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The Student Union held its first round of elections on Sept. 10 for several Senate seats, as well as for representatives to the Brandeis Sustainability Fund and the Brandeis Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.

While almost all of the positions were filled in this round of elections, five seats remain vacant. With the exception of the Senator to Massell Quad, these vacancies are due to no students choosing to run for the open positions.

Voter turnout was correlated to class year: the class of 2019 voted the most, casting 258 total ballots. The class of 2018 cast 201 ballots, the class of 2017 cast 185 and the class of 2016 cast 184. In an email to the Justice, Student Union President Nyah Macklin ’16 ascribed the poor voter turnout

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NET GAIN: The financial figures reported on the form show a rise in the University's income and endowment of over $90 million in fiscal year 2013 alone. Notable figures from the form include executive compensation for University administrators.

2013 990 form reveals growth in endowment ■ The form marked the

last fiscal year before the Board of Trustees' Executive Committee takes control over executive compensation.

By Max moran JUSTICE editor

The University’s fiscal year 2013 form 990, a tax form which nonprofit organizations must fill out for the IRS and release to those who request to view it, showed major growth in the University’s income and endowment. The form was released to the Justice by Senior Vice President for Finance and Treasurer Marianne Cwalina.

Fiscal year 2013 ran from July 1, 2013 to June 30, 2014. During this

time, the University’s endowment increased by over $90 million, going from $674,521,864 to $766,204,932.

Then-University President Frederick Lawrence, the highest paid administrator in fiscal year 2013, was paid a total of $1,014,259 by the University, earning almost $60,000 more than the previous fiscal year. Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel received $257,813, an increase of $5,616. Lisa Lynch, who during fiscal year 2013 was the Dean of the Heller School and is now the Interim University President, received $323,205.

This year marks the first that President Emeritus Jehuda Reinharz appears on the University’s compensation section for the form 990 solely as a faculty member; he ceased being compensated as a president emeritus in June 2014, according to a Novem-

to students traveling for Rosh Hashanah on the same day as the election.

“Any sooner, and students would not have had enough time to get settled, and then campaign, and any later and we run the risk of delaying the progress of the Union. For the next election, we can work around this issue,” Macklin wrote.

New to the Senate are the Senators to the Class of 2019, Kate Kesselman ’19 and Nathan Greess ’19. Kesselman took 31 percent of the vote with 78 ballots cast in her name while Greess took 27 percent with 68 ballots, according to a list of statistics Macklin emailed to the Justice. Greess and Kesselman won through a crowded field of eight total candidates, not counting the “Abstain” option and write-in candidates. In an email to the Justice, Kesselman wrote that she hopes to institute a Secret Snowflake event for the first-year class — in which students give each other gifts without revealing who they are — as well as a first-year Capture the Flag event.

Hannah Brown ’19 will serve as

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BRIEF Sharrieff named University's new Muslim Chaplain The University has hired a new part-time Interim Muslim Chaplain — Maryam Sharrieff — to take over the post previously held by Talal Eid, who left after last semester, Dean of Students Jamele Adams wrote in an email to the Justice.

“It was clear in [Sharrieff’s] interviews with staff and students that she has a passion for working with students, is familiar with Brandeis's rich history and social justice mission, and is eager to continue to contribute to our Brandeis community,” Adams wrote of why she was chosen to fill the position.

Adams added that Sharrieff speaks four languages — Hebrew, Italian, Arabic and English — and received her Master’s degree of Theological Studies from Harvard Divin-

ber 2013 Justice article. According to the article, Reinharz’s total compensation directly from the University from 2012 through 2014 was approximately $300,000 each year but now will become $180,000 each year as he becomes a half-time professor.

A Nov. 18, 2013 Boston Globe article highlighted Reinharz’s salary and caused vocal outcry from students and faculty.

The University listed that it had made significant changes to its governing document since last year’s 990 was filed. This reflected a change in the Board of Trustees’ bylaws, whereby the Personnel, Compensation and Ethics Committee was dissolved and its responsibilities were given to the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. The Personnel, Compensation and Ethics

ity School. While there, she focused on Islamic and Gender Studies and its Linguistic Implications in the Qur'an and the Torah, the History of Islam in America, the Historical Legacy of Female Scholarship in Islam and Judaism and Faith On & In Film.

“Maryam will bring a wonderful level of excitement and student engagement to the parttime Brandeis Muslim Chaplain position. Her partnership with the other great members of our Chaplaincy is already impressive,” Adams wrote.

According to Adams, Eid departed at the end of last semester after accepting a position as an Imam — a Muslim worship leader — in Ohio.

—Hannah Wulkan

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Coaching milestone

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Coven, in his 43rd season, becomes the sixth coach in Division III history to have 500 career wins.

 The women's soccer team keeps its undefeated season alive with two taught matches.

 The University's Dharmic prayer center has its grand reopening at its new permanent location in the SCC.

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NEWS SENATE LOG

Senate swears in new members and discusses code of conduct

On Thursday, the Senate met to swear in new members and discuss the Student Union code of conduct for senators.

Student Union Vice President Dennis HermidaGonzalez ’17 called the meeting to order, and Executive Senator David Herbstritt ’17 made a motion to swear in the new senators. The new senators included Class of 2019 Senators Kate Kesselman and Nathan Geess, North Quad Senator Hannah Brown ’19, Castle Quad Senator Max Whitmore ’18, Village Quad Senator Abhishek Kulkarni ’18, Ziv Quad Senator Karina Patino Mazmanian ’16 and Off-Campus Community Senator Sam Krystal ’17. Once the new members had taken the oath of office, the Senate then moved on to the next order of business.

Representatives from the Brandeis Zionist Alliance sought to change the name of their club to the Israeli Culture Club. The Senate voted unanimously in favor of the change. Next, representatives from the Ballet Club sought to amend the club’s constitution to allow for the formation of an audition-based dance group. The club currently offers weekly classes with a dance instructor but wished to become more performance-based with the addition of a separate group, though the representatives noted that they would still be offering the classes.

The representatives were then asked to leave the room while the senators deliberated. Some senators brought up the issue of the Student Union chartering a club that holds auditions and does not admit all students wishing to join. Others argued that the formation of an audition-based group within the current confines of the club would not be any more exclusive than a capella and improvisation groups, which hold tryouts but do not prohibit any students from participating in some form.

After the brief discussion, the Senate voted unanimously in favor of the change, though Hermida-Gonzalez and Herbstritt both noted that the issue of additional funding would be up to the Allocations Board.

The Senate then moved into executive officer reports.

Justin Carlisle ’13, the Student Union Chief of Staff, discussed the mandatory Student Union retreat, which took place this past weekend. According to Carlisle, the goal of the retreat was to “establish a better, tight-knit community.”

Next, Hermida-Gonzalez introduced himself to the new members, also taking the opportunity to urge other senators that the Student Union could accomplish “anything we set our minds to.”

Herbstritt and Hermida-Gonzalez then handed out the SU code of conduct, going through the requirements of office point-by-point. Though they acknowledged that academics take priority over Student Union matters, both stated that Student Union is a heavy commitment and must be taken seriously. They urged senators to communicate and check in with Student Union leadership whenever they have a time conflict or any other issue and also advised that senators put thought into whatever they post online, as it may reflect poorly on them individually or in the Student Union.

The next item on the agenda was discussing the various Senate committees. Hermida-Gonzalez stated that he hoped to be appointing new committee chairs at the next Senate meeting and went on to name all the committees available to senators. The Senate then moved on to new business, discussing the Student Union website, which Carlisle noted should be up and running sometime in the next week. He asked the senators for short biographies to be included on the website. Herbstritt concluded the meeting by discussing mandatory office hours for Senators. He noted that each senator is required to hold three office hours per week for constituents, and that those hours could not be done over the Internet.

POLICE LOG Medical Emergency

Sept. 13—A party walked into the Stoneman building and reported difficulty breathing. University Police paged BEMCo, who requested Cataldo ambulance to the scene and notified the Waltham Fire Department. The party was transported by Cataldo ambulance to Newton-Wellesley Hospital.

Sept. 13—University Police were requested to meet a Joseph’s Transportation bus at the Rabb stes for help with a party either intoxicated or suffering an unknown medical condition. Police units were staged at the bus stop but had no further communication with Joseph’s Transportation dispatch or the bus.

Sept. 13—Police responded to a medical emergency on a Joseph’s Transportation bus on Loop Road outside of Mailman House for a party vomiting due to abdominal pain. 911 was called for assistance, and the party was transported to

Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Sept. 13—A party in North Quad was reported as suffering from an allergic reaction to peanuts. Police and BEMCo responded, administered an EpiPen and called for 911 assistance. The party was transported to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Sept. 15—Mailman House staff requested Cataldo ambulance for a voluntary evaluation and transported a party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital without incident.

Sept. 19—The father of a party called University Police to report that their child was complaining of back pain as a result of a previous injury. BEMCo responded and treated the party on the scene, and the party was transported by University Police to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Sept. 20—BEMCo was requested for an intoxicated party in Massell Quad. Cataldo

ambulance responded, and transported the party to the Newton-Wellesley Hospital Emergency Room for further care.

Rosenthal Quad. University Police dispersed a small gathering of about 10 people in Rosenthal Quad without incident.

Disturbance

Sept. 15—A party reported being harassed since November of 2014. Police compiled a report on the incident.

Sept. 18—A caller reported people outside of the Charles River Road apartments were making a lot of noise and were preventing them from sleeping.

University Police on the scene stated a group of students were playing a game inside University housing and asked them to quiet down. The students complied without incident.

Sept. 19—The manager at the Stein reported having a problem with an employee. University Police responded and the party departed the area, advised by Police not to return to the University. Police compiled a report on the incident.

Sept. 20—University Police received a complaint from a party in Massell Quad about noise coming from the area of

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Sept. 14—University Police received a report of a suspicious individual in the Gosman Sports and Recreation Center 15 minutes prior, claiming to be searching for their brother.

Police checked the area and were unable to find the individual.

Sept. 18—Police received a call of a black car driving very fast on Loop Road near East Quad. Police checked the area and were unable to locate the vehicle but found it quiet upon arrival.

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Syrian rebels help hundreds escape the Islamic State

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A student charges at the ball during the bubble soccer game on Sept. 12. During the event, players were strapped into the inflatable spheres, which allowed them to roll around the field after the ball.

A group of Syrian rebels is working with embassies in Turkey to help foreign fighters defect from the Islamic State and return home. But despite some success, analysts say the effort has yet to stem the flow of foreign fighters joining the group and defections have yet to become widespread.

Thousands of foreign fighters — including huge numbers from Western European countries — have flocked to join ISIS and other Islamist groups among the Syrian rebels over the past three years. In an interview, Abu Shujar, a commander and spokesman for the Raqqa Revolutionaries, a moderate rebel group that was driven out of the Syrian city of Raqqa by ISIS, said his group has helped about 300 foreign fighters escape ISIS. “If they can get in contact with us, then we help them go out,” said Shujar, who used a code name for security reasons.

Shujar, whose group is part of a looseknit alliance with Syrian Kurdish fighters, said would-be ISIS defectors are moved secretly to their embassies or consulates in Turkey, avoiding both the Turkish authorities and ISIS members on either side of the Turkish-Syrian border. Most of the defectors are from European countries and are driven by unhappiness about the heavy losses among foreign fighters during last winter’s failed Islamic State attempt to capture the Kurdish border town of Kobani.

“The French and British guys all seem to want to leave after Kobani because Daash lost as much as 70 percent of the men and heavy weapons sent to that fight,” he said, using a common Arabic term for the Islamic State. He said that was in contrast to fighters from Central Asia — the so-called “stan countries” that include Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan — and Chechnya, whom he called “the really tough foreign fighters.”

“The Europeans are usually just seeking adventure. Adventures and sex,” he said. “One French woman we helped defect said she first came because at home she couldn’t get a boyfriend. But they end up with bad food, dangerous guys trying to kill them and coalition airstrikes.”

“When we bring out a European, we always take them to the mall here in [Sanliurfa] to go to KFC,” he said, laughing.

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Celebrating Anita Hill’s recent appointment

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Sunday at 10:30 a.m. off campus.

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moved up a spot in the U.S. News and World 2016 rankings.

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HOLY SPACE: Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel celebrates the opening of the center by reading from “The Tao of Pooh,” a creative retelling of Taoist principles with characters from “Winnie the Pooh.”

New Dharmic prayer center opens in SCC the Dharmic prayer center opened yesterday at its permanent location.

By Emily wishingrad JUSTICE editor

Last night, the first-ever Dharmic prayer center opened on campus.

The new center is temporary and is located on the third floor of the Shapiro Campus Center in what used to be the Shapiro Campus Center Art Gallery.

Hindu Chaplain Vaishali Gupta opened the ceremony by speaking about the concept of Dharma as the main thread tying the four religions together. Hindu, Buddhist and Jain student representatives then spoke about what Dharma means to them in their own personal beliefs and according to their religions. Connotations of the word were varied, ranging from ideas about it meaning “faith” to referring to a sense of order in the universe. Students also spoke about what the center means to them. “Now we have a place to fully express our faith and practice,” said Shruti Vaidyanathan ’16, president of Namaskar, the University’s Association for Hindus,

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Jains and Sikhs.

University administrators then addressed the modest group of attendees. Andrew Flagel, Vice President for Students and Enrollment, thanked the students for working to create the space.

He told an anecdote about his undergraduate experience studying religion as a philosophy major. He described reading “The Tao of Pooh” — a book that explains the basic principles of Taoism using the characters and stories from the children’s book series “Winnie the Pooh”— and read an excerpt from the book. Dean of Students Jamele Adams thanked the students who worked to create the space, who “got together and met with me and argued with me,” he said.

The Jewish Chaplain Rabbi Elyse Winick ’86 spoke about the history of religious spaces at the University and how the University has had to expand from its original three chapels in light of increased diversity. During its founding, the campus put up three chapels for the religions that were most prominent at the time — Judaism, Catholicism and Protestantism.

But they have since needed to expand their range of religious spaces.

The ceremony concluded with Hindu, Buddhist and Jain prayers led by students who practice the religions.

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Attendees of the event were invited to either participate or watch. Erik Howden ’16, an undergraduate department representative for Religious Studies, led a closing meditation.

Discussions to create a space for the Dharmic religions were in the works for a year and a half, Gupta said in an interview with the Justice. The discussions began around the same time that Gupta came to campus as the Hindu Chaplain.

During that time, students from the Dharmic religions were in discussions with Adams, Flagel and Stephanie Grimes, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Student Activities.

The Dharmic prayer center was first assigned to share the space of the Protestant Chapel — a move that upset some students from both the Dharmic and Protestant student groups. According to Gupta, the Center was then “assigned a couple of other spaces which did not work out.”

When asked to give an estimate as to how many Dharmic students there are on campus, Gupta said that the number of students is around 100.

“I want to say it feels good. But it feels right. It feels like it was necessary. It’s part of embracing diversity around us,” said Gupta.

The event ended with an Indian food buffet.

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Student enjoy foods from Asian countries on Friday during Pan Asian Night, which was sponsored by the Brandeis Asian American Student Association.

The U.S. News and World Report ranked Brandeis the 34th best college in the nation — up one spot from last year — in their 2016 rankings, published on Sept. 9. Additionally, the University’s ranking in best value schools rose five places to 27th on the list.

The University shares the 34th best college ranking with the College of William and Mary, which was ranked 33rd in the 2015 list.

The University also tied with William and Mary in the 2013 list.

Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel wrote in an email to the Justice that the University has become more selective — admitting fewer students — in the past few years, which may have contributed to the rise in ranking.

Flagel also serves on the educational advisory board to the U.S. News and World Report, an unpaid position that involves discussion and review of the overall rankings procedure.

