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Bernie Sanders Talks 2020 at Navy Pier Rally

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By ZEFF WORLEY & OREN OPPENHEIM News Reporters “We have begun the political revolution, and now we’re going to complete it.”

Kicking off his campaign for president with a rally in Chicago on Sunday night, Vermont senator and candidate for president Bernie Sanders (A.B. ’64) spoke about his activism and formative years at the University of Chicago, and gave an impassioned speech on issues ranging from health care to the impact of policing on communities of color.

“My four years in Chicago was an extraordinary moment in my life, and very much shaped my worldview and what I wanted to do,” Sanders told the crowd in the Navy Pier’s Festival Hall.

“While the University of Chicago was and is an excellent school, the truth is that I learned a lot more off-campus

than in my classrooms,” he said.

“My years here in Chicago gave me the opportunity to become involved with the civil rights movement, with the labor movement, in the peace movement [against the Vietnam War], and in electoral politics.”

During his time at the University of Chicago, Sanders served on the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), a student group dedicated to stopping segregation, and once faced arrest for his advocacy for desegregated schools.

But some of his civil rights advocacy, Sanders told the crowd, involved the University itself. He spoke about how he and fellow students discovered that off-campus housing was being segregated: In an experiment, they would send Black couples to look for housing, who would inevitably be turned down and told nothing was available.

When white couples went later to the same apartments, they

would find that the housing was actually available.

“The students in CORE demanded that the University desegregate its housing. When they refused, we staged one of the first-ever civil rights sit-ins in the north,” Sanders said, later adding that he sees what he did as far less significant than the dangerous activism civil rights advocates undertook in the south.

While the story of Sanders’s protest at the University is wellknown, Sanders himself has not often spoken about his activism.

Sanders, who mounted a bid for the presidency as a Democrat in 2016 that won him a large base of supporters, announced last month his run for 2020.

The rally at Navy Pier was Sanders’s second rally of his 2020 campaign; the first was held the day before at Brooklyn College in New York City, where he spoke about both his progressive policy agenda and his upbringing in Brooklyn.

After the rally ’s doors opened, the Tommies Reunion gospel choir entertained the crowd, working the senator’s name into gospel songs and at one point extolling the audience to “come on, follow Bernie.” After the national anthem was sung, Destiny Harris, a local poet and activist from the West Side of Chicago, discussed how her upbringing led to her activism, including her efforts with the No Cop Academy movement protesting the city’s plan to build a police academy in West Garfield Park.

“I’ve learned that when we build movements that make bold and visionary calls, there are politicians such as Bernie that will address each issue no matter what the cost,” she said.

Harris also addressed Sanders’s own activism, approving of his fight against the “homogeny of white folk in Hyde Park” and

his struggle against segregation at the University of Chicago campus in the early 1960s.

Other speakers who spoke before Sanders included filmmaker Danny Lyon (A.B. ’63), who spoke about what it was like to attend college with Sanders; activist Ashley Galvan Ramos, who emphasized the issues of gentrification and displacement facing residents of Chicago and how Sanders would combat those sorts of issues; Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s, who focused on Sanders’s recent accomplishments in government policy; and two of Sanders’s campaign cochairs, Congressman Ro Khanna (D-CA) and for-

mer Ohio senator Nina Turner.

During his talk, Sanders returned to familiar talking points like income inequality, criminal justice reform, and his support of unionization, with jabs against President Donald Trump, Republicans, and massive corporations thrown in.

“Do not allow Trump and friends to divide us up,” Sanders warned. Earlier he referred to Donald Trump as the most dangerous president in modern American history, echoing his words from the previous day’s rally.

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litical science. In recent years, he’s stayed in contact with the University. In the fall of 2017, Sanders sent a letter of support to graduate students intending to unionize and a letter to University president Robert Zimmer urging him to respect the Graduate Student Union’s vote.

Sanders also came to campus for an IOP event in 2015 and for a live interview at the Quadrangle Club in 2016.

A spokesperson for Sanders’s campaign told The Maroon by e-mail that the rally filled the venue’s capacity of 12,500 people.

Matthew Smith, a resident of Chicago who came representing the group Socialist Alternative,

told The Maroon after the rally, “People are getting excited about Bernie...so we’re out here talking to people about how we can build the biggest fight back possible, to get Bernie in, to get Trump out, and push Bernie forward.” “[The rally] was awesome,” Norma Rios, a member of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, said. “One of my friends [Ashley Galvan Ramos] was speaking, so it was extra special to come out and see her.”

“I was really hesitant to come, because I didn’t know what kind of turnout to expect, and I loved it,” South Side resident Rosia Vargez said. “It was something I fully support.”

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Multidisciplinary Media Arts, Data, and Design Center Opens

By VICTOR YANG News Reporter The new Media Arts, Data, and Design (MADD) Center soft-opened on February 25.

The MADD Center incorporates five resource labs to promote resource sharing between different disciplines and expand the technological resources available to students and faculty.

In addition to the laboratories, the center also provides studio and study spaces open to all students and faculty. “The MADD Center is a resource for all of campus—faculty, students, and staff—where users can gain access to a broad range

of tools for exploring the intersections of art, design, science, and technology,” David Wolf, senior director of arts technologies at the Logan Center, told The Maroon via e-mail.

“Whether one’s interests are in digital fabrication, game design, software development, or data visualization, MADD provides the means for engaging in research, scholarship, and creative experimentation,” he added. Wolf wwas tasked with bringing the operating models of the Logan Center to the management of the space and technology featured in the new MADD Center.

The Center itself is the result of extensive dialogue between

faculty and University administration on the need for integration in the fields of design and technology.

“The group [of faculty and administration] identified a set of resources, labs, and facilities that were developing in parallel, and felt that by bringing them together under the rubric of media and design, their commonalities could be amplified,” Wolf said.

