The Observer, Volume LIV, Issue 12, 11/18/22

Editorial: CWRU’s student employment system doesn’t treat students fairly (pg. 7)

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friday, november 18, 2022 volume LIV, issue 12 estd. 1969

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Kaler’s email puts CWRU and USG in national spotlight, bringing risk to students There was a clear look of relief on fourth-year Ethan Deemer’s face Tuesday evening on Nov. 8. Despite the contentiousness of the topic and the many years of heated debate surrounding the bill, the Undergraduate Student Government (USG) of Case Western Reserve University had seemingly successfully navigated a vote surrounding a resolution calling on the university administration to divest from companies that support the “Israeli apartheid.”

While there were passionate speakers on both sides of the issue, and many student spectators usually not present for USG votes, pandemonium had not been unleashed during the General Assembly (GA). In fact, it was a rather respectful discussion, with arguments, counter-arguments and anecdotes, and it featured very few interruptions, name-calling or explicit dismissiveness of concerns. As the speaker of USG, it was Deemer’s responsibility to moderate discussion, and from his perspective all had gone well.

Addressing the speakers before votes were cast, Deemer thanked all for a “productive discussion,” and said he hoped the GA would be “a great starting point for collaboration on this campus.” The resolution passed by an overwhelming majority. When the results were announced, there were some cheers of jubilation and looks of disappointment, but otherwise it was a very reserved ending to what could have been an explosive evening.

“I had horror stories of what this was going to look like in my head,” Deemer said about the inflammatory language he expected. “I was in [the USG advisor’s] office this morning shivering and shaking, trying to think about what this evening tonight would look like.”

Those horror stories came true the

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is not so simple” due to the presence of settlements and Israeli infrastructure in Palestinian territory, and that he “walked away with a better understanding of the realities of what a twostate solution would look like, and also the realities and difficulties of a onestate solution.”

SPOTLIGHT continued on pg. 2

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President Eric Kaler has brought national attention to CWRU following his Nov. 9 email about USG Resolution 31-15. Courtesy of Gabe Hernandez/San Antonio Business Journal next day when CWRU President Eric Kaler sent out an email to the CWRU community the next morning, Nov. 9, labeling the newly passed resolution as “an aggression towards the Jewish members of our community” and inherently antisemitic, while implying that USG members who supported the bill were encouraging “hate” and not engaging in “informed debate.”

While before only those who actively kept up with USG were aware of the bill’s passage, suddenly the entire campus community had been told by their administration about the existence of the bill and its “naïve” and “antiSemitic” nature, and that their student representatives were responsible for it.

Additionally, President Kaler’s comments had spread outside of CWRU, with national organizations and politicians commenting on the resolution

and Kaler’s statement. CWRU students and their USG were suddenly part of a national debate they never expected.

The American Jewish Committee (AJC), a national Jewish advocacy group, praised President Kaler’s “bravery in clearly and forcefully condemning the undergrad student government” and his “courage and strong moral vision.” President Kaler is an alumnus of AJC’s “Project Interchange” program, as he participated in an AJC delegation to Israel in 2018 to meet with Israeli officials, policy-makers and educators when he was the president of the University of Minnesota. In an interview with AJC, he stated that before the visit he “believed a two-state solution was a relatively straightforward way to at least make some progress” but after meeting with experts on the Israel and Palestine conflict he realized that “it

An open letter from CWRU faculty regarding President Kaler’s statement

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CWRU Faculty We write in defense of our students, who have taken a principled stand against the policies of a state. Whether one agrees with the students’ proposed solutions or not, labeling their stand as hateful towards a people and their faith is inaccurate.

We are living in a time of increased overt antisemitism in this country.

Sensitivity to this problem makes it all the more urgent to distinguish between antisemitism—a bigotry against a people—and criticism of particular policies of Israel. The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, for example, states that criticism of Israeli military activity and the West Bank occupation are not antisemitic, nor are calls for divestment from associated companies.

President Kaler stated that the majority of the Undergraduate Student Government “promotes anti-Semitism,” “aggression toward the Jewish members of our community” and “hate.”

The Undergraduate Student Government’s resolution, however, called for divestment from arms manufacturers, companies operating in the West Bank and for-profit prisons. It’s important to stress that the resolution did not attack the Israeli state per se, but particular

policies. Does condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine make one bigoted against Russian people?

President Kaler’s Nov. 9 letter endorsed open debate. Labeling one side’s speech as “hate” however, has had a chilling effect on speech among students, staff and faculty.

We’re proud of our students who, despite this effect, wrote a reasoned response to Kaler’s letter in their Observer editorial of Nov. 11.

Many faculty teach about sensitive global topics that even under the best of circumstances can make some students uncomfortable. The president has made this task more difficult. We support a safe environment for all of our students and other members of our community.

Signed, Anonymous Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences - I sign anonymously because I anticipate administrative retaliation.

Anonymous Junior Faculty, College of Arts and Sciences Anonymous Pre-Tenure Faculty Member, College of Arts and Sciences Anonymous Pre-Tenure Faculty

Member, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty for a Democratic Society, CWRU Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, Department of Philosophy Tim Black, Department of Sociology John Broich, Department of History Avidan Cover, School of Law Dale Dannefer, Department of Sociology Laura Hengehold, Department of Philosophy Paul Iversen, Department of Classics Kenneth F. Ledford, Department of History Pete Moore, Department of Political Science Einav Rabinovitch-Fox, Department of History Jonathan Sadowsky, Department of History Renee Sentilles, Department of History Ted Steinberg, Department of History Rachel Sternberg, Department of Classics More Letters to the Editor on pg. 10

Women’s soccer rolls to Round of 16 Puneet Bansal Sports Editor

After posting the best regular season in program history, the Case Western Reserve University women’s soccer team swept through the first two games of the NCAA Division III championship tournament. Hosting the first two rounds from Nov. 12-13, the Spartans defeated the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg 6-1 on Saturday and Ithaca College 6-0 on Sunday. The team now stands at 17-0-1.

In front of a boisterous home crowd on DiSanto Field, second-year forward Carolyn Koutures kicked off the scoring bonanza against Greensburg 20 minutes into the first half.

Fourth-year midfielder Aniya Hartzler launched a corner kick towards the goal box. First-year midfielder Jamie Goldfarb was the first to it, headinwg it closer to the goal. Koutures finished off the play and netted a goal into the lower right corner. Hartzler and Goldfarb earned an assist each on the 1-0 play.

Almost two minutes later, Hartzler passed the ball from midfield to graduate student forward Camryn Hartman, who was closing in on the box. Hartman collected the ball and juked past the defender with a spin move, taking a shot into the lower left corner for the 2-0 lead. With the score, Hartman netted her 11th goal of the season while Hartzler recorded her 8th assist.

Fourth-year midfielder Helina VanBibber owned the second half, scoring two goals within the first 20 minutes.

Fourth-year midfielder Anika Washburn assisted on VanBibber’s first goal, and in the second VanBibber put on a dribbling clinic with multiple spins before finally kicking it in.

“I was on the side and just looking for teammates,” said VanBibber when asked about her second goal. “I was dribbling and I saw a corner of opportunity and just shot it. Ani [Washburn] had a nice little fake and I wouldn’t have been able to do it without [her].”

Washburn joined the scoring party less than two minutes later. Fourthyear defender Elizabeth White took a free kick, which went flying into the box and was deflected off a defender.

Washburn took the rebound and finished the play, sending the ball into the lower left corner for her second goal of the season and securing the 5-0 lead.

SOCCER continued on pg. 11

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History of reproductive health panel educates CWRU and raises awareness Nihal Manjila Staff Writer

Tyler Vu/The Observer Recently, members of the Case Western Reserve University community held a panel on the history of reproductive health. This was the first of a speaker series that the Reproductive Health Task Force was hosting on reproductive health and justice. Provost and Executive Vice President Ben Vinson III gave opening remarks, and the three panelists were associate professor Aviva Rothman, professor of history and co-director of the Women and Gender Studies Program Renée Sentilles and assistant professor Noël Voltz.

Opening the discussion, Rothman argued that medical legal history was at the root of the legal argument around abortion. She described how people had been thinking about abortion for a very long time, giving Aristotle’s reflection on fetal development as an example. She discussed the idea of epigenesis, a concept used to describe how a being gains a soul. Within this framework, humans are described as having rational souls that develop after conception.

For male fetuses, this process takes 40 days and for female fetuses 80, meaning fetuses could be alive but lack a soul.

