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FLY, SHE continue calls for trauma center with flower vigil Madhu Srikantha News Editor Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY) and Students for Health Equity (SHE) held a flower vigil in remembrance of South Side gun violence victims to reiterate their belief in the need for a trauma center at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) on Friday. University members and South Side residents attended the demonstration, totaling nearly 200 participants.

Attendees of the vigil marched from the north entrance of Harper Memorial Library to the Administration building, where each person walked single file up the stairs to President Zimmer’s fifth-floor office at the instruction of Lynda Daher, Dean-on-Call during the protests.

There, they lay their flowers by a poster created by FLY members featuring photos of gunshot victims and pictures of the January 27 protest. Belinda Vazquez, associate dean of students, was present to receive a

faculty letter addressed to President Robert Zimmer and Provost Thomas Rosenbaum and a petition addressed to the general administration from the demonstrators.

Afterward, participants gathered on the east side of the Administration building to chant. The chanting lasted nearly 20 minutes, which, according to Darrius Lightfoot, co-founder of FLY, was longer than planned.

“We just planned to do a few chants and then leave but it turned to something more and I loved it. I loved it,” he said.

Four participants spoke to the group prior to the march.

“We go on because we believe we can and will live in a world where… hospitals will be equipped to serve the needy in their communities,” thirdyear SHE member Michael McCown said in a speech.

Daher said the role of the vigil was to “make sure this protest is successful.” She verbally offered her capacities as a Dean-on-Call, inUCMC continued on page 2

Students and members of SHE (Student for Health Equity) and FLY (Fearless Leading by the Youth) march Friday afternoon during a vigil for victims of gun violence.

JAMIE MANLEY | THE CHICAGO MAROON

Pi Phi finds a future for female friends—finally Reagan favorite on Lina Li Senior News Staff

Pi Beta Phi, a new sorority on campus, meets in Stuart on Monday night to discuss upcoming events involving sorority recruitment.

IVY ZHANG | THE CHICAGO MAROON

After last quarter’s unsuccessful attempt to start a UChicago chapter of the national sorority Pi Beta Phi (Pi Phi), initial recruits have finally garnered enough support to establish a home in Hyde Park.

Although students had specifically expressed interest in a new sorority on campus, Pi Phi national headquarters cancelled the establishment of a UChicago chapter, or colony, of the sorority after it could only recruit 31 members

last quarter, according to a statement on the sorority’s Illinois chapter website.

Given that the three preexisting Panhellenic sororities (Alpha Omicron Pi, Delta Gamma, and Kappa Alpha Theta) each have approximately 120 active members, Pi Phi “could not in good conscience form a colony [as it] would be unable to deliver the exceptional member experience [of ] Pi Phi,” the statement said.

Third-year and initial Pi Phi recruit Michelle Musielewicz attributed last quarter’s failed attempt to

economy, immigration Alex Hays News Staff George Gilder, whose 1981 book Wealth and Poverty made him the most cited author of the Reagan administration, and Houston Stokes (Ph.D. ’69), professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, spoke about Reaganomics and the current U.S. economy at a talk hosted by the Chicago Society last night.

Gilder sat down with the Maroon after the event to talk about the importance of entrepreneurs in the economy and how the government can support them, as well as immigration and problems in the Obama administration.

Chicago Maroon: You spoke during your talk about how the key to the economy is creativity foundREAGAN continued on page 2

SORORITY continued on page 2

Facilities Services to move into single building Hamid Bendaas News Staff University officials unveiled their plans to consolidate the offices of three current Facilities Services buildings under one roof at a community meeting yesterday evening.

Thetwo-story, 86,000-squarefoot building will be constructed on a currently vacant lot at East 52nd Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue. It will include

trade shops, building inventory space, and landscaping services.

At the meeting, University officials responded to concerns from a large crowd of community members regarding traffic, parking space, and noise. Officials said that the building would not result in an increase in traffic on 52nd Street or other smaller streets because the only entrance to the building

is on Cottage Grove. The building’s parking lot and additional space on Cottage Grove would prove adequate parking space, and due to the building’s daytime operational hours, noise would also not be an issue for the immediately surrounding area, according to officials.

According to Ellen Sahli, assistant vice president for the Office of Civic Engagement, one portion of the

building, which was designed to allow access and use outside of regular business hours, may become a community space.

Another building beside the lot, formerly a State Farm Insurance office, will be converted into rehearsal space by Court Theatre. Stephen Albert, Court Theatre’s executive director, said he hopes to find additional uses for the PD43 continued on page 2

George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty, and University of Illinois Economics professor Houston Stokes discuss Reaganomics in regards to current political issues in Monday night’s event hosted by the Chicago Society.

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Gilder: “Entrepreneurial creativity is the heart of economic growth�

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ed in entrepreneurship. Why is this creativity so important?

George Gilder: The vast majority of the advances [in the economy] are immeasurable; they come from outside of the economy. They’re exogenous. Robert Solow, who is the leading theorist of growth, assigns some 80 to 90 percent of all of the growth to these exogenous factors, and he thought innovation summed it up. And he’s correct, but the vessel of this innovation is this entre-

preneurial creativity.

CM: Would you say that an entrepreneur just starting a business is more important to the economy than a well-established business?

GG: Absolutely. All studies show that the bulk of new employment comes from companies with less than 10 people. In other words these are new companies and these companies are supported by venture capitalists, which generate some 21 percent of all

GDP‌.When you see then that more than one-fifth of GDP is attributable to venturebased enterprise, it shows that entrepreneurial creativity is the heart of economic growth.

CM: During the event, you also spoke about the mass emigration of highly skilled people. What do you think the current administration can do to stop this emigration?

GG: We’ve got 60,000 H–1B visas; these are people who are needed by American com-

panies, and it’s just obvious to anyone who works in technology that we have a shortage of highly specialized skills‌.I think we can vastly expand legal immigration through opening up the H–1B process to green cards and citizenship for people who are studying at American campuses and people wanting to come to the United States from abroad.

I think that would be tremendously beneficial and could easily be adopted, rather than focusing on attracting more welfare clients, which often seems to be the target of the Obama administration.

