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Mansueto Library dedication marked by praise, trumpets

Rika and Joe Mansueto talk with Princeton professor Anthony Grafton (right) at their namesake library’s dedication ceremony on Tuesday.

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Crystal Tsoi Associate News Editor With literal fanfare, a musical tribute and a procession of academics accompanied Tuesday’s dedication of the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library in Harper Commons.

Trumpets blared as library administrators joined President Robert Zimmer in remembering

the Mansueto library’s origins and arguing for the continued relevance of brick-and-mortar libraries in today’s digital age.

“We will not retreat from the actuality and reality of the library which has played such an important role in the development of knowledge, stewardship of history, and the education of generations,” Zimmer said in his speech, recalling a small library he visited as a

child that displayed a sign reading, “This is a library: Feel free.”

Alums Joe Mansueto (A.B. ’78, M.B.A. ’80) and his wife, Rika (A.B. ’91), the library’s namesakes and chief financiers, reflected on the periodically uncertain vision behind the library.

“It was not a safe choice, it was not a conventional choice,” Joe Mansueto said. The founder and C.E.O. of the investment research

Harunobu Coryne News Editor

UCPD: Hyde Park crime remains low

The University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) sent out a security alert this week after two separate incidents of armed robbery occurred within an hour of each other.

At approximately 11:35 p.m. on Sunday, two students were approached by a male with a handgun at the intersection of East 57th Street and South Dorchester Avenue. The man took the cell phones of both victims and fled. Half an hour later, three men, one of whom was armed, approached a student talking on his cell phone on the quad and demanded the victim’s backpack and cell phone.

According to UCPD spokesperson Robert Mason, the robbery was an anomaly; Hyde Park, he said, remains safe, and violent crime is down.

“This past weekend we had a terrible number of robberies. It’s not normal for our area,” Mason said.

There have been 162 violent crimes in the Hyde Park/South Kenwood area in the year to date, he said.

In 2010, there was a record low of 194 violent crimes in the area.

“We are confident this trend will continue,” Mason said.

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Linda Qiu Associate News Editor Two U of C students were among 16 protesters arrested Tuesday morning after a sit-in at a Mortgage Bankers’ Association (MBA) conference at the Hyatt Regency. The protesters were demanding an end to foreclosures and to speak with the MBA’s president, David Stevens.

The group was detained for eight hours at police headquarters on misdemeanor charges of trespassing, according to fourth-years Kelvin Ho and Paul Kim, arrested students.

The protest was organized by Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberty (SOUL) as a part of Take Back Chicago, a week-long anti-corporate movement affiliated with Occupy Chicago. Tuesday’s theme was “Take Back our Homes.”

“This city has been one of the hardest hit by foreclosures, and the fact that they’re coming here to have their conference to talk about more ways to get around regulations—well, they’ve got a lot of nerve,” Kim said. “We decided to show them how serious this crisis was and to try to create a crisis for them the way they created one for us.”

The “SOUL 16” set up a mock living room with chairs, a table, and a card-

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Zimmer marries Classics professor Shadi Bartsch

Armed robberies spark security alert Rebecca Guterman Associate News Editor

company Morningstar, Inc., Mansueto also praised architect Helmut Jahn for the building’s “simplicity, boldness, and originality.”

Jahn had the library built atop a 50-foot-deep automated retrieval system with a total capacity of 3.5 million volumes, after the University’s growing collection of books prompted Zimmer to approach the Mansuetos about expanding the library system over four years ago.

“We did it the Chicago way: thoughtfully, carefully, deliberately, and with much research— not persuaded by the doubts of others,” Director of the University Library Judith Nadler said in her opening remarks.

Mansueto was pleased to see how the library has become a part of daily student life—particularly that of students in sororities and fraternities. “A recent alum sent me a link to a Facebook page entitled ‘Thetas love Mansueto’; I was only vaguely aware [then] that there was a sorority on campus,” he said.

Keynote speaker Anthony Grafton (A.B. ’71, A.M. ’72, Ph.D. ’75), the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University, singled out the Mansueto as a symbol of the University’s bibliophilia.

Two students arrested in Chicago protests

President Robert Zimmer and Classics professor Shadi Bartsch (Ph.D. ’92) were married this weekend in a private ceremony.

“We’re very happy for them, and we hope people will respect the privacy of their personal lives,” said University spokesperson Steven Kloehn, who confirmed the marriage.

Zimmer began dating Bartsch shortly after separating from his previous wife, Terese Schwartzman, in September 2009. Zimmer and Schwartzman’s divorce was finalized last month.

The Board of Trustees has put provisions in place to ensure that the marriage does not present any conflicts of interest where promotions or other administrative duties are concerned, Kloehn said.

Department chairs and division deans typically handle

such matters, while the provost decides on faculty promotions.

Although it is rare for faculty to report to the President, it has been established that Bartsch would come before the chair of the Board of Trustees in such

circumstances.

The Maroon could not confirm whether Bartsch will join Zimmer in the president’s house on 59th Street and University Avenue. Although Schwartzman, a director at the

Urban Education Institute, continued to live in the President’s house for several months after their separation while Zimmer lived elsewhere, Zimmer has been living in the house for most of the past year.

President Robert Zimmer and Classics professor Shadi Bartsch, newly wed, at the Mansueto Library Dedication ceremony on Tuesday evening.

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First-floor Reg rennovation replaces A-Level

Low numbers threaten future of South Loop shuttle Hannah O’Grady News Contributor

Students work on the new computers at the recently opened first floor of the Regenstein Library.

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Anthony Gokianluy News Contributor The newly renovated first floor of the Regenstein Library will open fully to students starting October 31, replacing the A-Level as the library’s only place for allnight physics parties and vending machine binges.

The change will allow the ALevel to store more than 430,000 volumes awaiting transfer to the Mansueto Library. The new space, library administrators hope, will be more accessible to students and more supervised than the ALevel, which some students complained was too loud to study in.

The new first floor study space features an entirely renovated reading room with new computers and furniture. Students will

also be able to get technical help and borrow iPads, laptops, and power and video adapters from IT Services’ Apple-inspired Techbar, which opened this week.

Student-run café Ex Libris will move to the first floor from the basement in November, Assistant Director for Access and Facilities Jim Vaughan said. The coffee shop has been closed for construction since the summer.

Vaughan believes that the new space will better accommodate the library’s policies on noise control and study behavior.

“We believe strongly that both users and staff share responsibility for creating and sustaining this environment,” he wrote in an e-mail.

The first floor will be the only part of the library open from 1 a.m. to 8 a.m., Monday through

Friday.

Student responses to the new space have varied.

“I like what they have done to the first floor, but I miss the ALevel,” second-year anthropology major Jissy Cyriac said. “They don’t have enough space for group study, and I’m concerned the space will not be as useful since that was the main group-study space.

Second-year Weston Ungemach said that when he needed someplace quiet to work, the noise in the A-Level could be problematic.

“People thought they could just run rampant and scream about physics and stuff,” Ungemach said. “If I were going to study late at night, I would be much more likely to go to the new first floor area than the A-Level.”

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Poor ridership and lack of student awareness could kill the University’s only provider of free, nonstop transportation into downtown Chicago.

The South Loop shuttle, which ferries students between the Reynolds Club and the Red Line stop at Roosevelt Road and State Street on weekends, could be cancelled because of the shuttle’s late hours and a lack of student awareness.

Fewer than 1,000 students used the shuttle last year, its third year of operation, according to Director of Transportation and Parking Theresa Fletcher.

“If those ridership trends continue, it would be difficult to sustain the service in the long term, which is why we are looking at ways in which we might increase ridership,” Fletcher said, adding that there are ways in which the University could simply modify the service instead of cutting it completely. For exam-

ple, the shuttle’s hours from 9 p.m. to midnight and from 1:30 to 3:30 a.m. may be too late for students, Fletcher said. Many students have also never heard of the shuttle service, and do not know its hours of operation.

“After speaking with groups of students during O-Week, I learned that many students were either unaware of the service or expressed concern of its late start,” Fletcher wrote.

Fletcher said she plans to discuss with the Student Transportation Advisory Board how to market the program better and tailor its schedule to student’s needs.

Second-year Mattie Toma, who found out about the shuttle from an upperclassman, uses the service only once a month. Toma has made weekend plans around the shuttle’s schedule, but she said that better advertising and earlier shuttle hours would bring in more riders.

“It’s a great service,” Toma said.

“I wish students would take more advantage of it.”

A South Loop shuttle empty of passengers. The service is in danger of stopping due to due to the low number of riders.

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Arts to heat up in new “incubator” Sarah Morell News Contributor The University has invested heavily in a Washington Park educational initiative that will provide young students in the area with instruction in the arts, as well as grant fellowships and studio space to Chicago-based artists.

