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Admins to attend diversity trainings ■ The University will hold

four training sessions this semester as part of its postFord Hall 2015 agreement.

By Abby Patkin JUSTICE editor

Faculty members and administrators will undergo diversity training in April and May, respectively, in accordance with Interim University President Lisa Lynch’s Feb. 24 email providing updates on the University’s diversity and inclusion efforts.

Associate Provost for Academic Affairs Kim Godsoe announced in a March 17 email sent to the Intercultural Center listserv that

the trainings would be helmed by Tracey Britton. Britton currently works with Edgework Consulting, a “consulting group focused on launching and developing great teams,” according to its website.

The email was sent by Program Coordinator for Sexuality and Gender Diversity Felix Tunador.

In her Feb. 24 email, Lynch wrote that the diversity trainings are intended to increase “accountability and reporting” within the University community. According to Godsoe, there will be three training sessions in April — one for chairs in Arts and Sciences and two for faculty members — and one in May for University administrators.

According to the March 17 email,

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VANISHED VIEWPOINT: SJP's Pro-Palestine banner hung up by the Rabb steps was gone by Monday. A Pro-Israel one remains up.

Apartheid week is met with student dissent ■ Students for Justice in

Palestine held its annual Israeli Apartheid Week on campus last week.

By MAX MORAN JUSTICE EDITOR

Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine hosted its annual Israeli Apartheid Week from Monday through Thursday last week but encountered several instances where their posters and banners were taken down across campus. A small group of students who oppose the apartheid narrative about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict also created a banner which hung across from an SJP banner near the Rabb Steps. The pro-Israel banner is still hung on the Rabb Steps as of Monday night, while the SJP banner has disappeared.

In a phone interview with the Justice, SJP coordinator Guy Mika ’17 described Israeli Apartheid Week as “a means to educate people about the situation in Palestine and what is happening to the Palestinian people. The main things that it’s trying to argue … is that the situation in Palestine is not necessarily a conflict, and it’s not a symmetrical thing between two sides, but rather

that we have here a situation of an oppressive state and an oppressed people.”

Israeli Apartheid Week featured two main events this year — while four were planned, difficulties obtaining rights to the film “The Wanted 18” and coordination difficulties for a planned public performance limited the scope of the week.

On Monday, Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi recited some of his works in the Shapiro Campus Center, followed by a conversation about campus activism in solidarity with Palestine. At SJP’s weekly meeting on Tuesday, the group hosted a discussion called “Palestine at the Intersection of Global Struggle.” Mika told the Justice that he and fellow SJP members spoke “about what Palestine mean[s] for people around the world and how the struggle for the Palestinian people figure[s] into the struggle for other people for selfdetermination and for rights. The relationship between that and the United States and the United States and Israel.”

In addition, SJP posted a banner near the Rabb Steps which they had first made for last year’s Israeli Apartheid Week. However, the banner was twice removed — first on Saturday and then again on Thursday. According to Mika, on Saturday

EDITORIAL Uphold free press on campus and respect sexual assault survivors Next Monday, the University community will gather for its annual Take Back The Night march across campus, a public event in which students share their personal experiences of sexual assault as part of a powerful national awareness campaign. The Justice will be covering this march as we did last year. We will be sending a reporter to walk beside the participants and take notes on the proceedings, and we will be anonymously quoting survivors on their speeches when discussing how they reacted to their experiences.

We are choosing to do this despite controversy and legal battles, because the issue at hand is extremely important to this community, and to not cover Take Back The Night in light of threats to the freedom of the press would be a disservice to both journalism and sexual assault awareness.

To appropriately report survivors’ stories, and to do so with sensitivity, requires that journalists take extra care.

Sexual assault survivors have endured a serious trauma, and journalists have an obligation to minimize harm when covering the issue. The Society for

“they tried to put it somewhere else, and a friend of ours found it. On the other day, they literally crumpled it in the bushes.” SJP does not currently know who specifically took down the banner.

One group of eight students unaffiliated with any campus clubs constructed a banner opposing the argument that Israel is an apartheid state and placed it opposite the SJP banner. Two of the students involved in creating that banner, Aviv Glick ’16 and Doron Shapir ’19, told the Justice in an interview that the students who made the antiapartheid banner come from a range of perspectives on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but all agreed that calling Israel an apartheid state is wrong factually and morally. “When I recognize that there is an enemy for peace — and that enemy can be a terrorist, and it can be a person who calls for the destruction of my country, but it also can be a person that distorts reality — I need to stand up,” Shapir said.

“We thought that a good way to stand up wouldn’t be by attacking and by showing the lies, because going and debating with these people, we don’t think that will be effective,” Glick said. “But actually showing our own truth and why we

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When reporting last year, we did not name or identify any speakers in our article on Take Back The Night. We did, however, include anonymous quotes from the speakers. The heart of Take Back The Night is hearing individuals talk about their own experiences of sexual assault; the campaign increases public awareness and encourages survivors to share their stories. Any reporting that does not acknowledge these speakers and their stories fails to adequately capture what is at the crux of the event, which should be the primary focus of any event coverage. Even then, our reporter was cautious about what quotes from the event she included — selecting non-identifying quotes from speakers about their emotional reactions regarding their experiences.

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Suicide bombing kills 71 in Pakistani park during Easter terror attack, just five days after Brussels terror bombings An explosion in the Pakistani city of Lahore killed at least 70 and injured more than 341 on Easter Sunday. The explosion — determined to be a suicide bombing — was later claimed by Jamaate-Ahrar, a splinter group of the Pakistani Taliban.

The bomb went off in a neighborhood park, detonating near the swing sets, where Christian Pakistanis were celebrating Easter Sunday with their families, according to a March 27 New York Times article. The majority of the victims were women and children.

Jamaat-e-Ahrar spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan said in a statement that the attack was intended to target Christians, who make up two percent of Pakistan’s population, amounting to about two million individuals.

The Pakistani Taliban, Tehrik-i-Taliban, has been active in the region since 2002, with more than 48 claimed and alleged attacks since its inception.

This latest explosion marks the third in this month alone.

The number of religiously-focused attacks in Pakistan has risen in the last couple decades, and the timing and location of this terror attack are especially significant, given that the park is a local favorite for Easter celebrations, according to The Wall Street Journal.

Yet although the attack allegedly targeted Christians, the victims include a significant amount of Muslims, according to Al Jazeera.

An unnamed eyewitness on Pakistan’s Geo News channel described Sunday’s events as all happening very quickly, saying, “It was so loud that I felt a piercing pain in my ears,” according to The Wall Street Journal.

According to NBC, Pakistani officials claimed to have found the suicide bomber’s body. He appeared to be in his mid-to-late 20s and had been carrying more than 30 pounds of explosives.

The attack came just five days after terrorist attacks in Brussels, which have so far taken the lives of 35 individuals, wounding more than 300 others, according to a March 28 CNN article.

In the Brussels attacks, two explosions went off in the departure hall at Brussels Airport on Tuesday morning, killing 10, according to a March 22 New York Times article. Approximately an hour later, an explosion at the Maelbeek subway station killed another 20.

An Islamic State bulletin issued eight hours after the attacks claimed responsibility, calling Belgium “a country participating in the coalition against the Islamic State,” according to the Times’ article.

Belgian authorities released a photo of three individuals in the Brussels Airport taken shortly before the attacks, asking the public’s help in identifying the suspects, the New York Times reported in a March 22 article.

Two of the men pictured have been identified as suicide bombers, and authorities have detained and questioned more persons of interest in the following days.

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Medical Emergency

Mar. 20—A party in Rosenthal Quad reported having stomach pains. BEMCo staff was called to the scene, and University Police transported the party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Mar. 21—Police received a call of a party in the Foster Mods who was having an asthma attack. BEMCo staff and University Police responded, and the party was treated by BEMCo staff with a signed refusal for further care.

Mar. 21—A caller from the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center reported a head injury. BEMCo was dispatched to the scene. BEMCo staff requested Waltham Fire Department, as well as Cataldo Ambulance.

WFD and Cataldo Ambulance arrived, and Cataldo Ambulance staff received a signed patient refusal for transport.

Mar. 22—Staff member from the Mailman House stated a party was requesting a psychological examination at Newton Wellesley Hospital. Cataldo

Ambulance transported the party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital. University Police assisted with the transport without incident.

Mar. 22—BEMCo staff treated a person in the Usdan Student Center who was suffering from lightheadedness, with a signed refusal for further care.

Mar. 22—Police received a report of a party in Gosman who was hit with a soccer ball. BEMCo staff treated the party on the scene with a signed refusal for further care.

Mar. 24—Police received a report of a party in Massell Quad who had a hand laceration from doing dishes. The party was treated by BEMCo staff with a signed refusal for further care.

Mar. 26—A cab driver pulled into the Stoneman lot requesting assistance with a collegeaged party who was passed out intoxicated in the back seat. The party was not a student of the University. BEMCo staff was requested and treated party on the scene. Cataldo Ambulance was requested and transported

the party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care.

Mar. 26—Police received a report requesting BEMCo for an intoxicated and vomiting party in Rosenthal Quad. The party was conscious and alert.

University Police assisted BEMCo staff.

Cataldo Ambulance was requested and transported the party to Newton-Wellesley Hospital for further care. The Area Coordinator On Call was notified about the situation.

Larceny

Mar. 22—Police received a report of theft of some property left unattended in a common area in the Spingold Theater.

University Police compiled a report on the incident.

Drugs

Mar. 23—Police received a report of three people smoking marijuana in the Rosenthal Quad. University Police checked the area, but they were gone upon arrival of police.

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Disturbance

Mar. 23—Police received a noise complaint from the Charles River Apartments.

The Area Coordinator was sent, and the residents were advised to quiet down.

Mar. 27—A party in East Quad complained of noises coming from the common lounge area. University Police advised the residents to quiet down without incident.

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Waltham resident charged with March 21 robbery and attack of 12-yearold West Newton middle school student

n A News article incorrectly stated that white students were the only ones to report instances of sexual assault in the 2015 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct. The survey results only reported data from respondent groups with a cell size greater than five. Students from other racial and ethnic groups reported instances of assault but not in numbers greater than five, so the data was not disclosed in the survey results (March 22, page 1).

n An Arts headline stated that the Undergraduate Theater Collective would be reducing the number of shows it will put on next semester. The UTC actually voted to reduce the number of shows it will put on next year (March 22, page 19).

Mar. 22—A party in the Shapiro Admissions Center reported harassment by email.

University Police compiled a report.

Mar. 24—University Police compiled a report about ongoing harassment between two community members. The victim requested a No Contact Order through the Dean’s office.

University Police will follow the incident with an investigation.

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CORRECTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS

n A New article incorrectly referred to the Justice Brandeiss Law Project as the Justice Brandeis Innocence Project (March 22, page 5).

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A tour braves the rain to walk around campus on Monday afternoon.

The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Admissions Center offers group tours for prospective students, the March slots for which are booked solid.

Waltham resident Carlos AguilarCruz, 24, was arraigned last Friday on the charge of armed robbery, according to a March 25 press release from Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan.

Newton Police were called to a Newton middle school at approximately 2:15 p.m. last Monday to respond to a reported robbery of a 12-year-old boy.

Upon arrival, authorities were informed that at approximately 9 a.m., the student had been walking to his bus stop when Aguilar-Cruz allegedly slowed down his pace to let the student pass him and then drew a knife, tackling the boy and throwing him to the ground. Aguilar-Cruz then allegedly stole the victim’s phone before fleeing the scene. According to the press release, the student sustained minor injuries.

According to a March 25 WCVB article, the attack occurred in the area of Lexington and River Streets in the West Newton area, approximately an eight-minute drive from the Brandeis campus.

Aguilar-Cruz was arrested Thursday night after an individual spotted him walking around Waltham Common in the same clothes he had allegedly worn during the attack.

“The suspect in this case was apprehended thanks to a member of the public who had been paying close attention to the media coverage surrounding this case,” Ryan said in the press release.

“This is an excellent example of the public and law enforcement sharing information to make our communities safer.”

Aguilar-Cruz was ordered to undergo a competency hearing during his Friday court appearance, according to the WCVB article.

—Abby Patkin

ANNOUNCEMENTS The American Jewish-Israel Relationship

Join us for an evening with Dr. Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President and the Koret Distinguished Fellow at Shalem College. The author of more than ten books, Gordis is a regular columnist for both the Jerusalem Post and Bloomberg View. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, Azure, Commentary Magazine and Foreign Affairs, among other publilcations.

