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Thousands of UChicago Medical Center Nurses Strike, Shutting Down Emergency Services

By EMMA DYER News Editor Johnny Webb, a special procedures nurse and bargaining team member of the union National Nurses United (NNU), was one of 2,200 nurses who participated in a 24-hour strike outside the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC).

Webb and other UCMC nurses said that working overtime in understaffed conditions prevents them from providing patients the highest level of care.

“I live 62 miles away from here. I am up at four every morning to get here on time at 6:30,” Webb told The Maroon.

“If I’m not out when I’m supposed to be out, I’m not getting home until 9:30–10 or later. You’re not getting your proper sleep, you’re waking up feeling tired, coming in still trying to take care of patients when you’re not 100 percent at your best.”

“There are many nights when I worked on a 28-bed unit with one assistant,” said Grazyna Cohen, a staff nurse in a general medicine unit with many oncology patients. “And this is a

place where maybe 20 patients are highrisk for falling, there are many patients that have altered mental status and are confused, and many patients have challenges moving to change position.”

Nurses at the UCMC went on strike Friday morning after filing more than 1,700 complaints in the last 18 months, citing understaffing and mandatory overtime in violation of the National Labor Relations Act. UCMC refuted many of the NNU nurses’ complaints in a press release published Thursday, saying “its nurse staffing levels are the best in the state and city — a fact that has been validated by staffing data and third-party evaluations.”

The strike comes amid ongoing contract negotiations between NNU and UCMC that began after the last contract expired in the spring. NNU filed for a one-day strike, from 7 a.m. on Friday, September 20 to 7 a.m. on Saturday, September 21.

Chief Nursing Officer Debra Albert criticized NNU nurses for being unable to reach an agreement.

“The strike has little to do with

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The scale of the strike prompted UCMC to obtain replacement nurses during the strike. Temporary nurses require contracts of at least five full shifts per nurse, leading UCMC to withhold staffing NNU nurses until Wednesday at 7 a.m.

UCMC began preparing for the strike on Monday, and on Wednesday night enacted a full bypass plan to direct all ambulances to other hospitals.

Some pediatric patients were transferred to other hospitals early in the week in anticipation of the strike, some procedures were rescheduled, and the hospital limited all transfers from other hospitals.

Despite being locked out of the hospital until Wednesday, when contracts for the temporary nurses end, the nurses on strike said the work stoppage would only last 24 hours.

A public GoFundMe with a $5,000 goal was created to support nurses in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) forced out of work until Wednesday. The fund exceeded its goal

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NLRB Proposes Rule Barring Student Workers from Federal Labor Rights

By MILES BURTON News Editor The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a proposed rule on Monday that would define undergraduate and graduate workers at private colleges and universities as nonemployees under the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).

If the rule becomes permanent, student workers—including the instructors and research assistants in UChicago’s Graduate Students United (GSU)—will not be subject to federal labor protections, including the right to form a federally-backed union.

In a statement to The Maroon, GSU called the proposed rule “a shameless attempt to undercut the rights of student employees.”

In the proposed rule, the Board majority argues against asserting its jurisdiction over “primarily educational” relationships in order to protect “free speech rights in the classroom and several matters traditionally in the domain of academic decision-making, including those concerning course content and length; class size and location; who, what, and where to teach or research; university student assistants’ educational and service responsibilities; and standards for advancement and graduation.”

Administrators at UChicago have similarly argued that a union could interfere with graduate programs by inserting union representatives in decisions that have tradi-

tionally been made by faculty.

“A collective bargaining agreement would likely create an environment of standardization without room for differentiation, changing the nature and scope of the relationships of graduate students to their advisors, other faculty, and degree programs,” Provost Daniel Diermeier wrote in an e-mail to the university community in June 2019, after the end of GSU’s three-day strike.

A Democratic majority on the Board overturned long-standing precedent and granted student workers at private universities federal labor protections in 2000—a decision which was overturned by a Republican majority in 2004. An Obama-appointed majority reversed that ruling in a 2016 adjudication known as Columbia, which extended private university student workers sweeping protections, including a route to form unions through an NLRB-sanctioned vote. If the proposed rule becomes permanent, it would reverse the precedent handed down in Columbia.

“We organized and won real improvement before the 2016 Columbia ruling, we kept organizing once it became clear that Trump’s majority wouldn’t enforce that ruling, and we’ll keep organizing now,” GSU told The Maroon. “Trump’s political maneuvers don’t prevent UChicago from following the lead of Harvard, Brown, and Georgetown, and bargaining with grad workers for the good of the university.”

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Senator Sanders (A.B. ’64) Addresses Chicago Area Educators

By MILES BURTON News Editor Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (A.B. ’64) joined Chicago-area educators and school employees last Tuesday for a rally as the Chicago Teachers’ Union (CTU) and Service Employees International Union Local 73 (SEIU) began a strike authorization vote.

“I am so proud to be with you here tonight,” Sanders told the union members assembled at the CTU headquarters, “to say to the City of Chicago: sit down with the CTU. Sit down with SEIU. And negotiate a goodfaith contract that is just, that is fair, that treats the teachers and the staff in this city with the respect and dignity they deserve.”

Following the rally, union members had until Thursday to vote on a potential strike.

CTU announced that the strike authorization passed with 94 percent of votes in favor.

The strike could begin as soon as October 7.

CTU represents more than 25,000 public school educators in Chicago and is a chapter of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). SEIU represents more than 29,000 public employees in Illinois and Indiana, including support staff at Chicago-area schools. Chicago teachers have been engaged in contract negotiations with the city and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) for more than nine months. The previous union contract expired in June, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot (J.D. ’89) had hoped to lock in a new contract before CPS students returned to school ear-

lier this month.