SG small-group discussions will begin today New sorority reflects increased demand for Greek life SORORITY continued from front

The vigil ended in President Zimmer’s office, where participants left flowers to commemorate gun violence victims.

JAMIE MANLEY | THE CHICAGO MAROON UCMC continued from front

cluding answering questions about her role as Dean-on-Call.

Around the time the vigil began, Rosenbaum issued a second statement detailing the University’s plans to address the protest and accompanying arrests. According to the statement, UCMC leadership will host a discussion on “the role of University of Chicago Medicine in providing healthcare to the South Side of Chicago including inpatient, outpatient, emergency room, community programs and trauma care.�

Zimmer said in an interview with the Maroon that the “leaders who are most responsible for the work at hand� are delegated to handle certain issues. For instance, Rosenbaum, as the University’s chief academic officer, led the administration’s response because students and faculty were involved in the protests and subsequent events. Zimmer also said that the decision to have a Level-I adult trauma center is for the UCMC to make.

Last night, Marlon Lynch, chief of UCPD, and Eleanor Daugherty, assistant vice president of student life, were present at the Graduate Student Council meeting. According to SG minutes, Lynch and Daugherty discussed their roles in the coming weeks. Lynch will be active in most conversations hosted by SG and the administration.

SG will begin hosting small-group discussions today, which will include members from social justice and cultural RSOs, a member of the SG slate, Lynch, and Daugherty. The discussions will continue through the week, which SG

hopes will lead to an open forum next week, according to Douglas Everson, SG vice president of administration.

Rosenbaum also said that the administration has planned three faculty-led dialogues to take place in the coming weeks, unrelated to SG’s efforts. The faculty participants are political science professor Michael Dawson, director of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture, associate professor of medicine Doriane Miller, director of the Center for Community Health and Vitality, and associate English professor Deborah Nelson, deputy provost for graduate education.

In the meantime, FLY and SHE members plan to press forward with their demands. “There will be more actions; there will be more protests; there will be more direct actions.

We’re not turned around by what happened Sunday,� said Veronica Moore, a member of FLY who was physically handled by UCPD during the protest. “We still plan on being here and we still plan on speaking out about what goes on here.� “Can’t throw all of our cats out of the bag but yeah, we definitely have plans,� she said.

SHE and FLY are hosting an informational panel on trauma care in Chicagoland at 6 p.m. tonight, in Kent 107. According to Olivia Woollam, fourth-year member of SHE, alderman Anthony Beale and representatives for some of the candidates for Jesse Jackson’s vacant congressional seat will be in attendance.

Editor’s Note: Douglas Everson is a Maroon Senior Editor.

The building next door will house rehearsal space for Court Theatre PD43 continued from front

space. “Once we get in and see what we can do to make it an energetic and creative space, we would love to see it be somewhere we could have meetings, readings, and invite people in,� he said.

Construction on the site is set to begin in the first quarter of 2014 and the building is expected to be completed by the end of that year. The Planned Development application, part of the University’s Planned Development 43-zoning agreement with the city, will be filed this month.

Pi Phi headquarters’ strategic missteps.

Pi Phi is used to “just dropping into big, state schools‌[and] having girls flock to them,â€? Musielewicz said. Headquarters didn’t realize that more work to publicize and recruit would be necessary to successfully establish a sorority in a social environment like UChicago’s, she said.

After headquarters decided to abandon their efforts, the students who had already committed to joining Pi Phi took the initiative to publicize the group via social media, informational meetings on the sorority, and direct conversations with girls interested in Pi Phi. Within two days of Musielewicz posting about Pi Phi recruitment on Facebook, she had nearly 50 girls express interest in recruitment. After the initial recruits were able to bring the number of girls interested to 96, headquarters decided to resume their efforts.

The UChicago Panhellenic Council, a collaboration of representatives from each sorority on campus, also took an active role in promoting Pi Phi and wrote a letter to Pi Phi headquarters. “Panhell[enic] did things like mak[e] extensive announcements in our individual sorority meetings, recruit and refer women

we thought would be a great fit for Pi Phi, and‌help advertis[ing ] efforts through Facebook and forwarding e-mails to listhosts to recruit members,� third-year and Kappa Alpha Theta President Steph Mui said in an e-mail.

The emergence of Pi Phi is one effect of an increased interest in Greek life among students. According to Mui, Theta has roughly doubled in size since she went through recruitment two years ago. Delta Tau Delta (DTD), a fraternity, established a UChicago chapter last year. According to second-year and DTD Internal Secretary Nick Rekenthaler, DTD, like Pi Phi, encountered difficulties.

Recruitment weekend for the new sorority will be held February 8–10, and official initiation has been scheduled for April. An information session for those interested in recruitment was held yesterday and one will again be held today. The number of girls asked to join will depend on how many spots Pi Phi headquarters allots the UChicago chapter.

Musielewicz says the difficulties Pi Phi encountered turned out to be the best thing that could have happened to the sorority. “It actually brought our entire group together to work hard, to organize, to get closer, [and] to prove our dedication,� she said.

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Editorial & Op-Ed FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Halftime report Some ongoing campus issues to keep in mind as the academic year reaches its midpoint The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 JORDAN LARSON Editor-in-Chief SHARAN SHETTY Editor-in-Chief COLIN BRADLEY Managing Editor

With the academic year halfway over, the maroon Editorial Board would like to keep the UChicago community informed of a few issues that have shaped the past four months, the ongoing development of which will remain relevant well after the long-awaited snow has melted.

HARUNOBU CORYNE Senior Editor DOUGLAS EVERSON, JR Senior Editor JAMIE MANLEY Senior Editor CELIA BEVER News Editor MARINA FANG News Editor MADHU SRIKANTHA News Editor JENNIFER STANDISH News Editor AJAY BATRA Viewpoints Editor DAVID KANER 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 JEN XIA Head Copy Editor

University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) protests Since the protests and arrests at the UCMC’s Center for Care and Discovery over a week ago, the incident has rightly been a major discussion topic on campus. It is encouraging to see that Students for Health Equity, Southside Together Organizing for Power, and Fearless Leading by the Youth—the organizers of the original protest—continue to pressure the University to address the issues of police conduct, trauma care, and structural inequalities on the South Side, most recently with an anti-violence vigil last Friday. It was also encouraging to see, in an e-mail sent by Provost Rosenbaum, that we can expect faculty-led dia-

logue, a review of protest policies, and a discussion hosted by UCMC leadership on the Center’s role in providing health care on the South Side. However, such efforts mean little without widespread participation. Students, faculty, staff, and community members should continue to engage with these most important issues in the coming months.

