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A teacher recently fired by the Lab Schools believes he was dismissed in retaliation for claiming the school administration committed anti-gay discrimination by scrutinizing his texts with a student. The administration told faculty that he was terminated for falsifying a grade and for an alleged FERPA violation.

Daniel Bobo-Jones, a widely-beloved high school biology teacher at the Lab Schools for over 13 years, was fired in early January. He had filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) two weeks before his termination, for an incident in which he claimed the principal insinuated that his text exchanges with a male student could have been sexual in nature.

The teacher has since filed a federal complaint alleging that his firing represents retaliation for filing the earlier complaint.

Shortly after Bobo-Jones’s termination, the Faculty Association, the union representing the Lab Schools’ faculty, submitted a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board, claiming the administration retaliated against Bobo-Jones for a separate incident in which he publicly criticized Lab Schools director Charles Abelmann.

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A rendering shows Jewel-Osco’s new grocery store at 61st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. courtesy of jewel- osco

By OREN OPPENHEIM news reporter

Jewel-Osco will open its new Woodlawn supermarket at the corner of 61st Street and Cottage Grove Avenue on March 7, capping off a nearly two-year wait for the store among Woodlawn and Hyde Park residents.

“The 48-thousand square foot location will be a full service store that will also feature fresh organic produce, grab and go options and a drive through pharmacy,” Mary Frances Trucco, director of public affairs and government relations

for Jewel-Osco, told The Maroon by e-mail. “Jewel-Osco is honored to be part of the historic Woodlawn community and we look forward to welcoming our customers.”

The grocery store branch was originally announced in 2017 and came about in part through the efforts of Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) Chicago, a nonprofit that develops affordable housing that has previously carried out housing projects in Woodlawn.

POAH Chicago Vice President Bill Eager told The Maroon in November 2017 that the Univer-

Sixteen Bullets, a Six-Year Sentence, and a Chance for Change in the Fifth Ward

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U of C Takes Davos

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Starting next week, The Maroon will produce print issues once per week on Wednesdays as the paper shifts resources to digital products.

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sity of Chicago was “very helpful in getting the grocery store here in terms of signaling to Jewel that they wanted a new grocery store in their backyard.”

Woodlawn is currently considered by some to be a food desert, defined as an area with low access to fruit, vegetables, and healthy food options.

The new Jewel-Osco will also serve as a possible grocery store option for Hyde Park residents, who have clamored for another option since Treasure Island closed in October.

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The University hosted an event in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, concurrent, but not affiliated, with the World Economic Forum. The event featured a panel discussion on leadership and maintaining an organization’s values in an evolving environment.

The panel was moderated by UChicago Trustee David Rubenstein (J.D. ’73) and featured President Robert Zimmer, Trustee Satya Nadella (M.B.A. ’97), also the CEO of Microsoft, Xin Zhang, cofounder and CEO of the Chinese property developer SOHO China, and Raghuram Rajan, a professor of finance at Booth. The University hosts this event annually at the same time as and in the vicinity of the World Economic Forum, although the two are not officially related.

Nadella spoke on reconnecting Microsoft with its original purpose of creating tools for developers—a goal which he claimed is no less relevant today than at Microsoft’s founding in 1975. “We needed to get back and focus on what we do well, not be envious of others’ success,” Nadella said.

Nadella, who was also in Davos for the World Economic Forum this week, joined Apple CEO Tim Cook for a dinner with Jair Bolsonaro, the newly-inaugurated President of Brazil, who has surrounded himself with a number of UChicago alumni.

Rajan, who before being named professor at Booth was the Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, remarked on training and educating incoming bankers, stating, “The young people in every country are the hope for the country because they really want to learn.”

Zimmer, speaking on the values he associates with the University of Chicago, beat a familiar drum by saying that the University has “an absolutely fundamental set of enduring values” which includes “intellectual challenge, rigorous inquiry, and the free expression that goes along with it.” He claimed that these values inform his leadership as president.

When asked whether his legacy as the University’s president would focus too much on free expression, Zimmer demurred, saying, “The real question is, what have you actually left behind?”

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Events 1/25—1/29

Lori Lightfoot Talks Term Limits, Criminal Justice at IOP

By APARNA JAYASHANKAR news reporter

Friday Seminary Co-Op Talk on Mark Fisher’s K-PUNK. The Seminary Co-Op Bookstores, 7 p.m.

Mark Fisher (1968–2017) was a critical theorist whose blog, k-punk, defined critical writing for a generation. Micah Uetricht, Tariq Goddard, and Sarah Hurd will discuss Fisher’s K-PUNK, a collection of Fisher’s writings recently published by Repeater Books.

Monday Panel Discussion - Unwatchable Seminary Co-op Bookstore 6 p.m.

A discussion with Nicholas Baer, Maggie Hennefeld, Laura Horak, Gunnar Iversen, W.J.T. Mitchell and Jonathan Rosenbaum in celebration of the publication of Unwatchable.

Literary Editing as Art & Practice with Brigid Hughes and Jamel Brinkley Logan Center, Seminar Terrace 801, 6 p.m.

Event with Committee on Creative Writing– 2018 National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley will discuss publishing writing from beyond established confines.

Tuesday My Midnight Years: Surviving Jon Burge’s Torture Ring and Death Row University Church, 5 p.m.

Ronald Kitchen was beaten and tortured by notorious police commander Jon Burge and other white detectives, convicted of murder and sentenced to die. He spent the next two decades in prison. After being exonerated, he cofounded the Death Row 10. Event with the Human Rights Lab in partnership with Stories Connect and the Social Justice Committee at the University Church.