More than a dozen speakers preceded Sanders at the rally, including several aldermen and much of the leadership of the Chicago labor movement.

Sanders spoke last, around 8 p.m., and received several standing ovations from the crowd. His speech touched on many of the proposals core to his presidential run, including abolishing student debt and making public colleges and universities tuition free.

“My critics—of which, needless to say, there are more than a few—say ‘Bernie, how are you gonna pay for it?’ I’ll tell you exactly how we’re gonna pay for it. We’re gonna pay for it through a tax on Wall Street speculation.”

Sanders also highlighted his proposals to increase government revenue by taxing the richest Americans, including a wealth tax he unveiled the day prior to the rally.

Several other presidential candidates offered their support to Chicago teachers from afar. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who many see as Sanders’s rival for the left-most votes in the Democratic Primary, tweeted her supportfor CTU before the strike authorization vote, followed by a video on Friday emphasizing her experience as a public school teacher. Vice President Joe Biden also tweeted in supportof CTU on Monday. California Senator Kamala Harris and Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julián Castro each tweeted their support as well.

UChicago Launches Collaboration in Engineering, Biochem Research with French Group

By SOFIE LIE News Reporter This week, The University of Chicago launched a partnership with the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) that will fund a total of 10 new three-year research positions. . The signing comes only months after the University announced it would expand its Center in Paris twofold, cementing UChicago’s presence in the French capital.

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rector Alain Schuhl, and Vice President for National Laboratories Juan De Pablo signed an agreement on Wednesday and announced the first round of fund-recipients, a mix of Ph.D. students and faculty from UChicago and French universities supported by the CNRS. The CNRS agreement is one of several initiatives by the University to expand its presence in Paris. Since creating France Chicago Center (FCC), an organization that supports fellowships and travel grants, and opening a research and teaching Cen-

ter in Paris in 2004, UChicago has worked closely with French research institutions on academic literature. The Chicago Collaborating Across The Sciences (FACCTS) funding program (part of the FCC), has supported research projects since 2007 with help from the Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab, resulting in around 200 joint publications between UChicago and French researchers and $20 million in private and government funding.

With the CNRS, the University will seed-fund up to 10 American and French

researchers for three-year projects in physics, molecular engineering, mathematics, and biochemistry.

Diermeier connected the CNRS program to the University’s concern about government policies restricting travel for scholars. (In 2016, the University challenged President Trump’s travel ban on people from Muslim-majority countries, filing an amicus brief to the Supreme Court with 30 colleges.) He framed the program as a response to global issues—like climate CONTINUED ON PG. 4

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nametags reading, “HELLO MY NAME IS: Shameless” in reference to an e-mail Albert sent to nurses calling the actions by nurses on strike “shameless.”

Albert said in the e-mail that union leaders should be responsible for labor negotiations and that striking places an undue risk on patients.

“Again, I think this is shameless behavior. There’s no other word for it. Shameless.” Albert wrote. “Everyone has the right to advocate for their patients and be heard. But only union leaders can stop this strike.”

Members of Graduate Students United (GSU) supported NNU nurses throughout the day. At the event’s main midday rally, Illinois State Senator Robert Peters, 10th Ward Alderman Susan Sadlowski Garza, and NNU bargaining team members stood atop a flatbed truck as a stage in front of hundreds of nurses, leading chants in support of increased staffing.

Not all nursing departments are subject to the same state regulations on patient-staff ratios. Nurses working in the NICU have state-mandated patient-nurse ratios issued by the Illinois Department of Public Health. NICU nurses stood alongside nurses from other departments.

“We felt that in solidarity, every patient deserves a safe staffing and what the NICU has,” said Terri Collins, an NICU nurse and bargaining team member.

In addition to hiring additional registered nurses, the NNU nurses are asking for more Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs) to aid in patient care.

Cohen said that CNAs are a necessary part of a nursing staff as they are able to check vital signs, blood sugar, feed patients, and help patients move.

“All we are asking for is safe staffing, because we know we will deliver excellent care and we are here for our patients,” Cohen said.

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change and the refugee crisis—whose solving necesitate cross-border collaboration.

“We have been very vocal in our concern with government policies that restrict access to global scholars—restrictions on both immigration and travel restrictions— and we will continue to do so because fundamentally we believe that the greatest science and the greatest academic accomplishment...thrive in an environment of openness,” Diermeier said.

Among the inaugural cohort of fund-recipients is UChicago Assistant Professor Stephanie Palmer, who will work with Aleksandra Walczak, a CNRS researcher at the French graduate school École Normale Supérieure. Though both have a common training in theoretical physics, Palmer’s expertise is in neuroscience and Walczak’s is in biophysics. Palmer’s recent projects study how neurons encode information and their dynamic, interdependent interactions. Together, they proposed a project to relate prediction in the immune system to prediction in the brain.

Prediction in the immune system and in the brain “happen on very different timescales but are both equally critical to organism,” Palmer told The Maroon after the signing event.

Palmer and Walczak are using their grant to investigate the adaptation mechanisms in the brain that help to anticipate a compensatory response from the body.

By understanding the neuronal signaling involved the body’s responses, they hope to determine what these have in common with adaptations in the immune system that cause the body to remember previously-encountered pathogens. Palmer suspects these predictive mechanisms are similar.

“The idea is that you might build [biological mechanisms] with very different parts, but we think that there’s a common mathematical language,” she said.

Along with four other American-French research pairs, Palmer and Walczak will commence the three-year funding period for their collaboration this autumn.

