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UCMC Dr. remembered for compassion Panelists discuss one-

Sarah Markovitz (left) and Genevieve Liu (right) sing “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by John Denver at the memorial service of Dr. Donald Liu at Rockefeller Chapel on Thursday.

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Stephanie Xiao Associate News Editor Hundreds of family, friends, and colleagues gathered to celebrate the life of Dr. Donald Liu at a memorial service in Rockefeller Chapel yesterday.

Liu passed away at the age of 50 on August 5 while vacationing with his family near Lakeside, Michigan. He drowned after rescuing two children who were caught in a rip current in Lake Michigan.

Liu, M.D., Ph.D., was the

Surgeon-in-Chief at the University of Chicago Medicine’s Comer Children’s Hospital. Immediately following his death, Liu was described by numerous sources as heroic and praised for his zest both inside and outside of the operating room.

Uncommon interview: Jeff Zeleny Janey Lee News Staff Surprising his colleagues across the journalism world, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jeff Zeleny recently announced his decision to leave his post as national political correspondent for the New York Times to be the Senior Washington Correspondent at ABC News. He has spent years as

a newspaper journalist, most notably as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune before joining the Times in 2006. Before sharing his experience covering the 2012 campaign at the IOP panel “Looking Back & Looking Forward: Lessons of the 2012 Campaign,” Zeleny sat down with the Maroon to talk about political bias, the advantages of broadcast journalism, and the days before the

Landing both an IMDB profile and a Ph.D. in chemistry, Marius Stan, a scientist at the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, is in limited company.

When he’s not in a lab coat, Stan plays Bogdan Woly-

netz, a recurring character on the hit TV series Breaking Bad. The nuclear engineer stumbled into the world of acting by chance. While Stan was living in New Mexico with his family and working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, his children discovered that the pilot of Breaking Bad

state, two-state solutions

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Mara McCollom News Staff Experts in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict discussed the viability of the one-state and two-state solutions in a panel held at the International House last night.

The panelists included Mitchell Plitnick, formerly of Jewish Voice for Peace, Ali Abunimah, cofounder of Electronic Intifada, and Yousef Munayyer, from the Jerusalem Fund. It was moderated by Political Science Professor John Mearsheimer.

All three panelists concluded that the most important ingredient in any long-term solution, regardless of whether it be onestate or two-state, was the recognition of basic human rights and the establishment of equality for Palestinians.

“The problem is not the ‘Palestinian Problem,’ as it is sometimes called, and is not the ‘Refugee Problem’,” Abunimah said. “Palestinians are not the problem.

Refugees are not the problem.

The denial of their rights by Israel and by Zionism is the problem.”

Both Abunimah and Munayyer referred to Israel as an apartheid state because Israel’s pursuit of a fundamentally Jewish state with a majority of citizens being Jewish has allowed for the subjugation of Palestinians, they said.

“The state of Israel rules over about half as many Palestinians as it does Jews, and it treats them with different policies based on where they live and their backgrounds to ensure the maintenance of a Jewish majority,” Munayyer said. “This is a convoluted way of saying that this is an apartheid state.”

One of the key human rights violations that the panelists touched upon was the notion of a “demographic problem,” which refers to Israel’s concerns over the growing rate of non-Jewish Palestinians being born in Israel. Many feel that the growing Palestinian

Former GOP presidential candidate critical of party

Times had a food section. The full interview can be found at chicagomaroon.com.

Chicago Maroon: How did you first get started in political journalism?

Jeff Zeleny: My first job out of college was at the Des Moines Register, and it was in the run-up to the 2000 presiZELENY continued on page 2

Argonne National Laboratory scientist breaks into acting Thomas Choi News Staff

“He was all about the children, and his enthusiasm inspired colleagues and the whole staff at Comer Children’s Hospital. That he died the way he lived, while saving children, is somehow consistent and heart-wrenching at the same time,” University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) Surgeon-in-Chief and former colleague Jeffrey Matthews said in an August press release.

During the service, a diverse assortment of speakers shared stories about Liu at various points in his life—from the time he was accidentally electrically zapped during a cardiac resuscitation and simply apologized for being in the way rather than getting angry, to the hours he spent coaching baseball for local children in Washington Park, or the time he accidentally stole a stranger’s car in his rush to drive home to make his daily 5:30 p.m. dinner with his children.

Gail Rodman, the mother of one of Liu’s former patients, recounted the level of dedication and kindness Liu exhibited in

was being filmed in nearby Albuquerque in 2007.

They wanted to audition for background roles, so he and his wife accompanied them to the set.

Stan went with no intention to act, so he was surprised when the director asked him to read a line. “I said sure, though I wasn’t ACTING continued on page 4

Former Utah governor and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman speaks to Fox political analyst Juan Williams during the Institute of Politics’ final event of the quarter.

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Sophie Kennedy News Contributor Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman recounted his 2012 presidential candidacy and offered advice for the Republican Party in a conversation with Juan

Williams, Fox News political analyst and Institute of Politics visiting fellow (IOP), at an IOP event Thursday evening at the Logan Performance Hall.

“For those of you who have never run for president before—it’s daunting,” Huntsman said, ex-

plaining how ineffectual he finds the primary presidential debate format. “They always used to put me on the end. They organize it according to the polls— and I wasn’t doing too well.

So the moderator would ask a question about forGOP continued on page 2

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Zeleny discusses his future at ABC News ZELENY continued from front

dential campaign. I started there [in 1998].

Anyone who wants to run for president visits Iowa because of the Iowa caucuses, so I got involved early on. I was on the staff of reporters who were covering the presidential candidates, but I had interned at the [Chicago] Tribune here in town before that. I had an interest in politics when I was in college as well, but my interest and love for covering presidential campaigns started back in Iowa. I was covering the lowest candidates on the rung—people that were dropping out [of the races]. I was just the new kid, but I learned a lot and went from there.

CM: You’ve been working for a pretty largely left-leaning publication; how has that affected the way your sources treat you?

JZ: You can say that the Chicago Tribune is a right-leaning publication because the editorial page is right. But I would draw a distinction between publication and the editorial page. The Tribune’s editorial page is very conservative. As for the New York Times, the editorial page is definitely liberal, but I don’t work for the editorial page; I’m a reporter for the paper. It has the reputation of being that, but we cover both sides.

I spent a fair bit of time on television in 2012 and I did some Fox News Sunday appearances. Once a month I was on Fox News Sunday, and it was interesting because the public was like, “Wow, the New York Times guy is on Fox. He must be balanced.”

CM: You were recently hired by ABC News to be Senior Washington Correspondent—what are you looking forward to with the new position and what potential challenges do you see?

JZ: I see a lot of challenges, because for 20 years

I’ve been basically a print reporter with notebook in hand and obviously a Blackberry and iPhone, but this is a whole new world. The exciting part of it—and the reason I decided to make the switch—is to learn a different side of this business that I really love. I love storytelling and the craft of journalism, but this is the side that we’re dabbling in a lot on the print side. The biggest initiative at the New York Times this year is expanding its video on the Web. We’re doing so much video that I thought, you know what, I want to actually learn this, not from the newspaper side.

I want to actually immerse myself in a television network, and the opportunity was there. I think the challenge is obvious, going from print to TV, but the opportunity is interesting—of telling stories in a different way. Everything is shorter and compressed, but the pictures convey so much.

I’ve always liked photography and I liked video, so I think the challenge will be storytelling in a new way.

CM: One of the ways broadcast television is different from print journalism is that there’s a constant tension between airing human-interest stories that are good for ratings and hard political or foreign news. What do you think is the best way to report on important issues while still keeping a stable business model?

JZ: I think it’s day by day, and that’s not just unique to television. Newspapers are doing a lot with other feature sections. Once upon a time, the New York Times was too serious to have a food section. Well, that’s ridiculous. You can cover international news and still have a great food section.

With television, I think the challenge is just that there’s a limited amount of real estate. There’s just a short, half-hour show. Good Morning America, for example, on ABC has a two-hour show in the morning. But I just think it has to have a balance.

Letters from Liu’s patients, friends reveal his kindness LIU continued from front

his job. “He made it feel like [my son] was his only patient,” she said.

Liu’s wife Dana Suskind, a professor of otolaryngology at UCMC, closed the service, speaking of Liu’s “superhuman,” yet humble personality. According to Suskind, the hundreds of letters she received about her husband after his death revealed countless accomplishments Liu had never told her about.

“I think what was most shocking was that my man was not, in fact, well-dressed,” Suskind joked, referring to Liu’s trademark habit of wearing scrubs everywhere.

Suskind proceeded to read excerpts from several letters she received expressing gratitude towards Liu’s humanity. In one, the family of a former patient who died in the ICU recounted how Liu’s presence and personality brought them peace during a sad situation.

“Don never bragged, except about his children,” Suskind said. “I have learned so much about my hus-

band from these letters.”

At one point, Liu’s oldest daughter Genevieve, 13, performed John Denver’s “Leaving on a Jet Plane” with a friend. According to Genevieve, her father loved the song and sang it to her every time he had to leave for his evening hospital shifts.