“One factor that was strong this year is the aggregation of admissions factors used in the ranking, which reflects how much more competitive it has been to gain admission to Brandeis in the last few years. That being said, it is important to note that Brandeis’ rank has remained in a very consistent range since the rankings started in the 1980’s. I don’t believe there is much to read in the very small fluctuations that we see year to year,” Flagel wrote.

Flagel also noted that the annual shifts in rankings have very little impact on application and enrollment numbers.

“Obviously we would rather be moving up the ranking than down,

but Brandeis applications have been surging in years when our rank shifted in either direction,” he wrote.

He added that the process of deciding whether or not to attend a college depends a lot on what an individual wants in terms of academics and a community and is not necessarily dependent on a school’s rankings.

Flagel wrote that the annual rankings are decided largely on two factors.

“The largest factors in the ranking are driven by surveys, and those surveys are filled out by presidents, provosts and deans of admission with a vested interest in the outcome, as well as guidance counselors. The second largest factor is funding, as in the amount of funding spent per student and invested in faculty,... so schools that have the greatest funds will have a huge advantage in the rankings, whether or not those funds are being well spent,” he said.

Since 1983, the US News and World Report has annually ranked colleges in the United States based on various criteria including graduation and retention rates, faculty resources, admissions test scores of incoming students and alumni donations.

According to its website, the U.S. News and World Report puts the most emphasis on undergraduate academic reputations — including the peer assessment survey and high school counselors’ ratings of the school — and on graduation and retention rates. Both factors have an individual weight of 22.5 percent in determining the university’s score, according to the website.

The University has recently been ranked in the top percentiles of various lists: on Aug. 3 the Princeton Review named the University the top college for “Students Most Engaged in Community Service” and on Aug. 24, HerCampus named Brandeis the sixth best college for social justice activism.

BRIEF University switches to Xfinity On Campus cable service The University has changed cable services and now uses Xfinity On Campus, a new streaming service that allows students to watch live television from their computers, tablets and smartphones in addition to their televisions.

Director of Community Living Tim Touchette announced this change in an email to the student body on Sept. 11, and the system officially went live on Sept. 15.

The switch from the Comcast Analog service came about for several reasons, Touchette wrote in an email to the Justice, including an expiring contract with Comcast Analog, as well as student complaints and “real shortcomings” with the former system.

The new system also gives students the option of signing up for premium channels for an additional $10 per month, such as HBO, Showtime, Starz, a sports entertainment package and an international channels package. Touchette declined to comment on the cost of the Xfinity program in comparison to Comcast Analog.

The Xfinity On Campus system allows students to stream

live TV in high definition on any internet-enabled device, though it is only available on the Brandeis campus, and cannot be used off campus. Traditional cable is still available in the dormitories, according to Touchette, but the University will eventually investigate phasing out the old analog cable service in the future.

In the last week, Xfinity has hosted several roll-out events for the new system in the Usdan Student Center, Sherman Dining Hall and Ridgewood Quad.

These events included raffles and prizes for students who signed up for premium packages.

“The response [to the new Xfinity system] has been overwhelmingly positive,” Touchette wrote in his email to the Justice. “In fact Comcast executives said this was one of their best most successful rollouts to date.” He also wrote that due to its success, Comcast representatives will be returning to campus on Oct. 11 to host a pizza party in Ridgewood Commons with more raffles and giveaways.

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Mod parties suspended for two weeks ■ After eight BEMCo calls

for intoxication in one weekend, the University suspended Mod parties.

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OBSERVING PATTERNS: Hill and Pogrebin touched on many past and recent activist movements, pointing out overlap in key factors.

Hill and Pogrebin discuss future of activist movements ■ The two speakers

addressed the role identity plays in many large-scale movements.

By Emma curnin JUSTICE contributing WRITER

On Sept. 10, Prof. Anita Hill (Heller) and alumna Letty Pogrebin ’59 led a discussion on issues of tradition, social justice and activism in an event called “Faith, Race, and Feminism: The Bonds That Tie Them Together.”

The event also featured a discussion of Pogrebin’s most recent novel, “Single Jewish Male Seeking Soul Mate.”

Rabbi Jillian Cameron, director of the Boston chapter of Interfaith Family, which advances Jewish diversity through community building and empowerment with Jews of color and Jewish multiracial families, opened the event by discussing the importance of the subject matter in everyday life. “Faith, race and feminism.

These three words are weighted with human history,” Cameron said.

Pogrebin then addressed the audience, thanking both the University

and Hill: “I’d like to thank Brandeis for persuading me to do good when I entered at the age of sixteen. ... But most of all I’d like to thank Anita, who is a hero for all of us,” she said.

The discussion then transitioned to Pogrebin’s novel, which tells the story of Zach Levy, the left-leaning son of Holocaust survivors who promises his mother on her deathbed that he will marry a nice Jewish girl and raise Jewish children.

Throughout the book, Levy must reconcile his love for an African American activist with his heritage, a conflict complicated by the presence of the woman who may be his soul mate.

Hill and Pogrebin used the novel’s plot and major themes as a jumpingoff point to addressing current issues, such as how society lives with and changes traditions, the arc of feminism and intergenerational relations.

Pogrebin raised the idea of the third generation, or youth, giving back to and honoring the prior generation, their parents. The question she asked the audience was, “What do we owe our parents?” Hill answered Pogrebin’s question with a question of her

own: “What do our parents owe us, in terms of why it is important to retain our heritage?”

Together, the two speakers probed the concept of what Hill called “intergenerational involvement,” or the relationship between generations. Hill suggested that individuals are defined not only by interracial relations, but also intergenerational relations.

When Hill asked Pogrebin what she thought the next social justice movement would be, Pogrebin replied that it would be a question of choice and freedom and identity. “It is going to be about choice; if you are ‘shackled to your biology,’ if it doesn’t fit your life course, your life plan...if you’re not free in your own skin, you are not free in this great country,” she said.

The event was well attended, with a mixture of students and faculty, as well as community members from outside the University. “I look forward to more events like this. It is always interesting to open my eyes to new ideas and perspectives,” Sabrina Greer ’19 said in an interview with the Justice.

The event was sponsored by the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and the Brandeis Alumni Association.

In a Sept. 10 email to the student body, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel announced that the University had suspended issuing event registration permits in the Charles Foster Mods for two weeks. Students will be able to obtain registration permits again on Sept. 25, according to the email.

The temporary ban is due to an unusually high number of alcoholrelated incidents during the weekend of Sept. 4 through Sept. 6, according to the email.

The weekly police report emailed to the Justice on Sept. 6 reported eight calls to BEMCo due to alcohol consumption, with five intoxicated parties on Sept. 5 alone. During the second weekend of the fall semester last year, there were five calls to BEMCo for the whole weekend, according to a Sept. 7, 2014 police report emailed to the Justice.

“There is no reason to believe that this [temporary ban on permits] will stop students from drinking alcohol, nor is that our intent.

We do, however, hope that our students recognize that some members of our community have failed to live up to reasonable expectations of responsibility in watching out for one another and themselves,” Flagel wrote in an email to the Justice.

According to Flagel, the ban was localized to the Mods because “the reports nearly all indicate underage students consuming dangerous levels of alcohol in the Mods.”

There were no reports of police being dispatched to attend to alcohol-related incidents in the Sept.

13 police report sent to the Justice, which was one week into the ban.

The Department of Community Living is also developing new programming about alcohol and alcohol safety as part of the University’s response to the Sept. 4 through 6 surge in drinking-related incidents. Flagel wrote to the student body in the Sept. 10 email that “information on this programming will be advertised over the course of the next two weeks. We are also collectively meeting with the Waltham Police Department and Fire Department, who understandably have expressed serious concerns about the spike in Brandeis incidents.”

Director of Community Living Tim Touchette — who was a cosignatory on the email along with Flagel, Dean of Students Jamele Adams and Director of Public Safety Ed Callahan — told the Justice in a phone interview that the Psychological Counseling Center and Brandeis Peers Educating about Responsible Choices, a student group which educates about alcohol and substance abuse, are working with DCL to develop the new programming. “[O]bviously we’re trying to encourage students to hold each other accountable for their actions, and when a university of this size has the number of transports we had in one weekend, there’s clearly something going wrong,” Touchette said. “People are not making positive decisions for themselves in regards to alcohol. So we need to kind of scale back the liberties that we give students and evaluate.”

“We have to keep a good relationship with Waltham,” Touchette added. “We really respect the community and the partners that we work with, with Waltham Fire, Police and EMS Responders from Cataldo. If we are abusing those services by inundating them with students, then we’ve really got to take another look at what we’re doing on campus to help better our relationships and encourage our students to make better decisions.”

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Crown center celebrates tenth anniversary with panel ■ Scholars from the center

spoke on their research into the leading issues facing the Middle East today.

By daisy chen JUSTICE contributing WRITER

On Sept. 8, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies celebrated its 10th anniversary by hosting a panel called, “Untold Stories of the Middle East,” about scholars’ studies and experiences in the region.

The Crown Center, founded in April 2005, is dedicated to studying the Middle East and providing a balanced approach to the various issues and events within that region. The talk focused on the panel’s individual experiences in the region and how their findings impact the future of Middle Eastern politics and culture.

In her opening remarks for the anniversary reception, Interim University President Lisa Lynch expressed her gratitude to founder of the Center and President Emeritus Jehuda Reinharz Ph.D. ’72, the Center’s director Prof. Shai Feldman (POL) and the Crown Family for their support.

“The impact to the Crown Center’s work can be witnessed across a wide variety of disciplines, institutions and organizations,” she said. Lynch also spoke about what the Crown Center is known for: abundant scholarship in different Middle East-

ern cultures, scholars who study various viewpoints and courses that only Brandeis offers.

Lester Crown, one of the main benefactors of the Crown Center, praised the Center’s scholarship, adding that the “best people” may be found around the center. Crown also spoke highly of Brandeis’s academics in all fields of study.

Reinharz discussed his ideas that led to the creation of the Center. He told the audience that he was determined to have faculty members of different backgrounds, including American, Palestinian, Israeli and Egyptian. Politics and religious belief have never been — and will never be — obstacles for employment at the Center, he said.

He also noted that the Center’s achievements mark its importance as an academic institution, stating that the Center is responsible for 7 Ph.D. degrees, over 100 public events and 69 courses over the campus. Reinharz ended his speech by saying that “we [the Center] are not pro or against anything. We are not here to take a side. … Anyone can raise any question [at the Center] if they want, as long as they use evidence-based reasoning.”

Prof. Naghmeh Sohrabi (HIST), the Charles Goodman Chair in Middle East History, talked about the relationship between individuals’ political status and their involvement in democracy in Iran.

Sohrabi spoke about whether get-

ting involved in political events depends on “whom you are.” She argued that a person must be in a power system before he wants to play a crucial role in debate in Iranian forums. Nevertheless, she said, “it is not necessary to follow [the] formal network in power.”

To demonstrate her point about those in the established power system going against the status quo, Sohrabi told the story of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s daughter, Faezeh Hashemi, who was imprisoned in 2012 for publicly speaking out about Iran’s ruling system. However, Sohrabi also noted that “not every child from powerful families is [a] reformist,” touching on intermarriage between elite and upper class families. According to Sohrabi, the more conservative side of the Iranian elite is starting to consider democracy seriously and become willing to take actions. She believes that people inside Iran must assure people on the street that democracy will bring real freedom rather than militarism. She also noted that the individuals in power must convince the masses that a democratic revolution would not be like the last revolution, as the 1979 Iran revolution turned the country from an open, liberal state to a conservative nation.

The junior research fellow, David Siddhartha Patel, who is currently completing his book, “Islam, Information and Social Order: The Stra-

tegic Role of Religion in Muslim Societies,” discussed the structure of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria.

Patel claimed that government leaders in Washington, D.C. did not change their policy on ISIS, even though the expansion of ISIS is beyond their anticipation.

Currently,taking advantage of the ongoing civil war in Syria, ISIS has built up governments and provided public services to ordinary people in ISIS-occupied regions.

He put forward two significant elements of ISIS strategies: extreme military experience and full commitment to the cause. In his opinion, he said, ISIS leaders know “how to fight and how to survive,” and the group has commitment pledged to them from people all over the world.

“ISIS works closely with offices, [and] it is willing to work with people. It knows how to adjust itself and govern itself,” Patel said.

Another junior research fellow, Jean-Louis Romanet Perroux, shared his experiences studying civil society and governance in Libya and how democracy in Libya can be improved by ordinary people after its democratic transition in 2011. In particular, Perroux described how women, minorities and younger citizens began engaging in democratic protests after the nation began its transition. Additionally, he noted that his group counted more than 2,000 civil organizations across Libya that provide services from “car-

ing for elders, protecting environment, to matching men and women for marriage.”

Richard Nielson, Neubauer Junior Research Fellow with the Center, talked about terrorist groups in the Middle East becoming more academic and using social media to recruit members and bring themselves up to date.

Nielson noted that being academic is one of the crucial parts of many terrorist groups’ strategies, as they can then interest students by initially attracting them with intellectual discussion and then transitioning to subliminal extremist messages.

He also stated that social media is another tool for terrorists to disseminate propaganda, stating that terrorists are modernizing methods to attract new followers.

One audience member asked Sohrabi about freedom of marriage in Iran. She said that young men and women are becoming more independent in their relationships as compared to their parents twenty years ago.

While the previous generation’s partners were decided by both familial arrangements and self-willingness, today’s youth have more freedom, and “they can hang out for their date and hold hands on the street,” which their parents could not do at same age, she said.

The anniversary celebration and panel were sponsored by Crown Center for Middle East Studies.

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AFTERMATH OF VIOLENCE: Pacifique and Terris address how the 1994 genocide still affects Rwandan society today.

Rwandan genocide survivor Pacifique discusses experiences the programs established to try to rectify the damage done in thegenocide.

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Bonheur Pacifique can give you directions to where the people who killed his family live today. He knows where a pastor, who once refused to protect him due to protecting too many children already, is living now in Rwanda, Pacifique’s home country. On Thursday, he spoke to a group of students and professors about the long history leading up to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, his own experience of the event as a child and the struggles Rwanda now faces in the aftermath.

The event was an open session of PAX 89: Internship in Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies. Prof.

Daniel Terris (PAX), who is also the director of the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, hosted the event and helped lead the discussion with Pacifique, who is a guide at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre, a non-profit organization that includes a museum, a memorial and ongoing research into the Rwandan genocide.

Terris introduced Pacifique as “someone who both himself has experienced one of the truly horrific events of our time, but also is very much involved, and centrally involved, in the continuing process of rebuilding his country.”

Pacifique and Terris began the discussion with an overview of the history leading up to the Rwandan genocide. Before being colonized by Belgium in the early 1900s, Rwandan culture did not have major social differences among its inhabitants. But when Belgian colonial forces entered the country, they identified and created three distinct races for the people: Hutus, Tutsis and Twas. While certain differences between the groups were cre-

ated — including height, nose size and number of cows one owned — Pacifique described the differences between Hutus, Tutsis and Twas as “social and colonial classes.”

The King of Rwanda, though only a figurehead, according to Pacifique, was a Tutsi. The Tutsi population held many positions of power, despite making up only 15 percent of the population, compared to the Hutu majority of 84 percent, according to Pacifique.

In 1959, the Rwandan king was killed, and an early wave of antiTutsi sentiment led to many Tutsi either fleeing or being killed by Hutus. Over the following years, the Rwandan government continued to emphasize the differences between Hutus and Tutsis.

Eventually, in the early 1990s, some of the Tutsis who fled Rwanda in the 1950s returned and began a violent uprising in the country, calling themselves the Rwandan Patriotic Front. In response, the Rwandan government mobilized the country’s media and schools to spread anti-Tutsi propaganda, comparing Tutsi to cockroaches and other vermin.

“People began to understand that killing a Tutsi would never cause any sort of remorse,” Pacifique explained. “Because they are not human beings first, and they are a threat to the nation and a threat to the person [killing them]. So you need to react, right?”

