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Gendron departs for new position ■ The director of student

rights and community standards accepted a job at Amherst College for this year.

By Kathryn brody JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

On Friday, Director of Student Rights and Community Standards Dean Gendron finished out his 10th and final year of service at the University.

Gendron has accepted a position at Amherst College, where he will serve as an assistant dean of students. “The nature of the role will allow me to continue my interactions

with brilliant young scholars in the context of community standards, ethics and a culture of respect,” Gendron wrote in an email addressed to faculty and students with whom he GENDRON worked closely, which he shared with the Justice.

He also wrote that at Amherst he will continue his work to reduce and respond to interpersonal violence.

“At Brandeis we have championed fairness and empathy, trans-

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SHARING SIGNS: Protesters spoke with University President Frederick Lawrence by the “Light of Reason” installation on Wednesday.

■ The sexual assault services

Student protest disrupts Rose opening ceremony ■ University President

Frederick Lawrence addressed the issue of sexual assault in his remarks.

By rachel hughes JUSTICE EDITOR

At the Rose Art Museum’s annual opening reception on Thursday, the unveiling of the museum’s newest attraction—a newly commissioned outdoor installation called the “Light of Reason”—was delayed by a group of student protesters.

The opening reception, a dedication and lighting ceremony for the “Light of Reason,” an outdoor sculpture installation composed of three rows of Victorian lampposts created

by artist Chris Burden, was scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. that evening. The student protestors were each dressed in all black and carried handmade signs addressing their own experiences with sexual violence and their outrage at the University’s handling of sexual assault cases.

Some of them wore strips of rainbow or teal-colored duct tape over their mouths.

They began to ascend the lawn in front of the installation at about 6:20 p.m. By 6:30 p.m., between 30 and 35 student protestors had lined up on the lawn, standing in front of the “Light of Reason’s” leftmost row of lanterns.

Members of the Brandeis community who had gathered for the museum’s opening and the dedication and lighting ceremony—including members of the Board of Trustees,

and prevention specialist went on academic leave for the semester to finish her doctoral dissertation.

By hannah wulkan JUSTICE Editorial ASSISTANT

Sexual Assault Services and Prevention Specialist Sheila McMahon will be going on academic leave for the rest of this semester in order to finish her dissertation.

In her absence, her responsibilities will be divided between Dr. Kristin Huang, a psychologist at the Psychological Counseling Center, academic advisor Lisa Hardej and June Ferestien ’86.

McMahon explained in a phone interview with the Justice that she found out in August that there was a new deadline imposed on her dissertation. She is currently working on her doctoral dissertation through the Rutgers School of Social Work and the Center on Violence Against Women and Children focused on primary prevention of sexual assault on college campuses through bystander intervention.

“I think probably, from a campus perspective, [the timing] couldn’t

the Rose Art Museum’s Board of Advisors, University administrators, faculty and staff, students, family and friends—seemed shocked by the protestors. As some of the attendees who were seated in the reserved section in front of the installation read the protestors’ signs, they began to clap.

Some of the signs addressed personal experiences, like one that read: “I was raped. I was abused. I have PTSD.” while others addressed the University, like one that read: “We respect ART. We don’t respect your silence.”

Around 6:30 p.m., Chair of the Rose Art Museum’s Board of Advisors Lizbeth Krupp approached two students who led the procession of protestors, Allison Callahan ’15 and Joseph Babeu ’15. After Krupp and Callahan spoke for a few moments,

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Focus on health care

Preparing a shot

Puzzling packages

 A Heller graduate co-founded a mobile app that will revolutionize health care on college campuses.

 The men’s soccer team won a 4-0 contest on Saturday.

 The mailroom delivered packages directly to students’ rooms for this week only.

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be worse because it’s the beginning of the academic year, and the university has now come under certain investigation,” McMahon said but added that her leave is McMAHON “just an unfortunate series of circumstances not related to anything happening on campus.”

“We knew when we hired Sheila that completion of her doctoral work was critical to her and promised to support her in every way possible,” Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel wrote in an email to the Justice. McMahon explained that she stayed through mid-September to work with Assistant Vice President of Health and Wellness Sheryl Sousa '90 to devise a plan for while she is gone.

“Our plan for the fall semester will be to take a team approach, utilizing designated point people for the different areas of responsibility,” Flagel said.

Huang, who was hired by the PCC over the summer, wrote in an email to the Justice that she will be

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POLICE LOG

New senators convene for first time

Medical Emergency

This week, the Student Union Senate heard proposals from three clubs—two seeking name and constitution changes and one seeking recognition and chartering.

First, all of the newly elected senators, including residence and Class of 2018 senators, were sworn in

by Student Union president Sneha Walia ’15.

The meeting officially began with Brandeis Sephardic Initiative, which was seeking approval to change its name to Brandeis Organization of Sephardic Students. Along with the name change, the club was seeking approval to make changes to its constitution, notably specifying the duties for specific executive board positions. The name change and amendments to the constitution were unanimously approved by the Senate.

Philosophy Club, a new club on campus, was seeking recognition and charter from the Senate. As a club, they aim to create a formal environment outside of the classroom in which students can intellectually discuss questions of philosophy. The club was recognized, with 15 members approving the recognition and one abstaining. The club was not chartered.

The Senate noted that they wanted to make sure that there is sufficient interest from students before they charter the club. Additionally, they pointed out that it has been their recent practice to see if a club will survive without chartering for a few months before chartering it.

Lastly, the Senate heard from the Deis 3-D Printing Club, which was seeking to change its name to Deis3-D, as well as make changes to its constitution.

The new constitution included a few new positions on the executive board. The new constitution also split the position of treasurer and secretary—formerly one single position—into two separate positions. The name change, along with the changes to the constitution, were unanimously approved by the Senate.

The Senate is currently interviewing interested senators to operate as chairs of various committees.

The committees are social justice and diversity, sustainability, dining, club support, services and outreach, ways and means, sustainability and campus operations working group.

Sept. 8—A party in Scheffres Hall requested BEMCo for a past knee injury. BEMCo responded and treated the party on-scene with a signed refusal for further care.

Sept. 9—University Police received a call regarding a student who had suffered a leg injury on the Stein Diamond. They notified BEMCo, who treated the party on-scene and requested a Cataldo Ambulance to transport him to the hospital for further care.

Sept. 9—University Police requested Cataldo ambulance for transport of a student psychological patient to the hospital.

The Department of Community Living staff notified University Police of the incident, and the party was transported without further care administered on campus.

Sept. 9—University Police notified BEMCo after receiving a call from a student in Massell Quad having chest pains.

University Police, BEMCo, the Waltham Fire Department and Cataldo ambulance responded to the scene. The party was treated by medical staff with a signed refusal for further care.

Sept. 10—Staff at the Psychological Counseling Center reported a possible committal for a resident of North Quad. The Community Development Coordinator on call contacted the PCC, and Cataldo ambulance was sent for an involuntary transport to Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Sept. 12—University Police and BEMCo staff responded to a report of a female party with an injured ankle near the Chapels.

BEMCo treated the party onscene with a signed refusal for further care.

Larceny

Sept. 9—Students at 567 South Street reported that $10,000 in U.S. currency was taken from their apartment. No forcible entry was detected. University

Police compiled a report on the theft, and began an investigation.

After complaints came in again, officers returned with the CDC on call and ended the party.

Disturbance

Miscellaneous

Sept. 12—University Police checked a suite in Ziv Quad after a 911 hang-up was received from the apartment’s common area phone with a loud party in the background. A small group of people was leaving as University Police arrived, and all was in order. No further action was taken.

Sept. 13—A caller in East Quad reported that people were being loud in the dormitory.

The community advisor had already spoken to the students, but they continued to cause a disturbance. The area was quiet upon arrival of University Police, and no further action was taken.

Sept. 13—University Police received a report of a loud party in Ridgewood B. Officers requested that the noise at the registered party be reduced.

DINING DISCUSSION

Union holds dining forum

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

n In the men’s soccer statistics box, Josh Ocel ’17 was credited with six assists. However, he only had two.

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n A News article titled “Elections for new senators to take place on Thursday” stated that Annie Abrams ’17 and Stephanie Weinstein ’17 did not respond by press time. In fact, it was Abrams and Michelle Schein ’18 who did not respond; Weinstein was quoted in the article. (Sept. 9, pg. 3)

Sept. 8—A student in Shapiro Hall called to report that someone had entered her room and placed a package on her desk.

University Police compiled a report on the incident, and initiated an investigation.

Sept. 9—A Fed Ex envelope containing suspicious foreign identification cards was forwarded to the University Police office. They compiled a report and informed Bentley University of the situation.

Sept. 12—University Police checked the East Quad lot after receiving a report of a white object or someone on the smoke stack. The report appeared to be unfounded. BEMCo responded, and BEMCo treated the party on-scene with a signed refusal for further care.

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The Student Union Senate Dining Committee hosted a panel discussion on Monday to air student concerns. Editor’s Note: Marissa Ditkowsky ’16, pictured second from the right, is the news editor of the Justice.

Undergraduates gathered in Sherman Function Hall on Monday night to air their grievances with dining operations on campus in an open forum hosted by the Student Union Senate Dining Committee.

Some major concerns raised were regarding mislabeled or unlabeled foods, quality and availability of food, problems with meal swipes, overcrowding at resident dining halls, mandatory meal plans and the abolition of meal equivalencies.

The panel fielding questions consisted of Student Union President Sneha Walia ’15, Student Union Executive Director David Heaton ’17, Class of 2017 Senator Ben Margolin and Sodexo Allergy Intern Marissa Ditkowsky ’16, who left the event early and was later replaced by Student Union Secretary Charlotte Franco ’15.

About 20 students attended the event, which lasted for about an hour and a half.

Many students were concerned with the major changes to price, policy and service, which accompanied the new meal plans that were introduced at the end of last semester. Panelists assured the audience that Sodexo, as well as the new Vice President of Operations James Gray, were receptive to feedback.

“I was just curious how flexible it was,” asked one audience member, stating that during Orientation, Sodexo’s general manager at Brandeis Shawn Monaghan told students that Sodexo was flexible and open to feedback.

“So I was wondering how legitimate of a statement that was when, within the same discussion, it got to a point where it’s like nothing is really changeable and the meal plans are sort of set in stone.”

Student Union panelists stated that the dining situation was flexible within reason but that some things were not open to negotiation due to Sodexo’s contract with the University—the details of which they were not completely privy to.

The Brandeis University Senate Dining Committee Facebook page continues to field comments, concerns and questions online.

—Tate Herbert Editor’s Note: Marissa Ditkowsky is the news editor of the Justice.

ANNOUNCEMENTS Industry Night: Business and Finance

This is a marquee event focused on the fields of Business, Consulting and Finance.

This industry night is an annual opportunity for employer partners and alumni to provide over 200 Brandeis students, faculty and staff with exciting insights into emerging business challenges and trends, both global and domestic. Students will also have the opportunity to network with panelists and other industry guests.

Today from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Hiatt Career Center.

Hindu Chaplaincy Discussion

This seminar, hosted by the Hindu Chaplaincy,will present a spiritual approach to help restore balance, peace and satisfaction in our busy lives. Attendees will learn to live in a more contented state of mind. People of all faiths and religions are welcome.

Today from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Intercultural Center lounge.

Constitution Day

Celebrate Constitution Day by picking up a pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution and celebrating your rights.

Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.

Go Away! Study Abroad Fair

The annual Study Abroad Fair is the perfect event to come and learn about all of the study abroad options offered by the University.

Meet with more than 40 program representatives available to answer all questions and explain the options abroad.

Tomorrow and Thursday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Levin Ballroom.

Workshop: Resume Writing for First-Years

Designed for first-year students, this hands-on workshop will help transform your current resume to showcase your professional experience, skills and knowl-

edge as you explore career opportunities.

Tomorrow from noon to 1 p.m. in the Hiatt Career Center.

Workshop: How to Write a Cover Letter

Many employers still require a cover letter when you apply for a job or internship. It is your first chance to make a great impression and persuade the reader to schedule an interview. Come to Hiatt to learn how to draft a memorable and effective cover letter.

Friday from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Hiatt Career Center.

Workshop: Preparing for the GRE and GMAT

If you are considering going to graduate school, taking the GRE or the GMAT may be required. Representatives from Kaplan Test Prep will outline what to expect on each exam and how to choose which is best for your career path.

Monday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Hiatt Career Center.

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STUDENT UNION

Brandeis Sustainability Fund representatives and one senior representative to the Board of Trustees.

By GEORGE VELONIAS JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On Thursday, Brandeis students voted of 16 seats and elected 12 senators and representatives, leaving four empty seats after the Student Union fall elections.

Luxi Wen and Skyler Golann were voted Class of 2018 senators, Lorenzo Finamore ’18 was voted North Quad senator, Millie Wu ’18 was voted Massell Quad senator, Mitchell Beers ’17 was voted East Quad senator, Nimisha Shinday ’17 was voted Rosenthal Quad senator, David Herbstritt ’17 was voted Castle senator, Lauren Phillips ’15 was voted Charles River/567 senator and Mary Michalos ’16 was voted off-campus senator.

Arianna Zelley ’18 won the position of Myra Kraft Transitional Year Program senator on a write-in ballot. However, since she is not a current member of the Transitional Year Program, she will be unable to fulfill the position. This position will be up for election again in the special election next week, said Student Union Secretary Charlotte Franco ’15 in an email to the Justice.

Annie Abrams ’17 and Stephanie Weinstein ’17 were voted Brandeis Sustainability Fund representatives and Mohamed Sidique ’15 was voted senior representative to the Board of Trustees.

The seats left vacant are the Village senator, Ridgewood senator, FosterMods senator, one Class of 2016 senator and the Transitional Year Program senator. These seats were left vacant because no candidates chose to run.

Herbstritt said in an interview with the Justice that the new senators seemed enthusiastic and were “ready to put in a lot effort.”

In an interview with the Justice, Phillips said that she feels the Charles River Apartments are “often neglected because it is technically off-campus but it is still part of Brandeis.”

Her goals as senator include bringing the community closer together as well as improving safety in the Charles River Apartments.

She would like to host residencewide events throughout the year as well as have the University put picnic tables in between buildings.

She also would like to see additional street lamps and blue-light emergency stations installed on Angleside Road because she feels that they are not safe enough for the Brandeis students who use them to walk to campus or to places like Village Market and Cappy’s Pizza.

Blue-light emergency stations are stations where Brandeis students can send a signal directly to University Police for help in the event of an emergency.

Herbstritt said his goals as senator include improving dining, promoting the arts, improving general conditions in the Castle and planning events to bring the Castle community closer together.

“The obvious hot button [issue] is dining,” said Herbstritt in an interview with the Justice. He added, “A lot of good people have already been putting a lot of work into it.”

He also said students should contact him with any questions or concerns.

In an email to the Justice, Golann wrote that he hopes to work on three specific initiatives in his time as senator. He said he hopes to improve dining hall hours, specifically Usdan Student Center, make the campus more environmentally friendly through increased composting and put more furnishings in the first-year residential quads including cookware and sporting equipment. He also wrote that this is an incomplete list and he looks forward to hearing from his classmates and working to meet their needs.

Beers told the Justice in an interview that he wants to improve

the conditions in East Quad. He plans to advocate for more water fountains and vending machines in Pomerantz Hall and Hassenfeld Hall. He said he feels there is a lot he could do to improve transparency between students and administration. Beers also said that over the summer he worked in facility services as an office assistant and understands the process of work orders, so he would like to push for outstanding work orders to be completed.

In an interview with the Justice Wen said, “Food is the first thing Sky [Golann] and I will improve at Brandeis.” She expressed plans to add more options to the menu to include international dishes because she said she feels this will help students learn about and experience each other’s cultures. Wen said in an interview with the Justice that cleanliness in the dining halls is also an issue that she hopes to focus on. She added that she is committed to making a difference and will be cooperative and responsible.

“There are two big issues—one is parking and transportation to the campus and the other is the references to off-campus housing, which I hope to change,” Michalos said in an interview with the Justice.

Michalos’ plans include extending BranVan operating hours for students trying to make early morning classes, as well as extending stops for those living past Moody Street. Michalos also believes that Brandeis could do more to help students find suitable off-campus housing. She hopes to advocate for a program where Brandeis and Watch Factory Lofts can cooperate on student housing.

Finamore, Wu, Shinday, Abrams, Weinstein and Sidique did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

According to the Student Union Constitution, the secretary and elections commissioners will hold a special election next week to fill the vacant seats. Franco told the Justice in an email that there will be a mandatory candidates meeting for the open positions.

CAMPUS OPERATIONS

Large packages delivered directly to student rooms without notification

■ Vice President for

Operations James Gray explained the policy was in place for this week only.

By sherry simkovic JUSTICE contributing WRITER

Over the past few weeks, students have expressed concerns regarding the service in the mailroom. Now, a new policy of delivering oversized packages into students’ rooms without any sort of notification has elicited many questions from the Brandeis community.

In an email to the members of the Brandeis community on Sept. 9 addressing initial concerns regarding mailroom service, Vice President of Operations Jim Gray wrote, “Crews have been working overnight every evening, and the lines are now much shorter and more manageable. … We realize there are still many challenges, and Xerox is incredibly committed to working closely with us to address these issues. “

There was no announcement made regarding the start of the new policy in which bulkier packages are delivered directly to students’ rooms, which Gray himself authorized.

In an interview with the Justice, mailroom manager Roshan Peiris and Director of University Services Dianne Qualter said that the administration, namely Gray, had decided that in lieu of students standing in line and then having to carry bulky and heavy boxes back to their dorms, it would be more effective to simply drop off packages at the students’ rooms.

When Peiris and Qualter were asked if they had received any complaints regarding this protocol, they responded that they had only received one regarding the entry directly into student rooms. They continued on to say that benefits of the system outweighed the validity of the complaint.

In an email to the Justice, Gray wrote, “One of the biggest problems we faced in the mailroom was overcrowding. We took several approaches in dealing with this,

including some limited delivery of mostly larger bulky packages to student rooms by members of the Campus Operations staff. I myself authorized this action.”