Liu’s youngest daughter Amelie, 6, said that she still imagines her dad is working long hours in the hospital.

The Chicago-based B.S. Brass Band, which specializes in New Orleans Dixie funk, provided musical interludes. According to Suskind, Liu, who fell in love with the city of New Orleans after living there briefly and picking up a slight Cajun accent, “would have loved the band and the memories they evoke.”

Despite the eclectic nature of the memories of Liu shared during the service, Liu was consistently characterized as infectiously happy, a masterful surgeon, a great friend, and a loving father.

“It will be his humanity that will be the most important and lasting part of his life,” Suskind said.

Huntsman discusses future of third-parties GOP continued from front

eign policy and by the time they got to me we had declared war—about four times.”

When Williams probed Huntsman about why this year he skipped his first Republican National Convention since the 1980s, Huntsman said he had another commitment, a guest-spot on The Colbert Report.

Huntsman did not shy away from criticism of the GOP. “The clock is running. The Republican Party needs to present a viable optimistic vision for this country before 2016. We need to do the math,” he said. “You have

to look at the numbers. We can’t lose key demographics and expect to win.”

Huntsman’s emphasis on the immediate need for serious change in the GOP led one student to ask whether Huntsman felt it was time for a third party to step forward. Huntsman said that though “barriers block the creation of third parties, a third party movement is inevitable.”

But he underlined that he is not trying to create a third party. “I’m a Republican.

I am not an independent. I am a Republican—until there is not a party,” a possibility he does not consider improbable.

The Winter 2013 Grey City Magazine is coming

Tuesday, March 12th

PLUS Mugged at Gunpoint: A Victim’s Perspective » Page 24

Why molecular engineer Paul Nealey hates computers (And other notes from our new faculty) » Page 12

and Memories of a Surgeon and Savior: Donald Liu » Page 6

In this Issue: Fledgling Faculty • Sustainability • I Was Robbed • Dr. Liu • Social Thought

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Hyde Park, South side residents get red light on Red Line Joy Crane Associate News Editor Hyde Park residents will no longer be able to rely on the Red Line to get downtown when nine Red Line stations, from 95th/Dan Ryan to Cermak-Chinatown, are shut down for five months beginning May 19.

The Red Line will be rerouted south of Roosevelt to run between downtown and Ashland/63rd, sharing the Green Line’s track from Garfield as a part of the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)’s Red Line Recon-

struction Project.

The Project aims to rebuild and renew the tracks on the Dan Ryan Branch, which are more than 40 years old. “Our goal is to get a better, smoother, faster Red Line. This $425 million project represents the single largest investment that we’ve ever made in the CTA,” CTA spokesman Steve Mayberry said.

The CTA bus routes serving campus—the 170, 171, 172 and, 192—and the UChicago Evening Shuttles will continue to operate on normal schedule during the reconstruction.

“Community members traveling between

Hyde Park and downtown can use many options, including bus routes 2, 4, 6, and 28, and a Metra line,” University spokesman Jeremy Manier said.

During the track renewal, the CTA will also provide free 24-hour shuttles from the 69, 79, 87, and 95/Dan Ryan Red Line stations to the Garfield Green Line station, with free rail entry at Garfield for shuttle riders. Other services will include a 50 cent discount on many South Side bus rides, 24hour Green Line service between Roosevelt and Ashland/63, and expanded bus service

on existing routes.

Because of the project, daily passenger traffic at the Green Line’s Garfield Station is estimated to jump from 1,300 to 13,000, according to CTA officials. To accommodate this increase, 17 extra turnstiles and two new staircases will be installed at the station.

While many services will be provided to accommodate Red Line construction, the CTA does not plan on increasing the existing number of buses from Hyde Park to downtown, such as the number 6 Jackson Park Express, according to Mayberry.

SHE member accuses UCPD UChicago considers chief of lying during SG meeting offering open online courses In light of the growing popularity of third-party online class platforms such as Coursera and edX that post lectures by faculty from elite institutions, the University of Chicago has begun to discuss the possibility of offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). In September, Provost Thomas Rosenbaum appointed two faculty committees to look into the issues associated with offering online classes.

One committee is looking into courses for credit and the second is looking into courses not for credit.

Committee findings are expected to be released in April, according to Deputy Provost for Research Roy Weiss, who serves on both committees and is chair of the latter.

Coursera and edX host online classes on a wide range of subjects and are available for free. There are

Weekly Crime Report This is a series the Maroon publishes summarizing instances of campus crime. Each week details a few notable crimes, in addition to keeping a running count from September 24. The focus is on crimes within the UCPD patrol area, which runs from East 37th to 65th Streets and South Cottage Grove to Lake Shore Drive.

» March 2, 4904 South Blackstone Avenue, 1:17 p.m.—A missing juvenile was located and transported to a CPD district station.

Source: UCPD Incident Reports

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Robbery

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Stony Island

» » March 3, 4900 South Dorchester Avenue, 5:10 p.m.—A victim reported that three unknown males forcibly took property from him as he walked on the sidewalk. This case is undergoing CPD investigation.

Feb. 28Mar. 6

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» March 3, 4900 South Dorchester Avenue, 5:10 p.m.—A victim reported that three unknown males forcibly took property from him as he walked on the sidewalk. This case is undergoing CPD investigation.

Cottage Grove

An alcohol ban present since the early 1990s may be overturned in order to allow a branch of the upscale Japanese eatery, Yusho, to serve alcohol when it opens in the University-owned building formerly occupied by Third World Café. The restaurant is scheduled to move into the building in late 2013.

Former Charlie Trotter’s chef and Yusho owner Matthias Merges was not aware that the University-owned property was a designated “dry spot” when he agreed to the location at East 53rd Street and South Woodlawn Avenue last year. However, he is still set on the location.

Due to redrawn precincts, the building is no longer in the 38th precinct that was originally voted dry. However, it still falls under the original alcohol ban. Because of

this, the University circulated a petition around the first precinct last month, where the building is located under the current precinct maps, asking its residents to have the ban overturned.

According to Calmetta Coleman, spokesperson for the Office of Civic Engagement, the University has received signatures from over two-thirds of the residents in the precinct, the number required to overturn the designation. The process is currently in a 30day waiting period during which residents can challenge the reversal of the ban.

Though Merges said sake and wine are integral to the Yusho dining experience, he was optimistic about the University’s efforts.

“We love the space and the neighborhood,” Merges said. “We explored our options and contemplated not doing it. But we feel very confident that with the due diligence of the alderman and the public, we will be able to reverse the ban.”

» March 3, 5600 South Lake Park Avenue, 4:09 p.m.—UCPD officers arrested a suspect driving a motor vehicle that had been reported stolen in Gary, Indiana.

Since Jan. 1

S. Lake Shore

» March 1, 1420 East 53rd Street (Fifth Third Bank), 9:34 a.m.—UCPD officers, responding to a call of a bank robbery, took the suspect into custody.

The proceeds were recovered, and the suspect and proceeds were turned over to the CPD. For more on this incident, see the March 5 edition of the Maroon.

Lauren Gurley News Staff

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By Marina Fang

Here are this week’s notables:

The former location of the Third World Cafe will be filled by new Japanese restaurant Yusho by late 2013.

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currently 62 universities partnered with Coursera, including Stanford, Caltech, and, as of this month, Northwestern. EdX, which was started by Harvard and MIT, has 12 partners in total.

“Every other major university is involved in some online learning experience. Should the University of Chicago jump on the bandwagon?” Weiss said.

“We don’t necessarily have to copy what everyone else is doing, but we have to make sure that we are thoughtful about it and not left behind.”

The committees conducted interviews with representatives from multiple online platforms, conducted surveys on faculty sentiment, and examined aspects of online courses like offering certificates for completion of courses, setting requirements for the faculty involved, and maintaining standards for students who participate.

“Certain institutions look at education as dis-

Blackstone

Yusho sure alcohol ban will be lifted

Harini Jaganathan News Staff

University

At an SG Assembly meeting Thursday evening, fourth-year SHE member Olivia Woollam brought forth a resolution denouncing the UCPD’s actions in arresting four protesters during the January 27 protest, which was co-written by thirdyear SHE member Michael McCown and graduate student Toussaint Losier, for the Assembly’s consideration.

The resolution called for SG to ensure an “open and transparent accounting of what happened on January 27” and to facilitate a meeting between activist groups and several executives in the UCMC to discuss a long time goal of SHE. During her presentation, Woollam publicly accused UCPD Chief of Police Marlon Lynch of misrepresenting his knowledge about a UCPD detective acting

undercover in a February 23 protest.

“Marlon Lynch released a statement saying that he was not privileged to the decision to send the detective in disguise as a protestor. I was informed by people who I assumed would know, and who I trust to not lie to me about these things that he actually was in the room when that decision was made,” Woollam said.

Lynch released a statement on Monday stating, “The event plan created and implemented by UCPD did not approve of any officer actively participating in the protest. That will be one focus of an internal investigation undertaken by the UCPD.” The Assembly members did not pass the resolution, but instead voted to create an ad hoc committee to amend the resolution submitted, with a requirement that it be voted on by all relevant bodies by next Wednesday, March 13.

