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SG Elections postponed until next week Alex Hays Associate News Editor The Student Government (SG) Elections and Rules Committee (E & R) has postponed the Spring 2013 elections by one week. E & R decided to give students more time to take into account new information that has recently come to light before casting their vote, according to E & R Chair and fourth-year Lester Ang. The postponement came after allegations of rules violations against members of multiple slates surfaced over the past week. An April 16 Maroon article

discussed allegations against second-year Yusef Al-Jarani, presidential candidate for the Ignite slate, of early campaigning and offering individuals, including two members of UChicaGOLD, positions on the SG cabinet. Last night, E & R posted a document listing 13 complaints against Ignite, UChicaGOLD, and the Moose Party on the SG Web site.

Citing a contentious election c ycle, E & R has also implemented a new system for slates to appeal penalties imposed on them by the SG continued on page 3

Color Blinded Students delight in the start of spring with SASA’s Holi celebration on Eckhart Quad on Saturday afternoon. Holi is a spring festival of colors celebrated by Hindus in Southeast Asia.

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Shoreland, former dorm, to get a new lease on life Lina Li Senior News Staff After years of renovation, the Shoreland, a former University dorm, is reopening as a high-rise apartment this fall. The 13-story building will contain 330 apartments.

Peter Cassel, a representative for Antheus Capital, which owns the Shoreland, expects some student interest in their apartments. “We anticipate Shoreland will be a large and vital part of the Hyde Park rental market and will serve many in the U of C community,” Cassel said. “Regents Park, Del Prado, and Windermere are home today to many U of C students, faculty, and alumni,” he added, referring to other Hyde Park high-rises also owned and operated under Antheus Capital with its affiliate, Mac Property Management.

In comparing the newly renovated Shoreland to these other buildings, Cassel noted that “from DORM continued on page 3

E&R releases list of campaign complaints Madhu Srikantha News Editor & Alex Hays Associate News Editor The Elections and Rules Committee (E & R) published a comprehensive list of complaints filed against candidates running for office and the disciplinary actions taken in response on the SG Web site last night. UChicaGOLD, Ignite, and the Moose Party have all received

official warnings from E & R, the list revealed. Additionally, the committee issued a major vote penalty against UChicaGOLD and a minor vote penalty against Ignite.

Undergraduate Liaison candidates Christina Dong and Holly Rapp, both firstyears, along with second-year Brendan Leonard, have all received warnings from E & R in response to complaints filed against them. E & R also issued Class of 2016 College

Council candidate Mike Viola a warning.

According to the document, the E & R penalized UChicaGOLD after receiving information on April 17 “showing that [third-year UChicaGOLD presidential candidate] Stephanie Mui was responsible for leaking the [second-year Ignite slate presidential candidate] Yusef Al-Jarani story to the Maroon.” The Maroon SLATE continued on page 3

Undergraduates compete in the Booth league Hamid Bendaas News Staff

Construction on the Shoreland, a former UChicago dormatory on South Shore Drive, is slated for completion next fall. See photo essay on page 2.

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This spring, 17 teams will be competing in the Booth School of Business’s 17th annual Social New Venture Challenge (SNVC), a competition for start-ups that intends to address social issues in innovative ways. Fifty-five thousand dollars in total prizes will be distributed among the winners, with different

sums of money granted to each winning team, in order to continue their work and further develop their business ideas.

Up against some of the most seasoned Booth students are two undergraduate teams: Carbon Groove and Project SAM. Carbon Groove is a Web site that allows people to track the carbon footprints of their purchases by linking a

credit or debit card to the site.

“What we want to do is get a much more personalized and holistic view of the carbon footprint by looking at all of your consumption information,” said second-year Daniel Yu. The Carbon Groove team is made up of third-year Tamara Kawadri and secondyears George He, Daniel Shear, Ben Siegel, and Yu. Now that the project BOOTH continued on page 3

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PHOTO Rebuilding the Shoreland

By Julia Reinitz

As discussed in “Shoreland, former dorm, to get a new lease on life,” the Shoreland will rise again this fall, this time as a luxury apartment building. While the extensive renovations are sure to restore the Shoreland’s old grandeur, they will also mark the end of an era in the building’s history and will erase the last traces of the generations of students who called it home. Before the Shoreland reopens its doors, we present a last look at both the remnants of the old Shoreland and the extensive construction that is making it anew.

Photo Essay APRIL 23, 2013

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NEWS IN BRIEF Registrar’s Office moving to Press building The Registrar’s Office will be moving to the University of Chicago Press building from its current location on the first floor of the Administration building this weekend, according to a University news release posted online on April 18.

Though the Press building, located on East 60th Street between South Dorchester Avenue and the Metra tracks, is a longer walk from the main quad, University Registrar Scott Campbell said the office plans to create a service desk closer to campus where students can hand in pink slips.

The current office in the Administration Building will close Friday afternoon and reopen Monday in its new space at the Press building.

—Alex Hays

BJ lounges revisited In order to compensate for

repurposing of the BurtonJudson Club Rooms as dining space, the B-J house lounges and basement common area are scheduled to be renovated over the summer, according to University spokesperson Jeremy Manier.

The renovations will include new furniture, fresh paint, and other general improvements.

The Club Rooms, currently used as BJ–wide common areas, will be opened to connect to Cathey Dining Commons and converted into dining space to accommodate the additional house tables relocating to Cathey after the closing of Pierce Tower at the end of this school year. The new residence hall and dining hall that will replace Pierce’s facilities are currently slated to open in 2016.

In addition to renovating common areas, B-J student rooms will receive new furniture this summer. The furniture replacement is unrelated to the repurposing of common spaces and was scheduled in advance of that decision, Manier said.

—Patrick Kim

A new appeals committee will review complaints made against the candidates SG continued from front

Committee, according to Ang .

The new appeals committee will consist of the five voting members of E & R and two additional voting members from the student g overnment assembly chosen by Ang and SG President Renard Miller.

Ang and Miller will also ser ve on the committee in nonvoting capacities. Ang said he hopes this new process will better address tensions in the period leading up to elections.

According to an e-mail sent

by Ang to candidates on Sunday, appeals to penalties that have

already been imposed by E & R will be deliberated on and addressed within 48 hours of their submission.

Ang said that this type of appeals system is new to E & R this year due to issues in elections “that were not encountered by previous E & R committees.”

The elections, which were originally scheduled to begin this morning and last through Thursday, will now start next Tuesday and run through Thursday, May 2. An updated election schedule has been posted on the SG Web site.

Residents of Burton-Judson’s Dodd-Mead House relax in their house lounge, which will be renovated to make room for expanded dining space. Fresh paint and new furniture will be part of the renovations.

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Ignite and UChicaGOLD are appealing vote penalties SLATE continued from front

was not contacted to speak to this allegation.

The ruling also refers to a complaint issued earlier that day against second-year Raymond Dong, UChicaGOLD’s candidate for vice president of student affairs, alleging that he “was also campaigning early and discussing creating positions in the cabinet with Stephanie Mui.” E & R considered both complaints together.

E & R issued a major, as opposed to minor, vote penalty because of the “scale on which the integrity of the elections were affected,” according to the list of complaints released by the committee.

E & R chair and fourth-year Les-

ter Ang said that the exact number of votes to be deducted is never revealed to the individual or slate who is the target of the complaint.

That number, he said, is determined when disciplinary actions are decided by E&R. The list also states that E & R issued a minor vote penalty against Ignite on April 17, “In light of continual allegations of unethical behavior,” though it noted that there have been no reports of repeated behavior since the slate received the warnings.

Both slates appealed the vote penalty decisions, but E & R has not issued a verdict on those appeals as of last night.

The first complaint filed this

election season was against UChicaGOLD by an opposing slate on April 3, according to the document. The April 16 Maroon article referred to a complaint filed by an opposing slate against Ignite on April 4.

The document also lists a complaint against the Moose slate for alleged unruly behavior during the SG debate Thursday night. A member of E & R addressed the complaint and told the slate to “quiet down.”

In total, 13 separate incidents regarding this election cycle were listed in the document. Ang said that E & R plans on updating the E & R Complaint Database as complaints continue being submitted.

New apartments will include modern amenities, The start-up projects address but preserving historical features is a priority environmental, global health issues DORM continued from front

an amenities and design perspective, it’s a step above Regents Park or the Del Prado.” The Shoreland’s amenities will include a g ym, in-building parking , in-unit laundry, two ballrooms, conference rooms, large bedrooms and closets, concierge and staff services, and lakefront views. A restaurant is also in the works, but the plans have not been finalized.