According to an e-mail release by the University, the project is a collaboration between the College, Division of Humanities, Division of Physical Sciences, UChicago Arts, and the University Library.

The MADD Center includes

the Computer Science Instructional Laboratory (CSIL), which provides hardware and software support for education in computer science; the Hack Arts Lab, a facility for digital fabrication and prototyping in the arts; the Research Computing Center Visualization Lab , a new facility for data visualization technology; and the University Library’s new Geographical Information Systems (GIS) Hub, which offers access to geographical information systems software and is staffed by librarians trained to assist students and faculty on geospatial research projects.

The center will also feature the new Weston Game Lab, which offers resources to de-

velop analog, digital, virtual, and online games. The lab is established through a gift from Shellwyn Weston and Bradford Weston (J.D. ’77).

In addition to housing the laboratories and study spaces, the MADD Center will also provide media resources, including virtual reality facilities, for the new media arts and design minor offered in the College.

Studio spaces will be used as classrooms for the course Media Aesthetics starting spring quarter of 2019.

The MADD center will hold an open house from 12 to 6 p.m. on Friday, March 8, for all interested students, faculty, and community members.

Zimmer Rebukes Trump’s Proposed Free Speech Order

By MAROON STAFF President Robert Zimmer sent an e-mail to the University community on Monday morning expressing his opposition to President Donald Trump’s suggested executive order.

The order would require universities to “support” free speech or face cutbacks in research funding. Zimmer’s full statement is below: I am writing in light of news about a potential Executive Order concerning free expression on campuses.

As president of the University of Chicago, I have spoken forcefully and frequently about the importance of free expression, open discourse, and ongoing intellectual challenge as a necessary foundation for a truly empowering education and a research environment that fosters creativity and originality.

Students, particularly, need and deserve an opportunity to

develop the intellectual skills and habits of mind derived from such an education—to confront the complex challenges they will face in their futures, to give them the capacity their ambition should demand, and to reflect the courage of which they are capable. Failing to provide an education of deep intellectual challenge supported by an environment of free expression is selling students short and would fail to live up to our highest aspirations as educators.

The University of Chicago has embraced this perspective throughout its history, and the statement by the Faculty Committee on Free Expression articulated this longheld position in what is now widely known as the Chicago Principles. These principles have been adopted by over 50 higher education institutions since they were articulated in January 2015. However, the difficulty many institutions of higher education have in culti-

vating an environment of free expression on their respective campuses remains a serious challenge.

The question of whether this problem should be addressed through additional Federal legislation or executive action has been raised in multiple situations in recent years. In 2017, I testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Senator Lamar Alexander. Senator Alexander asked me at that time whether I thought Congress should address free expression on campus through federal legislation. I replied unequivocally that I was opposed to any such federal legislation. The question of federal intervention in this arena arises again today, not with Congress, but with the Executive Branch. As was my position with respect to Congress, I believe that any action by the Executive Branch that interferes with the ability of higher education institu-

tions to address this problem themselves is misguided and in fact sets a very problematic precedent.

There are two related features of potential Federal engagement on this issue that would threaten the mission of institutions of higher education. They would do so by creating the specter of less rather than more free expression, and by deeply chilling the environment for discourse and intellectual challenge. The first feature is the precedent of the Federal government establishing its own standing to interfere in the issue of speech on campuses. This opens the door to any number of troubling policies over time that the Federal government, whatever the political party involved, might adopt on such matters. It makes the government, with all its power and authority, a party to defining the very nature of discussion on campus. The second feature is the inevitable establishment of a bureaucra-

cy to enforce any governmental position. A committee in Washington passing judgment on the speech policies and activities of educational institutions, judgments that may change according to who is in power and what policies they wish to promulgate, would be a profound threat to open discourse on campus. In fact, it would reproduce in Washington exactly the type of on-campus “speech committee” that would be a natural and dangerous consequence of the position taken by many advocating for the limitation of discourse on campuses.

Therefore, rather than improving the situation, further legislative or executive Federal action has the potential to reinforce and expand the difficulties regarding education and free expression that we are confronting now. It would be a grave error for the short and the long run.

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PSA Discusses Future of Title IX After DeVos Policy Changes

By DARCY KUANG News Reporter The Phoenix Survivors Alliance (PSA) invited five students and alumni to reflect on their own experiences with Title IX activism at a symposium on the history of Title IX at UChicago this Saturday.

Panelist Olivia Ortiz (A.B. ’16), a cofounder of PSA, began the event by giving a presentation on Secretary of Education Betsy Devos’s new Title IX rules.

She explained what the changes were and how they could affect college students.

According to Ortiz, although Title IX enforcement during the Obama era had its shortcomings, such as the slow rate of resolving complaints, Devos has made the process even more difficult for assault victims through her new Title IX changes. “[Devos] withdrew guidance that protected survivors and instead introduced a higher standard of proof,” Ortiz said.

Obama-era Title IX guidance required schools to use the lowest legal standard, “preponderance of the evidence,” when assessing allegations of sexual misconduct. However, the new

guidance gives schools the option to use a higher standard of proof called “clear and convincing evidence.” In numerical terms, “preponderance of evidence” is described as a 50 percent likelihood, while the likelihood is raised to 75 percent to meet the standard of “clear and convincing evidence.”

When asked how a higher standard of proof would affect sexual assault victims at universities, Ortiz said that it depends on the state where the victims are living. “[The higher standard of proof] won’t affect students at UChicago,” said Ortiz, “because the Illinois Preventing Sexual Violence in Higher Education Act requires schools to use the preponderance of the evidence in sexual assault complaints.

This proves how powerful state initiatives can be.”