Ellis

Ankit Jain Associate News Editor

*Locations of reports approximate

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Stan: “I never thought that it was going to become this popular.” Question-and-answer session draws criticism from audience STATE continued from front

When Dr. Marius Stan is not guest starring on AMC’s TV show Breaking Bad, he spends his time doing research at the Argonne National Laboratory.

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convinced I should do this, but it was all the excitement at the time,” Stan said.

Thus, the character of Bogdan Wolynetz was born.

Wolynetz, fittingly nicknamed “Eyebrows” in reference to Stan’s prominent brows, was the owner of the local car wash where Walter White, the lead character played by Bryan Cranston, worked parttime in the show’s first season. He was marked by a thick Romanian accent and expletive language use during violent interactions with White.

What was intended to be a one-time appearance snowballed into a larger acting deal for the scientist. After appearing in the pilot, Stan’s character re-

turned in the fourth season with a more consistent role in the series. So far, he has appeared in five episodes of the show and was recently set up as one of the likely antagonists to kill Walter White.

“It’s quite interesting how it evolved. I didn’t think that this would go any further, but then I got called back maybe once a year for small scenes. I never thought it was going to become this popular,” Stan said.

Though there is a Facebook page devoted to his character, Stan has tried to keep a low profile. When he moved to Chicago in 2010, no one from his work life knew about his acting career, and for a while it remained a secret.

“I do not advertise the fact that I acted in this

series, but people found out somehow. Some of my colleagues discovered this more than a year after I joined the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago,” he said.

Strangers, too, sometimes identify Stan in his day-to-day life. “Occasionally, a few times a month, I’ll be recognized on the street, in a coffee shop, or in all kinds of weird places by people who never remember my name,” said Stan, who laughed while recounting some of his more awkward encounters.

“Some people actually recognize me but don’t say anything. I just sense that they figured out who I am, but they are too shy to say anything and they just take pictures from a distance.”

Nonetheless, Stan pre-

fers to keep his acting as a private hobby. “I don’t like to label myself and I don’t tend to label people by profession. I do many things,” he said. “I’m a scientist, occasionally an actor, I’m also a father and a soccer player. It’s hard to pick which one is better. I like them in different ways, and I’m happy with the way things are.”

In the future, he plans to continue his career as a scientist first and foremost while pursuing only occasional acting roles.

“I think that I’d like to, for the time being, keep this rather light,” Stan said.

“Of course, I cannot predict what’ll happen in the future, but I would enjoy doing more of this in the years to come, and Chicago’s a great place for doing that.”

Organizing United for Labor, and University of Chicago Coalition for Immigrant Rights are expected to be present. Kim said he expects about 50 people to show up.

Sahli mostly managed projects on and around campus.

One such project was the “Woodlawn Avenue Plan,” which specified the University’s intentions for each of its properties on the 5700 block of South Woodlawn.

numbers threaten the Zionist notion of a Jewish state with a Jewish identity.

“This sort of demographic obsession that translates into state policies that involve human rights abuses is the same sort of scary outcome of nationalism that the last century taught us is so terrifying,” Munayyer said.

Munayyer, who is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, remarked that it is unlikely that he would have met his wife, who lived 45 minutes away in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, if they hadn’t both left for America, because of the active efforts to prevent Palestinian-Israeli citizens from marrying Palestinians from the West Bank. The reason behind this policy, as identified by Munayyer, is to prevent “demographic spillover.”

When the panelists took questions from the audience, Rebecca Abrams, a member of the Chicago Friends of Israel, called into question comments made by Abunimah in regards to his re-

jection of Israel as an exclusively Jewish state.

“I’m vehemently opposed to violating the rights of Palestinians so that Jews can maintain an unjust monopoly on power. Just as I’m absolutely against whites in South Africa maintaining an unjust monopoly on power, I’m absolutely against mass incarceration in the United States, I’m absolutely against all systems that maintain the unjust power of one ethno-religious or racial group over another,” Abunimah responded as several in the crowd applauded.

A previous lecture on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict held early last week was marked by protests from the audience. In addition to picketing, some of the protesters faced their chairs away from the speaker, Israeli-American Law Professor Amos Guiora from the University of Utah, in the middle of the talk, and one student continuously interrupted him until being escorted out of the room.

In contrast, this lecture provoked dissent from the audience but no formal protest.

Committees ponder if online classes fit institutional values ONLINE continued from page 3

semination of knowledge,” Weiss said. “We look at education as more than that. It’s actually educating people how to think, how to look critically at a specific subject, and how to promulgate scholarship in its highest form. ‘Could online learning meet those objectives of The University of Chicago?’ was really the question that we wanted to be sure we answered.”

The growing popularity of MOOCs could have far-reaching effects for the future of colleges and universities. Leaders of various national humanities organizations like the American

Historical Association and the Modern Language Association have expressed concerns that MOOCs could potentially lead to a collapse of the job market for young Ph.D. students at small liberal arts colleges, Dean of the College John Boyer said.

Boyer said that he understood the worry but articulated the need to consider the value of MOOCs to people who cannot afford a university education.

The committees were originally scheduled to present their report to the Council of the University Senate last week, but the presentations have been postponed until April.

NEWS IN BRIEF SFCC to demand Zimmer meeting Stop Funding Climate Change (SFCC) plans to deliver a petition to administrators urging the University to divest from fossil fuel companies this afternoon.

The petition calls for them to immediately cease engaging in new investments in fossil fuel companies and to completely divest from fossil fuel companies within five years. They will also demand that the administration decide on a date, within two weeks, on a time for a meeting between President Zimmer, the Board of Trustees, and SFCC that is within five weeks from today.

The event will begin at 3 p.m. on the main quad. According to third year SFCC

coordinator Paul Kim, the group has not contacted the dean-on-call, any member of UCPD, or any member of the administration to prepare for the event. At the recommendation of their advisor, Assistant Director of the Student Activities Center Arthur Lundberg, the group reserved the main quad for the afternoon.

The petition had between 500 and 600 signatures as of yesterday afternoon, according to Kim. At the end of last quarter, SFCC delivered a letter addressed to President Zimmer urging him to divest. Kim said an SFCC member gave it to an administrator, but the group never heard back.

Representatives from Southside Solidarity Network, UChicago Climate Action Network, Students

—Celia Bever

Sayonara, Sahli!

After two years at the University, Ellen Sahli, Assistant Vice President for Civic Engagement, is leaving her post to return to Chicago city government. In an e-mail, Sahli announced that she will become the Chief Housing Officer at the Chicago Housing Authority, having previously served as Deputy Housing Commissioner for the City of Chicago’s Department of Community Development.

During her time here,

In the announcement, Sahli stated that William W. Towns, assistant Vice President of Neighborhood Initiatives, will navigate the transition. “[Mr. Towns] will continue the many community engagement initiatives that

we have started in recent times including posting on our ‘Behind the News’ webpage and community discussions on proposed projects,” she said.

—Joy Crane

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Opening a new forum The changed format of “Coffee and Donuts” is a welcome attempt to foster student engagement 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 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 BEN ZIGTERMAN Head Copy Editor SYDNEY COMBS Photo Editor TIFFANY TAN Photo Editor

This past Tuesday, the open forum event previously known as “Coffee and Donuts with President Zimmer” was introduced in its new, improved form. The event, entitled “A Leadership Conversation with President Zimmer,” was focused on the single topic of University globalization, and consisted of a short presentation by the President followed by a lengthy Q&A. This template, which will be used in future talks on different topics, is a commendable first step in resolving the open forum woes that plague campus, and in establishing a format conducive to both administrator preparation and student engagement.

Tuesday’s forum drew over 70 students. One reason could be the event’s focus on a single topic—a contrast to the usual, more general “Coffee and Donuts” format. This specificity allowed students to ask incisive questions about the University’s plans for international

programs, centers, and expansion.

Administrators, likewise, came prepared with detailed knowledge about the topic at hand and cognizance of what they would, and should, be held accountable for.

Another reason for the event’s success was the inclusion of relevant administrators other than President Zimmer. He has the final word in all large-scale University matters, but it’s simply not the case that the President will have the most relevant or nuanced responses to student queries.

Though we by no means excuse the President from his obligation to remain aware of and accountable for campus issues, his job is one of management, rather than expertise. The specific people making the relevant decisions should be present at open forums. It was sensible, then, that Dali Yang, faculty director of the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, was at Tuesday’s forum to provide thorough answers to concerns about

the University’s implementation student unionization, and the Kalven Report. These are topics of its global strategy.

SG’s approach to fixing the rarely discussed by administrators open forum has been threefold: that draw a great deal of interest inviting administrators to whom among students; to not address students don’t normally have ac- them would be to render useless cess, inviting administrators who even the new, improved version of are the most knowledgeable about the open forum.