Environmental Community Organizing in Communities of Color Law School Room IV, 12:15 p.m.

The Environmental Law Society and Law of the Land will host Kim Wasserman, Executive Director of the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO), to discuss environmental issues in communities of color.

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Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot (J.D. ’89) discussed her policy platform at the IOP on Tuesday. She was interviewed by IOP Pritzker Fellow Laura Washington through ChiElect, which has invited all mayoral candidates to speak at the IOP about their ambitions for Chicago’s future.

Lightfoot spoke about her sexual orientation, as well as her stances on term limits, the Jason Van Dyke trial, city revenue, and affordable housing.

Lightfoot has held several government positions, including assista nt United States attorney, president of the Chicago Police Board, and chair of the Police Accountability Task Force.

As the first openly LGBTQ+ candidate to run for mayor in Chicago, Lightfoot hopes to show young people that they have the ability to be themselves and lead an authentic life.

“The fact that I am able to run openly, as a married person with a child, really says something remarkable about where we are in the history of our city,” she said, “We are not as welcoming and inclusive as we need to be, but the fact that I can do this without repercussions or consequences or death threats is important.” Lightfoot also said she believes her sexuality allows her to bring a different lens to the challenges and struggles of the Chicago community.

When asked how she stood out from the other candidates competing for the mayor’s office, Lightfoot said, “The biggest difference is stemming from who I am. I am an outsider in that I’m not beholden to any political party or any unions. I’m not afraid of taking on things that are unpopular if they are the right thing to do.”

Lightfoot supports implementing a two-term limit for the mayor. “We’ve had people who have stayed in office for way too long and you run out of ideas, you run out of innovation,” Lightfoot said. She said that aldermen should have term limits as well, particularly limits on how long one can serve as the chairman of a committee.

Lightfoot predicted that about a third of the city council will turn over in the upcoming elections.

Commenting on the sentencing of Jason Van Dyke, Lightfoot said she was disappointed but not surprised. Van Dyke, the former Chicago police officer who shot

Lori Lightfoot (J.D. ‘89) speaks at the IOP. courtesy of the institute of politics .

Laquan McDonald in 2014, was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison.

Lightfoot said that very few police officers are charged with misconduct committed while on duty, and voiced concerns about the conduct of the judge in Van Dyke’s case.

“The judge failed to disclose she had a prior relationship with one of the defense attorneys,” Lightfoot said. “The fact that she didn’t disclose that was really problematic and was a red flag about the direction she may be heading. Jason Van Dyke getting frankly less time than most people spend in pre-trial detention is an outrage.”

As head of the Police Accountability Task Force during the Van Dyke investigation, Lightfoot made headlines for her criticism of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

Lightfoot wants to shine a spotlight on judges who she claims are not delivering justice to Black communities. “We don’t have justice in our criminal justice system in Cook County, for a host of reasons, race clearly being one of them. We need

to be holding judges accountable for the sometimes egregious way they mete out justice.”

If elected as mayor, Lightfoot said she would focus on access to capital. “The city needs to look at who they’re partnering with in businesses,” said Lightfoot. “We should partner with those in Chicago who speak our values.”

Lightfoot argued that low- and middle-income families are being crushed by the tax burden. “We have been treating ta xpayers like an unlimited ATM machine,” she said. Lightfoot also stressed the importance of building affordable housing in the city.

Toward the end of her talk, Lightfoot called on UChicago students to vote.

“Imagine the power that you’d have if you showed up and voted in large numbers in aldermanic races,” she said.

The Chicago mayoral election will be held on Tuesday, February 26.

Debate Society Considers Syria Troops Withdrawal

By ZEFF WORLEY news editor

“500,000 deaths, 6 million dollars, and 10 million refugees,” said first-year student Devesh Kodnani as he opened Wednesday ’s Chicago Debate Societ y (CDS) event on whether the military forces of the United States, which have had a presence in the region since 2014, should withdraw from Syria.

Alleging that American involvement in the area lacks just cause, just conduct, and just peace, Kodnani attacked what he sees as unclear long-term objectives by the U.S. regarding the Middle East. Kodnani argued that the U.S.–led occupation of Syria is doomed to fail because of a lack of approval from the United Nations, the war crimes committed by military forces within the U.S.–led coalition, and inadequate exit strategies. Kodnani also compared American military involvement in Syria to that in Iraq, stating that “both wars saw a broadening of their mandate” and that the military industrial complex supports a “permanent occupation” of Syria to generate profit for the U.S.

A rguing for continued militar y involvement in Sy r ia , t h ird-yea r Josh Zakharov characterized the presence of the ground forces as positive. Soldiers are “engaged in almost purely training” exercises with allied forces, he explained.

“Syria is explicitly not an occupation,” Zakharov said. Instead, he argued the military presence in Syria is beneficial for both the Syrian people and the foreign policy interests of the U.S. He cited concerns about the danger a Russian or Chinese regional hegemony would pose to the United States and stated that the use of coalition ground troops is one of the few things preventing other foreign powers from getting involved.

“The thing is, the risk of the emergence of a global hegemon…is going to increase the chance of some sort of great power war in the future,” he said.

Max Wu, a second-year, joined Kodnani in suppor t of the w ithdrawa l of troops. Wu claimed his opponent’s arguments “ignored the facts of history.”

The United States’ allies in the region are “literally at each other’s throats” said Wu. He added that the Free Syrian Ar-

my—a large anti-government coalition supported by the United States as recently as 2017—has connections to the terrorist organizations Al-Nusra Front and Al-Qaeda. Additionally, Wu argued that the troop numbers within Syria are insufficient to prevent any actual Russian or Chinese invasion and that their true value lies in being a symbol of American power within the region.

