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RESIDENCE LIFE

Voyeurism incident marks 3-year trend ■ Gaby Yeshua '17 has begun

collecting stories and ideas after the latest 'Peeping Tom' incident in East Quad.

By ABBY PATKIN JUSTICE editor

In a string of incidences spanning three academic years, there has been another occurrence of an unidentified individual peering into women’s shower stalls in some of East Quad’s bathrooms, according to an April 13 email to East Quad residents from Ariel Hernandez, the quad’s area coordinator.

This incident marks one of several in East since the 2013 to 2014 academic year, a trend Hernandez said was “due to its’ [sic] proximity to the greater Waltham area,” though she noted that this was the first incident in this particular academic year.

Her email added that the Uni-

versity has taken several steps to educate residents and prevent future incidents, including training community advisors to speak with residents about “gender-based targeting of victims, sexual harassment, stalking and intimidation,” increasing Community Living and University Police patrols in and around the building and putting up more signs with contact information for area coordinators and University Police.

The doors for the East bathrooms are locked and are able to be unlocked via students’ room keys — a feature added in February 2014 after a separate incident. The most recent incident occurred in August 2014, after the locks had been installed.

In response to this most recent incident, Gaby Yeshua ’17, who has personally been the victim of voyeurism twice, took to Facebook to reach out to fellow students in an attempt to gain attention from University

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awards to several faculty members at the monthly meeting on Friday.

By SPENCER TAFT JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Several professors were honored for their teaching in this month’s faculty meeting, which took place on Friday. These professors come from vastly varied backgrounds, from Prof. Claudia Novack (CHEM), who won the Louis D. Brandeis Award for Excellence in Teaching, to Prof. Jasmine Johnson (AAAS), who received the Michael Walzer ’56 Award for Teaching. Additionally, Prof.

Sarah Lamb (ANTH) received the Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joseph Neubauer prize for teach-

ing and mentoring.

All three professors were nominated for the awards by students, who had such glowing praise as, “Dr. Novack is one of, if not the, best professor I’ve had at Brandeis”; “Professor Jasmine Johnson has been one of the most phenomenal professors I have encountered in my life”; and “Professor Lamb is an incredible instructor who engages as well as excites,” according to written copies of the nominations provided to the Justice via email by Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences for Undergraduate Education Elaine Wong. The student nominations also included specific strengths of the professors themselves, such as Novack’s “passionate, informative and engaging” nature, Johnson’s attitude treating her students as

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Students celebrate Holi, a Hindu spring festival that celebrates colors and love. The celebration took place on Chapels Field on Sunday and featured multi-colored powders.

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Students to vote on space allocation referendum ■ Students will consider

establishing a space allocations committee of students and administrators.

By MAX MORAN JUSTICE editor

The Student Union is sending a referendum to the student body today about potentially changing the system by which clubs and student organizations receive office spaces and designated rooms on campus.

The referendum will ask students whether they want the current system to stay in place, whether they want a new committee to make decisions or whether they wish to create a completely new system entirely.

Currently, students have no input on the space allocation process. Administrators decide which groups receive what spaces on campus. The Union’s newly-proposed committee would instead include six students and six administrators. The Union explained this makeup in an email to the student

body announcing the referendum on Monday, saying that the equal numbers of each is “necessary to maintain impartiality in the process and ensure the committee is able to look at space with minimal student bias.”

Students on the Union’s proposed committee would include the Student Union President and representatives from the Allocations Board and Senate. The student body would directly elect their last three representatives specifically for the purpose of serving on this committee. Administrators on the committee would include the Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment, the Chief Diversity Officer — a new role the University is creating that has not yet been filled — the Dean of Students, the Director of Student Activities, an Assistant Dean of Students and the Director of the Chaplaincy.

The Student Union wrote in their email to the Student Body that “we are not trying to take away space, nor are we looking to make changes. But when new clubs form, when clubs grow and shrink, or when the

needs of the student body change, someone is going to be making these choices.”

Space allocation has caused issues on campus in recent years.

The Union pointed to the Women’s Resource Center in their email: last April, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel notified the WRC that they were being moved to the Student Sexuality Information Services office the next week, according to an April 19 Justice article. The WRC voiced anger because the SSIS office is shared with the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance, an advocacy group, while the WRC is non-political. The WRC was being moved to make space for a Dharmic Prayer Center on campus, which was later established in the Shapiro Campus Center at the end of the year.

In an email to the Justice, Student Union President Nyah Macklin ’16 said that incoming Student Union President David Herbstritt ’17 and Junior Representative to the Board of Trustees Emily Con-

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Profiles in Courage

 The Lemberg Children's Center teamed up with Brandeis organizations for their spring planting.

 The softball team had a tough weekend but came out on top in one game against Colby.

 The most recent 'Louis D. Brandeis 100' event focused on Brandeis' nomination to the Supreme Court.

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Senate discusses space allocation and considers uses for leftover Senate funding in final meeting of the semester The Senate convened on Sunday to recognize a club and discuss uses for remaining Senate funds in its final weekly meeting of the semester.

The Senate first heard from two student representatives from the Vietnamese Student Association, who asked the Senate for recognition. The students said that the VSA would provide a space for awareness, appreciation and community. They explained that Southeast Asia Club, which represents 11 Southeast Asian nations, was too large to give enough attention to Vietnamese culture in particular. The Senate voted unanimously to recognize the VSA. In the executive officer reports, Student Union Vice President David Herbstritt ’17 described the ongoing proposal to assemble a 12-person committee that would convene regularly to evaluate how student space across the University is split among groups and individuals applying for reserved or designated spaces.

This committee would include Senior Vice President of Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel, the still-unnamed Chief Diversity Officer, Dean of Students Jamele Adams, Assistant Deans of Students Monique Pillow Gnanaratnam and Stephanie Grimes, the Director of the Multifaith Chaplaincy, the Student Union President, a Senate Representative, an E-Board Representative and three students, who would be elected by their peers. The structure of the committee will be put to vote by the student body.

Next, Executive Senator Paul Sindberg ’18 spoke about reinstating the tradition of nominating and awarding Senate members for their various accomplishments in order to be “recognized by each other, and by the student body at large.”

In committee chair reports, North Quad Senator Hannah Brown ’19, the chair of the Senate Dining Committee, spoke about the most recent meeting with the Dining Committee, sharing that upcoming plans include a soft-serve frozen yogurt machine in Upper Usdan, as well as a new app from Sodexo.

Ridgewood Senator Mitchell Beers ’16, the chair of the Campus Operations Working Group committee, spoke about a recent discussion with a Library and Technology Services manager about raising the privacy levels of the computers in the Romper Room to the same levels of those in other parts of campus, such as the library.

Beers proposed that this change could make the Romper Room a more efficient tool, as computers with a higher level of security would not be susceptible to being disconnected from the printers, among other advantages.

A proposed Senate Money Request for Midnight Buffet funding was unanimously approved by the Senate.

The senators also discussed what would be done with any leftover Senate funds. Suggestions for use of the funds included applying them to next year’s Turkey Shuttles and allowing them to rollover to next year. Herbstritt said that he will be looking into the bylaws before any decision is made on how the leftover funds will be spent.

The meeting adjourned after individual senator reports and the open forum session.

Medical Emergency

Apr. 12—Police received a report of a party in the Kosow Building who was feeling lightheaded. Police and BEMCo staff responded, and BEMCo staff treated the party on the scene with a signed refusal for further care.

Apr. 12—Police received a report of a party in North Quad who was having an allergic reaction. BEMCo staff was notified and responded with University Police. The party was transported by Cataldo ambulance to Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Apr. 14—Police received a report from the Usdan Student Center of a party possibly having a heart attack. Police and BEMCo staff responded and requested Cataldo ambulance.

The party was transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital via Cataldo ambulance.

Apr. 14—A party in Massell Quad requested having their vitals taken because they had drawn blood earlier in the day and their hands were somewhat bluish. BEMCo staff responded and treated the party on the

scene with a signed refusal for further care.

Apr. 14—A party in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center reported having a head laceration from an elbow strike while playing sports. The party was treated on the scene with a signed refusal for further care.

Apr. 15—A Health Center nurse called police dispatch and requested an ambulance transport for a party suffering from an allergic reaction. The party was transported to NewtonWellesley Hospital by Cataldo ambulance for further care.

Larceny

Apr. 13—A caller from the Goldfarb Library reported their bag was stolen while left unattended. Police compiled a report on the theft and reviewed Closed Circuit Television footage of the common area but found nothing helpful that was observed of a possible suspect.

Disturbance Apr. 14—Police received a complaint of loud music coming

from the Charles River Apartments. Police checked the area and found all to be quiet.

Apr. 15—A report from the Charles River Apartments stated loud music was coming from an apartment. The area was quiet upon the arrival of University Police.

Apr. 16—Police received a complaint of loud music coming from the Charles River Apartments and found it to be an ongoing situation between residents. Police checked the area and found all to be quiet.

Police took no further action at the time.

Drugs

Apr. 16—A Community Adviser in Rosenthal Quad found a green leafy substance in an unattended plastic bag. Police took custody of the bag and placed it into evidence and compiled a report on the incident.

Other Apr. 11—A party in East Quad observed someone watching them while they were in the

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Berkeley provost resigns amid alleged mishandling of sexual assault case

CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS n A News article incorrectly stated that the founder of American Studies was named Thomas Fuchs. His name was Lawrence Fuchs (April 12, page 1).

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n An editorial did not include a note that ’DeisTalks speaker Kat Semerau ’17 is a columnist for the Forum section (April 12, page 10).

Students play a large-scale game of Jenga at the Campus Center Team carnival on Friday afternoon on the Shapiro Campus Center Great Lawn. The event also featured bouncy houses and food trucks.

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shower. The incident was reported as a prior incident that had already occurred. University Police compiled a report on the incident, and the Area Coordinator on Call was advised to follow up with residents and Community Advisors in the building.

Apr. 12—A party from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management reported receiving a suspicious package in the mail. Police compiled a report on the incident.

Apr. 17—Police received a report of an intoxicated party in the Sherman Dining Hall who urinated on the wall of the men’s bathroom and refused to leave the premises after being advised it closed for the night.

The party would not comply with the simple request, causing a disturbance and a scene.

Police placed the party into protective custody for alcohol intoxication and transported the party to the Waltham Police station for booking and detention without incident.

University of California Berkeley Provost Claude Steele resigned from his position on Friday in the wake of allegations that he mishandled sexual harassment claims. The claims were made against the dean of the law school, Sujit Choudhry, according to an April 15 New York Times article.

While he will be stepping down from the provost position, Steele will remain at Berkeley as a professor in the Psychology department.

Citing his wife’s “ongoing health challenges” in an open letter to the Berkeley community, published on the UC Berkeley website, Steele wrote that he “can no longer offer UC Berkeley the time and level of commitment it needs from its EVCP, while at the same time being a part of my family in the way I want to be. While I am sad to leave the central administration and my beloved colleagues there, my consolation is that I won’t be far away.”

In an open letter published on the UC Berkeley website, Chancellor Nicholas Dirks lauded Steele for his efforts to promote budget reform and increase diversity on the Berkeley campus.

Steele was the subject of intense scrutiny after he allowed Choudhry to remain in his position after investigators determined he had repeatedly kissed, hugged and touched his executive assistant, according to an April 15 Los Angeles Times article.

As sanctions for his actions, Choudhry had his pay cut by 10 percent and was ordered to undergo counseling and issue an apology, but he has since resigned from the position, the article noted.

Steele’s replacement has yet to be determined, though Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for Berkeley, said that an interim provost would be named within the next few days, according to the New York Times article.

—Abby Patkin

ANNOUNCEMENTS The Science of Evocation

What makes a reader remember and be affected by a story over a long period of time?

This presentation will discuss research to identifying the features of books that people remember over long periods of time and the physiological basis that makes these books so affecting. The talk will also offer suggestions on how this research can be applied to the audience’s writing and art projects.

Today from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the LibermanMiller Lecture Hall.

Ask the Expert: Barbara McNamara

Join us for an interactive question-and-answer with Barbara McNamara, former deputy director of the National Security Agency.

Barbara McNamara became the first woman to be named deputy director of operations of the National Security Agency in 1994.

In 1997, she became the second woman to be named the agency’s deputy director. In June, 2000, she received the U.S. Intelligence Com-

munity’s highest award, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal. At the time, she was one of the highest ranked women in the U.S. intelligence community.

Today from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in the Hassenfeld Conference Center Lurias.

Employer Spotlight: National Grid

Stop by the World Court at Brandeis International Business School for an info session hosted by National Grid, a dynamic international company that promotes clear communication, respect for individuals and a strong emphasis on results, and one that is currently hiring students for multiple internship opportunities and their Graduate Development Program.

Tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Sachar International Center World Court.

Dostoevsky’s Concept of Unity

This event will feature Anna Berman, Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at McGill

University, and Yuri Corrigan, Assistant Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature at Boston University. The problem of interpersonal unity lies at the heart of Dostoevsky’s writing. His hopes for a future all-embracing communal union are matched in their intensity only by his adamant warnings against the dangers of collectivism. Focusing on “The Brothers Karamazov,” Corrigan and Berman will apply different readings to the same scenes to illuminate the sides of this issue.

Tomorrow from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in the Mandel Reading Room.

“Mamadrama”

Filmmaker Monique Schwartz found that Jewish mothers, easily maligned in movies and television, no way resemble the smart, sexy and strong women she knows. Her compelling, enlightening and entertaining documentary explores this subject.

Thursday from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the Liberman-Miller Lecture Hall.

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THE ROPE: The discussion looked at various aspects of life in post-U.S. invasion Iraq, including war, language and religion.

Discussion focuses on everyday life in modern Iraq religious tensions following Saddam Hussein’s death.

By MAX MORAN JUSTICE EDITOR

Prof. Kanan Makiya’s (NEJS) new novel “The Rope” was released worldwide earlier this week. To celebrate, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies, the Near Eastern and Judaic Studies department and the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life hosted a discussion on Wednesday about the book and its reflections on life within Iraq’s Shiite population after the death of Saddam Hussein.

“The Rope” follows the life of a young Shiite militiaman from April 2003 — just after U.S. forces took control of Baghdad and ousted Hussein — to the day of Hussein’s execution on Dec. 30, 2006. The titular rope is the noose used to hang him. Makiya, who is Iraqi and a former exile under the Hussein regime, was a vocal proponent of the United States invading Iraq in the run-up to the war. He advocated for a complete dismantling of the former regime, frequently appeared in the media and famously told the Bush administration that the Americans would be greeted with “sweets and flowers,” according to a March 17, 2013 Boston Globe article. Makiya told the crowd on Thursday that “The Rope” does not present the American story of the war in Iraq; indeed, there are no American characters and few references to the invading force. Instead, it tries to show how life within the Shiite community was affected by Saddam Hussein’s ousting. Makiya said that the Arabic title of the book is not “The Rope” but “Il Fitnah,” using an Arabic word without a clear English equivalent that roughly means sedition or betrayal, and which is said to be “worse than murder” in a verse of the Quran.

Il Fitnah also refers to the seventh-century schism in Islamic history that led to the divide between Sunnis and Shiites, and is, according to Makiya, “the perceived cause of Shia victimhood.”

The United States, according to Makiya — who described himself as “born into a Shia family” — knowing-

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ly “empowered the victims” after 2003.

“Not through any effort of their own, the Iraq Shia had been empowered for the first time in their 1000 year history.” To Makiya, the murder of Sayyid Abdul Majid al-Khoei — a Shia cleric who was killed shortly after Hussein lost power — was “the first clue or sign, symbol even, as to how things were going to go terribly terribly wrong. Mine is, therefore I freely admit, a kind of Iraqi morality tale.”

Makiya said the Shiite community’s perceived victimhood is critical to understanding its actions and Iraq today, as well as the broader Middle East: “Everyone is or chooses to wallow in their real or imagined victimhood with the possible exception of Turkey and Iran. … It is — just pause and think about it — a hopeless and seemingly immovable and certainly permanently depressing state of affairs.”

“So I like to think of this book of mine as trying to nail down this politics of victimhood in the very particular case of the Shia of Iraq,” Makiya continued. “And show it to be the debilitating, degrading, soul-and-worlddestroying thing that it almost always is, and that is everywhere around us today destroying Middle East states and societies.”

