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CAMPUS CLUBS

STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY

A-Board meets 61 percent of club requests ■ Giveaways and “swag”

were severely limited during the first round of fall allocations for club budgets.

By HANNAH WULKAN JUSTICE EDITOR

Club funding this year is down across the board, as the University had less money to give out to a larger number of clubs. However, funding has also been inconsistent, with some clubs receiving their full requested budgets, and others receiving none, according to budget documents sent out to the club leaders listserv.

The Allocations Board is respon-

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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Interim University President Lisa Lynch spoke to parents during Saturday's State of the University.

Lynch celebrates student ambition in Fall Fest address ■ Interim President Lisa

Lynch discussed the effect the University's legacy has on its values and opportunities today.

By Morgan brill JUSTICE editor

On Saturday morning, Interim University President Lisa Lynch welcomed parents to the annual Fall Fest activities by delivering the State of the University Address. In her address, Lynch highlighted what she believes sets Brandeis apart from other universities.

Lynch expressed her belief in the “unique” nature of the student body, highlighting that “as a professor, as a senior administrator at the University, what gives all of us on this campus, faculty and staff, such joy is the privilege of working with your child — our student — every day.”

She began the talk with an overview of the campus’s history, highlighting the University’s unique founding. She noted that the University’s dedication to teaching students to create evidence-based policy as

can be seen in the development of the Health, Science and Social Policy Program, is a manifestation of Justice Louis D. Brandeis’s “Brandeis brief,” which introduced data and critical analysis to legal decisions. Another testimony to the University’s dedication to justice, Lynch noted, is Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s upcoming visit to campus in honor of the 100th anniversary of Brandeis’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

Lynch highlighted the fact that Albert Einstein, who played a large role in establishing the university, pushed for the University to be named after Justice Brandeis because “he said that Brandeis is a name that can not be merely adopted; it is one that must be achieved.” According to Lynch, “Every day we are challenged here on this campus to sort of do justice, if you will, to the name of Justice Brandeis.” The rest of Lynch’s address was dedicated to discussing ways to “[meet] the Einstein challenge of achieving all we should achieve as a University named after Brandeis.”

In elaborating on the student experience at Brandeis, Lynch highlighted a variety of programs and attributes that help students excel — both in-

sible for deciding club budgets based on requests submitted through the online budgeting program, Student Union Management System. After club leaders have submitted their budget requests, the A-Board independently goes through the budgets during “marathon sessions” and decides which requests have enough merit to be funded. The A-Board then releases these budgets to all club leaders and opens an appeals process for clubs that feel their requests were unfairly denied to argue their cases. After these appeals marathons close, budgets are finalized for the semester, according to A-Board chair Alex Mitchell ’17.

This year, the A-Board had a

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INVESTIGATive journalism program

Schuster Institute challenges evidence of rape accusation

side the classroom and out. She spoke of the relationships students foster with each other, acknowledging that, “what’s different about Brandeis is, and I say this not only as a president but as a mother of a student … is how the students are really challenged, … [but] the atmosphere in which the students are being challenged is really a very supportive one. It is not a cut-throat environment.” Additionally, she noted, “Students are pushing themselves hard, but they are pushing themselves together and they’re supporting each other.”

Lynch also highlighted the unique opportunities that can be afforded due to the University’s status as “a liberal arts college based in a research university.” Students are exposed to a breadth of classes meant to prepare them for their life as critical thinkers and active citizens, she stated. Lynch also expressed pride in the “extra things that we do” as faculty, specifically mentioning programs like Justice Brandeis Semesters, the Spring Semester in the Hague program and the Summer in Sienna Program.

In addressing the quality of the faculty, Lynch mentioned professors and administrators who have re-

■ In its most recent

case, the Institute seeks to exonerate a man convicted of rape in 1985.

By abby patkin JUSTICE editor

The University’s Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism uses journalistic techniques to reveal corruption and bring injustices to light. Through its Justice Brandeis Law Project — formerly the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project — the Institute has investigated reported cases of people wrongfully convicted in an effort to “make a contribution to resolving the untenable ethical, civil and human rights issues created by wrongful convictions,” according

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to its website.

The Institute’s most recent investigation — which it began in 2011 — involves the 1985 conviction of George Perrot, a man from Springfield, Mass., for the rape of a 78-year old woman. This case is currently under review for a potential retrial, 30 years after the original trial.

According to the Institute’s website, Perrot, who was 17 at the time, didn’t match the victim’s description of her assailant — she described her rapist as clean-shaven with short, wavy hair, but Perrot had a full goatee and medium length curls at the time of his arrest. Additionally, despite the fact that the woman testified in both the initial trial and the appeal that Perrot, a man she knew from her neighborhood, was not her assailant, Perrot

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NEWS SENATE LOG Senate discusses Trustee initiatives and students’ rights committee On Sunday evening, the Senate recognized and chartered a new club and began discussing a new Senate committee designed to deal with the rights of students.

The meeting began with two representatives for Girl Up, a club seeking recognition and chartering, who explained that the club would serve as the Brandeis chapter of a international organization created by the United Nations that is focused on uniting youth to empower women across the world. Some senators questioned the representatives on the differences between Girl Up and other clubs on campus, including the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance. The representatives claimed that while the two have similar goals, FMLA is both more politically oriented and domestically focused than Girl Up would be. After a private debate about the nature of club recognition in general, the Senate unanimously voted to recognize the club.

The representatives then asked for chartering, and senators questioned why the club needed University funding if its stated goal was to fundraise for an outside organization. Following a lengthy debate discussing the merits of using Allocations Board funding for on-campus events and private fundraising for donations, the Senate voted to charter the club with 13 senators voting in favor of the motion, four opposing and two abstaining from the vote.

Student Representative to the Board of Trustees Grady Ward ’16 then offered a report concerning the upcoming Board of Trustees meeting. Ward said that the student representatives to the Board of Trustees would bring up the issue of accessibility of a college education for all students, regardless of wealth. He reported that the survey sent to the student body in early October had 769 responses and prompted a number of meetings with the administration, financial aid office and individual students. Ward said he had hoped to have had the report ready by the Senate meeting but was unable to and reported that it would be released in full to the student body by Tuesday night. Ward also said that the trustees have begun an initiative to better get to know students by introducing a book club, student lunches with trustees and a calendar of student events for trustees. Ward said all three initiatives are open to the entire student body, and encouraged anyone with interest to contact him.

Student Union President Nyah Macklin ’16 then gave an Executive Board update, reporting that she worked with the Judiciary Constitutional Review Force to comb through confusing language in the Student Union Constitution and hopes to present clarifications for review to the student body by Oct. 31.

The meeting then moved into reports from committee chairs, with Class of 2018 Senator Paul Sindberg ’18 reporting Turkey Shuttles have been reserved and finalized and the Student Union is now in the process of coordinating advertising. The Senate then heard from four candidates who wished to run for the Community Enhancement and Emergency Fund, and Executive Senator David Herbstritt ’17 instructed senators to vote by emailing Macklin no later than midnight on Sunday.

Village Quad Senator Abhishek Kulkarni ’18 then introduced a discussion of a new committee focused on the protection of student rights that have been violated. The prolonged discussion, which nearly required a vote on going into an executive session, centered on the differences between the proposed committee and the Student Conduct Board. Kulkarni claimed the latter was for adjudication and not for advocating on behalf of students.

Herbstritt recommended continuing the discussion throughout the week and at the next Senate meeting.

The meeting concluded with individual reports on personal initiatives taken by senators over the course of last week.

POLICE LOG Medical Emergency

Oct. 20—A faculty member reported a party fainting outside of the Olin-Sang American Civilization Center. Police notified BEMCo and BEMCo treated the party on the scene. University Police transported the party to an off-campus Urgent Care facility for further care.

Oct. 22—Police received a call of a party in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center who injured their ankle. BEMCo and University Police responded and treated the party on the scene.

University Police transported the party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Oct. 23—A student reported a party in the Foster Mods having trouble breathing. BEMCo was notified. Cataldo ambulance transported the party to NewtonWellesley Hospital for care.

Oct. 23—A party in the Charles River Apartments reported they were having an allergic reaction. BEMCo was notified and requested an ambulance. Cataldo

ambulance transported the party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Oct. 23—A party in Ziv Quad reported they were having an allergic reaction. BEMCo was notified and requested an ambulance.

Cataldo ambulance transported the party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Oct. 24—The manager of the Stein called University Police to report an intoxicated party in the bathroom. BEMCo staff reported to the scene and called Cataldo ambulance. The party was transported by Cataldo ambulance to Newton-Wellesly Hospital for further care.

Oct. 25—Police received a report of a possible intoxicated party in a stairwell in East Quad.

University Police found that the party was gone prior to arrival.

Oct. 25—Police received a report of a party in Massell Quad who was intoxicated with blood on their face. Police on the scene reported the party possibly fell and hit their head and was semi-

conscious. Police requested an ambulance and Cataldo ambulance transported the party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Disturbance

Oct. 22—A party in the Charles River Apartments complained of people talking too loudly. University Police asked the residents to quiet down without incident.

Oct. 23—A Community Advisor in Ziv Quad reported that participants of an unregistered party in the quad were not responding to the Community Advisor and requested police assistance. University Police on the scene reported the group dispersed.

Other

Oct. 19—A staff member from the Sachar International Center reported to Police that some decorations were torn off their desk.

University Police compiled a report on the incident.

Oct. 23—Police received a report of a suspicious party de-

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n A photo credit in the Sports section listed Caroline Gao as the photographer, when the photo was actually taken by Joyce Yu (Oct. 20, page 16).

scending the stairs from Castle Drive toward Loop Road across from the entrance to East Quad.

The caller reported that the party was walking hunched over with their head tilted toward the side.

University Police investigated further and found the party on South Street and identified the party as a student. The student was wearing headphones and was dancing and singing. University Police took no further action.

Oct. 23—A party in the International Business Center reported being harassed. University Police compiled a report on the incident with an investigation to follow.

Oct. 23—A party in Ridgewood Quad reported two suspicious older people on the fourth floor of Ridgewood B. The party stated that they did not think they were parents. University Police on the scene reported that the two people in question were parents of a student in the building and took no further action.

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Student coordinators serve up hot dogs and other snack foods at the Fall Fest carnival on the Shapiro Campus Center Great Lawn on Sunday. Fall Fest is an annual family weekend on campus.

In the wake of a recent controversial opinion piece titled “Why Black Lives Matter Isn’t What You Think,” Wesleyan University has voted to cut funding to the school’s student newspaper, the Wesleyan Argus.

The op-ed, which was published on Sept. 14 and was written by Wesleyan undergraduate Bryan Stascavage, a sophomore, questioned whether the Black Lives Matter movement — an activist movement that campaigns against police violence against African Americans — has played into recent violent protests against police and law enforcement officials.

Soon after the op-ed was published, a petition began circulating campus calling for a boycott of the paper. The student government voted on Oct. 18 to cut the funding to the publication by $17,000 — bringing its total funding from $30,000 per year to $13,000 — and redistribute those funds to other campus publications, which could include the Argus, according to an Associated Press brief.

The decision to cut funding has sparked a large debate on whether the petition and the subsequent cuts censors students’ rights to free speech and academic freedom. “As members of a university community, we always have the right to respond with our own opinions, but there is no right not to be offended,” Wesleyan University President Michael Roth said in a Sept. 19 Wesleyan blog post he co-wrote with Provost Joyce Jacobsen and Vice-President for Equity and Inclusion and Title IX Officer Antonio Farias.

“We certainly have no right to harass people because we don’t like their views.

Censorship diminishes true diversity of thinking; vigorous debate enlivens and instructs,” Roth wrote.

Wesleyan Argus Editors-in-Chief Tess Morgan and Rebecca Brill could not be reached for comment at the time of publication.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS Eisenbud Lecture Series

This year’s speaker for the Eisenbud Lectures in Mathematics and Physics is Jeffrey Harvey, the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor in Physics at The University of Chicago.

The Eisenbud Lectures are the result of a generous donation by Leonard and RuthJean Eisenbud, intended for a yearly set of lectures by an eminent physicist or mathematician working close to the interface of the two subjects. The title of Harvey’s first lecture is “A physicist under the spell of Ramanujan and moonshine.”

Today from 4 to 5 p.m. in Abelson-BassYalem, room 131.

Film screening: We Are Young. We Are Strong.

Today’s undergraduate students were born half a decade after the fall of the Berlin wall. To them, German unification is a historical event. They have no memory of the divided Germany, of how the wall

fell and of how German unification transformed both East and West Germany — indeed, all of Europe. In our celebrating the 25th anniversary of German unification, we aim to provide a historical overview from before, during and after German reunification, focusing on East and West German perspectives, beginning with a film series.

Today from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Mandel Center for the Humanities, room G03.

Nightmare on South Street

Join us for food and a haunted good time in the SCC. There will be performances, contests and games hosted throughout the evening. You can spend some time in the Haunted House, snapping pics with friends at the photo booth or participating in fun activities hosted by Brandeis clubs and students.

Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center.

Taste of China

Love Chinese culture? Want to test your skills on using chopsticks? Want to practice writing calligraphy with your friends?

Come to Brandeis Chinese Cultural Connection (BC3) and enjoy free Chinese snacks, desserts, authentic Chinese tea and play games with your friends.

Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Intercultural Center Swig Lounge.

Carnival on the Great Lawn

Looking for a fun Halloween night?

Dance the night away with the Caribbean Culture Club at our “Pirates of the Caribbean”-themed party! Hook and eyepatch are not required.

College ID required. Bags will be checked at the door. Brandeis students get free admittance. Tickets for non-Brandeis students are $3 in advance and $5 at the door.

Saturday from 10 p.m. to Sunday 2 a.m. in the Hassenfeld Sherman Hall.

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the future of diplomatic relations, especially concerning settlements.

By Max moran JUSTICE editor

Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine hosted Gideon Levy and Suhail Khalileh last Saturday for a discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the world’s response to the issue.

Levy, a columnist for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, writes a weekly feature called “Twilight Zone” on the Israeli occupation in the West Bank and Gaza. Additionally, he is a member of the paper’s editorial board. Khalileh runs the Israeli settlements’ Monitoring Department of the Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem, a nonprofit organization.

Khalileh spoke first on the history of the Oslo accords, stating that Palestinians widely believed they would be able to form a state by the end of the negotiations, which would include the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

He also said that Palestinians had not anticipated how quickly the number of Israeli settlements in the West Bank would grow and that the number of settlements has almost doubled since 1993. “We know that the foremost obstacle that stands in achieving the peace process altogether is the settlement,” he added.

According to Khalileh, the Global Domestic Product per capita for Palestine is under $3,000, while in Israel that number is $37,000. He added that in 2000, when Israel began construction on “the segregation wall, also known as the security barrier,” the wall annexed 13 percent of the West Bank’s total area, according to Khalileh.

He concluded by stating that Palestinians want to establish a state and ultimately seek a one-state solution stating that they are looking to return to the land that was occupied in 1967. “We want to have control over the natural resources, the borders, and Jerusalem as well.

For Palestinians, and for many of the others, this would be the sum of the peace process altogether. And without that, me, myself and many would have a hard time seeing any future if there is any left for the peace process altogether.”

Levy then took the stage, stating that in the week he has been traveling, “things in Israel have really deteriorated. … Things are really getting out of control.”

He said, “Many times, you have been told that the conflict in the Middle East is a very complicated conflict, and one cannot describe it in black and white. So I’d like to suggest to you today that it is a very simple conflict, … with very clear justice and injustice, and one might even ask if it is a conflict.”

He contrasted the issue with the French occupation of Nigeria, stating that this occupation was never referred to as a conflict, and that the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict is ultimately about “relative justice, not total justice, because total justice will never be achieved. … Above all, [the issue is] about equality.” Levy argued that Israelis tolerate the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza “with such self-content and confidence that we are not only right, we are the only ones to be right,” because of three core beliefs in Israeli society: the first, Levy argued, is that Israelis “are the chosen people.”

Israelis, Levy argues, use this as an excuse to violate international law. The second is that Israelis and Jews “are first of all the biggest

victim in history, but what is more important to say, we are the only victim in history, or at least the only victim in history that should be taken seriously,” he said.

He went on to argue that this was the lesson Israeli students receive upon visiting Auschwitz concentration camps, and stated that “there were more brutal occupations in history, and there were even longer occupations in history than the Israeli one, but I cannot recall even one example in which the occupier presents himself as the victim.”

Finally, Levy argued that “Israelis perceive the Palestinians not exactly as equal human beings like them,” stating that Israelis perceive Palestinians as being “born to kill” or as terrorists, and that because of this, “then questions of human rights are less relevant.”

According to Levy, Israel has “three regimes.” The first is a liberal democracy for Jewish citizens of Israel while the second is “a regime of discrimination” for Palestinian citizens of Israel — who, Levy said, “get a formal democracy with very, very deep discrimination in almost every field.” The last is the regime in the occupied territories, about which Levy said, “There are very, very few more cruel or more brutal totalitarian regimes than the totalitarian regime of Israel in the occupied territories. They are a regime which cannot be defined but as an apartheid regime.”

Levy then said that he does not anticipate any change coming from within Israeli society but that change must begin from the international community, particularly through citizens in civil society rather than governments. He stated that despite supporting the twostate solution for many years, “I think this train has left the station already. … I’d be the happiest person alive to be proven wrong.” He went on to say that Israel cannot be a Jewish democracy as this term is “a built-in contradiction,” due to one group gaining certain privileges over another, which Levy views as undemocratic. He stated that his first priority is for Israel to be democratic, as Israelis have different visions of what it means for Israel to be a Jewish state, and that Israel has been “one state for 48 years. The only problem is that it’s not a democratic state. It is a state with three regimes.”