In contrast, fourth-year Zachary Lemonides reaffirmed Zakharov’s position that American soldiers serve as a buffer against potential invasions. Lemonides claimed that the involvement in Syria is not only morally justifiable but also necessary, maintaining that Syrian President Bashad al-Assad’s hesitancy to harm American forces is what keeps him in line.

Wrapping up the debate, Kodnani reaffirmed his previous points in favor of a withdrawal from Syria, attacking interest groups and neoconservative beliefs.

Zakharov again stressed the need to protect regional allies in Syria and the fact that U.S. involvement in the region is the best way to prevent the emergence of a regional hegemon.

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Bobo-Jones Fired From Lab CONTINUED FROM FRONT agreement by firing Bobo-Jones without just cause.

According to the union’s memo, administrators claimed that Bobo-Jones wrongly assigned a letter grade to a final assignment that had not been turned in, so that he could submit a final grade for the student. The union defended Bobo-Jones in the memo, saying that “faculty members have used a variety of options when dealing with incomplete work,” and suggested that Bobo-Jones’s decision to put down a provisional letter grade was not inappropriate as he had seen drafts of the final assignment.

A statement released by the high school faculty on Tuesday said that Abelmann, in faculty meetings and e-mails, attributed Bobo-Jones’s termination to allegedly falsifying a student’s grade and to an alleged “violation of FERPA” for asking a student to remind his classmate to hand in a paper.

FERPA is a federal act that protects the privacy of student records.

In the statement, the faculty also defended Bobo-Jones, stating that Abelmann has misrepresented Bobo-Jones’s actions

and students this school year.

In Chicago’s public schools, texting has been increasingly scrutinized in recent months. Over the summer, the Chicago school district, in response to the revelation of its systematic failure to address student sexual abuse cases, enacted new rules aiming to better protect students, including a policy that bars teachers from texting students.

Asked why Bobo-Jones was fired and whether Bobo-Jones’s characterization of the October faculty meeting is accurate, Abelmann did not explicitly address the claim of retaliation nor the October incident. He said in a statement that Bobo-Jones’s termination was “a well-considered decision based on a number of problematic issues, including some related to academic integrity and professional responsibilities.” “[Bobo-Jones’s] claim that his departure was related to any other issue is absolutely untrue,” the statement continued.

Students have expressed anger over Bobo-Jones’s departure. Many have hung posters around the school claiming the

The University of Chicago Lab Schools is located on 59th Street. courtesy of uchicago and that termination was too extreme a measure.

Bobo-Jones told The Maroon that he believes the administration’s scrutiny of him is not about grade falsification. He said that, in October, the Lab Schools high school principal Stephanie Weber confronted him in a faculty meeting about the student whose grade is under question. Bobo-Jones said that instead of asking about the grade, Weber instead asked whether Jones was texting the student. Bobo-Jones said that, though he was texting the student to discuss assignments, most faculty members also texted their students.

“No other single teacher at Lab has ever been asked about texting except for me, and I’m one of a handful that are openly gay,” he said. That, in addition to what Bobo-Jones saw as Weber’s “insinuation that something possibly sexual was going on” with the male student, led Bobo-Jones to believe that he was being discriminated against for his sexual orientation. He then filed a charge with the EEOC claiming discrimination.

The Maroon spoke to a current student and a recent alumna who said that Lab teachers do not commonly text students outside the context of extracurricular activities or trips. The current student also said that the administration began to “crack down on” texting between teachers

administration is not responsive enough to students, and have also spread an online petition to reinstate Bobo-Jones. Parents have voiced concerns, including that the abruptness of the firing will affect students’ mental well-being.

In the wake of the firing, the high school faculty voiced opposition toward Weber. In their statement, they said she has generated a “climate of fear and hostility… by subjective and harmful decisions.”

This is not the first time Weber has been subject to faculty criticism. In 2017, the Lab Schools under Weber did not renew the contract of a young science teacher.

The decision, which many faculty members claimed they had not been consulted about, prompted the then-faculty chair David Derbes to resign in protest.

Weber announced in late November that she will be leaving the Lab Schools after this school year.

According to the U-High Midway. the union has given Abelmann a deadline of January 28 to respond to its grievance. If Abelmann chooses not to reinstate Bobo-Jones, the union will have until February 4 to send a letter to the administration asking for a ruling from a private judge.

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EPA Architect Douglas Costle (J.D. ’64), 1939-2019

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By DAKSH CHAUHAN news reporter

One of the main architects of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Douglas Costle (J.D. ’64), died on January 13 at the age of 79.

Costle grew up in Seattle, where his early experiences influenced him to work in environmental protections. After graduating from the Law School in 1964, Costle joined the Washington D.C. and California bar associations.

A fter ser ving as a trial attorney in the Justice Department and an attorney in the Department of Commerce, Costle left the capital to practice in San Francisco, according to the EPA’s biography. He soon returned to Washington, however, this time as an adviser to President Richard Nixon, where he headed the study that recommended the creation of the EPA.

After working as a consultant for the EPA in 1975, Costle was appointed to head the EPA by President Jimmy Carter in 1977 and was unanimously confirmed by the Senate.

Costle insisted that clean air was not merely an “aesthetic luxury,” but “a public necessity,” according to The Washington Post. As the new head of the EPA, he often made bold strides in protecting the climate, once ordering the recall of 135,000 Cadillacs for violation of the Clean Air Act. After leaving the EPA in 1981, Costle served as the dean of the Vermont Law School for four years between 1987 and 1991. He helped to found the Institute for Sustainable Communities, a nonprofit environmental protection group, in 1991.

