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Gray aids in new hire for manager ■ The University has formed a committee to help search for a manager of on-campus sustainability programs. By RACHEL SHARER JUSTICE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
provements to policy and resources are extremely important, we also need to come together as a community to stand with survivors,” wrote Ava Blustein ’16, a member of BSASV who helped organize the day of action at the University, in an email to the Justice. Blustein was one of about 50 members of the Brandeis community who participated in Wednesday’s march from the Rabb steps to Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center, carrying dorm mattresses, pillows and signs. Along
The University will soon start a search process to hire a new manager of sustainability programs on campus, Vice President of Operations James Gray announced last week. Gray will soon begin the search for this manager, although he did not specify an exact date when the process will commence. Gray will work with the assistance of a special committee, wrote Executive Director for Integrated Media Bill Schaller in an email to the Justice. The committee is comprised of several members of the Brandeis community, including Prof. Laura Goldin (ENVS), Director of Community Living Tim Touchette, Bill Bushey and Mary Sharriagn from the facilities department, and two students, Anna Bessendorf ’15 and Sophie Freije ’17. The Brandeis Sustainability Fund will not play a role in hiring someone to fill this position, but the new manager will, according to Gray, “work closely with the BSF board.” The committee will help Gray
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LIFTING THE WEIGHT: Students carried mattresses from the Rabb steps to Bernstein-Marcus Administration Center as a part of national day of action “Carry the Weight Together.”
Students march on day of action ■ Brandeis Students Against
Sexual Violence organized a march in support of Columbia student Emma Sulkowicz. By RACHEL HUGHES JUSTICE EDITOR
As part of a national day of action, a crowd of students marched through campus carrying mattresses and pillows over their heads on Wednesday. The demonstration aimed to support an ongoing
performance art piece created by Columbia University senior Emma Sulkowicz. Sulkowicz quickly gained national attention after she began the project, which she titled “Carry That Weight,” to protest the school’s allowing another student, whom she accused of sexually assaulting her, to remain on campus. She will continue the piece “until the man she accuses of attacking her is no longer on campus, whether he leaves or is expelled or graduates, as she also will next spring,” according to a Sept. 21 New York Times article.
A coalition of college students and activists—comprised of members of activism organizations No Red Tape, Columbia’s Carrying the Weight Together, Hollaback! and Rhize, according to their website— organized a national day of action in support of Sulkowicz’s project. To bring this coalition’s project to campus, Brandeis Students Against Sexual Violence organized a campus march for the national day of action. “I think it was an important event for the Brandeis community because it reminds us that while im-
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
New representatives to the Board address plans ■ Junior and Senior
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Representatives to the Board, Grady Ward ’16 and Mohamed Sidique ’15, discussed their first Board of Trustees meeting last week.
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The Board of Trustees discussed some of the more prominent issues on campus, including sexual assault, tuition, dining services and diversity on campus at its first meeting of the year.
According to Junior Representative to the Board of Trustees Grady Ward in an interview with the Justice, although he was involved in two phone call meetings over the summer, this was his first time personally meeting members of the Board. This meeting was Senior Representative to the Board of
Trustees Mohamed Sidique’s first meeting too, as he was elected to take over the position in September. Ward and Sidique said that they were both able discuss multiple oncampus issues with the Board of Trustees last week. Ward discussed the way tuition increases impacts student percep-
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Prof. Dan Perlman (BIOL), who directs the new Center for Teaching and Learning, hopes to initiate interdisciplinary discussion.
The women’s volleyball team defeated Eastern Connecticut State University on Saturday.
The Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society held an event on referendum Question 3.
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Manslaughter verdict in hazing case The manslaughter verdict in the fatal hazing of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University drum major Robert Champion should send a message as loud and clear as the famous Marching 100 band, State Attorney Jeff Ashton said Friday. “I hope this scares people enough to stop it and to realize it’s not worth it and just to find better ways to show you belong than hitting people or hurting people or endangering their lives,” Ashton said outside the courtroom where FAMU percussionist Dante Martin was found guilty of manslaughter and three counts of hazing. Martin, who faces up to 22 years in prison, showed no emotion, and Champion’s parents clasped each other’s hands as Circuit Judge Renee Roche read the verdicts, which followed less than two hours of jury deliberations. Sentencing is set for Jan. 9. Martin’s family sobbed outside the courtroom but declined to discuss the verdicts, shooing away reporters. Defense lawyers Richard Escobar and Dino Michaels said they plan to appeal on behalf of the 27-year-old Martin, accused of organizing the fatal ritual aboard a bus parked outside the Rosen Plaza hotel in Orlando, FL. Martin, 27, was led from court by Orange County deputy sheriffs. He was denied an appeal bond. The late drum major’s father, also named Robert Champion, said he and his wife would pray for Martin and Martin’s family. Pamela Champion said the verdict would be nothing to celebrate unless it leads to the end of hazing on the nation’s college campuses, in high schools and among athletic teams, bands and other youth groups. “We hope that people will get the message that hazing is cruel ... and it needs to stop now,” Champion said. The panel of four women and two men listened to three days of testimony and nearly four hours of arguments Friday from Ashton and Martin’s defense team. Ashton told jurors that hazing may have been a deeply rooted tradition in the celebrated marching band, which has performed at presidential inaugurations, the Super Bowl and the Grammys, but that should not excuse those who beat Champion to death while hazing him on the percussion bus. “Tradition didn’t kill Robert Champion. Tradition isn’t to blame for Robert Champion’s death,” the prosecutor said. “You don’t get to break the law because those who came before you did it. That may work when you’re 10, but it doesn’t work when you’re an adult—an adult who has the ability to say, ‘No ... I won’t be part of this barbarous ritual anymore.’ “ Escobar countered that Champion, a talented musician who had been a FAMU student for seven years, already held leadership positions in the high-energy Marching 100 when he voluntarily participated in the ritual known as “crossing bus C” that led to his death Nov. 19, 2011. Champion was struck more than 100 times as he tried to bulldoze his way from the front of the bus to the back through fellow band members. Escobar argued said the crossing on the bus was not a hazing but more akin to a toughness competition. He argued the ritual was an exercise that had been in place for generations, created by those who helped make the band great. “Brutal as it was, senseless as it was ... it was a competition,” he said. Martin did not testify during the trial. In addition to manslaughter in Champion’s death, Martin was charged with misdemeanors in the alleged hazings of Keon Hollis and Lissette Sanchez of Orlando, FL, who were not injured during their hazings on the bus. Champion collapsed after the ritual, which occurred inside a bus parked at the Rosen Plaza hotel in Orlando, FL following the Florida Classic game between FAMU and Bethune-Cookman University. An assistant medical examiner testified that he died of “hemorrhagic shock” as a result of the beating. Nine other former band members have received probation and community service sentences for their roles in Champion’s hazing. Another, Jessie Baskin, is serving a year in jail. Three others are awaiting trial. Though Martin faces potentially the longest prison sentence, Ashton said he didn’t view him as a “bad person.”
POLICE LOG Medical Emergency
Oct. 27—A caller reported that a party had collapsed at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management due to severe abdominal pain. The party was conscious and alert but complained of nausea. BEMCo cleared the scene with a signed refusal for further care. Oct. 31—Police received a report of a female party having a seizure in the Usdan Student Center. Police and BEMCo responded to the scene and requested Cataldo ambulance to transport the party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care. Nov. 1—University Police attempted to locate an intoxicated male in the Village after receiving a call from Waltham dispatch relaying information from a 911 call. BEMCo and Cataldo Ambulance responded to the scene. Cataldo transported the patient to Newton-Wellesley
Hospital, and the student’s community development coordinator was notified. Nov. 2—BEMCo reported having treated two intoxicated individuals in North Quad, for one of whom staff requested Cataldo Ambulance. Cataldo and Waltham Fire Department responded to the scene, and Cataldo transported the student to Newton-Wellesley Hospital. The second individual refused medical treatment. University Police assisted at the scene.
that one of his workers had identified a suspicious person in the Usdan Student Center. The person had reportedly been in the area for several hours. University Police responded and arrested Nicholas C. Grant, 34, for trespassing and possession of a Class-B substance. Officers transported Grant to the Waltham Police Department for booking without incident.
Larceny
Nov. 2—A reporting party stated that there was a possible odor of marijuana seeping through the walls of her room in Rosenthal South. She was unable to discern whether it was coming from above or below her room and requested that University Police investigate. Officers checked the building’s stairwell and were unable to detect the odor of marijuana.
Oct. 28—The University president’s executive assistant reported the theft of a bird ornament from the top of a patio set in the President’s Garden. University Police compiled a report on the theft.
Trespassing
Oct. 27—A custodial supervisor reported to police
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n An arts article incorrectly identified Sarah Waldron '17 and Gabby Lamm '17 as the set designers. The set was actually designed by Jessica Pizzuti ’15 and Harry Furer ’17. (Oct. 28, pg. 20)
Oct. 29—A party reported sighting a male wearing a ski mask, a black jacket and blue jeans, about 5’ 4” tall and of a thin build, at the Science complex. University Police searched the area and the surrounding grounds and were unable to locate a person matching the description. Oct. 29—A student called to report a verbal argument taking place between a group of six or seven students on North Road, between Cable Hall and Reitman Hall. University Police checked the area, as well as the interior of Reitman Hall, and found no one. Nov. 1—A caller reported a male party wandering a third floor hall in the Village wearing a hospital gown with a hospital bracelet on his wrist. University Police checked the building in question and were unable to locate the party.
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Students celebrated Halloween on Friday night at the Haunted Castle event, for which Usen Castle was decorated as a haunted asylum. The event featured face painting, games, pumpkin painting and more.
After serving the city of Boston for 20 years, former Mayor Thomas Menino passed away on the morning of Oct. 30 at the age of 71. Menino, who was first elected mayor of Boston in 1993, left the position this past January and revealed to the city in March that he was undergoing treatment for an advanced form of cancer that had spread to his liver and lymph nodes. Boston’s 53rd mayor is remembered for his dedication to building the city’s economy and identity while retaining a distinct appeal to and likability among the public. Menino’s spokeswoman, Dot Joyce, gave a statement the morning of his death, announcing his passing while surrounded by his wife, Angela, and his family and friends. The statement described Menino’s contribution to Boston, saying that he led the city “through a transformation of neighborhood resurgence and historic growth—leaving the job he loved serving the city.” In an Oct. 30 Boston Globe article, current Mayor of Boston Martin J. Walsh said of Menino, “[n]o man possessed a greater love for our city, and his dedicated life in service to Boston and her people changed the face of the city.” Walsh continued, attributing Boston’s growth and success to Menino’s “sheer determination and unmatched work ethic.” As mayor, Menino proposed numerous construction projects, such as rebuilding South Boston’s seaport, among other initiatives that encouraged growth to boost the economy and promote business. He organized neighborhood development, such as programs to find summer jobs for youth and supported green energy sources and other environmentally friendly projects. Menino and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg hosted a summit in New York City in 2006 that formed the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition with the goal of getting guns off the streets. During his 20 years in office, Menino garnered much public favor with acts ranging from including previously under addressed constituencies, such as minorities and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, to public walks around the community. In two Boston Globe polls from 2005 and 2008 for the mayoral elections his approval rating was 72 percent. —Jessie Miller
ANNOUNCEMENTS Cracking the Code
In this hour-long webinar, Addie Swartz, CEO of reacHIRE, will prove that taking a career break isn’t a career breaker. She will share strategies on how to prepare for today’s workforce, get interview ready, and return to work with confidence. Mimi Moss ’93 will share her back-to-work story as both a graduate of the reacHIRE program and an employee. reacHIRE enables accomplished women to successfully relaunch their careers at leading companies. Today from noon to 1 p.m. online.
Student Union Round Table Discussion
The Student Union will be holding a roundtable discussion with administrators in order to create dialogue and increase transparency on Wednesday night. All students are invited and encouraged to attend and ask questions. Tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. in Hassenfeld Sherman Hall.
JSA Takoyaki Night
Come join the Japanese Student Association to make a Japanese dish called Takoyaki. Takoyaki and an assortment of beverages will be served. Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Intercultural Center Swig Lounge.
Library Party
It’s back. Once a year Brandeis students can experience the party of a lifetime...in the library. A two story dance floor awaits with black lights and neon lasers. What more needs to be said? Experience speaks for itself. Last year history was made, and this year it will be bigger and better. No tickets needed. From Saturday at 10 p.m. to Sunday at 2 a.m. in the Goldfarb Library.
BKSA Pepero Night
During this event, the Korean Student
Association will be distributing Korean sweets called Pepero. Pepero is a chocolate-dipped, thin breadstick cracker. All students are welcome to come out, enjoy some Pepero and try the young, hip Korean trend. Sunday from 6 to 10 p.m. in the Intercultural Center Swig Lounge.
Good Morning Heartache
Do global women’s rights seem like a tug-of-war? Professor Fareda Banda of the University of London will examine normative gains, especially in the area of violence, but also consider the latest backsliding on issues such as reproductive rights. Attend the fifth Annual Diane Markowicz Memorial Lecture on Gender and Human Rights. Sunday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall.
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Debate and Speech Society argued a referendum ballot measure about casino laws. By SAM MINTZ JUSTICE eDITOR
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RECOUNTING TERROR: Kay Wilson spoke about her experiences and trauma on Tuesday at the Mandel Center for the Humanities.
Terrorist attack survivor speaks about experiences Tuesday about how she survived her attack and the emotional impact of the assault. By abby patkin JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
British-born Kay Wilson is many things: an Israeli tour guide, a cartoonist, a jazz musician and a human rights speaker specializing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She is also the survivor of a terrorist attack, which occurred on Dec. 18, 2011. During an event on Tuesday hosted by Students for Accuracy about Israeli and Palestinian Affairs, Wilson described her attack, explaining how a simple hike on a trail in Israel ended with a near-death experience. Throughout the event, Wilson urged the audience to seek unity between Israel and Palestine and to fight for human rights worldwide. SAIPA aims to educate students about the plight of both Israelis and Palestinians. “No meaningful discussion, about any topic, can occur without accurate facts and appropriate context. This is especially true for issues as complex as the kind that pervade the Middle East,” SAIPA states on its Facebook page. The page also notes that Wilson’s speech was relevant to the club’s mission due to both her inspirational story and “unique perspectives on the issues of the Middle East.” As Wilson recounted for the audience, during the attack, two Palestinian terrorists stabbed Wilson and her friend Kristine Luken multiple times, fatally wounding Luken and severely incapacitating Wilson. After suffering stab wounds across her body, Wilson pretended to be dead, hoping the men would leave.
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“I remembered through TV that when you die, you’re supposed to have your eyes open,” Wilson said, acknowledging that she managed to keep her eyes open and body immobile despite multiple subsequent stabbings. Eventually the men did leave, only to return a few moments later to stab Luken several times more. At this point, one of the men flipped Wilson over, stabbing her in the sternum “centimeters away” from her heart, Wilson said. Wilson continued to play dead despite bleeding heavily and listening to Luken slowly bleed out only a few feet away. When the men left once more, Wilson said that she managed to stand up and limp toward help. “I was no longer afraid to die, but I was terrified of giving up. I wanted the police to find my body so that the sons of evil would be caught. I wanted to choose my own grave, I wanted that last autonomy,” Wilson wrote in a blog post published on the official website of The Tower and The Tower Magazine, titled “The Terror Within: A Survivor’s Tale.” Wilson somehow walked over a mile to the lot where she had parked, where several families on-scene called an ambulance. At the hospital, several doctors—one of whom was Muslim, Wilson noted—performed extensive surgery to repair the damage from the stab wounds. After surviving the surgery, Wilson still had to spend two weeks in the hospital in recovery. “I sustained thirteen machete wounds in my lungs and diaphragm, six compound fractures in my ribs, thirty additional fractures, a dislocated shoulder, a crushed sternum and a broken shoulder blade,” Wilson wrote in the same blog post. “[The terrorist’s] blows smashed my bones, slashed my flesh, decimated my soul and shredded the person that I once was.”
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When asked during the questionand-answer session whether or not she had ever sought to confront her attackers, Wilson replied that she did face the two men at their trial and was frustrated by their apparent “smugness.” Wilson said she wanted to physically confront them herself but knew she could not, so she hoped to incite them enough for a guard to “smack them around a little.” “They giggled at some points,” Wilson said. “I made eye contact with them. I blew them kisses. I wanted them to react.” Yet despite the trauma she has had to overcome, Wilson said at the event that she does not hate the men who attacked her—nor does she forgive them—but rather believes what happens to them next is up to the Israeli justice system. “I choose not to hate,” Wilson said. “I choose life.” The attack also inspired Wilson to share her story with others, so as to promote coexistence—not only between Israelis and Palestinians but among groups worldwide—and to reach out to victims of terrorism. “I have learned that life is neither fair nor kind. And I have learned that to listen to the inner voice of futile comparative victimhood only fans the flames of injustice and saps me of my life,” Wilson wrote in her blog. “I refuse to be consumed by hate and define myself by evil. Instead I choose to be thankful for what I have. … It’s a long, lonely, terrifying, yet exhilarating walk, out of the forest of hate.” The event was cosponsored by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America, a nonprofit devoted to equally representing both the Israeli and Palestinian points of view in the United States, and StandWithUs, an organization that works to spread Israel’s side of the story in communities nationwide.