When asked about why the Palestinians have not produced a charismatic leader on the same level as Martin Luther King Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi and whether the peace process can succeed without one, Khalileh responded that Yasir Arafat had been this charismatic leader. He criticized the belief that Palestine must produce a charismatic leader while Israel has no similar demands.

When another audience member stated that Israelis view Arafat as responsible for civilian murders, Khalileh stated that Oslo collapsed because “there were terms that the Israelis had to apply. They didn’t do anything when it came to giving up some of the borders, some of the Palestinians’ rights.”

Another audience member asked Levy what forces within the US allow it to continue enabling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and how Levy could talk about them without using language that would lead to accusations of anti-Semitism.

Levy responded that he felt it was unfair to call the United States the key enabler of the conflict, and that America’s pro-Israel lobby may not be as powerful as it is perceived, citing the Iran nuclear deal as an example of it failing to accomplish a key goal.

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Levy and Khalileh reflect on global response to IsraeliPalestinian conflict ■ The speakers discussed

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DEBATING CONFLICT: Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies David Ellenson (far left) debated with four other guests.

Panel of scholars speaks on Rabin’s Oslo legacy

■ Rabbi David Ellenson

said he believes MidEast peace can be found through political means.

By max moran JUSTICE editor

As part of a panel of experts from multiple backgrounds and universities, Rabbi David Ellenson — the director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies — participated in a debate on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Boston University on Wednesday. The debate was one part of an event titled “Yitzhak Rabin & the Legacy of Oslo: Prospects for Mid-East Peace Twenty Years After the Assassination.”

The debate was moderated by Tom Ashbrook, host of the nationally-broadcast National Public Radio talk show “On Point,” and featured three other panelists. They were Andrew Bacevich, a professor and the Chair Emeritus of BU’s International Relations department; Susannah Heschel, the Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College; and Jeff Jacoby, a conservative op-ed columnist for the Boston Globe. Additionally, Former President Bill Clinton sent a video address to the event’s attendees, giving his perspectives on Rabin. A lecture on Rabin’s history and political attitude was delivered

by Efraim Inbar, the director of Bar-Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and a current visiting professor at BU. Rabin was the fifth prime minister of Israel. He signed several historic agreements with the Palestinian leadership as part of the Oslo Accords, which eventually led to his winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, alongside Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat. He was assassinated in 1995.

The first speaker of the evening was the Consul General of Israel to New England, Yehuda Yaakov.

Noting that this year marked the 20th anniversary of Rabin’s assassination, Yaakov said that “each of us look to his legacy and find something different, and essentially create in our minds what we think his legacy should be.”

To Yaakov, Rabin’s legacy “was represented by a combination of our need to strive for peace with our neighbors while remaining strong. Rabin was on the one hand for coexistence, not only coexistence between Israel and the Palestinians but coexistence within Israel as well … but Yitzhak Rabin was also about our historical affinity to the land.”

Inbar then began his lecture on Rabin’s history and legacy. Inbar had fought as a soldier in Israel’s Six Day War in 1967, and he said that he admired Rabin’s work as Commander-in-Chief during the war. Inbar argued that Rabin “believed that [the] transition to peace is a long historic process, … [and] military superiority is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for making peace.” According to Inbar,

Rabin coined the term “dormant war” to describe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and “he understood that peace treaties are a piece of paper, and circumstances can change.

The deal with the Palestinians was not territory for peace. The deal with the Palestinians was territory for security.”

Finally, Inbar proposed that the main lessons to consider on the anniversary of Rabin’s death are that “there cannot be peace with the Palestinians in the near future,” and “there is no chance whatsoever of a two-state solution, which I would love to have.” He argued that the gap between the Zionist movement and Palestinian national movement was too large; that the Palestinians “display, not surprisingly, an inability to build a state;” that it is unclear whether Palestinians truly want a state as it would require “giving up the victimhood ethos;” and that peace was impossible due to both sides still having “the energies to fight.” He closed by saying that, compared to other historic ethno-religious conflicts, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is still “a young conflict,” and that the main positive outcome of Oslo was that Israelis “are convinced with very few exceptions that it [the failed peace process] was not our fault.

We tried. We were rejected.”

At this point, Clinton’s video was shown to the audience through a projector. Clinton said in the video that Rabin “understood that no matter where we live, our security depends not just on the strength of our defenses, but on our relationships with our neighbors. … I am absolutely convinced that had he lived, we would have seen the peace he so deeply desired.”

Ellenson, Ashbrook and the other debaters then took the stage. Ellenson responded to Inbar’s lecture by expressing that he shared many of his feelings, sensibilities and concerns for Israel’s security, but also that he felt Inbar’s view was pessimistic, and the need to find solutions to the problems Israel faces is too great to give in to pessimism.

He also praised Rabin’s pragmatism for being willing to shake Arafat’s hand and criticized the use of force by both Israelis and Palestinians, saying “power alone is not going to resolve the issue, we only can solve the issue by some kind of political solution as well.”

Ellenson asserted that a key difference between Rabin and current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is that Netanyahu views the conflict with the Palestinians through a more ideological lens, due to his father’s scholarship about the Jews having constant enemies seeking their destruction — a view that Ellenson said he does not feel is paranoid.

Additionally, Ellenson specifically questioned Netanyahu’s policies which “provocatively affirm” the Jewish people’s right to the Temple Mount. He called on Netanyahu to be more pragmatic in his approach to the issue. Ellenson did state that he believes Jews have a right to the

Temple Mount. Finally, he stated his regret that ethnic-religious conflicts can last for centuries historically.

In Bacevich’s comments, he said that he agrees with Inbar’s assessment that there is now no chance of a two-state solution, but that he also felt Inbar was incorrect to hold the Palestinians principally responsible, pointing out that Inbar had not addressed the settlements issue. Bacevich said that the United States’s interests and Israel’s interests may be starting to diverge, pointing to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, the Iran nuclear deal and the settlement movement as examples.

Bacevich said that this divergence was “to test the proposition … that the grievances of the Palestinians … somehow define the root cause of anti-Western, anti-American sentiment throughout much of the Islamic world.” He added that the United States may wish to test this proposition because it is unwilling to engage in the long-term conflict that Inbar alluded to. In response to a question from the audience, Bacevich later clarified that he does not believe the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the root cause of turmoil in the Middle East, only that Americans widely believe it is.

Heschel responded to Inbar’s lecture by asking the audience to remember “that evil is never the climax of history,” and that “peace is made not only by Prime Ministers; it’s made by individual citizens. It’s an individual personal responsibility.” She called on Jews to be more willing to speak to each other about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without fear of being called antiIsrael or anti-Semitic and said that the majority of Israel’s opponents are not opposed to the state itself, but to human rights violations.

Jacoby, in his comments, rhetorically asked whether “it would only have been another few months before [Rabin] pulled the plug on Oslo or whether, like so many of his countrymen, he would have felt wrapped in the belief that if we just try harder, just make more concessions, just offer more to show greater flexibility, peace will come, it will be possible.”

He also criticized Bacevich’s assessment that the United States was diverging from Israel, noting that similar assertions have been made at multiple past stages of the conflict.

He added that “Israel wasn’t created for the sake of peace; it was created so that there would be a Jewish homeland. … Israel has become an economic power, a military power, all without peace ever having been conclusively and firmly established.”

A Boston Globe column by Jacoby published the day after the debate called Oslo “a disaster from the outset” and said that Rabin’s assassination has, in fact, prolonged the failed process.

The event was this year’s Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture at BU’s Elie Wiesel Center.

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LIVING IN CONFLICT

Recycling contest pits quads against each another

■ In an effort to increase campus sustainability, the University has challenged first-years to recycle more.

By Rachel Moore JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

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ACTIVE LISTENING: Ariele Cohen ’99 spoke about how her experiences abroad taught her to listen more carefully to others.

Alum speaks on life in the former Yugoslavia

■ Ariele Cohen ’99 drew

upon her time spent in Yugoslavia to urge students to implement experiences in everyday life.

By Matthew Schattner JUSTICE Editorial Assistant

In the former Yugoslavia, Ariele Cohen ’99 engaged directly with the study of ethnic conflict during the summer entering her senior year at Brandeis. She was a member of the inaugural class of Sorensen Fellows, and during this time abroad she cultivated skills such as the art of listening and withholding preconceptions of others. On Oct. 22, Cohen returned to Brandeis to share her experiences in Yugoslavia and the lessons that she has carried forward in her life and career.

“Our tag line these days is, we pay you 4,000 dollars, you put social justice into action,” Marci McPhee said of the Sorensen Fellowship’s objective in her introduction of Cohen at the event. McPhee oversees the Sorensen Fellowship as the director of campus programs at the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life at Brandeis.

The event, titled “A Sorensen Fellow’s Journey from the Balkans to Wall Street: Implementing Lessons Learned in Unexpected Ways,” was hosted by the Ethics Center.

The Sorensen Fellowship was the first program out of the Ethics Center after its founding in 1998, McPhee explained, because the Ethics Center “wanted to make a deep impact right away on the undergraduate population.” Sorensen Fellows spend a summer abroad working at an internship related to social justice, as well as enrolling in courses in the spring and fall bookending their internship abroad to prepare for, and then reflect on, their experiences. According to the Ethics Center website, there have now been over 100 active Fellowship alumni since the program began.

Cohen is the first Sorensen Fellow Mini-Resident, which is a new program that is the result of a grant from Gillian Sorensen, a member of the Ethics Center’s international advisory board. Gillian is the widow of President John F. Kennedy’s speechwriter and Founding Chair of the Ethics Center’s Board, Theo-

dore Sorensen, for whom the Fellowship is named.

“The decision to go to the former Yugoslavia kind of fit naturally within the coursework I was studying,” Cohen affirmed at the beginning of her presentation. She had spent time working with Prof.

Steven Burg (POL), who was studying Yugoslavia at the time and was acquainted with a group of international professionals who had come from Yugoslavia to study at Brandeis as fellows. One had founded the Center for Anti-War Action, where Cohen would ultimately complete her Sorensen Fellow internship while in the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

In 1998, the region of Yugoslavia was rife with conflict from the Bosnian-Serbian War and the emerging war in Kosovo, Cohen explained.

“There was a lot to talk about in the context of co-existence and ethnic conflict,” she stated. She spent the summer living in Belgrade, interning at the Center for Anti-War Action, whose purpose was to build civil society and democracy in Yugoslavia, while also discoursing with the non-governmental organization community on the topic of ethnic conflict.

Cohen stated that she feels she derived important lessons from her time in the former Yugoslavia. In her presentation she emphasized “learning the art of listening, first of all, and the art that you can’t judge people by what they look like.”

As an example, Cohen offered, “I met somebody that was selling newspapers on the street and later found out that he used to be professor of psychology and was a national chess champion in Yugoslavia.”

In addition, Cohen also spent two weeks at a summer school in Montenegro to talk to young people from all over the Balkans about their struggles with ethnic conflict. She gained an appreciation for having direct interactions with people and their lives in conflict zones, stating, “If you listened to their stories you get a much richer sense of what is going on rather than necessarily being inside and reading about it.”

After her time in Yugoslavia, Cohen stated that she “felt like I didn’t even scratch the surface.” Wanting to build on her first-hand experience with ethnic conflict and social justice, Cohen moved to Sri Lanka for a year and half after graduating

law school. Living in Sri Lanka during the turmoil of a tsunami, Cohen stated that she “realized that small things can actually make a big difference.”

She added that some of these realizations were “that somebody can give you a pair of underwear and really help you kind of manage to survive. Somebody can hold your hand. Little things like that make a big difference in the world.”

Cohen then explained that although she is now a corporate lawyer, her time as a Sorensen Fellow still impacts how she operates in her career. She does significant pro bono work as part of her legal career, helping students with learning disabilities obtain benefits from the Department of Education, as well as working with Iraqi and Afghani nationals employed by the United States government as interpreters obtain special immigration visas.

McPhee then revealed that she had brought a booklet of questions that Cohen had written in the 1998 Sorensen Fellowship exhibition publication, a booklet that every class of Sorensen Fellows compiles detailing their key dilemmas, reflections and conclusions following their work experience.

Cohen took time to converse with the questions she had written after her time in Yugoslavia.

In 1998, she had offered the question, “How can I, as an American, empathize with and understand the powerful emotions associated with a nationality and ethnicity in the Balkans?” Answering her younger self, Cohen maintained, as she had throughout the event, that the key to understanding other people is to enter situations open to listening without judgment, always with honesty about one’s own self-identity.

The event concluded with an audience discussion on sources of conflict and peace. One audience member discussed a Croatian friend of his at Brandeis who, during the height of the Croatian-Serbian conflict in Yugoslavia, had still managed to bond with other Serbians at the University over their shared experiences and cultures.

Cohen ended by offering that disparities in wealth and social status exacerbate ethnic tension, concluding, “When people don’t have their basic needs met, it’s harder to address the questions of co-existence and living together.”

First year students have been set a challenge: In emails sent out to residents of North and Massell Quads by their respective Area Coordinators, Habibah Braimah and Jay MacDuffie, students in both first-year quads were pitted against each other to see which quad could be the most sustainable.

According to the email sent out by MacDuffie, Oct. 15 marked the beginning of a month-long challenge for each quad to reduce its energy consumption and “increase awareness on our usage of energy and encourage us to be more conscious about the choices we make and how it impacts our environment.”

The University’s Sustainability Program, directed by Manager Mary Fischer, teamed up with the Department of Community Living to launch this new event that both sides hope will kick-start a positive change in students’ lifestyles. The Sustainability Competition arrives on the heels of another brand new energy initiative — “Turn it Off” Days — that was introduced over the summer. “Turn it Off” Days aim to reduce the University’s energy consumption — through the conservation of air conditioning, in particular — on peak energy days.

These efforts are just the beginning of the University’s efforts toward sustainability; in an email to the Justice, Fischer wrote that the University is “actively investigating adding more solar installations to campus; we are evaluating several energy efficiency improvements; and we are gearing up for an LED light bulb giveaway in November, for starters.”

The competition was inspired by a proposal for an energy competition

by Ashley Piccirillo-Horan ’17, one of the Community Advisors in North Quad. Fischer wrote, “while I [had] been planning to hold competitions already, starting with the first-year quads was a great coincidence spearheaded by Ashley and a few other CAs from North,” adding that “another reason it works well is because it’s crucial to educate and establish sustainable behavior from the moment students start their Brandeis journey.

So starting with the first-year quads helps accomplish that.”

One of the incentives behind this campaign was Brandeis’s current statistics on recycling. “Our campus recycling rate is one-half of the national average. The national average is 35 to 40 percent, whereas our current rate is less than 20 percent,” Fischer noted, adding, “I’ve challenged Massell and North to strive for a 50 percent re-

cycling rate during the competition.

Why? Because we are not ‘just average’ in any way as a university, and everything we do should reflect that, especially our sustainability efforts.”

Instead of viewing these recycling results as something that is holding the University back, Fischer said that she has called for positive collaboration within the Brandeis community.

“The goal is to demonstrate that by making conscious efforts to reduce our energy consumption, and to dispose of our waste the most responsible way that we can, the community can make great strides in becoming more sustainable,” Fischer said, “And of course, to show how easy it is to do so — making a few different decisions every day can really add up.”

The results from the first week of the competition indicate progress already. Fischer recorded that “both quads increased their recycling rates by almost 10 percent each the first week, and four of eight buildings reduced their average daily kilowatthour consumption by 10 percent or more.” Fischer went on to clarify that a kilowatt-hour “is the amount of energy it takes to power a 100-watt light bulb for 10 hours.”

The reaction from first-years has also proven generally positive: Benedikt Reynolds ’19 of Massell Quad said that the competition has made him more aware of his energy-consuming actions. “[The competition] makes me second guess whether I should keep my lights on. So, lately, I’ve been turning them off — for Mother Nature!”

Reynolds added.

Nicole Porter ’19 of Massell Quad felt similarly: “I hope that it makes us all more conscious about the environment and how we affect it, especially [now that] we’re actually paying attention to ourselves,” she said.

The building with the greatest reduction in energy consumption will receive a to-be-determined, environmentally friendly prize.

On Oct. 25, MacDuffie sent out an email with the data from each building regarding recycling (measured in tons) and energy consumption (measured in average kilowatt-hours per day). Changes in recycling habits were compared to data from September, and changes in energy consumption were calculated by comparison to the daily average kwh before the competition started. Each quad recycled 21 percent of its waste, though Massell produced 0.49 tons more waste than North did. In the month of September, North had recycled 14 percent of its waste and Massell had recycled 12 percent. Concerning energy consumption, Cable Hall took the lead with a 17 percent reduction.

As a whole, North used 43 percent less than its baseline of 1612 kwh, while Massell used 33 percent less than its baseline of 1324 kwh.

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On Thursday, Enrique Jiménez, a postdoctoral associate at Yale University, spoke about Mesopotamian life and culture in his lecture, “The Prostration Hemerology: An Everyman’s Manual at the King’s Court.”

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Dane Morrison discussed the “other” American frontier: the South Sea.

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CULTURAL BLEND: Maina Singh discusses how Indian and Israeli culture come together in Jewish Indian communities in Israel.

Speaker analyzes life and culture in IndianIsraeli communities about the Jewish Indian community’s difficulties breaking economic barriers.

By Arianna Unger JUSTICE Senior writer

Prof. Maina Singh, a scholar-inresidence at American University’s School of International Service, lectured on Wednesday about her research on the sociology of the IndianIsraeli community and its difficulty integrating into Israeli society. Her lecture held the same title as her book, “Being Indian Being Israeli: Migration, Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Homeland,” which is now in its second print.