Makiya’s address included an excerpt from the book where the fictionalized version of Hussein speaks to the book’s narrator a few hours before his death, justifying his actions. After the reading, Prof. Dan Terris (PAX) — the Ethics Center director — led a panel discussion and question-andanswer segment with Makiya and three guests. First to speak was Hayder al-Mohammad, an Iraqi-British sociocultural anthropologist conducting fieldwork in Iraq. Al-Mohammad commented that when he reads Iraqis’ writing in English about Iraq, he often jokes that he can tell when they left the country by figuring out what they are criticizing. “Who is the monster? Is it Saddam Hussein? Well, that will lead to [the writer having left Iraq in the] sixties, seventies, eighties. If you leave after the nineties, halfway through, it’s the sanctions.”

To modern Iraqis, al-Mohammad argued, the biggest concern is the economic devastation left by American sanctions and the way in which they

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forced out the most highly-skilled members of society, such as doctors and engineers. This is a major reason why current government efforts are failing, in al-Mohammad’s view.

“What I think this novel does very interestingly is point to a kind of imaginary [world] that occurs once you take the sanctions story out of Iraq. Then Iraq becomes an enigma. … But if you have a story of the sanctions, then it’s a very different story. There, you don’t see differences between Sunni and Shiite; you’d never talk about a Sunni or Shiite community in Iraq.”

Next, Emma Sky spoke. Sky is the director of Yale University’s World Fellows program and served for three years as an advisor to the commanding general of U.S. forces in the war on terror. She said that in her view, nothing that happened after 2003 was “inevitable” for Iraq and that the U.S.led coalition deserves a large amount of blame for its poor planning and unwillingness to let Iraqis aid in planning the country’s future; she indicated that before the war, most of the intelligence about Iraq came from exiles who had not been in the country for years. “What I liked about Kanan’s book is the self-criticism,” she said.

“There’s been very little honesty or self-criticism about this war.”

Last to speak was Dexter Wilkins, a current staff writer for the New Yorker who covered the Iraq War for four years for American newspapers. He said that he appreciated “The Rope” for telling the story of the Iraq war from the Iraqi perspective because, in his opinion, the American perspective is the only version most people have heard. When he is asked to explain what happened in Iraq, he said he usually describes the Americans as invading a country that was “broken, psychologically and physically” and only supported by “the steel frame” of the Hussein regime, which the Americans promptly took away and did not properly replace. However, one of his frustrations as a journalist was not being able to properly represent the stories of Iraqis. “I think that we haven’t heard a lot of the Iraqi story. ... As a reporter there, I did my best, but I felt that a lot of that was closed. Maybe because I was a foreigner. It always felt like a mystery to me.”

the cultural and historical significance of the 1916 appointment.

By ABBY PATKIN JUSTICE EDITOR

In continuing the celebration of the 100th anniversary of University namesake Louis D. Brandeis’ nomination and confirmation to the Supreme Court, the American Studies Department hosted a screening of a 1965 “Profiles in Courage” episode focusing on Brandeis’ nomination on Thursday. The screening was followed by a discussion of the historical and cultural significance of the decision.

Profs. Daniel Breen (LGLS) and Stephen Whitfield (AMST) partook in the discussion, with Prof. Thomas Doherty — the American Studies Department chair — acting as quasimoderator and occasional commentator.

The episode was part of a 1964 to 1965 NBC series based on President John F. Kennedy’s 1957 Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name, which focused on several senators and congressmen who demonstrated bravery and integrity.

In introducing the episode, Doherty touched upon the American fascination with courage in the face of injustice or opposition, noting, “In some ways, that’s a very Thoreauvian, democratic impulse.”

The episode focused on President Woodrow Wilson’s appointment of Brandeis — then a well-known Massachusetts lawyer who had earned a reputation as a lawyer for the people — to the Supreme Court seat vacated

by Joseph Rucker Lamar. As the episode depicted, the nomination was met with some backlash from those who felt Brandeis might be unfit to serve, based either on his labor sympathies, his Jewish faith or both.

The episode portrays the back-andforth that took place in the then-unprecedented four months that transpired between Brandeis’ nomination and confirmation, though, as Breen noted in the post-screening discussion, Brandeis’ “glad-handing” senators was not shown in the episode.

Breen also noted that while the episode does not delve into Wilson’s reasoning for the nomination, he is fairly certain that the idea started with Wilson himself, for unspecified reasons perhaps pertaining to Brandeis’ breakdown of monopolies, which fit in with Wilson’s “New Freedom” agenda.

Whitfield, touching on the cultural component of the nomination, noted one particular scene in which a menorah — a traditional Jewish candelabrum — is visible in the background during a meeting in Brandeis’ home. Whitfield noted that the menorah’s presence would have been highly unlikely, as Brandeis

did not actively observe any Jewish traditions.

He also discussed how, while the episode included excerpts of letters arguing against Brandeis’ nomination, it left out quotes from his supporters, including future Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter.

In considering whether “courageous” accurately describes Wilson’s decision, Whitfield said, “One grants that there is certainly an element of courage, and maybe that is the most significant feature of it, given the certainty that there would be all sorts of opposition, as much by his fellow Democrats as by Republicans. But as often in politics, factors other than bravery enter into it.”

“I would only want to suggest the peculiar dilemma that Woodrow Wilson faced in 1916, which is to say that he must have realized that he may well have lost the election of 1912, had it not been for the third party candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt for the Progressive Party,” he continued.

He added that Wilson’s 1916 reelection makes for one of American history’s greater “what if” moments, as a win for former Supreme Court Justice and Republican challenger Charles Evans Hughes might have prevented Wilson’s poor wartime leadership and its aftermath. Breen agreed, adding that Hughes’ election with Roosevelt’s four million unclaimed Progressive votes would likely have affected the dynamic of the modern Republican Party, which would have become a progressive and liberal alternative to the Democratic Party, instead of vice versa.

In the question-and-answer session that followed, Mitch Krems ’16 asked Whitfield and Breen what other connections between Wilson and Brandeis might have prompted the former to nominate the latter. Breen reiterated the ideological connection, while Whitfield considered the common background between the two. As Whitfield explained, Wilson had been a lawyer prior to becoming an academic, and it is possible that Wilson viewed Brandeis as what he might have been had he taken a different career path.

Another audience member asked the pair whether they thought President Barack Obama’s recent nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court constituted a similar act of courage. Whitfield responded that courage was not likely a factor there, as Garland was a qualified candidate with a fair chance at being confirmed.

Later in the event, Doherty also remarked that the episode could be viewed as a reconstruction of Wilson as then-President Lyndon Baines Johnson, who was in the midst of pushing the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act through Senate and who had also marked another first in supreme court history with his 1967 nomination of Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice.

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SU proposes new amendment to clarify Judiciary role

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an amendment intended to clarify the Judiciary’s role within the Union.

By RACHEL sharer JUSTICE editor

On Friday, an email was sent out to the student body regarding a new proposal for an Article IV amendment to the constitution of the Student Union, which would clarify the role of the Judiciary within the Union. A student-wide vote will be held on Wednesday regarding the changes.

The amendment proposes ten distinct changes that serve to emphasize the exact role of the Judiciary members, as well as the process of hearings. The first three proposed changes serve to highlight the role of the judicial powers, including explicitly stating that the role of the Judiciary is to “preside over cases brought to the Union,” act as “constitutional consultants” for Union members and keep in constant communication with other branches of the Union.

A significant change to Article IV is adding in and clarifying the role of a Public Defender during a trial or judicial hearing, which is listed

under “Section 4” of the article. The section states that a public defender will be an available option for an accused party and will be responsible for the “review of evidence collected, collection of additional evidence, and representation of the accused during a hearing.” It also states that the Chief Justice of the Judiciary can appoint a new public defender if the original public defender cannot carry out his or her duties.

Section 5 seeks to clarify the role of the clerk of the court within the judiciary, stating that the clerk will be a member of the Judiciary, must be elected by a “majority vote of five elected justices” and will act as a

historian for the Judiciary by maintaining records and documents relevant to trials by the Judiciary.

Finally, the changes seek to clarify the details of how a hearing is carried out by the Judiciary, including the timeframe of a trial.

First, the amendment clarifies that students may submit a complaint to any member of the Judiciary either through a formal written complaint or electronically. It also sets a timeframe for the process, stating that “a date for the case to be brought to trial shall be set within five academic days of its presentation to a Judiciary member.” The last significant change made to this section is

that judicial hearings, which were formerly always open to the public, may — upon request and approval — close “all or part of its hearings to only persons specified by the Judiciary in order to protect rights of involved individuals.”

Additionally, the Judiciary members removed all gender pronouns from Article IV, writing that they “hope the remainder of the Constitution will follow suit.”

The email sent to the student body also noted that anyone can submit an article against the proposed amendment, but it must be submitted 48 hours before the vote occurs on Wednesday.

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student writers and editors as possible, particularly with a diverse range of backgrounds, experience and views.”

In an anonymous vote, staff members unanimously selected Rothberg as the paper’s next leader. He was confirmed in a second vote among the paper’s editors, who similarly voted for Rothberg unanimously.

Mihir Khanna ’18 was also selected by the editors on Sunday to serve as Rothberg’s managing editor, the secondin-command of the Justice.

Khanna began as a photographer and has served as a photos editor for the last year. “I feel much more comfortable taking on this role knowing that I’m supported by an extremely competent group of editors. Mihir Khanna particularly is a very capable, efficient and hardworking managing editor. I am looking forward to seeing how much he makes out of the role,” Rothberg said in the interview.

Of the paper’s role on campus, Rothberg said, “I think it’s the role of the Justice first and foremost to inform its readers and to serve as a primary testament to the state of Brandeis at this time.”

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Prof. ChaeRan Freeze (NEJS) gave a lecture “Drinking Champagne on New Year’s: Gender and Class in a Russian Jewish Noblewoman’s Diaries” on Thursday.

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BRIEF Carmi Rothberg ’18 takes over as next editor in chief On Thursday night, the Justice elected its next editor in chief for the 2016 to 2017 academic year. Carmi Rothberg ’18 was chosen unanimously by the paper’s staff and editors.

Rothberg started at the paper as a first-year, editing articles for the Copy section. He quickly progressed to serving as the copy editor in winter 2014 and served in that position until January 2016. For the last four months, Rothberg has worked directly under then-Editor in Chief Max Moran ’17 as a deputy editor while training to become the next editor in chief.

In an interview with the Justice, Rothberg described becoming the editor in chief as “exciting [and] a little bit nerve-wracking. I know that it’s a big responsibility, but it’s one that I feel equipped to take on considering the amount of time and training that has gone into preparing me for the role.”

Rothberg told the staff and editors on Thursday that he hopes to increase the paper’s efficiency during production nights and increase the size of the paper’s staff. Specifically, he said in the interview that he wants “to recruit as many

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“America’s typical teen-ager.”

That’s the slogan that originally marketed Archie Andrews and his Riverdale gang to some of the comic series’ earliest readers. As film critic and scholar Gerald Peary pointed out in a lecture and screening on Wednesday, the “Archie” comics are singlehandedly the most successful non-superhero series available, focusing instead on the idyllic hometown life shared among attractive and squeaky-clean “friendly anti-intellectuals.”

Peary, who wrote film reviews for the Boston Phoenix from 1996 until the paper folded in 2012, has had a lifelong love of Archie comics, having first read them as a child in West Virginia.

In his visit to campus, he screened his most recent documentary, “Archie’s Betty: An Independent Documentary Search for the Real-Life Characters Behind Archie Comics,” which examines the series’ roots in reality.

“This is a detective search,” Peary told the audience prior to the screening. “When I was a kid, everyone read comic books like crazy, and my very very favorite, as you can see, was Archie Comics.”

Prof. Thomas Doherty, the American Studies Department chair, introduced Peary, explaining how the critic’s earlier work draws upon an “inexhaustible supply of background interviewing with what seemed like every important actor and director of the 20th century.”

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“I knew Gerry as a byline before I knew him as a human,” he added.

Peary’s work in journalism led him to a pivotal moment in 1988, when he published an article in the Boston Globe that began what would become a 28-year search for the real-life individuals behind the characters. At the time of the article’s publication, Peary was under the impression that the characters — including their personalities and likenesses — derived from Archie creator and artist Bob Montana’s high school classmates from his time spent in Haverhill, Mass. As Peary explained in the documentary, the conclusion certainly made sense at the time: thick-necked Arnold Daggett was a spitting image of quarterback Moose Mason, girl-next-door Elizabeth Walker Bostwick echoed love interest Betty Cooper and classclown Buddy Heffernan’s hijinks seemed to have inspired Archie Andrews.

But Montana, who died of a heart attack in 1975, never said much on the inspirations for his characters, while several others claimed to have played a role in Archie’s inception. Most notably, former Archie Comics CEO John L. Goldwater claimed to have developed the character of Archie as a sort of Andy Hardy, idealized teenager alternative.

Still, as Peary noted in the documentary, early Archie comics seem to derive a great deal from Montana’s Haverhill upbringing; in particular, the names of Archie’s classmates and teachers mirror Montana’s, while the statue of “The Thinker” outside Riverdale High is nearly identical to the one that still stands outside Haverhill High School today.

In 2010, Peary was contacted by comic superfan Shaun Clancy, who pointed out shortcomings in Peary’s

1988 article. Specifically, Clancy noted that while some of Peary’s conclusions were correct, many of the characters were, in fact, a blend of inspirations from Montana, Goldwater and other writers and editors who played a role in the comic’s development.

However, the identity of the real Betty still remained unclear.

Peary partnered with Clancy to figure out Betty’s inspiration, and throughout the search, the two uncovered Betty Tokar Jankovich, a 95 yearold Czech immigrant who had had a relationship with Montana nearly 70 years ago and who seemed the perfect fit for Betty Cooper.

Yet even with the mystery of Betty seemingly solved, the series as a whole still has great cultural significance, Peary explained in a questionand-answer session after the screening.

“It is weirdly popular, because it is a global comic book. Just like some Hollywood movies do okay in America but are huge in China, ... Archie is like that,” he said, noting that there is huge interest in India, Pakistan, Latin American countries and Nigeria.

Peary also pointed out that the Archie demographic overlaps with what he called the “Hillary Clinton” demographic — “that is, women fifty and over,” he said — “because women of a certain age were obsessed with this comic book, and this thing of whether you were Veronica [Lodge (Betty’s rival for Archie’s romantic interest)] or Betty obsessed young girls.”

Peary currently teaches film studies at Suffolk University in Boston and also serves as the curator and programmer for the Boston University cinematheque. His work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, among other publications.

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EAST: Student launches safety and awareness campaign CONTINUED FROM 1 administrators and prompt them to action.

“I didn’t really want to get involved in any of this for a while,” Yeshua said in an interview with the Justice. “I was really hoping that the two times it happened to me would be the last time. … But when I was told by someone who it recently happened to, … I kind of realized that I really shouldn’t just let it slip through the cracks. I was ready to just let that happen for myself.”

While she has not received any personal accounts of voyeurism incidents, she has received suggestions for potential solutions, including security cameras, bathroom stall-style doors that latch and cannot be seen through and bells that ring as the door to the bathroom is opened. “Every time that it had happened to me, I was lucky that I was listening, because someone was walking in very slowly, and trying to open the door very carefully, and so if there was something like bells, it might prevent them from wanting to carry through with what they’re doing.”

In terms of the number of responses she has received, Yeshua said that she did not expect a large number of people reaching out to her, though she noted that she is still interested in receiving messages and emails from individuals with stories or suggestions. “It’s a sensitive topic to begin with, especially for people who it may have happened to recently,” she said.

“It’s even harder for me to talk about it, even though it happened last year.

Some people can forget about it in a day. Some people can take a lifetime to forget about something like this. So like I imagined, responses have been pretty limited.”

She added that her efforts so far have included creating a sort of “task list” with steps the University might be able to take to prevent similar incidences in both the short term and long term. This work has included researching potential solutions enacted at other universities — like security cameras — and how much those solutions might cost to implement. Once she has finalized her list, she plans to schedule a meeting with Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel to present her findings and suggestions.

Yeshua has been in contact with Flagel on and off throughout the last year, and he emailed her at the start of the academic year in response to her multiple emails to administrators in the wake of the first incident in which she was the victim. While she has set no specific date, she said she is hoping to meet with him sometime

during finals week or sometime early in the fall semester.