University to Demolish Taxi Building

By CAMILLE KIRSCH News Editor Demolition of the University of Chicago–owned American Taxi Service building at 5608 South Stony Island Avenue is expected to begin this week and will continue until the end of November.

At a September 26 community meeting regarding the demolition, University officials said they have no plans for the future of the property, which is located steps from the recently-built Solstice on the Park luxury apartment complex and just a few blocks from the proposed site of the Obama Presidential Center.

The American Taxi Service building, built in 1928, was formerly used by Facilities Services and later converted into a rehearsal space for Court Theatre. However, Court Theatre moved out of the space in 2013. It has been vacant since then.

University of Chicago officials say the historic brick and terracotta building’s deteriorating condition made demolition necessary.

“The building is in terrible disrepair and it’s unsafe,” said Wendy Walker Williams, Executive Director of Community Partnerships for the Office of Civic Engagement.

Asked whether the University had considered renovating or rehabilitating the building instead of demolishing it, Williams said further inquiries should go through the University of Chicago press office.

After demolition concludes, construction crews will lay down sod and fence off the lot, which will remain vacant indefinitely. “I have heard no talk of selling it.

There’s been no talk of having a building on the site either,” said Facilities Services staff member Michael Parr.

Asked whether the lot could remain vacant for years, Williams reiterated that the University has no plans for the site. However, Williams said she was happy to relay suggested uses for the lot to University administrators. At the September meeting, community members proposed potential uses for the vacant lot including a dog park

and a community center.

A representative of the demolition crew present at the meeting said that neighborhood residents should expect minor traffic disruption during the two-month demolition project. The parking lane on the 5600 block of South Stony Island Avenue will be closed for the duration of demolition, as will the nearby 56th and Stony Island CTA bus stop. Bus commuters, including students at neighboring Bret Harte Elementary School, are advised to use the 55th

Street or 57th Street bus stops instead.

Construction will take place Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 5 or 6 p.m. The demolition crew will take dust abatement measures, but neighborhood residents should expect construction noise.

The planned demolition was first announced at a Fifth Ward community meeting in May 2019. City of Chicago records show that in June 2019, the property failed its scheduled building code inspection.

The American Taxi Building, built in 1928, on Stony Island Avenue.

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UChicago Physicist Leads U.S. Team to Wingsuit Flying World Cup Win

By EMMA DYER News Editor The jump is automatic, and the sight of the ground 12,000 feet below is nothing but routine. Alexey Galda focuses on the details of flight: the resistance of the air against his wingsuit, landmarks below to orient himself, and the angle needed to guide his body along the flight path.

Theoretical physicist and assistant professor Galda placed sixth in the Performance division at the FAI World Cup of Wingsuit Flying last month in Italy. In the team competition, Galda captained the United States to a first-place finish.

Wingsuit flying requires athletes to wear a bodysuit made of a fabric that adds webbing between the flyer’s legs, as well as between their arms and torso, to provide the body with adequate lift to fly through the air. Wingsuit flyers compete in either a performance division, with the goal of maximizing the distance flown, or an acrobatic division, where flyers are judged on stunt and trick performance while in the air.

Before he found wingsuit flying, Galda practiced aerodynamic sports such as kite surfing, paragliding, and speed flying.

“Once I got into skydiving in 2013, flying my own body became my primary goal,” he said. “United States Parachute Association (USPA) requires at least 200 skydives before one is allowed to fly in a wingsuit, which took me two years. Once I reached the 200-jump mark, I could not wait to

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start wingsuit flying.”

Galda’s available devoted wingsuit flying time is confined to an occasional weekend. He makes between 100 and 200 jumps a year, 10 being the maximum number of jumps one can do in a day. During the week, Galda assumes his main role as a theoretical physicist. His research currently focuses on bringing quantum computers and communication closer to reality. He uses advanced analytical and numerical methods to better understand the complex and often counterintuitive physics of quantum processes.

An understanding of physics has helped Galda optimize his training.

“With the extremely limited amount of time I can devote to this hobby, I had to come up with a way to train more efficiently,” Galda said. As a solution, Galda developed his own software to analyze flight data. The software allows Galda to make informed adjustments to his flight technique by simulating different flight parameters, using artificial intelligence to analyze GPS data, and objectively analyzing his flight performance.

The same year Galda became eligible to start wingsuit flying, the USPA announced that the first National Championships in wingsuit performance flying would be held in the Chicago area, at the place Galda practices, Chicagoland Skydiving Center. By October 2015, Galda became the USPA Champion in the Intermediate category.

“After that point, the path was clear to me—I wanted to continue my progression and move to the Advanced category, where people fly in the largest wingsuit that provide the highest gliding performance,” Galda said.

Divisions separate competitors by the size of their wingsuit. Larger wingsuits have an increased surface area directly exposed to the airflow, making them more difficult to control.

“One always starts with smaller wingsuits and slowly progresses over several years to flying big race suits,” Galda said.

Performance wingsuit competitions are graded in three main areas: total flight time, horizontal distance, and average speed. GPS loggers are attached to wingsuits to record flight data, which are then compared to determine a winner.

Training for wingsuit flying does not

Alexey Galda in his competition wingsuit at the World Cup. courtesy of alexey galda require a typical cardio or weight routine to be successful.

“We’re not very great athletes outside of wingsuit flying,” Galda said, noting that if strength training is incorporated into a wingsuit flyer’s training, it should be focused on the shoulders. “The internal pressure inside those wings helps to keep it rigid, but it’s still very physical on the shoulders.”

But flying does require mental preparation, Galda said. The 20 minutes it takes for flyers to reach jumping altitude is a crucial time for flyers to prepare themselves mentally for the jump.

