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Volume LXIX, Number 13
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Tuesday, November 22, 2016
CAMPUS LIFE
Letter pushes for sanctuary campus status ■ A recent letter from
students, staff and alumni urged the administration to pledge its support for undocumented students. By Abby patkin JUSTICE editor
With President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to deport three million immigrants, students across the country are petitioning their colleges and universities to designate “sanctuary campuses” in order to protect undocumented immigrants. Now, a group of Brandeis students, faculty, staff and alumni have followed suit with an open letter to administrators. In a letter addressed to University President Ronald Liebowitz, Provost Lisa Lynch and Senior Vice Presi-
dent for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel, community members have highlighted the struggles undocumented immigrants might face under a Trump administration, calling on the University to pledge its support for students at risk. “We see this as a concrete action the university can take to support and protect the people within our community,” reads the letter. Citing fears that Trump and his cabinet could abolish the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — a policy that allows immigrants who arrived before the age of 16 to obtain temporary visas with exemption from deportation — the letter urges the University to take the necessary steps toward protecting students and their families on campus. In an anti-Trump walkout and pro-
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ADMINISTRATION
Winick to depart Univ. chaplaincy after 9 years ■ Rabbi Elyse Winick '86 will
join CJP in Boston on Dec. 12 after almost nine years as the University's Jewish chaplain. By ABBY PATKIN JUSTICE Editor
Rabbi Elyse Winick ’86, the University’s Jewish Chaplain, is leaving the chaplaincy after almost nine years of service, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel announced in a campus-wide email on Wednesday. In a second email to the community on Wednesday evening, Winick wrote that she will start as the director of adult learning at Combined Jewish Philanthropies in Boston on Dec. 12. CJP is a nonprofit organization that serves the Greater Boston Jewish community through education, char-
ity work and advocacy. “The opportunity to have a fulltime role in an institution which is transforming the Jewish community locally, nationally and internationally is one which I can't pass up,” Winick wrote in her email. A Brandeis alumna, Winick served as the assistant director of Brandeis Hillel in the 1990s and returned as the Jewish Chaplain in 2008. “She has served as an advocate, mentor and friend to hundreds of students, faculty, and staff, serving our community’s spiritual needs in times of both celebration and crisis and offering a haven for those in need of comfort,” Flagel wrote in his email. “Rabbi Elyse Winick embodies the deepest values of Brandeis. We wish her the very best in her new endeavors, and take comfort in knowing she will always be a treasured member of the Brandeis family,” he added.
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COME TOGETHER
NATALIA WIATER/the Justice
RIGHT NOW: University President Ronald Liebowitz told the community that it is crucial to foster a sense of unity post-election.
Community works toward unity at town hall event ■ Scholars reflected on
the recent election and discussed ways to build unity at an event last week. By PERI MEYERS JUSTICE SENIOR WRITER
The campus needs unity, reflection and action in light of the recent election, a panel of professors and administrators said last Tuesday at a town hall-style discussion. “‘There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal,’” Provost Lisa Lynch said, quoting author Toni Morrison. University President Ronald Liebowitz underlined the importance of the democratic tradition and civil society that have laid the foundation for American politics but acknowledged the unprecedented and destabilizing nature of the situation. He cited a conversation with his tenyear-old son during which he talked about checks and balances that would limit a Trump presidency. Liebowitz continued, “And to that,
he said, ‘Well, the Supreme Court — there may be four appointees coming, and Congress is dominated by the same party, so what are you talking about, checks and balances?’” Liebowitz said. “As the days went on and I began to process this, my stomach began to churn, mostly because of the uncertainty and because of what’s been unleashed.” Prof. Faith Lois Smith (ENG) noted that this uncertainty and fear “is a very raw form” of what many marginalized groups have long experienced. Because of this, she said, society needs to examine how that kind of violence is used to benefit other people. She continued: “Violence to the other is not just about figuring out how to stand beside that person, but also how to figure out how that violence relates to [our] prosperity.” Prof. Chad Williams (AAAS) was firm: “I am not interested in any type of performance of unity if it’s not going to entail a cold, hard reckoning with this country’s history and how we got to this point here today.” After citing the controversy of Trump urging the current President Obama to release his birth certificate, Williams critiqued the claims that people need to move on. The future, he said, calls for Americans to
not forget the past. Prof. Chandler Rosenberger (SOC) called for “cultural empathy,” arguing that while people cannot and should not do away with moral judgments, they should still try to understand what is going through other people’s heads. This is especially true for those who reluctantly voted for Trump out of economic desperation, he said. He also cited an interview he had held with Radovan Karadžić, a former politician recently indicted for war crimes during the Bosnian War. Rosenberger said he encountered “a kind of self-pitying ethnic nationalism that takes difficult circumstances … and then latches onto the kind of conspiracy theory that justifies their own viciousness.” In other words, he argued, ethnic nationalists attach themselves to those theories that make their cause and actions appear just. Rosenberger regretted to say that that brand of nationalism has found its way into American politics. The inevitable question soon arose: did race play a defining part in this election? Liebowitz hesitated to label all of those who voted for Trump as racist. In contrast, Prof.
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