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SSN lays down landlord law Lina Li Senior News Staff The Southside Solidarity Network (SSN) and the Metropolitan Tenants Organization (MTO) provided a comprehensive overview of legal protections for renters and actions they can take against negligent landlords at a renters’ rights workshop last night.

The workshop, which was led

by MTO community organizers Noah Moskowitz (A.B. ’12) and Regina Rizzo, consisted of an outline of tenant rights followed by a discussion on move-in protocol, apartment conditions and repair, building security, leases, evictions, security deposits, and lockouts and retaliation.

Third-year Aija Nemer-Aanerud, an SSN member who helped organize the event, said that the workshop was an effort to “bridge the gap between students and the community,” since housing issues affect both groups.

Rizzo emphasized that renters should familiarize themselves with rights afforded under the Chicago Residential Landlord

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Part IV: Sexual assaults that don’t reach hearings Joy Crane Associate News Editor & Hannah Nyhart Special Contributor

This is the fourth installment of a quarter-long series on sexual assault, the first of which was published on Oct. 12. It can be found at chicagomaroon.com.

Community Organizer for the Metropolitan Tenants Organization Noah Moskowitz (A.B. ’12) explains to students and Hyde Park residents how they can protect against problems with their landlords.

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and Tenant Ordinance (CRLTO), or the “Tenant Bill of Rights.” Under the CRLTO, all renters are entitled to substantial legal protection if they live in buildings with over six units and if the landlord lives separately.

According to Rizzo, since 2009, MTO has developed a relationship with MAC properties, which is one of the biggest landlords of students in Hyde Park.

Though Moskowitz described the relationship as “tenuous,” Rizzo emphasized that collaboration with MAC allowed for smooth facilitation of housing disputes and avoidance of lastresort measures like picketing.

“They have shown an interest in addressing tenant issues, specifically systematic tenant issues,” Rizzo said.

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Editor’s note: This content deals with an account of sexual assault and may be triggering to some readers.

Less than five percent of sexual assaults suffered by college-age women will be reported to campus authorities or the police. While the U of C has developed a multifaceted system that encourages reporting of sexual assaults, most victims do not report or seek disciplinary recourse. In this installment we will be turning the lens on those who never go through

the University’s disciplinary process, the different points at which a victim stops seeking formal redress, and the wider factors contributing to why victims do not pursue disciplinary action against their assailant.

Choosing not to report Two thirds of victims of completed or attempted rape tell someone about the incident, but many turn to a friend or family member before an official figure.

Molly Liu, a fourth-year who was raped in the fall of 2010 by her then-boyfriend in University housing, made no official report.

“I didn’t feel comfortable filing a report because it was something that was very difficult for me to talk about…. It was hard for me to talk about even with my closest friends, and even more difficult for me to talk about it with someone that I didn’t know ASSAULT continued on page 4

Don’t rain on the book parade ER visits prompt call to health dept.

Third-year Jason Kang peruses a book in the Seminary Co-Op’s new space in McGiffert House on Woodlawn between East 57th and 58th streets.

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Marina Fang Associate News Editor The Seminary Co-Op Bookstore held a parade Monday morning to commemorate the transfer of the last few books to its new location. Attendees also got a sneak preview of the larger, above-ground store, set

to open on Wednesday.

Students, faculty, community members, and Co-Op staff, led by a bagpipe procession, carried the books from the entrance of the old store at East 58th Street and South University Avenue to its new home one block east on South Woodlawn Avenue. In addition, faculty authors, including Professor of American and African American History Thomas Holt; Professor of Anthropolog y, Linguistics, and Psycholog y Michael Silverstein; Professor of English and Comparative Literature David Bevington; and Dean of the College John Boyer, each carried one of their own books during the parade.

Co-Op Manager Jack Cella introduced the faculty authors in a short ceremony after the parade. They placed their books on the Co-Op’s signature Front Table, which has welcomed customers at the entrance of the store for over 30 years and displays books by noted faculty and new academic releases handpicked by Cella.

Also in attendance was architect Stanley Tigerman of Tigerman McCurry Architects, the firm that designed the new store.

“Working with him has been a real pleasure, and I think you’ll see his handiwork when you walk inside,” Cella said.

After the parade and brief ceremony outside the McGiffert House, the first floor and basement of which will house the Co-Op, everyone was invited inside to SEM CO-OP continued on page 4

Rebecca Guterman News Editor About six students fell ill early Friday morning with similar symptoms, prompting the U of C Medical Center (UCMC) to call the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) as part of Emergency Room protocol.

The students went to the emergency room on Friday in “a small window of time,” according to Ana Campos, interim director of the Office of Undergraduate Student Housing. Because the students were all

presenting symptoms consistent with food poisoning or a stomach virus, including vomiting, the UCMC alerted the CDPH to investigate.

Since then, all students have been treated and released from the emergency room.

Campos also said that additional students presented symptoms, but did not need to go to the ER. The cause and exact nature of the illnesses are undetermined as of yet, but the investigation is ongoing, according to the CDPH. ILLNESS continued on page 5

Food trucks sue City for rights Janey Lee News Contributor The Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship (IJ Clinic) at the Law School filed suit against the City of Chicago last Wednesday morning on behalf of three food truck owners with the hope of resolving a dispute regarding the appropriate role of government in the regulation of mobile food vendors.

The suit is on behalf of Greg Burke and Kristin Casper (A.B. ’08) of Schnitzel King and Laura Pekarik of Cupcakes for Courage. The IJ Clinic is suing the City on grounds that legislation regarding food trucks unfairly favors restaurants and is unconstitutional, as it does not grant equal legal

protection to businesses guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The website of the Institute of Justice (IJ), a national organization based in Arlington, VA, said the law is protecting the “few politically connected” brick-and-mortar restaurateurs and, as a result, depriving mobile food vendors of economic opportunity.

U of C law students from IJ Clinic, which is a joint project of IJ, are advising the clients under the supervision of lead counsel Robert Frommer of IJ. Casper, Burke, and Pekarik chose to work with the Clinic after networking with them at a mobile food symposium hosted by the IJ Clinic called “My Streets, My Eats” at the Law School last April and learning that IJ’s Texas chapter was instrumental in TRUCKS continued on page 4

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | November 20, 2012

Liquor license to loosen up Logan for late Nov. Maira Khwaja News Contributor The new café at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts will become the first academic café to sell alcohol when it officially celebrates its opening next Tuesday.

The Logan Center Café will be joining other academic cafés on campus in partnership with UChicago Dining. These cafés, including the Classics Café, C-shop, and Stuart Café, are managed and employed by UChicago Dining. The student-run cafés on campus include Common Knowledge, Ex Libris, Cobb, and Hallowed Grounds.

The café will hold an open taste testing to select a unique menu of beers and wines. Among the current possibilities are a variety of local craft beers, like Three Floyds, although no final decisions have been made.

Maroon Dollars from the undergraduate meal plan will be accepted at the Café for the purchase of food and nonalcoholic beverages. However, students will not be able to use Maroon Dollars to buy alcohol, regardless of whether the student is of drinking age.

UChicago Dining was not opposed to the inclusion of alcohol in the menu, however, because the option of beer or wine is integral to the vision

of the unique café and a more diverse campus, according to Bill Michel, director of the Café.

“We all understood the excitement about having a location on campus where someone could enjoy a glass of wine or a craft beer as a distinctive element for the Logan Café but also as a contribution to the campus as a whole,” Michel said.

The new café hopes to establish itself as a tradition in student life through a weekly Thursday special of four-dollar sangrias and one-dollar sangria iced teas—an idea inspired by the CShop’s one-dollar shake days, according to Michel.

Richard Mason, executive director of UChicago Dining, also said that Logan Café aims to serve a diverse audience beyond the confines of campus and therefore needs to provide a diverse menu. “[The Logan Center] is an arts center not just for the University of Chicago but for the whole South Side of the city. You want to have it be what you’d expect for an arts performance [space] downtown. You’d expect there to be a glass of wine or beer with a performance,” Mason said.

The café will also offer a small plates menu with a variety of cuisines. The menu will rotate quarterly and incorporate seasonal ingredients.

The Logan Center Café, now in a soft opening phase, will officially open on November 27. Among its menu items are small plate dishes, as well as alcoholic beverages.

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Bart Mart to turn up the heat Chicago transit dept. shares its bikes with Hyde Park Thomas Choi News Contributor

Maroon Market, commonly known as Bart Mart, has been the refuge for students with late-night cravings. Now, with infrastructural renovations and potential hot-food selections in the works for next summer, this hotspot will provide even more options.

UChicago Dining has had long-term plans to renovate the space, having worked on a concept for the past year. A meeting with a student advisory council in the near future is being planned as part of efforts to expedite the project to improve this popular venue.

Student responses from the Campus Dining Advisory Board, student representatives from Student Government, and the Inter-House Council have been in favor of adding the option of hot food to the convenience store’s offerings, according to Dining staff. The current plan is to install either a flat-top grill or a fryer in Maroon Market over the summer to open up options.

There will also be smaller-scale updates taking place throughout the year, according to Executive Director of UChicago Dining Richard Mason.

Dining plans to keep the atmosphere of a

late-night convenience store while at the same time adding hot food selections that students cannot find elsewhere on campus late at night.

Other popular food destinations such as Qdoba in Hutchinson Commons only stay open until 10:30 p.m., and Subway in Midway Market stays open until 2 a.m.

“I feel like the average time everyone goes to sleep is around 3 a.m., and there is very high student demand late at night,” Mason said.

He added that Bart Mart fills a niche even compared with Fourth Meal, which in addition to closing at midnight has more of a community gathering than a convenience store atmosphere.

“Bart Mart is for a different crowd of students who don’t have time to sit and eat. That’s what Fourth Meal is for.”

Mason also said they do not want to make any changes to Maroon Market that would prohibit changes for even further in the future. “We have to design it in a way so that it can be flexible for if we decide to add or change anything in the future,” he said.

The summer improvements are expected to be on a much larger scale than previous alterations such as the convenience store’s coffee vendor switch from Java City to Starbucks Coffee earlier this academic year.

Fourth-year Kathy Quintero shops at the Maroon Market, set to begin renovation this summer to potentially add a hot food option to the store’s offerings.

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Janey Lee News Contributor Chicago will join a host of cities around the world that have implemented bike share programs for short-term use in and around the city next year. By the end of 2013, the program will place around 4,000 bikes and 400 solar-powered docking locations throughout the city.

According to the program’s website, the first 30 minutes of bike rental are free, and users will be able to purchase a yearly bike sharing membership for $75 or a daily pass for $7 to use the bikes, which will be owned by the city. After 30 minutes, however, rates rise precipitously and an unreturned bike will cost $1,200, according to Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) Deputy Commissioner Scott Kubly.

A credit card will be required to purchase a pass at a dock. The docks will be operational 24 hours a day, and will be placed every quarter mile, according to CDOT spokesperson Pete Scales.

Design of the program was contracted to Oregon-based company Alta Bicycle Share and approved by Chicago’s Pedestrian and Traffic Safety Committee last spring. It is expected to cost the city $19.5 million, and will be paid for by the city and federal grants.

While Chicago’s existing bike share program, B-Cycle, only services Chicago Park District properties, the new program will have bike docking stations located near CTA and Metra stations, libraries, and other densely populated areas. The system is slowly being put in place and will eventually extend north toward Devon, south toward 63rd Street, and west to California Avenue.

Designed with South Sider input, this citywide program will also include bike sharing stations on the South Side, Scales said. In fact, the last of five public meetings was held in Bronzeville, where community members suggested locations for bike docks.

Scales is confident that areas like Hyde Park have the interest and capacity for bike docks.

“We’re basing this on density from the outset,” he said. “We want to go where people work, live, interact, play, and shop.”

City officials at the public meetings advocated the new program as a low-cost, environmentally sustainable option that would create jobs and allow citizens to commute to work in a healthy, convenient way. “It fills a big need in the transportation system and complements existing modes of transportation that are out there,”

Kubly said. “It’ll really solve that first and last mile of transit.”

Community members who attended the meetings, like Harold Lucas, an active cyclist and CEO of the Black Metropolis Convention and Tourism Council, saw the program as a way to boost tourism and thus economic growth in the Bronzeville area in particular.

“I see that having these bicycles available and where they put them at as being a catalyst for attracting people to those destinations,” Lucas said in an interview with the Chicago Defender yesterday.

Kubly is confident the program will also stimulate economic growth within the city by giving Chicagoans more purchasing power. A study done in Washington, DC, where Kubly led the implementation of a bike share program, found that the average user had saved $850 a year in transportation costs. Kubly believes that stations will benefit surrounding businesses by attracting new customers, and projects that the program will lead to the creation of 150 permanent fulltime jobs.

Although there has been a considerable amount of support for the program, critics like 28th Ward Alderman Jason Ervin do not believe the bikes will be accessible to enough of the city.

“It leaves a huge swath of the city without the ability to use this,” Ervin said to the Chicago Sun-Times in April. “Why should people [who] live in outlying wards support putting [in] a system that you feasibly can’t use?” Ervin’s ward includes West Garfield, North Lawndale, Little Village, and Pilsen.

The program is also trying to attract a racially and socioeconomically diverse customer base that adequately mirrors the diversity of the city itself. To this end, Kubly plans to work with community groups and churches to diversify the network of commuters that use the program.

Moreover, he plans to implement an internship program, similar to that already in place at Blackstone Bicycle Works in Hyde Park, that would train young people in bike mechanics.

As the program is implemented throughout the year, broadening its scope will be one of Kubly’s major priorities.

“The larger the systems are, the better they are.

