume history of black Chicago titled Bridges of Memory.

Along with Black, Anne Bogart will be awarded the Jesse J. Rosenberger Medal for

Outstanding Achievement in the Creative and Performing Arts during convocation, the 48th recipient since 1917. Bogart is an avant-garde theatre director and theorist, from off-Broadway to Court Theatre productions.

Triple Helix wins best RSO Major RSO events face more scrutiny Sarah Miller News Staff The student science publication The Triple Helix received the William J. Michel RSO Award of the Year Award, the most distinguished award given to an RSO each year, last Tuesday. The organization also received a $200 cash prize.

Second-year Katie Burkhart, chair of the Committee on Recognized Student Organizations, said The Triple Helix received 17 nominations for the award, more than any other RSO. She said that the committee is often skeptical when many students nominate one RSO in case they are members of that RSO. However, The Triple Helix nominations came from students, staff, and faculty who are not in the organization.

Ben Dauber, co-president of The Triple Helix, said that he thinks the organization reaches a broad student base. “Our organization focuses on the intersection between science and society, which is a topic of interest for both science and non-science majors,� said Dauber, a third-year.

The U of C chapter of The Triple Helix, one of 28 around the country, publishes a science journal, Scientia,

which features student and faculty collaborative work and examines the connection between science and other disciplines. Student work from The Triple Helix chapters worldwide are published in an internationally-known blog, The Triple Helix Online.

Over the last year, The Triple Helix hosted a number of well-attended events, including a talk on the ethics of kidney transplants and the future of the University’s new Institute for Molecular Engineering.

The RSO currently boasts 300 active members, and received 110 membership applications from students for the upcoming year, Dauber said.

In the judging process, Burkhart said the committee distinguishes between RSOs that are part of a larger organization and original start-ups on a “case-by-case basis.� “In terms of expansion, [The Triple Helix] did so much on their own. It was not done by the national chapter,�

Burkhart said.

Dauber said that the organization will use its cash prize to print more copies of Scientia and fund more lectures and events.

Editor’s note: Katie Burkhart is a Maroon staffer.

Tiantian Zhang News Staff About half a dozen RSOs planning to host major events this month had to undergo a review process officially implemented by the University this quarter in an effort to ease communication between administrators and student group leaders.

The review committee, which is composed of representatives from the Office of Campus and Student Life, University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD), U of C Communications, Office of Event Services, and student leaders, targets events with prominent speakers that would draw a large crowd.

University spokesperson Steve Kloehn, who is a member of the review committee, said that the process has existed informally for several years but was formalized this quarter to include more student participation. “The administration wants to support students groups so that they can carry out events more successfully. And this process is created out of that impulse,� he said.

In review meetings, RSOs present

and discuss the security, content, logistics, and potential crowd management of their planned events.

If security concerns are raised in the review, the University will provide additional police forces and a Deanon-Call for the event.

Among the events that were subject to the review process over the last month were Scav, a joint-talk

by Cornel West and Carl Dix on May 8, Relay for Life last week, and a panel next week on mental health of immigrants and refugees.

Social sciences graduate student Toussaint Losier, one of the organizers of the West-Dix talk, said that the event review committee served as a brainstorming session where they were asked to answer questions about issues related to carrying out the event effectively. “The event review committee was particularly concerned about potential protests at the event and arranging a free speech zone for potential protests of West and Dix,� he said.

The event’s organization was originally postponed due to logistical complications, but the issues were resolved by April 30.

Other student leaders found the review meeting conducive to

organizing their events. “The process is not about approving the event but about avoiding unanticipated situations, especially [because] many protesters come to the city during NATO. They just wanted to make sure nothing goes wrong,� said fourthyear Libby Bova, who is president of Partnership for the Advancement of Refugee Rights (PARR), which will host the panel on refugee mental health next week.

Head Scav judge fourth-year Leah Rand described the process as “a beneficial and positive experience.� “It gave me a chance to address the concerns [and] make sure that we were all on the same page,� she said.

Fourth-year Anasuya Kabad, chair of Relay for Life, appreciated the committee’s willingness to provide security and personnel. “They did not change anything or make us sacrifice anything about the event. They were super helpful to ensuring that the event ran smoothly and that all of our participants were safe and secure,�

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Sanderson: NATO summit fails to deliver for city economy Jon Catlin News Staff Chicago didn’t get its money’s worth by hosting this weekend’s North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit, concluded economics senior lecturer Allen Sanderson on Tuesday.

“The bottom line is I, and most economists, don’t think ‘big-ticket’ events do well economically,” he said. “And that’s a generous statement: Zero dollars is not the lower bound.”

In a recent article in the Chicago Tribune, Sanderson critiqued the city’s economic forecast study, conducted by financial services firm Deloitte, which estimated that the NATO summit would bring $128.2 million in new spending to Chicago.

But Sanderson considered the estimate grossly inflated. “My rule of thumb is, move the decimal on the estimate one place to the left, and it’ll be pretty accurate,” he said.

Sanderson cited two economic principles that the city’s estimate neglects: substitution spending and the “leakage” of spending to outside Chicago. Sanderson’s research shows that NATOinduced spending merely substituted normal spending by people who didn’t come to the city because of the summit.

“May is a big month for conventions at McCormick

Economics professor Allen Sanderson discusses the economic impact of large public events, such as the NATO summit and the Olympics, on their host cities at a lecture hosted by Oeconomica, a student research group, in Stuart Hall on Tuesday.

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spending did occur, the estimate is still inflated because not all of that money stays in Chicago. A great portion of that spending ‘leaks’ out of the Chicago economy into corporations and shareholders,” he said.

Though Sanderson considered the summit a success because it may have given Chicago

Place, and this year all of that got cancelled to prepare for NATO,” he said.

In fact, restaurants and shops actually did worse during summit weekend because Chicago residents tended to stay home to avoid transit and security problems, according to Sanderson.

“But even if that level of

international media attention, he doubts that it brought any net commerce or jobs to the city. He also criticized mayor Rahm Emanuel for justifying the conference as “free” to taxpayers because private donors covered the summit’s costs.

“The mayor talks like $128 million just fell from the sky,”

Sanderson said. “But like all spending, these donations entail opportunity cost. The costs covered by private donors and corporations would have been spent elsewhere in the Chicago economy. This is merely substitute spending , not ‘new spending ,’ though that’s how it’s being treated.”

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Notables: » Saturday, East 57th Street and Lake Park Avenue, 7:32 a.m.—A suspicious suitcase, which turned out to be empty, was reported to Chicago police at the Metra station, delaying trains in both directions for over two hours afterward.

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Editorial & Op-Ed MAY 25, 2012

Fraternal failings Alpha Delt and DU’s recent bias incidents speak to a culture of insensitivity, need for understanding The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 JORDAN LARSON Editor-in-Chief SHARAN SHETTY Editor-in-Chief COLIN BRADLEY Managing Editor DOUGLAS EVERSON, JR Senior Editor SAM LEVINE Senior Editor HARUNOBU CORYNE News Editor REBECCA GUTERMAN News Editor GIOVANNI WROBEL News Editor EMILY WANG Viewpoints Editor AJAY BATRA Viewpoints Editor CHARNA ALBERT Arts Editor HANNAH GOLD Arts Editor TOMI OBARO Arts Editor DANIEL LEWIS Sports Editor VICENTE FERNANDEZ Sports Editor MATTHEW SCHAEFER Sports Editor BELLA WU Head Designer KEVIN WANG Online Editor ALICE BLACKWOOD Head Copy Editor DON HO Head Copy Editor JEN XIA Head Copy Editor JAMIE MANLEY Photo Editor

Recently, two fraternity chapters at the U of C showed an ugly side of themselves to the campus community. In particular, a number of Latino student groups, including Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) and the Organization of Latin American Students (OLAS), rightly expressed outrage at two recent incidents: Alpha Delta Phi (Alpha Delt) played Latin music while having its pledges wear sombreros and mow its front lawn and Delta Upsilon (DU) created a public Facebook event for a party titled “Conquistadors and Aztec Hoes.” Some may brush off these juvenile acts as “boys being boys” or as bits of politically incorrect fun, but such dismissals only reflect a culture of insensitivity. The University and minority interest organizations have taken steps to address these actions, and while the fraternities have responded, they have not done so to the proper extent. DU and Alpha Delt should make it their top priority to engage with administrators and minority groups to avoid such bias incidents, and should evaluate why they

occurred in the first place.

Since the appearance of “Conquistadors and Aztec Hoes,” DU has written an apologetic letter to a number of concerned student groups, met with the leaders of these groups, and issued an informal public apology through Facebook. However, it failed to appear at an OMSA–organized meeting between student groups and administrators.

Meanwhile, Alpha Delt has categorically refused to publicly apologize, though it has met with administrators. What both frats must realize is that efforts to reconcile relations between them and the offended groups are not aimed at shaming them—they certainly shouldn’t be—but intend to form a shared understanding of values and goals. Replacing this adversarial dynamic with one that is more cooperative could prevent future transgressions, as well as strengthen cultural respect and acceptance on campus.

If both fraternities show unwillingness to take full accountability, the University must take disciplinary action.

Firstly, the offenses should be officially

recognized as bias incidents, and the offending individuals should be tried accordingly. The University could also consider working with the Interfraternity Council (IFC)—the independent representative body that aims to provide “a general direction for the growth and betterment of all fraternities” on campus—to discuss probations or warnings to assign to DU and Alpha Delt that respect the independent nature of Greek life at the U of C. Lastly, discussions should focus on why these incidents happened at all. DU, in its response letter, admittedly notes, “It was never our intention to offend or hurt any minority groups.” It’s hard to imagine, then, how members could write an event description that entreated guests to bring out “an unlimited need to conquer, spread disease, and enslave natives.”

Both Alpha Delt and DU would lose no popularity on campus, or attendance at their parties, if they refrained from discriminatory and sexist acts. Some might claim that such incidents are not malicious, but are exaggerated or done in

irony and jest; however, no matter their intended effect, they just come across as stupid. The recent five-year suspension of Yale’s DKE chapter—imposed for the persistent presence of sexist pledging practices—should stand as a reminder that there is a line that can’t be crossed.

Fraternities here are usually a positive presence on our campus and in the community. The scale of their philanthropic and community service efforts ranks highly among student organizations, and is certainly worthy of praise. It is a real shame, then, to see two brotherhoods not only confer dishonor on the University with their actions, but further have the gall to not hold themselves completely and publicly accountable for doing so. Simply put, both DU and Alpha Delt must cooperate with the community and eliminate any trace of bias in their activities, or risk the disrepute their current behavior merits.

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Closing on a few good notes

An untenable practice

Words of wisdom from a former Viewpoints editor and departing fourth-year

A modern university’s operations are incompatible with the Kalven Report

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By Peter Ianakiev Viewpoints Columnist Since it’s my second to last week of college and my final opportunity to appear in the section of the Maroon that I edited for two years, it’s only fitting to fill this article with as much graduating student wisdom and nostalgia as possible. Below, I have included a few disparate pieces of advice for the students who will remain in Hyde Park after June 9.

Your real education takes place outside of the classroom.

There’s a lot more to the life of the mind than hiding out in a cubicle on the third floor of the Reg. Go to museums; go to the opera; go experience whatever unwatchable series Doc has planned for the evening ; go to Jimmy’s with your friends; go watch Derrick Rose dominate another team (granted, this one may have to wait a while). These experiences are all educational and edifying in their own way.

They matter. I promise you, you’ll regret it if you don’t have enough of them. If you ever have the choice between doing something cool and potentially memorable or staying in and doing homework, then barring extreme

circumstances like an exam the next day, you should go and do the other thing. And yes, I understand that this advice is way too general, which brings me to my next point…

Don’t be afraid to make an actual claim in class discussions. Few things are more frustrating than being in a class where students are afraid of making arguable statements because some horrible pedant from some elite, sheltered private school will inevitably pounce on them for it. Hum and Sosc were a lot of fun, but I cringe when I think about those discussions and how unwilling I was to ever make a claim beyond “X is a factor that we should arguably consider when thinking about Y….”

Don’t be afraid of graduating. Look, it’s going to happen anyway (hopefully, at least). So there’s not much of a point in being terrified of it. I’ve spoken to a few second-years about it (unfortunately for my underclassmen friends, all I’m capable of talking about lately is graduation), and they mostly agree that college is this incredibly comfortable bubble and that escaping said bubble is going to be terrible. I agree with the first part: College is pretty great. But the second part is silly. Graduation will inevitably come; perhaps it will sneak up on you, but June of your fourth year will inevitably get here. And when it does, way more likely than not, you’ll be ready for it. You might even be pretty excited about it.

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By Taylor Schwimmer Viewpoints Columnist If there is one thing every University of Chicago student learns, it is how to critically analyze a text and make claims about its merit.

Though Hum class usually has us focus on Plato and Genesis, recent events have spurred me to reflect on another document: the Kalven Report.

For those unfamiliar with the document, it is a three-page treatise concerning the University’s role in politics. The 1967 report lies at the heart of the heart of the debate over a Socially Responsible Investment Committee (SRIC).

Last year, a student referendum supporting the creation of such a committee passed by a wide margin. However, University administrators and the Board of Trustees have yet to implement the idea, citing the report. Their argument, in simplified form, is that the report outlines a conception of the University of Chicago incompatible with the management of the endowment based on socially acceptable considerations, because it puts the institution at risk of partisanship.

Yet are we not already something of a political player already?

