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ATHLETICS

Leonard Bernstein Scholarship MCAD remains canceled indefinitely approves ■ The musical scholarship

was not offered to students in the Class of 2013 due to ﬁnancial restructuring. By EMILY KRAUS JUSTICE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

The Leonard Bernstein Scholarship, a merit-based scholarship that provides full tuition to incoming students based on musical merits, will no longer be awarded to incoming students and was not offered to students in the Class of 2013, according to Dean of Financial Services Peter Giumette. Giumette also said that there are no current plans to reinstate the scholarship. Giumette explained that the University wanted to restructure the

financial aid for the Class of 2013 to ensure that more students with demonstrated need received scholarships. He said, “We did, … for the Class of 2013, refocus merit scholarships to some degree so that people who received merit had some degree of need as well.” However, the 12 students who received the scholarship in years past will continue to do so until they graduate. According to Brandeis’ Web site, the scholarship, which was first offered in fall 2003, grants full-tuition awards to musicians entering Brandeis and gives them the opportunity to participate in a chamber ensemble and receive training from the Lydian String Quartet. According to Giumette, the scholarship was cut due to not just financial issues, but because interest in the program was not enough to justi-

fy its continuation. “We have, frankly, in the past struggled to come up with the number of recipients that we had ear-

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We did, ... for the Class of 2013, refocus merit scholarships. PETER GIUMETTE Dean of Financial Services

marked for each year. … I don’t think the quality of the applicant was what they were looking for,” Giumette said. Gordon, however, said that a large

Sullivan lawsuit

number of students continued to apply for the scholarship while it was being offered and emphasized the unique experience that playing in a chamber group provides to music students. He added that the Music department will continue to offer chamber classes in the years to come. “What I particularly like about working with the scholarship groups is the chance to meet with them every week in a small, seminar-like kind of situation, … It really gives us time to work in a lot of detail, and as a teacher that’s something that I really look forward to,” Gordon said. When asked whether he thought that Brandeis would have a harder time recruiting musicians due to the

■ The Massachusetts

Commission Against Discrimination reviewed a claim of age discrimination. By LIZ POSNER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

The Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination recently approved an age-discrimination case submitted in 2006 by former Brandeis women’s softball coach Mary Sullivan against the University. Sullivan told the Justice that the MCAD found “probable cause” in her claim of age discrimination. The controversy began in July of 2006 when the then-54-year-old Sullivan was fired and replaced by 28-year-old Jessica Johnson despite the fact that that year, Sullivan had coached the Judges to a turnaround season in which they won 11 more games than they had the past season. Johnson is currently in her third season as head coach. Sullivan’s firing drew even more controversy because Athletic Director Sheryl Sousa ’90, who had initiated

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ADMISSIONS

New admission center hosts Fall Open House ■ The Carl and Ruth

Shapiro Admissions Center features larger waiting rooms and more ofﬁces. By MIRANDA NEUBAUER JUSTICE SENIOR WRITER

The nearly 900 visitors who attended yesterday’s Fall Open House had the opportunity to visit the new 21,000-square-foot Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center, which first opened its doors to prospective students last Tuesday. The new building, the construction of which began in August 2008, is spread out over two floors and features larger waiting areas and more offices and workspace than the previous admissions center, a kitchen and a 100-seat presentation room. Charles Rose Architects, who planned the layout of the Carl and Ruth Shapiro Campus Center, designed the building. The Shapiro family has pledged the $14 million for the new building, Vice President for Capital Projects Dan Feldman wrote in an e-mail to the Justice, and has been making its promised payments on schedule. The migration of the Office of

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Ben Folds coming to Brandeis ARTS p. 19

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GRAND OPENING: The Carl and Ruth Admissions Center opened to nearly 900 visitors during Fall Open House yesterday. Undergraduate Admissions’ office material and equipment to the new building occurred Oct. 3, and staff moved into the building last Monday. During construction, Admissions worked out of

Bernstein-Marcus. “University leadership is in the final stage of determining what will happen to [the space used in Bernstein-Marcus], and there should be a decision very soon,”

Feldman wrote in an e-mail to the Justice. The building is still getting its finishing touches, Senior Vice President for Students and

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Job hunting

Figueroa honored

Presidential search

■ An alumnus navigates the real world.

■ Major League pitcher Nelson Figueroa ’98 had his jersey number retired by the baseball team.

■ Faculty representatives to the presidential search committee will be selected this Thursday.

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INDEX

SPORTS 16 ARTS

EDITORIAL FEATURES

10 8

OPINION POLICE LOG

11 2

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NEWS BRIEFS

POLICE LOG

Einstein Bros Bagels reinstates Saturday afternoon hours

Medical Emergency

Einstein Bros. Bagels has expanded its hours of operation to include service on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to University Dining Services and Student Union President Andy Hogan ’11. “We accomplished this change [back to Saturday service] by talking with both [Michael Newmark, director of Dining Services] and Mark Collins, the vice president of Operations, and we explained to them that students want the hours back,” Hogan said. Einstein had been open Saturday afternoons in the past before its hours were cut during the summer. Hogan sent out a Sept. 24 e-mail to the student body and the involved_students listserv asking them to complete a survey on dining changes that they would like to see. “The first involved_student listserv was about dining, and it showed students overwhelmingly supported having the Saturday hours,” Hogan said. “We started talking to [Dining Services and Operations] a few weeks ago because [we knew] from having anecdotal evidence that students wanted it,” Hogan said. “But after the numbers came through, we could show what students really wanted, and that made making the case a lot easier.” Student customers were happy that they could again frequent Einstein on Saturdays after the policy switch. “I like that they have it open on Saturdays now; it’s just really convenient,” Elizabeth Goldman ’12 said. “I need my coffee.” Lauren Kraus ’10 said, “It’s convenient, and it’s a nice place to socialize. There’s nothing I would rather be doing on a Saturday morning than come for a cup of coffee and hang out with my friends.”

Oct. 6—University Police received a call about a student in Shapiro Residence Hall who had flu-like symptoms. University Police notified BEMCo. The party was transported to the NewtonWellesley Hospital by ambulance. Oct. 7—University Police received a call from a 17-year-old male in Shapiro Residence Hall complaining of general weakness. BEMCo was notified. The patient did not want to go to the hospital. BEMCo contacted the party’s parents by phone for refusal. No further action was taken. Oct. 7—A party in North Quad reported an injured ankle. BEMCo treated the party onscene with a signed refusal for further care. Oct. 9—A party at the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center reported an injured knee. BEMCo treated the party on-

scene with a signed refusal for further care. Oct. 11—A registered party in Shapiro Residence Hall reported an intoxicated male who was vomiting in a bathroom on the third floor. University Police and BEMCo responded. The party was treated on-scene with a signed refusal for further care.

Larceny Oct. 8—A registered party reported leaving his wallet in either the Shapiro Campus Center or the Bethlehem Chapel. The party received an e-mail from the Shapiro Campus Center information booth stating that the wallet had been found. Upon its return, the party discovered $200 missing. University Police compiled a report on the incident.

Disturbance Oct. 10—University Police dispersed a large party in the Foster Mods. University Police will file

judicial charges against the residents and also compiled a report on the incident. Oct. 10—University Police responded to a report of loud party at the Charles River Apartments. University Police dispersed a small group. A verbal warning was given to the residents of the room. Oct. 10—A party in Ziv Quad reported that she heard yelling and breaking glass. University Police checked the area and found broken bottles in the central quad area. A small group within one of the dorms was playing a video game very loudly. University Police asked the group to stop for the night.

Traffic Oct. 10—University Police received a report of damage to a car parked in front of Rabb Graduate Center. University Police compiled a report on the accident.

SENATE LOG Students will have role in search for new president

Search for Justice Brandeis Semester Manager in final stages The Justice Brandeis Semester Committee is in the final stages of selecting a candidate to fill the post of JBS manager, Director of Study Abroad and committee member J. Scott Van Der Meid wrote in an e-mail to the Justice. “We are in the final stages, but need to allow our committee time to review the candidates and do the normal process required for hiring,” Van Der Meid wrote. The Brandeis employment Web site lists some of the responsibilities of the JBS manager as “managing the logistics of the program, including developing publicity, the application process, budget monitoring, and logistical arrangements for students and faculty.” In an article published in the Oct. 6 issue of the Justice, Van Der Meid said that the JBS committee had conducted phone interviews with a number of candidates two weeks ago and then invited a smaller number of applicants to interview on campus. Van Der Meid said in the previous article that the JBS committee hoped to have chosen a JBS manager within the next three weeks to coincide with the approval process for summer 2010 JBS proposals. In his e-mail, Van Der Meid wrote, “We hope to have the exact programs approved by the UCC by Oct. 22nd.” — Harry Shipps

AP BRIEF Bill calls for an official apology

CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS An article in Features last week misspelled the name of a charity event. The event is the Walk Against Crohn’s Disease, not the Walk against Chron’s disease. (Oct. 6, p. 13) The Justice welcomes submissions for errors that warrant correction or clarification. E-mail justeditor@ brandeis.edu.

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Oct. 6—University Police received a report of a suspicious white male wearing dark clothing and loitering in the loading dock area of the Usdan Student Center. University Police checked the area, but the party was gone upon arrival. Oct. 7—A party in the Lemberg Children’s Center reported a suspicious letter. University Police compiled a report on the same. Oct. 11—A Community Advisor in Usen Castle reported that there were people on the roof of Castle Tower B and that someone’s legs came through the roof. There was also a report of exposed wires outside a room in Tower B. The community advisor and community development coordinator were notified. University Police took photographs and compiled a report on the damage. — compiled by Harry Shipps

— Nathan Koskella

BOSTON—Two state lawmakers want Massachusetts to apologize to residents of the Fernald Center for people with mental disabilities. Rep. Thomas Sannicandro has filed a bill requiring an official apology for alleged civil rights violations among patients at the Waltham facility. The violations include Cold War experiments in which children there were fed radioactive cereal. Rep. Thomas Stanley has filed a bill calling for a formal investigation of the misclassification of patients there.

Miscellaneous

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South Asian Delights Students enjoy Indian food during a reception last Thursday in the Schneider Building at which they learned about the South Asian Studies program, the Brandeis-India Initiative and Revive Mumbai.

Student Union President Andy Hogan ’11 announced that he will meet with Board of Trustees Chairman Malcolm Sherman in the coming week and that he is confident student representation will be a component of the search for a new University president. Students will be on an advisory committee to the Board of Trustees, if not be represented on the selection committee itself, Hogan said. Hogan said the Senate should select its member for the Constitutional Task Force and affirmed the Union’s meeting with the administration about JBS. The Senate rejected an Emergency Senate Money Resolution of $445 brought by the Dining Services Committee for students to create and sponsor a new campus garden. Director of Academic Affairs Supreetha Gubbala ’12 discussed “Communiversity,” a Brandeis program headed by Union senators that offers classes on any subject and can be taught by professors or students in February. Gubbala also reported an initiative to draft a change to University general requirements allowing one of these classes to be taken on a pass/fail option. The proposal will be submitted to Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences Elaine Wong. Hogan administered the oath of office to the new Senator for the Foster Mods Amy Mandel ’10. The Senate unanimously confirmed Cheryl Leibowitz ’11 as the non-Senate chair of the Services Committee. The Senate also confirmed unanimously the new non-Senate chair of the Outreach Committee Luria Rittenberg ’11. The Senate unanimously confirmed Sarah Koenig ’13 as a new member of the Executive Task Force. The Senate voted unanimously to charter Students Talking About Relationships as a club. The Senate voted to recognize Brandeis for Alan Khazei, an organization to promote the candidacy and successful election of Khazei, a Democrat from Massachusetts and co-founder of City Year, to the United States Senate, as a club. —Nathan Koskella

ANNOUNCEMENTS ‘Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege, and Denial in the Age of Obama’ Leading anti-racism activist Tim Wise will speak about his new book, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Challenging Racism, Privilege, and Denial in the Age of Obama, which explores the issues of race within the context of the Obama presidency. Following his talk, Wise will conduct a question and answer session and a reception will be held. The event is sponsored by the Louis D. Brandeis Legacy Fund for Social Justice. Today from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Faculty Center Dining Room. For more information, e-mail dmirabal @brandeis.edu or rosenbla@brandeis.edu.

Student Global AIDS Campaign Panel A panel comprised of faculty members and one student who are experts regarding HIV/AIDS will speak about the current state of HIV/AIDS throughout the world. Panel

members will be available to answer questions after the discussion. Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Art Gallery.

Peace Corps information session Recruiter Jessi Flynn will be available to discuss overseas volunteer opportunities available with the Peace Corps. Volunteers live and work for 27 months in one of over 75 countries. There is currently a particular need for French and Spanish speakers, as well as those holding degrees in environmental studies, computer science, health, English, sciences, math, agriculture and forestry as well as experienced and licensed educators. All students are welcome at the information session. Thursday from 6 to 7 p.m. in the Hiatt Career Center.

Goldwater information session Rising sophomores or juniors interested in

careers in mathematics or the natural sciences can attend this session to obtain information and scholarship application details. Thursday from 3 to 4 p.m. in Usdan 122. For more information, e-mail hudsonj @brandeis.edu.

The Tension Between Homosexuality in Israel

Religion

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Renana Leviani, HBI Scholar-inResidence and doctoral candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Bar-Ilan University, will be in the NEJS 178a class Love, Sex and Power in Israeli Culture to talk about the tensions between Judaism and homosexuality and the trends and challenges for the religious gay community in Israel. Special attention will be placed on the lesbian woman's experience. This lecture will be given in Hebrew. Friday from 10:40 a.m to noon in Lown 103. For more information, e-mail szobel@brandeis.edu.

THE JUSTICE

REPORTING ON HISTORY

By NASHRAH RAHMAN JUSTICE EDITOR

Klibanoff discusses civil rights coverage ■ Journalist and author

Hank Klibanoff spoke to faculty members and students about his latest book on media coverage of the civil rights movement. By ERIN DONIGER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Hank Klibanoff discussed his book on the evolution of the press’s coverage of the civil rights movement, The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation at an event last Thursday. The lecture, titled “The Race Beat: Then and Now,” was sponsored by the Journalism Program, the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism, the Department of American Studies, the Social Justice and Social Policy Program and Gen Ed Now. Klibanoff, a native of Alabama, grew up in the forefront of the changing race relations. He uses his Southern background as well as his 35 years as a newspaper reporter and editor for publications such as the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Boston Globe and the Philadelphia Inquirer to write his award-winning book alongside Prof. Gene Roberts of the University of Maryland Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Klibanoff said that he and Roberts “tried to make [The Race Beat] very much about storytelling.” Klibanoff said that “The Race Beat really begins far outside the South, nowhere near a newsroom.” He said that the book begins in 1938, in a boardroom of the Carnegie Corporation, which funded a survey called “Negro in America,” led by Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. The findings resulted in the publication of Myrdal’s An American Dilemma. “On page 48, in italics, he frames his thinking in a way that launched our book,” said Klibanoff. “To get publicity is of the highest strategic importance to the Negro people,” wrote Myrdal.

Klibanoff also discussed his current project, “The Cold Case Truth and Justice Project,” an attempt to investigate unsolved racial crimes and murders during the Civil Rights era. “Our goal is to get right with history, to fill in all the gaps ... and set the stage for racial healing,” said Klibanoff. The Center for Investigative Reporting is leading the project, using vast resources and groups to serve justice and hopefully criminal prosecution for some of the many longago closed cases, he said. Prof. Maura Jane Farrelly (JOUR), who encouraged all her students to attend the lecture, told the Justice that she was very pleased with the outcome of the event. “My hope, I guess, is that the people who attended the event will walk away with a real appreciation of the vital role that the news industry plays in sustaining, expanding and realizing the democratic and pluralistic ideals upon which this country was founded,” Farrelly said. Prof. Eileen McNamara (JOUR) who has known Klibanoff personally through the Boston Globe for 30 years, told the Justice, “Hank Klibanoff’s presentation reminded us of the history-shaping role journalists can play by seeing or failing to see injustice in their own communities.” “I urged my reporting class and my ethics classes to attend because the lessons of the era he recounts in The Race Beat are just as relevant to today’s journalism students,” said McNamara. Sung Taek Chung ’12, a student from Farrelly’s “Advertising and the Media” class, said, “I got very emotionally engaged [with the lecture]. … As an international student hearing about racial prejudice in the American South, I also got a stronger feel for the reason why it was inevitable for such powerful and daring journalism to develop in America.” “I thought Mr. Kibanoff’s lecture was very intriguing, and it gave a lot of insight concerning the Civil Rights movement,” Diana Cincotta ‘11 said. “He appeared very passionate about the topic, which definitely created a more interesting and engaging lecture.”

Nominations for faculty members of presidential search committee received be composed of faculty and Board of Trustee members. A student advisory group will provide feedback to the search committee.

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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009

ADMINISTRATION

■ The search committee will

THE RACE BEAT: Author Hank Klibanoff, former managing editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, spoke about his new book ‘The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation’ at an event last Thursday.

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The creation of a presidential search committee in the aftermath of University President Jehuda Reinharz’s Sept. 24 announcement to resign is underway. Board of Trustee members and faculty will be on the committee, Chairman of the Board of Trustees Malcolm Sherman told the Justice Oct. 6. There will also be a Student Advisory Committee to support the search committee, according to an Oct. 7 campuswide e-mail sent by Student Union President Andy Hogan ’11. Reinharz will remain president until a new president has been selected or until June 30, 2011, according to a Sept. 24 University press release. According to Chair of the Faculty Senate Prof. Sabine von Mering (GRALL) in an e-mail to the Justice, Sherman intends to announce the members of the search committee at the Oct. 28 Board meeting. Sherman could not be reached by

press time. At an Oct. 1 faculty meeting, Von Mering said that two seats have been reserved for faculty members on the search committee and that the Senate is working to increase faculty representation. As of Oct. 11, the Faculty Senate has received over 100 nominations for 25 different candidates from 52 nominators for faculty representatives on the search committee, wrote Von Mering in her e-mail. “We are still in discussions with Mal Sherman about the actual number of faculty on the search committee,” Von Mering wrote in her e-mail. Von Mering also wrote that the Senate is meeting with the faculty representatives to the Board of Trustees this Thursday “to deliberate which and how many names to put forward to [Sherman].” She added that it will take a few more days of negotiation before the final faculty members on the search committee are confirmed. “[Faculty representatives to the search committee] need to know Brandeis really well and be able to articulate our strengths. They also need to be able to work well with the other members of the committee, most of whom will likely not be academics,” wrote Von Mering in an Oct. 4 e-mail to the Justice. Hogan said that the representation of students on the search committee is “unclear as of now” and that he is still in discussion with Sherman.

