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The Chicago Maroon has served the Hyde Park community for over one hundred years as the University of Chicago’s independent student newspaper. Founded in 1892, the Maroon has a dedicated history to providing campus related news and advertising to over 5,000 undergraduates, over 10,000 graduate and professional students, and the 43,000 residents of the Hyde Park community. In addition to our twice weekly circulation of 5,500, we reach out to tens of thousands of parents and alumni through our online content. One of the largest student organizations on campus, and by far the most read publication at the university, the Maroon is the ideal medium to reach out to this worldly and energic campus market. The Chicago Maroon publishes every Tuesday and Friday during the autumn, winter and spring academic quarters. The Maroon also publishes Grey City, a quarterly magazine, dedicated to long form, student interest journalism. Additionally, we publish three special issues: Orientation in autumn, Historic in winter, and Graduation in spring. TUESDAY • OCTOBER 4, 2011
Teachers union draws on Lab Schools for inspiration Rebecca Guterman News Staff The Chicago Teacher’s Union (CTU) is using ideas from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools to form a response to Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s call for longer days in Chicago public schools. The CTU is considering whether to extend the school day by 75 minutes, putting that time toward specialized subjects like world languages, music, art, and physical education in a curriculum partially inspired by one implemented at the Lab Schools, which are private. The CTU is presenting its plan as an alternative to a pilot program launched by Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Jean-Claude Brizard. Nine public schools have entered into the CPS program, which offers incentives to schools for adding 90 minutes to their school day.
“[Our suggestion] is making a change that wasn’t as dramatic as CPS’s proposal,” Carol Caref, a coordinator for the CTU’s professional development wing, said. The Lab Schools’ model is designed to form well-rounded students from an early age, according to Lab Schools Director David Magill. Magill added that the schools were not involved in the development of the union’s plan. Caref said that the union has looked at many other schools as it sought to draft an acceptable plan for extending the school day. The CTU plan would also give teachers two daily, 45-minute periods for lesson planning, Caref said. The 75-minute extension is still in its planning stages, although Caref said that the CTU may put it on the table when they negotiate with CPS next summer.
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Stevens looks back at 35 years on the bench Hyde Park native discusses capital punishment in packed I-House Assembly Hall
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, A.B. ’41, speaks at International House on Tuesday evening. | THE CHICAGO MAROON CAMILLE VAN HORNE
Harunobu Coryne Associate News Editor Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (A.B. ’41) visited campus yesterday to reflect on his 35-year career on the nation’s highest court, fielding questions about anti-sodomy laws and opining on last month’s execution of Troy Davis before a packed audience in International House’s Assembly Hall. The 500-person auditorium was filled to capacity as Stevens, 91, provided rare insights into the wide range of landmark cases he had presided over before he concluded his 35-year career last April—including the one opinion he said he regrets.
“I have been asked several times about how many cases I would have decided differently if I had to do it over again, and there’s really only one,” Stevens said, singling out his majority opinion in Jurek v. Texas, the landmark 1976 case that effectively reinstated capital punishment in America after a four-year moratorium. Asked by Senior Lecturer in the Law School Dennis Hutchinson about Troy Davis, whose execution last month rekindled the national debate over capital punishment, Stevens defended the Supreme Court’s decision not to intervene at the last minute, arguing that the trial judge had taken “great pains to review the case” after wit-
ness recantations had cast doubt on the conviction. Still, he held reservations about the ruling. “Even though the case met the evidentiary standards, there can’t help but be some doubt in a case of that kind,” he said. “[The case] provides an example of one reason why the death penalty, as a matter of policy, is unwise if there is even a minimum of doubt.” For the most part, the discussion managed to avoid the more technical aspects of the law, with Stevens even eliciting laughs and cheers from the audience with his wry remarks on a number of weighty legal debates, such as campaign finance reform and guncontrol laws. STEVENS continued on page 3
1920: Born on April 20 in Hyde Park. 1925: Starts kindergarten at the University of Chicago Lab Schools. 1937: Graduates from the Lab Schools. His senior yearbook quotes him, “Well, no, because…” illustrating Stevens’ lifelong inclination towards justified dissent. Enrolls at the University of Chicago in the fall. 1938: Participates in an undefeated season with the men’s tennis team, joins the Maroon and Psi Upsilon. 1941: Graduates with an A.B. in English under the guidance of Norman Maclean. December 6: Joins the Navy the day before the Pearl Harbor bombing. 1945: Enrolls at Northwestern University’s law school. 1947: Graduates magna cum laude with his J.D. and the highest GPA in the school’s history. Clerks for Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge. 1954–1955: After working at a law firm and starting his own, Stevens returns to the University of Chicago as a lecturer in the Law School. 1958: Teaches the well-known “Competition and Monopoly” course. Students describe his teaching style as “cheerful” and informal. 1970: Appointed by Richard Nixon to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. 1975: Confirmed unanimously by the Senate to replace William O. Douglas in the United States Supreme Court. 2010: Retires after serving for over 34 years.