Before a jump, Galda is not thinking about the distance to the ground below or the first step off the plane; rather, he uses the time in the plane to think about the path he must take once he jumps.

“I pull out my phone and I have some maps, and I look—okay, I need to fly over this house, this corner of the lake, this field, this road,” Galda said. “In the plane, typically what I worry the most about is not performance, because that is muscle memory. Navigation is what you need to think about because there could be a cloud in the way, so you don’t always see the entire row.”

Galda has designed his own mobile map application that overlays his flight lane, which he must stay in while flying, on

top of an image of the whole landscape visible from the plane. The map also shows the lanes of other flyers in the plane, so he can ensure he does not veer into their lanes.

One of Galda’s most memorable competition flights was at the 2017 FAI World Cup, hosted in Overton, Nevada. Galda had one jump left and was in contention for second place in the world if the final jump went well. While in the air during that final jump, Galda knew it was probably going to put him in second—and it did.

“I started yelling, screaming, it was a crazy experience. I still had to land, but I didn’t care about it.”

Wingsuit flying is a relatively tightknit community, with only about 100 active wingsuit athletes in the world, according to Galda. Competitions are an odd mix of saying hello to old friends while simultaneously battling them in a highly competitive event.

“Every event like this is a big challenge, both physically and mentally. However, it is also a great opportunity to see good old friends from all over the world, from Russia to Australia, and meet new talented pilots,” Galda said. “With our community being so small, the general atmosphere is extremely positive and friendly, despite the extreme competitiveness of top athletes.”

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The Importance of Candor and Communication Though Social Anxiety Is Quite Common at UChicago, There Is Still Room for Building Confidence Through Kindness and Honesty

By ELI WINTER I can’t remember getting much advice that helped before UChicago. Don’t take Hum and Sosc at the same time—but I like reading, and each year has been easier since. Aim for eight hours of sleep each night—but my sleep schedule is erratic at best, so I don’t always feel rested. This kind of advice was generally well-intentioned, but generic, and it usually came from people I didn’t know well.

The advice I remember came from a good friend back home in Houston. I’ve known him for a few years. We usually talk about the same things when we see each other, he usually asks me the same questions, and he usually gives me the same pieces of advice. One of these is: “Be assertive.” The trouble was, when I first heard it, I didn’t know how.

For a long time, I understood

anxiety to be intrinsic to myself—in particular, the anxiety that prevents you from doing the things you really want to do: ask someone out, reach out to a friend, or explore the city. When I first started college, anxiety consumed me to a degree I hadn’t felt in some time. Minor social interactions made my heart race.

O-Week parties made me want to cry. Each time I returned to my room, even with my dear roommate, was laced with defeat. It felt as if others were speaking a language I didn’t know. Meanwhile, whenever I met a situation in which saying what I wanted to say would risk hurting my feelings, I held back. I used sensitivity as an excuse to prevent self-growth.

Eventually this became maddening. Through trial and error, I learned the importance of communicating in a way that is clear, direct, and kind. Of course, this comes with some qualifications.

Go with your gut if you feel unsafe. Sometimes ghosting is the best option. And kind doesn’t mean nice. You don’t need to listen to people who gaslight you. It is not disrespectful to be honest about what you want, or what you can and can’t do. It is okay to ask for help.

I can trace back each instance in which I have hurt someone to this: I communicated in a way that was indirect and projected anxiety, or I made assumptions about what someone meant or what they could do for me. And in each instance in which I have asserted myself successfully, I have tried to understand the other person’s perspective as generously as I can, and tried to be clear, direct, and kind when expressing how I feel.

I have found it far easier to manage challenges with this as my watchword. It feels so obvious to me now that to write this feels

unhelpful, but I hope it helps.

Eli Winter is a fourth-year in

the College majoring in Creative Writing.

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The Myth of the Impenetrable College Clique While Exclusive Friend Groups Were Commonplace in High School, UChicago’s Social Scene Is Less Daunting if You Remain Open-Minded

By SUSY LIU In high school, I hated people. I wasn’t antisocial, but I had a small group of friends and just kind of ignored everyone else.

People as a collective idea were just generally disappointing. In my experience, they were cliquey, they were bullies, and they never

actually cared about you. Because of this mentality, I ended up isolating myself, closing myself off to classmates, many of whom I later regretted not getting to know better.

I came into my first year of college with a more open mind.

But still, O-Week felt at times like a Hunger Games of finding

friends, and could be a little discouraging. Fall quarter, I felt like I was “behind” my suitemates socially: I felt like I wasn’t as close to others as they were. They had secret topics to talk about already, and I immediately felt excluded, almost instinctively, as feeling excluded had become a habit.

During those times, it was

hard to put things into perspective, because I had been framing social situations in terms of cliques vs. loners, cool vs. uncool, and fake vs. real for a long time.

Surprisingly, I found that my high school mentality of social structures barely aligned with the actual social dynamics of college.

By taking social risks, being more

conscious of others, and staying open-minded, I found that while cliques don’t entirely disappear in college, they’re only there if you actively look for them; that being cool doesn’t really matter, since so many UChicago kids were uncool in high school; and that fakeness is a matter of perception, not beCONTINUED ON PG. 7

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One of my friends says that cliques are basically what people who are afraid to approach others call groups of friends. If you don’t believe that you can join the group, any group of friends might seem exclusive. He says that secretly, however, everyone wants more friends. You’ll find that people are actually very open to meeting you. Many a time I have sat at my house table alone eating at strange hours of the day and bumped into house ghosts I never see or expect to have conversations with. Surprisingly, they come sit with me, and I end up having substantial conversations ranging from semi-nocturnal sleep habits to career aspirations. I then realized that I could approach others as openly as others approached me. At a place like UChicago, where so many students know how it feels to be

excluded and overlooked, your peers know your value and won’t easily dismiss your experiences and perspectives.