Today from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Rapaporte Treasure Hall.

Grace Paley Collected Shorts

This screening will take place as part of the Women’s Studies Research Center’s film series.

Lilly Rivlin’s intimate documentary is a rich, inspiring portrait of writer, activist and New York icon Grace Paley. Paley’s life illuminates the major protest movements of the latter part of the 20th century, culminating in

the feminist movement.

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

Mapping Out a Career in Finance

Join Adam Litke, P’19, chief risk strategist and head of enterprise risk services at Bloomberg in New York City, for a career talk followed by a Q&A with the audience. The talk will be geared toward undergraduate students interested in pursuing finance-related careers. Graduate students and students from all class years and majors are welcome.

Thursday from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Usdan International Lounge.

“I Am” Event

“I am a Movement” is the final event of the Student Support Services Program’s 25th anniversary celebration. The event will feature: alumni speaker Daniel Acheampong ’11, current student speaker Cesar Pineda, remarks

by Interim President Lisa Lynch and the mu-

sic from nationally-recognized singer/songwriter Kevin So. So will sing about the experience of being an immigrant in the United States.

Thursday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in Usdan Levin Ballroom.

The Wiz

The Wiz is a black version of the perennial Wizard of Oz. The characters and storyline are largely faithful to the 1939 movie version of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 story. It begins on a tumbledown farm in Kansas, but a tornado sets Dorothy and Toto down in a bit-city-like Oz. The words are jive, the songs upbeat. After celebrating the demise of the Wicked Witch of the East with the Munchkins, Dorothy departs for the Emerald City with a live yellow brick road. Together with the Tin Man, the Lion and the Scarecrow, Dorothy will seek help from the Great Man in the flashy city.

Thursday from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater.

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OBITUARY Mandel Foundation benefactor Joseph Mandel passes away at age 102 Joseph C. Mandel, philanthropist, businessman and Brandeis benefactor, died on Tuesday, March 22, according to an article in the Cleveland Jewish News. He was 102.

Mandel was born in Poland in 1913 but spent most of his life in Cleveland, according to the article. Mandel and his brothers, Jack and Morton, pooled $900 in 1940 to buy their uncle’s store and found Premier Automotive Supply, according to BrandeisNOW. By 1960, the brothers had built the business into a leading industrial company, and in 1996, Premier merged with Farnell Electronics to form Premier Farnell in a transaction that brought in a $1.8 billion profit. Mandel, along with his brothers, was responsible for the creation of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation, as well as millions of dollars in donations to various educational institutions.

“It is impossible to fully measure the enormous impact that Joseph Mandel and the Mandel family have had on Brandeis.

Since making their first gift in 1953, they have been loyal friends,” Interim President Lisa M. Lynch said in a statement.

“Their support is historic in scope

and will benefit Brandeis students and faculty for generations to come.”

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation continues Mandel to be involved in the University, according to BrandeisNOW. Morton’s wife, Barbara, is a longtime member of the Brandeis Board of Trustees, and his daughter, Amy, graduated from Brandeis in 1973. The Mandels also support students through the Barbara and Morton Mandel Graduate Fellowships in the Humanities and the Barbara and Morton Mandel Graduate Fellowships in English and American Literature.

Mandel was an avid sculptor, with multiple works on display in Moreland Hills, Ohio, according to the BrandeisNOW article.

Joseph Mandel is survived by his brother Morton, 94; two daughters, Michele Beyer and Penni Weinberg; six grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

—Carmi Rothberg

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Heller ranked in top 50 US graduate schools ■ Heller was one of three

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The Heller School for Social Policy and Management was one of only three New England-area graduate schools to place in the U.S. News and World Report’s 2017 top 50 graduate schools for public affairs. In the ranking, which was released on March 16, Heller came in at 45th for graduate schools for public affairs and 10th for graduate schools for social policy.

Heller was founded in 1959 as the University’s first professional school.

It currently houses seven academic programs, awarding both masters and doctoral degrees. According to its website, it had 533 students enrolled as of fall 2015, with students hailing from 65 countries. Along with Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy, it is one of three New England area schools to crack the top 50 in the ranking.

“We are enormously pleased that Heller continues to rank among the top graduate schools in the country,”

said Interim Dean Marty Krauss, according to a March 16 post on the Heller website. “Heller has a distinctive reputation for our core commitment to social justice and addressing critical social areas that is reflected in these ratings.”

Indiana University’s School of Public & Environmental Affairs tied with Syracuse University’s Department of Public Administration & International Affairs for first place on the list, with Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government coming in at third.

Heller tied with 10 other graduate schools for 45th place: Portland State University’s Mark O. Hatfield School of Government, the University of Connecticut’s Department of Public Policy, the University of Delaware’s School of Public Policy Administration, the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Department of Public Administration, the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute of Government, Cleveland State University’s Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs, Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Public Policy, North Carolina State University’s School of Public & International Affairs and Northern Illinois University’s Division of Public Administration.

According to the U.S. News and World Report’s website, the methodology used to determine the ranking involved surveying deans, directors and department chairs representing 272 master’s programs in public affairs and administration. These surveys were conducted in the fall of 2015 by Ipsos Public Affairs, a global market research company. The U.S. News and World Report website noted that two surveys were sent to each of the 272 schools, and respondents were asked to rate the academic quality of the master’s programs on a scale of one to five, one being “marginal” and five being “outstanding.” Scores for each school were then totaled and divided by the number of respondents who rated that school, with a response rate of 43 percent. Heller received a ranking of 3.1 out of a maximum of 5.

The ranking for graduate schools for social policy was classified as a subcategory of the ranking for graduate schools for public affairs, with the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy coming in at first.

The U.S. News and World Report previously ranked the University the 34th best college in the nation in its 2016 rankings of undergraduate programs. The University also came in 27th in the best value school ranking.

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Priya DeBerry '17 (left), Bronte Velez '16 (center) and Nyah Macklin '16 (right) performed at the Richman Fellowship Award Ceremony on Wednesday afternoon.

DIVERSITY: Tracey Britton of Edgework Consulting to lead the initial training sessions CONTINUED FROM 1 Britton’s previous work with higher education includes stints at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management, the University of Rhode Island, Wheelock College and Northeastern University. Godsoe included in her email to the Justice a summary of Britton’s experiences, explaining that Britton led trainings in diversity and cultural competency at the University of Rhode Island; that she chaired the Empower retreat — which “focused on linking communities, igniting social consciousness and inspiring leadership among students of color” — at Northeastern; and that she served as the Community Engagement Consultant for Wheelock.

Britton made an initial visit to campus on Thursday to meet with two small groups of students, staff and faculty to “learn about their perceptions about diversity at Brandeis” and gauge what the

training sessions should look like, Godsoe wrote in her email to the Justice. “Tracey likes to speak to faculty and students about their perceptions of where the campus is in regards to diversity issues to tailor the training to our specific campus,” she noted in her initial message.

In her work outside of higher education, the document explained, Britton designed and delivered cultural competency trainings for Americorps members hired in the Coach Across America program and worked as a trainer in the Boston Busing/Desegregation Project, “an effort to facilitate discussions about busing that are focused on truth telling, learning from the truth and making change,” the document noted. She also aided the Kona Pacific Charter School in Hawaii in developing their culturally competent recruiting strategies for school enrollment.

Britton has been certified as an educator and facilitator for Project

TEAMWORK, “a program recognized by Bill Clinton as a model violence prevention program designed to engage people in discussions about diversity,” according to the document.

She is also a Master Trainer for the Mentors in Violence Prevention program, which trains bystanders to play a more active role in solving social problems on college campuses.

In an email to the Justice, Godsoe explained that the decision to have Britton lead the initial round of diversity training came after a subgroup of the Provost’s Diversity Steering Committee screened multiple consulting firms.

The subgroup consisted of Profs.

Andrea Acevedo (HS), Dan Bergstresser (IBS), Jennifer Gutsell (PSYC) and Dan Perlman (BIOL), Senior Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences for Undergraduate Education Elaine Wong and Director of Experiential Learning and Teaching Daniel Langenthal.

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ISRAEL: SJP materials torn down across campus CONTINUED FROM 1 are right [would be.]”

Glick and Shapir, who are both Israeli, agreed that they hoped their banner would present a view counter to the SJP movement’s opinion and would inspire students of all views to discuss the issue, but they said that often, debates between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian students are unproductive because neither group can agree on a set of facts to begin the conversation.

Regarding his decision to post the banner, Glick told the Justice, “I just said, ‘Forget the arguments, just put a statement.’ And my statement was, ‘It doesn't matter how many times you put out a lie; and how many people believe the lie, it doesn’t make it true. Come to me, talk to me, ask me, and I’ll give you my view on that.’”

SJP also posted three lists of Palestinian villages and towns that were destroyed in the Nakba, which Mika described as “the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in 1948 and ongoing.” The lists on the side of the Usdan Student Center and Sherman Dining Hall were taken down, but the list at the bottom of the Rabb steps was not, according to Mika, who also said he did not know if they were taken down due to student opposition or another reason.

Regarding feedback that SJP received for Israel Apartheid Week, Mika said, “Obviously the pro-Israel students weren’t happy. That’s to be expected … I think there was a lot of very positive feedback; there’s a lot of people who are very supportive but are afraid to get involved because of the way that conversation goes on this campus.” He pointed to a post on the Facebook group Overheard at Brandeis, in which a student wrote about hearing other stu-

dents say they were excited about Israeli Apartheid week as evidence, because the post received many likes. “Before I was a freshman, people were afraid to even have an Israeli Apartheid Week,” Mika said. “They had to call it Israeli Occupation Awareness Week. And I think that we can have an Israeli Apartheid Week now shows how much this discourse has shifted.”

Mika also said that critics alleging SJP was an anti-Semitic organization were incorrect: “SJP as an organization is very deeply not racist, and they are against all racism. … As a Jew, I think that it is important to draw distinction between the Jewish community and Israel-Palestine and the policies of the state of Israel.” He also responded to a series of posters across campus which showed successful Palestinian and Arab Israelis and told their stories with the phrase “Apartheid?” at the bottom of the poster. Mika compared the individual examples of successful Palestinians in Israeli society to pointing to individual African Americans who achieved success in America before the Civil War as evidence that racism did not exist and said that the SJP movement is concerned with the system at large.

Glick said that he did not plan to attend Israeli Apartheid Week events, explaining, “I can say the same thing about the pro-Israel events. It’s like a broken record.

We know it all, we’ve seen it all. It’s not a discussion.” Shapir, however, said that he planned to attend Israeli Apartheid Week events, saying, “I believe in freedom of expression, but I also believe that we have to recognize that the words people say are going to create a sort of reality that we have to deal with … I can’t deal with a one-sided thing.”

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VERBATIM | WILLIAM HAZLITT A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

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In 1848, an ice jam caused Niagara Falls to stop flowing for one day.

The tallest waterfall in the world is Angel Falls in Venezuela.

DYNAMIC DIALOGUE: Activist and writer Janet Mock spoke with Prof. Jasmine Johnson (AAAS) about her new memoir.

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Illustrating Activism Writer and activist Janet Mock discussed her new book

By ALLISON YEH JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Janet Mock, a contributing editor for Marie Claire, a transgender rights activist and the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir “Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, & So Much More,” came to campus last Tuesday for a conversation with Prof. Jasmine Johnson (AAAS) about her memoir. She spoke of the challenges she faced while writing and the important questions her memoir poses about growing up multiracial, poor and trans in America. “Redefining Realness” addresses the process in accepting oneself while at the same time understanding how to coexist with and accept others.

Mock, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, has a Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Merchandising from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Master of Arts in Journalism from New York University. She began her writing career as a staff editor at People Magazine. Five years later, she became a contributing editor for Marie Claire, in which she came out publicly as a trans woman. In 2014, Mock published “Redefining Realness,” showcasing not only her own writer’s voice but also her perception on self-identity.

Her voice, however, was one discovered through her exposure to other works when she was a young girl. There were three books, Mock said, that especially inspired her memoir: “Their Eyes Were Watching God” by Zora Hurston, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”

by Maya Angelou and “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker.

“They were black, they were womanhood — they were about love. They were about finding your own space in a world that was not built for your survival. They taught me how to survive,” Mock said during the event. She emphasized the importance of finding outside

own space; that my existence is deserving of a book — that I deserve to be on a bookshelf.”