Singh explained at the lecture that she began to develop an interest in the Indian-Israeli Jewish community after she moved to Herzliya, Israel with her husband, the former Indian Ambassador to Israel.

She described her bafflement with the fact that she met very few Jewish Indians in the upscale neighborhoods of Herzliya: “I lived in Herzliya and I hardly ever saw any Indians in that area, … but if I went to small immigrant towns, I would see a lot of Indian Jews walking around, … and I began to wonder how and when those Indian Jews had begun to come, and I began to look for sources that would tell me about contemporary IndianIsraeli identity.”

Over the course of their three-year stay in Israel from 2005 to 2008, Singh travelled throughout the country, speaking to residents of the IndianIsraeli communities concentrated in Lud, Ramla, Be’er Sheba and the suburbs of Haifa. “If I didn’t find them well-scattered everywhere, then there had to be reasons for it,” Singh also noted in her lecture. “Having encountered different Indian-diaspora communities in different countries, I was a little surprised to see that Jewish Indians in Israel were not doing very well. … What happened in the face of integration?”

In her lecture, Singh posited five main reasons for the Jewish-Indian community’s difficulty in breaking through economic barriers.

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First, she pointed to the fact that many Indian immigrants had taken up residence in economically depressed cities. She attributed this to the fact that it was easy for Indian immigrants to buy the cheap properties that were abandoned by Arabs who had emigrated from Israel in the 1950s. She noted that the cities of Ramla and Lud, in particular, were popular destination cities for many Jewish-Indian immigrants because of their close proximity to Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport — one of the major employers of Indian technical workers.

Second, Singh cited cases of religious discrimination among the Indian-Jewish communities in Israel. She pointed to the example of the Indian Bene Israel community; in the early 1960s, the Israeli Rabbinate had questioned the Jewishness in this community, leading to a lengthy religious and legal ordeal.

Third, she argued that Indians, due to the color of their skin, were “lumped together” with Sephardic Jews and presumed to be less educated, thereby making it more difficult for them to obtain high-level employment positions.

Fourth, Singh discussed the cultural disparity between Indians and Israelis, stating that she found that Jewish Indians did not have the same amount of the characteristic Israeli “chutzpah,” or assertiveness, when interacting with employers.

Lastly, she blamed some of the Jewish Indians’ economic difficulties on Israel’s “population dispersal” projects in the early years of the country’s establishment. She claimed that the Israeli government’s attempt to settle immigrants along the “periphery” of the country hindered access to economic hubs for Jewish Indian immigrants.

Singh then explained to the audience that despite these difficulties, large waves of Jewish-Indian immigrants continued to move to Israel, particularly in the 1960s. She listed what she thought to be the three main impetuses for these migrations: economic prospects, centralized religious communities and institutions and a chance to “start afresh.”

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migrants highly subsidized housing and schooling for their children. She explained that in the ’60s, these were two attractive economic incentives for Indian Jews.

Religious motivation, noted Singh, was also a very important factor for devout Jewish Indian. She said that many of the religious Jewish Indians she had spoken to had been drawn to Israel in the first place because it provided an environment where they could practice their Judaism in the context of a larger Jewish community with rabbis, kosher food, and major Jewish institutions.

In addition, Singh mentioned that she had heard a few Jewish-Indian Israelis speak of their “start afresh” mentality. These individuals, she explained to the audience, seemed to be frustrated with the social climate in India and simply wanted to “begin anew” in a different country.

Singh made sure to mention that anti-Semitism was not a major stimulus of Jewish-Indian Aliyah. She asserted that, until 2008 and the attack on the Mumbai Chabad house, India was one of the only places in the world without a history of anti-Semitism.

She concluded by recounting some of her fondest memories of Israel; she had discovered that twice a year, the Indian embassy in Israel holds large celebrations for people of Indian heritage — one for the Indian National day and one for the Indian Republic day. She described these ceremonies as “a way of coming together” for the Indian community and showed the audience photographs of individuals she had befriended at the events.

Despite her understanding that Jewish Indian-Israelis were extremely patriotic and devoted to the Israeli state, she noted that “there was a very strong sense of connection and appreciation that was reflected in the sentence that I heard over and over again: ‘India is my motherland, Israel is my fatherland.’”

The event, held in Pearlman Lounge, was co-hosted by the Students for Accura cy about Israel and Palestine and the South Asian Students Association.

Prior to her lecture, Singh had been both a scholar-in-residence at the Hadassah Brandeis Institute in 2008 and a fellow at the Schusterman Center

On Thursday, Dane A. Morrison spoke on the importance of sea travel, particularly to Asia, for early colonial Americans in a lecture titled, “True Yankee: The South Sea and American Identity.” This is also the title of his most recent book, published in 2014.

Morrison is an American history professor at Salem State University.

Prof. Thomas Doherty (AMST) introduced Morrison by saying his new book demonstrated “how that other frontier … shifted the American identity.” He highlighted that “part of the American economy, the role of this distant sea trade in developing the nation’s character and global outlook in the early national period, has not been discussed until now.”

Morrison started his lecture by stating that his book is a discovery of “Americans’ first encounter with a wider world, how they came to understand its character and paradoxically came to understand who they were.”

He said that “on another level, this is a book about print culture. [It] tries to cover the voices of men and women who sailed from a new nation, who were called the new people and who themselves feel that they were encountering, ironically, a new world.”

Even though the Americans had defeated the British in the Revolutionary War, Morrison argued that they were still thought of as “barbarians” in most of Europe. Therefore, he stated, Americans of the time “[found] that they have another battle to fight.

It is not military. It’s cultural.” He added that, “among different issues, there was one standing out of all others — we have a national form, [and] we must deserve respect as people.”

Excluded by Europe, Americans turned eyes to China, a major driver in the global trade economy in the 1600s. Samuel Shaw, among the five American travelers detailed in Morrison’s book, was one of the first Americans to sail to China. Morrison noted that Shaw differed from his shipmates in that he focused on foreign culture as a priority. Sailing on a cargo ship, Shaw thought he was “carrying the value of a free republic to the rest of the world,” Morrison said.

Shaw’s journals detail his journeys through new and exciting places; for Shaw, Morrison argued, China “is not just a new country, but a new world.”

Amazed by the diversity of people and dense population in Canton, Shaw felt strongly that Americans “must be taught what the world is really like” outside of the continental United States. Shaw even argued that “we should recognize this [first entry date to China] as the second national holiday,” Morrison noted.

Morrison claimed that Shaw fit the definition of a “true Yankee” as someone who was “accepted by a community of civilization.” He added that for Shaw, the easy entrance and welcome into China’s trading ports signified that “in the far side of the world,

Americans are accepted. ‘This is our turning point. We have accomplished our goal — we have earned national respect [after gaining independence from Britain].’”

The second traveler Morrison discussed, Amasa Delano from Massachusetts, was also an explorer and sea trader who sailed across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. In his books, “A Narrative of Voyage and Travels in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres,” Delano defined a “true Yankee” as a citizen of the world.

Morrison noted that Americans “were no longer local. They traveled everywhere. ... To be truly civilized, to be truly cultural, a people should be educated. For Delano, travel educates us, and makes us sophisticated, make us cosmopolitic[al], make us polished, [and] in his language, makes us a citizen of the world.”

One experience stands out from Delano’s narratives, Morrison said.

On his travels to Chile, he saved the captain from a riotous slave ship, the Tryl. The slaves were then executed by the local Spanish authority in Chile, and Delano was rewarded by the Spanish king. According to Morrison, even though Delano describes a ‘true Yankee’ as a republican liberator and rescuer, “America is a republican liberator until they get to people of different color, different race. He [Delano] is instrumental in sending back into slavery and two executions, a couple of hundred people, who had been [of a] different color. He simply wrote in a paper, ignored the executions, that this is what an American should do in the world.”

The lecture then transitioned to a question-and-answer session. Tzvi Miller ’16 asked Morrison why his examples of the American vernacular of the late 1600s were not reflected in literature like Cotton Mather’s narratives. Morrison responded that most of the vernacular he used would be found more intensively in travelers’ logs. He added that “Americans [who] traveled en masse around the world … spent time to understand what these words mean.” Abby Patkin ’18 asked why narratives like Delano’s and Shaw’s lost popularity over time. Morrison replied that the frontier Americans were interested in had shifted, as “14 million population lived in [the] east coast and traveled [to] the west [in the U.S]. … You see reference of India, China and Sumatra filling in the newspaper in the 17th century. Then, you find a number of references of Asia dropped off in the 18th century. They are more interested in reading or just publishing accounts of pioneers and events in the Western world.” The last question came from a professor, who asked if Americans felt a racial superiority in their early visits to China. Morrison stated, “In the decades following the revolution, there was a sense among most of these travelers that they have something to prove. They feel they are equal to British, Spanish, and France.

They are part of community of civilization. If there are communities of civilization, there must be communities of uncivilized nations.”

—Editor’s Note: Abby Patkin ’18 is the News Editor of the Justice.

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Alum draws on Wall Street and Citi experience in lecture ■ Scott Silver ’84 spoke on

his entrance into business and how he worked his way from Brandeis to Wall Street.

By Tzlil Levy JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

On Thursday, Scott Silver ’84, Managing Director at Citigroup, Head of FX Investor and Cross Asset Sales in North America and the FXLM Quantitative Investment Strategy Team, gave advice to business students on how to do well while working in the business industry.

Kayla Timmons, Senior Program Coordinator at the International Business School, introduced Silver.

Timmons framed the event as Silver giving the audience his inside view on Wall Street and what it takes to enter and advance in business. She described Silver’s positions and his various roles at Citi, which includes developing institutional client relationships with hedge funds, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds and pension funds.

Silver then shared his career path and how he ended up working for Citi, giving the audience advice for applying to work at banks. Silver introduced Drew Dickman, a senior at Boston College, who worked at Citi’s Sales and Trading program and is joining Citi full-time next year, as well as Jeffrey Cherkin ’17, who worked in the sophomore program.

Silver introduced the students as representatives to show that banks have programs for undergraduates and that it is possible to get involved while in school.

According to Silver, there are two kinds of cultures in business: collaborative and competitive. Collaborative culture consists of working together, while a competitive culture is working on individual projects.

Silver clarified that each culture can incorporate the other culture as well. According to Silver, Citi incorporates a collaborative culture and “that culture fit with me.” Silver said there are four types of jobs in his industry: sales, trading, structuring

and strategizing.

In 2002, Silver had two job options; the first one was the position of portfolio manager at a big hedge fund and the second was working for a bank. “I had this opposite career path to just about everybody else who I was interacting with and I ended up getting an offer at Citi,” Silver said. “You notice very quickly that each of these banks has its own culture.”

While working at Citi, Silver built a knowledge-base on the mechanics of recruiting, telling the audience that many of the questions they could come across in interviews would most likely include: “what do you know about geopolitics and the world that suggests an opportunity for investment or a concern?”; “tell me your favorite stock and why”; and “tell me one thing about you that you want me to remember about you after you leave.”

He also gave advice for resume building, sharing three skill sets that people in banks look for: derivatives and quantitative ability, a macrothought process and people and communications skills. Silver said applicants should demonstrate a passion and an ability that sets them apart.

“You need to be passionate about what you are going to do and don’t think of it as just a job, but think of it as something that you can see yourself doing for the rest of your life,” Silver noted. “Sometimes when you have confidence in doing something, other people have confidence in you. … No matter how gifted and talented you are, if you mistake the culture in the organization and think it’s one thing or mistake how you’re wired, you’ll fail regardless of how talented you are, because you won’t fit in.”

“Don’t be afraid to take a chance, but if there is something in front of you that has a good reward, with a low level of risk, you should always go for that in your first job,” he added. “Make sure that the place where you go to work is the place where you feel that you want to work. … If you choose wrong, … try to correct your mistake as quickly as possible.”

Born in a working class city in Eerie, Pa., Silver said that he wanted to

go to a bigger city for college, so he applied to Brandeis. While he was at Brandeis, he said, he did not have any mentors, which was problematic for him because he did not know much about banking as an undergraduate. Due to his interest in the stock market, he created an account at a brokerage firm. His first stock trade was Pan American Airways, which made profit before the company went bankrupt in 1991. While at Brandeis, he wrote an honors thesis on “Unintended Consequences of Money Supply.” These two accomplishments, he said, helped him enhance his knowledge on the global economy.

After gradating from Brandeis with a bachelor’s degree in economics, he moved around, working for a small startup software company, developing financial applications for an artificial intelligence software base company in Cambridge, Mass. and raising venture capital for a startup with individuals from the Stanford University Business School in Silicon Valley. This experience with the startup allowed Silver to form bonds with more senior members in the business industry, and he began to realize that he was good at selling and representing complex products.

Though he said he was happy to make sales, he did not “feel invigorated by it” and after selling the company to a bigger company, he entered the financial hedge fund industry. The financial markets excited Silver, and he decided he wanted to be at the center of them. Over time, Silver said, he developed an expertise for trading and derivatives.

Dickman followed up and said that over the summer she had sat in at different desks at Citi, validating Silver’s remarks about the importance of having a mentor, reaching out to people and knowing the environment people want to fit in.

Cherkin added that he worked in the corporate and investment banking side of the business. His biggest advice is to network either by reaching out to Silver or even alumni.

The event was hosted by the Hiatt Career Center and the University’s Business program.

Study abroad

Study abroad expanded to Copenhagen ■ The University worked

with the Danish Institute for Study Abroad to offer a new economics program.

By jaime kaiser JUSTICE editor

The Office for Study Abroad will run the inaugural year of a twocourse economics program in partnership with the Danish Institute for Study Abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark during the Summer 2016 term, the University announced in an email on Tuesday. The program will run for five and a half weeks from early July through the middle of August.

The program is the latest development in a long-standing partnership between DIS, a non-profit institute founded in 1959, and Brandeis University.

The University sends a large number of students to participate in their programs relative to other external abroad opportunities. Assistant Director of Brandeis-Led Study Abroad Programs Candace Matta indicated that DIS was “a really good fit” to form this academic partnership based on the longstanding relationship.

The two courses offered are an intermediate microeconomics course taught by Prof. Kathryn Graddy (ECON) and a behavioral economics course led by a DIS instructor.

Matta indicated that Graddy’s course “is currently over-subscribed, and there’s often a waiting list,” so the program seemed like a good opportunity to offer the course again in the summer.

Regarding the inclusion of the behavioral economics course,

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Graddy said it “seemed like a really nice course for them to put on” because of the prevalence of this field of study in Europe and because Brandeis does not offer any behavioral economics courses in its curriculum. Future versions of the program may include different courses depending on the expertise and interests of the professors teaching them.

Brandeis faculty members designed the program to appeal to economics majors and minors whose particular course load presents a challenge for transferring credits. According to Graddy, the program was developed to encourage study abroad for economics majors, who might not otherwise.

“In the arts and in the languages, there’s a real push to go abroad. ... Since there’s not this specific course-based need to go abroad, people don’t do it,” she said.

Unlike many courses taken abroad, the two classes will appear as graded classes on student transcripts, as opposed to pass/fail transfer credits.

An experiential learning component will enhance classroom coursework with visits to relevant sites around the city as well as guest speakers. Additionally, there will be an introductory language component.

In addition to the general study abroad requirements, students must meet the prerequisite of either a B+ in ECON 2a or a passing grade in ECON 10a and must satisfy the introductory calculus requirement for students to qualify for the program.

An informational event about the program will be held on Nov. 3 in the Alumni Conference room of the International Business School.

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A-BOARD: Macklin urges transparency particularly difficult job, as the requested funding for chartered clubs, not including secured clubs, was $314,185.50. The A-Board was able to fulfill $190,974.31, or 60.78 percent of those requests, in comparison to $311,203.19 fulfilled of $361,862.80 last year — an 86 percent fulfillment rate, according to budget documents from the fiscal years of 2015 and 2016. This was due to several factors, including more clubs requesting funds and less rollover funds being available from last year. Some of the allocated budget was also earmarked for secured clubs, the Student Union and the Sustainability Fund, according to Mitchell's email.

The reasoning behind certain clubs receiving funding for events and others not is unclear in the club budget documents, as some clubs do not have reasons given for the cuts. The Guitar Club requested funding for an acoustic guitar and case but was denied without any reason given, according to the 2016 club budget documents.

The Brandeis Farmers’ Club and Brandeis Ensemble Theater both had requests denied due to “budget [being] too tight this year,” according to club budget documents.

The A-Board does have policies in place to guide clubs requests, including policies that discourage funding for giveaways, and do not allow funding for “swag” or personal purchases, according to Mitchell. However, when the budget is tight, as it was this year,

the A-Board must make decisions as to what to cut, Mitchell said in an interview with the Justice.

“I think one of the biggest things is that its kind of an arcane process, people don’t really know how decisions are made. We do have like a strict list of criteria, but it does come down to us having to make some judgment calls,” Mitchell said in an interview with the Justice.

Another area Mitchell said the ABoard tried to crack down on was giveaways and “frivolous requests” such as alcohol-based events. Mitchell said that alcohol-based events cost “a ton of money, and a lot of staff and resources being used for an event that more than half the student body can’t go to, or can't take part in.” Therefore it has been an “unwritten rule” that only Student Events can host them.

He added that while he has never approved alcohol-based events for any other clubs, the only other times they have happened have been “certain rare exceptions” when someone in the club had a friend on the A-Board, according to Mitchell.