The University already has a staff

of lobbyists in Springfield and in Washington. It recently agreed to collaborate with aldermen to initiate $1.7 billion of new construction projects. To me, it seems like there is a disconnect between the University’s pursuit of these actions and the rejection of the SRIC. So I decided to see if the University’s reading of the Kalven Report could be reconciled with my own. The report is readily available online and, to my pleasant surprise, written in clear, understandable prose. This makes the process of critical analysis much easier. In fact, the Kalven Report is stunningly clear: In no uncertain terms, it demands complete neutrality by the University. The report asserts that the sole instrument for fostering development is “the individual faculty member, or the individual student.” It goes on to conclude, “The mission of the University is the discovery, improvement, and dissemination of knowledge…it is not a lobby.”

While I strongly admire the neutrality that the Kalven Report strives for, I believe it sets up impossibly difficult criteria for the University to attain. The nature of the American political process in the 21st century necessitates that the University become an active advocate on its own behalf. The Kalven Report basically excludes this as a possibility and claims that the University can only resort to advocacy in rare times of “crisis.” The authors of the Kalven Report failed to predict that what they considered times of crisis could, to some extent, KALVEN continued on page 8

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Novel ideas: Tips from a more tenured book club A few of the U of C’s well-read professors just couldn’t resist assigning students some (optional) summer reading

Read Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada. It will remind you that the sense of justice is ineradicable.

William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity: a book that everyone who is at all interested in poetry should read, and that I reread periodically.

— Thomas Pavel Gordon J. Laing Distinguished Service Professor in Romance Languages and Literature

— Richard Strier Frank L. Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Department of English, Divinity School

I recommend Dale Carpenter’s Flagrant Conduct: The Story of Lawrence v. Texas. This is a fascinating and readable account of the ins and outs of how the Supreme Court of the United States came to hold unconstitutional the criminal punishment of homosexual sodomy.

If you haven’t read it already, or even if you have (I’m on my third time through), I recommend Paul Scott’s four-volume The Raj Quartet, four interlocking novels exploring the last days of the British in India. The characters are subtly drawn; the sociological and historical observations about race, class, and empire are constantly fascinating.

— Geoffrey R. Stone Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor The University of Chicago Law School

— Martha Nussbaum Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics

PHOTOS COURTESY OF: (CLOCKWISE FROM LEFT) BETH ROONEY, U OF C DEPT. OF ENGLISH, KAVLI INSTITUTE, U OF C DEPT. OF HISTORY, JASON SMITH, U OF C DEPT. OF HUMANITIES, U OF C LAW SCHOOL, HARVARD LAW AND POLICY REVIEW

I noted the death of Paul Fussell in The New York Times on Thursday morning. His book The Great War and Modern Memory should be read again. And I shall do so this summer.

— James W. Cronin Professor Emeritus Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Physics

Erik Larson, In the Garden of Beasts: a fascinating tale of University of Chicago professor of history and departmental chair William E. Dodd, who, by a strange twist of fortune, became the U.S. Ambassador to Nazi Germany in 1933. He was accompanied by his daughter Martha, who turned out to be no less fascinating than her father at this critical moment of 20th-century history.

— David Bevington Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus Department of English, Department of Comparative Literature

I would recommend Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

This is a luminary, beautifully written, can’t-put-it-down-until-I-finish-it tale of love, war, and human endurance. A must-read!

— Rachel Jean-Baptiste Assistant Professor of African History

As a newcomer (arrived in August, still unpacking) I plan to catch up on the history of Chicago with a few recent books: Dominic Pacyga, Chicago: A Biography; David Lowe, Lost Chicago; Carl Smith, The Plan of Chicago: Daniel Burnham and the Remaking of the American City; Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City; William Howland Kennedy, Chicago Jazz: A Cultural History, 1904-1930.

— Haun Saussy University Professor Department of Comparative Literature BENJAMIN LANGE

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Calling for legal recognition Attaining lawful status as a labor union would help Graduate Students United make progress on key issues Andrew Yale Viewpoints Contributor Earlier this month on May 2, Graduate Students United (GSU), the grad student employee labor union at the University of Chicago, quietly celebrated its fifth anniversary. Over these five years, GSU has built a grassroots movement on campus that has improved wages, benefits, and working conditions for grad employees across the University, whether one is a teaching assistant whose wages were doubled in fall 2008, a research assistant seeking a timely OB/GYN appointment, or a parent who is taking time off to care for a newborn.

As teaching and research assistants, and in myriad other ways, we provide services to the University in exchange for a wage. However, GSU’s advocacy has improved conditions for grad students whether or not they are employed by the university, and whether they are in the first year of a program or the 10th. The members of GSU have done this by acting as a union: talking about working life with fellow employees, signing member cards, paying $5 yearly dues, attending quarterly member meetings, volunteering on campaign committees, attending marches and rallies, and so forth. In doing so, U of C grad employees have joined an academic labor movement comprised of scores of recognized as well as unofficial grad employee, post-doc, and faculty labor unions around the U.S.—including those at Wisconsin, Yale, NYU, Berkeley, and Michigan— and internationally in universities across Canada, Australia, Brazil, and Israel. Make no mistake: GSU is already a labor union.

However, legal recognition as a union would mean something else entirely: having a real say in the terms of our employment. Grad employees

would then negotiate contracts directly with our employer, the administration, in a process called collective bargaining. This prospect in part depends on a pending federal ruling that promises to define teaching and research assistants as employees with a legal right to unionize. Through its national “Grad Labor Counts” campaign, GSU continues to call for the case to be ruled on promptly.

GSU has already achieved a great deal, but open, democratic negotiations, as evidenced by the experience of the 30 campuses around the country with recognized grad employee unions, would enable the union to accomplish much, much more.

Whether as a recognized collective bargaining agent or unofficial workplace advocate, graduate employee labor unions have a record of improving working conditions. When GSU was founded, teaching assistants at the U of C earned a truly dismal $1,500 per quarter. In large part because grad students organized, the Provost was compelled to form a committee of administrators, faculty, and grad students (in which I took part) to study the issue. Subsequently, the Provost doubled T.A. pay to $3,000 and substantially increased the wages of all other salaried grad student instructors. On such committees, grad students can give their personal opinion, but are forbidden from talking with anyone outside the committee about the proceedings, and the ultimate decision-making power resides solely with the Provost. These committees do not always turn out so well: For instance, there’s the outcome of the provost’s Advanced Residence tuition committee. After months of work by the committee and a report detailing dozens of recommendations (and GSU calling for, among other things, the elimination of such tuition entirely), the Provost decided to implement just a handful of relatively mi-

nor changes, including a suspension of the 5 percent yearly increase.

Since the wage increase in 2008, GSU has won concessions from administrators on a number of fronts. In January of 2009, women were waiting as long as six months for OB/GYN appointments at the Student Care Center. GSU called for more prompt scheduling, and that same year Dean of Students Kim Goff-Crews announced new scheduling policies, resulting in shorter wait times. Last spring, GSU kicked off its child care campaign with four demands: affordable, on-campus child care; affordable health insurance for dependents; improvements to designated on-campus lactation rooms; and a stop-the-clock parental leave policy that ensures that new parents can care for their child while maintaining their health insurance, campus access, visa status, and student loan deferment. As a result of the campaign, administrators just this month announced a new policy that does everything GSU called for except stop the clock.

To put the child care issue in perspective, many other universities somehow find a way to actually provide affordable child care to student parents. At NYU and Yale, where there have long been strong, non-recognized grad employee labor unions, there are modest subsidies for child care. The recognized grad employee unions at the University of Michigan and in the University of California system have won bigger cash subsidies through grassroots campaigning and collective bargaining. Child care is just one of many issues that can be negotiated.

The lesson here, in short, is that collective bargaining gives grad students a big boost in securing basic services in their workplace.

Even so, legal recognition is no panacea. The power of a union still resides in the active participa-

tion of its members, and their solidarity with other workers and members of the broader community.

The struggle for affordable, on-campus child care and health care for dependents continues. And there are many other issues to tackle: the quality and cost of health care, the fact that grad student teachers have not had a raise in four years and do not even receive a yearly cost of living adjustment, the continuing burden of tuition and fees for advanced grad students (the subject of David Mihalyfy’s excellent recent Maroon op-ed), and teaching availability, to name a few.

Looking forward, it will be up to University of Chicago grad employees to decide for themselves whether to push for legal recognition as a union.

As U of C spokesperson Jeremy Manier said in an April 2010 article in Inside Higher Ed, “The decision of whether to form a union [sic] belongs to the university’s graduate students. It would be premature for the university to take a stance on this issue before learning what the majority of graduate students wishes to do.” In the following month, in an online referendum and after discussions with five larger unions, GSU members overwhelmingly chose to jointly affiliate with the American Federation of Teachers and the American Association of University Professors. We have already formed a union; we are already affiliated with larger unions.

Now, it is for University of Chicago grad employees to decide whether to take the next step and face administration at the bargaining table.

Andrew Yale is a Ph.D. candidate in the English Department, writing instructor in the College, and founding member of GSU. The views expressed in this article are his own.

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Reflections from a free food junkie A recent alum’s quarter spent living off of free food events on campus proved nourishing in more ways than one Lisa Fan Viewpoints Contributor Having just finished reading The Hunger Games trilog y, where the characters living in the fictional world of Panem struggle to fend off starvation, I can’t help but think about how university campuses are often an oasis for free food. A couple of years ago, I remember one student’s experiment to only live off of free food on campus for one whole week. Take it one step further, and that’s me: living off of free food for an entire quarter. What started as frequenting such events once in a while soon became the norm. Of course, it is no secret that the campus offers a flowing stream of free food events for nearly every day of the week, but I admit that even I was surprised at its abundance. People like free food just about as much as free money, and all manner of events therefore use it as a major draw. And from the free food listhost to the bulletin boards around campus to Facebook, it’s easy to see that.

I’ve found nourishment in just about every corner of campus this spring—the business school, the law school, the medi-

cal center, RSO study breaks and information sessions. Days without a free food event became an anomaly. I remember a triple Chipotle spree one week that even made me lose my appetite for my favorite burritos; the time when my friends and I hopped from one event to another, getting a taste of UChicago; and of course that time when I was served a gourmet three-course meal in the comfort of my cubicle office at International House, which just so happens to be a central nourishment hub where, in the three years I’ve worked there, I’ve watched residents fill their Tupperware with leftover food from countless lectures. Yes, there’s certainly been no shortage of Domino’s, Pizza Capri, and those ubiquitous box lunches.

But after all this, one might wonder why I’ve taken on frequenting free food events at UChicago this past spring to the extent that I did. I’ll admit that at times I have felt gluttonous, occasionally even going back for seconds before even chowing down my firsts. It’s not just that I refuse to eat at the dining halls again, or that I don’t want to purchase food, or even that I find it a hassle to cook. What

I did come to realize, however, is that I genuinely find some pleasure and enjoyment in going to these events beyond just the sustenance they provide.

Having graduated from the College one quarter early in March, I decided to stay in Hyde Park to continue to work at International House while enjoying a break between school and starting my job in the summer—a kind of spring fling, if you will. For the first time since I came to this school, I no longer lived in Snell-Hitchcock, no longer had a meal plan that confined me to eating at Bartlett every day.

When I was a student, I clearly recall my friends who weren’t on a meal plan attending free food events left and right while I was content with my unlimited fare. But going to free food events takes time, time I never had when I was a student; looking back, I’d been literally starved of events outside of school when I was busy with classes and activities.

During these past couple of months, though, I’ve had the chance to attend lectures on the impact of social media on sexual assault, the role game theory plays in the mating behaviors of bird species,

and everything else in between. Not only did they feed me, but, surprisingly, many of them also interested me.

Will I retain the details of what I learned a year from now ? Probably not.

Yet, from lectures on politics to more esoteric discussions, these events have given me quick snapshots of topics to which I would otherwise not have given much thought. And I appreciate that they at least captured my awareness and consideration, even if only temporarily.

I’ve had a lot of fun perfecting the science of procuring free food at the University of Chicago these past months.

But I know it’s something I enjoyed only because I know it is temporary—something I would have found burdensome as a student, and something I would not have done for much longer, lest it truly compromise my health in the name of free food.

All in all, I’ve truly enjoyed the whirlwind of events upon events that I’ve seen and heard this spring. They gave me satisfaction beyond just a full stomach.

Lisa Fan is a graduate of the College in the class of 2012.

Administrators’ use of Kalven Report as a catch-all justification is intellectually dishonest KALVEN continued from page 6 become the status quo.

To me, this poses a major problem with current University policy. I agree that the University’s current stance on the Socially Responsible Investment Committee is corroborated by the Kalven Report. My issue is that the University openly flaunts the principles of the report in a number of other circumstances—circumstances in which it has almost no other option.

For example, the University spent $338,500 on lobbying in 2009. According to the University of Chicago’s 990 filing, the money was spent on “direct contact with legislators, their staffs, government officials or a legislative body.” To put this figure into perspective, that is about the same amount as corporations like Warner Music Group spend on lobbying each year. The University lobbies both at the state and national level on a number of different issues, most relating to research grants and educational funding. A prominent example of the University’s lobbying efforts occurred

in 2003, when changes to government research grant rules jeopardized $900 million of funding to Argonne National Laboratories. The University hired a lobbyist to work with legislators to ensure that funding was not disrupted. Few would dispute that this action was critical to the well-being of the University, but it is also clearly contrary to the Kalven Report.