Pacifique then discussed his own experiences of the Rwandan genocide. He was six years old when the event began in April 1994. “I guess if I heard about the word[s] Hutu, Tutsi or Twa, it was not more than five times in my family. Of course, we were Tutsi,” Pacifique said.

One Saturday, Pacifique’s parents took him and his other family members to a neighbor’s home, without explaining why. That night, he heard houses being destroyed and people running. A few days later, a woman ran into Pacifique’s home and simply said, “They’re coming.”

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Pacifique’s mother brought him to a neighboring family’s home, then left, which was the last time he ever saw her. The woman who protected him was named Marianna, and Pacifique referred to her in the talk as both his “savior” and his “book” for remembering what happened to him.

According to Terris, the origins of the genocide campaign are still being debated, but it was a highly organized and systematic campaign that led to 800,000 deaths within a few months.

Because so many people were involved as both perpetrators and victims, Terris said “one of the challenges of the aftermath [is] that this affected just about every family in the country in one way or another.”

Pacifique finally spoke about the importance of remembering the event rather than trying to forget it or deny it. In his opinion, the best thing which the government has done since the genocide is abandon the terms “Hutu,” “Tutsi” and “Twa.” “I know where the people who killed my family are. It’s difficult for me, but it’s true that I’m trying to find that balance,” Pacifique said.

Students then asked Pacifique about his opinions on programs the government has instituted in response to the event.

He responded that while he was initially skeptical towards many of the programs due to their political nature, he has been touched to see perpetrators and victims visit the memorial together during his work as a guide. He said that the country still has a long way to go, but that he feels hopeful about programs that encourage perpetrators and victims to live together and do business together. He also hopes that more and more Rwandans will become comfortable and willing to talk about the genocide and its legacy in their lives.

“It’s a simultaneous effort to build bridges and eliminate distinctions in the name of a Rwandan identity,” Terris said.

On Sept. 9, University administrators opened Levin Ballroom for the first of this academic year’s several Town Hall meetings to discuss and address students’ various concerns, including dissatisfaction with the oncampus food service and questions about the University’s ongoing commitment to sustainability.

Interim President Lisa Lynch opened with remarks about her excitement for the budding academic year, promising that despite the state of transition with the presidency, this is “not a year of pause.”

Lynch spoke to an audience of approximately 30 students with a handful of fellow administrators, including Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel and Vice President of Operations James Gray. After making announcements about the upcoming Brandeis Alumni Achievement Awards on Oct. 24 — which will honor Roy DeBerry ’70 and Susan Weidman Schneider ’65 — and University Prof. Anita Hill’s (Heller) lecture “Undoing Generations of Rank Discrimination; Inclusive Communities and the Future of Anti-Bias Forensics” on Sept. 24, Lynch opened the floor to discussion.

The first several questions had to do with student dissatisfaction with the University’s food options and service. Anindita Chanda ’18, following the publication of her article “5 Ways To Immediately Improve The Brandeis Einstein’s” on The Odyssey, cited the “extremely slow service, one person making food, one person making coffee, mixing up our orders” as challenges that Einstein Bros. Bagels and its patrons have observed since its remodeling this summer. Lynch said that the confusion and disorganization are simply an issue of “physical structures and human training.” The Einstein’s staff is “settling into a rhythm of some kind,” Gray added.

One student, a junior, followed up Chanda’s concerns about Einstein’s with a query about why the Kosher food section of Einstein’s had been removed, in conjunction with unwarned closings of the Hoot Market (a venue that sells Kosher food) on holidays and the Sabbath. He emphasized that “the bigger issue is commu-

nication,” so that a student who keep Kosher can plan meals when both venues are closed. Gray — who noted that he was previously unaware of the issue — said that he would address this concern with Sodexo.

The discussion then turned to meal plans. One student, a third-year Transitional Year Program student, raised the question of why students were forced to buy a meal plan each year, regardless of individual circumstances. “The meal plan is forcing me to take out a couple extra G’s for this food that … I don’t really like,” she said. “I’m paying for this food that I’m forcing myself to eat.” She voiced a point of aggravation for many students who may prefer to prepare their own food or can’t afford the offered meal plans. Flagel acknowledged that when starting the current meal plan program “social justice came up” in discussions with a student panel involved in the selection process. However, the rest of Flagel’s response emphasized that in order to offer as many dining options as the University does, the most economically feasible choice is to require a meal plan for all students living on campus, just as many other universities with diverse dining options do.

A sophomore representative from Brandeis Climate Justice, in response to President Lynch’s mention of the University’s new sustainability program headed by Mary Fischer, asked Lynch what plans were in store for student participation in discussions on climate change and fossil fuel divestment. Lynch said “[The] university-wide sustainability task force [is] looking for student participation” and input on “ways that we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions on campus and more generally reduce the use of resources.”

Though a campus-wide email was later sent out on Sept. 10 regarding changes in the issuing of the Mod party permits, a sophomore student addressed the fact that two parties in the Foster Mods were shut down after being granted permits and, in one instance, before the party had begun.

Flagel said this sudden policy change was in response to the eight alcohol-related ambulance transports, mostly involving underage students, that occurred Labor Day weekend. He added that students need to be “taking care of each other” during parties involving alcohol.

Consequently, Mod parties were put on hiatus for a two week period, ending on Sept. 25. “There will be parties in the future, but I hope we’re going to be doing them a lot more responsibly,” Flagel finished.

BRIEF University offers free laundry after difficulties with machines The University offered free laundry services to students this weekend, according to an email Campus Operations sent on Wednesday. “[T]here have been multiple problems over the past month with the laundry machines at various locations on campus. We heard your feedback and worked hard to remedy the problem,” it read. “All students who experienced problems using the machines after issuing tender have been refunded, and all students who encounter similar problems in the future, will also be refunded.”

In an email to the Justice, Vice President of Campus Operations Jim Gray wrote that the issues with the machines stemmed largely from the lack of experience with the new machines from both students and administrators alike.

“There was a series of problems in switching the old machines out for the new, and things have not been working perfectly since the year started, so we thought a free weekend would be a nice way to make it up to the students who experienced difficulty,” he wrote.

One notable change with the new machines was the increase in price per load of laundry. In an Aug. 14 post in the Brandeis University Parents and Families Facebook page, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel wrote that “to get them [the new machines,] the cost had to go up to $1.50 per load (which is where our peers went a couple of years ago).” The previous price per load was $1, which had been in place since 2008.

The Campus Operations email also noted that the majority of the problems with the new machines have been dealt with. “We’ve been informed that the main problems have been addressed, and that going forward, the machines will be running at full capacity,” the email read.

The new washers and dryers were installed over the summer with the intent to conserve energy and lower water consumption, according to an Aug. 31 email about campus renovations that Gray sent to the community.

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Students performed as part of Saturday's “Event In the Tent,” which featured a farmer's market with fresh produce and handmade crafts, as well as club demonstrations.

Committee determined the compensation of University officers by assessing performance and comparing to peer institutions, with input from independent consultants. It also received and reviewed conflict of interest statements from Trustees, officers and committee members.

In an email to the Justice, Undergraduate Student Representative to the Board of Trustees Grady Ward ’16 wrote that “the PCEC was dissolved because it didn’t make sense to discuss personnel choices (largely the domain of the Executive Board) distinct from their compensation (on the PCEC). For example, in the ongoing presidential search process, it wouldn’t make sense to decide on candidates independently of what we would have to pay them.”

The University earned higher revenues from a variety of sources, including around $7.5 million more in contributions and grants and around $27 million more in investment income. In aggregate, the University earned $1,016,497,392 in net assets, an increase of around $100 million from the start of the year.

The number of undergraduate students receiving financial aid in fiscal year 2013 was 1,964, an increase of 54 from the previous 990 form.

In total, the University gave out $57,314,215 in financial aid. The University received $11 million more in tuition revenue, bringing the total to $228,754,160.

Other Brandeis-specific revenue sources included the University’s sponsored programs, the Foster Bio Lab and the Brandeis National Committee, along with fundraising

SU: Massell, Rosenthal Quad Senators among positions to be filled in second round of voting CONTINUED FROM 1 Senator to North Quad, earning 64 votes in her name, or 41 percent of the electorate. In an email to the Justice, Brown wrote that she plans to pursue higher standards of cleanliness for North, as well as improve sustainability, host activities and entertainment events and achieve better access to campus resources. Brown added that she plans to serve on the facilities committee but will leave the choice of her second committee to her constituents.

The position of Senator to Massell Quad remains vacant. This is despite two students, Kendrick Rubino ’19 and Gianna Petrillo ’19, each running for the position. Statistics sent to the Justice indicate that neither Rubino nor Petrillo received a single vote, as no votes were cast at all in the Massell Quad Senate race. In an email to the Justice, Student Union Secretary Shuying Liu said she had not received any complaints from Massell Quad after the election, leading her to believe that there were no technical errors.

Neither Rubino nor Petrillo responded

to requests for comment by press time.

Max Whitmore ’18, the newly elected Senator to Castle Quad, told the Justice in an email that he hopes to increase funds for the Castle through small and efficient changes in funding allocations. Though he did not run for the Representative position, Whitmore wrote that he hopes to work closely with the Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. He received 22 votes and 79 percent of the electorate.

Abhishek Kulkarni ’18 will serve as Senator to Village Quad. In an email to the Justice, Kulkarni wrote that due to the diverse range of students who live in the Village, including sophomores, juniors and eventual midyears, he plans “simply to make sure everyone has a chance to express their concerns toward any decision I make as senator, so that my voice and vote truly represent my constituency.” Kulkarni ran unopposed, receiving 40 votes and 71 percent of the electorate.

Returning to the Union as Senator to Ridgewood Quad is Mitchell Beers ’17, who served previously as Senator to East Quad last year. Beers earned 91

percent of the electorate with 49 votes cast in his name. Newcomers Karina Patino Mazmanian ’16 and Sam Krystal ’17 will serve as Senators to Ziv Quad and the Off Campus Community respectively. Krystal took 51 votes for 45 percent of the electorate, while Mazmanian earned 38 votes and 62 percent of the electorate.

Qifu Yin ’18 will serve as a new Representative to the Brandeis Sustainability Fund, a part of the Student Union that provides advice and financial support to student projects focused on sustainability, according to the fund’s Facebook page. Yin did not respond to a request for comment by press time. No students were nominated to be Representatives to the Brandeis Undergraduate Curriculum Committee. This position can only be held by current Student Union members; two representatives are elected by the Union’s members, and a third is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, according to the Student Union Constitution. The Undergraduate Curriculum Committee “reviews the educational and curricu-

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This year, for the first time, Senators were prohibited from using paper fliers and posters to promote their campaigns. Kesselman, who did not have a Facebook account prior to her campaign, wrote that despite her inexperience, she felt the new policy “was a good idea because it is better for the environment and does not overwhelm people as much, but I found social media a difficult medium in which to express my ideas because I was not familiar with it. … The majority of people know how to use Facebook and do so very well.”

Other Senators agreed: Kulkarni wrote that he “was actually in a van on my way to Baltimore when the clock struck 12 and candidates could begin campaigning; since I wasn't on campus, fliers would have been out of the question, at least initially, placing

me at an unfair disadvantage against a competitor on campus. … I feel [the no-fliers policy] levels the playing field for other candidates in similar circumstances.”

Whitmore had planned on running a paperless campaign before the policy was announced, and Brown, though stating that the ban “presented a new challenge” compared to past campaigns, stated that she enjoyed being forced to use Photoshop and online videos to promote her campaign.

In an Aug. 31 email to the Justice, Macklin described Senators as representatives and advocates for their respective classes and quads, and said that Senators “will also work with the Director of Programming in the Executive Board to create purposeful programming for their constituencies.”

The first full Senate meeting of the year was held on Thursday in the Student Union offices in the Shapiro Campus Center, and the Senate retreat began on Friday, according to an email from Macklin.

The second round of elections will be held on Oct. 2.

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VICTORY EMBRACE: Coach Coven hugs midfielder Josh Ocel ’17 at the game last Saturday when the Judges defeated longtime rivals, Babson College.

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Catching up with Coach Coven Men’s head soccer coach reaches 500th career win in 43rd season MILESTONE MAN: Coven became the second men’s coach in New England history to earn 500 career wins.

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Although we are currently only seven games into the Brandeis Men’s soccer season, one man has paced the sidelines of each game for the past 43 years. Coach Michael Coven, the Judges’ head coach, celebrated his 500th career win milestone last Saturday as the Judges defeated their top rival, the Babson Beavers.

Coven became the sixth coach in Division III history and the second men’s coach in New England history to have 500 career wins. In his 43rd season, he is also the second longest tenured coach in the NCAA, behind Division II Coach Tony Tocca for Rockhurst College.

“I guess it makes me feel old,” Coven laughed when asked how it felt to reach the milestone in an interview over the phone with the Justice.

“That’s how it makes me feel, but it’s fun,” he said.

The game last Saturday was a dramatic game for the Judges, because in addition to it being Coven’s 500th career winning game, it was also against long-term rival Babson College. The Judges defeated Babson 1-0, in double overtime.

After the game, Coven gave a heartfelt speech, which was later uploaded on YouTube, and the Athlet-

ics website. “It’s special. I think my role is minimal. I don’t score goals, and I don’t play defense, and I’m not a goalkeeper. The guys get out there, and they work real hard, and they have for 43 years,” Coven said about reaching his milestone.

Babson College in Wellesley, which is less than 10 miles away from Brandeis, has been a huge rival in New England since Coven began his coaching career. In 1975, Babson won the NCAA national championship, while in 1976, Brandeis won the NCAA national championship.

“In the past, both teams have had a lot of local guys that play against each other and with each other in high school. It’s just become a big, big rivalry. Well-played games, two good teams. I think a lot of respect between the teams … their coach is a good friend of mine and it makes it fun,” Coven said.

Coven explained that he himself played soccer throughout his whole life. “I had a decent career particularly in college … the game was a lot different then but I did okay,” Coven said. Coven attended and played soccer for American International College in Springfield, Mass.

Coven has seen the game change drastically. “When I played and in the first half of my coaching career, it was all based on athleticism and

speed and size and aggressive nature … Now it’s really become more sophisticated, more technical, it’s not just solely based on athleticism — although, obviously, that plays a role — but it’s based more on skill and strategy and technique. So it’s come a long way, not just at Brandeis, but in the United States in general,” Coven explained.

In addition to seeing the game grow and develop throughout his career, Coven also coached the team when they won the 1976 national championship game in Elizabethtown, Pa. The Judges beat Elizabethtown in the semi-finals in sudden-death overtime and then beat Brock Port State from Upstate, NY in the finals in sudden-death overtime.

“It was pretty exciting. We were the best team in the country,” Coven said, explaining that the MVP of the game was Cleveland Lewis ’78, the brother of Olympic track athlete Carol Lewis. “Cleve was just unbelievable, he was the MVP of the whole NCAA tournament. He scored a lot of goals for us, and he was the hero of

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A HEATED GAME: Coven intently watched from the sidelines as the Judges played the Babson Beavers last Saturday — the Judges won in double overtime and the win marked the first senior class to go undefeated against rivals Babson College.

that game.

He got the winning goal in overtime and that was that. That was our national championship.” Lewis would later go on to be the first Judges player to play soccer professionally.

When asked the secret to his longevity, Coven answered in a jocular manner, “Let me ask my wife.”

He turned away from the phone — “What’s the secret to my longevity, Monica?”

“Monica says it’s my good-looks and charm, I think,” he said laughing. “No, this is [what] my wife [says]- ‘It’s my upbeat and caring attitude’ [quote] Monica Coven. I still like because it’s my good-look and charm, so you can put that in there too; she doesn’t believe me about that though.”