The Shoreland opened in 1926 as a 1,000-room hotel. In the 1970s, it was acquired by the University and converted into a dormitory, but by the late 2000s the building had fallen into disrepair. High repair and maintenance costs led the University to sell the building to Antheus for $16 million in 2008.

Since then, “tens and tens and tens of millions of dollars” have been invested in the renovating process, Cassel said. Cassel is also director of the Silliman Group LLC, a group of “design and construction professionals committed to preserving historic homes in Hyde Park,” according to their Web site. Cassel said plans are being developed in conjunction with Fifth Ward Alderman Leslie Hairston to set up local job fairs to find staff for the building.

Renovation began in 2011.

Antheus hired Studio Gang Architects and Jeanne Gang , whose previous work included the Aqua Tower downtown, to design the interior renovations, which occurred from 2011 to 2012.

Efforts are now being taken to preserve the terra cotta exterior and the elements of the Art Moderne and Art Deco styles from the 1930s featured in the building’s architecture. This work began last year.

“We’ve tried to take the most important historical elements and preserve them, while also adding contemporary amenities,” Cassel said.

Despite the changes, some remnants of the former occupy ing students remain, the last of whom moved out in June 2009. Graffiti and painted murals of Dr. Seuss, tropical shores, and fairy tale scenes from the Shoreland’s days as a dorm are still visible on several of the walls, but these will soon be painted over.

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has been accepted into the SNVC, the team members are developing a Web site, which they hope to open up for user testing soon.

Kawadri touted the ease of use of the Web site. “Our project requires minimal manual entry, so it’s suited more to the average person, rather than someone who’s super environmentally conscious,” he said.

The team members hope to increase their project’s impact by allowing people to share their footprint data on social media and instituting a point system that challenges users to lower their footprints over time.

Yu is also a team member of Project SAM, which formed in fall 2012. Project SAM would allow health clinics in areas without reliable Internet connections to text in their

inventory needs, streamlining the communication between clinics and their suppliers.

Project SAM’s other team members are third-years Chloe Sui and Dhrooti Vyas, second-years Hope Bretscher, Victor Kung, and Pete Vilter, and first-year Fredui Boulton.

The team formed when Sui, who has visited Peruvian medical clinics and is involved with GlobeMed, an RSO focused on combating issues of global health and poverty, spoke with Yu about inventory problems she had observed in clinics that didn’t have a reliable Internet connection. The two came up with the idea of an SMSbased inventory reporting system and decided to pursue it further.

“A lot of problems [in global health] are not easily solvable, so when I learned about a problem that was

solvable through technology, I was really motivated to get it built,” Sui said.

Team members spent 10th week last quarter at the Microsoft ImagineCup competition and both Yu and Sui are studying part-time this quarter in order to focus on the competition.

Through talks with GlobeMed, Project SAM has already spoken with several clinics in Peru and Uganda, all of which seemed enthusiastic about the idea, Sui said. “There’s an e-mail [we received] from a doctor in Uganda which says, ‘We need to pursue this [partnership] at all costs,’” she added.

The winners of the SNVC will be announced at the end of May but both teams have goals beyond winning the contest. “Our goal is definitely to build the project, not to win the competition,” Yu said.

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Editorial & Op-Ed APRIL 23, 2013

Voting on principle Students should support investment referendum if they favor productive dialogue on social responsibility The student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892 REBECCA GUTERMAN Editor-in-Chief SAM LEVINE Editor-in-Chief EMILY WANG Managing Editor DOUGLAS EVERSON, JR Senior Editor JAMIE MANLEY Senior Editor MATTHEW SCHAEFER Senior Editor CELIA BEVER News Editor MARINA FANG News Editor MADHU SRIKANTHA News Editor JENNIFER STANDISH News Editor AJAY BATRA Viewpoints Editor EMMA THURBER STONE Viewpoints Editor EMMA BRODER Arts Editor ALICE BUCKNELL Arts Editor DANIEL RIVERA Arts Editor VICENTE FERNANDEZ Sports Editor SARAH LANGS Sports Editor JAKE WALERIUS Sports Editor HYEONG-SUN CHO Head Designer SONIA DHAWAN 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 COLIN BRADLEY Grey City Editor JOY CRANE Grey City Editor

Two years ago, students voted overwhelmingly in favor of a Student Government (SG) ballot referendum that proposed the creation of Socially Responsible Investment Committee (SRIC) to advise University investment policy on matters of ethics. Despite its passage, this referendum failed to result in the formation of an SRIC. However, students will have another chance next week to support a similarly-minded referendum in the upcoming SG elections, this time drafted by student members of Stop Funding Climate Change (SFCC). Students should vote “yes” to the referendum, given that it makes a strong statement that could feasibly lead the University to incorporate student input into its investment practices.

Nearly 80 percent of voters in the 2011 SG election supported the SRIC referendum. The vote led to a series of meetings between administrators and student representatives of the group that proposed the referendum. However, due to the complicated nature of the University’s investment setup of 200 subcontracted investment managers and its commitment to political

neutrality, it became apparent that the administration did not envision a place for an SRIC—or its advice—in its plans. Two new proposals were put forth by the then–Undergraduate Liaison to the Board of Trustees that backtracked on the target of an SRIC. He suggested that the University survey its investment managers regarding how they include social factors in asset analyses and that it invest a small part of its endowment in a Community Development Financial Institution.

While these compromises were better than nothing, they certainly lacked substance relative to the referendum’s original goal.

This year’s referendum, if passed, would amount to a clear statement of some of the student body’s principles regarding investment. On the SG ballot, the referendum will ask, “Should the University shift its investment strategy to account for the environmental impact of oil, gas, and coal used by the companies it invests in?” The statement contrasts with the previous referendum in that it does not ask whether students support a new institutional body, but rather asks whether

students support an institutional shift in the University’s approach to investing its endowment. A restatement of the overwhelming student support for the 2011 measure this time around would preserve the core principle without hinging on the implementation of a specific instrument of enforcing that principle.

Another way in which this referendum is distinct from the 2011 ballot item is that it does not encompass, in students’ views, all potential issues that have arisen as complications to University investment policy. Firms with a history of not honoring worker’s rights or of engaging in business in nations run by corrupt regimes, for instance, are not covered by its language concerning the “environmental impact” of businesses receiving University investment. Given the University’s obligation to protect its investments, dividing issues into separate referenda will well serve the efforts of students serious about bringing those issues to the University’s attention without allowing administrators to dismiss them for fear of immediately surrendering financial oversight. If considered sepa-

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rately, each measure would be given the full attention it deserves. Furthermore, this separation would provide a way for the University to ease into the process of taking student input in investment matters into account.

From the outset, there ought to be no concern, as there justly could have been in 2011, that the referendum’s specific goal leaves itself vulnerable to compromise. If the student body votes “yes,” the University should be more inclined to respect its decision as it would entail accommodating a point of view rather than any undue institutional encroachment on the part of students. This focused and practical approach to affirming student opinion on key issues seems constructive and, crucially, not imposing. While students who support the creation of an SRIC should continue to encourage that initiative long-term, individual referenda are a far more immediate and realistic way of lobbying for progress.

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A better Internet connection Honest discussion about crucial issues is stifled when policing, not educating, is our priority

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Our campus prides itself on the free expression of ideas, but you’d never know it from our online conversations last week.

In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings, a number of wellmeaning students offered their “thoughts and prayers” for victims

of the incident and were met with sardonic replies condemning their statements as performative and insincere. Then, amid the trolls and provocateurs on the controversial “Politically Incorrect Maroon Confessions” Facebook group, a select few submissions posed genuine questions hoping to gauge readers’ perspectives on complex issues of discrimination. The submissions were met with irate responses and were chastised not for their thoughts, but for asking the question in the first place.

All of this points to a fundamental problem with how we’re talking to one another online: We’ve made it a crime to be wrong. Distaste for particular ideas has morphed into

distaste for honest expression— we’re choosing to fight ignorance with accusation rather than information. Policing social media—and shaming offenders—has replaced intelligent dialogue.

Crescat opprobrium, vita excolatur.

We have almost all been guilty of this at times. And frequently, our harsh responses are rooted in genuine concern. Maybe a certain honest statement has hurt us or hurt someone we care about. Maybe not.

Either way, when we see something that offends us, we immediately want the person causing it (and everyone in their social network) to recognize the atrocity. This is our idea of justice, and, in a sense, it’s admirable.

But that justice goes sour when we personally attack others for simply expressing themselves. Shaming someone for thinking or acting in a certain way teaches her to regret the chosen thought or action; shaming someone for expressing a genuine thought teaches her to regret not the thought itself, but the decision to express it. The lesson is not “reconsider your perspective,” but simply “keep your mouth shut next time.”