“I believe [the Student Advisory Committee] will have a very important role in speaking for students when talking to potential candidates and giving the search committee an idea of what students want for their next president,” Hogan said. Hogan wrote in the campuswide email that the advisory committee will be comprised of six to 10 students and said in an interview with the Justice that its members may meet once every week. “The committee will also be involved in the interview process for the finalists and will give recommendations to the Board of Trustees, who are ultimately responsible for this decision,” Hogan wrote in the campuswide e-mail. The deadline to apply for the advisory committee was yesterday, and members of the committee will be selected by Hogan, Union Junior Representative to the Board of Trustees Heddy Ben-Atar ’11 and Union Senior Representative to the Board of Trustees Jonathan Kane ’10. Hogan said that the applicants for the advisory committee will undergo an interview process before the final selection is made. The Board of Trustees has also charged the Senate with forming a faculty advisory committee. “The Senate will begin the process of forming a faculty committee as soon as the search committee is confirmed. We are currently figuring out the best possible process,” Von Mering wrote in her e-mail.

ACADEMICS

DCC considers introducing new course designations ■ The Dean’s Curriculum

Committee may add dual course listings or new subject codes. By NATHAN KOSKELLA JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Dean’s Curriculum Committee is considering the addition of dual course listings in the University course designations based on recommendations of the Curriculum and Academic Restructing Steering committee proposal so that a course can be listed under more than one department or program, according to the minutes of the Sept. 23 DCC meeting. The DCC is also discussing an alternate proposal that would create new subject codes, the three- to fiveletter combinations used to designate course areas in the University Bulletin for classes deemed to reside equally between one department and another. The DCC was created this fall to help coordinate any curriculum changes regarding the various departments and curricular programs. The CARS committee is composed of staff, faculty and students charged to recommend changes to the general Arts and Sciences curriculum and ways to more efficiently deliver it. The registrar already includes some courses under cross-listing, which occurs when a class is in one department and relevant to an aspect of another program offered by the University. Cross-listed courses keep the original, department subject code, whereas the two new proposals would either have a course in two codes or create new codes. “‘Dual course listing’ refers to

changing the course system so that the same course could be listed in more than one department or program. For example, ‘Molecular Biology’ could be BIO [sic] 123 and also be BCHM 123,” wrote Dean of Arts and Sciences Adam Jaffe in an e-mail to the Justice. According to University Registrar Mark Hewitt, the second approach has won out, and he is looking to

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The Registrar would have to implement this change, and it would require programming work from [LTS] to make it work. DEAN ADAM JAFFE

implement it. “It’s going to be very confusing for students if we try dual-listing right now, and I don’t recommend it. The costs outweigh the benefits,” he said. “I’m certainly open to new subject codes. It makes the faculty feel easier and it helps with resources,” Hewitt said. “Rather than dual listing, the DCC is also looking into creating new subject codes, with a maximum of 8 characters, with ‘AAAS/POL’ for instance,” Hewitt said. What this proposal seeks is to accomplish is to “allow faculty departments to share resources, so this is not taking the place of crosslisting, but supplementing. We’re trying to minimize the duplication

across departments,” Hewitt said. In resolving the issue for the second plan, Jaffe said that the committee would work with the other Brandeis departments, including Library and Technology Services and the registrar as well as those with interest and expertise on the subject. “The Registrar would have to implement this change, and it would require programming work from [LTS] to make it work,” wrote Jaffe in his e-mail. The first option would have required additional necessary work, such as reconfiguration of the sage student login system, Hewitt said. Otherwise there would have been be many errors in registration, according to Hewitt. A large concern would be the fact that in registering a class online in one department, the other department’s course page would have the same class under a new course number. Hewitt advised that whether a class was full or not could depend on which of the two department pages a student loaded. According to this revised second type, Hewitt’s example of an “AAAS/POL” would appear in entirely new program pages online and in a distinct section of the Bulletin. While Jaffe reminded that there was no direct link between this academic resource sharing and University financial objectives, this efficiency could go toward trimming expenses at the University. This policy, specifically, could work toward the CARS committee’s stated goal to reaching a more manageable number of faculty positions. Hewitt said, “Since the CARS committee is going forward looking for a reduction of faculty, in that sense there is financial benefit.”

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MCAD: MUSIC: Scholarship canceled Sullivan case finds age bias CONTINUED FROM 1

CONTINUED FROM 1 Sullivan’s termination, had played softball under Sullivan during her time at Brandeis. Sullivan was told that the reason behind her firing was that she had not met the standards required of her as coach. In 2006, 59-year-old Cliff Hauptmann alleged age discrimination after being fired by the University after 14 years in the Office of Admissions and the Office of Communications. “There have actually been very few age discrimination claims filed against the University in the past few years. … It is not unusual for such a large employer to be the subject of periodic employment claims. The University handles each case individually,” Associate General Counsel Steven Locke said. Sullivan filed her case to the MCAD alleging age discrimination in January 2007. In July 2009, Sullivan and the University received notification of the MCAD ruling, which found probable cause to credit Sullivan’s allegations of age discrimination by the University. Legal procedure required both parties to attend a conciliation conference at the commissioner’s office Aug. 19. Sullivan attended with her lawyer, Harold Litchtin, opposite Steven Locke from the Office of the General Counsel and Jean Eddy, vice president of Students and Enrollment. “We both went to the meeting and nothing happened. Brandeis would not settle anything with me,” Sullivan said. Locke explained in an e-mail to the Justice, “The University is defending the case and firmly believes that it did nothing wrong.” The case has now entered the first phase of the six-month discovery procedure. During this process, legal teams from both sides will begin the exchange of depositions and documentation. According to MCAD legal procedure published on their Web site, this process will additionally include “interrogatories to parties, subpoenas requiring the production of documents, papers and other tangible things.” The discovery procedure will conclude in mid-February, at which time, according to Locke, “MCAD will hold a certification conference to determine whether to certify the case to public hearing before an administrative hearing officer.” Sullivan said the public hearing “is basically a minitrial.” Reflecting on the legal proceedings, Sullivan said, “I was hoping that once this ruling came down, and the probable cause was found to credit my allegations that, you know, they might want to settle instead of letting it continue. But they don’t seem to want to. I mean, it’s hard, it’s been over three years and it’s not easy to get through this, but I have to continue.” One of Sullivan’s former players defended her coach. “We were really upset by it,” said Evi Ullman ’03. “I feel that I can no longer support the Athletics department. I don’t feel comfortable giving money to the school. What happened was pretty unfair. That is how upsetting this was to me as an alum and as a player.” — Hannah Kirsch and Nashrah Rahman contributed reporting

scholarship’s suspension, Prof. Joshua Gordon (MUS), a member of the Lydian String Quartet, said, “I’m sure we’re always going to get people interested in music coming to Brandeis, because that’s been the case ever since the school started.” “I don’t think we view the scholarship as just a way to develop professional musicians; I think that we view it as a way to develop students in general,” Gordon said. He noted that many students who receive the scholarship are not Music majors and that they learn skills through their participation in chamber ensembles that translate to many fields besides music. Gordon expressed his hope that the scholarship will be offered again at some point in the future, saying, “I’m hoping that when conditions improve … that it will be possible to restore the scholarship, because I think that it’s a win-win for the school.” According to an e-mail from Giumette to the Justice, “To my understanding, there are no plans to reinstate [the Leonard Bernstein

NATHANIEL FREEDMAN/Justice File Photo

MUSICAL TEAM: The Lydian String Quartet above trained Bernstein scholars.

Scholarship] for the coming year. … Our immediate emphasis has to be on need-based grant and scholarship given both the state of the economy and our overall commitment to current students and their families.” None of the other Brandeis-sponsored merit scholarships, such as the Justice Louis D. Brandeis

Scholarship, the Presidential Award and the Dean’s Award, were suspended. “We offered the same array of scholarships, just not as many as we had in the past,” said Giumette. “I think there should be a place for that kind of merit-based scholarship just as there is for athletics,” Gordon

said of the scholarship geared toward talented musicians. He continued, “I’ve been hearing that there have been other merit scholarships being affected by the downturn. … It’s clearly a tough time, and I know the arts are not immune to tough times. Given the history of support for the arts at Brandeis, I hope that things will turn around.” Kristina Yepez ’12, a recipient of the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship, acknowledged that she would not have attended Brandeis had she not been offered the award. She said that while some musicians will continue to be interested in Brandeis, it will be harder for the University to attract as many musicians without the scholarship. “It’s obviously a lot of money, but … this is really kind of cutting back on the arts at Brandeis, and I feel like it’s not giving people the chance to explore music majors,” said Nicole Kilroy ’12, another recipient of the scholarship. She explained that without the scholarship, “people who want to progress further in music aren’t going to come here. They’re going to go to the conservatories.”

ADMISSIONS: New building welcomes visitors CONTINUED FROM 1 Enrollment Jean Eddy said. Features like two gas fireplaces in the lobby near a seating area are not completed. Display cases with information about Brandeis Athletics, the Shapiro Family, the history of Brandeis and Louis Brandeis will stand in another area of the lobby. The presentation room has 100 seats and will have additional seating area available on cushioned benches built into the wall in the back to fit about 130 people altogether, Eddy said. “It’s incredibly high-tech. Two big screens can come down; you can teleconference, [and] you could do a Web cast from this room. It’s pretty amazing.” One of the offices on the ground floor is designated for financial aid information. Eddy said the office could have rotating occupancy with other departments to offer families information on career services or academics. The old 10,400-square-foot Admissions building, originally an academic building called Morton May Hall constructed in the 1950s, was renovated with funding from the Shapiro family in 1994. Eddy recalled that Carl Shapiro frequently visited the building to ask what improvements the Admissions staff deemed necessary. Over the years, she said, he supported work such as finishing floors, buying new furniture or installing new equipment. The old building, while beloved by Admissions staff, had two problems, said Eddy; because there was no presentation room to fit more than 50 students, increasingly larger groups of students had to go to sessions in the Carl J. Shapiro Theater or in Spingold, an inconvenient situation. She added that a large rock the old building was built around divided working space in an ineffective way. In the very early stages of the planning, “the hope was that this was going to be completed before school opened in the fall,” Eddy said. Feldman wrote that the October move-in “was entirely consistent with what had emerged as the ‘official’ schedule for the project.” When the schedule changed, there was some concern because after the Fall Open House, Eddy said, the heavy reading season of applications begins. “The hope was, … ‘Let’s have it be open for the Open House so that when people come to campus, Admissions is here,’” Eddy said. This year, the target for the fall entering class is about 860 students, Eddy said, in addition to

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FALL OPEN HOUSE: Visitors interact with receptionists at the Carl and Ruth Admissions Center at the annual open house. transfers and midyears. She explained that next year represents the second stage of the University’s plan to increase enrollment over the next several years as part of the Curriculum and Academic Restructuring and Steering committee’s plans. “If we fail, then we’re not going to meet our budget target and we’re not going to achieve the goals as laid out by CARS,” she said Eddy said that all pre-Open House programming for the Students Embracing Diversity program, which began Sunday, would take place in the new build-

ing. She said she hoped that on Monday students and their families would return from campus by way of the new building. Eddy said there were not many changes to the format of yesterday’s annual Open House from past years. She added that there would be added emphasis on career preparation than previously and that there would be a student panel on student life, because past years had shown that such an approach is the most effective for reaching out to prospective students. Many incoming students who

visited the University last Friday liked the new building. “The building looks really new and nice. … It’s light, and you can see the campus from the window,” Lauren Jacobs, a prospective student from Sudbury, Mass. said. “I haven’t really visited a lot of schools, but it’s probably one of the nicer [admissions buildings].” “It’s really nice, it’s probably the best admissions building I’ve been to so far. It’s really clean and very efficient-looking,” Charles Santos, a prospective student from California, said.

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In 1938, filming began on The Wizard of Oz.

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Now What? Brandeis graduates navigate post-college life

From the bubble to Brooklyn

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LIVING INDEPENDENTLY: Iddrissu now lives in Brooklyn with three roommates.

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SITTING ON THE DOCK: A photographer in his spare time, Suahd Morris-Iddrissu ’09 takes a picture of a friend.

WORKING MAN: Iddrissu still spends time with fellow Brandeis graduates.

Suahd Morris-Iddrissu ’09 searches for a job in a difficult economy By TESS RASER JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

In the current job market, times are tough, especially if you’re a recent college graduate. As they navigate life outside the Brandeis bubble, some grads are following paths they’d always planned on pursuing, while others have found employment and hobbies they never expected. This is the first in a series of articles about recent Brandeis graduates and their adjustments to life after college. When the national economic crisis hit last year, Suahd Morris-Iddrissu ’09 was in the middle of his senior year. “Hey,” he figured, “things will get better by May [when I graduate].” Unfortunately, the economy did not improve by the time he graduated and Morris-Iddrissu, a well dressed, clean-cut young man, was forced to think more creatively about his post-graduation plans. He had originally wanted to go to law school right away. But Morris-Iddrissu, a Politics major, stopped considering law school because high tuition costs made him reluctant to apply. Eventually, he hopes

to work in university administration, as a dean of a university or a similar position. “[That’ll be] the end of the rainbow,” he says of the job. Morris-Iddrissu, a New York native, began looking for a job while still at Brandeis. “Many positions were not [waiting] for anyone to graduate. [Employers] wanted people who could begin right away,” he says. Once home after graduation, he began “seriously searching for a job.” Morris-Iddrissu then got a job working for the Board of Elections in New York on June 30th and began working the next day. “This was not even a job I [had applied] for. ... I am kind of a stubborn individual and wanted to apply to a job [on my own], but I never got one. It was [through] this favor that landed on me,” says Morris-Iddrissu. “I applied for a lot of jobs before I got this one. I would wake up in the morning and apply to jobs, but nothing really came my way. Even after I got a job, I was still applying to other positions. [However], ... with the economy, I had no choice,” added Morris-Iddrissu. Morris-Iddrissu describes working for the Board of Elections as a

“great starter job.” An average day for Morris-Iddrissu involves overseeing election activity in the Bronx, organizing voter registration and conducting voter training. While election periods can be very exciting, Morris-Iddrissu finds the job relatively unstimulating. “On a regular day it’s not exciting but mundane. It’s boring,” he says. He mentions that the work is only temporary because his contract ends in December, shortly after the election season ends. Morris-Iddrissu also works long hours: In a typical week, he’ll work Monday through Saturday for a total of about 75 hours. Morris-Iddrissu says that working so often prevents him from looking for other jobs. According to MonsterTRAK, an online job–hiring service through monster.com, since 2007 companies planning to hire college grads fell from 76 percent to 59 percent. Yet those statistics don’t scare Morris-Iddrissu. He is completely optimistic about his career prospects. “I am confident that this [economic downturn] will not last forever. I still have faith in my degree,”

says Morris-Iddrissu. For Morris-Iddrissu, this postgraduation limbo time is not just time to look for a future career. “In addition to working, this is my figure-it-out time. Sometimes we have completely different plans and we have to change them,” he says. While his current job isn’t exactly satisfying, Morris-Iddrissu says he enjoys living on his own outside the Brandeis bubble. He currently shares a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn, New York with three roommates, one a Brandeis classmate, one a fraternity brother and another a cousin. While he could have lived with his parents in their home in New York, Morris-Iddrissu came home with “the attitude of moving out ASAP.” “Living on my own is just what I wanted and needed. I have a very great and diverse group of friends in Brooklyn, and I’m enjoying that very much. Living on my own has been an adjustment, but not as big as people make it seem,” Morris-Iddrissu. Living independently, Morris-Iddrissu has a lot of freedom he didn’t have at Brandeis. But Brandeis still

has a soft place in his heart. “The life I am living now is what I expect and what I wanted. The only surprise is how much I miss school. I miss Brandeis terribly. … [At Brandeis], you know that everyone around you has similar goals and aspirations,” he says. Morris-Iddrissu feels grateful for his liberal arts education at Brandeis because he says it prepared him to adapt to the outside world and to learn quickly. His only complaint with the liberal arts education, is that, “a lot of jobs require you to be job-ready. You don’t get trained, but rather educated in a liberal arts education. In liberal arts you have to carve your own way. which is, in a sense, useful in these tough economic times.” Morris-Iddrissu feels that the liberal arts education has benefited him in these tough times by giving him tools to think “outside the box.” Morris-Iddrissu recommends that current college students take time “to really evaluate what they want to do post-grad. Often we all have these career options that others plan for us [that] seem easy, but we walk those paths and find it’s not our calling.”