Still, she said, she does not have high expectations going into the meeting. “I’m not expecting it to go particularly well. I know the kind of person Andrew Flagel can be. In instances like this — things dealing with sexual harassment and sexual assault — I have heard from sources that he will put on an act of crying to show solidarity and care, and he will not go through with anything that could possibly help. … I expect him to say, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry, we’ll do everything we can,’ just like he’s been saying without actually doing.”

However, she explained, “I am relentless, and I am going to keep bothering him about it, even when I graduate. If that’s what it takes, I’m going to come here until it happens.”

As for what she would like to see come out of this meeting, she said that, in an ideal world, she would want to ensure no future incidences of voyeurism occur on campus. At the very least, Yeshua said, she wants to see a noticeable decrease in occurrences. According to the University’s crime statistics webpage, there were 26 sex offense incidents between 2012 and 2014, though it is unclear what kinds of offenses this total includes, and does not distinguish whether these were only the incidences in which an individual was prosecuted

by Waltham or University Police. “If we can cut down a number like that, that would be wonderful,” Yeshua said.

Yeshua added that while she wants to see the University pursue the voyeurism suspects — the first time she was targeted, she said, she provided the University with a detailed description of the individual yet saw no results — what she wants to see most in the community is increased dialogue about sexual harassment on campus.

“I want this to become a conversation on campus, because in talking about sexual harassment and sexual assault, it can be very easy to forget things that seem small, like this. So the administration, and teachers, and even our own peers very easily dismiss things like this,” she said.

“I really want to have open communication with everyone, in terms of reviewing what we think about this so we can best help each other, best make each other feel safe and not like we’re just complaining about something.”

—Editor’s note: Yeshua was an editorial cartoonist for the Justice until May 19, 2015.

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Students play a game of human battleship in Linsey Pool during the Intramural Water Battleship Tournament. Teams tried to sink their opponents with buckets of water.

SPACE: Committee intended to regulate space allocations CONTINUED FROM 1 rad ’17 spearheaded the effort for the referendum. Herbstritt wrote to the Justice that the Union has had “some limited contact” with the administrators who would serve on the proposed committee, but

not enough to make a clear statement about their thoughts on the proposal. “Currently, there does not seem to be any regular process by which decisions about space are made, so I can’t really point to one person or group who allocates

space,” Herbstritt wrote. “As President next year, all that I ask is that the committee or other group that ends [up] evaluating space be fair and systematic — I don’t have any changes that I would be happy or upset to see,” he added.

FAC: Johnson, Novack, Lamb, Williams and Wright recognized CONTINUED FROM 1 “responsible adults” and Lamb’s “structuring her assignments so they provide ongoing feedback.”

Novack was honored for her commitment to teaching, with such habits cited as teaching all four of her recitation sections herself and creating a 1,000-slide library of lessons for visual learners in her General Chemistry lecture and lab. She also serves on the Undergraduate Studies Committee in Chemistry, as well as the post-baccalaureate pre-med admissions committee.

Johnson has a similarly impressive resumé, having taught a wide variety of courses from the basic African and Afro-American Studies course, “Introduction to African and Afro-American Studies” to “Black Feminist Thought,” and the “Graduate Foundational Course in Women’s and Gender Studies.” She is also a dancer and

a founding member of the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance, a pursuit echoed in her upcoming book, “Rhythm Nation: West African Dance and the Politics of Diaspora.”

Lamb has taught a wide range of courses within the field of Anthropology, from “South Asian Cultures and Societies” to “Gender and Sexuality Seminar.” Her ability to cover a wide variety of subjects — coupled with her sitting on the committees for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Sexuality and Queer Studies; South Asian Studies; the Program in Religious Studies; and Health: Science, Society and Policy — have made her a popular choice among administrators and students alike, with many of her classes filling up quickly in registration periods.ww Also honored on Friday was Prof.

David Wright (NEJS), who won the Dean of Arts and Sciences Graduate

Student Mentoring Award. Wright has written several books on the subject of religion, such as “Inventing God’s Law: How the Covenant Code of the Bible Used and Revised the Laws of Hammurabi,” and has taught many Near Eastern and Judaica Studies courses, from “The Early History of God” to “Elementary Ugaritic.” Prof. Chad Williams (AAAS) was similarly honored with a service award at Friday’s meeting. Williams has written several books on African-American history, including “Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War 1 Era,” which won the 2011 distinguished book award from the Society of Military History. He also crowdsourced a list of texts he called #CharlestonSyllabus in response to the June 17, 2015 mass shootings at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. — a historic black church.

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Theses for Thought The English department held an honorary luncheon to showcase this year’s honors thesis writers

By RACHEL LEDERER JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

As the semester draws to a close, six seniors have been hard at work perfecting their English honors theses. Carmen Altes ’16, Caro Langenbucher ’16, Naomi Soman ’16, Katerina Daley ’16, Emily Wishingrad ’16 and Brianna Majsiak ’16 presented their work at a celebratory luncheon hosted by the English department on Tuesday.

Langenbucher, Altes and Daley sat down with the Justice to discuss the core concepts underlying their theses as well as the process behind writing them.

Langenbucher first read “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace over five years ago, and though many classes at Brandeis interested them, they knew for a while that the book would end up as the focus of their senior thesis.

“I think I always intended to write about “Infinite Jest” because [the book] was just something that bothered me — I needed to figure it out,” said Langenbucher in an interview with the Justice.

Langenbucher’s thesis is a queer feminist reading of the text, which they pursued with the help of their advisor Prof. Caren Irr (ENG) after realizing that scholarship on Wallace’s work rarely discusses gender. They were interested in exploring the connection they observed between physical ugliness and deformities and “spiritual unease” in the text and how this was influenced by sexuality and gender.

“The book is full of grotesque figures of extremely fat people who are barely human, or disabled people who don’t have a human form, and lots and lots of misogyny. And this really heterosexist logic that kind of sees masculinity as presence and femininity as absence, men as ones and women as zeroes, and that men do and women are done to,” said Langenbucher.

A large part of their research also analyzes Wallace’s insistence on the intersubjectivity of reader and writer in his work and showcases what they perceive

as his hypocrisy regarding this relationship.

Altes was also in part inspired

by David Foster Wallace and “Infinite Jest,” though her thesis focuses on three autobiographies that are unrelated to Wallace.

Altes was intrigued by Wallace’s claim that the mathematical model behind “Infinite Jest” is the Sierpinski gasket — a triangular fractal — and says that this model has “been so helpful [in] conceptualizing the way in which the autobiographer as a model tries to create himself as a pattern to be replicated by posterity.”

Altes is writing her thesis on the formation of American identity on both the individual and national level while drawing from the autobiographies of Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams and Dave Eggers.

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by Philippe LeJeune about the nature of autobiographies helped to guide Altes’ writing. “He gave me this great trisection of the autobiographer as author, narrator and protagonist,” said Altes. “And that’s really good because it alleviates that issue of like, ‘Is autobiography fiction or nonfiction?’”

She was advised by Prof. John Burt (ENG) and was inspired to pursue the subject after taking the class “Writing the American Self” with Prof. Kathy Lawrence (ENG).

Daley’s thesis was also inspired by a Brandeis class. Prof.

Paul Morrison (ENG)’s class “Hitchcock’s Movies” inspired Daley to pursue her own study of Hitchcock with Morrison as her advisor.

Her thesis focuses on five Alfred Hitchcock movies — “Vertigo,” “Strangers on a Train,” “Rope,” “The Birds” and “North by Northwest” — and compares the tropes of the “icy blonde” characters and the “queer-coded villain” characters that are incorporated into much of his work. She said the order in which Morrison presented the films in his class made her notice this trend, whether or not it was intentional on his part.

“There’s been a lot of discourse

on [the tropes] separately, but no one’s really looked at them together. So I thought it would be really interesting to do that,” she said.

Daley said she also wanted to “take a sharper, harsher look at sort of heterosexual male protagonists,” who she felt “hadn’t been given proper criticism.”

Daley, Langenbucher, and Altes all struggled with condensing the information that they would tackle in their theses.

“Writing it wasn’t actually the biggest problem — it was more trying to make sure I knew everything I could from the research,” said Daley, who had trouble with deciding which information not to include. “It’s really just a gut feeling ... Once the critics start repeating each other and citing each other, you’ve basically reached the point where you’re like, okay, I know this material enough — now it’s my turn to talk about it.”

Langenbucher echoed a similar sentiment, saying the hardest part was just starting: “It’s a huge, huge book and there’s so much in it, … I didn’t even know where to begin. That’s where my advisor was really helpful.”

“I’ve had this idea for like two years, and I was so sure that I knew what it was going to be about, and I was wrong because my ideas were too big,” said Altes.

At the same time, they all found the process to be immensely rewarding.

“I’ve done a lot of independent research projects before, but this is the longest one I’ve ever done. Realizing that I’m capable of doing something this long was pretty cool — it’s given me hope for maybe someday writing something longer,” said Daley.

Altes agreed. “I think it’s really rewarding and important to have a structural way in which to make the things you’re personally passionate about urgent,” she said.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ABBY GRINBERG/the Justice

INFINITE WISDOM: Caro Langenbucher ’16 focused their thesis on a queer feminist reading of David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF KATERINA DALEY

FILM AND FICTION: Katerina Daley ’16 compared five Alfred Hitchcock movies in her thesis, focusing on the different tropes in each.

— Editor’s Note: Brianna Majsiak ’16 and Emily Wishingrad ’16 are editors for the Justice.

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ABBY GRINBERG/the Justice

AMERICAN LITERATURE: Carmen Altes ’16 considered American identity in the context of three American-authored autobiographies.

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SPROUTING SEEDS: Volunteers came to the Lemberg Children’s Center to help construct a fence for the vegetable garden and do some spring planting.

Growing Community The Lemberg Children’s Center planted for the spring

By Kirby Kochanowski JUSTICE EDITOR

Despite the dark clouds and steady drizzle of rain, the children of the Lemberg Children’s Center played outside happily.

Meanwhile, working in the garden on the other side of the fence, Judy Fallows, the coordinator of environmental education for Lemberg, Elizabeth Milano ’16, one of the co-leaders of Symbiosis, and a group of volunteers didn’t allow the rain to deter them either.

On Tuesday, starting at 3 p.m., Symbiosis and the Waltham Group Habitat for Humanity paired up to work on the Lemberg Community Gardens. The main project for the day was building a fence around the vegetable garden. Fallows hopes that this will allow the children more freedom in the garden.

“One of the reasons we’re putting fences up today is so that [the kids] can run around out here as much as they like and not get into trouble and not get the plants into trouble,” Fallows laughed.

The fence will have a gate so that with supervision, the kids can explore the growing plants.

The Lemberg Children’s Center, located at 457 Old South Street next to the Gosman Athletic Center, was built in 2013. It was a 2.5 million-dollar project funded primarily through tuition costs.

The center provides daycare for children up to age 7.

The gardens and playgrounds honor the late Jeremy Werl, the

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FARM TO TABLE: The food grown in the garden is consumed by the children at Lemberg and by their families.

brother of Brandeis graduate Daniel Werl ’15. Daniel’s grandfather’s foundation gave a donation to Lemberg which helped it to become a reality.

In an email sent to the Justice, Howard Baker, the executive director of Lemberg explained his hopes for the garden: “It is very important to us that these gardens be a joint project with Brandeis environmental studies students and with the greater community.

The Gardens are part of what we are naming the Firefly Scientists’ Community Gardens and Playground. The gardens is part of the essential educational experience children need to appreciate the importance of growing & eating healthy food as well as understanding the interconnectedness of the natural environment to their health and the health of our planet.”

Baker and Prof. Laura Goldin (ENVS) had the idea for the garden and first discussed plans for a garden with Fallows.

Fallows began her job at Lemberg after spending 8 years working as the Executive Director for Healthy Waltham. “They had this vision to have a garden, so I said, ‘Well, I can help with that,’” Fallows explained.

Fallows loves working with Brandeis students and the community as a whole.

“But you guys tend to graduate, you know? And you get here and you get your teeth into something, and then you graduate,” Fallows lamented. She expressed a desire to create a self-perpetuating involvement and passion for the gar-

dens, similar to the shifting leadership some of the clubs on campus experience on a yearly basis.

The Gardens will always have the help of the children at Lemberg, however. “We have this captive audience of kids,” Fallows explained, pointing toward the playground next to the garden,

with the harvesting.”

Last year, when the garden began, a favorite for the kids was the pumpkin patch.

The height level made the pumpkins easy for the kids to access, and accessibility, Fallows explained, is a main goal for the garden. Currently, the garden has

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY BRIANNA MAJSIAK/the Justice

DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS: Elizabeth Milano ’16 (left) and Allan Zelaya ’19 (right) helped construct the fence for the vegetable garden. where a group of kids played during their recess. “They help out with the planting; they help out

a lift and paths that are wheelchair accessible. Fallows hopes that this will allow everyone to

benefit from the garden. “As we have more [growth], we’re talking about maybe having families take care of some plots as if it was a community garden. It’s conceivable that some community group might want to do that, as well,” she said.

The garden has already experienced immense growth. Last year, Lemberg planted fruit trees and worked on beginning both a herb and flower garden to compliment the vegetable garden.

“We planted these last year as a stick. This year we got a patch, and then next year, it’s just going to spread. Raspberries just spread like that,” Fallows explained, motioning toward a raspberry plant in the back right corner of the garden.

This year, there are already plans to include asparagus and grape vines in the garden.

The vegetable garden plots are all facing south, which, Fallows explained, provides the best sunlight.

The vegetables grown are eaten primarily by the children at Lemberg. Last year, they froze some of the produce to eat throughout the winter. Fallows explained that parents and community members also are welcome to take some of the vegetables home.

Noticing the bite marks in some of the snap peas, Fallows amended her previous statement, laughing, “We do share some with the wildlife, though not as much as they would like.”

—Brianna Majsiak contributed reporting

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EDITORIALS

Return to previous housing lottery system

The annual housing lottery commenced last Monday with one significant tweak to the usual system: housing options for upperclassmen are now staggered across multiple days, meaning that on the first day of housing selection, only certain housing options can be chosen. The six-person Ridgewood suites and Foster Mods opened for lottery participants on April 11, but Ziv quad suites and two-person Charles River apartments were only available by April 14. This board questions the logic of these changes and urges the Department of Community Living to return to the freer system in which all housing options are available from the get-go.

DCL justified this switch in a statement on their website that past students faced problems “adjusting their roommate group when one type of housing ran out.”

Far from preventing this frustration, however, the new system forces students into yet more group-swapping and adjusting.

The order in which housing options are made available has no internal consistency in the number of beds available per day: six-person Ridgewoods and Mods are the first available, then four-person Foster Mods, then five-person Charles River apartments, then two-person apartments and six-person Zivs. As options are selected, groups which planned for a given number of people to live together must now make fast, difficult decisions to accommodate the next available housing. A group of six whose number was not good enough to get a Ridgewood, for instance, will need to pick two people from their group to exclude within 24 hours if they want to secure a Mod. Competition for six-person Zivs, as the last available suite housing, becomes intense, forcing those who cannot secure a Ziv to seek housing elsewhere.

Compounding the confusion is the DCL

Abandon flawed changes

web system, which makes it difficult for users to see which housing options are still available until they are selecting housing themselves. This means students must rely on hearsay and estimations when making choices about who to keep and who to cut from their housing, adding another layer of distrust and hurt feelings to the process.

As this board editorialized in the past, efforts to “fix” the housing lottery inevitably will only shift which groups of students receive the brunt of its unpleasant nature; it is impossible for a lottery to satisfy everyone involved, no matter how it is structured. The student body affirmed this by voting overwhelmingly against other proposed changes to the housing lottery this semester, according to a March 22 Justice article. Yet this change, which was not part of the initial proposals DCL floated to students, was enacted anyway. While it primarily affects only rising juniors and seniors, it does add unneeded stressors to the already complicated housing process.

A better system, ironically, would simply offer all available housing to begin with.

This permits students to choose the housing that best suits their needs and interests, which will not always be the option DCL implicitly assumes in this system — perhaps a student prefers a double to a suite for personal reasons. That suite then remains available for higher-numbered students to use.

We urge DCL to return to its earlier system without restrictions on which housing is available when and encourage the department to test all potential changes to future housing lotteries with the student body before implementation. Better communication between DCL and the student body is clearly needed on multiple fronts.