He continued on to apologize for the unannounced entry into student rooms. “We did not contact students in advance about these deliveries, as doing so would have slowed and complicated the process to the point of making it largely ineffective,” he wrote.

Gray wrote that he will continue to focus his attention on ensuring that a “breakdown” in mail services does not occur again, and assured that he will not authorize this service again.

He proceeded to explain that this in-room service was something that the mailroom did this week only due to the overcrowding issue, “and I certainly hope will never be necessary again,” wrote Gray. “I made the decision during the period of serious overcrowding and long lines at the mail room window, I stopped it when the mail room situation was better and stabilizing.”

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GETTING INVOLVED

Nine senators chosen to fill vacant positions in campuswide election

■ Students also elected two

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Students attended the fall Waltham Group recruitment night last Monday in the Shapiro Campus Center to learn about community service opportunities at Brandeis.

ADMISSIONS

University drops in national rankings ■ The U.S. News and World

Report national rankings were released last week.

Brandeis was placed at 35.

By Rachel Sharer JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Last Monday, U.S. News and World Report released the 30th edition of its academic ranking of national colleges and universities. Brandeis was ranked 35th for the 2014 to 2015 academic year, which is three places below its ranking at number 32 last year.

Although many universities consider this ranking highly competitive, the editor of U.S. News and World Report Brian Kelly says that moving only a few places up or down is a common annual occurrence.

Since 2000, Brandeis has consistently ranked between number 31 and number 35, fluctuating a few spots up or down each year. According to the U.S. News and World Report, nearly 1,800 national universities and colleges are ranked each year based on over 15 different weighted factors, which include but are not limited to: strength of the faculty, incoming students’ SAT and ACT scores, freshmen retention rate and graduation rates.

The U.S. News and World Report statistics on Brandeis claim it has a 90 percent graduation rate and a 93 percent freshmen retention rate. It scored a total of 66 points out of 100, a number that is calculated based on the different weighted factors.

Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel, who serves on the Educational Advisory Board for U.S. News and World Report, wrote in a press release provided to the Justice that he is not concerned about this small shift in rankings, stating that modest annual changes do not matter. While he wrote that the U.S. News and World Report rankings are statistically reliable, he added that Brandeis is “by no means measuring our success by this limited tool.”

Flagel stressed that Brandeis is one of the smallest and youngest universities in these national rankings and was also ranked this week in a New York Times study as being one of the topmost economically diverse universities in the nation, all of which should be “point[s] of pride” for the University. He wrote that Brandeis

will continue to promote diversity and continue to enact policies that are important to the students and faculty, thereby naturally contributing to improved rankings in the future.

Brandeis is currently tied with the Georgia Institute of Technology for 35th place and falls just behind the University of Rochester and the College of William and Mary, both tied for number 33. U.S. News and World Report states that many schools changed rankings this year, especially those further down on the list.

Some schools, such as Bennington College and College of the Atlantic, rose or fell over 30 spaces, a huge shift from previous years’ reports.

The methodology used for ranking changed last year to place more emphasis on what the U.S. News and World Report calls “output measures,” such as college graduation rates and put less weight on the “input measures,” such as incoming students’ test scores. Those criteria have remained the same for the 2015 rankings. However, while many university presidents have withheld information in the past in protest of the U.S. News and World Report rankings, several schools this year chose to submit quantitative data such as SAT and ACT scores for the first time, possibly accounting for shifts in the rankings of other schools. St. John’s College submitted new data and rose an astounding 67 places in the ranking. It now holds place 56 as opposed to 123.

Many colleges have misreported data in the past to improve their rankings, including, most famously, George Washington University, who admitted to inflating their admissions data for the 2012 rankings and was subsequently unranked by U.S. News and World Report for that year.

Brandeis has no history of skewing data to improve its rankings, and no other colleges have been accused of such for the 2014 to 2015 academic year. Princeton University remained in the first spot for national schools, with Harvard University and Yale University coming in at second and third respectively.

U.S. News and World Report also has many other lists of rankings, including liberal arts colleges, regional schools, top public schools and best value schools, as well as extensive data and summaries of each listed university or college. This information and the full national university ranking can be found on its website.

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DOCUMENTING HISTORY

Professor gives lecture with focus on sexual assault ■ Jennifer J. Freyd, a

professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, spoke about her research on sexual assault and university betrayal of victims.

By SARAH SCOTT JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On Friday, Prof. Raymond Knight (PSYC) hosted a special lecture for students by Jennifer J. Freyd, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon, titled “Institutional Betrayal: The Case of Campus Sexual Assault” on her research and findings about institutional betrayal, particularly on college campuses, and its effects on students.

Freyd explained that she researches the betrayal trauma theory, which she defines as, “A theory that predicts that the degree to which a negative event represents a betrayal by a trusted, needed other will influence the way in which that event is processed and remembered.” Freyd added that when individuals make a deal with someone they run the risk of being betrayed.

Freyd has conducted 20 years of research on institutional betrayal.

She said she was surprised that she found very little research conducted on this topic, especially in regard to sexual assault. One of the studies Freyd conducted was on the betrayal of college students by their institution, which she defines as, “Wrongdoings perpetrated by an institution upon individual’s dependence on that institution.” She expected students to withdraw from the school, but did not expect the high levels of anxiety reported by the students.

She also noted that in her research women reported much higher levels of betrayal and experienced more sexual abuse.

Freyd said that for her research she wanted to find out if institutions, particularly colleges, would betray their students. When she began her research she did not believe that institutions would do so,

but as she conducted the research, she said that she became aware of just how often colleges would betray their students, which include colleges having difficulty reporting sexual assault and punishing the victim. Freyd also found that many students were facing unwanted sexual experiences.

Responses on the problem have ranged from President Barack Obama establishing a task force on protecting students from sexual assault to student protests. Freyd said she conducted another study on how emails from universities alerting students of sexual assault affect students’ perception on sexual assault. She found that most students who receive the email alerts have a higher tendency to believe common myths about rape and sexual assault, such as blaming the victim based on their dress, their alcohol intake or their location.

Regarding employees, Freyd said she found that of the 16 percent of college employees who have heard a disclosure of sexual assault most wanted to help, but 30 percent of these employees did not report the disclosure, even though they are required to by law. Freyd felt that colleges are brushing sexual assault under the carpet, covering it up in fear of loss of reputation and lawsuits. She went on to tell her audience that there should be an incentive for colleges to acknowledge that sexual assault is an issue on campus. “I believe strongly that we really should encourage and cherish those who raise problems, and tell us what’s going on instead of shaming them,” she said.

When Knight was asked what students should understand about sexual assault in an interview with the Justice at the event, he replied that most students do not fully understand what sexual assault is, and that many of the voices of sexual assault victims have not been heard. “Brandeis is an institution that should be a leader, we shouldn’t be a follower,” he said.

“We should be out on the forefront saying we’re going to make a campus, and we’re going to make a community that should be a shining star to all other communities.”

BRIEF Basile selected as new director of graduate student affairs On Friday afternoon, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Eric Chasalow announced in a campus-wide email that Jessica Basile Ph.D. ’98 is now serving as the director of graduate student affairs and post-doctoral scholars.

Alwina Bennett had previously filled this role, but, in an email to the Justice, Basile wrote that Bennett took advantage of the retirement package that the University offered last semester and left her position as of June 30. Basile assumed the role as of July 1.

According to Chasalow’s email, Basile first came to Brandeis as a doctoral candidate in Anthropology and began working as the part-time graduate student specialist. Basile then worked in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, joining the school as the doctorate admissions officer and eventually accepting the role of assistant director for financial aid.

In an email to the Justice, Basile wrote that she enjoys “advocating for graduate student needs” and “helping them to create a graduate student community on

campus that reaches beyond individual research and programs.”

“It’s an exciting time at Brandeis,” Basile wrote. “There are many ways in which the University is embracing all of the students here, undergraduate and graduate students alike.

I am glad to be a part of that.”

Before accepting her new role, Basile spent time traveling in the South Pacific with her family.

Basile wrote that after having lived overseas as a child for six years, she decided to live abroad again with her husband.

They spent nine months living in Tonga, New Zealand and Australia with their children, working there in exchange for accommodations. “It was the experience of a lifetime,” wrote Basile.

The Office of Graduate Student Affairs’ website states that its purpose is to serve “as a liaison between graduate students and university administration,” to advise and assist both the Graduate Student Association and the Graduate Student Senate, and to run Graduate Orientation.

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FILM PANEL: South African lawyer Albie Sachs, right, spoke to Brandeis students about a documentary in which he is featured.

South African lawyer discusses experiences

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documented Albie Sach’s efforts to end racial inequality in South Africa.

By MATTHEW SCHATTNER JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Last Thursday evening marked the date of a special screening of filmmaker Abby Ginzberg’s new documentary, Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa for the Brandeis community. Sachs, a South African lawyer and supporter of national equality during Apartheid, was present for a question-andanswer session at the end of the film alongside Ginzberg.

The film follows Sachs’ life combatting racial inequality and the injustices of Apartheid. Facing opposition from the South African government for his efforts, Sachs was imprisoned in solitary confinement and later lost an eye and an arm to a car bomb planted by South African National Party security agents.

He persevered, working on the construction of South Africa’s new democratic structure, and was appointed to the Constitutional Court in 1994 by Nelson Mandela.

Jules Bernstein ’57, head of the Louis D. Brandeis Fund for Social Justice, helped to plan the evening’s events and bring to the film to campus. The evening was presented by the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and was held in the state-of-the-art Edie and Lew Wasserman Cinematheque.

“This is a place where professional products should be seen by students,” Bernstein said in an in-

terview with the Justice of the arts programs at Brandeis.

The evening’s events sold out days in advance, and the audience was invited to stay for a questionand-answer session with Sachs and Ginzberg following a screening of the film.

Sachs and Ginzberg have viewed the film numerous times together but said during the question-and-answer session that this does not strip the documentary of any of its allure and powerful messages for them. “It’s the place—the audience, that makes it different,” Sachs said at the event, noting the uniqueness of Brandeis as a location for the screening.

The duo first met in 1974, sowing the seeds for what would eventually become Soft Vengeance, they explained at the event.

“I met Albie because I was part of a group of progressive law students,” Ginzberg said. This long relationship was key in making such a detailed and personal account of Sachs’ life.

An initially tentative audience quickly warmed up the to the prospect of offering their questions to Sachs and Ginzberg. Several audience members wanted to know how Sachs was able to maintain his faith in law and order instead of succumbing to violent retaliation.

The answer seemed to lie in Sachs’ upbringing. The child of Lithuanian immigrants, Sachs explained that his parents had raised him to value “internationalism, liberation and the beautiful world where the lion lays down with the lamb.”

Sachs spoke at length about the optimism he has for modern South Africa.

“Our judiciary seems to go from strength to strength. We have a very

open society. People speak their minds,” he said on the current state of the country.

Ginzberg added to this sentiment on the South Africa of today. “The future is yet to be written. People will tell you what they are thinking.

Their time is coming,” she said.

In response to a student question on the application of the law in South Africa under Apartheid, Sachs explained, “I was such a torn person.

Part of me just loved it. The combat, the intellectual sharpness required.

It’s like the whole body is involved.

The other side was such anger at that same court.” He added, “The laws were unjust, but yet you could find little nooks and crannies to save people from a worse fate that might be going their way.”

Many audience members were inspired by Sachs’s story and efforts.

“It’s an incredible story of the power of law and the power of a social movement to help so many people,” said Michael Abrams ’15, who attended the event, in an interview with the Justice. “Especially in these times with all of these problems, it’s good to hear about one of the successes and meet that person.”

The film has been playing on the festival circuit and has not yet had a mainstream release as of now. Sachs will be flying to Taiwan on Sunday to receive an award for his achievements called the Tang Prize in Rule of Law. He will present a lecture at the ceremony on something he calls “the emancipatory vision of the rule of law,” which he describes as “not having to choose between due process or not. The rule of law has a role to play in conserving our best nature.” The work of Sachs clearly shows no signs of slowing down.

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COMPLEX CONNECTIONS: Sam Chester voiced his thoughts on diplomatic relations in Israel, China and the U.S. on Thursday.

Analyst addresses tension between conflicting nations not foresee amicable relations among Israel, China and the U.S. in the near future.

By ARIANNA UNGER JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On Thursday afternoon, Sam Chester, an analyst at KCPS Clarity, a global investment firm in Tel Aviv, Israel spoke about the transforming relationship among Israel, China and the United States. He titled his presentation, “The Israel, China and American Love Triangle; a New Narrative.”

Chester, a graduate of Johns Hopkins University, has consulted for Chinese companies in China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain. He is currently one of the leading experts in Israeli-Chinese relations.

Chester focused on Israel’s shifting role in the tri-national “love triangle.”

He explained that as relations between the U.S. and China began to deteriorate in the 1980s, Israeli-Chinese relations began to blossom. He cited the example of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in June 1989 when, in response to the Chinese government’s violent treatment of civilians, the U.S. imposed a number of economic sanctions on China including a reduction in weapons sales. It was at this point, Chester noted, that the Israeli government enabled China to circumvent the sanctions by independently selling them munitions.

Chester explained that, because of its bitterness toward China, the U.S. became wary of strengthening Israeli-Chinese ties. Chester cited an incident in 2000 when the U.S. threatened to cut off $2.8 billion in funding to Israel if they sold their Phalcon Airborne Warning and Control system to China. He described this inci-

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dent as the “lowest point in Israel’s diplomatic relations with any country.”

Chester stated that tensions between the three nations peaked in 2005 when the Pentagon prohibited the Israelis from upgrading the Harpy Drone System they had sold to China in the ’90s and forced them to sign an agreement that they would never again sell weapons to China.

Chester described the U.S.-Chinese dynamic over the past couple of decades as a “zero-sum” relationship where the two countries stand in gridlock. He pronounced that Israel’s recent strengthened ties with China have given it more leverage in the “love triangle.”

Chester addressed the significance of recent diplomatic visits between Israeli and Chinese officials. He said he believed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to China in May 2013 had major implications for the two countries’ future affairs.

Upon his visit, Netanyahu signed multiple agreements, including a $400 million trade agreement with China. “When Netanyahu visited China, the entire focus was on business ties. That’s what’s bringing Israel and China together.” He also mentioned that although Chinese President Xi Jinping has yet to visit Israel, “a week does not go by without a delegation of Chinese officials coming to visit Israel.”

Secondly, Chester focused on the rise in trade between the two countries. “The current renaissance in Israel and China is rooted in business,” he said.

He provided statistics showing that within the past four years, trade between China and Israel has reached an annual level of nearly $10 billion per year. “Two days of trade nowadays is approximately equivalent to the entire value of trade in 1992,” he remarked.

Chester also said that “the Chinese

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have been looking at the Eastern Mediterranean as a strategic region for trade with Europe and Africa.”

He cited the “Red Med” plan—an Israeli-Chinese proposition to build a railway trade route through Israel from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean—as a primary example.

Finally, Chester highlighted the growth in partnership between Israeli and Chinese entrepreneurs. He explained that because Israel and China share many overlapping concerns about natural resources and security, several Chinese businesses are very eager to partner with Israeli innovators in five main sectors: alternative energy sources, medical technology, desalination and waste water treatment, agricultural innovation and cyber security.

Chester said that he did not foresee an imminent amicable relationship among Israel, China and the United States. He did, however, express hope that economic and political cooperation among the three countries could be fostered through a technology education program implemented by Chinese billionaire and philanthropist Li Ka Shing. Li donated almost $200 million of to the Technion University in Haifa, Israel, and his donation was contingent upon the condition that the Technion build two satellite campuses in Guangdang, China and Roosevelt Island, New York. Chester said he was optimistic that this project would encourage business cooperation among all three countries.

Chester believes that Brandeis students stand in a unique position to enrich education, business and personal ties within this “love triangle.” As a U.S.-based university with large percentages of both Jewish and Chinese students, Chester identified Brandeis as an excellent breeding ground for relationships among young American, Jewish and Chinese innovators.

This weekend, the Heller School for Social Policy and Management hosted its 55th reunion and conference. Two keynote addresses, a number of workshops and several panels spanned Friday and Saturday, all geared toward the alumni of the Heller School.

Several groups associated with the Heller School organized the weekend, including the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, the Heller Alumni Association Board and the Heller Board of Overseers.

The weekend was given the title “Achieving Equity of Access and Opportunity” because that is “what Heller and its alums are all about,” Dean of the Heller School Lisa Lynch, who also served as a panelist at the event “The 50-Year Legacy of the Great Society and the War on Poverty,” wrote in an email to the Justice. “[Our] mission at the Heller School is to drive positive social change that addresses disparities in wellbeing and promotes social inclusion through our research, education programs and public engagement,” she wrote.

The weekend began with an opening reception and a keynote address from Sabina Alkire, the director of the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative, an economic research center. Within this center, Alkire worked to develop the Alkire Foster Method, which works to measure multidimensional poverty.

Using this method, economists can more accurately study poverty in all forms of deprivation rather than just by looking at per capita income.

The events continued with a panel on Saturday morning in the Hassenfeld Conference Center called “Social Justice as an Anchor for Our Lives and Careers,” featuring three alumni panelists. The panelists were Thomas Glynn Ph.D. ’77, the CEO at the Massachusetts Port Authority; Joan Wallace-Benjamin Ph.D. ’80, who is the president and chief executive officer at the Home for Little Wanderers, a nonprofit which focuses on providing programs and services for

children and their families; and Lisa Wang Ph.D. ’91 who is a professor and library director at the National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan.

The second panel was titled “The 50-Year Legacy of the Great Society and the War on Poverty.” The panelists were Prof. Stuart H. Altman (Heller), Lynch and Jack Shonkoff, the former dean of the Heller School.

The discussion, which took place on Saturday afternoon, discussed the development of social welfare policy in the 1960s when Heller was founded as well as the historical context and reaction to the Great Society programs in the 1980s.