Amid the ongoing media frenzy around the Massachusetts gubernatorial election today, there are also four referendum questions that will be decided when the ballots close at 8 p.m. Last Wednesday night, the Waltham League of Women Voters invited the Brandeis Academic Debate and Speech Society to the Waltham Community and Cultural Center to help frame one of those questions— Question 3, which will decide whether or not to repeal the 2011 state law that allows casinos to operate in Massachusetts. Waltham League of Women Voters President Shelley Drowns was quoted in a WickedLocal Waltham article last week as saying that an important part of her organization’s mission is to inform the public about current issues. “It’s great to have this renowned team provide viewpoints for and against Question 3, an important statewide issue. For some audience members and voters, this debate may be instrumental in their decision on how to vote,” she said. Waltham Mayor Jeannette McCarthy moderated a debate between two teams of two students each who argued in a structured format about the merits of a “yes” and “no” vote and the original law. The main argument of the first team, advocating for a no-vote— which would keep the law as it stands currently—was that casinos in Massachusetts would create jobs and
boost the economy of the Commonwealth. Amelia Berg ’17 cited a statistic provided by the Massachusetts American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations that casinos will create 10,000 long-term jobs and 6,000 short-term construction jobs. The second team opened by making the argument that the casino industry in New England is in decline and that with the market already saturated, new casinos in Massachusetts will not be profitable. Brad Burns ’15 and his teammate Sarah Margulies ’15 pointed out that Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, casinos and resorts in Connecticut, are reporting 10 percent less profit this year than at this time last year. “Throughout the country, you see huge problems with casinos,” Burns said. “Most recently, in Rhode Island, in 2010, Twin River Casino declared bankruptcy and had to be bailed out by the state because they simply weren’t making enough money,” Burns added In response, Berg’s teammate David Altman ’15 countered that there is no organization more selfish—or geared toward profit—than a casino. “They’ve done extensive economic investigations for their own benefit as to whether or not they think the market exists,” he said. “They have zero incentive to invest hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars if they don’t think they can make a longterm profit.” And if the casinos are able to turn profit, he said, so too will Massachusetts. Alongside the League of Women Voters, the Student Union sponsored the event, which drew an audience of 40—including Brandeis students and Waltham residents.
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J. Leahy gave a talk as a part of the 30th annual Guberman Lecture series last night. By ARIANNA UNGER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Yesterday evening, William J. Leahy, a former Massachusetts public defender and an adjunct professor in Legal Studies at Brandeis, asserted his conviction that “the death penalty is always and everywhere morally indefensible” at a talk he gave as part of the 30th anniversary Joshua A. Guberman Lecture series. Overall, the use of capital punishment is currently in decline, said Leahy at his talk. He cited statistics from the Death Penalty Information Center, which specified that whereas about a decade ago only 12 states prohibited the death penalty, 18 states have now passed legislation prohibiting capital punishment entirely. He also explained that the number of executions in the United States has declined from a high of 98 in 1999 to 39 in 2013. He projected that there would be a likely maximum of 35 executions this year, which he noted would be a record low since the Supreme Court decision of Gregg v. Georgia affirmed the use of capital punishment in 1976. Leahy mentioned that imposed death sentences have declined from 277 in 1999 to 79 in 2013, and that while 32 states nominally retain the death penalty, only 19 have actually employed the death penalty, executing only 1,390 people since 1976. Leahy then spoke of the ineffective deterring and punitive effects of the death penalty in the U.S. He cited the example of California, which, as of July 1, had 745 people on death row, with only 13 people executed by the state since 1976. He noted that as of mid-July of this year, California’s Supreme Court ruled
its death penalty unconstitutional because the lengthy delays between the imposition of the death sentence and the statistically slim possibility of execution, which “destroyed the deterring and retributive purposes that are essential to the death penalty’s constitutionality.” In outlining the argument made in favor of capital punishment, Leahy quoted writer and attorney Scott Turow’s book Ultimate Punishment: “The justice [the families of victims] seek is the same kind embedded in the concept of restitution. … It is unconscionable and infuriating that after all the misery the murderer has wrought, he still experiences many of the small joys of existence and thus in some measure, his life and his family’s is better than the victim’s and theirs.” Leahy further quoted Turow, saying that, in principle, the use of capital punishment “makes an unequivocal moral statement.” Despite Turow’s notional support of the death penalty, Leahy noted that Turow ultimately voted for abolition of capital punishment. Leahy explained that Turow opposed the use of capital punishment because he believed that the potential breaches of justice associated with its implementation ultimately outweighed its positive retributive and deterrent effects. Leahy quoted Turow, stating that effecting capital punishment “places an enormous burden of precision on the justice system... If we execute the innocent or the undeserving, then we have undermined, not vindicated, our sense of moral proportion and the clear message that capital punishment is meant to send.” Leahy resolutely stated that “we have not come remotely close to achieving this bedrock requirement.” Leahy then referred to a legal case in Massachusetts wherein one man was sentenced to death for two murders, while another man, who was facing the death penalty in multiple states, was allowed to plead guilty
to 10 murders for a life sentence. The man who had committed two murders had previously attempted to turn himself in to the FBI, but his call was ignored. The man who received the life sentence was a notorious career criminal whose testimony of his crimes was thought to be beneficial to the prosecution of a rogue FBI agent. “The incongruity of the sentence, underscores the illusion that the death penalty can ever be applied in a morally justifiable and consistent manner,” said Leahy in respect to the case. In further support of his argument against capital punishment, Leahy quoted Charles Fried in his book Because it is Wrong: “[The death penalty] is a live person, completely helpless in the hands of his captors and put to death, without hope or opportunity of resistance or remonstrance,” wrote Fried. “Worse still, it is not only the executioner who has total power of the condemned, but society as a whole has organized itself to kill.” Leahy expanded upon Fried’s argument, claiming that the condemned criminal does not present an immediate threat, thus making the execution a pre-emptive measure. Again quoting Fried’s book, he explained, “It anticipates and eliminates the need for future defense, but killing is not a necessary way of doing that; only the cheapest and most certain way, and that is not enough to justify it.” He concluded by expressing his hope that the U.S. joins the 98 other countries that have already abolished the death penalty. Each year, the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, in association with the Brandeis Legal Studies program, holds a lecture on law and social policy. These annual lectures are sponsored by the family of Joshua A. Guberman, a dedicated Massachusetts public servant and philanthropist.
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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT: William J. Leahy spoke out against capital punishment during an installment of the Guberman Lecture series.
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Health columnist Judy Foreman discussed how Americans are managing chronic pain in the Epstein Building Multipurpose Room on Thursday afternoon.
CAMPUS SPEAKER
Scholar speaks on Walter Benjamin ■ Howard Eiland discussed
critical theorist Walter Bejamin and reality as a palimpsest on Thursday. By MARISSA DITKOWSKY JUSTICE EDITOR
Howard Eiland, a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology literature faculty retiree and scholar, discussed the theme of “reality as palimpsest” and the work of critical theorist Walter Benjamin in a talk on Thursday afternoon. Eiland, author of Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, which was released earlier this year, and coeditor and translator of multiple volumes of English editions of Benjamin’s work, focused primarily on the relationship between past and present. A palimpsest—manuscript or piece of writing that has been reused or altered, while still maintaining traces of its earlier form—is relevant to understanding Benjamin and his work in multiple ways. For one, Eiland highlighted an analogy, referring to the palimpsest as a “vertical montage” whose layers “bleed into one another.” He noted that images are often viewed, forgotten and retrieved once again. Eiland said at the event that “attentive immersion and multi-dimensional concreteness”—or “that way of seeing through different windows simultaneously”—is an act that is “both very new and very old.” Eiland began the lecture first by noting the challenge in studying Benjamin, stating that “everything in creation becomes a text to be interpreted, a picture puzzle to decipher. The only problem is that the material must be deciphered in the absence of a definitive code.” He continued on to explain the connection between the past and present with Benjamin’s image of the flâneur—or the lounger or wanderer, which symbolizes the modern experience. Eiland said that the flâneur outlook is representative of the emergence of dialectical image, looking both backward and forward in time. As Benjamin wrote in his book titled Arcades Project, “It’s not that what is past casts its light on what is present, or what is present its light on the past; rather, image is that wherein what has been comes together in a flash with the now to form a constellation.” Eiland elaborated on this, saying
that the “meaning of past events is actualized,” and reconstructed “with concerns of the present day.” He said that Benjamin speaks of historical understanding as a “focal point of attention and remembrance.” The flâneur sees traces of the past that infiltrate the present landscape, as Eiland explained. “Experience unfolds as elusive dream,” he said. The theme of the past and present fits in with Benjamin’s criticism of historicism and historical materialism. Benjamin died before he could finish Arcades Project. The publication has drawn attention due to the decisions of editors in ordering the work and as such, has been compared to a palimpsest itself. Eiland is one of these editors who worked on the project. In a question-and-answer session following Eiland’s talk, the complexities in Benjamin’s thought were addressed. Benjamin, a part of the Frankfurt School of thought of which former Brandeis professor and German philosopher Herbert Marcuse was also a part, combines aspects of German idealism and Marxism in his thought. Eiland described Benjamin as “optimistic” and “communistic” in some of his works, while also taking on a more traditional role as a storyteller in others. He asserted that he believes these both comprise the “real Benjamin,” despite the contradiction it provides. “His whole way of thinking is animated by contradiction, and I suppose that’s because the world is seen as contradictory, and the only way to be true to it is somehow to embody those contradictions,” Eiland said. Patrick Gamsby, a scholarly communications librarian and History of Ideas lecturer who teaches the History of Ideas program core course, introduced Eiland at the event. Gamsby said that about 50 people attended the event in an interview with the Justice. He said that attendees were “able to hear about a very important disciplinary figure” and “learn more about him from one of the foremost experts.” Gambsy added that he hoped attendees took away “the fact that critical theory, or the Frakfurt School, is still relevant and still of interest.” The event was sponsored by the History of Ideas program, the European Cultural Studies program and the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections. —Hannah Wulkan contributed reporting.
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CENTER REACHES OUT: Psychological Counseling Center Senior Associate Director and Clinical Director Joy von Steiger held a sign in support of participants in the march.
BSASV: Group to release progress report, follow up on proposals CONTINUED FROM 1 with students, Dean of Students Jamele Adams participated in the march, as well as the Psychological Counseling Center’s Senior Associate Director and Clinical Director Joy von Steiger, Trauma Specialist Kristin Huang and Prof. Rani Neutill (ENG), who is currently serving as the interim sexual assault services and prevention specialist. The group gathered at the Rabb steps at 1 p.m., and began marching at about 1:08 p.m. When the group arrived at Bernstein-Marcus, participants were given the option of writing their reason for participating in the day of action on a sign, which the student organizers decided to bring into Bernstein-Marcus and leave for University President Frederick Lawrence, according to Blustein. When the students entered the building, however, “a Board of Trustees meeting was being held, and a few participants en-
tered to give [Lawrence] the sign,” Blustein wrote, noting that “our original intention was to leave the sign for President Fred Lawrence. It was purely coincidence that the Board of Trustees was in a meeting at the time we entered BernsteinMarcus." “BSASV is constantly working to advocate for improved and expanded resources for survivors and policy changes,” Blustein wrote to the Justice. “We are currently working on a progress report that will update the community on how we feel the proposals in our petition from last semester have been implemented. Further actions like the march may take place in the future.” After the march, Adams, Neutill, Huang and von Steiger stayed while the participants gathered outside Bernstein-Marcus and some students wrote on the sign that was later delivered to the Board of Trustees. Adams attended the march because “this is an issue that affects
all of us as a university, and we all need to be participatory in making sure that there is a raising of awareness,” he said in an interview with the Justice. “As someone who represents student life and success and the family of administration and faculty that are here for students, it is important to be here.” Neutill said in an interview with the Justice that she helped the students from BSASV coordinate the march, and said that she wanted to participate “in support of survivors.” Von Steiger and Huang held signs with messages of support as they stood outside Bernstein-Marcus. In an interview with the Justice, Huang said that she participated “to make sure students know we really support them ... [W]e want to make sure they don’t walk this walk alone.” Von Steiger agreed, telling the Justice, “We want the student body to know we are really committed ...
We want to be involved in creating a culture change and creating a safer community on campus.” She added that the PCC is currently creating new programs to help survivors, as well as working to create more opportunities to facilitate recovery for survivors. Blustein reaffirmed the purpose of the march: “Ending victim-blaming and rape culture is something we need to do right now together. We can do more to protect and support survivors at Brandeis. I think it’s events like this that are helping us do that,” she wrote. The University’s participation in the day of action was announced to the Brandeis community through an Oct. 28 email from Sheryl Sousa, the assistant vice president for health and wellness and director of athletics, physical education and recreation. —Hannah Wulkan contributed reporting.
conduct interviews and screen the resumes of potential candidates. The search committee will accept applications from candidates both outside of the University and candidates within the Brandeis community, according to Gray. The search will be conducted over the next few months with a “goal of filling the position this winter,” Schaller wrote in an email to the Justice. The new sustainability manager will work under the executive director of facilities to reduce Brandeis’ energy footprint and improve sustainability on campus. Schaller wrote that specific responsibilities will include working to ensure the reduction of energy and waste expenses, “coordinating the efforts of groups on campus to maximize sustainability activities” and coming up with new sustainability projects to conduct in the future. The new manager will replace former Sustainability Coordinator Lea Lupkin, who left GreenerU, Inc., the consulting company with which Brandeis has partnered, according to Gray’s email. Gray wrote that hiring a new manager to staff the position internally will lead to “broader” and “more effective” sustainability efforts. Brandeis has invested millions of dollars over the past few years toward reducing energy usage and improving sustainability on campus, according to its website. The Brandeis Sustainable Energy Program, which was implemented in 2012, has reduced carbon emissions and has saved almost $550,000 in annual utility costs. According to Gray in an email to the Justice, the new manager will continue the various projects that are already underway on campus, such as renovations of heating and cooling systems and reduction of greenhouse gases in order to push Brandeis toward its goal of carbon neutrality by 2050. This was a goal announced in 2009, and it means that Brandeis will achieve net zero carbon emissions by the proposed year.
TRUSTEES: Board discusses sexual assault CONTINUED FROM 1 administrators about the issue. Though he noted the administration tends to look at the budget on a macro perspective—or the way it impacts the way the University runs—he said that students are impacted on a micro level. Sidique brought up the issue of diversity on campus. Although he said that the campus is diverse, he explained that a number of students in minority groups, as well as international students, feel that the amount of support on campus needs to improve. “It’s nice to have a diverse campus, but at the end of the day, how do you support them?” said Sidique. He said that the administration needs to get across
that it is there to support these students. Sidique said that perhaps offering a course to first-year and second-year students regarding that realm of diversity would improve support on campus. Ward and Sidique also said that they briefly expressed concerns regarding the current meal plans and meal swipes at the meeting. The Board also discussed the issue of sexual assault on campus and how to improve support for students. “I’m personally really excited with the way things are progressing with both our compliance with Title IX and our sexual assault prevention services,” said Ward. “Being in these meetings, I learned about a lot of things that are going on behind the scenes that are intended to
make this campus a safer place and intended to make the lives of students here better and really seeing the concrete steps that administration officials have enacted in the last year and also plan to enact in the next year.” A group of students involved in the “Carry the Weight Together” day of action appeared at the Board of Trustees Audit Committee Meeting. Ward, who attended the meeting, said that Senior Vice President, Chief of Staff and Chief Legal Officer David Bunis ’83 did not open the door, though the students proceeded to enter regardless. He said that Bunis was initially perplexed and asked what was going on, but when it became apparent what was occurring, he gave the students a
few minutes to speak at the meeting and asked them if they could leave after that so the meeting could readjourn. He said that the students present gave a summary of their frustrations, left a poster that they had made and then exited. “The way I talked about that issue later on is within the context of Brandeis students caring deeply about their university and caring deeply about changing this place for the better,” said Ward. Ward said that, although he is unsure of what occurred after the students left, they were not there when Ward left the meeting. He said that he is also planning to meet with students who attended the protest and that several senior administrators also reached out to those students
to invite them to talk about those issues. Sidique was not in attendance at that particular committee meeting. Both Ward and Sidique expressed optimism about working with the Board. Sidique noted that the Board members, many of whom are alumni, are “passionate about Brandeis” and “really care.” Ward said that the Board is “excited about engaging the student voice and engaging the voice of professors.” Ward also noted that the Board will now hold monthly meetings over the phone between meetings in order to remain up-to-date. Ward and Sidique also added that they are putting together a form for student input.