She went on to describe how Christian thinkers, including St. Thomas Aquinas and St. Augustine, structured Christian beliefs of fetal development on this Aristotelian framework. Quickening, or the first movement of a fetus, began to be seen as the beginning of human life, determined by what the pregnant mother could physically feel.

Rothman further described the lack of historical basis for the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Understandings of life have changed over time due to advances in technology. Additionally, total abortion bans are ahistorical when considering the history of abortion access in the U.S. The second panelist to speak was Dr. Sentilles, who spoke about how abortion had been illegal in the U.S. for roughly 93 years. Medical politics were at the center of legal changes from roughly 1860 to 1973, and reli-

gion was not at the heart of the abortion debate until the 1980s. From the U.S.’s earliest days, abortion had been legal, as English common law allowed for the practice. Eventually, there came to be a period where state laws controlled access to abortion before the SCOTUS ruling that protected abortion access.

With the overturning of Roe v. Wade, control over abortion access has once again returned to state governments.

Sentilles explained that there were many methods of contraception and abortion practiced across times, places and cultures. Women controlled female reproduction prior to the 1860s, as midwives performed various procedures for women and their families.

The U.S. birth rate dropped by half between 1800 and 1900, raising concerns among some white Americans who feared for the future of the “white race.”

Sentilles continued on to say that due to this, motherhood became revered for upper- and middle-class white women who could help save the “white race.”

The advertising and selling of abortion and contraception began to be seen as a sign of moral decay within the nation.

Additionally, the panel noted that the creation of the American Medical Association in 1847—composed entirely of white men—was fueled by a desire to outlaw midwifery and villanize abortion as wrong when performed outside of hospitals. Police enforcing anti-abortion laws went after doctors and medical practitioners on the margins, as well as non-pregnant women themselves. This period of 93 years, from 1880-1973, was characterized by abortion being illegal except when performed by reputable doctors trying to save women’s lives.

Sentilles also addressed that while it is often said that men are trying to take away women’s access to abortion, there are many women on both sides of the abortion debate. New state laws

criminalizing abortion are more extreme than previous iterations, and are not advocated for by the medical establishment. These new laws also target pregnant women and people helping women get abortions, and rely on pregnancy tests that measure pregnancy based on implantation.

The final speaker, Voltz, spoke on the importance of bodily autonomy when studying Black women in the U.S. In doing so, Voltz structured her discussion around four central themes: Black women seeing abortion as liberation, Black women seeing abortion as oppression, abortion being a part of healthcare for Black women and abortion fundamentally being about bodily autonomy.

Voltz described how abortion had historically been a method of resistance against sexual assault and forced breeding by white slave masters in the U.S. In the scientific field, Black women experienced similar hardships with Voltz describing how James Marion Sims, the father of gynecology, experimented on enslaved Black women without the use of anesthetics. Even in daily life, Voltz explained, Black communities, particularly impoverished communities, lacked access to resources like contraception, abortion and health insurance which contributed to negative community health overall.

At the end of the panel, Sentilles noted that discourse around abortion continues to be an issue today, and that social media has exacerbated the ability to have nuanced conversations.

This first lecture in the speaker series was able to shed a historical light on abortion. In the future, the Reproductive Health Task Force speaker series will continue to provide students an educational resource for topics related to reproductive justice, giving them the power to engage in fruitful conversations and make educated decisions.

SPOTLIGHT continued from pg. 1 Meanwhile, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, and its Cleveland Chapter released a public statement calling on Kaler to “apologize, retract his false statement, and meet with students” while also calling his statement “dishonest, dangerous and defamatory.”

CAIR national deputy director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said, “By slandering students for expressing support for Palestinian human rights and calling on the university to divest from companies that provide military support for the Israeli apartheid government’s human rights abuses, President Kaler has endangered the very students he is supposed to protect.”

Government officials from the Cleveland area have also commented on the USG resolution while specifically referencing Kaler’s statement.

Newly elected congressman Max Miller, a Republican who represents many Cleveland suburbs, denounced the resolution and said he was “deeply disturbed by the CWRU undergraduate student government’s endorsement of the deeply antisemitic and wholly unAmerican [Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)] movement,” saying he

joined President Kaler “in denouncing this resolution and [urged] all Ohioans of goodwill to do the same.”

Congresswoman Shontel Brown, a Democrat who represents the city of Cleveland proper, also said she supported President Kaler’s statement, stating that “college campuses must remain free from anti-semitism and hate towards any group in order to foster respectful and honest debate.” Rep. Brown has been a staunch supporter of the State of Israel, having also gone on a trip to Israel in 2018 and received nearly $2 million in PAC spending by the Democratic Majority for Israel in her primary victory in 2021.

With more attention put on our USG than ever before, USG representatives have received an influx of harassment, threats and hate messages from around the country. Wanting to remain anonymous, a USG representative said they were losing sleep over the resolution and the ensuing harassment. They also expressed regret for running for USG in the first place. Another USG representative noted seeing some of their colleagues breaking down crying due to the messages they were receiving.

On Nov. 11, USG sent out an email to the CWRU student body to provide

context for the resolution and clear up misunderstandings about its content.

In their statement, USG noted that the debate surrounding Israel and Palestine “is incredibly nuanced and should be treated as such” and also condemned “any acts of hatred or discrimination towards any group on campus.” In their email they also included the text of the resolution, along with the minutes from the GA and urged students to read them and come to their own conclusions as to the tone of the debate and the intentions of all those who voted on the resolution.

“We knew this resolution wasn’t going anywhere,” one USG representative said. “Administration could have just let this die by not acting on it. Nobody even would have known about this if it weren’t for that email. Now we are dealing with all this shit.”

Multiple professors have expressed concern regarding President Kaler’s statement and the position it has put CWRU students in. One professor compared Kaler’s email with “dous[ing] [a fire] with kerosene.”

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer, a professor in the Department of Philosophy, expressed dismay at the way the university administration had approached the issue, saying, “Without knowing

whether there was a causal relation between President Kaler’s recent public letter and threats to USG officers, his letter clearly added fuel to the fire and legitimized an extreme and adversarial, even existentially threatening, interpretation of the situation. It put students at increased risk. This is unacceptable for a college president to do.”

He mentioned that many of his colleagues were discussing the best way to address and deescalate the situation, with some ultimately deciding to submit a Letter to the Editor through The Observer.

“Some faculty are scared of the president, with some saying that they will not publicly comment out of fear of reprisal during [promotion and tenure] review and anonymous letters have begun to circulate,” he added. He also expressed worry at reported antisemitic remarks appearing toward Jewish students in the aftermath of the events of this past week, especially on some social media platforms, like the anonymous app YikYak. “What we need from the campus administration is a clear message that draws down reactivity in all quarters and helps secure a safe environment for all.”

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Is Taylor Swift going to become unpopular again?

What the mixed reviews of “Midnights” mean for an artist whose popularity historically comes and goes Kate Gordon Copy Editor Taylor Swift is an artist with a long, messy history. The early years were good, with Swift slowly phasing out her country roots for pop and becoming one of the most recognizable artists of the 2010s. Then she arguably got too big, and it became popular to hate Swift, or at the very least dislike her. She was accused of lying about whether she approved a lyric in Kanye West’s “Famous” where he said “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex. Why? I made that bitch famous.” West also featured a nude wax model of Swift lying in bed next to him in the “Famous” music video to add insult to injury. Later, a leaked phone call revealed that Swift had not in fact approved the latter part of the lyric—“I made that bitch famous”— but at that point, the damage was done.

Before and during the release of Swift’s sixth studio album, “Reputation,” she experienced online ridicule and widespread hatred. People flooded her Instagram comments with the snake emoji, a reference to the insult given to her by West’s then-wife Kim Kardashian, and articles began to pop up with titles like “When Did You First Realize Taylor Swift Was Lying to You?” and “How Taylor Swift Played The Victim For A Decade And Made Her Entire Career.” Essentially, it was no longer cool to like Swift.

And even if you didn’t have a problem with her supposed lie or her feud with the Kardashian-West clan, there were plenty of popular criticisms of the artist you could tote as your reason for disliking her: she’s whiny, she only writes songs about her ex-boyfriends, she’s played out, she’s annoying and she’s old. As for her music, while “Reputation” and her next album “Lover” were both admittedly large commercial successes, musically and lyrically they were nothing to write home about—that is, at least not compared to what Swift was going to put out next.

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020, Taylor capitalized on her time at home to release two surprise albums, “Folklore” and “Evermore.”