Costle is sur vived by his wife of 53 years, two children, and three grandchildren.

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VIEWPOINTS Sixteen Bullets, a Six-Year Sentence, and a Chance for Change in the Fifth Ward Jason Van Dyke Might Have Evaded a Lengthy Prison Sentence, but a Local Activist Is Fighting for Reform

ALEX BISNATH Five years ago, Chicago cop Jason Van Dyke fired 16 bullets at 17-yearold Laquan McDonald, emptying his pistol and reloading while his target lay defenseless on the ground.

It took a year for the dashboard camera footage to be released. Then, on Friday, January 18 of this year, three days before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Cook County Circuit Judge Vincent Gaughan sentenced Van Dyke to a mere 81 months in prison. The sentencing came a day after Judge Domenica Stephenson acquitted the three officers who attempted to cover up the brutal murder.

This series of events serves as a potent reminder that the work of the Reverend Doctor is far from finished.

The judge remarked at one point that the murder was “a tragedy for both sides,” attempting to equate the loss the McDonald’s family has suffered to what, as activist William Calloway called it, the “slap on the wrist” he gave to the defendant. This is nothing new: there is a long history of white police officers killing black men and boys with impunity. While most police officers who commit murder face no consequences at all, a sentence of barely six years is unjustifiable too; it’s no surprise that Van Dyke was reportedly “happy” with his sentence.

Given this ruling, the way many

celebrate MLK’s legacy must be reevaluated. It is common for depictions of MLK’s life to be romanticized. The difficulties are often glossed over, and revisionism is mistaken for respect. Contrary to what the White House would have us believe, MLK’s battle didn’t end when he died. He didn’t solve racism; he was gunned down at the age of 39, before he had even finished warming up. The institutional cover-up of McDonald’s murder makes clear that his fight for racial equality is far from over.

And while many national politicians co-opt King’s legacy for their own gain, many lesser-known figures in the local political scene are actually stepping up to finish what the Reverend started. For instance, Calloway, the aforementioned activist and community leader who played an instrumental role in getting a judge to order Mayor Rahm Emanuel to release the dashboard video of Laquan’s death, is running to be alderman of our very own Fifth Ward. Calloway is running on a platform centered around speaking truth to power, and has been a vocal supporter of new measures to hold police officers and elected officials accountable. Although he wouldn’t be able to directly implement such

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measures singlehandedly, an activist fighting for systemic change being given a citywide perch for organizing around police reform would constitute a meaningful step towards future change. While local politicians like Rahm Emanuel—who bears responsibility for the cover-up of the

McDonald shooting—have voiced support for MLK, activists like Calloway are disrupting the status quo and thus have more claim to King’s legacy.

It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of issues as daunting as police violence and institutional racism. The

2019 municipal elections, however, represent the perfect opportunity to take matters into our own hands and make a difference starting in our own backyard.

Alex Bisnath is a first-year in the College.

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DeVos Takes Aim Against Survivors Proposed Changes to Title IX Would Burden Victims and Empower Perpetrators

BY ALEX GUZZETTA VIEWPOINTS CONTRIBUTOR

Betsy DeVos and the Department of Education (DoE) have released their proposed changes to Title IX, a federal civil rights law in the U.S. that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in most schools, including private institutions. The proposed regulations will have devastating consequences for victims of sexual harassment and assault.

Among the most egregious are those that limit the definition of sexual harassment, end investigations into off-campus events, and require schools to force survivors to withstand in-person cross-examinations.

DeVos proposes to limit the definition of sexual harassment to “unwelcome conduct on the basis of sex that is so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive that it effectively denies a person equal access to the recipient’s education” on campus. By this definition, students will be forced to endure repeated, escalating abuse before schools are required to investigate and offer support. This policy also effectively excludes one-time assaults.

The new guidelines additionally preclude people from reporting incidents that happen off-campus—this applies not only to a student who is raped off-campus by their professor, but also to a 12-year-old being cyberbullied for their gender identity by their classmates.

There are several reforms that must be made to Title IX, mainly concerning how inves-

tigations can be made fairer and more standardized across schools. The proposed changes by the DoE under DeVos clearly and consistently favor the accused over survivors—implying that there have been more victims of false abuse allegations than abuse survivors who are afraid to report. In reality, it is the exact opposite. Studies have estimated that only 2–10 percent of sexual assault allegations are falsely reported, while it’s estimated that 90 percent of assault survivors do not report. The real problem seems to be that survivors do not feel safe coming forward to hold their abusers accountable.

Any survivor can testify to the difficulties of pursuing their studies following assault or harassment. 81 percent of female and 35 percent of male sexual assault survivors report long-term impacts to their mental health, such as PTSD. To make matters worse, abusers are often in positions of power and serve as gatekeepers for academic advancement. In some cases, students are forced to rely upon their abusers to progress through college— seeking accountability would inevitably delay or suspend their studies. The proposed guidelines will likely exacerbate this problem by establishing a new mandate for schools to conduct live cross-examinations, where the victim can be questioned in real time by a representative of the accused party. This not only gives abusers the upper hand, but also re-traumatizes survivors.

Universities often stress the importance of a positive, nurtur-

ing, academic environment, but I can’t see how that is possible when students are not guaranteed basic protections. I have personally seen a shocking number of my classmates and colleagues at this institution and others face sexual harassment and then have to decide whether they want to embark on a dubious administrative process that may not result in justice. Additionally, the proposal to limit investigations beyond on-campus or school-sponsored events ignores the abuse that can occur at academic conferences, non-school-sanctioned parties, or even off-campus social meet-ups with colleagues. We cannot accept rule changes that stymie an already inadequate system.