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The University clearly does not— indeed, cannot— follow the Kalven doctrine.

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The University’s lobbying efforts are just one of many activities that, though necessary, seemingly run roughshod over the Kalven Report. Even clearly laudable actions like the University’s recent deposit of

$1 million to community banks seem to go against the intent of the Kalven Report. In making this deposit, the University builds critical rapport with the community. But it also leverages its financial wealth in a way completely precluded by the report.

The Kalven Report’s proscriptions are clearly prohibitive to a modern university.

One wonders, then, just what purpose it serves. I am concerned that the University administration relies on the Kalven Report solely as a pat justification for actions with potentially unpopular explanations. I believe the response to the SRIC proposal is a prime example of type of behavior. Though I do not have inside access to the University administration’s internal deliberations, I imagine that they are concerned that such a committee might affect investment returns and thus in some way jeopardize further growth.

This is a perfectly reasonable reservation, but also has the potential to be an immensely unpopular one. After all, such an admission might be construed as a tacit admission that the University values monetary gain over

social good. In order to avoid this issue, the University trots out the Kalven Report and effectively ends the conversation. Regardless of how one feels about the issue, using this anti-rhetorical strategy is sub optimal.

Using the Kalven Report like this is intellectually dishonest. The university is using an appeal to a tradition that it does not even observe in order to gain credibility. The University clearly does not—indeed, cannot—follow the Kalven doctrine. In many ways I am sympathetic to the University. I understand that it faces a challenge in explaining the motivations for some of its actions. But it is painfully clear to anyone who actually reads the Kalven Report that the University’s current application of it is little more than lip service. I challenge the University to abandon the crutch of the Kalven Report. It has already done so in everything but name only.

Taylor Schwimmer is a second-year in the College majoring in public policy studies.

Don’t be afraid to let productivity take a backseat to wasting time ADVICE continued from page 6 Don’t base your sense of self-worth on external things. Say you’re a thirdyear; you’re finishing the year with some excellent grades and have a very prestigious internship lined up. Congratulations! You have accomplished some very difficult tasks, and you should be proud of yourself for having done so. But don’t make the mistake of thinking that either your grades or your job validate you as a person. At some point, somewhere in your life, things will not work out the way you hoped they would (let me add a “most likely” here for any horrible pedants still reading this). Maybe next year you’ll get a bad grade in one of your classes. Or maybe your career prospects a year from now won’t be quite as appealing , for whatever reason. What then? Does this automatically make you a failure as a person? No! You should always maintain a core belief in your value as a human being. You shouldn’t let temporary setbacks (or permanent setbacks for that matter) mess with that feeling. Yes, these

are all well-worn clichés, but they are relevant because many of us will be graduating into a terrible economy with weak job prospects. Too many people will graduate feeling horrible about themselves because their immediate future fails to live up to their hard work and expectations. Don’t be one of them.

Waste time. Elderly people are fond of saying that youth is wasted on the young.

They are wrong. The charm and beauty of youth (and, in this case, college) is that you are ignorant enough about how temporary it is and, as a consequence, can waste it. If you spent every day of college as though graduation were tomorrow, frankly, it would be terrible. It would be like that Simpsons episode where Homer is told to live each day like it’s his last, so he parks his car at the side of the road and begins crying inconsolably. Don’t do this, please. Waste your time. Don’t even dedicate a second to sobering reflections regarding how soon it’s all going to end; trust me, this is the way to maximize your enjoyment of college.

If you don’t want to read columns in which graduating fourth-years pontificate about their time spent in college, don’t open Viewpoints between weeks seven and 10 of spring quarter. But, on the bright side, this interval is the one

time during the whole year when you’re unlikely to read an article about the Kalven Report.

Peter Ianakiev is a fourth-year in the College majoring in mathematics.

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I know what you’ll watch this summer Summer films to whet every cinematic appetite Daniel Rivera Associate Arts Editor So I know in your head, your summer’s looking like this: long bike rides to the beach after a revitalizing morn-

ing at the gym, warming your skin on smooth white sand on the rare day off from your kick-ass, high-profile internship. In reality, we all know it’s going to look a little more like this: telemarketer calls waking you up at

noon after you’ve stayed up until 4 a.m. because Netflix just added Dawson’s Creek to Instant Play and the carton of ice cream in your freezer needed finishing, anyway. Whether you’re the former, the latter, or some-

Pixar’s first female heroine aims for the glass ceiling in Brave.

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Hush Puppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) is a breakout star in Beasts of the Southern Wild.

where happily in between, summer’s here for all of us, and with it a bevy of movies vying for your hard-earned ticket money. Below are a few titles to keep an eye on.

Requisite Blockbusters: June will be high octane from its start with the release of Snow White and the Huntsman on June 1. Charlize Theron is perfect as Ravenna, the Evil Queen who wants to eat the heart of Snow White (played by Kristen Stewart, who apparently tries her hand at a British accent for the film) so she can stay forever young. The trailer looks awesome, and promises to be exactly what you need to forget the major disappointment that was March’s Mirror Mirror. Theron will dominate the silver screen again in Ridley Scott’s longawaited Alien prequel, Prometheus, dropping June 8. Michael Fassbender also stars, along with Noomi Rapace, who kicked ass as Lisbeth Salander in the Swedish film adaption of Stieg Larsson’s Millenium series. July also opens with a bang thanks to Marc Webb’s The Amazing Spider-Man, out on the third. The reboot stars two of America’s newest sweethearts, The Social Network’s Andrew Garfield and Easy A’s Emma Stone. The pair is apparently a couple in real life now, so hopefully that chemistry translates to the big screen. Although with Pirate Radio’s Rhys Ifans on board as the villainous Lizard, I’m down regardless.

Keeping it super, Christopher Nolan’s critically-acclaimed Batman saga comes to an end on July 20 with The Dark Knight Rises; many suspect Nolan will kill his Batman in the vein of DC’s recent comic, “Batman R.I.P.” Dead or alive, the Bat and company are the most likely to topple The Avengers’s recent box office record.

Analysts are saying that whichever superhero flick is most successful

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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros get to the point Lily Gordon Arts Staff Last night, the stage at The Riviera Theatre emitted hoots, claps, and sanskrit phrases as the elevenmember folk-pop troupe Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros played to a full house. From the moment bandleader Alex Ebert glided on stage in black TOMS shoes and a button-down white thermal shirt that had a habit of falling off of his shoulder, both the band and the audience did nothing but celebrate as one.

The musical family playfully twirled and jumped on stage throughout the show, and Ebert indulged his fans with many hand-touches—some girls almost ripped off his shirt.

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MCA revisits its beginnings Morgan McCarty Senior Arts Staff In today’s cultural world, we rarely consider the simple fact that an art museum has a string of firsts: first piece of artwork acquired or donated, first day

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open, first ticket sale, first review. Instead, we readily accept these collections of cultural and historical objects as historically solidified institutions accessible to any curious visitor. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) recently unearthed the first 50 objects acquired by the museum in the late ’60s and ’70s.

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Enrico Baj’s “Punching General.”

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will set the precedent for the genre in years to come: Whedon’s camp, or Nolan’s grit? We’ll see soon enough.

Go Independent: If you see only one movie this summer, let it be Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (July 5). Part environmental drama, part Where the Wild Things Are, Beasts has been breaking critical hearts at both Cannes and Sundance —thanks in large part to its adorable lead, eight-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis. Watch the trailer and just try not to fall in love with her, I dare you.

If you can’t wait until July to get your indie fix, Michelle Williams’s new dramedy, Take This Waltz, drops June 7. All signs point to it being one hell of an emotional rollercoaster—the always funny Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman costar, yet director Sarah Polley helmed 2006’s heartbreaking Away from Her. Not emotionally prepared? Check out Parks and Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza in Safety Not Guaranteed, a comedy about a guy looking for a partner to travel through time with. It’s set for a June 28 release.

Summer Laughs: Woody Allen’s latest, To Rome With Love, hits theaters June 22, boasting an all-star cast that includes Alec Baldwin, Ellen Page, and, of course, Woody Allen. If you like your comedy a little raunchier, Seth MacFarlane, the guy behind Family Guy, is trying his hand directing for the silver screen with July 13’s Ted. If you like sex jokes spouted off by a giant teddy bear, this one’s for you. For more family-friendly fare, Pixar’s latest film Brave, (which featurs the studio’s first female lead) is set to release on June 22, while Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted and Ice Age: Continental Drift come out on June 8 and July 13, respectively.

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(500) docents of summer: Upcoming gallery openings Anna Hill Arts Staff Tucked away in a relatively quiet neighborhood, it’s easy for students to forget that Chicago is one of the most colorful and energetic creative centers in the country. Don’t get me wrong : Hyde Park certainly has its artistic gems (Smart Museum, Renaissance Society, Hyde Park Arts Center, and Southside Hub of Production, to name a few), but in order to truly experience the art Chicago has to offer, you’ve got to get out and explore. Summer provides the perfect opportunity to roam the city without the stress of classes (no homework—can it be true?), so load up your CTA cards and take in a few of the city-wide gallery openings that are sure to startle, confuse, and (hopefully) impress.

June 1: I know, I know, it’s the weekend before finals. But why not break out of the coffee-guzzling stress frenzy for one evening to take advantage of the fact that this day is packed with openings all over the city? Forget your stats final for a few hours and go to the Roy Boyd Gallery to see some work by Mexican artist Carlos Estrada-Vega, who creates fascinating paintings out of magnetized, waxed wooden blocks (sometimes numbering in the thousands). If you’re in the mood for something a bit quirkier, check out Packer Schopf Gallery

in the West Loop, where Chicago-based artist Mark Crisanti’s exhibition National Geographic combines a range of media to create images perplexing enough to give you something to write about in that last Sosc paper you know you won’t have started yet.

Descend even further into the realm of “weird� at the Judy A. Saslow Gallery, where photographer Steven Blutter will provide a collection of original pieces that will undoubtedly demand some attention. In a past exhibition at this gallery, Blutter displayed a photograph of plastic toys that had been screwed into a blanket of bread slices, and then covered with mustard—start honing your powers of interpretation.

June 2: If the Reg wouldn’t release you from its clutches the night before, wrench yourself free on Saturday for Garden Party, an outdoor sculpture exhibition at Hinge Gallery, curated

by Karolina Gnatowski. The artist has previously created unique, colorful woven pieces, and this exhibition promises to be just as striking as those in the past.

June 8: Freedom, thy name is summer. Take that first sweet exhale after the dark week and make your way to FM*Gallery in the West Loop, where CJ Hungerman’s busy, energetic paintings will certainly help you celebrate the end of the year (or help you forget the pain of your bio

A piece by Jim Waid, represented by Jean Albano Gallery.

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final). Not quite ready to let go of the “life of the mind� mentality? Go a couple of blocks over to the Thomas Robertello Gallery, where Molly Springfield, notorious for working with books and text as a medium, is sure to provide something to ease in the transition back to real life.

July 13: With over 25 different gallery openings in this evening

alone, you should have no trouble finding somewhere to go and exercise your eyes. Two galleries in the River North area—Jean Albano Gallery and Zolla/Lieberman Gallery—seem like they will have especially intriguing displays, including work by Jim Waid (at Jean Albano), whose bright colors are largely inspired by Arizona landscapes, as well as Dan Mills (at Zolla/ Lieberman), who

works extensively with maps.

August 3: Firecat Projects, a fairly young gallery in Bucktown, will be presenting the highly-expressive inks and etchings of Samantha Simpson, whose work is striking in its powerful messages as well as its impressive detail.

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Hope I get old before I die Lately I’ve been wondering why rock music has stopped doing it for me. I vividly remember having the very common experience of listening to the first side (yes, it was a cassette) of Led Zeppelin IV and having my mind shattered by the solo on “Stairway to Heaven.” I was so innocent at the time that “Rock and Roll” had yet to be ruined for me by its use in countless car commercials (by the way, “Bargain” by The Who has never been so lucky). I also recall the one time in my life that I actually enjoyed listening to The Doors. I was 12 years old and had their self-titled album in my Discman. It was late at night, I was under the covers, and “The End” scared the living hell out of me. Now, I find that song funny.

I’m not exactly sure why I’m so bored by rock music these days, but I think the biggest reason has to be the fact that the values that rock stood for in my mind no longer apply to my life. Obviously, the music itself hasn’t changed, and I don’t think the issue is that I’ve just listened to it too much. The problem is that I just no longer buy into the mytholog y of rock, and the quality of the music can’t help but suffer because of this. Let me explain.

When I think of rock and roll values, authenticity strikes me as key. There’s a visceral dislike of the commercial and “manufactured.” I remember actually be-

lieving that the teen pop acts of the late ’90s: *NSYNC, Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys were garbage because they did not write their own music and because they were, somehow, fake. Unlike The Smiths, apparently.

This viewpoint, I eventually realized was absurd. For one thing , it shouldn’t matter that Britney Spears didn’t write “Baby One More Time.” Nobody is particularly upset about the fact that Marvin Gaye didn’t write “I Heard It Through the Grapevine” or that The Temptations didn’t write “My Girl,” but for some reason the fact that these teen pop acts did not write their own music drove me, and countless other rock fans at the time, crazy. The idea that most bands are somehow less manufactured and fake than mainstream pop acts is also silly. Think of The Sex Pistols, whose official history is quite open about the fact that the band’s image, wardrobe, and ethos were the result of label executives looking to make money.