Ortiz informed students of the federal and state options they have to exercise their rights under Title IX. According to Ortiz, any federal agency that provides funding for educational programs can enforce Title IX. “For example, if you are a physics major and your physics department receives funding from NASA,” Ortiz explained, “you can actu-

ally file your complaint at NASA.” Other panelists emphasized the importance of building coalitions with underrepresented groups to resist the abridgment of Title IX rights. Malay Trivedi, a second-year student and Student Government vice president, said, “women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people are disproportionately affected by sexual misconduct.... It is essential to get their voices in [discussions] on the issue.”

Asia Bowman, a third-year at the School of Social Service Administration and a member of the Provost’s Sexual Misconduct Advisory Board, echoed these sentiments. “You have to look around to see who is here and who is not here, and how can we involve [underrepresented groups] without tokenizing them,” she said.

Envisioning the future of Title IX activism, Ortiz hopes to change the misperception that Title IX only protects privileged university students. Ortiz said that many people are not aware that they fall under Title IX protection. For instance, Title IX also applies to prison inmates attending federally funded vocational training programs.

“Sometimes the Title IX

The PSA panelists included current students and alums. brigitte potter movement is very calculated in who is featured,” Ortiz said, “but we have to raise awareness that [Title IX] protects people in all sorts of educational programs, even the ones that are not palatable to the public eye.”

Title IX activism on campus is of paramount personal relevance to Ortiz. In 2013, she filed a complaint to the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights (OCR) on the claim that the University had mishandled disciplinary procedures after she was sexually assaulted. This led OCR to investigate the potential breach of Title IX regulations at the University.

Ortiz told The Maroon that, after five years of uncertainty, her complaint was finally resolved in the summer of 2018. In that time, Ortiz graduated from the University and started law school at the University of Washington. The pro bono legal assistance Ortiz received from the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation inspired her decision to enroll in law school.

Reflecting on her personal experience with Title IX activism, Ortiz said, “Although the voices of many victims are unheard, [together] we can be loud and demanding, and say we deserve our rights.”

UC Medicine Declared “Internal Disaster” Due to Bed Shortage

By LEE HARRIS Editor-in-Chief-Elect University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) spent more than 24 hours on Wednesday and Thursday last week operating at maximum capacity as it treated a critically high volume of patients.

The hospital was placed on “internal disaster” designation and physicians’ teams were told to put all hands on deck, surging staff and resources.

No single cause triggered the crisis, but a combination of fac-

tors led to the shortage of beds, UCM spokesperson Ashley Heher told The Maroon.

An e-mail circulated by UCM’s Emergency Operations Center on Wednesday morning last week informed staff: “Due to extreme overcrowding in the Adult ED [emergency department], a high volume of surgical cases, and an increase in overall inpatient volume, the Hospital Incident Command Team has been activated and is asking everyone to defer non-essential work to address this urgent issue regarding

patient care. Staff who support patient care, please surge staff/ resources to assist with patients.”

An e-mail on Thursday last week informed staff that operations had returned to normal, but said UCM continued to experience “ongoing and critical capacity issues on the Hyde Park medical campus due to high volumes.”

Heher told The Maroon that UChicago Medicine’s emergency care was uninterrupted by the surge.

“The hospital’s emergency

departments continued to accept trauma patients during the entire period and provided ongoing emergency medical care, although many patients with less severe health issues experienced long wait times,” Heher said.

The hospital took temporary measures to accommodate patients, including relocating some adults to Comer Children’s Hospital. Comer normally provides inpatient care to some young adults—often individuals who experienced chronic childhood diseases and have continued treat-

ment into adulthood—however, housing additional adult patients from UCM is a crisis measure.

Only “a handful of appropriate patients” were moved, Heher told The Maroon.

On the emergency designation, Heher told The Maroon that an “internal disaster” is “a standard term used in hospital operations to address any number of events that could potentially impact an organization’s facilities,” and that declaring an internal disaster allows hospitals “to deploy a variety of internal resources.”

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VIEWPOINTS Is Chicago Finally Ready for Reform?

Chicago Is Infamous for Its Culture of Political Corruption, but Last Week’s Election Results Suggest That Change May Be Coming

By SAM JOYCE Following Richard J. Daley’s victory in the 1955 mayoral election, Alderman Paddy Bauler uttered a line that has since become a Chicago proverb: “Chicago ain’t ready for reform.” These past few months’ headlines—from an alderman trading votes for Viagra to the repeated use of the phrase “Burger King shakedown,” certainly suggest that not much has changed. This culture of corruption has become an accepted part of the city’s political culture, with crooked aldermen romanticized as just another classic Chicago quirk—“don’t put ketchup on

your hot dog,” “it’s not called the Windy City because of the wind,” and, of course, “vote early and vote often.”

Forgotten amid the cynical laughter about the “Chicago way” are the details of what Bauler actually said. While countless publications have shortened it to the catchy, timeless “Chicago ain’t ready for reform,” the full quote is actually a little more nuanced.

He said “Chicago ain’t ready for reform yet,” celebrating Daley’s victory over a reform-minded opponent. The extra adverb shifts the meaning of the phrase from a grand proclamation about an element of the city’s DNA to an

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observation about reform’s dim prospects in 1955. And quite crucially, his use of “yet” suggests that Chicago may be ready for reform in the future. Last week’s election results, in fact, provide a glimmer of hope: Chicago may finally be ready for reform.

The most obvious reason for optimism is the mayor’s race, in which Toni Preckwinkle and Lori Lightfoot advanced to the runoff.

Both candidates ran on unapologetically left-wing platforms, promising to raise the minimum wage, reform the Chicago Police Department (CPD), and halt the expansion of charter schools.

While legitimate questions exist about Lightfoot’s commitment to police accountability and Preckwinkle’s ties to figures like Alderman Ed Burke, both campaigned and won as progressive reformers, and both are already making the case that they’re the more progressive candidate in the runoff—a refreshing change after eight years of Rahm.