In 2010, when about 500 peothe forum topic, and holding more forums (preferably 2–3 a quarter). ple signed a petition criticizing Despite this plan, complaints have the then-available SafeRide, SG been levied at the new format. Fo- organized an open forum in recusing discussion on a single topic sponse. Four students attended. has raised the ire of those who We commend SG, the Office of claim it’s merely another admin- Campus and Student Life, and istrative maneuver to avoid dis- administrators for collaborating cussing the more contentious is- in order to ensure that such pitiful sues on campus. While reasonable attendance isn’t repeated. There concerns, such complaints don’t must be a fine balance between take into account both the history student and administrative obliof failure such wide-ranging open gation in these open forums, and forums have had and the neces- the rebranded, rethought format sarily slow process of improving is a good step toward finding that an event series. Furthermore, SG middle ground. representatives have noted that possible future events will tackle The Editorial Board consists of the controversial issues like Univer- Editors-in-Chief and the Viewsity financial decisions, graduate points Editors.

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By Noelle Turtur Viewpoints Columnist

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UChicago students declare with pride that our exam week is the worst possible. Everyone not at UChicago has it easier, right?

Wrong.

UChicago does you the favor of testing you on specified material, scheduling exams at an appointed location and time, and often grading objectively, even

with a curve to make sure not everyone fails.

Exams here at the University of Bologna are in fact a form of psychological warfare. Locations and times change unexpectedly, sometimes minutes before the exam begins. Depending on who administers the exam and how they are feeling that day, grading varies widely; there is no “standard” exam for everyone, and there are no rubrics. You have to nervously wait hours for your turn. And after all that, you have to have the nerve to sit face-to-face with your professor or some unknown assistant and calmly give exhaustive responses to their random questions, being careful to use the formal (third person) instead of the informal tu, which may offend them. By the way,

professors can and do fail people— sometimes almost everyone fails.

How well you’ve studied and what you know are only small fractions of the final outcome.

My first exam was right after Christmas vacation and more than two months after the class ended. I had read all of the books, taken notes, made study guides, reviewed, and rewrote my class notes. I even knew where my exam was, which was an accomplishment considering that all I knew two days beforehand was a phone number. I had my lucky socks on.

I was feeling pretty good.

The exam room was about the size of a Cobb classroom, except there must have been about 100 people in it. I became rather intimately acquainted with my

neighbors. As you can imagine, the room was noisy and stunk.

Everyone watched as students took their exams—they heard the questions, gave running commentaries, watched their peers falter and fail or manage and pass.

And so the battle between my nerves and this environment began.

I arrived at 8:45 a.m. but waited in that room, or out in the cold, until 2:30 p.m. to take my exam.

I tried studying, but couldn’t.

I tried to remain calm, listen to my music, and pretend I was somewhere else, but I couldn’t. As the day wore on, my nerves wore thin, until I was just barely holding it together. I couldn’t concentrate long enough to read my notes. I couldn’t seem to speak or think FINALS continued on page 7

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American History X-perience Though done to death in grade school, US history deserves a more prominent place in college curricula

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By Jane Huang Viewpoints Columnist United States history is a rather underappreciated subject. This might seem like an odd thing to say, given that students in this country typically spend a large amount of time studying it throughout elementary, middle, and high school. However, being re-

quired to study U.S. history isn’t the same as appreciating it, any more than filing your taxes every year is the same as considering it a hobby. Firstly, there’s always going to be a contingent of people who think history of any kind is a useless subject of study. You know, the people who make snide remarks about how they’re going to be pulling down a six-figure salary at an investment bank right after graduation while you subsist primarily on ramen because you didn’t study something “real” in college. Secondly, there are the people who like all history but that of the United States. This particular sentiment prevailed at the high school I attended, and I admit that I used to share it too. We supposedly

had an “international model for global teaching and learning,” and—let’s face it—saying that you want to study United States history doesn’t make you sound very cosmopolitan when other people talk of their interest in Mayan civilization or the ancient Mediterranean. Chicago or Cairo?

The Civil War or the Warring States period? Two hundred years of history, or two thousand? The latter things seem a little more exotic and mysterious, while the former seem like things you learn about in first grade.

My pipe dream is for colleges to place a greater emphasis on United States history in their general education requirements. I do realize that there are several very good arguments

against doing so. General education requirements tend to be fairly onerous as they are, and I have yet to meet other students who would be thrilled by the prospect of more required classes. Furthermore, it might seem a little chauvinistic to require nonAmerican students to become familiar with U.S. history when the rest of us are taught relatively little about the history of their countries unless we specialize in those regions.

But college-level work in U.S. history is useful because our study of it when we’re younger is rather shallow, and often taught in a manner that might turn away even enthusiastic learners of history. For example, I reHISTORY continued on page 7

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Engage thy neighbor The University must make a sustained and meaningful attempt to extend a hand to members of the South Side community

By Maya Fraser Viewpoints Columnist We live in a neighborhood mired in tension. The University often finds itself at odds with the Hyde Park community and the rest of the South Side.

Historically, there is no love lost between the University and the surrounding areas: University-led urban renewal programs that forced many black residents out of Hyde Park are still a great source of anger. Though the University now claims that it wants to have a positive relationship with the community, it has yet to overcome well-justified suspicions and resentments that are decades old.

The trauma center is emblematic of the lack of true dialogue between the University and the community. Activists with Fearless Leading by the Youth (FLY) and Students for Health Equality (SHE) have lobbied the University to reopen its trauma center. The University has not done so.

This in and of itself is not necessarily the problem; the University may not be able to able to meet all of the community’s needs and will ultimately choose to distribute its resources as it desires. However, the University approaches community members in bad faith when it fails to recognize the legitimacy of their concerns and consider their points of view.

Such an attitude will only create negative feelings and bad press for the University.

Here are several steps that could be taken to improve dialogue with the community: 1. More administrator engagement and ownership: We need administrators to take responsibility for the University’s actions and be more involved in discourse on the ground, not just when something goes wrong. Blurbs from Zimmer or Rosenbaum about how the University is invested in freedom of expression give no assurance that the purview of discussion will expand beyond the University community. The fact that most of the charges pressed against those arrested at the hospital were not dropped is a greater indicator of the University’s position in this matter than any formulaic and vague profession of values.

When President Zimmer was asked to meet with social justice groups during “A Leadership Conversation with President Zimmer,” he replied that he was not the right person to talk to about those issues. Though Zimmer is not the only one

Test-time in Bologna triggers fears, requests for cigs FINALS continued from page 6 anymore in Italian. I couldn’t remember any of the things I had been so sure of only a few hours earlier.

Given, my difficulties could also be due to the fact that the course lacked any unifying theme. Topics included the Sicilian Mafia, the Red Brigade, i partigiani, the world history of free masonry, child abandonment, incest, abortion, Judaism, Stalinism, Native Americans, the holocaust for gypsies, and other themes. Lots of information, few connections, all in Italian, and I was stuck in that room. As you can imagine, I was freaking out.

A girl who had just failed the exam for the fourth time sat down next to me. She was rocking back and forth, muttering to herself, staring at a notebook that looked like it belonged to a serial killer. She kept asking me for a cigarette.

And then it was my turn. I was lucky because I took the exam with the professor, instead of some assistant with a grudge against humanity. My professor tried to make it easy for me, but the questions were so vague that I had no idea how to answer. Let’s talk about Stalinism: Go! You’re supposed to

start speaking right away, without a pause to organize your thoughts, and just keep going until someone tells you to stop.

During one question, he answered his cell phone. During another, he got up and left. I tried to stay calm and organize my thoughts—which at this point just amounted to sheer terror. I started to bite my lip, and bit it so hard that it visibly bled. So there I was, unable to think or speak Italian, faceto-face with a professor, trying to keep him from being repulsed by the blood dripping from my lip. I even forgot that other people were watching this horror unfold.

I knew the material; I am just not sure whether it came out comprehensibly. He was sympathetic and gave me an A–. I was lucky. Meanwhile, a friend took her exam with an assistant who asked her to list Jewish holidays, for a history exam. Dai! I will return to Chicago eternally grateful for American organization and professors trying to be fair and objective. We should be grateful for all the little things on our side— because it could be worse.

Noelle Turtur is a third-year in the College majoring in history.

making decisions at the University, it is his job as the president to represent it. If Zimmer cannot be bothered to concern himself with a problem that anyone would concede extends beyond our campus, it sends the message that the University cannot be bothered either. If it is this difficult for student groups to make their voices heard about issues that involve the community, then community members themselves stand no chance.

2. Joint discussions run by the University and the community: We have seen many events concerning the trauma center run either by activist groups or the University. A jointly run forum would have a positive impact for two reasons. First of all, attendees would be able to hear a diversity of viewpoints from student and non-student activists and the administration. Secondly, the cooperation necessary to host such an event would likely contribute to mutual understanding. Even if officials and community members leave with the same opinions they came in with, seeing that the people on the other side are individuals who have reasons behind their beliefs may ease hostilities.