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The new Waltham Group coordinator will bring his expertise in leadership development and advising to his new position Brian Quigley came to Brandeis as the new Waltham Group coordinator with experience as the head of the student activities program at Babson College. Quigley has a passion for community service, and a belief that involvement in community service is instrumental for student’s development. He recently talked to the Justice about his experience at Brandeis so far and his ultimate goals in his new role. JustFeatures: What brought you to Brandeis? Brian Quigley: For the past couple of years, I worked over at Babson College with a lot of their leadership development in student activities program. I was in graduate school at Boston College for a Masters of Higher Education program. So I was going to school to work at a college, and here I am. I definitely wanted to stay somewhere in New England, preferably somewhere close to Boston, and this was sort of the ideal position for me for a bunch of different reasons. I’ve always had a strong personal interest in community service and this allows me to continue to do that. But on the professional side, it’s very similar in a lot of ways to a lot of the advising work that I had done before with clubs elsewhere. I enjoy getting to know the students that I’m working with and helping them reach all of the goals that they have. I think I align well with a lot of the values of the University and their goals of social justice, so it’s been great so far. JF: What does your job entail as program coordinator for the Department of Community Service? BQ: My primary responsibility is to advise the Waltham Group. There are about 70 student coordinators who run all of the various programs, ranging from tutoring to working with nursing homes to Habitat for Humanity trips. So I advise all of them as they’re planning their trips, working with volunteers, training them, coordinating with community partners and all sorts of things like that. Then various other ways, helping out the community
service however I can. JF: What made you interested in working for the Department of Community Service? BQ: I think the biggest draw was my personal interest matching well with the mission of the office. I’ve always enjoyed being able to be a part of a college that gives back and is a large part of the community that they’re a part of. I really enjoy how much Brandeis is involved in the Waltham community and how much of an influence our students have on the children, the adults and sort of everyone in the surrounding. I think that was just something that really drew me towards this office in particular. JF: Have you done work like this before? BQ: Yes and no. A lot of the advising role that I’m in right now and the sort of leadership development and training is similar to work that I’ve done in the past through orientation. I’ve worked a lot with orientation programs at a couple different schools, and, as I mentioned a lot of the leadership development programs at Babson. So this is similar in a lot of ways to the type of relationships that I have with the students, and how I’m working with them and advising them is similar in that respect. In a professional way, I have not worked with community service before, and it was more of a personal interest. I was very involved in community service as an undergraduate, so I think it just sort of carried over from there. JF: What do you hope to bring to Brandeis? BQ: I hope to bring some new perspectives and energy. I think it’s always nice to have somebody new come into a program and be able to look at it from an outsider’s perspective. Lucas Malo, the director of community service, had been the adviser to the Waltham Group for the previous six years and has really helped it grow a ton. So my position is a new one coming in to take over his piece where he
was advising the Waltham Group. I think just by having a new set of eyes on everything, I’m able to evaluate the programs, learn as much as possible and figure out how we can continue to help the Waltham Group grow. But I really think my primary goal coming in here is just to help the students. You all have plenty of ideas, there’s no shortage of that. So I think my main goal is just to help you guys achieve those and do what I can to facilitate you into developing all as student leaders and as leaders in the Waltham community. JF: What are a few of your goals for this position? BQ: Similarly to what I mentioned, helping the students achieve their goals and helping the Waltham Group grow. But I guess to take it in a different direction, just sort of a personal development side. I’d love to continue getting more experience, since it is a new professional area for me. There are various organizations that support the world of community service, and I’d love to learn more about those. To figure out how I can continue to be a better resource to the students here by just learning more and improving myself. JF: What has your experience as program coordinator been like so far? BQ: It’s been awesome. It’s certainly been very busy, but it’s been a lot of fun. I think some of the highlights have been getting to know all of the coordinators. They are a fun group of people to be working with— all very motivated— and I enjoy getting to know what drives them and their passions and interests. Other pieces that have been great have been when we recently worked to open a new center, the Prospect Hill Community Center, at a low income-housing neighborhood in Waltham. A lot of our students have been heavily involved in that and it’s certainly been great to see all come together. We have a bunch of tutoring programs on and off campus, programs at a nursing home nearby—so really seeing everything in action has been one of
the highlights of the position so far. JF: What do students gain by involving themselves in community service? Do you think every student should try to get involved in some way? Why? BQ: There are countless ways that students can benefit from their engagement in community service. There are a million ways for them to get involved, ranging from them taking a coordinator position in the Waltham Group all the way just down to one day volunteering opportunities, say cleaning up a neighborhood park. I think that some of the major benefits are, depending on what level of involvement you’re in, developing leadership and communication skills that are going to carry you as a professional, and just as a person, a long way down the road, and establishing relationships with the community that you’re a part of. Regardless of what career field anybody goes into, they’re always going to have to be influenced by the community that they’re apart of and they’ll need to know how to access the needs of that community and learn how they can best contribute to it and be a leader within whatever population they’re a part of... Not only is it rewarding, it’s just a lot of fun. You meet a lot of classmates you might not have otherwise met. A lot of the programs we have work with children in the area, and it’s just a blast to see them benefiting from the programs we have. Definitely give it a shot if you haven’t so far. Anybody who wants to get involved can reach out to me and we’ll find a place for them to get involved. It’s a lot of fun. JF: Does Waltham Group reach out beyond the Waltham community? BQ: Most of our programs do take place right in Waltham, working with public schools and all other sorts of programs and organizations in Waltham, but some of the programs do go to places outside of Waltham. So Habitat For Humanity works all over, in several places throughout
the country, but primarily in driving distance. And then some of our programs work in Boston, like Hunger and Homelessness. Our tutoring program matches a Brandeis student with local school children who don’t have to be from Waltham. JF: How many students are involved in Waltham Group? BQ: It is comprised of 20 programs which are led by approximately 70 student leaders. The programs work closely with 30 community partners, ranging from elementary schools to homeless shelters. Each year, about 750 volunteers contribute approximately 40,000 hours of service. JF: What have you learned about Brandeis since arriving here? What has been unique about working at Brandeis versus working at other schools? BQ: I have learned a lot about the passions of the students I have worked with and just the population in general. I think that it’s sort of best to contextualize it in the sense that in other institutions that I’ve worked with, you hear that they are committed to social justice, and you see it in some respects, but I think it is [in] so many ways woven into every piece of the Brandeis experience. It is what drew me here, but I don’t think I fully grasped just how much it really is part of the experience here. I’ve loved learning about the various initiatives students are taking on and ways that they are making their mark on Brandeis and local communities. If I had to pinpoint one thing I learned, I think it’s a very unique charac teristic that bonds Brandeis students together. A lot of times you’ll see a sports team that unites a school or you’ll see some little piece that brings the community together. And I don’t think there are other places that come together around social justice as much as Brandeis has, and it really has woven its way into all its students and their passions and their interests. —Brianna Majsiak
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HELPING TEACHERS: Prof. Dan Perlman (BIOL) describes the goal of the CTL as “helping teachers help students learn.”
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Prof. Dan Perlman’s (BIOL) new office has two desks and a beach ball-sized inflatable globe. Sunlight pours in from the huge windows that line the wall. Small boxes from his recent move are stacked neatly in a corner along a wall that doubles as a dry erase board. There are no cubicles or doors separating Perlman’s working space from that of his colleagues, just a see-through partition that stretches from the floor to the ceiling. The office is located on the second floor of the Farber Library at the new Center for Teaching and Learning among the many six-feet tall whiteboards and room dividers that make up the spacious headquarters of the new center. Officially open since Oct. 6, the CTL is a new program aimed at providing an informal forum for the exchange of teaching and learning techniques between graduate students, post doctorates and professors. Perlman, who is the director of the
new center, and associate provost of innovation and education as well as a Biology professor and summed up its mission: “We wanted to make a place where faculty, graduate students and post-docs could talk about and learn about teaching and learning,” he said in an interview with the Justice. The CTL’s unofficial motto, a phrase coined by Perlman, is “helping teachers help students learn.” The center’s roots can be traced to three separate programs and ideas. First, the 2013 plan Fulfilling the Promise, a promise to help solve the current and future issues of higher education, served as a springboard for the CTL. The plan outlined a strategy to implement specific university wide initiatives to help improve the quality of learning at Brandeis. Second, the Committee for the Support of Teaching, a program that culls faculty from across all academic disciplines with the goal of furthering the quality of teaching at Brandeis also acts as a model and supplemental resource to the CTL. The third arm that helped lead to
INTERDISCIPLINARY CONVERSATION: From left, Prof. Emily Westover (BIOL), Prof. Rachel Woodruff (BIOL), Prof. Hollie Harder (GRALL) and Prof. Dan Perlman (BIOL) meet in the new Center for Teaching and Learning, demonstrating cross-disciplinary collaboration. MORGAN BRILL/the Justice
New Center for Teaching and Learning, directed by Prof. Dan Perlman (BIOL), aids faculty in innovating teaching methods
the center’s creation is the Davis Teaching and Learning Fellows, a yearly class of faculty specifically chosen to help further the quality of in-class teaching. Through workshops, one-on-one assistance, outside speakers and focused faculty meetings—such as “how to teach large classes”—the CTL aims to provide a wide variety of resources for participants to learn from. More than anything, however, Perlman sees the center as a place to jump-start further discussion among people with a common passion: helping students learn. “The real goal is to get people to talk informally, and not just through the center,” he said. According to Perlman, many universities across the country with similar programs see involvement mostly from graduate and post doctorate students, with faculty often opting to not take part, a strategy that Perlman finds ineffective. “If you’re not talking or watching, and nobody is watching you, it’s just you in your own little
room trying to figure out what mistakes you’ve made and how to fix them,” Perlman said. Though it has only been open for about four weeks, the CTL has garnered praise among faculty who see the center’s potential. Prof. Jennifer Cleary (THA), a member of the CTL Advisory Committee, is especially looking forward to working with professors across the academic spectrum. “We all have things to offer across disciplines and it is exciting to compare our own best practices, as well as ask each other for advice and support,” she wrote in an email to the Justice. The CTL works in concert with a number of other school resources to help ensure its effectiveness. Library and Technology Services holds workshops with the center to assist with course design, online interactivity and tech support to
h e l p r e a c h b a s i c teaching and learning goals. Other partners include the experiential learning staff and the Committee for the Support of Teaching, the program that CTL partially stems from. The Experiential Learning staff provides the center with access to resources that faculty could apply in their classrooms. Perhaps the most characteristic feature of the center since its opening has been the “teaching teas” led by Prof. Rachel Woodruff, a Davis Fellow (BIOL). Held every few weeks for an hour, the tea times are informal meetings where faculty can share ideas, questions and thoughts about teaching and learning. The teaching teas, along with the various other resources that run through the center, ultimately rest on the involvement from faculty, as well as grad and post doctorate students. “We’re providing a space and some cookies,” Perlman said.
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EDITORIALS Form assault prevention task force The first official Board of Trustees meeting for this academic year began on Oct. 29. One issue was at the forefront of discussion from students and trustees alike. On Wednesday, a group of students participated in the Carry That Weight day of action, a national event showing solidarity with Columbia University student Emma Sulkowicz. Some demonstrators gave University President Frederick Lawrence a sign stating why they participated. The Board of Trustees meeting was at the same time that the demonstrators planned to give Lawrence the sign, so the demonstrators used the opportunity to ask trustees for support of their cause. The trustees had actually been discussing the issue of sexual assault at Brandeis at the same meeting. This speaks to the fact that students, administration and trustees alike are all working to identify, address and end the causes of sexual assault at the University. However, like other recent protests, the students in this demonstration did not present specific goals to the Board of Trustees; the purposes of this and other recent protests have merely been to spread awareness. Though awareness is necessary, it alone does not create new ways of truly addressing the problem. Therefore, this board recommends the University form a task force of experts on sexual assault prevention, including Sexual Assault Services and Prevention Specialist Sheila McMahon and Prof. Rani Neutill (ENG) to advise the administration on what to do. This task force would be responsible for turning students’ drive into actionable change. Students must be present on this task force but must not make up the entire group. This task force would show that students and administrators alike wish to take action on this issue beyond only spreading awareness. As neither Brandeis Students Against Sexual
Develop actionable goals Violence (the group which sponsored the demonstration), nor the administration, nor this board is qualified to determine what this action should look like, the University must find people who can, and swiftly transform their advice into veritable change. Important action has already been taken on the issue. This demonstration joins the protest at the “Light of Reason” exhibit’s grand opening and BSASV’s letter last semester as prescient examples of students demanding the University address sexual assault at Brandeis. In response, the University has hired McMahon, started to create a rape crisis center and conducted bystander intervention training sessions. We commend the efforts of both the students spreading awareness of this issue and the administrators developing new systems for addressing it but feel that the continued pressure on administration and outcry from the student body prove that these actions are not enough. While Brandeisians across the board want to work for this cause, it is difficult to know what work to do without the necessary training. Continued protests and demonstrations for the vague purposes of awareness and administrative support will not set in motion any administrative action to truly address the issue. Just like the protestors and this board, the administration is uncertain of what should be done and are dealing with a problem they are unqualified to adequately handle. Thus, in order to translate the significant enthusiasm toward solving this problem into actionable policy, this board urges the administration establish and follow the advice of a formal sexual assault task force.
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Since mid-June, oil prices have dropped 25 percent to a four-year low, with many analysts predicting that this trend will continue. However, Saudi Arabia—the largest oil exporting country in the world—has made no efforts to slow its oil production in order to keep prices high. It is unclear why Saudi Arabia is allowing prices to drop. Some experts say it is a political move targeting Russia due to their support of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, while others believe Saudi Arabia is hoping to drive competing companies in Canada out of the oil market (the United States gets most of its oil imports from Canada, with Saudi Arabia in second place). Why do you think Saudi Arabia might be allowing oil prices to drop, and what are the implications for the U.S.?
Prof. Guive Mirfendereski (LGLS) An oversupply of oil helps lower price, and lower price makes investment in and exploitation/production of oil with higher cost of production uneconomical. The Saudis hope this will allow them to keep their market share, and perhaps eventually help extinguish the US and Canadian new-technology production that is made economical by virtue of high oil prices. Geopolitically, as long as the price is low, the Iranians, the Saudis’ archrivals in faith and in the Persian Gulf/Middle East, will suffer diminishing revenues from their oil exports which, the Saudis may hope, will pinch the Iranian economy and lower Iranian contribution to regimes and causes that the Saudis oppose. Lastly, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is unable presently to restrict production quotas due to internal political animosity among its members, notably between the blocs led separately by Saudi Arabia and by Iran—and so no one member of OPEC is expected to cut back production by itself. Prof. Guive Mirfendereski (LGLS) is a lecturer in the Legal Studies department, and teaches “LGLS 127b: International Economic Law.”
Prof. John Ballantine Jr. (IBS) First, no one really knows why the Saudis are maintaining high production levels as oil prices drop to the low 80s. There is speculation from commentators around the world: “Coordinated pressure on Russia in light of their moves in Ukraine; countervailing moves in response to Iran’s actions in Syria, or its nuclear negotiations; maybe it is a way for Saudi Arabia to reassert its swing producer position in OPEC; Perhaps it is a way to send a message to energy producers (fracking, shale oil, solar, gas) that that the marginal price of oil is significantly below expected value set during the summer (eg, over $100 barrel).” The swing in oil and energy prices reminds us all that this is a boom / bust business requiring long term investments and large amounts of capital. Prices have always been set within a complicated political and economic environment. Today’s events across in Russia, China, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the U.S. reminds all that Saudi Arabia is the most significant and the lowest cost producer of energy in the market. Again, no one knows the motivation or strategy behind these moves, but all are paying attention because there are large ramifications across world economies.
