THE COLLEGE MAGAZINE Winter 2021 Supplement to The University of Chicago Magazine COM_21_FY21_CORE_February_2021_Cover_v8.indd 2 1/20/21 2:22 PM Tess Teodoro, Class of 2021, created this piece for the Autumn Quarter course Painting Matters: En Plein Air (see “When Art Imitates Life,” page 12). The assignment was to apply paint with Painting Teodoro, by Tess Class of 2021; photo illustration by Michael Vendiola anything except a brush. COM_21_FY21_CORE_February_2021_TOC_v7.indd 1 1/20/21 2:23 PM From the editor HOME INSIDE ALONE “How can you have a newspaper,” an anonymous SHORT commentator asked in the October 18, 1918, issue of the Daily Maroon, “when the Art: College students collaborate with world-renowned artist Jenny influenza does away with Holzer, EX’74, on LED trucks · Top 5: Scented candles that evoke 2 every sort of activity that Chicago neighborhoods Quote: “I am no longer an Episcopal priest ... ” ever happened?” · After an Autumn Quarter without sports, concerts, or parties, we might ask the MEDIUM same question. Even gossip was canceled, as Dean John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, UChicago creature: Pascal the ring-necked dove · UChicago history: observed: “No one gossips Songs of the University of Chicago, an unexpected pleasure in a difficult 4 on Zoom.” year · Faculty: In honor of the newly named Hanna Holborn Gray Three-quarters of College Special Collections Research Center, eight of our favorite HHG anecdotes students returned to Hyde Park, but they were almost · Public policy: What if cities took the lead on sustainability? invisible. Everywhere that students usually gather, this year they didn’t. But despite the difficult ci cumstances, LONG the students of 2020–21 still managed to create moments of joy. WHEN ART IMITATES LIFE 12 Elma Ling Hoffman, Class A professor known for installation art takes her painting class outside. of 2021, adopted a rescue dove, Pascal, and brought him along when she studied on the quad. THROUGH STUDENT EYES 18 Vera Soloview, Class of Photographers Fatou Ndoye and Vera Soloview, both Class 2023, couldn’t play rugby, but the team competed with of 2023, show us what Autumn Quarter was like. other schools on fitne s challenges. Her push-up max: 62 in two minutes. Fatou Ndoye, Class of “WE SHALL EVERY ONE BE MASK’D” 22 2023, couldn’t dance with Classes outdoors and in tents. Masks worn everywhere, even the hip-hop club EX Crew, so by the grotesques. Scenes from an Autumn Quarter that she danced in her bedroom required improvisation. by herself. “It’s taken a lot of creativity to figu e out what I like to do this quarter,” she said. Read more about MOUNTAIN TIME 30 students’ resilience starting First-year cross-country runners start the academic year off with an on page 4. altitude adjustment. —Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 ET CETERA The University does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, Lyrics: “1893” by F. Frank Steigmeyer, PhB 1897 Map: Tents on sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, · 34 national or ethnic origin, age, status as campus · Comic: Strange Planet by Nathan Pyle an individual with a disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. Front cover: Painting by Mercedes Cardenas, Class of 2021. For additional information, please see Back cover: UChicago Photographic Archive, apf2-05135, University of Chicago Library. equalopportunity.uchicago.edu. THE CORE · Supplement to the Winter 2021 issue of the University of Chicago Magazine EDITOR CONTRIBUTING WRITERS CONTRIBUTING EDITORS 773.702.2163 Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 Susie Allen, AB’09 Laura Demanski, AM’94 [email protected] Jeanie Chung Mary Ruth Yoe mag.uchicago.edu/thecore ART DIRECTOR Lucas McGranahan Guido Mendez The Core is published twice a year as a COPY EDITOR supplement to the University of Chicago DESIGNER Rhonda L. Smith Michael Vendiola Magazine by the University of Chicago. © 2021 University of Chicago. Winter 2021 / 1 COM_21_FY21_CORE_February_2021_TOC_v7.indd 1 1/20/21 2:23 PM UChiVotes undergraduate voting ambassadors, who encouraged their peers to vote early, pose with one of Jenny Holzer’s trucks. Art VOTER THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE DO YOU WANT THE FUTURE REGISTRATION CANNOT BE SILENCED TO BE DIFFERENT? DRIVE YOU’RE NOT OVERREACTING AT THIS POINT HOW COULD VOTE BECAUSE THEY DON’T YOU NOT? On two days in late October, a small WANT YOU TO fleet of LED trucks drove around the I REGRET BELIEVING THAT MY city, displaying forceful get-out-the- HAPPY? VOTE DIDN’T MATTER vote messages. YOUR BIRTHRIGHT IS MY IF YOU DON’T USE YOUR VOTE The trucks were part of YOU BE MY LIFE’S DESIRE NOBODY WILL ALLY, a collaborative art piece by world- DO MORE THAN MAIL IT IN renowned artist Jenny Holzer, EX’74. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO More than 70 nonpartisan messages, LET THE WORLD REVERBERATE REMAIN VIBRANT , 2020 LED truck. Text: University of Chicago students. Chicago, Illinois, USA. YOUR VOICE written by UChicago students, VOTE LIKE YOUR CHILDREN appeared on the trucks anonymously APATHY IS UNACCEPTABLE ARE WATCHING and in all caps—like the text in all of Holzer’s works. Here are some VOTE LIKE NOBODY’S WATCHING VOTE TO DECIDE WHICH WAY examples.—Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 VOTE IT’S FREE! WE GO NEXT! YOU BE MY ALLY © Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), Photo: NY. Christopher Dilts 2 / The Core COM_21_FY21_CORE_February_2021_Short_v8.indd 2 1/20/21 3:37 PM Top 5 NEIGHBORHOOD 1. Hyde Park (Cantara’s neighborhood, 2013–18) CANDLES “The nostalgic scent of Hyde Park’s many Top bookstores and libraries, with notes of leather, Annie Cantara, AB’17 Here are the top five patchouli, and musk.” (comparative human sellers at her company, development), makes soy Vicinity Candles, and what candles that smell like inspired each one. 2. Lakeview (where she lived 2018–20) Chicago neighborhoods. —Carrie Golus, AB’91, AM’93 “The cool summer breeze swirling off of Lake Michigan, with notes of rain water, jasmine, and citrus.” 3. Lincoln Park (her current neighborhood) “The fresh scent of spring’s arrival in Lincoln Park, with notes of grass, bamboo, and bergamot.” 4. West Loop “The delicious scent wafting from the Blommer Chocolate factory with notes of chocolate, vanilla, and walnut.” 5. Pilsen “A walk through Pilsen with a cup of Mexican hot Photo courtesy Annie Cantara, AB’17 chocolate, with notes of cinnamon, vanilla, and cream.” “I am no longer an Episcopal priest. I am a content provider.” —Maurice Charles, MDiv’90, PhD’13, Dean of Rockefeller Chapel, on adjusting to Zoom during 2020 Video courtesy Bucknell University, screenshot by Michael Vendiola Winter 2021 / 3 COM_21_FY21_CORE_February_2021_Short_v8.indd 3 1/20/21 2:23 PM UChicago creature to have a white variation. In the When people meet this guy, wild they’re brown. they’re surprised he’s cuddly. A DOVE OF He’ll coo if he wants attention. How did you get the idea to He’s not that smart though. He’ll MANY NAMES keep a dove? coo at anything that is vaguely Fourth-year Elma Ling his size and light in color. Hoffman, an art history I nanny for the most wonderful Also, doves kiss. They’ll and religious studies major, family, and they have four gently peck you with their chooses an apt companion. parakeets. I tutor the kids in violin beaks. He’ll do that to me, and languages—French, Japanese, but also when I’m FaceTiming and a little bit of Russian. someone he recognizes. He’ll At the beginning of an The seven-year-old is bow and coo and peck at them. unseasonably warm Autumn learning violin. When we They’re really very warm pets. Quarter, Elma Ling Hoffman, play together, the parakeets Also super inexpensive. This guy Class of 2021, was occasionally sing along. So I was like, I’m cost $25. seen studying on the quads with a musician, I need a bird to her pet dove, Pascal, aka P.G. accompany me. I’m also an art Did it take a while for him Tips, El Greggo, and a growing history and religious studies to adjust? list of sobriquets. major. You see infinite paintings The Core tracked Hoffman with the Virgin Mary and a When I first got him, my down through Pascal’s little dove. roommate had a cat. He was in Instagram account. He was a separate room, but the room present throughout the Zoom Where did you get him? had a glass door, and the cat interview, either perched on would come … it was like cat Hoffman’s finger or wandering A rescue in Waukesha television. I think that might around his cage. [Wisconsin] called CARE, Center have stressed Pascal out. for Animal Rehabilitation and Doves tend to bond fairly Interview has been edited Education. I have a friend who quickly to their owners. They’re and condensed. sews sails for boats. He was recommended for children and like, I’m going up there for work elderly people—almost like anyway. Let’s get you that dove emotional support animals. He You keep the cage door open? for your birthday. just sits and coos and loves. He So we walk in and there’s can’t even bite if he tried. Which Most of the time. When I leave, birds everywhere. Macaws, is a big thing with parrots, I’ll close it. Otherwise I let him cockatiels and cockatoos, because parrots can nip. wander as he pleases. lovebirds, parrots. It was super loud. All the parrots screaming. How do doves wind up at Could you explain the difference I go over to the dove section, a rescue? between a dove and a pigeon? and I was like, oh yeah.