Coven credits his good fortune to the players he’s had and their passion for the game of soccer, explaining that it makes them a better team because they are a close-knit community off the field as well.

“I don’t know if I’ve done anything special, but I think every year the seniors sort of take it upon themselves to bring the team together and they’ve done a really nice job of it,” he said. “Some of my best friends right now are former players of mine from twenty, thirty, forty years ago,” he said.

This year the senior class is the first to go undefeated against Babson. One of the captains, defender Conor Lahanan ’16, described Coven

as “dignified and resilient in the way he coaches.” Lanahan — a fourth-year player at center back — explained that Coven holds everybody on the team to a certain standard academically.

Lanahan reflects on Coven’s ability to connect with the teammates.

“He always makes it a personal goal to know what people are doing outside of soccer, so if one of our teammates does something silly like, I can’t even come up with something right now, but something that people would joke about later on, Coven would always find out about it and broadcast it to the whole team in public fashion and then again before practice would start.”

Midfielder Jake Picard ’16, another senior captain on the team, described Coven as “a friend and mentor” who’s “very good at connecting with the players” in an interview with the Justice.

“Which I think is something that is very rare to find in a coach, especially at this level of play.”

Picard explained how it felt to win the game last week, “Playing Babson ... was a pretty amazing moment, to be able to be a member of the team that is experiencing the 500th win with Coach — after him coaching 43 teams — this group of guys are the guys that were there for his 500th win. That’s pretty special, because no one else is able to say that as long as they play for Brandeis and for Coach Coven ... I know I will always remember ... that we are the 32 guys that were part of his 500th win.”

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Supporting the community through service Brandeis ranked top college for student philanthropy

By RACHEL LEDERER JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

“Within Community Comes Unity,” reads the slogan for the Department of Community Service at Brandeis. The unity that has been created and maintained between the students and staff of Brandeis and the people of Waltham has recently earned the University the ranking of number one college for student engagement in community service by the Princeton Review.

The Princeton Review ranking, which was released this past summer, attests to the University’s longstanding commitment to student service outreach. Brandeis houses about 40 different service clubs, about 20 of which are in the Waltham Group, a student run umbrella organization that focuses specifically on needs within the Waltham community. The programs in the Waltham Group seek to aid and work with diverse groups of people, who range from school-age children to English-language learners.

Lucas Malo, the Director of Community Service at Brandeis, and Brian Quigley, a Community Service Specialist who serves as the advisor to the Waltham Group, sat down for an interview with the Justice to discuss the newly released ranking.

Malo and Quigley were both elated to hear about the honor. “Ninety-eight percent of the students that come to Brandeis did service in high school, so it’s what we do, it’s what we are,” said Malo.

Malo and Quigley speculated about how this ranking will positively affect the future of the Community Service Department at Brandeis. “I think that students are proud of it, I think that they are going to use it as a motivation.

Now that service has been presented as the norm [on campus], we’re

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HARD HATS: Students on a Volunteer Vacations Trip to Bear Mountain, NY, worked on the Appalachian trail.

going to see enrollment and participation increase in all our programs, which allows us to further expand the breadth of services that we can provide to the city [of Waltham],” said Malo.

Despite the many students actively engaged in community service, not enough students are logging their hours to enroll in the Commitment to Service Award.

Malo explained that the amount of community service hours logged by students is much lower than the actual amount of hours students perform. “If we’re doing a presentation of what Brandeis is, we’re missing a huge portion of what we’re doing and how students define service,” he said.

Any club on campus that classifies itself within the service category when it is chartered with the Student Union will meet with either Malo or Quigley according to its focused area of service.

“The primary categories [of student service clubs] fall into tutoring and mentoring, language learning support, support of housing and food populations, health and wellness and sustainabilityfocused initiatives,” Quigley said.

As Director of the Community Service Department, Malo’s position entails overseeing the entire department, acting as a liaison to other offices on campus and managing relations with the city of Waltham and the department’s partner sites. Malo also serves as the advisor to all non-Waltham Group service clubs, like Global Brigades. Quigley serves as the advisor to the Waltham Group and works with student coordinators to help them plan volunteer trainings and recruitment.

Both Malo and Quigley became passionate about community service during their academic careers.

Quigley recounted going to a high school that promoted students be-

ing involved in community service and learning from hands on experiences. Through this, he became involved with several after-school tutoring programs that inspired him to continue to do similar work during his undergraduate career at the College of the Holy Cross.

Malo is also heavily involved in community service outside of his position at Brandeis. He serves on some school counsels at the Stanley School in Waltham and is the Co-Executive Director of the Prospect Hill Community Center, an organization that works closely with the Waltham Group.

Malo and Quigley both stressed how independently the students work within the service department, insisting that the hundreds of student volunteers and student club leaders are responsible for earning the top rank in the Princeton Review.

“We’re here to support the students, the student initiatives, the student goals and programs. [Students] are the heart of everything that’s done through our office,” Quigley said.

Kelly Whiffen, the Department Coordinator for the Department of Community Service, agreed.

“So many students are really running service programs, and that’s just so unique, and it requires so much of an investment on their part, and so the fact that they’re doing that while still in school I think is amazing. The title is well deserved, and it’s all because of them,” Whiffen remarked in an interview with the Justice.

The Waltham Group, the biggest student service group on campus, will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2016. Co-presidents of the group Shaina Dorow ’16 and Kaiwen Chen ’16 both sat down for an interview with the Justice to discuss their involvement and thoughts on the top ranking.

Dorow got her start with Waltham Group working with Junior Brandeis Achievers, a program that travels to elementary schools and connects Brandeis students with Waltham High School students to facilitate dance, art and science clubs for elementary students. Chen first got involved through the Blood Drive program, which organizes three blood drives every academic year to help those on campus donate to those who need it most.

Dorow’s favorite part of being involved with Waltham Group has been getting to observe the growth of the kids that she has worked with throughout the years. Chen thinks that this genuine excitement about volunteerism is prevalent on the Brandeis campus. “I’m not really too surprised [about the ranking],” he said. “I feel like everyone around me is very into community service, and they’re all very passionate about what they do … It’s an integral part of the life at Brandeis.”

One of the many clubs that is run through the Waltham Group is the new environmental community service club Symbiosis.

The group, founded by Chen, Kira Stren ’15, Max Parish ’16 and Elizabeth Villano ’16, aims to carry out many local projects, all of which tie back to the environment.

The club will have three main focuses: working with animal shelters, working in the community garden at Prospect Hill with kids and English-language learners, and doing eco-related activities at local farms.

“Symbiosis represents a mutualistic relationship with the world,” Villano said. “As we work to repair the environment, the environment also heals us.”

The relationship between Brandeis and Waltham could be considered symbiotic. “Brandeis

students … are going out into Waltham, and they develop relationships with folks in the city, and those relationships allow the community members in Waltham to benefit …. [while] at the same time Brandeis students are learning from that experience,” Quigley said.

One of Malo’s many favorite moments in the department has been “hearing a student talking about how she helped one of the residents of Waltham learn English [through the Language Empowering Action Project] so she could pass her citizenship exam,” Malo said.

“The last thing we want is for students to feel that their time is being wasted or not being fulfilled — but our students are having those really meaningful moments, and if you were to ask them what their favorite memories are, you’d get hundreds of them, and that’s what makes it so special,” Malo explained.

Some see the emphasis on volunteerism on campus as connecting back to the social justice roots of the University.

“If you talk to Jamele Adams [the Dean of Students] about what he thinks social justice is, it’s bringing down borders to help people achieve things, and I think that’s what community service and volunteerism does,” said Dorow. “I think that’s our biggest goal, to help everyone in the Waltham area or wherever you volunteer, and to take down the social structures that exist. And maybe that’s not possible for everyone, but I think still, trying to work hard to help everyone have the same level of achievement and succeed in life is our biggest goal. And I think that if we’re number one, then Waltham’s a great place.”

— Brianna Majsiak contributed reporting.

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MEET THE STAFF: (left to right) Lucas Malo, Kelly Whiffen and Brian Quigley are the staff members for the Department of Community Service.

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Increase transparency in Xfinity deal On Sept. 11, Director of the Department of Community Living Tim Touchette sent an email out to the student body announcing that DCL had purchased Xfinity on Campus. The service allows students to access basic cable directly from their laptops, phones or televisions for free by logging in with their UNet Identification numbers. Previously, students could access cable by plugging in their television externally through the University’s subscription to Comcast Analog.

This board calls for DCL to be more transparent concerning the financials of this new endeavor. Touchette declined to share information regarding the comparative cost of Xfinity to Comcast Analog in an email to the Justice, and the cost of this massive new service has not been displayed elsewhere by the administration.

While it may be a convenient source of entertainment for students to have access to cable channels across multiple devices, it is far from a necessary allocation of funds. Previous television services have been completely adequate for student needs, and many students use or prefer their own online sources for television or film, such as YouTube or Netflix.

There is no pressing need for the University to provide this service to students, particularly as national dialogue around technology and education has vocally decried students watching television on their computers rather than taking notes in classes.

It is, of course, unclear whether student

Allocate funds wisely tuition dollars purchased this new program. Especially as tuition continues to steadily climb and adjunct faculty consider unionization for, among other causes, low pay, it is necessary for a socially just university to be transparent with its students about what precisely their dollars are paying for. Reports continue across campus of students who still lack basic furniture. James Gray wrote in an email to the student body on Aug. 31 that major renovations will be necessary to maintain even the most iconic elements of the Usen Castle, though renovations have yet to even begin. Discounting the possibility that the new Xfinity service was paid via a grant or specific donation, surely there are better uses of the University’s limited funds, the examples noted above being only two of many. If, however, student tuition dollars are not providing for this amenity, this would be relevant information for the student body to know to set their minds at ease, not to mention an incentive to use the new program: students are not even paying for it.

While DCL has undertaken measures to perhaps add to the Brandeis community’s quality of living, this board believes that it is necessary for the department to explain the specific implementation of the program. As students whose tuition dollars directly impact the University’s financial status, this board believes that students deserve clarity with the University’s fiscal decision-making process.

Establish permanent Dharmic prayer center The temporary Dharmic Prayer Center officially opened last night in the Shapiro Campus Center’s art gallery. The center will be the University’s home for four religious communities — Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism — and will be open to practitioners of other faiths. The move was announced in a March 26 email from Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes to the student body.

In Sept. 2014, students first petitioned the University to create a permanent space for worship, as they previously did not have one, according to a May 19 Justice article.

This editorial board commends the University’s initiative in creating a location where students of the Dharmic religious communities can practice. However, it is troubling that it took such a long time to establish the current Center, which is still only temporary.

We urge the University to make the Dharmic Prayer Center a permanent fixture in its current location and, moving forward, make more of an effort to expediently find permanent worship spaces for religious groups on campus should a similar situation present itself.

We commend the Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh students for their patience and tolerance throughout the search process.

Our University’s culture of establishing separate prayer spaces for differing religious backgrounds, such as our three chapels for Jewish, Protestant and Catholic worship, may seem to indicate that uniting these four faiths under one roof could lead to problems.

Yet the students have collaborated and cooperated without incident, citing the common theme of tolerance across their practices as well as the political strength

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in numbers to achieve their prayer center.

We find both the tolerance and practicality of this partnership commendable, but question why such a “strength in numbers” approach should be necessary at all to establish centers for community and cultural exchange in a University committed to social justice ideals.

This editorial board believes that a permanent Dharmic prayer space would be a valuable and well-earned addition to the University’s community of cultural exchange and tolerance.

Given how infrequently the gallery was used, its conversion to a permanent prayer space would be more than reasonable.

Hindu Chaplain Vaishali Gupta herself expressed that the gallery is an ideal campus space for their purposes in an interview with the Justice in May. The inauguration of the center is the conclusion of a year-and-half-long process.

That the center is only a temporary space is unacceptable, as the process has not truly ended, despite years of effort from students and administrators alike. Though celebration is warranted, it can only be half-hearted. It is a disservice to Brandeis’s identity as a space for religious diversity and toleration that a major religious community on campus had to wait such a long time for a space of their own.

At the official opening, both Gupta and Rabbi Elyse Winick ’86 focused on the important role of religious diversity at Brandeis and how the new Dharmic Prayer Center will continue to foster these discussions. The board commends Gupta for her commitment to inclusion and religious diversity on campus and hopes that all students on campus can make the most of these opportunities.

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Last Tuesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the country would continue its support of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime with military assistance. The call came amid concerns of Moscow’s continued involvement in Syria with Putin expressing, “We support the government in Syria in its effort to counter terrorist aggression.” According to U.S. officials, the Russian military has deployed half a dozen airfield tanks outside the city of Latakia, which suggests a move to support the crumbling military forces, according to a Sept. 15 Wall Street Journal article. The U.S. and Russia may have similar interests in the region, both having a stake in the fight against the Islamic State. Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman expressed, “We welcome Russia participating in the global anti-ISIL efforts, but to do that via the Assad regime is unhelpful and potentially destabilizing.” Do you support Russian involvement in Syria, and do you believe in a joint coalition between the West and Russia to combat the Islamic State?

Prof. Jytte Klausen (POL) A solution to the current crisis in Syria requires a settlement that involves Assad. It has been clear for years that was the case. It now looks like the Obama administration has decided that a diplomatic pathway to Assad going through Russia is a possibility. If that can produce results, it is preferable to the ongoing crisis. Eleven million are displaced. No progress has been made on containing ISIS, let alone destroying the new jihadist state. As a result, we are faced with the worst humanitarian disaster since World War II — and no prospect for stabilizing the Middle East, let alone returning those countries to a state of stability where people can go about their lives. The agreement with Iran was a first step to breaking the deadlock. Next comes a negotiated solution to the conflict between Saudi Arabia and Turkey on one side, and Iran and its proxies on the other. And then, there is hope that borders can be restored and the Islamic State crushed. It is a distressingly long prospect.

Prof. Jytte Klausen (POL) is the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of International Cooperation.

Prof. Gordon Fellman (SOC) U.S. involvement in the Middle East has been disastrous for some time now.

We have in effect destroyed Iraq, messed over Afghanistan egregiously, reduced Libya to political (and physical) rubble, enabled a new dictatorship to emerge in Egypt, coddled the outrageously dictatorial Saudi Arabian regime and, thankfully, pulled back from doing a bomb-kill-destroy number on Iran too. There are no good guys in the Syrian imbroglio. Nothing Russia does will be right, and nothing the U.S. would do would be right either. All this, up to and including ISIS, is hideous blowback from over a century of U.S., French and British violating the integrity, strivings for democracy and hopes for stability of most peoples in the Middle East. The best approach for the U.S. would be to give up on war, promote global nuclear disarmament and play a major role in bringing an end to war altogether.

Prof. Gordon Fellman (SOC) is the chair of the Peace, Conflict and Coexistence Studies program.

Prof. Jeffrey Lenowitz (POL) In the abstract, I support the idea of Russia getting involved in Syria and joining the fight against the Islamic State. The more resources trying to solve a horrible situation the better. However, the pertinent question concerns the fact that Russia’s involvement means backing Assad. This, it seems to me, is a bad development. Giving weapons, troops and general support to a leader who bombs his own cities indiscriminately, tortures citizens, uses children as human shields and seems to rack up new war crimes by the day cannot be seen as a positive development. Admittedly, lest one wishes to take the moral high ground, Russia is following a deplorable strategy the United States knows too well, propping up a savage dictator in pursuit of some greater policy objective. See our cozy relationships with Pinochet, Noriega, Marcos, Mobutu, Karimov, Mbasogo and many, many more.

Professor Jeffrey Lenowitz (POL) is an assistant professor of politics. He specializes in global justice and governance.

Somdeb Banerjee ’17 250,000 people have died in Syria since the start of the civil war in 2011.

