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Volume LXVII, Number 11
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Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Waltham, Mass.
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STUDENT ADVOCACY
BLC urges policy reform
■ The Brandeis Labor Coalition released a Change.org petition regarding multiple issues. By SAM MINTZ JUSTICE EDITOR
The Brandeis Labor Coalition released a petition on Friday urging University President Frederick Lawrence and the administration to reform Brandeis’ labor and economic policies. The petition contains five points of reform: just employment policy, transparency in the University budget, reformation of executive compensation, fair community representation and a lock-in of the tuition rate for students. “These are tangible changes that we want to see Brandeis implement,” said BLC member Andrew Nguyen ’15 in an interview with the Justice. “We are seeking actual institutional change.” The BLC’s point of just employment policy would ensure a safe work environment and provide “appropriate grievance procedures” to address staff concerns in a timely manner, according to the petition. “This proposal is modeled off of [Georgetown University’s] just employment policy,” said Nguyen. “It’s ridiculous that Brandeis doesn’t have a policy around pro-
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QUESTIONS READY: Students attended the Student Union roundtable event last Wednesday to ask some of the University's senior administrators about a number of topics.
Student Union holds forum ■ Members of the University
administration answered questions about issues on campus on Wednesday. By rACHEL sharer JUSTICE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
Administrators answered students’ questions and concerns regarding sexual assault and dining services at a roundtable discussion last Wednesday night. The Student Union hosted this discussion with
members of the Brandeis administration so students could openly address issues around campus. Administrators also addressed a number of concerns regarding sustainability and budget decisions. The administrators in attendance included Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel, Dean of Students Jamele Adams, Assistant Dean and Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes, Vice President for Operations James Gray, Director of Community Living Tim Touchette and newly appointed Provost Lisa
Lynch. The meeting began with introductions of the administrators and was then opened up for questions from students. The first question was posed by Samantha Rockey ’17, organizer of the recent Sodexo protest, and addressed the meal plan requirement—specifically, whether a rumor about off-campus meal plan requirements was true. Gray said that, while some meal plan changes are being discussed, there is no plan to make off-campus students purchase meal plans. Andrew Nguyen '15 from the
Brandeis Labor Coalition continued on this topic, addressing the alleged mistreatment of Sodexo workers. He asked “what mechanisms” were in place for Brandeis to try to improve this. Gray said that Sodexo has a specific contract addressing the treatment of workers, and Brandeis monitors Sodexo to make sure they are complying with these terms. He stressed that there are “two sides to every story.” Gray added that if students feel there is an issue, they should continue to communicate with Sodexo, the ad-
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INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL
IBS receives $2.5 million gift toward innovation center ■ The Hassenfeld Family
Innovation Center will allow for not only research but also additional student experiences in the business industry.
By MARISSA DITKOWSKY JUSTICE EDITOR
Brandeis’ International Business School received a $2.5 million donation from the Hassenfeld family to establish an innovation center, according to a Nov. 7 IBS press release. The center will allow for an increase in corporate
outreach, expand IBS’ influence outside of the University and provide new educational opportunities for Brandeis students. IBS Dean Bruce Magid announced the gift on Friday morning during the Massachusetts Trade and Investment Forum. The announcement comes one month after the Princeton Review
OTL, will “focus the center on scaling the infrastructure needed to facilitate technology development and commercialization across university departments,” the statement reads. “This gift enables us to build the critical bridge between academic and industry research,” Menapace was
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Serving the Community
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Waltham Group event Halloween for the Hungry raises thousands of cans of food for the Boston area.
The men's and women's soccer teams received bids to the NCAA Division III Championships on Monday.
The Student Events Library Party was shut down after students caused a disturbance.
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named IBS one of the top business schools in the country for the seventh consecutive year. Provost Lisa Lynch will oversee the center and facilitate collaboration between the Office of Technology Licensing at Brandeis and IBS. Rebecca Menapace, the associate provost for innovation and executive director of the
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NEWS SENATE LOG
Two new clubs recognized by Senate Student Union President Sneha Walia ’15 began the weekly Senate meeting by saying that she will be working on compiling notes and responses from the Student Union Round Table last Wednesday, which she will confirm with the administrators who were present, and send to the student body in a newsletter. Walia announced that there will be a Deans’ Night in the Shapiro Campus Center from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Student Union will also be partnering with Kindness Day and Public Safety to host an ice cream social in Lurias from 7 to 8:30 p.m. First up, the Fitness Club approached the Senate seeking recognition and charter. The club aims to provide health and fitness services to the Brandeis community, like customized diet plans and physical trainers. The members said they have created a one-year plan for the club, which includes holding weekly meetings at which the club would educate students on dieting and fitness strategies. The Senate asked the students if they had talked to any staff in Gosman Sports and Convocation Center about their club, and the students replied that they had not. Student Union Vice President Sofia Muhlmann ’16 asked that the club try to connect with athletics and wellness resources that are already in place at the University. She asked if any of the club’s members currently have certifications in nutrition or physical training, and the students replied that they did not. A motion was made to recognize the Fitness Club with the contingency that it acts as a support system and must advertise that no one in the club is currently certified in fitness or nutrition. The motion passed with 10 in favor, seven opposed and four abstaining. The second club to approach the Senate was the Brandeis Chapter of Nourish International. The students explained that their club would be a chapter of the national nonprofit, which seeks to address issues of poverty. The club’s purpose would be to connect with and aid communities abroad that are working on projects to improve their living conditions. The Senate asked how the club would directly benefit the Brandeis community, and the students said that the club would serve as a leadership incubator for Brandeis students. The Senate dismissed the students and, without discussion, took a vote to recognize the club. The recognition passed with 12 in favor, two opposed and two abstaining. Senator-at-Large Naomi DePina ’16 recommended to the club that it find ways to impact campus more directly, make a one-year plan and then re-approach the Senate for charter. The Senate took a closed vote, deciding not to charter the club at this time. Senate Committees then shared their progress. The Sustainability Committee is currently planning for a State of Sustainability event, tentatively set for Feb. 2, as well as an interest form for the Brandeis Sustainability Fund. The Dining Committee will be holding a Dining Forum Wednesday at 6:45 p.m. in the Olin-Sang auditorium.
POLICE LOG Medical Emergency
Nov. 2—A male in Massell Quad reportedly injured himself. Cataldo Ambulance, BEMCo, University Police and the community development coordinator were dispatched to the scene. The party was treated and transported to Newton-Wellesely Hospital for further care. Officials from the Psychological Counseling Center were notified. Nov. 2—A student in Charles River Apartments reported that his roommate was complaining of dizziness and was not very alert. BEMCo and University Police responded to the scene and requested Cataldo Ambulance. The patient, who had had an anxiety attack, refused to be transported for further care. Nov. 5—University Police and BEMCo responded to a report of a student having a panic attack in the Physics building. BEMCo staff treated the party on-scene with a signed refusal for further care. Nov. 6—Staff at Mailman
House requested transport to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for a party to undergo a voluntary psychiatric evaluation. Cataldo Ambulance transported the party without incident, and University Police assisted at the scene. Nov. 7—A community advisor in Massell Quad called to report that a student was dehydrated and asked that BEMCo check on him. BEMCo requested Cataldo Ambulance, which transported the student to Newton-Wellesley Hospital. The CDC was notified. Nov. 8—University Police and BEMCo responded to a report that a student in Massell Quad accidentally struck her head against a wall. The party was treated on-scene with a signed refusal for further care. Nov. 8—A party reported that there was an intoxicated, semiconscious male in the basement area of Reitman Hall. University Police and BEMCo responded. BEMco staff treated the party, who was then transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital by a
Weston Fire Department ambulance. The CDC was notfied. Nov. 8—A BEMCo staff member on standby reported a semiconscious intoxicated female at the Library Party. University Police assisted, and Cataldo ambulance transported the individual to Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Nov. 9—The manager of the Stein reported that a large group of intoxicated students coming from the Library Party had entered the establishment and were causing a disturbance. University Police arrived and dispersed the group without incident.
Disturbance
Nov. 7—A caller reported hearing a female scream in the area of the Charles River Apartments. Police checked the area, which they found clear of any individuals upon arrival. Nov. 9—The CDC in East Quad reported that several intoxicated people were tipping over a table and causing a disturbance. The parties were gone upon police ar-
CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS n A News article incorrectly identified Ava Blustein as a member of the Class of 2016. She is, in fact, a member of the Class of 2015. (Nov. 4, pg. 1) n A News article listed StandWithUs as a co-sponsor of Kay Wilson’s talk, but they are actually sponsoring her tour. The Zionist Organization of America was also a cosponsor of the Brandeis event. (Nov. 4, pg. 3) n A News article identified William J. Leahy as an adjunct professor when he is actually a former adjunct professor. (Nov. 4, pg. 5) n A Features photo caption misidentified two professors’ departments. Prof. Emily Westover is actually in the Biochemistry department and Prof. Hollie Harder is actually in the department of Romance Studies. (Nov. 4, pg. 9)
n An Arts article incorrectly called Taylor Swift’s new song “You R in Love,” but it is actually called “You Are in Love.” (Nov. 4, pg. 23) The Justice welcomes submissions for errors that warrant correction or clarification. Email editor@ thejustice.org.
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Nov. 4—A student in Goldfarb Library reported that another student was acting oddly, and she was concerned. The CDC on call was at the scene. University Police requested Cataldo ambulance for a voluntary psychiatric transport to Newton-Wellesley Hospital. Cataldo transported the party without further incident. Nov. 6—A staff member at the Abraham Shapiro Academic Center reported that an unfamiliar male party was studying in the building, and requested that police check on him. University Police identified the individual as a graduate student. —compiled by Tate Herbert
Maher to keep speaking date
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n An Arts headline incorrectly spelled Mikko Nissinen’s name. (Nov. 4, pg. 23)
Miscellaneous
WIRE BRIEF
CULTURAL EXPOSURE
n The Arts Pop Culture column said that the Marvel Studios schedule was released through 2018, but it was actually released through 2019. (Nov. 4, pg. 18)
rival, and there was no apparent damage to University property. Nov. 9—Police received a complaint of a group of intoxicated individuals causing a disturbance in the area of the Foster Mods. University Police dispersed the group without incident.
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The Japanese Student Association hosted JSA Takoyaki Night on Friday in the Intercultural Center Lounge, allowing students to sample a popular Japanese dish called takoyaki along with Japanese beverages.
After a weeklong debate over free speech and campus climate, political satirist Bill Maher said he intends to deliver a December commencement address at the University of California, Berkeley despite a controversy surrounding his invitation. Some students last week sought to have his invitation rescinded because of his onair remarks last month, which they allege denigrated Muslims. But citing free speech rights, UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas B. Dirks said the speech would go on as planned. Maher kept quiet publicly about the situation for a few days. Then, on Friday’s show, he delivered a lengthy riff about it, explaining that he was delighted to accept the invitation to speak at the midyear commencement on Dec. 20. A campus student organization that helps choose commencement speakers voted to rescind Maher’s invitation. Its leaders said it took that position not because of Maher’s views but because the debate about his presence would have harmed the celebratory nature of the graduation event. Dirks then overruled the student group and said the invitation will stand. His statement noted that the decision “does not constitute an endorsement” of any of Maher’s views, although it supports the television personality’s right to express them. Protesters wanted Maher disinvited because of statements he made on his Oct. 6 show that, they contend, portrayed Islam as a violent faith and suggested that most Muslims believe that anyone who leaves the religion should be executed. The Middle Eastern, Muslim and South Asian Coalition on campus and other groups started an online petition drive seeking to block the speech, calling Maher’s comments racist, divisive and offensive to many students. On Friday’s show, Maher insisted that he is not a bigot. He said that students and others who signed the online petition don’t seem to understand the open nature of universities and a democratic society: “That’s how it’s done, kids. Whoever told you you only had to hear what didn’t upset you?” His only regret, he said, was that he feared the speech might prompt a media blitz that could detract from the graduation festivities. —Tribune News Service
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BAASA & TSA: Food for Thought
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The Gaza Conflict and the BDS Movement
The Schusterman Center for Israel Studies’ Israel Education Project is offering a teach-in on the Gaza conflict and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement for students and professionals working with Israel engagement on campus. Presenters include Donna Divine, the Morningstar professor of government and director of Middle East studies at Smith College; Cary Nelson, an Emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and author of No University is an Island: Saving Academic Freedom; Len Saxe, the Klutznik professor of Jewish studies and director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies; and Ilan Troen, Stoll Family Chair in Israel Studies and director of the Schusterman Center. Registration for this event is required. Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Mandel Center for the Humanities Auditorium.
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Party hosted by Student Events were trying to force their way in to the party. By Marissa Ditkowsky JUSTICE Editor
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CLIMATE CHANGE: Six professors discussed climate change in the International Lounge in the Usdan Student Center on Monday.
Professors discuss fossil fuel divestment on panel wake of the People’s Climate March at which several students were arrested. By rachel sharer JUSTICE editorial assistant
Six Brandeis professors gave their opinions on fossil fuel divestment, described the relationship between social justice and carbon emissions, and encouraged student-led solutions to climate change at a faculty teach-in yesterday. The event came in the wake of the Nov. 1 release of the 2014 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest report on global greenhouse gas emissions and the People’s Climate March in New York City in September, at which a number of Brandeis students were arrested. According to the moderator of the event, doctoral candidate in History Philip Wight, the panel was held so that faculty experts could “illuminate the climate crisis and discuss practical solutions.” The panelists included professors from the University’s Undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences, the International Business School and the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. The panelists were Profs. John Ballantine (IBS), Charles Chester (ENVS), Judy Herzfeld (CHEM), Frank Lowenstein (ENVS), Eric Olson (Heller) and Sabine von Mering (GRALL). The discussion began with a question that Wight posed for the panel: he asked that the professors provide an example of a current climate-change solution that has inspired them. Von Mering discussed the fact that Germany has raised a large amount of awareness in recent decades and has taken many steps to reduce their energy usage. Germany is now “the number-one solar country in the world,” or the country that uses the most solar power, said von Mering. There has been a dramatic increase in the use of German renewable energy since the introduction of the renewable energy law in March 2000, which gives tax credits and cheap loans to companies that invested in
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renewable sources, she added. Lowenstein said that his inspiration was a 2008 California law, called the Climate Change Scoping Plan, which requires California to reduce its carbon emissions to 1990s-levels by the year 2050. Olson discussed Denmark’s recent announcement that they plan to become 100 percent renewable by the year 2050. According to Olson, the country is now at 40 percent renewable energy usage, and plans to electrify all transportation. He also cited the “incredible increase in United States academic research” as a potential for future change. Wight then switched gears to talk about Brandeis and what the University and the students can do to create awareness of climate change and take action against it. When he asked the faculty if they “think climate change is a social justice issue,” they all firmly responded that it was. Von Mering said that “the people who are suffering the most from the consequences are the ones who are least responsible for it,” meaning that it is the developing countries that receive the negative impacts of U.S. and European greenhouse gas emissions. Herzfeld stated that “social justice extends across generations,” and it is our responsibility to mitigate the effects for future generations. Von Mering also said that “if Brandeis takes its social justice seriously, then it must become a leader in fighting climate change, and that includes divestment from fossil fuels.” When asked about potential solutions at Brandeis, including the proposal of divestment, the panel members gave a range of responses. Von Mering said she was in favor of the University divesting. Herzfeld said that although she does not necessarily think the University should use its endowment for political ends, the University needs to “be consistent with who we claim to be as a University.” Chester and Ballantine both focused on the importance of using “non-radical” language when trying to engage in climate change discussions but did not specify if they were for or against divestment. Olson said that while divestment is one potential option, he thinks that “Brandeis would have a very hard time divest-
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ing” because of the risks involved and the lack of control over endowment and what it goes toward. According to Wight in an email to the Justice, the Brandeis Climate Justice group—formerly called the Brandeis Divestment Campaign—has been “organizing divestment for two years now.” Brandeis currently has about 10 percent of its endowment invested in the fossil fuel industry, although a divestment referendum last spring showed that 79 percent of the members of the student body who voted were in favor of divestment. All the faculty members also said that students should play a role in how the University moves forward in addressing climate change. Lowenstein said that not only does the University need to be prepare students to be “solution-finders” in the future but that it also needs to “tap into” student creativity. “Every single major step forward…all started with protest,” Lowenstein said. Lowenstein encouraged students to “protest” non-violently with “song, music, dance and art” in order to make a difference. Olson encouraged students to vote as often as possible, and Prof. Lawrence Wangh (BIOL) suggested from the audience that students should “ask what is not being taught.” Wangh said that many important topics related to climate change are not being taught at Brandeis, such as geology or engineering. “Students should demand to broaden their education in order to alter academic discussion,” Wangh said. Von Mering concluded the meeting by encouraging students to ask questions, demand solutions and organize effectively. “Don’t underestimate the power you have,” she said. “Our biggest threat is silence.” Wight wrote in an email to the Justice that while an official committee has been made to discuss the possibility of divestment at Brandeis, no clear conclusions have been made. The committee was formed last October, according to a Justice article from Oct. 1, 2013. Wight wrote that students are “preparing to escalate in the coming months if the University continues to drag its feet on this pressing moral issue.”
What started out as a Student Events sponsored party in the Farber Library ended with Public Safety officers shutting down the party and calling the Waltham Police Department for backup to control students who were trying to enter the party, which was over capacity, and causing a public disturbance. The event, referred to as the Library Party, was a part of Louis Louis Week 2014. According to Rachel Starr ’15, the executive director of Student Events as well as its director of entertainment, one of the Public Safety officers who was present at the party made the initial call to the police after he had to break up numerous fights that occurred around the entrance to the Farber Mezzanine. Starr wrote that the Public Safety officer stationed by the entrance to the Library Party had to handle over 500 students attempting to enter the party as people were exiting through the same doors. She added that, due to the capacity of the building, Student Events could not let additional students into the party. However, students attempted to barge past the officer and two Student Events staff members positioned at the door. “At one point they had to form a human chain to stop people from rushing into the party, a danger to everyone because of the lack of space in the area,” Starr wrote. “There is an obvious danger of using humans as a physical barricade. Because of that, the [Public Safety] officer at the front of the door could not leave his post so we had one public safety officer running around stopping people from getting into actual fights, jumping on the walls, and attempting to enter into restricted areas.” The Public Safety officer then called for backup. Brandeis Police then assessed the situation and called the Waltham Police Department for backup. At this time, according to Starr, around 600 students were waiting outside to enter the party.
Starr noted that students outside were visibly drinking in public, yelling at the cops, attempting to fight other people and forcing their way into the library. The party was officially shut down just before midnight at the request of University Police. Following the dispersion, a number of disturbances were reported. At 12:17 a.m., a community development coordinator reported a group of intoxicated individuals tipping over a table in the East Quad area, according to the Brandeis University Police Log obtained by the Justice. Several minutes later at 12:36 a.m., a Stein manager reported that a large group of intoxicated students who had come from the Library Party were causing a disturbance. This is the second year that the Library Party has taken place. Because of this, Starr wrote that it was difficult to anticipate the exact number of students who would attend. She wrote that about 700 students attended last year. Student Events anticipated about 850 students; the venue can accommodate 640 students. According to Starr, more than double the amount of students who attended last year were at the party this year, though most of them were waiting outside. Student Events needed to limit the number of students in the Upper Green room to 300 due not only to spatial concerns, but safety concerns as well. Starr wrote that, last year, the limit was 350 students in the Farber Mezzanine; however, the Farber Mezzanine began to shake due to the large quantity of students last year. There is no specific weight limit, according to Starr. Although Student Events followed all safety guidelines—including having BEMCo and Public Safety officers present—by 11 p.m., Starr wrote, it became clear there were safety issues for everyone, both inside and outside of the library. “I am saddened by the shut down since my staff worked so hard to make this party possible for the Brandeis community and clearly there is a desire from Brandeis students for parties such as the Library Party,” Starr wrote. “I know Student Events can fulfill this need in the future.” —Rachel Hughes contributed reporting.