Rock stars from Jim Morrison to Morrissey all have a very particular image that they need to convey to fans; to me, these images ( Jim Morrison as poet intellectual, Morrissey as...Morrissey) seem just as fake and inauthentic as one of Madonna’s reinventions.

Self-destruction is another paramount rock and roll virtue. Fans, critics, and

biographers love to celebrate rock star excess. Fans and writers reverentially repeat horrifying stories involving massive drug and alcohol consumption—not to mention other, more graphic examples of self-destruction (think of Igg y Pop rolling around in glass on stage, for example). Half the pleasure of an album like Exile on Main Street lies in contemplating the ridiculous quantities of drugs that The Rolling Stones must have consumed while recording it.

I don’t think the decadence, debauchery, and self-destructiveness that we associate with rock music are ancillary to the experience of listening to it: they inform that experience; they are a significant part of the reason why people enjoy the music.

People don’t usually encounter Led Zeppelin or The Doors outside of a particular context; even before the first note on the album plays, some idea already exists, thanks to external sources, of what rock is about, of what it means, and of what it stands for. Blame Lester Bangs if you want to, but that’s just how it is.

I’ve been dancing around this point for a while, but I just see no way around it: I’ve become too mature for rock music. I’ve become too jaded to think that there’s anything more sincere or real in Pavement and the Pixies than in Rihanna and Justin Timberlake. I’ve become,

I don’t know, too lame to find anything glorious in consuming massive amounts of cocaine and heroin or in wishing to do harm to myself. Let me put it this way: I hope I get old before I die [note to reader: This is a reference to “My Generation”

by The Who, which contains the famous lyric, “I hope I die before I get old.”].

This is the kind of argument that those of us frustrated with the current state of the popular music canon need to be making. No canon is ever going to be neutral; its foundation will always be in some collection of values that certain critics, writers, musicians, and listeners agree on.

And if fans of pop, techno, R&B, hiphop, country, etc. want to challenge the current make-up of the canon, I don’t think the argument can proceed on sonic grounds. I’m not going to convince any real rock fan that ABBA is better than The Doors. However, I do think that we canon malcontents have a real shot at challenging the status quo if we can continue to show just how problematic and inconsistent the values and philosophy behind rock really are.

The best way to do this, I think, will be to suggest our own set of values and beliefs—values and beliefs that make room for the best of what the rock music universe can offer, but in a way that reconceptualizes the music and its virtues.

A Pitchfork in the road:Four alternative festivals Anastasia Golovashkina Arts Staff Need something to look forward to after finals? Something that’s not one of those I-could-buy-a-laptop-for-that-price concerts like Lollapalooza or hipster-fraught Pitchfork? Read on for four festivals that are sure to pique your interest and also won’t rob you. From raves to retro and from punk rock to pop, your summer in Hyde Park need not be musically challenged.

Though you probably already know all about Skrillex, screamo-boy Sonny Moore’s Djing alter-ego, you may have missed equally talented electronica, house, and dubstep artists like Benny Benassi, Moby, and Flux Pavillion. That where June’s Spring Awakening Festival comes in. Held one week after the end of the academic year, from June 16-17, the festival includes the likes of Afrojack, Diplo, Datsik, Designer Drugs, Kill the Noise and, of course, Skrillex himself. The festival earns bonus points for being held in the easily-accessible Soldier Field; even more for offering a set of entertaining albeit affordable after-parties that might just top Lolla’s.

Next up: the technically-not-in-Chicago Summerfest. But that’s okay—road trip! Fea-

turing a motley mix of artists including Red Hot Chili Peppers, Robyn, Gavin DeGraw, Fountains of Wayne, Death Cab for Cutie, Motion City Soundtrack, Aerosmith, Chevelle, Neil Diamond, Train, and Kelly Clarkson across 11 days and 12 stages, Summerfest is something of its own little universe. Summerfest takes place at Milwaukee’s Henry Maier Festival Park from June 27–July 8, though the festival is closed on Monday, July 2. Tickets bought before June 1 are priced at a discount, so if you’re even somewhat serious about going, consider making the purchase in the next week.

Ravinia is also technically not in Chicago, but in a substantial suburb of the city called (no kidding ) Ravinia. Famous acts are conveniently scheduled on the weekends, and the festival generously offers all college students free lawn passes and pavilion tickets at a substantial discount ($10).

However, Ravinia’s lawn seats might just top its actual “seats.” For one, seat-holders are required to sit; there is absolutely no standing in the covered pavilion, period.

Lawn ticket–holders are, by contrast, allowed to stand next to bars parallel to the back-row pavilion seats, making for a de facto “general admission/standing room only” setup. Moreover, the acoustics are absolutely incredible. It doesn’t matter if you’re in the pavilion, standing on the lawn,

or just getting ready to park—if someone is on stage and singing into a microphone hooked up to the venue’s phenomenal sound system, you’ll hear them. Indeed, in Ravinia—and perhaps only in Ravinia— the lawn really is a great place to be.

The acts themselves aren’t half-bad, either. June’s most notable include a singing Steve Martin ( June 24), Colbie Caillat & Gavin DeGraw ( June 29), and Sarah McLachlan ( June 30). In July, look out for Seal ( July 22); in August, for Demi Lovato (August 4), Train (August 11 and 12), Tony Bennett (August 18), and Duran Duran (August 29).

Not staying in the Second City and not a fan of substantial travel? Fret not: For the 18th summer in a row, Warped Tour will be bringing a strong range of recognizable rock artists and rock-ish music acts to some 40 different states.

Scheduled across nine stages, this year’s surprisingly strong lineup features Rise Against, Yellowcard, The Used, Streetlight Manifesto, Mayday Parade, New Found Glory, All Time Low, Senses Fail, Anti Flag, Breathe Carolina, and Chicago’s own Taking Back Sunday and I Fight Dragons.

Most of the bands hold meet-and-greet sessions at their merch tents for at least one hour at each location. Sponsors of the tour are also generous to attendees, and

merchandise is often sold at a substantial discount. Since many attendees are teens (like at any tour, really), the tour also sets up a “Reverse Daycare” tent for parents.

Brilliant.

Sure, some of the bands are annoying. Some of the bands are drunk, some smell bad, and some just woke up. But as Warped alum Taylor Momsen told us back in March, that’s part of the appeal—it’s messy, it’s imperfect, it’s unexpected. It’s the polar opposite of Ravinia. It’s port-apotties and Febreeze showers; it’s a sweaty, sleazy, swimsuit soundtrack-to-my-summer kind of fun.

Tickets are $46, service fees are about $15, and parking ranges from $10 to $40.

Unless you absolutely need to see the last two songs of the night’s final act, it’s wise to plan on leaving the festival 15-20 minutes early so as not to spend four hours on half-a-mile of highway.

Honorable mentions: –Chicago Blues Festival: Blues legend Mavis Staples will be headlining.

–Lollapalooza and Pitchfork (of course!)

–Taste of Chicago: Jennifer Hudson and Death Cab for Cutie. Not bad, right?

–Grant Park Music Festival: free classical music all summer long.

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Shirtless men, topless women, vampire-hunting president for your viewing pleasure MOVIES continued from page 9 ies with your best friend and see something which you’ll secretly love but publicly claim to have never heard of. The most likely candidate for this season’s ultimate guilty pleasure is June 29’s Magic Mike, a dramedy about male strippers starring Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, and Matthew McConaughey. Steven Soderbergh, the guy behind Ocean’s Eleven, among others, is directing, so there’s an added chance it might actually be good. Just don’t expect it to have any male frontal nudity, despite it being about dude strippers—this is Hollywood we’re talking about, after all.

If it’s nakedness you’re after, the tastefully-titled Piranha 3D drops June 1. There will be piranhas; there will be topless women. There will be piranhas eating topless women. Also, David Hasselhoff. If none of this appeals to you, then perhaps something in June 22’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will. It’s based on the book of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith, but other than that, there’s nothing I can tell you about this one that the title hasn’t already.

But hey, this could be your last chance for the year to see vampires being badass before the last Twilight flick releases in November.

Joe Manganiello, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, and Channing Tatum in their natural element, from the film Magic Mike.

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Wet, hot, intoxicated summer

A museum’s past elucidates the development of its prestige MCA continued from page 9 fore committees were founded or the museum had defined how it would function and acquire pieces of art for its collection. Thus, the First 50 exhibit represents the infant stage of the museum’s development, during which it had no conception of what it was or where it was going, just that this new (at the time) type of contemporary art had to be shown.

The exhibit features, among its 50 works of art, voice recordings of past trustees in which they speak about their roles and conceptions of how the MCA first started to gather momentum as a museum and an institution. It was genuinely an effort on the part of trustees and donors to get the museum’s donation and fundraising momentum going. One of the recordings explains that those in charge of accessioning works into the collection didn’t even really understand what contemporary art was or where it was going, just that it had to be acknowledged and put together.

Of the first 50 pieces, only 19 remain. However, this shouldn’t reflect on the museum’s capability

of permanently retaining works of art, but rather its focused determination to create a solidified identity for itself over the past 44 years. The gallery in which the exhibit itself is located is the small northwest corner of the first floor.

A cheerful gallery guard greets visitors and excitedly inquires if they have seen the koi fish located on the ground floor. The gallery is completely open, save for what looks like a metal, sliding chain link partition, making visitors feel like they are stepping into the storage locker of the museum or a hidden part of the building not normally seen by visitors. Once inside, the exhibit is arranged chronologically according to when the works entered the museum’s collection, with a small yellow pamphlet to accompany the experience, anecdotally detailing the history behind each piece.

Some of the works are described almost biographically in the pamphlet while others are given no context—sometimes this is because no documentation could be found to explain the work’s connection to the early life of the museum. Other works have never

Andrew Green Arts Contributor actually been exhibited until now, while others are only depicted by a Polaroid unearthed from the museum’s archives. Additionally, due to the noticeably large empty spaces on the walls of the exhibit (these are further demarcated by black lines that mimic frames and placards with the missing work’s information) visitors can contemplate the organic nature of a museum, its collection and subsequent artistic and intellectual direction, as being grounded in and built by human decisions.

What does it take to get a museum off the ground and open?

Where to start? First 50 offers a generous look into the relatively young museum’s ambitious beginnings and offers visitors the unique chance to accompany the museum’s consideration of its own collection and inner workings.

This early collection, built mostly from auctions and a few donations, contemplates the function of a museum’s collection. First 50 offers a somewhat romanticized backwards glance at the MCA’s past and elucidates the origins of its reputation as a highly selective artistic institution.

As the days g et long er and warmer, sitting outside with a refreshing and flavorful alcoholic beverage can offer a nice respite from the heat. The growing popularity of artisanal cocktails means that sup ermarkets and liquor stores are stocking many of the essential ingredients for g etting buzze d in g o o d ta ste.

These drinks represent a return to the basics, an emphasis on fresh ingredients, and an appreciation for high-quality spirits that is a step above what most college students are used to. Each of the following intoxicating refreshments is designed to be simple, affordable, and easy to enjoy anywhere—given some sunshine and Solo cups.

The Mezcal Margarita: Store-bought margarita mixes are full of hig h fructose corn

syrup and have too much triple se c , sa lt, and ice to b e pa latable. This version is much more elementar y, swapping te qu ila and triple sec for mezcal: a dark, smoky spirit that adds a layer of depth to the drink . Tequila is distilled from the blue agave plant, or Agave tequila, while mezcal owes its complex and rich flavor to the heart of the Agave americana. What really matters though is that mezcal dramatically increases flavor. It is available at most larg er liquor retailers (like Binny’s, for example). The sweetness is achieved with just a touch of agave nectar rather than copious amounts of sugar. Lime juice rounds the drink out and contributes to its vibrant color and flavor.

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The city’s hidden galleries are worth the trek GALLERY continued from page 10 take a look at the “Fridays” events scheduled throughout the summer. Like other gallery openings, these sometimes provide food, drinks, and interactive displays. First Fridays ( June 1, July 6, August 4) often take place from 6:30 -10 p.m. in the Lillstreet Art Center, located in the Wicker Park area; Second Fridays ( June 8, July 13, August 10) are

held in the Chicago Arts District (at South Halsted and 18th Streets, including over 30 galleries); and Third Fridays ( June 15, July 20, August 17) usually take place near the 4Art Inc. Gallery in Pilsen. Both Second and Third Fridays begin at 6 p.m. and end at 10 p.m.

However you decide to do it, get out and see something exciting this summer. There are hun-

dreds of galleries in Chicago, so look around and find one (or many) that interest and excite you. This is one of the most artistic cities in the country, so get out of your apartment and get into something beautiful. Or ugly. Or weird. It really doesn’t matter if you find something you love (or something you hate, for that matter), because the looking—well, the looking is the best part.

From left to right: Mezcal Margarita, Andre Smash and Basil and Cucumber Collins.

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Lush gardens make way for green salads today on the ground floor of the Art Institute.

Today the North Garden will become P i a n o Te r r a , a n e x t e n s i o n o f To n y Mantuano’s Terzo Piano (whose wine l i s t wa s o n c e c a l l e d “c l e ver ” b y Th e Wall Street Journal). Piano Terra , like its culinary progenitor, will offer local, org anic, sustainable food, including a vegetable sandwich, al fresco salad bar, and coffee. Of course, it will not be on the third floor of the A .I. overlooking the new Modern Wing. In other words, there may be no breathtaking blooms in an uncrowded garden at Michigan and Monroe this spring/summer season, but there have been rumors of semifreddo o n- a - s ti c k . 1 2 5 E a s t Mo nr o e Str e e t .