Contrast their performance to that of candidates like Bill Daley, Garry McCarthy, and Paul Vallas. Daley was the candidate of financial austerity, advocating for an amendment to the state constitution to cut pensions for public workers. McCarthy, the former head of the CPD, represented the opposition to any efforts to reform CPD. Vallas is the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, where he led an aggressive expansion of charter schools. All three saw disappointing results: Daley missed the runoff, Vallas didn’t win a single ward, and McCarthy didn’t even win a single precinct.

But the mayoral race wasn’t the only glimmer of hope for progressives. Across the city, leftwing challengers performed well, even forcing several entrenched

incumbents into runoff elections.

While they haven’t won yet, these results show that activist movements—even in Chicago—have the strength to challenge established politicians and perhaps change what happens at City Hall.

Two of the most remarkable performances came from Byron Sigcho-Lopez in the 25th Ward and Jeanette Taylor in the 20th Ward. Sigcho-Lopez, an organizer with the Pilsen Alliance, touted his anti-gentrification work with the Alliance and pledged to institute a transparent, participatory zoning process for the ward. Most of the 25th Ward is in Pilsen, a historic Mexican community that has been heavily gentrified in recent years. Sigcho-Lopez won almost 30 percent of the vote and should be favored in the runoff against Alex Acevedo, son of State Representative Eddie Acevedo and the favored candidate of several large developers.

Taylor also won close to 30 percent of the vote in the 20th Ward, which includes most of Woodlawn and parts of Washington Park, Englewood, and Back of the Yards. Taylor is a longtime organizer and activist from Woodlawn. She helped lead a hunger strike that stopped Rahm’s attempt to close Dyett High School in Washington Park, and has since been involved in the trauma center campaign and the Obama Center community benefits agreement (CBA) effort. She’ll head to a runoff with consultant Nicole Johnson, who has the support of several major donors connected to the University of Chicago, as well as Chance the Rapper.

In a few other races, incumbent aldermen were held just below 50 percent of votes, forcing them into an April runoff. In the Fifth Ward, which includes most

of Hyde Park and South Shore, incumbent Alderman Leslie Hairston will go to a runoff for the first time in 20 years. While she still won 49 percent of the vote, she now faces a difficult battle with Will Calloway, the community organizer who helped secure the release of the video of Laquan McDonald’s murder. Calloway has already won the support of Gabriel Piemonte, who finished third—their combined share of the vote barely outweighs Hairston’s. In the 15th Ward, incumbent Alderman Ray Lopez faces a similar situation: Lopez won 49 percent of the vote, but still has to win a runoff against progressive challenger Rafa Yañez, with most of the support for third-place challenger Berto Aguayo expected to flow to Yañez in the runoff.

However, news for progressives wasn’t uniformly positive—Alderman Ed Burke of the 14th Ward, recently indicted on federal corruption charges, still managed to avoid a runoff, while several other incumbent aldermen beat progressive challengers with little difficulty. Even amidst these disappointing cases, however, there were some positive signs. While Burke still won, his 54 percent was his worst performance in his 40 years as alderman of the 14th Ward. Progressive challengers fell short in the 12th Ward, but a referendum on a community benefits agreement for the controversial El Paseo Trail passed with over 85 percent of the vote. While challenging established politicians is always an uphill battle, especially in Chicago, this year’s elections offer a reason to keep fighting.

Sam Joyce is a third-year in the College.

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The Toll of Our Endless Finals Week Professors Often Have Good Intentions When They Make Final Essays Due Before Finals Week Even Starts, but They Only Stress Students Out quarter will be absolute hell.

While having papers instead of exams isn’t common for all students, especially those studying STEM subjects, my situation this quarter is not exceptional or unique. All students take writing classes as part of the Core, and most of my friends are taking at least one or two courses requiring final papers. Professors often assign early due dates for papers so we can “get them turned in and over with,” ostensibly allowing us to “focus on the rest of our finals later in the week.”

For humanities students, this often leads to a front-loaded schedule that collapses the last weeks of the quarter into a stressful, premature exam period. Of course, humanities professors often need to set early deadlines in order to read long papers before submitting grades online. However, setting deadlines before exam period seems to undermine the purpose of reading period and finals week altogether.

In that regard, it seems like this problem affects humanities majors to a larger degree than STEM majors, whose exams are all scheduled by the University. I do not mean to suggest that STEM majors have it any

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As I was pouring over my planner booking my flight home for spring break, I was surprised to discover that I could leave campus on Thursday morning of reading period without missing any exams or meetings. I was initially excited to have an extra few days of spring break, but the dawn of eighth week has made me realize I may have been too optimistic about this seemingly relaxed schedule.

My finals schedule this term is as follows: I have a presentation on the Monday of 10th week, an in-class exam on the Wednesday of 10th week, papers due on the Saturday, Sunday and Monday before finals week, and yet another paperdue the first Saturday of spring break (several of my classes have multiple assessments). Of my six final assessments, only one is due after the Monday of finals week. As I begin to plan my studying timeline, I fear the rest of this

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easier than me, as there is nothing preventing an equally front-loaded testing schedule. Yet, for those who will be producing bodies of written work, unregulated early deadlines can eliminate the distinction between 10th week and finals week altogether, as I am experiencing this quarter.

Ultimately, I know I will make it through the next month despite all these early deadlines. But, our 10-week quarters feel short enough already, jam-packed with midterms until mid-eighth week; collapsing exams into this hectic schedule doesn’t seem like an ideal use of time. Students forced to work under this kind of “exam” schedule face unique obstacles in their preparations and may not produce papers reflecting the best of their abilities. I’m sure that if I truly find myself in a bind, my professors would be understanding and grant me an extension, but we shouldn’t have to rely on this kindness to be able to pass a class to begin with. Reading period should exist as a time devoted to studying for exams—not recovering from them. And finals week is meant for taking exams and writing papers, not an extra week of break.

