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SPORTS Swimmers rack up golds 16
MIDYEAR EXHIBIT
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Justice
Volume LXIX, Number 15
www.thejustice.org
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
ORIENTATION
STEP INTO FORMATION
Campus welcomes midyears during convocation ■ The convocation
ceremony kicked off midyear orientation, the theme of which was "Light of Reason." By Abby patkin JUSTICE editor
Brandeis students should help define and build their community, University President Ronald Liebowitz told incoming midyears at the convocation ceremony on Jan. 13. The event marked the beginning of midyear orientation. The theme of the orientation was “Light of Reason,” said Midyear Orientation Core Committee member Danielle Frankel ’17, quoting University namesake Louis D. Brandeis. “What you learn during orientation will brighten the days to follow,” she told the midyear class. In his remarks, Liebowitz spoke about how he has gotten a chance to
interact with students on a personal level through his weekly office hours and various events around campus. Student, faculty and alumni loyalty to the University is one of the biggest markers Liebowitz said he has observed since becoming president in July. In particular, he cited an event held in celebration of Prof. Chris Miller’s (BCHM) career, during which the gathering of current and former students highlighted the “human connection one finds in the teaching and mentoring in his classroom and lab.” Liebowitz added that he has observed a special “openness” among community members, especially as it pertains to making Brandeis a more inclusive space. However, he noted, “This passion for inclusion, openness and debate … should not come as a surprise. Brandeis’ remarkable and unique history — a history all of us need to learn and come to appreciate — is rooted in openness and in-
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CAMPUS EVENT
Chronicle data shows compensation in top 91st percentile ■ Recent data showed that
Frederick Lawrence's 2014 presidential salary was in the top tier for private schools. By ABBY PATKIN JUSTICE EDITOr
While the University’s institutional expenses ranked in the 87th percentile of private colleges in 2014, its executive compensation for thenUniversity President Frederick Lawrence ranked in the 91st percentile, according to a recently-released set of data from the Chronicle of Higher Education. Listing total monetary amounts from the calendar year, the data set
includes information on more than 1,200 chief executives at more than 600 private colleges from the years 2008 to 2014, according to the Dec. 6 piece. In 2014, Lawrence received a salary of $937,752, ranking him 47th in a list of 510 college presidents, per the Chronicle data set. This included a base pay of $723,440, as well as $86,409 in nontaxable income and $127,903 “other” income. While Lawrence’s salary ranked in the 91st percentile for private colleges, the average Brandeis salary for what the Chronicle referred to as a “full-professor” for that same time period ranked in the 88th percentile, with an average total of $137,655. However, Lawrence was not the
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NATALIA WIATER/the Justice
MAGICAL NIGHT: Majorette dance troupe TOXIC performed onstage at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial event last Monday.
MLK event celebrates Black Girl Magic ■ The annual Martin Luther
King Jr. Memorial celebrated Black womanhood and identity. By Michelle dang JUSTICE Editorial assistant
Through a series of spoken word, poetry, and dance performances, as well as speeches by student scholars and visiting guest performers, the University’s 12th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial celebrated “Black Girl Magic” and brought to attention Black women identity and the historical leadership of Black women revolutionaries last Monday. “This short civil rights history lesson does not begin or end with Martin. For once, I want you to say her name. I want you to recognize her accomplishments,” said student speaker Aja Antoine ’17. Antoine recognized the deeds of local figure Ruth M. Batson, among those of other Black female leaders, whose stories have too often been cast into the shadow of their Black men revolutionary counterparts'.
“She was resilient before Boston was strong,” Antoine said of Batson. “She was to the Boston Busing Crisis of the 1970s as Ida B. Wells is to lynching in the U.S. South and Angela Davis is to prison abolition. As Alicia [Garza], Opal [Tometi], and Patrisse [Cullors] are to Black Lives Matter. … An unapologetically Black female leader, her name is Ruth Batson, and I want you to say it, loudly, proudly and with conviction,” said Antoine. The evening’s keynote speech featured University alumna and former Student Union President Nyah Macklin ’16. In her remarks, Macklin addressed the need to pay respect toward not only Black women leaders but the Black women of local and University communities. “We need to normalize thanking and providing resources to the Black women who thanklessly take the largest burdens,” said Macklin, “And of course we can’t forget the aunties, the cousins, the mamas, the grandmas who have sacrificed as Black women in order to see a better world for their children, their grandchildren, their great-grandchildren and generations to come.” “We will never understand what
work they are doing that is going unmarked — the hours, the years that these women are putting in uplifting every aspect of Black men, other Black women, and girls, and the entire world,” said Macklin. Macklin also addressed the need for a space for discussion about mental health stigmas, especially for the Black community. She spoke about wanting to present the “superhuman” version of Black womanhood in her role as Student Union president last year, a role that often involved “overcoats, heels, purses, running from place to place,” she said. However, she told the audience, “I didn’t have it together. Every day was an attempt not to collapse. … I realized I was becoming inaccessible to other Black women who were trying to follow in my footsteps. … I was out here being hypervisible and only showing the most polished version of myself.” Concluding her remarks, Macklin credited “Black Girl Magic” with helping her heal. “This 'Black Girl Magic' that we have created has made me love my skin again. … These Black
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Comic Creator
Having a Ball
Conduct Board
David Pepose '05 created his own comic series.
The men's basketball team fell twice in two well-fought games this past weekend.
The Student Conduct Board launched office hours to educate students about the conduct process.
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