11:30 a.m. –2 p.m. through Labor Day (weather permitting ); how expensive can a salad bar be?

Sometimes you’re fairly certain that some things just don’t exist, but at other times (this we ekend for example) the Hyatt Regency Chicago proves you absolutely wrong. The 34th Annual (seriously, how has this been a thing for so long ?)

Int ernati o na l Mr. L e ath er We e ken d , conceived for reasons that have yet to be established, will feature a fetish and

leather market, a physique competition, a sexy shoe-polishing competition, parties (general), and, of course, the much-anticipated-by-few International Mr. Leather coronation. 151 East Wacker Drive. Fri 25, 12–11 p.m. (time varies depending on day), Market $5; bronze package $165, silver package $180, gold package $195.

Saturday | May 26

Cancel that weekend trip to Portobello —your next favorite find is just around the L o op. The R andolph Street Market (a .k .a . “the Soho of the Midwest”) presents the season opener of both the Chicago Indie Designer Market and the Chicago Antique Market, where you can scope out f urniture, fashion, art, jewelry, fancy foods (chocolate and salsa!), a free appraisal ser vice, and all that is “décor.” Both will be up and running this Saturday and Sunday as well as various weekends throughout the summer at Plumbers Hall. 1340 West Washington Street. 10 a .m.–6 p.m., $8 in advance, $10 at the door ($3/$5 with student ID).

Two new exhibits open at the Southside Hub of Production (SHoP) this Saturday.

On Making Things Matter: Strategies for Preservation, hyperconscious of the fact that SHoP is closing its doors at the end

Ebert: “We don’t take showers together” SHARPE continued from page 9 their forthcoming album Here, which will be released on May 29, as well as old favorites from 2009’s Up From Below.

Chicago Maroon: Your new album Here comes out on May 29. Can you tell me about it?

Alex Ebert: It’s one half of a double album that we made. It took us a bit of time. We built our own studio up north of Los Angeles and recorded it there, mostly all together, and it was a really good time.

CM: When will the other half be released?

AE: Later on this year.

CM: Why did you name the album Here?

AE: Because of the record cover actually—sort of dividing the prospect of duality with the circle containing every color, every spectrum, and the idea that, being here—that area that divides the duality—is just in between, or with all of it combined, is where creativity comes from, or where we want to exist. So, that being here.

CM: Here seems more informal and spontaneous than 2009’s Up From Below. Do you think the band has evolved?

AE: Yeah, I think in some ways we’ve relaxed a little bit—at least this album is a bit more relaxed. The songs just kind of do their thing. To me, that means that it’s more confident in some ways—to just allow the songs to be.

CM: There are references to God on the album.

Are you religious?

AE: No, I wouldn’t call myself religious. We’re just using the language that people are familiar with.

CM: So you use the word “God” to represent spirituality?

AE: Yeah, in a way. And I also use it to explore the meaning of God myself and to enter that conversation. On the first album, I have a lot of references to

stuff like that too, but these [references] are repeated more and more out in the open. It’s an exploratory device in a way.

CM: What has your 2012 touring schedule been like?

AE: It’s been pretty cool, pretty relaxed. We’re on a tour right now, and we had a tour that lasted two weeks about two months ago. Next we’re going to Europe, and then we’re doing another tour in September. Then in October we’re going to Australia, and after that we have no real plans for the rest of the year.

CM: You have a lot of members in your band.

How do you tour with so many people? Is it difficult?

AE: No, it’s fun, it’s just super fun. It’s like hanging out with a bunch of friends all the time.

CM: Big Easy Express, the film that documents your April 2011 railroad tour with Old Crow Medicine Show and Mumford & Sons, premiered at the 2012 South by Southwest Film Festival. What was that tour like?

AE: It was awesome. It was an amazing experience, one of the most paramount experiences of our lives for everyone that was there. Just music all the time; it was an amazing time. The film will be coming out soon.

CM: The New York Times has characterized your band as “communal” and “hippie-flavored.” What do you think of that description?

AE: I think a lot of descriptions are broad, but communal is right. Hippie doesn’t really conjure any sonorous qualities to my mind.

But communal, yeah. Touring together, recording together, eating together; that sort of vibe permeates almost every aspect of what we do. We don’t take showers together, but maybe that’s next…I don’t know.

of July, will explore the ways in which we physically imprint and preserve our pasts in objects ( journals, pictures, souvenirs, etc) and spaces (i.e. we throw parties).

Al b e r t o Ag u il a r : O b j e c t R e s e r va t i o n , features a mix of furniture and recorded sound that come from the homes of mysterious Hyde Park residents. Both exhibits will run through July 15. 5638 South Woodlawn Avenue. Opening reception 6–11 p.m., free.

Sunday | May 27

Fr e e S l ur p e e D a y a t 7 – E l e v e n h a s passed, so what’s next on the complimentary food agenda? Catch the second and final day of the fourth Annual Mole de Mayo festival, where restaurants from Pilsen and elsewhere fight for the title o f b e s t m o l e ( a tr a d i ti o na l Me x i c a n cho colate sauce, usua lly conta ining a blend of around 20 ingredients, none of which are Twisted Citrus or Alienade).

The all-day event, presented by the 18th Street Development Corporation, will also feature several musical performances (samba , ro ck , hip -hop, Azte c Ambience, etc), fire dancing , and sangria.

Par ticipating restaurants include : La Ciudad, La Esperanza, and Lalo’s. Peoria between 16th and 18th Streets, 11 a.m.– 9p.m., suggested donation of $1-$5.

Monday | May 28 (Memorial Day)

Pig roasts have been getting a lot of action this quarter, but now there’s a legitimate reason to go whole hog—what else are you g oing to do on Memorial Day? Unfortunately this is not a task you can easily tackle on your own, seeing as South Campus Residence Hall doesn’t even allow balloons in its common rooms and the rest of Hyde Park is ostensibly made of wood—so it is absolutely imperative that you head downtown. The Southern will feature a Swabian Hall pig from Rustic Rooster farms in Waterloo (already a mouthful), served with special $6 Templeton Rye co ckta ils. Capta in Morgan Club, Wrigley Field’s bar (open to non-ticketholders), will roast three not-so-little pigs while the Cubs play the Padres. Finally, Bucktown’s own Lottie’s Pub will host a roast complete with all the fixins’—mac and cheese, baked beans, potato salad, $4 Jermian Weed bourbon shots, $5 Sweet Tea, and $4 Buckets of Miller and Coors. The Southern: 1840 We st No r th Avenu e . 2 – 1 1 p . m . ( p i g ser ved at around 3 p.m.), $14. Captain M o r g a n C l u b : 1 0 6 0 We s t A d d i s o n Street. Starts at 9 a.m; pig ser ved at 11 a.m., free pork with purchase of alcoholic beverage. 21+. Lottie’s Pub: 1925 West Cortland Avenue. Starts at 2 p.m., $12 all-you-can-eat.

Robert H. Kirschner, M.D. Memorial Human Rights Lecture

Reconnecting in the Aftermath of El Salvador's Civil War: The Joys and Challenges of Finding Family Prof. Margaret E. Ward and Nelson Ward de Witt Margaret Ward, Emerita Professor, Wellesley College, is the author of Missing Mila, Finding Family: An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War, the story of her son’s adoption from El Salvador and their later connection with his birth family through Asociació n Pro-Bú squeda. Nelson Ward de Witt, Margaret's son, is now a ilm-maker. He will present excerpts from Identifying Nelson/Buscando a Roberto in which he tells the same story from his perspective.

Asociació n Pro-Bú squeda was founded by the late Dr. Robert Kirschner and Salvadoran colleagues to reunite Salvadoran families with children adopted abroad during the war years. It was a 1997 call from Dr. Kirschner to the de WittWard family that set in motion this remarkable reunion.

Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 6:30 p.m.

International House Assembly Hall 1414 East 59th Street Free and open to the public with a reception to follow.

Registration is encouraged, but not required.

Please register through the Alumni Weekend site as a “Friend of the University”: http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=943002

This lecture series honors the life and work of Robert H. Kirschner, M.D., noted forensic pathologist and a founder of the University of Chicago Human Rights Program. ********* This event is co-sponsored by the International House Global Voices Program and is a part of the International House 80 th Anniversary Reunion Celebration. The program will include the recognition of the winners of the 2012 Human Rights writing, research, and fellowship competitions and graduating students of the Program.

For more information, please email: human-rights@uchicago.edu University of Chicago Human Rights Program 5720 S. Woodlawn Avenue • Chicago, IL 60637 773-834-0957 • humanrights.uchicago.edu Persons with disabilities that may need assistance should contact the Of ice of Programs & External Relations in advance of the program at 773-753-2274.

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Reading what you want? It’s a foreign concept at our school and so much sudden freedom can be overwhelming.

Luckily a few Arts reporters have pared down the choices for you with three very different recommendations.

When Brooklynite writer Rosecrans Baldwin had the opportunity to work at an advertising firm in Paris, he leaped at the opportunity. Growing up in suburban Connecticut, Baldwin was drawn to the sophistication of French culture, and a childhood vacation in Paris fostered his life-long dream of living in the City of Light. But upon moving to Paris with his wife in 2007, Baldwin discovered that the reality of the city didn’t match up with his French fantasies. Such a realization inspired his latest book, Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down.

Baldwin is initially disappointed to find that the majority of the French people he encounters don’t meet his expectations of sophistication; his co-workers love grabbing McDonald’s for lunch, Parisians walk the streets in full-on cowboy attire, and every seemingly charming bistro turns out to be a greasy joint owned by Brits and Australians. Baldwin also observes minority tensions and sexism that seem to contradict the French value of egalité.

Clearly the Paris of Audrey Hepburn movies and Serge Gainsbourg no longer exists.

Baldwin also spends a good deal of his stay in Paris perplexed by French customs, partly because his French language skills are not up to par, but also because French culture appears to be embedded with many elusive nuances. Baldwin can never grasp the implicit knowledge of when to kiss or not kiss people on the cheek, nor can he understand exactly where his coworkers draw the line in the sexually explicit phrases they incorporate into normal conversation. He and his wife experience the nightmare of navigating the French bureaucracy when his wife is required to submit an application, two photographs, a

photocopy of her passport, a photocopy of a recent bill, a photocopy of their apartment’s lease, a photocopy of their residency application, and a notarized documentation of internationally covered health insurance—all just to get a gym membership.

Over time, however, Baldwin begins to appreciate the quirks of the French, ranging from their near-obsession for Nespresso coffee to their tendency to go on strikes. They are argumentative, contradictory, and somehow manage to loathe President Sarkozy and adore his relationship with Carla Bruni at the same time. On the eve of his return to the United States, Baldwin finally realizes that even if a lot of the city has turned into a tourist trap, what keeps the real Paris alive is the offbeat nature of the Parisians themselves.

For all its bizarre humor, Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down is a love story. The more time Baldwin spends in Paris, the more he abandons the old fantasies that fostered his love for the city, and instead develops a genuine love for Paris, appreciating its idiosyncrasies and flaws. It is easy for readers to become engrossed in Baldwin’s tale, and trace the ups and downs of his love affair. For Francophiles, many aspects of Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down may be disheartening, but hope remains that Paris can still be great if you learn to love the city’s highs and lows.

Baldwin’s colloquial, comic writing style will not make him a modern-day Gertrude Stein or Ernest Hemingway in his observations (he probably did not want to partake in any further romanticizing of Paris anyway); instead, he aims to chip away at the city’s façade and illuminate the City of Light.

—Alexandra McInnis

Paris, I Love You but You’re Bringing Me Down by Rosecrans Baldwin.

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Gods Without Men by Hari Kunzru.

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Presumably it’s a story about aliens. Or maybe God. Or visions and insanity. The only thing that’s really stable in Hari Kunzru’s latest novel, Gods Without Men, is its setting in the Mojave Desert. Other than that, everything in the novel is in flux as time ranges from the 18th century to the early 2000s and the story fluctuates between an erratic cast of characters, including a British rock star and a Spanish missionary.

The novel opens up with what looks like a folktale: A mythic Native American–type figure, Coyote, tries to make pure crystal with pseudoephedrine, dies, and then revives.

The real story soon follows. At first, it seems like it’s going to be about a WWII veteran who opens a diner in the desert and looks for UFOs. But then the plot jumps a couple of decades later to a British rock star who hates L.A., and America in general, and who goes into the desert for some peace and quiet. He ends up at a dinky little motel when the autistic child of a couple he meets there suddenly disappears.

The couple—a Jewish woman named L isa and an Indian immigrant, Jaz, who’d married Lisa against his family’s traditional values—was already struggling with their child, whose birth had strained their marriage to the point of breaking.

Then the novel skips back in time to the founding of a cult that spreads universal messages of love and hate and communes telepathically with glorious beings trying to

save Earth from 2,000 miles up from the atmosphere. In some tiny way or another, these characters’ stories relate to each other’s. And the desert unites them all.

Kunzru displays an ability to write in many different styles, effortlessly giving each separate storyline its own distinct narrator and voice. Each storyline has some common and relatable elements of modern-day America: racism, cultural barriers and clashes, misunderstandings in human relationships. While Lisa and Jaz take up a bulk of the plot, even the characters who make only minimal appearances bring a voice to the clamor that is Gods Without Men. Take the anthropologist, Deighton, for instance, who, by studying the tribes of the Mojave Desert, alienates his wife and ultimately causes her to abandon him for a native, or Goth girl Laila, who escaped Iraq and sought refuge in San Diego by listening to non-mainstream music—like the British rock star of the Mojave Desert.