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If this problem is one rooted in strict grading deadlines for professors, perhaps those should be loosened in order to give students the full week to work on final assignments. But I believe the problem is rooted in good intentions: professors want to help us do our best, yet perhaps don’t know how.

As a solution, professors who assign essays as finals could hold a vote at the beginning of the quarter to determine a deadline that works best for the class. Maybe deadlines for papers could be set by the University registrar by course time in the same manner final exam schedules are determined. This would ensure that all students have a fair and equal chance to turn in the finest work possible.

Regardless, professors and administrators should know that the lack of streamlined standards for final essay deadlines isn’t liberating for stressed-out students. It’s just another burden, and I’m not sure that a few more days of spring break is worth the intense stress that comes with the coalescence of 10th week and finals week.

Alexa Perlmutter is a second-year in the College and an associate Viewpoints Editor.

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Gaspar Noé Goes Too Far with Climax

By ISAAC TANNENBAUM Arts Reporter

Last Monday night in the Doc lobby: Dozens had lined up for the A24-sponsored advance screening of Gaspar Noé’s latest release, Climax. Some people were grooving along to the soundtrack being played at the table outside of the screening room, others were theorizing about what the movie would be like, and others still were debating how good the movie would actually be. When the doors opened, I followed as an excited crowd hurried into the theater. After 98 minutes of dancing, disco music, and drug-induced delirium, the lights came back on. Whatever was left of the audience let out a collective “What the ACTUAL fuck?” and offered no applause.

This was a very fair response to Climax; given Noé’s canon, perhaps it was even expected. All films have their ups and downs, but none that I have ever seen have as drastic extremes as this one. Gaspar Noé—what?

The first third of the movie was perfect.

From the very first shot, Noé reminds us that he is a master of the free-moving, omniscient camera that so defines his cinematic style. He subverts traditional cinematic rules by diving into a full credits scene, which elicited audible “huh”s of confusion from those around me. Midway through

the credits sequence, he notes that Climax is based on the true story of a French dance troupe in the ’90s. Noé’s opener, front-loaded credits, and subsequent character introductions are ingenious. On a retro-looking TV, the film’s dancers are interviewed one by one about their lives, their relationship to dance, and their dreams of success and an American tour. The TV is flanked by the movies and books from which Noé draws inspiration, such as Suspiria and a work by Fritz Lang. Though somewhat heavy-handed, these nods to classics of the genre actually came off as wholesome and lovingly nostalgic. The film then launches into one of the best dance sequences in cinematic history: a blend of hip-hop, vogueing, and the classic French tecktonik set to a remix of Cerrone’s powerhouse of a song, “Supernature.” Shooting all of this in one long take—which then continues for minutes after the performance ends—demonstrates restraint and maturity in Noé’s often-flashy form of almost free-floating cinematography. Then comes the sangria, and with it the film’s rapid decline in quality. An unknown character slips large amounts of LSD into the dancers’ drinks, resulting in an uncomfortable and upsetting hallucinogenic trip that comprises the second half of the film. If Noé had tinged this with black humor, it could have worked

in the film’s favor. Instead, however, the film is inundated with extended talk and graphic depictions of sexual assault, incest, forced miscarriages, murder, suicide, and group hysteria. Everyone who didn’t walk out of the screening seemed to constantly alternate between hiding in their chair, leaning forward with mouth agape, or just shaking their head.

After an hour of evil and depravity, Noé’s filmic talents became tiresome and lost all redemptive qualities. The Dutch angles he would often use became off-putting, and the saturated red lights went beyond the giallo-inspired camp and just came off as tacky. The only thing I could stomach by the end was the energetic soundtrack, curated in part by Thomas Bangalter, onehalf of electro-pop duo Daft Punk. Even this I could only manage to appreciate if I closed my eyes and consciously blocked out the dialogue and cries on screen. Gaspar Noé loves to shock and disgust with his art, but this was too far, and it rendered his film devoid of any artistic qualities.

Rife with intertitles, Climax oozed pretentiousness. Noé opened the dance sequence with the statement that his is a French film and that he is proud of that (“presentent un film français et fier de l’être”). Arrogant, especially when shown to an American audience? Sure. But not

only is this statement a lie, it also exposes Noé’s deep hypocrisy. Firstly, the subtitles censor and make a lot of the dialogue more palatable, especially around conversations about assaulting men and women. If he were proud of his French identity, why alter the basic language itself? Secondly, there’s nothing in the movie itself that is quintessentially French, except perhaps for the cigarettes and tecktonik dance. Even the music heavily featured American musicians.

One could say that Climax is to ABBA on LSD as Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless is to jazz—there is a clear reference to the father of the French New Wave’s use of fast music to pace the cuts, plot, and overall aesthetic quality of the film. Yet, that in no way makes up for all the terrible, pretentious, and incredibly problematic features of Noé’s movie. In the end, it seems more that Noé and his team presentent un film terrible et fier de l’être. That was the most people I had ever seen walk out of a movie, let alone a free advance screening. I will admit, however, that I cannot stop listening to the soundtrack (please blast Cerrone’s “Supernature” on repeat at your next party).

To borrow a final quote from a fellow audience member: “Jesus Christ, I never want to do drugs after seeing this.” So, thanks for that, I guess, Mr. Noé.

Empress Of Reigns Supreme in Sleeping Village

By WAHID AL MAMUN Associate Arts Editor

Fresh off the release of her second full-length record Us (2018), Empress Of brought her signature brand of infectious Latin-drenched electronic rhythms to Avondale’s Sleeping Village last Friday with great aplomb. The Los Angeles– based electro-pop artist Lorely Rodriguez has risen to fame dramatically under this regal moniker, emerging from relative obscurity to working with big-name producers such as Blood Orange and Cole M.G.N. in just a few years. Friday’s set provided further proof of her upward trajectory as she edges closer to realizing Pitchfork’s

prediction of her breakout “pop star potential.”