It’s almost like a cell phone plan, where the bigger the network you have, the more effective it is,” he said. “I think that serving a diverse population is a challenge in many cities, so that’s why it’s a particular focus of mine to serve a broad section of the population.”

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | NEWS | November 20, 2012

Two students, one alum arrested in budget cut protests Alex Hays News Contributor Two U of C students and an alumnus were arrested after refusing the request of federal marshals to leave the lobby of the John Kluczynski Federal Building during a protest downtown on November 9.

The students were taking part in a protest led by Chicago community organizations urging Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) to support the expiration of the Bush Era tax cuts and to block cuts to social safety nets such as social security and Medicaid.

Third-year Paul Kim, fifth-year philosophy graduate student Jacob Swenson, and Noah Moskowitz (A.B. ’12), all members of the campus group Southside Solidarity Network (SSN), were arrested along with 17 other protesters among shouts of “we shall not be moved” that Friday.

“Being arrested was the best way to bring attention to the issue,” Kim said.

Kim received a ticket for refusing to leave the federal building, while other protesters have court dates.

Protesters had anticipated the arrests and were prepared to occupy the federal building until Senator Durbin agreed to speak with them, said thirdyear SSN coordinator Aija NemerAanerud in an e-mail.

Nemer-Aanerud, who was on the planning committee for the action, said that SSN had been working for the past few months with Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation (SOUL) and other community organizations in Chicago to stage the protest.

She said that around 50 SSN members

Univeristy students demonstrate against proposed budget cuts that would threaten social safety net programs such as Medicaid and Medicare during a protest downtown on November 9.

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joined the crowd of more than 400 people to protest against what they deemed to be corporate greed and lack of funding to vital social programs.

“We’re seeing that the problems on the South Side are bigger than just a local issue—they’re part of a systemic

funding issue we can see across the country,” she said.

SSN hopes that their message to Senator Durbin will persuade him to remain accountable to the people who voted him into office and to use his power as Senate Majority Whip to

Committee releases annual UCPD oversight report Linda Qiu News Editor Twenty-one complaints filed against the University of Chicago Police Department (UCPD) last year were reviewed by the Independent Review Committee (IRC), which published its annual report yesterday.

The IRC, composed of University faculty, staff, students, and community members, evaluated UCPD internal investigations of the complaints, generally agreeing with UCPD’s conclusions. In addition to reviewing complaints, the IRC’s report also included an analysis of complaints since 2005 as well as UCPD procedural recommendations.

In the report, the IRC responded to a number of complaints regarding traffic stops, recommending that “the UCPD consider ways to alert the community of this new crime prevention and safety enhancement tactic so that drivers...are not as taken aback as they have been by the new practice.”

Other complaints in the last year included three allegations of racial profiling and six of unprofessional conduct. Of the 21 complaints, six allegations—including one of racial profiling—from three complaints were recognized

by UCPD as sustained, meaning that it was an incident in which the UCPD recognized that unjust conduct had occurred.

One complainant accused the officer of an illegal search and of taking $64 from his pocket (the illegal search was sustained while the seizure of money was not). Another sustained complaint reported inadequate umbrella coverage by a person who said he was accosted by a group of youths when the UCPD officer who was supposed to be following him disappeared without explanation.

A complaint of violation of constitutional

rights was determined to be unfounded while an allegation of unprofessional, demeaning conduct brought forth by the same woman was unsustained. The complaint of a woman claiming her son was stopped unjustly and harassed

by UCPD officers twice in one day was classified as unfounded in the absence of a signed affadavit.

In its analysis of seven years’ worth of UCPD complaint data, the IRC found that 57 of the 72 complainants were black and 54 were from the community. Sixteen officers have been the subject of more than one complaint. Rights violations comprise more than a third of charges, while 37 of 161 findings were classified as sustained.

Complaints are reviewed by a UCPD supervisor and then by the Associate Vice President for Safety and Security and Chief of Police Marlon Lynch, who writes to the complainant explaining the findings.

This year’s findings included a new category of “Administratively Closed”, describing complaints that are inconclusive because of a lack of a signed affidavit. Eight complaints received this new categorization in the report, which was recommended by the IRC last year. The UCPD can also classify a complaint as exonerated or unfounded.

The IRC, established in 1986, recognizes that there have been “historically small numbers of complaints filed against UCPD in any given year,” the report said. Since its creation, the IRC has only conducted one additional investigation supplementing the yearly report.

In July 2010, the IRC released a 17-page report criticizing UCPD’s arrest of Mauriece Dawson (A.B. ’10), who was arrested in the Regenstein library after refusing to show his student ID to a UCPD officer. The arrest prompted allegations of racial profiling.

prevent cuts to programs that support South Side residents. “We need this money to fund the programs that hold our communities together,” NemerAanerud added.

Chicago community organizers are currently planning to set up soup

and bread lines outside of the federal building from December 3 to 6, in what they call a week of action. The event will conclude on December 6 with the erection of a “Durbinville,” alluding to the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression.

CORRECTIONS The Nov. 16 article “Mormon students reflect on interpretations of faith on campus” misstated Mormon practices regarding caffeine.

The Nov. 16 article “Ren Society sculpts new leader” misstated the month of Ghez’s departure.

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Some students feel University did not provide necessary information for disciplinary action ASSAULT continued from front

as well. There also weren’t any easily available authority figures that I could talk to or I didn’t really know the structure I would have to go through. I wasn’t sure if I was capable of facing bureaucracy,” Liu said.

While there are many reasons why a victim would not report the crime, one of the most commonly cited by crisis counselors who work with students was a lack of understanding of campus processes, according to a 2009 national investigation by the Center for Public Integrity. The U of C has worked to surmount some of those barriers with initiatives such as the Sexual Assault Dean-on-Call program, but students are not always put in touch with that resource.

“I wasn’t aware that one could file a report without pressing charges, although that’s something I know now. At that time it was very much something I very much wanted to leave behind me, not something to go through and reprocess,” Liu said.

At the fringes of the system A student’s first interaction with the University is often through a more familiar point of contact, rather than initially connecting with a Sexual Assault Deanon-Call. These figures are often “Campus Security Authorities” as defined by the U of C in accordance with the Clery Act, which mandates publication of campus crime statistics. As those who bear “significant responsibility for student and campus activities,” housing staff, coaches, academic advisers, academic deans, and deans-on-call among others are encouraged to submit sexual assaults that are reported to them for the U of C’s official crime count.

But although these community members can serve as an entry point to a support system carefully cultivated by the University, that is not always the student experience.

A student in the College, who spoke on condition of anonymity, was sexually assaulted after her friends left her, heavily inebriated, on a street corner near her residence hall. The student blacked out due to alcohol consumption, and describes the night’s events through a combination of reports from friends and her own periods of

awareness. The student then woke to find herself in a stranger’s bed in a fraternity house.

As the student flashed in and out of consciousness, the assailant forced his penis into her mouth and penetrated her despite vocalized protests: “I remember waking up in and out of consciousness, and I remember telling him that it hurt, that I didn’t want it to happen, that I wanted him to stop. And I did say no, and it didn’t stop….”

The following night, having told no one about the assault, the student drank again and suffered a breakdown severe enough to alarm her Resident Heads, though they did not know its cause. She was sent to an area hospital, where she told her female Resident Head (R.H.) of the assault via phone.

“She didn’t really say much, she was just like, ‘I’m so sorry.’ And same with my adviser—‘I’m so sorry that that happened to you,’ and then talking about my other issues.”

The student told her academic adviser of the assault via e-mail during the summer.

Neither her R.H. nor her adviser referenced the possibility of a disciplinary process, though her assailant was a College student.

Nor did either refer her to the Sexual Assault Dean-on-Call or other University resources.

After a week’s stay in the hospital, the student took a quarter-long leave of absence. During that leave and the subsequent summer, neither University member whom she told broached the subject of her assault.

“No one spoke of it. Nothing from the school or anything. All of it was basically my own personal recovery plan. But recovery plan concerning various other issues; it wasn’t specifically about the assault.”

Asked about whether or not she had considered pursuing disciplinary action, she said, “I think that in my position I wanted to be reassured that it was an issue, that this date-rape type stuff happens a lot on college campuses, but the administration wasn’t doing that for me, so I was just like, well, if they don’t see it as a valid issue, then what’s the point of me doing anything? But I was always angry, I think that the main emotion that I’ve had is anger towards it.”

Resident heads and advisers were unable

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see the store’s layout.

Cella hoped that despite the new location and larger space, Co-Op customers would continue to feel at home.

“It’s still a work in progress, but we really think that it reflects the sense of discovery that Co-Op lovers and book people have come to appreciate so much,” Cella said.

Co-Op patrons and parade attendees seemed to agree, noting that the space of the new store is an improvement over the layout of the old one but retains the Co-Op’s unique facets.

“It combines the whimsical of the old [location] with the modern-ness of the new space,” said thirdyear Lexie Goldberger.

“You can actually see things. Like I saw comic books, which I didn’t know they had. You can stand up without hitting your head,” said third-year Abby Persh-

ing.

Professor of Political Science Mark Hansen, a member of the Sem Co-Op’s board, hopes that the move will provide an opportunity to promote the Co-Op’s primary focus on academic works.

“I hope we can take advantage of the opening to publicize the store and renew the idea of a bookstore with books for intelligent people written by intelligent people,” he said.

The Co-Op has been closed for the move since November 12. The new store will open its doors to customers on Wednesday and an official opening ceremony is planned for sometime in January.

In the meantime, its sister bookstore, 57th Street Books, has served Co-Op customers and those who need books from the Coop could request for them to be sent to 57th Street Books for pickup.

to speak on the record about training received on how to respond to sexual assault allegations.

Entering the official University system If a student has been connected with a Sexual Assault Dean-on-Call through various channels, they then access the U of C’s full support system for handling cases of sexual assault. If a student expresses a desire to explore a disciplinary hearing, he or she has a meeting with the Dean of Students of the division of the accused, where it is determined whether or not the accusation will evolve into a disciplinary hearing. Official University policy states: “Based on the inquiry and in consultation with the Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services (or his/her designee), the Dean of Students has the discretion and authority to dismiss the complaint, to resolve the complaint informally with the parties, or to refer the complaint to the Academic Dean with a recommendation to convene an Area Disciplinary Committee.”

Although the Dean of Students has the ultimate ability to dismiss complaints, once meetings have been initiated the disciplinary option is always encouraged by University officials, according to Belinda Vazquez, Associate Dean of Students in the University for Student Affairs and the Title IX Coordinator for Students.

“Sometimes a student is really concerned about whether they want to go to discipline or not. Even in those instances, we encourage that as an option. We always want to encourage that student to consider discipline as an option,” Vazquez said.

But one student’s case suggests otherwise.

Olivia Ortiz, a third-year, met with the Dean of Students in the College, Susan Art in multiple private pre-hearing meetings in spring 2012 after being raped by a student she was dating. Ortiz reported feeling well served by the Sexual Assault Dean-on-Call, but was dissatisfied with subsequent meetings with Art. After Art met with the complainant and accused separately, she met with the two of them together, and informed the complainant that the University did not consider her

case sexual assault. Her case did not result in a disciplinary hearing.

“I felt like I didn’t have the option of going to a hearing. I was told they did not consider my case to be sexual assault,” Ortiz said.

The University’s official policy, as per Illinois Law, makes no specific reference to the relationship between the victim and the accused. Art was unable to comment on this specific case or more generally about whether intimate partner violence is taken into consideration when determining whether a case is sexual assault.

“I remember her saying this wasn’t sexual assault in the meeting, and then I remember in the follow-up meeting too, I was kind of confused and I said, ‘Well, if this wasn’t sexual assault, is it bad that I came to you with this, was this too much for me to do?’ and she was like, ‘No, it wasn’t too much, because you were having troubles with another student, which I’m supposed to mediate.’ But she classified it as a ‘trouble with another student.’”

According to University official policy, “Mediation and/or informal resolution are not appropriate, even on a voluntary basis, in matters involving allegations of sexual assault.”

Art was unable to share what factors she uses to determine whether an allegation of sexual assault merits convening a disciplinary committee. In an e-mail, Art commented, “Our first concern with any such incident is the well-being of the person who has stepped forward with a claim of sexual assault…. At the same time, we open an investigation with the goal of pursuing the appropriate disciplinary action. Students are welcome at any time to bring concerns to me. There is no statute of limitations for hearing complaints such as these.”

The Maroon is committed to achieving as thorough knowledge as possible of all aspects of this issue. If you have information on the history of U of C’s policies with regard to sexual assault, or if you or someone you know has experiences relating to sexual assault and/or subsequent hearings, please contact us at hannah.nyhart@gmail.com or joycrane7@gmail.com.

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abolishing a proximity rule of 1,000 feet for food trucks in El Paso.

Chicago’s regulations contain a proximity rule that institutes a $2,000 fine for parking within 200 feet of a restaurant and stipulates that trucks install a GPS tracking system themselves to enforce that rule.

Entrepreneurs have decried the regulations, claiming that they inhibit economic growth by stifling creativity and free market competition.

“Businesses have [the] right to choose what they want to do. They need freedom, and without that freedom, the government’s really running your business,” Casper said.

As of now, the City has only released a short statement acknowledging the litigation but has yet to make a concrete decision on how to proceed. The City is required to respond within 30 days, Casper said.

The City has recently tak-

en steps toward loosening regulations. For instance, three weeks ago, the City Council approved an ordinance that designated 21 stands where food trucks are legally allowed to park for two hours at a time.

The ordinance provided an exception to the proximity rule, as some stands are located within 200 feet of a restaurant.

Casper said she does not see these measures as adequate. “It’s a medicine for a symptom; it’s not addressing the problem.”

She also said she believes that greater mobility has the potential to benefit restaurants by attracting people who don’t normally frequent such areas and creating a broader sense of community between people who would otherwise not interact.