As a graduate student, I can attest to the huge amount of mental and emotional commitment it takes to do well in my own studies. I can’t imagine the additional effort it takes to be a survivor on campus, struggling with whether or not to come forward. Although Title IX may be due for improvements, reducing accountability for abusers and increasing the threshold for investigation cannot be the answer.

The online comment period for the proposed rule changes to Title IX is open until January 30, 2019, and I would urge everyone to speak out against rule changes that will take power away from survivors of sexual assault and harassment.

Alex Guzzetta is an MSTP student in the Biological Sciences Division.

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ARTS Jesus Is a Lesbian and Pussy Is God

By ZOE BEAN deputy arts editor

This time last year, Disney-star-turnedpop-idol Hayley Kiyoko was dubbed “lesbian Jesus” after releasing her This Side of Paradise EP in 2015, which featured a song called “Girls Like Girls.” Subsequently, she became one of the most visible out lesbian celebrities, especially among Gen Z (although we can’t gloss over Janis Ian, Brandi Carlile, Tegan and Sara, and countless others who walked so that Kiyoko could run).

Fast forward a few months and King Princess (whose rea l na me is Mikaela Straus) quietly took over as the emblematic lesbian pop star of the moment. Her sound sharply contrasts Kiyoko’s—mellow, bluesy, more instrumental rock replaces a more synth-heavy, upbeat sound. Kiyoko is, in a way, the Beyoncé to King Princess’s Beck— Kiyoko’s music is empowering and upbeat in its own right, but King Princess is a little darker, rawer, and, like Beck, she wrote and played every instrumental in her discography, as well as the vocals. The 20-year-old college dropout from New York and musical prodigy performed her show at Metro last

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weekend that was as magnetic as she was.

Banoffee (real name Martha Brown), an L.A.–based pop artist who is originally from Melbourne, was the first of two openers for the show. Banoffee’s music is much more electronic and synth-based than King Princess’s but was just offbeat enough not to read as explicit pop. Nonetheless, she retained one of the worst stage habits of pop singers—lip-syncing rather than singing many of her songs. No amount of energetic dancing or brief interludes of live synth-playing could really bring the performance to life the way actually performing live would.

This was unfortunate because Banoffee’s music seemed interesting, albeit more in an interesting-background-music, not dancein-a-crowd, way.

The second opener also lip-sy nced, but since the performer in question was none other than drag queen Bambi Banks, the newest member of Chicago’s Maison Couleé, this had an entirely different effect.

Banks was fierce: voguing and twirling while wielding a fan in a glittery blue cape and a cotton candy pink wig. Unsurprising given the majority-female crowd, her performance to Whitney Houston’s “I’m Every

Woman” gave the audience life. The song also captured what makes King Princess important to a lot of young, gay women: She represents them in a way that feels refreshingly accessible.

When King Princess finally took the stage, the packed room at Metro suddenly made a lot more sense. Casually tuning her guitar in a simple, androgynous outfit and a windswept crop of curls, she had the unmistakable air of a rock star. Or maybe, as she mentioned a few times throughout the night, it was that she had just smoked with her band, which is made up of friends from her year at USC’s Thornton School of Music.

They could just as easily have been jamming in a garage as onstage at a show that sold out weeks after the tickets were released, exchanging jokes between songs.

“Thanks for coming to listen to a sad lesbian,” King Princess deadpanned about ha lf way through her set. Some people laughed—after all, her earnest, bluesy alto vocals, although heart-wrenching, are far from pathetic. On the other hand, most of her lyrics, which deal with unrequited love or heartbreak, are decidedly melancholic.

However, lines like “I hate it when dudes

try to chase me/But I love it when you try to save me/’Cause I’m just a lady,” from her song “1950,” make it clear that her work cannot be described with a word as simple as “sad.” Echoing the quasi-psychoanalytic way that millennials address their feelings, her lyrics are self-aware in their contractions. In an interview with Genius, the artist explains that this song came from examining how her identity “sits in a room” when she moved to a new city.

Despite modern production and an outness that was only made possible in the past few decades, King Princess’s music feels timeless. The bluesy baseline, crackly, almost Lou Reed–esque vocals, and simple end-rhyming on “Femme Fatale” could just as easily have been released in the ’70s as now. On the other hand, her recent single, “Pussy Is God,” is incredibly modern. Aside from being a low-fi bop, the song invokes female sexuality with reverence rather than objectification, taking lyrical cues from SZA and Kendrick Lamar’s “Doves in the Wind.”

With just one EP and a few singles out, but a full-length album in the works, it will be exciting to watch King Princess continue to thrive.

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Embryonic Enigmas and Fetal Fantasies at Special Collections

By ANNA AGUIAR KOSICKI arts reporter

W hile today, fetal ultrasounds are a common sight on social media and in popular visual culture, this has not always been the case. As a new exhibit in the Special Collections Research Center explains, at one point in history, the fetal image had to literally be kept under lock and key in the back of medical textbooks.

The Fetus in Utero: From Mystery to Social Media presents a timeline of the fetal image, including three distinct time periods characterized by representational shifts and technological advancements in the techniques used for printing these representations. The exhibition is not only a story about the fetus, but also one about the creation of a visual culture, and the precarious border between the medical, the social, and the artistic.

The ex hibit was curated by Margaret Carlyle, a postdoctoral fellow at the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, and Brian Callender, a physician at Mercy Hospital and Medical Center. The co-curators aimed to “bring art

and science back together…. It’s become clear that the fetus has been medicalized in obstetrics and gynecology, and there’s a whole other artistic side of representing the body. And in a way, we’re sort of bringing them back together,” Carlyle said.