3. Consideration of community suggestions: Most of the time, the University does not seem to take its neighbors’ feelings into account. Though the University is not willing to open a trauma center and doesn’t seem likely to change its mind any time soon,

perhaps there are other ways for the Medical Center to contribute to better urgent care or a reduction of violence on the South Side. We contribute a lot of volunteer and outreach manpower, so why wouldn’t we listen to what the community itself wants so as to ensure our efforts have maximal impact?

These three strategies could help the University have a more honest dialogue with the community and figure out solutions that would fit both the University’s capabilities and the community’s needs.

Why is it important that the University try to maintain a good relationship with the community? As a wealthy, powerful institution in a disadvantaged area, the University has an ethical obligation to help residents, not ignore them or treat their needs like a burden. This is even more salient for the University of Chicago in particular because of its history of harming those around it to further its own cause. University members are also constantly in contact with the community and its residents in a variety of settings—and how can you ignore your neighbors? Giving our community the cold shoulder makes the University look bad. That, if nothing else, should encourage this administration to be more open to dialogue.

Maya Fraser is a third-year in the College majoring in sociology.

To form a more perfect union, hit the history books HISTORY continued from page 6 member being required to memorize the preamble to the Constitution. Currently, I can recite it as far as “We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union….” I suppose that, in the process, I gained an appreciation of how well written it was, but otherwise the assignment seemed pointless.

Moreover, I think we tend not to think too much about how the place and time in which we grew up affects how we learned about United States history. When I went to school in Chicago, names, places, and events relating to industrialization, immigration, and labor movements were emphasized—for example, Hull House, Louis Sullivan, the stockyards, and the Haymarket riots. Since these terms show up in standard American history textbooks (such as the one I used, American Pageant), I didn’t realize until college that they might seem obscure to people not from this area. Likewise, I’m sure that I don’t know as much as people who grew up in other regions about United States history pertaining to, say, agriculture. Though our educations up to this point have probably covered the same basic facts and interpretations of American history, the aspects of it that loom large in our minds and most heavily influence how we

see our country will probably vary depending on where we went to school. Consequently, discussions about American history and historiography are especially well suited for a college setting that draws people from different regions and types of schools.

I was glad to see last week that recent American history was being discussed extensively in the media through coverage of the legal challenge to the 1965 Voting Rights Act. It might be a little tempting to treat history as a kind of temporal Las Vegas, where what happened in the past stays in the past. There are things that we take for granted because they seem so mundane, such as coed universities, basic workplace protections, or unadulterated food. However, to reclaim a much maligned phrase from last year, you didn’t build this. Millions of people did over the course of several hundred years.

Though most of us are long past our last U.S. history class, we should still take time to think about historical context when we’re backing a cause or taking a stand against something. I’ve always believed that to make history, you should know history.

Jane Huang is a third-year in the College.

Letter: Senior Class Gift boycott symbolically important In response to “Invest in your peers” (March 1) and “Letter: Senior Class Gift a gift for students” (March 5) There has been a flurry of discussion on campus and in the pages of the Maroon regarding the boycott of the Senior Class Gift (SCG) spearheaded by Students for a Socially Responsible Investment Committee (SRIC) and supported by numerous students. In light of these conversations, I am writing to clarify what I see as the goals and motivations of the boycott.

First, it is important to note that Lurie and LoBraico (in an op-ed), Dean Daugherty (in a letter), and I agree on the key issue at stake in this debate: The administration and Board of Trustees’ investment policies are opaque and unaccountable. As Lurie and LoBraico write, “[T]he community as a whole would greatly benefit from an increase in transparency with regard to [investment] decisions.”

What we disagree on is strategy, not aims.

I see the boycott as an attempt to foster

awareness about what student and alumni donations symbolize and contribute to.

While it’s possible for Daugherty to provide details about how the College Fund supports student life, there is no mechanism in place for what I consider the University’s most important stakeholders—students, faculty, alumni—to review investments made on our behalf through the endowment. This opaqueness puts us out of step with many peer institutions, including Harvard and Brown, which have advisory committees that evaluate investments and make public recommendations directly to those responsible for the endowment. More importantly, this lack of transparency directly contradicts the spirit of free inquiry that supposedly guides our University.

While it may be true that the SCG goes directly to the College Fund, focusing on

the money raised fails to acknowledge that this is not the campaign’s primary goal. The metric used to evaluate its success is the percentage of the senior class that participates, not the amount of money raised. The campaign is an expensive undertaking, and while matching donations contribute, the SCG Web site notes, “It is the act of giving that is important. Gifts of any size make a big difference.” The main goal, then, is to foster a culture of giving among soon-to-be alumni that will hopefully continue far into the future, aiding University fundraising efforts like the multi-billion dollar drive on which the Maroon reported on Tuesday, of which $250 million is intended for the College. Compare that to the recordsetting $60,000 raised by SCG last year. As one of these soon-to-be-alumni, I hope I’ll be able to support a university whose poli-

cies and practices I am just as proud of as my four years here.

Boycotting the SCG is one of the only ways we can indicate our collective disapproval of current investment policies. Previous demands by students for increased transparency about the University’s financial holdings and investments, including petitions and meetings with individual administrators, have resulted in no concrete commitments or serious discussion.

The SCG places graduating students in a uniquely powerful position to question the University’s policies through symbolic action. As fourth-years who love our university, we have a moral obligation to encourage it to be better. I encourage you to boycott the Senior Class Gift.

Gregor Siegmund, Class of 2013

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Trivial Pursuits MARCH 8, 2013

USO concert to feature heavyweights of German romanticism John Lisovsky Arts Staff Tomorrow, the University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra will mount the single performance of its concert featuring Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Johannes Brahms—three of the biggest names of late 19thcentury music. Barbara Schubert, the Director of Performance Programs in the Department of Music, leads the 100-plus-piece orchestra and, in Brahms’s First Piano Concerto, accompanies Nathan Harris, A.B. ’14.

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The Brahms concerto, Schubert says, is “a masterpiece by any standard, but it was also written very early in his life, in his 20s, originally designed as a symphony, but he later changed the melodic material to forge a piano concerto.”

Because Harris won a concerto competition last year, Schubert designed the rest of the AustroGerman program around great works likewise composed early in composers’ lives.

Don Juan, Richard Strauss’s

1888 tone poem, runs 16 minutes and is a notoriously difficult work—chosen partly because this year, the orchestra has an exceptionally good string section that clearly thrives on the challenge Strauss presents. Replete with all the swells of feeling that you expect from Romantic (particularly German Romantic) music, it has frequent changes in dynamics and mood, but Schubert is sensitive to the variegated architecture of the exciting piece, having conducted it a number of times before. “You always,” Schubert says, “find yourself discovering something new” in this rich Strauss score. Blumine is the title of the rejected second movement of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony, itself nicknamed Titan. A serene, eight-minute andante, the work is not nearly as formidable as the Strauss, though at least as lush. It functions as a gorgeous respite between the at times frenetic Strauss and the great Brahms work that comes following the intermission.

Johannes Brahms wrote two concerti for the piano—the first in 1858, the second in 1878–81.

They are together the two longest and among the most demanding such works, both frequently taking more than 50 minutes to play.

A mighty work of music written in a stern D minor (like Beethoven’s own Ninth Symphony), it has at-

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The University of Chicago Symphony Orchestra rehearses on Wendesday for their end-of-quarter show.

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tracted the no less mighty talents of Vladimir Horowitz (1935), Wilhelm Backhaus (1932), Rudolf Serkin (1959), Emil Gilels (1972), and—quite controversially and possibly unwisely— Glenn Gould, among dozens of others. Harris, who studies under Svetlana Belsky, the music department’s coordinator of Piano Studies and herself a student of Leon Fleisher, has taken on an extraordinary challenge in electing to perform this colossus among concerti so early in his

career, but Schubert commends the depth and maturity of his interpretation. Schubert describes the function of a conductor with a soloist as being a middleman, telling the orchestra what to do moments before they do it, but also reacting to the soloist, in practice thus having to anticipate the needs of the soloist. However, having a soloist who is “technically solid and extremely musical, as Nathan is, makes the process of following much easier.”

The Symphony has been re-

hearsing only since February 2, and Schubert says the greatest joy of conducting UChicago students—non-conservatory students—is that they perform because they love it, that they put heart and soul into the effort for the pleasure of making music without any professional ambition. Furthermore, she finds it a distinct pleasure to work with students who have not necessarily played works like Don Juan before, and who therefore do not churn out “just another Don Juan.”

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For you are crust, and to crust you shall return Iliya Gutin Senior Arts Staff Oh thin-crust pizza, how do I describe thee? Let me count the ways. A war of words, a skirmish of similes, and a massacre of metaphors have been waged in countless attempts at capturing the nature of a thin-crust pie. Perhaps you side with the storied legacy of “cracker crisp” or “wafer thin,” the traditional fallback of the beleaguered food writer. Then again, the more noble and refined “gossamer” and “ethereal” might strike your fancy—watch out, we got a badass over here.

And yet for some of the more scientifically-minded out there, microns and calipers best make their point, while a rare few would see physics textbooks put to better use as firewood, declaring a slice of pizza as “only having one side.”