CTA contract expiration Though the recently introduced NightRide shuttle program has suffered much criticism, a potentially larger transportation issue looms—the University’s recent decision not to renew its contract with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA), which supplied the #170, #171 and #172 routes free of charge to students. The official expiration of the partnership will come in August and is largely due to financial concerns. Though such considerations are no doubt valid, student concern is also warranted: The current CTA routes are already plagued by jam-packed buses, and any replacement will almost certainly have to pro-

vide equal capacity, equal access, and a tracking option on par with CTA’s Bus Tracker.

College admissions The unprecedented number of applications for the Class of 2017 (30,369, a 20 percent increase from last year) is only the latest in a series of monumental developments in University admissions.

Several large-scale changes—including the integration of CAPS (now Career Advancement) into the Office of Enrollment and Student Advancement, as well as its heightened relationship with the Admissions office—indicate that the University is increasingly concerned with being broadly marketable to prospective students. Though the exact impact of these new marketing strategies on campus culture is yet to be seen, the University’s image is undoubtedly being reshaped in a manner that merits continued, close attention.

Undergraduate housing Now that current Pierce Tower

residents have received official word on whether their houses will be absorbed into either International House or New Graduate Residence Hall, the possible consequences of the aforementioned admissions bonanza are on many students’ minds—not to mention that of the Office of Undergraduate Student Housing (OUSH). With Pierce’s imminent demolition, our campus is set to lose out on living space for over 250 students, as well as one of just three campus dining halls, until at least 2016. The unprecedented upward trend in applications and yield will have OUSH fighting—or even failing—to squeeze students in, unless it manages truly effective cooperation with the Office of Admissions. In addition, it remains to be seen whether Pierce residents will substantively influence the design of the new residence hall that replaces their uniquely built, well loved home.

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Foreign language affairs The study of tongues other than English should play a larger role in UChicago’s academic culture

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By Tyler Lutz Viewpoints Columnist I was deceived. I’d been told that coming to college was all about learning—learning about the universe, about society, about art; about life in all of its scintillating detail.

But it was a lie by omission: Sure, I’ve learned a thing or two in my time here, but, honestly, not nearly enough to justify the kind of tuition being extracted from me. No, college isn’t—or, at least, shouldn’t be—about learning. I would gladly trade any hunk of freshly minted UChicago knowledge for half its weight in unknowledge.

What is unknowledge? It’s that moment when you glance up from whatever text or problem set that’s been occupying your attention and realize with a start that everything around you has been rendered ut-

terly and irrevocably incomprehensible. You frantically grasp for dry land but just stumble over yourself, awash in tantalizing unknown. It’s the most disturbingly fantastic feeling I’ve ever experienced—and it’s why I’m still here slogging away for a college degree.

Let that be my disclaimer then.

I’m about to argue for something that by most accounts will sound either exceptionally dull or boorishly preprofessional: I think the University needs to work harder to improve the position of foreign languages and foreign language

acquisition on campus. The “on campus” bit is crucial. The growth in, for instance, our study abroad offerings within the last decade is nothing short of commendable.

But in the same time span remarkably little has been done to help foster communities of foreign language speakers on campus.

As your harrowing encounter with the subjunctive mood back in high school can attest, there’s no question that learning a foreign language involves, well, learning. If you want to speak German, at some LANGUAGE continued on page 4

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Guns out of control With mass shootings in the news, immediate public action is required to fix gun policy nationwide

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Sixty-two mass shootings—that is, “multi-victim shootings where those killed were chosen indiscriminately”— have taken place in the United States since 1982. Last year’s record-breaking 16 accounted for a vastly disproportionate 18 percent of them, leaving at least 88 dead, including at least 25 children.

But while mass shootings are a problem, as 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton’s death last week has so horrifically and unfortunately pointed out, they are far from the only problematic consequence of our country’s weak gun laws. In fact, the daily death toll of firearms in the United States is almost exactly equal to

the total number of people who died in mass shootings throughout all of 2012.

Unless something is done immediately, this trend is almost certain to continue.

I realize that you’re probably tired of hearing—seeing, reading, and talking— about gun violence. I realize that Hyde Park is a very safe neighborhood, and that we are not as immediately impacted by gun violence as are students at schools in more dangerous areas. But even if we are unlikely to be directly affected ourselves, we cannot accept that our leaders have so long failed to deal with such a pressing, pervasive, and high-profile problem. This is too important of an issue to abandon for reasons of boredom, habituation, or perceived distance.

Digging deeper into the issue only reveals more problems. For one, convicted felons and violent offenders are regaining their rights to own firearms at an alarming rate. Though the great variation in gun laws between states makes it difficult to calculate a national figure, in the state of Washington—which falls “somewhere in the middle on the scale of strictness”

—more than 3,300 felons and violent offenders have regained their gun rights since 1995. (However, this statistic comes from 2011: If this trend has continued, the number is now at least 3,600.)

Ditto for the mentally ill. Despite having been declared mentally ill by a judge just one year before murdering 32 people, Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho passed the required background check because the state of Virginia had failed to pass his mental health records to the federal National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). In fact, a recent federal investigation by the Government Accountability Office found that 23 states and the District of Columbia had submitted fewer than 100 mental health records to the NICS. Of those, 17 states had submitted fewer than 10, and four states had submitted zero. These mentally ill individuals pose an even greater threat to themselves than to others: Just under two-thirds of gun-related deaths in the United States are suicides.

Mass shootings also highlight major

loopholes in our federal gun laws. In the past two decades, semi-automatic handguns have become the unfortunate weapon of choice for most murders and massacres in the United States, in large part because they are light, easy to conceal, powerful, and can be used with highcapacity magazines. Though most guns used in crimes are stolen, most guns used in mass shootings—in fact, more than three-quarters of those used in the United States since 1982—are obtained legally.