This is especially evident in the first and second sections of the exhibit. The first traces the fetus from 1450 to 1700, a period when images of the female body were few and far between and the representation of the fetus in utero relied on dissections of deceased pregnant women, a controversial practice often considered morally wrong. The images that did permeate early medical resources toed the line between artistic depictions of women’s capability to generate life and the beginnings of a coherent obstetrics medical practice.

As the exhibit moves to its second epoch (1700–1965), the depictions it highlights are more widely reproducible, but also more localized in medical textbooks.

The pictures of this period betray the paradigm shift in thinking of birth as generative to focusing on reproducibility.

Unlike the first and second periods of the exhibit, which demonstrate a grad-

ual visual evolution, the third one has a clear catalyst. A 1965 cover of Life magazine features a fetal ultrasound and reads “Drama of Life Before Birth.” This would, the curators said, perhaps be the first time most Americans would have any idea what a fetus looked like. Following the Life cover, the exhibition displays the extension of fetal imagery to mass visual culture—a Volvo ad shows an ultrasound and asks, “IS SOMETHING INSIDE TELLING YOU TO BUY A VOLVO?” For an exhibit that bases its main narrative on the v isua lization of women’s bodies, women’s agency and voice are noticeably absent from much of The Fetus in Utero. This is to no fault of the curators, who have taken measures to draw attention to this and to include resources that highlight women’s voices such as midwives’ manuals from the 1600s. While not explicitly presenting a feminist critique of these various representations, the two are quick to point out the various ways that medical textbooks and educational materials (historically the only sources of this kind of representations) contribute to women’s exclusion.

While we look at one of the touchstone pieces of the collection that features a completely disembodied uterus set atop stumpy, chopped off legs, Carlyle remarks, “In the Renaissance one, the mother looks almost like a Venus, like a statue. But now, she’s being cut out altogether. Because now we only need to show the interaction of the fetal skull and the pelvic bone, because that’s what’s causing all the problems.” Callender adds, “They get cleaned up some, so they become useful from a clinical perspective as well as an educational perspective.”

Ultimately, though, the curators do not claim an ex plicit politica l agenda.

They note that during the curation of the exhibit, Carlyle gave one of her classes the chance to write analyses and captions for the various items, which generated a variety of perspectives. In the end, the exhibit asks us to engage not only with the iconography of the fetus that we have normalized, but also to make our own judgments and decisions about what the varied role of this visual schema might be.

The exhibition is free and will remain open until April 12, 2019.

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Trauma and Tarot Interact in Radiant Night

By BROOKE NAGLER arts editor

UChicago a lum a nd author Patrick Lohier spoke on Saturday about his recently released thriller Radiant Night. Telling the fictional story of Iraq War veteran Ludwig Mason, the book explores the chaotic experience of life after war trauma. Ludwig struggles to reinteg rate into his fa mily and social life with his post-war PTSD, but a journey involv ing tarot cards and a cross-country trek brings him on a thrilling expedition.

T he aut hor s p ok e at 57 t h Street Books, a full-circle moment for Lohier, who worked at the Seminary Co-Op as a UChicago student. He wrote on his blog, “57th Street Books and the Seminary Co-Op in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood are two of my favorite bookstores in the world.”

T houg h not a w a r veter a n himself, Lohier immersed himself in the mind of his protagonist by conducting extensive textual a nd photographic resea rch on the veteran experience. The circumstances of war and its consequences fascinate him: What does society expect from veterans after they have endured such tragic and grueling situations?

“The idea of that bottled violence returning” was the entry point, said Lohier. “I wanted to explore the emotional landscape of someone trying to navigate extraordinary trauma.”

Lohier sta r ted w r iting the book nine years ago, using time off from work to begin the manuscript. With suppor t a nd encouragement from his family in Toronto, he engaged in a vigorous writing process: He would make lists and lists of words and their many synonyms—tr ying to determine the slight dif ferences between each alternative—in order to achieve his goal of creating

Patrick Lohier speaking at 57th St. Books on Saturday. jonathan a consistent tone throughout the book. Additionally, he resolved to make the book exhilarating, making sure that each passage was one that would keep himself fascinated as a reader. Before Radiant Night, Lohier had published another thriller titled False Idols, which he co-wrote with two other writers.

The idea for Radiant Night initially came to Lohier from a biog-

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raphy about a man who, after surviving an ambulance crash that killed multiple passengers, began philanthropic work. It was a story about an attempt to cope with life-shattering trauma and guilt.

Lohier paralleled certain circumstances of its plot in his own book by positioning the protagonist Ludwig as the only marine to have survived a catastrophic trauma.

Lohier also added the myste-

rious element of the stranger Mrs. S. to the narrative, who brings enchanting mysticism, fortune telling, and tarot to Ludwig’s life.

Lohier immersed himself in the history of tarot, collecting multiple decks that were consequently strew n ever y which way in his house.

Lohier chose tarot because it was a “system of organizing the world,” he said. The tarot serves

as a “hopeful path for someone who is stuck in the chaos of his own mind.”

And with this tarot-filled story of hope emerging from devastation, Lohier has found a radiancy from his protagonist’s terribly traumatic past.

James Blake Reappears With the Exceptional Assume Form

By JULIAN STUART-BURNS arts reporter

One thing is obvious from the first moment you listen to James Blake’s new album Assume Form: He is deeply, unapologetically in love.