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Cohen’s consultation By SARAH GILSON JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

He refers to himself as the “Harlanimal.” He wrote a song called “My Roommate, Stu.” He is an advocate of creating “pap smear gift certificates” and “congratulations on your period” cards. Harlan Cohen, who grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, led an interactive presentation Sept. 23 in the Carl J. Shapiro Theater about dealing with the difficult aspects of college life. Cohen has cultivated an eclectic résumé. He’s a syndicated advice columnist (“He’s like Dear Abby, only he’s a lot younger, a lot hairier, and he’s a man,” his Web site boasts), bestselling author of The Naked Roommate, acclaimed speaker at high schools and universities across the nation and singer-songwriter (his tunes include the aforementioned “Stu,” about—yep—a naked roommate). During his talk, which he opened with his comical song “My Roommate, Stu,” Cohen shared where he got his inspiration for writing about and helping college students: his own difficult experience at college. Cohen attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, a school with a notoriously vibrant social life. He told the audience that his first year there was nothing short of miserable when he experienced not only the end of his first romantic relationship but also when he was the only one out of all of his friends who wasn’t offered a bid for a fraternity. It occurred to Cohen at the end of that year “that the only person who could be there for me was me.” Hoping for a fresh start, Cohen transferred to Indiana University at Bloomington. However, at Indiana, Cohen was faced with the inevitable truth that “90 percent of the bullshit I dealt with at Wisconsin was waiting for me [at Indiana].” After sharing his personal college experience with the audience, Cohen offered several general insights such as: “Life is 90 percent amazing and 10 percent difficult.” Often, he noted, we dwell on the difficult parts of life, which “take[s] up 100 percent of our time.” It is his mission as an author and a speaker to prevent people—especially young people—from letting negativity consume their lives. His goal is to spread his positive messages and to get young people to be their best selves. Cohen’s lighthearted but candid nature made his talk relatable and accessible for students. Cohen made the presentation extremely audience–friendly, interviewing random audience members on topics ranging from roommate stories to dating life. “I really enjoyed the speech. ... He had very inciting [sic] things to say about the dynamics of relationships, dealing with stress and getting the most out of the college experience,” wrote Joe Correia ’12 in an e-mail to the Justice. Cohen emphasized his philosophy on life: “Get comfortable with the uncomfortable.” Cohen adamantly believes that college is the time to confront all of the things that make you nervous or that fall outside of your comfort zone. He encourages people to “navigate through the uncomfortable,” because “uncomfortable is part of the college experience.” The Harlanimal is relatively short, with brown hair and childlike eyes. He himself points out that his ears are disproportionally large for his head but that it works for him. A self-described “attractive man,” Cohen said that his uncomfortably big ears were a characteristic of his that he had to get comfortable with. As an example of an uncomfortable situation, Cohen told the story of a girl whose roommate started to have sex on the bunk on top of hers while she was in the room. The girl on the lower bunk called her mother in the middle of the sex. The mother complained about the roommate’s sexual escapades to the residential advisor, and the girl got switched out of the room. Cohen felt strongly that the situation could have been handled better. He suggested dealing with the uncomfortable situation up front instead of retreating into a comfort zone and transferring out of the room. In this case, the girl could have confronted her roommate about the behavior that made her feel awkward. Or, only half-jokingly, Cohen suggested that the girl watch the sexual activity. Also in regards to roommates, Cohen asked audience members about their roommate situations and about any interesting experiences they had. One question in particular he posed was: “Is there anything about you that you wanted to keep secret from your roommates before you came to col-

Advice columnist, author and speaker Harlan Cohen talks about life in college

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SURVIVING THE UNCOMFORTABLE: Advice columnist, author and acclaimed speaker Harlan Cohen reads passages from his book The Naked Roommate. lege, and how did you deal with it?” An audience member who prefers to remain anonymous for the article cited her affinity for nudity as her secret. She claimed that she and her roommates got comfortable enough with each other during the year to wear minimal clothing. After addressing roommate issues, Cohen spoke about dating—specifically, “How to get a date sober.” Jumping down off the stage, he asked the audience who was in a relationship and who was single. He interviewed various students and asked about how they met their significant other (if they were in a relationship) or about their dating life and preferences (if they were single). Cohen singled out certain audience members and asked them questions about their dating preferences. For instance, he asked one audience member how she met her boyfriend. The girl explained that her current boyfriend is her former science teachering assistant. Cohen made a joke about getting a “little extra help” and the audience laughed. Cohen also asked other audience members how they met their significant others. In The Naked Roommate, Cohen writes indepth about the infamous college ritual more common than the flu and more prevalent than all-nighters: the hookup. He dedicates an entire section of his guide book to dissecting the 16 different types of hookups that exist. Some of these include the “Drunken Hookup” (“an alcohol-induced connection”), “Rebound Hookup” (“broken up and looking for some Band-Aid lovin’), “Convenience Hookup” (“the closest person with a pulse gets some”) and the “Repeat Backup Hookup” (“a go-to guy or girl who is the backup love buddy” such as the 3 a.m. text message booty call). Cohen placed a lot of emphasis on the hookup because he feels that “We depend on the hookup … and we forget that we have options.” People often get consumed in a certain person’s feelings for them when, Cohen emphasized repeatedly, there are always so many other people out there to choose from. So what if someone rejects you—you have other, probably better, options! One of Cohen’s central messages was what he refers to as “the holy grail of dating.” The message is dubbed “the universal rejection truth of dating and relationships: Not everyone you want to be with will want to be with you.” According to Cohen, people are stuck in a state of rejection denial. He advocates “giving people permission to not want you.” Es-

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THE “HARLANIMAL”: Cohen encouraged audience participation during his interactive speech Sept. 23. sentially, he believes that we should not worry when people don’t like us and not get bogged down by rejection. We need only to realize that there are so many other options out there. Once we give people this permission, we release ourselves from insecurity and we can turn the tables: instead of waiting to see “who wants us, we can ask, who do I want?” “Harlan was able to use his unique comedic talent to portray his more serious underlying messages about dating and working through tough situations in college,” said Nate Rosenblum ’10, who attended the event. Cohen concluded his talk with a question–and–answer session and a brief anecdote about how he met his wife in a UPS

store. He explained to the audience that he saw her and instantly wanted to approach her. He went with the classic line, “Don’t I know you?” to which she, of course, replied, “No, I don’t think so.” But Cohen was persistent. He continued talking to her and after a few minutes admitted that he did not, in fact, know who she was. He wrapped up their talk by asking for her number. Cohen told the audience that they dated intensely for the following eight days and broke up on the ninth day. But they got back together shortly thereafter and have been together ever since. The couple has been married for six years and has two children, ages three years and 15 months.

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Reconsider music scholarship In yet another attempt to deal with its unrelenting financial troubles, the University canceled the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship, a full-tuition, merit-based music scholarship that also provides its recipients with the opportunity to work in an intensive chamber music group with members of the Lydian String Quartet and perform concerts for the University community. According to Dean of Financial Services Peter Giumette, part of the reason for canceling the scholarship was because the office “thought it was more important to shift scholarship funds to needy students.” Need-based financial aid must be preserved in what ways the University can despite its financial struggles, but this board questions the outright cancellation of an entire scholarship in order to repurpose its funds. As it stood, the LBS was a full-tuition scholarship; rather than deprive future students of the honor of receiving this award and working with the Lydian String Quartet, the scholarship could be reduced to a fixed proportion of annual tuition or be made renewable for only two years rather than for the rest of the student’s time at Brandeis. Additionally, Mr. Giumette told the Justice, “We have, frankly, in the past struggled to come up with the number of recipients that we had earmarked for each year. … I don’t think the quality of the applicants was what they were looking for.” With this in mind, accepting perhaps two students each year rather than the usual three or four would both reduce the money the University spends on the scholarship and better adjust to the musical abilities of the applicants. The composition of chamber ensembles could be adjusted accordingly. If necessary, this reduction could occur in concert with a reduction in scholarship funds and allow the University, despite its difficult financial situation, to offer qualified stu-

Merit awards equally critical dents the opportunity to study with Lydian members and receive some financial compensation while continuing to offer the University community the opportunity to attend concerts by a select group of talented chamber musicians. We would also like to caution the University and department of Financial Services on the “refocusing” of merit scholarships Mr. Giumette said occurred for the Class of 2013 “so that people who received merit had some degree of need as well.” While it is perfectly valid to decide between two equally meritorious potential merit scholarship recipients on the basis of who demonstrates greater financial need, merit-based programs such as the Leonard Bernstein Scholarship help attract exceptionally talented students who might have offers from other schools. The University should not be overzealous in focusing on need when awarding money for merit in order to continue to bring academically, artistically or athletically stellar students to Brandeis. Professors and administrators have expressed hope that the scholarship will be restored in later years in keeping with the spirit of Brandeis’ muchvaunted “history of support for” and “focus on” the arts. But in order to actually display this commitment, the University should have investigated the possibility of reducing other activities-based merit scholarships in order to avoid canceling an entire program rooted in artistic talent. For instance, money awarded to potential Brandeis athletes should not take precedence over money awarded to potential Brandeis artists. If the University must cut merit scholarships, equal reductions in both types of scholarship (as well as academically focused scholarships) would be preferential to canceling one prestigious program entirely.

H1N1 unease handled aptly We would like to commend this University for handling the H1N1 flu outbreak with grace and poise in the face of a nationwide overreaction. Managing quickly spreading illnesses on residential college campuses is a difficult feat. In this situation, the Health Center, the Dean of Student Life’s office and community members have all cared for sick students while maintaining a sense of calm on our campus. The Health Center designated a day for all those with pre-existing conditions that could render them more vulnerable to the flu to get their flu shots first. The Health Center then took care to order more flu shots to enable the rest of the community to get flu shots even though Walgreens, just a short walk down South Street, also provides flu shots. By restocking our campus with flu shots, the University established a more affordable and convenient way for students and faculty to take precautions ensuring good health. Offering vaccinations to the general

Univ took proper measures University population as well as atrisk community members also shows respect and concern for the Waltham community: Students can turn to University resources instead of monopolizing Walgreens’ supply of flu shots. Dean of Student Life Rick Sawyer’s weekly flu updates have helped the Brandeis community to stay informed and to take appropriate precautions without inciting campuswide panic. Taking Sawyer’s lead, the community has adopted health-conscious strategies to maintain general health during the outbreak. Students who have been moved out of their rooms in order to accommodate sick roommates have maintained a positive outlook and have accepted that actions being taken regarding the flu are in their best interest. We encourage the community at large to continue taking precautions to avoid falling ill while maintaining its calm and good attitude.

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Increase in master’s programs’ enrollment benefits the University Zachary

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Brandeis has gotten into the habit of increasing its acceptance rate. According to the April 7, 2009 edition of the Justice, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions accepted 40 percent of undergraduate applicants, the equivalent of an 8-percent increase over the past year. And recently, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Prof. Gregory Freeze (HIST) announced that the class of master’s students to matriculate at Brandeis increased by 55 students. Although many have bemoaned the undergraduate increase, the increase of master’s students is nothing but a positive change for the entire University. Since Brandeis is facing a significant and sustained projected deficit, the financial aspect of this development is a good place to start. A larger number of master’s students increases revenue for Brandeis. Freeze confirmed this in last week’s issue of the Justice. According to Freeze, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences budget “went from a deficit of $1.7 million last year to a positive $300,000 this year.” Increased acceptance strengthens the degree in two ways. Quantitatively, the average GRE scores improve among applicants to graduate programs. Qualitatively, the Brandeis experience itself is enhanced. More master’s students means more participants in seminars, which are much better when there are more voices and perspectives. As a graduate student myself, I can safely say that Brandeis graduate seminars are far from being overcrowded. Increasing the number of seminar participants will not meaningfully decrease the amount of time for which each student has the opportunity to work with his or her professor. More master’s students also leads to course innovation. Many students enroll in “reading courses,” which are small seminars that focus on discussing the most important and cutting-edge literature in a subfield. Often, only a small number of students enroll in these reading courses. With more students, a readings course could become a full-blown seminar. I saw this in my own scholarly life when I worked with a professor at Boston University. I started with a proposal of a reading course in national security history. Then the professor announced the course at Boston University, and a collection of master’s students got involved. My humble reading course turned into a valuable, rigorous and intellectually thrilling seminar in which many students enrolled. More master’s students will only serve to reinforce Brandeis’ already strong research reputation. Master’s students in most liberal arts fields are required to write a thesis, which is a piece of original research in the field in which they study. Because of this requirement, more original research will be conducted at Brandeis by its master’s students, and that boosts our overall contributions in the larger academic community. Furthermore, Brandeis master’s students may go to other distinguished universities to do research, thereby connecting the Brandeis scholarly community with others like it. Increasing the number of master’s students supports an equation by which everyone wins. The University gets extra funding, average GRE scores rise and graduate students have more inquiring minds to collaborate with. Professors benefit from networking opportunities and the exciting challenges of working with a greater number of students on original research. Alumni and those who care about Brandeis see the reputation of the University enhanced. In a rather challenging period for the University, this may be one of the most exciting and important positive developments this semester.

OP-BOX Quote of the Week “To be honored in this fashion, it’s hard to put into words what it means. But for someone who’s going to see that jersey number retired, and ask why, and hear the story behind it, it’s going to be something that forever lives on at Brandeis and hopefully inspire[s] some future dreamers.” —Nelson Figueroa ’98, a pitcher for the New York Mets, at a ceremony for the retirement of his jersey. (See Sports, page 16)

Brandeis Talks Back How do you feel about Ben Folds coming to Brandeis?

MATTHEW COHEN ’11 “I have no idea who he is.”

MATT KUPFER ’12 “Anytime we get a wellknown mainstream artist, I think it’s exciting, but it’s definitely an improvement over Nas.”

ASA BHUIYAN ’11 “I’m the wrong person to ask.”

SUSANNA KLOSKO (GRAD) “I didn’t know he was coming.”

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READER COMMENTARY J Street U misrepresents “Zionism” In response to “J Street U opens doors for Israel conversation” (Forum, Oct. 6): Mr. Sherer suggests a “brand of Zionism, which advocates an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and subsequent creation of two states for two peoples. It holds that the eventual boundaries of the state of Israel must respect the Green Line (Israel’s pre-1967 borders) and that both Israelis and Palestinians, as well as the Jews, Muslims and Christians among them must enjoy equal access to the holy city of Jerusalem.” May I suggest that this is not quite Zionism but a personal belief system based on a political orientation that is far left of center. I hasten to add that it is legitimate to express such views, but it would seem to be a precarious position. Take the last point: Under no other control in the past 1800 years has there been more equal access to Jerusalem, so much so that Jews are the only ones permanently banned from praying at the site they consider their holiest. How’s that for backbending for peace? Moreover, the Green Line was never Israel’s border but a cease-fire line that had no international recognition. If we’re adjusting lines on the map, and Sherer supports territorial compromise, what territory will the Arabs yield to Israel for all its aggressive terror in the 1950s (from “militant” refugees acting as fedayeen before the Fatah took control) and of the Fatah which began operations in 1965, incidentally, two years before the Six-Day War when Israel assumed administration of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, areas which international law had decreed to be Jewish land back in 1922. One last issue: the two states for two peoples? Why are the so-called “Palestinians” a different people from the Jordanians or vice versa? Both live in the area of the former Palestine Mandate. Why are there to be two Arab states in the former Mandate territory (although it seems there may be a third one, Hamastan, in Gaza) both uni-ethnic in which no Jews can live but there can only be one Jewish state which must share itself with a 20-percent Arab minority? Cannot a 20-percent Jewish minority live in the area of the Palestine Authority? Why must there be an ethnic cleansing of Jews, especially after the last one in 2005 from Gaza proved a disaster? —Yisrael Medad Shiloh, Israel

Sherer advocates multiple voices In response to “J Street U opens doors for Israel conversation” (Forum, Oct. 6): We at J Street U have facts and figures, and our members have a strong knowledge of the complexities of the Palestinian-Israeli and Arab-Israeli conflicts. Many of us also have deep personal connections to the state of Israel. We have started this organization at Brandeis in order to combat the idea that a person must support all of Israel’s policies to be a Zionist—a proposition paramount to the idea that we all needed to support President Bush’s war in Iraq in order to be true Americans. We understand that there are many perspectives in this issue and that yours is valid. But we interpret policies differently, and J Street U was not created at Brandeis in order to sling facts and figures back and forth between groups of different opinions. J Street U was started so that all students on this campus understand that Zionism is a movement derived from individuals with a personal belief system, and within that movement we find that there are all types of Zionism. Jeremy Sherer, like all the other members of J Street U at Brandeis, wants more than anything to see the state of Israel prosper peacefully. We also don’t want to allow ourselves or any other student at Brandeis to be told we aren’t real Zionists or to be told we don’t support the same cause because we don’t approach the issue from the exact same perspective. As Jeremy pointed out, multiple voices and varied interpretations have always been and always will be central to the culture of Judaism. I hope everyone will realize that Jeremy’s op-ed was not an argument about our positions on specific issues with the Israeli-Palestinian debate but rather a commentary on the refusal of some American Jews to recognize the growing number of voices who do not feel adequately represented in the American Israel lobby, and the quickness with which people are willing to dismiss a legitimate point of view because it is not the one that so many have hung tenuously to for so long with obscure results. —Jeremy Konar ’10

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University must redefine its identity without the ‘Jewish’ By REBECCA KELLOGG JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Although University President Jehuda Reinharz has not yet formally departed from his office, spectators—including the man himself—are already abuzz over what exactly his legacy might be. Although many have been tempted to angrily scoff that Reinharz will be remembered only for the hoopla surrounding the Rose Art Museum, those with wider-ranging points of view would instead point out his special touch with donors and his successful attempts at reversing the wellintentioned—yet horrifically executed— attempts of his predecessor, Evelyn Handler, to downplay the University’s “Jewishness.” Many of the said onlookers hold the opinion that the next president of Brandeis should be as concerned with a strong Jewish identity on campus as Reinharz has been, and indeed, the president himself expressed in an interview with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he was confident that our next president would hold such values. Yet as our University grows and diversifies, it is essential to ask whether this should be the case and I, for one, do not think that it should be. This does not mean, however, that I wish for a repudiation or rejection of Reinharz’s noble actions. The beginnings of our University are inextricably bound up in a very regrettable chapter of American history, when Jewish people were not treated fairly. But the past of the University should not define our future. In the aforementioned interview with JTA, Reinharz stated that Brandeis’ Jewish character is essential for our greatness, that

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“when you try to run an institution and try to make it appealing to everyone, … you are bound to fail. You need to have a clear identity.” I agree with the president in that all great institutions need clearly defined values and goals. But I disagree very strongly that our identity—what first comes to mind when the average person thinks of the University— should be that we were founded by Jews, catering to Jewish needs. Yes, at the time of the University’s founding, America had a dire need for a top-notch institution for downtrodden minorities, notably Jewish scholars, and Brandeis filled that need admirably. But we’ve come so far since then, and I believe that it is time for the administration to stop hawking our Jewish founding as our greatest asset and our underlying identity. That’s not fair to any student here, Jew or Gentile. I’m sure that it’s maddening for many Jewish students when those around them assume, “Oh, of course you’re going to Brandeis—you’re Jewish,” just as it is frustrating for me when I tell people, quite proudly, that I attend Brandeis University, and their first reaction is “Oh, the Jewish school, right?” It was infuriating to me when someone had the gall to suggest that I was only accepted here because I am not Jewish. It was frustrating when I had to respond to the repeated frenzied query of a family member about why I was “forsaking 15 years of good Catholic education to go to a Jewish college.” My point is that we are so much more than this stereotype, and my dearest wish for our new president is that he or she realize this and stop lending credence to it. The religion of the candidate must be taken out of the equation entirely: Jewish candidates should

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neither receive brownie points because of their personal faith, nor should Jewish candidates be rejected based on some misguided idea of “diversity.” This is how Brandeis will continue to grow in excellence and prestige: by simply choosing the best person for the job. In my mind, the best candidate will probably be the one who is willing to let the religious identity of the University rest where it belongs: in the hands of the students—you know, the ones who are actually forming our religious identities. I’ve sincerely found myself inspired by the people I’ve met here, Jewish or not; there is a depth of thought and maturity about religion here that is so rare, and I’ve been fortunate enough to have meaningful conversations with both deeply faithful persons and total atheists about many aspects of religion. This is another reason for disbanding our Jewish identity: There are so many faiths represented in our student body here, it’s unjust to just stick us all under the umbrella of “Jewish.” Even among the Jews I’ve met, I’ve been astounded at the wide spectrum of beliefs. So, to return to President Reinharz’s paraphrased query of what we are, if not Jewish, I propose this: We should stop worrying about the religious labels of people—whether for potential students or potential presidents— and start worrying about what is in their hearts. This, after all, is what unites all Brandeis students, what gives us our true identity. As our Web site states, we are Brandeisian because we seek knowledge, cherish justice and always strive for excellence. This all falls outside the boundaries of religion.