The $1.85 million project, dubbed the Arts and Public Life Initiative, will turn a former liquor store on Garfield Boulevard into the Washington Park Arts Incubator. The two-story building will provide students from the surrounding neighborhoods with a space to develop skills in the visual and performing arts through interactions with existing U of C art programs.

Theaster Gates, the director of arts program development at the University and a lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts, will spearhead the program. The Office of Civic Engagement consulted frequently and early with Gates, who is known for projects that aim to revitalize the culture of parts of his native Chicago, according to Deputy Provost of the Arts Larry Norman.

“He has been thinking about

the kinds of connections and innovative ways to engage the life of the university and community and vice-versa,” Norman said.

The University acquired the new space in 2008 with other properties along Garfield Boulevard. Discussion about the potential uses for that space began early in the 2010-2011 school year.

“When the opportunity to look at this space presented itself, following a series of conversations between the Initiative and the Office of Civic Engagement, I thought it was the perfect way to move forward to create some new programs,” Norman said.

The initiative hopes to use the arts as a means of improving relations between the South Side and the U of C, in addition to raising the level of K-12 arts education, according to a September 29 University press release.

“We look forward to partnering with students, colleagues across campus, and schools in the community to expand the opportunities for student engagement in arts education,” Bill Michel, Executive Director of the Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts, wrote in an e-mail.

The launch of the initiative has

Theaster Gates, Director of Arts Programming, resident artist, and lecturer at the U of C, is spearheading an effort to enrich the University’s cultural interaction with the city and local artists.

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already caught the attention of students on campus.

Colin McReynolds, a first-year interested in studying theater, is

particularly excited by the prospect of working with local performers and mentoring children on the South Side.

“I’m really excited to witness all that the new center will add to the University’s undergraduate theater and visual arts experience.”

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ACLU president talks Students say crimes won’t alter their daily behavior civil rights at I-House Tiantian Zhang News Contributor American citizens risk making themselves targets of discrimination if they fail to confront tough questions about the erosion of their civil rights, the president of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said Tuesday at International House.

In her talk, Susan Herman addressed the negative social consequences that the Bush and Obama administrations have brought to American society in the name of “enhancing national security” after 9/11. Herman focused on the Patriot Act, which allows the FBI to gather information on American citizens without a court order through places like libraries and telecommunication providers.

“Most people don’t believe they are affected by this. How are you supposed to know if somebody walks into your records? Everybody assumes it’s not happened very much or it’s happening to someone else,” she said.

Increasing public awareness is the first step in solving the problem of erosion of democracy, Herman said. She said that as the government gains power over the information of individuals, it can decide whom to target in an arbitrary or discriminatory way.

“The government needs to have more conversations, dialogues with American people. What are the costs here? What rights should be infringed on?

However, nobody is telling this side of the story,” Herman said.

A constitutional scholar and chaired professor at Brooklyn Law School, Herman has been the president of the ACLU since 2008, and was a member of the organization’s national board of directors for 20 years.

Herman was promoting her latest book, Taking Liberties: The War on Terror and the Erosion of American Democracy.

Part of the Global Voices Author Night Series, the talk was organized by International House and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore.

A security guard patrolling the main quad in the wake of a mugging there early Monday morning.

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clined to comment on specifics, saying that it could compromise a police investigation.

Mason said that police would also continue to investigate both crimes.

“We don’t give up on these things,” Mason said. “We will do everything possible to solve that crime.”

Though students were alarmed by the fact that violent crime had occurred in highly frequented areas, several said they would not change their daily routines.

“It was surprising that anything like this

happens so close—it’s not like it happened on Woodlawn or 53rd Street like some other robberies,” first-year Shayna Inzunza said. “I’ll keep the same precautions I always had.”

Third-year Brian Wilkinson also said the incidences would not change his behavior.

“We live on the South Side, so, for better or worse, it’s just something we have to deal with,” Wilkinson said.

Second-year Peter Hansen noted this wasn’t the first time a student was robbed on the quad, referring to an incident last

year when a student was assailed outside of Cobb Hall by three men who grabbed him by his neck and took his wallet and iPod. Wilkinson believes there is still room for improvements in crime alerts, despite the decrease in violent crime.

“It seems pretty inconsistent how they publicize crimes [with security alerts].

There’ll be violent crime with no security alerts—54th or 55th Street for example, but since it’s not within the main campus area, there aren’t warnings.”

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Ankit Jain News Contributor After ending a week of Nerf guns and injuries on Tuesday, one RSO is hoping to zombify more U of C students in the future.

A student under the alias “Real Snake” won the real-life role-playing game Humans vs. Zombies with the most kills (26) while 22 humans remained out of more than 200 participants.

Hosted by the Zombie Readiness Task Force (ZRTF), Humans vs.

Zombies is held twice a year. All players, except for one “Original Zombie,” start out the game as humans, and the

infection spreads from this first zombie to the rest of the players. Zombies are identified by orange headbands.

“The game just creates more fun in your life: As opposed to walking to class feeling dreary, you’re walking to class and you’re moving your gun around, checking for zombies,” said second-year Christopher Dewing, this year’s ‘Original Zombie.’ “It creates excitement in your day. So, instead of your standard week, you have a very exciting week.”

In the game, humans are equipped with a Nerf gun and can render zombies inactive for five minutes, while zombies can tag humans to “infect” them.

Although several participants suffered minor to moderate injuries, the

ZRTF administrative team was very happy with the way the game went, particularly with the large turnout this year.

“We have one of the largest active listhosts, we have one of the largest active clubs, and we’re just really proud of that because, in less than a year, we now have a game with over 200 people involved for a whole week,” Dewing said.

The ZRTF hopes to expand the game to the size of Scav Hunt and Kuvia.

“Something that the administrators [of the ZRTF] are talking about is that we could really become something that’s one of those quirky UChicago traditions,” ZRTF Vice President and second-year Dean Cooney said.

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Despite efforts, twins die at UCMC Claire Withycomb News Contributor

Freshman ’15 The class of 2015 College Council representatives. From left to right: Vidal Anguiano, Ilkner Aliyev, Yusef Al-Jarani, and Raymond Dong.

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Students understood possibility of arrest before demonstrating ARRESTS continued from front

board TV in a tent in the skyway connecting the two towers of the Hyatt Regency. The setup was intended to model a foreclosure, according to Ho. One of SOUL’s leaders, Toby Chow, said that the arrests were predicted by the organization.

“The majority of the people inside occupying the walkway went in with the intention of staying until either the demands were met or [they were] forcibly removed,” Chow, a Ph.D. student and Core lecturer, said. “It seemed very unlikely [the MBA] would cooperate. We knew that the arrest was more possible and we went in knowing that arrest was the more likely outcome.”

Kim, who was also arrested last summer protesting in St. Louis, agreed to participate despite knowing it would happen again.

“If you’re willing to get arrested for something, it shows that you’re serious about it. And that’s what gets attention, to show people and inspire people,” Kim said.

Outside of the Hyatt, Chow led a group of about 150 people who called for the arrest of the bankers. Ho was acting as liaison between the groups inside and outside the hotel when he was arrested inadvertently.

The protest was the first act of civil disobedience organized by SOUL, according to Chow.

“People in [SOUL] are starting to think that this moment we’re living in now may be of historical relevance, [it] may be the turning point. A lot of people thought if we do it we should do it now.

I think Occupy Chicago is currently, as we can see right now, the best hope we have for turning around the trends of the last 40 years,” Kim said.

While Take Back Chicago protesters were arrested, its sister movement, Occupy Chicago, has so far been arrest-free.

However, according to Ho, all types of protest are on the table.

“Some people are for it and some are reluctant. But most major social changes have come through civil disobedience,” Ho said.

Twenty-three days after their birth, a pair of conjoined twins delivered at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) died September 29.

Faith and Hope Schulten, who had separate heads but were joined at the torso, shared a heart, liver, two kidneys, and lungs. The twins had remained at the UCMC since birth due to the fragility of their condition, according to a September 25 Chicago Sun-Times article.

A scan conducted three days after the twins’ birth showed their shared heart pumping oxygenpoor blood into the circulatory system, which, according to the article, is a predictable problem with a shared heart. After the scan, the doctors were not optimistic about

the lifespan of the twins.

The twins’ 21-year-old mother, Amanda Schulten of Marengo, Illinois, had been chronicling her experiences during pregnancy and immediately after the birth on a blog titled Faith and Hope and Love. Schulten faced criticism for her decision to go through with the delivery.

According to the 2011 rankings compiled by US News and World Report, the Comer Children’s Hospital at the UCMC ranks second in the Chicago area for pediatric care, and is listed among the four best Chicago hospitals in neonatology.

Throughout her postings, Schulten enthusiastically praised the quality of care she experienced with the specialists at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the UCMC. The UCMC declined to comment, citing the privacy of the Schulten family.

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“Surely, there can be no university libraries that can be the focus of so much thought and passion, and so much affection [as the U of C’s],” Grafton said.