A reason for such prohibitive legislation is the fact that cities tend to be riskaverse, according to Brooke Fallon, Office and Community Relations Manager

for the IJ Clinic. Because food trucks are a relatively new and unconventional business model, she said, cities don’t know how to adequately regulate them in a manner that addresses health and safety concerns while avoiding excessive protectionism.

“I think a part of it is not having a good model and set of best practices and that’s been a big challenge for us,” she said.

The restaurant industry has also voiced its concerns actively throughout the discussion over food truck regulation. High property taxes, high rent, and the economic recession are challenges the industry faces daily.

“The businesses just don’t feel that this is the right thing to do for them when they are trying to make a dime,” Maureen Martino, executive director of the East Lakeview Chamber, said to the Chicago Tribune about the exemptions to the proximity rule.

Fallon said that older, more established restaurants have more “political swing”, as they are more connected with city officials and thus have the upper hand in advocating their positions.

“Restaurants have a natural spokesperson in the city council,” she said.

She noted that Alderman Tom Tunney of the 44th Ward is the former chairman of the Illinois Restaurant Association. Casper also said the National Restaurant Association donates heavily to Tunney.

“They listen to them, versus listening to the little guy,” she said.

IJ has also released two national reports accompanying the lawsuit. The first offers recommendations to metropolitan cities on the ways in which policy can be used to cultivate small mobile food businesses. The second refutes some commonly held notions about the food truck industry and its relation to traditional restaurants.

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Booth ranks first for fourth straight year Spencer McAvoy News Contributor For the fourth consecutive year, Booth took the number one spot on Bloomberg Businessweek’s list of the best M.B.A. programs in the U.S. The rankings, which came out last week, are based on a weighted combination of student and employer surveys and a calculated “intellectual capital” rating. The surveys make up the bulk of the overall rating, at 45 percent each, while “intellectual capital” is worth only 10.

Booth placed 11th in the student survey, and fifth in intellectual capital, but was carried to the top by its excellent employer surveys, which placed Booth at the top out of 63 schools.

The student surveys ask graduates to rank various aspects of the school they attended—such as teaching quality, career services, and the abilities of their classmates—on a ten point scale. The responses

from the student survey were also used to provide a letter grade to each school for teaching quality, career services, critical thinking, leadership skills, and caliber of classmates. Booth received an A+ for the first three categories, an A for caliber of classmates, and a B for leadership skills.

Employers are asked to rank the top twenty schools from which they have recruited on the quality of their graduates. The schools receive points based on employers’ rankings—20 for first, 19 for second, and so on—which are used to determine each school’s ranking in this category. The enthusiasm of employers for Booth graduates can be seen in the fact that 95 percent of Booth graduates are employed within the first three months after graduation.

Finally, the “intellectual capital” ranking is based on the number of articles each school’s faculty published, adjusted for faculty size, in 20 of the most prestigious business-related academic journals. Schools also receive points if a faculty member’s

book was reviewed in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, or Bloomberg Businessweek.

“At this point, Booth is in a class by itself, especially in the eyes of employers. It is the top school in that part of the ranking,” said Businessweek editor Geoff Gloecker in a question and answer session with the public.

Other business publications, however, are not quite as Booth-friendly. U.S. News has Booth at fourth, tied with Northwestern’s Kellogg, and MIT’s Sloan, while Forbes ranked it third, behind Harvard and Stanford. Forbes’s methodolog y is based solely on statistics related to rate of return on the tuition and opportunity cost of an M.B.A. U.S. News has a more complicated system that includes factors such as acceptance rate, GMAT scores, peer assessment (that is, survey of the deans of other schools), and student selectivity, and weights recruiter surveys much lower than does Businessweek.

Prof presents history of censorship during wartime Jon Catlin Senior News Staff Harvard Professor of history of science Peter Galison suggested that censorship and state secrecy are far more extensive and intrusive today than at any previous time in United States history in a talk entitled “War, Censorship, and the Mind” in Harper last Friday afternoon.

In his talk, Galison spoke on the history of censorship in the U.S. and its effect on the individual psyche. He called censorship in this country a distinctly modern idea and broke it down into three periods that correspond with military action: “the Great War” (1914–1918), “the Long War” (1939– 1989), and “the Terror Wars” (2001–present).

Censorship in the first period resulted from the Espionage and Sedition Acts, which banned speech disruptive to the U.S. military’s recruitment efforts for the First World War and the releasing of sensitive ma-

terial like tactical maps. These efforts were of small scope and applied to only a small number of subjects.

By contrast, in the last period, brought about by the terrorist attacks of September 11, ordinary centers of civilian life such as airports and personal computers have become “fronts” in the war on terror and as a result, state surveillance has grown.

Simultaneously, the 2001 U.S.A. Patriot Act and so-called “State Secrets Privilege” have expanded the scope of classified information to 117 broad categories of government information by what Galison called a “radiative effect” of secrecy by default.

“When the government started adding ‘and other information’ to lists of classified materials, that’s where the tether breaks,” Galison said. “With this change, the ontology of secrets shifted from forbidding utterances to forbidding entire domains of knowledge.”

Galison called this latest advance “parasecrecy” and channeled his concern into his 2008 film Secrecy, which he co-produced

with fellow Harvard professor Robb Moss.

Galison screened a clip from the film suggesting that extensive secrecy policies have led to unconstitutional invasions of civilian privacy and human rights violations such as those documented at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad.

At the individual level, as early as 1897 Freud made the connection between the Austrian government censoring letters and newspapers and individuals censoring their own thoughts and developing neuroses. Galison worried that the significant growth of censorship since then could have profound negative psychological consequences. “We have no idea what para-secrecy does to the human mind,” he said.

Galison gave the lecture as the 2012 Critical Inquiry visiting professor, which includes his giving two public lectures and teaching a Ph.D. seminar called “Building Crashing Thinking,” which investigates the question, “How did the machines we make turn around to remake us?”

Students feel effects of mystery sickness across campus, City recommends hydration ILLNESS continued from front

“The role of the Chicago Department of Public Health in this situation is to research any common cause when there is a small cluster of similar illnesses. In that process CDPH staff members have contacted some students who were ill and may continue to do so to determine if there are any similar factors that can help point them to the cause of these illnesses,” Campos wrote in an e-mail.

All three dining halls are labeled as category one (high risk) establishments with the CDPH, but that is due to the methods and presentation of food the dining halls have to use given their size and capacity, rather than a reflection of failure to pass health inspections, according to CDPH spokesperson Quenjana Adams.

“Restaurants are considered category one establishments if one or more of the follow-

ing practices occur at the establishment: Cook and cooling down of food products, [holding ] hot [food for] longer than 12 hours, extensive handling of raw ingredients, reheating of potentially hazardous food products, or cooking for service offsite,” Adams wrote in an e-mail.

For students that do suspect that they have food poisoning, hydration is the best treatment, Adams said. If the situation is extreme, “receiving hydration intravenously may be necessary for some individuals,” which could require going to the ER. Second-year Hannah Wang, who felt sick around 3 a.m. Friday morning, said that she was told she could have food poisoning from Bartlett, but she had also eaten in Cathey Dining Commons that day. “I’m actually not sure if I had food poisoning or the stomach flu,” she said. “I heard a lot of Max and Pierce kids got sick though.”

On the U of C thread of the Web site Reddit, one student posted two days ago that about 12–16 people in his or her house were sick, of unknown causes, and asked if others were seeing similar trends. Students from Burton-Judson, Snell-Hitchcock, and Max responded that their own and other houses in their dorms seem to be “hit hard” by sickness as well, based on Resident Head announcements and comments they heard.

According to Campos, Housing will continue monitoring the status of students, with help from other departments.

“The CDPH will continue to work with Environmental Health and Safety, the Student Health and Counseling Services, and the Office of Undergraduate Student Housing to monitor the safety and health of the students. It is also possible that the cause of the sickness may never be determined,” Campos said.

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NEWS IN BRIEF SG fills two class rep vacancies Two vacancies in College Council (CC) have been filled by third-year Mark Reid and second-year Steven Wendeborn.

Reid was elected on October 31 from among eight candidates after Kristina Brant resigned “due to being unable to fulfill duties based on outside circumstances,” said second-year and CC Chair Vidal Anguiano. Wendeborn, elected November 7 from a pool of five candidates, filled the position left vacant by Anguiano as a result of his election as Chair of CC. As per Student Government mandate, each candidate interested in the positions was given the opportunity to deliver a statement of no more than 30 seconds and answer a series of questions. The CC then selected the candidates by blind vote. —Linda Qiu

UCID now required for Pierce University ID cards are now required for students to enter the exterior doors of Pierce Tower, Interim Director of Undergraduate Student Housing Ana Campos announced in an e-mail last week.

All students, regardless of their designated dining hall, can still enter Pierce with a University ID card to eat in the dining hall. However, only Pierce residents have access through the security doors into the residential tower.

Prior to the initiation of the new security policy, Pierce Tower was the only residence hall at the University to keep its exterior doors unlocked because many non-Pierce residents are assigned to eat at the Pierce Dining Hall or regularly attend Fourth Meal, which is hosted exclusively at the Pierce Dining Hall.

The Department of Safety and Security, Residential Services, UChicago Dining, and the Office of Undergraduate Student Dining implemented the change to ensure consistent security practices, Campos said. —Mara McCollom

BJ lounges renamed for alums The Burton and Judson Lounges in Burton-Judson Courts (B-J) will be renamed in honor of Bertram Cohler (A.B. ’61), the William Rainey Harper Professor of the Departments of Comparative Human Development, Psychology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience and Herman Sinaiko (A.B. ’47, Ph.D. ’61), a professor in the Humanities Division and Dean of Students in the College from 1982–1986. Both died during the last academic year.

Cohler served as Resident Head of Linn House in B-J from 1990–94, and Sinaiko lived in B-J when he was a student in the College.

As announced in an e-mail to B-J residents from Dean of the College John Boyer, the lounges, historically known as ‘the club rooms,’ will be named the Bertram Cohler Club Room and the Herman Sinaiko Club Room. In addition, the rooms will host an annual lecture series by winners of the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, which Cohler won in 1975 and 1999 and Sinaiko won in 1963.

The University plans to dedicate the Bertram Cohler Club Room on November 27, while the Herman Sinaiko Club Room will be dedicated in January. —Marina Fang

UCMC VP to leave in March Dr. Eric Whitaker, vice president of strategic affiliations and associate dean of community-based research at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) and a close friend of President Barack Obama, will be stepping down from his post this March in order to pursue other opportunities in the health field.

Whitaker plans to remain involved with the Urban Health Initiative (UHI), a program dedicated to improving health and access to care on the South Side, which he has led since 2007, by taking a position on the program’s advisory board.

Despite speculation that Whitaker might work in the Obama administration, he told the Chicago Tribune that he does not plan to take any government position so that he can continue his work on public health in Chicago.

The UCMC will conduct a national search for his replacement in the coming months, during which Whitaker plans to continue working on the UCMC’s community outreach in order to facilitate a smooth leadership transition. —Jennifer Standish

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Conference discusses AIDS in minorities, prison system’s role Jon Catlin Senior News Staff Researchers discussed the role of the penal system in the spread of HIV/AIDS at a two-day conference entitled “Social and Structural Determinants of HIV Infections Among Minority Populations.” The conference was held this past Friday and Saturday at the School of Social Service Administration (SSA).

The speakers examined the growing problem of HIV/AIDS among minority populations such as blacks, Latinos, men who have sex with men, and the incarcerated.

The event was the second annual conference of SHINE (Sexually Transmitted Infections/ HIV Intervention Network), a U of C-based network of researchers and community partners including public health nonprofits and social workers who come together to lessen the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on vulnerable minority populations.

Panelist Matthew Epperson, a professor at SSA, began the conference by noting how disproportionately minority groups are affected by HIV/AIDS. According to Epperson, upwards of three percent of black heterosexual women who are incarcerated in the United States are HIV-positive—a rate 10 to 15 times higher than that of white women.

“Formerly this was thought to be due to drug use, but data today suggests that these infections may be a result of these women entering the criminal jus-

Sheryl Lee Ralph performs a series of monologues in her show “Sometimes I Cry” as part of a University conference examining the HIV/AIDS problem in minority communities.

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tice system itself,” Epperson said, referring to prisons as hubs for dangerous activities like drug use and unprotected sex.

In the keynote address, Columbia University Professor of Sociomedical Sciences Robert Fullilove called mass incarceration a social driver in the spread of HIV/AIDS in the United States.

“Those of you who study

epidemics know that they are fueled by motion…. The goal is always to isolate the infection reservoir,” Fullilove said. “Now imagine the effect of moving half of all men over the age of 16 in and out of prison, and you have an idea of why AIDS disproportionately affects black urban communities.”

By stepping back and looking at broader socio-

logical trends, Fullilove linked the rapid spread of AIDS in the early 1980s to the so-called “War on Drugs” that dramatically increased the prison population in the United States, from 200,000 in 1972 to 1.6 million in 2010, with an additional 5.7 million on parole.

Focusing on hard outcomes and policy changes to stop the spread of AIDS

in the United States, Fullilove called for scaling back incarceration in hopes of increasing social stability and public health in affected communities.

Fullilove also praised the Affordable Care Act as a step in the right direction, noting that “it is really a public health act because [it] pushes our system toward preventative medicine, not just treating the

sick.”

The conference concluded the next day with a performance from humanitarian and actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, a member of the original production of the musical Dreamgirls. She presented a one-woman play called Sometimes I Cry, which she wrote based on true stories of women struggling with HIV/ AIDS.