The weekend finished with the annual gala dinner and a keynote address from former United States Secretary of Labor Robert Reich. His address, “The Inequality Express,” addressed the growing gap between different classes in the U.S. Heller Director of Development and Alumni Relations Leslie Godoff wrote in an email to the Justice that she remembered that, despite the energy of alumni reconnecting with each other, “the room was silent as Reich spoke about the disparities everyone [in the room was] committed to repairing.”

Lynch wrote that, having worked with Reich as chief economist in the Labor Department when he was secretary of labor, “He is one of the most effective communicators I know on issues of income and work.”

“His speech Saturday night highlighted his capacity to inform, inspire and educate,” Lynch continued, calling the weekend in its entirety “a fabulous experience.”

“Our alums work on the most pressing social issues and do extraordinary work in a context of having to do more with fewer and fewer resources,” Lynch wrote. “To have several hundred alumni, faculty and students all together discussing how to best transform the arc of the lives of people in the communities they work with was empowering for all.”

When asked if there was anything that really stood out for her, Lynch mentioned having several alumni ask the first evening if Heller still had the same social justice mission and, by the end, hear nothing but how they were thrilled to see “the next generation of social agents.”

“The school might be physically larger [then when it was founded],” Lynch wrote, “but it is still true to its historical roots.”

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Economist and former executive board member of the European Central Bank, Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, spoke on Tuesday afternoon in a lecture titled “Europe after the Crisis.”

GENDRON: Replacement for position not yet determined parency and honesty,” Gendron continued. “I hope to take your advice and counsel with me always.” Over his 10 years at Brandeis, Gendron also served as associate director for residence education and acted as the interim co-director of residence life.

Dean of Student Life Jamele Adams wrote in an email to the Justice that “Dean Gendron was a credit to

our family and he served us well.”

He added that “[t]he history of professionals serving in that position… has been filled with people whom have loved our student and served with a passion for student development.”

Adams also wrote that there will be a search to fill the position of director of student rights and community standards but that in the meantime, “there may be an interim di-

rector selected.” He also wrote that he does not anticipate any delay in the administration processes as the Student Life Team from the Dean of Students office “provide[s] support and insight to meet any present demands typically met by the Director for SRCS.” Adams concluded his email with the thought that the Brandeis community “wish[es] Dean well and celebrate[s] his legacy.”

McMAHON: Duties to be taken over by three other community members CONTINUED FROM 1 working to get the new Rape Crisis Center started, while also working with the Office of Prevention Services to handle any current issues.

“In the short term, I will be working with students and staff to figure out logistics related to the RCC… and coordinating the hiring and training of student staff members and volunteers to get the RCC up and running,” she wrote.

“In the longer term, I will be providing support and guidance to those working in the RCC and making sure that the resources of the PCC are readily available to meet the needs of students coping with the effects of sexual and intimate partner violence,” she continued.

She added that she will start holding office hours from 9 to 10 a.m., Monday through Thursday, designed to support the helpers who

will be working on issues related to sexual assault. Hardej, an academic advisor, has an undergraduate degree in Women and Gender Studies and a master’s degree in counseling and will also cover some of McMahon’s duties. She will hold office hours in the Office of Prevention Services from 4 to 6 p.m. “Students should feel free to reach me directly via email or phone for a confidential conversation about various healing and reporting options,” she wrote in an email to the Justice.

Ferestien will also join the health, wellness and prevention team but will not work in a counseling capacity. She wrote in an email to the Justice: “Specifically, I will be working with others on the development of initiatives and programs to help raise awareness about sexual assault prevention and other health and wellness topics that are important to the

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Brandeis community.”

“As part of these efforts, I will be meeting with key stakeholders which will include staff faculty and student leaders,” Ferestien continued. McMahon clarified that Ferestien will be working on a parttime basis as a consultant to work on a publicizing and awareness campaign that Prevention Services was planning to get off the ground this semester. “[Ferestien] would have been hired to do that even if I hadn’t been gone because I don’t have any expertise in marketing,” McMahon said.

McMahon also said that Brandon Weintraub ’16 is organizing the bystander training programs on campus, and that this weekend over 40 students went through the training program, allowing many of them to become trainers themselves. McMahon will return to her regular duties beginning on December 15.

University President Frederick Lawrence approached the group.

Callahan, who was holding a sign addressed to Lawrence, held up her sign as he neared. It read: “Hey Fred, you seem to be under the impression sexual assault is not a huge problem at Brandeis.

I was anally raped my freshman year so I would disagree with you.”

Lawrence, Krupp, Callahan and Babeu—who removed the tape from his mouth to speak to Lawrence—spoke while the crowd looked on, and Christopher Bedford, the Henry and Lois Foster director of the Rose, stood nearby, listening.

Efforts to plan the protest appeared on Facebook the day prior to the opening in a Facebook event created on Wednesday, Sept. 9. The Facebook event was hosted by Babeu, Callahan, Ava Blustein ’15 and Evelyn Milford ’16, and was marked as an “inviteonly” event, visible to the profiles of Facebook users who were invited by those hosting or attending it.

A description on the Facebook event states: “It’s time to take action.

Too many injustices have been committed, and continue to be committed, by our university.” And in another paragraph in the event description, instructs Facebook users: “The Light of Reason Opening. Wear black. Be silent. Bring a sign. Bring your friends.”

The event description mentions that Brandeis is currently under investigation for potential violations of Title IX rights by the Department of Education.

This was prompted by a student accused of sexual misconduct in a recent case that was first publicized in a June 24 Justice article.

The description continues, “to date, the only thing President Fred Lawrence has said with regard to sexual violence is from an old article in The Hoot: ‘I would say the watch word here should be vigilance but not overkill,’ Lawrence said.

"I don’t think that we have as serious a problem as some other institutions do, which is not to say that we don’t have an issue that we have to focus on as well.’” The quote comes from an Oct. 7, 2011 Hoot article. Regarding Lawrence’s quote in the article, the event description states: “It’s time that we showed him just how horribly wrong he is.”

Babeu, Callahan, Blustein and Milford did not respond to request for comment by press time.

At Thursday’s opening reception, around 6:42 p.m., the planned programming begun, with Perry Traquina ’78, chairman of the Board of Trustees, taking the podium in front of the installation to address the crowd. He spoke of the precept of “being guided by the light of reason,” saying that, “for that I am forever grateful to this institution.”

“When you see these lights this evening and every evening after this, I encourage you to contemplate your own path,” he said, before introducing Krupp.

Krupp welcomed Lawrence and his wife, Kathy Lawrence, and welcomed artists Mark Bradford, Magnus Plessen and Burden—all of whose works are on view at the Rose as part of their new fall 2014 exhibitions.

Krupp called the dedication of Burden’s installation “such an exciting and transformative moment for the Rose Art Museum and the entire campus.”

At about 6:49 p.m., while Krupp was speaking, the protestors joined hands and walked up several feet closer to the center of the lawn toward the podium, eclipsing an entire row of lampposts.

As they moved, Krupp motioned to the installation. “Let it be a backdrop for concerts, campus rallies and protests,” she said.

A few moments later, Krupp welcomed Bedford to the podium, and the protestors continued moving closer to the podium, stopping just short

of 20 feet from it and only about five feet from the Lydian String Quartet, whose members were seated in the middle of the installation, preparing to play a piece during the lighting.

Bedford mentioned the August passing of Sam Hunter, the first director of the Rose, sharing that “we have inaugurated a Sam Hunter emerging artist fund” in memory of Hunter’s early work at the Rose, acquiring pieces by emerging artists for the Rose’s first collections.

By 6:55 p.m., the crowd of protestors, which had started out at around 30 students, had grown to over 50 students.

Bedford continued, speaking about Burden, whom he called “perhaps the most important performance artist in the history of art” and said the “Light of Reason” installation has “outstripped my wildest expectations.”

Burden followed Bedford, speaking for a few moments about his creation, very excited to see it finally completed.

At 7:05 p.m., Lawrence took to the podium and spoke about the installation, and also addressed the protestors: “I think I might have surprised some of the students holding signs tonight when I said ‘thank you for coming’—and I mean that not ironically, but from the bottom of my heart.”

Lawrence continued: “On the merits of this particular issue let me just say ... That sexual misconduct and sexual violence will never be condoned on this campus and have no place on this campus,” and was answered by someone in the crowd of attendees, who yelled, “What are you gonna do about it?”

After the dedication and lighting ceremony was complete and the installation’s lampposts had been illuminated, Bedford commented on the evening in an interview with the Justice, on both the anticipated and surprise events.

“I thought it was fantastic,” he said. “I thought that the speeches were incredible. The shows are deeply satisfying to me. Even the protest felt exactly right to me. It’s indented as a social sculpture and a space for discourse and expression.

And it became that immediately at its birth, so I was very happy.”

On Thursday night, the University provided a press release written by Lawrence to the Justice, which addressed the ongoing Title IX investigation.

In the statement, Lawrence wrote that “The safety and welfare of our students is our most critical responsibility, and higher education has been slow to act on an issue that pervades our culture and our campuses. Brandeis, rather than being immune, shares this burden, and we have a moral obligation to do everything we can in response.”

He went on to note several measures the University has taken to combat sexual violence on campus, including obtaining Violence Against Women Act grant in 2011, instituting the Special Examiner’s Process to investigate reported sexual assault cases in 2013, expanding training during Orientation programming for incoming classes, bringing in external trainers and continuing to have staff members trained by the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and other groups.

The press release states that this week the updated edition of the Rights and Responsibilities handbook will be published and will include a survivors’ bill of rights, increased privacy protection and more specific sanctions.

These include “mandatory removal from campus for any student found responsible for non-consensual intercourse involving physical force, threat or purposeful incapacitation.”

Lawrence continued, writing: “let me be clear—compliance with Title IX is a necessity, but it is by no means sufficient.

Brandeis must and will be a leader in combatting sexual violence.”

—Emily Wishingrad contributed reporting.

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Segregation’s shadow Justice Brandeis Semester students travel to Mississippi to research educational racial inequality, both past and present

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In 1954, 60 years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education to desegregate public schools. In 1964, 50 years ago, the Civil Rights Act outlawed discrimination.

“Anniversaries are an important time to reflect,” said Prof. David Cunningham (SOC). This summer he led a Justice Brandeis Semester course, called “Civil Rights and Education Equality,” this allowed him and his students to do just that.

Cunningham, Molly Schneider ’11, nine current Brandeis students and four Jackson State University students spent half of the summer in Boston and half in Jackson, Miss. to allow for comparison and collaboration with Jackson State University. The group studied and did hands-on, primary research on the desegregation and the re-segregation of schools in both areas.

In summer 2011 Cunningham taught a similar JBS course, “Civil Rights and Racial Justice in Mississippi,” focusing on desegregation and its consequences. This summer, the course narrowed its focus to education.

“For people who were invested in white supremacy, invested in racial segregation, there was nothing more dangerous than this idea of having children be put into interracial settings” Cunningham said.

Among their archival discoveries in Boston were a collection of essays written 40 years ago by students about their experience with busing, an attempt to desegregate schools by busing neighbors of varying affluence to the same school. “That was really cool because they were these actual accounts of what it had been like,” Noah Coolidge ’16, a student in the course, said.

In collaboration with the JBS, the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and WGBH found the now middle-aged students who wrote these essays and asked them to read and reflect on the words they’d written in their youth. This project, as well as other data and

interviews collected by the JBS students, can be found through the Schuster Institute’s website.

The Schuster Institute sent two employees along when the cohort traveled to Jackson. “That allowed us to think really differently about our project. We were doing interviews with two cameras set up to get a tight shot and a wide shot, we would have a boom [microphone] and the lights. It was a real, high quality, professional experience,” said Cunningham.

In Mississippi, the students found archival data such as lists of inventory for black and white schools.

“You can see inequalities in that way in a much more real way. It’s not just ‘oh we devoted more dollars to them,’ it translates …you see the very specific inequalities,” Cunningham said.

The students also conducted interviews with Mississippi residents whose experiences varied vastly during the Civil Rights Movement. “[The students] heard people talk about lying on their stomachs and waiting for the [Ku Klux Klan] to pass by,” said Molly Schneider ’11, the program assistant.“Others talked about going to…what they call ‘segregation academies’ and how they felt about that.” Segregation academies were private schools established for white parents to avoid sending their children to desegregated public schools.

Students got a chance to interview one of these segregation academy alums on the site of the abandoned academy he once attended.

“Now it’s just a bunch of concrete slabs and a decaying gymnasium,” said Coolidge. This experience was especially meaningful for him.

“The institution of segregation, this symbol of it, is decaying.”

Through their research, the JBS found that this metaphor might be unrealistic. “If you look at the composition of the schools’ districts over time and the subsequent decades the Boston school system and the Jackson school system have many more similarities than differences” Cunningham said, “including the fact that they’re even more

segregated today than they would have been in the early 1970s.”

Allie Goodman ’16, a student in the JBS, agrees. “People talk about segregation in the past tense, but they shouldn’t. It’s very much now.

Even if it’s not by law it still exists.”

In the face of these harrowing realizations, students were able to be inspired through interactions with Civil Rights leaders.

Hollis Watkins, a county organizer during the 1964 Freedom Summer, spent time with students, during which he broke into a song about freedom.

“It was the most amazing moment. When you listen to the lyrics of the song coming from a Civil Rights leader it becomes a lot more real,” Goodman said.

Students were also able to spend half a day with Roy DeBerry ’70, Mississippi native, activist and notable Brandeis alum. DeBerry was president of the Brandeis AfroAmerican Society when the organization’s members, including DeBerry, took over Ford Hall in 1969. The students took over Ford Hall, where the Shapiro Campus Center is now, for 11 days, giving 10 demands to the administration. Their demands all centered around increasing minority representation on campus.

“One of their demands [during the Ford Hall takeover] was around maintaining funding for the Brandeis Transitional Year Program—the TYP program. It’s a main reason why TYP still exists in such a vibrant way on campus.

And four of our students [in the JBS] went through the [Myra Kraft] Transitional Year Program” Cunningham said. He is excited his students got a chance to connect personally to historical trajectories such as this one.

Cunningham hopes to run another JBS class in the summer of 2017, building on the findings the group made this summer.

“I’m really grateful for the tremendous amount of work the students were able to do and all that we were able to accomplish, but in a lot of ways this was just the tip of iceberg.”

INSPIRATIONAL DIALOGUE: Bridgett Corbin ’15, one of the students involved in Cunningham’s program, pictured with Prof. Anita Hill (Heller) in June.

A MARRED HISTORY: Students stayed at Jackson State University in the Margaret Walker Center as they studied the current and past reality of segregation in schools.

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Revolutionizing health care Gabriel Malseptic MBA ’14 is the co-founder and COO of a mobile app that restructures student health care

By ROSE GITTELL Justice editorial assistant

The Candy Crush Saga mobile app, in which players match colored candies with one another, is simple enough for a preschooler to play. Inconceivably, the app has been recently valued at $7.6 billion according to a March 12 New York Times article. Why is a mindnumbingly boring task so addictive to the human brain?

This can be answered by any “Introduction to Psychology” student; Candy Crush begins by allowing the player to advance through levels with relative ease, triggering the “reward” release of dopamine in our brains and reinforcing our actions. Gradually, the game gets harder and the “reward schedule” is disrupted—the player begins lose more than they win, triggering larger and larger dopamine releases with each subsequent win.

Gabriel Malseptic MBA ’14 and the chief operating officer of the tech start-up SQ Technologies and his co-founders had a revolutionary idea. Why not exploit the “Candy Crush effect” to promote productive and healthy human behavior, rather than mindless activity? Every human is a born addict, but perhaps we have a say in what we choose to be addicted to—and perhaps technology is the most powerful tool we can use to shape our addictions.

SQ’s mobile app, HealthIQ, “gamifies” health education on college campuses. Higher education

institutions purchase subscriptions to the app, and students earn points by completing the health education curriculum and accessing their campus health resources.

At the end of the semester, the students with the most points earn financial rewards.

Agustin Mohedas, an entrepreneur and engineer who earned his doctorate from the HarvardMIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, is co-founder and CEO of SQ Technologies. Fah Sathirapongsasuti, who earned his doctorate from the Harvard University School of Public Health, is another co-founder and chief technology officer of SQ Technologies.

Ultimately, HealthIQ is designed to encourage college students to connect with the health resources available at their institutions— addressing issues of substance use, mental health, nutrition, fitness and sexual health.

According to Malseptic, the inherently competitive nature of selective colleges and universities creates an ideal environment for this approach to health education.

Students are encouraged to compete in areas such as academics and leadership roles on campus— so why not compete in knowledge of a topic like sexual health?

“There are two types of people who play Candy Crush,” Malseptic said. “Those who find the game to be a blast, and those who are determined to get the next level.”

SQ has received recognition for their innovative ideas. In 2013 they

were selected as one of the six finalists from a pool of 275 student-run startups from Harvard and MIT during a “Crimson on Cardinal” event. In January 2014, they were invited to join the Harvard Innovation Lab as a long-term resident team. In July 2014, they were semifinalists for Verizon’s Powerful Answers Award.

Originally, the SQ team had a narrower vision for a mobile health app. The idea was born out of a health initiative that used text messages in Uganda to verify the HIV status of individuals. “You go to a health center, have the HIV test performed, and the results are sent to your phone. You then are able to show people [potential sexual partners] proof of your test results,” Malseptic said.

This concept faces complications with translation to a college campus, where social and sexual interactions are unique. According to Malseptic the prevalence of onenight stands render the test results inaccurate immediately after they are sent, confounding the goal.

The concept of HealthIQ was expanded to more generally address health issues in higher education, when the SQ Technologies team found that health care education on campuses was not meeting student needs. During development of HealthIQ, research took a variety of forms. “We did some focus groups, in which we talked to students about issues that interested them. We also ran some initial studies, where we released a very

simple version of the app covering only two topics—stress and sleep,” Malseptic said. “We can see how people are responding with a great level of sensitivity. We aim to really capture the student’s attention,” Malseptic said.