Though gun buyers do face a waiting period, its length is only three days, and doesn’t even apply to (perfectly legal) secondary markets such as gun shows, at which some 40 percent of today’s gun sales take place. Thirty-three states don’t even require secondary sellers to perform background checks. Though last year’s media coverage of the Aurora shooting fixated on shooter James Holmes’ ability to acquire the entirety of his devastating arsenal in just a few weeks, he could have obtained identical equipment at a gun show within hours.

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Letter: cost of UCPD

Students shouldn’t have to leave campus for intense language study LANGUAGE continued from page 3 point you’re going to have to get the word Wald into your head. It’s pronounced “vald.” It means “forest.” It’s a masculine noun. Its plural form is Wälder. Our Core language requirement here will get you about that far and then leave you hanging.

If this is your conception of foreign language acquisition—the blind memorization of a series of hollow facts—then you have every right to find my contention gross and unacceptable. I agree that we probably all have better things to cram into our heads than irregular French verbs or arbitrary Chinese characters. But there’s more to language acquisition than mere learning.

If you really want to speak German, at some point you’re going to have to discard—unlearn—your cherished notion of “forest.” A Wald isn’t really a forest; Wälder look different from forests, they are managed differently, people use them for different purposes; Wälder play a radically different role within the national mythol-

ogy of German-speaking countries than forests do for us. And don’t think there’s anything special about Wälder; you’re not going to be able to speak any foreign language well without unlearning a sizable chunk of your Weltbild.

It is exactly this fundamental challenging of preconceived ideas and thought patterns that makes a college degree at any university and in any field of study worthwhile. At the University of Chicago, though, the task before us is even more exigent: We live and die to obliterate paradigms and craft new ones in their place. And I can think of no better training ground for this kind of foundational questioning of reality than the study of foreign languages.

Once we move beyond the bad rap foreign language learning has gotten, there are no major hindrances to taking advantage of the full array of benefits that a greater presence of foreign language learning on campus could offer. We could start small by stocking more foreign

Gun control supporters can’t allow issue to fade GUNS continued from page 3 All in all, these facts strongly suggest that unnecessarily powerful guns and ammunition—like the high-explosive incendiary/armor-piercing bullets that are still, somehow, legal—are too readily available, that obtaining a gun has become too quick and too simple, and that our system has failed to collect the data necessary to distinguish between legal and illegal gun sales.

Though critics rightfully point out that motivated criminals can find a way to acquire guns no matter what kind of law is passed, and that no law can ever guarantee us safety, basic supply and demand also tells us that a decrease in legally owned assault weapons will correspond to a comparable decrease among their illegal counterparts. Perhaps more importantly, the pervasiveness of legal weapons in our country’s massacres suggests that stricter and actively enforced firearm regulations could help prevent them.

President Obama’s 23-point plan is a strong start.

Gabrielle Gifford’s heartfelt testimony is another.

But if the history of the last two major gun control initiatives of our era—the Brady Bill of 1993 and the Federal Assault Weapons Ban of 1994—is any indication, it is not enough. Just as was the case then, today’s legislators will be tempted to riddle any bill introduced with a range of excessive changes, earmarks, and amendments that render it unrecognizable. Only the vigilant, passionate involvement of the people has a chance to prevail over such practices. In other words, do not stop talking about gun control: It’s now or never.

magazines and newspapers in the Harper reading room in place of the English-language ones that no one reads anyway. Language-themed dorms have proven hugely successful at other colleges and wouldn’t be difficult to implement.

I’m a realist—I know that a stricter language requirement in the Core will likely not pass muster, but what about incorporating foreign language into our existing Core classes? The third quarter of Self, for instance, is devoted almost entirely to Freud. I think there would be a good deal of interest for a section in which students do some work on the texts in the original language. If this seems outlandish, recall that we already offer Civ classes in French and Spanish through the Paris and Barcelona programs—programs which are an ocean away, but whose guiding principles are still ours to bring home.

Tyler Lutz is a fourth-year in the College majoring in physics and English.

We must evaluate necessity of campus cops Lost in all the commotion following the protest and arrests of January 27 has been the question of whether the University of Chicago might be well served in dissolving its private police force. To some, it may seem intuitively apparent that a large police presence contributes significantly to Hyde Park’s low crime rate, but students should not make this an unreflected assumption. Rather, it seems the UCPD provides the same deterrent to crime that a posted security guard would, and that their most visible policing occurs after Hyde Park’s most endemic crime, namely theft, has been committed: i.e., documenting occurrence of theft. I suggest we find out what, in fact, the UCPD contributes to the safety of the student body, and then evaluate whether it is worth it to maintain this institution.

For a benefit to our security that, if not marginal, is at least an unknown quantity for most of the student body, we are asked to pay a heavy price. Each year a Mauriece Dawson is placed in a chokehold on ALevel, or a girl from King Prep is bruised up at a sit-in. These incidents are only a

fraction of the cost associated with having a private security force on campus. In addition, officers’ searches for perpetrators often target young black men, whether student or one of our neighbors, with no part in the incident. Michael McCown’s experience (documented in a Jan. 28 oped entitled “Police Blues”), in which one of his volunteers working for a program at the University left Michael’s sight for only a brief moment and was detained because he fit a “description,” is illustrative.

To suggest that a racial disparity in coercive demands for identification, as well as accidental and overenthusiastic arrests, is not an inherent cost of the UCPD’s presence, but rather an incidental failure of procedure or training, seems to me willfully naïve.

This is not to say that the University does not have good reason for hiring a private police force. Rather, we, as the student body, should at least take into account all of its consequences.

—Greg Hedin, fifth-year Ph.D. candidate in Germanic studies

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Li-Young Lee’s poetry considers sheltering and stormy love Angela Qian Arts Staff There weren’t enough chairs set out for all of Li-Young Lee’s fans in the humble eighth-floor Seminar Terrace room at the Logan Arts Center, where Li held his poetry reading as part of the Reva Logan Poetry Series. Despite the blustering winds and frigid temperatures, faculty, students, and fans of Lee’s poetry from all demographics filled the room, pressing against the walls, on the evening of January 31.