This paralyzes frank discourse. As a result, many of us who want to engage with an issue become afraid to get involved at all. A partially formed thought that would be a catalyst for discussion in the classroom, specifically because of its open-endedness, ONLINE continued on page 5

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Breaking the news Rapid pace of today’s news cycle creates a culture in which accuracy is sacrificed for the scoop

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By Anastasia Golovashkina Viewpoints Columnist Last week was a wreck. Between the domestic tragedies of Boston’s marathon-turned-massacre, the murder of an MIT police officer, the terrorist manhunt that forced much of Massachusetts into lockdown, the fertilizer plant fire that has killed dozens and injured at least 100 more, and, abroad, the Pakistani and Chinese earthquakes that have col-

lectively left over 1,000 people dead and thousands more severely injured, we barely had enough time to mourn one tragedy before the next one struck.

It was like the world suddenly decided to have its season finale, unleashing a wave of explosive dramarrhea that may not even be over. Even our own campus wasn’t immune; we soaked our way through three consecutive days of hail-smattered flash flooding and, ahem, “politically incorrect” student-submitted confessions.

One thousand–plus–mile distances relegated our experience of the globe’s greatest cataclysms to the looking glass of mass media which, though in high demand, is unable to generate the instant coverage that makes Reddit attractive.

In order to compete, mass media began treating death, suspicion, and suffering as

if they were spectator sports.

Plagued by misreporting and sensationalism every step of the way, last week’s news became “breaking” to the point of being “broken.” In a time when our country needed, above all, to feel safe and secure, news outlets instead chose to violate our trust by repeatedly publishing sensationalized, inflated, and completely apocryphal content.

The New York Post provided particularly pathetic coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings. On Monday, it reported a death toll of 12 (it was, in fact, two, at the time) and that authorities were suspecting a Saudi national (they weren’t). Despite quietly conceding these completely made-up claims the following day, many news sources repeated this information back to their

own audiences.

So widespread was this nonsense that,

by Wednesday, the FBI was forced to issue a statement that read, in part, “No arrest has been made in connection with the Boston Marathon attack.…there have been a number of press reports based on information from unofficial sources that has been inaccurate. Since these stories often have unintended consequences, we ask the media, particularly at this early stage of the investigation, to exercise caution and attempt to verify information through appropriate official channels before reporting.”

In other words, Reporting 101. The Post’s—and others’—inaccurate reporting harmed, at least momentarily, the FBI’s far more important work of trackNEWS continued on page 5

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All things in moderation Despite promising to advance a progressive agenda, Obama is moving too close to center on key issues in his second term

By Luke Brinker Viewpoints Columnist A mere three months ago, President Barack Obama seemed to confirm Republicans’ worst fears about what a second Obama term would bring. Reelected by a healthy margin, Obama took to the Capitol steps at his January inaugural to proclaim his support for a bold progressive agenda.

The president articulated positions on climate change, same-sex marriage, gun control, the social safety net, and international diplomacy that cheered his liberal fans. Regrouping Republicans retrenched for a long, hard, fouryear slough.

In the months since Obama’s second inauguration, however, we’ve seen little evidence of the progressive fighter who promised to reinvigorate the centerleft agenda that propelled him to power in 2008. Instead, Obama continues to govern as a moderate milquetoast. He occasionally prevents the most putrid factions

from advancing their interests, but he has yet to challenge the establishmentarian centrist ortho doxy that grips Washington.

What’s more, he may actually subscribe to it.

Many observers—your faithful correspondent included—noted the reemergence of climate change in Obama’s inaugural remarks. After largely deferring the issue in the face of political obstacles in 2009, Obama signaled in January that the environmental and moral challenges posed by global warming were simply too grave to continue ignoring. Since then, however, he’s thumbed his nose at the environmental community on one of the most pressing environmental questions on the agenda: whether to construct the Keystone XL pipeline to carry dirty Canadian tar sands oil through the United States. Even as a recent spill of 5,000 barrels from an Arkansas pipeline underscored the dangers of pipeline spills, Obama told fundraisers in California that he’s leaning toward approving the Keystone project. Obama acknowledged environmentalists’ concerns about the impact developing tar sands oil would have on the climate, but he couched his likely decision in economic terms.

“You may be concerned about the temperature of the planet, but it’s

probably not rising to your No. 1 concern,” he said, purportedly speaking on behalf of ordinary Americans. “And if people think, well, that’s shortsighted, that’s what happens when you’re struggling to get by,” Obama concluded. You see, in tough economic times, worrying about the survival of the planet is the dilettantish preserve of left-wing students and trust-fund babies. Real, salt-ofthe-Earth Americans don’t waste their time worrying about rising sea levels, polluted air, and contaminated water supplies.

Obama’s insinuation—that economically struggling Americans are too myopic to care about the environment, and that they don’t have as much of a stake in planetary health—is far more offensive than the controversy ginned up over his 2008 remarks about rural Americans clinging to guns and religion. At any rate, Obama told the California donors that the political ramifications of not approving the project would likely be grave for Democrats. Electing anti-environment Republicans is hardly a worthy price, he suggested. To which anyone with half a brain would respond: What’s the point in holding political power if you aren’t willing to use it? And, ye of Hope and Change, if you’re afraid of the GOP demagoguery

on Keystone, why not use the bully pulpit to educate the public about what a disaster tar sands oil and the pipeline itself will prove to be in environmental terms?

Even more mystifying than Obama’s apparent willingness to sign off on Keystone was his recent budget, which called for cuts in Social Security benefits.

Obama’s proposed changes don’t make sense, on the political or the economic level. Politically, budget cuts are quite the audacious move to make after excoriating Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan as welfare state slashers who would jeopardize Grandma’s social insurance benefits. Moreover, the economic justification for moving to “chained Consumer Price Index (CPI),” a method of calculating Social Security benefits, is fundamentally flawed. Supporters of chained CPI note that it tracks the actual changes in consumer prices much more accurately than the present method for calculating Social Security benefits. What chained CPI doesn’t account for, though, is the fact that seniors spend a disproportionate share of their income on medicine and health care—two areas where price rises far outpace other goods in the Consumer Price Index. Why Obama wishes to move to a system that’s less generous to seniors and

opposed by the vast majority of his progressive base is obvious: He now gets to play the “reasonable adult” who’s willing to put “everything on the table.” Thomas Friedman and David Brooks will laud him as a great centrist compromiser, and even if Republicans don’t come to the negotiating table, at least Obama can say he was willing to be “responsible” by “reining in entitlements.”

In light of Obama’s proposed cuts to a massively popular social program, perhaps it isn’t surprising that his second-term administration continues to flout popular opinion on the idiotic drug war. A majority of Americans now supports the legalization of marijuana, a Pew Research Center poll recently found. The Obama administration’s response? “The Justice Department’s responsibility to enforce the Controlled Substances Act remains unchanged,” U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske declared.

Got that, Americans? In these austere times, everything—including Social Security—must be on the table. But the $15 billion spent each year waging the four decade-old War on Drugs? Non-negotiable.

Luke Brinker is a graduate student in the MAPSS program,

NEWS continued from page 4 ing down the real suspects. Fortunately, though, the Post thereafter backed down in its coverage and issued an apology for its factual gymnastics.

Except it then went on to repeat the same mistakes. The next day, the Post went so far as to publish a cover featuring a photo of two young men alongside the all-caps headline, “Feds seek these two pictured at Boston Marathon.”

Neither of the individuals—two seventeen-year-old high school student track stars—was ever identified as a suspect in the investigation, nor did they even have anything to do with the bombings. But, in a mindless haste, Post and affiliates turned them into the momentary targets of an ever-growing witch hunt—a choice that, thanks to search engines and social media, has now permanently documented reports of these teens’ misstated identifications as persons of interest. It will resurface every time a prospective college, employer, or friend searches for their names online. The media’s cursory reporting will unfairly and unfortunately plague the rest of their young lives.

This isn’t even the first time that the mass media has turned up its sensationalist autopilot at the expense of an innocent bystander. As recently as December, scores of news agencies rushed to incorrectly—but collectively—identify the Newtown shooter. In times when what audiences needed most was truth, much of the press has proven willing to wager on prospective outcomes. Instead of setting us straight, these media outlets skewed facts in their sensationalist favor.

It’s almost as though we’ve returned to the era of yellow journalism. But instead of being driven by the ad space and paper sales of the late 19th century, today’s sensationalists drive in the fast lane of

our burgeoning micro-blogging, multitasking culture—a culture that breeds an aversion to the kind of commitment that precedes truth and trust. Back then, the game tended more towards big fonts and hyperboles; today, the game is one of brevity and speed.