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On April 13 and 14, the World Health Organization and the World Bank held a conference in Washington, D.C. with the goal of prioritizing mental health in the same way they have previously prioritized HIV/AIDS in the international development agenda. This movement came in response to limited mental health care in developing countries and increasing frequency of mental illness worldwide — especially in conflict zones and among refugees. According to an April 12 New York Times article, some economists predict that an investment in global mental health care would lead to large returns for the economy as a result of improved productivity.

Do you agree with these economists’ prediction, and what do you think of an initiative giving precedence to mental health when efforts have previously focused on physical health?

Beth He ’16 In global development, the WHO and World Bank carry incredible influence in the public policy of various countries. I think it is an empowering step forward for such organizations to recognize the importance of mental health as equitable to physical health. Mental illness can be as debilitating as physical diseases and greatly impacts an individual’s ability to be as productive as possible. I am in full support of these economists’ predictions and I am hopeful that more funding will be allocated toward research or mental illness. The fight against HIV/AIDS not only came with great scientific research but also with billions of dollars in investments in developing countries to ensure proper infrastructures were in place. I believe it is equally as essential to invest in health and governmental infrastructure to improve access, quality and price of mental health care globally.

Beth He ’16 is the campus chairperson and president of Brandeis Global Brigades. She is also a Health: Science, Society and Policy major.

Alec Hoyland ’18 I wholeheartedly support the World Health Organization and the World Bank prioritizing the research, diagnosis and treatment of mental illness.

First, I wish to dispel any vestiges of the mind-body problem. Depression, anxiety and autism are linked to changes in gut bacteria, and schizophrenia is associated with the immune system. Treating mental illness is just as important and sometimes indistinguishable from treating physical illness. 25 percent of American adults suffer from mental illness in a given year. Factors that exacerbate mental illness include low socioeconomic status and proximity to conflict zones. The total cost of treating mental illness — including unemployment, social welfare/homelessness, etc. — cost upwards of $273 million per year. Placing emphasis on treating mental illness would help the economy and also provide a better standard of living, especially for low socioeconomic status communities. Investing in mental health is not only a fiscal responsibility but also a moral obligation.

Urge creation of student committee for space allocation On Monday afternoon, the Student Union sent out an email to the undergraduate population detailing a proposal to create a joint student and administrative committee to allocate campus spaces to various campus groups and organizations.

The email lays out three possible paths forward: maintain the status quo, where administrators get to make final decisions with no student input; create a committee of administrators and students to allocate spaces to student clubs and organizations; or go back to the drawing board.

This board endorses the Union’s second proposal, with some qualifications. There are some situations where it is necessary to reallocate campus spaces among student groups and organizations. When these situations arise, determining who has to move and who gets to keep certain spaces can be a difficult decision.

Currently, only ad-hoc groups of administrators play a role and have final say in the decision-making process and determination of how spaces are allocated. This board believes that student representatives who are determined to be as impartial as possible should be involved in these deliberations and have an active voice in the final decision. It is only appropriate for students, who are most directly affected by these choices and may understand subtleties and nuances about the missions of various groups, to make a choice that impacts students.

However, one must differentiate between student-run groups and organizations — clubs — and University-run enti-

Address club space issues ties such as the Chaplaincy or the Brandeis Undergraduate Group Study program.

While student input is necessary for allocating space for student-run groups, University-operated organizations need to be approached from a more practical standpoint, taking into account financial and organizational experience. For this reason, this board believes that when student-run groups and University-run organizations clash over allocated space, student representatives should play a strictly advisory role. Certainly the opinions and experiences of students must be considered whenever students are affected by a decision, but students in turn must recognize broader potential implications for University-run bodies. These choices may survive their four years at Brandeis and can impact aspects of the University’s operations that students may not fully understand or consider. The ultimate decision should be left up to the administration, provided they have sufficiently garnered input from all parties involved and have given them extensive notice regarding the proposed change. In addition, there must be an appeals process whereby both sides can present their case to a committee.

Ultimately, it is up to the administration to create this committee. This board urges the Student Union to advocate for its creation with certain caveats and considerations and to hold the University accountable in order to ensure space is allocated in the fairest way possible.

Alec Hoyland ’18 is the president of the Brandeis Neuroscience Club.

Eva Ahmad ’16 There is no physical health without good mental health. In the 1990s, the World Health Assembly developed an international agenda for the prevention and control of the following four illness types: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, respiratory illness and cancers. This set a precedent for the exclusion of mental illnesses from all future World Health Organization discussions on noncommunicable diseases. It is so critical to focus our efforts on increasing awareness on mental health, which is often goes unrecognized and untreated. In the workplace, this could decrease work injuries, employee turnover and sick days. I can only see this working should these efforts work for the long-run. I fear, however, that our focus could be limited to benefiting a company’s financial health.

Eva Ahmad ’16 is the founder and president of the Brandeis chapter of United Against Inequities in Disease.

Diana Langberg ’17 This meeting signifies a social shift destigmatizing an overlooked health condition deemed a “myth.” Its agenda faces the real implications of mental health, places the responsibility on the global community and presents a global conversation to destigmatize mental illness. There is a moral imperative and financial incentive to consider the economic potential for more mental health care awareness and spending. Most of our cost in the mental health system is a loss of productivity in the labor force. Addressing this sunk cost could mean a surge in GDP growth as those individuals would be able to work and contribute to the economy. As Dr. Alan Bollard of the Asia­Pacific Economic Cooperation highlighted, there is a $2 trillion deficit due to mental health, and in years to come, the cost could be greater than the cost of cancer, pulmonary diseases and diabetes combined. The most robust governments spend as much on all these physical illnesses combined as they lose on the productivity loss due to mental health systems. With economic incentives, perhaps governments will be more likely to get behind this global mental health movement.

Diana Langberg ’17 was a mental health research intern at the Massachusetts Health Council. She is also a Health: Science, Society, and Policy major.

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Criticize North Carolina’s discriminatory bathroom policy Amber

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With unanimous support from Republican state legislators and a near-immediate approval by Republican Governor Pat McCrory (R), North Carolina’s HB 2 became law on March 23 — the same day legislators introduced it — despite protests by Democratic state legislators, according to a March 23 New York Times article.The legislation, colloquially referred to as a bathroom law, sought to overturn a Charlotte ordinance which, among other things, allowed transgender people to use the public bathrooms corresponding to their gender identity rather than those corresponding to their physical sex at birth. HB 2 effectively squashes this forward step by Charlotte and seeks to prevent any similar expansion of rights by North Carolina cities in the future.

On April 12, McCrory announced an executive order which clarified that HB 2 only has weight in government buildings and that private businesses and nonprofit groups can continue to make their own policies regarding the matter, according to an article from the Advocate on the same date. The order does little else, and it does not correct the discriminatory nature of HB 2.

North Carolina Republicans — and many Republicans on the national stage — remain in support of this horrific new law, despite nearly a month of overwhelming backlash from activist groups, companies and ordinary citizens.

Of the law’s discriminatory devastation, Republican presidential hopeful — and longshot — John Kasich remarked, “Get over it,” according to an April 12 article in the Advocate.

But this insensitivity toward the daily struggles of non-cisgender Americans is actually generous compared to the comments of too many other Republicans.

According to an April 15 Chicago Tribune article, second-place Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz had something more to say about the matter at an MSNBC town hall in Buffalo on Friday: “I’m not terribly excited about men being able to go alone into a bathroom with my daughters.”

This all-too-common misgendering of trans

women and insulting implication that they have perverse intentions has dominated the justification of HB 2 and bills like it across the country. In fact, some even go as far as to say that HB 2 is not only justified but also crucial for the protection of women. Yes, according to many Republicans — people of the same group that denies women reproductive rights and other truly crucial protections — allowing a trans woman to pee in a public bathroom apparently endangers our great nation’s women and girls.

In an April 17 opinion piece for the South Carolina publication, The Herald, writer Wendy Petzel deems all of this reasoning “common sense.” She writes that “LGBTQ is calling this ‘anti-LGBTQ legislation’ when in fact it is ‘pro women’s rights and protections’” — as if that makes sense. How can a piece of legislation which explicitly discriminates against members of the LGBTQ community — some of whom happen to be women — seriously be considered anything but “anti-LGBTQ”? Petzel goes on to speak of the “consequence of transgender agenda,” and then, her already weak argument devolves into senseless, transphobic blabber.

Let’s clear something up right now: Trans women are not men. They are not men pretending to be women so they can sneak into the women’s bathroom or locker room and satisfy some perverse voyeuristic urge — or worse. They are women, and more importantly, they are people who deserve respect like anyone else.

Still, people do not seem to understand this.

After all, former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee articulated this gross ignorance best. “I’m pretty sure that I would have found my feminine side and said, ‘Coach, I think I’d rather shower with the girls today.’

You’re laughing because it sounds so ridiculous doesn’t it?” he said shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as a transgender woman, according to a June 3, 2015 CNN article.

To people who refuse to acknowledge that trans women are not men, consider this: Even if trans women were men — which they are not — these fears of having “men” in women’s bathrooms and locker rooms operate under the flawed assumptions that all men are attracted to women and that, if left alone for even a moment, all men might attack or otherwise exploit an unguarded woman. Improved education on sexualities has worked to disprove the former, and for humanity’s sake, we better hope the latter is equally false.

All that aside, trans women are not men,

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and no documented cases of a trans person assaulting a cisgender person in a bathroom exist anywhere in the U.S., according to an April 14 article in the Advocate. Further, according to the same article, there are no reports of anyone pretending to be trans in order to assault someone in a gendered space like a bathroom or locker room. As such, any of these fears remain completely unfounded.

That said, even if this legislation aimed to solve a problem with any scrap of validity, it would not actually succeed. In many cases, trans women look like any other woman, so the impossibility of enforcing HB 2 further renders the law futile. Consequently, the law harms countless trans Americans by perpetuating a stigma of shame without accomplishing any of the good it purports to achieve.

Despite this assault on the rights of noncisgender Americans in North Carolina, hope remains. The backlash the state has witnessed in the past month shows that not everyone supports such transphobic lines of thinking.

Further, on Thursday, the executive director of Equality North Carolina, Chris Sgro, became a member of the state legislature. According to an April 16 article in the Advocate, McCrory had no choice in appointing Sgro for the recently vacated position of the late Rep. Ralph Johnson (D-Greensboro); the Guilford

County Democratic Party Executive Committee chose Sgro as Johnson’s successor, and a North Carolina state statute required McCrory to oblige.

Sgro has reportedly made repealing HB 2 a priority, and hopefully, he is not alone. The bill received strong opposition from many North Carolina Democrats before its ratification, and now, some who supported it have begun to reconsider. Democratic state legislators Larry Bell and Billy Richardson, for example, initially voted for the bill, but now they apologize and call for its repeal, according to an April 15 article in the Advocate.

Bell’s change came after a former student — someone he knew during his time as a school superintendent years ago — called to describe his struggle as a member of the LGBTQ community. Such a personal interaction affected Bell enough to completely alter his view of HB 2 because the student managed to remind him of something that too many people seem to forget: LGBTQ people are people too, first and foremost.

Supporters of the new law seek to paint HB 2 as a bastion of protection for fragile women, but with examination of actual facts and logic, it becomes clear for what it is: a completely unwarranted vilification of an already vulnerable population.

Reject misogynistic themes in popular music at this year’s Springfest

By AUDREY FEIN JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Recently, Brandeis’ Vagina Club put on its annual performance of “The Vagina Monologues,” an empowering play that shares the stories of different women’s experiences of womanhood through stories about their vaginas. The standout monologue “My Short Skirt,” performed by Gabriela Astaiza ’19 brought down the house with Astaiza’s proclamation that a short skirt is “not an invitation” and that a woman’s “short skirt” and “everything under it” is “mine, mine, mine.”

There seems to be a difference between our rhetoric and our reality as a student body.

Just one month later, T-Pain, whose music contains misogynistic themes, will come to Springfest, a free concert put on by Brandeis Student Events and WBRS every spring.

Many of T-Pain’s lyrics seem contradictory to the Brandeis community’s feminist beliefs. For example, in one of his most popular songs, “Booty Wurk (One Cheek At a Time),” he sings he can “see that thong” through a woman’s shorts and he is “trying to see them shorts spread apart” so that he can “get you out of this club” and “get you off in my bed.”

Brandeis, what happened to rejecting the notion that clothing is an invitation?

T-Pain further paints women as disposable playthings and sings about them as if they were possessions that could be bought in “Up Down (Do This All Day).”

He depicts a scene in which he wants two girls to kiss each other, even though one of them “don’t even like girls.” He goes on to mention his solution: “A stack will make her kiss her.” Using a stack of bills, T-Pain claims he can enjoy watching girls do things they do not want to do.

In “Buy You a Drank,” T-Pain boasts about

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his wealth and uses it as economic power over women. He sings that he wants to “buy you a drank” and goes on to attempt to impress a woman by saying “let’s talk money” so that he can “take you home with me” using his “money in the bank.” The message seems to be that T-Pain’s wealth leads directly to sex and that women can be bought. “When I whisper in your ear, your legs hit the chandelier,” he boasts, and goes on to sing, “Let’s get drunk, forget what we did.” If the sex were consensual, why would they want to forget it?

At a school where it is easy to spot a “Deis crushes the patriarchy” sticker anywhere, anytime, smeared onto a laptop, I struggle to wrap my mind around why we are bringing a misogynistic performer — someone who laments he has “200 bitches” but “ain’t none of them hot,” as T-Pain sings in “Bartender” — to the Brandeis campus.

That said, T-Pain has redeeming qualities. He has spoken out against homophobia directed toward Frank Ocean in the past, according to a Feb. 11, 2014 article in The Guardian. When the auto-tune is stripped away, his vocals are outstanding. T-Pain is an excellent performer. But none of those things diminishes or undoes the undertones of misogyny in his music.

T-Pain is part of a larger problem. According to a 2013 study from the Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications — republished in Student Pulse — at least half of all popular music in the past decade has medium to high levels of misogyny. As these things go, T-Pain is not that bad. Other popular performers, such as Lil Wayne and Eminem, have explicit references to violence and hatred toward women in their albums.

And this is certainly not a problem specific to rap music. In “Animals” by pop band Maroon 5, for example, lead singer Adam Levine

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sings, “Baby I’m preying on you tonight, hunt you down, eat you alive.”

In an interview with the Justice, Emma Curnin ’19, a Women, Gender and Sexuality studies major at Brandeis, offered a student perspective and said that when her peers listen to music, they are “listening to the beat but not really thinking about the words.”

Emma, I hear you. It is easy to write off concerns about misogyny in music because it is so prevalent in our culture, but it does not make sense to support artists who sing about something so contradictory to our community’s fundamental beliefs.

It is sad that demeaning women is such a popular theme in music today, and I am tired of my peers’, as well as my own, ambivalence toward the music we listen to. People are aware that what they listen to might be demeaning to women, but they often choose to ignore their beliefs because the songs sound good and are commonly played on the radio and at parties.

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There seems to be a difference between our rhetoric and our reality as a student body.

The rest of the lineup for Springfest features The Internet and Metro Boomin, two solid choices. Both artists sing about women in respectful ways, and they have complex lyrics and soundscapes that make them fascinating

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to listen to. However, both The Internet and Metro Boomin are lesser-known artists. Is it because they don’t sing about what’s in? I find it hard to understand why some of my peers who are so adamantly for women’s rights listen to music with misogynistic themes so much of the time.

It is not impossible to find a less misogynistic performer. Boston College brought Dillon Francis to its fall concert, Plexapalooza, last semester. While Dillon Francis sings about drinking and partying, he does not demean women. Børns is expected to perform at Tufts for its Spring Fling concert in May. Børns features a woman as their lead vocalist, and their songs are upbeat, positive tunes about love and desire.

Brandeis can do this, too — and without switching to a different music genre. If students want rap and hip-hop next year, some artists to consider inviting might include B.O.B., Nas or Lupe Fiasco, who sing praise about women or just do not sing about them at all.

On Lupe Fiasco’s album “Food and Liquor II,” he tackles his own struggle with misogyny in popular music with his song “Hurt Me Soul.” He raps that he “used to hate hiphop” because “women [are] degraded.” This is progress, but there are many artists who never come to such an important realization over the course of their careers.

I will go to Springfest because I appreciate all the hard work my fellow students put in to make a concert like this happen. Springfest is a time for us to relax before finals, and TPain’s performance is sure to be lighthearted and fun.