With Bashar al-Assad’s forces crumbling against a rebel force composed of the Islamic State and a 1000 armed groups, Russian support provides the Syrian government with a lifeline. Both Assad and the Islamic State will kill as many people as it takes to achieve their goals. Unfortunately, Assad’s regime is the only stable entity in Syria. Its fall would plunge the nation into a second civil war similar to Libya’s. In the short term, Russian support will prove essential in the battle against the Islamic State While airstrikes have hampered the Islamic State’s efforts, international ground support is necessary. The U.S.’s attempts to train militias has been ineffective. A Syrian military victory, however, will achieve nothing if Assad’s maniacal thirst for power remains uncontrolled. The international community — most likely a U.S./Russia/Iranian partnership — needs to get Assad to sign a deal that provides military aid only after he’s agreed to stringent restrictions on his power.

Somdeb Banerjee ’17 is the Europe section editor for the Brandeis International Journal.

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DVORKIN The Plight of Reason Senator Bernie Sanders’s decision to enter the race for the Democratic nomination was initially met with great joy from progressive Democrats.

Prior to Sanders’s entrance, the field was too moderate for many liberals. They finally had a candidate who would frequently take on issues such as income inequality with greater fervor — more than many Democrats in Washington have been willing to. His College for All Act would make all public colleges free, and he recently sponsored the Pay Workers a Living Wage Act, which would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over a four-year period.

However, liberal media outlets have recently begun to highlight an unusual aspect of Sanders’s ideology which may have surprised many who originally viewed him as the far left’s bastion of hope for 2016. Sanders’s voting record on gun legislation suggests that he is somewhat split between the two sides of the debate. He hails from Vermont, which does not require its citizens to obtain permits to purchase, own or carry guns and does not require guns to be registered, according to the National Rifle Association. Vermont, however, also had the 14th lowest number of gun deaths per capita in 2013, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. His position is largely based on personal experience, but it belies an important fact which suggests that the lack of gun control laws in rural states undermine efforts to curb gun violence in bordering states.

Sanders has certainly been the victim of hyperbolic coverage on a very nuanced aspect of his ideology. Slate magazine has referred to him as a “gun nut,” and many other major publications have dissected his legislative history on the issue. However, his voting record speaks for itself. He voted against the Brady Bill, which is considered to be one of the most important gun restriction measures in American history by gun control activists. The bill, which was sponsored

by Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and signed into law by then-President Bill Clinton in 1993, required federal background checks for all firearm purchases. Even though it enjoyed bipartisan support, Sanders still voted no based on his belief that gun control measures should be left up to the states. His position is inconsistent with his general support for strong federal measures such as a single payer healthcare system. Although he did vote for the Assault Weapons Ban in 1994 as well as mandatory background checks for gun-

show purchases in 2013, his general view on the issue is still surprisingly moderate for the only self-identified socialist in Congress.

He has defended his mercurial stance by citing his experience living in Vermont, which has high rates of gun ownership but low rates of gun violence. “People in urban America have got to appreciate that the overwhelming majority of people who hunt … are law-abiding people …

And people in rural America have got to understand that in an urban area, guns mean something very, very different” said Sanders during a policy forum in July. While the point regarding responsible gun owners is salient, Sanders’s description of the dichotomy between gun cultures in rural and urban areas is incomplete.

A report published in 2010 by the group Mayors Against Illegal Guns found that many guns used for crime in urban areas come from bordering states with fewer restrictive gun laws. In Washington D.C., where gun violence has been an issue for decades, 98 percent of guns used in crimes were traced back to other states. Most came from Virginia, which exported 265 out of the 978 guns which were later used for crime in Washington D.C., Virginia does not have any significant gun control laws on the books. Chicago is an example of another crime-riddled city in a state with many gun control laws. Over 1,000 people have been shot in Chicago this year, according to the Chicago Tribune. The report states half of all crime guns in Illinois come from other states, with Indiana — which has very weak gun laws — being the top provider. While gun violence in these areas are undoubtedly a result of socioeconomic factors, there cannot be gun violence unless criminals have access to guns. The data suggests that gun laws in bordering states give them an opportunity to do so when laws in

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their own states do not.

According to the ATF, almost all crime guns originate from licensed gun dealers. Among the main avenues for these guns to make their way into the black market are private sales at gun shows in states where no background checks are required for those types of events. Thus, weak gun laws in bordering states present a safer opportunity for criminals to obtain weapons. Otherwise, they would have to resort to theft or seeking out licensed dealers willing to make illegal transactions, options which are more likely to result in failure.

In order to control for population size, the report determines which states export “crime guns” at the highest rate by calculating the export rate per 100,000 inhabitants. The data, which was provided by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, clearly demonstrates that states with fewer gun control laws export crime guns at the highest rates. In 2009, the top five gun exporters were Mississippi, West Virginia, Kentucky, Alaska and Alabama. The five states which exported crime guns at the lowest rate were Washington D.C., Hawaii, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and California, as well as Washington, D.C. The findings of the report should not be surprising. Places like Washington, D.C. have laws which are so strict that it is hard for anyone, let alone someone with criminal intentions, to get their hands on a gun. Washington has nine of the 10 key state gun control laws identified by Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The report collected data only two years after the Supreme Court overturned the Firearms Control Regulation Act of 1975, which banned the ownership of handguns and mandated that all rifles and shotguns be kept unloaded and locked. Since gun violence

in D.C. increased while the Act was in place, progun advocates often point to Washington, D.C. as an example of why gun control does not work.

However, the data clearly shows that those laws are for naught if criminals can obtain guns simply by going to a neighboring state.

While it is important not to generalize about all gun owners, Sanders’s call for liberals to sympathize with gun owners in rural states without strict gun laws disregards the aforementioned data. Gun laws in one state affect nearby states as well, and even though having weaker gun laws may not adversely affect some states like Vermont, it certainly undermines the efforts of others to curb gun violence in their communities. It would seem more consistent with his ideology of having a proactive government if Sanders supported federal laws that would bring all states under a single set of basic regulations. Mandating all states to require permits to purchase and carry, making sure that all guns are registered and all owners are licensed are common sense fixes which would help curb the phenomenon elucidated by the report.

Throughout his campaign, Senator Sanders has challenged Americans not to be afraid of learning from other countries’ successful efforts to better their societies, even if their methods may seem extreme by our standards. In other words, we should not allow ourselves to be comfortable with a certain ideology just because it is more familiar to us even if another produces better results. However, on the issue of gun control, he is letting his opinion be informed by his own experience living in Vermont rather than by empirical evidence, which teaches us what most other states would benefit from. Ironically, Sanders is a victim of the very irrational mindset which he has so perfectly diagnosed.

Encourage healthy lifestyle choices over harmful fat shaming Jessica

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“Olive, can I tell you a little something about ice cream?” Richard asked.

“Yeah,” said Olive.

“Well, ice cream is made from cream, which comes from cow’s milk, and cream has a lot of fat in it. … So if you eat ice cream, you might become fat, and if you don’t, you’re going to stay nice and skinny, sweetie.”

This quote comes from the film “Little Miss Sunshine,” a story about girl named Olive Hoover whose family embarks on a road trip so that she can compete in a beauty pageant.

Olive learns from her father what a calorie is at the age of seven in a diner.

This moment is probably soldered into the memory of any girl in the United States―the moment she learns what a calorie is. Our privilege allows society to construct the image of the perfect figure.

Plastered on the covers of fashion magazines are photos of girls who have achieved this image. Only recently have we started to change this perception with campaigns like The Dove Campaign for Real Beauty or “Love Your Body Day.” At the same time, the

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discussion rarely veers toward what weight actually means in the United States, and we need to understand what that indicates about our health.

Stereotypes are aimed at those who fall on both ends of the spectrum — overweight and underweight. This vicious language often makes victims immovable rather them encouraging to change.

So when I heard that YouTube comedian Nicole Arbour had published a video titled “Dear Fat People,” I was prepared for the worst. To begin with, the video wasn’t even slightly funny. Instead, it served as a platform to shame people who perhaps lead unhealthy lifestyles — a serious blow to already low selfesteem.

At one pointed in the diatribe, she expressed, “Fat shaming. … Who came up with that? That’s f**cking brilliant! Yes, shame people who have bad habits until they f**cking stop!” To her credit, Arbour points out a very important statistic: 35 percent of U.S. adults are obese, according to the Center for Disease Control. Conditions related to obesity include heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and certain cancers.

We shouldn’t be like Olive’s mother Sheryl and simply say, “It’s okay to be skinny and it’s okay to be fat; if that is what you want to be, it’s okay.” But we also shouldn’t be like Arbour and body shame. Rather, we should realize we are all in dire need of a nuanced discussion about what a healthy weight and body image really is.

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Maybe that is the function Arbour’s video will serve. Responses to her video have been more on point. Kendall Rae expressed in a YouTube video, “You [Arbour] are destroying lives of young women around the world.” After struggling with her weight for many years due to a medical condition, Rae had developed bulimia, destroying her body from the inside out.

Her sister, who struggles with the same genetic condition, suffers from anorexia nervosa. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, anorexia nervosa has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.

Rae’s story, along with many others, shows the complications that come along with discussing weight. People frequently solely attribute obesity to binge eating disorder, which is caused by insatiable cravings that encourage someone to eat in excess. Often, the eating is done in private, and it results in an intense feeling of shame surrounding the act. According to ANAD, around five million women and three million men in the United States are afflicted with the illness.

However, the obesity crisis is more complicated than overeating. It is also tied to income inequality and lack of access to good food. Food deserts are typically found in low-income rural areas and urban neighborhoods, and increase risks of obesity and other diet-related illnesses. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service estimates that 23.5 million people live in

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food deserts. Additionally, as Americans are exposed more and more to a fast-paced consumer appetite, we are at serious risk of consuming unhealthy food and living unhealthy lifestyles.

When people see overweight people, they don’t conjure up statistics about the obesity crisis this country is facing, but rather, they think of words like “disgusting” and “repulsive.”

They ask, “Why is she doing this to herself?” With that same grain of logic, or lack thereof, when someone sees an underweight person — possibly struggling with an eating disorder like anorexia nervosa — they become overcome with jealousy.

They ask a barrage of questions like “Are you going to die?” or “Why are you doing this to yourself?” They make statements nothing short of logical fallacies: “I can’t believe you, of all people, care so much about something so superficial. You want to change the world,” or “Chocolate helps.” All these statements are aimed at disarming the victim, ostracizing them rather than empowering them to change. It is framing the wrong conversation, and it is dangerous.

You can’t understand someone’s health exclusively from their weight. Myriad factors determine health and overall well-being.

It is essential that we change how we view weight. Hopefully, in all of its offensive glory, Arbour’s video will encourage a public discourse on healthy. For now, we, like Olive, can enjoy our new conversations à la mode.

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ROSCH Cynical idealist

On Sept. 16, less than four hours before he was scheduled to die, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals granted Richard Glossip a two-week stay of execution in order to hear more evidence about prosecutor misconduct and Glossip’s possible innocence.

In 1997, Justin Sneed murdered Barry Van Tresse, the motel owner of Best Budget Inn. Sneed and prosecutors claimed that Glossip, an employee at the motel, paid Sneed to carry out the murder for financial reasons. Glossip admitted to covering up Van Treese’s murder but argued he never paid Sneed to commit the crime. Many agree that Glossip did not murder Van Treese and that there was no physical evidence tying him to the event; yet, both in 1998 and at his retrial in 2004 Glossip was sentenced to death on Sneed’s testimony which he gave to avoid the death penalty himself.

On Monday, Sept. 14, Glossip’s lawyers submitted a signed affidavit by Sneed’s cellmate and daughter that Sneed had lied about Glossip’s involvement in order to avoid the death penalty and instead receive life in prison.

Sneed’s testimony was unreliable and at best, inconsistent; he was unable to remember Glossip’s name in his first testimony, and the amount that he said Glossip paid for him to kill Van Treese ranged by thousands of dollars.

There are many reasons that a person, whether or not they happen to support the death penalty, would be horrified by the events in Oklahoma due to the nature of Glossip’s sentencing. Perhaps the most troubling aspect of the case is the fact that the person on death row likely did not actually commit the crime for which he is being executed. Glossip is only on death row because Sneed testified that Glossip paid him to murder Van Treese.

However, there is little evidence to back up Sneed’s story.

Prosecutors argued that Glossip wanted Van Treese murdered to cover up an embezzlement scheme Glossip had ran, but the financial records regarding the scheme that the defense requested were apparently destroyed in a flood. According to Sneed, Glossip used a shower curtain to cover up a broken window to try to hide the murder, but the curtain was neither tested for DNA nor entered into evidence. The curtain has since been destroyed.

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more troubling when one analyzes the prosecution’s actions during his multiple trials.

In 1999, before Glossip’s first appeal trial, the prosecutors destroyed a box of evidence that was incorrectly labeled as “appeals exhausted.” The box contained some—but not all—of the motel’s financial records, and the missing record could have possibly exonerated Glossip. Glossip’s lawyers were never informed that the evidence had been destroyed or that it had even existed in the first place.

There is no DNA evidence linking Richard Glossip to Barry Van Treese’s murder, and if one does not take Justin Sneed’s questionable confession and statements into account, Glossip’s only crime is trying to cover up the murder. The state of Oklahoma accepts that Glossip did not murder anyone and that there is no DNA or physical evidence tying him to the

scene. That is what makes this case so tricky and so much more disturbing. It is not a question of evidence but rather a question of how willing a state is to execute someone who cannot ever be scientifically exonerated but nevertheless is very likely to be innocent.

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Justice will not be served in the state of Oklahoma if Richard Glossip is executed.

I oppose the death penalty under all circumstances for myriad reasons, some political, some personal and some moral and spiritual.

There are too many flaws in the system, too much power given to elected officials to play God, too many disparities in sentences between white defendants and minority defendants, too many executions stopped at the last moment because the accused was in fact innocent and too many executed who were later exonerated of their crimes too late.

A recent study by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that roughly four percent of all executed are actually innocent. However, regardless of one’s perspective on if the death penalty is constitutional or even right, it is safe to say that justice will not be served in the state of Oklahoma if Richard Glossip is executed.

Reevaluate refugee resettlement in European migrant crisis Mark

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The heart-wrenching images we’ve seen of many Syrian refugees, including children― dying in their unsuccessful attempts to reach Europe, have left many wondering what can be done to alleviate the suffering of so many.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel enthusiastically proclaimed that Germany would take in 500,000 migrants each year, fundamentally changing the country in the process. Other leaders, like President Barack Obama, have sought to bring in hundreds of thousands of migrants fleeing the instability of the Middle East. Overall, millions of Arab migrants are now surging to the West for sanctuary.

Unfortunately, basing a monumental migrant policy on emotion rather than cerebrally weighing the costs and benefits of opening up the doors to millions of migrants is not the right approach. Indeed, that has already backfired in Germany, which quickly reversed course on Sept. 13 and closed off its southern borders for “urgent security reasons.” Other nations like Slovakia, Hungary and Poland are refusing to succumb to pressure from the European Union to open their borders to the migrant surge.

It’s quite clear why this is happening, Europeans and Americans see much danger in no-questions-asked open borders to people from the volatile, violent and, in many cases, extremist Middle East.

For one, there are serious security questions for the leaders who tell us that the only approach is to take in these migrants: Who is coming here? How many migrants are from Syria and not from other countries like Libya, Nigeria and Gambia, as is the case in Italy with its migrant situation? How can it be

ensured that these migrants are not affiliated with the brutal Assad regime, or the Islamic State, Al Nusra, Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups fighting in the Syrian Civil War?

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Sacrificing important priorities like national security and assimilation...sets a dangerous precedent.

How many of these migrants are radicalized or are susceptible to radicalization, as Lebanese Education Minister Elias Bousaab warned British Prime Minister David Cameron? Where are the oil-rich, wealthy Gulf states of Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates in helping and welcoming in their fellow Arab brothers and sisters? What would be a feasible, efficacious background check policy to separate the huge migrant cluster into good guys and bad guys when we’ve already had experience with “clearing” the likes of the Tsarnaev brothers as refugees in less dire times?