The Sleeping Village was a perfect space for Salt Cathedral, the night’s opening act. A Latina-fronted synth-pop act just like Empress Of, Salt Cathedral proved to be more than up to the task of setting the tone for the evening. Indeed, the small yet highly vociferous crowd lapped up the Brooklyn duo’s brand of mellow electro-pop, swaying to every tropical house–infused beat. Although her vocals were muffled at times by the venue’s stop-start sound mix, lead singer Juliana Ronderos held the crowd captive with her delicate, gossamer-like delivery.

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In particular, she managed to elevate the excellent climax of “No Ordinary Man” to new levels of heartfelt desperation. Toward the end of the set, Ronderos took on the role of hype woman as she encouraged the audience to let loose and dance along, emphatically declaring that “our bodies are the common denominator that ignores race, gender, and everything else in between.”

And so the dance party at the Sleeping Village had already swung into full motion by the time Empress Of kicked off her set with her hit bilingual song “Trust Me

Baby.” The set flowed with barely any interruption—at times, the gig seemed less like a pop concert and more like a rave as songs blended seamlessly into others.

At one point, Rodriguez even threw in a cheeky sample of Ariana Grande’s “thank u, next” while transitioning from “Water Water” to “I Don’t Even Smoke Weed.”

While she may only have released two full-length records up to this point, her setlist nonetheless managed to encompass a wide range of styles, a testament to the vast experimentation that marks her sound. Crucially, none of these disparate songs seemed out of place alongside each

other; whether slow jams or dance floor bangers, it seemed like Rodriguez could pull anything off.

Even though the sound mix threatened to overwhelm Rodriguez’s vocals with too much bass, it was not enough to drown out the sheer energy that she managed to bring to the stage. It was exhausting just to watch her bound around the tiny stage, full pelt, hair askew, and face glistening with sweat. But, my word, was it fun. There is something exhilarating about seeing an artist have so much uninhibited fun, truly lost in the soundscapes of her own music. At its very best,

the energy came to embody the underlying ethos of Rodriguez’s music—that of boldly and loudly embracing her Latina identity through art. It was no surprise, therefore, that her 2016 single “Woman Is a Word,” a defiant feminist anthem, elicited some of the loudest cheers of the night.

Slowly but surely, Empress Of is edging toward the treadmill of mass mainstream popularity. This performance, with its impeccable production quality and Rodriguez’s exuberant stage charisma, shows just how ready she is for life at the top when she gets there.

“Seoul-Searching” with KSO

By LAURA CHEN Arts Reporter

What would spending a day in Seoul, South Korea be like? In this year’s Korean Student Organization cultural show, “Seoul Searching,” student tourists thirdyear Philip Chun and second-year Alex Joh-Jung embarked on a daylong adventure with their tour guide, second-year Yoon Jeong, to answer this question. The hour-and-a-half production took us on a whirlwind around Seoul. Even as part of the audience, I not only watched the duo’s journey, but also felt as though I was in along for the ride as they experienced the culture and history of Seoul with their helpful tour guide, encountering various instrumental, dance, and vocal performances along the way.

The show began with a short but well-received stand-up comedy sketch followed by a video that involved every tech crew’s worst fear: technical difficulties. In spite of the lack of audio from the anticipated video, Chun and Joh-Jung took the stage and improvised a humorous and light-hearted skit, explaining their “trip” to Korea and their plan for the rest of the night: to explore as much of Seoul as possible in 24 hours.

Throughout “Seoul Searching,” Chun and Joh-Jung, along with Jeong, explored different parts of Seoul, venturing wherever the video took them. The emcee for the night, second-year Jeremy Yuan, narrated smooth transitions for the au-

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dience to coherently follow the actors through each step of their journey. Yuan also made sure to give energetic openings for the performers of each act, setting the stage first for Koong, a traditional Korean drumming RSO on campus. The members of Koong entered with an energetic, fast-paced, and rhythmic drumming chorus that spanned from the auditorium’s arena all the way to the stage—a nicely done performance that gave a pleasant start to the show.

The first half of the show was followed by a stunning vocal performance from fourth-year Juliet Lee and pianist second-year Moses Oh, as well as two upbeat dance performances from Groove Theory

and the Excolatur crew. Chun and JohJung walked onstage, just as stunned as the audience and ready to embark on another adventure.

After a 10-minute intermission, Chun and Joh-Jung’s journey in Seoul continued. The two eventually ventured into a more modern soundscape, launching the audience into the Evolution of K-Pop. From here, we saw a number of student organizations dance to the beat of irresistible Korean pop tunes.

The final portion of the show closed with three singing performances—firstyears Jimin Han and Mason Wang singing “Instagram,” second-year Catherine An and first-year Chae Lee performing

“Like OOH-AHH,” and third-year Elissa Kwon ending the night with “I’m in Love.”

The show finished with Chun, JohJung, and Jeong rejoicing at their trip, the video behind them projecting a beautiful overview of Seoul at night, with the camera panning across a line of illuminated high-rise buildings and later stretching across a starry night, at which point the video revealed the title of the show: “Seoul Searching.”

So what would spending one day in Seoul be like? If you plan accordingly, you might be able to experience the same selfie-indulging, dance-fueled, musical adventure that Chun and Joh-Jung underwent.