The theoretical basis of HealthIQ’s behavioral model relies on the principle that in order for people to change their behavior, three crucial steps must occur: “First, motivation—whether or not a student is apt to pay attention to their own behavior, and if they have the desire to change it. Second, ability—do they have the self-efficacy to go forward and make changes in their life? And third— setting up triggers. These can be things like making a list every morning to hold yourself accountable to making changes,” Malseptic said.

HealthIQ can complement existing structures such as AlcoholEdu, the substance education course that many colleges require students to pass before allowing them to register for courses their freshman year. The extrinsic rewards provided by HealthIQ, such as money or gifts, might encourage more active and on-going involvement with campus health resources than a one-time program such as AlcoholEdu. Why would a college or university be inclined to purchase this app for its students? With a rising college dropout rate and one in five females graduating having experienced sexual assault, issues of sex-

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ual and mental health for college students have become national issues. Institutions that demonstrate acuity in their approach to student health may gain an advantage in attracting prospective students.

Further, one would be hardpressed to find a student who isn’t on or near their phone at this very moment. Phones are immediate, intimate and powerful venues for education. HealthIQ believes that mobile technology is the most effective tool with which to meet students where they are.

HealthIQ’s most recent pilot was at Bentley University, which Malseptic cites as an example of the type of institution where implementation is effective. “[Bentley is] progressive, receptive and ambitious. It’s sometimes hard to get higher education engaged with new technology. We learned things from them, and they learned things from us. We have our fingers crossed that we can continue our relationship with them this fall and reach more schools,” Malseptic said.

SQ Technologies aims to connect with the students of 2014. Technology does not have to de-personalize our world—in fact it could be used to connect us more intimto our immediate surroundings.

“You’re going to have a great education, you’re going to be exposed to some of the brightest faculty and students in the country. But—what good will that do if you’re severely depressed and unable to do your work?”

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INSTANTANEOUS SATISFACTION: The HealthIQ mobile app utilizes the same psychology as the mobile app Candy Crush to motivate students to engage in health resources and education on their campuses.

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Evaluate goals of sexual assault protest On Wednesday, about 50 student protesters stood silently with signs carrying messages about sexual violence at the opening of “Light of Reason,” the new permanent installation outside the Rose Art Museum.

This board recognizes the substantial problem of sexual assault on college campuses nationwide—about one in five female students are sexually assaulted during their college years, and the rate of reported assaults on men and transgender individuals continues to rise, according to the National Center for Lesbian Rights. Sexual violence is a significant problem at Brandeis. We feel compassion for our peers who are survivors, and believe that this is not an issue to be swept aside with empty promises.

However, we believe that this specific protest and its goals were both unclear and misguided, and its disruption of a major university event was thus unwarranted.

The protest’s only specified goal, according to its Facebook page, was to elicit a statement from University President Frederick Lawrence about sexual assault on campus.

We understand the symbolism of this gesture, but feel that this cause deserves more specific, action-oriented demands to enact change on campus. Now that Lawrence has publicized a press release on the issue, the efforts of the protesters do not appear to have led to significant actionable change beyond what was already occurring.

The University has also made progress on the issue over the past year. In response to a 17-page letter from Brandeis Students Against Sexual Violence, and other voices from the community last spring, the University has recently begun the process of dramatically reshaping and reworking the sexual assault policies and services at Brandeis. It has established a position for a sexual assault services and prevention specialist, created a Rape Crisis Center, developed a website to increase awareness about services and prevention, and conducted bystander intervention training for select groups including community advisors and orientation leaders. Additionally, the Rights and Responsibilities handbook’s section regarding the Special Examiner’s Process is currently being re-written. Though the release of the updated edition has been long delayed, it will include a Survivor’s

Consider alternate venues Bill of Rights, among other changes geared toward protecting sexual assault survivors.

Undeniably, there are still changes to be made. For instance, Sexual Assault Services and Prevention Specialist Sheila McMahon has just gone on academic leave until December, and instead of finding an interim replacement, the administration has chosen to cover her position with existing staff members and students. McMahon should be replaced with an equivalently skilled specialist while she is gone. Moreover, the Rape Crisis Center on campus should be staffed by professionals, rather than solely students. Lastly, it would be a strong step forward to institutionalize mandatory bystander intervention training for every first-year at Orientation, emphasizing the importance of a safe campus in the mind of all students beginning their Brandeis careers. And this list is not absolute—for an issue as substantial as preventing sexual assault on campus there are, and always will be, steps that can be taken until the issue is eradicated from our campus.

Moving forward, this board hopes the students involved in this recent protest, as well as the entire student body, promote productive dialogue and tenable action, not merely the ones that cause the greatest reaction. Unfortunately though, the sole purpose of this single protest that this board is aware of to date was to elicit a statement from Lawrence, a goal that could have been accomplished in a way which was not disrespectful to Lawrence, Rose Director Chris Bedford, artist Chris Burden, the various performers and the hundreds of community members and outsiders who came to the Rose on Wednesday to witness the dedication and lighting of the installation.

A movement or protest such as this should strive for a safer campus. A clear, targeted and respectful campaign would be the best way to engage students and administrators in the vital movement toward an end to sexual assault on campus. The entire Brandeis community should stand behind the implicit goals of the protestors; we just hope those advocating will use more productive means to solve this problem.

Celebrate Rose Museum’s successes Since his arrival at the Rose Art Museum just over two years ago, Henry and Lois Foster Director Chris Bedford has reinvigorated the museum. The Rose, which houses works from celebrated up-and-coming artists as well as well-known masterpieces, is quickly becoming more visible as one of Brandeis’s most valuable features.

This board commends Bedford, along with the Rose staff and advisors, for their work in revitalizing the museum. Bedford has made the Rose more accessible than ever before, with gallery talks, symposiums and artist talks. The Rose has become a center for academic thought on campus.

The museum has had some recent enormous triumphs: This summer, the members of the Board of Advisors more than doubled, adding 15 new members to its ranks. Two weeks ago, the museum acquired $200,000 through two first-time grants. The opening of this semester’s exhibits and the new permanent installation, “Light of Reason,” this week yielded more than 1,500 guests. During the past academic year, six artists with works on view came to speak at the Rose, and more are scheduled to speak this year.

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The museum has also received increased media attention. A Feb. 22 piece in the Boston Globe called last semester’s work on view “first-rate.” The Globe wrote on Aug. 9 about the new installation, “Light of Reason.” Even the New York Times published an obituary for Sam Hunter, the first director of the museum, in an Aug. 25 article.

The opening of the exhibits and lighting of the new installation this week displayed this new era of celebrating the Rose. On Wednesday, students, faculty, donors, artists and administration came together, united by the art. As all the speakers on Wednesday night mentioned, “Light of Reason” was made to be interactive. Students can sit on the benches, work and relax. Coordinator for the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum Alex Hall ’15 said in an interview with the Justice that SCRAM is planning increased outdoor student programming for this new structure.

We hope the University continues its support of the museum, and that students continue to use the Rose’s resources in order to enrich their college experience.

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President Barack Obama has asked congressional leaders to give him the power to launch airstrikes in Syria against the radical extremist group known as the Islamic State. He is also seeking approval to provide weapons and training to Syrian rebels on the ground willing to combat IS. IS is among the key rebel groups fighting to oust Syrian President Bashar alAssad, whom Obama has long demanded to leave power. Turning other rebel groups against the Islamic State may turn the Syrian conflict in Assad’s favor. Assad himself has warned against U.S. airstrikes in Syria.

Do you agree with Obama’s plan to combat IS in Syria?

Katy Dowling ’15 Neither Assad’s regime nor the Islamic State are desirable options for leadership in Syria. However, it is not possible to oust both and establish a new government. Therefore, we must deal with IS in force and then return to the problem of Assad at a later time. At this time, committing to airstrikes is the most viable option for the United States, as it would allow for maximum efficacy without the loss of American lives. Less civilians will be affected than if we were to have soldiers in the region. Weapons training for established rebel groups and Assad supporters is riskier for the United States, as they will be liable if any of these groups put the civilian population at risk and will be seen as condoning Assad’s horrific actions.

Therefore, airstrikes and aid to those displaced and in need are the best action to take at the current time.

Katy Dowling ’15 is an undergraduate departmental representative for the Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies program.

Connor Wahrman ’17 Assad’s warnings against U.S. intervention largely follows from concerns over sovereignty. Obama’s decision signals that the U.S. does not recognize Assad as having legitimate control over the areas in question, a precedent which, with increased international support of the rebels, could not only lead up to, but justify, the end of the regime. On that, I disagree with the idea that turning rebels against IS would help Assad; IS and moderate rebel groups are already in opposition, and arms given to fight IS just as easily be used against Assad. If both Assad and IS could be removed from the equation, the international community would have the opportunity to begin correcting the mistakes of the political order established after World War I. One could question the necessity of force to accomplish this, but the threats of genocide and other human rights abuses posed by IS justify such violence.

Connor Wahrman ’17 is a writer for the Brandeis International Journal.

Mark Gimelstein ’17 On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry did whatever he could to identify the U.S. military offensive on the Islamic State as anything but “war.” Whether Kerry believes that the U.S. plan is war or not, the hard truth remains: IS is at war with us. IS has beheaded and crucified its enemies and penalized religious minorities through religious taxes which non-Muslims have often obeyed, only to be killed anyway. The crimes, however, that stand above the rest are the murders of American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. It’s clear that if IS isn’t destroyed now, the West could face serious ramifications. Persistent airstrikes must be an option against IS, and in that I agree with President Obama. However, we already know that the Free Syrian Army is infiltrated with terrorism— most notably Al-Nusra—and, therefore, should not receive any military aid from the United States, period. President Obama is better served arming the Kurds, who are proven friends to the U.S. and desperately need military equipment. One thing remains clear—we are at war with IS whether we like it or not.

Mark Gimelstein ’17 is a Justice Forum staff writer.

Ricky Miller ’17 I think airstrikes are a reasonable idea, but arming rebels is not. The question is whether the U.S. should act to weaken IS’s or Assad’s position in Syria. Both parties are abhorrent. It is ethically perplexing to decide which atrocity is worse—Assad gassing his own people, or IS’s ethnic cleansings. However, IS’s swiftness in conquering northern Iraq, and hate of Western culture, means we would likely rather have Assad— so the U.S. should act against IS. Airstrikes are a reasonable method.

However, the U.S.’s record of success via arming rebels is worrisome —many terrorist groups in the Middle East have emerged from rebel groups the U.S., initially supported, and the Iraqi troops the U.S. trained fled and abandoned their equipment.

Ricky Miller ’17 is the religious life coordinator for Hillel at Brandeis and a Justice Layout staff member.

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Avoid reducing complex arguments to binary language Glen

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Let me tell you about my older brother. He has been married for a little over a year now, and currently lives happily in a cozy apartment in Israel with his wife. They really love the neighborhood—it has been growing rapidly for almost 30 years, which is quite old in a country whose modern state sovereignty was only established 66 short years ago. They were both a bit nervous about moving to a new country, coming from the United States, so they were thrilled to find out that their landlord—who has lived in the community for approximately 25 years—is actually a distant cousin with whom our family has since reconnected. The community also boasts nine synagogues, five kindergartens, a community bomb shelter, basketball courts, a nationally regarded youth baseball team and a vast library.

In 2007, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz wrote a feature story on this community titled, “The Best Place to Raise Kids.” One little caveat though: the community is technically labeled an illegal settlement as it is geographically located over the 1967 green line.

Countless media outlets, interest groups and even noted scholars including many on staff here at Brandeis have labeled continued Israeli settlement expansion as a major impediment to peace.

The United States “does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements,” said President Barack Obama in June 2009. To quote the “proIsrael, pro-peace” lobby group J Street’s national website, “Israel’s settlements in the occupied territories have, for over forty years, been an obstacle to peace.”

Apparently, my American raised, top college graduate, hi-tech marketing employed brother is acting as the roadblock to peace in the Middle East by living in this 30-year-old settlement called Chashmonaim. He is not in any army, he doesn’t fire rockets, nor does he does care if the falafel cart down the street is owned by a Jew or an Arab; he just posts technology articles on Twitter for a living. And here I thought I was the rebellious child.

But don’t fret, this is not another article about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is about the binary language we so regularly use when discussing contentious issues that unequivocally will result in conflict. Almost every single student on this campus—including the Brandeis Israel Public Affairs Committee in this section last year—views the “illegal settlements” as impediment to peace.

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Never mind the fact that such a binary label— legal or illegal—must include settlements like Chashmonaim which are mutually agreed upon by both sides of the negotiating table as part of Israel in any future deal. So much so that the Israeli security fence guarding Israel proper already includes the area. Never mind the fact that, even in a court of law, there are surely levels of conviction when discussing legality. Because we need to see things in black and white, there is no room for the inevitable grey. Rarely though are issues of sensitivity so rudimentary.

This issue of labeling or judging entities on the premise of either good or bad, or right or wrong, is pervasive in our modern vernacular, even of sensitive issues that deserve a less than shallow analysis. In today’s world of 140 characters or less, the long analytic road to a certain and complex opinion is merely replaced by the impulsive snapshot good-or-bad blanket statement. We form opinions based on elevator pitches yet don’t provide concrete analysis as to why such an opinion is logically justified. Take a look at our most recent presidential campaign: according to Advertising Age, 75 percent of campaign dollars raised in 2012 went to TV advertising—about $953 million throughout the campaign season. What true analysis on presidential platforms can possibly be made in a 30-second commercial? TV spots solely portray a candidate’s view on any of the infinitely complex issues throughout the election as either

moral or immoral, right or wrong, just or unjust.

The binary allows one side of a conversation to point to the other, label the opposition as obviously wrong, which only leaves the proposed choice: take our side because “they” are clearly wrong; don’t worry so much if we are right—and surely don’t consider a combination or compromise of the two.

Consider an issue that is close to home for us on campus, the executive compensation of our administration. In the Brandeis Labor Coalition’s recently released platform, the group calls for the highest paid employee of the University to have no more than 15 times the salary of the lowest paid employee. A hard count on a salary again creates this binary of choices: more than this number is too much, and less is the right amount. Philosophically speaking, a policy like this sounds tenable—on the surface we all know which side of the binary we would choose, the one “promoting our values,” the one we all can stand behind, the one where people get paid their respective socially just amount. But practically speaking, the two choices of either ‘the right amount’ versus “the wrong amount” can’t properly express the entirety of opinion.

Based on the recently released 990s of the University for the fiscal year 2012, the highest paid executive at Brandeis that year was Senior Vice President for Institutional Advancement Nancy Winship. Considering Winship’s primary respon-

sibility is raising money, it is reasonable for her salary to be somewhat based on incentive; whatever amount her office raises over the course of the fiscal year should be reflected in her salary. If the BLC policy was enacted at the time, the lowest paid employee of Brandeis in theory should have been paid $79,705, based on Winship’s 2012 salary of $1,195,589. According to a September 2013 article in this paper, the average instructor—lowest qualification of professor on campus—made $59,000. Clearly a number of $79,705 would be unsustainable for the average employee on campus, even if we cut Winship’s salary in half. Should Winship stop raising money for the school at a certain point, simply to make sure she doesn’t get paid more than 15 times the lowest paid employee on campus? Are we advocating she work for free?

Maybe we are arguing against incentive pay.

Regardless though, it is not so simple to say that above this arbitrary amount is good, and below is bad. Doing so in fact prohibits the necessary conversation from occurring.

Is it easier to win an argument to force your opposition to label something right or wrong?

Absolutely. But forcing a binary answer does not lead to productive conversation about resolving the issue at hand. Rarely is it that simple; rarely are the issues so clear cut that such a conversation would be appropriate. We need to give issues the deep and grounded analysis they deserve, and only then can they be resolved.

Make unpopular foreign policy decisions to defend human rights

By CHRISTA CAGGIANO JUSTICE Contributing WRITER

I first joined Amnesty International as a first-year, newly soaked in the importance of social justice. Now as the president, I still believe that Amnesty International is distinctly Brandeisian, as we try to educate and remedy human rights violations regardless of race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender. Nevertheless, the number of my Brandeis peers who oppose the organization consistently surprises me. I have been told by liberals and conservatives alike that the organization is “too political” for them to be involved with. It is not that people do not care about human rights—I do not think I have ever met a Brandeisian who will tell me they do not think that human rights are socially just. It is the organization, the actual process of fighting for the very rights they claim to be so important, that they object to as too political.

This surprises me because human rights are irrevocably political causes. “Political” according to Merriam-Webster, is defined as “relating to the public affairs of a country.” There are few things that relate more directly to the public affairs of a country than the welfare of its citizens. Today, though, the word “political” instead connotes something bad. We think of self-described “political” people as taking and defending a side so polarized, it is offensive. I can’t help but think this definition has something to do with the markedly partisan state of American politics. We are so often worried about being perceived as too uncouthly political that we may choose not to participate

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Yet, the fight for human rights will offend some people, because it means that it calls upon all cultures to adopt some universal morals. Guaranteeing human rights means that we cross cultural bounds in ways some may not be comfortable with, such as taking a firm stance that female genital mutilation is unequivocally wrong, despite the cultural place it holds in North African countries. Furthermore, fighting for human rights means threatening stasis. Countries that abscond the rights of their citizens do not usually give them back peacefully, meaning that fighting for human rights often involves conflict. I think this is what makes people particularly squeamish. Involving your nation in an international conflict is a calculated risk that leaves one open to criticism and the tragic national consequences that come with war. It is undeniably “political.”

But if we are unwilling to risk being offensive in exchange for basic rights for all humankind, then we are failing miserably.

As a signee of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the list of all the rights guaranteed to us upon birth, the U.S. has a responsibility to take action. The lives of our fellow humans are far more important than any sort of self-interest. Our country is excellent at ignoring major world crises in order to preserve our own interests. A particularly salient example is the American government’s failure to help prevent the Rwandan Genocide during the Clinton administration. U.S. government documents declassified in 2004, show that President Bill Clinton’s administration knew unequivocally of ethnic cleansing in Rwanda.