After being introduced by Srikanth Reddy, assistant professor in English Language & Literature, Lee walked to the front of the room from the unnoticed space he had been occupying, casually thanked everyone for coming out despite the cold, and in the simple, unprepossessing manner that characterizes his poetry, began the reading.

Lee, author of four poetry collections (Rose, The City in Which I Love You, Book of My Nights, and Behind My Eyes) has been showered with accolades and awards for the lyricism, pregnant pauses, and deep honesty of his work. He chose to read only three poems—“two,” he said, “are love poems;” the last poem was about “the fruit of love.”

The first poem was a work-inprogress, “The Undressing,” which begins as a dialogue that evolves into a monologue; simple banter between husband and wife grows into a universal exploration of what it means to listen and not to listen, and of romantic and other relationships between people.

The poem is contained within the delicately sensual framework of a man undressing his wife.

Lee’s second poem, “Virtues of a Boring Husband,” is another monologue-style poem taken from his most recent collection, Behind My Eyes. He immediately got a few laughs with the opening line, “Whenever I talk, my wife falls asleep.” But soon, as in most of Lee’s other poetry, the gentle humor gave way to a poignant reflection.

The Logan Arts Center commissioned the third poem Lee read, “The Dream of Refuge.” To preface the poem, Lee explained that he thought the Logan Center was a great undertaking, and that the concepts of safety and shelter are complex. He said he admired how the Logan Center represented giving shelter to artists and people of the neighborhood. The poem’s final image of a child throwing a ball into the air was full of nostalgia, growing pains, and serenity.

After the reading, Lee took questions from the audience, and discussed what it was like to hear the voice of God in chiming bells and see his wife as a goddess. He also gave his thoughts on line breaks and safety and security in light of recent violence in Chicago.

Lee spoke at length about the ancient Chinese ideal of being safe, which was to stand in a public market with mud on one’s face, smiling, and “killing what needs to be killed and blessing what needs to be blessed.” Stepping down from the podium, Lee stayed to sign books and talk with his fans, who lined up one by one to shake hands with this man who wore taped-up black glasses and a quilted jacket and who had brought his poems in a brown paper bag.

Lee’s self-deprecating humor and frank admission of being “in the dark most of my life, writing poems” was very appealing, with a charm similar to that of his poetry. His old teacher, Gerald Stern, spoke of the transparency of his poetry, which has a technical simplicity. But there is a complexity underneath the everyday language—a subtle complexity which transforms basic phrases into inspired ones, causing readers of Lee to be completely subsumed by his beautiful (uni)verse.

Li-Young Lee, a renowned local poet, gave a reading last Thursday at the Logan Center as part of the Reva Logan Poetry Series.

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Is that an Oscar in your shorts, or are you just happy to be nominated?

In Head Over Heels, a claymation couple takes a time out, the way Wallace and Gromit should have.

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Paola Cardona Arts Contributor With the Oscars only three weeks away, Daniel Day-Lewis is practicing his acceptance speech for Lincoln, Ben Affleck is trying to find a spot where his Best Picture Oscar won’t look too lonely without the Best Director statuette, and Disney is salivating over the prospect of winning two Best Feature categories with Wreck-ItRalph and “Paperman.”

What’s “Paperman,” you ask?

An awesome five-minute featurette that’s nominated for Best Animated Short Film. It stands in the company of a Simpsons short featuring Maggie Simpson in daycare hell and a Claymation flick that tells the story of an elderly couple who are literally never on the same level, among others. Audiences should count themselves lucky to have had the chance to see “Paperman,” because the reality is that most years we, the viewers, have no choice but to watch with curiosity as the Best Live Action and Best Animated Short Films

are presented and then pushed back into the obscurity they came from. Luckily, though, Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema is periodically screening all the movies nominated for Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film this year.

The group of Short Live Action films is solid overall. The first to be shown at my screening was the Dutchlanguage French/Belgian film “Death of a Shadow.” I was instantly drawn into its world, which had tonal and visual similarities to Scorsese’s Hugo, but had a

tragic love story at the center of its plot and dealt fascinatingly with the theme of death. It also had influences from Guillermo Del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth.

I’d definitely recommend it to fans of any of those films, and it is one of my top two picks for winner.

My top pick, however, is “Henry,” a French-Canadian submission that tells the heartbreaking story of an old man who suffers from dementia.

Using innovative storytelling, the film conveys emotion in a much subtler manner than some of its competition.

Still, everybody around me was trying to stifle their sobs. Up next was “Curfew,” an American submission that tuned down sadness in favor of drama.

It follows the adventures of a depressed drug addict and his niece, whom he hadn’t seen in years, after he is forced to babysit her for a few hours when her mother can’t find anyone else. The little girl has a few requisite sassy one-liners, and even stars in her own Bollywoodesque moment. I doubt it will take home the Oscar.

The other two films in the category were underwhelming. The first was an American/Afghani entry made in Kabul, “Buzkashi Boys,” whose story centers around two young boys, one a fatherless orphan known as Ahmad who dreams of becoming a buzkashi rider (the sport is similar to polo, but the riders use a mutilated goat carcass instead of a ball). Finally, there’s “Asad,” the story of a boy in Somalia who yearns to join a group of pirates (read, Somali pirates). The tone of this one was all over the place, and some scenes were flat-out baffling.

I expected the films in the Best Animated Short Film category to be stronger than the Live Action

nominees, but the quality was, in fact, much less consistent. There are some bright spots, among them “Paperboy,” animated by John Kahr. The film is like a master class in experimental animation and has the best score of the bunch by far. The other stand-out is “Head Over Heels,” a Claymation film about an elderly couple that can’t interact because one travels along the floor, the other on the ceiling. The Simpsons submission, “The Longest Day Care,” was insanely clever and well made. The longest entry, “Adam and Dog,” features beautiful old-school 2D animation and shows the touching tale of the original man-dog relationship: the one between Adam and his dog in the Garden of Eden.

THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2013 Various directors Landmark Century Centre Cinema

The only truly perplexing entry is “Fresh Guacamole,” which draws a fine line between live action and animation in what can best be described as a crash course in making guacamole using dice, chips, light bulbs, and other inedible objects. The fact that it was nominated called into question how fruitful the field of animated shorts really is.