Apart from security concerns, there are more issues, like assimilation and integration into Western societies. A good sign of whether immigrants are assimilating into their new country is to look at the extent to which they work, participate in and contribute to society.

But based on welfare and unemployment numbers both in America and abroad, many migrants have difficulty doing so. In America, 90 percent of Muslim immigrants are on food stamps while 68 percent are on some form of welfare, according to a 2013 report by the Office of Refugee Resettlement. In Europe, which isn’t structured as well for assimilation as America is, the problems continue, with the welfare state pinning foreign

cultures against French culture in France, Swedish culture in Sweden, English culture in England.

For example, in the United Kingdom, which has the third highest Muslim population in Western Europe, unemployment and not-inpaid-work status is highest among those born in countries like Somalia, Pakistan and Bangladesh. By looking at data from the Labour Force Survey of the Office for National Statistics, it is shown that the proportion of adults not paid to work is past 80 percent for Somali women and 60 percent for Somali men. That proportion for Bangladeshi women is almost 80 percent for Bangladeshi men, around 30 percent — and so on and so forth.

In Germany, with the biggest Muslim population in Western Europe, the unemployment rate in many Muslim communities hovers around 50 percent, according to Deborah Potter, a correspondent to Religion and Ethics Newsweekly on PBS. In an Oct. 30, 2009 broadcast of “Muslims in Germany,” Potter continues that Germany has been “offering subsidized language and culture classes for adults at a cost of about $200 million a year. But those who sign up don’t always come.” Attrition and many being on the rolls of the generous German welfare state mean that many choose to stay home.

Instead of transitioning to Western society where their lives are better, freer and more prosperous, many migrants falter and are left behind in societies that are intrinsically different and can be fundamentally unsuitable for them.

It’s a tough situation where our emotional senses conflict with our rationale.

Many have rhetorically asked “what can be done?” There are several smart steps that can be taken instead of blindly following myopic, kneejerk feelings. For those who have truly nowhere else to go, like the Yazidis and the Arab Christians being massacred and slaughtered by the Islamic State and others, the West comes as their only option. The West is key in guaranteeing and securing the individual rights of Yazidis,

Arab Christians and others to freely practice their religion and to live.

For the rest, it is imperative that the West, which has been incredibly generous in granting asylum and resettling millions of refugees and migrants fleeing war and oppression from around the world for decades (I am the son of refugees who fled religious persecution from the Soviet Union), urge the rest of the Middle East to do more.

President Obama ought to use his bully pulpit as President of the United States to pressure the Arab Gulf states to take in migrants instead of sitting by the sidelines, refusing to accept even one migrant from a neighboring, unstable nation.

America and the West should also, in the immediate future, help with relief efforts for these migrants, because that’s what the West does: we take a leading role in helping those who are facing immense, immediate adversity. But there’s only so much the West can do. The rich Gulf states must step up and take a leading role.

In the long run, it’s high time we actually begin destroying the Islamic State and other terrorist groups while supporting pro-democracy Middle Eastern movements like 2009’s Green Revolution in Iran, which President Obama conspicuously chose to ignore. Only through a clear vision that strongly encourages and supports liberal, secular and democratic movements wherever they arise can we begin to see long-lasting peace and prosperity in the Middle East.

This migrant crisis is unique, and different from others seen in the past. The threat of radicalization and Islamic terrorism, as well as the proliferation of the Western welfare state, are very real factors that should affect and influence the West’s migrant policy.

Sacrificing important priorities like national security and assimilation to put a bandage on a migrant problem that requires much more action at its source represents a dangerous precedent. Let’s not be blinded by our compassion and sympathy. Let’s be guided by rationality and truth.

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WSOCCER: Women hold opponents scoreless in two matches CONTINUED FROM 16 Wheaton. We found that their weak side is susceptible to a quick switch, so going into the game every time I received the ball my first thought was to find the weak side,” Spivack said.

“When I checked back in to the midfield to get the ball, Holly saw the open space I created behind me and she took off with great pace.

When I faced up I saw that she was making the run so I played the ball over the top to beat the defenders and land in front of Holly. She took a really great composed touch and placed the ball in the net!”

Brandeis scored again in the 88th minute when, on a counter-attack, Burhans dribbled around the goalkeeper into the center from the left side of the field and scored in the open net.

The Judges had 23 shots, 11 of which were on goal, while Wheaton had nine shots, four of which were on goal.

Though the team has experienced historic success to begin their season, Spivack said the players are trying to stay level-headed.

“Honestly, none of us realized how incredible our start has been this season,” Spivack said. “We are taking it game by game and we don't focus on rankings or outcomes, instead we focus on improving every game and loving every second. It's only September, so it's still very early but if we can keep exposing our opponents and enjoy-

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ing soccer then I can see us continuing to be successful!”

The team has now scored an impressive 17 goals in the first seven games of the season.

The 2.4 goals per game average is an upgrade of the 1.6 the team recorded last season.

It has allowed three goals on the year, all of which came in the first three contests against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lasell College and Bridgewater State University.

The team has recorded four shutouts in its last four contests, against Regis College, the University of Massachusetts of Boston, Wheaton and Lesley.

While the Judges had a solid 2014 to 2015 season, they are looking for much improvement in the ensuing campaign that will hopefully end in hardware.

They finished the year with a final record of 13-5-2 in overall play, while struggling in conference matches for the year.

The team only went 2-3-2 in University Athletic Association conference play.

It only has three games until conference play begins with a matchup with Carnegie Mellon University on Oct. 3.

The Judges start a five-game homestand Tuesday when they play Babson College at 3 p.m.

After the Babson contest, they will be up against Tufts University on Saturday and Wellesley College next Tuesday evening.

TENNIS BRIEF Squad starts year at road meet The men’s tennis team opened its Fall season last weekend at the Middlebury College Invitational with strong play in both singles and doubles action, sending three players to the tournament’s second day. Brian Granoff ’17 led the charge for the Judges, defeating the tournament’s top seed, Middlebury senior Ari Smolyar, in the semifinals en route to Brandeis’ only finals appearance of the tournament on the weekend.

Granoff led off the tournament’s A Singles Flight with a three-set victory over Tufts University sophomore Rohan Gupte on Friday afternoon, taking down the Jumbos player 4-6, 6-1, 10-5.

Granoff moved through the quarterfinals with a straight-set 6-4, 6-2 victory over Skidmore junior Kit Sanderson to set up a meeting with Smolyar in the semifinals on Sunday. Granoff needed a tiebreaker to take the first set from Smolyar and had a 4-2 lead in the second before Smolyar defaulted, handing Granoff a spot in the finals, where Granoff fell to Middlebury junior Noah Farrell.

Ethan Saal ’18 also made it to the semifinals of the C Singles Flight, taking down opponents from Trinity University and Skidmore College before falling to Tufts freshman Garrett Weinstein in straight sets in the semifinals. Weinstein took the semifinal matchup 6-3, 6-4 before going on to claim the title in the C Singles Flight. Saal

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made quick work of the opposition in both his first round and quarterfinals matches, taking the first round match by a 6-2, 6-4 score and the quarterfinals with an impressive 7-6, 6-1 victory.

Jordan Brodie ’19 and Jeff Cherkin ’17 both advanced to the quarterfinals of the D Singles Flight but lost their matches in the quarters and were unable to advance to the semifinals. Cherkin won his opening round match 6-2, 6-1, but fell in a marathon match in the quarterfinals 7-6 (5), 0-6, 10-7.

Brandeis sent two players to the B Singles Flight, where Tyler Ng ’19 fell to the flight’s top seed in the first round and Jackson Kogan ’17 won his opening round match by a final of 6-4, 6-4. Kogan was unable to build on his performance and subsequently fell in the quarterfinals 7-5, 6-1.

The Judges also sent two pairs of doubles teams to the tournament, headed by the performance of Saal and Ryan Bunis ’17, who earned a spot in the A Doubles Flight semifinals. The pair took two 9-7 victories in the first round and quarterfinals to set up a meeting in the semifinals on the second day of the tournament, but fell 8-2 to the tournament’s runner ups. The Judges will return to action this weekend for the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Regional Championships, hosted by Williams College.

—Avi Gold

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BALANCED ATTACK: Forward Chris Bradley ’16 dribbles the ball and surveys the field against Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

MSOCCER: Judges gain big win over W PI on Gordon Field using balanced defense CONTINUED FROM 16 ball off the line.

In the second overtime, the Judges took the lead early. The play originated on the right side of the pitch before Hernandez flicked it to Picard, who stashed the ball in the goal’s right netting. While the match was intense, it was not an overly physical affair. The Judges were aggressive, often causing the head referee to get involved, to the tune of 17 fouls, 13 of which were called on the Judges. Despite their aggression the Judges remained out of the danger of the referee’s book, unlike WPI. WPI had one yellow card, received by sophomore defender Anthony Vigliotta due to a sweeping tackle in the 57th minute.

The match was the third straight in which Picard notched the game winner for the Judges. About his role on the squad, Picard comment-

ed that “In past teams I have held a similar role as the one I have held my first 3 years here at Brandeis, and that is being more of a possession player. Obviously, part of the reason we have had so many close games is because we are having some trouble scoring goals. Offensively, it does not matter to me who scores the goals, as long as we score them as a team. If this year it happens to be me who provides more of the goals than in the past, then so be it, as long as we are winning.”

His offensive prowess has ramped up this year with the added pressure, but he seems to always come up big in the big moments: He currently has nine career goals, five of which have been game-winners. Picard is tied for the University Athletic Association lead with three game-winners on the season. For his attacking finesse, Picard was recognized last week as the UAA’s Offensive Player

of the Week. Wednesday’s game was only the 29th meeting between the Judges and the Engineers.

The Judges have mostly dominated the series, leading it 26-12-1.

Wednesday marked the third time in the past four campaigns in which the Judges gave WPI their first loss.

The Judges are currently 6-1 on the season with the victor.

The Judges’ focus now shifts to a key road match against the reigning National Collegiate Athletic Association of Division III Champions, the No. 1 Tufts University Jumbos.

The Judges visit Medford, Mass. to play Tufts on Saturday at 2:30 p.m.

Picard noted about the upcoming contest that “collectively as a team we may work harder defensively than we do offensively, not on purpose, but just naturally. I think if we can continue to emulate our defensive power against Tufts it should give us a great opportunity to win.”

CROSS COUNTRY: Bryson records a fifth place finish for the Judges CONTINUED FROM 16 an average mile of 5:49.6, narrowly edged out Bryson.

Yet the upperclassmen could not let the first-years take all the starlight. Of the five top 30 finishers, four were upperclassmen, led by Kelsey Whitaker ’15 and Maddie Dolins ’16.

Both runners finished within the top ten, giving Brandeis an outstanding three top-ten finishes on the day.

The other top finishers for the squad were Lydia McCaleb ’17 and Kate Farrel ’17.

McCaleb and Farrel earned 14th

and 20th-place finishes, respectively, for the team.

Also running for the Judges at the meet were Julia Bryson ’19 and Ashley Piccirillo-Horan ’17.

Bryson finished with a time of 19:28.53 for 34th place, while Piccirillo-Horan earned a 49th place finish with a time of 19:43.69.

With only a 43-second spread from first to fifth, the Judges were able to keep their competitive atmosphere alive.

This marks the first time the Judges have won at UMass Dartmouth, erasing their history of three runner-up finishes.

Last season the Judges finished

in 5th place at the meet, out of 38 different teams from the region.

With first and second place finishes under their belt, the Judges look to keep up their fast pace at the Keene State Invitational.

Last year, the squad took the silver medal out of 14 teams, but they are in good position to finally take the coveted gold this time around.

Together, the Brandeis teams look poised for another successful season representing the university.

As in running, the key to longterm success is pacing.

The season has only just started, and the teams have an arduous path ahead of them.

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TEAM STATS Goals

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Overall W L D 6 1 0 6 1 0 6 1 0 5 1 0 4 1 2 3 2 1 3 3 0 2 3 1

Pct. .857 .857 .857 .833 .571 .500 .500 .333

Jake Picard ’16 leads the team with three goals.

Player Goals Jake Picard 3 Christian Hernandez 1 Josh Ocel 1

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

Player Assists Josh Ocel 2 Stephen DePietto 1 Patrick Flahive 1

UPCOMING GAMES: Saturday at. Tufts Tuesday at Wheaton Saturday, Oct. 3 vs Carnegie

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Overall W L D 7 0 0 5 0 1 6 1 0 4 0 2 5 1 0 6 2 0 5 2 0 3 2 1

Pct. 1.000 .833 .857 .667 .833 .750 .714 .500

UPCOMING GAMES: Today vs. Babson Saturday vs. Tufts Tuesday vs. Wellesley

Lea McDaniel ’17 leads the team with four goals.

Player Goals Lea McDaniel 4 Haliana Burhans 3 Holly Szafran 3

Assists Cidney Moscovitch ’17 leads the team with two assists.

Player Assists Cidney Moscovitch 2 Alec Spivack 2 Samantha Schwartz 2

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W L W L Pct. Case 0 0 10 0 1.000 Carnegie 0 0 14 1 .933 WashU 0 0 13 1 .929 Chicago 0 0 11 1 .917 Emory 0 0 12 2 .857 Rochester 0 0 8 5 .615 NYU 0 0 7 7 .500 JUDGES 0 0 3 11 .321

UPCOMING GAMES: Saturday, Oct. 3 vs. Carnegie Mellon Saturday, Oct. 3 vs. Emory Saturday, Oct. 4 vs. Case

Grace Krumpack ’19 leads the team with 83 kills.

Player Kills Grace Krumpack 83 Shea Decker-Jacoby 64 Maddie Engeler 62 Jessie Moore 55

Digs Yvette Cho ’19 leads the team with 206 digs.

Player Digs Yvette Cho 206 Grace Krumpack 137 Leah Perlman 85 Allison Harmsworth 75

cross cOuntry Results from the Roger Williams Invitational this past Saturday.

TOP FINISHERS (Men’s)

TOP FINISHERS (Women’s)

5-Mile Run RUNNER TIME Ryan Stender 25:20.20 Mitchell Hutton 25:45.26 Brian Sheppard 26:05.42 Eli Waxler 26:16.34

5-Kilometer Run RUNNER TIME Emily Bryson 18:09.84 Kelsey Whitaker 18:23.75 Maddie Dollins 18:29.09 Lydia McCaleb 18:43.65

UPCOMING MEET: The teams will continue their seasons at the Keene State Invitational on Oct. 3 at Keense State University.

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SETTING UP: Setter Allison Harmsworth ’19 passes the ball to middle hitter Maddie Engeler ’16 in the contest on Saturday.

Squad takes one of three games on week ■ Maddie Engeler ’16 had four blocks in the Judges’ victory against Simmons College on Saturday.

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notable statistic was the 10 blocks for the Hawks, compared to the Judges’ 4 blocks. The Hawks’ balanced offensive and defensive effort ultimately proved too much for the seemingly flat Judges. The loss dropped the Judges to 3-11 and brought Roger Williams above .500, landing them at 7-6.

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It was an up-and-down week for the women’s volleyball team. The squad split two games on Saturday and dropped its match Thursday against Emerson College, the weekend victory providing a silver lining in what has thus far been a trying season.

Judges 0, Roger Williams 3 On Saturday, the Judges fell in their game to Roger Williams University, suffering a 3-0 match shutout. Despite career days from outside hitter Grace Krumpack ’19, who led the Judges with 13 kills, and setter Allison Harmsworth ’19, who tallied a total of 24 assists, the Judges did not have enough to overcome a stifling offensive attack and dominant defensive performance from the Hawks. The Hawks won all three matches with ease, claiming victory 25-19, 25-14 and 25-19, respectively. The Hawks’ .234 hitting percent, compared to the Judges’ .011 hitting percent, proved to be a decisive factor in the victory. Another

Judges 3, Simmons 0 The team’s other Saturday matchup proved much more successful. Taking on the Simmons College Sharks, the Judges used seven blocks, four by middle hitter Maddie Engeler ’16, to propel them to victory.