Not only were they runaway hits, lauded for their lyricism and distinct departure from Swift’s previous upbeat style, but they provided a crucial chance for her to rectify her image. There she was, a major celebrity stuck at home and pursuing her hobbies like the rest of us. Swift began to circulate more and more on social media, and this time for a good reason: TikTok loved “Folklore.” Gen Z decided Swift was cool again, and back into the pop culture limelight she came.

Swift has only kept this momentum going by releasing “Fearless” (Taylor’s Version) and “Red” (Taylor’s Version) in 2021, both even more successful than they were during their initial debut. People screamed along to all 10 minutes of the new “All Too Well” cut, and sobbed to its short film starring Sadie Sink and Dylan O’ Brien. Most recently, Swift

Taylor Swift’s newest album, “Midnights,” has topped the charts and crashed Spotify but isn’t receiving as much acclaim as her previous works. Courtesy of Republic Records. has come out with her tenth studio album, “Midnights,” and while it has topped the charts, reviews of the album from critics and fans alike are decidedly mixed. Some praise its return to pop, while others are confused what happened to the intricate lyrics and indie-esque sound of “Folklore.”

And although no criticism of Swift has come close to what she was experiencing during the release of “Reputation,” I’m still afraid that her era of near-universal likeability is coming to an end.

The first cause for concern is the music of “Midnights” itself. The album is clearly a move back to the style of “Reputation” and “Lover,” both released when Swift was at her lowest popularity-wise—already a bad sign. “Midnights’” lyricism, as I’ve already mentioned, has also seemingly taken a step back—one particular lyric circulating on social media is “Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby,” from “AntiHero.” And although the “sexy baby” is a reference to an episode of “30 Rock,” those who mock the line see it as silly and cringey, criticism they apply to Swift as well. Some of today’s headlines read, reminiscent of those from the “Reputation” era, “Taylor Swift is peak millennial vibes,” “The Beautiful Banality of Taylor Swift’s Midnights” and, worst of all, “Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Album Is Shock-

ingly Dull.” The album is either too boring or too dated and embarrassing.

It’s also strange how no one seems to be able to write badly of “Midnights” without conflating it with who Swift is as a person, tied as she is to her albums’ marketing. If “Midnights” is no longer cool, then neither is Swift herself, and you’d better not be caught listening to anything on her discography—or at least, that’s the direction we seem to be heading in.

A potential reversal of Swift’s popularity would only be exacerbated by some of her recent controversies.

First, she was revealed to have the highest carbon emissions of any celebrity, measured by how frequently she uses her private jet. Then, with the release of “Midnights,” she came under fire for including a scene in her “Anti-Hero” music video of herself stepping on a scale that read “fat,” intended to portray her struggle with eating disorders, but with many claiming that it actually perpetuated body image issues instead. If Swift has another public scandal, it’s easy to see cancel culture and the media at large coming for her as it has for many other celebrities, and she may not be able to recover.

Worse, she might not even need another public scandal to lose her new fanbase, although that would certainly hasten her fall from grace.

We now live in an era where music

trends are controlled—or at the very least are easily swayed—by TikTok. They also tend to come and go very quickly, with songs and artists remaining popular for a week and then fading into obscurity when the next big thing pushes them out of the spotlight. Swift has managed to stay popular for far longer than one week, I’ll grant you, but she’s also established in the mainstream music industry in a way that the younger artists blowing up on the app are not. Still, it’s only a matter of time before the cycle shifts and suddenly Swift is kicked aside for a younger, cooler and less oversaturated celebrity instead.

So is Swift definitively going to become unpopular again? While I think that most of the signs unfortunately point to yes, I will acknowledge that the recent surge of awareness of how the media treats female celebrities—think the 2021 Britney Spears documentary and the many movies from the past two years centering on Princess Diana—means that there is a glimmer of hope for Swift.

Maybe, just maybe, people will be able to leave who she is as a person alone even if her music is no longer their cup of tea. As Swift continues to rerelease her masters and potentially put out even more original new music, we’ll just have to wait and see how the public reacts. Hopefully I’ll be pleasantly surprised.

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“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” is a continuation of Chadwick Boseman’s groundbreaking work Joey Gonzalez Life Editor

Queen Ramonda (center), played by Angela Bassett, successfully leads Wakanda in the newest “Black Panther” movie following the death of actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020. Courtesy of Marvel Studios.

The recent release of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” has been a bittersweet one, continuing the beloved series without its leading actor.

The film portrays the grief of a community following the death of King T’Challa, which coincides with the death of his actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020. It effortlessly serves as a tribute to the actor while simultaneously continuing the series, but does so in a way that acknowledges the major loss that has occurred both within the franchise and in the real world. Unlike other films in the genre, “Wakanda Forever” is able to successfully tackle difficult topics without controversy or by reverting to comedy as a means of representing the grieving process.

It allows viewers to witness the hole that the actor’s death left in the franchise and reflect on what he meant to us all.

In 2018, the first “Black Panther” marked the beginning of a major shift in representation for Black people on the big screen and Chadwick Boseman’s portrayal suggested the rise of a new star within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was the first of its kind to tackle the tough issues of being Black in both Africa and America. Later films continued to discuss these topics, providing much needed representation in a genre that had been lacking for so many years.

It was the first series with a predominantly Black cast and, in having one, proved that narratives about Black lives could be immensely profitable if they were given the proper attention.

From the beginning, “Black Panther” struck the heartstrings of its viewers and instantly became a fan favorite, proving to be both entertaining and an important touchstone in the conversation about representation.

Throughout the new film, Marvel does not shy away from portraying the grief that fans of the series have experienced since the death of Boseman and centers around the hole that it left in the series. In the film, T’Challa’s mother Queen Ramonda (Angela Bassett) has come into power, struggling to lead a broken Wakanda in an international community that is vying for their resources, while also dealing with the grief of losing her child.

The nation mourns the loss of their king and their Black Panther as well.

The mantle of the Black Panther can no longer be carried on as all of the power-giving heart-shaped herb was destroyed by Killmonger in the previous film. As such, the nation believes that they have been left without a protector. T’Challa’s sister Shuri (Letitia Wright) also struggles with grief and her expectations as a leader in Wakanda. It is evident that the death of King T’Challa has drastically changed the

trajectory of the Wakandan nation as well as the franchise as a whole.

At the beginning of the film, we see Wakanda struggling in their role as the most powerful nation on the planet. The world powers want to harness the powerful metal vibranium— which is thought to be only found in Wakanda—and use it for their own benefit, a claim which Wakanda is adamantly opposed to. Therefore, the countries try to take it by force, only to be thwarted by the Dora Milaje, Wakanda’s special forces. Queen Ramonda gives a passionate speech about the ramifications of attempting to acquire Wakandan resources, believing that they are the only nation that possesses vibranium. However, Queen Ramonda and Shuri quickly learn that they are not the only ones, as they are introduced to the underwater nation of Talokan and its leader Namor (Tenoch Huerta), a demi-god of sorts. The United States has created a machine with the help of a teenage scientist named Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne) that is able to detect vibranium, and accidentally discovers Talokan. Namor seeks out the Wakandans, asking them to bring the scientist to him so that no other such machines can be created. However, when Shuri refuses to let him kill the scientist, he suggests an alliance between Wakanda and Talokan to destroy the

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surface world that had enslaved his people. Shuri rejects the proposal and war between the two nations breaks out, forcing Shuri to revisit her plans to recreate the heart-shaped herb and bring back the Black Panther.

Without spoiling too much of the film, the war between Talokan and Wakanda leads to the death of another major character in the franchise, forcing the remaining characters to grieve yet again. The film, already struggling with the loss of its leading actor, takes a drastically dark turn as the war forces the Wakandans to confront their emotions and their place in the world.

Overall, “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” presents a heartbreaking continuation of the “Black Panther” saga, dealing with the feelings of loss and grief for both the characters and the actors. The film contained several tributes to Chadwick Boseman that left the theater absolutely silent other than sniffles. There is also a gutwrenching post credit scene that will have you pulling your tissues back out. The film has been a major boxoffice success in its opening weekend and will surely continue to rack in huge viewership. I highly recommend checking out this movie, even if you aren’t an avid fan of the MCU. It will surely have you on the edge of your seat and sobbing: a duality that is unmatched within the genre.

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Editorial: CWRU’s student employment system doesn’t treat students fairly Editorial Board Many students at Case Western Reserve University work jobs on campus, whether that be for federal work-study purposes or otherwise. However, the student employment system at CWRU is essentially inadequate, and most students are not paid enough.