Though distinctly individual, their attempts at assimilation and their conflicts with foreign cultures are evocative of the cultural confusion America has always undergone.

Despite the chaotic plot and intertwining storylines, Kunzru writes with an easy prose that keeps the novel from becoming too heavy or tedious. Though it isn’t the lightest beach read out there, Gods Without Men is interesting and absorbing, satisfying with its complex and tightly-drawn, compelling characters.

—Angela Qian

Have you settled into your South Side routines as the year draws to its conclusion? Are you weary from this quarter’s battles, be they academic, emotional, or physical? (O jousters on the Midway, read on!) Has Chicago come to feel like your home, or do you still yearn for a taste of your old stomping grounds as summer draws near? How has the notion of home changed, and why should we care?

If any of these questions interest or apply to you, Toni Morrison’s new novel Home will quietly engage you for a June afternoon or two. Home tracks Korean War veteran Frank Money and his sister, Ycidra (Cee) Money, as they make their way back to their hometown in Georgia. The book opens as Frank, a PTSD patient, flees from a mental hospital and begins his journey back to the South. Frank’s course of action is sometimes dynamic and human, like when he searches Cee’s purse before rescuing her from her doctor-employer’s house after Cee has been the victim of vague, cruel experiments. Other times though, Frank simply lacks the spark and playfulness with which Morrison imbued her characters in early works like Sula and The Bluest Eye. Frank’s flatness could be reflective of his war-driven exhaustion, but he comes across as archetypal and not fully fleshed out.

Meanwhile, Cee, having been abandoned by her husband,

goes to work for a doctor who ends up subjecting her to medical experimentation. The doctor’s meddling leaves Cee half-dead, the state she’s in when Frank comes to save her about halfway through the brief novel. Though Cee, like Frank, is an archetype, she’s a whole person, not a broken one; she shows undeniable growth, which makes her easy to root for. Morrison’s breadth of knowledge of how to write for and about women shines in Cee and in her descriptions of the women who nurse Cee back to health.

Home is like other novels of Morrison’s in that it casts an intense gaze on the harm society has done and continues to do to veterans, especially African-American ones; women, especially African-American ones; and, well, people, especially African-American ones. However, sometimes Morrison sacrifices the quality of her characters and prose in exchange for cultural critique. She’s aged well into the way she wields sentences, but her words don’t land with as much force as they once did; she doesn’t seem deeply concerned with how she’s saying what she’s saying. There’s more life in single sentences of Sula than you’ll find in the entirety of Home. All the same, Home is an elegant and compelling portrait of a brother and sister trying to get back to how they were.

—Emma Broder

Toni Morrison’s latest novel, Home.

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Recipes for smashing homemade cocktails DRINKS continued from page 12 the way full with mezcal. Fill the rest up with your favorite dark rum. Add this to the cocktail shaker along with 2 tablespoons of lime juice and 1 tablespoon of agave nectar. Finish with just a pinch of salt to draw out and intensify the flavors, shake, and pour into a glass.

2 tbs lime juice 1 tbs agave syrup 1/4 cup alcohol (3/4 Mezcal, 1/4 rum) pinch of salt The Andre Smash: This sangria-like cocktail, screaming to be served in a pitcher, is perfect to keep chilled in the fridge. Lime, lemon, fresh berries, and a bit of mint are muddled with champagne for a light, crisp cocktail perfect for summer nights. The Andre Smash sounds quite startling, even intimidating, but it truly is a patient drink that only gets better the longer it is allowed to sit in the fridge. We recommend using Andre champagne because it’s ridiculously cheap, but any brand (including any dry white wine) can be used. When crushed, the blueberries release a deep red juice, so don’t be surprised if the finished product ends up looking shockingly pink.

You will need a larg e pitcher. Cut 1 whole lemon and 1 whole lime into wedges and drop them into the bottom.

Add 1 cup fresh berries. Rub 2 sprigs of mint with leaves between the palms of your hands to release the essential oils before adding them to the pitcher. Twist off the top of the Andre and pour just enough to cover the ingredients. Holding the Andre bottle by the stem, mash all the ingredients in the pitcher repeatedly until all their juices have been released. This process, called muddling , will bring out oils in the skin of the citrus and the mint leaves, smush the blueberries, and release the juice from the lemons and limes.

Then, add the remainder of the Andre.

If you’re feeling especially spirited, add an additional 1/2 cup of rum (for extra smash). The pitcher can be chilled in the fridge for several days, and care should be taken when pouring to ensure the mint or citrus rinds don’t end up in the glass.

1/4 lime 1/4 lemon 1/4 blueberry 2 sprigs of mint 1/4 Andre Tips: Pour a splash of Andre into pitcher before muddling. After muddling, add rest of Andre. For an extra kick, add an 1/8 cup of rum.

Basil and Cucumber Collins: This drink combines fresh herbs and produce with lime and seltzer water for a revitalizing mixture, fragrant yet mild in flavor. Gin, derived from juniper berries and a mix of botanical herbs, is perfectly paired with fresh herbs like basil and gastronomic cooling agents such as cucumber. Once again, this drink requires muddling to bring out the oils in the herbs and to crush the chunks of cucumber.

Most kitchen utensils, from the handle of a wooden spoon or spatula, will suffice for this process. A splash of seltzer at the end lightens the drink and gives it a rejuvenating touch.

To start, pour 1/8 cup lime juice into a cocktail shaker. Rub 4 fresh basil leaves between your hands to release the oils and add them, along with 4 slices of cucumbers, quartered, to the shaker. With whatever broad-based kitchen utensil at your disposal, mash all the ingredients until the cucumber is decently crushed. Top with 1/3 cup gin and ice to your liking. Shake vigorously until satisfied. Pour into a glass and top with 1/3 cup seltzer water.

1/8 cup lime juice 4 fresh basil leaves (large) 4 1/4 inch slices of cucumber (eyeball and quarter at will) 1/3 cup of gin 1/3 cup seltzer During your summer festivities, please remember to drink responsibly and add tiny umbrellas as needed.

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Thrown a curve Changes to selection process by NCAA left the baseball team on the outside looking in Sarah Langs and Sean Ahmed Associate Sports Editor & Sports Contributor The Maroons thought they had each of the proper ingredients for their recipe: They were trying to cook up a bid to the NCAA DIII baseball tournament.

What they seem to have been missing was a proverbial secret ingredient, one that may have resulted from unknown tweaks in the national selection process.

The selection announcements were a bit chaotic and perhaps a sign of things to come for the South Siders. The NCAA website initially said that the tournament field would be posted at or around 9 p.m. on Sunday, May 13. Instead, the matchups were not put online until early Monday morning.

“I remember staying up with basically my whole baseball team communicating back and forth, constantly refreshing the [@D3Baseball] Twitter and website. The [D3Baseball.com] website came out with a mock draft, in which we were regarded as [a] top-seven team in Pool C of about 16 teams,” second-year pitcher Ray Kim said. “We weren’t even considered on the bubble, so I was convinced

when it hit 2 a.m. central time we were going to be heading towards Tennessee or Wisconsin…for the NCAA playoffs.”

Once Monday morning came around, Chicago had to cancel any celebration—they found that they had been passed over for a lower-ranked team in their region, Illinois Wesleyan, as well as 15 other teams.

Despite strong seasons in the past, baseball has never received a bid to the NCAA tournament.

The Maroons are not affiliated with a conference in baseball (or softball), both because of scheduling difficulties and because the UAA does not have an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in these two sports. That leaves baseball’s postseason fate entirely in the hands of the NCAA selection committee.

In 2003, Chicago went 25–6 overall but was left out of the tournament, back when the national field was limited to just three or four at-large bids and convoluted, point system–informed rankings.

The tournament has since been expanded by about a dozen teams, the formula for strength of schedule has been improved, and the rankings on which selections are based have been made public. And this year, strong performances against a top-notch

schedule—and consistent presence in the Central Region’s top two spots in the official NCAA rankings—had many thinking that this was finally the year.

“I feel terrible for our seniors as they worked very hard over their four years here towards making the postseason, and to be so close their senior year and be left out is very unfortunate,” second-year outfielder Ricky Troncelliti said.

But exactly what happened to make it so that on Monday morning, the words “University of Chicago” were nowhere to be found on the list of teams receiving bids? How did something that seemed like a lock turn into nothing more than a long offseason for the Maroons?

GOING IN ORDER

Anyone who has followed college sports knows that there’s always a mix of math and magic that goes into making NCAA tournament selections.

But DIII uses a particularly ordered process that offers some welcome transparency.

The eight regional committees rank their top teams based on a set of primary and, if necessary, secondary criteria. For the last several years, the official regional rankings have been released to the

public by these NCAA committees, which are comprised of coaches from various conferences.

So, during the last three weeks of the regular season, teams are given a rough idea of where they stand.

Chicago had been ranked first in the Central Region during week one, and they slipped only to second for the remaining three weeks.

On “Selection Sunday,” a national committee works to fill out the playoff field, which this year stood at 56 teams. Of those, 38 were automatic bids assigned to conference winners (Pool A).

Teams who aren’t part of a conference with an automatic qualifier are eligible for two exclusive bids (Pool B). And any team who doesn’t get a Pool A or Pool B bid is then thrown into a discussion for the remaining 16 at-large berths (Pool C).

Working off the regional rankings, the national committee considers the top available team in each region. The eight teams “on the board” are discussed until an at-large selection is made. That school’s region then nominates their next-best available team, and this repeats until all bids have been assigned.

At least, that’s how it had worked in the past.

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Had that been the case, it would have been literally impossible for the Maroons (No. 2 in the Central) to find themselves left out of the tournament in favor of Illinois Wesleyan (No. 4, and the next available team). Both could have been left out, both could have made it, or Chicago could have been selected but not Illinois Wesleyan.

It turns out the NCAA decided to tweak the process in a few small ways, which have added up to a significant effect on Chicago’s playoff chances and have surprised some of its membership.

The changes were fourfold, according to Anthony Holman, NCAA Assistant Director of Championships: 1. The rankings weren’t produced by regionalcommittee consensus but rather by a private, online vote. This was an across-the-board move, as verified with other sports’ championship committees.

2. The national committee could no longer revise the regional rankings if they disagreed with them. These unaltered regional rankings were published online for the public.

3. Because the regional rankings were determined independently of the national committee, the latter only had to use them as guidance.

4. The national committee also decided to no longer follow the one-at-a-time regional nominations. Now, multiple teams from each region could be put on the board when the discussion seemed to merit it.

These were changes that Holman suggested were not secret, though Chicago coaches said they were not told of any changes other than No. 2. The maroon found that a D3Baseball.com interview with Holman prior to the season did describe No. 2 and 3 above, but it did not address No. 1 and 4.

“Now the committee is taking a more global look when we get to Pool C because we’re not bound by those regional rankings,” Holman said.

“Other teams could be considered from the same region at the same time.

“Chicago, as I mentioned, was certainly the first one from their region to get on,” he added.

“But as they continued to go through the process and drill down the numbers, there’s a look, ‘Hey, is there anybody else in your region that should be considered at this time as well?’ That’s how Illinois Wesleyan gets into the picture.... While it looks like it was, ‘Chicago or Wesleyan: How’d Wesleyan get in or take our spot?’ that wasn’t the case at all.

They were being compared against a wide variety of teams.”

An e-mail request for clarification on how process changes were communicated was sent to Holman, who was on the road for this week’s baseball championships and unable to respond by press time.

In a survey of coaches and NCAA championship committee members familiar with the process in other sports, all said that their national committees had only used the one-at-a-time nominations from each region. Many expressed surprise to hear of deviation from that.

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WHO’S IN, CHICAGO’S OUT A look at some of the bubble teams from other regions who made it over Chicago In-Region W%

In-Region SOS

vs. Ranked

Overall W%

Region

Bowdoin

0.590

0.581

10-9

0.582

New England

DePauw

0.732

0.507

3-3

0.733

Mideast

Emory

0.703

0.524

5-2

0.684

South

Neumann

0.667

0.559

3-8

0.698

Mid-Atlantic

Shenandoah

0.743

0.534

2-4

0.725

South

Trinity

0.795

0.486

1-1

0.773

West

Whitewater

0.625

0.554

7-10

0.659

Midwest

Chicago

0.633

0.569

5-8

0.657

Central

School

Holman and national chair Gregg Kaye both explained that subjective criteria did play a part in the national selections. Kaye did emphasize, however, that any such arguments had to tie into the official criteria.

One that may have impacted the Maroons is that the national committee did not take their strength of schedule at face value. Without commenting specifically on Chicago’s situation, they did say that the national committee tried to read into when teams faced opponents—and how they thought that affected pitching matchups, for instance.

“The folks on our committee are pretty astute baseball folks,” Holman added. “They drill down into who did you beat and when did you beat them...those are subjective things that come into

play as well, especially when you’re splitting hairs for a select few spots. While we share that information [a spreadsheet of official in-region win percentage, strength of schedule, and record vs. ranked] and want to be transparent, there’s still a number of different ways in which it can be analyzed.”

This may have disproportionately affected Chicago, which has gone out of its way to face tough opponents but, as an independent school, must do so around others’ fixed conference schedules.

