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The College Magazine In which we discuss SIX SCORE OF UCHICAGO FOOTBALL · THE HUNDREDS · ZELDA ET AL. Also “Themistocles, Thucydides ... ” · Unmemeable music · “A kitchen wench ... ” · A vaudeville clown THE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Winter 2020 Supplement to The University of Chicago Magazine COM-19_FY20 Core January Issue Cover_v5.indd 2 1/23/20 5:19 PM In November the Smart Museum hosted a silent disco inspired by the student- curated exhibition Down Time: On the Art . Photography by Erik Peterson Erik by Photography of Retreat i / The Core COM-19_FY20 Core January Issue TOC_v4.indd 1 1/23/20 4:02 PM From the editor IF YOU INSIDE DON’T HAVE SOMETHING NICE TO SAY ... SHORT Among the emails about the cheer “Themistocles, Thucydides …” that flooded my in-box in November Alumni memories: Tales of good cheer What’s new in the College: · 2 (see page 2), there was this UChicago’s own Shark Tank, The City in a Garden, Design Your Chicago, message: “I write not to share SSA’s new minor · UChicago creature: Very hungry squirrels a tale or a score for our fight song but a comment on the suggestions that Mr. Winter add words to his guitar compositions.” MEDIUM Like the cheer, guitarist Eli Winter, Class of 2020, was featured in the November issue Music: Guitarist Eli Winter, Class of 2020, has no words Comedy: “A · 6 of College Review, the Core’s kitchen wench is a kitchen wench forever!” · Books: Questions for Whet email newsletter. Although Moser, AB’04, and an excerpt from his guidebook Chicago: From Vision Winter is a creative writing to Metropolis major, his songs don’t have lyrics. After his shows, audience members sometimes take issue with that. LONG Richard P. Martin, AB’62, took issue with them. “There have always been, and SIX SCORE OF 13 probably always will be, those who wish to improve works UCHICAGO FOOTBALL for guitar or piano (I suspect From Big Ten champions (1899) to nothing (1939) to Midwest there are fewer who wish to Conference scholar-athletes (2019). improve compositions for other instruments) by adding words,” he wrote. “Some things, like Frank Lloyd ORDINARY POETRY 18 Wright’s Robie House, are fine An interview with Lauren Berlant, the George M. Pullman Distinguished as conceived and executed.” (Of Service Professor in English, about the collaborative project course, the Robie House, now The Hundreds. a National Historic Landmark and a UNESCO World Heritage site, was not always universally TEN beloved; it was nearly torn town An excerpt from The Hundreds by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart. in 1941 and again in 1957.) In December, the Guardian named Winter to its list of 50 artists to watch in 2020. Read THE GAME CHANGERS 26 more about his “thoroughly Are video games the major cultural industry of our time? unmemeable” music on page 6. —Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 ET CETERA Design: Felted wool throws by Liam Lee, AB’15 Recipe: SOUPport · 32 The University does not discriminate soup · Seen and heard: Isak Moon, Class of 2023, vaudeville clown on the basis of race, color, religion, Puzzle: UChicago clues from Jeopardy! Comic: Strange Planet sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, · · national or ethnic origin, age, status as by Nathan W. Pyle an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. Front cover: UChicago Photographic Archive, apf4-00675, University of Chicago Library. For additional information, please see Back cover: Photography by John Zich. equalopportunity.uchicago.edu. THE CORE · Supplement to the Winter 2020 issue of the University of Chicago Magazine EDITOR CONTRIBUTING WRITERS CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 773.702.2163 (phone) Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 Susie Allen, AB’09 Laura Demanski, AM’94 773.702.0495 (fax) Jeanie Chung Mary Ruth Yoe [email protected] ART DIRECTOR mag.uchicago.edu/thecore COPY EDITOR Guido Mendez Rhonda L. Smith DESIGNER The Core is published twice a year as a Michael Vendiola supplement to the University of Chicago Magazine by the University of Chicago. © 2020 University of Chicago. Winter 2020 / 1 COM-19_FY20 Core January Issue TOC_v4.indd 1 1/23/20 4:02 PM Alumni memories TALES OF GOOD CHEER The November issue of the College Review, the Core’s email newsletter, included this rousing call to action: Themistocles, Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, X squared, Y squared, H2SO4 . Who for? What for? Who we gonna yell for? Go, Maroons! —Alleged UChicago cheer* *The editors of the College Review have seen the cheer “Themistocles, Thucydides …” in writing but have never actually heard it. Ever chanted it at a sporting event (or Model UN or anything else)? The definition of “fighting word” varies by jurisdiction, but at UChicago “alleged” clearly qualifies. Alumni emails swiftly rolled in, documenting the cheer at UChicago (and elsewhere) beginning in the late ’60s, as well as asking the big questions: Where is the world’s largest kazoo? Below, a selection of these cheerful tales.