If you’ve ever had to use Human Capital Management (HCM), you know how difficult the entire payment system is. The website regularly does not work and can take multiple tries to get past the login page. Furthermore, if you want to access payment records or hours in between semesters, HCM will not let you log in unless you are actively working at CWRU. While that isn’t the biggest problem, it is still inconvenient—especially when it comes to checking and confirming payment records. However, navigating through the HCM website is just the beginning of student employment issues.

When a CWRU employer first hires a student, they have to fill out a hire form and other new hire documents and have it processed before they are able to start working on campus.

However, after turning in those forms and verifying your identification in person, it takes weeks or even months to process. On average, the Office of Student Employment takes about a month to process those forms, but that’s an entire month when a student cannot work in their new place of employment. Additionally, if you have already worked on campus before, or are being rehired for the year, it still takes at least a month for that simplified form to be processed. By taking an incredibly long time to complete the hiring process, the Office of Student Employment hinders students from getting paid sooner.

Furthermore, the HCM payment schedule and system is inadequate. It takes a long time before your hours are actually sent to payroll after your hiring process is approved. Therefore, you can have weeks of supervisorapproved hours not sent to payroll.

And that’s without any egregious error on their part—there are instances where students are not paid for a majority of the semester, and their supervisor has to remind HCM that their student needs payment. When stu-

dent employees do get paid, they get paid at the midpoint and the last day of the month—which in and of itself is fine since biweekly payments are not abnormal for jobs. However, approved hours sent to payroll are cut off around 12 or 13 days before the next payment date. So for instance, the next payroll date is on Nov. 30, but the approval cutoff date is on Nov. 17, which is almost two weeks before the actual payment. Essentially, hours are backlogged, meaning many students are not getting enough or timely payment on each pay date. If there is such a large gap between approved hours being sent to payroll and the pay date, then students should be getting paid on a weekly basis to offset that gap.

In addition, if CWRU is not capable of giving payments on a weekly basis, then the cutoff date for approved hours submission to payroll should be closer to the actual payment date. Students rely on their on-campus jobs for groceries, rent, financial aid and much more—a problematic payment system for CWRU’s on-campus jobs makes it so that students cannot depend on their work for their basic necessities.

While the university’s payment system is flawed, the amount students are getting paid is even more concerning. Ohio’s current minimum wage is $9.30 per hour—or $4.65 per hour for tipped employees. According to CWRU’s Student Employment Handbook, undergraduate wages start at $9.20 and can go up to $13.90. For graduate wages, the range is $10.45 to $18.30. While federally a $15 minimum wage has not been passed, Ohio’s minimum wage is not a living wage. CWRU should not be following Ohio’s minimum wage standards.

It’s clear that the Office of Student Employment does not have the resources to process everything in a timely manner, which negatively impacts students. However, that’s not necessarily the fault of the office, as CWRU has been known to have staffing shortages across their administrative departments. There are several areas CWRU can dedicate more resources and funds to, but student employment is definitely one that deserves high priority. Our wellbeing at this university depends on it.

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In regards to President Kaler’s message from a Jewish graduate student Sam Seidman Graduate Student I am a Jewish member of the Case Western Reserve University community for whom President Kaler claimed to speak in his email of Nov. 9. In the email, he informed the CWRU community that the Undergraduate Student Government had disappointed him when they had joined the international consensus in accusing Israel of the crime of “apartheid” within its borders and especially in the territories it has occupied since 1967—East Jerusalem, the

West Bank and Gaza—and demanding that CWRU divest from assets funding or supporting these crimes. Of course, his feelings are his own. Who am I to tell him not to be disappointed that his students support the Geneva Conventions?

However, I found several of his assertions to be erroneous and slanderous— two of which I’m concerned with and writing about today. First, that the resolution’s assertions are “anti-Israel” and

its adoption is “profoundly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic.” Second, and more personally, he insisted that adopting this letter “undoubtedly promotes anti-Semitism,” “undermines the safety…of our Jewish community” and promotes “aggression toward the Jewish members of our community.” To the first claim, he seemed to be characterizing factual information as “anti-Israel,” which it may be his prerogative to do, but the function of his generalization seems to be to mis-

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lead rather than inform. For instance, one might ask what the point of even having international human rights law is if we can so simply dismiss accusations as “anti” the country of concern. Reading through the resolution the reader receives a compelling, factual picture of the crime of apartheid committed by Israel.

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Don’t conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism A response to President Kaler’s email John Mays Contributing Writer On the evening of Nov. 8, Case Western Reserve University’s Undergraduate Student Government (USG) voted on Resolution 31-15—a resolution calling for our university to “fully divest its assets from Israeli apartheid, the international militaryindustrial complex, and the international prison-industrial complex.”

The following morning, President Kaler sent out an email critical of the resolution, calling it “profoundly anti-Israel and anti-Semitic” and claiming that voting for the resolution constituted an “aggression towards the Jewish members of our community.”

He concluded by saying we must reject hate and, in doing so, he “categorically [rejected] the calls to action outlined in this resolution.”

President Kaler’s email was not only a limp and inadequate rebuttal to the resolution but also insulting to us as students. Furthermore, Kaler asserts that USG founded the resolution on antisemitism and anti-Israelism.

At best, this is just a poor choice of language; at worst, it is a disingenuous tactic to reframe Israel as the primary victim in its asymmetric conflict with Palestine.

In calling the resolution antisemitic, Kaler has made the obnoxious mistake of conflating Jewish people with the State of Israel. The resolution claims that the State of Israel is engaging in apartheid, not Jewish people worldwide. This seems clear throughout since the “whereas” clauses mention “Israel” or “Israelis” 15 times, yet the words “Judaism” or “Jews” are nowhere to be found. The ethnicity/religion of the aggressor state seems irrelevant.

Perhaps then Kaler is suggesting that criticism of the State of Israel somehow implicitly targets Jewish people as an ethnic or religious group.

However, what does an unproblem-

atic criticism of Israel look like? By his logic, it seems like a criticism of state action by Norway would be anti-white or a criticism of Saudi Arabia would be Islamophobic. I’m not so naive as to suggest that critiques of states cannot go hand in hand with feelings of hatred toward their citizens. However, under these blanket assumptions, it would be completely impossible to criticize a government without targeting its people for their ethnicity or religion. Therefore, I reject this notion because it precludes legitimate criticism of state actions— furthermore, the conflation of Jewish people and Israel is ignorant and offensive. To pretend the actions of Israel represent Jewish people would simply be false as they are entirely different categories. Additionally, there are many Jewish people around the world, such as Noam Chomsky, who criticize Israel in much the same fashion that the resolution does.

Kaler also called the resolution “anti-Israel” and suggested that this is a hateful position, but what exactly does he mean by anti-Israel? If he means to be against the citizens of Israel as an entire population, this would go hand in hand with the kind of repugnant and indiscriminate hatred that antisemitism is. However, it is unlikely that this is what he meant, as following this logic would imply that Kaler’s condemnation of the Russian invasion would be hatefully “anti-Russian.” I would never condone this kind of thinking, and for the aforementioned reasons, I would again reject the notion that the resolution and its authors promote this belief.

Still, maybe Kaler is using another definition; perhaps he believes that the resolution’s writers are against the government of Israel. I cannot claim to speak for Students for Justice

in Palestine or any of the other cosponsors, and I do not belong to any of those organizations, but if that is what he believes then yes, I am “antiIsrael.” I support a resolution critical of the oppressive, militaristic and settler-colonial government of Israel. I will not be an advocate for or be neutral toward a government I believe is evil. In this sense, if you are to be “pro-Palestine,” you must be “anti-Israel.” In this sense, you cannot be for the well-being of Palestinian people without being “anti-Israel”—the state is not the people. The state is an institution and the ruling hand of the elite.

I am “against Israel” in the sense that I must be for the well-being of Palestinians; however, these are rather fickle categories. What I truly am is anti-violence and anti-militarism.

Kaler has needlessly complicated the outcome of the resolution; still, it is clear that holding hateful feelings toward a people is not a necessary precondition of wishing their government acted differently. I do not have any ill will toward the average Israeli citizen or Jewish person, and I deeply resent the fact that President Kaler suggested that I and many others do simply by supporting this resolution.

For Kaler to suggest the resolution is antisemitic and hateful toward Israeli people is as foolish as it is for me to suggest that Kaler is Islamophobic or hateful toward Palestinians.

I do not know how he personally feels about those groups of people. Similarly, he does not know how the cosponsors of the resolution feel about Jewish people, and I have explained that the resolution does not promote any hateful values on its own. However, I might understand why he, as the university president, felt the need to send that email.