Watching these films, it becomes clear that there are possibilities available in the short film genre that are not available to full-length features. There’s room for offbeat stories that wouldn’t necessarily fit a ninety-minute mold.

This can result in charming, creative tales. It’s a shame that audiences are so often unaware of their existence.

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Lemon out, but Tina Fey can keep TV rocking Margaret Schurr Arts Contributor The series finale of 30 Rock aired last Thursday, and if you feel like you have lost a close friend, you’re not alone. If you feel like you have been slowly drifting away from someone who was once a close friend but recently has been less funny and kind of cling y, you are also not alone.

30 Rock has been on the air since 2006, and while its 138 episodes weren’t all gems, Tina Fey did something with 30 Rock that was kind of unprecedented: She made the kind of T V show that is generally hated by networks, and a majority of America, last for a seven season run.

That is, Fey made a TV show that got away with doing things like live episodes or plotlines revolving around a really good sandwich. That type of shenanigans is what will ultimately twist the knife that’s already lodged in Community (which is technically not cancelled yet, but—spoiler alert— it’s probably going to be).

Fey consistently delivered

a show that depended on intelligent, rapid-fire comedy that required viewers to pay close attention, which Nielsen ratings suggest American viewers aren’t willing to do anymore. In one of its many meta winks to its audience, Liz Lemon said that she thinks “we’re in a new golden age of scripted television;” in real life, Fey led that charge.

But even though Liz Lemon will be my girl for life, something has felt off since her return in the October premier. Fey played the seventh season like a true Saturday Night Live veteran, becoming entirely too political as the election drew closer, which works much better with sketch comedy and Darrell Hammond impressions.

Ironically, this season felt as if now that Liz Lemon finally had it all, the writers weren’t quite sure how to depict her anymore. The writing seemed especially aimless when it came to her boss and mentor Jack, who spent most of the season falling apart.

I’ll forgive Fey for those mistakes, though, because it’s not easy to have characters run in place for

Elizabeth Lemon (Tina Fey) shares a tender moment with Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski)—a young, talented actress who’s beautiful, but doesn’t know it. Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer) looms large in the background.

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so long (like Liz Lemon and Jack Donaghy did), and it’s even more difficult to have characters that had never changed before change dramatically in a 13-episode arc. What I’m anxious about is what Fey will do next.

My fear is that she will try

Lim and Foreman make jazz with a dream Kimberly Han Arts Contributor Minouk Lim, an acclaimed artist from Seoul, South Korea, is in the Residency at Hyde Park Art Center from January 4 to February 12 of this year. Lim collaborated with Chris Foreman to present FireCliff 4_Chicago at the Logan Center last Friday.

FireCliff 4_Chicago is the fourth of Lim’s FireCliff series; she has also done shows in Madrid, Seoul, and Minneapolis. In her performances, Lim sends political messages in collaboration with other artists, and creates uniquely composed performances.

Foreman, now in his mid-fifties, is a talented jazz musician from Chicago.

He was carefully seated behind his organ in trendy sunglasses (Foreman is blind).

The performance began, and the room darkened. I watched the shadow of the man as the jazz sound flowed. As Foreman opened his mouth to begin a soliloquy, I had to strain my ears to pick up even a few of his words. Foreman sounded ominous as he whispered words like “sense” and “anger,” amid bunches of muffled phrases.

He appeared to be saying something crucial, but no one could quite make out the words, and his speech remained practically inaudible until the end. When his soliloquy was over, though, the lights came on and a staff member quickly picked up the fallen microphone. He hastily clipped it back onto to Foreman’s shirt; the whispering had been an unfortunate mishap.

The performance continued without further glitches. With a more upbeat tone of voice, enhanced by brighter lighting, Foreman began another portion of the show. He allowed audience members to interact: He encouraged them to guess the song he was playing, sing along, and laugh freely at his jokes. People sang along to the theme songs of The Flintstones and The Jetsons.

The performance was then interrupted by more darkness, though the jazz continued to flow. The absence of vocal input continued for some time. Then Foreman finally opened his mouth to utter an abridged version of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. His voice was low and mysterious, barely a whisper, only this time on purpose.

The darkness continued to devour the stage, and a recording of a man’s voice came on—it was the charismatic King himself delivering his 1963 speech. As King’s voice became more intense, Foreman hit the organ again. His magic fingers created a euphoric melody, which accompanied King’s passionate appeal for equality.

Then something new happened. A thermal video of a person and her hand was projected on a back screen. The effect of the video, infused with rainbow colors and the faceless figure, was utter confusion.

What was clear, however, is that the range of colors neutralized the figure, eliminating any markers of race or gender.

The figure seemed to be staring at its open palm, resolute, and maybe even grieving. The universal emotions of the figure seemed to suggest that there is grief in everyone regardless of race or gender. But because of the image’s ambiguity, the notion was uncertain and useless.

As the show closed with another, brighter jazz performance and audience sing-along, Lim’s remix of political speech, sound, and image remained ambiguous yet ever so powerful. The message that cannot be seen was delivered in spite of the mishap in the beginning. When I complimented Lim on how much I liked the performance, she lamented that the beginning soliloquy “was the most important part of the show!”

“But these things happen all the time,” said Lim. Her performance was hindered by an unfortunate microphone accident, but she should know how well her performance still worked.

to break into movies. With the upcoming romantic comedy Admission and the new Muppets movie, she’s clearly interested in being in them. I’m afraid that she may leave TV behind forever, because I think that would be a mistake.

Anyone who watched the

30 Rock finale knows that Fey understands the dire straits TV is in. Like NBC needed Kenneth Parcell and his love of television in the fictional world of 30 Rock, TV needs Fey to keep fighting the good fight.

So please, Fey, don’t abandon us for the

perceived greener pastures of movie stardom. If you stay on television, I promise you can be as bitter as you want about people loving your Sarah Palin impression, and you’ll have enough street cred to cast Rachel Dratch in any role you find fit.

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Second-years make it look easy in rout of Elmhurst Men’s Tennis Jake Walerius Associate Sports Editor The long road to the UAA championship has begun, and the Maroons have taken a convincing first step.

Chicago recorded its first win of the season in its first contest of the season on Saturday, coming out on top over Elmhurst, 8–1. There will be tougher tests ahead for the Maroons, but for the time being, the team can reflect on a job well done.