Mary Nell Murphy, an analyst for IT Services, described the evening’s remarks as “educational and entertaining.”

“It’s a beautiful building that I enjoy going into just as a community member,” she said. “It’s wonderful to see all the enthu-

siasm from the students and the community.”

Not all the dedication’s attendees spoke of the aesthetics of the Grand Reading Room or the state of modern libraries, however. Reflecting on the student “hijinks” that have befallen the building, Grafton took a moment for irreverence.

“The dome of the Mansueto no sooner takes on a beautiful icing of snow during the first days of winter than it is graced with what the students call…butt tracks,” he said.

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Election Connection Newly elected first-years should keep College Council transparent, focused on small, significant issues The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 ADAM JANOFSKY Editor-in-Chief CAMILLE VAN HORNE Managing Editor JACK DIMASSIMO Senior Editor AMY MYERS Senior Editor JONATHAN LAI News Editor HARUNOBU CORYNE News Editor SAM LEVINE News Editor PETER IANAKIEV Viewpoints Editor SHARAN SHETTY Viewpoints Editor JORDAN LARSON Arts Editor MAHMOUD BAHRANI Sports Editor JESSICA SHEFT-ASON Sports Editor DOUGLAS EVERSON, JR Head Designer KEVIN WANG Web Editor ALICE BLACKWOOD Head Copy Editor GABE VALLEY Head Copy Editor LILY YE Head Copy Editor DARREN LEOW Photo Editor REBECCA GUTERMAN Assoc. News Editor

With a record number of candidates spurring an unusual amount of attention, this College Council (CC) election cycle has been steeped with enthusiasm, to say the least. 20 candidates ran to serve as first-year representatives, chalking up sidewalks all over campus and hosting events to rally support. There were vague promises, unusual campaign platforms, and disturbing fliers. Even the celebrations seemed to be more lively than usual: Last night, a handful of spectators showed up to the C-Shop to hear the announcement and congratulate the four first-year representatives.

Although we’d also like to extend our best wishes, we offer them with reservations. In years past, CC has played the role of court jester, with students often regarding it in an unflattering light. This perception was punctuated when third- and fourth-

year representatives resigned en masse in 2009 and CC could hardly find anyone willing to replace them.

During the elections last spring, there were only four candidates each on the ballots for the third- and fourthyear seats, meaning that anyone who submitted an application to run was practically guaranteed to get elected.

With council members assuming their seats by default, the representative nature of the positions was seriously undermined. CC has failed miserably in serving as an envoy for the student body, and some of the decisions they make–such as removing every non-CC member from their listhost last week–have come across as bafflingly backwards.

However, the amount of pride, enthusiasm, and sincerity put into the first-year elections over the past two years has left a glimmer of hope that CC will do what is necessary and

reform itself. Increasing the amount of candidates running for a spot on CC and boosting voter awareness, the first step towards creating an effective democratic body, have already been tackled. Although this may be the hardest part, it makes no difference unless CC becomes a productive sounding board for student interest.

We encourage grappling with small, important issues–like reinstating the Collegiate Readership Program–and actually resolving them, rather than focusing on overly ambitious initiatives that fail and leave the student body jaded and disappointed. The easiest way to accomplish this is to capitalize on the election fervor and introduce proposals that will continually benefit the college community.

The new CC representatives are already in a position to influence one of these issues. Like all representative bodies, it’s vital for CC to work to-

wards transparency, and the new firstyear representatives should take a strong first stance in next week’s vote to bring back the Council’s public forum. If they’re not willing to have their ideas criticized by the students who elected them to office, what does it say about the organization as a whole? If CC is going to be an insular and self-serving group this year, it will be impossible for them to introduce the ideas that will benefit campus, and the representative nature of the organization will fall apart.

If the first-year representatives can build off of yesterday’s election and turn CC around into a transparent, democratic, and respected entity, then real congratulations are in order.

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When I first came to campus, I remember being (pleasantly) surprised by the number of students whose career plans amounted to “an academic of some kind.” Having gone to high school in suburban Georgia, I was accustomed to a certain level of condescension and derision toward the nerdy academic type who did not live and operate in the “real world” and whose work was supposedly useless, so it was wonderful to meet people who cared so much about learning

and knowledge that they considered dedicating their lives to pursuing it.

Of course, as time went on, many of these people’s plans changed as they decided they were interested in other things and wanted to work outside of academia. And though there isn’t anything wrong with that, it sometimes seemed to me that, at least in a few cases, there was a feeling of guilt about “selling out” or about finding a more ordinary job, because there was something more inherently pure and admirable about being a professor.

In other words, people had become inculcated with the idea that those who really love learning and the “life of the mind” (I think there’s a very good chance I will spontaneously combust the next time someone says “the life of the mind” to me) become academics, and everyone else is ignorant or a sellout or just not really U of C material.

I think that as a whole this out-

look is changing—perhaps slowly, but also inexorably. The more the U of C wishes to climb rankings and attract applicants, the less it can afford to be seen as a college whose main purpose is to train future professors. Of course, issues regarding the changing character of the U of C tend to be complicated, arousing strong opinions on both sides; I don’t really want to talk about those changes as a whole, except insofar as they relate to a supposed rise of “pre-professionalism,” which many people wrongly consider a threat to the school.

I don’t think anyone can deny that the U of C is moving in a more preprofessional direction and is doing more to help students find employment outside of academia. The only real issue worth debating is whether this is a bad thing. And it seems perfectly obvious to me that it is not, CAREERS continued on page 9

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Jonathan Libgober Viewpoints Contributor Remember the debt ceiling debate?

It seems that this horrifying event, so prominent in media coverage just a few months ago, has abruptly passed from public consciousness. It makes some sense that it has, since the economic downturn that started during the crisis and continued afterwards was attributed to problems in Europe, rather than domestic ones inherent in our national system. The whole debt debate was more of a catalyst for the downturn rather than an underlying cause. In fact, demand for treasuries actually increased, so no one seemed too worried about the U.S. government defaulting any-

time soon.

If you think about it, the connection between the debt ceiling debate and out-of-control deficit spending is more psychological than it is factual. To see what I mean, suppose Congress needs to pass a bill, without which a nuclear war will start.

Obviously, the U.S. government should pass the bill. But suppose the opposing party wants to cut taxes and decides that this bill should not be passed while government spending is out of control. What is the opposing party to do? Obviously, they should compromise and concede on a bill that saves human existence. It would be fairly offensive if a party used a completely unrelated, mustpass piece of legislation as a choking

point or an opportunity to criticize federal spending.

Though this is an extreme example, my point is that the only difference between the above debate and the debt debate is that when we hear “debt ceiling,” we are cued to think “government spending.” Thus, we don’t think it’s strange when policymakers take the opportunity to talk about out-of-control government spending, or when they use this as leverage over the other party. But, if we heard “nuclear war bill,” we wouldn’t necessarily think “government spending,” and we would probably be upset with our politicians for making this dubious and irrelevant connection.

DEBT continued on page 9

Singin’ the Chicago Blues First year comes with a unique sense of solitude Linus Recht Viewpoints Contributor Ah, the freshman blues (or firstyear blues I suppose, in University of Chicago parlance). They seem to have a universal quality to them, and they seem to strike most people at just about the same time. The noise and colors of OWeek have faded, the aggressive “glad-to-meetcha” friendliness is evaporating ; suddenly you notice a routine has grown up around you and you’ve already been an observer for some time. And then come the blues. Ah, the blues.

The initial excitement of college (college!!) delays their onset for obvious reasons. Furthermore, at the U of C, by merit of the books we all seem to have read and the shows we all seem to have watched, there’s often a surprisingly familiar tone to conversations, and your new friends all seem to have the sarcasm and biting wit that were so rare back home. It’s nice. It’s nice right away.

But the shared sense of humor, the ability and desire to jump into conversations with people you’ve just met, the fun and the laughter of O-Week, the “reminds you of your best friend back home” feeling so familiar to anyone who’s ever found him or herself in a new place—there’s a temptation to mistake these things for immediate and deep friendships. And though they may be eventually, they obviously can’t be so instantly entrenched. How could they be?

And whoa, we’re suddenly grownups. That’s scary, too.

Everybody seems to suddenly realize these things at about the same BLUES continued on page 9

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Catchy slogans and oversimplistic solutions: the new rule in Washington DEBT continued from page 8 But, when the debt ceiling needed to be raised, the debate about whether to spend money had already occurred. Raising the debt ceiling was a necessary technicality, lest the financial markets be led to ruin. The question of whether we should default on our debt was not at all related to the question of whether the government is spending too much money. And, though perhaps the analogy between a nuclear war and government default is fairly extreme, let’s just say that, in the finance literature, treasury bonds are referred to as “risk-free” because it is assumed there is zero chance of default.