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Nonetheless, the U.S. government refused to take a strong stance; Clinton did not want to deal with the public relations nightmare that would have accompanied this multi-national conflict, offending France and drawing parallels to Somalia. The US declined to call the conflict a genocide because taking a strong stance meant they would have to act.

Estimates of the death toll in the Rwandan Genocide now reach around two million, according to the United Kingdom nongovernmental organization Survivor’s Fund. To put that number in perspective, imagine the entire city of Chicago being ruthlessly decimated.

Only 1,000 U.S. or NATO troops likely would have completely stopped the violence. Both Republicans and Democrats petitioned for Clinton to send troops. Even recognizing the genocide would have done wonders in mobilizing the international community to respond.

The U.S. is, unfortunately or fortunately, an example for other countries. In fact, many modern scholars such as the national policy scholar William Ferroggiaro, believe that the inability of the international community to recognize the conflict as a full-blown genocide was the greatest stumbling block in stopping the violence. Yet, our country decided that inaction was better than action, and lives were lost as a result.

This is a trend that continues today. As a generation, we are becoming more moderate, in our quest not to offend and not to judge.

We look for nuanced stances, which is not necessarily a bad thing. However, using that moderation as an excuse from participating in politics altogether results in clear negative

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consequences. For example, according to the New York Times, only 51 percent of millennials turned out to vote at the 2012 election. Not voting, even if we do not see a place for ourselves in the traditional Republican-Democrat binary, only allows the continuation of the very situations we are protesting by not acting. This is a form of cowardice. Having an opinion, and then not standing up for it, is possibly worse than not having an opinion in the first place.

It is even more dangerous when we carry this attitude over to human rights. Human rights are not inherently a controversial topic.

Although human rights are traditionally considered in the domain of the left, Glen Chesir ’15 wrote an op-ed in this section two weeks ago arguing that the government has both a fiscal and political reason for being involved in international affairs. I would like to add that we also have a moral responsibility to embroil ourselves in the concerns of others. So, if human rights are not a political issue by the left or the right, then they are being made into a political pariah by our generation, paralyzed by being politically correct, justly sensitive, and rationally moderate.

But to ever guarantee that all humans have the rights more than 150 countries (including our own) have agreed they deserve, we must be offensive. We must be unpopular. We must pressure politicians to make changes, get involved in affairs that may be messy and may not be our own, and start fixing the problem one injustice at a time.

Otherwise, no change will be made, and we are all responsible for that.

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Expanding immigration promotes economic growth

By ABE CLARK justice contributing writer

The immigration debate, one of America’s oldest and most divisive issues, has recently taken on a sensitive new cast. Swarms of children, fleeing violence and poverty in Latin America, have made their way to the U.S.Mexico border this year. Prior to 2014, the U.S. received about 6,560 unaccompanied minors through the U.S.-Mexican border, but because of recent gang violence and widespread rumors in Latin America of amnesty laws for minors in America, we’ve seen about 60,000 unaccompanied minors crossing the border in the past year. Sharply divided as always, the left and right hold diametrically opposing views on how to handle this crisis.

Liberals tend to frame the recent waves of young immigrants as a humanitarian concern. “This crisis, that people keep viewing as a crisis, we have to view as an opportunity,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi implored of a crowd in Texas at a recent address.

“I’m a mother of five; I have nine grandchildren. I wish that I could take all those children home with me.”

Pelosi and other Democrats understand the deplorable conditions from which these immigrants came and wish to provide amnesty for illegal immigrants. Liberals also see this crisis as part of a broader need for immigration reform, which would provide a more streamlined pathway to citizenship for prospective immigrants, while some on the far left call for an open border with Mexico.

Conversely, conservatives tend to frame this crisis as a national social concern. With public infrastructure and education already financially strained, conservatives feel the United States cannot feasibly accommodate so many more immigrants, especially those more likely to rely upon social services. Conservatives generally call for the forcible end of illegal immigration through tighter border security, with some Republicans, including Texas Governor Rick Perry, demanding the National Guard intervene in keeping the border clear. Bill O’Reilly best summed up the right’s stance on the current immigration crisis when he recently stated that “the United States simply cannot afford to absorb millions of uneducated people.” O’Reilly then went on to cite the Center for Immigration Studies’ statistic that more than 50 percent rely on government welfare once they get here, which would lead to the development of what he calls an “underclass” of unproductive people.

O’Reilly’s statement regarding welfare is correct in this instance, as recent immigrants to the United States are poorer on average than native workers, and therefore more likely to rely upon government assistance.

However, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, among the very same recent immigrants, approximately 75 percent have a job, comparable to the 76 percent of natives who do. Recent immigrants are working just as much as natives, they simply work lowerpaying jobs. Known as the “jobs gap,” this is

primarily caused by significant educational disadvantages affecting immigrants; few speak English, and 50 percent lack a high school education, which significantly reduces their access to higher-paying jobs. Because of this disadvantage, more recent immigrants occupy different employment sectors than native workers, leading to economic cooperation between immigrants and natives, not competition. A comprehensive analysis of immigration data from the Immigration Policy Center concluded that “there is no statistically significant relationship between the unemployment rate and the presence of recent immigrants,” despite conservative fears that immigrants threaten native employment.

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The American dream persists and is beneficial to immigrants and native citizens alike.

At the same time, immigration has also been proven to slightly bolster our economy, not drag it. A comprehensive study published by the Hamilton Group demonstrated that immigrants “slightly raise the average wages of all U.S.-born workers” by “complementing the work of U.S. employees and increasing their productivity,” again, primarily because immigrants and native workers occupy different places in the current job market. The inverse of this scenario is also apparent; when Alabama enacted its strict anti-illegal immigration bill HB 56, the resulting crackdown cost Alabama up to 140,000 jobs, and $2.3 to $10.8 billion in its gross domestic product.

While it is true that young immigrants necessitate a temporary investment in welfare and education, they represent also an investment in a worker class that has been demonstrated to encourage economic growth, proving that conservative claims which portray immigrants as a drag on the economy are blatantly distorted.

The investment we must make in these children in order to improve their chances in the job market is by no means a significantly heavy burden; as a nation we spend an average of $10,608 per student annually on education, which for 60,000 immigrant children is $636 million, or about two dollars per current U.S. citizen.

Ironically, this is a fraction of the $22.4 billion that Customs and Border Protection say would be required to complete construction of a fence along the entire U.S.-Mexican border.

The jobs gap should also significantly subside over several generations as immigrants’ children attend U.S. public schools and are better immersed in the English language. According to the U.S. census, almost 90 percent of United States citizens have a high school

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diploma while dropout rates are falling, and college degrees are becoming more common— and that’s across every racial demographic.

It’s clear that as a nation we are becoming better, if gradually, at educating our population, and there is every reason to expect that this trend would apply to immigrant communities. While our public school system is by no means perfect, it still greatly outperforms those public schools where our most recent immigrants have come from, hence our higher graduation rates.

Providing amnesty and a pathway to citizenship for these desperate children from Latin America is by no means advocating for an open border state; we must of course remain

vigilant in protecting our borders from drug cartels and weapons smugglers. But taking a “tough” stance on immigration by banishing desperate children back to dangerous countries is not only unethical, it is economically impractical and cuts us off from the economic benefit immigrants have been demonstrated to provide. Conservatives must realize that the United States is, after all, a nation of immigrants; a nation built upon the process of welcoming foreign peoples into our country, educating them, and integrating them into our workforce. This process, though sometimes difficult, reaffirms for us that the American dream persists and is beneficial to immigrants and native citizens alike.

Define and re-examine “social justice” in Brandeis community Max

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When I applied to Brandeis, I applied because it met a set of criteria that I was pursuing: a respected liberal arts school, with a small student-to-professor ratio, academically strong in my areas of interest that regularly accepts students with my high school grade point average and course rigor.

It was not very different from many of the other schools on my list, and it didn’t have to be. When I got my acceptance letter, I went on an overnight program on campus, as I did for most of the other colleges that accepted me. I liked my overnight at Brandeis the best, and on that criteria, chose to enroll.

It honestly wasn’t until the first day of FirstYear Orientation that I learned that Brandeis was “a university with a strong commitment to social justice,” to quote an oft-used phrase in administrative press releases. Arguably the defining trait of Brandeis’ culture, the concept of “social justice” remained completely unknown to me until I was already here. That wasn’t a problem to me—social justice is a good cause, as the world has far too many oppressed people who deserve freedom and equal rights. But once the culture shock of Orientation wore off and Brandeis life proper began, this supposedly Brandeisian tug toward saving the world, toward the noble cause of social justice, became less and less noticeable.

Everything fell into a predictable routine: classes, clubs, friends, sleep. Nowhere to be seen was the school’s all-important push toward equality.

A year after arriving at Brandeis, I still have absolutely no idea what it means to attend a university “committed to social justice.” Ask any student what Brandeis is about, and they’ll undoubtedly invoke the phrase. But ask them what “social justice” means, and you’ll get snickers, rolled eyes and shrugging shoulders. A teaching assistant once told me he thought “social justice” was some mineral which Brandeis secretly exports around the world. “It’s a conspiracy,” he joked, raising his eyebrows dramatically.

One of the main issues seems to be that no one really knows what “social justice” means, or what we’re supposed to be doing to achieve it. It’s vague whether Brandeisian social justice is limited to the University, the community, the country or the world.

Those with a deep interest in social justice can take a number of classes exploring the concept in great detail, and even take up a minor specifically focused on it. But if this one phrase is the defining mark of what it means to be Brandeisian, shouldn’t it affect all students, including those who didn’t feel strongly about “social justice” before coming in?

Shouldn’t we feel unified behind our need for “social justice,” instead of ridiculing the concept?

Shouldn’t everyone from a Social Justice and Social Policy minor to a Computer Science major to a Theater major feel some connection?

Even the Brandeis administration seems disconnected. On the University’s website, in the page titled “Defining Brandeis,” the phrase doesn’t appear even once. It does show up in the University’s mission statement, under a bullet point in the Diversity Statement, where

the University claims to consider social justice “central to its mission as a non sectarian university founded by members of the American Jewish community.” This is the only place where “social justice,” the epicenter of the Brandeisian identity, appears in the document stating what our University is meant to accomplish.

But certainly Brandeis wouldn’t call social justice “central to our mission” if it wasn’t a critical aspect of how the University at least conducts itself. Businessdictionary.com calls social justice “the fair and proper administration of laws conforming to the natural law that all persons, irrespective of ethnic origin, gender, possessions, race, religion, etc., are to be treated equally and without prejudice.”

Does Brandeis follow this definition? Are we perceived as “socially just?” Regarding ethnic origin: College Factual ranks us number 463 in ethnic diversity nationwide. Regarding gender: U.S. News and World Reports cites our current gender breakdown at 57 percent female and 43 percent male, a pretty equal split, but one that’s on par with peer universities. Regarding “possessions,” which we might take to mean socioeconomic class: Bloomberg Business Week ranks Brandeis as the 50th most expensive college in the nation at close to $54,000 per year including room and board. On the other hand, 82 percent of Brandeisians are on need-based financial aid, with an average package of about $31,000. The New York Times ranked us 21st in the nation for “economic diversity.” But some administrative practices, including an “early retirement” plan for staff over 60 last year and the layoffs and reduced wages in the Mailroom this year point to Brandeis not doing much to aid its lowest wage-earners. Regarding race: Half of Brandeis students are white, according to Forbes. Only four percent of Brande-

isians are African-American, and only six percent are Hispanic. Finally, regarding religion: the public consciousness may not see Brandeis as the “social justice” university, but we are known as a heavily Jewish school. Hillel estimates 50 percent of our population is Jewish, giving us the largest Jewish population of any nonsectarian American college.

On the whole, we aren’t an awfully unjust school—in most of these areas, we fall about average to most peer universities. But if “social justice” is our key defining factor, these only average statistics and practices suddenly fall far below acceptable. How can social justice be “central to our mission” if we are conducting ourselves like any other college would, filling diversity requirements and cutting employee salaries in favor of the bottom line? If, and this is a big “if,” we’re going to continue with this term, we need to take definitive action that lives up to it.

That goes for students as well as administrators. Better business and enrollment practices will only happen if we, the student body, demand them. We were once a college where students took over a building and held themselves hostage until the administration met their demands for better racial diversity.

That was a college where students truly cared about social justice, and knew how to accomplish it—through choosing specific goals to be accomplished, and finding specific means of protest to accomplish them. We weren’t absolutist—not all of the demands of the Ford Hall takeover were met, and several compromises were reached— but we weren’t pushovers either. We certainly weren’t armchair activists posting about social justice on Facebook, then never acting. If we can’t bring that school back, it might be time to rethink what it means to be Brandeisian.

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WSOCCER: Women hold UMass Boston without a shot in the first half CONTINUED FROM 16 Just three minutes later, midfielder Haley Schachter ’16 scored another goal for the Judges off of a rebound. The goal was Edalati’s second assist of the game.

Edalati went on to score at 7:28 off of a short cross by defenseman Julia McDermott ’17.

The Judges kept up the intensity heading into the second half, adding three more goals to the scoreboard. In the 65th minute, Schwartz scored again off of a cross from the right corner by Moscovitch.

In the 72nd minute, defenseman Alec Spivack ’15 added to the Judges’ lead with another goal, off of a short pass from the left side of the box by Schwartz.

Forward Alyssa Fenenbock ’15 scored the Judges’ final goal of the game off an assist from forward Haliana Burns ’18.

The goal was Fenenbock’s first of the season after being held without a goal last year.

Bridgewater State scored its only goal of the game just less than three minutes later.

In the 86th minute, senior midfielder Kaitlin Delaney put Bridgewater State on the scoreboard with a shot from that bounced off the hands of goalkeeper Katy Lehman ’16. Lehman had entered the game in the 65th minute, her first minutes of the year.

“They didn’t score because we as a team defended,” Moscovitch said.

“We scored because, as a team, we

set up the play and scored.

“I would say it was definitely a team effort and, in going off last season, I would say we were a lot more individual, and this year we’ve, within the past five games, come together and worked as a team very well.”

In total, the Judges achieved a notable 26 shots on goal, compared to Bridgewater State’s two. Both of Bridgewater State’s shots on goal occurred with Lehman in the goal, making a total of one save.

“It was great stepping off the field knowing you and your teammates played the best you could,” Schwartz said.

“I think the more wins we continue to collect as a team the more confidence we will gain and the better we'll do.”

The Judges are now on a fourgame winning streak, which began with their game at Clark University on Aug. 31. During the past four games, the Judges have only allowed a total of eight shots on goal and two goals.

“I am thrilled with our success so far [this season]; The team is really coming together,” said coach Denise Dallamora.

“Prior to [the] Bridgewater [game], we were getting shots off, but we finally starting to convert them. … [O]ur ability to keep the ball and get into our attacking end of the field is improving.”

The Judges will return to action tomorrow at home versus Gordon College, beginning at 4 p.m.

BRIEF Squad starts year at road meet The men’s tennis team opened their season at the Middlebury College Invitational on Saturday with a pair of individual wins in the opening rounds of the tournament and hard-luck losses on the doubles court.

The Judges advanced a pair of players out of the first round of the individual tournament, but neither member of the squad could advance out of the quarterfinals.

Brian Granoff ’17, who qualified for last year’s NCAA Championships, defeated Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute senior captain Brandon Mazzara in his openinground match of the A Singles Flight. Granoff needed a tiebreaker in the opening set but put Mazzara away 7-6 (4), 6-4 for the victory.

Granoff moved on to face Middlebury College freshman Noah Farrell in the quarterfinals but fell by a score of 6-1, 6-3. Ryan Bunis ’17 squared off against Trinity College junior Daniel Carpenter in the first round of the A Singles Flight but was downed by a score of 6-4, 6-1.

The squad sent two players to the B Singles Flight, but only one could advance out of the first round. Michael Arguello ’17 defeated Middlebury senior Peter Heidrich 4-6, 7-5 (10-3) to set up a quarterfinal matchup with Tufts University freshman Rohan Gupte. Arguello dropped an intense quarterfinals match to Gupte 6-4, 4-6 (15-13). Eric Miller ’16 could not advance out of his first-round match, falling 6-3,

6-3 in the opening round.

Michael Secular ’15 and Jeffrey Cherkin ’17 both failed to win their first-round matches of the C Singles Flight. Secular fell 6-2, 6-2, and Cherkin lost by a score of 6-2, 6-4.

The D Singles Flight of the tournament was the harshest for the Judges as all four members of the squad who played in the first round were unable to gain a win.

Sam Berg ’18 took a hard-luck 6-7 (3), 6-4 (10-2) loss, dropping his matchup against Middlebury freshman Charlie Oberrender.

The Judges sent three doubles pairs to the A Doubles Flight, though no pair was able to advance out of the first round. The pair of Cherkin and Bunis dropped their match 8-3 while Granoff and Secular opened their year with an 8-4 loss. Arguello and Miller lost 9-7 in their first-round match.

In the B Doubles Flight, neither pair sent by the Judges was able to get by their opponents.

Middlebury juniors Allen Jackson and Jackson Frons overmatched the pair of Ethan Saal ’18 and Eric Goldberg ’18, defeating the Brandeis pair 8-3. Berg and Ben Fine ’15 were more competitive but could not pull out a win, losing 8-6 in their first-round match.

The Judges will return to the court this Saturday at 1 p.m. for a home matchup against Colby-Sawyer College.

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UP TO THE TASK: Forward Evan Jastremski ’17 (left) looks past a Clark University defender during the team’s 4-0 win on Saturday.

MSOCCER: Judges gain big win over Clark on Gordon Field using balanced offense CONTINUED FROM 16 rest of the first half, but once again added another tally to the scoreboard in the 64th minute.

The younger Ocel was on the receiving end this time when he took a long pass from forward Evan Jastremski ’17. His dart went off the keeper’s hands and into the left of the box, giving the Judges a 3-0 lead.

Ocel’s great night was not over yet, when in the 70th minute he notched his team-leading fifth assist of the season and fourth point of the contest— a corner kick that forward Zach Vieira ’17 put into the back of the net.

Vieira headed the ball in and gave the Judges a commanding 4-0 advantage that they would not relinquish.