Foreshadowing the career match against Roger Williams, Harmsworth dazzled, netting a total of 18 assists in the match. In similar fashion, Krumpack led the offensive attack, finishing with eight kills while also totaling 15 digs. The Judges used a strong start, winning their first game 25-14, to carry momentum through the rest of the match. Though the sets got tighter, the Judges escaped the next two, winning 25-22 and 2521, respectively, to clinch the victory.

The victory shed light on the squad’s potential and provided a reason for celebration in what has otherwise been a season of disappointment. With the win, the Judges improved to 3-10 on the year, while Simmons dropped to 4-4.

Judges 0, Emerson 3 The squad’s other match, taking place Thursday against Emerson College, was a back-and-forth battle that ultimately ended in disappointment. Despite momentum-swinging runs for both squads, the Judges were never able to score more than 20 in a game, twice managing only 17 points.

In the end, they fell in three consecutive matches, 17-25, 17-25 and 20-25, respectively. It was the Lions’ relative offensive dominance that made way for their decisive victory, as their hitting percentage of .172 greatly outmatched the Judges’ .020 hitting percentage. With 4.0 blocks a piece and only one dig separating the two teams’ totals, it was clear that the Judges’ failure to consistently hit left the door open for Emerson to claim victory. Outside hitter Jessie Moore ’18 led the Judges’ offensive attack with 8 kills, 1 ace and a block assist. On the defensive end, rookie Leah Pearlman ’19 led the way with a match-high 12 digs. The loss dropped the Judges to 2-10 on the season, while Emerson rose to 5-4 following the victory.

Looking ahead, the Judges will return to action Saturday, Oct. 3 after a weekend off, participating in the first of two University Athletic Association round-robins at host New York University.

PRO SPORTS BRIEF British Premier League teams struggle in opening round of European Champion League play This week, the top four Barclays Premier League teams of the 2014 to 2015 season saw their first group stage action in the Champions League, and for everyone except the defending BPL champions, things did not go particularly well.

Chelsea FC was the only team that escaped with a positive result as Arsenal FC, Manchester City and Manchester United all fell in their first group games.

Manchester United and Manchester City both lost on Tuesday to Dutch champions PSV Eindhoven and Italian champions Juventus, respectively.

Arsenal lost on the road the next day to Dinamo Zagreb of Croatia while Chelsea defended Stamford Bridge with a win against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

United could not build on a slick goal from former PSV player Memphis Depay as Eindhoven initially drew level through Hector Moreno and took the lead for good on a header from Luciano Narsingh.

Unfortunately, the main story of the match was the loss of Luke Shaw after a tackle by Moreno about 15 minutes into the first half.

The leg injury was quite gruesome, and Shaw was taken directly to the hospital in Eindhoven for surgery and treatment.

Fortunately, he has been released, but he will not be available for selection for a significant amount of time this season.

In the first de facto “Group of Death” matchup, last year’s finalists Juventus came to the Etihad in Manchester and after a

hard-fought but goalless first half, an errant corner found its way off of Juventus defender Giorgio Chiellini into his own net.

City could not maintain the lead as Juventus stormed back in front on goals from Mario Mandzukic and Alvaro Morata.

Manchester City is at the top of the BPL table at the moment but has failed to win their home opener in each of their last five Champions League campaigns.

In their Group F matchup, Arsenal fell by a score of 2-1 in Croatia to Dinamo Zagreb after an Olivier Giroud red card had them down to 10 men with Dinamo already leading 1-0.

The first goal came off of a Josip Pivaric shot that deflected off of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, and

Fernandes doubled the lead after the red card before Theo Walcott gave Arsenal some hope in the 79th minute of the contest.

Arsenal could not equalize, however, granting Dinamo Zagreb their first Champions League group stage win in nearly 16 years.

Defending BPL champions Chelsea were the only British side to win their first group stage game, arguably against the weakest opponent that any of the BPL sides had seen.

The Blues took down Maccabi Tel-Aviv at Stamford Bridge by a score of 4-0.

Chelsea is in the worst form since 1986 to start this Premier League campaign, but the win brought the confidence needed to take down Arsenal at home later in that same

week. Despite a penalty missed by last year’s PFA player of the year Eden Hazard, Chelsea found goals from Willian, Oscar, Diego Costa and Cesc Fabregas.

Hazard is on a slower pace compared to his outstanding season from a year ago, as he only has recorded one goal and one assist.

Costa’s goal was his first Champions League goal for the Blues, and Willian aggravated a hamstring injury in the game that left him unavailable to play for at least a few weeks.

Arsenal, Man City, Man U and Chelsea continue with games against Olympiakos, Borussia Münchengladbach, Wolfsburg and Porto, respectively.

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Judges victorious in regional clash ■ Jake Picard ’16 scored the

game-winning goal for the team as they escaped in a double overtime victory last Wednesday evening.

By max byer JUSTICE CONtributing WRITER

Last Wednesday, the No. 25 men’s soccer outlasted Worcester Polytechnic Institute in double overtime to earn a 1-0 win, pushing their record to 6-1 on the season.

Judges 1, WPI 0 (2OT) The teams were evenly matched throughout the match. The Judges narrowly edged WPI in shots by a total of 14-13, but the Judges’ opportunities were much more dangerous, as they led in shots on goal by a total of 7-4.

The first half started out rather evenly with WPI registering four shots to the Judges’ three. The Judges’ most promising chance in the first half came off of a latecorner kick in the 43rd minute. Defenseman Conor Lanahan ’16 got a header on net off a corner, and his header passed the WPI goalkeeper, but WPI back Riley Doherty saved

the ball off the line. In the second half, the Judges took the lead in shots 8-5.

Midway through the half, midfielder Chris Bradley ’16 nearly gave the Judges the lead in the 68th minute, but his shot clanked off the joint between the crossbar and the right post. The Engineers’ attack opened up in the 93rd minute, but their potential breakaway was thwarted by the assistant referee’s flag for offside.

WPI had some chances, the most dangerous of which occurred in the 94th minute, when WPI junior midfielder Reese Peterson caught Judges goalkeeper Ben Woodhouse ’18 organizing his defense.

Woodhouse recovered to make a diving save — his first of the night — in a key moment that kept the game scoreless for the time being.

Two minutes later, midfielder Christian Hernandez ’18 anchored a defensive stop for the Judges that mantained the lead.

The first overtime was slanted in favor of WPI, leading in shots 4-2, all of which were shots on goal.

The most lethal of shots, however, was by Hernandez, but once again, the Engineers’ Doherty saved the

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Teams both earn first place finishes at meet ■ Ryan Stender ’18 finished

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OFF TO A FAST START: Defender Haley Schachter ’16 brings the ball forward during a 2-0 victory over Wheaton College.

Squad pushes winning streak to seven games ■ Midfielder Haliana

Burhans ’18 scored in Saturday’s win against Lesley College.

By elan kane JUSTICE staff writer

The women’s soccer team went 2-0 this past week to extend their winning streak to seven games to begin the season.

The Judges, ranked no. 15 in the nation by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, defeated Lesley University 1-0 on Saturday and Wheaton College 2-0 last Thursday to improve to 7-0 overall on the year.

It is the Judges’ best start since 2004, when they went 8-0, and is only two wins shy of the team record of 9-0, set by the 2003 team.

Judges 1, Lesley 0

Brandeis scored the lone goal in the 25th minute when midfielder Haliana Burhans ’18 scored off a cross from forward Julia McDermott ’17.

Burhans sent the cross into the lower left corner of the goal for her first career game-winner and her third goal in four games.

Burhans is building off a promising first season in which she did not score but assisted on two goals.

At the end of the first half, the Judges had eight shots, compared to zero shots for Lesley.

For the game, Brandeis had 15 shots, six of which were on goal, and took 11 corner kicks. They limited the Lynx to two shots, none of which were on goal, and just one corner kick.

The best scoring opportunity for Lesley came on that corner kick, but a header from Lesley sophomore Samantha Turnbull sailed wide left, leaving Brandeis goalkeeper Alexis Grossman’s ’17 shut-

out intact.

It was Grossman’s fourth shutout in a row.

Last season, Grossman did not record a shutout in her four starts.

Judges 2, Wheaton 0 On Thursday, Brandeis defeated previously undefeated Wheaton by taking an early lead and scoring a late insurance goal.

Wheaton entered the game having only given up one goal in five games this season.

The Judges scored just seven minutes into the game when midfielder Alec Spivack ’15 passed the ball to midfielder Holly Szafran ’16 who sent the ball to the left corner of the goal.

Spivack said in an email to the Justice that part of her game plan against Wheaton was to expose their weak side.

“Going in to the game we discussed opportunities to expose

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in fourth place overall to lead the Judges to victory on Saturday afternoon.

By JERRY MILLER JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The men and women’s cross country teams have shone once again, finishing with the two first place medals at the University of Massachusetts Invitational this weekend. Both the men’s and women’s teams edged out East Stroudsburg University to win their field of 43 and 42 teams respectively.

Men-1st place (93 points) The men’s second gold in two weeks bodes well for the team’s future. With the help of Ryan Stender ’18, who took the fourth overall spot, the Judges were able to secure their best place since a second-place finish in 2011. All four of the Judges’ top-30 finishers were sophomores or first-years, with Mitchell Hutton ’18 and Briand Sheppard ’18 finishing 13th and 26th, respectively.

The same core young players led the squad in the team’s previous meet on Sept. 5 at the Roger Williams Invitational.

At that competition — in which the Judges also secured a first place finish — Stender finished in third place, while Hutton earned an eighth place finish.

Sheppard added a tenth place finish in that race.

The team’s young talent continued to show their presence with Eli Waxler ’19 making his debut and finishing with a strong 29thplace finish.

Waxler was a nose faster than

East Stroudsburg College senior Jeremy Rapposelli, beating him by a slim margin of .2 seconds.

Even more impressive, though, is that the Judges are doing all of this without their top three runners. Quinton Hoey ’17, Grady Ward ’16 and Liam Garvey ’18 are all out with injuries.

With their return, the team will see a revival of power and a huge boost to their already dominant running level. Regardless of the injuries, the Judges’ emotions are running high, and they hope to continue their streak of dominance in their next meet, running in the Keene State Invitational.

Sheppard explained the high emotions, saying, “Winning the first two meets of the season is really exciting for us. We beat a lot of Division I and Division II teams yesterday at UMass-Dartmouth, along with some very good Division III teams as well.”

Last season, the Judges finished in first place at Keene State out of 34 competitors, and look to win once again.

The squad will attempt to win their third meet in a row to begin the season.

Yet even with their early dominance — last year winning two of their first three meets — the Judges need to keep their composure and defend their first place title at Keene State.

Women-1st Place (49 points) The women’s team was no less impressive, coming out on top against a tough field. Once again, the Brandeis rookies have shown they are formidable opponents, as Emily Bryson ’19 took fifth overall.

Connecticut College senior Ashley Curran, who took third place with

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EXHIBIT

Fall 2015 Rose Art Museum Exhibits PHOTOS BY HEATHER SCHILLER

“Felix at the Rose” Joyce Pensato’s “Felix at the Rose” is a giant wall mural that dominates the space alongside the Foster Stairwell. The mural consists of the eyes of the cartoon character Felix the Cat, a character created during the silent film era.

Painted in what seems to be a purposefully messy fashion on the backdrop of an all-white wall, the eyes are thick, black circles with uneven edges. Splattered black paint surrounds the eyes as if dripping from them.

While it appears that only black paint was used in the creation of the eyes, according to a plaque about the exhibit, the eyes were created with black and white paint applied in several alternating layers that give the mural a thick texture.

The paint used in the mural is a special enamel paint that adds

an intense glossiness to the eyes.

Overall, the mural is a chilling depiction of Felix the Cat. Felix’s eyes create the sensation of being watched and give the seemingly innocent cartoon and comic book character an air of wickedness.

The eyes even continue to watch you from outside the Rose, where they can be seen through glass windows.

“Felix at the Rose” is just one of several murals by Pensato that give cartoon and comic book characters a darker edge.

According to information in a pamphlet provided by the Rose, Pensato is giving familiar cartoon characters “psychological charge and emboldening them with aggressive, gestural physicality.”

Even more, Joyce is “revealing a darker side of American Pop.”

—Jaime Gropper

“LA/MA: ‘60s Pop From Both Coasts” “LA/MA” is an exhibit that brings together the great works of pop art produced on opposite sides of the country. The works of prominent 1960s East Coast artists such as Roy Lichenstein, Marisol Escobar and Andy Warhol share the space with the works of great West Coast artists such as Judy Chicago, Joe Goode and Llyn Foulkes.

“Forget It! Forget Me!,” created in 1962 by Roy Lichenstein, has the characteristic style of some pop art pieces by being a single frame of a cartoon.

In this image, the speech bubble says “Forget it! Forget me! I’m fed up with your kind!” which can be taken as a commentary on gender roles. The traditional husband and wife figures are in the piece, but although under traditional stereotype you might expect the wife to

“Lisa Yuskavage: The Broods” Lisa Yuskavage’s exhibition, “Lisa Yuskavage: The Broods” showcases women in a variety of settings.

The exhibition, on view through Dec. 13 at the Lois Foster Gallery, shows portraits of women without shirts or pants, in addition to portraits where women gaze out confidently in the viewers’ eyes. Yuskavage uses bright colors and hyper-real facial features to underscore a unique mood.

An informational blurb in the Rose Art Museum best expresses the contrast between the exhibit’s color pallet, subject matter and overall tone. The blurb notes that the “boisterousness of [Yuskavage’s] palette and paint application … amplify the same characteristics found in her subjects to produce paintings that assault the viewer’s eye and tempt the imagination.”

—Brooke Granovsky

be saying this to her husband, it is the husband who is saying it to the wife while sulking.

Billy Al Bengston’s “Godzilla’s Saddle” is a piece of pop art that literally appears to pop out of the wall. A large, bright red shape, similar to that of a plus-sign in the center of the piece, overlaps a darker red circle. This tonal contrast, along with the sharp color contrast of the green background dotted with orange spots, helps to create the three-dimensional illusion.

“LA/MA” showcases the American Pop Art that is characteristic of the Rose. According to information provided by the Rose, “LA/ MA,” with its works gathered from different time and all over, is intended to also “tell a story about museum collecting.”

—Jaime Gropper

“The Right to Clean” The Rose Art Museum’s newest video installation, “The Right to Clean” (2015), comes courtesy of Nina Pereg and is a collaboration between the Rose and the Israel Museum of Jerusalem. An interest in historically significant sites led Pereg to create the exhibition, which includes four videos: “Border,” “Surface,” “Clare” and “Francis.” The videos range from close-ups of historical and religious sites to films of street performers and pigeons.

Just outside of the viewing room, “The Drummer (Le Batteur)” shows a soldier playing a steady beat on a large drum in front of a barbed wire fence, partially obscuring a sign that says, “Danger, Mines!” in English and in Hebrew. The video was part of Pereg’s 2013 series “Mandatory Passage,” about a percussionist and the intersection of different faith groups in Israel and Jordan.

Walking into the pitch-black video gallery and seeing four glowing screens, each at different heights and angles, is at once disorienting and mesmerizing. “Surface” showcases the Stone of Unction, a stone where — according to Christian tradition — Jesus was prepared for his burial. People interact with the stone in unique ways, kissing it, bowing to it and tracing the cracks that run through its surface. This screen in particular was captivating; it was interesting to see how different people interacted with a site they revere.

“Clare” depicts a nun who cleans different parts of the Stone of Unction.