From the ways in which we communicate to the goals we set for ourselves and others, we’re becoming more and more expectant of instantaneous results. Faster is better; quick fixes are the solution to everything. But the notion that outpacing a competing paper by 30 seconds is more important than accurate reporting should be considered despicable. Reputable media outlets need to stop sacrificing accuracy for two second margins– and the only way they’ll do this is if we, as audiences, stop expecting the news to report itself before it even happens.

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

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suddenly becomes a dangerous liability on the Web. We watch a fiery commentary war on our newsfeeds, but rarely add to it; lest That One Friend—a self-appointed officer of the Discrimination Police, the Fascism Police, the Whatever Police— castigates us in the public view just for stating what we honestly believe.

Policing overlooks the vital fact that I may not see the ignorance you see in my beliefs. This does not make my beliefs right, but it does explain why I want to express them. You can hate what I think, but it is useless to hate me for thinking it or for telling you that I think it. That crosses the line from critical scrutiny to destructive criticism.

So how can we skip the shame?

Doing so requires a fresh approach to argument. To truly show me the error of my ways, don’t just tell me that I’m wrong. Don’t just tell me that I’m ignorant. Don’t just tell me that I’m foolish, that I’m sexist, that I’m evil, or that the wool has been pulled over my eyes. Instead, show me why my idea is misguided. Show me why you’re right. And if I don’t give in right away, when I hold my own and push back—as long as I do so with reason rather than pride, and in earnest rather than out of spite— respond in kind. Don’t tell me that I’m beyond redemption. Don’t tell me that my ignorance is immutable.

Don’t make me the problem. Show me the problem. Educate me.

A common trope in all of the accusations flying around Hyde Park cyberspace last week was that we could do better. Regarding the sexism displayed on “Politically Incorrect Confessions,” and the self-serv-

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“It’s almost as though we’ve returned Treat your peers like the critically thinking adults they are to the era of yellow journalism” ONLINE continued from page 4

ing nature of public grief displayed on Facebook, the critics concurred: A school that prides itself on reasoned thinking should be able to see the error of its ways.

And I agree. If we think this campus can be better, let’s help one another get there. Let’s treat one another like the critically thinking adults we are and hold ourselves to that same standard while we’re at it. We can’t show someone how to drive a car by screaming at her when she asks where the gearshift is. We can’t show someone how to see discrimination by rebuking her when she tries to understand sexism. We can’t show someone that digital condolences are ineffective by shaming her when she doesn’t see what we see.

To be clear, this is not a call to give the shamers a taste of their own

medicine. Instituting the Shame Police to counter the Whatever Police is no solution. Rather, this is a call to reclaim our discourse by acknowledging that the freedom to express opinions is a prerequisite for meaningful debate. You have to know where I stand before you can move me.

The fact that we’re trying to convince others in the first place proves that we accept their capacities for reason. We may not believe that all ideas are equal, but we acknowledge that critical discussion can enlighten the misguided. We might even believe that the truth speaks for itself.

But if that’s the case, then the honesty of others poses no threat.

Jake Smith is a fourth-year in the College majoring in political science.

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Old favorites, fresh tracks: spring album roundup The Flaming Lips Having long transcended their simpler psychedelic punkrock incarnation, Oklahoma’s The Flaming Lips continue to metamorphose somewhere in the further reaches of the experimental mainstream. The Lips’s newest offering, The Terror, like 2009’s Embryonic, refuses to let the band’s sound stagnate. Where it differs most dramatically is in mood, as suggested by the title of the release itself.

The past few years have been anything but easy for the Lips; frontman Wayne Coyne’s separation from his wife of 25 years and multi-instrumentalist Stephen Drozd’s allegedly resurgent drug addiction have no doubt contributed to the atmosphere of their latest album. The Lips have reached inside themselves and caught hold of a feeling far bleaker than their established happy-go-lucky, innocent sense of optimism. Gone is the existential happiness of tracks such as “Do You Realize.” Instead, the album’s eponymous cut opens with the words, “However love can help you / We are all standing alone / The terror’s in our heads / We don’t control the controls.”

Turning largely to synthesizerdriven tracks, with drum kits and guitars relegated to only a few songs, the sound espoused by The Terror is sparse and, at times, ambient. Tracks such as “Try to Explain” demonstrate this approach at its best. Above a foreground of steadily pulsating noise, a plaintive keyboard melody builds toward a cathartic refrain in which Coyne’s voice croons, “Try to explain why you’ve changed / I don’t think I’ll understand / Try to explain why you’re leaving / I don’t think I’ll understand.”

The musical pathos of this piece is only enhanced by what is almost certainly a lyrical allusion to Coyne’s recent personal struggles.

Although Coyne’s untrained voice has always smacked of vulnerability, he sounds more fragile than ever here. A true sense of sadness counterbalanced by the sort of ethereal beauty found in “Try to Explain” makes evident the full potential of the palette The Flaming Lips have chosen for this release. Other tracks capitalizing on this direction, including “Turning Violent,” fare similarly well.

On the other hand, “You

Lust,” the album’s lengthiest song, exhibits the less successful aspects of the band’s new approach. At just over 13 minutes, the track meanders along, featuring a static, minimalistic rhythm alongside a repetitive and altogether uninspired synth riff. Various psychedelic echoes and occasional strummed guitar chords waft about, but they cannot alter the fact that “You Lust” is simply not compelling. To be fair, at about nine minutes and 40 seconds, the drawn-out tune gives way to a charming and somewhat lighthearted coda that provides a welcome reprieve from the pervading themes of the record as a whole. It should be noted, however, that without raucous drums and fuzzed-out guitars, sometimes the Lips seem just a little too bare, a realization that only comes about on the weaker parts of The Terror. Thankfully these parts are in the minority.

Though the ultimate message of The Terror is not one of abysmal depression, it protractedly wrangles with these sentiments before it can finally break free. The album represents intense psychological struggle with the darkest recesses of consciousness, revealing a new side of The Flaming Lips only hinted at in previous releases.

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While the musical product of this new incarnation of the band may be difficult listening for some, there is no doubt that this release reaffirms the Lips as one of the

most dynamic, daring, and sincere bands to have found success in today’s musical mainstream.

—Marshall Smith

Spring album roundup continued on page 7 with Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Phoenix

Storytelling collective gets personal M.F.A. exhibitions the audience laughing. She recounted a drama involving three pregnancy tests and reminisced on how she and her foster sister clawed each other’s hair in a catfight after prom.

The last story, performed by more seasoned members of the troupe Megan Stielstra and Bobby Biedryzcki, dealt with depression, suicide, addiction, but ultimately an against-the-odds recovery.

The performers used an expert theatrical touch as they told the same story from different perspectives, perfectly timing the sometimes completely conflicting recollections and feelings.

Third-year Lauren Kelly-Jones is an editor for Memoryhouse and works closely with 2nd Story, a group of “story-makers and story-lovers working together to build community through the power of storytelling,” according to their Web site.

Kelly-Jones read a story of her own to kick off Friday’s event.

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Angela Qian Arts Staff “I need to introduce you to three boys before you meet me,” third-year Lauren Kelly-Jones said into her microphone, looking steadily around room 802 in Logan at Memoryhouse literary magazine’s first event on Friday night. But instead of pointing to three men in the audience, she simply started telling a story, confessing a tale of three men in her

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life, including a five year old atheist and the not-soperfect guy she met in her first year as a student here at the University of Chicago.

Kelly-Jones’s British accent and colorful personality animated her reflections on being young and in love with the wrong guy.

Kelly-Jones performed this piece as part of 2nd Story, a professional collective of storytellers that hosts storytelling events around the city. Friday night’s per-

formance theme was “I Got Schooled: Stories from the Classroom of Life.” It featured three speakers, each with a very different experience and theatrical style.

The first piece, performed

by School of Social Service Administration student Margaret Marion, was about growing up in a foster home with a foster sister who never fully accepted her into the family. Marion told her story with sassy humor and pops of bright music that kept

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2nd Story seemed to be the ideal company to reach out to for Memoryhouse’s first event. Megan Stielstra, visiting lecturer on the Committee on Creative Writing, is not only the literary director of 2nd Story, but also the faculty advisor for Memoryhouse, the University’s newest literary magazine. MemoSTORY continued on page 8

spotlight talent Tianyuan Deng Senior Arts Staff Ply, the second of the four M.F.A. thesis exhibitions, opened at the Logan Center this past Friday. The exhibition presented works by four graduating artists: Nick Basis, Mark Beasley, Anais Daly, and Katherine Harvath. The audience delighted in the collection of works on show, which included one installation, a set of collage works, several sculptures, and some paintings.