In addition to gaining inspiration from the written texts, Mock also explained her use of writing alongside quotes of inspiration that serve as mini gas stations throughout her memoir. “I had a bulletin board when I was writing

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ELOQUENT ACTIVIST: Janet Mock spoke to the crowded Sherman Function Hall about the authors and literature that inspire her own writing and activism. inspirations through quotes and texts, saying that reading these works filled her up and gave her language. “[The books] emerged me in ways that enabled me to write and take up my own space. That my words are deserving of their

when I first started. And so a lot of these quotes always existed; they were always in front of me.

“As I was writing the book, someone’s words were in my ear, in my head.” Mock suggested “Their Eyes Were Watching God” — the

audiobook — as a way to immerse herself into her own writing. “I knew that I wanted to say that this book does not stand alone; it is part of a tradition. … It is a syllabus too.

These are the people, these are the works that have fed me, that have influenced me. You can’t separate the woman-ness and the blackness — from the everything me-ness.”

Looking at the book from the public’s perspective and how it serves beyond the bookshelf, Mock said, “It’s what the media does. So much of [the media] is that we want to create and hold up symbols. We want to tokenize people to become these blank slates that are all of their experiences — their multiplicities, complexities, nuances, lost in service of this single identity, this politic, or movement.” As one of the most influential trans women and millennial leaders in media, Mock saw her book as a means of challenging pop culture labels. “I was this trans-figure, and that was one of the reasons why I fought against that.”

Mock, who has a strong presence on social media, founding #GirlsLikeUs, and who has gained media recognition being named one of “12 new faces of black leadership” and one of “the most influential people on the internet” by TIME, saw it important to address the balance needed in juggling public life with private life. When writing her memoir, Mock had to choose which moments she wanted to reveal and which she preferred to keep private. Mock mentioned Beyonce as a model for this balance.

“In a world where nothing is

private, she has been able to have some sense of privacy and control.”

While Mock carries a strong presence on social media, she does so consciously. She knows it is important to set boundaries and create safe spaces for sharing. She went on to share her choice to post a couple photos from her wedding and explained how it was a purposeful choice on her part.

“I thought on a political level it was necessary for black women to see themselves in a space that brings forth trans women and black women and trans women of color.

To see themselves in a bridal space.

To see themselves loved, publicly.”

Mock said that her love for social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat is based on how they allow you to share what you want to share. “The only difference is that I have more people watching — sorry,” she laughed.

Despite the potential artificiality that can be seen through social media, Mock talks about her definition of “Realness” in not only the context of her book but also the context of her life. To Mock, “Realness” is deciphering the difference between “being normal” and being oneself; it is acknowledging the existence of this “normal” and knowing in what ways you would have to give up part of yourself to adhere to that sameness. Mock asked a universal question that speaks to many college students especially: “How do we account for being acceptable in society by not shedding our queerness, shedding our trans-ness, shedding our race and performing?”

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PANEL OF PROGRESS: Theaster Gates spoke in the Wasserman Cinematheque about his projects in urban Chicago restoring abandoned buildings.

PHOTOS BY AARON BIRNBAUM/the Justice

Awareness through art

Theaster Gates is awarded the Richman Fellowship

By PICHYA NIMIT JUSTICE STAFF WRITER

A voice from the back of the theater emerged and Nyah Macklin ’16 walked down an aisle singing “Take Me to the Water,” by Nina Simone. Simultaneously, Brontë Velez ’16 danced down the center aisle, and the sound of a violin accompaniment came as Priya DeBerry ’17 walked down the opposite side. The audience remained transfixed, and eyes followed the trio as they made their way towards the stage.

On Wednesday afternoon, renowned artist and activist Theaster Gates was awarded the Brandeis 2015 to 2016 Richman Fellowship Award for his activism as an innovator, artist, curator and cultural entrepreneur.

The event, “A Cursory Sermon on Art and the City: Theaster Gates, Richman Fellowship Award Presentation and Lecture,” drew a full audience to the Wasserman Cinematheque.

In October, Gates was named the 2015 to 2016 Brandeis University Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life. In light of his lecture, he spent four days on campus visiting classes as well as meeting with various members of the Brandeis community.

Following Macklin, Velez and DeBerry’s entrance, Gates, sitting near the front of the stage, was the first to stand in ovation for the three students.

The rest of the audience quickly followed suit. Interim University President Lisa Lynch then went to the podium to introduce and present the award to Gates. She spoke of the background and genesis of the Richman Distinguished Fellow in Public Life, which was created by Brandeis alumna Dr. Carol Richman Saivetz ’69 and her children in honor of her parents.

The fellowship is coordinated by the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life on behalf of the Office of the President.

Previous recipients of this award have included Julian Bond and Angela Blackwell.

Lynch described the award and explained, “Richman Distinguished Fellows are selected from among individuals active in public life, whose contributions

have had a significant impact on improving American society, strengthening Democratic institutions, advancing social justice or increasing opportunities for citizens to realize and share in the benefits of this nation.”

Gates graciously accepted the Richman Fellowship Award presented by Lynch and Saivetz. His works aim to use art and creativity as instruments to bring attention to poverty, revitalize neighborhoods and provide opportunity. In 2012, Gates was named “Innovator of the Year” by The Wall Street Journal.

Gates then took to the podium and began to sing. “Take Me to the Water” rang out for a second time.

A picture appeared on the screen; a young black man with a red hood obscuring his face stood at the center of the composition.

“None but the wealthy, none but the wealthy shall see the king,” Gates sang before entering the main chorus.

He transitioned into speech, and the photo changed to one of him, taken from when he was a young man, sitting at a potter’s wheel surrounded by three friends.

“When I say that I was once a young man with hair,” Gates laughed. “It is hard for my friends to believe. When the book says that I am a potter — sometimes it’s difficult to see the origins of a thing because of the accumulations,” Gates said.

Gates’ early work began in pottery; he graduated from Iowa State University with a Bachelor of Science in Urban Planning and Ceramics. He went on to explore religion in South Africa, and in 1998, he received a masters degree in Fine Arts and Religious Studies from the University of Cape Town.

In his speech, Gates emphasized his preoccupation with windows.

“Looking through them, boarding them up, opening and closing them. Ceilings breaking. Patching them.” As he spoke, the screen displayed images of old buildings.

Gates restores old buildings, renovating them and turning them into cultural institutions.

These renovations are a part of the Rebuild Foundation, a project which he founded and for which he serves as the Artist Director.

The foundation is a non-profit focused on cultural driven redevelopment and the creation of af-

fordable space initiatives in communities lacking in resources.

“They [buildings] used to have so much to give, so much space to hold,” Gates said before he paused. “Well, beauty,” he continued. “They’re all being replaced with minor strip malls, Nike outlets, Sbarro.” A picture of a brick building appeared on the screen.

It was still standing with its center destroyed. “Not all buildings have the capacity to be saved,” explained Gates.

Gates explained to the audience the making of a brick. “It needs to have six percent permeability — that is, it’s allowed to weep. I want to ensure that the brick I make achieves some standard by the national building association.”

He explained, “I don’t want to make a cute brick that doesn’t achieve brickness. The very nature of the work depends on it being able to weep like a brick. It needs to act like a brick. That it might be a brick.” He spoke as if the brick were a person, as if the bricks were a demographic of humans and the standards that came with being a part of that group.

“In 2012, I was really interested in the relationship between domesticated spaces, not necessarily housing, spaces that occupy ... their failure, demise.”

Gates explained his preoccupation with the demise of “domesticated spaces,” which are not limited to just housing spaces: he explained them as any building that occupied people. “Is it possible that I could take my love of development and my love of clay?

Conflate those things into a modular unit, and that brick would be the embodiment of my belief in the materials and would also allow me … to change the world?”

He also expressed his fear of digital innovation taking over analog innovation. He asked, “Is it possible that in 2016, no one in the United States will know how to construct an arch? Is it possible that in 2018, the only people that will know how to make pots, that have had diasporic tendencies, will in fact be white people?”

Gates questioned the audience.

The Rosebud, a gallery on Main Street in Waltham which features pieces from the Rose Art Museum’s video collections, will continue to display Gates’ work through April 3.

ALL SMILES: Lisa Lynch embraces Theaster Gates as she awards him the prestigious Richman Fellowship.

CAPTIVATED AUDIENCE: A mixture of students, faculty, staff and Brandeis community members gathered on Wednesday to hear Gates speak.

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EDITORIALS Revise flawed Rights and Responsibilities policies CONTINUED FROM P.1 After publication, last year’s Take Back The Night coverage received overwhelming backlash from readers. Critics argued that speakers had been unaware that press would be attending Take Back The Night, and by quoting the survivors, even anonymously, we had made the space less safe and “taken the speakers’ stories away from them.” Our News editors received harassing emails. Students and administrators demanded we retract the article and apologize for printing it.

We did not retract, alter or apologize for our coverage — one can still find the unaltered piece on our website.

In August 2015, three editors received a notice from a law office that its legal team had been hired to investigate the case for a potential lawsuit.

The notice argued that even though Massachusetts state law permits audio recording of public events, the safe-space mentality of Take Back The Night made it a private affair, which is illegal to record without permission. The argument that this was a private affair is invalid, due to the public invitation the University community received and the publicity associated with all Take Back The Night events. The case was never pursued beyond the initial notice.

The right to record public events is a well-guarded and cherished right not only for journalists but for activists as well. It is one of the only reasons public awareness campaigns like Take Back The Night function effectively: they inspire public discourse on underrepresented topics — a discourse that is often carried out in the media.

Survivors of sexual assault must be treated with deep respect by reporters, but public speakers must recognize as well that what they say is for a wide audience. They cannot predict who will attend. What is said for a large public audience will be discussed and quoted by attendees, including — but not limited to — members of the press.

As we approached this year’s Take Back The Night, the issues surrounding last year’s article resurfaced. Last month, the same editors who received the legal notice were summoned under a Community Standards Report by the University, which sought to prosecute them for recording audio of the event.

The CSR cited a section in Rights and Responsibilities forbidding recording without all parties’ consent. This rule was not intended to apply to journalists. Were this rule to have been interpreted as narrowly as the case argued, almost any reporting by the Justice, the Brandeis Hoot or WBRS would become impossible. The campus newspapers and other media would turn into public relations venues instead of reporting outlets.

The Justice offers its heartfelt thanks to the University’s Journalism department, which spoke on our behalf to administrative officials and sought support from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, an advocacy group for free speech on college campuses.

FIRE reached out to the University, as well.

Uphold journalistic ethics Over the last year, the Justice has consulted two faculty members from the University’s Journalism Program and four other professional journalists.

Unanimously, professional and even Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists have told the Justice that our reporting was both appropriate and ethical.

It’s troubling enough that students threatened freedom of the press, but the fact that administrators watched and abetted this challenge to the Brandeis mission and commitment to free speech for as long as they did is unconscionable.

The University could have dismissed the case at any point but instead continued to pursue the case until the issue gained traction with FIRE. Last night, the University informed the three editors that they would not be penalized over the case. This was only after the University received letters from the Journalism department and FIRE and administrators sat with Journalism faculty members in several meetings over the last month. Additionally, the Justice has been informed that the University’s recording policies will be revisited and potentially revised, as they allow for an interpretation that threatens free press on campus.

Activism and journalism can and should work hand in hand on issues like sexual assault on campus, not trying to control or bend one another but respecting each other’s conventions and requirements. The Justice reported last year’s Take Back The Night accurately, thoroughly and sensitively, as we endeavour to cover all events.

A free press requires citizens to abide by specific principles. A person can be quoted for what they say in a public setting. A newspaper that discusses polarizing views is not biased, hateful or cruel. And most important of all, reporters are not writing with a vendetta. Our obligation is to cover stories accurately, thoroughly and sensitively. Journalists have a responsibility to inform — not to appease.

This year at Take Back The Night, our reporter will wear a press badge identifying themselves and will both take notes on paper and prominently display their recording device, per standard Justice policy of event coverage.

Any survivors or participants who speak may be quoted and will be granted anonymity. The reporter will be the only one to hear the audio of the event, and the audio will be deleted following publication of the article, also per standard Justice policy. The quotations will only use non-identifying lines from speeches.

The three editors who were involved in the CSR will not write, edit or read the article before publication.

This board hopes that this important event will be widely attended by the University community. In addition, this board hopes that the University community remains aware that participants of any public event speak to the community at large, especially when speaking in a public setting.

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In Cuba on March 21, President Obama met with President Raul Castro and spoke of a “new day” for relations between their two countries, according to a March 21 New York Times article. While some argue that this is a historic step toward thawing decades of residual animosity from the Cold War, some — human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, in particular — demand President Castro release political prisoners before the two leaders move forward with a partnership of any kind. What do you think of President Obama’s actions in Cuba, and how should the two countries proceed?