But I feel that my contribution to the playing field, in characterizing the pizza of newly opened Reno, emerges as the true victor: For Reno produces a crust so thin that it simply ceases to exist.

Broadly speaking, Chicago usually forgoes any of these more “delicate” descriptions in favor of the nuclear option that is the deep-dish pie. And while debating the merits of one pizza style over the other (or whether deep-dish can even be called pizza proper) is a favorite subject among foodies prone to bouts of intellectual masturbation, this is neither the time nor place to indulge in this long and costly debate. Let’s just say Reno offers a somewhat “exotic” alternative to the Chicago pizza scene, primarily by way of its wood oven.

RENO 2607 North Milwaukee Avenue Average pizza: $12

The only other wood-burning operation that comes to mind is the small-plate Mecca that is Avec, which produces some quality quasi-pizzas/flatbreads of its own.

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You can’t beat a piece of “Beetza” pizza (shaved beets, hazelnuts, thyme, whipped tofu) at Reno.

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Picasso finally shows his faces in the Windy City

Pablo Picasso in Mougins, France, 1967, showing one of the Art Institute of Chicago studies for the Richard J. Daley Center sculpture.

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John Gamino Arts Staff There’s just one problem with holding an exhibition called Picasso and Chicago: The two never met. In fact, Picasso never even made it to America. But the Art Institute of Chicago confronts this little snag head on. When you enter the exhib-

it, the first thing you see is a written introduction on the wall—and the first thing it tells you is that Picasso never set foot in the Second City.

Of course, the second thing it tells you is that their relationship nevertheless “had a profound impact on both,” and this is where Picasso and Chicago stakes its claim.

The exhibit celebrates the centen-

nial of the 1913 Armory Show, a showcase of modern European art brought to America that was radical on this side of the pond. The AIC was the only museum to host the show, which, among nearly 650 works, featured seven paintings and drawings by Picasso.

Years later, Chicago found itself begging Picasso to commission a piece for the city. The architects of the Daley Center offered him $100,000 for a public sculpture (he turned them down) and sent him classic Chicago memorabilia as “inspiration,” including a White Sox cap and a Bears jersey, once he’d agreed to work for free. They were a little late to the party, perhaps—the year of commissioning was 1963.

But the way it happened still says more about Chicago than the artist himself: As the planning sketches show, Picasso had conceived of the work at least a year before Chicago even crossed his mind.

Profound is certainly one way of putting the sculpture’s impact on the city. Its unofficial moniker may be “Head of a Woman,” but its sinewy, industrial frame and jutting curvature have drawn comparisons to a sphinx, a baboon, and Picasso’s dog. It can seem foolish one minute and imposing the next.

Here, Picasso and Chicago does manage to pluck up a bona fide Chicagoan. Recordings of Studs Terkel provide the backdrop to a maquette of the Daley sculpture, with the incisive Terkel probing audiences at the 1967 unveiling with a simple yet irresolvable question: “What do you think?” If you ever run out of ways of saying “I don’t know,” you need only listen to Terkel’s interviews for a few fresh ideas. “I don’t think my opinion is so important,” one

distressed woman admits. “I’m disappointed,” another concludes, her voice tinged with weary exasperation. The real relationship between Chicago and Picasso, it would seem, is one of a struggle to understand.

PICASSO AND CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago Through May 12

But if Picasso was radical in 1913 and controversial in 1963, in 2013 he is standard elite museum fare. And besides the Daley sculpture, which begins and ends the exhibit, the rest of Picasso and Chicago serves as a general examination of Picasso’s life work. Nearly everything has been selected from holdings around the city, as well as the AIC’s own collections, but that’s not on our minds as we traipse along.

But neither is a sense of disappointment. Picasso’s styles literally progress as the exhibit unfolds. We get a raw sense of the artist coming to be; we see Picasso working out what didn’t make sense to him.

After hearing from Terkel, a step into the next room immediately brings us back over 60 years in time.

From the Picasso who was so renowned he was given sports attire he probably didn’t want, we are confronted with the Picasso who had to burn his own drawings to survive.

We come face-to-face with “The Old Guitarist” (1903–4), that iconic depiction of an artist trapped in a milieu of dark blues, entranced in his music, bending over just to fit in his own lonely frame. Like Picasso, he’s never really there; he is real to

us only through his art.

And there’s plenty of it to explore. We move chronologically, from the Blue Period to the Rose, from cubism to the art of the Spanish Civil War, and we see experiments in printmaking, sculpture, and classical themes along the way. At times it can get a bit overwhelming; you’ll wander into one room and wonder how you got there, your mind still stuck on a style from two rooms back.

But there are always moments of delight. Turn a corner and you’ll come across a Picasso you never even knew. There’s a tension between exuberance and its consequences in “Bacchic Scene with Minotaur,” one of the paper etchings of the “Vollard Suite” (1939); even while Bacchus basks with two women of classical bulge and classic Picasso disproportions, he shares a toast with the foreboding figure of the Minotaur. And there’s a palpable, uneasy sense of urgency to “Poems and Lithographs” (1949), Picasso’s own stream-of-consciousness poetry written (and later illustrated) while he lived in German-occupied Paris. Its letters are blotted, uneven, and rushed; they run into each other, unsure of themselves.

Picasso and Chicago is not really about Picasso and Chicago. But perhaps we simply need the semblance of a topic as an excuse to look at Picasso in an unadulterated light. And what that light reveals is a well nuanced portrait of the artist. Picasso, like his works themselves, resists interpretation. In this respect at least, he does bear one similarity to Chicago. As one man described the Daley sculpture to Terkel, “I think it’s a politician. It’s got so many faces, don’t you?”

Consider the veggies: Reno isn’t just about pizza, bagels, and toppings—they also have roasted broccoli RENO continued from page 8 Though evaluating Reno and Avec side-byside is like comparing apples to Rolex-wearing, V-necked, investment-banker oranges.

Suffice it to say that Reno puts the oven to good use in all sectors of the menu, including another carb rarely encountered in the Chicago jungle—the elusive bagelis ediblis.

Though I did not have the opportunity to sample this exclusively morning and afternoon delight, I have it on good authority that they are some of the best bagels in the city. I’m also glad to see Reno offering some unorthodox (and un-kosher) spins on bagel sandwiches, including the Hammer (your standard egg, sausage, and cheese enhanced with roasted poblanos) and Hook, which, with its togarashi lox and artichoke cream cheese, is a strong contender for taking first place among the breakfasts of champions.

However, like all good relationships, the foundation of any self-respecting pizzeria is built firmly on crust. Fortunately, Reno yet again delivers on that front. The wood oven yields a somewhat “bready” crust that may err slightly on the side of artisanal French boulangerie, but who among us carboholics is really complaining? Rest easy knowing these are the kind of pizza bones you’d rather bury your face in than bury in the backyard.

Though I wish I could say the same about the pizza as a whole.

In terms of the total product, Reno’s pizzas are a hybrid of the classic, evenly distributed cheese pies of New York and the high-heat capacities of a nicely charred Pizza Napoletana: most assuredly not the Midwestern varietal in any sense (no crustless center pieces for you, buddy). And as you make your way towards the center of the pie, the crust ap-

proaches almost infinitesimal thinness, to the point where your toppings are just suspended in mid-air. There is some kind of unearthly, dark voodoo magic at work keeping this pie structurally sound. But this also means that the toppings have to excel in practice as much as they intrigue on paper, as there is simply no crust to obscure their flaws. For instance, in the case of the Reno pie, a standard take on the margherita, the result is an all-around balanced pizza. The mozzarella is actually spread about, rather than confined to lonely cheese islands, and there’s none of that “hand-torn” basil nonsense that makes you feel like a barnyard animal. Spectacular? Absolutely not—but it’s a decent crowd-pleaser. The same is true of the Paulina, which promises such rarefied delicacies as jalapeno pesto and Paulina pepperoni, yet manages to be a pretty uninspired pie for a pizza purporting to uphold the pedigree of a Chicago meat legend. The incredibly mild jalapeno pesto was distributed with about the same level of planning and consideration as a sneeze, while the Paulina moniker didn’t elevate this pepperoni above a standard one.

So if the “standard” options at Reno are as standard as they come, do its more creative offerings befall the same mediocre fate?

Luckily, this is not the case; in fact, the oven at Reno seems to be fueled by unconventionality. The Hog pizza—boasting carnitas, salsa verde, roasted poblanos, and cotija cheese—comes perilously close to making a mockery of Mexican flavors, yet the kitchen shows some restraint in rationing out these components, really tying the pie together.

Largely satisfied, I did find myself wishing for much more of the pork belly carnitas, especially in light of the cojita and mozza-

rella cheeses—the poor little piggy was just barely making its oink heard.

However, the true pie de résistance was none other than the Kenny Bell. A requisite Google search for the name yields a dude with a giant fro; while this inside joke may have been lost on me, the pizza had no trouble finding its way on the short trip from the table to my mouth. Topped with sweet potato, brussels sprouts, cippolinis, and guanciale (that is, face bacon), the pizza excels for the simple reason that it combines all the ingredients best suited for oven-roasting…and then embeds them in a layer of cheese.