There has been a noticeable rise in antisemitic sentiment in the United

States, as is exemplified by the recent comments by Kanye West and Kyrie Irving. This is terrifying because Jewish citizens in the U.S. continue to experience symbolic and physical violence as a consequence of antisemitic ideology, and there are certainly antisemites on and around this campus. Jewish students have voiced their concerns that the outcome of this resolution makes them feel threatened, and I think it is at least understandable for them to have a portion of their cultural identity intertwined with the idea of Israel. Therefore, I understand Kaler’s desire to make it clear that antisemitism is abhorrent and not in line with CWRU’s values, and to let Jewish students know that they are safe and welcome here.

However, I cannot go without mentioning that this resolution most likely poses a severe risk to this university’s fiscal interests. CWRU probably decided to invest in these complicit companies at some point, which implies that it would not be in their fiscal interest to disinvest. Furthermore, this resolution was so contentious among CWRU’s students that it was most likely also contentious among CWRU’s donors. This email reads like pure posturing to me, and if Kaler chose to send it to support those financial interests, he is spineless and immoral.

Overall, I found Kaler’s email to be reminiscent of the segregationists who pathetically insisted that the civil rights movement was inherently anti-white. His claims are logically incoherent, disingenuous and downright offensive. I hope that we can do better as a community and that we can work toward a world with less suffering, less killing and less hatred.

USG’s resolution is in line with those goals, and as it stands, President Kaler is not.

working to meet and study with other unfamiliar students.

Further, this notion is reflected in the educational ideal of the university as a place of learning. Historically, universities were not just a place to check off some academic requirements, earn a degree and move on— they were places where people could learn technical skills, develop critical thinking and, most importantly, be a part of a learning community. The strength of this community is that we can learn from each other, not just from lectures and notes—and not just from faculty and graduate students.

Undergraduates can also establish these connections and perform better in their courses or other endeavors.

Lastly, we should apply this concept to volunteering and community service. It’s easy to engage in service because it looks good for graduate school applications or fulfills the service requirements of a fraternity and

other extracurriculars. However, these motivations make performing community service somewhat superficial and not as meaningful as it potentially could be. The most basic idea behind community service is serving people we do not know but who could benefit from our time and energy. It is difficult to perform meaningful service and make real connections with the people you serve if you are not open to the possibility of doing good for others for its own sake. Additionally, we owe our communities, particularly because they live alongside us and work in the stores we shop in, restaurants we eat at or hospitals we go to for medical care. Lifting up and serving our community, particularly those in the lowest socioeconomic strata, is based on the idea of owing others around us.

I challenge you to think about what you believe we owe others. Should we focus on looking out for ourselves or should we try to do good for others?

What we owe others Nihal Manjila Staff Writer

As I was talking with a friend, the topic came up of how we should treat others—and, as an extension of that, what we owe others. I do not mean money or other forms of debt, but rather we were talking about how the way we treat other people is set by societal social norms.

As a preface, social norms around how we should behave and treat others vary greatly from culture to culture, place to place and time to time.

However, I’m limiting this article to today’s campus environment, and I am applying this view to strangers and acquaintances, since it is expected that we treat familiar people well.

Overall, we can and should treat each other better, particularly when it comes to manners and looking out for the well-being of others. It is given that we should not actively wish or cause social or material harm to others. But should we see that as the end goal? Simply to be neutral? I don’t

believe so. Our end goal should be to be positive forces for each other, even if we are not close friends. Not only does this raise expectations of how we should treat each other, but it also has the potential to benefit us if others treat us in this way. This view must be consciously held and acted upon in order to begin a culture change so we can protect people from emotional or social harm.

We can also apply this concept in our courses. Rather than seeing classes as a competition against other students, it may actually be helpful to work together and help each other. For instance, I found myself doing much better on exams when studying with others. Helping each other identify and fix weaknesses can be much more helpful than simply grinding alone on the third floor of the library. This sort of collaboration is not only allowed, but encouraged by most professors.

To that end, we should be actively

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The “Laziness Lie” Cailee Zeraat Contributing Writer

The word “lazy” first became popular in the 16th century when the Puritans came to the United States. The idea stemmed from their religious beliefs, which revolved around the notion that those who couldn’t work hard and focus on their tasks were damned to go to Hell when they died and were unable to receive the salvation of God. As such, with the rise of the slave trade in the United States, these Puritanical religious ideals were pushed onto enslaved people to justify their brutal treatment and their use as free labor, as they promised them religious salvation and rewards in the afterlife. Thus, the use of laziness as a justification for slavery began.

While slavery has been abolished, the obsession with productivity has long since prospered, trickling into the workplace, academia and even the home. How many times have you been described as lazy? Was it your manager at your part-time job pushing you to stay busy, even when there was nothing to do? How about your parents nagging you to get out of bed

on a Saturday instead of “doing nothing”? Society widely uses the idea to shame people into being productive; however, when are you actually “doing nothing”? You’re doing something when you watch TikToks in between classes—entertaining yourself. You’re doing something when you nap—recharging your energy.

However, these activities are often used against people. But what do they all have in common? You’re doing something, but you’re not doing it for anyone else. And that is where the “laziness lie” comes from, courtesy of Dr. Devon Price’s book “Laziness Does Not Exist.”

The laziness lie is the idea that working hard is good, but wanting free time is morally wrong. Laziness became a deficit to overcome, with shame and ridicule following anyone who ever dares take idle time for themselves. Unfortunately, the laziness lie prospers in the U.S.; we are a capitalistic society built on the foundational concept of “hard work pays off.” If you work hard, you can make money for yourself and for

those above you. However, this is not always true. How many people work 40-hour weeks at a minimum wage job, barely able to afford rent? How many people give up their weekends to finish an understaffed project at their job, with no bonus in sight?

These people definitely work hard, but their hard work hasn’t paid off.

Why? Because they are victims of the laziness lie: working hard with the hopes of a reward, but never given their due.

To the Case Western Reserve University student, this lie is prevalent in all aspects of college life. It’s not uncommon to hear students chatting about how busy they are between looking for internships and taking 21 credit hours their first semester. But why can’t we just slow down? Why are we feeding into this lie that we need to be busy all the time? As a response, some might say, “Well, I need work experience!” or “I need a job to make money!” Well, I do too, and I already have these things. And I am working on them consistently—but consistently is not the same

thing as constantly. You don’t have to work constantly to progress in life.

Because life is not just about making money and getting straight A’s.

In fact, you couldn’t even do those things without psychologically deteriorating from a lack of rest. Progress does not have to happen in four years.

It doesn’t even have to occur in 20 or even 50 years. You have your whole life to make progress. It is perfectly okay to slow down, take a breather and use your idle time to simply be idle.

Working hard is exhausting, and in reality, it’s not even always necessary to succeed. You don’t need to force yourself to constantly be doing something, especially when you barely take time for yourself. The internal pressure to work hard without limits is unhealthy and disregards the natural boundaries for attaining happiness. Tiredness and needing to take a break is not failure. It’s just a momentary but extremely necessary step towards achieving your goals.

It’s time to step away from the laziness lie and be kind to yourself.

CWRU needs to improve transparency in class registration Caroline Kuntzman Staff Writer Undergraduate class registration at Case Western Reserve University began on Monday Nov. 14, with students set to graduate next spring and summer able to enroll in courses on the Student Information System (SIS).

Class registration at CWRU is well organized and designed to ensure that graduating students will most likely get the classes they need. That said, it also presents significant limitations regarding the information available to students before they start enrolling in classes. Furthermore, the reality of unpredictable course offerings can make it difficult for any student to build a four-year plan to ensure that they graduate.

CWRU’s course registration system uses a seniority-based system—the students closest to graduating are the first to gain access to the system and then the other students get access to it, with first-years being the last to have the opportunity to sign up for classes.

While a seemingly unfair system, it protects students who want to graduate the next semester from failing to do so due to inability to enroll in their required classes—such as physical education courses. So, the overarching concept of the class registration system should be maintained to ensure that seniors can meet graduation requirements.

The major problem with the existing class registration system lies in its failure to provide students with useful information about the classes they want to enroll prior to registering for them. This semester, a considerable amount of classes don’t have locations assigned to them. From history to biology to nursing courses, there are a significant number of classes where the location is listed as “To Be Scheduled (In-Person)”. Some schools within the university, such as the Weatherhead School of Management and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, appear to have listed more courses with assigned classrooms than other schools—so some students will be aware of where their classes will be taught before registration. It should be acknowledged that certain students can predict what buildings their classes will be in, be-

cause some departments have the majority of their classes on the same quad. However, as someone who has an English course in the Bingham Building—which largely houses civil engineering classes, I can say that class location is not always apparent or predictable. For students intending to enroll in back-to-back classes, it is important to estimate how much time it will take to go from class to class.