Applaud sustainability hire
According to Vice President for Operations James Gray, the University will soon begin the process of hiring a new sustainability program manager to lead efforts to reduce the University’s energy consumption and waste expenses, as well as to improve other dimensions of campus sustainability. This board commends Gray’s efforts in leading the hiring process for a Brandeis position that will organize crucial sustainability initiatives. The University cannot afford to carry on without a staff member whose responsibility is increasing sustainability on campus. Several concerns related to energy efficiency and environmental protection on campus have surfaced, most notably regarding the amount of electricity used by the “Light Of Reason” sculpture, whose 48 bulbs are lit throughout the entire night. Having an efficiency expert on the University staff will ensure that this art piece is environmentally responsible, and that the University at large conducts its affairs in the most responsible way possible. We are impressed by the proactive steps Gray has taken bringing on a new hire
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when he himself was hired by the University less than a semester ago. Until this summer, the University employed former Sustainability Coordinator Lea Lupkin through a consulting firm, but bringing a sustainability expert on to the University staff demonstrates our commitment to environmental efficiency. Many sustainability initiatives are currently in place or in the process of being implemented, such as dual flush toilets that reduce water waste, renovations of heating and cooling systems, various Brandeis sustainability fund projects that are proposed yearly and Brandeis’ ambitious carbon neutrality goal by 2050. There is thus a need for someone to ensure the University implements these solutions swiftly and efficiently,and continues to search for more methods to improve University efficiency. We hope the hiring process for this new position is conducted speedily and again commend Gray and the Campus Operation team’s initiative in pursuing this new staff role at the University.
Prof. John Ballantine Jr. (IBS) teaches “FIN 235a: Investing in Energy: Fossil Fuels to Cleaner Energy.”
Cameron Fen ’15 I really don’t have any idea why Saudi Arabia hasn’t cut back production on oil. My guess is that with Canada and Russia and US producing so much oil it is reducing the market power of OPEC, so while Saudi Arabia could still influence the price it has gotten to the point where it costs more for them to pull back. Keep in mind that oil accounts for over 90 percent of the Saudi Arabian budget. As for the U.S., lower oil prices are a plus for the US economy. Oil is a huge component of what we spend as Americans, so lower prices at the pump translates into more effective stimulus into the economy. As an investor, fracking companies are getting killed. Most are not economical at $80 or $90 dollars a barrel, but you can find a few high quality producers that have lower costs (like $50 a barrel) that are unjustifiably punished with everyone else. Cameron Fen ’15 is the President of the Brandeis University Investment Club.
David Getz ’15 Saudi Arabia appears to be using the price drop as an economic power play to regain pricing power in oil. The leading reason for this suspicion is the current U.S. standing as one of the global leaders in oil production. Rivalry and the threat of the U.S. shale oil production boom may explain Saudi Arabian action in lowering prices, which would ultimately limit the finances, investments and expansion in supply from the U.S. shale patch, among other places. However, despite the threat of dropping prices, only a small percentage of U.S. crude oil producers would be affected, given breakeven prices below $80 and for nearly 82% of US producers, breakeven prices of $60 or below. David Getz ’15 is a member of the Brandeis Technical Traders Society.
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Republicans must support gay marriage to earn votes By dor cohen special to the justice
The Massachusetts gubernatorial race is closer than ever, with both Attorney General Martha Coakley and former healthcare executive Charlie Baker fighting for victory in this week’s election. As recently as last Friday, a Boston Globe poll had Baker ahead by a remarkable nine points. According to RealClearPolitics, Baker is up by three points as of Thursday. In a state where every elected federal official is a member of the Democratic Party, that a Republican gubernatorial candidate is just about tied, and at times even ahead of, the opposition is nothing short of remarkable. Baker, the Republican candidate, is holding his own against the Democratic star who has been supported by everyone from First Lady Michelle Obama to both Bill and Hilary Clinton. The reason for this is simple: Baker is more liberal on social issues, particularly gay marriage. The tightness of the Massachusetts race highlights the need for the Republican party to drop its anti-gay marriage position. It must focus on the principals that it was founded upon to make the party relatable. Most millenials have more views in common with the Republican Party then they realize. On issues ranging from the economy to foreign policy, many increasingly support the Republican platform of reduced spending and strong leadership. On Wednesday, a Harvard University poll found that 51 percent of voting millenials this year plan to vote Republican and that an all-time low of 43 percent of millenials approve of President Obama. It’s clear that millenials aren’t unsympathetic to conservative politics, yet the same Harvard poll found that the Republican Party itself was the one most millenials disliked. Social issues prevent young voters from even glancing at the Republican Party’s stance on other matters. Most college students feel most strongly about the right to gay marriage, and they will vote for whoever stands behind it. When a Republican candidate supports gay marriage, however, one of the key inherent barriers for Republican support is removed, and young voters make their decisions based on other issues; often, they like what they see in the Republican candidates. This notion is highlighted in the unprecedented support that Charlie Baker is receiving in his campaign. Baker is running on a platform of fiscal conservatism and social liberalism. He
is openly supportive of gay marriage and prochoice on abortion. This allows traditionally Democratic voters to consider examining his previous experience in the healthcare industry and his stances on other issues, such as education and governmental transparency. The results are evident: Baker is in a tie with a Democratic heavyweight in a heavily Democratic state. He was even endorsed by the Boston Globe, a generally liberal paper and one of the largest in the Boston metropolitan area. In its endorsement, noting that Baker splits from the Republican party on same-sex marriage, the Boston Globe’s editorial board stated that, “effective activist government isn’t built on good intentions…Baker, a former health care executive…has focused principally on making state government work better.” Thus, much like many voters, the Globe decided to endorse Baker for his other positions and previous work. The fact is that Baker has a significant chance of winning on November 4th. Baker is also pro-choice on abortion, a rarity for a high profile Republican candidate. However, the Republican Party doesn’t have to change its stance on this issue, as it is a question that often is independent of party lines; many liberals are pro-life, and vice versa. Same-sex marriage, however, is no longer a debate for most millenials, and it should no longer be a debate for the Republican Party. First and foremost, the Republican Party should support the right to gay marriage because it is the legally correct thing to do—although one can personally disagree with the practice, that doesn’t give them the right to prevent it for others. Due to the aforementioned reason, however, supporting gay marriage is also the practical decision for the GOP to make. If the Republican Party wants to have any future at all in an evolving United States, it will need to make compromises on the social issues that draw so many away from its otherwise supportable beliefs. Acceptance of gay marriage is sweeping across the country; the Supreme Court itself agrees with it’s legality, as was seen in its recent decision to let stand appeals court rulings allowing same-sex marriage in five states. The right to same-sex marriage nationwide is inevitable. The Republican Party, due to its social positions, is finding it difficult to garner millennial support; various misogynistic statements made by a few Republican officials do not help the
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party’s cause. By changing its stance that marriage is “a union of one man and one woman,” the GOP can change the tide of negativity that surrounds it. Having the Republican Party be pro-gay marriage would allow the next generation to drop its preconceived notions of the party as being homophobic, and give it an opportunity to examine the Republican Party for what it truly stands for - fiscal responsibility, a strong foreign policy and military and a more limited federal govern-
ment. For young conservatives, the hope is that the Republican establishment realizes this soon enough before it is too late to salvage the party’s flailing reputation. —Dor Cohen ’16 is the vice president of Brandeis Republicans, president of the Brandeis Pre-Law Society and former director of logistics for Voices of Conservative Youth, an organization aimed at garnering the Republican Party millennial support.
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There’s a website called Vox, and I hate myself for using it as often as I do. It represents the future of journalism—or at least, a future—as newspapers struggle to remain relevant in the digital age. It’s the brainchild of Ezra Klein, a former Washington Post columnist who was the editor of Wonkblog, an online branch of the Post that analyzes and explains complex political policy. Klein is the second case of the Post losing a key staffer(s) who go on to found a successful web-native outlet, the first being John F. Harris and Jim Vanderhei, the co-founders of Politico. Perhaps the biggest difference between these two stories, though, is the respective ages of the Post staff members turned entrepeneurs: Vanderhei and Harris are both in their forties. Ezra Klein is 29, and both his website and his reasons for creating it reflect a certain smugness that we digital natives don’t always like to acknowledge. Klein explained the idea behind Vox to a crowd at the University of California Los Angeles (his alma mater) in January: “We [Klein and his co-founders] think there are a lot of ways in which the technology underlying journalism is reinforcing habits developed and workflows developed, back when we were tied to killing trees and printing them out and having children deliver them to people.” The fundamental problem with current digital journalism, in Klein’s view, is that it is so focused on telling the reader what is new rather than stressing what is important. Since information
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posted on the Internet is permanently and easily accessible, Klein believes it is time for the news to stop caring about the breaking stories as much as the important context behind them, assuming that the reader will fill themself in on what’s actually new on their own. This is Vox’s most prominent feature, and one of the reasons it’s so evilly effective. The best parts of the website are its “card stacks,” a system of current events flash cards designed to catch readers up on whatever are the most pressing issues of the moment. Across a few brief web pages, one can learn “everything you need to know about marijuana legalization,” or “everything you need to know about Obamacare.” It’s easy to skip around between whatever subtopics in these cards you’re catching up on. And when I’ve read card stacks on topics I’m familiar with, I’ve found they are thorough and mostly accurate. And the card stacks do fill a critical niche. As obvious as it is to say, the world is complicated, and there are only so many topics one can actively follow. When something completely outside your purview is suddenly the big conversation worldwide, it’s nice to be able to let Vox catch you up on what you’ve missed. During the conflict in Gaza this summer, I found myself part of conversations about the minutia of borders and tunnel systems which I hadn’t even known existed. I had little prior knowledge of issues that were now central to a conflict that had the world’s eye, and I needed some background. So I spent an evening flipping through some online flash cards, and suddenly it all made sense. But it made sense through a very specific lens. I understood the conflict as Vox’s editors and writers understood it and was being told the story as they wanted to tell it to me. Thus, my background was biased. When reading other card stacks on topics I know well, I’ve sometimes found certain information to be conspicuously absent and other topics heavily featured. This would be true, of course, of any informative source. Objectivity is impossible. But actual historians are accountable
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actually fact again? But Vox has no such qualms. In fact, the line between opinion and fact at Vox is not only thin, it’s nonexistent. There is absolutely no sectional divide between opinion pieces and news on the website. Trying to categorize the objective and the subjective is made yet more difficult by the fact that it’s rare to find a Vox article that’s actually wholly an article. Many take the form of lists or graphs or even cartoons. A video titled “The 2014 midterms, explained in 8-bits” recently featured Klein talking about why Republicans have a chance to take back the Senate, intercut with arcade-style graphics. An elephant replaced Donkey Kong in the classic video game, tossing barrels, ironically, at a donkey. All of this makes Vox very consciously hip and deliberately millennial. But it comes at the cost of meaningful and truly informative content. Most “articles” aren’t more than five paragraphs long, using photos, graphics or pull-quotes to appear longer. And the aforementioned blending of news and opinion means everything Vox tells you must be taken with several fistfuls of salt. Yet, I find myself pulled back to the website again and again, to give myself background or look at their pretty graphics or, most often, due to a Vox headline that I just can’t not click on. They’ve learned from BuzzFeed and Upworthy well: make a headline enticing enough, and the traffic will flow. But if this is what journalism is going to look like in the future, we are in serious danger of losing our ability to stay truly informed—to separate the facts from our biases—and to have any issue hold our interest long enough to meaningfully address it. Either Vox shouldn’t label itself as a news website, or as a society, we should choose actively to not be suckered in by this and peer websites that have a deep understanding of how people think— or don’t—when browsing the web. I say we go for the latter, but that’s just my opinion.
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Disinviting college speakers hurts academic discourse By mark gimelstein JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Recently, Bill Maher, a liberal comedian and political commentator with a propensity for not mincing words, received an invitation from the University of California, Berkeley to deliver their commencement speech in December. Quite expeditiously, the liberal students of Berkeley were out in full storm to paradoxically petition for a disinvitation of Maher from campus. In the eyes of many left-wing individuals, Maher is an influential figure—at least when he’s bashing Republicans, conservatives and practicing Christians and Catholics. So why was UC Berkeley, one of the most liberal campuses in the country, against him? Maher recently chose to address a sensitive matter that has created an ideological rift among liberals over the years: the issue of radical Islam. During an episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host denounced Islam as a whole for the beliefs and agendas of radical Islamists in Al Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram and other terrorist groups as not being noticeably different from the stated views of the religion’s majority, especially with their treatment of women, homosexuals and religious minorities. Maher also added that “Islam is the only religion that acts like the mafia that will f---ing kill you if you say the wrong thing,” among other accusations against the religion. These controversial statements drew the ire of students and faculty at UC Berkeley, igniting the petition movement to remove Maher from the winter commencement activities. Regardless of one’s personal positions on this specific matter, we, as a society, have indeed hit a breaking point with free speech on college campuses at, ironically enough, the college that galvanized the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. Looking at colleges and universities across the country, one can only come away with the disconcerting notion that now, if enough people disagree with you, you can be disinvited, chastised and ostracized at college. Not excluding Brandeis for its shameful treatment of Ayaan Hirsi Ali last semester, college campuses have moved away from being oases of dialogue on controversial issues where a healthy dose of skepticism toward any one narrative is encouraged. They have instead mutated into, quite unfortunately, a “tolerant” liberal echo chamber that is intolerant of any opposing views. Most modern colleges have one thing in common in their mission statements: that free speech should be celebrated, encouraged and protected as a vital, educational tool for self and collective betterment. The principle is that discussion, even on topics that may offend or perturb, is good. Discourse helps challenge and change minds, and expanding one’s mind is the purpose of academia. But today, even though the UC Berkeley administration admirably continues to support Maher’s speaking at commencement this winter, colleges and universities have, as a whole, strayed from the principle of honoring free speech. In past fiascos with commencement speakers, including Condoleezza Rice at Rutgers University, International Monetary Fund CEO Christine Lagarde at Smith College and
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Brandeis, students have successfully silenced visiting speakers with contrasting views and opinions. Indeed, according to the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education, since just 2000 alone, the number of disinvitation incidents on university and college campuses across the country has skyrocketed nearly 500 percent. Additionally, some university administrations actually personally disinvited and removed speakers and guests they previously invited to campus.
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Eventually, everyone is reduced to politically correct silence. A common red herring that opponents of certain commencement speakers like to present is that commencement is a time of celebration for the graduating class. They go on to say that whoever is speaking during the ceremony is tacitly
receiving support for all of their work and positions while simultaneously taking away from the day that is supposed to belong to the graduates. However, there are two faults to this logic. First, an enormous double standard is at play. Critics of Islam like Hirsi Ali and Maher cannot attend and speak at commencement because of their “hateful” views while staunch critics of Israel and its supporters like Tony Kushner and Desmond Tutu can. Additionally, even though commencement is a day for students, wisdom from distinguished, accomplished individuals should be something that all students who claim to be intellectuals should seek, regardless of what personal opinions a guest to campus may have. There is more to a speaker than just their personal views—Hirsi Ali’s experiences as a Middle Eastern woman fighting for Middle Eastern women’s and girls’ rights are just as or even more important than any opinion she may have. “Disinvitation season,” as FIRE has phrased it, will continue to have horrid impacts on students. We have learned that rather than engage those with different beliefs, it is easier to silence them. This has led to an environment not cohesive to actual learning. Indeed, this attitude destroys the academic ideals of putting even the most contentious ideas to the test of debate, helping students achieve a better understanding of the world around them and empowering
scholars to revise and reconsider ideas that they had never thought to take into account before. When we refuse to engage with narratives that contrast our own, we become ideologically homogenous. Eventually, everyone is reduced to politically correct silence. Just like the purges in Stalinist Russia, the group of people who can freely speak their minds slowly but surely shrinks until even allies eventually become victims in the vicious cycle of censorship. The current turn away from liberal Maher, with whom liberal students almost always agree on most other topics, is emblematic of this progression within the academic anti-speech movement. Censorship also takes out all of the fun in learning too. You know we have a problem when just as recently as 2009, University of California, Los Angeles students pressured and petitioned popular actor James Franco into not speaking at commencement that year for not being of a high enough caliber for UCLA. Who, in the eyes of students, is innocuous enough to invite to campus when even James Franco isn’t welcome anymore? Even the most frivolous of complaints is now enough to repress speakers. Louis Brandeis once said that “it is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.” So what are college students and faculty afraid of? Stop repressing and censoring differing opinions. End the war on learning and discussion. Debate.