New student journal provides forum for historical analysis Anastasia Kaiser News Contributor A new publication on campus aims to allow undergraduates to publish articles with a historical focus. Founded by second year Pranav Jain, the journal, still unnamed, plans to publish its first issue in the spring.

Jain explained that he was inspired to create a history journal

after reading a copy of Columbia’s Journal of Politics and Society.

“Of the five essays,” he said, “two were written by UChicago students and they were amazing. I was frustrated by the fact that despite the great social sciences tradition at the University, we don’t have a similar journal.”

The journal intends to publish original research in the fields of history, politics and literature. Pa-

pers written for seminars and colloquiums would be given priority, but high quality papers written for classes would be considered as well.

The journal hopes to provide a more academic forum than similar publications like The Midway Review. While papers related to sociology, literature, politics, and anthropology are encouraged, contributions must have a substantial historical focus in order to be

considered for publication. The journal will also publish student authored book reviews, faculty interviews and occasional student travel narratives.

Peer institutions like Yale and Columbia support similar publications. Jain believes that the Yale Undergraduate Historical Review lacks focus, while Columbia’s Journal of Politics and Society is too specialized. He hopes that his

publication will strike a balance between the two. Each issue will be centered around a specific theme, such as the Jacksonian Era or an inter-disciplinary analysis of history and politics.

Jain is on the hunt for talented students to join his editorial board.

He is currently interviewing candidates for the position of co-editorin-chief and hopes to invite 10-15 editors to join the board.

Tenants have rights against landlords who withhold relevant information, overcharge for fees RENTALS continued from front

Rizzo and Moskowitz then launched into a summary of renters’ rights.

They said that when landlords do not deal with issues like pests or mold after a 14-day notice, emergencies regarding heat after filing a 24-hour notice, and water, plumbing, and electricity after a 72-hour notice, tenants can withhold up to 50 percent of their

rent or terminate their lease. However, Rizzo and Moskowitz advised tenants to continue paying their rent anyway, because withholding rent could risk eviction after being taken to court.

Even before tenants move in, there are multiple types of information the landlord has to release, such as their full contact information, a summary

of the tenant’s rights, and building code violations for the past 12 months, among other disclosures.

Tenants also can protect against future mishaps by noting any malfunctions or damages on the lease before they move in.

Landlords also cannot raise the rent within a lease term, reject a reasonable sub-letter, charge sublease fees and late fees over a

certain amount depending on the rent. Even if a building is foreclosed, the bank or landlord who assumes possession must allow tenants to live out the lease in place. If a landlord wishes to terminate a residence at the end of a lease cycle, that landlord must give prior notice.

Evictions can proceed after a 5, 10, or 30 day notice, depending on the extrem-

ity of tenants’ actions, such as evading rent payments.

Renters are entitled to a returned security deposit, and the interest accumulated on the deposit, at the end of their lease. Renters cannot be charged for “normal wear and tear.”

Law-abiding renters also cannot legally be locked out of the apartment, and can seek restitution through securing a police

report and suing if it happens wrongfully to them.

According to NemerAanerud, SSN is still “researching the feasibility of addressing certain housing concerns and repairs issues,” but SSN is focusing their activities on rent hikes, as such hikes “force out students and community members, and really perpetuate community gentrification.”

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What we’re thankful for A short, incomplete list of things to appreciate this Thanksgiving on campus

The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 JORDAN LARSON Editor-in-Chief SHARAN SHETTY Editor-in-Chief COLIN BRADLEY Managing Editor HARUNOBU CORYNE Senior Editor DOUGLAS EVERSON, JR Senior Editor SAM LEVINE Senior Editor CELIA BEVER News Editor REBECCA GUTERMAN News Editor LINDA QIU News Editor AJAY BATRA Viewpoints Editor DAVID KANER Viewpoints Editor EMILY WANG Viewpoints Editor EMMA BRODER Arts Editor HANNAH GOLD Arts Editor DANIEL RIVERA Arts Editor DANIEL LEWIS Sports Editor VICENTE FERNANDEZ Sports Editor MATTHEW SCHAEFER Sports Editor SONIA DHAWAN Head Designer BELLA WU Head Designer KEVIN WANG Online Editor ALICE BLACKWOOD Head Copy Editor DON HO Head Copy Editor BEN ZIGTERMAN Head Copy Editor JAMIE MANLEY Photo Editor SYDNEY COMBS Photo Editor JOY CRANE Assoc. News Editor MARINA FANG Assoc. News Editor BEN POKROSS Assoc. News Editor MADHU SRIKANTHA Assoc. News Editor JENNIFER STANDISH Assoc. News Editor ALICE BUCKNELL Assoc. Arts Editor SARAH LANGS Assoc. Sports Editor JAKE WALERIUS Assoc. Sports Editor JULIA REINITZ Assoc. Photo Editor

It’s eighth week. There’s still some time before finals, the weather is unseasonably warm, and Thanksgiving is right around the corner. For the time being, things are looking up. So, now’s as good a time as any to remind ourselves of a few things to be thankful for: The Sem Co-Op: After providing 51 years of uniquely subterranean and secluded memories, the most loved bookstore on campus will finally see sunlight in its new location.

Z & H: Pork shoulder, ostrich pâté, curried mayo, muenster, pretzel bread, prosciutto, fresh mozzarella...need we say more?

Professors who make off-color jokes in the middle of lectures: Nothing makes a student sit erect at 9:30 in the morning quite like a subtly crafted innuendo.

Rockefeller Chapel: The way the setting sun strikes it so perfectly at about 4 in the afternoon, illuminating it like a glowing crystalline jewel box. That’s a thing, right?

The Red North Shuttle: See “The North Shuttle.”

The North Shuttle: See “The Red North Shuttle.”

UCI: You’ve got to admit, it’s a huge improvement over CCI. Because it has a U now. That makes it better.

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Wednesday 10-percent student discount at Kimbark: For those times when the weekend is too far away, but that midterm is dangerously and depressingly close.

Harper Reading Room: For when you just need to completely pass out between classes.

NYT Readership Program: For keeping us informed, despite making the Maroon the second-best newspaper on campus.

No swim test: It makes taking a quick dip at the Point a lot more exciting.

Creative Writing classes: When you finally get into that beginning fiction class, an oasis in a desert of problem sets and labs, hold on to it. It’s a gift.

ORCSA’s discounted AMC movie tickets: One of the best-kept secrets on campus, for those of you who have (inexplicably) still not seen Skyfall or Lincoln.

Food trucks: For when you need to pretend you actually go to school on the North Side.

The Kalven Report: Just kidding.

Everyone and everything we forgot: We’re sorry. Happy Thanksgiving.

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the distance like some sort of beautiful, cruel joke.

The Smart Museum, the Oriental Institute, and the Renaissance Society: Because high culture shouldn’t always require a bus pass.

UChicago Arts Pass: Because when it does, at least it’s nice to get in for free when you get there.

Valois: The best cure for your Saturday morning hangover.

Grounds of Being: Still the best cup of joe on campus.

The Promontory: It’s not here yet, but we’re already thankful for the gastropub/concert venue/shiniest object on 53rd Street.

UChicago Promise: Encouraging to know that administrators still realize we are the University of Chicago, and that our obligations to the city, and its students, are a foremost priority.

Logan Center Café: Just when you thought campus cafés couldn’t get any better, one comes along that serves craft beer.

Institute of Politics: Another small step toward that Barack Obama Presidential Library. Yeah, we’re calling it now.

Nate Silver, A.B. ’00: For redeeming stat nerds, and the life of the mind, in all 50 correctly predicted states.

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Kimbark Liquors: The definition of holiday spirits.

Fourth Meal: They may be tearing down Pierce, but at least its residents are able to eat a $6 bowl of cereal four nights a week, if there’s milk.

The swing bench in Snitchcock courtyard: Now the fourth-best place to sit in Hyde Park, period.

Arley D. Cathey: Coming soon: The Arley D. Cathey Joke About Arley D. Cathey.

North Campus Residence Hall: Wait, were we not supposed to talk about that yet?

President Zimmer: University President by day, Housing Nostradamus by night.

Friday Nights at Doc: Miyazaki time, when our neighbor Doc Films spirits us away.

The Reg’s new extended hours: We’re now a step closer to the unspoken dream of 24/7 studying in our favorite Brutalist building.

The intersection of 55th Street and Lake Park: Ah! To stand at that corner on a beautiful Sunday morning in early spring, with a Bonjour Café pastry in one’s hand and feel, for the first time, as if—WALK SIGN, LAKE PARK. WALK SIGN, LAKE PARK. The Chicago skyline: Twinkling in

Piers Steel, a Canadian industrial psychologist, once said, “The U.S. gross national product would probably rise by $50 billion if the icon and sound that notifies people of new e-mail suddenly disappear.”Procrastination is a problem on the rise in the United States.

In 1978, only about 5 percent of Americans called themselves procrastinators. That number is now in the high 20s. Among college students, the number is estimated to be much higher, between 80 and 95 percent. Even without facts and figures, students are well aware of the high costs of procrastination.

The physical and emotional exhaustion of late nights in the Reg constantly remind me that those few hours of mindless Internet bliss are not worth it. But what make these strains especially troubling are their effects on our education.

“Dude, I don’t even want to study anymore, I gave up yesterday,” said a male classmate to his friend a

couple days before our chem midterm. That statement was probably an exaggeration of his own situation, but procrastination does often cause our academic responsibilities to fall by the wayside. A Hum paper, for example, which you intended to lovingly craft into a masterpiece over three days and as many drafts, becomes words hastily thrown onto the page the night before.

So, how does procrastination happen?

Freud speculated that the ego, the reasonable and realistic part of our selves, could be depleted by a transfer of energy necessary for our mental processes. “Decision fatigue,” a recent discovery in this field of “ego

depletion,” argues that the more decisions we make, the more mentally tired we become. We have a finite number of daily decisions at our disposal, and we can use them on choices as simple as chocolate or vanilla ice cream at Bartlett. Most of our decision-making power, though, is used up in choices to resist certain desires (skipping the ice cream entirely).

Willhelm Hoffman, a German psychologist, led a study in which subjects’ Blackberrys went off at random times of the day. At those times, subjects were asked to report if they were feeling desires, and if so, what kind. Based on these findings, DECISIONS continued on page 8

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By Luke Brinker Viewpoints Columnist It took all of about two hours after President Barack Obama delivered his victory speech at McCormick Place before conservative pundit Fred Barnes dismissed the outcome as a “status quo election.” Superfi-

cially, Barnes is right. Obama will occupy the Oval Office for another four years. John Boehner will remain Speaker of the House. The Senate will still be Democratic, albeit slightly more so. Divided we stand.

Look ever-so-slightly closer, however, and it’s hard to miss the significant changes heralded by the November 6 election. Wisconsin’s Tammy Baldwin is set to become the first openly gay senator in American history. A record number of women—a still pitifully low 20—will assume seats in the Senate. In conservative-leaning Indiana and Missouri, voters repudiated once-favored Republican Senate candidates after

they expressed troglodytic views about women and rape. Voters in Maryland, Maine, and Washington granted same-sex couples the right to marry while Minnesotans defeated a proposed ban on marriage equality.

Meanwhile, Colorado and Washington emphatically rejected the U.S.’s misguided war on drugs, becoming the first states to legalize marijuana for recreational use.

Behind these progressive victories lies a dramatically shifting electorate.

At the center of the nation’s ideological evolution are young voters.

A Washington Post–ABC News poll conducted in the immediate aftermath of the election shows just how

robust these voters are in their support for progressive policies. While a bare 51 to 47 percent majority of the general population endorses samesex marriage rights, voters between the ages of 18 and 29 support marriage equality by 66 to 33 percent.

On marijuana, Americans are evenly split in the debate over whether legalization is the right approach. But young voters approve of legalization by 55 to 45 percent. They are especially out of step with conservative Republicans on immigration. 57 percent of Americans support a path to citizenship for unauthorized immigrants. That figure rises to a reYOUTH continued on page 8

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Not for your eyes only If even the head of the CIA can’t protect his secrets, what hope is there for the rest of us?

By Anastasia Golovashkina Viewpoints Columnist After a marathon election, there’s really nothing better than a sex scandal to get us back into the swing of things.

In case you’ve been living under a rock (or in the Reg), here’s a quick rundown of what happened: Last year, former high school homecoming queen, valedictorian, all-star basketball player, Harvard grad, and mom of two (apparently these people actually exist) Paula Broadwell wrote a dissertation–turned–New York Times bestselling biography of General David Petraeus.

Earlier this year, Broadwell allegedly used an anonymous Gmail address to send half a dozen “threatening and harassing emails” to Jill Kelley, a “social liaison” to MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Kelley reached out to Frederick Humphries—a pal at the FBI who had previously sent Jill shirtless photos of himself (naturally)—to look into the matter. Imagine doing that every time someone sends you an

anonymous question on Tumblr.

Humphries’s FBI search led investigators to email accounts associated with the IP address of Broadwell’s computer, an easily traceable piece of information (merely googling “IP” pulls up your public address). One of these accounts turned out to be her and Petraeus’s center for strategic sex planning. In it, the two used a draft folder to “secretly” exchange messages without ever sending any (a common communication technique, as any CIA operative knows, of many terrorists). Needless to say, those messages were found, and Petraeus stepped down soon after.

Supporting actors in this compelling saga include General John Allen, Petraeus’s successor as USFOR-A Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (who’s being investigated for “inappropriate communication” with Jill Kelley), and Natalie Kelley, Jill’s twin sister. The soap opera feel of the ordeal has definitely helped pull public attention away from the profoundly negative implications that it may have. Beyond the beltway (and perhaps below the belt), Petraeus’s affair has significant consequences on our individual safety and privacy at home, as well as our collective national intelligence, security, and reputation abroad.