“The entire team was pleased with its performance and the result of the match,” second-year Deepak Sabada said. “The match showed us some things we need to work on but overall we are happy with the way it turned out.”

The Maroons swept the singles points, winning all six of their matches in straight sets. Chicago’s only loss of the day came in the doubles, as fourth-year Harrison Abrams and third-year Neil Karandikar fell to Elmhurst’s Alex Harbert and Wil Jung in a hard-fought match, 9–7.

In the number one singles spot, Sabada beat Alex Harbert in a comfortable two sets, 6–2, 6–3, while second-year

Ankur Bhargava came out on top, 6–3, 6–1, at number two.

With Sabada and Bhargava setting the tone early, the rest of the team duly followed suit.

Number three, first-year Jake Crawford, won 6–3, 6–4; number four, third-year Alexander Golovin, dominated Luke Tanaka, 6–1, 6–1; number five, first-year Gordon Zhang, came back well after a tight first set to win, 7–5, 6–2; and Abrams rounded out the sweep at number six, 6–0, 7–6—his second-set tie break being the Maroons’ smallest winning margin of the day.

Chicago entered this matchup as the favorite, but good preparation and focus can sometimes get the better of individual talent, particularly in a season opener.

Instead of falling victim to this, the Maroons did a good job of managing their expectations, maintaining a high level of intensity throughout the contest.

“My expectations are simple: Just give all your effort.

We might not be able to win every single match, but giving everything you have is in our control and I believe we did that against Elmhurst,”

Bhargava said.

The Maroons’ only blip came in the number-one doubles matchup when Abrams and Karandikar dropped their opener before Sabada and Bhargava were able to level the score with an 8–6 victory. Golovin and thirdyear Krishna Ravella gave Chicago the lead in doubles with an 8–3 win.

It all seemed very comfortable for Chicago, but the Maroons were quick to stress that the score line didn’t tell the whole story.

“Elmhurst has a very competitive team and we expected a tough match. Although the score was 8–1, it was not an easy match by any means,” Sabara said.

Bhargava echoed that sentiment.

“This matchup was not as easy as the score line appeared,” he said. “Elmhurst is a solid team and I’m hoping that we can take this match and put it under our belt, as some more match play and experience, and use it to try and defeat our next opponents.”

That opponent will be Kenyon next Sunday, February 10.

Second-year Deepak Sabada preps to return the ball in the UAA Championships last year.

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peted in two relays for the South Siders. With her finishes in those three events, she helped contribute six points to the Maroons’ final score.

The men, ranked 52nd, had a bit more difficulty, managing only 38 points— well behind first-place North Central College, which tallied 142 points.

The Cardinals were followed by UW–Oshkosh (110), UW–Whitewater (104), UW–La Crosse (96.5), Augustana (66.5), and Wisconsin (62). The Maroons finished ahead of Loras (18) and UW–Platteville (7). Considering that the top-four finishing teams rank as the best four teams in the nation, the Maroons were not disap-

pointed with their finish.

But they know they need to improve.

“I think the team did very well this weekend,” second-year Renat Zalov said. “We competed against some of the best teams in the country and held our own against them.

We know we need to improve by doing the right things both during prac-

tice and on our own time.”

Zalov was the top Maroon in the mile run with a fourth-place finish (4:22.27).

UW–Whitewater’s Dawson Miller secured first place with his time of 4:16.82. Miller’s time currently ranks 17th in DIII. Zalov’s finish contributed five points to the South Siders’ final tally.

Other notable perfor-

mances included firstplace finishes from fourthyears Julia Sizek (5000m run) and Kayla McDonald (800m run). Third-years Sarah Peluse (5000-meter run) and Elise Wummer (mile run) also raced well, finishing second in their respective events. On the men’s side, fourth-years Billy Whitmore (5000m run), Dee Brizzolara

(200m dash), and Gregor Siegmund (3000m run) finished second, third, and third, in their respective events.

Later this week, the Maroons will face off against the best of Chicago in the Chicagolands meet at Henry Crown. There, they will face numerous DI schools as well as—once again— North Central College.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

The executive boards of the Women’s Athletic Association and the Order of the “C” have implemented a 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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MARIO PALMISANO, WRESTLING

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Head Coach Leo Kocher: “Sophomore Mario Palmisano’s performance in competition has been outstanding – including winning the Elmhurst Invitational and defeating the 10th-ranked wrestler in his weight class in Division III in a dual meet. But he has also been leading his teammates in workouts by challenging and pushing his wrestling partners during our ‘live’ goes in practice. It looks to me like he is working hard to get the best out of everybody. This kind of leadership helps the whole team and expands the passion Mario demonstrates when he is competing to a passion to do what he can to make his teammates the best they can be – and it is appreciated by everyone in the program.”

Head Coach Chris Hall: “The first year won her first-ever collegiate event by edging out another athlete by just one centimeter in the triple jump. Her performance moved her to number 3 in the UAA conference in the event and was a seasonal best performance by more than two feet. She also finished third in the high jump with a seasonal-best performance in that event.”

Teammate Noelle Vandendriessche: “Nelly is a great person to have at practice. She’s always working hard, really enthusiastic about track, and has a great attitude.”

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Case of redemption: Maroons grab payback wins against UAA rivals Men’s Basketball Alexander Sotiropoulos Senior Sports Staff

Third-year Wayne Simon drives the ball down the court in a victorious game against Case Western Reserve University last Friday.

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If there was any doubt about Charlie Hughes’s scoring abilities before Friday, it was laid to rest by Sunday.

The third-year forward scored 16 points against the Case Spartans (9– 11, 2–7 UAA) on Friday and a gamehigh 17 points on Sunday against the Carnegie Tartans (4–16, 1–8 UAA).

But it was not just Hughes’ scoring that made the impact, it was his efficiency. The Maroon had only one miss on eight attempts from the charity stripe versus the Spartans. Against the Tartans, he shot 80 percent from the field.

Ultimately, Hughes’s efforts helped Chicago (10–10, 4–5 UAA) defeat both Case 81–73 and Carnegie 79–59.