In an Oct. 18 email to club leaders he clarified for the appeals process that, “We will very seldom fund giveaways for any club. If we denied it in the first round, we will deny it again.” This held true in most cases when giveaway requests were denied, according to the budget documents, but there were several cases where giveaways were approved, includ-

ing for Black Lives Matter bracelets requested by the Black Students Organization and stickers requested by the Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance that read “This is what a Brandeis feminist looks like.” Among giveaways denied were T-shirts and shot measurers for Peers Educating About Responsible Choices; and Amnesty International and Brandeis Israel Public Affairs Committee on the grounds of the no-giveaway policy, though the documents did not specify what the giveaways were.

Mitchell also targeted several other areas that he felt were wasteful of funds. One specific type of event he tried to eliminate was the “Wake and Shakes,” a morning event in which Student Events offers coffee and donuts to passersby.

He said that the A-Board had access to Student Events surveys that showed that Wake and Shakes were unpopular, adding, “I know that personally, the last thing I want at 9 in the morning is someone blaring music at me when I'm trying to get to class, and that seemed to be the consensus view of people. I talked to about 20 people that I know personally and I don’t think anyone actually was a big fan of them.”

“I was surprised that we weren’t allocated any money for Wake and Shakes, because we’d never had a negative experience with them,” Executive Director of Student Events Jeremy Cohen ’16 said in an interview

SCHUSTER: Perrot outcome will set precedent for hair analysis CONTINUED FROM 1 has remained in prison for almost 30 years. Now, the Schuster Institute is seeking to aid in overthrowing that conviction on the grounds that the DNA testing used to convict Perrot was faulty because it was not based in objective science.

Most recently, the Institute played a part in the May 18 exoneration of Angel Echavarria, who spent 21 years in prison for a crime he always claimed he did not commit.

“The [Perrot] case was referred to us by a source who we were corresponding with for another investigation,” Florence Graves, the Institute’s Founding Director, wrote in an email to the Justice. “He said he had received the case information and passed it on to several lawyers who he thought might be interested, but no one responded.”

According to Graves, the Institute began by reading court filings and documents and was “shocked” with what they uncovered.

“Right off the bat, the facts pointed to several classic signs of wrongful convictions: ‘junk’ science, prosecutorial and police misconduct, inadequate defense, a likely false confession [which later turned out to have been fabricated with forged signatures]," Graves wrote. "Even the victim said he didn't do it. So many things had gone wrong. When you are saying to yourself, ‘How could this have ever happened?’ and attorneys and others you consult are also shocked and puzzled, the case deserves scrutiny.”

The Institute has spent the four years since taking the case researching, interviewing sources and combing through records — an investigative journalism process that, according to their website, is more time-consuming than traditional investigative measures.

“When George Perrot's case came to us in 2011, it was almost 30 years old,” Graves wrote. “The first step in the investigation is to sort through all of the existing materials and try to understand the case.”

Before the Institute became involved with the case, Graves wrote, there were only a couple of stories in Springfield newspapers about Perrot’s case after his arrest in 1985. “Because his defense and the serious misconduct we have seen in his case had never been written about, we think it's important that there's a lot of sunlight shining on

this case.”

According to Graves, Perrot’s first prosecutor, Francis Bloom, “acknowledged in a court hearing after he was caught that he had fabricated a confession and had someone forge both George's signature and a police investigator.”

“If the police investigator hadn't been around when this phony confession surfaced, George would probably never have been able to prove it was a fake,” she added.

According to Graves, the Institute dug through the case’s paper trail, a task made easier with the help of student research assistants.

These assistants, she noted, are crucial to the investigation process, often sorting through years of paperwork and evidence.

“For example, in this case we saw that a witness seemed to contradict himself (and another witness) on a key piece of evidence. A student research assistant went back through all the relevant materials and summarized everything that was said about it,” Graves wrote. “Taking a deep dive on issues like this takes a lot of time, but it's important that we work to get as much of the full story as we can.”

Simultaneously, she added, the Institute does research and original reporting in an attempt to provide answers to questions that the trial record leaves open-ended. Graves wrote, “An obvious example of this in the Perrot case is the ongoing review of FBI hair analysis. Clearly, this case was part of a much larger problem with what we now know to be the pseudoscience of hair microscopy.”

Graves added that the case is rife with flawed DNA testing, also noting that hair analysts in the evidentiary hearings in September had called hair testing a “subjective” process: “Among other things, they [the analysts] said that they did not write down what they observed under the microscope, that there was no standard criteria to declare a positive association or lack of association between two hairs, and that for many common characteristics they cited in their conclusions (like hair color), there is no standard scale used by analysts to refer to.

This has affected thousands of cases worked at the FBI, and likely many more worked in state or local crime labs.”

She also noted that the case is emblematic of a larger issue of hair

analysis within the FBI: in 2009, the National Academy of Sciences published a report that reviewed the science behind several practices employed by the FBI. In their review of hair testing, the Academy stated that comparing the physical appearance of hair under a microscope — as had been done in the Perrot case — was not scientifically legitimate. Partially due to this report and a string of exonerations in Washington D.C. that involved flawed hair evidence, the FBI and the Department of Justice launched a review of potentially tainted cases in July, 2012, Graves wrote in the email.

She added that the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers confirmed to the Institute that Perrot’s hearing is the first to result from the FBI’s review, meaning that “the result will set precedent for those defendants who come after and, like George, appeal based on the results of the FBI review in their individual case. In George's case, the prosecutor's office is also unable to find the hair in question for DNA testing.”

Whether or not Perrot is granted a retrial depends on the results of two recent evidentiary hearings, which were held on Sept. 11 and Sept. 25 in Bristol Superior Court.

During these hearings, Judge Robert J. Kane heard testimony and evidence from both the defense and the prosecution.

While Graves noted that the Institute was not an “active participant” in the evidentiary hearings, she wrote in the email that they have kept in limited contact with the defense counsel, which has kept them updated on court dates and filings, and that they have received many documents from Perrot himself.

She stated that the discovery motion and the investigation of witnesses proved most effective in the hearings, also noting that the Institute has interacted with other media sources — including the Boston Globe, the Associated Press and WCVB, an ABC affiliate.

Yet regardless of the outcome of the hearings — that is, whether the judge decides to grant a new trial — the Institute plans to continue their investigation into the case. “There are still many issues which we feel need to be explored further. …

Whatever happens, we will follow the case as it develops and continue our investigation.”

with the Justice. He added that the survey Mitchell cited did not, in fact, have a question specifically about whether people liked the Wake and Shake events. He added in an email to the Justice that in the general comment section, Wake and Shakes were mentioned only 13 times, with two negative responses.

According to Cohen, Student Events requested a $300,000 budget for the year, as they received $280,000 for fiscal year 2015, but received about $157,000 before the appeals process, in which they were granted about $21,000 of their requested $43,000 appeal. This resulted in a received total of 59.33 percent of their requested budget. However, the documents provided to the club leaders listserv were incomplete and did not verify this information.

Mitchell said that another “frivolous” request was from WBRS for an all-expenses paid trip for two people to the South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas.

WBRS General Manager Harris Cohen ’16 wrote in an email to the Justice that WBRS only requested funds for airfare and festival tickets “similar to the funding that many clubs get when they ask to go to conferences that benefit their club.” He added that it would provide an important networking opportunity in order to bring bands to perform on campus in the future.

Student Union President Nyah

Macklin ’16 wrote in an email to the Justice, “We as students have to understand the sheer amount of time and effort that goes into being a member of A-Board. It is the only position within the Union that does just as much as I do as the Student Union President and also does so with everyone constantly unhappy with their choices.”

However, Macklin later added, “Transparency is key to our relationship with students. If we are open about what has the possibility of being funded by A-Board, clubs would stop feeling blind[sided] by the fact that a large event they had planned has now been denied because of ‘scope’ for example. And with transparency comes trust. The trust our students have in our A-Board and us as elected Union representatives is vital to the operations and progress of the Union.”

When asked about the A-Board process, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Student Activities Stephanie Grimes wrote in an email to the Justice, “We don't feel it is appropriate for the administration to comment on the allocations made by students.

We do encourage our student leadership to continuously evaluate the process, and the degree to which the allocation of student funds are conducted fairly, in the best interest of our community, and in alignment with community values.”

—Avi Gold contributed reporting.

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cently received awards, noting that many faculty members take pleasure in interacting with the student body and developing relationships that allow for student-faculty collaboration.

Lynch mentioned how impressive the student body is in its interactions with the greater Waltham community, noting that Brandeis was recently named the first in community service by the Princeton Review, with over 1,500 students having completed over 45,000 hours of community service in the town of Waltham alone.

Finally, Lynch challenged parents to embolden their children to be curious and challenge themselves.

She implored parents to “encourage them to stretch themselves” academically and try new classes outside their usual comfort zone. She also reiterated the importance of self-care, voicing her concern that sometimes students do not always know that “you can’t just live on Doritos for a week.” She expressed the importance of teaching students to advocate for themselves and told parents that it is OK to “let go,” acknowledging that, as a mother, she knows how

difficult it can often be to take a step back and allow children to grow independently.

In the question-and-answer portion of the event, Lynch mentioned that the University has not yet found a permanent president. She also stated that she was not being considered as a candidate and that she will return to her role as provost once a new p resident is announced next semester and assumes office sometime thereafter.

She also briefly addressed the financial costs inherent to higher education, noting that it is sometimes difficult to be a younger university that competes with Ivy League schools with only a fraction of their endowment.

She said she recognizes that the University cannot afford for the cost of education to determine whether or not students will be able to afford higher education. Last year, she said, the University gave out over 60 million dollars in financial aid, with the endowment only covering 17 percent of that sum. She noted that it was the University’s prerogative to “invest in faculty, not dorms,” a statement that garnered a round of applause from the parents.

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NATIONAL ATTENTION: During the 11 day occupation of Ford Hall, members of the Afro-American Society renamed the building “Malcolm X University.”

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If you happened to walk by the location of the current Shapiro Campus Center on Jan. 8 1969, you would have witnessed the infamous 11-day takeover of Ford Hall, the central academic building at the time. The occupation by about 70 students sought to demand better minority representation at the University. Roy DeBerry ’70, MA ’78, PhD ’79, one of the leaders of the takeover, was a recipient at Saturday’s Alumni Achievement Awards ceremony to honor his social activism as a student and his continued social activism in his professional career. DeBerry receieved the award alongside Susan Weidman Schneider ’65.

As president of the Brandeis Afro-American Society, DeBerry, along with other student leaders and advisors, helped stage the demonstration. He authored a list of 10 demands for the University to meet in order for the occupation to end. They called for complete amnesty from the University for all students, faculty and staff involved in the protests in addition to establishing an African American Studies Department, increase black student recruitment and add black professors to various departments. President Morris Abram stated that every legitimate demand would be met in good faith.

After 11 days, the occupation ended when the University agreed to address two thirds of the demands, ultimately leading to the establishment of an African-American studies department, the hiring of additional black faculty and the recruitment of more students of color.

“We believed that our cause was right, and so when you believe your cause is right and you believe that you’re pretty much within that tradition of social justice, then you move — but it’s done collectively. It’s not about me — it was about a collective effort of a lot of students,” DeBerry said in an interview with the Justice.

According to DeBerry, he and the students would not have been able to survive the 11 days in Ford Hall without the help of many students, faculty and administrators. Although some people opposed the occupation, there were many non-black students who supported it. “That’s just life, right? You’re going to have some people support your cause and you’re going to have some people who oppose, and that’s part of quote-unquote what ‘representative democracy’ is all about, and it seems like it’s certainly what the University is about,” DeBerry said.

DeBerry credits the momentum for change on campus to the turbulent times of the Civil Rights Movement, and specifically the assassinations of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and of Robert Kennedy in 1968. The assassinations encouraged DeBerry and other student leaders to reintroduce the 10 demands to the administration and refuse to leave Ford Hall until those demands were met.

“We said, collectively, that we wanted to be engaged in who would head that [AfricanAmerican Studies] department, so back then, we wanted to be involved in some [of] the decision-making rights — which was, I think, new for Brandeis, and that was an innovation that I think we introduced,” DeBerry said.

Alongside the surrounding tensions, DeBerry stated that “Brandeis recognized diversity was not where it should be.” He claims that “you could pretty much count the people of color on your hand,” so Brandeis started the Carnegie Program to get students from working class backgrounds and of different races to attend the University. DeBerry took part in this program in 1965, coming from Holly Springs, Miss. DeBerry then began his first year at Brandeis in 1966.

DeBerry expressed that the occupiers were students first and did primarily what all stu-

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OCCUPYING AND OPERATIONALIZING: DeBerry was president of the Afro-American Society and a leader in the Ford Hall occupation of 1969. dents do while on campus. That being said, the state of the country in the midst of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement deeply affected student culture.

“All this was taking place. And then, of course, Brandeis had those activist students, both black and white, who wanted the University to reflect that change, so it was a very impacting time to be on campus because things were changing. We were young, of course, 19 to 20, but we felt very much a part of that movement.

And sometimes lead that movement,” he said.

DeBerry was not surprised that the student protest of Ford Hall got pushback from the administration. He explained that anything that promotes change in a significant way is always going to get pushback, but that it doesn’t mean you are always right.

DeBerry continues social activism in his native community in Holly Springs, Mississippi. He organized the Hill Country Project, a nonprofit organization which records stories of the residents of Benton County who lived through the civil rights movement, and they also provide education support to the local school district. “People know about icons, but who they don’t know are the local people who significantly contributed to make the country an operational democracy. We want to do this so they can hear about these stories,” he said.

For DeBerry, Brandeis has fostered his “healthy dose of skepticism,” by teaching him to always ask questions and not just accept things as they are. Observing campus while visiting today, he believes that the University has progressed drastically in creating a welcoming, diverse community.

When asked what he thinks of the University’s theme of social justice, he answered, “what I found in the ’60s is, it’s one thing to say a statement, ‘social justice,’ but how do you operationalize it? And you operationalize it by doing things. You look around, you see there’s not the kind of equity, the kind of human rights, educational rights and diversity that there ought to be — then you change that to make it reflect the statement. So I think the statement has always been there, but it was our obligation as students at the time to make that operational … And, of course change has happened. But change sometimes has to be encourage, has to be pushed. I don’t think it happens automatically.”

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MAKING DEMANDS: DeBerry authored a list of 10 demands that students wanted the University to meet in order for the occupation to end.

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STUDENT ACTIVIST: DeBerry spoke of his time as a student and thanked fellow student leaders from the occupation of Ford Hall, several of whom were in attendence on Saturday.

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over and the founder of Lilith Magazine were recognized on Saturday FRANKLY FEMINIST: The Summer 2015 Lilith Magazine examines generational tensions to construct a Jewish feminist future.

The Alumni Achievement Awards On Saturday afternoon, the Brandeis community bestowed the highest form of university recognition upon two alums: social justice activist Roy DeBerry ’70, MA ’78, PhD ’79, and founding editor in chief of Lilith magazine Susan Weidman Schneider ’65.

Interim President Lisa Lynch presented the Alumni Achievement Award to both DeBerry and Schneider for their distinguished contributions to their professions and chosen fields of endeavors.

Previous winners of the award include Roderick Mackinnon ’78, a Nobel Prize-

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winning scientist; Marta Kauffman ’78 and David Krane ’79, co-creators of “Friends”; Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times and Robert Zimmer ’68, president of the University of Chicago.

The Alumni Achievement Awards were presented on Oct. 24th before a full crowd of students, family, faculty and alumni in the Faculty Club.

This week, justFeatures sat down with DeBerry and Schneider before the awards ceremony to learn about their experiences at Brandeis and about their notable careers that followed.

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ALL SMILES: Interim President Lisa Lynch presented both Schneider and DeBerry with their awards on Saturday afternoon.

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Reflecting on her first week at Brandeis, Susan Weidman Schneider ’65 recalled that she felt as if she had entered “a whole new world.”

Schneider returned to Brandeis this Saturday to accept the Alumni Achievement Award alongside Roy DeBerry ’70, MA ’78, PhD ’79.

“I really am deeply honored,” Schneider said in an interview with the Justice.

“Brandeis has meant a lot to me, and over the years, [it] has been a place that has consistently marked my own identity and growth.”

Coming to Brandeis from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Schneider studied English and American Literature. Schneider remembers her academic experience as incredibly engaging and interesting, crediting the enthusiasm of her professors in helping her learn — yet Schneider also learned from the women around her.

“I came to Brandeis in an era when the Ivy League Schools were closed to women, so the cohort of women with whom I was at Brandeis ... were a very interesting bunch, in part because if they wanted to go to a school that wasn’t exclusively female there weren’t a lot of wonderful liberal arts college options. But Brandeis was one of them,” Schneider said.

There were also female professors working at Brandeis during this time, and despite being a minority, these women had a significant impact on her education, according to Schneider. One in particular, a biology professor, brought donuts for the entire class in a baby carriage before an exam. It was not only her passion for teaching but also her caring attitude that resonated with Schneider.

“There she was, nurturing the students, teaching the students, pregnant herself and doing it all with tremendous verve and enthusiasm,” Schneider recalled.

When asked what advice she would give to her first-year self, Schneider responded, “Do

more, go to everything. Don’t spend so much time sitting and talking and processing, but go to that film or go to that lecture, and make sure you appreciate the smorgasbord [of resources available].”

After graduating from Brandeis, Schneider spent some time in Israel, where she began to think more about the implications and choices regarding Jewish culture in the lives of women. She began to write about these observations, and in 1976 she founded Lilith magazine with a group of like-minded women.

The magazine, of which she is editor in chief, asserts itself to be “Independent, Jewish and Frankly Feminist.”

With articles on topics ranging from marriage and childcare to female rabbis and equal pay, Lilith magazine explores the intersection of Jewish culture and female life. The magazine currently produces four print issues each year and consistently maintains and updates articles on its website.