It would be helpful for SIS to feature this information so students may build ideal and feasible schedules.

Another area where CWRU’s class registration system falls short is that it often fails to list the instructors for all of the classes prior to registration.

CWRU makes course evaluations available for students to view with the stated purpose of helping them “choose the courses that will best meet their academic interests and needs.”

Two faculty members will teach the same class differently, so viewing evaluations can help students make informed decisions about specific classes and sections before registration.

The irregularity with which some departments teach courses can also present challenges for students making plans to graduate. While departments offer the required core classes more regularly, elective course offerings can be highly irregular. SIS does display when the class was previously offered, which can help students predict when it might be offered again.

However, if it was more clear how often any given course would be offered or if departments were more consistent, it would be easier for students to plan what they want to take. This is not to say that departments should stop offering new courses or should be obligated to provide the same electives every semester—but the unpredictability of elective offerings can make it difficult for students to balance required classes and preferred electives. There should just be more information available for students.

CWRU’s course registration process is good because it ensures that seniors can enroll in the classes they need to graduate; even so, it fails to provide information that helps students make informed decisions about

their long-term graduation plans.

Striving to ensure that classes have locations, instructors and an indicator of when they could be offered

next would help students navigate the course registration process with more confidence.

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A search for solidarity in the Muslim women-led Shaheen Bagh movement in Delhi, in the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali, the song of Iqbal Bano, the theater of Safdar Hashmi, and images of the radical anti-caste Dalit intellectual B. R. Ambedkar—all surrounding a letter addressed to the filmmaker’s distant relative Prabhakar Sanzgiri.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The struggle for justice in President Kaler’s letter was CWRU and Palestine goes on wrong Tim O’Shea CWRU ‘20 Four and a half years ago, I co-authored Resolution 27-04, the first USG resolution calling for the divestment of CWRU assets from the Israeli occupation of Palestine. That effort ended on April 22, 2018, in—what seemed to be at the time—utter defeat. But the success of Resolution 31-15, authored by CWRU Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and endorsed by the USG General Assembly on Nov. 8, says differently.

On March 29, 2018, the USG Executive Committee unconstitutionally refused to allow Resolution 27-04 onto the upcoming April 10 General Assembly (GA) agenda. At that GA meeting, we again sought to introduce the resolution via “Open Forum,” which had no precedent of requiring a vote, but that night it suddenly required two-thirds of the GA in favor, which was not met. When USG came under considerable pressure from the ensuing political blowback, it was agreed that an emergency GA would be held on April 22 to formally introduce Resolution 27-04. Despite significant interest from the wider public in holding a moderated discussion, too few members of GA itself attended and quorum was not met, ending the legislative term of the 27th Assembly.

In the wake of Resolution 31-15’s passage, SJP and its supporters may feel both celebratory of their accomplish-

ments and discouraged by President Eric Kaler’s callous response, which has been rightfully called divisive, ignorant and misleading. But while President Kaler refuses to take up an investigation of CWRU’s complicity in Israeli apartheid today, he or the next CWRU president will be forced to reconsider through your continued struggle. This is your university, not his, after all. Just as the efforts my colleagues and I made in 2018 were not final, yours too will be a step towards further accomplishments for generations of CWRU students to come.

Congratulations to SJP and all advocates of Resolution 31-15 on your success. To the co-sponsoring organizations supporting justice in Palestine, thank you. This is exactly how we make change—by building cross-cutting coalitions of groups which all share an interest in challenging the transnational systems of militarization and imperialism. Know that SJP will have your back when you engage in your own struggle.

Thank you all for your unyielding principles and dedication to the cause and be content in the knowledge of the shame supporters of Israeli apartheid will feel in the near future as we continue to win the fight.

Tim O’Shea, CWRU ‘20

Jeremy Bendik-Keymer Professor of Philosophy President Kaler recently sent a letter Judaism or the Jewish people. The resoto the campus community addressing lution is against a set of state policies as the Undergraduate Student Government these are enabled economically. Moreresolution 31-15-SJP, which seeks the over, the reasoning for the resolution is boycott of industries supporting milita- grounded in social justice and human rized injustice in the occupied territories rights, citing as authorities major interof Palestine. I agreed with his implied national human rights organizations and view that the reasoning for the boycott documents, including one in Israel that was weak at points, for Case Western bears a proud Hebrew name - B’tselem Reserve University is not “directly cul- (“in the image of G-d”). The resolution pable” for Israeli human rights violation was not hateful; it was an expression of by investing in the military-industrial social justice in intent. complex. Nonetheless, President KalFinally, having spent years reading er’s action was wrong.

Jewish philosophers, studying HoloThe main reason why is that his let- caust literature, knowing social justiceter disrespected student self-governance loving Israelis who also oppose human from an office whose opinion could rights violations by their state and havserve to repress such governance. Stu- ing spent many a powerful meal during dent government has a right to produce Passover with friends, I would think resolutions. They did so in accord with that any group that acts out of love of their procedures. The faculty and the ad- justice and for human rights is a group ministration have to respect that. For the in line with the best in the traditions of president to send an emotional, inflam- Judaism. matory condemnation of student governance working as it rightfully can was Respectfully, irresponsible and an abuse of the office Jeremy Bendik-Keymer of the president.

Professor of Philosophy The letter was also wrong because it harmfully misrepresented students. It characterized the resolution as a hate act and as antisemitism. This can plausibly bring disrepute, stigma, even violence against them. Yet reading the resolution shows no comments made against either

Providing GRADUATE continued from pg. 7 context and condemning hate USG Executive Committee CWRU Student Body, We want to provide context for the Undergraduate Student Government General Assembly on Tuesday, Nov. 8. The resolution on the table was authored by Case Western Reserve University Students for Justice in Palestine and co-sponsored by a number of student groups across campus. The topic discussed is incredibly nuanced and should be treated as such.

All parties on Tuesday participated in a peaceful, open dialogue—we encourage you all to read the minutes and resolution availible on The Observer website to form your own opinions.

Every student is your peer and has their own valid experiences. We implore you all to respect those who made their voices heard and to treat everyone on campus with the dignity and kindness you would like to be treated with. Our campus is motivated by community, not by divisiveness.

We recognize that this resolution has impacted the mental health of our community and want to share resources you can reach out to for support. If you have any questions, we encourage you to contact our executive board at usg-executive@case. edu.

Finally, we as the Undergraduate Student Government condemn any acts of hatred or discrimination towards any group on campus.

Sincerely, USG Executive Committee

Indeed, the historical record as recounted in the resolution demonstrates that Israel has committed the crimes of occupation and apartheid: forced migration, re-settling its population in occupied lands, political disenfranchisement and so on.

Moreover, a review of the full historical record reveals that the resolution paints an overly conservative picture of Israel’s behavior. As the resolution states, apartheid is a crime whereby an “institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination” is established, and details evidence of this in their “whereas” statements. But if one accepts the definition from such radical bodies as the UN General Assembly resolution on apartheid, then we must include not just apartheid but the “inhuman acts resulting from the policies and practices of apartheid and similar policies.” In this broader definition, considering the acts resulting from the policy and practice of apartheid we get a more grim but more accurate portrait of the crime being committed. Pulling back this veil reveals a decades-long regime of torture, atrocities and deprivation. For an example of their reserved account, the resolution mentions that “between September 2000 and August 2014, approximately 440 Palestinians…were killed during targeted killing operations.” But this is an overly restrictive picture. In just a few weeks in 2014, during Israel’s “Protective Edge” operation in occupied Gaza, an estimated 550 children alone were killed and 18,000 homes were leveled. This wanton killing of children perhaps is not a surprise considering Israel’s blockade of Gaza includes such nefarious items as children’s puzzle games.