It also requires an implicit belief that the national committee can better judge these subjective situations than the regional committees can. Holman acknowledged this as a fair criticism.

“I think folks will see that, and we may hear from the membership that that’s how they want it.

We certainly serve at their pleasure. If that’s a direc-

tion we’ll be pulled back to, we certainly will.”

Only one member of the national committee, Central Region chair Greg Wallace, would have first hand knowledge of the region. Wallace is the varsity baseball head coach of Augustana, which competes in the same conference as Illinois Wesleyan. As chair, Wallace does not have a vote in the regional rankings, but does have a say in the national committee.

Kaye denied that conference bias could have impacted the selections—both because of the integrity of their members as well as the checks and balances involved.

LEFT AT HOME

It’s common that a team left out of the tournament feels slighted. But in this case, Chicago had the combined votes of five Central Region coaches—representing North Central, Coe, Wash U, Lawrence, and Webster—also on their side. At No. 2, they were the only team ranked in the top four of their respective region to not make the NCAA tournament.

“The Central Region Advisory Committee’s [RAC] desire to have Chicago receive the first Pool C bid from the region should have been honored, and any team ranked second in its region by the RAC should be selected for that regional tournament,” Chicago head coach Brian Baldea said in a statement to the Maroon.

Chicago has no ability to appeal the selections, and the tournament will wrap up in the coming days. The program’s only option has been to express its displeasure.

In the NCAA’s mind, the end result could have worked out similarly under the old process. The national committee could have overruled the Central

WHAT’S FAIR OR FOUL? The primary and secondary criteria are explicitly stated in each sport’s championships handbook, and they emphasize regional competition above all.

PRIMARY CRITERIA • Win percentage against regional opponents.

• Strength of schedule versus regional competition.

• In-region head-to-head competition.

• In-region results versus common regional opponents.

• In-region results versus regionally ranked teams.

SECONDARY CRITERIA If the evaluation of the primary criteria does not result in a decision, all criteria will be evaluated.

• Out-of-region head-to-head competition.

• Overall DIII win percentage.

• Results versus common nonDIII opponents.

• Results versus all DIII ranked teams.

• Overall win percentage.

• Results versus all common opponents.

• Overall DIII strength of schedule.

RAC’s rankings so that Chicago would have been beneath Illinois Wesleyan—and nobody would have known any differently because only the “corrected” rankings would have been posted publicly.

But baseball’s national committee appears to have gone beyond other sports this year in modifying the process. By moving away from the one-from-each-region nominations, it’s nearly impossible to deduce which criteria were used when.

“The resulting legislation is of most importance, and we got that,” D3Baseball.com’s Ricky Nelson said. “But it’s interesting (and lawful in this analogy) to know what the branches of government negotiate during the process. All we got to see after the 2012 Division III baseball selection process was a House draft and the resulting decision.

Among other questions, what did the Senate do to the House draft? We’re left to read between the lines.”

That’s an answer Chicago—including its graduating fourth-years Alex Garcia, Stephen Williams, and Preston Attebery—has been left searching for while others played on.

“We had a tremendous season,” Troncelliti said, “and we were all very hopeful that we had achieved enough to be included in the tournament.”

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NCAA Championships almost two months ago at the Chicagoland Championship. In an endurance event like the 10,000-meter, that should have been ideal. Whitmore had taken it fairly easy, competitively speaking, since running his qualification time and wasn’t forced to commit to another big performance since then. After running an impressive 5k at the NCC Dr. Keeler Invitational last week— good enough to leave him ranked 22nd in the country—it seemed Whitmore was in prime position to make the top eight last night.

It’s impossible to say exactly what went wrong for Whitmore, as he wasn’t available for comment after the race, but it was disheartening to see such a composed athlete not live up to his potential.

“Billy’s very focused on what he wants to do out here this weekend, and I don’t really think there’s anything that would distract him or take him away from that,” Hall said. “I expect him to run very well because that’s what Billy does. He goes out and generally performs at a

very high level.”

Unfortunately for Whitmore and his coach, something just didn’t go quite right at the decisive moment. The race started at a reasonable pace, and the pack remained fairly bunched-up for the first few laps. However, as UW–Stout’s Tim Nelson, the eventual winner, broke away from the pack, the race quickly became stretched and runners were isolated. Whitmore, it seems, never recovered.

Perhaps the most difficult statistic for Whitmore to take will be that his personal best, a time he ran last month, would have been good enough to see him finish in second place. But it wasn’t meant to be. Every race is different, and for Whitmore, this one went wrong.

If there is any consolation for Whitmore, it’s that he will have another shot. He enters his final year of eligibility next year, and this experience will only add to his determination to make that year count. He has the talent—of that there can be no doubt—and he now has one more year to deliver. Don’t bet against it.

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Cygan, Carpenter lead way to record-tying win total Softball Derek Tsang Associate Sports Editor

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the event, McDonald was able to qualify as one of the country’s top 22. She now has the 21st best time out of the 22 runners who will take to the stripe beside her in Claremont. Carmen Graves of Roanoke holds the top rank with a mark of 2:07.32.

McDonald will compete in heat three, in which she is ranked seventh out of eight. She will be running from lane six tonight at 7:10 p.m. PST. The 800-meter final gets underway at 4:20 p.m. on Saturday.

“At some point I am going to have to break in with the rest of the runners. I plan to stay close to the front and hold on to whatever I can get. Hopefully I can get in the top two and see what happens from there,” McDonald said in regards to her strateg y.

Realistically, it will be very difficult for McDonald to place in the top three. She has three of the top 10 runners in the nation in her heat and, if the current rankings prove to be an accurate guide, will need to cut at least two seconds off of her current time to qualify for the final. That in itself would be a great achievement for McDonald, but regardless of her eventual finish, her primary target should be a new personal best. If that takes her to the finals, it will be just another bonus.

By every measure except the most rigorous, the Maroons (2611) had a successful season: They matched the school record of 26 wins, finished with a plenty respectable 2–2 record in their NCAA regional, and placed five players on their all-Region team.

There was still a feeling, though, that they had left something on the table.

“The end of a successful season is always bittersweet—deep down, one knows it was a great season, but on the surface, it is extremely difficult to walk away from the last game,” said head coach Ruth Kmak. “We had great effort throughout the regional—100 percent effort from everyone. Unfortunately, the players that had come through all season for us were not able to come through in Alma.”

At their best, the Maroons played in a style that emphasized aggression on the base-paths, at the plate, and on defense. In a breakout season, third-year Kim Cygan was almost untouchable, finishing the season with the fifth best earned run average (0.99) in DIII and powering the Maroons as a team to the seventh best team mark. Their offense battled inconsistency all season, but they were absolutely fearsome when they clicked, dispatching several overmatched opponents early via the

Second-year Kaitlyn Carpenter led the UAA with a .419 batting average. Here, Carpenter bunts against Hope late last month.

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mercy rule.

A spring trip to Florida showed the team just how good they could be, as they put up a seven-game winning streak. After coming home, they defended Stagg Field doggedly, putting up a 9–2 record and playing their best when the games were close. Perhaps the highlight to the season was the fourth-years’ goodbye to Stagg ; in the 11th inning against North

Central with the score knotted at one, second baseman Julia Schneider’s last regular season at-bat was a towering walk-off solo home run.

Seeded fourth in their NCAA Regional at Alma, the South Siders got wins over John Carroll and Denison, but wound up in fourth after losing to first seed Trine and third seed Alma. Even after saying goodbye to their fourth-years the Maroons should be optimistic

about their younger players. Outfielder Kailtyn Carpenter broke the team record for triples (7) as she batted .419, first-year Raechel Cloud’s timely hitting powered her to a .352 average, and Emily Ashbridge and Tabbetha Bohac both showed talent on the mound.

Chicago’s 2011–2012 season was on par with the team’s historical bests; next year, as always, they’ll aim even higher.

VacaGuzman: “We started this season as a team and ended as a family” W. TENNIS continued from back

But Chicago was not out of contention. Kung cruised to a 6–1, 6–3 victory over Kara Shoemaker.

“Out of my four years here, this year was definitely my best performance in singles at NCAAs,” Kung said. “I felt like my level of play this year really began picking up during NCAA regionals. I’m glad I was able to step up my singles game for my last NCAAs and give my team some quick singles wins.”

Williams’ Kathleen Elkins defeated Li 6–4, 6–1 to put Williams up 4–2.

With three matches left on the courts, Chicago needed three wins.

VacaGuzman was up 7–5, 1–3 at No. 3 singles; Tang was about to split sets at No. 5 singles; and McGillis was up 5–4 in the second set of No. 6 after losing the first set 7–5.

Unfortunately for the Maroons, McGillis’s shoulder was giving her problems at the end of the second set.

“It was very tired and weak,” she said.

McGillis lost 7–5, 7–5. With

that loss, Williams clinched its fifth consecutive national title.

All other matches immediately stopped.

“It took me a moment to realize that [Williams] had just won, especially because the winning court was literally five courts across from me,” VacaGuzman said.

In spite of the initial disappointment the loss brought, it was the first time in four years that the Maroons moved past the semifinal. The previous three years, the Maroons took home the fourthplace trophy.

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“Overall we all left everything on the court, and I am proud of each and every one of my teammates,” McGillis said.

For the fourth-years, the loss was especially tough because it was the last match they would play together as a team. Their seasons as individuals, however, continue.

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Higgins and VacaGuzman are playing doubles, while Higgins

and Kung are singles competitors.

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“I have the hardest working teammates and was sad about the loss, but so happy and proud with the way everyone competed,” VacaGuzman said. “We gave it our all.”

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Season Recap Maroons find success despite postseason snub Baseball Sarah Langs Associate Sports Editor Always look on the bright side.

The Maroons may have felt jilted at the abrupt end to their season, with a postseason bid conspicuously absent, but they still had a season to be proud of.

“We were all really excited for the postseason and had good reason to believe we had a good shot at making it,” second-year first baseman and outfielder Brett Huff said.

The team’s disappointment will not fade away overnight, but the fact that they were disappointed at all speaks to the quality of their season.

Though there were significant

contributions from fourth-years, the team underwent a youth movement during the season. A number of second-years matured and grew into their roles, while first-years made an impact as well.

In a stark change from last season, the team’s pitching was consistently good, at times even brilliant. The hitting caught up to the pitching as the season went on, creating a winning formula.

Finishing with a final record of 23–12, Chicago accumulated a number of impressive stats. Ten Maroons hit .300 or better. The team average for the season was .344. On the mound, they boasted a team ERA of 3.52. However, more im-

pressive than the team stat is the fact that four different Maroons reached at least the four-win mark. One, second-year Claude Lockhart, even won six games. Second-year William Katzka set a new Maroons singleseason record for saves with six.

These statistics cannot quell the bitterness the players feel about not making the postseason, but they signal what is to come. Most of these statistics were generated by players who will be returning next year, meaning that the South Siders can consider this season a foundation for the following one. If a couple of guys have career years, or even just ones like this, a postseason bid next year could be right around the corner.

Fourth-year Alex Garcia pitches to fellow fourth-year catcher Stephen Williams in a game against Benedictine earlier this season.

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Chicago hurdles injuries, finishes fourth in UAA Men’s Track Jake Walerius Associate Sports Editor The Maroons have become accustomed to high expectations over the last few years, but their goals were a little more modest this time around.

Chicago’s fourth-place finish at the UAA Championship in April was probably the best it could have hoped for given the squad that was available and, as injury problems at the culmination of the season offered the Maroons very little time to prepare, it can be considered a success.

“On the whole, it was a bit of a disappointing year for us,” head coach Chris Hall said. “But the disappointment didn’t come from the way our student-athletes who are healthy achieved; it was just that we were shorthanded at the end of the year.

We didn’t have bodies in place to make a great run at doing some really special things within our conference, [but] we had a good year. We really did.”

The South Siders got off to a slow start, with mixed performances at the Ted Haydon Invite and Chicagoland Championships, but there were encouraging signs from the beginning. Third-year sprinter Dee Brizzolara returned from an oblique injury sustained

during the indoor season to finish second and fourth in the 200m and 100m respectively.

However, the standout early season performance came from Billy Whitmore. His time in the 10,000m (30:18.56) was enough to qualify him for the NCAA National Championship, in which he finished 12th last night.

Chicago began to hit its stride as it approached the UAA Championship, with strong performances in the Wheaton College Twilight and the DePaul Invite. At DePaul, the South Siders beat DI schools Chicago State and UIC, and their improvement continued through the conference championships.

The Maroons missed out on the top three at the UAA meet by five points to Case Western, but after lowering their expectations, the way the squad stepped up bodes well for the future. Brizzolara was dominant, winning the 100m and 200m, third-year thrower Brandon Meckelberg won the discus, and there were third-place finishes for Whitmore and first-year Renat Zalov in the 10,000m and 1,500m respectively.

If there’s one positive the Maroons take from this season, it will be how many of their point scorers at conference will be returning next year. As, they hope, will their high expectations too.

South Siders struggle to catch up after slow start Women’s Track Jake Walerius Associate Sports Editor Chicago was forced to play catch-up from the very start this outdoor season, and its fourthplace finish at the UAA Championship was a sign that they never quite did.

After the combination of winter quarter finals week and spring break put the women two weeks behind in their preparation, the Maroons entered the season with only four meets left before the conference championship in Pittsburgh. In the end, it wasn’t enough.

As with the men’s squad, injuries played a significant role in the Maroons’ performance this year. While their squad retained a strong core, they were simply unable to score at the same level due to a lack of supporting performances.

