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• Finals week: Spencer Bledsoe, ’14, brings his Survivor experience back to UChicago.
• Scare tactics: A popular Theater and Performance Studies course directs students on how to stage terror.
• Tinged with ghosts: Horror filmmaker Matilda “Mattie” Szydagis, AB’95, reminisces about the Shoreland, Svengoolie, and Halloween on Chicago’s South Side.
• Orchestrating change: Jeri Lynne Johnson, AM’05, joins art and activism in her Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra.

The Core

• Survival guides: A castaway stocks his ideal island library.
• Jam on it: PhiNix dance crew brings hip-hop to campus and beyond.