“Feminism gets decided every day in our relationships,” Schneider said. Lilith explores these choices in Jewish women’s lives.

“Our authors and our writers and our readers want to know the backstory [behind these choices]. They want to go deeper,” Schneider explained. For example, Schneider explains how the magazine examines the idea of marriage and the choice of a woman not to marry.

“There’s no tradition of nuns or celibacy in Jewish religious life. What kind of pressures does that put on women?” Schneider asked.

During her time at Brandeis, Schneider said that the word “feminism” wasn’t being used. It wasn’t until the late 1960s that the term emerged as a product of women’s efforts in other social change movements. It was then that Schneider first became aware of feminism.

“There was a burgeoning consciousness that you could look at the world through a gender lens. Things that I think many of

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LEAVING A LEGACY: Susan in her yearbook photo while a student at the University. us had perceived — but did not have names for — was a way of seeing unfairness within the framework of gender ... Seeing that there were, situationally, circumstances that could be righted. Wrongs that could be righted,” Schneider said.

As a nonprofit organization, Lilith has “the luxury of making editorial decisions that are not so much based on the bottom line but on getting ideas out there,” she explained. The magazine has a policy of open submissions, and Schneider credits this as well as the col

laborative atmosphere at the Lilith office in the magazine’s success.

This year, Brandeis University’s Archives and Special Collections acquired the Lilith archives, which include a plethora of background information and drafts from Lilith articles. Schneider is currently working on filming brief explanations of all of the archive’s content with the goal of bringing the information to life.

“The hope is that they will become, as Sarah Shoemaker [Brandeis special collections] says, the keystone of a collection of feminist papers here,” Schneider said.

In addition to her work at Lilith, Schneider has published two books and co-authored a third. In her first book, “Jewish and Female: Choices and Changes in Our Lives Today” (1984), Schneider said she sought to provide a “comprehensive look at Jewish women’s lives through a feminist lens” at a time when that topic wasn’t really being discussed anywhere else besides Lilith.

Her second book, “Intermarriage: The Challenge of Living with Differences between Christians and Jews” (1989), explores crosscultural relationships within the Jewish faith.

The information in the book is written from the intersection of “anecdotal material … and demographic and sociological data starting to emerge [on the subject]” Schneider said.

Despite the changing cultural landscape both in feminism and Judaism, Schneider said, “the intersection of identities is something Lilith has always, always covered and written about. It turns out to be, of course, very much on people’s minds now. We are pulled in multiple directions, all of us. There are feelings one has and actions one takes … that may play out quite differently a decade later. We’re always interested in developmental issues like that. And I think that we will continue to be.”

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EDITORIALS

Reexamine Allocations Board funding process

On Wednesday, Oct. 14, the student Allocations Board released their yearly budget decisions, which included significantly reduced funding from what clubs requested and have received in previous years. The A-Board is currently mediating the annual appeals process, in which some clubs can petition for changes to their funding decision.

The A-Board faced more than $100,000 less in rollover funding than during last year’s allocations and more clubs requesting funding than in years past. However, it has become increasingly clear in the uncertainty and misinformation pervading the aftermath of this decision that the allocations process requires reexamination.

While this board firmly believes that the A-Board should remain a student-run organization with independence from the University administration, there are sorely needed, common-sense changes that must be enacted to prevent bias, promote communication and restore confidence in the process.

The A-Board has been criticized for lacking transparency in how funding decisions are made and shared with club leaders. Where full funding requests were not met, the board offered little explanation in many instances, attributing vague, singleword responses such as “scope” as justification. Requiring the A-Board to write up a brief explanation, perhaps even as short as 250 words, to explain the reasoning behind approving or not approving funding would allow students to understand why certain decisions were made. Moreover, such a system would prevent baseless accusations of bias in A-board decision-making while illuminating instances when biases may be truly apparent.

Additionally, we recommend that the Aboard formalize and publicize the method by which it makes the decision to either cut funding or support a given club or event. Students need to first understand

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what factors A-board considers when utilizing its considerable power before they can meaningfully engage in the funding and appeals process. As students elect the A-board is in the first place, students are owed a clear understanding of how their representatives make decisions. Formalizing such a process may also lead to A-board instituting new rules to prevent misallocations in the first place.

Finally, we urge A-board to an impartial observer, perhaps a faculty or staff member, in the room during the appeals process.

A-board members are themselves students and many have accused A-board of prioritizing their own clubs and interests in allocation decisions. Such accusations are difficult to prove, but simply keeping an impartial body in the room during appeals could prevent accusations of coercion or unfair bias during the appeals process. Aboard can and should remain independent from administrative oversight, but simply letting someone without personal stakes in club funding sit in on appeals would be a strong measure toward fairness.

The A-Board is supposed to ensure that funds are equitably distributed among student groups. Clearly, there is a difference between trying to threaten or coerce an elected board and fairly expressing displeasure with decisions. In the interest of preventing the former, this board feels the A-Board has been limiting the latter. It is imperative that students feel comfortable speaking out about or protesting A-Board decisions without fear of repercussions for exercising free speech.

Once there are certain checks on the ABoard and a certain expectation of transparency and lack of bias, it must be up to the student body to hold the A-Board accountable. However, until then, it is essential that more be done to ensure biases do not taint the decisions of the A-board.

Reflect on Lynch’s State of the University address This past Saturday, Interim President Lisa Lynch hosted a State of the University talk designed to inform visiting parents about the University’s recent achievements. While this Board recognizes that the nature of a Fall Fest event may be limiting topics we feel there are still a number of issues that Lynch can address during her one-year tenure that would better be suited for a talk entitled “State of the University.”

Lynch’s interim presidency places her in a unique position to address certain campus issues that permanent presidents will inevitably devote less time toward. Lynch announced as one of the conditions of her presidency was that she was going to focus less on continued fundraising and more on campus life since it is hard to take on new fundraising projects during a one-year period, in a July 1 interview with the Justice.

First and foremost, the administration needs to embrace the prospect of adjunct faculty unionization. One of the primary reasons any student any school is the faculty, and it is the faculty who keep the students invested in learning. It would be prudent to invest time, energy and money in faculty.

Second, this Board recommends that the University take a longer look into providing Disability Services with the resources and information they need to effectively do their job. Since the University last did a comprehensive look at disabilities on campus nearly a decade ago, there have been far too few changes to rectify the situation.

The University should at least consult an

Suggest plausible changes expert who can recommend necessary standards of modernization. Disabilities should not stand betwe en any student and their education.

The issue of sexual assault is one that we cannot expect the University to fully address within the time frame of Lynch’s tenure. However, the University can take the necessary steps to further spread awareness of resources on campus with the data gained from the climate survey.

The data showed that two of the biggest challenges regarding combating sexual assault on campus are spreading awareness of the resources available to survivors and establishing trust in the system. While this board recognizes that both tasks are complex and difficult, the University should use the data gathered from the survey to build at least a plan for addressing sexual assault on campus.

Even though Lynch’s interim presidency will only last a year, there are still a number of steps she can take to address issues at the University. Unionization and disability services are both issues that the University can take clear steps to fix through support and research.

The University can use the data it gathered from this year’s survey to begin to address the issues that were uncovered, especially regarding making the student body aware of resources on campus. In doing so, the University would have more comprehensive talking points available for next year’s State of the University address.

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Canada elected its first new prime minister in nearly a decade last Monday, as the Conservative Party’s Stephen Harper was ousted by Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party, which also gained an absolute majority in the country’s government. Though Canada is the United States’s largest trading partner, Harper’s relationship with President Barack Obama has been complicated, due to Obama’s opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline, which Harper supports. Trudeau, though nominally pro-Keystone as well, has also spoken about the importance of balancing environmental impacts of the proposed pipeline. The Liberal party has also indicated that it would remove Canada’s non-NATO military from the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State. As the US prepares for its own presidential elections, how do you see Trudeau’s election impacting the next year of US-Canada relations?

Prof. Lucy Goodhart (IGS) The election victory for Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party removes one consistent irritant in US-Canadian relations, since the Liberals will put less pressure on the US to undertake the Keystone pipeline.

On the other hand, it introduces a different irritant, since the Liberals are pledged to pull out fighter planes from the effort to combat ISIS in Northern Iraq. More broadly, this is a generational change for Canada and the new government may decode to flex its muscles on the foreign stage. Looking at the year ahead, Michael Ignatieff (former leader of the Liberals) has pointed out in the Financial Times that the Canadian election campaign lasted 78 days and that, in victory, their new leader, Justin Trudeau, urged magnanimity toward the defeated Conservative Party. “Conservatives are not our enemy. They are our neighbors.” At the start of an American election season that is already marked by bitterness and division, the greatest impact of the Canadian election may be what it entitles Canadians to ask about America and what we should conclude about ourselves.

Prof. Lucy Goodhart (IGS) is a lecturer in International and Global Studies.

Sophie Freije ’17 While Canada’s replacement of Harper with Trudeau — whose views on the Keystone XL Pipeline deviate less from Obama’s opposition — may temporarily improve US-Canada relations, upcoming election results will ultimately determine the mood of this debate going forward. Trudeau’s stance is most compatible with that of Republican candidates, who tout the economic incentives surrounding the Keystone XL Pipeline. As a result, electing a Republican candidate will pose an interesting trade-off for the U.S.; mutual support for the pipeline will improve U.S.-Canada relations but also lead to more drilling, more greenhouse gas emissions and, potentially, more messy spills.

Even if Trudeau’s relatively moderate approach creates a “middle-ground” on the issue, his election hardly eliminates pressure on the U.S. to start gaining economic profits from the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Sophie Freije ’17 is the president of Students for Environmental Action.

Ariel Kagedan ’16 The results of the Canadian Election will hopefully help us see a return to the vibrant tradition of positive U.S.-Canada relations. Obama’s veto of the Keystone pipeline could not be better for Trudeau. While he is marginally supportive of Keystone, he has no interest in the negative effects it will have on the people, environment, wildlife and climate, and, moreover, the detriment to both countries’ economies. Considering Trudeau’s ‘nominal’ support, I imagine that he will take a hard ‘no’ stance towards the pipeline in an effort to reset a broken relationship. Trudeau’s announcement of his intent to withdraw all non-NATO support from the U.S. led coalition fight against the Islamic State is a potential wrench in beginning an amicable relationship. It is important to remember that given Canada’s small military, any change will be much more a change in tone than practical involvement. I think the White House acknowledges Canada’s important history as a peacekeeping nation in blue berets, and I, for one, am proud that we are turning back into one.

Ariel Kagedan ’16 is the inaugural Brandeis-Canada scholar. He is from Ottawa, Ontario.

Matt Smetana ’17 With the Liberal Party now in power in Canada, we will see a massive shift in the way Canada influences the United States. Since our two nations are so closely tied, the policies that Canada passes will not only affect the U.S., but also serve as an example of what our government should enact. Justin Trudeau’s environmental stance is more progressive than most, calling for carbon pricing on a provincial basis. This type of tax policy charges those who emit carbon dioxide, a method that makes alternative forms of energy more economically favorable.

He also plans on having a stronger, more constructive presence at the 2015 Paris Climate Conference. Polar regions are at greatest risk from climatic change; therefore, Canada has a great deal to lose. With the new political shift, Canada and the United States now share many of the same ideals and relationships should strengthen moving into the future.

Matt Smetana ’17 is the co-chair of the Brandeis Senate Sustainability Committee and is the undergraduate departmental representative for the Environmental Studies department.

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Criticize Carson’s misguided Holocaust comments

Encourage trustees to divest from fossil-fuels Brandeis Climate Justice is a campus organization of undergraduate and graduate students.

The group is committed to decarbonizing the economy, mitigating the worst consequences of climate disruption and assisting those most affected by our changing atmosphere and oceans.

As young people inheriting an increasinglyfraught ecological future, the climate crisis is the most pressing issue of our era, with tremendous consequences for the future of social justice.

We write today to urge the members of the Board of Trustees to discuss student and faculty calls for a fossil-free endowment. Since the fall of 2012, students, professors and the administration have all organized and shown a strong demand for action from the Board: On April 25, 2013, a strong majority (79 percent) of students voted to support our petition urging Brandeis University to sell its investments in fossil fuels. Last year, 149 Brandeis professors — constituting over 36 percent of the senior faculty — signed a petition organized by Faculty Against the Climate Threat and urged “those in charge of the endowment to remove all financial investments from fossil fuel interests.” Responding to strong student pressure, the administration convened the “Exploratory Committee on Fossil Fuel Divestment” in the spring of 2013. After studying the issue for two years, in May 2015 the committee recommended “that Brandeis strongly considers divesting its holdings in fossil fuel firms. Student consensus and robust faculty concern suggests that continued investment in fossil fuels presents a fundamental tension with Brandeis’ proud tradition of social justice.”

Despite community action and the urgency of the climate science, the Board of Trustees has remained silent and inactive on this pressing issue. We are very concerned the Board is ignoring student concerns. Pursuant to Brandeis’s 1973 investment criteria, it is clear that Brandeis students, faculty and stakeholders believe that continuing to profit from fossil fuel is “clearly and gravely offensive to the University community’s sense of social justice.”

Brandeis students and faculty contend that the University should not continue to profit from the fuels that are driving climate disruption. As the Divestment Committee report made clear, Brandeis’s energy investments today are literally shaping the climatic future of the University’s students and stakeholders. Fossil fuels are not “investments” if they are eroding the ecological foundations of our future.

We urge the trustees to please discuss the campus-wide demand for divestment at their next meeting and let the community know their decision. Continued inaction on this issue will diminish Brandeis’ proud reputation as a leader in social justice — especially in the eyes of current and future students, like us, who see the climate crisis as one of the most urgent challenges of our time. We implore the trustees to commit to a fossil-free endowment and ensure a more just and sustainable future.

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Aaron

Dvorkin The Plight of Reason Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson, a former neurosurgeon and 2016 candidate for president of the United States, caused an uproar recently when he claimed that gun control measures played a major role in the extermination of six million Jews during the Holocaust.

“I think the likelihood of Hitler being able to accomplish his goals would have been greatly diminished if the people had been armed,” said Carson in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Oct. 8.

The statement has been widely derided by the established Jewish community, including the Anti-Defamation League. Holocaust scholars have rightly pointed out that the argument hyperbolizes what was a relatively insignificant factor in the systematic persecution of minorities in Nazi Germany.

In his recently published book “A Perfect Union,” Carson writes that Nazis were able to accomplish their goals “through a combination of removing guns and disseminating deceitful propaganda.” The insinuation that confiscating guns was of comparable significance to the use of propaganda has never appeared in any “serious work of scholarship on the Nazi dictatorship,” according to Holocaust scholar Alan Steinweis. As ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt noted in response to Carson, propaganda and widespread anti-semitism was the preeminent cause of the genocide.

According to the National Review, gun legislation enacted in 1938 prevented Jews from working in the firearm industry and banned the ownership of certain types of ammunition.

Even so, the law did not entirely take guns out of the hands of the Jewish population. One of the most iconic events of World War II was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when around 750 Jews organized themselves into a self-defense unit to resist deportation to death camps. The resistance succeeded in turning what was supposed to be a three-day liquidation of the ghetto into a month-long battle before finally succumbing to a German force of 2,000. Their resistance inspired similar uprisings in other ghettos and death camps across Europe. However, as many scholars have pointed out, such attempts were never going to be anything more than symbolic.

According to Time Magazine, there were approximately 200,000 Jews under the control of Germany in 1938. The idea that an untrained group of that size could have overthrown an army which successfully conquered much of Europe is preposterous. Interestingly enough, not even Carson or those who agree with him have gone so far as to say that such a rebellion would have been possible. Rather, Carson says

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that the chance of Hitler succeeding would have been “greatly diminished.” Dr. Keith Ablow of Fox News backed up Carson’s obscure claim in an op-ed, saying that when Jews were stripped of the right to own guns, “they surrendered the demonstrated intention, at all costs, to resist being deprived of liberty.”

save them: immigration.

In response to the conference, the German government stated that it would allow for Jews to be transported to other countries if they agreed to take them in, according to Ronnie Landau, author of “The Nazi Holocaust.” However, that never happened.

Most countries that attended the conference, including the United States and Great Britain, refused to take in more refugees. The WagnerRogers Bill of 1939 would have admitted 20,000 Jewish refugee children into the United States, but Congressmen were dissuaded from supporting the legislation by anti-immigration groups who claimed that an influx of refugees who required government services would serve to deprive American children of aid.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, our country’s reluctance to take in Jewish refugees was inspired by longstanding xenophobia in the early 20th century. Anti-immigrant sentiments were often manifested in newspaper and magazine cartoons which perpetuated stereotypes. Alreadyexisting immigration quotas established in 1924 targeted immigrants of certain ethnicities.

Ironically, the same sentiments still thrive among American conservatives, and have manifested themselves in especially ugly forms during the current election season. While Carson says he supports establishing a guestworker program as an alternative to deporting illegal immigrants, he has joined his contemporary Donald Trump in expressing the need to deter illegal immigration through increased border security.

There are many lessons that policymakers should glean from the Holocaust, but how to construct gun policy certainly is not one of them. Carson’s comments insult the memories of those who perished in the Holocaust whose fates are being used to push irrelevant political agendas. If Carson truly wants the lessons of the Holocaust to influence his ideology, he will make a point of pushing back against the xenophobia of his party and preach acceptance of those who come from different backgrounds.

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Carson’s comments insult the memories of those who perished in the Holocaust...