However, in the back of my mind, I will be thinking about all the girls and women we put down when we support people who reinforce misogynistic ideals in popular music.

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Support improved accessibility of scientific research

By Rachel gifeisman JUSTICE contributing WRITER

In May of 2015, Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) and House representatives Mike Doyle (D-PA), Kevin Yoder (R-KS) and Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) proposed the bipartisan Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act in Congress. Reported by committee in July of 2015, the goal of this legislation is to mandate public release of taxpayer-funded research. It would require that U.S. departments and agencies — which fund outside research through tax money — make results publicly available on the internet as soon as 12 months after they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. The FASTR bill promises to expand the public’s access to research, which would improve academic literacy and increase scientific engagement in nonacademic communities.

Currently there is a rift between scientific communities and the general populace due to what communities the works are published in and the jargon often used. Since scientific communities are most often tight knit and relatively small, work within the community is usually done less for the outside world and more for fellow scientists. Because the target audience consists of other scientists rather than anyone outside of the academic circle, the language used in scientific articles is much less accessible to the general public. This would make sense if this language was necessary to the understanding of the subject, but it is very rare that the material cannot be described in simpler terms.

Rather, this happens mostly due to a lack of incentive; since scientists mainly care about other scientists understanding their work, and since the layman’s comprehension is not necessarily their main concern, they do not prioritize publishing in accessible language. This creates a self-propagating cycle: Because scientists tend to write in a language only those in the field understand, many people outside of the community do not ever have the opportunity to get engaged in the first place, and so they become increasingly disconnected from science.

Science is a massive component of society, serving as the method through which humans can meaningfully understand and interact with the world. When large portions of the population are left outside the field, they cannot interact with their surroundings to their full potential. More so, early disenfranchisement can discourage youth from exploring scientific fields, which can lead to a less-educated population and can decrease the number of future scientists.

FASTR doesn’t solve these problems entirely.

Problems with heavy jargon and targeting will still exist, but the bill will be a step in the correct direction by starting to get rid of the structural issues that can block the general population from accessing scientific work in the first place. If the work is available for free on the internet, that means that anyone — from a fourth

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grader doing a science project to a college student working on a paper — can access the information. Taking this a step further, even if people do not completely understand what the papers say, increasing cost-efficient availability means that it is likely that other sources might have picked up the work and written commentary on it. The resulting increase in discourse surrounding works of science will widen the number of people who get to learn about the information.

The bill essentially creates a porous membrane through which information can pass — something it could not do as easily before. FASTR connects two isolated groups of individuals and gives them something to share. Aside from all of the benefits of engaging those previously not involved with science, this bridge between the two groups may make it more likely that corporations will invest in research, as they see more of the populace being drawn into it and understanding it more. A more public discussion about science and its importance in society means the chance to get more groups involved.

The main contention that often is brought up

against this bill has to do with the value of intellectual property and the effect this would have on patents. The current system operates in such a manner that the results accrued using government funding become the intellectual property of the scientist or group that had worked on it.

This sounds fine — until the realization hits you that patents just allow scientists and other producers to profit from knowledge that should be easily accessible for everyone. Before someone can use patented research to continue with their own project, they must prepare to pay money to the scientist who discovered the first building block.

No one can truly own intellectual property, and the lines between who has which patents is incredibly arbitrary. When it comes to scientific research, it is often the case that multiple scientists are working in the same field. Every research project becomes a matter of which scientist can publish and claim ownership of the results first. Though this is the current world in which we live, it is not the world that is ideal.

In a perfect world, research and scientific data would be shared not only with the public but

also with other scientists. Some may say that it is this push for ownership that drives scientists to work at discoveries, but it is unlikely that this would actually make a meaningful difference in terms of productivity, considering that scientists very rarely go into science for the fame and are more often motivated by a love of science and discovery.

On the other hand, if scientists are not constantly afraid of maintaining or gaining ownership of their research, they are much more likely to work with other scientists. This increases the productivity of science in general; people are more likely to get quicker and more analytical results when multiple people work together on projects.

Though this bill would not get rid of patents, it does help to make it more difficult for larger corporations and research conglomerates to make money off of the patents once they are mandated to release the findings. This is even more justified when you remember that they are funded by taxpayer money — and consequently, are a direct investment of the general populace.

Encourage more effective security measures in East Quad

By Kahlil Oppenheimer JUSTICE Contributing WRITER

The Department of Community Living locked the bathrooms in East Quad in 2014 after reports of unidentified persons peeping into showers. Now, students may only access the bathrooms in their own residence halls via their room keys, but this policy is a shoddy fix for a serious problem. It is ineffective and misrepresentative of the issue.

The policy is ineffective because it does not prevent the problem it tries to solve. On April 13, the area coordinator of East Quad, Ariel Hernandez, sent out a report of a peeping incident that had occurred earlier that week.

There were two more reports of peeping filed in March 2015, as well. All of these incidents happened after the door-lock policy went into effect. Clearly, the door-lock policy is not preventing peeping.

Instead, it has actually created new inconveniences. When I go to take a shower, I use one hand to hold my towel from falling and my other hand to hold my shower caddy. But to open the door, I have to use one hand to simultaneously unlock and open the door. It is a difficult maneuver that often requires multiple attempts.

It is also inconvenient that students who do not live in a building cannot use its bathrooms. If I walk from Hassenfeld to Pomerantz to visit a friend, I should not have to borrow a room key to use the bathroom.

I should not feel like an outsider in the residence quad in which I live — let alone the university I attend.

Inconvenience is tolerable in exchange for safety. But if safety is not even achieved, then the inconvenience feels more like a deadweight loss than a necessary sacrifice.

The door-lock policy is misrepresentative of the issue because it makes people think

that outsiders are the problem. DCL argues that East Quad requires this protection the most because it is closest to the outside community. Ignoring the fact that parts of other quads, like the Village, Ziv or Massell, are just as — if not more — exposed to the outside community than East, it feels strange to redirect blame to the outside community.

Maybe it feels strange because the discussion often devolves into classist remarks, such as alleging that the people responsible are probably “Waltham townies” or “sketchy people” trying to infiltrate our propped doors. Words like “townie” and “sketchy” are often used to describe poor people or places in a derogatory way. To use this rhetoric implies that the working-class people who live in Waltham pose more of a threat to us than we do to each other. Yet no one has ever presented any proof of this.

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We cannot simply dismiss the idea that the perpetrators of these egregious acts lie within our community.

Of course, the outside community has its own set of dangers. Waltham is a city, and living in a city has its own sets of challenges and dangers. For instance, there are over half a dozen reports of the infamous “South Street Flasher” flashing students on South Street.

But Brandeis is no safe haven.

Brandeis has, for example, had huge is-

sues with sexual misconduct, both in publicly known incidents and in those that were not publicly reported. Neither Brandeis nor the outside community is more or less dangerous than the other. Both have challenges and dangers worth understanding.

But one key takeaway from this is that the problem of peeping could very well lie within the University, not outside of it. I implore our community to be honest with each other and critical of ourselves. We cannot simply dismiss the idea that the perpetrators of these egregious acts lie within our community. And if the problem lies within our community, we cannot simply lock our doors and hope for it to go away.

But we can do something. In January 2012, there was a case of peeping in Gosman that was resolved within a month via the use of electronic card records and video camera recordings. The perpetrator was an unnamed Brandeis student, according to a Jan. 20, 2012 Brandeis Hoot article.

There are obvious privacy issues with any sort of camera recording in residence halls, but the idea of electronic card readers for the bathroom shows promise.

This would be much more convenient than physical key locks because it would avoid difficult one-handed-unlocking-while-opening maneuvers.

Electronic access would also be more secure because there would be an electronic record of bathroom accesses for Public Safety to use during investigations to catch perpetrators. Investigations could link the times and locations of reported peeping incidents with the times and locations of bathroom accesses to find out who might have been involved.

Just like with keys, there is a risk that lost ID cards could be used to access the bathrooms under the names of students. This risk, however, could be mitigated in two ways.

First, Brandeis could add an online link for

reporting ID cards as missing, allowing public safety to disable their access permissions immediately.

Another solution would be to use a pascodepadlock instead of an ID card swipe. Every Brandeis student would be assigned a unique passcode and would be told to not share their passcode with anyone.

Visiting guests could request a limited-use passcode that is linked to their host-student’s account, giving them bathroom access for a limited period of time, while maintaining accurate records for liability.

Both ID card swipes and passcode-padlocks would also deal with the issue of propped doors because the electronic systems could notify the Department of Public Safety or Community Advisors if doors are propped.

Whichever solution Brandeis chooses, I propose it be applied to all corridor-style quads on campus — not just East Quad. While the majority of incidents have been reported in East, there is no reason to believe that this could not happen in other quads, especially if East becomes more secure while other quads do not.

Unfortunately, an electronic access solution comes with a couple of tradeoffs.

It would be expensive to add electronic access to residence hall bathrooms, but if the University can justify the spending on electronic access to on-campus buildings, labs and other sensitive rooms, it can justify the spending for students’ residences.

It would also be a sacrifice of privacy for an electronic record to be kept of bathroom accesses. Students might feel weird knowing that there is a record of where and when they use the bathroom, but if this information is securely protected — only accessible by Public Safety during investigations related to serious offenses — then it is a tradeoff worth making. This small sacrifice of privacy is worth the protection of our community.

THE JUSTICE ● SPORTS ● TUESDAY, April 19, 2016

BASEBALL: Squad sparks offensive punch CONTINUED FROM 16 ning, the squad piled on two more runs in the fourth to keep Brandeis at bay. The Judges found some life in the top of the fifth, rallying to score four quick runs, but they nevertheless could not dig themselves out of the steep hole they found themselves in after their slow start.

Tufts senior shortstop Matt Moser led the way for the Jumbos, finishing the game with two doubles and two RBIs. Sophomore infielder Tommy O’Hara added two RBIs of his own for Tufts. Starting pitcher Sam Miller ’16 took the loss for the Judges, giving up five runs on a whopping nine hits, dropping his season mark to 2-4.

The loss dropped the Judges to 8-12-1 on the season, while the Jumbos’ victory brought the squad to 11-3 record.

Tufts 10, Judges 2 In their first game of weekend play, the Judges showed few signs

line in 11.69 seconds.

Women’s squad (12th place - 23 points) The Judges once again excelled during long-distance runs, earning top-10 finishes in two of the four races. Kelsey Whitaker ’16 took sixth in the 800-meter run in 2:19.78, just two seconds out of fifth place.

Emily Bryson ’19 earned a thirdplace finish in the 1500-meter race, crossing the finish line in 4:38.14 to earn eight points for the squad.

Her time was two seconds behind University of Vermont junior Amber Peirsol for the top spot in the race. Kyra Shreeve ’18 earned an 11th-place finish in 4:48.88, just over two seconds out of a top-10 finish,

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of life against the Tufts University Jumbos, suffering an embarrassing eight-run loss. The game was relatively uneventful until the bottom of the fifth inning, when Tufts generated three runs. The Jumbos followed up in the sixth with a whopping six runs, putting the game well out of reach for the Judges and sealing a win.

The Jumbos were led by Moser and O’Hara, who combined for five of Tufts’ ten runs. While their strong offensive output helped the squad cruise to victory, it was starting pitcher junior Tim Superko who stole the show. Superko gave up just four hits and two runs to 26 batters faced on the afternoon, notching his second victory of the regular season.

The loss dropped the Judges to 8-11-1 on the year, while Tufts’ victory brought the team to 10-3 in regular-season play.

The squad will return to action on Thursday when they host Daniel Webster College.

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while Maggie Hensel ’17 took 14th in 4:55.50.

Carter also grabbed a top-10 finish in the hammer throw, recording a long distance of 29.47 meters in the event, while Ashley Klein ’16 took a commendable seventh place in the javelin throw with a throw of 32.21 meters.

Maya Sands Bliss ’19 led the way for the squad in the 400-meter dash with a time of 1:05.30, while Ajia Salmon ’19 was a step behind with a time of 1:05.44.

Kanya Brown ’19 ran the 200-meter dash in 27.66 seconds, good for 21st out of 64 competitors.

The Judges will return to action with the University Athletic Association Championships this weekend, hosted by the Washington University in St. Louis.

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KICKING UP DIRT: Pitcher Sadie-Rose Apfel ’18 hurls the ball between the stitches in a decisive win against Colby College at home.

SOFTBALL: Pitching staff struggles against top team CONTINUED FROM 16 hit a single that netted her two runs batted in. In the game, Lehtonen went an impressive 4-for-4 with two runs scored. Sullivan was the only other Judge with a multi-hit game, going 2-for-2 with two RBIs.

Babson 9, Judges 1 The visiting team controlled the game throughout the entire day.

Babson started the game by connecting on three singles to take an early one-run lead. The team struck again in the third inning when it scored five runs off of Soleimani and Apfel.

The Judges’ offense was mediocre on the day, collecting only six total

hits in the loss. Their one run came off Sullivan’s bat.

The team’s best chance to get back in the game came in the fifth inning.

With one out and the bases loaded, Lehtonen and Gagnon both hit into fielder choices to end the inning.

Babson added two insurance runs in the top of the sixth inning to put the game out of reach.

Lehtonen has been the major contributor for the season as a whole.

She has a batting average of .455 to go along with 15 RBIs. Moss is also a consistent performer, with a batting average of .438. Sullivan is the team leader in RBIs, with 23 in the regular season already.

The squad will play a double-

header today at home against Smith College, before a road doubleheader against Bowdoin College on Saturday as well as a home doubleheader versus Bates College.

The Judges handily beat Bates last season and split their season series against Bowdoin in a doubleheader.

The Judges will look to increase their win total and salvage their losing record before going into the break. The Judges are third in conference standings with a 6-4 record but sit at 12-13 overall and will need to replicate their previous wins against Bates to push them over the top.

The squad has lost four of their last five games and will look to break that streak in their upcoming games.

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jUDGES BY THE NUMBERS baseball TEAM STATS

UAA STANDINGS

Runs Batted In

Not including Monday’s games.

UAA Conference

W L WashU 6 2 Emory 5 3 Case 5 3 Rochester 4 4 JUDGES 2 6 NYU 2 6 Chicago 0 0

W 22 27 22 12 12 12 11

Overall L Pct. 13 .629 9 .750 12 .647 12 .500 15 .429 16 .429 10 .524

UPCOMING GAMES: Today at Worcester St. Tomorrow vs. Eastern Conn.

Thursday vs. Roger Williams

Greg Heineman ’16 leads the team with 21 RBIs. Player RBI Greg Heineman 21 Connor Doyle 21 Ryan Healy 14 Benjamin Bavly 13

Strikeouts Sam Miller ’16 leads all pitchers with 33 strikeouts.

Player Ks Sam Miller 33 Ryan Pocock 21 Bradley Bousque 18 Liam Coughlin 17

SOFTBALL UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS

Not including Monday’s games.

Runs Batted In

UAA Conference

W L W Emory 10 0 36 WashU 6 4 32 JUDGES 6 4 12 NYU 4 6 10 Case 2 8 17 Rochester 2 8 15 Chicago 0 0 16

Madison Sullivan ’16 leads the squad with 23 RBIs. Player RBI Madison Sullivan 23 Madison Hunter 15 Keri Lehtonen 15 Marissa DeLaurentis 9

Overall L Pct. 4 .900 8 .800 13 .480 12 .455 19 .472 17 .479 5 .762

Strikeouts Sadie-Rose Apfel ’18 leads all pitchers with 36 strikeouts.

Player Ks Sadie-Rose Apfel 36 Melissa Soleimani 30 Sarah Petrides 5

UPCOMING GAMES: Today vs. Smith (DH) Saturday at Bowdoin (DH) Sunday vs. Bates (DH) *DH= Double Header

track & Field Results from the Silfen Invitational at Connecticut College.

TOP PERFORMERS (Men’s)

TOP PERFORMERS (Women’s)

1500-Meter Run

1500-Meter Run

RUNNER TIME Mitchell Hutton 4:01.87 Quinton Hoey 4:02.59 Grady Ward 4:05.57

RUNNER TIME Emily Bryson 4:38.14 Kyra Shreeve 4:48.88 Maggie Hensel 4:55.50

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BASELINE RUNNER: Brian Granoff ’17 crushes the ball as he sprints across the baseline against Bowdoin College on April 15.

Squads combine for two wins over tough week ■ Sophia He ’19 defeated her opponent 6-2, 6-0 to help the Judges to a smooth sweep over Bentley.