First, we should use this as an opportunity to reacknowledge that none of us—not even four-star generals and Harvard homecoming queens—are perfect. Indeed, given the kind of

Millenials reversing decades of rightward drift YOUTH continued from page 7 markable 69 percent among young voters.

On marriage equality, marijuana prohibition, and immigration reform, there are wide discrepancies between young voters and the GOP’s most loyal voting bloc: those over 65.

Older voters oppose both same-sex marriage and marijuana legalization by nearly two-toone margins, while a slight majority rejects a path to citizenship for immigrants. As the GOP bleeds support among socially liberal and Latino voters, this gap between a core constituency and clear social trends presents party leaders with quite the quandary.

Of course, many young voters don’t look at gay rights, the drug war, or immigration policy through a left-or-right prism. It’s not inconceivable that we could witness the emergence of a socially tolerant, immigrant-friendly Republican Party in the near future. Undoubtedly, this would boost GOP performance with Millennials. But it’s not just social issues on which young adults display a preference for left-leaning policies.

Having come to public consciousness amid a financial meltdown, corporate crime scandals, and soaring income inequality, young voters are much less sanguine than their older counterparts about American capitalism. In late 2011, the Pew Research Center revealed the scale of their disillusionment with our present political and economic arrangements. 47 percent of 18 to 29 year-olds expressed an unfavorable view of capitalism, while 46 percent indicated they were favorably disposed to it.

And despite the fact that it’s a pejorative word in mainstream political discourse, socialism earned slightly better reviews. 49 percent of young respondents saw socialism in a positive light, while 43 percent viewed it negatively. By contrast, respondents overall viewed socialism negatively by a two-to-one margin.

Say what you will about “Obamacare”— contrary to right-wing distortions, its faults lie in the fact that it wasn’t far-reaching enough— but young voters judge it far better than the GOP’s do-nothing alternative. In this month’s exit polls, 18 to 29 year-olds preferred Democratic health care policy over that of the Republicans by 54 to 35 percent. Many of those voters have taken advantage of a provision of the health reform law that allows young adults to remain covered by their parents’ health in-

7,969 Google account access requests (out of 20,938 made in total, more than any other country) in the first six months of 2012 alone.

Google also complied with 90 percent of US– based requests, more than it did for any other country. Since Google started accepting these requests in the second half of 2009, the United States has targeted a total of 16,281 accounts, or almost half of the global total of 34,614. I wonder how many of those inquests were started by a couple of, ahem, “threatening emails.”

These days, everyone mixes their private and professional lives online. So it’s more important than ever that we realize that the Internet compiles our information into personally identifiable catalogues of indelible clicks and communications—everyone has some kind of skeleton in her cybercloset. I find it deeply unsettling to think that someone with the “right” connections (like Jill Kelley) could trigger a far-reaching federal investigation over as trivial of a matter as a few vaguely hostile messages.

Anyone’s secrets are fair game, it seems, and with the right friends, anyone can expose them.

Though this investigation is highly unlikely to turn up anything important for the FBI, it has shed light on a key truth for everyone else: Even (and especially) on the Internet, privacy is nowhere close to guaranteed.

Anastasia Golovashkina is a second-year in the College majoring in economics.

Knowing our psychological limits is key to success

surance policies until the age of 26. While many of their parents imbibed Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric about government being the source, not the solution, of our problems, Millennials recognize just how vital government is to a healthy and well-functioning society.

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risk-taking ego required for that level of success, it is perhaps especially those kinds of people who are bound to have the most imperfect personal lives. Though Clinton, Edwards, Gingrich, Spitzer, Weiner, and now, Petraeus, stand out as the most publicized recent examples, our federal government has actually seen over thirty sex scandals in the twenty-first century alone—and that doesn’t even begin to count all of the other instances of personal or professional public demise. Such incompetence and corruption are found everywhere, making checks and balances necessary at all levels of government. Though trust in our leaders is both necessary and important, blind trust is anything but.

More importantly, there is the overarching issue of personal privacy. Under the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, federal authorities only need a subpoena approved by a federal prosecutor—not a judge, and not a warrant—to gain access to electronic messages that are six months old or older. In this case, investigators were able to use the IP address associated with just six allegedly “threatening emails” to gain access to practically all of Broadwell’s inbox and outbox. Though newer messages do require a warrant, the comprehensive and generally extrajudicial nature of these investigations renders this distinction more or less irrelevant.

If Google’s recent Transparency Report is any indication, the government had been doing this a lot lately. The United States made

Young voters are much less sanguine than their older counterparts about American capitalism.

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But isn’t there something to Winston Churchill’s reputed quip that if you’re under 30 and not a liberal, you have no heart, while if you’re over 30 and not a conservative, you have no brain? Actually, there’s almost no research to support the notion that we become more conservative as we get older. A 2007 study cited by Discovery News found that the historical contexts in which people grow up play far more of a role than age itself in determining political views. In fact, numerous participants in the study reported becoming more leftleaning as they got older. Moreover, given the strength of Millennial support for progressive policies, it’s unlikely that today’s young voters will undergo a wholesale ideological transformation as the years pass.

Observers of recent political history note that, at least since Reagan’s election, the terms of our political discourse have shifted rightward. Therefore, a Democratic president whose policies are reminiscent of the moderate Republicans of yore appears to his opponents as a left-wing radical intent on upending the American way of life. Whereas Democratic senator Ted Kennedy could credibly propose a single-payer health care system in the 1970s, now the incrementalist “Obamacare” looks leftish. This state of affairs won’t be permanent, however. The shifts are hardly seismic, but if you pay attention closely enough, you’ll notice the political ground moving underneath us.

Luke Brinker is a graduate student in the MAPSS program.

DECISIONS continued from page 7 it turns out that we spend, on average, three to four hours of a day wanting to do things other than what we’re supposed to be doing. He also found that people had the hardest time resisting the temptation to “goof off ” during work.

What makes the siren song of procrastination so hard to resist? A study led by Sean McCrea in Germany found that the more abstractly we think about a process, the less likely we are to get it done. The flip side of this is that processes which can be thought of in clear steps are much more likely to get done.

Students who are able to break large assignments into thirty minute to two-hour chunks are less likely to procrastinate. Allowing a small indulgence at the end of each of these invents a concrete significance for each step.

Instead of thinking “I have to write this entire paper,” we should think “I am going to write a thesis, and then outline three body paragraphs, and then buy myself a cupcake.” Note: The extra glucose will also give your mental energy a boost for the next task.

So it would seem that those who exhibit good judgment do not have ridiculously large stores of will power. Instead, they merely focus on avoiding situations which may exhaust the will power they do have. To avoid procrastination, responsible students do their most challenging subjects first, instead of putting them off until late at night. Other students outline a study schedule at the beginning of the day, and then force themselves to stick with it, effectively making as many decisions as possible in the morning, when their decision-making power is refreshed.

U of C students live by a mantra of hard

work. Some of us wear the phrase “where fun comes to die” as a tear-soaked badge of masochistic courage, drawing a correlation between suffering and success. Although the Admissions Office has been actively working against that label for the past 20 years, there’s no doubt that the U of C saddles its students with quite a heavy workload in the name of academic rigor, encouraging a culture that believes “more work = more learning.”

However, as we’ve seen, the science behind procrastination suggests the opposite.

The moment students are forced to overstep their decision-making limits, they become mentally compromised to a damaging extent, as well as much less motivated to study and learn. There is merit in challenging students to facilitate their growth; no doubt, some students will emerge from the crucible of a tough class forged stronger and sharper than before. The importance of remembering our own psychological limits, though, is equally important, as evidenced by the many other students, who will emerge exhausted and defeated. This paradigm does not encourage the spirit of intellectual risk-taking the University would like to. Instead, it’s more likely to teach students that, in order to “succeed,” they have to play it safe; pick courses which will challenge them the least in order to protect their mental resources. We will become intellectual misers, scared to add the cost of thought-expanding critical discourse to an already overdrawn mental account. We will favor instead the thoughtless and familiar.

Eleanor Hyun is a first-year in the College majoring in English.

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Ross’s candid camera documents incarcerated youth Alice Bucknell Associate Arts Editor The walk down Michigan Avenue on a mid-autumn afternoon is, by anyone’s standard, an exercise in aesthetic indulgence. Millennium Park seems lush and jolly, with high-pitched squeals of playing children complementing the quiet sojourn of couples picnicking in the grass. The Pritzker Pavillion’s spider-like stainless steel ribbons billow out from the stage beneath it, and the sparkling facades of high-rise buildings create a skyline commonly recognized as one of the most beautiful in the world. The Art Institute’s famed bronze lions crouch proudly at their posts, half-lit in the soft golden sunshine that pours onto the city; the air is fresh, the streets are clean. It is effortlessly beautiful, and it all stands in wait for you—a free, autonomous body just passing through—to indulge in.

JUVENILE-IN-JUSTICE Gage Gallery Through December 15

Just across the street from these feline gatekeepers sits the Gage Gallery, an art museum with a single gallery, operated by Roosevelt University. Located on the first floor of 18 South Michigan Avenue, the gallery space is dimly lit and somber. There is a certain quietness to it that feels a bit like solitary confinement, or at the very

Juvenile-in-Justice, currently on display at the Gage Gallery, documents juvenile incarceration in America through photographs and interviews. courtesy of richard ross

least produces an uncomfortable feeling of containment, further pronounced by the general emptiness of the whitewalled space. The gallery maintains a stark and uncompromising opposition to the picturesque vibrancy of the world outside.

The subject matter of the gallery’s latest exhibit, Juvenile-in-Justice, reflects the austerity of the space itself. The exhibit provides a glimpse into the world of the nearly 70,000 American minors who are held in juvenile treatment centers across the country.

Six years ago, artist Richard Ross began work on a long-term photography project that aims to document the lives

of American youth housed by law in correctional facilities that treat, assist, detain, punish, and harm them. Ross has traveled all over the country to hundreds of these facilities, courtrooms, and police departments, and has spoken with more than 1,000 juveniles from 30 different states. He has asked them for their stories, taken their portraits from within the institutions that contain them, and, finally, assembled these histories into a formal exhibition that proactively promotes social change.

The exhibition, which is presented by the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice and Transformation, is composed of a

couple dozen photos of these youth, each coupled with a distinct panel that details their story and offers a quote or two provided by the person depicted. Many of the photos highlight through saturated imagery the unlivable conditions of the treatment centers. A fluorescent glow permeates the gallery, lighting up shots of windowless, bare rooms that are either dirty and mold-stained or all-too-clean.

Most rooms do not have beds or any other kind of furniture. Those few that include resting spaces, for the most part, lack sheets or pillows, and the “beds” (they look more like g ymnastics mats to me) are positioned on top of wobbling wooden frames or solid concrete.

The dehumanizing nature of these treatment centers is further emphasized by the stylistic choices Ross makes in his portraits. Girls and boys as young as eight are featured within their respective rooms, but their presence is always somehow distorted. Some crouch in dark corners, facing away from the camera. Others are caught in motion, evoking a bursting , youthful energ y that seems cruel to keep inside a dank, windowless cell. Others are perfectly still and face the camera, but Ross has intentionally distorted their faces, which are reduced to a series of uncanny blurs. Still others reveal the body in fragments. A pair of anonymous hands, handcuffed to the door behind which the rest of the body hides, stick out from a food slot that serves as the only gateway between the imprisoned youth and the outside world.

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At Court Theatre, a Feast of Epiphany to be thankful for John Gamino Arts Contributor James Joyce’s “The Dead” is a holiday musical largely in search of its own holiday spirit. The Court Theatre’s winter production, based on James Joyce’s masterful short story of the same name, is almost more puzzle than performance.

There is little dialogue, less action, and almost no set to speak of. We are asked to join in the process of soulsearching by characters who scarcely know each other or themselves. But that’s also just how it should be.

The musical subtly twists the events of “The Dead” into a recollection: The stout, young Gabriel Conroy (Philip Earl Johnson) looks back on the annual Feast of Epiphany celebration held by his aunt Kate (Anne Gunn), aunt Julia (Mary Ernster), and cousin Mary Jane (Regina Leslie). Also in attendance are his wife Gretta (Susie McMonagle) and a few other family members and friends— all trying to enjoy some Christmastime cheer.

Beneath the surface, however, each is fraught with inner turmoil and selfdoubt. This is especially true of Gabriel, as he lets

Michael (Jim DeSelm) and Gretta Conroy (Susie McMonagle) blissfully dance center stage next to a flying man in The Dead. courtesy of michael brosilow

us know from his very first lines that there is something he does not understand about his relationship with his wife.

Originally adapted by

Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey, The Dead made its first appearance at Court back in 2002. But with this rendition, artistic director Charles Newell

and musical director Doug Peck have decided to shake things up. For the first time, the characters play the instruments themselves, and the resulting scores

come across as seamless extensions of the party and its attendants. It’s hard to imagine a musical version of “The Dead” succeeding otherwise.

Yet it’s also hard to resist finding fault when the musical diverges from Joyce’s original work.

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Arts, politics, and social justice intersect at Gage JUVENILE continued from page 9 Ross is keen to showcase the lives of those stationed within juvenile treatment centers in an extremely personal way that evokes a strong emotional reaction from the viewer. He stresses the reality of the situation by integrating every photograph with a quote from the youth pictured.

We see a frail-looking 15-year-old blond crouched on her makeshift bed, thick hair covering her face, and we simultaneously learn that she is a self-harming heroin addict. We see a close-up shot of a bluegreen eye covered in unsightly red and black bruises, only to learn that its owner, a 15-year-old runaway, was punched by her girlfriend two weeks ago for her struggles with alcoholism. She assures us that her eye “looks a lot better now” than it did originally. A 14-year-old boy lying on his bed is suddenly revealed to be an eight-times-convicted runaway charged with police evasion, sexual assault, and armed robbery.