By no means is this your ordinary James Blake album. That’s not to say that James Blake even has a typical sound, though. Over the last eight or so years, he has swung wildly from trap to dubstep to weird electronic folk and many places in bet ween. However, in the vast majority of his older songs, there is some kind of prevailing sadness that is never allowed to escape. His debut album, for example, is a beautiful, haunting piece of work whose pessi m i sm c a n somet i mes be downright exhausting. As of the time I’m writing this review, the t wo most played songs off this album, according to Spotify, deal respectively with deep, crushing existential dread and the ines-

capable limits of both love and care. This guy, suffice it to say, has been through some shit.

Some of t hat pessim ism is still present on Assume Form— most notably on “ W here’s the Catch,” a song significant for one of the best g uest verses A ndré 3000 has given in recent memory—but, for the most part, Blake has shown the world that even he can make a love album. He and Jameela Jamil—known to most by her role as Tahani A l-Jamil on the much beloved The Good Place—have been dating since sometime in 2015, and only now are we beginning to see the fruits of this relationship in full bloom.

Blake recently went so far as to proclaim on Twitter that Jamil is to thank for this album, to which Jamil lovingly replied, “To everybody who has enjoyed this album. You are welcome. *takes a bow*.” Indeed, we have much for which we should thank Ms. Jamil.

Sonically, Assume Form borrows ex ten sively f rom Ja mes

Blake’s entire musical oeuvre.

“Mile High,” the album’s second song and lead single, is possibly the best example of the diverse palette that Blake has acquired.

The song begins with a blend of sy nths and autotuned falsetto that would have been perfectly at home on any of Blake’s past solo efforts, but this texture quickly gives way to a ghostly, gorgeously melodic trap song. Metro Boomin co-produces, and Travis Scott delivers some truly excellent vocals akin to those on “Stop Trying To Be God,” unquestionably my favorite song on last year’s Astroworld. The result of this collaboration is truly something to behold. When Blake finally steps back into the vocal spotlight, his falsetto perfectly counterbalances Scott’s chilled-out auto-tune.

The song may sound moody and da rk , but the ly rics betray a n overall message of love, affection, and deep gratitude.

T he col laboration present on “Mile High” is not exclusive

to the song. This whole album is full of guest features, each adding their own f lavor to their respective song. Sometimes, these fe at u r e s even st e a l t he show f rom Bla ke, forci ng h i m i nto the background of the conversation (I don’t think I’ve heard anyone even begin talking about “ W here ’s t he Catch” w it hout ment ion i ng t h at A nd r é 3 0 0 0 verse). These collaborations mark a significant change for Blake, an artist who is exceptionally wellknown for the DIY approach he takes to his music. “Tell Them,” which features Moses Sumney, is a song that seems uncharacteristically bouncy for Blake, but work s well nonetheless. However, “Barefoot in the Park,” an almost dancehall-style song that features Rosalià on guest vocals, may just be my lea st favor ite song on the album. The production is uncharacteristically busy for Blake, and every time I listen to it, I find myself checking how much I have left before it ends,

even though Rosalià’s vocal performance is, as always, stunning.

Generally, Blake comes into his own more on the solo songs than on the collaborative efforts, but these songs are certainly a landmark in the arc of his career.

Assume Form shows the world a new James Blake. After many years of solitude, he has found satisfaction in companionship, a nd this idea permeates ever y second of the album. It’s a moving effort, and there’s a hell of a lot here to unpack and enjoy with ever y new listen—I have insider info that this whole project is really good for when you’re in a crying kind of mood. With Assume Form, James Blake really has found the person who he’s been tr y ing to be a nd, for the most part, it comes through in a wonderful way.

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SPORTS Expectations High After Cancellation

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By BRINDA RAO sports reporter

After the cancellation of their last meet, the men’s and women’s track and field teams are geared up for the Wisconsin–Whitewater Invitational. Last weekend’s snow storm resulted in the last-minute cancellation of the teams’ annual I-55 Triangular meets. This cancellation has left both teams with a drive to succeed at their upcoming meet. As the season progresses, they seek to prove themselves with qualifying times and high rankings. This weekend, they will compete at the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater against a slew of DIII teams.

Practices have seen an increase in intensity. Previously, the distance and mid-distance teams practiced outdoors, running road runs and doing workouts in the Hyde Park area.

However, with the recent snow storms, the distance and mid-distance teams have joined their sprinter and jumper teammates on the Henry Crown Field House’s indoor track.

Third-year distance runner Claire Brockway explains, “This week we’ve been adjusting to…. the indoor track workouts which includes faster pace intervals and longer tempo runs outside.”

Members of the team have cited the coaching staff as one of the sources of the rise in momentum for this season. Assistant coach Justin McQuality was noted to have a high impact on the jumping team. First-year John McCormick is a long and triple jumper for the team. Despite it being his first season with UChicago’s track and field team, he has greatly improved and shown excellence at meets. Mc-

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Cormick explains, “Coach Q has been really helpful and has been working with me to fix bad tendencies so I won’t mess up in meets.

All of the jumpers are improving super well. I would credit it to Coach Q. He prides himself with what he does and doesn’t let us get away with mediocrity and pushes us to be better.”

Expectations are high for this weekend’s meet. As they get closer to the regional and national NCAA meets, members of the teams look to make qualifying times. Furthermore, the Maroons get the chance to compete against some highly ranked teams in their division, getting a feel for the competitiveness of rivals this season. The meet is a twoday meet, providing runners, jumpers and throwers many opportunities to make those qualifying times and place highly. Brockway comments, “I have the expectation that the distance events will be a little more competitive this weekend, but I think our team is in a position to rise to the occasion.”