Prof. Laurence Simon (HS) A former U.S. diplomat once said that Cuba exerts the same influence on the U.S. government that the moon does on werewolves.

Well, the spell is now broken thanks to President Obama. He is correct to have visited Cuba and to place normalization of relations on a steady footing. His speech to the Cuban people made it clear that the U.S. is mindful of the improvements in human rights that are still to be achieved, and we might add the need for access to the World Wide Web. But let the American people see the whole picture from a pre-revolution when Cuba was a playground for Latin American oligarchs and a cesspool for the Cuban people to a time when Cubans enjoy among the finest universal health programs and free education for all. Engagement is a better option than isolation.

Professor Laurence Simon (HS) is Professor of International Development and Director of the Center for Global Development and Sustainability.

Prof. Silvia Arrom (HIST) Obama’s trip was the right move. It signals the end of a failed Cold War policy and the beginning of constructive engagement. In Havana, he took several steps to encourage an expansion of civil liberties, not only meeting with dissidents but also delivering a speech — broadcast throughout the island — that reaffirmed our support for human rights, freedom of speech and the right of Cuba’s people to chart their own future in a democratic way. The issue of political prisoners came up in a joint press conference with Raul Castro, who is not used to receiving open questions from the press and, when confronted, asked for a list of these prisoners and promised to release them. So the seeds of change have been planted, in a respectful way that recognizes that the U.S. will treat Cubans as equals. This approach should work better than our heavy-handed policies of the past.

Prof. Silvia Arrom (HIST) is the Jane’s Professor Emerita of Latin American Studies.

Prof. Stephen Whitfield (AMST) Is the violation of human rights why Cuba has remained under an embargo? Why did it take so long for a U.S. President to visit an island so close to Florida? Obama is the first to do so since Calvin Coolidge.

The answer cannot be Cuba’s imprisonment of political dissidents. The U.S. enjoys full diplomatic relations with China, with Russia, with Saudi Arabia. At best human rights has been a very erratic feature of U.S. foreign policy; and in the 1970s, for example, during spasms of outrage at the despotism of Fidel Castro, Presidents Nixon and Ford — and Secretary of State Kissinger — got along just fine with the military rulers of Chile and Argentina, who engaged with impunity in horrendous torture and murder. The only explanation for the anomaly of a policy that President Obama is rightly seeking to end is the historic need to placate rightwing Cuban-Americans in a state with clout in the Electoral College.

Prof. Stephen Whitfield (AMST) is a Max Richter Professor of American Civilization.

Prof. Winston Bowman (HIST) Given that the United States has held hundreds of prisoners on Cuban soil for more than a decade with scant regard for the rule of law or the judicial process, President Obama is not in a position to take a highhanded or moralistic position against the Castro administration on this issue. Disengaging entirely would give us less leverage to effect positive change in Cuba and leave the U.S. open to charges of hypocrisy. President Obama should instead walk a fine line between building on the hopeful signs of reengagement and appearing to whitewash or endorse Cuba’s oppressive policies. This is a difficult balance to strike, but it is one America has managed in the past in dealing with more powerful nations, including China, that have dubious human rights records.

Prof. Winston Bowman (HIST) is a lecturer in history.

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Re-evaluate feminist rhetoric in light of international conditions Jessica

Goldstein ubuntu The construction of America’s concept of “war on women” came into full fruition in the recent presidential primary cycle. However, the phrase was coined in the late 1990s by Andrea Dworkin in response to GOP policies and political rhetoric surrounding women.

Recent outcry regarding Donald Trump’s misogynistic rhetoric — everything from likening women to pigs or dogs to talking about blood coming out of political commentator Megyn Kelly’s “wherever” — has since added more fuel to the fire. In a recent advertisement by the Make America Awesome Super PAC, an independent group that advocates for Senator Ted Cruz (RTX), the group attacked Republican frontrunner Donald Trump’s wife, Melania. The advertisement featured a 2000 nude image of Melania Trump on the cover of GQ magazine.

The advertisement circulated throughout Facebook prior to the Utah caucus and read, “Meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday,” according to a March 25 Washington Post article. Trump shot back with an attack against Cruz’s wife, Heidi Cruz, by posting an unattractive image of her beside an image of his model wife — despite Ted Cruz’s lack of involvement in the campaign.

However, all of these discussions regarding the concept of a war on women in America seem a bit hyperbolic. While Trump’s clear misogyny perpetuates toxic societal views of women and could lead to disastrous attempts at forming discriminatory legislation, this is anything but a war.

Yes, women in this country still experience various and unacceptable levels of inequality regarding unfair wages for similar jobs and fewer women in high-power government positions and careers. The average woman in the United States receives only 79 percent of what men make as of 2014, according to the American Study of University Women. This means the gender wage gap is 21 percent. For every dollar a man makes, a wom-

an makes 79 cents.

Additionally, according to a March 7, 2014 article in the Nation, the United States took a big hit regarding equality when the number of women in the national legislature ranked at ninety-eighth in the world and the number of women who hold Congressional seats became a low 20 percent.

However, this is no “war on women.”

These are issues that must be resolved, but they should not be battled through bombastic speeches by grandstanding politicians.

While we discuss the issue of “war on women,” maybe we should apply the term where it is more appropriate.

Time and time again, women around the world are denied basic, fundamental rights — the right to education, the right to own property and the right to be safe. In the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, there is an actual “war on women.” There, rape of women is used as a weapon in an inactive war.

The sexual violence in DR Congo is startling and debilitating. According to a June 2011 study published in the American Journal of Public Health, 48 women are raped every hour. More recent reports from local health facilities find that number has lowered to 40 women every hour, according to May 22, 2015 Guardian article. Dr. Denis Mukwege, a Congolese gynecologist who has treated more than 40,000 women since the beginning of the 1998 Congo War, expressed of rape: “It is a method of torture. It is a way to terrorise the population. When I see some of the injuries on the women and children, I realise this type of violence has little to do with sex and much more with power through a sort of terrorism.”

Regional actors launched DR Congo into war in 1996, following the Rwandan genocide, when President Mobutu Sese Seko refused to separate the genocidaires — the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda — from Hutu civilians in the refugee camps. General Paul Kagame — now the President of Rwanda — invaded the country with his allies.

Following that war, another war was launched in 1998. A war once fought over politics and security devolved into a resource war.

While not currently an active war, the rates of sexual violence still remain sky-high as militias from over nine countries fight over the country’s resources: tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold. In the town of Shabunda, filmmaker and

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photojournalist Fiona-Lloyd Davis said, “Women told me how they expected to be raped. Not once but many times. The women I met spoke of gang rapes, three or four times. Sometimes it was ‘only’ two soldiers, more often gangs of men, 10, 20, over and over again.” If the violence isn’t bad enough, there is also no expectation of justice for these women and girls.

In November 2012, at least 76 women and girls were raped in the town Minova and outlying areas by government troops. Due to public outcry, the military court went along with a trial where only two low-level officials were found guilty of

the crime of rape, according to Human Rights Watch.

This shows the lack of courage within the court. When the government soldiers are allowed to rape with impunity and the criminal justice system is weak, violence against women and girls is essentially given the stamp of approval by the government.

In Congo, men rape women in an attempt to destabilize the traditional Congolese family, eat away at a woman’s honor and destroy a woman’s insides. This is a war on women. Let’s get our rhetoric right.

Recognize parallels between Trump’s success and Founders’ fears

By RAVI SIMON JUSTICE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

When Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the republican presidential nomination in June 2015, his campaign appeared doomed from inception. Calling Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers in the first speech of your campaign is not a typical strategy for winning the hearts and minds of voters.

Yet, as he has impossibly gained in the polls and won state after state, America now has to very seriously confront the possibility of a Republican nominee known only for real estate and reality television. Trump is a uniquely terrible candidate, lacking not only government experience but also basic human decency. He is sexist, racist, immature, ill-informed and overall unfit for the position for which he is running.

Yet, this has not deterred his success. The question now is, “Who is to blame?”

While the Constitution is a living, breathing document meant to be reinterpreted over time, the words which dot its aged, yellowed parchment represent timeless principles. Among these are concepts such as limited government and self-determination. The Founding Fathers did not envision the democracy present today in the United States. The country they helped create was a republic, in which the democratic will was supposed to be vibrant but moderated by checks and balances upon the people. Institutions were not meant to be fully democratic.

Both the Senate and the office of the presidency were chosen by state delegates. In this way, the Founders hoped to strike a balance between mob rule and monarchy. They distrusted the average citizen’s capacity to make the right decisions when picking between candidates for national office. Common people could be trusted to elect representatives to the House and state legislatures to handle local issues, but national issues such as foreign policy were deemed too complex, sensitive and important.

These safeguards, for better or worse, have largely disappeared since the nation’s inception. Now, the 17th Amendment allows for the direct election of senators, the electoral college

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is largely tied to the popular vote in each state, and the country as a whole places much more importance on democratic values, particularly through the expansion of suffrage through at least seven Constitutional amendments.

Beyond that, society has changed considerably since the 18th century. For example, mass media, public education standards and other massive transformations have occurred, rendering average citizens much better able to connect to issues and become informed. Despite these changes which should have made average citizens better voters, the success of Trump provides serious reason to question the capacity of American voters.

Since June, Americans have witnessed the Trump phenomenon: Trump proposes something totally offensive and unfeasible, pundits and candidates alike wait for his campaign to fall apart, and then Trump somehow gains in the polls. The truth is that American voters respond well to Trump’s brand of disrespectful, immature politics. Personal insults, angry rants against Washington policies and crude jokes are at the heart of his candidacy. His policies need not make sense. Whether advertising his wall that Mexico will pay for, banning Muslims or imposing a huge tariff on Chinese goods, Trump should not be seeing such success, and sensible people are left wondering how anyone could possibly sincerely wish to vote for him.

There are many theories regarding Trump’s rise. These include the anti-establishment populism that a gridlocked Congress has largely created, the failure of moderate establishment candidates in the last two presidential elections, the name recognition of the Trump brand — as well as Trump’s association with wealth and success — the appeal of authoritarianism to modern American voters, economic trends which have caused frustration for working-class white Americans and the intensely divided, overcrowded Republican field of candidates which emerged at the start of the season. Whether all, none or any combination of these are the underlying causes of Trump’s popularity, it is clear that his success represents an enormous failure of Republican voters. Anger, economic condi-

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tions and especially an overcrowded field are not real justifications for the nomination of a bigoted buffoon. They can only be excuses for an electorate that is totally mislead.

Trump is a skilled demagogue, preying off American anger and fear. He does this first by monopolizing media attention. Trump, through offensiveness and crude humor, has managed, according to an Aug. 5, 2015 article by the Hill, to dominate Google search trends, as well as social media and the 24-hour news cycles. Secondly, his simplification of complex issues with crude language demonstrates his remarkable ability to create and feed off fear. Immigration is a problem, Trump tells us in his June 26, 2015 announcement speech, because “Mexico is not sending their finest,” and Syrian refugees “could be ISIS — I don’t know,” according to Trump in a Sept. 30, 2015 speech in Keene, New Hampshire.

By scapegoating minorities, Trump masterfully makes white Americans believe that their Latino neighbors are criminals and that the Muslim students at their children’s schools are terrorists. According to a Feb. 23 New York Times article drawing on data from Public Policy Polling, 31 percent of South Carolina Trump voters were self-described white supremacists. This third component is perhaps the most important key.

When framed this way, the solution seems simple: Elect Donald Trump to be your president, and these problems will disappear.

This Trump phenomenon lends support to the Founders’ distrust of the American public. The strength of Trump’s campaign feeds into three immense problems which the American electorate has when making decisions: susceptibility to sensationalized media, inability to cope with complex problems and prioritization of politicians with entertaining personalities. 24 million viewers tuned into the first Republican debate on Fox News, compared to just 7 million viewers in the most watched Republican debate of 2012.

Trump is extremely entertaining, and Americans seem to care more about this than the actual merits and qualifications of candidates.

This was proven when Trump backed out from the second Fox News debate and viewership halved, according to a Jan. 29 New York

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In addition, the Republicans voting for Trump are proving that a large swath of Americans are unable to engage with complex policy ideas for how to deal with U.S. enemies like ISIS. Carpet bombing, banning Muslims and doing “a lot more than waterboarding” is not a solution to the Middle East. The popularity of such measures begs the question whether Americans know or care that most Muslims in Syria are not extremist fighters. According to a Sept. 29, 2015 New York Times article drawing on data from Public Policy Polling, 40 percent of North Carolina Trump supporters believed Islam should be criminalized in the United States. Finally, the importance of personality in the election has been astounding. Jeb Bush was largely knocked out of the race, not because of inexperience or inability to suggest insightful policy but rather because he was boring and relatively passive.