Basis’s work invited the audience to read aloud sentences on screens. Upon entering the chambers, audience members saw three blue screens placed horizontally at knee level. Random sentences rolled through the screens and usually started with the instruction word “aloud.” These sentences could be composed of a single word, a series of repeated words, a witty saying, or a long-winded description of an object. Every screen had different content that rolled at a different speed, so when three people read them aloud, the scene resembled an impromptu theater performance with no obvious plot. However, the sentences were chosen and orchestrated

to create a kind of synergy among the participants. For instance, at one point all three screens showed, “We are together, we are together, we are together.” One could clearly see that the three participants, probably strangers before the performance, were somehow bonded through the act of chanting this message like a mantra—or indeed, as a simple fact, as they were literally together in a room. One participant, who commented that this “feels like it is starting a religion,” was obviously susceptible to the cultish charm of the piece.

During the opening, Basis and Harvath took time to share stories about their creative processes with the Maroon. When asked about the source of his inspiration, Basis replied that it stemmed from a gift for his girlfriend.

At the time of her birthday, his girlfriend was in New York City, and he thought of writing a play and then asking his friends to perform it in front of her. His friends did not need to do anything except read from the script he wrote. This birthday gift inspired Basis to think about the act of reading and its effect on human interaction.

MFA continued on page 8

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what a buddy of mine said about Harmony Korine’s new movie Spring Breakers, which is that it is not only bad, but also dangerous. I thought about coming-of-

HEADBANGERSPLOITATION: HEAVY METAL ON FILM Doc Films Thursdays at 9 p.m.

“Not that many people live by a code anymore.”

—Harry Dean Stanton, Repo Man Stanton said it, Alex Cox filmed it, and a crowd of 70-something teenagers, early 20-ers, middleagers, Ph.D. students, and film nerds watched it at Doc Films last Thursday. The movie was

Repo Man, the third installment in Doc’s “Headbangersploitation: Heavy Metal on Film” latenite series. Repo Man is a weird selection for a series on heavy metal exploitation movies. At its core, Repo Man is way more punk (Circle Jerks, Black Flag, Minor Threat) than it is metal (Suicidal Tendencies). It came out in 1984,

a time when the divisions between a “punk” kid and a “metal” kid were pronounced, despite the fact that both forms of hard music were starting to rule the charts, concert halls, and video rotations on MTV. I thought about these things as I sat and watched this flick unspool on a 35mm print. I thought about

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age movies—or “teen” movies— and how people experience Repo Man today, in an era when Dazed and Confused is “retro,” when the stringent genre of late-’90s teen comedy is dead, when people pay less attention to the importance of Mean Girls than they do to Lindsay’s 99th Nervous Breakdown and how Letterman feels about it, and when the Apatow crew hit its glorious peak with Superbad and has since gone to hell. The only movie about being a teenager that anyone wants to see these days is confined within a genre that you might call the Techno-Ironic Dark

Teen Comedy, or TIDTC. (In way of examples, I refer you to David Fincher’s The Social Network, Korine’s Spring Breakers, Lena Dunham’s Girls for HBO, and, to a certain extent, Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. the World.)

I present to you two theses about Repo Man: 1) It is about freedom—therefore, it is about heavy metal—and thus has a place in Doc’s series on metal, and 2) It is about apathetic people, but it is not an apathetic movie like TIDTCs—therefore, it embraces film ideals that, in 2013, are in danger of slipping away.

To the first point. Repo men live by a code: “I shall not cause harm to the vehicle or to the personal contents thereof, nor through inaction allow harm to be caused to the vehicle or the personal contents thereof.” Most people live their lives trying to avoid tense situations: Repo men spend their lives getting in to tense situations. The repo man’s concept of a form of life is not unlike that of Wittgenstein: From it results a capacity to REPO continued on page 8

Phoenix

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Born in the Brooklyn garage punk scene of the new millennium, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have found in their latest album a way to pay homage to their early roots while also taking on the future and a sound for the new decade. A mix between old and new, Mosquito recalls the scratchy wailing from Fever To Tell as well as the high-production quality and glittery energy from 2009’s It’s Blitz.

In addition to combining the past and future, Karen O found inspiration from other genres to help write tracks for Mosquito.

The opening track, “Sacrilege,” incorporates a powerful gospel chorus near its conclusion. Similarly, “Under the Earth” begins with Karen O’s crooning through a fuzzy, distorted

microphone but jumps into a roots reggae–inspired baseline, while still managing to keep up her usual glimmering, macabre sound.

Now retired from LCD Soundsystem, James Murphy helped produce the album, which is made clear by the electronic ticks and whirrs in “These Paths.”

However, not all collaborations on the album made for a perfect team. The guitars in “Buried Alive” buzz and squeal like early Yeah Yeah Yeahs work, but Kool Keith’s alter ego Dr. Octagon throws in a rap verse that makes the song sound like a bad ’90s radio edit. Luckily, the lo-fi grunge of “Subway,” the grimy, futuristic weirdness of “Area 52,” and Karen O’s cries and screams on

“Mosquito” show that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs have still got some of the young punky attitude they had growing up in the artsy garage punk scene.

The album almost finishes o n an underwhelming note with the unremarkable “Always” and “Despair,” but the ballad “Wedding Song” is a powerful, heartfelt track that manages to expunge the blandness of the previous two filler tracks. The album trips up a couple times, but its many redeeming qualities and the band’s ability to hearken back to its early punk roots without seeming disingenuous earns Mosquito a worthy place among the rest of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’s discography.

—Tori Borengasser

If you had asked your average American five years ago what came to mind when they thought about the historical city of Versailles, they might have said the Palace of Versailles, the Treaty of Versailles, and Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. However, if surveyed today, there would be another significant addition: the alternative rock band Phoenix.

Formed in Versailles in the late ’90s right out of grade school, the four-man alternative band released three albums in six years, none of which came close to noteworthy. That changed in 2009 when the band saw its first big success with the release of its fourth full-length album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, with Glassnote Records, an American indie record company, and French producer Phillipe Zdar of Cassius. Although Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix significantly

increased Phoenix’s popularity, it was only this year at Coachella that they were crowned ‘breakout kings.’ The fact that this new level of popularity comes to Phoenix at least 14 years after its formation is characteristic of its rise to success. The lead single for Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, “1901,” took 31 weeks to reach the number 1 position on the Billboard Hot Alternative Songs Chart, marking the longest trip to the top in the chart’s history.

And now, four years after their previous big success, they present the world with a new album, Bankrupt!

The 10-track album proves that the four years that Phoenix spent in recording studios in New York and Paris were well worth it. Bankrupt! keeps true to the distinct personality of the band, as it is defined by miniature symphonies, heavy synth, and exciting tonal transitions.

The most unique aspect of the album remains the smooth and futuristic vocals of lead singer Thomas Mars, which soar above the instrumental and synthetic compositions. The lyrics seem to be an unintelligible stream of words but fit right in with the sense of confusion that defines the album’s conceptual aim. If Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix produced several hits, including “1901” and “Liztomania,” the only individual piece that could reach the top charts in Bankrupt! is its first single, “Entertainment.” However, even though the songs may not be hit material individually, in the album they work together magically to make manifest the futuristic atmosphere that has defined Phoenix since its beginning. Suffice to say, listening to this album will definitely be an “Entertainment.”

—Ellen Rodnianski

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Memoryhouse literary magazine Ongoing M.F.A. exhibitions create community around UChicago arts brings intimacy, honesty to Logan MFA continued from page 6 and velocity, and the vibrant This did not mean that Har- space was navigation-friendSTORY continued from page 6 ryhouse focuses on narratives and poetry written in the first person. Its Facebook page is liberally covered with links to great examples of the memoir genre.

All of 2nd Story’s works, which are based on real-life events, are intended to be performance pieces. Stielstra describes 2nd Story performances as having “the intimacy of [her] own living room and the crazy, wine-warm secrets that have

been told there.” Though these stories are no grand surrealist feats or psychological dramas, their appeal lies in how the everyday life of each performer has been transformed so gracefully into relatable performance material. Each becomes personal and engaging, so that listening feels almost as if you’ve dropped in on a group of entertaining and talented friends, telling stories to no one but each other.

The idea then evolved into the installation/performance work on display at Logan.

Harvath’s talent shone through her color paintings.

The paintings looked achingly modern because their surfaces seemed to index the artist’s gestures—the smearing, smudging, scribbling and spattering of pigment.

Yet, even as someone who is familiar with the modernist aesthetics, I was struck by the originality of Harvath’s series. The gestures seemed to be infused with vitality

colors energized the canvas further still. In conversation, Harvath revealed that she used rags and experimented with different materials, and that, by the end of the production, she usually tossed away 70 percent of the works because they were not up to her standard. She also tried to balance the work by evening out the gestures.