Perhaps the most disturbing piece in the exhibit is not an image of personal suffering at the hands of governmental negligence, but rather one that is a cold, calculating indicator of how truly dehumanizing these detainment centers are. It is a snapshot of the “Wall of Shame” at the Miami-Dade Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Miami, Florida— what might be an all-too-appropriate name if that shame was directed at the operational policies of the center itself and not at the deceased youth pictured.

The wall features mug shots of a couple dozen of the Center’s outpatients from 2000 to 2010—teenagers who have since met their deaths by gunshot wounds—

mostly related to gang violence.

Upon their portraits, the word “EXPIRED” (no, not even “deceased,” which at least signifies some humanity) is written in caps, usually in red sharpie marker, often across their faces. Some of the deceased youth’s faces are even crossed out with permanent market. One employee had the nerve to write “Life over! No more freedom!” over two of the portraits in a way that pathetically and infuriatingly carries with it the assumed tenor of something as trivial as a video game, something to which no human life should ever be compared.

Ross’s work is located at the intersection of art, social practice, and politics. It presents itself as a fundamentally artistic endeavor that uses its gallery space as a site within which to participate in a transfer of knowledge. But it is not illuminating in the same way that a Monet painting, with its soft, meditative pools of greens and blues, might be. It does not allow for a gentle self-analysis; there is no room for a comfortable exploration of the viewer’s own psyche. Rather, it is meant to reveal the injustices that plague the operational standards of these detainment centers and, furthermore, to highlight the dehumanizing and overwhelmingly unacceptable treatment of their residents.

The exhibit inspires a sense of urgency within its viewers, aiming to promote a dialogue among visitors to the gallery that might eventually pave the way for change. Seeing the exhibit will not be a casual or easy affair, but it is a vital one, for it houses a long and affecting history of suffering to which every citizen of this country dearly needs exposure.

At its close, The Dead goes from musical to maudlin DEAD continued from page 9 the insecure ruminations of Gabriel; the resolute defiance of Miss Ivors (Lara Filip), for instance, brushes over the unsettling nuances her conversation with him might otherwise convey.

On the other hand, we’re given the addition of a literal death in the days after the party. It isn’t necessary, and its hyperbolic scene of mourning—the party guests reappear in black, standing solemnly together as funeral attendants—only throws a wrench into Joyce’s delicate treatment of what is “living” and what is “dead.”

Another clear departure from Joyce comes with the utter jubilance of the earlier musical numbers. The dinner guests sing and dance until they go red in the face, without exception. Freddy Malins (Rob Lindley) prances about in unabashed ecstasy, helping himself to another drink. Aunt June and Aunt Kate, despite their age, move fluidly in step as self-proclaimed “naughty girls.” Even hapless old Mrs. Malins (Rebecca Finnegan), who can’t seem to sit without hunching over, joins in on the action. These are revelers we can imagine truly enjoying this party year after year, not fretful figures tediously struggling to adhere to convention.

But ultimately these scenes only serve to heighten the tension between what lies on the surface and what lies beneath. The marked contrast between the jovial music and the gloomy, almost morbid musings in between exposes the former as nothing more than palpable desperation. We realize that the characters’ interactions with one another cannot always be taken as matters of fact. “You look so young,” Aunt Kate tells her sister, and yet clearly she does not.

Her face is ghostly pale, and when

the performances do settle down, it bears a constant burden of concern. The performances are merely performances; when Aunt Julia, Gretta, Mrs. Malins, and the rest take turns staring grimly off into the same distant spot, their true dispositions come out.

JAMES JOYCE’S “THE DEAD” Court Theatre Through December 9

Eventually The Dead does shift to reflect this mood. The music fades somberly into the background, as Gabriel’s emotional wanderings come to the fore.

He feels desperate to get at “something,” and something substantive indeed arises in his closing epiphany—a Joycean moment of sudden realization that is stylistically faithful to the material that Nelson and Davey’s script is based upon.

As Gabriel finally comes to comprehend how detached he is from his wife, he is visibly humbled. His stance slowly collapses into a stoop, and his words break down into feeble babbling. Johnson gives us a gripping portrait of a man who is both pitiful and pitiable at once, brought to tears of his own as he watches Gretta’s fuller, more passionate sorrow.

Still, what Gabriel realizes remains only “something” to us. As Johnson reprises his narrative role, he repeats, with heightening poignancy, the famously enigmatic last lines of Joyce’s short story. “The snow was general all over Ireland,” we are told, and yet we are also left to determine its meaning.

Curtains for Wright’s flashy adaptation of Anna Karenina Alexandra McInnis Arts Staff While creating his 2012 incarnation of Anna Karenina, director Joe Wright faced two major considerations. The first is that there have been no fewer than eleven prior film adaptations of Leo Tolstoy’s literary masterpiece (not counting the TV movies), and he has certainly faced pressure for his Anna to stand out. The second is that major Hollywood studios usually experience the same pitfall when translating 19th century novels to the big screen, which is that when the text of the novel is absent, certain aspects of the plot, such as high-society scandal, are overemphasized to garner wider appeal, and the end result often falls flat (think of the 2012 remake of Bel-Ami starring Robert Pattinson). Not only did Wright have the daunting task of creating an original film version of what is widely considered to be the greatest novel of all time—he also had to avoid letting his film become another sexy period piece.

ANNA KARENINA Joe Wright AMC River East

Wright’s solution seems to have been to make Anna Karenina a rich visual experience. The majority of

the film is shot inside countless sets that were built in an old theatre, no doubt to symbolize the pretensions and constructs of Russian high society.

The sumptuous ball gowns, glittering jewels, and elaborate sets all properly dazzle the viewer. However, the central importance of theatrics quickly creates problems pertaining to space and time. A character exits a decadent party by way of a ladder on the side of stage, climbs into a theater attic, and is suddenly surrounded by impoverished citizens of Moscow. This scene begs the audience to question where he is and how he got there.

For viewers unfamiliar with Anna Karenina the plot will seem fragmented. Although the theatrical vision captures some of the more playful elements of Tolstoy’s novel well, Wright’s quest for originality comes with compromises, and, consequently, the essence of the novel falls by the wayside.

Anna Karenina is the tale of a seemingly perfect society wife, the titular character, who is suddenly compelled to take a young lover. As the details of her affair become a frequent subject of gossip, she is increasingly isolated by her former friends, leading to mental turmoil and a path of self-destruction. Anna is played by Keira Knightley, who has previously worked with Wright in Pride and Prejudice (2005) and Atonement (2007).

Knightley, who has proved that period pieces are her niche, is

Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and stars as Kitty (Alicia Vikander) partake in some mild hand-holding on their way back from the dessert cart. courtesy of laurie sparham

a natural, albeit safe, choice for the protagonist. She looks stunning and captures Anna’s appeal as well as the insecurities and forced cheer that emerge from her demise, but she never really succeeds in portraying Anna convincingly as the neardetestable woman she becomes in the end. Part of her problem is that in a world where servants move like wind-up dolls, live trains turn into toy trains, and sets change in the blink of an

eye, it’s difficult to take the characters seriously. Knightley may attempt to accurately convey Anna’s passion and mental strife, but she’s working against other elements of the film that overtake any deep insight into the psyche of a woman who feels that she is running out of options.

A far more interesting casting choice is Jude Law as Karenin, Anna’s charmless diplomat husband. Indeed it’s

difficult to imagine Jude Law playing anything charmless, but he lends the role enough sympathy for Karenin to be understood not as malicious and controlling, but as a man genuinely betrayed in what he believed was an appropriate and content marriage.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Vronsky, the young man who lures Anna from her “moral” life. Unfortunately, he lacks Vronsky’s powerful sensuality.

The philosophical musings of Oblonksy’s friend Constantin Levin (Domhall Cleeson), the character whose voice is most like Tolstoy’s, barely factor into the film at all. The film offers a sense of Levin’s awkwardness and brooding, though his exhaustive reflections on how to live a righteous and purposeful life are reduced to a single cryptic phrase: “Today I realized something.”

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Style

Chicago Manual of Knit’s a wonderful life Most people don’t naturally associate fashion with comfort.

In fact, any mention of fashion usually brings to mind images of impossibly high heels, skintight silhouettes, and trends that border on the ridiculous. This fall’s fashions, however, seem to bring out the best in lazy attire. As temperatures, leaves, and grades drop (curse you, midterms), so too do hemlines.

At the same time, silhouettes relax and fabrics transition from lightweight to cozily great.

Luckily, casting off the “beauty is pain” mentality shouldn’t be too much of a stretch this year, thanks to this season’s preference for hassle-free garments. Here’s a quick look at the best sloppy-chic styles fall has to offer.

Ah, the sweater: fuzzy, forgiving , and fantastically frumpy. This season, thank the knitwear gods, designers have taken a liking to the oversized.

The baggier the better—chunky knits, like Phillip Lim’s drastic

The real Anna gets covered up

by Hollywood makeover ANNA continued from page 10 Nevertheless, his pursuit of the beautiful debutante Kitty (Alicia Vikander) is as charming as ever.

The film also largely misses Tolstoy’s approach toward adulterous passion. Part of the genius of Tolstoy’s novel was that it conveyed the carnal desire without ever including a description of the actual sex act. But by now we know that Hollywood is too voyeuristic to operate with that level of subtlety. Rest assured there are stylishly shot love scenes, though they contribute nothing to the movie at all.

There’s one scene of the novel that I’ve always felt was crucial, which occurs at the peak of Anna’s desperation, where Anna consciously enchants Levin, whom she realizes is aligned with Kitty, just because she knows she can. It’s Anna at her most desperate and most cruel, but she revels in her beauty and her charm as the only remnants of power that cannot be taken away from her. Unfortunately, this scene does not appear in the film. Obviously not everything in the novel can make the final cut, but this particular omission seems emblematic of the fact that Joe Wright’s film, beautiful as it is, is really about Anna Karenina, the production, and not Anna Karenina, the character.

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by Anna Jessen O’Brien

cocoon sweaters, are well suited for hours upon hours of soft, warm library lounging , and colossal cardigans like those from Michael Kors redefine the Sunday scrubs. This fall’s roomy sweaters are probably the most Snuggie-like clothing you’ll ever get away with wearing in public, so why not take advantage of this opportunity while you have it?

By now, we’ve all been forced to accept the fact that July is longgone, and with it the sunflecked bodies we loved, but there’s no reason to mourn when you can enter into pre-break hibernation in oh-so-comfortable style. Feel free to throw on that pullover you found in the back of your grandpa’s closet, or that cardigan you packed away because it was a bit too yeti-ish for last year’s styles. This fall, there’s no such thing as too oversized.

The same loose-fitting shapes have captured outerwear trends as well. Inspired by roomy styles from the ’60s, coats like

those from Rachel Comey combine over-the-top bulk with bold colors and daring prints (the cocoon silhouette strikes again!), resulting in a balance that is both comfortable and sartorially smart. For a little more swing, look to Jil Sander’s open, couture-influenced jackets for inspiration: voluminous, vibrant, and generous of fabric.

Don’t throw away your belted trench just yet, but have a bit of fun playing around with daring shapes that give you more than enough room to breathe.

If that’s not enough material for you, top off your loung y looks with that most versatile of accessories—the scarf. Tie it, wrap it, circle it, drape it, do whatever you want—as fashionforward as it is functional, the scarf is a cozy essential in every autumn wardrobe. You’ve probably been bent over books for the past eight weeks, so give your slump-tensed neck a little love (and a lot of knit). Plus, if you’re

Jil Sander Fall 2012 RTW (left) and Phillip Lim cocoon sweater (right).

LEFT: COURTESY OF ANDREA ADRIANI, RIGHT: COURTESY OF LA GARCONNE

stressed about the impending doom of finals, a scarf provides the perfect object to hide behind or throw dramatically over your shoulder as you stomp out of the Reg. Now, keep in mind that there are plenty of other cozy separates with which

to surround yourself these upcoming months. Girls, toss out your knee-length skirts and go for the maxi (preferably with elastic waistband). Guys, layer up with neutrals. Above all, regardless of what you choose to wear on the outside, ready yourself for winter with one allimportant weapon: wool socks.

From Russia with architectural exuberance Amos Gewirtz Arts Contributor The Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture 1922-32, an exhibition of photographs by Richard Pare currently displayed at the Graham Foundation, is a compelling portrayal of an architectural community that sought to take an active role during a time of great change.

This collection documents the sizable contribution of new buildings by a relatively small group of visionary, if not guileless architects, following the Russian Revolution and subsequent civil wars. The buildings showcased in the exhibition are located throughout

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the former Soviet Union, drawn from over 15,000 photographs taken by British photographer Richard Pare during his trips from 1992 onwards to Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia, and Russia.

The exhibition is marked by a mood of somber immediacy. This is a testament both to its unfinished nature and to its need for perpetuation and remembrance. By

highlighting a small group of revolutionary architects and their work, Pare does a great service to those artists who today also work towards revolutionary ends, if in the hope for a different sort of outcome than what’s exhibited here.

A photo of the Shabolovka Radio Tower in Moscow, which was designed by Vladimir Shukhov, is displayed on the posters advertising the exhibit, and is a stunning example of the ambition and spectacle that marked this era of Soviet architecture. The building, a display of the desire for a cutting edge social movement, is fittingly located near the Moscow Kremlin. Hyperboloid in structure, its pyramidal, mesh design suggests the architect’s desire to perpetuate the sense of daring and excitement that characterized the time during which it was built.

One particularly exciting piece is a photo showcasing the Gosplan Garage on Aviamotornaya Street.