Promote and aid charities providing clean water to Gaza cities By shani abramowitz special to the justice
This summer, Israel and Gaza experienced another tragic war. Once again, residents of the region lived in constant fear of rocket fire or air strikes. Many fled their homes, some found refuge in bomb shelters, and the lives of all were changed. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 69 Israelis and over 2,100 Gazans, mostly civilians, were killed. But the cessation of rockets and airstrikes has not undone the consequences of war. Within Gaza, in addition to an overwhelming death toll, Israeli air strikes effectively destroyed the area’s entire agricultural infrastructure and any possibility of immediate economic growth. For Gazans, though the airstrikes and rockets have stopped, many of the long term effects of the war are only now being felt. One of the most alarming consequences has been the destruction of the Gazan water system, rendering hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians virtually incapable of accessing safe, clean water. At the onset of the fighting, Gaza’s water infrastructure was already critically overextended. According to Haaretz, even in quiet times, more than 90 percent of Gaza’s water is unfit for drinking, and over-pumping has resulted in seawater and sewage contamination of the groundwater. During the most recent escalation, 11 wells and two purification plants in Gaza were completely destroyed, and an additional 15 wells and four
purification plants were partially destroyed. Eighteen miles of pipeline were also impaired, and close to eleven miles more were damaged, according to the Palestinian Water Authority. The Emergency Water Sanitation and Hygiene Group reports only half of the Gaza water system is currently functional, and the functional parts only get water once every five days. The destruction of the purification plants and pipelines have made it increasingly difficult for Gazans to access clean, potable water. Additionally, Gaza’s only power plant was destroyed in the latest round of fighting between Israel and Hamas. This has worsened the already severe problems with Gaza’s water supply, sewage treatment and power supplied to medical facilities. Since the fighting this summer, Gazans have had barely enough electricity to power their homes for a few hours a day, making it virtually impossible to power intensive sewage treatment and pumping facilities as well. Following the destruction of the Strip’s power plant, Gaza residents were immediately urged to begin rationing their water. The water crisis in Gaza is untenable and requires immediate, meaningful action. Human rights are in everybody’s best interest: A commitment to peace must include a commitment to those with whom we share the land. Say what you will about who started this war or who is to be blamed for how it was pursued, we all bear responsibility for cleaning up the devastation brought on by months of violence. This summer, Israel fought a war against Hamas, yet thousands
of innocent Palestinian civilians were devastatingly affected. Our ability to differentiate between the two, as well as our effort to help rebuild the Gazan infrastructure, will provide Gazans with hope for their future and also reaffirm our own commitment to peace. As the American Jewish community continues to assert its commitment to peace in the region, we must ensure that basic rights are not overlooked in the process. To move forward on this issue, we must begin at the ground level. Abasan Al-Kabireh, a Fatahrun city in Gaza, located to the east of Khan Younis—a densely populated Gaza city that was nearly destroyed in the war—has sustained some of the worst damage in the Strip. The damage has left the 21,000 residents of the city without access to clean drinking water. The mayor of Abasan AlKabireh has called upon the international community to help provide the residents of his city with clean drinking water. This call has not gone unheard. Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) is an environmental advocacy organization, that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli environmentalists to work towards advancing the sustainable ecological development of the region. FoEME has identified the Gaza water shortage as a key environmental challenge that stifles the development of strong, sustainable communities and ultimately peace in the region. Meanwhile, Other Voice is a grassroots initiative that empowers volunteers from cities along the Gaza border to shed light on the physical and psychological tolls that ongoing violence and
conflict have on Israelis and Palestinians. Other Voice also advocates for a non-violent political solution to the Conflict, endorses coexistence, works to strengthen support for peace in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and organizes donation campaigns for Gazans in need of humanitarian assistance. Both charities are working toward the common goal of providing water for the residents of Abasan Al-Kabireh and deserve our support. J Street U Brandeis is answering the call by organizing a campus-wide fundraiser for the residents of Abasan Al-Kabireh with FoEME and Other Voice. As American Jews, and as individuals who care deeply about the future of Israel, it is crucial that we remember our responsibility to act. If we are serious about affirming our commitment to peace—as students, Americans, Jews and individuals who maintain a genuine interest in human rights and social justice—we must take steps to empower individuals and projects on the ground, as each hold the power to shift the complicated reality away from human rights injustice and toward a viable peace for both Israelis and Palestinians. We must remain committed to the advancement of human rights wherever there is a need. Our commitment to peace in the Middle East should be mirrored by nothing less than an equal commitment to the human rights of the citizens of Israel and Palestine. —Shani Abramowitz ’14 is the media coordinator for J Street U Brandeis.
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MSOC: Judges unable to clinch UAA at Chicago CONTINUED FROM 16 finish the chances we create early so we don’t end up in an undesirable situation at the end,” said Vieira. With these two critical UAA games behind them, the squad will look forward to their final game against New York University this coming weekend at NYU.
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The team needs to win Saturday’s game and hope for a Chicago loss to earn the regular-season championship of the conference. In doing so, the team would earn an automatic bid to the NCAA Championships that goes along with all conference championships. The team will square off against NYU at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
FENCING: Teams capture six medals at weekend meeting CONTINUED FROM 16 the bracket, as Levy defeated Grazin in the quarterfinals before falling to Berman 15-4 in the semifinals. Berman, who earned a berth at last year’s NCAA Championships, improved on his third-place finish from last year. Guillermo Narvaez ’18 picked up a 10th-place finish to cap a solid performance in the first meet of his collegiate career. “Coach [Bill Shipman] just said that he had expectations that people would do well, and it was up to us how well we did,” said Berney. “He said he knew we all had the potential to succeed.” The men’s epee squad was the only not to produce a medalist, but got an eighth-place finish from Justin Kwon ’16. Kwon went 4-1 in pool play with a +7 indicator, seeding him 20th in the knockout round. The junior rolled to a 15-6 victory in the round of 64, edged out a 15-14 win in the round of 32 and matched that with a 15-14 win in the round of 16. Kwon’s run came to a close in the round of 8 with a 15-11 defeat but finished 13 spots better than he did at last year’s meet. Hunter Stusnick ’18 picked up a 10th-place finish in the tournament in his first collegiate meet. In the women’s foil competition, Caroline Mattos ’16 took home a silver medal, dropping the finals
match by a 15-14 score. Mattos was seeded second in the knockout round with a perfect 6-0 record and a +27 indicator. Zimeng Xue ’18 took home an eighth-place finish at The Big One after entering the knockout round seeded 30th. The women’s sabre competition saw one member of the squad finish in the top 10, as Ashley Jean ’17 finished in sixth place. Jean entered the knockout round tied for second place with a perfect 5-0 record and a +23 indicator and went on a tear, defeating her first two opponents by 15-0 and 15-3 scores. Jean fell to the eventual silver medalist in the quarterfinals, and matched her placement from last year’s tournament. The women’s epee team placed three competitors in a row, but could not crack the top-10, taking home 11th, 12th and 13th places. Gwendolyn Mowell ’16 entered the knockout round in 10th but fell 15-14 in the round of 16. “Having [Mandel] and [OchsWillard] both be very talented fencers is a huge asset for me to improve,” said Berney. Both squads will return to action on Nov. 15 in the first of two Northeast Fencing Conference meets, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. —Editor’s note: Guillermo Narvaez ’18 is an editorial assistant for the Justice photography section.
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ON THE BALL: Forward Lea McDaniel ’17 dribbles around an Emory University defender in the team’s 1-1 tie on Oct. 19 at home.
WSOC: Women split pair of UAA decisions in road trip CONTINUED FROM 16 shot advantage in the game—and the final four and eight of the last nine shots of the game. The game’s final 20 minutes were spent with the Judges on their heels, but goalkeeper Alexis Grossman ’17, who entered as a substitute after the halftime break, needed to make just one save, as the Bears put shots high and wide of the net. “Our defense has been incredibly solid this season,” said Goodman. “Withstanding so much pressure is not an easy task, but they always pull through. “We defend as a whole: the forwards are our first line of defense and every single player knows that
they have to keep their mark. We work on [one-on-ones] and team defending a lot in practice, and I think it really shows in close games like these,” she explained. WashU had one final chance to tie the game in the 88th minute when they won a corner kick but the ball was sent out of the attacking third by the Judges’ defense to preserve the upset win. The victory was the first win Brandeis has recorded against WashU since 2010 and marked the Bears first UAA loss of the season. Schwartz’s goal, her ninth of the season, tied her for the team lead in both goals and game-winning goals. Schwartz now has five game winners this year.
Goodman said the weekend was a positive one for the team, even with Sunday’s result. “Winning the WashU game was monumental for us, not only in terms of what it can do for our conference ranking but also because WashU has a history of beating Brandeis in the past,” she said. “We of course wanted to beat Chicago, but regardless of the outcome, the team played incredibly hard, and we now have tons of momentum going into [an upcoming game at New York University],” Goodman continued. The squad’s brutal UAA stretch will conclude with their season finale against No. 23 New York University on Saturday at 1:30 p.m.
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Squads earn eighth-place finish at UAA Championships ■ Lydia McCaleb ’17 placed
25th, the first time this year she was the top runner for the Judges. By Avi gold JUSTICE editor
The men’s and women’s cross country teams raced to respective eighth-place finishes at the University Athletic Association Championships this past Saturday afternoon, hosted by the Washington University in St. Louis and held in Forest Park. The men’s squad—led by captain Jarret Harrigan ’15—ended the race with 193 points, just 14 behind the seventh-place University of Rochester. The women, paced by the 25th-place finish of Lydia McCaleb ’17, picked up their eighth-place finish with 226 points. “The team as a whole, I thought, did very well; it's just a tough conference,
said Mitchell Hutton ’18. “Most of us ran one of our top two times of the season.” “We started out perfectly as a team but just didn't move up as much as we had hoped.” Hutton pointed to the difficulty of the meet going up against some of the country’s top runners. “The UAA is extremely difficult to go up against. It is one of the best Division III conferences in the country,” he continued. “We just needed to make sure we ran our own race and didn't start off at a crazy pace with the front runners. I thought we did a good job of that too. We didn't let the other teams affect our own race.” The women’s squad finished with an average time of 24 minutes, nine seconds, just under a minute slower than the pace of the seventh-place finishing squad from Rochester. The UAA Championships were the first time this season that McCaleb was the Judges’ top finisher for the
first time this season as she ended the six-kilometer race in 23:07.38. McCaleb was less than 10 seconds out of a top-20 spot and improved on her personal best in the 6K by more than 50 seconds, set at the Connecticut College Invitational on Oct. 18. Maddie Dolins ’17 crossed the line in 24:09.59, good for 54th place and was followed by Ashley Piccirillo-Horan ’17, whose time of 24:20.02 earned her a 59th-place finish. Kelsey Whitaker ’16 ran the course in 24:35.23 and Kyra Shreeve ’18 followed her with a time of 24:34.47. The duo placed 68th and 70th overall in the race. The average time of 26:27.09 put the men’s squad just five seconds behind Rochester and 15 seconds behind sixth-place finishers Case Western Reserve University. Harrigan finished the eightkilometer race with a career-best 32nd-place finish. The senior finished the race in 26:16.69, a personal best at the UAA Championships.
Harrigan’s time was also the second fastest he has run the 6K this year, after he completed the course in 25:26.66 at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Invitational on Sept. 20. Ryan Stender ’18 raced to a 35thplace finish in 26:20.53, fifth-best of all freshmen at the competition. Quinton Hoey ’17 was the third member of the Judges to cross the finish line, stopping the clock in 26:33.99 for 39th-place. Hoey’s finish was both a 10-place and 35-second improvement on his race from last year’s UAA Championships, when he finished just inside the top 50. Hutton continued his strong season with a top-50 finish. His time of 26:36.09 secured a 47thplace finish for the squad, the 10thbest of all freshmen at the meet, but said he had room for improvement moving forward. “My individual performance was decent,” he said.
“I'm still getting used to the 8K distance because I was injured during the middle of the season and missed a couple of races.” “I also went out a little too fast which I can improve on in the next race. But considering it was only my second 8K ever it was a good performance,” he continued. Grady Ward ’16 improved on his position from last year’s race by more than 10 positions, taking 48th place in 26:38.11. Matt Doran ’17 crossed the line in 26:52.61 and Liban Aiden ’16 finished in 26:59.40 to round out the top seven Brandeis finishers. Both squads close their seasons on Nov. 15 in the New England Division III Championships, hosted by Williams College. “For New Englands we just need to work on moving together as a team up through the pack,” said Hutton. “We need to finish stronger and then I think we can place high and crack the top 10 in the region.”
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VOLLEYBALL
Men’s Soccer UAA STANDINGS
TEAM STATS Goals
2014-2015 Statistics Chicago JUDGES Emory Carnegie Case Rochester NYU WashU
UAA Conf. W L D 4 0 2 4 2 0 3 3 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 2 4 0 1 4 1
Overall W L D 10 5 2 16 2 0 13 3 1 8 5 2 8 5 4 8 5 3 11 5 0 8 6 2
Pct. .647 .889 .794 .600 .588 .594 .688 .562
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: The men will conclude their season with a game at New York University on Saturday.
WOMen’s Soccer UAA STANDINGS
TEAM STATS
2014-2015 Statistics
Goals
Carnegie Chicago WashU Emory NYU JUDGES Case Rochester
UAA Conf. W L D 5 1 0 4 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 4 2 2 1 2 3 1 1 4 1 1 4 1
Overall W L D 14 1 0 13 3 1 12 2 2 10 1 6 10 5 1 12 4 1 8 6 3 5 8 4
Pct. .933 .794 .812 .765 .656 .735 .559 .412
EDITOR’S NOTE: The women will conclude their season with a game at New York University on Saturday.
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. Emory 6 1 31 3 .912 WashU 6 1 31 4 .886 Carnegie 5 2 21 9 .700 Chicago 4 3 24 11 .686 Case 4 3 16 11 .593 NYU 2 5 19 16 .543 Rochester 1 6 16 17 .485 JUDGES 0 7 7 21 .250
EDITOR’S NOTE: The team will conclude its season at the University Atheltic Association Championships on Saturday.
Maddie Engeler ’16 leads the team with 185 kills. Player Kills Maddie Engeler 185 Jessie Moore 184 Liz Hood 113 Summer Koop 112
Digs Elsie Bernaiche ’15 leads the team with 469 digs. Player Digs Elsie Bernaiche 469 Shemira Pennyman 211 Julie Kim 184 Liz Hood 94
cross cOuntry Results from the UAA Championship in St. Louis, MO this past Saturday.
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 Hunton 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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OFFENSIVE ATTACK: Setter Julie Kim ’18 (left) prepares a pass during the Judges’ sweep of Lasell College last Tuesday.
Women victorious at home on Senior Day ■ The Judges defeated Eastern Connecticut State University on Saturday after losing to Babson University. By NOAH hessdorf justice editorial assistant
The women’s volleyball team went 2-1 in the final home games of their season this week, with wins against Lasell College on Tuesday, Eastern Connecticut State University on Saturday and a loss against Babson College on Saturday. The team now sits at 8-21 overall. The seniors left the Red Auerbach Arena triumphantly for the final time on Saturday. Their last career home match saw a four-set win against ECSU, 25-20, 25-21, 16-25, 26-24. Outside hitter Jessie Moore ’18 led the attack with 19 kills, while middle blocker Maddie Engeler ’16 complemented Moore with 10 of her own. The solid defense was once again led by libero Elsie Bernaiche ’15, who had 30 digs in her last home match. Outside hitter Shemira Pennyman ’15 also had an impressive stat line with 15 digs and five kills. Bernaiche was full of emotion after the match. “It feels good knowing I can step off
the court with pride,” she said. “Winning our last home game was the best way to walk off Auerbach Court. “It’s just been a crazy four years with the seniors, and I’m happy to have shared my final games with them,” she continued. The first match of the day did not go as well for the Judges. The team dropped their first home match on Saturday to Babson in four sets, 25-21, 20-25, 18-25, 13-25. The Judges found themselves in a large early hole in the second set when they fell behind 16-2. The team held their composure and brought the deficit to 21-20 with the help of a 9-1 run, but Babson took the set with the final four points. Even though in the next two sets the Judges were defeated relatively easily, the team still had solid individual performances. Moore and Engeler again led the offensive side with 12 and 10 kills each. Bernaiche was still upbeat about the team’s chances after the match. “We have developed patience and endurance as a team to ride out tough games and always fight,” she said. “Even after losing to Babson, we were able to come back and stay strong against Eastern Connecticut.” The Judges came out of their long slump and ended their 13-match losing streak with a win at home against
Lasell. The match was a three-set sweep as the Judges took the competition by scores of 25-18, 25-13, 25-13. The team dominated the first two sets as they led throughout both sets entirely. Pennyman, Moore and setter Maggie Swenson ’16 contributed to the offense with six kills apiece. Once again, setter Julie Kim ’18 continued her strong inaugural season with 23 assists and four service aces. Bernaiche also contributed solid defense with 12 digs, a match-high. The team as played remarkably well as a whole to compliment the strong individual performances. The Judges set a season high for hitting percentage at .272 percent, and also a season-low with only 10 attack errors. The Judges will end their season next weekend, at the single-elimination University Athletic Association Championship hosted by Carnegie Mellon University. Bernaiche said still believes in the team’s ability to pull off an upset at the tournament. “I expect us to go into our final UAA tournament with the same stress-free mentality we have been playing with this half of the season,” she said. The team will go into the competition as the eighth seed in the eight-team tournament, squaring off against Washington University in St. Louis on Friday afternoon.