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Mahmoud Bahrani Sports Editor As other students sleepily made their way to their first Monday morning classes, five members of the University’s rowing team— fourth-years Emily Lo, Chelsea Steffen, Sasha Ostapenko, John Kohler, and third-year Emily Chen, as well as their coach,
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Rosemary Anderson—returned home from a four-day long journey to Paris. The team left September 22, a Thursday, arrived in Paris Friday morning, and were greeted by members of their host club, Aviron Marne & Joinville Rowing Club. The trip was made possible by a collaborative effort with the Paris CREW continued on page 10
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Dr. Bruce A. Beutler (M.D. ’81) was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Monday, making him the 86th U of C affiliate to win the award. Beutler shares the prize with Jules Hoffman and Ralph Steinman, who passed away three days before the announcement. According to a press release from the Nobel
Prize Committee, Beutler and Hoffman shared half the award “for their discoveries concerning the activation of innate immunity,” while Steinman won the other half “for his discovery of the dendritic cell and its role in adaptive immunity.” The Chicago native is the 12th University affiliate to win the prize in the field of Medicine or Physiology, which he said, in an interview with the Nobel Prize website, came as a shock. “I happened to wake up in the
middle of the night. I looked over at my cell phone and I noticed that I had a new email message,” Beutler told the website about the moment he found out about the award. “I squinted at it and I saw that the title line was ‘Nobel Prize,’ so I thought I should give close attention to that.” Beutler’s breakthrough occurred in 1998, when he found that mammals and fruit flies use similar molecules to activate their immune response systems. In a statement, the Nobel
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Hundreds of Chicago’s most prominent minority- and womenbusiness owners poured into the Quadrangle Club last night for the University’s third annual Business Diversity Symposium, where Governor Pat Quinn hailed the U of C’s strategy for improving diversity among its contractors as a model for colleges statewide The crowd of 235 included local politicians and officers from several influential law firms, investment houses, and publishing companies. Quinn lauded the University’s work in reaching out to minorityand women-owned businesses.
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“We have some big schools [in Chicago], like Northwestern, Loyola, Depaul, and ITT, and everybody may have their own approach, but [the University of Chicago’s] model really looks at outcome—outcome, as in how many businesses actually get to do business at the University of Chicago?” Quinn said in an interview after his speech. “The model is based on face-to-face contact, [on] personal relations, so that people can know what the rules are.” The event, hosted annually since 2009, has led to some highly lucrative contracts with money managers and other minority- and women-owned professional service providers—companies, like recentQUINN continued on page 3
Once rebuffed, students press for ethical investments A protester in Saturday’s Occupy Chicago rally chants at Lasalle and Jackson, where Bank of America’s office, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and the Chicago Board of Trade are located. DARREN LEOW | THE CHICAGO MAROON
Linda Qiu Senior News Staff Dozens of U of C students joined more than 7,000 protesters in five different marches downtown yesterday as part of Take Back Chicago, a week-long series of marches organized by the Occupy Chicago movement.