By ELAN KANE

UPCOMING MEETS:

Justice STAFF WRITER

Saturday vs. UAA Championships at WashU Sunday at UAA at WashU May 1 at Brown Springtime Invitational

TENNIS Updated season results.

TOP PERFORMERS (Men’s)

TOP PERFORMERS (Women’s)

MEN’S SINGLES Brian Granoff

RECORD 13-4

WOMEN’S SINGLES Keren Khromchenko

RECORD 10-6

MEN’S DOUBLES Arguello/Cherkin

RECORD 7-5

WOMEN’S DOUBLES Aaron/He

RECORD 7-2

UPCOMING MEETS: Thursday at UAA Tournament Friday at UAA Tournament Saturday at UAA Tournament

The men and women’s tennis teams endured mixed results last week. The women’s squad went 2-1 while the men’s squad went 0-3. The women’s team defeated Trinity College 7-2 on Sunday but lost to Tufts University 9-0 on Saturday. The team also beat Bentley University 9-0 last Thursday. The men’s team lost to Trinity 6-3 on Sunday, Bowdoin College 7-2 on Friday and 5-4 to Tufts on Wednesday. Both teams now stand at a record of 8-7.

Women’s Squad The women’s team won two of three doubles matches against Trinity. The duo of Haley Cohen ’18 and Olivia Leavitt ’19 lost in the first match 9-8, but the pair of Charlotte Aaron ’18 and Sophia He ’19 won their match 8-2. Emily Eska ’16 and Maya Vasser ’16 won the final match 8-1.

In singles play, Leavitt won the No. 2 match 6-4, 6-0, while Keren

Khromchenko ’19 won match No. 3 6-1, 6-0. Eska won her match 6-0, 6-1, and Michele Lehat ’19 won the last match 6-0, 6-0.

The Judges did not fare as well against No. 15 Tufts. In doubles, Leavitt and Cohen lost 8-4 in their match and Aaron and He lost 8-5 in their match. In singles play, Cohen lost the first match 6-2, 7-6 (7-5) and Leavitt lost the second match 6-3, 6-2. Brandeis shut out Bentley last Thursday. The Judges lost only four games across the three doubles matches, Leavitt and Cohen won their match 8-1, Sophia He ’19 and Aaron won the second match 8-2, and Biswas and Hannah Marion ’16 won the third match 8-1.

The Judges also played well in singles play. Cohen won the first match 6-3, 6-4 and Khromchenko won the second match 6-4, 6-3. He and Eska both won their matches, 6-2, 6-0 and 7-5, 6-2, respectively. Lehat won the fifth match 6-1, 6-2 and Aaron won the final match 6-4, 7-5.

Men’s Squad On Sunday, the men’s team lost to Trinity and did not win a game in double play during the match.

The duo of Michael Arguello ’17 and Jeff Cherkin ’17 lost the first match 8-5. Jackson Kogan ’19 and Danny

Lubarsky ’16 lost their doubles match 8-5 and Brian Granoff and ’17 Eric Goldberg ’18 lost the third match 8-6.

In singles play, Ryan Bunis ’17 lost the first match 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 and Granoff lost the second match 2-6, 6-2, 6-1. Arguello notched a victory for the Judges in the third match 7-6 (7-3), 6-3 and Tyler Ng ’19 won the fourth match 6-4, 6-4. Lubarsky won the fifth match 6-2, 6-2, but Kogan dropped the sixth match 6-4, 2-6, 6-3.

The team also lost to No. 2 ranked Bowdoin. Arguello and Cherkin lost the first doubles match 8-2, but Lubarsky and Kogan won the second match 9-7. Arguello notched the only singles victory for Brandeis 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 12-10. Brandeis also fell to No. 17 ranked Tufts. The pair of Arguello and Cherkin won the first doubles match 8-2, and the duo of Lubarsky and Kogan won the second match 8-5.

In singles play, Bunis won his match on the No. 1 court 6-4, 6-4, and Granoff won on the No. 2 court 7-5, 7-5. Arguello lost the third match 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, Ng lost the fourth match 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) and Lubarsky lost the fifth match 7-5, 5-7, 6-3.

The men and women’s teams begin the UAA tournament on Thursday in Florida.

pro sports BRIEF Golden State Warriors ascend to greatness in best statistical regular season in league history The Golden State Warriors are off the charts — literally. In the 2015 to 2016 season, the reigning NBA champions became the first team to win 24 straight games to begin the season, the first team to never lose two games in a row and the first team to never lose to the same team twice. They set new records with their 54-straight home wins and 34 total away victories.

Their star point guard, Stephen Curry, shattered the league record for 3-point field goals — a record he set last year when he scored 286 field goals, — with the 402 he successfully scored this season; in fact, this is the third time that Curry has broken the 3-point field goal record. His teammate, shooting guard Klay Thompson, had the secondmost 3-point field goals in the league, with 276 on the season, just ten short of Curry’s old record.

However, what really set the Warriors above the rest of the pack was their regular season record of 73-9.

While losing only nine games over the course of over six months with only short breaks between each game is impressive enough, it is the first number that stands out. That 73 is the most wins by a franchise in a single season, and it broke the long-time record for the best overall season record.

The 1995 to 1996 Chicago Bulls, considered to be one of, if not the best — team in basketball history — had a 7210 record on the season and went on to win the NBA championship that year.

That team included basketball legend Michael Jordan, stars Dennis Rodman and Scottie Pippen and, interestingly enough, current Warriors coach Steve Kerr. Kerr himself told Sports Illustrated in an April 14 article that he

always saw 73 victories like breaking Joe DiMaggio’s hitting record in baseball: impossible to break.

Despite what Kerr had to say, the Warriors won their 73rd regular season game on April 13, before a packed Oracle Arena in Oakland. Their opponents, the Memphis Grizzlies, are not a bad team. They had a respectable 42-40 regular-season run to land smack in the middle of the conference and play a physical form of basketball. However, the Warriors thoroughly romped the Grizzlies.

At no point did the Warriors lose their lead, and for most of the first quarter, Curry alone had scored more points than the entire Grizzlies team combined. By the end of the first quarter, it was clear that the Warriors were going to blow the Grizzlies out of the water. The only questions were what

the final margin of victory would be and if Curry would hit 400 3-point field goals in the game.

The Warriors trounced the Grizzlies 125-104, answering the first question resoundingly. To the latter, Curry did reach 400 and then some. Going into the game, Curry had 392 3-pointers on the season, over one hundred more than his season-shattering 286 from last year. He hit 10 in the game, six of them in the first quarter alone.

The 400th came less than a minute into the third quarter, when Curry hit an easy shot from the line, and the next two quickly followed. Despite sitting out all of the fourth quarter, Curry still managed to score 46 points, more than a third of all Warriors’ points for the historic evening.

In the first round of the playoffs, the Warriors are facing off against the

Houston Rockets. So far, they have won their first game with a resounding 104-78 victory, and the team is expected to easily finish off Houston in this round.

Overall, statistics website FiveThirtyEight gives the Warriors a 44 percent chance to win the NBA title; the second-most likely team, in the San Antonio Spurs, has only a 1-in-four chance, while the most likely Eastern Conference team, the Cleveland Cavaliers, have a less than one-in-ten shot.

Warriors fans should not be too worried; as long as Curry, Thompson and defensive powerhouse power forward Draymond Green stay healthy and play half as well as they did in the regular season, the Warriors have a good chance to win it all.

— Catherine Rosch

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BUMPY SURFACE The men’s tennis squad had a tough outing, while the women’s team held their own over the long weekend, p. 15.

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SOFTBALL

SLIDE-STEP

Women split games in lopsided weekend contests ■ Infielder Madison Sullivan

’16 knocked in her sixth home run of the year in a crushing defeat of Colby.

By NOAH HESSDORF JUSTICE EDITOR

The softball team played three home games this week, two against Colby College on Sunday and one against Babson College on Monday.

The team split the two contests, winning 8-0 in the first and falling 7-1 in the second. The Judges also lost to Babson 9-1.

Colby 7, Judges 1 In the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader, the squad let the contest get away early, allowing Colby to score five runs in the opening two innings. Pitcher Melissa Soleimani ’17 allowed the runs while taking the loss for the home team. The defeat dropped her record on the season to 6-9. Colby added two more runs later on in the game off of pitcher Sarah Petrides ’19.

The Judges struggled on the offensive end during the contest with only one player, outfielder Leah Shapiro ’17, collecting multiple base hits. The squad’s lone run of the game came in the third inning in

the form of a sacrifice fly by second baseman Madison Gagnon ’16.

Judges 8, Colby 0 While the team struggled in the second game, they dominated both sides of the ball in the opening contest of the doubleheader. Pitcher Sadie-Rose Apfel ’18 led the way, only allowing three hits throughout the entire game. That was a collegiatebest for Apfel, who improved her record to 4-3. She improved her mark of career complete games to five and shutouts to two. Apfel also struck out four batters while not allowing a single walk.

The Judges were able to complement Apfel’s dominant pitching performance with an impressive offensive attack. Catcher Danielle Novotny ’16 put the team ahead for good with a first-inning double that plated a runner. In the third, infielder Liana Moss ’17 connected on her own double to add a run for the home team. Gagnon added two more runs in the fourth inning with another two-bagger.

A couple of batters later, infielder Madison Sullivan ’16 launched her sixth home run of the season. It was also Sullivan’s 17th of her Brandeis career, which put her in sixth place in program history. The Judges got two more runs across the board when utility player Keri Lehtonen

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FOLLOWING THROUGH: Pitcher Liam O’Connor ’16 slings a bullet down the plate against New York University this past weekend.

Judges win four in a row to break slump ■ Infielder Luke Zecolla

The Brandeis men’s baseball team had a rough go of it this past weekend, dropping all four of its games against Tufts University and Bowdoin College. The squad has struggled to win games all season, and this weekend proved no different. The Judges fell in their two doubleheaders, resulting in a 0-4 performance, with one game against Eastern Connecticut State University being postponed until later notice.

Judges gave up three runs to Bowdoin in the bottom of the second, followed by a four-run third inning that blew the game wide open. Bowdoin, led by junior shortstop Sean Mullaney and junior third baseman Evan Dumont-LaPointe, never looked back, tacking on three more runs in the sixth that put the game far out of reach for the Judges.

Mullaney and Dumont-LaPointe led the Polar Bears’ balanced offensive attack, combining for six of Bowdoin’s 10 RBIs. The Judges were led by catcher Connor Doyle ’16, who finished the game with three RBIs. Despite Doyle’s best efforts, the Judges were unable to muster up enough runs to keep the Bowdoin offense at bay.

The loss drops the Judges to 8-141, while the victory brings Bowdoin to 12-7 on the season.

Bowdoin 10, Judges 5 Despite jumping out to a big lead early on, the Judges were unable to hold off Bowdoin in their second game of a doubleheader on Sunday afternoon. After scoring a quick four runs in the first inning, the

Bowdoin 2, Judges 1 In their first game of Sunday play, the Judges fell in a close matchup to the Polar Bears. In what turned into a pitchers’ duel, the Judges were unable to hold onto a late one run lead, giving up the go-ahead run in the

’18 went three-for-three with three RBIs in a decisive win over NYU.

By GABRIEL GOLDSTEIN Justice staff writeR

bottom of the sixth inning.

Despite only giving up two hits and one earned run, starting pitcher Liam Coughlin ’17 took the loss for the Judges. In his loss, Coughlin threw a complete-game two-hitter, but the Judges failed to give him the run support he needed to capitalize on his strong outing on the mound.

Bowdoin sophomore Richard Arms carried the Polar Bears through five innings, giving up just one run on five total hits. Sophomore Kyle Stanley ended up notching the victory for the Polar Bears, pitching two shutout innings to solidify the squad’s victory over Brandeis.

The loss dropped the Judges to 8-13-1 on the season, while the victory brought the Polar Bears to 11-7 in regular season play.

Tufts 5, Judges 4 In their second game of a Saturday doubleheader against Tufts University, the Judges’ late rally fell short, resulting in bitter defeat at the hands of the Jumbos. After Tufts jumped out to a quick threerun lead in the bottom of the first in-

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Teams earn three top-three finishes ■ Emily Bryson ’19

slipped into third place with a 4:38.14 finish in the 1500-meter dash.

By AVI GOLD JUSTICE EDITOR

The men and women’s track and field teams traveled to Connecticut College to square off against regional opponents at the Silfen Invitational on Saturday. They ran to commendable ninth and 12th places, respectively. The men scored 37.5 points on the afternoon, while the women got 23 points.

Men’s Squad (9th place — 37.5 points) Evan Scott ’16 continued his strong season for the Judges by winning his fourth-straight high jump event. Scott jumped to a 1.99-meter height, a shade lower than his 2.01-meter jump from the Amherst Spring Fling on April 9. Scott barely edged out Tufts University sophomore Stefan Duvivier, who finished second in the event with a 1.98-meter jump. Mark Franklin ’17 took a sixth-place tie with a jump of 1.83 meters, netting 2.5 points for the squad.

Adam Berger ’16 grabbed a thirdplace finish in the long jump to grab six points for the Judges, jumping to a distance of 6.50 meters, just three-hundredths of a meter behind Eastern Connecticut State College

senior Christopher Brown.

Berger also earned a fourth-place finish in the triple jump with a distance of 12.92 meters, four hundredths of a meter out of third place.

Kevin Trotman ’16 earned a pair of top-10 finishes for the team — grabbing fifth place in the shot put and sixth in the discus throw. Trotman threw to a distance of 13.50 meters in the shot put — just under a tenth of a meter out of fourth place — and recorded a distance of 39.59 meters in the discus throw. Scott Grote ’19 earned 10th place in the discus throw with a solid total distance of 38.21 meters.

Trevor Tuplin ’16 ran to a solid eighth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:00.54, less than two seconds out of a top-five finish in the race.

Mitchell Hutton ’18 was the first of 10 Judges to cross the line in the 1500-meter run, turning in a time of 4:01.87, good for a 12th-place finish.

His time was three seconds off the fifth-place finisher and just over a second ahead of Quinton Hoey ’17. Hoey stopped the timer at the 4:02.59 mark. Grady Ward ’16 also ran a strong race for the Judges with a mediocre 17th-place finish, stopping the clock at 4:05.57.

Charie Regan ’17 and Adam Berger ’16 ran to solid times in the 100-meter dash, earning ninth and 19th in the race, respectively. Regan stopped the timer at the 11.22-second mark, while Berger crossed the

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comedy

Dancers exhibit talent in spring show

PHOTOS BY DAISY CHEN/the Justice

DANCING HOME: The Adagio Dance Ensemble expresses genuine emotion in their lyrical piece “Home,” choreographed

by Melina Gross ’19.

By Sabrina sung justice editor

So, why doesn’t Brandeis have a football team? There’s probably a proper answer for that, but hey, who needs a varsity football team when you have the Adagio Dance Company? Last Thursday evening, the University’s largest student-run dance group hosted their spring show, “Undefeated,” in Levin Ballroom. The audience was restless and eager before the performance even began, and we weren’t left lacking for excitement. After all, as emcees Ray Trott ’16 and Dan Rozel ’16 reminded us throughout the night, “If dance were any easier, it would be called football!”

“Undefeated” showcased 21 performances, each distinct in music and meaning. The Adagio performers boasted a wide number of dance styles, ranging from modern and lyrical to jazz, ballet and hip-hop. In true Adagio fashion, the show featured dancers and choreographers of all levels of experience, with a smaller, audition-based Dance Ensemble that performed three pieces in the night.

The Adagio Dance Ensemble opened the night with “Asht” by Julie Joseph ’18 — misprinted in the program as “Nebulo” — set to the song “Asht” by Nebulo.

The song featured a heavy beat of percussion, allowing for the dancers to, as Joseph writes in the program, explore “the synchronicity of movement.”

Although the lighting arrangement for the evening was kept simple — colored Fresnels washing the stage and blank backdrop — the piece “Tracks of Never-Ending Light,” choreographed by Shayna Rubenstein ’16, fittingly incorporated the lighting into its production. The piece opened to slow guitar with vivid blue light that cast the dancers in shadow. Dressed in all black attire, the dancers were as bold as the silhouettes thrown onto the screen behind them, and as the guitar progressed, the lighting changed as well, shifting from dark violet to pale blue to orange and then back.