BRIEF Vandalism and liquid cause near $20,000 in damages to books About 200 art books were damaged several weeks ago by an unknown liquid that was placed in the ceiling tiles in the Goldfarb Library and spilled down on to shelves on the fourth floor of the Farber Library. In addition, the library staff recently discovered that a rare 1884 edition of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe was defaced, though they do not know when, wrote Vice Provost, University Librarian and Chief Information Officer John Unsworth in an email to the Justice. He wrote that he guessed “the combined cost of remediation and replacement in these two incidents is in excess of $20,000.” These books are some of the most expensive items in the open collection in the library. The books were splashed in the liquid when it spilled through a diffuser in the ceiling, which caused the books and pages to get stuck together, wrote Erin Jerome, the Access and Commons Services lead, in an email to the Justice. Though library staff members are unsure what the liquid was and originally thought it was hot chocolate, they now think it was Bailey’s Irish Cream after finding
several empty bottles in a trash can on Farber 3. “It seems more likely that someone would want to hide an alcoholic drink in the ceiling than a regular hot chocolate,” Jerome wrote. Preservation Officer Leslie Reicher was out of the office at the time, so Jerome wrote that she called the New England Document Conservation Center emergency hotline, and they told her that the books had to be frozen to prevent further damage, to avoid the books drying out and molding. Jerome wrote that she and her student staff wrapped each book individually in parchment paper and put them in boxes, which they then took to a walk-in freezer in the Usdan Dining Hall. Each week since the incident, Reicher has pulled a box of books out of the freezer and worked to restore them to better condition, wrote Jerome. Jerome was unsure of how many books were damaged beyond repair. Other library staff members involved did not respond to request for comment by press time. —Hannah Wulkan
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Collection chronicling life of Zionist activist receives the spotlight ■ The University Archives
and Special Collections also received a donation of historical photographs of figures such as Malcolm X. By ZACHARY REID JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
The Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections announced on Nov. 1 that it is featuring the Nahum Goldmann collection, which chronicles the life of the Zionist activist and Israel advocate, in their monthly Spotlight. Anne Woodrum, the Archives and Special Collections librarian, wrote in an email to the Justice that the Spotlight is a way to “showcase or promote material and collections in Special Collections.” She also explained that faculty members, scholars or graduate and undergraduate volunteers with expertise or an interest in the material write individual spotlights. According to the Spotlight’s online description, Goldmann was born in Russia in 1895 and raised in Germany and began to write articles and give speeches in support of Zionism at age 14. He spent much of his adult life fighting for reparations for Jewish victims of Nazi Germany and working on behalf of the state of Israel, serving as a valuable source of diplomatic influence. After moving to Geneva, Goldmann represented the Jewish Agency at the League of Nations and served as the head of the Comité des Délégation Juives. Goldmann also served as presi-
dent of the World Jewish Congress from 1949 to 1978 and the World Zionist Organization from 1956 to 1968. According to Judaica Librarian James Rosenbloom, Goldmann “interacted with many of the leaders of the Jewish world, in Israel and elsewhere,” and “was an important figure in twentieth century Jewish history.” Goldmann’s son, Dr. Guido Goldmann, donated the collection to the University in spring 2012, telling Archives staff that “his father would have wanted the collection to come to Brandeis,” according to Woodrum. Rosenbloom also added that Goldmann “was interested in the materials residing in a special collections department that would take good care of them…and make [the collection] available to researchers.” Once the Archives received the collection, the process of cataloguing and preparing it began. The collection is comprised of professional and personal correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, scrapbooks, awards, artifacts and oral histories, according to Woodrum. The collection’s materials span almost a century, from 1910 to 2004. He also told the Justice that the collection was a medium-sized collection when compared to other collections overseen by the Archives and that it consists of “approximately 22 linear feet,” which is a system designed to measure the amount of space the collection occupies when stored. Project Archivist Emily Lapworth wrote in an e-mail to the Justice that she wrote the Spot-
light to “highlight the value of the collection, and to give a general description of Nahum Goldmann himself and of the materials that are in his collection at Brandeis.” Lapworth wrote that she believes the collection is important because of Goldmann’s standing as a significant figure in 20th century Jewish life and that the collection’s primary sources provide great insight into his life. The collection is available to the public for viewing and research use and can be found in the Robert D. Farber University Archives and Special Collections in the Goldfarb Library. The Archives also received a donation of historical photographs last week from Richard Borkow ’63. The 25 photographs captured Martin Luther King Jr., Malcom X, Eleanor Roosevelt and others and were taken by Borkow, who made a habit out of carrying his camera with him while on campus. The photograph of Roosevelt is especially valuable, according to University Archivist Maggie McNeely in a Nov. 5 BrandeisNOW article, because it is “probably the best smile of her we’ve caught on campus.” McNeely went on to describe it as a “really warm photo.” Borkow also gave the University the copyrights of the photographs, permitting their free use. This was useful because “having a photograph without a copyright means someone could look at it here [the Archives], but we couldn’t do anything else with it,” according to McNeely. She added that it was “very generous of [Borkow] to do that for us.”
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Alumnus co-writes article, selected as one of 2014’s best on mathematics ■ Joseph Shipman Ph.D.’91
wrote an article on proofs that was selected to be included in the 2014 edition of ‘The Best Writing on Mathematics.’ By ABBY PATKIN JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Brandeis alumnus Joseph Shipman Ph.D.’91 co-wrote an article that was chosen to be in the 2014 edition of The Best Writing on Mathematics. He wrote the article, titled “Extreme Proofs I: The Irrationality of √2” with John H. Conway, an established mathematician who teaches at Princeton University and the University of Cambridge. Shipman, who recieved his Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic from Brandeis, originally published his article with Conway in Vol. 35, Number 3 of The Mathematical Intelligencer. The article tackles the irrationality of the square root of two. The so-called “extreme” proofs seek to explain one of math’s simplest theorems: the rational root theorem, often attributed to the Pythagorean school, write Shipman and Conway in the article. The article begins by exploring the very notion of proofs, claiming from the start that “the ordering of proofs cannot be a total order,” as an individual might relate to one proof more than another based off
of personal experience or interests. Still, the authors wrote, exploring even the most basic proofs can be a worthwhile use of time. “It is enjoyable and instructive to find proofs that are optimal with respect to one or more such value functions, not only because they tend to be beautiful, but because they are more likely to point to possible generalizations and applications,” Shipman and Conway wrote in the article. “It can be difficult to decide whether two proofs are ‘really the same.’” The writers acknowledge in the article that its logic assumes many of the mathematical basics to be fact, and yet, it is unique in it being one of few works to tackle a seemingly simple concept. “This proof uses a hammer to crack a nut. It is not selfcontained, because we have not proven the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic [which states that every number greater than one is either prime or the product of prime numbers],” the authors wrote. “How is this proof ‘extreme?’ Well, it’s the shortest proof and the most transparent proof if the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic ‘comes for free,’ and it generalizes to arbitrary integers in both the base and the exponent,” they continued. The article’s inclusion in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014 is especially noteworthy, as the collection features writing from leading mathematicians from a
diverse range of backgrounds and fields of study, such as artist and mathematician SarahMarie Belcastro’s “Adventures in Mathematical Knitting” and scientific author Brian Hayes’ “Crinkly Curves.” Each year, the Princeton University Press publishes a new edition of the collection. According to the Press’ blog, in preparation for the collection’s publication, editor Mircea Pitici reads several journals and magazines—ranging in topic from scientific and mathematical to general-interest and interdisciplinary—and selects the best writings he comes across. “Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2014 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else—and you don’t need to be a mathematician to enjoy them,” according to the Princeton University Press website regarding the edition. Additionally, notes the Princeton Press, the collection—including Shipman’s article—is relevant to a variety of subjects and disciplines. “These writings offer surprising insights into the nature, meaning, and practice of mathematics today,” Princeton University Press wrote. “They delve into history, philosophy, teaching, and everyday occurrences of math, and take readers behind the scenes of today’s hottest mathematical debates.”
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GOOD MORNING, HEARTACHE: Fareda Banda applied the classic Billie Holiday song to the status and challenges of women around the world on Sunday.
Scholar discusses global challenges ■ Fareda Banda discussed
international law and the challenges presented for women around the world. By SHERRY SIMKOVIC JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
At the sixth annual Diane Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights on Sunday, Fareda Banda of the School of Oriental Studies, University of London, connected Billie Holiday’s classic song, “Good Morning, Heartache” to global challenges facing women. Banda began her talk, titled “Good Morning, Heartache: International Law and the Global Challenges Facing Women,” by reading the first stanza of “Good Morning, Heartache” aloud. She then said that one of the things she loved most about the song was its ambiguity—it could be about a former love or about Holiday’s heroin addiction. Banda explained that this same ambiguity about heroin could be applied to women’s rights within the context of international and religious law. Banda continued to provide several examples of violations of women’s rights. She pointed to several examples of discrimination against women throughout the world from the abuse of older women in countries such as Japan to the Indian rape crisis. She said that the conflict and tension that arises from these individual incidents often snowball into broader debates about society. Toward the beginning of her lecture, Banda briefly discussed the situation of women in the United Kingdom and the fact that, despite preconceived notions, they actually have a lot to complain about. She went through a list of several statistics describing the struggle in the U.K., which highlighted the incidence of rape and sexual assault. After a few lighthearted moments peppered throughout her initial remarks, Banda delved into the heart of her lecture. “In today’s world, it is very easy to make assertions about how much the world has changed. But it is very hard to discern exactly how much better or worse it is,” she said. Banda then discussed the United Nations and the several subcommittees devoted to the status of women and legal reform. She began with a 1952 U.N. resolution on the conventional and political rights of women, including the right to vote, mostly in developing nations. According to Banda, since 1952, the world is often classified as a “post-feminist” paradigm. And yet, Banda said that Rwanda is the country where the highest percentage of women participate politically, and “it took a genocide in order to achieve those results.” Banda further discussed differ-
ent problems that she saw throughout the world that most concerned women, from child marriages to loss of nationality. She explained that in many countries, once a woman gets married, she takes the nationality of her husband, meaning that she gives up citizenship of the country she was born in and applies for citizenship in the country of her husband. “Many presume this issue to be of relative unimportance in comparison to all the other discriminatory practices that globally impact women,” said Banda. “But only one with an American passport would ask why this issue matters.” According to Banda, in other countries, women are left stateless, meaning without citizenship of any kind, if their husbands are stateless. Banda said that, as a result of this statelessness, women cannot obtain documents, have no freedom of movement and their children suffer. “Overall, in the 27 states that still enforce women taking the nationalities of their husbands, there is an increased risk of exploitation.” Banda’s main focus, however, was the root of the problem with not only getting resolutions passed in the U.N. but also ensuring that they are enforced by the U.N. She said, “One of the main problems with women’s rights is that we, women, talk to each other. We need to be talking to our men. If a man’s participating, it’s viewed as important. Men have status that women don’t,” she said. Banda concluded the talk by reading the last stanza of “Good Morning, Heartache.” The first speaker of the event was Shulamit Reinharz, founding director of the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute. She spoke about the HBI and gave the audience a brief overview of the speakers to come. Reinharz described the event as “putting an end to all forms of discrimination” and discussed the significance of the event’s date, Nov. 9, which is commemorated as both the 76th anniversary of Kristallnacht and the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Reinharz then introduced Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, director of the HBI project on Gender, Culture, Religion and the Law. Joffe briefly explained the origins of project as well as the long term goal, which is to support research of the tension that develops between women’s rights and cultural and religious norms. Joffe introduced Sylvia Neil, founder and chair of the HBI Project, who also founded the lecture series in honor of her sister, Diane Markowicz, who passed away while attending Brandeis. Neil added that it was her sister’s birthday on Monday. She explained that her sister truly personified a Brandeis student. “Diane was dedicated to justice, civil rights, and Brandeis was truly the place for her,” said Neil.
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BLC: Group pushes for reform in labor policies on campus CONTINUED FROM 1 tecting worker’s rights from outside contractors already in place, and we call ourselves a social justice university.” He added that BLC wants Brandeis to hold contractors more accountable for their treatment of workers. The second point calls for transparency in the University budget, with students, staff and faculty “given access to complete, up-to-date budget information and proposals, as well as simplified and easy-to-understand summary versions.” In addition, the petition calls for open, town hall forums to be held throughout the budget planning process. The third point calls for a reformation of executive compensation, including proportionally tying executive pay to the salaries of the lowest-paid workers on campus. The fourth asks for more community rep-
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resentation on the Board of Trustees, with voting rights given to student, faculty and staff representatives to the Board. Currently, those representatives are not able to vote, and student representatives are not allowed in meetings of certain Board subcommittees, according to Nguyen. The final point calls for a lock-in of the University’s tuition rate; under the proposal, students would pay the same tuition fee as they did in their first semester on campus throughout their Brandeis career. It also asks that the new tuition increase for each incoming class not exceed 3.5 percent, a figure which Nguyen said was borrowed from a policy in place at George Washington University. “Our primary goal is labor justice, but we also look at economic justice, which is closely related,” said Nguyen. “If we can’t see where money is being put to, we can’t really criticize it. If we don’t have a foot in the door, we can’t change things.
IBS: Hassenfeld family donates toward center CONTINUED FROM 1 quoted as saying in the Nov. 7 IBS release. “It will foster intellectual collaborations, create new robust partnerships externally and attract more sponsored research opportunities across our campus.” The center will be launched in existing offices, as opposed to constructing a new building, Menapace wrote in a statement, which was provided to the Justice by Digital Communications Specialist Samantha Rose Lawsky. The center will “support faculty research, catalyze innovation on campus, and change the world through the groundbreaking work happening every day at Brandeis,” wrote Menapace. More specifically, Menapace wrote that the center will allow the IBS community to forge relationships with local biotechnicians, pharmaceutical companies, information technology companies and venture capital firms.
The gift will also support research on campus and provide “necessary support to bring (said) research to corporate, non-profit, and even government partners,” wrote Menapace. Menapace also noted that the students will be “active participants in and beneficiaries of the center … They will be provided with practical experiences and unique learning opportunities such as creating business and marketing plans for new commercial applications of research,” she wrote. Lawsky was unable to respond with information on when the Hassenfeld Family Innovation Center will be complete and ready to function by press time. The founding donor, Alan Hassenfeld, is the retired CEO of Hasbro Inc. and current co-chair of the Board of Overseers of IBS. Hassenfeld also established the Hassenfeld Emerging Markets Business Immersion Program at IBS.
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Linda Bond (pictured) and Paula Doress-Worters discussed how domestic gun culture influences the way the government responds to conflicts at an event last Thursday.
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Prof. Hendrick Dey of Hunter College spoke on Wednesday in the Mandel Center for the Humanities about the Aurelian Wall as part of the Martin Weiner Lecture Series.
ministration and the Union in order to make their concerns heard. Class of 2017 Senator and Dining Committee co-chair Ben Margolin then asked about the increase in the number of students this year and how it will affect housing and financial aid. Flagel responded by saying that the University did not intend to grow its student population, but the incoming first-year class ended up larger than expected due to a high number of both applicants and accepted offers. He stressed that the University’s commitment to financial aid is still strong, and “more students means more revenue.” He said that the “current model” is that class sizes will return back to their average. Michael Frederikse ’15 switched gears to discuss sexual assault, asking about the Office of Prevention Services and the recently-introduced Active Bystander Program as well as what changes will be made in the upcoming year. Flagel first emphasized that Sexual Assault Services and Prevention Specialist Sheila McMahon will soon return. He also discussed increased bystander training both for students and for faculty and staff and the creation of a Rape Crisis Center on campus. Other creations include a “campus-wide task force of students and faculty” to further provide prevention and support as well as the idea of collaborative support systems throughout Bos-
ton-area universities, which could potentially “be more powerful” than on-campus resources alone. Sustainability was also a widely discussed issue at the forum, with students bringing up topics like campus lighting, disposable silverware in Sherman Dining Hall and composting. One student pointed out that many lights across campus are on all throughout the night, which wastes energy. Gray said that a “turn-off-thelights campaign” to turn off more lights in academic buildings at night is something he has considered in his efforts to improve sustainability on campus, and the hiring of a new sustainability manager this winter will help address issues like this. Director of Community Living Tim Touchette added that thousands of LED light bulbs will be installed in several dormitories in the spring. In response to concern about the disposable silverware currently used in Sherman Dining Hall, Gray said that the dishwasher is broken and that the University is waiting to replace it with a more environmentally-friendly machine. He said that the University is actually saving money by using plastic silverware and waiting on the installation rather than installing the new machine as soon as possible. Students for Environmental Action Secretary Jay Feinstein ’17 stated concerns about the lack of composting at the Usdan Student Center dining facilities due to
“congestion at the Usdan loading dock,” which limits the ability to effectively transport food waste out of the dining hall. Gray reassured him that the University will install “compacting technology” over Thanksgiving Break in order to be able to compost food waste more efficiently. Junior Representative to the Board of Trustees Grady Ward, who attended a recent Board meeting in late October, questioned why students do not have more of a voice in Board decisions. Another student agreed, citing lack of transparency in budget decisions and the lack of community involvement in these decisions. Flagel stated that the board is made up largely of alumni, who “care very deeply about this institution” and are always open to forums to discuss this issue. Lynch also said that in prior years, briefings were held to inform the Student Union on the budget, and while that stopped within the past few years, she plans to start it up again. Other topics discussed at the roundtable included the desire for further funding of club sports teams, lack of disability accommodations in certain classes, the mislabeling of food in the dining halls and the need for more gender-inclusive bathrooms across campus. The meeting concluded with a small speech by Flagel regarding the proposed creation of a new “graphic image” or seal to represent the University.
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VERBATIM | ALBERT CAMUS Stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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ON THIS DAY… In 2001, journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik were killed in Afghanistan.
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’Deis Discoveries: The Pump House
By jaime kaiser JUSTICE editor
While walking the steep path that leads down to East Quad, you may have noticed a small, dilapidated house situated off to the side, between the path and the Usdan Student Center. Yet, it’s just as likely that you overlooked it—the structure appears ordinary and unimposing, tucked away in a small corner of upper campus and dwarfed by larger campus fixtures that are part of your daily routine like the Usen Castle and the Rabb steps. The house and a small parcel of land surrounding the house are not technically Brandeis University property but are instead owned by the city of Waltham. The house is a relic of what was once a functioning pump house, a structure in which the pumps of an irrigation system are stored and operated. During the time period when Middlesex University was located on what is now Brandeis’ campus, Waltham’s water supply came predominantly from wells near the Charles River. If you wanted to hit up Lower Usdan in 1950 for a panini, you’d be disappointed to find a small, openair reservoir located where Usdan exists now. Water was pumped from these wells to the reservoir. The city still owns the seemingly arbitrary strip of land on which the pump house is built, probably because it’s part of their modern water
supply infrastructure system. Large pipes run the length of the floor, and Supervisor of Grounds and Vehicles Dennis Finn speculates that at least one of these pumps is part of the current water system that includes the water tank behind Golding Judiac Center, which serves as the presentday reservoir. In fact, it’s no coincidence that Brandeis has been the source of water for the city throughout the years as it is one of the highest altitude locations in the city. In most water systems, water is either collected in high places or pumped up to high storage structures, such as water tanks or reservoirs, and then allowed to flow downhill through the pipes. Although there are probably live pipes in the house, the derelict structure is in a state of decay with no one actively maintaining the house. That being said, most of the antique pump equipment is still preserved inside the house, including single-cylinder diesel engines and an old compressor that ran the air drive starters. “For those of us involved with mechanics and engines, this antique equipment is a great find,” Finn wrote in an email to the Justice. —“’Deis Discoveries” is a series that uncovers the stories behind the buildings, artwork and other features of our campus. Email Rose Gittell at features@thejustice.org if you have a quirky campus fixture you want the full story behind.