The question then becomes why Dr. Carson and others are so fixated by a solution which they admit would have only allowed European Jews to symbolically resist. The reason lies in the fact that the Republican party is clambering for historical examples to show positive aspects of lax gun regulations in developed countries. Few exist in a world where countries with the highest rates of gun ownership also have the highest number of deaths by gun. The United States has had 10,734 fatalities resulting from gun violence this year. We have nearly 30 times the number of per capita gun murders as the United Kingdom, which has far stricter gun laws, according to the BBC. Perhaps another reason for such backward thinking on the part of Carson and his ideological contemporaries is that the real solution to saving Jews during the Holocaust is inconsistent with another aspect of their political ideology.

In 1938, thirty-two countries met in Evian, France to discuss a solution for saving European Jewry. The discussion did not center around arming Jews under Germany’s control.

It dealt with the only logical solution for how to

Trudeau campaign reflects shifting political culture throughout Canada Catherine

ROSCH Cynical idealist On Oct. 19, the Liberal Party of Canada won 184 seats to take the majority in the 338-seat Canadian Parliament. The victory is impressive for a number of reasons; the Liberals had a net gain of 148 seats — the largest gain in Canadian history as no party has won as many seats since 1984 — and this election was the first time that a party that was neither the official government nor the opposition will form the new majority government.

But what makes the Liberal Party’s victory most impressive is its leader, the Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau, son of the famous Pierre Trudeau, the Liberal leader who successfully handled the Quebec separatist crisis and is credited with developing the bilingual pan-Canadian state of today. However, Trudeau was not guaranteed a spot in Canadian politics just based on who his father was; he worked as a French and math teacher and a snowboarding instructor for several years after graduating college and later studied environmentalism and

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engineering. He did not win his first election until 2008, when he beat a Bloc Québécois incumbent in the heart of Montreal. In 2013, when he was elected to lead the Liberal Party, it was in shambles and had grown so weak that it was no longer invited to be part of the government with the Conservative Party or the opposition with the New Democratic Party.

So what made the Liberal Party, and, more importantly, Justin Trudeau, so successful in 2015? After all, in 2013, Trudeau, and the Liberal Party as a whole, was widely criticized for not taking strong policy stances on contentious issues, be it fiscal or foreign policy. There are three reasons that the Liberal Party ascended in 2015, and other parties, especially left-leaning parties that have been floundering since 2008 in America and Europe, should take note.

Justin Trudeau was not afraid to run away from his party’s — and his father’s — past.

Rather, he proudly owns up to being the first prime minister to have had a parent who also held the office. They share a sense of outspokenness that is both a strength and a weakness.

However, there is distance between Justin and Pierre; Trudeau was only 13 when his father left politics and first ran for office nearly a decade after his father’s death. While it is obviously easier to run for an office your family member popularly held several decades ago than one that family member unpopularly left only eight years earlier, Trudeau successfully managed to portray himself as a strong, independent lead-

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Canada is still not completely out of the 2008 global recession and has actually had an economic downturn in the last two quarters, while America’s economy has continued to grow, albeit slowly. Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party, similar to right-leaning parties in Europe, instituted harsh austerity measures, including major cuts to public universities and public pensions in order to limit deficit spending. One of Trudeau’s most popular campaign promises was to deficit spend in order to invest in government spending and boost spending in all of Canada’s provinces — not just Alberta, a claim made against Harper. Rather than running from liberal policies and ideals like many other liberal leaders, be they Barack Obama or Francois Hollande, have done since the Recession, Trudeau is proudly owning up to his ideology, be it supporting marijuana legalization or ending Canada’s involvement in the United States’ bombing campaign against the United States.

However, what was most striking about Trudeau’s campaign was the tone and attitude he took. Harper and his government had serious problems with marginalizing various communities during his tenure, most famously sending body bags to First Nations populations and reservations in Manitoba when they requested medication during the Swine Flu epidemic. But what made Harper truly stand out during the

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Clearly, Canada is not the United States, and what works in Canada might not necessarily work in the U.S. or even in other parliamentary states in Western Europe. However, the tri-pronged approach of taking ownership in one’s identity, not backing away from possibly unpopular policy positions and remaining positive and not targeting minority groups could be a winning combination for all political parties in the future.

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GOLDSTEIN UBUNTU And the results are in! For the 2015 year, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has been declared the winner of China’s Confucius Peace Prize for the Founding Leader as “he brought benefit to the people of Zimbabwe.” This benefit so frequently manifests itself in the presence of mass atrocities and election violence, but maybe for a moment let’s put that aside to reevaluate how we got here.

The prize was first awarded in 2010 in response to the Nobel Committee’s choice to give the Nobel Prize to Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident who spent 11 years in prison. The Chinese government believed it was high time for them to start awarding accolades for what Qiao Wei, a poet and president of the judging committee, said in an interview with the New York Times is this century’s interpretation of Confucianism: the “concept of universal harmony in the world.” This has compelled them to award the prize to the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, agricultural scientist Yuan Longping, Zen master Yi Chen and former Cuban President Fidel Castro.

With such a spotty record, how can we expect China to actually award those who appear to be truly deserving of such an accolade?

Or can we really argue it is worth anything?

Well, with Mugabe in mind, perhaps everyone should have little faith in the process. While credited for his pan-African attitude in the wake of the colonial era, the despot isn’t shy about allocating his own brand of atrocities such as the “Gukurahundi massacres,” where Mugabe’s army is credited with slaughtering 20,000 innocents in an effort to weed out the opposition, or the more recent violence and intimidation encouraged by the 2008 run-off in elections. Being paired alongside changemakers like Yuan Longping doesn’t amplify the image of Mugabe, but rather, it goes to further delegitimize the peace prize.

Judgement of the Chinese selection process aside, maybe we should begin to recognize that they did something right, albeit for the wrong circumstances. Maybe the selection process for Nobel Peace Prize winners is fundamentally flawed.

Often, those deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize — despite being nominated for it on multiple occasions — failed to obtain the prize. Most notable of these nominees is Mahatma Gandhi, India’s pro-democracy independence leader who practically invented the non-violence movement. Gandhi was nominated five times between 1937 and 1945 and never recieved the prize. Instead, on the year

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of his death, the committee chose to pick no candidate. The peace prize was only awarded posthumously to two people, and in 1974, the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation ruled that no prize could be awarded unless the announcement had been given before the would-be recpient’s untimely death.

Another very deserving individual who was nominated for the prize multiple times but never received it due to similar circumstances is the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, the righteous gentile credited for saving tens of thousands of Jews in the closing months of World War II in Nazi-occupied Hungary. Wallenberg issued “schutz-passes,” or Swedish protective papers, to prevent deportation and he established Swedish safe houses that provided a neutral harbor for tens of thousands.

By the second nomination, the diplomat was presumed dead in a Soviet prison. What happens when a person perfectly personifies the award? Gandhi is the father of the non-violent movement and Wallenberg sacrificed his life in the pursuit of peace. Wallenberg once expressed, “I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I’d done all a man could do to save as many

Jews as possible.” Might I ask, who is more deserving of this prestigious honor than they are?

If it cannot get any worse, the international community has often administered the award merely as a symbolic gesture. Most notably after he spent only a year in office, the Norwegian Nobel Committee decided to award the prize to none other than President Barack Obama in order to encourage him to further his goals of nuclear disarmament, according to Geir Lundestad, the director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.

In 2013, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons “for its extensive efforts to eliminate chemical weapons” as yet another symbolic gesture. This event was particularly timely as the organization was responsible for ridding Syria of its stockpile of chemical weapons with the attack on Ghouta. Today, according to the New York Times, at least 984 civilians have been killed by exposure to chemical weapons or agents. This exposure is continued, and therefore, one can assume that the OPCW mission was unsuccessful.

The same year, Dr. Denis Mukwege, Congo-

lese doctor and medical director of the Panzi Hospital in eastern Congo, was nominated for the award.

Women in the country travel hundreds of miles to receive medical care for vaginal fistulas as a result of rape and psychological treatment for wounds that can never be healed for Congolese women. Sexual violence in Congo is so prevalent that it is to be expected. In fact, in 2010, Margot Wallstrom, the UN’s special representative on sexual violence in Congo named the Democratic Republic of the Congo the “rape capital of the world.” Despite all of this, and after three nominations, he has yet to receive the Nobel. In 2012, armed gunmen broke into the home of the man who is credited with saving tens of thousands of women.

It would certainly be a shame if his work is never recognized.

Perhaps Mugabe winning this Confucius Peace Prize will open our eyes to the inherent flaws in a prize we deem so significant to our global order: the Nobel Peace Prize. This prize should be exclusive to those reexamining this global order, attempting to return to peace and realizing that living is about what you can give to someone else.

Reconsider Al-Quds culture before renewing relationship Dor

COHEN Elephant in the Room On Oct. 3, Muhannad Halabi, 19, a resident of Ramallah, killed two Israeli men, Nehemia Lavi, 41, and Aharon Benita-Bennett, 22, in a terror attack in Jerusalem. He injured two others, including a two-year-old. According to an Oct. 3 Times of Israel article, a day before the attack, Halabi posted on his Facebook account that, “[T]he Third Intifada has erupted.

What is happening to al-Aqsa [mosque] is what is happening to our holy sites, and what is happening to the women of al-Aqsa is what is happening to our mothers and women. I don’t believe that our people will succumb to humiliation. The people will indeed rise up.”

Halabi was also a law student at Al-Quds University.

Another Al-Quds student, Dia al-Talahmeh, 21, died last month when a bomb he attempted to detonate at a West Bank checkpoint exploded, according to Agence France Presse.

Al-Talahmeh and Halabi’s actions and statements exemplify the culture of radicalism that exists at Al-Quds University. Obviously, I do not believe that most Al-Quds students are terrorists or support terrorism. Yet these attacks, as well as Nazi salutes and fascist imagery during rallies in support of Hamas and Islamic jihad in 2013 and 2014 that were attended by hundreds of students, according to a Mar. 25, 2014 article in the Washington Free Beacon; votes to fire professors that attempted to have meaningful dialogue with Jewish partners and raise Palestinian awareness of Jewish persecution; recent rallies against Is-

rael and protests against the visiting of the Jewish state by the Indian president; and the naming of campus buildings after terrorists, among other actions, evince that Al-Quds University — both its administration and student body — continuously exhibit disdain for dialogue and worrisome support for hatred and violence.

The murder of innocent Jewish Israeli citizens by Al-Quds students further evinces why Brandeis should not reinstate our partnership with the university.

Only when Al-Quds shuns its harmful culture and renounces support for terrorist organizations — such as when students organized protests supporting Hamas — and truly attempts to promote understanding of and coexistence with Jewish Israelis and punishes those who promote hate speech should the possibility of reestablishing a partnership between our two institutions be considered.

Unfortunately, there are those on the Brandeis campus who fervently call for restarting the partnership while either ignoring or downplaying the actions, or, in the administration’s case, lack thereof, of those who attend the school.

On Oct. 13, the Brandeis University & Al Quds University Student Dialogue Initiative posted a statement on its Facebook page saying that members of the Initiative “deeply mourn the loss of life of Palestinians and Israelis alike.” In the last installment of my column, I described how the media was equating the deaths of victims and their killers and how doing so is unacceptable and inherently wrong.

While not an article published by the media, by not differentiating between the terrorists and any victims, the Dialogue Initiative’s statement is guilty of the same crime. By stating that they mourn all loss of life alike, the Initiative equated the deaths of innocent Israeli citizens and their Palestinian murder-

ers. Doing so is intellectually dishonest and morally unacceptable. The mere fact that the statement can be read in such a manner is itself denouncable.

The statement also condemned the targeting of the al-Quds campus with “tear gas, beatings, shooting, and vandalism,” stating that they “are specifically keeping members of the Al-Quds community in our thoughts and prayers.”

Aside from the fact that the statement seems to consider the stabbing, ramming, and bombing of Israeli citizens as less dire than tear gas and vandalism, the Initiative’s only proof of the shootings and beatings was a Facebook post from a student at the university. Considering that Palestinian society has been spreading false reports of the attempted destruction of al-Aqsa mosque by Israeli settlers, according to an Oct. 8 NBC News article, and security forces for the past several months, an allegation by one student should not be considered concrete evidence.

I was only able to find one article by the Ma’an News Agency, a decidedly pro-Palestinian outlet, describing anything remotely close to what the Initiative alleged. Even then, the article stated that “Israeli forces shot and injured three Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets in clashes outside the al-Quds University’s campus in Abu Dis.” According to the article there were clashes between Israeli security forces and rioting al-Quds students, and Israeli forces made sure to use nonlethal ammunition; hardly the violent raiding of the Al-Quds campus that people were made to believe occurred.

This leads to the next problem with the Initiative’s post. When I commented on it, saying that their statement equated the lives of victims and their killers, that the statement’s focus on the Al-Quds campus instead of the ongoing terrorism in Israel was disconcerting, and that the statement contained no men-

tion or criticism of the Al-Quds students who participated in the wave of terror, my comment was removed and I was blocked from commenting further on the Initiative’s page.

When another student commented on the post, asking for links to articles about the “shootings” and “beatings,” his comment was deleted. In fact, all comments that either questioned or criticized the post were removed.

Other students let me know they were blocked as well.

For a group whose mission statement is supposedly all about “dialogue” and engaging in conversations with others on delicate or controversial matters, the Initiative’s actions were highly hypocritical.

It appears that the members of the Initiative are willing to engage in dialogue with a university whose students state their support for terror, the murder of innocent Jews, and the rejection of coexistence, but not with fellow Brandeis students who might disagree with them.

The Initiative’s actions are disgraceful and completely antithetical to their proposed movement, the message of Brandeis University and academia as a whole. They are also telling. The Initiative holds attempts at “sitins” in the President’s office and decries the prevention of speech, yet it prevents others from speaking. It states that talking, not violence, is the answer, yet downplays violence against Jewish Israeli citizens.

Until the institution reforms the detrimental environment prevalent within its campus, Brandeis University should not reestablish its partnership with Al-Quds University.

Moreover, the Brandeis University & Al Quds University Student Dialogue Initiative’s hypocrisy and equating of terrorists and their victims should be roundly condemned. Its statement noted that “the time for dialogue is now.” The Initiative should make sure that it adheres to its own words.

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CONTINUED FROM 16 A seeking pass from midfielder Haliana Burhans ’18 — who had broken away from a defender before sending a cross in to the 18-yard-box — set up Szafran, who easily slotted the ball into the back of the net for her team-leading sixth goal of the campaign.

The Judges nearly added a fourth goal just before time expired as forward Lea McDaniel ’17 managed to get a shot on Falcone, but the Westfield State keeper was up to the task and made her fifth save of the difficult contest.

Brandeis managed four corners and 27 shots on goal, their highest total since taking 34 shots in a 2-0 victory over Eastern Nazarene Col-

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DIGGING IN: Setter Leah Pearlman ’19 serves against Southern Maine University on Sep. 5 during the Brandeis Invitational.

VBALL: Judges record just their fourth win of the year make the score 10-18, but the Judges would go on to lose seven of the next ten points. Cho had 23 digs in the match, and Decker-Jacoby notched seven kills.

Judges 3, Wesleyan 2 The Judges won on five sets against Wesleyan — 25-17, 25-21, 1525, 23-25 and 15-12.

Brandeis took a 16-9 lead in the first set and did not let up. The team went on a 9-7 run to take the set victory. In the second set, Engeler and Decker-Jacoby combined for seven kills. The Judges took a 2-1 lead, and they did not relinquish that lead

throughout the second set. A kill from Kaufman sealed the 25-21 victory for the team.

The third set was a different story for the Cardinals.

Wesleyan took a 19-11 lead and would later take a 24-14 lead before clinching the set victory.

The fourth set remained close throughout, with neither team taking more than a two-point lead.

After a 23-23 tie, Wesleyan eventually closed the game with a 25-23 victory to force a fifth set.

In the fifth set, the Judges went down 6-2 but came back to take a 8-7 lead. A service ace from Nork sealed the match victory.

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blocks in the match, and setter Allison Harmsworth ’19 tallied a total of 26 assists.

The Judges will return to action tomorrow night at Lasell College, with the match scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.

The squad will face off afterwards with Babson College and Vassar College on Saturday at home.

The three games will constitute the team's final non-conferece showdowns of the season.

It will travel to the University of Rochester on Nov. 6 for the University Athletic Association conference Championships.

The team will look to improve upon last season's last place finish.

lege on Oct. 6.

With the win, the Judges hold a +15 goal differential at home, having scored 20 goals on Gordon Field while ceding just a total of five to opposing sides.

The squad holds a +22 goal differential overall with a total of nine goals scored in four road contests this year.

The senior class set a school record with their 52nd win in the victory, including two trips to the NCAA Tournament and one trip to the Eastern College Athletic Conference Tournament.

The Judges return to action this weekend with a UAA road trip, traveling to Emory University on Friday and the University of Rochester on Sunday morning.

SWIMMING: Squads struggle to win during meet at Rochester CONTINUED FROM 16 Rochester Invitational by finishing sixth in the 1650-yard freestyle, seventh in the 200-yard butterfly and the 500-yard freestyle and eighth in the 400-yard individual medley.

Diamond commented, “Our team did well for this time of year; we are constantly working to lower our times as well as becoming more efficient in the water.”

For the men, Edan Zitelny ’17 added a ninth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly, and Taku Harada ’18 earned a tenth-place finish in the 500-yard freestyle, three spots behind Diamond.

Cameron Braz ’17 and Harada finished tenth and eleventh in the 200yard freestyle, respectively.

For the women, Ariana Traub ’18 finished eighth overall in the 50yard freestyle.

Both teams had swimmers finish at or near the very bottom in most of their events. Many of the com-

petitors’ B and C medley and relay teams finished ahead of Brandeis’s A team.