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Student input on next president needless Hillel

BUECHLER AND SO ON

Selecting our next University president is a crucial step at a crucial time, but it’s also a step that lends itself to suffocation by our own ideals. At Brandeis, we like to consider ourselves highly committed to a certain set of ideals that includes fun discussion topics like social justice and environmentalism. And we know with such certainty that if we could only institute our ideals in the world, then things would be better— even if only slightly so. And though most of our ideals have to do with national and global issues, as human beings our most immediate instinct may be to apply them to our immediate situations as college students. We’ve seen this application of ideals a lot since last year. Throughout the University’s epidemic budget cuts. We, as students, have based our discussions and responses in our ideals in order to help the University—to show it what we thought was more correct and more just. The selection of the next University president, just as those other processes of change that began

last year, shouts out to us as yet another opportunity for crafting the ideal process and outcome in order to fit the mold of our wildest dreams of social justice and equality. But the seemingly ideal process and outcome aren’t always in our best interests. In this case, they definitely aren’t. The soon-to-be-formed Student Advisory Committee to advise the Board of Trustees is a prime example of idealism gone astray. I’m referring to the concept that we need student representation in the process of picking the next president: We don’t. There’s no need for the existence of such an advisory committee in the first place. Sure, it looks like quite the privilege. If you’re on it, you may get the exclusive chance to interview the top few candidates for the job, and you’ll always have that likely concealed and thus much-coveted knowledge of which candidates didn’t make the cut. Yet I see no possible situation in which the committee could have a markedly positive effect on the process. If it has any effect at all, which it most likely won’t, it will be a very negative one. When it comes down to decision time, it’s highly unlikely that the Board will be prepared to select one candidate and the students another. That’s because Board members and students alike hopefully have the same sense for what characteristics our next president ought to have,

namely, the vision to lead and the charm to solicit. Quite simply put, the president, again contrary to our concept of an ideal community, doesn’t need to attend club social events to be considered good at his or her job. We don’t want the University president at Pachanga, anyway. He should be busy doing his job. The president only needs to know how to lead us and how best to stimulate our largely Jewish donor base. (Which leads to my personal choice for the next president—a boy in perpetual preparation for his bar mitzvah.) And if there were to be a disagreement between the Board and the committee, it’s not like the Board would suddenly see the light and change its mind over the selection of the next University president. If you think that would actually be the case, then I respectfully disagree with your naïveté. What could happen, though, is the Student Advisory Committee has a favorite candidate, and when the Board picks someone else for the post, the committee goes public with the disagreement. And public display of dissatisfaction for the forthcoming president of a financially troubled University means the return of media focus and bad publicity. We shouldn’t have the Student Advisory Committee in this presidential selection process. It’s a body created due to ideals that, in this instance, are only seemingly correct and nothing more.

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REPLACING REINHARZ: With Reinharz’s departure comes a controversial debate over whether student input is essential to selecting the next University president.

Disappointing proposals from Climate Action Plan By JARED STOEN JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Brandeis has recently announced its new Climate Action Plan, which is the University’s plan to be completely free of greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2050 with a 15 percent reduction by 2015. Perhaps the biggest advancement toward this goal is the attachment of solar panels to the roof of the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center, paid for by a third party that will begin construction in a month. The Climate Action Plan, however, was not thought out very well. Although this is a major step toward “going green,” Brandeis fails to stand out as a green university, with a score of a meager 60 out of 99 on the Princeton Review’s scale that measures how environmentally friendly a school is. Although a 60 is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, 15 schools got a full score of 99, including Harvard, Bates and Yale. So the question is: What are these schools doing to make them green and can, or should, Brandeis invest in some of these policies? Based on a detailed description from the Princeton Review as to why the 15 schools received such a high score, there is single common theme among them: the way they power their campuses. The most innovative way to harvest electricity was University of New Hampshire’s method of converting greenhouse gas into power. Through bacterial processes from the decay of organic material, landfills release methane, or natural gas, which is a greenhouse gas. It’s possible to build a pump that feeds the natural gas created at the landfill toward somewhere to be used as energy. Many other schools are trying to be carbon-neutral by building solar panels, such as the ones that are going to be put on Gosman, or harvesting wind energy to supply their school with power. Other schools strongly encourage the use of public transportation by giving out vouchers for free or discounted use, give privileges to those who carpool, or even use used deep fryer oil to fuel the trash truck use biodiesel. Another common theme among the schools is the striving for national certification in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, which ranges from a simple certification, the lowest level, to platinum,

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SOLAR SOLUTIONS: Brandeis’ new Climate Action Plan calls for the installation of solar panels on Gosman in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. the highest level. The LEED certification is a measure of how environmentally sound we are in our buildings and how efficient our appliances and resources are. The higher the certification level, the more sustainable the school is and the smaller amount of greenhouse gases are emitted, which is a goal that many currently strive to reach. Our Climate Action Plan, the University’s public outline to be more energy efficient and sustainable, outlines our goal by the end of this fiscal year to achieve the silver certification, which we achieved. The certification is based upon an accumulation of points under the major subjects: sustainable sites, water efficiency, atmosphere and

energy, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality and innovation and design processes. Schools such as Yale have already achieved platinum status, with many other schools having silver certification. Now it is outlined in our Climate Action Plan to attempt to meet gold LEED standards by 2015, and hopefully by 2020, we can meet platinum standards, which is just about as energy efficient a school can be. Although this is more than likely not going to happen due to limited amounts of resources the University has, especially money and space, as long as we strive to be as sustainable as possible, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a silver certification

at this point in time. While I understand that financial issues control most administrative decisions here, seeing as how we are in an economic downturn, I am struggling to find where the money to achieve all of these goals is coming from. If anything, Brandeis absolutely needs to begin encouraging students to be more environmentally conscious. Other campuses across the country have student-led and university-led groups that are immensely successful in being environmentally conscious, and it’s depressing that a lot of the campus is not nearly as successful as other parts of the country. I believe that the Students for Environmental Action group are already doing an amazing job on

campus in pursuits to make the campus a better place, but helping to convert the whole campus to be more environmentally friendly is a burden that is too much for any one group to do. Third-party rankings are not everything, and the school shouldn’t have to sell out to be recognized as an environmentally friendly school by building fancy buildings and spending unavailable funds to meet environmental standards. In a financial decline, if the University wants to conserve resources, the best way to achieve the satisfaction of being more environmentally friendly is reaching out to the students and educating them on how to be green and why being green is important.

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SPORTS CROSS COUNTRY

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Squads Team beats Tufts but falls to Rochester race at NE Open ■ The women’s soccer team

lost its second consecutive conference game last Saturday night at home. By MELISSA SIEGEL

JUSTICE SENIOR WRITER

■ The men’s and women’s

cross country teams ran against Division I, II and III runners at the Open New England Championships. By MAX GOLDSTEIN JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

The men’s and women’s cross country teams wrapped up successful weekends at the Open New England Championships, with the men finishing in 11th place (third out of Division III schools) and the women in 20th (sixth out of Division III schools). Forty-nine Division I, II and III schools competed at the meet at Franklin Park in Boston. For the men, the meet marked the best team finish since they also placed 11th in the meet in 1998. The women’s results were especially impressive considering two of their top runners were unable to compete due to injury. Paul Norton ’11 again paced the men’s team, as he has all year. Norton finished sixth out of 320 competitors with a time of 24 minutes, 46 seconds. He had the second-fastest time among Division III runners and was just 5 seconds away from a top-3 finish. Chris Brown ’12 finished the 8-kilometer course with a time of 25:39, while Marc Boutin ’12 finished 4 seconds behind him to give the Judges three runners in the top 50. Brown and Boutin came in 43rd and 50th place overall and were 12th and 15th out of Division III runners, respectively. “[Brown] and [Boutin] both ran fantastic races for us,” Norton said. Devon Holgate ’11, who finished in 113th with a time of 26:19, and Dan Anastos ’11, who was 133rd with a time of 26:27, rounded out the top scores for Brandeis. The men’s team was only 30 points behind the top Division-III school, a trivial amount given the scores were in the 300s. “We’re better than we have ever been at this point in the season, which is definitely an encouraging sign,” Norton said. Grayce Selig ’11 who finished in 18:47, good for 46th place overall and the 11th-best Division III time, paced the women’s team. Alyssa Pisarik ’10 was 65th overall and 23rd among Division-III runners with a 19:03 time. “[Selig] and [Alyssa Pisarik] have both been having fantastic years for us, and it’s really been a breakout year for [Alyssa Pisarik in particular]”, Coach John Evans said. Ally Connolly ’10 was the third Judge across the line with a time of 19:38. She finished in 117th place, good for 42nd among Division III runners. Hannah Linholm ’11 finished 8 seconds behind Connolly, good for 128th overall and 45th in Division III. The women fared well despite competing without Marie Lemay ’11 and Kate Warwick ’12, who both were unable to compete due to illness. Both squads felt they did well against mainly Division I and II teams. “We all have room to improve, but at same time, we were very solid and better than we ever have been,” Evans said. “It’s really encouraging to be among the top squads in New England.” Norton said both teams used the meet to prepare for the upcoming conference championships, and the NCAA Regional Championships. “In order to perform our best, we usually run less the week before a major meet, and that’s what many teams do for New Englands. We are all training hard for the conference championships instead, so we ran hard this week and that definitely slowed us a bit,” Norton said. Both the men’s and women’s squads next compete at the conference championships held at Case Western Reserve University on Oct. 31.

In the 74th minute of the women’s soccer team’s game against University Athletic Association rival No. 23 University of Rochester, the Judges trailed 1-0 and had one of their best scoring opportunities of the game. Midfielder Sofia Vallone ’11 had a free kick opportunity 25 yards from the goal, but Yellowjackets senior keeper Celeste Hornbach made a leaping save to preserve the Rochester lead. That save was as close as the Judges would get in the second half, as Rochester went on to win 1-0 to drop the Judges to 6-4-2 on the season after defeating Tufts University 2-0 last Wednesday. The team is now 0-20 in the UAA. “They were stepping up and winning the 50-50 balls,” coach Denise Dallamora said of Rochester. “They played tough, and they stepped up

hard, and they backed each other up.” Rochester scored the only goal it would need in the 15th minute, when sophomore forward Ellen Coleman collected a loose ball and passed it to junior midfielder Kristen Ross, who hit it into the lower right corner of the net just past the dive of Brandeis keeper Hillary Rosenzweig ’10. The Yellowjackets outshot the Judges 9-5 in the first half but could not get any more shots in the back of the net thanks to some solid defense and a little bit of luck in the 30th minute. At that moment, midfielder/forward Danielle Crean shot a ball from the right side of the field toward the left side of the net that hit the left post. “The first 15 minutes [of the game] we had a little bit of a slow start. Obviously we gave up that goal,” Dallamora added. “Then we started to come alive, I think we controlled a lot of the last 10 or 15 minutes of the first half.” The Judges had more chances in the second half, including two corner kicks in the last 5 minutes, 5 seconds but Brandeis could not convert either of them into goals. To add injury to insult, midfielder/defender Alanna Torre ’12 hurt

her right knee while going for a ball in the second half and had to be helped off the field. Torre says she thinks the knee is just hyperextended but that the team is being cautious because she has had a similar injury on that same knee in the past. Dallamora said after the game she hopes Torre will only miss a week or two at most. Last season the Judges lost to Rochester 5-1 after giving up four goals to then-sophomore forward Bridgette Varin. Dallamora said that the team still did not focus its preparation on stopping Varin this time around, saying “She just got lucky last year” with her four goals. The loss to Rochester this season was the Judges’ second straight defeat in conference play, but players like Torre are keeping an optimistic attitude about the situation. “Well, we all know we can [beat UAA teams], and as much as [losing to] Rochester was upsetting, it’s obviously better than last year when we lost [5-1] and we definitely should have won against Case [Oct. 3] since we were the better team; it’s unlucky, I guess,” Torre said. Last Wednesday, the Judges snapped their two-game losing streak

with a 2-0 win at Tufts, then the No. 7 team in the New England region. Brandeis midfielder Mimi Theodore ’12 scored the game-winning goal in the 25th minute off the rebound of a shot by forward Tiffany Pacheco ’11. Theodore also assisted on the second goal in the 85th minute when she passed the ball to Vallone outside the 18-yard-line, and Vallone hit it into the lower-left corner of the net for her fourth goal of the season. Rosenzweig made seven saves in the win, tying her with Justine McBride ’92 for the school’s all-time leader in shutouts with 19. It was the Judges’ first win against Tufts since 2004. “Before the game everyone was like, ‘Oh man, we have the hardest week’—Tufts and Rochester, two teams we could possibly lose to, and it was just an amazing win and everyone was so excited,” Torre said. “We were worried because it was raining that day, but we really stepped up and had an awesome game, and everyone was really happy with the win.” The Judges have a UAA road trip next weekend, starting at Carnegie Mellon University Friday at 7:30 p.m. and then heading down to Emory University Sunday at 1:30 p.m.

ATHLETICS: Brandeis basketball recognized

EXCELLENCE ACKNOWLEDGED

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PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY JULIAN AGIN-LIEBES/the Justice

HONORED: Nelson Figuero ’98 stands with his retired jersey. Below the jersey are the logos of the MLB teams he played for.

BASEBALL: MLB pitcher Figueroa has jersey retired by alma mater CONTINUED FROM 16 plished being in the big leagues, but I think you don’t have to remind anyone that it’s great that he’s a great person, so it’s easy to be supportive of him.” Figueroa said in his remarks that he saw himself as an everyday player in college. Varney, a Major Leaguer himself, steered him on the right path and told Figueroa he had a future in pitching. “[Varney] had a feeling I could do something special as a pitcher, and I’m glad that I took his advice, and here we are,” Figueroa said. “Fifteen years after being drafted, and I feel like I’m pitching the best ball of my life.” For Figueroa, the ceremony honoring his accomplishments became more of a way for him to express his appreciation for all that Brandeis had given him during his time at the University. He spoke of one conversation he had with Prof. Jerry Cohen (AMST) about his academic future during his first year on campus in 1992. Figueroa told Cohen that he

wanted to be an engineer, but Cohen said the school did not have an engineering program and asked Figueroa what career he planned to pursue instead. Figueroa said he wanted to be a professional baseball player, to which Cohen laughed and pulled out Varney’s old baseball card from his days in the Major Leagues in the 1970s. He told Figueroa that the card was only worth 55 cents, but the college degree posted on his office wall was worth a whole lot more. Figueroa ultimately earned that degree in 1998 after leaving the University early in 1995 to start his baseball career, but at the time, he responded politely: “That’s fine. But I still want to be a baseball player.” Figueroa understands what his career means to the Brandeis community and athletic program. He knows that his career alone gives great pride to students, athletes and alumni alike. “After hearing his story, it shows that anything is possible and it pays to follow your

dreams,” current pitcher Pat Nicholson ’11 said. “I think it’s really special because it’s so unique. Every time he pitches, they mention Brandeis, and it’s a great reflection on our program and our University,” Director of Athletics Sheryl Sousa ’90 told the Justice. Figueroa said he is proud to be the lone representative of Brandeis in Major League Baseball and told the Justice that coming back to coach at Brandeis would be “hard to pass up” if the opportunity presented itself. “I speak for everyone that I’ve ever played with, been coached by, in the Brandeis baseball family, when I say I think we’re doing all right,” Figueroa said of the baseball program in his remarks. “I see [the team and my supporters] now and I smile because I’m very fortunate to be living the dream, and they let me know that I’m living the dream and they’re living the dream through me.”