The above accounting of Israel’s behavior is widely accepted and has informed the international consensus leading mainstream organizations and human rights groups to agree that apartheid is indeed taking place, as

the resolution mentions. This is hardly even hidden within Israel itself anymore with the passing of the “NationState” law in 2018 proclaiming that the “fulfillment of the right of national self-determination in the State of Israel is unique to the Jewish people.” Even if one were to deny the existence of an occupation, despite the overwhelming evidence, this is tantamount to the formal establishment of a Jim Crow regime within Israel’s post-1967 borders. Is a factual account of Israel’s criminal behavior, the response from the international community and the lack of action by the CWRU community “anti-Israel,” as he asserts? This is indeed an interesting standard and I hope he also applies this standard to factual accounts of American Jim Crow in the Deep South, in this case as being “anti-American.” If not, then an emotionally potent oversimplification (“anti-Israel”) is being deployed as a distraction and has no place in a serious consideration of justice. The resolution’s account of things does not even begin to approach Israel’s other crimes which fall outside the rubric of “apartheid” but nevertheless meet criteria for international crimes under the Rome Statute including other crimes against humanity (e.g., torture), war crimes (e.g., targeting homes) and aggression (for example in its invasion of Lebanon in 1982). Criminality demands accountability.

I also want to address his second claim, that adopting the resolution harms the Jewish community. Besides the fact that the resolution never uses the words “Jews,” “Jewish,” “Judaism,” etc. it is presumptuous of him to speak for the Jewish community as a monolith. More importantly, the charge of antisemitism is erroneous.

Indeed, the Jewish community is enhanced by consistent condemnation of injustice wherever and committed by whomever. The Jewish values that I was raised with insist that I speak up

about injustices regardless, particularly those that I have some complicity in as all American taxpayers do, given the billions of dollars of funding the US provides to Israel’s military each year.

“Justice, justice, you shall pursue” (“tzedek, tzedek, tirdof,” Deuteronomy 16:20). Justice that does not account for the consequences of one’s own actions is hypocrisy.

Moreover, his letter intentionally conflates Jews and the State of Israel.

This is at best also erroneous and at worst confirmation of real antisemitic tropes. For instance, according to Pew Surveys, American Jews—about half of world Jewry—rank having an orientation towards justice and leading a moral life far above caring about Israel as key to being a Jew. Caring about Israel is at about the level of having a good sense of humor. Therefore, the assertion that criticism of Israel is the same as criticism of the Jewish people as he does is out of step with Jewish opinion on the matter. This is, however, in keeping with the attitude of the far-right American politicians (who are interestingly almost all not Jewish) who chastise Jews for being so out of step with Israel as to insist it observe international human rights law. It is troubling then that his assertion here echoes historic antisemitic tropes: that Jews have “dual loyalties,” have allegiances to an outside state and are therefore a parasite on the national body politic.

It is important that CWRU actualizes the values that it claims to hold, divest from those financial interests which benefit from apartheid and support the CWRU community in upholding human rights.

Best, Sam Seidman Doctoral Candidate Department of Psychological Sciences

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Spartans defeat Pitt-Greensburg 6-1, Ithaca 6-0 SOCCER continued from pg. 1 Puneet Bansal Sports Editor

The women’s soccer team poses triumphant at the second round of the NCAA Division III Championship, after defeating Ithaca College. Courtesy of CWRU Athletics Around the 70-minute mark, the the beginning and I’m really proud of gie Farra rounded off the first half scorBobcats slipped past the formidable the team effort.” ing burst with a quick score off an assist Spartan defense for a quick score, preWhen asked about the team’s slow from Washburn. venting a shutout for the 5-1 score. start, Coach Richter discussed the high Gomez scored an unassisted goal About five minutes before the con- stakes atmosphere of the championship about two minutes into the second half clusion of the game, first-year forward tournament, saying, “Going into the for the 4-0 lead. Graduate student forCeci Dapino iced the score with her first tournament game, there’s always a ward Samantha Cramin finished the third goal of the season off an assist bit of nerves and anxiety so it took us a scoring for the game with two goals from fourth-year defender Lexi Gomez. little bit to settle in ... once we did, we in less than three minutes. In the 68th CWRU came away with the 6-1 victory moved the ball really well [and] things minute, Hartzler’s corner was headed to advance to the second round. started rolling for us.”

by VanBibber, setting up an easy tap The Spartans limited the Bobcats to from Cramin for the 5-0 score. Hartzjust five shot attempts total while reIthaca—11/13 ler earned her ninth assist of the season, cording 28 of their own. CWRU also On Sunday, the Spartans took on tying her for third-most in a season in outnumbered Pitt-Greensburg in corner Ithaca in the second round in almost program history. kicks 13-2. Hartman led the team with identical fashion. Washburn opened the In the 71st minute, second-year deeight shots total including four on goal. scoring in the 13th minute, taking the fender Katie Rishel and first-year midThird-year goalie Maggie Storti earned 1-0 lead off an assist from VanBibber. fielder Julia Flynn set up the passes for her 16th win of the season after saving With the goal, Washburn set the pro- Cramin to score the sixth goal to take two shots. gram record for game-winning goals at the game 6-0.

“The team played really well,” said 12 for her career.

Once again, CWRU outshot their Head Coach Abby Richter in a postHartman continued her strong of- opponents 19-8 and maintained the game interview with the CWRU Ath- fensive play in the 24th minute, netting corner kick advantage 7-1. Storti anletic Department. “We talked about the a long-range shot over the goalie’s ex- chored the defense with a season-high importance of having a really good start tended hands for the 2-0 lead and the six saves and improved to 17-0-1 for ... Our intensity was really good from 12th goal of the season. First-year Mag- the year with the shutout, breaking her

own program record for 16 wins from the previous year.

Hartman, Storti, Washburn and fourth-year defender Merry Meyer were named to the All-UAA First Team.

Hartzler earned All-UAA honorable mention honors. The coaching staff was named the Coaching Staff of the Year after leading the team to the program’s first conference championship.

Coach Richter, in her first season with the team, shared the honor with assistant coaches Cameron Shedenhelm and Kayleigh Piscioneri as well as student coaches Rebecca Hammill and Grace Bratter. This is the second straight year the Spartan coaching staff earned this honor and the sixth time in history.

Hartman, Hartzler, Storti, VanBibber, Washburn and White were also named to the CSC Academic All-District Team, announced by the College Sports Communicators, for their high achievements on the field and in the classroom. All six athletes will advance to the Academic All-America Ballot, the winning teams to be announced on Dec. 6.

Washburn was named the Spartan Club Athlete of the Week for her dominant offensive play through the first two rounds of the tournament.

CWRU will host the three games of the third and fourth rounds of the Division III championship tournament from Nov. 19-20. The fourth-ranked Spartans will play on Saturday at 11 a.m. in the Round of 16 against the 15th-ranked Loras College (18-0-3). The winner of this game will play the winner between eighth-ranked Amherst College (18-20) and sixth-ranked William Smith College (13-1-6) on Sunday at 1 p.m. in a showdown for a trip to Salem, Virginia to play in the quarterfinals.

Men’s basketball starts season 3-0, wins Bill Sudeck Tournament Jack Martin Staff Writer Case Western Reserve University’s men’s basketball team started their season off hot with a three-game win streak. The Spartans entered the 202223 season ranked 19th in the D3hoops. com Preseason Top 25 poll and look to build on the success of last season, in which they finished 20-7 and pushed into the third round of the NCAA Division III championship tournament.

On Tuesday Nov. 8, the team hosted the Denison University Big Reds in the season opener. The Spartans pulled off a 78-72 victory despite only shooting 5-24 (20.8%) on three-pointers and trailing 35-32 at the half.

Fourth-year forward Cole Frilling led the team in scoring with 24 while also notching 10 of the team’s 37 rebounds.

Second-year guard Sam Trunley, thirdyear guard Luke Thorburn and secondyear forward Umar Rashid also scored in the double digits for the Spartans, recording 11, 14 and 11 points, respectively. Graduate student and starting guard Danny Frauenheim contributed with a team-leading seven assists to go along with 8 points, 3 rebounds and 1 steal.

Three days later, the team faced off against the Oberlin College Yeomen to kick off the 2022 Bill Sudeck Tourna-

ment held at CWRU. After giving up a 3-pointer to open the game, the Spartans went on a 7-point run and didn’t look back. The team led for the remainder of the game, as much as by 22 in the second half, winning their second game of the season 78-66. The Spartans bounced back from their poor shooting performance against Denison, finishing the game shooting 29-58 (50.0%) from the floor and 11-31 (35.5%) from deep.

Frilling posted his second doubledouble of the season, scoring 28 and grabbing 10 rebounds, while Trunley and Rashid combined for 23. For the second straight game, Frauenheim led the team with 8 assists.

The following afternoon, the Spartans faced the Dickinson College Red Devils in the Bill Sudeck Tournament Championship Game. After a back-andforth battle in the first half, the Spartans ended the opening frame with a 28-27 lead. Early in the second half, CWRU went on an 8-point run and secured their lead for the remainder of the game.