The season started well enough for the South Siders, who returned from their extended break with a second-place finish at the Ted Haydon Invite before finishing fifth at the Chicagoland Championship. The jumpers, in particular, excelled as first-year Pam Yu won the triple jump and beat out fourth-year teammate Madison Allen in the long jump in the first

meet of the year.

After a bright start, Chicago faltered somewhat at the Wheaton Twilight against a strong field.

However, individual performances were beginning to improve, and some of the Maroons’ biggest point earners were beginning to perform. Third-year Kayla McDonald finished second in the 800m; firstyear Reecie Dern scored points in the shot put, discus, and hammer throw; and fourth-year Paige Peltzer secured fourth place in the high jump.

The Maroons had the perfect prelude for the UAAs as they beat Chicago State and UIC in the DePaul Invite, but it still wasn’t enough for them to finish higher than fourth in Pittsburgh against their conference rivals. McDonald and Dern were both impressive again while fourth-years Jalessa Akuoko, Madison Allen, and Sonia Kahn said farewell to conference competition with a trio of third-place finishes.

Chicago, still a young squad, says goodbye to a very strong senior class this year, and one of its biggest tasks ahead will be to fill that void: not only the one left by their performances, but the one left by their leadership as well. There is a very important year ahead for women’s track.

Third-year Julia Sizek runs in the 10,000-meter competition on Thursday at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

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2011-2012 MAROON AWARDS It is not just because of the record-breaking 49-point performance. It is not just because he hit the 1,000 point mark in his career. It is not just because he received All-UAA and All-Region firstteam selection honors. And it is not just because he was a Jostens Award finalist. Ultimately, it is because of fourth-year shooting guard Matt Johnson’s unmatched efficiency that he has earned the title of Male Athlete of the Year. Averaging 20.2 points per game on 45.3 percent shooting from the field and 37 percent from behind the arc, Johnson was the UAA’s leading scorer. His dream of being on SportsCenter was accomplished on January 27 after he hit a silky smooth threepointer at the buzzer to defeat Emory. Johnson was number three on SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays of the night.

After the graduation of Chrissy Hu in 2011, it seemed as if the two-time national doubles champion, fourth-year Kendra Higgins would have this award in the bag in 2012. But then came teammate and fellow fourth-year Carmen VacaGuzman. Higgins and VacaGuzman had an unthinkable 21–2 record at No. 1 doubles and ended the season on an 18-game winning streak.

VacaGuzman was named the UAA MVP for her efforts in the coveted doubles position and No. 2 singles.

Meanwhile, Higgins played No. 1 singles and held a 15-6 record in dual play. The two teammates are inseparable on the court, and they are inseparable for this award.

KENDRA HIGGINS

MATT JOHNSON CARMEN VACAGUZMAN Male Female

maroon of the year

Dee Brizzolara, Billy Whitmore The Maroons had a banner year in 2012, despite the fact they won’t actually have an NCAA DIII banner to raise for it. Chicago’s team ERA improved significantly from last year, dropping to 3.52 from 4.76, thanks in part to second-year Claude Lockhart’s unthinkable 0.88 mark. On the offensive, second-year Ricky Troncelliti and third-year Jack Cinoman led the UAA in batting, with averages of .468 and .447, respectively. The team’s best performances were a weekend in St. Louis and a game in Evanston. With two doubleheaders in two days, Chicago took three out of four from Wash U in the middle of the season and in their season finale against Northwestern, the Maroons took down a worthy DI opponent.

Honorable Mention Morgan Herrick, Kim Cygan

BASEBALL TENNIS Men Women

team of the year Wrestling

Tony Restaino dove head first into what is sure to be an incredible Chicago career. During the season, the first-year competed so adeptly and impressively that he was named the UAA Men’s Diver of the Year. Restaino already owns three University of Chicago records. At the UAA Championships, he broke the UAA record in the three-meter diving event. He will look to build on his great rookie season next year and over his next three years.

Honorable Mention Basketball

ANTHONY RESTAINO

RAECHEL CLOUD

Male Female

rookie of the year Mario Palmisano Honorable Mention Bizzy Millen Michael Choquette Hannah Ballard

Even though women’s basketball coach Aaron Roussell recently accepted an offer to be the head coach at DI Bucknell University in Pennsylvania, he coached the Maroons to their first undefeated season in 2011–2012. Roussell’s expertise was most evident when the Maroons saw themselves down a wide margin at halftime in multiple games throughout season, but ultimately wound up winning each of the contests. His 2011–2012 team outscored its opponents by an average of 17.4 points per game and ranked third in the country with 17.2 assists per game. Behind Roussell’s leadership, Chicago reached a ranking of second in the nation entering the NCAA tournament.

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records broken in 2011-2012

It was bound to happen. After failing to go beyond the national semifinal for three years straight, the women’s tennis team took home second place in 2012. The feat was only the second time in the history of University of Chicago athletics that a team reached a DIII final. But it wasn’t the luck of the draw. The Maroons easily toppled most of their opponents, finishing the season with a 23–5 record. Along the way, Chicago won its second UAA title, ousting rival Emory 5–4 in the championship match. Interim head coach Taka Bertrand and assistant coach Tim Fayad were named the UAA coaching staff of the year. With a starting lineup that featured three unmatched fourth-years, one tremendous third-year, and two promising first-years, the Maroons are uncontested as the best team of 2011–2012.

Hailing from nearby Wilmette, Raechel Cloud established herself as an integral part of the Maroons from game one and never looked back. She started in left field all year long for Chicago—one of only four players to start all 37 games—and provided (almost) mistake-free defense with a smattering of impressive catches. That’s not even to speak of her offense; after beginning the year at the very end of the lineup, Cloud hit herself into the fifth spot with a blistering .516 through the first 10 games. She cooled off toward season’s end, but still finished with the team’s second-best batting average (.352), third-best slugging percentage (.448), and second-most steals (eight in eight attempts). Add on her timely hitting with the season on the line in Chicago’s final two games, and you get a great season full stop, let alone for a rookie.

coach of the year performance of the year AARON ROUSSELL

MATT JOHNSON’S RECORD-BREAKING GAME-WINNING BUZZER-BEATING NIGHT

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48 career doubles, fourth-year Stephen Williams (Baseball) 6 saves in a season, second-year Will Katzka (Baseball) 9 triples in a season, third-year Jack Cinoman (Baseball) 49 points in a game, fourth-year Matt Johnson (Men’s Basketball) Undefeated regular season record:

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Women’s basketball (25–0) (Women’s Basketball) 193 career three–pointers, fourth-year Bryanne Halfhill (Women’s Basketball) 2,727 career receiving yards, third-year Dee Brizzolara (Football) 33 career receiving touchdowns, thirdyear Dee Brizzolara (Football) 38 total career touchdowns, third-year

On January 27, a cold Friday night turned into a display of the hot hand. Not only did fourth-year shooting guard Matt Johnson help the Maroons top nationally fourth-ranked Emory 103–102, he sunk a school and UAA record-breaking 49 points and a game-winning 27-foot threepointer at the buzzer. But the thrill did not stop there. Shortly before 2 a.m., “the shot” was featured as number three on SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays. On the night, Johnson was 15 of 22 from the field with a destructive eight of 13 from behind the arc.

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Dee Brizzolara (Football) 228 career points scored, third-year Dee Brizzolara (Football) 4,952 career all-purpose yards, thirdyear Dee Brizzolara (Football) 7 triples in a season, second-year Kaitlyn Carpenter (Softball) 2:12.93 800m, third-year Kayla McDonald (Women’s Track and Field)

SPORTS

IN QUOTES “You are an absolute stud. Do you realize what you just did, I’ll Have Another? That was unbelievable.”

—Trainer Doug O’Neill, speaking to his horse, I’ll Have Another, after his victory in the Preakness on Saturday.

SECOND’S THE BEST

For first time in school history, Maroons reach National final, take second place Women’s Tennis Alexander Sotiropoulos Senior Sports Staff The women’s tennis team captured second place at the NCAA DIII National Tournament after losing to Williams (24–2), the champion for the past five years, 5–2 on Wednesday.

The finish capped off the most successful placement the Maroons (23–5) have had in school history, and it was only the second time a Chicago team has competed in a DIII national final. The last time was in 2003 when the women’s soccer team placed second.

To get to the final, the Maroons defeated Amherst (18–3) 5–1 on Tuesday.

Amherst, which beat Chicago in the 2009 and 2010 tournament, did not have momentum on its side as Maroon fourth-years Kendra Higgins and Carmen VacaGuzman won 8–6 at No. 1 doubles while fourth-year Jennifer Kung and third-year Linden Li emulated the same score at No. 2 doubles.

The lone Chicago loss came at No. 3 doubles where first-years Kelsey McGillis and Megan Tang were shut out 8–0.

Chicago came up with quick wins at singles from Kung at No. 2 (6–4, 6–0) and McGillis at No. 6 (6–2, 6–4).

Higgins clinched a spot in the final for the Maroons with a 6–2, 2–6, 6–4 win at No. 1 after allowing four straight games in the third set.

In the final, Williams got off to an early lead with an 8–5 win over Kung and Li at No. 2 doubles.

Instead of overwhelming opponents with powerful shots as they have all season long, Higgins and VacaGuzman both played at the baseline when returning serves.

“In doubles, Kendra and I literally had to win playing ugly,” VacaGuzman said. “[Williams was not] going to give us any free points, so we had to have long points, play smart, and then go for it when we got the right shot.”

The strategy worked as the Chi-

cago tandem held for an 8–5 win.

It would seem as if Chicago were going to have the 2–1 edge heading into singles. McGillis and Tang had a 7–5 advantage.

Instead, three games later, Williams had its own advantage at 8–7. But McGillis and Tang saved two match points to send the match into a seven-point tiebreak.

The Maroons were unable to overcome an early 2–0 deficit in the tiebreak and lost the set 9–8 (4).

“We fought our hearts out, but in the end, they knew what to do to win,” McGillis said. “We definitely had our opportunities during doubles, but experience definitely played a huge part.”

Singles would determine the national champion.

After being up 2–0, Higgins began to commit unforced errors, missed volleys, and missed overheads. The lead quickly turned into the first loss for the Maroons in singles (6–4, 6–2).

W. TENNIS continued on page 29

Whitmore’s all-American hopes dashed

Fourth-year Kendra Higgins reaches to return the ball during the 2012 NCAA Division III Women’s Tennis Regional Final against UW–Whitewater at the Stagg Field Courts last week.

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Men’s Track

After Sizek places 16th, McDonald looks to bottle lightning

Jake Walerius Associate Sports Editor

Women’s Track

Third-year distance runner Billy Whitmore entered the NCAA Championships in Claremont, CA as the Maroons’ only male representative. Despite lofty expectations, Whitmore was unable to replicate his impressive qualifying performance.

Whitmore finished 12th out of a field of 22 in last night’s 10,000-meter competition in a time of 31:25.21. That 12th place finish was an improvement on his seed of 17th, but that was no consolation for Whitmore, who had his sights set on a top-eight finish and allAmerican honors.

In the lead up to the race, head coach Chris Hall was very clear about his runner’s expectations.

“The last six weeks a lot of people have qualified and passed Billy performance-wise, but I think his expectations are to be an all-American,” he said. “And I think he’d be really selling himself short if that wasn’t his goal this coming weekend.”

It’s hard to argue with those expectations when you consider that Whitmore qualified for the event in a time of 30:18.56. Every race is

Isaac Stern Sports Contributor

Third-year Billy Whitmore runs in the 10,000-meter competition on Thursday at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

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different—some, even if the level of competition is better, end up being slower—but finishing over a minute behind his season’s best would

never have been in the script for Whitmore.

Whitmore qualified for the M. TRACK continued on page 27

The DIII National Championship is here. For one Maroon, it has already come and gone. For another, it’s just about to begin.

Third-year Julia Sizek competed in the 10,000-meter last night, finishing 16th out of a field of 22 with a time of 37:53.90. After entering the competition ranked eighth in the event, Sizek was left disappointed by her performance.

“There are some days, you know, when you aren’t going to race well,” she said. “And in the 10k, when you realize 3k in [that] you’re going to race poor, it’s just not going to get better.

“It was just one of those days.

Everyone has good days and everyone has really terrible days, and I just had a really bad day today. It stinks, but I’m happy I got out here. That’s pretty cool. I’ve never qualified as an individual before so I was pretty excited.”

It was a difficult introduction to individual competition at the national level for Sizek, but it will be a valuable experience as

she looks to continue competing in the 10k; this was her first year running in the event.

“I think I probably will [run the 10k next year],” Sizek said. “A lot of the 10k runners are graduating this year. Also, I think that running the 10k earlier in the season would be better for Nationals than running it really late in the season. Everyone says that you run your best 10k when you’ve forgotten what the last 10k felt like. So I think if I can forget what the 10k feels like, then I could run better.”

Despite Sizek’s dissatisfaction with her own performance, she will now dust herself off and prepare to cheer on her teammate and fellow third-year Kayla McDonald, who will take to the track in the 800-meter tomorrow.

Unlike Sizek, McDonald was quite literally a last chance qualifier. At the North Central Last Chance meet one week ago, McDonald ran the 800-meter in 2:12.02 and left the meet ranked 24th in the nation. After three other runners withdrew from W. TRACK continued on page 29

Inside: The 2011-12 Maroon Awards