—Adam Rosen contributed reporting

keep humble.” Upon hearing the news, Strodthoff and other players like forward Kasey Gieschen ’10, were thrilled and proud of their head coach. “I definitely think she’s very deserving and works very hard to make our team as successful as it is. She makes us individually as successful as we can be. She lives and breathes it,” Strodthoff said. “I’m very happy for her.” “She’s good at what she does and has a great relationship with other coaches and other players, and it’s a great, well-deserved honor for her,” Gieschen added. Simon’s players also pointed out her deep passion for the game and her ability to connect with players on and off the court. “[There is] such a competitive side that she instills in all of us. She doesn’t sugarcoat things,” Strodthoff said. “We take a lot of lessons she teaches us on the court out in everyday life.” “She has a great appreciation for the fact that we’re all student athletes [and] puts the student before the athlete on a lot of occasions,” Gieschen added. “She’s very understanding [and encourages] us to excel athletically on the court for her.” Though Simon’s modesty was evident, she did reflect on the strong program she had built since she became the head coach in 1987. Nonetheless, she managed to credit her players as being the primary focus of her time here. “The program here has grown tremendously since I’ve been here,” Simon said. “I will say that the one thing that’s been the same is getting dedicated and committed student athletes. Regardless of a 20-win season or a four-win season, it doesn’t change.” The women’s basketball team begins its run at its fifth straight NCAA Tournament appearance Nov. 15 at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

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SPORTS ONE GOAL SHORT

GOLF

Squad prepares for UAA play with two events ■ The golf team ﬁnished

ﬁfth of 12 teams at the Nichols Invitational and eighth of 12 teams at the Rhode Island College Invitational last weekend. JULIAN AGIN-LIEBES/the Justice

SHOT ON GOAL: Forward Sam Ocel ’13 ﬁres a shot on the Rochester goalie in the Judges’ 2-1 loss last Saturday night at home.

Team falls to Rochester ■ The men’s soccer team

lost a close 2-1 home game to the University of Rochester last Saturday. By JEFFREY BOXER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

After winning its first University Athletic Association game since 2006 against Case Western Reserve University Oct. 3, the men’s soccer team returned to its familiar ways in conference play last Saturday at home against No. 11 the University of Rochester. The Judges were ahead early in the game but ultimately fell to the undefeated Yellowjackets 2-1. On the year, Brandeis dropped to 4-5-1 on the season and 1-1-0 in the UAA, after picking up a victory at ColbySawyer College last Thursday. Rochester improved to 8-0-2 and 2-00 in the UAA with the win. The Judges are accustomed to having trouble with Rochester. Since 2005, Rochester has outscored Brandeis in head-to-head games by a count of 17-3. “They’ve had their way with us the last few years,” Coach Mike Coven said. Against Rochester, the Judges struck first in the 23rd minute with a goal from forward Alexander Farr ’12. Farr was set up by another solid pass from rookie forward Matt Peabody ’13 that allowed him to

break free for a one-on-one opportunity with the goalie. Farr put it in for his team leading fifth goal of the season as Peabody tallied his second assist of the season. Peabody and Farr now share the team lead for points with 10. Despite being outshot 6-5 in the first half, the Judges took the 1-0 lead into halftime as both teams played evenly throughout. In the second half, Brandeis was able to hold on to its lead until about halfway through the period in the 70th minute, when Rochester senior forward J.J. Dennstedt received a crossing pass from classmate Phil Proud and fired a shot in from outside the box that got past Brandels goaltender Matt Lynch ’10. The goal was Dennstedt’s team-leading sixth goal of the season. The Judges were not deflated, however, and nearly answered with a goal of their own in the 74th minute. Luke Teece ’12 broke away from defenders and chased down a loose ball deep in Rochester’s zone but barely missed a shot that would have given the Judges the lead. Rochester scored the game-winning goal in the 82nd minute, when Phil Proud earned his second assist off of a free kick pass to senior Scott Cady, who headed the ball past Lynch. Lynch finished the game with a season-high seven saves. Despite the loss, the Judges battled Rochester to the very end. “[Rochester was the] best team we’ve played all year,” Peabody

said. “We hung with them for 90 minutes, so [it’s] definitely a big statement.” “All in all, it was one of our better performances of the year,” Coven added. “A few of Rochester’s players and their coach told me that this game was the most difficult game they’ve had to play all season, but I would’ve still liked to have had that win.” At Colby-Sawyer, the Judges clinched the victory on a late goal from Farr in the 81st minute off of a feed from forward Sam Ocel ’13. Farr netted his second game-winning goal of the season and for the time being put the Judges back at .500 on the season. Farr scored the final goal in a 2-1 victory over the Massachusetts Institute of Technology back on Sept. 23. Forward Corey Bradley ’10 also scored for Brandeis and did so for the second game in a row after not scoring last season. Rookie Eric Root ’13 was the third Brandeis goalscorer and tallied the first goal of his career. The team has three tough games this week, starting this afternoon at Babson College at 3:30 p.m. Babson recently defeated No. 22 Wheaton College and could as a result be ranked No. 1 in New England when the new rankings come out tonight. The Judges will then travel to Pittsburgh and Atlanta this weekend to take on No. 9 Carnegie Mellon University Friday at 5 p.m. and then Emory University at 5 p.m.

By JONATHAN STEINBERG JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

While high-velocity winds swept across the course, and blew balls left and right, the Brandeis golf team, though hurt on the greens, survived two tournaments last weekend. At the Nichols Invitational in Worcester, Mass. last Sunday, the Judges finished fifth out of 12 teams with a combined score of 327 strokes, only eight strokes behind the winning team, the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. The Judges also posted a total of 327 strokes, 19 strokes behind the winning team and host school Rhode Island College, last Friday at the RIC Invitational, finishing in eighth place out of 12 teams. At the Nichols Invitational, the Judges were led by players unfamiliar to the leaderboard. Daniel Goldsmith ’11, who recorded a 10over-par 82, and Aaron Cusato ’12, who finished the round with an 11over-par 83, both played solid golf, keeping the balls on the fairway. It was Scott Beaulac ’12, however, who led the team. Beaulac finished the invitational with a score of fiveover-par 77 and was the only player on the Brandeis squad to record a score in the 70s. Coach Bill Shipman recognized Beaulac for his strong performance. “He hit the ball very solidly, especially off the tee,” Shipman said, “He [also] made a few birdies.” The Judges’ first- and secondranked players at the invitational, captain Lee Bloom ’10, and Kyle Mangan ’12, did not fare as well. Mangan finished the round with a 13-over-par 85, while Bloom, usually one of the team’s best golfers, finished with 17-over-par 89, the highest individual score on the team. Bloom attributed his unusual per-

formance to the outcome of the second hole on the course. “I five-putted the green,” Bloom said. “That sort of deflated my round. It was pretty much an uphill battle from that point on, which is kind of unfortunate so early in the round.” He also commented that getting comfortable is a very important aspect of the game, but that the poor performance on the second green served as a distraction that affected the entire round. Coach Shipman, when asked about Bloom’s playing, said, “He probably had his worst day as a Brandeis golfer.” At the Rhode Island College Invitational, the Judges, while placing eighth, were only five strokes out of a top-five finish and played a solid round of golf. Bloom’s poor performance last Sunday was unexpected based on his score from the RIC Invitational just two days prior. Bloom recorded a team low of seven-over-par 79, his fourth round under 80 this season. “We were swinging pretty well,” Bloom said. “The weather was less than desirable, but you don’t really have control over that, and I was pretty satisfied with how I played.” The rest of the team was not far behind Bloom’s low total. Charles Sacks ’11, tied for 20th in individual scoring with a nine-over-par 81 while Cusato shot an 11-over-par 83, finishing in a tie for 32nd. Goldsmith recorded a 12-over-par 84 and tied for 36th as rookie Jerry Yu ’13, the team’s final player, finished with a 14-over-par 86, 44th overall in the invitational. With the long week over, Bloom and Shipman both agreed that the team must work hard on improving its short game. “Our putting seems to be a bit erratic,” Shipman said. “We need to chip the ball closer to the hole so we don’t have as many long putts,” Bloom added. “I am definitely going to be working on my putting and my short game. That is where the game is won.” The Judges head to Mamaroneck, N.Y. for the New York University/Manhattanville Invitational Friday.

VOLLEYBALL

Judges defend home court and sweep two straight matches ■ The volleyball team beat

the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Keene State Colelge last Saturday. By JOSH ASEN JUSTICE EDITORIAL ASSISTANT

Blasco to Blasco. Abby ’11 to Paige ’11. That was the combination that led the Judges last Saturday as they swept Keene State College and the United States Coast Guard Academy to improve their record to 13-7 (1-2 in University Athletic Association play). Brandeis defeated Keene State in the later game last Saturday by a score of 25-17, 25-21, 25-19, giving them their third consecutive win. The sisters, captain/setter Abby Blasco and outside hitter Paige Blasco, fueled the team to victory against the Owls. Abby Blasco set up her twin sister constantly, who then registered kill after kill. “They have such a connection,” middle blocker Nicole Smith ’11 said. “They know each other’s strengths and weaknesses. They have also played with each other since they started playing volleyball. [In games] they connect well with the sets and the

hitting, and they are both great players. Great players are able to connect.” The Judges cruised to an easy first set win, highlighted by a play by the Blasco twins and middle blocker Becca Fischer ’13. In the middle of the match, two kills by Paige Blasco gave the Judges a 15-14 lead, propelling them to a first set victory. Despite their sloppy play in the beginning of the second set, the Judges rallied to take a 17-12 lead, forcing Owls coach Bob Weiner to call a timeout. While Keene State came back to make it 20-18, two consecutive kills by Smith helped preserve the set for the Judges. With a 2-0 lead, the Judges put in outside hitter/middle blocker Lauren Berens ’13 in place of Paige Blasco. In her time on the court, Berens recorded two kills. Coach Michelle Kim was happy with Berens’ play, but she believes there is room for the rookie to improve. “We wanted to give [Berens] chances to play, and she did well,” Kim said. “She definitely needs more experience, [and] we have been working on our hitting a lot at practice. She still needs a little work, but she is coming along nicely.” Even without Blasco for much of the

third set, the Judges won the set by a score of 25-19. In their first match of the morning, the Judges soundly defeated the U.S. Coast Guard Academy by a score of 2513, 25-21, 25-20. The match was highlighted by the Judges’ efficient play, as they registered a season-best .408 hitting percentage and a season-low six attack errors. Paige Blasco led the way for the Judges with 15 kills and 13 digs. Along with Paige Blasco, outside hitter/middle blocker Bridget McAllister ’10 recorded double-digits in kills with 11. Abby Blasco had 36 assists in the win along with three service aces and a .600 hitting percentage. According to Smith, the hard work in practice paid off over the weekend. “We had been working in practice on defense and passing, and I believe that our back row did a great job working on what we have been doing in practice,” Smith said. “We just clicked.” Despite the victories this weekend, the Judges have their work cut out for them next weekend as they face UAA rivals Carnegie Mellon University, University of Chicago, Emory University and New York University in a round-robin tournament at NYU.

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BIG KILL: Becca Fischer ’13 spikes a ball in one of the Judges’ wins last Saturday.

THE JUSTICE ● TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009

INTRAMURAL BRIEF

ATHLETE OF THE WEEK

Men’s, women’s and co-ed IM soccer champions crowned

Paul Norton ’11 ■ The men’s cross country runner finished the Open New England Championships with the highest placement for a Brandeis runner since 1995. After missing last year’s Open New England Championships, men’s cross country runner Paul Norton ’11 was anxious to improve on his 116th-place finish in 2007. He managed that Saturday in a big way. Norton’s sixth-place finish in the meet paced the men’s team to an 11th-place finish, its best result since also finishing 11th in 1998. His time of 24 minutes, 46 seconds also made him the second-fastest Division III runner and placed him just 5 seconds away from a top-three performance. The finish was also the highest by a Brandeis runner at New Englands since the NEICAAA Web site began tracking such stats in 1995. Norton paced the team for much of last year and finished strongly at Nationals. He finished in 39th there and was less than 3 seconds away from being an AllAmerican. Norton has also been the team’s top runner thus far this year. He finished third (second among Division III runners) at the UMassDartmouth Invitational earlier in the year. His time of 24:43 was also a personal best for him. “Having my personal best right before really gave me some confidence for this meet. I knew that I was in shape to do well,” Norton said. Originally from Amherst, Mass., Norton thought that the local atmosphere helped him at the competition. “It was kind of a low-pressure opportunity for me,” Norton said. “It wasn’t a conference championship, and I knew the

Judging numbers

career shutouts for women’s soccer goalie Hillary Rosenzweig ’10 after the Judges beat Tufts University 2-0 last Wednesday. Resenzweig tied Justine McBride ’92 for the most shutouts in team history.

straight games in which men’s soccer forward Alex Farr ’12 has scored a goal. Farr has a team-leading five goals.

consecutive sets won by the volleyball team in its last three matches. The Judges defeated the University of Rochester, the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and Keene State College in straight sets.

rounds this season in which golfer Lee Bloom ’10 has shot a score under 80. Bloom shot a seven-over-par 79 at the Rhode Island College Invitational last Friday.

rd-best finish for the men’s cross country team at the Open New England Championships among Division III teams. The squad finished 11th overall.

The Co-ed Division Final saw a matchup of the top two seeds from the regular season. No. 2 seed Last Shot, looking to avenge its only loss on the season, went against the No. 1 seed and undefeated Big Green. An early goal from Julie Vavoules ’10 put Big Green ahead 1-0, and the team never looked back. Behind a pair of goals from both Gordon Millner ’10 and Abby Shields ’10, Big Green was able to hold off Last Shot for a 5-2 victory and the championship. Alex Blutinger ’10 and Omoefe Ogbeide ’12 tallied scores for Last Shot. The Men’s Division playoff was a tournament filled with upsets and nail-biting finishes, and the championship game did not disappoint. The final showcased No. 3 Fans of Bacon vs. the No. 4 seed and perennial favorites Rastafari. Goals from Gordon Millner ’10 and Ed Colburn ’10 brought Rastafari into the half tied 2-2. However, Fans of Bacon got four goals from four different players (Gaurav Gharti-Chhetri ’10, Nadir Daudi ’10, Dan Litwok ’10, and Jeremy Sherer ’10) and came away with a 4-2 victory over the defending champions. In the Women’s Division Final No. 1 seed Team Awesome was matched up against No. 2 seed Retired Judges. After a hard-fought game, a hat trick from Julie Vavoules ’10 and a single goal by Brittany Carvalho (GRAD) proved to be too much as the Retired Judges won the championship with a 4-1 victory. This was the second championship of the night for many of these ladies, having just come off their coed victory as members of Big Green. Team Awesome’s lone goal came from Allyson Ettinger ’10.

—Courtesy of Assistant Director of Athletics Tom Rand

AP BRIEF PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MAX BREITSTEIN MATZA/Justice File Photo

course from high school, so I just wanted to run a solid race and set myself up for good races down the road.” Coach John Evans spoke highly of Norton. “He ran an unbelievable race, but it’s

not that we didn’t expect it.,” Evans said. “He’s in great shape, and has been running terrifically recently.”

—Jeffrey Boxer

UAA STANDINGS Men’s Soccer

Women’s Soccer

Not including Monday’s games

UAA Conference WL T Carnegie 2 0 0 Rochester 2 0 0 Chicago 1 1 0 Washington 1 1 0 JUDGES 1 1 0 Case 0 1 1 New York 0 1 1 Emory 0 2 0

UAA Conference W LT Rochester 2 00 Case 2 00 Chicago 1 01 Washington 1 0 1 Emory 0 11 Carnegie 0 11 New York 0 20 JUDGES 0 20

W 11 8 7 6 4 6 4 8

L 1 0 2 2 5 4 6 3

Overall T Pct. 0 .917 2 .900 2 .727 3 .682 1 .450 3 .577 1 .409 0 .727

W 8 7 9 8 4 5 8 6

L 1 3 1 2 2 5 4 4

T 2 2 1 1 4 1 0 2

Overall Pct. .818 .667 .864 .773 .600 .500 .667 .583

TEAM LEADERS MSoccer (points)

WSoccer (points)

Forwards Matt Peabody ’13 and Alex Farr lead the Judges with 10 points this season.

Forward Tiffany Pacheco ’11 leads the team with 16 points this year.

Player Matt Peabody Alex Farr Corey Bradley Sam Ocel Luke Teece

Player Tiffany Pacheco Mimi Theodore Melissa Gorenkoff Sofia Vallone Two tied with...

Points 10 10 7 6 3

Points 16 14 9 8 5

Volleyball (kills)

Volleyball (digs)

Outside hitter Paige Blasco ’11 leads the Judges with 244 kills.

Libero Anna Homitsky ’13 leads the team with 204 digs.

Player Paige Blasco Piera Carfagno Nicole Smith Bridget McAllister Becca Fischer

Player Anna Homitsky Abby Blasco Paige Blasco Piera Carfagno Bridget McAllister

Kills 244 159 145 128 95

Digs 204 202 199 185 183

UPCOMING GAME OF THE WEEK Men’s Soccer at Carnegie Mellon University The Judges will take on the No. 9 team in the country on the road Friday night.

player in Brandeis history to have his baseball jersey retired. The University honored MLB pitcher Nelson Figueroa ’98 last Saturday by retiring his number 2.

The men’s soccer team has its toughest University Athletic Association challenge of the season thus far, as it will play at nationally ranked No. 9 Carnegie Mellon University Friday at 5 p.m. Carnegie Mellon is 11-1 on the season and 2-0 in UAA play. The team recently defeated UAA opponents Washington University at St. Louis and the

University of Chicago by scores of 2-0 and 3-0, respectively. Carnegie Mellon has shut out nine of its 12 opponents. The team’s only loss was to No. 3 Ohio Wesleyan University. Carnegie has recorded a shutout in its last five games, outscoring its opponents 21-0.