Not only are Ocel’s five assists leading the Brandeis team, but are is also tied for the most in the University Athletic Association.

Even though the team did have four goals, Clark freshman goalie Connor Maguire still had an outstanding 12 saves in the game. He was forced to as the Judges outshot Clark by a count of 27-6, and specifically 16-1 on shots on goal.

Brandeis goalie Joe Graffy ’15 only had to make one save in his 74 minutes of action. In his college debut, goalie Ben Woodhouse ’18 was virtually untested in his 16 minutes of game-time action in relief of Graffy.

Unlike the game against Clark, when the Judges faced Lasell College on Tuesday evening they struggled to convert scoring opportunities into goals.

The squad had many opportunites, though, as they had 21 shots in the game, as opposed to Lasell’s four. Lasell’s junior goalie, Miguel Colmenares, was forced to make eight saves, tying his career high.

Graffy, meanwhile, only had to

make one save in the entire contest.

The Judges’ defense was again extremely solid, as they allowed Clark only one corner kick while the Judges offense was able to attain six attempts of their own. It was simply a matter time until the Judges converted on one of their corner kicks.

After squandering opportunity after opportunity, the Judges were finally able to break the stalemate in the 83rd minute. Ocel took a corner kick for the Judges and lofted the ball to the far post. Vieira was there and headed it back to the right and into the goal to give the Judges the 1-0 advantage.

The goal was Vieira’s second game winner in as many games.

This week, the Judges travel to Worcester Polytechnic Institute tomorrow for a game beginning at 7 p.m. and a home contest against local rival Tufts University on Saturday evening at 6 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL: Squad drops five-set match in final game of tournament CONTINUED FROM 16 court,” she said.

“With the help of Engeler, we also had a few very successful stuff blocks. Staying aggressive and consistent, I was able to score my team some points this weekend.”

Kim recorded her first career double-double with 31 of the Judges’ 37 assists and 10 digs for the game.

She was one of three members of the team to record double-digit digs on the afternoon en route to 48 team digs in the win.

The Judges were forced into just four errors in the first set for a .375 kill percentage in the set and a .240

kill percentage overall in the win.

Moore led the Judges’ offense in a 25-18, 25-19, 25-20 defeat to Trinity on Friday evening with a teamleading 10 kills and only committed three offensive errors.

The Judges had two players record double-digit digs and three others record at least five kills in the loss.

Middle blocker Summer Koop ’16 recorded nine kills during the game and was charged with just a single error for a team-high .471 percent kill percentage on the game.

Koop added a pair of digs and a block assist as well.

Even amid the loss, Moore said

the squad showed their ability during the weekend to play a defensivefirst game designed to force the opposition to make a mistake.

“We definitely have begun to develop the defensive minded identity,” she said.

“We no longer let one loss defeat us. We continue to fight through every point.

“We have not fully developed this identity because when we do we will be unstoppable and fearless.”

The Judges return to action tonight at 7 p.m. for a home match against Wheaton College, before welcoming Emerson College on Thursday night at 7 p.m.

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ATHLETE PROFILE

Men’s Soccer UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS Goals

2014-2015 Statistics UAA Conf.

W L JUDGES 0 0 NYU 0 0 Emory 0 0 Case 0 0 Rochester 0 0 Chicago 0 0 WashU 0 0 Carnegie 0 0

D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

W L 5 0 5 0 5 0 3 1 3 1 4 2 2 1 3 3

Overall D Pct. 0 1.000 0 1.000 1 .917 1 .700 1 .700 0 .667 1 .625 0 .500

Tyler Savonen ’15 leads the team with four goals.

Player Goals Tyler Savonen 4 Michael Soboff 4 Josh Ocel 3 Zach Vieira 3

Assists Josh Ocel ’17 leads the team with five assists.

Player Assists Josh Ocel 5 Foti Andreo 2 Evan Jastremski 2 Mike Lynch 2

UPCOMING GAMES: Tomorrow at WPI Saturday vs. Tufts Wednesday, Sept. 24 at Babson

WOMen’s Soccer UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS

2014-2015 Statistics

Goals

UAA Conf.

W L Carnegie 0 0 Chicago 0 0 WashU 0 0 JUDGES 0 0 Case 0 0 Rochester 0 0 Emory 0 0 NYU 0 0

D 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

W 5 5 5 4 3 3 1 2

L 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 3

Overall D Pct. 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .800 0 .750 1 .700 2 .667 0 .400

UPCOMING GAMES: Tomorrow vs. Gordon Saturday vs. Lesley Tuesday, Sept. 23 at Wellesley

Samantha Schwartz ’18 leads the team with four goals.

Player Goals Samantha Schwartz 4 Sapir Edalati 2 Cidney Moscovitch 2 Holly Szafran 1

Assists Sapir Edalati ’15 leads the team with four assists.

Player Assists Sapir Edalati 4 Samantha Schwartz 3 Lea McDaniel 1

VOLLEYBALL UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS Kills

2014-2015 Statistics

Emory WashU Carnegie Chicago Case NYU Rochester JUDGES

UAA Conf.

W L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Overall W L 11 1 11 2 5 2 9 4 7 4 8 5 6 6 2 7

Pct. .917 .846 .714 .692 .636 .615 .500 .222

UPCOMING GAMES: Tonight vs. Wheaton (Mass) Thursday vs. Emerson Tuesday, Sept. 23 vs. Simmons

Maddie Engeler ’16 leads the team in kills with 77.

Player Kills Maddie Engeler 77 Liz Hood 59 Jessie Moore 57 Summer Koop 53

Digs Elsie Bernaiche ’15 leads the team in digs with 126.

Player Digs Elsie Bernaiche 126 Shemira Pennyman 93 Julie Kim 52 Liz Hood 44

cross cOuntry Results from Aug. 30 meets in Boston (men) and Waltham (women).

TOP FINISHERS (Men’s)

TOP FINISHERS (Women’s)

RUNNER TIME Jarret Harrigan 15:21.0 Quinton Hoey 15:25.0 Ryan Stender 15:35.0 Mitchell Hutton 15:42.0

RUNNER TIME Kelsey Whitaker 16:51.0 Maddie Dolins 16:51.0 Lydia McCaleb 17:14.0 Ashley Picirillo-Horan 17:22.0

UPCOMING EVENTS: Saturday at the UMass Dartmouth Invitational Oct. 4 at the Keene State Invitational

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ON THE BALL: Forward Samantha Schwartz ’18 dribbles the ball in the attacking third during the Judges’ home win on Saturday.

Schwartz holds her own in Judges’ offense ■ Forward Samantha Schwartz ’18 has paced the Judges with four goals in five contests this year.

By Avi gold Justice editor

Forward Samantha Schwartz ’18 has quickly become an offensive stalwart for the women’s soccer team in a squad full of upperclassmen, netting four goals and collecting three assists over the squad’s first five games this year. The Judges started just one first-year, Schwartz, in their seasonopener on Aug. 29 and have seen her develop into an important part of the offense since then.

Two of her team-leading four goals have been game winners—the lone goal in an win over Clark University and an 83rd minute winner during a 2-1 win over Lasell College.

Only five games into her collegiate career, Schwartz said she has had little trouble adjusting to the squad.

“It’s very easy coming into this [team],” she said. “The first day of preseason I showed up not knowing anyone except [defenseman] Katie Cooper [’17] … but for the most part the first day was me a little reserved and shy and then the second day

there was some instant connection.

“I don’t know how, but our chemistry was really good; I felt by the second day of preseason that I was connected to [the team], and I knew I would become closer to them than I already had been,” she continued.

Schwartz is one of five first-years on the squad but consistently sees the most minutes of all rookies and has rewarded the team by scoring once every 112.5 minutes. Her mark is surpassed only by midfielder Sapir Edalati ’15, who scored once every 75 minutes during a six-game stretch last September.

Schwartz said she appreciates the opportunity to play alongside Edalati, whose guidance has helped her fit in with the team’s offense.

“It’s obviously great playing with [Edalati],” she said. “She’s a role model and leader on the team … and we try to help each other and keep pushing each other. I think we work really well together.”

With two game-winning goals already this year, Schwartz has had a knack for the late goal but does not attribute the goals much importance.

“I think it’s just a luck thing,” she said with a chuckle.

Schwartz currently sits third on the team in shots behind only midfielder Holly Szafran ’16 and Edalati, and has used both her speed and shot

selection to become an integral part of the offense.

Schwartz’s first goal of the season, a game-winner against Clark, was an easy tap in from the far post off a pass from Edalati. Her second was a product of speed and technical ability, running around a Lasell defender after receiving a through ball from Szafran and sending a rocket into the bottom corner.

Schwartz said that she revels in the opportunity to play alongside an experienced squad.

“Coming into this [season], I was just hoping I’d get some playing time, and then I felt like [the] two preseason scrimmages [were] my time to shine and prove why I should be out on the field,” she said. “My teammates have pushed me to do my best, I want to push myself for them, not for myself.

I want to win these games for them, not for myself.”

Even with her consistent start, Schwartz still wants to push both herself and her team to be better on the field, and with her recent play, the forward will be leading the offensive charge for the Judges. “[I want to] keep working hard; I always want to improve,” she said.

“I think that’s the most important thing. As a team, it’s important we improve as well because I think we can only go up from here.”

PRO SPORTS BRIEF National Hockey League revamps overtime rules to increase scoring ahead of upcoming season Last Thursday, the National Hockey League announced several rule changes for the 2014 to 2015 season.

The league’s Board of Governors and the National Hockey League Players’ Association approved the changes this summer.

According to the analysis released on the league’s website the same day, many of these changes were implemented with the intention of creating more scoring chances.

The goalkeeper’s trapezoid along the goal line has now been increased from 18 to 22 feet. According to the analysis, the change could potentially increase turnover goals. However, the chance that goaltenders would take advantage of this increased area to leave the net except in extenuating circumstances seems slim. It is more likely that goaltenders will al-

low skaters to bring the puck back into play and that coaches will also advise their goaltenders to do so. The increased area, however, could allow for goaltenders to clear the puck should the defensive line not make it back into the team’s zone in time.

Broader discretion has now been afforded to Hockey Operations to assist the referees in determining whether or not a play under video review resulted in a goal.

Adding to decisions regarding “good goals,” from this point forward, a distinct kicking motion will have to be more evident to disallow kicked in goals.

If video review is not clear as to whether the puck was intentionally or accidentally kicked in, Hockey Operations will lean toward counting the goal.

In contrast, in shootouts or penalty shots, the “spin-o-rama” move has now been deemed illegal.

The maneuver essentially occurs when a player spins around in front of the goaltender to put the puck behind him and score.

In terms of new defensive limitations, diving to knock the puck away from an attacking player will result in a minor penalty, regardless of whether or not the defending player touches the puck first.

Stricter penalties and fines will also be put in place for serial offenders who injure opponents.

In the past, such plays were allowed if the defending player touched the puck first.

Clipping, charging, elbowing, interference, kneeing, head-butting and butt-ending will now be catego-

rized as physical fouls. If a player commits two physical fouls, he will be suspended for one game.

Whether or not the league will differentiate between intentional and unintentional offenses is unclear, so the fact that these have been recategorized could create controversy if players are consistently suspended.

In order to avoid shootouts as often as possible, some changes have additionally been made in rules for overtime play.

Teams will now switch ends and the ice will be resurfaced prior to the start of overtime to facilitate scoring.

In anticipation of teams actually completing the game in overtime as opposed to a shootout, the procedure requiring the head coach to submit a list of the first three shooters in the shootout has been eliminated.

Whether or not the shootout, which was implemented prior to the 2005 to 2006 season, is effective remains in question by most NHL analysts.

Perhaps further amends to the overtime policies to facilitate scoring would be beneficial to prevent multiple overtimes during regular season games.

Other changes that were made include changes to puck out of bounds rules and face-off locations, as well as not allowing players that commit delay violations to switch out of the circle, preventing players from purposely committing violations to give specific players time to rest. Should players commit more than one delay violation, the team could receive a two-minute penalty.

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ON THE RISE Forward Samantha Schwartz ’18 has stood out for the women’s soccer team, becoming an integral part of the offense, p. 15.

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RUNNING START

Waltham, Mass.

Men’s soccer

Judges defeat foes for regional wins ■ The squad surrendered

just one shot on goal in a 4-0 win over Clark University on Saturday.

By NOAH HESSDORF JUSTICE CONtributing WRITER

Continuing its undefeated start to the season, the No. 9 men’s soccer team tallied off two more great wins this past week, with victories at Lasell College on Tuesday and at home against Clark University on Saturday evening. After escaping Lasell with a 1-0 victory last Tuesday, the Judges offense came back to life with a 4-0 hammering of Clark on Saturday.

The Judges got on the board early in a rain-drenched match against Clark in the 11th minute when midfielder Josh Ocel ’17 lifted a through ball to forward Michael Soboff ’15 who one-timed it into the bottom right corner to give the Judges a 1-0 lead. The one-goal advantage quickly doubled in the 17th minute when forward Tyler Savonen ’15 struck the back of the net from just inside the box off an assist from forward Mike Lynch ’17. With his goal, Savonen became only the 10th player

in Brandeis’s history to record 30 career goals.

Savonen said that he did not think much of the moment as it occurred. “[I] didn’t really think about it at the time because the bigger focus was on getting a good home result against Clark,” he said.

Once the game was over, Savonen was able to reflect on his place in Brandeis history. Savonen commented that “that goal was special to me because I now am tied with Sam Ocel [’13 M.A. ’14] on the career scoring list and Sam and I have had a running goal scoring competition for the past two years, which started with the summer league team we both played on.”

Savonen went on to say that Sam Ocel was one of his mentors on the squad and challenged him to develop as a player.

“He was such an influential person for me and always pushed me to better myself, so scoring that goal and tying him on the list means the world to me,” he said.

“I know the competitive side of him will be mad that I caught him, but we both know I wouldn’t be where I am without him.”

The Judges cooled down for the

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VOLLEYBALL

Women pick up victory in weekend tournament ■ Outside hitter Liz Hood ’15

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LEAPING AHEAD: Midfielder Mathilde Robinson ’16 brings the ball forward during a 3-0 victory over UMass Boston on Saturday.

Squad pushes winning streak to four games ■ Forward Cidney

Moscovitch ’17 scored twice in Friday’s win and added an assist on Saturday.

By marissa ditkowsky JUSTICE editor

The women’s soccer team secured two wins this week against Bridgewater State University and University of Massachusetts Boston. The Judges traveled to Bridgewater State for Tuesday’s game and hosted UMass Boston on Saturday.

On Saturday, the Judges cruised to a 3-0 victory over UMass Boston.

The first goal of the game was scored in the 14th minute.

Forward Cidney Moscovitch ’17 shot a one-timer past UMass Boston junior goalkeeper Kristen Spain after receiving a pass from forward Samantha Schwartz ’18.

The goal was Moscovitch’s first

of the season.

“I received a really good ball, a really good pass, and I was pretty composed in the box,” she said of the goal.

Forward Holly Szafran ’16 added to the Judges’ lead just three minutes later with a header after a perfect cross from forward Sapir Edalati ’15.

Neither team was able to gain a dominance of the pitch during the second half, but the Judges regained control with less than 10 minutes left in the game.

In the 87th minute, Moscovitch scored her second goal of the game—securing the 3-0 win—after breaking through UMass Boston’s defensive line and sliding underneath Spain.

“It was the end of the game, so they were definitely very tired,” Moscovitch said of her ability to get past the goalkeeper to score the third goal of the game.

“I’m pretty sure they switched

their [formation] to [be] more offensive because they wanted to score— there had only been a little bit of time left.

“There was a lot of space on the left side, and I had a lot of time to just pick my head up and, again, just slide it right past the keeper.”

Brandeis controlled the shot totals for the game, outshooting the visitors 11-3 on the game.

All three shots on goal for UMass Boston were accumulated during the second half and saved by goalkeeper Michelle Savuto ’15.

The Judges have now held opponents to three or fewer shots in each of the last three games.

By the time the 10-minute mark of Tuesday’s game against Bridgewater State passed, the Judges were already winning 3-0, en route to a 6-1 rout of the hosts.

At 1:16, Schwartz netted the first goal of the game off of a good pass from Edalati.

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recorded 27 kills over the weekend, including 13 on Saturday afternoon.

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The women’s volleyball team gained its second win of the year at the Trinity College Invitational in a sweep of Eastern Connecticut State University on Saturday afternoon but could not keep their momentum going against Western New England University in a fiveset loss to the Golden Bears.

The Judges also squared off against the hosts on Friday evening, dropping their match in straight sets and now sit at 2-7 overall on the year.

Outside hitter Jessie Moore ’18, who recorded 24 kills on the weekend, said she was impressed with the team’s performances even amid mixed results.

“Our team had some ups and downs this weekend,” she said.

“The fight to win was always there, but consistency lacked at times. When the team was on our game, we were on our game. We had an incredible 3-0 win that involved some amazing plays that took a true team effort.”

Brandeis fell in a tough match against the Golden Bears 25-17, 1325, 25-10, 20-25, 15-7 but managed to finish the game with a higher kill percentage than their opponents.

The Judges twice tied the game at 1-1 and 2-2 but could not pull out the five-set victory over Western New England.

Outside hitter Liz Hood ’15 led the offense with 13 kills and added a trio of digs and has 59 total for

the year.

She was closely followed on the scoresheet by fellow outside hitter Maddie Engeler ’16, whose 12 kills for the game—part of 31 for the weekend—gave her a team-leading 77 for the year. Engeler also added six digs for the game.

Setter Julie Kim ’18 picked up 32 of the Judges’ 37 assists in the contest, while outside hitter Shemira Pennyman ’15 added 20 of the squad’s 50 digs for the afternoon.

Though the Judges stormed back from a 2-1 deficit with a 25-20 victory in the fourth set, the squad continued their struggles this year in the fifth set, dropping the set 15-7 and conceding the match to the Golden Bears.

Moore said she thought the team can improve their game in the fifth set through some fine-tuning during practice.