Further, according to a Feb. 10 New York Times article, Marco Rubio’s campaign imploded in New Hampshire because voters thought his debate performances were too repetitive and mechanical. The field of candidates this cycle was diverse and full of experienced, popular candidates. The fact that it has largely come down to a competition between Ted Cruz and Donald Trump must say something about the state of American politics.

While a plethora of factors can be used to justify why Trump has been successful, ultimately, the only group to hold responsible are voters.

The repeal of restrictions on democracy in the country have come with responsibility. It is not enough to claim suffrage as a right. American voters must be informed, thoughtful and rational; anger, fear and other emotions can too easily be whipped up into votes for an undeserving candidate. Ultimately, if Trump is brought to a brokered convention and stopped only by GOP party elites, it will be a validation of all the Founders’ beliefs that America at large cannot be trusted to make important decisions unchecked. The electorate has a chance to prove the Founders wrong, to prove that they are capable of making their own decisions without interference. They should take it.

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Reject sugarcoating of US history in high school education Catherine

Rosch Cynical idealist

Over the Easter break, I was lucky enough to see “Hamilton,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s genius rap musical about the Founding Fathers, the birth of America and the rise and fall of a “bastard immigrant son of a whore” who happens to now live on the ten-dollar bill. It was absolutely genius, as Miranda was able to transform a duller moment of American history into a touching love story and political epic in a format that people of any age could enjoy.

In fact, Broadway has made the otherwise pricey “Hamilton” more accessible to local students; anyone with a valid New York City public school ID card can attend for ten dollars. As a history major who focuses on American political and social history, I was more than blown away, and walking out of the theater, I realized something.

If a musical with breakdancing and rap battles between Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists is what it takes to get young people, especially high school students, excited about studying history, I wholeheartedly support that.

However, high school history curricula around the country are not making teenagers more excited about history. In fact, they are failing America’s young people by teaching them biased and inaccurate accounts of American history that only further toxic misconceptions of marginalized groups.

In 2014, the College Board announced a major overhaul of the Advanced Placement U.S. History curriculum that would make a more focused curriculum that challenged preconceived notions about the United States, according to a Feb. 23, 2015 Vox News article. As someone who took APUSH, as it is informally called, I can attest to the necessity of such an overhaul, as there are many flaws within the curriculum — including a tendency to ignore the less-savory aspects of American history. The new curriculum seeks to correct this. For example, it urged high school teachers to teach early American colonization as “trigger[ing] extensive demographic and social changes on both sides of the Atlantic,” rather than just focusing on the European-dominant narrative of settlement. James Grossman, the executive director of the American Historical Association, said in a Sept. 1, 2014 New York Times opinion piece that the new APUSH curriculum challenged high school students to look at American history as “more complex, unsettling, provocative and compelling,” as Grossman puts it. American history can be unsettling and provocative, and it can be far too easy to ignore the negatives of American history that still have

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resounding impacts today.

However, not everyone was as enthusiastic about these proposed changes as collegiate history majors and professional editors. Many conservatives — none of whom have any record of scholarship in American history — were quick to dismiss these changes as un-American and wrong, simply because these new requirements did not extol the virtues of free enterprise and American exceptionalism. According to the same Vox News article, the Republican National Committee condemned the new curriculum for being anti-American, while Ben Carson of failed presidential candidate fame claimed that the new standards would cause American schoolchildren to join the Islamic State. School boards in both Colorado and Oklahoma claimed the revised requirements would promote “civil disorder, social strife or disregard of the law,” in the words of the Colorado school board, simply for teaching in a more nuanced manner.

Unfortunately for historical accuracy, the College Board backed down from these revised changes, according to a July 30, 2014 article from ThinkProgress. Rather than highlighting slavery, the history of violence against Native Americans and important civil rights leaders like Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk, the curriculum has shifted back to a focus on the Founding Fathers, American military power and the “positives” of socially conservative movements, like the fight against the Equal Rights Amendment and the war on drugs.

For some states, this new right-wing retelling of American history simply was not enough. In De-

cember 2014, North Carolina announced an overhaul of the state’s American history program. The state, according to a Dec. 14, 2014 ThinkProgress investigative piece, gave the Bill of Rights Institute, a group funded by the Koch brothers, a contract to develop American history lesson plans that promoted an explicitly pro-states rights and anti-tax agenda that ignores many realities and facts of American history or treats them as still up for debate. For example, the Institute’s materials describe the 17th Amendment, which expanded democracy through requiring the direct election of United States senators, as “result[ing] in more federal laws that infringe on the powers of states or that carry mandates with no funding attached,” according the Institute’s materials on the matter. The curriculum also downplays the role of slavery in the Civil War and discussed the 14th Amendment as government intrusion, rather than analyzing it through its historic lens of slavery and the Civil War. In South Carolina, the situation is not much better. Even as late as 2015, an investigation by the Center for American Progress found that South Carolina public schools described American land wars with Native Americans as “accomplishments” and focused on the institution of slavery as “[an] economic necessity” for the American South. The curriculum encouraged teachers to lead discussions about “fair” punishments for rebellious slaves, used only the passive voice when discussing the many negative aspects of slavery and only focused on plantation-owners when discussing the role of slavery and the slave trade in South Carolina’s history. The curricu-

lum implied that African familiarity with farming, not race, drove the institution of slavery and largely downplays the role of slavery as a cause for the Civil War, as well as any meaningful discussion of Jim Crow or the Civil Rights movement, according to the same Center for American Progress piece.

American history is complicated and messy.

In the past one hundred years alone, the United States fought and defeated fascism, reopened diplomatic relations with the largest country in the world and became a global superpower. In this same one hundred years, the right to vote was restricted on the basis of race and gender, American citizens were interred based simply on the basis of where their families came from, and multiple administrations supported anti-democratic military dictatorships.

History is always going to have biases. As a historian, I constantly have to challenge my own notions of my area of specialty — Irish-American political history — and analyze the historiography, or the history of how history is told, in order to create a more complete picture. My own views of American history were pushed while I took APUSH as a junior, and because of that, I discovered political, legal and social history and how those lenses can change how we can understand history. Using an incomplete and inaccurate version of history that only focuses on the positives and ignores the negatives of the United States’ past does not challenge the narrative and means that American citizens have an incomplete picture without the means to challenge what they have been told.

Appreciate benefits of potential Hillel building for Brandeis By casey lamar JUSTICE contributing WRITER

I sat down recently with a few prospective students who were interested in Jewish life on campus. They were only juniors in high school, and Brandeis was the first campus they visited on their tour of colleges across the Northeast. Despite this, they already had a pretty good idea about what Jewish life should look like on campus going into the conversation. As a leader of the Orthodox Minyan, or prayer group, I was able to answer the typical questions — those regarding the quality of Kosher food on campus, keeping Shabbat and campus opinions in Israel discussions — with ease. Yet one question resonated and took me a little bit longer to answer than the others: “Why is there no Hillel building on campus?”

As I have become more involved in Jewish leadership on campus, I have started to feel Brandeis’ lack of a Hillel building more profoundly. The Orthodox Minyan, as well as every other Minyan on campus, is shuffled around campus regularly because the school does not have a permanent space for the multiple Jewish prayer groups on campus.

While the Berlin Chapel — a beautiful building with a rich history and even richer acoustics — would seem to be the obvious choice for such a space, it alone cannot support the needs of all seven Jewish prayer groups on Shabbat, each of which have attendances ranging from ten to over a hundred regular members.

The Minyans are therefore tucked into the International Lounge, Perlman Lounge, the Lurias, Levin Ballroom, Feldberg Lounge or wherever else we fit because there is no central location that can accommodate all the Jewish prayer groups.

Instead of all walking to this central location, students must walk in opposite directions to attend their respective services, cre-

ating physical distance between the already ideologically insular communities.

Friday night is a time that has been unifying the Jewish community for thousands of years, yet the lack of a Hillel building does not promote unification; instead, it furthers any existing separation between the prayer groups in the Jewish community.

With more than 20 prayer, social and service groups, it is no surprise that Hillel must book spaces every week, multiple times a week, for multiple groups and therefore has trouble finding spaces for them. Hillel Lounge in Usdan is big enough for a board meeting or a small social event, but it is not big enough for events that Hillel member groups have that are larger than 20 people. Consequently, the designated Hillel space currently available at Brandeis cannot even achieve the simple task of providing a useful space for all Jewish groups on campus.

The lack of a Hillel building is felt not only in scheduling conflicts and lack of seating but also through the discomfort of certain groups occupying certain spaces. For example, in the basement of Shapiro Residence Hall, the Brandeis Orthodox Organization maintains a room called the Beit Midrash, or House of Study. The Beit Midrash offers an extensive library of Jewish texts and a place for Brandeis students to study these texts comfortably.

However, because it is not a neutral space, non-Orthodox students have often said to me that they do not feel comfortable studying in the Beit Midrash, despite their interest in having a space dedicated to the studying of Jewish texts; consequently, non-Orthodox students rarely study in the Beit Midrash. Due to the absence of the safe space that a Hillel building would create, only a fraction of Jews on campus are able to fully enjoy all the resources that exist here. A Hillel building would create a space where Jews of any denomination can

enjoy studying Jewish texts comfortably without fear of entering a non-neutral space.

Other campuses of similarly sized student populations and Jewish populations have responded to these issues with a Hillel building. In our own backyard, Tufts, Harvard, Northeastern and Boston University all have Hillel buildings, yet Brandeis does not.

Brandeis does not usually pride itself on not adequately meeting students’ needs, and yet it often champions its lack of Hillel building, pointing out that the entire campus is like a Hillel building. While this argument acknowledges the safe space that Brandeis has been able to create for Jews on campus, it fails to acknowledge that the University is incapable of providing adequate physical spaces for all of the Jewish groups on campus. Minyans are often asked to relocate services from their booked locations to make room for other campus groups, and board meetings have had to meet in dorms because the Hillel Lounge was double booked. Other opponents would argue that a Hillel building on campus would make the campus “too Jewy” at the expense of other groups. While a valid concern, this argument operates under the false assumption that providing resources to strengthen the cultural and religious identity of one group of students inherently entails weakening another group.

Resources for the Jewish community on campus can be expanded without encroaching on the resources of any other groups.

In fact, a Hillel building would actually help other groups too. Multipurpose rooms and social halls in the Hillel building could be available to other student groups and could provide more venues for student groups on campus.

Additionally, the vacated spots on campus previously used by Hillel member groups would be opened, providing even fewer scheduling conflicts for all kinds of Brandeis groups.

At a Hillel event last spring, amid a failed

search for a Hillel director, Senior Vice President for Students and Enrollment Andrew Flagel assured a group of students that they would have a Brandeis Hillel building by 2018.

The crowd broke out in cheers, yet there was an air of cynicism in the room.

Flagel was referencing a plan to raise money to build a Hillel building in place of the Berlin Chapel instead of renovating the existing 60-year-old building.

This is a plausible solution for an old question. Although it is a beautiful building, the Berlin Chapel is unable to fulfill the needs of the Jewish community at its present state.

Building a fully equipped Hillel building in place of the Berlin Chapel would bring together the Jewish community and offer a centralized location for Jewish life on campus, and an architect could work carefully to integrate the new building with the Bethlehem and Harlan Chapels in order to ensure that Jewish unity does not come at the expense of the unity of the three chapels.

Members of the administration say they are in support of a Hillel building, but it is time that they start acting on it. There has been no follow-up from Flagel or any other administrator regarding his plan for a Hillel building. Brandeis administration and Hillel at Brandeis should actively pursue donors to fund the Hillel building to show their support for the entire Jewish community on campus.

It seems that the primary obstacles to building a Hillel building are lack of space and lack of money, but building in place of the Berlin Chapel can solve the former and seeking donations specific to the construction of a Hillel building can solve the latter. Consequently, there is not a good reason why Brandeis does not have a Hillel building yet, so as I sat in Sherman and tried to answer the prospective student’s question, all I could muster was, “I don’t know.”

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CONTINUED FROM 14 less than five seconds out of a top10 spot. Maddox Kay ’19 ran to a 2:18.52 finish, while Brandon Odze ’17 stopped the clock at the 2:22.84 mark time.