This video focuses on the mundane, showing the nun sweeping the same halls over and over again. Overall, the exhibit’s focus on the seemingly mundane aspects of religious worship — the upkeep of famous religious sites, or the way specific people pray — presents an in-depth portrayal of the many ways people relate to these significant sites.

—Brooke Granovsky

“Jason Rhoades: Multiple Deviations” “Jason Rhoades: Multiple Deviations,” the retrospective-esque exhibit showcasing the titular artist’s work, is an overwhelming but intellectually stimulating experience.

The space is filled with mostly largescale and three-dimensional pieces spaced throughout. According to the wall text, Rhoades is best known for “sprawling installations.” But this is the first exhibit to focus on his “Editions” — works that he made copies of on a grand scale.

Three of the pieces relate to Rhoades’ self-invented concoction, PeaRoeFoam. “PeaRoeFoam Bulk Pallet” (2000) is a pile of materials used to make the PeaRoeFoam, wrapped in a clear plastic. The piece contains the ingredients that go into the substance — peas, glue, salmon roe, Styrofoam beads. “1724 Birth of the Cunt” (2004) is an embroidered thesaurus of sorts — detailing 1,724 of the terms that have been used to refer to female genitalia throughout history. The beautiful pink book is decorated with intricate needlework

that seems strange when contrasted with some of the more vulgar words in the book. It is open to the synonyms that start with R — “RoughAnd-Ready,” “Rosebud” and “Roast Beef Curtain” — to name a few.

The title of “The Future is Filled with Opportunities (Rideable Steer)” (1995) pretty much exemplified, for me, what Rhoades was trying to say with it. The “steer” is made up of mostly synthetic materials — a Go Ped scooter, buckets and a flashlight, among others. The only part of the piece that comes directly from the actual animal depicted is the horns. In the corresponding video, Rhoades rides the steer, which moves at a surprisingly fast rate, as he attempts to lasso a bucket.

The video demonstrates an almost otherworldly universe where it seems natural for a man to be riding a machine shaped like a bull. Perhaps in the future we will all be riding around on “rideable” synthetic creatures just to see if we can.

—Emily Wishingrad

“Mark Dion: The Undisciplined Collector” Mark Dion’s permanent installation for the Rose, “The Undisciplined Collector,” transforms a small corner of the museum into what is uncannily passable as a living room.

The centerpiece of the room is a couch and surrounding it are the usual accoutrements of a homey space — a television, a table with magazines, a coat rack, an umbrella holder.

There are also many cupboards filled with small knickknacks — everything from shot glasses to medicine to bottle openers.

But from the looks of a few of the cupboards, it is clear why the installa-

tion is called “The Undisciplined Collector.”

One holds small tiny decorative glass bottles, arranged neatly and precisely in a rows. The museum website notes that the installation is furnished with items from a collector’s den in 1961. The antiquity is apparent in the old record player, the old television and the magazines from the early 1960s. The website notes that the installation aims to pay homage to the year of the Rose’s founding in 1961.

The coziness of the installation deviates from the typical museum environment. The fact that museum-goers are

allowed in and can touch and pick up objects as they please, is very counterintuitive to the traditional, nearly omnipresent “no touch” policies of most art institutions. However, there is no notice regarding the touching policy — which may provide a confusing and possibly incomplete experience for a viewer. Isolated from the rest of the museum, viewers are able to have a solitary moment of reflection.

The installation was donated by Peter Norton, a computer scientist and philanthropist who also gave 41 works to the Rose last March.

—Emily Wishingrad HEATHER SCHILLER/the Justice

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015 | THE JUSTICE

COMEDY

Alums perform sketches in “Evil” comedy show

By MAX MORAN JUSTICE EDITOR

When Sam Roos ’09 meandered around campus on Sunday morning, he wasn’t reminiscing about great classes, intense conversations or lasting friendships. He told audiences at the Shapiro Campus Center Theater that night, in a one-nightonly performance of the sketch comedy show “Evil,” that only one thing was on his mind. All that Roos could think about as he looked at the architecture of his alma mater was how many buildings he wanted to have sex in and how many he ended up smoking marijuana in alone.

Roos’ scene partner, Amy Thompson ’11, seemed perplexed at this: all she could think about was how many buildings she’d wanted to smoke in alone and how many she’d ended up having sex in. Roos later explained that the content of their jokes was pretty different from what the duo really experienced. In an interview with the Justice after the show, Roos described being back on campus as “almost like a waking dream, because so much is so familiar, and yet it is so not [his] anymore.” Thompson added that being back made her feel like a ghost.

Thompson and Roos, who are both the writers and stars of “Evil,” first met as members of Boris’ Kitchen during their time at Brandeis. They continued working together after they each moved to Chicago. Roos is now based in Los Angeles and is pursuing a career writing for television, while Thompson is an understudy for the Second City sketch group’s touring company.

‘Evil’ is entirely their own product, though, and the show touched on plenty of different approaches to and styles of comedy. Some sketches relied on clever wordplay and ridiculous sounds, such as a faux advertisement for the restaurant “Slan Clamwich’s Clam Sandwiches” that utilized a complex set of tongue twisters delivered by Roos.

A recurring sketch combined vaudeville with audience interaction and had Thompson, disguised as “The Great Expediter,” picking audience members to come onstage and do scenes with her. Other sketches reveled in their own absurdity. The audience roared at the last scene, in

which Thompson — who stands at only five feet, according to an earlier sketch — came onstage on Roos’s shoulders, dancing to “All That Jazz” and shouting, “Tall! Tall!”

Frequently the sketches would shift gears or add new elements halfway through the scene. The aforementioned “Clam Sandwich” sketch started with just a challenge of Roos pronouncing several tongue twisters correctly but then developed into a more plot-focused scene, where Roos’s impatient father struggles with a daughter who just can’t deliver the last line of their commercial right.

Roos and Thompson say that both their writing and performing have evolved since leaving college. While at Brandeis, Roos says, he “had in my mind a very distinct separation between writing a sketch scene and improvising. And the more we worked in Chicago, where the line is very blurry, [the more] that sensibility incorporates itself. At the end of the day, it is mostly scripted, but I feel like we’re comfortable trying new things, whether it’s in a writing meeting or a rehearsal, or onstage.”

In writing meetings, the pair quickly agreed that the biggest and best change to their dynamic is a greater willingness to be blunt and

direct with each other. “We bicker all the time,” Thompson said, laughing, “But it’s without consequence, bickering.” “And I always feel like sometimes in the moment I would be so frustrated with you,” Roos added, “but because we’re close friends, the second the meeting is over I’ve never carried any of that with me … To be able to give each other blunt, direct criticism is the best thing.”

But ultimately, according to Roos, returning to Brandeis for a performance reminded “Evil” why they decided to get involved with sketch comedy in the first place. “Nine years ago I showed up at Brandeis thinking, ‘I think maybe I want to do comedy.’ and like, just keep doing it. Just keep doing it, and nine years later, maybe the University will pay you to do the comedy.”

“I can’t echo that more,” Thompson nodded. “It’s just the hardest in the beginning and if people don’t have the stomach to do it than no one ever would. And you got to stick some years out, right? …And Brandeis taught me to be resilient.” “[If] we both hadn’t been chasing that we wouldn’t be here now. That’s that safety net of friendship. And Brandeis, for sure,” Roos agreed.

The two turned to each other and high fived.

AMANDA NGUYEN/the Justice

TALL! TALL!: Thompson, who is only 5 feet, makes herself taller by standing on Roos’s shoulders while dancing to “All that Jazz” in an absurdly silly sketch.

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COMEDY DUO: Sam Roos, ’09 and Amy Thompson ’11 returned to Brandeis to perform their sketch comedy show “Evil” for one night only.

CONCERT

Azerbaijani composer performs piano concert

By JAIME GROPPER JUSTICE EDITOR

PHOTO COURTESEY OF RAHILIA HASANOVA

MUSICALLY COMBINING CULTURES: Azerbaijani contemporary classical composer Rahilia Hasanova performed some of her piano compositions in the WSRC on Sunday.

On Sunday afternoon in the Women’s Studies Research Center, Azerbaijani contemporary classical composer Rahilia Hasanova intimately performed a small sample of her works.

Sponsored by the Rebecca Clark Society and The Gardarev Society Hasanova, the concert featured Hasanova playing her own piano compositions and Jill Dreeben performing six of Hasanova’s short flute compositions. Hasanova’s mastery of the piano, dedication to her own compositions and overall spirit led to an energetic yet stirring concert.

Preceding the performance, Hasanova explained that she would be playing compositions written during different years of her life and that the compositions demonstrated her feelings during these periods.

For the opening piece, Hasanova played preludes 1, 2 and 4 of “Jasmine Petals” (Cycle of Seven preludes for piano, 1998). The preludes were all filled with cycles of fast and short notes, quickly transitioning from high to low notes. Though they were all played with a fervor, there was a gentle quality to them especially present in prelude 1. “Jasmine Petals” was followed by “Chesme

(“Mountain Music” 1984) preludes 1, 4, 5, 8 and 12, which constituted the majority of the concert.

Hasanova’s works are heavily influenced by her Azerbaijani heritage. Hasanova spent much of her life in Azerbaijan. She explained that she was born in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan, and then studied and later taught for several years in the Baku Conservatory of Music.

Hasanova’s compositions contain elements of Western culture but are grounded within Azerbaijani culture. The program describes Hasanova as “combining the essence of her native Azerbaijani culture and traditional music that represents the East with the contemporary classical music traditions of the West.”

One of the most touching pieces that Hasanova performed was “Monad” (Sonato for piano, 1993).

Hasanova explained before performing the piece that it was created in direct response to the 1990s invasion of Azerbaijan by the Soviets. During the invasion, Hasanova witnessed one of her neighbors being killed.

The piece conveyed the chaos and sorrow of that deeply traumatic event.

Hasanova’s piano performance was interjected with a flute performance by Jill Dreeben. Dreeben played “Six Simple Flute Pieces”

(1987), which consisted of Scherzando, Alla Marcia, Andante Dolce, Allegretto, Allegretto Expressivo and Moderato Tenebroso. Hasanova’s flute pieces had a similar tone to her piano pieces, as they shared some stylistic aspects. The pieces had Dreeben playing long strings of short notes, shifting rapidly from note to note, and hitting extremely high notes right before diving down to very low ones.

Hasanova’s final performance was “Alla Meykhana” (Fantasy for piano, 1996). According to the program, Meyhkana is “a distinctive Azerbaijan poetic genre that involves improvisation.” Hasanova’s performance of Alla Meykhana was more lighthearted than her other pieces. A surprise for the audience was when the piece integrated finger snapping into the piano composition.

While the concert exhibited some of Hasanova’s piano and flute compositions, Hasanova has written compositions for a range of music genres and instrumentation, including symphonic compositions, chamber music and even opera.

What truly shone through more than anything in the concert was Hasanova’s mastery of the piano and her original style of combining Azerbaijani and Western influences in her music.

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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2015 | THE JUSTICE

PHOTOS CORNER

Brandeis TALKS

INTERVIEW

What food could be improved with the addition of pumpkin?

Abby Skolnik ’18 Skulnik discusses new plans for the Ballet Club

Photo by Max Moran/the Justice

This week justArts spoke with Abby Skolnik ’18, a copresident of the Ballet Club, which is starting a new, more selective performance group within the club.

Valerie Timms ’16 “I’m not a fan of pumpkin, but I guess you could put it in a nice pumpkin squash or spaghetti.”

justArts: Can you give a background of the Ballet Club?

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SWEET TREATS: Amanda Nguyen ’18 took this photo of cupcakes on Saturday, SepT. 19 at one of the club tables in the Event in the Tent on the Great Lawn outside of the Shapiro Campus Center.

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Ari Feingersch ’16 “Everything. I especially love pumpkin pie.”

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STAFF’S Top Ten

Anthropomorphic Animals

By AVI GOLD JUSTICE EDITOR

Everyone loves Winnie the Pooh and the Hundred Acre Woods, but the realm of anthropomorphic animals is inhabited by a vast list of fascinating characters. Here’s my list of the top 10 anthropomorphic animals: 1. Tigger 2. “The Phantom Tollbooth”’s Tock 3. Puss in Boots 4. Baloo 5. “Finding Nemo”’s Crush 6. “Toy Story 3”’s Trixie 7. Fantastic Mr. Fox 8. “The Fox and The Hound’”s Tod and Copper 9. Rafiki 10. “101 Dalmatians’ Pongo and Perdita”

ACROSS 1 Ashley, to Mary-Kate 4 Martin and Cain 9 Role on “Black-ish” 12 Defunct airline 13 __ ease; nervous 14 E-mail provider for millions 15 Monogram for Pooh’s creator 16 Actress Verdugo 17 Actress Panabaker 18 Shininess 20 Marcia of “Desperate Housewives” 22 Role on “Castle” 26 USNA freshman 27 Bell and Barker 28 Role on “How I Met Your Mother” 29 “__ You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?”

32 “Without a __” 35 Actress on “Last Man Standing” 39 French farewell 40 Role on “M*A*S*H” 42 Tax-collecting agcy.

43 Davis or Midler 47 __-Wan Kenobi Solution to Last Week’s Puzzle 48 Neckwear for Don Ho 49 To no __; uselessly 50 “__ It Be”; Beatles song 51 Actress Laura __ Giacomo 52 Actor Sam __ 53 Mrs. in Mexico DOWN 1 Male deer 2 “__ the Line”; hit song for Johnny Cash 3 American __; Pago Pago’s location 4 Actor Vin __ 5 Perpendicular building wing 6 Tavern order 7 Fabray, to friends 8 Robert __ of “Unsolved Mysteries” 9 Ms. Fanning 10 Rump __; cuts of beef 11 Actor Ron and his family 19 Engine additive touted as “The Racer’s Edge” 21 American rock band 23 Mrs. Rubble 24 “Siskel & __” 25 Fragrant wood 29 Mitchell or McArdle 30 “A __ in the Sun”; movie for Sidney Poitier 31 180˚ from WSW 33 Steve of “The Office” 34 Actress Longoria

Abby Skolnik: I don’t really know the timeline of it, but ten years ago, maybe, there was more performance stuff that went on with the Ballet Club and recently it’s been more that there’s open classes. Basically, the main thing that the Ballet Club does is hold open classes, so anyone in the Brandeis community can come and take a class. There’s an instructor who comes in and she does the Russian style.

JA: So what is different about the Ballet Club this year?

AS: I’m one of the copresidents, Hannah Schuster ’18 is the other copresident, and we, together, were talking about the idea of starting a performance group ... and we knew that we wanted it to be selective, something that was audition—based. So, we were looking for serious dancers who had had somewhat extensive ballet training, and because both of us came from backgrounds where we’d both done a lot of ballet in the past … Ballet is kind of like the foundation of all other dance, so with ballet you can go in so many directions. ... With this performance group that we’re starting, we actually held an audition ... so the group is now ten people, so it’s just an exciting time because it’s a new thing at Brandeis.

36 Gloria Estefan or Desi Arnaz, Sr. 37 Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood 38 Curved sword 39 Has a bug 41 Actress Moreno 44 Arden or Plumb 45 Skater __ Babilonia 46 “’__ Death”; sitcom for Brad Garrett

JA: Are you affiliated with Adagio Dance Company?

Will you share the same performances?

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AS: Right now, we are planning to perform in the Adagio show. Last semester for the Culture X show, the Ballet Club did a dance. ...

One of the girls who was in that group has a high position in Adagio, so she reached out to me at the beginning of the semester asking if we wanted to perform in the Adagio show.

So our plan is to perform in the Adagio show. I don’t know down the line how it will all work out because it’s such a new group. But right now we’re not really affiliated with Adagio…but all the girls that I’ve kind of put this group together with all do Adagio. There’s crossover, but at the same time it’s separate.

—Jaime Gropper