United States beats Honduras to qualifiy for 2010 World Cup SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras—One by one, U.S. soccer players exited their celebration and came into the dark, narrow hallway outside the locker room of Estadio Olimpico Metropolitano. They had qualified the United States for its sixth straight World Cup, rallying to beat Honduras 3-2 Saturday night in as thrilling a match as the U.S. has played in years. So they were filled with joy. They also were consumed with relief. And immediately thoughts turned to an even tougher task—getting out of the first round in South Africa next summer and wiping out the sting of 2006’s disappointment. “Hopefully the sky’s the limit for us,” goalkeeper Tim Howard said. “We’ve played some big games in the last few years, and I’m hoping that we go down there and we’re not afraid of, you know, what they throw at us.” Of the 19 teams that have qualified for next year’s 32nation field, the United States is among only six nations to have reached six straight World Cups, joined by Brazil, Germany, Italy, South Korea and Spain. After the United States made an unexpected run to the quarterfinals in 2002, its best showing since the original World Cup in 1930, there were thoughts among some American soccer fans that the national team was ready to take its place among the powers. The first-round exit in Germany, with dismal losses to the Czech Republic and Ghana bookending a bloody tie against eventual champion Italy, led to a shake-up—with Bob Bradley replacing Bruce Arena as coach after Juergen Klinsmann didn’t take the job. “Progress isn’t linear,” U.S. Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati said Sunday. “Brazil goes to the World Cup expecting to win. Everyone else goes to get through the first round. It’s an impossible situation to say we’re going to get better at every World Cup. It’s not a time trial. Others teams are getting better.” That said, expectations are growing in the United States—especially after an exciting performance at June's Confederations Cup, where the United States ended the 35-game unbeaten streak of European champion Spain and took a two-goal lead against Brazil in the final before losing 3-2. Supporters were uneasy when the United States went 0-2-1 in its first three road qualifiers of the regional finals. Even American players were impressed by Honduras’ 8-0 home record in qualifying. When the Catrachos had a chance to tie the score on Carlos Pavon’s 87th-minute penalty kick, they wondered whether qualification would come down to the final match—against Costa Rica on Wednesday night at Washington's RFK Stadium. “You just think, ‘Why is this happening to us?’” Landon Donovan said. But then Pavon put his shot over the crossbar. “You need a break now and then, and we got it,” said Gulati. U.S. players demand more of themselves these days. The three-and-out experience of Germany in 2006 still weighs on them. “For those of us who were there, we don’t want to go through that again,” said Donovan, who scored the decisive third goal against Honduras. “I’m a person who likes to live in the moment, but if you don’t learn from what happened then, then you get nothing out of it. I’ve learned a lot and I hope we have, too.” While Donovan and some of his teammates are preparing for their third World Cup, it will be a new experience for Bradley. He used 85 players since replacing Arena, compiling a 34-14-5 record. “We have a group that has come together, that has worked hard, that has grown,” Bradley said. “And they’ve accomplished something that’s a special feeling.” Next up, even before thoughts of how to construct the 23-man U.S. roster, is December’s draw to determine the three first-round opponents for each team. “We hope we get a really good draw,” Howard said.

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BASEBALL

Baseball team retires Figueroa’s jersey ■ Major League pitcher

Nelson Figueroa ’98 is the ﬁrst Brandeis athlete to have his jersey number retired. By IAN CUTLER JUSTICE EDITOR

A journeyman contributor who has scraped his way onto five Major League Baseball rosters throughout his 14-year professional career, Nelson Figueroa ’98 returned to his alma mater for the first time in 10 years, where he was the man of the hour at last Saturday’s Brandeis baseball alumni game. After reuniting with his old baseball family and interacting with current baseball team members, Figueroa was forever enshrined in Brandeis history as the team retired his number 2 jersey in a private ceremony.

Second baseman Jon O’Brion ’10 wore that number last season, but will likely wear number 4 in the spring since number 2 will no longer be available. “It’s just an exciting time right now,” Figueroa told the Justice after the ceremony. “To be honored in this fashion, it’s hard to put into words what it means. But for someone who’s going to see that jersey number retired, and ask why, and hear the story behind it, it’s going to be something that forever lives on at Brandeis and hopefully inspire[s] some future dreamers.” Figueroa was drafted by the New York Mets in the 30th round of the 1995 MLB Draft and became the first Brandeis alumnus to play Major League Baseball when he debuted with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2000. Since then he has spent time in the Major and Minor Leagues with Philadelphia,

Milwaukee and Pittsburgh and most recently has “come full circle,” as he described, by playing with the Mets over the last two seasons. Figueroa was called up to the Majors this season on Aug. 3 from Triple-A Buffalo and earned a permanent spot in the Mets’ starting rotation on Aug. 25, when New York’s top pitcher Johan Santana suffered a season-ending injury. Prior to being called up, Figueroa had a 2.25 ERA in 17 starts in TripleA. He was named the Warren Spahn Most Valuable Pitcher for his team at the end of the Minor League season in early September, despite his time spent at the Major League level. Since joining the rotation, Figueroa has made eight starts for the Mets and recorded 44 strikeouts with a 3.22 ERA. Over the last month of the season,

he led the team in innings pitched and strikeouts. His best start, though, came on the last day of the season when he threw a complete-game shutout at home against Houston, Figueroa becoming the first Mets pitcher to do so at the team’s new stadium, Citi Field. Figueroa was proud that this accomplishment would always have the Brandeis name tagged to it, especially considering the long road he traveled to get to this point from such a small program. In his remarks at the ceremony, Figueroa discussed the tremendous changes in his career over the past few years. “[I look] at my career where I was in 2005, missing a year

of baseball and [when] people didn’t know who I was and having to go to open tryouts and being asked, ‘Where’d you go to college? Brandeis University? They don’t have baseball there,’” he said. “But now they know after my last start of the season to be able to put my name down in history as … the first player to pitch a shutout at Citi Field. They’ll know that Brandeis does have baseball and one of the best programs in the Northeast, hands down.” Coach Pete Varney, who has managed the program for 28 seasons, spoke highly of Figueroa. “It’s a great day,” Varney told the Justice. “This doesn’t mark the end of his career by any extent of the imagination. He was a great kid while he was playing and is even a better person now. We’re obviously very proud of what he’s accom-

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ATHLETICS

Simon inducted into New England Hall of Fame ■ Women’s basketball

coach Carol Simon was one of three Brandeisians inducted last weekend. By IAN CUTLER JUSTICE EDITOR

When women’s basketball forward Amber Strodthoff ’11 was asked about head coach Carol Simon’s induction into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame last weekend, she hadn’t yet heard the news. “I’m surprised [Simon] hasn’t said anything to us, but that’s her character,” Strodthoff said. “She’s not one to tell us awards she’s received. She’s really into that team mentality. It’s a great thing.” Simon was one of four Division III women’s basketball coaches and one of three members of the Brandeis basketball community inducted into the class of 2009. Glenn Wong ’74 and Bill Lynch ’79 were also honored under the Scholar Athlete Category. Pat Glipson of Clark University, Amy Backus of Yale University and Stephanie Pemper of the United States Naval Academy were the other women inducted under the Division III Women’s Coach Category. Though Backus and Pemper currently coach Division I programs, they were honored for their successful tenures at Middlebury College and Bowdoin College, respectively. Wong and Lynch were both captains of the men’s basketball team while playing at Brandeis. “I’m very pleased and honored to be selected,” Wong said. “We had terrific teams then with great people in terms of athletic ability. … I had a great experience at Brandeis, both as a student and as an Athlete. [Brandeis] taught me the great experience that Athletics can be: the hard work, the discipline, and teamwork.” Wong said the induction ceremony itself gave him a chance to reminisce about his time at Brandeis. In Lynch’s rookie year, Wong was asked to return to the University after graduating the year before to be the interim coach of the Junior Varsity team, which Lynch was a part of. “The ceremony was wonderful,” Wong said. “It was a very nice reunion, and I saw a lot of people in the basketball community, including coaches we played against.” Among the other inductees who

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TENURED COACH: Coach Carol Simon has been the women’s basketball head coach since 1987. Above, she instructs guard Jessica Chapin ’10, left, in a game last season. Wong reunited with was his high school coach, Rollie Massamino. Massamino is best known for coaching the Villanova University Wildcats to a shocking National Championship over Patrick Ewing and the Georgetown University Hoyas in the 1985 NCAA Division I Tournament but was inducted for his time as the coach of Wong’s Lexington High School in Lexington, Mass. Massamino currently coaches at Northwood University in Florida, where former Brandeis women’s basketball guard Amanda DeMartino ’06 is the head coach of Northwood’s women’s basketball team. Wong’s co-captain at Brandeis,

John Perry ’74, was also in attendance to represent his late father, Walter Perry, who was inducted in the High School Boys’ Coach category. Wong earned his law degree from Boston College in 1977 and is a professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is also the university’s faculty representative to the NCAA and has served as interim athletics director. Lynch is the current Rhode Island Democratic Party Chairman, but he played professional basketball in Ireland and starred on the Irish national team before starting his political career. Lynch could not be reached for comment by the time of publication.

The tribute to Simon comes as she enters her 23rd season as head coach of the women’s basketball team. Over the years, she has accumulated over 300 wins and earned the University Athletic Association Coaching Staff of the Year award twice. She has also led her squad to consecutive Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships in 2004 and 2005 and reached the NCAA Division III Tournament in each of the last four seasons, a first in Brandeis history. Last season, Brandeis made its deepest NCAA Tournament run by reaching the Round of 8. Despite her accomplishments, Simon attributed her success and the

recognition to the people who support her. “It’s a great honor [to be recognized] amongst the other people [who were inducted], but to be honest, you’ve got to give credit to all the players and the administration that got me here,” she said. “It’s humbling. It’s a nice honor, but again, I give all the credit to the people who make up this program. It’s not about me.” Simon said she learned of the honor in early September but never told her team about the award. “It was well kept,” Simon said. “It’s not one of those things you brag about. I guess it’s something you

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ARTS Status Quo shakes it up! p. 20

Photos: Genevieve Armstrong and Amy Melser/the Justice. Design: Julian Agin-Liebes, Max Breitstein Matza and Asher Krell/the Justice.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009

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INSIDE ON CAMPUS

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■ ‘Everything in the Garden’ 19 Prof. Eric Hill’s (THA) production skillfully combined emotional tension and comedy. ■ An interview with Prof. Krstansky 19 The faculty member discussed her current role in 2.5 Minute Ride. ■ Ben Folds to come to Brandeis 20 One justArts writer muses on the performer chosen for the upcoming fall 2009 concert.

20 ■ Week in Pictures A blues concert and a performance by Status Quo are among the featured events.

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21 ■ Review: Salem Foods This hidden gem serves up delicious, authentic Italian cuisine made fresh to order. 21 ■ Grizzly Bear Plays Boston The band, which features vocals by Ed Droste, blew away concertgoers at a recent concert at the Orpheum Theater. ■ Review: ‘The Invention of Lying’ 22 Ricky Gervais directed this comedy about a world in which only one man can lie.

23 ■ Ternheim on Tour The Swedish musical artist will be playing at Great Scott this Wednesday. 23 ■ Review: ‘Kaleidoscope’ Dutch DJ Tiësto has outdone himself on his newest album.

CALENDAR

INTERVIEW by Marianna Faynshteyn

Over a week ago, in what initially seemed like an extended anecdote given by good ol’ Grandpa Dave, Mr. Letterman professed to being involved in some “creepy stuff,” specifically of the kind we thought dear Gramps was never privy to—sex, with colleagues who were female and presumably young. The announcement of his scandal pre-empted his late-night monologue, and as one who was aware of the fiasco prior to the the episode during which it was discussed, its viewing could not quite be placed in the “pleasure” category. Letterman revealed the details of his blackmail in all the ways he’s handled controversy before (cough, Palin, A-Rod, O’Reilly), openly but not without the support of his charm and storytelling gifts. However, the tension within the audience was palpable with sidekick Paul Shaffer muttering an “oh, no” every so often to push the crowd along in its reactions. Tabloids jumped on the story, more interested in what Letterman himself found most interesting— “He had sex?!” Though a father, the production of a son is much less cringe-worthy than the production of a sex scandal. On the shows that followed, Letterman apologized to his wife, his staff and the women involved. Upon the revelation of the scandal, some of the women in question came out openly about their relationships with the man, the legend and the oversexed, cardiac-vexed, over-the-hill late-night host. Merrill Markoe, a onetime producer of the show as well as Letterman’s somewhat unexclusive girlfriend, responded, “This is a very emotional moment for me because Dave promised me many times that I was the only woman he would ever cheat on.” Another of Letterman’s sexual subjects, and the missing puzzle piece of the extortion plot as the ex-girlfriend to blackmailer and 48 Hours

Brandeisians discuss BWO ■ Two members of the music community talk about their diverse interests and their plans to include music in postgraduation careers in education and medicine.

EVAN AGOSTINI/The Associated Press

DIRTY DAVE: David Letterman’s on-air admission of a workplace affair shocked fans nationwide. producer Robert “Joe” Halderman, Stephanie Birkitt was at one point an intern on the late night program. Once done with college, Birkitt returned to the show to apply for the position of Letterman’s assistant (and, it seems, she also assumed another position). What did Birkitt think of her superior/lover? In a 2002 interview she called Letterman “the best boss I’ve ever had.” Oh, if no one minds, I’d rather side with the Stockholm Syndrome interpretation than uncomfortably question the phrase’s sexual undertones.

What’s happening in Arts on and off campus

Reading: ‘Good for the Jews’ Debra Spark will read from her new book, Good for the Jews, a smart, funny novel set in Madison, Wis. during the George W. Bush administration. The book combines a bit of mystery, a stranger-comes-to-town story and a loose retelling of the Book of Esther. Spark is author of the novels Coconuts for the Saint and The Ghost of Bridgetown and editor of the anthology Twenty Under Thirty: Best Stories by America’s New Young Writers. She is a professor at Colby College and teaches in the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Today at 4:30 p.m. in Rabb 119.

Gastronomical Society: First Meeting For its first meeting of the semester, the Gastronomical Society will give guests a “Taste of the Middle East.” Attendance is capped at 100 guests, so those looking to participate should RSVP to joealhar@brandeis.edu. At every Gastronomical Society event, a $2 donation per guest will be requested to help support Feed the Children. Today from 7:15 to 9 p.m. in South Campus Commons in Ridgewood A. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC

Film screening: ‘Traces of the Trade’ In this documentary, filmmaker Katrina Browne explores her startling discovery that her New England ancestors were the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history. In Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, Browne and nine fellow descendants retrace the Triangle Trade, visiting locales such as their old hometown in Rhode Island, slave forts in Ghana and sugar plantation ruins in Cuba. Step by step, the group uncovers the vast extent of Northern complicity in slavery while also stumbling through the minefield of contemporary race relations. A discussion with the filmmaker will follow the screening. Tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. in Lown 315.

Film Screening: ‘Exil Shanghai’ The Brandeis Orthodox Organization will screen Exil Shanghai, a work by German filmmaker, photographer and documentarian Ulrike Ottinger. Rich with fascinating details and dry humor, Exil Shanghai tells the six life stories of German, Austrian and Russian Jews whose lives intersect while they are in exile in Shanghai. The film is an extraordinary cultural odyssey that affectionately conjures up the lost

WHAT’S ON?

STUDENT SYMPHONY: The Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra will per form under the direction of Prof. Neal Hampton (MUS) and Assistant Conductor Nicholas Alexander Brown ’10 this Sunday. Jewish world of Shanghai. Tomorrow from 7 to 10 p.m. in the Wasserman Cinematheque.

Magaly Ruiz Lastres commisioned by Curtis. Friday from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the LibermanMiller Lecture Hall in the Epstein Building.

‘Big Love’

Daniel Stepner: ‘Together Again’

The Brandeis Ensemble Theatre will perform this remake of The Danaids by Aeschylus. The play, which is produced by Jackie Feinberg ’10 and directed by Tony Rios ’11, tells the story of 50 brides that flee their grooms to take refuge in a villa on the coast of Italy. Tickets are $3. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Carl J. Shapiro Theater.

Music by Women of the Americas from Three Centuries: A CD Release Celebration Composers Ruth Lomon and Beth Denisch will join musicologist Liane Curtis to discuss their works included on a new album recorded by the Lydian String Quartet. The album also offers music by 19th-century Venezuelan composer Theresa Carreño, African-American composer Florence Price and a piece by Cuban composer

At this event, violinist Prof. Daniel Stepner (MUS) will provide an evening featuring several unaccompanied pieces by Bach followed by stand-up comedy. Tickets purchased in advance by students are $10; those bought at the door will cost $15. Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Slosberg Recital Hall.

Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra Conductor Prof. Neal Hampton (MUS) will lead the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra with Assistant Conductor Nicholas Alexander Brown ’10. Pieces to be played at the concert include Mendelssohn’s The Hebrides Overture, Op. 26 and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 21. Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Slosberg Recital Hall.