So, don’t be afraid to approach others. Be around people. Be available to others and take social risks. It might be uncomfortable at first—I remember feeling extremely vulnerable O-Week when I entered a bustling house lounge alone. But instead of being ignored like I was used to, my housemates welcomed me and invited me to a game of Monopoly.

From then on, I hung out a lot in the lounge and faced social risks with a “Why not?” attitude. When my house IM representative needed girls to play flag football, I went without knowing how to play or throw a football. We lost— mercy rule—41–0. But that game was the best decision I made all quarter. I started to participate in midnight soccer instead of staying on the sidelines. I did bowl-

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ing, volleyball, broomball, and I bonded with my housemates over bad pre-game dancing and equally bad post-game chanting.

We didn’t win a whole lot, and I was definitely a little awkward at the beginning, but I kept with it, and my housemates are now some of my best friends.

Taking risks isn’t as hard as it seems, and there are many ways to do so. A trick I learned recently is to count down from five whenever you are hesitating to do something. Don’t get caught up in “trying” and psyching yourself out. If you want to approach a group of people, count down from five and then just go do it.

Even the smallest social risks are worth taking, like saying hi to people you know going to and from classes. I’m constantly pushing myself to take risks and be open to others. During office hours, I got to know my fellow struggling classmates instead of ignoring them. We were talking about the weather or something, but it doesn’t matter. Once these risks become habit, so many social possibilities open up.

My second piece of advice is to focus on others, not on yourself.

A lot of awkwardness comes from worrying about how you come across to others, whether or not you seem cool enough. Friendships are about being genuinely interested in another person and finding common experiences, and being self-conscious distracts you from expressing yourself and your unique experiences naturally. There’s this episode of How I Met Your Mother where Ted and Barney are trying to pick up girls on “The Drunk Train” (latenight trains that inebriated partygoers take back home) without success. They went back to the drawing board and it hit them— they weren’t having success because they weren’t drunk like everyone else was. They were too focused on their own mission to be immersed in the Drunk Train experience. Of course, you don’t

need to be drunk to have fun— that’s not the takeaway here! But I found that if I thought too much about my goals in social situations, I didn’t feel completely like part of the UChicago Friendship Train. Trying to be myself with others has been a lifelong struggle, but I noticed that the relationships I value most came serendipitously, for example, through IM sports. They didn’t come from meticulous planning and I never pushed myself to become friends with them. I realized that relationships come naturally when you express yourself naturally, and that involves thinking a lot less.

Connecting with others also requires you to be conscious of others, which, for me, involves being interested in others and caring about them, two things that go hand in hand. Luckily, UChicago’s student body is famous for being endlessly interesting. One of my good friends was taking Honors Analysis as a first-year and his entire worldview is built on mathematical models. One late-night conversation led him to draft up a theory of the impact of human beliefs on social good, complete with graphs and integrals. Developing an appreciation for his unique worldview gave me a deeper appreciation for his personhood as well, even as someone who doesn’t share his love for math. Being able to understand people on a deeper level led to being more caring and conscious of them. Before college, I was never really perceptive of my friends’ emotional states, but I can now see more clearly what they are feeling and do my best to respond accordingly.

Third, I found that the construct of “real” versus “fake” friends I was used to in high school is really just a matter of comparing people you don’t believe you can be close to those you are already close with. But “real” friends take time, and no one is truly one-dimensional. Many of my peers can relate to feeling

like a different person depending on what group of people they are with. Selfhood is dynamic. Because of this, I believe closeness comes when people both recognize that the other is multifaceted and are willing to explore the different sides of a personality.

Everyone has their own way of revealing themselves to and understanding others—it’s not always about sharing each other’s deepest darkest secrets. But first, you need to believe you can be close to others. If you believe that people are dynamic, that you can be close to them in your own way, others will feel at ease to express their dynamic self and be close to you as well. Sure, I might connect more with certain friends than others. For example, I can connect with one friend emotionally better than I can with another friend, with whom I connect better intellectually. But the former friend is not just “caring” and the latter friend is not just “smart” to me. They are each complex, and I feel close to them knowing that they know I am complex as well.

I know that’s all a bit abstract, but the point I’m making is to stay open-minded. There is no one “type” of person you can be close with. I might not have sought out many of my housemates as friends from the get-go.

But a mutual appreciation and understanding grows with time.

So, even though it might seem like people are closer to each other than you are to anyone in your first week or months, really, you are not behind in any way. Just keep at it.

At the end of the day, remember that everyone else shares the same qualms you have. But as you’ll start to notice and experience, those fears don’t stop us from seeking meaningful connections with others.

Susy Liu is a second-year in the College.

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The Wright Stuff 110 Years of History at Hyde Park’s Robie House

By JOSHUA VILLERS Grey City Reporter

It’s common knowledge that the Frederick C. Robie House is one of the more famous of the many tourist attractions on and around campus. And it’s obvious, looking at world-famous buildings and monuments, such as the Robie House, many now centuries old, that they’re irreplaceable mediums for conveying culture and history. They’re irreplaceable, in fact, to the point that their vulnerability, decay, or outright destruction often attracts high amounts of media coverage and activism. The most oft-cited examples of destroyed architecture are sometimes ancient, as in the lost ancient wonders of the world. One of the most alarming in recent memory was the burning of the Notre Dame this past April. As of late, they’re often in places affected by war and other armed conflict, like the Islamic State group’s destruction of ancient Syrian buildings. Countless important but less famous buildings have ended up demolished over the years. These, on the other hand, garner comparatively less attention. These are structures large enough to obstruct a planned development, or small enough to not warrant a second thought.