PRO SPORTS BRIEF San Francisco Giants claim third World Series title in five years with defeat of Kansas City Royals In 2010, San Francisco Giants radio and television announcer Duane Kuiper described the Giants’ road to their first World Series championship since 1954 as “torture.” The same could be said of the Giants’ 2012 post-season performance, where the team was almost eliminated in both the division and championship series. However, no Giants World Series can be quite as torturous as their 2014 victory over the Kansas City Royals, their third World Series win in five years. 2014 marked the second time in World Series history that two wild-card teams played each other in the World Series and the first time in history that both teams had fewer than 90 wins. The Royals came into the World Series with two straight sweeps in the division and championship series for their third World Series appearance
as a franchise, while the Giants were riding high, having defeated the defending National League champion St. Louis Cardinals four games to one. The Giants got off to a strong start with a 7-1 victory in Game 1. Giants’ ace Madison Bumgarner, fresh off of 15 2/3 innings in the championship series, threw seven scoreless innings before giving up a home run to Royals catcher Salvador Perez in the bottom of the seventh. Bumgarner was backed up by a red-hot offense that started off the first inning with a three-run rally and went on to get 11 hits while the Royals were held to just four. In Game 2, the reverse happened. The Royals, led by rookie pitcher Yordano Ventura and veteran reliever Kelvin Herrara, held the Giants to two runs on nine hits. Meanwhile, Jake Peavy was pulled after getting
into a tight pinch with runners on base and no outs midway through the sixth inning. Hunter Strickland, one of his replacements, gave up four of five runs in the Royals’ dynamic sixth inning, including a two-run home run to infielder Omar Infante. The Giants were not able to catch up, falling 7-2. Game 3 was in comparison a lowscoring affair—a 3-2 Royals’ victory. The Royals took a 3-0 lead by the sixth inning, and even though the Giants scratched out a pair of runs in the sixth, they were unable to complete the comeback at home. It looked like Game 4 would be another Giants loss, as the Royals took a 4-1 lead by the third inning, thanks to a series of singles against pitcher Ryan Vogelsong. The Giants managed to tie up the game in the fifth inning with Juan Perez’s bases loaded sacrifice fly.
They took the lead in a three-run sixth inning and managed to score another four runs in the seventh. Outfielder Hunter Pence was the star of the 11-4 victory, with three hits, two RBIs and two runs scored. Bumgarner set a World Series record in Game 5 with a 5-0 completegame shutout of the Royals. The Royals only got into scoring position once, thanks to Infante’s fifthinning double. The good luck was not to last, as the Royals hammered the Giants with 10-0 victory in Game 6, pushing the World Series to a decisive Game 7. The Royals scored seven runs in the second inning of Game 6 and held the Giants to just six hits for the whole game. The Giants struck first in Game 7 when Michael Morse knocked in two runs for a lead in the top of the second
inning, but the Royals responded with two of their own in the bottom half of the inning Morse knocked in a second RBI in the fourth inning, giving the Giants a 3-2 lead. Bumgarner, on only two days rest after his impressive shutout, came in to pitch for the Giants in the fifth inning and pitched five scoreless innings to clinch the series. Bumgarner was named the World Series most valuable player, only the seventh pitcher in history to be awarded the honor. He set a World Series record of 21 innings pitched and one earned run. Bumgarner set baseball records for the most post-season appearances, innings pitched, shutout innings, fewest hits allowed as a relief pitcher and lowest World Series career ERA. —Catherine Rosch
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HOME COURT ADVANTAGE The women’s volleyball team defeated Eastern Connecticut State University on Senior Day, p. 15.
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
BOX TO BOX RUN
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Judges upset No. 5 WashU on Friday ■ Forward Samantha
Schwartz ’18 netted the team’s only shot of the first half to beat WashU. By AVI GOLD JUSTICE editor
The women’s soccer team split their games against a pair of top25 teams in a weekend University Athletic Association road trip, defeating No. 5 Washington University in St. Louis on Friday night and falling to the No. 16 University of Chicago on Sunday. The results bring their season record to 12-3-1 overall and 2-2-1 in UAA play. The squad has stumbled to a 1-2-1 record in their past four games, but all four have come against top-25 teams in the country, and all have been conference matchups. On Sunday, the host Maroons got the only goal they would need in the 28th minute when Michelle Savuto ’15 was unable to keep control of a hard shot and let home a rebound for a 1-0 deficit. Chicago freshman forward Kelsey Moore, who netted the game-winner, found the back of the net again just over 15 minutes later when she knocked home a pass from 16 yards out for her second goal of the game. Moore was left alone on the far post in the 44th minute after the Judges gave away the ball deep in their own zone, and the forward converted an easy chance to double the Maroons’ lead Though the Judges entered the halftime break facing a 2-0 deficit, they nearly tied up the contest during a five-minute stretch with
time winding down. Brandeis managed seven shots in the second half, including four from the 79th minute to the 83rd minute, but could not find the back of the net to climb back into the game. Forward Samantha Schwartz ’18 had a shot blocked in the 79th minute, and midfielder Sapir Edalati ’15 followed her with a shot that went just wide seconds later. Midfielder Mya Goodman ’18 pointed to the team’s coaching staff as a way they maintained focus throughout the weekend. “The team has a hard-working culture, and everyone gives it their all in practice,” said Goodman. “Our coaches have done an awesome job of keeping us motivated and wanting to succeed every time we step on the field.” Though she took the loss, Savuto picked up a pair of saves for the contest after stopping four shots in Friday night’s win over WashU. Squaring off against the nation’s sixth-best defense by goals against average, the Judges pitched their 10th shutout of the season to upset the Bears. The hosts dominated the first half en route to a 13-1 shot advantage, but the Judges made their lone shot of the half count. In the 30th minute, Schwartz worked a one-two pass from Edalati to produce a one-on-one with WashU sophomore goalkeeper Lizzy Crist. Schwartz ripped a shot past Crist for a 1-0 lead, one that the Judges would make stand up through strong defensive play throughout the second half. Though the squad managed six shots in the second half, WashU piled on 11 more—totaling a 24-7
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FENCING
Squads open campaign at regional competition ■ Adam Mandel ’15
defended his gold medal at the New England Fall Collegiate Championships. By AVI GOLD JUSTICE editor
The men’s and women’s fencing teams took home six medals at the New England Fall Collegiate Championships, their first met of the season. The men’s sabre squad held three of the four semifinals berths in the competition—known as “The Big One”—and saw Adam Mandel ’15 win the meet for the second year in a row. Mandel, who advanced to the finals at The Big One in all four years of his collegiate career, was unbeaten in pool play and was seeded fifth on touch differential in the knockout rounds. The senior worked his way into the finals with defeats of the tournament’s third seed, Boston College freshman Eliot Kim and top seed, Massachusetts Institute of Technology freshman Benjamin Lin. Mandel rolled over Kim 15-5 but needed a close victory to take down Lin 15-12. In the final meet Mandel faced teammate Jess Ochs-Willard ’15 and routed his classmate 15-8 for the gold medal.
Ochs-Willard improved on a thirdplace finish from the 2012 to 2013 season to post a career-best silver medal on Saturday. Kyle Berney ’18 made a surprising run to the quarterfinals, where he was defeated by Ochs-Willard 15-10. Bernery was seeded 11th after the pool play and took down the No. 6 seed 15-14 to reach the quarterfinals in his first collegiate match. “I was really nervous and lost my first bout [of pool play] but calmed down after and won the next five [matches] convincingly, [not] give up more than one touch in any of those five,” said Berney. “Being in the final four was really nice after two close and tough bouts, and fencing the captain was expected after having so many rounds without pulling a Brandeis fencer. It was a good bout and I'm happy for Jess [Ochs-Willard] to have made the finals,” he continued. In the men’s foil competition, Noah Berman ’15 missed a gold medal by one match, falling in the finals to Sacred Heart University junior Andrew Holmes, who earned All-American honors last year. Berman was one of three Judges to go a perfect 6-0 in pool play, alongside Len Grazin ’17 and Ethan Levy ’15. All three members of the squad were placed in the top-half of
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PREPARING A SHOT: Forward Zach Vieira ’17 dribbles through the 18-yard box in a 5-0 win over Mount Ida College on Oct. 27.
Men split games during weekend UAA road trip ■ Defender Robbie Lynch ’15
scored the game-winner at WashU on Friday before the team lost on Sunday. By Colin warnes JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
This past weekend, the men’s soccer team, ranked third in the nation, had a pair of University Athletic Association matches against Washington University at St. Louis and the University of Chicago, with a chance to clinch the UAA conference with two wins. The team came out winners against WashU 2-1 on Friday but were dealt only their second loss of the season against Chicago on Sunday afternoon. The squad moves to 16-2 overall and 4-2 in UAA play, second in the conference behind Chicago. “The team played very well overall [this weekend]. We unfortunately just could not find the back of the net [against Chicago],” said forward Zach Vieira ’17. This past Sunday, the team faced Chicago, who entered with a UAA record of 3-0-2 at the top of the conference, in a matchup of the UAA’s top-two teams. The game was a very close competition, with the both teams getting a number of chances on goal in a defensive struggle. Overall, Brandeis lead in both corner kits and shots, the former being a 13-5 advantage and the latter
a 12-0 advantage. At the end of the day, however, the squad’s inability to put the ball in the back of the net cost them a victory. The team managed only to force a pair of saves out of Chicago freshman goalkeeper Hill Bonin, both in the first half. In the 76th minute, the home team took their chance. After intricate passing by the Maroons, Chicago junior midfielder Nic Lopez fed in freshman forward Brenton-Neal Desai, who then managed to sneak a left footed finish into the bottom right corner. The Judges did not back down, increasing their pressure on the Chicago defense. Though the squad had most of the possession and dominated the game, they were ultimately let down as the home team’s defense did not give up the equalizer and kept the clean sheet. “We out-played Chicago in almost every aspect of the game,” said Vieira. “We out-possessed, out shot and out-worked them. “We just could not find the game winner that we needed.” On Friday night, the host Bears came out very strong, ending the half with a 5-4 shot advantage and generally seeing more of the ball. After the second half began, the Bears managed to find their way through, converting a 69th-minute penalty into a 1-0 lead. WashU sophomore midfielder Jack West was deemed to have been taken down in the box and converted the succeeding penalty kick for a 1-0
WashU lead. The goal marked just the second time this year the Judges faced a deficit in a game and spurred a sequence of dominating possession by the visitors. The Judges nearly tied the game in the 75th minute after a great chance by forward Tyler Savonen ’15, who also made the Capital One Academic All-District One team this past week. Savonen flicked a shot toward goal that produced a great diving save by WashU freshman goalkeeper Daniel Geanon, but the Bears were not yet out of danger. Viera followed just a minute later, finding himself open in the box but could not manage to get the right contact on the ball and put it on net. In the 89th minute the Judges finally got the goal they needed, when a cross by forward Evan Jastremski ’17 found its way into the net off the opposing player for an own-goal. In the 96th minute, Brandeis produced the game-winning goal, coming off a cross from midfielder Josh Ocel ’17 who set up a perfect ball from a corner kick for defender Robbie Lynch ’15 to head in. The goal was both Lynch’s second of the season and second gamewinner this year. Vieira said the two conference matches taught the squad a number of lessons they can apply to their game moving forward. “We need to take away that even if were out-playing a team, we need to
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JustArts Volume LXVII, Number 10
Your weekly guide to arts, movies, music and everything cultural at Brandeis and beyond
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Waltham, Mass.
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream ’ » 20
INSIDE
‘Swan Lake’— Boston Ballet stages a classic show to perfection, adding some new twists » 23
MFA After Dark The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston holds a college night for Halloween » 21
From Monochromatic to Technicolor Harvard Fellow lectures on U.S. and Mexican collaboration in film during the Cold War » 19
When Red Was a Scary Color Alum talks about his experience creating a documentary about the Hollywood blacklist » 19
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ON-CAMPUS EVENTS Ethnomusicology Wissler
Colloquium:
admission.
Holly
Wissler dedicates herself to applied ethnomusicology in Peru and works with the Q’eros and Wachiperi communities. Since 2003, she has gathered research and participated in the indigenous musical rituals of the Quechua community of Q’eros, and has published numerous articles on Q’eros’ music and culture in international journals. In 2011 she was principal author with Peru’s Ministry of Culture on the petition to UNESCO that the Q’eros songs be nominated to the international “Intangible Cultural Heritage” list. Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in the Slosberg Music Center room 212. This free, public event is sponsored by the Brandeis Department of Music Colloquium Series.
Alex Davis ’15
Lamp Light/ Late Night
Graduate Student Kenneth Pitts will lead a discussion on Post Traumatic Stress Distorder and the effects of war on human psychology based on the exhibit 1914: Magnus Plessen. Refreshments to be served and student guide tours will be conducted upon request. Thursday from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Rose Art Museum. This event is free and open to the public and is sponsored by The Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum (SCRAM) and Psychology Club.
Davis directs HTP’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ MORGAN BRILL/the Justice
This week, justArts spoke with Alex Davis ’15, the director of Hold Thy Peace’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream which was performed this past weekend. justArts: How did you choose A Midsummer Night’s Dream? Alex Davis: It’s my favorite Shakespeare show, by far. Shakespeare has this tendency in his works to make these really fun, wacky, wild characters, and then he punishes them. Because in Elizabethan society, deviation from the rules of society was really frowned upon. But in Midsummer, the wacky characters he creates sort of win the day at the end. It’s in a real way a reclamation for all of the jesters who get hanged in all of his works and [for] all the funny characters who get stabbed, like [Romeo and Juliet’s] Mercutio. So that’s why it’s my favorite of all the Shakespeare plays out there—there’s a lot.
‘Lost Girls’
In this play by Charlie Madison ’15, college student Daniela falls into a mysterious space inhabited several strange characters, including the poet Sylvia Plath. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 8 to 10 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday from 2 to 5 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. This event is produced by the Brandeis Ensemble Theater. Tickets are $3 with a Brandeis ID and $5 for general
JA: As the director, did you face any challenges in staging Shakespeare for a modern audience? AD: No, not really. We had a very strong cut from the beginning. [The performance] was only about an hour long, and it’s my personal belief that Shakespeare is accessible by basically anyone at any time. The reason that he’s still performed is because of the power of everything that he had to say about these really timeless messages—about who we are, about love won and lost, and all of these really timeless things. Translating [the play] to the modern audience was mostly just a case of adding some physicality to sort of explain some of the harder-to-understand pieces of language, [of] cutting out the monologues that don’t really do anything for modern audiences—that kind of thing. A lot of it’s in the delivery. And I can’t take any credit for that. That’s all my actors. JA: Building on that, how did you change the play from its original version? AD: Mostly, we cut it. We added a pinch of Glam rock, a little glitter. But other than that, it’s a fairly faithful adaptation. Some of the roles have their genders reversed, and we adopted a fairly common practice of taking Theseus and Hippolyta and double-casting them the fairy king and queen Oberon and Titania. But other than that, for all of the David Bowie-trappings, it’s a fairly faithful show to the original, I think. JA: How did you decide on the show’s punk-rock soundtrack? AD: For one thing, I just friggin love David Bowie and Roxy Music and Lou Reed. For a while there, like in the ’60s and ’70s, the fringe was sort of taking control of the mainstream ethos in a way that I think reflected what I love about Midsummer. [The] idea that the person who was getting all the radio play was this bizarre, leatherclad androgyne with like a lightning bolt of his face was just such a fun, wild thing that I thought it fit the spirit of Midsummer. And of course, I love the music. “Heroes” is my soundtrack, every day of my life. JA: Was there one thing you wanted the audience to take away from the show? AD: I want the audience to come away with more of an appreciation for glam rock, if they didn’t already have it. I want to make a few converts to this idea of an accessible, fast, modern-day sort of Shakespeare. I very consciously, with the only 90-minute long cut and the very broad stereotypes and motions and wanted to take what could very easily be an incredibly insular—in this day and age—sort of playwright and kind of throw the doors wide open on it. I love how unpretentious Midsummer is. I love how there’s not really a whole lot in there that needs to have a lot of deep analyzing to really come away with a positive message from it. I told my cast that, most of the time, when people are doing Shakespeare, there needs to be all these pauses where people can stop and take what he said and synthesize it and understand it. But if you try to do that with comedy, it kills any humor it has. The best thing to do with Shakespeare’s comedy is just to go full-steam ahead on [the audience] and power through—I like to think that is what we accomplished here. —Brooke Granovsky
‘The Decent One’ screening, Question and Answer
This film on Heinrich Himmler won the Best Documentary award at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Join Errol Morris and director Vanessa Lapa for a Question and Answer after the movie. Thursday from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Edie and Lew Wasserman Cinematheque at Sachar International Center. The Edie and Lew Wasserman Fund, the Program in Film, Television and Interactive Media, and the department of History sponsor this event. This event is free and open to the public.