The men and women will get a week off before they travel to Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Sunday, Nov. 8, where the men will face off against Babson College as well as WPI. The women will face off against WPI, Babson and Smith College on the same day.

Diamond was optimistic about the rest of the season.

He mentioned, “We are focusing a lot more this year on ‘practicing smart ’. This means that practices will include more technique and pacing opportunities that can simulate a race. This mind frame will hopefully guide us throughout the season.”

The Judges will look to thrive at the upcoming non-conference meets for the next couple months.

This will all lead into the UAA Championships in February.

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Overall W L D 12 2 1 12 2 1 10 2 3 8 4 2 9 2 3 9 4 2 5 3 5 5 10 0

Pct. .800 .800 .667 .571 . 643 .600 .385 .333

Jake Picard ’16 leads the team with three goals.

Player Goals Jake Picard 3 Josh Berg 2 Chris Bradley 2 Conor Lanahan 2

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

Player Assists Josh Ocel 7 Patrick Flahive 2 Stephen DePietto 1 Joshua Handler 1

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Overall W L D 13 0 1 13 2 0 11 4 0 13 2 1 8 5 1 10 4 0 7 4 4 7 6 1

Pct. .929 .867 .733 .813 .571 .714 .467 .500

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Holly Szafran ’16 leads the team with six goals.

Player Goals Holly Szafran 6 Lea McDaniel 5 Cidney Moscovitch 4 Alec Spivack 4

Assists Holly Szafran ’16 leads the team with fourth assists.

Player Assists Holly Szafran 4 Lea McDaniel 3 Samantha Schwartz 3 Haliana Burhans 2

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W L W L Pct. Emory 7 0 26 2 .929 WashU 6 1 28 2 .926 Case 5 2 21 5 .808 Carnegie 4 3 24 6 .800 Chicago 3 4 18 8 .800 Rochester 2 5 13 13 .500 NYU 1 6 13 14 .482 JUDGES 0 7 4 22 .155

UPCOMING GAMES: Oct. 28 at Lasell Oct. 31 vs. Babson Oct. 31 vs. Vassar

Grace Krumpack ’19 leads the team with 140 Player Kills Grace Krumpack 140 Maddie Engeler 136 Shea Decker-Jacoby 109 Zara Platt 87

Digs Yvette Cho ’19 leads the team with 373 digs.

Player Digs Yvette Cho 373 Grace Krumpack 261 Leah Perlman 139 Shea Decker-Jacoby 138

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

TOP FINISHERS (Men’s)

TOP FINISHERS (Women’s)

8-Kilometer Run RUNNER TIME Liam Garvey 25:56.2 Mitchell Hutton 26:09.4 Quinton Hoey 26:21.2 Brian Sheppard 26:28.0

6-Kilometer Run RUNNER TIME Emily Bryson 21:50.5 Kelsey Whitaker 21:59.6 Lydia McCaleb 22:44.8 Maddie Dolins 22:55.6

UPCOMING MEET: The teams will continue their seasons at the UAA Championships on Oct. 31 at Franklin Park, Boston.

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CRAWLING TO VICTORY: Zach Diamond ’17 competes in the Rochester Invitational last Saturday at the University of Rochester.

Diamond earns high honors for performance ■ Zach Diamond ’18 finished in first place in three separate individual races at the meet against Wheaton College.

By noah hessdorf JUSTICE editor

Zach Diamond ’18 was named the CollegeSwimming.com National Division III Swimmer of the Week on Oct. 19. Diamond became the first Judge ever to receive the prestigious award.

The honor comes on the backs of an impressive performance for Diamond at the squad’s meet on the road against Wheaton College on Oct. 18. At the meet, he won three individual races.

Diamond was proud to receive the honor. He commented that he was “shocked. I didn’t know that I would get such a high honor. However, I felt that the honor was a bit premature; I could have pulled off a better performance. It’s still early in the season, and I would like to improve on a lot more aspects of my swimming, whether it be in or out of the pool.”

He completed the 1000-yard freestyle in 10 minutes, 23.43 seconds — 35 seconds faster than the runner- up.

He swam the 200-yard butterfly in 2:07.37, while also finishing the 500yard freestyle with a time of 5:09.63.

Diamond also swam the second leg on the runner-up 200-yard freestyle relay with a split of 23.40.

The Staten Island native is off to a great start after a strong rookie year in the 2014 to 2015 campaign.

Diamond is content with the team’s performance so far.

He said, “The team is right where it should be for this time of year; i.e., comparable with regard to times at this time last year. With all of the hard work we put in at practice every day, we will definitely be ready to unleash our full potential come February (for the University Athletic Association Championships).”

In addition to the CollegeSwimming.com award, Diamond was also named the University Athletic Association Swimmer of the Week for Oct. 19, along with the women’s team’s Kylie Herman ’19.

In her first-ever collegiate meet, Herman captured two first place finishes for the Judges.

Herman won the 200-yard freestyle race with a time of 2:03.24 and the 500-yard freestyle in 5:26.35.

She also earned a secondplace finish in the 200 fly with a time of 2:18.01, losing out on another win by less than a second.

The men and women fell to Wheaton in the meet, 177.5-107.5 for the men and 206-84 for the women’s side.

Diamond is optimistic about the team’s success as they move forward.

“Our team’s mindset has changed slightly, basically due to the fact that as a team we agreed to ‘swim smarter’. For example, we should focus on the details (stroke counts, pacing, etc.) in order to fine-tune the swims as a whole. We hope to carry this mainframe for not only this year but for other years to come,” he said.

During this past weekend’s Rochester Invitational, Diamond earned four top-10 finishes.

He placed in sixth during the 1650 yard freestyle with a time of 17:16.15, which was his first mile swim of the season.

He also finished seventh in the 200 butterfly in 2:08.13 and the 500 free with a time of 5:07.07.

Diamond’s fourth top-10 finish came in the 400 individual medley, which he completed in 4:32.34.

Diamond will look to continue on his impressive performances when the squad travels to Worcester Polytechnic Institute to face off against WPI and Babson College.

The squad will then head crosstown to face off against Bentley University on Nov. 20.

Diamond and Herman will attempt to lead the team to a successful season in 2015 to 2016 that will improve upon its mark in 2014 to 2015.

pro sports brief New York Mets set to square off with the Kansas City Royals in competitive 2015 World Series In October of 1986, the New York Mets defeated the Boston Red Sox in Game 7 of the World Series, bringing the club its second championship in history. To Mets fans, the 29 years that have followed likely feel like centuries. The team has not won a Major League Baseball championship since then, stuck in a decades-long drought that has featured mid-season collapses, disappointing play on the field and heartbreak in 2000 when the Mets fell to the rival New York Yankees in the “Subway Series.”

Though some Mets fans may have grown accustomed to heartbreak and mediocrity, it appears they once again have a reason for hope.

On Tuesday night, the World Series kicks off in Kansas City as the hometown Royals are set to square

off against one of the youngest and most exciting teams in the M.L.B. — the New York Mets. To this point, the Mets have had a dream postseason between knocking off the Los Angeles Dodgers in five games in the first round of the playoffs and sweeping the Chicago Cubs in four games to capture the National League pennant.

The Mets’ dominance of the National League came as the result of its incredible postseason play on both the offensive and defensive sides of the diamond.

This postseason, the Mets led all National League clubs with a run total of 43, a hit total of 63 and an RBI total of 42.The Mets’ offense was anchored by second baseman Daniel Murphy, who is leading all postseason batters in RBIs (11)

and home runs (7). Even more impressive, Murphy has hit a home run in six straight games, setting a Major League record.

That said, the root of the Mets 2015 postseason success has been its talented pitching rotation, headlined by N.L. Cy Young candidate Jacob Degrom, who leads the postseason with three wins.

However, the Mets’ pitching success goes far beyond just Degrom, as the team led all N.L. clubs with an earned run average of just 2.81.

While Mets fans have a moment to relish in the joy of once again being elite, they will soon find that the Kansas City Royals are no pushovers. This postseason, the Royals have used the stillfresh taste of bitter defeat in the 2014 World Series as motivation

to steamroll the American League and get another shot at bringing home their first World Series championship since 1985.

While the Royals’ pitching rotation has not quite stacked up to that of the Mets, its offense has been far more impressive.

The Royals led the entire M.L.B. with a postseason total of 99 hits, 15 home runs and 58 RBI. As they have done for the last several years, the Royals used small-ball to outsmart opponents on their way to capturing the American League pennant, defeating first the Houston Astros in five games, then the Toronto Blue Jays in six games.

Kansas City’s offense is anchored

by Kendrys Morales, who led the American League with four home runs and 11 RBIs throughout the

first two rounds of the postseason.

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this year’s World Series is that there are so many reasons to cheer for either team. The Mets, despite their youth, play with a swagger that makes it difficult to root against them, manifesting itself in a somewhat stoic demeanor, as though success is expected. The Royals, on the other hand, play with a visible hunger to avenge their 2014 World Series loss, a hunger that manifests in dramatic displays of emotion, almost as if every atbat and pitch is the most important in history. These contrasting demeanors will make for a wild, emotional and utterly thrilling 2015 World Series.

—Gabriel Goldstein

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STAUNCH DEFENSE

Women win one of three games at tough tournament ■ Middle hitter Maddie

Engeler ’16 had 13 kills in a 3-1 loss to Trinity College at the Hall of Fame Invite.

By elan kane JUSTICE staff writer

The volleyball team went 1-2 last weekend at the Hall of Fame Invite, losing to Trinity College 1-3 and Amherst College 0-3 on Sunday after defeating Wesleyan University 3-2 on Saturday. The team is now 4-22 overall.

Judges 1, Trinity College 3 The Judges won the first set 25-17 in a match against Trinity played at Amherst. Trinity tied the set at 9-9, but a kill from outside hitter Shea Decker-Jacoby ’19 gave Brandeis the lead for good. The Judges could not follow their first set performance in the second set, however, as they lost 25-19. The team went down 10-2 early on but cut the deficit to one point after a kill from middle hitter Zara Platt ’19 made the score 20-19. That was as close as the squad would get in the second set, however, as Trinity went on a 5-0 run to win the set.

Trinity won the third set 26-24.

The Judges took a 9-5 lead on a kill from Decker-Jacoby and led 19-18 later on, but the Bantams closed

out the set. In the fourth set, the teams remained close throughout.

The Judges tied the set at 15-15 on a kill from setter Leah Pearlman ’19.

Brandeis took the next two points, but Trinity scored 10 of the last 11 points to win the set and match.

For the match, middle hitter Maddie Engeler ’16 led the Judges with 13 kills. Setter Marlee Nork ’19 finished with a total of 18 assists, while outside hitter Grace Krumpack ’19 and Yvette Cho ’19 tallied 18 and 15 digs, respectively.

Judges 0, Amherst 3 Brandeis lost in straight sets to Amherst 16-25, 20-25 and 13-25. In the first set, though the Judges led 5-3 after a kill from Krumpack, Amherst went on a 12-6 run to take a 15-11 lead. The Judges got to within 1 point at 14-15 on a kill from middle hitter Jessica Kaufman ’17 but could only score two more points as Amherst went on to win the set.

Amherst led the remainder of the second set after taking a 3-2 lead.

The Judges did not concede, however, and stayed within 4 points late in the set after Engeler made the score 24-20. Amherst won the set, however, on the next point.

Brandeis could not overcome an early 5-0 deficit in the third set.

Decker-Jacoby notched a kill to

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UPFIELD PASS: Defender Hannah Maatallah ’19 clears the ball against the University of Massachusetts Boston on Sep. 12.

Judges score three big goals en route to victory ■ Midfielder Holly Szafran

’16 scored two goals and an assist to defeat Westfield State University.

By avi gold JUSTICE editor

The women’s soccer team picked up an easy victory last Wednesday, dispatching Wesfield State University 3-1 on Gordon Field.

The Judges move to 13-2-1 with the win and took both nonconference games that occurred once University Athletic Association action began at the beginning of the month.

Judges 3, Westfield St. 1 Midfielder Holly Szafran ’16 led the charge for the hosts, netting a brace and adding an assist in the victory. Her 18th-minute strike opened the scoring for the contest, while her 79th-minute goal helped put the contest to bed, part of her game-high eight shots on the contest. The Judges controlled the contest from the outset, registering

their first shot on net just two minutes into the game.

The hosts peppered Westfield State freshman goalkeeper Natalia Falcone with 14 shots in the opening half and allowed not a single Westfield State shot through on goalkeeper Emma Marx ’19, who earned her first collegiate start during the home matchup.

Just under 20 minutes into the contest, Szafran displayed a superb individual effort to get the hosts on the board.

Working up the right flank, Szafran dribbled around a pair of defenders before cutting into the 18-yard-box and placing a shot beyond the reach of Falcone for the game’s first goal.

Szafran continued her command of the midfield later in the first half when she notched her team-leading fourth assist of the season. In the 39th minute, Szafran sent a through ball in the direction of midfielder Alec Spivack ’15 and passed it to Spivack in on net.

Spivack easily chipped the ball over Falcone for her fourth goal of the year, tied for third on the Judges

for the season.

The Judges, not content with a two-goal lead at the half, came out firing as the second half began.

Spivack sent a 58th-minute shot just wide of the post and midfielder Mathilde Robinson ’16 pushed a shot high just a minute later.

The Judges added another 13 shots in the second half en route to a commanding 27-2 shot advantage in the contest.

Westfield State pulled one back just after the hour mark, using a fluky goal to get within one of the hosts. Westfield State senior midfielder Kelsey Murray sized up a defender along the goal line and sent a curler in toward net that evaded Marx and pulled the visiting Owls within one.

The goal was just one of two shots Westfield State took on the day and was the Owls' only shot on net during the contest.

It took the hosts just 10 minutes to respond as Szafran netted her second goal of the contest in the 79th minute to put the game to bed.

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Teams lose all three matchups at invitational ■ Kylie Herman ’19

finished third overall in the 500 yard freestyle race for the Judges.

By daniel kanovich JUSTICE staff writer

The men and women’s swimming and diving team competed in the Rochester Invitational on Saturday and Sunday but were unable to pull out a victory amid some strong individual performances.

The men lost all three of their difficult matchups in the triple dual meet with New York University, the University of Rochester and Canisius College.

They were defeated by Canisius 302-63, to NYU 301-60 and by Rochester 300-65.

The women suffered a similar fate, losing all three of their meets as well, leaving both the men and women winless one month into the early season.

The women lost to Canisius 28166, to NYU 313-47 and Rochester 303-57.

The meet was difficult as the Judges faced tough University Athletic Assocation conference opponents in NYU and Rochester.

In addition to the UAA foes, the meet also featured Canisius, which competes in Division I. The results did not offer much in the way of optimism for either team, as the men combined to score

188 points compared to 834 points from first-place NYU, and the women only managed 170 points compared to 851 from NYU. The men finished a whopping 351 points behind the hometown thirdplace Rochester.

The women found their most success in the 500-yard freestyle, where Kylie Herman ’19 notched Brandeis’s only top-three finish of the day by finishing third, only three-tenths of a second ahead of the fourth-place finisher.

Joanna Murphy ’17 and Theresa Gaffney ’16 followed Herman in the event, finishing with the seventh and thirteenth best times in the event, respectively.

Herman, who was named a University Athletic Association Swimmer of the Week for October 19th, also finished eighth in the 400-yard individual medley and tenth in the 200-yard butterfly.

Murphy also managed to help keep the Judges from finishing last in every event, with a tenth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle.

After becoming the first Brandeis swimmer to be honored by CollegeSwimming.com as their National Division III Swimmer of the Week, Zach Diamond ’18 only managed to finish in the middle of the pack in the events that he took part in.

Diamond, who earned the honor after notching three individual victories during the Judges’ dual meet with Wheaton, ended his day at the

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COMEDY SHOW

‘As You Like It’ sets Shakespeare in Boston

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GRUMPY CLOWN: Touchstone (Riely Allen ’18) and Corin (Missy Kintish ’17) converse with each other in a forest that was set in Western Mass.

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ALL THE WORLD’S A FOREST: Rosalind (Tova Weinberger ’18) is banished and runs away with close cousin Celia (Jessica Spierer ’18).

By LINDA MALEH JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Shakespeare’s “As You Like It” was performed in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater this past weekend, put on by Brandeis’s Shakespeare and classical theatre company Hold Thy Peace. It was set in modern Boston and western Massachusetts rather than in medieval France. The production gave a comedic, if somewhat confusing performance.

In a nutshell, the play features several characters running around the forest, having bizarre interactions and falling in love with each other. The show follows Rosalind (Tova Weinberger ’18), whose father, the Duke (Remony Perlman ’19), has just been overthrown by his younger brother and banished from the city — or in this case kicked out of the family law firm and banished. Rosalind meets Orlando (Bryan McNamara ’19) and the two fall in love at first sight.

Soon after, Rosalind is also banished by her uncle. Her cousin Celia (Jessica Spierer ’18) is like a

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sister to her, and in an act of true friendship runs away with her. Rosalind dresses up as a boy and goes by the name of Ganymede. Orlando soon also has to leave the city after a fight with his older brother, who has inherited his father’s wealth and titles. All of the characters end up running around in the forest for most of the play, or in this case, Western Massachusetts, and ultimately get married.

In an interview with the Justice, director Barbara Spidle ’16 said that her reason for choosing to direct “As You Like It” was more than anything because of her admiration for the play’s heroine, Rosalind.

Spidle said she loved “Rosalind’s journey of self discovery, finding love but also finding self-love.” Rosalind, despite falling in love with Orlando, doesn’t agree to marry him right away but tests him over and over again throughout the play to make sure that his love is real.