Despite it being early in the season, members of the team have high expectations for its outcomes. McCormick comments, “I want to break both of the school records. I also want to win the conference title and go to nationals.

I have to keep working hard and listening to Coach McQuality. I can’t slack off and regress back to bad habits.”

After the cancellation of last weekend’s meet, the track and field teams are more than ready to prove themselves to their competition and each other. Their competitive season will continue with its second meet this weekend with a two day meet. The men’s and women’s track teams will compete at the Wisconsin– Whitewater Invitational this Friday at 1 p.m.

By MIRANDA BURT sports reporter

The University of Chicago men’s and women’s ten n is tea ms open up 2019 with their first real match of the season against the Lewis Flyers this upcoming Saturday. So far this academic year, the women have competed in the Ha ll of Fame ITA Grass Court Invitational and the ITA Central Regional. On grass, the Maroons played multiple singles and doubles matches. Singles winners from UChicago included first-year Nicole Semenov, who easily took down UAA foe Courtney Ollis of Carnegie Mellon University 6–1, 6–1. Second-year Claire Handa also took down Vinaya Rao of CMU, and first-year Annika Pandey defeated Valerie Marshall from Washing ton and Lee Universit y.

On the doubles side, the pairs of Lauren Park/Eugenia Lee and Catherine Xu/Estefania Navarro picked up doubles wins.

In the ITA Regional Championships, the Maroon women produced five of the quarterfinalists in singles play, and three of the quarterfinalists in doubles action.

Third-year Marjorie A ntohi took runner-up in singles play to Lauren O’Malley of John Carroll University.

Third-year Laura Gutierrez—one of t wo upperclassmen remaining on the Maroons’ roster—spoke of the team’s progress so far this season. “We have had some really great freshmen come in to the program to compliment the work that all of the older players have put in so far as well as over the summer. It’s great to have

these freshmen come in and add to our program, and to push our upperclassmen to get better as well. The start of the season provided us a great early opportunity to see where we are at against some really good competition. We feel like we had a great showing with such a young team, and, with the work we have put in since then, can’t wait for the real season to take place.”

The Maroon men are in a similar position, coming off of very strong showings in the fall. The men competed against Division I opponents at the WMU invitational, with many matches being very competitive, and first-year Alex Guzhva even defeating opponent Gabriel Carvajal of Valparaiso. In the ITA regionals, Jeremy Yuan was runner-up in the singles division, and Yuan along with partner Tyler Raclin repeated as doubles champions.

Last year, the Maroons also opened up play with a match against Lewis. The men won 7–2, and Lewis ended up finishing 12–11 on the year. The Maroon women also picked up a victory, though a little narrower at 5–4. The Lewis women finished 11–9 in 2018.

Gutierrez was excited for the opportunities for this weekend, saying, “Lewis is a very strong team that has a lot of experience playing Division I opponents. They will be a great first test for us and playing them will help us see how far we are from achieving our goals.”

The Maroons will take on Lewis at their home facility, XS Tennis, this Saturday at 1 p.m.

Spotlight: Taylor Lake, An Offensive Machine WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

By CAMILLE AGUILAR sports reporter

It’s impossible to point to just one player on the women’s basketball team and call any one of them the key to the program’s success. Seriously, where would the team be without third-year Miranda Burt’s decisive defense or fourth-year guard Jamie Kockenmeister’s game-determining drive in the Maroons’ one-point win against Illinois Wesleyan in early November? Could the Maroons have clenched their mid-December victory against Rose-Hulman without third-year Mia Farrell’s strong handling of the ball or thirdyear Olariche Obi’s solid presence under the basket? Make no mistake, this is a team of well-weathered veterans; however, the bench players make their mark too. First-year forward Klaire Steffens proved a fresh force to be reckoned with as she amassed nine points and captured 11 rebounds against Elmhurst in early December. It is an undeniable fact that all the players on the court—and off on the bench—make the women’s basketball program one to follow as they approach the end of their season.

Last year, the Maroon ladies went undefeated in the UAA, claiming their conference title uncontested. With a heavy schedule of important conference games coming up, the Maroons are deep into preparation to defend their UAA title. Looking to repeat past victories, it is pivotal that this season’s leading scorer, third-year Taylor Lake, keeps her defensive skills sharp and her shooting even sharper. In this season alone, Lake has already been named UAA’s Athlete of the Week.

Looking back on Lake’s presence in past

seasons, her contributions in games are evident. During the 2017–18 season, Lake was placed on the UAA All-Academic Team and appointed to the Second Team All-UAA, a title she surely will not collect this year—instead, Lake is more than deserving of the First Team All-UAA recognition. Last season, Lake led in points for eight of her 27 games played, but this season she has already led in an impressive eight of 16 games she has played so far, beaten out for a ninth only by a single point in her last game against NYU. Averaging about 15.1 points per game, her presence on the scoreboard has gone up noticeably throughout the season. In the team’s first run with Lake Forest College in November, Lake put up 15 points. In fact, in the 10 of her 16 games this season, Lake has put up 15 or more points on the offensive front. With team points per game estimated at 71.2, Lake on average contributes more than one-fifth of the points the Maroons put on the board each game she plays.

Last season, Lake was an offensive machine, ranked second on the team in points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks. Lake made the University’s record books as her 369 points in the season put her ninth in line for the throne of most points scored in a season, currently held by Gretchen Gates in her 1985–86 season. Taylor’s consistently high scoring average through her career also puts her in the record books for a career scoring average of 11.6.

As a member of the team last season, I have witnessed Lake in action for a full season of practices and games. Lake is an unstoppable force that teammates and opponents shy away from defending. Under the

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