Lydian String Quartet concert
$12 for seniors and $5 for students. The exhibit is on view through Thursday at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
Boston Lyric Opera: ‘The Love Potion’
Come see the fully-staged Boston premiere of Swiss composer Frank Martin’s retelling of the much-told story of Tristan. In this gripping work, we hear the medieval tale of the fateful love potion that binds him to Isolt, the woman torn between duty and love. This is a new production directed by David Schweizer Showing Nov. 19, 20, 22 at 7:30 p.m. and Nov. at 3 p.m. at Citi Performing Arts Center Shubert Theatre in Boston. Tickets are $50.
The quartet welcomes its newest member, violinist Mark Berger, with “It’s About Time, Part I.” The program is the first of a two part series reflecting the fascination composers have with the exploration of musical time and its effect on the listener. Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. Tickets are $20 for general admission, $15 for Brandeis community and seniors and $5 for students.
World Music: Ana Moura concert
Composers’ Collective
SpeakEasy Stage Company: ‘Bad Jews’
New Music Brandeis is a contemporary music concert series that showcases the work of Brandeis student composers. The group kicks off their season with new works from graduate student composers. Sunday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Slosberg Music Center. This event is free and open to the public.
OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: ‘Travels with Isabella’
Rooted in drawing and photography, this fantastical digital film by Luisa Rabbia is accompanied by music composed by Swiss-born composer and Disk Jockey Fa Ventilato. Admission is free for museum members and children. Tickets are $15 for adults,
Exquisite vocalist and upcoming performer Ana Moura possesses a sound unlike any other in fado. Her voice trolls freely though the Portuguese tradition, flirting elegantly with pop and broadening the soulbaring genre with stunning results. Friday at 8 p.m. at Berklee Performance Center. Tickets range from $28 to $37.
Two cousins wage war over a coveted family heirloom in this biting comedy about religion and culture. When the combatants are forced to spend the night in close quarters, the result is a viciously funny brawl over family, faith and legacy. Showing through Nov. 29. at the Roberts Studio Theater. Tickets range from $25 to $65; discounted student tickets are available.
MFA: ‘Over There!’
Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, this exhibition features 50 wartime posters from allies and enemies alike. On view through June 14 at the Museum of Fine Arts and admission is free for museum members students with a Brandeis ID.
POP CULTURE n !
ww This week had a smattering of interesting pop culture and entertainment news, and I couldn’t pick just one topic. Here’s some of what’s been going on. Taylor Swift’s new album, 1989, was released on Tuesday and quickly rose to No.1 on the iTunes’ Charts. The album features the successful single “Shake It Off,” and tracks like “Style,” “Wildest Dreams” and “Bad Blood” are already in the iTunes Top 10 singles. Swift has now crossed over fully from country to pop, but the departure from her classic sound doesn’t seem to be hurting album sales. According to Time magazine, her new album, 1989, is slated to be the top-selling album of the year. In fact, purchasing the album may be the only way fans can hear it, as it has not been released on Spotify or any other streaming services. Swift has been vocal about her belief that music should not be free. Like her previous album, Red, it could be months before the album is available to stream. The Princess Bride fans rejoice: star Cary Elwes, who played Wesley in the 1987 cult-classic fantasy film released a memoir this week titled As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride. The title refers to his character’s catch phrase, one of the many iconic expressions from the film. The book looks at the making of the film and features interviews with Elwes’ co-stars including Robin Wright, Billy Crystal and Mandy Patinkin, as well as the film’s director, Rob Reiner. Even if, like me, you’ve seen the film too many times to count and know all the lines, the behind-the-scenes stories are interesting and humorous, and it’s also a look at Elwes at the beginning of his movie career in his early twenties. Superhero buffs had a lot to be excited about on Tuesday after
By Ilana Kruger
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BEHIND THE SCENES: The new memoir As You Wish details the making of The Princess Bride. Marvel Studios announced many of its upcoming projects, such as a twopart finale to its Avengers saga. The original 2012 film, featuring Iron Man, the Hulk, Captain America and Thor, among other famous Marvel characters was a huge success, becoming the highest-grossing film that year as well as the 3rd highest film ever worldwide. After revealing the final teaser trailer for this May’s sequel, Avengers: Age of Ultron, the studio announced “Phase 3” of its plans, including a third Captain America film titled Captain America: Civil War which is a sequel to this summer’s runaway hit The Winter Soldier, the return of Thor, and the studio’s first female-centered
superhero movie, Captain Marvel. The film schedule goes as far as 2018, so Marvel devotees will have enough to satisfy them for the next few years. Finally, if you missed it, Daniel Radcliffe proved once again that he is no longer simply Harry Potter. The actor appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday to promote his new film, Horns, but ended up performing a spot-on rendition of Blackalicious’ 1999 rap “Alphabet Aerobics” after Fallon asked about his unlikely talent. Radcliffe gets every word right and even has some swag. YouTube it for your daily dose of entertainment.
ARTS COVER IMAGES: GUILLERMO NARVAEZ, MORGAN BRILL and BRI MUSSMAN/the Justice and Creative Commons. DESIGN: JEREMY PERLMAN /the Justice.
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Fein lectures on film during the Cold War By EMILY WISHINGRAD JUSTICE EDITOR
MORGAN BRILL/the Justice
FOREIGN AFFAIRS: Harvard Fellow Seth Fein spoke on Wednesday afternoon about his work on collaborative films between Mexico and America during the Cold War.
As it turns out, films not only reflect the current social and political atmospheres—they are influenced by these atmospheres in the way they are produced, edited and presented to the public. On Wednesday afternoon, Harvard fellow Seth Fein spoke about how the film industry and the products of the film industry reflected and embodied the political and social atmospheres during World War II and the Cold War. Prof. Fernando Rosenberg (HISP) introduced Fein, saying that he had wanted to bring his colleague to campus for a very long time. The talk was sponsored by the departments of Romance Studies, Latino and Latin American studies and the program in Film, Television and Interactive Media. The diversity of sponsors gave some idea of how broad the scope of the lecture was going to be—covering linguistic, social and audio-visual themes. Starting out by framing the lecture, Fein spoke about the four different ways that he looks at the implications of film in his own work. The first way of looking at film is what happens on the screen— the film itself in its representations. The second relates to the behind-the-scenes or production element to films. The third is the on-screen dissemination and the inter-texts of the film—how the film reproduces ideas from other works. Fein’s final way of looking
at film is through its reception by the audience. But in the context of Cold War (and World War II films—a period that Fein talked about at the beginning of his lecture), scholarship also looks at themes of transnationalism and internationalism at play in the cinematic sphere. These films and the film industries played major roles in foreign relations between the United States and Mexico—creating dynamic atmospheres of collaboration and exchange between the two countries. Fein addressed the poster on which the event was advertised— a poster that, as it turns out, had little to do with the lecture at hand. The image on the poster was a colorful illustration of the 1942 film Saludos Amigos, produced by Walt Disney Studios. As Fein noted, the film was not meant to be set in Mexico (Fein’s point of interest) but rather somewhere in Latin America. He also mentioned that it was also not a Cold War film but a World War II film. But Fein said, as a historian, one learns to work with the unexpected. He spoke about the World War II era in Mexico and relations with the United States during that time. He showed the World War II-period color tourist promotional video that urged Americans to come south of the boarder and experience a fun and safe vacation outside of the war’s path. The color video, Fein argued, was a way to create an image of sameness between the U.S. and Mexico—they had
the same technology. Fein also talked about how the film was not strictly a Mexican endeavor. It was filmed in Mexico but processed and edited in Hollywood with Hollywood actors doing the voice-overs—making it an international collaboration. The theme of partnership and collaboration between the United States and Mexico through film permeated throughout the lecture. The ties between the U.S. and Mexico were both reflected in the films but also in the production and execution process that was necessary to produce the films, such as American directors who wanted to have their studios and filming in Mexico. Fein then talked about the 1947 film La Perla (The Pearl), a film based on the John Steinbeck novel of the same name published in 1947. Steinbeck also co-wrote the screenplay. As an international endeavor, it was filmed Mexico and shot in both Spanish and English to be shown to both American and in Mexican audiences. This collaboration symbolized the breaking down of borders through film. The film was very reflective of U.S. and Mexican territorial history, as many of Steinbeck’s novels are set in the southwest American territories that have been historically part of Mexico. With time running out at the end, Fein had to condense his lecture—the parts about the Technicolor films were abridged—but he was happy to answer any questions either in person or by email after the lecture.
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Alum discusses his film about Hollywood blacklist By ANNA STERN
JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER
At an event on Wednesday evening, Brandeis alumnus, Arnie Reisman ’64, outlined the making of his Cold War documentary, When Red Was a Scary Color. The documnetary tells a story of the Hollywood blacklist of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Reisman is a journalist, documentarian and poet laureate of Martha’s Vineyard. Reisman’s talk focused on how his documentary came to be and provided a timeline of information about this time period. However, he told a few anecdotes as well. He began his talk by discussing the book that served as the inspiration for his documentary: Hollywood on Trial by screenwriter Gordon Kahn. Kahn was an author and screenwriter who was blacklisted. Reisman was working for Boston’s public broadcasting station, WGBH, with Tony Kahn, Gor-don Kahn’s son. Although Tony Kahn was American, he told Reisman that he had grown up in Mexico. Reisman was confused by this, and Kahn told him that it was because his father was on the Hollywood blacklist, a list of members of the film industry who were banned from working in Hollywood because they were believed to have Communist affiliations. Reisman did not have any knowledge of the Hollywood blacklist and decided to explore deeper. His first mission was to get permission for the film from then California Governor Ronald Reagan. An interview with Reagan was of utmost importance, because during the time of the Hollywood blacklist, Reagan was the president of the Screen Actor’s Guild. Reisman described in great detail his first phone call with Reagan. In fact,
Reagan was so enthusiastic about the idea for the film that he set up an interview appointment right away. Thus, filming began, and Reisman and his crew set up meetings around Hollywood with each member of the Hollywood Ten. The Hollywood Ten were important members of the blacklist as they were the ones who were brought in front of the House of Representatives’ American Activities Committee in October 1947. They were sentenced to prison for six months in 1948. Among the Hollywood Ten were screenwriter Lester Cole and producer and director Adrian Scott, both well-known members of the industry. Through Reisman’s interviews with these members, he was able to provide a window into an overlooked part of history while the members of the group were still alive. One fascinating anecdote was about how the House of Representatives’ American Activities Committee tricked members of the blacklist into telling the truth by having spies from the FBI pose as psychiatrists to try to pry people into telling the truth. One such actor, Sterling Hayden, confessed to the jury that he was guilty after he was arrested, but once he found out about the FBI, he immediately recounted his testimony, citing that he was provoked by the said “doctor” to tell the truth. Reisman’s talk provided an informative glimpse into the injustice that was the Hollywood blacklist. It is hard to believe that the American legal system forced innocent, free-thinking minds into jail solely for their personal beliefs. Reisman’s documentary shone a light on this injustice for generations to come. The event was sponsored by the American Studies department.
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REFLECTIONS: On Wednesday, Arnie Reisman ’64 spoke about his experiences creating a documentary on the Hollywood blacklist.
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ROCKING OUT TO SHAKESPEARE: Helena (Barbara Rugg ’15) and Demetrius (Raphael Stigliano ’18) are awoken by fairies during a musical number. PHOTOS BY BRI MUSSMAN/the Justice
HTP brings glam rock to ‘Midsummer’ By CARMI ROTHBERG JUSTICE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
“Are you sure that we are awake?” Demetrius (Raphael Stigliano ’18) asks Hermia (Tova Weinberger ’18) in Hold Thy Peace’s recent production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He continues, “It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream.” And indeed, the ’80s-themed play is so full of sharp contrasts— Shakespeare’s centuries-old writing emerging from the mouths of the young, energetic cast as they leap around a modern, graffitied set while fairies dance to David Bowie music—that it takes on a decidedly dreamlike, if occasionally jarring, feel. The play ran from Thursday night to Sunday afternoon this past week in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater, drawing viewers from the cold rain outside. Though the audience was relatively small when I saw the play on Thursday, the cast’s animated antics, which ranged from frolicking to fistfighting, made the theater seem lively, almost bustling. Puck (Sara Kenney ’18) bounded from a crouch on the stage’s floor to a proud pose on the set’s balcony; Lysander (Connor Wahrman ’17) and Demetrius chased Helena (Barbara Rugg ’15) in dizzying figure eights; Helena and Hermia drove each other back and forth across the floor. The giant, impressive set, which boasted spray painted Ionic columns and two levels, allowed the actors to take advantage of the full space of the stage. Director Alex Davis ’15 brought a clear new voice to Midsummer. A
number of lines were reinterpreted to add humor and depth to the work. And although some of these jokes involved splitting lines slightly awkwardly, they never failed to bring hearty laughs from the audience. The acting was phenomenal. While the disparity among the different characters’ accents was confusing—accents ranging from New Yorker to British, emotion was present in every line and every gesture showed something about a character. The physical comedy of the play matched the verbal comedy and the actors made the meaning of all of their lines clear to the audience. The play’s casting also gave Midsummer a new meaning. Ryan Kacani ’15 played the fairy king Oberon who is highly conflicted about his relationship with his wife Titania (Sophie Greenspan ’15). Kacani’s Oberon, jealous of his wife’s affection for her adopted son, laughed as he planned an elaborate prank to make Titania become “enamored of an ass.” But the bitterness in his voice showed his recognition of the irony of punishing what he sees as his wife’s unfaithfulness by making her fall in love with someone else. The complexity of Oberon’s relationships was further intensified by Kenney’s Puck, who, as she gleefully carried out Oberon’s bidding, occasionally shot wistful glances in his direction, suggesting a private yearning for her master. Kenney portrayed Puck as spiteful and compassionate in turn, creating tremendous depth in a character whose sole function would otherwise be to merely move the plot along. Though Kenney’s dramatic ability certainly
MAKE AN ASS OUT OF YOU: Titania (Sophie Greenspan ’15) is shown here fawning over Bottom (Riely Allen ’18) who has been turned into a donkey by Puck the fairy.
gave Puck the necessary depth to show such a complex relationship with Oberon, the directorial decision to cast a female Puck undoubtedly reframed the context of that relationship. This made the interactions between them tenser and more layered as well as much more interesting. Though HTP’s Midsummer was brimming with conflict, forbidden love and misfortune, it was not without its laugh-out-loud moments. Weinberger’s Hermia had the entire audience laughing at her outraged response to Helena’s insults about her height, and Riely Allen ’18 gave a hilariously convincing performance as Bottom, the overstated, self-important leader of a band of players called the mechanicals. Amanda Ehrmann ’18 was also hysterical as the mechanical Snout. Her unabashed portrayal of the Wall in the Midsummer’s climax, a mind-blowing play within a play, was one of the show’s funniest moments, as two of the other mechanicals kneeled onto the floor and spoke to each other through her waist. In spite of the undertones of seriousness and irony, the merriment and energy of the play defined its character, and in the end, as Davis wrote in the director’s note on the first page of the playbill, “the weirdos win.” The play, in all its surreal humor and otherworldly tones, was a success and an excellent way to kick off the Halloween weekend. With a stellar cast, an interesting new take on character relationships and a striking set, the play was professional, funny and a pleasure to watch.
THE “M” WORD: Hermia (Tova Weinberger’18) talks to Duke Theseus (Ryan Kacani ’15), telling her
she can’t marry Lysander and must marry Demetrius.
LOST IN LOVE: From left to right, Demitrius, Helena and Lysander (Conor Wahrman ’17) look across the stage at Hermia.