Although completed in 1936—just ahead of the exhibition’s time range— this building exemplifies the excitement one feels about the stylized visualization of many other structures documented in the gallery. Modeled after a car’s grille, the garage is indicative of the great SOVIET continued on page 12

The Lost Vanguard, an exhibition currently on display at the Graham Foundation, showcases Soviet modernist architecture.

COURTESY OF RICHARD PARE

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Do What You’re Told Thanksgiving holiday special

Black Wednesday | November 21 Thanksgiving can be a stressful time, what with family members asking about your postgraduation plans and a turkey that needs to be basted every hour—but today the ball is in your court, so to speak. Head to Timothy O’Toole’s downtown Chicago location for their Third Annual Turkey Testicle Festival.

The objective should be self-explanatory, and the winner walks away with a free turkey.

The event is followed by the bar’s Pumpkin Pie Eating Contest at 11 p.m. and the entire affair is complimented by pool, Jumbo Jenga and very reasonably priced beverages. 622 North Fairbanks Court. Starts at 9 p.m., free.

time around, though, put your faith in the Chicago Diner’s 30th Annual Vegan Thanksgiving, rather than some sad, shrink-wrapped object from your local grocery store. Entrée options include Veggie Turkey (seasoned tofu roast stuffed with wild rice and topped with country gravy), Pumpkin Ravioli, and Beefy Wellington (the secret is there is no beef, only seitan).

3411 North Halsted Street. Takeout only, orders accepted 9 a.m.–noon, prices vary.

facilitate the taking of an embarrassing group photograph. Odyssey Cruises is offering special Thanksgiving Day trips up and down Lake Michigan. Guests are treated to breathtaking views of the Loop and a buffet chock full of classy holiday dishes like Walnut-Crusted Turkey Breast, Cheddar Cheese Mashed Potatoes, and Strawberry Pecan Salad. Leaves from Navy Pier. Boarding at 1:45 p.m., $49.90 per adult, $29.95 per child (lunch cruise).

A Thanksgiving filled with southern hospitality is always best—how else will you get that turkey in the fryalator?

Andersonville’s Big Jones pays homage to the sizzle and spice of Cajun cookery with a comforting, three-course prefix menu.

Appetizer options include Cajun Pork Boudin Fritters and Charleston She-Crab Soup, your entrée can be anything from Wood Grilled Snake River Sturgeon to King Trumpet Mushrooms & Wild Rice Pie, and for dessert, brussels sprouts. Just kidding, they’ve got Bourbon Bread Pudding with Cinnamon Streusel and Coconut Cream Cake, of course. Additional perks include a relish tray and selection of veggies served family-style. 5447 North Clark Street. 11 a.m.–7 p.m; $48 for adults, $20 for children under 12.

Staying in Chicago over break? Here’s your chance to branch out. The Morton Arboretum, just a 45-minute drive from campus, is waiving the cost of admission today so visitors can explore its 16 miles of trails (plus nine miles of paved roads). You can stop by the quaintly named Meadow Lake, and frolic through the wildflowers of the Schulenburg Prairie. Still not enough trees for you? Be sure to check out the arboretum’s Fragrance Garden, Ground Cover Garden, and Hedge Garden as well. It’s unbe-leaf-able! 4100 Lincoln Avenue, Lisle, IL. 7 a.m.–sunset, free.

Thanksgiving | November 22 ’Tis the season for news outlets everywhere to tout fantastic new strains of Tofurkey and vegetal Turducken. This

If your family is in town, why not serve them their turkey and sweet potatoes with a slice of Chicago’s skyline? Sure, it won’t taste exactly like pumpkin pie, but it might

Give thanks as good as you get at the Kit Kat Lounge and Supper Club where Diva Sunny Dee-Lite will be reigning supreme.

At Give and Get Thanksgiving, bring any nonperishable food item to benefit the Vital Bridges Food Drive and you will be rewarded 50 percent off your entire bill, which, if you’re smart, will include a special holiday prefix menu decked out with turkey, mashed

potatoes, and a pumpkin martini. 3700 North Halsted Street. 5:30 p.m.–2 a.m., $40 prefix.

Reservations strongly suggested; call 773-5251111.

Black Friday | November 23 It’s sort of sad, really, but with cranberry sauce still sloshing around in our stomachs we’re moving on from turkeys to large, stationary felines. Grab some complimentary hot chocolate and gather around the steps of the Art Institute for its 21st Annual Wreathing of the Lions.

While there, sit back and listen to the sounds of the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, and kids who have genuinely convinced themselves that they are lions. You are also encouraged to head to the Ryan Education Center to decorate your very own wreath, though, if you haven’t already guessed, everyone else there will probably be a small child. 111 South Michigan Avenue. 10 a.m., free.

At Barrio Urban Taqueria you can shop till you drop so long as you save some room for dessert (in your stomach, not on your bill). In an act of extremely delicious holiday goodwill, Barrio Urban Taqueria is offering tres leches, flan Napolitano, or sorbet on the house for those Black Friday consumers who are thrifty enough to bring a copy of their receipts to the restaurant.

714 West Diversey Parkway. 4–11 p.m., average main course $11.

Richard Pare’s exhibition showcases the beauty and cultural significance of forgotten structures SOVIET continued from page 11 faith that contemporary architects had in innovative technolog y and its ability to improve aspects of Russian society.

Having never wanted to label himself a Constructivist architect; however, Konstantin Melnikov’s commitment to broader forward movement and artistic advancement is shown entirely in his work, primarily through his refusal to conform to Stalinist structural design common during the 1930s. He would later move away from architecture as a whole and spend the rest of his days as an oil painter.

Moisei Ginzburg and Ignaty Milinis’s

Narkomfin Communal House, completed in 1932, shows a different side of modernism that came after the revolution.

The interlocking design of the apartments were said to encourage a socialist lifestyle by creating communal areas that would encourage the liberation of women and other disenfranchised groups from their traditional roles. To the viewer, at least, this intent is juxtaposed with a vision of one of the flats’s rooms, cluttered as it is with cheap goods on a table that is overshadowed by a poorly reproduced Sistine Chapel.

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DneproGES turbine room in Zaporozhe, Ukraine, and the Workers Club in Surakhany, Baku, Azerbaijan, as well as the Red Banner Textile Factory in St. Petersburg, Russia.

While walking through the exhibit one feels the buildings’s sense of abandonment. For while this exhibit has garnered great interest and praise, others, far away from this exhibition, are far less concerned with these stunning , beautiful, and sometimes puzzling structures. It is understood that this exhibit is meant not simply to showcase structures, but also to convince the spectator of their beauty

and value.

In asserting their value, it seems that Pare takes a more active role in his photographs. His goal is not simply to document a history but to present the conflict between the crushed revolutionary spirit of post-1917 Soviet Union and the now wavering idealism of Russia following the destruction of the Berlin Wall. For although the Kremlin has long since ceased to be a metonym for Soviet reign and jaded reactionist oppression, only now is the government offering funds for restoration of the decrepit Shabolovka Radio Tower, standing just a few kilometers away.

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Following win in season debut, a loss to superior Wisconsin squad Women’s Basketball Mary MacLeod Sports Contributor Even after losing five standout fourth-years and their head coach, the Maroons have set the bar high for the 2012–2013 season. Chicago started off its year at the Ripon College Tip-off in Ripon, WI, this weekend, where they faced Benedictine and UW– Superior.

Although it took some time for the Maroons to warm up in their debut, they quickly picked up speed in the second half, using a 15–3 run to blow the game open.

Chicago saw strong offensive performances through the entire night with six players finishing with six or more points, lead by a game-high 11 points from second-year Hannah Ballard, who was later named to the All-Tournament Team. The Maroons shot 44 percent from the field versus 29 percent for the Eagles.

On the other end, Chicago relied on lock down defense to help secure the win.

The final score: 59–45.

“We did a exceptional job de-

fensively,” head coach Carissa Knoche said. “Our offensive rebounds were a little lacking, but to hold a team to 17 points in the second half is very impressive.”

The Maroons struggled in the championship game, falling to UW–Superior, 64–49. Ballard had another impressive performance with 17 points and 10 rebounds, but Chicago’s offense, which was so effective against Benedictine, became its biggest weakness.

After a closely contested first half, the Maroons were held to just 25 percent shooting in the second half, compared to the Yellowjackets’ 36-percent mark. Chicago was also outmatched in both three-point percentage and free throw percentage, and turned the ball over 19 times.

“The second game was a tough match-up,” Knoche said. “Based on the circumstances, it was a good learning experience for us, but ultimately we didn’t do enough correctly to win.”

Coming off a near perfect 27–1 record last year, the expectations are still high for this year’s Ma-

roons. Don’t expect one loss to shake up the team too much.

“I think this weekend we realized how much improving we have to do in order to be a competitive, successful team,” team captain and fourth-year guard Jenna Lillemoe said. “We are all filling in new roles from what we had last year, and although there has definitely been a transition period, we are learning quickly and trying to improve every day so that we can get to where we want to be.”

Lillemoe is not the only one with an optimistic outlook.

“This year is exciting because we have resilient kids, and no one knows what to expect from us,” Knoche said. “I feel confident that we can do better than the poll, and the [players] are using it as motivation. There are a lot of unknowns with us and that’s part of the fun. We are looking to prove some people wrong.”

The Maroons’ next game is this Sunday at Carthage, where they will aim to return to a winning record. The Lady Reds, like the Maroons, sit at 1–1. Tip-off at Tarble Arena is set for 2 p.m.

WHO’S NEW

Fourth-year Maggie Ely drives the ball to the basket in a game last season against Washington University in St. Louis.

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WHO’S BACK

CAITLIN MOORE, #11

HANNAH BALLARD, #30 Class: 2015 Height: 6’2” Hometown: Oak Park, Illinois Position: P -Played in all 28 games as a first-year.

-Averaged 6.3 points and 3.7 rebounds per game as a first-year, playing 12.7 minutes per game.

-Led the Maroons in blocked shots on the season (23).

Class: 2016 Height: 5’11” Hometown: Grosse Pointe, Michigan Position: G -Played four years of basketball, volleyball, and track at Grosse Pointe South.

-Averaged 14 points, four rebounds, and four assists per game as a senior.

-All-State selection as a senior.

PAIGE WOMACK, #2

HELEN PETERSEN, #23 Class: 2016 Height: 5’8” Hometown: Prosser, Washington Position: G -Played four years of basketball and soccer at Prosser High School.

-Averaged 10 points and seven asssists per game as a senior.

-Wendy’s Heisman finalist

Class: 2016 Height: 5’9” Hometown: Plano, Texas Position: G -Played four years of basketball at Plano West Senior High.

-Averaged 10 points, three rebounds, and three assists per game as a senior.

-All-Region selection as a senior.

WHO’S IN CHARGE CARISSA SAIN KNOCHE, ACTING HEAD COACH -Assistant Coach for last four seasons -Helped guide Maroons to 88–20 record -Has coached players who have earned 11 AllAmerican honors -Spent last 12 years in UAA -Serves as co-director of the Strength and Conditioning program for the Department of Athletics

MORGAN DONOVAN, #10 Class: 2015 Height: 5’8” Hometown: Cincinnati, Ohio Position: G -Played in all 28 games last year.

-Averaged 3.1 points and 1.2 rebounds per game, playing 11.3 minutes per game.

-Scored 15 points at Brandeis on Feb. 19.

JULIE MUGUIRA, #3 Class: 2014 Position: G KATE CASADAY, #5 Class: 2014 Position: G ELLIE GREINER, #12 Class: 2015 Position: P JENNA LILLEMOE, #13 Class: 2013 Position: G MAGGIE ELY, #14 Class: 2013 Position: G

CLAIRE DEVANEY, #20 Class: 2015 Position: G CHRISTIANE MURRAY, #21 Class: 2014 Position: P ALI SHAW, #24 Class: 2015 Position: G SEHAR RESAD, #32 Class: 2015 Position: P

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | November 20, 2012

South Siders take on tough field at Concordia Open

McGrath: “[W]e just needed to take control”

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Sam Zacher Sports Contributor The Maroons had an impressive showing at the Concordia Open Tournament on Saturday to round out the first portion of their season.

Coming into the meet 2–1, this was Chicago’s fourth competition in just ten days, and head coach Leo Kocher was happy with his team’s performance against difficult competition.

“The Concordia Tournament has a very strong field. Six teams are ranked in the top 20 in the NCAA,” Kocher said. “I was pleased with placing wrestlers in five weight classes in that field.”

One team competing at Concordia was Wartburg College, winners of four of the last five national championships.

Five Chicago wrestlers placed in the top eight in their respective classes. Leading the pack of Maroons was 149-pound fourth-year

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won the race (24:26.8). Whitmore’s pace of 3:06 per kilometer trailed Nelson’s by a little more than two seconds.

Due to the length of the race, the time difference piled up and eventually proved insurmountable.

Whitmore joins Tom Haxton (2001 and 2002) and Mike Axinn (1980 and 1981) as the third Maroon to repeat as an All-American. His seventh-place finish in last year’s race ranks as the third best in Chicago history.

In the overall team race, for which the Maroons did not qualify, North Central repeated as the National Champions. The Maroons missed out on qualification due to a sixth-place finish in the Midwest Regional. Only the top five teams qualify. The weakest team to qualify out of the Midwest region, UW–Eau Claire, finished as the 10th-best team in the nation.

Of the five UAA teams to qualify, Wash U placed highest in fifth, followed by Carnegie Melon (17th), Rochester (21st), NYU (22nd), and Case Western Reserve (30th). In the UAA Championship, the Maroons placed fourth directly behind Carnegie Melon but ahead of 6th place Rochester. The South Siders finished the regular season ranked 19th in the nation.