Say what you want about the ramifications, but as a general principle, models don’t do very

Trying to find economics in Cain’s plan is like trying to read horoscopes to figure out your future; any time it matches with the facts is probably a coincidence. well when confronted with the occurrence of a zero-probability event. Since the debt ceiling needed to be raised, it was used as a choke point in order to obtain a political outcome.

Admittedly, this is old news. But I hope that we do not forget this debate in the upcoming campaign season, because it was the clearest indication of a definite trend.: Economic policy is driven more by political ideology and less by testable ideas. Economists analyze data, and disagreements are resolved by comparisons of models. But though data used to be important, politicians no longer seem to care. Even Ronald Reagan listened to people who looked at data, but it’s not clear whom today’s politicians are listening to. Branding determines the legiti-

macy and relevance of a position, and even an absurd economic position will be taken seriously if branded effectively.

I was reminded of this point recently when hearing about Herman Cain’s “9-9-9” plan, which posits that there should be a flat nine percent sales tax, nine percent income tax, and nine percent corporate tax. I challenge any reader to find me any piece of economic analysis, in any area of economics or political science, which states the optimal value for three different quantities as equal positive integer values. These numbers were chosen because, first, they sound plausible—sales tax in Chicago is around 10 percent—and second, because it is marketable. But trying to find economics in Cain’s plan is like trying to read horoscopes to figure out your future; any time it matches up with the facts is probably a coincidence.

Of course, politics always relies upon branding, but rarely has political ideology created conflict where none had previously existed.

The debt ceiling was one example of this, but there are others that are slightly less visible.

For example, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, economists Alan Blinder and Glenn Hubbard, who would traditionally be viewed as holding opposite political beliefs, outlined several areas of common ground for both Democrats and Republicans relating to spending and tax measures. A depressing thought is that the article’s recommendations probably won’t enter the mainstream because it doesn’t have a catchy slogan and no one is paying any money to advertise it. Instead, mainstream debates will focus on ideas that can be sold quickly and effectively, ideas without evidence to support them, and ideas that, despite their memorable branding and good timing, will ultimately fail.

Jonathan Libgober is a fourth-year in the College majoring in economics and math.

Pre-professionalism is an inevitable and beneficial result of proper education CAREERS continued from page 8 and that the only way anyone can believe it is would be assuming that a rigorous education that values learning for learning’s sake (another phrase that makes my blood boil after 4,000 repetitions, but never mind) should be available only to future professors and nobody else.

This viewpoint is incredibly misguided.

Though nobody can really deny that the pursuit of knowledge as an academic is an admirable and worthy career choice, it’s far from the only one. Indeed, it seems to me that the great body of knowledge available to us as students is almost wasted if none of us decides to go into the “real world” with it. I believe in the education I’ve gotten here. I believe in it so much that I’m willing to say that the world is a better place when it has more lawyers who’ve read John Locke, more investment bankers who’ve read Karl Marx, and more artists who’ve read Plato. I think this is manifestly clear, and if anybody really wants to deny it, then it’s clear to me that he or she does not really believe in the purpose of a liberal arts education.

David Brooks.

John Paul Stevens.

Tucker Max. Nate Silver.

John G. Morris.

Seymour Hersh.

David Broder.

David Axelrod.

I don’t think the dislike for “pre-professionalism” is a universal affliction. If I had to diagnose it, I would say it’s more of a general feeling that finds its way into many of us at some point during our three or four years in Hyde Park. I think that most of us outgrow it, that we realize one’s career decision does not boil down to “academic” versus “sellout.”

But occasionally you do encounter this kind of mindset, even if it’s not quite so explicitly voiced. And there’s not much one can do about it, because for some people, the U of C is fundamentally about protecting that mindset, and that’s that. In the end, I don’t think this is a debate that can be “won” by one side or another. But, perhaps fortunately, it seems to me that the rising applicant numbers we read about every year will, at the end of the day, move things in the “pre-professional” direction, regardless of what anyone has to say about it in the pages of the Maroon.

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

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Roommates help ease initial lack of deep friendships BLUES continued from page 8 time. The sense of new friendship exists, the sense of being liked is very real, but the sense of solidarity that you felt with your close friends back home just hasn’t developed yet.

The walls haven’t come down. And we are social creatures, for sure—but even more so we are familial creatures. We’re seeking to create families of friends; we’ve just lost two families (our actual families and our high school friends) and we need that kind of support again. But it’s slow coming.

So we think of home. Home home home. Skypeing suddenly has a sense of panic to it. Homesickness swoops in. Hello, first-year blues.

There’s universality to this sort of crisis.

In their benevolence and wisdom, those very smart persons who invented this whole “collegiate system” came up with a partial solution: roommates. The house system is fine for summer camp-esque diversions, but there’s a relationship you have with your roommate that’s somehow more personal than with any other person you could’ve met yet. It’s not just due to sheer hours spent together; there’s a vulnerability that you can’t help but expose when living with another person. There’s a trust in being with someone when you sleep. Even terrible roommates (side note: you know who you are, and please stop what you are doing ) become like family surprisingly quickly. Not completely, obviously, but often close enough.

“I’m going back to the dorm,” quickly becomes “I’m going home,” and nestled in that word “home” is the implicit suggestion that when you get there, you’re going to see Josh or Lori. And you’ll talk about your day a bit.

And you’ll gripe about homework. And for a few short minutes, everything will seem, if not all right, then all right-er. You’ll make it. Etcetera.

So, while I disagree with much in the staff

editorial from October 3 on the problems of the new Midway House (full disclosure: I live in Midway House and enjoy it), it does have a significant problem: All but a few of the rooms in NGRH are singles.

They are roomy, they are comfortable, and they induce jealousy in many of the people we bring here to tour the place. But they are not appropriate for first-years. They are not an appropriate place to ride out the first-year blues. To be totally alone for the first time is a gut-punch of an adjustment for anyone and everyone. To have to deal with it without the traditional transitional phase of having a roommate will, I anticipate, prove to be particularly difficult for Midway House. With physical walls come emotional ones, and to feel walled-in can be a very lonely thing.

There’s a quintessential and oft-described first-year feeling of being alone in a room full of people. The real solitude, however, is when you’re all by yourself at night.

Linus Recht is a first-year in the College.

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Trivial Pursuits OCTOBER 14, 2011

An audio misadventure goes viral

Poet laureate attracts big crowds, short attention spans Emma Broder Arts Contributor

Mitchell D. and Eddie Lee Sausage casually shoot the breeze with a cartoon man in Shut Up Little Man! COURTESY OF TRIBECA FILM

Alice Readick Arts Contributor “‘Audio vérité’—A term used to describe real-life recordings, made surreptitiously.

Found sounds and phone pranks.” So opens Matthew Bate’s new documentary Shut Up Little Man!: An Audio Misadventure, an Official Selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Bate’s film not only delivers on its promise of “found sounds,” but also

offers insights into human truths both hilarious and alarming.

Shut Up Little Man! centers around the story of Mitchell D. and Eddie Lee Sausage, free-spirited friends who, after graduating from college in 1987, drive from Wisconsin to start new lives in San Francisco. They rent out a run-down apartment on Steiner Street, casually referred to as the “PeptolBismol Palace.” Three weeks after arriving, the pair overhears the first of countless rag-

ing arguments between Peter Haskett and Raymond Huffman, their neighbors in the adjacent apartment. They do not call the police, nor do they search for a new place live, but instead attach a microphone to the end of a ski pole, lean out of their apartment window, and record dozens of hours of their graphic arguing. Shut Up Little Man! chronicles the transformation of the recordings from mixtapes shared among SHUT UP continued on page 11

Taryn Simon frames the innocent Sarah Miller Arts Contributor In 2003, photographer Taryn Simon created an exhibit to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Innocence Project, a national organization that uses litigation, public policy, and DNA testing to exonerate wrongly convicted individuals. For the past eight years, The Innocents: Headshots has been featured in museums nationwide, and most recently, at the Roosevelt University Gage Gallery.

Simon focused on 45 men and women, all of whom were wrongfully convicted and later exonerated through DNA evidence. Using the Innocence Project case files, she compiled a group of subjects

THE INNOCENTS: HEADSHOTS

Roosevelt University’s Gage Gallery Through October 31

who were all wrongfully convicted because of faulty eyewitness testimony. The full exhibit features photographs of each person at the scene of the arrest, the scene of the alibi, or the scene of the actual crime, in addition to stark high-resolution photos, taken after each individual’s judicial nightmare, meant to represent mug shots. Only the mug shots were featured in the exhibit at the Gage Gallery.

The name of the person, description of his or her alleged crime, the amount of time served, and

Taryn Simon’s photographs of wrongly convicted innocents at the Gage Gallery.

COURTESY OF GAGE GALLERY

a quote from the interview accompanied each mug shot. The quotes beneath the photographs were compelling testimonials about the men and women’s experiences, including stories of police misconduct during the identification process. One story is of a man who suffered brain damage after almost being beaten to death while in prison—now his sister must speak on his behalf.