“Turning Back Time,” choreographed by Akshiti Todi ’19, opened with a musical scratch that cut through the cheers of the crowd.

The lights flashed on, stark white, to reveal nine performers sporting red tops, snapbacks and attitude as bold as their dynamic display.

As the name suggests, the hip-hop performance was a journey back through the last decade, featuring the songs “Sorry” by Justin Bieber, “Yoncé” by Beyoncé and “The Way I Are” by Timbaland ft. Keri Hilson.

Each rewind was punctuated by another scratch and the dancers’ reflective shift in musicality.

Costumes became props in this performance, with plaid shirts slung around waists emphasizing the cocked hips and hats casually discarded in favor of rhythmical throws of the head.

Amanda Ehrman ’18

choreographed three pieces for the show, each stylistically and atmospherically distinct from one another: “Unsung Hero,” a tribute to the late David Bowie set to his famous rock song “Heroes”; “Your Table’s Waiting,” a showy, theatrical piece set to “Don’t Tell Mama” by the 1998 Revival Cast of Cabaret; and “A Force of Nature,” set to the song “Anonanimal” by Andrew Bird, which featured a blend of ballet and modern dance.

As “A Force of Nature” opened to the high keen of violins, two dancers rose onto en pointe. Soon after, a guitar slipped beneath the melody, and three more dancers came alive.

This particular performance was one of delightful contradictions.

With graceful footwork and forceful currents of motion from the waist up, the dancers moved with an elegance that could never be labeled frail. At times the dancers moved purposefully off balance and, through that, displayed their impressive control. Through a paradoxical performance, these dancers managed to convey an often overlooked truth: dance is anything but delicate — least of all ballet.

In the program, Ehrmann states how pointe dancers overcome the pain and rise onto the top of their toes “proves [their] strength and commitment.” Anyone who has watched “A Force of Nature” will be compelled to agree.

“Home,” choreographed by Melina Gross ’19, was set to the melodious “North” by Sleeping at Last and performed by the Dance Ensemble. Throughout the piece, the dancers demonstrated great skill, swaying with the piano to conjure an expression of wistful longing.

However, the true highlights of the piece were the moments where there was no movement at all.

Through her piece, Gross demonstrated how a lack of movement can be more powerful than an excess of it, as at times the dancers would still into a tableau. In counterpoint, a lone dancer would then sweep across the stage, and as if it were a wind, her motion stirred the others to life. “Home” was also performed at Culture X on Sunday.

Before the final piece of the night, Adagio brought out their Senior Slideshow, a presentation in honor of graduating members of Adagio.

Each slide featured a snapshot from the graduating dancer’s childhood, many of which displayed a love of dance since youth.

The Dance Ensemble closed the night with “Pressure,” set to the song of the same name by The 1975.

The choreographer, Rachel Moore ’19, states in the program that her performance was something enjoyable to wrap everything up: a message to the audience, thank you for being here” and a message to the Dance Ensemble, “thank you for your commitment to this dance.”

—Editor’s note: Lizzie Grossman ’18 and Rebecca Lantner ’16 are Justice editors. Brooke Granovsky ’18 and Rachel Moore ’19 are staff writers.

TURNING TRIO: Maura Koehler ’19, Deesha Patel ’16 and Melina Gross ’19 (left to right) perform a modern trio entitled “Howl,” choreographed by Patel.

STREET SWAG: Saren McAllister ’18 (left), Tifara Ramelson ’16 (back), Akshiti Todi ’19 (front) and Arnold Barbeiro ’16 (right) show off their skills in the hip-hop number “Turning Back Time,” choreographed by Todi.

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Students act using only movements

By Audrey fein

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Every shoe has a story.

“Shoes On, Shoes Off,” written and choreographed by Prof.

Susan Dibble (THA) this year, is a collection of sixteen dance scenes centered around shoes. It is set in a shoe store loosely based on Michaelson’s Shoes in Lexington, Massachusetts. The performance was presented by the Department of Theatre Arts and was held in the Mainstage Theater of Spingold Theater Center.

The set, designed by Jeff Adelberg, was creative but did not distract from the overall message of the performance. Shelves of shoe boxes lined the back wall. The arrangement of the boxes changed over the course of the play based on the action. When performers’ shoes were off, they were placed on top of the boxes in the back.

Each musical piece portrays a different narrative about people and their relationship with shoes. Shoes are used as a symbol of freedom as well as of order. The show opens with “Shoe Graveyard,” where dozens of pairs of shoes are lying on the floor as the storeowners stroll through, one carrying a tree branch.

The scene is calm and mysterious.

In the next number, “Second Hand Shoe Store,” all the actors enter the stage and claim their shoes. Each character — individualized by their dress and actions — picks out their perfect pair of shoes in a moving transition before the storeowners close up shop for the day.

In the next piece, “Traveling Walking Shoes,” A Free Spirit, played by Sarai Warsoff ’16, dances across the stage barefoot to the song “Statue of Liberty” (2001) by Laurie Anderson. The song is somber and mystic. The movement is natural and free, adding to the character’s blissful nature.

Constants throughout the show were the owners of the shoe store, Second Hand Shoe Partner (Andrew Child ‘19) and Shoe Store Owner (Alex Jacobs). The two men open the performance and reappear in

amicable ways throughout, such as helping others pick out shoes, and organizing the store. For them, shoes represent order and respect.

Another standout piece was “Village Deli Time” set to the song “Fingers to the Bone” (2011) by Brown Bird. The piece featured the entire cast with white paper bags over their hands. The song was upbeat, and the jumping dance moves focused on the sense of community felt between the different characters.

The most interesting part of “Shoes On, Shoes Off” is the fact that the performance has no dialogue in it but still tells a story. The entire narrative is shown through body movement, costumes and the way the characters interact with one another. Despite the absence of dialogue, the characters each had distinct qualities.

The costumes, designed by Jess Huang, reflect each character’s personality. A Free Spirit wears loose clothes in neutral colors, while Fun Woman To Be Around (Sam Laney ’16) wears bold colors and fabrics as well as sparkling lime-green shoes.

The actors took on the dance numbers with grace. Some of the performers were Brandeis students, while others were professional dancers and actors. The onstage chemistry was palpable. The dance movements were used to show character development and emotion. Although the show was danced, it was not about dancing.

The enthusiasm from the actors during the performance made it lively and captivating.

In an article published in Brandeis NOW, Dibble says that she likes to “take something ordinary and make it extraordinary.” She certainly did this. “Shoes On, Shoes Off” is a unique and interconnected world of people, their lives and their shoes.

Every shoe has a story, just as every person does. In Dibble’s “Shoes On, Shoes Off” she uses the symbol of shoes to tell stories about the things in our life that both give us structure and let us fall apart.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MIKE LOVETT

FANCY PRANCING: Actors happily dance around with each other in a shoe store.

CREATIVE COSTUMES: The costumes, designed

by Jess Huang, were accurate representations of each character’s persona.

POWERFUL LIFT: There was not a single word spoken in “Shoes On, Shoes Off.” The entire story was told through dancing and movements.

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Bartering

Pearlmutter organizes barter station

By EMILY WISHINGRAD justice editor

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CERAMIC SPEECH: JJ PEET, an artist in residence at Brandeis, describes his process of creating ceramic PROXY_Cups, which he would barter.

“We are going to see the universe,” artist JJ PEET explained to the Justice on Friday night after he had successfully found a team of students with whom to complete his newest project “FIELD_WORK.” Standing under the bright lights of Chris Burden’s “Light of Reason” just before sunset, PEET (as he prefers to stylize his name) had just completed one of his “BARTER_ STATIONS” on the Brandeis campus. Usually, these stations are forums where PEET makes deals with individual customers for pieces of art. The catch is that no currency trades hands. Instead, patrons trade a service or a handmade gift (pretty much anything you can think of: a cooked dinner, a cello lesson, an original song) in exchange for one of his “PROXY_Cups.” Friday night, however, PEET had a specific trade in mind: one of his vessels, as he terms them, in exchange for assistance with a project that will be displayed at Rosebud, the Rose Art Museum’s satellite gallery.

With his shoulder-length hair and dark grey beard, dressed in a long black robe and balancing a parasol on his shoulder, PEET was a sight to behold. As he took students aside one at a time, he spoke to them about the amount of time they were willing to commit to the project and what skills they possessed that would be of use to him and showed them one of his “PROXY_Cups,” their eventual payment for participating. PEET was the highlighted artist for the Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts (April 15 through 17) and was named the Ruth Ann and Nathan Perlmutter Artist in Residence on April 5.

According to advertisements placed around campus, PEET was looking for a builder, an “Electronics wiz,” a “Historical Accuracy/Archivist,” a “Master of Diversions,” a “Scrounger,” a “Time collector_Master” and a

“Time collector_Jr.” About a dozen students, faculty and administrators gathered at the “Light of Reason” around 6 p.m., awaiting the arrival of PEET and chatting about what was about to unfold. About 30 minutes later than scheduled, PEET strolled up Loop Road from the Faculty Club, where he is staying during his residency, and set up his station at one of the ends of the rows of lamps. Holding up a cardboard sign with a number “1” on it, PEET motioned for the first person to approach his station.

After a short pause of confusion, Elena Babineau ’16, a Neuroscience and Psychology major, approached him. Others followed — each prospective participant would engage in a conversation with PEET, which would end in either an agreement to participate or in a parting of ways.

There seemed to be two types of bartering going on at the “BARTER_STATION.” The first was the exchange of a service and time commitment for one of PEET’s “PROXY_Cups,” but the second was the negotiation of the time that students were willing to commit to the project. PEET planned to work on the project from 7 to 9 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but students could negotiate the number of hours that they were able to commit. If the two parties could not settle on such an agreement, no barter would take place.

No line formed. Instead, people went up in a randomized order when there was an opening at the station. But that was not PEET’s original intention — it seems that lines usually form at his “BARTER_ STATIONS.” PEET commented that this less structured system seemed to be an especially “civilized” way of doing things. When there was a lull in the flow of people approaching the barter station, PEET would grab his parasol and move about the crowd, imploring people to make a deal with him. It was clear he would not stop until he had formed, to his mind, an adequate group of

participants.

About 45 minutes after the bartering began, PEET had found his “faction,” as he termed it. Five people had made a bargain with him: Eleanor Fruchter ’16, Elena Babineau ’16, Shane Levi ’14, Jack Holloman ’16 and Mihir Khanna ’18. Mohammad Jafri ’19 and Caitlin Rubin, curatorial assistant for the Rose Art Museum, joined the project later on.

As of Friday, the project was not fully formulated. It appears that it will include a video aspect, but PEET seems certain that the project will “see the universe.” He told the Justice that he believes that the group may even find the universe on this campus. He also said that the group will use what he calls “time collectors” in order to realize the project. Time collectors, PEET told the Justice, include cameras and written accounts.

As part of PEET’s residency, there are “takeovers” of screens around campus displaying PEET’s artwork. The desktop computers on the first floor of the library, for instance, now portray PEET’s pottery when they go into screensaver mode. Monitors in the Shapiro Campus Center atrium and the Heller School for Policy and Social Management are also part of the takeovers.

“FIELD_WORK” will be on view from May 9 through June 4. Rosebud currently has one of PEET’s works — “PSYCH_Up Animation” (2006) — on view, which opened on April 7, will be on view through early May, according to the Rose’s website.

—Editor’s note: Mihir Khanna ’18, a Justice editor, was one of the students who participated in the barter with JJ PEET. The images on this page were taken by him before he had any involvement in the piece. Khanna played no role in the selection of the images for this page, the writing of the article or the editing of this page.

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TRADING PLAN: PEET talks with Caitlin Rubin, curatorial assistant for the Rose, listing out various roles he was looking to fulfill through participants.

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Comedy MENU INDECISION: Jimmy the Waiter (Mira Garin ’19) suggests specials from the menu to a restaurant-goer (Raphael Stigliano ’18).

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Troupe delivers humorous sketches By lizzie grossman justice editor

Zephry Wright ’17 enters the stage dressed up as a bucket of oatmeal. As comical and out-ofthe-ordinary as this sounds, it is a typical opening of a Boris’ Kitchen show. This past Friday and Saturday, Boris’ Kitchen, Brandeis’ sketch comedy troupe, put on their final show of the year, entitled “Boris’ Kitchen Presents: The Greatest Story Ever Mold.”

The show was co-directed by Yaznil Baez ’16 and Jason Kasman ’16, assistant directed by Sarah Duffett ’17 and produced by Wright. For a change from their usual shows, they featured a live band on the stage with their performers.

The “story” consisted of 20 sketches, all of which were written

by Brandeis students. The first sketch was entitled “Town Hall” and featured most of the members

of the troupe, many of whom were scattered throughout the audience.

The sketch portrayed an election for town hall president, with Duffett playing a responsible and qualified candidate and Ben Astrachan ’19 playing Sparky the Clown, who is running against Duffett.

Several of the troupe members in the audience asked questions to the two candidates. Whenever Duffett tried to answer a question legitimately, Raphael Stigliano ’18, who was portraying Anderson Cooper, cut her off with a buzzer after a few seconds and proceeded to say that it was Sparky’s turn to speak. Sparky gave humorous answers and Stigliano never cut him off. That caused the audience to go wild.

There were two sketches that were particularly popular among the crowd. The first featured Duffett and Ayelet Schrek ’17 portraying a couple going out to dinner for their

anniversary. Schrek’s character, Craig, was a little indecisive about what to order, so he asked the waiter (Mira Garin ’19) for a suggestion.

The waiter, Jimmy, suggested “the chunk,” which he described as a chunk of meat covered in blood that was to be eaten without utensils.

Craig was hesitant, but Mark, Duffett’s character, convinced Craig that if he asked the waiter for a suggestion, he must order it.

Craig ended up ordering the chunk, and the rest of the scene revolved around him pretending he had been eating the chunk while Jimmy was not looking.

When Jimmy returned and exclaimed that Craig must be a very slow eater, Craig burst into tears and exclaimed he is a vegetarian and all that he wanted was a garden salad. Jimmy then burst into tears over the fact that he thought no one liked him as a waiter. Garin’s portrayal of the sensitive waiter

was very humorous and enjoyable, while Duffett and Schrek did a great job playing the hilarious couple.

Another sketch was somewhat of a follow-up to the restaurant sketch. It started almost exactly the same way, this time with Wright and Stigliano portraying a couple going out to dinner, with Garin again portraying a waiter. All of the dialogue was nearly identical to the other sketch, including Garin’s remarks as a waiter. However, Dan Hirschfield ’16, a special guest from the TBA improv troupe, entered the back of the theater portraying Abraham Lincoln. A few times throughout the sketch, we heard Lincoln being shot by a gun and screaming in pain. The waiter continuously told Lincoln to be quiet so we can “finish the sketch.”

This plot created a hilarious contrast to a sketch that the audience at first perceived as being very similar to the other

one. There was also additional humor added to the plot in the restaurant — for example, when Wright and Stigliano received their sandwiches from the waiter, they took bites and then asked the waiter “Can we get some food with this?”

Garin in response brought them a box of napkins, which Wright and Stigliano started to devour.

Other notable sketches were “Child Therapy,” in which Schrek was a teacher in a room of small children — Wright, Garin, Yael Matlow ’18 and Deesha Patel ’16 — and offered them advice for their unusual issues, and a sketch with the entire troupe telling a story that mocked DCL. “The Greatest Story Ever Mold” was a fantastic effort from Boris’ Kitchen, presenting lots of hilarious sketches. They provided many laughs that were much needed for the stressed student community.

CULTURE

Pottery club hosts Japanese tea ceremony

By SABRINA SUNG justice EDITOR

Cholmondeley’s Coffee House was different on Sunday afternoon. The usual hotspot for live music and slam poetry was quiet with an easy calm; even the painted buzz of words on the walls seemed to succumb to the peace.

Before the event even began, the Brandeis Pottery Club’s Japanese tea ceremony was a gentle respite from the hectic excitement of the Festival of the Arts.

Of course, that didn’t mean I wasn’t excited; I was the first of three to arrive for the 2 p.m. session, and I had the pleasure of acquainting myself with the hosts, two students in traditional Japanese attire and an orange cloth tucked into their clothes.

Lian Chen ’19, dressed in a lovely floral yukata with a muted green obi around her waist, coordinated the event with the Brandeis Pottery Club.

She informed me in an interview with the Justice that all the tea bowls used to serve the tea in the ceremony were handcrafted by members of the club.