“As a [small forward], he’s 6 foot 5 and he’s strong,” third-year forward Sam Gage said of his teammate. “He’s a tough match-up. He’s been shooting the ball well, so that’s really been why he’s been playing better.”

A balanced scoring attack allowed Chicago to go on a 16–5 run to start off Friday.

But with over fourteen minutes remaining in the game, Case cut the Maroon lead to five.

It was then that Chicago was off

to the races.

Third-year point guard Wayne Simon scored two buckets, and with Chicago leading by nine points, 49–40, first-year shooting guard Jordan Smith picked up a loose ball. The crowd-pleaser sprinted towards the arc, set himself up, and threw down an emphatic two-hand jam.

“His dunk was kind of in the midst of a run, and I think it definitely gave us a little extra boost,” Gage said. “I think it kind of took some wind out of their sails too, and it definitely got the crowd involved.”

The Maroons never looked back, eventually securing the eight-point win. Second-year shooting guard Alex Pyper led all scorers with 17 points.

The last time the Maroons faced the Tartans, Carnegie opened the game with a 6–0 run. This time, the Tartans went on a 12–2 run in the opening minutes thanks to six points and an assist from Rob Mohen.

Carnegie held on to the 10-point lead in part because of Asad Meghani’s perfect 3–3 mark from downtown.

With just over 10 minutes left in the first half, Carnegie was up 20–10.

Chicago, however, turned the deficit into a 35–28 lead by the end of the half. Charlie Hughes scored an unfathomable 13 points in the

opening 20 minutes.

“Last [week against Carnegie] and for the first part of [Sunday], when we got down early, we didn’t do a very good job taking away things from their perimeter guys, mostly outside shots,” Gage said. “That’s one thing we had talked about during the week, and [head] coach [Mike McGrath] definitely harped on it at halftime again, getting out on their shooters, not letting them get open looks on the outside. Cleaning up the rebounds too was a big thing. Once we started doing those two things, we were able to build the lead, and I guess that’s what really was the difference.”

One shooter that the Maroon guards closed out was Meghani. After his initial three treys, the Tartan only sunk one more shot from beyond the arc on six more attempts.

“He was the one that really killed us the first half,” Gage said. “The perimeter guys did a good job taking away his easy looks. They kind of chased him off screens and made sure he didn’t have a clean look at the basket really the rest of the game after those first couple possessions.”

The Maroons increased the lead to 20 points by the final buzzer. They will face another pair of UAA rivals this weekend, in Rochester and Emory.

Chicago women take third, men place seventh at “Squig” Invitational Track & Field Isaac Stern Sports Staff Two separate days of competition for the men and women yielded two very different results for the Maroons’ squads this past weekend. At the Leonard “Squig” Converse Invitational in Whitewater, WI, the women placed third in their highly competitive field, while the men took seventh.

Of the eight teams facing the women, three were ranked in the nation’s top 25. The men competed in a field of nine teams, four of which sat in the top 25.

The women scored 82 points en route to their third-place finish. Currently ranked 49th in the nation, they upset 17thranked North Central College (IL), which scored 76 points, by a margin of six.

They also overcame Augustana (72), St. Norbert (59), Wisconsin (50), and Loras (35). UW–Oshkosh and UW–Whitewater took first and second, respectively, with scores of 169 and 117. Oshkosh still holds the number-one ranking in the nation.

“It was very exciting to run against so much great competition this week-

end. All of our runners were challenged in their events, and did well staying competitive,” first year Rebecca Askins-Gast said.

“I’m incredibly proud of my teammates, many of whom made personal lifetime bests.”

A talented newcomer to the team, Askins-Gast raced thrice for the Maroons at Whitewater.

She placed seventh in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:01.14, losing to first-place finisher Beth Dreikosen of Whitewater by less than two seconds.

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Second-years Jillian Ojeda and Francesca Tomasi pass the baton during a relay race.

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At “toughest [DIII] tournament in the nation,” South Siders finish dead center Wrestling Sam Zacher Sports Staff Fully healthy or not, the Maroons still wrestled with grit and toughness at the Wheaton College Pete Wilson Invitational over the weekend.

In addition to placing two wrestlers in the top eight in their weight class, Chicago (4–3) finished 15th out of 29 teams at Wheaton, “the toughest Division III tournament in the nation,” according to head coach Leo Kocher.

UW–Parkside destroyed the competition with 151.5 points, followed by sec-

ond-place Messiah College (101 points) and third-place UW–La Crosse (87 points). Nine nationally-ranked teams wrestled at Wheaton.

The South Siders competed with a few wrestlers absent from their lineup, such as second-year Willie Long (133 pounds—out with the flu), who placed fifth at Wheaton last year.

Even though the Maroons finished in the middle of the pack, Kocher was still pleased with the team’s performance.

“The eight [wrestlers] we did send were able to score 45.5 points, which is not bad at that caliber of tournament,”

Kocher said.

The two Maroons who placed in their classes were fourth-year James Layton (157 pounds) and second-year Mario Palmisano (197).

Layton came in unseeded and finished in fourth place with a 5–2 record over the course of the two-day meet. Kocher was very impressed with his veteran’s performance.

“As an unseeded wrestler, [James] was pretty outstanding, with one of his wins being a pin over a wrestler, John Carroll’s Terner Gott, who is currently ranked fourth in Division III,” Kocher said.

Palmisano, who entered the tournament seeded sixth and finished sixth, has been tearing up the mats this year for Chicago. He finished the day with a 4–3 record.

Kocher also touted Palmisano’s showing at Wheaton and believes the secondyear is a rising star.

“His losses against national caliber opponents were very close,” Kocher said.

“He showed [he] is a threat to beat anyone in the nation.”

Other Maroons also contributed to the team’s point total. Fourth-year Joeie Ruettiger (141) came in seeded sixth but

was knocked out by the fourth-seeded wrestler. Ruettiger finished with a 2–2 record.

First-years Sam Hopkins (165) and Steve Franke (174) wrestled well.

“Our freshmen in the tournament, Hopkins and Franke, both collected a couple wins, including one fall each, scoring important team points in the process,” Kocher said.

The Maroons hope to be healthier for their final regular season match against Augustana, which they will host this Friday at 7 p.m. The match will be their final tune-up before UAAs.