Since most victims were given lengthy sentences for violent crimes before DNA testing became more readily available, countless equally horrific stories of the innocent will never be told. Simon reminds the public of these forgotten victims of the criminal justice system.

For the “mug shots,” Simon chose to use high-resolution photographs because she wanted to question the credibility of eyewitness testimony. The photographs, with their close lens on the subject

and white background, are meant to serve as a contrast to raw low-resolution mug shots in photo arrays used for suspect identification—thus undermining the “art” of the mugshot by manipulating its distinctive form.

In January 2003, Simon wrote an article in The New York Times titled “Freedom Row,” in which she said, “Photography’s ability to blur truth and fiction is one of its most compelling qualities.

But its use by the criminal justice system reveals that this ambiguity can have severe, even lethal, consequences.” Simon has dedicated her career to photographing social justice issues, both domestic and abroad, and The Innocents is certainly a part of this tradition. Even if the subject matter has been previously explored, Simon’s headshots offer a disturbing and compelling perspective on the American legal system.

W.S. Merwin, a former U.S. poet laureate whose career has spanned over five decades, gave a reading October 6 at the Harold Washington Library Center downtown. Merwin, 84, read to celebrate the 57th annual Poetry Day, originally conceived by Robert Frost to fundraise for Chicago’s Poetry magazine. Though Merwin now lives in Hawaii, he spoke of his love for Chicago because of its connection to Poetry, saying, “If I’m not going to be at home, I’d like to be right here.”

Merwin read to a packed audience of almost 400 in an auditorium of the Chicago Public Library. The packed, standing-room-only crowd, though unusual for a poetry reading, was hardly unexpected, for over his career Merwin has never had a problem drawing a crowd. The energy of the audience was considerable.

“This is going to be my very first poetry reading, and I’m excited,” said Lydia Gonzales, a student whose literature professor had mentioned the event in class. She had never heard of Merwin. Others in the crowd were more seasoned Merwin readers. Michael Cresciona, 57, a medical journalist and poet from Chicago, said he was a longtime Merwin fan.

Merwin gave a short talk before the reading, during which he touched on many subjects. He spoke first of human imagination, and then of the environment: “I think we’re destroying ourselves, as well as the whole world around us.”

Merwin soon moved to the meat of the evening, his poetry, which he said he did not want to read in chronological order but with a thematic coherence. He proceeded to read two poems from early in his career, “Summer” and “The Wilderness,” written when he was 27 and 31, respectively. Of the latter poem, he said it dealt with “that hunger to be alive in the world just because, just because, not because of what’s in it for me.”

In the question and answer session that followed, Merwin was asked if he could describe what it’s like when he’s writing a poem. “Absolutely not!” he burst out. A poem, he explained, is concerned with “what can’t be said.” Merwin was not always so terse: He gave a lengthy answer to a question about his childhood experiences with poetry. Because his father was a minister, he had entire sections of the King James Bible memorized. Merwin’s childhood also cemented his need for poetry that can be heard as well as read.

“For poets, the primary sense is hearing,” he said.

After answering questions, Merwin proceeded to read a dozen more poems, including “The Nomad Flute” from his 2008 book Shadow of Sirius, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and “Departure’s Girlfriend.” After finishing the latter, Merwin was silent for a moment, then said, “Now how would I know where that poem came from?” He continued, explaining the narrator’s sense of disconnect from place in the poem: “The moment a tree is in the ground, that’s a place. A tree is a place. And the same is true of us…we forget that we are places.” Merwin also read several poems about animals, saying, “To animals, language is sound,” and reiterated that poetry is as close as humans come to understanding language the way animals do.

Unfortunately, though Merwin was an engaging speaker, as the reading carried on well over the hour mark, impatient members of the audience trickled out the sides of the spacious room. At the end of the evening, even W.S. Merwin, one of the most commercially successful poets of his time, fell victim to the modern attention span. One woman in an aisle was heard whispering, “There are people on the sides of the stage motioning to him to stop, and he can’t see them, and he’s not stopping.” She snapped her cell phone closed and trotted out of the auditorium.

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Comedic voyeurism and media mayhem SHUT UP continued from page 10 friends to audio vĂŠritĂŠ that has achieved an underground cult following.

The hilarity of the recordings lies in the absurd dynamic between Peter and Ray; Peter is a flamboyant homosexual, and Raymond an angry and belligerent homophobe. The tapes are comprised largely of their drunken brawling, not limited to Raymond’s absolutely vile opinions on the gay lifestyle and Peter’s now famous retaliation of, “Oh, shut up, little man!�

The dialogue between Peter and Ray alone is enough for an entertaining film; yet just as the documentary shows the transformation of Mitch and Eddie from chain-smoking teenagers to salt-and-pepper-haired 40-somethings, so does Bate’s film grow in depth and maturity.

An important subplot follows the copy-

SHUT UP LITTLE MAN! Mathew Bate Facets CinÊmathèque

right status of the recorded material. Initially, Mitch and Eddie include a note with their mixtapes encouraging use of the material for artistic pursuits. Once one-act plays, comic strips, and other creations inspired by the tapes emerge, however, the pair wastes no time in copyrighting the material. It comes to light that numerous artistic projects and several friendships are destroyed over these recordings that, ironically enough, came to fruition as a result of violating the privacy of others.

Bates also utilizes the Shut Up Little Man! story to nostalgically track changes in media over the last 20 years. In the film,

Eddie reflects that, “the initial spread of Shut Up, Little Man! all happened pre-digital, pre-Internet, and‌ essentially spread from a kind of obsessive, sub-terrain network of tape-traders.â€? The wide listenership of the tapes is all the more significant when compared to viral videos of today that may be viewed, shared, parodied, and responded to by millions within the span of hours.

The most compelling and poignant moments surface towards the end of the film when a new question arises: Should we be laughing at Peter and Raymond? Mitch and Eddie are able to track down two players from the early days of the Shut Up Little Man! recordings. The first, Tony, is a convict who lived intermittently in the apartment with Peter and Ray and made sporadic appearances in the recordings. When they finally convince Tony to allow the cameraman into his single-occupancy apartment, he is immediately revealed to be a sad, lonely character that suffers greatly from his relationship with Peter and Ray. The film also includes a brief interview with Peter, now a vacant old man, so isolated that he knows nothing of his own minor stardom. The viewer must question whether or not it is acceptable to make light of the clearly miserable lives of Raymond and Peter—tragic figures that inevitably exist a thousand times over behind closed doors.

Shut Up Little Man! speaks volumes to our voyeuristic tendencies.

Bate’s film reveals the dark side of an apparently innocent sensation. The film manages to straddle hilarity and tragedy, considerately humanizing men that have perhaps too long remained remote caricatures. Shut Up Little Man! is an honest and charming film, remarkably unique compared to other documentaries in recent memory.

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Friday | October 14 Lincoln Park bakery Floriole celebrates the culinary traditions of Wisconsin and Germany with its Wisconsin Fest four-course prix fixe dinner. Appropriately, there will be plenty of cheese curds, brats, sauerkraut, and beer. A vegetarian option will also be available, as will one free drink. (1220 West Webster Avenue, seating at 6 and 7:30 p.m., $40) Doc Films hosts a night of sheer terror. New York Times film critic Jason Zinoman (author of Shock Value) will lead a panel on How a Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, and Invented Modern Horror. This verbosely titled talk will be followed by a screening of John Carpenter’s Halloween for all those deadly serious horror buffs, or just the incorrigibly curious. (Max Palevsky Cinema, 7 p.m., free) Grab a partner and head on down to Blues ‘n’ Ribs for free food, blues music, and dance lessons from the Chicago Swing Dance Society. Once you’ve gotten your fill of noshes and knowledge, dance the night away to performances by Charlie Love, Nellie Travis, and The GrandDaddys. (Ida Noyes, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m., free)

Saturday | October 15 Fly through the air with the greatest of ease to Circus in Progress: An Evening of Daring New Work, one in a series of shows hosted by The Actors Gymnasium. Professional performers from the Chicagoland circus as well as advanced students of

The Actors Gymnasium will be showing off their best new acts. (927 Noyes Street, Evanston, 4:30 and 7:30 p.m., $10) Experience two one-act plays by Hannah Moscovitch at the Signal Ensemble Theatre in one night. East of Berlin features the identity crisis of a man whose family has a Nazi-laden past, and in The Russia Play, a satirical love blooms between a flower-shop girl and a gravedigger. (1802 West Berenice Avenue, 8 p.m., $15-$20) Indulge in (too much) Chicago-style and deepdish pizza—for a good cause! SigEp fraternity hosts a pizza-eating contest sponsored by Edwardo’s to help raise money for the B+ Foundation, which helps fight cancer in kids. Six months of Netflix, an iPod Shuffle, tickets to The Second City, and tshirts are all up for grabs if you’ve got the stomach for it. (McCormick Tribute Lounge in Reynolds Club, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., $10 to compete)

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The world is watching the Chicago International Film Festival Alex Allen Arts Contributor Reminiscent of a miniature and recurring World’s Fair, the Chicago International Film Festival represents the culmination of artistic achievements in film from around the world. Known as the premier venue for debuting what would have otherwise been hidden gems, the festival focuses on showcasing works by international and new, burgeoning artists.