Spidle said she chose Boston as the setting of the play because, firstly, as a Waltham native, Boston is the place she knows best. She added that “the show deals with a lot of

feminist issues, and that’s true even here in modern-day Boston, despite Massachusetts’s proclaimed liberalism.” She also hoped that setting it in Boston would help make it accessible to modern audiences.

Despite Spidle’s intentions, though, there weren’t any real indications in the set that the play took place in Boston. The only really big clue was that some of the characters wore sweatshirts with the names of local colleges on them, with the lead, Rosalind, wearing a Brandeis sweatshirt.

Scenes in the forest, indicated by Birch trees, featured many people smoking pot, which was meant to be indicative of Western Massachusetts being a sort of backwoods.

However, if I hadn’t spoken to Spidle or read the director’s note, I would never have known that the setting was supposed to be Boston.

Weinberger gave a fair performance as Rosalind, but the production’s real star was Connor Wahrman ’17 who played Jaques, a fool. We meet Wahrman in a melancholy state, asking for a song from Amiens (Alex Peters ’18), who had

a beautiful voice. Wahrman eventually joined in with him. Wahrman dominated the whole stage and elicited laughs from the audience with his incredible physicality, including one particular moment when he bent backwards over a bench. He alternated between being melancholy and euphoric but remained always quite absurd. Jaques is also the character that gives the famous “All the world’s a stage” soliloquy, which Wahrman delivered admirably.

One problem with the play was that it was often difficult to comprehend what the characters were saying and follow what was happening. Some may say that that is to be expected with Shakespeare, but the truth is that if a production is really done well, the audience should understand anyway despite the Elizabethan language, and this production didn’t always accomplish that.

Many of the monologues were given without pauses or expression to try to indicate what was being said. This happened a fair amount with Missy Kintish ’17, who played

Corin. Kintish’s monlogues were given as if high on weed, which was amusing, but were just run off without pauses or emphasis.

It didn’t help that as a play, “As You Like It” has very little plot, and several minor characters that don’t naturally fit in to the play but just seem to appear and be around. One actor who did accomplish being able to convey what he was saying to the audience in a clear and understandable way was Riley Allen ’18, who played Touchstone.

Allen took pauses and added emphasis where he needed to, and even used a lot of hand gestures to make the meaning of his words clear. The production seemed to rely heavily on breaking script and inserting modern English phrases into the dialogue to get across to the audience the gist of what was happening, although this method did elicit a lot of laughs.

“As You Like It” was comedic and touched on a lot of feminist issues, but it often came up short in trying to make the language understandable and clear. It was a lukewarm production.

Q&A with Brandeis Architecture Club

This week, justArts spoke with three of the four executive-board members of the newly-conceived Brandeis Architecture Club, which had its first meeting last Wednesday. The club hopes to expand the number of opportunities for students interested in architecture.

But it also has a broader goal in mind — that of pushing for a recognized Architecture major. Three e-board members (Fei Xu ’16, Anna Rothstein’16 and Eric Lin ’16) are pursuing Independent Studies in Architecture.

Xu is the president of the club; Rothstein is the vice president; Lin is the secretary and Tom Hearne ’16, who could not attend the interview, is the publicity coordinator. justArts: Tell me how the club was first conceived.

Anna Rothstein: So Fei and I lived in the same dorm sophomore year, and I was talking to him about it. I think he originally had the idea, and we decided to go from there. And I knew Eric was interested and Tom [Hearne ’16] was really interested.

So the four of us got together and decided to just do everything we could to make it work.

JA: Tell me about the vision

you have for your club.

Fei Xu: We wanted this club to be established because we just wanted to provide a platform for people on this campus who are really interested in architecture to make friends, to exchange ideas and to learn something together.

But we also wanted this club to be created because we want to just bolster the general understanding of architecture on campus and we also would like to have the Architecture Studies major be created eventually.

chitecture major) because of two reasons. One is they have to hire another person to teach architecture students, and the other is that they just simply doubt that there are enough people who are going to just declare this major.

So we believe that by creating this club that there are gonna be lots of people — or at least some people — that are going come over and we can show that there’s such a demand.

JA: What are some of the steps that you would take to work towards an Architecture Major?

EL: We have a lot of Architecture classes in Brandeis, and there’s a lot of interest in terms of architecture through those courses. But the thing is, after you took those courses, there’s a gap between taking a course and actually applying for grad school.

There’s a lot of process such as making the technology behind making online models, now to make a portfolio, grad school programs— how does that work? So [this information is] lacking on campus. So a lot of people took courses in Architecture, and they express that they’re interested in Architecture, ,but they couldn’t find a resource that could guide them to the professional next step.

FX: I think the University didn’t approve their proposal (for an Ar-

JA: Are you planning on partnering with architecture faculty

Eric Lin: So basically it’s kind of out of a gap of the interest in the students verses what academics provide us. So the club is kind of a way that we can socialize and network together and help each other out.

AR: And the club is not just for people who are only interested in architecture. It’s also for people who want to learn about architecture.

It’s for people who like design or art, even.

or any related clubs on campus?

[them] how to use this program.

AR: We already have a bunch of professors who are standing behind us and the club. And we are also planning on working with the 3D Design club and hopefully work with the professors — Professor McClendon [(FA)], Professor Kauffman [(FA)], [Prof.] Chris Abrams [(FA)].

EL: I’m also currently contacting the archives. Because Brandeis archives has an amazing amount of documents and drawings about the Brandeis campus from the beginning of conception to these current buildings. So I’m trying to schedule a session with them so they can showcase their collections.

JA: In what ways are you working with professors?

FX: We are thinking about having some events with them. So, for example, we want to have the portfolio workshop and that is for people who are interested in applying to graduate school and jobs. And they need a portfolio, ... so we would like our professors to come and give their suggestions and critiques to the portfolio.

JA: Do you have any events that you are currently planning?

FX: [Tuesday, today,] we’re gonna have the SketchUp tutorial workshop. So, SketchUp is a program that helps people build a model on a computer and so build an architectural model on a computer. So tomorrow evening, we invite our club members to come over, and we’re gonna teach

FX: In terms of a yearlong plan, for this semester, we are thinking about having some field trips. For example, we plan to organize people to go to Salem. There is [the Peabody Essex Museum].

There is a really beautiful Chinese architecture — [built] like 100 years ago. And in addition, we know that there are lots of other schools in this area. And for example, [the Massachusetts Institute of Technology] and the Harvard graduate school of design, they have very great resources that we can make use of.

And so we’d like to bring our members to there and show them what’s the graduate school going to be. And also there are some guests coming to the events. So there’s gonna be free lectures. We can just bring people to get some ideas and thoughts.

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FILM WOMEN IN POWER: Sarah Gavron answered questions about being a female director and about women’s rights in a talkback after a pretheatrical early screening of her film “Suffragette.”

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‘Suffragette’ director speaks on suffrage and women in film at early screening

By JAIME GROPPER JUSTICE EDITOR

“Are you a suffragette, Mrs. Edith?”

“I consider myself more of a soldier,” she replies.

“As Ms. Pankhurst says, it’s deeds, not words, that will get us the vote.”

War is the context under which “Suffragette,” a British historical period drama, presents the British women’s suffrage movement.

A pre-theatrical screening of the film, which opened this weekend in theaters, was held in Wasserman Cinematheque on Thursday and included a talkback with the director of the film, Sarah Gavron.

The film stresses that the fight to get the vote for women was not won through peaceful petitions or debates between men in law offices.

Rather, it was a fight in every sense of the word. The film displays the immense strategic planning from

the suffragettes and from the opposition, the secret meetings, the destruction of property, the riots, the protests, the violence and even the death involved in women getting the vote. Scenes of law-offices covered in evidence — pictures and maps all linked with red yarn — are reminiscent of war-rooms. Maud Watts (Carey Mulligan) the fictional suffragette at the center of the film, explains to Inspector Arthur Steed (Brendan Gleeson), an opponent of women’s suffrage, that women in the movement have to break things and be disruptive because war is the only language men listen to.

Mulligan takes on the persona incredibly well of a working woman who has been given nothing but hardship in life but who still sees the potential for change. In the talkback, Gavron commented that the film intentionally centered around a working woman rather than an elite suffragette, because working women

had the most to lose and it is important to recognize their sacrifices.

With limited options, Maud has worked in a laundry for inadequate pay since she was seven. Working under unhealthy sweatshop-like conditions, she is emotionally and sexually harassed by the manager.

Once she joins the suffragette movement, she is threatened by her husband, kicked out of her house, denied all access to her son, and has no say when her husband puts him up for adoption. While fighting for the vote, she is beaten at rallies, goes to jail several times, takes part in hunger strikes and is ultimately force-fed, which is now considered to be a form of torture. Maude is a fictional character, but as Gavron said, “She’s a composite character drawn from really three different working women and a collection of snippets, so everything that happens to her, happens to a real women we found in our research.”

The image of the suffragettes in the film were women who faced the law with the mentality that if the laws are not fair, they should break them and make new ones. Meryl Streep offers hope in her brief cameo as Emmeline Pankhurst, the reallife leader of the British suffragette movement. Helena Bonham-Carter plays a strong Edith Ellyn, a fictional character based off of Edith Garrud, who acts as a ringleader in several of the suffragettes more dangerous plans.

The film does not only advocate for female empowerment, but can be considered a product of it as well.

It was made by an almost entirely female production team, from the producers to the writers to Gavron herself.

When asked about the imbalance of male to female directors in the film industry, Gavron commented how she has often been the only woman in a room, and that it takes a

lot of confidence. She added that the number of films directed by women is between one and ten percent, which, she said, is really more like one.

Yet, Gavron believes that change is coming: “I think the tide will change because finally people are being vocal about it, and there is more awareness of it than I ever remember being in my whole career about the lack of women behind the camera, and about the lack of diversity behind the camera.”

The ending credits include a timeline of when women have received the vote around the world. As the years near 2015, it becomes evident how recent womens’ voting rights — a thing that we view as a part of history — are for many other places in the world. Gavron commented that she hopes that her film will help in some extent to further the conversation about women’s rights around the world.

COMEDY

Hari Kondabolu brings politics to comedy act

By BROOKE GRANOVSKY JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

Referencing a conversation he’d had with an uncreative friend, touring comedian Hari Kondabolu ironically asked, “What kind of maniac tells the same jokes over and over?”

On Saturday night, the renowned comedian was joined by Boris’ Kitchen on the Mainstage Theater to entertain a packed house of students and parents for Parents’ Weekend and Fall Fest. Kondabolu has a Masters degree in Human Rights from the London School of Economics, has performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” and “Conan” and has made appearances on Comedy Central.

Boris’ Kitchen warmed up the crowd with sketches about social media impeding social interaction, talk show hosts with big personalities and callbacks to skits from the “Old Shit Show” performance last week. Kondabolu, meanwhile, covered mostly political topics, ranging from race relations to religious conflicts to sexism.

Boris’ Kitchen began the night with a sketch about two college students trying to schedule time for a hug, which led to another schoolrelated sketch about second-graders and sex education. The second-graders’ teacher, Mr. Hoover (Dennis Hermida ’16), drank from a handle of vodka and leaned against his desk as students read passages from an erotic novel aloud.

Mr. Hoover’s classroom was far from nurturing: in between drinking, he admonished students for asking questions. In response to a question about class behavior, one student (Deesha Patel ’17) answered that punishments included being sent to the corner and taunted repeatedly. After stopping the students from reading passages that were a little too erotic, Mr. Hoover finally let the traumatized kids go to recess.

The next few skits played with the audience’s expectations. One skit found two friends discussing breakups and upcoming dates with various forms of God. Another skit saw a Southern, Martha Stewart-like talk show host (Sarah Duffett ’17) counsel readers about baking, stain removal, and avoiding the police while drug trafficking.

After a few more short scenes about the upcoming primary elections (for school playground captains, of course), pornography in the workplace and a skit from the “Old Sh*t Show” about the Brandeis health center, Kondabolu took to the stage.

Kondabolu opened by addressing the crowd and revealing the true purpose of parents’ weekend: to prove to parents that students are not wasting their money. He said that he suspected that once the parents left, students would go back to doing exactly that.

While he said he hoped his show at Brandeis would go well, Kondabolu did not hesitate to describe a few

times when his jokes did not receive the reactions he wanted. At a show in Denmark — which Kondabolu described as a larger version of Portland, Ore. — Kondabolu was told to take his jokes and go back to America. The Queens-raised comedian has Indian roots, and Kondabolu noted that he is often told to go back to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and various countries that fall vaguely under the “other” label. As such, Kondabolu said it was refreshing to be told to go back to America.

After mentioning Denmark, Kondabolu noted several idiosyncrasies involved in travelling, and specifically, in airport security. Aspects of airport security struck Kondabolu as suspicious — Has there ever been a shampoo bottle bomber? Why do we make the Illuminati sign in the scan machine? How effective can TSA prechecks be when they can be bought by anyone, including potential terrorists — who would most likely be willing pay the 200 dollar fee?

Kondabolu took issue with some of the syntax he sees in daily life. The first was the “ethnic needs” section at his local grocery store, which did not contain solutions to institutionalized racism or police brutality but did have a nice selection of cocoa butter lotion. Kondabolu noted how strange it is that our culture uses the phrase “boys will be boys,” especially since nothing good comes before the phrase. He also joked about “noctur-

PHOTO COURTESY OF HARI KONDABOLU

FUNNY MAN: Stand-Up comedian Hari Kondabolu performed his politically charged comedy during Fall Fest after student sketch comedy group Boris’ Kitchen opened. nal emissions,” a euphemism that Kondabolu thought sounded more like a tax credit.

Regarding religion, Kondabolu did not see a great distinction between the three Abrahamic religions. Besides the fact that most religions boil down to single statements of kindness, Kondabolu said he saw the three books as sequels to each other.

Noting this, Kondabolu said it would

be weird to hate a person because they like the same movies series as you but like a different movie in the sequel. Kondabolu said it would be like saying, “There’s only one true ‘Back to the Future.’”

Kondabolu’s show was balanced, poignant and, overall, hilarious. His set tapped into Brandeis’ social-justice culture, keeping the students and parents alike thinking and laughing.

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What’s your favorite part of parents weekend and Fall Fest?

Barbara Spidle ’16

Spidle discusses “As You Like It” MAX MORAN/the Justice

This week, JustArts spoke with Barbara Spidle ’16, who was the director for Hold Thy Peace’s “As You Like It.” This telling of Shakespeare’s classic had several modern twists.

Harry Yen P’19 “There’s just a lot of activities.

The choir was very interesting.”

MIHIR KHANNA/the Justice

PURPLE FOR A CAUSE: Mihir Khanna ’18 took this photo on Monday Oct. 26 of the Louis Brandeis statue covered in purple balloons as part of an Alzheimer’s awareness campaign.

FEATURING CREATIVE PHOTOS FROM OUR STAFF This feature showcases our photographers’ work capturing small moments around campus Benjamin Messinger P’16 “Staying with my daughter.”

Arlene Birch P’19 “It’s a toss-up between the variety show and the fact that you feed us very well.”

Jamie Steinber P’19 “Time with my daughter.”

—Compiled and photographed by Mihir Khanna/the Justice.

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4 – Jackson 5 hit 5 – “Tank Man” locale 6 – Narnia lion 7 – Beautiful region in Northern France 8 – “So long!”

9 – Before, to a poet 10 – Actor Cariou 11 – Leer at 12 – “_____ Window” 13 – Sludge 21 – Went on a tangent 22 – “Doctor ____” 23 – Online videogame retailer 24 – Make a mistake 25 - ____ de Vigo 26 – Part owner of a small business?

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JA: What was the hardest part of directing?

BS: Obviously having the vision, what you want to communicate to your actors, but my actors were pretty great, so they were really able to understand what I wanted to do. I’d been in a lot of plays, and I’d helped build, do lighting, basic stuff. But I didn’t know a lot of the other things. So when I was trying to look at what the lighting design was going to be like, all my sound and my set, my lighting, my costume designers, they were all just able to teach me. I know what a front-light is now, and I understand how important a front-light is. Everyone always says the Thursday show is a really fancy dress rehearsal, so afterward I was like, “Okay, this is what we can do to make it even better.’”

JA: What makes this production of “As You Like It” unique?

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BS: That was part of the proposal, the setting. ... When you propose plays, people really ask you, ‘How are you going to adapt this plot point or these types, of characters to a modern world? What you do in your proposal is list your characters and what they would be like and how you see them. In my proposal, I was like, ‘the character Celia is basically like Phoebe from “Friends.”’ So, basically, you give people an idea of who they are in a different context. Everything in a play is a decision. Even not doing something is a really big decision.

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Barbara Spidle: HTP people were looking for what was going to be the show for the semester, and I’d always loved “As You Like It,” and I had always wanted to direct it. I’m a senior, so this is going to be one of my last opportunities. I had this idea of setting it in modern day Boston, so I proposed it — well first I got my [production] staff together, and then I proposed it— and everyone voted for it.

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BS: In a lot of ways, it was a straight portrayal of “As You Like It.” I didn’t change things that drastically plot -wise. I tried to keep it as straight as possible, but keep the comedy and the drama and the romance of that time and bring it forward. I thought I made it pretty relevant to a modern audience.

For me, it was really just realizing how great Shakespeare is originally and just bringing it up to date.

JA: What did you hope the audience took away from the show?

BS: Rosalind made some bad decisions, and she wasn’t the most kind person to some people in her life, but people go through hard times. Other characters didn’t do their best, but everyone still loved and supported each other, and I think that’s the only way to get through life — with other people.

—Jaime Gropper