“Our team, and especially our senior class, all embraced an attitude of getting better,” Hall said. “[The fourthyears] developed into one of the best classes ever at Chicago. I could not be more proud of the effort they put in not only this season but over the past four years.”

Out of the Maroons’ top seven, they will bid farewell to three runners, fourth-years Gregor Siegmund, Isaac Dalke, and, of course, Billy Whitmore.

However, the remaining four members of the group will come back for the 2013 season. First-year sensation and UAA Rookie of the Year Henry Blood leads the way, followed by second-year Renat Zalov and third years Sam Butler and Griffin Brunk.

Despite losing some great runners to graduation, expect the Maroons to come back next year ready to compete.

Joeie Ruettiger, who went 6–2 on the day (9–2 on the season) and finished fifth in his class.

“It is nice to see us compete as well as we are now because I believe we aren’t close yet to where we can be as a team,” Ruettiger said.

At 197 pounds, second-year Mario Palmisano also placed fifth in his class. In addition, third-year Sam Pennisi (184 pounds) finished sixth, and fourth-year Jim Layton (157 pounds) took eighth in his class. First-year Alex Moore (133 pounds) wrestled well, going 3–2 on the day, but had to medically forfeit his seventh-place match.

The Maroons had a few matches that could have yielded better results, but Kocher was still pleased with his team.

“We had some performances where we might have ended up on the wrong end of the score but still wrestled a very strong match,” Kocher said.

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Joe Ellis (141 pounds) wrestled against the eventual tournament champion, an opponent he faced at Elmhurst just a week prior. “[Ellis] gave him his toughest match of the day,” Kocher said.

In addition, Layton lost a close overtime match against the eventual third-place finisher.

Chicago is off to a good start this season—their only notch in the loss column came against Elmhurst, which is ranked fourth nationally. Add in the Maroons’ performance at Concordia, and the team is feeling good about their chances going forward.

“Right now our wrestlers are positioned well to keep improving and be a nationally competitive team,” Kocher said. “We just need to work at staying healthy and keeping our attitude positive.”

The Maroons don’t hit the mats again until they head to Colorado Springs on December 16 for a sixday training trip.

“I felt like we just needed to take control,” he said.

With 11:35 remaining in the game, the Maroons took their first lead of the day and overcame one more deficit to clinch the victory after Southwestern forward Daniel Mataya’s three-point attempt went in and out as the final seconds ticked off the clock.

Chicago had a balanced scoring attack, led by first-year Jordan Smith’s 21 points. Three other players (second-year Royce Muskeyvalley, third-year Sam Gage, and thirdyear transfer Wayne Simon) also scored over 10 points.

The Maroons did not mirror the same slow start on Sunday and were up by 13 points at the half.

Led by Smith’s 17 points and first-year John Steinberg’s 11 points, the Maroons did not let the game go out of reach.

While Smith nailed shots that were difficult to make and penetrated the lane against many defenders, his most talked about play came

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with exactly eight minutes remaining in the game.

As the shot clock wound down for Chicago, Muskeyvalley tripped, allowing for a fast break opportunity for Tigers’ guard Joe Shotland. Smith, however, ran Shotland down, prepared to leap, and blocked Shotland’s lay-up off the backboard.

“When it comes down to key situations, it’s all pretty much instinct,” Smith said. “When I’m not thinking too much is when I play my best ball.”

Smith leads the team in scoring with 17.7 points per game, and McGrath said he is looking forward to the presence Smith will continue to offer the Maroons.

“He’s on a high, and he’s done really well for us,” McGrath said. “If he continues to work and keep his focus, then he’s going to be a special player.”

The Maroons look to continue their undefeated season this Saturday at the Ratner Center against Augustana. Tip-off is scheduled for 3 p.m.

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Chicago men grab first, women take second at Phoenix Fall Classic Swimming Tatiana Fields Sports Contributor After a long three days of competition, the men’s swim team took a decisive first place at the Phoenix Fall Classic, while the women’s team was narrowly defeated and had to settle for second. Chicago hosted the Classic, which featured swimmers from twelve different colleges, at the MyersMcLoraine Pool.

The mid-season meet was designed to help the team gauge their progress as they start to think about NCAAs. “Even though it’s early in the season, it serves as an opportunity for everyone to compete while rested to see how much they have progressed since the season started,” head coach Jason Weber said. “Overall, this was our best mid-season meet ever.”

The Maroons had impressive performances across the board, setting four Myers-McLoraine Pool records, eight team records, and posting twenty-five NCAA provisional time cuts that could go on to qualify for NCAA Championships.

The men’s team dominated the competition, finishing with 838 points to secondplace Southern Illinois’s 507. Overall, the team showed its strength in relays and individual events alike, with several standout performances.

Third-year Eric Hallman broke a pool record and achieved an NCAA B-cut with a time of 1:52.45 in the 200-yard IM. Firstyear breaststroker James Taylor claimed another school record and NCAA B-cut in the 100-yard breaststroke, and second-year Andrew Angeles also took a school record and NCAA cut in the 200-yard breaststroke. The Maroons took home first in four out of five relays.

On the diving side, second-year Matt Saab earned first in the 3-meter, with fourth-year Bobby Morales finishing in second.

“We had several impressive performances this weekend,” fourth-year captain Denver Barrows said. “All of the men’s relays swam incredibly well and our breaststrokers swam some of the top times in the nation. Ultimately, we are a team that dominates the stroke events and we showed that

First-year Jenna Harris prepares for the womens 400–yard medley relay during the fourth Annual Phoenix Fall Classic at Ratner Athletics Center this Saturday.

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this weekend.”

The women’s team also produced many strong swims, but could not pull off a firstplace finish.

“On the women’s side, we were burdened with a stomach virus that really affected the output at the beginning of the meet,” Barrows said.

Despite illness, the women’s team fought hard, and the finish was close. In the end, Truman State won out with 810 points, and Chicago came in second with 805.5 points.

First-year Ciara Hu broke a pool record and achieved an NCAA B-cut in the pre-

lims of the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:05.78. Fourth-year Kathleen Taylor had an impressive finish in the 1,650-yard freestyle, narrowly beating the runner-up by one and a half seconds. The women’s team finished first in five events, and earned several NCAA time cuts.

Ultimately, it was teamwork that pushed the team to swim its hardest, and put out some of the fastest times of the season.

“In my four years here, I have never seen anything like the chemistry we currently have on this team,” Barrows said. “This meet was all of that work and belief in each

other coming together. It couldn’t have been better.”

Weber also attributed Chicago’s success to teamwork.

“We tend to see great performances from our swimmers and divers when they know they have the support of their teammates,” Weber said. “Everyone feels accountable to each other which only serves to motivate them more to succeed.”

With an already strong season underway, the teams will take a break from competing to continue to focus on training until their next meet in January.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK The executive boards of the Women’s Athletic Association and the Order of the “C” have implemented a new program, “Athlete of the Week,” to highlight athletes making a big impact on the campus community—both on and off the field. We hope the MAROON’s series on these ‘Uncommon’ athletes can start a conversation...and not just within the walls of Ratner.

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Head Coach Chris Hall: “Sam Butler had a breakout performance this weekend. At about two miles into the race, he knew he was our fifth man (the final scorer on our team). I feel the general population pays the majority of attention to the No. 1 runner on a team. But generally the success of a program is based upon how well your final scorer performs and Sam found himself in that role for the first time ever at what was our most important meet of the season.

At three miles into the race, he was in 62nd place in the field of about 300 runners but began moving up until he crossed the line in 47th overall with a lifetime-best time of 25:36.03. That time places him 21st on our team’s all-time list and helped to elevate our team to a sixth-place finish in front of five nationally-ranked teams.”

Head Coach Chris Hall: “Catt has had a challenging first year due to some nagging injuries. She missed some time early in the season due to a serious rib injury that sidelined her from competition, and she has also been dealing with a calf injury that has altered her training, forcing her to take on a lot of cross training and limiting her running. This past weekend, she put all that behind her and fully focused on the race, crossing the finish line as our No. 2 runner with the fastest time in the history of our school for a first year, placing 13th and earning All-Region recognition.

Her time also places her No. 8 on our all-time performance list for 6K.”

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The All-American kid does it again

Sizek an All-American as Maroons falter at NCAAs

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Fourth-year Billy Whitmore placed 11th in the NCAA Division III 8k Cross Country Championships this weekend.

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Isaac Stern Sports Staff This past Saturday, fourthyear Billy Whitmore competed in the NCAA DIII National Championships in Terre Haute, IN. After a full year of training, Whitmore’s 11th–place finish in the race capped not only the season for the Maroons, but his own four-year career. Whit-

more ran as the sole representative of the men’s cross country team and finished the 8k race with a time of 24:47.6.

“I’m ecstatic for Billy. He really put everything behind him and performed well. I don’t think he could have run much better than he did,” head coach Chris Hall said.

The NCAA named Whitmore an All-American for the

second consecutive year due to his high finish. The NCAA bestows All-American status to the top 35 individual finishers in the race.

“It’s tough to be an All-American,” Hall said. “That’s a hard goal to achieve as an individual.

You have to knock heads with the best runners in the country.”

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The Maroons’ season ended somewhere in between a bang and a whimper. After qualifying for the NCAA DIII Championships as a team, Chicago placed 15th out of 32 teams this weekend at the competition in Terre Haute, IN. They accumulated a point total of 381 in the race, which featured a total of 277 runners.

Fourth-year Julia Sizek was the team’s top runner, finishing 31st, with a time of 21:54.6. The performance added to an impressive resume for Sizek, who was named an All-American in her final race.

“I am happy to be an AllAmerican, but I am not particularly satisfied with my performance,” Sizek said. “I think that I made a mistake early in the race by going out too fast…I also felt terrible during the race, and I know that a lot of other people on our team felt that way as well.”

Individual results were not the only thing on the Maroons’ minds. Their team goal was to finish 10th, but they missed it by five slots.

“It was a very competitive field, being the national meet, so there was not

a lot of distance between teams in the field, and thus, the difference between our goal and where we finished was not terribly great,” Sizek said.

The team’s top seven was comprised of Sizek, third-year Elise Wummer (22:52.1) at 115th, fourthyear Sarah Peluse (22:57.7) at 131st, first-year Catherine Young (22:58.8) at 135th, first-year Brianna Hickey (23:04.2) in a tie for 147th, and first-year Maggie Cornelius (23:13.9) at 169th. Third-year Michaela Whitelaw rounded out the Chicago pack at 200th with a time of 23:28.2.

Though the disappointment from the race will sting for a while, the South Siders took positives from the season as a whole.

“We raced a lot better than last year,” Peluse said.

“I would like to stand by our conference meet as a more accurate representation of our team successes.

Prior to this year, we had not won conference for many, many years—[not] since 1994,” Sizek said.

The thrill of running at Nationals will stick in the runners’ minds, and, especially given the high quantity of first-years who ran and experienced the atmosphere, it should serve as a motivator.

“We have a really young team so I think after a year of racing we will better understand how to compete in collegiate athletics,” Hickey said. “I think we are hoping to just keep improving on our place in Nationals.”

“I think that the national meet is a fantastic event to be able to attend, and there is no better place to be alongside your teammates,” Sizek said. “For me, I think that I would not be able to run without a team at the National Meet, and that I would just fizzle out otherwise.”

Peluse, too, noted the feeling of racing at Nationals surrounded by teammates.

“It was fun knowing that we were one of the best ranked teams at the meet as opposed to last year when we were just happy to qualify,” she said. “It was also really great that a lot of people from the team who weren’t racing came to cheer. They were one of the loudest groups I heard during the race.”

For now, the season is over and the Maroons are left to contemplate how to keep improving for next season.

“Going forward, our team will be hungry to get back to Nationals,” Wummer said.

At Ratner, young Maroons mess with Texas—and win Men’s Basketball Alexander Sotiropoulos Senior Sports Staff Sunday’s UAA/SCAC Challenge game against Trinity was about more than just basketball.

Former Chicago head coach and current Trinity head coach Pat Cunningham faced off against his former assistant coach and current Maroons’ head coach Mike McGrath.

One of the most successful Maroon coaches in history, Cunningham led Chicago to two consecutive UAA Championships and NCAA Sweet 16 appearances in 1997 and 1998.

“He’s one of my best friends and a great, great person,” McGrath said.

“It’s hard to play a game against someone you care about as much as him and as much as he has meant to this school, campus, and basketball program.”

As tough as it was for McGrath, his team edged out Cunningham’s 64–49 at the Ratner Center on Sunday. The victory came after Saturday’s nail-biting 74–71 win against Southwestern to put the Maroons at 3–0 on the season.

The Pirates’ 4–21 record in the 2011–2012 season did not stop

them from pursuing an instant spark on Saturday. Southwestern fourth-year point guard Chase Kocher scored six points in the opening four minutes to put his team up 9–2.

McGrath attributes the low scoring start for Chicago to the 81–52 blowout win on Thursday against Maranatha Baptist.

“We had a little bit of a lapse earlier tied to the relativities of the first game,” he said. “Obviously, the pace of that game was significantly different. It kind of takes a minute to adjust to that after the game we had on Thursday.”

On top of that, the Pirates shot 57.7 percent from the field in the first half and 45.5 percent from behind the arc.

“If you let a team get going, it’s awfully tough to get them stopped,” McGrath said.

Despite going 2 of 8 from threepoint range and 7 of 19 from the field in the first half, the Maroons were down by just four points, 34– 30, at the half ’s end.

McGrath said that the Maroons needed to react better to plays and battle better.

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First-year Jordan Smith powers through a Trinity defender while attempting a layup. Smith scored 17 points in Saturday’s home game against Trinity University.

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