Boasting Martin Scorsese, Mike Leigh, Peter Weir, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and many others in its premieres, the festival is entering its 47th season.

CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL AMC River East Through October 20

The celebration of film from all nations and genres began in 1964 by filmmaker and graphic artist Michael Kutza in an attempt to show movies to the public which were not hot off the Hollywood conveyor belt. It began small and was attended by a few celebrities, like Bette Davis and Stanley Kramer, who were there to receive lifetime achievement awards. It has grown to become a must-see event for

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those wishing to discover the next big star. Awards are given in numerous categories, not unlike the Academy Awards. Hollywood executives show up to find and sign the creators of breakout films, whether they are actors, directors, or cinematographers.

The Chicago International Film Festival is still growing and has become a major presence on the international festival circuit. In addition to showcasing foreign talent, Hollywood recognizes it as a place to debut upcoming features. Among the season’s two blockbusters, Melancholia and My Week With Marilyn, is David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method. Starring Cronenberg’s recent muse Viggo Mortensen, the film tells the tale of Sigmund Freud (Mortensen), his relationship with Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), and the psychological analysis of the unstable Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley).

Another event to look forward to is the Cuban film Juan of the Dead, a rare parody of a parody that is already getting some fantastic reviews.

The Chicago International Film Festival is a highprofile event and one of the few opportunities to catch rare foreign features. Expect to see celebrities waiting in line for the next screening or purchasing their favorite concession stand candy. Try to catch some press events and get in on the next piece of Hollywood hearsay, or try to muscle your way into one of the sure-to-be-many after-parties. Don’t forget to silence your cell phone: Chicago is screening and the world is watching.

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Amanda Dobbyn Sports Contributor Coming off the heels of a terrific season and first-place finish in the UAA Championship in 2010, this year’s women’s soccer team has a lot to keep them on their toes. The squad will travel to Boston to test its strength, first against Brandeis on Friday, October 14, and then against NYU on Sunday, October 16.

Challengers be forewarned: This year’s squad is just as much a mean, maroon, winning machine as was last year’s, which ended up with records of

12–4–3, and 6–1–0 in the UAA. The group is currently 6–4–1, but Head Coach Amy Reifert is optimistic about her girls’ chances of adding another UAA Cup to the trophy cabinet.

“We’ve never won back-to-back years, ever,” fourth-year captain Maggie Tobin said. “Coach will remind us that we have to do that for the seniors.” The upcoming game against Brandeis is especially charged, explained Tobin, because last year’s win against Brandeis secured the Maroons’ spot as UAA champions.

“We scored two goals within the first 10 minutes, and for the rest of the game it really felt like we were playing for the championship. When everyone ran out onto the field at the end…that’s

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something I’ll never forget,” Tobin said.

And this year? “They’ve got a grudge against us, for sure,” third-year Brigette Kragie said. “And it’s on their home field this year. That’s definitely a motivation for us to step up.”

Reaching last year’s level of excellence is sure to be a challenge for such a young team as this; upperclassmen account for only six out of a squad of 28. Even so, said Tobin, “We’ve already played Emory, which is ranked third in the nation and we tied them. We have all the pieces to the puzzle; we just have to put it together.”

“We need to win in order to have a chance at the UAA titles. I expect a win from this team. We deserve a win,” Kragie said.

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UAA championship hopes depend on East Coast trip results MEN’S SOCCER Sarah Langs Sports Contributor Chicago (5 –4 –2, 0 –2 –0 UAA) has a full slate of UAA play this weekend. During the team’s first two-game road trip of the school year, the team will take on Brandeis (7 –3 –1, 0 –1 –1 UAA) in Boston at 3p.m. on Friday, October 14, and then travel to New York to play NYU (5 –5 –1, 1 –1 –0 UAA) on Sunday, October 16 at 10a.m.

Both games are conference games, together comprising two of the remaining five UAA games the team has left this season. The conference games are crucial; the team essentially needs to win all five in order to be in the running for the UAA title and a bid to the NCAA tournament.

The team’s early successes have been tempered recently by a three-game losing streak, but attitudes are still positive.

“We are very focused and motivated as a team to make sure this small slide doesn’t go any further,” fourth-year midfielder and forward Stanton Coville said. “We have a great team and have proven we can play some great soccer by our early results.

Lately, we have still been playing highquality soccer, we just feel as though we have been very unlucky when it comes to a bounce here or there,” he added. Coville sees both of this weekend’s games as [possible wins]. “[If we] play to our ability and play our brand of soccer, [we can win both games],” he said.

“All of our emphasis right now is on Brandeis. After that game, we will look towards the NYU game,” Head Coach Scott Wiercinski said.

The one-game-at-a-time approach has players focused on how to counteract Brandeis’s aggressive style of play. “They play a very physical style. If we settle down and play our good-quality brand of soccer, we should be able to come out with a win,” Coville said.

After that, they will look ahead to NYU. “NYU won the conference last year, so it is definitely going to be one of the tougher UAA opponents. We won there two years ago, and I am confident that we will do it again,” fourth-year center back Ryan Tunstall said.

One potential challenge of the weekend is the concept of the road trip itself, which comes as the workload is getting heavier and midterms are fast approaching. “An added stress on a long weekend,” Wiercinski called it. “This is sort of a typical weekend for them with their club circuits,” Wiercinski said, in reference to the competitive teams that the first-years, who are unaccustomed to traveling in a college context, were members of during their high school careers.

The team’s hope is to return home victorious, with one or even two wins. “We need to play composed soccer and connect passes. When we calm down and think out our decisions, we are unstoppable,” Tunstall said, setting the tone for the weekend.

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Mahmoud Bahrani Sports Editor UChicago is ranked second in a preseason poll just released by Women’s DIII News. Amherst, the defending champion, took the top spot in the preseason poll.

Chicago returns all five starters from a squad that won its final 18 regular season games. One of those returners is fourthyear Taylor Simpson, who was named Preseason Player of the Year. Simpson led the team with an average of 14.3 points and 10.2 rebounds per game last year, and in UAA play Simpson’s averages increased to 16.3 and 11.1, respectively.

Fourth-year Meghan Herrick, the emotional lynchpin of the team, joined Simpson on the preseason All-America Team as an Honorable Mention pick. Herrick’s older sister, fourth-year Morgan Herrick, transferred to Chicago last season from Drake and formed a formidable high-low duo with Simpson. In addition to the five returning starters, the team will add NYU transfer Maggie Eli, a scoring dynamo who was second in the UAA in scoring last year. The Maroons will also add several strong first-years, many of whom could see playing time off the bench, according to Meghan Herrick.

The Maroons will kick off their season on November 18 against Fontbonne University.

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Every year, the cross country team makes its way down to Chicago and hops into the Marathon, usually around the two-mile mark. We cruise along in the flow of the race for however long our run is that day, and then we jump out. No harm done.

I’ve been blessed to have the opportunity to run in one of the greatest races in the world four times now, and when I left the course last Sunday I couldn’t help but get a little emotional. Last Sunday was the last Chicago Marathon I’m ever going to get to run as a member of the University of Chicago cross country team, and for something so special to end so abruptly felt out of place. I’ve learned a lot from the Marathon, things you can’t learn in ivycovered Gothic buildings, things I want to be able to share now.

The Marathon has taught me that encouragement is incredibly powerful.

As cross country runners, we run quite a bit. At times, with our leg muscles heavy with yesterday’s workout, we feel like cantankerous old men and women, and starting up yet another run is occasionally quite difficult. But in the marathon, everything changes. We practically fly through the city streets, floating along easily at paces that ordinarily would tire us out.

The streets downtown are the same as the streets in Hyde Park—the only thing that has changed is the thousands of onlookers, yelling encouragement from the sidelines.

Words of praise, however minuscule, can make all the difference.

The Marathon has also taught me that the best way to understand something or someone is to engage with it up close.

The course winds through many different Chicago neighborhoods, with each one providing a unique experience. One moment you’re in Boystown, with gay men dancing in cheerleading uniforms as you run by. The next, you’re on the Gold Coast, the rails lined with businesspeople on their day off, sipping their morning lattés. Adrian, a Mexican immigrant, heard rapturous cheers of “Corre!” as he ran through Pilsen.

Each of these neighborhoods can be read about, studied, and analyzed, but you can

never really understand them until you experience them up close.