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KIND ADVOCATES: Gabby Zilkha ’16, current Kindness Day coordinator, and Kira Levin ’15, former coordinator, pose together.
Gabby Zilkha ’16 Zilkha coordinates Kindness Day
This week, justFeatures spoke with Gabby Zilkha ’16, the coordinator for Kindness Day, which will occur on campus this Thursday. JustFeatures: Tell Kindness Day.
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Gabby Zilkha: Kindness Day was started five years ago by a faculty member who saw it as a perfect fit for Brandeis, with the staff and faculty. We have general interactions every day, but it's hard sometimes with busy schedules to take a moment to show your appreciation. It's a way to bring everyone together and show appreciation for people from every corner of campus. But we also like to think of it as a celebration of kindness, because kindness does happen at Brandeis every day— we are one of the kindest schools! It's a nice way to showcase that and have a day dedicated to something positive. JF: How did you assume the position of Kindness Day coordinator?
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GZ: My first year, a student named Rebecca Bachman ’13 was graduating. She is wonderful, and we met during Social Justice Pre-Orientation. She shot me an email and asked if I wanted to get involved with this; she thought it would be a great fit. I started with her from
that. She worked with me, coaching me, to get ready to hand it over to me when she graduated. Since then, we've grown the program. The other coordinator, Kira Levin ’15, started her freshman year as well. We've worked together to form Kindness Day into what it is now.
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We can all be so internalized sometimes, it’s nice to realize that you are part of a community.
JF: What's something that everyone can do every day to feel part of the community? GZ: It's simple things. like taking the time to give a friend a hug or a high-five, saying thank you to a random stranger, holding the door open to people. Write a thank you note to a professor. If someone does something nice for you, make sure you acknowledge it. JF: How many people are involved? GZ: We have staff members all over campus. We have a representative from the graduate school who's a student as well as a faculty member. We also have members from human resources, because the committee actually housed in human recources. We have representatives from Department of Community Living, and from the International Student's Office. We also have people from Sodexo and from Student Activities. Our entire staff committee is about 15 people, and we have student involvement which is a smaller group of about 10 people.
JF: Why should everyone get involved with Kindness Day?
JF: What are some events to look out for on Kindness Day?
GZ: It's an important thing, because often times people don't take the time to be kind. If you participate in it, you can see first hand how much of a difference it can make in your life. We can all be so internalized sometimes, and it's nice to realize that you are part of a community. Do it because it's fun, it will make you smile-- and that's healthy during midterms week. But also because it leads to a better community life for you.
GZ: Our staple is the Kindness Day kindness cards. Send one to a friend, and they'll have a nice little surprise when they open up their mailbox. Be on the lookout for those, they will be in Lower Usdan Tuesday through Thursday, as well as the Shapiro Campus Center and the International Cultural Center on Thursday and in Sherman Function Hall on Wednesday night. —Rose Gittell
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TAG TEAM: Leah Levine ’17 and Gabby Zilkha ’16 go trick-or-treating for Halloween for the Hungry, an event organized by Hunger and Homlessness.
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A historic claim of American capitalism is that economic inequality is acceptable as long as mobility is possible. Rose Wallace ’16 is interested in why the current economy lacks mobility and what kind of social programs can benefit low-income populations to bolster mobility. She brings this interest to her work in Waltham Group, where she is a program coordinator for Hunger and Homelessness, and the head coordinator for the special annual event put on by that group, Halloween for the Hungry. In its 28th annual Halloween for the Hungry, Hunger and Homelessness collected 3,013 total cans from going door-to-door, capitalizing on the notion that on Halloween, potential donors will be at home, answering their doors and in a festive mood. Cans were donated to the Greater Boston Food Bank. The planning process for Halloween for the Hungry began at the beginning of the 2014 school year. Hunger and Homelessness, the organization that puts on Halloween for the Hungry, has four program coordinators: Max Shpilman ’16, Petra Nelson ’15, Lauryn Garner ’15 and Wallace ’16. Nelson was the coordinator in charge of Halloween for the Hungry last year, and this year she handed over her leadership to Wallace. “MidSeptember, Nelson and I sat down
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with notes and timelines from last year and made a timeline for when to accomplish things for this year… we were able to meet and decide what had went well last year, and she had some really great ideas about what she wanted to make better and what she wanted to make more organized,” Wallace said. “One thing I’m really grateful for is mentorship, and the ability to talk to people who had run the drive before me. I could not have done the drive without having Petra there,” Wallace said. As part of the planning process, Wallace met with the Waltham Police, who had been concerned in previous years about college students roaming local neighborhoods at night—as well as the Greater Boston Food Bank, the organization that ultimately collects the cans raised by students on Halloween. Once these measures had been taken, Wallace hired six drive coordinators after conducting a series of interviews for applicants. October, the most consequential planning month, was busy for all Hunger and Homelessness coordinators. “The two biggest components of the planning process were first, the on-campus recruitment of volunteers and second, the off-campus organizational component,” Wallace said. To organize off-campus, the drive coordinators put flyers in the mailboxes of every house they planned to go to, notifying the house’s residents
TEAM SPIRIT: The Brandeis Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Team participated in Halloween for the Hungry, going doorto-door collecting canned goods.
Halloween for the Hungry, a Waltham Group event headed by Rose Wallace ’16, collects canned goods to aid food insecure populations
of goals of the program, and hopefully encouraging them to purchase canned goods to donate on Halloween to student trick-or-treaters. They also poured over maps of Waltham, deciding how to distribute the available volunteers to collect the maximum number of cans. Responsibilities were divided among the six drive coordinators. Some coordinators were working on the publicity and recruitment aspect, while some coordinatiors were working on the aspect of off-campus logistics. “The most challenging part was organization,” Wallace said. “As the lead point person, I had many different things I had to make sure got done. If one of those things slipped up, the drive would be compromised. It was a question of being persistent.” Wallace, who previously worked in case management at a low-income clinic, appreciated the opportunity for increased leadership in a facet of public service that she is passionate about. In her newfound leadership role, she discovered the difficulties of organizing a group of people to perform efficiently. “Delegation is hard. Next year, I would want to give each coordinator more stake in the project, so we can delegate more effectively,” Wallace said. “It’s hard to be patient, take a step back and give people things to do,” Wallace said. “Throughout the planning process, you want to give people strict deadlines. You don’t want to be mean, but
sometimes you have to be.” Another challenging aspect of Halloween for the Hungry was determining how to involve local residents and make them aware of the larger impact of the program beyond just a knock in their door on Halloween. “In the past, we haven’t really involved donors in any way, beside knocking on their doors on Halloween and asking for donations,” Wallace said. This year, in order to increase the level of interest in the program from local Waltham residents, the group included thank you slips, which were handed out to anyone that contributed cans. The slips had links to the website, which includes information about the program and how many cans were collected ultimately. “From that, we will gauge how many hits we will get on the website and how interested Waltham residents are in our program,” Wallace said. Wallace knew she wanted to be involved in Waltham Group from the beginning of her sophomore year, after she transferred to Brandeis from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Upon exploring the options offered by Waltham Group, she came to the conclusion that Hunger and Homelessness most closely aligned with her interests. “I know that domestic poverty is an issue I’m really passionate about, and I’ve volunteered at homeless shelters and worked as an educator on the topic of food insecurity,” said Wallace. Upon assuming the leadership
role within Hunger and Homelessness, Wallace has appreciated her increased autonomy and ability to affect the volunteer experience at Brandeis. “Coming to Brandeis, I knew I wanted to do community service. I knew if I didn’t do it I would be very sad,” said Wallace. “It’s been awesome being able to have an increased leadership role, and being able to steer the club into a direction where I believe the volunteer position is becoming more beneficial.” Upon graduation, Wallace plans to pursue her interest in American politics and different welfare policies that benefit low-income individuals. “Ideally, I would pursue a career in public service focusing on those populations. Economic mobility is very difficult in the United States, and I’m interested in looking at policy solutions and economic causes of this lack of mobility,” Wallace said. This past summer, Wallace interned for Senator Patty Murray of Washington State, citing this experience as one that bolstered her interest in public service for low-income populations. Wallace witnessed firsthand constant attacks on the food stamp program that expanded greatly during the great recession and exists as the primary safety net for low-income individuals. “The idealist academic setting differs greatly from the practical government setting. There’s no time to say ‘This program isn’t good enough’ because you’re just fighting to make sure it doesn’t get cut.”
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EDITORIALS Applaud first steps from task force Last week, this board advised the University to adopt a new task force addressing the issue of sexual assault at Brandeis. We outlined a plan for a coalition of students and staff, including Sexual Assault Services and Prevention Specialist Sheila McMahon and Prof. Rani Neutill (ENG), who would advise administrators on how best to prevent sexual assault at our University so that untrained student activists and administrators would not be required to generate solutions for this complex issue. However, after publishing the editorial, we were informed that a coalition similar to the one we recommended already exists. It was established in May as a coalition of members from the Violence Against Women Act grant writing committee and a subcommittee of the University Advisory Council whom the Provost’s office charged with investigating sexual assault at Brandeis. It is called the Task Force for Sexual Assault Responses, Services, and Prevention. McMahon, when she returns from leave, will chair the group. The interim chairs of the task force are Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs Kim Godsoe and Assistant Vice President for Health and Wellness and Director of Athletics Sheryl Sousa ’90. In an email to the Justice, Ava Blustein ’15 explained that the task force meets three times each semester, and a follow-up email from Sousa explained that task force members include administrators like Dean of Students Jamele Adams, faculty such as Prof. Bernadette Brooten (NEJS) and two students, Kyle Brenner ’15 and Victoria Jonas ’15. First and foremost, this editorial board apologizes to our readership and to the members of the task force. The editorial published last week was fundamentally flawed, and for no reason other
Keep students informed than our own sheer oversight. We thank Blustein for pointing out our errors. As a newspaper, we are held accountable by our readership, and being informed of errors helps us to better perform our service of informing the community and generating a marketplace of discourse. This board would like to praise the work being done by the Task Force. In the two meetings they have held thus far, the group has reviewed proposals from BSASV and its two parent committees and subdivided into groups focused on campus policies, environment and education. This shows remarkable efficiency and dedication, as the group is aiming to make significant progress by the spring. Additionally, the wide diversity of staff and administrators ensures that this group is addressing the problem of sexual assault from multiple angles. University Police Lieutenant Bette Reilley, Title IX Coordinator Linda Shinomoto and Executive Director of Health and Wellness Michael LaFarr are all members of the committee, to name a few examples. This wide spread of experiences and backgrounds ensures the problem is being addressed from many different perspectives. However, we do ask that the Task Force do more in the future to publicize its work and inform students of their liaisons on the force. Students should know whom to approach about having their opinions and ideas voiced before this critical group. Yet, this board applauds the work of the Task Force in fighting sexual assault at the University. We hope that it will continue its excellent work ethic in advocating for this critical cause.
Support soccer teams in Tournament This Saturday, the University will host the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament for the third consecutive year. Both the men’s and women’s soccer teams qualified for the tournament with a 17-2 record and 12-4-2 record, respectively. Each team ended its regular season at New York University on Saturday. The men won 1-0, while the women tied 0-0. This board congratulates both soccer teams on their successful seasons and wishes each team the best of luck as it heads into the tournament this upcoming weekend. The men qualified for the NCAA Tournament for the third year in a row, while the women have qualified three times in five years, based around each team’s strong defensive abilities. Women currently have the 21st-best defense in Division III with a .488 goals against average, while the men have the nation’s third-best defense, allowing just .31 goals per game. The women have only let in nine goals this entire year, which beats the previous Brandeis record from 1990 by five goals.
Recognize coaches’ work Both men’s coach Michael Coven and women’s coach Denise Dallamorra, who have been here for 42 and 35 years respectively, deserve much of the credit for the teams’ success and their contributions to Brandeis Athletics during their tenure here. In an Oct. 20 article, The Boston Globe featured Coven and Dallamorra for their work at Brandeis, including their designation as “the longest tenured pair of soccer coaches in collegiate history.” The pair have garnered “12 NCAA Tournament appearances, 23 ECAC appearances, and won six ECAC titles,” as well as coached 11 AllAmericans, according to the Globe article. Athletics holds a significant place in the Brandeis community, allowing us to show off our school spirit and support for fellow students. Both soccer teams have seen consistent regular season records, bringing national recognition to the University on the athletic level.
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Last Tuesday’s midterm elections resulted in significant changes to the balance of power in Washington, D.C. Republicans won a majority in the Senate with 52 seats, while Democrats now hold 45. The GOP also further solidified their majority in the House of Representatives with 10 new wins in that House. This gives the Republican Party a majority in both houses of the legislative branch. Additionally, Republicans won 26 of 36 governor’s races, including in Massachusetts and President Barack Obama’s home state of Illinois. Many Republicans campaigned on a platform of opposing gridlock in Washington, especially given Obama’s promises to end gridlock in 2008 and 2012. How do you think the wins and losses will affect Obama’s two remaining years in office?
Glen Chesir ’15 The question is interesting in that the scope of focus is strictly on the next two years, not the impending presidential election of 2016. The Republican cohort will now, as any good organization should, advocate toward the bigger fish that is the presidency. Therefore, President Obama will now have to deal with the reality of opposition in the legislature. The issues that are generally viewed as Republican strengths will be primed toward the top of the congressional agenda, and presidential failures will be framed as “Democrats” being unable to lead. How President Obama handles his press and marketing—something he has failed at with Obamacare, Ebola, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and others—will be just as vital to his success, as is his actual policy. In today’s age of 140 characters or less, the headline is just as important as the actual action it describes. Glen Chesir ’15 is the managing editor of the Justice.
Daniel Mael ’15 Obama’s presidency has been characterized by incompetency and a failure on the part of the president to follow through on his promises— Americans realized this and elected to choose a different path for America. In 2007, for example, then-Senator Obama campaigned, in part, on the promise that he would help improve the situation for the black communities in America. As reported in the Nov. 3 edition of the Wall Street Journal, the black-white employment gap has only had widened and remains double the white unemployment rate. In Syria, Obama’s failure to exercise force after the government ignored Obama’s stated red-line only contributed to further carnage and the murder of innocents. These are just two anecdotes that speak to the morally catastrophic results of Obama’s incompetence. I hope that he has a more successful last two years—the average citizen of the world deserves a better future. Daniel Mael ’15 is the President of Brandeis Republicans and a contributing writer for Truth Revolt.
Rose Wallace ’16 While Tuesday’s elections results were disappointing and perhaps a little worse than expected, they were overall unsurprising. The Republicans were successful in making this election a referendum against President Obama and the Affordable Care Act, both of which are vastly unpopular with the American public. The irony of this election is that though Americans cast their votes for Republicans hoping to lessen political gridlock, it is likely to get worse, not better, in Obama’s last two years. The moderate Democrats in Congress who got voted out have been replaced by farright Republicans Some, like Arkansas Senator-elect Tom Cotton, hold extremely neoconservative views and will be highly unwilling to compromise with Obama. One silver lining of the election is, although political polarization may be widening, a lot will not change with a Republican controlled Senate. It will be interesting to see how Obama uses his executive power on the issues of immigration and climate change, and if the Republicans will orchestrate another shutdown as some have threatened. Rose Wallace ’16 interned for Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) this past summer.
Aaron Dvorkin ’17 Prior to the election, I saw that Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) campaign twitter account was using the hashtag “#MakeDCListen” as a rallying call for conservatives. I was perplexed by the seemingly recalcitrant tone of the slogan. “But you are DC!” I thought to myself. After all, it is Senator Cruz’s party who has spent the last four years successfully blocking almost all of the Democrats’ initiatives, from major pieces of legislation to judicial and executive appointments. Last year they even went so far as to shut down the government because they could not accept one major item on the president’s agenda, the Affordable Care Act, that was able to pass Congress before they gained control of the House in 2010. Republicans already had de facto control over D.C before the midterms, and they showed everyone what their agenda is as long as President Obama is in office. In the words of The Who: “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” Aaron Dvorkin ’17 is a Justice Forum staff writer.
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Last Thursday, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that there is no constitutional right to same-sex marriage. It is the first federal court to have ruled against marriage equality since the issue first hit the circuit in 2010, with the landmark Hollingsworth v. Perry, better known as California’s Prop 8 case. However disappointing as this latest ruling may seem, I think this will actually benefit marriage equality and its supporters. I would first like to make a side note that, in my opinion, marriage equality is by no means the most pressing issue facing the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community. 29 states lack employment non-discrimination laws for lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer workers. 32 states lack the same laws for trans, intersex and gender non-conforming individuals. In these states, someone can be fired for nothing more than whom they love or how they choose to express their gender identity. In 29 states, there is no law that bans discrimination against LGBTQ people in a public accommodation, like a restaurant or store. 20 states still do not have laws that classify crimes comitted on the basis of someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity as hate crimes. 40 percent of the homeless youth population is LGBTQ, and over half of them have experienced sexual violence or prostitution, based on statistics from the Forty to None Project. According to the Trevor Project, between 30 to 40 percent of LGBTQ teenagers have attempted suicide, a rate four times higher than than that in the general youth population. The problems listed above do not have an easy solution in the way that marriage equality does. Issues of homelessness, bullying and suicide require changing cultural attitudes and creating more safe spaces at schools and in the wider community for LGBTQ youth to feel welcome. Employment non-discrimination laws and pub-
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lic accommodation laws are seemingly in the same vein as the civil rights movement of the 1960s, are not. An employer could make a First Amendment argument that hiring or serving a member of the LGBTQ community violates their religious beliefs. While this argument is dubious at best and, in my opinion, is a flawed interpretation of the First Amendment, there is always a chance that the Supreme Court would agree with this line of thinking, as best demonstrated in this summer’s Hobby Lobby decision, which established that corporations and companies can have First Amendment religious freedoms. So, why is this appeal court ruling denying marriage equality to Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee actually a good thing? This decision has created what is known as a “circuit split,” a situation where two federal appeals courts have different interpretations of federal law or of constitutional law. Circuit splits are one of the most common reasons that the Supreme Court will agree to hear a case. Some famous cases that arose out of circuit splits were last summer’s Hobby Lobby case, the Affordable Care Act case of 2012 and the Citizens United case of 2010.