For example, if there was a big smear in one area of the painting, she balanced this gesture with a small scribble in another part of the canvas.

vath “plotted” or streamlined the paintings, though. She concluded that whenever she tried to repeat the magical moments of some previous work, she always failed. This piece of observation suited well the general tendency of artistic creation toward a combination of meditation and spontaneity.

The audience clearly enjoyed the works, or, at the very least, enjoyed the company of friends. Because refreshments and drinks were served and the open gallery

ly, people mingled, and it was particularly easy to strike up a conversation with the budding artists. The M.F.A. exhibition was quite worthwhile for its burgeoning talent and meaningful interaction.

Ply is part of a recurring series of thesis exhibitions by University of Chicago Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.) students. A new round of artists will go on display for the next exhibition, Wayward, on May 4 and again with Sway on May 18.

Episode 2: Repo Man is always intense, “maintains capacity for life”

Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence

Second Annual Donor Symposium Friday, April 26, 2013 Time: 12:30–5:00 p.m.

Location: Biological Sciences Learning Center (BSLC) 1:00–1:45 p.m.

Keynote: Shifting Paradigms: The Oldest Art Became the Youngest Science

Jerome Lowenstein, MD Professor of Medicine, Chief, Edward C. Franklin Firm, and Founder and Director of Program for Humanistic Aspects of Medical Education at New York University 1:50–2:15 p.m.

Lecture: The Gold Humanism Foundation: Past, Present, and Future [and its Relationship to the Bucksbaum Institute]

Arnold Gold, MD Professor of Clinical Neurology and Pediatrics, Columbia University and Founder Arnold P. Gold Foundation 2:45–4:30 p.m.

Research Presentations by Bucksbaum Institute Faculty and Student Scholars Master Clinician

Ross Milner, MD, Department of Surgery Junior Faculty Scholars

Nita Lee, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Amber Pincavage, MD, Department of Medicine John Yoon, MD, Department of Medicine Student Scholars

Anne Lauer, MS2, Pritzker School of Medicine Elizabeth Rhinesmith, MS2, Pritzker School of Medicine Robert Sanchez, MS2, Pritzker School of Medicine 4:30–5:00 p.m. Advisory Board Panel Discussion

Jordan Cohen, MD, President Emeritus, AAMC Laura Roberts, MD, Chair of Psychiatry, Stanford University Arthur Rubenstein, MD, Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Box lunches will be provided. Registration and Lunch begin at 12:30 p.m.

Please RSVP to http:/tiny.cc/BISymposium-RSVP For questions, please call 773-702-3247.

The Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence was created to improve patient care, to strengthen the doctorpatient relationship and to enhance communication and decision-making through research and education programs for medical students, junior faculty and master clinicians.

REPO continued from page 7 freedom of action and judgment of any kind of rule or circumstance that might confront a repo man. They are not “entangled” in rules.

Quite the contrary, rules are what give repo men their freedom, because they establish a baseline from which the repo man can do anything at all. Heavy metal is similar. There is a “code” in the sense that the music should be, at its core, hard; it should challenge musical, social, political, and cultural norms. From these two things, hardness and challenge, the freedom of doing the thing can actually take place; i.e., these rules do not set a “boundary,” but rather, establish a form of life in which you are able to actually proceed.

Second: Post-Bowery ’80s hardcore punk— be it the West Coast or D.C. scenes—seems to have been borne of disillusionment and apathy with and toward systems. Repo Man embraces this ideal, and indulges in absurdities (“Let’s go commit crimes!” “Yeah, lets go eat some sushi, and not pay for it!”). Here is a key moment: Repo man Miller (every repo man is named after a beer) says to a disillusioned punker-turned-repossession-agent (Emilio Estevez), while burning trash and talking about how people are “into weirdness,” “People get so hung up on specifics, they miss out on seeing the whole thing.” The characters in Repo Man may be apathetic toward the world, but over the course of the movie, you come to learn, care, laugh, and grow with these people.

Sometimes the things that they do are absurd, but they are still people you can relate to, whom you know and recognize from real life. They may sometimes be vapid, but they are not vapid. Focus too much on the specifics—the “I get it” that you probably said multiple times throughout the vapid absurdities of Spring Breakers—and you miss out on the complete picture.

The difference between a movie like Repo Man and a movie like Spring Breakers or The Social Network is that it actually is about life.

It’s not trying to manipulate you, and it’s not trying to “stimulate your senses,” as Korine said about Skrillex’s music in his latest film.

It makes you feel, and it shows you, not unlike how Superbad did, that it is possible to be disillusioned with the world, or to sometimes act vapidly in it, while still having a capacity for life. A capacity for learning and loving is something people sometimes take for granted while Instagramming and Twittering and Facebooking and Formspringing their reality, a reality that is on the precipice of being eliminated. Reality’s challenger in the arena? The Techno-Ironic Dark Teen Comedy. Living ironically sucks. Living rules. Spring Breakers has no code, is about nothing, and also sucks, but luckily, you can see good movies like Wayne’s World and School of Rock in Doc’s Heavy Metal series this quarter. Never fear love.

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phasized shape and movement, with jaunty A-line skirts and swinging trapeze coats, along with some wellcrafted lace blouses in soft green.

Flared jackets were similarly featured on the runway with SHALINI, and were paired with dresses and blouses characterized by sporty lines running down the front, as well as some subtle inspiration from kimonos. It was, in short, a collection that one could imagine professional women in Chicago wearing on a daily basis. Artful origami folding and kimono shapes characterized the pieces of Calvin Tran’s collection, but Tran chooses to promote himself as more of a New York–based designer.

For everyone as exhausted with the peplum trend as I am, Barbara Bates was a cause for a groan. There were dresses with small peplums, dresses with enormous peplums, and altogether an abundance of volume that generally bodes badly for those lacking fashion model proportions.

Mark Roscoe also made several attempts at drama with oversized lace sleeves, smatterings of embellishments and huge ruffles, but without the refinement of couture craftsmanship, going for a big statement will inevitably look messy; Swaby faced a similar problem with a collection covered with giant rosettes. A flamenco-inspired red evening gown

A flamenco-inspired red evening gown was supposed to be the standout for MonArrez’s collection at the “StyleChicago.com: The Art of Fashion” runway show, but it paled in comparison to similar recent efforts by Balenciaga and Ralph Lauren.

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was supposed to be the standout for MonArrez, but it was difficult to appreciate the effort when we’ve seen Balenciaga (and recently Ralph Lauren) draw on Spanish inspiration in a more sophisticated way.

If Chicago designers were to try to design for New York, Paris, or Milan, they would probably fail. Even if they

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have the resources to emulate the fashions of these cities, they’re designing for a clientele with a different aesthetic and view on fashion. When I walk through the streets of Chicago, I don’t see the Alexander Wang–clad girls of downtown Manhattan or the consciously imperfect and offbeatcool fashions of Paris. Women are

instead opting for practical and quality basics, and when designers such as Lagi Nadeau, Borris Powell, and SHALINI lend enough vision and meticulousness to make these pieces new and relevant, Chicago style becomes a distinct and worthy entity: refreshingly unpretentious, defined by versatility and ease.

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Chicago admittedly does not have a reputation as a global fashion capital. Lacking a garment district and an official fashion week, Chicago style is largely affected by the trends originating from the more fashiondominant (and dominated) coastal cities. At the “StyleChicago.com: The Art of Fashion” runway show held on Friday night at the Museum of Broadcast Communications, 10 Chicago-based designers showed their Fall/Winter 2013 collections, striving to prove that Chicago has an active fashion scene in its own right.

The designers who were able to best promote Chicago’s fashion as unique were those who worked a wholesome, American sportswear quality into their collections. Lagi Nadeau, a relatively new designer, featured several dresses with dropwaists that gave a healthy flounce to her pieces. However, she didn’t let her collection be tied to one particular theme, and also showed fitted sheath dresses and skirt suits in metallic brocades. She varied her palette with use of traditional fall colors like black and burgundy along with some unexpected hues such as rose and pale green, with the effect of a diverse collection that wasn’t self-consciously trying to be anything but wearable and appealing.

Borris Powell’s collection also em-

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Summer Fellowships $1,500 Deadline: Friday, April 19, 2013 These fellowships are designed to support all enrolled students undertaking original creative projects over the summer. We seek to fund a wide variety of projects and disciplines. Generally, projects should be intended for production, performance, or publication during the following academic year.