More than 30 University students from several activist groups were among the mass of demonstrators that shut down traffic on South Michigan Avenue from East Balbo Avenue to the steps of the Art Institute of Chicago. “What we’re doing here is a great thing,” fourth-year Kelvin Ho, a member of activist groups Students Orga-
nizing United with Labor (SOUL) and Southside Solidarity Network (SSN) and one of Occupy Chicago’s organizers, said. “There aren’t many venues and forums where a lot of people from different backgrounds can come together and talk about political issues that affect them. If you want a PROTEST continued on page 3
Marina Fang News Contributor Five months after students voted for its creation, a committee aimed at monitoring controversial University investments is rethinking its strategy. The Socially Responsible Investment Committee (SRIC), which emerged from a student-run campaign last spring, aims at challenging the University’s investment policy. The SRIC would review University investments, making sure that they
met certain ethical standards. Although the referendum authorizing the SRIC passed with over 80 percent student approval last spring, fourth-year Nakul Singh, one of the students who spearheaded the campaign, says there are serious issues that University officials must reconcile in order to create the committee. The first is that the U of C continues to stand by the Kalven Report, which “asserts the neutrality of the University as an institution,” according to SRIC continued on page 4
Becker Friedman economist makes for 87th Nobel
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William Fernandez News Contributor Former faculty member and current Becker Friedman Institute Visiting Lecturer Thomas J. Sargent was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics Monday morning, making him the 87th University affiliate to receive a Nobel Prize.
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Sargent, who was the Ford Foundation Visiting Research Professor in Economics from 1976 to 1977 and the David Rockefeller Professor in Economics from 1991 to 1998, shares this year’s prize with Christopher Sims of Princeton University. According to a Nobel Prize Committee press release, Sargent and Sims share the award “for their empirical research on cause and effect in the macroeconomy.” Both recipients have worked independently on economic analysis to better understand the importance of people’s expectations of economic policy. Sargent is most well-known for his insights into structural macroeconomics, analyzing permanent changes in economic policy. Sargent is the 26th University affiliate to win the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel since the award’s inception in 1969. “I am thrilled and excited that Sargent and Sims received the prize. This was long overdue and is much deserved,” Chairman of the Economics Department Harald Uhlig said in an October 10 press release.
David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and the College Lars Peter Hansen, a former student of both award recipients and current research director of the Becker Friedman Institute, also praised the pair’s work in the same release. “Among many other insights and contributions, their work helps us understand the effects of monetary and fiscal policy on economic activity. Methods they developed have inspired a large and influential body of research, including my own,” Hansen said in the press release. Sargent, who now teaches at New York University, is a Distinguished Fellow at the Becker Friedman Institute. He came to campus last year as a Visiting Fellow during spring quarter and plans to return to the University this coming spring as part of his three-year appointment as Distinguished Fellow. Sargent is the second University affiliate to win a Nobel Prize this year; Bruce Beutler (M.D. ‘81) won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine last week.
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Law School upgrades to Law and Economics 2.0 Amy Myers Senior Editor A new initiative bridging three divisions of the University promises to pour millions of dollars into exporting Chicago-school law and economics into legal systems around the world. The new initiative, dubbed Law and Economics 2.0, launched in Oc-
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tober from a partnership between the University of Chicago Law School, the Booth School of Business, and the Department of Economics. The new Institute for Law and Economics is the initiative’s centerpiece. Central to the program are efforts to spread the gospel of law and economics around the world through the new Globalizing Law and Economics Initiative (GLEI), according
to the Institute’s inaugural director, Omri Ben-Shahar. “One of the main things we want to accomplish is to help bring Chicago-style law and economics to legal communities that have not yet benefited from it,” Ben-Shahar said. Through the GLEI, the Institute will attempt to apply law and economics to international issues like LAW continued on page 2
Student Government (SG) launched a new Web site to promote its Student Life Committees earlier this month as part of its ongoing effort to strengthen its online presence and make itself more accessible to students outside of its immediate circle. SG created the site in order to streamline its communications with the University community, according to Vice President for Administration Forrest Scofield. SG also hopes that the new site will expose a more diverse cross-section of students to SG’s decision-making committees, which range in function from executing disciplinary action to coordinating the senior class gift. “A really important part of being in college is being involved with the University administration as a whole,” Scofield, a second-year, said. The site organizes the committees into 10 broad categories and lists general information such as each commit-
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tee’s purpose, the best way to contact the committees, and how students can apply to them. All students, undergraduate and graduate, can browse the site and log in with their CNetID. Students can apply for committees themselves by filling out their contact information and answering questions about their involvement in campus groups. They can also list their reasons for wanting to join a particular committee. Lastly, students can suggest their friends for a committee by writing about how they would be an asset to it. “The great thing about it is that not only will you be able to apply for a committee, but you’ll also be able to nominate a friend for a specific committee,” SG President Youssef Kalad said in the site’s launch video on YouTube. The launch is not the first time this year that SG has taken steps to revamp its presence online. Late in September, Scofield announced that an overhaul of SG’s main website was in progress, while a redesign for the SG Marketplace is set to debut in the coming weeks.