Here in Hyde Park, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Robie House recently underwent extensive interior restoration. And as of now, it’s safe to say that it’s been spared the fate of the aforementioned buildings. For the first time in decades, both the inside and the outside of the house reflect Frank Lloyd Wright’s original plans and vision. But the path he took to get it there was anything but straightforward, and the fact that it stands today

at all was far from guaranteed. the maroon spoke to David Bagnall, the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust’s curator in Chicago, for further details on the house’s turbulent history.

Built in 1909 at the behest of the Robie family—Frederick, Laura, and their children—the house wasn’t quite on campus back then as it is now. The University had only just begun to expand in the house’s direction under President Harry Judson. The Theological Seminary, the Protestant-affiliated seminary now based on 60th Street, wouldn’t move into Saieh Hall until 1923. Ida Noyes, just down the street, wouldn’t exist

until 1916, dedicated as a celebration of the University’s quarter-centennial.

In spite of its age, the house has always been nearly adjacent to the University.

Both Frederick and Laura Robie made very purposeful decisions about the house and its placement. Frederick Robie was a Chicago native, self-described as ambitious, and the inventor of an experimental motorcar. He wanted a kind of remarkable house and had plans to make it so. But as he would tell his son in an interview 50 years later, his plans were “nebulous” and he “could not explain it to anybody.” In the end, it was Wright himself to whom Robie was at-

tracted.

“I became rather interested in his views,” Robie said. “And I thought, well, if he was a nut, and I was maybe, we’d get along swell. He agreed that was entirely possible.” Wright often found that “American men of business with unspoiled instincts and untainted ideals” were his favored clients. “A man of this type usually has the faculty of judging for himself,” he wrote in his 1908 essay In the Cause of Architecture. Wright liked those clients who were as idealistic as he was about architecture and its purpose.

Visitors admire the Robie House, located at 5757 South Woodlawn Ave., in this photo from the Maroon archives.

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“[I]t’s really the attempt to demolish the house that actually raises its profile.” continued from pg. 8

Laura Robie (née Hieronymus) had visited Hyde Park for the 1893 World’s Fair. After riding on the Midway Plaisance Ferris wheel and seeing the sights, she decided she wanted to attend the University. She went on to live in Foster Hall, then the University’s first women’s dorm, and now offices on the quad. Laura and Frederick had met at a dance at the University. Frederick Robie, at the time, had been living in Englewood.

As such, the house’s proximity to the University was a likely a conscious decision on the part of Laura Robie, Bagnall said. “There’s no...family accounts that were left, but Laura Robie was a graduate of the University of Chicago, and it’s likely that she was interested in remaining a part of the social life at [the University],” he said.

Wright took note of the house’s placement near the University as well, but for more idealistic reasons. Wright balked at the contrast between the University’s supposed intellectual or progressive spirit, and the fact that the University’s buildings mostly called back to an earlier age. “Why should an American university in a land of democratic ideals in a machine age be characterized by secondhand adaptation of Gothic forms?” he said in a 1930 Princeton lecture.

Wright saw the Robie House as his chance to contrast the University’s nostalgia with what, in his view, could be a house both beautiful and practical for the 20th century, not the 12th.

However, the Robie family only lived in the house bearing their name for 14 months. Frederick Robie sold the house a short time after his father’s death to settle debts. Around the same time, Laura Robie had filed for divorce, taking both children. The Taylor family bought the house from Frederick, but their tenure in the house was also short lived. David Lee Taylor bought the house in December 1911 and died in October 1912, after which Ellen Taylor sold it and moved back to Wilmette, IL. The Wilber Family bought it from the Taylors, and went on to spend the most time living on the property. They lived there from 1912 to 1926, when Marshall Wilber sold the property. Throughout their stay at the house, Isadora Wilber

kept diaries and ledgers, repeatedly noting the chill inside the house, at one point dropping as low as 44 degrees Fahrenheit. After their daughter Marcia died in 1916, at age 25, Wilber recorded that the house was “like a tomb.” By 1923, when the Theological Seminary had moved into Saieh Hall, just across the street, Marshall Wilber had grown old and his daughters had moved away.

In light of his lessened need for a large house, he sold it to the Theological Seminary in 1926, beginning nearly 70 years of flux in the house’s status and fortunes.

Though the Seminary initially used the house as a dormitory, they “bought it with the idea that they would eventually demolish it to build a dormitory on the site,” Bagnall said. By 1941, the house looked evidently overgrown. As word spread of the Seminary’s plans to demolish, architects and preservationists began to raise the alarm. Planned demolitions like this, as well as the successful demolition of buildings like New York’s Penn Station, served as catalysts in the 1950s and ’60s for a larger movement to protect buildings with historical or architectural significance. Prior, the automobile boom and the development-minded philosophies of urban planners like Robert Moses had favored demolishing even “historic” buildings, if it meant something more idealistic could be built in their place.

Wright himself also campaigned on behalf of the house he designed, writing a number of letters to wealthy Chicagoans, in the process. In one of these letters to Sarah Adler, wife of Chicago clothier Julius Vile, he wrote, “The [Seminary] intends to destroy the Robie House. If you are so disposed, will you kindly address a protest letter to Albert W. Palmer, president of the Chicago Theological Seminary?” In the letter, he also calls the house a source of “worldwide architectural inspiration.” Other prominent Chicago architects, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, joined committees in order to save the house. Ultimately, the Seminary had not raised enough money to actually build the new dormitory, and so their plans were put on hold. But the proposed demolition, and its resulting outcry, greatly raised the house’s profile. This would be only the first time

that a close call wound up bolstering the house’s public perception.