This fast-tracking to the Supreme Court is important for two reasons. First of all, while speaking at the University of Minnesota Law School in September, Supreme Court Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg said that the Court was not going to rush for a national answer for the marriage equality until there was a circuit split. At the time of her statement, three appellate courts, the Fourth, Seventh and Tenth, had all come to the same conclusion in regard to bans on same-sex marriage and had ruled such bans to be unconstitutional. Obviously, the Sixth’s decision is that circuit split, and if what Ginsburg said is true, this ruling might just trigger the Supreme Court to make a national decision, simply because there is now a need to settle the question of marriage equality’s constitutionality. The second reason is, simply, the trajectory marriage equality has been on, especially given former Supreme Court action on the issue. Again, until the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling, no federal court had actually ruled against marriage equality. In 2013, the Supreme Court overturned California’s ban on same-sex marriage and ruled that the Defense of Marriage
Act, a law banning federal recognition of samesex marriages, was unconstitutional. On Oct. 6 of this year, the Supreme Court denied petition to review the decisions of the Fourth, Seventh and Tenth Circuit Courts, de facto legalizing same-sex marriage in 11 states. The Supreme Court has set its own precedent for marriage equality cases, and it has ruled that bans on marriage equality cannot be upheld. That is not to say the case coming from the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals will be a slam dunk. The Court has not explicitly said there is a Constitutional right to marriage equality, and there is always the possibility that a ruling could be very narrow and apply only to the states with in the Sixth Circuit’s jurisdiction. The Court could even refuse to take up the case. Regardless of the outcome, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has sped up the process of bringing a major marriage equality case before the Supreme Court. More and more states, and a growing percentage of the American population, clearly think that marriage equality is a major issue that needs to be addressed. That in itself is another victory for fairness and equality.
Campus protests do not speak for all sexual assault survivors Anonymous contributor special to the justice
EDITOR’S NOTE: It is the policy of the Justice not to publish anonymous pieces. In this instance, an exception has been made. The identity of the writer has been withheld to allow the writer to speak without concern for privacy and safety, and to ensure that the identities of all parties involved are protected as well. Both the Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor know the identity of the writer and have confirmed the validity of the story to the greatest extent possible. Six weeks ago, I was raped. My first reaction was confusion. I know a lot about consent and sexual assault. I’m an assertive woman, and I’ve never been shy about saying “no.” But this was the first time my “no” had been ignored. How could this have happened to me? I had seen the protestors at the Rose Art Museum a week before, silent and angry. They screamed no words but emanated combativeness that could be felt a mile away. I felt no hate, no black bile when I first started to unpack what had happened to me. I didn’t feel angry or hostile—I was sad and numb. The protestors’ overt rage led me to question my own legitimacy—had I even been raped? At first, my lack of identification with these angry protestors at the Rose and the numbness I felt led me to believe that what I experienced was probably not a big deal, a miscommunication or just simply not the same controversial, hot-button issue. I almost chose not to report my experience, which would have further lowered the underreported, inaccurate statistics about the pervasive ubiquity of sexual assault, especially on college campuses. And unfortunately, I would not have been alone—according to the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Justice, most survivors of sexual assault never report or go through the formal adjudication process, either because of their submission to the experience as an unsettling but somehow acceptable event or because they lack the resources and community to support them in tak-
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ing action. In 2013, Brandeis received only six reports of sex offenses on a campus of 3,750 undergraduates, with zero in 2011 and 2012. With a national average of one in four women experiencing sexual assault over the course of their college careers according to the CDC, the number of reports Brandeis has received is shockingly low. I am lucky to have friends who have served as peer counselors and are knowledgeable about the various campus resources for sexual assault survivors and prevention. They supported me and helped me to understand not only the importance of reporting my experience but also the often-unbearable burden that I would soon shoulder. Unfortunately, most people do not happen to have friends with this expertise and otherwise may have been relegated to ignoring the experience and moving on. Now, waist-deep in a Special Examiner’s Process, there are days I feel I am “carrying that weight” completely alone. The day of solidarity, during which students carried mattresses and pillows, was a beautiful and constructive display that touched me deeply. However, students hung a large banner from Rabb steps a few weeks before which read, “‘We’re not here to protect you, we’re here to prepare you for the real world.’— President Lawrence, Take Back the Light, 09/10/2014.” This sign was meant to be provocative and elicit a response, and it upset, irritated and alienated me. The banner, for which no context of the quote was provided, did not convey any specific constructive criticism but rather painted the administration as the enemy. I take issue with the tactics of the nameless, otherwise unaffiliated group of protestors at the Rose, as well as those who hung the sign at Rabb, have since engaged in other actions around campus. These displays of protest are not only ineffective and counterproductive to their own goals but actively harmful to those they claim to represent. Spreading awareness is a noble and important goal, but in their attempts, they have alienated not just those they seek to protect but the administrators whose support is integral to improving the process that addresses sexual assault. Unlike Brandeis Students Against Sexual
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Violence, these protests neither outline their own clear, strategic goals, nor make specific requests in how they would like the administration to better fulfill their Title IX requirements or improve prevention efforts. The Rose is essentially the most autonomous organization at Brandeis, with completely separate benefactors, trustees and community. To protest during the “Light of Reason” ceremony was an excellent strategy to attract attention, but that attention provided no further momentum for the cause. The pressure it placed on administrators was not narrowly channeled to elicit anything beyond a statement from University President Frederick Lawrence. While their goals may have been further articulated elsewhere, on the face of it, their protest demanded a singular, questionably impactful statement from one individual. If there were further goals in the protest, these goals should have been clear to those present, requiring no further investigation. Further, the disruption of the Board of Trustees’ meeting on Oct. 29 was just that—disruptive. In the video documenting the protest circulating on social media, the Board member clearly states that the Board was in the process of discussing that very issue. The allotted minute to speak was neither particularly impactful nor did it convey any new information to the Board. The intrusion into the meeting allowed administrators and the Board to view the self-appointed representatives of survivors as opponents, rather than allies. The issue is one of image: while attempting to regain the autonomy and power that survivors of sexual assault often feel they have lost, as I do, it is imperative not to embody the very hostility and aggression we are so desperately hoping to combat. It is absolutely crucial to maintain a public image that is both conducive to dialogue and welcoming to those who need support instead of polarizing the conversation. These protests, through their media-attracting display at the Rose, have in essence presented themselves as a representation of all survivors. This is, in fact, not the case, and that one-sided portrayal has been harmful both to me and to other sur-
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vivors. Rather than isolating survivors who choose not to be public, efforts should be channeled into strategic and community-building efforts which unite rather than divide. None of this, of course, is to say that the administration lacks responsibility for the deep flaws in the Special Examiner’s Process. There is an unfortunate lack of conversation and criticism of the actual process from both BSASV and from the group of protesters mentioned previously. In effect, these groups are missing the forest for the trees. The lack of communication and transparency I’ve experienced during the course of the investigation has been frustrating to the point of institutional abuse. The Special Examiner’s Process is poorly coordinated, and it seems that nobody in the administration has a clear handle on the rules or past precedents, resulting in constant mishandling of issues and confusion between all parties. The slow pace is simultaneously emotionally exhausting and keeping me up at night. I’m left wondering when justice will come, and am terrified that my attacker will be not found responsible. But to improve this challenging new process, student feedback is essential. And in order to obtain that student feedback, those who have experienced sexual assault must seek redress. If the campus conversation about sexual assault is so hostile and contentious that survivors aren’t comfortable identifying as such without feeling that they “should” be wearing duct tape on their mouths or carrying signs, they will not come forward and shed light on how truly pervasive sexual assault is. To the organizers of these various protests who are trying to represent surivors of sexual assault at Brandeis: consider the silent majority, those who are scared off by aggressive tactics like myself and adjust the campus conversation so as to be inclusive and productive. To those who have experienced sexual assault but have not reported it: we must create a campus unwelcoming to perpetrators of sexual violence and in order to do so we must understand how frequently it occurs. If, like me, you do not feel represented by these demonstrations, know that you are not alone.
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Support Iron Dome defense system for Israel’s safety By Tobey Linhart JUSTICE contributing WRITER
On Nov. 3, Noam Bedein from the Sderot Media Center visited Brandeis to discuss his work in the publicizing of the continued missile strikes on Sderot, Israel. In an event hosted by the Brandeis Israel Public Affairs Committee, Bedein discussed the traumas, tragedies and perseverance of the Israeli citizens living in Sderot, which is just one kilometer away from the Gaza border. It is in pre-1967 Israel, the part of the country that is not disputed in any landswap discussions. The Sderot Media Center’s objective is to educate the global community about the city—“the bomb shelter capital of the world” in Bedein’s words—through media outreach and seminars. According to Bedein, Sderot is the world’s only city in the 21st century which has been under constant and unprovoked rocket fire for the past 15 years. Citizens of Sderot have routinely been forced to run into rocket shelters, even during official ceasefires, according to many mainstream media outlets across the entire political spectrum. Furthermore, in Sde… Tzeva Adom! Tzeva Adom! One. Two. Run, quick! Five. Six. No, he can’t walk, quick, carry him. Nine. Ten. Eleven. Are you all here? I can’t see you! Fourteen. Fifteen. Boom. In Sderot, the reading of the news is often interrupted with this siren. Parents understand they have exactly 15 seconds to ensure that their kids are safe. Kindergarten-aged children are encouraged to start singing loudly once in the shelter; this way, they won’t hear a rocket exploding just a few meters outside. The rockets, all shot from Gaza, are mostly Qassam rockets. These can be homemade by rogue militants or handed out by Hamas, the terrorist organization ruling the Gaza Strip since 2007. According to the Sderot Media Center, as well as the times stated by Haaretz and the Jerusalem Post when reporting the attacks, terrorists fire most commonly between 6 to 8 a.m.—exactly the times when children are walking to school and adults are rushing to work. Worse yet, not even Gaza’s civilians are kept safe from Hamas. The rockets are stored in and fired from hospitals, mosques and United Nations schools and, in many instances, Gazan civilians have been killed by the rocket fire of their own government. But do you know how many rockets were fired into civilian areas in Sderot this past Saturday night? Two. Do you know what the casualties are for the thousands of rocket attacks in the last five years? Six, according to the Sderot Media Center. This fact, which can only be described as a miracle, can be explained by the introduction of two things: the accessibility of bomb shelters and the Iron Dome. The Iron Dome is a defense system, developed
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by Israel’s Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and heavily funded by the United States government, which can track a rocket and intercept it with a second rocket over an open field. Most recently, on Aug. 1, the House of Representatives approved $225 million in H. J. Res. 76. This provided expansion of Iron Dome technology around Israel during this summer’s Operation Protective Edge. During Protective Edge, over 3,000 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel, according to the Wall Street Journal. This recent spike in rocket fire follows 2,700 to 2,800 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel since 2001. In Sderot, bomb shelters are constructed in every home, school, office building, restaurant bus stop, as well as in most playgrounds, according to Times of Israel. Interestingly, Hamas has been found to store its rockets in its U.N.-supplied bomb shelters and use the cement Israel has allowed for infrastructure projects to build tunnels for terrorists to smuggle into Israel. Israel uses bomb shelters to protect its citizens; as the world saw this summer, Hamas uses its bomb shelters to store bombs and uses its population as shields to protect their rocket launchers. Although there are means by which Israelis can defend themselves, this situation is
inexcusable. This rocket fire must stop. How can a country put up with daily unprovoked attacks on one of its cities? I refuse to say that it is Bedein’s fault that he is faced with rocket fire each day because he lives in Sderot. And I refuse to say that Bedein should leave. No matter how you define the borders of Israel, Sderot is never debated land, except by those who say Israel should not exist. Sderot, amidst rocket fire, continues to exist as part of Israel because people like Bedein insist on living there. If you are interested in helping the people of Sderot, Ashkelon, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem and Beer-Sheva from the threat of the 5700 to 6000 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel since 2001, here are three things you can do: educate yourself, educate others and educate your (new!) House and Senate members so that they understand the importance of funding Israeli defense systems. As one of America’s key geopolitical and military allies in the Middle East, the U.S. must fund Israel in its efforts to protect its civilians. Advancing this cause will benefit both America and Israel. For example, Israel has shared its Iron Dome technology with American armed forces
to ward off rocket attacks at American military bases abroad, including in Afghanistan. The symbiotic relationship funds Israeli defense systems, and the American military is given access to the technology. This strategic partnership also helps innocent Gazan civilians, as is evident in the bipartisan sponsored bill H. Con. Res. 107, in which House members denounced both the missile attacks on Israel and the use of human shields by Hamas. Ideally, the rocket fire would be stopped indefinitely. Because the rockets can be homemade and are handed out by the Hamas government, a terrorist organization, it is critical to take protective measures in conjunction with measures to stop the rocket fire. Israel’s people deserve to live without the constant threat of rocket fire. Peaceful Gazans deserve the opportunity to build normal lives without seeing their schools, hospitals and apartment buildings turned into rocket storage facilities for a terrorist organization. By encouraging those around you, your media and your Congress members to save Israelis and Gazans by fighting terrorism and funding shelters and Iron Dome technology, you will take part in saving innumerable lives.
Advocacy for gay rights must include Muslim-majority countries By abe clark Justice contributing writer
Recently, the student body at Brandeis has been confronted by several protests aimed at the terrible reality of sexual assault in America, as well as protests targeting immigration laws and racial profiling in Ferguson, Miss. In September, scores of Brandeis students attended the People’s Climate March in Washington, D.C. Overall, this has been a key year for student protest. The acceptance and support of these protests has been strong at Brandeis, which has become a point of pride for many. Many Brandeisians also supported the protests leveled at Vladimir Putin’s ludicrous “gay propaganda” ban, which targeted openly gay Russians with fines and harassment. These protests were important. They showed not only a growing American awareness of civil laws of other countries but also an increased crosscultural empathy for the plight of lesbian gay bisexual transgender and queer individuals overseas. However, another protest, meant to call attention to the conditions of LGBTQ people in the Muslim world had an extremely minor presence at Brandeis and on college campuses in general and for the most part flew under our radar. A Brandeis student attempted to bring a protest movement to campus which would have involved hanging a stuffed dummy in a public area. This was to call attention to the public hangings of LGBTQ youths in Iran, Yemen and Saudi Arabia, but this attempt was rejected by the administration. When it comes to the laws concerning LGBTQ people in the Muslim world, colleges have been silent or at least highly reluctant to engage in protests that target Muslim countries. We should adamantly protest the persecution of LGBTQ individuals in all countries, and no one should be given a free pass on human rights. Protests against the persecution of LGBTQ people in Muslim countries, while extremely limited in the United States to begin with, pri-
marily target the government of Iran by calling attention to the public hangings of LGBTQ individuals that have occurred periodically there. Since the Islamist government of Iran took power in 1979, they have murdered over 4,000 gay men and women for crimes amounting to no more than “engaging in same-sex activity.” This is greater than the undergraduate population of Brandeis, in comparison. Protest against these killings has been minimal and has even received backlash amongst left-wing groups. Prominent LGBTQ activist Leslie Feinberg called opposition to Iran following public executions “a misdirection of the LGBTQ struggle.” Amnesty International “urged organizations to refrain from casting the incident as a gay issue.” Human rights groups have been notoriously lenient to throw their lot in against the Muslim world on issues of gay rights while still remaining very vocal against restrictions placed on LGBTQ people in Russia or the United States. This is unfortunate, because opposing the judicial murder of LGBTQ individuals is impossible without criticizing Muslim nations; of the seven countries which still use the death penalty against LGBTQ people, all are Muslim-majority. These range from underdeveloped, impoverished countries like Mauritania to Saudi Arabia, a wealthy, modernized country, where LGBTQ individuals face flogging, castration, torture or execution merely for being suspected of engaging in same-sex activity, while a second conviction carries a guaranteed death sentence. Laws like this are despicable by any standard and should be opposed vehemently regardless of religious influence. We should always support those movements within our society that attempt to bring about greater equality. These include the fights to legalize same-sex marriage, or prevent wage discrimination in the workplace. Simultaneously, however, we should also realize that these are goals which are far off for hundreds of millions in the Muslim world, who by and large fear for their own safety should their sexual identities become a matter of public record.
It is of course true that Muslim nations are not the only nations in which homosexuality is illegal—other countries that outlaw homosexuality equally deserve our protest. And of course, not all followers of Islam are homophobic. But the plight of LGBTQ individuals in Muslim countries should be of grave concern to all Americans. Imagine a society in which an unelected government would arbitrarily arrest your friend or relative and publicly hang or torture him as an example to others to obey strict theocratic laws. While draconian policies like these impact LGBTQ individuals first and foremost, they more generally impact the entire society by creating an environment of fear and repression that is felt by all. Needless to say, we come from a position of great privilege that this is not our reality, and as such, we have a moral obligation towards the awareness and assistance of the condition of gay rights in foreign countries whenever possible. A great place to start would involve questioning the foreign policy decisions of our own government with regard to human rights. Our government has put some economic sanctions on the governments of Russia and Iran, both countries with deplorable laws concerning same-sex couples. Yet, we continue to have strong economic ties with oil-rich governments like the United Arab Emirates and Brunei, to name a few, both of which have jailed or executed LGBTQ people, the latter by stoning. President Obama called the Sultan of Brunei his “good friend” during the latter’s most recent visit to the U.S., and pledged close economic cooperation with the repressive theocracy. A strong pro-Saudi lobby within the U.S. Congress maintains strong US support for a government which denies the rights of millions, while United States military backing has been crucial in propping up the governments of some of the Middle East’s most repressive theocracies when it comes to gay rights, including Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq. With regards to Vladimir Putin’s renewed
crackdown on homosexuality, Obama stated “I have no patience for countries that try to treat gays or lesbians or transgender persons in ways that intimidate them or are harmful to them.” Yet on the issue of homosexuals in Brunei, Saudi Arabia or virtually any Muslim-majority country with economic ties to the U.S., Obama is silent. In this regard, President Obama has much in common with those who oppose the protests against Iran’s hangings and executions of gay people; strong-voiced against the persecution of gays until it be-comes difficult. For Obama, this difficulty is economic. For us at Brandeis, this difficulty is political correctness. Pointing out and criticizing the horrendous condition of LGBTQ people in Muslim countries, and opposing US economic support of all nations which persecute LGBTQ people, Muslim or otherwise, is a great way to show meaningful support for the LGBTQ movement worldwide. Of course, we must maintain that we oppose persecutions of LGBTQ individuals wherever it is felt, regardless of religion, and that this is not a movement which targets Islam specifically or makes generalizations. We must work with, and not against the Muslim world to bring meaningful change to the lives of Muslim LGBTQ people, while remaining vigilant to work against our own biases whenever they spring up. However, we cannot ignore the affront to humanity which presents itself throughout the Muslim world when it comes to LGBTQ rights, and we cannot remain silent on this issue for reasons of political correctness or fear of being labeled Islamophobic. Working toward meaningful change often involves confronting hard or uncomfortable facts, which in this case involves the fact that in far too many Muslim-majority countries, there is widespread and deadly persecution of gays with direct legal backing. If we, as a progressive democratic society, believe in total equality for LGBTQ people, we must oppose any affront to the civil rights of gays, and hold all nations to the same high standards.