Monika Xu ’16, dressed inversely in a muted kimono with a vivid floral obi, is not a member of the pottery club

but is a Japanese course assistant.

In an interview with the Justice, she explained that they would be serving matcha, a special form of green tea powder that differs from other kinds in how the leaves are grown and processed.

Both students had past experience in the famous urasenke style of tea ceremony, urasenke being one of three main tea schools in Japan.

The two other visitors and I had the chance to watch two variations of the style as Chen and Xu made tea in turn.

“Would you like to be my guest?”

Chen asked me first and, overeager, I knelt right at the edge of the presentation space. Too close, as it turns out, and I was ushered back a few inches, which sent a ripple of laughter through the small group.

Only once everyone resettled could the ceremony begin.

As Chen performed the tea ceremony, Xu explained the significance of each utensil and motion. It turned out that the orange cloth folded in their obis was a tool called a fukusa, a special square cloth used to purify the implements before the tea is made. According to Xu, the color of the cloth differs depending on

the gender of the host: orange or red for women and deep purple or green for men.

Chen used her fukusa to gently wipe down the tea caddy, which held the matcha powder, and the bamboo tea scoop. Afterwards, she poured

powder was added with the tea scoop.

Chen then demonstrated how the tea whisk is used to dissolve the fine powder into tea.

She turned the tea bowl clockwise before handing me the tea. “You turn the cup so the front is facing

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POSING TEACUP: Justice editor Sabrina Sung ’18 shows off the tea bowl that the pottery club gifted her with. hot water into the tea bowl in order to wet the tea whisk, also made of bamboo. Xu explained that the water is meant to soften and purify the tea whisk before its use. The tea bowl was then emptied and refilled, and matcha

the guest,” Chen explained as I set the tea bowl onto the palm of my left hand and balanced it with my right.

The tea was the perfect temperature, hot enough to bring out the flavor of the matcha but cool enough to drink

comfortably without risk of burning.

It was delicious, and only propriety kept me from asking for a second cup right then.

To my surprise, I was allowed to keep the tea bowl that held my drink: a gift from the pottery club. It is a charming design with a smooth, mossy half-glaze around the upper half. I’ve boasted about it to everyone who knows me at least twice.

Xu performed the tea ceremony next, going through the same motions with her fukusa, scoop and caddy.

However, unlike Chen, Xu made use of a brass kettle and a large lilac water jar, made by Chen herself. Xu explained that the water jar is filled with unheated water with which to refill the kettle, as storing water in the brass would lead to a metallic flavor.

When asked in an interview what motivated her to host a tea ceremony, Chen replied, “In high school, I appreciated the calm, slow feeling of tea ceremony. I felt that to share that would be good for Brandeis.”

Remembering how content I felt at the end of the event, I am inclined to agree.

And I did eventually get my second helping of tea.

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Artist holds printmaking workshop By jessica goldstein justice editor

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SNEAKY SILK: Artist Dan Welden shows off an old silk screen of his that has fallen apart, much to his dismay.

An artist is nothing without his printmaker. Printmaking is unique in the art world. It relies largely on what master printmaker Dan Welden said is “a love for process” while other art forms, such as painting, rely on perfecting the piece. Welden stated that painting is “more direct from the heart to the canvas.”

On Friday evening, Welden, a master printmaker, painter, teacher and author gave a lecture that focused on the study of printmaking at the Goldman-Schwartz Fine Arts building. He then hosted a workshop on Saturday and Sunday, instructing on the method of solarplate etching. Welden has more than 50 years of experience in printmaking and is credited with the development of the solar plate. His work has been featured in 80 solo exhibitions and 700 collaborative exhibitions worldwide.

Prof. Susan Lichtman (FA) introduced Welden, who began the lecture by asking those in the audience about their familiarity with printmaking. He prompted the audience with questions such as “How many printmakers are here actually?” and “How many of you don’t consider yourself printmakers?”

To those who said they were not printmakers, Welden said, “I wanna see you guys. You’re the ones I wanna try to reach ... Printmakers have already been bitten, right?” After cracking the joke, Welden explained his proposed changes to printmaking terminology.

Instead of the term “relief printing,” he prefers to call it a “high print.” In relief printmaking, the artist carves around the image so the printed portion is raised. Instead of an “intaglio print,” he prefers to call it a “deep print.” In intaglio printmaking, the image is created as acid bites into exposed portions of the plate.

He told the audience that he wants to change the terminology of printmaking.

Lithography is a process in which grease is applied to a stone and then the stone is cleaned with a water sponge.

Oil-based paint is then applied. Welden showed attendees lithographic prints detailing various techniques, including one detailed image by a student in 1971 that took 96 hours to draw and one more freehanded image by Welden’s friend, whom he called “Bill,” that took less than an hour. Lichtman later pointed out that Bill was in fact Willem de Kooning, a notable abstract expressionist. In fact, de Kooning named Welden “his master printmaker.”

While Welden began his printmaking career in lithography, he recognized

a challenge inherent in traditional printmaking methods. It is a challenge for an artist to carry a sizeable stone in order to make a lithograph.

Welden has developed a type of printmaking called “solarplate etching” — an environmentally conscious alternative to intaglio etching. The plate also has an extended level of diversity — it can accept ink as both a high print and a deep print.

Welden noted the significance of maintaining the craft of printmaking in an age of technology. “The heart of what this is all about are the five senses. Cause you walk into this room and immediately, you … smell what’s going on. You’re touching things, you could even taste. You hear the sound of the stones being grained. You’re getting into a physical activity,” he said. In other words, he recognizes that while it is perhaps easier to print something from your computer, there is something lasting about being able to smell, hear, feel and touch the materials.

Throughout the evening, Welden recounted his experiences working with famous artists, including David Salle, a printer, painter and developer of postmodernism. He also worked with Dan Flavin, an American minimalist artist known for his work with fluorescent sculpture. Welden said Salle provided “the easiest and most wonderful collaboration.” Flavin was the most difficult to work with. As a printmaker, Welden explained that his responsibility was to adapt to the individual personalities of the artists he works with and assist them in developing art through the most effective technique possible. The creativity was left to the artists alone.

At the end of the evening, Welden shared his portfolios, which consisted of both his work as a printmaker and his work as an artist. Much of the art was produced through a variety of printmaking methods and paint. The portfolios also featured photographs.

Welden left the attendees with a message. “Why are we artists? Why do we do what we do? What makes us artists?” Welden responded to his own question by sharing the message of composer Robert Schumman. He found there is not one reason why we are artists but five. Welden found that the best reason was the fifth reason by which “there is no reason, you just have to do it.” “That is my favorite,” he said.

—Editor’s note: Jessica Goldstein ’17 attended Dan Welden’s printmaking workshop.

Two schools collaborate Spring concert

By SABRINA SUNG justice editor

On Sunday afternoon, the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra enthralled a full audience in Slosberg Music Center with their spring concert. The two-hour performance featured winners of the 2015 Concerto Competition and consisted of three orchestral pieces conducted

by Prof. Neal Hampton (MUS) as well as a closing piece with the Brandeis University Chorus, conducted by Prof. Robert Duff (MUS).

The BWO has been playing since 2002, when the orchestras of the respective universities formally came together. The musicians are all students, faculty, staff or associates of either Brandeis University or Wellesley College.

Before the spring concert began in earnest, Hampton took his place at the podium and remarked how he had hoped to acknowledge Prof. Daniel Stepner (MUS) in the audience. However, to Hampton’s mild frustration and greater delight, Stepner had volunteered earlier in

the day to take part in the performing orchestra himself. Although Stepner is a first violinist in the acclaimed Lydian String Quartet, he sat and played with the second violins of the BWO for the duration of the performance.

The concert opened with three movements of “Masques et Bergamasques, op. 112,” an orchestral suite by 18th-century French composer Gabriel Fauré.

The piece borrows its title from a line of the poem “Clair de Lune”

by Paul Verlaine and incorporates many of Fauré’s former works into its movements.

The first movement, the overture, opened with a lively flourish of violins, transitioning to an riveting conversation between the strings and woodwinds in turn. The second movement had the flutes rise above the clarinets, and as the music picked up in tempo and dynamics, the timpani provided subtle beats that tied the orchestra together. The third movement was bolder than the last two, the intensity of the music clear in the sway of the musicians’ bodies.

Following the suite was a Concerto for Flute and Orchestra by German composer Carl Reinecke with Wellesley senior Caitlin Coyiuto on flute. According to the program, Coyiuto debuted with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14 and has since performed in numerous recitals as well as with the Metro Manila Concert Orchestra.

Coyiuto’s flute solo was captivating, with wonderful control of dynamics and an incredibly pure tone. The high notes resounded through the audience without a flaw or falter, and Coyiuto’s deft manipulation of the melody led the rest of the musicians from one movement into the next. The flutist was clearly the highlight of this piece, but the BWO provided impeccable support to Coyiuto’s solo, supporting her without overshadowing yet never receding into obscurity.

After a brief intermission, the performance resumed with Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat with Brandeis student Krista Hu ’17 on violin. According to the program, Hu has played for the Northeast Massachusetts District Orchestra, as

well as the Massachusetts All-State Orchestra, on several occasions.

Hu initially started playing with the other violins, but her solo eventually rose above the orchestra in a prominent display of control. With graceful vibrato and impressive double stops, Hu demonstrated incredible technical competency.

Over the course of the three pieces, Hampton proved to be a gracious conductor, articulate with his directions and meeting the changing mood of the music with equal expressiveness.

The last piece of the afternoon required a restructuring of orchestra. Duff took over as the BWO’s conductor for Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy in C minor while the Brandeis University Chorus filed and Natsuko Yamagata ’17 took her seat at the grand piano wheeled out to the front of the stage. According to the program, Yamagata has won first prize in competitions such as the 2013 New England Piano Teacher’s Alice Hamlet High School Competition and the 2010 USA International Music Competition in

the senior division.

The piano in the piece was breathtaking, either guiding or building rapport with the other instruments. Yamagata immersed herself completely in the music, moving with the melody and enchanting the audience with a flourish of her hands. Duff conducted the piece with vivacity, directing the rest of the musicians with his whole body.

Near the end of the piece, six members of the chorus lined the edge of the stage and led the rest of the singers in the harmony. Though the piece was sung in German, the audience was given a translation in the program. The lyrics spoke of the delight and feeling that music can bring into our lives. Even without the translation, the BWO’s spring concert in its entirety made that message abundantly clear.

—Editor’s Note: Zongyuan “Angela” Li ’19 in the Brandeis University Chorus is on the copy staff for the Justice, and Avital Simone ’18 is a Justice photographer.

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Brandeis TALKS

INTERVIEW

What was your favorite part of Festival of the Arts?

Susan Dibble Stephanie Strifert ’18

PHOTO COURTESY OF MIKE LOVETT

“The food truck was my favorite part.”

This week, justArts spoke with Prof.

Susan Dibble (THA) who wrote and directed “Shoes On, Shoes Off.” justArts: What inspired you to write “Shoes On, Shoes Off?”

Spring Break!

Leana Silverberg ’18 “I loved the graffiti box. I thought it was amazing and inspiring and was a way for people to express themselves not necessarily through speech but through art and graffiti.”

Brandon Less ’19 “The flowers were pretty. I thought that they were really nice and the colors of the campus made it aesthetically pleasing.”

Elad Ohayon ’17 “Folk Fest was nice because you got to see everyone coming together and participating in a really cool event that you can only find at Brandeis.”

—Compiled and photographed by Amanda Nguyen/the Justice.

STAFF’S Top Ten

Matzo Uses

By LIZZIE GROSSMAN

ILLUSTRATION BY ALI SANTANA/the Justice.

CROSSWORD ACROSS 1 Newell who co-founded Valve 5 Give ____ to (recognize) 9 IRS rule adopted in 1996, for short 13 Desktop feature 14 Opposite of zenith 16 Teen worry 17 Pontiac muscle cars (abbr.)

18 In poetry, it follows the strophe and antistrophe 19 Ethan’s brother 20 Where we all live, according to some 23 Zip 24 Sitka who worked with all six of the Three Stooges 25 Rodeo rope 27 Fuss 30 Swedish film criticized for being pornographic 34 _____ deal 36 Something to be found on a union contract 37 Actor McGregor 38 Word in botany 40 Something to shed 43 Rat, for one 45 Film adapted from “The Master of Disguise” 46 Sensationalist reporting 51 All good 52 Lose one’s mind 53 Information 55 Co. with drivers 56 Extra tool you’ll need to solve this crossword puzzle 63 Monsanto prods.

65 Strange and unfamiliar 66 Gaelic Ireland 67 Slippery and slimy, perhaps 68 Center (of) 69 “I cannot tell ____” 70 Spanish gals, for short 71 Makes a guess 72 50-Down necessity DOWN 1 Prefix with -watt or -byte 2 Be cowardly, to an old-timer 3 Sounds of discontent 4 Follow 5 Blood cell deficiency 6 See 7-Down 7 That of 6-Down is referenced in a famous movie quote 8 “______ do that?” (Urkel line) 9 “Big Bang Theory” character 10 Online buyers 11 Rock that sounds kind?

12 Coca-Cola’s answer to Mountain Dew 15 Kylo _____ 21 Stat that indicates obesity (abbr.)

22 Wiesel who wrote “Night”

JA: Is this your first time directing a piece without spoken words?

SD: No, I’ve been doing this for quite a while. I’m the resident for choreography for a theater company called Shakespeare Company in Lennox, Massachusetts, so I’ve created these pieces over the years; I’ve done quite a few of them. Over the last ten years, I’ve made about eight different ones, so it’s something that I do. It’s part of my identity.

JA: Do you also have experience working with spoken-word theater?

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about his time in Auschwitz 26 Heart part 27 Suffix with Lemon- or Gator28 It precedes Jones 29 A great place to be in Venice 31 Shakespearean insult 32 Address 33 Mapquest offering, for short 35 Existential boredom 38 Have rights to 39 eCigarette brand 41 Become decrepit 42 Become decrepit 44 Missouri landmark 46 Place to find numbers 47 Signal blocker in sci-fi 48 Least productive 49 John, Paul and George, but not Ringo 50 Game made by WotC 54 “... ______, trouble behind, and you know that notion just crossed my mind...”

57 “_____ Iron Man.” (last line in “Iron Man”) 58 Shallow and insincere 59 Stash away 60 Scrabble unit 61 Rock’s Clapton 62 Have a noticeable 7-Down 64 Comp. network

SD: Definitely. There are a lot of Shakespeare plays; I work and I do dances for [a class] called movement direction — my expertise is to help the actors find the best way to move for a particular play.

JA: In relation to spoken-word plays, what is the experience directing movement-based plays like?

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SD: What it is is that, it’s really how dance and movement of the human body can actually tell a story in its own way, without words, and I work a lot with finding that, because in dance — and in creative writing, too, or poetry — a metaphor is used, so there’s a lot of imagery. So when the dance happens, hopefully the audience can have an experience of thinking of different images that come from what they see, rather than hearing words.

JA: What was the most rewarding part of the process?

SD: I think it was the cast and the process, the design — what I think of is the whole company. I think it was very collegial, and I think that everyone learned from each other, and it was inspiring.

justice EDITOR

Passover is coming, and that means that many members of the Jewish community will be giving up all leavened foods for a week. While this may sound hard, there are many fun ways to use matzo (unleavened bread) as tasty replacement for our favorite foods. Here are my favorites: 1. Matzo pizza 2. PB&J on matzo 3. Matzo brei 4. Matzo s’mores 5. Passover Sandwich: Matzo with Charoset and horseradish 6. Matzo with cream cheese (and other bagel toppings) 7. Matzo ball soup (obviously) 8. Matzo lasagna 9. Chocolate-covered matzo 10. Baked goods made with matzo meal

Susan Dibble: What inspired me was to take the idea of a small shoe store and create a dance — a village of people, characters — who come and buy shoes, but also the idea that wearing shoes in dances is one thing, and then taking shoes off and dancing bare feet is another thing, so that was kind of a thing […] to celebrate those two things.

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.

JA: What was the most challenging part of the process?

SD: The most challenging part was schedules. I guess that was it, but we had a good amount of time, plus a tag team to get everything together.

JA: What do you hope the cast took away from being part of this piece?

SD: I’m hoping the cast got a lot of joy, and a lot of reinforced confidence, and an experience of life — being able to perform, and perform together, and really enjoy that.

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