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Justice
Volume LXIV, Number 8
www.thejustice.org
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
TO THE STREETS
BTV without
Secured club’s focus and funds shift away from original purposes
TV
By HILLEL BUECHLER and REBECCA KLEIN JUSTICE editors
In 2002, Brandeis Television, better known as BTV, won a successful bid to gain status as a secured club from the Student Union. As a result, the club, which was described in a November 2002 Justice article as a “24-hour cable television network available only to the Brandeis campus,” acquired an annual budget of $14,500, using the money to purchase camera equipment, expand broadcasting of the channel’s two original series and further ensure that the channel provides an “optimal rate of production and entertainment and service to the community,” said former BTV president Nate Westheimer ’05 in a 2002 interview with the Justice. Nine years later, with an annual
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SLOGANS IN THE MAKING: The Sign Tent is where protest participants can create or take signs to display from Dewey Square.
Student arrested after joining Occupy Boston ■ Matt Gabrenya ’13 and
other Brandeis students have been involved in the Occupy Boston protests. By SAM MINTZ JUSTICE STAFF WRITER
Matt Gabrenya ’13 was arrested early last Tuesday morning for his role in last week’s Occupy Boston protests. According to the Boston Globe, 149 protesters in total were arrested that morning. The arrests, which happened at about 1:30 a.m., were sparked by the expansion of the protesters’ encampment onto the Rose Kennedy Greenway from their original space in Dewey Park. Noam Lekach ’14 was also involved with the protests, along with multitudes of students from Brandeis and other local universities. According to Lekach, the protesters formed a human chain around
both of the parks to try to hold their ground against Boston police, who were enforcing the city’s mandate that protesters could only camp out at Dewey Park. “It was pretty amazing,” said Lekach in an interview with the Justice. “People who don’t know each other were holding onto each other, linking up and being ready for whatever it would take to protect their movement.” The Occupy Boston protests are an outgrowth of the national Occupy Wall Street movement. “Most people who support Occupy Boston call for reforming Wall Street and removing special interest from government, but there [is] no one single issue or demand that summarizes our movement,” according to the Occupy Boston website. “People are dissatisfied with how our country is being run and want fundamental, lasting change of many kinds.” Some protesters are taking action to support those less fortunate than themselves.
budget of $17,000, BTV today looks quite different from the BTV of 2002. In the years after the club became secured, BTV produced several new series including BTV Cribs, which showcased the best decorated dorms and suites; Bamboozled by Brandeis, a show about the history of Brandeis; The Beat, a weekly show about arts, news, and culture; and Slice ‘n Deis, a fictional comedy based at Brandeis. When BTV’s channel 65 was not airing new content, it aired original programming from previous years, movies, video footage of events on campus and sporting events, according to Westheimer in a 2004 interview with the Justice. Since 2009, however, BTV has broadcasted no new original television programming, instead only
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GREEK LIFE
Greek Council loses its regulatory powers
“I personally am there largely in solidarity with the people who are really struggling,” said Gabrenya in an interview with the Justice. “I think I have a greater responsibility because I have freedom, time and security.” According to Gabrenya, most of those arrested on Tuesday morning were young men and women, many of them students, who had heard that protesters were likely to be arrested after moving onto the Rose Greenway. “They were young people that were following this and heard the S.O.S. call to come and help protect the space and came out and made a real sacrifice to do it,” said Gabrenya. Spokespeople for the movement have ensured the public that the protests are not over. According to the Boston Globe, Occupy Boston leaders are prepared to extend the protest into the winter. “I don’t feel like it’s over,” said Lekach. “I feel like it’s the beginning of something much bigger.”
■ A Council of Presidents
will have the responsibilities previously delegated to the Greek Awareness Council. By ANDREW WINGENS JUSTICE EDITOR
The Greek Awareness Council agreed to strip itself of powers concerning conflict resolution and rush mediation at the end of September after the GAC had trouble mediating conflicts between member fraternities and sororities, said Co-presidents of the GAC Mariah Voronoff ’14 and Dan Leisman ’14 in separate interviews with the Justice. The power to resolve conflicts among fraternities and sororities and set rules for Greek rush events will now rest with a Council of Presidents, which is composed of
the presidents of the eight member fraternities and sororities of the GAC and the president of the GAC, said the co-presidents. The Council is an organization formed by the fraternities and sororities and has no affiliation with Brandeis. The GAC, however, is an organization recognized by the Union Senate. “All rules to govern the start and end dates of rush and the definitions thereof as well as the mediations of other conflicts or concerns that arise will be determined by a council of the Presidents of all of the Greek organizations and the GAC President(s),” according to amendment V of the new GAC constitution. “The original purpose of the GAC was to raise awareness of Greek life and involve the Greek community on campus, and I think
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Exploring Paris
Women fall to rivals
Elections delayed
Sujin Shin ’13 has discovered a unique French culture and lifestyle while studying abroad.
The women’s soccer team was winless in both of its matches this weekend.
The Student Union moved elections due to the resignation of a Union member.
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SPORTS 16 ARTS SPORTS
17 16
EDITORIAL FEATURES
10 8
OPINION POLICE LOG
10 2
COMMENTARY
News 3 11
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