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MSOCCER: Men match school shutout record in 1-0 victory CONTINUED FROM 16 as runners up in the UAA behind the University of Chicago. Brandeis dropped a road matchup to Chicago on Nov. 2 by a close 1-0 final, squandering an opportunity to clinch the conference and resigning the team to an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. The Judges finish the year with a 5-2 conference record and sit at 17-2 overall, ranked as the top team in the New England region after defeating regional opponents Wheaton College (Massachusetts), Babson College, Tufts University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute this year. Wheaton holds the No. 16 ranking in the country and the No. 2 spot in
came on strong after the second turn of the 200-yard individual medley and made up just under three seconds on second-place finisher and Smith College senior Alyssa Pascuzzo to win the race. She also contributed a fifth-place finish in the 200-yard breaststroke and a seventh-place finish in the 100-yard breastsroke to help pace the Judges. Yi Sul Richter ’18 supplied the team with two second-place finishes: one in the 1000-yard freestyle and another in the 500yard freestyle event. Amy Sheinhait ’18 got the team a third-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle, finishing with a time of 2:09.20 and beating out Smith College senior Paige Christie after the final turn of the race for third place by just .27 seconds. Sherry Tu ’18 added a pair of strong finishes in the 50yard freestyle and the 100-yard
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New England but fell to the Judges in a 1-0 defeat on Sept. 30, during which Jastremski assisted the only goal of the game. The squad’s bid to the NCAA Tournament is its third appearance in as many years after reaching the Sweet Sixteen each of the past two seasons as well as their fifth postseason appearance in a row. The squad fell to Williams College in the Sweet Sixteen in each of the past two seasons and won the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament in both the 2010 to 2011 season and the 2011 to 2012 season. The Judges will welcome Husson University to Gordon Field on Saturday at 5:00 p.m. in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
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backstroke, taking second in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 26.95 and fifth in the 100-yard backstroke in 1:07.30. The win was an important building block for the team according to Diamond, even though the ultimate goal is to win every meet they participate in. Diamond said that both teams took pride in the victory, as the women’s team worked hard to earn their first win of the year. “The women's team was extremely proud and happy with the win; it was really welldeserved, and everyone played a part into getting the win,” he said. “Each day, the women's team grows stronger as a whole, and both men's and women's teams are eagerly awaiting support for the next win.” Both the men’s and women’s teams will try to build on their successes with a meet at Wesleyan University on Saturday, beginning at 1 p.m.
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QUICK PASS: Forward Samantha Schwartz ’18 (right) sprints ahead of a Lesley College defender in the team’s 1-0 win on Sept. 23.
WSOCCER: Team concludes regular season in road tie
CONTINUED FROM 16 on goal for the match. Schwartz and midfielder Sapir Edalati ’15 finished the year tied for the most goals on the team with nine apiece. The Judges finished the season with an impressive record but wound up in a disappointing sixth place in the UAA standings. The team went 2-3-2 in conference matches after losing only one game—their season opener—in non-conference play. “It is amazing to be a part of a team that has had such a turnaround from last season,” said Grossman.
“We work so hard every day at practice, and our hard work is really paying off. “There was not a game where we did not work and try our hardest. We push ourselves as a team to get to our ultimate goal, which is to make the [NCAA] tournament.” The Judges are returning to the NCAA Tournament for the third time time in five years. The team is set on their goal of not only making the tournament but also excelling against the competition once the games begin this weekend. “I know every girl on this team
wants to be on that plane to Kansas City [the host site of the Final Four] Dec. 5, [and] each one of us will do anything to make that happen,” Grossman commented. “Every one of us knew how important the NYU game would be for our season's legacy, so our practices stressed the kind of hard work we would need to show,” Savuto said. “I believe our efforts paid off.” The Judges will begin the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, squaring off agains Penn State Erie, The Behrend College on Saturday, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Volleyball
Squad ends season in eighth place at UAA Tournament ■ Outside hitter Shemira
Pennyman ’15 scored 10 kills in a three-set loss to NYU on Saturday. By Colin warnes JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
The women’s volleyball team headed out to Pittsburgh and the University Athletic Association championships for their last set of games this weekend before the season’s end, claiming eighth-place in the tournament. On Friday, the team faced No. 5 Washington University in St. Louis and fell in straight sets with scores of 25-9, 25-8, 25-20. Next, the team moved on to the consolation semifinals against Case Western Reserve University, losing in straight
sets 25-9, 25-12, 25-12. For their final match, the Judges played New York University in the UAA tournament’s seventh-place match. The team played a very close match but ended up falling in straight sets by tight margins of 2520, 25-15, 25-22. Coming off a pair of losses on Friday and Saturday, the Judges entered Sunday’s seventh-place match against NYU with a point to prove. The team showed their determination in the first set, tied late on in the set at 17-17. The set was up in the air at that point, but NYU took the advantage, getting the lead and then going on an 8-3 run to close the set. The Judges loosened their grip in the second set, never taking the lead and letting NYU run away with 25-15 set victory. However, the Judges were not done and similarly to their game against WashU earlier in the weekend,
made a final push in the last set to keep themselves in the game. The Judges were leading 16-15 with a very good display. However, NYU turned it around, winning the next five points and going on to win the set 25-22. The Judges’ top performer was outside hitter Shemira Pennyman ’15, who played possibly the best match of her college career and was very influential throughout the tournament, tying a match high with 10 kills. With a .368 hitting percentage, she was one of the biggest reason why the Judges were able to push NYU to such close score lines as she scored the best statistics in her college career. Maddie Engeler ’16 also capped an impressive display with six kills and a .365 hitting percentage. “Ending the season on a loss was difficult, but we are reflecting on all the good things from the season,” said
Engeler. “This season was full of ups and downs, but overall we are all proud to be part of Brandeis volleyball.” In the match against top-seeded WashU, the Judges came into the tournament hoping to finish their final few games on a high, but Brandeis did not show their stuff until the final set. After being comfortably beaten in the first two sets 25-9 and 25-8, the team made a late push to no avail. Pennyman started her overall impressive UAA tournament with six kills and a .118 hitting percentage. Engeler finished with four kills and libero Elsie Bernaiche ’15 led the team with seven digs. Brandeis faced Case in their second match of the UAA tournament. The match ended up being the most onesided loss of the weekend as, the Judges lost 25-9, 25-12, 25-12. The scoreline leaned so heavily to
Case mostly because of how many attacking errors Brandeis committed. The team had 19 attacking errors overall compared to Case’s impressive four. Bernaiche lead all players with 17 digs, capping an impressive display on her part. Pennyman impressed once again with five kills and a .417 hitting percentage. Although the Judges conclude their season with a 7-24 record overall and eighth in the UAA, they can look forward to learning from the strong performances they turned in this year, according to Engeler. “We are celebrating the four wonderful seniors we had and looking forward to a great group of recruits coming in to take their places next year,” said Engeler. “I am looking forward to the great strides we will make in Coach [Alesia] Vaccari's second season at the helm of the team.”
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INTRAMURAL SPORTS
Men’s Soccer UAA STANDINGS
TEAM STATS Goals
2014-2015 Statistics Chicago JUDGES Emory Rochester Carnegie Case NYU WashU
UAA Conf. W L D 5 0 2 5 2 0 3 3 1 3 3 1 2 2 3 2 3 2 2 5 0 1 5 1
Overall W L D 11 5 2 17 2 0 13 3 2 9 5 3 8 5 3 8 6 4 11 6 0 8 7 2
Pct. .667 .895 .778 .618 .594 .556 .647 .529
Tyler Savonen ’15 leads the team with nine goals. Player Goals Tyler Savonen 9 Zach Vieira 6 Michael Soboff 6 Josh Ocel 4
Assists Josh Ocel ’17 leads the team with eight assists. Player Assists Josh Ocel 8 Evan Jastremski 3 Foti Andreo 2 Mike Lynch 2
EDITOR’S NOTE: Men closed season with 1-0 win over New York University.
WOMen’s Soccer UAA STANDINGS
TEAM STATS
2014-2015 Statistics
Goals
Carnegie Chicago NYU Emory WashU JUDGES Rochester Case
UAA Conf. W L D 5 2 0 4 2 1 3 2 2 2 1 4 3 3 1 2 3 2 2 4 1 1 5 1
Overall W L D 14 2 0 13 4 1 11 5 2 11 1 6 13 3 2 12 4 2 8 6 4 8 7 3
Pct. .875 .750 .667 .778 .778 .722 .444 .528
EDITOR’S NOTE: Women closed season with 0-0 draw against New York University.
Sapir Edalati ’15 leads the team with nine goals. Player Goals Sapir Edalati 9 Samantha Schwartz 9 Cidney Moscovitch 3 Lea McDaniel 2
Assists Holly Szafran ’16 leads the team with seven assists. Player Assists Holly Szafran 7 Sapir Edalati 7 Samantha Schwartz 3
VOLLEYBALL UAA STANDINGS
TEAM STATS Kills
2014-2015 Statistics UAA Conf. Overall W L W L Pct. WashU 7 1 33 5 .868 Emory 6 1 34 3 .919 Carnegie 5 2 22 11 .667 Chicago 4 3 26 12 .684 Case 4 3 18 12 .600 NYU 3 5 20 18 .526 Rochester 1 6 17 19 .472 JUDGES 0 9 7 24 .226
EDITOR’S NOTE: The team concluded with an eigth place finish at the UAA Champsionships this weekend.
Maddie Engeler ’16 leads the team with 199 kills. Player Kills Maddie Engeler 199 Jessie Moore 193 Liz Hood 113 Summer Koop 112
Digs Elsie Bernaiche ’15 leads the team with 504 digs. Player Digs Elsie Bernaiche 504 Shemira Pennyman 219 Julie Kim 205 Liz Hood 99
cross cOuntry Results from the UAA Championship held in St. Louis, MO on Nov. 1.
TOP FINISHERS (Men’s)
TOP FINISHERS (Women’s)
8-Kilometer Run RUNNER TIME Jarrett Harrigan 26:16.69 Ryan Stender 26:20.53 Quinton Hoey 26:23.99 Mitchell Hutton 26:36.09
6-Kilometer Run RUNNER TIME Lydia McCaleb 23:07.38 Maddie Dolins 24:09.59 Ashley Piccirillo-Horan 24:20.02 Kelsey Whitaker 24:35.23
EDITOR’S NOTE: The squads will conclude their season at the New England Division III Regional Championships on Saturday.
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ALL SMILES: Members of Johnny Softball pose with the championship trophy following their victory in last week’s intramural final.
Intramural seasons end in high-scoring contests ■ Sleep On Us and Johnny Softball won the men’s and women’s championships on Thursday night. By Julie MIzraji SPECIAL TO THE JUSTICE
The intramural flag football season came to a close last Thursday night with nail-biting contests in the men’s and women’s championship games, as the topseeded Sleep On Us took home the championship in the men’s bracket, and Johnny Softball claimed the women’s championship. Under the bright lights on Gordon Field, the men’s finalists Sleep On Us and Abeshter’s Army competed for the cup. Sleep on Us, holders of the top defense allowing 8.6 points per game, came out of the gates strong with two touchdown receptions by Yen-Ruh Wu ’15. The matchup between Sleep On Us and Abeshter’s Army saw the top-two offenses, each averaging more than 30 points scored per game. Abeshter’s Army nearly missed the championship game after winning a surprising championship last year, needing overtime to defeat Diesel And The
Train Gang 48-41 in their semifinal matchup. Sleep On Us defeated Patchworkers 39-21 in their semifinal matchup, the second most points they gave up during the regular season. Abeshter’s Army came back in the second half to tie up the game with a 50-yard reception by Andrew Miller ’16 that set up a touchdown by Glen Chesir ’15, followed by a pick-six by Zach Breslaw ’15. Sleep On Us weathered the storm and was able to get their lead back with two interceptions for touchdowns, including one that stalled the Abeshter’s Army offense on the two yard-line as they threatened to tie the game. In the end, Sleep On Us won 32-13 and was awarded the Paul Woolf ’73 Memorial Intramural Football Championship Cup and the commemorative t-shirts that go along with any intramural championship. The women’s game between Johnny Softball and Girls in Skirts started off with a bang with Amanda Genovese ’15 rushing for an 80-yard touchdown run for Johnny Softball, and the squad would never look back afterward. The two teams had squared off twice before during the season, and both ended in comfortable
victories for Johnny Softball. The championship game was no different, as Johnny Softball used impressive play on both offense and defense to claim the championship and take home the commemorative t-shirts. After a couple of possessions where neither team scored, Girls in Skirts sacked the quarterback in the end zone and got the first safety of the intramural season, making the score 6-2. But Girls in Skirts had no answer for Genovese, who rushed for another touchdown before halftime. Teammate Cori Coleman ’15 followed up Genovese’s touchdown with a picksix to extend her team’s lead. The Johnny Softball defense was relentless, pressuring the quarterback on almost every play and intercepting multiple passes that were not able to find their targets. Johnny Softball won the game 20-2 and the title of the Women’s League Intramural Flag Football Champions, cruising to the championship with dominating play on both sides of the ball. The intramural season continues with the 3-on-3-basketball season, beginning on Nov. 19. Editor’s Note: Glen Chesir ’15 is the Managing Editor of the Justice.
PRO SPORTS BRIEF New England Revolution advance to conference finals with a 3-1 home victory over the Columbus Crew The New England Revolution advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals on Sunday night in emphatic fashion, routing the Columbus Crew 7-3 on aggregate. After a 4-2 win in the previous leg in Columbus, goals from MLS MVP candidate Lee Nguyen, Teal Bunbury, and captain Jose Goncalves powered the Revs to a 3-1 victory in front of a rowdy crowd at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. on Sunday night. New England entered the second game of a home-and-home against the Crew with the considerable advantage of four road goals, since the MLS made a decision to give away goals more importance in playoff series this year. The MLS changed its play-off format at the beginning of the
season to use away goals as the first tiebreaker should two teams be tied on aggregate, a move that parallels both the Union of European Football Associations Champions League and the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football Champions League. With four away goals on Nov. 1 in Columbus, Ohio, the Revolution needed a 2-0 defeat at worst to qualify for the conference finals. The squad was not content to let up during their home leg on Sunday and found the back of the net in the 43rd minute to dispel any notion they were going to take it easy. Bunbury chipped a pass over the Crew’s defense where it found Nguyen, and the recent callup to the United States Men’s National
Team blasted the pass home to put the home side ahead just before the halftime break. Goncalves added a goal in the 55th minute, a bouncing shot from the center of the 18-yard box that was buried into the bottom corner. The goal was Goncalves’s second of the season in his first full year with the Revolution after joining the side on loan in 2013. Bunbury added a 77th minute goal after the Crew got one back by converting a 69th-minute free kick. Bunbury was found along the left side of the 18-yard box with a through-ball from Daigo Kobayashi and ripped a shot past the goalkeeper for the 3-1 victory. The Revolution had an up-anddown year, but were one of the hottest teams in the league to close
out the season. The arrival of USMNT star Jermaine Jones from Turkish team Besiktas in August added to an already potent midfield and added a veteran leader to a confident young Revolution side. But while Jones has been a fun storyline to follow with the Revolution this year, the real story has been the emergence of Nguyen. Within the space of this season, Nguyen has gone from a littleknown journeyman midfielder to an MVP candidate who just earned his first call-up to the national team since 2007. Nguyen’s free-wheeling midfield play has set the tone for the Revs and helped turn them into one of the most entertaining teams to watch in the league.
The second-place Revolution will move on to face the fourth-place New York Red Bulls in another twolegged playoff after the upcoming international break. The Red Bulls defeated the Eastern Conference’s top seed, D.C. United, in its semifinal matchup, using a 2-1 victory on the road and enduring a 2-1 defeat at home six days later. Even with the loss at home, New York was through on aggregate with a 3-2 score, hosting the first game on Nov. 23. The Red Bulls and Revolution met twice this year, and the New York side took home both victories, a 2-0 win in Foxborough on June 8 and a 2-1 victory at home on Aug. 2. —Sam Mintz
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WOMEN's soccer
UPFIELD PASS
Squad earns bid to NCAA Tournament ■ The women earned an
at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament on Monday afternoon following a draw with NYU on Saturday. By Noah Hessdorf JUSTICE editorial assistant
The women’s soccer team ended their regular season on Saturday afternoon with a scoreless draw at New York University, setting a school record for fewest goals allowed during the regular season. The Judges’ 12-4-2 record was good enough to see them through to an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament. As has been the case all year, the team was led by stellar goalkeeping from goalies Michelle Savuto ’15 and Alexis Grossman ’17. Savuto had two saves for the contest, while Grossman tallied three in 65 minutes of action. Grossman knew that the match would be a tough one. “Our plan was to play our game, we really wanted to keep a defensive mindset,” she explained. “We knew NYU is an extremely
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offensive team and could easily put one in the back of the net if we gave them the opportunity. The communication we have on the field is one of our largest assets as a team.” The squad’s nine goals allowed, a new team record, are five fewer than the previous best of 14 in the 1990 to 1991 season. Their 12 shutouts were only three off of their team best of 15 in the 2012 to 2013 season. The Judges controlled the ball for most of the game, outshooting NYU 21-9 with 12 shots on goal. They also had plenty of opportunities as their eight corner kicks were double that of the home team. “Not every team reaches the level of success that our squad has, and I know that the most critical component was our positive team chemistry,” Savuto said. “[The] team showed this season that we would not let a long win streak or a disappointing loss distract us from consistently playing well.” Although they were unable to find the back of the net, they had chances throughout the match. Forwards Samantha Schwartz ’18, Holly Szafran ’16 and Melissa Darling ’16 each had three shots
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SWIMMING AND DIVING
Teams secure first win of the year at meeting ■ Erin Gawronski ’18
won the women’s 200yard individual medley at Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Sunday for her first collegiate victory. By Daniel kanovich JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
The women’s swimming team won their first meet since the program was restarted two years ago as they traveled to Worcester Polytechnic Institute for a tri-meet on Sunday. The men’s team also competed, splitting the day’s meets with a win against Babson College and a loss against WPI. The men went 1-1 for the day, beating Babson 153-136 and losing to WPI 120.5-162.5. The women dropped the two meets against Smith College and WPI with scores of 93-200 and 78173, respectively, but managed to pull out a win against Babson 157-102 for the team’s first victory since its reinstatement in 2012. The win for the men’s team was the earliest in the season since the program’s reinstatement under coach Mike Kotch two years ago. The squad earned its first win of the year in the ninth meet of the season in each of the last two years but swam to a victory in their third meet this year. The men’s squad had a number of first-place finishes on the day that helped them secure the win against Babson. In the men’s 1000-yard freestyle, Max Fabian ’15 finished in first place with a time of 10 minutes, 7.72 seconds, six seconds ahead of
the second-place finisher. Fabian followed that up with a fourth-place finish in the 200-yard butterfly and a third-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle. Brian Luk ’16 also had a strong showing for the team, earning three first-place finishes. Luk finished first in the 50yard freestyle with a time of 22.01 seconds, which was .18 seconds ahead of second place. He also finished first in the 100yard freestyle, in which he led at the turn and had to hold off WPI freshman David Smallwood as the latter gained ground in the final stretch of the race. Luk also earned a win in the 100yard butterfly, finishing just under a full second ahead of Babson sophomore Andrew Wen. Zach Diamond ’18 was one of many Judges to turn in a strong meet on a team that has faced a tough time recruiting new talent after its reinstatement in 2012. Diamond finished third in the 200-yard butterfly, fourth in the 500-yard freestyle and second in the 200-yard individual medley. With the season just getting started, Diamond feels like he still has room for improvement. “Even though my times were faster than the first couple of meets, I still feel that my events need some work with technique and some minor pacing habits with my races,” he said. The women’s team came away with two losses on the day but did manage to earn their first team win since 2009, the team’s last season before returning in the fall of 2012. The team was led by promising results from its youngest members. The team’s only first-place finish came from Erin Gawronski ’18, who
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DEFENSIVE WIZARD: Defender Conor Lanahan ’16 clears the ball during the team’s 1-0 victory over Emory University on Oct. 19.