—Ed. LOUD I absolutely remember hearing that chant (“Themistocles, Thucydides …”) during my years at the U of C in the ’60s, although I don’t remember the circumstances. It might have been as a joke at the demonstration against football in the fall of ’63. Or maybe during O-Week when some new second-year friends were introducing us to College life. Or some other time entirely. I hadn’t thought of it in years, but as soon as I saw the first few words on the page, I heard all of it in my head. I hope today’s students see the value of shouting it out, loud and proud. —Joan Phillips-Sandy, AB’68 MESS An unknown cheerleader shows The 1970 Homecoming game. Yes, his UChicago spirit in 1936. UChicago Photographic Archive, apf4-00812, University of Chicago Library it was a cheer. Everyone received a 2 / The Core COM-19_FY20 Core January Issue Short_v5.indd 2 1/23/20 4:02 PM free kazoo before the game and took troubled times. Even knowing when chanted “Themistocles, Thucydides …” the field in a disorganized mess at it was last seen in public (at a game? at swim meets. Other Maroon teams halftime as the kazoo marching band. at a parade? borrowed by another used it too; I think I heard it from the —Dean Polales, AB’75, JD’79 school? consigned to the scrap heap football bleachers. Everyone seemed of silliness past?) would be of critical to consider the cheer quintessentially assistance in this mystery for the ages. University of Chicago—a quirky Does anyone, anyone (Bueller?) have “humble brag” taunting competitors: HOMAGE a picture they can send in to put on a win or lose, at least Chicago athletes wanted poster or milk carton? are scholars living a “life of the I recall the cheer during football games Perhaps finding Big Ed can be mind” beyond the playing field (or in the early 1970s, shortly after football included as a challenge for the next swimming pool). was reinstated, but with some minor Scav Hunt. Goodness knows, those But in embracing “Themistocles, differences from the version that you teams are resourceful. Thucydides” as unique to the posted. My recollection is that we used By the way, my understanding is University’s sports programs, I a squared and b squared rather than that Michigan State got Chicago’s spot wonder whether we have done our X squared and Y squared, presumably in the Big Ten, and that Chicago could homework. I arrived at the College in in homage to the Pythagorean have rejoined the Big Ten, but gave up 1978 from Marmion Military Academy, theorem. Also, the last line was not that right when it rejoined an NCAA a Catholic high school in Aurora, “Go Maroons,” but simply “Chicago” conference some years ago. I have Illinois, with no special connection to from a lower part of the octave. We not, however, researched the relevant the University. Yet I got to campus never used “UChicago,” a subsequent documentation. I’m sure an enterprising already knowing “Themistocles, branding; the name we used was journalism student could track it down. Thucydides” by heart. Back then, always either U of C or simply Chicago. I have included Keeper of The Marmion swimmers used it too. —Steven J. Shapero, AB’74, JD’77 World’s Largest Kazoo in every Did “Themistocles, Thucydides” résumé I’ve ever used. emerge from Hyde Park and spread —Donald J. Bingle, AB’76, JD’79, outward? Or was it born elsewhere, Former Keeper of The with Maroons adopting but not ALLEGED? World’s Largest Kazoo originating it? This cheer may be indigenous to Chicago, but it certainly Alleged? I can confirm the referenced isn’t endemic. cheer was cheered on multiple (And the less said the better about occasions at University of Chicago “ALLEGED” the cheer’s inglorious cousin: “That’s football games in the ’70s (the all right / That’s OK / You’re gonna decade in the last century, not the I just had to write about this edition work for us / Someday.”) temperature of the field at game of the Review. —Donald C. Dowling Jr., AB’82 time), along with the following cheer The “alleged” cheer is not alleged. of similar stripe: It’s the cheer we used when I was in the College. We used it at football e to the y, dy/dx, games. In those days, a kazoo CRACKED e to the x, dx, marching band would emerge from cosine, secant, tangent, sine, the stands to play something during I never chanted the cheer myself, but 3 point 14159, halftime. By the way, when I was I heard the cheerleaders yell it at a square root, cube root, BTU, in the College, the quarterback of Maroons football game in 1980 or 1981.
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