The second attempt came in 1957, again on the part of the Seminary looking to expand, and again Wright himself campaigned on behalf of the house. He returned to Chicago.

“He does an interview in the press,” Bagnall said, “where he calls the house a cornerstone of American architecture, modern architecture, and that to wreck it would be like destroying a fine piece of sculpture, or a beautiful painting.”

Wright was nearly 90 years old by this point and famously commented, “It all goes to show the danger of entrusting anything spiritual to the clergy.”

The city of Chicago had also just begun to establish the Chicago Landmarks Ordinance, with the Robie House on the original list of protected structures.

Once again, a kind of mass mobilization arose around saving the house.

This time, the house avoided demolition when a development firm called Webb & Knapp purchased the house from the Seminary, using it as offices for their Hyde Park operations. Two fraternity chapters with houses in the neighboring area—one of which briefly had Wright as a member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison—also offered to vacate their premises, giving the Seminary ample space to expand and eliminating the need to demolish the Robie House.

The University purchased the house in 1962, but this didn’t mark the end of its unstable history. In 1967, it became the center for the University-absorbed Adlai Stevenson Institute for International Affairs, in turn becoming a hotspot for protests against American foreign policy in the 1960s and 1970s.

One 1970 protest against the Vietnam War damaged portions of the house. The Institute would go on to be absorbed into the University’s Center for International Studies in 1975, but would continue to use the Robie House for public meeting rooms. Only in 1997 was the house given to the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, dedicated exclusively to its preservation and maintenance.

After the Wilbers vacated the house, it took over 70 years for the house to become a completely preserved and protected building—despite the fact that the

Museum of Modern Art was showcasing it as an important example of Modernist architecture as early as 1932. Wright’s work was much more prominent in Europe, Bagnall explained, buoyed by Wright’s Wasmuth Portfolio. “In the U.S.,” he explains, “it’s really the attempt to demolish the house that actually raises its profile.”

Other Wright buildings didn’t have the same happy ending. Bagnall cited the Larkin Building, built in 1906 in Buffalo, and the Imperial Hotel, built in 1922 in Tokyo, as examples of Wright buildings that lacked the renown necessary to avoid demolition, or were on the wrong side of the trend for architectural preservation.

“It comes down to the reputation and how that reputation grows,” Bagnall said. “With the Larkin Building, while it was a famous Wright building, it was demolished at a time when there wasn’t such a strong interest in preservation in the U.S. Its reputation wasn’t enough to save it.”

Architecture, as a medium for art, and as an expression of cultural heritage, is uniquely bound by its functional purpose. Architecture frequently has a duty to be used in a way that many other artistic works are not. In spite of Frank Lloyd Wright’s lofty position within the canon of American architecture, his buildings haven’t always been treated with the same care that the Wright Trust now works to ensure. The owners of a cottage designed by Wright in suburban Glencoe, IL filed and were granted a demolition permit just this June.

A Wright-designed multi-purpose entertainment facility called the Midway Gardens existed in Hyde Park for just 15 years. Buildings, regardless of their importance, beauty, or novelty, have to contend with demands of functionality and new development. And the Robie House nearly met a similar fate to many other architecturally significant buildings: deterioration at best and destruction at worst.

But today, there are tours daily. The house looks pristine. And to most, it’s as much a part of the campus landscape as the Seminary Co-Op or as Saieh Hall across the street. For now, at least, it seems here to stay.

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ARTS EXPO Chicago Enchants with Surrealist Motifs

By MATTHEW HERSKOWITZ Arts Reporter

On September 19th, I had the pleasure of attending EXPO Chicago, one of the premier contemporary art fairs in the country, which ran until the 22nd.

EXPO is held annually at Navy Pier and lasts four days, the first being reserved for VIP guests. This year, over 170 booths filled the warehouse where the fair was held, split between established commercial galleries seeking to sell art and cultural spaces hosting curated ex-

hibitions.

As curious curators and eccentric onlookers alike inspected hundreds of artworks, ranging from paintings to installations, I gleaned some artistic insight from curator Alison Katz Wolfson, co-operator of Neumann Wolfson galleries in New York City. She showed me a few of Michael Belivacqua’s pieces, which are a surrealistic blend of references to pop art, alternative rock, rap music, and video games. Uniting his pieces is the motif of an ominous hooded figure who features throughout much

A detail from “Claudette Colvin Flag,” 2019, by June Edmonds. june edmonds / luis de jesus

“Cultural Junkie: Cremaster Blend” six years. michael balivacqua

of the work.

When the doors opened on Friday at 11 a.m., I realized how slight a portion I had seen of EXPO the previous day.

Exhibitors at the fair were grouped into five categories: Galleries, Editions + Books, Profile, Exposure, and Special Exhibitions. There were several fantastic Special Exhibitions—mini-shows curated around a theme—run by such familiar spaces as the Hyde Park Arts Center and the UChicago Department of Visual Arts. Many young and emerging artists got to showcase their works and gain public traction at the Exposure booths.

One of the most arresting at EXPO came in the form of a video, with a run time of just over an hour and 10 minutes , of what looked like a young girl’s head resting on a pillow made out of ice as it slowly melts. Below the monitor where this video was shown were a pair of headphones and a nameplate with the word “ICE.” It took me a few minutes to understand the audiovisual context of the piece: The audio was the entirety of a court case brought up against the U.S. government protesting the inhumane conditions children are currently kept in within ICE detention centers. The ice pillow came to represent something far greater than meets the eye; the hard

exterior and bitter coldness of it emphasized the harsh conditions many children are kept under, and the transient nature of the ice was meant to show how these children are slowly melting, like ice, from the public view.