Men claim postseason bid with win over NYU ■ Forward Evan Jastremski
’17 netted the second gamewinning goal of his career in a 1-0 win on Saturday. By siddharth mehra JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
The No. 7 men’s soccer team put on an impressive display in a hardfought 1-0 win at New York University on Saturday, and earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships on Monday afternoon. With their 17 wins dwarfing just two losses this season, the Judges have now equaled the Brandeis record for number of wins in regular season, set in the 1985 to 1986 season. They inch closer to the record of 19 wins across all competitions, set in the 1984 to 1985 season by the team that finished in second place at the NCAA Division III Tournament. The first half saw plenty of attempts on goal—as the Judges outshot NYU 8-5—and each keeper was forced to make seven saves over the span of 20 minutes. The second half, however, was a different story, with the Judges
recording 13 shots compared to only three from NYU. Despite the offensive onslaught, the NYU defense proved hard to crack. Forward Evan Jastremski ’17 said he thought the squad was faced with a tough task going up against a team that let up less than one goal per game. “They were very well coached and organized in defense,” he said. The game may well have ended in a stalemate, but in the waning minutes of the second half the Judges broke the deadlock. In the 81st minute, Jastremski latched onto a rebound after two blocked attempts on goal in quick succession by forward Tyler Savonen ’15 and slotted the ball home for the only lead Brandeis would need. After the goal, the Judges secondranked defense took over and did not allow NYU a single opportunity to level the game. The Judges gave up only six goals on the entire season, good for an impressive .33 goals against average. The Judges outshot NYU 21-8 in the game and 13-3 in the second half, not allowing the hosts a shot for nearly 20 minutes in the middle stages of the
second half. NYU had one last chance to tie the game in the 86th minute, but the shot sailed wide of the post and the Judges walked away with a victory. The squad finished the regular season second among all Division III teams in goals against average and the lowest among all UAA teams by a .24-goal margin. Jastremki spoke highly of the defensive corps, noting their consistency throughout the season. “Our defense played great, which is not a surprise because they have played great all year,” he said. The back four have helped the team record 14 shutouts on the season, tying the record previously set in the 1984 to1985 season. Though the Judges got the victory over NYU, their offense has been shut down at times this year as three out of their last five wins were 1-0 victories, and four of the last five were by a onegoal advantage. “We are still trying to find our rhythm in the offensive third,” reflected Jastremski. Jastremski’s goal, his third of the season and second game-winning goal of his career, sealed the Judges’ place
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JustArts Volume LXVII, Number 11
Your weekly guide to arts, movies, music and everything cultural at Brandeis and beyond
Tuesday, November 11, 2014
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INSIDE
‘FUFU AND OREOS’— Preview show of play by Obehi Janice explores the clash of her Nigerian and American identities » 23
“Art & Observation” Women’s Studies Research Center Arts Assistant Damiana Andonova ’15 looks at Leeza Meksin’s work through the lens of medical humanities » 19
“It’s About Time! (Part 1)” Lydian String Quartet kicks off its season with pieces that focus on themes of dream and time » 19
Lamp Light/Late Night Psychology department Ph.D. candidate Kenneth Pitts discusses ‘1914: Magnus Plessen’ in conjunction with his own experiences serving in war » 21
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ON-CAMPUS EVENTS Kazim Ali Poetry Reading
A reading by poet Kazim Ali, author of Sky Ward (Wesleyan University Press, 2013); The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award, The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008) and the cross-genre text Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). Today from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the Mandel Center for Humanities Reading Room. This event is co-sponsored by Creative Writing, English, Global Brandeis and the Islamic and the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies program.
‘Conference of the Birds’ Talk
Join a demonstration and discussion of performance traditions in Muslim societies, interfaith encounters in Conference of the Birds and political appropriation of religious symbolism in the Islamic world with director of the play, Hafiz Karmali. Wednesday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in Spingold Theater Center, room 111. This event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the minor in Creativity, the Arts, and Social Transformation, MusicUnitesUs and the Brandeis Theater department.
Prof. Mark Berger Ph.D. ’12 (MUS) Violist joins the Lydian String Quartet
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This week, justArts spoke with violist and professor Mark Berger Ph.D ’12, the newest member of the Lydian String Quartet. justArts: What motivated you to join the Lydian String Quartet?
Artist Talk: Lara Baladi
Listen to an artist talk by Lara Baladi, a highly regarded Egyptian-Lebanese photographer and multimedia artist. The talk is sponsored by the department of Fine Arts; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; African and AfroAmerican Studies and the Rose Art Museum. Thursday from 2 to 3:20 p.m. in the Mandel Center for Humanities, room G03.
Mark Berger: Well, it was kind of a long, gradual process. I first got to know [the quartet] when I was a Ph.D. student here [at Brandeis] in composition. At the time, I started substituting with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and when I did that, my stand partner ended up being Mary Ruth [Ray], who was [the Lydian String Quartet’s] previous violist. Subsequently, the entire quartet invited me to play a string sextet with them as a guest artist. We had all known each other quite well from various different places and experiences. Then, unfortunately, Mary Ruth got sick and had to cut back her playing ... For a year, I ended up substituting with the quartet, and then, sadly, Mary Ruth passed away. Then, after the wheels had turned and the position became officially [open], I of course applied. I did the audition and went through that whole process, and here I am. JA: You play for many different orchestras, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops. How does performing with the Lydian String Quartet differ from playing with these other groups? MB: Most of my other performing work is very much freelance work, which means that every week it’s playing a different repertoire with a different group of people. The wonderful thing about this quartet is the consistency—being able to spend large amounts of time focusing on repertoire with the same group of people allows you to get much more in depth. It allows you to work much closer together and do things that you just can’t do when you only have three rehearsals and then a concert ... In a certain way, the real, heavy-duty string quartet music is usually only played by the professional quartets that have the time to put the amount of energy that this repertoire requires into it. And so, that’s a big difference. Being a member of a high-level, professional quartet, I get to play that repertoire now all the time, which is really wonderful. JA: How do you think your time at Brandeis has influence the way you play and look at music? MB: When you play in a chamber ensemble, especially when you’re playing really intense music over a long period of time with the same group of people, it changes the way that you play because you develop—you sort of grow together. It’s a very familial kind of relationship with a string quartet, just [like] how, when you live with somebody for a while, you sort of grow together in interesting ways. The exact same thing happens musically. We learn how to read each other, we learn how to work together, we learn how to problem solve together. Everybody is an individual, especially in a great string quartet like this. We are four very very different people, and we, of course, in that sense, have a lot of influence on each other from very different perspectives. JA: You are also a composer—what inspires your compositions? MB: Life. JA: Is there one thing you want the audience to take away from the concert? MB: I hope that the music inspires them, and I hope [that] the music connects with them. The whole reason that we do what we do is that—that way that music can communicate with an audience, and the way that we can then communicate with each other and then transfer that experience to the audience. It’s such a magical thing; I mean that’s why we do what we do. This is a very interesting program with three wildly different pieces of music. But they all have this common thread of dreams and dream time that’s running through all the different pieces in various ways. The way that these pieces play off [of] each other is really interesting and I hope that comes across in our performance. And I hope that people do enjoy the experience. —Brooke Granovsky
‘Spring Awakening’
The Tony-award winning musical is a rock adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist play about the trials, tribulations, and exhilaration of the
together. Thursday in the Mandel Center for Humanities, room G11. This event is free and open to the public.
teen years. Spring Awakening explores two teenagers as they encounter the confusion that ensues when the onrushing tide of hormones meets the ignorance of children. This celebration of rebellion provides the perfect opportunity to feature performers of all types as well as the flexibility to creatively use costumes, set pieces and lighting. Thursday and Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. Tickets are $5, and the event is sponsored by Tympanium Euphorium.
Using microscopic footage, harrowing personal stories, and expert insights, “Resistance” clarifies the problem of antibiotic resistance, how we got to this point and what we can do to turn the tide. Thursday from 7:15 to 9 p.m. at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management in the Zinner Forum.
Irving Fine at 100 with Music from Copland House
OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS
The centennial celebration of Irving Fine, Music department and School of Creative Arts founder, continues with an all-Fine program performed by the Music from Copland House ensemble. A symposium on Fine will also take place at Slosberg Music Center at 2:30 p.m. that day, followed by a reception. Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. in Slosberg Music Center. This event is free and open to the public.
Student Events Concert Series: MAGIC!
With hits like “Rude” and “Don’t Kill the Magic,” MAGIC! burst into pop’s top40 songs this summer. MAGIC! promises to put on an incredible show that the Brandeis community will never forget. Also, don’t miss opener Samantha J, the up-and-coming pop sensation from Jamaica that [MTV.com] contributors have called “the next Rihanna.” Sunday from 8 to 10:15 p.m. in Levin Ballroom. Doors open at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 with a Brandeis ID. Students with a Brandeis ID may purchase up to two additional tickets for guests for $10 each.
Drum Activity with the Brandeis Traditional Music Club
Interested in traditional music? Come to the drum activity. There will be a cool traditional instrument show you’ve never seen before. We are also planning on making and playing the drums
‘Resistance’ Film Screening
The Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston: Fiber
Fiber: Sculpture 1960–present is the first exhibition in 40 years to examine the development of abstraction and dimensionality in fiber art from the mid 20th century through the present. This exhibition features 50 works by 34 artists—including Eva Hesse, Ernesto Neto, Rosemarie Trockel, Anne Wilson and Haegue Yang—that range from small-scale weavings to immersive environments, all made in fiber. Admission is free for museum members and youth under 17. Tickets are $10 for students, $13 for seniors and $15 for adults. The exhibit is on view through Jan. 4.
Arts of the Pacific The works on view reflect some of the central artistic traditions of Pacific Islanders and attest to the diverse and expressive use of many materials and forms: sculpted wood and stone, carved jade, engraved bamboo, delicate weavings and paintings on bark and wood. The exhibit will be on view starting today in the Arts of Asia, Oceania, and Africa Gallery (Gallery 177). General admission is $25 and admission is free for members of the museum and students with a Brandeis ID.
Pop Culture n !
wwyou’ve turned on the TV lately, If chances are you’ve come across a superhero. Superheroes are not restricted to the movie screen. New additions Gotham and The Flash have joined current hits Arrow and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. this season. Any time a Marvel or DC hero zooms into the world of network television, it can thank, in part, Smallville’s successful 10-season run from 2001 to 2011. Smallville centered on a high school-aged Clark Kent, played by then-newcomer Tom Welling. Superman faced multiple villains, both original and from the comics, including Lex Luthor. The show was the WB’s highest debut at the time and garnered a large following for most of its run. Smallville finished its run after the WB network became the CW, and it has stayed in the television superhero market with Arrow and The Flash. Arrow, a show based on DC Comics character Oliver Queen/Green Arrow (Stephen Amell), follows the superhero’s transition from spoiled billionaire to underground vigilante to public hero. While the character did appear in Smallville, the creators of Arrow started from scratch, and the two shows are not connected. The show has been popular for the CW, and positive reviews have increased as the series has progressed and found its footing. Following Arrow’s success, the CW premiered the spinoff series The Flash in October, featuring Grant Gustin as The Flash, who appeared in two episodes of Arrow in Season Two. Barry is a crime scene investigator who is struck by lightning in a particle accelerator accident and given superhuman speed. The two series take place in the same universe; Amell made an appearance as Oliver Queen in The Flash’s pilot episode, and a crossover event will happen later this season. The show was the network’s most-watched series premiere since The Vampire Diaries in 2009. Viewership has been steady and has benefited from Arrow’s loyal fan base. ABC made its superhero re-entry
By Ilana Kruger
CREATIVE COMMONS
STRAIGHT AND ARROW: Stephen Amell plays Arrow on the CW show of the same name. last September with Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, a show about the Marveluniverse spy agency. Clark Gregg reprises his role as Agent Phil Coulson, who was thought to have been killed in 2012’s The Avengers. According to Rotten Tomatoes, the show has garnered a following of mostly superhero fans, but its steady ratings show that it also has a broader appeal. The gritty Gotham, Fox’s second primetime superhero drama, looks at the city before Bruce Wayne donned his cape. Admittedly, when I heard there was a show about Batman’s origins with the city in the title, I expected it to be on the CW. Gotham’s take, thankfully, is not a teen-angst-filled melodrama. Batman himself isn’t even the star
here—Bruce Wayne is played by 13-yearold David Mazous. The series follows Detective James Gordon, played by Ben McKenzie, as he tries to solve Bruce’s parents’ murder. Gotham premiered in September to 8.2 million viewers and has kept up steady ratings. Critics have been receptive to the show’s dark mix of crime drama and comic book mythology. In the age of the television antihero, epitomized by Breaking Bad’s Walter White, it’s refreshing to find that we are still fascinated by heroes fighting for justice. The studios are also realizing that they can cash in on some of the superhero hype generated by the blockbuster franchises, but the TV iterations are different enough to make household names seem fresh.
ARTS COVER IMAGES: MIHIR KHANNA, JEREMY PERLMAN, HANNAH CHIDEKEL and GUILLERMO NARVAEZ/the Justice. DESIGN: JEREMY PERLMAN /the Justice.
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Lydians perform first concert of season By EMILY WISHINGRAD JUSTICE EDITOR
The Lydian String Quartet, one of Brandeis’ musical treasures, kicked off its season and introduced its newest member, violist Prof. Mark Berger Ph.D. ’12 (MUS), with a concert on Saturday night “It’s About Time! (Part 1).” The concert was preceded by a talk by Berger in which he discussed
the pieces about to be played. Berger spoke about how the Quartet chose the pieces and discussed the themes that tied all the pieces together—dreams and time. The first quartet by Joseph Haydn—“String Quartet in F, Op. 50, N. 5 “The Dream” (1797)—obviously fit into theme of the dream very well. Berger spoke about the dreamy sounds in the second movement, “‘The Dream.’ Poco adagio” and
how the slow, melodic movement, as he said, simply “sounds dreamy.” Other than the obvious relevance of the Haydn quartet to the themes of the program, Berger said that he “couldn’t ask for a better way to start the season,” as Haydn is sometimes referred to as the father of the string quartet. Berger then discussed the two other string quartets on the program— 20th-century works—and spoke
HANNAH CHIDEKEL/the Justice
ON A HIGH NOTE: On Saturday night, the Lydian String Quartet, joined by new violist, performed three quartets to a full house.
about how they related to the theme of dreams in less obvious ways. “String Quartet No. 1” (1951) by Elliot Carter, for example, focuses peripherally on the theme of dreams through its interest in aspects of time. Berger talked about how Carter’s piece plays with chronological time as well as dream time—a form of time that is less objective. He talked about how the complexity of time in the piece relates to the plurality of modern life. “We can often be feeling many things all at the same time,” he said, noting that in the piece, there are “four completely different types of music going on at once.” After the talk, concertgoers started pouring in—by the time the concert started, there were just a few seats in the house that were unfilled. The Lydian String Quartet—composed of first violinist Prof. Daniel Stepner (MUS), second violinist, Prof. Judith Eissenberg (MUS), violist Berger and cellist Prof. Joshua Gordon (MUS)—started the concert off with the Haydn. A beautiful, soft and simple opening filled the room, a melody that then quickly deviated into a faster tempo with harsher sounds. The violinists’ top melodies were especially strong and fast as the Quartet fluctuated between fast and slow, loud and soft. “The Dream” movement, as Berger had stated in his pre-concert talk, delivered slow melodies that drifted from the instruments that sounded as if they were floating. Melodies came slowly to a halt as others picked up again. The movement ended with a slow and simple stop that was not abrupt—much like the feeling of waking up peacefully from a dream. Philip Glass’s quartet, “String Quartet No. 5” (1991) deviated se-
verely in form from Haydn’s quartet. The five movements, the first four of which were titled, “-” and the fifth had no title, were played without pause. The piece was intense and had a sullen, creepy sound. In the latter movements—although they were not differentiated—the quartet played somber, melodic tunes, and the cello played on the lower register as the violins rose above it to reach higher notes. The final quartet by Carter was chaotic. The piece again dismantled the form of having separate movements within the quartet. There were only two pauses in the four “large sections,” as the program calls them—both in the middle of a section. The comments Berger made about the piece in his talk—specifically its relationship to the chaos of modern life—became very relevant when listening to the piece. The chaos in the music was apparent as each part clashed with the others, creating a messy combination of different noises—nothing seemed to fit together. The note from the composer in the program says that the last section, “Variations,” “consists of a series of different themes repeated faster and faster at each successive recurrence, some reaching at their speed vanishing point sooner than others.” Indeed, it was somewhat anxiety-provoking to hear the various themes being repeated faster and faster still, until I wasn’t quite sure that the violinists could hold the speed— but they inevitably held the tempo. The piece ended with a melody from Stepner on the very upper register of the E string, ending with a harmonic that was almost too high to hear. The second installation of the series, “It’s About Time! (Part 2),” will be performed on April 18.
ART TALK
Talk focuses on interactions of medicine and art By JESSIE MILLER JUSTICE EDITOR
What do medicine and art have in common?—Leeza Meksin’s exhibit Big Bounce at the Women’s Studies Research Center. On Wednesday, Damiana Andonova ’15, who is also the arts assistant at the WSRC, hosted and led an interactive discussion at the WSRC that explored how the field of medical humanities unites art and medicine. She used four of the Big Bounce pieces displayed in the WSRC to promote discussion on the topic, allowing attendants to actively share their thoughts and feelings. Although attendance was sparse at “Art and Observation: A Medical Humanities Tour,” Andonova managed to lead an interesting discussion and was assisted by Curator and Director of the Arts Susan Metrican and Director of the Women’s Studies Research Center Shulamit Reinharz. Andonova wrote in an email to the Justice that she “found instant connections to the body and surgery while working to set up the exhibit.” Andonova decided to host the event after Metrican asked her “to involve Brandeis students more into the arts at the WSRC,” she explained. “The idea for this event was actually very experimental, and the idea for the event at Brandeis just kind of developed simultaneously while preparing for [Big Bounce],” she said. In her description of the event, Andonova talks about the medical humanities as an intervention against the “modern-day technocratic medical system” to bring back the “art of reading a body—of physical diagnosis and patientphysician relationships.” According to Andonova’s definition, medical humanities is the “application of the humanities to the study of medicine,” as well as applying
it to medical education. By looking at Meksin’s work, Andonova explains that it allows viewers to think critically about how art informs the science of medicine. Both Reinharz and Metrican contributed insights as the small group explored the relationship between the spandex art and medicine. The event started by discussing art and its relationship to the body—especially spandex as a skin-like material that wraps around objects, enveloping the body. The event also brought up the debate if doctors should touch patients and how connected a patient should feel to a physician. The discussion continued with a look at one of the exhibit pieces where attendants were encouraged to actually touch the art while it was discussed. This particular piece, titled “Sitting Holy,” was rectangular and segmented into two sections that puffed out like a pillow. The top layer of spandex was marred with oval-shaped rips that revealed the bottom layer, which one individual described as a semi-permeable layer. Reinharz shared her interpretation of the piece, commenting that the holes don’t spread despite being ripped just as a human body can be full of “holes” but still be okay. The next piece, titled “Rawwwd,” looked much dirtier and more disassembled than the previous piece, appearing to be disjointedly held together and splattered with paint. Andonova started by describing what she saw and pointed out the intentional bulges and random objects stuffed inside the spandex layers. She said it reminded her of violence and surgeries she had seen. One attendant said he felt the need to close it up and fix the damage. Metrican, however, saw humor in the artwork, like the bulges created on the body when wearing tight clothing. Reinharz also responded,
wondering if the piece could represent a botched surgery that left the body disfigured. She also added that there might be medical uses for spandex that have yet to be discovered. The third piece looked even more like the human body, with a belly button-like indentation in the spandex. The gray spandex base was covered in colorful paint splotches and tightly-laced strings that crisscrossed the canvas. The group interpreted these strings as both bonding stitches and a constraining corset. Reinharz interpreted the piece as “what our bodies really look like ... held together, pieced together” and not always pretty. “Foopalicious,” the last piecewas much simpler than many of the works. The square shape and solid gold color resemble something like a couch cushion, which, Metrican explained, prompts a thought of furniture’s relationship to the body. However, she also said the piece resembles the lower torso and pelvic area of the body, which gives the piece a hint of sexuality, yet remains rather androgynous. Most apparent in the entire discussion were the different interpretations every individual had of the art and its relation to the body. The ability to touch the art in this particular exhibit—which attendees gladly did—produced an enhanced experience, allowing for the sense of touch, not just sight. Like the human body and skin, touch is a complex sensation that Meksin incorporates into her work. By encouraging dialogue and analytical thought, Andonova made the relationship between medicine and art, something people often overlook, a very accessible and reflective experience. Reinharz offered a concluding thought on the exhibit, stating, “It doesn’t take much, when looking at art, to think of new idea.”