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Julietta Singh on Archives, Embodiment, and Shit

By BROOKE NAGLER Arts Editor

We are all a “messy, embodied, illegitimate archive,” Julietta Singh declared Monday, February 25 at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. As part of the LGBTQ Speaker Series, Singh, an associate professor of English and women, gender, and sexuality studies at the University of Richmond, read from her new book, No Archive Will Restore You. Singh discussed it in conversation with filmmaker and University of Chicago Banting Postdoctoral Fellow Chase Joynt.

No Archive Will Restore You is difficult to categorize into one genre; it traverses memoir, essay, poetry, and theory. Singh draws lyrically from a range of personal memories—she writes of the painful scene of her father’s death, the overflowing desire of a long-distance romance, as well as a fleeting childhood moment of self-rec-

ognition in a queer adult family member.

Singh incorporates concepts from a host of thinkers, such as Jacques Derrida, Leslie Feinberg, and Maggie Nelson.

The book is organized into vignettes of Singh’s life, cataloging important moments of identity formation, scenes of intense affect, and experiences of loss. This series of vignettes seems like an attempt at an archive—how else would one document a life, if not through those transformative moments? The book feels so deeply personal, in part because Singh refers to the other people in her life by their first initial (as one might do in a diary). Yet in her openness to share these intimate details, the book also places her life outside herself, memorialized into its object.

A written catalogue of significant experiences can never comprise an entire life, a point that Singh was quick to note.

An archive of the self is full of holes and is created under the premise that it is always

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In writing this book, Singh said she was “trying to pervert the idea of the archive in a way that allows us to think about—in the Derridean sense—its impossibility. But also, the ways in which the very notion of the archive is always being lost, and always deteriorating, and always spilling out of everywhere.”

In doing so, Singh was never just focusing on the normatively positive elements of her life, nor was she trying to portray herself in a certain way. She discusses the gritty, uncomfortable moments as well— vomit, bodily pain, surgery, giving birth.

She found that these subjects are often not talked about with an intersectional focus. For example, she could not find herself in the canonical books on eating disorders, which assumed the white bourgeois girl as their subject. “I was trying to understand my eating disorder, and it seemed entirely mixed up with race and

entirely mixed up with gender,” she said.

Not only did Singh discuss the gritty experiences of embodiment, but she also quite literally talked shit. She told us stories about the way shit figured into her own family life, and the way she includes open discussions about ecologies of the body with her daughter. “Shit for me became a way of thinking about the things that one necessarily has to get rid of,” she noted. “Shit can be something that we recalibrate and reconstitute altogether in a way that doesn’t merely disavow it.”

It allows us to think about what gets remembered and remains valued, and what gets flushed away.

No Archive Will Restore You is poignant and beautiful, bringing all areas of discussion into academic focus. It is published by Punctum Books, an independent open-access publisher, meaning her book will soon be freely available online.

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SPORTS Baseball Wins Following Cancelled Debut

BY MATTHEW LEE Sports Reporter

Despite a canceled season debut at Aurora last week, UChicago men’s baseball began their belated season on a strong note over the weekend, snatching two out of three wins at Transylvania.

Baseball’s first game of the series got off to a rambunctious start Friday night as the Maroons pounded the Transylvania Bats with a relentless nine runs in two innings. Though Transylvania responded with three runs in the otherwise scoreless third and fourth innings, the Maroons came back with seven runs in the fifth, sixth, and seventh to leave the final score 16–3.

The series’ second match, played on Saturday, March 2, began much more slowly. The Bats hit a single run in the first inning, but no more points would be scored until the fifth, when Chicago and Transylvania took one run each. Over the

next four innings, Transylvania slowly but steadily added to their lead, outscoring the Maroons in every inning but the ninth. The match ended Bats 7, Maroons 3.

Despite their Game 2 setback, the Maroons finished their weekend in a spectacular fashion in the second match of a long Saturday. Kicked off with a strong first quarter featuring two runs by Payton Jancsy and Ian Bohn, the Maroons ended the fifth with a 6–1 lead, a score that would remain unaltered through the end of the game.

Superb pitching was a constant throughout of the entire series. Standout performers for the weekend are led by first-year Kyle Petri, who pitched a stellar 16 strikeouts on Saturday’s second game. In match two, fourth-year Brenton Villasenor threw an impressive eight strikeouts to seven hits and one walk. In summation, the Maroon pitchers totaled 27 strikeouts on the weekend.

Diving Storms Toward Nationals

BY THOMAS GORDON Sports Editor

While most of UChicago was braving the cold and preparing for the upcoming onslaught of finals, the UChicago diving team were competing in the NCAA Division III Regional Championships. It was a historic performance for the team in the 3-meter dive. The Maroons were able to claim four of the top five spots and the top three spots overall. Agnes Lo, a third-year who also won the 1-meter on Friday, absolutely smoked the field by winning by 39 points. This was a bigger gap than the difference between second and fifth. Lo’s two regional championships were the first championships since the NCAA moved to the Zone format for diving. It seems likely with that dominating performance that all four divers (Lo, first-years Elizabeth Cron and Alice Saparov, and fourth-year Anna Girlich) should qualify for nationals. It would be by far the most divers that the women’s

team has ever sent to the national championships with the previous high being a grand total of one. The trajectory is nothing but up for these divers.

Lo thinks that the difference that provided the Maroons with the additional boost was the overall closeness of the team. “Our cheering and overall enthusiasm were unmatched by any other team on deck, and even when we messed up on some dives, our teammates were right there to keep the atmosphere energized and positive. By the end of the meet, we made our presence known not just because of our results, but because of our loud support for each other and even for divers on other teams. For us, having fun is always the priority in competitions.”

It is clearly a strategy that is working as these divers are on fire at the most important part of the season.

Track and Field Awaits NCAA Qualifiers

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BY BRINDA RAO Sports Reporter

The men and women’s track and field teams excelled this past weekend at two highly competitive meets. Members of the team competed at either the Carthage Final Qualifier Meet on Friday or the Wartburg Qualifier Meet on Saturday to try and make qualifying times for the NCAA National Meet. Runners, throwers and jumpers showcased their hard work from this past season, with many placing and achieving personal records.