Another standout, June Edmonds, a Black artist who lays claim to a prolific body of work, showed a few of her newest pieces at EXPO. One, entitled Four Years in the White House Flag, consists of dozens of colored stripes, all overlapping each other in an arrangement reminiscent of the American flag. When I questioned the curator about the piece, he told me Edmonds used different combinations of red, blue, and yellow to create her piece, and that these happen to be the three primary colors found in brown and black skin. Another artist to note was architect Anish Kapoor, who exhibited a multicolored, reflective circular piece reminiscent of his famous Cloud Gate.

Overall, Chicago’s Navy Pier this past weekend abounded with creatives, rising stars, veteran artists, and financiers of the art world. The Expo was a riveting glimpse into Chicago as a nexus of recent artistic achievement and a depiction of the face of contemporary art to come.

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SPORTS Maroon Sports Take Autumn by Storm

By ALISON GILL Sports Editor

While the majority of University of Chicago students trickled back to campus this past week, the fall student-athletes continued to train and compete with their eyes on larger goals. Balancing the hub of returned

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activity to the University with their complete competitive slate, the Maroons took on a variety of opponents this past weekend to build on an already impressive run of success. In their young seasons, the athletic department has witnessed a string of program heights, including best-ever national rankings, surprising upsets, and exciting comebacks. For those just arriving back to campus, here’s a rundown on the past six weeks of Maroon athletic activity and what to look forward to at the midway point of the fall season.

Spurred by an upset over Washington University in St. Louis—a perennial powerhouse and the defending national championship—in the Wheaton Invitational, the women’s cross country is currently ranked No. 2 in the country, their highest-ever ranking. The first three races, during which the team has only finished behind Division I Butler, showcased the depth of the team; first-year Leah Ulrich, fourth-year Claire Brockway, and third-year Abigail Shoemaker have each paced the team in the races.

The men’s side has had a similarly stellar start to the season. The team has climbed to No. 12 in the latest poll. After first-place finishes their first two races, the team placed third in the most recent Wheaton Invitational. All-American Ryan Cutter returned at Wheaton, in time to take the individual crown and be named the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week—the first such honor for a male Maroon. Both teams will run in the Augastana Invitational on Friday, October 4 to kick off three consecutive weekends of competition.

The women’s volleyball has had a comparably ascendant rise toward the top of the polls to the women’s cross country. After a massive 3–1 win against then–No. 1 Calvin, the Maroons secured their highest-ever na-

tional ranking at the No. 3 spot. While the defeat of the Calvin Knights remains the biggest victory of the young season, the Maroons seemingly set program records every week. Most recently, the team avenged their loss to Aurora, who ended Chicago’s season last year in the second round of the NCAA tournament, beating them in four sets and moving to 14–1 on the year. All-American third-year setter Emma Griffith directs the offense, while fourth-year Anne Marie Stifter and third-year Fredericka Paulson have provided clutch kills. Next up this weekend, the team will travel to Atlanta for the second round of the UAA conference play.

The football team secured its first win of the season over the weekend against Lake Forest. Down 10–0 to the Foresters, the Maroons stormed back with 27 unanswered points and a victory. The Chicago team now sits at 1–2. Offensively, second-year Nick D’Ambrose and third-year Mike Martinson have established a one-two punch in the running game. In three games, D’Ambrose has rushed for 321 yards on 44 attempts, averaging 7.2 yards per carry, and being named UAA Athlete of the Week twice; Martinson has added 214 yards for 5.7 yards per carry.

Second-year Jeffrey Jackson and fourthyear Marco Cobian have split time under center and combined for 484 passing yards and 4 touchdowns. On the opposite side of the ball, fourth-year Henry Winebrake and third-year Jackson Ross pace the defense with 32 and 30 tackles, respectively. The Maroons will suit up at Beloit on Saturday, October 5, before returning to Chicago for Homecoming against Knox on Saturday, October 12.

Behind an exciting offensive attack and a stalwart defensive line, the women’s soccer team has compiled a record of 6—1—1

and a national No. 12 ranking. Fourth-years Adrianna Vera and Hanna Watkins have tied for the team lead with 17 points while third-year Katie Jasminski barely trails at 15 points. Third-year goalkeeper Miranda Malone has posted a 0.750 save percentage with three shutouts in a nationally competitive slate of starts. All together, the Maroons have outscored their opponents 28 goals to five and outshot them 174 to 43. The team will seek to build off a fourth-place UAA finish and a first-round NCAA tournament exit from last years in the coming weeks. Boasted by impressive depth, the team tied No. 8 Wheaton, 1–1, and defeated Calvin, 4–0, in the past week. The Maroons will begin their conference schedule against Emory on Saturday, October 5.

Under first-year head coach Pat Flynn, the men’s soccer team finished a brutal slate of competition with a record of 3–1–4 and a No. 6 national ranking. The Maroons played four nationally ranked teams in their first eight games; they tied No. 12 St. Thomas and beat No. 21 North Park and No. 9 Loras. The team suffered their sole setback of the season against No. 7 Calvin, who beat them in the NCAA tournament Final Four last season and edged them again this year 2–1. Second-year Vicente Mateus leads the Maroon with eight points in six games, but, after losing legendary athletes and Chicago record-holders Matt Koh and Max Lopez to graduation, the story of the season has been their depth—an astounding 12 players have tallied a point thus far. On defense, thirdyear Aaron Katsimpalis has provided reliability and clutch saves; he has a 0.805 save percentage on a 0.89 goals against average.

Like the women, the men will kick off their conference schedule against Emory on Saturday.

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