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CRAFT OF CORPOREALITY: Damiana Andonova ’15, Women’s Studies Reserach Center arts assistant, led a talk about medical humanities, looking at the Leeza Meksin exhibit, Big Bounce.
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A CHILD’S TALE: Julia Davidovitz ’15 played seven-year-old Jessie, a victim of child abuse.
‘Lost Girls’ tells stories of trauma
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LET’S TALK ABOUT IT: Kitty, played by Abby Kirshbaum ’16, (right), a character based on Kitty Genovese, talks to Daniela (Mira Kessler ’16.)
By ANNA STERN JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Imagine you are coming back from a college party, and all of a sudden, you end up in a room with Sylvia Plath, a woman stuck in the 1960’s, a washed up celebrity and a deranged seven year old. Welcome to the world of Lost Girls. Written and directed by Charlie Madison ’15, the production told the story of college student Daniela. Daniela (Mira Kessler ’16) is at a fraternity party and suddenly ends up in an enclosed space from which the audience later finds out no one can get in or out. Each of the women she meets in the room has experienced something that has caused them to have gone astray, such as depression, abuse or addiction. At the end of each performance, Madison and the cast participate in a talk-back with the cast answering questions and receiving feedback about the performance which Madison describes as, “a work in progress.” Sylvia Plath (Lily Elderkin ’18), author and poet, is in the room for her real-life depression that caused her to take her own life. Jessie (Julia Davidovitz ’15), a seven-year-old girl, a victim of child abuse, is also in the room, as well as Kitty (Abby Kirshbaum ’16), based on the real Kitty Genovese who was brutally murdered while thirty-seven people watched. The character is a victim of an abusive relationship. There is also Mehdi (Joanna Murphy ’17), a former child star
SHOUT IT OUT: The main character, Daniela, suddenly finds that she is removed from a fraternity party and is placed in an enclosed space where nobody can either get in or out.
who went to the dark side and became an alcoholic and drug addict. Each of these women is lost in her own life only to end up in a room together where they need to deal with their issues head on. In the process, each woman gains some perspective about how their lives are not failures and that they need to accept all that has happened to them. The play does not specify why Daniela is in the room and it is up to the audience to create their own interpretation. The show was presented in a unique way with a simple set structure that only consisted of piles of boxes, representing the confusing and prison-like atmosphere. The music between scenes, the dramatic sound effects and lighting in particular contributed to the science fiction nature of the show. Each actress was fantastic in her own right. Kessler embodied the tenacity and sensitivity of Daniela as the character shows her growth in leadership when she tries to rally the rest of the women to find a way out of the place. Elderkin stood out as Sylvia. She channeled the author’s old-fashioned nature and really captured the essence of a troubled woman who thought that, by committing suicide and leaving two children behind, she would cause her children to lead unhappy lives. It is hard to believe that Elderkin is merely a first year. Her acting was one of the more sophisticated performances I have seen. As the troubled wife Kitty,
Kirshbaum had the rawest personality on stage. She portrayed a woman so obsessed with her husband, even as his brutality towards her was apparent. In one scene, Kirshbaum cried and screamed with such emotion that the audience could feel her pain and denial. As Mehdi, Murphy created a metehorical wall for herself that allowed the audience to see how celebrities shield their true emotions from the world. While each actress created a part for herself, the actress that truly embodied her character was Davidovitz. She was quick to point out in the talk back with the audience after the show that she was in fact 22 years old when she was describing her acting process. She played the character with a mixture of heart, humor, insanity and a genuine desire to be loved. Davidovitz said in the talk back that she spoke to former victims of child abuse and embodied their stories while creating a story for herself in the process. When asked at the talk-back about his writing process, Madison said that he wrote a seven page sample of the play six months ago in a playwriting class. The initial story was about a man who was with Daniela and the struggle of the two of them trying to get out of the space. Madison said that the story eventually morphed into focusing on the struggles of a few women and ended up depicting how we all can feel truly lost.
DOWN THE WRONG PATH: Mehdi (Joanna Murphy ’17) (center) is a former child star who, in her later years, turns to drugs and alcohol.
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ROSE ART MUSEUM
Pitts discusses psychological effects of war
JEREMY PERLMAN/the Justice
MEMORY IN THE MAKING: Kenneth Pitts, a Ph.D. candidate in the Psychology department, discussed his experiences in the army and his subsequent mental health problems.
By BROOKE GRANOVSKY JUSTICE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
The Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum and the Psychology Club extended the hours at the Rose Art Museum on Thursday evening to present a symposium of 1914: Magnus Plessen. The museum, which usually closes at 5 p.m., stayed open until 9 p.m. as Kenneth Pitts, a Ph.D. candidate in the Psychology department, led a discussion on post traumatic stress disorder and the psychological effects of war based on the exhibit, which also deals with war themes. The 50 or so people who attended the talk were treated to tours of the museum and dinner from a Sodexo’s food truck. A former United States Army and National Guard veteran himself, Pitts’ experiences in combat gave him a unique perspective on 1914: Magnus Plessen. The exhibit uses paintings, books, collage art and wax molds to portray the aftereffects of war. It focuses on the veterans who were disfigured in combat, and Pitts’ talk built upon this subject by discussing the ways in which war negatively impacts veterans’ mental states. One subject that Pitts highlighted was how PTSD can impact the way memories are retained. He mentioned memory reconsolidation, which is when a person replays a memory in their mind and alters the memory in the process. Pitts spoke about a memory that he had reconsolidated from a peacekeeping mission in Bosnia. In Bosnia, Pitts’ platoon was
COURTESY OF THE ROSE ART MUSEUM
“Untitled, (Piano)” (2014) Oil on Canvas
tasked with guarding a mass grave that the enemy had hidden under a garbage dump. The group of soldiers patrolled the site all hours of the day, seven days a week, in order to protect it until it could be excavated. At one point between patrol shifts, Pitts was driving and noticed a child’s sock on the side of the road. At the time, Pitts did not consider that moment particularly significant. However, after he returned from his deployment, he returned to this memory. Pitts began to question if the sock had belonged to one of the people killed and buried in the mass grave or if it was simply a discarded relic from the garbage dump. He kept returning to this image of the lone sock and reconsolidating the memory in the process. Over time, thinking about the image recalled a lot of emotion, and it became difficult for Pitts to reflect on the memory. This reaction is part of what Pitts called a “deployment hangover.” Pitts mentioned that veterans have difficulty returning to normal life after adapting to such extreme conditions during their deployments. Veterans can feel as though they are constantly getting left behind as they struggle to make up for lost time in their relationships, education and careers. Pitt was deployed three times, and each time, his “deployment hangover” worsened when he returned home. After his first deployment, it took Pitts a month to return to his routine. After his second, it took him eight months. He said that he is still adjusting and recovering from his third tour.
Pitts was careful to mention that being a veteran should not be defined by its negative aspects. He remarked that there were times during his deployment where he felt more alert and engaged than he ever had in his life. Specifically, Pitts mentioned a time when he was on guard duty on Christmas Eve and a platoon singing Christmas carols brought him and the other guard to tears. Although he describes himself as an atheist, Pitts said that something about that moment felt incredibly sentimental. The talk closed with a questionand-answer session, and one attendee asked if 1914: Magnus Plessen struck Pitts as exploitative in depicting veterans’ trauma. Pitts responded that, as a veteran, he did not feel exploited by the exhibit. He elaborated that if an artist wants to focus their work on veterans’ issues, why censor the artist? Another attendee asked if Pitts experienced any unexpected difficulties after returning from his deployments and how he dealt with them. In his answer, Pitts emphasized the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle—exercise and sleep were (and are) crucial to his recovery. Pitts closed the talk by stressing the idea of an authentic identity. He explained that one should preserve their identity and avoid “losing themselves” in their relationships with other people. This brought the talk’s trajectory from a discussion about an extreme psychological experience to advice that the audience could use to cope with the simple stress of living.
IMAGE COURTESY OF THE ROSE ART MUSEUM
“Ohne Titel (7)” (2014) Oil on Canvas
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MASKED IDENTITIES: These photos show the process of mask making and reconstructive surgery that doctors performed to aid disfigured veterans.
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album review
Banks’ album proves clever and humorous By CATHERINE ROSCH justice EDITOR
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TAKING INTEREST: Azealia Bank’s first studio album, released on Nov. 6, establishes her as a serious talent who can compete with today’s biggest rappers.
It is rare for an artist to break into the music scene but not release a studio album for more than three years. It is rarer still for that first studio album to hit the iTunes top three—and Azealia Banks proves to be that exception. Her debut album, Broke with Expensive Taste, dropped almost unannounced on Nov. 6, nearly three years after she first began working on it. The long wait was more than worth it, as Banks is breaking onto the rap scene at a moment when the most popular female performer is Iggy Azaela, an Australian who thinks she can rap. Banks not only runs circles around Azaela but brings new competition to Nicki Minaj, one of the most charted and decorated female rap artists in the United States. Broke With Expensive Taste is more than just a debut rap album, though, as Banks is more than just a rap artist. She trained in musical theater at the prestigious LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan and performed in a number of off-Broadway musicals as a teenager. She is openly bisexual, one of the few artists in the genre who has come out of the closet. But she is more than her sexuality or her musical background. Banks raps with the big boys and she can easily keep up with them.
Part of what makes the songs so interesting is how she combines her fast rap, filled to the brim with obscenity and clever wordplay, with a more pop styling. Banks, in the song “Jfk,” swiftly raps the verses, backed up by Theophilius London. London, a more established performer, serves to highlight Banks’ own skills, including her ability to sing her own choruses (rather than hiring another pop star to do them for her). However, no song can highlight Banks’s talent like her hit single “212,” originally released in 2011 and placed squarely in the middle of Broke With Expensive Taste’s track list. There’s a reason “212” is her best-known song. It’s fast and catchy with a beat just made for dancing. But what makes “212” so fun and just so impressive is the ease with which Banks raps and the cleverness in the rhymes she creates. The chorus is centered on a slang term for female genitalia. Banks builds up to the explicit word with a verse filled with quick one-liners filled with the vowels and sounds similar to that word, such as “See I remember you when you were/ The young new face /But you do like to/Slumber don’t you?/Now your boo up too hun.” Another song, “Ice Princess,” is a clever play on words and themes. The song begins with whistling winds and a soft tinkling noise, evocative of a winter storm and jingle bells or icicles tapping against each
other. It is loaded with wintery imagery that still manages to work into stereotypical rap themes of wealth and power. She makes a pun on her last name while bringing up the materialism that can be so prevalent in pop culture with the line “They call me Banks ’cause I can loan money” and compares diamonds to glaciers and a cold December, a metaphor most people would never think of. At times, Broke With Expensive Taste can seem almost disjointed, as Banks mixes genres, background beats, speed and volume. No two songs on the album sound the same, but that is what makes it so much fun. She can go from the fast, pop “Chasing Time” that features her own vocals during the non-rapped sections and more Taylor Swiftesque lyrics like “Cause I’m born to dance in the moonlight/I feel like spending my nights alone” to the soft and slow “Luxury,” in which it sounds like she is whispering for much of the song. The two songs sound nothing alike, but one still seemingly flows into the next. Broke With Expensive Taste does not sound like a 23-yearold’s debut album. Banks’s confidence and talents blows her older competition out of the water. With her expletive-laced lyrics, catchy choruses and ability to fire off syllables of clever wordplay, Banks exudes confidence and talent, and I personally cannot wait for her to release another album.
COMEDY
‘FUFU AND OREOS’ delves into cultural identity By VANESSA ALAMO justice CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Obehi Janice, a 27-year-old graduate from Georgetown University, has recently launched her career as a solo performer with the release of her new stand-up show. As a writer, comedian and actor, she uses cultural identity to relate to her audiences. This weekend at ImprovBoston, Janice performed an excerpt from her one-woman show, FUFU AND OREOS, which will premiere in February at the Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston. The title FUFU AND OREOS is an accurate description of the performance because of Janice’s cultural background as a Nigerian American. Fufu is a traditional dish from Nigeria with a base of mashed yams and added spices that cannot be found or bought in the United States. Oreo cookies have often been used to refer to black Americans who embrace white culture over black culture. Therefore Janice’s humorous approach to the slang term embodies the cultural differences she faces on a daily basis. The comedy performance began with an introduction of Janice’s family. She impersonated her parents, a few cousins and her aunts and uncles. She thoroughly described each family member using great voice inflexions and impeccable Nigerian accents. Along with the introduction of her family, Janice played out scenarios to illustrate the type of interactions she encounters with each family member. The young actress made it clear that she was the outcast of the family. Because she grew up in America, her perception of the world is very different from her family’s. She then continued with a piece that highlighted Nigerian and American stereotypes. When wearing her glasses, Janice represented a white female, and when she removed the glasses, she represented a recent immigrant from Nigeria. In this monologue, many stereotypes were incor-
porated to exaggerate unfortunate encounters minorities face in American society. The white female character would comment on Nigerian hair, clothing and traditional names. Making the white female character appear demeaning, the Nigerian female character (without glasses) would respond in short answers or appear puzzled by the ridiculousness of the questions being asked. Illustrating this scene and the interactions between white Americans and foreigners helped the audience visualize Janice’s experience without her explaining such experiences one detail at a time. The final segment of the night touched on relationships between interracial couples. Janice described the dangers of presenting a partner that was not from Nigeria to her family. Although she presented the topic as a satire, she justified both her family’s viewpoints and her personal perspectives on dating. She spoke about her experiences with men of different races and explained why she liked particular aspects of their relationship. From American men to Indian men to Dominican men, Janice shared at least one characteristic she found appealing about each race except African men—Nigerians to be exact. I enjoyed Janice’s performance and charisma. She personalized the show by interacting with the audience. By asking questions and responding to the audience’s reactions to her statements, she made me feel like I was having a conversation with Janice herself, rather than being a spectator and listening to the performer talk about her life. Although I had a great laugh during the performance, I felt like I was at a stand-up comedy show rather than an improv performance. It was obvious when Janice went off script, which was something that I liked, and her interaction with the audience was so heavy that I didn’t feel like I was at a theater anymore. It is clear that Janice completely ac-
cepts and embraces the term “Oreo”— she confessed to the audience that she herself is an Oreo. However, I do not think there was a central or specific focal point throughout the show—she simply used her experiences as an African American to explain her jokes.
She also did not have a smooth transition in between each segment—the only tie seemed to be her Nigerian background. The performance was highly entertaining, but it might have been better for Janice to focus on one theme and
use that to tie all her segments together into a smooth production. There is no doubt that Janice is talented, and I am very impressed with the way she took control of the stage. I am excited to see what the full-length show will be like.
PHOTO COURTESY OF LESLIE HASSLER
LOOKING AT IDENTITY: Last weekend, Obehi Janice performed a preview of her show FUFU AND OREOS at ImprovBoston.
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Quote of the week
for the week ending Nov. 9
“At one point, they had to form a human chain to stop people from rushing into the party, a danger to everyone because of the lack of space in the area,”
BOX OFFICE
1. Big Hero 6 2. Interstellar 3. Gone Girl 4. Ouija 5. St. Vincent 6. Nightcrawler 7. Fury (2014) 8. John Wick 9. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 10. The Book of Life
— Rachel Starr ’15, executive director of entertainment for Student Events, on the Library Party (News, p. 3)
If you could make an app, what would it be and what would it do?
NYT BESTSELLERS
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Caleb Chertow ’18 “I’d like an app that gave me access to a database of old tests, quizzes—everything ... not for cheating purposes but just for a little more perspective going into a class.”
A LOOK DOWN: Justice photographer Mihir Khanna ’18 took this photo while in Sienna, Italy from a clock tower which had 315 feet of stairs. The photo captures the town of Sienna and the surrounding Tuscan hills.
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Gabi Scheinthal ’16 “Probably [an app to] show me the best way to make a set—I work in theater.”
Swan Lee ’15 “Okay, so I would like to make an app that tells me what kind of food is available and what’s the best one.”
Stephanie Weinstein ’17 “It would be an app where you would speak into it in your language, and then it says that in another language.”
1. Taylor Swift—“Shake It Off” 2. Meghan Trainor—“All About That Bass” 3. Jason Aldean—”Gonna Know Me” 4. Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj—“Bang Bang” 5. Florida Georgia Line—“Sun Daze”
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Noah Seligman ’18 “I would create an app that would allow me to hum a melody and then transcribe it into notes for easy access later for when I want to create music.” —Compiled and photographed by Mihir Khanna/the Justice
Nonfiction 1. Yes Please—Amy Poehler 2. Killing Patton—Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 3. Not That Kind of Girl—Lena Dunham 4. Being Mortal—Atul Gawande 5. Jeter Unfiltered—Derek Jeter and Andrew Bozza
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Fiction 1. Gray Mountain—John Grisham 2. The Slow Regard of Silent Things—Patrick Rothfuss 3. Prince Lestat—Anne Rice 4. Havana Storm—Clive Cussler and Dirk Cussler 5. Leaving Time—Jodi Picult
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Groucho Marx once said that “outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend,” and I completely agree. Here are my top ten favorite books that you should definitely take the time to read. 1. Catch-22—Joseph Heller 2. Flowers for Algernon—Daniel Keyes 3. The Outsiders—S.E. Hinton 4. Heart of Darkness—Joseph Conrad 5. The Catcher in the Rye— J.D. Salinger 6. Lolita—Vladimir Nabokov 7. You Shall Know Our Velocity—Dave Eggers 8. The Things They Carried— Tim O’Brien 9. The Book Thief—Markus Zusak 10. Infinite Jest—David Foster Wallace
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The men’s basketball team relied on a core group from the Class of 2014 for each of the past two seasons and will need to redefine itself this year without the group of seven seniors leading the way. The team graduated seven of its eight leading scores and the Judges’ top four scorers, including All-University Athletic Association second-team guard Gabriel Moton ’14. Moton led the squad with 15.7 points in 27.3 minutes per game, starting in 22 of the team’s 24 games while pulling down 5.6 rebounds and dishing out 2.7 assists per game. Without Moton and the rest of the Class of 2014, the squad will need to look elsewhere on both sides of the ball and will turn primarily to guard Robinson Vilmont ’17 in his second year on the court. He averaged 6.5 points per game
as a first-year, starting in 17 of the Judges’ contests last year. The guard averaged 18.4 minutes per game last year—the most of any non-senior on the squad—and shot 45.3 percent from the field. Vilmont scored in double figures six times and netted a season-high 15 points in an 87-62 victory over Carnegie Mellon University on Feb. 9 at home. The Judges raced out to a perfect 3-0 record to begin the season last November and completed a strong first quarter of the season, earning an 8-3 record in non-conference play over the first 11 games. The team began the year by winning five of their first six games and topped 100 points twice in their first three games. However, once the UAA games began in January, the squad’s consistency was tested, twice slogging through three-game losing streaks to conference opponents. The team’s first UAA victory came against the University of Rochester on Jan. 24, an 83-66 drubbing of the Yellowjackets, during which the team put three of the five starters in double figures. The victory broke a three-game losing streak for the Judges, but the team could not convert it into a winning streak as they dropped their next three games as well. The squad split its last eight games— including wins over Case Western Reserve
University, Carnegie, the University of Chicago and New York University—but was never able to win more than two UAA contests in a row. The squad finished with the third-best offense in the UAA, scoring 77.6 points per game in conference games, a shade below their 79.8 average for the year. The squad, however, was plagued by the inconsistencies of the offense and stumbled to a 5-9 conference record, leaving them sixth in the conference standings at the end of the year. Even with the below-average conference record, the squad entered the final game of the season on March 4 at 12-12 overall, looking to avenge an earlier-season loss to NYU. The Judges opened their conference slate with a 64-58 loss to the Violets on Jan. 11, but could not compete with the UAA’s second-leading scorer, NYU sophomore forward Evan Kupferberg, who earned All-UAA First Team honors last year. The Judges wasted no time getting on the scoreboard in the season finale, opening the game on an 11-2 run over the first three minutes, punctuated by a three-pointer made by guard Derek Retos ’14. Retos, who was one of three seniors to score at least 20 points in the finale, concluded his collegiate career with a school-record 231 three-pointers.