The Judges rounded out the day in the 1500-meter run, where five competitors placed within 10 spots for the squad. Max Whitmore ’18 led the way for the team, taking 21st out of the 61 competitors in 4:26.77. Russell Santos ’17 was a step behind in 22nd place, stopping the timer at the 4:27.56 mark.

Ben Fong ’18 took 24th in 4:31.17, while Matt Doran ’17 ran to a 4:32.09 finish, good for 26th place.

Christian Castro ’18 rounded out the squad with a 31st-place finish in 4:35.32.

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LUNGE ATTACK: University of Notre Dame freshman Axel Keifer (left) took a sharp blow from Penn State University junior Nobuo Bravo (right) in an intense showdown during the NCAA Championships last weekend in the Gosman Sports and Convocation Center.

FENCING: Top seeds rally for crucial wins CONTINUED FROM 14 of the semifinals, senior Ference Valkai of St. John’s defeated junior Kaito Streets of Penn State. In the final, Mackiewicz had to call for a trainer as he held an 11-9 lead, but he proceeded to punish Valkai’s aggression to hoist his second consecutive individual saber title and Penn State’s third-straight individual saber title.

The foil competition was heated as well, as sophomore Max Chastanet of Ohio State took the first seed with an 18-5 mark in pool play.

Chastanet had a tough semifinal matchup in facing the enormous senior Adam Mathieu of Columbia. Chastanet booked his trip

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to the final with a 15-11 win. The other semifinal pit junior Nobuo Bravo of Penn State against freshman Axel Kiefer of Notre Dame.

Eventually Bravo outfought Kiefer, earning a 15-11 win of his own.

However, Bravo was no match for Chastanet in the final as Chastanet dominated him by a score of 15-3 in the most lopsided elimination match of the day. In the first epee match, top-seeded and defending champion senior Jake Hoyle tried to make his senior season as good as his junior one. He fought back from 10-4 to barely inch by sophomore Lewis Weiss of Ohio State.

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Yevgeniy Karyuchenko in a match that took extra time to decide.

Hoyle and Blais faced off in the final and Hoyle got the last four three touches to earn his second title in two years.

As a team, Columbia took the title, its second straight, with Ohio State trailing very close behind, despite sending significantly fewer fencers to the championship meet.

Brandeis was shut out of this meet for the second consecutive season, but they look to rebound next season with some new recruits and even tougher competitors. The fencers spent the day working the event and assisting with video review and logistical organization of the tournament.

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Women’s squad The distance runners paced the way for the Judges at the meet, taking three of the top five spots in the 1500-meter run. Kelsey Whitaker ’16 won the 50-person race that was run in four heats, stopping the clock at 4:52.12 Kyra Shreeve ’18 grabbed second place in the race in 4:58.48. Julia Bryson ’19 rounded out the Judges’ top-five competitors with a 5:07.84 finish, good for fifth place.

Christine Minor ’19 completed the course in 5:32.92 for a 26thplace finish, less than a second out of the top half of the field.

Tove Freeman ’16 grabbed a third-place finish in the 800-meter run with a time of 2:28.54. Aubrey Clemens ’19 grabbed 11th place in 2:39.49, just under a second out of a top-10 finish.

Abby Daniels ’19 and Beth Deffossez ’18 took back-to-back finishes in the pole vault, jumping to 2.75 and 2.45 meters, respectively. Dan-

iels took fourth place in the event while Deffossez took fifth.

Maya Sands Bliss ’19 took ninth place in the 400-meter dash, running to a time of 1:04.98 while Ajia Salmon ’19 was 14th in 1:06.54.

Kanya Brown ’19 earned a 10thplace finish in the 200-meter dash, crossing the line at the 28.03-second mark. Salmon crossed the line in 28th place out of the 58 competitors in the race in 29.81 seconds, .13 seconds out of a top-25 finish.

Brown also earned an 11th-place finish in the 100-meter dash in 13.38 seconds, one-hundredth of a second out of the top 10 competitors in the event.

Jordin Carter ’16 took eighth place in the hammer throw, totaling a distance of 35.67 meters.

Carter's throw was just under twoand-a-half meters shorter than the fifth-place finisher and just under three-and-a-half meters further than the next finisher.

Ashley Klein ’19 grabbed an 11thplace finish in the javelin throw with a distance of 30.66 meters, just .22 meters out of a top-10 finish in the event.

Klein’s distance was also just under a full meter further than the 12th-place competitor.

Carter rounded out the Judges’ day with a 17th-place finish in the discus throw, totaling 24.03 meters, a distance that was less than a meter behind the next competitor.

Her distance was also just over a meter out of a top-15 spot in the event, out of the 32 competitors.

The Judges will continue their pace return to action this Saturday in the Tufts Snowflake Challenge, hosted by Tufts University.

—Editor's Note: Maddox Kay '19 is a contributing writer for the Justice Forum section.

TENNIS BRIEF Men drop one singles match in victory over Coast Guard Academy during long weekend The No. 28 men’s tennis team rolled over the United States Coast Guard Academy in an 8-1 victory on Saturday in New London, CT, sweeping the doubles courts and taking all but the No. 6 singles court match in the process.

The Judges move to 4-3 on the year with the win, having recorded three straight wins that began with a win over University Athletic Association opponent New York University on Mar. 13.

The duo of Michael Arguello ’17 and Jeff Cherkin ’17 rolled over their opponents 8-3, giving the duo a record of 4-1 on the No. 1 doubles court this year. Danny Lubarsky ’16 and Brian Granoff ’16 earned their first win on doubles court as a pair with an 8-5 victory on the No. 2 court.

The usual second pairing of Lubarsky and Jackson Kogan ’19 was split up with Kogan sitting the day out. The duo of Eric Goldberg ’18 and Zach Cihlar ’19 also earned their first win together on doubles courts, turning in a convincing win on the No. 3 court with a crushing 8-2 victory.

Ryan Bunis ’17 improved to 5-2 overall in singles action with a win on the No. 1 singles court, taking down his opponent by a 6-4, 6-2 straight-set victory. Granoff needed three sets to dispatch his opponent

on the No. 2 singles court, recovering from a first-set loss to take a 6-7, 6-1, 6-2 victory.

Granoff moves to 8-3 on the year for the Judges.

Arguello pulled off a convincing 6-0, 6-1 victory on the No. 3 singles court, improving his regular season record to 3-2 on the year.

Tyler Ng ’19 continued his good form by winning his fifthstraight match for the Judges, taking a 3-6, 6-2, 6-2 victory on the No. 4 court. Ng improved to 2-0 on the No. 4 court with the win and has turned in five straight wins after beginning the year with a two-match losing streak.

Lubarsky completed the double bagel on the No. 5 singles court, taking a 6-0, 6-0 victory to improve to 1-1 on the year.

Cihlar fell to 2-2 on the No. 6 singles court with the Judges’ only loss of the afternoon but played well in a 7-5, 7-5 defeat.

Cihlar sits at 3-3 overall this year in singles play.

The Judges had a matchup with Wheaton College last Friday that was postponed and will next take to the court tomorrow when they travel to Babson College, beginning at 3 p.m.

The Judges will also welcome Bates College on Sunday, beginning at 11 a.m.

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UAA STANDINGS

Runs Batted In

Not including Monday’s games.

UAA Conference

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

W 15 20 10 7 7 7 4

Overall L Pct. 9 .625 7 .741 9 .526 6 .539 9 .438 13 .350 7 .364

UPCOMING GAMES: Today vs. Bridgewater State Thursday vs. Rhode Island College Apr. 3 vs. Johnson & Wales (DH) *DH=Double Header

Greg Heineman ’16 leads the team with 17 RBIs. Player RBI Greg Heineman 17 Ryan Healy 10 Connor Doyle 9 Jay Schaff 7

Strikeouts Sam Miller ’16 leads all pitchers with 20 strikeouts.

Player Ks Sam Miller 20 Bradley Bousquet 13 Sean O’Neill 12 Elio Fernandez 10

SOFTBALL UAA STANDINGS

TEAM STATS

Not including Monday’s games.

Runs Batted In

UAA Conference

W L Emory 10 0 WashU 6 4 JUDGES 6 4 NYU 4 6 Rochester 2 8 Case 2 8 Chicago 0 0

W 21 20 10 9 7 10 8

Overall L Pct. 1 .955 4 .833 7 .588 11 .450 11 .389 16 .384 1 .889

Madison Sullivan ’16 leads the squad with 18 RBIs. Player RBI Madison Sullivan 18 Madison Hunter 14 Keri Lehtonen 10 Liana Moss 8

Strikeouts Sadie-Rose Apfel ’18 leads all pitchers with 20 strikeouts.

Player Ks Sadie-Rose Apfel 20 Melissa Soleimani 20 Sarah Petrides 3

UPCOMING GAMES: Tomorrow vs. Wellesley (DH) Fri. at Worcester State (DH) Apr., 5 at Framingham State (DH) *DH = Double Header

track & Field Results from the Bridgewater State Bears Invitational last Saturday.

TOP PERFORMERS (Men’s)

TOP PERFORMERS (Women’s)

1500-Meter Run

1500-Meter Run

RUNNER TIME Max Whitmore 4:26.77 Russell Santos 4:27.56 Ben Fong 4:31.17 Matt Doran 4:32.09

RUNNER TIME Kelsey Whitaker 4:52.12 Kyra Shreeve 4:58.48 Julia Bryson 5:07.84 Christine Minor 5:32.92

UPCOMING MEETS:

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RUNNING ON CONTACT: Outfielder Madsion Hunter ’17 rips a hard chopper up the middle against Suffolk University on May 9.

Softball players honored at Florida tournament

■ Catcher Danielle Novotny ’16 amassed 14 hits to land into second place for hits during the tournament.

By Jerry MIller Justice Editor

Saturday at the Tufts University Snowflake Classic Apr. 9 at the Amherst College Spring Fling Apr. 15 at the Connecticut College Silfen Invitational

TENNIS Updated season results.

TOP PERFORMERS (Men’s)

TOP PERFORMERS (Women’s)

MEN’S SINGLES Brian Granoff

RECORD 8-3

WOMEN’S SINGLES Sophia He

RECORD 4-2

MEN’S DOUBLES Arguello/Cherkin

RECORD 4-1

WOMEN’S DOUBLES Cohen/Leavitt

RECORD 3-3

UPCOMING MEETS: Tomorrow, men at Babson Friday, women vs. Christopher Newport Saturday, women vs. Amherst

Catcher Danielle Novotny ’16 and third baseman Madison Sullivan ’16 were both named to the University Athletic Association All-Tournament team last week.

The honored distinctions came off the heels of a second-place finish by the Judges in the annual UAA tournament earlier this month. The Judges compiled a 6-4 record over the course of the week to solidify their finish underneath undefeated Emory University.

Over the six days in Florida, Novotny stacked up an incredible .483 batting average, hitting 14 for 29.

The streak included one triple, six RBIs and eight runs scored. Two of the RBIs came in a 13-6 win over the University of Rochester, an impressive game in which she also recorded one hit, two stolen bases and two walks.

Novotny came away a few hits shy of the tournament high, landing in second place with 14 hits.

However, Novotny was able to record a hit in nine of the ten games played, racking up two hits in five of those played.

Additionally, Novotny led the conference in steals, racking up a high total of six steals.

Brandeis’ other representative, Sullivan, showcased a powerful stat line, as well. Coming in with a .438 average landed Sullivan in third overall in the conference for batting average.

Sullivan’s patience at the plate, combined with her pure power, helped rocket the Judges past many of their opponents. Furthermore, Sullivan recorded 12 RBIs in the tournament and slid into first place for most doubles with a grand total of seven.

Adding to her power, Sullivan ripped some of those doubles into home runs, connecting on three balls for homers. Her most pivotal long ball came when she crushed one out of the park to break a long 3-3 tie with New York University, propelling the Judges over the fierce Violets.

Sullivan crushed one for the fences in three consecutive games, with the NYU game in the middle of the impressive streak.

With the induction of first-year

coach Danielle DelPonte, the Judges were able to attain their highest finish since the 2010 tournament in Florida, adding to their current 10-7 regular season record.

During the tournament, Emory University took home the gold medal, winning all ten of their games and edging out the Judges and Washington University for first place in the tournament.

Emory took a decisive win against the Judges in the last game of the tournament, beating the Judges 13-5 to seal their top-place finish in the tournament.

In the first game of the tournament, the Judges fell against WashU 10-2 but were undeterred.