At the Carthage meet, the Maroons showcased their best. Three pole vaulters on the women’s team placed: second-year Sidney Lampert in fourth, first-year Rachel TerHaar in sixth and third-year Tesa Pribitkin in eighth. This strong display from the women’s team was complemented by first-year Isabel Maletich’s first place in the triple jump with an impressive 11.82 meter jump. The men’s team also performed excellently, with three members placing.

Second-year Nike Reid placed first in the 55 meter race with a 6.52 second run. Off the track, first-year John McCormick placed eighth in the triple jump and third-year Alexander Scott placed first in shot put.

Reflecting on the meet, Sidney Lampert explains, “The main focus for me was just to

try and PR and qualify for nationals. It was good since the competition wasn’t really a concern since everyone is just competing with their personal bests in order to try to continue on.”

However, the Maroons were not done for the weekend. On Saturday, in Kenosha, Wisconsin, at the Wartburg Meet a slew of runners and jumpers dominated.

The women’s team had an exceptional performance with seven runners and a relay placing. Third-years Robin Peters and Mary Martin placed eighth in the 60 meter hurdles race and second in the 200 meter run, respectively. This was highlighted by strong displays from mid distance runners: fourth-year Tali Naibryf placed seventh in the 400 meter run while fourth-year Nicole VacaGuzman and first-year Kaitlyn Van Baalen placed second and fifth in the 800 meter run, respectively. Distance followed this strong example with strong races from second-year Sophie Elgamal placing second in the 3,000 meter run and third-year Clare Brockway placing second in the 5,000 meter run. The distance medley relay (second-years Emma Dyer, Tali Naibryf, Kaitlyn Van Baalen and Sophie Elgamal) placed fourth with a collective time of 11:58:92 minutes. The men’s team excelled in mid distance and distance events. In the 3,000 CONTINUED ON PG. 12

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Lacrosse Continues Hot Start To Inaugural Season

BY ALISON GILL Sports Reporter

The University of Chicago women’s lacrosse team continued its torrid start to the program’s inaugural season, beating Calvin College 18–14 on Saturday to improve their season mark to 3–0. It was the team’s first big test of the season, as the visiting Knights enter the season fresh off a third-straight trip to the NCAA tournament’s second round. The team, composed primarily of first-years, demonstrated maturity, confidence, and poise to pick up the impressive win.

Bolstered by a red hot offensive attack, the Maroons grabbed the lead less than four minutes into the first half with a nifty goal by first-year midfielder Karina Schulze. Two minutes later, fellow rookie midfielder Lally Johnson added to the lead with a goal of her own.

Schulze and Johnson have led the team’s blazing offense thus far this season, which has tallied at least 18 goals in all three games.

Schulze leads the team with 19 points (15 goals, four assists) while Johnson trails behind with 12 points (eight goals, four assists). Schulze also leads the team in ground balls (15), caused turnovers (10), and draw controls (20), tied with first-year midfielder Audrey Kaus.

The Knights quickly responded with a goal of their own, cutting the lead to 2–1, but the Maroons would see their lead swell to 6–2 behind goals from first-year midfielder Abbey Pouba, Schulze, first-year midfielder Anne Sensenig, and Kaus.

But the Knights clawed back into the game with three straight goals to nearly tie

the score, 6–5. If the momentum seemed to swing towards Calvin, the South Siders firmly regained it with their own trio of unanswered goals. Schulze completed the hat trick while Johnson and Kaus added their second scores of the game. Chicago entered halftime ahead by a score of 9–7.

To open the second half, Pouba and Schulze tallied goals before the Knights leveled the score, 11–11, with four straight goals.

With Calvin threatening to take control of the lead, the Maroons responded with a four-goal run of their own from first-year midfielder Ali Sheehy, Kaus, Johnson, and Schulze.

Sensenig would find the back of the net to stretch it to 16–11, but the Knights cut the score to make it 16–14 with a little over seven minutes remaining. Providing a much-needed cushion for the Maroons, Pouba and Sensenig would each tally goals to cap off an 18–14 victory.

While the UChicago offense proved potent and efficient, connecting on 18 of 30 shots for 60% shooting, the defense struggled to contain Calvin’s duo of Emma Verrett (four goals, one assist) and Megan Gilbert (four goals, one assist). The Maroons committed 30 fouls to Calvin’s 15, and thirdyear goalkeeper Honor Crandall recorded four saves on 25 shots. The Knights edged the Maroons on draw controls, 19–15, but Chicago would make up the difference by winning the turnover and ground ball battles.

The Maroons will look to improve their season record to 4–0 when they travel to St. Mary’s (Indiana) on Tuesday, March 5, for the program’s first ever road trip.

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meter run, second-year Chase Gardner placed fourth and first-year Henry Myers placed fifth. The men’s 4x400 relay (firstyear Dillon O’Loughlin, third-year Elliott Paintsil, fourth-year Ben Chaimberg, and third-year Tyson Miller) placed fifth with a collective time of 3:20:10 minutes. The combination of superb races, jumps and throws asserted that UChicago’s men and women’s track teams are ending their season with a bang.

With numerous members placing, the Maroons are waiting to hear from NCAA

to see who qualified for the National meet.

The NCAA National Meet is the last meet of the winter season. Following it, the men and women’s track teams will prepare for spring track and the start of their outdoor season. Lampert shares, “I’m really excited about my upcoming outdoor season! I performed really well for myself and I’m excited to get out there and be able to jump high.”

The qualifying members of the men and women’s track teams will compete at the NCAA Division III Indoor National Championship Meet on March 8-9 in Boston, Massachusetts.

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