I would be painfully remiss to overlook the non-pizza options coming out of the Reno oven, just as Reno would be remiss to restrict itself to exclusively filling it up with dough. Consider the salads and sides, even desserts: The menu may not give them even billing with the pizza, but I’d give some of these beauties my undivided attention. Roasted broccoli ain’t so simple when graced with a date and bacon vinaigrette, and old-school parmesan crisps covered the full flavor spectrum of salty, sweet, and savory. It may not be a new idea, but the taste never gets old. Then again, the normally insipid spinach salad is innovatively festooned with a shower of what looks like hay…but tastes like “Hey, hey, hey!” Sorry about that.

But seriously, these fried leeks remind me of potato chips with only the best of intentions. Hell, even the apple salad (with celery, kohlrabi, and Manchego) is a reimagined take on the classic apple and cheese pairing consummated within the deepest depths of fondue pots, just without the added heft of one bazillion calories.

And while I don’t fancy myself a betting

man, it only seemed appropriate to gamble at Reno, with desserts as my primary game of choice and chance. My first foray, the kitchen sink cookie ice cream sandwich, was kind of a bust: The cookies were a kind of arm sweep of tabletop ingredients into a fairly standard oatmeal-esque dough, and they detracted from the banana-cardamom ice filling sandwiched between them. But on my second pull at the one-armed bandit, I hit the jackpot big time with an apple crumble, fresh out of the oven, with rivets of cinnamon ice cream streaming like lava flows upon some monstrous volcano. I’ve dined with groups on multiple occasions, and never have I seen something so utterly and savagely destroyed.

It turns out that, in the end, the most apt analogy for what Reno represents as a restaurant has been hiding under your nose the whole time. There is a bottle of homemade “honey” hot sauce, in addition to “hot” hot sauce, that adorns every table in the house.

It sounds pretty damn good, and so you slowly pour out the viscous mix on top one of slice, and then the next, and then slather it on your leftover crusts. It’s good…it’s addictive…but why? Well, I hate to break it to you, but it’s clearly honey. Straight up honey, with no trace of bite or kick. And everyone loves honey, just like everyone generally likes pizza. It’s arguably one of the most indiscriminate food decisions the average person makes. Reno makes good, but not exceptional, pizza—which will be more than enough to swarm the place with customers.

But even if you can catch more flies with honey than vinegar, that doesn’t mean you should. Sometimes you need a dash of vinegar to keep things fresh.

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Sometimes hitting the bar can also raise the bar, at least where artistic vision is concerned.

In this vein, Hyde Park Art Center is hosting ArtBar, its quarterly adult art studio with an open bar and DJ. The winter installation falls on International Women’s Day, and the workshops are somewhat germane to women’s issues, in the broadest sense of the term. Activities include a Beyoncé lip sync competition, an “(ovary) egg hunt” where the first person to find the hidden baby wins a $50 art lesson, and “textaport puzzlepainting,” the very first of its kind in which participants will be given instructions to make a specific painting, then piece them all together. 5020 South Cornell Avenue. 6–9 p.m., free.

The Basket Case Triple Feature at the Portage Theater is perfect for lovers of ’80s cult horror, and very bad for those who suffer from chronic separation anxiety. The trilogy tells the story of a set of twins— one normal-looking, the other looking like a toothy marshmallow—who seek revenge on the doctors that separated them at birth. The latter twin is not incredibly mobile, so his brother carries him around in a basket. Special guest director Frank Henenlotter, who also directed Brain Damage and Frankenhooker, will be there to answer questions along the way (you will have some). A couple of short film screenings (David Scott’s “Ghost Cold Water” and Michael Cabrera’s “Hovel”) will precede the successive screenings of the Basket Case movies. 4050 North Milwaukee

Avenue. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., $12.

You will constantly be on the edge of your seat and suspecting everyone around you of being a murderer at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Hitchcock at the Movies: A Symphonic Celebration.

Richard Kaufman conducts this terrifying homage with selections from Strangers on a Train, Dial M for Murder, To Catch a Thief, and more. Infants will not be admitted due to the super suspenseful nature of this show.

220 South Michigan Avenue. Starts at 8 p.m., $85–$125.

late to go underground. This is the last day to check out the Chicago Underground Film Festival at Logan Theatre, which has been hiding beneath the crust of new blockbuster releases since this past Wednesday. Former Columbia College film student Jay Bliznick founded the festival—which showcases independent, alternative filmmakers—in 1993. Today, you can catch 23 full-length features, animated films, retrospectives,

documentaries, and shorts, including the world premiere of Drew Tobia’s first feature film See You Next Tuesday, which features “a tapestry of diverse characters with varying levels of sanity and awful taste in wardrobe.”

Every evening, concerts and comedians pour into Logan for an after-party—tonight, festival awards will be announced at 9:30 p.m. 2646 North Milwaukee Avenue. Starts at 2 p.m., $7 per program at the door.

Saturday | March 9 For 87 years, iconic South Side shop Original Rainbow Cone has been scooping its six-layer cone of chocolate, strawberry, Palmer House (New York vanilla with cherries and walnuts), pistachio, and orange sherbet to long, clamoring lines of customers. It’s still pretty cold outside in my book, but Original Rainbow, which came out of hibernation on Wednesday, is officially celebrating its opening and the coming of above-freezing temperatures today. The first 100 people to show up get a free Rainbow Cone T-shirt, and raffle winners can receive up to five times the amount of ice cream they originally purchased. 177 North State Street.

Opens at noon, small cone $3.15.

Sunday | March 10 The ice of winter is finally thawing into an early spring slush, but that doesn’t mean it’s too

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Battle of the bubble: Rankings at stake in Greencastle Jake Walerius Associate Sports Editor

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Rochester

22–4 (10–4)

Win % .846

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Washington (MO) Emory Brandeis NYU Case Western Chicago Carnegie

21–5 (10–4) 20–6 (10–4) 17–8 (8–6) 15–11 (5–9) 12–13 (5–9) 11–14 (5–9) 6–19 (3–11)

.808 .769 .680 .577 .480 .440 .240

Points Rank Player John DiBartolomeo 1 2 Jake Davis 3 Alex Greven 4 Austin Fowler 5 Chris Klimek

School Rochester Emory Emory Case Western Washington (MO)

23.4 18.0 16.5 16.0 15.3

Assists Rank Player 1 Michael Florin John DiBartolomeo 2 3 Alan Aboona 4 Gabriel Moton 5 Jimmy Holman

School Emory Rochester Washington (MO) Brandeis Case Western

5.8 5.4 4.7 4.0 3.6

Rebounding Rank Player 1 Austin Fowler 2 Matt Palucki 3 Carl Yaffe 4 Robert Burnett 5 Michael Friedberg

Third-year Alexander Golovin and the Maroons face DePauw and Earlham on the road this weekend. The Maroons are ranked 29th in the nation.

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you want to beat them to prove you belong there and you want their spot,” he said.

“Chicago is a school that a lot of people circle on their schedule because we’ve been successful for a few years now and people want our spot.”

Important though it is for the Maroons not to get distracted by their new tag as favorites, there is a sense of urgency for this squad. Its ranking may just be a number, but it is a number the NCAA will pay a lot of attention to when it comes time to select teams for the national tournament. On that

Sizek: “50 miles a week for four years has paid off ” TRACK continued from back may not seem like a huge amount of time when considering the length of the race, but Whitmore needs to give an outstanding performance to make up those seconds. Still, the fourth-year remains confident in his ability.

“I have raced with these guys before and have beaten them all at least once, but I still have to run my own race,” Whitmore said.

Whitmore does not plan on making significant changes and is happy to keep faith in the style that has gotten him here in the first place.

“I feel that I have performed well, especially when the competition level is great,” Whitmore said. “I honestly just want to finish as high as I can.”

Sizek will also compete in the indoor national meet for the first time in her career.

“I’m really excited to go to Nationals,” Sizek said. “It’s nice to know that 50 miles a week for four years has paid off and actually made me fast.”

Sizek comes from Dayton, Ohio, where she attended Oakwood High School. Like Whitmore, she competes in indoor track, outdoor track, and cross country for the University. Her time of 17:11.37 from the Warhawk Classic ranks her at 11th in the nation.

For Sizek to finish first at the national meet, she will have to cut approximately 30 seconds off her time. Christy Cazzola of UW–Oshkosh ranks first in the nation with a time of 16:40.52. However, Sizek understands that that sort of improvement is probably out of her reach. Instead, she has set her sights on achieving All-American status.

“I would love to be an All-American and run a personal best,” Sizek said. “I know some

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The Maroons face DePauw and Earlham this Saturday as they attempt to consolidate their new spot in the national rankings.

The most recent NCAA polls were released on February 28, placing Chicago 29th and Earlham 30th. DePauw, previously ranked 28th, dropped out of the nation’s top 30.

The Tigers, who finished last season with a 17–8 record, have struggled this season, winning only one of their first six matches. Nonetheless, the Maroons are expecting them to put up a stiff challenge.