The Judges went on to win their next three straight games, totaling 24 runs in all.

The Judges were then shut out

by Emory and WashU in consecutive games, but they bounced back to take their next three. Despite the losses, the Judges were able propel themselves into a two-way tie for second with WashU. The Judges look to carry their momentum forward into the remainder of the regular season, which resumes tomorrow when the squad hosts Wellesley College in a doubleheader, beginning at 3 p.m.

pro sports BRIEF San Antonio Spurs roll through the regular season behind LaMarcus Aldridge and Kawhi Leonard NBA fans everywhere have been blessed this season with the opportunity to witness the historical greatness of the 65-7 Golden State Warriors. The squad from the Bay Area, led by sharpshooters Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson, have dazzled on the court since the moment the 2015-2016 season tipped off, capturing the hearts of fans from Oakland to Japan. But while the historical dominance with which the Warriors have performed this season has been immeasurably beneficial for the NBA and its fans, there is one significant downside to the attention surrounding Golden State’s play that should no longer be overlooked.

Though each year, basketball pundits count the Spurs out as too old or too tired, the squad finds a way to remain not only competitive but potential champions. With the offseason

addition of five-time all-star LaMarcus Aldridge, the Spurs all but ensured they will remain in contention for the next decade, if not longer. In his first season with the Spurs, Aldridge is averaging an impressive 17.7 points per game and 8.5 rebounds per game. Playing alongside MVP candidate Kawhi Leonard, whose meteoric rise has fans and analysts alike marvelling at his brilliant play, Aldridge has revitalized a franchise that previously appeared to be on the cusp of teetering into a state of mediocrity.

Though some remain in awe at the Spurs’ ability to remain elite on a yearto-year basis despite its aging core of has-been superstars, their consistency should no longer come as a surprise.

With one of the most functional, methodical front offices in the league, the Spurs have bred a winning cul-

ture that starts with management and trickles all the way down to the team’s training staff.

Beyond a culture of success, the Spurs are unlike any other team in the modern NBA in that it has returned the same core — Tim Duncan, Tony Parker and Manu Ginobili — for almost 15 seasons. Duncan, who upon retirement will be considered the greatest power forward of all time, has amassed five world championships in his tenure wearing black and white.

Parker and Ginobili have been along for the ride for four of those titles.

Though talk of the core calling it quits emerges every offseason, the allure of adding another championship to their collective resumes consistently proves too powerful to resist.

What makes the Spurs great this season, however, is not the core of ag-

ing veterans that once led the team from mediocrity to perennial contention. What makes the Spurs great today is Aldridge, Leonard and threepoint expert Danny Green. Though Duncan, Ginobili and Parker remain significant contributors to the Spurs’ success, their new trio of budding superstars has them poised to take down the mighty Warriors in what could possibly be a Western Conference Finals for the ages.

Though almost no one could have predicted Leonard’s emergence as a superstar, blessed with unmatched physical gifts and a skillset that grows more refined by the day, the Spurs believed in him enough to trade point guard George Hill, once a part of the team’s future plans, for the raw 19year old from San Diego State in what was then deemed nothing more than a

risky gamble.

In just his fourth season, Leonard has become the NBA’s best two-way player, winning defensive player of the year just a season ago, and currently averaging a career and team-best 21.0 points per game. That said, Leonard’s statistics alone do not do his brilliance justice. Those who have seen the Spurs play know that Leonard’s ability to affect any play he’s involved in — on defense or offense — makes him the dark-horse MVP candidate he has become. With the youthful energy of Leonard, Green and Aldridge, paired with the experience of veterans Duncan, Parker and Ginobili, the Spurs are sure to make a deep playoff run not only in this spring but in many springs to come.

— Gabriel Goldstein

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FENCING

CHIPPING AWAY

Columbia snags national title ■ Sophomore saberist

Andrew Mackiewicz took home the top honors for the saber event.

By DAN ROZEL JUSTICE staff writer

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STEADY STRIDE: Outfielder Ryan Tettemer ’17 lines up at the plate and locks in for a big hit against Tufts University on April 4.

Judges put up pair of victories against foes ■ Outfielder Liam O’Connor

’16 collected base hits in each of the first four innings in a decisive win against UMass Boston.

By NOAH HESSDORF JUSTICE Editor

The baseball team went 2-1 on the road during this past week to push their record to 7-9. The Judges took home two victories against the University of Massachusetts Boston 19-9 on Friday and Western New England University 7-4 on Tuesday, while falling 10-2 to Worcester Polytechnic Institute on Wednesday.

Judges 19, UMass Boston 9 The team put on an offensive clinic while dismantling UMass Boston. While scoring their most runs in program history since 2009, the squad put a run on the board in each of the first seven innings. Outfielder Ryan Tettemer ’17 led the day with a 3-4 mark that included two RBIs and four runs scored.

Second baseman Benjamin Bavly ’19 also scored four runs and went 2-4. Bavly hit his fourth triple of the year, already one off the most for an individual season in Brandeis history.

Outfielder Liam O’Connor ’16 collected basehits in each of the first four innings, and scored a run in the first three innings. O’Connor went 4-5 on the day, for his second

collegiate four-hit performance.

First baseman Greg Heineman ’16 and designated hitter Ryan Healy ’16 each contributed four RBIs. On the pitching side, pitcher Sam Miller ’16 limited the opposition to three runs on six innings. Miller allowed four hits and three walks while striking out five batters.

Pitchers Bradley Bousquet ’18 and Daniel Schupper ’19 finished up the game for Miller in relief.

WPI 10, Judges 2 The Judges fell on Wednesday 10-2 to a tough WPI squad. While Tettemer tried to lift the team with a second inning home run, things quickly fell apart in the third inning. The Engineers were relentless in the third, scoring a total of eight runs. Pitcher Anthony Nomakeo ’17 gave up the runs, although only two of them were earned.

The squad attempted to rebound in the fourth inning when infielder Jay Schaff ’17 plated a run off a sacrifice fly. The Judges were unable to add another a run to the board for the rest of the afternoon. WPI was able to hold the offense to only two runs by using nine different pitchers.

Despite the mediocre offensive performance, Tettermer led the squad with a 3-4 mark, while Heineman went 2-3. Also adding basehits for the Judges were O’Connor, catcher Connor Doyle ’16, third baseman Cam Shaw ’16 and Schaff.

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It took extra innings, but the Judges were able to knock off a ranked Western New England squad. The team scored three runs in the first three innings to jump off to a quick start. Shaw got the team going with an RBI single in the second. In the third inning, Heineman connected on a sacrifice fly that scored Schaff. Later in the inning, Healy hit a triple to add a third run.

Pitcher Liam Coughlin ’17 kept Western New England off the board through the first six innings while only giving up six hits. Coughlin was able to perform exceptionally during difficult situations. In the fifth, Western New England had the based loaded with no outs. Coughlin struck the next batter out and then followed that up with a double play to escape the inning.

Western New England rebounded to tie up the game at three a piece in the seventh inning. Healy put the Judges back ahead in the eight with an RBI, but the team allowed a run in the bottom of the inning. With no runs scored in the ninth, the teams went into the 10th inning tied up at four. Doyle singled in the top of the inning to give the Judges the lead.

Outfielder Max Hart ’16 followed with a two-run double to give the team some insurance. Healy closed out the game in the bottom of the inning to close out the upset.

The Judges return to the field today against Bridgewater State University at 3:30 p.m., before facing off with Rhode Island College on Thursday and Johnson & Wales University on Sunday.

This weekend, Brandeis hosted the NCAA Division III Fencing Championships. After four days of fast-paced action, all three weapons for both the men’s and women’s sides featured competitive semifinal and final matchups on a raised platform in the middle of Red Auerbach Arena. The atmosphere was electric the entire time, as hordes of supporters came to cheer on their fencers. The University of Notre Dame, Penn State University and Columbia University sent notably large contingencies which featured school flags, raucous cheers and large cutouts of their fencers’ faces. Pool play was long and grueling as each competing fencer faced the other 23 in their respective weapon for a chance to land in the top four and continue on to the next day.

In women’s saber, sophomore Adrienne Jarocki of Harvard University, who went 19-4 in pool play, faced fourth-seeded freshman Leanne Singleton Comfort of University of California San Diego in the first semifinal while second-seeded senior Gracie Stone of Princeton University matched up against third-seeded junior Mathilda Taharo of St. John’s University. Jarocki and Stone were well ahead of the other seeds in pool play, with Stone coming one win short of matching Jarocki’s top seed while earning three more wins than Taharo. As such, the matchup of Jarocki and

Stone was expected as they cruised to 15-9 and 15-8 semifinal wins respectively. Jarocki then claimed her second national title in three years as she defeated Stone by a final score of 15-10 in front of healthy local Harvard support.

In the foil event Junior Eleanor Harvey, the second seed from The Ohio State University dispatched freshman Sabrina Massialas of the University of Notre Dame by a score of 15-9. The top seed, senior Jackie Dubrovich of Columbia, squeaked by Harvey’s Ohio State teammate, junior Alanna Goldie by a score of 15-14. Perhaps feeling the nerves of the first match, top seed Dubrovich could not hold an early lead against Harvey and fell by a score of 15-10, earning the Ohio State junior a national title.

The epee was slower and more deliberate on the women’s side as freshman Charlene Liu, the top seed from Princeton, needed all three rounds to outlast junior Eugenia Falqui of Ohio State by a score of 13-8. In the meantime, sophomore Jessie GottesmanRadanovich of Penn State University avoided a 2-3 upset by defeating junior Mason Speta of Columbia University in a hard fought 15-12 match. GottesmanRadanovich matched on to the title by defeating Liu by a score of 15-10.

On the men’s side, the top seeds dominated their fields. For the sabers, last year’s winner, sophomore Andrew Mackiewicz of Penn State, came in with another victorious performance. His 19-4 pool play record separated himself from the rest of the field and he made it past sophomore Edward Chin of Princeton in the first semifinal by a score of 15-11. On the other side

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TRACK AND FIELD

Teams run to fast times in non-scoring meet ■ Evan Scott ’16 took the

crown in the high jump with a height of 1.95 meters to lead the Judges in the meet.

By AVI GOLD JUSTICE EDITOR

The men and women’s track and field teams traveled to Bridgewater State University for the nonscoring Bears Invitational on Saturday, picking up a pair of wins and a number of top finishes during the day.

Men’s squad The men’s squad was led by Evan Scott ’16, who took the crown in the high jump with a height of 1.95 meters, a height that was .07 meters higher than the secondplace finisher. Mark Franklin ’17 took sixth place in the event, jumping to a height of 1.78 meters.

Henry McDonald ’19 grabbed a sixth-place finish in the men’s long jump with a distance of 5.87 meters, just one-tenth of a meter out of a top-five finish. Scott Grote ’19 earned a seventh-place finish in the discus throw with a distance of

34.80 meters, just over a half a meter out of fifth place.

The Judges had a pair of competitors place within the top 20 of the 53-man race in the 100-meter dash, led by Reagan Charie’s ’19 eighth-place finish in the race.

Charie crossed the finish line at the 11.61-second mark, just .12 seconds out of a top-five finish. Michael Kroker ’19 finished the race in 11.88 seconds, good for a 19thplace finish.

Charie also led the Judges in the 200-meter dash, taking a 12th-place finish in 23.62 seconds. Adam Beckwith ’16 ran to an even 24.00-second finish, good for 19th place, while Kroker nabbed 31st place, stopping the timer at the 24.48-second mark.

Jeremy Wilson ’17 notched a ninth-place finish in the 400-meter dash in 54.14 seconds, a step ahead of Beckwith’s 54.48 finish, which earned Beckwith a 13th-place finish out of the 36 competitors. McDonald also ran for the Judges in the race, crossing the line at the 55.33 mark, earning an 18th-place finish in the process.

Trevor Tuplin ’16 led the way for the Judges in the 800-meter run with a 14th-place finish in 2:12.19,

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liquid Latex

Painted models act their hearts out

By lizzie grossman justice editor

Levin Ballroom was jam-packed last Tuesday night with students anxiously awaiting the start of the 16th annual Liquid Latex show. The Liquid Latex show is an extremely popular event that showcases groups of Brandeis students performing pieces on a variety of themes without any clothes on, covered only in latex body paint. The show this year was titled “Peace, Love and Latex.”