“We have struggled to finish long games and are working on this continuously,” she said. “We push harder at practice when we are tired. Coach [Vaccari] tells us, ‘good after good after good.’ We run sprints then must get aggressive serves in. As a team, we must all want the win.”

Earlier in the weekend the squad swept the Eastern Connecticut State University Warriors with a 25-18, 25-20, 25-23 score.

The Judges had four players record eight or more kills for the game, led by Engeler’s 12.

Moore had a strong game as well with eight kills, three digs and a block assist and said she was able to use the help of her teammates on the court to produce a strong all-around game.

“I was able to score my team points by strategically placing each ball in open spots on the

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Your weekly guide to arts, movies, music and everything cultural at Brandeis and beyond

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Waltham, Mass.

“Light of Reason” Brandeis community joins in lighting up the night » 19

Interview Column: The Justice interviews coordinator for the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum » 18

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Arvin Mitchell: Comedian talks about uncomfortable topics in hilarious ways » 23

Rose Exhibits: Four exhibitions open to the public » 20 and 21

Albie Sachs Documentary: Film documents antiapartheid activist’s journey » 23

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ON-CAMPUS EVENTS Global Prints Poster Sale

Come find the perfect poster to decorate your room and make it feel like home. From music to movies to art, Global Prints is sure to have a poster to add extra personality to your home away from home.

Today from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium.

Lecture with Brandeis Faculty Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

Birth control, gynecology, midwifery, childbirth, prostitution and sexual violence against women…

Sounds like a list of issues for a contemporary women’s group, but these topics are the focus of this talk that paints a dynamic picture (using Greek and Roman texts and archaeological remains) of the lives of women in ancient Rome and Pompeii.

Today at 12:30 p.m. in the Epstein Building of the Women’s Studies Research Center. This event is free and open to the public.

Alex Hall ’15 SCRAM Coordinator discusses programs MORGAN BRILL/the Justice

This week, justArts spoke with Alex Hall ’15, this year’s coordinator for the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum.

Close Looking: “Light of Reason”

Focused discussion on Chris Burden’s recent installation”Light of Reason” at the Rose featuring guest speakers Profs. Chris Abrams (FA) and Gordon Fellman (SOC) Wednesday from 3:30 to 4:30 at the Rose Art Museum. This event is free and open to the public.

JustArts: Can you tell me about your responsibilities as head of the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum?

Alex Hall: The title is SCRAM coordinator, so I organize the meetings for SCRAM, which are once a week. I facilitate the meetings, so during the meetings we discuss what kind of events we want to hold for the students, how we should go about holding those events, what we need to talk to the museum about and the Rose staff.

Gallery Talk: Juanita McNeely

Artist and art historian Sharyn Finnegan will speak about McNeely’s work and career. Juanita McNeely will join the lecture via skype.

Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the Epstein Building of the Women’s Studies Research Center.

So I kind of act as the liaison between the Rose and the committee, and then the committee itself is a liaison between the Rose and the students.

JA: What made you decide to apply for the position as head of SCRAM? AH: I’ve been in SCRAM since freshman year. We used to have it set up so there were three heads, like a president, a secretary and a publicity head. So I was the secretary my sophomore year, and then I was abroad all of junior year. When I came back, I took over the role of coordinator.

JA: What is the best part of being coordinator?

AH: That’s hard. I think our meetings are really fun—like bouncing ideas off each other on how to get students into the museum. How to get all sorts of students, like artists and also athletes, and people who do everything on campus. It’s fun to figure out what kind of departments we can get to come speak at the museum.

In the past, we’ve had a lot of psychology professors and science professors come speak and that draws a great conversation at the Rose.

JA: What is the most difficult part?

AH: I think the difficult part is also the most fun part, which is trying to figure out how to get students to come.

The museum is an amazing asset to the campus and we really want a lot of students to come. I think with the light sculpture now a lot of students are more drawn to the museum, and more students know where it is even.

I think, although it’s difficult to figure out how to draw a large population of the Brandeis community at once to the museum, it is also a really fun thing to do.

JA: Are there any changes for SCRAM this year?

AH: I think because of the new sculpture at the Rose, we’re going to have a lot more outdoor events or events that incorporate the sculpture because it is such a beautiful piece. We really want students to utilize it and sit under it and know that it’s a place where they can go read or eat lunch or sit to relax.

I think we’re going to try and have as many fun, outdoor nights under the lights as we can and then also bring them into the museum after those events.

JA: Do you have any of these events planned AH: I can’t tell you. I can’t publicize them yet. There will be posters soon, hopefully.

JA: Why should students visit the Rose Art Museum?

AH: It is a beautiful place that’s full of—well, right now there are exhibitions up that are contemporary and really thought-provoking and interesting. Also, students should really use the Rose for its collection.

The collection is all online, and students can do a lot of research, especially if you are interested in art history, if you’re interested in political events and finding artists who were doing work during the political events you’re interested in. It’s a place to go to get out of the bubble of school and take a break and go learn about art.

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Pan Asian Food Night: Restaurant Week

This year, sample gourmet cuisine from BAASA, BC3, JSA, KSA, TSA,

and SEAC in the Shapiro Campus Center Multipurpose Room. With dishes ranging from maruyang saging to omurice to ddukbokki, make sure you mark your calendar for Pan Asian Food Night: Restaurant Week.

Thursday at 7 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Multipurpose Room.

This event is free and open to the public.

Fall Concert Series: Mike Posner

Kick off the Fall Concert Series with a performace by U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Artist.

Saturday at 7 p.m. in Levin Ballroom. Tickets can be purchased at the Brandeis Tickets Box Office. Tickets for Brandeis students are $5. Brandeis students can purchase up to two tickets for off-campus guests for $10 per ticket Tickets are $15 at the door.

Calling all Artists

It’s your chance to leave your artistc mark on one of the biggest canvases at Brandeis. The Department of Student Activities is looking for creative, enthusiastic artists to create a wall mural in the Usdan Game Room. Artists must have sketching and painting skills and be able to complete large-scale work. The work can be completed either individually or in groups. The content should reflect your vision of the Brandeis community that incorporates the playful atmosphere of the Game Room.

The drawn or painted draft for the mural is due on Thursday, Sept. 28 and discussions, budget and final decisions will be made be made by Oct. 5. Contact Heleena Mathew at hmathew@ brandeis.edu.

OFF-CAMPUS EVENTS PhotoWalks Freedom Trail Tour

Walk in the footsteps of the patriots along the Freedom Trail. Discover a wealth of historic information about Boston’s role in the American Revolution. Learn how to photograph colonial sites from a modern

perspective using PhotoWalks’ artistic photography tips.

Today from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the Freedom Trail located at 0 Part Street in Boston. Admission is $40.

‘Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen’

The exhibit presents designer gowns and exquisite jewelry from the 1930s and ’40s—the most glamorous years of Hollywood film. It focuses on the iconic style of sultry starlets of the period, including Gloria Swanson, Anna May Wong, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West and Joan Crawford.

Along with eye-catching gowns once worn by famous figures and the sparkling jewels that contributed to their allure from the Museum of Fine Arts and private collections, photography by Edward Steichen along with period photographs, film stills and film clips, capture the style of the silver screen era. Enjoy a glimpse of Hollywood in the Golden Age of glamour.

The exhibit is on view through March 8 in the Loring Gallery of Textiles (Gallery 276) at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

Exhibition: ‘Jamie Wyeth’

As the first comprehensive retrospective of artist Jamie Wyeth, this exhibition examines his imaginative approach to realism over the course of six decades.

Works on view span from his earliest childhood drawings and cover various recurring themes inspired by the people, places and objects that populate his world.

Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts and accompanied by an extensively illustrated catalogue, the exhibition will travel to three additional venues.

On view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through Dec. 28. Admission is free with a Brandeis ID.

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ww Everyone loves free things. In today’s digital world, almost everything can be downloaded for free, legally or not.

Sometimes, however, iTunes and other platforms offer legally free downloads to their customers.

Irish rockers U2 surprised everyone this week with their new, free album, Songs of Innoncence, available on iTunes.

At the launch of Apple’s latest iPhone and the new iWatch device on Tuesday, the band revealed the news by performing the album’s first track: “The Miracle (of Joey Ramone).” You might already have the album in your “purchased” list on iTunes, since anyone who signs onto the iTunes store within the next month will automatically receive it. If you haven’t, you can manually download it from the store, free through Oct. 13. iTunes typically offers two free “Singles of the Week” one in English and one in Spanish. There are also free episodes of TV shows, movie extras and music videos, but since my obsession is music, the singles are my favorite freebies.

If you, like me, enjoy being able to say you knew a certain song or artist before they were big radio hits, checking the Free on iTunes page every Tuesday can help. Countless tracks that ended up on the Top 40 in the past few years were originally offered as free singles. From Owl City’s “Fireflies” to “Bulletproof”

by La Roux to “Clarity” by electronic DJ Zedd featuring Foxes, iTunes free singles vary in genre but have proven to be mega-hits.

Sometimes, the songs released are not the ones that rocket the artists to fame but help expose already popular artists’ other music to fans. Alt-rock band Imagine Dragons had its song “Amsterdam” featured just when “It’s Time” was starting to get airplay. The indie trio of sisters Haim had a surprise hit last year with “Forever,” but their equally catchy single “Falling” from their debut album Days are Gone was offered for free around the same time.

This week’s free offerings on iTunes include “Beggin for Thread,” an

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U2 CAN OWN U2: This week, iTunes released U2’s new album for free for Apple product owners. electronic-infused rhythm and blues track by British artist Jillian Banks, who goes by just her last name. Time will tell if the catchy song or one from her just-released debut album Goddess will make it onto American radio (some of her previous songs have received British airplay).

So, what are the benefits of releasing tracks for free, especially for such a highprofile act as U2? According to a letter from lead singer Bono on the band’s website, the album was only completed a week before its release. Apple bought the album to give to listeners in celebration of the ten-year anniversary of U2’s famous iPod commercial featuring their then-hit “Vertigo.” Bono goes on to say that the album is “[f]ree, but paid for. Because if

no one’s paying anything for it, we’re not sure ‘free’ music is really free. It usually comes at a cost to the art form and the artist…which has big implications…for future musicians and their music…who need to make a living.”

Even though any Top 40 track might be available for free at the click of a button on any other music platform, albeit illegally, there are some legitimate free tracks available. Illegal downloads don’t help the artists get recognition or profit from their music. If a song is offered on iTunes for free, it is with the approval of the artist. Whether it’s established Grammywinning pros or emerging artists, the weekly freebies give opportunities for voices new and old to revamp your tiredout playlists. What do you have to lose?

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Rose Art museum LET OUR MINDS BE BOLD: On Wednesday evening, the Brandeis community gathered for a dedication and lighting of Chris Burden’s site-specific installation, “Light of Reason.”

PHOTOS BY GRACE KWON/the Justice

Campus gathers for lighting of sculpture

By Emily Wishingrad justice editor

Louis D. Brandeis famously said, “If we would guide by the light of reason, we must let our minds be bold.” This quote has also served as the inspiration for artist Chris Burden’s installation, “Light of Reason,” which now sits, completed, in front of the Rose Art Museum, free for all to look at and enjoy.

On Wednesday evening, the Brandeis community—students, professors, donors, artists, administrators, family and friends— gathered in front of the Rose Art Museum for the official dedication and lighting of the new installation. The ceremony immediately followed the opening reception for the four new exhibits, which will be on view for the rest of the semester.

In the Gerald S. and Sandra Fineberg Gallery, Mark Bradford: Sea Monsters is on view, in the Lower Rose Gallery is Rose Projects 1B: 1914: Magnus Plessen, in the Mildred S. Lee Gallery, Collection in Focus and in the Rose Video Gallery, Rose Video 04: Alex Hubbard.

According to Jennifer Yee, patron services coordinator at the museum, in a comment to the Justice, more than 1500 people were in attendance at the opening.

After meandering around the four new exhibits and enjoying a cocktail hour in the Mildred S. Lee Gallery, guests made their way out to the lawn in front of the museum for the dedication and lighting ceremony, which began around 7 p.m.

As dusk started to fall, the space outside became alive with excitement and anticipation. Crowds started forming—on the hill adjacent to the museum, around the arranged chairs and on the benches in front of the lampposts. The space around “Light of Reason” was completely filled on all sides.

Just a few moments before the event was scheduled to start, an unexpected procession of protestors made its way onto the lawn just in front of the installation. In front of all the attendees, the mass of students—all dressed in black and carrying signs—stood in a line, silent. The students were pro-

testing the University’s handling sexual assault. Their signs carried messages to the administration, statements of outrage and even stories of personal experiences. After the students exchanged words with University President Frederick Lawrence, the lighting ceremony started. The students remained in their place on the lawn.

Perry Traquina ’78, chairman of the Board of Trustees, spoke first.

He reminded the community of the quote that spurred the making of the new installation and said, “I encourage you to contemplate the bold ideas that will guide your own paths. And whatever path you may take… I hope you will recall this time and this place.”

Next came Lizbeth Krupp, the chair of the Board of Advisors for the Rose Art Museum. Krupp’s speech, definitely the longest out of the speakers, focused on the endless uses for the lamp posts on the “Light of Reason.”

“It’s a social structure” she said, “And by that I mean that it’s one that derives meaning in its surroundings and lasting vitality by how it’s used. So let it become a hub for everyday social life and a constant canvas and community activity.” In a fitting reference to the circumstances, Krupp referred to “Light of Reason” as a place where students could hold protests and rallies.

Next, Lawrence spoke, evoking the late Sam Hunter—the first director of the Rose—in his speech, noting that his widow, Maïa Hunter, was in attendance. Lawrence announced that the museum has instituted a “Sam Hunter Emerging Artist Fund.” According to a July 29 BrandeisNOW article, upon learning of Hunter’s death, Bedford decided to name a thenunnamed fund for emerging artists after the late director of the Rose. A similar fund during Hunter’s time in the 1960s funded the acquisition of works by emerging artists at the time: Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Ellsworth Kelley. “It’s only just that we would perpetuate Hunter’s legacy with a fund that boasts his name,” Bedford said in an interview with BrandeisNOW. The last to speak was the instal-

lation’s artist. Burden gave a very informal address in which he talked about his own personal connection to the work and its historical basis. He told the crowd that the antique lamps, over 100 years old, were first housed in Los Angeles until the 1950’s and ’60s when they were torn down from the streets put into landfills. Throughout Burden’s career, he has been interested in reviving antiques, and took this opportunity to revive the lampposts that would have otherwise been buried forever, he said.

Burden’s mother, who lived in New England, was also a collector of antiques, Burden told the audience. “I don’t think she ever thought I would bring antiques from Los Angeles to Boston,” he said, receiving chuckles from the crowd.

He added a few words on his personal thoughts about the work: “I think it’s rare that an object really delivers on the dream of the object ... “[Light of Reason] outstripped all my expectations,” he said, adding “I hope they’re here for hundreds of years.”

Then, the lamps were lit. “It was very good to see the lamps lit,” Burden said in an interview with the Justice after the ceremony. He had never seen them lit or even seen the piece in full, he said—the pieces were restored in his studio and then actually arranged during the installation of the sculpture by his staff.

After the lighting, the Lydian String Quartet played a movement from Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8. A fast, harsh stream of notes pervaded the landscape as the musicians played intensely in a minor key. The piece was beautiful but very short, only lasting a couple of minutes.

Later on in the night, Brooklynbased indie rock band, The Antlers, started up their jazzy routine as small group gathered to watch.

Bathed in a changing series of colored bright lights, the group on the piano, guitar and trumpet rocked the night away.

“I thought it was fantastic. I thought it was a truly Brandeisian affair from beginning to end,” Bedford said.

ALL ABOUT THAT BAND: After the lighting ceremony, indie rock band The Antlers performed.

ENLIGHTENING SPEECH: Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Perry Traquina ’78 (center), said that he hopes the attendees will remember this moment as they follow their dreams in their future endeavors.

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BREAKING BARRIERS: “Duckfoot” (1983) created by Elizabeth Murray represents an intersection between 3-dimensional and one-dimensional HANNAH CHIDEKEL/the Justice

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‘Collection in Focus’

By Emily Wishingrad According to the Rose Art Museum website, the Collection in Focus series “highlights and draws new connections between important and often understudied objects in the museum’s collection.”

The pieces currently on view in Collection in Focus certainly seem to be understudied—I had never heard of any of them nor their creators. The famous Lichtensteins and Warhols were not on view. The introduction to the exhibit on the wall says that this particular Collection in Focus is focused on highlighting women artists who work in a variety of artistic mediums. The works seemed to adhere to the focus of the exhibit but from first or even second glance they did not seem to go together. If a patron had not read the description on the wall, the works might seem completely randomly chosen.

Walking into the Mildred S. Lee Gallery, Elizabeth Murray’s “Duckfoot” (1983) greets the viewer and is the epitome of a medium-defying work. The piece is gigantic—spanning a large portion of a wall. It is made up of warm-colored circular pieces of canvas that overlap one another. The most interesting thing about the piece is, as the description notes, it is both three-dimensional and flat. The overlapping cutouts of canvas create a 3-D experience but the fact that the canvas is painted also signifies an aesthetic of one-dimensionality.

To the right of “Duckfoot,” five other paintings from various female artists are arranged in a cluster. Looking at the paintings, there seems to be nothing congruous about them. But maybe that is the point— the exhibit’s motive is to display a variety of media after all. Some were created with a lithograph, some with textiles and some with paint.

Collection in Focus certainly presents a variety of lesser-known pieces in the Rose’s permanent collection, but I would have liked a more cohesive theme for the pieces.

By emily wishingrad justice editor

Artist Alex Hubbard does something most artists do not even attempt to do; he works across two different mediums in his art— video making and painting. And the current exhibition at the Rose does justice to these two distinct styles, displaying one of his paintings as well as one of his video installations.

“Duckbutter,” (2014) which sits outside the Rose Video Gallery, actually looks kind

of buttery. But that might just be my biased opinion after I saw the title. Blotches of various shades of reds and purples cover the canvas. In the background, a stroke of neon orange winds through the other colors.