Suspect in custody for gunpoint mugging on quad
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The University has selected an aide to President Barack Obama and former legal counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as one of its highest liaisons to the communities of the South Side. A selection committee of students and staff appointed Derek Douglas, currently special assistant to President Obama for urban affairs, as the University’s next Vice President for Civic Engagement. He will take office in January 2012. Douglas will be responsible for strengthening the University’s relationship with its surrounding communities, particularly Hyde Park and Woodlawn, and for overseeing its development projects in the area. Upon taking office, Douglas will continue a few of the projects that were already in progress under his predecessor, Ann Marie Lipinski, such as the revitalization of retail development on East 53rd Street. “I’m excited to join the team, to learn more about the various initiatives, and more importantly, to find ways to improve [them],” Douglas said, citing the University’s recent involvement in the redevelopment of an affordable housing complex in Woodlawn as an example
On Monday evening the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) arrested the man suspected of robbing a U of C student at gunpoint on the main quad two weeks ago. Police charged 18-year-old Edward Davis, a resident of the 5400 block of South Dorchester Avenue, with the armed robbery of a student’s iPhone and backpack at 12:06 a.m. on October 10, with two other male accomplices. He was found with the student’s iPhone, according to the Chicago Police Department (CPD). UCPD spokesperson Robert Mason said Davis did not have a handgun on him at the time of the arrest. Davis was identified with the help of video cameras in the quad’s emergency phones and the cooperation of the victim. Because he was caught on camera, patrolling UCPD officers knew what Davis looks like, and identified him when they recognized him, Lynch said. According to UCPD spokeperson Marlon Lynch, Davis may be implicated in other armed robberies, which the CPD is investigating. “He is a suspect in other pending investigations for armed robbery in the Hyde Park–South
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of how he hopes to improve the quality of life of nearby residents. “What’s happening in Grove Parc and Woodlawn are two examples of how the University can partner with the local community.” Douglas also praised the University-partnered development of the Harper Court shopping center on East 53rd Street and South Harper Avenue, a complex of fast food restaurants and stores slated for a 2013 completion, as the kind of retail revitalization needed in the area. “One of the key strategies is to bring more opportunity, leveraging existing resources, to bring in DOUGLAS continued on page 3
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Buerkett was traveling with parents Jon and Dana and two family dogs to Florida for a training camp when the private plane crashed shortly after takeoff. No one on board survived the crash. Throughout the ceremony, Buerkett’s volleyball teammates, close friends, and Delta Gamma (DG) so-
rority sisters recalled special memories they had shared with Buerkett. Volleyball Coach Vanessa Walby said that Buerkett’s ambitious and hard-working personality made her stand out during recruitment season. “She was the type who wanted to be successful at everything that she did,” Walby said. Second-year Katie Huntington, Buerkett’s roommate and volleyball teammate, recalled one of her first memories with Buerkett during volleyball practice. When Huntington was afraid that she wouldn’t be able to complete exercises, Buerkett reassured her that even if she passed out in the middle of the sprint, Buerkett would drag her across the finish line so that Huntington could say she had finished. “Morgan became so much more than just a roommate,” Huntington said. Buerkett had a strong presence in DG, where she met fourth-year Sarah BUERKETT continued on page 3
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Committee said that the work done by the three prize recipients is being used to develop better vaccines to treat diseases linked to abnormalities in the immune system, such as rheumatoid arthritis and Type I diabetes. Their discoveries could also strengthen the immune system against cancerous tumors. “This year’s Nobel laureates have revolutionized our understanding of the immune system by discovering key principles for its activation,” the Jury said.