Despite the thousands of people that compete in the Chicago Marathon each year, I’m always surprised by how easy it is to spot a friend in the crowd. I’ve been running and competing for a long time now, and running the Marathon is always a reminder of how many friends I’ve made along the way. One of my best friends ran his first marathon last weekend. We’ve probably run hundreds of miles together, through blazing-hot summers and icy-cold winters. Sometimes neither of us can shut up and we gab like magpies; other times, we just float along in peaceful silence. Sports are one of the best ways to make friends and meet people because they teach us to be able to confer pain and joy between one another without the banality of words. If the Marathon has taught me anything, it’s that sports are important, not just for us as individuals, but for human beings as a whole. Being “good” at sports doesn’t matter—what matters is going out there and giving it your best, and making as many friends as possible along the way.

Finally, the Marathon has taught me not to underestimate people. As we weave through crowds of other runners, it’s always interesting to see the eclectic mix of individuals running at different paces.

Old and young men run side-by-side in the three-hour group, while a woman in her mid-forties leaves them in the dust as she cruises on her way to a 2:40. What I’m trying to say is that, for the most part, you can’t tell anything about how fast someone is going to be until he or she starts running, a lesson that can be broadly applied to pretty much any walk of life. The guy dressed up in the Minnie Mouse costume always surprises people each year with his relentless running. Orangeman, a spinoff of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Greenman, is also quite quick. Batman, ironically, usually finishes pretty far back.

It must be all the armor.

Even if you’re not registered for the Marathon, take the trip downtown and jog a few miles amidst the crowd. It’ll be an experience you won’t soon forget.

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Although the Maroons have physically taken care of themselves all week, soreness may settle in on Sunday when they have to play NYU and Carnegie. Winning both matches will be important for the Maroons.

“NYU will be a solid match as well, and it is conference so everyone’s going to show up to play,” DelZenero said.

The Maroons’ best performance in the

UAA Championships over the last 10 years was when they took third in 2009.

The Maroons are having the best season they have ever had in 10 years. Four wins this weekend will continue what has been, save for a few hiccups, a dominant season for Chicago.

The Maroons open the UAA Round Robin on Friday against Brandeis at 10:30 a.m. Eastern time. All matches will be played in Rochester, New York.

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team is fresh off an 11th-place finish.

Chicago is one of four UAA teams in each race, along with Wash U, NYU, and Emory. They face stiff competition. On the men’s side, the Maroons are the eighthranked team in the field, behind the likes of top-ranked North Central (Ill.), Wash U, MIT, and UW–Oshkosh, while on the women’s side, the Maroons are ranked 10th in the field, behind schools like Wash U, MIT, Calvin, Carleton, and St. Olaf.

“I am very excited. I love high levels of competition,” said Billy Whitmore, a thirdyear who finished seventh in the men’s field at Loyola. “I see them as an opportunity to exceed expectations.”

Head Coach Chris Hall anticipates a good performance from both teams.

“We want to be a national team. And I think this weekend we’ll get an idea of whether or not we can do that,” Hall said.

“So I’m expecting our kids to perform at a pretty high level.”

According to Rachel Ohman, a fourthyear who was the top finisher for the women’s team at Loyola, the race’s atmosphere promotes a more assertive style.

“I feel a little more aggressive, and sharper, and a little more focused. For very small, not-as-competitive races, you don’t really ‘get yourself up’ emotionally as much as you do for a bigger race,” Ohman said. “And this is a race for which I will be pumping myself up a lot, and I have been this week.”

Dan Povitsky, a second-year who finished 56th in the men’s field two weeks ago, expressed a similar idea.

“This is basically a pre-national meet,” Povitsky said, “so it’s OK to invest a lot of emotion into this race and really get up for it, get excited for it.”

Coming off slightly disappointing performances at Loyola, the teams are motivated to perform strongly at this weekend’s race.

“I wasn’t thrilled with my performance at Loyola. I was much happier with my

performance at Illinois Intercollegiates when I finished 10th there,” Ohman said.

“Because I didn’t race quite as aggressively at Loyola as I would have liked to, I’m feeling that much more excited and aggressive for Saturday’s race.”

A more well-rested team, according to Povitsky, should lead to better results this weekend.

“Between October and September, we have a phase of some of our most strenuous workouts. So when we have Loyola, a lot of us don’t perform as well because we tend to be tired,” Povitsky said. “And so, as the phase of strenuous workouts ends, and now we’re tapering down a little bit, we’re more prepared for Oshkosh.”

Whitmore, who ran the 8K in a time of 24:59 in his last race, articulated the team’s mindset going into Saturday’s race.

“We have to adapt a mentality that reflects both confidence and competitiveness,” the third-year said. “I hope our team is eager to prove [its] place amongst some of the elite teams in D-III.” Povitsky said, “If we want to move on to the NCAAs, we need to be a team that can finish around the top 10 in the nation.”

Saturday’s large fields feature 11 men’s teams and 10 women’s teams ranked in the top 35 in the country, including Chicago’s top UAA rivals, NYU and Wash U. The men’s and women’s races should be competitive and compelling.

According to Ohman, a successful performance will enhance the team’s attitude heading into the national meets.

“I think the race at Oshkosh is definitely related to the races later in the season. It’s kind of a transition race, from the first part of the season to the championships,” Ohman said. “And I think that if we do well on Saturday, it will carry us into the championship season with a lot more confidence.”

The women’s 6,000-meter race will begin at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, with the men’s 8,000-meter race following shortly thereafter at 11:15 a.m.

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in each other’s pace. We hadn’t had any other success finding guides through a local friend,” said Broca.

Broca researched when he arrived in the city and looked up the times of local running teams and organizations. The men’s cross-country team, ranked 16th in the nation, seemed like a perfect match.

“It was kind of a Hail Mary. I looked up the crosscountry team on the University of Chicago website and found out about Coach Hall and the amazing program he was running locally. I knew I didn’t have any connection to be reaching out to the team, but I wanted to reach out to everyone I could so I e-mailed them and called them first thing Monday morning,” Broca said.

Coach Hall and the team welcomed the opportunity with ready feet and open arms.

“Adrian e-mailed our coach saying that he was hoping to find some people to guide him through the marathon at a 6:30 pace, and traditionally as a team we’ll long run in the marathon, so it was something we would have been doing anyway, except we got to help out Adrian,” said third-year Isaac Dalke, who guided Broca through the first half of the race.

This is one of the few times Broca has received help from a college team in a marathon. The Brocas have reached out to several cross-country teams across the nation in the past, but surprisingly rarely receive a response, which leaves Broca in a tough spot with no guides.

For the Maroons, though, this was an opportunity that they readily welcomed, and for Adrian it was the right fit because he would have a team of four guides who could guide him at his proper speed. Most of the runners on the team quickly responded to Coach Hall’s invitations and a schedule was set for Broca’s four guides and when they would jump into the race.

“When we can, we like to give back and help out others. For us, running is so important that we are always wanting to help those who share similar goals and aspirations,” said third-year Wyatt Jones, who also ran with Broca for the

first half of the marathon.

The Brocas, enthused and appreciative of the support they were receiving, came by the UChicago track the day before the race and met the team members after they had run their workout.

“They were so happy to have so many people that volunteered,” Jones said.

“We got that much more confident from seeing the workout and how strong the team was. I knew we had found the right match and that we were going to do well the next day. We were really moved and touched by everyone’s generosity and selflessness,” Broca said.

The partnership was mutually beneficial, which is something that really relieved Broca, who never wants to be a burden to others. For the Maroons, continuing at Broca’s pace would help them stay steady for their own times throughout the marathon and not burn out.

Broca was allowed two guides at a time throughout the race and decided on having one exchange.

The runners who led him for the first 13 miles were Dalke and Jones. The last half was run with fourth-years Brian Schlick and Brian Wille.

The guiding process itself is relatively simple. Broka grips a tether in his right hand, the other end of which is held by his guide who leads him at certain points throughout the course.

Moreso than the tether, communication is key.

Broca’s guides inform him of his surroundings and of when to turn. They also provide encouragement.

“We generally had two people on either side of him, and if it was a sharp right hand turn he would extend his hand and he had a tether on it so we would guide him around. A lot of it was verbal, like ‘Right, right, right.’ If there was something coming up in the course we would cue him in beforehand. We also ran in front of him so he could follow our shadows. The whole process went really smoothly,” Jones said.

“We wanted to make sure Adrian was as comfortable as possible,” Dalke added.

Broca was thankful for every bit of help

he received.

“Every time we went around a corner he would reach out and we would lead him and every time he would thank us, every single time. I mean, that’s exactly what we were there to do, but that’s the sort of person he is,” Wille said.

Broca could also be seen thanking those around him that would cheer him on as they, or more likely, he, passed by.

Heading into the race, nerves ran high for all participants.