“DePauw is known for being very good in doubles, and we’re going to have to prepare especially well this week to be ready for that,” head coach Jay Tee said. “Singleswise they’re very good as well. They’re a tough team all around.

“They’re very, very good at crossing.

They usually approach well, serve well, they do all the little things in doubles and they play with a lot of energy. We’ll have to match that for sure.”

Earlham, on the other hand, comes into the match in excellent form. The Quakers are riding a six-game winning streak and Tee is very wary of the threat they pose.

“They’re a bit of an unknown,” he said.

“They’re very strong at the top, they’ve got some big hitters, and they’re a program on the rise. They did very well at the ITA Regionals in the fall. They’re going to be very tricky.”

Chicago has taken motivation from the national rankings in recent weeks, beating the then-higher-ranked Kalamazoo and Denison back to back. But with the release of the new national rankings, the Maroons are now the team to beat. However, this is nothing new, according to Tee. “I think any time you have a ranked team,

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other members of the team will be making the trip to Naperville, and I especially want to run my heart out for them.”

To become an All-American, Sizek needs to finish in the top eight. If the national rankings prove to be a good indicator of the speed of the race, a top-eight finish will require Sizek to cut around five seconds off of her qualifying time—Keri Lambert of Amherst currently holds the eighth fastest time in the country (17:07.04)—but Sizek is intent on matching whatever pace the top eight throw at her.

“I plan on keeping contact with the lead pack for at least 4000-meter. But it’s Nationals, so no matter what, I am going to go for it. If the All-American pack comes out with a 16:30 pace, I will run a 16:30 pace,” Sizek said. “I am going to do what I can to stick with people.”

Both Whitmore and Sizek have the ability to achieve their goals this weekend, but they will have to be at the very top of their respective games. It may be too much of a stretch to expect Whitmore to become the first male national champion in indoor track in the school’s history, but a place in the top eight— maybe even the top five—is certainly up for grabs. Likewise, Sizek’s target of running a top-eight finish is well within her grasp.

“Distance runners are creatures of habit,” Sizek said. “I plan on eating pasta in my apartment Friday night like I always do. The next morning, at the meet, I will try to get some homework done before the race. Homework tends to calm me down. After that, I am just going to go run.”

Whitmore’s race will begin at 3:20 p.m. on Saturday. Sizek’s will start at 3:40 p.m.

count, this weekend is vital for Chicago.

“As far as our NCAA hopes go, it’s must win, both of these,” Tee said. “Earlham is now number 30 in the country so they’re one spot behind us, and DePauw I think is currently around 30th as well, so if we want any shot of making the tournament, we need to win these matches.”

The match against DePauw is scheduled to begin at 8 a.m. on Saturday and play against Earlham is slated for 2 p.m. that afternoon. Both matches will take place in Greencastle, IN.

Chicago to play shorthanded; Sdvizkhov out with back injury W.TENNIS continued from back in higher-stakes matches further down the line.

“The success we’ve had makes us the hunted, and we know we get every team’s best shot every time we step on the court,” Tee said. “DePauw is a very well coached team and their players are fighters in every sense. They’re a top-ten team and we will have to be at our absolute sharpest if we want to leave their building with a win.”

Chicago will also not be at full strength this weekend, further adding to their challenge. The Maroons will be without first-year Helen Sdvizkhov due to a back injury, meaning the rest of the starters will have to pick up the slack.

“We’re obviously aware of DePauw and respect their players, but we’re more focused on our team at this point,” Tee said. “We have too much on our plates than to worry about what DePauw might throw at us.”

The Maroons will handle the challenge the only way they know how: by refusing to yield easy points to the competition.

“We always approach our matches with the mindset that we have to be at our best that day, physically and mentally, if we want a chance to win. We want to go down there and set a tone that we’re here to play tough, blue-collar tennis, and we’re going to make them earn each point.”

Chicago will face Oberlin at 11 a.m. EST and DePauw at 5 p.m. EST on Saturday.

School Case Western Washington (MO) NYU Washington (MO) Emory

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Field Goal Pct Player School Rank 1 Rob Reid Rochester 2 Devin Karch NYU 3 Chris Klimek Washington (MO) Tyler Sankes Rochester 4 5 Dane McLoughlin Case Western

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Free Throw Pct School Player Rochester Rochester

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Nate Vernon Alan Aboona Jake Davis

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL UAA Standings Rank 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

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Washington (MO) Carnegie Emory NYU

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Assists Rank 1 2 3 4 5

Player Erica Iafelice

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Savannah Morgan Riley Wurtz Evy Iacono Ally Zywicki

Emory NYU Case Western Rochester

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Rebounding Rank 1 2 3 4 5

Player Misha Jackson Riley Wurtz Emily Peel Liza Otto Loren Wagner

Rank 1 2 3 4 5

Player Emily Peel Megan Dawe Melissa Gilkey Brooke Orcutt Berit Eppard

School Emory NYU Carnegie Carnegie Rochester

Avg/G 9.1 8.8 8.2 8.0 7.9

Field Goal PCT School Carnegie NYU Washington (MO) Case Western Case Western

Pct .570 .522 .510 .506 .500

Free Throw PCT Rank Player 1 Evy Iacono 2 Morgan Donovan 3 Melissa Peng 4 Emily Peel 5 Ally Zywicki

School Case Western Chicago NYU Carnegie Rochester

Pct .829 .827 .797 .750 .743

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“In my twenty-four years of life, I’m better at life than you.”

—Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman to Skip Bayless on ESPN’s First Take.

Go for the great: Whitmore, Sizek to represent Maroons at Nationals Track & Field Isaac Stern Sports Staff The indoor track careers of fourth-years Billy Whitmore and Julia Sizek come down to one more race.

Whitmore and Sizek will compete in the 5,000-meter run at the NCAA National Championships this weekend at North Central in Naperville. The two veteran distance runners will be the Maroons’ sole representatives at the national meet.

Whitmore came to the University of Chicago from St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio and competes for the Maroons in indoor track, outdoor track, and cross country. He has been a standout performer throughout his career in all three of those sports, but this will be his first performance at the indoor national meet.

“I’m so proud to represent the University and my team at indoor NCAAs,” Whitmore said. “I would not have gotten this far without their support.”

Whitmore qualified to NCAAs with a time of 14:33.99, which he recorded at the Leonard “Squig” Converse Invitational on February 1. Whitmore finished second at the meet behind North Central’s John Crain, who currently ranks second in the nation.

Whitmore’s time ranks 12th.

To win the national championship, Whitmore will most likely have to cut his time by 10 to 15 seconds. Chris Stadler of Haverford currently holds the top rank in the country with a time of 14:23.36. Ten to 15 seconds TRACK continued on page 11

Fourth-year Julia Sizek (1) will compete in her final indoor track meet at Nationals this weekend.

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Chicago aims to rally back against DePauw, Oberlin Women’s Tennis Daniel Lewis Sports Editor

Second-year Kelsey McGillis reaches for a volley in a match last year. The Maroons will face Oberlin and DePauw this weekend in Greencastle, IN. COURTESY OF DAVE HILBERT

Greencastle, Indiana, and the DePauw Tigers couldn’t keep the Maroons away for long.

Chicago will return to the site of last weekend’s disappointment to take on the eighth-ranked Tigers, as well as regional rival Oberlin. Last weekend, Chicago placed third in the ITA Indoor Championships in Greencastle despite entering the tournament as the top seed. They lost in the semifinals to previously 11thranked Johns Hopkins, who was then catapulted all the way to first in the nation as a result of the upset win. Chicago dropped from third to fifth in the national rankings.

Though their performance last weekend was not what the Maroons wanted it to be, they hesitate to call this weekend a chance at a bounce-back win.

Instead, Chicago will continue its focus on improving from week to week in hopes of hitting a consistent stride once the postseason arrives.

“Although we lost a match at ITA Nationals, I’m not sure we’re using the term ‘bounce back.’

The loss to Hopkins was tough, for sure, but we’re more focused on improving rather than sending a message to other teams in the country,” head coach Jay Tee said.

“Every match is important to us, but we know we need to peak in late April, not mid-March.”

Chicago will also be able to draw on its experience at the ITAs as they move forward into more important matches down the stretch.

“The past few matches have given us more confidence and rhythm to our game,” fourth-year Linden Li said. “We can only grow and improve from here.”

First on the docket this weekend is Oberlin, who is ranked eighth in the DIII Central Region, where Chicago ranks first. The Yeowomen are coming off an impressive 7–2 victory over DII Ashland. They also boast the seventh-ranked player in the region, fourth-year Farah Leclercq.

After Oberlin is DePauw, the host of last weekend’s ITA Championships. The Tigers entered the tournament as the fourth seed, but fell in the first round to Johns Hopkins—the same squad that would eventually upset Chicago.

But a less-than-stellar showing from the Tigers at the ITA Championships does not mean the Maroons will take them lightly. DePauw will undoubtedly be hungry for a statement win over Chicago, as the two squads could wind up facing each other W.TENNIS continued on page 11