The show opened with an impressive piece titled “Batman,” choreographed and designed by Sam Laney ’16. The piece showcased many students painted to look like Batman characters. Throughout the piece, the characters acted out a fight between Batman (Ray Trott ’16)/ Robin (Michael Maglio ’18) and four villains (Caleb Dafilou ’18, Jordan Machlin ’16, David Winitch ’19 and Laney). The performers used lots of amazing dancing to act out the fight, and Dafilou and Laney performed impressive acrobatics that made the crowd go wild.

The second piece, which was incredibly hilarious, was titled “They Might Be Science,” choreographed

by Bess Alshvang ’16 and designed

by Julia Doucett ’16, and featured performers painted to represent many different scientific disciplines, including physics, math, engineering, biology, chemistry, quantum mechanics, astronomy and computer science. Each performer acted out a small skit to a humorous song about their respective discipline. This piece was particularly upbeat and funny, definitely serving as one of the comic relief performances of the show.

The most impressive piece was the next one, titled “In My Head,” choreographed by Julie Joseph ’18 and designed by Sonja Unica ’18.

Unlike many of the pieces, which attempted to appeal to the audience with “sexy” walks down the stage and other sensual moves, this piece encompassed many different mental illnesses and had much more serious undertones. There were five performers, each painted to represent a different mental disorder, including Anorexia, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Anxiety, Borderline Personality Disorder and Depression, and they performed intricate choreography that added to the representation of their respective disorders. There were also two clothed performers — Joseph and Emma Gutman ’18 — wearing simple clothing alongside the painted ones, which made the piece much more powerful,as it called attention to their choreography and the message they were portraying, as opposed to the naked bodies and painted designs.

A very crowd-pleasing piece was “Bad Bitches Get Money,” choreographed by Annie Schide ’16 and designed by Selena Livas ’16, in which a group of female performers each portrayed a popular female musician, such as Florence Welch, St. Vincent, Lady Gaga, Kesha, Ana Tijoux, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and Beyonce. Each performer acted out her respective musician with tons of personality and sass, and they had the audience intensely cheering for them. It was amazing to see a group of women being so fierce and giving it their all on stage.

Another feminism-inspired piece that was extremely impressive and

got lots of attention from the audience was titled “Artistas Feministas,” choreographed by Kiara Tringali ’17 and designed by Tringali and Rachel Dillon ’17. It showcased a group of girls each representing a femalecentered art piece, such as “The Mona Lisa” Performers had an opportunity within the piece to walk down the stage and showcase their painted bodies, and each of them added spark and personality to the paintings they were representing. The designs for this piece were the most impressive of any of the pieces. Each performer’s body was extremely well-painted, with explosions of color and very detailed designs that very much assisted in bringing the artworks that the performers were representing to life.

The Liquid Latex show, “Peace, Love, and Latex,” did not fall short at all of impressing the Brandeis community. In addition to showcasing impressive choreography, amazing talent and very colorful and exotic designs, the show served as an outlet for body positivity. Seeing unclothed performers giving all their personality while dancing with nothing but latex paint on their bodies was very inspiring, and all the performers should be applauded for having such confidence in being a part of this amazing production.

— Editor’s note: Catherine Rosch ’16 is an editor for the Justice and helped paint dancers. Brooke Granovsky is a staff writer for the Justice and peformed in the show.

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PROUD CAST: The cast and crew of “The Vagina Monologues” poses in front of the sign representing the theme of this year’s show #SAYTHEIRNAME(s).

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY ETHAN SAAL/the Justice

Students share feminist experiences in the annual “Vagina Monologues” By anna Stern justice Staff writer

“Va-gi-na.” With the curtains closed, the opening speech from the 2016 production of “The Vagina Monologues” addressed the issues with this particular word. Usually considered crass or inappropriate to say in public, the purpose of “The Vagina Monologues” is to de-stigmatize that word. In 1996, playwright Eve Ensler wrote a series of monologues based on interviews with real women talking about their vaginas. Some of these questions included “If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?” and “If your vagina could talk, what would it say?”

“The Vagina Monologues” is performed on campus every year around V-Day, which, according to V-Day.org, is “a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls.”

Through performances of “The Vagina Monologues” as well as other campaigns, colleges and communities around the world

recognize the power of womanhood and stand together to support victims of violence. The proceeds of this year’s “Vagina Monologues” went to the Brandeis Rape Crisis Center, a resource for survivors of sexual assault.

The show was held in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. On the walls were names of the cast and other women whom the cast believed were powerful and incredible supporters of women’s rights. The stage was set up like a public park.

When each woman delivered her monologue, she was telling it not just to the audience but to a friend or various friends seated on the benches behind her or next to her.

Besides the traditional monologues used in every performance of “The Vagina Monologues,” director Zari Havercome ’16 decided to feature a video from the University of West Florida’s production of the show which included a monologue by Ensler taken from interviews with trans-women. The monologue is titled “They Beat the Girl Out of My Boy, Or So They Tried.” The

JOYOUS JUMPING: Mina Bond ’19 enthusiastcally shares her experience in a story entitled “Little Coochie Snorcher.”

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whole cast watched, in awe of the extremely powerful monologue.

Some of the standout monologues included “The Flood,” where Naomi Rodriquez ’16 performed a hilarious story of an older woman and her relationship with her vagina, and Alex Shapiro’s ’18 performance “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy” as a sex worker who strives to make women feel pleasure. Shapiro gave it her all as she demonstrated different types of orgasms on stage causing the audience to roar with approval.

“The Vagina Workshop,” performed

by LaQuasia Cherry ’17, Miranda Hurtado-Ramos ’19 and Isabel LahnSchroeder ’19, described what it was like to be in a seminar where the purpose was to learn to be comfortable with one’s vagina.

Charissa Fajardo ’17 and Akshiti Todi ’19 gave a powerful performance titled “My Vagina Was My Village” about a refugee being raped and another woman who appreciated her vagina for what it was. This juxtaposition of emotions created a tense and provocative performance.

“My 6-Year-Old Vagina” showcased the talent of Julia Green ’18 as she dressed as a little kid and described what she thought her vagina looked like. In “My Angry Vagina,” Ellie McKnight ’18 did an incredible job of talking about how frustrating it is to put things up one’s vagina — including tampons which make a vagina “angry.”

“My Short Skirt” brought down the house as the fierce and passionate Gabriela Astaiza ’19 talked about the attention women get from wearing skirts that are deemed too short. My favorite performance of the night was “Because He Liked to Look at It,” delivered by Abby Levi ’19. Levi had the audience in stitches with one glance. This piece is particularly powerful because it tells the story of a woman who dated a man who was more in awe of her vagina than she was. Because this man taught her to love her vagina, she became a more empowered person. This monologue taught the audience that our bodies are what make us who we are as individuals and that we must

embrace every part of ourselves, including the more intimate ones.

Between the pieces, members of the “V-Squad,” which included Shoshi Singer ’18, Tamar Lieberman ’19, Claudia Roldan ’18 and Junha Cho ’19, gave facts or tidbits about both the vagina and the pieces themselves.

One moment focused on the stigma given to the word “cunt.”

By focusing on each letter and describing the word itself, the audience shifted a little bit in their seats.

The theme of this year’s production of “The Vagina Monologues” was #SayTheirName(s). According to Havercome’s director’s note, she pictured “The Vagina Monologues” being performed as a protest outside.

To create this image, the end of the show featured each woman holding up a sign with a name of a powerful woman in her life. “The Vagina Monologues” taught the audience that a woman’s vagina is defined not as a vessel for men but as something that makes her a part of society in a powerful and strong way.

ANGRY VAGINA: Ellie McKnight ’18 delivers a monologue involving anger over the stigma of vaginas.

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Brandeis TALKS

INTERVIEW

What would you consider to be the best April Fools prank?

Mary Millage ’16 Michael Perlow ’18

PHOTO COURTESY OF AMANDA NGUYEN

“In the context of something like Brandeis, I’d say a test.

Something like a big midterm in a strange room, new material and everyone shows up and is freaked out.”

This week, justArts spoke with Mary Millage ’16, president of the Liquid Latex club. justArts: How long have you been president of the Liquid Latex club?

Mary Millage: For two years, and I’ve been on board for three.

ILLUSTRATION BY ALI SANTANA/the Justice.

Kat Semerau ’17 “When you put aluminum foil around your friend’s stuff and they walk into a room to find all their things wrapped.”

Maya Dornbrand-Lo ’18 “I’m a big fan of the bucket of ice water above the door, so when someone opens the door it falls.”

Eric Zhao ’16

“A prank where you pretend you don’t have any money and approach a girl. Then afterwards you would reveal yourself as a rich person and see their reaction.”

—Compiled and photographed by Amanda Nguyen/the Justice.

STAFF’S Top Ten

Things to photograph

By MIHIR KHANNA

MM: Just seeing all the creativity that our designers have come up with, and our choreographers, and just how different every piece is, especially this year.

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ACROSS 1 Network that airs “Portlandia” 4 Cut open 8 A well-known one was Spanish 14 A certain bibliographic format, for short 15 They dissociate in water 16 Breathing room 17 An up-close look?

20 Wyatt who worked with Jon Stewart 21 Space 22 Leers at, perhaps 23 Gaunt 25 “_____, poor Yorick!”

27 Lowe who plays Dean Sanderson in “The Grinder” 30 ____ Tai 31 It has a head but no body 32 Dial-up provider, for short 35 Beautiful orchid genus 37 “So what?”

39 ______ Firma 41 Class that teaches swear words?

45 It consisted of Smith, Peck, Baracus and Murdock 46 “____ side note...”

47 Stadium cheers 48 Kylo ____ 49 Navy rank, for short 52 Soldiers, for short 54 “____ - hoo!”

55 Stat in some RPGs 56 “Gosh darn it!”

58 Philosophies 61 Native American shelter 63 Look (through) 67 A superhero ostracizes someone?

70 It may be induced by being 71-Across 71 See 70-Across 72 Card game with “Reverse” and “Skip” 73 _____ bar 74 Plant part 75 Vied for office DOWN 1 Frequent claim of the new principal in “South Park” 2 Ice sheet 3 The first murderer 4 The Big Bang Theory, for example 5 Throw 6 Embedding 7 _____ Bomba 8 Like Fr 9 In medias ____ 10 Doles (out) 11 A game might be this 12 Anti-narcotic org.

JA: What’s been your favorite part of being president of the club?

I couldn’t come up with this stuff, and they do it, and it’s always amazing.

JA: How do you think the show turned out this year?

MM: I think it was good. I think a lot of people really liked it; we had some beautiful pieces, and it was really fun!

Everybody who was in it really enjoyed themselves, the audience responded well, so I think it went really well!

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JA: What was your favorite piece in the show this year?

MM: I’m a little bit biased towards my piece [“Carnival”], but honestly my favorite piece was probably Mario Kart.

13 Homonym of 22-Across 18 Get, as a criminal 19 _____ tide 24 Oven-baked flatbread 26 Pot feeder 27 It’s used to strengthen concrete 28 Pontificate at length 29 VP who’s known for making gaffes 32 Order 33 Prefix with -dontist or -pedist 34 Wrangle (a cow) 36 _____ carte 38 One might be dynamic 40 You might lend it to a friend 42 It has No., So., and Cent. parts 43 Most enraged 44 Earth goddess 50 Fairly close 51 Commotion 53 Small river 55 “Hey! Over here!”

57 Bro’s counterpart 58 “Supposing you decline...”

59 Kill, as a dragon 60 First graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize 62 _____ and carrots 64 Number of harbingers in the Book of Revelation 65 Lovegood of Harry Potter 66 British boarding school 68 Haw’s partner 69 Last letter

It was just so much fun — classic latex designs — and the people in the piece worked so hard on it and pulled it together, and it turned out amazing. That’s definitely my favorite piece.

JA: What is the mission of the Liquid Latex club as an organization?

MM: I think the main reason why we do the show is for the artistry, but also to promote positive body image and confidence in yourself and in your body. I think that is the best part of the club, and it does it in a unique way, and it’s very fun, but it’s definitely all about making people more confident in themselves, and that’s honestly why I really love it.

—Lizzie Grossman

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As the outgoing Photos editor and an avid photograher for over a decade, I’ve had the exerience of capturing enthralling moments across the world and right here on the Brandeis campus. While a list of this nature will be ever growing, here is my current list of things I enjoy photographing, in no particular order.

1. Reflections in a person’s eyes 2. Big Cat hunts 3. Big Cat cubs 4. Aerial cityscapes at night 5. Basketball 6. Celestial events 7. Sunrises/sunsets 8. Birds of prey 9. Aerial views of natural landscapes 10. Friends having fun

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