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The squad continued their offensive outburst with a 47-point first half against NYU and secured a winningrecord on the season with a 92-53 victory over the Violets. With the victory, the squad clinched their 10th-straight winning season and will look to make it 11-straight this year. The squad opens its campaign with a home game on Nov. 19 versus UMass Dartmouth, beginning at 7 p.m.
Brandeis University 2013-14 record: 14-13 (7-7 vs. UAA) What to watch for: The Judges will benefit from the return of guard Hannah Cain ’15, who missed last year’s campaign with injury. She earned All-UAA Second Team honors her sophomore year and will help the squad improve on the UAA’s worst scoring offense. The team managed to finish fourth in the conference despite getting outscored in UAA action and will aim to duplicate their successes in the conference this year. Key statistic: Brandeis had the conference’s thirdbest defense in the UAA, allowing 67.3 points per game in conference games, allowing a total of 942 points in the 14 UAA contests.
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CLOSE QUARTERS: Guard Tim Reale ‘17 tries to get around a Curry College defender in the team’s 111-59 home victory on Nov. 16
your guide to the university athletic association: men’s basketball Brandeis University 2013-14 record: 13-12 (5-9 vs. UAA) What to watch for: The Judges will overhaul
most of the team’s offense, graduating four of the five starters, and will see an increased role for guard Robinson Vilmont ’17, who made 17 starts in his first year. Key statistic: Brandeis had the confrence’s top three-point field goal percentage, netting 120 three pointers in confrence play for a .414 shooting percentage.
Carnegie Mellon University 2013-14 record: 11-14 (4-10 vs. UAA) What to watch for: Carnegie twice endured
three-game losing streaks during conference play last year after going 2-1 in the first three UAA games and will look to improve with the continued growth of sophomore forward Jack Serbin, last year’s UAA rookie of the year. Key statistic: The Tartans were second in the conference in defensive rebounding, pulling down 26.1 per game, second only to WashU.
Case Western Reserve University 2013-14 record: 14-11 (6-8 vs. UAA) What to watch for: The Spartans will be led by
senior forward Dane McLoughlin, who earned All-UAA Second Team last year scoring 15.6 points per game in UAA contests. The squad was nearly flawless with a 10-3 record in Ohio, including a 5-2 record in UAA games at home. Key statistic: Case topped the conference in blocked shots, turning away an average of 3.9 in UAA contests.
University of Chicago 2013-14 record: 15-10 (8-6 vs. UAA) What to watch for: Chicago will be led by the
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FINGER ROLL: Guard Colby Smith ‘16 attempts a layup over a University of Rochester defender in the team’s win on Jan 24.
tandem of senior forward Royce Muskeyvalley and junior guard Jordan Smith, both of whom finished in the top-30 of all UAA scorers. The team finished the year strongly, going 4-2 in its last six games and will hope to start the year in a similar way. Key statistic: The Bears had the UAA’s top defense, giving up just 992 points last year, the only side to allow fewer than 1,000 points.
University of Chicago 2013-14: 15-10 (9-5 vs. UAA) What to watch for: Chicago used a six-game winning streak last February to secure a winning record in the conference. The squad will return 11 players from last year’s roster in the hopes of improving their record and competing for the conference title. Senior guard Claire Devaney will return to lead the team’s offense after earning All-UAA First Team. Key statistic: The Bears had the conference’s top offense, netting 80.6 points per game in UAA contests, one of only two teams to score at least 1,000 points during conference games.
Carnegie Mellon University 2013-14 record: 12-13 (3-11 vs. UAA) What to watch for: Sophomore forward Lisa Murphy will be back to lead the offense after she earned UAA Rookie of the Year and was one of two freshmen to earn All First-Team Honors last year, tying for the conference lead with 17.6 points per game. The squad will rely on Murphy’s offensive prowess to climb out of the UAA cellar this year. Key statistic: The Tartans were second in the UAA in blocked shots, swatting away 52 shots last year.
Emory University 2013-14: 16-9 (5-9 vs. UAA) What to watch for: The Eagles began their campaign last year with a perfect 14-0 before finally dropping their first game on Jan. 24. The team will need to be stronger down the stretch if it is to compete for the UAA title after going 2-9 in the final 11 games of the season and finishing third to last in the conference at season’s end. The squad will need a team effort to climb back to the top of the UAA after graduating All-UAA First Team guard Savannah Morgan, who led the team with 14.9 points per game. Key statistic: Emory was far ahead of the rest of the UAA in steals coming away with 170 during conference games for a 12.1 average, while no other team averaged more than nine steals of their own.
Case Western Reserve University 2013-14 record: 10-15 (4-10 vs. UAA) What to watch for: The Spartans will once again rely on senior forward Brooke Orcutt, who earned All-
New York University 2013-14: 20-6 (9-5 vs. UAA) What to watch for: NYU will aim to improve upon its conference record after the team stumbled to a 2-3
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UAA Second Team honors last year. Orcutt led the team with 12.4 points per game and started all 25 games for the Spartants, figuring to be a big part of the offense once again. Key statistic: Case was tied for third in the UAA with 26.9 defensive rebounds during conference action.
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UAA record in the season’s final five game. The squad will have little trouble putting points on the board, returning two members of the All-UAA First Team, including junior forward Megan Dawe, who led the squad with 14.6 points per game. Key statistic: The Violets’ finished third in the UAA in three-point shooting percentage, converting 34.4 percent of all shots they took from beyond the arc in conference games last year. University of Rochester 2013-14: 12-13 (6-8 vs. UAA) What to watch for: The YellowJackets finished the year on a four-game winning streak and won each game by a comfortable margin of at least five points. The squad handed Washington University in St. Louis their only conference loss of the season and will look to build off their strong end of the season. The team will need to replace the production of All-UAA First Team forward Loren Wagner following her graduation and could struggle to replace her 13.8 points per game. Key statistic: Rochester had the second-stingiest defense in the UAA last year, allowing 935 points in conference games for an average of just 66.8 points per game. Washington University in ST. Louis 2013-14: 24-3 (13-1 vs. UAA) What to watch for: WashU will once again figure into the title race this year with the return of senior forward Melissa Gilkey, who earned UAA Player of the Year honors and a spot on the All-UAA First Team, tying for the conference lead with 17.6 points per game. The team will also return senior guardMaddy Scheppers, the conference’s Defensive Player of the Year. Key statistic: The Bears had the top point differential in the UAA last year with a 15.2 p o i n t scoring margin, giving up just 57.5 points in confernence games.
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Emory University 2013-14 record: 19-9 (9-4 vs UAA) What to watch for: The Eagles begin the
year ranked 14th in Division III, but will need to replace the production of All-UAA First Team guard McPherson Moore, who graduated in May. Junior guard Michael Florin will help the team’s offense make up the difference after contributing nearly 10 points per game. Key statistic: Emory had the conference’s top scoring offense, netting 1,168 points in UAA games for an 83.4 average.
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IN THE LANE: Guard Sydney Sodine ’17 drives to the basket in a 65-61 victory over Emory University on Jan 26.
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New York University 2013-14 record: 16-10 (6-8 vs. UAA) What to watch for: The Violets
return All-UAA First Team guard Evan Kupferberg, an offensive force on the UAA’s third-worst offense. The team began the year by going 5-0 but struggled to find consistencey after the calendar flipped to 2014 and will lean on Kupferberg to improve on their record this year. Key statistic: NYU was second in the conference in reboudning offense, grabbing 542 boards in UAA play for a 38.7 average.
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able to win just one of their last seven games at the end of the year but returns 10 players from last year’s squad in the hopes of getting back to the .500 mark. Key statistic: The Yellowjackets suffered from bad luck in UAA play, going 4-10 in the conference but giving up only 74.1 points to UAA opponents.
Washington Univeristy in St. Louis 2013-14 record: 24-3 (14-0 vs. UAA) What to watch for: The Bears have not lost
a conference game in two years and will be in the running for the title again behind senior forward Matt Palucki, who was one of three players to earn All-UAA First Team honors. Key statistic: WashU led the conference in field goal percentage, converting 48.6 percent of its attempts from the floor.
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UP IN THE AIR: Forward Maria Jackson ’ 17 attempts a shot over an Emmanuel College defender in the team’s 64-55 victory on Mar. 5.
The women’s basketball team entered the quarterfinals of last year’s Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament as underdogs against Emmanuel College, seeded eighth in the eight-team tournament and matched up with the top seed. Looking to secure a winning season, the women upset the top squad 64-55 and clinched their first winning record since the 2009 to 2010 season. The squad will look to build on their winning season, returning nine players from last year’s roster and three of the five starters from the past two years. Guard Hannah Cain ’15 will return to the starting five after sitting out last year’s campaign with an injury. The guard started all 25 games as both a first-year and a sophomore, finishing second in points and assists per game in the 2012 to 2013 season and leading the team in assists at the end of her first collegiate season. Cain’s return to the starting lineup will help improve an offense that finished second-to-last in assists per game and scoring offense. Cain was named to the second-team All-UAA squad
in her sophomore year, when she finished with 8.1 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game. Guard Paris Hodges ’17 will join Cain in the backcourt, following a strong rookie season for which she earned an honorable mention on the All-UAA team at the end of the season. Hodges finished the season fifth on the team in scoring, netting 6.7 points per game, and started in all 27 games as a rookie. Hodges accumulated a season-high six assists and 10 rebounds in a 6561 upset over No. 7 Emory University on Jan. 26. Guard Niki Laskaris ’16 will round out the returning members of the backcourt. Laskaris returns as the team’s fourth-leading scorer with 8.1 points per game and made 16 appearances last year. The squad will also see the return of forward Maria Jackson ’17, who netted 8.6 points per game in 22 starts last year. Jackson ended the year with a .478 shooting percentage, the 10thbest across the University Athletic Association. Although the squad began the year with a 2-4 record over their first six games last year, they rolled off a three-game winning streak in December and entered conference play with an even 5-5 record. The Judges struggled again once UAA play began, dropping three consecutive games to New York University, Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Chicago in the conference-opening road trip. Returning home on Jan. 24, the Judges embarked on a seasonlong six-game winning streak with a 58-57
victory over the University of Rochester. Their six-game winning streak was the longest since the 2008 to 2009 season and their first six-game winning streak against UAA opponents since the 2003 to 2004 season. The squad averaged 63.3 points per game over the winning streak and gave up 57.5 points per game over the same stretch, more than four points better than their season average. The Judges could not push the winning streak past six when they squared off against Washington University in St. Louis on Feb. 14 and fell by a 10-point margin, spurring a second three-game losing streak on the season. The squad broke the winning streak with their upset of Emory on Feb. 23. Though the squad ended the regular season with a loss at home versus New York University on March 2, they earned a post-season bid to the ECAC Tournament as the No. 8 seed and upset Emmanuel in the first round, securing their first winning season in five years. The Judges will look to compete in the UAA this year with a good mix of returning starters and three new first-years on the team. The return of Cain should help the offense recover from its spot in the cellar of the UAA last year and continued growth from supporting players will have the Judges looking toward another winning season. The squad will open its season Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. against Mount Ida College in the annual Brandeis Tip-off Tournament.
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NEAR THE ACTION: Jick served as public address announcer for the Boston Celtics from 1980 to 1997, when the team won three NBA titles.
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Andy Jick ’74 has seen it all as a public address announcer By Avi gold JUSTICE editor
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Basketball has always been a hobby for Andy Jick ’74, but as the Boston College Eagles public address announcer, he usually sees the game from a much different perspective. While most attendees of a basketball game sit up in the bleachers and watch the action on the court, Jick has the unique job of relaying the information the other way. Spending more than 40 years on the sidelines, Jick has been able to see many different types of basketball games, ranging from high-school rivalries to NCAA Tournament contests to legendary NBA Finals bouts. A basketball enthusiast, Jick looked for a way to involve himself with the game while a student at Brandeis University and found a way onto the team by volunteering as a first-year to be the Judges’ manager. “I managed [the basketball team] in high school,” Jick said in an interview with the Justice. “I came to Brandeis and liked being a manager, so I volunteered [for the position]. “I was the manager for four years while I was here and I enjoyed it immensely.” His spot on the team allowed Jick to experience a successful period in men’s basketball history—from 1970 to 1974, the team posted consecutive winning seasons for the first time in 11 years and went 21-6 in his senior year—and his job as manager
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afforded him the opportunity to serve as public address announcer during the Judges’ home games. What evolved from a job Jick took “by happenstance” was the opportunity to be heard by an exponentially larger number of people after graduating Brandeis, when the Boston Celtics came calling with a job offer. Graduating with a degree in politics, Jick did not plan on continuing his career as a public address announcer, taking a job in the business world after finishing schooling. However, he explained, one Friday afternoon in the late 1970s he got a phone call from the Celtics organization asking if he could step in on short notice and fill in for the regular public address announcer who was unable to call the game. Jick explained that a Brandeis graduate was a member of the Celtics’ front office and suggested him as someone who was available to step in for the Friday night game. When the job became available in 1980, Jick accepted the Celtics’ offer to serve as public address announcer and spent the next 17 years calling Celtics’ home games, including five trips by the team to the NBA Finals and three Celtics championships. Jick holds the special distinction as the Celtics’ final public address announcer at the Boston Garden, the team’s home court from 1946 until 1995, and the first public address announcer
in the Fleet Center, renamed TD Garden in 2005, and the current home of the Celtics. The part-time job of public address announcer for a professional sports team brought many memorable moments for Jick, but there was always one type that stood out—the retirement ceremony. Jick explained that he always enjoyed seeing the retirement ceremonies, since they were by nature the most festive events. Once his career with the Celtics ended in 1990, when the team’s management switched hands, he “took a few years off” from the sport entirely. In fact, Jick did not watch any Celtics games at all before starting to watch games in the late 1990s. However, it took a full decade before he returned to the sidelines as a public address announcer. In 2001, Jick began a job as the Boston College Eagles’ public address announcer and has called the men’s and women’s basketball games for the Eagles for the past 13 years. In his time as a public address announcer, Jick has seen the job change, but is reluctant to tweak his style to match the current system in place. “The PA announcer is [there] to report to the crowd who scores, who got the assist, introduce who got the assist [and] introduce the crowd to the players—that’s what it is,” he said. “Now [in today’s day and age], they have people in the crowd who … are
entertainers whose job is to get the crowd involved.” “I’m old school,” he laughed, explaining that he views the role of a public address announcer in a totally different manner. When working as a public address announcer, Jick said he “prefers to let the game call itself,” explaining to the crowd only what is necessary and leaving the fans to watch to watch the court, not the sidelines. “They [the fans] are there for what’s on the court,” he said. Jick’s sentiment about letting the game speak for itself holds true across whatever type of game he has called, be it a Judges game in the early 1970s or a Boston College game in 2014. “The difference [between a college game and a professional game] is not that great,” he said. “If the crowd is energized, then maybe I’ll get more energized; maybe by my style I’ll energize the crowd a little, and it’ll be a little more upbeat, but there’s not much difference between a Brandies game with 1,000 people and a BC game with anywhere from 4,000 to 8,600 people.” “Did it feel different with 18,000 people [at a Celtics game]?”
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“Maybe a little,” he noted but reiterated that at its core, the game was the same no matter where he was calling. Jick’s viewpoint allowed him to travel with his unusual hobby, serving as a public address announcer whenever the opportunity arose, including a high school rivalry game between two Boston-area schools as a favor a friend. Acting as a public address announcer not only gives Jick the opportunity to connect the fans to the action on the court in a special way, but it also gives him access to the game in an entirely different manner—one that allows him to see the games he watches in a different light. “PA announcing basketball games over the past 40 plus years has given me a front-row seat to some of the greatest basketball players and upcoming stars of the 20th and 21st centuries,” Jick remarked in a follow-up email to the Justice. Jick continues to serve as the public address announcer for Boston College. He is still involved with his favorite sport and watches the game from his unique perspective on the sidelines, a long way from the job he started when he was a manager of his college team.
Nov. 15 Mount Ida 1:00 p.m. Nov. 19 UMass-Dartmouth 7:00 p.m. Nov. 16 Regis or Salve Regina TBA Nov. 22 at Rhode Island College 1:00 p.m Nov. 19 at Roger Williams 6:00 p.m. Nov. 25 at Lasell 6:00 p.m. Nov. 22 at Tufts 2:00 p.m. Dec. 2 at Becker 7:00 p.m. Nov. 25 Emmanuel 6:00 p.m. Dec. 4 Framingham St. 7:00 p.m. Dec. 2 Anna Maria 7:00 p.m. Dec. 6 Salem St. 1:00 p.m. Dec. 6 Johnson & Wales 1:00 p.m. Dec. 7 Babson/Tufts TBA Dec. 8 at Babson 7:00 p.m. Dec. 9 at Amherst 7:00 p.m. Dec. 31 Gordon 1:00 p.m. Jan. 2 at Roger Williams 6:00 p.m. Jan. 3 at Endicott 1:00 p.m. Jan. 3 at Curry 5:00 p.m. Jan. 6 at Mass.-Boston 5:30 p.m. Jan. 6 at Bates 5:00 p.m. Jan. 10 NYU 1:00 p.m. Jan. 10 NYU 3:00 p.m. Jan. 16 at Carnegie Mellon 6:00 p.m. Jan. 16 at Carnegie Mellon 8:00 p.m. Jan. 18 at Case 2:00 p.m. Jan. 18 at Case 12:00 p.m. Jan. 23 Chicago 6:00 p.m. Jan. 23 Chicago 8:00 p.m. Jan. 25 Washington U. 2:00 p.m. Jan. 25 Washington U. 12:00 p.m. Jan. 30 Emory 6:00 p.m. Jan. 30 Emory 8:00 p.m. Feb. 1 Rochester 2:00 p.m. Feb. 1 Rochester 12:00 p.m. Feb. 6 at Emory 6:00 p.m. Feb. 6 at Emory 8:00 p.m. Feb. 8 at Rochester 2:00 p.m. Feb. 8 at Rochester 12:00 p.m. Feb. 13 Carnegie Mellon 6:00 p.m. Feb. 13 Carnegie Mellon 8:00 p.m. Feb. 15 Case 2:00 p.m. Feb. 15 Case 12:00 p.m. Feb, 20 at Chicago 7:00 p.m. Feb. 20 at Chicago 9:00 p.m. Feb. 22 at Washington U. 3:00 p.m. Feb. 22 at Washington U. 1:00 p.m. Feb. 28 at NYU 2:00 p.m. Feb. 28 at NYU 4:00 p.m.