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Kenwood community,” Lynch said. Davis was put in a police lineup before being charged. He appeared in Central Bond Court on Wednesday, a CPD spokesperson in an e-mail. Davis will be put in a lineup for other cases in which he could be a suspect, according to Perez. “He’ll most likely be held in other lineups, and if he’s identified he’ll be charged in those cases,” Perez said. CPD said they could not release a mug shot because it might compromise the investigation of detectives in the Chicago Police Area where the crime happened, which covers precincts 2, 7, 8, 9, and 21. Students say that the arrest does not change how safe they feel on campus. “It was kind of shocking that it happened on the quad. That and the other crime that night, [on] 57th and Dorchester, are places I wouldn’t have minded walking late at night,” second-year Kavya Minama Reddy said. “The arrest doesn’t necessarily make me feel safer.” First-year graduate student Chris Corrillie said that he had not heard of the arrest, but that his bicycle was stolen the same night as the armed robbery and that he had hoped CPD would
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University to take on $200 million in debt Harunobu Coryne News Editor The University is looking to take in up to $200 million in new debt to finance a number of construction projects and renovations around the city. Among the funded projects are the construction of the upcom-
ing 265,000-square-foot William Eckhardt Research Center, renovations to the Booth School of Business’s Gleacher Center, and the Lab School campuses on 59th Street and Stony Island Avenue, and purchasing new property near Lake Calumet. Steve Kloehn, a University spokesperson, said that universi-
ties routinely issue debt to finance both major projects and normal operating costs. “The issuance of debt is not necessarily connected to a single project. I don’t want to create a false linkage there in the timing [of the proposal],” Kloehn said. “The issuance of debt is a fairly routine DEBT continued on page 4
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The UCPD is preparing a proposal to expand its coverage to include all four University of Chicago Charter Schools. If the new coverage area were to be approved by the City Council, UCPD would add three new sections to its jurisdiction, expanding the area where it can intervene in crimes. Each of the new zones is no bigger than a two-block radius around three of the charter schools. The expansion, which was included in a Memo of Understanding signed between the University and the City of Chicago over the summer, is not designed to expand the University’s reach in surrounding neighborhoods, according to UCPD spokesperson Bob Mason. “It’s not intended to really expand University patrol coverage, as has been done in the past in Woodlawn,” Mason said. “The reason for the expanded coverage of these schools is safe passage.” Mason added that the expanded patrol
It may be almost three years since the financial crisis of 2008, but public anger and mistrust of government financial institutions are at their highest levels in years, according to a leading survey copublished by the Booth School of Business. Just 23 percent of respondents say they trust the country’s financial systems, down from 25 percent last fiscal quarter, according to the most recent Financial Trust Index, a quarterly survey conducted jointly by the Booth School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Americans are particularly distrustful of banks, which only 33 percent of respondents trust, down from 39 percent last quarter. This drop was greater than the decreases in trust of the stock market, mutual funds, and large
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corporations. The Index, which began in December 2008, surveys 1,000 Americans at the end of each quarter. “Banks got favors from the government but were not held accountable for laws they broke or actions not taken,” said Luigi Zingales, co-author of the Index, and Robert R. McCormack, professor of entrepreneurship and finance at Booth. Public trust is lowest for banks that received stimulus money. Second-year Paul Kim, a member of the activist group Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation, said these banks have not allocated the resources they received appropriately. “We need to be looking at the political power financial institutions have and fight back for ordinary people’s interests so they are not put aside for the short-term BANKS continued on page 3
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Two students will meet with President Robert Zimmer and Nim Chinniah, the University’s Chief Financial Officer, on Wednesday to discuss two new proposals to create new ethical standards for the University’s investment decisions. One proposal recommends that the University send forms to its 200 investment managers asking them how they evaluate assets based on social, environmental, and governmental factors in addition to those of profitability. A second proposal would invest a small portion of the University’s endowment into a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), which would focus on traditionally under-served populations. “The investment would only need a very small portion of the endowment. By putting the money
into a CDFI, you can bring a lot of capital into surrounding communities but also avoid financial risks,” fourth-year Caitlin Kearney, one of two students meeting with Zimmer and Chinniah, said. The original proposal, which was overwhelmingly supported in a campus-wide referendum last spring, sought to establish a committee consisting of students, faculty, and administrators to oversee the University’s investments. The committee would have been responsible for determining ethical policies to guide the University’s financial decisions. Political motivations doomed that proposal when the University invoked the Kalven Report, a guiding document which commits the University to a policy of political neutrality. “The idea behind the proposal is to engage in socially responsible investing, but also to move away INVEST continued on page 2
