Brought to you by the editors of the Core
 
 
 
 
 
 
March 2019
 
 
 
 
 
 
01 Historian with a camera
02 What's JÜV?
03 That song rings a bell
04 Name that Zune
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Historian with a camera
 
 
When Henry Horenstein, EX'69, photographed country music duo Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner in 1972, he asked Parton about her bold fashion choices. "People don't come out to see me looking like everybody else," she told him.
 
The photo, and many other images of a vanishing America that Horenstein shot over 40 years, appears in Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music (W. W. Norton, 2012).
 
Emmylou Harris in 1980.
 
Horenstein's urge to document history dates from his time in the College during the late 1960s, when he took classes from Jesse Lemisch (1936-2018), then assistant professor of history. Lemisch was interested in ordinary people: "history from the bottom up," as he described it.
 
On Lemisch's advice, Horenstein spent several months in England studying with E. P. Thompson, author of The Making of the English Working Class (Pantheon Books, 1963). The experience gave Horenstein an idea: "I had no art background, but I did know a thing or two about history. Maybe I could be a historian with a camera."
 
 
Jerry Lee Lewis in 1975.
 
That plan got unexpected encouragement in 1969 when Horenstein was expelled for participating in a sit-in protesting the denial of tenure to Marlene Dixon, a leftist sociologist. Afterward he enrolled at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to study photography. He's now a professor at RISD and the author of more than 30 books of photography.
 
Read more about Horenstein in the University of Chicago Magazine.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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What's JÜV? Jacob Chang, Class of 2021, explains.
 
 
Chang (second from left) with the JÜV leadership team.
 
Around two years ago, I became part of JÜV Consulting, which was founded by two of my best friends from high school. JÜV is a marketing consultancy run by members of Generation Z.
 
The idea behind it is that adults should not try to market to young people, because they don't understand the trends. Companies should be talking to young people like us and hearing things straight from the source.
 
We've grown from a really small staff to a team of about 100. We range in age from about 14 to 22, except for our HR director, who's like 26 or 27. At our age, none of us really knows how HR works.
 
Generation Z is extremely performative, given that we've grown up with social media. Because of that, we have a really good idea for telling what's authentic from what's not. So if brands try to be something they're not, we'll see right through that.
 
Read more about JÜV in the Core.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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That song rings a bell
 
 
What's up with the pop songs played on Rockefeller Chapel's carillon?
 
University carillonneur Joey Brink, who caught the attention of Buzzfeed in 2015 for playing Drake's "Hotline Bling," has been known to play Toto's "Africa" and, during the 2016 World Series, "Go Cubs Go."
 
The 20 members of the UChicago Guild of Student Carillonneurs--mostly undergrads--tend to choose classical pieces. The work of Ronald Barnes, who composed for carillon, is particularly popular. One student, now graduated, liked to play Aqua's "Barbie Girl."
 
 
Maria Krunic, Class of 2021, with the instrument that everyone in the neighborhood can hear, but few have seen.
 
"If it has a melody," says student carilloneur Maria Krunic, Class of 2021, "you can pretty much arrange it."
 
    Carillonneur favorites: Pachelbel's Canon, "Light of the Seven" from Game of Thrones, the theme from the BBC's Pride and Prejudice
 
    Notable requests: "Hedwig's Theme" from the Harry Potter films, "Mia and Sebastian's Theme" from La La Land
 
    Resisted adaptation: The bells' sustained resonance can muddy melodies with intricate rhythms. One student tried to arrange the theme from anime series Yuri on Ice but found there were too many notes.
 
    Adaptation goal: Krunic is working on a version of "Summertime" from George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess after hearing a guest carillonneur improvise it at Rockefeller.
 
    Odd request: The Soviet national anthem. The request was made in jest, but Michael Petruzzelli, Class of 2019, played it anyway.
 
Read more about the Guild of Student Carillonneurs in the Core.
 
The Guild takes requests--make one if you'll be in the neighborhood. Upcoming requests are announced on Rockefeller Chapel's Facebook page.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Name that Zune
 
 
There are 46,358 photos in the University of Chicago Photographic Archive. Unfortunately the information for many is tantalizingly incomplete: no date, no name, no photographer, no background information.
 
For example: This anonymous jogger with the mysterious chunk of technology strapped to his waist. Our first guesses showed our 2019 biases. Proto cell phone? Transistor radio? Movie camera? Heart monitor?
 
After much crowd-sourced sleuthing, we discovered it was an early insulin pump, which allowed Charles Ball, 46, to continue his daily hour-long runs along the Midway. Read more in the June 1980 University of Chicago Magazine.
 
More wonders of technology:
 
Film professor Jacqueline Stewart, AM'93, PhD'99, is finding, digitizing, and archiving the home movies of South Side Chicago. Reatha Clark King, SM'60, PhD'63, invented a coiled tube that helped put a man on the moon. Justin Kasper, AB'99, built a nuclear reactor for Scav and an equally impossible instrument for NASA's Parker Solar Probe. How an alternative reality game welcomed the Class of 2021 to campus.
 
 
 
The College Review, edited by Carrie Golus, AB'91, AM'93, is brought to you by Alumni Relations and Development and the College. Image credits: Henry Horenstein, JÜV, Michael Vendiola, University of Chicago Photographic Archive.
 
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