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THE CHICAGO MAROON | SPORTS | April 23, 2013

Team effort more than enough Amidst slew of postponements, for victory after losses at No. 1 South Siders keep on winning Men’s Tennis Sam Zacher Associate Sports Editor After their matches against UIC (6–14) and Carthage (9–8) were rained out on Wednesday and Saturday, respectively, the No. 29 Maroons (12–4) were finally able to play yesterday. The rest prove d beneficial, seeing as Chicago dominated Wheaton (12–4), winning by a score of 7–2.

In rare fashion, the Maroons’ No. 1 singles player, second-year Deepak Sabada, lost, while all five other singles players snatched victories for Chicago. Until the match against No. 14 Wash U on April 13, when he lost to the region’s top player, Adam Putterman, Sabada had won eight straight singles matches. Although he was unable to start his streak over again yesterday, the rest of the bunch picked up the slack for the visiting Maroons.

In addition to the five singles wins, doubles courts No. 2 (second-year Ankur Bhargava and third-year Neil Karandikar) and No. 3 (first-years Jake Crawford and Gordon Zhang ) also came out victorious.

Among the singles victors was third-year Alex Golovin, playing on the No. 3 court.

“We played pretty well overall,” Golovin said. “The No. 1 matches were really tough matchups for our No. 1 singles and doubles players.”

With the regular season now over, Chicago can look toward this weekend’s UAA Championship in Orlando, FL. “One of our goals for the UAAs is to play more like a team. We did a really nice job of that during the point in our season when we won 10 matches in a row,” Golovin said.

Golovin is referring to the stretch from

Baseball February 16 to March 28, in which the Maroons went unbeaten. After those 10 matches, though, they dropped their next three.

“We got out of the habit and played individual tennis, which caused us to come out a little flat, and we didn’t have enough energy at times. It has prevented us from playing our best tennis,” Golovin said.

Yesterday was their first time back on the courts since those three matches, so the break from competing over the past week allowed the Maroons to get their heads on straight again. “[Like yesterday,] we all need to play well as a team at the same time,” Golovin said.

According to Golovin, rallying around teammates will be key in the coming week and will allow the South Siders to all play with the same intensity when they head to Orlando, FL to compete in the UAAs this Friday.

This season, head coach Jay Tee has given lots of praise to Sabada, who carried Chicago through its winning streak. As long as he brings his A-game, which shouldn’t be a problem for the No. 4 player in the region, the Maroons should be able to perform well in Orlando.

No matter how together this team feels at the conference championship, their jobs will all become a little easier if Sabada can get them off to a winning start. Ultimately, though, if the South Siders are going to be victorious in Florida, they will need the whole team firing on all cylinders.

This will be a vital week of practice for Chicago as they prepare and hope to carry their teamwork and energ y to the sunshine state.

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KYLE ENGEL, BASEBALL Assistant Coach Scott Budeselich: Kyle is a soft-spoken young man who has a unique combination of an aboveaverage arm combined with an aboveaverage quick release. He was our starting shortstop for most of 2012 and worked there all winter. During the first few games of this season, we decided to play him more at third base, and he has made a seamless transition. We couldn’t be more pleased with the kind of season that Kyle is having at the plate and in the field. We expect him to continue to be a key contributor to our team for the remainder of his career.

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Head Coach Ruth Kmak: Tab is a secondyear player who does whatever we need her to do on the field. She plays multiple positions and transitions from one to another adeptly with equal ease and skill. She is a natural infielder, but gets valuable innings on the mound as a pitcher when we need someone to change things up. She performed well in a closing role against Wisconsin–Whitewater last weekend and also pitched well against North Central this past Saturday despite not getting a win. Her teammates have great respect for how Tab just enjoys the game.

She literally makes it fun to be on the field with her smile and relaxed attitude. She makes it easy for her teammates to want to play well.

The Maroons have been unable to control one particular opponent lately: the weather. They have had four out of their seven most recent games postponed due to unpleasant weather conditions. The South Siders’ games against North Park and Hope, scheduled for this past Friday and yesterday, respectively, have both been postponed to a later date.

However, on Sunday, Chicago (16–8) swept Rockford (9–17) in a doubleheader at home, winning by scores of 9–2 and 4–3, respectively.

The Regents jumped out to an early 1–0 lead on a bases-loaded walk in the first inning. The Maroons evened the score on second-year third baseman Kyle Engel’s RBI triple.

In the second inning, with Rockford now back ahead 2–1, Chicago’s power arrived.

Fourth-year catcher Tony Logli and fourthyear outfielder Ben Bullock hit consecutive RBI singles. Logli scored on a passed ball.

Then Engel capped off the inning with a two-run single.

“We were ready for a tight couple of games, and we knew our momentum and focus would be the deciding factor in this matchup,” Logli said.

In the top of the sixth inning Rockford had runners on second and third with only one out, but fourth-year starting pitcher Matt O’Connor got out of the jam.

O’Connor started by fielding a hard ground ball back to the mound and then forced a short chopper to third base. Overall, the South Siders pumped out 13 hits.

The Maroons went up 2–0 early in the second game when fourth-year J.R. Lopez hit a two run single up the middle in the bottom of the first.

First-year stating pitcher Lucas Friss stayed in the game until the fourth inning, yielding two runs on seven hits while striking out two. Third-year Ray Kim allowed two hits and a run in an inning of relief.

With the Maroons trailing by one in the seventh, Bullock came to the plate. The fourth-year recorded a two-out single and reached second base on a wild pitch.

Schwabe recorded an RBI single to right center to tie the game. Fourth-year outfielder Jack Cinoman drew a walk to advance runners on first and second. Lopez sent a single to right field, driving Schwabe in to score the winning run.

“J.R. [Lopez] handled the pressure really well. A lot of baseball is a mind game and that last single was a great example of mental toughness and keeping a cool head when it counts,” Cinoman said.

This afternoon the squad will travel to Elmhurst to take on the Elmhurst College Bluejays (12–14), who are coming off a doubleheader sweep at the hands of Carthage. The Bluejays are currently on a seven-game losing streak that began April 12. “[We] have the playoff in the back of our minds, but know we need to focus and maintain consistency at each game leading up to them. Elmhurst is historically a good team, and we are going to bring the same level of intensity we have all season,” DeRenzo said.

First pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. this afternoon in Elmhurst.

Welch: “We usually refer to joining the rugby team as having joined a second fraternity.”

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RUGBY continued from back interest. Lab School students have come out to the club’s practices, with talk of starting a school team. In addition, there have been rumors of the squad going varsity, captain Tommy Walsh said, though he pleaded ignorance.

The stigma of rugby as a sport played by brawny foreigners couldn’t be further from the truth, and there is a strong element of tradition to the game. Rugby code dictates that teams leave their aggression on the field and, after post-game handshakes, share food, belt out classic rugby tunes, and, yes, party together. “It’s a great dynamic that needs to be experienced to be understood,” Walsh said.

“It’s cool doing something original, and there is definitely a strong bond between people who share an interest in the game. I’ve also

been able to meet people from all over the world.”

“Just last week we had a game with the Chicago Police Department,” Welch said.

“Being able to just talk to police officers like normal people and hearing some of their stories was just unreal.”

The connections between team members, though, seem even stronger. “We usually refer to joining the rugby team as having joined a second fraternity,” Welch said.

Presently, the squad is in the midst of its exhibition season. Having played against Lincoln Park Rugby and Chicago Blue so far, the team takes a break this week for its Alumni Weekend. Afterward, it has fixtures against the Illiana Misfits and DePaul, before taking up the mantle of the University’s honor against Northwestern in May.

After rain delays, closing stretch of regular season busier than usual SOFTBALL continued from back week. Although Monday’s game against Hope was cancelled due to weather, doubleheaders against Aurora, Carthage, North Park, and UW–Oshkosh are still on the schedule. Despite its busy schedule, Chicago is intent on finishing the regular season strong. “We want to focus on one inning at a time and get some W ’s in the next few games,” Bohac said.

The South Siders will take on Aurora (25–3) on Wednesday in Aurora, IL. They will be a challenging opponent— in addition to their record, they’re

undefeated at home.

The Maroons will then face No. 25 Carthage (21–7) at home on Thursday.

Chicago should expect another tough doubleheader, with the Lady Reds tallying an overall batting average of .332 and an average of 6.25 runs per game. If the South Siders are going to be successful, they will need their defense to be at the top of its game.

The Aurora contest is scheduled to begin at 3 p.m. tomorrow in Aurora, IL. Play against Carthage will begin on Thursday at 3 p.m. on Stagg Field.

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Personal bests at Twilight put Maroons in mood for UAAs Track & Field Isaac Stern Sports Staff As night fell on Saturday, the Wheaton Twilight Invitational concluded, and the Maroons officially finished their last meet before the conference championship, which takes place later this week.