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Law students help free wrongfully accused Linda Qiu Associate News Editor Twenty years after the rape and murder of a young Illinois teenager led to the convictions of five minors, evidence brought by the Law School’s Exoneration Project has established the innocence—and secured the release—of at least one. James Harden, of Dixmoor, IL, walked free last Thursday after wrongly spending 20 years in prison, his conviction vacated by strong DNA evidence indicating his innocence. Law students in the Project had been working on the case since 2008, after Harden’s father, who passed away while Harden was in prison, contacted them for help. “Cases like this teach us that wrong
convictions do happen in the U.S.,” Thompson said. “Mr. Harden’s conviction shows us that there are more flaws in the justice system than we notice or that we’d like to admit.” Harden’s case was one of the first undertaken by the Project, one of four Law School clinics that provide pro bono legal aid in a number of areas, according to Tara Thompson (J.D. ’03), a staff attorney at the clinic and a lecturer at the Law School. Students in the Exoneration Project directed much of their energy toward refuting the incorrect DNA analysis that wrongly established Harden’s guilt, said third-year law student Eileen Ho, who has been working on the case for a year. It was the testimony of two of Harden’s co-defendants that sealed his conviction,
From left to right, Mort Smith, Tara Thompson, Craig Cooley, James Harden, Eileen Ho, and Jenni James walk away from the courthouse after Harden’s exoneration.
Ho said, even though DNA evidence found at the murder scene did not match any of the defendants. “In 1995, DNA was just starting to get noticed. It was really the O.J. Simpson trial that brought DNA evidence to the attention of the American public. It was still pretty new,” Thompson said. Investigators found that semen in Matthews’ body did not match any of the five men convicted for her rape and murder, including Harden. However, the Illinois State Attorney’s Office reasoned that the semen could have belonged to Matthews’ boyfriend, and that the failure to match Harden did not necessarily exonerate him. Thompson said that law students played a major part in litigating, researching, and developing strategies in the case. The law students were able to trace the original semen sample to the Dixmoor Police Department’s evidence storage facilities, despite a year of police insistence that the sample had been lost. Students used the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a FBI database of criminal gene profiles, to match the DNA in the semen sample with Willie Randolph, a convicted rapist who was 33 at the time of the crime and had just served a 20-year sentence for robbery. Police apprehended Randolph in April. “The State fought us at first, using the same reasons as last time,” Ho said. “It’s amazing how long it takes. It doesn’t take much to make a mistake, but the process for correcting that mistake is torturous.” Harden’s release came as a surprise, according to Thompson, though it was LAW continued on page 2
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Fourth-year wins statewide technology competition Stephanie Xiao News Contributor While most of the University’s sports teams were left in the dumps this weekend, one student took the gold in a statewide competition. Fourth-year Louis Wasserman came in first place at the second annual Illinois Technology Association (ITA) Fall Challenge Contest held Friday downtown, after tackling a series of applied computer science tests. He came home with $5,000 for winning the contest. Wasserman was among a group of 125 finalists selected from 1,000 regional undergraduate and graduate students who initially took an ITA qualifying test to demonstrate their programming competency to advance to the final round of the contest. “I’m actually pretty surprised, since the contest wasn’t the sort of thing I typically focus on,” Wasserman said, despite his strong background in technology. Wasserman is an active member of the University’s student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and previously participated in the International Collegiate Programming Contest for which he is now an assistant coach. “Louis has always had an interest in programming contests, and when he heard about the ITA, he was naturally drawn to it,” said Borja Sotomayor, the academic advisor for ACM. Sotomayor was responsible for bringing the ITA to campus to administer the initial round of
Fourth-year Louis Wasserman won first prize at the Illinois Technology Association 2011 Fall Challenge. DARREN LEOW | THE CHICAGO MAROON
the Fall Challenge. The ITA targets promising Illinois science and technology students like Wasserman in order to connect them with opportunities offered by regional companies. “Many students migrate to the East and West Coast thinking that’s where tech opportunities are, but many people don’t know about tech businesses here like Groupon and Grubhub,” Sotomayor said. Wasserman said he still values the opportunity to meet and connect with numerous companies through the ITA. “It was very interesting, and I certainly enjoyed the chance to get to hear about how different companies approach software development,” Wasserman said.
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