Flautist Emily Krainer ’12 and bassoonist Jesse Begelfer ’12 are among the multitasking Brandeis students who compose the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra; Krainer, a premed student, and Begelfer, a Spanish major, regularly juggle science labs, work and three-hour orchestra rehearsals. However, their busy schedules do not diminish their love of playing music. The Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra will perform Overture to Fingal’s Cave, Op. 26 by Felix Mendelssohn as well as several other pieces during its performance on Sunday (see calendar entry). JustArts: Is it hard managing your premed work with the orchestra? Are there a lot of premed students in the orchestra? Emily Krainer: It can be tough managing premed classes with orchestra, especially during concerts when rehearsals get longer, and sometimes we have multiple rehearsals in one week. Science labs are time-consuming, and the orchestra is a big commitment also. For example, every Thursday I have lab for 4 1/2 hours and then go right to orchestra for three hours, and by the end of the night I’m pretty worn out. But I find ways to make it work because I can’t imagine having to choose one or the other. The science thing is something I’m really excited about and interested in, and the music thing is something I love to do because it’s fun. I need a balance of both, especially because science classes get very stressful at times and playing the flute kind of helps me to clear my head and relax. As far as I know, there are a few other premed students in the orchestra, but not that many. JA: So, if you are majoring in Spanish, what do you plan to do after you graduate? Jesse Begelfer: I am also minoring in Elementary Education. After school, hopefully I will be working at an elementary school. The way Spanish fits into it is that I hope to be able to involve parents in their kid’s education who might otherwise not be able to because of [a] language barrier. JA: Did you choose Brandeis with the orchestra scene in mind? EK: Yes, I was definitely looking for a school that had a good music department and opportunities to play in ensembles. I was pretty sure that I wanted to major in science, but I wanted to be able to play in an orchestra or wind ensemble or chamber group for fun. JB: I chose Brandeis because I felt that they supported interdisciplinary interests. At some colleges, you can’t do both music and science or history and chemistry, but here I feel like that’s the norm. I knew I wanted to do orchestra. There was absolutely no question: I love music and playing with ensembles. JA: Do you plan to continue with music after graduation? EK: I would love to continue playing the flute in the future. I don’t plan on stopping unless I absolutely have to—I hear people don’t have much free time in med school, but I really hope that I can continue finding ways to make time for the flute, because I think it’s important to always have something you’re passionate about. Especially in med school, where things can get so stressful, it’s good to have some kind of outlet. Even after med school, I’ve heard about various doctors’ orchestras, and I think that sort of thing would be so cool to play in. Also, I’ve been playing the flute for over 10 years and it’s sort of become part of who I am, so I don’t think I will ever quit completely. JB: I don’t think you can ever truly give up music. I hope to be able to incorporate music into my future classroom besides playing on the side, but who knows. —Andrea Fineman

Top 10s for the week ending October 13

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1. Couples Retreat 2. Zombieland 3. Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 4. Toy Story 5. Paranormal Activity 6. Surrogates 7. The Invention of Lying 8. Whip It 9. Captialism: A Love Story 10. Fame

1. Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs 2. Arctic Monkeys – Humbug 3. Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall 4. Why? – Eskimo Snow 5. Fruit Bats – The Ruminant Band 6. Dodos – Time To Die 7. Wild Beasts – Two Dancers 8. Health – Get Color 9. Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer (EP) 10. Compilation – Everything Goes Wrong

1. Barbara Streisand – Love Is The Answer 2. Paramore – Brand New Eyes 3. Mariah Carey – Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel 4. Breaking Benjamin – Dear Agony 5. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue 6. Jay-Z – The Blueprint 3 7. Madonna – Celebration 8. Miranda Lambert – Revolution 9. Selena Gomez & The Scene – Kiss And Tell 10. Pearl Jam – Backspacer

1. Omar Rodriquez-Lopez – “Desarraigo” 2. Experimental Dental School – “Dark Stars in Daylight” 3. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Runaway” 4. Blitzen Trapper – “Going Down” 5. Thrice – “The Weight” 6. Harlem Shakes – “Natural Man” 7. Sunset Rubdown – “Idiot Heart” 8. Mosh Ben-Ari – “Elef Ruchot” 9. The Xx – “Basic Space” 10. The Mars Volta – “Halo of Nembutals”

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ON CAMPUS THEATER

THEATER

Krstansky takes a ‘Ride’ in Watertown

‘Garden’ lush with fakery

■ JustArts interviewed

Prof. Adrianne Krstansky (THA) about her role in Lisa Kron’s one-woman show 2.5 Minute Ride. Prof. Adrianne Krstansky (THA) stars in Lisa Kron’s play 2.5 Minute Ride, a memoir about the playwright’s life and family. The show is staged by New Repertory Theatre at Watertown’s Arsenal Center for the Arts. The play runs through Oct. 24. JustArts: What was it like to play Lisa Kron for a second time in a different play? Adrianne Krstansky: Well, her other play, Well , is about her mother, so in some ways, it was great research into the Kron family to do that play and then come into 2.5 Minute Ride which is more about her father. I became quite close to Ellen Colten, who played Ann Kron in the production of Well that I did, so now, in 2.5, when I talk about “my mother” I have a pretty clear idea of who she is based on Ellen’s wonderful performance. But, as you know, we are all such different people in different situations, so it was a great foundation to do Well , but I found out so much more about Lisa by doing 2.5. JA: Kron has played herself in this play before. Did you work with her on how to evoke her experiences on stage? AK: She and I have had a casual sort of “e-mail relationship” since Well, but I have never met her. She has written me some simple and profound words of wisdom, but I also feel a great sense of generosity from her—that she does actually want me to inhabit the story as if it were my own. So there is no attempt to become Lisa Kron, but to find myself in her story. JA: The play takes place in Arsenal's Black Box Theater. What are the challenges and benefits of acting in this kind of theater? AK: I only find benefits. The audience is close. I can feel people breathing. It’s a wonderfully intimate space for this play, which is actually, I find, more of a conversation with the audience than a monologue. JA: What are the challenges and benefits of acting in a one-woman show as opposed to a play with multiple characters? AK: I am still dealing with the challenges which center on the basic fact of no one else coming onstage! The intimacy is now with the audience rather than another actor—and since actors who do one person shows don’t get to rehearse with their audience, it's new every night. JA: Did you find the personal memoir content of this play to relate to your own life? AK: Only superficially. There are certain factual aspects of our lives that are similar—growing up in the Midwest, our parents share many of the same qualities: eating in front of the TV, various illnesses that people get when they become elderly—but my childhood and adult life is much different than Lisa’s. I think she is probably much more outgoing than I am in her day to day life! JA: You’re often involved in professional theater during the school year. How does your outside work complement your work at Brandeis? AK: It keeps me humble.

—Sarah Bayer

■ The Brandeis Theater

Company opened its season with a production of Edward Albee’s ‘Everything in the Garden,’ a tension-rife tale of social competition in the suburbs during the 1960s. By SUJIN SHIN JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Typical is a word that one might reach for as the play Everything in the Garden by Edward Albee starts. I’ve seen these types of these plays countless times before: Typical people are put in a typical setting with a typical problem plaguing their lives. Usually, typical gags and laughless silences will follow. All my experiences with such examples came from high school. And, in all honesty, a high school show was what I expected from this production by the Brandeis Theater Company. What an ignorant, first-year thing to think. I take the time now to formally apologize to all those involved with this presentation of Albee’s subtle but bold work. It ranks as one of the most enjoyable plays I’ve seen recently—and I’ve seen many. The setting is a suburban home in the ’60s. Everything is very clean and arranged deliberately. It feels more staged than a natural home should be. Nothing ever changes in the interior of the home. As the play progresses one can see how this might lend itself to the main symbol of the play, the combination of the house and the garden outside. The garden is what the neighbors see and therefore what must be kept up, never mind that the family has some money problems and that the wife wants to supplement her husband’s meager income by working as a call girl to the privileged. As long as the garden is beautiful, it’s all fine. I find it interesting that whereas the world on stage is focused on exteriors, we the viewers can actually see the truth behind the flowers. What is most intriguing about Garden is that while it is coated with a thick glaze of humor and witty dialogue, the true intellectual and artistic stimulation lies within the revealing asides, the double entendres, the social commentary, the intricately layered symbolism, the incongruous dichotomies and also the significant silences. The beauty

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MONEY TALKS: The scandalous Mrs. Toothe (McCaela Donovan (GRAD)) introduces herself to angsty suburbanite Richard (Robert McFadyen (GRAD), left) in Brandeis Theater Company’s production of Edward Albee’s play ‘Everything in the Garden.’ is created by the tension that lies beneath the funny. The tension itself is almost tangible and is no small feat accomplished by the sympathetic portrayals of the onstage personas by our own Brandeisian actors. They are plastic. And fake. And sorely in need of a slap in the face to help them differentiate between priorities and selfish obsession. Perfect. That’s the type of person that the actors have to portray, and they do it beautifully. But just like the house itself, there lies a layered character behind the cultivated garden. Jenny, played with great emotional range by Tanya Dougherty (GRAD), is a woman with her heart split in two: She wants to put up a façade for the neighbors while remaining a loving wife and independent woman. Richard, played sensitively by Robert McFadyen (GRAD), is a man who wants an

honest and good life but can also be prone to dishonesty and jealousy. And Mrs. Toothe, played with impeccable Englishness by McCaela Donovan (GRAD), is a hard-edged businesswoman who takes no prisoners but also suffers from a painful and difficult past. But by far the most interesting and pitiable character in Garden is Jack, played masterfully and frankly by Ben Rosenblatt (GRAD). He is sleazy and impetuous, a drunk and a homewrecker in the most literal sense of the word. However, he is the most honest and scrupulous man in the play: He is the only one of the whole crooked bunch that came into his fortune in an honest and legal way, he plays backgammon with the elderly and he’s the only one sincerely kind to Jenny and Richard’s son, Roger (Aaron Arbiter ’10). Yet his neighbors look down on him because he

likes to drink. It is funny how in this staged world the drunken obnoxious sleazeball is the most respectable character in terms of morality. He is true to himself and owns up to his actual house and not his garden. Perhaps inebriation is the savior here in that it takes you out of that state of “bad faith.” Jack is a perfect example of those incongruities that make this play so interesting to watch. It’s genuine mindplay. Given these elements, Everything in the Garden is a highly accessible experience through both incredible and hilarious circumstances with doses of philosophy and pathos on the side. Its run continues in the Laurie Theater of the Spingold Theater Center this Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 15 to 18, at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.

MUSIC

Ben Folds to play Deis’ fall concert ■ The indie rock pianist will

play in Gosman Sports and Convocation Center Nov. 5. Student Events ofﬁcials revealed the selection Thursday evening. By AMY MELSER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Student Events announced Thursday night that Ben Folds is coming to Brandeis for the fall 2009 concert on Thursday, Nov. 5 in Shapiro Athletic Center. I tried to gauge other students’ reactions right after the announcement. There were a couple of overjoyed screamers, but for the most part, there was indifference as students piled back to their dormitories. As I walked down the aisle of Sherman Function Hall, I overheard a student allude to the fact that Student Events usually gets a performer that was popular five

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‘SUBURBS’ ROCKER: Student Events announced that solo artist Ben Folds, formerly of Ben Folds Five, will play the fall 2009 Brandeis concert. years ago. But since Ben Folds’ appearance has prompted two of my friends who go to the University of Florida to come visit me, I would have to admit Student Events is doing much better than the pattern I

overheard the student talking about. Ben Folds Five came out with its first album, Ben Folds Five, in 1995, (14 years ago actually), and Ben Folds started his solo career in 2001 with the album Rockin’ the Suburbs. A year later,

he came out with, Ben Folds Live, and in April of this year, Ben Folds Presents University A Cappella. Folds is not just a singer-songwriter; he also plays a plethora of instruments: piano, guitar, bass guitar, drums, keytar, melodica and maybe even more. (Did I mention he Tweets?) Folds’ studio album, Way to Normal, released on Sept. 30, 2008, came out at No. 11 on the Billboard 200 in the U.S. Moreover, Folds gives back to his community whether it’s for charity such as concerts for Operation Smile or to his music community as an inaugural member for the Independent Music Awards’ judging panel. On Folds’ Web site, he jokes that his cover of Dr. Dre’s “Bitches Ain’t Shit,” which reached No. 71 on the Billboard Hot 100, is his “biggest hit.” That came out in 2006 on the album The Supersunnyspeedgraphic. Tickets to the Ben Folds concert will go on sale this Thursday, Oct. 15. Tickets cost $10 for Brandeis students and $15 for nonstudents.

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BOSTON’S DANCE CREW

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FISTS UP: Student Events sponsored a performance by local dance crew Status Quo in Sherman Function Hall on Thursday. The act served as a lead-in to the announcement of the fall concert performer.

Status Quo stirs things up Student Events brings the Bostonbased dance crew to Brandeis By AMY MELSER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Dance group Status Quo, runners-up on the MTV show America’s Best Dance Crew, performed Thursday night before the announcement that Ben Folds will perform at Brandeis’ fall concert. Ernest, Jayjion, Darvis, JP, Thornell, Quise, Desmond, Junn Yahh and Donell did a hip-hop/R&B performance that got the crowd going wild. Donell, a temporary member who doubles as security guard for the team, informed me how hard it was when Ernest sprained his ankle on

America’s Best Dance Crew. The results demonstrated how teamwork and dedication to the art of dancing can get a group through difficult competitions. Status Quo started out as a “street crew” in Boston. The group’s manager, Kevin Gibson, says Status Quo travels up and down the East Coast performing whenever it can. The men have performed at colleges and bar mitzvahs and even make house calls. In the future they are looking forward to performing at the House of Blues. They take a lot of pride in the charity work they do, including appearances for Toys for Tots and

Back to School Gymboree. Social Events coordinator Ellen Franz ’12 was thrilled to get these performers to Brandeis. Franz watched them when they were on America’s Best Dance Crew and thought they were the “coolest team,” and “good with a crowd,” she said in an interview. Franz said that Student Events used to just put up a banner announcing the fall concert performer, but this “gets people more riled up.” Status Quo demonstrated a moonwalk, a Soulja Boy and flips over six people crouching down. This certainly was an exciting preface to the fall 2009 Student Events concert.

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FLIP FLOPPERS: Status Quo impressed the crowd with acrobatic break dancing.

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DANCING KINGS: The men of Status Quo prepare to show off their dance moves, which won recognition on an MTV show.

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UPPER THRUST: Status Quo’s hip-hop-inspired moves entertained the audience.

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OFF-CAMPUS FOOD

Salem Foods proves to be bewitching ■ The Moody Street store offers a variety of Italian meats and cheeses, as well as treats like veal parmesan, tiramisu and ricotta pie. By GREG HU JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Around Brandeis, sandwich shops are among the most common food options for students. Nearby Cappy’s Pizza and Subs and Prime Deli seem to be favorites of less- motivated students here at Brandeis, while Carl’s Steak Subs and Dominic’s Italian Bakery & Deli have always been popular with foodie students with vehicles—the shops don’t deliver. With so many different sandwich shops, including others like Sabatino’s Italian Restaurant, Tara Restaurant, Café Angelinos and Prospect Café, it seems unlikely that any place could offer anything new to the sandwich scene around Brandeis. Yet recently I discovered a hole-in-wall Italian specialty foods store that has become my new favorite sandwich place: Salem Foods. Salem Foods is located at 468 Moody St. next to Wings Express and across the street from Erawan of Siam. Compared to other restaurants on Moody Street, it barely stands out at all and would never garner the interest of a hungry person walking by. In fact, Salem Foods is more of a specialty foods store than a deli in my opinion, but that’s the main reason why their food is special. When you walk in, there is a long glass counter that has just about every type of cold cut meat available from roast beef and turkey to any kind of Italian cold cut you can think of as well as a large selection of domestic and Italian cheeses. Located next to the counter is a small table with three chairs, and that’s really it in terms of seating. On the shelves inside the small shop is a wide assortment of imported Italian pastas, canned food items and drinks to purchase. There are a lot of interesting foods available to buy and cook at home, but the food that they make at Salem Foods is most interesting of all. I stopped by Salem with some friends last Friday for lunch. We ordered in advance by phone, because it usually takes at least 15 to 20 minutes for the food to be made. We both ordered veal parmesan sandwiches. When we arrived, there were two other patrons being served in the store. Even though we had preordered, the woman at the counter told us that our food was just beginning to be prepared. I thought the wait was probably due to the other

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CRAFTING CANNOLI: Rosa Montes de Oca dusts Salem Foods’ trademark dessert with powdered sugar. Other sweets sold at the store include lemon squares and éclairs. customers, which turned out to be true when one of the customers in front of us left the store with fresh, hot, homemade tomato sauce to take home. Everything prepared at Salem Foods is freshly made when ordered. My veal parmesan was breaded and lightly pan-fried on the spot, topped with fresh mozzarella—you have to ask for it—and fresh homemade red tomato sauce. Their usual bread wasn’t available, so instead she put my veal parmesan in between two long slices of white bread. I actually prefer the sliced bread over the regular submarine bun since the veal is somewhat thin and the submarine bun can be a little too much bread, drowning out the flavors of the veal parmesan. Our order was finally prepared after another 10 minutes of waiting, and we were hungry, so we decided to eat at the small table inside Salem. My friend described his veal parmesan as “so good” as he ravaged half the sandwich in a few big bites. I completely agreed; there is always some Italian ingredient in every sandwich they make at Salem that makes it different from other sandwich shops, and you could taste that difference in the veal parmesan. The sandwich proportion size at Salem’s is just right; there is no large or small. You just get one size, and it usually fits all. If you’re still hungry after the sandwich, there are a nice

variety of homemade and imported Italian desserts to choose from, such as freshly made cannoli, éclairs, ricotta pie, lemon squares and more. I happened to be craving something sweet that day, so I decided on the imported tiramisu. It was cool, light, fluffy, and rich with cocoa and coffee flavors, and then I finished it all down with an Orangina. After totaling everything up after I’d eaten, the damage turned out to be around $10: $6 for the sandwich, $3 for dessert and $1 for the drink: not bad for some homemade and imported Italian food. I have only had a limited experience at Salem Foods, but I know there is a lot more to explore. The employee I met told me about the homemade pastas, soups and other Italian dishes they make, which all come at very affordable prices. I almost wanted to stock my fridge with their pre-made food after talking with her. Besides the veal parmesan, I also highly recommend their sausage, pepper, mushrooms and onion sandwich made with intense Italian sausages and mushrooms. In my opinion, that sandwich best exemplifies the genuine Italian essence present in all of the dishes made at Salem Foods. So if you’re looking for some new sandwiches to choose from, make a stop at Salem Foods and get yourself something authentically Italian. For more information, visit their Web site at http://www.salemfoods.com.

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PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER: Salem’s veal parmesan, prepared above by Betty Montes de Oca, is made with homemade tomato sauce and fresh mozzarella.