“I was incredibly nervous. I was worried that we would mess up the pace or run into a problem with guiding. Being responsible with helping someone else is a totally different experience. I couldn’t sleep at first and I was worried I wouldn’t wake up to my alarm, so that when I woke up at 3:50 a.m. to go to the bathroom and [I thought]–you know what, I’ll just stay up,” Jones said.

Broca kept a visibly cool head the entire length, even when he found out that this race wouldn’t be quite the same as the other marathons he has run in.

Broca actually led the Chicago Marathon for the first four miles of the race. They gave those competing with certain impairments a 10-minute head start to avoid the problems that come with maneuvering through a crowd you can’t see. “We were literally the first runners on the course and were the fastest runners out, so we actually led the marathon,” Dalke said.

At the gun’s fire Broca is different. He is no longer impaired and no longer disabled. He, like every one of the thousands in the crowd, is there to cross the finish line.

“When I get out there I put my cane away and feel like there’s no limit to what I can do,” said Broca.

The experience was a first for Broca and one that added a little more fuel to his fire of competing in the Paralympics.

“It was awesome because I had never really had that opportunity. It was also really cool to have all those people cheering for you at the head of the pack. I loved every minute of it and it gave a taste of

what a Paralympic experience would be,” Broca said.

Eventually Broca and the others were caught, but not by just anyone. The people passing Broca, Jones, and Dalke were some of the top runners in the world.

“Looking over and seeing guys who have won the Chicago Marathon before, guys who have world championship medals, that was a little crazy, that was a little surreal. We didn’t see much of them, though. They move quick,” said Dalke.

Cheers were constant and persistent throughout the race, but there were certain moments where the crowd exploded a bit more for Broca.

“When we ran through Pilson, people knew Broca was Mexican-American and we would hear some cheers for him in Spanish. It was pretty cool,” said Schlick.

The race’s biggest moment, however, came in Broca’s final steps, when he finally crossed the finish line.

“Watching Adrian come down Michigan Avenue and make that turn was pretty remarkable,” Dalke said.

Despite running the races with his cane put away, Broca always brings it out for the marathon’s final moments.

“As soon as he got closer to the finish line, more and more people began lining the sides. As we drew near, Adrian extended his cane and raised it in the air. The cheers were audibly louder as he finished.

Everyone was being as loud as they could. It was really amazing,” Wille recalled.

Broca raises his cane for a reason. Despite the freedom running gives him and the struggles he faced in his youth due to his vision, his blindness is something he is not afraid of. Instead it is something he now uses to help others.

“No matter what time we have run on that day it is more about the victory over my own frustrations and disappointments and knowing that I have overcome everything since losing my sight,” Broca said.

It lets people know that I’m not ashamed of being visually impaired and I hope it sets an example...”

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Seeing the way Chicago cross-country runners guide Broca to marathon finish

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Visually impaired runner Adrian Broca catches his breath after finishing the Chicago Marathon on Sunday.

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CHICAGO MARATHON Vicente Fernandez Senior Sports Writer After months of tireless training, months of falling and getting back up, and months of bumps and cuts, Broca was ready to run farther than he ever had, all while being unable to see the road before him.

In a pack of 10,000 runners, Broca

UW-Oshkosh Invite hosts top D-III teams CROSS COUNTRY Matthew Schaefer Sports Contributor More than 50 teams will converge at Lake Breeze Golf Club in Winneconne, Wisconsin this Saturday for the UW– Oshkosh Invitational, one of the last big invitationals before conference races begin in two weeks. If Lake Breeze sounds familiar, it’s probably because it’s the home of this year’s D-III National Championship, in which cross country teams from across the country will compete for the ultimate prize of an NCAA crown.

The 18th-ranked men’s cross country team is coming off a sixth-place finish at the Loyola Lakefront Invitational on October 1, while the 32nd-ranked women’s CROSS COUNTRY continued on page 14

disappears into the crowd. He has a runner’s physique and may appear a bit more collected than his fellow competitors, and you wouldn’t notice anything different about him at first glance. Running blind while enveloped by a herd of men and women down a path you can’t see is an impossibly extraordinary feat in itself.

Doing it at a top speed is nothing short of surreal. For Broca’s first marathon, he did not use a guide.

He finished with a time of three hours and forty-two minutes, a blazing speed for any first-time marathon

The 26.2 mile course of the Chicago Marathon. Broca finished with a time of 2:53.

runner, and much more so for someone who had minutes shaved off because he had to find his way through the crowd and the course.

“After that, I realized I had more potential, and I drove my training up,” Broca said.

As time passed, Broca began to see that he would need some help to truly become the best runner he could be.

“I kept doing better, but I would need to ask people for help and I didn’t want to interfere,” Broca said. His personal record while running marathons entirely on his own was three hours and seventeen min-

The difference one race can make

utes. The challenge of racing a little over 26 miles solely off of other runners’ shadows and the sounds of the crowd was one thing that was affecting his runs.

“I was running into barricades because I wouldn’t know that the course was turning, so I would keep on going straight and I would run into people. I felt like if I kept doing things that way I would be setting myself up for failure,” Broca told.

With all the self-worth that carries Broca into the unknown streets and through the challenges in his life, he was not too proud to take a leap of humility and reach out to those around him for help. He joined running organizations and contacted runners in the areas he was racing. Some responded and some didn’t, but once word got out about Broca’s story through local media outlets, there were those who reached out to Broca about wanting be a part of his pursuit.

There were also those to whom Broca was an inspiration, proving to others through example that visual impairment doesn’t have to be a barrier to running.

He consistently runs the 26 mile marathon length at a 6:30 pace and an average time of around two hours and fifty minutes. He is one of two visually impaired runners who consistently breaks the three-hour mark for marathons, and among the competition as a whole tests out as one of the finest, finishing in the top 500 in races as big as the Boston Marathon.

The real benchmark for Broca, however, is two hours and forty-five minutes.

That is the time he needs to run for a spot on the U.S. Paralympic team, and that is the time that led him to travel across the country to Chicago.

A big part of making that time is having guides that can keep up and who are willing to work with Broca.

“A week ago I only had one runner who was actually trying to run the race himself and we were trying to stay with each other, but we were seeing differences

Last week, I was introduced to visually impaired runner Adrian Broca (see left for story on Broca).

Although several of us on the cross country team had agreed to guide Adrian through the Chicago Marathon, none of us had met up with him until the day before the race, when he visited us at practice. My other cross country comrades and I had just finished the first part of our workout for the day, and as we jogged gingerly around the track in between sessions, I couldn’t help but notice how powerful Adrian looked. His legs rippled up and down with muscle, the look of an individual who had spent many careful hours meticulously honing his body, sanding away all the round edges and leaving nothing but sharp lines in their place.

Watching Adrian finish the marathon was one of the most special sights I’ve ever seen.

He lifted his cane into the sky, brandishing it almost like a sword, daring not just anyone, but anything, to try to slow him down. I learned something very important in that moment, something that Adrian has probably known all along : There is absolutely no force that human will cannot overcome.

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Alexander Sotiropoulos Associate Sports Editor

4 p.m. (ET) - Women’s Soccer at Brandeis

The women’s volleyball team (20–2, 2–1 UAA) will be traveling to Rochester, NY to play in the second UAA Round Robin of the season. The tournament, which features Brandeis (7–11, 0–3 UAA), Carnegie (12–7, 2–1 UAA), NYU (14–8, 1–2 UAA), and Wash U (21–0, 3–0 UAA), along with the first UAA Round Robin, will determine seeding for the UAA Championships held on November 4 in New York City.

For the Maroons, currently ranked 16th in the nation, to receive one of the top seeds in the UAA Championships, a 4–0 record in the round robin is critical. In the first round robin event of the season, on October 1 and 2, Chicago went 2–1, losing only to Emory.

Emory, which is ranked third in the latest national poll and boasts

6:30 p.m. (ET) - Women’s Tennis at ITA Championship, All Day

Saturday

10/15

- Cross Country at Wis.-Oshkosh 10:30 a.m.

- Volleyball at UAA Round Robin vs. Brandeis, 10:30 a.m. (ET) vs. Washington, 12:30 p.m. (ET) - Women’s Tennis at ITA Championship, All Day

Fourth-year Colleen Belak tips the ball over the net during a game against Wisconsin Lutheran.

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a 24–2 record, barely edged out the Maroons 15–8 in the fifth set.

Because of this, the Maroons are focusing most on their matchup against archrival Wash U. The Bears are ranked second in the latest national poll and have a perfect

21-0 record.

“Wash U probably has the biggest target on their back given their ranking in the national polls and our competitive history with the team,” fourth-year Colleen Belak said.

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Sunday

10/16

- Men’s Soccer at NYU 11 a.m. (ET) - Volleyball at UAA Round Robin vs. NYU, noon (ET) vs. Carnegie Mellon, 2 p.m. (ET) - Women’s Soccer at NYU 1:30 p.m. (ET) - Women’s Tennis at ITA Championship, All Day