The variety of textures constitute a lot of what makes the work interesting. The dark purples pop out of the painting and almost looks like the texture of pottery glaze while the reds take to the background—creating the flatter parts of the painting.

The short film, “Annotated Plans for an Evacuation” (2009), takes the viewer through

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‘1914: Magnus Plesssen’ By brooke granovsky justice contributing writer

Rose ‘Rose Video 04: Alex Hubbard’

Plans for an Evacuation” (2009) depicts the story of the transformation of a car into a getaway vehicle.

ART IS ALL AROUND: Visitors tour 1914: Magnus Plessen, an exhibit that juxtaposes Plessen’s war-inspired artwork with the documents and images that inspired the work.

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LET’S RUN AWAY: Alex Hubbard’s video “Annotated

a series of hilariously bad attempts to transform a car into some kind of getaway vehicle. In the film, Hubbard slathers white paint onto the tires, fixes a white cardboard backdrop behind the car and spray-paints the windows green. The transformation process takes the car from a realistic looking vehicle into a cartoony-version of its former self.

The car starts to rumble to a start with Hubbard driving. While moving, the car starts to deteriorate—pieces fall off. Stopping in the middle of what the viewer presumes to be a street, although no street is shown, Hubbard

The Rose Art Museum’s exhibit, 1914: Magnus Plessen, presents itself as a representation of brutality. Upon entering the exhibit, a sign warns that the paintings and photographs of the wounded soldiers are not for the faint of heart. Featuring thoughtprovoking images of marred faces, detailed wax masks and breathtaking paintings, 1914: Magnus Plessen is an exhibit attendees are unlikely to forget.

The exhibit, which presents as an academic forum for linking Plessen’s work with relics of his inspiration, includes collages of the scientific photos, with the injured parts of the soldiers’ faces covered by white paper.

Toward the center of the exhibit is a delicate wax mask—a replica of the ones artists made

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gets out of the car and, aided by an unnamed man, starts to further transform the car yet again, adding more accoutrement onto the car. The whole thing is very haphazard, although throughout the process, Hubbard seems very sincere and deliberate.

“Duckbutter” and “Annotated Plans for an Evacuation (2009)” both presented very different aesthetic experiences for the viewer through very different mediums. But thanks to Hubbard’s refusal to provide a suggestion of their meanings, they both caused me to think.

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for the injured veterans to wear as an alternative, or in addition to, reconstructive surgery. These materials alongside the original photographs of the soldiers, their masks and the book that inspired the artist, provide context for the work and illustrate the artist’s thought process.

The artist, Magnus Plessen, was inspired to make anti-heroic art after encountering War Against War by Ernest Friedrich, which was also on view. Friedrich’s unequivocally anti-war book showcases eerily disfigured, scientific photographs of WWI veterans with severe facial and head wounds. Plessen draws on the novel in his art, employing contrast to underscore the soldiers’ missing features. In Plessen’s paintings, soldiers’ faces and body parts are scattered across the canvas. Soldiers’ missing eyes, noses or other facial elements are replaced by deep

black shadows, as if that part of the canvas has been reduced to empty space, waiting to be filled.

The exhibit’s brochure says that “World War I in particular has been seen…as a necessary but undesired response to foreign aggression, and subsequently by historians as a tragic, inexorable chain of events.” This tension between the initial reasoning and the actual results of war is evident in Plessen’s work. Plessen incorporates a variety of different materials, color schemes and moods into his artwork in order to express this theme of opposition. In the brochure, Plessen comments “I could also never forget about the portraits of soldiers looking at you with their faces blown apart.” Plessen’s imaginative rendering of the veterans adds to the theme of brutality and helps ensure that the after-effects of war will never be forgotten.

The Rose Art Museum’s four new exhibits inspire a variety of questions, emotional reactions and an overall sense of awe at the creations on display.

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‘Mark Bradford: Sea Monsters’

By River Heisler

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UNDER THE SEA: Mark Bradford’s exhibit, Sea Monsters, explores aquatic imagery through large scale paintings and painted bouys.

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Old, weathered buoys are just about the last things that a visitor to the Rose Art Museum would expect to see. But those buoys are exactly what Mark Bradford has chosen to use as his canvas for his boundary-defying new exhibit Mark Bradford: Sea Monsters.

Sea Monsters is an exhibit made up of four large multi-media canvases and six repurposed buoys, which are used as canvases for a multimedia painting.

Among the paintings that make up Sea Monsters, one of the most interesting is called “Tongue in the Middle of the Port.”

Bradford uses a narrow yet effective pallete of reds, whites, blues and blacks to evoke a certain emotional reaction in the observer. The multidimensionality of the work is produced by straight indented li nes branching out like a star. Randomly placed black circles of varying sizes scatter the painting. Upon closer examination, the viewer finds that some small parts of the canvas have actually been covered with silver duct tape in place of paint.

Also interesting is the ensemble of six repurposed buoys scattered throughout the top floor of the Rose. The six buoys actually make up one work that Bradford has entitled “Sea Pigs.” One buoy particularly stands out: the one in front of “Tongue in the Middle of the Port” is the only one that is so dilapidated as to be completely deformed, no longer holding the shape of a buoy at all. The placement of this one in front of that specific painting is an interesting question for all visitors to ponder.

This particular buoy seems deflated, almost useless when compared to the others, though even the other buoys are not in terrific shape compared to buoys being continuously used.

Though there are many unique and interesting features about each artwork in the exhibit, they do seem to be united by a few things. Chief among them is an extreme attention to detail, something that is obvious in Bradford’s work. In Art in America magazine, Bradford himself stated “For me, it’s always a detail—a detail that points to a larger thing.” It is up to each viewer to individually decide what that larger thing is.

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Comedian confronts societal realities By catherine rosch justice editorial assistant

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CONFRONTING TABOOS: On Friday night, comedian Arvin Mitchell, who is popular in the college circuit, performed a stand-up routine confronting social issues through comedy.

In comedy, there’s a fine line between making your audience squirm as they are forced to confront hard topics and actually offending people.

Arvin Mitchell, a comic known for his shows at college campuses and his urban humor style, performed Friday evening in the Stein. The event, hosted by Student Activities, stayed squarely in the former territory as his jokes ranged from commentary on bodily functions to frank discussions of race and beauty. Yes, there were moments when I felt uncomfortable, but it was the good kind of uncomfortable, the discomfort of having someone call out the lack of diversity at Brandeis or how there is a toxic culture around plus-sized women. But, even through the seriousness, Mitchell kept the crowd laughing the whole time.

Crowd Control, one of the University’s student improvisation troups, opened for Mitchell. Crowd Control started with a basic line game, “I Like My Partner Like I Like My…” where audience members would have to shout out nouns for the group to use to finish the phrase and then add their own analogy to it. The nouns are always odd, and Friday night, Crowd Control had to contend with “treasure,” “tampons” and “breakfast.”

Some of the responses, such as “I like my men like I like my tampons, covered in blood,” were straight-up hilarious. The group also did a piece of long-form, but it was incredibly hard to hear what they were saying as they did not have a microphone.

Mitchell was actually in the audience during Crowd Control’s performance, shocking many when he stood up from a table and just walked up onto the stage. Mitchell was laughing as he came up, still cracking up from and repeating a particularly memorable Crowd Control line, and it took him a few moments before he could actually introduce himself because he was laughing so hard.

That became a trend throughout the show—Mitchell cracking himself up and having to stop, or seeing someone in the audience laughing and then laughing himself.

Most of Mitchell’s routine involved little stories and memories, seemingly random vignettes slid perfectly into each other. In one part of the show, he talked about an uncomfortable moment when a woman wouldn’t

get into an elevator with him because he has a passing resemblance to Ray Rice, the infamous former Baltimore Ravens player who was filmed knocking out his wife in an elevator earlier this year. Moments later, he started talking about an especially unpleasant encounter with an aggressive bus driver, a much lighter topic. Mitchell seamlessly transitioned from a serious moment about racial profiling and domestic violence to a story of a bus ride, filled with impersonations of the people he encountered and his internal monologue at the time. The audience laughed at lines like “Lord, let her [the aggressive bus driver] get hit by a small cement truck,” a sentiment so specific and so bizarre that it’s impossible not to smile at.

The random and the bizarre, the combination of the serious with the hilarious, was what made Mitchell shine this weekend. In another joke, he started talking about a conversation he had with a family member about President Barack Obama and whether or not black Americans only voted for him because he was black.

Mitchell did not get especially political during that set, but he still was able to bring up issues of race and stereotypes. He made the moment funny, talking about how he voted for Obama because he liked his voice and went on to do a pretty spot-on impersonation of the president buying a CD for his daughters and getting steamy with Michelle. It was hilarious and taboo. How often does a comedian do an imitation, albeit a pretty horrifying one, of the president and his wife getting things on?

Mitchell can be considered an equal opportunity offender in the same style of the late Joan Rivers because his jokes make fun of nearly everyone in the room. However, I would disagree with that sentiment.

Mitchell didn’t offend; he brought up topics that can make students uncomfortable—topics like race and our perceptions of black students on college campuses.

He called out the audience for its lack of diversity, sometimes stopping in the middle of the joke to explain what a Baptist church service is like or what “natural hair” means in the black community.

Comedy is supposed to point out the flaws and the shortfalls of society in a way that is edgy, funny and even a little uncomfortable. Mitchell did just that through his hilarious performance.

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‘Soft Vengance’ tells tale of struggle in revolution

By Daniela mÀrquez justice contributing writer

On Thursday, the Wasserman Cinematheque in the Sachar International Center screened Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa, sponsored by the International Center for Ethics Justice and Public Life and Jules Bernstein ’57, head of the Louis D. Brandeis Fund for Social Justice. The screening was attended by Sachs and the film’s director, Abby Ginzberg, and was followed by question-and-answer session with the two.

Through her film, Ginzberg captured the South African anti-apartheid movement by focusing on the personal story of Sachs, an activist and former judge in the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Ginzberg invites the audience to think more critically about the elements that compose an equal society while showing the sacrifice and struggle activists faced to achieve democracy.

Soft Vengeance starts with footage of the bomb attack that cost Sachs his right arm and sight in one of his eyes. At that moment, I could feel the tension rising from the audience. Images of Sachs lying down on the floor with a pool of blood surrounding him kept the audience in silence, eager to know what would happen next.

After the opening scene, the story

moves back a few years to when the South African anti-apartheid movement started. In 1948, the National Party rose to power, obtaining control of the South African government.

Soon the party started enforcing segregation laws between the black majority and the white minority. These laws deprived black people from any political participation, taking away their human rights and forcing them into a status of second-class citizens.

Sachs rose up as one of the handful of young white people eager to make a change.

This desire for social change came with strong repercussions. Ironically, as a lawyer at the time, Sachs came into conflict with the law for taking actions like sitting on a bench designated only for black people as well as for taking part in forming anti-apartheid groups. As a consequence, Sachs faced incarceration, torture by sleep deprivation and, later, an exile.

One thing that became evident throughout the film was Sachs’ commitment to peace. While lying in a hospital bed, Sachs received a note from other anti-apartheid activist informing him that they would avenge the attack. To this, Sachs responded, “Avenge me—Where is that going to get us? If we get democracy and freedom in South Africa, that would be my soft vengeance.” This ideol-

ogy accompanied him in the antiapartheid movement and after as a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. During the prosecution of militants involved in the killing and torture of activists, the government felt pressured by the public to implement a death sentence. Despite this pressure, Sachs and others refused to start a new government with the same tradition of violence and oppression as the former one.

Although the film places Sachs as the center of the narrative, it goes further to talk about the whole movement. Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa mentions other activsts, the violent response of the South Africa government and the changes that the country has experienced from that moment in history until now.

This film captures the richness and strength, not only of the country but the people that dedicated their life for social justice.

Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa invites this new generation to think critically about what it means to achieve social justice and what we would be willing to give up to reach that goal. It also leaves an important message for anyone searching for social change: that justice cannot exist without peace, and peace is empty without forgiveness.

GUILLERMO NARVAEZ/the Justice

CALL TO ACTION: On Thursday, a screening of Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa was followed by a discussion with Sachs (above) and director Abby Ginzberg.

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Quote of the week

for the week ending September 14

“[L]et me be clear—compliance with Title IX is a necessity, but it is by no means sufficient. Brandeis must and will be a leader in combatting sexual violence.”

BOX OFFICE

1. Guardians of the Gallaxy 2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) 3. If I Stay 4. As Above/So Below 5. Let’s Be Cops 6. The November Man 7. When the Game Stands Tall 8. The Giver 9. The Hundred-Foot Journey 10. The Expendables 3

—-University President Frederick Lawrence (News, p. 1)

What TV show return are you most excited for?

NYT BESTSELLERS

Zari Havercome ’16 “Criminal Minds. I really enjoy the pilot development and Spencer Reid’s my favorite character because he’s so intelligent.”

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PASTORAL SETTINGS: Over the summer, Justice editorial assistant, Grace Kwon ’16 took this calming photo of the outdoors in the backyard of her beach house in Hilton Head Island in South Carolina.

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CROSSWORD Helen Lee ’15 “The Mindy Project which comes back tomorrow!”

Brendan Weintraub ’16 “Scandal because Kerry Washington won’t be hiding her baby bump anymore.”

Jeremy Schwartz ’18 “Arrow because I’m looking forward to the new arch, especially with Ra’s al Ghul.

It’s a fantastic show, a lot of fun to watch.”

ACROSS 1 With 66-Across, 1967 Petula Clark hit, and a hint to the three longest puzzle answers 7 Address book no.

10 Bal. sheet expert 13 Lure 14 Gas station machine 15 Amtrak and B&O, e.g.

16 Readied for new paint 17 Thing left out 19 __ Paulo, Brazil 20 Web surfing devices 22 Baseball’s Rose 23 1927 soft-shoe classic 26 Body sci.

27 Charlotte and Norma 28 Swear to be true 31 Singer Ives 32 Suitable 35 1971 Janis Joplin charttopper 40 __ diem 41 Morning brew 42 Excellent 43 “Pretty Woman” co-star Richard 44 Med. plan options 47 1972 Billy Paul #1 hit 52 “The Thin Man” dog 53 Andre of tennis 54 Fall back, as a tide 57 On the floor above 59 Johannesburg section 61 Coloring agent 62 Pledges exchanged at the altar 63 “I’m a __, not a divider”: Bush 64 Spanish “that” 65 Guidance counselor’s deg.

66 See 1-Across DOWN 1 Recipe amts.

2 Wife of Zeus 3 “Pound the pavement” or “break the ice” 4 Addition result 5 O’Neill’s “The __ Cometh” 6 “Red Rocks” resort near Flagstaff 7 Upside-down puppy’s massage 8 Diplomatic representative 9 Hi-fi spinners 10 Sobbed 11 Prefix with plasm 12 Good __: fixed 14 Ode, for one 18 Health resorts 21 Banned bug killer 24 Make, as money 25 Ship’s wheel 28 Current unit 29 Gesture from a winner 30 Corn serving 31 Finance major’s deg.

32 In times past

Nonfiction

1. What If?—Randall Munroe 2. Unphiltered—Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach 3. One Nation— Ben Carson with Candy Carson 4. Diary of a Mad Diva—Joan Rivers 5. The Kingdom of Ice—Hampton Sides

iTUNES

1. Taylor Swift—“Shake it Off” 2. Meghan Trainor—“All About That Bass” 3. Jessie J, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj—“Bang Bang” 4. Clean Bandit—“Rather Be (feat.

Jess Glynne)” 5. Maroon 5—“Maps”

BILLBOARD

1. Maroon 5—V 2. Jeezy—Seen It All: The Autobiography 3. Soundtrack—Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1 4. Ariana Grande—My Everything 5. Bob Marley And The Wailers— Legend: The Best Of...

6. Counting Crows—Somewhere Under Wonderland 7. Soundtrack—Frozen 8. Sam Smith—The Lonely Hour 9. Various Artists—Now 51 10. Wiz Khalifa—Blacc Hollywood Top of the Charts information provided by Fandango, the New York Times, Billboard. com and Apple.com.

33 Calligraphy tool 34 Golf ball raiser 36 Spun 9-Down at a party, say 37 Some tavern workers 38 Crowd with foliage 39 24 cans of beer e.g.

43 Annoying bug 44 Nightwear, briefly 45 Death-feigning critter 46 Like some dips 47 Bea Arthur title role 48 Cable sports awards 49 On a freighter 50 Smart-alecky talk 51 Deal with 55 Bingo call 56 Bjorn with five Wimbledon wins 58 Goal 60 Green Bay’s st.

STAFF’S Top Ten

FAVORITE BOOKS

By ROSE GITELL

justice editorial assistant

Solution to last issue’s crossword Crossword Copyright 2014 MCT Campus, Inc.

SUDOKU INSTRUCTIONS: Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

Michelle Banayan ’18 “The Ellen [DeGeneres] Show.

It actually just started. I love watching her show every day because she always brightens my day and has funny things to say when I’m having a hard time.”

—Compiled and photographed by Grace Kwon/the Justice.

Fiction 1. Personal—Lee Child 2. Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good—Jan Karon 3. The Bone Clocks—David Mitchell 4. The Secret Place—Tana French 5. The Eye of Heaven—Clive Cussler and Russell Blake

Solution to last issue’s sudoku

Sudoku Copyright 2014 MCT Campus, Inc.

A friend is somebody who gives you a book you’ve never read before. A best friend is somebody who gives you a book that becomes a top-10 favorite. Read my favorites, listed here in no particular order, and maybe we’ll be best friends.

1. Lolita—Vladimir Nobokov 2. Everything is Illuminated— Jonathan Safran Foer 3. Middlesex—Jeffrey Eugenides 4. Gone With the Wind—Margaret Mitchell 5. Until I Find You—John Irving 6. Brief Interviews With Hideous Men—David Foster Wallace 7. The Namesake—Jhumpa Lahiri 8. The Professor of Desire—Philip Roth 9. Love in the Time of Cholera— Gabriel Garcia Marquez 10. On Beauty—Zadie Smith