MUSIC

Concertgoers bear witness to Grizzly’s talent ■ Beach House opened for

the Brooklyn-based quartet during their recent concert at the Orpheum Theater. By BEN SERBY JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Playing for a multitude of ultrahip college-age young adults at the celebrated Orpheum Theater in Boston Thursday night, Grizzly Bear delivered a fantastic performance. The Brooklyn-based quartet demonstrated an acute awareness of dynamics, confirming the perfectionist impression one gets from hearing their finely tuned work in the studio. From where I was sitting in the upper reaches of the balcony, the performers looked tiny and featureless. Dwarfed as they were by the imposing venue, which sports stylish brass railings, marble staircases and

gold-encrusted designs on the ceiling and walls, the opening band, Beach House, could claim only a tenuous grip on my attention. Despite the soulful lead vocals of Victoria Legrand and the charming use of graveyard organ, the songs all shared the same structure and languid tempo, making the performance somewhat underwhelming. By the time the main act took the stage, the audience was hungry for something more engaging. Grizzly Bear opened their set with “Southern Point,” the first track off their most recent album, Veckatimest. Like many of Grizzly Bear’s songs, it is characterized by striking contrasts of loud and soft textures as well as layered vocals, thus making a faithful reproduction in concert seem unrealistic. But surprisingly, the musicians lost none of the energy found in the studio version. During the next song, “Cheerleader,” they outdid themselves. Ed

Droste’s voice resounded expansively at the end of each set of lyrics, as if he were inside an enormous cathedral, while the rest of the band served as a soft backdrop. Daniel Rossen’s grittier vocal harmonies on the chorus were impeccable and well balanced. The band displayed a similar mastery of musical dynamics with its performance of the crowd-pleaser, “Knife,” off of the 2006 album Yellow House. Led by Droste, the quartet kept its sound appropriately subdued throughout the first two verses, only to erupt into a cathartic crescendo on the third repetition of the lyric, “Can’t you feel the knife?” during the bridge. On “Fine For Now,” from Veckatimest, the buildup was even more pronounced, as a subtle time signature and gradually evolving structure belied an effervescent extended climax that saw both Rossen and Droste rapidly picking guitar notes

in harmony. If there is any instance in which the astounding coherence of the performance would likely have fallen through, it is here at the most demanding instrumental moment for each musician in the group. But the unity and spotlessness of the band’s playing did not cease even for a second. Other highlights from the concert included “Foreground,” the wonderfully somber closing song from the new record. Droste’s clean tenor reached beautifully—almost operatically—into the upper balcony as a sparse piano texture heightened a sense of loneliness befitting the song. Afterward, the band switched to a more energetic mode with “While You Wait for the Others,” also from Veckatimest. Here, Rossen’s distinctively watery guitar played sharp, percussive notes at high volume, thus building tension as each verse wound its way to a rousing chorus in which all four

band members harmonized. The set closed with an uncharacteristically danceable rendition of the second half of “On A Neck, On A Spit,” which Rossen led on guitar and vocals. As he played it, the tune was a straightforward country-folk song—to such an extent that the audience clapped the time on every second beat—thus highlighting Grizzly Bear’s ability not only to recreate the songs that exist on its albums but also to push those songs in new and unexpected directions when playing them live. As I exited the theater, awestruck and elated at having witnessed such a monumental display of talent, I suddenly remembered that Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead once called Grizzly Bear his favorite band. Such a compliment is particularly meaningful given the perfectionism and uniquely developed sensitivity to musical dynamics that these musicians share.

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FILM

Gervais’ ‘Invention’ patently dumb ■ The ﬁlm, which was directed by the co-creator of ‘The Ofﬁce’ and ‘Extras,’ is at times cringe-inducing and incredibly depressing. By JUSTINE ROOT JUSTICE EDITOR

Apparently, the word lying in The Invention of Lying describes the film’s title as well as its supposed subject matter: If the title of Ricky Gervais’ latest romantic comedy were to actually describe what the film was about, it would instead be The Invention of a Film Starring Characters Who Do Not Know When to Shut the Hell Up. After a brief description of the film’s plot by the movie’s main character (Mark, played by Gervais himself), Lying drops you into a world where “incapable of lying” apparently translates to “saying every little thing that ever comes to mind.” Now, maybe I’m imposing on the film to an extreme degree my own standard of “truth,” but this habit of Lying’s inhabitants became so irritating so quickly that I just feel the need to verbally beat this plot point to death. To elaborate: Characters in Lying, even when not prompted by a question, will blurt out random details of their lives and their opinions on occasionally unrelated topics. Personally, I do not understand “incapable of lying” to mean “lacking a mental filter.” I can refrain from being dishonest even if I do not inform customers at my restaurant that I took a sip of their drink (unless, of course, said customers asked me if I had done so, but in Lying a waiter will simply volunteer this information without provocation), and I can continue to refrain from being dishonest without informing patrons of my business that I find

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VERBAL DIARRHEA: Mark (Ricky Gervais, left) and Frank (Jonah Hill) are unable to censor their speech in ‘The Invention of Lying.’ them intimidating, as one minor Lying player does (also without provocation). The fact of the matter is that Lying takes honesty to an extreme degree in which people are unnecessarily tactless, and the entire gimmick feels incredibly forced. That being said, the film doesn’t improve much with the introduction of lying. Mark, who discovers dishonesty, turns from a relatable loser into

a wretched beast the moment he finds the world is his for the manipulating. For instance, shortly after “inventing” lying, Mark tells a woman on the street that they have to have sex that instant or the world will end. And in the next scene, we’re transported to a motel, where Mark appears to be ready to take advantage of the woman’s tearful belief that what he has said is true. Granted, Mark can-

cels the sex session before it takes place and the time spent at the motel is very brief, but the moment is so uncomfortable and vaguely akin to rape that I can’t imagine how anyone thought the premise for the scene was a good idea. The other characters aren’t much more appealing; everyone, on account of the aforementioned lack of tact, comes off as either horribly insecure

or just cruel. And for some reason, everyone seems to have an obsession with finding romantic partners who are “genetically compatible” with them. Over the course of the film, Mark’s romantic interest, Anna (Jennifer Garner), explains to Mark approximately one hundred million times that she cannot be with him because their children would be “fat kids with snub noses.” The worst part, though, is that everyone else agrees and uses the same phrase to describe why an otherwise ideal relationship shouldn’t be formed. Apparently, “incapable of lying” also means “excessively shallow.” However, in retrospect, I believe this (vaguely creepy) aspect of the film is meant to be part of a larger, incomprehensible social commentary by Lying’s creators. For, in another portion of the film, a police officer informs Mark and his friend that he is glad they “aren’t black, as that would increase the probability that I would shoot you.” Evidently, Lying is attempting to make a statement, but good luck deciphering what that statement actually is. Portions of the film, in addition to being garbled, are also at times downright depressing. Jonah Hill’s character, Frank (hurr hurr, puns), describes in great detail his forthcoming suicide when asked questions pertaining to what he has planned for his evening, and the doctor caring for Mark’s mother spouts off in her presence a diagnosis so grim that it invites the creation of the saying, “If the disease doesn’t get you, the stress produced by hearing your diagnosis will.” Could you say that the Invention of Lying is worth seeing? Sure, if we were living a world that was the polar opposite of Mark’s; unfortunately, Gervais’ latest work is just too full of liars, elitists and losers to be truly enjoyable.

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TERNHEIM TAKES ON BOSTON

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SWEDISH SONGSTRESS: Anna Ternheim, whose album ‘Leaving on a Mayday’ was released in the U.S. in August, will be in Boston this Wednesday to perform as the opening act for bands Lonely Dear and Asobi Seksu.

Anna to open at Allston’s Great Scott Andrea

FINEMAN CONCERTGOER

With midterms going strong, many students may not have time for a Wednesday-night excursion to Allston’s Great Scott. However, if you are able to find the time, I highly recommend a voyage to that venue—located just west of Boston on Commonwealth Avenue—to see Anna Ternheim open for Asobi Seksu and Loney Dear. The Swedish singer, voted Best Female Artist at this year’s Swedish Grammys, will

perform songs from her latest album, Leaving on a Mayday, which won a Swedish Grammy and was released in the U.S. in August. In an interview with the Justice, Ternheim described the album as “a lot of strings, a lot of vocals, a lot of dramatic drumming. … I think it’s so hard to put words on music, on my own [music]; it’s easier to describe other people’s.” Said Ternheim, “Someone asked me before and I said, ‘a dirty white feather’—it’s sort of light. You can use that as a metaphor.” For the live show, said Ternheim, concertgoers “can expect something completely different. I’ll be playing with Loney Dear. They’ll be backing me up as well, so I’ll use their sound for my songs for this tour.”

Leaving on a Mayday was produced by Björn Yttling of the group Peter, Björn and John—himself a noted producer who has worked with musicians like Lykke Li, the Shout Out Louds and Sahara Hotnights. Ternheim said of the songwriting process, “What inspired me first of all was I felt like, finally, in many ways, this feels like the first album that I’ve recorded without a history. It’s just my third album and the first one was done during many years, and it sort of grew sort of slowly. … The second album was just a very difficult album to make because I compared it to the first one. But [with] this one, for the first time I felt like I did something from scratch, feeling completely free—something without a history, in a very liberat-

ing way. I knew I wanted to work with Björn because I liked what he’s done in the past. The whole process was very free, and it was done very much on instinct, so it was a fun record to work on.” Though Ternheim has a long list of tour dates ahead of her, she plans to get started on a fourth album in the spring. “I think it’s hard to write when I’m on tour and I’m still so occupied by this [album],” she said. “I’ll be playing live for a while, and then sometime in the spring I think I’ll start working on a new record, and what that’ll be I don’t really know yet. It’ll be different from this one, of course, but maybe—I don’t know. I’m still waiting for that idea to hit me. Usually it just comes to me: I don’t really worry about it.

Sooner or later I’ll start working on it and I’ll know what to do, but it’s hard to put up deadlines with this kind of work I find.” For anyone interested in the Swedish sound of bands like the aforementioned Peter, Björn and John, Loney Dear is certainly not to be missed. And stay for Asobi Seksu, too: The group combines the textured guitar of the new wave and shoegaze bands of yesteryear with lead singer Yuki Chikudate’s clear vocals. Ternheim will perform with fellow Swedes Loney Dear, New York-based indie rock band Asobi Seksu and local act DJ Carbo at Great Scott (1222 Commonwealth Ave. in Boston) this Wednesday at 9 p.m. Tickets are $13.

MUSIC

Tiësto’s ‘Kaleidoscope’ puts listeners in trance Brad

STERN POP MUSE

As arguably one of the world’s greatest trance DJs, Dutch producer Tiësto has continued to redefine the boundaries of trance music with his signature emotive style and arenaready sound for over 15 years. For his fourth major studio release, Kaleidoscope, released Oct. 6, the premiere producer of trance, sought some of the music scene’s most dynamic characters, ranging from global superstars (Calvin Harris, Sneaky Sound System and Nelly Furtado) to an assortment of lesser known, left-of-center acts (Tegan and Sara, Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke and Sigur Rós’ Jónsi). The result? A powerhouse collection of single-worthy up-tempos bursting with indie credibility and trance appeal, pleasing to both the body and soul. One standout involves Canadian singer-songwriter Nelly Furtado,

who had her first taste of dance with her 2006 album, Loose. Replace the generic Timbaland-produced beats of that album with a flurry of glittering, electro-encrusted pulsations, and you’ve got “Who Wants To Be Alone,” a devastatingly addictive dancefloor haunt guaranteed to delight on repeat time and time again. Other winners include the storming “Knock You Out,” featuring Emily Haines of Metric and Broken Social Scene—which plays like Ladytron on E, the warm synth pulsations of the Cary Brothers-assisted “Here On Earth”—and “You Are My Diamond,” a throwback to the days of pure, ’90’s pulsating bliss. “Diamond” is made all the better thanks to a shamelessly celebratory, sugary sweet delivery from Kianna Alarid, known best as the lead singer of Tilly and the Wall. “Feel It in My Bones,” featuring indie darlings Tegan and Sara, is perhaps the album’s greatest track and undoubtedly the epitome of the album’s intentions. As Tiësto’s cool, calculated trance vibrations shudder underneath, Tegan and Sara’s smart pop sensibilities lift the track and create something new; the result be-

coming a celebration of the art of collaboration. Simply speaking, there’s not a bad track in the bunch—at least in terms of the vocal offerings. The album’s only drawback can be found in its five instrumental tracks, included as a kind of overcompensating injection of Tiësto trance lest we somehow forget who’s in charge behind the scenes of all of these guest spots. Sadly, they do little for the album here aside from providing long, unnecessary breaks between the meat of the album. Skip them and you’ve got one hell of a solid set. Kaleidoscope is unlike anything Tiësto has done before—and surely nothing his guests have recorded. In spite of what could have been a risky undertaking—whether or not devoted fans of each genre will come to embrace this album remains to be seen—Tiësto’s fifth studio album is nothing short of excellence, allowing indie music the pulse it never knew it needed and dance music the lyrical sophistication it has so stubbornly ignored. Hearing the two genres come together? Well, that’s why this is nothing short of a musical dream come true.

PHOTO COURTESY OF COMPLETE CONTROL MANAGEMENT

DUTCH DJ: The tracks on Tiësto’s latest album include contributions from artists like Emily Haines of Metric, Tegan and Sara and Kianna Alarid of Tilly and the Wall.

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2009

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THE JUSTICE

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) Caution dominates the Sheep’s monetary aspect this week. Rams and Ewes might want to shear their big spending plans until a more favorable financial picture begins to emerge by week’s end. TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) Thrift counts both at home and at work, so you might want to rethink major purchases or investments. Also, be wary of a so-called revelation about a previous decision. GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Both household budgets and workplace accounts might benefit from some judicious trimming of unnecessary expenses. A partnership could lead to an unexpected challenge. CANCER (June 21 to July 22) A previously overlooked opportunity could re-emerge with a new travel-related matter. Check this out carefully to see if it’s what you really want before you decide one way or another. LEO (July 23 to August 22) This could be the start of a new career-changing phase, so start marking down your many accomplishments for those who need to know how much you have to offer. Good luck. VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) It’s not too early for the sometimes procrastinating Virgo to start making those long-distance travel plans. The sooner you decide where to go, when to go and how to go, the better. LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Financial matters once again figure in any major action you might take regarding career, travel or other endeavors. You’ll want a ready reserve to help you back up those moves. SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) Trying to resolve a problem in a personal relationship could be more difficult than you’d ACROSS 1. Send forth 5. Grier or Dawber 8. Feds 12. A-line creator 13. Mimic 14. Wash 15. Con 16. Revolver 17. Curved molding 18. Unhealthful atmosphere 20. Ascending 22. Heavy weight 23. Tasseled topper 24. Hipsters’ jargon 27. Engrave 32. Oklahoma city 33. Peeples or Vardalos 34. Gistz 35. Overwhelming 38. Predicate part 39. Exist 40. “Eureka!” 42. Money-back deal 45. Tidbit 49. Object of worship (Var.) 50. Bill’s partner 52. Nastase of tennis lore 53. Teller’s companion 54. That girl 55. Have coming 56. Vortex 57. Raw rock 58. Coloring agents DOWN 1. Mild yellow cheese 2. Revealing fashion 3. Greek vowel 4. Sad, on the Seine 5. Violin virtuoso Niccolo 6. Simpsons storekeeper

expected. Look into the possibility that someone might be interfering for his or her own reasons. SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) A project you once rejected might be more attractive because of changes that you feel you can now work with. The weekend is especially favorable to family matters. CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) This is a good week for the gregarious Goat to enjoy being with people you care for. You might even want to show off those creative kitchen skills you’re so adept at. AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A colleague might think your attitude is patronizing or even outright insulting. True, that might be his or her problem. But you might want to take some reassuring steps anyway. PISCES (February 19 to March 20) It’s a good time to jettison those old concepts about a family matter you might have been holding on to. This will help make room for a new and more enlightened way of dealing with it. BORN THIS WEEK: You like to analyze a puzzling situation before you try to resolve it. This makes you excel at getting things done the right way.

BRANDEIS

Through the Lens

Solution to last issue’s crossword.

PAULA HOEKSTRA/the Justice

Signs of Autumn The leaves of a tree in Massell Quad changed color this week, in striking contrast to the still-summery blue sky and green grass.

Sudoku

7. Carte 8. Brooding, angry look 9. Periodical 10. Always 11. Requisite 19. Collins of MADtv 21. Cpl.’s subordinate 24. Boxing tactic 25. Altar affirmative 26. Tramp 28. Diarist Anais 29. Native American leader 30. Plant sticker 31. Recede 36. Beverly Hillbillies role

37. Permit 38. Heterogeneous 41. Crooner Don 42. Mature 43. Supplemented, with “out” 44. Reverberate 46. Dispatch a dragon 47. Green land 48. Photog’s choice 51. “— the fields we go”

■ It was American columnist Franklin Pierce Adams who made the following sage observation: “Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.”

■ Before Humphrey Bogart became a star of the silver screen, he was famous for another reason. Bogart’s mother painted a portrait of little Humphrey as a baby, and that portrait was used as a trademark for Mellin’s baby food company.

■ John Quincy Adams was the first U.S. president to be photographed.

■ If you’re a stargazer—or a night owl—you might already be aware of the fact that you can see about five times as many shooting stars after midnight as you can see before.

■ Lexicographers claim that queue is the only word in the English language whose pronuncia-

tion does not change when the last four letters are removed.

■ Only about 5 percent of the salt produced every year winds up on the dinner table to be used as a seasoning. And you might be surprised to learn the diverse purposes for which the other 95 percent is used: packing meat and feeding livestock, of course, but also building roads, tanning leather and manufacturing such items as soap, ash, detergents and glass.

■ Here’s a fun experiment: Pour a glass of champagne, then drop in a raisin. The carbonation in the drink will cause the raisin to bounce up and down continuously until the wine goes flat.

Thought for the Day: “There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”—Logan Pearsall Smith

Enter digits from 1 to 9 into each blank space so that every row, column and 3x3 square contains one of each digit.

First-year students who reside in the quad got a view of New England’s autumn beauty even as warm weather lingered.