The South Siders exhibited strong performances on both the men’s and women’s sides, finishing third and fifth, respectively. As expected, North Central—which placed first in its three previous meets—took first place on both sides. But, as has been the case all season, the real focus for Chicago centered on preparing for UAAs. “The mindset of the meet was to gear up for UAAs,” third-year Dan Povitsky said. “Several members of the team were aiming to hit marks that would secure them a spot on the conference roster.”

Usually, head coach Chris Hall only takes South Siders who have a legitimate chance of scoring points at the conference meet.

This means Maroons who are capable of finishing in the top eight at conference. Povitsky, who had a personal best in the 5,000-meter run, finished third at Wheaton with a time of 14:50.15 and currently ranks fifth in the conference.

“I was very happy finishing third in the 5k. It was a 12–second best on my indoor performance and

got me onto the all-time [Chicago Track and Field] honor roll for the event,” Povitsky added.

Povitsky was one of many to accomplish personal bests this past weekend. Fourth-year Isaac Dalke won the 3,000-meter run in 8:34.39. Fourth-year All-American Billy Whitmore dominated the 5k, finishing first in 14:32.14. That time is currently the eighth–fastest Division III this year. First-year Cat Young placed second in the 3,000-meter run with her time of 10:05.98.

“I was pretty happy with my time this weekend, as it was a personal best,” Young said. “It would have been nice to get first, but overall I think it was a good race in preparation for conferences.”

In addition to those listed above, several other Maroons claimed victories: fourth-years Dee Brizzolara (100-meter dash, 10.97) and Kayla McDonald (800-meter run, 2:17.05), first-year Michael Darmiento (110-meter hurdles, 15.39), and the men’s 4x100–meter relay team (42.61) all finished first.

“The team did well overall in our last meet,” Young said. “We didn’t want this past weekend to be mentally challenging, as we need to save all that energy for conferences this weekend, so this past meet was pretty fun and just gave people an opportunity to race.”

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First-years Kristen Greenwood (left) and Karin Gorski run in the Chicago Duals track meet earlier this season.

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At this point, the Maroons’ preparation is completely mental.

They cannot get faster, quicker, or develop better technique in the coming days.

“I think the team has worked really hard all winter and spring for this conference meet and should work on confidence going

into UAAs,” Young said. “We are all prepared and have put in all the work we can so we should feel comfortable and ready to perform.”

Hall will likely announce the travel list for the UAA Championship later today. Those who are selected will travel to

New York at the end of the week to compete for a conference title.

“At the moment, the outlook is strictly on UAAs,” Povitsky said.

“On the men’s side we finished second indoors, which was a strong feat, but we certainly look to go for the win outdoors. It goes without saying, beat Wash U.”

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—US swimmer Ryan Lochte reflects on his talents during an episode of his new TV show, What Would Ryan Lochte Do?

Chicago’s only DII team flies under the radar on the Midway Club Sports Spotlight: Men’s Rugby Derek Tsang Sports Staff You may have seen them crashing into each other on the Midway—lines of men with their limbs locked in confrontation, pitching their sport’s distinctive leather spheroid here and there, back and forth, sprinting, juking, kicking, in the midst of a scrum.

I’m talking, of course, about University of Chicago Rugby, not football, but you’d be forgiven for mistaking them, clad in their bold, timeless long-sleeve polos, for some reincarnation of the original Monsters of the Midway.

For over 50 years, the University—graduates and undergraduates alike—has fielded one of the most competitive teams in the Chicago area. Tracing them back through old newspaper clippings, the Maroons can be found crushing the Chicago Lions (now playing in the men’s Midwest Division I) in 1964, competing in the Division I Final Four in the late 1970s, and clocking in winning records year after year throughout the 1990s.

Even now, alumni from the 1960s and 1970s show up for the team’s annual Alumni Game in the spring.

After a decade-long spell in which the club was dominated by Booth students, 2007 saw the beginning of a transition towards undergraduate competition. The Men’s Rugby club contests the Chicago Area Rugby Football Union (CARFU)’s collegiate division in the fall, and unites with graduate students and alumni for an exhibition season in the spring against other universities and local teams, like the Chicago Riot and the South Side Irish.

“Professionally, the Chicago Lions are one of the best clubs in the country, and we actually have a few UChicago members who have been affiliated with them,” the team’s president, second-year Mack Skarzynski said. “Overall, the rugby scene is pretty vibrant and constantly expanding.”

The Maroons reached a new high last year, topping CARFU’s Division III table without a loss and outscoring their opponents 155–12 over four games. Now a part of the league’s Division II, the team can boast, rightfully so, that it’s the University’s only sports team competing above Division III. After spending last fall getting used to the new level of competition, to the tune of a 1–3–1 record,

Second-year Matheus Kroeff (left) and Noah Moskowitz (center, A.B. ‘12) compete in a rugby match against the Chicago Dragons Rugby Football Club last spring.

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Skarzynski says that the club’s goal is to win CARFU’s Division II league this coming fall.

Like most of the club sports on campus, the men’s rugby squad has a mixture of lifelong players and converts to the game. “I’d been advised by several older friends who had dropped out of varsity wrestling and

football at other schools that rugby was way more fun,” veteran third-year TJ Welch said, “so I went into O-Week planning on joining the team to see if it was for me, and I fell in love.”

Skarzynski, a hockey player since his youth, told a similar story. “I really wanted to continue with a physical team sport at UChicago,”

he said. “By the time second week came around and our season was starting, I was already hooked.”

As the team adjusts to its league and to a surge of new blood—the 10 players who left the team after last year have been replaced with undergraduates—the rugby club finds itself amid something of a renaissance,

as rugby transitions from its former niche into the public eye. Rugby was the fastest growing team sport in the U.S. in 2010, and America’s Olympic squad is a serious threat to win gold in Rio de Janeiro.

The Maroons, too, are finding themselves an object of increasing RUGBY continued on page 10

Offense only supports pitching for one game of doubleheader Softball

First-year Kristin Lopez went 2–3 with an RBI in four at bats in a game against Wheaton on Sunday.

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Tatiana Fields Associate Sports Editor The Maroons broke out of their slump this weekend with a shutout win over Wheaton, but the Thunder retaliated

to defeat Chicago in the second game of their doubleheader.

After a difficult stint of their season, the South Siders (13–11) ended their five-game losing streak at home on Sunday

against Wheaton (15–12), winning the first game of their doubleheader 4–0 before dropping the second, 3–2.

Coming into the game, the Maroons were determined to end their

recent string of losses and enter the regular season home stretch on a high note. The team was very pleased with its performance in the first contest.

“It felt great to be able to get the first win over Wheaton,” second-year pitcher Tabbetha Bohac said. “We came into the weekend wanting to defend our home field and win every inning , so that was what we focused on.”

The Maroons got out to an early lead, scoring two runs in the second inning.

First-year Devan Parkison pinch ran and scored on a sacrifice fly by third-year third baseman Maddie McManus, and fourth-year infielder Vicky Tomaka singled in another run.

Once Chicago’s offense was up and running , the win was secured for the Maroons.

Fourth-year starting pitcher Kim Cygan threw six scoreless innings, allowing just six hits and two walks, striking out three.

The Thunder had an opening in the top of the fourth with runners on second and third and only one out, but Cygan managed to hold Wheaton scoreless, forcing Wheaton into an infield popout and striking out pitcher Lyndsey Pritchard to end the inning.

The Maroons increased their lead with an RBI double from first-year Kristin Lopez in the fourth and an RBI single from third-year Zoe OliverGrey in the fifth. The game ended 4–0, giving the South Siders their first win since April 7.

The Thunder turned things around quickly in the second game, scoring two runs in the first on a two-run homer to left center by second baseman Christina Sanstedt.

Chicago threatened immediately but was unable to score after fourth-year Vicky Tomaka struck out with the bases loaded. The Maroons loaded the bases a second

time in the bottom of the third and scored on an RBI single by Tomaka, chipping away at the deficit, bringing the score to 2–1. The South Siders tied the score in the bottom of the fourth when Parkison stole home.

Wheaton took back the lead with a run in the sixth inning on a bases-loaded RBI single. The Maroons couldn’t break through the Thunder’s defense for the rest of the game, which ended 3–2. First-year Jordan Poole pitched seven innings for the Maroons, giving up six hits, walking two, and striking out one.

“We had our opportunities throughout the game and got hits and played solid defensively, but we just needed to have more timely hitting and capitalize on the opportunities when we get people on base,” Bohac said.

The Maroons will have a chance to work on those weaknesses this SOFTBALL continued on page 10