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ENERGY BOOST: Band Grey Season performed a Halloween-themed set of covers and original songs for a large group of local college students. PHOTO COURTESY OF MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
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By ILANA KRUGER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Boston-area college students looking for an activity on the night before Halloween were in luck this past Thursday. Approximately 3,300 students from 30 schools flocked to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston for College Night: MFA After Dark. The event invited students to “explore the dark side of the Museum’s Collection,” just in time for Halloween. Decked out in costumes, students had the option of taking a selfguided tour throughout the museum of its creepiest, strangest artwork or just looking at the open exhibits. Special attractions included a photo booth, free gelato in the museum’s Taste Cafe and a performance from a Berklee College School of Music folkrock band called Grey Season. Students came from schools that are university members of the museum, including Brandeis, Boston University, Northeastern University, Boston College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University. One featured exhibit on the tour was Goya: Order and Disorder—an eerie collection of Spanish painter Francisco Goya’s work. The exhibit opened last month and features famous paintings such as “Witches’ Sabbath” and “The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters.” Also highlighted on the tour were the dark works of American realist painter Jamie Wyeth from an exhibit of the same name. Works included “The Seven Deadly Sins,” “Raven” and “Mischief Night.” The Egyptian funeral arts gallery, containing mummies and other funeral artifacts, was also featured along with the museum’s darkest gallery, the Buddhist Temple Room. The band, Grey Season, wearing festive hats—to keep with the costumed audience—performed original songs as well as some Halloweenthemed ones, including “Monster Mash.” “We definitely wanted a band from one of the local schools since this event was catered to college students. We got in touch with some of our colleagues at Berklee, and came upon Grey Season through a referral,” communications coordinator Bobby Schrader said in a phone interview with the Justice. “The band
had a crowd listening at all points throughout the night and kept the energy going straight through to the end,” he explained. Schrader planned the event with MFA’s Senior Sirector of Communications Dawn Griffin. Planning started in the last week of September and details were finalized in the last few weeks of October, he told the Justice. “I did a walk-through during the event and was impressed with the amount of students in our galleries, especially in the Goya exhibit, which has some terrifying works that fit in with the Halloween theme,” he said. Throughout most of the event, the line of students went around the side of the museum, and students kept coming. Schrader says the high turnout was “due to the fact that it was the night before Halloween, and we had a lot of offerings for students.” Some of the night’s standout costumes included a pair of skeletons, a flapper and an Elsa from Disney’s Frozen, Minions from Despicable Me and Iron Man and Black Widow from The Avengers. Eighty-seven students came from Brandeis, according to Schrader. “The museum itself was breathtaking as always, and the event was a fun way to draw a huge crowd of students through the doors,” Joshua Rathburn ’16 said. “And nothing beats free gelato!” MFA’s Student Ambassadors from attending schools were on hand to assist with the event, showing students to the various attractions and galleries. The ambassadors represent the MFA at their respective universities and also help at the museum itself. Funding for the event came from the museum’s marketing and communications budget. “It is part of our mission to allocate resources to reaching the community,” Schrader said. The museum is interested in holding more events like this in the future. “We have had college nights like this before but not always on this scale,” Schrader said, “We have learned from this event and are thinking about adding a second photo booth and extending the time of the event so that students can experience more.” He said, “We are already planning another for the fall but are so happy
with the results of this event that we might hold another this spring.” Whether students were dancing to the band in the atrium, admiring each other’s costumes, enjoying gelato or exploring the galleries, the event brought attendees together. The event gave the museum a social aspect that allowed art to connect students with their peers from different schools in the area.
NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: College students file in to the Museum of Fine Arts to enjoy the museum’s Halloween-themed exhibits and events during the College Night: MFA After Dark. PHOTO COURTESY OF MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON
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Swift’s ‘1989’ bridges her old and new sounds By jessie miller justice editor
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CURTAIN UP: The Boston Ballet is currently showing artistic director Mikko Nissen’s version of the timeless classic ballet, Swan Lake.
Boston Ballet stages Mikko Nissinem’s new ‘Swan Lake’ By brooke granovsky justice editorial assistant
The Boston Ballet company’s artistic director, Mikko Nissinen, redefined the timeless classic production of Swan Lake at its opening this Thursday. Nissinen added to Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov’s original choreography. The story of Swan Lake follows Odette, a young girl who is kidnapped by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart. Rothbart turns Odette and her friends into swans, with Odette serving as the swan queen. There is only one way to break Rothbart’s spell—if a young man promises to marry Odette, then she and her friends will be free. Dancing Swan Lake is no easy feat, even for a company’s best dancers. Many principal dancers cite playing Odette/Odile as their hardest role, because the dancer must portray two completely different characters in one performance. For the Nov. 1 matinee performance, Misa Kuranaga played Odette, the good swan, and her alter ego Odile, the evil swan. Jeffrey Cirio danced the role of Prince Seigfried and Lasha Khozashvili played von Rothbart. Principal dancers and soloists change roles for every performance, while the corps de ballet generally keeps their chorus roles throughout the run. By the time the prince’s solo arrived in the first act, Nissinen’s influence on the choreography was clear. The prince’s solo had classical aspects, with an emphasis on smooth and turned out connecting steps and fifth position. However, Cirio’s solo’s deliberately off-center turns and delayed arm movements signified it as a reworking of the classical dance score. The overall effect was refined and expansive without being overwhelming. The Boston Ballet is one of many ballet companies to draw
inspiration and ballet technique from prolific choreographer George Balanchine’s teachings. A renowned choreographer and dancer in the 20th century, George Balanchine was known for employing repetition in a specific way. He would repeat a phrase of steps, but every third repetition would change a key element of the phrase. Nissinen seems to have drawn on Balanchine’s tradition, and the performance featured a key set of repeated steps. One of Swan Lake’s most famous variations is Odile’s solo in the third act. The variation started with a step up to an arabesque, with Kuranaga raising her leg directly behind her to form the pose. A pass through 4th position followed this pose into an expansive sweep through an “attitude” pose as Kuranaga lifted her leg behind her in a slightly bent position. The interplay between the static arabesque, the crisp pas-de-boure, steps out of the “attitude” and the smooth passes through fourth and fifth positions were highlighted with this phrase’s repetition. When the Prince repeated this phrase, he emphasized its precision. When Odette repeated these steps, she did so timidly, articulating her feet as if she was uncertain about each motion. Odile used immense power and control to infuse the steps with a type of sassy attitude. Both the prince and von Rothbart repeated these steps when they dueled in the final act. However, Nissinen’s subtly varied choreography made the contrast between these characters apparent, even in their dancing. The prince kept his eye line up, affecting a regal presence—and made his movements as precise as possible by accenting fourth and fifth position. Von Rothbart raised his arms slightly above his shoulders, kept tension in his
upper body and lowered his eye line slightly to affect a sinister presence as he moved through the phrase. A shocking aspect of the performance was its staging. Although ballet often incorporates creative lighting into its performances, more involved technology, such as large-scale use of smoke machines, is rarely used. This performance broke away from that tradition—acts two and five started with the dancers engulfed in smoke. This effect was most notable in the last act. For the fifth act, the curtain opened on the corps de ballet in the iconic “dying swan” pose—where the dancers lay on the ground with one leg bent under them, stretching over their legs and crossing their wrists. The fog was piled so high that the dancers were not visible for the first few counts of the act as they sat onstage. As the scene’s opening music played, the fog dissipated to reveal the tips of the swans’ headpieces. The dancers started to dance as the fog cleared, though it covered their pointe shoes until halfway through the scene. Balletic legend states that pointe shoes were invented to create the illusion that dancers are floating. Rather than distracting the audience, the fog added to the scene’s atmosphere by affecting exactly that image. The advantage of having a Balanchine-based company, where all of the dancers have the same training, was most poignant in sections that included the entire corps de ballet. When the corps adopted iconic Swan Lake poses, such as the dying swan, it seemed like every foot and finger was posed at the same angle. The show’s magnificence is challenging to put into words. It closes on Nov. 16, so there’s still time for you to experience it yourself.
Starting with the release of her single “Shake It Off” on Aug. 18, Taylor Swift’s latest album release, 1989, landed heavily on the pop music scene. And from the start, we see that this isn’t the same singer who only needed her voice and a guitar to capture the hearts of teenage girls everywhere. Instead, 1989 is a strange hybrid of Swift’s voice and synthetic tones and drums. The album opens with “Welcome to New York,” a song that makes me cringe and question whether I opened the right track on iTunes. It may have an upbeat vibe, but I didn’t need to hear those same four words mixed with Swift’s fake, syntheticsounding voice for three minutes and 33 seconds. The next few songs, like “Blank Space” and “Style,” continue the emotionally empty and highly synthetic style and are nothing memorable. However, the fourth track, “Out of the Woods” finally indicates that there may be hope for 1989. Produced with Jack Antonoff of the band FUN., the duo creates a musically and lyrically complex track that both reflects Swift’s beginning and her transition to pop star. The upbeat rhythm also doesn’t rely too heavily on synthetics like other songs, as Swift asks, “Are we out of the woods yet?” To me, Swift’s music needs both the emotional connection and catchy sound and “Out of the Woods” delivers both. However, the next track, “All You Had to Do Was Stay,” quickly departs from this style. Its piercing and unpleasant echoes of “Stay” are caustic and slightly nauseating, not to mention the lack of any really substance. The next track, “Shake It Off,” already speaks for itself—from Swift’s hilarious dance music video to the addicting and repetitive lyrics. Surprisingly, “Shake It Off” is very different than the rest of the music, much more upbeat and anthem-like than other songs. As the first single off the album, the song anticipated that this album would be a true pop album and different than her past work. Reaching the second half of the album, the songs start to improve overall. “Bad Blood,” a very upbeat track on a damaged relationship, and “Wildest Dreams,” a slower and more emotional track, reflect the two sides of the album—energetic pop anthems and deeper, more substantial songs. “Wildest Dreams” with its dark tone,
produces a feeling of longing as Swift sings, “Say you’ll remember me in a nice dress staring at the sunset…say you’ll see me again even if it’s just in your wildest dream.” The themes of lost love and not wanting to be forgotten are relatable but the song leaves a haunting and emotional effect on the listener. It’s classic Swift with a touch of her new style. However, the highlight of 1989 arrives with the last three tracks: “Wonderland,” “You R in Love” and “New Romance.” With the right mixture of powerful lyrics and delicate sounding moments followed by faster-paced, electric-induced moments, “Wonderland” is an album stand out. Swift sings about what she does best—lost love and mistakes—saying, “We found wonderland. You and I got lost in it. We pretended it could last forever.” Despite it’s strange name, “You R in Love” is a romantic and beautiful track and shows the happy side of a relationship instead of being scorned or jaded. With Swift, being unable to trust in relationships always holds a prominent place in her music, but here she sings, “You keep his shirt. He keeps his word. For once you let go of your fears.” A beautiful song both lyrically and musically, “You R in Love” demonstrates Swift’s mastery of love songs and pop music. “New Romance,” the final track, ends 1989 in a distinctly Swift fashion. Who else can better capture the complexities and challenges of young adulthood and the ensuing confusion, yet excitement? Twenty-somethings will resonate strongly with “New Romance” for its relatable lyrics, such as “Heartbreak is the national anthem. We sing it proudly” and “The best people in life are free.” Here, Swift captures the excitement and unpredictable nature of being young. Like it or not, Swift is transitioning as an artist, and you can either get on the bandwagon or stick with her older music. Though you’ll find the typical themes of love, betrayal, change and unease, Swift’s sound is completely different and I still don’t know how I feel about that. What I loved about Swift—her ability to effortlessly capture my every teenage emotion—has disappeared behind a cloud of fake vocals and synthetic overlays in many tracks. 1989 does not produce any prolific emotions or realizations, but it is entertaining enough to keep Swift on the short list of major pop artists. However, Swift redeems herself with the tracks that retain more depth and emotion.
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JUST GONNA SHAKE: Taylor Swift’s new album, 1989, in some ways radically deviates from her country style but also adheres to her older persona.
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Quote of the week
for the week ending Nov. 2
“Ending victim-blaming and rape culture is something we need to do right now together. We can do more to protect and support survivors at Brandeis.”
BOX OFFICE
1. Ouija 2. John Wick 3. Fury (2014) 4. Gone Girl 5. The Book of Life 6. St. Vincent 7. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day 8. The Best of Me 9. Dracula Untold 10. The Judge (2014)
— Ava Blustein ’16, a member of Brandeis Students Against Srxual Violence on Wednesday’s campus march (News, p. 1)
With the second annual library party this weekend, what is the weirdest thing you’ve ever seen in the library?
NYT BESTSELLERS
Fiction 1. Gray Mountain—John Grisham 2. Leaving Time—Jodi Picoult 3. Edge of Eternity—Ken Follett 4. Deadline—John Sandford 5. Beatiful You—Chuck Palahniuk HANNAH CHIDEKEL/the Justice
THE GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER: Justice photographer Hannah Chidekel ’18 took this photo last spring of her favorite plant, the fern. She says that she wanted to document the “weird and cool way that they grow.”
THE JUSTICE WANTS TO SEE YOUR ORIGINAL ARTWORK! Helen Yang ’18 “Oh, there was someone kissing there ... like making out.”
Raquel Kallas ’15 “One time I saw someone wearing this huge plaid bathrobe ... but it was me.”
Daniel Koas ’16 “So last year, a bunch of guys built like a little house on the bottom of the library and they slept there.”
Nathan Taber ’17 “I once saw a kid playing a World of Warcraft type game at about five o’clock on a Wednesday, and everyone was studying, and the kid was screaming out loud in the library. It was pretty funny.”
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CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Curtain hanger 4 Exec’s “Now!” 8 Works for People, perhaps 13 ’50s political slogan name 14 “Because Freedom Can’t Protect Itself” gp. 15 Dead Sea discovery 17 Stuffy room need 19 Overly affected 20 Cab ride cost 21 Smith, to Abigail Adams 23 UFO navigators, so they say 25 One-one, for one 26 Messy type 27 In and of itself 30 Tip holder 31 Me, to Matisse 32 Language of Southeast Asia 33 Mello Yello rival 38 Recipient of much Apr. mail 39 Baby seal 40 Overnight stopping place 41 Anger 42 Door-controlling sensor 45 Like very familiar jokes 46 Acidity nos. 47 Road crew goo 48 40-Across postings 50 Resort near Ventura 52 Spanish month 53 El Al home: Abbr. 54 1984 Prince hit 57 Purina rival 61 Error-removal aid 62 Painted setting behind stage actors, or what the ends of 17-, 21-, 33-, 42- and 54-Across can literally have 64 DVD player error message 65 Lago filler 66 Bustle 67 Uses Avis, say 68 Put in order 69 Kentucky Derby action DOWN 1 Repeated musical accompaniment 2 Pod vegetable 3 XING sign critter 4 “That’s the spot” 5 Takes for a ride 6 Et __: and others 7 17th-century New England settler 8 First name in makeup 9 Anti-rodent brand 10 Attaches, as patches 11 Complete dolt 12 Like many NFL replays 16 Pop singer Lisa 18 Dates 22 More in need of cleaning
iTUNES
1. Taylor Swift—“Shake It Off” 2. Taylor Swift—“Blank Space” 3. Meghan Trainor—“All About That Bass” 4. Maroon 5—“Animals” 5. Hozier—“Take Me to Church”
BILLBOARD
1. Slipknot—The Grey Chapter 2. T.I.— Paperwork 3. Neil Diamond—Melody Road 4. Logic—Under Pressure 5. Florida Georgia Line— Anything Goes 6. Jason Aldean—Old Boots, New Dirt 7. Little Big Town—Pain Killer 8. Barbra Streisand—Partners 9. Pentatonix—That’s Christmas To Me 10. Annie Lenox—Nostalgia Top of the Charts information provided by Fandango, the New York Times, Billboard.com and Apple.com.
24 Entices 27 Ballet bend 28 Viscount’s superior 29 Traditional New Year’s Day procession 30 Planet with the most moons 31 Gold rush figures 34 Your and my 35 Unspecified number 36 Author Gardner 37 Gets married 43 Contributes for a joint gift 44 Melons with wrinkly rinds 49 Very dry 50 Start serving customers 51 Courtroom panelist 52 Former Ford autos, briefly 53 Acquire, as debts 55 For fear that 56 Shakespearean villain 58 Many a Syrian 59 Airplane __: cellphone setting 60 Parking space 63 “Krazy” comics feline
STAFF’S Top Ten
FAVORITE CAR MODELS
Solution to last issue’s crossword Crossword Copyright 2014 Tribune News Service, Inc.
SUDOKU INSTRUCTIONS: Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.
Erik Howden ’16 “I once saw someone dressed up as a clown on a normal day.” —Compiled and photographed by Grace Kwon and Guillermo Narvaez/the Justice.
Nonfiction 1. Killing Patton—Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard 2. Not That Kind of Girl—Lena Dunham 3. Food—Jim Gaffigan 4. Being Mortal—Atul Gawande 5. As You Wish—Cary Elwes with Joe Layden
Solution to last issue’s sudoku
Sudoku Copyright 2014 Tribune News Service, Inc.
By GUILLERMO NARVAEZ JUSTICE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
I might not be a car expert, but I like to consider myself a car enthusiast. This is my Top Ten list of cars that have always taken my breath away. I included them either because of their history, their speed, their looks or simply because they have a personal value to me. Overall, I think they are all fantastic cars! 1. Ford Shelby Mustang GT350 (1965) 2. Ferrari 250 GTO (1962) 3. Ford GT40 (1966) 4. Porsche 911 (1963) 5. BMW i8 (2015) 6. Lamborghini Sesto Elemento (2011) 7. BMW E30 M3 (1988) 8. Caterham Seven 620R (2014) 9. Shelby Cobra 427 (1962) 10. McLaren P1 (2014)