Overcoming a difficult shooting day, the Spartans managed to hold off the Red Devils, taking the championship 71-60.

Frilling notched his third straight double-double, dropping 22 points with 10 rebounds. Thorburn had the first

Graduate student Danny Frauenheim shoots a layup in CWRU’s match against Oberlin on Nov. 11. Courtesy of CWRU Athletics double-double of his collegiate career, D3hoops.com Team of the Week for his totaling 16 points and grabbing 11 re- three double-doubles. Frauenheim was bounds. Frauenheim also dropped 16 also named to the All-Tournament team. points while Rashid recorded 2 blocks, The Spartans will embark on their 5 rebounds and 1 assist to anchor the first road trip of the season, facing defense.

SUNY Buffalo State College on Nov. Frilling was named the MVP of the 18, Medaille University on Nov. 19 and tournament and was selected to the Capital University on Nov. 29.

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Football drops regular season finale 20-7 to undefeated CMU Gaurav Hardikar Staff Writer

In their final game of the season, the CWRU football team honored its 17 seniors and their families before kickoff. Courtesy of CWRU Athletics On Saturday Nov. 12, the Case Western Reserve University football team hosted Carnegie Mellon University in their final game of the season.

The Tartans entered the game with a formidable 9-0 record, whereas the 6-3 Spartans came to DiSanto Field looking to spoil their rival’s quest for an undefeated season. With a daunting task ahead of them, the Spartans offense took the field first in front of over 2000 spectators.

CMU’s defense won the first battle, forcing a three-and-out from the home team. Fortunately, the CWRU defense did the same to give their offense the ball right back.

The next drive ended catastrophically for the Spartans. Facing thirdand-12 on their own 21-yard line, they tried a pass play for the first down conversion. Third-year Tartans linebacker Logan Young came in flying and sacked second-year quarterback Ian Kipp. He managed to strip the football from Kipp, recovering it to give CMU possession one yard from the end zone. The Tartan offense punched the ball in with a rushing touchdown to take a 7-0 lead.

CWRU’s offensive struggles continued in the next drive, as the team picked up just 25 yards and two first downs before punting again. The defense, however, remained strong as third-year defensive lineman AJ Dudowski sacked CMU’s quarterback on third down to bring out the Tartan punting unit. Just when it seemed as though the Spartans were on the verge of scoring, CMU’s defense struck once more with another strip sack on Kipp.

This fumble, forced by second-year defensive end Mitchell Stokey and recovered by fourth-year defensive end Ben Coyne, gave the Tartans the ball back at their own 39-yard line.

The Spartans run defense stifled the Tartans to another three-and-out. The next possession for CWRU featured a 12-yard pass from Kipp to second-year wide receiver Noah Coyne and back-

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to-back runs from fourth-year running back Antonio Orsini for 21 yards. Inside Tartan territory and desperate for points, the Spartans attempted a fourth down conversion with 3 yards to go.

Unfortunately, the CMU’s pass rush continued to haunt Kipp, who was sacked by third-year inside linebacker Robert Coury to turn the ball over near midfield.

As the game carried into the second quarter, the Spartans responded with a fourth down stop of their own. On fourth-and-2 in the red zone, thirdyear linebacker Gabe Troch came up huge for the Spartans, stifling thirdyear running back Tre Vasiliadis into a one-yard carry to force a turnover on downs. CWRU remained lifeless on offense, however, punting after another three-play possession that lost them six yards. The punt gave the visitors the ball on the Spartans’ side of the field, and the Tartans scored a touchdown just four plays later with a 25yard pass to gain the 14-0 advantage.

The Spartans quickly picked up steam on the ensuing drive. Kipp hit Coyne for a 29-yard completion and then ran the ball for a crucial first down conversion on fourth-and-1.

Orsini broke off an 18-yard run to get the Spartans into touchdown territory, but disaster struck once again. Facing fourth-and-3 with just 10 yards to go, Kipp threw an incomplete pass, causing another turnover by the CWRU offense.

The Spartans defense kept the team in the game, limiting the Tartans to just a one-yard gain on their next possession. Yet the home offense put up an identically stagnant drive despite being given the ball near midfield. The teams traded three-and-outs once more before a vital sack by CWRU’s thirdyear defensive lineman Kaden Tong took CMU out of field goal range at halftime.

Though the Tartans got the ball to begin the second half, CWRU’s second-year defensive back Nate Cikalo

made his presence felt immediately; he tackled Vasiliadis for a loss of nine yards, forcing CMU to punt. Trailing by two scores and with the possession near midfield, the Spartans offense finally made its way into the end zone.

Orsini and first-year quarterback Aaron Filips controlled the drive, with each yard coming from the running game.

Orsini picked up 28 yards on five carries, including one for 9 yards. The remaining 25 yards that Filips picked up were highlighted by an 18-yard sprint to CMU’s 3-yard line which was followed by a rushing touchdown on the next play.

Down 14-7, the Spartans looked to their defense for a stop. Though a 37yard completion on the second play of the Tartans’ drive brought them into field goal range, CMU missed the 43yard field goal attempt, giving CWRU the ball back at their own 26 yard line.

With a chance to tie the game, Filips and the Spartan offense took the field once more. The impressive drive, featuring 8 and 9-yard carries from Filips, a 14-yard pass to fourth-year wide receiver Michael Wojkowski and a 16-yard pass to Coyne, brought the Spartans into field goal range. Given the offense’s difficulty in converting fourth downs, the Spartans attempted the 37-yard field goal attempt. But Tartan linebacker Young wreaked havoc again, blocking the kick and giving the Tartans the ball at their own 8-yard line.

The Spartans defense, fatigued from carrying the anemic offense, was unable to hold on as the game made its way into the fourth quarter. CMU put together an impressive 13-play, 92-yard drive that ate over 5:30 off the clock and ended with a 12-yard touchdown pass. Though the kicker missed the extra point kick, CWRU was staring at a 20-7 deficit with under 14 minutes remaining. Even worse, the offense went three-and-out on their next possession. CMU running back Vasiliadis sprinted a discouraging 34-

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W 68-55

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CWRU vs. Westminster (11/12) - W 79-50

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Ashley Novak - 35th of 247 (22:27.1)

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Julia Kocherzat - 43rd of 247 (22:39.3)

yard run on the subsequent drive, but back-to-back holding penalties on the Tartans let them run down the clock a bit before punting.

Filips continued to play as a dual threat, with impressive completions to third-year wide receiver Isaiah Arrington for 11 yards and Wojkowski for 19 yards all while recording a 14-yard run. However, three straight incomplete passes put CWRU in a fourthand-10 situation at CMU’s 20-yard line. Ben Coyne, who had already recovered a fumble following the second Kipp strip sack, recorded a strip sack of his own to force a fatal turnover for the Spartans. The ball was recovered

by CMU third-year inside linebacker Kevin Cooke at CMU’s 32-yard line.

The Tartans decided to run the ball for their final drive, with Vasiliadis picking up 16 yards and leaving just 22 seconds on the clock for the Spartans’ final drive, who still trailed by 13. Though Filips found Coyne for a 26-yard completion, time expired before CWRU could get within scoring range.

CMU finished a perfect 10-0 on the season and returned to Pittsburgh to prepare for the first round of the NCAA Division III tournament. They will host the 9-1 DePauw University Tigers on Nov. 19. The Spartans finished their 2022 season at 6-4 and are No. 5 out of 11 teams in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference.

Though the Spartans’ season ended in disappointing fashion, the team still has much to be proud about. A winning record, an average win margin of 25.6 points per game and two separate three-win streaks indicate that the program is moving in the right direction.

While the 2021 Spartans finished with the same 6-4 record, their win margin was 21.5 points per game in a season that featured a three-loss streak and one more loss within the PAC. The NCAA DIII football tournament begins on Nov. 19 at 12:00 PM EST.

Wrestling CWRU vs Ohio Wesleyan (11/12) W 39-8 CWRU vs Baldwin Wallace Invitational (11/17-19)

CWRU vs. Alma (11/19)

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CWRU at Wooster (11/20)

NCAA Great Lakes Regional Champion-

Swimming / Diving

CWRU at Marietta (11/22)

ship (11/12) - #2 / 38 teams

CWRU vs Magnus Cup (11/17-19)

CWRU vs. Alleghany (11/26)

Jack Begley - 3rd of 272 (24:26.8)

CWRU vs CMU Diving Invitational

CWRU at Kenyon (12/2)

Joe Jaster - 4th of 272 (24:27.7)

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CWRU at Denison (12/7)

Robert St. Claire - 10th of 271 (24:34.8)